CONCORD, NH – The Rad Girls prove that women can be out of control without beating each other senseless. The trio of Ramona Ca$h, Munchie and Darling Clementine are in the midst of their third season of mayhem on MavTV. How could I refuse a chance to talk women who figured out how to give themselves bikini waxes using a car bumper?
Ouch. The trio called the Party Favors hotline from various parts of the Southwest including the lonely highway from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Munchie swore they were just in a convenience store that seemed a location from The House of a 1,000 Corpses. Please excuse me if I attribute a quote to the wrong member since the conversation moved fast and furious.
The outrageous series wasn’t always on MavTV. Clementine explained, “We had a really fun run on Fuse. We got a lot of fans. They were like, ‘Oh my god! That waxing your muff off is crazy. But unfortunately Fuse changed their format three weeks after our season launched. They became entirely music programming. Even though Rad Girls was great for the old Fuse; for the new Fuse we didn’t fit anymore. We became orphans.”
Luckily the trio weren’t set adrift too long. They were rescued by MavTV and brought into the world of high definition. How did upgrading to 1080p affect the show?
“From a shallow stand point, we were all like, ‘Damn! We better tweeze our eyebrows and put on make up,” Ramona said.
The slightly larger size of the HD camera didn’t alter too much of the production since they weren’t a Candid Camera show. Although that’s not by their choice.
“It didn’t change that much because in the state of California, it’s illegal to have a hidden camera. You have to film in plain vision. It wasn’t that big of a difference. It really did suck when we were on the Warp Tour all of our make up was stolen. We were on HD without makeup for most of the Warp Tour,” Munchie confessed.
“For season three we were really good about making sure we looked good,” Ramona declared. “It really shows up in the HD format.” Nobody wants their show to look like a series of before ads on the Pro Active Infommerical.
Their faces weren’t the only thing they’ve taken more concern about on the HD show. “Colors look good on HD so we were began playing with the brightness of our wardrobe and locations. If some is getting their ass kicked or eating something gross, it can add to the gnarly factor,” Munchie said.
Do bruises show up better? “Totally!” replied Ramona.
Even though the show isn’t a complete surprise to unwitting victims, they still have to get these folks to sign model release forms. What’s the secret to getting folks to scribble on the dotted lines?
“It’s really important to have a good P.A. that has their pitch down,” Munchie said. “They have to make that person think they made that skit look really amazing. Some P.A.s are really good at fluffing the person.”
As a creepy PA, it warmed my heart to hear such a glowing tribute to the lowest paid slot on the call sheet. Of course there are a time where no fluffing will get a mark to make their mark on the release form. Have their been great sketches hampered by a spoilsport?
“It was called retail dinner party,” Munchie said. “We brought a lovely dinner into a fancy furniture store. The owner of the store thought it would be funny to play a joke on the manager of the store. She had a reputation of being a guard dog of a lady. Her name…we probably shouldn’t say her name. She reacted like crazy. Flipped out. Threw our stuff in the trash. Called the cops. Dumped Clementine out of a chair. Totally lost her cool. We desperately wanted to show her face. Despite what we did to woo her to sign both that day and later, she refused. That was the one that got away.”
How hard is it to get people to sign release forms in Southern California where it seems everyone wants a new professional credits on the back of their headshots?
“If you’re filming in L.A. everybody wants to get paid,” Ramona said. “If you’re in a place where they’re not used to seeing cameras and they get really excited that you’re filming at television show, the people are excited to be a part of it. If you’re filming in LA where it’s saturated with TV and movies, the people are more inclined to want money or get something out of it.”
The historical waxing sketch didn’t need any outsiders. How exactly did they decide that the bumper of a car would be the best way to smooth off the nether region?
“Clementine was over at my house in 2005 for breakfast. I was waxing myself,” Ramona confessed. “I was trying to recreate something that had happened inadvertently. I accidentally waxed my hairpie to the counter of my bathroom. She was like ‘Let’s do it again for the camera.’ I was telling my brother that we should do it again for the Fuse season. He said, ‘OK come on, nobody cares about you waxing yourself to the counter. This is TV. You have to make it extreme. You can do it to the bumper of a moving car.’ He was just talking it out as an idea, but I was like, “Oh My God, you’re so right!” Clementine drove the car and Munchie held onto me so I wouldn’t get pulled over.”
