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Jimmy’s Notes on Episode 55: ‘Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century’ (feat. Travis Alexander and Daniel DiManna)

Published January 10, 2022

So, you might be wondering what I was doing after that Scottish scallywag George Three tased me during Episode 55 (Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century). It’s actually quite simple, you see. I was conscious the entire time, of course, just biding my time. I would’ve probably “Kirk chopped” him sooner, but I got a little distracted playing Candy Crush on my phone. Then my battery died, and I thought, “Well, I should probably kill this bastard.” So, there I was, sitting in the room, fearing for my life. And then I rose up behind him, you see. It’s a good thing I’m a Star Trek fan or else I wouldn’t have thought of this, but I snuck up behind him and raised my arm to exact right degree (I spent a lot of time staring at William Shatner—I realize that might’ve sounded strange), and brought it right down in the perfect spot on his trapezius muscle to temporarily stop the blood flow to his booze-addled brain and knock him out. (If you, too, would like to learn to fight like Captain James T. Kirk and yours truly, check out the Kirk Fu Manual. I got it for Nate as a Christmas gift, and he’s working toward his blackbelt).

But I was still doing my due diligence as MIFV’s intrepid producer. I took some notes right under WHG3’s drunk nose. So, without further ado, here’s my final Jimmy’s Notes of season two.

  • For the record, gentlemen, this…movie was 118 minutes long when released in Italy, 105 minutes when released in the U.S., and is 101 minutes on blu-ray (and, I assume, on streaming). Not sure why.
  • The Night of the Lepus episode, Travis. That was the Kaiju Weekly episode you were thinking of when discussing how you don’t like intentionally bad movies.
  • I’m not 100% sure what “moose kaiju” movie that drunk was talking about, but I think it might be Moose: The Movie.
  • Here’s a gif of “disco yeti.” Read more about him here.
  • Travis was kind enough to provide me with the “Georgia Bigfoot” story he brought up.
  • If you think WHG3’s drunk profanities are bad, you should hear me after I pound down a few bottles of Jack Daniels. I make sailors blush.

Now, for the last time in season two, Nate’s leftover notes. (Actually, they’re the notes provided by that Scottish booze hound, but who’s keeping track?)

Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century Notes

THE MOVIE

  • Opening shot: the polar icecaps are melting. What does this have to do with anything? (Answer: everything. Don’t you pay attention to Greta Thunberg? –Jimmy)
  • Title’s in two completely different fonts. (So? –Jimmy)
  • Is the opening music a classic opera theme we hear in everything?
  • Why are they thawing this thing in the wild? (Best not to ask this movie questions. It might strangle you with its toes. –Jimmy)
  • The crowd can be seen through some objects in the effects.
  • I’M AN ELEPHANT! And King Kong! That roar gets reused.
  • Watch it! He’s got a tree! (He stole that move from Kong –Jimmy)
  • They’re not in a well, Lassie!
  • What do you know about cannibals?! (That they are what they eat. 😛 –Jimmy)
  • Did he catch a mama fish with a baby fish?!
  • Freaking yeti is horny after sleeping for a million years.
  • Those little tufts of “fur” reminded the yeti of his mate and family?
  • How? Just…how could he mistake the tiny humans for his “family”? At least with Kong the implication is he’s lonely.
  • Did this thing inspire the Yeti brand tumblers? (No. –Jimmy)
  • “Slavery”? That’s for people! Not yetis! (You species-ist bastard! 😛  –Jimmy)
  • Niagara Falls, you say? I’ve been there. Insert stock footage?
  • Remind me what those shady dealings have to do with anything?
  • Good grief, this wants SO MUCH to be King Kong. (We all have dreams –Jimmy)
  • The windows are TV screens! (Sounds like my apartment. –Jimmy)
  • Oh yeah, he’s totally hiding. In plain daylight when he’s 50-feet tall!
  • Oh yeah, a lamb who smashes builds, rips up elevators like weeds, and nearly kills a 100 people! (A sheep kaiju? –Jimmy)
  • Hulk van to the rescue?
  • How’d they get a breathing apparatus that big? (Again, don’t ask questions. It’s dangerous. –Jimmy)
  • How did Yeti know which one didn’t have Herbie?
  • The matte lines are very prominent at points on Yeti.
  • Why are you rolling and not running? (The questions! –Jimmy)
  • It’s a yeti miracle, I guess.

Other Sources

LeMay – Kong Unmade (1st and 2nd editions)

  • Yeti takes a paternal interest in Jane’s brother. He’s angered by flashbulbs (very Kong-esque).
  • A healthy number of extras in some scenes.
  • Says it’d make for a great double feature with The Mighty Peking Man.

Research on Yeti Cryptid

  • Radford:
    • “In March 1986, Anthony Wooldridge, a hiker in the Himalayas, saw what he thought was a Yeti standing in the snow near a ridge about 500 feet (152 meters) away. It didn’t move or make noise, but Wooldridge saw odd tracks in the snow that seemed to lead toward the figure. He took two photographs of the creature, which were later analyzed and proven genuine.”
    • “Many in the Bigfoot community seized upon the photos as clear evidence of a Yeti, including John Napier, an anatomist and anthropologist who had served as the Smithsonian Institution’s director of primate biology. Many considered it unlikely Wooldridge could have made a mistake because of his extensive hiking experience in the region. The following year, researchers returned to where Wooldridge had taken the photos and discovered that he had simply seen a dark rock outcropping that looked vertical from his position. It was all a mistake — much to the embarrassment of some Yeti believers.”
  • Cryptid Wiki
    • “The Yeti was even mentioned in pre-Buddhist cultures, such as the Lecha people, who worshiped a “Glacier Giant.” Tibetan and Nepalese monasteries have collected several skulls and bones of the yetis, some which preside in the Smithsonian Museum today. Although one of their specimens was proven to be a human bone, others contained the museum are still in question.”
    • “In 1832, James Prinsep’s Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal published an account by B.H. Hodgson, a trekker in Northern Nepal, in which he describes spotting a large bipedal creature covered in long dark hair. Hodgson believed it was an orangutan.”
  • Wikipedia
    • Reports of footprints started in 1899.
    • The famous Eric Shipton footprint photos of 1950 and the 1972 Cronin-McNeely footprint photo were deemed to be bear tracks by Daniel C. Taylor in 2017.

With this, my long-overdue final Jimmy’s Notes for season two of the show is complete. It’s just as surreal for me to write that as it is for Nate to say it on the air. 2021 was a crazy year, and while I’m not completely sold on the new boss, it can only go up from here. Right?

Did I ever tell you about the one time I infiltrated Solstice Technologies HQ with Monique Dupre? No, because that story is reserved for my autobiography.

On to season three! We launch “Ameri-kaiju” with what’s sure to be a deep literary discussion between Nate and YouTube personality Ryan “The Omni Viewer” Collins and his sidekick, Snazzy, on The Lost World (1925). That…whatever-he-is keeps trying to compete with me for best sidekick. He doesn’t know who he’s dealing with, obviously. Then “Godzilla Redux” continues with a small diversion: Rodan (1956). We’ll be joined by another YouTuber and returning guest: Kaiju Kim.

AMERICA…@#$% YEAH!

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