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They Came Together
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That's right folks! The time has come for Emma and Katie to discuss the 2014 rom com satire: They Came Together. There's jokes! There's movie stars! There's bits on bits on bits! It's the movie which when you google it the first thing to come up is "Is They Came Together worth watching?" The short answer is yes. It absolutely is.
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Morning Greetings and Restless Night
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Happy morning, Katie. Happy...
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ha morning
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I didn't get to bed last night at all.
Late Night Distractions
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No, I was in bed after too. Well, you know, I, I, sometimes things happen.
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Things happen. Life happens. Sometimes you get stuck on Instagram reels. Sometimes you're reading a book.
Book Talk: 'Silver Nitrate' and Its Themes
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Oh, oh, I'm reading a book that you'll actually kind of like. It's a spooky horror book.
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It's not a romance, but it's a spooky horror book. um So, you know, the author who wrote um Mexican Gothic. Uh huh. ah She wrote another book called Silver Nitrate, um which I'm reading right now, which is about and ah sound engineer and an actor in 1990s Mexico City.
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And they meet this like old nineteen 20s 40s director who's like my movie was never finished and uh I would like you to help me finish this movie and oh also there's magic involved Hell yeah.
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And it has to do with like Nazis um and how they like the whole like, you know, they thought that about that they could use magic to make Aryan babies. I don't know.
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Yeah, like Raiders of the Lost Ark. Yeah. Yeah. Like Raiders of the Lost Ark. But the whole idea is that silver is a um sort of ah conduct A conduit?
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A conductor. A conductor, thank you, for magic. And the film that they are recording on, the words and everything, the magic is intensified because of the silver in the film.
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And also, it only works if people see it. And so it's like spooky, fun, creepy ah huh magic. Yeah, that sounds great. Yeah, yeah super fun. Silver nitrate. What's the author's name?
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Hmm. The author who wrote Mexican Gothic. can't tell you the top my head. That's okay. It is. ah That is so small. That image. ah
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Sylvia Moreno-Garcia. Yeah, and it's all about um the sound engineers, like a big horror fan. And so like it's all about like horror movies. And it's really great. It's super fun. um Super fun and spooky.
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Charlie got it for me for our anniversary last September and has been bugging me to read it since. But I got stuck in Zodiac Academy world where there are 80,000. Oh, no.
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Not the Zodiac Academy. Did not tell you that I went down that road? I think that you told me that you maybe had the first one but hadn't started it yet, like, a while ago.
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and I just assumed the better angels of your nature would win out. Book eight. I don't know any. I haven't read it. I've just heard that it's terrible. That's all I know. Yeah. Here's the thing.
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Here's the thing about Zodiac Academy. I call it a Horny Hogwarts. And... Yeah. Um...
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It sometimes is really like, it doesn't know what it wants to be, but I'm here for the ride. Like sometimes it's like super serious and emotional and like, you know, like ACOTAR from Blood and Ash, like all of that romanticcy, like, you know. um And then sometimes there's some silly nonsense bits that go on Sure.
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Well, mean, I love a silly nonsense bit. I mean, there's several to which ah sometimes i will read the book and be like, what the fuck did I just read? Like, there's a whole scene where there's a prank done on one of the professors to make his pubic hair grow and he almost drowns by his own pubic hair.
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Okay, okay. So it's intentionally silly then. Yeah. Yeah. It gets sillier and sillier the more and more books that happen. And it's just sort of like, i don't know. It's just a fun wild ride.
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and And, but it's also at the same time hard to get through because like the main villain is very Trumpian. And so like, yeah it's like hard around the election. i was reading where he was like coming to power and I was like, ah it was very distressing.
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Yeah, that's rough. I don't want to read that. i don't want to i don't want to engage with stuff like that right now. It's too soon, you know? yeah Yeah, which is why I like had to put it down. I was just like, I can't.
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yeah I know that like it's fun reading these people fighting him, but it's just, I don't need to be surrounded by tears. Well, it also probably came out in the um you know in the in the time between wars, you know in the between yeah His two yeah presidencies. So it was different then. It's a different time.
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We weren't living in a fascist hellscape.
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Anyways. um
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Great segue. Great segue. That's right, guys. You guessed it.
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This is Go Get Your Girl. This is the podcast where Emma and Katie... live their lives to the fullest as, you know, rom-com stereotypes.
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bit They own a small, they're little entrepreneurs and they meet the their, you know, nemesis slash person they could see themselves falling in love with. Oh, well telling this delightful story to Bill Hader.
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And um what's her name from Kimmy Schmidt? Ellie Kemper. Ellie Kemper.
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um I'm Emma. And I'm Katie.
Introducing 'Go Get Your Girl' Podcast
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And today we are talking about They Came Together 2014 to
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ah Directed by David Wayne, ah who and written by Michael Showalter, both of whom ah did Wet Hot American Summer. And um ah David Wayne directed ah ah Role Models and like a lot of other stuff.
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um Michael Showalter directed The Idea of You, which we covered on this podcast. And he also directed The Big Sick, which, um and he has writing credits on i on on The Idea of You and also all of um David Wayne's movies, pretty much. and And a movie called The Baxter, which we will definitely do on this podcast at some point, which is another kind of ah take on rom-coms yeah it's like what if bill pullman from um from uh sleepless in seattle was the main character of a rom-com like this guy who just keeps getting dumped by people who like are the stars of a rom-com yeah oh i love that i love that so much i've never heard of the baxter i'm very excited to see it
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Yeah, it's pretty cute. um Yeah, so they were part of The State, which is an improv group and like sketch comedy group that came out of NYU. And a bunch of people were involved in it. Everybody that you know was involved in it. um Yeah.