There are rumors that this is how James May waxes his back on the upcoming season of Top Gear. How does the trio top such an amazing moment? By finding even more bizarre and extreme ideas including meal time.
“We blended the All American breakfast, a sushi lunch and a chicken dinner and Munchie did Meal Bongs,” Clementine said. “It has to be eyepopping, or hideous or kinda gnarly to make people look twice.”
The question arises about standards and practices at their channels when it comes to the episodes.
“MavTV, because they’re a smaller network, has been very accommodating to most of our ideas,” Munchie said. “With Fuse, there was a lot of stuff that we wanted to do that they didn’t want us to do. They just wanted us to look pretty all the time. Mav has been very cool in letting us creatively do whatever we want. That’s the bonus of being on a smaller network. There have been a couple things they’ve said, ‘We can’t really show that.’ They’ve been cool and willing to blur things. They’ve taken risks.”
For those wanting to see inside the blurs, their DVD Rad Girls: Rad for the Bone has recently been released. “We have whole section of things that were unfit for television,” Munchie revealed.
The ladies revealed the highlights of their new season that’s currently airing.
“The third season is our most mature; if you can use that word,” Clementine said. “We do a skit where Ramona is a horny toad. I pose as a topless bearded woman. Rowdy Roddy Piper’s daughter puts his choke hold move on us in public. There’s mousetrap roulette.”
We won’t spoil which of the ladies gets their tongue in the trap.
Another noted sketch from the previous seasons was the Geriatric Romance sketch. The first time had a lucky senior citizen getting early bird action instead of merely waiting for Willard Scott to slap him on a Smuckers jar. Did the girls find themselves getting loads of romantic letters from wannabe Abe Vigodas?
“No. Not really. But that is a skit that a lot people bring up. ‘That old man make out.” That was a shocking segment that we decided to do it for season Three,” Munchie said. “I decided to do it with an older woman instead of an older man. I think I’ll have a romantic date with an old woman instead.”
How did she meet her special golden girl? Did she cruise shuffleboard hotspots? Post her picture on Hot Or Menopause?
“I set up something on LA Casting,” she said. “We got a bunch of different submissions. We had four or five elderly women come in to audition. Based on my chemistry with the different women, we picked one. It was cool. It was a mentally challenging skit. It was ultimately fun and the older woman had fun too. She came to our premiere party and was psyched.”
Was there a casting couch used to find the future Estelle Getty?
“We made them hug,” Ramona said. “I was like, ‘Our last question: we just want to see you hug so we can see your physical chemistry together.’ Just hugging. It was pretty tight.”
Will there be a third stage to this sketch? Shall Munchie look for a swinging couple at a Matlock convention?
“Octogenarian threesome might be going too far,” Munchie said. Although she had an idea. “Season four, I’m going to look for the old person in the world and make out with them.”
“Munchie goes down on the oldest person in the world!” hyped Clementine.
It takes them about 6 months to create, shoot and edit each season’s 8 episodes. The trio are heavily involved in the production and aren’t merely on-air talent. Being a Rad Girl is a year round gig. Muchie and Ramona were down in Las Vegas promoting their clothing line. Clementine posed as a pregnant party girl at the Voodoo Lounge to get attention.
“I was resting a Corona on my belly. I was holding cigarettes in my hand. I was looking like the worst mother-to-be in my third trimester,” Clementine confessed.
?”We like playing with these feminine taboos,” Munchie said. “We had fun in burkas riding horses and surfing. Stuff like period, boobs and pregnancy is all fair game.”
What do the Rad Girls feel about The Bad Girls Club?
“Bad Girls Club is more like girls drinking and fighting each other. We’re all friends. We don’t want to beat each other up,” Clementine said.
“Nobody cast us. We’re actual girls and actual friends,” Ramona added.
“We’re legitimately doing things to make each other laugh,” Munchie chimed in.
You have to be friends to trust them enough to wax you with their car bumper.
