Osmosis Jones

Reminiscing about watching this movie in 7th grade life science on the roll out tv. Celebrating the films shown to us in school this month, starting with the obvious icon Osmosis Jones, a 2001 animated-live-action blend about Chris Rock fighting crime inside Bill Murray. 

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Brandy, mean, Emily, I mean, welcome to the Swakopel. Brandy Norwood as Leah Estrogen. Her name, her title, her name, I it up. Her name is Leafa, because I was like, what kind of molecule is she? Because she's clearly also not a blood cell. I was like, what is she? Her name is Leafa Estrogen, unidentified. Well, no wonder they made her sexy. Well, also it's Brandy, but you know, kind of have to make Brandy sexy. So yeah, I would.

I would put her in the estrogen category. That's smart. Does everyone have estrogen and testosterone? Is that? Yes. I'm not smart enough to be talking about this movie. Yes, everyone does. It's just different levels. Different levels. Right. Right, right, right, right. Hi. Welcome to The Swamp. It's our podcast. It's an acronym. Stares for some whack-ass movie podcasting. And we're back. 2020s, Clicks.

Thank you for putting up with us while we're on our little holiday hiatus, but we're back at it. And this month to kick off the new year, we're going to get educational up in this bitch and have to shout out at the top of the episode, Ezra, listener Ezra, who a long time ago, like several months ago, commented in and suggested we do.

books we read in school to movie adaptations. And then we're gonna take that and we're gonna sort of extend it. Cause we watched a lot of movies in school over the years. I don't know if that was unique to our high school experience that we watched like a lot of movies. Yeah. Yes. It felt very, I think obviously it's very dependent on who you had as a teacher. Cause some, some teachers were better at it than others. But at the top of the episode, I want to shout out Ms. Belial.

really quick. I hated her class, but that shoddy showed us some of the most insane and awesome movies to watch in your eighth grade science class. She was our eighth grade science, which was like earth science. And so we learned a lot about like geology and like fucking volcanoes and shit. So of course we had to watch contact. She was always complaining about like

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She was either in the middle of a divorce or she had just gotten a divorce. Something like that. She was always talking about her ex-husband, but she was so obviously a lesbian. for sure. So, so apparently. And she showed us some gas movies. We were in that class together. Emily and I know each other because we attended middle and high school together. It's how we're besties and how we do this show together. But also, hashtag privilege check at the beginning of school.

month because we did go to a really good high school in a like affluent area. So our experience might not necessarily be representative of, you know, everyone everywhere because we had it really good. We had, you know, Massachusetts girls, our school had a lot of funding and a lot of money and like, you know, there was a good arts program and good sports and all that kind of stuff. So we're very privileged. Yes, absolutely.

But we did watch a fuck ton of movies in school. So I think some of this month will be books we read to movie adaptations. But I think most of these will also just be movies we watched. that's to kick it off. The movie that you watched in school. Again, I thought this was true of everyone, but everyone watched Osmosis Jones. Not the case. Specifically seventh grade science class because it was like a life science to learn about the cells and shit. And I texted my brother-in-law, who is a teacher at

middle school that we all attended now and I asked him I said what movies do they still show like what do you show the kids in your class and what do they still show like across other departments just because I was curious and the first thing he said was obviously seventh grade science they still show osmosis jones and I was like hell fucking yeah yeah yeah locked and loaded I would I would like to say though that watching this as an adult

is a very different experience. This movie's low key not educational. It's kind of like wrong a lot of the time. It's miseducational. It felt very hit and miss kind of. But yeah, I remember being shown this movie and being obviously gagged for several hundred reasons. This movie's shocking. Watching this movie as an adult was so depressing.

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to watch Bill Murray abuse his child. Not abuse, abuse is a strong word. What's Bore-mute thing though. Bore-mute. But neglect for sure. is the word I was looking for. Neglectful father. Boom. Bill Murray. So the plot, if you don't know Osmosis Jones, this movie's crazy as hell. It's basically a sort of who framed Roger Rabbit style movie that's half animated, half live action. And it's about

our main character Frank, who's Bill Murray, and then we go inside his body. There was also an episode of Magic School Bus that was exactly like this, right? Where the Magic School Bus went inside Arthur and they basically go all up inside. Magic School Bus was actually definitely more educational and more accurate because they actually were like looking at the parts of his body. This movie, when you go inside Frank, it's like a retrofuturism city with like pimp cars and nightclubs and are mafia members.

Our protagonist is Osmosis Jones, looks like he's blue. He looks like he's made of water and his name is Osmosis, but he's a white blood cell who's also a cop. So it's like a buddy cop movie that takes place inside Bill Murray, because he is getting sick and then he's like really unhygienic and he's nasty. And he takes like a cold pill at one point and then the cold pill becomes the character Drax.

who's voiced by Niles from Frasier and the two of them sort of team up against the disease or virus, Laurence Fishburne, whose name is Thrax. There's a Drax and a...Drix. There's a Drix and a Thrax. That's gonna really fuck me up. tough. Drix is the pill. Thrax is Laurence Fishburne, but I might just call him Sexyfinger because he is like a...

The creepy virus man with these like skin dreadlocks, but he has this like long shiny finger that he uses to spread the disease and it's kind of sensual. It's kind of nice. Here's my thing is beyond this movie being sadder than I remember, it's also way hornier than I remember. There were strippers. There were fully strippers. They to a strip club, yeah.

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three titted germ on stage with Kid Rock germ. No, I'm sorry. That's Kidney Rock. Kidney Rock. My bad, bad, my bad. But yeah, this was this was really fun because we actually got to watch this with my partner Lauren, who evidently also Massachusetts school, I did not have to watch this movie because literally they were like, you said you were going to do school movies. Like, I can't really think of many that I saw. And I was like, Osmosis Jones, you didn't watch Osmosis Jones.

And they were like, I have no idea what you're talking about. That's not real. And then I tried to explain it and I felt fucking crazy. I'm like, no, it's Chris Which I think is what they intended. It's Chris Rock and he's inside Bill Murray and he is a white blood cell, he is definitely black. like, so it's, I was trying to get that We'll get into that. Cause there's a lot to talk about there. And it was not computing. So I was like, honestly, we have to just sit down and watch it. And we did a little.

nice double feature this and then we watched Avatar 2. we're trying to get her boot backed up to where we are at now. Caught up because we both saw the third one over our little holiday break. so gas. James Cameron did end up being my top director of the year. I never got that statistic.

