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Bye Bye Love
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This week we dust off a time capsule that tried to sell McDonald’s as family therapy: Bye Bye Love. Paul Reiser, Matthew Modine, and Randy Quaid are three divorced dads trying to figure out how to date, parent, and survive suburbia in a world where every kid’s soccer practice ends in a Quarter Pounder. Also: Janeane Garofalo steals the whole movie in like 7 minutes.
How can a movie this good (to us) be this impossible to find in the modern internet, and can we do anything to bring it back?
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Transcript
Introduction to 'Movie Life Crisis'
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Welcome to Movie Life Crisis.
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Speaker
Join us as we watch the best movies from 30 years ago.
00:00:17
Speaker
Five years should be the silver anniversary, ten years ago.
00:00:20
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If you go more than ten, then you go platinum and they put you in a marriage hall of fame.
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Life after divorce is complicated.
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But for Donny... Your divorce is better than most people's marriages.
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For Dick... I should have married you, shouldn't I?
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Not too late.
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And for Dave... What were you doing to her?
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We were trying on clubs.
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It's just getting interesting.
00:00:38
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What was that?
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Bye-bye, love.
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I don't know.
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but I did like it.
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Rated PG-13.
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Starts Friday, March 17th at theaters everywhere.
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Oh, man.
00:00:48
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Jeez.
Jack Black's Uncredited Role
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I like the Walking on Sunshine because I'll never not think of Jack Black.
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Jack Black, uncredited in this movie.
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Yeah, man.
00:01:01
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As the DJ, the kid's like, do you have any Rafi?
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Reefer?
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Rafi!
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I never got that joke when I was a teenager watching this movie, and now that I have a kid, I absolutely get that joke, because Rafi sings Baby Beluga and a bunch of other shit.
00:01:16
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Rafi was like a huge deal at some point.
00:01:18
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Yeah, he's still doing stuff.
00:01:20
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Yeah, dude.
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I mean, I couldn't get him to play my kid's birthday party, but he's not a household name anymore.
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Right, right.
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I don't think he was for Jack Black back then either.
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Freaking skinny Jack Black?
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Yeah.
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Bye Bye Love.
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Brought to you by McDonald's.
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With limited commercial breaks.
McDonald's Sponsorship
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I was writing that joke down, which I've made a million times and it's not gotten any better.
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And then I read, I did my notes after the movie and it's like, production costs were underwritten by McDonald's.
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I was like, well, that makes the joke less funny.
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They actually did pay him a bunch to shoot in a McDonald's.
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Maybe that's why when you look at it and it says you can get a quarter pounder value meal for $2.99, now it's more because they had to spend $13 million on this movie.
00:02:07
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Even $2.99 seemed like a lot for $0.95.
00:02:09
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I felt like everything there was like $0.79, $0.99.
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Well, the cheeseburgers were $0.69.
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That sticker was on the door as they were walking out.
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So I was like, golly.
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I mean, I know they're still like, cheeseburgers, all right, and those are delicious.
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I'll take them like baby aspirin.
00:02:23
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Well, dude, back in the day, they were like actual cheeseburgers that were the size of cheeseburgers.
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Now Wendy's like, we got 99 cent cheeseburgers.
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Like, hey, all right.
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And I was like, this is like a mini sausage biscuit.
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This is a joke.
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When are we going to all join hands around and just decide that mini muffins are just not doing it?
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I don't like them because they're just like, I'm like, cool.
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You got extra coasters that look like McDonald's cheeseburgers?
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This is great.
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Why are these so small?
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79 cent cheeseburgers.
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I'll take eight.
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Finally, becoming a crafty consumer.
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If you get eight cheeseburgers from McDonald's, you are going to eat about four whole onions because they put the little diced onions on there with the number five scoop.
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I say no onions when I go to McDonald's, which is never, but I'm very clear about that.
00:03:04
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Dude, I don't know the last time I had McDonald's.
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I like it for breakfast, but I haven't even done that in forever.
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But if I ate eight McDonald's cheeseburgers, I worried that I would sound like you sound when you're breathing, like you've been jumping rope in the attic.
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Oh, God.
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Oh, God.
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Like, oh man, I pulled my chair up close to my desk.
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Give me a second to catch my breath.
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Just laying down like a grizzly bear and getting you a drink.
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No, sir, you can't go to sleep there.
Availability of 'Bye Bye Love'
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Movie Life Crisis Season 5, Episode 18, Bye Bye Love.
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We can sidebar this one because you can't watch it.
00:03:39
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It's nowhere and no one ever saw it except for me and Jeff.
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Yeah.
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So unless the cast of the movie is listening, I think you're probably going to be going, what movie?
00:03:49
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Yeah, who?
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What now?
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But it's got a ton of people in it.
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Dude, it's got such a great cast.
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But I had people going like, Braveheart, that sounds pretty cool.
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I might check that out.
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I was like, you didn't see Braveheart?
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You definitely didn't see Bye Bye Love.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I gotta be honest, though.
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I never saw Braveheart all the way through until we watched it.
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And I've seen this movie a bunch.
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Dude, that's a bit different.
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Yeah, built different.
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Braveheart down, bye-bye love up.
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But you like Braveheart, so you just missed it.
00:04:15
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Yeah, it worked out.
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It worked out.
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Yeah, I just didn't see it.
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All right, let's do the synopsis.
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Synopsis.
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The film follows one weekend in the lives of three divorced fathers in Los Angeles, Dave, Vic, and Donnie.
Plot Overview: Three Divorced Fathers
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Their stories intertwine as they navigate their weekend custody of their children and go on disastrous dates and try to make sense of their post-marriage lives.
00:04:40
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Dude, I like how it was three stories.
00:04:41
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I forgot it was like how it kept jumping around.
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That part was awesome.
00:04:46
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I haven't seen this in forever because, again, I don't have a DVD player and it's absolutely impossible.
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It's not streaming anywhere.
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The internet was like, we don't got that.
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I was like, dude, I thought you guys had everything.
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You're like, no, never heard of it.
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Dude, they had a ton of TV spots, though, huh?
00:05:00
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When you tried to pull it up, there was a ton of that.
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A lot of TV spots.
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McDonald's was really pumping out commercials for this thing.
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Because even the trailer, which if you watch on YouTube, you can see, is filmed mostly cut from the McDonald's scene.
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So McDonald's is in the trailer.
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The M, the golden arches, are behind Paul Reiser's head while he's talking in the trailer.
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McDonald's like, yeah, get you some.
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Come on down right now.
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We still have playgrounds.
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Life is great.
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I wonder if I probably cared more and had more time, I could have maybe found out.
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Did people do
Divorced Parents and McDonald's
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their divorce kid handoff with McDonald's, like the spot?
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It feels like it could have been.
00:05:36
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Dude, I'm not a divorced parent, but when we carpool for high school now, we meet at the Popeyes over by the interstate.
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So we're still passing off kids like that.
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That seems right, because Popeye's is like McDonald's.
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If you don't care about your kids, you take them to Popeye's.
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Right.
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Like the food's better, but all the employees hate you.
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If you guys got chicken, they're like, hold on, I'm on my phone.
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I know, but I just was going to get some chicken.
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They're like, later.
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Like, never mind, I'll just go kill a chicken and cook it myself so that I can get some food.
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By the way, I talked to one of my students that works at Popeyes, and they're like, oh, yeah, it's like a wet dredge that they put it through.
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They're back there making the chicken.
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They're breading the chicken.
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That's what it seems like when I order.
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They're like, hold on, just let us bread and fry some more chicken.
00:06:25
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We have to kill the chicken first and then pluck it.
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No, they seriously might be doing that.
00:06:28
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She tells me that all the time.
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She's like, Mr. Horn, we make it early sometimes, but not all the time.
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It seems like that's not what they're doing.
00:06:37
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It seems like what they're doing is standing in the drive-thru window looking at TikTok on their phone.
00:06:41
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They totally are.
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But I don't, I mean, again, that's a shitty job.
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They should do as little as possible to not get fired.
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But sometimes I just got to eat.
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Try to take all the money from that.
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I got to get to the Big Apple sister.
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Whatever it takes.
Box Office Performance
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I couldn't find the budget for this movie, but we do know that production costs were significantly defrayed by McDonald's.
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But it did make $12.1 million.
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It's pretty good.
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So that puts it at the number 108 position on the year, right before Tales from the Hood and right after Roommates, neither of which I saw.
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Tales from the Hood I've seen.
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Speaker
What's Roommates?
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I don't even know what that is.
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Roommates has got D.B.
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Sweeney and Peter Falk.
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I feel like I'm further away from it now.
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Who are those people?
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D.B.
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Sweeney is the guy from the Cutting Edge.
00:07:26
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I looked at the poster and I was like, it seems like I walked by that in Blockbuster probably a couple hundred times and never picked it up.
00:07:30
Speaker
Peter Falk is that Columbo no who's that um I don't it does sound like Columbo but that doesn't seem right because you lost my copy because you lost my copy cleaning van and I don't like you yeah it is Peter Falk uh yeah that's it is Columbo it's Columbo's movie turn nice and I don't like you it's got Julianne roommates it's an old person and a young person living together I've seen that it's called bye bye love
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It's the extra scenes that we don't need.
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It's the sixth story from Bye Bye Love.
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Awards, probably not.
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No.
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Janine Garofalo got something.
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Yeah, she got nominated for something, right?
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She got nominated for her performance for American Comedy Award.
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Yeah, yeah.
00:08:18
Speaker
I love Janine Garofalo.
00:08:20
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Dude, her scene where she just can't stop coughing.
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It was like Family Guy Long, too.
00:08:27
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She just kept at it.
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It was great.
00:08:30
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She's in like three scenes of this movie, and she absolutely destroys all of them.
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The date.
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Like the cow.
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Cow.
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Speaker
I'm in the stone age here with these guys.
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Speaker
Maybe it's because I was wrestling outside of my weight class.
Randy Quaid's Blind Date
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I don't know.
00:08:47
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I like when Paul Reiser walks in, too.
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He's like, yeah, we should sit.
00:08:50
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She doesn't want to sit.
00:08:51
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Okay, sorry, sorry, sorry.
