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The Wedding Singer
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Emma and Katie dive into their very first Sandler! Is this a comforting Rom Com to watch? Yes. Does it completely hold up? No. Regardless Emma and Katie discuss all things 80s, Adam Sandler and time math.
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Gym Mishaps and COVID Awareness
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Speaking of water bottles, I had a really embarrassing moment at the gym. I finished my run in like I have a Nalgene, like one of those like wide mouth Nalgenes. I've had one since like high school, I just really love it. And I was taking a gulp of water after my run. And it went down the wrong pipe. And it was while I had a glug in my mouth. And I was like, Oh, no, oh, no. So then, like without even thinking, like, I like cough. yeah as I was trying to get it down and it like went everywhere. The water just like, it fell. You just spit a mouthful of water all over everything. Exactly. And I was just like, oh no, COVID. And then and then on top of that, I'm pretty sure I cannot be certain, but there was a gentleman on the elliptical in front of me and I think he was in the splash zone. Oh no. I said he was in the splash zone.
00:00:59
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That was it. And I was looking around. I was like, did anybody see that? And then I made like a big effort of like wiping down the treadmill and stuff. And then I was like, there's nothing I can do about that, gentlemen. I'm just I'm going to peace out now. Oh, no, COVID. Well, luckily you don't have COVID, at least that you're aware of.
Book Talk and Reading Preferences
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Exactly. No, but like because of COVID, I'm constantly aware of like spit and things flying out of my mouth. Yeah, yeah, for real.
00:01:32
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I hope that I didn't either. I'm sure I almost killed myself with blueberries next week. Right, yes. Yes. And isn't that the same thing, really? Exactly. How are you doing? How's life? Oh, fine. I don't think there's been any events since last week that are worth mentioning. I don't think of it. Oh, yeah, I just go to work and go home and and black out in between pretty much. Yeah. Yeah, I feel that. I feel that I finished the ninth house series, 9000 Hellbent. It was excellent. Hellbent is. Is there going to be a third? There is. There's going to be. I think I was googling it and um Lee Bardot or or dogo yeah Bardugo
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said that it's going to be like a series of like four or five, maybe. Oh, ah yeah. I mean, I thought I was going to ask, though. Yeah, thank God, because she already has a new book out like she comes out with about a book a year, although the new one is not in this series. It's like no. the familiar, which my mom says is really good. So I'm going to add that on my list. But I started up the I made the great and terrible decision to join Kindle Unlimited because I have all the books and yeah especially romance books. Yeah.
00:03:05
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right? Especially romance book, it like has all of the books like ones that I cannot find in bookstores, because they're like, that's too romancey. It wasn't published in paper. It went directly to Kindle directly to Kindle. It's the direct DVD of books. Exactly. Like, I can't find Guild anywhere, which is like the Midas roman romance adventure book. Uh-huh. And that's on there. I started Serpents and the Wings of Night. yeah It's pretty good. It's basically Hunger Games meets from Blood and Ash. And I'm here for it so far.
00:03:47
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Yeah. Yeah. I think you like the dark romance, like fantasy stuff a little bit more than I do. I think like I do like, I mean, I like the Sarah J. Moss books and I like, I like the Armin Trout books. Not quite as much, but um most of the stuff I read looks like this. Yeah. Two wrongs make a right. Oh, I've seen that one. Love Wager. They're both, they're both great. um Yeah. I read them in 36 hours at the absolute tops. I'm really. It's not not the best use of my money, honestly, because now I've just got this and I'll take it to. I mean, yeah, yeah, and in the moment, like i take I'll take it to half price books or something and get 75 cents for them. I paid $15 for them. So, you know, we'll see. That doesn't sound like half price to me.
00:04:40
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Right? If only there was like a romance library, you know, like it was just a library, like they have romance bookstores, but like it was just a library for romance books. Yeah, because I feel like the library, at least all the libraries I've been to, they have a certain good selection. But um especially the Lake Bluff library had an excellent selection. But um, There there's mostly like those old school romance novels with like Fabio on the cover. That's like in the Highlands, Highland Princess and like the Duchess and her Duke. Yeah, I do not like historical romance. I do not. I don't care about a bridge or two. um I don't want to. i Yeah, I need it to be. um Yeah, i like modern rom coms is what I want, which is what these books are. These are just straight up. They're rom coms in book form.
00:05:33
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And they usually have cartoon characters on the cover for whatever reason. I don't know why, but they all look the same. I love it. And that's how I know I like it. So the marketing works. Yeah. Very rarely. There's there's one author who whose name I won't say on here, you know, for fear of turning off dozens of listeners against her work. But she write. She comes out with probably like three or four of these a year. And and they're just terrible. um Which I guess makes sense considering how fast she writes them. But like they get they're published in paper and everything and like they're always at Target. That's where I mostly see them. And I've tried two different ones. I tried a regular one and I tried a Christmas one and they're both bad. Like just unread. I didn't even finish them. Which is really because. Yeah, because I don't care. You know. Yeah. Yeah. You're just here for the rom and the com. And the sex. Yeah. If it's got those three things. Yeah.
00:06:31
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um that Spicy rum comes as they call them. Yes. Which look I don't want to read one where they kiss for the first time at the end. That's not my speed either. Yeah. No, no, no.
'The Wedding Singer' Movie Insights
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I want I want a little bit of spice. Just just. Yeah. Yeah. um i'll take And then I want he I want to take a deep of sp fire a heap Yeah. Yeah. Two dashes of cumin. Yeah, exactly. Carolina Reaper. Yeah.
00:07:07
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um Which Spices famously featured in today's film, The Wedding Singer. A movie with no sex. No sex. The Wedding Singer from 1998, directed by yeah Frank Horasi, and written by, credited, written by Tim Herlihy, but uncredited, written by Miss Carrie Fisher. Yes, yes. But Carrie Fisher, not to use your catchphrase, but really, really is famous for famously Doctor in Hollywood. And this is one of the movies that she completely rewrote about half of. Yeah. And that brings me to my very first, even before we get into the plot. Emma's fun facts, Emma's fun facts. We haven't even done the name of the show. I know.
00:08:03
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i'm head ah But yes, Carrie Fisher was the script doctor on this. And the main reason why was because she wanted to. um She is the reason why Drew Barrymore's character is so great. She basically just rewrote and made ah what's her character's name? ah Julia's character ah gave her mor and Julia. Julia Gulia. And so when asked what her secret sauce to script doctoring is, ah she would Carrie Fisher would famously reply, just make the women smarter and the love scenes better. So she made Julia Gulia a three dimensional woman. So thank you, Carrie. And that's, that's kind of her thing, like all throughout the late 80s and 90s, and even into the 2000s, it was like,
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Hey, who who's a woman? Carrie Fisher. We'll get Carrie Fisher to. She's like these scripts where Mary a woman ah was anywhere near the script, the script but scriptw writing or the the directing, they would get Carrie Fisher to come in and and give it a ah ah touch of realism. Right. So this is this is that's right, guys, as we have gotten into Emma's fun facts, and we've already introduced the movie, you guessed it. This is Go Get Your Girl, the podcast where Emma and Katie are engaged, maybe to get married, both get stood up at the altar, and then find true love through a bunch of wedding planning. In 1985. In 1985.
