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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
What happens when the most celebrated news anchor in San Diego faces his greatest challenge yet – sharing the spotlight with a woman? Will Ferrell's legendary comedy about a 1970s news team confronting changing gender dynamics continues to spark laughter and debate nearly two decades after its release.
Our conversation explores the magic behind Anchorman's success – the remarkable ensemble cast and Adam McKay's improvisational directing style. We discuss how the movie's quotability became both its greatest strength and potential weakness, with fans endlessly repeating lines like "I'm in a glass case of emotion!" and "60% of the time, it works every time." Does Anchorman still hold up as a comedy classic, or has familiarity diminished its impact?
This episode celebrates a particular golden age of comedy filmmaking from the early 2000s that gave us classics like Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, and Superbad. Join us for a nostalgic dive into one of Will Ferrell's greatest creations and discover why, despite being quoted to death, Anchorman remains a comedy that can still make us laugh when we revisit it. Stay classy, podcast listeners!
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Jason, we got to talk about something. What's going on? People have been beating down my door. Wow, the streets are on fire. The president had to put cops in the streets of Washington DC because people have been going crazy. That was you. That was my fault.
Speaker 2:That was because of you. It's amazing. What did you do?
Speaker 1:People have been yelling. They've been emailing me.
Speaker 2:I have death threats everywhere I just in emailing me I have death threat, threats everywhere.
Speaker 1:I just in the sky. They're writing it in the sky hello. After I thought, mainly because of myself and two other people in this world, I thought I should get rid of the hello. It turns out it's the reason people get up every morning. It's me saying hello, so you can't make everyone happy. You know, I, I just like we're. We're not going to just say welcome. Apparently, that's for plebs, and all my personality is built in my hello, amazing. So I guess you know hello, that's a powerful word Actually. No, we're going to. It's going to be like a big hello All right, or as weird as I think I sound when I edit and say hello, all right. And the podcast will start in three hellos, two hellos, one hello, 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 and I'm Jason. They've done studies. You know, 60% of the time it works every time, because this week we recommend Anchorman, the Legend of Ron Burgundy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been stuck in this glass box for so long.
Speaker 1:That's actually probably like my favorite part of the movie, that scene, just him crying. Will Ferrell, his little beady ass eyes. I love him. Love him with a giant beard. It's like hair, or I guess he doesn't. I love when at the end he has the giant beard. I'm like man, it makes your eyes smaller somehow.
Speaker 2:But so my eyes are pretty. He has the giant beard. I'm like man. It makes your eyes smaller somehow, but so my eyes are pretty small too. Maybe I should shave. Yeah, yeah, you do, you have, I've got protruding brows. I've got like the Neanderthal brow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, you and Will Ferrell kind of have like similar face roll features. I can't tell. If you were a man I would punch you. A lot of like the funniest stuff is also at the beginning. How now, brown cow, I love scotch Scotch, scotch scotch. So before we keep just constantly rambling on about every quote, no-transcript, this was probably considered like one of the funniest movies ever. Yeah, and it was just constantly quoted by everybody constantly.
Speaker 1:It's one of the most quotable movies you'll ever find, and there's even one point where there was people I'm just like. I don't even want to hang out with these people. They won't shut up about Anchorman. Here's the thing. I love Anchorman, but it has been quoted to death.
Speaker 2:So do you think this movie still holds up? Or does this still make you laugh?
Speaker 1:Not as much anymore, I think as much as I hate to admit, I think we've matured. That fucking sucks, or?
Speaker 2:maybe it's because it has been beaten to death. I think well.
Speaker 1:I've probably watched this movie. I mean, we got to be. It's not even in the teens, it's got to be in the 20s. I mean people. It was just always on when I was growing up, like this and Talladega Nights. I could all the time watching.
Speaker 2:When I was in the army, everybody quoted this movie constantly. And when you're stuck in a truck full of guys that only quote this movie, you start to hate it. It's science.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's people just should have shut up about it a little bit. I think we'd still find I mean.
Speaker 1:I still find it funny, like I'm watching it and I'm complete enjoyment. It was just I watched it before I took notes and then I watched it when I took notes and I laughed a little bit more when I took notes. But when I first watched it it was just me and Natalie were killing time before we had to go pick up our car and I was just like I haven't really laughed yet, there's just been. It was honestly I found laughs in like the small parts between, like the what used to give me big laughs, which then makes me think like absolutely great. But it's just like I've seen it so much and I've done it so much and like here's the thing we're gonna do, this podcast and even though we're starting off a little negative towards how we feel about it, now we're gonna start doing the quotes and we're just gonna be laughing this entire podcast.
Speaker 2:It does give you good feelings. Yeah, it's like I think it's a perfect comedy uh and finding out more about the movie is is also good Cause you know, like the Mexican restaurant they go to yes, it's called we spit, so good, oh, I think um.
Speaker 1:I mean, will Ferrell was at his peak during this.
Speaker 2:I mean he had old school elf.
Speaker 1:Talladega nights anchorman, I mean just those alone, didf. Yeah, talladega Nights Anchorman, I mean just those alone. Did you read about?
Speaker 2:what the first script of the movie was, what the movie was about. Yes, isn't that incredible, yeah.
Speaker 1:So we'll go ahead and hop into some of the facts. So co-writer and director Adam McKay has said that in the first draft of the script the story was about a plane load of news anchors who crashed in the mountains and discovered that the plane which they collided was carrying monkeys and martial arts equipment, leading to a battle between cannibalistic newsmen and star-throwing monkeys. I'd watch that too. I would watch it, but thank God we didn't get that right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess so It'd probably been too much yeah, maybe Like the fight scene just constantly.
Speaker 1:And it's Because Adam McKay never made a movie kind of like that.
Speaker 2:His movies were ridiculous, but he did Talladega Nights, the other guys and then he went into more political comedy and things like that and he was doing the Funny or Die website with Will Ferrell. It helped him create that.
Speaker 1:Dude, the little kid landlord. Yes, she's holding a beer, it's the funny it's like are you drunk right now? You can't even stand up. That was some of the funniest stuff growing up. I miss all those videos Like when we were young. It's like Charlie the Charlie the unicorn or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my kids are just discovering Charlie the unicorn. What.
Speaker 1:Wait, it's a bridge. I don't even remember what the? Punchline is it's a bridge. Did you? Did you watch the video where it's like the guy's like on lsd or something in a closet and it's just like a video of a lizard and he's just kind of doing quotes from that, like the guy was doing when they were recording him, like on lsd or whatever. Oh wow.
Speaker 1:And it's like mr walkway, mr walk up and down me. Mr balloon hands, whose chair is that? Not my chair, not my problem. I think I may have seen that. Yeah, it's like Mr Walkway. Mr Walk up and down me. Mr Balloon Hands, whose chair is that? Not my chair, not my problem.
Speaker 2:I may have seen that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's me and my wife Love that video. We caught it any time that we think about it. If we see balloons, we're like Mr Balloon Hands.
Speaker 2:I used to. There was a website called Albino Black Sheep that I used to look at all the time and it had um, the the end of the how the earth, how the earth ends, or something how the world, how the world ends and it's like here's the earth, you know, like it's just silly shit. Yeah, I love that like so good millennial comedy that we had for a while there like I miss it.