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It was ah the two of them, Michael Ian Black, um Carrie Kinney, um a lot of the people from, what's his name, from Reno 911 as well. um All those people were all in the state in the Yeah.
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um yeah And Paul Rudd, like, Paul Rudd was always kind of, like, on the periphery of all of those groups. Like, he was, yeah he's in Wet Hot American Summer. Basically, everybody in this movie is in Wet Hot American Summer.
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Yeah. i But as far as I know, was never, like like, because he's been in, like, Tim and Eric stuff. He's been in um a lot of, like, he does alternative comedy stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, but, like, I don't think he was ever, like, I don't think he ever did, like like, theater, like, comedy, like, sketch comedy or anything that I'm aware
Comedic Roles and Movies Discussion
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of. yeah Like, he just kind of got roped in. Yeah.
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Was that the same sort of case for Detective Stabler?
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um You know, i don't think so. I think that, as far as I know, he was... He was in What Hot American Summer, and because of that, he was in this, is my guess.
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But I don't yeah know Christopher Maloney's, like, past with, like, so bizarre sketch comedy. It's just so random and so, so random because he is, like...
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you know, known in pop culture as Detective Stabler from Law & Order SVU. I know him as Detective Stabler from Law & Order SVU. I loved him as Detective Stabler from Law & Order SVU. And i that was how I first knew him.
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And then I saw Wet Hot American and I was like, what the fuck is he doing there? He's talking to a can of beans. Right, talking to a can of beans. And then I saw this and I was like, what?
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His character is ridiculous. i love that man much. There's the one scene at the end where suddenly he is like holding her sister Catherine like he's got his arms over her shoulders and like it's so so dumb. This movie Is very stupid, we should say. um i i haven't seen this since since it came out. um I think that I didn't, it's so I certainly didn't see it in theaters because I don't think it barely played in theaters. yeah and Like a lot of David Wayne's movies, um they tend to be very like popular with like a cult audience, but not very successful.
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Yeah. um Which is a shame because I do I do love several of these movies. What Hot American Summer. Like if anybody listening to this hasn't seen What Hot American Summer. Stop whatever you're doing immediately.
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a hallmark of millennial humor. At least I would say. I don't know if the kids are going to appreciate What Hot American Summer. But I would like to think so. Yeah. i I haven't watched any of the like sequels or the show. Oh, really? Oh my God.
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and they good? First Day of Camp is fantastic. And 10 Years Later is okay. um But First Day of Camp is very, very good. And like everybody is in it. it's It's so stupid because it's like 15 years after the first one, but it's a prequel.
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And so they're all they're like characters. playing like kids. It's very funny. Yeah. I love that so much. Um, I have a little lore that goes along with this movie.
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Um, so I saw it the first time, i think around the time that it came out, loved it. Um, Charlie and I watched it. It was super fun. And, um, yeah, it was great.
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Uh, then several years later, ah friend of the pod, Madison Smith, And ah husband of the pod. past and Past and future guest, Madison Smith. Past and future guest, Madison Smith.
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yeah And um husband of the pod, ah never guest, Charles Blunt. We're both working on a terrible 60s musical in the- Oh, wife of the pod was in that as well.
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Oh!
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The shout? Yeah. Past and future guest, Caitlin, was in that. Yeah, with you. Was in Shout?
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Yes, you were in it together. we weren't. No, no, no, no, not that. No, no, that was a different musical. that was a different 60s terrible musical that Madison directed. Yes, exactly. No, this was at Metropolis. Yeah.
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in our Oh, oh this was a this was an actual production. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember when she was doing that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Caitlin was also called back for it, though. I think I saw Caitlin at callback. Yeah, I think she auditioned for it, but she didn't. Yeah.
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um Neither of us booked it, and that's fine. ah But Charlie was doing the light. Would have been better if you had. Charlie was doing the line design and, um, and Madison was directing.
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And so they were in tech for shout. And so, um, Nick is not Nick and Madison aren't married, but they're basically married. So, um, Madison, they were going to get married and then COVID happened. And then like, it was a whole thing and like a whole thing, but, um, Madison's husband, Nick, uh, I almost said Madison's wife, Nick, uh,
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I mean, ah he's a feminist. He wouldn't mind that. yeah He wouldn't mind that. ah Nick and I were like, both of our spouses are off in the suburbs doing terrible musical tech.
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I'm bored. You bored? Do you want to come over and watch some movies and I'll make homemade pizza and we'll drink margaritas and we'll get really drunk? And he was like, hell yeah And so we had we had like a little wife date.
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I think that's what I called It was a wife date. And so I made pizza um and margaritas. And we watched the first movie that we watched was Another Round, which is a Swedish comedy. With Mads Mikkelsen. Yeah, it's really good.
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um yeah a little dark at times because Europe and... Yeah. And um we watched that. And then we were like pretty tipsy by that point. So then we're like, well, what do we watch now? And we're like, they came together.
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so we watched it and it was the best time I've ever fucking had. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good, that's a good environment to watch it. Yeah. Yeah. i'm He's a sweetheart. I want him to come on the show. I asked Madison about it. I said, do you think we could get Nick on the show? And he, and she said that ah he probably wouldn't do that.
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No, he would just, well,
Nick's Strong Opinions and Podcast Potential
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I mean, Yeah, no. He wouldn't do it. I can just imagine him having very strong opinions and being like, argh! I'm Nick!
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Excellent Nick impression, by the way. Yeah, that's my Nick com impression. um But yeah, it was the best time. I highly recommend watching this movie, i Drunk with Nick. um Nice. and And like the entire time I was watching it, i was just remembering that, and i was like, that was such a fun time.