00:09:45
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And that, oh, and also night the 80s is the third character. Yes, the 80s is not even 1985, a real generalized 80s feeling that's not very specific is the third character in this. There's one bit where the guy off screen says, JR's down, I think somebody shot him. And I'm like, how did that happen? That happened in goddamn 1980, not 1985. It was five years had passed. They just needed to get, I mean, that's just a famous thing that happened in the 80s that they had to throw in. Yeah. Let's name all the 80s things. And then all of the costumes are such caricatures of the 80s. Oh my God, I know. But some of them are amazing. Everything Christine Taylor wears is perfect. Right. And it's just like now constantly.
00:10:38
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Christine Taylor is my white sweater in this movie. I think she's fantastic. She's hilarious. And she looks amazing. Yes, absolutely amazing. And it's my my favorite is the line when they're in the club. And Adam Sandler's like, I really like your um your jelly bracelets. They make you look like Madonna. And she goes, well, that's kind of the point. I was like, yeah. She's just cosplaying as Madonna throughout this entire movie. And she looks amazing. So why would you? She looks amazing. Yeah, if I looked like that and it was 1985, I would dress like Madonna too. Exactly. It's a good look. It's a good look. And it works for her. Not every 80s. Charlie constantly throughout this movie was so confused by everyone's age. He was like, I genuinely don't know how old anyone in this movie is. Yeah. Well,
00:11:34
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Adam Sandler is 31 and Drew Barrymore is 22 when they made this video, although I believe I believe he's playing younger and she's also playing older. I think she tends to play older because she was just so young throughout like the height of her career, you know, because never been kissed is the next year. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And she plays. She's 23 in that. No, she's supposed to be 25 and playing yeah and and um and, you know, pretends to be a high schooler. But yeah pretends to be in real life, she was 23. Yeah. Yeah. Jesus, man. That's one of my first notes, though, is Drew Barrymore could have chemistry with a tree. And she does everything work. And that's why she is Hollywood gold.
00:12:23
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Yeah, yeah, she's she's great in this. And this is this is the most tolerable Adam Sandler um yeah can be, basically. This is his third like big movie, hit the third movie where he's the star. He did um Billy Madison and then Happy Gilmore, which, oh my god, if my friends Cassie or Luke hear hear this, which they won't because they don't listen to it. Rude. They are and Caitlin are constantly quoting Billy Madison. And I just never I just never saw it when I was a kid. I never i guess they all saw it when they were kids. and Well, no, they made me watch it um at one of because we have a movie night weekly with them. Yeah. And I don't know, a couple of years ago, they made me watch it. It's the worst fucking movie in the world. It is that awful.
00:13:10
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And they quote it all the time because they're always quoting movies. And I'm like, oh, I don't know what that's from. I don't know what that's from. And like nine times out of ten, it's it's Billy Madison. Jesus Christ. Which I'm sorry if you like that movie, but I think it's a thing. I think a lot of it's nostalgia. And yeah I think because they saw it when they were kids, you know, like, yeah, they weren't old enough to to see it in theaters, I don't think. But they saw it. Well, Luke might have been actually, but you know I think it was one of those things that played. I remember it playing on Comedy Central all the time after school when I was a kid. I just never watched it. It just never interests me. It was never something that I was like, yes, I must watch this. I never cared about Adam Sandler. yeah i I didn't either until I watched The Wedding Singer, and that was the beginning and the end of that.
00:13:57
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Um, I, I is i am i love ah him in this. I think that he does a really good job, but I had a really, and mu I had a moment of sort of, um, clarity and in the middle of watching this that I was just like, this is why Adam Sandler works in this movie and he doesn't work in other movies is that he actually for 90% of it. He plays normal. He plays really down to earth, just like genuinely nice guy. And then it's only like the sweetest person in the world in this movie, which is such a departure for his especially having only done two other movies. And after this, he has like another string of them until Fifty First Dates, which is another traditional romcom where he plays a normal person also with Drew Barrymore, which we will definitely cover on this podcast at some point. For sure.
00:14:48
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The other tolerable Adam Sandler. Yeah. um Yeah. I mean, lots of people love Adam Sandler and i'm I'm happy for you. I don't mean I don't want to take that away from you and I don't want to belittle you if you are ah Sandler head or whatever. But it's not it's not for me. And I don't know. They're not for you either. From what you said, I think it's just like I enjoy him on SNL. I enjoy his bits in like very like small doses. in small doses. I can't do like, I mean, I enjoyed this. I liked the what um the water boy. I remember liking water boy. But that it was I was like 10. So I don't know if I'd still like it today. Yeah, yeah. And then he's got some dramas too, which I yeah, again, I haven't I haven't seen
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uncut gems.
Nostalgia and Romantic Comedies
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ah but exactly john It's always been described to me as a panic attack in a movie. And I'm like, I don't, I don't have the time for that. I don't want to, yeah I'm not going to fit that into my schedule today. And it's not that I don't want to see it or think that it's not good. I'm sure that it's good. And I'm sure that he's very good in it. but It's just, I don't know when I'm going to be in the mood to, to go through that. you know I just know the one interview with ah Julia Fox and about and un got dumb i was hand and the i was missing yeah um cut Uncut
00:16:23
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Um, but the wedding singer so obviously it's the 80s. I believe it you hold on. Did you see it? Uncle gems? No, I do. Did you see the wedding singer? When was the first time? Oh, yes. So I saw the wedding singer for the first time. I want to say it was in theaters. But I could be wrong. It could have been at home. But I remember when it came out. and loved it. And then, you know, whenever it would be on TV, you watched it. It's a great rom-com, definitely in that genre of like comfy, cozy rom-coms. And Charlie had never seen it. So last night was his, or not last night, but when we watched it was the first time that he watched it. And before we got into it, I asked him, I was like, do you have any Charlie's corner thoughts? And he goes, I have seen very few Sandler's. End of sentence.
