1 00:00:04,919 --> 00:00:07,559 Speaker 1: All right, everybody, welcome back to part two of the 2 00:00:07,679 --> 00:00:12,000 Surely You Can't Be Serious podcast Coming to America versus 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,199 Trading Places. I am here with my friend Jason Colvin. 4 00:00:15,279 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 2: How's everybody doing. Good to see it, Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:18,399 We're so glad to listen. 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:20,760 Speaker 3: Okay. 7 00:00:20,879 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 2: One of the things I wanted to bring up is 8 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,960 similarly in both of these movies, Eddie Murphy breaks the 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:26,559 fourth wall. 10 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:27,719 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. 11 00:00:27,879 --> 00:00:29,519 Speaker 1: And I don't know how many of his movies that 12 00:00:29,559 --> 00:00:31,000 he does it in, but he does it a lot. 13 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,119 Certainly in the two movies that we're looking at, we 14 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,320 know that he does it. So he does it after 15 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:38,479 he gets arrested for you know, bumping into dan Aykroyd 16 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:40,719 and trying to give him his briefcase back as the 17 00:00:40,719 --> 00:00:42,920 police car's about to pull away. It gives the camera 18 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,000 a look that's the breaking of the fourth wall in 19 00:00:45,039 --> 00:00:47,240 case you didn't know that term. But he gives he 20 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:48,560 looks directly into the camera. 21 00:00:48,679 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 2: My favorite, one of my favorite moments in the whole 22 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,280 movie where the Duke brothers sit Billy Ray Valentine down 23 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,200 at the table and they're explaining what they do right 24 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:57,920 commodities right, They're like. 25 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,399 Speaker 4: Pork Valleys, which is usued to make bacon what you 26 00:01:01,479 --> 00:01:04,400 might find in a bacon and lettuce and tomato sandwich. 27 00:01:05,879 --> 00:01:08,719 Speaker 2: And reviewers in the game, We're like these guys, they 28 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:09,840 come a complete idiot. 29 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, it happens again in Coming to America and our 30 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:15,000 favorite scene. 31 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:20,799 Speaker 3: Whatever you like, And she's park like a dog. He 32 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,799 turned to looks right at him. Really happening. 33 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 5: That is such a great way of bringing the audience 34 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:26,760 sing down the joke. 35 00:01:26,879 --> 00:01:32,799 Speaker 3: You know, it's fantastic A big dog. How would we like. 36 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:36,519 Speaker 2: Stalden blood? 37 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 3: What's it saying? 38 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 5: See you next Wednesday? 39 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 2: Okay? John Lettis has a thing where he mentions this 40 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:47,760 phrase called see you next Wednesday. 41 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:49,239 Speaker 3: Yeah, you hear it? Come up? 42 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:52,319 Speaker 1: You know in our Thriller episode absolutely in the movie 43 00:01:52,359 --> 00:01:56,159 scene that is in the Thriller video, that's the last 44 00:01:56,239 --> 00:01:57,200 little bit of dialogue. 45 00:01:57,239 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 3: You hear it says see you next Wednesday, right before 46 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,519 our girl Ola Ray walks out. Michael Jackson. 47 00:02:03,599 --> 00:02:07,079 Speaker 1: Yeah, but then again, you see it in American Werewolf 48 00:02:07,079 --> 00:02:12,039 in London Advertised is one of the porno movies. You 49 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,879 would have seen it in the Blues Brothers on a 50 00:02:14,879 --> 00:02:18,199 big billboard that has like a big gorilla on it 51 00:02:18,759 --> 00:02:19,599 deal with gorillas. 52 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:20,039 Speaker 3: I don't know what. 53 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: Well Orlandis has another thing with gorillas. But then of 54 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:24,759 course it comes up in trading places. 55 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 2: It's on a poster in Ophelia's wall. 56 00:02:27,599 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: Right, yeah, and it says directed by William Wyler and 57 00:02:31,319 --> 00:02:36,319 starring Laurence Olivier. So then again it comes up coming 58 00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:39,319 to America. It's a big poster on the subway wall, right. 59 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,680 So he chases Lisa down to apologize for not telling 60 00:02:42,759 --> 00:02:43,319 her the truth. 61 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:44,599 Speaker 3: She's frustrated at him. 62 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:47,599 Speaker 1: And as the train car comes to a stop, you 63 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:49,919 see this giant poster on the wall. It's got this 64 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,080 kind of space looking woman on it, kind of a 65 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,879 Barberilla type of throwback. And then the name of the 66 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,599 movie is See You Next Wednesday, starring Jamie Lee Curtis. 67 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:02,639 That's cool, yeah, and Akroyd. 68 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 2: So I saw him talk about this, right, So to 69 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,879 see You Next Wednesday thing, it's not just thrown into 70 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,879 any movie arbitrarily. What he talked about was when he 71 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,000 was a young guy, he wrote a script called see 72 00:03:14,039 --> 00:03:18,479 You Next Wednesday. Anytime he cannibalizes anything from that script, 73 00:03:18,879 --> 00:03:21,039 he gives a nod to it. 74 00:03:23,479 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: And that script as I understand, I got quite a 75 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,199 few writing jobs. He struggled quite a while as a 76 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,000 fledgling director. He actually has an interesting story. He decides 77 00:03:32,039 --> 00:03:34,120 he wants to be a director at eight years old 78 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:37,240 after seeing the Seventh Voyage of Sindbad and it's just 79 00:03:37,319 --> 00:03:38,439 amazed at. 80 00:03:38,319 --> 00:03:39,439 Speaker 3: The graphics on it. 81 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: Loves the movie, goes home and says to his mom, 82 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:43,840 who makes movies, how does that work? You know, he's 83 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:45,639 just a little kid, and she's like, well, that's the director. 