EP 85: Me, Myself, and Irene | Advanced Delusionary Schizophrenia with Involuntary Narcissistic Rage

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This week Me, Myself and Irene starring Jim Carrey and Renee Zellweger does not disappoint. Listen as the Rhode Island State Police officer escorts Irene to the Rhode Island Police station on a motorcycle and fall in love. Among other things.

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Love you!!! Byeee!!!!

Transcript

Bridget: 0:12

Oh, that's so gross. Oh, my God. Taste this one.

Wendy: 0:17

It smells like feet.

Bridget: 0:18

It's bad.

Wendy: 0:21

It tastes better than it smells, but.

Bridget: 0:23

Ugh, it just stinks, man.

Wendy: 0:26

Horrible, horrible smell. Yeah.

Bridget: 0:30

Wow. Well, on that note. Good morning. Good morning. I'm Bridget.

Wendy: 0:35

And I'm Wendy.

Bridget: 0:35

And this is Flicking Beans.

Wendy: 0:39

What just happened?

Bridget: 0:40

That is nasty. It's Mother's Day. Seven Brews. Line was out of control. Everyone, literally. And their mother was at Seven Brew. So I cut the line and I went to Kwik Trip and I got us these rando cans of coffee. And as you just said, mine smells like fish.

Wendy: 1:03

Eat.

Bridget: 1:04

And it's not good, but I'll find myself finishing it. Oh, my God, it's so gross. It reminds me of unsweetened cocoa powder.

Wendy: 1:15

Oh, yeah.

Bridget: 1:16

Do you feel me on that?

Wendy: 1:18

Yep.

Bridget: 1:19

God, it's like even chalky.

Wendy: 1:21

Okay, well, there's something about it that's. Gritty. Is that the word? Who passed this? Know that? So, so many people, you know, so many people had to have tasted that and went, yeah, let's put that in a can.

Bridget: 1:37

And I got you the Starbucks and you let me taste it. And it tastes good.

Wendy: 1:41

It's lovely. You can have more. It's a very big can.

Bridget: 1:45

Smells like feet and tastes like a**. Chalky a**. All right, lesson learned.

Wendy: 1:52

All right, so this week, me, myself and Irene. Yeah, it was new to me.

Bridget: 1:58

Well, good. I thought you'd like it.

Wendy: 2:00

I did. All right, so, basic premise. Jim Carrey is a cop in Rhode island for the best police force in the nation, Rhode Island State Police. He is a pushover and his wife ends up having an affair with the limo driver, who is a black little person and takes offense to everything Jim Carrey says to him.

Bridget: 2:19

Do you people take checks? Meaning your limo company.

Wendy: 2:23

Right. It's pretty much a good rule to never say you people. The wife and the limo driver are both in Mensa, which is a weird little thing that comes back. And then she ends up having kids. They come out black and he just pretends he loves. They're half Italian.

Bridget: 2:41

Yeah.

Wendy: 2:43

And he's a really good dad.

Bridget: 2:44

Yeah. Your kids are kind of suntanned more.

Wendy: 2:48

Than normal all year round.

Bridget: 2:52

But yeah, he's definitely oblivious. So mild mannered and doesn't even care. He's full of love.

Wendy: 2:59

Yeah. His wife and the guy run away and the kids get left with him anyway, even though they're not his. And grow up to be the geniuses.

Bridget: 3:07

Yeah.

Wendy: 3:08

Make fun of each other for not understanding metaphysics.

Bridget: 3:12

They have some of the Best quotes. So this movie was made in 2000. Now when the boys are doing their homework. Well, I shouldn't say boys because these are big, strapping black men. How the h*** can they call Pluto a planet? No planet has an elliptical orbit. That don't make sense. That in the movie was 2000. They didn't rule out Pluto being a planet until 2006.

Wendy: 3:42

Foreshadowing.

Bridget: 3:44

They were smart.

Wendy: 3:45

That's right.

Bridget: 3:45

That's the takeaway there.

Wendy: 3:47

I wasn't smart enough to pick up on that.

Bridget: 3:48

I wasn't either. That's why I have IMDb sponsor us. Why do I keep trying to drink that? Oh, my God, it's so gross. On with the story. He's single. He has a condition called advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage.

Wendy: 4:14

Yes.

Bridget: 4:14

So do I. So do I, folks.

Wendy: 4:17

His personality splits and his other personality is called Hank. It would be fun to start calling my other personality as names. Like, I don't know. What.

