Hate Watching The Naked Gun (2025): Short and Sweet

A spoof can be chaotic and still feel precise, but only if the movie commits. We just watched The Naked Gun reboot and ended up in a full-on argument about what modern parody movies need to work: clean setups, real escalation, and actors who play the moment like it’s life or death.

We dig into non sequitur comedy and why “random” isn’t the same as “surprising.” Tony loves the occasional left-field swing, Dan wants the jokes to build instead of getting tossed away, and we both agree performance is everything. We talk about the straight man role, why some deliveries feel like reading a punchline off a cue card, and why Danny Huston comes off like the person most in sync with the movie’s tone. We also shout out the bits that actually hit: the chili dog scene, the fish people riff that keeps heightening, the perfectly timed Dave Bautista moment, and a few blink-and-you-miss-it visual jokes.

Then we get into the risky stuff: reference comedy and who it’s for. When a film leans on Clippy, TiVo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and niche culture jokes, is that clever specificity or just dating yourself on purpose? If you like movie review podcasts that go beyond thumbs up or thumbs down, this one gets into comedic timing, parody structure, and why a short runtime can be a blessing when the jokes are hit or miss.

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Crotchless Pants And Public Shame

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Oh, I tore my pants right in the crotch. I the amount of pants that I have that are now crotchless, it's not great. So those are my home pants. You know, it's I still wear 'em because you're not gonna throw them out just because there's one hole in it. So you just can't leave the house with them on, you know? Well, suffice to say I went to the store and forgot I had a hole in my crotch. Check it out, ladies! Hey. That's how you get arrested, Dan. I'm gonna need you to not get arrested. I need you for the show. That's how you get arrested again. What was the first one you did? Grand Theft Larceny? Same one. Okay, so it's a pattern with you. I see. It's all crime is always a pattern.

Welcome To Hey Watching

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Welcome to Tony for the whole show. Welcome to Hey Watch. Welcome to Hey Watching with Dan and Tony on the third try. I'm Dan! I'm Tony! On this show, we watch movies, we talk about movies, and occasionally one of us is brilliant enough to find a movie that is incredibly short. Hey, listen. Kudos to the person that thought of a short movie. Oh, it's nice, you know, because then it doesn't take up too much of your time. You're not angry for too long. Not that I oh, I'm not supposed to tip the bit. Don't tip the bit. Uh yeah, no, there's good. Short movies are great. Yeah. I watched the movie Naked Gun. Tony watched the movie The Naked Gun. Yeah, I didn't, I didn't. It's confusing. You know what I mean? I uh know the I don't know what's going on. I think it is just Naked Gun, but it might be the Naked Gun. It could be, I don't know. Was the old one different? Was one of them the, one of them not? Nobody knows. 2025, hour and 21 minutes amongst the shortest movies. Solid. There might be one movie we've done shorter. I don't remember what it would have been, but we might have done one that was. This is quick. This is a short movie. Um I watched half of it yesterday and then I watched the rest this morning. Okay. Where did you stop? Was it an appropriate stopping point? Exactly halfway. Okay. Were you just watching the time and be like, okay, I've done it. Now take a break. I'm free. Um sometimes I push through. Actually, steel, I pushed through. Steel was just like, eh, just leave it on, whatever. Just I'll just do it. Yeah, yeah, I'll just do it. Shaq's great. You know, at this one, I it it it it wasn't oh what what movie? The Naked Gun. We said it. Naked Gun. Uh, this one wasn't so painful that I was just like, I want to kill these filmmakers. Um I'm so excited to talk about this movie

