#chuck the iguana

[hathousehappenings]

65. Day of the Iguana

This was a heck of an episode to return to after the hiatus, lol. It felt a little like they were warming up before plowing through the last third of the planned episodes.

The most enjoyable part of this episode for me was Wesley Mann's performance as Floyd. Everything else was just so-so. Nothing really remarkable.

This picture came to mind when Flyod was telling Cat how "Chuck likes everybody". I dunno, the image came to mind and it was the best idea I came up with. ^^;

[hazstur]

do u have any sam rockwell films you'd recommend….

i've downloaded: moon (seen before) box of moonlight confessions of a dangerous mind everybody's fine galaxy quest (seen before) matchstick men (seen before) seven psychopaths (seen before) snow angels three billboards (seen before) mr right (looks so fucking silly i cant wait for this one)

trying very hard to download better living through chemistry and piccadilly jim but torrent sites r failing me

also i saw he's gonna be in another yet untitled martin mcdonagh film with oscar isaac and christopher walken… slay

i really liked mr right it was VERY silly but he and anna have such good chemistry in it

one i'd really recommend is Laggies! he plays a very tired very hot single dad and he and kiera knightly are extremely sexy together because they are sam rockwell and kiera knightly

The Way Way Back was cute, it's a coming of age film where babygirl plays a lifeguard at a water park who takes this kid under his wing for the summer and teaches him to give less of a fuck, he and maya rudolph flirt a lot and steve carell and toni collette are in it, also here are some choice reviews from letterboxd

let's see ummmmm oh Jojo Rabbit was great! i know a lot of people hate it but they're wrong (if you don't like it you're so correct and valid in your opinion), sam's really really excellent in it and he's blind in one eye and i have a big thing for that (he does play a nazi (who's gay for alfie allen and i assume just gay in general but mostly for alfie allen) which i do not have a thing for)

he stars in Choke as a sex addict which is a novel by chuck palahniuk and in the film adaptation sam plays a sex addict, it is not a good movie but sam rockwell does play a sex addict in this, the sex addict movie in which sam rockwell stars

admittedly there are a lot i haven't seen, here are a few that are on my list but aren't on yours:

- Fosse/Verdon (actually a mini series) where he plays the titular bob fosse and gets to show off his very real dancing skills, i've heard michelle williams is also amazing in it

- The Green Mile, based off the stephen king novel, where he plays a murdering psychopath

- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (I just know he's in it idk what he does)

- The Winning Season, it looks cute, he plays the coach of a girls basketball team

- Richard Jewell, which had one of my favorite trailers I've ever seen, I believe he plays Richard Jewell's lawyer

i genuinely cannot recommend Blue Iguana EXCEPT for sam rockwell being in it, it is a terrible film, however according to letterboxd he and ben schwartz are making another film together so fingers crossed for that

there's so many more things he's been in but he should be in more things in fact i have a contract right here that says 'sam rockwell will be in everything i watch' but i can't get him to sign it no matter how many times i ambush him or break into his home

[korva-the-raven]

I humbly present my Color Museum ep. 2

❤🧡💛💚💙💜

I found a green unicorn pop it 🦄 and a light purple cube magnet, which I thought was a die at first. And a light purple gumball capsule! Also found a yellow 💛 bead and a blue 💙 bead in seperate locations. The green and orange plastic pieces were found in a parking lot and I'm assumimg were part of a figet toy or something.

I walked by the green and orange plastic bits at first, but turned back for them like 5 secs later, because their colors were perfect for the green/orange group...

Although, I thought a second green/orange vial works too...💚🧡💚🧡

The green unicorn pop it, purple magnet and gumball capsule fit right in with the larger color museum pieces...that purple manget loves the purple hair clip; it kept attaching itself to the clip lol. After I took the photo, I like the manget and clip be togeather, since the manget was so insistant.

The unicorn pop it looks great with the larger color pieces, but I feel like it almost belongs in another collection of mine, my treasure trinkets!

Mostly all found objects. The red frog is from the prize counter at chuck e cheese, but I found the coin on the game area floor. The marble is from a thrift store bag, but I love cats eye marbles, and the ❤💛💙 stripe is my favorite. The Iguana I found while on vacation. It literally feel out of a tree right when we walked by. Guessing someone threw ot up in the tree? Anyways, it came home in my pocket...finders keepers 😎

But also, the green unicorn would fit perfectly with my lucky flare, if I make a little chain for it... I mean, unicorns are good luck and it's green color is, well, perfect!

The blue heart ring could stay with my treasure trinkets, or live with my color museum. I'm still undecided. Speaking of blue..

💛💙💛💙

I was going to start a yellow color group with the yellow bead and add the blue bead to the existing blue group, but they reminded me of another color piece I haven't shown yet...

