1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: I'm bouncing around. We're bouncing around all over them. This 2 00:00:03,839 --> 00:00:04,879 is our scattershot show. 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:10,759 Speaker 2: All right, Hello everybody, and welcome to the Surely Can't 4 00:00:10,839 --> 00:00:15,400 Be Serious Podcast, discussing and debating the iconic and the 5 00:00:15,439 --> 00:00:18,519 forgotten of eighties and nineties pop culture. 6 00:00:18,399 --> 00:00:22,800 Speaker 1: With your co hosts James D. Graves and Jason Colban. 7 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 3: All Right, everybody, welcome back to part two of the 8 00:00:30,559 --> 00:00:34,880 Surely You Can't Be Serious Podcast, coming to America versus 9 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:36,359 Trading Places debate. 10 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 1: I am here with my friend Jason Colvin. 11 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:39,439 Speaker 4: How's everybody doing? 12 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:40,799 Speaker 1: Good to see it? Thanks for joining us. 13 00:00:40,799 --> 00:00:41,679 Speaker 4: We're so glad to listen. 14 00:00:42,039 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 3: And just as an intro to this, we normally keep 15 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:49,920 things family friendly, and we will in this episode as well, 16 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,600 but these two movies are chocked full of wonderful quotes 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,799 which we go over today, and many of which are 18 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,200 filled with non family friendly language. We will cont you 19 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,280 to keep it family friendly, but you might consider this 20 00:01:02,359 --> 00:01:05,400 a PG episode, nothing worse than you're going to see 21 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,920 on television these days. But without further ado, here we go. 22 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:11,079 Speaker 1: Okay. 23 00:01:11,159 --> 00:01:12,760 Speaker 4: One of the things I wanted to bring up is 24 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:16,239 similarly in both of these movies, Eddie Murphy breaks the 25 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:17,079 fourth wall. 26 00:01:17,239 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. 27 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:19,799 Speaker 3: And I don't know how many of his movies that 28 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,280 he does it in, but he does it a lot. 29 00:01:21,439 --> 00:01:23,400 Certainly in the two movies that we're looking at, we 30 00:01:23,519 --> 00:01:25,599 know that he does it. So he does it after 31 00:01:25,599 --> 00:01:28,760 he gets arrested for you know, bumping into dan Aykroyd 32 00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:31,000 and trying to give him his briefcase. Back as the 33 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,200 police car's about to pull away. It gives the camera 34 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,280 a look that's the breaking of the fourth wall in 35 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,519 case you didn't know that term. But he gives he 36 00:01:37,519 --> 00:01:38,840 looks directly into the camera. 37 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 4: My favorite, one of my favorite moments in the whole 38 00:01:41,239 --> 00:01:44,560 movie where the Duke brothers sit Billy Ray Valentine down 39 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,359 at the table and they're explaining what they do right, commodities, Right, 40 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:48,200 they're like. 41 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 5: Pork bellies, which is used to make bacon, what you 42 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,159 might find in a bacon and let us a tomato sandwich. 43 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 1: And anviews of the game. 44 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,959 Speaker 4: We're like these guys, they come a complete idiot. 45 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,959 Speaker 3: It happens again in Coming to America and our favorite scene, 46 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:05,519 whatever you. 47 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:11,599 Speaker 1: Like, and she's park like a dog. He turned to 48 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:12,639 looks right at us. 49 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 4: This is really happening right now, That is such a 50 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,039 great way of bringing the audience sing down the joke. 51 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 1: You know, it's fantastic. A big dog. How would we 52 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,199 like Stalden Blood? What's it saying? 53 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 4: See you next Wednesday? Okay, John Landis has a thing 54 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,039 where he mentions this phrase called see you next Wednesday. 55 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, you hear it come up? 56 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:42,599 Speaker 3: You know in our thriller episode absolutely in the movie 57 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,240 scene that is in the Thriller video. 58 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: That's the last little bit of dialogue. You hear it 59 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:48,800 says see you. 60 00:02:48,879 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 4: Next wednesdayday right before our girl Ola Ray walks out. 61 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 1: Michael Jackson. Yeah. 62 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,439 Speaker 3: But then again you see it in American Werewolf in 63 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:02,599 London advertised is one of the poorn movies. You would 64 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:05,400 have seen it in the Blues Brothers on a big 65 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,479 billboard that has like a big gorilla on it. 66 00:03:09,039 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: Deal with gorillas. I don't know what. 67 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 3: Well Orlandis has another thing with gorillas. But then of 68 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,039 course it comes up in trading places. 69 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 4: It's on a poster in Ophelia's Wall. 70 00:03:17,879 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 3: Right yeah, and it says directed by William Wyler and 71 00:03:21,599 --> 00:03:26,599 starring Lawrence Olivier. So then again it comes up coming 72 00:03:26,599 --> 00:03:27,199 to America. 73 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 4: It's a big poster on the subway wall. 74 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 3: Right, So he chases Lisa down to apologize for not 75 00:03:32,759 --> 00:03:35,560 telling her the truth. She's frustrated at him. And as 76 00:03:35,599 --> 00:03:38,240 the train car comes to a stop, you see this 77 00:03:38,319 --> 00:03:40,560 giant poster on the wall. It's got this kind of 78 00:03:40,599 --> 00:03:43,319 space looking woman on it, kind of a Barberilla type 79 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:45,639 of throwback. And then the name of the movie is 80 00:03:45,639 --> 00:03:51,719 See You Next Wednesday, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. That's cool, yeah, 81 00:03:51,759 --> 00:03:52,879 and dan Aykroyd. 82 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 4: So I saw him talk about this, right, So to 83 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,159 see You Next Wednesday thing, it's not just thrown into 84 00:03:59,199 --> 00:04:02,159 any movie rarely. What he talked about was when he 85 00:04:02,199 --> 00:04:04,280 was a young guy, he wrote a script called see 86 00:04:04,319 --> 00:04:09,120 You Next Wednesday. Anytime he cannibalizes anything from that script, yes, 87 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:16,600 he gives a nod to it. 88 00:04:13,759 --> 00:04:15,599 Speaker 3: And that script, as I understand a guy in quite 89 00:04:15,639 --> 00:04:18,319 a few writing jobs, he struggled quite a while as 90 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,879 a fledgling director. He actually has an interesting story. He 91 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:24,079 decides he wants to be a director at eight years 92 00:04:24,079 --> 00:04:27,319 old after seeing the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and it's 93 00:04:27,439 --> 00:04:30,759 just amazed at the graphics on it, loves the movie, 94 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,120 goes home and says to his mom, who makes movies. 