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Hey, landlord! Oh, that's amazing. I thought they were

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extinct. I could swear that that's the call of the red-beaked,

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seersuckered summer renter.

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And it is. Why aren't you home packing?

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You took a vacation away from my family. Now I'm going to take something away

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from you. What can you take from me?

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That. What, my cup? Yeah.

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You think you can, uh, outsail me? Yes.

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You couldn't beat my dinghy.

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Really? Really. You wanna bet?

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What are you gonna bet, huh? What, popcorn?

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Nah. Lobsters?

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$1,000.

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The last 2 weeks' rent. You win, you keep the check. We go

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home. I win, I keep the check. We stay here

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2 weeks rent-free. Do we have a bet?

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You know something, Dumbo? You're even stupider

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than you look. It's 2 Dads

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1 Movie. It's the podcast where 2 middle-aged dads sit around and

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shoot the shit about the movies of the '80s and '90s. Here are

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your hosts, Steve Paulo and Nic Briana.

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

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I'm Steve. And I'm Nic. And today we are diving into summer, 'cause it

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is summer. That's right. With the 1985 John Candy vehicle,

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Summer Rental. And this was one of my picks. And I am gonna be totally

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transparent. I'm gonna be totally honest here. This is one of those movies that if

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you've seen those memes that go around or the comment sections on like either Facebook

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or Reddit or whatever these days where it's like, hey, what was that one movie

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that you had as a kid and like watched 1,000 times and like nobody else

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seems to give a shit about? This was one of two. Okay, movies for me

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that would fit that category. The other one's Iron Eagle, and we're gonna watch Iron

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Eagle someday too. But Summer Rental is absolutely one of those movies. I mean,

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who didn't love John Candy, right? I mean, just in general. And then this was

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just one of those like incredibly easy watches. It was like a movie if I

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got sick and was staying home from school, like I would put this on.

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We had it on VHS. I wore the tape out, uh, and it was just

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a movie I watched a thousand times. And when I bring it up to other

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people, most of the time they've either never heard of it or they're like,

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oh, is that the one where John Candy goes on vacation with Dan Aykroyd?

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I'm like, no, no, that's The Great Outdoors. Like, oh, oh, it's the one with

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the It's like, yeah, yeah, that's the one. But it's like there's no recognition

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of like, oh, I love that movie too. So, so I come in adoring this

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movie. Nic, what's your, what's your background with Summer Rental? Um, I definitely saw

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this as a kid. And, uh, because it was— I mean, this is a very

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solid PG. It's like a very comfortable PG.

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And, uh, it is something as a kid you're like, oh, this is cool,

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because it would be cool if my family like packed up the car and went

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and stayed at a place for like, yeah, a month. Or yeah, you know,

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at least. Yeah. And, uh, and, and I liked it and I liked John Candy,

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but I I did. I think my memory did meld this and The Great Outdoors

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a lot, you know, so I might be thinking about, oh, that part in Summer

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Rental where he has to eat the giant steak. I was thinking, okay, that's not

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in there. Um, so lobsters in this one, it's the steak in that one.

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That's right, Mr. Surf and Turf himself, John Candy. Never caught

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up to him. No, no, he's fine. So, uh,

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so yeah, this was one that I definitely had a memory of seeing and I

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remember enjoying as a kid, but I don't think I'd seen it as an adult.

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So yeah, uh, yeah, it was interesting to go back and look at it,

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but I love John And, you know, my thought was

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John Candy can do no wrong. And, I mean, we'll see. No, I think that's

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fair. And I think this is another one, you know, we talked, uh, it was

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a few weeks ago now, uh, about The Big Lebowski. And it was like,

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I remember going into that one kind of worried, like, I hadn't seen it in

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a while. Is it gonna hold up? Or is it gonna be like, um,

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another movie we're gonna see at some point, The Boondock Saints, that I know I

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do not like as much now as I did when I was like 19,

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20 years old. I thought it was a masterpiece. And I know when we go

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back to watch it, that's not gonna be the case. So I was kind of

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worried about this one too. It's like, okay, is it just nostalgia? Is there anything,

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you know, that's like really good about it? or funny in this. Yeah, um,

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I laughed a lot watching it, so I, I can't wait to get into it

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with you and, and talk it through. But it'll be interesting to see, uh,

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if we land in the same spot with, uh, nostalgia versus actual

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quality. Yeah, I think so much of our show hinges on that fulcrum.

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For sure. All right, let's jump into the facts on Summer Rental. Uh, the film

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Summer Rental was released on August 9th, 1985 with a PG rating. As you said,

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a very solid PG. There's like nothing kind of offensive about this movie,

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even given that it was the mid-'80s. Right. Right. Yeah, it's pretty tame.

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PG could have meant a lot of things. Uh, it has a running time officially

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of 87 minutes, was directed by the great Carl Reiner, which I,

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I was surprised to see. I don't even think I ever really knew, like,

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ever registered that, that this is a Carl Reiner movie. Uh, it was written by

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Jeremy Stephens and Mark Reisman and stars John Candy, Richard Crenna, and Rip Torn.

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Scores are not favorable. On Rotten Tomatoes, this earned

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19% fresh, which I don't think is this the lowest we've seen. I think Troop

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Beverly Hills was 17, but it is right in that conversation. On IMDb,

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a very, very poor 6.3. And this is a film Siskel and Ebert did

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not review in At the Movies at all. I looked into it a bit and

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they took August of 1985 off. And I get the sense that

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by the time they got back to do their shows in September, like this wasn't

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in theaters anymore. It hadn't made a splash. So it was like they didn't even

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bother. Siskel and Ebert gave it 2. Psych! Yeah, right, exactly.

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Yeah. And then no awards action to speak of. There were a couple things,

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something called the Young Artist Awards, back then where they both— Kerri Green and Joey

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Lawrence, the, the 2 older kids, were nominated as Best New or Best Young Actress,

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Best Young Actor. Not win. Oh, interesting. But it was interesting. They got a little

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bit of sort of credit for, as youngsters, uh, for doing this movie,

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um, on a budget. So this is the hard part. This is the first time

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I have not been able to nail down a budget for a film that

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we've covered. Yeah. Uh, and you mentioned pre— before the pod too, it's like we

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had like to the dollar, you've got Kevin Smith's Clerks. Like, seriously, really everything.

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He had receipts stapled behind his budget. Like, you knew every line item there.

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100%. This was Carl Reiner, clearly a little— and John Candy and

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Richard Crenna. I mean, these were all stars. Yeah. Candy, Crenna, and Torn were all

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names at this point. Carl Reiner was a name at this point. So there was

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obviously some cost. The estimation is $10 to $15 million, which, like, the boat

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stuff alone, I'm sure leans it in towards that $15 stuff,

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right? So much of this is filmed on the water, on boats, which means they

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were filming from boats. Like, there's a lot of, like, complicated filmmaking to go into

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that. We'll call it $12.5 for our purposes of, like, figuring out a multiplier,

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'cause it did only take in $24.7 million. That's just less than $25 million.

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twice what it cost. I learned something interesting recently, actually, and I don't know

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if this is the way it was in the '80s and '90s as well,

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but I think it is, and it's certainly true today. If you've ever heard the

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sort of rule of thumb that a movie's gotta make twice what it costs to

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even come close to making any money, it's because the theaters

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keep half the ticket price, which makes sense. They gotta make their money somehow.

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Oh, okay, yeah, yeah. I know they make a lot of money on popcorn and

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soda, but apparently all that box office gross that goes in,

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all that money they say, this is what the movie made, half of that went

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to the distributor, you know, the cinema's actually showing it. Oh. So if they

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don't make twice the money, then they're not really back to square one,

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right, with the budget. That's such a simple calculation, 'cause in my mind it was

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like, well, we're factoring like ad promotion and overseas stuff and lawsuit

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reserves and all this shit. And it's like, oh no, it's because they get half

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the money. But then also that shit too. Like for sure there's like, yeah,

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what's the marketing budget? That never gets factored into the— when you see the budget

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for a film, it never includes marketing. It's production budget only, right? Exactly, it's production

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budget. So it's like, you know, acquiring, it's paying the cast and paying the writers

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and the director and all the crew. It's, you know, location scouting and the

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actual, like, act of filming, and then whatever, like, equipment and materials they need,

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right? Like, that's what that number is. So it does have this hidden—

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and it's, you know, Hollywood is famous for its bullshit accounting. For sure. And one

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of the reasons it can do it is because that marketing budget is— it's fugazi,

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you know? Yeah, totally. It's not a thing. So they're like, one agency's paying another

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agency, who's then paying them back, and like all this stuff. But yeah, if we

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knew the exact dollar amount of John Candy and ripped, torn billboards that were put

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up to promote this movie, that would be good to know. It would be good

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to know, but we don't have that info. is that it didn't quite make that,

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that 2x sort of bare minimum. So this was not in any way a

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success at the box office. All right. Um, but you know what? It was a

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success in my heart and from my couch. Uh, well,

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I remember, I specifically remember watching this movie on a, uh,

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wooden-framed CRT television with like a wicker panel. Oh, yes. You know what I

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mean? That kind of like a— maybe not wicker, rattan, kind of a rattan sort

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of like panel where the speaker is. Yes. Really old school '80s TV.

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Oh, it must have sounded so good though. Sounded like shit.

