October 13, 2025 • 32 mins
The primary focus of this episode centers on the film "Better Off Dead," a cinematic piece that, despite its comedic intent, elicits a spectrum of reactions from its viewers. As we delve into the narrative, we explore the absurdity and randomness intertwined within the storyline, wherein the protagonist grapples with rejection and a series of misadventures that provoke both laughter and contemplation. We examine the film's structure, or lack thereof, and reflect upon its nostalgic charm contrasted with its perplexing moments, as the characters navigate a world replete with surreal humor. Our discussion also touches upon the cultural context of the 1980s, highlighting how the film captures the essence of the era's comedic style, which may appear antiquated to contemporary audiences. Ultimately, we aim to dissect what makes "Better Off Dead" a memorable, albeit unconventional, entry in the canon of teen comedies.
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(00:00):
Not gonna stoop to your level, Jay.
I'm telling you, Al did thison purpose.
I've had numerous podcasts.
I would never.
I've.
I've stated my case.
I've won the war.
I've finished the battle.
I'm not even worried about it.
It's just decisions, like,being made about who won what.
Like.
(00:27):
Welcome to the what's Alreadypodcast, where we fashion ourselves
cinematic Judge and Jerry.
My name is JJ CR Here with myco hosts, Matz, Better Red Than Dead
and Alec Burgess.
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Or you can tell skiing phenomsin high school.
Just out of high.
Were they in college?
I don't even remember high school.
(01:09):
High school?
Yeah.
Sure didn't look like highschool, though.
Fair.
That was the 80s, though, so.
Yeah.
Look, it's week two, actually.
Before I get into that, gocheck us out on Patreon.
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(01:31):
If you socially listen to sitsletters, Matson's gotten boy.
I'll tell you, it's a lot of.
Money to pay out.
So we're in week two of JohnCusack October, and we're doing the
movie Better Off Dead.
It was released October 11, 1985.
It was written and directed by.
(01:53):
This says a lot.
Savage.
Steve Holland.
It was.
It stars John Cusack, DavidOgden Steers, Kim Darby, Damien Slade,
Scooter Stevens, DianeFranklin, Dan Schneider, Laura Waterbury,
Yuji Okamoto, Brian Amada, andAmanda Weiss.
It's about.
(02:13):
Oh, don't forget Curtis Armstrong.
How could I ever.
It's about man that after hisgirlfriend dumps him for a boorish
ski jock, a depressed highschool student begins to ineptly
attempt suicide, which bringshim nothing but embarrassment.
The French exchange studentsstarts to change his outlook on life.
That was a wild synopsis, which.
(02:37):
Anyway, I'm gonna stop.
Alec, this is your movie.
Tell us why you picked BetterOff Dead.
Because I hate you both.
No, I pick it because I. Ienjoy this movie because it feels
like the planning of it wasjust a room with a dartboard and
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everybody got sick and theyCovered their eyes and hooked them,
whatever it landed on.
They're like, you know what?
What's the twist?
Kids like school.
That's the twist.
They said, we need a bad guy.
And I said, let's make it thepaper boy.
And just dollars.
(03:22):
So off the balls.
Random that I, I, it's, it's enjoyable.
I don't like it necessarily,but it's an enjoyable enough watch
because the, the randomness ofit doesn't make me want to, you know,
kick a baby.
(03:43):
Did you eat while you'rewatching this movie?
Or.
Oh, no, you were pulsed.
Nah.
No.
And I'm never gonna look atred jello the same way again.
Oh, that's funny.
But there's just little storyelements to it, right?
That get me sucked in.
And so I'm around for the nextone and I'm like, oh, okay, let's
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see what happens next.
And so I can giggle or I canjoke around, but like, the whole
opening scene with David Ogdensteers just like you.
You think something's going wrong?
No, it's just, you know,Sunday morning and here comes the
paper boy.
That's all that's happening.
So it's just, it just makesme, it makes me chuckle and giggle
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enough.
This movie is a classic madefor TV movie because you miss, you
miss there's commercial andyou got to go do something.
You miss that till the nextcommercial, you're fine.
Because you're like, I justmoved on to the next scene, okay?
The next bit.
That's all this movie is.
I mean, there you got the momwho can't cook.
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I mean, they had like, theyfelt like I was watching Aliens the
movie at one part, when she'scooking the lobster.
Then you got the green goopwith raisins in it that ends up.
You got the super smartbrother that almost killed his brother
by shooting a laser at a boxthat lit on fire.
He's got prostitutes in his room.
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It launches a rocket out oftheir house.
The paper boy that somehowshows up on K12, I don't even give
me start.
How did he get, how did he get there?
I don't know, but I want oneof those ski bikes.
I want my $2.
Like, how did he get up that mountain?
Also, K12 didn't make a lot ofsense because John Cusack, what is
(05:30):
his name in this movie?
Lane, right?
Lane.
Lane.
Like he's skiing and all of asudden just shows up at K12.
Like, this is K12.
Seems really high.
How, how did you, How'd youget There, like, no chair lift, but
we just got there, andeveryone in this movie looked like
they were like 28 to, like 32.
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I don't know about 80s actors.
I'm like, found anyone younger looking.
Anybody, Especially the.
The ski prot.
The.
The bad guy was like, thisdude looks like he belongs to, like,
a Magnum commercial or something.
Like, definitely the 80s dude.
We have the opposite problem now.
You're like, they're actuallythat old.
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But now, back then they werelike, whoa, they were in high school.
And then like, the whole,like, they liked school that made
me chuckle.
I mean, there's just so manythings in this movie that are really
funny to me.
All the suicide scenes to thefat, weird kid and his mom, like,
and his looks, like, just.
He was creepy.
They should make a horrormovie with him in it.
(06:35):
Like, he.
He could be like the new IT clown.
That would be the one thatgets me.
Jj.
A Ricky Smith horror movie.
So all that to be said, Icould just keep going on and off.
Like, this movie.
Like, we.
We just reviewed.
Say anything that was also random.
This movie is quintessentialposter child of, like, randomness.
And in Alex Toy, right?
(06:56):
It's like they just sat in aroom and were like, okay, we.
You each get to pick one thingthat you want to add to this movie.
And then they were just like, effort.
We're Hollywood.
Make the thing.
And they did.
And I laughed.
Like, this movie isentertaining to say the least.
It doesn't make any sense.
And do you.
You talk about say anythingnot being a deep movie.
(07:17):
Ain't nothing deep about this movie.
It's not one bit.
Nothing, anything.
Randomness all around to theFrench girl that should be like a
baseball player.
