April 21, 2025 • 33 mins
The central theme of JJ, Alec and Mattson's discourse revolves around the cinematic work "Bridesmaids," a film that has elicited a spectrum of opinions from us regarding its merits and shortcomings. Throughout this episode, we engage in a meticulous examination of the film, which, while possessing certain comedic elements, is ultimately perceived as excessively prolonged and replete with moments that fail to achieve the desired comedic impact. The dialogue traverses the performances of the cast, notably Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, as we delve into the nuances of their portrayals and the overall chemistry that either enhances or detracts from the narrative. Furthermore, we express our collective sentiments regarding the film's structure, asserting that its attempts at humor frequently exceed acceptable bounds, leading to a dilution of its potential wit. As we conclude our analysis, we offer our ratings, reflecting a consensus that, despite some redeeming qualities, "Bridesmaids" ultimately falls short of the standards expected from a contemporary comedy.
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(00:00):
I have good enough tape torefer to other people.
I know my movies are dumb whenthey're dumb.
Do you?
Yeah.
But you're my husband, so youcan watch whatever I want.
Do you?
That made me happy.
Do you?
You're going to pay for thatlater, sir.
(00:27):
Welcome to the what's UpVerdict podcast.
We fashion ourselves cinematicjudge and Jerry.
My name is J.
Crowder.
I'm here with my co hosts Matz.
Better Red Than Dead and Alec Burgess.
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(00:48):
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Just tell everybody at your wedding.
That's all that matters.
Especially you Bridesmaids, I guess.
Look, we're week three, weekthree of Alex month.
(01:09):
And this is the epitome ofAlex month.
Yeah, we're here.
We're.
We're gonna talk about it herein week three.
Bridesmaids.
It was released May 13, 2011.
It was written by Kristen Wiigand Annie Mumolo.
(01:34):
It was directed by Paul Feig.
It stars Kristen Wiig, myRudolph, Rose Byrne, Terry Crews,
Tom Yee, Elaine Cow, MichaelHitchcock, Kaylee Hawk, Rebel Wilson
and Matt Lucas.
It's.
It's about competition betweenthe maid of honor and a bridesmaid
(01:54):
over who is the bride's bestfriend threatens to upend the life
of an out of work pastry chef.
It's really competition though.
I don't know, I feel like itwas very one sided.
Yeah, I mean, I'm interestedto hear.
I mean, I know why you pickedthis 100%.
There was no other reason.
There was no other reason forpicking this movie.
(02:16):
I hate it.
I despise bridesmaids in everysingle way possible.
But I also knew that as muchas I hate it, I pretty sure you guys
hate it more.
And I've been nice for liketwo hours.
So it's.
It was really time to juststart being a dick again.
(02:38):
That's it.
There's no other reason.
You succeeded.
You succeeded.
I'm assuming, Matson, that youhad seen this movie before.
You know, it's funny you say that.
I have.
I.
I didn't see all of it all the way.
I saw it from like justbefore, like halfway through, maybe
a little bit more than that.
So I'd seen most of it, but I just.
(03:00):
I didn't see like the the beginning.
Genesis of it.
But I.
Yeah, I'd seen it fairlyrecently for the first time.
Maybe like six months ago or something.
Interesting.
Yeah.
I hate this movie.
Look, I.
I've saw this movie in the theater.
(03:20):
I don't want to get well.
So Casey is obsessed withKristen Wiig.
Did we watch Adventureland forthe podcast?
We did, right?
I think we did.
Yeah.
Just like maybe.
Yeah, yeah, we did Adventureland.
I don't really like her.
I.
I like her in moments.
Like, I enjoy her in.
(03:40):
When she's in.
When she was.
She did a couple SaturdayNight Live for a little while and
then she's done.
I like her in certain moments.
This isn't it.
Like, she can't carry a movie.
And the worst part is, is youhave one, at least two people in
Roseburn and.
Gosh, why I had to have Alectell me her name again.
(04:02):
Melissa.
Melissa McCarthy.
I should know.
It's Jenny McCarthy's cousin,Melissa McCarthy.
Both can carry a movie, butKristen Wiig cannot.
And I.
It just.
Neither really can my Rudolph.
She's another one that'sreally funny in part.
They're hating on Bridesmaidsright now.
I hate it.
That's stupid.
It's not a good movie.
(04:23):
You kind of liked it.
It's.
No.
You like dumb movies.
Man of the people right here.
Yeah.
I thought she was going todefend this a little bit.
Okay.
Alex just picked it because heknew he'd hate it because we can
get creamed.
It's really poorly done.
It's really awkward.
Kristen.
Wig's kind of annoying.
(04:44):
They pick something cute forthe guy.
There you have it.
It's rare that.
Should we be done?
If you think we just did it.
There it is.
Five minutes in and we'reready to be done.
She's not wrong.
It's not good.
It's not good.
(05:05):
It was.
I told.
I was telling Alec when I wasbitching about it earlier.
Said, like, so the Hangovercame out in whatever, 2008, whatever
it was.
And for like three to fiveyears after that, we got nothing
but, like.
They kept trying to find it.
Yeah.
The copycat versions of it.
(05:25):
And like, there's like, atleast a couple of these movies that
were around this time frame.
Like Bridesmaid.
There was another one wherethey went to Vegas and accidentally
killed the stripper or whatever.
I don't.
There was like a handful ofthese movies and it just.
They just don't work.
But I think this one's themost egregious to me.
Like, I just.
(05:46):
Just don't like this movie.
And how do they make thismovie over two hours long?
Like, what the.
That's.
That's the real crime.
Yeah.
Like, we just finished talkingabout a movie that was 90 minutes
long in perfection, in timing.
And then you watch this slogwhere I'm like this.
(06:06):
Because it has moments thatare really funny, but when it's bad,
it's really bad.
And then when it starts todrag because it's bad and it's long,
and I'm like, I swore I'dnever watch this movie again.
There's a lot of these moviesthat Alex somehow makes me watch
that I swore I would neverwatch again.
(06:27):
Can we talk about a part thatis really funny, though?
Let's talk about the bathroom scene.
Like, the wedding dressbathroom scene.
For me, what this movie didget, right, when Melissa McCarthy,
who I'm not a huge fan of, butwhen she.
In her doses, when she doeshit it, right, she's like, look away.
What do we eat?
The six of Goner.
It's coming out of me like lava.
(06:48):
I mean, that scene.
Oh, my gosh.
Like, she killed that.
That.
They killed me.
Like, I died during that scene.
It was so funny.
And then Helen or whatever.
No, what's her name?
Not Helen.
Sorry.
Banksy.
The.
The actual bride, when she gotup to the cl.
The street and, like, justsquatted down.
(07:08):
You're like, oh, my gosh, it's happening.
That whole scene, that wasprobably my favorite part of the
movie.
What about you, Al?
What do you think of that scene?
I just laugh.
I.
I feel like they went a littlebit overboard with it to the point
where I'm kind of like, okay,you get.
(07:29):
You can get your point acrosswith less.
Right?
And so the one that I go.
I'm like, oh, you went too far.
Is.
I don't remember her name, butshe's the girl who's also in the
office for a little bit, butshe comes in, like, after the fact
and pukes on whoever's pukingin the toilet.
That's where I'm like, that.
(07:53):
That was the.
