Hannibal (2001) KILL COUNT

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Welcome to the Kill Count, where we tally up  the victims in all our favorite horror movies   and show you how they were made. I’m James A.  Janisse and today we’re looking at Hannibal,   the sequel to The Silence of  the Lambs, released in 2001.

Hannibal picks up a decade after  the events of the first movie,   with Hannibal Lecter still on the loose and  Clarice Starling a grizzled FBI veteran. A   botched operation puts her career in jeopardy,  so Clarice finds herself forced back into the   hunt for Hannibal, who’s eager to  revive his game of cat and mouse.

After the adaptation of The Silence of the  Lambs became a critical and commercial success,   to say the least, Thomas Harris spent several  years writing a follow-up novel, which he finally   released in 1999. This third Hannibal Lecter book  was controversial due to its lurid content and its  

Characterization of Clarice Starling. This caused  a lot of Silence’s cast and crew to turn the   adaptation down, including Jodie Foster, director  Jonathan Demme, and screenwriter Ted Tally. But producers Dino De Laurentiis and his  wife Martha were more than happy to take  

On the franchise again – Dino had produced  Manhunter, but when that movie flopped he   sold the rights to Silence of the Lambs. Eager  to make bank off of Hannibal’s popularity,   De Laurentiis turned to Alien director  Ridley Scott as Demme’s replacement. “When one pope die we’re gonna get a new pope.”

The movie’s initial draft was written  by acclaimed writer David Mamet, then   turned over to Steven Zaillian, who had written  Schindler’s List. Clarice Starling was re-cast as   Julianne Moore with an endorsement from Hopkins,  who had worked with her in Surviving Picasso.

Jodie Foster’s performance in Silence is an  all-timer, but I think Moore slides into the   character well enough. I mean, I’ll always love  her thanks to The Lost World and Boogie Nights,   but I do think she plays an older Starling well,  and even holds herself the same way Foster did.  

Any differences I see can be explained by how  young the character was in Silence. She’s ten   years older here, and a character can change  a LOT in 10 years – just ask Pete Campbell. As a film, Hannibal isn’t a masterpiece  like Manhunter or The Silence of the Lambs,  

But I think it has its own appeal, especially  if you’re looking for more action and horror.   There are multiple shoot-em-up sequences  and disgusting gore, paired with one of   the genre’s most memorable kills. Anthony  Hopkins is still excellent as Hannibal,  

Even if he’s starting to become a caricature.  And we once again get an iconic non-Hannibal   antagonist in the form of Mason Verger, who’s  chewing up every scene even without, a face. Can Hanny Boy up the body count- Sorry to interrupt but the footage you requested is in. Who are you looking for?

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The movie begins- uh, wait, are we in a wormhole?  What the hell is going on here, I feel like I’m   watching the movie through a window or something.  On other side of Matthew McConnaughy’s bookshelf   is Barney, Hannibal’s gentle orderly from  the last movie. Seated across from this  

Familiar face is a not so familiar not-face,  Mason Verger. He’s the only surviving victim   of Hannibal Lecter, and his obsession with  the cannibal extends to Clarice Starling. “So Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter became friendly.” This dude looks and acts like a Venture  Brothers villain – he’s one big smile away  

From Mr. Brisby. Add in a dash of Augustus  St. Cloud, cause he’s collecting artifacts   too – like Hannibal’s famous mask,  and Hannibal’s famous TITLE CARDDD. After some credits that feel like I’m watching  The Wire – when you walk through the garden,   am I right? – we jump to Washington, D.C.,  

Where we’re reunited with Clarice Starling.  Julianne Moore makes sure you know. “I’m special agent Starling.” Jodie Foster declined to return for a number of  reasons, chief of which was how different the   character was written. She also wasn’t offered the pay rate she wanted, and didn’t want to make the movie without Jonathan Demme.

Special Agent Starling is leading a team to  arrest Evelda Drumgo, a movie drug dealer so   heinous she keeps needles in her hair and  uses babies as body armor. Starling’s job   is made more difficult since her task  force includes condescending assholes “Excuse me I’m officer Bolton DC Police.”

