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The Jerk
Steve Martin's breakthrough comedy masterpiece The Jerk (1979) remains a testament to the power of pure, unfiltered comedic brilliance. Released at the tail end of the 1970s and grossing over $100 million on a modest $4 million budget, this film helped define an era of comedy while launching Martin from stand-up sensation to Hollywood star.
What makes The Jerk so enduringly funny? Perhaps it's the perfect marriage between Martin's physical comedy genius and the film's relentless commitment to absurdist humor. From the iconic opening line "I was born a poor black child" to the famous "I don't need anything except..." scene, the film prioritizes laughs over plot in ways that modern comedies rarely attempt. Every scene feels carefully crafted to maximize comedic potential, whether it's Navin frantically dodging a sniper who "hates these cans" or his heartfelt but completely nonsensical explanations of how time passes when he's in love.
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast where every week, we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse, I'm Jason. He hates these cans. Stay away from the cans, because this week we recommend the Jerk.
Speaker 2:The jerk fuck yeah, hell yeah alright, so did you know?
Speaker 1:this was the ninth highest grossing picture in the US for 1979. It made over a hundred million dollars, wow, on a budget of four million, and this ranks like a lot on a budget of four million and this ranks like a lot on a lot of people's, like best comedies, like very high up, like IGN gave it like the 10th, and I think there was a more prestigious website that I can't remember the name of at the moment that got put it like on the 20th. So like, does it still hold?
Speaker 2:up. Yeah, I think so. It's fucking awesome. Yeah, so many funny things.
Speaker 1:I know it it seemed like I could just listen, like listen to him just list things, and I would just laugh. I'll take this, I don't need anything.
Speaker 2:Except for this.
Speaker 1:And then, like whenever he gets the mansion and he starts listing every room, it's so funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you remember how I always wanted all this?
Speaker 1:a clamshell bathtub yeah, it's so good. And there's just something about steve martin that, especially like towards the end, when he's dancing like right before he's about to lose everything yeah, and he's just dancing with his girl. There's something I guess because he's so big and tall and lanky that it's just like his movements are just like funny.
Speaker 2:To me it's like a baby deer trying to figure out his feet, like that baby elephant that people have been making fun of on TikTok.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's just something about Steve Martin that just cracks, cracks me up. He's such a showman, yeah. But I'm just like wondering would you rather watch like a movie, like the joke the jerk, or like a newer comedy? It's like is this? I don't know, so I, I guess this. So I feel like this is a very gag heavy movie, right? Yeah, it's almost like the plot doesn't matter at this at a point where it's just like do you?
Speaker 1:wish like the comedy was like weaved into the plot. Better or more, or like a more, like a plot that makes more sense and there's this wacky characters in it. Like which one do you prefer? Or just like a straight up gag heavy movie?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I guess it depends. Or just like a straight up gag heavy movie, I don't know, I guess it depends. I mean, with someone like Steve Martin he's so incredible that I don't know he could do either one. I feel like, yeah, and I'd still watch it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but as far as like a newer comedy, Like I think of like a good comparison for this is like Hot Rod and the the jerk are very similar movies, except it feels like there's more normal people in hot rod versus like the. The wacky characters are wacky but the surrounding characters are just like. Like the mom there's like a normal mom and yeah, but I don't know, I guess the jerk has that with the the black family.
Speaker 2:So maybe they're the same. There's a few normies in there. I definitely have a type of comedy that I liked.
Speaker 1:Hot Rod, the Jerk they're the same movies.
Speaker 2:I think the plot of the Jerk is really. How did he get sad Because he's so happy?
Speaker 1:So fucking happy all the time. I think that's the whole plot, and even in the end he still has his friends in the thermos.
Speaker 2:His un what do you call it? His unending shit? I don't know words.
Speaker 1:Like you, I don't know words. Like you, you're going to have to finish that one yourself. You just cut that out. So what about the beginning, when he's doing his voice as the homeless person? I remember? I feel like I remember the first time watching it being like what the fuck is this gonna?
Speaker 2:be.
Speaker 1:This is gonna be bad, supposed to be drunk, and then he drops the. I was born a poor black child it's like now we're in it.
Speaker 2:And then we go to him like dancing yeah.
Speaker 1:And trying to keep a beat which I really relate to. I've always had good rhythm. I have never. I don't get it and I never will. So is he supposed to be a child?
Speaker 2:When did it go, I don't know, to be a child. When did it go, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think it's so hard because of Steve Martin and he looks like a 40 year old since he came out the womb he came out with like an ascot on hell, yeah, yeah that's stylish ooh, steve Martin hot or not?
Speaker 1:yeah sure I mean, I'd fuck him yeah you'd roll away okay, that's good enough, all right. So, um, people love showing my special person, people love this movie, even, uh, stanley Kubrick and, um, david Lynch. You know two, two weirdo directors that you wouldn't expect to like comedies, you know. But so, like Steve, stanley Kubrick loved it so much that he would often recite lines from the film to cast and crew on films, and he once invited Steve Martin over to play chess. Oh, that's fun, but that was whack. I would have loved to see that.
Speaker 2:It's probably the boringest thing you'd ever see.
Speaker 1:I wonder if he was, if in in private he's just like the most boring that can't be steve martin, or he just like walked in with his banjo because he loves playing banjo. Hell yeah, were you. Did you ever watch a lot of his snl stuff? I watched some of it wild and crazy guys and the king tut dance. It's like that shit.
Speaker 2:He's got such a I don't know, just a way of movement that I just enjoy vividly I just um, I wish there were more people who I mean he's, he's kind of one of the last classically trained actors that did a lot of his classic train stuff like he's got his bits and he does it.
Speaker 2:He does a lot of dancing he used to do magic, like he wanted to be a showman his whole life. And a lot of people now like, if you learn to dance and sing in california now and like in hollywood, nobody gives a shit. Yeah, everybody's like. We don't want you to dance or sing.
Speaker 1:It's the land of dancing and singing over there just got to be hot. Yeah, and have a voice sure it's something I missed back back in the old days. You know you didn't have to look good to do anything if you just had something. They're like get on some more merit-based acting, get in front of the camera. It's like yeah, I feel like everybody now just kind of conventionally looks attractive all the time and if they don't, if they start off not looking attractive, they're just going to end up becoming attractive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'll put you in comedies until you get hot.
Speaker 1:It's like you see Jonah Hill like when he started off and you're like, oh, this looks like a funny guy. And now you're like, oh, this is look like a funny guy. And now you see him, he's like bro, what the fuck Like like now, if I walked in a room with you, have no shot. So, um, I guess Steve Martin and the director Carl Reiner they carpooled every day on set because of the gas shortage, oh, and every day they came up with at least one joke and a new way to add it into the film. That's fun. That's why it's probably all over the place joke-wise, let's see.