I'm like, I'm sorry.
I don't know how maybe.
Maybe that the street sign wasjust out of camera view, so it's
like four feet away.
But the throwing motion andhitting, that everything.
(07:39):
I'm like, look, you should gopitch for the Dodgers, because apparently
you got like, you got us allthat to be said.
This movie's funny, completely random.
And I need a newspaper.
And I haven't seen one in like10 years, but damn, get me one.
Oh, my God, I don't know whatto do with myself right now.
Okay, listen, how do you enjoythis movie?
(08:03):
But you hate Bill and Ted, dude.
Like, it's the same movie.
It's the same movie.
Like, it is literally the same.
It's pointless comedy for thesake of pointless comedy that brings
out points in sketchesthroughout the movie because they
don't.
Have repeated phrases thatmake them sound brain dead, jj.
(08:26):
It's at least a little bit more.
They have the same fuckingwindows in a garage getting blown
up 19 times.
Like they beat jokes to deathin this movie.
It's the same structure, dude.
Literally, like I.
It blows my mind that you'repraising this movie like you flip
(08:47):
flopping man of the people.
You like flip flop like politics.
And I swear to God, this iswhy Alec picked this movie.
Because you had made jokesabout better off dead in the past
that you liked it.
This was like, watch me.
Like, JJ's ass on fire's gonnalike this.
And I'm gonna go, how the doyou like this?
(09:08):
Not Bill and Ted with thatrant over and said, I don't like
this movie very much.
It's because there is no pointto the random ass comedy that comes
through it.
Funny.
Hell yeah.
Laugh my ass off at 90 of this movie.
But there's no pointwhatsoever to this movie.
None.
(09:29):
It makes no sense.
Also it.
There's a reason that theguy's creepy, because the actual
Dan Schneider is creepy.
If you haven't watched the Nickelodeon.
What was it called?
Something about kids tv.
Like there's a wholedocumentary, a four part documentary
(09:50):
about this dude being a badperson to a lot of child actors in
Nickelodeon, including AmandaBynes and like, like, it's not good.
So if you haven't watched it,you should watch it because it's
a very interesting documentary.
With that said, that guy's a creep.
For real?
For real.
Not just like in this movie.
(10:10):
Like the actual human being.
There's something wrong withhis ass and he should probably be
in jail.
I don't know if he is or heisn't, but he probably should be.
Yeah.
With that said, look, this ismy least favorite John Cusack movie.
And that's saying a lotbecause he's done some movies.
But this one to me is like, I don't.
I like it in moments.
(10:30):
It's.
It's very much similar to theone we did last week with say Anything
where it's like, I could putit on a site too.
Beat Ho Jay now thinks heknows comedy.
And yet Bill and Ted is trash.
Check back for more opinions.
You, you, you lose.
All right.
To say that because you likebetter off dead.
(10:51):
Like, it's just, it's the same.
Literally made almost the same time.
But I do, I do love thefreaking announcer voice in the racing.
Like, that's the thing is,like, some of the bits are hilarious.
The $2 is hysterical.
The fact that there's a wargoing on between the dad and the
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paper boy breaking windows,like, to the point that he wakes
up early to protect his garagewhen all that shit's funny.
But I get to the end of themovie and I go, why were you chasing
her ass anyway?
Like, she's really shitty to you.
The little French girl is muchmore attractive than the other girl.
The other was just a pain inthe ass.
Like, I don't understand,like, why you would want to un.
(11:35):
Alive yourself.
Because she broke up.
I'd be like, partying, going,hey, I'm gonna go steal Dan Schneider's
little weirdo girlfriend thathe thinks is his girlfriend.
I think the funniest part ofthis movie to me, though, is when
he finds out she actuallyspeaks English.
Like, and that whole, like,that just.
That part makes me laugh myass off.
But there's so many parts ofthis movie that I can't help but
(11:56):
laugh but go, good God, that's ridiculous.
I think my low key favoritepart is there's two parts that comes
out is at the beginning withthe cereal boxes, but then later
when Lane comes out, he's onthe phone with somebody and he's
just trying to get the catfood, and he's like, totally.
Believe me.
So I'm just like, bro.
Like, oh, it's everywhere, dude.
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And then you're, like, aboutto eat.
It's like, oh, man.
It's so funny because youthink back to your childhood.
I didn't really ever cut thosethings out, but that's.
I don't know.
Whatever.
For whatever reason, man, itjust makes me laugh so much.
It's like, the dad's justlike, what the hell is this?
There's a reason that cerealboxes are in plastic bags inside
the box now.
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Because that was real in the80s, boys.
Oh, was it really, man?
Yeah, it was so stupid in the 80s.
But then.
Well, no, like, they didn't actually.
We didn't like, oh, okay.
So kids.
Yes.
Like, we would do it one time,and then you get your block knocked
off because it would end up inthe cupboard.
Spilled out, right?
But yeah, like, that's.
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And then it was like, do notcut that until the cereal's gone.
But yeah, there didn't used tobe a plastic bag in the cereal boxes.
It came out because then kidscould go, now I get to cut that out
now?
As opposed to having to wait until.
But yeah, that was real.
Maybe the 80s were smartbecause they weren't putting plastic
(13:19):
in the ocean, but at the sametime, questionable decisions.
Back then, the 80s were a wilddecade, dude, and I was a little
kid for them.
But they were a weird decade.
The 80s was just full ofrandom bits of comedy, just true
things to the next.
Apparently.
We, we, yeah, we found randomass comedy.
Very funny.
And we found weird high schoollove stories.
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Really funny too.
Let's not even get started onthe montage of fixing a Camaro that
probably was dead beat in a day.
I'm like, I'm sorry.
Like, I don't care how goodyou are.
That probably not happening.
And yeah, you don't go from.
Or a week or a month.
Yeah, you don't go from notrunning, sitting in the front house
in like, what felt like twodays maybe to like a pristine, sexy
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ass Camaro.
That's my dream car, by the way.
That version.
It's beautiful.
So that costs you a fair penny today.
Dad used to have one silverred leather T top.
Oh, it was gorgeous.
I was so mad.
I am mad as an adult.
When I grew old enough torealize what my dad sold, I was like,
you son of a.
(14:28):
Man, I still think I'd take a67 Mustang over.
Or a two door Ford Bronco.
Love that.
Ford Bronco's cool.
And I don't care much aboutthe Mustangs, but yeah, the Camaro's
sexy.
I'd want it not black, though.
What other random thing popsinto my head about this movie?
I mean, even lastly, even the.