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Oh, Jesus, Thomas!
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Sorry.
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Everything okay? Yeah, I just knocked over my water bottle. I'm sorry. i didn't mean to yell at you. and it's just water and electric things don't work, darling. Okay.
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But my favorite memory of that is then um we also invited Andrew, who helped write the theme music for this show over. And he came over. that's right I think halfway through, they came together. And then we the three of us proceeded to get ridiculously drunk on margaritas.
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and um And then by the time that Madison and Charlie and friend of the pod, Lily, ah who was stage managing the show, came over, they were like, what the hell have we walked into?
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And it was great. It's like that scene in Community when Donald Glover comes back with the pizzas and everything's on fire. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. It was exactly that.
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Exactly. yeah It was great. And I think we started watching The State after that as well because Andrew and Nick wouldn't shut up about it. so So we watched it. But yeah, it was a good time.
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that's i um I've never seen um've never seen The State. i um I saw some of their later stuff. They had they later changed their name to Stella. And I remember seeing some of those.
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I've never actually seen The State. I've only heard like comedy bros talk about it. Yeah. I mean, it was fine. I think I was too drunk to comprehend at that point. For sure.
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To be, like, taken into a 90s comedy show. I mean, weed is one thing, but it is different. But alcohol, like, I mean, like, there's a certain point where you're not appreciating anything that you're watching. Yeah, where you just want to hang out and talk.
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and like yeah you're not paying attention to jack shit and that was the point like we we watched they came together that was that level where it was like we're having so much fun ha ha and then everyone came back and then we were like yeah
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yeah like that yeah like little you just turn into a muppet when you're drunk yeah yeah yeah exactly i turn into a muppet every time i drink little katie do you not remember I turn it to melt.
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You're about a minute away from a Muppet at any point in time. Exactly. I'm a minute away from a Muppet. um Yeah. So that's this movie. It's called They Came Together. um And that's pretty much it. Yeah. You should watch it.
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um Yeah. Yeah. All right. Okay. Sit the fuck down, Katie. Oh. Sorry. There's more. There's more. There's way more. Sit the fuck down.
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um friend of the pod new friend of the pod jeremy was telling me uh whenever mentioned that we were going to do this movie his favorite bit is at the very beginning with bill a hater when he goes um waiter can i get some more wine and then he signs for the check yeah yeah
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there's most of my notes for this movie is me writing down stupid bits and lines which is not a good podcast like if we just repeat all of the funniest lines from this that's not like what podcasting is about are you saying know basically this isn't um me in college forcing everyone to sit the fuck down and watch this britannic youtube video slash listen to the lonely island
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What is a Britannic YouTube video? Oh my God. my God. Do you about Britannic? Don't make me watch some British nonsense. It's not British. It's not British. It's not British. It's not British.
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Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm back on board. It's these two comedy dudes.
Exploring 'They Came Together'
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And they made YouTube videos in the early 2000s. um I think they went to NYU. ah They wrote for SNL for a little while, but they've got like a sketch show that they do all the time.
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um If you've ever saw their first one that went viral that everyone knew about was um Academy Award winning trailer where they just basically parodied all of the Academy Award winning movies in like one trailer. I Googled it and all I get are ships.
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um no so No, it's spelled
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Okay. Because it's Brian and Nick are their names. Oh, I see. Okay.
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Yeah. They're really I don't think i know these people. Yeah. there it's It's really fun. it's It's a lot of fun. Yeah. I think Nick is married to Karen Gillan, which is weird.
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And don't know how that happened. um And they're also... um In the early days, they were really good friends with... Oh, my God. He was on SNL.
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I forget his name. there Some SNL cast member. You'll, like, recognize him. And um he's married to, like, one of their friends. But it's sure it's a fun time. Oh, and... um Yeah, they're very famous, apparently, yeah.
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In ah Veronica Mars. Veronica Mars, who was her college boyfriend?
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Pill? Pill. Yeah. um he He's in a lot of their videos because he's the actor is, like, best friends with them. That's Chris Lowell. Yeah, Chris Lowell rules. He's in GLOW. He's in everything. Yeah. I love him. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Chris Lowell. He's, like, best friends. He's in, like, a lot of their videos. The best part everything he's in. Yeah, he is he's great. um Watch Britannic. They're hilarious and fun, and I love them. All right, so that was an ad. If ah if these people want to pay us, feel free to do that.
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Emma's Britannic Corner!
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um But this movie... yeah is ah So it's Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd and and the city of New York, I would say, is probably a big character in this movie as well. yeah Are you saying that the city of New York is like another character in this movie?
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I am saying that, yeah. um That is, ah that's something that say it like six times in this movie. um It's basically, so they're at dinner with ah Bill Hader and Ellie Kemper and they are telling them the story of how they got together And it is, and they're like, oh, it's like a cheesy rom-com.
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And- yeah It is basically just that. It is a it is a very by-the-numbers rom-com with all of the dials kind of turned up. um Where she's like, he's like a corporate ah guy who has like the the perfect girlfriend who's but a sexpot who hates him and obviously is cheating on him at all times. Yes.
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And she can't move through her house without knocking everything over and falling down the stairs. Right.
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The bit where they're making out and they keep knocking over the wicker thing with all the flower pots on it. and likes it's like that sands across It pans across to them and they knock one over and then it goes over the kitchen, which a minute ago did not have one of those wicker like table things and then suddenly does. Yes.
