The Goonies (1985) – Filmsack Show Notes

The Goonies 1985

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BRIEF

*The Goonies* follows a group of misfit kids from the “Goon Docks” who discover a treasure map in the attic. With their neighborhood facing demolition, they embark on a quest to find the lost fortune of the pirate One-Eyed Willy. Along the way, they’re pursued by the criminal Fratelli family and face a series of traps, puzzles, and growing pains on their way to ultimate friendship and possible maritime property theft.

Rated: PG | 1985 | Adventure/Comedy | 1h 54m

LINKS

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089218/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goonies

Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/goonies

TVTropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheGoonies

WHERE TO WATCH

HBO Max (Max Max): https://play.max.com/movie/ac984c7c-76d5-482e-9d5f-ddc21c0f0c3c

JustWatch: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-goonies

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SHOW NOTES

  • Is this the most Spielberg film not directed by Spielberg?
  • Into the eye of the skull… man what an intro… was the the original theatrical card.
  • The longer you dogs bark… the colder your food gets.
  • I hung myself. To whom it may concern… you schmuck.
  • Joey Pants and Mama.
  • Lets set this place on fire…
  • The jauntiest prison break.
  • Mom in her 5 speed Jeep.
  • Momma likes to eat crackers while doing her getaway.
  • Ok guys… let’s try the victory pyramid!
  • That is not how plumbing works Corey.
  • The Car Chase that introduces all the characters as it goes across town.
  • Trust in your old mother boys…. I have this timed to a beach rally… 4 wheeling.
  • Meanwhile across the Goon Docks… nothing exciting ever happens.
  • Dictate myself… Delude yourself dummy.
  • He has Asthma as the wimp.
  • Last Goonie Weekend! 
  • Sniffing some lace.
  • Come on Brolin… you failed your driver’s test.
  • First you got to do the Truffle Shuffle… C’mon… Do it… C’mon… Do it… Cut it out.
  • Who is the Rube Goldberg around here…
  • It’s more amazing… than Michael Jackson to use the bathroom… but his sister did.
  • Hey, I bet you guys thought I was going to drop it.
  • That’s my mom’s most favorite piece.
  • If he gets his next 400 paychecks by tomorrow afternoon.
  • Data the kid.
  • Rosaletta is going to help us with the packing…
  • How did mom hurt her arm?
  • It is real hard to understand everything they are saying…  but that is fine.. that is how spastic kids are.
  • The Marijuana goes in the top drawer.
  • Mr. Walsh doesn’t like anyone up in his attic.
  • I would really like the house clean when they tear it down.
  • Nice is my middle name Mrs Walsh.
  • I don’t like that language…but that is exactly what you are in.
  • Mickey can’t go outside… he will get the asthma.
  • Dad is going to give all the stuff back to the museum… where he is the Curator.
  • Maybe he has some rich stuff!
  • Sweat Pants under shorts. Why not.
  • The magic of the Attic in the 80s/90s
  • Chunk is Jewish? Old Hannakah decorations in his attic.
  • You’re ruining the painting. You are ruining my joke.
  • The History of Astoria and these are the rejects. I’m not a reject.
  • Just old forgotten junk with no value…
  • Chunk is a dependable butter fingers.
  • 1632… is that a year of something… no it is your high score on Pole Position.
  • Mouth can read Spanish… what a setup.
  • This map is old news… The Pirate Guy… One eyed Willy… the most famous pirate of his time.
  • Ruby’s emeralds and Diamonds.
  • Forever… and ever… trapped.
  • My dad tells me the truth.
  • Setting Booty Traps… that’s what I said.. .Booby.
  • Chester Copperpot.
  • This movie has so much freaking setup.
  • But what if… what if this leads to One Eyed Willie’s Rich Stuff.
  • I don’t want to go on anymore of your Goonie Adventures.
  • Troy’s dad.
  • Trash the Goon Docks
  • Make it a sandtrap and never get their balls out.
  • This music sweeps you right along.
  • That Country Club is ruing our lives.
  • Tie up your  bother with this chest building springs.
  • 376 Lawn mowing jobs to pay for that.
  • Goonies… good enough for me.
  • Can’t you learn how to exercise like a normal kid
  • Rosalita… give me a hand.
  • Astoria
  • Mickey talks like his mom.
  • Teenagers taking smaller kids stuff is always funny.
  • 00-Negative.
  • Shut-up Chunk.
  • Anybody got a candy bar… baby ruth.
  • Troy and his Astoria CC cap.
  • We used to try to kill each other in the 80s and it was funny. Hold onto my car sucker.
  • It fits the Doubloon?
  • Drug Dealers wouldn’t be caught dead in those polyester pants
  • Let’s convince ourselves that it is ok.
  • Kids are spastic
  • You need about 400 roach hotels in this place.
  • You boys like Tongue.
  • ORV 
  • Mikey this is not the type of place you want to go to the bathroom
  • Stay to the right… 
  • That water needs filtering.
  • Don’t feed the sloth.
  • Kids suck.
  • They got an it… a giant it.
  • Come on Guys… this is our time.
  • You know.. tilting the mirror to look down my shirt.
  • I got pictures of your mom taking a bath…
  • Pike on a Pike… fish head on a stick
  • poor old Chunk’s stomach is a character in this movie.
  • Bigger Brother will go along if it means getting lucky.
  • Shame Shame I know your name.
  • You Klutz… I hope it’s not a deposit bottle.
  • Where are you. You are in the clouds and we are in a basement.
