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Dude, I can't believe those asswipes fired you for not shutting off our

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gas for 6 weeks. It was losing the truck that pissed them off the most.

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Well, you can camp out here for a while. Well, this is pretty sweet.

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Does this couch fold out to a bed? Yeah, totally great bed. But that's

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Jenkins' bed. Your bed's over here.

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Dude, that is so fucking weak.

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How am I supposed to get a chick in that? Oh, don't worry, dude.

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You couldn't get a chick if you had a $100 bill hanging out of your

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zipper. Yeah, I could. No, dude, you're a little bitch.

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I am not! I don't even know why I hang out with you guys.

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'Cause you're a piece of shit. I am not a piece of shit. Well,

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yeah, but you're a little bitch. Sure are. Goddamn it, man! I swear,

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you guys rip on me 13 or 14 more times, I'm outta here.

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It's 2 Dads 1 Movie. It's the podcast where two middle-aged

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dads sit around and shoot the shit about the movies of the '80s and '90s.

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Here are your hosts, Steve Paulo and Nic Briana.

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Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of 2 Dads 1 Movie.

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I'm Steve and I'm Nic, and today we're talking about the 1998 David Zucker

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comedy hysterical classic. That's what I'm calling it. That's, that's the

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proper official term, by the way, for this kind of movie. It's old enough to

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be a classic, right? And it is, it is hysterical and historical as

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well, a little bit. Uh, BASEketball. We're talking about BASEketball starring Trey Parker and Matt

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Stone. Uh, and yeah, this was, uh, this was my pick for

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1998 and You know, when we came to '98, it was like, there's so many

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good choices, like '98, '99, both I think have a tremendous number of great movies

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that I could have chosen. Yeah. You know, for this kind of end of our

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2 Dads 2 Decades series, we were right at the end. This is the second

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to last year, the penultimate, as I like to remind people, means second to last,

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the penultimate year of 2 Dads 2 Decades. A lot of

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great choices. I went with this one because this movie hit at

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just the right time. Like, as we— I mean, literally, I think it came out

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like a month after we graduated from high school. Yeah. And it was like going

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to college. I remember trying to play BASEketball in college. With my dormmates

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and stuff. And we would try to like, you know, figure out how much of

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all the rules from the movie you could actually gather. Because there's some things they

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like hint at that they don't really do a lot or explain really, which is

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like the, the tip-ins that can then be claimed by the other team. Yeah,

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like the double plays. Yeah. And there's that stuff. And then it's like also,

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why are there like 9 guys on the team if only 3 ever play?

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Like, you know, there's little things like that. We would do it with like Ghostrunners

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and stuff. But, you know, it's the kind of thing that it like, it never

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quite caught on, but it was like interesting enough that like as a kind of

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generically like a sports fan as I was at the time. I mean, I pretty

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much watched all four major North American sports. It was like cool just because it

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blended stuff and it was like, this is neat. And then the fact that it

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was the guys from South Park, right, was just icing on the cake, really.

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I did not see Orgasmo or Cannibal the Musical until after I saw this movie.

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I later found out those guys did more movies before this, went back and saw

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those. You know, I'm sure eventually I know Cannibal the Musical was on my list

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at some point for us to do. So, but, you know, we'll take a look

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at it at the time. So, yeah, this was just a movie that I think

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You know, definitely found me at the right impressionable age

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of, you know, really thinking people like Yasmine Bleeth and Victoria

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Silvstedt, Playmate of the Year, were gorgeous and decided to watch anything they were in.

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And obviously the cool sports element to it. So, Nick, what was your kind

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of background, your history with BASEketball? Yeah, I think I caught this one in college.

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And again, this was one going around on video. We all loved it. And we

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definitely tried to play a version of BASEketball too. And it's a good sign for

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a movie where you take the movie and then try to, like, use it in

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your real life. Yeah, that's a positive for sure. Um, a lot of the humor

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right up our alley at the time. Yeah. Um, and, uh, yeah, the same thing

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where it's like, oh, Playmates are in this stuff. Like, just this weird Maxim

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magazine era horniness that, uh, that we had there in the early 2Ks. Um,

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so yeah, I watched this a bunch of times. Like, when I watched this for

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the pod, I realized once again, you know, like we've seen with the last couple,

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or at least some recent ones, like, uh, you know, Clerks and Swingers

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and these movies that we take so much vocab from watching this. I'm like,

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oh shit, he said that all the time in that exact way.

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So yeah, it was just a goofy, fun one, a great one to throw on

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with your buds before you're like going to go out for the night or when

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you're just hanging out bullshitting. Good background movie. And yeah,

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a lot of like interesting cameos in this one too. Yeah, it was fun to

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go back and check out. I think you're obviously right about that kind of like

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before you go out thing. I feel like in my college years of the like

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the pre-party at somebody's apartment before you go to the first bar and then actually

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to the place you want to go, that kind of you know, evening you'd have.

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I feel like this or Zoolander was like regularly just on the TV. Like nobody

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actually watched it. It was just there. You know, you have these movies and then

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when you go to watch them, you're like, I am ultra familiar with the first

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12 minutes of this movie. And then as it gets towards the middle, you're like,

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what the fuck? So, uh, wait, there's a plot? What a character arc?

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I don't give a shit about these characters. I couldn't tell you what happens in

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this, but I could tell you verbatim all the jokes in the first 12 minutes.

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That's a good point. That's actually a really good point. Cause I just want to

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mention this real quick. We watch a lot of these movies for the pod that

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like I'm very familiar with. Like especially ones I've picked a lot of times.

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Like I've seen them dozens and I think, I think just in general, I've watched

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the same movie over and over again more often than you have. It seems like,

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like as we've talked about, it's like I'll watch a movie 50, 60 times over

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the course of, you know, many years. So it's like, I know the whole movie,

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but I have to like watch through it just to make sure I know what

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order things come in. Oh, totally. You know, cause it's like, I know all the

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jokes in this and we'll talk about them when we're doing next week is too.

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It's like, it's just joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke, joke. And I know them

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all. Right. I could quote them all, but actually putting them in order, like you

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might not be able to do that. So like having to watch it through.

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Like, hey, why do they have to win or whatever? I'd be like, I don't

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fucking know. I don't know. But these are the, All right, let's jump into the

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facts on BASEketball. All right. The movie BASEketball was released on July

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28th, 1998, with an R rating and a running time, running time of 103

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minutes. It was directed by David Zucker of the famous Kentucky Fried

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Theater folks, the ZAZ guys, without Abrahams or his brother Jeff

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this time. Written by David Zucker, Robert Lokasz, and Lewis Friedman.

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Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Deon Bahaar.

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Scores not particularly impressive. Rotten Tomatoes 40%,

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IMDb 6.5. Those are both pretty low and a pair of

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thumbs down from Siskel and Ebert. It also received 2 nominations,

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though no wins, at the 1999 Razzie Awards, one for Worst

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Actress for Yasmine Bleeth and the other for Worst Supporting Actress for Jenny McCarthy.

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The— yeah, you were, you know, you made a comment

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about how the Razzies seem to just like focus on the females and stuff.

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It seems like if you're like a hot chick from something other than acting

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and you dare to be in a movie, the Razzie Awards are all over your

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ass. Like, it's just all these guys who are just so aggrieved that these like

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playmates— not saying that they did great, but it is funny to see the pattern

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of who gets nominated. There is so much bad acting to go around. They really

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didn't need to pick on the ladies, but they did. Could have been an ensemble.

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Absolutely. Budget. This is amazing to

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me. Somehow BASEketball cost $25 million

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to make. Somehow. Now, over the last couple of

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weeks, dude, we watched, we watched Boogie Nights last week. We watched Swingers the week

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before that, you know, before that it was like, uh, uh, I don't know,

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Desperado was like $7 million. You went Clerks for $20 grand

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or whatever. Yeah. There's been, I think collectively the last 5 or 6 movies we've

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watched did not add up to $25 million when you put all their budgets together.

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And so I don't know where $25 million shows up on the screen here.

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You know, it's, the difference, I think, between, uh, something like Clerks or

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Swingers, where it's like, okay, this is what it'll take for us to do all

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this stuff we need to do, versus a studio saying, hey, well-known director David Zucker,

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uh, how much for you to make a comedy for us? And then he finds

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a way to just expend all that money. I feel like that's— you're— I think

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you're right. I think also, obviously, though, the, the sets of these

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BASEketball arenas, yeah, they were obviously created. Sure, these are

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on a sound— or were on a soundstage somewhere. So they were all— as opposed

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to a movie like Swingers or Clerks, which is obviously all on location, you know,

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very, very few locations and, you know, things that are easy for them to like

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rent or reserve. And this was obviously like, we know we had to build an

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entire arena, fill it with, you know, 300 extras in order to like have a

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crowd. So I can see that there's a lot that goes there, but like still—

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And like the athlete cameos, I always wonder about that where it's like, do they

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just really want to be in the movie and they do it for cheap?

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Or is it like to even talk to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, it costs $400 grand.

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The thing is though, Kareem already worked with Zucker— No, I— Yeah. Reggie Jackson already

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worked with him in Naked Gun. Like I feel like he just has something on

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these guys. He's got some photos. You know, he's got something.