95 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:34,680 How does that work? You know, he's just a little kid, 96 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,000 and she's like, well, that's the director. From that moment on, 97 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,040 he decides he wants to be a director, and so 98 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,079 at sixteen, instead of going to work at McDonald's like 99 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,800 most kids do, he goes to work in the mailroom 100 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,279 at twenties Century Fox and is just fascinated by it 101 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,079 and meets some people, and then at some point a 102 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,079 couple of years later, he gets a call from a 103 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,600 guy who's making the movie Kelly's Heroes, which starts Clint Eastwood. 104 00:04:57,959 --> 00:05:00,279 He says, if you can get out to Yugoslavia, I 105 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:01,959 might be able to get you a job on this movie. 106 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,800 I mean, how promising is that. He's in California, he's seventeen, 107 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:08,839 eighteen years old something like that. And then if you 108 00:05:08,879 --> 00:05:11,319 can get out to Yugoslavia, yeah, I might have a 109 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:11,879 job for you. 110 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: Right, So what does he do? 111 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 3: He goes and gets his life savings, which that points 112 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,720 about twelve hundred bucks. The tickets are eight hundred, and 113 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,639 he buys his own ticket. But then he takes to 114 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,120 his mom and says, hey, the studio has offered me 115 00:05:25,199 --> 00:05:28,399 a job and is paying my way out to Yugoslavia 116 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,720 and shows her the ticket that he bought, and so 117 00:05:30,879 --> 00:05:33,639 she lets him go, and so he goes out there. 118 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,680 He works on Kelly's Heroes, meets all these people, and 119 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,399 he does a wide array of things stuntman work, writing work, 120 00:05:40,879 --> 00:05:44,680 grunt work for about twenty thirty movies out there over 121 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,000 the course of a couple of years before he comes back. 122 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,319 Speaker 1: And then he sits down for the. 123 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 3: To be a part of the Director's Guild, you had 124 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:52,839 to have a test that you've got to take, and 125 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,959 he kills it. He aises the test, but then they 126 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,959 call him in they're like, I'm sorry, you didn't graduate 127 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,680 from high school. We can't allow you to be a 128 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:04,720 part of the director skilled Wow. And this is all 129 00:06:04,759 --> 00:06:08,360 before Schlock comes out. So yeah, his road was a 130 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:10,000 hard road to get to where he was. 131 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: That's interesting. 132 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, and one more thing I wanted to mention 133 00:06:14,079 --> 00:06:17,199 before we move on. That subway station, yes with the 134 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,560 see you Next Wednesday poster. Yes, as a cheam is 135 00:06:19,639 --> 00:06:24,040 chasing Li said, you know that subway station and I'm 136 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,879 going to mispronounce it, but it's the Hoyt sure Horn 137 00:06:28,439 --> 00:06:29,120 subway station. 138 00:06:29,199 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're from Oklahoma, not New York. Sorry, that's right. 139 00:06:31,319 --> 00:06:35,399 Speaker 4: Sorry, that is where the Michael Jackson Bad video was 140 00:06:35,439 --> 00:06:36,839 filmed right there as well. 141 00:06:36,879 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 3: Right, so we got a connection with Michael Jackson's bad video, 142 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,360 connection with Michael Jackson's thriller video. And then in another 143 00:06:43,519 --> 00:06:47,000 video that John Landers directed, that Michael Jackson video Black 144 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,680 or White, See You Next Wednesday is shown on the 145 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:53,639 window which Michael Jackson throws the garbage can through. 146 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,439 Speaker 4: And in case you missed it, episode one and two 147 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,639 of the Shirley Can Be Series podcast, Michael Jackson. 148 00:07:01,439 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, bad versus Thriller. 149 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,319 Speaker 3: And just as a side note on the coming to America, 150 00:07:06,399 --> 00:07:10,040 the other stars in addition to dan Aykroyd and Jamie La, 151 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:13,480 Curtis mo Howard and James Brown nice. 152 00:07:13,759 --> 00:07:18,759 Speaker 6: Yes, it's one head of a day in the neighborhood. 153 00:07:18,839 --> 00:07:20,959 Speaker 3: So I don't know, should we talk about Eddie Murphy's 154 00:07:21,399 --> 00:07:24,079 the characters that he did on Saturday Night Live because 155 00:07:24,079 --> 00:07:24,959 they were fantastic. 156 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,879 Speaker 1: He of course did Buck Wheat, Yes, Who's hilarious. 157 00:07:31,079 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 6: Woe play? 158 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:38,079 Speaker 3: And he was then of course mister Robinson and then 159 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:43,720 he was Gummy, Gummy dammit. So here's something I learned. 160 00:07:43,959 --> 00:07:46,160 There was an idea for a movie that they had 161 00:07:46,759 --> 00:07:54,279 called Purple Wheat, which was which was the movie Purple Rain, 162 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:56,240 except it was buck Wheat. 163 00:07:56,319 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: The Prince part. 164 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,399 Speaker 4: Now that I guess he is a really funny skit. 165 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 3: I don't know about the movie, but yeah, i'd watched 166 00:08:03,399 --> 00:08:07,920 the whole movie. And so he's doing Saturday Night Live. 167 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,160 He's done forty eight hours. It becomes a big hit, 168 00:08:10,759 --> 00:08:14,160 and then Nick, he's like, Nick, you should come host 169 00:08:14,199 --> 00:08:16,519 the show. We have shows at the time. Nick shows up, 170 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,279 and the story that they give the people is Nick 171 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,079 was sick, like he had the flu. The fact is 172 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,879 Nick Nolty was drunk out of his mind, like he 173 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,120 could not perform. And so what ended up happening is 174 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,279 they had Eddie Murphy be the host of the show. 175 00:08:32,519 --> 00:08:35,679 It's the only time that a cast member has been 176 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:40,279 a host as well. He starts off the show with 177 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:44,600 Live from New York, It's the Eddie Murphy Show, and 178 00:08:44,639 --> 00:08:47,720 everybody's like, WHOA, what did he just do? Because that 179 00:08:47,879 --> 00:08:50,080 was not scripted that he'd say it like that. 180 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:50,519 Speaker 1: And it's live. 181 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:56,519 Speaker 4: Yeah, let's talk just a moment before we move on 182 00:08:56,639 --> 00:09:01,519 too much. But so Billy Ray Valentine funny, but it 183 00:09:01,639 --> 00:09:05,559 is a version of Eddie Murphy. That character is basically 184 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:06,639 a smart. 