84 00:03:45,919 --> 00:03:48,319 From that moment on, he decides he wants to be 85 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,639 a director, and so at sixteen, instead of going to 86 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,719 work at McDonald's like most kids do, he goes to 87 00:03:55,759 --> 00:03:58,319 work in the mail room in twentieth Century Fox and 88 00:03:58,639 --> 00:04:01,000 it's just fascinated by it and meets some people. And 89 00:04:01,039 --> 00:04:03,000 then at some point a couple of years later, he 90 00:04:03,039 --> 00:04:05,159 gets a call from a guy who's making the movie 91 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:08,240 Kelly's Heroes, which starts Clint Eastwood. He says, if you 92 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,560 can get out to Yugoslavia, I might be able to 93 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:12,080 get you a job on this movie. I mean, how 94 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:17,199 promising is that. He's in California, he's seventeen, eighteen years 95 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:18,920 old something like that, And then if you can get 96 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:21,600 out to Yugoslavia. Yeah, I might have a job for. 97 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 3: You, right, So what does he do. 98 00:04:22,959 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: He goes and gets his life savings, which that points 99 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,439 about twelve hundred bucks. The tickets are eight hundred, and 100 00:04:28,519 --> 00:04:31,360 he buys his own ticket. But then he takes to 101 00:04:31,399 --> 00:04:34,839 his mom and says, hey, the studio has offered me 102 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,120 a job and is paying my way out to Yugoslavia, 103 00:04:38,519 --> 00:04:40,439 and shows her the ticket that he bought, and so 104 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,360 she lets him go, and so he goes out there. 105 00:04:43,399 --> 00:04:46,399 He works on Kelly's Heroes, meets all these people, and 106 00:04:46,519 --> 00:04:50,120 he does a wide array of things, stuntman work, writing work, 107 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:54,399 grunt work for about twenty thirty movies out there over 108 00:04:54,439 --> 00:04:56,720 the course of a couple of years before he comes back. 109 00:04:56,879 --> 00:04:59,240 And then he sits down for the to be a 110 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:00,360 part of the Director Skilled. 111 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 3: You have they have a test that you've got to 112 00:05:01,879 --> 00:05:03,480 take and he kills it. 113 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 1: He aces the test, but then they call him in 114 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,560 they're like, I'm sorry, you didn't graduate from high school. 115 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:12,759 Speaker 3: We can't allow you to be a part of the 116 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:13,439 Director Skilled. 117 00:05:13,519 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 2: Wow. 118 00:05:13,879 --> 00:05:16,879 Speaker 1: And this is all before Schlock comes out. So, yeah, 119 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,079 his his road was a hard road to get to 120 00:05:19,079 --> 00:05:19,720 where he was. 121 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:20,439 Speaker 3: That's interesting. 122 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, And one more thing I wanted to mention 123 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:26,920 before we move on that subway station, yes with the 124 00:05:26,959 --> 00:05:29,279 see You Next Wednesday poster, Yes, as a cheam is 125 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:33,759 chasing Li said, you know that subway station and I'm 126 00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:36,639 going to mispronounce it, but it's the Hoyt. 127 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,639 Speaker 3: Sure Horn subway station. Yeah, we're from Oklahoma, not New York. Sorry, 128 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:41,000 that's right. 129 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 2: Sorry, that is where the Michael Jackson Bad video was 130 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:46,439 filmed right there as well. 131 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: Right, so we got a connection with Michael Jackson's bad video, 132 00:05:49,439 --> 00:05:53,079 connection with Michael Jackson's thriller video, and then in another 133 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,720 video that John Landers directed, that Michael Jackson video black 134 00:05:56,879 --> 00:06:00,399 or White, See You Next Wednesday is shown on the 135 00:06:00,439 --> 00:06:03,360 window which Michael Jackson throws the garbage can through. 136 00:06:03,879 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 2: And in case you missed it, episode one and two 137 00:06:07,319 --> 00:06:10,839 of the Shirley Can't Be Series podcast covers Michael. 138 00:06:10,639 --> 00:06:14,519 Speaker 1: Jackson Yeah bad versus Thriller and just as a side 139 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:18,000 note on the coming to America, the other stars in 140 00:06:18,079 --> 00:06:21,319 addition to dan Aykroyd and Jamie La, Curtis mo Howard 141 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:22,639 and James Brown. 142 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 4: Nice Yes, it's one hell of a day in the neighborhood. 143 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: So I don't know, should we talk about Eddie Murphy's 144 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,800 the characters that he did on Saturday Night Live, because 145 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,879 they were fantastic. He of course did fuck Wheat, Yes, 146 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:47,800 who's hilarious. Wolay, he was then of course mister Robinson. 147 00:06:47,399 --> 00:06:52,639 Speaker 3: And then he was Gummy Gummy dammit. So here's something 148 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:53,439 I learned. 149 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: There was an idea for a movie that they had 150 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:02,959 called Purple Wheat, which was for Weeks, which was the 151 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,040 movie Purple Rain, except it was Buckwheat. 152 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:10,120 Speaker 2: The French part, now that I can see is a 153 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:11,120 really funny skit. 154 00:07:11,199 --> 00:07:13,079 Speaker 6: I don't know about the movie, but yeah, I'd watched 155 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,560 the whole movie. 156 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: And so he's doing Saturday Night Live. He's done forty 157 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,680 eight hours. It becomes a big hit, and then Nick, 158 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,240 he's like, Nick, you should come host the show. We 159 00:07:24,279 --> 00:07:26,519 have shows all the time. Nick shows up, and the 160 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,519 story that they give the people is Nick was sick, 161 00:07:29,759 --> 00:07:32,879 like he had the flu. The fact is Nick Nolty 162 00:07:33,079 --> 00:07:36,959 was drunk out of his mind, like he could not perform, 163 00:07:37,439 --> 00:07:39,920 and so what ended up happening is they had Eddie 164 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Murphy be the host of the show. It's the only 165 00:07:43,079 --> 00:07:48,279 time that a cast member has been a host as well. Wow, 166 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,800 he starts off the show with Live from New York, 167 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:56,120 It's the Eddie Murphy Show, and everybody's like, WHOA, what 168 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:57,040 did he just do? 169 00:07:57,079 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 3: Because that was not scripted that he say it like that. 170 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk just a moment before we move on 171 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:10,879 too much. But so Billy Ray Valentine super funny. But 172 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,600 it is a version of Eddie Murphy. That character is 173 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:17,360 basically a smart LG version of Eddie Murphy. 174 00:08:17,439 --> 00:08:17,759 Speaker 3: Yeah. 175 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,319 Speaker 2: I saw Eddie Murphy talking about it when he wanted 176 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,360 to do Coming to America. He wanted to play a 177 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:27,120 character that wasn't himself, right, So Prince Akim is not 178 00:08:27,879 --> 00:08:30,360 really Eddie Murphy. I mean, you know all your parts time, 179 00:08:30,439 --> 00:08:35,039 but Prince Akim is like my favorite Eddie Murphy character. 180 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,039 Speaker 1: He's well, he's genuine, he's real, he's honest, he's a 181 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,639 good he's got good morals. And we talked about Prince 182 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,120 and the Popper and Pygmalion being kind of the underlying 183 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,840 stories for trading places. John landis is Coming to America 184 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,000 is a Cinderella story, which I completely disagree with. It's 185 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,120 not remotely Cinderella at all. We got a prince who's 186 00:08:56,159 --> 00:08:59,240 being poor. It's still the prince in the Popper story, 187 00:08:59,279 --> 00:09:02,159 but it's not least his story. It's not her story. 