00:08:54
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Ah, dude, he's so funny.
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Yeah.
00:08:57
Speaker
Sequels and spinoffs, this one has not, no one's trying to reboot this.
00:09:00
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No one even remembers that they did this.
00:09:02
Speaker
No, no, they didn't.
00:09:03
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Although, this played a bigger part in my life than I remembered as I'm watching it.
00:09:09
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There's stuff in here that I remember very vividly.
00:09:12
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There's a bunch of stuff that I remember.
00:09:14
Speaker
Me and you have always loved this movie, and I owned a copy of it on DVD or VHS, but I haven't had it in 20 years.
00:09:20
Speaker
So I was like, oh, shit, this is... I forgot a lot of this.
00:09:23
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I was like, that guy's in the movie.
00:09:24
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Oh, that guy's in the movie, too.
00:09:26
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Yeah, there's a ton of people in it.
00:09:28
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Yeah.
00:09:29
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Yeah.
00:09:30
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So where'd you see it first?
00:09:32
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I think mine was DVD, right?
00:09:33
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I think so.
00:09:34
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Well, VHS, because it was 95, and I would have rented it.
00:09:37
Speaker
I don't think I rented it.
00:09:39
Speaker
I think it was like 550.
00:09:40
Speaker
Oh, let me just buy this.
00:09:42
Speaker
I know who Paul Reiser is.
00:09:43
Speaker
Let's do it.
00:09:44
Speaker
Maybe.
00:09:44
Speaker
Well, the copy that I acquired from the internet was clearly ripped from Starz, so I guess they still show it on the movie channels.
00:09:51
Speaker
I don't know when.
00:09:52
Speaker
Man, that's awesome.
00:09:53
Speaker
But it was like 1080p, so... Yeah, yeah.
00:09:56
Speaker
I'm dude.
00:09:57
Speaker
I'm trying.
00:09:58
Speaker
You know how I get down.
00:09:59
Speaker
I'm trying to give people money for movies, but this is one that their internet's like, we got, you can't, you can only steal this one.
00:10:04
Speaker
There's no way to give money for it.
00:10:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:10:07
Speaker
Dude, I pulled out the DVD.
00:10:08
Speaker
It was like, it was, I ripped it and it was for ADP while I was watching it.
00:10:12
Speaker
And I wish I could have had a better copy.
00:10:15
Speaker
I'm going to tell you, you should probably think about listing that DVD on eBay because I saw one on eBay selling for like 80 bucks.
00:10:21
Speaker
Because you can't get this movie anywhere.
00:10:25
Speaker
I don't want to part with it.
00:10:26
Speaker
I like this movie.
00:10:27
Speaker
Well, you ripped it.
00:10:28
Speaker
Now you have it.
00:10:29
Speaker
I know, but what if the hard drive... I got to have redundancy.
00:10:32
Speaker
Well, dude, yeah, you got it.
00:10:33
Speaker
Yeah.
00:10:33
Speaker
You want to have backup copies of the Celine Dion French album.
00:10:36
Speaker
I was, um, I do.
00:10:37
Speaker
I was thinking cause the, the only, the three movies I can remember that we've done on the podcast that you cannot find anywhere are Dave, PCU, and this, and all of those I really like.
00:10:46
Speaker
Yeah, of course.
00:10:47
Speaker
All those are great.
00:10:49
Speaker
I heard friggin somebody like David Spade.
00:10:52
Speaker
Like, is it just made by a company that doesn't want to put it out anymore?
00:10:55
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I do.
00:10:56
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I don't like 20th Century Fox.
00:10:59
Speaker
This is distributed by 20th Century Fox.
00:11:01
Speaker
And then that now they're owned by Walt Disney.
00:11:02
Speaker
Like what, what would the, why is this not on Disney plus?
00:11:06
Speaker
Why?
00:11:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:11:07
Speaker
Why is Disney has to have some engineer that they pay like $26 an hour that could press like publish on Disney plus.
00:11:14
Speaker
And even if the only watches of the year are me and you, wouldn't that be worth it?
00:11:18
Speaker
Seems like it would be, but I don't know.
00:11:20
Speaker
Maybe it's a music thing.
00:11:21
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Maybe it's a music licensing.
00:11:22
Speaker
There's a bunch of great music in this.
00:11:24
Speaker
And they're going like, dude, we can't pay money for these songs because no one's going to watch this movie.
00:11:29
Speaker
Not after this podcast drops.
00:11:31
Speaker
It's going to change the whole thing.
00:11:33
Speaker
People are going to be storming freaking Anaheim.
00:11:36
Speaker
Give us Bye Bye Love in Disney's.
00:11:38
Speaker
I don't know what you're talking about.
00:11:42
Speaker
Hey, if you guys do fire off angry missiles at Disney, ask for PCU2 because that's theirs.
00:11:48
Speaker
Oh, nice.
00:11:49
Speaker
Yeah, we need both of those.
00:11:50
Speaker
And I heard Spade talking on a podcast about PCU and talking about how you couldn't find it anywhere.
00:11:54
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He's like, that movie would be like strangely still relevant.
00:11:56
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I was like, yeah, that's what we said on the podcast.
00:11:58
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Spade, stop freaking copying us.
00:12:00
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He listens.
00:12:01
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You know he's a listener.
00:12:01
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New England clam chowder.
00:12:02
Speaker
Don't ever make me wait at that door again.
00:12:08
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All right.
00:12:09
Speaker
How'd you rate this movie?
00:12:11
Speaker
Oh, dude.
00:12:12
Speaker
All right.
00:12:14
Speaker
So I can see why it got a, by the way, I just looked up what it is on Rotten Tomatoes.
00:12:20
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It's like 23%.
00:12:21
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23%.
00:12:21
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Yeah.
00:12:23
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I could see how people
Emotional Depth and Character Development
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couldn't like it.
00:12:27
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And I could see the problems with it.
00:12:30
Speaker
But none of those problems are here for me.
00:12:32
Speaker
And I gave it an 8.0.
00:12:33
Speaker
I really giggled the whole time.
00:12:36
Speaker
I really liked it.
00:12:39
Speaker
And 8.
00:12:39
Speaker
Say 8.
00:12:41
Speaker
Yeah, I gotta tell you, I don't know what the problems are, because I think this movie is absolutely delightful, and I loved it.
00:12:49
Speaker
I gave it an eight and a half.
00:12:51
Speaker
Nice!
00:12:52
Speaker
I mean, I knew that I liked this movie, and you liked this movie more than other people, because people don't know about it, but I was like, dude, I don't... But you never know.
00:12:59
Speaker
It's like, ah, I saw it as a kid, we were dumb, then we probably liked dumb stuff.
00:13:02
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I was like, no, this movie is freaking slaps.
00:13:04
Speaker
This is great.
00:13:05
Speaker
It's still good.
00:13:06
Speaker
It's got like...
00:13:09
Speaker
Because now we spend five years talking about how you make movies.
00:13:12
Speaker
We only know a little bit more than we did at the start.
00:13:14
Speaker
But I know now that it's hard to make a good movie.
00:13:16
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It's hard to write a good movie.
00:13:18
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This is a great piece of film writing.
00:13:20
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It's got like four or five storylines that all weave together beautifully.
00:13:24
Speaker
And they all work.
00:13:25
Speaker
Right.
00:13:25
Speaker
It's got like a dozen killer performances.
00:13:28
Speaker
The soundtrack is fucking awesome.
00:13:29
Speaker
It's got
Janine Garofalo's Performance
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really good quotes.
00:13:31
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It's got some emotion.
00:13:32
Speaker
Dude.
00:13:32
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For reals.
00:13:33
Speaker
And I totally forgot that the Beatles song, the I Will.
00:13:39
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The Livingston Taylor.
00:13:40
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And I started hearing it, and I'm like... And then I hear James' voice, and it's, who knows?
00:13:46
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And I'm like, oh, wait, shit, that's his son, Ben.
00:13:49
Speaker
Yes.
00:13:49
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That's awesome.
00:13:50
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Yeah, yeah.
00:13:50
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I remember... Dude.
00:13:52
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I remember... Because I had a... Similarly to this movie, but back in the early days of the internet, I was like, I want to download that song.
00:13:59
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That guy has never released an album.
00:14:00
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And you had to, like...
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cut it from the movie and then make your own copy of it to put on your old iPod that you carried around in your pocket with a frigging black and white screen.
00:14:09
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Yeah.
00:14:11
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Oh, that's freaking great.
00:14:12
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But, like, it's got a great ending.
00:14:14
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Dude, I love this movie.
00:14:16
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It held up for me.
00:14:18
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Yeah.
00:14:19
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Like, it's longer.
00:14:20
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I saw it was an hour and 50.
00:14:21
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I was like, oh, that might be kind of long.
00:14:22
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Dude, I love this movie.
00:14:24
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Yeah.
00:14:25
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Yeah.
00:14:26
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What about that extra thing with the, I mean, I guess that's how they bring Paul Reiser and Elisha Duescu together.
00:14:33
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But, like,
00:14:34
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Like, the whole thing with the old man and Max, like, I thought maybe we could take it out, but I don't know.
00:14:41
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The more I think about it, I think it's...
00:14:44
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I mean, there's enough characters and moving parts in this that you could definitely take some out.
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But like Johnny Whitworth is the kid from Empire Records.
00:14:55
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He's playing Max.
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And then Ed Flanders is paying.
00:14:59
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Like that's part of that's the McDonald's storyline.
00:15:01
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That's the money.
00:15:02
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They can't take that out.
00:15:02
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But also, I don't really want to.
00:15:04
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I love it.
00:15:04
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Like the old guy whose family moved out and his wife died and his kids don't really call that much.
00:15:09
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They just sit around going, how come the kids don't call?
00:15:10
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How come the kids don't call?
00:15:12
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I like that he's working at McDonald's and he's got a 19-year-old who's his boss and he's like, dude, you have a shitty home life.
00:15:18
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I'm old and my house is empty.
00:15:20
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Just come live with me.
00:15:20
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I love that story.
00:15:22
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I made your transmission.
00:15:23
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Yeah, I made your transmission.
