Happy New Year! We'll be back next week with new episodes.
It's 2019 now. The future. Makes the 2015 from "Back to the Future Part II" seem like a million years ago. But now we're in the year of "Blade Runner." And they really nailed that. No better way to describe Los Angeles 2019 than a bunch of sushi-eating robots.
Jim's still on his paternity leave of sorts as we've been taking some time off for the holidays, but in the meantime, enjoy our repost of one of our favorite episodes, "When Harry Met Sally..."
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We will not have what she's having! The 1989 Rob Reiner-directed and Nora Ephron-written vehicle "When Harry Met Sally..." ushered in Meg Ryan as a leading lady and has been a pox on all of our houses ever since. We know that this movie is fiction because it pretends 41-year-old Billy Crystal is a twenty-something Lothario who has slept with so many women that he may need to leave New York City.
Billy Crystal plays Harry Burns, a supposed political consultant, and Meg Ryan plays Sally Albright, a supposed hard-hitting journalist, even though we never see either of them do a lick of work. But they must be successful because they are both insanely rich with their gigantic Manhattan high-rise apartments. The story follows these two unlikable characters over 12 years, even though they only really know each other for the last year and a half. So, why 12 years?
The cast also features the late Carrie Fisher and the late Bruno Kirby as Harry and Sally's friends who are equally despicable New Yorkers.
This movie has it all—fake female orgasms, old-people-in-love testimonials, wagon wheel coffee tables, power walking and even former President Gerald Ford's son.
Join us as we do impressions of hack comedians from the '80s, discuss whether or not men and women can be friends and wonder whatever happened to The Sharper Image.
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Hey, guys, we're still hoping to get a Christmas episode done, but this past week hit a little snag. A good little snag. Jim's wife just gave birth to their second child, so needless to say, he's been a little busy this week. And this time she didn't go into labor while we were recording, so that's good. See our "Jerry Maguire" episode for when that happened.
And more good news: Keating is still childless.
Anyway, in the meantime, we decided to repost our "Home Alone 2" episode on our feed, so go enjoy (or re-enjoy) that one. Or hate it (or re-hate it)—whichever you choose.
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Merry Christmas, you nosy little perverts! 'Tis the season to steal your parents' credit card, check into the Plaza Hotel and befriend a spooky Central Park pigeon lady with a secret lair inside Carnegie Hall. That's right—it's time to dissect everyone's favorite childhood sequel, "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York."
Macaulay Culkin reprises his role as Kevin McCallister, a sociopathic sadist who justifies his brutal torture of two hapless petty criminals under the guise of preventing a Christmas Eve burglary of a toy store that plans to donate its proceeds to a children's hospital. Somebody needs to teach this kid that vigilante justice is illegal and that insurance surely would have reimbursed the toy store owner for his loses.
Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are back as Harry and Marv, a duo of bumbling burglars who have escaped prison only to immediately run into the boy who put them there. In this film, they really take a licking, but they keep on sticking.
President Donald Trump also makes an appearance in the film as himself, a weird-coiffed, megalomaniacal douche-nozzle with small hands and an alleged micropenis.
Join us as we discuss our hatred of pigeons, the awfulness of the Talkboy, and the exact severity of Harry and Marv's injuries.
Links:
Talkboy commercial we mentioned in the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjyiO754hU
Also, the Talkboy commercial spoof we mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9wgzUSsE_Y
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Continuing our discussion and dismantling of the epic classic film from 1939, "Gone with the Wind," we break down everything that happens in the nutty second half of this movie (after the intermission). Scarlett O'Hara gets married two more times to people she doesn't love, and Rhett Butler continues to play his mind games with her.
Join us as we discuss the evil things Rhett does to Scarlett, we learn how Keating doesn't fully understand what breastfeeding is, and as we (for some reason) compare the characters in this movie to their "Family Matters" counterparts.
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In our 100th episode, we cover the first half of the epic classic 1939 film "Gone with the Wind" that tells a story of Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara who begins her life as a bratty rich girl on her idyllic plantation, and then loses everything when the Civil War strikes. Then she lies, cheats, murders and marries her way into being rich during Reconstruction, like some kind of airheaded Daniel Plainview.
Marred by a tumultuous production due to its maniac producer David O. Selznick, this almost four-hour flick went on to win 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, and is the highest-grossing film of all time (adjusted for inflation) with more than 200 million tickets sold.
Vivien Leigh plays Scarlett O'Hara, a woman who is secretly in love with a married man named Ashley, and won't let that go. When her family loses all their money, she turns extra evil and does whatever it takes to get rich again, even if that means lying, cheating, killing and entering into three loveless marriages.
Clark Gable plays Rhett Butler, a pencil-thin-mustachioed scalawag scoundrel who spends half the movie negging Scarlett into submission. Then, despite the fact that she openly articulates her love for another man, he gets her to marry him as a business decision and he proceeds to intermittently fly into fits of rage over her not loving him. Oh, and he also rapes her and habitually walks out on her. He's a real gem.
Hattie McDaniel plays Mammy, Scarlett's long-time slave nanny, who is used as comic relief in this movie by muttering "white trash" under her breath the whole time. McDaniel became the first African-American actor to be nominated for and win an Oscar, so at least that's something.
Olivia de Havilland (who is still alive at 102 years old) plays Melanie, a kind and oblivious woman who marries her cousin, has an incest baby and doesn't seem to notice that her sister-in-law and best friend secretly wants her husband.
Join us as we discuss how the Scarlett O'Hara character doesn’t change and she is an awful person, decide that the slimy Rhett Butler would make a good used carriage salesman, and discuss this movie's crazy production and its novel.
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