Speaker 1:um, this movie Anchorman is just loaded with some of the funniest people, and it's honestly a shame that there's so many funny people in it, because not all the funny people get to say their funny stuff. Amy Poehler at one point was in this movie and they cut her out completely. Wow, katherine Hahn, she's the one that gives Veronica Cornerstone the idea to use the teleprompter.
Speaker 1:yeah, she's like one of the funniest actresses ever, and she has almost zero lines in this movie and it I was like, oh fuck, I always forget like katherine hahn's in this, and then you just kind of see her in the background. She just like laughs and stuff and makes faces, but then doesn't really get to do anything it's a shame for a movie that's about empowering women.
Speaker 2:there's not a lot of women. That's the joke of it. Stop it, I'm actually.
Speaker 1:I'll actually say another little fun fact about it. So how they came up with the idea of this movie, let's see. So the idea for the film came after Will Ferrell watched a lifetime documentary on an anchor woman from the 1970s, so it was titled Intimate Portrait of Jessica Savage. The biography followed the journalist's road to becoming one of the first women network news anchors quoted from Will Ferrell, I think. Here there were all these interviews with anchorman of the day who were talking about how upset they had been that a woman had come into the work with them. We were laughing, will Ferrell says. We were laughing so hard that these guys with perfect ties admitting that they were completely freaked out by a woman coming into the news office. So it is about her, but it's mainly about how Bears they've endangered the whole office. It's just the way he says it because he's like crying the whole time. I heard that bears can smell the woman's period. They can smell the menstruation. So, steve Carell, I mean I feel like this made him. Have you ever?
Speaker 2:met a news anchor before. I've met people that went and became news anchors, so I haven't really met any, but I remember driving through Nashville on the way to Memphis and I saw these two at the time for News Channel 5 in Tennessee. It was like.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, you got to meet one of them. I didn't meet them.
Speaker 2:They were in the car next to me, in a News Channel 5 car, and their hair was immaculate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2:They had makeup done, they were ready for camera and I looked at them and then both of them looked at me the the one of them was driving. It's like invasion of the body, stashers yeah, they both looked at me and gave me the like twinkling smiles and like, like, watch the road man we're always perfect.
Speaker 1:they like put point like their finger down you and like wink and like you see a little like they're smiling, you got a little twinkle in their teeth, that's exactly.
Speaker 2:They were perfect. Everything was in place. That's wild, it was incredible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there has to be, you have to be like there really is a lot of acting. I feel like in being an anchor right, I mean, you can't bring anything into your day that you've gone through. You have to go and you have to be perfect and pristine. You have to be on, you have to live the life of Ron Burgundy. You can't Like. I've never seen a news anchor. They may look a little tired, but I've never seen them act tired on the news. It's wild. They have to completely shut off everything and just be like. That's why I guess, have you ever read a teleprompter? No, no, I got two at school when I was at MTSU, as probably most people who listen to this podcast would not be surprised about the fact that I wasn't good at it because I'm bad at reading.
Speaker 1:Like with my notes.
Speaker 2:It's pretty obvious that I should never have a news anchor, and I wasn't. I could have been. I could have been one of those that you see now. They're just making fun of them for messing up.
Speaker 1:Oh those are the best, especially the weatherman yes, like anytime, like I'm going through instagram reels.
Speaker 1:When I see it I'm like natalie has to see this, natalie has to see this. And then I'll get like Natalie has to see this, natalie has to see this, and then I'll get like five in a row, I'm like she has to see all these, all right. So the voiceover narration for the film's opening title sequence was provided by Bill Curtis, who you've probably heard before. He was a longtime television news anchor during the 1970s for both CBS Early Morning News, diane Sawyer and WBBM News in Chicago Diane Sawyer and WBBM News in Chicago so you might recognize his voice from his hosting various TV documentary programs, including American Justice, cold Case Files Come on, you've got to watch Cold Case Files Investigative reports and biography Many more individual projects. Curtis also appeared in his uncredited role in 1997 episode of Saturday Night Live during the tenure of Will Ferrell on the show. That's like ha ha, that's how they met.
Speaker 2:And Will Ferrell graduated with a degree in journalism. Yeah, really, that's cool. I did not know that. And he played the flute since he was in elementary school.
Speaker 1:Elementary school, he did not play the flute in the movie, though. No, I have an aqua love, so the first draft of the screenplay actually had different actors playing some roles, so Champ was actually supposed to be John C Reilly. Yeah, he turned down the role to be in the Aviator and John C Reilly says he regrets that decision.
Speaker 2:The Aviator was okay, but nobody talks about it. Britt.
Speaker 1:Tamlin was supposed to be Chris Parnell, who's actually uh, I can't remember his name in this, but he's the poop mouth guy. Poop mouth, that's also one of my favorite parts. Brian Fantano was supposed to be Ben Stiller. Yes, that would have also worked, but I'm glad it's Paul Rudd. Yeah, he's kind of I like Paul Rudd. He's kind of maybe my favorite part, pretty good. Ed Harkin was supposed to be Ed Harris. I don't know if you remember him. Oh, really, have you ever seen the Abyss? Yeah, yeah, he's the main in.
Speaker 2:Abyss.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's a great actor, garth.
Speaker 2:I knew you would have hated this movie.
Speaker 1:Garth, who was Actually. That's who played. That's who Chris Parnell played. He played Garth, that's right, that's his name. Oh yeah, he's supposed to be Dan Aykroyd. Oh shit, no, no. And then Frank Vichard, who is, uh, uh, luke Luke, uh, you fuck. Wilson. Luke Wilson, one of the best, funniest American actors that we don't talk about enough.
Speaker 2:Supposed to be Alec Baldwin wow, I think those, those are people. That are it. It's a different movie, too serious. Yeah, it is a wildly different movie. Much drier humor, I think.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Especially Aykroyd and Baldwin. Yeah, Like I mean Ed Harkin playing.
Speaker 2:Well, baldwin might've been okay, he's pretty silly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I just I just there's. There's something about, I mean, ed Harris playing Ed Harkin would be weird, like Fred Willards is too good at everything he has to be in this movie. But yeah, so the film had been pitched to DreamWorks almost 20 times before. Following the cess of old school and Elf, dreamworks had little faith in the film, doubting Will Ferrell and Adam McKay could pull off an entire film based on news anchors. The film grossed $84 million domestically and McKay had so much extra footage she was able to make a second film out of it. I'm so glad they made a second one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, here's the thing.
Speaker 1:I wish they just came out with a second film with just the footage that they didn't use, so they would do like they would just spend 20 minutes just saying lines.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's all improv.
Speaker 1:It's all improv. It's crazy, it's awesome, it's like I always feel like it's improv movies.
Speaker 2:Sometimes improv is bad, so like I could see how they would put it in. Did you ever see Will Ferrell on the Conan O'Brien's late night show? I'm pretty sure I have, but he was talking about putting pee pee in a shot glass. He's like some kids asked him for. He's like some kids asked me to buy them beer, but I gave him a shot of peepee. It was so weird. Oh, it was cancel welfare oh cancel. Oh, I don't think he deserves to be canceled for that.
Speaker 1:I just hey those kids shouldn't, kids shouldn't have been asking for beer.
Speaker 2:They got what they got.