00:15:25
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Good transmission.
00:15:26
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You saw who the manager was from New Orleans?
00:15:29
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Wendell Pierce?
00:15:30
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Yeah, the guy from The Wire.
00:15:33
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That's what I'm saying.
00:15:33
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This cast is like 15 deep.
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And his friend was a 70s show.
00:15:39
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Danny Masterson, famous rapist.
00:15:43
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Dude, like bit parts, bit parts from Gene Garofalo, Steven Root, who is the freaking best.
00:15:48
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And then Jack Black.
00:15:51
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But the named cast is like 12 deep.
00:15:54
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There's a bunch of great... And all those guys were all, like they did really well on TV before this.
00:16:00
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And this was their foray into movies and I guess maybe...
00:16:06
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Nobody liked it.
00:16:06
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Dude, I just don't get 23%.
00:16:10
Speaker
Even the popcorn meter, the part where the fans watch it, they only gave it a 50%.
00:16:15
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I just don't understand.
00:16:18
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How'd they even watch it?
00:16:21
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Yeah.
00:16:22
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Is my question.
00:16:23
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But no, dude, I think this thing is great.
00:16:25
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I wish that people could watch it because I'd like for someone that I know to go like, oh, yeah, that movie was pretty good.
00:16:30
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Or like, dude, you guys are weird.
00:16:32
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Yeah.
00:16:33
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But yeah, I mean, like the cast is is incredible.
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And I think the writing is really good.
00:16:38
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It's got a bunch of funny parts.
00:16:39
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I had such a hard time picking scenes and quotes because I was like things.
00:16:43
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I was like, dude, this is tough.
00:16:44
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I got a lot of stuff on my list.
00:16:46
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Yeah.
00:16:47
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And I know I'm leaving a bunch of things out, but like, let's do scenes.
00:16:50
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What's your best three scenes?
00:16:51
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What's your first one?
00:16:53
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Dude, I like the opening montage.
00:16:55
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They're playing the Everly Brothers, the bye-bye love.
00:16:58
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And all the kids are getting dropped off.
00:17:02
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Dude, it sets up what's going to happen throughout the whole thing and how the dad's only having a
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part.
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And then Rob Reiner, the voiceover.
00:17:08
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Dude.
00:17:10
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He's a freaking radio DJ, and all he does is talk about divorce, and everybody in the movie listens to him, so he provides voiceover for the movie, but then everybody...
00:17:18
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Every one of the dads, he's a doctor.
00:17:21
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Every one of the dads in their car will be like, I hate this guy.
00:17:24
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And then it cuts to like Randy Quaid.
00:17:25
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He's like, I hate this guy.
00:17:26
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And it cuts to Paul Reiser.
00:17:27
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He's like, I really hate this guy.
00:17:29
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Yeah.
00:17:30
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And of course, he's just like, I don't know who he's supposed to be.
00:17:34
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But all I think of is when people like Rush Limbaugh were like,
00:17:38
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Yeah, the gay people are taking the sanctity of marriage.
00:17:41
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And then he's on his fifth freaking wife.
00:17:43
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So like, like it was the same idea.
00:17:47
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He kept getting married.
00:17:47
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Yeah, he was.
00:17:48
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He was supposed to be like a Dr. Phil, like blowhard.
00:17:51
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He was like telling you all this stuff, but not really doing this stuff.
00:17:53
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Yeah, he's not not doing it yet.
00:17:56
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Dude, I thought it set up that whole that whole opening thing was very efficiently establishes all the situations, all the personalities that everybody had.
00:18:04
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It was great.
00:18:06
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Yeah, I think that intro was great because it's like he's, Rob Reiner's doing the voiceover explaining about divorce and like Friday night drop-offs and everybody's at McDonald's, which still has a play area.
00:18:17
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Yeah.
00:18:19
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And all the dads are talking.
00:18:21
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And they're all sitting on the like rocking, like fry people.
00:18:25
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Remember those things?
00:18:26
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They were all sitting on there and reading the newspaper waiting for the kids to finish playing.
00:18:30
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Yeah.
00:18:31
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And you see all the kids, the kids range between it.
00:18:33
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So the three dads is Matthew Modine, Randy Quaid and Paul Reiser and their kids range from like baby to like 16 year old.
00:18:40
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And so, dude, and like Matthew Modine's like got his young blonde girlfriend and like Randy Quaid's talking about he's gone on a blind date.
00:18:48
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Yeah.
00:18:48
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Like, that's great.
00:18:49
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How many dates is that in the last eight months?
00:18:50
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He's like three.
00:18:51
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They're like, not counting your cousin.
00:18:52
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He's two, two, three.
00:18:53
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And then that callback when he's talking to his daughter.
00:18:58
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Yeah, his daughter says the same thing.
00:19:01
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He's like, I've got three days.
00:19:02
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I'm not counting Cousin Mary or whatever.
00:19:04
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That was a great callback.
00:19:08
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Dude, speaking of one of the kids, the little boy is from Sleepless in Seattle.
00:19:14
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And then the little girl, we're going to see her next year in One Fine Day.
00:19:18
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Yep.
00:19:19
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At least I hope we do.
00:19:20
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Oh, dude, we're absolutely going to see One Fine Day.
00:19:22
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And then she'll be in Independence Day, too.
00:19:24
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She's got two for next year.
00:19:26
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Yeah, yeah.
00:19:28
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Yeah, so what's your first scene?
00:19:32
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My first one was not in proper order.
00:19:34
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I was just thinking about it afterwards.
00:19:36
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My first one was when Matthew Modine is having dinner with his kids and his new young girlfriend is cooking dinner for them.
00:19:43
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And then a bunch of other single women with their kids just drop by.
00:19:48
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Because the whole movie, he's like hitting on all these women.
00:19:49
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He's like, yeah, just come on by.
00:19:51
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It's like, I'm in the book.
00:19:51
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You're in the book.
00:19:52
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He's like, we'd love to see you.
00:19:53
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And so they do two different women with their kids.
00:19:56
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And it's just a freaking house full of kids and him and these two divorcees and his girlfriend all sitting around talking about kids' soccer.
00:20:02
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And I, dude.
00:20:04
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And she has nothing to say.
00:20:05
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Dude, when you sit in the book, Jake goes, in the book, what's that mean?
00:20:09
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I was like, oh, buddy, there used to be a phone book where you could look up everybody's information.
00:20:16
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Everyone's personal information was printed on dead trees and delivered to your doorstep for no money.
00:20:20
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It's like a piece of the Internet you could print out and take with you.
00:20:24
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Yeah, dude, that is a great scene because the doorbell just keeps ringing and keeps ringing.
00:20:30
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Yeah, and he is freaking bold as shit.
00:20:32
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He just keeps inviting these divorcees in.
00:20:33
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He's like giving them wine.
00:20:34
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They're just chatting, and his girlfriend's there, and she's getting progressively more and more mad.
00:20:38
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And he's just dropping like stupid dad jokes and like flirting with them back.
00:20:42
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It's pretty crazy.
00:20:44
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Yeah, he's talking about the soccer.
00:20:45
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He's like, yeah, he's like, the coach is just, I'm going to talk to him about Johnny because he really is, he should give him more playing time.
00:20:50
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It's like...
00:20:50
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I think that would be really great for the kids' team if they had a female coach.
00:20:54
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I think that would be really a big step forward.
00:20:57
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Oh, man.
00:20:58
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He can't turn it off.
00:20:59
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He just can't turn it off.
00:21:01
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That one kept cracking me up.
00:21:02
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And I didn't put Matthew Moody in my characters just because I don't like that character, but he did such a good job.
00:21:09
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He did a great job.
00:21:10
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Dave was killing it.
00:21:12
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I definitely put him in there.
00:21:15
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Dude, my second one is Vic, who is Randy Quaid, Vic D'Amico, goes on a date with Janine Garofalo, and it's a blind date.
00:21:26
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A blind date.
00:21:28
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And the daughter asks, like, hey, where are you going?
00:21:31
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Well, if it looks promising, we're going to go for whatever.
00:21:34
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French restaurant.
00:21:36
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French restaurant.
00:21:36
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And if it looks bad, we're going for Italian.
00:21:39
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Well, as soon as he picks her up.
00:21:40
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Yeah.
00:21:42
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She says some stuff like, no sex on the first date, I don't like this, and I don't like that.
00:21:46
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She's like, I don't drink, I don't smoke, no sexual activity on the first date.
00:21:48
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And he's like, you like Italian?
00:21:50
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As soon as he says it.
00:21:54
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Dude, the whole time.
00:21:57
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The coughing fit where she can't stop coughing is unbelievable.
00:22:01
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And he just keeps saying, I think we're going to need more time.
00:22:03
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I think we're going to need another minute.
00:22:05
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He's building like a fort out of sugar cubes and toothpicks.
00:22:11
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Dude, it was killing me.
00:22:12
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I loved it.
00:22:14
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And dude, she's looking at the menu at the Italian restaurant.
00:22:16
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She's like, is this all there is?
00:22:17
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And the rest of the waiter's like, yeah, that's it.
00:22:19
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That's the whole menu.
00:22:20
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Noodles with sauce.
00:22:21
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What do you want from us?
00:22:22
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It's an Italian restaurant.
00:22:24
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And he's freaking, he held it together way better than I would.
00:22:27
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If I was on a blind date and she started off like, I don't drink, I don't smoke, no sexual contact.
00:22:32
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Then we got to the restaurant and she spent 45 minutes looking at the six dishes.
00:22:35
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I'd be like, I got to get out of here.
00:22:36
Speaker
This is not going to work.
00:22:38
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I don't like the way you slurp your soup.
00:22:40
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I don't like the way you talk.
00:22:42
Speaker
And we're not going to have it.
00:22:45
Speaker
Dude, the whole time he is taking it very well.
00:22:48
Speaker
And when he finally goes, you want to just call it?
00:22:51
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You want to just go home?
00:22:52
Speaker
And she's like, what?
00:22:53
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No, we're dressed.
00:22:54
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We're out.
00:22:55
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Saturday night.
00:22:56
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And she's like screaming.
00:22:58
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Dude in that restaurant scene, he's like, what do you weigh?
