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Hello, everybody. It's another episode of two Dads, one Movie.
I'm Steve. And I'm Nick. Today we're Talking about the 1995 comedy
classic Tommy Boy, starring Chris Farley and David Spade. This was
my pick. It's something that, you know, it's one of those movies that just
kind of sticks with you. I mean, I was. We were 15 when this came
out. It was, like, kind of perfectly in line with, you know, the sense of
humor of teenage boys in the 90s. Farley was obviously, you know, a massive,
massive star at the time. You know, he. This was kind of
his. I don't know. I mean, it was a little bit of his, like,
not debut because he'd been in movies, but this was sort of like Chris Farley's,
like, Star Turn. Yeah. You know, this was kind of what. The movie that made
him such a huge star. And unfortunately, of course, came only two years before he
would tragically pass away far too young. But, yeah, this was. This was,
you know, a really fun movie that I think kind of everybody I knew growing
up watched this. This was a pretty. Pretty standard watch for teenage boys in the
90s, at least. Oh, for sure. What's your history with it? Yeah, definitely. It was
in the mix all the other movies that starred SNL alumni at the
time. So that was kind of how we determined what our guys were. So we
loved the Wayne's World and the Tommy Boy and the Sandler stuff and everything.
Yeah, so I was really into this. This was certainly one
that one of my buds who worked at Blockbuster would have owned on vhs,
you know, grab those discount VHS and we just. It's a good background
movie. Throw it on a bunch of times. Good to quote. And yeah,
it was a fun time. And Farley is absolutely a force of nature. And this
is a movie that really. Farley cook. Yes. Yeah. This is.
When you think of some movies as being a vehicle, they use that
term, right? It's a so and so vehicle. Right. This is a Chris Farley vehicle.
This is deliberately designed to. To put him into a
role that he can shine, that takes advantage of his physical, you know, abilities at
comedy, that takes advantage of his sort of that brand very much like John Candy
had before him. That brand of like sweet goofiness in a big guy,
you know, Farley and Candy both shared that in a lot of ways. And this
movie was really built around him, around his ability to be
this funny. This movie is like the cracker to deliver the caviar of Farley,
you know. Yes, it is.
It's a stale table cracker.
Saltine ass movie. Let's go ahead and jump in
on the facts on Tommy Boy. So Tommy Boy came out on
March 31, 1995. Rated PG 13.
It has a running time of 97 minutes, directed by Peter Siegel,
written by Bonnie and Terry Turner and starring Chris Farley and David sp
scores. Oh, boy. Rotten tomatoes.
41%. That is not fresh. That is rotten. I guess I'm not
that surprised. I think a lot of these Lorne Michaels produced movies from that era
were critically panned. I think Wayne's World was pretty well appreciated.
It was the one that kind of started the. But, you know, Coneheads, even.
I think Airheads was a Lorne Michaels. It's Pat. The ladies, man. A lot of
these were, you know, superstar, whatever. These were all kind of panned badly. So there's
that. But IMDb on the other hand, a 7.1. Much better.
Better, obviously very. Something that really, you know, strikes people, really sits
with them well and is generally well, well regarded.
And a movie that's kind of proven itself, maybe more liked
over time. Yeah, for sure. Awards did win one award as far as I
could find. It won the 1995 MTV Movie Award for Best on Screen
Duo. For Farley and Spade, beating out, as we've mentioned a few times now,
the great Ice Cube and Chris Tucker. And Friday, on a budget
of $20 million, just 32.6 million
at the box office for a 1.63 multiplier on its budget, which is pretty
disappointing. You don't even really think of them as being a true success until
they hit about double their budget because they got to factor in marketing and all
this other stuff. So, yeah, definitely low on the box office
totem pole. It is. Yeah, whatever. Like the 9050th
anniversary SNL documentaries told you about how it's always been a
phenomenon sweeping the nation. I mean, just look back at what some people thought of
these SNL generated films at the time and see if Lauren has
always been the master of culture that he claims to have been. I mean,
I have two words about SNL always being on the zeitgeist, and those two words
are Joe Piscopo. So, like, you know, let's just. We can move on from there.
All right, so the movie opens up in the past. It sort of
starts with a flashback, right? We have a very young Tommy
Callahan III, Farley's character, but as
you know, maybe like a 12 year old. It looks like something like that.
And his mom calls from, you know, the inside. He's playing like in his.
In his treehouse backyard. And his mom calls from the house, you know, Tommy,
you're gonna be late for school, you gotta get going, you know, whatever. And he's
like, oh, Snikey's. And like starts running and he uses a couple of the phrasings
that Tommy will use later on, which is almost like a reverse fan service thing
because we don't actually know it yet, but it's like, you know, like later on
you look back and you go, well. That was kind of do fan service or
something. There's no fans for you. Yeah. So he's running and he runs through,
you know, he firstly runs into the like, you know, sliding glass door and
then he like has to go in through the house and he's like running through
the neighborhood. He ends up, like dropping his lunch in order to get a do
that's chasing him to leave him alone. He leaves his history book on the,
on the floor, on the ground. You know, he's doing this stuff. And we also
get briefly introduced to a young version of the other main character of the movie,
Richard, David Spade's character, because he's riding his bike to school and already making
fun of Tommy for being late again and being worthless and stuff. And I
do believe we might get the. That might be the first. Shut up, Richard.
There's like at least five or six. Shut up, Richards Yeah, there's a lot of
Shut up Richards. I think that's right. It comes a little later, I think the
first one. But yeah, that's the idea is how we start. And honestly, amazing,
like for grown up Tommy to have the, the. The self esteem that he does
because he's just surrounded by people that are, you know, at least other people outside
of his family are just telling him he's a piece of all the time.
It feels like only Richard does that though, because all the kids on the bus
are going, come on, Tommy, come on. They're like, they're like cheering him on.
Right. So I think because he's. I'm thinking about the other guy at the plant,
but maybe he's an outlier as well. I think RT is also an outlier,
but I think most of the people in this universe seem to really like Tommy.
He seems like a well liked person in general. But we
very quickly flash forward to almost the exact same thing. Good cut. I think this
a. It's a good transition. And so now we have college aged adult
Tommy. We figure. I think they mentioned he's took him seven years to graduate college.
He's like 25, let's call it. 25 year old Tommy is now at Marquette University
and same thing, he's like late for the shuttle or the bus or whatever to
get to his final exam for history. And he does basically
kind of repeats the. Almost the same sequence, right? Yeah. Running. So everything's elevated
a little bit. The music is very whimsical. It's very like,
honey, I shrunk the kids kind of. Yeah. Also very Billy Madison though,
in a way. Yeah. So one of the things is because he's
this big lumbering guy, he's running towards his class and there's a scene where
he turns a corner and there's this unsuspecting kind of nerdy guy there who just
starts whimpering in fear when he sees him coming, which is very funny.
And he gets up finally to the door, the building he's trying to enter.
And he's pulling at it with both hands for the love of just overacting.
And after trying for about four seconds, slumps on the side of the
door like, I'm never going to get in. And then this, you know, dainty looking
woman just very easily opens the door next to him because he was doing it
wrong. So there's some good Farley physical comedy. Absolutely. Yeah.
And so he's in, he makes it into his history class. He's sweating and huffing
and Puffing. But his teacher brings him exam and, you know, whatever, and he kind
of smiles and the guy looks at him like, what an idiot, you know,
but he has to answer, you know, about the. There's a fill
in the blank history question about the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
And it mentions like John Adams and James Madison and blank Hancock. Yeah.
And he thinks for a second and writes in her be Hancock. And you know,
just like. Okay, dummy reference. That was better in 1995.
Yeah, for sure. Hey, Herbie, Hancock is timeless. Right? Look,
I agree, but I think today's youth aren't as into rocket. To be
fair, today's youth aren't watching Tom boy either. But so we jump ahead just
a bit to the grades getting posted. And so he goes and he looks.
He's kind of looking for. And he finds Tom, you know, Callahan Thomas iii.
And he's got a D plus. And he's so happy that he passed.
Oh, I passed. Oh, my God. You know, and it reminded me of something
because as a person who graduated college.
Not going to give you my gpa, but let's just say it wasn't.
It wasn't good. He got straight P's. Yeah, I was.
Well, no, some of them were letter. Actual letter grades. But yeah,
Ds get degrees. That was the. That was the saying I used in college.
And sure enough, it's true. As long as when it comes to those upper,
you know, sort of a division requirements, as long as you pass them, that's usually
all it takes. So Tommy's got his degree. D's get degrees.
And. Yeah. So we jump ahead now to. He's hanging out
with his rugby buddies on the rugby team at Marquette. And they're.
Sorry, go ahead. Sorry, bad music. Instance number one steps in
here. Oh, what is it we've got? I think it's called I Want to Hear
It Loud by the Funk Junkies. Oh, my God, that's right. P H U N
K. And at one point I treated any kind
of like rap rock music because I loved, you know, like the way the Beastie
Boys did it, but like Rage against the Machine and a lot of this stuff.
But then I treated that like it was gold. And I would buy all these
CDs of these crappy bands. So the Funk Junkies were definitely one of them.
And at the end of this movie, there's a Funk Junkie
song. It might be this one that plays during the credit. Just listen to the
guys sing and see how long you can do it for. Because I'm sure you're
going to break my wife's record. Oh, 25 seconds. Yeah,
yeah. So they're at this like house party at their, you know, whatever, these rugby
frat guys, whatever they are, and they're talking about how he's finally graduated. They're going
to miss him and all this stuff. And so, you know, he basically gets up
the cheers and he likes, drinks a beer. He takes a big hit from a
bong and he's talking and of course then he like passes out standing up and
falls to a table and it's like, it can't be a Chris Farley joint if
he doesn't fall through a table. No coffee table is safe around Chris Farley.
He's either doing coke off it or crashing through it or both.