Speaker 1:So in a lot like a lot of the things in this movie came from Steve Martin's stand-up act. I guess Cool Like his. He always like would lead like with a joke that leads to I was born a poor black child and then the I don't need anything, but then like picking up a bunch of objects. That was something he did in his stand up bit. And another fun thing Bill Murray actually had a cameo but they cut it out. Good, it's like, come on, he didn't deserve to be in this movie. And according to Steve Martin, his favorite line in the movie is when a man in a in a truck stops and asks st louis, and he replies no, nathan johnson, that's his favorite bit I used to people uh growing up.
Speaker 2:I used to hear people uh mention the shit and shinola thing a lot, and I had no fucking idea what they were talking about yeah, well, now you know you, you got to do just fine, that's all you got to know what is Shinoah? Is that shoe shine?
Speaker 1:I assumed it's dip, that's why you don't want to pick up shit, because you don't want to put it in your mouth, I guess. Yeah, yeah. So the film originally had two trailers Back in the day, when you only had like one or two trailers for a movie instead of a teaser trailer for the teaser, a teaser trailer and then a trailer, and then you get three more trailers and then the tv trailers, the teaser for the teaser, when they just put the date and like and the title black screen and like maybe like the title flash of like an actor, or maybe the title.
Speaker 1:You don't even always get the title I want one where it's just like it's a teaser trailer, it's just like the month it's gonna come out, not even a day or day, it's just like what is it? 12 it's like oh my god it could be anything.
Speaker 2:We should do that when the asteroid, when we finally decide that it is gonna hit us. Yeah, we should do that. Yeah, everybody's like super excited about it and I show up and they're like oh, it's like wait.
Speaker 1:Is it 12 this year? Is it December this month or this year? Or like five years from now? You'll never. You'll have to wait for the teaser trailer for that. We just teased the teaser trailer. Oh man, so had two trailers. The first one, which has not been seen since.
Speaker 1:This, was a tongue-in-cheek presentation that began with a large printed message for theater managers. Only Steve Martin is sitting at a desk talking to the camera. He lets the theater managers know that he is in on the fact that moviegoers are morons and that they will go for anything. Describing his new movie, he says that the film has everything a love scene, a high-speed car, chase, guns, a dog and more. Plus, it has some boring scenes so that the audience will go to the lobby and spend some money on snacks, as he describes. This is are the extremely brief clips for each of the above. While copies of this trailer exist in various archives, it is not available for streaming anywhere. Oh, so I'm assuming they show like the dog, probably walking. The love scene is probably just him in bed with the girl where she looks dead, and then the car chase is probably just that when the director is like I couldn't even yell cut oh yes, I couldn't see.
Speaker 1:I called it too late that's so stupid, I know it's like. Then everybody at the party starts taking it off and they're like oh man, it's a good bit. It's a good bit. All right, just two more. So, steve Martin, the dog got off on the wrong foot when he accidentally dropped mittens on the animal's face. From then on a coward when he tried to pet it on the animal's face. From then on it cowered when he tried to pet it.
Speaker 1:Martin recalled it was miserable, he hated me. But if he they're not heavy Well, it must have been a really sensitive dog. The dog had PTSD, I guess Every time he saw mittens he cowers, yeah, just like he goes in the shock he just they put on his owners put on mittens before they beat the shit out of him.
Speaker 1:I mean, who knows, like maybe he had like an owner that used to just like, cause you know, like at some point you're going to end up putting your socks in your dog's face, cause it's hilarious, right, it is funny, it's so funny, it's like somebody, like they did that all like he had kids. That would just constantly put mittens on his face.
Speaker 2:Oh, you mean like over the snout? Yeah, oh no, I never did that. I was just like when I'm folding laundry, I'll just they'll be sitting there not doing like not moving and I'll just lay it on their head.
Speaker 1:Snake loves if you put your socks on his nose. He's such a fun. Does he prefer dirty socks? I think he definitely prefers dirty socks. Nice, just because after he's done he like I do too honestly.
Speaker 2:Just sniffs the hell out of it.
Speaker 1:But then he's always like wagging his tail, like that was fun. Yes, man.
Speaker 2:I'm so high I will suffocate.
Speaker 1:It is fun. He does enjoy it, I promise so. Steve Martin's favorite moment of the film, as he detailed in his 2007 memoir memoir, memoir Born Standing Up, was a scene in which he and Bernadette Peters sing Tonight you Belong to Me. Martin felt the moment was touching and waited in anticipation at the film's premiere screening in St Louis. Unfortunately, much of the audience left during the scene to buy more popcorn. I love that scene. The song is so good. Oh yeah, when they're on the beach, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a cute song, yeah, it was great. And then I was just like man.
Speaker 1:I can't remember what the bit is here, and then she just pulls out the horn. It's amazing.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's so good. Was it really her playing it or no?
Speaker 1:I don't know, I couldn't find anything about almost like anything about her really, except that like they wanted somebody else but then they got her and she's kind of perfect in it yeah, she got that voice, that weird, like feel like that voice like went away after the 1970s.
Speaker 1:There's like a bunch of actresses that could talk like that. Now, like nobody does it. Yeah, it's like, is that how she actually talks or is that just a voice she puts on for the movie, because it sounds like a joke constantly? I've got to find out. She's beautiful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love when she's laying in bed and before I even said you look dead. I was like Natalie. She looks like a fucking vampire. She's making good vampires the weeks. Everybody's talking about the weeks and how many days they feel like, or how many weeks the days feel like I love, yeah, I just love how he just goes on, on and on and on. It's like. Anyways, I'll tell you tomorrow, yeah but everyone's so patient with him I know, because everybody's slightly dumb themselves.
Speaker 2:Well, they don't. It's almost like they don't want to extinguish his beautiful light.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, with the realities, of the world, and I feel like five years after this he just became dads in movies because his hair went completely white. Yeah, such a shame. I mean, you get things like Three Amigos and stuff, which is great. You need to rewatch that. I've only seen that like once as a child. I don't think I've seen it all the way through, but I love me some Martin Short and Chevy.
Speaker 1:Chase as well who do you prefer out of those three? Chevy Chase, martin Short and Steve Martin? I don't know, I've been kind of like really digging Martin.
Speaker 2:Short.
Speaker 1:Martin Short's fucking great too. He's so good he's in Clifford. Have you ever seen clifford? Uh, the dog, uh, no, um, it's a movie with hold on. Yeah, it's martin short and it's with charles groden, and martin short is obviously this, uh, middle-aged man playing this child who's just like destroying charles groden's life. We will do it eventually. It's life. We will do it eventually. It's so funny. I get it. You just need to watch it. It's so wacky. I wish we did it. We will, we will. Yeah, all right, man, you random son of a bitch bastard.
Speaker 2:Are you ready to get started?
Speaker 1:Yes, this is a great movie where it's just like you watch it and then you talk with it to a friend and it's just like that's so good and then you kind of like don't remember like the long like kind of quiet pauses between like bits and stuff, Like when he's carrying the dog.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for no reason.
Speaker 1:That's actually a whole movie. It's perfect.
Speaker 2:Never mind, you're right.
