The Jerk

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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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
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 hereand 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 (00:21):
The jerk fuck yeah, hell yeah alright, so did you
know?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
this was the ninth highest grossing picture in the
US for 1979.
It made over a hundred milliondollars, wow, on a budget of
four million, and this rankslike a lot on a budget of four
million and this ranks like alot 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 moreprestigious website that I can't

(00:58):
remember the name of at themoment that got put it like on
the 20th.
So like, does it still hold?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
up.
Yeah, I think so.
It's fucking awesome.
Yeah, so many funny things.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
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 needanything.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Except for this.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
And then, like whenever he gets the mansion and
he starts listing every room,it's so funny.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, you remember how I always wanted all this?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
a clamshell bathtub yeah, it's so good.
And there's just somethingabout steve martin that,
especially like towards the end,when he's dancing like right
before he's about to loseeverything yeah, and he's just
dancing with his girl.
There's something I guessbecause he's so big and tall and

(01:56):
lanky that it's just like hismovements are just like funny.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
To me it's like a baby deer trying to figure out
his feet, like that babyelephant that people have been
making fun of on TikTok.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
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 wonderingwould 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 guessthis.
So I feel like this is a verygag heavy movie, right?
Yeah, it's almost like the plotdoesn't matter at this at a

(02:26):
point where it's just like doyou?
wish like the comedy was likeweaved into the plot.
Better or more, or like a more,like a plot that makes more
sense and there's this wackycharacters in it.
Like which one do you prefer?
Or just like a straight up gagheavy movie?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
I don't know, I guess it depends.
Or just like a straight up gagheavy movie, I don't know, I
guess it depends.
I mean, with someone like SteveMartin he's so incredible that
I don't know he could do eitherone.
I feel like, yeah, and I'dstill watch it.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah, but as far as like a newer comedy, Like I
think of like a good comparisonfor this is like Hot Rod and the
the jerk are very similarmovies, except it feels like
there's more normal people inhot rod versus like the.
The wacky characters are wackybut the surrounding characters
are just like.
Like the mom there's like anormal mom and yeah, but I don't

(03:18):
know, I guess the jerk has thatwith the the black family.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
So maybe they're the same.
There's a few normies in there.
I definitely have a type ofcomedy that I liked.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Hot Rod, the Jerk they're the same movies.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
I think the plot of the Jerk is really.
How did he get sad Because he'sso happy?

Speaker 1 (03:40):
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 (03:50):
His un what do you call it?
His unending shit?
I don't know words.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Like you, I don't know words.
Like you, you're going to haveto 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 thefirst time watching it being
like what the fuck is this gonna?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
be.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
This is gonna be bad, supposed to be drunk, and then
he drops the.
I was born a poor black childit's like now we're in it.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
And then we go to him like dancing yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
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 (04:39):
When did it go, I don't know, to be a child.
When did it go, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
I think it's so hard because of Steve Martin and he
looks like a 40 year old sincehe came out the womb he came out
with like an ascot on hell,yeah, yeah that's stylish ooh,
steve Martin hot or not?
yeah sure I mean, I'd fuck himyeah you'd roll away okay,

(05:07):
that's good enough, all right.
So, um, people love showing myspecial person, people love this
movie, even, uh, stanleyKubrick and, um, david Lynch.
You know two, two weirdodirectors that you wouldn't
expect to like comedies, youknow.
But so, like Steve, stanleyKubrick loved it so much that he

(05:30):
would often recite lines fromthe film to cast and crew on
films, and he once invited SteveMartin over to play chess.
Oh, that's fun, but that waswhack.
I would have loved to see that.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
It's probably the boringest thing you'd ever see.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
I wonder if he was, if in in private he's just like
the most boring that can't besteve martin, or he just like
walked in with his banjo becausehe loves playing banjo.
Hell yeah, were you.
Did you ever watch a lot of hissnl stuff?
I watched some of it wild andcrazy guys and the king tut
dance.
It's like that shit.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
He's got such a I don't know, just a way of
movement that I just enjoyvividly 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 thatdid a lot of his classic train

(06:25):
stuff like he's got his bits andhe does it.
He does a lot of dancing he usedto 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 inhollywood, nobody gives a shit.
Yeah, everybody's like.
We don't want you to dance orsing.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's the land of dancing and singing over there
just got to be hot.
Yeah, and have a voice sureit's something I missed back
back in the old days.
You know you didn't have tolook good to do anything if you
just had something.
They're like get on some moremerit-based acting, get in front
of the camera.
It's like yeah, I feel likeeverybody now just kind of

(07:08):
conventionally looks attractiveall the time and if they don't,
if they start off not lookingattractive, they're just going
to end up becoming attractive.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, we'll put you in comedies until you get hot.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
It's like you see Jonah Hill like when he started
off and you're like, oh, thislooks like a funny guy.
And now you're like, oh, thisis look like a funny guy.
And now you see him, he's likebro, what the fuck Like like now
, if I walked in a room with you, have no shot.
So, um, I guess Steve Martinand the director Carl Reiner
they carpooled every day on setbecause of the gas shortage, oh,

(07:39):
and every day they came up withat least one joke and a new way
to add it into the film.
That's fun.
That's why it's probably allover the place joke-wise, let's
see.
So in a lot like a lot of thethings in this movie came from
Steve Martin's stand-up act.
I guess Cool Like his.
He always like would lead likewith a joke that leads to I was

(08:00):
born a poor black child and thenthe I don't need anything, but
then like picking up a bunch ofobjects.
That was something he did inhis stand up bit.
And another fun thing BillMurray actually had a cameo but
they cut it out.
Good, it's like, come on, hedidn't deserve to be in this
movie.
And according to Steve Martin,his favorite line in the movie

(08:20):
is when a man in a in a truckstops and asks st louis, and he
replies no, nathan johnson,that's his favorite bit I used
to people uh growing up.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
I used to hear people uh mention the shit and shinola
thing a lot, and I had nofucking idea what they were
talking about yeah, well, nowyou know you, you got to do just
fine, that's all you got toknow what is Shinoah?
Is that shoe shine?