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comment It's so good. it's on the I would say it's most similar to something like Airplane or The Naked Gun or it's very like kind of old school 80s parody like absolutely hot shots um yeah like anything scary movie literal yeah they'll turn it into a joke so like a really great example is paul red goes to a bar he's just gotten broken up with and and he goes to the bartender uh the bartender's like wow you look like you came in here all sad and dinner done and he goes yeah
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tell me about it. And he goes, and so the bartender repeats himself and he goes, well, you came in there all sad. And you're like, he goes, yeah, sit. You could say that again. And so then it like goes on for five minutes of them. Just like, it goes on It's one of those things where it's like, you know, if it goes, if it does it once it's annoying, if it goes on for a little bit longer, it's funny. And then it goes on so long that it's annoying and then goes on for so long After that, it's funny again. And it repeats that cycle like two or three times before finally it cuts to Bill Hader and he makes him stop. He's like, okay, we get it. Move on.
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Like, it was almost like they just rate it they just they just shot that until one of them broke. And then they just used every like every take of it. Yeah. Yes. Which I love. I mean, that's the one thing that makes this movie so charming and so, like, great, I think, is that you can tell that they all look like they're having a lot of fun together.
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they're all in. Oh yeah, for sure. um Yeah, and they are all very committed to how stupid this movie is. yeah Yes, and I love it. I love it so much because everything, there's so many twists and turns. There's a whole bit with Detective Stabler at Halloween. They go to a Halloween party and Detective Stabler is dressed. Has nothing to do with anything at all. Nothing to do with anything.
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It's almost like they ask Christopher Maloney. It's like, I don't know. what What do you want to do? And he's like, what if what if I shit in the costume? Right. And then I leave it in the bathroom. And I use the hand towels to wipe up.
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Those hand towels are for decoration. Yeah. Yeah. Um, ah it's so, so stupid. ah um because later he like, she is there in the boardroom and then, um, Ellie Kemper or, or Bill Hader, remember what interrupts. goes, this is the guy who shit in his costume at Halloween. And they're like, same one. Yep.
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Oh God. right oh
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Um, but yeah. And so like, and there's also this cast is fucking stacked, not just with like comedy greats, but like there's some genuine great actors in this. Like Melanie Leninsky plays the best friend.
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Um, Melanie Linsky is married to Jason Manzoukas doing Jason Manzoukas doing the least silly character he's ever played. Like the most human Jason Manzoukas has ever been in a movie is it strangely in this movie where he's Paul Rudd's best friend.
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I love it so much. I also, on the topic of Jason Mantzoukas, I cannot wait because he is going to be on the next season of Taskmaster. And I'm just so excited. really?
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he's on the next season of Taskmaster. Oh my God, that's incredible. I'm so fucking excited. Have they ever had an American on Taskmaster? They have, but theyre they've always been like um American comics that live in the UK.
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So it's like comics that like we don't really know. um Yeah. Or like Catherine. What's her name? Who's Canadian? yeah yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I saw that one. I haven't seen i haven't seen like the last 10 seasons of Taskmaster. and mean, we need to catch up. We watched yeah like 10 straight seasons of it in COVID and then we got burned out on it and we haven't really gotten back into it.
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And then the season after that, we tried to watch a while ago and it's just like a bunch of people I didn't care about. Like it really depends on who's on it. It really does. It really does. um Charlie is a hardcore Taskmaster fan, of course.
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um And so shock we have to watch it. But sometimes like I get burnt out on it and I'm just like, I just want to watch something with a plot. so we So we have to watch it. You know, you make compromises.
00:26:40
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You make compromises for your marriage sometimes. I make compromises for my marriage sometimes. Everybody makes compromises for their marriage. That's true. Everybody's got something they have to watch. Yeah. Yes, eggs exactly.
00:26:55
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Like, I'm sure you've seen way too much BTS footage. ie I mean, like, I have seen some of it, but, like, i she doesn't make me go to the movie, like, the, the you know, the the movies they do and that kind of thing. I've never been to a BTS concert. like like She has friends that she can... Yeah, they have movies. They have several movies, yeah.
00:27:15
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Yeah, they're, like, fathom events, you know. Oh, okay. I was like, like a hard day's night, like spice world. Uh, no, although they would be good at that. They're all pretty funny. Um, honestly, I would go see that if BTS made like a hard day's night spice world kind of thing, I would totally go see that. That would be fun.
00:27:35
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Um, there hasn't been one like that in a while. Yeah. Well, they don't really speak English very well. So I think that's probably the barrier for that. Um, it could be in Korean. Yeah.
00:27:49
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have to be well yeah i mean maybe i mean honestly maybe they have i mean they have a tv show called run um which is i guess that where they have like you know they have them go to like now they're in malta now they're in rome now they're in like chicago um they've got all those kind of things so they have that and that is in like you know it's in korean and english but unfortunately like um you know, a lot of their their fan base is is outside of Korea, in which case, like, English is the language that they would yeah need to to do um for everyone outside of Korea.
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um But honestly, it's, it's i think it's ah I think it's good. They haven't really gone into, like like, a lot of them still don't really know English that well. And, like, they don't they don't want to make that a priority because they want to, yeah like they consider themselves a Korean band and they want to stay, like,
00:28:42
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relevant in Korea. um Yeah, I love that. So that was BTS Corner. BTS Corner!
00:28:51
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Well, they've been in the military for like a year and a half, so soon they'll be out. And then they'll come out with an album that's all about the military.
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I hope not. I hope not. But i mean, like, what else are they going to write about? I mean, I did make Caitlyn go to the Taylor Swift concert with us, so that's fair. She had a great time. She did have a great time.
00:29:16
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It was the best concert I will ever attend. and every single time I wear that Aeros t-shirt, everyone goes, oh my gosh, Taylor Swift, Aeros. And I was like, yeah, do you go? Let me tell you, because I went, I was there.
