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The secret of comedy

yelling with lots of accents.

Capisce!

We saw Oscar, so you know what that means.

Just to suck a bunch of highlights of Jimmy Green.

So the bird damn it, how we staying alive.

They call me when they're badass and he's on the line.

Cranking 8 for 8 minutes cause they cool as ice.

Cause they bad Jim Barney looking kind and nice.

Pulling shoes getting literal, Jason is getting lame.

Jules making sure all the monkey shots in the pain.

And just a bunch of movies while they make in the grave.

Here's a real question for you: how did this get paid?

Hello, people up earth.

Hello, people of Toronto.

We are back

in Toronto

with a classic Canadian film.

The movie is called Oscar.

It came out in 1991.

IMDb describes this film as such.

A gangster attempts to keep the promise he made to his dying father that he would give up his life of crime and go straight.

Yeah, that sums it up.

This is a movie based on a French farce.

That's true.

Which was based on a play.

And

wow, budget was $35 million.

First weekend it came out, made $5 million.

Worldwide gross, $23 million.

Tagline of the movie: In crime and comedy, timing is everything.

Also, the lesser used, it's a comedy of criminal proportions.

We're gonna break this down, this movie that feels longer than the brutalist.

A movie in which June said, I have to take a nap in the middle of

And I agree.

You do have to take a nap.

This is definitely a two-napper.

So much goes on here.

So many characters and so much yelling.

We're going to break it all down.

But first, please welcome my co-host, Mr.

Jason Manzukes.

What's up, jerks?

Let's go.

Let's go, Massey Hall!

You're telling me I'm on the same stage that Joni Mitchell stood on?

Let's go!

But a quick reminder, go fuck yourself, Canada.

Jason.

Wow.

This audience is.

I'll take it.

I'll take it.

I'll get you back.

Don't worry, worry, Canada.

Jason, I was shocked to learn at the end of this film that it was directed by John Landis.

Oh, I saw that at the beginning.

Why the claymation song opening?

Some of the best acting in the movie is done by the claymation character.

Full stop.

I want to break down that claymation scene because you spend so much money, but why keep it so small in the corner of the crazy?

Why?

Everything about, I don't understand anything in the decision-making process that went into this movie.

Also, dot dot thought, where was Oscar?

Where was Oscar?

This is like waiting for Godot, but dumber.

Yes.

I was flummoxed.

By the act, I thought for sure he was going to show up in the third act.

Nope.

Nope.

And when is his name first uttered?

About an hour into it.

So much so that when they said it, I was like, wait, one of these people isn't Oscar?

I thought for the entire time it was his name was Oscar Provolone.

Yeah.

But they didn't.

Oh boy.

Snaps.

Oh boy.

The names in the oh boy.

Oh.

Let's get into it because this is this fucking movie sucked.

Now.

And we chose it just for you, idiots.

This is what we think you like

A lot of you know that throughout our How Did This Get Made tour, we have not been joined by our regular co-host June Diane Rayfield, but tonight she is here.

Please welcome June Diane Rayfield.

June has died.

Welcome, June.

How are you?

I'm okay.

How are you, Paul?

I'm well.

Thank you for asking the movie Oscar.

Were you in the theater seeing this in 1991?

I have such a vague memory of seeing the VHS movie arrive with the blockbuster in the blockbuster, you know,

glass

plastic.

Sure.

The glass when they were waiting.

Where did you live?

So it was sort of a luxury, wrapped in it.

It's luxury blockbuster by me.

But I don't think I saw it when it arrived.

And I actually, while we were, while I was looking at this poster,

I remember thinking that he was, that it was a Victor Victoria type of movie because he looks like he has so much blush on here and there's something so striking about him.

He has so much blush on in the scene where his father keeps slapping him that I thought they were making it look like his face was red from the slaps, not the case.

He has it on throughout.

Yes.

Now,

I will say...

There was something about this movie that was really upsetting because it looks like they're all going to a costume party that's gangster themed.

Like the costumes here seem comical

to the point where it's like, I don't understand.

I guess what I should say is, is this a comedy?

I think some people knew it was.

Some people didn't know it was.

But I.

I think everybody but Sylvester Stallone knew it was a comedy.

That's they were all like, oh, we're in a classic farce?

Okay, cool.

And he was like, I'm making the godfather.

It's so hard because I really believe that had everyone just watched Marissa Tome's performance first

and then just said, Okay, let's model the tone and tenor and like let's let's kind of calibrate our own performance around this, we would have a very different movie.

She's in the overtly comedic movie, she's moving at the right pace.

For a movie like this to work, it has to be fast, and everybody else is.

Well, that's gonna be hard, yeah, that's

gonna be hard with Sly.

That's, yeah, Sly is not a factor.

In a way, I was like, I kept on going, is he the straight man or is he funny?

And he is neither.

Because he doesn't, like, he seems like he's playing it cool.

Yeah.

So he's never really fully flustered.

But there is a lot of yelling by him.

No, I will say, by the way, I liked this movie quite a bit.

But I will say, sorry.

Love it.

Sorry.

I enjoyed it.

Sorry.

100% on the tomato meter.

And yeah, I did have to take a nap.

But put that aside, that doesn't mean.

Just because from enjoying it too much.

Yeah.

I mean, it's so much fun.

I got to go down for a second.

Just because I'm like, because I had to take a break doesn't mean I didn't like it.

But

I love a movie and a play.

This felt like a play.

This felt like this was an Oscar Wilde play where a stranger or someone shows up in the beginning and an entire story unfolds, and everyone gets woven in.

It's even crazier than we thought it was going to be.

And we, through the lens of Anthony or whatever, we start to realize this big giant Angelo.

Wait, who are we talking about?

Who are you talking about?

I'm talking about the accountant

starring Ben Affleck.

That's Anthony.

That is.

Yeah, I'm talking about Anthony.

Like, through the, once he arrives, we know that things are start starting to happen.

Landed on me.

A Canadian bug just landed on me.

And I'm not into it at all.

Are we under attack from Canada?

What is this?

Wow.

This is what you're up to, huh?

Just sending bugs after us.

Somebody, what, let a bunch of bugs out in the theater?

Cool, Canada.

Well, cool.

You will be.

June, you will be happy to know it was based on a 1958 stage play.

Yeah.

That was then turned into.

It's a a single location.

It feels like a farce.

Like the open doors, closed doors.

Oh, no, there's a secret daughter.

Oh, no.

Which I love.

And when done well and about 42 minutes shorter,

it could have been a huge success.

The person that you shouted out Marissa Tomei as the person who's in the right movie.

The other person I would say is Tim Curry.

Oh, absolutely.

Tim Curry.

Tim Curry gets it.

And he always does.

He always does.

He's always

basically doing rocky horror for gangster i mean i thought he was doing like a version of clue as well like yes knows how to do it to your point june uh this is how mirrors tomay got my cousin vizzy vinny sorry this is how mirrors tomay got my cousin vinny because the director

vizzy

my cousin vizzy uh because uh the director came on set saw her and was like got it she got the part wow i was wondering if it was before or after

wow cool the other movie that's cool the other movie i want to shout out because

it's so much more of a successful version of this is Johnny Dangerously.