The proverbial line.
I was like, oh, yeah, youfound it.
And then you crossed it.
Two foot jump over that sucker.
Yeah, but the rest of it, I'mjust cracking up because I don't
crime for a bridesmaid dress.
You didn't laugh during thatscene, Jay.
Oh, no, no, no.
(08:14):
Listen, I do, but I also,like, I'm with.
I'm with Alec.
Like, there's parts, okay,Melissa McCarthy sitting in the sink,
like, Saying it and just sitsin the sink and starts in the sink.
Hilarious.
I find the funniest part ofthat scene, though, is where.
Is when it cuts back toKristen Wiig and she looks like she's
(08:35):
been in a shower because she'ssweating so much.
And she's puts the almond inher mouth, like, refreshing.
Yeah.
Roseburn's like, with her.
Like, that moment to me iswhere in that scene, I'm dying.
And then.
I'm not gonna lie.
Like, when she.
When my real character runsout in the road and, like, starts
to slow down and, like, oh,yeah, it's happening, it's happening.
(08:59):
And she's like, go around.
Like, that part makes me laugh.
But I.
I think they did it.
They.
Too long.
Like, you could have had to.
Alex point.
Like, well, she's in the sinkbefore the other girl starts coming
in and puking and whatnot.
You could have ended thatscene two, three times, and it would
have had a more maximum impactthan just dragging it out.
(09:23):
See, I.
Yeah, I'm not gonna fight youon that.
The one I felt like much morethan that was the car scene where
they're trying to get thecop's attention so he can help at
the end.
And they did all theshenanigans in the car.
They went back and forth like.
I don't know.
Felt like ten times.
It was probably like seven or eight.
But it was.
That was the classic to me.
I was like, all right.
Like, this is too much.
(09:43):
Like, you did three jokes too many.
Like, let's just.
Just close the book on that.
Yeah, that's it.
That's like, a huge problemthroughout the movie because then
you can even go back to, youknow, the roommates, right?
So Rebel Wilson and anotherguy's name, but Tweedledee and Tweedledum
from the new Alice inWonderland movie.
Yeah.
Like, there's five or sixinteractions, and I.
(10:05):
I knew everything I neededabout them after one.
And it's not funny.
Like, Rebel Wilson, I think is funny.
Yeah.
On this, it's just weird andit drags out.
But all these scenes, youknow, where they take a scene, they
stretch it out just a littlebit too long, adds to the overall
run time.
Right.
And so then it contributes tothis slog.
(10:27):
Whereas by themselves, like,if you have the dress trying on scene,
right.
And that's the one that youstretch out, it's fine.
And then everything else, youcan, you know that that's your one
kind of big sing or scene orwhatever it is.
But, yeah, they decided to put 15.
Yeah, they could have cut upthe whole room.
That would have saved maybelike close to 10 minutes.
That's a good point.
Although I will say if theyhad to show any of them that the
(10:49):
tub scene, I was like, show, show.
That one where it's like, letme borrow your razor and then start.
That's all I need to know.
I don't even know anything else.
I was funny.
I was like, oh, I wasn'texpecting that.
Well, and I think that's likethe epitome of this.
(11:09):
The problem that what you weretalking, when I was talking about,
like when, when, when theHangover came out, that group of
people like that ensemble ofcharacters and actors worked really
well.
I think to me, the core of theproblem with this movie is this ensemble
of actors, actresses andcharacters don't work together because
(11:29):
you have three that are just hilarious.
Like, even if you don't likethem, you can't help.
Like, because I'm with.
I, I used to not love Melissa McCarthy.
She grew on me over time.
But she's funny.
Even if you don't like her,you can't help.
There's moments that she haswhere you can't help but laugh.
Same thing with Kristen Wiig.
(11:52):
Most of the time, like she hasmoments where she's funny.
Rose Byrne is very funnierthan you'd think she is.
And so those three, I'm like, okay.
But then I lose track of theother three.
And then bring in the main character.
You bring in the other twocharacter, other two of these bridesmaids.
I'm just like.
And so it's, it's just weirdand then it just becomes too much.
(12:13):
And that's the other problemis this produce production group,
super bad, docked up, 40 yearold virgin have hilarious moments,
but they always take it too far.
They go to the extreme.
Really funny movie to me, butthey do it even in that.
So it's just, and this one'sreally like that.
They just go, they really, ifyou took another like scene they
(12:37):
could really done without ordone it very fast.
So.
And the airplane scene, theyhad a lot of different things going
on.
The flight attendant, thedrugging, the air marshal, the air
Marshall joke paid off.
Later we can talk about that.
The whole scene with the foodthat I hadn't seen before, the unseen,
that was disturbing and veryfunny and very disturbing.
(12:58):
That paid off in the best way.
Like that was fine, but mostof that, like that was like 12 to
15 minutes.
And they even had the, the twobit characters that were talking
about men and like needing the alcohol.
There was just a lot going on.
Or the person Kristen moviesitting next to that.
I had a dream this plane'sgoing down.
Like you already have so muchgoing on though, that you need.
(13:19):
Like JJ was saying, thinkpicking and choosing your battles.
Because there were a lot offunny things in this movie.
We haven't even talked about the.
The little puppies.
Like Melissa McCarthy.
Another really funny scene.
They had enough of them.
But they.
Like you said Jay'sproduction, he likes to just throw
five too many.
You could have made this moviean hour and 40 minutes.
(13:39):
Focus on the spots that werereally funny outright and maybe this
would have just been a bettermovie overall.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I'm.
I don't know, maybe this.
I also think it would havebeen funnier if it was less about
this stupid competitionbetween the two of them.
Like where they're trying toone up each other and she's if.
(14:01):
And it was just.
She bungled everything, youknow what I mean?
Instead of like having thecomparative pieces of it.
Because that part got old.
Like, I think it was funnythat she decided not to eat the meat.
Right.
But then every other time whenthey're like having that tension
in the back and forth betweenher and Rose Byrne and.
And Krista Wiig, I'm like, I.
(14:22):
It lost me.
Like, the scenes of thefuckups were funny enough.
Like, I don't need you to makeit awkward and weird with this uncomfortable
battle of wills that are going on.
And I'm like, I don't evenunderstand the point of it.
Just have her make thisincompetent weirdo her bridesmaid
or maid of honor.
(14:42):
And she it up constantly.
Right.
Like, that would have beenfunnier to me than inserting this
weird battle of who can be thebest bright, like maid of honor.
And I don't know, it just feltso forced that I just get lost in
it and without the little bitsand like having Melissa McCarthy's
(15:04):
actual husband play a freakingair marshal and then have a weird
food scene with them later.
Because they can do that.
Yeah.
It's just there's certainthings that I'm.
Just like, oh, that was her actual.
Yeah, that's her actual husband.
Yeah.
Oh, that makes a lot moresense why that was even more uncomfortably
cringy then.
Because they can do that.
(15:24):
That was when put the like theham or salami on the nipple and.
Like, look, don't knock untilyou try it, man.
Oh, my gosh, dude.
I don't like Subway justbecause I think it's a boring thing
to get out to eat because youcan make a good sandwich at home.
But that surely reinforced whyI don't go get a sandwich.
(15:45):
My gosh.
Oh, we.
Dude.
As far as extra cutscenes go,like that was something.