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He's got a thumb drive somewhere. That's just every—

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anybody— we saw you eating bacon at the craft service table during Airplane. Anybody who

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won a major sports MVP award any time in the '70s, David Zucker just

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has absolute shit on him. Seriously, man. And it really,

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it really came out on O.J. So on a $25 million budget, it must have

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made how much? $7 million for 0.28 times

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what it made. A significant loss of— what is that? $18 million loss.

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So that is the biggest flop we've ever seen. Yeah. To supplant

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Strange Brew, which was the only other movie I think that we've had that actually

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lost money. I think all the others, maybe Halloween 3 also lost a little.

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And Strange Brew was kind of a marginal loss. It was like, well, they lost

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$2 million on a $4 million budget. So nominally a lot less than this,

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but still, you know, half or whatever. But yeah, so not a box office success,

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this BASEketball, because I don't remember at the time because I was pretty into movies

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at this time and I worked in a movie theater. I don't remember hearing about

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this in the theaters at the time. So I don't know what kind of,

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uh, reach it had. This was definitely, I think for me, this would have

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been something I saw either on DVD because somebody I

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knew was like, oh dude, this is the South Park guys. We should check this

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out and like rent it from Blockbuster. Or I think it played on Comedy Central

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a ton, like an edited version, but I think it was on Comedy Central like

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constantly for a year. So it's possible the first time I saw this was even

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just like an edited for TV version. I'm not sure. Um, But yeah.

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All right. So BASEketball, here's where we open. We open with like a flashback,

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basically. There's a little like voiceover talking about the state of

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sports in America, which really, I'll be honest, like isn't totally accurate. It talks about

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like all these things that happen, like teams moving or yeah, teams moving cities and

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players being traded and how this somehow deadened, you know, Americans' interest

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in sports, which like couldn't be further from the truth. Like even in the late

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'90s, sports were incredibly popular. It is kind of like anti-free agency,

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like anti-Curt Flood propaganda here.

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The way that this is set up, it is interesting. And the very beginning flashback

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is a young version of Coop at Reggie Jackson's 3-home-run Mr.

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October game, and he catches the 3rd home run. Yes, he does. He catches the

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3rd one, and he says to, to his buddy Reamer, uh, Doug Reamer, standing next

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to him, someday I'm going to be a big sports star. Yeah. And, uh,

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and there's that. And so then we flash ahead to this whole kind of thing

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that talks about, you know, like how, uh, the spirit of sports

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is like, you know, we sort of hero worship, and like these are people to

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look up to, and it's like this, you know, this, the thrill of victory and

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all this stuff. But then Teams, you know, players started moving from team to team.

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So you couldn't really keep track of your favorite players. And then teams started moving.

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And this is a great set of lines, but they talk about how the Minneapolis

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Lakers moved to Los Angeles where there are no lakes. The, what is it,

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the Utah Jazz or no, the New Orleans Jazz moved to Utah where they don't

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allow music. Yeah, really good. And then I think it's the Oakland Raiders moved

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to LA and then back to Oakland and no one in Los Angeles seemed to

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notice. Yeah, exactly. Which is, you know, and then the Raiders moved again to Vegas.

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And as an A's fan, having them move to Sacramento and then to Vegas,

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it's like, I do see the, the desire to lambast those owners who wish to

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move teams around. Oh, for sure. I mean, a lot of good points made here.

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And again, the density of the gags in this movie throughout

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is really good. So a lot of these things about excessive celebration. It shows

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a football player score a touchdown, and then him and his teammates get into this

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whole Riverdance-style line dance as guys are being pushed by

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on stretchers and stuff like that. So I mean, they do

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pack it tight. So very, very dense, this beginning. I love that voiceover

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scene. Yeah, the voiceover is great. And they talk about like a corporate sponsorship of

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things. Like they show Preparation H Stadium and Maxi Pad— not Maxi Tampon Arena

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or whatever with the big white, uh, uh, what is it, a blimp,

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right? You know, with the— yeah, silly stuff. And this is— but this does set

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you up for like the kind of humor, right, that we're in for. Like,

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like you said, it's rapid fire, it's boom boom boom, and it tends to go

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for the easy joke because for one reason, because there's so many jokes and they're

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so fast, you kind of don't have time for like elaborate. So this isn't Judd

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Apatow or Adam McKay like setting up elaborate things or dealing with people

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like improving a lot or anything like that, which is— I think just a real

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comment real quick— I think this really is one of those final movies of this

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type, right? The very, uh, ZAZ, Mel Brooks kind of

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style that was so popular in the '80s and '90s where there were a lot

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of rapid-fire jokes, there's a lot of puns and a lot of like irony and

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sarcasm and that kind of stuff. And we— it made way for, I think,

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you know, really with the success of Old School in probably '02 or '03,

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or year that came out, to this different style where it was like, you know,

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it's like character-based. Yeah, character-based. And the filming of things is

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improv-ing. It is riffing. It's like, you know, they'll have the actors do 3,

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4, 5, 6, whatever different takes of just riffing different things, whatever lands best they

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use. On that topic, this— I did watch something with Trey Parker

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and Matt Stone from the time this came out, and they mentioned that what shows

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up on the screen, only about 10% of what shows up on the screen was

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in the original screenplay. By Zucker, Lokasch, and Friedman.

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And Bob Lokasch was a producer and was on set every day. And then obviously

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David Zucker as the director was also there. And apparently the majority of what's actually

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on screen is stuff that Zucker and Lokasch and Stone and Parker altogether kind

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of made up or riffed on, or, you know, hey, what if the joke,

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would the joke work better this way? Like they did a lot of collaborative stuff.

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So it's not that Parker and Stone were taking like credit for like rewriting the

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script as they went. But the four of them together did really apparently just kind

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of like play with stuff, which is why I think so many of the jokes

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feel like South Park jokes. They feel like Parker and Stone jokes.

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Jokes. David Zucker sitting there as they're saying that, saying, I didn't let you write

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your own. Yeah, right. Like Jack Horner in Boogie Nights. Um, anyway,

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so yeah, so they do all kinds of stuff. And, uh, we, we fade forward

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to present day where we, we see, you know, again, baby Coop, little Coop saying,

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I'm gonna be a big sports star, maybe a sports star. And then we've got

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actual, you know, adult current day Joe Cooper played by Trey Parker.

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Uh, he's the blonde mophead. And then, uh, Matt Stone plays Doug Reamer, his best

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friend. Uh, Coop is peeing in bushes outside of a very nice house.

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Yeah, someday, Reamer, I'm gonna own a big sports bar. So it's already twisted.

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He's already twisted it around. Yeah, so we kind of see what's happened to these

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guys over there, right? And they're showing up to the party of this old classmate

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of theirs, Brittany, or whatever. And they're these, you know, the losers from high school,

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and they show up and clearly everyone has moved on from what they used to

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be and everything. And they get to the door and they're like, oh yeah,

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we're here for the party. We graduated with Brittany. Her dad answers the door.

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He's like You graduated? He's like, of course we graduated, cock beer. And he offers

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him a beer. We would say like anything cock beer like so

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often. So right off the bat I was like, yeah, yeah. He refers to several

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people as cock under his breath as he goes, uh, throughout this party.

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Um, they find the, the hostess Brittany Kaiser, you know,

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oh yeah, hey Brittany, like, you know, kind of thing. And she's like, I didn't

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think you'd show. They're not welcome. This is— yeah, everybody's wearing khakis,

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they got the sweaters tied around their necks. This is like very very preppy,

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upper, kind of crusty, which is like they're in like maybe suburb, suburbs outside of

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin. So, but they're just, you know, wearing t-shirts and shorts and

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carrying a 12-pack of Coors or whatever, right? So, so basically

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the Coop's like, we should just go. And no, no, let's go up to Brittany's

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room, which is a terrible idea. This is, this is not a good idea.

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But they go up to a bedroom. Doesn't, they don't seem to be quite clear

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what bedroom they're in. And they find some, you go through the underwear drawer,

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find a vibrator. It's all very— it's pretty graphic for early

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in the movie. I mean, Reimer is really going to town on this vibrator,

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rubbing his face all over while it's on, which it's really funny,

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right? And then, of course, Brittany busts in and she's like, what are you guys

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doing in my mom's room? Just as Coop is pulling the underwear out of the

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drawer and expands them to show that they're like, you know, for an

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elephant with a 65-inch waist. And as Matt

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Stone, as Reimer drops the vibrator and runs out the room, he says derp.

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And I think this is actually the first use of derp. Oh, in like any

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media ever as like that kind of exclamation of like, oops, like I'm a dummy,

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or like, you know, kind of thing. Uh, and they would use— going to use

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it constantly in South Park, obviously. But I think this is before it showed up

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in a South Park episode. It showed up in this movie of Matt Stone is

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going derp. Damn, star is born. Exactly.

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Um, um, so they end up— they end up outside and they're just kind of

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like shooting baskets, like, party, and they're just standing

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there and making every shot. Yeah, standing still, holding a beer, just shooting hoops.

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And then a couple of like the, the docker jerks from

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inside the party come out and like challenge him to a game. Right, exactly.