00:29:33
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um ah Yeah, yeah. I wear mine to sleep in. don't really wear it out. wear it everywhere. It's also like, i Mine is also like a double X So it's like quite large on me It would be I would look silly wearing it now Like I'm not 16 Like who wear like the who wear the short shorts And the super huge t-shirt Like I can't pull that off You can't pull that off at six feet tall You know like there's certain things I mean
00:30:04
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It would look a little silly Yeah yeah I trying to like mentally image it and I was like, yeah, I guess you'd kind of look like an overgrown toddler.
00:30:17
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Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, they came together. They came together, which is, uh, the title is not a dirty joke at all. and Um,
00:30:31
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They hate each other at first. And like every rom-com trope you can think of, they manage to to cram into this. Like they hate each other at first. He works for, um my God, I wrote it down. What do they call it? Oh, the candy.
00:30:44
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Candy Systems and Research, um which is a candy conglomerate. And she runs- CSR? She runs Upper Sweet Side.
00:30:55
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For no money. Yeah. Yeah, she's like giving away candy to children. I'm like, how is this? How are you making money? Yeah.
00:31:07
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um and uh so he's trying to put her out of business so it's like you've got mail um and also like and then rent and like like she definitely doesn't have a kid at first and then like halfway through the movie they introduce a kid and a sister that she has like it's yep the stern sister character from every rom-com like it's yeah It's very well observed.
00:31:32
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Every rom-com trope is is represented. Like he has this hilarious conversation with him where he's like, oh, I know about Pokemon and mentions a Pokemon and the kid immediately starts calling him daddy. like know.
00:31:44
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He's like, are you my new daddy? Um, in, in that sort of realm, I think this is an excellent segue to talking about Tiana Paris's character, Wanda, who plays the best friend, well, not the best friend, specifically not mentioned as the best friend Amy Poehler. They all have several best friends. Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:03
Speaker
Several. Um, but she is the black best friend. And I, I thought that it was, it was an interesting sort of, um, observation in that.
00:32:16
Speaker
Everything, it it's such a stereotype in Black Best Friends and rom-coms where she was just like, you can have my costume. I don't need it. yeah Okay, bye. And she like is basically just living her life to push Amy Poehler's plot forward as her coworker. And I thought it was hilarious. I thought it was, it's like so subtle and it's so like niche.
00:32:40
Speaker
And I was just like, in oh God, it the writing is just, that's good. It's very well observed. Obviously the people who made this movie love rom-coms. And like, that's the thing, like in order to like parody something this effectively, you have to love it. Like you can't come at it where you hate something. Like if like to make a parody of something you hate, it's not the way that is not the way to make a successful like piece of comedy. Like you, you have to, you have to make fun of things that you love and the people
00:33:12
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I mean, obviously, based on other things they've made, they love rom-coms. And Michael Showalter has written at least three rom-coms, like serious rom-coms. Yeah. That are actually pretty good.
00:33:24
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Yeah. Yeah. um Yeah. He wrote and directed the The Idea of You, by the way. um It's based on a book, but he wrote the screenplay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can listen to that episode that we did on that, but that episode was, that movie was surprisingly so good.
00:33:40
Speaker
Yeah, it was. it was good. I enjoy it. Yes. So, I mean, it's hard to like...
00:33:49
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It's hard to talk about this movie because it's yeah so unserious. It's like nothing. And that's, and that's part of the problem. And that's one of the reasons why, you know, movies like this, like just exist in terms of, of the jokes in terms of the bits. Like we were saying like this, all my notes are just bits that I wrote down because that's, that's what you remember because the plot doesn't matter. The characters aren't real. So there is a bit of like,
00:34:15
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you know um a bit of of there's like nothing to the movie which is true of you know all lot all parody movies really like there's there's nothing is taken seriously so nothing is like like nothing is is going to be remembered really aside from jokes yeah exactly and everything just sort of turns like the plot turns and moves to accommodate the next bit um yeah i i wrote down my notes are york city is another character then stabler then randall park who we just talked about he's randall park and aaron hayes both have basically non-speaking roles in this movie right and michaela watkins michaela walk yeah michaela she has a couple of lines yeah yeah yeah she and randall park are both in the boardroom yeah yeah and then schmidt there's
00:35:05
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Oh, yeah. Well, he's like one of the main characters. He's been, um yeah, ah Max Greenfield. Greenfield. Yes. yeah yeah Is Ben Stellar's brother. He constantly calls him Big Brother.
00:35:17
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like He lives with him. I think he lives with him. He lives with him because he's trying to live his life and be, ah he's a dreamer, but he won't get a real job until the end. when Yeah, he's 35 years old, by the way, we should say. Yeah.
00:35:35
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um And then my last note that I wrote about this was, does this play take place in 2025? And that's in reference to when Paul Rudd goes to meet Amy Poehler's parents.
00:35:46
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Oh, shit. Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah. He goes to meet her parents. She tries to have sex with him immediately. They're hiding behind the curtains. And they're like, you're the first one of my boyfriends who didn't fuck my mom.
00:35:59
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He's like, oh, can I try again? i want to fuck your mom.
00:36:05
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But then they they they sit down to dinner and, yeah um you know, it is to be said that Paul Rudd, one of the ways they describe him early on is that he's just like, he's charming and like handsome, but not intimidatingly so and just vaguely Jewish.
00:36:21
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i and Just not to not overly Jewish. And Bill Hader goes, yeah, just a bit just a bit Jewish. Yeah. Yeah. And so and then yeah they're sitting down at dinner and Amy Poehler's dad keeps talking about ah he was like, don't you just love my beautiful white daughter?