Yeah.
Yep.
No, they're married in real life.
At least they were.
I don't know.
I don't.
It's not like I follow them,so I don't know if they actually
still are.
That explains a lot.
The other thing I was gonnasay about this movie.
(16:05):
And Tay would attest this ifshe wanted to chime in.
The two.
The.
The bride's soon to be husbandand the.
The crush for Kristen Wiggs character.
Both like.
I mean as far as Hollywoodgoes and what these movies get at.
Like both not for like superattractive dudes.
(16:26):
They're kind of just like meh.
Especially the bride's husband.
He totally like.
I don't know.
Did he?
Look, He.
I.
He had like a butterball facegoing on.
Like he.
She definitely like did notmarry up.
She married down.
And the guy.
You have something to say?
The point of a chick lick isto sit there and ogle at the people.
(16:46):
There's no oogling in this.
It's just cringy cringe.
That's all I gotta say.
You guys pick terrible movies,by the way.
I could have given you like 50other ones.
But saying it's fine.
You're welcome.
It was Alex.
You're welcome.
Is that why they were all bad?
What do you think?
I mean, they weren't all bad brides.
Me is terrible.
That's all I gotta say.
It's not a real chick.
Okay.
Yeah, it is.
(17:08):
According to, you know, everybody.
It is a real chick flick.
Didn't say it was good one.
It's a terrible chick flick.
It's funny to hear you talkabout bad movies taken see like really
dumb movies.
Sometimes I have good enoughtape to refer to other people.
I know my movies are dumb whenthey're dumb.
Do you?
Yeah.
But you're my husband, so you can.
Watch whatever I want.
(17:30):
Do you?
That made me happy.
Do you?
You're gonna pay for thatlater, sir.
I just.
But I.
I do agree with taste pointlike the love interest.
I'm like.
I feel like maybe they didn'thave the budget, but I didn't really
care for the top to.
(17:50):
To be hon.
Okay.
Well, sure.
Well.
And I.
They.
It's funny because they usetheir budget on what's her bucket's
buddy?
Oh, John Ham.
Now he was funny.
I Did like him.
Yeah, like, that whole.
I don't really know how to saythis without sounding like a dick,
but really want you to leave.
(18:11):
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, well, the aggressive,weird ass.
Like, it's just.
Yeah, but that was funny.
But then the weird dude andthe other dude, like, is just like,
wait, what?
Like, it's weird.
He's funny again.
He's one that's like.
He's funny, but in this movie,he's wasted.
(18:36):
See, it didn't really.
I don't know.
It didn't really work.
It was just another thing thatI wasn't really feeling.
What they were trying to putdown with it as much, and they just
had a lot of different thingsthey were trying to tell was like,
wait, is this more about the.
The bridesmaids thing or is this.
Yes, this is a chick.
Like, we need to have herhave, like, a love interest and hope.
But, like, where are we goingwith this?
(18:57):
Yeah, Yeah.
I think that's the.
The forced.
The love interest thingdoesn't work.
Like, in this movie.
Like, it just doesn't.
I don't care if they.
And I think that's a bigproblem with this movie in general
is I just don't care, period.
Like, if this.
I'd rather see this wedding,like, go up in flames than actually
(19:19):
be successful.
Like, I just don't care.
It just doesn't.
I don't know.
It's weird.
Or when the bride has themeltdown and they have, like, the
reconciliation moment, he'sjust like, yeah.
Like, yeah, really?
Like, I don't know.
It didn't have.
There was no emotionalconnection or landing.
You were like, oh, okay.
(19:39):
This is the replacement, thecomeback moment.
Like, we're all.
We're all good again.
It's like, okay, yeah.
Well, not to mention thatthere's no way they're making up.
Like, after all the.
That happens, like, the.
The dress trying on, like,somebody had to pay for the dress,
like.
And, like, it's just not gonna.
(20:00):
Nope.
You're not gonna be friends.
I'm not gonna be friends.
If I ate something, it made methat sick.
And I'm in the middle of thestreet with a dress, a wedding dress
on that cost probably tens ofthousands of dollars.
We're not friends anymore.
You know what I mean?
Wow.
You heard it here first.
JJ Might be my best shallow friend.
(20:21):
Hey, I'm telling you rightnow, I will put up with a lot, but
if you got me in the street,probably out.
Like, how you said probably.
Probably.
Well, I mean, that door cracked.
J.J.
who's gonna.
Who's gonna play video gameswith you on a Saturday night?
(20:43):
Myself.
I'm bad.
I'm more fun than just yourself.
That's fair.
But you're also not gonna takeme to some shitty Brazilian restaurant
and have me myself.
Well, I'd be with you.
So we do it together.
Yeah, I mean, well.
And I guess the real thing isI'm gonna go into that place and
go, nah, let's go to theChinese joint down the street.
(21:05):
I'm not eating here, boys.
It's.
I could barely eat normal foodwithout myself a little bit, so why
the would I eat that?
Like, get the out of here.
It's a cleanse.
Okay?
Yeah, but when you live a lifewhen you can look at greens and I'm
cleansed, I'm not eatingrotten ass meat.
(21:26):
It's this that's asking for.
Cook it more.
You'll be fine.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
What was it?
Was it.
Was it Brazilian food or was it.
I couldn't remember.
Like, and I've never been afan of, like, a.
What's that?
You don't like Tucanos in Utah?
No.
(21:46):
Well, so the first time Iexperienced it was in Scottsdale,
Arizona, actually.
There was a Rhodesio Grillright there on.
Was it Shea Shay and what'sthe other one that run Franklin?
I don't remember.
Anyway, two major roads.
Like, there was a RhodesioGrill, and I don't know if it's still
there.
It's back in, like 2003, butthat was the most.
(22:07):
The family took us there.
And I was like, oh, this is weird.
They're cutting meats off astick right at your table.
I'm like, how many people havetouched this?
Like, I can't.
It was a bother for me.
Like, I don't, like.
I also don't, like.
Like, the work parties werelike, bring your own.
(22:28):
I'm out.
I'm not doing this buffet.
Like, I don't know what yourkitchen looks like.
I.
I'm not eating it.
So, yeah, I struggled.
Look, that extra dirtseasoning, jj, that's texture.
It gives it a little crunchclippings in there.
You'll be.
(22:51):
Ah, but that's.
I, you know, I've.
I've done too many things, andthat allowed me to go into people's
houses at random or, you know,and I'm like, walking in going, I
don't want to eat their food.
And so it's like, jj, you one.
Of those people that someonebrings you homemade cookies, and
you're like, I Don't knowenough about you.
These are going straight tothe trash.
(23:14):
I re gift a lot of gifts thatare left at my doorstep, like cookies
and snacks and treats and thatare homemade.
That gets stuck at my door ifI don't know who.
There's certain family membersor like certain people in the neighborhood
that when they drop it off, Iget excited about their cookies.
Others, I don't.
(23:34):
Word to the wise, people justput weed in your.
Your desserts.
You drop them in off at the.
The Crowder household.
JJ will probably eat them.
That's completely and utterly fair.
You just tell me and I'll.
Yeah, I'll make do with somedirt in my food if there's goodies
in it.
But if you just bring me likethose sugar cookies with the Hershey's
(23:59):
Kisses in them and I don't know.
I don't.