188 00:09:02,159 --> 00:09:05,080 I mean, it's not called I Met a Prince. It's 189 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:11,320 a different perspective on it. But the story actually was 190 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,360 something that they say was Eddie Murphy's, like Arsenal Hall said, yeah, 191 00:09:15,399 --> 00:09:17,559 Eddie Murphy wrote this on a pad. But actually when 192 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:19,759 the movie came out, there was some litigation that happened 193 00:09:19,759 --> 00:09:22,960 to a guy named Art Buckwald, who was a humorist, 194 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,360 had proposed a script several years earlier, eighty two or 195 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:30,480 eighty three. I think that was connected with John Landis, 196 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:32,840 connected with Eddie Murphy, and was the idea of a 197 00:09:32,919 --> 00:09:35,840 prince from Africa coming to America. 198 00:09:36,159 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, and he sued and he won. 199 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:41,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, he won nine hundred thousand dollars, was the very 200 00:09:42,039 --> 00:09:45,120 nine hundred thousand dollars. He got one hundred and fifty 201 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,360 thousand dollars and the attorney's got seven hundred and fifty No, 202 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:48,960 oh my gosh, it's terrible. 203 00:09:49,039 --> 00:09:50,519 Speaker 3: They actually lawyers. 204 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, don't trust him. They ended up, you know, there 205 00:09:55,639 --> 00:09:57,120 was going to be an appeal, but they ended up 206 00:09:57,159 --> 00:09:59,159 settling before the appeal was finalized. 207 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:00,639 Speaker 3: So I don't know if that was what the final 208 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:02,840 amount was, but that was what the original verdict was. 209 00:10:02,879 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 2: Wow. One of the characters that Aidemericy plays in Coming 210 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,759 to America the barber. There's a couple of things I 211 00:10:14,759 --> 00:10:17,679 want to mention about the barber. I'm bouncing around. 212 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: That's that's We're bouncing around all over the This is 213 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:21,559 our scattershot show. 214 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:25,279 Speaker 2: All right. So he plays the barber, kind of the 215 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,440 older barber. Number one, every piece of advice that this 216 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:33,399 guy gives is spot on good advice. So he tells 217 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:36,600 him Number one. He's like, I'm interested in meeting women. Right, 218 00:10:36,639 --> 00:10:37,480 Where can I meet women? 219 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: We've been We've been to every bar in the Yeah. 220 00:10:40,799 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 5: He said, oh man, you don't want to go there. 221 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:43,279 You want to go Where's a good place? 222 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 2: Community events? Church? And then he says, hey, there's something 223 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,679 going on called the Black Awareness thing down here at 224 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:50,519 the community. 225 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,919 Speaker 3: Center at the church. Right. 226 00:10:52,039 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 2: Well, it turns out that's where Hakem meets Lisa. Then 227 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,000 later Haikeem comes back and he wants to get his 228 00:10:57,399 --> 00:11:01,360 soul glow on, right, and the guy said, man, now 229 00:11:01,399 --> 00:11:03,080 you don't want to do that. He does. That's ridiculous. 230 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 5: You don't want to do that, just you know, leave 231 00:11:04,639 --> 00:11:07,279 your normal hair that nobody likes. That's just so. 232 00:11:11,039 --> 00:11:13,399 Speaker 2: Later he comes back and asks him. He says, well, 233 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,080 how do I get in with a woman? And the 234 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,320 barber says, if you want to get in with the lady, 235 00:11:18,399 --> 00:11:19,799 how do you do it? You get in good with 236 00:11:19,879 --> 00:11:22,600 her father. And that's why he ends up going to McDowell. 237 00:11:22,639 --> 00:11:25,639 So every piece of advice it gets from him is solid. 238 00:11:25,919 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 4: Right. 239 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 2: He also this barber actually, when he's arguing with the 240 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:33,799 different barbers and the different people in his his barbershop, 241 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:36,279 they're talking about the greatest boxes of all time, right 242 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:38,600 and saw the old Jewish man played by Eddy Murphy 243 00:11:38,639 --> 00:11:42,559 says what about Rocky Marciano And he says, there you go, 244 00:11:42,799 --> 00:11:44,759 there you go. Every time I bring out boxes, there 245 00:11:44,879 --> 00:11:46,840 there one white guy in the room brings up Rocky 246 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:48,559 Mars sound he bit. 247 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:49,840 Speaker 3: Joe Lord's ass. 248 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,519 Speaker 2: That fright he did? Whoop? You don't know what ass 249 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:53,759 Joe Lord? 250 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:56,080 Speaker 3: When it fall Frank came in. 251 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 2: Zulus, Well you didn't never facing that. But Rocky Marciano 252 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,559 was twenty eight when he fought Joe Louis and Joe 253 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,200 Louis was thirty seven. You a Frank told me, he said, hey, 254 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:12,759 year old, those guys are hilarious. 255 00:12:13,759 --> 00:12:16,919 Speaker 1: Okay, so let me just I'll sidetrack on that. Coming 256 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:23,080 to America, the beginning in Africa, in Zamunda is hilarious 257 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,320 from the get go. I mean, you've got white brows. 258 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:31,480 I mean, from that moment on, it's funny, funny, funny, 259 00:12:31,519 --> 00:12:33,679 it's non stop funny thing. As soon as they get 260 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,799 into York, you've got this ridiculousness that happens with Jake 261 00:12:36,879 --> 00:12:37,879 the Body remember that. 262 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, Jake's biddy. 263 00:12:39,039 --> 00:12:45,759 Speaker 3: Yeah you dumb yeap? What the dumb fuck mean? Yeah? 264 00:12:45,879 --> 00:12:47,799 Speaker 5: Body by Jake was big for about five minutes. 265 00:12:47,879 --> 00:12:50,320 Speaker 3: It's hard to talk about these movies with keeping it clean. 266 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,159 We can't cuss all the best lines. 267 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 1: And so then of course they go into the barbershop 268 00:12:55,240 --> 00:13:01,120 after they've found their place to stay, and you. 269 00:12:59,279 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 2: You who's names let's talk about who's in the barber chair? 270 00:13:04,799 --> 00:13:05,519 Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah. 271 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: So in coming to America, you've got a guy, a 272 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:11,799 Oscar winning actor who. 273 00:13:11,639 --> 00:13:15,320 Speaker 3: Has no lines and no action. He's just sitting there smiling. 