185 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:07,639 Speaker 1: Leg version of Eddie Murphy. 186 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:07,919 Speaker 2: Yeah. 187 00:09:08,639 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 4: I saw Eddie Murphy talking about it. When he wanted 188 00:09:10,639 --> 00:09:12,639 to do Coming to America. He wanted to play a 189 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:17,399 character that wasn't himself, right, So Prince Akim is not 190 00:09:18,159 --> 00:09:20,639 really Eddie Murphy. I mean, you know all your parts time, 191 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:25,320 but Prince Akim is like my favorite Eddie Murphy character. 192 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 3: He's well, he's genuine, he's real, he's honest, he's a 193 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,919 good he's got good morals. And we talked about Prince 194 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,399 and the Popper and Pygmalion being kind of the underlying 195 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,120 stories for trading places. John landis is Coming to America 196 00:09:40,399 --> 00:09:43,279 is a Cinderella story, which I completely disagree with. It's 197 00:09:43,279 --> 00:09:46,399 not remotely Cinderella at all. We got a prince who's 198 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,519 being poor. It's still the Prince in the Popper story. 199 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,639 But it's not Lisa's story. It's not her story. I mean, 200 00:09:52,879 --> 00:09:56,120 it's not called I Met a Prince. It's a different 201 00:09:56,759 --> 00:10:03,200 perspective on it. But the the story actually was something 202 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,639 that they say was Eddie Murphy's. Like Arsenio Hall said, Yeah, 203 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:07,840 Eddie Murphy wrote this on a pad But actually when 204 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,279 the movie came out, there was some litigation that happened too. 205 00:10:10,759 --> 00:10:13,600 A guy named Art Buckwald, who was a humorist, had 206 00:10:13,639 --> 00:10:17,120 proposed a script several years earlier, eighty two or eighty three. 207 00:10:17,159 --> 00:10:21,240 I think that was connected with John Landis, connected with 208 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,759 Eddie Murphy, and was the idea of a prince from 209 00:10:23,799 --> 00:10:26,120 Africa coming to America. 210 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, and he sued and he won. 211 00:10:28,039 --> 00:10:32,279 Speaker 3: Yeah, he won nine hundred thousand dollars was the verdict. 212 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,399 Nine hundred thousand dollars. He got one hundred and fifty 213 00:10:35,399 --> 00:10:37,639 thousand dollars and the attorney's got seven hundred and fifty 214 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:42,720 Oh my gosh, that's terrible. They actually lawyers. Yeah, don't 215 00:10:42,759 --> 00:10:46,120 trust him. They ended up, you know, there was going 216 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,120 to be an appeal, but they ended up settling before 217 00:10:48,159 --> 00:10:50,200 the appeal was finalized. So I don't know if that 218 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,039 was what the final amount was, but that was what 219 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:53,120 the original verdict was. 220 00:10:53,159 --> 00:11:02,399 Speaker 4: Wow. Was one of the characters that Aidemaricy plays in 221 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:04,960 coming to America, the barber. There's a couple of things 222 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:06,200 I want to mention about the barber. 223 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: I'm bouncing around. 224 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,639 Speaker 3: That's that's we're bouncing around all over the this is 225 00:11:10,639 --> 00:11:11,840 our scattershot show. 226 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,559 Speaker 4: All right, So he plays the barber, kind of the 227 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,720 older barber. Number one. Every piece of advice that this 228 00:11:18,759 --> 00:11:23,679 guy gives is spot on good advice. So he tells 229 00:11:23,759 --> 00:11:26,879 him number one. He's like, I'm interested in meeting women. Right, 230 00:11:26,919 --> 00:11:27,720 Where can I meet women? 231 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,279 Speaker 1: We've been We've been to every bar in the Yeah. 232 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 4: He said, oh, man, you don't want to go there. 233 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,840 You want to go where's a good place? Community events? Church? 234 00:11:36,279 --> 00:11:38,360 And then he says, hey, there's something going on called 235 00:11:38,399 --> 00:11:40,679 the Black Awareness thing down here at the community center 236 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:41,200 at the church. 237 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: Right. 238 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 4: Well, it turns out that's where Hakim meets Lisa. Then 239 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,279 later Hikeem comes back and he wants to get his 240 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:51,600 soul glow on, right, and the guy said, man, no, 241 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:53,360 you don't want to do that. He does, that's ridiculous. 242 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:54,879 You don't want to do that. Just you know, leave 243 00:11:54,919 --> 00:11:56,720 your normal hair that nobody likes. 244 00:11:56,799 --> 00:11:57,279 Speaker 1: That's just. 245 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,679 Speaker 4: Later he comes back and asks him. He says, well, 246 00:12:03,879 --> 00:12:06,360 how do I get in with a woman? And the 247 00:12:06,399 --> 00:12:08,600 barber says, if you want to get in with the lady, 248 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:10,080 how do you do it? You get in good with 249 00:12:10,159 --> 00:12:12,879 her father? And that's why he ends up going to McDowell. 250 00:12:12,919 --> 00:12:15,919 So every piece of advice it gets from him is solid. 251 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:16,399 Speaker 2: Right. 252 00:12:16,799 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 4: He also this barber. Actually, when he's arguing with the 253 00:12:20,759 --> 00:12:24,080 different barbers and the different people in his his barbershop, 254 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,559 they're talking about the greatest boxers of all time, right, 255 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,879 and Saul, the old Jewish man played by Eddy Murphy, 256 00:12:28,919 --> 00:12:32,840 says what about Rocky Marciano? And he says, there you go, 257 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,039 there you go. Every time I bring out boxers, there 258 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:37,080 there one white guy in the room brings up Rocky 259 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:38,320 mars noun he. 260 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 5: Beat Joe Louis's ass, that fright he did? 261 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 4: Whoop? 262 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:42,799 Speaker 1: You'll know what ass? 263 00:12:43,639 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 2: Joe Lord was. 264 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 1: Theventy five you know when it fought Frank s came in. 265 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,759 It's a Frank how Zoe Luis? 266 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:55,039 Speaker 4: Well, you had never met Frank Sinatcha. But Rocky Marciano 267 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,879 was twenty eight when he fought Joe Louis, and Joe 268 00:12:57,879 --> 00:12:58,840 Louis was thirty seven. 269 00:12:58,879 --> 00:12:59,039 Speaker 5: You know. 270 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:01,799 Speaker 6: Frank told me, he said, hey, ye. 271 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,039 Speaker 3: Know, those guys are hilarious. Okay, so let me just 272 00:13:05,399 --> 00:13:09,799 I'll sidetrack on that. Coming to America, the beginning in 273 00:13:09,919 --> 00:13:14,759 Africa in Zimunda is hilarious from the get go. 274 00:13:15,039 --> 00:13:17,639 Speaker 1: I mean, you've got white brows. 