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And they're like, oh, let's play you for $20. And then, and Coop's

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like, oh, make it $50. And Reimer's like, we don't have $50. He's like,

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we don't have $20. But they end up challenging these two guys who look kind

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of like, you know, dorky, like khaki guys, but like pretty athletic.

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Yeah. And he's like, whatever, they're not any good. And then it cuts quickly

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to them warming up and they're like doing alley-oop. Oh my God. Like all this

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crazy shit. It's really funny. Yeah. And so they're like, "Well, we're not gonna play

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that pussy 2-on-2 you guys play in the suburbs. We got a new game we

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picked up in the hood," right? Sure, guys. But they explain this game,

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and it's basically, they start by explaining that it's horse, and the guys kind of

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call them on it. It's like, "No, no, no, it's not like horse." "Psh,

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yeah." "Psh, psh, psh." You know? "It's BASEketball rules." And so they start talking about

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where you shoot from different distances. It's like a single, a double, whatever.

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And if you miss, that's an out, and all this stuff.

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And the guys are kind of like, "Whoa, what?" And I love Coop goes,

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What, you're not being sports guys? It's so good. Again,

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they say that all the time. And the one— the thing that I took from

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this scene that we— I used to say all the time we were playing is

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losers up first. Because it's like, this is a home

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run behind the meatball. Home runs behind them. Yeah. So they have this game against

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the guys. They beat them at it, you know, because it's their game. And then

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the guys, you know, still leave with the win because their idea is like,

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oh, we'll get the chicks if we beat them. We'll win. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Then they're like, no, it's not. We got to get— first we get jobs.

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Then we get the khakis, then we get the chains. Exactly, gotta have the khakis.

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And he actually— so they actually invented the psych out too as the defense or

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whatever, where at first I think Coop spit beer at one of the guys.

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You can't spit beer at me. He's like, well, no, that's how you— that's a

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psych out. That's how you do it. And at the end for the final shot,

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Reamer is like getting something out of his teeth. He goes, oh, pulling out of

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his teeth. Oh, one of Brittany's mom's pubic hairs. And the guy thinks, you know,

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it's like, oh, that's gross. He misses the shot. And then Duck goes, oh God,

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there's another one. So. So at the end of this, they're like, okay, like,

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this is it. We've got to stop playing games. Cuts to immediately they're

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playing BASEketball and they're exactly really good. The psych out that Coop is using on

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Reamer, again, something we say all the time and we say at every NFL football

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game, you want someone to miss a field goal or any of that shit.

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Yeah. Steve Perry. Yeah, Steve Perry. And it should have been

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gone. So here's the thing, though. I feel like this is a—

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there's a, there's a, there's a generational split here. So I feel

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like we are considered— I'm not sure if you're familiar with this term, but Xennials,

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right? Like this sort of like micro-generation on the cusp of Gen X and Millennials.

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And because we were both born in '79 and like anybody, I think from like

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'77 to like '83 is sort of in this like weird kind of middle group,

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right? Yeah. And, and so not fully Gen X, not fully Millennial. And I feel

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like on the Millennial side of this, the psych out to use is

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Steve Perry. Steve Perry. But if you're more Gen X, kind of a little

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older than us, Noonan, Noonan, Miss Noonan from Caddyshack,

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I feel like is the more classic because that's still— I'll still use Noonan sometimes,

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but I realize now it is so much old. Someone is,

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yeah, you know, you know, it's funny, back at the time I heard the same

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thing differentiating Gen X from millennials by saying,

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who is Uncle Jesse? Jesse is Uncle Jesse from the Dukes

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of Hazzard. Yeah, Gen X. If he's Full House, you're a millennial. That's good.

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Or the Uncle Jesse test. Or finish the lyric. Hello, because there's like 3

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different ways to do it based on how old you are. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway,

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but yeah, so I'd love— but yeah, Steve, the Steve Perry psych out is still

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classic. We get introduced to our third kind of main character of

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the movie now, Squeaks Scolari, played by Deon Bahr. And he's a

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real tiny guy and he looks like he's probably like 5'4". Yeah. And 90 pounds

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dripping wet. But he comes to shut off their gas. He works for the Wisconsin

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Gas and Electric Company and he's like trying to be all official. He's like,

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you know, is your canine unit, you know, is your canine like present or and/or

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locked up within your domicile? Kind of— he's trying to be like, dude, whatever,

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we took him to the vet, you can go, go, go, sucks to be you,

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go shut off our gas. Yeah. So he goes into the back and immediately is

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tackled by the Rottweiler that lives there. Oh, sorry, we took

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the cat in today, my bad. Oh my God. Yeah. And he's just— I mean,

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Squeak, a great character to just take the brunt of all the shit throughout this

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entire movie. He's the straight man. And one of the psych-outs they use

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is, I heard your sister's going out with Squeak.

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The psych-out thing, like, it's, it's kind of funny because that was

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what I think made the game unplayable. Playable in real life is that

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psych-outs don't really work. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? And it's like the

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only way, and plus so many of the psych-outs in the movie, they like physically

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touch the person, which like you kind of have to outlaw if you're gonna play

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the game at all. It seems like some would be foul, right? Yeah, and so

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it was definitely hard to like translate the game to reality without that element

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of being like, oh, I'm so psyched out, I'm gonna fall down as I shoot

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the ball. Like, just hold onto the ball, recover yourself, and then shoot, you know,

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anyway. But yeah, so they basically,

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tell, tell Squeak, hey, we'll shoot for it. You can turn our gas off

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if you make a shot from here. And then, and then they do Steve Perry,

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and he misses the shot, has to go get the ball where it hit the

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dog. Another thing that I would say, take a shot, it's my job,

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you assholes. I used to work at Domino's in college, and I would often deliver

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to my own friends, and they would want me to drink with them when I

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would drop the pizza off, right? I would get to say, take a shot,

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it's my job, you assholes. I had a friend who worked at one of the

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pizza places in town in college, and he had this thing where he just liked

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to come by our apartment and drop off a pizza, like, which was really nice.

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Nice, you know, a lot of times he's out delivering. But every once in a

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while he would drop off a pizza that literally had like a, a normal serving

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amount, whatever, of every single meat topping they offered in the place. So it was

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like unedible because it was so like hung down with like all

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these different sausages and chicken. Yeah, yeah. But you see, I think he just liked

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wasting stuff in his job. Um, so we cut to 3 months later and

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Coop has created his own BASEketball out of a La-Z-Boy recliner. So it says La-Z-Boy

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along the side. And this is when there's a bit of a crowd in the

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driveway. They're still playing in their driveway, but there's like people from the neighborhood,

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right? Yeah. Well, before that though, like Squeak comes over because he, uh,

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has lost his job and needs a place to crash. And so he's like,

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hey, thanks for letting me crash your guys'. It's so great. And, uh, and they're

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like, yeah, sure. He's like, wow, this is a cool bed. Oh yeah, yeah,

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but that's Jenkins' bed. It's like they live with like a ton of different people.

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And he's like, your bed's over here. And it's a fucking little like dog bed

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box with a couple chew toys in it. And the great line I'm like,

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how am I going to get a chick in that? He goes, don't worry,

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dude. You couldn't get a chick with a $100 bill hanging out of your fly.

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Yeah, I could. No, you're a little bitch. Like, they're just

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so mean to him. Relentless on this guy. Relentless.

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Yeah. And then, yeah, his reaction is, I swear to God,

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if you rip on me 13 or 14 more times, I'm out of here.

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Oh my God. So then we cut a few more months ahead and they actually

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are playing and it's like some kind of a big playoffs, like finals thing.

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They've got broadcast. Yeah. Local, like local TV probably, or something. Okay, some of the

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budget going to Cato Cailin. And, and they're wearing like, uh, sweatshirts as their jerseys,

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and they just say shirts, like as their shirts and skins or kind of thing.

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So they win the, the, uh, our boys Coop and Reamer and

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Squeak, they win the, the championship or whatever that they've got. And we meet

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Ted Denzel, played by Ernest Borgnine, uh, and he comes up and basically says

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like, hey, like, this is fantastic stuff which you've invented here, I love it,

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these people really react to it, I'm a billionaire, like, uh, how do you— and

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by the way, billionaire in 1998 was actually something really to

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be like, whoa. Like there were not as many of them as there are now.

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You know what I mean? It was far more rare back then. So it was

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like, oh, it's a big deal. And so he's like, hey, let's create the National

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BASEketball League. And you know, Coop's kind of like, whatever. He's like, well, no,

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we won't let anybody like move teams. We won't let any teams move cities.

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We'll do it right the first way around. And he says like, we'll do it

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like when I was a kid and players were treated like, like, and Coop goes,

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indentured servants? Yes. So yeah,

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yeah. So now we get a cut again to 5 years, right? Yes. And there's

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a full stadium. There's a dedicated BASEketball stadium.

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There's a big crowd there. There's teams from different cities. They've got the house band,

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Real Big Fish, the ska band. There you go. Whatever you think about

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their music, probably the greatest sideburn band I've ever seen. I mean, pretty strong

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sideburn situation throughout. I always liked Real Big Fish. I was

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never as into them as some of the slightly like the punkier ska bands.