Non Sequitur Comedy And Expectations

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with you, Dan. My issue with this movie is is that this is a type of movie maybe got made more in the past. And I I I I refer to it as the non-sequitur move type of movie. Hundred percent. And Dan, if you remember, let's travel back and you and I, let's travel back in time to when we watched the Lady Ghostbusters movie. Do you remember what my favorite joke in that whole movie is? Was it Kate McKinnon with the Pringles jar? With the pr she just whips out a can of Pringles from nowhere, and I died. Non-sequitors kill me. You love it. I love them. They they are a treat. And I think about that. You like that mama something somethings. The Australian trio did a show. You love that show. Monty Donna. You love that show. Big old house of fun. Love that show. A non-sequitur. Here's why. Jokes in general are structured, right? Set up punchline. Set up punchline. A non-sequitur is just like punchline from left field, you don't see it coming, and they surprise me, and I love them. Yeah. So you pro I I you know, I prepared myself. I'm assuming you probably laughed a lot during this movie. I watched this movie twice, Dan. I watched that's how much I enjoyed it. I laughed at this movie very, very little. I believe it. The whole the whole time. But I was like, Dan's gonna hate this thing. Dan is not gonna enjoy this movie at all. I I didn't hate it because I could see at least they were doing, you know, they're doing they're doing their thing. Sure, they're doing things, yeah. And I mean, the truth of the matter is I'm not the person to analyze these jokes. I mean, sure. I could analyze. There was a couple of times where they would start a thing. I mean, the other thing with non-sequitur jokes is they throw them away. So they'd never spend the time. Because a couple of times you're like, oh, you're gonna start spending some time on this, and you're gonna then they're just like, nope, we're not no. No, no, no. It all comes out in the wash, baby. It was like the Paul Walter Hauser had one bit that started, and I'm like, oh, okay, here he's gonna get to do something. Well, and to be fair, they probably they probably filmed him doing it, and they were like, never mind, this is bad. We can't we can't put it in. Cut him out. See, that's what I see. That's this is the perfect movie to make you do, is because I got you, you're gonna have to hate on him while all day long. Because if there's anyone else in that role, this movie goes up from an from an eight to a nine. Easy. He can't even receive a joke. You know what I mean? Like the straight man needs to receive the joke with intention. He is like a blank slate, and he gets a couple of they give him a couple of bones. You know, here's a joke, buddy. Here's a joke, little guy. Go go have fun. He doesn't, he can't deliver a joke, he's terrible. Well, in the um, in that interview I watched with him, they they talked about the you can't fight City Hall, and then his joke is yeah, because it's a building. Yep. Um they both thought this was a hilarious joke. I, you know, I got to it and I was just like, it wasn't funny when they were talking about. I mean, I see that it's a joke. I'm like, I don't, I don't, I'm like, okay, somebody wrote a wrote a good joke, and then the other one was the the oh that wasn't a Paul Walterhauser. That was that was the only Paul Walterhauser one that I I remembered. But it was like, it wasn't funny to me. I didn't did you laugh at that joke? I would have laughed at that joke if he delivered it with conviction. He did not deliver it as someone who was truthfully responding to that. Like if I if you tell me, if you if you believe as the character, you believe in your heart of hearts that yeah, you can't fight it's a building, I will laugh at that joke. Right. That's great. If you just go, yeah, it's a building. That's not funny. That's because you're just saying it. You're just saying, well, yeah, it's a building. You have to believe that. Your character is like, well, you can't fight that. It's a building. That's a crazy thing to say to me. He doesn't commit to anything ever. I hate him. I don't think I I don't think I hated him when we watched Balls Up, because Balls Up, in my opinion, wasn't written very well. You know what I mean? Sure. This movie, whether you like it or hate it, they they have a lane that they stay in, they are consistent, and he is not in that lane. He's not on the train, he's you know, somewhere else, just wander around in a park. Well, I just I'm not a fan. I'll just say it, not a fan, Dan. Let's talk about the coffee joke. The coffee joke is anytime they arrive somewhere, somebody hands them each coffee or just hands him a coffee, and then sometimes he throws the other one away violently. Sometimes this is Yeah, there's no concern varies. I never once laughed at any of these things, and it, you know, I was just like, okay, well, you you filled that space with the you know, you're flying on the owl and someone hands you a coffee. I'm like, uh well, I guess, okay. Yeah. I I liked two of the coffee jokes. I was so here's what I'll say. Similar, do you remember um what are the Saturday Night Live guys? Please don't destroy Wait, didn't he have a tiny part in this? Yeah. Which one? One of the the tall redhead was the tall skin. Yes, yes. Oh, no, no, no. That was the running man. That's what I'm thinking of. The running man. That's a great one. Yeah, that's a great one. We'll talk about that movie later. Uh uh. Because I also enjoyed that movie. Um, so their movie is that movie, Please Don't Destroy The Legend of Foggy Mountain or whatever, is jokes per minute is very high. Yeah. I did not like those jokes. Yeah. This movie, I would say it's not quite as packed jokes per minute, but it's it's again, it's pretty high. And these ones were landing for me. Um, I don't remember exactly where it's going. Oh, the coffee jokes. So you can't bat a thousand. When you have that many jokes, you're never gonna hit them all. But two of the coffee jokes I did laugh at, the giant coffees, I very much enjoyed. Um, they have regular coffees, they get rid of them, and then someone hands them giant, like oversized coffees. Love that one. And then the only other one I laughed at was when Paul Walterhauser asks offers him a coffee. He has a coffee, and he goes, Oh, yes, please, and throws the one away and grabs it. Because he acknowledges that he already has one, but he would rather have this new fresh one for some reason. Sure. Those are the only two I laughed at. Um but I appreciate it, you know? It's a running bit. See, you you that's the thing. You appreciate that bit. That bit didn't never made me angry, but I was just like sure. Don't need it. Yeah. Let's let's do a different joke. Yeah. I get that. Um I think that's fine. But there was one bit I liked, one bit I thought was very funny. I thought the whatchamacallit, the bad guy, I thought he was the person who understood the movie the most. I would I I can absolutely agree with that. First of all, he's unbelievable, right? He's great at everything. Jenny Houston, yeah, he seems like he's really good at it. He's so good. He's so good. Um, but yeah, he's he's very funny. I thought Liam Neeson mostly was okay. I thought Pam was didn't she was Pam. She the scatting thing, I think, almost worked well. Um there's there's one bit that I liked in the scatting, which is when she just uh she says, I'm okay, as if like it's gone off the rails. And then she's like, I'm okay. That part made me laugh. Yeah. I yeah, I don't uh that part didn't land for me. Um but that's okay. And I think there are maybe two or three other jokes that I laughed at. There's one bit that I two bits that I you know I laughed. And then I I'm very excited. And I laughed a lot. One of them's a Danny, well, they're both in the Danny Houston area. Sure. Not surprisingly, that that seemed to be the stuff that you know he understood the comedic timing of it better than and there's one Liam Neeson thing that there's only one thing I think that made me angry and felt super wasted. Oh, inside near the end. It was very excited. He monologued at one point about something. I'll have to find it. And the monologue just wasn't what wasn't written funny, and it was just like, what is this? It was just a bunch of cans. If you remember exactly what it is. I think I wrote it down. I mean, I wrote it down, but I think I'll be able to figure out what it is. Um my two biggest laughs, Dave Batista. That one came in at me really quick, and I I I kind of I must have been looking away because then he's in, and I'm like, wait, what's happening? Well, that's it's a camera cut, right? So you're on Liam Neeson, you cut uh Danny, and then you cut back, and it's fucking Batista, and then you hear the toilet flush. But the part I didn't hear the toilet. The part that makes me laugh is when he comes back, Batista's like, oh, I messed up the lines a little bit. It's it's he delivers it so good. Uh that that cracked me up. I mess up the lines a little bit. He's like, oh god, it's okay, it's okay. I'll see you on Saturday. See, I think Dave Batista would have been better in this the Liam Neeson role. I I think he understands the comedic tension better. I agree. I I think that I don't think that Liam knocked it out of the park, but I think they wanted to get as far away from a Liam uh or sorry, far away from uh now I can't think of the guy's name from the original. Leslie Nielsen. Leslie Nielsen, thank you, which is Liam Neeson, Leslie Nielsen's two clothes. Oh wow. Um because he is so dry in the OG, Leslie. He's like he's so dry. So I think they wanted to give some I don't know. You could have gotten someone better. That's what I'll say. Okay. Uh Pam Manhaden, uh Paul Walter Hauser, yeah. Okay. Anything else you want to say before we jeep dive? Oh, the my other biggest laugh is the chili dog scene. Yeah. That's uh you weren't into it? I mean, once again, you're like, I get it. I get what the I get what the bit, you know, you like, okay. None that's I guess that's the thing with those kind of bits, is it didn't go anywhere. It didn't, it didn't really escalate. You're just like, okay, we're gonna, we're gonna sit, we're gonna go to this place, we're gonna do joke, joke, joke, joke, joke. You know, just like the the romance thing with the snowman, which we'll talk about. It was like joke, joke, joke, joke, joke. And I was like, Yeah, Tony probably thinks this is funny. I've I almost forgot about that. Is one of my other favorite things when it turns dark. I did, I genuinely was like, brilliant. Yeah, absolutely brilliant. You're like, okay, and you you'd set up the samurai sword. Okay, you know, I mean, that's fine. It's it's it doesn't feel lazy and sloppy, it just doesn't, it doesn't feel like they figured out a way to make it go even further. Sure. Yeah, yeah. You know, I can absolutely see that where there is a giant web of things that all comes together, and you're like, oh yeah. It it never felt clever. Yeah, I get that. I mean, you know, in their defense a little bit, I think they're playing to the base of America a little bit. Well, you know, you don't want to give me too clever. I mean, I I was thinking that the only franchise that we still have, like this, is the scary movie franchise that still continues to get out. I gotta see the new one. I gotta see it. I feel like I've watched one of them at one point, maybe, and I was like, oh, okay, this is you know kind of funny. Well, did it come out? Did the new one come out this weekend? That would be June 5th. Comes out next weekend. June 5th. Let's let's put the new scary movie out June 5th. Not when when October comes in. Doesn't make any sense. Maybe their plan is to sell it into streaming or whatever for Halloween, and maybe that's the one. I mean, that's unfortunately theaters, you know, that's not where you're gonna make your money on a movie like that, probably. Yeah, maybe not anymore. But but, you know, goddamn, whatchamacallit. It's uh backrooms is gonna beat the Mandalorian. It's gonna make more money than The Mandalorian. A cheap A24 horror. Well, Obsession did, right? Two weeks in a row or something? Oh, did it? I don't I don't know. I think it I think Obsession might have beat them too, which Naomi-san did not like. So it's like, you know, if you cannot program a popcorn music memori popcorn movie, not music, movie Memorial Day. I think I I think you better look at how you're what movies you're making. If yeah. I mean, I I I have zero interest in that movie. You know, it's like I'm generally watching it. You watch it when it comes to Disney Plus. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe, maybe, maybe, yeah. I didn't know I don't even think we watched all the seasons of that show, so maybe we won't watch it. I made it through one or two episodes of the first Mandalorian, and I was like, that's fine. It's not interesting. I mean, it's not Ashoka bad, but it's not good. Shoka Shoka was the worst. You're just like, oh, look at those rubber things on her head. You can see that they're foam rubber, it's bending like foam rubber right here. Clean that up and post. You know, what the hell? Okay, we start tits music.