275 00:13:18,759 --> 00:13:21,759 Speaker 3: I mean, from that moment on, it's funny, funny, funny, 276 00:13:21,799 --> 00:13:24,480 it's NonStop funny thing. As soon as they get into York, 277 00:13:24,519 --> 00:13:27,600 you've got this ridiculousness that happens with Jake the Body. 278 00:13:27,639 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 1: You remember that, Yeah, Jake's biddy. Yeah you dumb? Yeap 279 00:13:32,399 --> 00:13:33,000 what the dumb? 280 00:13:35,879 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 4: Yeah? Body by Jake was big for about five minutes. 281 00:13:38,159 --> 00:13:40,639 Speaker 3: It's hard to talk about these movies with keeping it clean. 282 00:13:40,759 --> 00:13:43,879 We can't cuss all the best lines. And so then 283 00:13:43,919 --> 00:13:46,200 of course they go into the barbershop after they've found 284 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:51,919 their place to stay, and. 285 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 4: You you who, let's talk about who's in the barber chair? 286 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,799 Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, So in coming to America, you've got 287 00:13:58,799 --> 00:14:02,840 a guy, a Oscar winning actor who has no lines 288 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:03,960 and no action. 289 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,879 Speaker 1: He's just sitting there smiling. His name is he was 290 00:14:07,919 --> 00:14:09,000 getting jor Yeah. 291 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 3: Apparently there was a scene that they filmed where, you know, 292 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,039 he's just a kid in the movie and he's he says, 293 00:14:16,279 --> 00:14:18,279 he tells the barber, hey, I'm sorry, I don't have 294 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,279 any money to pay for my haircut, and then the 295 00:14:20,279 --> 00:14:23,000 barber like cuts him. That's a big chunk out of 296 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:24,879 his hair. And if you look, you can tell it's 297 00:14:24,919 --> 00:14:25,879 fake hair that he's got on. 298 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, I would have liked to see that scene 299 00:14:28,279 --> 00:14:29,840 in that movie too. That would have been That would 300 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,240 have been funny. 301 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,519 Speaker 4: Did we talk about the bag Handlers from Trading Places? 302 00:14:35,799 --> 00:14:36,039 Speaker 1: Yeah? 303 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:40,759 Speaker 3: The Baghandlers were the comedy writing team from SNL Franken 304 00:14:40,799 --> 00:14:41,399 and Davis. 305 00:14:41,639 --> 00:14:45,639 Speaker 1: It was Al Franken and Tom Davis and. 306 00:14:45,679 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 3: They they did a lot of comedy bits, but they 307 00:14:47,519 --> 00:14:50,240 weren't the original guys who were supposed to play this part. 308 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:55,240 The original guys were Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis as 309 00:14:55,600 --> 00:15:00,440 the McKenzie brothers, right, Doug and Bob mackenzie tick off? 310 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,919 Speaker 4: Hey, yeah, poser, how many times are we gonna say that? 311 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:03,399 Speaker 2: I get? 312 00:15:03,559 --> 00:15:08,759 Speaker 3: I hope every single both from sc TV Fame. Dave 313 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,919 Thomas was also one of the co writers with Dan 314 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,759 Aykroyd for Spies Like Us. 315 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,399 Speaker 1: Right, John Lands movie, That's cool. I didn't know that. 316 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if we mentioned this or not, 317 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,960 but Steven Stucker is the gorilla Handler. He's also Johnny 318 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:22,080 from Airplane. 319 00:15:21,639 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 3: The funniest guy in Airplane, I mean the whole movie, right, 320 00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:26,960 you know, we love it, right, But gosh, that guy's 321 00:15:27,039 --> 00:15:34,600 lines Rapunzel speak, pretty, playing wheels, picked stripe, roach or paradactyl. 322 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 4: We were about ready to talk about I have. 323 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 3: No idea where we are. This is the scattershot let 324 00:15:43,759 --> 00:15:47,399 go in. Yeah, you you start with Trading Places since 325 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,840 it was first. Okay, so here are my first moments. 326 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,279 Speaker 4: When Eddie Murphy is in the bathtub and Coleman turns 327 00:15:54,279 --> 00:15:55,559 on the jacuzzie. 328 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:59,399 Speaker 1: For him, say, man, when I was growing up, we 329 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,000 want to go. We had to fought in the tongue. Okay. 330 00:16:02,039 --> 00:16:04,440 Speaker 3: So I'll shoot back with the other pub line from 331 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:05,240 Coming to America. 332 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,039 Speaker 5: Father. It is not just that. 333 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:12,039 Speaker 6: It's everything, the cooking, the pampering, the dressing, the bathing. 334 00:16:12,919 --> 00:16:16,559 Speaker 1: Actually I'd rather enjoy the bathing. But that's funny. 335 00:16:17,279 --> 00:16:19,759 Speaker 4: My fifth favorite line and Coming to America. 336 00:16:19,879 --> 00:16:22,399 Speaker 1: Oh it is my twenty first birthday. 337 00:16:22,559 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 5: Do you think perhaps, just once I might use the 338 00:16:24,759 --> 00:16:25,879 bathroom by myself? 339 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:27,879 Speaker 1: Most of music? 340 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:33,639 Speaker 2: Sir? Why b so? 341 00:16:33,799 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 4: My fourth favorite line from Trading Places? Yes, when the 342 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,559 Duke brothers give the guy his Christmas bonus, uh huh, 343 00:16:42,039 --> 00:16:42,360 and he. 344 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,039 Speaker 1: Says, here you go. 345 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:45,919 Speaker 4: I bet you thought we forgot about you. Here's your 346 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,480 Christmas bonus. He hands me a five dollar bill, five dollars, 347 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:55,360 maybe I'll go to the movies by myself, and then 348 00:16:55,399 --> 00:16:57,440 Bornver goes Hey, half of that. 349 00:16:57,399 --> 00:16:59,279 Speaker 1: Was from me, Thank you, sir. 350 00:16:59,440 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 4: Yeah. 351 00:17:00,559 --> 00:17:02,879 Speaker 3: I love how they established at the beginning of those 352 00:17:02,919 --> 00:17:05,920 guys are jerks right off the bat. Yes, you know, 353 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,880 they're leaving their mansion and everybody is like, hello, mister Duke, 354 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,160 thank you, mister Duke, Hello, mister Duke, and they're just 355 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:18,000 not anybody just it's all beneath them, right, And you 356 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:20,000 kind of get the same thing with dan Akroyd. He's 357 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:23,039 just but he responds to people, but he's very much 358 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:25,839 not looking at them. By the way, the first when 359 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:28,039 he walks into Duke and Duke for the first time 360 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,039 and hands his coat and his tie and gloves to 361 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:36,960 the gentleman, he's says hello, mister Winthorpe, Hello folsy, and 362 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:37,960 then hands them and stuff. 363 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: That's actually the producer of the movie. Here's a real name, 364 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:42,319 is holding. 