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The paper boy when he'sfalling off the mountain.
Like, you just gotta love that.
They just were like, I don'tcare if it looks real, throw them
off the mountain.
I'm like, one.
If you fell that far, it'sgreat that he did die, but he's.
Yeah, he's dead because hefell like 200ft.
(15:11):
Yeah.
And they just said, throw adummy off the mountain.
It looks good.
Need my $2.
Jesus.
All right, Alec, what was your point?
I was gonna say my favoriterunning joke with this is the.
Is everybody asking if it'sokay if they date Beth?
Oh, and the one that gets meis the.
(15:35):
Actually, the mailman's theone that I like.
Oh, yeah.
Because it starts off to seewith him just dropping mail.
Oh, yeah, whatever.
Just.
It's even like when he'ssorting through, he just like, sort,
you know, like.
Oh.
Yep.
Nope, not this house.
Drop, drop.
Yeah.
I do love the scene when theteacher pulls out with her in the
(15:57):
car.
He just like, gives him thenod and drives away.
Yeah, it's kind of funny.
What's up with the stupidburgers in this movie.
Hated the claymation burgersor whatever.
That was like that.
I don't know.
That was.
That was like Bill and Ted.
Esther.
It's like, all right, this isjust too much.
Like, this is dumb.
This is really dumb.
(16:19):
I think you get confused whenyou watch it.
I'm giving up logic with you,my friend.
Oh, God.
I will say Curtis Armstrong isone of the funniest people ever.
Like, I think he's so underrated.
The dude that plays the best friend.
(16:39):
Like, I think back every timeI see him.
Like, I.
Like there's a.
There's a show Casey loves towatch over and over and over and
over and over the Closer.
And it's a good show.
It's fun.
But he's in it in one of the later.
In two of the later seasons or whatever.
And he's an.
Like, he's a bad guy, but he'sbad Ish guy.
(17:00):
But I love him regardless ofthe fact that he's a bad guy and
he's a dick.
It's.
He's just funny.
Like.
And I was like, this is JJ.
If he was like 10 funnier anda little weirder, this could be JJ
if he was tripping balls allthe time.
That's fair.
Maybe that's why I like him.
(17:21):
Because these were.
I'm like, that could have been me.
God damn it.
If we.
If we just tweaked your.
Your DNA percentage by like 5to 10% and threw into more drugs,
might be you.
Not the worst.
Where you'd be damn funny.
You'd just be a little weird.
Five to ten is a pretty big tweak.
Yeah.
Say I am.
He'd be a mushroom at that point.
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I think I am a. I am a little weird.
And depending on who you ask,I'm kind of funny.
But so I almost fit the billand I. I'll stop there.
I was gonna say, I think five.
To ten's fair when we'retalking about you, Alec.
I wouldn't increase your youby any percentage because I'm afraid
what would happen.
As long as we're still friends.
(18:04):
All up that as long as you'reon my team, we'll still.
Because the chaos could be interesting.
One his only.
His only line would be,they're on the podcast.
I like Oshi.
Everything else is acompletely no holds bar.
Like, well, I can't leave thepodcast ever.
I'm gonna die.
Yeah.
(18:26):
Oh, I want my $2.
$2.
Yeah, I. I think.
Listen, this is Another moviethat I saw when I was a younger.
When I was a kid, and I waseven younger when I saw this one
than when I saw the last onewe did with say Anything.
(18:46):
I. Yeah, because this one cameout before.
And I think it's funny too,because I'm pretty sure John Cusack
looks older in this movie thanhe did say Anything.
And maybe that's makeup andthey made it that way, but I mean,
the movie came out prettysure, like four or five years before
say Anything.
But this movie, like, justmakes no sense to me.
(19:08):
And I think it's one of thosethings where I remember thinking
as a kid, like, that it wasreally, really, really funny because
I didn't have to pay attentionbecause there was no story.
You know what I mean?
It was just like this dudehaving a time trying to get his girlfriend
back that I'm trying to figureout why he wanted in the first place.
(19:31):
And then I'm like, everybodyelse wants her.
Go find one of these othergirls that like any of them that
nobody actually want, youknow, like everybody in the movie.
So as a kid, I was reallyconfused because everybody talked
about this movie like it wasone of the funniest, greatest movies
ever made.
And it just was one thatdidn't stick with me even as a kid,
as an adult, like, people talkabout better off dead, and I'm like,
(19:56):
I feel like I could go watchanother John Hughes film and it would
make more sense because atleast there's a story and it's still
funny.
Ish.
Alec, you know which movie I'mtalking about.
It's like a less off the wall,silly, not less known, just less
(20:23):
goofy.
But same story, pretty muchSt. Elmo's Fire.
No, good guess, though.
That's always my.
Go to John Hughes with John Hughes.
No, it's.
Wow, now my brain just quitsome kind of wonderful.
So.
But that's the 80s.
(20:44):
The other funny part is Ican't believe I forgot this line.
The whole tree trimmer scene,that was so random.
My dude.
Totally, perfectly a white boy.
Now that's a real shame of the.
Folks if you're throwing awaya perfectly good white.
I was like.
(21:06):
What?
Dude, the 80s were different, man.
You could say some back in the.
80S, dude, that we need.
We need humor like that today.
That was funny.
I was like, I did adult.
I was like, wait, T, what didthey just say?
Dude, humor was different inthe 80s, man.
(21:29):
Our favorite saying was,sticks and stones, break bones, words
will never hurt me.
And that was real.
Like, I come Home be like,mom, they said something.
And my mom be like, shut up.
Like, they just said somelike, you can't be upset by words.
It doesn't actually hurt youunless you let it.
I'm like, that's fair.
Which is why I'm okay makingfun of myself and letting everybody
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else make fun of me, becauseit's just.
It's just like, whatever.
So, yeah, in the 80s, we saidsome in movies and TV and music that
people are like, if you goback and watch.
Dude, half the lineup of 80smovies, especially 80s comedies,
dude, the.
That goes on in those movies.
People would be jailed todayfor the.
That happens in those movies.
(22:11):
Like Porkies.
And what was the other one Iwas thinking about with As I was
watching this, I was thinkingabout all these movies from the 80s
that I watched when I wasyounger going.
And I think about them now,and I'm like, there's no way.
It's a science movie with Val Kilmer.
Why can I not think of thename of this movie?
Anyway, he does that one.
There's like, Revenge of the Nerds.
(22:32):
Are you me?
Like, there's so much stuffthat happens and is said in movies
like this.
So the fact.
Yeah, but yeah, it's a great line.