Bank Cold Open And Early Bits

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It's a bank robbery. There's a blonde guy, boom, they're all these guys, they're breaking in the safe deposit boxes. They open this one and they pull out a device which on it says P-L-O-T device. I I literally I was writing device as they wrote, you know, it was called plot device. Like, okay. Yeah. I do wish that they, for no reason whatsoever. I I really wish I would have gotten that anagram. Is that what it's called? Anagram. Uh no. Which one's that? Anagram is when you scramble the words and it's the same word. What's the one where it's the letters or the first letters of words? I just heard somebody say it and I was like, I don't know that word. Um, so we we do what that is later, and it's an acronym. It's an acronym. Acronym, that's what it is. I had to Google I had to Google acronym. That's where we are in this world, Dan. Falling apart. Nothing left in your brain. So here comes a little girl skipping up the uh thing, up the sidewalk. All the cops are outside. She goes inside the bank and pulls off the mask, and it's Frank Drebin, who's, you know, little girl that's four foot tall becomes a six-foot-tall man. Okay. Very silly. Um. And then he kills everyone. Yeah, just yeah, beats the shit out of people. He bites a gun, I think. He bites a gun. That was the only thing I wrote down. He bites a gun and chews on it, and I'm like, okay, well, here we are. Here we are. There's no escalation, it's just all you know, these different ways of killing people. Yep. It's just ideas, just like idea, idea, idea. Uh it does it sets the tone, I think, pretty well. It's definitely not super funny, but it does set the tone. Well, it tells you what what you're what you're gonna have to deal with. Yeah. Um the what the main bad guy just walks out the back door and gives the device to the bad guy. Right. Yeah. You're like, okay, that's all right. Cool, cool, cool. That seems like you're not and that tells me you're not willing to try to make solutions for your things. You just are just like, well, we just need to get this into this guy's hands and we need to have this guy leave, and there's no police at the back door of the bank. Yeah, they don't care about the plot. They're just like, how do we get from this joke to the next joke? Let's just do it. And I I I think they've they do themselves a huge disservice because if they're they were like, you know, uh, one of them got away, and they're like, How'd you get away? The back door. The back door! You know, you you you set up that these are whatever. You write a joke. And that's what they they didn't want it, they didn't want they didn't want to write the second joke. All these felt it's your classic case of they all felt like the first joke. Yeah, yeah. No, you're right. We do the titles, uh, we do Frank Drebin, his wife is dead. We do the thing where whenever he's driving, he's not paying attention and he's hitting people on bikes and pedestrians and whatever. It's very strange. I expected that to to lead somewhere, and it it doesn't. Because it's one of the old there's only a couple of running jokes in the movie, and they never the coffee, the car. Yeah, and they never go anywhere. And I part of me appreciates that the car thing is the same every time, as opposed to like it gets crazy and crazy. It's just like, nope, this is just what happens. He just hits one guy on a bicycle, but also like, what are some other things we could do, guys? Let's brainstorm. Um, but I do like his little monologue here where he's like, my my cop, I cry cop tears and cop something, you know. There's just a cute little thing about it. I just don't think he delivers those them well, and I don't I think those are the things that are those are the things you you could have improved on that would have made the whole thing you know hum a little more. And I just I yeah, we'll talk about that one monologue later and and we'll try and see if I why why I didn't like it. If you remember. He gets to the office, there's about a big banner, 1,000 bad guys caught, but the but the boss is angry because they killed all those people. And um and now there's gonna be a bunch of lawsuits, and then she we do a bit about Freedom Fries, and I'm like, this is 2025. Freedom Fries joke is there's there's one joke later that's like so outdated, you're just like, come on, guys, uh that's that's reaching back into the the past that no one cares about. Sure, sure, I can understand that, but I did like the joke about what cops have to follow since when do cops have to follow the law? And then the follow-up joke was who's gonna arrest me? Other cops? That that's a good line. It's a good line. That was a good joke, yeah. Um, and they but you're right. She throws him off the bank job. Okay. Um, we do the whole thing where he's talking to Leslie Nielsen, who was his father's photo, and then we we do the other photos, and then we do Donald Glover, who's supposed to. be OJ's kid and then he's not in the movie. I I do I wish that they wouldn't have shown that in the trailer. You can't show I mean I as you can't you can't do a character with that and then not put them in the movie. You really can't you just can't do I mean if you're gonna maybe if you just have some generic guy but if you have Donald fucking Glover I just I just wish that that wasn't tipped that's all yeah because they put that in the trailer and it's like if that's your if that if that's the only joke you give this person you can't put that in the trailer. Like as a surprise that would be very funny. I don't know. And it's ostensibly one of their best one off jokes. 100% 100% so why are you putting that in the trailer for Mongai yeah um they go to Malibu there's a car crash um we talk about electric cars he's like the only things I knew that were electric were eels and chairs and a couple other things. Somebody singing I don't remember who it was but the lat the third joke of that beat is someone singing and I I don't know I think it was funny. I don't know it was okay. He finds a clue which is um just a match just a uh a match matchbook matchbook which is a classic classic cop thing um my favorite joke of this scene which I'll just this is what I'm gonna do I was gonna tell my favorite jokes apparently um Paul's asking if the driver is drunk he's like drunk and then Liam's response is a little just enough to wake me up great joke that's a great joke he gets back to the office there's a silhouette of a beautiful lady walks in and it's really uh mop in a coat rack that was almost made me laugh almost made me almost almost close then we pan over and there's Pam uh she's playing Beth she is the brother of the guy that died in the car and now we find out that he was working for the big bad guy Kane and she's a a writer who writes mystery novels this this whole thing never really never really panned out because we're trying we're trying to set up that she writes books based on her own life sort of you know but not but not here's here's the line then here's the direct line I write true crime novels about fictional stories that I make up that's a funny line it's a funny line because they're not true crime she's making them up and pretending they're true crime that's funny uh but that's it that's that's as far as that runway goes unfortunately it's funny on the page correct I don't I don't think it's fun I think it's a good funny written line but you well they don't do anything with that joke. They do they do one little thing is the bad guy reads her and is able and knows who she is and and that gives him some insight but that's just that's that's a detective fiction loop that yeah yeah you know you don't see him reading it you don't you know you don't ever establish any of those things. A hundred percent yeah um bump bump bump bump bump um and then everyone outside in the uh office like is self-monologuing about how hot she is okay yeah that's a fun joke because it's Lee Liam doing his uh you know voiceover and then Paul does a voiceover interrupts his voiceover and then everyone's doing the voiceover and and then Liam Neeson's like guys come on you know that's a fun joke.