00:23:02
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She's like, what?
00:23:03
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He's like, I'm a wrestling coach, so I like to put people in their proper weight classes.
00:23:09
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He's like, looking around the side of the table.
00:23:12
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He's like, so you'd be like, what, 126?
00:23:14
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And she's like, 109.
00:23:15
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He's like, okay, so you're featherweight.
00:23:19
Speaker
So it's not just Janine Garofalo.
00:23:21
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He's also being a horrible date, but it's freaking hilarious.
00:23:24
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Randy Quaid is funny.
00:23:25
Speaker
Dude, Randy Quaid is great.
00:23:27
Speaker
I thought he was kind of like one-note angry Randy Quaid in this, but then later on he turned me around.
00:23:32
Speaker
But then Janine Garofalo is also going like, he's like, at this point, I'm not even looking for a good relationship.
00:23:36
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Just like anybody, like a mammal.
00:23:38
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He's like, I'm even flexible on the mammal thing.
00:23:41
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She was freaking firing.
00:23:43
Speaker
Ah, God.
00:23:44
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And then she locks her keys in her house.
00:23:46
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So then they have to go, of course, over to freaking Dave's house where everybody else is already there.
00:23:51
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But, dude, before that, he's driving the freaking student teacher car, which has two steering wheels, and she starts playing around with it.
00:23:57
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And he locks it up.
00:23:58
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He's like, hey, I have a responsibility here.
00:24:01
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I'm a licensed student driver.
00:24:03
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And Janine Garofalo goes, ooh, a renaissance man.
00:24:05
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Yeah.
00:24:07
Speaker
She was killing me.
00:24:10
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Oh, man.
00:24:11
Speaker
She was really good.
00:24:13
Speaker
I liked all the stuff that had her in it.
00:24:15
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I was hoping you weren't going to say like, oh, no, it keeps flipping back and forth.
00:24:18
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So that's not one scene.
00:24:19
Speaker
Because that whole bit, the whole time they're at the Italian restaurant was killing me.
00:24:23
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I freaking loved it.
00:24:24
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And then at the end, the guy keeps bringing her stuff.
00:24:27
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And she's just like tasting it one finger at a time or going like, no, thank you.
00:24:30
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I don't want that.
00:24:31
Speaker
And then ends up swapping.
00:24:32
Speaker
This is great.
00:24:33
Speaker
Well written.
00:24:34
Speaker
Well written.
00:24:35
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My second scene also features Randy Quaid, which is when he, at the end, decides to go confront Rob Reiner on the radio because he's tired of yelling at
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the radio.
00:24:44
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He wants to yell at him in person.
00:24:46
Speaker
And he storms into the radio station, which you can tell it's the early 90s because it's completely wide open.
00:24:51
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He just walks right into where Rob Reiner's talking to on a live mic and starts yelling at him.
00:24:55
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He's like, you're full of shit.
00:24:57
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He's like, stuff it, Doc, or I'll break you in half.
00:24:59
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Yeah.
00:25:00
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And he's like, and Rob Reiner's like, let it go.
00:25:03
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He's like, you're angry, clearly.
00:25:05
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Yeah.
00:25:07
Speaker
And Rob Reiner's just coaching him.
00:25:09
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He's like, I could feel a lot of pain there.
00:25:10
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He's like, shut up.
00:25:12
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Don't try to draw me out because it's not going to work.
00:25:15
Speaker
He's like, I'm guessing you have kids.
00:25:17
Speaker
And then he's like, uh, three.
00:25:19
Speaker
And dude, by the time it cuts, they're like sitting next to each other.
00:25:23
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He's pouring him coffee.
00:25:24
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He's got his headphones on.
00:25:26
Speaker
Randy Quaid's taking him back in from commercial.
00:25:28
Speaker
It was just freaking delightful.
00:25:29
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But he gives this like, he gives this big speech about, he gives this big speech about what it's like to be divorced and like how he doesn't,
00:25:37
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How he doesn't see his kids as much, but when he does, he's doing all the stuff.
00:25:41
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I was like, dude, that shit hit me.
00:25:42
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I remember.
00:25:42
Speaker
That's what I was about to say.
00:25:44
Speaker
That was so well done.
00:25:46
Speaker
And that's when I was like, Randy Quaid's going on my list because that was an incredible performance right there.
00:25:51
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Yeah, he did a good job.
00:25:53
Speaker
Is that dude like that?
00:25:54
Speaker
I felt it.
00:25:55
Speaker
I kind of want to clip just that part of the movie and, like, put it on frigging Instagram or, like, TikTok or something and just be, like, parenting advice from 1995.
00:26:03
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Yeah.
00:26:04
Speaker
Because it's frigging great.
00:26:06
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He's talking about, like, well, you know, before he's like, I, he's like, I mean, I saw my, I love my kids.
00:26:10
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I saw my kids, but I worked sometimes two jobs.
00:26:12
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And so I would come home late at night and, like, my wife would tell me who to hug and who to yell at.
00:26:15
Speaker
And, like, I would.
00:26:16
Speaker
Right.
00:26:17
Speaker
You know, cook breakfast every once in a while.
00:26:18
Speaker
And like, I loved my kids, but I didn't, I didn't see him.
00:26:20
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I wasn't there for him that much.
00:26:22
Speaker
It's like, but now when I have them, it's all me.
00:26:23
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It's like, I read the stories.
00:26:25
Speaker
I do the voices.
00:26:25
Speaker
I like, you know, I give the hugs.
00:26:27
Speaker
I watch the yearling.
00:26:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:30
Speaker
God, this is great.
00:26:33
Speaker
That's a great piece of writing and acting.
00:26:35
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely.
00:26:35
Speaker
Dude, I freaking really like it.
00:26:38
Speaker
The same thing with the part where Paul Reiser is talking to Amy Brenneman, and she was like, you were my friend too, Donnie.
00:26:50
Speaker
I was like, ah, snap, that was freaking good.
00:26:53
Speaker
Yeah, dude, this movie's really good.
00:26:54
Speaker
It's got feeling, it's got heart, it's good.
Rotten Tomatoes Score Discussion
00:26:58
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what the 23 man 23 on 22 reviews so like we could we could we get that average up a lot if we could get rotten tomato review status i don't know man one of them was roger ebert he gave it a two out of four stars what a cold bitch yeah well i mean you know ebert had some misses yeah this is one of them um my third one um
00:27:24
Speaker
is when Dave has his girlfriend over, the young blonde you were talking about.
00:27:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:31
Speaker
And he convinces her that the kids are asleep.
00:27:37
Speaker
Nothing's going to happen.
00:27:38
Speaker
We've got a small window from when they fall asleep to when they start asking for stuff.
00:27:43
Speaker
I've got a quote from this scene.
00:27:47
Speaker
I probably have the same one.
00:27:48
Speaker
And he starts taking her shirt off and his shirt off and he's wearing this wife beater with his pants button just above his navel.
00:27:57
Speaker
And they're like making out and her legs are wrapped around him and he's got her pinned against the wall on the stairs.
00:28:03
Speaker
And the kid comes walking out in his pajamas, matching pajamas.
00:28:07
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And he's like, what are you doing to her, dad?
00:28:09
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I was like,
00:28:11
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Oh, we're trying on close.
00:28:14
Speaker
Oh, man.
00:28:15
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I don't know.
00:28:16
Speaker
Wolf's not old enough to walk in on y'all.
00:28:18
Speaker
Is he?
00:28:18
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No.
00:28:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:21
Speaker
I just had to pretend we were talking about wrestling because Greeks used to wrestle naked in the Olympics is what I told Jake.
Matthew Modine's Humorous Scene
00:28:29
Speaker
It's ridiculous because we locked the door.
00:28:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:37
Speaker
It hit a little too close to home for me.
00:28:39
Speaker
So I had to throw that one.
00:28:42
Speaker
Oh man, that one's, that one's really good.
00:28:44
Speaker
I can't, it's tough because the scene that I already picked where everyone's at Matthew Modine's house takes up like 25 minutes of the movie.
00:28:50
Speaker
They keep cutting to other stuff.
00:28:51
Speaker
And I'm like, I can't, like, I also want to mention when Paul Reiser comes to the house and he's already got all of the, all of the divorcees and all of the kids and Randy Quaid and Janine Garofalo and his girlfriend, who's leaving him to be his ex-girlfriend.
00:29:04
Speaker
And dude, Paul Reiser just knocks on the door and he just opens the door and he's like,
00:29:07
Speaker
He's like, hey, I just wanted to tell you, I almost slept with your ex-wife.
00:29:09
Speaker
He's like, is that all?
00:29:10
Speaker
He's like, yeah.
00:29:11
Speaker
He's like, okay.
00:29:11
Speaker
He closes the door.
00:29:12
Speaker
He's trying to slam the door.
00:29:15
Speaker
Like, I'm trying to count that as a separate scene because that's my third scene, that little conversation.
00:29:19
Speaker
Dude, that's a great conversation.
00:29:20
Speaker
And dude, Paul Reiser keeps pushing back on the door to tell him more about it.
00:29:23
Speaker
And he's like, okay, it's fine.
00:29:24
Speaker
Don't worry about it.
00:29:25
Speaker
He's like, close the door.
00:29:26
Speaker
No, she's a great woman.
00:29:27
Speaker
And he's like, I know, I was married to her.
00:29:30
Speaker
And then Matthew Modine's starting to get annoyed because he's got a million things going on.
00:29:33
Speaker
He's like, is this a lecture?
00:29:34
Speaker
Because I didn't sign up for this class.
00:29:35
Speaker
And he's slamming the door.
00:29:37
Speaker
Dude, what about after that when it's just him and Dave after?
00:29:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:43
Speaker
And they're talking and like recapping that whole thing.
00:29:45
Speaker
Dude, I freaking...
00:29:47
Speaker
Oh, dude, that's a good one.
00:29:49
Speaker
I want to put that one in there because Paul Reiser asks Matthew Mooney, he's like, how are you doing?
00:29:54
Speaker
He's like, I'm okay.
00:29:55
Speaker
He's like, we never talk about that.