Speaker 1:I mean, did they drink it?
Speaker 2:I mean, no, I mean it was just the improv, kind of a joke thing.
Speaker 1:Oh my bad.
Speaker 2:That's why I was just saying that improv is sometimes, most of the time, it's probably bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm sure that because I think they it'd be like a two minute scene and they'd spend 20 minutes just doing like 20 different takes. Yeah, it's like I think they said they did like six takes for every single line, almost just to add in jokes. Um, I'm gonna finish out the facts with probably my favorite one. So, during an october 2019 av club interview with tim robbins, he mentioned that he agreed to take the small roles in high fidelity and Anchorman, even though he knew he'd be paid very little for them, because they promised to make him a custom wig for each of the roles, both, which he got to keep after filming ended. Robbins said that he still owns both wigs as of 2019. He often uses them for Halloween costumes. How are you just like? I got so much free time that I just need some wigs, so I'm gonna do these small movies. If I had wigs, I'd wear them. That's true. I have a garth wig from wayne's world, it's terrible, it's great, it looks terrible I look too pretty.
Speaker 1:He looks terrible with it. It wasn't even actually. I don't even think it's the actual Garth wig. I think I just had to find a wig or something like that.
Speaker 1:But yeah, man, I think we should just hop right into the plot of the movie. But first we're going to ask the audience what's the point of this movie. I think it's just the laugh, but let's find out at the end. All right, let's hop in to Anchorman baby. So in the mid 1970s, ron Burgundy, played by Will Ferrell, is the is the famous and sexual sexual successful anchorman from San Diego, kvwn TV, channel 4, evening News.
Speaker 1:And then we just get like this whole big, like kind of montage of him before the cameras roll. Hey, everyone, come see how good I look. And I think one of my favorite ones is when he's just kind of talking. He's like are we about ready? And they're like ron, you're on. It's like we're on, I don't believe you. Oh, it's so funny. These are. I got a lot of like my laughs from just this beginning part um. And then of course, the funny one. It's like, it's like man, I look terrible. He's like talking to the girl. It's like if you were a man I'd punch you right in the mouth. So terrible.
Speaker 2:It reminds me a lot of the anchorman from the simpsons uh, because he was always doing oh, yeah, he was like where's my cheese? Danish, and he'd get all pissed off about it. And then, as soon as the cameras would start rolling, he'd be good to go. It's like the kind of the.
Speaker 1:I mean they probably got a lot of their, some of their jokes from the Simpsons. I mean they all, I'm assuming, grew up watching the Simpsons. The Simpsons predicted everything, they predicted everything. So we so we see, works alongside his friends on the news team, fashion oriented lead field reporter Brian Fantana perfect name sportscaster champion, champ kind whammy, and a legally mentally challenged chief meteorologist, brick Tamlin.
Speaker 1:Ron does the show and everyone around the team really loves it. Ron signs off with stay classy, san Diego. The team is notified by their boss, ed Harkin, that their station has maintained the long-held status of the highest rated news program in San Diego, leading to them to throw a wild party. That's great.
Speaker 2:It's like what was the waiting? Was that the show about the waiters? Would they have a party every Saturday? I feel like that's these guys. I would like the movie. Are you thinking?
Speaker 1:what was it After party? Are you talking about the one with the movie where it's got Ron Reynolds in it, I think?
Speaker 2:Like where they just work in like almost like an Applebee's yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's where they do it and they're putting their balls on everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then like they spit in that one lady's food Gross. I can't watch that. Maybe that's the restaurant they went to yeah, but yeah, and then like, please have your attention.
Speaker 2:I've been handed an urgent and horrifying news story.
Speaker 1:I need all of you to stop what you're doing and listen.
Speaker 2:Cannonball so good.
Speaker 1:I want to work somewhere like that. I just want to be able to hold everybody's attention like that and everybody love every stupid thing I do.
Speaker 2:Well, they're all also wasted.
Speaker 1:That is true. I feel like I'm not too far from that. From my close friends, you know, I feel like I can make them laugh at almost anything, but I just want to be able to stand up at work and be like, hey guys, look at me.
Speaker 2:I never wanted to be that person.
Speaker 1:I hate attention. Actually, that sounds miserable.
Speaker 2:Everyone would talk to me and I'd be like stop talking to me. You'd sleep slowly into the pool so you don't splash anyone. It's like no one see me.
Speaker 1:It's just like go around just around the pool. So we get little snip bits from Brian, champ and Brick. That's where we kind of get like the classic Adam McKay thing that he does in all his later movies, where they talk directly to the camera. It's great we learn. Brian is the stylish kind of ladies' man of the group. His penis is named the Octagon, his testes is James Westall and Dr Kenneth Noisewater.
Speaker 2:Why the?
Speaker 1:Octagon? I don't know, because you've got to step into the Octagon here with him, I'm assuming Do they even have Octagon fighting back in the day.
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I don't know. Is it like MMA a thing back then? Is that shape even invented yet?
Speaker 1:I don't think, well, I mean, I guess stop sign. Then we see Champ. Champ is all about having fun. He wants to go see the world and take his pants off. And he wants to go see the world and take his pants off and he's got a catchphrase Whammy. That's annoying. He's great, so annoying that actor. He is David Koestner. He's in like the Office and everything like that, but when he comes in he's very much the same every time. But he's so good at it and it's great. And then we get to see Steve Carell as Brick Tamlin. He's a very nice guy, seems like.
Speaker 1:He's the best person out of all of them, except he's just mentally challenged, just so dumb. Dumb and handsome. Especially, he's just putting mayo in a toaster. So stupid.
Speaker 2:I used mayo once to make grilled cheeses. Everyone hated it. I just picked the first recipe I found online. Don't do that, I would also hate you for that.
Speaker 1:It tasted pretty good. I hate mayo. My heart loved it. Your heart loved it. Your family did not. So what it is about Steve Carell that when I see his face I love him? Maybe because he kind of looks like a child and like now that he's like grown up and you know it's kind of grayish, I'm like I mean you don't have it anymore he's still hilarious, I mean, in the office.
Speaker 2:He's just always the nicest person, just kind of dumb, always dumb and nice. He's kind of mean too. Yeah, he can be on accident.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, the show is so good at like making him an asshole constantly, kind of, but then you feel bad for him anytime he gets himself in a really dumb situation. Yeah, and I think it works because he's really dumb but he's also good at his job and it's very like how, how, I guess, when you're having so much fun at your office or you're trying to ignore your boss as much as possible, you actually work. I don't know, maybe I don't know what the point of the office is.
Speaker 2:That'll be our next episode. That's not what we're talking about.
Speaker 1:So then Ron sees an attractive blonde woman and immediately tries to hit on her. After an awkward failed pickup attempt, the woman leaves. You have an absolutely breathtaking hiney. Christina Applegate yeah, she's so pretty. She's great in this. I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal. That was a big one in high school. People love that one. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah man, I wish mine did. All right, let's restart. I'm just going to put this bluntly. I want to be on you. This is a podcast where Jesse reads quotes no no, it's a how.
Speaker 2:I mean. How would you?