God only knows what email I used on my letter box. I know you have about 600. James Cameron too, because we did James Cameron Month. Of course, of course. Yeah, him and Tom Hanks were my boys. That's so funny. most watched. Even after watching Way of Water again last night, I still stand by my ranking is that, unfortunately, I think Way of Water was my least favorite and then Avatar and then Fire and Ash. Fire and Ash was the best one? Yes. I thought it was fantastic.

I need to see it again, cause I caught it in 3D, I matched 3D and it was crazy. And I'm like, I need to experience that again before it leaves the theater. See, I've never done something like that. I think the last time I saw something in 3D was wicked last year, because I accidentally bought 3D. I accidentally bought 3D and I said, well, I guess we're going to stick with this. The glasses like huge.

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Not bigger than like the average. were like probably the size of my regular glasses that I'm wearing right now. See these, you know like when people get like cataract surgery and they get the glasses that are huge that like go around? kind of shapes like that but not really. But the 3D glasses I received at the theater were fucking massive. I wore them over my glasses. Did Oakleys that they make for the Navi special? Yes, the Navi Oakleys. Oh my God.

the 3D glasses but I wear huge glasses and they covered my full glasses so I didn't feel because usually as a double glasses situation girl that's yeah you know they were more like goggles honestly because usually that's my gripe is that I don't like a double glasses scenario but it was it was very comfortable so I would recommend if that's your qualm with 3D

I would definitely still suggest it. And it didn't give me any like headaches or anything, but I don't know if I'm the type of person who usually gets like motion sick or anything like that. I don't really think that bothers me. Yeah, I didn't see it in 3D. I saw it in like laser or something like that. And you could definitely tell like there's a couple of frames for sure that.

or scenes really where you can really see the motion thing and it'll be like, oh, this is intended for 3D, especially when they start the movie on their dragon guys. Yeah. The Ikran. So I'm really excited to get, if anything, I felt made it harder to jump in because I was like, I'm gonna throw up. we just passed a billion Douglas. We did it, baby. Oh yeah, I loved it. Yeah, I need to see it again.

What we did not love, I guess we'll do before we talk too much about all the voices, we can do what we saw over Christmas corner. Marty Supreme, Kahn-O-Med, I don't think I disliked it as much as you seem to dislike it. I find it really offensive. I have a tolerance for more bro-y stuff than you do maybe. Probably, yes, yes. I just found it offensive because I really, really wanted to see it. I had really high expectations.

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And you know, I understand it's all about sort of a man getting in his own way and everything like that, but I just like, this is the last, mediocre man media is the last thing that I want to be exposed to right now. That is like so far down on my list of interesting movies. And don't get me wrong, uncut gems.

I do not consider that an uninteresting movie. I thought that movie was brilliant and so fun. And I think, I don't know, man, I think that the Safi Brothers breakup is so evident here because I was fucking bored. This thing repeats itself at least three times. And then we get to this sort of like, I climbed Everest ending, but I don't understand why you had to climb Everest. To prove it to yourself, fuck off. Like, I don't care. Anyways, that's my, I could go on for hours.

I wanna apologize because I've already seen some people's reviews that listen to this. I'm sorry guys, it's not for me. Some some mutuals. It's just not for me and I understand it's not for me and that's okay. I'll say it, I think I fall a little bit more on the middle neutral. I agree, I was more disappointed. I think they burnt out a lot of the good shit in the trailer. Like a lot of the moments that were so hype were shit I already had seen. So it was like not a huge, I don't know, there was nothing really.

surprising me too too much, is I come to a Safdie movie expecting to be like gripped and surprised and thrilled. You know he's gonna win the final thing and all that. It can't go any other way. Not for this movie. It could and what you said about like mediocre man movies, I feel like I don't mind because he's getting the shit beaten out of him over and over and over again and that's hilarious. I don't the comedy of errors about it all like that.

part I think really works. I really liked that his girlfriend like dragged him into the worst situation like unnecessarily. That was the one that like actually got me in it. But that was too little too late. And Mr. Wonderful. Yeah, some of some of like the weird casting is like I get it. But also it's like at one point does it just start to feel kind of gimmicky? I don't know. I was

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I guess I was glad that I saw it, but yeah, it was kind of disappointing. also do not think this is Timmy's performance of his career or the performance of the year. I'm like literally, not only Jacoby Joop, but his older brother who was in Hamnet for all of eight minutes were both better than him if we're talking about.

young comparable actors like easily easily if he wins if he wins this oscar it's totally because of this press tour absolutely little to do with the actual performance who he seems to just be emulating a kind of worse more intense version of a guy not too much unlike himself exactly it's really not impressive to me that's the whole thing

This is not giving range and acting is about range. To me, Leo in one battle after another, that's him acting like a character. That is more impressive to me. And I to be giving Leonardo DiCaprio flowers, but it's like, if it's a two horse race, I'm getting behind Leo. Absolutely. This was like, that's, that's my other vibe with this is that.

I think obviously, and I wrote this in my review, there is an art to being a casting director and casting a movie. But I don't feel like anyone has- There's a new Oscar this year. Best casting? Yes, new category. This year, best casting. this will win. I'm sure this will win because no one had to actually work to get into character because they all played their fucking selves. Don't get me wrong, I was jazzed when Tyler, the creator, showed up. All he did was show up.

He read his lines, he played himself, and that was it. It's the same thing with Timmy. It's literally the same thing with Gwyneth Paltrow, who is actually playing herself, doing this movie, coming back after like 10 fucking years. This is the first thing she's done. They just casted a businessman to play a businessman. Like, find it so unimpressive.

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my God. And that's the thing about Timmy. I'm like, if you actually inspired me with this movie, that would be one thing. They're marketing it as inspiring and it's not, I left so uninspired.

Yes, and it's like if you're a man, let's assume that this would mostly be a young white man who comes out of that movie feeling inspired. Like you should not have felt inspired. should not be. Marty Mauser is not a redeemable character. At the end when he's crying because he's having the baby, that's not him having a redemption. That's him like having an emotional breakdown. My dream is gone. That is it. I am a father now. I don't even believe that that character. I'm like.

And the fact that anyone would believe that he's gonna stay with her and raise that kid is also, that is not in the cards either. Like Fran Drescher is gonna raise that baby. This is just one of those movies that like, it pisses me off too. I feel like the same way about, I don't know, maybe Saltburn or something. I don't remember the last time that I had like a movie that I, everyone really loved and I really fucking did not. Like.