365 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome. 366 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 3: So Trading Place's first funny part for me is whatever 367 00:17:51,079 --> 00:17:54,000 Eddie Murphy is having the party at his house and 368 00:17:54,039 --> 00:17:57,799 you have the of course absurd people taking women taking 369 00:17:57,799 --> 00:18:03,640 off their clothes and dancing around naked and Dunham Elliott 370 00:18:05,839 --> 00:18:07,640 he's looking around and he's like, no, he's looking at me. 371 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,319 Now I'm drinking. He's drinking the drinks. He's having a 372 00:18:10,319 --> 00:18:11,960 good time. He's kind of checking out. 373 00:18:14,039 --> 00:18:16,759 Speaker 4: It's hilarious that party scene at the very end, when 374 00:18:16,839 --> 00:18:18,839 Eddie Murphy gets sick of everybody free load and he 375 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:20,200 comes up to the two guys that are going to 376 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,160 beat him up in the cell, he's like, he's like, 377 00:18:22,279 --> 00:18:24,279 let's go, you know, and the guy's like, man, you 378 00:18:24,319 --> 00:18:27,279 are the most righteous and Eddie Murphy's like, yeah, right, 379 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:28,759 just get the out of here. 380 00:18:30,559 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 3: So whenever, whenever Eddie Murphy is in the car for 381 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,279 the first time, that whole scene is hilarious. 382 00:18:37,599 --> 00:18:40,319 Speaker 1: We're going to start you with eighty thousand dollars a. 383 00:18:40,319 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 2: Year, excupid. 384 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:51,599 Speaker 1: It's a practical joke, right, bright These guys are a 385 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:56,039 couple of It's not appropriate, but it's funny, Right, what's 386 00:18:56,079 --> 00:18:56,960 my next move? Man? 387 00:18:57,039 --> 00:19:01,559 Speaker 3: The chauffeur doesn't say anything, thank you've been, but he's 388 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:05,880 he's talking to When he's getting introduced to Randall and Mortimer, 389 00:19:06,039 --> 00:19:11,079 he's like, Morte all right. Randy Ay Jackson from the 390 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:11,839 Jackson vibe. 391 00:19:14,279 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 1: That's okay. So the other laugh out loud moment. 392 00:19:19,759 --> 00:19:22,039 Speaker 3: I can't tell you who the actor is, but whenever 393 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,799 after dan Aykroyd has been arrested, after Winthorpe has been arrested, 394 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,599 and he's getting bailed out and his girlfriend is waiting 395 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,160 for him, and the guy like move. 396 00:19:32,279 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: The ladies follow asleep and she's trying to put you off, 397 00:19:34,759 --> 00:19:37,599 and that comes his dad next to hers. Is that 398 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:44,880 your prayer? That's a nice I don't know who the 399 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,319 actor is. I try to figure out how that it was. 400 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:47,240 I can't. I can't tell you. 401 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:53,279 Speaker 4: Just the smelly guy on the bench, and Clarence speaks, funny, funny, funny. 402 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:55,440 Speaker 1: Paul Gleeson as the jerk. 403 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 4: He plays the jerk beautifully, I mean in the best. 404 00:19:59,039 --> 00:20:03,039 Speaker 3: Movies, Like he's the jerk guy in Breakfast Club, he's 405 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,440 the jerk guy in Dieard, he's the jerk guy in 406 00:20:06,519 --> 00:20:07,000 this movie. 407 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:11,599 Speaker 1: I mean, he's awesome, awesome. Here's an interesting another you know, 408 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,119 let's go let's scattershot baby. 409 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 3: All right, So Clarence beaks that part was originally supposed 410 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:22,519 to go to see Gordon Liddy, which historically. 411 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: Is an interesting kind of guy he was. 412 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 3: I don't want to take away from everything he's done, 413 00:20:26,039 --> 00:20:29,240 but the interesting things about him are he was a 414 00:20:29,319 --> 00:20:32,960 part of the Richard Nixon campaign, managed that campaign, and 415 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,119 then ultimately got caught up in the Watergate scandal and 416 00:20:36,559 --> 00:20:40,359 got sentenced to twenty years for that. And I found 417 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,559 out later on he served like one hundred and two 418 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,079 days in solitary confinement. 419 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,359 Speaker 1: I can't even wow, I can't. I don't know how 420 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,039 that works. But he was an. 421 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 3: Amazing guy, whatever the politics are, an incredible human being 422 00:20:52,759 --> 00:20:56,240 accomplishing things obviously. But then Jimmy Carter lets him out 423 00:20:56,279 --> 00:20:59,359 after five years in the interest of justice, and you know, 424 00:20:59,599 --> 00:21:03,799 land Is, it's obvious, number one, It's obvious that Landis 425 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:08,039 is about a scattershot as this episode is, right, he 426 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,319 just goes all over the place. I mean, I've had 427 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,759 clients who talk like that who've been deemed incompetence. Okay, 428 00:21:18,039 --> 00:21:21,519 But anyway, he's obviously a very liberal guy. See Gordon 429 00:21:21,559 --> 00:21:25,240 Lyddy is this very conservative guy, and so Landis wants 430 00:21:25,319 --> 00:21:28,599 him to play the part of Clarence Beaks, the ultimate. 431 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,319 Speaker 1: Jerk guy in the movie, right, right, right, So he 432 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:33,599 ends up not being able to do it, but they 433 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:34,720 still managed to get him in. 434 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,400 Speaker 3: As Paul Gleeson is sitting in the train car before 435 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,200 the other people getting on come in. He's reading a 436 00:21:41,279 --> 00:21:44,880 book and the book is Will the Autobiography of se 437 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:45,599 Gordon Liddy. 438 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: That's interesting. 439 00:21:46,279 --> 00:21:49,599 Speaker 4: You know when you mentioned Paul Gleeson, they wanted him 440 00:21:49,599 --> 00:21:52,400 to reprise the part of Clarence Beaks in Coming to America, 441 00:21:53,319 --> 00:21:55,279 but he was busy shooting this little film. 442 00:21:55,319 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 3: You know. 443 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 4: I don't know if you've ever heard of this called Dieharden. 444 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:06,799 Speaker 1: Oh you to remember something about that agent Dwayne Johnson. 445 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,440 Now what is it? Dwayne Dwayne T. 446 00:22:11,839 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 4: Robinson. 447 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:13,880 Speaker 1: I can't remember his name in that. I think that 448 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,759 may be right, if only we had tell us. 449 00:22:19,839 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 3: I'm just thinking of the line, oh, you're in charge 450 00:22:22,759 --> 00:22:24,759 from up here to look like you're in charge of check. 