“I’m here to be sexist,  ma’am.” Careful of that one,   Clarice, he’s got a history of  having issues with authority. The cop team arrives undercover at a fish market,  doin a piss poor job not looking like cops. “Can I please get a cup of coffee.” “Yes, I nailed it” Clarice spots Drumgo,  

But with baby on board she calls off the raid.  Her FBI counterparts respect her authority,   but local cop Bolton draws his gun. That  triggers a shootout that kills two gang members,   one of whom is a Kill Count returnee after  doing time with the Subway Gang in Predator 2

Clarice’s friend and fellow agent John Brigham  takes out another guy before being struck by   the getaway car. Clarice manages to shoot  the driver and the scrub hangin out the   passenger side of his best friend’s  ride. That just leaves Evelda Drumgo,   alone and defenseless save for her kid-lar vest. “How you been?”

“Don’t do this.” “Do what?” Oh and her MAC-10. Clarice is shot in  the vest before firing back. Thankfully   she activated deadeye allowing her to kill Drumgo   without harming the infant. Then she  waterboards the baby for more info. Er wait nevermind, she’s just washing em off.

Clarice turns on more waterworks as she  watches a news report about the day’s   events. It confirms the death of her friend  Agent Brigham, so I’ll go ahead and add him   to the count. By the way, the report says  Brigham and FIVE other people were killed,  

But I counted SIX other kills. Reporting these days, where did integrity in  journalism go? For her baby-risking actions, Clarice must answer  to a panel of disinterested men. She admits that   it maybe wasn’t the best idea, but she had to  make a choice to save herself or be killed.

“I kill a mother holding her child [silence] and I regret it I resent myself for it.” Worst of all these dudes is slimy Justice  official Paul Krendler, who spends the whole   hearing thigh spyin. 10 years into her career,  Clarice has no patience for guys like this.

“I wasn’t speaking to you Mr. Krendler when I speak to you you’ll know it because I’ll look at you.” She’s bailed out of trouble thanks to Mason  Verger, who saw the news report and decided   to make a move. He claims to have new  information on Hannibal Lecter that  

He’ll only share with Starling. Although she  doesn’t want to return to that well – sorry,   too soon?- she’s forced to, since her  reputation’s no longer Starling. Er, sterling. At Verger’s lavish estate she meets his personal  physician Cordell, who leads her to his boss’s  

Bedside. Verger puts himself in the spotlight  for their interview, and Starling shows she   isn’t afraid to look him in his face. This  incredible makeup was done by Greg Cannom,   whose work we just saw in the Lost Boys Kill  Count. It’s applied to an uncredited Gary Oldman,  

Whose look in Bram Stoker’s Dracula was also  designed by Cannom. To avoid making Verger   look like a zombie, Cannom and director Ridley  Scott consulted with doctors to make everything   anatomically correct. It took 6 hours for Oldman  to go through the makeup and hair process,  

And during takes, the special effects team  would hide his eyelids using fishing wire. “And then when we did the take they pulled that and that [shocked noises] and then they anchored them off.” Apparently that touch was a personal request from the actor.

“When Gary finally was cast and came in the first thing he said was do you think we can clamp my eye open?” Oldman asked to go uncredited,   and did the role for little pay.  He partly modeled Verger’s voice  

After Katherine Helpburn – but I  hear a bit of Jimmy Stewart in there. “Yes I know the day you never thought would never arrive, has.” Verger is disfigured thanks to Hannibal, but  don’t feel bad for him, he’s a sick son of a bitch  

Himself. He tells Clarice about how he’d rape the  children who attended his father’s Christian camp. “Poor unfortunate cast off little boys and girls who would do anything for a candy bar.” Verger was arrested but his wealth and political  connections saved him from doing jail time. He was  

Instead assigned a court-ordered therapist, who  turned out to be Hanny Boy, shown here in shitty   choppy slowmotion flashbacks handing out drugs to Verger like candy. “Would you like a popper?” Yes I would, thank you poppa!   Just as he did with Multiple Miggs, Hannibal  convinced Verger to be his own worst enemy.