Speaker 1:Alright the Jerk, 1979 Good year, good wine, good year.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I have no idea. I don't think I've ever had wine. I always get fresh wine, you know yeah.
Speaker 1:So what do you think? We're a bunch of chumps. What's the newest one you have? Man, I wasn't even meaning to do that bit. I just said wine like a dummy and then I forgot that there was a wine bit in the whole thing. God wow, this movie's so my wheelhouse it's wild, it's wild I just he's just like.
Speaker 1:He's so annoying to the point where it's hilarious yeah, because I'll do stuff like that to my wife. Or I'll just like keep going on and on and she's like are you ever gonna stop? I can't, I've got all this bone. I can't get like, not until you tell me to stop. The bit bit is I won't stop until you make it, just until everyone leaves the room. Yeah, all right. So the movie starts. Navin R Johnson, a homeless bum, directly addresses the camera and tells this story I was born a poor black child. Weird voice. It's great, it's just me, my friends and my thermos. Such a weird voice, I don't like it. I don't like that voice.
Speaker 2:It's super weird. It makes me uncomfortable. Is he just trying to be drunk? He's just trying to be a homeless man.
Speaker 1:He's like super sad and drunk. It's like I don't know. It's like I've never met a homeless man talk like that, but they look like they should talk like that, which maybe that's why that makes me uncomfortable. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:Makes me think of homeless people inside yeah, it's sad to think that they're mentally unstable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I also feel bad for those. You know he, I forget I just thought about. They got a new house and it's just like two times bigger, even the door and everything. All right, we'll move on, we'll have to get there. So david is adopted is the adopted white son of African-American sharecroppers in Mississippi who grows to adulthood naively unaware of his obvious adoption. The large family lived in a small shack. It's a large family, very large. They're so fun. I know it was great. I would have loved to have grown up in this family.
Speaker 2:They just seem to have a good time constantly Just dancing, and they're so nice to him Hell yeah, he stands out in the family not just because of his skin color, because he also has no rhythm.
Speaker 1:When his adopted family plays spirited blues music, he can do it At his favorite meal. Yeah, dude, we should talk about his clothes in that scene. His pants were so high up.
Speaker 2:It's like how old is he supposed to be?
Speaker 1:It's like his pants come up to the mid of his calves. It's wild.
Speaker 2:Maybe he just is supposed to be like he never. They're so poor they can't afford it. I guess he's just been wearing the same thing.
Speaker 1:It'd be funny if we found out he's 18 years old.
Speaker 2:I know, I think that's what it is, though I think that's what it's supposed to be saying, I guess. So I don't know, even though his hair is completely gray.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and at dinner they're eating food, and then it's his birthday, so they give him white people food.
Speaker 2:It's your favorite meal. Yeah T, it's your favorite meal?
Speaker 1:Yeah, tuna on white bread. Yeah, because they're bringing out food and it's like collard greens and it's like this. You know stereotypical, oh, it sounded so good.
Speaker 2:I know it does the cornbread, though.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, when he like breaks off that cornbread, I'm salivating. This is tuna sandwich in a fucking Twinkies.
Speaker 2:A tab and some Twinkies.
Speaker 1:All things that I would have not Tuna sandwich and a fucking Twinkies, a tab and some Twinkies All things that I would have not eaten.
Speaker 2:I've never had a tab. They taste like shit to me.
Speaker 1:Tabsy- yeah, I don't like them. Are they just like carbonated water with a little bit of? Are they like?
Speaker 2:It's like a cola, but it's like a weird, like Very off brand, very, they were everywhere for a while they're like that carefree gum.
Speaker 1:That's what it kind of reminds me of. So it's like as soon as it gets in your mouth, you lose the flavor. You're like oh, that's not good, that's almost something, but yeah it's almost a flavor yeah. But as he gets his meal, he's so happy. People start giving him gifts and I feel like this is probably where he he gets his uh, constantly naming things because somebody it's like somebody gives him a gift and then someone else here, here, here so he had so much family that maybe that's why he's like.
Speaker 1:The bit is that he just constantly names things. Maybe I mean he gets sad and he runs away. Apparently, um, when filming the director didn't and steve martin didn't tell the family there he was gonna do that, so like their looks were all like what the the fuck? It was like a real look. And then also thank you everybody, god bless. God bless everyone. Tiny Tim he's sad because he feels different compared to everyone. His mother finally tells him he's adopted.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be this color forever so good.
Speaker 1:And then, like one of his brothers, comes in, I wrapped, I brought you your tuna sandwich, just the way you liked it wrapped in cellophane. It's like what. He's unable to dance. But then all of a sudden, while he's laying down in bed, a like champagne style song, yeah.
Speaker 2:and then he like snaps on accident or something, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1:And the song starts playing and he's like, and he's starting to get it. He goes buck ass wild. He runs into his grandma's room. I can do it.
Speaker 2:Look everyone, I can do it. He's like what the fuck man?
Speaker 1:He's like okay, but he sees this as his calling and believes that this is the kind of music that inspires him to go out in the world and be somebody. He decides to hitchhike to St Louis, where the song was broadcast. Love it, because it's just like this. Big goodbye, just to stand out of his fits. Yeah, he throws out his thumb. Dude, me and my buddy Richard. That was the funniest thing in the world. We cried, laughing when he's just like oh, he's going to start walking. Nope, and it's funny because we would make such a big deal out of that part. And now when I rewatched, I was like so amped for it, and then I was like oh it's just such a really funny.
Speaker 1:It's just a small thing and I remember we went it's like the next day we went to church and we were just cracking up still about the movie and we're telling them all the bits and they, like a lot of the people, went home and watched it and they're like what? This is the movie you're cracking up at.
Speaker 1:You know it's kind of like slow and like very low key comedy, especially for like the 2000s when like Superbad and all that was coming in. So I was just like y'all didn't find it funny. We're still laughing about it a week later, 30 years later, yeah. So then the family's sad and that he's leaving and wonder how he's doing, so that one girl just pups her head out the window and ask how's he doing Elephant?
Speaker 2:in the truck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, then he eventually gets the ride.
Speaker 2:Where are you going to the end of this fence? It's gonna be a hard journey, it's like so what's your name?
Speaker 1:alright, we're here. Oh, thanks for the company. Oh, but we forgot cause they? This is where we get. Before that, we get the shit and skull, yeah, yeah bit the shit and shino as they're leaving.
Speaker 1:They're all like just remember, lord loves a working man, don't trust Whitey. And if you get it, find your purpose. See a doctor and get rid of it. Lord loves a working man, don't trust Whitey, see a doctor and get rid of it. Got it? And then, yes, then we get a bunch of montages of him getting rides, uh, and on the way he stops at a motel where a dog wakes him up by barking at his door. What's that fire, right?
Speaker 1:he even says yes, yeah, I know, he says yes, yeah, cause it turns out that dog's a little shit head.
Speaker 2:He's a little asshole.