I've never seen your kitchen.
It's probably going onsomebody else's doorstep down the
road.
That's a good thing.
None of my neighbors listen to us.
I.
I'll do.
I'll tell you what.
I.
(24:19):
I love it when the ward in ourarea starts dropping off for my parents.
My parents are both diabetic.
They're not eating sugar and candy.
That goes right to another house.
There's a couple.
There's a lady that dropsfudge every year.
I eat the shit out of that fudge.
Like it's delicious.
(24:41):
And I've been in her house and it.
She's clean.
Well, what JJ is also nottelling us is he.
His partner, AKA Casey, isalso one of the best bakers that
I have ever had the privilegeof eating from.
She is quite good.
She'll probably be in those,like one of those baking competitions
for at home bakers on like theFood Network because I feel like
(25:03):
she'd do pretty decent.
She'd also be great fortelevision because when the pressure
comes in, I don't know exactlywhat type of casing we'd be getting
on tv, but I'd be here for it.
Somebody had chopped might begetting murked in the middle of the
episode.
The great.
The great British Baking show.
American Ruins.
The great British Baking Show.
(25:24):
The producer would have tocome in and be like, you know, we
do have like early teenagersthat watch this.
We need like, let's.
Let's dial it back just alittle bit.
Maybe don't look like you'restabbing someone with your eyes.
That's fair.
That and like they.
The beep like you'd have.
You get no words in Ed's wisebecause she'd be.
They'd be filming her stationand none of this behind where they
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walk behind my eyes.
Get the out of my way.
Yeah, that should be throwingshoulders at people.
Move.
She has no kitchen etiquette.
That's.
No, It's.
Yeah.
She can bake, though.
Oh, that is truth.
That is truth.
And we keep our kitchen bake.
There's a reason why JJ can'treally fully.
(26:14):
Like, if he said he was goingon a diet, a big Jay.
I'm sorry.
But next time she tries tobake, all the progress is gone.
Yeah, it doesn't work.
Like, that's.
It'd be gone for me too.
I'd be 30 pounds heavier if Ilived there too.
Dude, I'm telling you, it's.
It's great because I'm thetaste tester, but it's bad because
I'm the taste tester.
I.
And she's got these highquality control standards.
(26:35):
Like, that's another reason.
Like, I can't.
She, like, she'll throw cheeky cookies.
There's like a pile of.
She's like, yeah, it didn'tpass quality control because there's
like a smudge in the frosting.
Or JJ's over there, like, andI'm like, pretty good.
Yeah.
Sometimes I like, she'll walkaway and I'll be like, put my finger
(26:55):
in the frosting over there tomake it.
Yeah, that one doesn't passquality control.
It's not true.
I have never sabotaged any ofher baking.
Casey's.
Listen.
On the off chance she actuallywatches this episode, she's not here
right now.
She's traveling.
But on the off chance I don'twant to get.
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It's like we talked about in our.
If you listen to our Patreon,there'll be a pre clip that you'll
see where we talk about mewaking up penis list.
Casey, I hope you do listen to this.
Please send me goodies.
Like, I'm.
I know you only usually do forpeople that are in person.
I get it.
It's the right thing to do.
Things don't ship as well.
But I miss your baked goods.
They're so good.
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I put up with being in JJ'sfreezing cold house for your food.
Yeah, it's delicious.
She made it a weird place to.
Be because the kitchen can benice and warm.
You walk three feet, five feetaway from the oven.
It can be a cold place in hell.
Oh, yeah.
Usually that's the first thingI do.
She starts baking.
If I'm in the kitchen with her.
That sliding door gets opened.
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I don't care what time of year.
I know.
Unless it's summer.
If it's summer, then summer.
Yeah, Unless.
Yeah, but your summer house,it's you.
You go outside, come back in,you're like, in an igloo because
you rightfully.
So.
That AC is working, but JJ'sgot his AC technician and, like,
speed dial, too.
Spanking it.
Can't.
(28:19):
That just can't go.
Are you.
I pay a monthly membership tomy heating and air conditioning at
my H vac guys.
I have them on retainer.
No, they love JJ.
They're like, hey, souped up coolant.
They're like, call Mr.
Crowder.
He'll get it.
Oh, a right.
Yeah.
No, when she starts baking inthe summer, I have a.
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A standing air conditioner,like, portable air conditioner that
goes on in the kitchen becauseit just too.
It's sauna in my house, and I can't.
JJ's only walking in forgoodies and getting out.
I usually will meet her at thedoor and be like, I'll see you.
See you when you're done.
It's miserable horrid in there.
She turns that goddamnconvection oven on, and I'm like,
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oh, it gets so hot.
And then she's usually makingsomething else that she like toppings
and that she's, like, making asauce or something.
And I'm like, turn all theheat off.
I hate it.
Thankfully, most of the bakingshe does in bulk is during the cooler
months of the year.
So anyway, we're like, yeah,should we rate rides with it since
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we all hate it and Alex justtorturing us.
Yes.
All right.
Stupid movie.
Alex, I'm gonna give this avery, very, very generous zero.
Nice.
Nice.
Well, I will watch this again,but it will only be because I torturing
somebody else who has neverseen it before.
That's fair.
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Yeah, it's terrible.
Oh, what am I gonna rate this?
It's not a zero, but it's waytoo long.
Way too exaggerated.
It does have some funny partsto talk to.
Can't.
Can't get away from that, butI'll give it a one.
I've seen many worse things,but this movie's long.
Like, I forgot when J justsays, like, damn, this movie is long.
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It's a one.
I don't think I'll ever watchit again.
But if there was a coupleparts, I mean, I'll remember some.
Like the food porn scene, thenine puppies in the van.
Really like anything in thatMelissa McCarthy was a part of.
Like, I don't love her, butshe is funny.
Like, outright funny.
I have to give her credit andshe did make this movie funny.
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Other than that, this movie's trash.
Yeah, I'm gonna hop on the Onetrain as well.
I.
Look, we've watched Moonfalland Goddamn Dolphin Sex, so I can't
give it less than a onebecause at least it's not those two
movies.
But it's bad, it's long, itdrags on.
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It's not that funny most ofthe time.
And when it is, they take ittoo far.
They get.
They hit a joke and then theyruin the same joke two minutes later.
And so it's like, just stop.
So I just don't.
Yeah, and I will.
The one good thing about Alectorturing us on the podcast, as he
tends to do, is that once I'vewatched this movie now, I don't ever
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have to watch this movie again.
There.
The only reason I've watchedthis movie since the Lab the last
time before this most recenttime was because of the goddamn podcast.
So now that it's done, I'llnever watch this movie again.
We should do a month ofgreatest hits and greatest misses
and then rewatch.
It'll never happen again nowthat I know that some movies will
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end up on that list.
Like, I think that'd be agreat idea.
Except for Alec will purposelymake sure that my life's hell for
a month.
July is just.
She dies tomorrow.
Moonfall.
Jeez, that's just torture.
Yeah, one for me.
And I will actively doeverything I can to never watch this
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shitty movie again.
So there it is.
Week three in the books.
Only one left.
Looking forward to that one.
Should be fun.
But Alec, tell everybody wherethey can find us.
Happy to thank you for tuningin to week three of my month.
Once again, the greatest monthever month.