I don't know, man. I think that the most interesting thing here was that they had the potential to say more with the fact that he was Jewish and that his competition was a civilian that was injured in the United States bombing campaigns on Japan, which don't get me wrong, Japan did some really fucked up shit during World War II, but that doesn't mean civilians had to pay for it. That doesn't mean anyone should be dropping atomic bombs on anyone else.

I loved him though. The opponent, almost made it up for me as soon as he came in because it was like, he was such a good foil, like the silent calm demeanor. And then Marty's over here like running around in a cloud of dust. I really liked that aspect of it. yeah, there's a lot, some of it I wish we had, we got more of and just less of like... yesterday about the scene with the Holocaust, the one Holocaust scene in this movie.

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where it's, you know, he's making a joke out of it, but it's, you know, obviously this guy is telling his tale of survival and what he did to have to make it work, which is what the entire movie's about. I don't know. It feels like it was a real shotgun blast at a lot of things and it probably hit all of them, but not in a way that felt meaningful to me. Another movie that's getting a lot of mixed reviews that I definitely fall on the...

mid to bad aside of his the new knives out. yeah, it was very mid. was one of those wake up dead. I was like, this is laughably bad. I thought it was terrible. I was like, can stop. I'm like, actually all this talk of like, but Ryan Johnson never stopped making these. These are so great. I'm like, actually let's all school it with that rhetoric because maybe he should do something else because these are getting really tired. What like, don't get me wrong. I love

Daniel Craig and I love Josh O'Connor so I think that that's the thing that dragged me along for this because I still enjoyed their performances even though I do find Josh O'Connor's character pretty cool very corny even though there's some really sweet and tender moments the rest of the cast is horrific Mila Kunis should have her knees broken for that part what she turned in there and Jeremy Renner

Like, why is he here? Literally the only thing- With Josh Brolin, I was like, ugh, whatever. I will say Glenn Close turned it out, but Glenn Close, showed up for us and she did make up for some of it, but- They're underutilizing Glenn Close, the entire movie, and it's fucking Glenn Close. So in my head, I'm like, well, it's obvious. It's obvious. If she has not done one good, like, solid chunk of line delivery.

So it's all packed in in the end and it is. course. Spoiler, if you haven't watched it yet. I even thought that Daniel Craig's performance was a little cashed in like, this time I'm washed up. this time it's like, I can't crack the case. Like I was like, whatever. bad writing. It's just bad writing. The only thing that I really enjoyed was the one like Phantom of the Opera joke they made. And that made me laugh out loud.

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He like comes into like, he's like, it's like the father Judd is gonna like, like, not confess or something like that. He's gonna like, I don't know, it's all coming to a head and he comes in to be like, I've cracked it. he, and they start with the organ. Organ. Yep, yep, yep. I'm recalling now. Yeah, it was, it was very corny. It was unbelievably corny, I'll say.

And it's at this point- a straight to Netflix movie. It did play in some theaters for a little bit, right? I think I missed it, but yeah. I gotta give it, I gotta take it at face value. It's a Netflix movie. I shouldn't care, but- oh my God. Speaking of, I have been so excited, but also horrified for the new Peaky Blinders movie that they've just sort of started rolling out the stuff for. Because that show is gorgeous, stunning, amazing. I'm so on board. I love it.

If you haven't watched it, Dara, I would highly, highly recommend. I've seen the pilot. I've watched the first episode. I should get back to it because I, even though he's not a great guy in real life, I cannot say no to some Tom Hardy. I just watched Batman 3, Christopher Nolan, Batman, Dark Knight Rises. my God, him as Bane beefed out.

and me feeling a type away. sure I've still haven't seen that one. So maybe I'll have to. Crazy. But yeah, no, he's he does some of his most insane character acting in this one. I would also recommend Bronson if you want to watch him be fucking nuts. Is that a show? No, it's a movie about like what it's like a notorious British gangster. I don't know. It's very wacky. It's very it's a lot more like

Indie's not the right word. It's not the movie that I thought it was off of the poster. It's a lot more creative and experimental, I would say. I'll have that to my list. It's fucking weird. It's fucking weird and a little brutal and a boy movie, but it is a standout performance in my opinion.

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But yeah, they've, but Netflix anyways has started rolling out the promo for the new Peaky Blinders movie that is coming out in March, I believe. And they've filmed it already, like they've already made it. Filmed it, I guess. Don't get me wrong, Killian Murphy looks sexy as fuck as a silver fox, but I'm scared because it's been so many years since the show ended and Netflix has gone so far down the slop.

machine that I just don't want it to be dog shit garbage. Yeah, but there's a lot of like TV shows that do a movie at the end that it's honestly like, you don't really need to watch the movie. oh, trying to end it with a little cherry on top and you don't really need to be doing all that. Yeah. Yeah. And that's that shit like Sex and the City too.

They pushed it. They pushed it into the first one and it was fine. And then they pushed it into the second one and they got racist. Oh no. Oh, it's a thing. don't, don't. But yeah, I don't know. That's, that's been my, I don't know, the last couple of weeks in my, in my film universe. Except shout out Fiddler on the Roof. I'm really hoping that we get to this, this month. Yeah, which is a movie that-

We watched in school. You didn't watch it in school, but I did. So this is me coming from, there's a, I might sound insane when I say this because I could just be in one tiny corner of the internet, but there's this viral-ish TikTok sound of, I think her name is Sarah Vosk doing this performance as Fuma Sarah. And it has just, it gripped me. And then I had to know what Fiddler on the Roof was.

And then I watched it and John Williams name came across the screen on Isaac.

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I'm in for a treat because I've never, I don't know anything about this movie. I just knew it as a Jewish film. And I knew, you know, if I was a rich man and that was it. And I had my fucking socks blown off. I'm not joking. This is what people think that Wicked was, you know, like just stunning, beautiful. Yeah, the like the decline of the movie musical over time, like the degradation of the art of

I also feel like Fiddler on the Roof is one of those ones that people who are like, I don't really like musicals. I'm not a musical person. I'm like, everyone can rock with Fiddler on the Roof. Cause it is more about history and family. And it's more just an actual compelling story that also just happens to be set to music, which is, yeah, it should be the real intention of any musical, but it's often not. It's just, I think it's because I came off of a sound of music watch the week before because it was Christmas.