Oh, earlier when he, when he realized he passed, he got his D
plus, he's celebrating and he goes up and he really like hugs this guy
super hard. And then he separates and he says, I wish we'd known each
other. This was a bit awkward. And this is like the farliness,
like some of that stuff that only he could make that funny. So I really
like that line. There is something about Farley. Yeah. It's this combination
of his. He's Lenny from Of Mice and Men. But he's also
like adorable and sweet and you know what I mean? So it's like you feel
like at any moment he could crush you. But also he's like an incredibly just
like nice guy. Like, you know what I mean? And it's like, and it's so,
it's just, it's kind of cute. Even though it's like, yeah, you, you would destroy
me if you like bear hugged me. Like I would just. My shoulders would crack
in half. Right, right. A little disregard for other people not being like
the same size as him. Yeah. Like the video of like the giant blind dog
that thinks it's little and. It'S like, yeah, he's literally a chow chow. Like,
but he's good, good natured. He's not, he's not being mean to anybody. Is very
good here. So now Tommy's, he's flying
home. He's done, he's got his degree and he's going back to Sandusky, Ohio where
he lives. Yes. And at the airport he's greeted by David
Spade, by Richard, and Tommy gets off. He's like, hey, Richard, how's it going?
You know, hey, I thought my dad would be here. And he's like, your dad
was here. You weren't on the right Flight, you know, he had to go back
to work. Bas and he's like, oh, hey. You know. And so he gets
his luggage off the plane, which is just a garbage bag wrapped in duct tape.
That's very nice. Wonderful garbage bag full of clothes, still pulling hose.
So. Yeah. And so then I think it's. They go to, they go to the
factory. Right. So this is. Tommy is the son of Big Tom Callahan,
who's actually Tom Callahan Jr. Because we know Tommy's the third.
And so big Tom Callahan, played by Brian Dennehy. He's the CEO,
president whatever of Callahan Auto Parts in Sandusky,
Ohio. So they have this big plant, they employ 300 people making it looks like
mostly at this point, at the beginning, almost exclusively oil filters. Seems like that's
the majority of what they're on the assembly line, what they're making. And so Tommy
comes back to the office and while his dad
is talking to like a couple of his other executives and one of the guys
from the bank about borrowing more money, getting an infusion of capital so that they
can power on their brake pads division. They've built, you know, they've sort of done
all this building of machinery and stuff. And then they need to hire more workers
and they need to like train them and they need to buy materials to make
these brake pads. So they're trying to get another loan and the banks, you know,
being a little reluctant, but you know, Big Tom's a real salesman and he really
sells him on, on, you know, the being the future of the, of the,
you know, Callahan and all this stuff. But that's when Tommy shows up. And there's
this moment between Farley and Dennehy that I love this sumo
wrestler hug you do where they're both doing the stomp and the slap of the
thighs and then they come at each other like two sumo wrestlers looking to push
each other out of the ring. But it's a hug. Yes. And it is pure
big guy joy. It is so awesome. They, I, I wrote this down too
because I think Dennehy is a great actor and he's been great
in a lot of stuff. But there is like a real chemistry between him and
Farley. And just to see like, like I talked about earlier,
Harkud Farley have such good self esteem. His dad loves his shit.
His dad loves his material. He loves Tommy being Tommy. He can't
get enough of it right. So it's really cool to see that while we get
to see the, the Dennehy Farley connection. Yeah. And Especially in a scenario
where we learn, you know, relatively quickly. Right. That, that Tommy's mom passed
away many years ago. It sounds like he is not in the picture where she's
gone. You know, to have a father figure who's both obviously a professional running
a company, that's got to be a busy job. You're not around as often as
you want to be as a dad with a job like that, but to have
that relationship with his son still is like, really remarkable. I think it's a really
great, you know, commentary on, on, you know, as for fathers is kind of
like, yeah, you know, you, maybe you can't have everything, but you can pay
attention to your kid and give them what they need and still be, you can
still be successful. You don't have to sacrifice that. Exactly. So. So it's really
great. Their, their interactions are fantastic. Even when, even when
Big Tom, you know, kind of recognizes
that Tommy's just said something really dumb or like, you know, whatever, like he asks
it. He keeps showing him things and Tommy, you know, voluntarily is covering his eyes.
Oh, do I open my eyes now? Daddy's like, damn it, boy, I told you
you don't have to close your eyes. He, it's still in, in good, in good
humor, you know, he's still kind of like cute about it, even though it's clear
it's a little irritating. He's kind of like. But he still kind of likes it.
Yeah, it's like where your kid will ask you to do something that you know
they can do for themselves, but you're just kind of like, ah, yeah, sure,
I'll do it for you, you little tyke. I still am putting toothpaste on my
7 year old daughter's toothbrush sometimes, and they do not need to do that.
But there we are. So. So Tommy's kind of. And Tommy's shown
to be very well liked. So he's walking through the Callahan
factory, which, which I'm sorry to drop my second 8 mile reference in the first
15 minutes of this podcast, but it kind of looks like a Sesame street version
of New Detroit Stamping. Like everybody's happy to see him. These are the people
in your neighborhood. We all like working here. Even though it's the same job as
the job that was supposed to be the worst job in 8 mile. That's right.
Yes, exactly. It's like the worst place you could be is in this horrific
shop floor. Right? And it's like, well, no, not if you're in Ohio. Maybe if
you're in In Michigan, true. But not in Ohio. In Ohio, it's all bubbles in
sunshine. It's very happy. Yeah. And so Tommy walks up to one of his
friend co workers who's using the smoothing machine,
this, like, power sander for these oil filters.
Oil filters. And Tommy. I just love that. Tommy goes up. He's like, can I
try one? And the guy's like, help yourself and knock yourself out. Hey, come on.
Step into my spot in the factory. Yeah, it looks fun, doesn't it? Come on.
It is fun. What's ocean? So, yeah, of course,
he puts it on the grinder and it slips out of his fingers and flies
all over, almost killing several people. Flying through a window, breaking this window,
which, you know, I know it's not a clean room, but it's probably not great
that a bird could now fly in and get into the machinery. Yeah. And everybody
sort of is, like, really happy to see their life. And literally, like, when I
distance, like, boy, y' all need a little, like, tighter sort of
like, like regulations on your shop floor, I think, is the problem here. And.
And Tommy, God damn it, I want to call him Tommy Senior. Why did
they have to make him the third? This is not based on a novel.
This is not based on real life. To Tommy and Big Tom. Yeah, Tommy and
Big Tom. Big Tom. Once again, Big Tom really enjoyed Tommy
doing that. He really liked it. Like, you can see it on his face.
Yeah. Yeah. And so, yeah. So they get. So Big Tom takes the executives
and the bank guy and Tommy into the new brake pad division. It's like all
these real shiny, you know, new machines. Everything looks clean. And it's like,
you know, Callahan Brake pads, like, the whole deal, big deal. And, you know,
while he continues to talk about Big Tom does to the guys about, like,
hey, this is the future. This is what we're going to do. This is going
to be amazing. And everybody's really impressed by it. Tommy has walked over to,
you know, this, like, remote control thing. It's like hanging. He presses a button and
these hooks start coming across. I'm guessing they're moving. They will eventually be used to
move very heavy materials from one side of the factory to the other for different
things. But he's. Or they're for, like, boss fights and action. Yeah, I was gonna
say, right. Yeah. This also vaguely looking like you could put an I beam on
it and throw it into somebody's face, you know, Joe Penteliano, watch out. But,
you know, so he's like. He says about, like, how he almost gets Hit by
one, but then he ducks, right? And he's like, I've got cat like speed and
reflexes. Yes. And it's the thing here. And I didn't mention this the very beginning,
but at the beginning of the movie when he is running through the college campus
to get to class, like, Farley can move for a big athletic. He.
Sure he was very athletic. And the size of his calves, when he's like pulling
on the door and everything, it's like he's got these enormous boulder calves. I know
it's from carrying around the amount of weight he had to carry around. There's that.
But like, the dude is muscular. He can move. He can like flip and like
do the worm and all this stuff. He's actually the best athlete that ever went
to Marquette until Dwyane Wade went there.
But yeah, so he's like fighting these hooks and having fun and kind of like,
why all this stuff? Until his, his dad kind of notices and it's like,
okay, buddy, come on. But it's like, even then it's like this sweet, just kind
of like, let's go, we're done, you know, kind of thing. And, but, but Richard
at the same time hates all this shit, right?
It's funny. I don't think he hates it, but he definitely is not nice to
Tommy. Richard has a lot of resentment towards Tommy, we'll say that. Yes, that's true.
So. Because after we look at the, the brake
pad division now, Tommy goes to his office. That's right.
And you know, big Tom takes Tommy into his office.
He shows him and Richard sees it and Richard says, oh, you have a window.
Why wouldn't you? You've been working here for 10 minutes.
So. And then, you know, he's got his mini fridge and him just like
listing the stuff that he could put in the fridge.
And then the dad's just like, he doesn't say, like, stop doing
that. He's like, anything you want. Anything you want to keep cold. He's just so
nice and encouraging. I love it. I do think from the Richard character though,
man, if you're going to go to work for a company that has been in
the same family for three generations and you are in any way surprised
that's going to become a fourth generation, like, that's on you,
right? Go, go, go work for Ford or gm. Like they're, they're, they're not family
run businesses. You know, if you're going to go work at this place that's 300
employees and the great grandfather of the idiot kid you don't like is the
one who's, you know, founded it. Like, too bad. Like, you know what I mean?
Yeah. I don't. I don't begrudge anyone keeping a business in their family if they
can do it at all. Right. If they know how to do it. Yeah.
Richard's trying to be the Tom Wambs games up in here. Doesn't work.
There is no shiv to. To. To bed here.
So he sees his office now and then,
but Big Tom tells him he's got another surprise. He's got another surprise at home.