Can't believe you throw perfectly.
Oh, God.
That.
That might be the funniestunexpected scene.
I did not remember that.
And I was like, wow.
Yeah.
Real genius.
(22:53):
Real genius.
That's right.
That's right.
Yeah.
You can't.
Like, God, dude, we ought todo just like a month of.
We'd have to do it on Patreon,though, I think.
But we.
We should just do like a monthof the rankest asked 80s movies that
you couldn't get away with today.
Because there's a lot.
There is a lot.
(23:16):
Yeah.
Better off.
I don't even.
I got nothing.
I normally could talk my assoff about any movie.
I got nothing for this one.
I'm.
I'm.
I'm happy.
I've never been happier.
Everybody at home, you canflip your Bill and Ted calendar back
for.
It had been a while day since.
It'S been mentioned on the podcast.
It's now back to zero.
I'm just glad it was me thatgot to mention it this time versus
(23:39):
it getting thrown in my faceall the time.
And the more Madsen talksabout this movie, the more I just
go, what the is happening?
The earth is on its axis right now.
Like, blows me away.
Blows me away.
Not gonna stoop to your level, Jay.
I'm telling you, I did this on purpose.
I've had numerous podcasts.
(23:59):
Would never.
That's.
I've.
I've stated my case.
I've won the war.
I've finished the battle.
I'm not even worried about it.
It's just decisions, like,being made about who won what.
Like.
An angel visited me in the night.
There you go.
Well, a demon visited me inthe night and that means the same
(24:22):
to me as an angel visiting you.
But you don't believe inangels and demons, so that's exactly
my point.
They both could come, have aparty and tell me you won and I wouldn't
believe it because they're not real.
That's how God makes himself known.
Into JJ's like, Matson was right.
(24:44):
And he's like, oh.
And that's why I don't believeanybody will tell me that Matson's
right about comedy.
Means I can't believe themwith that.
Alec, you got to start us onthis rating of this weird ass movie
you made us watch.
Better off dead to two and a half.
(25:04):
Right in the Middle of the Road.
It is no substance, but it isa great time to watch.
Although I think I had abetter time talking about it with
you two actually watching it.
But it's got its moments, it'sgot bits, it's got good one liners,
but then also some weirdfucking shit like ski pole fencing.
(25:26):
Never thought I'd see that ina movie, but they just decided to
throw that shit in there.
It's great.
Yeah.
Two and a half, Middle of the road.
Nice.
Matson, your turn, buddy.
I'll give it a two and a half.
Good, solid Middle of the road movie.
I'll probably watch it againin my lifetime.
In fact, I'm sure I will now.
And just despite jj, I'll sendhim a picture and just say, I don't
(25:49):
know comedy and what else tosay about this movie.
If you haven't seen it, thisis a great movie to go watch with
friends.
You'll just be like, whathappened in the 80s?
And then you can listen tothis episode and look at JJ and see
exactly what happened in the 80s.
Jesus Christ.
The same movie, Matt.
(26:11):
And on that note, my fellowlisteners, as your resident man of
the people chime into thiscomment section, I think we need
a vote to see who's.
The real man of the people.
This is another mysteriousangel delivering a calling to you,
jj.
I know what I'm about to sayright here.
Let a naysayer.
No.
Oh, geez.
We're looking right at J.J. here.
(26:32):
So chime in to the comments section.
We'd love to hear from you.
I don't want to hear from anyof you.
That's not true.
Alec probably interacts morewith our comments than anybody else.
That is true.
All right, I'm giving thisthing a 2.
I like John Cusack.
That's about all I got forthis movie.
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Other than some of the bitsare pretty funny.
A lot of the bits are funny.
It just doesn't make sense.
Like, it should have been aSNL sketch is what this should have
been.
It should have been like,let's take Better off Dead Week or
Saturday.
Right.
And every one of thesesketches is a Saturday Night Live
sketch because there's nothrough line.
None.
There's.
There's no.
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Other than the fact that thedude broke up with his girlfriend
at the beginning, there's nothrough line for any of it.
Like, there doesn't tieanything together.
So, yeah.
Which is a struggle for me underlying.
Like, I have a hard time withno connective tissue.
It's both these movies we'vedone so far.
It drives me nuts.
(27:35):
But, yeah, I mean, listen,it's still got funny parts, but it's
another one.
Bill and Ted is so connected.
Like just a life lessonsgalore in that movie.
I'm not talking about life lessons.
There's a plot that runs fromthe start of the movie to the end
of the movie.
It runs from the start of themovie to the end of the movie, and
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it is always present.
They may go a little wonky onoccasion, but it's always there.
This movie, outside of thefact that the dude's hating life
because his girlfriend dumpedhis ass, which we forget about at
least a half a dozen times inthis movie, other than the fact that
everybody else is taking her, doesn't.
Affect that the movie's still funny.
Bill and Ted's semblance of aplot line doesn't immediately make
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the movie funnier.
I didn't say it was funnier.
Felt like you were arguing toour listeners, like, let the record
show.
JJ's trying to go stonewall.
Lawyer tactics, Raising hisvoice, talking faster.
Just.
You heard it here first, folks.
I'm not leading you astray.
JJ doesn't know comedy.
(28:37):
This is the epitome of Matsonright here.
You're not hearing what I'msaying, sir.
I'm saying they're both veryfunny movies.
They're pretty much the samemovie minus the plot.
And you like one and not the other.
That's the problem here, isyou like one and not the other.
They're the same.
(28:57):
They're, you know, open up acereal boxer.
If it's pouring out of the preearly cutout label, they're pull
coming out of the same box.
Dude, but you listen, I'mgonna, I'm gonna have to side with
JJ here because he is right.
The moment he said Bill andTed, I just started looking at JJ
and thought he was dumb.
That's right.
That's right.
(29:19):
Because we've already decidedepisodes ago.
What is this?
Probably like the eighth episode.
We've gone to war.
JJ doesn't know comedy.
Like, let's just set therecord straight and let it be shown
again on whatever episode 400or something.
This is.
I don't know how much longerI'll be doing this podcast, but I
want our listeners to know JJdoesn't know comedy.
And that's what needs to be said.
(29:39):
Alec, tell them more.
They can find us.
Because jj, he just doesn'thave any words left.
Oh my God.
Hold on.
Wait there.
Okay, so how's it going?
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Oh, you gotta go check outYouTube if you're listening, because
that was funny.
Alex.
Happy to.
Like JJ said, go to YouTube,check it out, then put in the comments.
Who actually knows comedybecause JJ just said that was funny.