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All right, Steve. Well, where do we start off here? Let's dive

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in. So we start off with kind of a fun way to start. Maybe a

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little voiceover with just some establishing shots. We don't really see the family, but it's

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obviously morning. We're hearing the Chesters. This is Jack Chester,

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John Candy, and his kids and his wife. And and he's kind of trying to

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rush out to to work. Yep. His son has made his son Joe.

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Well, Bobby, played by Joey Lawrence, is has like made eggs. And he's like,

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"I made I made." I had to make. I love this. I had to make.

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Breakfast for school. I made spaghetti and one hard-boiled egg.

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Yeah. And he goes, "Well, keep the spaghetti, but give me the egg. Throw in

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another one, and I'll get going." Which creates a very funny moment where he's on

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his way to work then, and he cracks one egg and is able to sort

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of peel and eat it. But then he goes to crack the other egg,

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and he didn't ask him to boil it all over his car, all over everywhere.

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But even the first egg, I mean, there are egg bits of the peel all

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over. It's just disgusting. And this is a movie that my wife watches

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most of these with me, and this one she's like. Um, dude, I'll pop in

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whenever, but she is weird. I mean, a lot of people like really

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hate the egg and the hard-boiled egg, like that situation. So I was

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explaining that it was like going into the vents of his car and stuff.

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Um, but it's a really funny gag of like— they

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do a good job of establishing just how like flustered and overwhelmed

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he is and how much he needs this upcoming— Yeah, and it's, it's just a

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lot. It's a scene of domesticity. It's, it's just showing us like Jack's a regular

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guy. He's got a family, he's got a, a career. Maybe the career's a little

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demanding. We get a thing where, uh, he tries to leave with coffee and his

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wife stops him and gives him like tea or something instead because the coffee is

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bad for him. You know, like ulcer, like all this stuff. So we're getting the

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hint that he is overworked. I feel like ulcers were such a bigger thing in

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the '80s and '90s, right? Especially in movies. It feels like— It's like the main

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thing. Like every, every other protagonist had an ulcer, right? Or,

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or, you know, you go to the— And they're chugging Maalox. Right, yeah, exactly.

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Yeah. Oh my God. Oh, uh, one thing that I noticed that I think,

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uh, 2 things. I loved his dash-mounted cup holder.

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It was very cool. I was like, oh yeah, cars weren't built with factory cup

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holders, so you had to get a cup holder that stuck to your dash with

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a special cup that stuck to that. Exactly. Yeah. Uh, and then I thought this

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movie gets a Steve point because of the Alan Silvestri, uh,

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score. It's, it's fantastic, dudes. I was like, okay, there's a Steve

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point for, for that. Silvestri, great composer, also pretty fantastic

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winemaker. There's a Silvestri Vineyards, has a tasting room in Carmel-by-the-Sea

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that is well worth checking out. Partly because it's covered in the movie posters of

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movies he scored with his score playing from different things. You can walk in and

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hear the Back to the Future soundtrack and stuff. It's a really neat place.

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Yeah, great little tasting room in Carmel. Nice. So, yeah,

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so he's driving to work and we find out, it's funny, there are 2 ways

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we find out that he's in Atlanta, in my opinion. The first is that every

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radio station is like Christian Bible beating, like it's all just pastors on the radio.

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And then he's driving down a highway and if you look at the highway signs,

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it's like one direction to Montgomery, one to Macon. So it's, you know, it's where

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he is. And of course Atlanta. Hartfield-Jackson is one of the most busy airports in

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the country, even was back in the '80s. And that's our man Jack Chester as

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an air traffic controller there at Hartfield-Jackson. Yeah. So, and he—

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we see a couple really quick scenes. It's such an economical opening because we see

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a couple really quick moments of him directing planes, you know,

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telling, you know, whatever. And at one point he is— he says a heading and

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an altitude to one plane, and the pilot comes back over and goes, can you

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repeat that? And he goes, yeah, you know, descend to 17,000, heading 250,

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or whatever. And he goes, Yeah, there's a jumbo jet there. Are you trying to

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mate us? Like, and he goes, disregard,

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disregard, go here instead, you know. And so it's showing his flustered, and then he

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really freaks out because he thinks he lost a plane. There's a plane that's not

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on his radar anymore, and his boss comes over and shows him that a fly

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just landed on the little dot, you know, that exists. And he's like, dude,

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come on, get— let's get a drink of coffee, like, or whatever. Like, you need

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to calm down, let's go for a walk. But yeah, and that basically gives us

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the premise for the whole movie. Exactly. Like, he needs this vacation. I So

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I guess at this time, Jack Chester is one of the replacement

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air traffic controllers. So in 1981, there was a very famous air traffic

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controller strike. Right. And the way that Ronald Reagan responded to it was firing

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all of the air traffic controllers and replacing them either with, like,

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retired ones or, like, military-affiliated people,

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which fucks up air travel for sure. It is crazy. Kind of awesome

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if you plan on flying a bunch of drugs into the country. But, um,

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but yeah, that was interesting that this happened so soon before that.

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And I, I don't know, Carl Reiner. I mean that the strike

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happened soon, like before this. I'm sorry. But Carl Reiner, I don't know. I know

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Rob Reiner was like pretty vocally like political. Yes,

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politically vocal. And I know Carl Reiner was like left-leaning and wouldn't have liked Reagan.

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Yeah, but I don't know if you would have put this in on purpose as

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any kind of thing. It just seems like a good, interesting job that could be

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stressful and shown to be stressful very easily on film.

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100%. I think that's the the crux of it, because they even said something like—

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his boss says something like, you've been landing planes for 13 years, you've never taken

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a vacation. So it's like apparently he's been working straight through. So he scabbed

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through the strike. Yeah, maybe. I don't like Jack Chester anymore. Not a man of

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the people. Let's go ahead and end it now. Um, yeah, so they,

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they tell him, uh, what is it, a 5-week sabbatical they put him on?

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Yeah, it's basically— yeah, mandatory 5. So he's got to take 5 weeks off.

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So, you know, what are you gonna do for 5 weeks in the summer?

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Uh, and, uh, And yeah, they're gonna go to Florida and

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to Citrus Cove, Florida, and spend you know

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chunk of summer there. Like I get it; they're in Atlanta. It's not that long

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a drive. It makes sense. You know where they should go. It's so funny.

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I think it's I think when I was younger, I never really clocked that they

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were in Atlanta. Like that never registered to me. Yeah. And later he wears a

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Chicago Blackhawks hockey jersey and several seasons. Exactly. And so

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I always thought, man, they drove all the way from Chicago to Florida. That's kind

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of insane. That's like a two or three day trip. It's got to be right.

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Yeah. No, just just Georgia. Like it's not that far. Yeah. I'm glad that they.

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I'm glad that they had established the geography too, because I always would just default

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assume that John Candy is playing a character from the Midwest. Right, of course.

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So absolutely. And Citrus Cove, I mean, it looks beautiful.

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It looks great. Yeah. Uh, the house that they check in, that they walk into,

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is, is really nice, you know, all the wood paneling, but like an ideal situation

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for a rental cabin. They just— incredible views out there, right on the water.

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Like, you look out the window and it's like the beach is like right there.

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They got no separation, man. They are— yeah, they're killing it. It's good. And it

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seems like a good relationship too. Like, Jack is very,

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uh, kind of openly self-conscious about his weight and stuff, but his wife is very

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sweet. She's very supportive towards him and stuff. Yeah. Um, and it's kind of interesting,

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like, for, you know, 40 years ago, for a male character to

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be like, you know, uncomfortable with his body. And especially because look at Candy

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in this movie. It's the slimmest I think he's ever been on film. He actually—

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I mean, he's still got the double chin, you know, whatever, but like his actual

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like midsection is— he's smaller than in most movies, you know. You think about Stripes

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was only a few years before this. I think Uncle Buck was only a couple

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years after this, and you look at him in both of those movies, he's significantly

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bigger than he was for this. So I'm not quite sure what was going on

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in Candy's life at the time that had him dropping some weight, whether that was

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a good thing or a bad thing, 'cause it certainly can be both or either,

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right? Right. But he certainly had slimmed down. And there's a great line here where,

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yeah, like you're talking about his self-deprecation and sort of self-consciousness. He tells his wife,

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Sandy, he's like, oh, I forgot a bathing suit. I guess I can't

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go in the water all summer long. Aw, geez. And she goes, I like how

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you look in a bathing suit. And he turns and goes, my mother was right.

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You're twisted. And it's just like, I love the— I

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think you're right. There's like, there's a caring and a sort of like lovely

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continued infatuation with each other that this married couple shows, which is like

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so refreshing, I think. Totally. Because it's like, it's easy to go for the joke

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where they're like bickering at each other off the bat. You know, that's like an

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easy— ripe for comedy. Yeah, absolutely. He introduces

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himself to a couple of these neighbors who look very much like the Underhills from

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The Stretch, like just in this country club '80s snob vein,

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right? And he introduces him. Jack Chester, we're staying

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next door. And you are? And the lady's just like having lunch.

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And they just— oh. But yeah,

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he's glad. He's like watching the kids. They're playing in the surf or whatever.

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And he goes to like lay down and he kind of ends up falling asleep.

