WEBVTT 00:00.272 --> 00:04.271 Well, it's a well-known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of 00:04.771 --> 00:07.883 the 5 wealthiest people in the world known as the Pentaverate, 00:08.542 --> 00:12.203 who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, 00:12.781 --> 00:16.506 and meet triannually at a secret country mansion in Colorado 00:17.006 --> 00:20.745 known as the Meadows. So who's in this Pentaverate? 00:21.612 --> 00:25.369 The Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothschilds, 00:25.706 --> 00:29.505 I'm Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. I hated 00:30.005 --> 00:33.577 the Colonel with his wee beady eyes and that smug 00:33.641 --> 00:36.911 look on his face. Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken. 00:37.007 --> 00:41.047 Oh. Dad, how can you hate the Colonel? 00:41.672 --> 00:45.503 Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly, 00:45.519 --> 00:46.737 smart arse. 00:47.427 --> 00:50.777 It's 2 Dads 1 Movie. 00:50.905 --> 00:54.336 It's the podcast where 2 middle-aged dads sit around and shoot 00:54.836 --> 00:58.044 the shit about the movies of the '80s and '90s. Your hosts, 00:58.126 --> 01:00.234 Steve Paulo and Nic Briana. 01:01.690 --> 01:05.443 Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of 2 Dads, 1 Movie. I'm Steve. 01:05.524 --> 01:09.292 And I'm Nic. And today we are talking about the 1993 Mike Myers 01:09.469 --> 01:13.350 cult classic, So I Married an Axe Murderer. 01:14.155 --> 01:17.199 This was my pick for us. And this is one of those movies that I 01:17.699 --> 01:21.586 think I definitely saw this not in the theater, not that early on, but I 01:22.154 --> 01:25.154 was high school probably when I first saw it. And it kind of came and 01:25.654 --> 01:28.520 went. I think it was maybe even like after Austin Powers came out, or you 01:29.020 --> 01:31.040 know, I would have gone back to watch this kind of thing when you're trying 01:31.540 --> 01:34.260 to complete the Mike Myers catalog. I love Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2, 01:34.760 --> 01:36.740 and then Austin Powers like blew me away the first time I saw it, 01:37.240 --> 01:38.740 you know. And and then it was like, oh, he did this other movie? 01:39.240 --> 01:41.520 Oh, okay. And again, like this is another one that for some reason I really 01:42.020 --> 01:44.880 feel like registered with theater kids, and so I feel like yeah, like like hit 01:45.380 --> 01:48.220 that. I think it was the beat poetry stuff or something, whatever. So I remember 01:48.720 --> 01:51.940 watching it and enjoying it, but like not thinking much of it. Just kind of 01:52.440 --> 01:55.310 like, okay, cool. That wasn't bad, like, you know, the kind of thing. Right. 01:55.810 --> 01:59.030 Then I met my wife. We've been together, oh God, 01:59.530 --> 02:02.980 since, you know, 2005, I think, at this point. So, you know, 21 years. 02:03.310 --> 02:06.590 And this is a huge movie for her. Like, 02:07.090 --> 02:09.330 she loves this movie. Her and her dad used to like quote this movie back 02:09.830 --> 02:11.790 and forth to each other. And it like, you know, became like, she's like, 02:12.290 --> 02:16.150 we got the Piper down. Like, it became like shorthand within her family. 02:16.650 --> 02:19.050 And so I was like, well, I guess I better watch it again. I mean, 02:19.550 --> 02:22.850 like, whatever. And so watching with her a few times in my early 20s, 02:23.052 --> 02:26.841 it was like, oh, I get it now. It's like, it's something about like watching 02:27.341 --> 02:30.117 it with somebody that like was laughing at every weird little joke. 02:30.277 --> 02:32.766 Yeah. Made it like really hit for me. So it's become a movie that I 02:33.266 --> 02:36.844 absolutely adore, but it definitely didn't start that way. Uh, it took time and 02:37.344 --> 02:40.425 kind of the right, the right viewing partner to really kind of latch me into 02:40.489 --> 02:44.439 it. So Nic, what's your history with, uh, Axe Murderer? Yeah, so I 02:44.728 --> 02:47.843 told you before the pod that this is one kind of like you with, 02:48.004 --> 02:51.536 uh, You know, with like Bloodsport or certain ones we've talked about in the past 02:52.036 --> 02:54.041 where in your head you're like, oh yeah, I've definitely seen this. Like, I know 02:54.121 --> 02:57.750 that, I know that movie because you know stuff from it. You would understand references 02:58.250 --> 03:00.560 about it. And then when I watched this, I'm like, dude, I don't know if 03:01.060 --> 03:03.932 I have watched this entire thing, uh, all the way through before. 03:04.317 --> 03:07.496 I knew a lot of the jokes, like, you know, same as you, like friends 03:07.512 --> 03:11.318 would quote certain things. Like, it's a fun voice to do, the dad, the Scottish 03:11.382 --> 03:14.112 voice. I'm actually psyched to be doing this pod with you because you were the 03:14.612 --> 03:17.788 king of voices and this is good. Other than Stallone, this might 03:18.288 --> 03:21.399 be like one of the best voices we have. On the podcast. So yeah, 03:21.415 --> 03:25.069 I knew it from friends and I think I'd, I definitely dipped in and seen 03:25.182 --> 03:28.564 parts of it, probably like the phenomenon of the 03:28.708 --> 03:32.219 pregame movie. Okay. Like we talked about, you know, put something on and 03:32.235 --> 03:34.607 then we're going to go out to the bars where we have all these movies 03:34.639 --> 03:37.765 where I am so familiar with the first half hour of it, but I couldn't 03:38.265 --> 03:40.859 tell you how it ends. Okay. You know, so this might be one of those 03:40.891 --> 03:43.296 where it was like on early because there's chunks of it that I knew. 03:43.376 --> 03:46.309 But yeah, watching it through, I'm like, oh, this is my first complete viewing, 03:46.502 --> 03:50.237 I think. Okay, that's all right. Well, I think that's a good thing. Hopefully you 03:50.285 --> 03:53.698 enjoyed your time. We'll get into it, obviously. and find out exactly whether 03:53.778 --> 03:56.678 you enjoyed your time with the movie or not. But let's jump into the facts 03:57.178 --> 03:59.770 and get this stuff out of the way, the basics and all that on So 03:59.786 --> 04:03.407 I Married an Axe Murderer. The film was released on July 30th, 04:03.423 --> 04:07.092 1993 with a PG-13 rating and a running time of 93 04:07.592 --> 04:11.146 minutes, directed by Thomas Schlamme and written by Robbie 04:11.178 --> 04:15.183 Fox. The movie stars Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, and Anthony LaPaglia. 04:15.920 --> 04:18.804 Scores, not particularly great, but also not like bottom of the barrel. 04:18.884 --> 04:22.441 Mm-hmm. We got a 55% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is Rotten, 04:22.553 --> 04:26.144 they don't give you that fresh whole tomato icon until you hit 60%. 04:26.545 --> 04:29.366 Okay, the threshold there. So it is a you know essentially you have to get 04:29.866 --> 04:32.572 a D minus. Yeah, you do. You got to at least get that D minus 04:33.072 --> 04:35.634 to pass the class. This is a fail, but close. It was a good effort. 04:35.682 --> 04:39.561 I think maybe most of the Rotten Tomatoes critics are saying similarly IMDb 04:40.061 --> 04:43.665 a 6.5, which is like well below the seven that kind of marks a good 04:43.713 --> 04:46.967 movie, but above we've seen some with like fours and fives as their rating, 04:46.999 --> 04:50.302 and right that's pretty. It's not a Halloween three season. 04:50.366 --> 04:53.840 Yeah, exactly. And then Cisco. Siskel and Ebert, 04:54.340 --> 04:58.490 2 thumbs down from Siskel and Ebert on this movie. There were no awards, 04:58.900 --> 05:01.760 anything that I could find, certainly nothing listed on the IMDb page, which is what 05:02.260 --> 05:05.740 I usually use as the source of truth. And maybe partly because on 05:06.240 --> 05:09.820 a $20 million budget, which none of the actors 05:10.320 --> 05:13.460 in this movie earned much money, there's no way, right? Because Myers was not a 05:13.960 --> 05:17.320 draw yet, really. Yeah, unless they had to give him something because of the 05:17.820 --> 05:20.740 popularity of Wayne's World. But it is like— Probably very little. He wasn't like a 05:21.240 --> 05:23.580 huge, huge star yet. This came out the same year as Wayne's World 2, 05:24.080 --> 05:27.240 I think. I can't remember exactly. It was '91, '92, 05:27.740 --> 05:30.620 '93 is like all these movies kind of together. So he definitely hadn't like blown 05:31.120 --> 05:33.440 up in that sense. Right, for sure. But he did get to play 2 roles. 05:33.940 --> 05:36.960 I'm sure under SAG rules probably means you get more money, I suppose. Where the 05:37.460 --> 05:40.260 hell did $20 million go? Like, this just doesn't look like a $20 million movie 05:40.760 --> 05:44.120 at all. Did they hire a very like Shel Silverstein as the poetry 05:44.620 --> 05:47.280 consultant or something like that? Did the Claremont in Berkeley charge them a ton of 05:47.780 --> 05:51.080 money to film the exterior? Like, it's bizarre. Yeah, 05:51.580 --> 05:54.820 you don't really see it that much. And it's just like, definitely I would like 05:55.320 --> 05:58.448 a line item audit of this budget because I don't really This and Troop Beverly 05:58.480 --> 06:01.789 Hills. I think that's exactly where all the money went. Okay, uh, 06:01.934 --> 06:06.511 unfortunately the box office did not do well. It earned $11.5 million. That's 0.58 06:06.768 --> 06:10.125 times what it cost. Obviously a huge flop when it comes to the box office 06:10.141 --> 06:13.306 numbers. Uh, I understand, Nic, you might have a couple of additional points to bring 06:13.354 --> 06:16.534 up here. Yeah, so I was just like learning a little bit about this movie 06:16.566 --> 06:20.261 and the production because it did definitely seem to me 06:20.325 --> 06:23.232 like it's different than other Mike Myers stuff that we saw, where a lot of 06:23.732 --> 06:27.245 it is like these self-created characters that he has. Right. And he definitely had influence 06:27.745 --> 06:32.038 on this film, but it wasn't like originally made for him. So this is based 06:32.538 --> 06:35.324 on a script that had been kind of going around since the '80s, written by 06:35.824 --> 06:39.427 this Robby Fox guy who gets credit for writing. Yeah. And it was supposed to 06:39.927 --> 06:44.124 be more of like a New York City, like Jewish comedian 06:44.782 --> 06:48.565 ax murderer thing. It was described as like a Woody Allen meets Hitchcock 06:49.065 --> 06:52.797 kind of situation. And they talked about like Billy Crystal and Garry Shandling and 06:53.297 --> 06:56.339 Albert Brooks and stuff starring in this. But of course, like over the years it 06:56.839 --> 06:58.968 gets moved so much and it ends ends up being one of those scripts that's 06:59.468 --> 07:01.982 like, we got to do something with this, we haven't been able to attach anyone 07:02.482 --> 07:05.605 to it. And they finally get Mike Myers involved, and there's all these changes, 07:05.717 --> 07:09.484 you know, obviously the Scottish thing, that's like his thing. So they're changing the, 07:09.949 --> 07:13.187 um, the origin and the city and stuff. But I guess despite all this, 07:13.395 --> 07:16.441 uh, the original writer still has like the sole writing credit, 07:16.537 --> 07:20.192 even though, you know, the scripts are vastly, vastly different. 07:20.689 --> 07:24.841 Um, and then the other thing is that the director Thomas Schlamme and Mike Myers 07:25.033 --> 07:28.368 did not get along during this production, and, you know, at some point weren't speaking 07:28.400 --> 07:31.368 to each other. I've heard heard this about Mike Myers, that he is, uh, 07:31.384 --> 07:34.782 difficult. Yes, I have heard the same thing. Yeah, and you know, so that makes, 07:34.863 --> 07:38.035 that makes sense. But, uh, good on him for being difficult in his second movie. 07:39.685 --> 07:43.372 Like, if you told me Mike Myers got difficult after Austin Powers 07:43.405 --> 07:46.671 and then was slightly, slightly humbled by The Love Guru, 07:46.946 --> 07:49.810 yeah, I would have expect— I would have accepted that as a through line. 07:49.875 --> 07:53.439 But like, to be ballsy and to be kind of like, you know, uh, 07:53.536 --> 07:57.140 to be a prima donna on set, yes, at this stage in your career is 07:57.173 --> 07:59.240 like, bro, it's really funny. It's like, I was in the Sprocket sketch, do you 07:59.740 --> 08:04.270 know who So 08:04.770 --> 08:07.670 yeah, I thought that was interesting, and it kind of, you know, like why it 08:08.170 --> 08:11.010 made certain things make sense, uh, in this movie, right? Because there are parts of 08:11.510 --> 08:15.230 it where you're like, oh, this is probably from a cobbled-together thing. 08:15.730 --> 08:19.050 It's not like one, one idea from the brain of Mike Myers. So I thought 08:19.550 --> 08:22.610 that was some interesting stuff to start us off. Yeah. Um, yeah, so that's the 08:23.110 --> 08:25.690 facts. And, uh, you want to get us started off on the movie here? 08:25.730 --> 08:29.290 Absolutely. So, uh, this starts off— this is kind of one of my favorite types 08:29.790 --> 08:31.350 of opening. It's actually very similar to a movie we saw a few weeks ago, 08:31.850 --> 08:35.450 The Birdcage. which starts off with We Are Family. 08:35.950 --> 08:38.510 I think that's— Yeah. It's not the Pointer Sisters. Who is it? Sister Sledge. 08:39.010 --> 08:40.850 Sister Sledge. Thank you. I knew it was something like that. Yeah, and then we 08:41.350 --> 08:44.550 fly over the ocean and into Miami and then onto Ocean Avenue in South 08:45.050 --> 08:48.310 Beach, right? Well, this is very similar. We start off with The Laws, There She 08:48.810 --> 08:51.570 Goes, a song we will hear not once more in this movie, but twice more 08:52.070 --> 08:55.070 after this. 3 whole times do we get this music cue. But we're sort of 08:55.570 --> 08:59.110 zooming in over the bay towards like the Ferry Building in San Francisco. 08:59.610 --> 09:02.050 Just beautiful. And obviously, you know, I grew up here. I know you've lived here 09:02.550 --> 09:05.230 a long time. And it's always fun to watch these movies where they're set and 09:05.730 --> 09:10.230 especially like a pre-tech boom San Francisco, 09:10.730 --> 09:13.130 right? Yes, for sure. Like sneakers and Pacific Heights and stuff. And it's like, 09:13.630 --> 09:16.570 you know, you get this version of San Francisco that for some reason to me 09:17.070 --> 09:20.430 always feels much more Italian than what San Francisco 09:20.930 --> 09:24.510 is today. There's something just very Italian about San Francisco of like the '70s, 09:25.010 --> 09:27.850 '80s, and '90s. And I can't quite put my finger on it, but there's that. 09:28.350 --> 09:30.730 So we're zooming in and we end up seeing a bunch of like kind of 09:31.230 --> 09:35.067 the San Francisco skyline, Well, the song plays and then there's a cut. It doesn't 09:35.567 --> 09:38.576 go smoothly in, but we then cut to, uh, Rhodes Cafe, 09:38.656 --> 09:43.287 which is like a coffee shop and sort of poetry jazz nightclubby 09:43.399 --> 09:47.982 thing, but like very hipster, very early '90s, very anti-grunge. 09:48.046 --> 09:51.475 This feels like a group of people— It is weird. Yeah, it is this like 09:51.555 --> 09:55.481 Gen X, like the non-grunge Gen X group. Like the people 09:55.981 --> 09:59.024 in this movie and the people in Singles would have hated each other. For sure. 09:59.088 --> 10:02.170 Like, they would not have gotten along at all. They wouldn't. They would have 10:02.218 --> 10:05.734 hated each other in the way that the guys in Swingers 10:05.766 --> 10:09.474 who had the gun confrontation in the parking lot hated each other. Like, 10:09.939 --> 10:13.150 they'd be playing NHL, you know, '92, I guess, in this 10:13.650 --> 10:17.307 movie. But, uh, but yeah, it's like they don't know how similar they 10:17.807 --> 10:20.630 are, and the reasons they hate each other are so surface level. So surface level. 