Special thanks to our patrons,Rich and CB for making a selection
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Haven't done that one.
Nice, jj.
Dude, the Wazir of Wap gets meevery time because all I think about
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We'll catch you on the next one.
What.
I have good enough tape torefer to other people.
I know my movies are dumb whenthey're dumb.
Do you?
Yeah.
But you're my husband, so youcan watch whatever I want.
Do you?
That made me happy.
Do you?
You're going to pay for thatlater, sir.
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That's all that matters.
Especially you Bridesmaids, I guess.
Look, we're week three, weekthree of Alex month.
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And this is the epitome ofAlex month.
Yeah, we're here.
We're.
We're gonna talk about it herein week three.
Bridesmaids.
It was released May 13, 2011.
It was written by Kristen Wiigand Annie Mumolo.
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It was directed by Paul Feig.
It stars Kristen Wiig, myRudolph, Rose Byrne, Terry Crews,
Tom Yee, Elaine Cow, MichaelHitchcock, Kaylee Hawk, Rebel Wilson
and Matt Lucas.
It's.
It's about competition betweenthe maid of honor and a bridesmaid
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over who is the bride's bestfriend threatens to upend the life
of an out of work pastry chef.
It's really competition though.
I don't know, I feel like itwas very one sided.
Yeah, I mean, I'm interestedto hear.
I mean, I know why you pickedthis 100%.
There was no other reason.
There was no other reason forpicking this movie.
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I hate it.
I despise bridesmaids in everysingle way possible.
But I also knew that as muchas I hate it, I pretty sure you guys
hate it more.
And I've been nice for liketwo hours.
So it's.
It was really time to juststart being a dick again.
(02:38):
That's it.
There's no other reason.
You succeeded.
You succeeded.
I'm assuming, Matson, that youhad seen this movie before.
You know, it's funny you say that.
I have.
I.
I didn't see all of it all the way.
I saw it from like justbefore, like halfway through, maybe
a little bit more than that.
So I'd seen most of it, but I just.
(03:00):
I didn't see like the the beginning.
Genesis of it.
But I.
Yeah, I'd seen it fairlyrecently for the first time.
Maybe like six months ago or something.
Interesting.
Yeah.
I hate this movie.
Look, I.
I've saw this movie in the theater.
(03:20):
I don't want to get well.
So Casey is obsessed withKristen Wiig.
Did we watch Adventureland forthe podcast?
We did, right?
I think we did.
Yeah.
Just like maybe.
Yeah, yeah, we did Adventureland.
I don't really like her.
I.
I like her in moments.
Like, I enjoy her in.
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When she's in.
When she was.
She did a couple SaturdayNight Live for a little while and
then she's done.
I like her in certain moments.
This isn't it.
Like, she can't carry a movie.
And the worst part is, is youhave one, at least two people in
Roseburn and.
Gosh, why I had to have Alectell me her name again.
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Melissa.
Melissa McCarthy.
I should know.
It's Jenny McCarthy's cousin,Melissa McCarthy.
Both can carry a movie, butKristen Wiig cannot.
And I.
It just.
Neither really can my Rudolph.
She's another one that'sreally funny in part.
They're hating on Bridesmaidsright now.
I hate it.
That's stupid.
It's not a good movie.
(04:23):
You kind of liked it.
It's.
No.
You like dumb movies.
Man of the people right here.
Yeah.
I thought she was going todefend this a little bit.
Okay.
Alex just picked it because heknew he'd hate it because we can
get creamed.
It's really poorly done.
It's really awkward.
Kristen.
Wig's kind of annoying.
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They pick something cute forthe guy.
There you have it.
It's rare that.
Should we be done?
If you think we just did it.
There it is.
Five minutes in and we'reready to be done.
She's not wrong.
It's not good.
It's not good.
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It was.
I told.
I was telling Alec when I wasbitching about it earlier.
Said, like, so the Hangovercame out in whatever, 2008, whatever
it was.
And for like three to fiveyears after that, we got nothing
but, like.
They kept trying to find it.
Yeah.
The copycat versions of it.
(05:25):
And like, there's like, atleast a couple of these movies that
were around this time frame.
Like Bridesmaid.
There was another one wherethey went to Vegas and accidentally
killed the stripper or whatever.
I don't.
There was like a handful ofthese movies and it just.
They just don't work.
But I think this one's themost egregious to me.
Like, I just.
(05:46):
Just don't like this movie.
And how do they make thismovie over two hours long?
Like, what the.
That's.
That's the real crime.
Yeah.
Like, we just finished talkingabout a movie that was 90 minutes
long in perfection, in timing.
And then you watch this slogwhere I'm like this.
(06:06):
Because it has moments thatare really funny, but when it's bad,
it's really bad.
And then when it starts todrag because it's bad and it's long,
and I'm like, I swore I'dnever watch this movie again.
There's a lot of these moviesthat Alex somehow makes me watch
that I swore I would neverwatch again.
(06:27):
Can we talk about a part thatis really funny, though?
Let's talk about the bathroom scene.
Like, the wedding dressbathroom scene.
For me, what this movie didget, right, when Melissa McCarthy,
who I'm not a huge fan of, butwhen she.
In her doses, when she doeshit it, right, she's like, look away.
What do we eat?
The six of Goner.
It's coming out of me like lava.
(06:48):
I mean, that scene.
Oh, my gosh.
Like, she killed that.
That.
They killed me.
Like, I died during that scene.
It was so funny.
And then Helen or whatever.
No, what's her name?
Not Helen.
Sorry.
Banksy.
The.
The actual bride, when she gotup to the cl.
The street and, like, justsquatted down.
(07:08):
You're like, oh, my gosh, it's happening.
That whole scene, that wasprobably my favorite part of the
movie.
What about you, Al?
What do you think of that scene?
I just laugh.
I.
I feel like they went a littlebit overboard with it to the point
where I'm kind of like, okay,you get.
(07:29):
You can get your point acrosswith less.
Right?
And so the one that I go.
I'm like, oh, you went too far.
Is.
I don't remember her name, butshe's the girl who's also in the
office for a little bit, butshe comes in, like, after the fact
and pukes on whoever's pukingin the toilet.
That's where I'm like, that.
(07:53):
That was the.
The proverbial line.
I was like, oh, yeah, youfound it.
And then you crossed it.
Two foot jump over that sucker.
Yeah, but the rest of it, I'mjust cracking up because I don't
crime for a bridesmaid dress.
You didn't laugh during thatscene, Jay.
Oh, no, no, no.
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Listen, I do, but I also,like, I'm with.
I'm with Alec.
Like, there's parts, okay,Melissa McCarthy sitting in the sink,
like, Saying it and just sitsin the sink and starts in the sink.
Hilarious.
I find the funniest part ofthat scene, though, is where.
Is when it cuts back toKristen Wiig and she looks like she's
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been in a shower because she'ssweating so much.
And she's puts the almond inher mouth, like, refreshing.
Yeah.
Roseburn's like, with her.
Like, that moment to me iswhere in that scene, I'm dying.
And then.
I'm not gonna lie.
Like, when she.
When my real character runsout in the road and, like, starts
to slow down and, like, oh,yeah, it's happening, it's happening.
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And she's like, go around.
Like, that part makes me laugh.
But I.
I think they did it.
They.
Too long.
Like, you could have had to.