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Yeah. We get a very brief— I love these little moments where they do this

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establishment. This is Carl Reiner being a really good filmmaker, I think, in some of

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it. But, you know, a plane flies by that just says Citrus

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Cove Regatta, July 15th. So that's it, we've established that a regatta exists,

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right? Nothing else about it yet, just file that in the back of your mind,

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that's there. But, you know, the kids wake him up and he's been falling,

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he's been asleep, and he's had his like arms up above his head, and so

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his underarm, kind of back of his forearm and arm— He

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is insanely red. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. And even the daughter is like,

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hey, Dad, like, that looks pretty bad. And he's trying to play it off,

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he's like, oh, no, no, no, you gotta do these things in stages. That's a

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good base, that's a good base. Oh yeah, no, he's red. He's fucking so

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in pain. Oh, man. And then, uh, yeah, so, so this is

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just kind of a series of little fun vacation misadventures. They end

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up, uh, at the local lobster restaurant, and he's very excited. Oh, yeah.

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So there's a big line going out the door, but Jack is at the tank,

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which is right by the front, and he's like, ooh, which one's gonna be mine?

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Look at all these lobsters. All fired up. And the family— God bless these young

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children for being excited about having a lobster. I mean, especially the youngest is what,

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2 and a half, 3 years old? It surprises me that she would be into

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a lobster. You know, ripping a lobster at 2 and a half. That's a way

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for Dad to get himself a second lobster. That is not your choice.

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One of the lines that always stuck with me here is, you know, they're talking

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about how long it is to wait, and he comes back and he says,

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I brought us some mint-flavored toothpicks to hold us over.

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That one I totally remembered from when I saw this as a kid. And such

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a classic dad move in the '80s, right? Like, maybe like, you know, yeah,

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either they'd either have little mint-flavored toothpicks or maybe those little pinwheel mints,

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right? If you could grab a couple, or I mean, even better, what are those

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pillow mints or whatever? Remember those? Those little kind of buttery things? Those are

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good if they're mint. Half the time they'd just be loose in a bowl,

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and there's some kid's grubby mitt going into it, so it's like you can't trust

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it. You gotta get the ones with the little tiny white cellophane. Those are okay.

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But yeah, but yeah, dad grabbing just anything to like get your mind off the

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fact that you're that hungry. Um, but so they finally then get up to where

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they're next, right? They've been waiting the whole time. He's still bright red, and there

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are only a few lobsters left in the tank. And it's, and it's clear that

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there are many fewer now than when he, you know, walked up before. And the

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maître d', who's got a thick Italian accent for some reason, is like, you know,

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oh, yours will be the very next table, like, you know, kind of thing.

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Except now we get introduced to a new character,

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Al Pelé, who is played by Richard

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Crenna, and who Bobby, the son, noticed at first,

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at one point, saying— because there's all these trophies in the restaurant here and pictures

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of Al having won the Citrus Cove Regatta for like 7 years in a

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row, and there's trophies, and there's like, you know, all this stuff. And Bobby's like,

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whoa, Dad, look at this guy. It's like, he must be good. It's like Lebowski's

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trophy room there. Right, exactly. But in a restaurant for some reason. Apparently this is

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Al's favorite restaurant. I guess that's basically it. And so, but he walks up with

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four guests and just walks straight up to the maître d'. And the maître d's

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all like, "Oh, Captain Pelle, how are you doing?" Or whatever. I don't know what

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fucking accent he has, but it's something strong, you know. And he's like, "Hey,

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there'll be five of us. Just seat us now, please." And he's like, "Oh,

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of course." So he walks him off. Yeah. And Jack is like,

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"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! You said we were the next table." And

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he goes, "Oh, well, Mr. Pelle had a that's Mr. Pelle had a reservation.

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Thought you didn't take reservations. Well, we do for Mr. Pelle. You know." And he's

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like trying to be nice about it. But Jack's just like, we're next. Like,

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don't screw around, we're next. Well, the problem is we cut back then to the

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table. And they ordered the last. And this is a great character moment for Al

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because he's like, first he orders everybody, what do you say we all have the

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lobster? And he goes to his buddy next to him, he goes, no arguments,

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tonight's dinner is on you. He thought he said, I was gonna say on me.

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He thought I said— and he's just like, thinks it's the funniest thing in the

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world. Yeah. Oh my God. That's a good line.

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Before Al Pelle even says anything, you know he's gonna be an asshole 'cause he's

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wearing the captain's hat. And like kind of snaps, I think, at his own

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friends or whatever, wife. He has that good '80s butthole look.

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He really does. Krennic can just so pull off anything

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that requires a hard ass or an asshole. Like, there's the Trautman stuff,

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there's this, you know, even like, I think, wasn't he Rachel's dad in

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later episodes of Friends? Like, I'm pretty sure he's the guy who plays

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Dr. Green. And it's just it works like every time,

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you know. Yeah. It's like and he he just seems so natural with yeah

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with like an ascot and a captain's hat on. Yeah. It's just perfect for him.

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They nailed that. And then especially as a kid, if you're thinking about this movie's

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made for like ten-year-olds at the time, they're like boom, I identify this guy sucks.

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And and so Jack is pissed off and he comes over to the table like

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they've ordered his lobsters. He's like hey, this is my table. These are my lobsters.

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Yeah. And then Pelly gets up and kind of makes a scene. Yes. He goes

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oh these are your lobsters and he like. Like, because Jack like slaps the table.

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He slaps it. He goes, "My table!" You know, he goes, "Oh, this is your

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table. I guess these are your lobsters. Is this your wife?" He

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like hits it. Is this your belt? And he like unzips his his

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fly. Goes, "Are these your shorts?" And his wife starts to say something, and he

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goes, "Da da da da da da." Yes. And it's just like again so

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economical. The same way that we set up Jack's like wholesome domesticity and sort

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of status as a father in just moments and a few lines, we get so

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perfectly that not only is Al a dick, but he's like.

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like a cartoonish villain. And that's what this story needs. To his friends and to

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his wife, like, already at the very beginning. 100%. Everybody in his life is

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subject to his wrath, essentially. And he does— he's not selective about it.

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It's just he's a dick to everyone. Yeah, all the time. Um,

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so they're like, well, screw this, we're not gonna be here. Our lobsters are gone,

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we're out of here, let's go somewhere else. And the only other place to eat

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is the Barnacle. Barnacle, which is a restaurant that's kind of like— it's a

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Right, where that has all the restaurant on it and the dock and the bar

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kind of like pulls up to the boat and then there's tables and stuff.

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And Captain Scully, right, this very kind of like

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comical pirate. Yeah, never gave up the pirate

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lifestyle type dude, talks like a real, a true sailor. Yeah, and it's

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almost like you figure this is the kind of person that never really existed.

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This is like if the cartoonish version of Blackbeard or Captain

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Hook or whatever, right? Yeah, the fictional pirate characters like really existed.

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Yes, like nobody ever spoke like Scully speaks in this movie.

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Like, not really. Uh, and then, you know, they finally order,

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oh, let's get 5 Scully's Catch of the Day. And then it cuts to the

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basement, you know, the freezer, and they pull out the frozen fish fingers.

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Um, which is a great gag. And this was before they did it in European

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Vacation. I know European Vacation had a very similar gag where they were putting

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like a little French flag into the frozen meals before they served them.

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That's a good point. I can't remember what year that was, but it would have

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been like '83, '84, '85. It would have been right in that ballpark. 'Cause the

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original was like '81, I wanna say. That's right, it was earlier. Yeah, so it

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would have been right around here, yeah. But I love that, you know, that's great

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resolution to this whole thing, going from this tank full of live lobsters to

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the most well-traveled fish that's been frozen since

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the Carter administration. And it's so funny too, 'cause Jack says, like his kids are

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kinda questioning, this place looks like a dump, you know, whatever. Even the little one,

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Lori, goes, this place sucks. And they're like, oh, you shouldn't say that. And he's

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like, well, you know, I asked the guy at the gate, You can always trust

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a guy at a gas station to tell you where the local good food is.

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I don't know why that's a thing that he believes or understood at the time,

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but I love when Scully's saying— they're like, well, can you recommend something? And he

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goes, Scully's catch of the day, it's fresh grouper sautéed to

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a golden brown with a teasing hint of Dijon.

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And he's really playing it up. And they're like, yeah, we'll take 5. And it

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cuts to Mrs. Van de Kamp's fish fingers or something, whatever it was.

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Very funny stuff. Yeah. Um, and the frozen food, it's like it's established here,

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comes back later. There's all, again, kind of these little things. But, you know,

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they basically eat the, the dinner. You know, we don't have any more dinner.

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Like, they're, they're settling for this because it's what they can get. Yeah.

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Um, so we're, we're back at the house, and, uh,

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somebody's at the door of the house. Well, so Jack wakes up in the middle

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of the night, right? Because he hears, yeah, something like the door or the rattling,

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or there's something, whatever. Um, and he, you know,

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kind of comes out. He's got noxzema all over his face and like trying to

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deal with the sunburn. Yeah. And he comes downstairs and he like— Archie, their dog—

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we had mentioned Archie, their dog. They have like a golden, right, who's this

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very lazy kind of older dog. And like a lot of older dogs, just fucking

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doesn't want to do shit. Flops around, doesn't do its guard dog duties. Absolutely not.

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Useless in that way, but very, very friendly looking dog.

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But Archie's not, does not care that there's rattling at the door.