10:20.678 --> 10:23.904 But yeah, they're, uh, totally agree with that. This place, 10:24.049 --> 10:27.307 um, Rhodes, is a, uh, it's a real location in 10:27.356 --> 10:30.710 North Beach in San Francisco. It's called Or at least most recently 10:31.210 --> 10:34.790 was called the Vesuvio Cafe. Oh, okay. It's still there. Nice. Because we definitely 10:35.290 --> 10:37.810 spotted this as somewhere we'd been before. That was interesting. Yeah, I kind of was 10:38.310 --> 10:40.390 thinking that because I did not spend a lot of time in San Francisco in 10:40.890 --> 10:43.310 my 20s. A lot of people, you know, who lived even out here in the 10:43.810 --> 10:45.990 East Bay like would, but I, you know, I would go to Oakland and I 10:46.490 --> 10:48.270 would, and I would spend more time in the East Bay growing up and not 10:48.770 --> 10:50.130 really go out to SF. But I thought to myself, man, this is the kind 10:50.630 --> 10:52.830 of place, like looking at it and seeing the people in it, I'm like, 10:53.330 --> 10:55.610 sure, I was 13 when this movie came out, so it wasn't exactly the target 10:56.110 --> 10:58.733 audience then, but 10 years after that, I absolutely would have been down to, 10:58.749 --> 11:02.007 like, hang in a place like this. Like, what a— what a cool fucking hang 11:02.039 --> 11:05.185 that place did look like. It is the Gen X version of the, 11:05.394 --> 11:08.828 um, the Foot Clan secret lair in the Ninja Turtles 11:08.924 --> 11:12.600 movie, where it's like all skate ramps and free cigarette machines and stuff. This is 11:12.632 --> 11:15.810 like, oh, this is what you do. Everyone's got interesting clothes and 11:15.842 --> 11:19.437 they fucking have stupid glasses and we're drinking coffee and smoking and, 11:19.453 --> 11:22.358 like, just seemed like a good-ass time. Absolutely. It always makes me think of, 11:22.406 --> 11:26.322 like, the way that the Emporium in Dazed and Confused fits Texas. as teenagers 11:26.354 --> 11:29.581 perfectly. This is that, but for San Francisco 20-somethings. Yes. 11:30.046 --> 11:32.759 Otherwise, they're perfect mirrors of each other. Right, right. 11:33.080 --> 11:35.970 Okay, so we go and work, and it's one of the— the second greatest, 11:35.986 --> 11:39.678 in my opinion, second greatest follow shot in the history of cinema is following this 11:40.178 --> 11:44.012 cappuccino cup. Of course, the best being Henry and Karen 11:44.512 --> 11:46.901 going into the Copa, right? That's the best follow shot. But the second best is 11:46.966 --> 11:50.674 this cup of cappuccino making its way to the dishwasher, getting filled back up, 11:50.690 --> 11:53.643 and then getting out onto the floor and ending up in Mike Myers' hands. 11:53.707 --> 11:57.811 And this is Charlie McKenzie, who is our main character, our protagonist, our hero of 11:58.311 --> 12:01.145 our story. Uh, and he makes a couple of funny little jokes. I mean, 12:01.161 --> 12:04.304 you know, funny, not funny. You can kind of like— it's Mike Myers. They're very 12:04.804 --> 12:08.231 Mike Myers jokes. It's very Mike Myers. And there, there is a Mike Myers through 12:08.311 --> 12:11.662 line. And like any of his ridiculous characters, whatever accent he 12:12.162 --> 12:15.462 assigns to him, he has a certain type of like sarcastic humor 12:15.830 --> 12:19.117 that, that is like present here and is still present in probably Shrek 5, 12:19.293 --> 12:22.660 right? You know, exactly. Um, absolutely. Yeah. So he gets his cappuccino. 12:22.740 --> 12:26.267 I will say The hello thing does not fucking do it for 12:26.767 --> 12:30.324 me at all. I don't like it. And I feel like it infringes on your 12:30.436 --> 12:33.851 hello that you do at the beginning of this podcast. And I only 12:33.883 --> 12:36.753 have one hello guy in my life, Steve, and it's you. Well, thank you so 12:37.253 --> 12:40.858 much. I actually ripped off a couple of fantasy football podcasters who— a 12:41.358 --> 12:44.161 combination of— there's one guy who would start off and go like, 12:44.770 --> 12:47.848 hello, everybody. So I don't do that. 12:47.912 --> 12:51.151 I do a very toned-down version of that. And then what is it? Paul Scheer 12:51.504 --> 12:55.330 in for How Did This Get Made does like, 12:55.830 --> 12:58.510 hello, people of Earth, is how he starts. Oh, nice. So mine is sort of 12:59.010 --> 13:00.990 like a similar— I'm obviously trying to greet the audience, but, you know, like my 13:01.490 --> 13:04.690 own way of doing it. But, but it's more about— I always think I've realized 13:05.190 --> 13:09.010 in hearing back our episodes, I go like, 2 dads, 1 movie. That's kind 13:09.510 --> 13:12.010 of like, I'm not sure what the hell's going on there. It's good, but you 13:12.510 --> 13:15.240 get a rhythm and then in your head, that's just how it goes forever. 13:15.530 --> 13:18.850 Exactly. So it never changed. So sitting next to Charlie is his best buddy 13:19.350 --> 13:22.683 Tony, who is dressed like a pimp. most insane, 13:23.036 --> 13:26.198 like, huggy bear. Yeah, like he says, he's seriously dressed like he 13:26.311 --> 13:29.858 was one of the guys on, uh, VH1's The Pickup Artist. Oh my 13:30.358 --> 13:32.972 God. You know, where they have these guys wear like fur hats and go like 13:32.988 --> 13:36.664 insult women until one of them gives them their phone number. Like, 13:36.841 --> 13:39.955 he has this crazy look, but they do point it out, you know, and he 13:40.116 --> 13:43.567 is actually an undercover cop, you know. It's— but it's— here's 13:44.067 --> 13:47.371 the thing though. Yeah, like, I don't— I don't— this strains credulity. 13:47.435 --> 13:50.970 Like, the initial kind of joke of like He would wear that in 13:51.470 --> 13:55.430 1993 and actually think he's being hip. Like it's so kind of unbelievable. 13:55.930 --> 13:59.550 He's supposed to be clueless, right? He is. But like, come on. 14:00.050 --> 14:02.650 Yeah. To me, it goes a couple of steps too far. But but you know, 14:03.150 --> 14:05.790 like you said, to the credit of the movie, the other character Charlie calls him 14:06.290 --> 14:08.730 out. Like, did you look like a moron? You look ridiculous, right? But he is 14:09.230 --> 14:12.390 dressed. Yeah, fur and spirit Halloween Jamiroquai costume. There you go. 14:12.890 --> 14:16.830 Yeah, exactly. There is a funny moment here where where you know he's Tony's talking 14:17.330 --> 14:19.430 about how he asked Charlie about his girlfriend. Oh, we broke up. And are you 14:19.930 --> 14:22.610 gonna do a You're gonna do a poem about her. There's all this back and 14:23.110 --> 14:26.190 forth, but he asks him to, like, name why he dumped previous girlfriends, 14:26.690 --> 14:29.190 and Charlie gets down to one where he doesn't have anything better than, she smelled 14:29.690 --> 14:32.890 like soup, which is something that always makes me laugh. She smelled exactly like vegetable 14:33.390 --> 14:37.149 soup, uh, because that would be pretty gross. Better than clam chowder, 14:37.649 --> 14:41.270 but yeah, still, still, um, concerning. Yeah, I guess that's true. Uh, 14:41.770 --> 14:44.570 yeah, there's not a good soup that you can just smell like, I think. 14:44.590 --> 14:47.780 And, and unless there's some, like, ginger, like one of those healing, 14:47.970 --> 14:51.497 like, Eastern medicine soups that's almost like a medicine. Maybe if 14:51.609 --> 14:54.774 somebody— if I met somebody who smelled like chicken tortilla soup, I might not mind. 14:54.983 --> 14:57.906 Yeah, yeah, sounds a little— ladies, work on your soup smells. 14:58.677 --> 15:02.163 Um, so, so Charlie gets on stage to do his like 15:02.227 --> 15:06.324 beat poem and stuff, and this isn't— it's like not an open mic. It's clearly 15:06.824 --> 15:10.018 something that he's a regular at. People are like excited to see what he's— it's 15:10.518 --> 15:13.151 like a scheduled thing. Like, that's his slot to come up because even the band, 15:13.231 --> 15:17.054 there's a jazz trio, right? And, and they know kind of how to play to 15:17.070 --> 15:20.375 his beat, or, or, or they play the same kind of tune. He does it 15:20.875 --> 15:22.780 too, but like, the point is they've worked together. Clearly this is not like a 15:23.280 --> 15:26.435 random rockaoke kind of thing or whatever, you know, like rockaroki, 15:26.451 --> 15:29.754 whatever they call that shit. And he's got like a slideshow going on behind him 15:29.834 --> 15:34.291 too. So as he's going through his like, woman, whoa man, 15:34.948 --> 15:38.763 uh, which is funny. It's a funny like play on, 15:39.276 --> 15:42.771 you know, the beat poetry, slam poetry style, uh, 15:42.964 --> 15:46.252 although there's not like a regular one really that it 15:46.752 --> 15:49.637 shows in this. No. Because a guy who's like about to start, but then it 15:50.137 --> 15:52.702 doesn't really show his— Yeah, we see, we see this guy intro. He's got like 15:52.750 --> 15:56.184 curly red hair and he talks about how this is a poem about the aliens 15:56.280 --> 15:59.874 who brought me on their ship and who I, you know, enacted great destruction upon. 15:59.971 --> 16:03.035 Yeah, what I— while fleeing or whatever. Uh, and then it says autobiographical and it's 16:03.535 --> 16:05.635 kind of like hahaha. But then we cut to the conversation between Charlie and Tony. 16:05.683 --> 16:09.774 We don't hear anything about that, but it's clear that he is far weirder than 16:09.839 --> 16:13.390 Charlie. So Charlie gets up there and it's almost like he's He is the 16:13.890 --> 16:16.230 like guy off the street for this crowd. Yes. You know what I mean? 16:16.730 --> 16:20.110 He's like the normal one. So, um, so yeah, so he does this poem about 16:20.610 --> 16:24.050 his ex-girlfriend. She stole his cat. That's, uh, he's convinced that she stole his cat. 16:24.550 --> 16:27.850 Uh, we then cut to, uh, the next day and Charlie 16:28.350 --> 16:31.430 goes to a butcher called Meats of the World. And, uh— Is this a real 16:31.930 --> 16:33.810 type of store? 'Cause I feel like that would be kind of an awesome place 16:34.310 --> 16:36.830 to browse. I mean, why wouldn't it be? Isn't it, isn't that kind of what 16:37.330 --> 16:40.190 most butcher shops kind of are? I mean, in a sense. I mean, I guess, 16:40.690 --> 16:42.310 I guess what they wanted to do with this was say, yeah, it's a butcher 16:42.810 --> 16:45.294 and yeah, they'd have haggis. Right, right, because that's gonna be a rare thing. 16:45.582 --> 16:49.208 So you're not gonna have just a Scottish butcher. So we made it 16:49.256 --> 16:52.224 a global thing. I don't think anybody would buy that, that, 16:52.449 --> 16:55.753 you know, in the United States, maybe Boston could have enough Scottish 16:56.253 --> 16:59.748 folks to like support like a full Scottish butcher. You know, Little Scotland in San 17:00.248 --> 17:03.662 Francisco, you know, the Glasgow District. Like I said, Italians, 17:03.710 --> 17:07.143 a lot of Italians in the '90s. Yeah, 17:07.641 --> 17:11.240 so Charlie's there and he goes to pick up the haggis from the 17:11.740 --> 17:15.040 woman working at the butcher shop. Very cute, 17:15.540 --> 17:19.140 younger woman, very busy. They're not really chatting too much. No, her name's 17:19.640 --> 17:21.620 Harriet. Little connection. This time she's actually not that busy. This one, I don't think 17:22.120 --> 17:23.860 there's anybody else in the shop. Oh, okay. They're chatting a little bit, but you 17:24.360 --> 17:28.100 know, there's like a flirtatiousness, but neither of them, you know, really kind of says 17:28.600 --> 17:31.560 anything, kind of whatever. I'm pretty sure this is the first time you'll notice it, 17:32.060 --> 17:34.900 and you'll see it throughout the entire movie. She has a Band-Aid on the tip 17:35.400 --> 17:38.500 of a finger on her left hand. It is never explained. It is never mentioned. 17:38.540 --> 17:41.790 I don't know if that's just because Nancy tracks herself with a knife. But I 17:42.290 --> 17:44.713 mean, but then, then I feel like there could have been something mentioned. Why does 17:45.213 --> 17:47.796 she— I mean, the movie takes place over months and she still has this Band-Aid 17:48.296 --> 17:51.233 on the entire time. Very strange, but something I noticed. Uh, this could be like 17:51.265 --> 17:54.172 a Lisa Left Eye Lopez type or a Nelly type thing. 17:54.236 --> 17:57.512 Nelly, exactly. Yeah, could be a vanity Band-Aid. 17:57.753 --> 18:00.467 So Charlie's here to pick up a haggis because he's going over to his parents' 18:00.499 --> 18:03.390 house, uh, for dinner and he's gonna bring it as like a gift or whatever. 18:03.856 --> 18:06.987 Uh, and so, you know, so he buys the haggis and then we cut to 18:07.003 --> 18:10.020 his parents' house. Looks like maybe they live out in like the Sunset. or somewhere 18:10.520 --> 18:13.940 near Balboa Park, like that kind of part. That beautiful house would be $3.5 million 18:14.440 --> 18:17.720 today. Absolutely. Multi, multi, multi-million dollars for a house like that in 18:18.220 --> 18:21.320 San Francisco. But there are areas of SF, 18:21.820 --> 18:25.620 if you're not familiar with San Francisco, that very much look like suburbs. The actual 18:26.120 --> 18:29.220 downtown is still off in the distance, but you're just in a flat— streets of 18:29.720 --> 18:32.180 rows of houses, and that's kind of what it looks like. So they're there, 18:32.680 --> 18:35.900 and we meet the parents. We meet Stuart McKenzie, played also by Mike Myers. 18:36.100 --> 18:39.240 We meet— I can't remember her name— May. May McKenzie is his mother, played by 18:39.740 --> 18:43.020 the late Brenda Fricker, RIP. Brenda. She passed recently. 18:43.520 --> 18:46.100 Pigeon lady in Home Alone 2. Home Alone 2, and a handful of other really 18:46.600 --> 18:50.120 great roles, actually. Uh, good stuff. And, uh, and for some reason 18:50.620 --> 18:53.100 Tony's already there, which I always think is a little strange, right? Because it's obviously 18:53.600 --> 18:55.800 like he's been invited over as well. And clearly, I think the idea is Charlie 18:56.300 --> 18:59.500 and Tony like grew up together, right? Right. So like he, he's practically at 19:00.000 --> 19:03.000 home, right, at the, at the Mackenzies. So yeah, you could picture Tony drinking milk 19:03.500 --> 19:06.840 straight from the carton out of, uh, Charlie's parents' fridge and getting yelled at 19:07.340 --> 19:10.540 for it. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, Tony's exactly who I think— Tony, use a glass! 19:11.040 --> 19:14.150 What I think of, uh, of the San Francisco '80s and '90s. It's this guy. 19:14.650 --> 19:17.470 If this was about Tony's parents, yeah, it might have been more authentic. Uh, 19:17.970 --> 19:19.650 one thing I do want to say, I don't know if this counts, but I 19:20.150 --> 19:23.930 feel like Mike Myers's haircut throughout this entire film, very pumpkin pie minus 19:24.430 --> 19:27.770 a slice. He has a pumpkin pie haircut with one slice taken out. 19:28.270 --> 19:31.890 Because the part does help the, the extreme pumpkin pie-ness. But you're not wrong, 19:32.390 --> 19:35.730 it's got— it's— yeah, he is a bit of a— It's very specific. Mike Myers 19:36.230 --> 19:39.450 had the look of a little boy. He still does. Like, he looks— he has 19:39.950 --> 19:41.350 gray hair now and he looks like a little boy with gray hair. It's wild. 19:43.300 --> 19:47.160 Still looks like Simon sitting in that bathtub. Oh, I have 19:47.257 --> 19:50.458 one make it look like an accident type line coming out of 19:50.555 --> 19:54.183 Charlie's dad where he's talking about like, oh, they're gonna 19:54.683 --> 19:58.048 watch the Celtic game, I think, right? Yeah, 19:58.064 --> 20:01.735 yeah. And he says the soccer game's about to begin. Would he say soccer? 