So you can, you can decide for yourself.
I might not always win in thepodcast, but I can always make sure
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Yeah.
Sure didn't look like highschool, though.
Fair.
That was the 80s, though, so.
Yeah.
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So we're in week two of JohnCusack October, and we're doing the
movie Better Off Dead.
It was released October 11, 1985.
It was written and directed by.
(01:53):
This says a lot.
Savage.
Steve Holland.
It was.
It stars John Cusack, DavidOgden Steers, Kim Darby, Damien Slade,
Scooter Stevens, DianeFranklin, Dan Schneider, Laura Waterbury,
Yuji Okamoto, Brian Amada, andAmanda Weiss.
It's about.
(02:13):
Oh, don't forget Curtis Armstrong.
How could I ever.
It's about man that after hisgirlfriend dumps him for a boorish
ski jock, a depressed highschool student begins to ineptly
attempt suicide, which bringshim nothing but embarrassment.
The French exchange studentsstarts to change his outlook on life.
That was a wild synopsis, which.
(02:37):
Anyway, I'm gonna stop.
Alec, this is your movie.
Tell us why you picked BetterOff Dead.
Because I hate you both.
No, I pick it because I. Ienjoy this movie because it feels
like the planning of it wasjust a room with a dartboard and
(02:57):
everybody got sick and theyCovered their eyes and hooked them,
whatever it landed on.
They're like, you know what?
What's the twist?
Kids like school.
That's the twist.
They said, we need a bad guy.
And I said, let's make it thepaper boy.
And just dollars.
(03:22):
So off the balls.
Random that I, I, it's, it's enjoyable.
I don't like it necessarily,but it's an enjoyable enough watch
because the, the randomness ofit doesn't make me want to, you know,
kick a baby.
(03:43):
Did you eat while you'rewatching this movie?
Or.
Oh, no, you were pulsed.
Nah.
No.
And I'm never gonna look atred jello the same way again.
Oh, that's funny.
But there's just little storyelements to it, right?
That get me sucked in.
And so I'm around for the nextone and I'm like, oh, okay, let's
(04:05):
see what happens next.
And so I can giggle or I canjoke around, but like, the whole
opening scene with David Ogdensteers just like you.
You think something's going wrong?
No, it's just, you know,Sunday morning and here comes the
paper boy.
That's all that's happening.
So it's just, it just makesme, it makes me chuckle and giggle
(04:26):
enough.
This movie is a classic madefor TV movie because you miss, you
miss there's commercial andyou got to go do something.
You miss that till the nextcommercial, you're fine.
Because you're like, I justmoved on to the next scene, okay?
The next bit.
That's all this movie is.
I mean, there you got the momwho can't cook.
(04:47):
I mean, they had like, theyfelt like I was watching Aliens the
movie at one part, when she'scooking the lobster.
Then you got the green goopwith raisins in it that ends up.
You got the super smartbrother that almost killed his brother
by shooting a laser at a boxthat lit on fire.
He's got prostitutes in his room.
(05:09):
It launches a rocket out oftheir house.
The paper boy that somehowshows up on K12, I don't even give
me start.
How did he get, how did he get there?
I don't know, but I want oneof those ski bikes.
I want my $2.
Like, how did he get up that mountain?
Also, K12 didn't make a lot ofsense because John Cusack, what is
(05:30):
his name in this movie?
Lane, right?
Lane.
Lane.
Like he's skiing and all of asudden just shows up at K12.
Like, this is K12.
Seems really high.
How, how did you, How'd youget There, like, no chair lift, but
we just got there, andeveryone in this movie looked like
they were like 28 to, like 32.
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I don't know about 80s actors.
I'm like, found anyone younger looking.
Anybody, Especially the.
The ski prot.
The.
The bad guy was like, thisdude looks like he belongs to, like,
a Magnum commercial or something.
Like, definitely the 80s dude.
We have the opposite problem now.
You're like, they're actuallythat old.
(06:13):
But now, back then they werelike, whoa, they were in high school.
And then like, the whole,like, they liked school that made
me chuckle.
I mean, there's just so manythings in this movie that are really
funny to me.
All the suicide scenes to thefat, weird kid and his mom, like,
and his looks, like, just.
He was creepy.
They should make a horrormovie with him in it.
(06:35):
Like, he.
He could be like the new IT clown.
That would be the one thatgets me.
Jj.
A Ricky Smith horror movie.
So all that to be said, Icould just keep going on and off.
Like, this movie.
Like, we.
We just reviewed.
Say anything that was also random.
This movie is quintessentialposter child of, like, randomness.
And in Alex Toy, right?
(06:56):
It's like they just sat in aroom and were like, okay, we.
You each get to pick one thingthat you want to add to this movie.
And then they were just like, effort.
We're Hollywood.
Make the thing.
And they did.
And I laughed.
Like, this movie isentertaining to say the least.
It doesn't make any sense.
And do you.
You talk about say anythingnot being a deep movie.
(07:17):
Ain't nothing deep about this movie.
It's not one bit.
Nothing, anything.
Randomness all around to theFrench girl that should be like a
baseball player.
I'm like, I'm sorry.
I don't know how maybe.
Maybe that the street sign wasjust out of camera view, so it's
like four feet away.
But the throwing motion andhitting, that everything.
(07:39):
I'm like, look, you should gopitch for the Dodgers, because apparently
you got like, you got us allthat to be said.
This movie's funny, completely random.
And I need a newspaper.
And I haven't seen one in like10 years, but damn, get me one.
Oh, my God, I don't know whatto do with myself right now.
Okay, listen, how do you enjoythis movie?
(08:03):
But you hate Bill and Ted, dude.
Like, it's the same movie.
It's the same movie.
Like, it is literally the same.
It's pointless comedy for thesake of pointless comedy that brings
out points in sketchesthroughout the movie because they
don't.
Have repeated phrases thatmake them sound brain dead, jj.
(08:26):
It's at least a little bit more.
They have the same fuckingwindows in a garage getting blown
up 19 times.
Like they beat jokes to deathin this movie.
It's the same structure, dude.
Literally, like I.
It blows my mind that you'repraising this movie like you flip
(08:47):
flopping man of the people.
You like flip flop like politics.
And I swear to God, this iswhy Alec picked this movie.
Because you had made jokesabout better off dead in the past
that you liked it.
This was like, watch me.
Like, JJ's ass on fire's gonnalike this.
And I'm gonna go, how the doyou like this?
(09:08):
Not Bill and Ted with thatrant over and said, I don't like
this movie very much.