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And so Jack goes up and he's even holding like a statue and he's like,

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I'm gonna brain these people when they try breaking in here. Open, you know,

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the door opens and it's this family, it's African American family, you know, 2 kids,

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wife and husband, like obviously not breaking in. And he's like, who the hell are

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you people? And he's like, I'm the owner, who the hell are you? And there's

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argument over like all this stuff. And what comes out is that the receipt Jack

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has and the address of the house that they rented was 415 Beach Road,

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and the owner tells him this house is 415 Beach

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Lane. If you're gonna have a city with

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like roads and lanes, do a different numbering scheme, please.

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Something. Uh, this guy, this guy's actually funny. The guy who plays,

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uh, Dan Gardner, the owner of the house, is one of Navin Johnson's brothers

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in The Jerk, another Carl Reiner film. So maybe he's

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He's been in like a million things, but he was funny as one of those

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characters. Um, so yeah, so at least like after the lobster, after the fish

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stick thing, right, at least the family could cling on to the idea that we're

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in this nice place for an extended period of time. Beautiful home for like 5

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weeks. Yeah, fantastic. And now boom, you guys are out of here.

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So they gotta go find 515 or 415 Beach Lane. No, they gotta find

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Beach Road. Yeah, so exactly, still confusing. But they like drop the kibble

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on the way out and like it's just all a mess. Um, oh, and then

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this is— this is a gag I thought was like the funniest thing. So,

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uh, and they're— the family's just kind of like, get out of

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here, right? Get your shit, get out of here. They're being very nice about it,

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but, uh, but then Jack comes back inside. He's like, oh, I'm sorry,

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I forgot my Noxzema. And he runs upstairs, and then he comes back

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down carrying the little girl. He's like, and my daughter. And as they're walking out,

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she says, uh, I wet my bed, Daddy. He's like, no, you didn't.

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You wet their bed. Oh, can you imagine

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the poor Gardner family, like, coming home probably from their own, you know,

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couple of days away or something, and he just got his 5-week sabbatical

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from his job. Good God, so crazy. So yeah, so they find their actual

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house, which is not nearly as nice. It's still on the beach,

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um, but it's, you know, one-story, small, kind of run down.

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It's a much busier neighborhood. There's construction next door. Next door there's construction

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going on. And, uh, they They realize right

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away as they're eating breakfast that right next to the house and the window into

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the little breakfast area, the dining room, whatever, is a

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public access to the beach. It's like how you walk from the parking lot

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to the beach. So they're just gonna have people walking past them like all

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summer long. And I like that it's a steady, like, huge stream of people constantly,

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and they're sitting there eating bran checks. Just like,

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come on, stay out of the pool for 2 weeks if you're doing that.

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Also, let your kids have something. Like, we just got downgraded

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to this house. Like, let's do something. Oh, I cannot imagine what my children would

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be able to get away with if that happened to us and I was now

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like, okay, well, we're here instead. Like, I would be guilt-ridden all summer long.

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They would get everything they asked for. It would be a free-for-all.

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Like, because the moment one of them is like, yeah, but Dad, that house was

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so— I know. Goddamn it. Okay, yes, you can have that squirt gun too.

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Uh, they're, they're kind of seeing who their new neighbors are. So one of the,

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one of the kids, they have like kind of a teenage daughter, like probably 15,

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maybe sophomore in high school. Ballpark it. And then the son's maybe a few

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years younger than that, and then the little guy. So of course, right next door

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to them is a house that's all lifeguards and are immediately hitting on their daughter.

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And Jack looks and sees like all the jockstraps hanging on the laundry

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line there. Next to a whole gaggle of them.

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Yeah, and then one of them, as they walk by, they're all walking past Jack

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to like go off to do their lifeguard duties, and you just kind of throwaway

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line, but you hear one of them say, hey, that guy looked like John Madden.

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It's like, hey, he kind of does look like John Madden. So, uh, all right,

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this is kind of a big set piece for like a visual

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gag in the movie, and this is one of the more memorable scenes. And these—

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you've been to beaches like this before? You typically stay away when it's that crowded?

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Oh, 100%. I hate beaches just in general. Like, I love the ocean, I love

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marinas, boats, sailing. Yeah, all that stuff. I adore all that.

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I cannot stand sand, so I tend to stay off beaches altogether. And if a

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beach is at all crowded, like, I'm I am not dealing with it.

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It turns me out like I— you get spoiled because you're— you have access to

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a lot of different places or whatever. But on the East Coast, I remember as

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a kid you'd go to the beach in like New Hampshire, which, you know,

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look at a map and see where the coastline of New Hampshire is. Like 2

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feet long. Yeah. Uh, and it just being like every square— or

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if you're in like, you know, San Diego Pacific Beach on 4th of July

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and it's just unmanageable. It's like 10 people deep and it's so

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miserable. And they really nailed it there. Getting anywhere is crazy. Finding anyone

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is crazy, right? No one's paying attention. No one's like being courteous and

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stuff. It's not like people are keeping aisles clear, like, to make— let you walk.

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There's just spread. Every man for himself. Yeah, yeah. And,

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uh, and as Jack's walking there, he's like overloaded with stuff. He's carrying

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this big cooler. Yeah. Which then like sprouts open the little spout and

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starts draining freezing-ass ice water all over people that are laying down.

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And it was like, hey! Yeah, yeah. And I— the way he plays it off

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is really funny. He's not that apologetic. It's really just like water,

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whatever. Like, he's like, it's just ice water, just ice water. Where it like lands

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on a woman who screams. And then he like, uh, it's over a hibachi cooking

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hot dogs and puts the hibachi out and he goes, you're not supposed to be

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cooking on the beach anyway. It's illegal, it's against the law. And he like steps

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on some guy's sunscreen, splurts it all over him. And it's really just— he is—

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he's like Godzilla walking through Tokyo and just destroying things as he

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goes. It's so crazy. It's like he's crowd surfing like in an unauthorized

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way. He's just stomping on everybody's place. Um, and then,

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uh, and he is wearing the Blackhawks number 21 Stan Mikita jersey.

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Uh, so Stan Makita has now been in Wayne's World and this. It wasn't Cameron's

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jersey in— No, that was Gordie Howe of the Red Wings. So yeah, but we'll

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keep our eyes out. There is another reference I should include, like reference to every

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movie that we have some hockey reference to it, because yeah, that's another one.

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I think the jersey alone counts. I think we've got it. Yeah, we've got a

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lot of hockey in this. Yeah, plus you're a big hockey guy. So,

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um, one thing I did hate about this scene— so kind of at the very

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end of it, he finds them in their spot, and then his son's like,

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hey Dad, want to play frisbee? And does the most like if you were making

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an I Think You Should Leave sketch about a guy who's trying to stage

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a nut shot for America's Funniest Home Videos, this is like how good it

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is, right? And the kid from 2 feet away throws the Frisbee into John Candy's

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nuts, and then John Candy, with the least effort he's ever done anything,

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goes, oh, say can you see, and then falls over.

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I hate that shit so much. It ruined the scene. I really like this scene.

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Me too. And then that is just Like, what a half-assed attempt at

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a joke. I mean, I hated it. I get it. I cannot disagree with you

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on this, like, for sure. To me, I think I took it just a little

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more as like hacky, kind of throwaway, don't care. Like, it didn't bother

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me as much, I think, as it bothered you, but it absolutely is a garbage

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joke. In terms of living up to their potential, everybody involved should be ashamed about

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that. Like, I expect more from them, right? Except for Joey Lawrence. That was a

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decent throw. That was a good toss. He was obviously instructed to throw at his

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junk, and he really nailed it. So the kid, the kid gets a pass.

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He went to Frisbee camp for 6 months to train for this movie.

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Well, there is more frisbee that comes because they end up throwing the frisbee back

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and forth a little bit, at which point it kind of flies underneath two people

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or you know next to two people making out. The wife rolls over on it

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and you know all this stuff. There's also this kind of funny gag. Oh,

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he says like your wife's on my whammo. Yeah, it's great. But there's there's a

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couple of gags here too where as people are complaining at him, he says if

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there's anything wrong, like send oh he like steps on the guy's camera right and

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drags it through the sand. He goes ah it's probably fine, but if there's any

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problem, send the bill to 415 Beachline. which is the nice house that they had

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to evacuate. When the wife's on my whammo thing, the guy's like, get out of

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here. He goes, oh, when you're done using it, just send it back to 415

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Beach Lane— Beach Road, Beach Road, 'cause he wants to actually get the Frisbee.

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So he's like playing this game in his head of telling people the wrong address.

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Yeah. It's like interesting, but yeah.

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Let's see here. And then the next thing they try is volleyball. Oh, that's great.

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And he also is terrible at that. He flies through the net. All of this

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is set up— so the whole thing with helping Bobby with the raft,

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which is the first thing he does, and then Bobby says, I don't want to,

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I'm gonna play Frisbee. He tries playing Frisbee, that kind of thing. of, you know,

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peters out or whatever. And then he's like, well, let's do volleyball. And that doesn't

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really work. He ends up just— the whole point is that he's like, I,

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I— he thinks I'm a loser. He's like, I got nothing to do with this

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kid that he can do. And he sees off in the distance some sailboats and

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he goes, oh, that's right, I'm a sailor. I'll teach him to sail. And it's

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like, which, you know, he later admits that like he sailed when

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he was a kid. Like he learned in like summer camp or something. Yeah.