Bridget: 4:28

Yeah, what?

Wendy: 4:28

I know some people. Like, I used to have friends that would name their, like, drunk alter egos. Like my friend Shannon. She was Sharon, and she did something. She. While she was drunk, she was like, that was Sharon. That's none of my business.

Bridget: 4:41

I love it.

Wendy: 4:42

Something like that.

Bridget: 4:43

I had a friend walking down the street after being out one night, staggering. Just kicks off her shoes, and she's like, drunk shoes? Listen, it's not the shoes. Yeah, I need an. An alter ego too.

Wendy: 5:00

Maybe like Whitney for me, since that's like, close, but a little. It's got a hard tea in it.

Bridget: 5:06

Okay. All right.

Wendy: 5:07

Thing that actually makes him break is just somebody cutting in line at the grocery store.

Bridget: 5:11

Oh.

Wendy: 5:12

It's not like his wife leaving him or all the other big things. It's a tiny little thing that finally makes him break. We were having a bad day with a bunch of other stuff. You usually break down over something like that. Some other little. One more thing that makes you go over the edge.

Bridget: 5:23

Was that the moment in the store when he gets on the microphone? He's like, price check. VagiClean.

Wendy: 5:28

Yes.

Bridget: 5:30

She's baking a loaf over here, and I think it's sourdough Magic clean. There's a MILF on the street, and she's breastfeeding her baby, and he goes and latches onto her nipple. It was literally her real b***. He was so embarrassed. They said he apologized all day long in between. Every take. Didn't care. So she was really lactating. What? Really lactating.

Wendy: 6:00

Oh, okay.

Bridget: 6:00

That's sucking on her real b***. Oh, that makes it worse.

Wendy: 6:03

That does make it worse. Because I thought, of course it looked like he was really sucking on her boot, but, like, I didn't know that she was actually lactate. Was the milk mustache real?

Bridget: 6:12

Oh, my God.

Wendy: 6:14

But he keeps it on. In the beginning of the film, they all have thick state trooper mustache. And then later on they don't have them. But I don't know if I missed that part or if they're just, like, trying to distance themselves from Hank. But he has a. Yeah, a nice big milk over that. Which. Who came up with that? That is a joke.

Bridget: 6:35

Which. The milk mustache or the b*** incident?

Wendy: 6:37

The b*** incident. Why? Why would he do that?

Bridget: 6:42

I think just because he would do the most opposite things naturally. But also, Hank wants to take everybody on and fight everybody but Charlie, his normal self, he doesn't know how to fight. So it's a real failure every time. Every time.

Wendy: 7:02

Yeah. Charlie comes back too. And he's always injured.

Bridget: 7:04

Yeah.

Wendy: 7:05

Whenever he's been Hank for a while.

Bridget: 7:08

Injured or. Why does it seem like I've been up having sex all night? There's a watermelon with a hole in it, tons of tissues. So Renee Zellweger is the co star and the justice. He needs to go pick her up. And she's wanted for some crime.

Wendy: 7:31

Yeah.

Bridget: 7:32

That her boyfriend actually did.

Wendy: 7:34

Right. They're trying to get to him through her. So they make up a crime that she did a hit and run, and he has to escort her to a different police station, which he does on a motorcycle. He would never take a prisoner on your motorcycle.

Bridget: 7:45

But that old tale, you go on a road trip and you fall in love.

Wendy: 7:49

That's really when you break up. It is a good test. Those first trips, you're like, is this someone I can spend this much time with?

Bridget: 7:58

Well, she definitely plays like the peacemaker between Charlie and Hank. And he needs to keep taking his medication because if he doesn't, that's when Hank comes out. I remember at one point just took his pills and she says, does your a** feel numb? And he goes, no, but they make me really dry mouth. Yeah, but you know, referring to the. And then he. Something like, over the years, my a** has taken a pounding.

Wendy: 8:24

Yeah.

Bridget: 8:27

A lot of good dialogue. But you get that with Jim Carrey.

Wendy: 8:31

You know, and obviously he's famous for his physical comedy. And it's really good in this one.

Bridget: 8:35

I thought you'd love it.

Wendy: 8:37

Yeah, I love physical comedy that are, like, so simple. But, like, I would never Think of them. Hank is sitting on the car at one point, and he's sitting on the car talking to Renee Zellweg. And then when he gets up, instead of just, like, getting off the car, he slides down just, like, flat, and then stands up like a rubber band.