Speaker 1:David thinks the dog's trying to warn him of a fire, decides to name the dog Lifesaver. He wakes up all the hotel guests to rescue them. But then he realizes it was a false alarm. One Asian man angrily suggests he calls the dog Shithead, which Navin takes literally. It's so good, it's just like why. What's the point of this? It's such a random, pointless scene, except to get the dog.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it was. Well, I guess it was because Lassie was huge back then. Yeah, that's true, I guess.
Speaker 1:So this is like there was a big Lassie movement Anti-.
Speaker 2:Lassie. Yeah, this dog is not going to help you. Yeah, not at all. In fact like doesn't even want to be around you.
Speaker 1:Attacks him often and attacks him often. And then we see Navin. He takes a bunch of more cars and eventually reaches St Louis. Navin stops at a gas station, fills his lighter with gas so he can use the bathroom, get the tire, the tire rim bit. He's just like trying to wheel it on the ground. It looks like he's just dragging it. I know it's supposed to be heavy, but I'm like is he's trying to like wheel it like it's supposed to be a wheel, so can? He's like struggling to pee with it.
Speaker 1:So good, but then, while at the urinal, mr harry offers him a job. It's like, how about? How about this? Clear the toilets and you'll be the president of, uh, this company. He's like, wow, just got to clean the toilet. It's like, no, you haven't you ever heard you got to work your way up. He's like, wow, just got to clean the toilet. It's like, no, you haven't you ever heard you got to work your way up. And he's like, well, which is it? Man, ten minutes. He always already wants to be. Yeah, I love that guy. That guy is hilarious. I love the way he talks. So Nathan gets a job and he ends up getting a place to sleep at a gas station owned by Mr Harry Hart.
Speaker 1:Oh this is great. He gets excited when he thinks the bathroom is going to be his home.
Speaker 2:I'll be over here so the customers can use the bathroom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, put my bookshelf here. He's so excited. Good man, harry says he can pay him by sending him a postcard when he is rich and famous.
Speaker 2:He's like love you. He takes a minute A postcard.
Speaker 1:It negotiate. Harry pays Navin a dollar ten per hour. Navin makes it a habit of sending his savings back home at a regular interval. That's a good boy. That's a good boy. Mr Harry is really nice. He's teaching me to be impatient. Alright. Well, I gotta go. I can't just sit here writing postcards all day.
Speaker 2:What do you think I do? Write letters all day.
Speaker 1:Over a period of time, Harry starts to trust Navin and even leaves him in charge of the gas station. When he goes out on a date with his wife. Yeah, it's like you see this. I only get this because I'm rich, so don't screw it up Literally, because he has a gas station.
Speaker 1:He's not. I mean, he doesn't really seem rich, he doesn't, but he's got that until you see that car and it's like maybe I should own a gas station. So then a car full of thieves roll up in to buy some gas. Navin says that they have to pay by credit card. He's all alone and the owner asked him not to expose the cash at the gas station to customers.
Speaker 2:But he immediately shows him $23 or whatever he has.
Speaker 1:They're fanning it out like it's a shit ton of money. I know it's just ones. It's a bunch of $1.
Speaker 2:Maybe like one five yeah.
Speaker 1:And then Navin realizes that the credit card is stolen. Navin calls the cops but then attaches oh yeah, he calls the cops, they're here, I got them, I'll try to stall them. I've a movie ties the car to the church and then he goes and he's like, uh, tries to get him to stay, and then ends up just they're like, hey, can I have that money? He's like, yeah, sure, because he thinks he's gonna get it back. And then he's like I know how to stall him. It's like, oh, you're our eighth customer here, I'll go get you your free oven mitt. And then he walks away like got him fucking losers because of god. Ah, yeah, y'all take your time, y'all don't have too much to worry about. I got him right where I want him.
Speaker 1:They're like do you guys really want to oven mitt this?
Speaker 2:drives off the church goes.
Speaker 1:And the church you got like the bride on the church that's still there and the part that's moving. You got the like groom. They're like like jump off. Yeah, like two miles an hour it's like I guess this is a perfect kind of thing to explain. Like there's a bunch of like kind of small jokes that are like kind of funny in this, but then it's just like it all culminates to being like what the fuck? This is great.
Speaker 2:Like we just call the police, Like yeah, it's a carpool in the church.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like. Yeah, it should. Just any blue sedan that's pulling a church should do. It's like, eventually, like the joke lands so hard, it's great. But my favorite part is just like him walking away being all cocky Like that shit. Whatever Steve Martin is doing, I love it. I don't know it's so wild, but yeah. And then like Harry comes back, he's like hey, good news, you lost a church too.
Speaker 1:But then the local phone book comes up. He's so excited because his name's in print. Things are going to start happening to me. Now Cut to looking at a phone book. All right, random bastard naven heart. Johnson, you run of the mill, son of a bitch, I'm gonna get you. Uh, I like god who thought of that. It's so good, but that does.
Speaker 2:That is how it feels like with snipers, you know yeah randomly kill random people would just it's funny that he's just mad at him for being a random person run of the mill, son of a bitch, it's.
Speaker 1:It's so funny that it's just like you know. You never know what words are going to be put in a sentence that are gonna if you just repeat them, it's going to be very funny.
Speaker 1:But two words that seem to always work bastard and son of a bitch. Son of a bitch it's always funny. A son of a bitch always gets me. Yeah, me too. That's what she said. So as the madman watches through his rifle scope waiting for a clear shot, navin fixes the slippery glasses of a customer Stan Fox by adding a handle and a nose break.
Speaker 2:These two guys in this scene. They're so funny. Just two really high energy people feeding off of each other. Come on, change my lane. Got it all day. Oh yeah, they're right this way.
Speaker 1:Oh, let me put my glasses on. Oh, dang my glasses. It's like hey, dude, put your glasses on, stop looking down. But yeah, this Stan Fox guy was hilarious with his glasses, just like his movement and the way he was talking.
Speaker 1:ah, these damn glasses, ah these damn glasses the Navin's like ah, I'll fix them for you. I got an idea, um, but yeah, and the customer, stan Fox, is an inventor who promises to try to market the device to split the profits 50-50 with Navin, then departs and then this is where we're getting the sniper. You random average bastard Everyday. Random son of a bitch, take that. You run-of-the-mill bastard, die gas pumper. Yeah, so, seizing the chance, kray's sniper is trying to kill Navin but fails, hitting the oil cans in the station. Hey, these oil cans aren't effective. Come here, look at them.
Speaker 2:He immediately sees the sugar, Harry's like hey, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1:He's not shooting those oil cans, he's trying to shoot you. Get out of the way. He hates these cans.
Speaker 2:Stay away from these cans. There's so many cans everywhere.
Speaker 1:He just keeps running, runs to the soda machine there's cans in there Runs inside, stands in front of a display of cans Cans, starts knocking them all over the place. So he's like, oh, I better get out of here. So he gets in a car, the one car with no tires on it at all, he's driving slowly, I'll distract him, I'll distract him. So at all, just driving slowly, I'll distract him, I'll distract him. So the lunatic chases Nave into a traveling carnival.