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Like, I think I preferred, like, Less Than Jake to Real Big Fish, but,

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like, I still found them a lot of fun. They were fine. Yeah. For living

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in that world, I mean, one of the more palatable ska bands. If you're gonna

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tell your kid, like, this is ska music, Real Big Fish is a pretty good

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example of it. Yeah, Boss Tone's probably my first, you know, sort of, like,

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'cause it's good music on top of being ska music, but, like, you know.

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But part of the definition of ska music is that it's not that good,

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so. Unless it's Operation Ivy, then it's unimpeachable. So yeah.

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So, so Squeak, this is a funny gag here. So they're, they're in this game

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here and the broadcaster, they've got Bob Costas and Al Michaels who are

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very funny throughout this thing. And I used to give more credit to

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guys like this for being goofy in movies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But being a broadcaster

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is just being a fucking actor. So it's not so crazy that like, oh,

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Dan Patrick is funny. Yeah. Oh, they said Bob Costas said the F-word.

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Yeah. Yeah. Oh, shit. Oh.

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But they're good in there and they're coming up to the end of the game

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and it's a pivotal moment. They're like, okay, it all hangs on Squeaks Clary.

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He's coming up to play. This is a big moment. And it shows Squeaks in

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the dugout like watching on a mini TV the broadcast. He's like, oh shit,

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I knew it was going to be me. He's like getting all upset.

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Yeah. And then, but Squeaks goes out and he hits the hit he needs to.

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And then it's Coop's turn to try and like bring it all home, I think.

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Right. And so he goes to like set up for a home run that'll win

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the whole thing. And then Ted Denslow, Ernest Borgnine's character, orders like a a

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hot dog. Yep. And he starts to eat it while everybody starts doing what they

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call the beer chug, which is sort of like a reference to the— it's like

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the tomahawk chop. Yeah. Um, but they're like, yo, chug, chug, whatever. And I think

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it's his, his wife next to him, who's played by Jenny McCarthy, who's obviously,

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you know, like 60 years younger than him, elbows him in the face or in

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the arm, and his hot dog goes straight down his throat. He starts choking.

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And that's when Coop notices. And instead of just stopping to

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be like, hey, somebody should go help. Yeah, Mr. Denzel. He takes the shot anyway,

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this shot, and like falls and falls and misses. And so the Dallas Felons,

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the team they're playing, they are the Milwaukee Beers, by the way, we should say.

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But the Dallas Felons then win the Denslow Cup, the big

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championship, apparently second year in a row. The Dallas, we're told, won the year before.

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Yep. Um, and Denslow is like dead.

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They're giving him— yeah, they're giving him CPR. Well, so Coop— everyone's pissed

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at Coop, right? Yeah. So he misses the shot and then he starts getting pelted

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by these eggs, and the announcer's like, oh, so unfortunate this has to happen

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on Dozen Egg Night. And it's like a parody of the shot in Platoon,

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I think, where Willem Dafoe is like running And so he's like getting shot and

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slow— getting hit in slow motion by all these eggs. Yeah, so Denslow is

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being given like CPR and the hot dogs like shooting up. Yeah, out of

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his mouth and then dropping back in. But nobody's looking at it. Nobody's paying attention

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to it. Then he does die. Ernest Borgnine, I have to say, made some really

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great like appearances, cameos in different comedies. The Simpsons Junior Campers

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episode, one of the best Simpsons episodes where Ernest Borgnine is just in there as

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Ernest Borgnine. Nice. Which is really funny. I always liked him because I used to

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watch the show Airwolf and he was like the pilot or whatever. Watched Airwolf.

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It's about like a crazy cool helicopter. It was like Knight Rider but in the

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sky. Oh nice. It was kind of the idea. And he, and he was like

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one of the two, he was like the navigator. There's like a younger guy who

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was like the main pilot, but he was like part of the crew. Uh,

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pretty good. We love Bort. Yeah. It was one of those shows where like the

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helicopter looked normal from the outside and then there'd be an entire set where they

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were inside the helicopter standing up tall and like moving around. You're like, that's not,

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this is like Doctor Who's fucking phone booth over here. Like, you know,

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um, anyway, but yeah. So then we get some interviews. So they lost the game

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and in the locker room they're all wearing shirts and hats that say like losers

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on them. Which is a really good gag once again.

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And then Tim McCarver is interviewing Joe Cooper and it's actually Tim McCarver and he's

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basically like, you know, what do you think happened tonight? You know, Cooper? And he's

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like, well, you know, it's like took a— it was a real team effort or

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whatever. And I love Tim McCarver turns to the— to the back to the camera

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and goes, it certainly does seem to be raining shit on Joe Cooper right now.

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And I've definitely used that in interview, putting other people's names

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in, but it certainly does seem to be raining shit. Yes. Very funny. And then

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like, Squeaks, you want to talk to me? Nope.

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There's the keg. The beer's mascot is like this big barrel

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keg, and there's a good gag of the keg going to take a piss at

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the trough and like, you know, using it out of the beer tap. The news

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report that talks about Ted Denslow dying, the newscaster says, it appears time

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finally ran out for the old cocksucker.

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So then there's a reading of a

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will. A ton of people are there. We're finding out, you know, where all of

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Denzlow's stuff is going. Did these happen at the video will reading? I would love

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to go to one in real life. I want to do one actually. I don't

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know. It's one of my favorite movie scenes. I always enjoy it. Brewster's Millions.

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Yeah. I don't know how realistic it is, but it happens here and it's a

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bunch of people in there. And Yasmin Bleeth, who actually we were introduced to just

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before the scene, who runs the Dream Make a Dream Come

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True Foundation, I think they call it. Basically Make-A-Wish, same idea, dying kids or whatever.

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She's there. And then Joe Cooper, you know, Coop shows up with Reamer and Coop

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got a letter inviting inviting him. And then, uh, Yasmine Bleeth's character Jenna, she got

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a letter inviting her. So we find out Jenna, it's her organization getting season tickets

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so they can take the kids. That's awesome, great. And then Denslow leaves

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the team to Coop instead of to his wife, who he'd

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only been with like 3 months. Yep. Um, but he leaves the team to Coop,

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but with a stipulation. This is kind of very Brewster's Millions, right, where it's like

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the team's yours, but you've got to win the championship in the next, you know,

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next season, or it reverts back to Yvette, the, the wife.

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And then so Baxter Kane is the owner of the Dallas Fellows

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we've been introduced to as well. And he's here. Definitely Jerry Jones character in this

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film. Absolutely. Very much the Jerry Jones. And he even looks like it. He really

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does, actually. The hair's darker, but very similar to Jones. He wants to

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change the rules of BASEketball so that they can, you know, have teams move cities,

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have players trade and move teams, all this kind of stuff. But the way that

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the original bylaws were set up by Denslow is that it requires unanimous, like there's

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no majority vote. So it's got to be unanimous to make any changes, which is

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like, okay, smart thing to do. And so he's hoping that Yvette would get

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the team because he knows she doesn't give a shit. She doesn't go for more

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money. Um, but Coop gets the team. So now, you know, there's like this strain

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for Bax— uh, for Baxter Kane where he needs to, you know, make sure the

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Beers don't win next year so that Yvette can get the team so that then

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they can get what they want. And he's— and he's, uh, he's got Yvette kind

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of working on him. He's working on her a little bit. Um,

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there's a lot of times in this movie where he'll make some kind of sexual

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innuendo and then it cuts to her doing the actual thing, right? So it's like,

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hey, why don't you, uh, come back to my place we can lay some carpet.

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Yeah. And then it cuts to her and it looks— I'm, you know, the,

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the angle and the motion of someone who's getting like fucked from behind.

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And it turns out she's just like using her knee to like ram the corners

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of the carpet. And yeah, she's got the knee with the big like triangle on

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it, the knee pad, to try to— she's like, okay, I'm all done with this

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room, should I start the next room? Yeah. And he's like, oh, my lobby could

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use some buffing. And then we shows her with an actual like buffing machine down

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in the lobby. I love someone getting carried away by a buffing machine, that always

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gets me. Um, so we're now back to the Back to the BASEketball action.

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It's the new season. Al Michaels is there with Bob

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Costas again, making comments about the girls that are

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the cheerleaders for the Bears, basically wearing lingerie. Like they're not even really wearing— And

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says something about, "It's a retarded thing that just a few years ago, those girls

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were only in grade school." And man, I hope there's lots of different definitions of

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the words grade school. Does that include high school or? 'Cause if not, we're in

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trouble. Yeah, hopefully a Canadian wrote that or something. I mean, at least if like

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you're saying, 8th grade, then you're saying these girls are at least— because like 5

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years ago, whatever— it's like they're at least 19 then, I guess. But good God,

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that's, that's getting freaky with the— I don't like where Michaels went with that,

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and I don't think he meant to. Well, I don't think the way it's written—

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saying, hey Al, just, just freestyle. No, no, we want you to look creepy as

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a joke. Um, so we get a bunch of like sequences of them playing games,

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and I wrote down all the teams that were actually shown because it seems like—

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nice. Okay, I tried to too. Yeah, it seems like we, uh, that there are

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maybe 100 teams in BASEketball because later on in the movie we see that Crazy

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bracket. Like we have, I think it's Dan Patrick and Kenny Mayne, maybe like talking

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about all the different scenarios in the playoffs and it's like 9-month-long playoffs

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and all this stuff. So it seems like in this world, BASEketball has taken over

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all other sports. It's like the only sport that exists in the United States anymore.