And then we get a very quick scene of a bus pulling into town,
and Rob Lowe steps off the bus just looking like a classic
asshole with the leather jacket and everything. I gotta ask you here, do you feel
like, was Rob Lowe playing a bigger asshole douchebag in
this movie or in Wayne World? Yeah, it's not an easy
call because. In this one, his intentions are probably worse,
but he's unsuccessful with everything he tries to do. That's the thing. I feel like
the character in Wayne's World is not quite as evil
core, like, nefarious, whatever, but he's smart and manipulative and shitty
and does try to steal Wayne's girlfriend and whatever. But here it's like the Paul
character in this movie is so much more just like cartoonishly
evil and really incompetent. And he does kind of end up almost
doing what he needs to do and later in the movie, but, like, he really
screws things up pretty. Pretty commonly. But it's interesting when I think about.
And we were talking about this before we got on the record that, you know,
Rob Lowe at some point, and I think it was Parks and Recreation, like,
rehabilitated his character image. Yeah. And the kind of characters we accept and
see him as, because before that, he played a lot of real jerks.
And his Parks and Rec character is so good. Like, he's so perfect as
that. Yes. You know, the two nice. Yeah, yeah. The.
Too perfect. Yeah, yeah. So. So he basically is.
He steps off the bus and he's like, drink a carton of chocolate milk.
And there's this kid who has his face in the window. So he's standing in
front of the bus and behind him is this kid pressing his face to the
bus window, as kids do. And without looking, he just smashes
his fist up. Up against the window to hit that kid. It definitely impacted
him because his face was against it. And then he walks away. He crumbles up
his chocolate milk carton and he litters it into a baby stroller.
Cartoonishly bad. So there's a couple moments, and I
feel like, overall, this Rob Low character was kind of underutilized. But there's
a couple moments where I'm like, that's the kind of shit you need to turn
up in this movie, right, to really, like, make it pop. Yeah. But great.
Great intro to him before we know who he is. Right, exactly. So we just
see him. We don't have any idea who he is. But then we get Tommy
and Big Tom back at the house. They got this big mansion, whatever, that Tommy
grew up in. And they go out to the backyard, and, you know, this beautiful
woman comes up out of the pool. It's Bo Derek. And Tommy
says, wow, dad, is that for me? And he's like, no, son. That's for.
And then, of course, Tommy has to make the obligatory comment, like, dad, she's a
10. Yeah. Which is a reference to, obviously, the film Bo Derek's probably most
famous for having been in from the 70s. I'm just gonna say real quick about
Bo Derek two things about her in this film. One, I don't think at
any point she ever wears a bra. It's an interesting choice, but there's just,
like, lots of thin material over things. And then
two, she's bad as an actress. Like, she's not good. This is.
I don't know if she was ever good in other things. Like, I'm not really
a. I'm not, like, a connoisseur of Bo Derek's filmography, but, like,
she's quite terrible. So I think she was cast
specifically as the, like, people Brian Dennehy's age
still think of her as, like. Right. Who would his,
like, dream woman be? Unreachable, unachievable goddess character.
This gorgeous thing. And it's like, okay, that's fine. Like, you know, whatever. I guess,
you know, it would be, like, for us if somebody put Kathy Ireland in something.
I don't know if she looks great still or not. But, you know, you go
back to our youth, and it's like, okay, but Bo Derek is terrible in
this movie. And not worth enough, like, referencing her.
Prior work from, like, 20 years prior. To this movie and
not even saying a thing about First Blood.
You talk about Dennehy, make references to his prior work.
Don't talk about. Talk about gladiators, you know? Anyway, so,
yeah, so he's gonna. He says, tommy, I've asked Beverly to marry
me. And Tommy is like. Like, what'd she say?
Good Farley. It's so good. So, yeah. So then
Beverly and Big Tom are talking to Tommy and they let him know that Beverly
has a son, too. And now that means that Tommy's going to have a brother.
We get that. Tommy's an only child. He doesn't have any siblings. And so
he is super excited at this idea of having a brother.
And of course, because it's movie magic, right when they're talking about it, ding dong
at the door, that's probably him. And it's Rob Lowe. It's the
Paul character is the son of Beverly that we're introduced
to. And Tommy opens the door and is like,
hey, you know, he's like, hi, I'm Paul. Like, you must be Tommy. And he
goes to. Held his hand out to shake it. And that's when Tommy. One of
the. One of the more famous, I think, lines that survived this movie, you know,
and is still remembered is, you know, brothers don't shake hands.
Brothers got a hug. Yeah. Just grabs him in a big bear hug and,
you know, it's good stuff. Another good Farley only kind of
thing. Yeah. Yeah. So he immediately, he wants to take his new brother out
on the town and show him everything that San Diego, Ohio has to offer.
And he's basically. It seems like they've already been out for a bit because
Paul says to Tommy, is there anything to do in this town besides eat?
So he's taking him to dinner. I think that's just a fat joke. Oh,
okay. I thought that was just a fat joke. But maybe he took him to
dinner. I don't know. So he takes him out somewhere and we're just.
The camera's facing the character so we don't see what they're looking at. He's like,
hey, this is your first time. Kind of alluding to the fact that maybe
they're at a strip club or something like that waffle or something. And then,
you know, it's revealed and Tommy says, I can't believe you've never been cow
tipping before. Yeah, and they do a little cow tipping and there's one of those
crazy comedy movie stampedes with wacky stuff happening when. When he
goes to line up like a football lineman, you know, at the. At the base
of the cow. And even kind of makes the joke about. Yeah, it's a,
you know, center option between the udder and the, you know, haunches and blah,
blah, whatever. It's like on two. On two. And he does this whole thing and
then he slips in like the mud and cow shit. And he gets stepped on.
His head gets stepped on by the cow. A cow would have stepped right through
his skull. That's. I don't. I don't believe the human skull would have supported the
weight of even a fourth of a cow. Right. Like, I mean, even if it's
just a single. Because I just. And not the back of your head. I mean,
good God. Just, like, it's really, really brutal. Watch. Because it's one of
the things. It's like, okay, in this comedy world, he literally suffers zero
ramifications from that whatsoever. I mean, it has never. There's nothing that ever happens to
him because that. But it would have, like, completely crushed a human. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I did. I thought of tracking, like, medical woes throughout
this film. Like, how many times would Tommy have actually died for stuff that happened?
But I think he. He had several lives in this movie. Yeah. So the.
The cows, you know, they. So Tommy spooks the cows. They all. They all run
off. He's fully covered in quote, mud. End quote. And.
And, you know, Paul has gotten a little on his pants and shoes and everything.
So it cuts to them at the gas station, using the free water there at
the gas station. And Paul washing his shoes off. And Tommy's just. He's filthy,
and he's just like, can you believe how fun this is? You know, get me,
get me. And he's spraying him, and he's like, I'm a maniac. He's singing
and everything. Flash, dance thing. Really funny. A line I love from Paul
is where he looks at his shoes. He's like, these shoes are Italian.
They're worth more than your life. Which by no measure,
like, I don't care how you measure the value of a life. How, like,
insignificant you think the monetary value of a life might be. Those shoes are.
Look, a pair of Italian shoes in the mid-90s. What, three,
$400? Yeah. Come on, come on. I don't know. We're in
the OJ trial era, though. Bruno Molly's were in the news, so. Yeah.
So Tommy's back. He's at the office, and he meets Michelle,
right, The. Who ends up being kind of the love interest of the film.
An old friend of his, somebody that he's known before. He knew her brother or
something? Well, no, I think they, like, went to school together. I think they probably
went to high school together because she says something about whatever. Oh, they sat together
in the club. Yeah. I do just want to say pneumatic tubes.
Love them. Yeah, always. Love Them. Yeah. Before we even get to meet Michelle,
though, like, Tommy does something that I think everybody our age tried at some point,
which is talking into the desk fan. Oh, yeah. And doing the Luke, I am
your father like kind of thing. We all tried that at some point.
I also want to say the character Michelle, I actually didn't recognize realize this
until this watch through because it's been a while since I've seen Tommy Boy.
It's probably been 15 years since I watched this movie. Movie. And I did not
recognize her as also the main love interest for Michael J. Fox in the film
Doc Hollywood. She played Lou in the film Doc Hollywood and is didn't even
realize that like these two sort of like core memories for me, Tommy Boy and
Doc Hollywood, and that they're the same woman. I didn't put two and two together,
but she's much funnier in this Doc Hollywood's not as funny a movie as
Tommy Boy is. So. Yeah. Imagine Farley and Michael
J. Fox both being your type. Yeah, that's. That's good. I like that. That's broad
range. Yeah, for sure.
So. Yeah. Oh, one of the funny things that he said when he's talking to
Michelle and it shows Tommy is a little uncomfortable around the
lady, but he's being very nice. And this was a Farley thing kind of brought
from snl. He's like, you remember your brother Dwayne?
Do you remember your brother Dwayne? Yeah. Then what
does she offer him? She offers him a donut or something. Right?
She offers him food or something. Yes, she offers him something like that. And he
talks about how he can't. Have it the way he says, I have what the
doctors call a little bit of a weight problem.
I used to grab bear claws two at a time and they would get
launched right here. It's so good.
Oh my God. Again, is Farley cooking and making the most of. You know,
there's not all this funny stuff for him to say necessarily in the script,
except that he's able to make it work. He's able to make that really good.
Because it's not just the lines, it's the delivery. Right. It's like I have what
the doctors call a little bit of a up wake problem is like a pretty
boring, bland line. Right. Until he says it the way
he says it. And then it's just hilarious. So, so good. Yeah.
So classic movie thing. Engagement and wedding happen like
a week apart from each other. So the wedding is
happening. Yeah. And Big Tom is getting married to Beverly and
we have this beautiful wedding. It looks like it's at their house. Yeah, wonderful.
Great, great setup there. One of the great. I love.
Brian Dennehey's got a bunch of great moments in this kind of sequence. And my
favorite one is when he's talking to a guy. He' obviously clearly working at his
wedding because he's trying to sell, you know, oil filters or whatever to somebody
you happen to buy him, put them in his stores, and he's like, well,
you know, maybe it's the brake pads thing. It's like, oh, well, you know,
maybe I need to come down and see your. See your operation before I commit.
And he says, you know, a line that Tommy tries and screws up several times.