“Try peeling off your face.” “and feeding it to the dogs.” Fueled by the drugs, Verger complied  as the good doctor told him to OK GO “It seemed like a good idea at the time.” Verger gives Starling an x-ray of  Hannibal he claims to have received  

From the man himself. The broken bone  stems from a time HanniGordy aped out   on a nurse, an incident Dr. Chilton  mentioned in Silence of the Lambs. “The doctors managed to re-set her jaw more or less save one of her eyes.” On the tape, Clarice spots Hannibal’s  super-dee-duper guard Barney. She pays  

Him a visit and the two catch up. Barney  mentions the sanitarium closed after Dr.   Chilton went missing during his  Carribbean vacation. Guess he made   that dinner appointment after all. But Clarice  ain’t here to talk about kills I won’t count,   nor use Barney’s Net Zero account. She’s  figured out he’s been selling Lecter  

Souvenirs to private collectors, including  the x-ray Verger showed her at his estate. Barney turns over the rest of his  stock, which includes some tapes   Dr. Chilton recorded of her visits with  Hannibal. We saw this happening in Silence,   but the dialogue we hear now has  been re-recorded – with Julianne  

Moore doing Jodie Fosters lines, We hop over to Florence, Italy, where we  meet inspector Rinaldo Pazzi – a guy who   likes throwing cigarettes  at birds. Get out of here,   birds! He’s investigating the disappearance  of a local librarian, and wants to question  

The man’s replacement. It ends up being  Hannibal, living under a pseudonym and a   bespoke fedora. It’s really working for him  though. It’s giving “productive vacation”. “Dr. Fell,” as Lecter goes by now,  isn’t on Pazzi’s suspect list,   but the doctor can’t help but tease him  anyway about his recent reassignment.

“You were on the Il Mostro case I’m sure I read.” “Yes that’s right.” “Now you’re on this. This is much less grand a case I would think.” “Well if I thought of my work in those terms yes I guess Id agree.”

The Il Mostro case he mentions, AKA the  Monster of Florence, was a real-life case   concerning a still-unidentified serial  killer who murdered 14 people between   1974 and 1985. Hannibal novelist Thomas Harris  attended a related trial while doing research,   and decided to include the case as  part of the book’s Italian subplot.

Clarice’s investigation puts Hannibal back on  the FBI’s MySpace Top 8. Keep it up and maybe   he can get higher than bin Laden! I know the dude  was behind the 1993 World Trade Center attack,   but it’s still weird seeing him in a movie that  came out 7 months before 9/11. Hannibal sees that  

He’s popular again so he writes Clarice  a letter complete with cutting remarks. “Do you imagine your daddy being shamed by your disgrace? Do you see him in his plain pine box crushed by your failure>? Also includes some Tumblr-banned fanart Damn  Hanny Boy, you a Horny Boy. Unlike Verger’s  

X-ray, this letter is the real deal, and  while the FBI can’t trace its origins,   Clarice notices it’s been spritzed with  a distinctive perfume. She brings it to a   panel of scent experts and Salamancas, who  inform her the perfume is a custom blend.

Clarice follows her nose to a specialty shop  in Italy, and requests their surveillance   tapes through Pazzi’s station. Maybe  it’s because of that drawing Hannibal   sent that requires a modesty Post-It, but  Clarice is already consumed by this case. “What the hell are you doing sitting there in the dark Starling?” “Thinking about cannibalism.”

It could also be that she remembers  how captivating Lecter was to talk to a far cry from jackwads like Paul Krendler. “I always figured him for a queer,” “Why would you say that Paul?” “I don’t know all this artsy-fartsy stuff.”

Krendler has it out for her because  years ago, he hit on her and she turned   him down. He tries to pretend that it doesn’t  matter, and that Clarice ain’t nothin special “This town is full of cornpone country p*ssy.”

Corn p*ssy? Corn p*ssy? Corn p*ssy? Corn p*ssy. Corn p*ssy. Corn p*ssy! Krendler wants corn p*ssy! He  wants to have a feast! But he   won’t get corn p*ssy, at least not from  Clarice OHHHHH at least not from Clarice!

Turns out the guy in Pazzi’s office is also  hungry for Starling, even though he’s only   heard her voice. To be fair though, she’s also  making sexy sketches of him. Pazzi himself has   other stuff on his mind after spotting a familiar  face on the perfume store’s surveillance tape.  

He does his own sniffing, and the FBI’s website  reveals his librarian friend is hungry for more   than just a good book. He sees a 3 million  dollar reward alongside a phone number that   redirects him to Mason Verger. Wait what the fuck,  this guy’s got pull enough to have his number  

On the FBI website? I mean I guess they  already treat his house like a freaking   road stop. No wonder he’s loungin like a  TikTok girly, sippin from a Stanley cup. Look at him! As proof of Hanny Boy’s whereabouts, Mason  demands a fingerprint and the title of his  

Favorite Pokemon game. “Snap” All right, that was easy,  onto the print! Which is much more difficult thanks to the doctor’s giallo gloves. I  bet those remind Pazzi’s actor Giancarlo   Giannini of his career in the 1970s.  Eventually Giannini became the official   Italian dub for Al Pacino which,  yeah, that totally makes sense.