274 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,720 His name is he was getting jor Yeah. 275 00:13:19,039 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 1: Apparently there was a scene that they filmed where you know, 276 00:13:22,919 --> 00:13:25,759 he's just a kid in the movie and he's he says, 277 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,000 he tells the barber, Hey, I'm sorry, I don't have 278 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:30,000 any money to pay for my haircut, and then the 279 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,759 barber like cuts him. That's a big chunk out his 280 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,240 hair and if you look, you can tell it's fake hair. 281 00:13:35,039 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 3: That he's got on. 282 00:13:35,799 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 4: Right. 283 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have liked to see that scene in 284 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:39,639 that movie too, That would have been That would have 285 00:13:39,639 --> 00:13:40,080 been funny. 286 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 2: Did we talk about the bag handlers from Trading Places? 287 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:45,759 Speaker 3: Yeah? 288 00:13:45,799 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: The Baghandlers were the comedy writing team from SNL Franken 289 00:13:50,519 --> 00:13:55,200 and Davis. It was Al Franken and Tom Dames and 290 00:13:55,399 --> 00:13:57,200 they they did a lot of comedy bits, but they 291 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,919 weren't the original guys who were supposed to play this part. 292 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:04,960 The original guys were Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis as 293 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,360 the McKinzie brothers, Right, Doug and Bob mackenzie. 294 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:11,759 Speaker 3: Hey, Hey, yeah, poser. 295 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:12,639 Speaker 2: How many times are we gonna say that? 296 00:14:12,759 --> 00:14:17,559 Speaker 3: I hope every single both from sc TV Fame. 297 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: Dave Thomas was also one of the co writers with 298 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:24,360 dan Aykroyd for Spies Like Us John LANs movie. 299 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 2: That's Cool I didn't know that. Yeah, I don't know 300 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,559 if we mentioned this or not, but Steven Stucker is 301 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:29,600 the Gorilla Handler. 302 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:31,799 Speaker 5: He's also Johnny from Airplane. 303 00:14:31,399 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 3: The funniest guy in air Plan. I mean the whole movie. 304 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: You know, we love it, but gosh, that guy's lines 305 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:44,320 Rapunzel speak pretty, playing at wheels, picked Stripe, Paradactyl. 306 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 5: We were about ready to talk about. 307 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 3: I have no idea where we are. This is the 308 00:14:52,279 --> 00:14:53,039 scattershot let. 309 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, you you start with trading places since it was 310 00:14:57,519 --> 00:14:58,639 first Okay. 311 00:14:58,399 --> 00:15:02,039 Speaker 2: So here are my friends moments when Eddie Murphy is 312 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,240 in the bathtub and Coleman turns on the jacuzzie for him. 313 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 4: Say man, when I was growing up, we wanted to 314 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:11,080 cool and we had to fight in the tongue. 315 00:15:11,399 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 1: Okay, So I'll shoot back with the other pub line 316 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,399 from Coming to America Father. 317 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:16,759 Speaker 4: It is not just that. 318 00:15:16,799 --> 00:15:21,799 Speaker 2: It's everything, the cooking, the pampering, the dressing, the bathing. 319 00:15:22,639 --> 00:15:26,279 Speaker 3: Actually I'd rather enjoy the bathing, but that's funny. 320 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,919 Speaker 2: My fifth favorite line, and coming to America. Oh ha, 321 00:15:30,399 --> 00:15:32,120 it is my twenty first birthday. 322 00:15:32,279 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 4: Do you think perhaps, just once I might use the 323 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:43,600 bathroom by myself. Most of music sir, why so my 324 00:15:43,679 --> 00:15:46,240 fourth favorite line from Trading Places. 325 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 2: Yes, when the Duke brothers give the guy his. 326 00:15:49,919 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 3: Christmas bonus, uh huh, and. 327 00:15:51,919 --> 00:15:53,759 Speaker 2: He says, here you go. 328 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:55,639 Speaker 5: I bet you thought we forgot about you. Here's your 329 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:56,480 Christmas bonus. 330 00:15:56,519 --> 00:15:58,039 Speaker 2: He hands me a five dollars bill. 331 00:15:58,240 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 5: Five dollars. 332 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,639 Speaker 3: Maybe I'll go to the movies by myself. 333 00:16:04,759 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 2: And then Bornver goes, Hey, half of that was from me. 334 00:16:08,399 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 3: Thank you. 335 00:16:09,159 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. 336 00:16:10,279 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: I love how they established at the beginning of those 337 00:16:12,639 --> 00:16:15,639 guys are jerks right off the bat. Yes, you know, 338 00:16:15,679 --> 00:16:19,600 they're leaving their mansion and everybody is like, hello, mister Duke, 339 00:16:19,679 --> 00:16:22,840 thank you, mister Duke, Hello, mister Duke, and they're just not. 340 00:16:22,759 --> 00:16:24,799 Speaker 5: They don't even say anything to anybody. 341 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,039 Speaker 1: Just it's all beneath them, right, And you kind of 342 00:16:28,039 --> 00:16:30,320 get the same thing with dan Ekroyd. He's just but 343 00:16:30,399 --> 00:16:32,960 he responds to people, but he's very much. 344 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:34,159 Speaker 3: Not looking at them morning. 345 00:16:34,279 --> 00:16:36,559 Speaker 1: By the way, the first when he walks into Duke 346 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,120 and Duke for the first time and hands his coat 347 00:16:39,279 --> 00:16:44,039 and his high and gloves to the gentleman, he's says hello, 348 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,159 mister Winthorpe, Hello folsy, and then hands them stuff that's 349 00:16:48,279 --> 00:16:50,360 actually the producer of the movie. 350 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:52,039 Speaker 3: He's real names. Holding. 351 00:16:52,159 --> 00:16:52,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. 352 00:16:56,879 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: So Trading Place's first funny part for me is whenever 353 00:17:00,799 --> 00:17:03,720 Eddie Murphy is having the party at his house and 354 00:17:03,759 --> 00:17:07,480 you have the of course absurd people taking women taking 355 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:13,319 off their clothes and dancing around naked, and Dunham Elliott 356 00:17:15,559 --> 00:17:17,359 he's looking around and he's like, no, he's looking at me. 357 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,039 Now I'm drinking. He's drinking the drinks. He's having a 358 00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:23,000 good time, he's kind of checking out. 359 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 2: Hilarious that party scene at the very end when Eddie 360 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:28,799 Murphy gets sick of everybody free load and he comes 361 00:17:28,839 --> 00:17:30,119 up to the two guys that are going to beat 362 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:31,920 him up in the cell and he's like, he's like, 363 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,039 let's go, you know, and the guy's like, man, you 364 00:17:34,079 --> 00:17:37,039 are the most righteous and Eddie Murphy's like, yeah, right, 365 00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:38,480 just get the out of here. 366 00:17:40,279 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 1: So whenever, whenever Eddie Murphy is in the car for 367 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:47,599 the first time, that whole scene is hilarious. We're going 368 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:55,440 to start you with eighty thousand dollars a year, excupid. 