Christmas. so I got right back into another like 1972 musical. That's three hours long, full intermission. Just like, oh my God, man. I swear to God, the last movie musical that was done well was Mamma Mia. Hairspray was before Mamma Mia and then. Either way. for Mamma Mia for sure. I could be off about hairspray though. It's one of the two. Those are where it ends. It's been nearly two decades.

since there's been a good movie musical. Someone's gotta fucking do it. Someone needs to commit. You know, we're gonna wait three more decades until Richard Linklater puts out Marilee Reroll Long. We something in the meantime. Yeah, you saw that in theaters, didn't you? Did we talk about The theater version of the stage production, yeah, and it was, I just didn't like the story. Like I was like, this is nothing on Jonathan Groff. Maybe a little bit, but I'm like, nothing on.

these performances or this whole thing. It's just not for me. We're here to do chocolate or vanilla Jen's interim podcast segment where we all talk about the kind of foods we like to eat. Which is... Oh, I wish I had a food one. I wish I had a food one. Another day. Is there a theme this week?

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So I did no chocolate or vanilla, but I felt like you guys loved the I give you two actors You give me a movie. I like that one. I 20 movies Okay, I was like I finished and Henry and Emily there were like do more do more so I was like I want to do this one

keep score and we're gonna see who does the best. So I will give you two actors and then you tell me what movie. Okay. So chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate. Vanilla. Yeah. So listen, I'm going to go vanilla. We have this thing. I got a lot of them. We do the birthday, you like you have to do the next person's birthday and there were little vanilla cupcakes.

and a chocolate cream pie. I was like, chose in real time, you chose the vanilla. Yeah. And at work, I choose the vanilla cupcakes. Chocolate, vanilla or strawberry? Chocolate. Vanilla. Yeah, I'm going to go vanilla again. Those vanilla cupcakes did it for me. Happy birthday, All right. First one, Arden Cho and May Hong. I don't know who those are.

All right, no points, no points given. K-pop Demon Hunters. I never watched What are their names? are their names? Arden Cho, May Ha. Okay. Arden Cho is Rumi. Rumi and Mira. Sure, sure. All right, nil. Okay, so good. By the way, so good. Okay, next one, Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

Western of some sort that I've never seen. I got the bad and the ugly. Butch Cassidy, I don't know. I can name a Paul Newman Go, go, go Sundance Kid. Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid. I'm gonna give it to Emily. She finished it. that's Dara Elves. That's Dara Elves. All right, I'll give it to Dara. Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid. They were also in The Sting, if anybody gave me that, I was gonna give them a point. I've never seen that movie. Really, you're really testing our older movie knowledge. I saw this terrifying fact on...

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Twitter so maybe not true, but somebody said that right now the oldest movie that is available for streaming on Netflix is from like the mid 80s. Oh, like, you know, just it's gonna get to a point right where we're just gonna phase stuff out and it will just be lost media and it's like, yeah, even from that long ago, crazy shit. So I gotta get on my turn classic movie shit. We gotta save that stuff. DVDs. Yeah.

I just watched Robert Redford. I don't think I've ever seen Robert Redford in anything because, and this is, I'm trying to watch more older movies now. I just watched all the president's men for the first time. That was stunning. loved that. Is that the with Tom Cruise? No, no. That's a few good men. That's a few good men. Yeah. This is,

Watergate, Robert Redford and my God, what's his name? What's his fucking name? The graduate. Dustin Hoffman. Dustin Hoffman. Yeah, play reporters breaking the Watergate scandal. Interesting. Should I watch it? It's fantastic. Would you recommend? It's just like, it's very much of an era gone by especially because we have a Watergate every day now. So. Right, right. Yeah. And reporters are just choosing to not report.

on anything important. Yeah, Barry Weiss is just taking a dump on the free press. Okay, next one, Sylvester Stallone and Kyle Weathers. Rambo. Rocky, too. Yeah, good job. Good job, Dar. Rocky and Rocky, too. Next one, Tom Hanks and Wilson. Castaway. Emily said it first. Next one, Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman.

I know why it's Gene Hackman, not John Wick. What's Gene Hackman in with Tiana Reeves? It's not Constantine, it's not Speed, it's... What's the surfing one? Is this Gene Hackman in the surfing movie? Rodney Holderrius. What's the first letter? Can I get the first letter? R. Oh, Replacements? Yeah, good job, Tara. Gene Hackman was in The Replacements? The Replacements is one of those movies... He a coach. He was a coach. I don't...

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I only remember Jean Chavro. Oh, is it like a Waterboy kind of situation? No, better, way better than that. Actually, I would disagree. I just saw the Waterboy for the first time and I actually thought it was delightful. But yeah, I think that's just a movie that just you and dad watch a lot and isn't actually popular. Staples at our house. I have no idea. I've never heard of football team. A football team like gets

What they all get DQ'd or something, right? They all can't play. So the NFL is on strike. So they get replacement players to play. it's really, it's really good. OK. Next one, Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy. Strike. Yeah. Good job. Yeah. So true. I was like, I was like, who was Eddie Murphy in the cat? Next one, Laura Dern and Sam Nail. Jurassic Park. Good job.

Next one, John Candy and Steve Martin.

Trains, planes, and automobiles. good job, good job. Next one. Cheaper by the dozen. Next one, Ed Norton and Mark Wahlberg.

The departed? No. what's that one? Patriots Day? Was he in that Boston bombing one? What? Mark Wahlberg. Are you kidding me right now? Italian job. Yeah, good job. Thank you. Next one. I'm sorry. I didn't realize there was a subcategory of DVDs we owned. Next one. A DVD we don't own.

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Seth Rogen and James Franco. Pineapple Express. my god, The Dictator. Next one. Meg Ryan. There's so many of Next one. Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal. Harry Sully. Okay, next one. Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss.

What about Bob? Doctor Leo Morvin! Everyone who, when I get a chuckle with someone about something, what about Bob? I always ask them, you watched a movie with your dad, didn't you? And they always say yes. Cause that's a movie that your dad shows you. I've never seen it.

You don't have a whole what about Bob dad. That's true. I have Bob as a dad. Yeah, your dad is Bob. He is what about Bob. Okay, next one. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. Dodgeball. Or the internship. Good job. I was going for Wedding Crashers, but I'll take internship. They do a lot together and you and dad also watch that movie the internship a lot too.

Or is that what it's just like on TV a lot too. It will, we would stop. They all become interns at Google and it's so funny. It is really funny. I always get that mixed up with the intern. Gad. With Roderick De Niro and Annie. Next one, Chris Rock and Ben Stiller.

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Madagascar. I'm gonna even tell him. Next one, Margot Robbie and Allison Janney. I tied on ya. Dara. Next one, Joey King and Jacob Elordi.