But big Tom says, well, you know, I can get a good look at a
t bone steak by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I'd rather take
the butcher's word for it. And the guy kind of likes that. Enough it's down
homey. Enough that he's like, all right, I'll buy from Utah, you know, whatever.
And I love it that he turns, he goes to Tommy, he goes, eight whiskey
sours. And I can still sell the bastard. It's like I'm thinking myself. Like,
I don't deny big Tom's a big guy. Yeah. But eight whiskey sours. Like,
if nothing else, that's heartburn. Like, good God. For sure, dude. That is
a nightmare. At 3am you're going to wake up clutching your chest. Luckily he's not.
Yeah. Yeah. Actually, maybe that the eight whiskey
sours was explaining to us what was about to happen.
Foreshadowing. Did she. Did he just have bad indigestion and they buried him alive.
Is that what. Is that really the story of Todd?
We need the maox necromancer to come and bring him back to life.
He's down there pounding on the thing. Hey, I just
had eight whiskey sours. I'm okay in a Gotta digestion.
God damn, dude. Oh, man.
So, yeah, so he's selling at the wedding. And it's also. It makes for
a great character, but in real life. I hate guys like that.
No, no, this is the worst. You know, just take a day off, dude.
It's your fucking wedding. Hey, man, where you at on your. On your home mortgage?
What? These fucking realtors specifically,
you know, there's never been a better time to be involved in a commission paying
transaction whether you're buying or selling. Like, shut the fuck up.
Like, they're just absolutely the worst. So. So big Tom
I like him. I would probably like him in real life. I hate people who
do business that way. It's very annoying. Yes. So they. They go
into this kind of semi impromptu perform. Like, when would they've rehearsed
it, I guess is my question. Unless it's like their thing they do at parties.
I think that's the thing, is it's something that they've just done before. Like,
they both know the song. They've done this maybe at, like birthdays, Christmas, whatever,
gatherings. So it's just like when he calls him up, Tommy knows right away what.
What it's for. That's the sense I got. Because they obviously. Tommy just got home
from college. He didn't even know Beverly and Tom were getting married. So it's not
like they would have probably prepared it for this. Right. But they obviously both know
the song well enough, so. And what is that song called? Don't actually know.
I don't know. It's one of those songs that's like almost royalty
free, like a general good time, somewhat familiar song.
And. And during, you know, the middle of this performance,
Big Tom just keels over and we basically have just
the. The overhead shot of everyone gathering around him as he's laid there. And there's
no. It cuts straight to the funeral bagpipes. The number of,
like, hard cuts to the funeral like, that we've seen between Happy
Gilmore and this movie is like, really? And those two movies came out the same
year. They're both like Lorne Michaels associated films in a lot of ways. I don't
know if he was technically a producer on Gilmore or not, but he was on
Billy Madison. But yeah, a lot of hard cuts to the funeral. Yeah, right.
Like, it's just an interesting, you know, thing that happens. But yeah, and then we
get like kind of a long. Kind of a serious scene
of just Tommy, you know, in the wake of his father's
funeral. The bagpipe music's playing, and then he does the thing that we
all do, which is just leave the funeral on foot and walk to work.
He's walking to work. He's sort of. He goes and he's wandering around and he
ends up at the factory and stuff like that. And he's pondering. But I just
thought this was kind of interesting because it's a big stretch of the movie that
has no jokes in it. And I think this movie had made a conscious decision
that there's certain things it's not joking about. Unlike A Happy
Gilmore, which is. Which is making light of this. There's not a lot of dark
humor in this. There are. There are some dark things that happen. Mostly the Big
Tom's death is sort of the dark thing that happens. But. But they don't really
laugh about it the way that they would in like a Happy Madison production.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. There's. Farley doesn't have that kind of darkness to him.
You know, this was not. There's nothing about this movie related to like Adam
McKay or Will Ferrell who have dark sides. You know, this is very much like
Farley's, just a little too bright of a shining sunlight, you know,
when it comes to comedy to really, I think, work as a dark humor guy.
I didn't think it works that way personally for me. So. So yeah,
it's good that they sort of like let this moment settle.
You know, we all recognize, okay, obviously this is devastating kind of thing.
And I think the next scene is on the boat. We're on the boat.
That's right. So again, one of the more famous sort of sequences and scenes.
Scenes. You know, you heard it at the beginning of this episode when you
turned it on. But you know, basically Michelle and Tommy are out on his
boat. It's a little tiny sailboat, a little dinghy. It's got the sail up,
but there's no wind. So they're just kind of sitting there and it's really,
you know, really funny gag of, you know, the sight his end of the boat
being weighed down into the water so much more than her side. You know,
she probably weighs like 105 pounds or something. And he's Chris Farley. But they
start getting heckled by these three, you know, 13 year old boys on the beach
or whatever. And you know, know he tries to sort of sound tough
and yell back at them. Yeah. And they're not buying it. And then when
they keep heckling again, he's about to stand up to say again, like, you're knocking
off your punks. And she jumps up and she delivers like one of
the darkest like, like threats comedy movie ever.
When she says, I know where you live and I've seen where you sleep.
And I swear on everything holy, your mothers will cry when they've seen what I've
done to you. Damn. So good. Yeah,
so, so dark. And that was good because it was,
it was unexpected and we just been through this kind of like melancholy
of the funeral scene and stuff. So it kind of like picks things back up.
One thing that wasn't like a punchline during this scene. But again it's just why
I love Chris Farley. When he's trying to keep it together. He's very
funny because you know that in his mind, he has lost it the second the
kid said something to him, but he's trying to keep it together. And when the
kids, because they're not saying like, hey, nice slow boat, they're. Like, hey, you fat
piece of crap, like, they're being so mean to going at it. And. And he's
just like, yep, need a little wind here. And then they say something else.
He's like, well, I guess that's your theory. There's also a thing he does
physically, visually, when he's in that mode, which is he, like digs his chin
further into his chest and he sort of. His. His sort of double triple chins
get even more pronounced. Yes. And it's. And it's. He's kind of like.
It's an interesting look that he has about him. And it's clear the idea he's
like, doing that because it's keeping him from exploding at some point.
Like. So we're
back kind of at the. At the company. Yeah, we're back in the boardroom now
at Callahan. The company's got to decide what do we do now? Right. Big Tom
kind of was the company, is the head salesman. He's the president, son of,
grandson of the founder. Like, this is, you know, what are we going to do?
And so there is talk of Zelinsky, who is Dan Aykroyd's
character. Ron. Ray. Ray Zelinsky, the auto
parts king. You know, I make parlo parts for the American working man because that's
what I am. Like, that whole thing is a very Chicago kind of thing.
And basically he's offering to buy the company. Yep. And now that Tom's
dead. But he died after Beverly married him before, it sounds like
literally all the shares in the company were split 50, 50 between Tommy and Tom.
Like that when Tom. Or maybe I guess Tom had them all. And when he
died, they got split evenly between Beverly and Tommy. Something like that. So Tommy has
half the company, Beverly has half the company. And the bank is like,
hey, we're not. We can't extend that loan for the brake pad thing like we
talked about, because now Tom's gone. So we don't know how this is going to
go. Like, we can't have faith in the company. Yeah. Because Tom was the company,
you know, and so Tommy's like, well, what if I put up my shares and,
you know, the house and everything that I Have. Would that be enough,
you know, to get the loan, to secure the loan and get the money we
need? And the guy's like, yeah, sure, but are you sure you want to do
that? Because, like, whatever. And he's like, yeah, like my dad said, this is the
future. Like, let's do it. Well, Beverly and Paul both kind of like looked disappointed
at this and we learned a little bit of why. But I love. There's a
scene in the sequence in this where, you know, basically Tommy suggests that he
go out and do his dad's sales job. And everybody is kind of. I don't
know about that, Tommy. Like, you just got here, like, you don't really know what
you're doing. And there's this old woman sitting at the board thing and
when they're talking about the plant would close if they sold to Zielinski, she goes,
that's when the move in, Right. Starts talking about them shaking their
ass for the men. And the guy sitting next to her is like, one time
in the war, I visited a whorehouse and I have never lived it down since.
That was a very Sandler type addition to it.
Yes. Yeah. Because otherwise this scene is a pretty straightforward George
Bailey agrees to stay on to save the building and lone kind of scene.
Yep, absolutely. And yeah, so that broke it up. And like,
that's one of those things where I'm like, did more of that shit. I would
have liked more of that in this movie.
Yeah. So Tommy is going to go
on the road. And of course I don't know shit about
this, but, you know, who knows everything about this? My dad's right hand man,
Richard, and. He'S open, his calendar's open. He was
working with Big Tom. Big Tom's gone, so Richard's got nothing to do, right?
And he says, hey, we're going to take this
trip through the Midwest on a sales call.
Should we take the company car or should we drive your personal antique vehicle that
you love more than anything else in world? The. The world. Yeah. Did they.
Did. Did Big Tom not own a car that Tommy now owns?
I gotta say, there is no way that Big Tom did not own a Ford
F350 or larger. There's absolutely no way. He has boats.
You know, he has multiple boats he needs to tow. Shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, you know, to be fair, six miles a gallon is a little rough if
you're trying to drive all over the Midwest. So. So, yeah, so they're going on,
they're going out together. Tommy's trying to study, you Know, but we're getting a bunch
of little funny stuff. Stuff, you know, about the car. Don't eat in the car,
like I told you. Whatever. Good stuff from top. From just. This is now when
it really becomes the Spade and Farley show, right? They really. There. It's the two
of them together in almost every scene that either of them is in. From here
on out, in most of the scenes for the movie, they're both in it together.
Right. Before, we had a lot of Tommy on his own, there was a lot
of Farley on his own or Farley with other people. But for the most part
now it's a lot of Farley and Spade together. And they're great. The chemistry between
them is great. You know, they're visually just so funny. They're very Abbott and Costello
with the, you know, the big guy and the little guy kind of thing,
which is all great. I love. They get to. I think it's the first sales
call and. Or. No, it's not the first. Because there's a bunch of recesses.
We don't take no for an answer. Say, no, no, no. It's a good montage
of the cut between, like, no problem. We don't take no for an answer.