So now the Dad's Root Beer Cap and the yellow and blue beads have become their own group. And speaking of bottle caps, i remember I have a few metal found objects of color...

I showed the blue soda tab in the last color musem post, but not the rest. I'm not a fan of beer, but the red beer cap is such a beautiful ruby red, I put it in my pocket. Also started a red color group in this little jar...

I also have a pink 💕 color group that I created and a set of tiny glass bottles filled with color items, but I've hit the photo limit. I promise to post a 3rd color museum episode. In the mean time here is a group photo of my Color Museum and Treasure Trinkets.

Cheers! And happy collecting! 🍀🍄🍀

[spikrock]

the day of the iguana

this episode is pretty good, i like all the songs in it (particularly shop till i drop- that one gets stuck in my head A LOT.) and i think chuck is so cute hehe

[knightdistrict]

Chucks marine iguana merch and grilled cheese at you

GGZWBUZBQUVUZANAUHVZGAB.

I LOVE GRILLED CHEESE AND MARINE IGUANAS AAAAAAA :3 :3 :3 :3

[spectra-bear]

so chuck doesn't have his own animal mascot like the others [very sad] and i've seen a handful of ideas and i'm wondering which animal you think would be good for chuck's mascot? [shark, deer [in headlights], some sort of bird, iguana]

i was thinking a ferret! Or weasel for some reason hehe,, idk just fits to me lol (pretty ironic considering ferrets are MENACES and match mike's daredevil style than chucks timidness)

[blubushie]

HI I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS! why did you drink your own pee? what did that taste like? whats your favorite snake? whats your favorite lizard? favorite turtle? whats your favorite australian saying? whats your favorite sea animal besides killer whales? what color is your hair? how about your eyes? how tall are you? whats bushgender mean? do you play any instruments? whats the model of your car? what color is it? can you get custom license plates in australia? do YOU have a custom license plate?

Ah, Christ. Knew telling you cunts that would come back to bite me in the arse.

Why did you drink your own piss?

I was dying and thirsty. My pride and dignity is not more important than my life. So I drank my own piss. On the plus side, it worked. I had enough moisture in me to keep trekking for two days until I found actual water and then I was so half-lucid with dehydration that I almost drowned myself trying to drink it. On the plus side I got one helluva story and a new name!

(Don't do dehydration, kids.)

What did that taste like?

Tangy.

What's your favourite snake?

The one in me daks. Really though, probably Oxyuranus microlepidotus, or the dandarabilla. Most venomous snake on the planet, but not the most dangerous since these snakes are only really found in a VERY small region of the Outback in which VERY few people live, so you're very unlikely to encounter one. That said they do have the most toxic venom of all snake species on the planet (with the highest untreated lethality rate of all snake species at OVER EIGHTY PERCENT) and their venom goes into effect about 30 minutes after envenomation, and fatality usually occurs within 45 minutes of envenomation. So if you get bit you're fucked, basically.

Unlike many snakes, the dandarabilla ALSO has an envenomation rate of OVER EIGHTY PERCENT. That means that over 80% of the time they're going to inject venom. Venomous snakes can do something called a "dry bite," which is usually used as a warning strike and consists of them biting you without injecting venom. But the dandarabilla says "fuck that and fuck you, cunt" and INJECTS VENOM OVER EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE TIME.

Compare that to Crotalus atrox, the western diamondback rattlesnake, who only injects venom 60% of the time.

What's your favourite lizard?

The one in me daks. (For those of you that don't get it, chucking a piss is also called "draining the lizard" here.) My answer is Varanus giganteus, the perentie. I saw one eat a cat once. They scare me. I like them. (Also I fought one for rights to a pig carcass that I shot so they have no fear of humans.)

Favourite turtle?

The one in me- Okay this joke isn't working now. Macrochelys temminckii, the alligator snapping turtle. They're cool as hell, look fucking prehistoric, and can bite my fingers off. I think they're neat.

What's your favourite Australian saying?

"Well I'm not here to fuck spiders." City roos will tell you that we made that up as a joke for tourists but it's bullshit, we actually do say that in the Outback. We also use the alternative "Well I didn't come here to finger dingos." We're very crass, us Aussies.

If you ever want to find an Aussie in the wild just shout "AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE" and any Aussies in the vicinity will immediately reply "OI OI OI!" It's our mating call.

I also love our age-old curse of "May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down," which literally translates to "May your chickens (chooks) turn into emus and kick your toilet (dunny) down."

Also "dry as a dead dingo's donger," meaning you're very thirsty, "don't come the raw prawn with me," which means "don't try to pull one over on me," and every meaning of our slang usage of the word "piss."