Oh, yeah.

Only a couple of fans of Johnny Dangerously.

Johnny Dangerously is great.

Those are the old people Gen X represent.

Here is what was missing aside from pace, timing, energy,

costumes.

That 45 minutes, that 45 minutes you're talking about could have been accounted for if everybody just sped up a little bit.

But I do think there was one other thing that's missing from this.

And those are the stakes for slaps.

What is Sly's name?

Snaps.

Snaps.

Snaps.

But by the way, he could be called Slaps because he does threaten with a lot of slaps.

Snaps provolone.

Provolone.

I think what was missing and could have made this a great fun movie.

Maybe with some different actors too in certain parts.

But if he, the entire time, if we really understood that he's struggling to stay on the straight and arrow that he is it's an internal conflict and he wants so badly to to you know be a stand-up guy and not be a criminal and that

is not present not at all we hear it is and we hear don't call me boss sorry boss but other than that refrain which happens probably 50 times

we don't ever feel the comedy of him like trying not to well they don't allow it because the time frame the movie takes place in is one day yeah the entire movie really a morning because the bankers are arriving at noon

you're right so this movie is a movie that takes place in real time yeah yeah this is basically

this is i mean because he gets up a little before nine the bankers are arriving at 11 i put this movie out

stallone thinks he's making andre rube live i I think.

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The thing that made me like lean in, but also took me out of the movie was that Stallone seemed to be Stallone from 1991 and everyone around him is doing I'm from the 1930s

you know yeah you mugs shut up you mugs and it was really weird because he had no action so sorry to interrupt are we allowed to say mugs

here I don't know cool to say mugs Canada

I just think that that was such an odd choice that he was not

anything.

And then the accountant also seemed to be pretty modern as well.

But then everybody else around them

was nothing but

in like full-on, like, oh my gosh, my company has a retreat.

It's a murder mystery.

We all have to play along with these actors.

Everybody else in the movie is a murderer.

Like a powerhouse.

I mean, the cast

Kurtwood Smith,

Clarence Bodeker himself, William Atherton's in this movie, Tim Curry, Marissa Tomei.

I mean, it's a, everybody is a home run hitter, and

Stallone is like, shut up, shut up, shut up.

Slow down.

Everybody, slow down.

Meet me where I am.

There's also one of the things I found fascinating about his work in this is there's no increased frustration as this goes on.

There's no, nothing builds toward the way he starts when he's irritated.

He woke up before 9 a.m.

Which also I was like, you're planning on being a legitimate banker.

Like, you gotta get up earlier.

Like, that's...

What is he doing?

There's such a thing as bankers' hours.

You gotta get up earlier.

Let's start there.

But he's irritated.

He's the same level of irritation in that moment as he is in the third act when the bags have been switched out 12 times.

I mean, at some point, get a new bag.

Put a sticker on it.

Or tie a scarf around it.

Or every time you exchange bags, take a peek.

Yeah.

How about

you deserve to lose it all if you refuse to just take a peek?

Peep that bag.

Peek it when it leaves and peek it when it arrives.

Double peek.

You gotta.

Twin peeks.

Now, I will say that the line that really jumped out at me was when someone said, keep in mind, it's 1931.

Like, why would you ever say that to a human in 1931?

Because they need to justify that Marissa Tomei is having sex out of marriage.

Like, now keep in mind, it's 1931.

This is odd.

You Should have been like winking at the camera.

Get it?

Weird times.

Did anybody else feel like that first scene with Marissa Tome and Stallone, where she is giving him the lie that she is pregnant in order to hopefully be able to marry her?

Her love, the never-seen Oscar?

Wait, so Oscar, just quickly.

So who is the man who showed up at the very end of the wedding?

Oscar.

That's Oscar.

That's Oscar.

That's Oscar.

Oh, Oh, okay, forget it.

You were saying you didn't see him either.

No, I saw him.

I was saying, but like, he just shows up for a, like, there's no.

It's inconsequential.

Right.

Of course, but that is Oscar.

Yes, yes.

Okay.

But you would think that Oscar, you would think that the name Oscar would be said from the beginning.

Like, it's dropped.

It would have been fine if he was referenced, if it wasn't the title of the movie.

Right.

That's what's strange.

It's fine if he's just absent the whole time and and then shows up at the end, but for it to be the title of the movie tells me this person has true significance.

I originally called this movie The Banker's Dilemma.

On what planet does Stallone, knowing everything we know about Stallone, allow himself to be in a movie where the name on the movie is not his character.

I believe that he thought, and I'm Oscar,

because he didn't read the script.

And I think that he is walking through the movie going, wait, what?

You're telling me I'm not Oscar?

Whoa, whoa, what is this?

I'm Oscar.

I'm a

talking about Oscar.

I'm Oscar.

I guess I was a little confused, though, when Marissa Tomei, who, again, I was obsessed with her performance, but she didn't look 18 years old.

Unless I, you know, that was a little troubling, but

it's 1931.

It is 1931, after all.

Yes.

So teenagers look like

2731 because their life expectancy was so short of course

but when she talks to him in that first scene this is where i was getting turned around she does say she's in love with anthony though no no she just says she's in love he it is

so that's a miscommunication where she thinks she thinks he's talking about oscar yep and he thinks that's farce and he thinks he's that's farce yes and that's farce

and that that might be the t-shirt at this point.

Didn't you feel like in that scene?

Didn't you feel like in that scene they had romantic chemistry?

Well,

this is like the second movie

crazy.

Stallone and his daughter have overtly romantic chemistry.

There was a moment when she goes, look at me.

And she opens up her nightgown.

Now,

he's like, don't, no, but he never takes his eyes off of her.

He has his eyes on her the entire.

He's like, no, no, no.

No.

And I feel like they were like, I feel like Landis was like, cut, slight, you gotta not look right at her.

All right, all right.

All right, let's let's go again.

Let's go again.

And then he's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

She's a beautiful girl.

She's showing me her body.

I have to respect her.

To be fair, it's Marissa Tomei.

Like, I couldn't take my eyes off the screen.

I was like, can I stare at this forever?

She's so wonderful, but also, I did have to question, like, is she okay?

And has she, has she legitimate

as a character?

And

has she been literally locked?

Is this the room?

Has she been locked in this room?

It feels like he's not letting her out, but she also is a good girl because,

I mean, again, I don't know what's going on.

How do you define a good girl

you that's just rolled her out of she is a good girl as if that is

that a phrase you use

she's a good girl keep in mind it's 1931

no but like so she only does hand stuff

but no but she doesn't seem to be like she she's so wide-eyed and innocent like she wants to do all this fun stuff she's not misbehaving like she is very content to be locked in that room.

She wants out of the room, but she's not like sneaking around.

I guess she's sneaking around.

She's sneaking around.

She's fucking Oscar.

But Oscar seems to be in the army.