Kissing booth. The kissing booth. Oh my god. one jump scare. Total jump scare. I was watching the third Christopher Nolan Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. Is she in it? And Joey King. Joey King plays. So when they're in the prison, the only way you can get out of the prison is if you scale the walls of the like tower, right? If you've ever seen this movie and they have to like free solo and they're like only one.

kid has ever done it and it's Joey King. And Joey King's like fucking free soloing this rock wall and breaking out of prison. And then the older version of her is Marion Cotillard, which I thought was an actually pretty good casting. That is not bad. That is a crossover to the green arrow has that like in it in the WB universe. Yeah. Like a breakout scene. They have Joey King as well.

No, they just have the you have to scale up the wall thing. A prison that it's underground that you have to crawl out of. Okay, next one. Jennifer Lawrence and Jenna Malone. Hunger Games, Catching Fire. Good job. Next one, Jim Carrey and Ed Harris. The mask? no, fuck, fuck, fuck.

my god, I know why you're liar like no, know it no, know it fuck. my god I'm so blank the Truman show That's crazy that didn't even register to me when I was like Rolodexing through the cannon of Carrie like I'm like Jim Carrey did it try the Truman show because it's so different. He's got like three serious one ish ones, you know

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Yeah, Eternal Sunshine. It's like hmm. Second to the last one. Get two left. Oh, one, two, three, four. Yeah, count us up. Can I make a comeback? Okay, Darren's got nine.

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M's got seven and there's two left. Okay. M the best you can do is a tie if you get these two. Lively and Anna Kendrick. Pitch perfect. No, who's Blake Lively? No, no, no, A simple favor. Yes. Good job, M. Oh. One and two. Eight to nine. One left. Ready? I feel like Marty.

And me, the stoic and powerful Ando. Timothy Chalamet and you Grant. Wonka!

Yeah, good job. Dara wins! Dara wins! was good game. Yeah, and I'll take Hugh Grant's humiliation ritual for a hundred, please. Googling, does Hugh Grant have debt, serious debt or like gambling problems? What's going on here? Like if you're gonna do it, at least lean into it the way Bruno Mars has, you know?

Being in debt. It's kind of really making that work for him. Exactly. He's not ashamed of it is what I'll say. Grant walks around with shame from that movie and I say, girl, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. It's a paycheck. I said I had 20 but it was 10 to 8 so we had 18.

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Thanks for switching it up this week Jen, giving us a little game to participate in, testing our IMDB knowledge. And we love you and we will see you next week.

God, I love you guys so much. Have an awesome night. Bye! So this movie is nasty. This movie is a bodily fluid like trigger warning. If you do not like puke, blood, pus, like any any of that stuff, it's very graphic. I think it will make sense if you want to get a little lore drop about Osmosis Jones for a second. It really clicks everything into place. When you learn that this was originally

unrated but intended maybe for adults. it was the original draft was a PG-13. Like on FOB. Got like a PG-13 rating because there was some mild swearing and more crude, crude body humor and jokes. then Warner Brothers wanted to pivot for it to be more of a family movie. And so they cut everything that made it PG-13 and they landed on a soft PG.

But the reason it feels so disjointed is because this movie was conceptualized and then they got a studio and directors and people to make the animated portion of the movie, which they did to completion. And then they were like, all right, now we got to do the live action part. So what do we do? And so then they got different directors and a whole different other team of people. So this is essentially two different movies that just got

cut together pretty much. So there are the the credited directors are the directors who did the live action stuff because they're the Farley brothers who you probably know they did Shallow House that we covered. Also, Dumb and Dumber and something to do about Mary. Thank you. And

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my god, yeah. Yeah, what's with Joey and the Farley brothers? That's something we crack We should get him on here. But notably, one of the Farley brothers is the one who made the Oscar-winning film Green Book. Isn't that fucking crazy? No wonder that things also got better.

Yeah, so they made the Bill Murray portion, which is the bad part pretty much of this movie. the animated part is so fucking good, dude. Like I could not imagine how fun it must have been to be an animator working on this project. Like, oh my, just the sheer creative ability that you have on this is amazing. But yeah, sad part and the bad part is Bill.

Conceptually, I feel like the character design and the animation style and all of that was so fun and exciting that it didn't really matter that the plot was like very disjointed and somewhat nonsensical because it was like the concept of being a little guy in a body that is a city is just like such a cool thing to explore. Very gripping and exciting.

to continue with sort of a bit of lore. So Warner Brothers animation had previously, they're really trying to get their foot in to compete with like DreamWorks and Disney pretty much. And the last movie that they had made was the Iron Giant in 1999, directed by Brad Bird.

And at this point in time, they come to a junction where they're like, okay, that movie did okay, but like, we don't have a ton of money and we really need to like do something that's gonna do something for us as a studio. And so they were like, we can either fund another Brad Bird project or we can take up this Osmosis Jones movie. And so they go for the Osmosis Jones movie and its budget was like,

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a lot of money and it made no like totally totally made nothing like a tanking loss. That's why they show you in school. And the Brad Bird movie that they passed up on he then took to Disney and that became the Incredibles. that's brutal. That's a hard loss. So tough tough on Warner Brothers.

that makes so much sense though that he was I forget that he did that. And in the Incredibles that makes so much sense. Good Lord. Yeah, I don't know. This entire movie is just like Bill Murray's daughter begging him to be healthy and pay attention to her after her mother died of a mysterious illness. And I don't think that's too much to ask. So there's a lot of things in this movie that are left like really sort of vague.

specifically the illness that Thrax is our main antagonist, he just says that he's avirous and he vaguely describes that he's gonna like go to the hypothalamus in the brain and get something in the brain that's gonna kill him. And he's bragging about all these people he's killed, but from a symptom point of view, we see Bill Murray get like a really intense spiking fever and like inflammation and...

I don't know. So it's not really particularly like any specific disease. Like I don't think they were trying to have it emulate like cancer or, or, you know, some other specific medical is just like, okay, he's just a virus. then also they're talking about, the Bill Murray is a single dad. so they're always talking about the dead mom. And they also say that the mom died of like a, of quote unquote sick, like she got sick.

And that's That's all I This could have been avoided if you guys had taken better care of yourself, if you had had a better diet. So it's fair to assume that it's like some sort of like poor hygiene, poor like self-care induced kind of illness. You know what I mean? So like also just beating around the bush weirdly about the dead mom and whatever kind of sickness Bill Murray ends up having.