Bridget: 8:54

Yeah. Like.

Wendy: 8:57

Why? That was so cool, though.

Bridget: 8:59

I know, I know.

Wendy: 9:00

He probably goes through his life like that. He's cooking, and then he'll just fall. I don't know. He used to have a character on In Living Color where he was, like, the fire marshal.

Bridget: 9:10

Yes.

Wendy: 9:11

That's what I'm thinking of when cooking.

Bridget: 9:13

And he had, like, no lips.

Wendy: 9:15

Yeah.

Bridget: 9:17

Gosh, that was a long time ago.

Wendy: 9:19

That little throwback is telling my age.

Bridget: 9:21

But now I was just thinking, my gosh, he's done a lot. I mean, all I think about is movies. But I literally forgot the sketch comedy. And Whitey. Whitey is an albino. No, a person with albinism. He's a little weird. Those glasses that he wears with the magnifier are his real glasses.

Wendy: 9:42

Wow. Yeah, Whitey is funny. He tells Charlie that he killed his family with a hatchet, and then so the rest of the time, Charlie thinks he's a serial killer.

Bridget: 9:51

Right.

Wendy: 9:51

Whitey was just scared of Charlie and Hank, and so he told him he was a killer so that he wouldn't hurt him. And Whitey was fine. And he saves the day, too.

Bridget: 10:00

Yes, he does.

Wendy: 10:01

One thing I did notice is there was a lot of people with disabilities in this movie around the town. So I looked it up, and the Farley brothers, who also did something about Mary stuck on you, make a point to hire people with disabilities for their movies, something that they decided to do when they were starting making movies because it's part of real life. The movies aren't real if these people aren't included. So there's a lot of that in this movie. A lot of the characters just happen to have some kind of difference or disability at the credits show all these scenes, and they put the extras names and they point them out all through the credits. They go through, and they're showing you exactly who they are in the pictures.

Bridget: 10:40

Yeah, that's really cool. If I were ever an extra in a movie, you blink and you miss yourself. But, yeah, to see your name up there would be something been awesome.

Wendy: 10:50

Yeah. And it made me think, too, how many people it takes to make a movie. You know, you don't see most of those people or they don't get recognition for their part in it. So I thought that was Fun.

Bridget: 11:00

They consider this to be their worst film.

Wendy: 11:02

Okay.

Bridget: 11:03

Brother Peter is the one who's making the gurgling sounds of the cow.

Wendy: 11:09

The cow.

Bridget: 11:10

The cow.

Wendy: 11:11

I forgot about the cow. That's the whole thing. I know.

Bridget: 11:14

She's lucky to be alive.

Wendy: 11:17

They find a cow that seems to have been hit by a car and they think it's dead, so they're gonna move it and it's not dead. And then Charlie shoots it six times and chokes it out.

Bridget: 11:28

Yeah.

Wendy: 11:30

Why is that funny? It's horrible, but it is funny. Then, yeah, later, the.

Bridget: 11:34

The boys come to the rescue by flying a helicopter.

Wendy: 11:38

Yeah.

Bridget: 11:38

The manual's in German, so they're just razzing each other. Like, read the f****** thing. You. You know, Jeremy.

Wendy: 11:45

Yeah.

Bridget: 11:45

It's just a simple thrust, flux, whatever.

Wendy: 11:49

Flux capacitor. The music in this is very good. Very. At the time, it's a lot of.

Bridget: 11:54

Steely Dan covers done in the style.

Wendy: 11:57

Of 90s third eye blind kind of vibe.

Bridget: 12:00

I'm going to write to this coffee company because that is nasty. 50 calories. I've only had about 10. Jim Carrey and Renee Zellweger actually did start dating during this movie. Or start a relationship.

Wendy: 12:15

Just like the road trip.

Bridget: 12:16

Yeah. When she kicks him over the railing and down the hill. He did that stunt himself.

Wendy: 12:21

He flips over it, like, almost spins in half.

Bridget: 12:24

Oh, yeah.

Wendy: 12:25

He's crazy bendy. And nobody has face like Jim Carrey either. There's this girl on the Internet who looks like Jim Carrey and she's made, like, a living out of it.

Bridget: 12:36

I wish I could make a living. Did we do it?

Wendy: 12:41

I think we did it. We flicked some beans. Okay. Love you. Bye.

Bridget: 12:45

Bye. Party all night long.