00:17:16
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Oh, OK. I thought he was going to say, but this one's the best. Or I didn't care for this one, but all right. No, he really he really enjoyed it. he He thought it was very enjoyable. Yeah. That's a benchmark for Charlie. Very enjoyable. Yeah. Yeah, but I think that that's that's what it is, right? It's the coziness of it. It's it's the fact that this is like the first rom com that we've done in a long time where I mean, technically, yes, the stakes are high because it's a movie, but
00:17:48
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um it It's so it feels really easy like the ending you get to the ending. It's so easy It's 90 minutes you get to the ending everything feels like it just watching it is Comfortable, it's easy. It's a good thing. Nothing is unpredictable. Yeah, exactly. Everything's kind of predictable. You kind of know what's gonna happen but That's kind of rom-com genre in general. That's why it's so comforting for so many people, including us. yeah you know like yeah Unlike Uncut Gems, which ah sound it sounds like a panic attack of a movie. This is the opposite of a panic attack of a movie. This is ah this is a nice fun time yeah with with people and and and loving and kissing and stuff. so
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Yeah, I would much rather most of the time. I mean, it's not that I don't watch like. You know, artistic movies sometimes. Yeah, but especially if it's been like a long day at work or something, it's like sometimes you just want to put on something that's going to make you feel good. Yeah, so that's I nice i mean, that's that's right. Say anything's in defense of the genre except about rom coms instead of about emo. Yeah. Yeah. But I saw this movie in the theater for sure. I remember very well. um My dad and I went. I'm not sure why my mom didn't go. I don't remember if maybe she had a Sandler thing. But yeah, my dad and I went and I remember it very specifically because the boom mic kept dipping into the frame when we and I was like, what is that? And my dad's like, that's the microphone.
00:19:29
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And so the first time I kind of like understood how movies, at least like how sound and stuff was recorded on movies, I'm like, you mean there's like a guy holding a microphone? And he's like, yeah. So it's not the movie's fault, apparently. And this is the way I mean, it is the way that used to be. I think now digitally, it's different. But back then, when films were you know shot on film and and projected on film all the time, The person at the movie theater, and I looked this up, you know, years later, because I remember seeing the boom mic. The it's the projectionist's fault at the movie theater, because the frame is actually much wider than what's meant to be shown. And the director and the and the cinematographer and everything will know, you know, how far the boom mic is allowed to come down before they you know use a take or something.
00:20:22
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And yeah the projectionist is supposed to frame the movie specifically into the gate or whatever as it's being projected. yeah But sometimes they do it wrong or it's off. And that's why you'll see the boom mic sometimes and stuff, especially older movies. And now, you know at the digitally, they can just you know create exactly what they want. And that just shows instead of having to and like to line it up. Yeah. and That's fascinating. I had no idea. I read that somewhere. I'm not sure if that's 100% true, but that is my understanding of it at this time. Yeah, nice. And I loved it. um I mean, I was a little kid, um but I was super into it. And I got like really into the 80s because of it. And i yeah, yeah. um Because the soundtrack, the soundtrack is so good. The soundtrack is amazing. Yeah, I put it in my Apple Music immediately.
00:21:13
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Yeah. Did you ever see the musical or listen to any of the musical soundtrack? I've listened to it. Yeah. It's um and what's his name was so good in it. Stephen Michael Lynch or something along those lines. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He got nominated for a Tony. Yeah. Mm hmm. Laura Benanti is super fun. Super fun. You saw it. Um, I saw a lot of clips from it and I put one of, um, come out of the dumpster was one of the like songs in college that I would sing was like one of my, my repertoire. Um, yeah. But I thought it was, I thought it was super cute. I, at first I was like, Oh, they made a musical out of the wedding singer. That's so stupid. But then you like listen to it and you watch it and you're like, Oh no, this is, this actually really translates really well. And it's got, it's got style, you know,
00:22:03
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Yeah, part of it. You know, all that is borrowed from the 80s. Another thing I'd like to point out, if they were to make the wedding singer today, it would be set in 2011. Oh, yeah, I did that math, too. I didn't like it. Did not like it. Here's the thing. It's it's not just that, but it was only 13 years ago. Like the movie said in 1985, the 80s were less than a decade away. It was 1998 to 1985. That's 13 years. That's not that long ago. But the difference between the 80s and the 90s was so extreme. Right. You know, I feel like maybe because of technology and maybe because of
00:22:41
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certain other trends like are were our our fashion and our aesthetics are a bit more gradual. like The difference between the 2010s and the 2020s or the 90s and the 2000s or the 2000s and 2010s is not nearly as as as huge as the difference between the 60s and 70s and the 70s and the 80s. Yeah, and I mean like maybe like also like social media, the fact that like we can all, we're just like all constantly on the internet and like seeing everything that like fashion isn't such like a surprise with like new trends and stuff. They just sort of like filter themselves in. um However, I will say Charlie and I watched Pitch Perfect the other night, we watched it and
00:23:28
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Yeah, I think this was the first time that we were rewatching it in a long time. But and sitting back and like listening to the songs, looking at the fashion, I was like, Oh, yeah, the 2010s was a weird time. What a weird nuts time. Everything was about clubbing. Everything was about. Yeah, like the super high stiletto heels, leggings under dresses, ah just, you know, the frickin bumpits. It was it was a time.
00:24:03
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Yeah, I mean, those yeah, that's that was that carried over for sure. um I think to me, the the bumpets and the leggings and addresses and everything makes me think of the 2000s. But, you know, Pitch Perfect was like 2010 2011. So that's pretty cool. Yeah, it was like 2011. And like all the music is like because that was in that big sort of wave of just like techno and like and everything sounded like a remix in a club. Oh, yeah. But the the um um Oh god, what do they call it? The EDM of like the 2010s, the 2011s with the beat with the yeah, the big beat drop. What was that called? Oh, oh my god. Dubstep. No. Dubstep. Was it Dubstep? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dubstep.
Character Dynamics in 'The Wedding Singer'
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Dubstep. I don't know where I pulled that out of my brain. But yes. But it just felt it felt very pretty. Yeah. Yeah. But the wedding singer. Tell us how do we start off, Katie?
00:25:02
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Oh, gosh, how do we start? We started a wedding, obviously, a little bit of a. um I guess we should go ahead and get into it. All right. So like we said, his name is Robbie Hart, and he's the sweetest man in the world. ah And he's a wedding. juniorer He's and he's a wedding singer of a band that does weddings. And so. This first several scenes of his character are just showing that he's a sweetheart whom everyone loves and is just the nicest man. Like Steve Buscemi comes up and like tries to cause a scene and he handles it really well. And then like, yeah, there's there's a kid who's who's drinking alcohol for the first time and he's puking, which is where we get our meet cute next to a puking kid, which is great.
00:25:54
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Love it by a dumpster. And then there's there's also Alexis Arquette, who, yes, we got to talk about in this movie. We got to talk about Alexis Arquette. Who, if you don't know, is um David Arquette's and ah Patricia Arquette. And what's the other one? Roxanna? Roseanna Arquette? I think it's Roseanna, but I i only know Patricia and um David. Is there other sister who is a trans woman at this point had not ah transitioned, had not been used, was not using female pronouns at this time, but what did a lot of drag and would do um identified as a gay man and did a lot of drag parts. Most of the time she would show up in movies. She would be in drag at that time as well in the 90s. Yeah.