To get the print, Pazzi coerces a  pickpocket into working for him. “When you go for his wallet he’ll catch you by the wrist.” Oh man, if The Godfather’s taught me anything,  it’s that oranges and Italians do not mix.   Sure enough, Hannibal quickly turns the  tables on this fumbling Fagin. The guy  

Does get a print on his bracelet, but he  also takes a stab to a pretty important   artery. He bleeds out, and I can’t tell  if Pazzi hastens it to cover his tracks,   but in any case it is GUSHAY. It’s so  gross it makes that pig statue vomit!

The fingerprint is verified by Verger’s staff,   so he calls up some Sardinian henchmen to go  capture Lecter. He’s been planning an elaborate   revenge scheme for his former psychiatrist,  which includes some not-so-little piggies   he’s been training to eat human flesh.  He loves the sound of them going hog wild “Oh they sound fantastic.”

Pazzi is paid up and told all he has to do  is point Hannibal out – one cheek kiss away   from Judas’s job. But he’s still bitter  about losing the Il Mostro case, so he   decides to see Lecter’s capture all the  way through. Nothing! Could go wrong!

Pazzi takes his wife to see Sidney Prescott’s  latest play and finds Hannibal Lecter in   attendance as well. After the show, the  good doctor gets pretty damn flirty with   Pazzi’s wife. She can’t deny his rizz –  and you know what Mason Verger always says. “And nobody beats the rizz.”

Back in America, Clarice sees Lecter on  the perfume shop’s surveillance tapes,   throwing her into a choppy slow motion panic  attack. She realizes Pazzi is trying to catch   Lecter on his own, and attempts to dissuade  him over the phone. The inspector hangs up  

On her and takes his chances, going to  one of Hannibal’s academic lectures. He offers to buy Hannibal drinks, a set up for  Verger’s henchmen to nab him outside. Before they leave, the doctor insists on showing Pazzi his 23 and Me results.

“It’s your ancestor, Commendatore. Hanging beneath these very windows. Francesco de Pazzi.” De’Pazzi was a 15th century banker and  Assassin’s Creed target who was hanged   for plotting to overthrow the Florentine  government. Hannibal’s picked up on the  

Modern Pazzi’s betrayal as well, so he knocks him  out with chloroform and takes him to the window. Lecter interrogates the copper and learns that  Verger is behind his attempted kidnapping. Then   Pazzi gets a call from Clarice, giving Hannibal  a chance to recite one of his catchphrases. “Well hello Clarice.”

He’s on a tight schedule so he cuts the  call short then cuts into Pazzi’s torso.   The disembowling is done via gravity when  Hannibal throws him from the balcony. The   inspector is hanged just like his ancestor,  with his guts painting the pavement below.

This kill was achieved using a stomach  wrap loaded with fake entrails, blood sacs,   and tubing. The jerk of the stunt performer’s  movement caused the whole mess to fall out of   a pre-torn opening. Production made a  special fake blood that wouldn’t stain  

The stucco of this historical building in  Florence, where the film’s Italian scenes   were shot. Hopkins was popular in Italy, and was  crowded by tourists and locals during the shoot. “I felt like Mick Jagger a bit.” Verger’s sibling henchmen rush  inside to intercept their target,  

And after younger bro Matteo splits off, Hannibal  finds him and delivers a choppy Freddy vs Jason   throat slash that sends him flying. His body  is discovered by his older brother Carlo. With Lecter still on the loose, Verger decides  to lure him out by targeting Clarice. He bribes  

Krendler to plant a phony romantic postcard  in her office, and he does so with gusto,   the piece of shit. The character of Paul  Krendler made a brief appearance in The   Silence of the Lambs. There, he was played  by Ron Vawter, who sadly passed away in 1994.  

The role was recast with the late Ray Liotta,  whose performance is delightfully despicable. “500,000 dollars.” Since Clarice is seemingly compromised  and ostensibly withholding evidence,   she’s put on administrative leave by her bosses. I  bet she misses Crawford right about now. KrenDent   gives a Two-Faced press release claiming that he’s on Clarice’s side.