00:36:40
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and follow goes Wait, wait, what? What did you say?
00:36:45
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Because do you think that white people should be proud of their heritage just like everybody else's? and he goes, not really. what are you what are you talking
00:36:54
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And then it cuts to him like and they're in an argument after they get home. because You didn't tell me your parents were Nazis. And she's like, they're a little they're a little odd, but, you know, they're a little eccentric. Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:07
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He's wearing a fucking like German army, like Nazi, like swastika pen when he walks her down the aisle later. oh my God. I didn't even notice that. Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:19
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Jesus fucking Christ. I was like, who knew this would still be relevant? 10 years later. Very, very silly. There's another bit where he doesn't like Halloween because he got beat up by trick or treaters.
00:37:32
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About 30 of them. And then they asked me dick or teat. They were asking if they wanted they they made that they They said they were going to show me either their dicks or their teats.
00:37:43
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And Jason Manzoukas goes, of course I remember that. It was all over the news that year. Yes. One of my favorite bits.
00:37:52
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just so good. The thing that I just really love about this movie as we were watching it for this podcast was i think in especially not to bring things down a notch, um but in a time when the world is a terrible place and every single time I look at my new app and I open my phone or I do look at something, something terrible is going on and I'm overwhelmed and stressed and sad and, oh, bless you.
00:38:21
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And i anxious all the time.
Comedy as a Stress Reliever
00:38:23
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To sit down for 90 minutes and just laugh at the stupidest dumb shit for 90 minutes. Yeah. It felt so good. ethan Not even 90 77 minutes without the credits. yeah wow Chef's kiss.
00:38:38
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Chef's kiss. Yeah.
00:38:41
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Um, like it, it just, it felt so good to just sit back and laugh at stuff that was like, not politically centered makes you just.
00:38:53
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Well, aside from the Nazis. Well, yes. but I mean, i didn't think that that would be political in 2025. Well, it wasn't in 2014. And now it's ah now it's a controversial statement that the studio probably wouldn't let them get away with.
00:39:10
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Jesus fucking Christ. But yeah, ah it just, it felt really nice and refreshing to just sit down and watch 77 minutes of dumb bits.
00:39:21
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Yeah. um What else is, oh, ah Ed Helms is Dr. Flaps. Yes. Wait, is he Dr.? No, he's just Mr. Flaps. Just Mr. Flaps.
00:39:32
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Egbert. And they call him, oh, Senior Flaps. That's what they call him at the restaurant. Senior Flaps. So that's how I think of him. He's Senior Flaps. He's her accountant who like keeps asking her out um yeah and is really boring and stupid.
00:39:45
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Oh, they have this whole bit in a bookstore where she and Paul Rudd bond over the fact that they both like fiction. They both like fiction books. The most broad thing. You also like fiction books? I've never met anyone who likes fiction books. Yeah.
00:39:59
Speaker
And then she later asks him, she asks, so they break up and over, I don't even remember why they broke up. watched this movie last night. I don't remember why they broke up. yeah have it all That's why they break up. Oh, right, right, right. That's a good reason.
00:40:12
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That's a good reason. breakdown You shouldn't, if your girlfriend's parents are Nazis, you shouldn't ah continue that relationship. Yeah. I mean, if your, if your girlfriend's parents are Nazis and she isn't against it,
00:40:27
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Correct. yes Yes, yes, yes. And she still has a relationship with him. Yes, yes, of course. You can't fault someone for who their parents are. but Correct. So at the Mexican restaurant, when she's dating, she dates Ed Helms after she break she Paul Red break up.
00:40:42
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yeah um that He takes her to a Mexican restaurant, which she says she doesn't like. which She hates Mexican food. Red flag if you hate Mexican food, honestly. Mexican food is for everyone. Yeah. um She asks, do you like fiction books? And he goes, no, they're not real. And she's like, what? He goes, it's not real.
00:40:58
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I was in high school. They made me read The Great Gatsby. I asked my teacher, did this happen? And she goes, well, no. was like, what's the point? What's the point?
00:41:09
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And she goes, oh. um As she's like picking at her burrito. yeah Which is like the size of her head. Which she says she doesn't like Mexican food the first time um because she gets offered. I think Paul Rudd is just like, would you like to go out for a burrito or would you like a burrito? And she goes, oh, hate Mexican food.
00:41:28
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um And ah and then she orders a burrito. Yeah, it's, I feel like, and I don't know, like, how much of this movie was improv, but the movie feels like it's, they they kept writing and didn't go back and change things. as they And that's intentional. Like, um it's, like, the thing, the characters they are at the beginning are not the characters they are at the end by any means. Like, everything changes constantly as the movie goes on.
00:42:01
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It's like kind of like an our screenplay where we made we changed one of the characters completely and then haven't gone back and edit it changed it in the beginning part after we changed. It's like that.
00:42:12
Speaker
Yeah, I keep meaning I keep opening it and to go back and then and then I'm like, oh, but that's so much work. and they got rid of the panera the panera um energy drink how are we supposed to finish it without the panera energy drink that kills people know to do cocaine like that's the only other closest thing like goddamn normal screenwriters jesus yeah Ah, there's a Nora Jones video in the middle of the movie. Yes.
00:42:42
Speaker
It starts out with a montage and then kind of transitions into the Nora Jones music video. And it shows, like, Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler coming in to watch, like, the recording.
Cameos and Surprise Appearances
00:42:55
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And then Adam Scott's just randomly there. and and John Stamos. John Stamos.