00:26:48
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And in this case, she is playing a ah ah ah man who uses he him pronouns and wears exclusively drag in his day to day life, which is fine. That's totally a thing. Yeah, especially in the 80s.
00:27:06
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But the. Go on, Katie, where's the. But you have the reaction to it is really hard to watch. And so his name is George and they've he looks like Boy George, which is what they're doing. yeah They're doing yeah the the other vocalist and the piano player in Robbie's band. is Boy George, basically. Yes. Who is friends with Robbie. And like he likes him. I'm going to use he him pronouns for the character because the character is a man. So. Yes. Is friends with Robbie. Robbie. Wedding dress shopping. Yeah. um With them, they all he's accepted as as their friend, which is great. Yeah. We love that. And ah Alexis Arquette and Adam Sandler were friends. She was in several of his movies before. She also um died, sadly.
00:27:58
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in I don't know like 2015 or something 2014 yeah complications from complications from AIDS and but however her appearance as the also as the appearance of overweight people and people who are not conventionally attractive and people with like fake teeth and and bad hair and stuff are mocked mercilessly in this movie. Does not hold up well. And over and over again.
00:28:33
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Right? Like and the joke, this person is fat or this person is ugly or is used repeatedly. And that is not an 80s thing. That is a 90s thing. That is a contemporary to 1998. Like and I feel like it was like a trope that was so heavily utilized in and for a while in these Adam Sandler movies, like they went really hard on that sort of the humor of making fun of people that don't look like a conventional person um it doesn't look isn't a conventionally attractive to them. man And and that's sort of not great.
00:29:14
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Don't do that. it It is. It's really it's really most of the movie is fun and cute and sweet and has like fun 80s stuff in it, because as we've talked about on this podcast before, I love these like the aesthetic and the like fashion, not the politics. Yeah. Yeah. Or the how terrible it was for. you know especially queer people and people of color in America and all over the world in the 80s, as it still is now. But anytime you try to romanticize a pastime, it's important to remember that. And I do, but I do really, especially the music and the and the aesthetic yeah of the 80s. As do many people. Yeah, exactly. So
00:30:05
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The joke is that George only knows one song, and that song is the Culture Club song, for the which Boy George was in, Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me? And it it is a good joke that when Robbie doesn't come back, he just decides to sing it again. That's yeah that's fine. That's not yeah that that kind of, that's ah that's a joke that can work for that character. But za all of the disgust and like the cutaways to people like being like generally disgusted by this, you know, man in drag is not good, obviously. Yeah, because it happens the first time that he sings a song and it would work so much. It would just be such a better joke if it was just the fact that this character knows only the culture club. Do you really want to hurt me?
00:30:59
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Because like, yeah I think that's funny. Yeah, and the fact that at every opportunity, that's what George chooses to when George is gonna sing George is gonna sing that song. Yeah. And, yeah and also do the exact same like facial mannerisms, sing it the exact same way. Like it never feels like it's a repeat sing for George. It's the first time every time. Yeah, yeah. And um that's that's cute. Yeah. And, you know, and and Adam Sandler's character never as far as I noticed, I don't think I don't think I missed it, but I don't think Adam Sandler's character ever judges George or says anything bad about George, except George has got to learn a new song. That's the only thing.
00:31:44
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That's the only thing. And and that that is really nice and lovely. It's just like the reactions and from like the audience and things like that. Because like even at when they're wedding dress shopping, George tries on probably the best wedding dress that they all tried on. Yeah, it really was. Yeah. Yeah, it was the best dress. And although Julia didn't go for that one, I don't know why, but, you know, whatever. I have thoughts about Julia's. It was fine for the first wedding, but then she wears it for this. Get a new gown, girl. She's a waitress. Come on. Get a new gown. Fresh slate. That gown is cursed. It's got the Goulia stink on it. It's got the Goulia stink.
00:32:31
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Yeah, they're happy. They're happy. And they they celebrate with with with George with the dress on. You're right. Yeah, exactly. And so like everything for the most part is just you don't even think twice about it except for those like audience reactions, which don't do that. You were almost there. I mean, yeah. And the thing is like. I'm sure that would have happened in 1985 at a banquet hall. And is it New Jersey where they're at? It's New Jersey. It doesn't really. jersey Yeah, I think it it's got a big Jersey vibe. Yeah. Yeah. It's clarified in the musical, but it's Jersey. Yeah. OK. Because it says like Woodbridge concert like like performance hall or whatever or or reception hall or something. And that's really the only.
00:33:20
Speaker
information we get about location in the movie. And they say that somebody works in the city, the city. Yeah, which is New York, meaning New York. Yeah. Which as someone who lives in the tri-state area can confirm that it people do do that no matter how far away. Oh, yeah. You're 90 minutes from New York. You're 20 minutes from New York. You go into the city. It's New York City. I think every city does that. Whatever the closest city is, it's the city. Because I know San Francisco is generally referred to as the city, and people who live in the suburbs of Chicago call Chicago the city. Yeah. But like there's other cities closer to me, but everyone calls it New York the city. I digress. It's the city. Nobody cares about Hartford. No.
00:34:13
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So we've got we've got our two main characters, they have their little meet cute, you find out that um they're both engaged. Robbie's getting married the next day, I believe. And he's very in love with his fiance, like this new cute is a is a meet cute of platonic people. You know, like which is very sweet and cute. She she appreciates that he's good at his job and he's nice to her because it's her first day waitressing and stuff. And that is it. He does not hit on her. There is no spark or anything between them. They are both in committed relationships with other people. And the other thing I forgot about this is that this is sort of a cheating rom-com. And we haven't covered one of those on the show before. Yeah. I mean, they don't really
00:35:02
Speaker
cheat. I mean, they don't sleep together for sure. They do kiss, but it's kind of. It's it's it's allowed forced upon. It's forced upon them. Yeah. But there's a lot of there's a cut there's a lot of cheating rom coms, which is not my favorite genre, obviously. Yeah. They I think that there's sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. But it is definitely its own thing. And we'll talk about more of them on the on the show and some of them that are a lot more cheaty than this one. Yeah, but because it's what happens. Yeah, they just sort of like really form this really strong friendship that this they realize towards the end that they love each other, which is very sweet it's friends lovers. Yeah, friends lovers, which is really, really nice. i You so yeah, you've got
00:35:57
Speaker
Julia and ah Robbie, Julia is engaged to this horrible horror of a man that we have no idea what his name is or not his name, but we have no idea what his age is. Yeah, um I think he's in his 30s. Let's bring it up. His name is Glen Goulia, and he's played by Matthew Glaive. Glaive? Glaive? Caitlin from the other room went Glaive. All right. So he is 60 years old now, which means he was born in 1963, which means in 1998, he was 35. And they just there was moments with like the hair and like costuming. I was like, is this man 45 dating a 22 year old? And yeah I don't know. And then we get to the engagement party and um he was just like, that's not the same guy. Is that the same guy? And I was like, yeah, he's just done his hair different.