369 00:17:58,839 --> 00:17:59,799 Speaker 4: It's a practical joke. 370 00:18:00,759 --> 00:18:03,039 Speaker 3: These guys are a couple of It's not appropriate, but 371 00:18:03,279 --> 00:18:06,680 it's funny rights, my next move man. 372 00:18:06,759 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 2: The chauffeur doesn't say anything, thank you've been heavy, but 373 00:18:11,079 --> 00:18:11,839 he's he's. 374 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,640 Speaker 1: Talking to when he's getting introduced to Randall and Mortimer, 375 00:18:15,759 --> 00:18:20,759 he's like Morte, all right, Randy, Randy Ady Jackson from 376 00:18:20,759 --> 00:18:21,519 the Jackson Vive. 377 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:24,599 Speaker 2: That's awesome. 378 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:29,400 Speaker 3: Okay. So the other laugh out loud moment. 379 00:18:29,519 --> 00:18:31,839 Speaker 1: I can't tell you who the actor is, but whenever 380 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,599 after dan Aykroyd has been arrested, after Winthorpe has been arrested, 381 00:18:36,079 --> 00:18:39,359 and he's getting bailed out and his girlfriend is waiting 382 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,759 for him, and the guy like move the ladies follow 383 00:18:42,799 --> 00:18:43,720 asleep and she's. 384 00:18:43,599 --> 00:18:45,599 Speaker 3: Trying to put you off, and that comes his down 385 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,039 next to hers. Is that sure prayer? 386 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 1: That's a nice I don't know who the actor is. 387 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,400 Speaker 3: I try to figure out how that it was. I can't. 388 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:57,079 I can't tell you. 389 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:03,039 Speaker 2: Just the smelly guy on the bench and Clarence beaks funny, funny, funny. 390 00:19:03,079 --> 00:19:05,200 Speaker 3: Paul Gleeson as the jerk. 391 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 2: He plays the jerk beautifully. 392 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: I mean in the best movies, like he's the jerk 393 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:14,680 guy in Breakfast Club, he's the jerk guy. In Dieard, 394 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,240 he's the jerk guy. In this movie. I mean, he's awesome, awesome. 395 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,279 Here's an interesting another. 396 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,920 Speaker 3: You know, let's got scattershot baby. All right, so Clarence 397 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:27,960 beaks that part. Was originally supposed. 398 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:32,079 Speaker 1: To go to see Gordon Liddy, which historically is an 399 00:19:32,079 --> 00:19:33,240 interesting kind of guy. 400 00:19:33,319 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 6: He was. 401 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: They don't want to take away from everything he's done, 402 00:19:35,759 --> 00:19:39,000 but the interesting things about him are he was a 403 00:19:39,039 --> 00:19:42,799 part of the Richard Nixon campaign, managed that campaign, and 404 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,000 then ultimately got caught up in the Watergate scandal and 405 00:19:46,279 --> 00:19:50,119 got sentenced to twenty years for that. And I found 406 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:52,279 out later on he served like one hundred and two 407 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:53,839 days in solitary confinement. 408 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,119 Speaker 3: I can't even wow, I can't. I don't know how 409 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:56,559 that works. 410 00:19:56,599 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: But he was an amazing guy, whatever the politics are, 411 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:05,119 an incredible human being accomplishing things obviously, But then Jimmy 412 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,400 Carter lets him out after five years in the interest 413 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:12,119 of justice, and you know, Landis, It's obvious, number one, 414 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,359 It's obvious that Landis is about a scattershot as this 415 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:20,039 episode is, right, he just goes all over the place. 416 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,680 I mean, I've had clients who talk like that, who've 417 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,039 been deemed incompetence. 418 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:30,599 Speaker 3: That guy, okay, but anyway, he's obviously a very liberal guy. 419 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 1: See Gordon Lyddy is this very conservative guy, and so 420 00:20:34,319 --> 00:20:37,400 Landis wants him to play the part of Clarence Beaks, 421 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:38,799 the ultimate jerk. 422 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:40,839 Speaker 3: Guy in the movie, right right, right. 423 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 1: So he ends up not being able to do it, 424 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,400 but they still manage to get him in. As Paul 425 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,359 Gleeson is sitting in the train car before the other 426 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,400 people getting on come in. He's reading a book and 427 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,519 the book is Will the Autobiography of s. 428 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:55,319 Speaker 3: Gordon Liddy. 429 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,839 Speaker 2: That's interesting. You know when you mentioned Paul Gleeson, they 430 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,480 wanted him to reprise the part of Clarence Speaks. 431 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 3: In Coming to America, but he. 432 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,000 Speaker 2: Was busy shooting this little film. 433 00:21:05,079 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 3: You know. 434 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,079 Speaker 5: I don't know if you've ever heard of this called Dieharden. 435 00:21:11,319 --> 00:21:16,559 Speaker 1: Oh you seem to remember something about that agent Dwayne Johnson. 436 00:21:18,559 --> 00:21:22,759 Speaker 2: What is it, Dwayne Dwayne T Robinson. I can't remember 437 00:21:22,759 --> 00:21:23,240 his name in that. 438 00:21:23,319 --> 00:21:26,119 Speaker 3: I think that may be right, if only we would 439 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:31,480 tell us. I'm just thinking of the line, Oh, you're 440 00:21:31,519 --> 00:21:32,079 in charge. 441 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 2: I'm up here to look like you're in charge of check. 442 00:21:34,759 --> 00:21:41,519 Speaker 1: I'm not the guy who just got. 443 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 2: Dwayne T. Robinson for the wind. 444 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,279 Speaker 3: Hey, where to go? Yes, you have to get some 445 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:47,119 new FBI. 446 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:56,799 Speaker 2: Got all right. My second favorite line in Trading Place 447 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,440 is Danna Ackroyd has tried to commit suicide. Anyway, they 448 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,559 rescue him, bringing back to his house and he is 449 00:22:03,599 --> 00:22:06,119 in his original house, and of course Coleman's there helping 450 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,640 nursing back to health. When he comes to, he's like, 451 00:22:08,799 --> 00:22:11,759 oh Coleman, now it's just this terrible dream. 452 00:22:12,039 --> 00:22:14,759 Speaker 3: It was all because of this terrible, awful negro. 453 00:22:16,599 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 2: And Eddie Murphy is standing there and he's like, hey, 454 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,279 wait at what And then he sees him. He jumps 455 00:22:21,319 --> 00:22:23,240 out of bed and starts choking him and he's holding 456 00:22:23,319 --> 00:22:25,279 down his chair and baking. He's head on the floor. 