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It's like, bro, like you're gonna set yourself up for further disappointment here claiming that

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you're like a sailor, quote unquote. Yeah, yeah. But sure enough.

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But that's the idea. And you need to, you need to lock in that time,

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uh, with the kids. So you can't blame him too much. Uh, but he goes

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to rent a sailboat and they say, well, all the sailboat rentals are taken.

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We have the regatta coming in 2 weeks. So everybody's practicing. Yeah,

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everyone's working on it. Uh, the only thing, you might be able to rent a

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boat from Scully, who's the guy who owns the barn. That's right. So he has

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to go back to Scully, and sure enough, they got a couple of small,

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you know, boats to, to just kind of for rentals or whatever. And Scully offers

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to do a lesson. He's like, I know Every rental comes with a free lesson,

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like you know whatever. He's like, "Oh no no no, I got it. I can

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take it out." So he starts off, and you know it starts off. They're they're

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sailing, and he's showing the son how to do something. You know they actually have

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kind of a close call at one point. He kind of turns real hard turn

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to get away from the boat. Very last minute. Very last minute, and you know

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whatever. And then they see the incisor, which is Captain Alpelle's boat.

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And you know Bobby's like, "Hey, let's." Is he a dentist? Has that been established,

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or are we just assuming that? he named his boat that? Oh,

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I never actually thought that he would, because they don't really talk about it.

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But I was like, why is it called the Incisor? Because it's something that cuts

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through. So I always, always thought of it much more like an incision through the

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water. Yeah, that's what I assumed. But I never thought of the dentist angle.

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But no, they don't actually ever establish any kind of career for, for, for Al.

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Yeah, I assumed at this point he's either professionally a sailor or

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he's like retired from something and this is what he does now, right? Yeah,

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yeah, just go. But, but a good point. It certainly could have been something like

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But so they decide to get closer, and as they're going, there's this sort of

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like conversation happening between Jack and Bobby about like, hey, like, we're getting kind of

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close, you might want to turn, Dad. And he goes, no, no, no, we're the

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smaller boat, we've got the right of way. And then on Pele's boat, on Al's

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boat, it's like, hey, Al, there's that, there's that little dinghy out there coming at

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you. He's like, well, we, we've got the right of way, let him move.

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Now, I don't know enough about maritime rules and stuff to know who actually had

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the right of way. Yeah, but I have a feeling if one of these characters

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is correct, it's Captain Al. He's much more likely to know the right— Yeah,

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I mean, I would assume that it— the more maneuverable That

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does seem like it would make sense. But, but yeah, I know there's always these

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kind of, uh, these kind of rules. And it seems like whatever happens, they're gonna

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believe what Captain Al says. So, uh, there's that too. But they actually do crash.

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But he's also a dick, and he sees that there's like a child, you know,

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it's like, I know that there's a risk here, but I don't really care.

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Like, let him deal with it, right? Like, yeah, I'm not gonna deal with it.

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So sure enough, the, the boat kind of pokes a hole in the Incisor,

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which, uh, in the crash then Jack hurts his knee.

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And Bobby says, I mean, is it your bad one? He goes, yes, yes,

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yes. So obviously, you know, the Incisor is the bad one. A knee he's had

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problems with before, whatever. And so then we cut straight to

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we get like a smash cut to back at the house, and he's got an

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air cast on, like a big one, like the whole yeah foot ankle knee.

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I mean everything all the way up his leg. And so now he's kind of

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you know out he's gonna be out of commission for a few days. Yeah.

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Interesting choice. Yeah. Like because you for a movie you could put any type of

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cast on him. I think the key was just that a couple gags for it.

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There's I think there's there's a thing right. There's a point where he he talks

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about it deflating on him or busting a spare tire. You know something. some joke

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about it popping when he doesn't want it to, so there's that. But I think

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it's all this, like, you couldn't do a cast because that would take— that would

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require too much time. Yeah, right. And then it's like, I don't know what medical

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technology existed at the time. Like, I feel like just a splint or something on

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the knee maybe wouldn't have given the idea of, like, how much it's, you know,

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keeping him from doing stuff. Right, right. Because you want him to both be dejected

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but also to be there. But he still has to kind of— well, there's gotta

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be a physical reason why he's not joining them. Yes. Because if it's just that

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I'm sad now, it's like, well, now you're kind of a dick. Yeah, we can't

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root for you as hard anymore. But if you're like taken out of commission trying

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to impress your son, it's like, yeah, that was stupid, but we can understand it.

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So I think that's the thing with the air cast. But yeah, it's not like—

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name another movie where a character's in an air cast for a while. Literally the

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only one I can think of is in Starship Troopers when the guy gets his

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arm broken by the guy. But it's like, that's in the year

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22-something. It's a lot more fancy for sure. It almost looks like— that one looks

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like a fish tank on his arm. Right. So that's why I was like,

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oh, this is— that's an odd thing Interesting. Um,

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so the family, now that Jack is stuck at home and

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the family's out trying to have their fun, and I think it's a rainy day,

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and mom takes the kids to the movies. And it's interesting, uh, seeing the

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poster because sometimes they put fake ones in, but these are all real contemporary movies

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there. I noticed Footloose, Top Secret, Uncommon Valor. There was

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a couple others. Yeah. Um, so they're in line at the movies, and I think

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she realizes that she doesn't have money with her. She forgot her wallet. She's trying

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to pay. Yep. And, uh, and she's got, you know, her daughter who's a classic

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headphone teen. Yeah. Uh, and then behind them is, uh, another guy played by

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John Larroquette whose son is definitely a headphone teen as well. And he offers to

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pay for them, and the daughter and son kind of connect a little bit.

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It's Don as the dad, John Larroquette, and his son is Greg. And, uh,

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I can't remember, uh, Kerri Green's name, but, uh, the oldest daughter, she and

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Greg start chatting. And even like he says to her, well, what do you listen

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to? Like they're on radio stations, which is like something I realized we kind of

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lost. Yeah, in the whole concept of like everything's like streaming now,

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or like, you know, even just when we all went to like— we're all listening

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to CDs more than the radio. It's like you can't share that experience as much

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with somebody. Oh, totally. He tunes to her station, and funny enough, it's the song

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Footloose by Kenny Loggins they're then both listening to and jamming to as they walk

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right past the Footloose movie poster. Oh, funny. Which I thought was funny as well.

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They, uh, yeah, I remember like being in traffic and you're with friends and you

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see someone in their car jamming out and you're like, let's see if we can

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find what station that is. Exactly. Yeah, we don't have that anymore. Um,

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so, uh, back home, Jack, it's, it's raining out and the dog is

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barking at him. And, you know, he gets the dog to come inside, but then

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the dog left its bone outside. So part of the running gag of this

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dog is it's not doing any dog-type things, right? Very lazy dog. So he's like,

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hey, you go out and get the bone for me. So Jack's like, what?

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You, you get— and then of course he's right out there getting it. Um,

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but he ends up locked outside the house, Flintstones style.

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Yeah. Yeah, and there's golf on TV, and the golf clears up

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for Archie. That's right. It was all fuzzy for him. So he gets reception from

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outdoors, so he's like watching it through the window. Oh my God, poor Archie.

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I mean, poor Jack. Archie's kind of a dick. But yeah, and so

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let's see, then they're gonna do another day with

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Dawn and Greg. The rest of the family are going out on Dawn's boat.

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He's apparently got a cabin cruiser, so he's a cool guy. And Jack's like,

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okay, well, you guys, I still can't go. Like, you know, his leg still looks

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pretty bad and everything. So he decides just to hang out, but it's like 100,

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they say on the radio, we hear 105 to 110. In Florida.

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Florida. Like, because the humidity's got to be 90-plus. It's really—

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they drive home, if you have any familiarity, if it makes sense at all to

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you, it's like, yeah, this is like not only unseasonable but like dangerously hot.

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Like, this many people should not be out at the beach. Yeah, exactly. Like,

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get the fire department to clear the beach completely. It's real bad. Or just

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keep a steady spray of the hose like up above them so that they're sprinkled

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down. The water would evaporate before it hits them.

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Um, so Jack, uh, Jack ends up meeting one of

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the neighbors. I think somebody comes to the door to meet him, and it's this,

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uh, you know, this lady in a bikini and stuff.

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Middle-aged, but yeah, yeah, very small bikini. But someone that, someone that he

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would be excited to have show up at his door, you know. For sure.

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Her name is Vicky. Uh, yep. And she's, and she's offering

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some fresh lemonade over at her house. Exactly. Yeah, because he,

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he has some lemonade, but then when she walks up, he basically like,

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his jaw drops and he drops the lemonade, and she's like, oh God, you know.

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And so I just made a fresh batch. He's like, oh, okay. So he comes

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over to like hang out in their house. He leaves his front door open,

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which is an important sort of thing that happens. And so then Vicky and Jack

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are sitting on the couch in Vicky's house, and she, you know,

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they're talking about what he does, everything, he's an air traffic controller. And she goes,

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well, you must have really great vision and, you know, attention to detail and all

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that. I mean, you must, right? And he goes, well, yeah, you know, it helps,

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like, sure. And she goes, what do you think of these? And she pulls up

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her bikini top. Yeah. And he's like,

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Those are there, there they are. And he's like stuttering over it.