Speaker 1 (08:50):
I assumed it's dip, that's why you don't want to
pick up shit, because you don'twant to put it in your mouth, I
guess.
Yeah, yeah.
So the film originally had twotrailers Back in the day, when
you only had like one or twotrailers for a movie instead of
a teaser trailer for the teaser,a teaser trailer and then a
trailer, and then you get threemore trailers and then the tv
trailers, the teaser for theteaser, when they just put the

(09:12):
date and like and the titleblack screen and like maybe like
the title flash of like anactor, or maybe the title.
You don't even always get thetitle 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 dayor day, it's just like what is

(09:33):
it?
12 it's like oh my god it couldbe anything.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
We should do that when the asteroid, when we
finally decide that it is gonnahit us.
Yeah, we should do that.
Yeah, everybody's like superexcited about it and I show up
and they're like oh, it's likewait.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Is it 12 this year?
Is it December this month orthis year?
Or like five years from now?
You'll never.
You'll have to wait for theteaser trailer for that.
We just teased the teasertrailer.
Oh man, so had two trailers.
The first one, which has notbeen seen since.
This, was a tongue-in-cheekpresentation that began with a
large printed message fortheater managers.

(10:08):
Only Steve Martin is sitting ata desk talking to the camera.
He lets the theater managersknow that he is in on the fact
that moviegoers are morons andthat they will go for anything.
Describing his new movie, hesays that the film has
everything a love scene, ahigh-speed car, chase, guns, a
dog and more.
Plus, it has some boring scenesso that the audience will go to

(10:28):
the lobby and spend some moneyon snacks, as he describes.
This is are the extremely briefclips for each of the above.
While copies of this trailerexist in various archives, it is
not available for streaminganywhere.
Oh, so I'm assuming they showlike the dog, probably walking.
The love scene is probably justhim in bed with the girl where
she looks dead, and then the carchase is probably just that

(10:50):
when the director is like Icouldn't even yell cut oh yes, I
couldn't see.
I called it too late that's sostupid, I know it's like.
Then everybody at the partystarts taking it off and they're
like oh man, it's a good bit.

(11:11):
It's a good bit.
All right, just two more.
So, steve Martin, the dog gotoff on the wrong foot when he
accidentally dropped mittens onthe animal's face.
From then on a coward when hetried to pet it on the animal's
face.
From then on it cowered when hetried to pet it.
Martin recalled it was miserable, he hated me.
But if he they're not heavyWell, it must have been a really

(11:34):
sensitive dog.
The dog had PTSD, I guess Everytime he saw mittens he cowers,
yeah, just like he goes in theshock he just they put on his
owners put on mittens beforethey beat the shit out of him.
I mean, who knows, like maybe hehad like an owner that used to
just like, cause you know, likeat some point you're going to
end up putting your socks inyour dog's face, cause it's

(11:54):
hilarious, right, it is funny,it's so funny, it's like
somebody, like they did that alllike he had kids.
That would just constantly putmittens on his face.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Oh, you mean like over the snout?
Yeah, oh no, I never did that.
I was just like when I'mfolding laundry, I'll just
they'll be sitting there notdoing like not moving and I'll
just lay it on their head.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Snake loves if you put your socks on his nose.
He's such a fun.
Does he prefer dirty socks?
I think he definitely prefersdirty socks.
Nice, just because after he'sdone he like I do too honestly.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Just sniffs the hell out of it.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
But then he's always like wagging his tail, like that
was fun.
Yes, man.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'm so high I will suffocate.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
It is fun.
He does enjoy it, I promise so.
Steve Martin's favorite momentof the film, as he detailed in
his 2007 memoir memoir, memoirBorn Standing Up, was a scene in
which he and Bernadette Peterssing Tonight you Belong to Me.
Martin felt the moment wastouching and waited in
anticipation at the film'spremiere screening in St Louis.

(12:53):
Unfortunately, much of theaudience left during the scene
to buy more popcorn.
I love that scene.
The song is so good.
Oh yeah, when they're on thebeach, yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, it's a cute song, yeah, it was great.
And then I was just like man.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
I can't remember what the bit is here, and then she
just pulls out the horn.
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Oh, it's so good.
Was it really her playing it orno?

Speaker 1 (13:18):
I don't know, I couldn't find anything about
almost like anything about herreally, except that like they
wanted somebody else but thenthey got her and she's kind of
perfect in it yeah, she got thatvoice, that weird, like feel
like that voice like went awayafter the 1970s.
There's like a bunch ofactresses that could talk like
that.
Now, like nobody does it.

(13:39):
Yeah, it's like, is that howshe actually talks or is that
just a voice she puts on for themovie, because it sounds like a
joke constantly?
I've got to find out.
She's beautiful.
Yeah, I love when she's layingin bed and before I even said
you look dead.
I was like Natalie.
She looks like a fuckingvampire.
She's making good vampires theweeks.

(14:01):
Everybody's talking about theweeks and how many days they
feel like, or how many weeks thedays 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, becauseeverybody's slightly dumb
themselves.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Well, they don't.
It's almost like they don'twant to extinguish his beautiful
light.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah, I know, with the realities, of the world, and
I feel like five years afterthis he just became dads in
movies because his hair wentcompletely white.
Yeah, such a shame.
I mean, you get things likeThree Amigos and stuff, which is
great.
You need to rewatch that.
I've only seen that like onceas a child.
I don't think I've seen it allthe way through, but I love me

(14:48):
some Martin Short and Chevy.
Chase as well who do you preferout of those three?
Chevy Chase, martin Short andSteve Martin?
I don't know, I've been kind oflike really digging Martin.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Short.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
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 amovie with hold on.
Yeah, it's martin short andit's with charles groden, and
martin short is obviously this,uh, middle-aged man playing this
child who's just likedestroying charles groden's life

(15:22):
.
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, yourandom son of a bitch bastard.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Are you ready to get started?

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Yes, this is a great movie where it's just like you
watch it and then you talk withit to a friend and it's just
like that's so good and then youkind of like don't remember
like the long like kind of quietpauses between like bits and
stuff, Like when he's carryingthe dog.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, for no reason.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
That's actually a whole movie.
It's perfect.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Never mind, you're right.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Alright the Jerk, 1979 Good year, good wine, good
year.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
I don't know, I have no idea.
I don't think I've ever hadwine.
I always get fresh wine, youknow yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
So what do you think?
We're a bunch of chumps.
What's the newest one you have?
Man, I wasn't even meaning todo that bit.
I just said wine like a dummyand then I forgot that there was
a wine bit in the whole thing.
God wow, this movie's so mywheelhouse it's wild, it's wild

(16:44):
I just he's just like.
He's so annoying to the pointwhere it's hilarious yeah,
because I'll do stuff like thatto my wife.
Or I'll just like keep going onand 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 youtell me to stop.
The bit bit is I won't stopuntil you make it, just until
everyone leaves the room.