Eden Tech Satire And Reference Comedy

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Yeah um he goes to Eden Tech where this tech was I guess this this guy the guy that died made up the tech and then he just took it with him and hid it in the safe deposit box and now we're going back to where they develop it. Honestly never understood the actual story of the movie so you're you're telling me this for the first time we start the movie twice and I couldn't follow the plot. We start walking around the you know basically he's kind of an Elon Muskie whatever sort but doesn't play it that way. He plays it as an old industrialist. Yeah there's all these sort of things set up and Draven messes up one and I was like I didn't understand because there was a little stairway with a little person and then it all falls over I didn't understand how he messed it up but this seemed like a thing where he needed to keep messing things up in some way but we do one and then we we we drop it. And then yeah move on and then we do a red light to help your testosterone right I didn't I don't really understand this joke because then he's like oh testosterone's at an all-time low across the board I was like but that's not like a that's a that's a that's a manosphere joke. That's a whole that's like an Elon that's an Elon Musk and those people have a whole thing where somebody somebody went on TV and talked about somebody went on Tucker Carlson or Tucker Carlson did an entire show on Fox News about how men need to have red light therapy to increase their testosterone. He did a whole special about that and that's that's what I'm talking about these jokes that are just like that is that is too inside baseball yeah it's it's unless you're really paying attention to the entirety of culture which I'm not which you are not I mean most people are not going to understand why there's a guy having red light on his balls to increase his testosterone with that joke. I understood exactly what it was it's not funny either it's not I mean especially not funny because it's not done in a way I don't know if I've told this story. I took a sketchwriting class um really and we were writing um where what is the word sketch uh UCP with Hal Rudnik. Oh you oh this was back when you did Hal Rudnik uh yeah yeah Hal a real serious sketch writer yeah oh great wonderful um and the assignment was parodies we were supposed to write a parody of something and I wrote a parody of Arrow uh which is not a show that many people watch and it was so specific to the show it got no laughs in the room and Hal was like do you know why it didn't get laughs I was like I I don't because these jokes are really funny and he's like at that point yeah okay right he's like I'm sure that they are if you watch the show if you're writing a parody it's not for the people that watch the show the parody is for everyone so you need to bring them in on the joke somehow and he's like don't explain the joke but they have to understand the world to understand the joke. You're just doing a joke of a world that no one's ever heard of and I was like that's interesting. So that makes a lot of sense like even though I know this world like the back of my hand like obviously the guy that wrote this is is it Family Guy? Is that who wrote this? I don't know. Um no this is uh this Lonely Island wrote this this Lonely Island I believe I believe they wrote I mean the the Lonely Island guy directed it for sure but I think they wrote it okay but but that makes a lot of Family Guy thing was part of it. He was one of the producers for sure okay it's okay so it's it's a it's a bunch of brilliant minds but they obviously they think that that is something that everybody saw probably yeah they they think that's heard of they think that's a real cultural touchstone and it's not it really is I have this is the first I've ever heard of it. Yeah uh and so that joke I was just like I okay what's happening right now? Why and we spend a while talking about it. It's 30 to 40 yeah like what are we doing here? They do the whole thing they do not they don't shy away from it. And I mean it's you know and it's like Manosphere thinks where it's like you know men's rights people it's kind of that whole thing. Sure. And it's like well if you're gonna go down that world and make the the the main guy that you gotta go there. You gotta make him Elon Musk you gotta make him complaining about stuff but you're not playing the bad guy that they're playing is it's pretty much just this joke. That's kind it's kind of the only one that that I that I remember like being in that sphere. That I can think of yeah yeah okay so that's that and then he's and then he's like I'm a big fan of yours and this is sort of that same thing where he sort of says the world used to be better and you know and men were men and it but he doesn't couch it that way he couches it in this really weird kind of do do what you want sort of thing. Sure. And and when you're building a character like this you gotta give him a you know a a whole belief system that is played out and we understand we just look at him as a rich tech guy who's a piece of shit and you're like oh yeah yeah okay yeah I suppose whatever um and then he he lights a cigar or something and then he sees the same match club from the the Bengals Supper Club and then they have a weird bonding thing over their knowledge of the black eyed peas uh people I didn't I didn't get that okay uh no no one got it because okay because it's it's it's reference as comedy we're gonna just reference all these things that we both know and then we're bonding and you're just like well then you guys are gonna have to actually bond and it's gonna actually have to mean something later and they did not bond and it never means anything. Yeah it's a real weird joke that like I feel like you it starts one way and then goes left because they start it with saying the the R word let's get R in here and then he's like I don't think you say that anymore it's like I just did I know a lot of people that love the black eyed peas I I it it's just it was like a weird I don't know it was like a weird excuse for them to be able to say the R word and then they were like well we can just you know if we bring it back to the black eyed peas and how much we love them then that's okay. I don't know. It was very strange. I didn't get it I I got nothing but yeah I mean you gotta be careful with your references you know what it what is an evergreen reference that's gonna last forever and I I am a person that believes if you're funny enough and you're telling the joke the like you watch the old Eddie Murphy stuff it's always all funny because of because all of it it was interesting because we were watching the thing and they were showing some Kevin Hart and then some Eddie Murphy and then some Bill Hader and Hader personifies things and so you're just like well there he is he's he's existing in this other person that's automatically funny. Yeah but Eddie just he knows how to pick that thing that is the thing out of the story. He's like this is what's interesting and me talking about it is going to make you laugh because you're gonna be like you're gonna be transported there. And Kevin is funniest when he's busting somebody's balls and giving them shit. Sure. Yeah that checks out yeah and you know it's all very different approaches to comedy but you don't have to you don't even have to know the people they're talking about because you know it's like because he was yeah Kevin was giving shit to this one guy who had new teeth put in and you could see the guy's teeth and they're very white and very big and you're just like well there it is you know boom boom boom he's giving that guy shit and it's everyone is dying because it's funny. Yeah and he there was one with Kevin and Shaq and it's like we know how Shaq is yeah you know Shaq's calling him short and it's like this is always gonna be funny. Yeah. Okay whatever. Um boom he the the cane guy sends them an electric car this is the this is the one that drove that I did not like oh good they get in the car Paul Walterhauser can't get in the car and he's trying to open the back door yeah that's the joke they do one thing where he fumbles with it and then the door opens and then his hand gets crushed it should just yeah that's yeah that's all I wanted to say. I was just saying first it opens and they're they're pa positing that it opens so fast that it knocks him down which is not funny or super well done because the door doesn't actually open that fast he just acts like it opens that fast and I was like uh that's weird and then yeah then he's getting up and it closes on his hand and I was I don't know it wasn't good. Well the first the first pre-bit is he's trying to find the handle. Which is you know how it is the recess handles and all that. 100% yeah and I I've had problems finding the doors on like the Waymo's like that's tough for me. That's the bit that and then they they've they've done turned it into a can't find the handle the door hits him then it closes on his hand too much way too much this is just him just living it struggling to get this door open. He's just like you know and if he's out there acting which he's not well you're gonna have to recast so then they pull forward and it pulls over all the electricity things and then it lets all the prisoners out including uh uh a Hannibal yeah I that that bit's fine like the end of that bit is fine because then Liam gets the line this place is falling apart. You know it's fine it's whatever um but if you live in this moment of Paul Walterhauser just trying to open this fucking door everyone's in the door he's missing out on the conversation he's trying to get guys I can't you know live in it for a little bit and I think that's very fun because it's relatable which is when we get to the chili dog scene Dan I think that's why I like it so much because that's every day of my life what what happens but just let it let's live in this relatable joke because this movie's full of ridiculous well unrelatable things like this is a grounded joke that could that I think could land. Because it's like I know those those door handles they're flush 100% and you also have a had a literal experience. So if I'm in that writer's room you go okay here's here's the joke don't crush his hand and even when they crush his hand they don't really crush his hand they kind of like sort of show the door sort of on his hand you gotta crush his hand you gotta he's gotta have a thing and then that's the bit he keeps you know then he's got the other thing then he's got a thing on his head and eventually he's you know somebody's rolling him around because full cast full cast you know you have to you have to escalate I think and if we if the first thing we did was break his jaw so he couldn't talk the rest of the movie you know that's what it is. That's a great joke. So here you go Tony the Buster Rhymes interrogation starts out with their one the best joke they wrote what's the best joke they wrote for the whole movie I don't know because I like the chili talk part so what's the best joke he says you're in here for 20 years for man's laughter. Man's laughter that is a good joke that made me laugh pretty hard they had talked about this on that podcast I didn't laugh at all but I was like it is a very well crafted joke. You're like okay that is a perfectly crafted joke. I think most people in the theater did not get it because even then when he says manslaughter you have to be once again that that joke is it's too smart. It and you it's it's best done when you read you know what I mean like I you have to be thinking as soon as you said you have to be like man's laughter man's Mo Manslaughter like you have to go down that journey on your own a little bit and if they had just if he was going down the list or something and you know you get to see the clipboard for just a second and you see manslaughter and then he says man's laughter maybe that'll that would help. I don't