Alex point.
Like, well, she's in the sinkbefore the other girl starts coming
in and puking and whatnot.
You could have ended thatscene two, three times, and it would
have had a more maximum impactthan just dragging it out.
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See, I.
Yeah, I'm not gonna fight youon that.
The one I felt like much morethan that was the car scene where
they're trying to get thecop's attention so he can help at
the end.
And they did all theshenanigans in the car.
They went back and forth like.
I don't know.
Felt like ten times.
It was probably like seven or eight.
But it was.
That was the classic to me.
I was like, all right.
Like, this is too much.
(09:43):
Like, you did three jokes too many.
Like, let's just.
Just close the book on that.
Yeah, that's it.
That's like, a huge problemthroughout the movie because then
you can even go back to, youknow, the roommates, right?
So Rebel Wilson and anotherguy's name, but Tweedledee and Tweedledum
from the new Alice inWonderland movie.
Yeah.
Like, there's five or sixinteractions, and I.
(10:05):
I knew everything I neededabout them after one.
And it's not funny.
Like, Rebel Wilson, I think is funny.
Yeah.
On this, it's just weird andit drags out.
But all these scenes, youknow, where they take a scene, they
stretch it out just a littlebit too long, adds to the overall
run time.
Right.
And so then it contributes tothis slog.
(10:27):
Whereas by themselves, like,if you have the dress trying on scene,
right.
And that's the one that youstretch out, it's fine.
And then everything else, youcan, you know that that's your one
kind of big sing or scene orwhatever it is.
But, yeah, they decided to put 15.
Yeah, they could have cut upthe whole room.
That would have saved maybelike close to 10 minutes.
That's a good point.
Although I will say if theyhad to show any of them that the
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tub scene, I was like, show, show.
That one where it's like, letme borrow your razor and then start.
That's all I need to know.
I don't even know anything else.
I was funny.
I was like, oh, I wasn'texpecting that.
Well, and I think that's likethe epitome of this.
(11:09):
The problem that what you weretalking, when I was talking about,
like when, when, when theHangover came out, that group of
people like that ensemble ofcharacters and actors worked really
well.
I think to me, the core of theproblem with this movie is this ensemble
of actors, actresses andcharacters don't work together because
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you have three that are just hilarious.
Like, even if you don't likethem, you can't help.
Like, because I'm with.
I, I used to not love Melissa McCarthy.
She grew on me over time.
But she's funny.
Even if you don't like her,you can't help.
There's moments that she haswhere you can't help but laugh.
Same thing with Kristen Wiig.
(11:52):
Most of the time, like she hasmoments where she's funny.
Rose Byrne is very funnierthan you'd think she is.
And so those three, I'm like, okay.
But then I lose track of theother three.
And then bring in the main character.
You bring in the other twocharacter, other two of these bridesmaids.
I'm just like.
And so it's, it's just weirdand then it just becomes too much.
(12:13):
And that's the other problemis this produce production group,
super bad, docked up, 40 yearold virgin have hilarious moments,
but they always take it too far.
They go to the extreme.
Really funny movie to me, butthey do it even in that.
So it's just, and this one'sreally like that.
They just go, they really, ifyou took another like scene they
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could really done without ordone it very fast.
So.
And the airplane scene, theyhad a lot of different things going
on.
The flight attendant, thedrugging, the air marshal, the air
Marshall joke paid off.
Later we can talk about that.
The whole scene with the foodthat I hadn't seen before, the unseen,
that was disturbing and veryfunny and very disturbing.
(12:58):
That paid off in the best way.
Like that was fine, but mostof that, like that was like 12 to
15 minutes.
And they even had the, the twobit characters that were talking
about men and like needing the alcohol.
There was just a lot going on.
Or the person Kristen moviesitting next to that.
I had a dream this plane'sgoing down.
Like you already have so muchgoing on though, that you need.
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Like JJ was saying, thinkpicking and choosing your battles.
Because there were a lot offunny things in this movie.
We haven't even talked about the.
The little puppies.
Like Melissa McCarthy.
Another really funny scene.
They had enough of them.
But they.
Like you said Jay'sproduction, he likes to just throw
five too many.
You could have made this moviean hour and 40 minutes.
(13:39):
Focus on the spots that werereally funny outright and maybe this
would have just been a bettermovie overall.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I'm.
I don't know, maybe this.
I also think it would havebeen funnier if it was less about
this stupid competitionbetween the two of them.
Like where they're trying toone up each other and she's if.
(14:01):
And it was just.
She bungled everything, youknow what I mean?
Instead of like having thecomparative pieces of it.
Because that part got old.
Like, I think it was funnythat she decided not to eat the meat.
Right.
But then every other time whenthey're like having that tension
in the back and forth betweenher and Rose Byrne and.
And Krista Wiig, I'm like, I.
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It lost me.
Like, the scenes of thefuckups were funny enough.
Like, I don't need you to makeit awkward and weird with this uncomfortable
battle of wills that are going on.
And I'm like, I don't evenunderstand the point of it.
Just have her make thisincompetent weirdo her bridesmaid
or maid of honor.
(14:42):
And she it up constantly.
Right.
Like, that would have beenfunnier to me than inserting this
weird battle of who can be thebest bright, like maid of honor.
And I don't know, it just feltso forced that I just get lost in
it and without the little bitsand like having Melissa McCarthy's
(15:04):
actual husband play a freakingair marshal and then have a weird
food scene with them later.
Because they can do that.
Yeah.
It's just there's certainthings that I'm.
Just like, oh, that was her actual.
Yeah, that's her actual husband.
Yeah.
Oh, that makes a lot moresense why that was even more uncomfortably
cringy then.
Because they can do that.
(15:24):
That was when put the like theham or salami on the nipple and.
Like, look, don't knock untilyou try it, man.
Oh, my gosh, dude.
I don't like Subway justbecause I think it's a boring thing
to get out to eat because youcan make a good sandwich at home.
But that surely reinforced whyI don't go get a sandwich.
(15:45):
My gosh.
Oh, we.
Dude.
As far as extra cutscenes go,like that was something.
Yeah.
Yep.
No, they're married in real life.
At least they were.
I don't know.
I don't.
It's not like I follow them,so I don't know if they actually
still are.
That explains a lot.
The other thing I was gonnasay about this movie.
(16:05):
And Tay would attest this ifshe wanted to chime in.
The two.
The.
The bride's soon to be husbandand the.
The crush for Kristen Wiggs character.
Both like.
I mean as far as Hollywoodgoes and what these movies get at.
Like both not for like superattractive dudes.
(16:26):
They're kind of just like meh.
Especially the bride's husband.
He totally like.
I don't know.
Did he?
Look, He.
I.
He had like a butterball facegoing on.
Like he.
She definitely like did notmarry up.
She married down.
And the guy.
You have something to say?
The point of a chick lick isto sit there and ogle at the people.
(16:46):
There's no oogling in this.
It's just cringy cringe.
That's all I gotta say.
You guys pick terrible movies,by the way.
I could have given you like 50other ones.
But saying it's fine.
You're welcome.
It was Alex.
You're welcome.
Is that why they were all bad?
What do you think?
I mean, they weren't all bad brides.
Me is terrible.
That's all I gotta say.
It's not a real chick.
Okay.
Yeah, it is.