Yes, Oscar has left.

Oscar has left for a while.

If he's returning from the army, Oscar has been gone for a long time.

Yeah, I don't think she's actually having sex with Oscar.

She's not.

And I don't think that makes her a good girl or not a good girl.

I just think that's a good thing.

A very good girl.

A very good girl.

Please don't let that be the t-shirt.

I'm a very good girl.

With your face.

No, but

she doesn't seem to be driving him crazy.

In the world of the Tony Danza movie of she's out of control,

she seems like she is abiding by the house rules.

Yeah.

And that's also equally weird.

But

where I think this movie also goes off on tangents is when Stallone wants to add his own jokes in.

I wrote one joke that he said that I was so confused by.

He said, your pimples will clear up

after you date that guy.

His pimples will clear up.

The guy's pimples will clear up after he spends time with her.

What does that mean?

I don't know.

She's going to fuck the pimples right off him?

Like,

I don't know.

Asking for a friend, does that work?

Like, I didn't even understand, like, does he equate, like, oily skin or combination skin with the lack of sex?

Combination.

Or it was, like, I don't even know if he's.

Keep that mind.

It's 1931.

Right.

Acne was different back then.

But that, like, to me feels like a Stallonism.

And the whole movie has these Stallonisms.

Like, when he is having breakfast, like, this big gangster, not a gangster anymore, but banker, he's making waffles.

He's eating waffles with peanut butter, which seemed not like a cool thing.

Like not a man, like, oh, this mafia boss has waffles for breakfast.

Just seemed weird to me.

I feel like, I feel like, but he's like, it's funny.

The waffles are funny.

Waffles are like weird pancakes.

Like, I feel like he was like, that was his choice.

Like, I feel like...

All of his joke stuff, too, because he's got bits with Chaz Palmenteri and Peter Reigert, who are his kind of right-hand man.

And they keep pulling guns on people.

And

his whole bit is he's going legit.

He's going to become a banker.

He promised his dad on his dad's deathbed that he wouldn't be a gangster anymore, that he was going to go straight, right?

And then they keep pulling guns out, and it's this thing where he should be like, hey, what are you doing?

Get that gun out of here.

Oh, and then he's got another one.

This guy's got a gun.

And instead, if will you pull out a gun for me?

Yeah.

Whoa.

What did I say?

No guns.

What is this gad?

It's slow.

It's so slow.

There's no rat-a-tat-tat dialogue, except for the people who are doing it, who stand out because he sounds like what you're saying, modern in his Stallone, but everybody else is doing crazy screwball comedy.

Well, let's look at scene five.

Scene five is probably the best version of Stallone doing his rat-a-tat-tat.

This is like the Who's On First routine with Chaz Palmontaire.

Snaps,

are you sure there was cash in that bag?

Yeah, little Anthony stole it.

If Little Anthony stole it, then he's got it.

No, you blockhead.

He stole it, then he gave it back to me.

Why did he give it back to you?

To buy back the jewels.

What jewels?

The jewels he stole from me.

He stole jewels from you, too?

Yeah, so he could marry my daughter.

Lisa, that?

Lisa, Teresa.

How come nobody's never met this daughter, Teresa?

Because she's not my daughter, Capish.

Yeah.

Your daughter's not your daughter, and the cash that used to be the jewels is now your underwear.

Now you got it.

I got it.

I don't even know what I'm talking about.

That should be a blast to watch.

You know, like Johnny Dangerously, if that was Michael Keaton, yeah, and Chas Palmentieri, come on, electric.

Come on, but no.

But no.

One, one,

one note.

I have single, one single note.

I wished,

because Nora, the maid's

bag is sort of, it's turned over and all of her stuff comes out multiple times in the movie, I wish it was just a bunch of underwear.

Yeah.

Instead, like really big granny panty style underwear.

Instead, it was just like a bunch of slips and all

that

stockings.

Yeah.

One bank pervert, though.

I love that that moment.

I love that moment.

I love that moment.

There's a bunch of jokes that work.

It's just that Sly's not involved in any of them.

Why would he be taking the underwear?

Is this not his underwear?

When Stallone,

the moment that I know Stallone put in this movie is the moment where he's so put upon, he strikes a Christ on the cross pose on the mantle of his mansion, like, I can't catch a break.

I was like, what the fuck is this guy up to

oh i'm like christ on the cross

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What was going on with the lighting in his office.

He seemed to have an office that had like a purple hue hue

to it that just seemed not like any other room in the house.

When we went into that office, I was like, oh, that's just his office.

Like, that's just his personal office that we're shooting in.

The actors.

We couldn't get Stallone on set today.

We're going going to go to his scenes.

We got to go to some scenes.

I didn't know you guys were coming.

We'll do a scene.

What?

Who is it?

I'm mad.

The joke, one of the jokes that I genuinely liked was the Chas Palminteri weapons dump.

Me too.

Me too.

We've seen it in other movies too, but it works great here.

When he pulls out a literal bomb that is ticking, I was like, give me this all day, every day.

A shot with no humans in it,

just heighteningly hilarious objects.

Poison, a mace, like a bear trap, a mini gun.

But there is like this whole movie, and again, I guess it, yeah, I understand it's a farce and we have to get confused by it, but it seems like the movie is angry that it can't figure out the plot.

Like, like a farce is supposed to be fun.

Like, oh my gosh, I can't believe that that person walked in.

This movie is like, oh, why is that person walking in on this scene

like it does feel like you're trying to wrestle control in a bad way it's so true because in i i think in a perfect farce like we should actually not lose control of the bags in the way that we were forced to lose track of the bags because Nora's coming, she's going, now the chauffeur's here, now he's gone.

The bags are back in off-screen.

That's what I mean.

We don't even see that.

Right.

Like, we don't see when they're removed.

So

it was

so difficult to enjoy.

And also, it's difficult to enjoy because what's fun about a farce is how out of control the lead character is.

The events of the movie are happening to them at such a clip.

Behind each door is another person who wants to complicate his life more and more and more, right?

And what's fun is watching that person, if it's Kevin Klein or if it's something, just be completely underwater.

It's no fun to watch Sly Underwater because he doesn't want to be there.

He's like, I need this to stop right now.

He's, he, you're right.

He's mad and he's big, mad.

He's big, mad.

He's a little too much.

Yeah.

He's a bad boy, not a good girl.

That is true.

Bad boy, bad boy with a good girl.

This like idea that he's going straight, I'm also lost on that plot.

Like, I mean, yes, I get that he's going straight, but to buy a bank?

Is he buying a bank?

He's trying to get on the board of the bank.

He just wants a seat on the board.

He wants it to be legit.

He wants to be in the room where it happens.

Yeah, but what I think you're getting to, which I was confused by as well, is

but what next?

Like, so you have a seat on the board you open up an account there with your money that I guess is dirty money how do you plan on generating more revenue in the future like there doesn't I couldn't get a handle on what his yeah it does seem like he is going straight legit he's not like oh and and my guys will keep the business going in the background or something he's not like the kingpin or something like that but he also the movie actually the movie is just not doesn't have enough time to get us there even though we inexplicably yeah, we inexplicably cut to a scene inside the bank.