Chili Dogs And The Best Jokes

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know. So now we bring in the body cam and we do the chili dog thing. You want to talk about the chili dog thing? Yeah let's just talk about the chili dog thing. So he is he he's in his car he's eating a chili dog and then his tumtum gets upset which happens to some of us I'm not gonna lie to you I have a very weak constitution. So then he pulls over some guy who's doing something very bad I don't know he's got guns or drugs or something and then his tummy is rumbling and he's like you know what you seem like a great guy I'm gonna let you go. All that's fine. All of that is preamble to the joke which is how which is now we're back in the car. He has another chili dog. Everyone in the room is like don't don't do it. Frank don't eat it's very funny he's like don't do it he delivers it so well perfectly oh don't do it don't do it and then he just keeps eating the chili dog and we cut to Liam in the corner of shame and he's like I had four more that day and that joke to me is the best joke of the movie because that's it's so relatable. I go to 7-Eleven I get these buffalo chicken rollers they 20 minutes later you feel like shit but oh man when they're going down dad they are so good. So I get it that was a very tony joke and I loved it. Well my first laugh of the movie does come right after that part for whatever reason he says I can't get it up without the stench of milk on your chin yeah I'm just like what the fuck is that line what is that like a breastfeeding joke it is a breastfeeding joke yeah yeah yeah that's correct what the fuck I was like I I didn't do a huge laugh but I was like what what surprising it's surprising that surprised me 100% okay uh so boom okay here comes my other my my my my my one big laugh of the movie is we go to Eden Tech our bad guy's there he's telling telling about the whole plan and yep and he does a whole thing he's like men like us in the USA you know we gotta defend against the other people and then one of the guys in the group says the fish people fish people I'm like what the fuck you know with gills with the gills mermaids then we do mermen we do mermaids then we it's very good we keep going and we do crab hands crab hands and got the crab hand yeah it's a it's a wonderful bit it's it was hilarious that was my far by far my fit my biggest laugh of the movie and and very good very very they live in that one you know what I mean it is it's very random jokes and it jokes joke jokes that are fish people mermen mermaids crab hands what else this is an estimate is a good joke exactly this is great what else can we do and there's not a lot of those in this movie the rest of the movie if this if this scene was like the the majority of the movie it would just be fish people and then we move on which is still funny to me I would still laugh at fish people but the fact that they keep hitting different types of fish people is a 10 out of 10. And it's because Danny Houston is the one in charge and he's like no we I'm trying to tell you what's going on and you guys are yeah and that's the thing is when what's his name he's the one always digressing right Neeson's always digressing Danny Houston has to he has to force the action back to what the action is and this is my entire problem with Paul Walterhauser in the movie because that's his role in when they're together forcing the action back to where it should be yes and he can't do it he can't do it. He's not he's not capable of doing it. He's gotta be come on Frank you know uh we we gotta we gotta make this this this has to happen you know but he yeah he lives in this weird in-between world where he's just he's not grounded but he's not the crazy person. He's just he's not he's nothing you he's nothing you don't have a true grounding force on that yeah on that side on that side of the fence and so that's why those are not the parts that work for me at all. Yeah um prime we do a primordial law of tus oh that's the plot primordial law of tus toughness and so the whole idea is if you turn on the box it makes people go crazy and fight each other and then they're gonna get the whole world to fight and they're gonna hide in bunkers the rich people and when it's over they come out to this pristine world the plot doesn't work but you know whatever. Yeah whatever and it doesn't really matter and then uh Weird Al's gonna be in there performing for them while everyone goes crazy. Yeah poor Weird Al he's a very funny guy the his his credit joke is funny when nobody shows up and he's all alone like that's funny. But this is this first part I don't it's not really a joke you know I don't know it's not really a joke. Yeah we go to the Club at the club, we do a Cody Rhodes bartender bit. Shot my brother, can't remember. Yeah, no, I mean, so it's a it's a funny, it's a funny run, right? Um because he's like, You shot my brother. He's like, that could be thousands of people. You shot him in the back while he was running away, hundreds of people. He was white. Ah! And then he knows exactly who he is. Yeah. Funny. Um but that's it. But he doesn't he doesn't he does it wrong. He's like, How is he? And you're like Well, again, I think it's because he's white, right? So he's so he's uh he's okay. He's acting like he knows him in a positive way. Sure, sure. And that that line doesn't make any sense. He should be, he deserved it. Because that's what he that's because that's why he shot him in the back. He didn't he doesn't care if he's okay. He's a criminal. He shot him in the back. And so yeah. I'm picky. So this is the club. Here comes Pam. They make her clutzy and she runs into a post for some reason. Yeah, I don't because that it's not really a a running bit. So I don't I don't know. Um we introduce her to Kane and then we make up this name that ends in spaghetti. So Kane keeps on saying her last name is Miss Spaghetti. Yeah, I I mean this is just one of those jokes that never works. The only time it's ever worked for me is in Family Guy. Oh when Peter's doing it and he ends up saying his own name because he's like Peter, and then a griffin flies in, he's like, Griffin, duh! And then it's his own name. That's the only time that joke has ever worked for me. I'm impressed that you can quote a joke from Family Guy. That's pretty embarrassing. That might be the only one, I don't know. Okay, but that because that one works for me, because everyone does these stupid jokes of like, oh, I'm making up a name and it gets it's all weird. And you know, he was like, It's well, that's my real name. Now I'm in trouble. Like, that's funny. That's a good reversal of that joke. This is not that. This is just that joke, and it's nonsensical, and yeah, yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Big fat eating a bowl of spaghetti. Yeah. So Pam has to distract him while Draben goes into the back to find the security footage that they need. Um she does this whole big scatting bit, which I thought was amusing. You were you were mixed on it. Non-plused, we'll say. That's not the not the right word, but okay. Is it? What's non-plust mean? I think non-plust means sort of confused. Look it up. It means to be surprised, confused, and bewildered by something. Really? Non-plused. You know, I'm non-plussed to read the definition of non-plus. We'll get you to use one. What do you mean learning in real time, Dan? Look at this. I'm growing as a person. I never have to grow. I'm fully formed. You're perfect. Dan is perfect. Um, yeah, I wasn't crazy about it. Yeah. But I do like the fight scene. The fight scene, he goes there, he falls downstairs, then he calls to talk to his mom. Then there's a fight scene. Fast forward that. What's the fight scene? The fight scene, he tears off the guy's arms and then is fighting him with his own arms. But the funny joke to me is he goes up left high, and then he the guy goes to block and he takes the guy's hand and hits him in his own nuts. And I was like, that's a good joke. That's fun. In the nuts. Uh yeah, a nice nut shot. That'll make me giggle every time. He gets the footage, and the footage just sends him off to some new person. Right. Yeah. Uh he goes, he has to go and talk to the boss, and then he goes ends up in the boss's bedroom, and her husband has a big job interview or something, and so we can't wake him up, so they're talking in whispers. Very strange. I think it's very weird. I think the job setup was kind of funny, but I I didn't write it down. Sure. Yeah, I mean, I it's a it's a scene I've never seen before, that's for sure. It made me, I'm sure it made me giggle in the moment, you know? Yeah. And at least they do it correctly. And I I didn't whine, I didn't complain too much about this during Steel. But remember Steel, the movie where they have to whisper because of the stupid dessert thing. What was that called? Souffle. The souffle, because it explodes or some stupid shit. No, it falls, it falls. I'm sorry, it deflates, it falls, whatever. They whisper for real in Steel. You should never whisper for real. You should speak whisper. Never. Yeah, you have to because watching a scene where everyone's just talking like this, it's very stupid. But if I talk like this, you think I'm whispering, but I'm not whispering at all, and you can hear the conversation. And that drove me crazy in steel because those scenes are three, four minutes long, and they are they are literally whispering the whole time. That's not how you do it. Maybe not right. Maybe they had real souffles and they were protecting them. The crew was making souffles for lunch, and they really had to whisper. Um, so at least they do that right. They do stage whisper in this movie. Um, he goes home and there is Beth waiting outside his door. The bad guy is watching. Um they go in there, we do this. I wrote the dead wife football bit. What that was. How did she pass? Oh, how did she pass? 40 yards strong. I don't know. Something very weird. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I you know, I thought it was I thought it was funny, stupid. And now we have But then she died, so we'll never know if she could go pro. I mean, that's funny. Yeah. The bad guys across the street with the with the heat-sensitive uh binoculars, and then we do like a whole thing where he's thinking that they're having she's giving him a blowjob, then he's having sex. Oh, it is an Austin Powers bit, isn't it? Yeah. I and like it's it's fine because they make this one dirtier because in Austin Powers it's him with Elizabeth Hurley, and you're like, cool, and this is a dog, so it's weird and gross, but you know, it's the same bit. I don't know. Now it's the Austin Powers bit. The one I remember is they keep on covering up his thing by by moving stuff in front of him. Yeah, sure. There's yeah, there's that where they keep moving things in front. But there's one where I it's it's almost the exact same thing where it looks like they're she's is maybe she's giving him fellatio or something. Yeah, there is it's the same run of bit where they cover it, but it looks like she's do so it's you know, it's the same idea. I don't know. Which is fine. I'm not saying you can't recycle bits, but I do think you need to be funnier than the original to pull it off, and I didn't find this one funnier than the original. So then they go on vacation for a week?