00:29:56
Speaker
Like, if you're okay, if I'm okay.
00:29:59
Speaker
And then Paul Reiser is like, do you want to talk about that?
00:30:01
Speaker
And Matthew Mooney's like, no.
00:30:02
Speaker
He's like, me neither.
00:30:06
Speaker
Then he gives him a big hug.
00:30:07
Speaker
There's heavy-handed music.
00:30:08
Speaker
Gives him a little smooch on the cheek and walks off.
00:30:11
Speaker
Well, no, he starts to walk off, and then Matthew Modine, as he's walking away, just tells a story about how when his dad left, and his dad came back in a Mustang with sideburns and gave him a tennis racket.
00:30:21
Speaker
He's like, I don't play tennis.
00:30:22
Speaker
Still don't play tennis.
00:30:23
Speaker
I still don't play tennis, yeah.
00:30:24
Speaker
They had their little character moments.
00:30:26
Speaker
I was like, God, this movie's freaking awesome.
00:30:28
Speaker
Yeah, it's really good.
00:30:31
Speaker
That's a good call, too.
00:30:31
Speaker
I love that scene.
00:30:34
Speaker
Yeah, dude, really good scenes.
00:30:36
Speaker
How'd you do for quotes?
00:30:39
Speaker
You got extra quotes?
00:30:40
Speaker
Yeah, well, I've already said several of them, but my first one was the scene you were just talking about.
00:30:46
Speaker
He's Matthew Moody, he's making out with his girlfriend on the stairs, they're taking their clothes off, and his kid comes out and catches him, and he's asking him whatever, and he's like,
00:30:55
Speaker
He's like, Dad, I want some water.
00:30:56
Speaker
He's like, yes, Ben, my son.
00:30:58
Speaker
You have every right.
00:30:59
Speaker
Water is for everyone.
00:31:00
Speaker
Water is for everyone.
00:31:01
Speaker
Dude, that's what I have.
00:31:02
Speaker
I have yes for my son.
00:31:05
Speaker
I don't know why that made me laugh so much.
00:31:07
Speaker
You have every right.
00:31:08
Speaker
Water is for everyone.
00:31:11
Speaker
That delivery was great.
00:31:14
Speaker
And that one killed me.
00:31:16
Speaker
That was my first one as well.
00:31:18
Speaker
My second one is the one we've already talked about, too.
00:31:21
Speaker
It's when Vic's kid is at the party because he's supposed to be being babysit by his older sister who's there with Elijah Dusku to go find the McDonald's kid.
00:31:34
Speaker
And he walks up to the DJ and he's like, do you have any Ravi?
00:31:37
Speaker
And he's like, Reaper?
00:31:38
Speaker
He's like, Ravi!
00:31:41
Speaker
I also didn't get that joke when I was younger, but I get it now.
00:31:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:45
Speaker
The DJ, who again is Jack Black.
00:31:47
Speaker
Jack Black.
00:31:48
Speaker
And the kid's like freaking six, and he's at this house party where everyone's drinking beer, and like no parties we ever went to where the DJ booth was set up in someone's living room.
00:31:58
Speaker
Did you actually see... Because I got hooked that it was Jack Black, and I tried to rewind it so I could...
00:32:03
Speaker
write down exactly what the kid said to make sure that's all he said.
00:32:06
Speaker
And I saw the DJ equipment.
00:32:08
Speaker
It was just like, um, like an old school, like don't dual tape and CD player.
00:32:14
Speaker
Like that's all it was.
00:32:16
Speaker
It wasn't even like a nice, like a big boom box.
00:32:19
Speaker
That's the setup that we used to use to record stuff off of the radio, the dual cassettes.
00:32:23
Speaker
That's how you made mixtapes.
00:32:24
Speaker
You put your tape in, and then you put the blank tape in the other one.
00:32:27
Speaker
Yeah, of course.
00:32:30
Speaker
My second quote is, again, Matthew Modine.
00:32:33
Speaker
It's at the end when Eliza Dishku gets drunk at this house party, even though she's 14, steals someone's Mercedes, drives to her old house where her parents were still married and were happy.
00:32:43
Speaker
And then goes and climbs in the tree house.
00:32:45
Speaker
And then they all like converge on that house to try to get her out of the tree house.
00:32:48
Speaker
Cause she's pulled the ladder up.
00:32:49
Speaker
And the owner of the house is Steven Root, who is, um, you stole my stapler.
00:32:55
Speaker
It was a swing line stapler.
00:32:57
Speaker
Uh, and he's talking to Matthew Moody and he's like, I got, he's like, look, I got lawn damage.
00:33:01
Speaker
I got tree damage.
00:33:02
Speaker
He's like, this is, he's like, I got a lot of stuff going on here.
00:33:04
Speaker
Matthew Moody.
00:33:05
Speaker
He's like, he's like, okay.
00:33:06
Speaker
He's like, all right, take it easy.
00:33:07
Speaker
Just give me a number.
00:33:08
Speaker
And then Steven Root goes 500.
00:33:09
Speaker
He's like, give me another number.
00:33:11
Speaker
A smaller number.
00:33:13
Speaker
Dude, that's exactly what I have.
00:33:14
Speaker
Give me a smaller number.
00:33:15
Speaker
Dude, how do you not have Joe?
00:33:18
Speaker
You know Joe.
00:33:18
Speaker
You say that all the time.
00:33:20
Speaker
I thought you were going to put Joe Farrow.
00:33:21
Speaker
You're the one that says that all the way, all the time.
00:33:24
Speaker
I thought you were going to do it.
00:33:25
Speaker
I left that for you.
00:33:27
Speaker
You're always like, Joe, you know Joe.
00:33:29
Speaker
I'll make my third one Joe.
00:33:31
Speaker
Yes, Dad, I know Joe.
00:33:32
Speaker
Joe.
00:33:34
Speaker
Joe Farrow.
00:33:35
Speaker
Used to come to the barbecues.
00:33:37
Speaker
You know, Joe, I hope it doesn't get that awkward with my daughter.
00:33:43
Speaker
I know it's going to.
00:33:44
Speaker
Yeah, dude, it's definitely going to.
00:33:46
Speaker
It's going to get that awkward with your son, too.
00:33:47
Speaker
Spaghetti again?
00:33:48
Speaker
I'll be right back.
00:33:50
Speaker
He needs to, man.
00:33:51
Speaker
He's angry.
00:33:53
Speaker
Well, yeah, but Paul Reiser's having dinner with Eliza Dishku, his daughter.
00:33:57
Speaker
She's 14, so she hates everything.
00:33:59
Speaker
Dude, did she not play it really well, too?
00:34:02
Speaker
She looked like a...
00:34:03
Speaker
Freaking angry little teenager all the time.
00:34:07
Speaker
And he's trying to make conversation with her.
00:34:08
Speaker
He's thinking about bringing in a mortgage broker.
00:34:10
Speaker
I was thinking about Joe Ferry.
00:34:11
Speaker
Remember Joe?
00:34:12
Speaker
She's like, no.
00:34:13
Speaker
What are you talking about?
00:34:14
Speaker
And the whole thing is, Joe, you know Joe.
00:34:16
Speaker
And she's like, I don't know who you're talking about.
00:34:18
Speaker
Joe Farrow, you know Joe?
00:34:22
Speaker
That's a very relatable moment in any movie because every time I talk to my parents still and I'm 45, my mom will be like, you remember the whoever's?
00:34:29
Speaker
I'm like, no, I don't know who you're talking about.
00:34:31
Speaker
She's like, yeah, they had that blue car.
00:34:33
Speaker
I was like, I don't know what you're talking about.
00:34:36
Speaker
They had a niece who went to summer camp with someone that we saw in Albertsons one time.
00:34:42
Speaker
I was like, I don't know who we're talking about.
00:34:45
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:34:46
Speaker
Yeah, my parents played the game too, except they're like, guess who died this time?
00:34:51
Speaker
Because everybody's getting old and passing away, and I don't like it.
00:34:55
Speaker
But, yeah, I'll put Joe Farrow as my third quote.
00:35:01
Speaker
Yeah, and my third one was the one I already said from Janine Garofalo.
00:35:04
Speaker
The date, like the cow.
00:35:06
Speaker
Man, this is Stone Ages.
00:35:07
Speaker
Yeah.
Ensemble Cast Praise
00:35:10
Speaker
Oh, what did she call him when she realized?
00:35:12
Speaker
Oh, Mr. Wonderful.
00:35:13
Speaker
When she looks into the thing and sees her keys.
00:35:15
Speaker
Hey, Mr. Wonderful, before you leave, I locked my keys in the car.
00:35:19
Speaker
Dude, she's really good.
00:35:22
Speaker
I need to find more movies with her in it.
00:35:23
Speaker
That is fantastic, dude.
00:35:25
Speaker
Because he brings her back to her house.
00:35:29
Speaker
And she's like, aren't you going to invite me?
00:35:30
Speaker
I thought you were going to invite me in for coffee.
00:35:32
Speaker
She's like, it's your house.
00:35:33
Speaker
Why would I invite you in for coffee?
00:35:34
Speaker
She's like, I thought you would take me to your house and invite me in for coffee.
00:35:37
Speaker
He's like, well, I didn't take you to my house.
00:35:38
Speaker
I took you to your house.
00:35:40
Speaker
And he's just like freaking stink ironer, Randy Quaid stink ironer.
00:35:43
Speaker
And finally he's like, are you going to get out or what?
00:35:46
Speaker
All right, I'll walk you to the door.
00:35:47
Speaker
Dude, that was, those two having an incredibly awkward first date was an absolute, absolute delight.
00:35:57
Speaker
God, why haven't people seen this movie?
00:35:59
Speaker
Y'all are idiots.
00:36:00
Speaker
Find this movie.
00:36:01
Speaker
I mean, not now because you can't, but like 25 years ago, you really missed out.
00:36:05
Speaker
Yeah, you should have.
00:36:06
Speaker
All right, dude, let's do characters.
00:36:07
Speaker
I had a really difficult time getting it down to three, and I left off about four that I really like.
00:36:12
Speaker
Yes.
00:36:13
Speaker
Samesies.