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and even how the sickness works really. But they do make some good allegories as far as this being like a movie shown in school. I think it's a fun way to get kids like excited about life science and cells and whatever. But for what it gets wrong, I'd say it gets about an equal amount right. Like I really liked like just the way that he's a white blood cell. So he's fighting the bad.

stuff like that is what white blood cells do in the body. at one point they like need information. So they go to the vaccine, right? And the vaccine is the one who snitches and tells them how to get the virus. Cause that's what a vaccine does. It informs the body on how to fight the virus, like stuff like that. And I'm like, okay, that was well thought out and well paced. then it's like, we're at the club that's on the zit on Bill Murray's forehead and we're going to throw a grenade.

and it's gonna smoke bomb everyone. Then you're loose in me. Then it's not quite as motivational. I know, but then they show you also a graphic zit popping, which as pickers, you would think would do a lot for me. It doesn't. I'm disgusted and horrified the same way I was when I was 13 years old. Yeah, so now the concept of a zit,

being so like ready to pop and postulating that it doesn't, mean, obviously in the context of the story. But yeah, no, but in real life, I feel like I've clocked when you see a Zetliac and you're like, that could just fall off at any second. Girl, something, anything, anything. See, very nastily we see Bill Murray,

eat an oyster at a science fair that's a part of a child's science fair project and he eats the oyster and then he throws up all over Molly Shannon and then she gets a restraining order on him which is a little intense. Like I'd be big mad as well but a restraining order. But then he goes to apologize and he has this nasty zit and it pops by itself and the pus lands on her lip.

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and it's just like the most specifically nasty shit. And that's like gross out humor. Yes. Well, I think this would have been perfect for a 14 year old boy. They should have absolutely kept this what it was. So despite the financial losses and overall critical failure of this movie, it did get a TV spinoff called Ozzie and Drex.

It was two seasons that it ran and it was an animated kids show and it was called Ozzy and Drix. it was- Was it still voiced by Chris Rock? Absolutely not. Both of them got replaced by other voice actors. And it was about how the pill, Drix and Osmosis Jones get sucked into a mosquito and then the mosquito flies and transfers them into the body of a teenage boy.

And so then it's about them, like, cause they're like, obviously it can't be Bill Murray. We can't Bill Murray in this TV show. It was all about them then being in the body of this teen boy, which then obviously really changes the bodily, you know, humor and stuff like that. So I don't know. It ran for two seasons. That's crazy. think there's 26 episodes of it. More than I would have expected. But yeah, you can tell.

You can tell that maybe after they sort of pivoted. I think this movie makes no sense. Who is its audience? Doesn't matter. No idea. niche that it has found is in the seventh grade biology classroom. And it's so specific and that's where it belongs. yeah, two kids at this juncture of their education on a day where you don't feel like teaching. Should we talk about the elephant in the room? That is the fact that Bill Murray's

germs in his body are pretty much entirely made up of what I would describe as black people. They're all black. Yeah, pretty much. They're all black. Pretty much everyone who makes up the city of Frank is an African American. Except for the cold pill, which is Niles. But I feel like in the same way that it's like a shark's tail.

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Right? Where you're like, they're fish, but like, obviously they're supposed to be black. Like, right? But they're fish. In this way that Chris Rock is really just bringing himself to this character. And I think it's hilarious. I think it really works. At times it does get, it does tell a line of like, you know, there's a mob boss and there's all these gangsters and they're like in du-rag. So it's like the germs and the mucus are like,

wearing the mucus mob. Mucus do rags, which is like, okay, a little questionable, but it is 2001. Yeah. The part of this that also has not really aged well is the soundtrack. You brought up Kid, Kid Me Rock. God. So they're in That's just the tip of the iceberg. That's not even close to the worst part. Yeah, so they're in the club and what looks like Kid Rock and then what we find through Google search is Kid Rock.

is performing at this club and he's performing a song called Cool Daddy Cool. And there is a lyric in this song that I believe may be edited out in current streaming versions of the movie. But at the time of release, the song Cool Daddy Cool from the movie Osmosis Jones had the line, young ladies, I like them underage. Some say that's statutory, but I say it's mandatory.

And Kid Rock said that in a kid's movie. Isn't that crazy? It makes sense that R. Kelly is also on the set list. Yeah. that's where it gets even worse is the final song, the like credit song of the movie. And if you look production credits, along with Beyonce and a lot of other really famous people for like the whole soundtrack, the general soundtrack produced by R. Kelly. So really, un-chill.

at all and definitely a relic of 2001. That's for fucking sure. you don't know, Kid Rock has pretty much been adopted by the alt-right and is a big Trumpy, but now really aggressive alt-right people use Kid Rock as their fucking, I don't know, diva of choice, I guess.

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R Kelly's a rapist who likes to pee on little girls. So that's where we're at with that. Chris Rock also, every time he speaks, I'm just like, keep my wife's name out your fucking mouth. Like I can't stop myself. I want Osmosis Jones. Chris Rock as Osmosis Jones versus Will Smith as the fish from Shark Tale.

and then they fight. And then those two have slaps the shit out of him. I mean, the fish from Shark Tale, much like real life, would obviously just crush Chris Rock slash Osmosis Jones. Osmosis Jones is tiny. He's a microscopic little guy. can just, and he's gone. Exactly. There he goes. On that sort of topic though, I did want to pose you a question.

Because there's a whole thing in this movie where, know, obviously it's a city inside of Frank, and it's, they have a whole corrupt mayor. like election. Yeah, a whole election sort of thing. And I wanna know, is that if you were a germ, who would you like to be mayor of? Or vice versa, who would you want to be mayor of you? Not if I was a germ, if I was a human that had.

a bunch of tiny people living in my body. Yeah. Is who would you want to be your, your little germ mayor or if you were a germ whose body would you want to be mayor of? Okay. Either or whatever works for you inside of my body. It is not a city. is game of Thrones up in here. It is feudal. It is rugged. That is very true for you. Not advanced.

yeah, we're still like doing trench warfare in my body. Yeah. Yeah. There's surfers and stuff. I do feel like though you said mayor and immediately my mind went to Kyle McLaughlin as the mayor in Portlandia and how he's always trying to figure out how to a printer works or like he's just.

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going off on a side quest. Like that's the mayor that's running my body is like off doing something so random, like Kyle McLaughlin, like Mr. Mayor. And then who would I want to control? I am not good with like leadership or like, I don't know, like managing people. So I don't think I'd want to be the mayor. Like I would have to be the mayor of someone really sick.