451 00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 1: I'm not the guy who just got. 452 00:22:29,039 --> 00:22:29,279 Speaker 4: TV. 453 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,960 Speaker 1: Dwayne T. Robinson for the wind? Hey where to go? Yes, 454 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,480 you're gonna have to get some new FB I got. 455 00:22:44,599 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 4: All right. My second favorite line in Trading Place is 456 00:22:47,559 --> 00:22:50,640 Danna Ackroyd has tried to commit suicide and anyway, they 457 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,759 rescue him, bringing back to his house, and he is 458 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,400 in his original house and of course Coleman's there helping 459 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,799 nursing back to health. When he comes to, he's like, oh, Coleman, 460 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,000 it's just this terrible dream. It was all because of 461 00:23:03,079 --> 00:23:08,160 this terrible, awful negro and Eddie Murphy is standing there 462 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,960 and he's like, hey, wait at what enemy sees me. 463 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,119 He jumps out of bed and starts choking him, and 464 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,240 he's holding down his chair and baking his head on 465 00:23:15,279 --> 00:23:15,559 the floor. 466 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:22,839 Speaker 3: Blast does get dope. Okay, I like the I like 467 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,519 it when they're looking at Clarence peaks inside of the 468 00:23:25,599 --> 00:23:26,119 ape suit. 469 00:23:26,519 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, let him it's Christmas. Let him have 470 00:23:28,519 --> 00:23:28,960 their fun. 471 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,519 Speaker 4: The best line in Trading Places is at the very last. 472 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:41,599 Speaker 5: Scene, looking good, Billy Ray, really good? It all right? 473 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 3: So coming to America. Best lines, This one is a 474 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,440 good one. James Earld Jones delivers the line after the 475 00:23:51,559 --> 00:23:55,799 Queen's speech. Delivers the line of there's a very fine line. 476 00:23:55,599 --> 00:23:56,920 Speaker 1: Between love and nausea. 477 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,759 Speaker 3: And it's not necessarily funny because of his delivery, but 478 00:23:59,799 --> 00:24:00,799 because of her reaction. 479 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,640 Speaker 1: She's got a bunch of great reactions throughout this movie. 480 00:24:03,759 --> 00:24:04,759 He's funny. James O. 481 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 4: Jones has some hilarious lines in there. I'm gonna jump 482 00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:09,920 up to my number two. But Eddie Murphy says, I'm 483 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,799 a man who has never tied his own shoes. 484 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: He's like, wrong, you're a prince who. 485 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,759 Speaker 4: Has never tied your own shoes. And he says, I 486 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,200 tied my own shoes once. It is an overrated experience. 487 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:21,160 Speaker 1: So funny. 488 00:24:21,319 --> 00:24:24,079 Speaker 4: Yeah. My fourth favorite line from Coming to America is 489 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,359 the bonus scene at the very end of the movie 490 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,240 where the Jewish guy Saw is telling his joke. 491 00:24:29,319 --> 00:24:31,039 Speaker 1: Right, Oh, my gosh, can I tell the joke? 492 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 4: Go? 493 00:24:31,519 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Man walks into as he listen, he listen. No, 494 00:24:38,319 --> 00:24:40,680 we'll just play that joke because I can't do juice right. 495 00:24:40,759 --> 00:24:45,400 Speaker 5: And stop right there, listen, stop right there. 496 00:24:45,559 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 4: Man. 497 00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 5: Man goes into a restaurant. You're listening. And man goes 498 00:24:50,759 --> 00:24:51,640 into a restaurant. 499 00:24:51,839 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 4: He's down. 500 00:24:52,519 --> 00:24:54,640 Speaker 5: He's having a bowl of soup. He says to the 501 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,839 Vada Vada, come taste of soup. Says, there's something wrong 502 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,640 with the soup. Just tys of soup. There's something wrong 503 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,400 with the soap. So well, your tasted soap is wrong 504 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,920 with the soap too. Call well, you're just tasted soap. 505 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,880 All right, I'll taste the soup. Where's the spoon? Aha? 506 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:11,319 Speaker 1: Aha? 507 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 4: I still caute that. 508 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,319 Speaker 5: Why are you know? From funny up bash. 509 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,640 Speaker 3: Next favorite part is whenever he comes out and he 510 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:29,359 starts singing, sheeez yr. 511 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,880 Speaker 6: Queer to me. 512 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,559 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, number one, it's just hilarious. That is happening. 513 00:25:37,599 --> 00:25:39,519 But then you get some of those lines in there 514 00:25:40,319 --> 00:25:44,519 free from infection? I need more? 515 00:25:44,599 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 4: What are you talking about when he's singing. 516 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,759 Speaker 1: So yeah, when the guy when he's singing sheees your queen, 517 00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:54,599 she's perfection, she's free from infection. 518 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 4: That that was improved by that guy. 519 00:26:02,799 --> 00:26:05,960 Speaker 1: Really? Yes, oh he killed it. Oh my gosh, it's hilarious. 520 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 4: My wife's birthday the other day, and when we lit 521 00:26:08,519 --> 00:26:09,920 the candles, I was singing cheese. 522 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,599 Speaker 3: There's some great I mean there, it's funny, funny throughout, 523 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,920 and there's some real laugh out loud moments. Okay, So 524 00:26:16,039 --> 00:26:18,720 when the landlord is taking them up to the apartment 525 00:26:19,839 --> 00:26:21,960 telling him about you know, it's only got one window 526 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,839 that faces a brick wall and rented it out to 527 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,720 a blind man. They open it up and the tapes 528 00:26:25,759 --> 00:26:28,359 on the floor and he goes, damn shame. 529 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,319 Speaker 4: When they walk by the bathroom, he's like, here's the 530 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,920 bathroom you gotta share. Not an insect problem, but you 531 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:38,359 boss Mafka, you're used to that. 532 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,880 Speaker 1: Then it comes out of the window, good morning my neighbors. 533 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:50,759 Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, you don't. Oh. And then and the other 534 00:26:50,839 --> 00:26:52,920 scene in the barbershop when he's talking about me, Martin 535 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:53,319 Luther King. 536 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 6: I walking out through out of my own benagit walt 537 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,519 no feeling good. I walk around the corner. Man will 538 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,440 up hit me in my chest right, I'm falling on 539 00:26:59,519 --> 00:27:04,119 the ground. And doctor Martin said, doctor King, somebody else. 540 00:27:04,559 --> 00:27:06,839 Speaker 4: Man, you ain't never met King. 541 00:27:09,799 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 3: And then you've got the whole scene where they're in 542 00:27:12,039 --> 00:27:14,200 the bar and all of the women that come in 543 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,240 and the first one that they meet and she's so smiley, 544 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,200 and then I have a secret. 