Rad Girls airs on MavTV which is channel 351 on Dish Network. They are on other various cable channels. You can check out their videos on Radgirls.tv. They have a line of surfboards.
CREEPY DAD
This was shot before the Shamu incident.
HEAVY TIMES
The sad thing about what Clear Channel has done to radio is that if you want to hear cool music, you need to listen to commercials. Lately I’ve become hooked on the Kia ad featuring the sock monkey and the dildo shaped superstar from Yo Gabba Gabba. They’re being badasses on the road in a new SUV. What got my attention is an equally badass soundtrack. The Heavy’s “How You Like Me Now?” is pure James Brown party funk with that Screamin’ Jay Hawkins meets Iggy and the Stooges fury. Twenty years ago, this song would have been drilled into our skulls with radio and MTV. But now, this tune wasn’t part of the public buzz until the Kia ad. No longer is selling your song to Madison Avenue a sell-out move. It’s the best way for people to actually hear you. Here’s the full version of “How You Like Me Now?”
Now I feel like going mechanical bullriding with a sock monkey.
EITHER NOR
Funny Or Die wasn’t nearly as funny as a visit to their website. Most of the sketches were long, pointless and funny only to the guys on the screen. In other words it continues the fine work of Will Ferrell’s career including his seasons on Saturday Night Live. This isn’t nearly as good as HBO’s standard of sketch comedy: Hardcore TV. Remember that if a sketch seems stretched – throw in some pointless nudity since this is HBO and not Nick Jr.
HOME HICK HOME
History Channel’s Madhouse is about NASCAR racing in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This was the former home of the Party Favors headquarters so I’m kinda shocked at how utterly hickish they’ve made this city. While the race track was a few miles away from my old apartment, the entire town isn’t one big mecca of redneck gearheads.
I’ll admit that we did have a large number of stripclubs including one that was in my front yard. But the town also is the home of Krispy Kremes, Hanes underwear and Camel Cigarettes. This is a semi-sophisticated area. You don’t have to leave your teeth at the border. Madhouse is Winston-Salem’s version of Reno 911.
What interesting about Madhouse is the amount of outright anger and hatred between the various racers. There wasn’t this much bile on the screen in any History Channel World War II documentary. With this much negative energy in W-S, it’s no wonder Gilligan died there.
COLD SOULS GIVEAWAY
20th Century Fox is allowing 3 happy Party Favors readers a chance to win copies of Cold Souls on DVD. Paul Giamatti (Sideways) plays an actor named Paul Giamatti. He’s having difficulty wtih his character in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. The role is weighing on his soul. He finds a doctor who can remove a major part of your soul and keep it in cold storage. Can he really give a great performance with such lightness inside him? You’ll be able to find out if you’re a lucky winner after sending your name and the answer to the question: where in the USA are you located to mokaha@aol.com. Winners will have to give real address. Family members, employees, Paul Giamatti and Pete Rose can’t enter the contest.
DVD SHELF
Elvis is finally in the house. This is the movie that launched the partnership of Kurt Russell and director John Carpenter. Kurt Russell had just got through playing the cool college guy in all those Disney films. But in the opening minutes when as Elvis, he uses a revolver as a remote control, he exploded into adulthood. Carpenter at this point was known mostly as horror director with Halloween being a massive hit. While a TV movie biopic of the King of Rock might be odd for him, he made a movie about an Elvis haunted by his dead twin brother and later his dead mother. The movie only goes up to Elvis’ Vegas comeback at the International. Kurt doesn’t have to plump up for the final decade of Fat Elvis. Shout! Factory’s bonus features a vintage production feature and a commentary from Ronnie McDowell about being Kurt’s singing voice. The strange thing is a special American Bandstand pitting fans of Elvis versus fans of the Beatles. Blood flowed in the streets of Philly that night thanks to Dick Clark. This is still my favorite Elvis bio-flick.