And then. Yeah, the way that he's like, gotcha. Okay. Like, just before
they're even done saying no, like, he's ready to. To be done with it.
It's. Yeah, I like that a lot. But then they get to one where.
Where the guy says no, and he's about to, like, just agree.
And Richard kind of, you know, hey, like, taps on. What are you doing?
You know, he's like. And so they start thinking about, you know, how. He's like,
well, let me. Let me ask you this. And he's got these model cars on
his desk. Yes. And he's like, you know, what makes your brake pads different?
He's like, oh, well. And no, that's right. So Richard starts explaining all the,
like, technical stuff. He's like, ah, you're not speaking my language, little fella. Like,
you know, whatever. And so. And so Tommy grabs this, like, model. You know,
looks like a Bel Air or something, convertible on the car. You know, he's.
And he. And he's like that. The guy is very much like, don't touch.
Like, he seems. Seems to care about that. And you see there's a bunch of
model cars behind them sitting on the seat, and then a bunch on the desk.
And he kind of flinches like, oh, what are you doing? When he picks up
he's like, imagine you're driving along. You've got your family in the car, whatever.
And it's like. Then there's a truck tire in the road. And.
Whoa, that was close. Now let's see what happens
with the other guy's brake pads. And he gets this other one that looks like
a Model E or something, like a really old, like, you know, early car.
And he's like, you're driving along, and. And he smashes it into. It's like this
big lighter. It's like a big, round cigarette lighter. And he's just smashing the model
into it. And then lights it on fire, Puts it on the desk, Puts it
back on the desk, burning. And is like the paddy wagon show. Or, you know,
the meat wagon shows up, and the. The coroner gets out and goes, oh,
my God. The new guy's in the corner puking his guts out. This guy's in
the corner puking his guts out. Maybe laugh very hard. Just going on and on.
The dude is just. Just like. Finally. Is just like, get out.
Like, dude, dude. This scene was certainly a concentration
of caviar on that cracker. Like, this was just pure Farley.
It could have gone in any movie. Like, just him doing that. And what a
great bit. And the way that he just, like, changes emotions so readily
as he's telling in the story. And, like, really good. Two little things in
this. In this scene that are great is. One is when he does the,
like, oh, my God. He does this fake cigar away, and it's just so
perfect. The little motion and David Spade's reactions to
him are wonderful. You're really focused on Chris Farley in the scene. But if you,
like, go back and watch it and just watch Spade sitting next to him,
it starts off with, like, shock. And he's, like, watching and just shocked. And finally
he's, like, covering his eyes and looking away. And it's just really perfectly played by
David Spade as, like, just not knowing what the hell to do with this guy.
Right. Really, really funny. Yeah. So.
So now they're looking for directions. They're driving around. So Richard
has gone into the gas station to talk to this guy about what
his issue is. And Tommy's just kind of messing around in the car. And Richard
cares a lot about his car. The passenger door is open,
and then Tommy somehow lets the car roll back. No, no. So he needs
to fill it with gas. So he goes to get the gas nozzle,
and the hose isn't long enough, so he's got to back up the Car a
little bit to make it reach, but he doesn't close the front door, the driver's
door, the To. To do it. So he starts backing up, and, you know,
it's one of those big posts. It's right next to every gas pumps. You don't
drive into it. Just, you know, pulls the car door the wrong way
open, and now it is, like, flush against the front fender of the car.
And so he pulls back forward and goes, oh, my God. And he spends 20,
30 seconds, like, trying to push it back closed. Yeah.
And it's super funny because, like, he's doing this while Spade's in the. In the
little office, wherever. The little convenience store part, with the clerk talking about the
map and, like, 22 miles away, looking for the town. Oh, it turns out you're
in the wrong state. This is a map of Illinois, where we are. You need
to go to Iowa or whatever it was. Right. So he figures all that out.
And we see Farley close the door, and it's really off kilter, and it looks
screwed up. But then when Spade comes out, it looks perfect. I know. It looks,
like, clearly dented when. When he first puts it in. And then Spade stops
for a second, sees a tiny spot, licks his thumb and rubs it off there.
And he pulls the door open. Door. And it just falls to the ground.
And another perfect spot. Farley, delivery.
What did you do? It's just so perfect.
Oh, my God.
So now we quickly. I think it's showing they're at a, like, a state fair
type thing. It's like a company. It's a company event or whatever. It's like family
night at Callahan Auto. And they've got some, like, amusement park rides.
Yeah. Games and stuff, you know, for the whole company. But. But it's all marred.
It's. You know, there's this shadow of Tom's death, and, like, you know, not everybody's.
Doesn't really know. Is Tommy gonna succeed in, like, saving them? Like, what's the situation?
So there's this, like, pallor over the night. But. But Rittenhouse
or Rittenhauer or whatever the guy's name is saying, like, hey, let's try to enjoy
ourselves. Tom would want that, you know, kind of thing. And this is when we
get the first indication. Paul and Beverly. Yeah, there's something wrong with Paul and Beverly.
They are really bold. They are really bold. They are.
Especially in light of this being, like, the employee night. Everyone was probably just at
the wedding. Yeah, all these people were just at the wedding, which as far as
we was less than a week ago, right. When the wedding and the funeral and
whatever else, and. And, yeah, we saw a lot. Maybe not all 300, but a
whole lot of the people we met, you know, on Tommy's walk through the factory
were there at the wedding. They know Beverly, they know Paul, and they know who
they are. And they, like, kind of walk between two booths
or something. That's a little bit of a dark, ish area, but you can see
people behind them walking back and forth. And it's like. And they just. And Paul
just kisses her, like, real passionately. And it's like. That is really bold.
But it also is an indicator for the audience, Right. That. Okay, they're clearly not.
Either they are mother and son and super screwed up, or they're not mother and
son at all. Right. And so that's the first indication that we get.
Yeah, well, they say. He says mother or whatever. She's like, I hate
when you call. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So.
So then Paul, I think, is this where they step out and he's.
He's taking a whiz. Oh, yeah, yeah. So Michelle sees them walking off
and it's a little weird. She sees them, like, with his arm around her,
and it's like, it could be okay, but it's a little familiar. Like, weird for
like a mother daughter relationship. I mean, a mother son relationship, but it's not too
weird. But she notices it. And then, yeah, he walks over and he decides to
pee on a Callahan auto sign. But what he's not. He's like a transformer behind
it. It's like a little. Yeah, some kind of a mini substation transformer
thing, whatever. And it's just enough that he turns a little and his pee hits
it and shoots him back. Like. And it's like. I don't even know if that
would. Work that way or not, but it's pretty funny. He flies back quite a
ways. It was good. And again, that's a good Paul thing and definitely something that
we would repeat. And college. Every time you're pissing outdoors, you say, this is what
I think of Callahan before you start peeing on anything. And we
were in the heyday of learning about not whizzing on the electric fence between
Ren and Stimpy. And this scene here. Yeah, yeah. Forgot about the Ren
and Stimpy thing. Yeah, that's right. He's been discussed a lot in our house
lately. I think my wife and I might get back in a run in Stimpy.
Yeah. So now we're back with Tommy and Richard on the road.
Road. And they end up hitting a deer.
Yeah. I want to say something real quick before we get into the deer,
because the deer stuff is great, but. Yeah, they hit a deer and they have.
Because they're singing along with a song or. No, they're arguing. They're arguing. Richard is,
like, yelling at Tommy about something. And that's when Tommy, you know, looks up as,
like, deer. And they don't stop in time. Quite funny, because they don't yet have
those Callahan brake pads that haven't been made yet. That would have stopped them in
time. But what I noticed is you look around them, and it's fall.
Like, it's bright orange leaves on things.
How much time? Finished college. Yeah. If he finished college,
usually finished the end of a semester. So it'd either be in the Midwest.
It would either be, like, January at the end of the fall semester, or it's,
like, May or June at the end of the spring semester. So, like, I'm assuming
it's, like, was summertime when he graduated. He goes home and is immediately introduced to
Beverly and told the wedding's on Saturday. His dad dies at the wedding.
Funerals usually happen within a week of the death. Right. You don't wait months
to have the funeral. And now he's out on the road, and we know he
only has a few weeks to, like, get this sales call thing done.
So, like, this should be, like, July or maybe August. And.
Yeah. And yet it looks like October in Iowa or wherever the
hell they are. It's very strange. I didn't understand that. Other than that. That's just
when they were filming it. And so that's what it. Deal with
it, you know, whatever. Who cares? But it was, like, very incongruous to me.
No, no. Foliage consultant in the. In the credits. Very disappointing.
Yeah. Yeah. So.
So they're enjoying a nice fall July 15th day.
Nice autumn, crisp July 15th day in
Ohio. And they end up hitting a deer in Richard's car.
Brutal. Yeah. And the deer, for some reason,
they felt, well, we can't just leave it here. Why? I don't know.
They should have just left it there and driven off. Called animal.
I don't know. I mean, that's not an. That's a yp.
I'm sorry. Like, not dealing with that. Can't do that. Not dealing with that.
I mean, this is not my method of hunting. Right. So their
solution is we're going to put the deer in the car in the trunk.
Oh, no. We're going to suit. The cases must be in the trunk.
The plastic bag wrapped in duct tape must be in the trunk. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah. You don't want that to. That's all dusty. You don't want that to mess
up the back seat. If that deer had called shotgun, I swear they would have
put it in the fucking front seat. So the deer
is in the backseat of the car as they continue their drive. And.
And funny stuff between Richard and Tommy. I'm not sure if
we're quite to the singing yet, but the scenes of them in the car are
very enjoyable. Yeah. And I think this is where they. So they go in first
and they're trying to make a sale to this guy who's really
like one of the funnier minor actors in the movie. That bald guy who looks
like Jeff Dunham's old man puppet. Like, he has this very. Yeah, so it's the
guy with the guarantee on the box. Right, okay. And they
end up. Richard says, you know that thing in the car? Tommy's like,
why are you in a hurry? Another thing in the car. It's not an air
freshener. It's a deer that we hit. And the guy tells
Richard, you're a smug, unhappy little man. Whatever. So they end up driving
off. And I think while they're driving, Tommy's looking at his hair in the
mirror because he had mashed his hair upwards in stress
during the last attempted sale. And he sees that the deer has come to life
and it starts kicking around, just punching through every part of the car, just absolutely
destroying it. Super classic scene of 90s comedy.