20:01.800 --> 20:04.470 He would not have. Probably not. No, but they had to change this for American 20:04.970 --> 20:07.508 audiences. Exactly. He would have said football or footy or something like that. Yeah, 20:07.588 --> 20:11.590 or even just the match, like the match is also The 20:12.090 --> 20:14.970 house is funny. They have like a Scottish wall of fame. They have all these 20:15.470 --> 20:18.910 black and white photos of famous Scottish people. And it's not just like family 20:19.410 --> 20:22.230 members of— oh no, it's like Sean Connery. Richard Attenborough, I think, is up there 20:22.730 --> 20:25.590 or something like that. Yeah. And there's a great line here too when Tony and 20:26.090 --> 20:29.210 Stuart are chatting, whatever, and Tony's like, so you were telling 20:29.710 --> 20:32.010 me about this group of people that runs the world? And he goes, that's right, 20:32.510 --> 20:35.250 they're called the Pentaverate. And he's like, well, who's in this Pentaverate? He's like, 20:35.750 --> 20:39.530 the Queen, the Gettys, the Rothschilds, the Vaticans, and Colonel Sanders before 20:40.030 --> 20:42.453 he went tits on fire. And it's just a very funny thing. It's probably gonna 20:42.953 --> 20:46.766 be the opening, the opening scene. Um, it's a, it's a funny character 20:47.266 --> 20:50.230 trait for his parents that they're both like Weekly World News, 20:50.695 --> 20:53.902 like National Enquirer. And this is like that Weekly World 20:54.402 --> 20:57.446 News. I think it still exists, but it was always like crazy shit, the most 20:57.815 --> 21:02.048 like pre-Photoshop. So it was someone with an X-Acto knife who was making these versions 21:02.080 --> 21:05.864 of like these weird hybrids and stuff. So yeah, the InfoWars of the 21:06.364 --> 21:09.500 '90s was definitely, uh, the parents are into. Yeah, the sad part about this is 21:10.000 --> 21:12.480 that May and Stuart would be huge Fox News people if they— if this all 21:12.980 --> 21:16.720 moved 30 years into the future. Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah, major Fox News types. 21:17.220 --> 21:20.880 And, uh, and May was talking about how, uh, she's— she's not eating because 21:21.380 --> 21:24.520 she's losing weight with, uh, Garth Brooks's juice diet. So— She's 21:25.020 --> 21:28.320 about the juice. Yeah, shout out to suspected serial killer Garth Brooks, 21:28.820 --> 21:32.020 speaking of Weekly World News. That's right. So in— so— so May gets 21:32.520 --> 21:34.720 the paper for Charlie, and, and, you know, she's talking about— which is the Weekly 21:35.220 --> 21:37.264 World News— and she's talking about this Mrs. X You know, it's like, oh, 21:37.344 --> 21:40.666 look at this, Mrs. X, you know. And it lists 3, uh, 21:40.779 --> 21:44.614 women. Mrs. X apparently is this unknown killer who marries men and then 21:44.646 --> 21:47.311 kills them like on their wedding night, or at least on their honeymoon, like very, 21:47.359 --> 21:50.697 very quickly. And it mentions, uh, what the, the information we get right 21:51.197 --> 21:54.484 now is her first husband was a lounge singer in Atlantic City, then another was 21:54.533 --> 21:57.935 a Russian martial arts expert— that was how they put it— and the 21:57.967 --> 22:01.546 last is a plumber named Ralph Elliott. So that's— those are the pieces of information. 22:01.658 --> 22:03.551 Of course, you know, Charlie's like, I don't don't give a shit about this, 22:03.567 --> 22:06.788 Mom. That's the Weekly World News. Who cares? Yeah. Um, and so, 22:06.852 --> 22:09.768 yeah, so they have— and this is then the scene as well when I think 22:10.268 --> 22:13.245 most people recognize some of the stuff that Stuart says to the other son, 22:13.742 --> 22:17.219 uh, whose name escapes me now, but he calls him Heed. I think in 22:17.719 --> 22:20.728 the credits he is literally listed as Heed. Heed, Heed, 22:21.369 --> 22:24.622 paper. Yeah, so that, that's definitely funny. 22:24.878 --> 22:28.147 And this, this poor little like Screech Powers looking kid with curly 22:28.243 --> 22:32.636 hair and a big head and The dad's just endlessly tormenting 22:32.652 --> 22:36.404 him. Another Dazed and Confused reference because he looks exactly like the redheaded girl 22:36.517 --> 22:40.205 from Dazed and Confused that like drives around with the nerds. Like she's got 22:40.705 --> 22:43.396 this big puff of red hair. He looks exactly like her. It's about as red 22:43.896 --> 22:47.293 of hair. That just came to me anyway. Yeah, and then so 22:47.341 --> 22:50.388 yeah, we get the like you know this kid will be crying himself to sleep 22:50.888 --> 22:53.210 tonight on his huge pillow or whatever. Like all that kind of stuff. And it's 22:53.710 --> 22:56.529 so funny here because Anthony LaPaglia clearly couldn't do a take without. 22:56.947 --> 23:00.224 busting up. Now it makes sense that Tony the character laughs, 23:00.497 --> 23:03.774 right? The way— but it looks like a real laugh. Yeah, he looks 23:04.274 --> 23:06.907 like he's trying to stifle it and failing. And I think they just went with, 23:06.923 --> 23:09.975 we need to move on. Like, you're not, you're not getting this without laughing at 23:10.475 --> 23:13.590 the stuff Mike's saying, so let's just move on. But it works because Tony laughing 23:14.090 --> 23:16.658 at it works in character, so it's fine. But it does look like it was 23:16.722 --> 23:19.999 more of a struggle than that. Um, yeah. Um, okay, 23:20.016 --> 23:23.710 so the dad— yeah, the dad is hammered, right? And, uh, 23:24.336 --> 23:27.286 And the mom wants to fuck Tony, basically. 23:27.895 --> 23:30.748 So they're— oh, and she's shown in the Weekly World News. This is kind of 23:31.248 --> 23:34.259 funny, is like the headline of it is like, pregnant man gives birth. 23:35.237 --> 23:37.817 Junior. Impossible. And, uh, so, 23:38.603 --> 23:41.793 so yeah, as they're leaving, uh, as Charlie and Tony are leaving, 23:42.210 --> 23:46.025 his mom May just grabs Tony and just gives him this like ridiculous 23:46.057 --> 23:49.760 kiss that lasts forever, right? And her hands are all over him. So we got 23:50.260 --> 23:52.437 the horned-up mom, we get the drunk dad, we got a lot of good stuff. 23:52.549 --> 23:55.467 I believe she calls him a right sexy bastard. 23:55.900 --> 23:59.074 That's right. So now we cut 23:59.574 --> 24:02.970 to another day. We're at work with Tony now. He's a cop, and so he's 24:02.986 --> 24:06.641 there at work, and his boss is Alan Arkin, who plays, 24:06.754 --> 24:10.040 I think, the captain, right? He refers to him as captain. And one of the 24:10.105 --> 24:13.167 things that we get is Alan Arkin is playing a very Alan Arkin role in 24:13.667 --> 24:16.886 this. I feel like Alan Arkin often plays emotionally 24:16.935 --> 24:20.478 intelligent, sensitive characters, often therapists. Like, this is a thing that he 24:20.978 --> 24:24.005 kind of— a milieu he rides in or has in his career. 24:25.240 --> 24:28.640 And Tony's kind of like, oh, you know, Captain, being a cop's 24:29.140 --> 24:31.080 not what I thought it would be. I thought I'd be, you know, like chasing 24:31.580 --> 24:34.620 a guy, chasing a criminal through a crowded city square, whatever. And Alan Arkin's like, 24:35.120 --> 24:37.460 we have to do paperwork. It's a very important part of our job. It's, 24:37.960 --> 24:39.440 you know, it might be boring, but, you know, it's like— and he goes, 24:39.940 --> 24:42.620 that's the other thing, Captain, you're too nice. He's like, I'm too nice? Like, 24:43.120 --> 24:46.640 it's this whole kind of subplot of Tony wishing his life was more like Mel 24:47.140 --> 24:50.320 Gibson's in Lethal Weapon, basically. Like, uh, or, or Eddie Murphy in 24:50.820 --> 24:53.060 Beverly Hills Cop, right? You know, that's what he wants and he doesn't get it. 24:53.560 --> 24:55.340 And Alan Arkin, it is funny that it's such a contrast to the, like, 24:55.840 --> 24:59.360 the Bill Duke, uh, CCH Pounder, 24:59.860 --> 25:03.260 like, uh, police chief character that we see all the time. Um, so yeah, 25:03.760 --> 25:06.520 he plays that very well. He really does. He's great in this. I even love 25:07.020 --> 25:08.780 the part where he's like, you know, you should tell me, like, like, you never 25:09.280 --> 25:11.370 tell me that you're getting chewed out by the, by the chief. Where he goes, 25:11.600 --> 25:14.420 well, Tony, the thing is, I don't answer to a chief. I actually answer to 25:14.920 --> 25:18.220 a, a committee. Some of the members are elected, some are appointed, some are— and 25:18.720 --> 25:19.980 he's just going on. He's just like, this is what I'm talking about, man. 25:20.480 --> 25:23.440 It's not— this isn't cool. Like, it's not fun. Yeah, I want to be able 25:23.940 --> 25:29.460 to tell people about the exciting things about my job. Um, so Charlie 25:29.960 --> 25:33.240 is back in the, uh, oh yeah, meats of the world. And this time it's 25:33.740 --> 25:37.340 busy. It's crazy. Like tons of people. Yeah. And there's like, you know, one person 25:37.840 --> 25:42.040 getting every country's meat. You know, there's not any kind of consistency. And Harriet's 25:42.540 --> 25:46.440 all over the place behind the, uh, behind the register. Um, this is where Charlie 25:46.940 --> 25:49.720 makes a comment. She's like, well, do you actually like haggis? He's like, no, 25:50.220 --> 25:52.800 I don't. He's like, I actually think that most Scottish food is based on a 25:53.300 --> 25:57.000 dare. That's fair. Yeah. No, honestly, like the black sausage and all kinds— there's all 25:57.500 --> 25:59.120 kinds of horrible stuff. Yeah. Part of the world. Uh, so yeah, so he offers 25:59.620 --> 26:02.520 help because he mentions his dad's a butcher. Which is not actually information we had 26:03.020 --> 26:05.600 prior to this, but hey, that works. Yeah. So his dad was, you know, 26:06.100 --> 26:07.860 is, was, whatever, a butcher. I worked in the shop a lot, so I can 26:08.360 --> 26:10.790 help you out. And so she does. And this is when we get the second— 26:10.880 --> 26:13.280 this is a point I want to talk about. So when I told my wife 26:13.780 --> 26:15.240 Heather, I was like, oh, we're gonna watch Sweeney Todd: The Murderous Night. She's like, 26:15.740 --> 26:18.020 oh, it's so great. And, you know, I'm like, I know, I really enjoy this 26:18.520 --> 26:20.200 movie. She's like, yeah, I love it, and it's got such a great soundtrack. 26:20.620 --> 26:23.460 And I was like, I remember really liking the music in this movie. Like, 26:23.960 --> 26:26.140 like, I remember that. But watching it through, I decided I would write down all 26:26.640 --> 26:29.856 the music cues, and there are only 3 pop songs on 26:30.356 --> 26:33.929 the soundtrack in this. Now there's Stuart sings a version of a song, or there's 26:34.429 --> 26:36.831 the Bay City Rollers play and he kind of sings along. But like, as far 26:37.331 --> 26:40.584 as like non-diegetic, like we're gonna use this for the movie soundtrack, there are 3 26:41.084 --> 26:44.593 songs. We've heard The Laws, There She Goes, here is Big Audio Dynamite, uh, 26:44.609 --> 26:47.367 their song Rush, which was a huge hit. And then there's like one more, 26:47.496 --> 26:51.120 and then we hear— Princess by the S. Yeah, 2 Princes later, and that's it. 26:51.184 --> 26:53.333 And then we get The Laws 2 more times, which is interesting. But that's the 26:53.833 --> 26:56.862 montage song for this segment. When Charlie is helping Harriet out, and they're kind of 26:57.362 --> 27:00.215 they're flirting, but he is you know being very helpful, but also playing around. 27:00.263 --> 27:03.392 And he's like he's being wild and goofy with the meats and stuff, doing like 27:03.680 --> 27:06.472 pounding the meat and making moo noises. Yeah, 27:06.985 --> 27:10.001 like you know all that kind of stuff. Very very strange, but very Mike Myers. 27:10.114 --> 27:13.018 Being very Mike Myers for sure. Good gag. 27:13.547 --> 27:17.221 I always like the karate chop massage. It's it's a good gag and 27:17.574 --> 27:20.970 an actual good massage move if you're giving someone a massage. Like around 27:21.470 --> 27:24.350 their neck and shoulders, that does work very well. It was the first massage technique 27:24.850 --> 27:27.490 that we taught either of our kids. So like my daughter, who's eight, is awesome. 27:27.990 --> 27:30.830 Walks up behind you, sitting in a chair, and she's just the right height where 27:31.330 --> 27:33.850 she starts chopping on my on my shoulders and like oh my gosh, that's awesome. 27:34.350 --> 27:37.910 That's the best. She's getting really good at it. So Charlie 27:38.410 --> 27:42.630 and Harriet, like they're you know they're they're hanging out. They're things are going well. 27:43.130 --> 27:45.910 They're having a blast together. She loves his shit. Yeah. Oh yes, that's the thing. 27:46.410 --> 27:49.910 She's really buying all it. All his jokes, man. She's into it. She's like oh 27:50.410 --> 27:52.770 we're so busy, and she looks back and he's like doing the bend. and June 27:53.270 --> 27:56.300 thing with 2 filet mignons on forks and dancing them around. 27:56.350 --> 27:58.350 And she's like, oh, this is the best thing I've ever seen in my life. 27:58.850 --> 28:01.230 I liked— but it would be very much a health code violation— but I did 28:01.730 --> 28:03.150 enjoy the part where he had some— I don't know if it was awful or 28:03.650 --> 28:05.810 if it was trimmings or something he was gonna throw away anyway, but it was 28:06.310 --> 28:10.150 like this, this, this, you know, kind of bloody-looking meat 28:10.650 --> 28:12.830 that's been chopped up and whatever, and he's got it in his sleeve. And he 28:13.330 --> 28:16.790 goes up to a customer and he's like, Mom, Mom, call the school nurse! 28:17.290 --> 28:19.450 There was an accident in woodshop! Call the— I think that's funny as hell. 28:19.460 --> 28:22.380 But like the actual reality of it is like that one, that poor woman is 28:22.880 --> 28:25.880 now traumatized. She's never coming back to that store. And whatever that is, you can't 28:26.380 --> 28:27.960 sell it. Now, I don't know if it was— oh, I guess it might have 28:28.460 --> 28:30.620 just been trimmings that were going into the trash. But like, that's like a health 28:31.120 --> 28:34.260 code violation, really. Sure. And you know, as a new employee of a butcher shop, 28:34.840 --> 28:38.200 save the goofin'. To be fair, I don't think he was being paid, at least 28:38.700 --> 28:41.840 not in cash. They do end up after this, they like go out on a 28:42.340 --> 28:43.840 little bit of like a date. They end up at the Palace of Fine Arts, 28:44.720 --> 28:48.576 which is a great location in SF. Yep. Not probably anywhere near where her butcher 28:49.076 --> 28:51.401 shop is, by the way, because it's sort of out— yeah, it was kind of 28:51.901 --> 28:56.025 in the city. Yeah, geography doesn't work great. But they passed 28:56.525 --> 28:59.712 by some Russian sailors. An interesting— because, you know, in the US there's always like 28:59.728 --> 29:03.174 other countries' uniformed military walking around. What was that about? 29:03.319 --> 29:06.552 That was really fucking bizarre. And again, if you know where this location in SF 29:07.052 --> 29:09.267 is, it is as far from water basically as you can get. It's kind of 29:09.283 --> 29:13.123 in the center geographically of the city. But anyway, they say something 29:13.235 --> 29:16.517 in Russian and she turns and says something in Russian back to them. So we 29:17.017 --> 29:19.258 don't know what it is. At least the version I looked at didn't have subtitles 29:19.758 --> 29:22.367 or anything. So it's just meant to be— doesn't matter what she says. She speaks 29:22.867 --> 29:26.518 Russian fluently, right? And he notices, like, you speak Russian 29:26.566 --> 29:30.189 or whatever. And so, but they, you know, it doesn't really go anywhere there. 29:30.477 --> 29:34.388 And they kind of like— there's like dancing and frolicking. It's just 29:34.888 --> 29:37.657 kind of like very, you know, fun, I guess. Yeah, it's like kind of thing. 29:37.850 --> 29:41.152 And they go back to her place. Yes. And we got to talk 29:41.652 --> 29:45.224 about the absolutely— it's like, this is more insane than the sneakers This 29:45.724 --> 29:49.687 place is nuts. 