One of the only out-of-the-house scenes is in the bank boardroom where it's like

William Atherton and the white shadow and a bunch of other people are there, and they're talking about, like, oh, do we want him to be at the bank?

Do we want his dirty money or blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, why are we part of this decision?

This doesn't help us at all.

And

yeah, they hate poor people.

And

it was a long scene, wasn't it?

Yeah.

To give us what, the inner workings of the bank?

So that when they show up, we're like, oh, it's the hateful bankers that we saw earlier

who

also are trying to screw him over.

I mean, again, it's overcomplicating a plot that's super simple, which is the one day he's got to be relaxed, he's stressed out.

That doesn't happen at all.

The threat being that, oh no, he has to settle all of his business before the bankers come is not present at all.

Like, I don't know.

What does he have to do?

The ticking clock is not.

What should have happened is he should have Dr.

Poole and all,

he should have been obsessed with looking legit, acting legit, having a family that looked legit, having his employees look legit, so that when they arrive at 11 a.m., again,

the movie actually must speed up somewhere because, no, I guess it is in real time because it's just before nine.

But he should have been obsessed with appearances and making sure that he looks like a person who could have a board seat at his.

What if there was like a newspaper person or someone who could hold him accountable who would be around?

But nobody was doing that.

Everybody in the movie, until the bankers arrive, are part of his inner circle.

But who he's nervous about having around is an accountant.

Thank you, Ben Affleck,

who is very nicely.

Everyone's nicely dressed.

It doesn't look like a bunch of mob guys coming in the house.

If he wanted that, he should have kicked all those goons out of the house earlier in the day.

But who would wake him up?

I guess that's true.

I mean, you know, like that, but there's nothing wrong in the house.

Like, his wife is in the house, this accountant's in the house, his daughter's in the house.

And then this other very well-dressed daughter is in the house in another room.

I think she was...

See, that was her costumes will haunt me because

I don't think she's supposed to be well-dressed.

I think, Paul, but I, but,

and you said very well-dressed.

Yes.

So I actually think she is meant to look like a peasant person.

She's supposed to look like a normal person.

Got it.

Okay.

Marissa Tomei is, I believe,

supposed to be like

she is essentially like a street urchin.

Got it.

And so, but her name's Teresa?

Yeah.

Teresa is trash.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's for sure.

But Teresa being trash to me is interesting because Teresa meets this accountant who is very well-to-do and goes, oh yeah, my dad is

pro volone, but the accountant works for Pro Volone.

That's just a coincidence.

But doesn't ever, has never seen this man.

And like he is a notorious gangster mobster in Chicago.

Wait, you're saying she should know who he is?

No.

Oh, well, yes.

Well, I won't even get into that.

She names him because she sees him in the newspaper.

Yes, but I'm talking about the accountant.

Should oh, I guess he does know him.

He does know him.

But it just seems to me that if you're the accountant for this man who has one daughter,

you would know that that daughter is.

Unless that daughter is trapped up in a room.

Okay.

Rapunzel style.

Doesn't she even say Rapunzel?

I think so.

Something like that so she really is now it's a darker movie that i'm really disturbed by that's what i'm saying she seems to be trapped up she's like flowers that's why that's why when she presents flowers in the attic she's not having incest with anybody but is she because but is she

with still because the way she presents her body to him like it's a gift

is very crazy

It's very flowers in the attic code.

I didn't realize that that was what flowers in the attic was about

What did you think it was about?

I thought it was about a bunch of kids who were trapped in an attic.

Did you read it?

No,

my mom read it, and she's like, you got to read this book.

You got to read this book.

The story started as like a trifle of misunderstanding, and then the reveal was chilling.

I'm so glad you didn't read it.

My mom's like, it's a good book.

You got to read it.

I got a lot of good ideas in it.

It was more awkward now knowing that because I didn't have any brothers or sisters.

I guess I just had to go fuck myself.

But I always remember that image.

Okay, so got it.

Check.

Movies about.

But I think that what you're confused about with Teresa is her clothes were

so white and crisp.

Her bonnet isn't like that.

Her bonnet that

she did,

I know we were meant to see her as a street urchin, and I did, but

the costumes were really confusing.

I do think she should have played more

urchin-like.

She should have

knock, knock, knock at this rich gangster's house.

She's like, hey, anyway, let me tell you what I did.

So I told this guy that you're my dad.

What does she want from that?

Like, what does she even want from, like, what is he going to do?

He's also has no,

nobody is really scared of him.

He is alcohol.

He is like a, they refer to him numerous times as a murderer, as like a gangster.

He is capable of extreme violence, but yet everybody treats him like he's the ineffectual dad in a sitcom.

Yeah, he's like the mayor of the block.

He's block mayor.

But yeah, that's why the opening scene is funny because he's never, he never seems violent.

The only thing that you can, you can kind of pull over is at one point they're like, I came over your house on Valentine's Day.

Wait, he did say he came over on Valentine's Day, and that's when he met his daughter.

So wait, how was that street urchin in the house on Valentine's Day?

Wait, so Anthony met his daughter on Valentine's Day?

On Valentine's Day.

Anthony says he met

Anthony

Speakeasy.

And after-hours, speakeasy.

That urchin got in there?

Anybody can get in a speakeasy.

Not the urchins.

You want to keep them out.

They don't got no money.

Somehow the urchin has to be the shirt.

I mean, it's got,

I mean, this has got to be the most we've said urchin.

She's dressed like the urchin.

Wait, who?

Who's?

We got an urchin?

She's over there.

Where?

I can't see her.

Where's the urchin?

You're obscured by the pole.

Oh, there you are.

Oh, yeah, I see her.

I see her.

Where?

Where's the urchin?

Go ahead, stand up again.

Stand up.

She's right there.

Oh, she looks great.

Nice.

Give it up for the urchin.

She looks great.

You didn't know I had a flashlight, Canada?

I really wish, now,

maybe there was a scene.

I did have to speed things up at the end because you hid my makeup bag in the room and I couldn't find it for 15 minutes.

I thought I was helping you out.

I took your makeup bag out of here.

I just packed my bag without my consent, and then I frantically was looking for things.

I love that you refer to that as hiding things.

Literally put it.

I'm unpacked for you while you were napping, and you're like, you hid my makeup bag.

I got a frantic message from June being like, is there makeup anywhere around at the theater or any place?

Literally put it in the bathroom on her side so you would have it in there.

I didn't look in the bathroom because I hadn't unpacked yet.

So

why would I even look in there?

I was taking everything out.

Trying to be helpful.

I wish this movie had had bodies.

I wish Stallone's guys were killing people.

There were bodies in rooms, so they had to keep moving bodies and not just bags.

The movie doesn't heighten.

That's a great idea.

Right?

Right?

That's what the movie needs.

The movie needed stakes.

And there was no stakes for anybody.