(17:05):
Yeah, all right.
So the movie starts.
Navin R Johnson, a homeless bum, directly addresses the camera
and tells this story I was borna poor black child.
Weird voice.
It's great, it's just me, myfriends and my thermos.
Such a weird voice, I don'tlike it.

(17:27):
I don't like that voice.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
It's super weird.
It makes me uncomfortable.
Is he just trying to be drunk?
He's just trying to be ahomeless man.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
He's like super sad and drunk.
It's like I don't know.
It's like I've never met ahomeless man talk like that, but
they look like they should talklike that, which maybe that's
why that makes me uncomfortable.
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Makes me think of homeless people inside yeah,
it's sad to think that they'rementally unstable.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, and I also feel bad for those.
You know he, I forget I justthought about.
They got a new house and it'sjust like two times bigger, even
the door and everything.
All right, we'll move on, we'llhave to get there.
So david is adopted is theadopted white son of
African-American sharecroppersin Mississippi who grows to
adulthood naively unaware of hisobvious adoption.

(18:10):
The large family lived in asmall shack.
It's a large family, very large.
They're so fun.
I know it was great.
I would have loved to havegrown up in this family.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
They just seem to have a good time constantly Just
dancing, and they're so nice tohim Hell yeah, he stands out in
the family not just because ofhis skin color, because he also
has no rhythm.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
When his adopted family plays spirited blues
music, he can do it At hisfavorite meal.
Yeah, dude, we should talkabout his clothes in that scene.
His pants were so high up.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's like how old is he supposed to be?

Speaker 1 (18:47):
It's like his pants come up to the mid of his calves
.
It's wild.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Maybe he just is supposed to be like he never.
They're so poor they can'tafford it.
I guess he's just been wearingthe same thing.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
It'd be funny if we found out he's 18 years old.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
I know, I think that's what it is, though I
think that's what it's supposedto be saying, I guess.
So I don't know, even thoughhis hair is completely gray.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, and at dinner they're eating food, and then
it's his birthday, so they givehim white people food.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
It's your favorite meal.
Yeah T, it's your favorite meal?

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, tuna on white bread.
Yeah, because they're bringingout food and it's like collard
greens and it's like this.
You know stereotypical, oh, itsounded so good.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
I know it does the cornbread, though.

Speaker 1 (19:33):
Oh yeah, when he like breaks off that cornbread, I'm
salivating.
This is tuna sandwich in afucking Twinkies.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
A tab and some Twinkies.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
All things that I would have not Tuna sandwich and
a fucking Twinkies, a tab andsome Twinkies All things that I
would have not eaten.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
I've never had a tab.
They taste like shit to me.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Tabsy- yeah, I don't like them.
Are they just like carbonatedwater with a little bit of?
Are they like?

Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's like a cola, but it's like a weird, like Very
off brand, very, they wereeverywhere for a while they're
like that carefree gum.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
That's what it kind of reminds me of.
So it's like as soon as it getsin 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'sso happy.
People start giving him giftsand I feel like this is probably
where he he gets his uh,constantly naming things because
somebody it's like somebodygives him a gift and then

(20:25):
someone else here, here, here sohe had so much family that
maybe that's why he's like.
The bit is that he justconstantly names things.
Maybe I mean he gets sad and heruns away.
Apparently, um, when filmingthe director didn't and steve
martin didn't tell the familythere he was gonna do that, so
like their looks were all likewhat the the fuck?
It was like a real look.
And then also thank youeverybody, god bless.

(20:48):
God bless everyone.
Tiny Tim he's sad because hefeels different compared to
everyone.
His mother finally tells himhe's adopted.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm going to be this color forever so good.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
And then, like one of his brothers, comes in, I
wrapped, I brought you your tunasandwich, just the way you
liked it wrapped in cellophane.
It's like what.
He's unable to dance.
But then all of a sudden, whilehe's laying down in bed, a like
champagne style song, yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
and then he like snaps on accident or something,
yeah, something like that.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
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 (21:35):
Look everyone, I can do it.
He's like what the fuck man?

Speaker 1 (21:38):
He's like okay, but he sees this as his calling and
believes that this is the kindof music that inspires him to go
out in the world and besomebody.
He decides to hitchhike to StLouis, where the song was
broadcast.
Love it, because it's just likethis.
Big goodbye, just to stand outof his fits.
Yeah, he throws out his thumb.

(21:59):
Dude, me and my buddy Richard.
That was the funniest thing inthe world.
We cried, laughing when he'sjust like oh, he's going to
start walking.
Nope, and it's funny because wewould make such a big deal out
of that part.
And now when I rewatched, I waslike so amped for it, and then
I was like oh it's just such areally funny.
It's just a small thing and Iremember we went it's like the

(22:22):
next day we went to church andwe were just cracking up still
about the movie and we'retelling 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'recracking up at.
You know it's kind of like slowand like very low key comedy,
especially for like the 2000swhen like Superbad and all that
was coming in.
So I was just like y'all didn'tfind it funny.

(22:43):
We're still laughing about it aweek later, 30 years later,
yeah.
So then the family's sad andthat he's leaving and wonder how
he's doing, so that one girljust pups her head out the
window and ask how's he doingElephant?

Speaker 2 (23:00):
in the truck.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, then he eventually gets the ride.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
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 (23:08):
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 shitand skull, yeah, yeah bit the
shit and shino as they'releaving.
They're all like just remember,lord loves a working man, don't
trust Whitey.
And if you get it, find yourpurpose.

(23:29):
See a doctor and get rid of it.
Lord loves a working man, don'ttrust Whitey, see a doctor and
get rid of it.
Got it?
And then, yes, then we get abunch of montages of him getting
rides, uh, and on the way hestops at a motel where a dog
wakes him up by barking at hisdoor.
What's that fire, right?
he even says yes, yeah, I know,he says yes, yeah, cause it

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turns out that dog's a littleshit head.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
He's a little asshole .

Speaker 1 (23:56):
David thinks the dog's trying to warn him of a
fire, decides to name the dogLifesaver.
He wakes up all the hotelguests to rescue them.
But then he realizes it was afalse alarm.
One Asian man angrily suggestshe calls the dog Shithead, which
Navin takes literally.
It's so good, it's just likewhy.
What's the point of this?

