Episode 15: Funny Money (2006)

Weird. Hello everyone, and welcome to the Chasing Chevy Podcast. I am one of your hosts from the Culture Cast, Christashio, and I'm joined by my two good friends all the way from the Projection Booth podcast, Mike White. You can call me mister. I fucking hate all of this already if we were fucking thirty seconds in and I already hate this and all the way from Cambridge and with Sean your friend and mine Mark Begley.

Turn your dick into the terminator bits you got, Yeah was my Robert Loja. If you couldn't tell, well. Yeah, it was like he was here with us. Dall's line deliveries are better than the line deliveries in the actual film. And on this episode of the Chasing Chevy Podcast, we're talking about a two thousand and six film.

That is, I would say, and this is on me. I'm just gonna take responsibility right out of the gate for picking this movie. This show is all about Chevy Chase vehicle films, and this is a late late, late late Chevy Chase vehicle film, much later than I think anything else we're talking about. I think that this is the oldest vehicle film of his that we're talking about in terms of like conventionality the last laugh, I think we will be talking about that. That's twenty nineteen.

But that's a Netflix movie, and that's very different. Like this still feels like a quote real movie unquote at least the yeah well ish yeah, oh it's ish all right, as the kids are saying, but no, we're talkingilate ish yeah, big ass pilot ish. We're talking about two thousand and six is Funny Money, which is a bonus film technically not part of the lineup of everything we're doing because we're stopping at Vegas vacation technically with this show, which is ninety seven. This show stops in ninety seven. This movie comes out in two thousand and six, so we're nine years removed from when this show is essentially ending.

So this bonus episode is is again like this is a very late vehicle film. If you could see me, I'm putting quotations in the air for those of us who can see. But he is the lead, Yeah, he is, and it is the movie. We watched the trailer before we started recording, just and I wanted to verify to myself that the movie was being sold as a chevy Chase movie, which it was, which is why I made sure we watched it, which is why they cast him in the movie, which is why this movie even exists, because goes, hey, I want to see chevy Chase in this, in this British play that I feel like the description of the British play when filmed and seen would be its body or Paudrey. This is none of those things.

This I think is one of the worst things we've ever watched collectively, the three of us, in terms of mainstream things. But it is based on a play of the same name from nineteen ninety six by Ray Cooney, and this film does star chevy Chase in the lead role as Henry Perkins, a man who switches briefcase burf curses on the train with a Serbian warlord or drug lord or gangster and so then gets the bright idea to steal said money, which never goes AWRYE see No Country for It's essentially stupid. No Country for old Men? Like, I mean, god, like what happened if No Country for Old Men was just dog shit all the way down? You have funny money?

Yeah, yeah, I was just gonna say, we can talk about them is trying to think of all those I was trying to think of all those films and stories and plays I guess that involve this switching of money thing and the accidental switch, And the only one I could come up with was No Country of r Old Men. I'm like, God, damn it, I'd rather be watching that. Yeah, boy, And that's a low bar, because that movie's amazing and this one is bad, just bad. But I don't think No Country Old Men has the switcheroo of the brief. Right right, It doesn't.

It doesn't, but it's kind of the it's sort of it's not comedy of errors, but it's that. So dark. Now I'm being chased by the baddies. I guess that's really the connection. But there are there are multiple and maybe some of you guys are usually better at remembering this kind of stuff.

There are cases of, oh, you know, one guy puts the briefcase down on the floor, the other guy puts it down or gal, and then they accidentally pick up the wrong one and it leads to this misadventure and mistake and identity in et cetera, et cetera. But the key difference here is this is for briefcases, if not more briefcase. You see what I did there more briefcases, more than. Four b Yeah. Yeah, this is the high comedy here because there's so many briefcases.

Because there's Chevy chases. There's Rebecca Waki, the Madame Virginia is that are named the art critic. There's uh. Yeah sure, which is kind of like you know, Mama Danasy. Yeah, so you should see her in commercials all the time, and I'm.

Like, Wow, she's in tons of shit. I'm like, I know who that chal is. She's in like, she's in every TV show over the last twenty years. She's only my favorite part of the movie. Yeah yeah, I think she was she Romulan or I can't yeah, but yeah, yeah.

I mean, isn't it funny that they make wax fruit? Isn't that funny official fruit? As the trailer says. Yes, we're we're skipping our usual intro here, but I just wanted to say I had high hopes. I've never seen this before.

I had high hopes only because when the credits started, I was like, Oh, I was like, we're getting a Pink Panther style animated credit sequence. They actually so somebody bothered to take time to do this, and. They got your hopes up way too fucking high, way too quick. They didn't. They foul.

Yeah, there's gonna be high jinks and it's gonna be body snappy, there's gonna be repartee and there's gonna be quick. No, it's a farce. It's a farce, guys. Yes, as a fan, as a fan of the tenth Avenue of Regulars, this really was like oh yeah, yeah, like the animated sequence, like animated credits, like a thing in the past. But when I saw this, I was like, wow, this is great.

In that jaunt Andrea Marcone music and stuff, I was like, oh, okay, this is it's going to be a lot of fun. Yeah yeah. And even the Wax Fruit Company, I was like, oh, that's odd. That's an odd little touch, you know. I mean, those those are real businesses.

Somebody has to make those stupid things right. And then shortly thereafter it went downhill immediately. Pretty much from the next scene on when there's the group therapy, which by the way, always goes well in any film or television show. Group therapy is always a spot for hilarity and laughs, just not in this movie. Well, it's such a great way for characters to provide exposition about themselves, right, It's wonderful that we really get to figure out what's going on with this couple.

And yeah, like this is for me still the okay part of the movie. There's a moment where the movie just stops dead and you go, oh, now we're watching a play, okay. Exactly, yeah, holy it ain't that's truth? Yeah, there is, there is. Yeah.

Yeah, So all of a sudden, very setbound guys, all of a sudden when they get to his house, feels very much like and I don't have to say a line as much as make a noise, And I think y'all would probably look at me and go, oh yeah, it's kind of like that too. Ah yeah, so funny mock. It really at parts feels like The Room with like big name actors, like they're they're stuck in this house for what feels like the entire movie, And I'm like, is this this is just the Room now, but with Chevy Chase like and and it's actually trying to be funny. And the way the room you know quote was not in on the joke unquote until it apparently was which it it never was, but I mean the quality of filmmaking and the quality of the sets.

Once we get to the house, all of a sudden, we can't become very Tommy Wizo esque. And that is not a compliment at all, because this movie again has the budget to hire Chevy Chase and Penelope and Miller and Armanda Santi is that a twenty million dollar budget possibly. And Kevin Sussman and. Robert Loja and Christopher Donald. Christopher McDonald is I do have to say one of the highlights in the film.

I like him and his wife and second. Time we've seen him on this shelf because we saw him in Dirty Work. Yeah, and Mike Mitch and Madame Virginia. She was enjoyable in this, but man, the rest of them were so terribly miscast. Penelope and Miller is just I think she might be the worst part of this movie because I don't know she's doing the Mike how much under your skin to get her doing the drunk shit, Because I was like, man, I was sitting there thinking to myself, I was like, man, I know how much Mike loves when characters play drunk, and this is the like worst example of playing drunk, like falling down pratt wall shit like oh, the slurring of the words oh yeah yeah, doing flips a sudden becomes true lies for a second.

Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna cinema sends you guys for a second here, because that brings up one of the things that got on my nerves multiple times. It is noted that she is not a drinker, yet when she is chowing down those. Little chocolate oh yeah. Things with the booze in them, she knows the name of every child of every alcohol. If you're not if you're not a drinker, you're not gonna know what the fuck amaretto tastes like.

You're not gonna know what what tequila tastes like. You're not going to know any of that. I'm sorry, that was idiotic, Like, I don't know, it just it bugged me one. I'm like, how does she know this? She's not a drinker, she doesn't know this stuff of.

One of the many minor idiotic things in this room. Yeah yeah, right right. Well, I have a question for you guys, which is, why is Christopher MacDonald's wife dressed like a prostitute? So that moment where she sits on Robert Lowja's erect penis and it inserts inside of her could happen, which is such an off putting thing to have in anything. I kept thinking of Megalopolis.

Look at this boner I got. Thankfully, I have not spent any time watching Megalopolis. Yet. She also kind of just reminded me that of a Jersey girl or something like she's younger than him, she's a trophy wife. Yeah, I get that, but I would have liked like an accent or something to yeah through note other than the because it almost looks like she's going in drag because she's talking very normalacious seems very smart.

And then she's got this blue eyeshadow caked for days and I'm just like, what is going on? Why are you dressed like that? Because the script asked for it so she could sit on Robert Loj's wiener. Yes, because we have foreshadowing with the viagra pills earlier in the movie. Yes, because I guess he's just a horny old man and giving given credit to the young guy rather than to Chevy Chase, because he's the one that I thought of those Bruce bananas all those years to go Oh my god.

Bru's the bananas. Guys, It's all about Bruce Bananas. Yeah. I love when the movie starts being shot in Romania. Yeah, well it's so funny because I guess, are they shooting this on location or something.

Or part of it and then they're in Romania. Well, because other times I'm just like, this looks like a backlot set, especially whenever they open up the door, I'm just like, well, that's the back lot out there, you know. It just it looks so cheap. So many times. Well again that's why I said it's like very wizo esque, because it just makes me think of you know, you have this establishing shots of Tommy and Greg running through the park, like you've got Chevy Chase walking through Times Square, and that's like and now we're in Romania.

Now we're clearly not anywhere near these places, because at one point you can see the backyard of the house that Penelope Ann Miller is in, and it does not look anything like what the front of the house looks like. It is literally like a dirt and like grass backyard. I'm not even choking, and I don't I don't understand how this movie feels so cheap. I just don't get it. I just I mean, well, it's a twenty million dollar movie and yet it looks I guess it's because they I guess it's I guess it's because the whole point of the movie was just to hire everybody.

Well, and part of it. I noticed shortly after they stopped with the you know, the scenic New York street stuff, I'm like, oh, as we get to the factory, oh, this looks like a TV movie. Oh, And I thought, okay, let me check on the director who hasn't hasn't directed very much, but produces a lot of TV series and movies. And it's like you sometimes you can tell, and they hire a TV crew, so it's lit like a TV show, And that to me. Other that and the you know, set down stage play look of it was really off putting.

I mean, sometimes that can really work death trap or something like that, where you know, my god, it's so obvious this was a play we're in one house the whole time and three characters, and this one we have way more than three characters. But that can work. It can work, Okay like that, but that, yeah, I noticed it said based on a plan, and I thought, oh, are we going to be in one location for most of the time, And then, as we pointed out already the second Chevy walked in the door of the house, I thought, we're going to be in the house the rest of the time. I was thinking we were going to be gallivanting around the world, and these guys were going to be chasing him from Barcelona to Greece to Italy to that, you know.

And it's like, no, Bob, okay, we Sante shows up, his brother shows up. I'm like, no, we're staying here. We're staying right here. Taxi drivers shows up, everybody starts showing up. At the house.

It's like, okay, I got it. I know what's going on. Well, And then they tried to obfuscate it by going outside every once in a while and keeping up with that taxi driver. And I'm just like, wow, you are definitely not the guy from Diehard who I like, actually want to see, you know. Whenever they would cut down to him, I'm like our gyle right, and it's just like, okay, yeah, him, I like, but this guy, what a pain in the ass.

And you know what if the taxi leaves, you order another one it's really okay, you don't need that taxi driver. What it's two thousand and six, You can't just order another taxi? What? What we're like a five years removed from uber being a thing at this point, like holy flying fuck. Yeah, the conventions that the movie leans on.

Look, the the script rights were bought in nineteen ninety eight. It might have worked in nineteen ninety eight. Well, and the guy who wrote it, who wrote the script, who wrote them? Sorry, who wrote the play? And who he I'm sorry?

And he gets credited for part of the movie. He'd been writing since nineteen sixty and a lot of it just looks like garbage, you know, like some of the movies where it's like not now Darling, not now Comrade, like two movies they're good, bron right, why not stay for breakfast? You know, like and then just a ton of foreign remakes of his stuff. So I'm like, Okay, well, this guy's been doing this stuff a while. This one comes what the play was from when you say ninety five, get the rights get sold in ninety eight, and then yeah, I guess it takes all that time to put this stuff together.

And it's just like I've been to many many plays over the years. Like we have David McGregor on my show The Projection Booth a lot, and he's a play right. I go to see his stuff every single time, and I'm like, this is how you do it. Like I have seen good theater. This is not good theater.

I can't imagine sitting through this play. I can just not. With Chevy Chase, Yeah, I don't think it plays bad. I feel like it's been poorly adapted for an American Yeah, and so that's what I'm saying, like my expectation where that is body and tawdry and like it's all toned down it and it sounds really strange coming out of Chevy Chase's mouth, Like. Yeah, I agree with you, Chris.

I think there's something there. I think the americanization of it is probably what's bothering. You might because that's what's bothering. But I could see this working as one of those dry kind of body British plays. It would it would be played out so differently and acted so differently than what we're getting here.

And the thing that struck me about this and the timeline sort of I think bears this out a little bit it being bought in ninety eight, and I'm assuming by American producers. There's a line in the movie towards the very end somebody says it's like a scene from a Tarantino movie. Yes, and I think, and I think in ninety eight that's what they would have been gunning for. And it's two thousand and six now, that shoot them up pulp fiction reservoir dogs thing is done in a large way, and yet yet there's still shadows of that throughout this, especially with the finale and the shootout and oh yeah, the multiple the multiple freeze frame picture towards the end there, which comes basically right after that line, and I thought, yeah, that's what they were hoping for with this with Chevy Chase, though I don't get that, but whatever.

I'm sure they really thought that those editing those montages of the split screens and like here's Chevy and here's the Romanian guy walking away kind of thing, or then like here's the cab driver and just all these split screens, the way they move across the screen. I'm like, you guys probably really thought that was a great transitional thing, but for me, it just made it again look very cheap. M h. Well, they weren't done very well. They weren't executed with any kind of style or it was like, yeah, this is a device that hearkens to something more interesting than what you're actually getting.