00:36:14
Speaker
Dude, I put Dave.
00:36:16
Speaker
I thought Matthew Modine...
00:36:19
Speaker
He was great.
00:36:21
Speaker
I liked how he was trying to do it all, but also when he's sitting at the game on the bleachers, and he turns to talk to the girl, and he's like, oh, really?
00:36:35
Speaker
And he puts his hand on her leg while he's talking.
00:36:37
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:38
Speaker
And then she's like, yeah, we've been separated.
00:36:40
Speaker
Has it been more than five days?
00:36:42
Speaker
Because right before that, they told him he had to wait five days.
00:36:45
Speaker
Yeah, there's a five-day waiting period, like for a handgun, before you call someone who's getting divorced.
00:36:52
Speaker
So, dude, I like Matthew Modine, and I thought he did a great job, so I put him on there.
00:36:58
Speaker
He was really good.
00:36:59
Speaker
This is the first movie we've done where we've talked about Matthew Modine.
00:37:02
Speaker
I mean, we didn't do like Full Metal Jacket or anything like that on Patreon.
00:37:06
Speaker
And I was trying to think like, I don't remember what I... Notting Hill, I remember him from Any Given Sunday.
00:37:12
Speaker
I think I mainly remember him from Any Given Sunday.
00:37:14
Speaker
I don't... But he's done so many movies.
00:37:16
Speaker
He flew the plane in Memphis Belle.
00:37:18
Speaker
Memphis Belle.
00:37:19
Speaker
When I think about him, that's what I think of.
00:37:21
Speaker
I think about Full Metal Jacket or Any Given Sunday, which is kind of weird.
00:37:26
Speaker
But, yeah, man, he was great.
00:37:29
Speaker
I didn't put him in there because my list got crowded.
00:37:31
Speaker
I wanted to put Paul Reiser in there because he is supposedly the lead of this movie.
00:37:37
Speaker
Right.
00:37:37
Speaker
And I thought he was freaking great.
00:37:40
Speaker
He still wants to be married.
00:37:42
Speaker
I know.
00:37:42
Speaker
And he played that so well.
00:37:45
Speaker
Who I've seen in a bunch of stuff.
00:37:46
Speaker
Yeah, she has a bunch of stuff.
00:37:49
Speaker
And Paul Reiser, he was just in whatever, Mad About You, and then Beverly Hills Cop, where he's always great.
00:37:55
Speaker
But then he didn't do a lot of other stuff, and he could have.
00:37:58
Speaker
He just was like, I think I'm good.
00:38:00
Speaker
And I'm always out here going like, dude, let's get Paul Reiser in some stuff.
00:38:03
Speaker
I love that guy.
00:38:04
Speaker
Yeah, dude, I loved him in Mad About You.
00:38:07
Speaker
He was great.
00:38:08
Speaker
Dude, the chick, his wife is the one that's the, from Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.
00:38:15
Speaker
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead.
00:38:17
Speaker
She's like, you want to take this down to, I can't remember the word she says, but she's being very condescending to Christina Applegate.
00:38:27
Speaker
She's frigging did a great job.
00:38:29
Speaker
And she's also in Kindergarten Cop.
00:38:31
Speaker
She's also in Gattaca.
00:38:32
Speaker
And I remember her because I watch, God, what's the frigging Aaron Sorkin show about?
00:38:39
Speaker
Sports Night.
00:38:40
Speaker
She's in Sports Night.
00:38:42
Speaker
I rewatch that every couple of years.
00:38:44
Speaker
The part where she's dropping off the daughter and she sticks her head out of the window and says like, you know, he had just given her the check and she's like, I don't need this.
00:38:53
Speaker
He's like, no, I want to do it.
00:38:56
Speaker
And then she's backing out.
00:38:57
Speaker
She's like, you look good.
00:38:58
Speaker
And the music's playing in the background.
00:39:01
Speaker
It's all heavy handed again.
00:39:02
Speaker
And you could tell he gets so excited.
00:39:04
Speaker
He's like, you look good too, Claire.
00:39:07
Speaker
Like, dude, he sold the shit out of this movie.
00:39:10
Speaker
Yeah, he's telling Eliza Dishu and the ex-wife, her mom, he's like, he's telling Eliza Dishu, he's like, why would you return the dress?
00:39:19
Speaker
I thought that was a dress.
00:39:20
Speaker
He's like, nah, it made me look fat.
00:39:20
Speaker
He's like, you couldn't look fat.
00:39:21
Speaker
Even if you wanted to, you wouldn't look fat.
00:39:23
Speaker
She's like, why would I want to look fat?
00:39:24
Speaker
You couldn't, you wouldn't.
00:39:26
Speaker
He's like, it made your eyes look beautiful.
00:39:27
Speaker
You have beautiful eyes.
00:39:28
Speaker
Both you and your mother have beautiful eyes.
00:39:30
Speaker
And Eliza Deschke's like, my eyes are green.
00:39:32
Speaker
Her eyes are brown.
00:39:33
Speaker
He's like, the shape.
00:39:34
Speaker
I'm talking about the shape of the eye.
00:39:35
Speaker
The shape of the eye.
00:39:37
Speaker
Dude, his nervous energy.
00:39:40
Speaker
God, he's good.
00:39:41
Speaker
Paul Rice.
00:39:42
Speaker
I had to put him on there, dude.
00:39:42
Speaker
I love that guy.
00:39:43
Speaker
And then he wants to get mixed up with Matthew Modine's ex-wife, Amy Brenneman, who's fantastic.
00:39:48
Speaker
Yeah, she does, too.
00:39:50
Speaker
It's all really... Dude, he's going over to... Because he's got his daughter every other weekend, and she's 14, so she hates everything.
00:39:56
Speaker
So she's trying to sleep over at her friend's house during the only time he sees her.
00:40:00
Speaker
And so then he goes to Matthew Modine's house and sleeps on the couch because he's going to help Matthew Modine drive his kids to various things the next day.
00:40:06
Speaker
And your kids do that, so it seems like you need another husband to help you drive to places.
00:40:10
Speaker
So it seems like I could see why that would be valuable.
00:40:12
Speaker
Right.
00:40:13
Speaker
I was like, God, this movie's a lot.
00:40:14
Speaker
There's a lot of shit.
00:40:15
Speaker
I don't know how.
00:40:16
Speaker
I mean, I guess if you're this era and this age and your friends are all divorced, you probably just figure this stuff out.
00:40:21
Speaker
Right.
00:40:23
Speaker
Like, dude, I couldn't write stuff about that because I don't know enough divorced people, I guess.
00:40:28
Speaker
That's not my world, but they sold it to me.
00:40:30
Speaker
I could tell, like, I felt all of the pain.
00:40:35
Speaker
So who's your first one?
00:40:36
Speaker
Matthew Modine is your first?
00:40:37
Speaker
I had Matthew Modine, but I also had Paul Reiser.
00:40:39
Speaker
Nice.
00:40:40
Speaker
Dude, my third one, I wanted to put... Hold on, my second is Randy Quaid, who, like I said, earned his spot just with his radio station speech.
00:40:50
Speaker
uh, that whole scene.
00:40:51
Speaker
But really Randy Quaid is, I mean, I know he's an absolute disaster human, but he is freaking hilarious.
00:40:57
Speaker
I was about to say, he's a kind of cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, but he cousin Eddie independence day.
00:41:04
Speaker
Oh man.
00:41:05
Speaker
So funny.
00:41:06
Speaker
Yeah, dude.
00:41:06
Speaker
He really funny.
00:41:08
Speaker
I'm glad you put him on there.
00:41:09
Speaker
I'm glad you put him on there.
00:41:10
Speaker
I wasn't going to.
00:41:11
Speaker
And then he did the radio station speech.
00:41:13
Speaker
I was like, shit.
00:41:13
Speaker
He just pushed his way onto the podium because that was incredible.
00:41:17
Speaker
He made his way onto the podium.
00:41:19
Speaker
All right, who's your third?
00:41:21
Speaker
Dude, my third, I had to give it to Emma, Donnie's kid, Eliza Jusku.
00:41:25
Speaker
Dude, she's really good.
00:41:27
Speaker
Dude, she is such an angry little shit.
00:41:31
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:41:32
Speaker
That's when he calls her that, that whole part where she's like,
00:41:35
Speaker
I don't even want to be here.
00:41:36
Speaker
And like, dude, I believed it.
00:41:38
Speaker
And I, I could not put her in there.
00:41:41
Speaker
I thought she did a great job, even though, like you said, not really a good character.
00:41:47
Speaker
Like she's kind of a bitch, but like that's she sold it.
00:41:51
Speaker
I liked it.
00:41:52
Speaker
Yeah, and I like that she's actually 14 because she's playing 14 because a lot of times it's like, hey, Beverly Hills 90210, there's a 35-year-old playing a 14-year-old.
00:42:00
Speaker
But she was the right age for this, and it seemed like the right age.
00:42:04
Speaker
She did a really good job.
00:42:05
Speaker
All the kids did good jobs.
00:42:07
Speaker
All the kids.
00:42:07
Speaker
I was going to say there's so many kids in this movie, and all of them did a really good job.
00:42:10
Speaker
And they ended up being in other things too.
00:42:13
Speaker
Yeah, they all go and do other stuff.
00:42:15
Speaker
So that's a good call.
00:42:17
Speaker
I had Amy Brenneman.
00:42:18
Speaker
She was Matthew Modine's ex-wife who's then like getting mixed up with Paul Reiser.
00:42:23
Speaker
But we talked about her in Heat.
00:42:26
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She's freaking awesome.
00:42:28
Speaker
Yeah, she's a fantastic actress.
00:42:31
Speaker
By the way, when he was like, you can do anything.
00:42:34
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You're sued.
00:42:36
Speaker
You could be a Supreme Court judge.
00:42:38
Speaker
And all I can think of was like, wasn't she in a show where she was a judge?
00:42:42
Speaker
She was in NYPD Blue, and then she was in private practice.
00:42:45
Speaker
Judging Amy.
00:42:46
Speaker
Judging Amy.
00:42:47
Speaker
Nice.
00:42:47
Speaker
That's what I was thinking of the whole time.