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It's such a random, pointlessscene, except to get the dog.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, that's what it was.
Well, I guess it was becauseLassie was huge back then.
Yeah, that's true, I guess.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
So this is like there was a big Lassie movement Anti-
.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Lassie.
Yeah, this dog is not going tohelp you.
Yeah, not at all.
In fact like doesn't even wantto be around you.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Attacks him often and attacks him often.
And then we see Navin.
He takes a bunch of more carsand eventually reaches St Louis.
Navin stops at a gas station,fills his lighter with gas so he
can use the bathroom, get thetire, the tire rim bit.
He's just like trying to wheelit on the ground.
It looks like he's justdragging it.

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I know it's supposed to beheavy, but I'm like is he's
trying to like wheel it likeit's supposed to be a wheel, so
can?
He's like struggling to peewith it.
So good, but then, while at theurinal, mr harry offers him a
job.
It's like, how about?
How about this?
Clear the toilets and you'll bethe president of, uh, this
company.
He's like, wow, just got toclean the toilet.
It's like, no, you haven't youever heard you got to work your

(25:22):
way up.
He's like, wow, just got toclean the toilet.
It's like, no, you haven't youever heard you got to work your
way up.
And he's like, well, which isit?
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 heends up getting a place to sleep
at a gas station owned by MrHarry Hart.
Oh this is great.
He gets excited when he thinksthe bathroom is going to be his

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home.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
I'll be over here so the customers can use the
bathroom.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, put my bookshelf here.
He's so excited.
Good man, harry says he can payhim by sending him a postcard
when he is rich and famous.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
He's like love you.
He takes a minute A postcard.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
It negotiate.
Harry pays Navin a dollar tenper hour.
Navin makes it a habit ofsending 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 beimpatient.
Alright.
Well, I gotta go.
I can't just sit here writingpostcards all day.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
What do you think I do?
Write letters all day.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Over a period of time , Harry starts to trust Navin
and even leaves him in charge ofthe gas station.
When he goes out on a date withhis wife.
Yeah, it's like you see this.
I only get this because I'mrich, so don't screw it up
Literally, because he has a gasstation.
He's not.
I mean, he doesn't really seemrich, he doesn't, but he's got

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that until you see that car andit's like maybe I should own a
gas station.
So then a car full of thievesroll up in to buy some gas.
Navin says that they have topay by credit card.
He's all alone and the ownerasked him not to expose the cash
at the gas station to customers.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
But he immediately shows him $23 or whatever he has
.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
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 (27:08):
Maybe like one five yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
And then Navin realizes that the credit card is
stolen.
Navin calls the cops but thenattaches 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 tothe church and then he goes and
he's like, uh, tries to get himto stay, and then ends up just
they're like, hey, can I havethat money?
He's like, yeah, sure, becausehe thinks he's gonna get it back

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.
And then he's like I know howto stall him.
It's like, oh, you're oureighth customer here, I'll go
get you your free oven mitt.
And then he walks away like gothim 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 wanthim.
They're like do you guys reallywant to oven mitt this?

Speaker 2 (27:52):
drives off the church goes.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
And the church you got like the bride on the church
that's still there and the partthat's moving.
You got the like groom.
They're like like jump off.
Yeah, like two miles an hourit's like I guess this is a
perfect kind of thing to explain.
Like there's a bunch of likekind of small jokes that are
like kind of funny in this, butthen it's just like it all

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culminates to being like whatthe fuck?
This is great.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Like we just call the police, Like yeah, it's a
carpool in the church.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yeah, it's like.
Yeah, it should.
Just any blue sedan that'spulling a church should do.
It's like, eventually, like thejoke lands so hard, it's great.
But my favorite part is justlike 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, butyeah.

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And then like Harry comes back,he's like hey, good news, you
lost a church too.
But then the local phone bookcomes up.
He's so excited because hisname's in print.
Things are going to starthappening to me.
Now Cut to looking at a phonebook.

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All right, random bastard navenheart.
Johnson, you run of the mill,son of a bitch, I'm gonna get
you.
Uh, I like god who thought ofthat.
It's so good, but that does.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
That is how it feels like with snipers, you know yeah
randomly kill random peoplewould just it's funny that he's
just mad at him for being arandom person run of the mill,
son of a bitch, it's.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
It's so funny that it's just like you know.
You never know what words aregoing to be put in a sentence
that are gonna if you justrepeat them, it's going to be
very funny.
But two words that seem toalways work bastard and son of a
bitch.
Son of a bitch it's alwaysfunny.
A son of a bitch always gets me.
Yeah, me too.
That's what she said.
So as the madman watchesthrough his rifle scope waiting

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for a clear shot, navin fixesthe slippery glasses of a
customer Stan Fox by adding ahandle and a nose break.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
These two guys in this scene.
They're so funny.
Just two really high energypeople feeding off of each other
.
Come on, change my lane.
Got it all day.
Oh yeah, they're right this way.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Oh, let me put my glasses on.
Oh, dang my glasses.
It's like hey, dude, put yourglasses on, stop looking down.
But yeah, this Stan Fox guy washilarious with his glasses,
just like his movement and theway he was talking.
ah, these damn glasses, ah thesedamn 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

(30:37):
an inventor who promises to tryto 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 bastardEveryday.
Random son of a bitch, takethat.
You run-of-the-mill bastard,die gas pumper.
Yeah, so, seizing the chance,kray's sniper is trying to kill

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Navin but fails, hitting the oilcans in the station.
Hey, these oil cans aren'teffective.
Come here, look at them.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
He immediately sees the sugar, Harry's like hey,
what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (31:13):
He's not shooting those oil cans, he's trying to
shoot you.
Get out of the way.
He hates these cans.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Stay away from these cans.
There's so many cans everywhere.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
He just keeps running , runs to the soda machine
there's cans in there Runsinside, stands in front of a
display of cans Cans, startsknocking them all over the place
.
So he's like, oh, I better getout of here.
So he gets in a car, the onecar with no tires on it at all,
he's driving slowly, I'lldistract him, I'll distract him.

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So at all, just driving slowly,I'll distract him, I'll
distract him.
So the lunatic chases Nave intoa traveling carnival.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
He can't go in.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
It's just carnival personnel only hey, he's not
carnival personnel, he can't bein there.
But Nave hides out eventuallygetting a job at SJM Fiesta
Shows as a wait-guesser whileemployed there.
Oh yeah, it's so good.
He's like come here.
All right, I'll guess yourweight.

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What?

Speaker 2 (32:12):
do I get if I win?