Like, the thing about this movie, the thing about this movie that sort of gripped me this time as an adult is like, Bill Murray is like unforgivably a terrible father. And the whole time, kind of sexy Laurence Fishburne virus is like going through him. And you're like low key kind of hoping that Bill Murray dies. You're like, I he me-

Because the way Bill gets this- He does! on the table! And then on Moses Jones! Bill Murray was legally dead for several minutes before that false eyelash. Yeah, rides a tiered back down into his body.

Just yeah. Yeah, he gets the disease from putting mayonnaise on an egg and he works at the zoo and then the monkey at the zoo snatches the egg and then he wrestles the monkey through the bars and then he snatches the egg back and then he eats the egg and I'm like you do deserve to die. die. Of a...

Disease. I wouldn't be mad about it and I wouldn't be mad about it. Wait, patient zero for COVID. If COVID had been voiced by Laurence Fishburne, this would have been entirely different situation. Yes, exactly, exactly. I do wanna say that I feel like my body, I'm trying to think who, you never watched Veep, but for anyone that watched Veep around here, I feel like Dan runs my body. It's doing okay, but sometimes,

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weird things happen and it just shuts down. what was I gonna say? If I was gonna be someone's mayor though, it's gonna be Julie Andrews because I want her to learn as long as possible. Wait, that's a good choice. Pick someone you wanna keep alive and then run that shit like the Navy. I'm keeping our spig and span. Dick Van Dyke, we're making it to 200, buddy. Absolutely. He was my first thought.

But Julie, think is, means more me. wanna go, I don't wanna be the mayor, I wanna be in the mayor. Zoron. Get me in there. Let me wipe blood, sell in Zoron, Mom Donnie, thank you. Let me make sure Zoron stay in regular, okay? Get me in there. exactly. Hey, hey, we gotta keep New York moving, pushing ahead. We gotta keep those owls moving, pushing ahead, girl, come Have you seen, did you see that he fixed a bump in the road? The bump that bothered him?

I'm obsessed. So real. I love to him exercising his governmental power. Like, Yeah. Living the dream. It really is that easy. You can just, you can fix things if you just do it yourself. should we get into our regularly scheduled programming though? Yeah. So I feel like we're going to have to get kind of abstract with this fuck Mary kill because obviously you can't fuck a white blood cell.

And I'd fuck a woman. So what are you talking about? But like, you know, as a a human lady, this is getting into some vore that I'm like, girl, where where where OK, for this one, we're sizing down. We're going to a germ mode. Oh, God. I found a treasure trove of rule thirty four. Osmosis Jones, like Yowie drawing.

I'm sure. fiction too, people ship, people ship obviously. Was this what you did after we watched this? No, I did this at work today. Yes, okay. That's what I was asking. But a lot of people ship obviously the pill and Osmosis Jones. Yes. Together, but then there's also some involving Laurence Fishburne, Disease Finger. That does come into play.

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Occasionally, but it is it is very much just those two the buddy the cops. I'm sure yeah. Yeah, that makes sense Uh-huh. Yeah, speaking of yaoi. my god. We forgot to say heated rivalry Wait that yeah, that was a big part of our holiday break as well watching that fucking we're there with you girls We're there with audience. I had to pull through and do my part and watch it. Okay Yeah, it was one of those things that I first started watching it and I was like, it's

just fan fiction. This is beautiful. And it is. And it literally is. Normally things that are adapted that are just fan fiction are dog shit. And there are parts of this that are bad, but I find endearing. It was really meaningful though. was very honest about what it was. Exactly. Which was refreshing. Yes. I love a Canadian production.

But yeah, fuck Mary Kill on these germs. I guess it's those top three that you just mentioned. Yeah, yeah, because it's like Bill Murray is an absolute kill. There's no need to involve him or his orphan, near orphan daughter at all. Yeah, really. And then, as far as like the like the other humans in the live action part, like Molly Shannon is the teacher and then that other comedian who was wearing that wig who played like his grubby friend.

Yeah, sure. And then we're gonna go to the Buffalo Wing Festival together. But I guess I'm gonna marry...

Okay, I'm gonna fuck Laurence Fishburne as tracks. Because he is killing and he does plan to kill again. And so we do have to put an end to this. He's like- But we can fuck him first. He has this weird cord that has these beads on it. And those are like the representative of the people he's killed. And then he takes the bead from Bill Murray and puts it on the cord. But then Osmosis just gets it back.

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and it puts it back in boom, and that's how he saves them. So it's all about this weird like brain bead or whatever. don't know. all those up his butt and then we're calling it a day. And then I'm gonna marry Osmosis Jones, cause he's got that car.

And he's got Brandy. I want to bring Brandy in on this too. Okay. Okay. I think we can open it up. do really want Brandy. Yeah. Because I feel like more Drake's a pill character. He's a little too dry. He's usually a little too, Oh, I'm buying the books and I'm doing it this way. Which was just like, I get that that was for comic value, but that's not what I'm looking for in a partner. So I'm going to kill him. I think I'm going to, I'm going to marry him.

because I kinda, I feel like I need that balance, you know? I need someone to bring me back down to earth sometimes and I don't mind it he seems like a kind soul. I don't trust Osmosis Jones as far as I can fucking throw him, all right? Don't get me wrong, I think he has good intentions. He got put on suspension from the police force for excessive for police brutality. Which they then reveal is just pulling the trigger to make Bill Murray throw up, which I do not think.

constitutes that bad of a punishment. Like people puke all the time. Okay. happened to be particularly embarrassing. Yes. Time and place and you did it at my birthday dinner and you did it at the science fair. Okay. Exactly. And then of course I'm going to fuck verbiage, that verbiage of Chris Rock being like, yeah, excessive use of force.

Sorry, you're fuck Drax, obviously. He got fired from the pea soup factory, Dara, come on. Yeah. And he got this sick new job at the zoo. Uh huh, yeah, and I think everyone, if we're opening it up, is gonna marry Brandy, right? Yeah, obviously. She's the part of this. Leah Estrogen, yeah. Yeah, you don't have to ask me twice.

