Debate over Tim Curry’s Career and the New Show Rule artwork

Debate over Tim Curry’s Career and the New Show Rule

The Carton Show with Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle

August 26, 2026

The Carton Show crew remember the lives of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry by debating their most iconic film roles. The discussion moves from the interactive experience of Rocky Horror Picture Show to a heated argument regarding the quality of Home Alone 2.
Speakers: Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle

Topics: Sports

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
Carton Show Big Mac 301, phone number to join is always 888-808-1019. You did miss yesterday, I think you were back in town, Elise, that one of your favorite performers of all time, Dolly Parton, passed away.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:13)
Yeah, very sad, and then Tim Curry today.

**Craig Carton** (0:15)
Who's Tim Curry?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:17)
You're not serious. The great Tim Curry?

**Craig Carton** (0:21)
I'm just trying to give a little love to Dolly Parton because every boy I know one day dreamt about his head and her bosom.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:27)
I did, I was a big nine to five.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:29)
Motorboat!

**Chris McMonigle** (0:32)
I love the movie Nine to Five. Working nine to five.

**Craig Carton** (0:35)
With Lily Tomlin. What a way to make a living. That's right. And Jane Fonda. Did you ever dream about having your head and her bosom?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:41)
A little bit, yeah.

**Craig Carton** (0:42)
Did you ever yell out, Motorboat! No. You never did that?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:47)
No. Huh.

**Craig Carton** (0:48)
You motorboat son of a bitch!

**Chris McMonigle** (0:50)
I mean, I've done that never with like Dolly Parton.

**Craig Carton** (0:52)
Oh, I forgot to tell you there's a new rule on the show. While you were gone for so long, we passed the new rule.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:57)
I was gone for a week, stop saying this. That's the new rule.

**Craig Carton** (1:01)
I apologize. Anytime, anybody on the show, and anyone can do it anytime.
Yells out, motorboat! We all have to go, brrrr, brrrr, brrrr, brrrr, brrrr, brrrr, brrrr, brrrr, brrrr. So I apologize, that's my fault. It's one of the new rules that we instituted while we were away.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:15)
This is what happened when Dolly Parton passes away.

**Craig Carton** (1:17)
Well, Dolly Parton passed away yesterday, we instituted a rule.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:19)
She's led to a motorboat rule.

**Craig Carton** (1:21)
So it goes like this. Okay. There you go, that's just a new show rule.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:27)
And by the way.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:27)
You have to shake your head like that?

**SPEAKER_3** (1:28)
Can you just make the motorboat I don't care?

**Craig Carton** (1:30)
how you do it as long as you make the sound. Callers are allowed to say motorboat also. So if anybody calls in like, I won't talk Yankees, motorboat!
You didn't do it.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:39)
I'm sorry, motorboat.

**Craig Carton** (1:40)
I mean, either be on the team or don't be on the team. All right? Try one more time.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:45)
No, that was like a Simon Says thing.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:48)
Motorboat!

**Chris McMonigle** (1:51)
You're calling me off guard there.

**Craig Carton** (1:52)
Yeah, yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:54)
I'm sorry, I think-

**Craig Carton** (1:55)
Who's Tim Curry?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:56)
Tim Curry. How do you not know?

**Craig Carton** (1:58)
How do you not know Tim Curry? Was he an NBC News anchor?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:01)
Have you ever seen Rocky Horror Picture Show?

**Craig Carton** (2:03)
Of course I have.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:03)
That's Tim Curry.

**Craig Carton** (2:04)
Which guy?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:05)
Dr. Frankenfutter, the main guy.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:07)
Dr. Frankenfutter.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:11)
What's funny?

**Craig Carton** (2:11)
It's a question.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:12)
That's the character's name.

**Craig Carton** (2:13)
I know, it's so funny though.
Hey, what's your claim to flame fame? I was Dr. Frankenfutter.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:22)
It's an incredible musical.

**Craig Carton** (2:24)
Yes, it is. It was fun when you were 14 to go to the movie theater.
With a water pistol and Juergens lotion in it. That's what was fun.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:32)
Great Scott.

**Craig Carton** (2:34)
What do you want?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:35)
When they go to theaters, the fans get...

**Craig Carton** (2:37)
It's like 4D kind of thing.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:38)
Well, they do things. Like there's one of the guys' name is Dr. Scott. So when everyone says, Great Scott or Dr. Scott, people throw toilet paper, because it's Scott tissue paper.

**Craig Carton** (2:48)
Is that a thing people do? Oh, that's what made the film a cult classic, that you go to the theater and it's interactive amongst the people in the audience. And one of the things you do, you bring a water pistol with Jurgen's lotion in it.
I'm not going to tell you why.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:04)
There's a lot of things.

**Craig Carton** (3:06)
I've never seen a movie in theaters.
Pardon me one sec. The only place to see Rocky Horror Picture Show is in a movie theater. It's pointless to watch it at home. Completely a waste of time. Because it's the experience, of course it is.

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