My Three Sons: The Second Season, Volume One brings more William Frawley love. The man who once dazzled us as Fred Mertz returned as the single Bub, the grandfather to three kids. He’s in charge of the house while Fred MacMurray. “Chip’s Composition” lets the youngest son discover how little he knows about his dead mother. Dad is zero help in talking about her which bites cause the kid has to write a composition about his mom. He finally realizes who is the real mother in his life – Bub! “Bub Goes to School” lets William Frawley work his magic on Mrs. Drysdale from The Beverly Hillbillies. Is she as posh as she pretends while mistaking Bub for a real Broadway producer? “The Girls Next Door” has a foursome of stewardesses moving into the neighborhood. They all want a little Bub after a day in the skies. The soundtrack between the opening and closing credits have been replaced by new score. There’s 18 episodes on 3 DVDs.
Matlock: The Fourth Season brings more deep fried legal work from Andy Griffith. This was the season that stared without Kene Holliday after he was fired for substance abuse. Clarence Gilyard Jr became Andy’s new private investigator to follow the leads. “The Prisoner” is two-parter with David Carradine (Kung Fu) bringing his Eastern ways to the Southern life. Also we get to see the great Tiny Lister Jr. Don Knotts returns as Les Calhoun in “The Fugitive.” Strangest of all the guest stars is Joe Dallesandro in “The Informer.” How interesting to think that Joe worked for Andy Griffith and Andy Warhol. Wonder which one he found the most peculiar? As said before, this is a show that makes you feel calmer as the action heats up. Abe Simpson awaits the final 5 seasons.
Flash Forward: Season One, Part One provides the first ten episodes of the new ABC series. This is a rather quick way to catch up on the show before it returns on March 18. On a busy day, everyone on the Earth blacks out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds. What happened? Nobody is sure. Although people begin to have visions of what they’ll experience on April 29, 2010. The FBI begin to grab clues as to what could have caused such a world wide passout besides release of a Susan Boyle sex tape? The do pick through security tapes and discover people that were moving around during the event. People also begin investigating the visions in their flash forwards. They all want clues. John Cho, Dominic Monaghan and Joseph Fiennes headline the action. There’s a coupons so you can get a rebate on the complete season set when it comes over the summer. This series pairs well with Lost.
Everybody’s Fine will be a holiday season tradition Robert DeNiro is recently widowed and discovers that it was his wife that held together the family. When none of them want to visit him, he hits the road to connect with his kids. Turns out they viewed him as Robert DeNiro character. His kids include Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore. They’ve at least gone onto rather successful careers so he didn’t completely break their will to live. The film is a remake of a Marcello Mastroianni flick. As kind as DeNiro seems to be, there is a fear that he’s tracking down his offspring to plant bugs on them. Although DeNiro does his best to not merely play DeNiro as a dad.
Have Gun Will Travel: Season Four, Volume One puts Paladin (Richard Boone) back on the trail after a four year layoff. He was a rather sophisticated guy in San Francisco who offered his services as a problem solver. He didn’t like violence, but he had no problem fixing a situation with a carefully placed bullet. The action is kept to 30 minutes so he has no time to dilly-dally in the wild west. Smokey and the Bandit director Hal Needham appears in numerous stunt required roles in the 19 episodes on the 3 DVDs. There’s plenty of other stars crossing paths with the hired gun. “The Fatalist” and “The Shooting of Jesse May” have Robert Blake as two different characters. Irony being that Blake has a Gun, but he leaves it in the restaurant booth. “The Poker Fiend” unties Warren Oates, Peter Falk and Brett Somers. That would have been a great row on Match Game ’75. It’s great to see Paladin back in the saddle after such a long delay.
Matt Houston: The First Season brings us the lost Lee Horsley private eye series. He’s a Texas oilman who is working his California investments, but has plenty of time to investigate. He kinda reminds me of Tom Sellack’s Lance White character on Rockford. He’s smooth, cool and charming with Texas schmooze. His assistant’s Pamela Hensley (Princess Ardala of Buck Rogers) has to rival Lee’s mustache for attention. This was an attempt to keep the ’70s detective going in the ’80s so they loaded up the guest stars. The crimes resemble a Love Boat casting call. “The Purrfect Crime” gives us the triple threat of Sonny Bono, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Werner Klemperer (Hogan’s Heroes). There’s 23 episodes on 6 DVDs. The show only lasted three seasons. Weird piece of trivia: Matt was short for Matlock. Thus we have 2 Matlocks being released this month.