(17:08):
According to, you know, everybody.
It is a real chick flick.
Didn't say it was good one.
It's a terrible chick flick.
It's funny to hear you talkabout bad movies taken see like really
dumb movies.
Sometimes I have good enoughtape to refer to other people.
I know my movies are dumb whenthey're dumb.
Do you?
Yeah.
But you're my husband, so you can.
Watch whatever I want.
(17:30):
Do you?
That made me happy.
Do you?
You're gonna pay for thatlater, sir.
I just.
But I.
I do agree with taste pointlike the love interest.
I'm like.
I feel like maybe they didn'thave the budget, but I didn't really
care for the top to.
(17:50):
To be hon.
Okay.
Well, sure.
Well.
And I.
They.
It's funny because they usetheir budget on what's her bucket's
buddy?
Oh, John Ham.
Now he was funny.
I Did like him.
Yeah, like, that whole.
I don't really know how to saythis without sounding like a dick,
but really want you to leave.
(18:11):
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, well, the aggressive,weird ass.
Like, it's just.
Yeah, but that was funny.
But then the weird dude andthe other dude, like, is just like,
wait, what?
Like, it's weird.
He's funny again.
He's one that's like.
He's funny, but in this movie,he's wasted.
(18:36):
See, it didn't really.
I don't know.
It didn't really work.
It was just another thing thatI wasn't really feeling.
What they were trying to putdown with it as much, and they just
had a lot of different thingsthey were trying to tell was like,
wait, is this more about the.
The bridesmaids thing or is this.
Yes, this is a chick.
Like, we need to have herhave, like, a love interest and hope.
But, like, where are we goingwith this?
(18:57):
Yeah, Yeah.
I think that's the.
The forced.
The love interest thingdoesn't work.
Like, in this movie.
Like, it just doesn't.
I don't care if they.
And I think that's a bigproblem with this movie in general
is I just don't care, period.
Like, if this.
I'd rather see this wedding,like, go up in flames than actually
(19:19):
be successful.
Like, I just don't care.
It just doesn't.
I don't know.
It's weird.
Or when the bride has themeltdown and they have, like, the
reconciliation moment, he'sjust like, yeah.
Like, yeah, really?
Like, I don't know.
It didn't have.
There was no emotionalconnection or landing.
You were like, oh, okay.
(19:39):
This is the replacement, thecomeback moment.
Like, we're all.
We're all good again.
It's like, okay, yeah.
Well, not to mention thatthere's no way they're making up.
Like, after all the.
That happens, like, the.
The dress trying on, like,somebody had to pay for the dress,
like.
And, like, it's just not gonna.
(20:00):
Nope.
You're not gonna be friends.
I'm not gonna be friends.
If I ate something, it made methat sick.
And I'm in the middle of thestreet with a dress, a wedding dress
on that cost probably tens ofthousands of dollars.
We're not friends anymore.
You know what I mean?
Wow.
You heard it here first.
JJ Might be my best shallow friend.
(20:21):
Hey, I'm telling you rightnow, I will put up with a lot, but
if you got me in the street,probably out.
Like, how you said probably.
Probably.
Well, I mean, that door cracked.
J.J.
who's gonna.
Who's gonna play video gameswith you on a Saturday night?
(20:43):
Myself.
I'm bad.
I'm more fun than just yourself.
That's fair.
But you're also not gonna takeme to some shitty Brazilian restaurant
and have me myself.
Well, I'd be with you.
So we do it together.
Yeah, I mean, well.
And I guess the real thing isI'm gonna go into that place and
go, nah, let's go to theChinese joint down the street.
(21:05):
I'm not eating here, boys.
It's.
I could barely eat normal foodwithout myself a little bit, so why
the would I eat that?
Like, get the out of here.
It's a cleanse.
Okay?
Yeah, but when you live a lifewhen you can look at greens and I'm
cleansed, I'm not eatingrotten ass meat.
(21:26):
It's this that's asking for.
Cook it more.
You'll be fine.
Yeah.
Oh, God.
What was it?
Was it.
Was it Brazilian food or was it.
I couldn't remember.
Like, and I've never been afan of, like, a.
What's that?
You don't like Tucanos in Utah?
No.
(21:46):
Well, so the first time Iexperienced it was in Scottsdale,
Arizona, actually.
There was a Rhodesio Grillright there on.
Was it Shea Shay and what'sthe other one that run Franklin?
I don't remember.
Anyway, two major roads.
Like, there was a RhodesioGrill, and I don't know if it's still
there.
It's back in, like 2003, butthat was the most.
(22:07):
The family took us there.
And I was like, oh, this is weird.
They're cutting meats off astick right at your table.
I'm like, how many people havetouched this?
Like, I can't.
It was a bother for me.
Like, I don't, like.
I also don't, like.
Like, the work parties werelike, bring your own.
(22:28):
I'm out.
I'm not doing this buffet.
Like, I don't know what yourkitchen looks like.
I.
I'm not eating it.
So, yeah, I struggled.
Look, that extra dirtseasoning, jj, that's texture.
It gives it a little crunchclippings in there.
You'll be.
(22:51):
Ah, but that's.
I, you know, I've.
I've done too many things, andthat allowed me to go into people's
houses at random or, you know,and I'm like, walking in going, I
don't want to eat their food.
And so it's like, jj, you one.
Of those people that someonebrings you homemade cookies, and
you're like, I Don't knowenough about you.
These are going straight tothe trash.
(23:14):
I re gift a lot of gifts thatare left at my doorstep, like cookies
and snacks and treats and thatare homemade.
That gets stuck at my door ifI don't know who.
There's certain family membersor like certain people in the neighborhood
that when they drop it off, Iget excited about their cookies.
Others, I don't.
(23:34):
Word to the wise, people justput weed in your.
Your desserts.
You drop them in off at the.
The Crowder household.
JJ will probably eat them.
That's completely and utterly fair.
You just tell me and I'll.
Yeah, I'll make do with somedirt in my food if there's goodies
in it.
But if you just bring me likethose sugar cookies with the Hershey's
(23:59):
Kisses in them and I don't know.
I don't.
I've never seen your kitchen.
It's probably going onsomebody else's doorstep down the
road.
That's a good thing.
None of my neighbors listen to us.
I.
I'll do.
I'll tell you what.
I.
(24:19):
I love it when the ward in ourarea starts dropping off for my parents.
My parents are both diabetic.
They're not eating sugar and candy.
That goes right to another house.
There's a couple.
There's a lady that dropsfudge every year.
I eat the shit out of that fudge.
Like it's delicious.
(24:41):
And I've been in her house and it.
She's clean.
Well, what JJ is also nottelling us is he.
His partner, AKA Casey, isalso one of the best bakers that
I have ever had the privilegeof eating from.
She is quite good.
She'll probably be in those,like one of those baking competitions
for at home bakers on like theFood Network because I feel like
(25:03):
she'd do pretty decent.
She'd also be great fortelevision because when the pressure
comes in, I don't know exactlywhat type of casing we'd be getting
on tv, but I'd be here for it.
Somebody had chopped might begetting murked in the middle of the
episode.
The great.
The great British Baking show.
American Ruins.
The great British Baking Show.
(25:24):
The producer would have tocome in and be like, you know, we
do have like early teenagersthat watch this.
We need like, let's.