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And she's just like, well, no, no, no, do they look real? And he goes,

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you could've fooled me. No, no, no, I just had them enlarged. Do they look

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good? And he's kinda like, oh yeah. And they're talking about like, she's like,

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they cost $2,000. It was this or a power tool for Ed. And he goes,

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oh, good choice. And he's like so funny 'cause he's like trying to play it

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cool, but also is like so uncomfortable by this whole situation. Yeah.

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And then he hears upstairs like a groaning man getting up from a nap maybe.

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he goes, would that be Ed? And she goes, yeah. And he goes, if you'll

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excuse me, I'm a dead man. I feel like, uh, this was

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always an assumption, is that every woman who had a boob job would offer

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it up to someone to show them or to feel it, right? Well, this character

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does it so often, it's crazy. It's like really ridiculous. For sure.

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And then Ed— so, you know, this could clearly be a scene where Ed storms

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downstairs and chases him out and he has to hobble away or whatever. And the

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way they do it is different, where Ed, he says, uh, oh, you're boring the

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whole world with your new knock Yeah, and he's like, I gave

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up a chainsaw for that, or something like a power saw for that. Um,

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so yeah, somebody's met— he's met the neighbors now. Ed and Vicki seem like nice

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people, if not for— except for Vicki. Much better than the we're having lunch people.

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Yes, that's it. That is actually a good point. Uh, these people are definitely better.

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Um, so Jack is, you know, still kind of figuring out how to fill his

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day. He goes back to the Barnacle, to the bar, uh, and sits down,

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and Scully asks him, what can we get you? And he goes, Drunk. Oh,

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so before, uh, he goes back to the bar, we kind of keep seeing these

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little cuts. Um, he had left the door open in the house, like you said,

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and a lady approached the door with her kid, like, my kid needs to use

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your bathroom, and can't see that anyone's there. So she's just like, we'll just

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go do it, go real quick. And then while she's there, somebody walks up and

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they're like, hey, do you mind if I— whatever. And then there's this like 50

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people. It's like John Hughes party style, right? Suddenly,

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like, he's going through the house and he, and he just kind of looks around

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for a while, and then he just Starts smashing stuff. He's like slamming

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the kitchen counter with his crutch, just screaming at people to leave. And they're all,

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you know, going. And he heads back to the back room, to the bedroom,

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uh, the primary bedroom. And there's this huge, fat, sandy,

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beer-drinking, cigarette-smoking guy sitting on the bed watching The Smurfs.

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Yeah, with Archie sitting next to him. With Archie. And, and Jack is like,

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you see the one where Papa Smurf beat the shit out of a guy with

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a crutch? Did you see that one? Uh, and that guy—

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and he must have been gone 15 minutes. That guy left Left like 90 cigarette

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butts and all the sand and like, oh, it's so gross.

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Um, okay, so back to Jack getting drunk.

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Yeah, so then Jack and Scully and Cortez and the other guys kind of hanging

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out. There's all these— this sort of ragtag band of, of people that

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hang out at the Barnacle, uh, or work there, and they're just hanging out getting

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drunk basically. And Jack and Scully do a couple of things. They have an argument

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about who would win in a fight between James Cagney and Sylvester Stallone.

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Yeah, it's sort of a generational disagreement between dudes.

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They play some darts, uh, one of which goes into Scully's, like, we're guessing

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part of the arm of his that isn't real anymore. Like, yeah, the part that's

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the, the hook. Uh, did we mention that actually, by the way? Scully has a

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hook for a hand. Oh, so it is an important distinction. I think maybe like

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the way we described him though, people would have pictured a hook anyway. No,

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missing or artificial limbs. That's— oh, absolutely, that's going on the list. But he doesn't

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have a peg leg. That's an important part. That's right, he has full feet.

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So Um, but yeah, and yeah, the Cagney versus

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Stallone, uh, argument is very funny. Yeah. And, uh, so Jack wants

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to have Scully teach him how to sail. It's like what it comes

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down to, where he's like, dude, I have nothing to like offer my kid.

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Like, he's pretty down on himself. He's been injured. That would be a terrible situation.

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Have you ever like been injured or like real sick on a vacation?

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I have actually, uh, dealing with norovirus at Disneyland.

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That was a hell of a lot of fun. Yeah.

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Yeah, it's the worst. Like, you're already bummed if your vacation doesn't go perfectly

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'cause you get so few of them. But then if you have to miss it

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and you're feeling bad— My daughter at the time was like 3, and she did

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not get super sick. Like, she, she, you know, I thought maybe 2 and a

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half or something like that. I just remember, like, this is so too much information,

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but I got sick. I ended up throwing up in, like, we had like a,

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a, a villa with like a full kitchen, but the bathrooms were all being used

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by other sick people. I ended up throwing up into the kitchen sink. Thankfully,

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there's like a garbage disposal and stuff, so it's like I could get it clean.

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But my daughter, is like 3 and watching me and going, Daddy. And I'm

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like, I'm okay, brah. I'm okay. Daddy's okay, brah. I mean, it was just

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like— and this is in Disneyland. My God, dude. Wild. What a wild fucking

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time. Anyway, uh, so yeah, I can definitely, uh, uh,

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commiserate with, uh, with Jack here. Yeah, for sure. So they go out to do

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the sailing lesson, and Scully's showing him like how to do stuff.

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And I love there's a point where, uh, Jack asks him, uh, oh, you must

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know some, some good ocean songs. Or he goes, aye, I do. And he starts

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singing the theme song to The Love Boat. Yeah. And the both of them sing

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The Love Boat. I don't know why, but it always tickled me. That was like

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all— like from the '70s through 2000, you could get away

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with that as humor. I remember, uh, one time we were on a, uh,

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one of those long, like all-day fishing charter things, and one of

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the guys just kept singing the Gilligan's Island theme song, but like not the whole

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song. He just kept saying— like there'd be a nice pleasant silence, we're just enjoying

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the sea, and he'd just be like, a 3-hour tour.

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And you have to like acknowledge it at first, but after a while you're like,

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can we keelhaul this motherfucker? Like, I don't want this guy on

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the boat. Can we jibe with the without saying jibe ho, because then maybe we'll

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knock him off. Seriously, let's have the wind do its

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thing here. Yeah. So let's

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see. So then there is a scene, actually I made that joke, but like there's

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a scene where he's showing him how to like jibe the,

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I don't know exactly how it works, but you're moving the sail from one side

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to the other as you're turning either from against the wind to into it or

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vice versa. Like you have to like move the sail, right? And Scully's telling him

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like, you say, prepare to jibe, jibe ho, and you move the thing.

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And he goes, okay, jibe ho! And he just spins it, and it smacks Scully

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in the head, knocks him off the boat, the whole thing. And, you know,

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he's like— they're back at the bar, and he's putting ice in his head,

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and he goes, I guess I'm not much of a sailor. And Scully's like,

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no, you're not. And he's basically like, but you're going to be.

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Threatening, like, you'll be a better sailor than I ever was. He's just

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absolutely pissed at this point. He's like, I'm gonna teach you how to fucking sail.

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Yeah. I do like Scully not turning against him. Yeah, of course.

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That's another very Pete thing. PG aspect of this movie. There's— everyone's

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like generally nice to each other except for— Right, Pelly. We get one character

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we're clearly supposed to hate and everybody else is basically good, you know? Even Don,

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who it's like there could have been a subplot where he tried hitting on Sandy

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or whatever. I was waiting for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that, he's just,

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nope, we're just gonna hang out, like kind of thing. And it's like, okay.

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I mean, again, it would have been a different movie, right? Like you said,

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it would have been less sort of family-oriented that way, but I could see them

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doing it. Um, yeah. Oh, so now we're at— I don't know if— does it

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explain how this all happened? We're at a funeral home and apparently the owner The

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owner of the place that, that Jack and family are renting now,

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yeah, uh, has passed away. They do mention early that he's in

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intensive care. Oh, like there's somebody that can't send the check to somebody or something

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like that. Oh, he makes some comments. Oh no, it's when the— when they first

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arrive that morning with the breakfast and the construction sounds, he said

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something about the shower, something's not working right, there's something that's broken in the house.

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And he said, I called the landlord, but they tell me he's in intensive care,

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so they don't know when he'll be able to like get to it or something

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like that. Um, so I'm gonna call the plumber. It was something, whatever, whatever.

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So they did set up that he at least has some health issue or something.

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Gotcha. But yeah, he basically dies. Jack gets a call from an

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executor or an assistant or whatever that person and says, come to this address.

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And he shows up and it's a funeral home, and he thought he was going

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to like somebody's office or whatever. Luckily he has a sport

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coat in the car, which is not something I ever have, but he has one.

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He throws it on over his shorts and like Hawaiian shirt. Um, he goes

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inside and yeah, a, it's a full-on viewing. I mean, it's a funeral,

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it's a wake, like the whole deal. Yeah. But Al is there signing documents

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to buy the house the Chesters have rented that had been owned

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by the departed, um, and is basically like,

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tears up his check and tells him, I want you and your family out of

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there Saturday, like immediately, you know, or I will come and personally throw you out.

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I told you I'd get you a renter. Like, you don't belong here. He really

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had this whole speech when they first had this encounter at the restaurant about how

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renters come in. You think you own this place? Yeah, I've been here for 30

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Years, 30 years. Like the way he says that. When Al Peli— one

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of the, one of the best gags in this movie is when he's going to

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actually sign the document, he flips down the open coffin

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so that he can use the hard surface of the top of it. Oh God,

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that's just incredibly well done for him. Yeah.