457 00:22:25,759 --> 00:22:27,319 Speaker 5: Last does get. 458 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:30,599 Speaker 3: Okay? 459 00:22:30,759 --> 00:22:33,759 Speaker 1: I like the I like it when they're looking at 460 00:22:33,759 --> 00:22:35,920 Clarence peaks inside of the ape suit. 461 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, let him it's Christmas. Let him have 462 00:22:38,279 --> 00:22:38,680 their fun. 463 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 2: The best line in Trading Places is at the very 464 00:22:42,839 --> 00:22:44,079 last scene. 465 00:22:43,839 --> 00:22:47,519 Speaker 4: Looking God, Billy Ray really good? 466 00:22:47,799 --> 00:22:51,359 Speaker 3: It all right? 467 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:57,200 Speaker 1: So coming to America. Best lines, This one is a 468 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:01,200 good one. James Earld Jones delivers the line after the 469 00:23:01,279 --> 00:23:05,000 Queen's speech, delivers the line of there's a very fine 470 00:23:05,039 --> 00:23:08,440 line between love and nausea. And it's not necessarily funny 471 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,039 because of his delivery, but because of her reaction. She's 472 00:23:11,079 --> 00:23:13,400 got a bunch of great reactions throughout this movie. 473 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:14,519 Speaker 3: He's funny. James O. 474 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 2: Jones has some hilarious lines in there. I'm gonna jump 475 00:23:17,519 --> 00:23:19,680 up to my number two. But Eddie Murphy says, I'm 476 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,160 a man who has never tied his own shoes. He's like, wrong, 477 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,839 you're a prince who has never tied your own shoes. 478 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,559 And he says, I tied my own shoes once. It 479 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:29,960 is an overrated experience. 480 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 3: So funny. Yeah. 481 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 2: My fourth favorite line from Coming to America is the 482 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:36,400 bonus scene at the very end of the movie where 483 00:23:36,440 --> 00:23:38,960 the Jewish guy Saul is telling his joke. 484 00:23:39,039 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 3: Right, Oh my gosh, can I tell the joke? Go yeah, okay. 485 00:23:42,319 --> 00:23:43,160 Man walks into a. 486 00:23:43,279 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 1: Est he listen, No, we'll just play that joke because 487 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:49,559 I can't do it. 488 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 4: Jes right, stop right there, stop right there. Man. Man 489 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,720 goes into the restaurant. You're listening. And man goes into 490 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,440 a restaurant. He's just down, He's having a bowl of soup. 491 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,359 He says to the Veda, Veda, come taste of soup, 492 00:24:06,759 --> 00:24:08,039 says something wrong with the soup. 493 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 3: Just taste of soup. He says, there's something wrong with 494 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:10,799 the soup. 495 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,279 Speaker 4: Soup too Well, your tasted soup is wrong with the 496 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:14,079 soup too cold. 497 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,039 Speaker 3: Well, you're just taste of soup. All right, I'll taste 498 00:24:17,039 --> 00:24:18,599 the soup. Where's the spoon? 499 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 2: Aha? I still call that? 500 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,039 Speaker 3: Why are you know? From funning up bash? 501 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 1: Next favorite part is whenever he comes out and he 502 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:43,119 starts singing, sheeeee yr quee. 503 00:24:42,039 --> 00:24:46,640 Speaker 3: To me, Oh my gosh, number one, it's just hilarious. 504 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,440 That is happening. But then you get some of those 505 00:24:48,519 --> 00:24:50,960 lines in there, free from infection. 506 00:24:53,759 --> 00:24:55,640 Speaker 2: I need more? What are you talking about when he's singing? 507 00:24:55,759 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 6: So yeah, when the guy, when he's singing chees your que, 508 00:25:00,279 --> 00:25:04,279 she's perfection, she's free from infection. 509 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 5: That's hilarious that that was improved by that guy. 510 00:25:12,519 --> 00:25:15,759 Speaker 3: Really? Yes, Oh he killed it. Oh my gosh, it's hilarious. 511 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 2: My wife's birthday the other day, and when we lit 512 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,519 the candles, I was thinking, cheer. 513 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: There's some great I mean there, it's funny, funny throughout, 514 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,720 and there's some real laugh out loud moments. Okay, So 515 00:25:25,759 --> 00:25:28,480 when the landlord is taking them up to the apartment, 516 00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:31,680 telling him about you know, it's only got one window 517 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,599 that faces a brick wall and rented it out to 518 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,440 a blind man. They open it up and the tapes 519 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,079 on the floor and he goes, damn shame. 520 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,079 Speaker 2: When they walk by the bathroom, he's like, here's the 521 00:25:44,079 --> 00:25:47,440 bathroom you gotta share. Not an insect problem, but you boys, mafka, 522 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:48,119 you're used to that. 523 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 3: Then it comes out of the window. 524 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 2: Good boy, my neighbors. 525 00:25:54,599 --> 00:25:59,599 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you do. Oh. 526 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,599 Speaker 2: And that and the other scene in the barbershop when 527 00:26:01,599 --> 00:26:03,079 he's talking about me, Martin Luther. 528 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,319 Speaker 5: King, I walking out to set out of my own 529 00:26:04,319 --> 00:26:05,799 benefit walk no feeling good. 530 00:26:05,839 --> 00:26:06,759 Speaker 2: I walk around the corner. 531 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,839 Speaker 4: Man woke up, hit me in my chest, right, I'll 532 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:09,839 fall on the ground right. 533 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 2: And I look up at doctor Martin Luther King. 534 00:26:11,519 --> 00:26:12,319 Speaker 5: I said, doctor King. 535 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:16,599 Speaker 2: He said somebody else. Man, you ain't never met the King. 536 00:26:19,559 --> 00:26:21,680 Speaker 1: And then you've got the whole scene where they're in 537 00:26:21,759 --> 00:26:24,039 the bar and all of the women that come in 538 00:26:24,599 --> 00:26:28,000 and the first one that they meet and she's so smiley, 539 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:29,960 and then I have a secret. 540 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 2: I worshiped the devil. 541 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 4: Oh, my name is Jesus, and I'm the best all 542 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:39,920 the d j's want to feel my brus. 543 00:26:43,079 --> 00:26:45,079 Speaker 2: The worst one of all is that one lady who's like, 544 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,960 I need a man satisfying me shot. 545 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,799 Speaker 5: Some guys do an our hour and a half shot, 546 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:53,319 I need more. That's it. 547 00:26:53,759 --> 00:26:56,839 Speaker 1: And then Arsenio Hall playing the Preacher with the girls, 548 00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,000 is it's bordering on that? Is it too inappropriate? 549 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 3: Funny? But man is it funny. 550 00:27:02,599 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 2: His dad was actually a preacher, so that's why he 551 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:06,000 did that character so well. 552 00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 3: He nailed it. Man, it's perfect. 553 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,079 Speaker 4: Chocolate. 