It's because there is no pointto the random ass comedy that comes
through it.
Funny.
Hell yeah.
Laugh my ass off at 90 of this movie.
But there's no pointwhatsoever to this movie.
None.
(09:29):
It makes no sense.
Also it.
There's a reason that theguy's creepy, because the actual
Dan Schneider is creepy.
If you haven't watched the Nickelodeon.
What was it called?
Something about kids tv.
Like there's a wholedocumentary, a four part documentary
(09:50):
about this dude being a badperson to a lot of child actors in
Nickelodeon, including AmandaBynes and like, like, it's not good.
So if you haven't watched it,you should watch it because it's
a very interesting documentary.
With that said, that guy's a creep.
For real?
For real.
Not just like in this movie.
(10:10):
Like the actual human being.
There's something wrong withhis ass and he should probably be
in jail.
I don't know if he is or heisn't, but he probably should be.
Yeah.
With that said, look, this ismy least favorite John Cusack movie.
And that's saying a lotbecause he's done some movies.
But this one to me is like, I don't.
I like it in moments.
(10:30):
It's.
It's very much similar to theone we did last week with say Anything
where it's like, I could putit on a site too.
Beat Ho Jay now thinks heknows comedy.
And yet Bill and Ted is trash.
Check back for more opinions.
You, you, you lose.
All right.
To say that because you likebetter off dead.
(10:51):
Like, it's just, it's the same.
Literally made almost the same time.
But I do, I do love thefreaking announcer voice in the racing.
Like, that's the thing is,like, some of the bits are hilarious.
The $2 is hysterical.
The fact that there's a wargoing on between the dad and the
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paper boy breaking windows,like, to the point that he wakes
up early to protect his garagewhen all that shit's funny.
But I get to the end of themovie and I go, why were you chasing
her ass anyway?
Like, she's really shitty to you.
The little French girl is muchmore attractive than the other girl.
The other was just a pain inthe ass.
Like, I don't understand,like, why you would want to un.
(11:35):
Alive yourself.
Because she broke up.
I'd be like, partying, going,hey, I'm gonna go steal Dan Schneider's
little weirdo girlfriend thathe thinks is his girlfriend.
I think the funniest part ofthis movie to me, though, is when
he finds out she actuallyspeaks English.
Like, and that whole, like,that just.
That part makes me laugh myass off.
But there's so many parts ofthis movie that I can't help but
(11:56):
laugh but go, good God, that's ridiculous.
I think my low key favoritepart is there's two parts that comes
out is at the beginning withthe cereal boxes, but then later
when Lane comes out, he's onthe phone with somebody and he's
just trying to get the catfood, and he's like, totally.
Believe me.
So I'm just like, bro.
Like, oh, it's everywhere, dude.
(12:16):
And then you're, like, aboutto eat.
It's like, oh, man.
It's so funny because youthink back to your childhood.
I didn't really ever cut thosethings out, but that's.
I don't know.
Whatever.
For whatever reason, man, itjust makes me laugh so much.
It's like, the dad's justlike, what the hell is this?
There's a reason that cerealboxes are in plastic bags inside
the box now.
(12:37):
Because that was real in the80s, boys.
Oh, was it really, man?
Yeah, it was so stupid in the 80s.
But then.
Well, no, like, they didn't actually.
We didn't like, oh, okay.
So kids.
Yes.
Like, we would do it one time,and then you get your block knocked
off because it would end up inthe cupboard.
Spilled out, right?
But yeah, like, that's.
(12:58):
And then it was like, do notcut that until the cereal's gone.
But yeah, there didn't used tobe a plastic bag in the cereal boxes.
It came out because then kidscould go, now I get to cut that out
now?
As opposed to having to wait until.
But yeah, that was real.
Maybe the 80s were smartbecause they weren't putting plastic
(13:19):
in the ocean, but at the sametime, questionable decisions.
Back then, the 80s were a wilddecade, dude, and I was a little
kid for them.
But they were a weird decade.
The 80s was just full ofrandom bits of comedy, just true
things to the next.
Apparently.
We, we, yeah, we found randomass comedy.
Very funny.
And we found weird high schoollove stories.
(13:42):
Really funny too.
Let's not even get started onthe montage of fixing a Camaro that
probably was dead beat in a day.
I'm like, I'm sorry.
Like, I don't care how goodyou are.
That probably not happening.
And yeah, you don't go from.
Or a week or a month.
Yeah, you don't go from notrunning, sitting in the front house
in like, what felt like twodays maybe to like a pristine, sexy
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ass Camaro.
That's my dream car, by the way.
That version.
It's beautiful.
So that costs you a fair penny today.
Dad used to have one silverred leather T top.
Oh, it was gorgeous.
I was so mad.
I am mad as an adult.
When I grew old enough torealize what my dad sold, I was like,
you son of a.
(14:28):
Man, I still think I'd take a67 Mustang over.
Or a two door Ford Bronco.
Love that.
Ford Bronco's cool.
And I don't care much aboutthe Mustangs, but yeah, the Camaro's
sexy.
I'd want it not black, though.
What other random thing popsinto my head about this movie?
I mean, even lastly, even the.
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The paper boy when he'sfalling off the mountain.
Like, you just gotta love that.
They just were like, I don'tcare if it looks real, throw them
off the mountain.
I'm like, one.
If you fell that far, it'sgreat that he did die, but he's.
Yeah, he's dead because hefell like 200ft.
(15:11):
Yeah.
And they just said, throw adummy off the mountain.
It looks good.
Need my $2.
Jesus.
All right, Alec, what was your point?
I was gonna say my favoriterunning joke with this is the.
Is everybody asking if it'sokay if they date Beth?
Oh, and the one that gets meis the.
(15:35):
Actually, the mailman's theone that I like.
Oh, yeah.
Because it starts off to seewith him just dropping mail.
Oh, yeah, whatever.
Just.
It's even like when he'ssorting through, he just like, sort,
you know, like.
Oh.
Yep.
Nope, not this house.
Drop, drop.
Yeah.
I do love the scene when theteacher pulls out with her in the
(15:57):
car.
He just like, gives him thenod and drives away.
Yeah, it's kind of funny.
What's up with the stupidburgers in this movie.
Hated the claymation burgersor whatever.
That was like that.
I don't know.
That was.
That was like Bill and Ted.
Esther.
It's like, all right, this isjust too much.
Like, this is dumb.
This is really dumb.
(16:19):
I think you get confused whenyou watch it.
I'm giving up logic with you,my friend.
Oh, God.