Well, and the other issue, ultimately, I think becomes is why. Cast Chevy Chase in this Yeah, he's very funny. Plus he can also like wear those were those fake teeth that he did for Fletch when he was checking out the airplane, Like that's how. I don't think he actually is wearing the fake teeth, but a lot of times it sounds like he is. He's doing that voice, you.

Know, speaking of doing a voice, Can we talk about his Australian accent? The best part of the movie, the literal the reason you would watch this movie is to hear Chevy Chase do his Australian accent. Oh god, my god, that was so so bad, so. Bad, I mean, and he had to be doing it that on purpose, right, I. Guess, Mike, No, Mike, you're not immit.

I'm not convinced. No, So like Will Ferrell and Angerman, I'm Ron Burgundy, like I'm convinced. I would like to believe that that is the case, but I would not be surprised. Also, if Chevy Chase just can't do an Australian accent, and that's that's that he lacks so much self awareness. I feel like I just don't get like the frux of the movie for me is him coming.

It's basically the start of the play, right, him coming in, and Penelope Anne Miller is put in together this big birthday surprise and all this stuff, which I kind of forgot that that was even a thing. Like I remember her talking to the Chinese caterer at one point mister Wong, and it's like, okay, well, mister Wong's gonna show up at some point. But then they're talking about like his brother and his and sister in law coming over and things. I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, all right, and I'm like, well, maybe it's just for them. So when the party actually happens, I'm surprised.

But like so he comes in and he's just like, hey, you know, this is it. We need to get some airline tickets and take off to the rest of the world. And she gets so upset about that, and it's just like we have dinner guests coming and she just like suddenly becomes this whole different person, because I'm like, wait, you were just a therapy complaining about how he's you know, listens to the same Time Jones CP every night, how he drinks Miller Lite at six point thirty, how he you know, has bumblebee tuna every day for lunch. It's like, okay, well here he is trying to be spontaneous, and I'm like, okay, unless it's the reason that she's actually upset is because she ran and literally ran into Madame v U who's going to see her artworks and things like that.

But like just her reaction and her motivation just seems so askew, and then that her solution is to just start drinking like crazy. I'm like, okay, this is I just have problems the character motivation sometimes. Well, they're in couple's therapy because she's upset with his predictability, and like you said, he is now for once being spontaneous, she should be leaping into his arms. But she becomes the shrill, nagging wife at that point, and that characterization is so boring to me. I don't need to see for.

The unteenth thousandth time, a nagging haranguing shrill mad at her idiot husband wife. Well, even if it came, even if it came with the whole idea of you know, finally it's my turn to shine and I've got this woman come over to look at my artwork. But it doesn't feel like she's upset about that so much as you're going to ruin my tenor clans. It's yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, by the way, another good telling of when this movie was written and stuff.

When he's pointing at the money to her and he says, we just hit the Donald freaking Trump jackpot. He's fired. Guys can get away from it, can't get away from it, no matter how far you run. Is always it. It's always I can't even go.

When he said the line, I was like, holy shit, this is it's inescapable. Sometimes is this for the reminder it is? It is? Yeah? God, Well he wasn't in Romania, though he hired.

Those prostitutes in Russia to pee on the bed that Obama slept in. That's true in Romania. I love the idea that this is in Hope, that this house is in we are meant to believe that this house is in Hobo, right, Hoboken, New Jersey. Well, it's just like Tony Soprano's house, right. What in the city.

Yeah, yeah, and the hilarious cast of characters that they interact with, and including the Cabby and armand de Santi is in this movie. Yeah, sure is christ on a cracker. That man must love to travel international. What are you doing? I hated him in this.

I after we hated him in this. I mean he's not given anything to do. No, it's just it. Hey, Well, and that was the other you know, talk about confusing things. He shows up and then we get the story like we don't.

Maybe I missed it, Maybe I missed him. No, you're right, it's a flashback. It's a flashback. Yeah. We see him on the toilet opening the briefcase three times before we get Armanda Sante coming in and then giving us the backstory about what happened between the toilet open and then now.

But also even when Chevy Chase shows up at the house, we haven't seen him discover the money. That was confusing to me. I'm like, okay, I guess he opened it at the bar. Yeah, three times, and then he thought he was being blown by men. A that asks that aspect of that dual cop thing with him, and I'm imagining it's just because he has to keep paying them off all night.

Is supposed to be the funny part of it. But I'm thinking, why are we Why do we have two cops? Why is Armando san pay eating everything and spitting food back into the container. I'm like, I am, so I don't like this character. Why are they don't want to play with each other's dix At one point.

Oh yeah, the gay panic in this movie is amazing. Again, ninety eight might have hit a little harder, right. Right, Yeah, I just maybe a thousand and one. But then the movie comes out post two thousand and one. Oh so you're saying that nine to eleven affected this film.

Maybe this film caused nine to eleven. Oh maybe, maybe it's more the character that Asanti is playing that I hate. But I still didn't like his. Characterization of it either way. I was like, this, this character seems so pointless to me.

He's no Rico Dread, which I think was the role that he played right before. Well, I say that not knowing because I know he's in a lot of stuff. Because I think as long as the money's green, he's there, he's I don't know if you guys are familiar with the ouvra of Frank DeAngelo, a Canadian filmmaker who runs a restaurant by day and makes movies by night, and he just makes these horrible like they are like this is very fitting because he makes these horrible, horrible films, and he has somehow gotten both Armanda Sante and Robert Losha to be in several of them. So I think it's basically he can pay, and so that's why these guys play. I remember when we interviewed Armanda Santi back in twenty fifteen, Wow or Judge Dread nice?

Nice, fun, Yeah, he's great, Yeah, rip his obs off. So I remember we only got to interview him because he was doing press for a movie Leaves of the Truth. I maybe one of those films you're talking about. I'm sorry. Funding my name was two thousand and six, Judge Dread was nineteen ninety five, so he had done at least like three dozen films in between.

Then he was doing with the Nick Cage thing before Nick Cage was doing it, before Jeffay he was doing it. I mean probably Armanda Santi and Jeffey he were doing it at the same time, and. He's one of those guys who just had so much potential. Man, you know, you go back and you watch like, I don't know, yeah, you know what he I guess he never did have potential. No, I you know, I like Armanda Santi say what.

I like him. I like him. I think that the things I've seen him in haven't done him justice, this being one of them. Yeah. What was the one that he did that was the parody of like a fatal Instinct.

That's the one that he did in ninety three. I think that might have been his best role. I didn't see or Judge Dread. Yeah, oh yeah, or Judge. Yeah.

Rico was so good. I see that as more of a Eric Roberts career than a Cage career. Yeah. Yeah. The Tree featuring Eric Roberts.