545 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 4: I worshiped the devil. Oh, my name is Jesus, and 546 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:27,519 I'm the best. 547 00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:30,039 Speaker 6: All the DJs want to feel my brus. 548 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,319 Speaker 4: The worst one of all is that one lady who's like, 549 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,119 I need a man satisfying me shot. Some guys do 550 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,039 an our hour and a half shot. 551 00:27:42,519 --> 00:27:43,039 Speaker 1: I need more. 552 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 4: That's it. 553 00:27:44,039 --> 00:27:47,079 Speaker 3: And then Arsenio Hall playing the preacher with the girls 554 00:27:47,519 --> 00:27:50,279 is it's bordering on that is it too inappropriate? 555 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 1: Funny? But man, is it funny. 556 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 4: His dad was actually a preacher, so that's why he 557 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:56,279 did that character so well. 558 00:27:56,559 --> 00:27:57,920 Speaker 1: He nailed it. Man, it's perfect. 559 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,640 Speaker 3: Chocolate you remember him as Joe the policeman from What's 560 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,720 Going Down episode of That's My Mama. 561 00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 1: Mister Randall Wawson. 562 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,079 Speaker 3: And then that whole bit it's so awkward, It's so 563 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,599 wonderfully awkward and hilarious at the same time. And then 564 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:25,240 sexy Chocolate, stomp, stomp, Sexy Chocolate drops the mic does 565 00:28:25,319 --> 00:28:26,799 the point, walks. 566 00:28:26,599 --> 00:28:28,519 Speaker 1: Off stage and he comes up. 567 00:28:28,559 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 4: He has he has to pick up the microphone from 568 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:30,519 the ground. 569 00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 1: Let's give it again another random of blause. Mister Randy 570 00:28:34,759 --> 00:28:36,240 was good and terrible. 571 00:28:36,519 --> 00:28:39,839 Speaker 4: Actually, when when Randy Watson performs the Greatest Love of 572 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,039 All you have to be like an eighties music fan 573 00:28:42,119 --> 00:28:44,759 to really get this. But he mixes up the lyrics. 574 00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: Yes, he screws up the lines. Oh yeah, I think 575 00:28:47,839 --> 00:28:51,119 that's only you getting that kind of joke. Yeah, I 576 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:52,200 missed that one completely. 577 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 4: My favorite scene in the entire movie, though, is the 578 00:28:54,279 --> 00:28:57,559 Duke's brother scene, and it's it's so satisfying to see 579 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,240 that come full circle. There are bums on the street 580 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,359 after what happened in Trading Places. I think it's interesting 581 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,279 that these movies sort of live in the same universe. 582 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 2: We're back. 583 00:29:10,519 --> 00:29:13,799 Speaker 1: So when Prince a Kiem starts, I have recently been 584 00:29:13,839 --> 00:29:16,880 placed in charge of garbage. This is flirtation. When you 585 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,359 think of Garva, think of Akim. So this is interesting. 586 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 3: So Coming to America is the first time that Eddie 587 00:29:21,759 --> 00:29:24,920 Murphy is playing a romantic lead part. You know, this 588 00:29:25,079 --> 00:29:27,160 is all of the movies that he's done. This is 589 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,039 the first time that he's got a love interest in 590 00:29:29,079 --> 00:29:31,839 the movie. And I think he nails it. I mean, 591 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:36,000 he's he's charming, he's lovable. You know, he's goofy at 592 00:29:36,039 --> 00:29:38,599 the beginning, which creates a sympathy for him. 593 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,839 Speaker 1: He does pull it off. I'm totally agreeing with you. 594 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 4: Are we moving into now the comments and criticisms on 595 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:44,680 how we feel about the movies? 596 00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:46,680 Speaker 1: Sure? U, let's you get more funny lines. 597 00:29:46,519 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 4: From Coming I mean I can do this all day. 598 00:29:48,279 --> 00:29:50,160 But yeah, so Coming to America does a great job. 599 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,920 It is actually, in my opinion, is very very funny 600 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,000 the first half and then it kind of moves into 601 00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:58,079 this romance and I'm not critical of it because he 602 00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:58,759 pulls it off. 603 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,359 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely balls off the scene on the swing. 604 00:30:02,039 --> 00:30:04,119 Speaker 3: And by the way, we're about to leave funny lines 605 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,599 and moving into something else, but you just made remember 606 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,240 the part that is also hilarious, which is. 607 00:30:10,039 --> 00:30:11,599 Speaker 1: King or not I'll break my foot off? 608 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,880 Speaker 3: And apparently John Amos had lived that line, you know, 609 00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:20,279 was it was not quite so you know rough you 610 00:30:20,359 --> 00:30:21,440 thought it needed more punch. 611 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,519 Speaker 4: Cleo McDowell is awesome. He's one of my favorite characters 612 00:30:24,559 --> 00:30:24,960 in that movie. 613 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,599 Speaker 1: Just real quick, let's catch on Darryl too, because Darryl 614 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:28,599 is such a good jerk. 615 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,039 Speaker 3: You know, we talked about knowing that the Dukes are 616 00:30:31,079 --> 00:30:33,720 bad guys from the beginning with because they refuse to 617 00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:36,839 to talk to anybody that's beneath them. The exact same 618 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,400 thing is happening with Daryl, who walks in and you know, 619 00:30:40,519 --> 00:30:44,880 Cleo's kissing his butt and grasps the shake that's supposed 620 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,400 to go on to a little kid strawberry, right, and 621 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,680 then he's I mean, he just jerk. You know, wearing 622 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,559 clothes must be a new experience. Bet you guys played 623 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,000 games like Chase the Monkey. 624 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 4: So coming to America I think is A is a 625 00:30:59,079 --> 00:31:00,880 great comedy. I don't have anything bad to say about 626 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,599 this man. I enjoy this movie. I told you before 627 00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,920 that the character of Prince A Kim is my favorite 628 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,920 Eddie Murphy character, maybe between that and Shrek or that 629 00:31:10,079 --> 00:31:14,359 in Donkey. He's a gentleman, he's noble. He he gets 630 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,960 mad at Samuel L. Jackson for using obscenities, which is 631 00:31:17,039 --> 00:31:20,000 kind of funny, but it turns into a romantic comedy 632 00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:23,000 that that I think works. I think it's got heart. 633 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,920 I think it you want to see them end up together. 634 00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:28,039 I think as a movie it works. 