554 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,680 Speaker 7: You remember him as Joe the policeman from What's Going 555 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:22,200 Down episode of That's My Mama, Mister Randall Lawson and 556 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,799 then that whole bit it's so awkward, It's so wonderfully 557 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,599 awkward and hilarious at the same time. 558 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 3: And then sexy Chocolate stomp stomp, Sensey. 559 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 6: Chocolate drops the mic does the point, walks off stage and. 560 00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 2: He comes up. 561 00:27:38,279 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 5: He has he has to pick up the microphone from 562 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:40,240 the ground. 563 00:27:41,759 --> 00:27:43,720 Speaker 3: Let's give it again another radam of blaws. 564 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 2: Mister Randy was good and terrible. Actually, when when Randy 565 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,640 Watson performs the Greatest Love of All you have to 566 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,480 be like an eighties music fan to really get this, 567 00:27:52,799 --> 00:27:54,559 but he mixes up the lyrics. 568 00:27:54,759 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 3: Yes, he screws up the lines. 569 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think they that's only you getting that 570 00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:02,000 kind of joke. Yeah, I missed that one completely. 571 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 2: My favorite seeing in the entire movie, though, is the 572 00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:07,440 Duke's brothers see and it's it's so satisfying to see 573 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,000 that come full circle. There are bums on the street 574 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,119 after what happened in Trading Places. I think it's interesting 575 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,039 that these movies sort of live in the same universe. 576 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 3: We're back. 577 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,519 Speaker 1: So when Prince a Kiem starts, I have recently been 578 00:28:23,559 --> 00:28:24,880 placed in charge of garbage. 579 00:28:25,279 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 3: This is flirtation. When you think of God, he think 580 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,119 of Aki. So this is interesting. 581 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 1: So Coming to America is the first time that Eddie 582 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,720 Murphy is playing a romantic lead part. You know, this 583 00:28:34,799 --> 00:28:36,920 is all of the movies that he's done. This is 584 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,799 the first time that he's got a love interest in 585 00:28:38,799 --> 00:28:41,599 the movie. And I think he nails it. I mean, 586 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,759 he's he's charming, he's lovable. You know, he's goofy at 587 00:28:45,759 --> 00:28:48,359 the beginning, which creates a sympathy for him. 588 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,599 Speaker 2: He does pull it off. I'm totally agreeing with you. 589 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,160 Are we moving into now the comments and criticisms on 590 00:28:53,359 --> 00:28:54,440 how we feel about the movies. 591 00:28:54,519 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 3: Sure, U, let's you get more funny lines from Coming. 592 00:28:56,839 --> 00:28:58,359 Speaker 2: I mean, I can do this all day. But yeah, 593 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,799 so Coming to America does a great job. Actually, in 594 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:03,799 my opinion, it's very, very funny the first half and 595 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:06,240 then it kind of moves into this romance and I'm 596 00:29:06,279 --> 00:29:07,519 not critical of it. 597 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 3: Because he pulls it off. Oh yeah, he absolutely pulls 598 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:10,240 it off. 599 00:29:10,279 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: The scene on the swing and by the way, we're 600 00:29:12,759 --> 00:29:14,960 about to leave funny lines and move it into something else, 601 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,319 but you just made remember the part that is also hilarious, 602 00:29:18,359 --> 00:29:21,039 which is king or not I'll break. 603 00:29:20,839 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 3: My foot off? 604 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: And apparently John Amos had lived that line, you know, 605 00:29:26,839 --> 00:29:30,000 was it was not quite so, you know rough he 606 00:29:30,079 --> 00:29:31,200 thought it needed more punch. 607 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,039 Speaker 2: Cleo McDowell is awesome. 608 00:29:33,079 --> 00:29:34,759 Speaker 3: He's one of my favorite characters in that movie. 609 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,319 Speaker 1: Just real quick, let's catch on Darryl too, because Darryl 610 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:38,359 is such a good jerk. 611 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:38,519 Speaker 4: You know. 612 00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: We talked about knowing that the Dukes are bad guys 613 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,960 from the beginning with because they refuse to talk to 614 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,319 anybody that's beneath them. The exact same thing is happening 615 00:29:47,319 --> 00:29:50,000 with Daryl, who walks in and. 616 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 3: You know, Cleo's kissing his butt and graps. 617 00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: The shake that's supposed to go on to a little 618 00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:59,880 kid strugberry right, and then he's I mean, he just 619 00:30:00,319 --> 00:30:03,640 you know, wearing clothes must be a new experience. Bet 620 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,039 you guys played games like Chase the Monkey, So coming 621 00:30:07,079 --> 00:30:09,680 to America I think is a great comedy. I don't 622 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,279 have anything bad to say about this man. I enjoy 623 00:30:11,359 --> 00:30:12,000 this movie. 624 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 2: I told you before that the character of Prince a 625 00:30:15,319 --> 00:30:18,480 Kim is my favorite Eddie Murphy character, maybe between that 626 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:22,559 and Shrek or that in Donkey. He's a gentleman, he's noble. 627 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,400 He gets mad at Samuel L. Jackson for using obscenities, 628 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,920 which is kind of funny. But it turns into a 629 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,279 romantic comedy that that I think works. I think it's 630 00:30:32,279 --> 00:30:32,759 got heart. 631 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 5: I think you want to see them end up together. 632 00:30:36,079 --> 00:30:37,799 Speaker 3: I think as a movie it works. 633 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: The bit at the end where he's chasing her down 634 00:30:40,319 --> 00:30:42,759 and the people on the subway are watching them go 635 00:30:42,839 --> 00:30:45,799 back and forth is a classic John Lander's bit, and 636 00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:47,720 he had done it just a bit before with the dog. 637 00:30:47,799 --> 00:30:49,960 Speaker 3: He's not the dog watching back and forth. 638 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:54,319 Speaker 1: Between the events unfolding between Cleo and the King and Queen, 639 00:30:55,079 --> 00:30:58,319 and it's just it's a neat it's a neat bit 640 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,480 that he does. But I love that kind of romantic 641 00:31:00,519 --> 00:31:02,920 where they're like, what's gonna happen? They're, they're, they're, they're 642 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,119 the audience. It's great, great little bit. 643 00:31:07,359 --> 00:31:11,599 Speaker 6: Just there's so many funny lines, Like I when when 644 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,599 Simmy has had his money come and taken down and 645 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,720 he goes to send the telegram, that lady who's at 646 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:19,480 the telegram office is hilarious. 