Direct Frank DeAngelo or no, it's. Ante Novakovic and it stars Frederico Castelluccio, who will be in uh the Sopranos very quickly and h and another actor who is just randomly in things, Sean Young, who also is in the recently released I believe the film is called Mecca Ape Versus King Kong New World Orders to that effect. You should we watched the trailer last time we talked together. Yeah, so she she's in that movie. So this, I mean, this feels like a very specific kind of movie.

The movie is called Ape ex Mecca, Ape New World Order, the whole Cogan wrestles those apes. Lesson here, dude, Hey, let's not go. Let's not you know, tell lies to our listeners that it's a very serious. Film starring Sean Young. Uh yeah, this, I mean this movie in a lot of ways, Like the people in this movie that are the supporting cast, like Christopher MacDonald and Robert Loja are always great in everything.

But the people that are being ostensibly cast is like the main leads are so unbelievably miscast. Penelo ban Miller and I mean we I mean it's not like we haven't talked about him, but like, let's just let's talk about him specifically. Chevy Chase is really bad in this movie. He is like criminally unfunny in this film. And I know that the script doesn't help, but he can't play this kind of role convincingly.

Like it's maybe he could have been this, I know, you know what. No, I'm gonna stand by. He could never have played this kind of role convincingly, especially not at this point in his career. Maybe early on in the seventies possibly, but this kind of story being translated to this country with him as the star, just I don't think what ever worked. I'm really curious because the screenwriter that's credited for this, and not the gentleman that wrote the play, but the person that did the adaptation, I guess who's usually again more of an actor than a writer or producer.

Henry Baseil was mostly known for writing for Rodney Dangerfield, Like he wrote Guide to Golf Style and Etiquette, Meet Wally Sparks, Rodney Dangerfield, seventy fifth Birthday, Toast, and then a bunch of stuff I'd Never heard of that all starred Rodney, My Five Wives, the Fourth Tenor and Back by Midnight. The next thing that he wrote was Funny Money. And then the last thing as far as the credits go, is The Jetti Jada Grace Show, which he did eleven episodes of, so it was a one season show. Multi talented eleven year old Jada Grace uploads a homemade music video of herself onto the Internet, which quickly goes viral. Her amazing talent comes to the attention of Hollywood music producer Danny p who brings jedded grace to her and her bff to Hollywood.

So there you go. Sounds great. I'm good you're not looking that one up for the one season show. Nowlie Leslie Grief as well has a barrier grief. Maybe also has to say grief just because of Robbie went through.

We had a grief. We were caused here. Uh. The It's interesting because Leslie Grief really, like if you look at his filmography and the things that he's worked on. He produced that the offer TV show from a couple of years ago, the one that was about the Godfather, like the Making the Godfather, which I think people seemed to awike best I could tell.

It's rather well reviewed on IMDb. But for the most part, like nothing that he's worked on moves the needle in any substantive way. And this may be the cause of that, because if this is your if this is the first thing you kind of like, are trying to stake your claim on Wolf. I've never seen anything and that guy has done. I look through his credits and I didn't recognize one single thing.

So I was like, Oh, this will be interesting. This is a new this is new territory. I guess wrote the script for the TV show The Maddening. Yes, and then big creator of Texas Walker Texas Ranger too so and. Texas and Texas TV show for come missus Teak and I have been I am mistaken.

I have heard of Texas Walker, Ranger, Texas Ranger Walker, whatever the fuck is going Texas Rangers. The creator of Yeah, yeah, coche Cam Actually I stand corrected, Yeah, wow. Yeah, I mean I don't think the quality of that show. I wonder if the Leslie and Chris characters that they keep talking about are because I thought when I saw that Leslie had directed this, I was like, oh, well, that's kind of cool that a woman directed this. And then I had to look him up and say, oh, nope, just one of those.

And then they keep talking about these mysterious in laws Leslie and Chris, and I was like, well, that's kind of cute that it's, you know, two non gendered names, so we don't necessarily know, you know, which is where they are, which is which and all this stuff. And yeah, because that plays a big role in it when, especially when he starts talking about how Penelope N. Miller is a post op trans person, So like, oh, okay, as you do. Yeah, yeah, my my wife is a man. Wow, yep, that's this movie, folks.

How about that age difference though? Oh I was wondering about that myself. Yeah, it's about twenty one years which, you know, fine, they're both adults. But like we but are we pretending that he's younger or are we pretending that she's older? Or is it irrelevant in either he's sexy.

Oh the end of the movie, Dude, that drawing where He's gonna fat cock, where they literally make the joke that chevy Chase is a fat dick. I could not believe it. I could not got good conscience believe that they were like, and the movie ends with the picture of chevy Chase having a fat penis, like and then Chris McDonald's looks at it and laughs like and like really laughs at it too. He like gets a good hearty laugh like ha. Like you think that was part of his contract.

I got to put in here somewhere that I've got a big cock. Oh. Reading a soundboard from Mark Begler, I think it says in somewhere I need to have a big cock boom boom. I was reading I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, which is so you know, it's it's all third person, which is weird because of the name of the book. But the author of that was just like people kept saying that this was going to be Chevy's comeback, this movie, and then this movie, and then this movie.

But you know, he really stars so well in Funny Money, and they kept about a film festival in Sarasota where he won some sort of prize, and it was just like, well, they loved it in a Sarasota and just kept talking about how popular it was in Sarasota, and I'm like, Okay, that's all you got. That's all. You cannot probably quote from any other reviews of this movie. They can, Yeah, I quote from there. How dare you take away the Sarasota Film Festival from me?

I know, I don't mean to smirch the five people of Sarasota, And I could just see the poster of this five stars Sarasota. Inquirer funniest film of the year, says Mabel Marthrop of The Sarasota Sentinel, film of the year. Yeah right. They made sure that was noted on the Wikipedia page. And on the Wikipedia page for the play.

Yeah, so I have a question, Jesus correct, I have a question. Why are they so free with the information that he has five million dollars in a briefcase? The second his brother shows up, she tells them bold right, And I'm like, for one thing, it seems like that could have been part of the comedy. Then nobody else knows that he has five million dollars other than he and his wife exactly, And so the brother and sister in law are constantly wondering what the hell is going on. I don't know.

It just seemed like everybody that came in quickly found out that he was loaded with this strange cash and they're leaving the country and mister big is after them, and and or mister birfcurse, mister Nasty. I hate yeah, what names of the characters. Whenever time Chevy Jay said mister Dascy, I just wanted to punch him through the screen. I was like, ugh, I hate I hate those kinds of tropes in these kinds of movies, because this movie, it's it's nothing that the characters say in this film is remotely funny, and so in nothing being funny every time they say it, and the movie gives, like, you know, that split second pause for you to lot. It's like, yeah, it's like, it's not funny movie for like the Umptean fucking time, it's not funny.

You just die inside a little bit by the time there's a bad line. And by the end of this movie, I felt physically ill. By the end of this movie, I had died and been resurrected at some fucking corpse as the Walking Dead. This movie is criminally unfunny. I kept checking the time stamp and I was like, oh my god, I've only been watching this for twenty minutes.

You guys, Oh my god, because you guys had to watch it in like three or four sittings. I watched watched it. Oh did you watch Okay? Yeah, yeah, Bike, that had to watch it in three sittings. Yeah.