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Um, kind of a Brad Wesley move. I mean, we've seen a lot of this

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is just buying out, you know, spending an insane amount. This is actually more

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of a Shooter McGavin type move. Oh, I think Al Peli Yeah,

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we'll do like, we'll do like a bad guy spectrum at some point for,

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for the newsletter or something, or a bonus thing, because I think it would be

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important to place these guys like in terms of evil and,

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and realism and stuff like that. Yeah, I think you're gonna have like 2 axes,

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right? Yeah, yeah, like kind of like the chaotic good, the neutral, that kind of

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thing. X-axis of like kind of annoying to evil, where it's like, are they just

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kind of irritating you or the evil? And then the other way is like realistic

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to cartoonish. Okay, you plot them and go like, because 'Cause Al Pele would be

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pretty cartoonish and pretty evil. Yeah. Right? Like up there. I was also thinking Ben

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Gazzara could have potentially played this role. I think he actually would've been quite good

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in this as well. Absolutely. Yep, yep. But yeah,

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so Jack breaks into the family. We gotta go. I'm so sorry. There's nothing I

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can do. The kids are fucking distraught. You know, I don't wanna leave. I'm not

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going to leave. Like all this stuff. And he's just like, what the hell do

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I do? So we get a couple pensive moments of him like, you know,

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looking at the ocean and thinking about stuff. I think he goes to

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Al first to make the bet, right? Is that he goes and— or does he

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talk to Scully first about the boat? Yeah, I think he's talking to Scully

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first because he's kind of commiserating with Scully about how evil

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Pelly is. They keep calling him Squid Stick. That's so good. Squid's deep.

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So yeah, so they talk about how, yeah, the boat could sail.

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Like, like, like basically the Barnacle was a fast ship at one time,

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and with a proper sail, like, yeah, sure, you know, that's right. So he goes

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back to the restaurant, the same lobby Lobster restaurant they waited at, you know,

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and Al is there just sitting at the bar. And basically Jack makes him

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a bet and says, this is— I got a check here for $2,000, last— the

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last 2 weeks of our vacation. If I'm gonna race in that regatta against

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you, if I beat you, I keep this. Or if you win, you take

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this check and we leave. So you get paid and we're outta here.

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If I win, I keep this check and we stay 2 more

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weeks rent-free. Yeah. Sort of like, like four weeks or something. It's like this

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whole kind of thing. So it's just like, you know, he's gonna. That's the bet

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basically. And and Pelle smartly is like, yeah, no problem. I've won

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this thing seven years in a row. Yeah. Who the fuck are you? Yes,

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I'll take that. And then there's this thing where like Pelle's holding popcorn in his

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hand eating it, and Jack grabs a bunch of it and goes to like

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shove a bunch in his mouth and starts choking on it. And then Al also

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chokes on his and is like getting his back stuff. And the sounds these two

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men. Make I've never heard before or since. This is like the only place

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where this particular— like, I can't even do it, it's so weird sounding

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when they're both choking on this popcorn. It's like the Crazy Guys Kill It episode

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of Curb Your Enthusiasm. I've seen that. Oh man, he has, he has something

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caught in his throat that I won't say on a PG movie episode. Remember that?

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And we fucking swear on this thing, we can talk about, we can talk about

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whatever we want. Um, I do remember that. That's right. Oh my God.

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So, uh, so yeah, he's gonna sail, uh, the Barnacle,

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and I feel like at this point the movie has an opportunity for a great

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montage that doesn't really fully— I don't

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know, there's more they could have done, but it's a big boat and they end

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up fixing this thing up from being like a crusty old restaurant,

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floating restaurant, to like a functional boat. And if you really look at what they

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do, all they do is scrape barnacles off the hull and paint it. Yep.

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It's really just painting. That's the vast— it's all painting. But the kids and the

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family all show up to help. Yep. And this is when I was— I mentioned

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I previewed this in last week's episode, but this is, I think, one of the

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few really high-quality Jimmy Buffett songs. I actually really like the

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song Turning Around that plays over this montage. It's a goofy montage

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song, but it's like compared to his other weirdly

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country goofy stuff, this is like a good kind of, you know,

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bubblegum '80s pop rock song. Like, I guess it's kind of where it is.

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But anyway, it's the song Turning Around. You can't actually find it anywhere. I've looked.

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Trust me, I've scoured the world for it. I think we're going to be talking

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about some unfindable songs more in the future. But yeah, it's so

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weird that like such a big artist, like his stuff

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stuff is not just all, yeah, you know, weird ownership. I think it was

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never released on one of his albums. Yeah, so it was only released in the

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soundtrack. And then, you know, this is not a movie that whatever company owns the

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rights to this soundtrack, like, didn't put it in their deal with Spotify or Apple

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or whoever to, like, include it. It's for whatever reason, because probably Spotify's like,

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yeah, we don't want that stuff. So, um, so they, they got the boat,

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they got it painted, they got the barnacles scraped, they got it sanded and all

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this stuff, but they have no sail. And this has been an issue that Scully

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has this dude who's this like Scottish, like,

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boat expert, whatever guy, and, and he sends him off in search

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of a sail. So like, he's still looking, but they don't really have a sail.

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So they're— the boat race is, uh, approaching. Yeah. And they talk

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about— they got nothing. And they talk about how the mast of the Barnacle is

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particularly tall. He makes a big deal about it being 50 feet high,

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which it seems like is maybe larger than like the average boats or something.

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I really don't know that much about like racing sailboats, like how big a mast

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would normally be. Yeah. But I also get the sense that bigger, you know,

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taller mast, bigger sail, potentially faster, right? 'Cause you'd think it could grab

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more wind, right? Grab more wind, yeah. That's what you figure. So they do this

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thing and they christen the boat again, rechristen it, whatever, and like cheers to the

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crew. And this is when he tells the kids they can race with him.

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He's like, well, the crew of the Barnacle raise their glasses, and the kids don't.

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And he goes, something wrong with your arms? Raise your glasses. Like, oh, we get

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to go with you? Which is like such a cool dad moment. Yeah, yeah.

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And really makes sense. Like, it works, like, that they would bring them along 'cause

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it's a big boat. It's not like they're gonna be— it's not like one of

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those racing boats these days. It's not like weight is a concern. So go ahead

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and bring everybody. on, because weight is not an issue

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and will never be an issue. Good point, very good point.

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Uh, I will say though, it's not like modern, like, uh, America's Cup stuff where

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the boats heel, you know, 20 degrees or whatever. It's like, would be dangerous.

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Nice upright sailing. That— I bet, I bet that's probably one of the most fun

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things you can ever do, but I would just be like, yeah, I'm gonna fall

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off. Like, die. My knee falling off is so much worse than how much fun

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I could have here. Exactly. But they still don't have a sail, and they even

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say something like, where's Angus? He's like, Last I heard, Savannah. So he's now back

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up into Georgia looking for, you know, this enormous sail. But of course,

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Angus arrives at the last moment, the day of the regatta with the sail.

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And I don't know, again, much about like stringing a sail on a mast,

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but apparently it's not a complicated thing. You hook it to a piece of rope

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and you pull, I guess, right? 'Cause they get it hooked up and they're on

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their way towards the regatta. And they start the race. They're able to make it

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on time and they start the race with everybody else. They're kind of trailing for

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the most part. Mm-hmm. And, uh, at one point Cortez comes up

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from, from down below and is eating one of the fish fingers, one of Scully's

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catches of the day. Yeah. And Scully says, where'd you get that? And he goes,

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from the freezer. He goes, didn't I tell you to remove, like, remover all,

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you know? He goes, oh, I thought you said don't remove the— thank

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God for my terrible Spanish, or whatever. And it's like, so then they start throwing

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everything off the boat. Yeah. Not just the fish, like packages,

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but the freezers and the whatever freezer, all this, all this equipment,

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which obviously was weighing them down. Because there's $1,000 There's millions of dollars at stake

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here, so get all this shit off the boat. It does seem like Scully is

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ruining the chances of his restaurant existing after this moment. Yeah, right. I'm gonna throw

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away my ability to make money, but at least, uh, this guy I just met

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will be able to stay in after a couple weeks. Exactly. I've known Jack Chester

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for 3 weeks. This is clearly my closest friend. Um, there's also a

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funny thing I never noticed, uh, watching this in the past, uh, but I noticed

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this time, which is Laurie, the little one, you know, 3 or 4 years old,

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the real little daughter, uh, hangs out with Yorku, this like old, uh, Asian man,

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in, in pretty much under like Like in the cabin, they're like she's braiding his

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hair. He's braiding the doll's hair. It's very cute or brushing whatever it is.

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Very cute. And we see her ask her mommy, "Is it okay if I hang

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out down here with the orca?" And she's like, "Yeah." I never really thought about

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it before, but I think about this. I'm like, "Oh my god! Could you imagine

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if that girl, like canonically within the story, was just on deck?

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Like nobody, like all we would be thinking about the whole time is, 'Oh my

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god! Where's Lori? Oh my god! Where's Lori? Oh my god! Where's Lori?' None of

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them are wearing life vests. No, right? There's no like protective equipment in that sense.