'Cause at least at Sneakers Loft, they theoretically have like 29:49.719 --> 29:52.786 better sources of income. Like a business, they're running out of it. 29:52.834 --> 29:56.206 This is supposedly Harriet— this is the funny 29:56.222 --> 29:58.567 part. We learned— I'm gonna skip ahead a little bit, just this one piece. 29:58.615 --> 30:02.163 We will meet Harriet's sister Rose later, and she says something 30:02.663 --> 30:06.001 about, this is our place, Harriet's and mine. She comes and goes, but she 30:06.017 --> 30:09.614 always ends up back here. That to me reads that they own it, 30:09.935 --> 30:13.480 right? What the fuck? Like, even, even SF in 30:13.980 --> 30:17.340 like the '80s or '90s, it's not like it was a cheap place to live. 30:17.840 --> 30:19.700 No, not at all. You know what I mean? So this place looks like it 30:20.200 --> 30:23.020 is 3,000 square feet. It's 2 levels. Yeah. 30:23.520 --> 30:27.860 Right? It's like a big like loft warehouse loft type thing. It's decorated impeccably. 30:28.040 --> 30:31.740 It's amazing. It's one of the most cool looking homes in like 30:32.240 --> 30:35.770 any movie, in my opinion. Yeah. It does have— It could be the coffee shop. 30:35.800 --> 30:38.340 Like, it could be. Yeah. It's a cool enough place that like it could be 30:38.840 --> 30:40.220 a public space for people to hang out. And like, I've never— and I've known 30:40.720 --> 30:44.220 people who are like very good like interior decorators for their own homes and spaces, 30:44.260 --> 30:46.140 and they have a lot of stuff. You know, you, you know, you, you go 30:46.640 --> 30:48.640 over to somebody's house sometimes and it's like bare walls, and you're like, whoa. 30:49.140 --> 30:51.740 Other places it's like people really curated like a whole look. And still this place 30:52.240 --> 30:55.980 is like TGI Friday's level amount of shit on the walls. Like really 30:56.480 --> 31:00.060 fucking wild, but all like pretty cool. Like all that 15-foot-tall 31:00.560 --> 31:03.660 poster of Atlantic City is amazing. It really is cool. That is good. I don't 31:04.160 --> 31:07.020 think it was fair of him to make that, uh, joke about it. Honestly, 31:07.520 --> 31:09.680 dude, that was dope as shit. Could have cut that out. That looked cool as 31:10.180 --> 31:13.080 fuck. Yeah, no, wonderful place. 31:13.580 --> 31:17.080 And, you know, we have the Mystery Loft, of course. And one 31:17.580 --> 31:21.660 thing that Charlie notices is she has like all these martial arts 31:22.160 --> 31:24.820 weapons on the wall and she kind of brushes by. He's like, what's going on 31:25.320 --> 31:27.500 with this? And she's like, oh, my friend gave them to me. And she says 31:28.000 --> 31:30.920 she has a friend who— and then she again uses the exact words, who is 31:31.420 --> 31:34.140 a martial arts expert, which I feel like is a thing that would be said 31:34.640 --> 31:38.160 by Frank W. Dukes and not very many other people. Yeah, he's a martial science 31:38.660 --> 31:40.120 guy. Oh, I'm sorry. My apologies. You're absolutely right. That is my bad. Sorry, 31:40.620 --> 31:44.180 Frank. If you're out there listening. Uh, yeah, but it's kind of weird 31:44.680 --> 31:47.500 that like everybody says martial arts expert, in my opinion. It's odd. But she does 31:48.000 --> 31:51.140 brush it off. We later learned that these belonged to her ex-husband 31:51.640 --> 31:54.980 who is missing, at least. That she doesn't mention— I get that 31:55.480 --> 31:59.160 it's like first date, whatever, but that she doesn't say anything, doesn't take this opportunity 31:59.660 --> 32:02.700 to be like, you know what, yeah, that was, 32:03.200 --> 32:05.760 that was, that's my ex's. Even just say my ex's stuff. Yeah. Even if you 32:06.260 --> 32:07.920 don't go into the details, right? Because I get it, you're not trying to scare 32:08.420 --> 32:10.640 somebody off, but the fact of the matter is that's your reality. If you're this 32:11.140 --> 32:15.020 woman, you have these ex-husbands, they went missing, right? You're gonna have to have this 32:15.520 --> 32:18.200 conversation at some point, right? Like, it just seemed odd to me that she was 32:18.700 --> 32:21.940 so dismissive about, like, oh, it was friend stuff. Like, whatever. You for sure 32:22.440 --> 32:26.540 have to fucking, um, have to disclose that. Like, if you— if you're legally, 32:26.560 --> 32:30.140 like, betrothed to somebody who's, like, the subject of a manhunt, 32:30.440 --> 32:33.320 like, you have to tell somebody on a first date. I feel like that's true. 32:33.820 --> 32:36.080 It's sort of in the same ballpark as, like, you know, you have to declare 32:36.580 --> 32:38.720 when a murder occurred in a home if you're gonna sell it, or if you 32:39.220 --> 32:40.000 have HIV. So, yeah, you definitely have to do all of that. It's very required. 32:42.246 --> 32:45.692 Uh, so, uh, he's gonna go. He kind of says something about he usually rushes 32:46.192 --> 32:47.999 into this stuff too much, and she's like, well, I want you to stay over 32:48.031 --> 32:51.284 and fuck me, so let's do that. Yep. So they do, uh, and they go 32:51.300 --> 32:54.537 up and they hump under these sheets that my parents definitely had in the 32:55.037 --> 32:58.815 '90s. They also look a lot like the upholstery that was on every 32:58.848 --> 33:02.020 other couch. Yeah, right, at every other friend's house that you would go, you go, 33:02.052 --> 33:05.786 oh, that upholstery again, like same shit. Um, but yeah, then they're sleeping 33:06.283 --> 33:09.472 after that, and she is asleep, but yelling out 33:09.568 --> 33:13.591 the name Ralph in her sleep, which gets obviously Charlie's attention. And he 33:14.091 --> 33:17.453 kind of goes, huh? And then, you know, he wakes her up, she wakes 33:17.953 --> 33:20.370 up, whatever. And he's like, you were— you said the name Ralph. You were yelling 33:20.482 --> 33:24.136 the name Ralph. Like, who's Ralph? Oh, Ralph? She's my friend. 33:24.488 --> 33:27.710 And he goes, oh, she, huh? Oh, she's your friend? 33:27.838 --> 33:30.771 Sure. Like, as if there's a woman named Ralph, right? But they go back to 33:30.803 --> 33:33.223 sleep. When he wakes up, 33:34.008 --> 33:36.364 Harriet is not in bed there with him. So he gets up and he kind 33:36.864 --> 33:39.555 of like— he walks downstairs wearing just like a shirt and his underwear. And he 33:40.055 --> 33:43.519 sees there's like a frosted glass window into 33:43.647 --> 33:46.841 the shower that you can see from below, which like seems like it has no 33:47.341 --> 33:50.323 purpose other than to be titillating. Just to creep. Somebody nearby. You know, 33:50.388 --> 33:53.485 it's a very strange choice, but there, there it is. It is frosted. It is, 33:53.597 --> 33:57.096 you know, but he sees a figure, a woman showering, and he goes 33:57.273 --> 34:00.306 up to like kind of sneak in on her, assuming, I think quite reasonably, 34:00.402 --> 34:03.724 that it's Harriet. Yeah. A very reasonable assumption. She never 34:04.224 --> 34:06.759 mentioned living with anyone else. else and everything. So, but no, this is Amanda Plummer. 34:06.840 --> 34:09.811 This is Rose, uh, who is Harriet's sister, 34:10.437 --> 34:14.067 uh, and so, you know, there's a moment where he busts into her— into the 34:14.567 --> 34:18.099 shower while she's in it. He screams. She doesn't really react a whole lot. 34:18.163 --> 34:21.648 No, she's pretty fine with it. She's good. Like, uh, and then, uh, 34:22.339 --> 34:25.696 like, he gets dressed and goes downstairs, and she's already downstairs then, like, having obviously 34:25.712 --> 34:29.053 finished her shower and everything. And she says— this is a funny moment, 34:29.085 --> 34:32.240 I love this— she says, uh, Harriet left you a And she like picks it 34:32.740 --> 34:34.130 up out of her like pocket or off the table. I can't remember exactly, 34:34.630 --> 34:36.900 but she picks it up and instead of handing it to it, looks like he's 34:37.400 --> 34:40.140 gonna hand it to him, and then she unfolds it and starts reading it out 34:40.640 --> 34:42.980 loud to him like that's the appropriate thing to do. I love that moment for 34:43.480 --> 34:46.340 some reason. I think it's very funny. Yeah, and she says she's gonna make him, 34:46.840 --> 34:48.880 oh, like chill out, I'll make you this breakfast, I'll make you all this stuff. 34:49.380 --> 34:51.460 And then it cuts to her just pouring Froot Loops in a bowl. She's like, 34:51.960 --> 34:55.460 I didn't have any of that. Silver dollar pancakes, bacon, freshly squeezed orange juice. 34:55.960 --> 34:58.009 And then it's like, I don't have have any of the other stuff. 34:58.879 --> 35:02.069 Yeah, no, Froot Loops are good. And she's being— she's being weird to him because 35:02.569 --> 35:06.089 what she's saying to him is, hey, don't worry, like, I'm gonna tell Harriet that 35:06.589 --> 35:09.569 nothing happened. And he's just kind of like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what the fuck? 35:09.969 --> 35:12.729 Yeah, Rose, nothing did happen. Nothing did happen. And she's just like, 35:13.229 --> 35:16.669 yep, wink wink. He's like, no, no, like, I don't like where this is going. 35:17.169 --> 35:20.769 So this is an interesting character introduction in my opinion. Like, Rose comes off initially 35:21.269 --> 35:24.649 as both very aloof and kind of like not bothered by anything, 35:25.149 --> 35:28.142 it seems, but then also I don't know if it's fair. I mean, obviously having 35:28.642 --> 35:30.242 seen the movie as many times as I have, like, I know this character well, 35:30.290 --> 35:32.197 but it's like, I don't know if it's fair at this point to say she 35:32.697 --> 35:36.782 comes off as dangerous, but she definitely comes off— Unhinged? 35:36.926 --> 35:40.068 Yeah, for sure. Like that kind of thing. So we get this, this sense initially 35:40.568 --> 35:44.717 that like, whatever this woman's story is, it's probably not great, 35:44.941 --> 35:47.939 right? It's probably not a great thing, whatever's going on with her. So, 35:48.019 --> 35:50.985 so we get just a little bit of that. But yeah, but then she says, 35:51.033 --> 35:54.620 don't worry, Charlie, just be careful. And it's like, whoa, what the 35:55.120 --> 35:56.660 fuck? Like, what is that? That's the part where you're kind of like, you don't 35:57.160 --> 35:59.520 know. You know, again, as we know through the movie, like, it turns out she's 36:00.020 --> 36:03.440 kind of warning him against herself in some ways. But like, but at this point, 36:03.940 --> 36:06.920 it's like, what is that about? Is this, you know, but again, like, I'm getting 36:07.420 --> 36:11.440 ahead of things, but it's, it, this movie does a lot of things really 36:11.940 --> 36:16.420 well from a very high-level plot scenario. 36:16.540 --> 36:20.040 Like, like, like, like hint, like dropping things early, paying them off later. 36:20.540 --> 36:22.640 Like, that stuff works a lot. It's not without holes. Don't get me wrong. 36:23.680 --> 36:27.030 Like, this is one of those moments where they're really between yelling 36:27.142 --> 36:30.877 Ralph, the martial arts stuff, Rose saying be careful. Like, we are hammering 36:30.989 --> 36:33.891 home that Charlie should be fearful of Harriet. Yeah. 36:34.131 --> 36:37.818 Right? That maybe Harriet is Mrs. X. So I love any 36:38.318 --> 36:41.393 time a movie gives the audience more information than it gives the characters. I love 36:41.425 --> 36:44.535 being ahead of the characters and like begging them to catch up, 36:44.871 --> 36:47.484 you know? And sort of like wanting them to get where I am. That to 36:47.984 --> 36:51.251 me is sort of what I love best. You know, it's great sometimes when movies 36:51.283 --> 36:53.447 don't give the audience the info and then we all find out at the same 36:53.947 --> 36:56.863 time as the characters. Well, that can be good. Right. something about the dramatic irony 36:56.895 --> 37:00.666 of like knowing that the character, or, or, or at least suspecting 37:01.166 --> 37:04.516 before the character suspects something, knowing something before the character knows it, and then realizing 37:05.016 --> 37:06.939 like, oh man, they're— when they get there, they're going to freak the fuck out. 37:06.987 --> 37:09.635 When they get where I'm at, it's going to freak them out. So yeah, 37:09.651 --> 37:13.020 the whole feeling of like, don't go in there, like all that, he's right behind 37:13.520 --> 37:15.972 you, like, yeah, for sure. The guy's in the barn, don't go in the barn. 37:16.052 --> 37:19.566 Like, um, uh, yeah, so, so that leaves us on 37:19.598 --> 37:22.984 like kind of a weird moment, right? So now we, we cut, we got one 37:23.484 --> 37:27.107 of our other great songs, we got 2 Prince is playing as, uh, as Charlie 37:27.139 --> 37:30.605 and Tony are heading out towards Alcatraz. I gotta ask 37:31.105 --> 37:34.248 you, honest, actual honest opinion about this song and Spin Doctors in general. What is 37:34.376 --> 37:37.200 like— like, I enjoy it. I think, uh, 37:38.115 --> 37:41.100 yeah, I could, I could fuck with it. It doesn't bother me. Spin Doctors were 37:41.600 --> 37:44.293 a guilty pleasure for me in the '90s. They— I no longer feel guilty about 37:44.793 --> 37:47.727 it. I think both Two Princes and Little Miss Can't Be Wrong are fucking bangers. 37:47.903 --> 37:51.658 They put a smile on my face. Like, they are so nostalgic. Both those songs 37:51.674 --> 37:54.380 got played so many in so many different movies and so many different— we hear 37:54.880 --> 37:56.740 them on the radio all the time. There is something about, if I wanna think 37:57.240 --> 38:00.440 about what life felt like in the mid-'90s, throw on some fucking Spin 38:00.940 --> 38:04.320 Doctors. Oh yeah. Pocketful of Kryptonite. Just put the album on. It's nothing, you know, 38:04.820 --> 38:08.279 it's bubblegummy kind of, you know, there's nothing deep or, you know, 38:08.779 --> 38:11.040 meaningful about the music per se, but it's so fun. Oh, there's good deep stuff. 38:11.540 --> 38:15.050 Yeah, fucking been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town. 38:16.660 --> 38:19.770 Yeah, I fuck with them. with the Spin Doctors. They're like a little below the 38:20.270 --> 38:23.510 Counting Crows on my hierarchy, but we're all in there. And there 38:24.010 --> 38:27.490 are things that were formerly guilty pleasures, and like you said, the guilt dissolves 38:27.990 --> 38:30.650 with time, and you're like, no, that's just a pleasure, homie. And there was stuff 38:31.150 --> 38:34.030 that I thought I hated back then for some dumb reason, and then ended up— 38:34.530 --> 38:36.420 like, I thought for some reason in high school I hated Toad the Wet Sprocket. 38:36.610 --> 38:39.410 Yeah, I do not hate Toad the Wet Sprocket. Their music's fantastic. Like, I love 38:39.910 --> 38:43.780 it now, you know? But nice. Yeah, anyway, we're gonna do, uh, Drop Zone someday, 38:43.830 --> 38:47.290 and, uh, oh, I think they feature Fall Down in that. Nice. 38:47.790 --> 38:50.131 It's a skydiving movie. All right, very cool. And we'll have to do son-in-law in 38:50.164 --> 38:54.180 order to get Little Miss Candy Rock. There we go. Um, so, so Charlie 38:54.680 --> 38:57.730 and Tony are on the boat, they're going to the— to do the Alcatraz tour. 38:57.794 --> 39:01.023 And I can't— I think we're kind of shown early on that this is like 39:01.232 --> 39:03.963 one of the things they do frequently. Yeah, they're kind of talking about like, 39:04.204 --> 39:07.288 oh, what guide do we get today and stuff. So this is like where they 39:07.417 --> 39:10.405 go to just hang out and bullshit, which like— I think I've been on 2 39:10.905 --> 39:13.955 Alcatraz tours in my entire life. Yeah, 46 years living in the Bay Area. 39:14.100 --> 39:16.959 Maybe once was with Boy Scouts and then like one other time, I don't remember. 