Speaker 1:feel If a man used all those lines on, say, if I used all these, I would be laughing. I'd be like you know what? I'll give you a shot. If you're gonna be this funny, I'll give you a shot. You're right, I'd give me. But then it'd be like do you have any other like personalities, like are you? No, are you normal human being in any other way? No, but then, seeing how much he loves his dog, I'll be like aw. Because Ron goes home and his dog, baxter, tells him he is lonely. He's like you're so lonely, ron, and then he starts barking again. He's like you know, I don't speak Spanish. And then Baxter tells Ron he pooped in the fridge and he ate all the food. And then he tells him let's go to bed. And they put on matching PJs.
Speaker 2:I love it. I love it so much. I love watching those dogs that will not go to bed unless they have their PJs on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you seen many of those. Is that how your dog is On the internet? Your dog's a very like, looks like a very drama's the thing. You're just supposed to not succumb to their, their whines, and you just be like you don't get what you want. No, but you have to. Yeah, well, I've learned. I'm not the biggest dog she transforms me into a thirst trap.
Speaker 2:That's why I don't bring her around.
Speaker 1:Oh gotcha, it's like girls are just like oh my God, that big man's holding a tiny dog.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's more like oh dog and I'm like, hey, me too.
Speaker 1:I'm here. I'm also here. Hey eyes are up here. Hashtag me too, y'all.
Speaker 2:Oh no.
Speaker 1:Jason. Jason is more than just his dog. Found me too. All right, so the next day, ed informs the team that he has been forced by the network to hire Veronica Corningstone, a female news reporter from Asheville, north Carolina, and the same woman Ron had tried to pick up the night before. How embarrassing. We also learned that there's a panda that's going to give birth over the summer. I love that they're just like. This is horseshit. Anchorman, it's Anchorman. Yeah, the team yell about it. It's science. To Ed, it's Anchorman, not lady. I don't know what we're yelling about. Loud noises. I read somewhere that the periods attract bears.
Speaker 2:American smells of menstruation.
Speaker 1:And then you got Chip just being like I tell you what about her? She's got a nice full moon back there and then she walks in. That is what he is so good at, Such an asshole.
Speaker 2:Over the top massages he's so good at that.
Speaker 1:So the team goes for some ice cream, but run into Channel 9 news, the evening news. They are number two in the ranking. They are mad that Channel 4 is always on top and they're on their turf, apparently. News anchors story yeah, um, and I love the line from champ I will smash your face into a car windshield and then take your mother, dorothy mantooth out for a nice seafood dinner and never call her again dorothy mantooth is a saint. Vince Vaughn. Ladies and gentlemen, he's wearing one of the greatest comedic actors.
Speaker 2:He's the one wearing the yellow jacket. Yeah, he's like the main. That's from West side story.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, oh, but seriously, and like Ron's like hey, let's leave the mothers out of this. And I love like everybody on uh, ron, I love everybody on Ron's team has a witty thing. It's like even Brick. Oh yeah, did you get your soup from the toilet store?
Speaker 2:And then, after they all leave, and they win the battle, the battle.
Speaker 1:Oh, holy shit the battle Dorothy or Wes Mantooth is like with his crew around, y'all couldn't say anything, not one thing. Even the guy that can barely talk said something. There's just something about Vince Vaughn where, because of how he talks, it's so funny to me. Even if it's not a funny movie, I'm like Vince Vaughn is the funniest man on the planet yeah, like wedding singer whenever he's got the painting that the boy made him.
Speaker 2:yeah, it's like it's mine and I'm keeping it yeah.
Speaker 1:He's just. I've just always loved him, even like always. So we see Veronica is upset because her first story is about a cat fashion show. I'll go to that the new, and this is where we also oh no, we haven't got to where we see Seth Rogen yet. So the news team attempts to seduce Veronica, even though Ron doesn't want them to. They use various inept, arrogant and sexist methods, all of which backfire. Brian decides to break out his rarest clone, Sex Panther. I love the chamber like the secret chamber he keeps in.
Speaker 1:They've done studies. You know 60% of the time it works every time, every time. Ron, I don percent of the time it works every time, ron. I don't think that makes any sense. Um, and then everyone's so angry, champ, like punches. She punches him in the balls and then whenever, yeah, brian, he tries to do it, everyone just starts throwing up. You get a cameo from judd apatow's like that smells like shit, it's smells like Bigfoot's dick.
Speaker 2:It smells like a turd wrapped in or a dirty diaper wrapped in bird hair or something. Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everybody runs away. Brick tries to invite her to a pants party. Yeah, she's like are you trying to invite me to a party in your pants? He's like yeah, she's like will. She's like will you go? It's like no, Then he invites the guy there. Then he runs off and trips on something. So good, you see, it's wild. Because I wasn't doing the notes, I wasn't really laughing at any of this, but here.
Speaker 1:I'm like this is the funniest shit ever. It's the perfect movie to talk about. It's wild. So Ron ends up asking her out.
Speaker 2:It's an epidemic. Yeah, ron ends up asking her out.
Speaker 1:It's an epidemic. Yeah, Ron ends up asking her out under the guise of helping out a new co-worker after his workout bit didn't work, which she accepts even though he has a massive erection.
Speaker 2:Don't act like you're not impressed 100, 1001, 1002, 1003.
Speaker 1:Mr Burgundy, helen said that you needed to see me. Oh, miss Corningstone, I wasn't expecting company Just doing my workout tuesdays, arms and back. Well, you asked me to come by, sir. Oh, did I? Yes, oh, it's a deep burn. Oh, it's so deep I can barely fit my arm right because I did so many. Did you hear? I was counting? I was at a thousand, do you? Do you think?
Speaker 2:these pickup lines would ever work in real life, like if you find the right person.
Speaker 1:Probably, I think the first person that did it. It worked, yeah, and then they said it, and then, and then it just spread across the world.
Speaker 2:And then women, like all girlfriends and wives, saw the movie and they hated it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're like that's how I got trapped in this relationship. I thought he actually did a thousand no, no, they'd never believe that no, but then the like or it just like. Actually, someone was just working out and they were at 1,000 and the girl's just like I want him to curl me. That's how I got Natalie. She was like curl me, jesse, and I was like okay, and then I dropped her and we laughed and it was fine, just kidding, your muscles are all roped.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Like my tiny arms can't do it, you got the little weights yeah.
Speaker 1:I used to be strong. Oh, me too, not anymore, I don't know. We were all there once I sit and I work in a factory where I don't lift anything anymore. Yeah, we do walk a lot, though. Blah, blah, blah. So Brian is at the zoo with the panda King.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he just doesn't know the name, so he says the racist thing. I'm with that. The panda enclosure with a ching king so stupid we learn. Ron will read anything off the teleprompter as well, because it's like stay classy. San Diego, San Diego. I'm Ron Burgundy and he kind of makes his classic George Bush impersonation face.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you remember he is the best George Bush impersonation.
Speaker 1:Strategery, strategery he was. He's honestly out of all. Well, I don't know the new guy on SNL. I can't remember his name, but he's so good at Donald Trump.
Speaker 1:Finally, when they got Alec Baldwin out of there, who did a terrible Trump impersonation. They brought someone that actually is a cast member on the show and it's nice to see them actually use them when they have good impressions and he has like the perfect Trump Nice, which is probably the best president impersonation they have ever had on SNL. Will Ferrell's is really good and there was a I can't remember the guy that used to do George Bush. He died, mark.