Speaker 1 (32:13):
And then it's like, he's like I can give you
anything in this area, not abovethis line, but under the radio
and between the pencilsharpeners, these two edges
right here.
Yeah, Including the chicletsthe pencil sharpeners, these two
edges, right.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Yeah, they're like including the chicklets but not
the pencils, yeah, and then theguy's telling him it's like
you've lost 50 cents worth ofstuff and you've made $15.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
So you're fine.
He's like, ah, it's a profit.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
So it takes all the pressure.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
It's like his his way .
It's kind of like the postcardbit where he's just kind of like
thanking, and it's so funny andit's like, ah, profit, like
when he finally realizessomething.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
It's so funny that it wasn't about him guessing the
way right.
It's like hey you idiot.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
All these games are meant to be pointless.
So while employed there, navinmeets an intimidating daredevil
biker named Patty.
Biker named patty and has asexual relationship with her,
finally realizing what hisspecial purpose is it's a
euphemism for his penis.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yes, um with the writing home to his mom about it
was so funny.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Yeah, because the grandma had no idea, I finally
found my special purpose.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
I've been using it so much I wish the whole family
could see it.
Yeah it.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
It's like and I'm also, and Patty's going to give
me a blow job, so I'm going tomake extra money.
The brother's like yikes, yeah,that's great, and but she's
essentially just molesting theguy, yeah, until he realizes he
loves it.
He's like whoa.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
This is a great ride.
Do this all the time.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
She's dirty and horny .
You can tell so much aboutsomeone by the way they live and
I can tell you're generally adirty person.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
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 (33:57):
Just throws the corn dog on the floor.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Yeah, and she also gets a tattoo of his name on her
butt and it means they'remarried.
She's got a lot of tattoos downthere.
Apparently, you got a lot ofguys.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
More people see that than the phone book.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
And then so later, while operating a miniature
railway, he meets acosmetologist named Marie and
arranges a date with her, eventhough 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, mykeys.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
My keys.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Oh, also take my wallet and it's just like dude,
just go, and then you get areally bad bit of him running
and it's sped up.
And it's just like boy, likeboy wishes.
I think it would have beenfunnier if he just like slowly
walked and just caught the kidand pressed it and she's like
freaking out or something yeah,I mean he could have just gone
to the other side and been infront of him yeah, cause it's a

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train that goes in circles andthen like it's like oh, I want,
it's like how, oh, I want.
It's like how can I repay youabout a kiss?

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Oh no Awkward that was really funny.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
One of the two really awkward bits of the movie.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
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 kidback and she's like it would
have been so embarrassing if Iwould have showed up without him
.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, I know it would have been so embarrassing.
Is this your kid?
No, I'm babysitting, oh andthen, as like they're like, all
right, well, goodbye.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
He walks away.
This is bullshit.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Oh, I did read a fact about that the kid really
wanted to keep that shirt afterthe movie and they wouldn't let
him.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
Oh, it's like that's bullshit.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
I love when she's walking away, keeps stopping her
and it's like, oh hey, what'syour name, Marie, what's yours?

Speaker 2 (35:49):
We'll give us an icebreaker to talk on our first
date Something interesting totalk about.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
I just love him constantly stopping her.
It's good.
Then we see Pat.
He's waiting for his date andPatty threatens him.
Even if he looks at a girl,he's like.
I took it easy on you.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
I stayed away from your balls Did this without
anger and I stayed away fromyour privates.
That's scary.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
I guess it's time to find a new girl.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
It's like dating Hot Rod, but Hot Rod's older sister.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, navin meets with Marie and they go back to
his place.
It turns out to be a box truckwhere they eat pizza in a cup.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
You ever had pizza in a cup?
No, I've never had anything ina cup, except for cup noodles.
It sounds like a good idea,though.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Just a bunch of melted cheese and sauce and
bread and some like pepperoni ina cup.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yeah, it did sound good when he was talking about
it.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
It's like that sounds like a meal I should just make.
He touches and squeezes herface because she's so beautiful.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Your skin is so.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
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 boyfriendyou could think of me, marie?
Well, I haven't made love tohim yet, navin, that's too bad.
Do you think it's possible thatsomeday you could make love
with him and think of him, makelove with me and think of him,

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marie, who knows, maybe youcould make love, you two could
make love and you could think ofme.
I'd just be happy to be inthere somewhere.
That is comedy, gold, gold.
Suddenly, patty confronts himMarie knocks her out.

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I know I love it.
Like the shit they do with thatbike is rad, driving on like
the bug.
Yeah, that was so good.
And then you think like oh, ohwell, that's it, they're not
gonna get you.
Just like, yeah, he's gonnamove on from marie, no, we just
cut to them singing together, uh, the song tonight.
You belong to me, like on thebeach.
And it's like wait, y'all arestill together.

(37:56):
Like y'all are gonna keepdating, like what?
he's playing a ukulele yeah, hewas playing a ukulele and marie
on the cornet.
It's a great song and when shewhips that thing out, yeah,
where's, where is she keeping itso good?
It's amazing.
And then he's like you know whyyou're playing that I wish I
could go up through it.
I was just thinking I could goup through it, go through here,

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come through there and then rideup and give you a kiss.
It's like, well, why didn't you?
I didn't want to get spit allover me.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
So what's the thing with him when he tries to kiss
her?

Speaker 1 (38:30):
She just doesn't want to kiss.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Yeah, push it away.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
It's just like she just said why didn't you?
And then he's like because Ididn'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, eventhough she just don't kiss.
It's like, uh, she says shedoesn't want to marry someone
without a special purpose, butluckily he has a special purpose
.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
She's down for that, though, yeah so they later.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
They're in bed.
Naven r johnson, you look sobeautiful and peaceful.
You almost look dead, and I'mglad because there's something I
want to say that I've alwaysbeen very difficult for me to
say I slip the sheet, the sheetI slit on the slitted sheet.
I sit there.
I've never been relaxed enougharound anyone to say that and
then he tells her how the fourweeks have they have been

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together have been like nineweeks.
Should I do it?
Should I do the quote?
Okay, I know we've only knowneach other for four weeks and
three days, but to me it seemslike nine weeks and five days.
The first day seemed like aweek and the second day seemed
like five days and the third dayseemed like a week again.
The fourth day seemed likeeight days, and the fifth day
you went to see your mother andthat seemed like just like a day

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.
And then you came back later onthe sixth day in the evening
when we saw each other, thatstarted seeming like two days.
So in the evening it seemedlike two days, spilling over
into the next day and thatstarted seeming like four days.
So at the end of the sixth dayto the seventh day it seemed
like a total of five days, andthe sixth day seemed like a week
and a half.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
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 secondthoughts.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Like who just Don't?
You wish you could just come upwith that.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Don't you wish you just sat down and come up with?