I started it the other night, totally understand that I had to turn it off. I came back watch a little bit more yesterday morning, and then I watched the rest of it yesterday afternoon, and yeah, so it just haunted me for a while. I wish I had started on Monday and watched it ten minutes at a time until yesterday. Remember Event Horizon where they're talking about like the things that they've seen in Hell, this is what they were. My wife came home when I was about halfway through, and you know, noted, noted Chevy's appearance and how he was he was getting up there, but not about.

Chevy's appearance, mark that. He's older and this is not prime Chevy. And she's like, oh, is this around the time that community came out? And I said, oh, roughly, and then I had to look and and that was his comeback, I think, maybe unbeknownst to anybody until it happened, Like, yeah, you should have just been on some decent sitcom instead of trying all these stupid movie roles, you know, learn learning, speasonal life fag. Okay, he had his own the Chevy Chase Show.

Yeah. It was a real good talk show too. Oh yeah, I remember. I think it's he's a natural famous for being incredibly good. Yes, yeah, you so.

After one season because it was so good, no one else could ever be as good as him. The bar was set to high. Yeah, yeah, I'm surprised we even have late night TV anymore after that. I'm not a question so good. They were vaulted forever so no one would ever be allowed to see them, so they couldn't copy them because of how timeless the comedy was.

I have another question for you guys. Why does tubular bells play when Kevin Susman shows up outside their house? Oh the exorcist, que said? Exorcist queue in this movie, isn't there? I guess because they were like, we're gonna shoot Kevin Sussman from a low ankle, and it just happens to look like.

The exer but he's not a priest. Well, I kind of figure armand de Sante is the old priest and he's the young priest. Okay, sure, yeah, I guess that makes that makes sense. But in the British version in the play, they're referred to as the bent cop, her and the straight copper. Interesting, that's one bent cop, like you see.

The crooked cop and the good cop and the straight arrows. Copy the crooked cop in this movie. God, yes, yeah, he's taking hundreds of thousands of dollars. But but in the but in the end, like in the end, he doesn't get any money and he does his job. So is he like al to not lack of trying.

Eats fried rice out of somebody's fridge though, and then spits it. Yeah. Can you imagine reading the script for this movie being like, and I have to split the fried rice back into the container. Yes, mister Asanti, I think. That was I think that was all him.

I think that was him bringing his method to it. Oh, he was getting more into characters like what would what would he do? I thought that was you thought that was who? I thought that was tona solid to go with Joe about that. So I thought that was fried rice.

I don't know, got another question for you guys. God, you like maple Thorpe. I do like maple Thorp, I do very much so. But yes, and I don't know why he's so put off by his wife's sculptures of naked people, men and women. You know whatever, there's long fast.

He's uptight because he's uptight and predictable. Yeah, and you know you get to see Kevin Sussman lick that statue's ass to the point where he's got like the ink going down his chair. That was this was a British thing. You know what I mean. When there was he was licking to ask the statue, I was like, there's some brit that was writing this.

I thought this was just the funniest fucking thing, like like laughing like a big dumb idiot. Yeah, are you eating? Bum? Have you been served? Came Cherie.

Yeah, exactly, carry on, carry on, hoboken, Oh bulk. This this podcast, per minute has been funnier than the movie. Oh God, Jesus Christ, do you ever feel bad for Christopher McDonald just always playing second fiddle to people wow, less talented than him. There were a lot of those guys in this, the head of the couple's therapy, one of the guys in the couple's therapy. It's like, did they did they farm out all the Adam Sandler and I can't remember what Will Ferrell's production company.

Gertie Sanchez, Gary Sanchez, it's. All those dudes. It's like, oh my god, you know, I keep kept forgetting. Yeah, this is two thousand and six. Man, These these guys were working, you know, because I just I was surprised to see those faces that I see in those dick joke comedies, modern dick joke comedies, you know, so it was it was kind of strange.

Yeah, yeah, I really like Christopher McDonald. I even like Kevin Sussman. And because I think that he can play befuddled and upset very very well. He's got that great face for bicky jokes and yeah, it's it was really sad to see him in here, and just that he's so fucking stupid. Is that it's so d a compliment.

You got a face for jokes. Boy, I think he knows it. I think he knows that he can be goofy very easily. He's very funny. Yeah, he's the role.

That's His role on Big Bang Theory is exactly what you described. Okay. I kept wondering what else he was in because I've seen them in a few movie things, and I was like, why is this kind of famous? I kept thinking that he might have been one of those scientists on Bones, because they had a whole like rotating cast of other people that would come onto the show, especially in the last few years, especially after the one assistant guy turned out to be a fucking serial killer, and they're like, Okay, well we need to get more people in here, so it's possible. Yeah, to be fair, Mike also the episode and the show hasn't even come out yet, but our Sopranos show that we've been working on.

Kevin Sessman was in the first episode of the second season. Oh right, right, Okay, I knew he was very familiar from Something Resets. Yeah, Oka, Yeah, we just watched that very recently. Yeah. Yeah, he has a.

Very I feel like they're trying to do a almost like a Bean nineteen ninety eight Mister Bean movie with the licking of the butt, you know, because you have mister Bean with the thing on the painting with the ink, and then they have the same thing here where he's like rubbing it and he's making it worse. Mister Bean doesn't lick it though, which I think is kind of you know, that's where the americanization of all this probably comes in. I don't know, maybe in the British when they're licking the ass of the statue probably probably yeah, sure, yeah, but licking Yeah, I did, it makes sense broadly a British thing. Yeah. I mean again, going back to the sister in law looking like prostitute, there's a moment after they are because we have sister in lives.

It's just a friend. Oh, that's a friend. I thought it was Chris McDonald's wife, so did I. It is, but I don't think Christopher. Christopher McDonald's just their friend.

Oh really, I thought it was his brother. I thought it was. No, it's it's he's Chevy's brother. No he's no, he's just his friend. Wow.

Okay. Yeah. The movie says that their brothers at one point, but that's but they're not like it. That's when he's lying about things. They're not.

Oh wow, yeah, they're just friends. They're like our friends, beat Vic and Jean are coming over for dinner. Oh wow, cut off my legs and call me shorty. I totally missed that. Yeah, yeah, especially because he knows him so well.

There's that phone call where he's like, I predictable and he's like, well, wipe the powdered sugar off of your lip and quit tapping your pencil, and I was like, well, that's what a brother would do. But okay, yeah, and last at that, and last at the huge cock in the in the picture that's the brother does. Exactly exactly because he's seeing him naked in those that's not true. Yeah, so so sorry. So they cut out because you know this is not a stage play.

God damn it. We go outside of this one set, every. Steering serior Belgrade. And we're there like getting the two cars, the taxi and the car separated, and then we get to see Robert Loja in the I guess he's the guy in the very beginning in the animated credits sequence where he's got the hat and the trench coat. And there's a moment where McDonald is sitting in the car and his wife comes over to him and she leans over the window and she's got this white fur coat that I make up I was talking about, and I'm like, oh, she's going to get arrested for soliciting.