Speaker 2:He can't go in.
Speaker 1:It's just carnival personnel only hey, he's not carnival personnel, he can't be in there. But Nave hides out eventually getting a job at SJM Fiesta Shows as a wait-guesser while employed there. Oh yeah, it's so good. He's like come here. All right, I'll guess your weight. What?
Speaker 2:do I get if I win?
Speaker 1:And then it's like, he's like I can give you anything in this area, not above this line, but under the radio and between the pencil sharpeners, these two edges right here. Yeah, Including the chiclets the pencil sharpeners, these two edges, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're like including the chicklets but not the pencils, yeah, and then the guy's telling him it's like you've lost 50 cents worth of stuff and you've made $15.
Speaker 1:So you're fine. He's like, ah, it's a profit.
Speaker 2:So it takes all the pressure.
Speaker 1:It's like his his way. It's kind of like the postcard bit where he's just kind of like thanking, and it's so funny and it's like, ah, profit, like when he finally realizes something.
Speaker 2:It's so funny that it wasn't about him guessing the way right. It's like hey you idiot.
Speaker 1:All these games are meant to be pointless. So while employed there, navin meets an intimidating daredevil biker named Patty. Biker named patty and has a sexual relationship with her, finally realizing what his special purpose is it's a euphemism for his penis.
Speaker 2:Yes, um with the writing home to his mom about it was so funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because the grandma had no idea, I finally found my special purpose.
Speaker 2:I've been using it so much I wish the whole family could see it. Yeah it.
Speaker 1:It's like and I'm also, and Patty's going to give me a blow job, so I'm going to make extra money. The brother's like yikes, yeah, that's great, and but she's essentially just molesting the guy, yeah, until he realizes he loves it. He's like whoa.
Speaker 2:This is a great ride. Do this all the time.
Speaker 1:She's dirty and horny. You can tell so much about someone by the way they live and I can tell you're generally a dirty person.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, where should I put this trash? Oh, okay, over there. Where should I put this helmet? Ah, so that's where it goes.
Speaker 2:Just throws the corn dog on the floor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and she also gets a tattoo of his name on her butt and it means they're married. She's got a lot of tattoos down there. Apparently, you got a lot of guys.
Speaker 2:More people see that than the phone book.
Speaker 1:And then so later, while operating a miniature railway, he meets a cosmetologist named Marie and arranges a date with her, even though they don't know each other or their names. It's another great bit. Wherever he's going to go, chase the child, he here take this oil, can Also my gloves, my keys.
Speaker 2:My keys.
Speaker 1:Oh, also take my wallet and it's just like dude, just go, and then you get a really bad bit of him running and it's sped up. And it's just like boy, like boy wishes. I think it would have been funnier if he just like slowly walked and just caught the kid and pressed it and she's like freaking out or something yeah, I mean he could have just gone to the other side and been in front of him yeah, cause it's a train that goes in circles and then like it's like oh, I want, it's like how, oh, I want.
Speaker 1:It's like how can I repay you about a kiss?
Speaker 2:Oh no Awkward that was really funny.
Speaker 1:One of the two really awkward bits of the movie.
Speaker 2:Okay, we'll have to find out what the next one is. I think we all know. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, it was funny when he brought her back, or he brought the kid back and she's like it would have been so embarrassing if I would have showed up without him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know it would have been so embarrassing. Is this your kid? No, I'm babysitting, oh and then, as like they're like, all right, well, goodbye.
Speaker 2:He walks away. This is bullshit.
Speaker 1:Oh, I did read a fact about that the kid really wanted to keep that shirt after the movie and they wouldn't let him.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's like that's bullshit.
Speaker 1:I love when she's walking away, keeps stopping her and it's like, oh hey, what's your name, Marie, what's yours?
Speaker 2:We'll give us an icebreaker to talk on our first date Something interesting to talk about.
Speaker 1:I just love him constantly stopping her. It's good. Then we see Pat. He's waiting for his date and Patty threatens him. Even if he looks at a girl, he's like. I took it easy on you.
Speaker 2:I stayed away from your balls Did this without anger and I stayed away from your privates. That's scary.
Speaker 1:I guess it's time to find a new girl.
Speaker 2:It's like dating Hot Rod, but Hot Rod's older sister.
Speaker 1:Yeah, navin meets with Marie and they go back to his place. It turns out to be a box truck where they eat pizza in a cup.
Speaker 2:You ever had pizza in a cup? No, I've never had anything in a cup, except for cup noodles. It sounds like a good idea, though.
Speaker 1:Just a bunch of melted cheese and sauce and bread and some like pepperoni in a cup.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it did sound good when he was talking about it.
Speaker 1:It's like that sounds like a meal I should just make. He touches and squeezes her face because she's so beautiful.
Speaker 2:Your skin is so.
Speaker 1:Flexible, it just goes right back in place. He asks if she has a boyfriend. She says, kind of, navin. I know this is our first date, but do you think the next time you make love to your boyfriend you could think of me, marie? Well, I haven't made love to him yet, navin, that's too bad. Do you think it's possible that someday you could make love with him and think of him, make love with me and think of him, marie, who knows, maybe you could make love, you two could make love and you could think of me. I'd just be happy to be in there somewhere. That is comedy, gold, gold. Suddenly, patty confronts him Marie knocks her out.
Speaker 1:I know I love it. Like the shit they do with that bike is rad, driving on like the bug. Yeah, that was so good. And then you think like oh, oh well, that's it, they're not gonna get you. Just like, yeah, he's gonna move on from marie, no, we just cut to them singing together, uh, the song tonight. You belong to me, like on the beach. And it's like wait, y'all are still together. Like y'all are gonna keep dating, like what?
Speaker 1:he's playing a ukulele yeah, he was playing a ukulele and marie on the cornet. It's a great song and when she whips that thing out, yeah, where's, where is she keeping it so good? It's amazing. And then he's like you know why you're playing that I wish I could go up through it. I was just thinking I could go up through it, go through here, come through there and then ride up and give you a kiss. It's like, well, why didn't you? I didn't want to get spit all over me.
Speaker 2:So what's the thing with him when he tries to kiss her?
Speaker 1:She just doesn't want to kiss.
Speaker 2:Yeah, push it away.
Speaker 1:It's just like she just said why didn't you? And then he's like because I didn't want to spit on me. And then he tries to kiss her. She's like no, it's like no, she, uh, uh. She fights back, uh, even though she just don't kiss. It's like, uh, she says she doesn't want to marry someone without a special purpose, but luckily he has a special purpose.
Speaker 2:She's down for that, though, yeah so they later.
Speaker 1:They're in bed. Naven r johnson, you look so beautiful and peaceful. You almost look dead, and I'm glad because there's something I want to say that I've always been very difficult for me to say I slip the sheet, the sheet I slit on the slitted sheet. I sit there.