00:42:49
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:50
Speaker
She co-created and starred as Judge Amy.
00:42:52
Speaker
Yeah, I like her a lot.
00:42:57
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She did a really great job.
00:42:58
Speaker
And I don't know if it's because I'm older now, but I know we used to talk about, hey, Las Dusko, yeah, she's kind of hot for a young chick.
00:43:09
Speaker
And now I'm like, hey...
00:43:12
Speaker
Sue's pretty got it going on.
00:43:13
Speaker
Like, you know what I'm saying?
00:43:14
Speaker
Like, it's weird that I'm, I think different people look better now that I'm older.
00:43:20
Speaker
It's a weird feeling to have.
00:43:22
Speaker
Seems like that's the way it's supposed to work, Republican Congress people.
00:43:26
Speaker
It is how it's supposed to work.
00:43:28
Speaker
That way you don't end up on some island list.
00:43:30
Speaker
But it's just weird to me that I'm starting to like see that.
00:43:36
Speaker
Yeah, I like that.
00:43:39
Speaker
The two that I really hated to leave out was Gene Garofalo and Rob Reiner.
00:43:42
Speaker
Rob Reiner.
00:43:43
Speaker
Their parts were too small.
00:43:45
Speaker
I wanted to use them too.
00:43:46
Speaker
They were both incredible, but they got nudged out.
00:43:50
Speaker
But dude, 10 to 12 deep, everyone was doing an awesome job.
00:43:55
Speaker
Dude, I don't know.
00:43:58
Speaker
how did this movie not like make more money or like, you know what I'm saying?
00:44:03
Speaker
Like I just, I don't know, man.
00:44:05
Speaker
It seems like this is the thing.
00:44:07
Speaker
This is what it seems like people would want, but apparently they don't.
00:44:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:12
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:12
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It also had, we probably, I don't know when we would talk about this cause it wasn't in my scenes, but it had my absolute favorite thing, which is the animal house ending where they do the freeze frame with the text over that tells you what happens after.
00:44:22
Speaker
Huge fan of that.
00:44:23
Speaker
And he disconnected his doorbell.
00:44:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:26
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:26
Speaker
They wrapped everything up.
00:44:27
Speaker
That was great.
00:44:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:29
Speaker
All about that.
00:44:31
Speaker
Writer, director, actors, background stuff.
00:44:33
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So the writers, two writers, Gary David Goldman and Brad Hall.
00:44:40
Speaker
Brad Hall is in the movie.
00:44:41
Speaker
He plays Eliza Dishku's stepdad.
00:44:45
Speaker
Gary David Goldberg is the guy who created Family Ties and then also went on and did like Spin City and other stuff like that.
00:44:50
Speaker
Right.
00:44:51
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He didn't do, neither of them wrote a lot of movies.
00:44:53
Speaker
Brad Hall, this is his only feature film credit.
00:44:56
Speaker
Gary David Goldberg, I think, is kind of the same thing, but whatever.
00:44:59
Speaker
He had a couple other ones.
00:45:00
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He had a couple of other ones.
00:45:01
Speaker
I mean, however they did it, they came together and friggin' crushed this thing.
00:45:07
Speaker
And I thought both of those guys, both of those writers were interesting for reasons beyond their work on this movie.
00:45:12
Speaker
Like, Brad Hall was on Saturday Night Live, was one of the first people that did Weekend Update, and he's also like... Weekend Update.
00:45:20
Speaker
He's also now known as Mr. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, because that's who he's married to.
00:45:24
Speaker
That's freaking great.
00:45:26
Speaker
And Gary David Goldberg.
00:45:28
Speaker
I was like, that name sounds kind of familiar, but I mean, I guess there's a lot of like, I was like looking at it.
00:45:32
Speaker
I was like, all right.
00:45:33
Speaker
Oh, so I'm like, oh, he, Gary David Goldberg has a daughter who went in to be a TV writer and she did pretty well for herself because she was the executive producer and creator of a little show called Friends.
00:45:42
Speaker
Right.
00:45:42
Speaker
I was going to say, he's somehow connected to Friends because I remember reading that.
00:45:46
Speaker
Yeah.
00:45:47
Speaker
Shauna Goldberg-Meehan was one of the creators of Friends in the EP.
00:45:52
Speaker
That's her dad.
00:45:54
Speaker
Dude, that's a pretty good legacy.
00:45:56
Speaker
He created Family Ties.
00:45:57
Speaker
She created Friends.
00:45:58
Speaker
That ain't bad.
00:45:58
Speaker
Dude, the movie he did after this, which was 10 years later, Must Love Dogs, that's John Cusack.
00:46:06
Speaker
Brad Hall, you're talking about.
00:46:07
Speaker
He's the executive producer of that.
00:46:10
Speaker
Oh, I thought Goldberg.
00:46:12
Speaker
I had it written down as Goldberg.
00:46:14
Speaker
Oh, really?
00:46:15
Speaker
Did the muscle of the dogs.
00:46:17
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:46:18
Speaker
I see produced by Gary David Goldberg.
00:46:20
Speaker
I used to love that movie.
00:46:21
Speaker
I mean, I love John Cusack.
00:46:22
Speaker
There's very few things that he does that I don't like.
00:46:25
Speaker
Oh, this is written, directed, and produced by Gary David Goldberg.
00:46:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:28
Speaker
Nice.
00:46:30
Speaker
And I like that movie.
00:46:31
Speaker
I don't know if we're still doing it in 2005, but we need to check that one out.
00:46:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:36
Speaker
What about the director?
00:46:37
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:38
Speaker
I didn't find a lot about the director, Sam Wiseman.
00:46:44
Speaker
But again, it's like he directed D2.
00:46:46
Speaker
He directed George of the Jungle, Dickie Roberts, Child Star.
00:46:51
Speaker
Dickie Roberts was so bad.
00:46:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:56
Speaker
Oh, man.
00:46:57
Speaker
I do like Spade, though.
00:46:58
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:00
Speaker
And I don't know enough about directing to go, like, that guy did an awesome job.
00:47:04
Speaker
It was fine.
00:47:05
Speaker
I didn't notice anything.
00:47:06
Speaker
I still don't know which part is the director and which part is the cinematographer, truthfully.
00:47:10
Speaker
I'm with you.
00:47:12
Speaker
And which part is the editing.
00:47:14
Speaker
How bad do you think he feels though?
00:47:15
Speaker
Like he graduated from Yale and they're like, Oh, what would you be doing?
00:47:19
Speaker
Oh, I directed a Dickie Roberts, former child star, the, uh, David Spain movie.
00:47:26
Speaker
Um, that's pretty, it's pretty low on the list there.
00:47:29
Speaker
Didn't make that very much money.
00:47:31
Speaker
Um,
00:47:33
Speaker
Yeah, I wonder, like, because he graduated in 1969, and the last director credit he has is 2003.
00:47:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:47:41
Speaker
Like, I mean, he died.
00:47:43
Speaker
No, no, he's still alive.
00:47:44
Speaker
It's like, what have you been doing?
00:47:45
Speaker
I mean, I guess he's 78.
00:47:46
Speaker
He's earned his retirement.
00:47:47
Speaker
But it's like, dude hasn't worked since he was in his 50s.
00:47:50
Speaker
Is he still getting money?
00:47:51
Speaker
He's not getting money from this because it's nowhere.
00:47:52
Speaker
D2 still gets played.
00:47:55
Speaker
He's definitely not bringing in that bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye-bye
00:48:24
Speaker
The other one he did that's what's the worst that could happen, that's DeVito, isn't it?
00:48:27
Speaker
Danny DeVito?
00:48:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:30
Speaker
I remember that one too, but that's, like, he hasn't done very much.
00:48:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:48:36
Speaker
All right.
00:48:36
Speaker
Do you have any other, like, bonus good?
00:48:39
Speaker
Not a lot of information about this one.
00:48:41
Speaker
Yeah, I did want to say that Image Entertainment, I saw that in the front.
00:48:44
Speaker
Isn't that Ron Howard's thing?
00:48:46
Speaker
I think Image Entertainment is Ron Howard.
00:48:50
Speaker
And I could see how all of that... This feels like it could be a Ron Howard movie.
00:48:57
Speaker
So I thought that was his production company when I saw it in the front, Image Entertainment.
00:49:01
Speaker
Hmm.
00:49:02
Speaker
I was trying to find out about that.
00:49:03
Speaker
I felt like we talked about that once before.
00:49:07
Speaker
Because I felt like when we said something about Ron Howard in one of the movies, I thought it was, or maybe it was, who's the... Ron Howard's production company is Imagine Entertainment.
00:49:22
Speaker
That's what, what did I say?
00:49:23
Speaker
You said image.
00:49:24
Speaker
My bad.
00:49:25
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Imagine.
00:49:26
Speaker
It's imagine.
00:49:27
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, that's Ron Howard.
00:49:28
Speaker
But you know who I think we talked about it when we did, we talked about Grazer.
00:49:35
Speaker
No, maybe it wasn't him.
00:49:39
Speaker
Brian Grazer, I think, and Ron Howard.
00:49:43
Speaker
Yeah, they worked together.
00:49:44
Speaker
Yeah, they founded it with Brian Grazer.
00:49:47
Speaker
Oh, nice.
00:49:49
Speaker
See, I remember talking about this.
00:49:50
Speaker
Boomerang, maybe, is when we talked about it?
00:49:53
Speaker
I don't know, dude.
00:49:54
Speaker
I don't remember.
00:49:54
Speaker
But I remember us talking about it, and I wrote it down as soon as I saw that.
00:49:58
Speaker
They did Boomerang.
00:49:59
Speaker
They did For Love or Money.
00:50:00
Speaker
And then in 1995, they do Apollo 13, which is, I think, probably their biggest movie.
00:50:03
Speaker
But yeah, they've done a ton of stuff coming up.
00:50:06
Speaker
Next year, they do five movies, Nutty Professor, Ransom.
00:50:10
Speaker
I remember that just from this podcast.
00:50:13
Speaker
So I am learning stuff that we're doing here.
00:50:15
Speaker
Yeah, dude.
00:50:15
Speaker
It worked out.