No. No, I guess I'm the only one that thinks she looks like a total prostitute. No. I mean again, that's the reason that again they get away with it. It's solely so Robert Loja can I guess sexually assault her by accident.

It's literally because she's wearing a skirt like I don't know how, and like it's really off putting, Like that's there's that moment in this movie is really kind of fucking strange because that's where I. Was though it is that is not he is he is out cold and she's sick. He's he's not out cold. He does smile the going mugging, So the Leslie Nielsen muggin moment? Good God, Yeah, where where?

Yeah? Leslie Nielsen was still around at this point. Wasn't he Why wasn't he in this? Just throw him in there. You're mentioning the way he Robert Lozio was dressed, and I was confused as to who that was walking up to the house, I'm like, who's this, who's this new character?

And then I kind of caught on when they beat him up, I'm like, oh, it's his boss. But at the same time, was he looking at Chevy's place or was he looking at another place? Because even though it's one street the I was confused by the actual locations of things. I was like, Oh, he's going to so he's looking for the woman who's asked who is feeling in the fake fruit factory and he's going to go fund her. But I guess maybe that was chim Nick's place that they bashed him over the head, and maybe why they bashed them.

Yeah, wow, I think I think what it's supposed to as I'm thinking about it now, I think what it's supposed to imply is that he's sort of in disguise because it's a surprise party. Oh he's there very early then, right, Because a lot of times this movie feels like I was shot in real time, because just time passes so slowly. Yeah, a full days, it felt like a full day. It different morning tonight. I will give them credit.

I did find it funny the not so much of the mistake and identity, but that he had a way out with the Susman character coming to say that he was dead, and I thought, oh, well that's his out, you know, right, thought can escape, he can escape the country. Everybody's going to assume he's dead. The cops aren't going to go after him for either the murder of the of the actual person that's in in the river or for stealing them. I mean, they're not going to go after stealing the money because it's mob money. But this is perfect.

And then how they turned the surprise party when everybody shows up into a murder mystery. I was like, oh, that's kind of clever. I thought I liked that part. But yeah, the whole idea of him being dead. I thought, Oh, that's that's genius, but you don't.

They don't quite land it because then they throw in the other things still you know, he's still got the in laws coming or or at some point it seemed like he and and Christopher McDonald were acting like they were gay, a gay couple when they were cooking brothers. Yeah, and then talking about Hindry. Oh, don't mention his name, So then it got confused again. I'm like, what is going on here? I can't follow this.

Yeah, And like when they were it was Thojjah McDonald and Chase all under the black and and Susmen comes in, either Sussman or Armanda Sante. No, it's Armana Sante's under the blanket with oh. Okay, and it looks like they're just giving hand jobs to each other, so yeah, okay. I mean, hey, guys, what you do on a Friday night is your business? You know.

That looked kind of fun to me. So I like when they're doing the dwarfon Dworff thing with Christopher MacDonald and Robert Los's legs, that might be the funniest part of the whole movie for me, the little leg crossing, like the weekend of Berney's thing that they're doing. Uh huh. I know that you guys looked and researched the movie, as did I, but it's kind of surprising that none of us have mentioned the weirdest thing of all with this movie, the genuinely strangest thing. So we've had a movie released by the Dow or produced by the Dow Chemical Company, I'd be Transylvania six five thousand.

Funny Money was also a film of its first of its kind for the way it was released. It was released in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego, Seattle, and Phoenix because the company that produced at FWE Picture Co worked in tandem with timeshare operators consolidated resorts to release the film. Wow, it was released with two companies, a film production company and a timeshare company, and the timeshare company hosted the premiere in Las Vegas in January of two thousand and seven. Oh so, do you think that the timeshare company had locations in Barcelona, Greece, Bali and Paris? No?

I just I just have never heard of a timeshare company helping produce a movie and then releasing it or helping release it, or I don't understand what the fuck it's like the Dow Chemical Company with Transylvania six five thousand, like, was this like an elaborate money laundering scheme? Kind of feels like it now? Wow? Yeah, Well, especially when you say it cost twenty million to make in that netted thirty million, I'm like, you made ten million dollars on those movies. People hate you to see this.

I don't I genuinely think that this movie may be like money laundry. Oh god, don't. I don't know what else, what other explanation there is, because there's some fishy shit going on. And look, we know in the film industry there's always some creative book keeping as it is, because most movies quote never make any money unquote right, Like that's the kind of joke we've all heard. I wouldn't be surprised that this is just like, oh, let's just you know, spend twenty million to make ten million, Like, I don't know if that's a thing.

Maybe it is. I'm not creative with my bookkeeping or and or work for Consolidated Resorts, a timeshare company who released Funny Money. Well, and don't forget they released it under the title National Lampoon's Funny Money It Overseas. Yeah, yeah, because because people overseas deserve to be literally conned out of their money. I and that was the thing I was thinking about, like, who could have played opposite If you have to have Chevy Chase in this, who could have played opposite Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo.

What was she doing? Oh? I know? And the age difference would have been a little bit better too. Yeah, I don't understand what what?

Oh? What was going on? And then Gerard Dead in the Armana Sante role. Oh yeah, yeah, I was. I was thinking of myself, like, what was the last time we watched a film version of a play?

And it was a Dinner for idiots? Yeah, dinner Let Dinner Fugitives, which was so much better than this. God, everything is better than this. Things are better than this. I genuinely laughed.

And every single time there was a mistake when it came to identity or anything, you know, I was like, oh, Okay, this is actually pretty funny. But instead it's just like every single time they have to lie, they just keep getting deeper and deeper into it, and there's no clever resolution of things like there is no oh, well, this actually is Leslie, this is Chris, this is my other brother in law. A bit just because they just keep digging themselves deeper for no good reason. Oh my wife's a man, like all of these things. Like, oh my god, this is terrible, and as Sante just leaves.

I guess at the end, when after the big shootout, which again we don't see, like the movie started to end, started to wrap up, and I was like wait, wait, wait, wait wait. I had to back it up and look to be like, oh, yeah, no, they don't actually show anything. They just show five freeze frames with gunfire and then they cut to Oh, the scene here in Hoboken is crazy. I think it would have made more sense that nobody hit anybody in that in the scenario like this, in a comedy of errors, no one should have landed a shot, even though they're all across you know, a room. I thought that was a joke initially.

Yeah, that's why I get murdered. Straight up. That's what I was. At the end. You know, this massive shootout and then you see everybody, you see the Serbs or Russians or whoever in the cop cars.

You see Kevin Sussman sitting on the curb all all shaky, and you know, Asante's just just walking off because he's like, I wasn't here, you know, I wasn't trying to steal two hundred thousand dollars from these guys. They shouldn't have hit it, and nobody should have gotten hit. They're all incompetent. Oh yeah, should have been something that Joe dropped on somebody's head instead, you know, or like, you know, we do get to see one guy get knocked over by a bunch of wax apples. I'm like, okay, like give me something else, so like maybe make the statues part of this whole thing, you know, and like that comes to nothing.