00:36:58
Speaker
Yeah, he's um he's the worst man in the world. I don't know how they got together or or what exactly their relationship is supposed to be. It doesn't really get into it. They're just engaged and they've been engaged for a long time. Which is another clue that I think Drew Barrymore is supposed to be like 25 at least in this movie. She's not supposed to be 22. No. And I think Robbie is also supposed to be like maybe 28 or 29. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, but yeah, and then so we get to Robbie's wedding and he is so excited. He's standing at the altar and it's playing. Don't stop believing, but like orchestra string quartet version. I don't stop. yeah Yeah. And his sister comes out and he goes and she goes, Hey, I just heard from what's what's his fiance's name from so and so's mom.
00:37:55
Speaker
Um, it is Linda, of course, Linda from Linda's mom. And he's like, Oh my God, is she okay? Like what's going on? And she's like, yeah, no, she's, she's fine honey. But she's not, she's not coming. She's not going to make it. And you get your first Adam Sandlery moment where he goes, he's like very calm and he goes, Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. And then he goes into his little dressing room. which is just a tent next to the altar. And he breaks the mirror and has like a breakdown and everyone can hear him. yeah um But yeah, so Linda doesn't want, she shows up later at, you find out Robbie lives with his sister in his sister's basement.
00:38:40
Speaker
And she doesn't want to be with him anymore.
Themes of Success and Relationships
00:38:43
Speaker
Because when they first got together, he was the lead singer of a band um like a rock band who's going to be a rock star. And now he's a wedding singer. And she doesn't like that. She doesn't like Robbie now. She was in love with Robbie six years ago. And this is a movie about money and security like that is the the theme of this movie is which is very 80s it is very much about the difference between art and music and love versus money and security and safety yep yep exactly
00:39:22
Speaker
But at in this in some ways, money and security is almost like the villain of this story. would Absolutely it is. Yeah, because that's the thing. he just He's happy with his life. He likes being a wedding singer. He's good at it. And he likes making music and he gets to do it. And there's there's not capitalism it hasn't you know crushed his spirit in a way that it would if he had signed to a a label or had you know his band had become maybe more successful or something. He's happy living in his sister's basement and you know maybe he should move out or whatever, but
00:40:02
Speaker
The everyone in this movie is trying to get him to be quotations successful. And but he already is successful. And his he already is successful because he has love and music. He has love and music. Is the musical like really good? Because in my head, the musical is really good. Because that's what is it? mean What what's better a subject for a musical to be about? Right. It's pretty solid. I mean, it was so popular that now it's like high schools do it all the time. It's one of those. Yeah, that makes sense. ah Which is like, it's like super cute. It's a cute, just like the movie. It's like, it's super cute. But oh, that was another one of my notes was, what ages everyone?
00:40:49
Speaker
um And I wrote you Vegas wedding red flag. I basically wrote down every time that Glenn had gives a red flag and because he gives so many because he's just like starts talking about the wedding to Julia and he's just like, I don't know. I mean, like, can we just go to Vegas? I'm like, I don't really want the big wedding thing. And she goes, No, that's totally cool. She's like agrees with it. And he goes, You can do that chick thing where you like say that you agree with it, but then you're going to pout about it. She goes, No, no, that's, you know, she's like agreeing in a very, very more way. And he goes, Oh, fine. He like submits to having the wedding of like a nice big wedding. um But then she won't shut up about Vegas. Yeah. Also, like if they're in New Jersey, why would they just go to Atlantic City? Why go to Vegas?
00:41:38
Speaker
Because ah it was the 80s and I guess Vegas was like. The hot spot, I don't know. Because you need to get on a plane to go to Vegas and they have to have the planes. here Yeah, exactly. You have to have the plane scene at the end, obviously. Also, one of the side characters, Rosie, a little lady, Rosie. and Ellen Albertini Dow. yeah Who is I the original wrapping granny. This is the beginning of the wrapping granny meme is like that being granny. Yep. It's from this movie. This is another happening. This is also so there's another right way why Robbie is such a sweetheart. He and this is the save the cat. Right. This who terrible screenwriting book that everybody was forced to read where like you have to have a character say the cat. So we know that they're a good person and we like them.
00:42:34
Speaker
And so his thing is that he gives this little old lady who's like his great aunt or something. I didn't even think that they were in like relatives, but I guess that's why he's him and his whole family are. Yeah, because she's got like pictures of him when he's a kid at her house. oh Yeah. Um, and she's the whole thing about his penis. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it was at his she was at his bris when he was circumcised and she was talking about how nice his penis was when he's a little baby, which like this role is written for Betty White. There's never there's not a more Betty White character. Actually, Emma's fun Emma's fun facts. Betty White was up for the role of Rosie, but she didn't book it.
00:43:18
Speaker
She didn't book it. I mean, this ist this is in her her her down period, you know? Yeah, she was too young. In between the golden girls and the proposal, yeah. Yeah. So he gives her singing lessons because it's going to be her like 50th wedding anniversary and she wants to sing ah till there was you from the music man to her husband at their anniversary. And so he's teaching her he's helping her with singing lessons and she pays him in meatballs.
00:43:52
Speaker
put your hands to his bare hands. Oh my God. Cause she's out. He's just like, can I take your meatballs to go? And, and she's out of clean Tupperware. And so she's like, so he's like, Oh, it's fine. I'll get it next time. And then she goes, no, open up your hands. And then she gives him two handfuls of meatballs too. And she goes, because she wants him to take a bite of one because she wants to see his face when he's eating it and enjoying it because that's her favorite part. Yeah. It's very sweet. Very, very sweet. And so she's yeah, she's a little old lady who talks about sex a lot, which is yeah a trope at this point. And then later at the anniversary scene, she sings her song and it's very lovely and Robbie's there. And then it cuts to her singing um and her rapping. She's doing the Sugarhill Gang's um yeah Rapper's Delight, which is
00:44:46
Speaker
Now they throw that in every fourth comedy movie from 1998 to 2010, pretty much. But this was like the first one. Yeah. This was one of the first ones. Which was probably funny then. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I remember it was like it was a big deal because you had like a rapping grandma. But yeah. I mean, Benny White literally dances to the. To the window. The Little John song. To the wall. Yeah, and and the proposal. not balls Yeah, exactly. Which is a nice little, maybe it was a nod to the wedding singer. I doubt it.