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If If she were up on deck somewhere, like, it would've been

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absolutely, like, just nerve-wracking. Yeah. You know,

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watching this as a dad now, it's like, where the hell's the 3-year-old? Like,

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you can't just leave her. But okay, she's babied. She's basically got a nanny

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down below and they're just hanging out. So cool. But yeah, but it's funny.

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But the other kids are helping. The other 2 older kids, they're pulling ropes,

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they're doing different stuff and all this stuff. And they start catching up once

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the frozen fish in the freezers all get tossed off the boat.

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They start to catch up, not— it's not quite enough.

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And Angus says something about, if I'd only had 2

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more yards of sail, that might have done it. And Jack—

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we don't really see what happens at first, but suddenly the Barnacle is catching up

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to and passing the Incisor as they get near the end. And we— as we're

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passing Pele, he's like, what is going on? Like, where are they getting this wind

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from? What is that? He actually starts blowing into his own sail, which is a

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funny moment. Yeah, yeah, it's just very funny. That's a good, like, meltdown.

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Yeah, you don't know what to do, you know? kind of thing. And then we

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look, and as Jack waves at him as he goes by, he's not wearing

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pants. So he strung his pants up into, you know,

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the mast or whatever. And it's— I like— I,

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I have always wondered and never really looked into whether this would actually have

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any effect whatsoever. The pants themselves have holes at the bottom of

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them, don't they? Did he tie off the ankles? Like, how does this even work?

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I don't know. I mean, you're not gonna accelerate like that with a little

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tiny bit more Of, of sale. Um, but they had to end it

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on a wacky, uh, on a wacky note. Exactly. And we gotta win. This is

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definitely a story he has to win this race. Exactly. Sucks. So,

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so the Barnacle wins. Yeah. And it pretty much

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ends right there. It kind of does. We get a little bit of celebration,

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like, uh, there's not them back at the beach house or whatever. It's all just

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kind of— yep, we just get some people celebrating. Everybody apparently, because it shows Don

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and Greg, it shows Vicki and Ed, it shows all these people. Everyone in the

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town is thrilled to watch this guy lose. Like, I bet he's one of those

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guys that can They're just like, fucking somebody beat him. There's a couple of kind

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of funny moments that happen here. Vicki has also bugged one of the judges to

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look at her boobs, and Ed comes by to chastise her

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about it again. And then at one point, Jack actually is able to use some

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of his air traffic controller knowledge to help.

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They're trying to figure out how to get more wind or get into a better

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position. That's right, he notices some kind of weather pattern or something. A small airplane,

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like a little prop jet, Yeah, plane does

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this weird dive and it's kind of like clearly dealing with some kind of a

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wind abnormality. Yeah. And he looks at it and he goes, oh, here we

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go. And he starts turning and Scully's like, what are you doing? He goes,

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I just noticed a low-altitude funnel gunnel. I— that could or

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might not be the right thing, I don't know. But like Scully repeats it as

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if he's never heard it before. It's funny. Can't you see we're in a funnel

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gunnel? Like, it's just very funny. Yeah. So,

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so he saved the day and got an extra couple weeks at a place that

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kind of had been established sucks. Yes, but, but he's made some friends

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and it's a different place to him now. It's the principle of the thing too,

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right? Like, he didn't— he was not about to let some— he can't get bullied

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by this guy in front of his kids. Like, the kids are aware of the

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challenge and stuff, and you got to come through. So, uh,

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yeah, man, that is, that is Summer Rental. You want

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to, you want to kick us off with your review, Steve? I do. I— so

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this is a movie that I kind of knew going into this I was

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going to I was going to

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be generous with my score, and I knew I was. I just wasn't sure how

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generous I was going to be. And I think the appropriate score for

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me to give this that incorporates my nostalgia bump, but really does kind of take

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a look at like watching this movie, you know, for the first time in probably

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like 5 to 10 years. It's been a little while since I've seen it.

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And it's something that I still found it very enjoyable. It's such

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a clean PG, which you don't see a ton of. Candy and Krennic and Torn

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are all really wonderful playing very, very broad but interesting characters.

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And I really still very much enjoyed this front to back. So with my admitted

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bump for nostalgia, I'm going to a 3.5 out of 5 on Summer Rental.

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That's where I land. And I think, you know, yeah, I think that's where I'm

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at. What about you? Okay, yeah, so I mean, the, the main— the 3 main

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characters, I thought, yeah, I like all the actors. Those performances were

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pretty good. I don't know if it's because it's a PG

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or if they didn't— like, I read something that John Candy had some comment

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about this after it came out. that like the studio needed to fill a spot

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and we had to kind of rush to make this movie. So it feels like

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it's not a fully realized version of, of what it could be.

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Um, there was missed opportunities for jokes, I felt.

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Uh, especially like the pants thing at the end with the sail was

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fine, but you were already set for like a, a couple of big sail reveals.

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Like during that boat race, there was twice where they put an extra sail up,

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and it was never— it wasn't like a pirate flag or anything like interesting.

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Yeah. It was just kind of too down the middle. Like,

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there's a chunk of this movie that I like, kind of

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like from when they get kicked out of the first house to when the boat

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sail sailing training starts. Okay, I think it's pretty good. That race

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at the end is like 12 or 15 minutes or something, and I think it's

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kind of boring. Yeah, kind of isn't that great. But this

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is an enjoyable movie. It's not offensive. It's good to see Candy doing his thing.

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We don't have a lot of John Candy. So I'm giving this like a mild

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not recommend. But, you know, I'm not gonna unfriend you if you want

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to see it. So this is a 2.5 out of 5 for me. I think,

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you know, we see why we love John Candy, but also I just wish that

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they'd put a little more into it, if they went through the script a couple

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more times and really, like, made it more robust. Yeah. And,

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like, the John Larroquette character seemed like— did they just edit this

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in a way that ignored that whole subplot? You know, did they have an hour

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and 48-minute movie planned and they had to chop it down under

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an hour and a half? Or something, because it seems really weird that he's in

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it. Period. Like they didn't need to give him the backstory he had. Yeah,

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yeah, that's true. But but that kind of stuff happens all the time, and it's

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he's like a bigger actor than I would think for such a small. Was he

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in eighty-five though? I can't. When did like what did Night Court? That was going

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that breakout. He was yeah. I shall do some Larroquette research.

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I don't know. But yeah, two and a half out of five for me.

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I I appreciated watching this, and it was great to to chat with you about

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it and see. like, you know, what you remembered from it as a, as a

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kid. And so fun one. 6 out of 10 then from the 2 dads.

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I think it's just about right. It's kind of right in line with the IMDb

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score, give or take. And I think it's smart that when you look at this,

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because I probably would have been about a 2.5 without my little nostalgia bump for

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it. Yeah. And so, you know, this movie being legit 5 out of 10,

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bumped a point by my nostalgia, seems about right. Yeah, it really is just down

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the middle of like, there's nothing wrong with this movie, but really nothing about it

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is like noteworthy per se. Right. Riptorne It really

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is a lot of fun when Rip Torn talks with that accent. If you're ever

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though, like, if you're staying at like an Airbnb or something and they don't

01:03:32.832 --> 01:03:35.995
have like cable or streaming, you know, sometimes you stay somewhere and they just have

01:03:36.043 --> 01:03:39.656
like a small collection of videos. Yeah, this would be a great one to be

01:03:40.156 --> 01:03:43.237
there, you know. So you're somewhere with your kids, it's perfect. If you have 25

01:03:43.269 --> 01:03:45.468
to choose from, yeah, this is a good one to pick. And this is a

01:03:45.501 --> 01:03:48.471
movie kids from any young age, they get a kick out of it. There are

01:03:48.971 --> 01:03:51.394
parts of it they would enjoy, you know, probably. Pretty young and nothing offensive about

01:03:51.894 --> 01:03:54.832
it. So, all right, that was Summer Rental, 6 out of 10. Nick, where are

01:03:55.332 --> 01:03:58.560
we going next? Uh, so next, uh,

01:03:59.025 --> 01:04:02.929
next week we're going somewhere a little bit different. We're gonna leave the United States,

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uh, we're gonna go to Hong Kong, and, uh, and we're gonna follow the 100%

01:04:07.765 --> 01:04:11.508
true, true story of real life, true real guy Frank Dux.

01:04:11.926 --> 01:04:15.718
Oh, okay. A very famous military man and martial artist played by

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Jean-Claude Van And we are going to participate in the Kumite.

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Oh. As we watch Bloodsport.

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Nice. You ever seen Bloodsport? I have not. Oh yeah,

01:04:26.040 --> 01:04:29.229
this was— this is one— this is one that missed me, uh, along,

01:04:29.341 --> 01:04:32.995
along the, the years. I was never a big Jean-Claude Van Damme

01:04:33.091 --> 01:04:37.242
guy just in general. I think I saw, uh, Hard Target and

01:04:37.835 --> 01:04:40.719
then Street Fighter. Like, that was sort of my Jean-Claude Van Damme history. Street Fighter

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is a rough one for For a lot of reasons. Although Raul Julia was wonderful.

01:04:44.790 --> 01:04:47.850
I know, but that movie killed Raul Julia though. Yeah, it did. I think he

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had cancer before that, but that's okay. Uh, anyway, yeah, Bloodsport. Haven't seen it.

01:04:51.290 --> 01:04:54.530
Very much looking forward to it, uh, because it'll fill in a hole that I

01:04:55.030 --> 01:04:58.750
have in my moviegoing experience. So that's what we'll

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