00:50:16
Speaker
I mean, that's information that we did not have.
00:50:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:50:20
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Cool.
00:50:21
Speaker
Worst.
00:50:22
Speaker
I don't have any worst.
00:50:23
Speaker
It's an hour 47.
00:50:23
Speaker
So I mean, normally you'd say you trim some out of this, but I like all the storylines.
00:50:27
Speaker
I think everybody is doing interesting stuff and I enjoyed it.
00:50:31
Speaker
Originally, I was like, maybe we should get rid of the Max and the old man thing.
00:50:36
Speaker
But you got to have that because McDonald's wants their spot.
00:50:39
Speaker
Plus, it's the reason that Paul Reiser is able to do the thing.
00:50:43
Speaker
So it worked out.
00:50:44
Speaker
I also like it.
00:50:45
Speaker
I like the whole like...
00:50:47
Speaker
Because I think about it because it's like a mounting problem now that people move far away from home.
00:50:52
Speaker
And it's like, what happens when your parents get old and their house is empty?
00:50:54
Speaker
And like, what happens if your parents are shitty and you need some, like, you know, other countries live in multi-generational households and we really don't.
00:51:00
Speaker
And we actually like that.
00:51:02
Speaker
It's like, Hey, I'm old.
00:51:04
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My house is empty.
00:51:04
Speaker
I'm like, you're young and broke.
00:51:06
Speaker
What, what if we freaking team up and like tag team this bitch?
00:51:09
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:09
Speaker
Let's do that.
00:51:10
Speaker
You, all you gotta do is bring me to work in the car that I built.
00:51:13
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:14
Speaker
Good transmission.
00:51:17
Speaker
I don't have any, uh, worst, uh, five
Could This Movie Be Made Today?
00:51:23
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questions.
00:51:23
Speaker
Is it okay for kids?
00:51:26
Speaker
Both my kids watched it, but I think it's fine.
00:51:30
Speaker
I could tell they were both squirming when the scene we were talking about where they're taking each other's shirts off and making out on the thing.
00:51:37
Speaker
They both felt awkward about that, but then when the little kid walked out.
00:51:39
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Water is for everyone.
00:51:41
Speaker
Ben, my son.
00:51:42
Speaker
You're going to be right.
00:51:47
Speaker
They felt better about it there, so it was fine.
00:51:49
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:51:50
Speaker
Didn't drum up any old wrestling stories for Jake.
00:51:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:51:55
Speaker
Would this movie get made if it were pitched now?
00:51:56
Speaker
It seems like you could do this.
00:51:59
Speaker
People are still getting divorced, aren't they?
00:52:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:02
Speaker
Maybe they do the handoff somewhere else.
00:52:06
Speaker
Where do you do the handoff now?
00:52:08
Speaker
I don't know.
00:52:08
Speaker
Chick-fil-A?
00:52:10
Speaker
No.
00:52:11
Speaker
My pleasure.
00:52:11
Speaker
The only reason I would say you can't do it at McDonald's.
00:52:12
Speaker
Chick-fil-A would not want any part of that.
00:52:14
Speaker
No, Chick-fil-A wants no part of this.
00:52:15
Speaker
They want families only.
00:52:17
Speaker
Right.
00:52:18
Speaker
But also, like, McDonald's doesn't have play areas anymore, so it seems like not as good a place.
00:52:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:24
Speaker
The one in Panchatula has one that's inside.
00:52:26
Speaker
It's air-conditioned.
00:52:28
Speaker
Nice.
00:52:28
Speaker
That way it doesn't really cook the plastic balls that smell and beat.
00:52:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:34
Speaker
The whole room just smells like Fritos.
00:52:35
Speaker
Yeah, so I feel like you could do this.
00:52:37
Speaker
I mean, you'd change a couple minor things because, you know, like some of the parents would be gay.
00:52:42
Speaker
So hopefully some of them would be brown.
00:52:44
Speaker
But otherwise it would be kind of the same structure.
00:52:46
Speaker
Divorced parents handing off with their former spouses.
00:52:50
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:52:51
Speaker
So you make it a movie or you want to do like a miniseries with a 10-episode arc where you really just dig deep?
00:53:00
Speaker
I always want a movie.
00:53:02
Speaker
Yeah, I want it fast.
00:53:03
Speaker
I don't have time for TV shows.
00:53:05
Speaker
I got no time for that.
00:53:07
Speaker
Dude, it's kind of funny because we, like, if I ask my wife if she wants to watch a movie, she's like, I don't know, I'm pretty tired.
00:53:12
Speaker
It's like, all right, well, why don't we watch, we got like Righteous Gemstones left.
00:53:15
Speaker
She's like, okay.
00:53:16
Speaker
I'm like, those are 60 minute episodes.
00:53:18
Speaker
What's the difference?
00:53:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:21
Speaker
More penis is the difference because geez, that last season is swinging all over.
00:53:26
Speaker
Did you recast anything for the fourth question?
00:53:30
Speaker
I was just looking at it.
00:53:31
Speaker
If like just for the lead actors that are like in their kind of mid 30s, like I kind of like I kind of like Daniel Radcliffe.
00:53:40
Speaker
Can you not go older because everybody just looks so much younger?
00:53:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:53:44
Speaker
Like, you know what I'm saying?
00:53:45
Speaker
Like Randy Quaid looks like how people in their 40s look now, but he wasn't in his 40s when he did that, did he?
00:53:51
Speaker
So, like, Paul Rudd looks like he could fit in there.
00:53:55
Speaker
So I was like, man, I like Paul Rudd for, like... He seems too old.
00:53:58
Speaker
Like, he's 50.
00:53:59
Speaker
I mean, I guess that probably is the right answer for, like, nowadays, but...
00:54:04
Speaker
I don't know.
00:54:04
Speaker
I put Paul Rudd for Dave.
00:54:08
Speaker
And then I put Bill Hader for Donnie.
00:54:12
Speaker
Because I freaking love me some Bill Hader.
00:54:15
Speaker
And for Vic, I couldn't not go with Vince Vaughn.
00:54:19
Speaker
Could you imagine Vince Vaughn having a date like that?
00:54:25
Speaker
Dude, Vince Vaughn would be great in this whole thing.
00:54:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:54:29
Speaker
Vince Vaughn would also be really good as the Matthew Modine part.
00:54:33
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:54:34
Speaker
I just watched the breakup this week while I was bored.
00:54:37
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He's freaking hilarious, Scott.
00:54:41
Speaker
He would be throwing stuff at all the chicks.
00:54:44
Speaker
He would be good at that, too.
00:54:46
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I kind of wanted Jason Sudeikis somewhere in there.
00:54:48
Speaker
I feel like he could do something, but I didn't know who he would be.
00:54:53
Speaker
I mean, this would be a fun movie to cast because there's like 10 really good parts.
00:54:59
Speaker
Right.
00:55:00
Speaker
I didn't do any of the brown people or other genders, but those are the three main guys.
00:55:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:55:08
Speaker
With other white guys.
00:55:09
Speaker
Kept it straight chalk, pure white guys.
00:55:14
Speaker
Can you still watch and enjoy this movie in 2025?
00:55:15
Speaker
Well, yes and no.
00:55:16
Speaker
You can enjoy it.
00:55:17
Speaker
Yes, you can enjoy it, but no, it's not actually possible to watch.
00:55:21
Speaker
Dude, it was for rent somewhere, wasn't it?
00:55:23
Speaker
Or no?
00:55:24
Speaker
Not even to rent.
00:55:25
Speaker
No, no.
00:55:26
Speaker
I found it nowhere.
00:55:29
Speaker
Golly, that stinks.
00:55:32
Speaker
I was trying to see, sometimes full movies will be on YouTube.
00:55:35
Speaker
It was on a Russian website, the whole movie, because I tried to watch it at work, and that was blocked.
00:55:44
Speaker
So it was probably better that way.
00:55:46
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like I'm seeing the... No, there's like a whole... I thought I found the whole movie on YouTube.
00:55:53
Speaker
You're watching it on Crunchyroll for free.
00:55:55
Speaker
Okay, great.
00:55:55
Speaker
Free seven-day trial, and then it's $7.99 a month.
00:55:59
Speaker
Ooh, SD.
00:55:59
Speaker
It's all blurry.
00:56:00
Speaker
It's all blurry.
00:56:01
Speaker
Just hand them your social security number.
00:56:05
Speaker
Skip the middleman.
00:56:07
Speaker
Yeah, dude, this is one that's really hard to find.
00:56:09
Speaker
I'm sorry to everyone who's going like, that was a great time.
00:56:12
Speaker
I really want to watch this now.
00:56:13
Speaker
Well, you can't.
00:56:15
Speaker
If you have $80, you can buy the DVD.
00:56:17
Speaker
Or I'll sell it to you for $80.
00:56:20
Speaker
You can borrow it, quote unquote, from the internet if you would like.
00:56:25
Speaker
If you have that particular skill set, that certainly is a possibility.
00:56:28
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:28
Speaker
Somebody needs that sales set.
00:56:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:56:30
Speaker
Everything's too expensive.
00:56:32
Speaker
Dude, that ain't no lie.
00:56:34
Speaker
So...
00:56:36
Speaker
Like I did a bye-bye-bye in there.
00:56:38
Speaker
I almost said it, but I refrained.
00:56:40
Speaker
All right.
00:56:43
Speaker
Thank you guys for listening.
00:56:43
Speaker
We did Adventures in Babysitting on Patreon, and we're coming back pretty soon with Planes, Trains, and Automobile on Patreon.
00:56:50
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It's going to be good.
00:56:51
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Yeah.
00:56:52
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And then we'll come back on the main feed next with The Quick and the Dead, which is the Western movie.
00:56:57
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It has a surprisingly amount of really great people in it.
00:57:01
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Yes.
00:57:01
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I hope it's still good.
00:57:03
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Dude, I used to love that movie.
00:57:04
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I'm excited about that one.
00:57:05
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I know.
00:57:06
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I know, me too.
00:57:07
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What else?
00:57:08
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Nothing.
00:57:09
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Vaya Candios.
00:57:10
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Vaya Candios.
00:57:13
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