Speaker 2:Hamill the Hammond.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like something Hammond. Yeah, something like that. Yeah, and, if you know, leave us some fan mail. So, during their date, ron takes her to see the city skylines and woos Veronica by playing jazz flute in his friend's Tino's, played by Fred Armisen Club. Ron Burgundy, discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.
Speaker 1:Veronica, there's no way that's correct, ron Burgundy. I'm sorry, I was just trying to impress you. I don't know what it means. I'll be honest, I don't think anyone knows what it means anymore. Scholars maintain think anyone knows what it means anymore. Scholars maintain the translation as was lost hundreds of years ago. Veronica, I think it means san diego, which san diego is actually um saint james in spanish. Diego was james. I looked it up while watching the movie. That is wild, unless google ai was wrong no, ai can never be wrong.
Speaker 2:It very well could be. Thank you, lord AI yeah, for all your help.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that line alone was in my life forever.
Speaker 2:I love how he's always flute ready to go. Yeah, it's just, I can't, I shouldn't, and he just pulled it out of its sleep.
Speaker 1:And the flute after you watch it. Once it becomes the perfect pee break, Though actually, when I watched it this time, I was like this is actually very funny. That's what made Victoria fall in love yeah that was it. It was true love ever since then. And then Veronica goes against her policy of not dating coworkers and sleeps with Ron as they go to Pleasure Town. Do me on that rainbow. Oh, wonderful Look at that rainbow, do me on it.
Speaker 2:She's so funny we should probably not talk about this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like. It's like oh, ron Burgundy, you were amazing, he comes out. You see his coffee mug first. You also were. It's like don't, let's not talk about this to anyone. Well, when in Rome, it's like that's not how you use it, because she said it earlier and he didn't know what it meant. So the next day, despite agreeing with Veronica to keep their relationship discreet, ron tells the entire newsroom that he and Veronica are in a sexual relationship. I had sex with Veronica's Morning Stone.
Speaker 1:Did I say that out loud. Yeah, you yelled it. And later he announces on air.
Speaker 2:We are currently dating and she is quite a handful in the bedroom.
Speaker 1:This is mortifying.
Speaker 2:Uh-oh, I might be in trouble for that way.
Speaker 1:Brick. Brian and Champ ask what does being in love feel like? Tell us, bro. So he sings Afternoon Delight. But also this is they're kind of saying what they love. And then he gets the brick I love the carpet, I love lamp. He's like do you actually love the lamp or are you just seeing a lamp? And then he kind of starts to cry I love lamp. It's the funniest thing. Steve Carell is so funny. It's the funniest thing. Steve Carell is so funny. Yes, like him. Just deciding to add the little cry is so good.
Speaker 2:I love Lamp. He doesn't know when he should be emotional. I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's just, oh man, thank God Steve Carell became a thing. I could watch anything with him. So Ron smooths everything over with Veronica by apologizing and saying that he loves her. His new team wants him to come to a pancake breakfast, but he is saying he has to jog with Veronica, which apparently jogging is you just kind of start running and then you just don't stop Yogging, or jogging?
Speaker 2:I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:Champ has a breakdown because he misses him. He misses him, his laugh, his scent, and he wants to get an apartment with him.
Speaker 2:Brian, how about you stop talking for a?
Speaker 1:while I feel like that should be something we're allowed to just say to people when they're talking too much. It's like how about you just stop talking for a while and not be taken as an offense?
Speaker 2:Just be like stop talking, let me help you out for a second. Yeah, shut up. Pull you out of this hole, you've dug yourself into this tailspin, you've started to go into.
Speaker 1:I feel like my wife wants to say that to me a lot. I wish more people would say that to me, yeah.
Speaker 1:Or sometimes like I'll just be constantly going on with a bit. And now he's like you're still doing this. It's like, yeah, I can't stop until you stop me. It's like it's not going to stop being funny to me until someone tells me it's no longer funny. So the next day, when Ron is on his way to the station, he throws a burrito out of his car window, accidentally hitting Jack Black in the head, causing him to crash in a fit of rage. The biker retaliates by punting.
Speaker 2:Ron's dogs Baxter off a bridge. Surely a biker wouldn't do that you don't get out.
Speaker 1:You just keep driving as fast as you can, because that biker might kill you.
Speaker 2:But he's Ron Burgundy.
Speaker 1:Everyone loves him. That is true. Everybody loves him, except for this guy.
Speaker 2:He must not have been from San Diego.
Speaker 1:No, he little role. Great Love him kicking the dog. I love in the bloopers at the end where he tries to kick it and it doesn't go. It doesn't go off the bridge. It's so good, boy, this burrito is so good. Too bad it's feeling funny. There was a Hogan movie. Let me look it up real quick and there haven't been many. Hogan movie where in the background someone throws a dog. Yeah, yeah. So in the movie, mr Nanny as Hulk.
Speaker 2:Hogan rides along the beach.
Speaker 1:Just before he wipes his mustache, a man in the background throws a dog into the water. It's not supposed to be in the movie there's just you have to look that up.
Speaker 2:He's just assassinating a dog.
Speaker 1:Yeah, holy fuck so but he just, and the Hulk didn't save it and like nobody knew it was happening, happening in the background. I don't think they even knew it when they were editing it. It's just in the background. You see a guy pick up a dog and throw it in the water.
Speaker 2:Oh, maybe it was just swimming.
Speaker 1:Maybe that was like a cut off of a point break.
Speaker 2:But throwing sandwiches has become a national crime. Now has it A federal crime? Ah, that's right, because someone threw a sandwich at an ICE agent and then ran away.
Speaker 1:I just hope that guy, I hope he got his counseling and that he's okay now.
Speaker 2:The guy who got hit by the sandwich.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know how Do you think he went back and ate the sandwich? It was still wrapped up. If someone threw a sandwich at me, my mouth would, my jaw would like dislocate, so I could just Thanks. It's my favorite food Tuna, fish and meatballs. Oh, never mind, don't give me that sandwich. With French dressing. So a distressed and introvert Ron calls Brian from a payphone and tells him what happened. He's soft. Oh man Kicked my dog off my bridge.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you what this foot and it kicked him.
Speaker 1:Will Ferrell's so good at scream crying. It's like the funniest part of the entire movie. I'm in a glass case of emotion.
Speaker 2:Brian's like I didn't understand that last part, when he's just screaming.
Speaker 1:Seriously. Will Ferrell's face is so funny when he does that. But since Ron is now late, brian frantically tells him to come to the station before Veronica is about to take his place. Veronica, I'm good at three things Fighting, screwing and reading the news. I've already done one today.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:It's like which one are you going to do Screwing? He like slaps Ed and then pushes Garth and it's like he didn't even say anything. It's so good. She's badass. Yeah, Christina Abagate crushes man, Despite Ron's efforts to arrive on time. Veronica goes on air and crushes it, even though Brian and Champ are trying to distract her. Brian just pulls off his pants and wiggling in his tighty whities he just got Champ just doing I don't know, squeezing motions.
Speaker 2:Does he have the oranges?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, oh, so good. And after Ron arrives, he has an argument with Veronica about the situation and they break up. Why can't you be proud of me as a peer and a gentleman lover?