Speaker 1 (40:15):
something that funny.
That's what I think about whenI 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 quirksand my bits I do like just in
person, but I could never justdo that.
Yeah, it takes talent, thanks.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Jason, something I don't have.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
So Navin and Marie.
They're falling in love, butMarie reluctantly decides to
leave him because of his lack offinancial security.
He's in the bathtub, just likeI'm having the greatest day of
my life.
Nothing bad will ever happen.
He starts singing and then shestarts blowing her cornet.
He's like rawr.
So, why does she leave?
Because of financial security.

(40:59):
Because her mother said she hasto find someone financially
stable.
Oh right, yeah.
So she writes a note and slipsit out while Navin is in the
bath, where Navin thinks thatshe has agreed to marry him.
But it's just the shitheadbarking.
You got the thermos song.
And then he goes and he likehey, where are you at?
And reads a note.

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Because it's all wet, so thatbit doesn't work for me.
I don't know why that bitdoesn't work for me.
That's what I was like okay,let's move on.
But then he runs out coveringhimself with the dog, and I love
it.
It's completely different.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
He grabs the other dog.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
It's a completely different dog too.
If you look at it.
It's like not nearly as shaggyand then grabs the neighbor's
dog.
So then Navin's gonna move toLA, so he tries to say goodbye
to Shithead, who can't wait toleave him.
Yeah, so, garish, shithead, I'mleaving he immediately runs
away.
He's like hey get back here.

(41:53):
Wait a second, you're comingwith 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 likeget back here, you're coming
with me.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
He's like and, with a shithead leading the way, he's
dragging him down the highway.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Yeah, it's so good.
So Davis Navin takes shitheadand travels to Los Angeles.
They're the gunmen who try tokill him.
Now it's sane and working as aprivate investigator, tracks him
down and gives him the letterfrom Stan requesting a meeting.
I love it.
It's like shithead get him,attacks him, starts throwing
popcorn at him it's like thenever-ending bowl of popcorn he

(42:31):
has and then climbs a fence,even though you can just open it
.
Always a good bit when someoneclimbs a fence and someone just
like walks right there.
Yeah, that's actually, that'spretty, it's pretty neat, it's
pretty neat.
So, yeah, stan Fox.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
I'm going to grab every mattress that I find out
in the city.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Oh, you can grab mega bed.
Yes, I have two beds stacked ontop of each other we call it
mega bed.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
It's almost taller than my wife.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
It's great.
If anybody needs a bed.
We have two.
It's like Megadesk in theoffice.
But it turns out Stan Foxinvested in his eyeglass thing
and it's called the OptiGrabbecause it's optical and it
grabs and it's selling big andhe's entitled to half the

(43:30):
profits.
Stan gives him a check of$250,000 as his first
installment of his share ofprofits, but Navin only thinks
it's 250 big ones until he goesto the bank and then he realizes
the bank's like holy shit, Ithought it was just $250.
And then he reads the bank'slike holy shit, I thought it was
$250.
And then he reads the check andhe's like what?

Speaker 2 (43:49):
yeah, they were just looking at it thinking we're
gonna take this man foreverything yeah, but Navin now
extremely rich.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
He sends a postcard to Harry and he finds and
marries Marie.
Harry's like wow, the guy saidhe did it and he did it.
Kid's got integrity, he's gotintegrity.
And Marie and him, they buy anextravagant mansion.
Their life becomes one splendorand nonstop partying.
But I do love the mall shop bit.
Wherever he goes to find her,they're like she's put this

(44:20):
green mask over the old man andthen he gives him $100 and
switch places, pulls it off.
It's like, wow, this shitreally works.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
She thinks it's still her husband.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
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 apriest pretty easily and it's,
just like you know, verystereotypical like voodoo type
priest thingy.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
It's like African Saharan or something.
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
It's like we were very happy that we had a
religious wedding.
It's like a sacrifice, almostlike a voodoo doll and like a
little thing it's like what theSomething that my non-evaged
will that's yeah.
So he tells his parents aboutthe house.
It's like you know how I alwayssaid that I wanted a pool with

(45:08):
hedges shaped with S's.
So that's a real mansion thatthey used.
They loved it because itallowed them to shoot like
B-roll and stuff on the otherside.
So like, while he's goingthrough the mansion bit, they're
shooting that while like doingthe dancing scene, what does the
B-roll mean?
B roll, that's a, I guess arole would be considered like
you know, people talking andlike the actual, but it's not

(45:31):
like the Tootsie roll.
No no, no, it's just like a Broll is footage you play over
while people are doingvoiceovers like in news coverage
like whenever they're talkingabout the news, all the stuff,
yeah, and he's talking over itthey're talking about a mall and
the news they're showing videosof malls.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
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 realquick in newspapers in this
movie that's true.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
It's like everything just immediately happens.
Everything's a gag.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
So, anyway, you know how I would always talk to dad
about a spinning bed with crazyfake shit on the walls.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
You know how I always told said that I wanted a room
full of random friends that areconstantly around.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Yeah, my own disco dance studio with dancers.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
It's like five minutes and it's great.
It just gets funnier andfunnier.
The badass house Wondering whoit was and before they got a
house they also had like maidsand 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'rejust living there he gives them
his weekly paycheck of threequarters of a million dollars

(46:47):
they're like you should get abigger house.
So yeah, now we're in the newhouse.
We see that the he's writingthe letter still and that the
maid is gonna have to pay apenalty.
A death penalty because of anearly withdrawal.
What firing squad?
It's his wife.
A death penalty because of anearly withdrawal.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
It's like what Firing squad?
It's his wife.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Yeah, it's the butler's wife and it's like,
well, you know, that's a, that'sthe 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 sadforever.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
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 (47:33):
I can't remember what that's like, or something when
his wife gave him another goldchain.
Yeah, um, and then, like, thebutler brings him a drink with
an umbrella in it and it looksjust 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.