00:45:28
Speaker
ah So yeah, so you've got, you've got Robbie who's very depressed because his fiance left him at the altar, which fair. And he breaks his heart. breaks his heart. And his friend gives him bad advice saying you should go back to work like the next day and just sleep with any of the desperate ladies at this wedding is his friend who sucks. Because Alan covert who is apparently in every Adam Sandler movie and is like one of his best friends or whatever i I I know he looks familiar but I'm sure he's been in other stuff but that's his name. Yeah.
00:46:04
Speaker
And yeah, he gets kind of better by the end, but he's a dirtbag. He's his dirtbag friend who secretly has a heart of gold. That's his art. Exactly. That's his whole thing. And so Adam Sandler goes back, sings at this wedding, and ruins the wedding because he starts singing about how sad he is. He sings love skinks. Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:32
Speaker
and And this is one of the things where they're like, look at all these ugly and fat people. That's that's what that that scene is pretty hard to watch. Because he's like, look at all the mutants at table nine. um And then he keeps making fun of this guy for for eating a lot. It's it's really, yeah it's not good. yeah It's not great. And so then we have our second meet cute by the dumpster with Julia and Robbie and Julia is like, I really need your help. Um, this is the Yeah, because, uh, her
00:47:05
Speaker
Terrible fiance was like, we can have the wedding that you want. just you know you're You're a lady. You're so good at planning weddings. I don't want i find this stuff boring. I don't want any part of it. And and she's like, really? You don't want to like help at all? He goes, no, no, you do it. And so Julia asks Robbie if he would help her find you know a wedding band um because he obviously can't do it. um And also, like, if there are any other like help with like planning and stuff. And so then they are because he's in the wedding industry. And yeah, and he you know, his he's friends with her. I think it's her cousin. I don't think it's her sister, Christine Taylor. I think they said it's her cousin. Yeah, Holly, who's played like Christine Taylor.
00:47:56
Speaker
fresh off the Brady Bunch movie and she gets to wear most of the outrageous 80s outfits in this movie and I'm living for it. ah She's fantastic. Also her entire character is she loves to fuck. Yes, but also they don't really slut shame her. They don't. They're just like, i mean oh, you're going to get laid if you go on a date with her. Yeah, well, I mean, what's his name does? The the other guy does, but yeah Julia and Robbie don't. Yeah, they're just like, well, that's just her. Yeah, and they, I mean, she's like, she's a good person. um She's like, she realizes that he's not, cause they, she ends up trying to date him because, yeah you know, Julia can't and they go on a date and she realizes that he's got a crush on Julia and she's like, okay, well,
00:48:50
Speaker
Let's work on that then. Yeah, exactly. And like she can kind of tell that Julia has a crush on Robbie, too, because she asks for permission um to go on on a date. And she's just like, are you sure? Are you sure that wouldn't be weird? And she was like, why would that be weird? You know, because she knows that Glenn sucks also, but is in that yeah thing where like a friend of yours is dating this person who sucks. I'm like, you can't say anything. You can't tell someone they have to break up with their partner because That just opens up a whole terrible hallway of bad decisions and and hurt feelings and recriminations and stuff like you they have you have to figure out on your own that your partner sucks. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody else can make that decision for you. Exactly. And the boy and also like you risk run the risk of like losing that friend because if that person thinks that you don't like their partner, they're not going to want to have you around. Mm hmm.
00:49:50
Speaker
Yeah, so, you know, oh, but that that's also the scene when um we get the conversation about church tongue, which is because Julia and one of the sillier things that happens in this movie. Yeah, right. I was like church tongue. I would. What? No, that's. Okay, it's not really like I get what they're getting at, which is that you want your first kiss as a man and wife to like be meaningful and romantic.
00:50:24
Speaker
You don't want it to be, you know, like, oh, what was the movie that we watched that had the terror? Oh, like Irish Wish. You don't want it to be like Irish Wish first kiss where it's like sandpaper. You want it to be there to be some romance in it, but you also don't want to gross people out and like make out at the altar. yeah So it's like finding that sort of blend between that. and Robbie comes in right at that moment and they and what's her name is like, oh, you know, just ah explain to Robbie what church tongue is and demonstrate it for me. And so she goes to make out with her cousin. She goes, no, no, no, not me, make out with Robbie. And that's the moment that sparks fly. Yes, they do. And it's a little weird. ah Yeah. She's like, here, kiss this man. Only in the rom-com where a romance novel does something like this happen.
00:51:17
Speaker
Never in a million years would that happen in real life. Help me. Help me practice kissing. I need. Yeah, we're. Yes. And then and then lies to Glenn about it, because Glenn gets there immediately afterward and she says that Robbie kissed her. That was. um So there's a little wedge in there and Mike. So that's the beginning of like this emotional cheating arc, really. because they're spending all this time together. Like now he's helping her pick out flowers and um wedding dresses and everything. And he's like cake and cake and it become her friend. And yeah, this person that spends a lot of time with her, but it's still like, you know, nothing's happening, obviously. Yeah, yeah. You know, you and me and no one else in the world has ever experienced anything like that before, I'm sure.
00:52:11
Speaker
only in a rom-com, only in a rom-com. Exactly, yeah. Yeah, and they're just sort of like slowly realizing how great they are together, which is very sweet. But then of course, in the third act, we have to have a wrench thrown into all the happiness. A misunderstanding, misunderstanding alert. Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, misunderstanding alert.
00:52:40
Speaker
Hell yeah. It took us like 28 episodes to get a new jingle. A new bit. A new bit.
00:52:51
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oh so Yes, so what's the misunderstanding? No, you you do it. You do it. Oh, so the misunderstanding is, well, Robbie realizes that or he's talking to Glenn. And- Oh yeah, what who who is is cheating on Julia and says he's gonna continue cheating on on Julia constantly throughout their relationship and after they get married, yeah. Constantly, and like gives no fucks, like gives no fucks. Like yeah it's the classic, you know, Marilyn and Jackie scenario in his head.
Robbie's Emotional Journey
00:53:27
Speaker
Like yeah he's gonna have a Jackie at home but a Marilyn in the sheets. Which is actually,
00:53:35
Speaker
I was editing Charade. And this is the second reference on this podcast that we've made in JFK. Oh, all right. Well, there we go. I mean, a Marilyn and a Jackie is a, that's a, that's a thing that comes up. I feel like there's a rom com where even like a guy describes women that way. It's like, it's legally, she's a Jack. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's legally blonde. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. is That it's in the musical. I need a Jackie, not a Marilyn. Yes. You're right. Yes. Yeah. One of my friends is going through a breakup and she had never seen Legally Blonde. And so we watched Legally Blonde together like a week ago. So yeah, and that's why it's been my mind. Such a good one. It's great. Yeah. So it's no good.