Speaker 2:He shows up at seven for the six o'clock news.
Speaker 1:He's like I'm ready, I'm ready, let's go. Why are we all standing around? It looks like shit, yeah. So the next day Veronica is made co-anchor, much to the entire Noom team's disgust. The co-anchors soon become fierce rivals and argue with each other over both on and off the air. They're finding they're fighting Well. So we see the opening and you know they're doing their classic like walk for the news intro. And as Veronica is walking like Ron kind of pushes her a little bit and they do that thing. Where they're looking down, they're all going to look up at the camera. And every time Veronica does it they try to distract her and they're not looking. And then, as soon as she's not looking, they all look so good, um.
Speaker 1:And then like after they go off the air um well, they fight over the send-off at first, where it's like stay classy, san diego, and I can't even remember what she says.
Speaker 2:Thanks for stopping by, they're stopping by and they keep going back and forth yeah, and then it.
Speaker 1:Then it goes off. You have a dirty horse mouth.
Speaker 2:Jazz flute is for little fairy. While the credits are rolling, they can't hear them. Yeah, oh man.
Speaker 1:Then Rob and Champ keep trying to prank call her, but they are bad at it. And then Ron has the announcer reader name as Tits McGee, ron Burgundy at Tits McGee. It's like Tits McGee, ron Burgundy at Tits McGee. It's like Tits McGee was sick today. So I'm Vanessa Veronica Corningstone and Ron's I'm Tits I'm.
Speaker 2:Ron.
Speaker 1:Burgundy, oh God. And then I love the prank crawl. It's like this is your doctor, you're pregnant. And then the one where it's like, hey, yeah, we want you to do the national news. So, yeah, there's a van outside. It's like they're gonna have her kidnapped the whole time. She's like looking at them and they're like see them through the window. And they're like, oh, she's easiest. And they start laughing like they didn't see it. Childish, it's a perfect. There's nothing funnier than grown men acting childish. That's what Alien Earth is doing. Actually, it's great.
Speaker 1:So one day, while feeling down on themselves, the new team decides to buy new suits. However, on the way to the suit shop, brick, who was leading the way, gets them lost in a shady part of town. They're like didn't you know a shortcut? He's like I don't know, I don't know where we're going. So they are then confronted by Wes Mantooth and the evening news team. Tired of their rudeness and petty anger, ron challenges them to a fight. I love when Wes Mantooth kind of starts getting a few good punchlines on them. You see Brick over there, laughing alongside the wrong team. They're like Brick, get over here All armed with crude weapons.
Speaker 2:Brick has a hand grenade, Just yelling holding out.
Speaker 1:The two teams are about to fight. When they are joined by Channel 2 News team with lead anchor Frank Vichard, you're about to be in dead place. The public news team and their lead anchor, played by Tim Robbins no commercials, no mercy. And Spanish language news with lead anchor Artro Mendez, the sewers will run red with burgundy's blood. So good.
Speaker 2:The battle is one of the best scenes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because they have like a full-on melee.
Speaker 2:Brick killed a guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Brick kills someone with a trident. There's like horses, people throw nets on them. Frank Vitcher gets his arm cut off. He's like oh, come on, it's so great. People are getting pulled by horses.
Speaker 2:Oh my god and then they run away because the cops.
Speaker 1:The cops are like el policio dude.
Speaker 2:The first time you watch that, it's the funniest thing it's kind of like seeing Monty Python for the first time as a kid, you know.
Speaker 1:I think that's what's so good actually about this movie is how nostalgic nostalgic it is. When I'm watching it. I literally remember the first time me and Richard watched it together. We're together and we're just laughing so much on his couch. It brings joy to me Even if I'm not laughing while watching it. It's a warm blanket. It's a warm blanket movie when they return to the studio to discuss how. You know that escalated quickly. Ron's like Brick, brick's like I killed a guy.
Speaker 2:You're probably wanted for murder.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like you should probably lay low for a while. And then Ron says it's time to put an end to Veronica being a co-anchor. Ron gets into another heated argument with Veronicaonica because ron is watching his local emmy speech. They then get into a physical fight after she insults his hair, increasing tensions even more. They're like he says something about. It's like yeah, girls shouldn't even be on news anchor, it's science. Uh, why don't you go back to your home on whore island? Okay, let's go. Then when he says the hair, he gets so mad, throws her over a table. She throws a typewriter at his head and then pepper sprays him. Then he goes to pepper spray her, but it's the wrong way.
Speaker 1:Always funny, and then Knights of Columbus. That hurts.
Speaker 2:Who was the character that would always it was Ace Ventura.
Speaker 1:He who was the character that would always? It was Ace Ventura. He always had the binaca that had to spray in his mouth, but it always goes sideways, Always going the wrong way. Yeah, Classic bit, Always good. Then Ed Harkin comes and breaks it up and, while in a restaurant celebrating Veronica's success, one of Veronica's co-workers, Catherine Hahn, tells her that Ron will read anything that is written on a teleprompter. It's a big secret, yeah. Later, Veronica sneaks into the station and changes the words in Ron's teleprompter the next day. Instead of Ron saying his signature you stay classy, San Diego. Ron ends the broadcast saying go fuck yourself, San Diego.
Speaker 2:And then he's like, oh, it's a good one, everyone is so speechless.
Speaker 1:There's like an angry mob gathers outside immediately like ed's. Like it's like, ron, you're fired. He's like ha ha, ha, funny. It's like no, seriously, you're fired. It's like did you not even know what you said? And then you play and it's like oh, thor's right or odin's, raven um. And then garth comes in super hurt and sobbing. You were my hero, ron. Why'd you have to say that? You come out, stink like that, you poop, you poop mouth with your poop off your mouth. Ron Garth, if I would give you some money out of my wallet, would that erase the pain now.
Speaker 1:When I first watched it, that was my favorite bit the poop mouth, the poop mouth, shit.
Speaker 2:Chris Farnell is so Farnell is so funny, he's so good, he's so good, he's really good in Brooklyn Nine what is it called? No, that's not that's not Chris Farnell, he's. Oh wait, no he's.
Speaker 1:It's a. It's a different guy. I can't it's like I can't remember his name. I fucking love that show and I can't remember his name Chris Farnell. He's in Hot Rod.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's like the radio guy. Yeah, he's just like once only do. God, those guys look so much alike.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So Veronica sees that she has gone too far and attempts to apologize, but Ron angrily dismisses her while being led through a mob by security yelling at that she had reduced him to rubble. Ron is unemployed, friendless, hated by the city and is a drunk. In this time Veronica has become very famous, but is hated by her male co-workers. By sabotaging Ron, ed told Champ, brick and Brian not to talk to Ron or he will fire them. If they do. It's like so sad, or Champ is. And then it cuts to. Three months later, when it's announced that Ling Wong, the panda, is about to give birth, all San Diego news teams head to the zoo to cover it. In an attempt to sabotage her, the public news anchor pushes Veronica into Kodiak.
Speaker 2:Bear enclosure when Ed cannot find Veronica.
Speaker 1:He calls the bar where Ron spends most of his time and the bartender is Danny Trejo, and reluctantly asks him to return. And I love that at the bar, um, like danny trejo's, like you gotta stop crying so much, or whatever. Then, like ron says his whole speech and then danny trejo gives him great advice. He's like I can't understand a word you're saying sorry, don't speak that language Classic Ron then runs into the bathroom. He's like I'll be there, Completely comes out in a second Perfect Poses conch.