(47:53):
Yeah, the preacher, like apriest, comes in and this is
like something terrible has beengoing on in my country.
I just want to warn you beforeyou watch this.
It's brutal.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
I did not remember this part.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Yeah, me neither, and it's Steve Martin being a
juggler.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
And when they're juggling the cats, it's obvious
that they're not real, but it'sso fun.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
What really gets me is all the cats in the audience.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
People brought their cats in the audience Everybody's
going fucking nuts holding cats.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
You know I like cock fights, so they always like have
their chickens in the audience.
It's like in this they have thecats in the audience.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Like they're gonna get out on this faction.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
I just hate to see what the world's coming to,
though.
So some people come over tryingto have him open some
apartments which he pretends toknow everything about Everything
they say is a bad idea,unethical shit.
And he's like ah, yes, thatsounds lovely.
Because he has no idea and hewill do it until they say that

(48:56):
they will keep black people outand he gets upset and he thinks
he's black still and goes allBruce Lee on him.
This is the part that I didn'tknow.
The slow burn kick ass sceneBecause instead of black,
they're saying the N word.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Yeah, with a hard R, hard R yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
Like, when that was happening, I was like oh yeah, I
forgot You're looking at one.
You're looking at one and thenwe have the bit in the
restaurant where he wants thenewest wine possible.
And then you got the snail bitwhere he's like don't look down.

(49:34):
I can't believe that you havesnails here.
It's like you expect a fancyplace like this wouldn't have
snails in there.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
Did she just order the escargot?

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Yep.
And then he's like I told youwe should've got our cheese
sandwiches that you talked usout of.
Escargot's pretty good.
You ever had it, I never had it.
It's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Is it gooey?
No, it was kind of like Is itsticky?
The way they prepared it?
It is sticky.
It was very like meat kind oftender, like little pieces of
meat, almost Cool.
It was very salty.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
I love a little bit of salt, they're pretty good,
and then we got the knifethrowing bit.
It's like you know how you toldme to spend money on useless
pieces of hollies.
Why are they throwing butcherknives?
Those are not the knives youthrow.
And why is a bull?

Speaker 2 (50:19):
fighting guy teaching her how to do it.
Don't know.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
What is happening in this movie Turns out.
This movie is a little bitwacky.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Jason, are rich people just silly?
Yeah, I guess so.
Is that like I guess?

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Yeah, I would have probably spent my money more
like Blank Check did in themovie.
Blank Check yeah, all kinds offun shit, a lot of go-karts, a
lot of one million dollars, yeah, uh she, she tries the knife
throwing bit doesn't hit aballoon that he just for some

(50:50):
reason had in his pocket?

Speaker 2 (50:50):
yeah, do you have a balloon?

Speaker 1 (50:51):
yeah, no, oh yeah I do.
It's almost hits his penis andshe gets all sad and I'm not
good at nothing, oh man.
Then later we're at a danceparty and an interview comes on
with naven, but it getsinterrupted immediately because
a motion picture director carlreiner, the actual director of
the movie files a class actionlawsuit against Navin, claiming
that the invention causes eyesto be crossed and, as a result,

(51:12):
the death of a stunt driver inthe film he was making Cause
like the car for a full minute,like Rex.
Then he's like cut Always a goodbit and then, like everybody at
his party has those glasses on,they take them off it's like a

(51:32):
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 (51:44):
yeah, looks stupid, yeah.
I mean I don't think anyonewould ever wear them.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
I feel like if they brought that now people would be
like this is kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
That would be kind of fun.
You know throwback.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
But I mean the handle to like take it off, like cause
that bit when he says, cause Iwear glasses.
Yeah, cause it takes it off, itbends them like looser and
looser.
I always do that.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
I'm going to have to freaking, get new glasses,
opti-grabs let's do it, justneed to get contacts.
If we ever take part in a likea seventies night somewhere,
hell yeah, I think I'm going todo it.
Try to find a way to get someof these opti-grabs and just
dress like Steve Martin.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
There'll be like five people in there.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
They're like, everyone who would have gotten
the joke has been long dead, orthey'll be like you know what
that's actually from the 1979s.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
So technically like you should do more 1975 stuff
Too close to the 80s.
But yeah, it turns out.
Nearly 10 million other peoplehave the same complaint,
including the judge andprosecution.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
They all are cross-eyed and are rewarded 10
million in damages, so he hasthe right 10 million $1.09.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
It's like why even sue him at that point?
The guy that originally suedhim is probably pissed.
So yeah, he writes 10 millionpeople a check for $1.09.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
He probably had the option to have him printed, but
wanted to be more personal.
Yeah, I guess.
So he probably had the optionto have him printed.
Yeah, but wanted to be morepersonal.
Yeah, I guess so so is that hispants right now, yeah so Marie
comes in.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
she's in her dress from her old ratty dress from
the beach.
That looks perfectly fine andnormal.
Um, just be like I just miss us.
I miss the way we were on ourfirst date.
She's got her fucking cornet tosee, like I just miss us.
I miss the way we were on herfirst date.
She's got her fucking cornetwith her still.
And then so essentially they'rebreaking up and she regrets

(53:34):
requiring Navin to be rich.
Turns out money doesn't solveeverything, so Navin's like all
right then.
Well, I'm going to go then andI don't need any of this.
I don't need this stuff and Idon't need you.
I don't need anything Exceptthis, except an ashtray.
And that's the only thing I needIs this I don't need this or
this, just this ashtray and thispaddle game the ashtray and the

(53:58):
paddle game.
That's all I need.
And this remote control, the ascontrol.
The ashtray, the paddle game,the remote control, that's all I
need.
And these matches the ashtrayand these matches and the remote
control and a paddle ball andthis lamp the ashtray this
paddle ball, remote control andthe lamp.
That's all I need, and that'sall I need too.

(54:18):
I don't need one thing, otherthing, not one.
I need this, the paddle gameand the chair and the matches,
for sure.
Well, what are you looking at?
What do you think I'm some kindof jerk or something?
Roll credits and that's all Ineed, and walks outside.
This is ashtray remote control,the paddle game, the magazine
and the chair Outside, and Idon't need one other thing

(54:41):
except my dog.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Shithead growls at him I don't need my dog.
And then, like all the stuffgets taken from him immediately.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
Yeah, everything.
And then he's just walking thestreets with his pants down all
this stuff it's a thermos andthen he gives it all away so he
could get this thermos thethermos he said he was going to
get Marie.
His story now told.
He reigns himself to a life ofmisery and memories of Marie,
but to his amazed joys, shesuddenly appears along with

(55:09):
Navin's family in some more goodnews.
Having carefully invested thesmall sums of money he sent home
throughout the film, theybecome wealthy themselves.
They pick him up off the street, he and Marie move back home
into the Johnsons' new house.
The and Marie move back homeinto the Johnson's new house.
The exact same house just timestwo.
It's very identical.