What's your favourite sea animal besides orcas?

Octopodes are cool as. I love giant isopods. Siphonophores are pretty spiffy. I'd like to see marine iguanas.

What colour is your hair? How about your eyes? How tall are you?

I was born a strawberry blonde, but as I've gotten older it's darkened to a dirty blonde (I've got some neat natural highlights though). On good days (and with a lot of sun) it really lightens up to a golden blonde but that's usually only visible at the bottom of my mullet that gets sunlight. Most of my hair is obscured by my hat so it stays dark. I have light blue eyes that sort of alternate between blue and grey depending on the amount of light (grey in a room, light blue in direct sunlight). I'm a manlet and that's all I'm going to say about my height (I got my mum's shortness).

What's bushgender mean?

Honestly, I just... don't care about gender? It doesn't exist out in the bush. There's just my own biology and I'm not reminded of gender at all until I interact with people. I like it that way. I'm not necessarily nonbinary since I'm a bloke, it's just that gender is a complete afterthought to me so I just don't think about it. My gender is the bush. I am a bushie. The land doesn't care what I think of myself so why should I?

Do you play any instruments?

I can make dove calls with my hands. Also I play the harmonica but I'm terrible at it.

What's the model of your car? What colour is it?

'99 Ford. Not telling you the model because I don't like stalkers lmao but it's a ute with a camper in the tray. It's white. The paint reflects heat instead of absorbing so my engine is less likely to overheat in the Outback sun. Also white's an inoffensive colour so it stands out less in the bush than, say, black or blue or red or whatever.

Can you get custom number plates in Australia? Do you have a custom number plate?

Yes you can and yes I do! I run a business after all! I need to have something that identifies me!

[halfbakedideas]

Hot Potato, Hot Potato

No. 30 NOTE TO SELF: DON'T GET KIDNAPPED

Manhandled | Hair Grabbing | "Please don’t touch me.”

Have you ever wanted to play hot potato with your littlest brother who has been magically turned into an iguana? The Batkids did.

Magic, why does it have to be magic?

“Damian, watch out!” Dick yelled as he ducked out of the way of a bolt of purple magic barrelled past him.

Unfortunately, Damian had been preoccupied with one of the magic user’s weird glass goons and had not ducked in time. The bolt of magic hit him square in the back.

The fourth Robin crumpled to the roof covered in a purple aura-like haze. In his place was a teenaged iguana.

“Nightwing to Batman,” The comm. line connected. “We have a BunnyWing situation here,” Dick told him.

“Acknowledged.” Bruce responded crisply. Everyone connected into the line could hear the tired sigh in his voice.

One of the children turned into an animal by a magic user could only go one way when it came to this family and it started with an ‘n’ (don’t be a nincompoop, it wasn’t nice).

XXX

That had happened last night. It had been twelve hours since Damian had been turned into an iguana by a magic user while out on patrol.

When Bruce left his room that morning he had found it to be suspiciously quiet. That was never a good omen in this household. Ever. He needed to find his phone to call Zatanna. When he walked into the living room not even an hour later still in search of his phone, he found his children (well, most of them) standing in the centre of the room in a loose circle. Most interestingly, there is a baby iguana flying through the air between them.

“What is going on here?” he asked. All of his children turned to face him with matching guilty expressions. Iguana!Damian lands on Jason’s head with a hiss, he had come close to almost sliding right off.

“Reaction practice?” Tim tried. Bruce levelled them all with another one of his Tired Dad Looks™

“It is eight in the morning, on a Sunday, and you lot are playing hot potato with your youngest brother who is currently an iguana?” It wasn’t a question but it could have been.

“Yep,” Jason answered. It’s echoed by a choir of more yeps, yes’s, and a yeah.

It was at that moment that Bruce decided that it was too early in the morning and and he didn’t have enough coffee to be dealing with this. 

“I don’t have enough coffee to evaluate this situation right now nor stop it; Just please make sure that Damian — or anyone else for that matter — isn’t hurt,” he announced before turning, grabbing his phone from the side table, and heading to the door. “And make sure that Alfred doesn’t find out; I’m not protecting anyone from his wrath,” Bruce added before he left the room.

Behind him, he could hear the shouts and hissing start up again. They had resumed their game.

The heavenly scent of freshly brewed coffee drew him in the direction of the kitchen. Coffee first then he would call Zatanna to see if she was free to come over to sort out their lizard problem.

XXX

Damian had been asleep in his bed when his brothers broke into his room and snatched him from the heavenly confides of the blanket.

In their present state they weighed less than an average table lamp, so there was little that they could do to stop the thievery.