00:54:19
Speaker
Um, but yeah, so he, so then Robbie is like, well, what the fuck? You can't do that. And so then he goes to go tell Julia, but then he sees Julia in the window and she's in her wedding dress just randomly. Um, her mom is, it's, she's not even getting married the next day. Is she pinning? Are they, are they hemming it or something? Like I feel like she's got, she doesn't have like a little bracelet pin cushion on. Did I invent that in my head? I totally could have invented that in my head. Okay, fair enough. I think that she just had the dress on and they were just looking at the ensemble. Yeah. And I thought that was weird.
00:54:56
Speaker
are You don't see how you look in it, you know? Well, yeah, but like, you don't want to do that at your house. You want to do that in a professional setting with professionals.
00:55:09
Speaker
OK, big bridal store over here. yeah I mean, I work for a local business and it's pretty fantastic. yeah ah I've been there several times this week because somebody was out sick and then someone got stuck in in like Nashville um over the holiday weekend. And so I was like filling in a whole bunch. And every time I'm there, it's just such a good time. It's such a fun time. but yeah Everyone's just really nice and everyone meshes really well and it's just it's a lot of fun which is how it should be in the bridal industry because you're helping dreams come true.
00:55:46
Speaker
right Yeah, yeah. Expensive dreams, but still. Expensive dreams, but still dreams. Exactly. But yeah, so he sees Julia in the window in her wedding dress and she's talking to herself in the mirror and she's so happy, she's so excited. But what we as the audience have seen but before this moment happens is that she is practicing her name in the mirror and she has this mini breakdown of saying, hi, I'm Mrs. Roy Goulia.
00:56:18
Speaker
Oh, sorry, Glenn Gulia. I'm Mrs. Glenn Gulia. And I'm Julia Gulia. And then she starts crying. And then she goes, hi, I'm Mrs. Robbie Hart. Hi, I'm Julia Hart. Robbie and I are so happy that you could come to our wedding today. And it's just this really lovely, beautiful moment. And so she's realizing that she loves Robbie. And Robbie realizes he can't tell her how terrible her fiance is because he thinks that she's so Because abby he sees her through the window like he's at a bar with what's his name in the who's dressed in the beat it outfit Yeah, yeah, and they tell him like go get your girl. This is the go get your girl bit where he's like listen I You know, ah she she probably loves you too, man. Go tell her. You have to tell her. And so he's going to a house to see her and he sees her through the window in the wedding dress, like smiling so happily, not realizing that she's thinking about him. And he's like, I can't I can't break up this wedding. she's She seems like she's going to be happy. Yeah. So then he goes back to the bar and gets blackout drunk.
00:57:28
Speaker
And ah as he's stumbling home drunk, Linda, of all people, is sitting on his doorstep. And she's like, you were right. I was wrong. I miss you. I want to come back. And of course, the next day, Julia is like, well, I've got to tell Robbie how I feel by giving him this like personalized sheet music for him to write his songs. And she shows up and knocks at the door. And who? Just like Romeo and Juliet. Right? who comes to the door, but Linda in Robbie's back, Van Halton. Van helton ben Halen. What if it was his Van Helsing t-shirt? Van Helsing. I was just like, my mouth didn't want me to say the right thing. His Hugh Jackman Kate Beckinsale vehicle. Van Helsing. Van Helsing.
00:58:20
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ah
00:58:23
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his Van Halen t-shirt and nothing else. And Robbie is like hungover, doesn't realize that she's at the door and Linda didn't sleep with her, didn't sleep with her. He passed out. He has no idea this little exchange is happening. And Linda, of course, doesn't tell him that that ah what what's her name came to the door. um He, he's just oblivious to the whole thing because then Linda wakes him up and she's just like, hey, we're gonna get back together, right? And he's like, what are you doing here? um No, I don't want to get back together with you. Also take off my Van Halen t shirt before you jinx the band and they break off, which is the next of Emma's Fun Emma's Fun Facts. David Lee Roth left Van Halen in 1995, the year in which the movie is set. So they did break up.
00:59:16
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Yeah, that's a joke.
00:59:20
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But I'm mansplaining it to the audience. Yeah, I don't know if is how much IMDB trivia is just people explaining jokes in movies because there is a previous episode where this is the same. It's the same thing. The trivia is just like this is what the joke is like. OK, this is the joke. This is the joke. I think audiences in 1998 overwhelmingly knew that Van Halen broke up. yeah And that is that is why that that line is funny.
00:59:51
Speaker
So I just wanted the audience to know that that's why that joke was there. Yeah, that's that is something that someone put on the internet for people. You betcha. I wonder why media literacy is dead. Do you want to know how many people found it helpful? I can tell you how many people found it helpful. vote no for me. 378 people found that that was helpful. Out of how many? um Well, 11 people found that not helpful. Okay, well add me for a not helpful, please. I'm gonna put not helpful. I mean, more people found that helpful than the fact that this was turned into a musical.
01:00:36
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I mean, that's at least trivia that it was turned into. People who don't know anything about musicals would find that mildly interesting. Yeah.
01:00:48
Speaker
Oh, man. um But yeah, so then, Robbie then finds out from Christine, what's her name? Oh, man, what is that character's name? chris hollier Holly. Taylor. Christine Taylor. Ben Steller's wife. Yes, Ben Stiller's wife that Linda had showed up at his house and are not and that Linda opened the door when Julia came to his house to profess her love to him and saw Linda got upset and then went back to Glenn and was like,
01:01:29
Speaker
You know what? I know the wedding is tomorrow, but let's just screw that. Screw all this money that we've paid for everything. All of our friends and family that are coming in for this. And let's just fly to Vegas right now. And he gets excited and he's like, yeah, let's do it. OK. And Robbie then has to rush to the airport to get on a plane to go to Vegas. And the only thing left. First, he goes to New York to try to get a job at a bank. Like, yeah that happens before this. Yeah, he wants to be a successful person. And he gives up all of his nice guy these and his like dreams of being a songwriter because Glenn basically tells him that that's all that women want. And that's why Julia is marrying him and not Robbie is because he's a successful guy that makes money and he can offer security. Yeah.
01:02:28
Speaker
which isn't true. Yeah, yeah. um But yeah, so he rushes to the airport with his friends and ah the only seat left on this insane airline, ran the most 80s airline of all time, is a seat in first class and he has to borrow his friend's ah credit card to pay for it and There's a flock of seagulls joke in there. Yeah, of course. But then he gets to be in first class. And it's a very cute scene about he's never been in first class before. He has known what to do with the hot towel. And we get the golden cameo of this movie, ahha which is Billy Idol. The Billy Idol is in the movie playing himself.