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And so there's lots of teams, but the ones that we actually see them playing—

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and so they are the Milwaukee Beers. They play the Dallas Felons. It's like their

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rival. We also get the Miami Dealers, the New Jersey

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Informants, the San Francisco Ferries spelled like the boat.

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The San Antonio Defenders, the Roswell Aliens,

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the Detroit Lemons, and the Los Angeles Riots. I don't have

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any others, but I think there's— Yeah, no, that's, that's, that's all I had.

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Yeah. Yeah. The Miami Dealers, the game against the Miami. And again,

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I mean, late '90s, you have to be okay with this is,

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I mean, full of, like you said, easy joke, which means we've got a lot

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of stereotypes. We've got a lot of low-hanging fruit. The— it's free-range chicken

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night. So like The different theme nights are really funny that they have at the

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stadium. And so they show the guys, the Miami dealers guys actually

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have a grill going, like a barbecue grill in their dugout. They're cooking up some

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of the chickens. But yeah, so they win the game against Miami.

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And I love there's a, there's instead of like cleaning up the like the

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arena or the floor of the court, there's like a vacuum shredding machine for the

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chickens. Yes. So it goes by and like sucks in a chicken.

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Yeah. Really clean it up somehow, I guess. Yes. And again, this is all in

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the background. So like the foreground, they're having him getting interviewed or talking to Baxter

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Cane or whatever, and there's always something happening. So one thing you

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have to credit this movie for is like they're filling the screen, they're using

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like the full advantage of, of, you know, being able to show you stuff.

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So full frame. Um, uh, so now they end up going with Yasmine

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Bleeth's character, right, to visit one of her kids in the

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hospital. And, um, So she had asked Coop. He's a big,

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big BASEketball fan, obviously. And yeah, what do

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they— they ask him, or we're here to make your last wish come true.

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You know, what is it you want? And he's like, I've always wanted to go

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big game hunting. He starts naming these endangered species. He's like, what about

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poisoning a reservoir or letting flesh-eating fish go in a public pool? It's like so

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funny that this kid, you know, only has like purely psychotic intentions. I don't think

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you're really getting the point, dude. Like, but what he ultimately gets is he wants

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He wants to spend a day with the team. Yes, he wants to spend a

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day with the Beers, uh, and they say, oh sure. And so they bring him

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out and they do like a bunch of stuff with Jenna there at first,

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like, like working on cars, like changing the oil in a car and doing laundry

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and like making sandwiches and like all this stuff. But then they sort of wave—

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she leaves and waved goodbye and they take Joey, like, is it to a strip

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club? They take him to like an Asian massage. Oh, that's right, the massage parlor.

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And then of course there's a scene like they're all, uh,

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Coop, Reamer, and Joey and Squeak are all like in their beds being shown consecutively

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They're laying there in the massage bed and a beautiful woman, beautiful woman,

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beautiful woman. Then for Squeak, it's like Yokozuna that walks in, huge sumo wrestler.

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Yeah, exactly. Um, and then they're just at a bar just getting hammered. Yeah.

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And they do decide to do a drinking game because somebody, Jerry Springer, is on

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TV and they decide to take a shot every time a fight breaks out.

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And so they're both, they're all of them just getting absolutely destroyed.

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Uh, Squeak starts making eyes to a person

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on the other side of the bar. And, you know, and kind of,

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yeah, like, it's a very interesting looking person. I think

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it is a man in women's clothing, or it's a very masculine looking woman.

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It's a little like hard to tell, but I think it's probably a man in

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women's clothing. But he falls, he's sort of in love and sort of like

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paying attention to that. While in the meantime, Joey is begging Coop to

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like do something for him. I know I could pull through my, 'cause he's got

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a liver transplant. He's drinking all this tequila, but he's got a liver transplant.

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And so, you know, he's like, Kupa does know I'd

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pull through if you could hit a home run. And, and then

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Reamer goes, of course Coop can hit a home run. Hell, if he wanted to,

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he could hit 2. Really, Coop? 2 home runs? And as Coop's about to say

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something, Reamer goes, what are you talking about? This is Joe Cooper. He could hit

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3. Really? 3? Reamer's such a good, like,

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cockblock friend. Like, he's serving the purpose of T in Swingers

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who was talking to Sue's girl and being like, you know, I don't think you

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had time to call her, actually. Like, he's so good at that as like Coop's

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foil throughout this. Exactly. Um, yeah, so then we've got—

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we're— he's like, shit, and we have a game. Yeah, right, we gotta get to

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the game. Joey has a surgery the next morning. No, that night. Or that night.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they have a game, right? So, uh, so it

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cuts to the game broadcast and there's Coop and he looks like absolute shit.

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You know, it's tough because Trey Parker's hair always looks like he's hungover.

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Yes. But I guess throughout this movie he kind of is. Like, there's never a

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time where he's not. So, uh, you know, he's there and the announcers use this

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line that I love. There's two consecutive things that's Oh, what's happening with Coop tonight?

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He's 1 for 11 and he smells like Christian Slater. Yeah, exactly. And then,

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and then Joey is in the operating room. Yeah. And the doctor's

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like, he's 8 years old and he smells like Robert Downey Jr. The,

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the Christian Slater line spoken actually by one of the referees played by Joey Diaz.

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Oh, okay. Before Diaz was like famous for taking 250mg

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gummies and yeah, overdoing the THC significantly.

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Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. Smells like Robert Downey Jr. is good too. And that's so

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funny too, because that, you know, Robert Downey Jr. in the late '90s, like hadn't

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had his comeback yet. You know, he was still very much like, this was like

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a— yeah,

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yeah, yeah. It's funny, the people that, that are the butt of the joke at

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different times in history, especially Robert Downey Jr., where it's like, oh, he's like the

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biggest star we have over the last 20 years. Exactly. Yeah. So a

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few years later, maybe this shook him and he was like, whoa, I got made

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fun of by this fucking shitty— he might have loved it.

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I don't know. So anyway, Coop misses his shot at the third home run,

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right? He did get 2 though. Yeah, he got 2. Oh, he's hung over.

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Yeah. But then, so they run off to the hospital to check in on

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Joey. And you know, they go, 'cause they had gone before the, you know,

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they knew what bed he was in before and everything. So they go there and

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there's nobody in that bed. It's Mancuba. Oh, why, why,

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why? And there's a nurse who's like, gentlemen, like, what do you do? We move

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to next door. Move to next door. Runs next door and the door says morgue.

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Oh, why, why, why? Gentlemen, this room.

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And so they talk to him, uh, but he's like, or no, he's like in

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a coma or something, right? He's, he's on the bed. Yeah, he's sleeping. But when

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they sit down to talk to him, they kind of sit on the breathing tube.

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Very airplane. Yeah, it's the airplane gag. And it still works though,

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you know. So he stops breathing and then they stand up and he shoots up,

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and then they kick the plug out of the wall so he flatlines, and they

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start trying to defibrillate him with this stuff. He's like, I need those paddle things

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that George Clooney uses. Not those. When, when he flatlined Reamer

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looks at just like the most perfectly deadpan statement, goes, "Holy mother

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of God, he's flatlining." And it's just the way that Matt Stone delivers that

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line is so perfect. And then finally like, "What are you doing?" "What does it

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look like I'm doing?" "An execution?" 'Cause they just keep ramping up the like voltage.

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And Squeaks is holding Joey's feet. So he's also getting shocked.

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He's like checking for a pulse in the ankles or something, which I'm guessing you

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probably can. That's a pretty, but I've never tried that. That works.

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Oh my God. Um, yeah, so the nurse comes in and takes

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care of that. Yep. Um, and now we've got, uh, we go back

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to Coop's house. Yeah, right. Yeah. And he's being asked, um,

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by— why do I keep forgetting her name? Jenna. Jenna. Yep. He's being

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asked like about why do you play the game. Yeah, this is a funny scene,

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one of my favorite exchanges in the movie. She's like, oh, you know what,

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why do you play the game? And he's like, Mr. October. And she goes,

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the guy in the Chippendales calendar? He He goes, no, that was Dwayne Zackamore.

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Oh my God, that is such a funny

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joke. Um, well, and then he's talking about like being young

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and like maybe like, you know, kissing a girl or, you know, like, like looking

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at a girl and wanting to kiss her and then they like kiss but then

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it like gets broken up and he goes, then he going home and, and doing

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some push-ups, fucking the sleeve of his favorite jacket. He's like, what, what? Nothing.

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Like Um,

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so meanwhile, I think Doug has been asked to go visit, uh, Baxter. Baxter Kane

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has invited Doug to the offices that he has there, and he's got this trophy

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room that Doug's walking around and checking out. There's a signed bat by Ty Cobb

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that he, for whatever reason, decides to pick up and swing, and then it slips

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out of his hands as he's paying attention to something else. Into the fire.