The idea that I loved that he says that the suit makers are killers and that Anthony believes the suit makers are killers.

That's funny.

That was a funny sequence.

I loved it.

And then they're playing the PF four-handed piano.

I was like, I don't know why, but this is working

so much better than the rest of the movie.

Yep.

Now, I will say,

the other part, while Tim Curry was great, I have nothing bad to say about Tim Curry at all.

The elocution scene was flawed, in my opinion, because

Stallone doesn't really get it.

Like, when he gets it, it's still going to be a little bit like that.

That was, I totally agree.

He just said it.

Right.

Didn't articulate anything.

Right.

He just repeated it.

Right.

No, you're so right.

Because then it made me think, is that the exercise?

Well, that was the thing.

To just hear a phrase and repeat it.

Well, that's what I was like.

Because he should have almost had like a hoity-toity British accent or something.

Stallone should have.

Yeah.

But he just,

now you said something like, well, Curry's also doing,

he's like rolling his Rs, like, rough and ready.

And I'm like, is Stallone ever going to do this?

It makes me feel like, and it's not the case, but that Tim Curry's character is like just stealing money from Stallone.

I would believe that Tim Curry was a con man.

Let Tim Curry be a con man who's conning him out of money.

Pop up.

Make everybody have like duplicitous motives.

But that's a scene like when you're the director, we didn't get it.

Let's cut that scene.

Yeah, Landis, let's cut that scene out because it does, like, he doesn't appear any different.

He doesn't appear any different.

He just approached the bank.

He's just able to hear the phrase and repeat it.

And repeat it back.

So.

Which makes me want to see a sequel that's just at that elocution school that he starts.

Or I want to see, like, I would like a sequel that is just Tim Curry, like, out in Europe.

Where is he going?

Belgium?

Straight.

Like, Tim Curry's character.

Dr.

Yes, Dr.

What's his name in Brussels?

Poole.

Dr.

Tim.

Dr.

Poole.

Let's go out to the audience.

Let's see what the audience has has to say about this film.

Careful.

Careful, Paul.

Hi, how are you?

Hi, what's your name?

My name's Samaya.

Okay, I'll hold the microphone, Samaya.

All right, so Samaya, what's your question?

My question is that

seeing this film and seeing the elocution scenes between Dr.

Poole and Angelo, would this film work better as like a My Fair Lady scenario?

And we just focus on that?

Well, that's...

I'm so sorry, repeat it one more time as a what?

A what scenario?

A My Fair Lady scenario.

Yes, exactly.

Yes, it would be a My Fair Lady.

It would be a My Fair Lady.

Right?

Well, I think the movie kind of wants to be that, where he should be going through a full makeover.

This is a makeover movie.

Yes, but the difference

with

Stallone.

Okay, sorry.

Oh, okay.

I was going to say, the difference with this movie is that in My Fair Lady, she's putting on that kind of voice, and then she gets to her normal voice.

Here, Stallone is not losing that voice.

Well, Stallone, not only is he not losing that voice, I don't think Stallone wants his character to change at all.

I think he wants him to be the same.

I don't think, because it's almost like the Matthew McConaughey quote, which is like, I don't play bad guys who become good.

I play good guys who become great.

Wow.

Real quote.

Real quote.

And that's, I feel like, with Stallone, I don't think can occupy a character who needs to be different.

Because that tells him

that tells him the original character is wrong.

And I don't think Stallone plays guys who are wrong.

The new Prime Minister of Canada is here.

Oh.

Great.

Congratulations on

your recent election victory.

It's a Finucci.

Okay.

I love it.

It's a Finucci.

Oh, it's a Finucci.

It's a Finucci.

I love this.

He went to Finucci.

All right.

Thanks, boss.

Thanks, boss.

Hey, not boss.

Mr.

What is he doing?

All right, so what's your question?

All right, so John Landis originally wanted either Al Pacino or Dane DeVito to play snaps, but

I read that Sylvester Stallone considers this his second worst performance after Stop or My Mom Will Shoot,

which he was tricked into signing onto by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

So my question to to you is, would this have been a better movie, like a little bit more straight with Pacino or DeVito?

Or if Stallone got back and tricked Schwarzenegger to be the lead, fall Mickey Blue Eyes now.

Now,

first of all,

great,

great question.

I do think that Schwarzenegger would actually deliver a better movie than this.

I think so too.

Schwarzenegger, Arnold is funny.

Full stop.

And Stallone is not.

And I love, there's so many Stallone movies I love, but none of them are funny.

He doesn't have a light touch.

And ironically, Arnold, for as much bulk and heft as he is, has a genuine light touch.

It can have a genuine light touch in things.

And just to add a little detail to your detail, Al Pacino was in pre-production on this movie until Dick Tracy offered him $20 million apiece and walked out.

And then they had to frantically cast Stallone.

By the way,

I would have loved Pacino in this.

The setup for this movie is good.

The concept is not flawed.

The execution is flawed.

And just one more detail on top of that.

The original movie was announced in 1978 with Danny DeVito.

This is nice.

Wait, 78 with DeVito?

Yes.

So that's like very, that's like Cuckoo's Nest DeVito.

That's pre-taxi.

Or no, that's just at taxi.

Okay.

Hi, sir.

How are you?

What's your name?

Jeremy.

What's your question?

As an accounting teacher,

I didn't get any of it, but

I'm wondering, little Anthony, I think his name is the accountant, he consistently steals $50,000 or $50,000 worth of jewels every like 15 minutes, and he's not really scared to tell a gangster or form gangster at all.

And then how many more times has he stolen money he hasn't even told him yet?

He has all these scams.

This is a real accountant's question.

Well, the scams didn't seem to be stealing jewels the scams seemed to be by cooking the books a little bit no no one he's got the bag of jewels yeah i guess i i have a question for you

why did he convert to jewels

yeah do you tell your clients to convert to jewels

well i have students i don't have clients but i got it Should we be moving to a jewel-based economy?

I know we're off crypto, but...

Now, this movie would posit that it's complicated because people could grab your bag of jewels and then you're done.

Now, here's the question: oh, this actually, this is perfect for you.

Right now, because we're in such turmoil, right?

Especially where we're from.

Like, should we be moving more towards a jewel-based economy or a women's underwear-based economy?

I know where I come down.

I know where I come down, but I want to hear an an expert's opinion.

You better say underwear.

Depends.

How liquid is the.

This guy gets it.

All right.

Yeah.

My money's soaking wet.

I got 300 bucks sopping wet bucks.

This is such a small detail, but was anyone else disturbed that that giant bag of jewels just had

just one

flat layer of jewels on the bottom?

Like, I didn't know why we weren't opening it up to like light from within with this giant, like all of these jewels everywhere.

It was like just one layer.

And also, how do you get that amount of, like, he must have gone to a lot of different jewelry stores?

I don't know.

It just didn't seem like a great way to convert.

I don't know.

Money is always good.

It's 1931.

Yeah,

you gotta remember.

The banks said there's been a run on the banks.

Your name, your question.

Hi, my name is Brian.