“Starling is one of the best agents that we have.” The subterfuge earns him a house call from Hannibal, who acquires  an address from some of his mail. Then Hanny Boy embarks on a Martha Stewart shopping montage  set to an aria from the opera he attended earlier.

This aria, Vide Cor Meum, was composed  by Patrick Cassidy and co-produced   with Hans Zimmer, who wrote the rest of  Hannibal’s score. Hannibal is a bit of a   reunion for Ridley Scott crewmembers,  since Zimmer, editor Pietro Scalia,   and cinematographer John Mathieson  had all just worked on Gladiator.

Clarice falls asleep after a long day at the  office, but the next day Hannibal interrupts   her morning routine. He directs her to  Speed over to a local train station,   though I don’t think he’s aware she’s  being followed by Verger’s henchmen.   For the scenes set in the US, Hopkins  wanted to change Lecter’s appearance,  

Cropping his hair short and building up  muscle so he’d look more like a mercenary. Lect-R Lee Ermey teases Clarice on the phone  while strolling around. She uses sound cues   to track his movements and gets within a hair  of finding him. Alas, he avoids her and leaves,  

Only to get kidnapped by Verger’s Badfellas in the  parking lot. Starling reports the incident to her   FBI counterparts, but it doesn’t do any good since  Verger has the local police force in his pocket.   That means she has to go rogue, and drives through  gates and cows to get back to his property.

At Verger’s estate, Hannibal is once again carted  to a meeting. Dude gets wheeled around everywhere,   the lazy bastard. Sure would be nice! Hannibal’s  not only passive, he’s passive aggressive too. “I guess you wish now you’d fed the rest of me to the dogs? Hmmm?”

“No, Mason. No I much prefer you the way you are.” Lecter is upgraded to Christ-like construction  equipment and delivered Back to the Barnyard,   where Mason intends on feeding  him to his human-hungering hogs. Clarice infiltrates the farm and interrupts  the proceedings, shooting Carlo down when he  

Tries to draw a gun. At least now he’s with his  brother. She shoots another goon to the ground,   then gives Hanny a hand with his restraints.  Another lackey shows up in the rafters,   and while she manages to shoot him, she’s downed by a bullet to the shoulder

Lecter picks her up just as Verger’s hogs  burst through, and for whatever reason,   beastmaster Hannibal holds sway over this Bay  of Pigs. The same can’t be said for that injured   goon, who’s eaten alive by the hogs just as Cordell wheels his boss in to check out the commotion.  Oh god they ate his face!

Clarice passes out, and Verger tries  to get his nurse to break his Hippocratic Oath. “Get the gun and shoot him!” “Go into the pen?” “Yes!” “No I’m staying here.” “You’re involved is what you are!” Hannibal, however, has a different proposition.

“Hey Cordell why don’t you push him in? You can always say it was me.” That sounds just fine to Cordell, who sets  his boss’ wheelchair to drive. It plunges   the paralyzed pedophile down to perish among  the pigs. Verger’s face is devoured AGAIN,  

This time by boars, as Hannibal makes his escape.  Hoisted by his own pig-tard. Animal coordinator   and awesome-name-haver Sled Reynolds found a dozen  boars between 300 and 600 pounds for the movie. He   trained them to attack prosthetic dummies made of  gelatin and chicken so they could be torn apart  

And eaten. For some shots, they were trained  to fake attack stunt coordinator Phil Nielson “And they actually jerk him off.” Wait what? “his feet.” Oh, dude. Phrasing. Special effects make  up artist Keith Vanderlaan also created a   seriously impressive mechanical boar  head to use in close-ups. Vanderlaan  

And his team made another animatronic as  well – Clarice’s bloody baptism earlier   was done with a robot baby to avoid,  you know, waterboarding a real one. Later, Paul Krendler goes to his remote  vacation lake house for some rest and   relaxation. Hannibal surprises him  with more rest than he bargained for,  

Having found this address in the mail he stole. Clarice stirs awake upstairs, her bullet wound  stitched and her formal wear fixed. Or should   I say AFIXED – to her boobies. The funniest  part about this scene is imagining Hannibal  

Applying double-sided tape, because let me  tell you, it’s there and it is doing a LOT   of work. Despite feeling a little woozy here,  Clarice still manages to phone the police,   which Hannibal sees while doing meal  prep in the kitchen. She meets up with  

Him in the dining room, where special  guest Krendler is acting a bit unusual. “Hello agent Starling I always wanted to watch you eat.” That might have something to do with the haircut Hanny Boy’s   given him. I think sloppy Sweeney  took a little too much off the top.