Speaker 1:It's like to assemble a team. The camera just pans over. It's like what We've been here the whole time you've been here. This is embarrassing. And then we see Baxter come out of the water. It's like I'm coming, ron, with the Aquaman, yeah. And then so Ron runs to the zoo. Ron jumps into the bear pen to save Veronica Instead of telling a zookeeper, yeah, right, and he's like he jumps down. I regret this immediately, with everyone else at the zoo watching. He immediately regrets his actions. The Channel 4 News team then jumps in to help Ron. Brick rides the bears and one of the bears takes Frank's other arm. He's like this is getting goddamn ridiculous.
Speaker 2:So good and just as the leader of bears is about to rip Ron and Veronica apart. The leader of bears, the bear king.
Speaker 1:Baxter shows up and convinces the bear to let them live by mentioning that he's a friend of the bear's cousin Katoa Joe, whom he met in the wild. Ron is happy and gets weird with Baxter.
Speaker 2:So it's like Baxter's been swimming for three months.
Speaker 1:Yep, he's just been out there.
Speaker 2:Living in the wild befriending the animal kingdom. So good.
Speaker 1:Like where is his story? I know I wonder how many like edited scenes like they cut out of Baxter just friending this bear.
Speaker 2:I hope all of them Getting lots of strange. I hope there's a whole extra movie about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then, like Veronica and Ron are like kind of making up up, oh, we love each other. And then he gets back, so he's like I love you so much, I'm gonna lick you, I'm gonna lick you. Veronica's like this is this might be an actual issue and she's like it's like I know there's a million men out there I should be with instead of you, but I'm 72%.
Speaker 1:Sure that I should be with you. That's a good percentage. That's a D, yeah, yeah. And so, um, that's d, yeah, uh. What? Um, yeah. So ron. He's climbing out of the bear enclosure. Then west man tooth comes and grabs the lighter. He says you know what? I've hated you all my life, but I respect you. And kisses him on the forehead. And then he reveals like today, redemption is spelled R-O-N. Then Ron is allowed to do the new story on the panda, but he lets Veronica Corningstone join him.
Speaker 2:He's learned something Aw.
Speaker 1:Then, after Ron and Veronica reconcile, it is shown that in the years to come, brian has become the host of a Fox reality show named Intercourse Island. I mean, we have Love Island, it's practically all anything is. Who wants to watch?
Speaker 2:young people have sex constantly. I can't watch.
Speaker 1:I can't watch that stuff brick is george w bush top political advisor, and don't worry if you're wondering if adam mckay will make plenty of things about the bush era. Uh, make plenty of movies about it, he will. Most of his movies are about it.
Speaker 2:That's incredible I love adam m movies are about it.
Speaker 1:That's incredible. I love Adam McKay. Champ is a commenter for the NFL before he was fired for sexually harassing Terry Bradshaw, and Ron and Veronica are co-anchors for something that seems like it's world center news. World news center.
Speaker 2:It's like CNN essentially Is that what the second movie is about? Honestly, I can't remember.
Speaker 1:That movie is so forgettable it's wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think they're in New York together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and yeah, world News or something they're taking over after the narrator of the movie retires and is shown to be sometime later as Ron and Veronica show wearing 80s fashion. Hell yeah, that is Anchorman. What was the point of Anchorman? That diversity and Equity and inclusion Inclusion is all a good thing and it's really not that big of a deal and we should all let it happen. Nah, I think that's what it's about.
Speaker 2:That's what it should be about.
Speaker 1:Seems like probably what Adam McKay is like. Well, I mean, I don't know, they just saw something funny on TV and they're like let's just do a movie about it. And no, I think it's. I think the point of the movie is that there's just funny people in the world. I don't know, it's just a funny movie. That's the point.
Speaker 2:Make you laugh, make you get a dog, save you from bears, yeah that's the point.
Speaker 1:Bears and dogs will always be best friends. Yes, don't try that, but dogs are good at scaring bears away.
Speaker 2:I've seen plenty of videos of that, isn't that?
Speaker 1:insane. Well, it's because it's just something they don't see. They're like oh shit, what is this tiny thing? Is this thing dangerous actually?
Speaker 2:I feel like if my tiny little dog went after a bear, she would just.
Speaker 1:I've seen videos of like chihuahuas, like scaring off bears that's incredible. It's just because they're loud and they're quick and they're like whoa, why is this thing all of a sudden coming after me? But usually it's the bears that are just kind of just like lumbering around not really looking for a fight and they're like I bears is like. I don't want to mess with these little things, right snakes. They bite bears all the time.
Speaker 2:They kill them yeah, it's got fish heads to eat snakes.
Speaker 1:They're killing all the bears. No, we're sending ice after the snakes they're eating the cats. They're eating the dogs.
Speaker 2:Man, we're terrible at Trump oh yeah, we're the worst Trump impersonators ever well, now that we've halted this podcast, let's continue to our next category, let's take our foot off the brake.
Speaker 1:It's the good, the bad, the ugly fine. It's where we discuss the good of the movie, the bad of the movie, the ugly, which is something that didn't age well. The fine, something that did age well. The good Will Ferrell and Crewman yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2:I think Will Ferrell is my good.
Speaker 1:Pharrell, rudd and Farrell just I mean they're like the three funniest people on the planet the trifecta, I mean they all. Like no one dislikes Paul Rudd. I mean he's been in our lives like since I was born, yeah, and he's always been funny and luckily he got even more popular slowly as I was getting older and his wild it's like. I feel like he got super popular in his 40s.
Speaker 2:And it's like I feel like he got super popular in his 40s and it's like I don't think he's ever aged since the bad my put the bad is not enough. Katherine Hahn, that is. She is wasted talent. She is one of the funniest people ever. Not enough women in general. I think maybe there's like two or three.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of the point of the movie.
Speaker 2:They're always like the smartest people around yeah, the movie.
Speaker 1:I think that's like really what the movie is going for. I could see maybe they probably had to cut the movie down a little bit and like maybe cut some of that out, which of course they would.
Speaker 2:But well, the last thing you want is to see an intelligent woman, yeah, on the screen. Because I mean ultimately, even though it says like the legend, of Ron Burgundy than all men. It's not really about how he changed to become a better person. It's more about she changed him yeah because he really is still kind of the same person. He just is in love, yeah um.
Speaker 1:So for the ugly I put it's almost too quotable, that's definitely a dub.
Speaker 1:The downfall because, because, like, the quotes are so funny, it is kind of the reason that after you watch it a thousand times like I have it's like these are the lines of the movie. I know them very well, everybody knows them. It's still like a masterpiece of a comedy. Like, don't get me wrong, but if I'm finding something that was the ugly, it was just like there's this one guy in high school just would not stop fucking quoting this movie. Everybody knew him as the guy that would not stop quoting. Yeah, anchorman, I think it's a disease.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like I wasn't even friends with this guy, but he was friends in my friends group and I was like, are you just gonna? Is this is like his bit, like this, is it?