So I have one question and one sort of observation.

The question is: the original stage play has a lot of similarities as far as the plot points are concerned, but a lot of differences, particularly with the characters.

The main one being that there is no mob angle, and Pro Volone is a soap salesman.

So, could this movie

possibly have been worse if he played it like they were in the original play, that if he were a soap salesman?

Huh.

I mean, the stakes would be a lot lower.

It's so hard because, I mean,

he sort of was playing it as a soap salesman.

Like, there was no real threat to him, you know, off coming off of him, and it never felt like he was really going to hurt anyone or suppressing those instincts.

Did you read the play?

Yes, I actually read the the play two days ago for a theater company I'm a part of.

We're considering doing it as a production next season.

Wait, what?

Wow.

That is commitment, Toronto.

What?

It seems like it could be a funny play.

I mean, the French farce is a real hit.

Yeah, the play is actually quite funny.

It's also a lot longer than the movie,

which means everybody will have to commit to speaking fast.

Another big difference was the Tim Carrey character, he's his personal masseuse.

Okay.

Okay.

Well, Well, so it's 1931 soap business is good for soap sales.

But is there so if there isn't the gangster element, it's just the farce of the mistaken daughters and so forth because there isn't a going straight correct.

Okay, got it.

But what is he trying to accomplish during the day?

Nothing.

Now that is a play.

So everybody here at Toronto, it sounds like it's going to be up soon.

Yeah.

You guys are going to have an opportunity.

God, I would love if Had the Skip Maid just started a production shingle where we just produced plays

based on the movies.

By the way.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Even

if we, I don't know, and maybe he could answer it.

Even if we were to do a staged reading of the play.

Of the play.

And the play should be quite different in the same way.

Yeah.

It's a soap salesman.

Like, it's not a one-to-one.

We'll talk.

You know what?

Let's we'll talk to Stallone.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We'll talk to Stallone.

We'll see if we can get something going.

I want to say, Paul, wherever you are, this theater is gorgeous.

I am up in the mid-balcony.

That's right.

Mid-balcony.

Is that what you call it here?

Mid-balcony?

You don't call it the mez?

Technically,

we had this debate before the show started.

Technically, seats are on sale for the balcony.

That is the gallery above us.

us.

That's the gallery.

Above us is the gallery.

Wait a second.

So for maybe the first time in history, we have gallery monsters?

Wow.

Absolutely terrifying.

Balcony versus gallery.

That might be the shirt as well.

Yeah.

All right.

Your name, your question.

Hi, my name is Emily, and I actually did some research, and I managed to find, and it's going to follow with the question.

Okay.

Globe and Mail and the New York Times had an article in November of 1990, fire guts part of Universal Studio.

One of the few films that was shooting at the time was this film.

And

their publicist said, we lost 21 vintage cars, the camera equipment, props, and every bit of wardrobe.

Was this a hit?

Okay.

I know this story.

Yes.

The security guard who was in charge of the old cars set a fire at Universal to steal the cars.

He was arrested for that, but the production had to

shut down for two weeks as they had to rebuild everything for this movie.

Wow.

So that explains his office in the movie.

They were only left with purple purple lights.

Yeah.

I want to point out we have three balcony monsters and there are three balcony monsters.

Get this is camera.

Look at this.

They have what?

Balcony monster shirts?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Together.

All right.

Fantastic.

And soon enough, we'll have gallery monster shirts, hopefully.

All right, all right.

You feel like you got something.

Come on over here.

You come on.

All right.

I saw the two hands waving, which sometimes in the States means stay away, but I feel like in Canada there's more passion.

Or yes, what's your name?

What's your question?

Hi there.

I've actually been gifted a mafia name.

Okay.

So my name is the Fist, Lindsay the Fist.

You've been gifted that by whom?

A coworker of mine who is not of Italian descent.

I'm of Italian descent.

I'm here with my Cujini over here.

Oh, wow.

I'm also of Italian descent.

It is a good question, though.

I mean, I, I, or an interesting topic.

Like, I don't know if you are, if you give someone their name do you

or is it like I don't think you choose it like the Pope I don't wait what do you mean like well like he well yeah he chooses his own name no I think it is I think in those situations like gangster I think it is given to you usually as a you know like a big guy gets called tiny or whatever right if you cut off people's pinkies they call pinky Yeah, so so super quick question, Lindsay.

How'd you get the fist?

Gotta ask because you're in the balcony, so we all assume she says, I can't tell you, you won't tell us.

Okay, what

do you have a question?

I have two small questions.

One is for June.

What did you think about the wedding gowns at the end?

I wanted to get your opinion on those.

So, of course,

at the end, I was searching for my makeup bag.

Behind you, June.

I didn't, I'm sorry.

Behind you.

Oh.

Oh, I love them.

Oh, I love them.

They look great.

Yeah, I think they look amazing.

We don't wear spats anymore.

I mean, I have to say, Marissa Tomei, and I know she's been in other time periods, and she always looks, she looks amazing right now.

But this, there is something about her in 1931 where she, boy, is this, yeah, is this an era she can wear?

Yeah,

it's very compelling.

It's her in this, and it's Marsha Gay Garden in Miller's Crossing.

Come on.

Yeah.

Okay, your second question.

Did you guys notice how the only song they played was the Barber of Seville?

Yeah.

Like the Aria, and then the trailer was the overture.

Yeah.

I don't understand how that connects.

Any opera people here that would be like, is that thematically a choice?

Oh, yes.

Oh, hold on.

Let me go over.

Let me go over.

Is there an opera singer here?

Who said yes?

Wait, is the little claymation guy here?

All right.

The little claymation guy,

this is actually really upsetting.

He killed one of the California Raisins.

Been in jail for, I think, since 1994.

He was one of those people that Landis used a lot, and I think he was in the helicopter.

Jason.

Okay.

Interesting reaction, Canada.

Jason.

To the death of a claymation character?

Yes.

You guys are too touchy, eh?

I'm sorry.

You fucking idiots.

All right.

So you are our resident opera expert.

You can just take that.

You don't have to justify that you are or you're not, but I'm calling you our opera expert.

How is it thematically tied?

Well, I actually am the opera administrator for U of T for Stu Trump.

Yes!

What?

Yeah, I worked.

Anyway.

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Start talking again.

You were getting an applause break that you talked through.

Yeah, no, no, no.

I

work.

I actually just started that job, but anyway, I was a stage manager on opera.

So the Barbara Seville, that's the Bugs Bunny.

The figaro, figaro, figaro, that's what that is, right?

So that's like one of the most famous like opera like buffon, like the booths, right?

And so that premise is that this guy wants Count

Almaviva, sorry, wants to marry this woman, but he has to pretend to be a piano, like a voice teacher to then go in and trick the guy who is in charge of her, like that's his ward.

Because she's a good girl.

Because she's a good girl.

She's such a good girl.

I like it less when Paul says it in the audience.

But yeah, she's such a good girl that she's like, yeah, whatever, I guess I have to marry the man who's like my dad, sort of.