Speaker 1:I've never been relaxed enough around anyone to say that and then he tells her how the four weeks have they have been together have been like nine weeks. Should I do it? Should I do the quote? Okay, I know we've only known each other for four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days and the third day seemed like a week again. The fourth day seemed like eight days, and the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed like just like a day. And then you came back later on the sixth day in the evening when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days. So in the evening it seemed like two days, spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days. So at the end of the sixth day to the seventh day it seemed like a total of five days, and the sixth day seemed like a week and a half.
Speaker 2:I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it. It's probably a good thing. She was asleep this whole time. She would have had second thoughts.
Speaker 1:Like who just Don't? You wish you could just come up with that.
Speaker 2:Don't you wish you just sat down and come up with?
Speaker 1:something that funny. That's what I think about when I watch comedies. I'm like I couldn't do it. I wish I could be a writer. I couldn't write funny. I feel like I have my quirks and my bits I do like just in person, but I could never just do that. Yeah, it takes talent, thanks.
Speaker 2:Jason, something I don't have.
Speaker 1:So Navin and Marie. They're falling in love, but Marie reluctantly decides to leave him because of his lack of financial security. He's in the bathtub, just like I'm having the greatest day of my life. Nothing bad will ever happen. He starts singing and then she starts blowing her cornet. He's like rawr.
Speaker 1:So, why does she leave? Because of financial security. Because her mother said she has to find someone financially stable. Oh right, yeah. So she writes a note and slips it out while Navin is in the bath, where Navin thinks that she has agreed to marry him. But it's just the shithead barking. You got the thermos song. And then he goes and he like hey, where are you at? And reads a note.
Speaker 1:Because it's all wet, so that bit doesn't work for me. I don't know why that bit doesn't work for me. That's what I was like okay, let's move on. But then he runs out covering himself with the dog, and I love it. It's completely different.
Speaker 2:He grabs the other dog.
Speaker 1:It's a completely different dog too. If you look at it. It's like not nearly as shaggy and then grabs the neighbor's dog. So then Navin's gonna move to LA, so he tries to say goodbye to Shithead, who can't wait to leave him. Yeah, so, garish, shithead, I'm leaving he immediately runs away. He's like hey get back here. Wait a second, you're coming with me and he's just like. Oh fuck, I was just kidding, yeah, and then he's just like and whenever he runs, he's like get back here, you're coming with me.
Speaker 2:He's like and, with a shithead leading the way, he's dragging him down the highway.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so good. So Davis Navin takes shithead and travels to Los Angeles. They're the gunmen who try to kill him. Now it's sane and working as a private investigator, tracks him down and gives him the letter from Stan requesting a meeting. I love it. It's like shithead get him, attacks him, starts throwing popcorn at him it's like the never-ending bowl of popcorn he has and then climbs a fence, even though you can just open it. Always a good bit when someone climbs a fence and someone just like walks right there. Yeah, that's actually, that's pretty, it's pretty neat, it's pretty neat. So, yeah, stan Fox.
Speaker 2:I'm going to grab every mattress that I find out in the city.
Speaker 1:Oh, you can grab mega bed. Yes, I have two beds stacked on top of each other we call it mega bed.
Speaker 2:It's almost taller than my wife.
Speaker 1:It's great. If anybody needs a bed. We have two. It's like Megadesk in the office. But it turns out Stan Fox invested in his eyeglass thing and it's called the OptiGrab because it's optical and it grabs and it's selling big and he's entitled to half the profits. Stan gives him a check of $250,000 as his first installment of his share of profits, but Navin only thinks it's 250 big ones until he goes to the bank and then he realizes the bank's like holy shit, I thought it was just $250. And then he reads the bank's like holy shit, I thought it was $250. And then he reads the check and he's like what?
Speaker 2:yeah, they were just looking at it thinking we're gonna take this man for everything yeah, but Navin now extremely rich.
Speaker 1:He sends a postcard to Harry and he finds and marries Marie. Harry's like wow, the guy said he did it and he did it. Kid's got integrity, he's got integrity. And Marie and him, they buy an extravagant mansion. Their life becomes one splendor and nonstop partying. But I do love the mall shop bit. Wherever he goes to find her, they're like she's put this green mask over the old man and then he gives him $100 and switch places, pulls it off. It's like, wow, this shit really works.
Speaker 2:She thinks it's still her husband.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and he's like hey, get off my husband very good bit, um, and then it's like, yeah, we immediately got married and it's like we found a priest pretty easily and it's, just like you know, very stereotypical like voodoo type priest thingy.
Speaker 2:It's like African Saharan or something. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:It's like we were very happy that we had a religious wedding. It's like a sacrifice, almost like a voodoo doll and like a little thing it's like what the Something that my non-evaged will that's yeah.
Speaker 1:So he tells his parents about the house. It's like you know how I always said that I wanted a pool with hedges shaped with S's. So that's a real mansion that they used. They loved it because it allowed them to shoot like B-roll and stuff on the other side. So like, while he's going through the mansion bit, they're shooting that while like doing the dancing scene, what does the B-roll mean? B roll, that's a, I guess a role would be considered like you know, people talking and like the actual, but it's not like the Tootsie roll.
Speaker 1:No no, no, it's just like a B roll is footage you play over while people are doing voiceovers like in news coverage like whenever they're talking about the news, all the stuff, yeah, and he's talking over it they're talking about a mall and the news they're showing videos of malls.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, okay, I'm sorry, but like back at the gas station, when the car pulls up, then he gets a, he reads the paper that the car is stolen. Yeah, okay, anyway. A lot of things happen real quick in newspapers in this movie that's true.
Speaker 1:It's like everything just immediately happens. Everything's a gag.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, you know how I would always talk to dad about a spinning bed with crazy fake shit on the walls.
Speaker 1:You know how I always told said that I wanted a room full of random friends that are constantly around.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my own disco dance studio with dancers.
Speaker 1:It's like five minutes and it's great. It just gets funnier and funnier. The badass house Wondering who it was and before they got a house they also had like maids and living there in a butler In their tiny little apartment. I love it. They're all like the girls, like dressed in like a nightgown and stuff and I'm like they're just living there he gives them his weekly paycheck of three quarters of a million dollars they're like you should get a bigger house.
Speaker 1:So yeah, now we're in the new house. We see that the he's writing the letter still and that the maid is gonna have to pay a penalty. A death penalty because of an early withdrawal. What firing squad? It's his wife. A death penalty because of an early withdrawal.
Speaker 2:It's like what Firing squad? It's his wife.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's the butler's wife and it's like, well, you know, that's a, that's the law, so we have to do it, and then I love like later on, there's like constantly it's like well, I can't stay sad forever.
Speaker 2:It's like well, I can't stay sad forever. Just like five minutes later, um, and then we, um. He's like.