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whose purpose it seems to just be like assistant to the mayor. But at one point she does get on the mic and be take over role of consciousness. I was like, just let her do that all the time. Like let Brandy pilot Bill Murray for the rest of his days. I was also kind of into that. The other mayor who was voiced by Ron Howard, who kind of looked like Beto O'Rourke, who was running, what was his name? Tom Kalanick. That was pretty funny. I liked that too.

but yeah, are you gonna eat and drink anything for this? Because I don't think I can eat during this movie. Wings. Puffalo wings, obviously. Gotta get some big, and like beer. I feel like he also orders clam strips at one point, which is really funny. That's true. you have access to a fisherman's platter. That's true, that's a great one. a good house of pizza, fried seafood platter around, that could be good to house during this movie. Yeah, just something nasty. This movie's gross as fuck.

I have a Long Island iced tea is what my suggestion is. Oh yes, a Long Island. Well you need to be slammed for this, obviously. then you also need, it's gotta be a little bit gross, but also you can get that shit down. Like it's nothing, so you're fine. You're putting yourself in a Bill Murray situation here and he would have a Long Island iced tea. I do make the rules. Hard boiled eggs. I find, I find,

Eggs generally a little offensive. I've had a really big out year with eggs, but hard boiled, you will never. If you ever see me eating a hard boiled eggs, just know I've been cloned. That's not me. I'm always pro egg, but I hate the boiled. can't do hard boiled or the soft? Soft boiled in a ramen sometimes, but I only eat the yolk. can't eat the white part. What do I want it for?

nasty. maybe I'm a baby but that's fine. I'm okay with that. And then in real life we did our double feature with Avatar the Way of Water which I did think was a nice transition. That was a good double header.

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But what would you suggest at your soiree to watch after Osmosis Jones? This is probably just the easy grab, but as much as like that movie was, you know, fun, I did find it sad a little bit. And I want to watch Space Jam afterwards. Yeah, it's called Moon Twin. That's another great entry. I was brainstorming other good

mixture of live action and animated movies because obviously who framed Roger Rabbit is like the goat but then there's a lot of like kind of sleeper other ones. yeah. I feel like fall into that category. Yeah that was one of my suggestions who framed Roger Rabbit would be another good one after this. Obviously I Shark Tale like that kind of feels spiritually similar to me.

If you want to do the Warner Brothers, what we could have missed, you could watch The Incredibles after. What else? said, oh, or if you just want to go full body horror, the substance after this. honestly there. Let's just go all the way. what Crimes of the Future. Let's get into it. What were the little Osmosis Jones white blood cells inside Monstro, Alyssa Sue looking like? Like they were freaking the fuck out.

Oh yeah, tweaked. And then what would you rate this? I think it's a four for me. Yeah, I was gonna say like solid five because I like I hold this movie in a certain reverence because I got to watch it in school. I got to be not doing schoolwork and watching a movie. Exactly. And a movie that was exciting and gross and kind of funny too. Don't get me wrong. just like Bill Nye, you know? I do have respect for this movie.

I just do think that a four fits right. Also, like what a great concept that they did just kind of flub a little bit. Like it honestly could have been better. ended up being good, but I think it could have been really great. Absolutely. Yeah, it could have been iconic. But you know, we only have enough room in this world for so many iconic human animation, human puppet, human whatever. I don't know. Crossovers. Yeah.

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And thank you all for listening and for being here. We appreciate it. Let us know what books, book versions of movies you had to watch in school or like other traumatizing movies you had to watch in school. I know we had like a walk down memory lane coming up with a list for this. Cause you always kind of forget. And then you're like, wait, they did show us all Hotel Rwanda in seventh grade. Like we did all watch that.

Like getting the permission slip signed too, being like, we're watching an R rated movie in class tomorrow. Get your permission slip signed by your parents to be like, yeah, they can watch Hotel Rwanda. Not a school movie, but I think we should watch the, we lived in a world where gay was straight and straight was gay, because that was a formative memory for me is being shown that by you. Well, yes. I feel like.

Other like, okay, wait, I posted on our Instagram story if anyone is still here. No one knew. No one knew. Like if you know, you know, and it seems as if none of you knew, but maybe this will reach someone out there. So specifically I posted a screen grab of it was all these people in white that, and they look like they're all running on like a hill together pretty much. And this was from a movie that we had to watch in our health class at our high school and

This is not a fever dream I had, okay? This happened. Here's the thing. I also have no recollection of this. I feel like I remember missing this in school and you told me about it the next day and I was bummed as fuck. Other people will confirm with me that this happened to us, okay? I'm not crazy, but we watched this movie and pretty much it was like the beginning of Marty Supreme. They show a sperm entering a canal and

Then we sort of disseminate into a reenaction, a recreation. And the movie is called The Great Sperm Race. it was like thousands and thousands of people all dressed in white, like running through the mountains. And it was this metaphorical journey that the sperm take to meet the egg. And then they're like climbing up a tower at one point and they're like,

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beating the shit out of each other and they're fighting and they're climbing. And then eventually it's like, you know, the like, get to the egg, who can fertilize it, who can stick, you know, is the whole thing. Absurd, absurd, but really opened my mind to like, you know, expanding your vision and filmmaking. We can show the sperm as being guys running through the mountains, you know, that was impactful to me.

Personally, I think that would have been more interesting than what they did with the credits of Marty Supreme. They should have had a bunch of people beating each other up. with it, Benny. Running up a mountain. They should have shown the great sperm race. They should have shown the great sperm race. Yeah, really? In the middle. No, that's what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut.

I'm gonna go and I'm gonna be like, oh yeah, we're watching Marty Supreme guys, everyone come over. It's such You put on the great sperm race. So I start it, I cut the first 10 minutes of the intro in and then once he nuts and like we cut to and we get through the credits, it's just the great sperm race after that. Yeah. I feel like I need to see if it's like on YouTube or something. I would love to revisit it. be. I would be rosset. Please.

Please for the love of God if you had to watch the great sperm race in your high school health class, please let me know. We need to hear from impression was. I feel like the other ones that I wanted to shout out were, it was called like Flatland. Supervolcano? What was that? Flatland. And it was a movie we watched in geometry class and Kristen Bell. Oh, you got me. Kristen Bell is the main character. She's a triangle. Amazing. it called Shapeworld? Shapeworld? Flatland?

my God, I don't know. But that movie, that movie was whack as hell too. But yeah, let us know what you had to read in school or what you had to watch or if you ever watched a movie in school that was crazy or changed your life or anything like that. And if you're still in school, best of luck with that. All the power to you and I hope your grades are good and that you are learning and having a fulfilling experience.

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And best of luck and good tidings to everyone for this 2026. It's been a pretty fucking terrible year so far on the whole. But all we can do is persevere. So thank you for being here and we'll see you guys next week. Bye.