39:17.040 --> 39:20.340 But like, this is not something, as far as I'm aware, any locals just do. 39:20.840 --> 39:23.240 No, not at all. On any kind of basis at all. But apparently Tony and 39:23.740 --> 39:26.420 Charlie really just love doing the Alcatraz tour. And it is cool, at least was 39:26.920 --> 39:29.400 back then. It's all self-guided now. There's no more, you know, there's no tour guides 39:29.900 --> 39:33.119 anymore or anything. It's like those audio, those headset things. But still, like, so they 39:33.619 --> 39:37.220 go and they get Phil Hartman's character is their 39:37.720 --> 39:40.480 tour guide. And I can't remember his real name, but everybody calls me Vicky. 39:40.980 --> 39:44.700 I think he says, my name is John Johnson, but everybody calls me Vicky. 39:45.200 --> 39:49.316 Everybody here calls me Vicky. I love Vicky. So he 39:49.477 --> 39:52.385 does a little tour, gets them to, to, uh, what do they call it? 39:52.449 --> 39:55.261 Uh, not Main Street. What do they call it? It's like the, the Broadway. 39:55.342 --> 39:57.848 They call it Broadway. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's like it's where the worst 39:58.348 --> 40:01.239 of the worst were, you know, housed. And he tells a story about Machine Gun 40:01.367 --> 40:04.870 Kelly, and I won't repeat the whole thing, but basically that like Machine Gun Kelly 40:04.902 --> 40:08.614 had what we in the prison system refer to as a bitch. Yeah, 40:08.823 --> 40:12.085 yeah, that's good, good little Phil Hartman, uh, 40:12.293 --> 40:15.872 cameo there. And then while he's talking to it while he's telling this story. 40:16.449 --> 40:19.654 Charlie and Tony are in the front, and, and Charlie's just 40:20.154 --> 40:23.419 like, yeah, so anyway, I really like this girl. And then Vicki kind of looks 40:23.919 --> 40:26.464 at him like, what the fuck? I'm in the middle of my story. Kind of 40:26.964 --> 40:30.518 looked— dude, like, the death stare, right? Yeah, fuck it, for real. But how, 40:30.806 --> 40:34.316 how inconsiderate. I mean, I will say Charlie and Tony, very inconsiderate 40:34.816 --> 40:38.097 throughout this tour to people who haven't been. Oh, absolutely. Yep. They stop in front 40:38.597 --> 40:42.030 of the cell forever to just chitchat. I mean, really, their actions Second worst 40:42.530 --> 40:44.690 interruption of an Alcatraz tour that we've seen on this podcast. 40:45.190 --> 40:49.650 Really? 40:50.150 --> 40:53.750 So we've got a we've got a montage now with our song again. We've got 40:54.250 --> 40:56.730 There She Goes by the Laws again, and it's not. I don't know why I 40:57.230 --> 40:59.430 thought that was Sixpence None. Oh no, that's the Laws. Did they cover it? 40:59.930 --> 41:03.070 Okay. I don't think so, but I've always known it as the Laws, and I 41:03.570 --> 41:05.110 don't think it was a Sixpence. If it was a cover, it would have been 41:05.610 --> 41:08.430 maybe an older. If there was a version from Sixpence was Kiss Me. That was 41:08.930 --> 41:12.142 Kiss Me. Okay. Yes. Um, so we get a montage and basically, you know, 41:12.206 --> 41:15.642 it's a montage to show that Harriet loves Charlie's shit and Charlie 41:15.658 --> 41:18.997 is being goofy as hell and her sister's being normal. They're like all 41:19.110 --> 41:22.818 hanging out. Present a lot. She's there a lot for sure. Yeah, but they're like, 41:22.979 --> 41:26.463 they're doing stuff together and Charlie and the sister, it looks 41:26.963 --> 41:30.284 like it's not weird between them. He's being pretty normal with her. Yeah, and it's, 41:30.364 --> 41:33.735 it's just, uh, it's like the dating montage. This is how we compress time and 41:34.235 --> 41:37.470 say, okay, now, now when we come out of this audience accept the fact that 41:37.970 --> 41:41.110 they're like a full couple. They're, you know, definitely, uh, uh, 41:41.610 --> 41:43.930 you know, not dating other people or whatever. They're like together, right? That's sort of 41:44.430 --> 41:47.490 what we're getting. And we cut then to Fog City Diner, which unfortunately closed several 41:47.990 --> 41:50.830 years ago, was a very cool place right there on Embarcadero. Yep. Uh, and they 41:51.330 --> 41:54.430 are now— it is now, uh, Charlie and Harriet and Tony. And I don't 41:54.930 --> 41:57.180 know if we get Tony's girlfriend's name, but she is played by Debbie Mazar, 41:57.190 --> 42:00.470 who we've seen before. She was in Goodfellas. Yeah. Um, one— somebody who I just 42:00.970 --> 42:04.050 love as a character actress. And they're doing like a would you rather, 42:04.370 --> 42:07.990 right? Like freaked out kind of, would you rather this crazy thing happened or this 42:08.490 --> 42:12.190 crazy thing happened? And they've all got very kind of creative but like 42:12.690 --> 42:15.810 gross things. And then we cut to Debbie Mazar's character 42:16.310 --> 42:19.530 and they're just like, or? And it's her cue and she says, or would you 42:20.030 --> 42:23.810 rather be electrocuted? Yeah. And they're all kind of like, 42:24.310 --> 42:27.260 and? It's like, no, no, that's it. That's like really scary. I was electrocuted once. 42:28.010 --> 42:31.210 Which I think is very funny, but like, no, like it doesn't land with any 42:31.710 --> 42:35.777 of the characters. Right, right. No. And this is such a such a common character 42:35.873 --> 42:39.403 is the the outside party who is not good 42:39.903 --> 42:42.547 at playing the thing, like goofing around the way that you and your friends like 42:43.047 --> 42:45.900 to, and definitely stands out from it. They don't speak the language. Good thing you're 42:46.400 --> 42:50.216 hot, Debbie. And and we get we get a couple 42:50.716 --> 42:53.505 more hellos in this scene, I think. Well, we get the negatory good buddy. 42:54.243 --> 42:57.676 Tony and Charlie fight over the the check. That's right. I'm gonna pay the check. 42:57.756 --> 43:00.880 He's like no no no no no no. No, no, no, no, no, no, 43:01.380 --> 43:03.880 no, no, no, no, negatory, good buddy, negatory. That kind of stuff. And then Harriet 43:04.380 --> 43:07.560 takes the check and she pays apparently. So, and Harriet and Charlie decide they're going 43:08.060 --> 43:11.000 to walk home together. Right. In the rain. Pouring rain. Pouring, right? Like more than 43:11.500 --> 43:14.100 it generally— even when it rains in our area, it doesn't tend to pour like 43:14.600 --> 43:17.660 that. Yeah, this is crazy. Really crazy. Um, and it's definitely, you know, showing their, 43:18.160 --> 43:21.540 their relationship solidifying. And hey, I'm willing to put up with your jokes, 43:22.040 --> 43:24.140 so of course I'm willing to go out in the rain, uh, to walk home 43:24.640 --> 43:26.900 with you. It was her idea. Yeah, she's the one who wanted to walk. 43:27.400 --> 43:28.780 And he said like, I love that you wanted to walk home in the rain. 43:30.190 --> 43:33.751 Yeah. All right, and then I think we cut to Tony, 43:33.783 --> 43:37.086 back to Tony. No, I'm sorry. Nope. Back at their house, back at the 43:37.586 --> 43:40.778 Mackenzies'. Yes. Another scene, dinner at Mackenzies'. This time Harriet is coming over to meet 43:41.278 --> 43:44.648 the parents. May answers the door and like, 43:44.664 --> 43:47.213 you know, come on in and hugs Harriet. Oh, you know, you're so beautiful, 43:47.245 --> 43:50.037 like whatever. And then Stuart comes down without his pants, without his trousers, 43:51.102 --> 43:54.145 and goes to like tap Harriet on the shoulder or something. And she full on 43:54.194 --> 43:57.364 like, you know, judo kind of grabs his arm and twists it 43:57.864 --> 43:58.957 behind his back. And, you know, he's like, I like this one, Charlie. Like, 43:58.973 --> 44:02.385 you know, Um, but yeah, so then, 44:02.641 --> 44:06.188 uh, the one of the funniest moments in this to me— oh, 44:06.204 --> 44:10.248 so, so, uh, May offers to show Harriet the baby pictures of 44:10.264 --> 44:14.035 Charlie, right? And he goes to excuse himself to like use the bathroom, 44:14.051 --> 44:16.699 I think, right? And I love— my favorite moment in this is that there's a 44:17.199 --> 44:20.711 dartboard on the back of the bathroom door with Queen Elizabeth II's 44:21.211 --> 44:23.985 picture on it, which I just think— I love the idea of Stuart sitting, 44:24.081 --> 44:26.857 taking a crap, and throwing darts at the Queen. Very funny. 44:27.050 --> 44:30.391 Very Very funny. And Charlie in the bathroom finds that Weekly 44:30.487 --> 44:33.555 World News, which is kind of open to the article about the serial killer that 44:33.603 --> 44:36.993 his mom had told him about. And he's looking at it, you know, so he's 44:37.009 --> 44:40.141 making the realization, like, you know, axe murderer, like, you had a 44:40.641 --> 44:44.318 plumber in, in New Jersey or whatever, Russian martial 44:44.818 --> 44:48.253 arts guy, Atlantic City lounge singer. Yeah. So he's getting very suspicious 44:48.753 --> 44:52.397 because he's like, okay, these are all the exact places she's lived. We've seen clues 44:52.654 --> 44:56.990 of the Atlantic City thing. We've seen The Russian, 44:57.490 --> 45:00.550 she spoke in Russian. The martial arts stuff. Someone named Ralph, she's yelling out the 45:01.050 --> 45:04.610 name of. Right? There's all kinds of things. I think she maybe even mentioned the 45:05.110 --> 45:08.810 song because they because he takes that paper then to Tony after dinner's done. 45:09.310 --> 45:10.910 It's like the next day, whatever. He goes to Tony at the police station and 45:11.410 --> 45:13.510 he's telling him, Tony, you got to look into this for me. Look into this 45:14.010 --> 45:16.110 Mrs. X thing. And he goes, fucking Charlie, this is the weekly world news. 45:16.610 --> 45:17.870 What are you talking about? Yeah. And he's like, no, but look at all these 45:18.370 --> 45:21.390 things. He's pointing out all this stuff and he says something about where you. 45:21.400 --> 45:24.819 you know, uh, the lounge singer like was famous or something for his cover of 45:24.883 --> 45:27.773 Only You or something like— it was something like that. And Tony goes, does she 45:28.273 --> 45:30.823 even know the words to Only You? And he's like, I don't know if she 45:31.323 --> 45:34.162 knows, you know, but he just really wants Tony to like look into it. 45:34.579 --> 45:37.950 Yep. Very, very important. Uh, Charlie— this is a good moment of the 45:38.450 --> 45:42.156 time where Charlie is, uh, he's at Harriet's, I think. Yes. And he's watching a 45:42.220 --> 45:45.897 current affair. And I remember as a kid thinking that that was so 45:45.913 --> 45:49.270 like compelling, even though I didn't know what they were ever talking about. But just 45:49.770 --> 45:52.669 the way that triangle goes like, like flies at you, 45:53.169 --> 45:56.410 right? Good-ass sound. And then he's using the ThighMaster. Yes, he is. 45:56.910 --> 46:00.030 The Suzanne Somers ThighMaster. Great. I— we, uh, have a ThighMaster, 46:00.530 --> 46:03.280 uh, at our house. My wife has one. She's had it for a long time. 46:03.370 --> 46:06.790 One time when, uh, when we were dating, we didn't live together yet, 46:07.290 --> 46:09.880 my daughter and I went by her house to like feed her cats and stuff. 46:10.050 --> 46:13.390 And, uh, she was out of town and the ThighMaster was there. And Wren is 46:13.890 --> 46:15.970 like 3 years old. She's like, what is this? I'm like, oh, you put it 46:16.470 --> 46:18.610 between your legs and you squeeze. And I have this video of her struggling so 46:19.110 --> 46:22.670 hard, like She's so mad at this thing. She's like, 46:22.750 --> 46:26.052 like trying to squeeze the thigh mask. Like, damn it, it doesn't work. This one's 46:26.552 --> 46:29.530 broken. So I love seeing the thigh mask. Very good. 46:29.642 --> 46:33.440 But one of the things he's seeing on, uh, a current affair is that poisoning 46:33.488 --> 46:36.357 murders are on the rise. And it's always people you know, right? Yeah. 46:36.470 --> 46:39.387 Inside the family, people you live with, people you trust. Like, that's— and yes, 46:39.435 --> 46:43.842 and poisoning is becoming very important. So of course, this is the point where Harriet 46:44.342 --> 46:47.929 comes in with a drink that she says is a health shake, 46:47.945 --> 46:51.266 and she spent half an hour making it. But it looks like Hawaiian 46:51.378 --> 46:54.973 Punch with frothy foam on top. It's very weird. It's a little frothy on top, 46:55.214 --> 46:58.777 but it looks clear, kind of reddish pinkish. Yeah, does not look 46:58.825 --> 47:02.131 like a shake of any kind. You should have said juice or something. Maybe. 47:02.276 --> 47:05.020 Yeah, and maybe that was the idea because we got the juicer. The mom had 47:05.520 --> 47:07.733 a juicer, so maybe it was like a juicing thing. But to call it a 47:08.233 --> 47:11.023 health shake, I was looking at going, there's no— it's not even like blended with 47:11.103 --> 47:14.762 ice. There's nothing here that's giving it any texture at all. Yeah, this just 47:14.811 --> 47:18.500 looks like like, you know what it really looked like to me? You're old 47:19.000 --> 47:21.440 enough now, you've had a colonoscopy, right? You know that shit you got to eat, 47:21.940 --> 47:24.300 drink ahead of time the day before? That's what it fucking looked like to me. 47:24.800 --> 47:27.660 So I also would not have drinking that shit, Charlie. Maybe that's what, uh, 47:28.160 --> 47:31.100 maybe that's what she wanted. It's pretty convenient if you're Scottish and you get a 47:31.600 --> 47:34.640 colonoscopy. You just have the kilt on, you don't really need to pull the pants 47:35.140 --> 47:37.890 up and down. Is that convenient or is that worse somehow? It might be worse. 47:37.900 --> 47:41.940 Might be worse. Um, so he doesn't want 47:42.440 --> 47:45.800 to touch this because he's just been freaked out by the current affair He's like, 47:46.300 --> 47:49.700 get this away. Like, no, no, no, sorry, I can't. Shit. And she's saying, 47:50.200 --> 47:51.680 well, I spent a lot of time making this. I made this for you. 47:52.180 --> 47:55.080 What's going on? What's happening? And then he finally just goes and hides in the 47:55.580 --> 47:58.560 closet. She's like, all right, whatever, dude. Fuck you. She leaves. And then there's a 47:59.060 --> 48:02.240 good gag of the closet collapsing on him, which I always like to see that. 48:02.740 --> 48:05.380 It's always funny when there's like more shit coming from above what you can see 48:05.880 --> 48:08.980 in the closet than could possibly be in any number of shelves above there, 48:09.480 --> 48:12.920 you know? Exactly. Like it's a vaulted ceiling closet to be able to hold all 48:13.420 --> 48:15.120 that. Skylight 3 floors up. And there's a dump truck on the roof just pouring 48:15.620 --> 48:19.120 shit down. Exactly. Um, 48:19.620 --> 48:21.540 but yeah, but then so they go to go to go to bed and she's 48:22.040 --> 48:23.520 kind of like, you know, I'm so sorry, it's not a big deal that you 48:24.020 --> 48:26.200 didn't want to drink my shake, it's okay. And then she was saying something like, 48:26.700 --> 48:28.840 I just feel so comfortable with you and I trust you so much and I'm 48:29.340 --> 48:31.440 so glad that we're so comfortable with each other. I mean, boy, if you think 48:31.940 --> 48:34.000 about it, like, we sleep next to each other and I mean, I could do 48:34.500 --> 48:36.540 anything to you. And you— and it's like— and this is like one of the, 48:37.040 --> 48:39.000 one of the scenes, one of the moments in the movie that really doesn't work 48:39.500 --> 48:43.000 for me because this is a woman who— let's just like lay it all out— 48:43.500 --> 48:48.096 she is not a killer. She has had 3 husbands disappear mysteriously 48:48.273 --> 48:49.953 on her honeymoon. Mm-hmm. 48:51.180 --> 48:55.194 She must be aware in some way that that is something other people would 48:55.226 --> 48:58.624 think is strange. She doesn't talk about it openly. So it's like a source of 48:59.124 --> 49:02.714 either guilt or shame or something, right? There's that. And so 49:02.859 --> 49:06.225 why would she talk about this? Like, this feels 49:06.321 --> 49:09.864 like very— you're gonna get people thinking you're 49:10.364 --> 49:12.992 a fucking killer if you talk shit like this. Like, it's just a little strange. 