So it's very much like the vibes of like Sylvester Stallone

and Bartolo want to fuck their daughter or their ward.

And that's from an opera person.

Wow.

Great work.

Great work.

Support the U of T opera.

Maybe you can combine with his play company and you guys can do an operatic version of the fact that this is something.

All right, we'll produce it.

That could be something.

All right, yes, you have some notes.

What do you have?

Okay, so first of all, has

anyone noticed how Stallone can't say his own last name?

Provolone.

Prevolone.

B.

I thought you meant Stallone.

I was like, oh, wow, really?

I've never heard him say that either.

Did anyone also clock all of the things that Mirsa Tomei wanted to do?

I love that.

I love that.

That's a funny list.

Do you have that list?

I do.

Swim in the English Channel, shop in Paris, lay on a beach in Honolulu, ride a Zeppelin, attend a Rudy Valley show, go to an African safari, run with the Bulls in Spain, climb in the Empire State Building, and go to an opium den in Chinatown.

That was my favorite one.

I loved the opium den one, too.

I was like, oh, maybe she's not a dot, dot, dot good girl after all.

She didn't know.

So now, your name, your question.

Not Lisa.

Okay, and what's your question?

At the beginning, we learned that the maid is running off to like get married.

And then towards the end, we find out that the maid that has brought in to replace the other one is like the mother of the daughter.

So after the wedding, do you think she becomes their maid?

That's such a great question.

Because she does need to work.

Like,

he's no longer playing child support, or maybe he's paying, like, back child support for what he did in the future.

He just found out.

He didn't know.

Yeah, he had ever been paying child support.

Okay, first of all, I know he didn't know, but she did raise Teresa on her own for 18 years.

He's got to pay up.

Oh, yeah.

Well, it definitely seems like it definitely seems like he is not, he is interested in her being his daughter.

He's not trying to, like, give her a daughter.

Yes, he's not trying to disown her.

And I think he did, well, he didn't give her her own wedding.

The movie couldn't support two weddings.

That's true.

That's true.

But yeah, it's such a great question because I really would love to see a world in which she's no longer working as a maid.

Certainly not as his maid.

I don't think she will be.

I don't think she will be because I think she is now

his

okay wait a minute

his ex-lover well yes but also her daughter has now married the accountant yes okay okay god damn it i don't even care about this movie well but i guess the question is at the end of the movie while i was looking for my makeup bag does he

does he go back to a life of crime or yes

he does that's i'm actually glad to hear that because

that means that I feel like she's not going back to Maid's work, that he's hopefully going to support her.

I think so.

Great.

I think that's in the car.

She's killed in the crossfire during a very violent.

I don't want to get into it, but there was an issue.

They think that he's in the car.

They kill her.

Kurt Woodsmith shoots her in the head.

Well, obviously we had opinions about this movie, but there are people out there with a different opinion.

It is now time for second opinions.

Hi, I'm Piper.

Hi, Piper.

One.

Piper, no.

I knew it.

I knew it.

I got it.

I got him.

Piper, no.

I'm sorry, Piper.

I interrupted you.

That's okay.

One, two, three, four, five.

That's the many stars that I give this ride.

You've got Angelo, Anthony, Connie, Sophia, Gangster's going straight, and a child bride named Lisa.

Dr.

Poole and his nicely rounded diphthongs.

Tuito butlering and Nora accents all wrong.

A little of Teresa telling lies.

A little bit of math that goes awry.

A couple dangling participles in your face.

A little bit of yelling out of place.

A little bit of Oscar at the end.

A whole lot of snapping at your friends.

A little bit of accents gone all wrong.

A little bit of my second opinion.

Yeah, absolutely.

Now the Toronto.

That was a great one.

What a great way to end it.

I feel like on three, we can all say Piper No, right?

One, two, three.

Piper No.

I loved it.

I loved it.

I didn't recognize.

Those were great songs.

Some of the songs I didn't recognize, I assume they're all tragically hip songs.

We don't know their songs,

but I know Sloan

You all did fantastic.

I saw Lubega perform at the hard rock live He did five songs three of them were mambo number five

not a joke

I was gonna say were they mambos one through five?

I wish he opened with mambo number five got a great response did another song didn't really do well then did mambo number five then left the stage and came out in Encore with Mambo number five.

And I gotta tell you, each time it got better and better.

All right, these are reviews from Amazon.

There are 3,175 reviews on Amazon.

Hold on to your butts when I tell you, 87% are five-star reviews.

From Celeste Sky Cop,

she writes back in 2014, title, I hate sly,

but I love this movie.

I hate sly, but I love this movie.

I first saw it in the theater on a date, and I didn't even notice my date had gotten sick and gone to the bathroom for most of the movie.

It is a cute plot with intricate dialogue.

My family quotes lines from it all the time.

Five stars.

Can you imagine being so like so obsessed so in enthralled with this movie that you didn't notice your date abandoned you for the bathroom

rough stuff uh but now they have four kids and they're very happy rachel w titles her review a classic that's so highly quotable this is written back in 2023 this movie is a family favorite I'm not sure why it's not more well known.

The dialogue is fantastic.

And Alyssa Milano, Sylvester Stallone, and Tim Curry are an absolute delight.

Incredible.

This movie is the reason that my siblings and I have told each other for years, shut up your face, Mussolini.

The design and the costumes also make this appealing to watch.

There's no bad language or nudity, making it a great choice for family movie night.

I'll never get tired of this movie.

Five stars.

Wow.

High Tower.

Wait, from Police Academy?

Yes.

Whoa.

Pretty cool.

Super cool.

In 2022 writes, this, all of it is bullet points, by the way.

This is unlike anything Sylvester Stallone has ever done, and it's marvelous.

The plot, although adult content, is engaging.

Star-studded cast, impressive.

Family and I enjoyed it while keeping up with the characters.

There is slapstick, clever situational, ironic humor throughout the entire movie.

The time slash era is authentic.

It seems like the cast has a mesmerizing chemistry.

I've seen this movie 10 times and and I still laugh out loud.

Surprisingly funny, very well done film, and definitely re-watchable.

My family and I love this movie.

Five stars.

Wow.

This one is the one I want to end on.

From Joseph Voldness.

In 2020,

he writes, if you haven't seen this, you should.

It's a comedy primarily in wordplay and scene play

I think I think that's everything

as opposed to slapstick nonsense and gutter level humor freaking funny movie five stars

wait you don't like you don't like gutter level humor freaking funny movie you also don't like slapstick but you like wordplay Interesting.

And that is what people think of Oscar, which I will tell you, many people DM'd Instagram storied.

I don't know what they're talking about.

This movie's good.

And then I was like, oh no, did we pick something terrible?

And then I was like, I watched.

I was like, no, no, no, we're right.

You're all wrong.

Paul, don't underestimate that our audience are fucking idiots.

Now, I said it before, and I'll say say it again because I know you're going to ask us.

I did enjoy a lot of this movie.

I did enjoy this movie.

And you could say the same thing for Thanksgiving dinner.