The Snowman Romance Goes Dark

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I guess so. Yeah. And the vacation is they go to a cabin, then a hot tub, they make a snowman, then they use magic spells to bring the snowman to life, they have sex with the snowman, the snowman gets angry and jealous of their actual relationship. Well, because they push him so they they bring him in as if he's part of the three- the trio, but then you know they push him away eventually, and then he gets mad and bitter. He uses up Frank's inhaler, and so Frank can't run away from him, and then it's but instead Pam is able to kill him with um a samurai sword. A samurai sword that we we'd set up a little earlier. Yeah. This this feels like something to me. This is like on the lines of something that I would write. Obviously, there wouldn't be a samurai sword involved. Um, but this whole thing where the snowman falls in love and then they shun him and then he turns deadly. That's great to me. That's a very fun little bit. Um how they decided it fit in this movie. I have no idea. Somebody wrote this. This is great. Well, I've got this really fun sketch. Can we just get this in the middle of this movie? And maybe that's what it is. If it's the Lonely Island guys, maybe that was like a sketch idea, and he's like, I can't figure out how to do it on its own. But if we just shoehorn it into this movie, I think it'll be great. Oh, geez. I enjoyed it. I thought it was funny. That is often how things happen. That's true. Um, okay. Uh they go back to the city after this, and they're gonna go to the guy who they saw in the video, Douglas O'Reilly. He goes there, he opens it, he steps in blood, he doesn't know it's blood. There's a knife that says, pick me up. He picks up the knife. There's a recorder that says, Speak into this that I killed the guy. Say that I did it. I did it. And then here come the cops to bust him for it, and then he flees in the uh Well, hold on. He's holding the body. He picks up the body. I don't even remember. Yeah, he picks up the body, but I don't remember exactly what happened. He's gonna hide the body, but for some reason, do they tell him to put his hands in the air or something? But he bring he lifts the body up and it gets decapitated in a fan. Uh, and that part made me laugh. And he actually had a good line right after that where it's like, well, I guess I'm not getting rid of the body, I'm not gonna be able to hide the body. You're like, well, I mean, based on the physics of this thing, you can just run the whole body through that thing and it would be gone. So just keep going, just keep feeding it up. Yeah. So he he gets in the the car, but it's controlled by Kane, and he's going to drive him into the ocean and kill him. So he shoots at the windshield, and he keeps driving, and then he avoids hitting a clown, and balloons fill the car, and then he has to avoid beekeepers to have bees, so bees fill the car, and then this was a great joke, and then there's two guys walking across the street carrying a windshield that is exactly the same size, and that goes back on his guard, so he's trapped back in the car with the windshield. That's a good joke. Pretty silly, yeah. Pretty silly, pretty fun. Yeah. And then he just says, computer, open the doors, and then the computer opens the doors and lets him out. Right. Yeah. Wait, what? I'm sure that's some sort of an Alexa type joke. I'm not I I'm not totally sure. Well, they did the the computer has the the little um Microsoft guy that's shaped like uh Clippy! Yeah, Clippy. Shaped like a clippy paper clip. Paper clip. I was thinking state. Same as Clippy. His name is Clippy, Dan, and he's classic. I don't know what I mean. I don't know why he's on that and why he lets him out. Once again, how long ago was Clippy? Ooh. 90s? Was it 90s? Like it was old. You know, 18-year-olds are like, what is that? I don't what? I don't know what 1996. That was when Clippy came to Microsoft Office. I'm sorry, but that is 30 year that is a 30-year-old reference. It is, and I will say that I laughed and I said, Clippy, just like that, out loud. So they were talking to me. But I'm 41. And that's not that can't be the demographic. So you knew Clippy when you were 11. Oh, here's the we're coming up on the bit. Okay. He goes there, police squad's was revoked and becomes a spirit Halloween. Okay. Sure. Um, he goes to see Beth, and he's got a cut on his arm, which I guess happened at some point, and then she treats it like a piece of meat or something and tenderized it, puts hot sauce on it, and then honey on it or something. And it was very weird. Um can't win them all, Dan. And then Beth says we gotta stop the device, and then he's like, You you just pretended to love me for something. And the reason why she pretended to love him is because he lent her his TiVo. Yeah. And so she could watch his Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but then she plugged her TiVo into her his TiVo into her Ethernet, and then that screwed up it, so he lost all the Buffy. And he talks about Spike and he makes all of these things, and I'm so many Buffy references. The the person lending of a TiVo and losing your shows. I mean, we used to have like a D VR on our our you know, through our cable, but that was 15 years ago, and you you know, I was always worried about losing my shows because I had things that I wanted to re go back and rewatch that you know, once they're gone, they're gone. But building this whole bit about a TiVo being plugged into an Ethernet, there there's there is no one under 20 that knows anything they're fucking talking about. And like Buffy's absolutely right. Buffy's the show, you know, it's like make it the Hills, yeah, make it Gilmore Girls, make it something that's from the last eight. Because this is this movie is written for me. It is written for me. So I understood these references. Uh I the only thing I I wish that we had was the boop boop when when he turns on the TiVo. That was what was missing, was like the classic TiVo sound effect. You gotta use it. How can you not use it if you're if you're the if you're this deep into Ti-Vo, you gotta use a sound effect. Um but yeah, you know ridiculous. The arrowverse is a more relevant set of uh set of references than doing a whole bucket. I knew it. I knew it was a good sketch all along. I should make that one. So that was that. So he gets mad and Yeah, I get that. Um he gets a phone call.

The Prison Monologue That Fails

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It's they found the blonde guy, they surveiled the blonde guy, they drug the blonde guy, they put him in a hospital, and we play the whole game of it's three three days in the future to try to get the information out of him. Oh, this is the part I this is the thing that I didn't like. This is one thing I absolutely didn't like. So the pitch that he's making to him, this guy, is that he's gonna end up in jail, and he's gonna become the sexy jailbird, and then he's gonna get released, and then there's gonna be like a new sexy jailbird, but that new sexy jailbird's gonna be a large person. Yeah. And then you're gonna commit suicide, but you're gonna fail, and you're gonna become a farting person. Yep. I thought you were gonna love this because you love fart jokes. Tony, you're the one that's loved the the the dirty jokes in this movie, not me. I love fart jokes. This is not a fart joke. It ends in a fart joke because then he's like, that's what gets him to talk, is he's like, you want to be the farty farty fartzend, or whatever. I don't know, something stupid. I hate I hate this bit, just for the record. This was my one of my least favorite bits of the whole movie. Uh, because I think it was stupid. It's a bad monologue. It's a monologue that doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense, and there is a great way it I think I like how it starts, which is he goes to prison and he's like the pride, everybody loves him, but then someone else comes in and is better than him, and then all the guys want to rape this guy instead, and you're left in the corner crying on the shower. You know, make it all about this jealousy thing where he wants to be the I don't know. But somehow we get around to him just farting all the time. And I was like, we went a really long way to get to a joke that isn't funny. Yeah. I mean, if if this is all about prison rep, then you know, make it about prison rep, but make it about something funny prison rep. Sh sure. You know, you're the guy who could, you know, score the honey buns, and you know, make it make it you gotta make you gotta make this real. Because you're trying to convince this guy of a thing, and you gotta give him a this is it's jokey. It's just jokey and dumb. And I'm okay with real but silly. Yeah. You know, like some something silly that is absurd, but that was still like, oh yeah, I understand. He could be jealous of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, make him care about something absurd and silly that no regular people probably don't care about, but we can understand how, you know, I don't know. There's there's a way to do this joke that's funny, and this is not it. And it just it this is like one of the things in the movie that felt like it was just going on. You're just like, Yeah, you need to rewrite this in the room, you know. Make it about his blonde hair. Oh, you know, the you can't get the peroxide in there, and this is why what you do to get peroxide, and you know, make it a thing. Sure. Yeah. But like, you know, sexy jailbird. That is a thing no one has ever said before. That is I've watched many, many prison things. You gotta reference the real thing. You can't just make up a bunch of words. Yeah. And then he then he just tells them the plan. And you're just like, well, that doesn't make any sense. No, it doesn't make any sense. You know, you have to figure out a way to make it so that he would, you know, you know, bring in a priest, you know, whatever. Who knows? So then we It wasn't this. That's the end. We know that it did this didn't work. And then this then we do a funny thing, and they're like, ah, the walls fall away, and they're like, we were recording the whole thing. I do like this a bit. Then the wall, then the walls fall away again, and then this was a setup to get Frank. I'm like, okay, that's funny. Yeah, and then the walls fall away again. One more time. And this is a this is an oS thing about how what I'm like, okay, you know, there you go. That this is the spirit of the movie. If you started with this level of spirit of the movie, because that's what you do in these movies. Yeah. You know. But no. No, it's it's it's a great bit. Great bit. So the thing's gonna be at this WWF fight.