Speaker 2:he just quotes Anchorman all the time yeah, like there was a guy I've served with, it was he was either quoting anchorman or step brothers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, exclusively which one do you like, more, anchorman or step brothers? I don't know. They both probably.
Speaker 2:I don't know, they're just two totally different um movies, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Let's hurry. All right, let's finish this. I have a game I want to play, okay, all right. So the fine. To me it's improv comedy.
Speaker 2:They're always a bit like especially the 2000s era.
Speaker 1:Improv comedy like Knocked Up Super Bad Talladega Nights, step Brothers, I mean, was Tropic Thunder in the 2000s.
Speaker 2:Was it 2010s Sure?
Speaker 1:We'll throw Tropic Thunder in it. Seriously, god, the worst thing that has happened on this planet, and I mean out of every single possible bad thing that has ever happened on the history of the world, the worst thing that has happened is that we have let comedies die and it's a travesty. Like the 2000s and 90s had some of the funniest stuff Like what did we do wrong?
Speaker 2:I think we just got older, we, because now there's skibby toilet.
Speaker 1:Everybody lost their. Everybody's like I'm going to have a funny podcast, or I'm going to make TikToks and reels that are funny. It's like, no, we've messed up.
Speaker 2:Change with the times, jesse, we've messed up.
Speaker 1:It's just different. All right, you mess duh. Alright, you wanna play a game? Yeah, let's do it. Okay, here we go. Anchorman or Talladega Nights. Anchorman, okay, um damn dude, I love Talladega Nights. I don't know how to answer that. I'm gonna say Talladega Nights because I'm cool, okay, alright, anchorman Stepbrothers, stepbrothers, yeah, stepbrothers.
Speaker 2:Same Anchorman, superbad Anch stepbrothers, yeah, stepbrothers, same anchorman super bad, anchorman super bad anchorman knocked up.
Speaker 1:God, I'm gonna go anchorman, I'm gonna go anchorman. Yeah, all right, anchorman. Tropic thunder tropic thunder. I say tropic thunder as well. Problem is tropic thunder is too long, it is pretty long.
Speaker 2:It drags on and I'm only saying, like some of his parts, it just drags on, and I've only seen it once, jack Black is like some of his parts.
Speaker 1:It just drags a little bit too much. All right Anchorman, let's say Happy Gilmore, Happy Gilmore yeah, I watched them back to back and Happy Gilmore it's also I didn Anchorman, even though I've watched Happy Gilmore a lot, but Happy Gilmore is kind of a perfect film.
Speaker 2:It's amazing, it's wild. I've started watching the second one but I haven't finished it.
Speaker 1:I actually thoroughly enjoyed it. I think once it gets to, I forgot even the name of what the fancy new golf thing that they're going to do, like the extreme golf that they're doing. I can't remember the name of what they're doing. He's still like golfing with those people. It's uh oh yeah, that's really good when it gets later in the film and it's like it builds up to like the third act. It doesn't, it doesn't really. Oh, man is wild. There's some stuff with shooting for gavin and it's. Everything works except for, like the main point of the movie movie. And it's also like very sentimental. The movie is very sentimental, which is kind of great. Yeah, it's like all his kids are in the movie. It's wild, okay. Well, now we're gonna do our last category double feature. We all win, baby, because they're all good movies. I know, like we said, some movies are better than the other, but they're all funny movies, so there is no winning or losing. So we're going to hit our double feature and mine's going to be pretty easy Talladega Nights baby.
Speaker 2:No, mine is going to be a 40 year old version Hell yeah, it's like what do boobs feel?
Speaker 1:like Bags of. Don't worry, guys, all those comedies that we've done, we're gonna do soon. Uh, probably I don't know probably around the later half of this year. I'm ready because we're about to go on vacation. My favorite thing about vacation is when we come back we always watch like our favorite beach. Yeah, we always watch our favorite comedies like after you scrub all the sand out of your asshole yeah hell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's my favorite part about the beach. Unlike Anakin, I like when the sand gets everywhere, oh no, but yeah, I mean we always like we usually pick. It's usually kind of the similar ones, like we always one of them's super bad, obviously. Hangover, that one's great After coming back from vacation, because you know the long drive. You just want to laugh and have fun Because you kind of bummed your back from vacation For sure, forgetting Sarah Marshall From my vacation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, forgetting Sarah Marshall is like a perfect after that one is so good After vacation. One Pineapple Express Gosh. This is the end.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I love comedies. They're all gone.
Speaker 1:I love that in pineapple express the um the song that he plays while he's getting high in his car. Yeah, oh, I love that song take me to electric avenue.
Speaker 2:No, the, uh, the other one, um, I fly like paper get high. Oh yeah, mia yeah love that song is great and it's just.
Speaker 1:There's something about sethogen and James Franco. They're just, they're lover brothers, you know, and I love it. All right, my double feature is Talladega Nights. Baby, I think I already did that part. Yeah, we did it. Oh, we already did this.
Speaker 2:Mine was 40-year-old Virgins. Yeah, sorry, we got a rant there.
Speaker 1:Cool and that's Anchorman Um. Cool and that's, that's Anchorman man. I just want to talk about comedies. I know Um make sure you join us next week. We're going to do a little foreign classic masterpiece. It stars Jackie Chan. Ooh, what is he?
Speaker 2:going to say? Is he going to say ooh, is he going to do like Rush?
Speaker 1:Hour. Is he going to do other like Legend of Drunken Monkey? No, we're doing Police Story, baby. It is a perfect action comedy in every way. I remember watching it alone at like 12 am in the morning after getting off work, just being like, wow, I've never seen this, because I got the double feature from Criterion of Police Story one and two. I haven't even seen the second one yet, but when I watched it I was like this is amazing. Jackie Chan is a brilliant comedic fighter. He's awesome. Have you seen Drunken, the Legend of the Drunken Monkey?
Speaker 2:No I haven't.
Speaker 1:You just need to watch all his like comedy kung fu movies.
Speaker 2:I mean, I've seen Rush Hours. I was like him and Chris Tucker. Oh yeah, Good team.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that first rush hour is kind of perfect. It's wild. But yeah, join us next week for Police Story. It's on HBO Max, baby, it's an hour and 29 minutes, so it's a quick little watch it is. It does have subtitles, but you know what? Learn to read Now's the time.
Speaker 2:Something I've been doing on this podcast is horribly wrong. I can't believe I'm going to have to do that.
Speaker 1:Join us next week for that and get ready. We're getting close to that Halloween season, baby, I can feel it creeping up. Wow, wow, wow wow, because when I get back from vacation, we watch comedies when we get back and then we switch over to horror movies, because September and October is Halloween every day. Woo, yeah. So thank you for listening. Leave us some fan mail Link in the top description. At the bottom we recommend mailbag at gmailcom. You can send us fan mail that way. Please leave us some reviews. We have two extra reviews.
Speaker 2:Thank you very much.
Speaker 1:We're doing it these guys are funny and. I bet that they're not from our friends and family. No, they hate us and we didn't force them to do it. But if you're not our friends and family and you like us, review us. Thanks, guys. I'd like to thank Joey Prosser for an intro and outro. You can find him on X at Mr Joey Prosser, and dang it. I've been Jesse, I'm kind of Jason and hey, stay podcasty guys. Bye, that sucks, sorry.