635 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,400 Speaker 3: The bit at the end where he's chasing her down 636 00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:33,000 and the people on the subway are watching them go 637 00:31:33,119 --> 00:31:36,039 back and forth is a classic John Lander's bit, and 638 00:31:36,119 --> 00:31:37,960 he had done it just a bit before with the Dog. 639 00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:40,319 He's O the dog watching back and forth between the 640 00:31:40,359 --> 00:31:45,359 events unfolding between Cleo and the King and Queen, and 641 00:31:46,359 --> 00:31:48,720 it's just it's a neat it's a neat bit that 642 00:31:48,799 --> 00:31:50,960 he does. But I love that kind of romantic where 643 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,759 they're like, what's gonna happen? They're they're, they're, they're the audience. 644 00:31:53,839 --> 00:31:58,039 It's a great, great little bit. What I just there's 645 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:03,319 so many funny lines, like I when Simmy has had 646 00:32:03,359 --> 00:32:05,319 his money come and taken down and he goes to 647 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:06,279 send the telegram. 648 00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:09,839 Speaker 1: That lady who's at the telegram office is hilarious. I 649 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:13,000 need to look her up, okay, because she's she's hysterical. 650 00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:18,799 And then she's like, you sure three hundred thousand, and 651 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,720 he's like, you think I should ask for more? Why not? 652 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 6: As long as you're asking, why don't we go for 653 00:32:23,839 --> 00:32:24,599 a cool million? 654 00:32:25,519 --> 00:32:26,839 Speaker 1: You do not think that would be too much? 655 00:32:28,519 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 4: Nah? 656 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hilarious. 657 00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:33,279 Speaker 4: Let's go opinion now, Okay, are we ready to do opinion? 658 00:32:33,359 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: Yeah? Sure, go okay. 659 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 4: In my opinion, I enjoy I enjoy Trading Places more. 660 00:32:38,279 --> 00:32:38,519 Speaker 1: Okay. 661 00:32:38,759 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 4: I think it's a little more absurd, it's a little 662 00:32:41,519 --> 00:32:46,359 more lighthearted. It's funny from beginning to end. I think 663 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,720 Coming to America is brilliantly funny at the beginning and 664 00:32:50,119 --> 00:32:53,359 then sort of fades into this romance. But it works, 665 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,000 and so I enjoy the movie a lot. 666 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 1: So if I put him on the. 667 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 4: Scales, I'm tipping a little more towards Trading Places. 668 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 3: I see you now, it's kind of interesting because I 669 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,559 have like the reverse perception of your thing. I don't 670 00:33:04,599 --> 00:33:07,079 think that Trading Places is funny from beginning to end. 671 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,200 I like, you love both movies, love watching them both, 672 00:33:10,519 --> 00:33:12,920 but you've got a lot of build up that happens 673 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,079 on Trading Places. Like I didn't realize how long the 674 00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:18,799 build up was. I think, you know, my memory was 675 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,400 just of Jamie Lee Curtis's naked movies, and so. 676 00:33:21,519 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: I had forgotten. I mean, it's an hour into the movie. 677 00:33:23,599 --> 00:33:26,039 Speaker 3: Before that happens, and so you've got this kind of 678 00:33:26,119 --> 00:33:29,079 long build up that's not funny. It's just a setup. 679 00:33:30,039 --> 00:33:34,640 And so the difference I think is with Coming to America. Yes, 680 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,759 it is funny from beginning to end. I mean even 681 00:33:38,119 --> 00:33:38,839 I mean even. 682 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: At the point that the that the King and Queen 683 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,160 are showing up, it's still funny. A little late for 684 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:48,359 the Christmas Path. This is beautiful? Is that velvet? I 685 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:49,480 mean it just never it. 686 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,359 Speaker 3: Never stops being funny throughout the movie. Now, Trading Places, 687 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,160 I just it's not quite as funny. It's a good story, 688 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,279 and I like the way it plays out, but I 689 00:33:57,359 --> 00:34:00,160 think it's just kind of a little absurd. It is 690 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,160 supposed to be more realistic, but it's a little absurd 691 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:06,720 Number one. First absurd thing is Clarence peaks in as 692 00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:10,440 the security expert, saying, you know, put your hand on 693 00:34:10,559 --> 00:34:12,679 the guy's right shoulder, put your other hand in his 694 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,840 left pocket. I mean, how dumb. I mean, would anybody 695 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,920 actually believe that? That's kind of ridiculous? 696 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:19,719 Speaker 4: This giant red X is on the dollars. 697 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then after that, like Eddie Murphy is instantly 698 00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:30,079 possessive and angry about his possessions, and then he's instantly 699 00:34:30,199 --> 00:34:32,760 on the cover of the Wall Street Journal. I mean, 700 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,039 it's just I mean, that's just this is happening in 701 00:34:35,119 --> 00:34:36,800 the course of a couple of days. I mean, it's 702 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,920 just a little bit too crazy. 703 00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:40,079 Speaker 4: It's absurd. 704 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,840 Speaker 3: John Landis needed a little more like of a montage 705 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,960 scene where we're sitting, Oh, okay, these are the things 706 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,800 that are happening as time passes. But instead it's just 707 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,159 like boom it happens, Boom it happens, and you're just like, 708 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,400 I can't believe this has happened to that fast. 709 00:34:52,559 --> 00:34:54,559 Speaker 1: That's where I am on the tipping of the scales. 710 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:55,519 I gotta go with. 711 00:34:55,599 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 3: Coming to America, because funny from beginning in it, I 712 00:34:58,119 --> 00:35:00,480 still Love Trading Places is going to be a close 713 00:35:00,559 --> 00:35:05,320 call anytime. But because coming to America, it's NonStop comedy 714 00:35:05,599 --> 00:35:07,800 from beginning to end and still manages to give you 715 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,719 a compelling romantic story, It's got to be the winner 716 00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:11,199 in my book. 717 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,920 Speaker 4: Okay, that sounds good. I love both movies. Like you said, 718 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,119 I don't know how much more we could say. I 719 00:35:16,639 --> 00:35:18,880 laugh out loud when I watch both of these movies. 720 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 1: If you haven't seen one of these movies, yeah, you 721 00:35:21,559 --> 00:35:23,760 need to correct that. Well, yeah, you probably should have 722 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:24,679 not listened to this. 723 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,760 Speaker 4: Ye, this episode makes absolutely no sense to you. 724 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:35,320 Speaker 3: Oh spoiler alert, the last hour has been a spoiler 725 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:35,880 for both movies. 726 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, sorry about that. 727 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,280 Speaker 3: So thank you everybody for hearing us all out on 728 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,280 this crazy, all over the place kind of episode. 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