The Arena Finale And New Year’s Eve

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We go and we meet the WF. So we jump there, we meet the guys that are doing the commentary. The one guy was just leaving the house and his wife had makeup on. So we're gonna do that. We're gonna hit that bit, I believe, just one more time. I think it's two more. Do we hit it two more times? I think so, but I'm not uh yeah, I yeah, I'd have to watch it a third time to know for sure. Um, our guys put in special earplugs that are gonna protect them from the evil device. Right. Beth is in the skybox with Kane. They've got 25 minutes. Beth tries to shoot, pulls out a gun, she tries to shoot Kane, she pulls the trigger, nothing happens, and we don't understand why nothing happens when she push tried to shoot him with a gun. Because he he I'm he had done something, because he knew. No, no, he knew she she was, but she still pulled a gun and and pulled the trigger. Right, but he he he says something like he knew he knew I don't know I don't know exactly. He knew who she was, and then they pulled the gun. They knew the plan, yeah. But how does he how does the gun not work? I don't I don't know. He unloaded it. I don't know. Well, you have to say that. You have to say, I've known who you were in the beginning. I went to, you know, I I knew I had bullets in his hand. I went to the yeah, I went to the gun store. Yeah, you know what those bullets are, they don't even, you know, like, or he does that beforehand, and then he takes the gun and you know removes the bullets. She's like, Why are you doing it? He's like, I didn't do any of those things. You know, yeah. It's there's so many jokes it setups in this that you're just like, with a little more time, they're funny. Sure, yeah. Cook it in the oven, as they say. Draven goes up and it's inside the New Year's Eve balls. Did we know it was New Year's Eve? Definitely not. No, no, not until they say those exact. That's why they hit that hard. I think they say it like two or three times in a row that it's the New Year's Eve balls. New Year's Eve balls, New Year's Eve balls. Like they want you to understand that that's what's happening. You have to be setting that it's New Year's Eve up the whole movie. What uh what I find interesting is that it's not there's no like Christmas, like lethal weapon is Christmas time, and they tell you. Make this a New Year's Eve movie, it would be would have been very funny. That would have been great, but you don't. What are you gonna do? Paul Walterhauser's in a beer stand watching him giving out free beers, and the joke at the end is that he's giving them out to children. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I know it's not entirely his fault, but none of his scenes are funny there. No, they're not. Draven crawls into the balls, falls into the Balls, his pants fall off, he descends from the ceiling with his butt showing, and then we make jokes about that. Yeah, I mean, it's fine. They just talk about his penis, and that's you know, it's funny. Describing someone's penis is always funny to me. Yeah, I can't I can't enjoy a fart joke, but Tony wants to hear about people it it talking about penises all the time. I love a pee-pee joke. You know, uh, what are you gonna do? Uh he tells everyone to leave, and then people attack him, and then he fights them? He fights them. Okay. Uh I don't know. And then uh Kane, oh no, this Kane sets it off, sets off the device, everyone goes crazy. Um and then we have like this thing where we almost have Paul Walterhauser fight a bunch of kids. That's what I want to see. Almost I want to see him. And then they chicken out. They didn't they chicken out? Something going on. I was just like, wait, this you're setting up a really funny thing. You know, just if he was like shot a bunch of kids, I would have loved it. You can't do it. But I would be more into because that feels a little too real. But I would be into him kicking the shit out of kids. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like he sh he's knocking teeth out. He flips one into the grill or the the fry batter and sizzles the face off. You know, be super violent. Hold on. I'm not allowed, my, my my bit's not allowed to shoot kids, but you're allowed to burn the face off a child in a deep fryer. Okay, I I don't know, man. I think that's a lot he can be okay. My guy's gonna shoot the kids in the leg, you know, slow them down. I see. That's what my speed move. Shoot them in the leg. Back back mine down. He's not don't go ahead, Judge. Just just shooting them in the limbs. Okay, well, mine's gonna be just destroying kids, just tearing apart limb from limb, you know. But it's funny, and and they show you that. They're like, they they're like, okay, this is what's gonna happen, and then they're like, here's here you go, and then you know we're not gonna do that. That's what we call a bit of a tease. Bit of a tease. Um the bad guys all leave on motorcycles. We have a musical fight scene which is quite short. We set up a song and then we have him fight like three people. Yeah. Frank gets a car, but the car doesn't work, and so he we'd set up that he wanted a signal from his dad, and the dad was an aw the signal was an owl. He sees an owl. Yeah, I don't know. The owl picks him up and flies for the bad guys. Isn't the crux of um Foggy Mountain also an owl? Oh, I don't remember. I'm almost positive that that movie also has like a big moment with the owl. The owl comes and flies, or maybe it's a hawk. Well, they f they fly back to somewhere at the end of the movie. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that these guys are just obsessed with owls. I don't know. I don't know. Then we get the fight at the fountain. This is when Dave Batista does his fill-in scene, which you really enjoyed. Super funny. I messed up some of the lines. It's just it's just so funny. I don't know. It's just great. I love him. Um, and then we're and then my favorite joke of the movie's coming up. What's your tell what's your favorite joke of the movie? Just say what happens next. Well, I'm probably gonna just say it's because it's it's that one of the other funny jokes in the whole movie. They're about to fight, and they're talking about men's, and he does a cup, Dana Houston's the bad guy does a couple of really lame sort of things that fail, and Draymond hits him right in the stomach. What does he say? You hit me in my tummy. The soft part of my tummy, something like that. He says, You hit me in the belly, you hit me in the soft part of my belly. But it's not a funny joke, but the delivery is perfect because he's like, he's dying. You hit me in the belly, like like it was unfair. It's like a classic, classic piece of shit rich person. It's like, just you know, it's like we're I'm supposed to be winning. It's like, no, you're a piece of shit. You're getting the shit kicked out of you. It was very funny. It's incredible. It's like, do you want to keep fighting? No, no, exactly. And that it's fucking brilliant. And that's so good. That's comedy. He he doesn't say, Do you want to keep fighting? No. He says, No. Why would I want to keep doing that? No, it's got he's he's great. Uh and that's yeah, that's the that's the best joke of the whole movie for me. That that one and the and the merman, those are my those are my those are my two favorite parts. Yeah. Um, some good stuff. Here comes Pam, she's got a gun, she wants to kill him because he killed her brother. And then the bit is Frank is like, you can't kill him, even though killing him would be so enjoyable. So good. You it's the best feeling in the world, but you can't do it. Yeah. This is a great scene that should be played, and it's not. It goes nowhere. Unfortunately, that is correct. This is this is a wonderful setup because we all agree, right? We all agree. In those movies where they're like, you can't kill him, you're gonna do you're gonna regret it for the rest of the like, fuck that. No, what kill him? Absolutely do it, get some vindication here. It's gonna feel great. It would, it's it's the right move, they just don't go for it. For some reason, like, you gotta, you gotta keep going. I don't know. Um smart idea, poor execution. We also do a he says killing him won't bring Simon back, or will it? I think we should have done a whole thing of bringing Simon back. I'm down with that. Yeah. He told me it wouldn't. Um and that's the end. She puts down the gun, they're in love, Beth turns off the device, or turns it from people calm down to calm down to calm down. I was like, that's kind of funny. Yeah. Uh they arrest him. We do the back of the ambulance, and then they kiss, and that's the end of the movie, except for a couple little uh we do it little it was bad. They're like, police squad is back, but he's on he's gotta get fixed or something, and but they're on vacation. Yeah, it's it's just another comment about police brutality where he's they're like, oh, he's getting a serious uh investigation, and then they're just on vacation. And then we do a whole they everyone that the thing is frozen while the credits go, but they're not frozen, and then they walk around and interact with the stuff and poke the screen punch the screen. Then we do the police squad thing where it's the car driving and it drives into crazy places, which was on the show when they did the TV show. There you go.

Final Verdict And Classic Naked Gun Touches

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And that's the show. Dan, did you watch? Do you remember how much do you remember the old police squad stuff? The TV show? I don't know. I I never the TV show or the movies, I don't know. Watch a little bit of the TV show. Certainly watched the first naked gun movie, maybe watch the second one. Uh I remember thinking they were funny. Yeah, me too. I I was going to re-watch the original and then I just watched this one again because I was like, oh, there's some funny stuff in there. One of my favorite jokes that is never really like they never talk about it, it's just a visual joke. And I don't know if it's from the old ones or not. But on the doors of the precinct, it says police squad, but police and squad are in different directions. So if you're on the outside, police, police reads correctly, and squad is backwards. On the inside, police is backwards, and squad is correct. And I was like, that is so funny. That is so funny. And I don't know if that's from before as well, but like that was every time I saw that I laughed. Yeah. Pretty, pretty smart. That's a funny joke. That's a funny joke. So that's uh the movie. Yeah, it's naked gun. There's I honestly I think it's worth a watch. It's short. So that's a po that's a bonus. And there's a there's some funny stuff in there. If you like the scary movies, if you like old Buffy jokes. Okay. I'm not I don't hate I'm not angry at Tony this time. There's other movies I'd be angry at Tony for liking because there's something wrong with him. There is something wrong with me. You're not you're not mistaken. Um, yeah.