49:13.070 --> 49:16.391 strange. I feel like somebody in this— in her position would feel that much more 49:16.891 --> 49:19.615 guarded and sort of like unwilling to sort of just say shit like this. 49:19.664 --> 49:22.856 It's a little weird. Yeah, it does seem like she, she would have to know 49:22.872 --> 49:25.744 all this stuff. She would have to know that it's really fucking with them. 49:25.792 --> 49:28.873 Otherwise, it's a weirdly like clueless thing to say. Exactly. 49:29.290 --> 49:32.723 Um, so we're at the, uh, at the San Francisco Globe, 49:32.836 --> 49:36.205 right? I like the fake newspapers. Yes, clearly the, the font 49:36.705 --> 49:39.580 or the text is all very Chronicle, right? It's clearly the Chronicle. Yeah, 49:40.080 --> 49:43.730 um, and we're at the marriages, uh, desk. Yeah, it's like the announcements basically. 49:43.920 --> 49:47.220 And so he's putting— Charlie's gonna go make an announcement, right? Because they're for 49:47.720 --> 49:50.760 his parents' 30th anniversary. Yeah, throwing— have an anniversary 49:51.260 --> 49:53.880 party coming up. Um, just like not a thing. I mean, it's not a thing 49:54.380 --> 49:57.060 anybody does anymore, I assume, is— I didn't really realize that was a thing before, 49:57.560 --> 50:01.140 announcing anniversary. Like, I guess I know there's marriage announcements, obviously there's obituaries, like maybe 50:01.640 --> 50:04.780 even births potentially, but like an anniversary is like a weird thing. It's not like 50:05.280 --> 50:08.660 you're inviting the public to their anniversary party. Like, yeah, I, I know it's 50:09.160 --> 50:12.620 odd, but it's probably one of those things. His parents are big newspaper clipping people. 50:13.120 --> 50:15.780 That's true. It's probably important for them to have really good cutouts. Yeah, make it, 50:16.280 --> 50:18.700 cut it out and put on the fridge. That's a good point, actually. Yeah. 50:19.200 --> 50:22.520 Uh, while he's there, he overhears a couple of the, uh, the workers there who 50:23.020 --> 50:26.120 are kind of talking back and forth about one of these cases, right? 50:26.620 --> 50:29.940 And, uh, one of them, uh, played by Michael Richards, right? 50:30.440 --> 50:32.720 And, uh, fuck, who's the other guy? I don't remember his name, but he was, 50:33.220 --> 50:36.300 he was like the, uh, the landlord— not the landlord, the superintendent on Friends that 50:36.800 --> 50:40.211 was always like fixing stuff for, for, uh, Rachel and Monica. 50:40.452 --> 50:42.987 He was like, that guy, he's been in a ton of movies that we've seen, 50:43.003 --> 50:45.473 and then others. Yeah, I mean, it's one of those character actor guys that was 50:45.810 --> 50:49.324 in everything in the '80s and '90s, it felt like. Uh, and, and Charlie's trying 50:49.356 --> 50:53.447 to get— he's like trying to get some info from them, but they, they keep— 50:53.511 --> 50:57.185 or Michael Richards keeps assuming that he's just offended at what he overheard 50:57.201 --> 51:00.185 him say. Because he was talking about how like the Ralph Elliott would die, 51:00.201 --> 51:03.281 like, because Ralph Elliott went missing, but then they found out like, no, he died, 51:03.313 --> 51:06.506 and he was found in a like sewage drain pipe or 51:06.540 --> 51:09.150 And he goes, well, you take your work— he was a plumber— you take your 51:09.650 --> 51:12.610 work home and that's what happens, you know, kind of thing. And somebody who isn't 51:13.110 --> 51:16.280 Charlie says like, hey, that's somebody's like family, like you should be nicer. 51:16.390 --> 51:18.330 And he goes, no, no, wait, wait, did they say anything about the wife? 51:18.830 --> 51:20.750 And he goes, no, no, I get it, kid. I get it, pal. Like whatever, 51:21.250 --> 51:23.310 I'm sorry, I was being offensive. No, no, did they say anything about the wife? 51:23.810 --> 51:27.010 Look, I'm sorry that I said— and you know, he's like freaking out. And like 51:27.510 --> 51:30.230 Kramer, whatever, Michael Richards walks away like, you know, oh, look at me, I'm the 51:30.730 --> 51:34.350 insensitive guy. It's funny, if you guys, uh, it's a really funny scene. 51:34.850 --> 51:38.727 If you guys look up, uh, Michael Richards offensive joke tirade on YouTube, I think 51:39.227 --> 51:40.927 this will be the first thing that pops up. This will be the first hit. 51:40.975 --> 51:44.186 You're gonna love it. Don't go to the second page though, because boy, it's gonna 51:44.686 --> 51:47.301 get real dark real fast. But yeah, this would definitely be the first thing. 51:47.398 --> 51:50.159 It's this and the fire hose scene from UHF. Yeah, yeah. 51:51.010 --> 51:54.495 Uh, so, uh, so, you know, more stuff happening. 51:54.623 --> 51:57.963 He's like, right, what the fuck's going on? Uh, he's with Harriet 51:58.011 --> 52:00.837 now in front of the Painted Ladies. We get some good SF, like, 52:00.901 --> 52:04.860 landmarks here. Alamo Square Park. Um, and I think he's just at 52:05.360 --> 52:08.490 this point, she's like, he's being too weird, he's being too suspicious, 52:08.740 --> 52:12.380 he's freaking her out. And she's just like, whatever, dude, I'm done. Well, he dumps 52:12.880 --> 52:14.680 her. Yeah, I mean, he basically says like, I don't think we should see each 52:15.180 --> 52:17.320 other anymore. And she's like, why? And he's just like, I don't think we should 52:17.820 --> 52:21.100 see each other anymore. And you know, that's it. But he's, 52:21.600 --> 52:24.880 you know, she's pissed at him rightfully. Yeah, but the end. And now 52:25.380 --> 52:28.420 if Charlie didn't— if he didn't work, uh, for free 52:28.920 --> 52:32.706 part-time at the butcher shop. What, what does he do? Like, do we ever get 52:33.206 --> 52:36.717 a glimpse of, like, Charlie? He's not an architect. No, he's not 52:37.343 --> 52:40.936 anything. Is he just a professional, like, unlit cigarette beat 52:41.436 --> 52:43.824 poet? Like, I don't think that pays well. I don't think so. I don't think 52:44.324 --> 52:47.915 it does. But you're absolutely right. I don't think we get any indication whatsoever. 52:48.492 --> 52:51.909 He drives a beautiful classic convertible, right? He's, he's, 52:52.487 --> 52:55.820 you know, his parents are clearly wealthy. I mean, if he'd inherited the Butcher 52:56.320 --> 52:59.040 shop, he would have said that instead of just my dad was a butcher and 52:59.540 --> 53:01.520 I worked in his shop sometimes. He would have said that differently. So yeah, 53:02.020 --> 53:05.400 we don't get really any indication, I don't think, of what Charlie McKenzie does for 53:05.900 --> 53:09.840 a living. Yeah, why does he have money at all? It's really kind of crazy. 53:09.880 --> 53:12.980 Yeah, yeah, we never see his apartment either. I think we see it for like 53:13.480 --> 53:15.960 one second, but it's so— yeah, it's super short because I was looking forward. 53:16.460 --> 53:18.140 Oh, that's right, I remember. And it has a great view if I remember. 53:18.640 --> 53:21.788 He's like in North Beach. Beautiful place. It's like a beautiful North Beach like he's 53:22.288 --> 53:24.710 on the— he's on the roof and it's like a 3rd floor, like, North Beach 53:24.758 --> 53:28.499 apartment. Fucking crazy, dude. Um, so, uh, 53:29.206 --> 53:32.690 so now we've got a, uh, another poetry performance, 53:32.899 --> 53:35.917 right? So now that he and Harriet have broken up— Charlie and Harriet are broken 53:36.417 --> 53:40.252 up— so we get the, the next woman, whoa man performance, and it's got Harriet's 53:40.752 --> 53:42.789 picture in the background. And the big difference was when he did the one about, 53:42.982 --> 53:45.856 uh, Sherry, I think was his, his ex at the beginning of the movie, 53:46.209 --> 53:48.955 he's got this little candle in like a votive, like a glass votive holder thing, 53:48.971 --> 53:52.230 and he blows it out at the end of the poem. And with the Harriet 53:52.295 --> 53:55.169 poem, he picks that up and puts it in front of his face but does 53:55.201 --> 53:58.396 not blow it out and then puts it back down. I think because, you know, 53:58.733 --> 54:02.202 he's not 100% sure that the flame is gone. Okay, right. So that's our 54:02.702 --> 54:05.911 little signal there. Very nice. Yeah. Uh, and so Tony, uh, 54:06.601 --> 54:10.182 Tony calls. Yeah, right. And, uh, Tony tells Charlie 54:10.214 --> 54:13.762 that someone had confessed to this, to the murder of Ralph Elliott. 54:13.907 --> 54:17.720 So it's like, well, it's not Harriet, like, we found somebody. 54:18.220 --> 54:21.720 Exactly. Somebody confessed to that. Right. And, and, and I think even there's something about— 54:22.220 --> 54:24.520 they even hinted that there were others. Yes. Like, he says that, right? So it's 54:25.020 --> 54:28.520 like they're gonna talk about that. So he— Charlie goes running back to Harriet, 54:29.020 --> 54:31.940 basically, like, to her apartment, like, Harriet, I'm so sorry, whatever. And she's like, 54:32.440 --> 54:36.380 you blew it. No, leave. Yeah. And so he does, like, you know, a movie 54:36.880 --> 54:39.160 trope. It's not something that doesn't happen often in movies but would never really happen 54:39.660 --> 54:42.600 in real life, right? He gets that jazz trio from Rhodes Cafe out to, 54:43.100 --> 54:47.492 like, near her window and does, you know, the live poetry version of John 54:47.992 --> 54:51.387 Cusack standing, uh, yes, on Ione Skye's lawn with his boombox and say anything. 54:51.804 --> 54:55.716 Um, but yeah, like, uh, you know, she takes him back after his, 54:56.132 --> 55:00.044 you know, heartfelt little beat poem. It's fucking crazy that after him, 55:00.300 --> 55:03.683 like, just blowing that whole relationship, he's able 55:04.183 --> 55:07.370 to win her back by showcasing his most annoying hobby. Yeah, 55:07.450 --> 55:11.121 exactly. It really— hey, what's the thing about me that all your friends say, 55:11.137 --> 55:14.054 geez, if it weren't for that one thing, he'd be cool? Yeah, right. If I 55:14.102 --> 55:17.581 was more impressionable, maybe even if I was— maybe if I was a little older 55:17.693 --> 55:21.220 when I first saw this or something, I would've thought that 55:21.720 --> 55:24.720 being like a beat poet really would've gotten the girls. And I'm glad I never 55:25.220 --> 55:28.460 got that idea 'cause it's definitely wrong, so. It's called a beat 55:28.960 --> 55:32.260 poet 'cause you're always beating off. So Charlie 55:32.760 --> 55:36.180 and Harriet, they were back together and it didn't take much to 55:36.680 --> 55:39.360 convince her. I mean, she really— Yeah, just a little. Just that poem and now 55:39.860 --> 55:44.100 they're back sharing a bathtub again. That's right, yeah, yeah. And he's being 55:44.600 --> 55:48.280 fucking annoying in the bathtub. He really is. But then like the doorbell rings, 55:48.780 --> 55:51.534 I think, right? And so Harriet like goes downstairs or something, whatever. He comes downstairs 55:52.034 --> 55:55.517 in a towel. Yeah. And Harriet, wearing like a bathrobe or whatever, is introducing 55:55.533 --> 55:59.162 him to a woman who I swear in the past I thought was Linda Hamilton. 55:59.259 --> 56:02.824 Dude, I, I had this down to look up because when 56:02.856 --> 56:05.907 we were watching it, Jeanie's like, she's like, that's the chick for— that's— or, 56:06.293 --> 56:09.440 or no, remember in T2, they're in credited, 56:09.521 --> 56:13.102 Linda Hamilton has a sister who's also in that. And Jeanie was like, that was 56:13.279 --> 56:16.571 like her— Could be Linda Hamilton's sister. Yes. And I thought so 56:17.071 --> 56:19.410 too, but it wasn't. It is not correct. acted as somebody who I don't think 56:19.458 --> 56:22.102 really was in very many other movies, whoever they are, but it's Ralph. Yeah. 56:22.198 --> 56:24.474 And so he's like— she's like, hey, look, this is my friend Ralph. And he's 56:24.974 --> 56:27.310 like, oh my God, there is a woman named Ralph. This explains, you know, 56:27.631 --> 56:30.932 in addition to the fact that somebody else has confessed to the murder 56:30.996 --> 56:34.794 of Ralph Elliott, there is now also an explanation for Harriet 56:34.842 --> 56:37.518 yelling Ralph. This is great. This is like— it's sort of the, 56:38.063 --> 56:41.604 I thought everything was terrible, this is now continuing to prove to me that nope, 56:41.669 --> 56:44.826 I had it wrong before. I'm actually— this is actually awesome. Nothing's wrong. 56:45.275 --> 56:48.450 Woohoo! This is perfect. Yes, and this is, 56:48.707 --> 56:52.347 uh, really, really exciting. And there's kind of a fun moment there 56:52.847 --> 56:55.057 where he's like, I'm naked, aren't I? He goes to hug her and his towel 56:55.557 --> 56:58.793 drops and he's like, I'm naked, aren't I? Like, yeah. And he like still holds 56:58.826 --> 57:02.177 the hug and everything, plays that off. He's really charming these ladies. 57:02.257 --> 57:05.609 Oh my gosh. Um, now we're at his parents', uh, 30th anniversary 57:05.641 --> 57:08.880 dinner, uh, which is at a restaurant called Cock of the North, which I enjoy. 57:09.169 --> 57:13.034 Love that. Great name. Cock the North. Uh, and at 57:13.534 --> 57:17.655 this restaurant, at this party, uh, it ends up that Charlie asks 57:18.155 --> 57:21.763 Harriet to marry him. He proposes. There's too much romance in the air. And she's 57:22.263 --> 57:25.533 super kind of nervous about that at first, does not give him an answer right 57:26.033 --> 57:28.790 away. It's kind of like, uh, are you sure? Whatever. But then like Stuart, 57:28.806 --> 57:32.015 like his dad, basically gives like a speech about how thankful he is that, 57:32.095 --> 57:35.304 that Charlie threw this party, and I wish for you 30 years like 57:35.804 --> 57:37.983 I've had, and like all this stuff, whatever. And it's very like, uh, it's very 57:38.483 --> 57:41.351 sweet, very heartfelt, whatever. And Harriet Harriet turns to Charlie and says, yes, like, 57:41.415 --> 57:45.309 I'll marry you. And so that's super exciting. We cut quickly 57:45.341 --> 57:48.338 to their wedding, right? So they're— it's in a church. Uh, 57:48.867 --> 57:52.409 one side, the McKenzie side, is filled with a shit ton of people. 57:52.714 --> 57:56.608 Yeah. Uh, Harriet's side, not so much. Yeah. Apparently she has no other family 57:57.025 --> 58:00.984 because Rose is her maid of honor, but the next person sitting like 58:01.484 --> 58:05.054 in the front of her side is Ralph, like the woman that we just 58:05.554 --> 58:07.202 met. And there's like— and there's a few other people, but it doesn't look like 58:07.702 --> 58:09.189 she has like parents there or anything, you know what I mean? It's an interesting 58:09.205 --> 58:12.542 thing. So yeah, there's like 20 people on her side and like 200 on Charlie's 58:13.042 --> 58:16.585 side, which I find is kind of interesting. Yeah, definitely a Scottish forward. Yeah, 58:16.858 --> 58:20.484 right. Um, there's a— and, and when she's, uh, 58:20.612 --> 58:24.046 it's her turn to say I do, Harriet, there's a, there's a very long delay, 58:24.062 --> 58:28.153 but she does say it eventually. And then at the reception, we've got Charlie's 58:28.653 --> 58:32.148 dad, uh, dancing along with a guy who's playing like cheetah pattern bagpipes. 58:32.484 --> 58:36.380 I've never seen bagpipes that had this, like— it's very interesting. They're like Guy 58:36.880 --> 58:40.500 Fieri's bagpipes. They're the hipper, cooler bagpipes. 58:40.960 --> 58:44.580 And he's playing If You Think I'm Sexy by Rod Stewart, 58:44.680 --> 58:47.560 which goes on for a long time. That's right. And then, 58:48.060 --> 58:51.339 and then Harriet makes a request to sing a song. Oh, that's right. 58:51.839 --> 58:54.700 She wants to sing a song to Charlie. Very, you know, very special. And it's 58:55.200 --> 58:58.540 Only You. So now we've gotten, right, you know, 58:59.040 --> 59:02.180 Charlie's very relaxed. Yeah. Before this song, he feels good about stuff. We, as an 59:02.680 --> 59:05.080 audience, we get Charlie's in danger, Charlie's in danger, Charlie's in danger. A turn. 59:05.580 --> 59:07.754 Oh, no, no, no. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. And then now this is 59:08.254 --> 59:11.046 the first sort of tip back the other direction. Wait, so she does know the 59:11.546 --> 59:14.995 lyrics to Only You? Yeah, that was a question early on, and that's interesting. 59:15.124 --> 59:18.993 And it's not the Only You by 112 featuring Biggie Smalls and 59:19.493 --> 59:22.766 Mase. That actually didn't come out till a few years later. It's a lesser Only 59:22.830 --> 59:25.383 You, right, she was singing. Very old and lame. Yeah, exactly. 59:26.282 --> 59:29.349 So then this was a funny thing because I know, just because I've seen the 59:29.849 --> 59:33.138 movie a lot, that the exterior shots of this place they're going for their 59:33.638 --> 59:37.216 honeymoon, this resort, whatever. Those exterior shots were shot at the 59:37.716 --> 59:41.487 Claremont in Berkeley. Okay. In the hills, right? So however, they used matte 59:41.632 --> 59:44.667 backgrounds to change what the area around it looks like. You don't see like downtown 59:45.167 --> 59:46.754 Berkeley, like, you know, it looks like they're out in the woods or whatever. 59:47.396 --> 59:51.009 But I remember thinking that, oh my god, wait, they're driving across the Golden 59:51.025 --> 59:54.509 Gate Bridge to the north. Here's another chance for me to be a pedantic asshole 59:54.557 --> 59:58.058 about the geography of the Bay Area. No, it's totally legit because they drive north 59:58.106 --> 01:00:01.780 over the Golden Gate Bridge It's the appropriate shot. They're driving along the coast with 01:00:02.280 --> 01:00:05.160 the water on their left. That's appropriate 'cause they're driving north. And then it's a 01:00:05.660 --> 01:00:08.920 fictional place that they arrive. So it's like, there's no geography bullshit that 01:00:09.420 --> 01:00:12.040 I can call out, unfortunately. 'Cause at first I thought I really was gonna fucking 01:00:12.540 --> 01:00:14.520 nail his ass with this. Oh man, it would've been so good. No, they were 01:00:15.020 --> 01:00:18.500 smart to use a fictional location. And this area that they're going is called Poet's 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:21.040 Corner. There you go, that's right, yeah. Which I think is the name of a 01:00:21.540 --> 01:00:25.580 neighborhood in Pleasant Hill. In Pleasant Hill! With particularly bad crime rates. I totally 01:00:26.080 --> 01:00:28.640 remember that because back when I was house shopping in bad crime neighborhoods, that was 01:00:29.140 --> 01:00:32.400 definitely one of them. It's probably great. 01:00:32.900 --> 01:00:36.200 It's probably $2 million houses now. Now, sure. But I fully said, 01:00:36.700 --> 01:00:39.030 when we were watching this, I said to Jeanie, oh, they're going to Pleasant Hill. 01:00:39.140 --> 01:00:42.540 She's like, what? And again, 01:00:43.040 --> 01:00:46.880 they're going to a place that's themed after his most annoying hobby. It would be 01:00:47.380 --> 01:00:51.120 like someone saying, hey, let's go to the Fantasy Football World Resort for 01:00:51.620 --> 01:00:55.140 our honeymoon. It's called Stadium Swim in Vegas. That's what that's called. 01:00:55.920 --> 01:00:59.840 And Charlie, you mentioned it before, but he has the classic cinema 01:01:00.340 --> 01:01:03.332 bad connection. Convertible, the bad version of a good convertible. It's like old and kind 01:01:03.832 --> 01:01:05.581 of dirty and kind of shitty looking, but it's also like it's a classic. 01:01:05.757 --> 01:01:09.162 It's like, yeah, exactly. It could get one montage, you buff that thing 01:01:09.258 --> 01:01:12.936 up, you can pay for the entire wedding. Yeah. Um, so Tony 01:01:13.145 --> 01:01:16.036 is still suspicious. Well, no, Tony— no, no, 01:01:16.100 --> 01:01:19.360 what happens is Captain Alan Arkin busts in on Tony 01:01:19.392 --> 01:01:22.685 into his office or whatever and is like— and he's doing the— he's doing the 01:01:23.185 --> 01:01:26.700 tough act that Tony wants. I'm like, you, you fucked up again. If I don't 01:01:27.200 --> 01:01:29.770 need— like all kind of stuff. And he says, you know, Captain, what are you 01:01:30.270 --> 01:01:32.570 talking about? What are you talking about? Oh, that woman that confessed to the Ralph 01:01:33.070 --> 01:01:35.230 Elliott murder, she confessed to a few more murders. He goes, I knew she would, 01:01:35.730 --> 01:01:39.310 I knew she would. Yeah, she confessed to the murders of like Abraham Lincoln and 01:01:39.810 --> 01:01:42.570 Julius Caesar, you know, whatever. It's like, oh fuck, like, so she's a nut. 01:01:43.070 --> 01:01:46.230 So she did not kill Ralph. So this gets Tony freaked out because now he 01:01:46.730 --> 01:01:50.030 is worried about— because he and Charlie shared a moment when at the wedding 01:01:50.530 --> 01:01:54.130 when she sang Only You, they shared a little look like, oh damn, that's kind 01:01:54.630 --> 01:01:57.290 of shitty. Uh, we're back below 100% again. Exactly right, we're back at 98, 01:01:57.790 --> 01:02:01.193 99. Now Tony He's at like 80%. Now he's worried because it's like, 01:02:01.209 --> 01:02:04.259 shit, maybe she did kill Ralph. And so he decides he needs to get up 01:02:04.339 --> 01:02:07.357 to where they are, but he goes to call, and this is a weird thing 01:02:07.373 --> 01:02:10.809 that happened. I don't know if this works from like the way telephone systems 01:02:10.905 --> 01:02:14.276 work. He couldn't call up to Poets 01:02:14.292 --> 01:02:18.017 Corner because of a storm. There was something about getting 01:02:18.065 --> 01:02:21.581 his phone call from San Francisco to, you know, let's call it, 01:02:21.661 --> 01:02:23.940 I don't know, Sea Ranch or something. It's somewhere up along the Sonoma Coast, 01:02:23.989 --> 01:02:27.024 right? So he couldn't call. So he He commits, 01:02:27.040 --> 01:02:30.494 like, fucking gets a plane, like, to fly him up 01:02:30.527 --> 01:02:33.788 there. Yeah. And it's Steven Wright, the comedian, 01:02:33.804 --> 01:02:37.549 very funny deadpan comedian, is the pilot. Good to 01:02:38.049 --> 01:02:39.839 see Steven Wright. Absolutely. And then, 01:02:41.849 --> 01:02:44.229 and then it's like when they land, he is able to call. 01:02:44.776 --> 01:02:48.138 It's something weird. Like, why is he able to call through a payphone once they 01:02:48.638 --> 01:02:51.458 land? Yeah, it doesn't make— kind of odd. Doesn't make any sense. But anyway, 01:02:51.606 --> 01:02:53.776 I think I skipped Skip ahead a little there. But it does, it does allow 01:02:53.904 --> 01:02:57.349 us though to see Charlie receiving a phone while he's seated 01:02:57.849 --> 01:03:00.954 at a restaurant, which is a lifelong dream of mine. That is pretty— I really— 01:03:01.098 --> 01:03:05.296 and not my own fucking phone, not my cell phone. I want a, a wired 01:03:05.344 --> 01:03:09.173 phone in a tray, on a silver tray. 100%. If you are answering 01:03:09.525 --> 01:03:12.970 your cell phone at a nice rest— at the table at a nice restaurant in 01:03:13.470 --> 01:03:16.927 the middle of a dining room, you are a fucking asshole. Yep. If a waiter 01:03:16.992 --> 01:03:20.645 or maître d' brings over a corded phone on a platter 01:03:20.661 --> 01:03:24.273 and tells you you have a Not only are you allowed to make that— take 01:03:24.773 --> 01:03:26.522 that call there at the table, everyone else in that room needs to shut the 01:03:27.022 --> 01:03:29.590 fuck up and let you take that call. Exactly. Because clearly you are very important. 01:03:29.879 --> 01:03:33.541 And I mean, you're on the border of being able to pull a, can I 01:03:33.573 --> 01:03:36.304 have the room please, to all the people there at the restaurant. 01:03:36.818 --> 01:03:39.998 If you're in one of those back kind of banquet rooms, you can do that. 01:03:40.063 --> 01:03:42.408 If you're in the main dining room, that's too far. But if you're in one 01:03:42.908 --> 01:03:46.022 of those back rooms that's open for dining but could be a banquet room they 01:03:46.522 --> 01:03:49.122 could close off, totally within your rights to ask for the room to be cleared 01:03:49.622 --> 01:03:52.974 for you. But yeah, what I did skip over though was Tony confirming, 01:03:53.568 --> 01:03:57.083 um, that Harriet was married to all the guys who died. So he like calls, 01:03:57.436 --> 01:03:59.411 you know, somebody who knew the martial arts guy and was like, oh yeah, 01:03:59.443 --> 01:04:02.219 and he like sends a picture. Oh yeah, she like lost weight since then, 01:04:02.572 --> 01:04:05.044 but that's her. And then somebody else was like, oh yeah, she's got her hair— 01:04:05.544 --> 01:04:08.511 hair's longer now, but that was her. So like, he is able to confirm that 01:04:09.011 --> 01:04:12.331 the lounge singer and Ralph and the martial arts guy, all these people were married 01:04:12.443 --> 01:04:16.199 to Harriet. And this, for Tony, is all he needs to be like, 100%, 01:04:16.215 --> 01:04:20.210 she is Mrs. X. Yeah. Charlie's absolutely in danger. danger. Like, this is what's 01:04:20.710 --> 01:04:22.071 going on. And so now he has— this is when he decides he has to 01:04:22.571 --> 01:04:25.552 get the plane and get up to, uh, Poet's Corner. And this is kind of 01:04:26.052 --> 01:04:29.562 like, uh, Scatman Crothers making his way to the, um, to the 01:04:29.611 --> 01:04:32.626 lodge in The Shining. Like, okay, this is an emergency. Like, 01:04:32.642 --> 01:04:35.722 I gotta get there. I can't just go now from there. And there was a 01:04:35.851 --> 01:04:39.396 quick scene of Harriet, like, she had all her makeup and stuff, and she opened 01:04:39.896 --> 01:04:43.150 a big thing of, like, powder foundation and pulled out, uh, it looked like a 01:04:43.650 --> 01:04:46.438 chain with, like, 3 different rings attached to it. So it was like, is that 01:04:46.938 --> 01:04:49.616 her old wedding rings? Must be, right? So we saw that very quickly. It's true. 01:04:50.132 --> 01:04:53.455 Um, so, uh, let's see. 01:04:54.343 --> 01:04:57.085 We get the commandeering a vehicle moment. Yeah, yeah. 01:04:57.795 --> 01:05:00.293 So early on, that was one of the things that Tony complained to the captain 01:05:00.793 --> 01:05:03.546 about, that he hasn't been allowed to do, right? He hasn't chased a criminal across 01:05:04.046 --> 01:05:07.152 a crowded city square. I've never commandeered a vehicle. And Alan Arkin's like, that does 01:05:07.652 --> 01:05:10.209 sound like fun, you know, whatever. So he needs to go get this. So he 01:05:10.709 --> 01:05:13.809 tries to commandeer this vehicle from the airport after landing to 01:05:14.309 --> 01:05:19.242 get the rest of the way to the hotel, and it's Charles Grodin, and he's 01:05:19.742 --> 01:05:21.140 He's like, I need to commandeer this vehicle. And he just goes, no, no, 01:05:21.640 --> 01:05:23.160 I know you actually don't have the power to do that. 01:05:24.740 --> 01:05:27.280 Please. 01:05:27.780 --> 01:05:31.320 Yeah, Charles Grodin was good in this. And then, uh, so at the same time 01:05:31.820 --> 01:05:34.980 where Charlie and Harriet were at the dinner, yeah, and then there's another couple at 01:05:35.480 --> 01:05:38.470 the dinner celebrating, you know, 30 years or a big anniversary. 01:05:38.780 --> 01:05:42.200 So they're doing this creepy thing, which always I see as more 01:05:42.700 --> 01:05:45.400 of like a Game of Thrones type thing than a modern day thing, where it's 01:05:45.900 --> 01:05:47.460 like the honeymoon chair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So everyone at the restaurant starts getting all 01:05:47.960 --> 01:05:51.600 excited to carry them in this chair back 01:05:52.100 --> 01:05:54.920 to their room so that they can fuck and everyone can just put a glass 01:05:55.420 --> 01:05:57.740 up to the door and listen from the— Just know that they're banging. Why are 01:05:58.240 --> 01:06:02.120 you so interested in this? Um, but Charlie's obviously very uncomfortable with this, 01:06:02.620 --> 01:06:04.920 but this is happening here, and it's kind of hard to fight. Tony was able 01:06:05.420 --> 01:06:09.140 to tell him over the phone, right? Ralph is— you know, basically the person 01:06:09.640 --> 01:06:12.360 who said they killed Ralph was lying. Harriet killed Ralph. Harriet is Mrs. X. 01:06:12.860 --> 01:06:15.060 This is how Tony puts it, because he's done all this confirmation of who she's 01:06:15.560 --> 01:06:18.088 married to. He said, Harriet is Mrs. X. Tony's like, And he tells him there's 01:06:18.104 --> 01:06:21.231 no doubt. Yeah. Like, this is the case. So now Charlie's freaking out. He is 01:06:21.295 --> 01:06:24.807 able, once they get into the, uh, honeymoon suite or whatever, he is able to 01:06:24.839 --> 01:06:28.639 like lock her into the closet, I think, or something 01:06:29.139 --> 01:06:32.375 like that. He locks her in somewhere. Yeah, the closet, I think. Um, but that's 01:06:32.439 --> 01:06:35.358 when Rose is suddenly there wearing the, 01:06:35.566 --> 01:06:38.629 uh, Patrick Bateman, uh, wearing the, the poncho, 01:06:38.950 --> 01:06:42.541 you know, for getting ready to kill fucking— I don't know if that wasn't Jude 01:06:43.041 --> 01:06:45.654 Law. Who was that? Jared Leto, right? That he decided to kill. with the axe 01:06:46.154 --> 01:06:48.337 and everything. And so she's ready to go. She's got the hatchet, she's got the 01:06:48.837 --> 01:06:52.192 thing, and she starts attacking Charlie. Yeah. And now Harriet can see what's 01:06:52.692 --> 01:06:55.726 happening. Wherever she is, she's behind a glass door or something. And so she's now 01:06:56.226 --> 01:06:59.308 screaming at Rose. So now Harriet is realizing what's actually happening, as the audience does, 01:06:59.405 --> 01:07:02.810 as Charlie does. We all get the story at the same time, which is that 01:07:03.099 --> 01:07:06.697 Rose has been killing Harriet's husband. She even yells at Charlie 01:07:06.729 --> 01:07:09.235 like, you tried to take her from me, you tried to come between us, 01:07:10.087 --> 01:07:13.010 so now you're gonna die, kind of thing. It's like, holy shit. Which is like, 01:07:14.440 --> 01:07:16.680 I think there was a thing she said something about, you weren't supposed to be 01:07:17.180 --> 01:07:18.940 in the room, like to Harriet or something like that. There was something, 'cause I'm 01:07:19.440 --> 01:07:22.600 thinking to myself, this is not particularly sneaky. This is not like, how did 01:07:23.100 --> 01:07:26.360 she get away with this 3 times already? It's very, that's the part that becomes 01:07:26.860 --> 01:07:29.760 much less kind of believable about the whole thing. Leaving town used to do a 01:07:30.260 --> 01:07:33.500 lot more for you, I think. Yeah, just moving from town to town. 01:07:33.630 --> 01:07:36.840 Pre-internet, that's a big thing. So Charlie's able, I think, to climb 01:07:37.340 --> 01:07:40.240 out the window, right? Yep, so Charlie's out the window and then they're kind of 01:07:40.740 --> 01:07:44.028 fighting on the roof and of course, you know, bad weather and everything. And we 01:07:44.528 --> 01:07:47.926 got some exciting axe handle, like, trying to chop his fingers as he's hanging off 01:07:47.990 --> 01:07:51.391 the roof. Yep. Um, Tony is trying to 01:07:51.407 --> 01:07:54.616 get into the room to save the day. He cannot kick the door open for 01:07:55.116 --> 01:07:58.594 the life of him. 10 times, 12 times. This old fucking hotel, 01:07:58.626 --> 01:08:01.754 like, it should be easy to police kick a door open in a hotel like 01:08:01.770 --> 01:08:05.235 that, right? Yeah. Uh, and so Tony takes, like, 5 kicks to boot it open. 01:08:05.283 --> 01:08:09.310 At least so many. But he does get in, and of course then, then lets 01:08:09.810 --> 01:08:12.250 Harriet out of the closet. Harriet's like, oh, Tony, good, you're here. 01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:15.450 Charlie's in danger. And he's like, yeah, I know. And he opens the cuffs, 01:08:15.460 --> 01:08:18.740 they're like, you're under arrest. Like, all this stuff. And there's a great 01:08:19.240 --> 01:08:22.680 scene where as Rose— this is my favorite part of this— as Rose is up 01:08:23.180 --> 01:08:27.020 on the roof, yeah, like hacking away at Charlie's— where Charlie's hands 01:08:27.520 --> 01:08:31.280 are, 'cause he's hanging sort of by the awning or whatever. So you 01:08:31.780 --> 01:08:34.540 can hear the thunk, thunk, thunk of the hatchet going into the roof over and 01:08:35.040 --> 01:08:37.920 over again. And Harriet's telling Tony, who's like smoking a cigarette trying to get a 01:08:38.420 --> 01:08:39.920 confession out of her, he's like, we could do this here, we can do this 01:08:40.420 --> 01:08:43.799 downtown. It is funny how he goes to the cops I've seen on TV mode 01:08:44.299 --> 01:08:47.699 immediately. Like, he's too juiced up. He got to commandeer a car. There's no 01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:51.119 landing that guy's ego. Yeah, I mean, to be fair, he got a ride. 01:08:51.619 --> 01:08:54.219 Like, he didn't commandeer anything. But in his mind, he's the real cop. Exactly. 