  • Fifty Dollar Bill!!
  • We have the money to save the Goon Docks
  • Counterfeiting money is the easy way… 
  • They got Chocolate Eruption… and dead bodies!
  • Let’s kill each other over the pepperoni.
  • The only way out is through! It starts here.
  • We all wore Nikes
  • Could have been a Tremor mom.
  • He better not have broken those chains. I’m not going to zoo for another set.
  • Why are they sacrificing Chunk! He’s going to get the police.
  • Bully Blinders… I got light. The only problem is that the batteries don’t last long.
  • Singing in Italian.
  • Let’s bang on the pipes all day.
  • I don’t remember the pipes scene at all. One central location that all the pipes run from.
  • Lost my glasses. 
  • Reverse Pressure… Troy says… daddy!
  • First we start with the pudgy little fingers.
  • Chunk is a rat.
  • Should have stayed with Troy…
  • I got nuts and I pigged out at fat camp.
  • Oh look candles… made of dynamite!
  • I’m setting booty traps…that’s what I said.
  • Dead bodies really creep kids out.
  • God put that rock there for a purpose. I’m not so sure you should move it.. RABIES RABIES!
  • But the worst thing I ever done… fake puke… then I made a noise like this… hoooah…. then this was horrible.. the people started getting sick. 
  • Do I get the truth or do I get the juice.
  • Joey Pants Toupee
  • Another treasure find… nope… keep going… it is only a wishing well… you can’t take the money
  • Martin Sheen…Kennedy…same.
  • These are somebody else’s wishes.
  • This was my dream… this was my wish. and it didn’t come true.
  • What’s that… a cracker jack prize.
  • What did you wish for… to make it with Andy… rejected.
  • Goonies Never Say Die. I’m not a goonie I just want to go home.
  • The next time you take a test it will be in some other school.
  • Cause it’s their time. Up there… down here it’s our time. That is all over the second we ride up Troy’s bucket.
  • AAAANDY! You Goonie!
  • Ruth Ruth Ruth… Baby.
  • Geez mister… you are even hungrier than I am.
  • Sure… right before they ate ’em. 
  • Follow them size 5.
  • Sloth… Chunk Food exchange.
  • Randy, Man, you smell like Phys Ed.
  • Data Pinchers of power are just a bit too far… 
  • Chunk is known for pranks… and makes a gremlins joke…
  • Mikey has a pee problem. Pee break.
  • haha… go see what she is ragging about…that sounds offensive.
  • Brand.. I am in here…with my eyes closed.
  • Does Brand wear braces. She ain’t going to tell her she kissed the kid brother?
  • I can smell their bubble gum.
  • This cave is a skull! One Eye’d Willie was busy.
  • Jerk Alert!
  • Who packs their dynamite with their red candles that look like dynamite.
  • The Spanish Rhyme Rhymes in translation. weird.
  • Goonies always make mistakes. This Finger Bone Piano is out of tune.
  • How many inhaler puffs is this movie.
  • Love this music so much…
  • Data is quiet tired of fallen and skeletons.
  • Data has had enough..
  • This whole ship is a treasure.
  • WHERE’S THE GOLD Mikey!
  • One Eyed Willy Died Like he lived… with his treasure.
  • I’m Mike Walsh… you’ve been expecting me.
  • So that is why they call you one eyed willy.
  • One Eye’d Willy was the first Goonie.
  • Marble bag of coins.
  • I saw this on the Hardy Brothers
  • Data is a loose cannon.
  • Mouth full of pearls.
  • You wanna play pirate?
  • Brand and Andy.
  • HEEEY YOU GUYS!
  • Captain Chunk says… let’s get the hell out of here.
  • We are in deep shit now Frances..
  • Super Sloth!
  • Mama… Ma you been back…
  • Break… Fall… mama… dropped sloth…once or maybe twice.
  • That’s not a candle…that’s dynamite!
  • Escape is through Sloth’s Legs.
  • Sloth Love Chunk.
  • Goonies never say no to Rube Goldberg devices.
  • You can’t hug a photo… you are my best invention.
  • Your voice is kind of nice when your mouth doesn’t screw it up.
  • The parts of you that don’t work so good are going to catch up the parts that do.
  • haha… Let her mother worry.
  • Sloth and Chunk forever.
  • We had our hands on the future… 
  • Do you get to keep the gold you find?
  • No sign… what’s in the bag… jewels… do you take precious stones as payment.
  • The octopus! They skipped that part.
  • Holy Mary Mother Of God… look at that.
  • …and what appears to be a pirate ship.
  • RV Bullet Holes!
  • It’s Brand Mom.
  • Data is Q if Q was 10 and wore a utility belt full of slapstick.
  • Josh Brolin’s most underrated performance? Those sweatpants say yes.
  • Astoria: Where every attic has pirate maps and old artifacts.
  • Chunk’s confessional scene is pure Oscar-worthy chaos.
  • Sloth loves Chunk. We all do.
  • That water slide needs a real-world recreation stat.
  • “Booty traps!” … “You mean booby traps?”
  • One-Eyed Willy’s trap game is strong. Very strong.
  • Corey Feldman speaks fluent 1980s sarcasm.
  • That piano scene could’ve been a *Saw* movie.
  • Rosalita’s Spanish lesson turned horror story.
  • “Goonies never say die”—unless it’s from asthma or parental foreclosure.
  • Is the Fratelli lair the first Escape Room?
  • The giant pirate ship reveal still slaps in 2025.
  • Mama Fratelli is terrifying and somehow lovable.
  • Brand: protector or just bad at bike theft?
  • The Goonies’ real treasure was friendship… but also gold.
  • Don’t forget the jewels in Mikey’s marble bag!
  • Does One-Eyed Willy count as a haunted NPC?
  • “Let’s get outta here before one of them says ‘dead body!’”

 

The Goonies 1985

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