What We’re Watching Now

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Twice. Tony, tell us about something you like this week. We uh started uh Amazon Prime's Spider Noir with Mr. Nicholas Cage. Here's what's interesting. We start so I don't know if you've looked at it at all. You can watch it in black and white or like Technicolor or whatever they call it. Yeah. We started it the first episode. We watched the first half in black and white, and I was like, man, this is boring as shit. What's going on? Oh. So it's like, hey, let's change it to color, and then I loved it. Once we change it to color, it's like this show's great. So I don't know if that color said something about me. Oh, I wonder. Okay, I don't know. Like, maybe that's how that's uncultured swine. That's how I watch the first one. I will watch the first half in black and white and I'll watch the second half in color. Give it a shot. Give it a shot. Let me know. You know what's gonna happen? I can tell you what's gonna happen, Tony. I'm gonna like them equally the same. Because you can watch things unbiased. I'm pretty I think I'm pretty unbiased. I think I I can't get around myself. I don't maybe it's a black and white thing where I'm just like, ugh, this is so dull. I think it's a black and white thing. I don't know. I think that's you. I don't know. I think that's you imprinting on it. Yeah. Yeah, I think I'm an asshole. Anyhow, it's fun. I really like the show. I'm excited to keep watching it. The one thing I heard was that Nicolas Cage is the weakest part of the show. I don't know if I agree with that, is Nicolas Cage. That's what someone said, and I was like, okay, well, I'm gonna have to analyze that. I think he's very interesting. I don't know. Maybe, maybe. He plays it very, very noir, very dry. Okay. You know, I don't know. I don't know. You let me know. I like it. You didn't have an issue with it at all. You were like, it's not screaming. No, not at all. Okay. No, I'm I'm enjoying it. Uh we're only two in, though. Yeah. So we got a lot left to go. How about you? What do you like this week, Dan? There's a YouTube guy called Big Joel that I watch. He did a half an hour. Half an hour about the Melania movie. Pretty funny. Oh god. Um, also, I think you know, we're we're cruising along on Widows Bay, I think. I think it was episode. Have you are you doing uh how far are you on Widow's Bay? Let's talk about Widows Bay a little bit, without spoilers, obviously. The fourth one the party. Yeah, yeah. Uh I amongst my favorite pieces of television of all time. Um believable. Just her acting. She's great. Action. How they don't tip, they they they they just tease you just little bits, and then when the bit happens, you're just like, I am in it. I am in it 100%. And yeah, it all made sense to me. And then we watched the one after that, and then we watched the one. I guess we went we're up to six. Are they up to I think there's seven. We have we haven't watched seven yet. We watched six, which is the where we go back in the past. And uh the I mean that one wasn't funny at all, really. Um there is one joke. Yeah, there's one there's one joke, yeah. Yeah, one joke. Yeah, I saw this show, right? Yeah, we like it. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, I wanna love it, yeah, and I don't love it, and I don't know why. I don't know. I love it. I love it. A lot of people are loving it. I like and it it's I I watch it and I'm like, that's a very good show. But I don't love it. I'm not like I gotta watch the next one. Well, there's three more episodes, so yeah, and then I'm then I'm good, and then we're done. So it's fine.

Why The Running Man Disappoints

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The running man. Okay, yeah, talk to me about the running man. You don't you don't like it? I tried to watch the running man. It's terrible. It's I love really terrible. Okay, first off. Anyone who puts a disguise on Glenn Powell should be shot because they don't put a real disguise on Glenn Powell because Glenn Powell always looks exactly the same. Because here's here's two things. They made two giant things of media, either one of which one came first and one came second. The one that came first, the one that came second should have looked at the first one and been like, okay, this time we're gonna do it right. But no, they both do it wrong exactly the same. It's literally the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I think that he has an input in these costumes. I think he's like, don't change me too much. I'm so pretty. Don't take away my prettiness because he's beautiful. I don't know if you feel the same way. I think he is a protective man. Number two, he is not, he is just isn't the angriest man in the world. I don't buy it, don't buy it for one fraction of a second. Yeah, I agree. I agree 100% on this criticism where he can't quite play that anger, but he does have the sarcasm that I like a lot. You know what I mean? Like the dry sarcasm he can pull off. But when he's supposed to be like super angry, yeah, no, I mean you can't do that. That's fine. I forgive it. My biggest problem is that that movie plays it too safe. Like it should be, they should be making more of a statement with what they're saying. And I don't feel like they are. I feel like they think they're making a statement, and they're kind of not, really, you know. Um, but I'll still watch anything with him in it. I don't even care. I watched that on like three airplane rides. Yeah. I watched it. I fell asleep. I didn't, I didn't get anywhere near the end. So I gotta go back and have to watch, try and see where it because it was it wasn't really going. He was hiding in the hotel, and then they killed the lonely island or killed the Foggy Mountain Bottom guy. It was just stupid. The Foggy Mountain Bottom guy's like, hey, here I am, someone shoot me in the head. I'm like, What is that? I don't understand. That doesn't make any sense to me. Yeah, they they were kind of they they try to explain it where there's three types of people that always get selected for these things. The one that doesn't take it seriously, which is him. So he's like, I'm on a TV show, it's not even real, and then he gets killed. And then there's the one that parties too hard because they're like, well, I'm gonna die anyhow, blah, blah, blah. And then there's the hero, which is the one they want to last the longest in the show. So it's it's a comment on casting, kind of, but not really, you know. And just the whole setup of the wife and the sick kid. I didn't buy it. Unnecessary. In my mind, totally unnecessary. Just just he's broke. It should go on a show. It should start with him waiting in line. Yep. That's it. And we and we have to understand: is he a guy that helps people or is he not a guy that helps people? He is a guy that helps people. Then that's who she should be. Right. No, no, I feel like they're acting like he's like, it's a great movie. He isn't, they feel like he isn't acting like he's that guy. I'm like, well, is he that guy? You you're not telling me that. Tell me that. 100%. You know, I try too hard, I help too many people, and like I it screws me up, and I hate the system for what it does to people. You know, play that guy. Yeah. But that's not how I'm playing. That's playing that's great. This weird internalized angry guy, kind of. You're like, What? Dumb. Yeah. Okay. So you know you never got to Michael Sarah. No. It's worth it to watch him. He's great. He's he's wonderful. Yeah, that end of the world one. He's the funniest part. Him and Danny McBride. Danny McBride is the funniest person on the planet.

Next Movie Pick And Wrap Up

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Okay, Tony, we need a new another movie. Okay, so I was like, you know what? This movie's too funny. We should watch a movie that's that thinks it's funny but isn't funny at all. Um, but I also tried to keep, I was gonna look up the it's an hour 26, so also very short for us. Uh, this goes back to my high school days. 2001 primetime comedy years. Um, our good friend Chris Catan in Corky Romano. Is it pet detective? What is it? Is he a detective? First of all, that is Ace Pinjura, pet detective with Jim Carrey. How dare you say that to me? No, it's like a mob movie, I think. I can read this in a I've seen it. I've seen it, I've seen it. Okay. An underworld crime. Yeah, he gets a call from his long-lost father, an underworld crime lord, who has been indicted for by a grand jury. So he has to take over the family crime business and he's something like that. Yeah. And he's functioning. You know, he's Chris Catan. We've never done Chris Catan. Have we not? Really? Wow, good for us. We did the one with the Nick Schwartz as the sex guy. We did that one. That was a weird movie. Yeah, we sure did. Bucky Larson. Yeah. Oh, not too much. That feels like the only Saturday night livey kind of movie we've ever done. Maybe. I mean, we've done a lot of movies. Hard for me to keep track. Oh, that's the other thing. The the woman that does uh Widow Space, she was a big writer on the female Ghostbusters. There you go. Now I like it even more. There you go. She's great. Okay, give us a thumbs up, leave a comment, or um subscribe. These are all things you can do that are gonna help us with the algorithm because the algorithm rules our lives. Not well. Very terrible. And so next week we're gonna be back talk hanging out with Chris Catan and uh watching Corky Romano. Goodbye, everybody. Hey, watch him and Tony and Tony.