647 00:31:19,519 --> 00:31:22,759 Speaker 1: I need to look her up because she's she's hysterical. 648 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:28,519 And then she's like, you've shared three hundred thousand, and 649 00:31:28,599 --> 00:31:29,839 he's like, you think I should ask for more? 650 00:31:30,079 --> 00:31:30,480 Speaker 3: Why not? 651 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 2: As long as you're asking, why don't we go for 652 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:34,359 a cool million? 653 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:36,599 Speaker 3: You do not think that would be too much? 654 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 5: Nah? 655 00:31:39,119 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hilarious. Let's go opinion now, Okay, are we 656 00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:43,000 ready to do opinion? 657 00:31:43,079 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 4: Yeah? 658 00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:44,039 Speaker 3: Sure, go okay. 659 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,759 Speaker 2: In my opinion, I enjoy I enjoy trading places more. 660 00:31:48,039 --> 00:31:48,359 Speaker 3: Okay. 661 00:31:48,519 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 2: I think it's it's a little more absurd, it's a 662 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:55,880 little more lighthearted. It's funny from beginning to end. I 663 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,359 think Coming to America is brilliantly funny At the beginning 664 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,119 and then sort of fades into this romance. But it works, 665 00:32:03,119 --> 00:32:05,519 and so I enjoy the movie a lot. So if 666 00:32:05,519 --> 00:32:08,440 I put them on the scales, I'm tipping a little 667 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:09,680 more towards Trading Places. 668 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:10,319 Speaker 3: I see you. 669 00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:12,359 Speaker 1: Now, it's kind of interesting because I have like the 670 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,960 reverse perception of your thing. I don't think that Trading 671 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,680 Places is funny from beginning to end. I like, you 672 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,799 love both movies, love watching them both, but you've got 673 00:32:20,799 --> 00:32:24,440 a lot of build up that happens on Trading Places. 674 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,640 Speaker 3: Like I didn't realize how long the build up was. 675 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 1: I think, you know, my memory was just of Jamie 676 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,119 Lee Curtis's naked movies, and. 677 00:32:31,039 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 3: So I had forgotten. 678 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: I mean, it's an hour into the movie before that happens, 679 00:32:34,559 --> 00:32:36,559 and so you've got this kind of long build up 680 00:32:36,599 --> 00:32:40,839 that's not funny. It's just a setup. And so the 681 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,519 difference I think is with Coming to America. Yes, it 682 00:32:44,599 --> 00:32:47,920 is funny from beginning to end. I mean even I 683 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,960 mean even at the point that the that the King 684 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,599 and Queen are showing up, it's still funny. A little 685 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:56,759 late for the Christmas path. This is beautiful? Is that velvet? 686 00:32:58,079 --> 00:32:58,799 Speaker 3: I mean, it just. 687 00:32:58,759 --> 00:33:01,359 Speaker 1: Never it never stops being funny throughout the movie Now 688 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:02,119 Trading Places. 689 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,839 Speaker 3: I just it's not quite as funny. 690 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,599 Speaker 1: It's a good story, and I like the way it 691 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,079 plays out, but I think it's just kind of a 692 00:33:08,119 --> 00:33:10,599 little absurd because it's supposed to be. 693 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 3: More realistic, but it's a little absurd. 694 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: Number one first absurd thing is Clarence peaks in as 695 00:33:16,559 --> 00:33:20,240 the security expert, saying, you know, put your hand on 696 00:33:20,279 --> 00:33:22,440 the guy's right shoulder, put your other hand in his 697 00:33:22,519 --> 00:33:25,599 left pock. I mean, how dumb. I mean, would anybody 698 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:26,519 actually believe that? 699 00:33:26,519 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 3: That's right? 700 00:33:27,119 --> 00:33:29,519 Speaker 2: Ridiculous? This giant red x's on the dollars. 701 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:29,920 Speaker 3: Yeah. 702 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: And then after that, like Eddie Murphy is instantly possessive 703 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,519 and angry about his possessions, and then he's. 704 00:33:39,359 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 3: Instantly on the cover of the Wall Street Journal. 705 00:33:42,279 --> 00:33:44,359 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I mean, that's just this is 706 00:33:44,359 --> 00:33:46,359 happening in a course of a couple of days. I mean, 707 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,680 it's just a little bit too crazy. 708 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 2: It's absurd. 709 00:33:50,039 --> 00:33:52,559 Speaker 1: John Landis needed a little more like of a montage 710 00:33:52,599 --> 00:33:54,720 scene where we're sitting, Oh, okay, these are the things 711 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,799 that are happening as time passes. But instead it's just like, 712 00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,920 Boom it happens, Boom it happens, and you're just like, 713 00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:02,160 I can't believe this has happening that fast. 714 00:34:02,279 --> 00:34:04,359 Speaker 3: That's where I am on the tipping of the scales. 715 00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:07,039 Speaker 1: I gotta go with Coming to America because funny from 716 00:34:07,079 --> 00:34:09,000 beginning in I still love Trading Places. 717 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,079 Speaker 3: This is going to be a close call anytime. 718 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,920 Speaker 1: But because Coming to America it's NonStop comedy from beginning 719 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,159 to end and still manages to give you a compelling 720 00:34:18,559 --> 00:34:20,960 romantic story, It's got to be the winner in my book. 721 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,039 Speaker 2: Okay, that sounds good. I love both movies. Like you said, 722 00:34:24,519 --> 00:34:25,840 I don't know how much more we can say. I 723 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,679 laugh out loud when I watch both of these movies. 724 00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:31,199 If you haven't seen one of these movies, yeah you 725 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:31,920 need to correct that. 726 00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:36,400 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you probably should have not listened to this. 727 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,519 Speaker 2: This episode makes absolutely no sense to you. 728 00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:45,079 Speaker 1: Oh spoiler alert, the last hour has been a spoiler 729 00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:45,599 for both movies. 730 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:47,599 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, sorry about that. 731 00:34:48,119 --> 00:34:51,039 Speaker 1: So thank you everybody for hearing us all out on 732 00:34:51,079 --> 00:34:53,679 this crazy, all over the place kind of episode. 733 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,599 Speaker 3: If you've got an opinion that's. 734 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,280 Speaker 1: Different than ours on this one, I mean, I don't 735 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,519 know how because Jason's got one and I got the other. 736 00:35:00,159 --> 00:35:02,800 Speaker 3: But yeah, come tell us what your opinions are. 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