The deer just destroying the car and, you know, triumphantly standing on top
of it and then, you know, runs off just fine. And of course, you know,
Richard is. My car is totally destroyed. And Tommy is like,
that was awesome. It's just.
But sorry. Sorry about your car.
So. God, it's rough to be a car in a road trip movie.
You're not going to come out unscathed. You're going to be very much scathed.
Right. So now they're in the hotel. Yes, that's the thing. So they're in the
hotel and he's got the window open and there's moths coming in. So many moths.
It's so funny. 100 moths in this place. I don't know what Midwestern
moths are like, but apparently that's. That's what they're like. So they're going in and,
you know, Tommy gets a phone call from Michelle.
She's like, called him back or whatever. But Richard's being the dick and he's like,
I'm going to go, you know, get these moths with this vacuum. You can't
leave the window open. You can't do this, you can't do that. And so.
Yeah, but they. That's when he does these. Tries to cheer him up. Tommy tries
to cheer Richard up. Richard, fat guy in a little coat.
And he's like putting. Trying to put on his jacket and kind of doing a
little. The fat guy in a little coat.
But then he like Richard and he reaches and it just splits right down
the back. And I don't get the sense that Richard's got a lot of suits
with him. You know what I mean? This. This feels pretty. Pretty bad for Richard.
But. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah. Fat and fat guy
in a little coat, I mean, is really something that is ubiquitous notice among
people our age. Like, we all know what. Even if you couldn't say off
the top of your head what movie it was from, everyone knows that's like the
Chris Farley thing. Yes. And it's the sing song sort of thing. Oh, yeah.
You gotta say it that way. Yeah. There's an official tune to it.
So now we're kind of back on the road and they're singing in the car.
Yeah, that's right. And there's a few different, like, radio stations. Kind of a funny
thing with, you know, oh, this sucks. Like, put this on. Oh, this sucks.
Put this on. And then a song comes up that would probably be objectively lame.
Like just a slow, like, 70s. It's a superstar by the
Carpenters. Yeah. And they're both just like, I'm fine if you're fine
with it. Whatever. I don't. I don't know. So they're both kind of like secretly
enjoying it. And while this is happening, the hood for the car just
flips straight up. Absolute nightmare. If you're driving on the freeway so
they have no visibility, they end up pulling off, shutting.
It happens again. And they pull off and it fully breaks off.
That's right. Yeah. It's like hits a sign and finally gets pulled off. So they
come to a stop, stop. And then Richard looks and he turns to Tommy goes,
hey, when we stopped a gas this morning, I asked you to put oil in
the car. Did you do that? And he goes, yeah, and I use the right
kind. And besides, motor oil would not have anything to do with this accident.
He goes, yeah, but you can't latch the hood very well if the can still
in. And it's like. And so now this is it. Richard is exploded on and
he's like, I'm ready to beat you up. Which is like kind of comically hilarious.
The idea of David Spade, like fighting Chris Farley, whatever. But they get out and
it's like, you know, I'm going to fight you. I'm not going to fight.
Oh, he's just a little guy. He's worried, like, okay, tons of fun, let's go.
And they're just like, you know, insulting each other, yelling, and they give you a
free shot. One of my favorite fight things. Absolutely. I give you one free shot.
But Spade gets a couple punches in and Farley's doing the whole like, ah,
I barely felt it. Is there a breeze open? Is there a window open?
I feel a breeze. But then Spade finds like a 2x4 on the ground and
just gives him one right across the cheek. And it's just, you know, kind of
knocks him out. And I love. He goes, they've pulled over by a prehistoric
forest. And Spade drops it to her, goes, hey, prehistoric forest. Cool.
So after the fight, now we're at the diner here. And one thing we didn't
talk about at the diner that's really funny is Farley, who'd been hit by the
two by four by hacksaw. Jim Spade has
clearly this red mark on the side of his face and he's like,
richard, is there anything on my face? It really hurts right here. And he's
kind of moving his hand along the line, length of it. Not here so much.
Like he moves it up or here. Not the neck, not the head, top of
it, but right here. But right here we're just like, no, that's good, nothing's wrong.
To which the waitress then walks up and goes, oh my God, what happened to
your face, Richard? I knew it. So she tells him that
it's only Spade gets a shrimp cocktail. He's like,
all they got is cold stuff and desserts because the kitchen's closed. But Tommy's like,
I could really use some chicken wings. That'd be really great. And she's like,
nope, sorry, they're cold. Closed. And he's like, could you check? And she like stands
her and goes, yeah, let me check. Yep, closed, which is great.
But he kind of starts talking to her and he talks to her about like,
why he's bad at being a salesperson and like why, how he screws up and.
And again the car to sort of reference the Lenny of from a Mice of
Men. Let Reference that I made earlier is very much about this little dinner roll
that he takes. And he, you know, destroys, you know, because he gets so excited.
And she goes like, man, you're sick. But then she's like, let me go see
if I can turn those friars back on and get you some chicken wings.
And Spade recognizes. Richard recognizes, like, like, oh, wait a minute. That you just totally
pulled a 180 on her. Like, how. How'd you do that? You know? And he's
like, well, I don't care. And he even says, like, doesn't matter if we get
the wings. We still got that. That meat lovers pizza in the trunk. Yeah.
And which. That must be why the deer didn't go in the trunk. But no,
like, so. So he's like, no, no, no, like, like, Richard sound like,
hey, dude, this is how you. This is how you sell. Everybody's got to know
their. Figure out their own way that they do it. This is how you do
it is just. Just, you know, talk to people yourself. Talk to people,
read them, tell them what they need to hear. Like, you can do this.
And so this is when. This is when they then go to
the. The salesperson who they're walking around. Right? That's right. Right.
He says, I need a guarantee on the box. I gotta have a guarantee on
the box. And, you know, at first there, he's like, nope, sorry, guys. Bye,
bye. And they're gonna leave. And then Richard looks, Tommy goes, chicken wings. Chicken wings.
You know, and he's like thinking about it. And that's when he says, hey,
Tom. You know, I remember the guy's name, like, Ted or something. He's like,
let's think about for a second. Why does somebody put a thing on the bug
Guarantee on the box. He's like, I'm listening. You know, and they
love the line. I don't remember the whole speech, obviously, but he says something about
like, you know, it's probably because they know they just sold you a guaranteed piece
of shit. If you want me to take a shit in a box and put
a guarantee on it, I can do it. I got spare time.
But in the meanwhile, you might want to consider buying a quality product for me.
And it's like, it's really. It's a good sales pitch. And the guy buys it
and he's like, okay, I'll buy from you. And it's like, boom, right? This is
like, this is revelatory, right? They've made a sale. You know, Tommy's figured out how
to. To talk to People and it really kicks off the rest of this thing.
But before that, we go to that evening, they're back at the motel, or a
different motel probably than they were before with the moths. But you know, they're there
to talk about. They want to celebrate. Like, Tommy's like, oh, my God,
this is amazing, right? And he's like, I'm going to go get a pizza.
The only choice I have to make. Is like, this is. After that, I think,
yeah, this is right. So, yeah, so they. He sells the guy
the guarantee fairy thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The whole guarantee. What if she's a crazy
clue sniffer? Build model air plane. She says, but we don't buy it,
right? So, yeah, you know, your daughter's knocked up. And I've seen it a hundred
times. Like, the whole thing is good. Celebrating at the. Celebrating at the motel,
right? So Richard, or so Tommy goes to leave to buy pizza. He's going to
get a pizza. And Richard goes to close the blinds or the drapes or
everybody notices there's this young woman down by the pool. I got to tell you,
the girl at the pool in Tommy boy is a core memory for me.
Like, this is definitely ingrained on the old cortex. But, you know,
Tommy walks by and you can hear Richard, he's says like, tommy, Tommy, leave her
alone. Don't give her the gym thing. And sure enough, he's walking up there and
goes, hey, you know where the weight room is? I'll figure it out.
Cool. You know, his posture that he adopts when he walks up to her is
so funny. It's so like trying to suck in the gut, be real broad
shouldered, whatever. She's like, no, I don't know, like. So,
yeah, so she decides she's gonna jump in the pool. Richard's watching her from the
hotel room, and she decides she's going to take all of her clothes off before
getting the pool. Which is definitely something you do do in movies in motel pools
because it happens in vacation as well. But like, you know, I don't know why
this is something. And it wasn't a luxury. It wasn't like this is the.
The Roosevelt or the W or some fancy roadside motel sub.
La Quinta, you know, nameless motel. But yeah, sure enough, he's watching
her and he's like, yeah, nobody's around. And he's like, speaking of nobody's around.
And you hear the zipper, right? Telltale sign of the zipper, she jumps
in and you know, whatever. And that's when Tommy comes. Comes back. And so he
so Richard has to dive back into bed, cover himself up in the covers.
And of course, Tommy knows right away what was happening. And so he, he makes
a lot of comments about, like. And, oh, you were reading papers. The papers are
over here, like, and it's like all this stuff about, you know, who's your favorite
little rascal? Is it Spank? Yeah, like all this. Oh, that's a pretty girl at
the pool. I wonder if she dates one of the Yankees. Yankees, yeah. And I
love the one where they're. They're in bed that night and still going on and
on, and he just in the dark, Tommy just goes, sinner.
I just love that so much. The scene of them
both in bed and him still doing the jokes. I can really relate
to that. With your friends in high school, if you're all staying over
somebody's house or roommates in college or whatever, just where you're kind of delirious,
falling asleep, keeping the joke going. Freddy Krueger
is going to kill us in our dreams if we don't keep this joke going.
We have to do it. Yeah, that was, that was very good.