Damian felt his brothers carry him down the hallway, downstairs and saw the couches and extra large-sized television that told him that they were now in the living room.

Suddenly he was flying through the air. For a brief moment, they were worried that they were not going to be caught and would land painfully. But then he landed in someone’s — Timothy’s, based on how pale the skin was — hands.

Before he could even get his bearings, Timothy (the traitor) had launched him up in the air again. Once more they were caught and again chucked into the air.

The next time he is flying through the air, Damian voices his annoyance in the only way he can do so in this form: hissing.

Their brothers ignore their protests in favour of treating them like some kind of plaything. Tossing him around like someone would do with a ball.

No, not a ball; worse than that: a hot potato.

[defjux]

King Kashmere. The Ill Hand. Lord Rao. Obiesie Adibuah. Galaktus. Chuck Enzo. Kashmere the Iguana Man.

[finiffy]

I feel like Kondraki dealing with small 682 would be just like grabbing an angry iguana and chucking it in a trash bin

-⏱

Oh totally, he would use those little grabber toys to pick up 682

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Sam Rockwell as Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002). Sam was born in San Mateo, between San Francisco and San Jose, and has 107 acting credits from a 1988 episode of The Equalizer to three 2022 credits. He has four entries among my best 1,001 - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Jojo Rabbit, Blue Iguana, and Richard Jewell.

His other notable credits include Last Exit to Brooklyn, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Box of Moonlight, Celebrity, The Green Mile, Charlie's Angels, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Frost/Nixon, Everybody's Fine, Iron Man 2, Cowboys and Aliens, Vice (as George W Bush), eight episodes of Fosse/Verdon (as Bob Fosse) and 44 episodes of F Is for Family

[cranberryvishnu]

Cranberry - Morning Routine

Ever since Cripps abandoned me to aid the wicked Master Olcott - I have been able to make my own accommodations wherever I please.

I mostly enjoy setting my camp by water. A nice slow wide spot along the river or on the edge of a lake. This allows me to engage in my morning constitutional.

It consists of an invigorating swim in the early hours of the morning. I do this first thing before breakfast. Even Dogstoyevsky is not awake yet! I love the quiet - and the sound of the cold water all around me.

Today I found a desert iguana and tried to race him! He is so elegant in the water and was far too fast for me.

I lost track of time - the sun is already up! I have to feed Dogstoyevsky - he will be very cross with me...

After Dogstoyevsky and my trusty horse, Star Billiard are taken care of, I can have breakfast. No more of that horrible slop Cripps used to make.

I prefer chili! I have many recipes that have been shared with me by other wanderers that are quite good. Even one that uses iguana... so that little scamp was lucky I could not catch him today!

Well time to get back to work! The operation runs much more efficiently now that Cripps is no longer sniffing and drinking the chemicals. I also do not miss the odor left from his "dietary mishaps" he would leave behind the chuck wagon.

Well now... I wonder what I shall get up to today?

[art3you]

(ID: A ref of a fat buff lizard furry with slim hips. He's black with orange chest belly and tail. It says "Presley Simon. He/him male chuckwalla. Quiet lawyer." and has a copy of him wearing a blue button down shirt and capri khakis, and then a denim vest with white sweatshirt sleeves and a black v neck tucked into cuffed jean shorts with a belt. He has big lizard feet, end ID.)

Uh oh I made him too dark because my tablet is much brighter than my laptop because I use it with the screen off most of the time but my cat was laying on my keyboard. Chuckwalla!

(ID: A photo of a chuckwalla blending into the rough ground, sunning its belly with its head up. It kind of looks like a big bearded dragon, (it is related to iguanas) and its torso is pancake shaped, orange under its pectoral muscles and paler on the belly. It is a wrinkly creature with its tail sticking up, end ID.)

Chuck Walla, Jimmy Walla

(ID: A chuckwalla on a rock with blurry yellow wildflowers in the background. Its face is white and body black with a bright apricot tail. It's sitting. Still wrinkly, end ID.)

I'm almost done with this design.

[finishinglinepress]

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[hathousehappenings]

I wanted to make sure to do something non Hatter/Hare this week and I decided to finally draw Floyd the fabulous fortune teller and Chuck from the Day of the Iguana.

Out of all Wesley Mann’s non-Caterpillar cameos, this one was definitely my favorite. His song and dance number is phenomenal! It made me really wish they were able to do more with him because he really wasn’t utilized well enough. Too much talent to be stuck in the Big Worm costume the whole time.

[rpgvrai]

what we saw in the vision wasnt gman. it was the iguana. he has reactivated and you will know of him

( FGEHSHSJDG THIS IS SO FUNNY PLEASE,,,, the iguana thinks Chuck E. Cheese is not a restaurant )