01:08:54.719 --> 01:08:57.039 First time. But he's kind of like— she's like, you can hear them, they're on 01:08:57.539 --> 01:09:00.599 the roof. Like, go save Charlie, he is gonna be killed. Go. Like, you know, 01:09:01.099 --> 01:09:04.319 and he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We get a mutual, 01:09:04.819 --> 01:09:08.199 uh, nut shot, uh, when they're, when they're fighting up there on the roof. 01:09:08.699 --> 01:09:12.072 Well, not really nut, but just The— she, uh, Rose gets Charlie in the 01:09:12.572 --> 01:09:15.965 nuts and then he kicks her in that same area, which she seems to react 01:09:16.465 --> 01:09:19.410 like it hurt as much. Which, I mean, I'm sure it hurts. It hurts. 01:09:19.587 --> 01:09:22.054 It's— I mean, look, I remember I was in 3rd or 4th grade, I saw 01:09:22.554 --> 01:09:25.596 a girl get kicked between the legs because some kid said, oh, girls don't have 01:09:26.096 --> 01:09:29.057 anything there, this won't hurt. And that is not true. That is not what happened. 01:09:29.105 --> 01:09:32.165 That girl got hurt bad, you know, because somebody kicked her. Like, it doesn't matter 01:09:32.665 --> 01:09:34.761 where you get kicked, you get kicked hard enough, right? So yeah, so she reacts. 01:09:34.809 --> 01:09:37.960 The thing about it is that when Charlie got Like, I think 01:09:38.460 --> 01:09:40.780 they were wrestling over the ax at the time. They both had their hands on 01:09:41.280 --> 01:09:43.780 the hatchet. If he got kicked in the nuts, there's no way he is maintaining 01:09:44.280 --> 01:09:47.720 control of that hatchet to keep her from plowing it into 01:09:48.220 --> 01:09:51.680 his skull at that point, while also keeping his footing on the curved, 01:09:52.180 --> 01:09:55.640 you know, on a pitched, wet roof. Like, the number of things that 01:09:56.140 --> 01:10:00.400 he had to simultaneously handle was like, no. Getting kicked in the nuts absolutely zeros 01:10:00.900 --> 01:10:04.880 out that ledger. Like, you are fucked. That would be a death blow for sure. 01:10:05.040 --> 01:10:06.480 100%. Yeah. You're either getting the ax in the head at that point, or you're 01:10:06.980 --> 01:10:10.120 falling off the roof. off the roof 30 feet to the ground and dying 01:10:10.620 --> 01:10:14.300 that way. Either way. But Charlie overcomes 01:10:14.800 --> 01:10:18.360 in the fight and is able to get himself saved. Rose gets taken 01:10:18.860 --> 01:10:22.060 in. Yep. And Rose is arrested. Rose is arrested. She doesn't even 01:10:22.560 --> 01:10:25.040 seem unhappy about it. No, she's kind of just like, all right, well, this is 01:10:25.540 --> 01:10:27.220 the next thing I'm doing. I think it's just like, yeah, she was kind of 01:10:27.720 --> 01:10:29.740 like, well, I was gonna get caught at some point. Yeah. And it was this 01:10:30.240 --> 01:10:34.000 time. All right. Like, so yeah, that's pretty much it. And we get the 3rd 01:10:34.500 --> 01:10:37.860 music drop of The Laws. There She Goes, as we kind of roll into 01:10:37.966 --> 01:10:40.790 the, the closing credits. There's not really anything else to it. Yeah, we got a 01:10:41.290 --> 01:10:44.336 final poem, uh, by Charlie. That's right, I forgot about the final poem. 01:10:44.400 --> 01:10:47.288 So, so he's got his poem that kind of sums up, you know, a lot 01:10:47.788 --> 01:10:51.284 of the stuff that, that happened. Uh, it was good. So yeah, life continues now. 01:10:51.460 --> 01:10:55.793 So Charlie and Harriet are married and they're living off a single butcher 01:10:56.293 --> 01:10:59.804 shop wage, uh, to cover 2 apartments in San Francisco, 01:10:59.884 --> 01:11:03.077 and including that loft that apparently is half Rose's, and she's 01:11:03.577 --> 01:11:05.869 not helping out with now. So there's a mortgage or rent on that, whatever. 01:11:05.966 --> 01:11:08.882 it is. Like, I'm sure she was contributing something, not that we know what she 01:11:09.382 --> 01:11:12.375 does. Like, we don't— we know nobody's jobs in this entire movie except we know 01:11:12.875 --> 01:11:16.686 Tony's a cop, Harriet owns a butcher shop, Stuart was once a butcher. Yeah, 01:11:16.702 --> 01:11:20.195 yeah. I don't think we've got a job for anybody else that aren't people that 01:11:20.227 --> 01:11:22.487 were met in those jobs, you know what I mean? Like, like the captain and 01:11:22.987 --> 01:11:25.451 stuff. But yeah, but that, uh, that is So I Married the Next Murderer. 01:11:25.996 --> 01:11:29.201 All right. Okay, so look, I, I love 01:11:29.701 --> 01:11:32.970 this movie. I really do love this movie, but I'm also pretty realistic about this 01:11:33.470 --> 01:11:37.070 movie. It is not something that is like— this isn't one of 01:11:37.570 --> 01:11:39.230 those movies that I'm like, oh my God, if you haven't seen this, like, 01:11:39.730 --> 01:11:42.130 you've got to see it. Like, I love it. I enjoy it. Like I said, 01:11:42.630 --> 01:11:45.030 a lot of it is shorthand between my wife and I. Negatory, good buddy. 01:11:45.530 --> 01:11:47.910 We've got a Piper Doon. Like, these are things that we just like, we'll find 01:11:48.410 --> 01:11:50.730 ways to like fit into everyday conversation. Yeah. And that's so much fun. And I'll 01:11:51.230 --> 01:11:54.890 love that forever. It's a good movie. I do recommend it. I don't 01:11:55.390 --> 01:11:58.390 think it's one you need to like rush out and see. So with a little 01:11:58.890 --> 01:12:01.390 nostalgia bump, like I do with— like I did with Summer Rental, I'm going with 01:12:01.890 --> 01:12:04.289 a 3.5 out of 5 on So I Married an Actor. Murderer. I think it's 01:12:04.789 --> 01:12:07.966 very enjoyable, you know, but it is not without its flaws. And, and, 01:12:07.998 --> 01:12:10.952 and we've, I think, covered most of those. Yeah, last hour or so. 01:12:11.434 --> 01:12:14.244 But yeah, so what is your take, Nick, on So I Married an Axe Murderer? 01:12:14.405 --> 01:12:17.953 Yeah, I mean, so not having seen this, right, I didn't have the, 01:12:18.130 --> 01:12:22.144 the built-in nostalgia and stuff. And, and with 01:12:22.192 --> 01:12:25.500 a lot of comedies that I hadn't seen that are from the 01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:28.775 '80s and '90s, watching them now, like, comedy is tough. Comedy is tough to hold 01:12:28.952 --> 01:12:32.884 up. Um, this was surrounded by some great Mike 01:12:33.384 --> 01:12:36.206 Myers stuff. I love Wayne's World. Wayne's World 2 holds up so well. 01:12:36.334 --> 01:12:39.849 Austin Powers, still great. Uh, and for some reason, 01:12:39.929 --> 01:12:42.978 I feel like with Mike Myers is kind of the same, uh, 01:12:42.994 --> 01:12:46.637 to me as Sacha Baron Cohen, where I like him when he's in a costume. 01:12:46.830 --> 01:12:49.349 Sure. But I don't really like him when he's just like being a guy. 01:12:50.200 --> 01:12:53.778 Um, and, uh, and again, like with what we talked about at the beginning, 01:12:53.891 --> 01:12:57.373 where this script was not the original 01:12:57.873 --> 01:13:00.101 I, I think that it could have been better if it was just scrapped. 01:13:00.165 --> 01:13:03.230 Like, let's take the general outline of it and just redo it. 01:13:03.278 --> 01:13:06.728 Yeah. Rather than keep trying to like change and rework and rework, 01:13:06.984 --> 01:13:10.450 because then it became a kind of a jumbled thing. Like, the idea 01:13:10.579 --> 01:13:14.317 of it's a thriller but it's a comedy is interesting. 01:13:14.365 --> 01:13:17.623 And like, the, the, the plot ideas— I like the cameos. 01:13:17.879 --> 01:13:21.746 I liked, uh, I liked Alan Arkin. I liked Grodin a lot. I love 01:13:22.246 --> 01:13:25.373 Charles Grodin, man. Phil Hartman is great in this. Phil Hartman, Steven Wright. We got 01:13:25.873 --> 01:13:28.984 some really, uh, some really good people in this. in there. Overall though, a lot 01:13:29.484 --> 01:13:32.739 of the jokes didn't work that well for me. I didn't like Mike 01:13:33.239 --> 01:13:36.013 Myers' character. I was not rooting for him in any way. Like we talked about, 01:13:36.334 --> 01:13:38.773 he doesn't have a job. Like, what does he do? What is he offering this 01:13:39.273 --> 01:13:43.059 woman except for a very niche type of humor that only she thinks is 01:13:43.155 --> 01:13:46.397 funny? Because he's never— he's not— other than the would you rather scene, 01:13:46.445 --> 01:13:49.944 he's not like riffing with his buds. It seems like he's more subjecting 01:13:49.992 --> 01:13:53.057 everybody to his shit than like going along. Fair. 01:13:54.310 --> 01:13:57.850 Fair. So I wasn't a huge fan of this. I definitely see why people like 01:13:58.350 --> 01:14:01.170 it, and everyone has told me I'm wrong to not like this movie. But for 01:14:01.670 --> 01:14:03.850 me, So I Married an Axe Murderer is just a 2 out of 5 for 01:14:04.350 --> 01:14:07.060 me. 2 out of 5. Right. So it gets us to 5.5 out of 10, 01:14:07.150 --> 01:14:10.250 which is, you know, we're there with Rotten Tomatoes. We are kind of right at 01:14:10.750 --> 01:14:13.850 5.5. Yes, right there. So yeah, so that is how we land on So I 01:14:14.350 --> 01:14:17.870 Married an Axe Murderer. And Nick, what hilarious comedy 01:14:18.370 --> 01:14:21.090 are you going to bring to the table next week? Yeah, so I thought we'd 01:14:21.590 --> 01:14:24.601 continue the run of hilarious comedies. No, so, 01:14:25.018 --> 01:14:28.367 uh, I had something different picked, but when I slotted this one in, 01:14:28.864 --> 01:14:32.421 it was for a couple reasons. Uh, we talk sometimes about how many episodes we've 01:14:32.921 --> 01:14:35.402 done. We're on, what, like 70-something now, right? 75, I think. 01:14:35.450 --> 01:14:39.296 75. And, uh, and there's certain people that we haven't seen yet who are 01:14:39.796 --> 01:14:43.254 such big stars of this era. So this movie is— A, 01:14:43.542 --> 01:14:46.378 it's one of my wife's favorite movies. I've watched it. 01:14:46.490 --> 01:14:49.856 I, I really have enjoyed it over the years, and it brings us some 01:14:50.356 --> 01:14:53.480 people we haven't seen yet. Okay. Uh, and we're gonna get to see Tom Cruise 01:14:53.980 --> 01:14:57.180 for the first time. Big. We're gonna get to see Jack Nicholson for the first 01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:00.380 time. Huge. Uh, and bigger than all that, we get to see Kevin Pollak for 01:15:00.880 --> 01:15:02.500 the first time. Oh, thank God. I was wondering when we were gonna get to 01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:05.700 Kevin Pollak, man. Does he do any impressions in this one? Because I really love 01:15:06.200 --> 01:15:10.900 it when he does impressions. All right. Um, so we are gonna watch 1992's 01:15:11.400 --> 01:15:14.540 courtroom military thriller drama A Few Good Men. 01:15:15.040 --> 01:15:18.280 Yes, I love A Few Good Good Men. I'm a huge fan. Uh, 01:15:18.780 --> 01:15:21.320 I think this will be the first time we've got an Aaron Sorkin-penned screenplay. 01:15:21.580 --> 01:15:24.460 Yeah, this is the first time we'll see Demi Moore, I think. Yeah, I think 01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:28.360 you're right. First time we'll see Kiefer Sutherland. Yeah, I think probably at least 01:15:28.860 --> 01:15:31.960 one or two more, maybe. No, sec, I feel like no. 01:15:32.460 --> 01:15:34.960 Uh, oh no, Executive Decision we didn't do on this podcast, right? Right, we did 01:15:35.460 --> 01:15:37.460 that on Cinema 9 because he was in that. That's a good point, might be 01:15:37.960 --> 01:15:40.340 the first J.T. Walsh for us. Like, yeah, a lot. Like, this is, this is 01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:44.290 a wonderful 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon movie. has Kevin Bacon in it, 01:15:44.790 --> 01:15:48.290 but it is just like the cast is stacked. Yes. And it's such a different 01:15:48.790 --> 01:15:52.650 kind of movie where it's just like, this is script and acting and dialogue as 01:15:53.150 --> 01:15:56.790 opposed to like a First Blood type thing where it's explosions and grunts, you know? 01:15:57.290 --> 01:15:59.170 100%. And, and we'll get into it obviously next week when we watch it. 01:15:59.670 --> 01:16:01.130 First of all, yes, thank you so much for bringing it. One of my favorite 01:16:01.630 --> 01:16:03.920 movies of all time. Absolutely excited to talk about it with you next week. 01:16:04.090 --> 01:16:06.350 Um, you know, and I'm sure you knew this because it says it up front 01:16:06.850 --> 01:16:08.930 of the movie, but like, uh, this was a play originally, and a couple of 01:16:09.430 --> 01:16:13.263 Aaron Sorkin's early movies Malice starring Alec Baldwin was also originally a play. And there 01:16:13.311 --> 01:16:17.290 is a feel to movies when they're adapted 01:16:17.790 --> 01:16:21.092 from stage plays. 100%. You nailed most of it, right? It's kind of the character 01:16:21.592 --> 01:16:25.424 dialogue acting core of it really has to land and be really great. 01:16:25.744 --> 01:16:29.290 And then you'll notice how few locations there really are. There's like, you know, 01:16:29.354 --> 01:16:32.771 I think in this movie, 4 or 5, like that really dominate kind of everything. 01:16:33.365 --> 01:16:36.280 And because it's not on stage, they will throw in, you know, other other places 01:16:36.780 --> 01:16:39.960 they go that maybe would have been inferred potentially on stage play. 01:16:40.460 --> 01:16:42.600 But yeah, it's like really cool. So, all right, A Few Good Men next week. 01:16:42.640 --> 01:16:46.520 That's fantastic. I think you're absolutely right to finally bring us Tom Cruise 01:16:47.020 --> 01:16:51.420 and Jack Nicholson and these other actors. It's like Kevin Pollak, most importantly, of course. 01:16:51.920 --> 01:16:54.620 Yeah, so that's what we will watch. And I think we might have a third 01:16:55.120 --> 01:16:58.350 mic for that podcast, actually. Not a dad, 01:16:58.570 --> 01:17:01.854 but since it's one of her favorite movies, she's going to Join 01:17:01.966 --> 01:17:05.833 us for the recording next Wednesday morning when we wake up at five a.m. 01:17:06.298 --> 01:17:09.603 My wife Jeannie is going to join us for it. That's fantastic. I should let 01:17:10.103 --> 01:17:12.251 you know though, the episodes have been coming out at three a.m. Pacific ever since 01:17:12.751 --> 01:17:16.310 our buddy Jeff Harrow asked them to be there for his five a.m. 01:17:16.358 --> 01:17:19.775 Central dog walk. Okay. Do that for him. So yeah. So even earlier, 01:17:19.791 --> 01:17:22.679 we got to make sure that Jeannie's here at three to do that. So yeah. 01:17:23.064 --> 01:17:26.289 Cool. Very much looking forward to that as well. That's a wrap. 01:17:26.674 --> 01:17:28.536 If you like what you. If you like what you hear, please consider heading over 01:17:29.036 --> 01:17:32.213 to Apple or Spotify and leaving us a 5-star review. 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