Speaker 1:I can't remember what that's like, or something when his wife gave him another gold chain. Yeah, um, and then, like, the butler brings him a drink with an umbrella in it and it looks just like a little magazine. It says be somebody, um. And then the butler says, yeah, someone's uh here for charity. It's like get them out of here, so many people have less money than me. And then we get it. Yeah, the preacher, like a priest, comes in and this is like something terrible has been going on in my country. I just want to warn you before you watch this. It's brutal.
Speaker 2:I did not remember this part.
Speaker 1:Yeah, me neither, and it's Steve Martin being a juggler.
Speaker 2:And when they're juggling the cats, it's obvious that they're not real, but it's so fun.
Speaker 1:What really gets me is all the cats in the audience.
Speaker 2:People brought their cats in the audience Everybody's going fucking nuts holding cats.
Speaker 1:You know I like cock fights, so they always like have their chickens in the audience. It's like in this they have the cats in the audience.
Speaker 2:Like they're gonna get out on this faction.
Speaker 1:I just hate to see what the world's coming to, though. So some people come over trying to have him open some apartments which he pretends to know everything about Everything they say is a bad idea, unethical shit. And he's like ah, yes, that sounds lovely. Because he has no idea and he will do it until they say that they will keep black people out and he gets upset and he thinks he's black still and goes all Bruce Lee on him. This is the part that I didn't know.
Speaker 1:The slow burn kick ass scene Because instead of black, they're saying the N word.
Speaker 2:Yeah, with a hard R, hard R yeah.
Speaker 1:Like, when that was happening, I was like oh yeah, I forgot You're looking at one. You're looking at one and then we have the bit in the restaurant where he wants the newest wine possible. And then you got the snail bit where he's like don't look down. I can't believe that you have snails here. It's like you expect a fancy place like this wouldn't have snails in there.
Speaker 2:Did she just order the escargot?
Speaker 1:Yep. And then he's like I told you we should've got our cheese sandwiches that you talked us out of. Escargot's pretty good. You ever had it, I never had it. It's pretty good.
Speaker 2:Is it gooey? No, it was kind of like Is it sticky? The way they prepared it? It is sticky. It was very like meat kind of tender, like little pieces of meat, almost Cool. It was very salty.
Speaker 1:I love a little bit of salt, they're pretty good, and then we got the knife throwing bit. It's like you know how you told me to spend money on useless pieces of hollies. Why are they throwing butcher knives? Those are not the knives you throw. And why is a bull?
Speaker 2:fighting guy teaching her how to do it. Don't know.
Speaker 1:What is happening in this movie Turns out. This movie is a little bit wacky.
Speaker 2:Jason, are rich people just silly? Yeah, I guess so. Is that like I guess?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would have probably spent my money more like Blank Check did in the movie. Blank Check yeah, all kinds of fun shit, a lot of go-karts, a lot of one million dollars, yeah, uh she, she tries the knife throwing bit doesn't hit a balloon that he just for some reason had in his pocket?
Speaker 2:yeah, do you have a balloon?
Speaker 1:yeah, no, oh yeah I do. It's almost hits his penis and she gets all sad and I'm not good at nothing, oh man. Then later we're at a dance party and an interview comes on with naven, but it gets interrupted immediately because a motion picture director carl reiner, the actual director of the movie files a class action lawsuit against Navin, claiming that the invention causes eyes to be crossed and, as a result, the death of a stunt driver in the film he was making Cause like the car for a full minute, like Rex.
Speaker 1:Then he's like cut Always a good bit and then, like everybody at his party has those glasses on, they take them off it's like a magnet for your eyes. Yeah, you know, I was thinking, I was like no, that's so dumb. But then I was like, oh yeah, that would be terrible to look at stupid.
Speaker 2:yeah, looks stupid, yeah. I mean I don't think anyone would ever wear them. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I feel like if they brought that now people would be like this is kind of cool.
Speaker 2:That would be kind of fun. You know throwback.
Speaker 1:But I mean the handle to like take it off, like cause that bit when he says, cause I wear glasses. Yeah, cause it takes it off, it bends them like looser and looser. I always do that.
Speaker 2:I'm going to have to freaking, get new glasses, opti-grabs let's do it, just need to get contacts. If we ever take part in a like a seventies night somewhere, hell yeah, I think I'm going to do it. Try to find a way to get some of these opti-grabs and just dress like Steve Martin.
Speaker 1:There'll be like five people in there.
Speaker 2:They're like, everyone who would have gotten the joke has been long dead, or they'll be like you know what that's actually from the 1979s.
Speaker 1:So technically like you should do more 1975 stuff Too close to the 80s. But yeah, it turns out. Nearly 10 million other people have the same complaint, including the judge and prosecution.
Speaker 2:They all are cross-eyed and are rewarded 10 million in damages, so he has the right 10 million $1.09.
Speaker 1:It's like why even sue him at that point? The guy that originally sued him is probably pissed. So yeah, he writes 10 million people a check for $1.09.
Speaker 2:He probably had the option to have him printed, but wanted to be more personal. Yeah, I guess. So he probably had the option to have him printed. Yeah, but wanted to be more personal. Yeah, I guess so so is that his pants right now, yeah so Marie comes in.
Speaker 1:she's in her dress from her old ratty dress from the beach. That looks perfectly fine and normal. Um, just be like I just miss us. I miss the way we were on our first date. She's got her fucking cornet to see, like I just miss us. I miss the way we were on her first date. She's got her fucking cornet with her still. And then so essentially they're breaking up and she regrets requiring Navin to be rich. Turns out money doesn't solve everything, so Navin's like all right then. Well, I'm going to go then and I don't need any of this. I don't need this stuff and I don't need you. I don't need anything Except this, except an ashtray.
Speaker 1:And that's the only thing I need Is this I don't need this or this, just this ashtray and this paddle game the ashtray and the paddle game. That's all I need. And this remote control, the as control. The ashtray, the paddle game, the remote control, that's all I need. And these matches the ashtray and these matches and the remote control and a paddle ball and this lamp the ashtray this paddle ball, remote control and the lamp.
Speaker 1:That's all I need, and that's all I need too. I don't need one thing, other thing, not one. I need this, the paddle game and the chair and the matches, for sure. Well, what are you looking at? What do you think I'm some kind of jerk or something? Roll credits and that's all I need, and walks outside. This is ashtray remote control, the paddle game, the magazine and the chair Outside, and I don't need one other thing except my dog.
Speaker 2:Shithead growls at him I don't need my dog. And then, like all the stuff gets taken from him immediately.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything. And then he's just walking the streets with his pants down all this stuff it's a thermos and then he gives it all away so he could get this thermos the thermos he said he was going to get Marie. His story now told. He reigns himself to a life of misery and memories of Marie, but to his amazed joys, she suddenly appears along with Navin's family in some more good news. Having carefully invested the small sums of money he sent home throughout the film, they become wealthy themselves. They pick him up off the street, he and Marie move back home into the Johnsons' new house.
Speaker 1:The and Marie move back home into the Johnson's new house. The exact same house just times two. It's very identical. Everything's just bigger. That's it.