Let's dial it back just alittle bit.
Maybe don't look like you'restabbing someone with your eyes.
That's fair.
That and like they.
The beep like you'd have.
You get no words in Ed's wisebecause she'd be.
They'd be filming her stationand none of this behind where they
(25:53):
walk behind my eyes.
Get the out of my way.
Yeah, that should be throwingshoulders at people.
Move.
She has no kitchen etiquette.
That's.
No, It's.
Yeah.
She can bake, though.
Oh, that is truth.
That is truth.
And we keep our kitchen bake.
There's a reason why JJ can'treally fully.
(26:14):
Like, if he said he was goingon a diet, a big Jay.
I'm sorry.
But next time she tries tobake, all the progress is gone.
Yeah, it doesn't work.
Like, that's.
It'd be gone for me too.
I'd be 30 pounds heavier if Ilived there too.
Dude, I'm telling you, it's.
It's great because I'm thetaste tester, but it's bad because
I'm the taste tester.
I.
And she's got these highquality control standards.
(26:35):
Like, that's another reason.
Like, I can't.
She, like, she'll throw cheeky cookies.
There's like a pile of.
She's like, yeah, it didn'tpass quality control because there's
like a smudge in the frosting.
Or JJ's over there, like, andI'm like, pretty good.
Yeah.
Sometimes I like, she'll walkaway and I'll be like, put my finger
(26:55):
in the frosting over there tomake it.
Yeah, that one doesn't passquality control.
It's not true.
I have never sabotaged any ofher baking.
Casey's.
Listen.
On the off chance she actuallywatches this episode, she's not here
right now.
She's traveling.
But on the off chance I don'twant to get.
(27:17):
It's like we talked about in our.
If you listen to our Patreon,there'll be a pre clip that you'll
see where we talk about mewaking up penis list.
Casey, I hope you do listen to this.
Please send me goodies.
Like, I'm.
I know you only usually do forpeople that are in person.
I get it.
It's the right thing to do.
Things don't ship as well.
But I miss your baked goods.
They're so good.
(27:37):
I put up with being in JJ'sfreezing cold house for your food.
Yeah, it's delicious.
She made it a weird place to.
Be because the kitchen can benice and warm.
You walk three feet, five feetaway from the oven.
It can be a cold place in hell.
Oh, yeah.
Usually that's the first thingI do.
She starts baking.
If I'm in the kitchen with her.
That sliding door gets opened.
(27:59):
I don't care what time of year.
I know.
Unless it's summer.
If it's summer, then summer.
Yeah, Unless.
Yeah, but your summer house,it's you.
You go outside, come back in,you're like, in an igloo because
you rightfully.
So.
That AC is working, but JJ'sgot his AC technician and, like,
speed dial, too.
Spanking it.
Can't.
(28:19):
That just can't go.
Are you.
I pay a monthly membership tomy heating and air conditioning at
my H vac guys.
I have them on retainer.
No, they love JJ.
They're like, hey, souped up coolant.
They're like, call Mr.
Crowder.
He'll get it.
Oh, a right.
Yeah.
No, when she starts baking inthe summer, I have a.
(28:41):
A standing air conditioner,like, portable air conditioner that
goes on in the kitchen becauseit just too.
It's sauna in my house, and I can't.
JJ's only walking in forgoodies and getting out.
I usually will meet her at thedoor and be like, I'll see you.
See you when you're done.
It's miserable horrid in there.
She turns that goddamnconvection oven on, and I'm like,
(29:03):
oh, it gets so hot.
And then she's usually makingsomething else that she like toppings
and that she's, like, making asauce or something.
And I'm like, turn all theheat off.
I hate it.
Thankfully, most of the bakingshe does in bulk is during the cooler
months of the year.
So anyway, we're like, yeah,should we rate rides with it since
(29:27):
we all hate it and Alex justtorturing us.
Yes.
All right.
Stupid movie.
Alex, I'm gonna give this avery, very, very generous zero.
Nice.
Nice.
Well, I will watch this again,but it will only be because I torturing
somebody else who has neverseen it before.
That's fair.
(29:50):
Yeah, it's terrible.
Oh, what am I gonna rate this?
It's not a zero, but it's waytoo long.
Way too exaggerated.
It does have some funny partsto talk to.
Can't.
Can't get away from that, butI'll give it a one.
I've seen many worse things,but this movie's long.
Like, I forgot when J justsays, like, damn, this movie is long.
(30:13):
It's a one.
I don't think I'll ever watchit again.
But if there was a coupleparts, I mean, I'll remember some.
Like the food porn scene, thenine puppies in the van.
Really like anything in thatMelissa McCarthy was a part of.
Like, I don't love her, butshe is funny.
Like, outright funny.
I have to give her credit andshe did make this movie funny.
(30:36):
Other than that, this movie's trash.
Yeah, I'm gonna hop on the Onetrain as well.
I.
Look, we've watched Moonfalland Goddamn Dolphin Sex, so I can't
give it less than a onebecause at least it's not those two
movies.
But it's bad, it's long, itdrags on.
(30:56):
It's not that funny most ofthe time.
And when it is, they take ittoo far.
They get.
They hit a joke and then theyruin the same joke two minutes later.
And so it's like, just stop.
So I just don't.
Yeah, and I will.
The one good thing about Alectorturing us on the podcast, as he
tends to do, is that once I'vewatched this movie now, I don't ever
(31:17):
have to watch this movie again.
There.
The only reason I've watchedthis movie since the Lab the last
time before this most recenttime was because of the goddamn podcast.
So now that it's done, I'llnever watch this movie again.
We should do a month ofgreatest hits and greatest misses
and then rewatch.
It'll never happen again nowthat I know that some movies will
(31:41):
end up on that list.
Like, I think that'd be agreat idea.
Except for Alec will purposelymake sure that my life's hell for
a month.
July is just.
She dies tomorrow.
Moonfall.
Jeez, that's just torture.
Yeah, one for me.
And I will actively doeverything I can to never watch this
(32:02):
shitty movie again.
So there it is.
Week three in the books.
Only one left.
Looking forward to that one.
Should be fun.
But Alec, tell everybody wherethey can find us.
Happy to thank you for tuningin to week three of my month.
Once again, the greatest monthever month.
Special thanks to our patrons,Rich and CB for making a selection
(32:26):
on this month and for pickingthe movie to torture JJ and Matson
with it.
I appreciate you guys very,very much.
Patreon is the best place toget involved with the content guys.
So find us there at.
What's our verdict?
Reviews where we have votesgoing out to anybody, anybody who
wants to join in on the Patreon.
No payment required to getinvolved with the voting process
(32:47):
to vote on movies that we'regoing to be doing in the future.
We also have.
What is it up to now?
Close to 450 behind the scenesepisodes, outtakes, goodies that
are behind a paywall.
But it's about doubling thewhat's Our Verdict?
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So if you guys like what yousee, go ahead and join us there at
(33:08):
what's Our Verdict Reviews.
With that, I will kick it backto the.
Oh, let's see.
Wise Deer of Wap, the Mauling Mastodon.
Haven't done that one.
Nice, jj.
Dude, the Wazir of Wap gets meevery time because all I think about
is that song.
(33:30):
Anyway, with that, as always,we appreciate you tuning in.
We'll catch you on the next one.
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