Only we've got the whole thing with Madame c mada Ve's briefcase and that she finds the wax banana in there. And that was the only time I actually laughed in this movies when she looks at it and she gets a little smile on her face, like oh I can work with this, And I was like, okay, see that's funny. That's actually funny. But the rest of this stuff, it's like okay, right. Right, well, and then she also ends up with the cabby, so that is I guess tying in a bow.

She ends up with blows shut. That's rights, right, well, but yeah in the in the cab for a second, right, yeah, that's right. Say what they say about redheads? Like what the fuck? Yeah?

Whoa is it that her? Her pussy hair is red? I mean, like, what do they say about redheads? The carpet matches the curtains pussy hair? This is my cat, pushy?

Hey, why hey, hey, what am I supposed to say? You know? Yeah, the carpet matches the drapes. Yes, I know. Okay, So did you guys read the trivia, the IMDb trivia for this movie.

It's not that it was very similar to an other movie. I'm trying to remember what it was, No Country. For Old Men. Well, it says this film is loosely based on the remaining comedy Nea Maren MILLARDA. I'm like, okay, well but it was based on a play, So what are you talking about?

But the spoilers section was what got me. Oh well, first, real quick, that movie that you just mentioned, that is a movie that we're going to watch, Chris, because Inspector Colombo is a character in it. Wow. Interesting because I went to download it and I was like, oh wait, no, I already have this movie. Jesus wept as they would say, yes, So what.

Was under the spoiler? So that I don't think. Spoilers I'm quoting exactly. This movie does, in fact blow. Somebody had put that in there.

And if you listened to this episode of this show because you put that comment on their you fucking son of a bitch. You did it? Ye, your rule. Whoever you are, don't see if there's a username, there is not a user name. Oh man, that applaud I applaud you.

Yeah, anonymous stake unbowing sir or madam? Oh wow? I mean, hey, you know what, at the end of the day, that person may have seen this film under the title National Lampoon's Funny Money, and that may be why they feel so strongly. I feel strongly, and I saw it just under the regular title. I know, but like, but let's but let's just let's just blow this up a little bit, right, National Lampoon's Funny Money.

If you see this movie with the National Lampoons qualifier in front of it, it's even worse. No, they've done so many horrible movies. I mean, I've done a lot of stuff. This is this is guys, Come on, it does. Mail the National Lampoon's Van Wilder seam Oscar words.

I like Van TV, you know all their DTV stuff direct to video, still better than it is to say so. But because those things were made as National Lampoons things, this is just like can you imagine just slapping National lampoons on this? Like? What about this is national Chevy Chase, I don't know the Internet. Because Chevy was a part of Lampoon for because of the vacation movies, because Beverly di'angelo would have been a much more reasonable choice for his wife in this movie.

And then you can because of the vacation. But you can't just call things things with copyright log You can't just a You clearly can't. So I can make a movie and in Russia I can sell it as Martin scorsesees, sure do you want to sures no stories talking about let's do it weirding way media presents Martin Scorsese's friends no stories. I mean, I like fucking a Penelope and Miller quite a bit. I remember she was you know she was so cute and so funny in some of her earlier things, like didn't she but she was the gun in Betty Loo's hand bag, right was Betty Lou And a lot of other good movies that she was in, But then she was in so many bad things and she was she just played Nancy wrote, goat Reagan in that Reagan movie.

Oh yeah, she's in Kindergarten Cop. She's in Carlos Way. Oh god, she was amazing in carldos w. She's in the Shadow. She plays she.

I was trying to remember what she was from that we had seen together, Mike. Remember when we did for like the two hundredth episode we did the Relic? Oh god, yeah, yeah. She plays doctor Margo Green in The Relic, a four fac simile of a great character. Yeah.

God, yar Penelope Anna when Awakenings came a Spider, which we mentioned earlier a couple of podcasts ago. She's has a weird career. I always what's the other actress the one that was in Hollow Man. I sometimes get them confused. Oh Elizabeth Elizabeth Shoe.

Yeah yeah, yeah, Elizabeth Shoe. I she's very active in my world, like I I you know, I liked her on CSI quite a bit, and then she was amazing in The Boys. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, and she comes back every once in a while, even though she passed away in the first season. I think spoilers but interesting.

She's a hollow man criminally underrated? Is it? Is it? Really? I mean, I don't know.

Should we should we watch that? When we have to watch memoirs of an Invisible Man? Oh? I like you, where are your heads at? Should we also watch a film that you may not even know existed?

Hollow Man two? Oh my god, speaking of ev Baby. Oh yeah, and that fucking movie has and I'm not even kidding Christian Slater in it. Wow? Is he the titular hollow man?

There are two hollow men in that movie? Oh wow, it's him and not I forget who the other one is. It's one of those like so it's t oo, t w O and t O all at the same time. Holom colo Man two. It's Christian Slater and everyone's favorite TV star Peter Fastinelli is the other lead of the movie.

Of all the people, right, I'm not even sure what Peter Fastenelli. I guess he was in Nurse Jackie is what I but yeah, hollow Man too. Yeah, I guess so, yeah, Chevy Chase, Invisible Man, hollow Man. Sure, why not there's a hollow gorilla and hollow Man. Yeah, you're right.

Yeah, boy, which controversy there was around that stupid fucking movie. Wasn't that the whole thing where Sony got in trouble for possibly like paying people off, like for fake reviews. Wasn't that, hollow Man? I'm pretty sure it was that. Yeah, it makes sense.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, you. Know, to bring in full circle, maybe that's the same till that the Sarasota Film Festival people were being paid out. They loved this film that I think you didn't want to indict the people, the good people of Sarasota. But to be fair, Mike, the good people of Sarasota did approve of this film, and well, film's not great. So is the film?

Does the film festival take place at an old folks home? Oh, that's what I'm wondering. It takes place at the Consolidated Resource Resorts home base, which is the weird fucking time share that really, Yeah, this movie feels like a timeshare of a movie, Like there's a better version of this movie out there. God cheat. Yeah, I am never sharing my time with this film again.

So oh he's. Yeah, hey, it's the brain damage. Yeah. I looked them out Buddy Money and Sarasota and trying to find out, like, was somebody from the cast there, like did they send Oh, here we go Sarasota, Sarasota, Harold Tribune. I like your name a little bit better than yes.

Yes, And here's pictures of Penelope and Miller, Christopher McDonald. Chevy Chase is there, Chase is up on stage with McDonald. Oh yeah, here's all kinds of big group shots here. Funny Money is a comedy film directed by Leslie Grief and produced by Herb Nana's opened at the eighth annual Sarasota Film Festival, which continued through April nineteen thousand and six. Director what director Christopher McDonald left Leslie Grief center.

Okay, so they just screwed up their own caption and Penelope and Miller right arrived for the screening of the movie Friday night. So yeah, there's Leslie, there's okay, signing some autographs. Oh my god, here's a picture of fucking Gene Simmons at the festival. Wow. Yeah, because Leslie Green.