You have turkey, and it makes you tired, and you fall asleep, but you enjoyed Thanksgiving.

This movie.

Well, okay, sure.

But I'm just saying, in the general sense,

you were just tired, but you got back into it pretty easily.

I just had to take a quick nap.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You got it.

Sometimes, like, it's exhausting to be so immersed in a time period.

I'm in the 1930s.

I had to relocate myself because I was scared.

I'd honestly

had a draft of laudanum and you went to sleep.

I.

Okay.

All right.

I see where you're at, Canada.

I feel for Stallone because I also am a huge Stallone fan.

I love it.

You are.

I do.

I like the stuff that he does, but I feel like he's trying so hard to be funny.

And I feel like I see it a lot.

And I feel like these are the jokes that work with his friends who don't tell him sly, that's not a joke.

The pimple thing.

Like, no one tells him no.

And then you get occasionally stuff like this.

You get moments like that in Tulsa King, too, which I also love.

When do you see it in the recent Sylvester Stallone scripted movie, A Working Man, starring our favorite Jason Statham?

So whatever's happened there, I did some research on this.

He has just gifted Statham his old movies.

He's like, you make this.

You make this.

Like, everything is now, like, he's getting secondhand Stallone.

Incredible.

By the way, incredible because he can pull it off.

Statham's legit funny.

Yeah.

But I'm sort of with you.

I mean,

we went on a Rocky tear this past summer.

Yes.

You and I.

We didn't go on a Rocky Tear.

Rocky the Movie.

Rocky the Movie.

You guys were not in a Rocky tear.

No, Rocky the movie.

No, we weren't.

We weren't.

And I have such a spot in my heart for him.

I really, really do.

And

yeah, not every moment works.

And of course his pace should be different.

And all that's true.

That remains true.

That's always going to be true.

But if you can get past all of that,

I swear, if you can do some work, audience,

ask him to do everything, if you can't appreciate, if you can look at this movie and recast it and rehear it differently, you can really appreciate it.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

It's tough.

This one's tough because I think what you're saying, June, I agree with, which is that there is something inherently watchable and interesting about Stallone, even if he's not necessarily pulling off the tone that this movie requires.

It's too long, it's too slow, but they do such a good job of rounding out everybody else.

Because there are jokes in here that, like, when Reigert said, when Peter Rigert says the Duke of Ellington,

funny, it's a funny job.

There's jokes in here that are funny.

When one person's reading a Time magazine and the other person's reading Hooi magazine, I was like, give me a subscription to Hooi magazine all day, every day.

I read it for the articles.

And again, the whole sequence with the brothers and Nicholas, and they're looking at the paper and saying saying that he this was our work and he it's so funny that they're proud of the man has been murdered in their suit yes that they're famous hilarious now one one thing I will say I know we're so focused on sly but I did feel like Nicholas was a bit miscast as the accountant I did too they put a set of glasses on him I'm sorry, Nicholas, Anthony.

They put a set of glasses on him, but he's a big strapping man.

And I feel like you wanted that guy to be a little bit more...

He seemed like a leading man, which can be a lot more.

Very much so.

And you want him to be scared of these two tiny men.

Yes.

Harry Shearer being one of them.

Love that.

My favorite part of the movie

was when he pulled out the chicken leg as a gun.

Oh.

The drumstick.

Good.

These are great moments, guys.

But I will say, if you want to see, again, a lot of these same ideas executed better, it's Johnny Dangerously.

I got to go see that.

I'll go see that.

Amy Heckerlink, right?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a good, it's a, that was, yes.

See it.

Now, what do we want to plug, Jason?

What are you telling people you're up to?

Taskmaster.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Taskmaster UK, I'm on it.

Season 19.

It's airing right now.

Episode two just aired.

It's all up now.

Go, go there, watch it on YouTube.

Or here, you might even be able to watch it on something else.

I don't know, but if you're it's here, I was looking at it on you, I saw that popped up on my YouTube today.

Great.

It's on YouTube.

Watch it, comment, get involved.

These fuckers need to hear about it.

June, what do you got?

Oh, gosh.

Well, I'm in a new movie which Paul and I just saw.

It's not coming out till the first weekend of August, but it is called Weapons.

It's the follow-up for Zach Preger's new movie.

So good.

It's so good.

Also coming out the same weekend with another movie I am in, Freaky Friday 2.

Oh, yeah.

That'll be a

fun weekend.

My book just came out in paperback, Joyful Recollections of Trauma, with 20 extra pages.

If you take a picture of that barcode, I could send you a personalized copy of it, but you have to pay for it.

But if you've read the book on my website, there are all these special features, videos, pictures, and everything like that.

And then every Monday on YouTube, Rob Hubel and I host a show called The Dark Web.

Thank you.

We go deep into the web to find the weirdest stuff like Sizzler training videos and

oh my gosh,

yeah, it's a lot of stuff.

We find a bunch of stuff.

20 minutes, it's free every single week.

June, I feel like we need to come up with a Barbenheimer style name for weapons and freakier Friday.

So

Freakier Friday, thank you.

Freakier Weapons.

So, people can like telegraph that they're going to see both.

It's a double feature.

It is a double future.

We'll figure out some sort of whatever clumsy thing

that

right now.

Let's all stop and think about it.

Freaky weapons.

Weapon Friday.

Friday weapons.

Freppens.

Weapon Friday.

Freaky Freaky.

Freaky Freppens.

Is Freaky Freppens a thing?

Freakier Weapons.

I've got a Weapon Friday.

It's very American.

It's on Friday.

Thank you.

We love being here.

Thank you, everybody, for coming out goodnight.

Eat shit, Canada.

What a great show.

And we are once again back in Canada this weekend.

That's right.

We'll be in Vancouver on Saturday, July 12th.

It's our apology tour to Canada.

We have not been back in a very, very long time, and we're doing two in one summer.

But here's the thing.

If you bought tickets for How Did Sket Made in Vancouver, check the location.

We originally were going to do the show at the Queen Elizabeth Theater, but we moved down the block to the Vogue Theater.

Your tickets should be updated, but just make sure that you are going to the Vogue Theater, not the Queen Elizabeth Theater.

Your tickets and everything should be updated, but just in case you didn't check your email, I'm here to tell you it's the Vogue Theater July 12th.

I'll be doing a big book signing after the show.

And if you're like, oh, Paul, I want my book signed and I'm not in Vancouver.

Don't worry about it.

Just go to my website and we will support indie bookstores by letting you get anything you want inscribed in my book with me signing it.

I guess it's just called signing a book.

Anyway, just go to paulshear.com and you can do that right there.

Once again, a big thank you to everybody who helps make this show happen.

Our producers Cody Fisher, Scott Saney, Molly Reynolds, and our amazing movie picking producer, Averill Halley, our sound engineers, Casey Holford, and Jared O'Connell.

And people, if you're not watching the dark web on YouTube, what are you doing?

Check it out.

Me, Rob Pubel, the dankest, the darkest, the silliest, dumb shit on the internet.

Bye for now.

Peace.