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Into the fire. Frank Drebin with the, with the priceless fish in the price.

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Exactly, same concept. Uh, but inside a glass case is Kareem

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Abdul-Jabbar. Yes. And, and he moves and scares Reamer a little bit. But yeah,

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um, but basically Baxter talks to him about how, you know, Kane talks

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to Reamer about how, uh, they make no money and that's because of the rules.

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So if like the rules were changed, you know, you could make real money,

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you could make money. And there's this like ongoing joke of like, you do know,

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do you know when Shaquille O'Neal got rich? You know, wasn't playing in Orlando.

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Kane says it wasn't playing in Orlando, it was when he played in LA.

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And he's like, I thought it was when he was playing in college that he

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got so rich, you know. Uh, and so then that joke kind of gets doubled

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up later. But basically like Kane reminds Reamer that like, hey, your buddy owns

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the team now. He's the one standing in the way of you making money.

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Maybe you want to go talk to him. Him. Yeah. And Reamer's kind of like,

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yeah, I don't have anything. Like, the Coop got the team. What the fuck do

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I have? I don't have anything. So that's what he decides he wants to do.

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It shows, um, in the background again Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leaving his last

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case and like punching out on a classic time clock.

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Um, so, uh, so we got a game again now. Uh, they're playing

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against the Roswell Aliens, and the announcers tell us that it's anal probe night,

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right? Um, and Reamer is pissed from this conversation, what Kane told

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him, that, you know, he doesn't know that Coop is the one one like standing

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in the way of all this stuff, right? And he's just tanking. Like, he's getting

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up, just flinging the ball, walking right back to his seat. And this is when

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Coop and Reamer have this conversation about what's going on, and basically it devolves into

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just using the word dude in different inflections in order to have a conversation,

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which like, that's pretty legit. I mean, I'm not exactly to

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this level, it's exaggerated, but like, I've, I've had conversations like that with friends where

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it's like you're not really saying any words, you're just using your tone of voice

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to like indicate hate, you know, being unhappy about something or whatever it might be.

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And so it's very funny there. Very effect— kind of reminds me of Bunk and

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McNulty in The Wire having that conversation where they're just saying fuck back and forth.

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Exactly. Oh man. And so, but they basically agree. Coop agrees.

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He's like, yeah, this should be— this should be more of a group thing.

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Like, so, you know, you're going to have part of the team and all you

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guys, you're all going to have like shares in the team where it'll be jointly

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owned kind of thing. Which means it sounds like maybe Coop's

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even giving up enough that he doesn't have like 51% anymore. Like it sounds like

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it might be a thing where, you know, he that he could be like overruled.

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We never get into that like element of this. Yeah, they don't potentially— real numbers.

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Yeah, they don't really do that, but that could be. But he does say like,

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yeah, you know, this is all of us and everything. And then let's do it

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together. One of the, one of the Psych Out scenes is just kind of showing

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these, uh, these games. Yeah. And Coop is like, oh, you want to see a

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scary face? And it shows him from behind and shows all the, you know,

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very Beetlejuice, like when Beetlejuice makes the face. So I like the Beetlejuice shout out

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there. Another, another movie— this is another thing though, like where this is the one

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fantastical sort of part of this movie, the way that like Swingers had the answering

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machine talk back to Mike for one thing. It's like nothing else in this movie

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really is. The song in the car. Oh, that's true. That's right. The song

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in the car is like the answering machine. That's a good point. So they do

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it a couple of times here. That's a good point. But yeah, and then they

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give, so there's this really huge guy on like the LA riots,

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I think, they got to beat. Big Ed Tuttle. Yeah, that's right. And so they

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give the psych out to Squeak and they tell him what to say. And he

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wrote it on his hand. Hand. And so he's looking at his hand, he says

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to Tuttle, he goes, hey, um, uh, your mom's deaf.

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And he goes like, my mom's dead, you little twerp, or whatever. Goes like— and

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then Squeak reads, I guess that's why she didn't move around a lot.

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And that's the guy like falls over to make a miss or whatever, which again,

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I'm just like, I don't know how this like works, but that's okay. But like

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they win the game that way. But then poor Squeak is gonna get chased around

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and grabbed by all these guys. They literally start throwing him around, passing him back

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and forth like he's a— like he's a tennis ball. They have his head like

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dunked through the hoop and he's hitting like a speed bag and everything. Yeah,

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and all this, like, throughout the, the whole rest of the action while we're still

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at the stadium, Squeak is getting the shit beat out of him in the background.

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It's really funny. Um, and Kane,

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uh, he wants the beers. What is it? He wants them to start a clothing—

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Yeah, so Jenna tells them, because basically, like, Kane got somebody, whoever he— whatever rich

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guy he knows, to, like, cut the funding for Jenna's foundation, basically to, like,

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force the hand here. So what he's done is he's basically— that's happened.

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Jenna's told Coop and Reamer that the funding's been cut, like, this organization's got to

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shut down. So So Kane offers, hey, you should do merchandising.

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Like the rules say you can't, you know, go to other teams or like big

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contracts or whatever, but you could do, you could sell your likeness and do like

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a beerswear clothing line kind of thing. And, you know, Reamer's all for it.

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Coop's all against it, but Reamer's like, hey, you just said like, this is not

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just your decision anymore. Like, let's, I'll do, you don't have to do it,

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but I'm going to do this and I'm going to like make money for Jenna's

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thing. And so yeah, that's— we get a sick montage once

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again, just to show the timeless nature of this film. To the song Scatman by

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Scatman John.

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Uh, and, uh, it's, it's a good montage though,

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just showing, you know, Reamer obviously getting like a bigger and bigger head. And he's

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got, uh, his new moniker is Doug Sir Swish Reamer. He has a robe and

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shit, you know, and all these handlers and all these people around him. Um,

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yeah, really good. So then we cut to, uh, SportsCenter, basically Dan

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Patrick and Kenny Mayne talking about, uh, as we enter month 9 of the BASEketball

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playoffs. So clearly this BASEketball is a sport whose season takes multiple years, I guess.

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But they, you know, they're talking about like all the different ways in which,

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well, this team beats that team and this team was all this kind of stuff.

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But it's very funny because they, they name like every city practically that has any

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kind of professional sports. Like they're going to beat Indianapolis and that'll take them to

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Miami where then if they go to Boston, then they'll have to take on Columbus

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and Columbus and Los Angeles and a 3-round robin.

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And it's like, holy shit, it's crazy. Kind of like Trent saying the places they

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might be that night. Yes, exactly. Listing every possibility.

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And they're visited in the locker room.

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Yep. And of course, they both have to— if I was making a movie,

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if I was the star of a movie and there was a scene of me

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in a locker room, I would have a huge hog, right? That's non-negotiable. Second movie

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in a row with huge prosthetic. I know, I love it. I love that we

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have continuity. There's always a through line and we never know what it's gonna be.

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So yeah, another, another hog foot. Hashtag huge hogs.

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Yeah. So, but it turns out Kane lets them know your beers were lines being

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made in Calcutta, India by children. Children. He's got photographs,

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whatever. And, you know, they like— like, I'll go to the press unless you,

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you know, do what I want, basically. If you don't show up to the,

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to the final— because they've made the final— don't show up to the final,

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don't play, or this gets out, this goes to the press. Because then if— because

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Kane knows if Dallas wins the game, then Yvette gets the team and he'll get

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to do whatever he wants. Um, but, uh, but then Jenna runs in because she's

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also been given these pictures by Kane and is basically like, screw you guys,

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you know. But she can't seem to not pay attention to their,

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you know, 3-foot-long dongs. Like, I mean, they really are all the

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way to the floor. Practically useful. No, no, I'd say impressive is

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like a circus sideshow type thing, but functionally difficult.

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Also would literally suck all the blood out of you. I was gonna say,

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you'd have to be getting a transfusion every time you get a boner. It's a

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dialysis erection. It requires cycling through. You have to wear

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like a backpack of blood, like a CamelBak, just running through body.

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Yeah, so, so Coop and Reamer getting a big fight over this, you know,

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call you pig fucker. Funny to see them fighting each other.

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And, you know, despite the limitations maybe of their acting, like they weren't super experienced

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acting stuff, but they're effective in this because they're kind of playing

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guys that aren't probably too far from how they are in real life. Yeah,

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I think so. It's like friends. I think it's a decent dynamic. They're fine actors.

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Yeah, they're fine. And they've had experience, quite a bit of experience before this.

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I guess they made several movies themselves. Obviously they do the voice acting for South

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Park for multiple multiple characters each. So they've got basic chops.

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I think they are much more impressive as writers, creators, and songwriters, et cetera.

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Um, and that's where they've gotten all their accolades basically has been on that side

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of things. And that makes sense, but they're, they're passable. They're fine in this.