00:43:03
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Like they have nothing to do with the recording, but they're just randomly there. so fucking good. It's so, so dumb. but Oh my God. He gets back together with Kobe Smulders, who every time he says, ah he loves her. She says, I admire your spirit.
00:43:19
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She pulls off a mask and is Judge Judy the whole time. Like it's hard to describe this movie, honestly. Like, yeah.
00:43:30
Speaker
um At the very beginning, whatever ah her um Amy Poehler and Paul read our first like getting together, um Amy Poehler randomly says, you know, the place, what would you do if you were um walking out on a wedding that you didn't want to go to and or you didn't want to be in?
00:43:51
Speaker
And you're running away from your like, um fiance, where would you go? And he's like, I don't, I don't know. I have no idea. And she goes, I go to the Brooklyn Promenade. Just remember that for no reason.
00:44:02
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The Brooklyn Promenade. Yeah, yeah The Brooklyn Promenade. Well, first he says, she says, where where do you think I would go? And he goes, I don't know, Boston. She's like, no, I would go to the Brooklyn Promenade. So later when he's trying to track her down after she's fled her wedding to Ed Helms, yeah he's like, I know where she is. Follow me. And it cuts to Boston.
00:44:18
Speaker
And some guy is going, the Sox, the Celtics, Ben Affleck. That's how you know you're in Boston. And the entire wedding party has run from New York to Boston to find her. And he goes, I could have sworn she said Boston. No, wait, I remember.
00:44:34
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Follow me. And then everybody runs back to the Brooklyn Promenade. Yes.
00:44:40
Speaker
It's very, very silly. um It's hard to describe how silly this movie is. You have to be in the right headspace for this movie. Yeah, for sure. You have to be ready to laugh. Ready to live.
00:44:51
Speaker
Ready to laugh. Ready to love. And love. Yeah. Ready to dance like no one's watching. It's just a senior flaps in your big letters in my...
00:45:04
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um it's just so it's very very fun um and then she's like at she's at the brooklyn promenade and she's got her wedding dress on with a coat over it and then a and our carry out really carry on she's like i've got to go my flight's in an hour because where are you going she goes does she say where she's going no she doesn't she's like i gotta to get out of here ah gotta to get out of here um to which charlie goes you're not gonna make that flight
00:45:35
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um And so her ex, Frank, so at the beginning of the movie, she said she's just gotten out of a relationship with her ex, Frank. So right there on the Brooklyn Promenade, he keeps trying to like give the speech to her, but he keeps getting interrupted.
00:45:46
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yeah um And first it's her ex, Frank, who's Jeffrey Dean Morgan, randomly, um who runs up and a he's like, I still love you. And she says, what happened to Mia, the yoga instructor? And he goes, she died. That's over.
00:46:05
Speaker
Take me back. And she's like, no. And he's like, okay. And then he leaves. Yeah. And then the biggest surprise, which I did not remember this at all. the biggest surprise is her ex, the father of her child who just got out of prison and is dangerous is fucking Michael Shannon, who has a sword and attacks Paul Rudd with it.
00:46:27
Speaker
but like I mean, again, if you're going to cast an unhinged person to attack somebody with a sword, Michael Shannon has got to be at the top of that list. like Exactly. i mean, who else is going One of our most unhinged actors.
00:46:41
Speaker
Yes. And famous Chicago actor. That's true. Yeah. um He gets... he gets um Paul Rudd like you know punches him and he's like and the cops arrive uh to get him and they like start carrying him off completely in the background um while someone else is talking a cop shoots him in the head yes to which Charlie went woof yeah well you know
00:47:13
Speaker
America. um And then like we cut we finally cut back to ah the story of the movie, and that's how we got together. And then Bill Hader's like, so why are you getting divorced? laughter
00:47:27
Speaker
And they're like, oh, you know, after it all ended, um you know, we sort of grew apart. I started seeing Frank again. And, like, they just go on and on. And then at the end of that, they're like, um they realize maybe they should give it one more shot.
00:47:45
Speaker
Yeah, should we give it another shot? Then they, then that's it. That's basically the... It's, yeah, it's very funny. It's very stupid. Yeah. It's the best way to describe it.
00:47:56
Speaker
It's very funny. It's very stupid. If you want ah stupid, fun, dumb time for 77 minutes, pop this movie in. And you're great. Yeah.
00:48:07
Speaker
Yeah. Streaming on Peacock, everyone's favorite streaming service. On Peacock. the You watch this, and then Nosferatu. i think you watch Nosferatu? Yeah.
00:48:18
Speaker
No, we were going to watch Nosferatu yesterday. um Well, we were deciding between paddington going to his showing of Paddington in Peru or Nosferatu. right, yeah. And watched neither.
00:48:31
Speaker
Those are um diametrically opposite movies in every way that I can think of. yeah But those are the two options. Yeah. i think Did I tell you about Nosferatu? Like, what we thought of Nosferatu?
00:48:44
Speaker
No, you didn't tell me what you thought of Nosferatu. Oh, we didn't like it. Really? Okay. Okay. We can talk about it. You should watch it. yeah talk about it. Okay. Okay. Patting it in Peru seems great.
00:48:57
Speaker
Yeah, I'm very excited to see Paddington in Peru. um We really want to see it at the little movie theater that we love up in Litchfield Phantom, which is like cute little stars hollow town. It's in an old farm. It's like and the old it's the oldest working, um continually running movie theater in Connecticut.