In the movie’s most infamous scene, Hannibal  slices bits off of Krendler’s brain, fries em up,   and then feeds them back to him Christ  almighty! It is a disgusting dinner that   rivals the one in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. They  achieved the effect using multiple techniques,  

Including a green screen cap that required Ray  Liotta to shave his head. Then they combined   shots of him with footage from a dummy that  had real animal brains in it. This was more than just a dummy though, it was the $70,000 full-sized animatronic version of Liotta,  

Which was used for close-ups when  Hannibal cuts into the brain. “To me it’s one of the best scenes uh that is combined all the techniques um available.” This animatronic had full facial movement  and was even used in a couple of wider shots,  

Though Ridley Scott won’t say which ones  because he likes that people can’t tell. All this work culminates in what is easily  the most memorable scene of the film “Yeah I think they’ll remember this one.” Krendler doesn’t die on camera, but I’m  gonna go ahead and put him on the count  

After Hannibal throws the towel in for him.  I’m just assuming you don’t survive getting   your brain picked like this. Clarice finds  the strength to attack Lecter in the kitchen,   but he traps her ponytail in the fridge  door. When he finally decides to steal   a kiss, Starling startles him by  handcuffing their wrists together.

With the police closing in, Lecter  prepares to free himself with the   ole Dr. Gordon treatment – oh shit I  just realized they have stuff in common “I’m a doctor.” Yeah, he is too! Hannibal hesitates, then  makes his choice and brings the cleaver  

Down off camera. But Clarice ain’t the one  who’ll be buying gloves at a two-for-one   deal since she’s still able to raise  both hands when the police find her. “I’m Clarice Starling FBI.” It’s Hannibal who’s now short a hand, as we see  on his escape flight. I much prefer this to the  

Book’s ending, where Lecter and Starling run  off together and retire to a life of sex, drugs,   and building “memory palaces” together.  No wonder Jodie Foster turned this down. A young boy next to Hannibal is curious about  his lunch, which includes some Krendler carryout.   Lecter decides to broaden the young boy’s horizons

“I’m sure your mother tells you – my mother certainly told me It is important she always used to say always to try new things.” The movie ends with one last peep at Lecter’s piercing gaze. How many people got killed by a hungry hungry Hannibal?  

Let’s find out at the numbers! It’s a little hot in here. Better. 15 people died in Hannibal, 5 more than in  Silence of the Lambs. The victims consisted   of 14 men and only 1 woman, giving us  this pie chart, as well as a Killigami,  

Since this exact count and gender breakdown  has never been seen on the show before! With   a runtime of 132 minutes, that leaves us  with a kill on average every 8.8 minutes. I’ll give the Golden Chainsaw for Coolest Kill  to Paul Krendler obviously. The sight of Ray Liotta eating  

His own freaking brain is the thing of  nightmares for anyone who watched this   movie too young – myself included. Dull Machete  for Lamest Kill will go to Matteo. A choppy slow   mo slash isn’t good enough for Freddy vs  Jason, let alone a Hannibal Lecter film.

And that’s it. Hannibal came out in 2001  and while it wasn’t critically beloved it did make a lot of the box office . Next week, we’ll  be hopping back before Clarice’s time with a prequel,   Red Dragon, but until then, I’m James A.  Janisse. This has been the Kill Count.

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Hey everybody thanks for watching the Hannibal Kill Count yep it’s a movie about Hannibal I’m I’m sorry this is one of my favorite bits uh we’ve ever done the Kill Count it’s a take on Schmigadoon! if you like musicals

This is just going to be a Schmigadoon! ad just watch uh Schmigadoon! even though it just got cancelled it’s on apple plus there’s two seasons they’re really good you should watch them Cinco Paul made an excellent show and I’m I’m

Glad to just sing its praises whenever I can anyone who likes musical should definitely watch Schmigadoon! it’s uh funnier than this somehow cuz this is the funniest fucking shit I’ve ever seen so make sure you watch that on Apple TV Plus

or whatever wherever it goes after it gets cancelled yep they sing about corn pudding not corn pussy it’s much less vulgar and as I always end this I’ll say be good people oh he says be good people