If you go and look at Leslie Green fromography he's worked with Kiss, that's including On the Kiss, like the Kiss Final Tour thing that they just did. And also I'd like to point out I think we should cover at some point a film that's a real thing involving Leslie Grief The Maddening from nineteen ninety five, in the Southern Gothic horror story deranged parents Roy and Georgina Scudder will stop at nothing to protect his daughter's secret and hold young mother Cassidy Osborne and her daughter Samantha hostage at their isolated property, starring Bert fucking Reynolds. Oh yeah, what, Oh, here's a nice written by staff writer. I'm glad that this is written by staff writer because it says it's all written in the first person, which makes no fucking sense, and it's all about how It may have taken a while, but I think I finally appreciate the Sarasota Film Festival.

Over the last eight years, I've had a hand in covering the festival, which begins mall and gradually grew larger. This year, it had an oppressive array of Films and Stars that's jumped down to this year. I saw eleven films more than ever before, from the ridiculous farce of the opening night film Funny Money to the delightful closing night film A Prairie Home Companion, which could easily be a hit for director Robert Oltman. Wow Whoopston, Yes, whoops? Oh wow Man baton zero for zero for those two.

Man, Yeah, they showed some really good stuff here the amateurs with Jeff Bridges our very own what else did this person see? Wrestling with angels, playwright Tony Kushner wordplay, and then another mention of Prairie Home Companion. Wow, Yeah, they had a real good time at this festival. Staff writer? Did is Is somebody involved with the movie a Sarasota native or something?

I wonder can we delve into that? Or there's a conspiracy surrounding Yeah, I'm trying to figure this out. Man, I'm Sarah. This is sirial. Why were they so smitten with this?

Maybe maybe that's the headquarter of Consolidated Resorts, the the the company who co released the film, who also happens to time staff writer. There they're passing the over to staff writer ye. Yeah, that staff writer gets a lot of work. I've seen that. Then and multiple newspapers.

Yeah, you know, once once they started doing the joint operating agreement, staff writer was was everywhere. Oh yeah, my god, there's. A lot going on with funny money. And what's weird is none of it lives up to the title. Yeah.

I think David David Manning really liked this one. That is your your fake Sony Columbius is that person the. Guy who wrote the reviews for hollow Man. Yeah, let's see, uh uh the Animal Rob Schneider another winner. That's right, that's right.

Yeah. I was about to say it wasn't just hollow Man. It was like a couple of things that came out in like ninety nine. Oh yeah, a Night's Tale. He was very hot on raised film best film of the Year, he ledgers and performance will shock you.

Oh so good. Yeah, I'm gonna have to go over to the Museum of Hoaxes to see more of his Uh. One hell of a scary ride, David Manning, Ridgefield Press, hollow Man. There you go, a sexy scary thrill ride the Forsaken. You're telling me that there aren't by just law of averages enough film writers in this country that one of them would be high on your movie enough to give you a fucking soft ball of a quote to you.

That's when they started using like fucking ain't it cool news quotations, and it'd be like five stars, ain't it cool news? It just reporter says, well, and sorry. To get gross again, but it's just like eating pussy. Harris Knowles on Laid two. What the infamous Blade two review?

Oh my gott to look into the head. If you haven't read that, you, Oh, your eyes may not be ready for it. You might have to douse with some bleach after that. Well, it is my favorite drink, so if I will started playing it topically, maybe it'll do me some good. He somehow takes Laid two and makes it about He literally uses kind of lingis as his metaphor.

Oh, oh yeah, it's it's incredible. He's I mean, he's such a cool guy. Oh he happened to him. Where's he at right now? Oh Austin, Yeah, with the rest of them, seat five F at the Alamo Draft House.

Yeah, but that's not anymore. He's not only one of those scooter rounds. Oh yeah, he definitely is. Yeah, he's been doing that for a while. Yeah, don't watch it, my my.

Ladies and gentlemen. That's a quote for the fucking box. Don't watch it, honestly, it just it. I can't really. I've already said the good things about this movie that I could say, and that's it.

I mean a couple things here and there, that's about it. Jimmy cha still has a cleft in his chin. He does, he does. Yeah, I have nothing else to say any more than either of you do. I take full responsibility for us watching this movie.

And uh yeah, I hoist myself on my own petard as it were. Well, But I so this one was new to me. I had never heard of it before in my entire life. For some reason, when I was telling people that I was watching it, I kept missing it up with the last laugh, that one with Richard Dreyfuss. But uh, another one I've never seen before, and I hear is as bad is Caddyshack too.

How are we gonna do this? How are we gonna do I was. To say, we're like we've we've we've crossed the fucking rubicon now and we're is like powering forward and to hell boys like Caddyshack too is I've seen it one time and I don't remember anything other than it has Randy Quaid in it and Chevy Chase is there for like a cup of coffee? If like Chevy, we need you for one day? All right?

How much I see? I see some positive notes drifting towards us in the future, so it's not gonna be all bad. Hell at arcish movie, where's Father Malone at? He can't join us for that one because it's conflict of interest. Well, I don't remember hating Fletch Lives.

I like Fletch Lives a lot. Frankly, I've never seen Christmas Vacation, so we do have that. Oh sorry, sorry, National Lampoons Christmas film. Wouldn't want anyone to confuse it for anything. You love this?

Yes, yes, I love that one. Is it National Lampoon's Caddyshack too? No? Oh? Is it National Lampoons Fletch Lives.

It's it's National Lampoons nothing but trouble. Oh, there you go. Oh, and that's where Father Malone is supposed to be. That is we have a guest. Yes, that's right, he'll be joining us in the near future to talk about a movie I've covered once, which is nothing but Trouble.

But it's it's a Dan Akroyd joint, which means it's probably like a thousand page script. This is two hundred pages of character motivation. Dan nobody fucking cares well. And he's in shack too as well, right he sure is. I believe christ my god boy.

So until the next time when you hear the three of us talking about Caddyshack too. Where can you find you and the things that you work on? Mike White? You can find everything that I work on overapp weirdinglymedia dot com except for one thing, which is ranking on Bond, which you can find on my patreon at patreon dot com slash Projection booth, or you can find it on Chris's patreon, which is patreon dot com slash Culturecast. That's culture Cast with a K, despite what any sort of audio transcription service might have you believe.

How about you, mister Bigley. You can find my shows Wake Up Pippy and Cambridge One Mashawn also over on Weirdingwaymedia dot com. And I do not have a Patreon, so that's all that's all you need to go to how about. You, CHRISTASHU can find all the things that I work on over at Weirdingwaymedia dot com. Like Mike mentioned, that is the singular repository for ninety nine percent of the things that I work on.

The other thing is branking on bond, which Mike mentioned you can find over at my Patreon ranking on patreon dot com slash culturecast. As for this show, like rate and review wherever you get it, hopefully on iTunes. If you don't get it on iTunes, going over at iTunes and like it on iTunes. We will be back, like we've already mentioned, next month to talk about Caddyshack Too, which features Chevy Chase, so little time that will probably be barely talking. But hey, we're doing our Jo County.

You're right, We're going to be doing our diligence, folks. That's what you can expect from us at Weirdingway Media. So we'll see on the next episode.