(55:30):
Everything's just bigger.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
It's almost like they just kind of widened the shot a
little bit, just to make itlook bigger.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
But it's like the door's like two times bigger
than everybody Such a good bit.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
In my memory I thought the rocking chair the
grandma was sitting in wasbigger too.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Yeah, I did too I thought everything got big.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
I probably would have been safe for grandma.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
And now, once again, Navin dances on the porch to
folk songs.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
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 inMississippi.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
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 likeyou're in this family, you're
black, you're black, right, yeah, yeah, love to see it, you know
love to see it.
So we're gonna hit our firstcategory the good, the bad, the
ugly, the fine.
So we discuss the good of thefilm, something we like, the bad
, something we didn't.
The ugly, something that didn'tage well, the fine, something
that did age well.

(56:24):
So the good, I mean it's stevemartin, yeah, and just like all
his little bits, constant gags,you can't take a breath.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
Uh, there's no time to fake.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
There's always gagging the only thing, the only
thing that gags more some more.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
Oh no, don't do it, jesse.
Don't do it.
Step back from the ledge godI'm not gonna do it, I'm not
gonna say it gag reflex is crazy.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Good, I'm not gonna say it, but yeah, steve Martin,
so good he's just like even likehis like.
This is the small stuff he didin the movie.
It was killing me.
Just like, just like the tinylittle.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
The little dance he does when he first learns how to
dance.
He just kind of walks forward,walks back.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Oh it's so good On my way it's like why is it funny?

Speaker 2 (57:12):
I don't get why it's funny, but I love it.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
It's so good, all right.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
What do you got?
Same thing, just yeah, butthey're all pretty good.
I'd say like almost all of themhit pretty well, yeah, for the
bad for me.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
I didn't really put anything.
I mean, I felt like there'ssome points like maybe trim four
minutes off the movie, butthat's all.
I'm always going to say thatabout a movie.
Yeah, other than that I didn'thave anything.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
I thought the biker lady with him.
She went through that tinystunt, yeah, and then fell.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
I guess that was the bit, because she had a rope on
her back, so every time shebreaks through it purposely
pulls her back.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Okay, that's funny.
I don't know that girl's gotsomething.
I can't really find anythingthat girl definitely has bulging
discs and herniated discs ohyeah, she's probably she's got
whiplash or dead.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
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 kicktheir ass, yeah, and it he
himself just thought he was.
He kicks the guy in the ballsyeah, 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 wasone.
He kicks the guy in the ballsyeah, he's got metal balls, like
what is it?
What'd they call him?
Like still balling him.
I can't remember.

(58:29):
Yeah, that's pretty much all Ihad for the ugly, sure, yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
That's an easy one.
Yeah, kind of softball rightthere.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
And for the fine what aged well is absurd comedies,
gags on gags on gags.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Just like her, I think this movie aged pretty
fucking good.
Yeah, I could not believe thatI hadn't seen this in so long.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
Yeah, I couldn't remember any of it, but it was
just so funny.
Yeah, as it started going, Iwas like it just waves over me.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
I'm like ah, remember how hilarious this is.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Yeah, so that's that category.
Now we're going to do doublefeature, a movie that pairs well
like a nice, fine 2025 Pinot.

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Grigio.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
A nice fresh wine.
I picked the great, wonderfulfunny movie that feels very
similar to this Fletch Fletch.
Yeah, it's got a Chevy Chase.
It's while working undercoverwisecracking newspaper reporter
Erwin Fletch Fletcher is offereda large sum by a millionaire

(59:35):
with a terminal disease to killhim.
Intrigued, fletch decides tounearth the full story behind
the offer offer.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
It's just uh, it's classic chevy chase comedy.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
It's very like you know this is pretty good.
It's similar to this, uh, maybenot as gag heavy but, like most
of the jokes, are just gags umgod, we got something gags just
keep thinking of a joke, butit's got one of my favorite
lines ever.
He walks into, uh, this girl'splace that he likes, uh she's in
a towel, and he pulls up, heopens, she opens the door.
It's like, hey, I just hit awater buffalo, can I borrow your

(01:00:09):
?

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
towel.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
Natalie hates how much I like that joke.
Yeah, what do you got fordouble feature?

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
I was going to say I would want to rewatch the three
amigos.
I mean, we talked about it.
Yeah but I remember just, Ilove Steve Martin so much, and
not everything he's done hasbeen amazing, sure, but when
he's with two other heavyhitters, it's oh man.

Speaker 1 (01:00:39):
I have to watch it again and Martin Short and him
are just like a great pair.
Chevy Chase is kind of theoddball on that one, honestly,
but I mean he's still great.
But you'd almost want to kindof see like I don't know.
It'd be like Bill Murray wouldprobably have been the better.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
I don't know.
Maybe I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
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'mlike he really doesn't even fit
in with us too.
We're like best friends.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Well, he was just hugely popular at that time.
That's why.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Yeah, yeah, that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Man I got to watch.
It was like Christmas vacationand shit.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
Yeah, man, I really do need to rewatch that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
The only thing I remember about it is when they
did their little thing together.
They like, they slappedthemselves in the and then they
go, they thrust and cough what?

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Yes, please, yes, please.
So that's our episode on.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
The jerk.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
I completely forgot what movie we just talked about
for nearly an hour.
So make sure you join us nextweek, though, because we're
going to change things up.
We're going to get a little bitserious, we're going to get a
little bit of sci-fi.
We're going to talk about some.
Ai and stuff, because we'redoing ex-Machina baby.
Hell yeah, I can't wait towatch it Directed by the great,
the absolute great, alex Garland.

(01:02:03):
He wrote 28 Days Later he didAnnihilation, 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 scenewith Oscar Isaac and you're
gonna be like, damn, that boyhas got charisma.

(01:02:23):
And it's great.
The riz, he's got the riz.
He's going to riz all overeverybody.
So, yeah, join us next week forthat.
Jason hasn't seen it, so it'sgoing to be fucking awesome.
I can't wait, can't wait forhim to be like Crikey.
That's good.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Oh man, I wanted to say, after we did attack the
block and I feel like there's atheory here we may have our
finger on the pulse of the youthin their generation yeah,
because after we did,immediately after we did attack
the block and I did not watchthat with my kids they started
saying bro, they started sayingtrust, trust all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Yeah did we?
I think we did do we're youknow what?
The 20 people that follow us?

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
Spread like wildfire, Trust bro.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
It is Well.
I mean, I guess I was just likewe 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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And then we'll fall in love, yeah.

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Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
I'm Jesse.

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And I don't need anybody.
I don't need anything Exceptthis dog.
Goodbye, goodbye.