00:49:15
Speaker
It's very, very cute. I've talked about it on this pod several times. Yeah, and it's but the problem with Bantam that is that they only show movies for like a week or like two weeks and then they're gone oh wow because they're like constantly shipped because they only have two screens so like they're constantly like running through so like because i'm in rehearsals and stuff we were trying to go next week but then like i'm working or in rehearsal and so like it just isn't working out and i was like i'm gonna have to go see it at amc so sorry yeah yeah sometimes you gotta to see it on a in a multiplex uh when does your show open
00:49:56
Speaker
uh end of next month we open we are heading into end of march yeah um wow that's a long rehearsal period i know it's been a long rehearsal period but i think it's been very beneficial because there's just a lot of yeah a lot of freaking moving parts um you know live baby Live baby.
00:50:18
Speaker
Live baby. ah This is our off book week. So think that it's going to- Oh shit, you did table work for like a month. That's like some Moscow art theater shit.
00:50:30
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, buddy. I mean, we're also like, you know, we have a six-year-old and nine-year-old. And so I don't feel like under ten do well with short rehearsal periods.
00:50:43
Speaker
Yeah. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a big cast. It's a huge cast, yeah. um But it's going to great. like Honestly, it's going really, really well. I'm really excited about it. um Our directors are great.
00:50:55
Speaker
Our cast is great. um i I'm super, super stoked. We've done a lot of fight. I think we're going to start incorporating the like special effects soon.
00:51:08
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Yeah.
00:51:11
Speaker
It's great time. If you're in Connecticut and you want to see a really good play that takes place in Ireland, don't worry about how long it is. um Come to Holmlewell Theatre and come see The Ferryman.
00:51:25
Speaker
um Likewise, if you're in the Los Angeles area and you' would like to see my play Helvetica, it's being produced in Claremont, California, which I'm told is outside Los Angeles. um i I think it's like a ways outside Los Angeles.
00:51:40
Speaker
But I haven't even looked. um I've been told it's outside Angeles. My play Helvetica is being done at Ophelia's Jump, which is a theater in Claremont, California. That's all I know about it.
00:51:54
Speaker
um February 28th to March sometime in March. Nice. Oh! It's weird because like
Upcoming Theater Projects
00:52:02
Speaker
now that it oh sorry. Oh I was gonna say um in your published version of the play does it have the um Death and Pretzels production in there?
00:52:11
Speaker
No does' it know just the first production. Yeah. Yeah. um So yeah um Emma was in my play Helvetica. That's how we met. um That is how we met.
00:52:23
Speaker
I want my name in a book. Well, one day. You'll have to be in a premiere of one of my plays to to get in the book. um Yeah, the, actually, I think the, do I have it handy?
00:52:38
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I think the, um yeah, I do have it handy, yeah.
00:52:46
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I think the reading, the first reading and the original cast is in it. ah Nope. No, just the first production. yeah rude it doesn't say and then it successfully transferred to knox arca theater no the like the seventh production of it for some reason is not in the published i don't understand like i don't understand well what's weird what's weird is like it's just it's this happenstance that i know about this production in los angeles because they don't tell me when it gets done
00:53:22
Speaker
Like, since it's been published, the only reason that I know this is because the people who want to do it reached out to me because it's on NPX. And we're like, hey, wanted to know about the rights to this play. And I'm like, oh, it's published. So you can go through them.
00:53:35
Speaker
And that's the only reason I know that they're doing it before they're doing it. Otherwise, I only find out when I get paid later. It's like, oh, somebody did it. Like, okay, well, I wish I would have known. Like, I could have, you know, i don't know.
00:53:47
Speaker
It's your little baby. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a great play. If you are in the Los Angeles area and want to go outside of Los Angeles, ah huh go see Helvetica. It's in the area.
00:54:02
Speaker
yeah the Los Angeles area. The only thing I know about Claremont, California is a Mountain Goat song where he said he basically says he doesn't want to go to Claremont. so I think it's like the Naperville of...
00:54:15
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okay of ah
00:54:18
Speaker
It's like an hour outside and people say they're from Los Angeles, but they're actually from Claremont. It's yeah it's it's like West Covina. that's what That's what it is. West Covina. Yes. Yeah.
00:54:29
Speaker
West Covina. Amazing. Well, do you have any other thoughts, feelings, opinions? Um... He almost fucked his grandma. That's something that happened. Oh, yeah! I forgot about that! His bubby!
00:54:43
Speaker
He says, oh, bubby, I want to fuck you so bad. um yeah Oh yeah, yeah. Michael. Yeah. I was, I said that Michael Shannon is basically doing Ray Liotta from something wild.
00:54:55
Speaker
Yeah. I agree. I agree. And a cop shoots him in the head. And then 77 minutes. That's the last thing I wrote down. Yep. Yep. 77 minutes in and out, baby. It's what we love. We'd love to see. Yeah.
00:55:08
Speaker
They came together in and out. In and out. But I'm bummed. Uh, what movie are we doing next week, Katie? Next week we are doing a rom-com classic starring um recurring adorable lead in our movies, Sandy Bullock.
00:55:26
Speaker
um We are going to do Congeniality. Fuck yeah! Sorry. Turned into a professional wrestler there for a second.
00:55:38
Speaker
I love that movie so much!
00:55:44
Speaker
Uh, I'm so very excited. Sorry. I feel like we got to space the classics out a little bit, you know, like we do got I've been holding on to some of my faves. Um, definitely, definitely some of my like two thousands faves.
00:55:58
Speaker
Um, yeah, I'm holding out on, uh, towards the end of the school year. I've got, I've got one, um, cause it revolves around ah high school. Um, and you know, i just need to remember to recommend it.
00:56:11
Speaker
Um, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Well, shall we? Thank you for listening to Go Get Your Girl. If you like us, tell your friends and please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
00:56:23
Speaker
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00:56:40
Speaker
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