I will say Curtis Armstrong isone of the funniest people ever.
Like, I think he's so underrated.
The dude that plays the best friend.
(16:39):
Like, I think back every timeI see him.
Like, I.
Like there's a.
There's a show Casey loves towatch over and over and over and
over and over the Closer.
And it's a good show.
It's fun.
But he's in it in one of the later.
In two of the later seasons or whatever.
And he's an.
Like, he's a bad guy, but he'sbad Ish guy.
(17:00):
But I love him regardless ofthe fact that he's a bad guy and
he's a dick.
It's.
He's just funny.
Like.
And I was like, this is JJ.
If he was like 10 funnier anda little weirder, this could be JJ
if he was tripping balls allthe time.
That's fair.
Maybe that's why I like him.
(17:21):
Because these were.
I'm like, that could have been me.
God damn it.
If we.
If we just tweaked your.
Your DNA percentage by like 5to 10% and threw into more drugs,
might be you.
Not the worst.
Where you'd be damn funny.
You'd just be a little weird.
Five to ten is a pretty big tweak.
Yeah.
Say I am.
He'd be a mushroom at that point.
(17:43):
I think I am a. I am a little weird.
And depending on who you ask,I'm kind of funny.
But so I almost fit the billand I. I'll stop there.
I was gonna say, I think five.
To ten's fair when we'retalking about you, Alec.
I wouldn't increase your youby any percentage because I'm afraid
what would happen.
As long as we're still friends.
(18:04):
All up that as long as you'reon my team, we'll still.
Because the chaos could be interesting.
One his only.
His only line would be,they're on the podcast.
I like Oshi.
Everything else is acompletely no holds bar.
Like, well, I can't leave thepodcast ever.
I'm gonna die.
Yeah.
(18:26):
Oh, I want my $2.
$2.
Yeah, I. I think.
Listen, this is Another moviethat I saw when I was a younger.
When I was a kid, and I waseven younger when I saw this one
than when I saw the last onewe did with say Anything.
(18:46):
I. Yeah, because this one cameout before.
And I think it's funny too,because I'm pretty sure John Cusack
looks older in this movie thanhe did say Anything.
And maybe that's makeup andthey made it that way, but I mean,
the movie came out prettysure, like four or five years before
say Anything.
But this movie, like, justmakes no sense to me.
(19:08):
And I think it's one of thosethings where I remember thinking
as a kid, like, that it wasreally, really, really funny because
I didn't have to pay attentionbecause there was no story.
You know what I mean?
It was just like this dudehaving a time trying to get his girlfriend
back that I'm trying to figureout why he wanted in the first place.
(19:31):
And then I'm like, everybodyelse wants her.
Go find one of these othergirls that like any of them that
nobody actually want, youknow, like everybody in the movie.
So as a kid, I was reallyconfused because everybody talked
about this movie like it wasone of the funniest, greatest movies
ever made.
And it just was one thatdidn't stick with me even as a kid,
as an adult, like, people talkabout better off dead, and I'm like,
(19:56):
I feel like I could go watchanother John Hughes film and it would
make more sense because atleast there's a story and it's still
funny.
Ish.
Alec, you know which movie I'mtalking about.
It's like a less off the wall,silly, not less known, just less
(20:23):
goofy.
But same story, pretty muchSt. Elmo's Fire.
No, good guess, though.
That's always my.
Go to John Hughes with John Hughes.
No, it's.
Wow, now my brain just quitsome kind of wonderful.
So.
But that's the 80s.
(20:44):
The other funny part is Ican't believe I forgot this line.
The whole tree trimmer scene,that was so random.
My dude.
Totally, perfectly a white boy.
Now that's a real shame of the.
Folks if you're throwing awaya perfectly good white.
I was like.
(21:06):
What?
Dude, the 80s were different, man.
You could say some back in the.
80S, dude, that we need.
We need humor like that today.
That was funny.
I was like, I did adult.
I was like, wait, T, what didthey just say?
Dude, humor was different inthe 80s, man.
(21:29):
Our favorite saying was,sticks and stones, break bones, words
will never hurt me.
And that was real.
Like, I come Home be like,mom, they said something.
And my mom be like, shut up.
Like, they just said somelike, you can't be upset by words.
It doesn't actually hurt youunless you let it.
I'm like, that's fair.
Which is why I'm okay makingfun of myself and letting everybody
(21:49):
else make fun of me, becauseit's just.
It's just like, whatever.
So, yeah, in the 80s, we saidsome in movies and TV and music that
people are like, if you goback and watch.
Dude, half the lineup of 80smovies, especially 80s comedies,
dude, the.
That goes on in those movies.
People would be jailed todayfor the.
That happens in those movies.
(22:11):
Like Porkies.
And what was the other one Iwas thinking about with As I was
watching this, I was thinkingabout all these movies from the 80s
that I watched when I wasyounger going.
And I think about them now,and I'm like, there's no way.
It's a science movie with Val Kilmer.
Why can I not think of thename of this movie?
Anyway, he does that one.
There's like, Revenge of the Nerds.
(22:32):
Are you me?
Like, there's so much stuffthat happens and is said in movies
like this.
So the fact.
Yeah, but yeah, it's a great line.
Can't believe you throw perfectly.
Oh, God.
That.
That might be the funniestunexpected scene.
I did not remember that.
And I was like, wow.
Yeah.
Real genius.
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Real genius.
That's right.
That's right.
Yeah.
You can't.
Like, God, dude, we ought todo just like a month of.
We'd have to do it on Patreon,though, I think.
But we.
We should just do like a monthof the rankest asked 80s movies that
you couldn't get away with today.
Because there's a lot.
There is a lot.
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Yeah.
Better off.
I don't even.
I got nothing.
I normally could talk my assoff about any movie.
I got nothing for this one.
I'm.
I'm.
I'm happy.
I've never been happier.
Everybody at home, you canflip your Bill and Ted calendar back
for.
It had been a while day since.
It'S been mentioned on the podcast.
It's now back to zero.
I'm just glad it was me thatgot to mention it this time versus
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it getting thrown in my faceall the time.
And the more Madsen talksabout this movie, the more I just
go, what the is happening?
The earth is on its axis right now.
Like, blows me away.
Blows me away.
Not gonna stoop to your level, Jay.
I'm telling you, I did this on purpose.
I've had numerous podcasts.
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Would never.
That's.
I've.
I've stated my case.
I've won the war.
I've finished the battle.
I'm not even worried about it.
It's just decisions, like,being made about who won what.
Like.
An angel visited me in the night.
There you go.