Okay, now here's a beef here with the, with the movie. All right, so after,
after this scene, which is great, we're back on the road and where things
are looking good because we made a sale and I think we get. We get
a little montage of, you know, them doing well while this song
plays. The future so bright. Wear shades. Yeah. Nobody in
the whole fucking sequence is wearing shades. There's not a single pair of sunglasses in
there. There's not. Yeah. If you're right, like Google Maps for
everywhere there's driving. There's no Sunglass Hut anything. Nobody has shades on. I don't understand
it at all. Like, the music selection in this movie
sucks ass. It's compared to Happy Gilmore. You know,
it's like, oh, they. This one is just. It's so like arbitrary.
Yeah. And it's interesting because I feel like a lot of the music choices felt
like they were trying to appeal to people our parents age in the movies.
Really was trying to appeal to kids our age. You know, this was a movie
for 15 to 25 year olds, not 35 to 55 year olds. You know what
I mean? So it's just. It was an interesting choice at the time. I do
think that, you know that I think maybe more so. Right. The point of using
that song is the Future is Bright and they're just trying to do that.
But I get what you're saying, but. Come on there's other bright future songs.
Hey, they both just be wearing sunglasses in one of the moments in the car,
right? Like, I mean, I swear to God. God, like, how easy is that?
You're in a convertible driving around during the day. Yes, exactly.
So, yeah, so they're making sales. We kind of get this like, you know,
the flip negative montage from all the no's from before now.
Yeses. Right. So they're getting it. And actually, I think there's. This is where at
one point, David Spade, Richard is like finishing
a phone call on a pay phone at a motel. And he's like holding like
donuts and coffee or whatever. Yes. And he makes the sale. And. And he's like,
you know, awesome. And he goes to like. And he knocks on the door instead
of just opening it. And Farley. Or, you know, Tommy's inside sleeping.
He's like, housekeeping. No, trying to sleep.
Housekeeping. You want me to flip over your pillow?
No, no. Trying to sleep. Thank you very much. Housekeeping. Want me
to jerk you off? What kind of hotel is this? That's another
thing. I mean, the housekeeping in the David Spade voice.
Like, we did that all the time. Someone's in the bathroom. That's what you do.
You knock on the door and you do that to them.
Oh, man. But, yeah, but they basically, he tells him. Richard tells Tommy.
Hit it. Yeah, we hit our goal. We made the last sale. Like, we're good.
Let's go back home, basically. And they're going to go home and, you know,
be welcomed home as heroes. Unfortunately for them,
Paul has another idea. So Paul has
decided that basically Paul and Beverly. I think there's a previous scene where they are
talking and they want the factory sold. If the factory is sold,
then the shares that Beverly has in Callahan are worth a ton of money
and they can walk away with cash and not have to worry about this business
that's, you know, supposed to continue. They're not publicly traded shares, so the company has
to make a decision to sell. Otherwise she's stuck holding them just with. The,
you know, the shares. But no, they have value. But there's no money. There's no
cash. There's no cash. Exactly. And so. So Paul sneaks into Michelle's
office. And we know Michelle does not use. She's in charge of shipping and receiving,
but she does not use filing cabinets. She doesn't file in cabin. She has a
system that she uses. She's got piles of things everywhere. She's got the pneumatic tube
thing, which is great, but she doesn't use filing cabin. So he goes into the
computer and basically switches. I mean we really only see him do like one where
it's like he changes like a thousand to 100 for the quantity. And then it
was like overnight express. He changes it to two week shipping or something like that.
So he's screwing things up. But apparently he screwed up a ton of them because
when Spade and Farley show up, it's like there was a huge problem that should
be receiving. Like all of the orders are wrong. All of them. So all their
work. And he was like, well, I could fix this. And they're like,
no, like they all cancel. Half of them are canceled already and whatever. But I'm
sorry, when did Paul have enough time to do that? When did he learn
the system? There's that. And he was not in that office alone
because we see him like close the blinds and then sit at the computer,
do a couple things and then Michelle comes in and it's like, so he had
enough time to change all the orders that. It's just bizarre to me that,
that that's sort of this really incredibly important plot point and like kind
of doesn't really work necessarily. But yeah, so, but Paul tries
to screw everything up and well, note Paul does it
turns out, really screw everything up. And now Michelle is, is basically going to.
I don't know if she's getting fired or she's going to quit or whatever,
but she's like packing up her shit in her office and it's like, I know
this was huge. And Tommy's kind of like, yeah, this was like really big.
He's like really upset, but he's trying not to sound upset, but he's still.
Saying things, still seeps through that he does blame her. And I mean from his
perspective, knowing what he knows and how big of a blow this is to everybody,
not just to him, it is like, you know, a reasonable way to feel.
And at this point nobody but the audience really has any reason to suspect Paul
and Beverly. Like Michelle did see them like kind of arm in arm at the
festival or whatever it was, but that wasn't that weird. It was just a little
weird. You know, she didn't see them kissing or any of that stuff. So.
So we don't really have any reason to think that any. There's any sabotage going
on or we know rather, but they don't. Like the characters have no idea that
anything would be going wrong. This would just have been a mistake and she's just
dumbfounded she's like, this doesn't make sense. I put the orders in, right. I don't
know what happened. This doesn't make any sense. But she doesn't have an answer.
And the board members, they were kind of saying. Or the other executives
were basically like, you know, 24 hours from now or tomorrow at 6pm we're all
out of a job. Yeah. And then Michelle, after, you know,
Tommy kind of blames her, she walked out and she quit. And that, that gets
my big whoop of the movie. That is a zero stakes decision if you were
going to lose your job the next day anyway. It's a message,
sending a message, something. I don't know. They're just
driving down the road. We don't really know where. Okay. And Richard's drunk. He's drinking
in the car. He's got beers. He's drinking the car. Tommy's not drunk and he's
the one driving. But still he's like, Richard, like, you can't drink in the car.
The car smells like beer. Like, nobody's going to believe I'm not drinking. And sure
enough, enough, like some cops kind of see him driving and they, you know,
pull up behind them and kind of camera, why. But he starts to draw.
Oh, no, that's right. He just decides to start driving erratically because he's like,
I got this idea, like the cops, like sort of pull him over. He's like,
I got this and I learned from my dad. So he really starts going wide,
you know, big, big all over the road, whatever, and ends up turning off the
road. And he gets out and he says, just, he says to Richard, hey,
when I stopped the car, jump out, just screaming, just, just get out of the
car. Screaming, he gets out and Tommy's like, bees, bees,
they're everywhere. Bees, whatever. And luckily for them,
the cops have pulled them over. Both allergic to bees. Who would have thought?
Yeah, what a, what a wonderful happenstance for Tommy and Richard,
because anybody not allergic to bees would kind of wait for a second and go,
yeah, okay, come over here, pal. We're going to arrest you now for the radically
wild driving you just did. Yeah. But no, they get completely away. But they've come
to a stop underneath a big Ray Zelinsky Auto Parts
sign, a billboard, right? And that's when Tommy goes. That's the answer.
And it doesn't even really. It's not really 100% clear what he's going to do.
But I think, I think his initial idea is just. Well, he had mentioned earlier
they saw an ad on tv. Oh, yeah. And Tommy is kind of talking about
like, I think I could get through to this guy basically in his head.
Like, I'll, I'll convince him that he should keep the factory open. I think that's
what it is. Right. Like they'll still sell the company because Tommy can't stop that
because he doesn't have his shares. The bank. The bank took his shares. Right.
Loan or something like that. Which is like, again, if they got the loan and
whatever, I don't know. But I feel like he should either have the money they
need or he should have his shares. The fact that he has neither is sort
of a little weird, but I. Can'T imagine that that big.
Tommy didn't have assets outside of his company stock. In his home,
like, yeah, he for sure had lake houses, he had four plexes.
He had all kinds of. That could have been leverage. But so
they have to get to Chicago and this is a flying situation. They're not going
to get their own time driving because they're going to get. There next day by
6pm and they. Go to the airport. Okay, give me your first flight to Chicago.
It's kind of a funny scene. David Spade going back and forth with a clueless
gate agent who's kind of like, well, you know, I can get you a 345.
He's like, that doesn't get us there in time. I can get you a flight
coming back from Chicago. You know, so he got to be addicted
to people. People. And the idea that they get in the airport is
they. I think they probably tipped off some flight attendants for
their uniforms. Weird. They didn't really say what it was. It was just like,
do you have any cash? They follow a couple flight. Yeah, yeah. Tommy asks,
do you got any cash? They follow a couple flight attendants and then
they're dressed in flight attendants uniforms. So somebody had a
Chris Farley sized flight attendant uniform just on them because.
The people weren't noticeably like both of their sizes. This is a John Candy
Bill pulled Pullman in Spaceballs thing where they needed to have like the right sized
people for them to steal the outfits from. But Right. Didn't work here. It was
very strange. I will say though, this concept should
have been the movie then them like pretending
to do something like that because I think it's a richer,
it's a richer premise than the rest of it. Like I would love to
see them. Or if they're like con people like pretending to do different jobs to
try travel, you know, with no money or whatever. But there was a lot of
really funny stuff with this. That's true. We should back up Jessica. This is an
important piece. Before they go to the airport, Michelle is at the airport and she
sees Beverly and Paul and they are full on making out. He's grabbing her ass,
like, the whole deal. And that's when she calls her brother, who, you know,
we heard moved to Cuyahoga Falls or something like that, but it's like a cop.
And so, you know, she basically like context. But we don't really see much more
of that. But we know now Michelle knows Paul and Beverly are not who they
seem to be. Right. And so Farley,
Tommy and Richard get to Chicago. It's.
It is a. It's a funny stuff that happens on the plane. The life preserve.
He grabs the child's life preserve. It gets stuck around his neck and he has
to pop. It is really funny. But basically they get to Chicago and they got
to go see Ray Zelinsky. So they. They follow Zelinsky in, up the elevator,
and basically Tommy just tries to convince him, like, hey, like, don't shut down the
factory. And he tells him, I just want the label. I want your product name.