Walker, Texas Ranger, The Complete Seventh Season completes Chuck Norris’ turn as a lawman. The final season at the start of the release. You might think that there were 9 seasons of Walker and somehow the DVD set for season 8 is missing. But the issue is that there were only 8 full seasons. The “first season” consisted of 3 TV movies. They were put in the first season box season along with the full season that followed. If you follow the imdb – this is their version of Season 8. Have I unconfused you enough that you’re not writing Congress for a special investigation to the missing boxset that never existed? Nia Peebles joins the force as a big eye improvement. “The Lynn Sisters” lets Chuck Norris face off with Erik Estrada (CHiPs). “Fight or Die” lets Charles Napier (Squidbillies) play a warden instead of a sheriff. “Rise to the Occasion” puts Danny Trejo against Chuck. “Soldiers of Hate” has my nemesis Mark Cuban playing himself. You’d think Chuck could have touched up the billionaire’s haircut. The final three episodes focus on the marriage of Chuck and Sheree J. Wilson. They were registered at Restoration Buttkicking. Just remember that after you’ve gone through these 25 episodes, you can quickly order The Final Season to see how the series wrapped up.
Strawberry Shortcake: The Berryfest Princess Movie brings partisan politics to a fruity alternate universe. In this case Orange Blossom and Strawberry Shortcake are up for the Berryfest Princess title. Except things get nasty with other candidates stirring the jam pot. Things get out of control and threaten the big parade with strife levels peaking. Who knew this could happen in such a happy kinda place? Luckily Strawberry Shortcake is around to set things straight and give a nice message to the kids. This is a CGI cartoon that should occupy small kids in the back of the mini-van for 64 minutes. Extras include a sing-along and print out coloring pages as a DVD-ROM feature.
Hannah Montana: Miley Says Goodbye? will have your tween nieces going twisting in fear that their idol is about to hit the road. The DVD contains the closing episodes to season 3 that’s currently running on Disney Channel. Miley/Hannah has a weird dream involving her beloved horse talking. She thinks there’s a meaning it the vision about splitting her double life in Malibu for the simple charms of Tennessee. I think it’s secretly her desire to revive Mister Ed. Kids will be in agony wondering if this shall be the finale to the series. What will Miley do? Among the bonus features is an alternate version of “He Could Be the One.”
Greek Chapter Four presents another 12 episodes in the life of the frat houses at Cyprus-Rhodes University. The thrilling part has one of the ladies attempt the great college experiment – if you get what I mean. That is the big highlight of the season since this seems to be an awkward growth period for the series. The big surprise of this season is a visit from music sensation Jesse McCartney. Bonus features include bloopers, a recap and the music video for Jesse McCartney’s “How Do You Sleep?” At my old college I often wondered how the guys at frat houses could sleep with the smell of beer and cigarettes soaked in the floor and walls.
Bitch Slap is what happens when an Andy Sadaris’ movie gets pumped up by Sin City green screen effects. The movie sets up a high standard with an opening credit sequence that features clips from the great bad girl cinematic treasures including the cast of Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! That’s a heavy burden for a movie. The three girls in Bitch Slap are sexy and violent. The trio are a stripper, a drug runner and a business woman that join together to heist a gangster’s stolen jewel collection. They kidnap the guy and that’s when their troubles start. Most of the film takes place in the middle of desert and on various locations projected over green screen. Director Rick Jacobson had worked on Xena which explains how Lucy Lawless, Zoe Bell and Kevin Sorbo pop up in the action. The Unrated cut is mainly filled with violence and a little girl-girl dry humping. There’s a lot of blood and bruises on the women as their plan unravels and real faces are exposed. The bonus documentary “Building A Better B-Movie” is as long as the film. It shows how Rick and his pals put together this project. If you’re ever tempted to make your own low budget film; watch and take notes from this Master Class lecture. If you just want to watch the feature for fun, make sure you have a bottle of Two Buck Chuck nearby before hitting play. These women don’t play by the rules and will distract you with their bosoms.
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