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And like you said, they're really kind of playing themselves. They're playing very similar characters

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to the people that they are. If the people that they are were, you know,

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unemployed losers in Wisconsin who invented a game, right? It really would have been minus

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the hundreds of millions of dollars they've made from South Park. At least I

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think they got like a billion dollars or something in their last deal with Paramount

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or whoever it was. So yeah, so, so this fight happens and, and the—

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it ends with Reamer saying, now I gotta find a new best friend. And he

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opens this drawer underneath one of the lockers and there's a bed with Squeaks sleeping

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in. Like, wake up, bitch, you're my new best friend. That always

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said that. It's Squeaks wearing footie pajamas. So funny what they let—

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shout out to Dion. Fully leaning into the

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character and so damn funny. But wake up, bitch, you're my new

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best friend would be applicable even if someone wasn't asleep. It basically means

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like, hey, come with me. Yeah, like, hey, I'm going to Carl's Jr. Wake up,

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bitch, you're my new best friend. The guy's version of get in, loser, we're going

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shopping. Yes, it's the guy. It's the same thing. Yeah, exactly. That just got more,

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got more popular because Mean Girls is a better movie. So it kind of,

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you know, got more notification or notoriety within the zeitgeist just

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because that's a much better film. Film. But you know, this works for that as

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well. So then, uh, so then, uh, Coop is in the car

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after the big fight with Reamer, and he's all pissed off, and he's going home,

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and this like radio's— the song's on the radio. It's clearly Trey Parker singing.

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Yeah, right. I love that voice that he does.

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Funny. It's like, it's like he's trying to do—

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I mean, it's basically '80s arena rock guy. I mean, isn't that kind of— because

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it's not quite like Pearl Jam. It's not that sort No, it's almost like someone

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doing Foreigner at karaoke. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Or Journey. I mean,

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it's kind of like there's a, there's a tone you can hit where you

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don't have to be a good singer, but you can kind of, you can do

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a fake Eddie Vedder in kind of the same way, kind of pull it off.

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Yeah. But yeah, this song that he's listened to is just a generic kind of

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like motivational song about like whatever. If you're down, then you got to get

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up. Don't let them walk all over your face, you know? But then the lyrics

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start getting super specific, you know? Even if some guy's trying to blackmail you

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and your girlfriend thinks you suck. So he's kind of like,

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what the fuck is going on? But he's also jamming his ass off, like drumming

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on the wheel. Really funny scene. It's like, that white van ahead of you is

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about to cut you off. Like, literally referring to yellow crumbs on your upper lip.

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Yeah, it's really, uh, one of my favorite things in this. I was surprised

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at how many of the lyrics I remembered when I watched it. I'm like,

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oh, I know this whole song, I've sang this a bunch. Um, but Coop is

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trying to— he's going to Calcutta to investigate the clothing line. Yeah. And it You

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know, we have to have a plot in a movie like this, so that's okay.

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But I love this scene, though. He goes— I think it's a good enough gag,

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but he goes into the child labor place, right? They're all making—

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it's all kids in India. And of course, like, you know,

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India, you can't get in a car without there also being goats and all this.

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You know, it's probably, probably a skewed view. The hard hats are all turbans.

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But the hard hats are turbans. I think that's a funny— it's a funny visual

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gag. But I don't even think it's the right ethnic group.

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That's the thing is we— the

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American view of what percent of the world wears turbans, right,

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is crazy. They literally think

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everybody from like Saudi Arabia to India, everyone in between wears turbans.

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Like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not even close. But yeah,

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so he goes and he goes and checks it out. We don't really see what

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happens there, but he goes like investigating. Kind of investigate the factory and kind of

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like, yeah, like, I'm Joe Cooper, I'm in charge of this, you got to show

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me, da da da, whatever. Uh, and then we cut to Robert Stack, who we've

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seen in other— exactly, other Zucker movies. And he's doing his America's Most

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Wanted sort of thing, right? Unsolved Mysteries. Unsolved Mysteries is Robert Stack.

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That's right. Yeah, the other one was different. But yeah, so he does his Unsolved

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Mysteries thing. It's like, you know, where did this man go? Joe Cooper disappeared.

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And he's like doing the whole thing, but then also like swearing. The way that

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they have all the like sportscaster guys swear in this, it's very funny.

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It's very effectively funny. Like, um, Robert, real quick on Robert Stack,

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because I think this ties in as well as it ever will. Um, the Unsolved

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Mysteries episodes are available online. Okay. And, you know,

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a lot of them are kind of rough, but there's some very entertaining ones.

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There's one that covers kind of the escape from Alcatraz situation. Okay.

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So that's kind of interesting just because it's local and it's like a real mystery

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that hasn't been solved still, you know, even though it's a 35-year-old episode. But part

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of what they do is they have a swimmer try to recreate the swim to

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see if it was possible, like a Mythbusters kind of thing. Yeah. But this guy

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that they have do the swim is in a Speedo and has the craziest

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hog I've ever seen in my life. So we're talking Unsolved Mysteries, we're talking big

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hogs. I have to mention this. Yeah, if you can catch that episode, it is

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fucking hilarious. That's funny, very funny. Uh, also just in general,

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all of Nick's TV recommendations always have to do with big hogs. I know,

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man. What's going on there? Uh, it's all right though. So, so we got Robert

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Wilder just talking about how Coops disappeared, nobody knows where he

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went, and then we cut to the Denz Denzel Cup game. Uh, then they kept—

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they keep calling it Denzel Cup V. Uh, it's obviously Denzel Cup V, but in

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a Roman numeral, so they— Denzel Cup V. And, uh, Reamer is trying to

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like talk the guys up because they're all down. He's like, hey, what are you

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guys down? Like, well, Coop's not here. Yeah, we don't need him. Let's do it,

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whatever. And so we don't need Coop. And he's like— Doug's like trying to like

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hype everybody up, but— and they start cheering because Coop shows up. Yes. And so

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they're all cheering, and he thinks they're cheering for him, and there's this whole thing.

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And, and it's like, you know, they, they, they're just like like Reamer and,

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and, and Coop are still not getting along. And so they start playing the game

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and like Coop's trying but Reamer is like not trying. Like there's just— it's all

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bad. They're getting their butts kicked. The funny part is they show the, the,

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uh, scoreboard in this game several times and they rotate through many more scores than

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actually appear. Like we see the numbers get up into the 20s and

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that's never the score. So they're just, they're just playing it like a slot machine

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at one point. Yeah, I was curious about that cuz it got to like 18

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to nothing or something. In the 7th inning stretch. One gag

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that always killed me, I always remember from this movie, is when they're announcing the

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beginning of the game, they're saying that we have a big pyrotechnics display with our

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pyrotechnics expert Sergio Lucky Farouche. And it's this guy who looks like Charlton

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Heston with a fucking eyepatch on, holding like a box of loose like

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firework rockets, smoking a cigarette. And it's just— I don't know why

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that kills me. I want more. I want a movie with that character.

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Like, give me a movie about Lucky, but about that guy.

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Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.

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Uh, there's, there's a quick Robert

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Stack update again, right, where he's talking about Coop and he's saying, you know,

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that he was in Calcutta and they say, uh, the clothes are being made by

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youngsters not even old enough for prostitution.

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And at one point Stack starts going— I don't know what he like goes on

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about, but he's like talking more and more about like, you know, something that's clearly

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like turning him on until somebody throws water in his face. He goes, thank you.

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Like, um, but yeah, so, so they get to 7th inning stretch,

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which is sort of like the halftime, right? Since it's baseball setup. And they've got

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the like Malaka Laka board or whatever, which is like some kind of like balance

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board of peace, I think they call it, or something, or the lagoon above the

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Lagoon of Peace or whatever. And anyway, it's like Coop and Reamer are still fighting,

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the Dallas Felons are on the other side of the board, and Squeaks in like

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a pineapple costume. Yeah, uh, whatever. And Squeaks gives this speech to them

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about like how like we are brothers, like we have sullied the Lagoon of Peace

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or whatever. It's like a very fun funny speech that he gives to try and

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like convince the guys, like, what are you doing? You're friends. Yeah, yeah, you should

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be acting like friends or whatever. And so Doug— uh, Reamer and Coop,

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uh, make up and make out. They decide to make out for a little while,

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and it's long. Yeah, it's not— it's not like an

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SNL 2 Dads 2 Decades with a quick pack. No, no, they really— they commit

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to the bit, I'll give them that. Uh, it is Squeak, of course, on this

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balance board of peace. Coop and Reamer both walk to the other side, so Squeak

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is alone, and somebody lets go of the bottom and this pineapple just flies off

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into the cannonball. Into the horizon. So the

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game, they're coming back in and the kids in the meantime, the— oh yeah,

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the Make-A-Wish type kids are watching this on TV and she's like, hey, turn this

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off. I told you not to watch it. Yeah. And they see the game is

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like tied up. Well, and it's Robert Stack comes on to explain that Coop like

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went to like get the kids out of there, make sure they're like, they're paying

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well and like it's adult. Right. And he says like, again, broadcast just for

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her to tell her that Coop is a good guy. If I were a woman,

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I'd want to be his girlfriend like that. That's when they throw the water in

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his face. He goes into like how much he would like make out with Coop

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or whatever if he was a woman. And so Jenna goes, "Okay, let's go to

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the game," you know, kind of thing. Which I love the idea that like this

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sports version of a Super Bowl, you could just like show up. You're good,

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you know? So they get into the car and of course the cab driver is

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Dale Earnhardt, who I think only lived another 2 years or so.

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I think it was his death that the— This is his legacy, this film.