I don't care what the rest of it. It's a premium product. So when they
get to the boardroom room doors, he says, since you're no longer shareholder, like,
you got to stop here. Bye. Bye. And when they opens the door, Beverly and
Paul are both in the room. Yeah. And Tommy's like, why? What's my family doing
in there? That's crazy. No, that's when Michelle shows up. So Michelle
shows up outside because they've been escorted out of the building. She tells them Paul
and Beverly are not. Whatever. I saw them kissing. So. What with his tongue.
Ew. Doing mommy, you know, whatever. Yeah, not. Not his mommy. They're married,
which means she was never married to Big Tom, because you can't be married to
two people at one once. And so Tommy gets this idea. He sees, like,
a guy with, like, road flares across the way and the action news,
you know, van or whatever that's there, and he goes, I got.
I've got a plan. Like his William Shatner style.
He straps a bunch of road flares to himself with duct tape and goes in
and basically acts like he's going to, like, blow up the bank or whatever to
get the news crew's attention. They go upstairs and basically before
the. The deal is signed. So Zelenskyy has not bought the company yet.
Yet. Right. They have not sold it yet. He goes
up and he. With the action news crew there. So it's on live TV.
Basically asks him to buy 500,000 brake pads
from Callahan Auto to sell in his store. Right. He's appealing to his ego stuff.
Yeah. Because now he's on tv, he's got to look like, I'm for the American
working man. Like, he's got to keep his Persona right. Right. Because the TV cameras
are there. And so sure enough, he signs the purchase order for 500,000 brake patches.
Like, that's obviously more than. Than. Than you know, the company needs to, like,
stay afloat. Like, this is fantastic. And even Zelinsky says, like, well, hey, in like
10 minutes, I'm going to own the company anyway. What's the difference? It's like,
yeah, okay, sure. But that's not the case. Yeah,
right. Well, so when Tommy, he's. He's in his, like,
you know, like, suicide bomb vest, right? And.
And there's a. There's a good montage of. Because it's on the news,
the news crew is following him, and there's people. You know, the usual thing where
people are sitting at a bar. Hey, turn that up. Whatever. And it shows on
the TV in the bar, but it keeps showing them, like, turn past it.
It's on the news. And they're like, what else is on it? They turn past
it. One of the women who sees it is sitting there with her husband,
who's actually one of their customers, and she says, look at this human
bomb on the news, which fucking kills me. Well, then he
goes like, oh, yeah, I buy my bike pads from him. I thought we were
watching cartoons. And he turns the channel. Oh,
my God. So, yeah, he sold his. His 500,000
pads. And then he's right. Doesn't matter. It's going to be
my company anyway. So you're just giving me good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's this good
pr, right? Yeah, yeah. But that's when Michelle has the, you know, the report that
mentions, you know, that has the proof that Paul and Beverly were married together.
And the. Paul's wanted in, like, three states for different kinds of fraud. And pretty
soon it'll be computer fraud because now they. They figured out what happened, right?
All the orders is that he went in and. And did stuff he shouldn't have
done. And. And I love the little sequence of, like, the three executives or
the two executives of the bank, whatever. It's like, doesn't that mean that all of
Beverly shares are actually. Tommy's like, I do believe that's right. Does that sound right
to you? That sounds right to me. And it's a very funny little moment because
they're all so excited that that's not going to happen now that, like, the company
is, you know, that Basically Tommy owns 100% of the company,
or I guess the bank owns half of it. Whatever. Like, they've all figured it
out and they're all super happy. And Beverly doesn't get shit. Yeah. So Paul tries
to run away. Yes. Ends up on the hood of the car and like the
crash test thing. Yep. Which. The brakes get hit so it
doesn't crash into the wall, but he doesn't fly off of it straight because he
would have just flown into the wall. Goes in a crazy direction, goes off.
To the 45 degree angle and lands on one of the, like, seat testing.
Yeah. Things were. Drops like a huge. I'm assuming, very heavy
bag onto his crotch. Right. Destroys his marbles
or whatever. But anyway, that's. That's. He then gets arrested from there. You know,
security gets him, and he's getting arrested. So Paul's getting arrested. Tommy owns the company.
Beverly and Zelinsky flirt with each other. I'm sorry. Zelinsky knows she's
married to the guy. He's. That's a weird one to me. Why he was.
But also the way he is. I probably figure, okay, he knows that he
can do this until he gets what he wants and he could cut it off
at any time. Like, I don't know if he's legitimately, like, taken by her.
Yeah. I think he just probably wants to bang. And then, you know, and,
hey, you know, not. Not a bad choice. But yeah.
So. So they saved the day. They got there. I will say that the.
There was a part earlier where Richard's
hair piece came off when they're following. Zelensky through his
testing area. Yeah. Yeah. And Richard has a toupee. So, you know,
he's bald. And for some reason he has a very odd
Stussy hat on for, like, the rest of the movie. I didn't get that,
like, put a. Put a Cleveland Indians hat or just, I don't know,
something like that. It was just kind of bizarre to me. But it was 1995.
Nick Stussy was so cool. Oh, there's a Pac son. Right across from Zelensky
auto part, baby.
All right, so they saved the day. And now we're kind of like.
There's just a little. There's a couple. They're like two scenes of sort of cleanup
at the end, right? Like, he gets announced as the new President Callahan at the
factory, and everybody's super happy and everything, and. But of course, they refer to him
as Tom Callahan Jr. Which is incorrect. We know he's Tom Callahan the third,
but that's okay. But, you know, he basically is saying, like, how much he's family
with all these people, and as long as I'm around, you'll all have a job
right here. It's a sweet kind of moment. Everybody cheers. But then when they.
I think the final. Final right is. And he's sitting on the boat by himself
in the middle of the lake. No wind. No wind. And he kind of
appeals to his dad, you know, like, hey, you know, if you could help me
out here. I'm supposed to get the Michelle's for dinner. And. And I don't have
any wind, you know, whatever. And sure enough, the wind picks up, and I think
that's. And the. The jib. Oh, that's swings
around, basically smacks him in the face. And then he does the son of a.
That's going to leave him mark. And then we're treated to
the full song of the funk junkies. I want to hear it loud,
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I do think it's funny that we get. Actually, he says that's going to leave
a mark. I think he says it twice in this movie at different times.
And it's the exact same way that John Candy delivers it in Spaceballs.
When he tries to get up from the seat and the seat belts on,
he goes, oh, that's going to leave a mark. It's like very, very. Oh.
Interesting. The number of parallels between Candy and Farley is always interesting. There's so many.
And it was the other thing. Schnikes is the other thing he was saying.
I feel like there was. There was some efforts to try to get certain taglines
to stick in this movie. That didn't really do it for me. All right,
well, we're on review time. Steve, this was your film. Do you want to.
Do you want to fire away? I'll kick it off. This was a ton of
fun. I always. I mean, I've loved this movie since I Was a kid and,
you know, it's a lot of fun. It's got holes, it's got issues. It's got
slow parts at only, you know, 90ish minutes long. It's kind of amazing
sometimes, like, how much parts of it do drag. It's not a long movie,
but it's a ton of fun. Farley is his at
his best, I guess, basically, as I'll put it. He's. He's funny, he's, you know,
bombast, but he's also sweet and loving and it's just, you know, he's a great
guy, great actor, perfect in this role. Obviously it was made for him.
You know, I'm a three and a half out of five on Tommy Boy.
I really enjoy it. You know, I absolutely think it's worth watching again. I think
it. It holds up as much as any kind of mid-90s comedy generally does.
But, you know, it's. It's not. It's not perfect by any means. But, yeah,
I'm a nice, solid three and a half right there. Kind of in the middle
of things. Boy, I think that's. I think that's fair. Yeah. I mean,
I feel similar. Like, it wasn't that long of a movie, but there are
parts of it that just didn't do much for it. And I definitely stand behind
the cracker and caviar analogy because it really
is like, if I'm rating this movie on how much I love Chris Farley and
how much I wish he was still alive, that definitely gets a five out of
five. But the actual experience of watching this, there were brilliant moments
of Farley and then the other stuff didn't quite meet up. Like, there aren't characters
I really gave a shit about during this entire movie versus,
like, a Happy Gilmore. You feel like, you know, certain characters a little bit
more like Shooter McGavin versus Chubbs. Yeah, yeah.
I think that the Farley stuff, though, is undeniable.
So I can't rate it any lower than this. David Spade didn't hold up for
me in this, and I think he's funny. I like David Spade, but for some
reason it just didn't hit as hard as it did back then. Maybe because we've
evolved as a society to all just be meaner. So the
funny, because they're mean characters, don't work as well. But I'm going to give this
one two and a half out of five. I think it's. If you haven't seen
it, there aren't a lot of opportunities to see Farley doing better than this,
so definitely watch it. But it doesn't stand as
tall as a lot of the other comedies from this era for me. No,
totally fair. So that's, let me do the math real quick. That's six, right?
Six out of ten from us. That puts us right in between the IMDb
number and the Rotten Tomatoes number. It's kind of in between the two. So that's
good stuff. So that was my pick. What do you got for us next
week, Nick? Yeah, so we're staying in kind of a, kind of a fun,
goofy lane and we're going to meet a director who I think
is very important during the era that we're covering in our film that we haven't,
that we haven't seen yet. And this was actually his first feature
film. It also stars a very beloved character from our childhood
and someone who passed away in the last couple years. He's been, you know,
in culture a lot and I think this should be a lot of, of fun
to watch. We're going to 1985 and we are gonna check out Peewee's
Big Adventure. Nice. Paul Rubens, Tim Burton.
Yeah, we got a lot of other. There's going to be a lot of people
who are the. Oh, that guy was also in this during this film.
But I haven't watched this one in a while and I'm very interested to see
how I take it now. I, yeah, college maybe was the
last time I saw Peewee's Big Adventure. It's, it's been 20 plus years for me.
So that's going to be a lot of fun. Very much looking forward to it.
Can't wait to see the bike again. It's been so long right since Absolutely.
That's good stuff. So, yeah. Cool. So next week we will take a look at
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