Well, a demon visited me inthe night and that means the same
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to me as an angel visiting you.
But you don't believe inangels and demons, so that's exactly
my point.
They both could come, have aparty and tell me you won and I wouldn't
believe it because they're not real.
That's how God makes himself known.
Into JJ's like, Matson was right.
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And he's like, oh.
And that's why I don't believeanybody will tell me that Matson's
right about comedy.
Means I can't believe themwith that.
Alec, you got to start us onthis rating of this weird ass movie
you made us watch.
Better off dead to two and a half.
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Right in the Middle of the Road.
It is no substance, but it isa great time to watch.
Although I think I had abetter time talking about it with
you two actually watching it.
But it's got its moments, it'sgot bits, it's got good one liners,
but then also some weirdfucking shit like ski pole fencing.
(25:26):
Never thought I'd see that ina movie, but they just decided to
throw that shit in there.
It's great.
Yeah.
Two and a half, Middle of the road.
Nice.
Matson, your turn, buddy.
I'll give it a two and a half.
Good, solid Middle of the road movie.
I'll probably watch it againin my lifetime.
In fact, I'm sure I will now.
And just despite jj, I'll sendhim a picture and just say, I don't
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know comedy and what else tosay about this movie.
If you haven't seen it, thisis a great movie to go watch with
friends.
You'll just be like, whathappened in the 80s?
And then you can listen tothis episode and look at JJ and see
exactly what happened in the 80s.
Jesus Christ.
The same movie, Matt.
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And on that note, my fellowlisteners, as your resident man of
the people chime into thiscomment section, I think we need
a vote to see who's.
The real man of the people.
This is another mysteriousangel delivering a calling to you,
jj.
I know what I'm about to sayright here.
Let a naysayer.
No.
Oh, geez.
We're looking right at J.J. here.
(26:32):
So chime in to the comments section.
We'd love to hear from you.
I don't want to hear from anyof you.
That's not true.
Alec probably interacts morewith our comments than anybody else.
That is true.
All right, I'm giving thisthing a 2.
I like John Cusack.
That's about all I got forthis movie.
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Other than some of the bitsare pretty funny.
A lot of the bits are funny.
It just doesn't make sense.
Like, it should have been aSNL sketch is what this should have
been.
It should have been like,let's take Better off Dead Week or
Saturday.
Right.
And every one of thesesketches is a Saturday Night Live
sketch because there's nothrough line.
None.
There's.
There's no.
(27:14):
Other than the fact that thedude broke up with his girlfriend
at the beginning, there's nothrough line for any of it.
Like, there doesn't tieanything together.
So, yeah.
Which is a struggle for me underlying.
Like, I have a hard time withno connective tissue.
It's both these movies we'vedone so far.
It drives me nuts.
(27:35):
But, yeah, I mean, listen,it's still got funny parts, but it's
another one.
Bill and Ted is so connected.
Like just a life lessonsgalore in that movie.
I'm not talking about life lessons.
There's a plot that runs fromthe start of the movie to the end
of the movie.
It runs from the start of themovie to the end of the movie, and
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it is always present.
They may go a little wonky onoccasion, but it's always there.
This movie, outside of thefact that the dude's hating life
because his girlfriend dumpedhis ass, which we forget about at
least a half a dozen times inthis movie, other than the fact that
everybody else is taking her, doesn't.
Affect that the movie's still funny.
Bill and Ted's semblance of aplot line doesn't immediately make
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the movie funnier.
I didn't say it was funnier.
Felt like you were arguing toour listeners, like, let the record
show.
JJ's trying to go stonewall.
Lawyer tactics, Raising hisvoice, talking faster.
Just.
You heard it here first, folks.
I'm not leading you astray.
JJ doesn't know comedy.
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This is the epitome of Matsonright here.
You're not hearing what I'msaying, sir.
I'm saying they're both veryfunny movies.
They're pretty much the samemovie minus the plot.
And you like one and not the other.
That's the problem here, isyou like one and not the other.
They're the same.
(28:57):
They're, you know, open up acereal boxer.
If it's pouring out of the preearly cutout label, they're pull
coming out of the same box.
Dude, but you listen, I'mgonna, I'm gonna have to side with
JJ here because he is right.
The moment he said Bill andTed, I just started looking at JJ
and thought he was dumb.
That's right.
That's right.
(29:19):
Because we've already decidedepisodes ago.
What is this?
Probably like the eighth episode.
We've gone to war.
JJ doesn't know comedy.
Like, let's just set therecord straight and let it be shown
again on whatever episode 400or something.
This is.
I don't know how much longerI'll be doing this podcast, but I
want our listeners to know JJdoesn't know comedy.
And that's what needs to be said.
(29:39):
Alec, tell them more.
They can find us.
Because jj, he just doesn'thave any words left.
Oh my God.
Hold on.
Wait there.
Okay, so how's it going?
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Oh, you gotta go check outYouTube if you're listening, because
that was funny.
Alex.
Happy to.
Like JJ said, go to YouTube,check it out, then put in the comments.
Who actually knows comedybecause JJ just said that was funny.
So you can, you can decide for yourself.
I might not always win in thepodcast, but I can always make sure
(30:27):
that Madison and JJ loose andthey're that by makes me the winner.
But other than that, YouTube,best place to see us interact with
our smiley faces.
Leave a comment, I will makeyou regret it.
Or Patreon.
What's our verdict?
Reviews.
Get involved with our content selection.
We put up categories every month.
This month, second week ofJohn Cusack month for October.
(30:49):
We got two more weeks comingfor you guys.
We put up categories.
You can vote for the whichcategory you want, and then we provide
movies that fit into said category.
Hence John Cusack movies andJohn Cusack Month.
It fits behind a small paywall.
You can have access to nearly600 episodes, or I should say, videos
(31:10):
of extra content that rangefrom bloopers, outtakes to giggle
fits, and all the way up tofull length episodes of movies that
nobody should watch.
Behind a larger payroll orpaywall is the ability to make us
watch movies that nobodyshould ever watch.
There are some very weirdmotherfucking movies on that list,
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you know.
Special thanks to our patronsRich and Charles for being the catalyst
for many of those movies thatnobody should ever watch.
You guys are awesome with that.
I'll kick it back to the Titanof Terror, the Colossus of Clout.
Oh, jj.
Yes, sir.
Thanks, Alex.
Oh, that was funny.
Was good.
Good laughs with that, as always.
(31:56):
We appreciate you tuning in.
We'll catch you on the next one.
This is a cathartic experience.
Baby.
Super magic.
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