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This film is his legacy. Good old number 3. But yeah,

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like he didn't, he would be gone from us very soon after. But in the

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meantime of the game, Lazy Boy has popped. So Coop's ball

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that he's used for years is no more. And so

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there's that. So then when the kids show up, Joey has made

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Bark-a-Lounger. So same idea, just cut it out of a,

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you know, easy chair basically. And he's got this, and it's so funny

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'cause there's clearly like multiple versions of this ball because as Coop in

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different scenes, whatever, there's the one Joey actually hands to Coop, the stitches are all

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really loose. Like they look like a kid might've done it, like whatever. And then

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there's another one one where it's like more perfect and they just drew,

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like put the Barcalounger logo on it. Okay. And it keeps cutting back and forth.

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Like, like there's no continuity to it. This makes no sense. Well, there wasn't much

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budget in this. No, no, not nearly enough budget for a script supervisor.

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So, but basically, uh, so basically score

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to win. Yeah, exactly. He's got to hit home run, hit the home run to

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win. Uh, and, and Bob and Hal Michaels is like, I'm incredibly,

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this is incredibly exciting. Bob Costas, you think you're excited? Feel these nipples.

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So they go and Coop takes the shot and it's the classic thing that

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happened in the, you know, we're basically like bookending from the early scene out on

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their driveway where the championship was won off of,

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you know, the first shot is missed, but then the other team has a chance

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to tip it in for a double play, which would end the game. They miss

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the first one. The second guy tries that. Then apparently it's, I don't know if

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it's always a free-for-all or if like only after 2 tries can the other team

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come back. It's like however. But then Doug is able to, you know, kind of

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keep it in the air, just not let it hit the ground. And Cooper dives

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for it and throws it back up over his head. And of course it goes

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in and the home run counts. And that's, you know, the end

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of their game. They win. So Coop keeps the team. I guess Coop and Reamer

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together keep the team. You know, Yvette decides, she turns to Baxter and

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is like, Baxter Kane is like, I realized I fucking hate you or whatever for

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like no good reason. But it's like, okay. And so Jenna ends up with

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Coop. Yep. And Squeak ends up with his— with his paramour

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from the bar, who is 6'4" or so, like really,

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really big person. And then, you know, Reamer doesn't have anybody, so of course he

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walks up to Yvette, Jenny McCarthy's character, and they just start making out. And they're,

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because they're both absolute goofballs in real life, their makeout sesh is very gross

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and weird. Yeah. Like lots of open mouth and tongue and stuff, but funny.

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One of the Jenny McCarthy gags from earlier is she goes up to Baxter Cane,

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who's like sitting at the game, and hands him a trailer hitch that is just

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completely black, you know, Like bare metal. She's like, I got it. And she's got

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fully chrome all around her lips. She's like, I got all the chrome off this

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one. You want me to start on the next one? So they keep going with

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that stuff. So at the end of the game, Coop is there and Reggie Jackson

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shows up. Yeah. And Reggie Jackson has Lazy Boy that had popped. That's right.

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Hey, I got a hold of this. Some kid tried to make off with it.

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You know, you got to hang on to this. Back in my famous game in

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the World Series where I hit 3 home runs, I got 2 of them,

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but some little fucker got away with the last one. You know, so it's obviously—

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and Coop's just like, oh man, that's crazy. That's wild. Uh, so he has a

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little conversation with them and then it ends. And then Reggie Jackson's like,

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hey Coop. And he's like, look, I don't have your fucking ball.

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Okay. He's like, whoa, good luck. Good luck this year.

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But that's basically the end. We get a little more of a voiceover to saying

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like how, oh, you know, the future of sports was once again in the hearts

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of the young or whatever. They've saved sport. Yes. Uh, full stop.

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They have the BASEketball Cup and it's like the Stanley Cup and they're on rollerblades

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now for some reason, rollerblading around with it, which is very funny. Squeaks sitting in

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the top. But that's BASEketball. That is BASEketball. That's the movie.

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And, and yeah, so I'll go and give my rating first on this one.

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Like I enjoyed, I had a good time watching it. It certainly did bring back

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a lot of memories of like where these things that we say, you know,

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have come from. But I got to say, like so many of the jokes like

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this, I think ages more poorly than almost any other comedy that we've seen on

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the podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Like honestly, worse than Airplane, which is 20 years older.

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Exactly. Airplane definitely didn't age as badly. So a lot of the jokes were

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like, I don't love that. So many of these are either just like race-based or

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there's a bunch of the like sort of gay jokes around the San Francisco Ferries

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and all this other stuff. And you know, it's just, eh, I didn't love a

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lot of that, but it was still enjoyable and I still had a good time

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watching it. And it does still hold a place of like, you know, fairly amount

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of fairly large import in just kind of like shaping my, you know, sense of

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humor, especially early in those days. I'm comfortable with a 3 out of 5 on

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BASEketball. I don't think I'm going to go any higher than that, but like it's

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still worth watching, especially if you were somebody who enjoyed it young longer, check it

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out again. Just be, just be forewarned, like, a lot of the jokes don't

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hold up. I don't know that anything that was topical at the time feels pretty

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dated now. Like, the references to Christian Slater and Robert Downey Jr. Yeah, yeah,

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don't really work like they did then. You could obviously put in other people today,

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right? Yeah. But, uh, but yeah, so that's where I'm at. I'm at a 3

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out of 5 on BASEketball. All right. Yeah, I mean, I think I'm,

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I'm pretty well in line with you. Uh, I think if you're gonna watch—

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like, I love this type of movie. We've talked about— we both love them.

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Oh yeah. This should be pretty far down your list if

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you've never seen a movie like this. You know, it's like, okay, well, we got

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to watch Airplane. We got to watch Kentucky Fried Movie. All 3 Naked Guns.

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All 3 Naked Guns. Top Secret. Yes. I mean, even National Lampoon's

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Loaded Weapon 1 might be like— A bunch of the Mel Brooks stuff, like Spaceballs,

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Hot Shots. All that. So exactly. There's probably a lot that I'd say if you're

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trying to get a comedy education, watch first. Yeah. This is enjoyable.

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But again, is it enjoyable because I remember it? And was I laughing

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because I'm laughing at how much fun I used to have with my friends watching

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it? Or was I laughing because it's currently funny? And I think

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there's like a ton of effort, a ton of real good joke writing in this.

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And the subject matter's whatever. But even at the time,

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it was like David Zucker was kind of an old-ish guy. Oh yeah.

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So it wasn't like a fresh— this is what the youth of the late '90s

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were thinking. Because a lot of those jokes were kind of like, all right,

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that's what an older person would like at the time. He had to be in

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his like 50s, like late '50s probably even at the time. Yeah.

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But, you know, it's worth checking out if this

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is really your cup of tea and you haven't seen it. BASEketball is

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just a 2.5 out of 5 for me. I think, you know, like I

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said, if it's your shit, watch it. Otherwise, I don't know what you get out

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of it. I still— it still holds a special place for me, and I'm still

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gonna be saying, wake up, bitch, you're my new best friend, until the end of

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my life. I think— think Steve Perry is something that'll always,

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always stick with me. So, all right, that was 1998. Nic, we've got one

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more year in 2 Dads 2 Decades, and in fact, we have yet to do

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a film from the year 1999. It's the last of the years within the

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'80s and '90s for us to do a movie from. Wow. So you are picking

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our first ever 1999 film. I'm assuming it's going to be one

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of the huge massive blockbusters of the year, one of the cultural touchpoints, the real

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pillars of society that came out in that year because that year had so many

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great movies. So what are we watching for 1999? Yeah, I mean, not to

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sound like the Criterion Collection here, but For 1999,

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I have made a selection based on,

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again, the people that I know that listen to this, the people we've

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gotten feedback from the podcast. I think we're getting a sense of like

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what our demographic, what our demographic, what our listenership is. And this is

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a movie that while looking at the entirety of 1999 film would probably not

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be considered one of the top ones. It's one that specifically for people

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of our age, and people who were just like working office jobs

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in the early 2000s is so relevant and just was

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ubiquitous. Like it was, it was all over the place. You're always hearing quotes from

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it and everything. So we are gonna go, uh, 1999, we are

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gonna hang out with Peter Gibbons. Okay.

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And, uh, we're gonna go to work at, uh, what the

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fuck is the company called? Initech. Initech. Cut that.

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We're going to go to work at Initech and we are going to be hanging

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out inside the office space. Nice. I love Office Space.

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One of my favorite movies. I've seen it so many times. You've seen it 100

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times. I have spent over 20 years working in tech. So luckily

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never quite that environment. I came in late enough to the game that it wasn't

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that corporate by the time I got there. But yeah, very fun stuff.

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Obviously, you know, there are lots of great great choices for '99. I think this

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one is right up there with the rest that you could have chosen. So cool.

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And you know what, listeners, we'll get to all of them. Oh, we will,

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100%. We've got plans out into the year 2032 at this point. So,

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uh, okay, that's a wrap. If you like what you hear, please consider heading over

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this has been BASEketball, another episode of 2 Dads 1 Movie. I'm Steve.

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And I'm Nic. Thank you so much for listening, and we'll catch you next week.