01:03:21
Speaker
Again, not that much time had passed. It's 13 years later. So he's gone from like, I don't know, 25 to 38 or something. So like, yeah, he looks, he looks a little older than he probably should, but he pulls it off fine. You know? It works. Yeah, it works. And he has a lot of really funny, you know, bits. Adam Sandler starts telling the story about how he's in love with Julia and how he realized that he was in love with Julia and the whole situation and like what is the whole first class listening to him and the stewardesses and everybody's on his side. And he's yeah, the whole thing. Everybody is is is so cute going to help him find his girl when they land. Yeah. Then
01:04:05
Speaker
Oh, and then also we have a waving at the boats bit. Yeah. Earlier, Robbie said that he and Linda went to the went over the Grand Canyon and he wanted to sit in the window seat and she wouldn't let him even though she had been before and he had never seen the Grand Canyon. She wouldn't give him the window seat. And so when Julia and Glenn get on the plane, which spoiler alert, it's the same plane that Robbie's on. They're just in coach and he's in first class. She asks if she could see the get the window so she could see Vegas when they get there. even And he's been there before. And he's like, oh, no, you know, the the cart, the beverage cart always hits me, hits me in the arms. Like, I'll let you lean over me and see that that lights when we go. Yeah. Like, oh, it's like, OK, red flag. And then immediately she gets hit in the arms. Yeah.
01:04:53
Speaker
But then, of course, while she's in the bathroom, Glenn hits on a stewardess and uses one of his lines saying that like she's grade A um classified or grade A meat and quality meat or something like that. and And she comes back and for some reason, the stewardesses vent to all the people in first class. They're all friends now. They're all friends now. Yeah, she's yeah they've they've bonded as ah as a social unit. I mean, yes, Jersey to Las Vegas is a flight long enough for something like that to happen, unlike if they were to go to Atlantic City, for example. So very true. But like, and also, this is a time before little TVs in front of you, when you could just watch a movie. So you had to kill that time.
01:05:39
Speaker
Yeah, you had to talk to Billy Idol, you had to kill time somehow. And she comes back and she says that and then Robbie realizes, oh my god, are they on the plane? Looks at that little, you know, barrier and between first class and coach sees they are in fact on the plane. And then he tells everyone they're like, Oh my god, we have to do something. So the whole all of first class, all of the stewardesses, everyone gets together to help Robbie, her That's his love to Julia through song. Through song. And she wrote in the car on the way over there. Yeah. Yeah. Because he was he was inspired by Rosie's anniversary party. Mm-hmm. Where she wrapped. And exactly because she wrapped. But like there was there's this really funny bit where the stewardess is like, we're going to, oh no, not even the stewardess. Or no, wait, they they do introduce Billy Idol that way. They go, um.
01:06:38
Speaker
Right now, you're you're going to hear from one of our first class passengers, Billy Idol. And Billy Idol talks about like how you're about to hear a song from another first class passenger. And because we let our first class passengers do basically whatever they want. Yeah. well And then then he sings her song, which is a callback of something that she said that she imagines with the her partner that she wants to grow old with them. And so he sings a song called Growing Old With You. And it's very sweet. It's so sweet. And the flight attendants and Billy Idol incapacitate Glenn. Yes!
01:07:21
Speaker
And then they kiss and we jump cut to their wedding and it's cute. And Steve Buscemi is singing True by the band that sings True. Look up to me in a second.
01:07:37
Speaker
And it's very cute. The end. Yeah. Get out. Yeah. Everything will happen as it should be. Same. True.
Fun Facts and Conclusion
01:07:47
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Spando ballet. There we go. um It's very, very sweet and very cute. There is one little Easter egg in there that actually was a fun fact for me as I was going through these fun facts for the episode.
01:08:00
Speaker
This was actually ah because as I was watching it this time I was like Robbie's holding so like they're eating the wedding cake after Robbie gets stood up at the altar and they make a comment about how only the little groom is left on top of the cake. They don't know where the little bride has gone. And you ah cut to him sitting on on the porch holding this little bride. And the bride that he's holding is blonde. And I'm like, but Linda's a brunette. Why wouldn't they get a brunette um bridal topper? Because you can do that. And you've been able to do that for ages. ah It's because the bride and groom on top of Robbie and Linda's wedding cake was made to resemble Robbie and Julia. So she's got the same haircut as Julia. And they look the exact same.
01:08:47
Speaker
That's cute. Yeah, that is an actual fun fact. Yeah, that actually is a fun fact. Great job. And you know what? user Only 144 people thought that that was helpful. 25 people did not think that was helpful. Well, fuck those people.
01:09:11
Speaker
More people thought that the joke line explaining the joke was more helpful. You know, that's the internet. There's no accounting for taste. Exactly. Oh, well. So your white sweater is Holly. is Christine Taylor in general. She's a vision. I love everything that she wears. So good. So, so good. I think that my white sweater for this movie is the Grow Old With You scene. That scene is so cute. That's really sweet. And so when I think about this movie, I think about that scene. So that's my white sweater. And the song is pretty good. Yeah, it's really good. And his angry song is good too, honestly. Wait, Somebody Kill Me Please is not in the musical?
01:09:56
Speaker
Oh, no, wait, actually, somebody can we please I think actually is I think both of those are in the musical. Yeah, that would make sense. Yeah. So that is where we have the fuck word. This is a PG-13 movie. They get one fuck word and they use it in his angry song that he sings for Julia. He's like, this is a song I wrote about when Linda and I broke up. And he says, I hope you fucking choke. Yeah. Which works because, again, he's so sweet throughout the whole movie. And then he sings this extremely
01:10:26
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angry, screamy song about yeah about his breakup, and which is is very funny. And the song is not bad. yeah It's not. It's not bad. Both that and I Want a Girl Old With You are kept in the actual musical, yeah which I think is really fun. um But yeah, Charlie really enjoyed this movie. He said, again, he has seen very few Sandlers. He thought that this was very enjoyable. ah Very enjoyable. Very enjoyable. I'm sure he'll have many more comments when this episode comes out on the Monday following. Yeah. I have a few things here. The rapping granny. ah she That actress did not die until 2015. Jesus Christ. At the age of 103. Oh my god. There's 101. And one let me guess, she was acting the entire time.
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Yeah, she's also in Wedding Crashers in 2009. So we'll get to that eventually. And we will we will find our wrap and granny again. I bet she wraps in that one too, honestly. Oh, for sure. And what else have we got here? Oh, yeah, there's this bit of the wedding tasting thing where like the joke is that the girl next to him is ugly, like her teeth are all yellow and like they've got this bad wig and stuff like What is that? What does that do for you? Like, what is that? Why is that funny? Exactly. It's just it's a very Adam Sandler type of joke. Yeah. Anything that's like making fun of people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Whoo. Well, the next pick is my pick. Next time. Legally blonde, baby. bear
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