Speaker 2:It's almost like they just kind of widened the shot a little bit, just to make it look bigger.
Speaker 1:But it's like the door's like two times bigger than everybody Such a good bit.
Speaker 2:In my memory I thought the rocking chair the grandma was sitting in was bigger too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I did too I thought everything got big.
Speaker 2:I probably would have been safe for grandma.
Speaker 1:And now, once again, Navin dances on the porch to folk songs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's got moves this time with perfect rhythm yes, the end Beautiful. A story for the ages. It's a happy black family in Mississippi.
Speaker 1:Yep, it's like like now is marie black now that she joins the family? That's how it works. I mean, if it's just like you're in this family, you're black, you're black, right, yeah, yeah, love to see it, you know love to see it.
Speaker 1:So we're gonna hit our first category the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. So we discuss the good of the film, something we like, the bad, something we didn't. The ugly, something that didn't age well, the fine, something that did age well. So the good, I mean it's steve martin, yeah, and just like all his little bits, constant gags, you can't take a breath.
Speaker 2:Uh, there's no time to fake.
Speaker 1:There's always gagging the only thing, the only thing that gags more some more.
Speaker 2:Oh no, don't do it, jesse. Don't do it. Step back from the ledge god I'm not gonna do it, I'm not gonna say it gag reflex is crazy.
Speaker 1:Good, I'm not gonna say it, but yeah, steve Martin, so good he's just like even like his like. This is the small stuff he did in the movie. It was killing me. Just like, just like the tiny little.
Speaker 2:The little dance he does when he first learns how to dance. He just kind of walks forward, walks back.
Speaker 1:Oh it's so good On my way it's like why is it funny?
Speaker 2:I don't get why it's funny, but I love it.
Speaker 1:It's so good, all right.
Speaker 2:What do you got? Same thing, just yeah, but they're all pretty good. I'd say like almost all of them hit pretty well, yeah, for the bad for me.
Speaker 1:I didn't really put anything. I mean, I felt like there's some points like maybe trim four minutes off the movie, but that's all. I'm always going to say that about a movie. Yeah, other than that I didn't have anything.
Speaker 2:I thought the biker lady with him. She went through that tiny stunt, yeah, and then fell.
Speaker 1:I guess that was the bit, because she had a rope on her back, so every time she breaks through it purposely pulls her back.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's funny. I don't know that girl's got something. I can't really find anything that girl definitely has bulging discs and herniated discs oh yeah, she's probably she's got whiplash or dead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think she's still alive uh, the ugly is uh the inward bit. Yes, that's pretty bad. Yeah, I mean, he does kick their ass, yeah, and it he himself just thought he was.
Speaker 1:He kicks the guy in the balls yeah, he's got metal balls, like what is it what they call them? Like still balling him. I can't remember. He himself just thought he was one. He kicks the guy in the balls yeah, he's got metal balls, like what is it? What'd they call him? Like still balling him. I can't remember. Yeah, that's pretty much all I had for the ugly, sure, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's an easy one. Yeah, kind of softball right there.
Speaker 1:And for the fine what aged well is absurd comedies, gags on gags on gags.
Speaker 2:Just like her, I think this movie aged pretty fucking good. Yeah, I could not believe that I hadn't seen this in so long.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I couldn't remember any of it, but it was just so funny. Yeah, as it started going, I was like it just waves over me.
Speaker 2:I'm like ah, remember how hilarious this is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that's that category. Now we're going to do double feature, a movie that pairs well like a nice, fine 2025 Pinot.
Speaker 2:Grigio.
Speaker 1:A nice fresh wine. I picked the great, wonderful funny movie that feels very similar to this Fletch Fletch. Yeah, it's got a Chevy Chase. It's while working undercover wisecracking newspaper reporter Erwin Fletch Fletcher is offered a large sum by a millionaire with a terminal disease to kill him. Intrigued, fletch decides to unearth the full story behind the offer offer.
Speaker 2:It's just uh, it's classic chevy chase comedy.
Speaker 1:It's very like you know this is pretty good. It's similar to this, uh, maybe not as gag heavy but, like most of the jokes, are just gags um god, we got something gags just keep thinking of a joke, but it's got one of my favorite lines ever. He walks into, uh, this girl's place that he likes, uh she's in a towel, and he pulls up, he opens, she opens the door. It's like, hey, I just hit a water buffalo, can I borrow your?
Speaker 2:towel.
Speaker 1:Natalie hates how much I like that joke. Yeah, what do you got for double feature?
Speaker 2:I was going to say I would want to rewatch the three amigos. I mean, we talked about it. Yeah but I remember just, I love Steve Martin so much, and not everything he's done has been amazing, sure, but when he's with two other heavy hitters, it's oh man.
Speaker 1:I have to watch it again and Martin Short and him are just like a great pair. Chevy Chase is kind of the oddball on that one, honestly, but I mean he's still great. But you'd almost want to kind of see like I don't know. It'd be like Bill Murray would probably have been the better.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Maybe I don't know why.
Speaker 1:I'm saying that I haven't seen three amigos since I was a kid. Oh, that's what I'm saying. Knowing Chevy Chase and how I'm like he really doesn't even fit in with us too. We're like best friends.
Speaker 2:Well, he was just hugely popular at that time. That's why.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 2:Man I got to watch. It was like Christmas vacation and shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, I really do need to rewatch that.
Speaker 2:The only thing I remember about it is when they did their little thing together. They like, they slapped themselves in the and then they go, they thrust and cough what?
Speaker 1:Yes, please, yes, please. So that's our episode on.
Speaker 2:The jerk.
Speaker 1:I completely forgot what movie we just talked about for nearly an hour. So make sure you join us next week, though, because we're going to change things up. We're going to get a little bit serious, we're going to get a little bit of sci-fi. We're going to talk about some. Ai and stuff, because we're doing ex-Machina baby. Hell yeah, I can't wait to watch it Directed by the great, the absolute great, alex Garland.
Speaker 1:He wrote 28 Days Later he did Annihilation, civil War, men, nice, it's great, love him. It's got Domino Gleason in it, alicia Vikander, oscar Isaac they crush. There's gonna be a dance scene with Oscar Isaac and you're gonna be like, damn, that boy has got charisma. And it's great. The riz, he's got the riz. He's going to riz all over everybody. So, yeah, join us next week for that. Jason hasn't seen it, so it's going to be fucking awesome. I can't wait, can't wait for him to be like Crikey. That's good.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I wanted to say, after we did attack the block and I feel like there's a theory here we may have our finger on the pulse of the youth in their generation yeah, because after we did, immediately after we did attack the block and I did not watch that with my kids they started saying bro, they started saying trust, trust all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah did we? I think we did do we're you know what? The 20 people that follow us?
Speaker 2:Spread like wildfire, Trust bro.
Speaker 1:It is Well. I mean, I guess I was just like we went from trust to church, now back to trust. Yeah, so this is a good podcast, so trust us you know, church praise.
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