TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
Mike and Dave are two Gen X Dads who grew up watching movies because there was nothing else to do. Tooky is a Millennial dad-in-training who grew up with the internet, and thus never needed to watch ROAD HOUSE on cable. Mike (a standup comedian) and Dave (an improviser and occasional academic) will present Tooky (comedian, social critic and dad-in-training) with a new (old) movie every week and answer the important questions: Are white people ok? When did Nic Cage become a whole thing?Are these movies good, or are Mike and Dave wallowing in toxic nostalgia? Every Tuesday, TDM promises to bridge the generation gap, one dad movie at a time.
Intro/outro music: "It's Almost Late Night" from the album WE HAD A GOOD RUN by Dave Rabinow, available at www.daverabinow.com
TDM: Total Dad Movies with Tooky, Dave, & Mike
THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD
Leslie Neilsen is your dad's favorite actor, and probably his second favorite actor as well.
Leslie Neilsen carried a handheld fart sound machine wherever he went.
Leslie Neilsen's gravestone reads "Let 'er rip".
Leslie Neilsen is the Chuck Norris of Dad humor, except he actually did all the stuff that we celebrate him for.
THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD makes for a complicated watch after, say, 1994 (the Dads get into it), but in this space, we're just celebrating the simple gift to Dads that is Leslie Neilsen as we dig into Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker's 1989 dadjokeapalooza THE NAKED GUN.