Speaker 1: I understand the self flushing toilet. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think it's overall it is a plus for society.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I yes understood.
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't like touching things in publics.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, absolutely not. I do have one note.
Speaker 2: Can it not flush while you're sitting on it?
Speaker 1: Or even worse, when you get into the bathroom and
Speaker 1: you're like turning around, maybe you're closing the door and
Speaker 1: it flushes behind you like feed me, scares the shit
Speaker 1: out of you. So hopefully not literally that happened to me.
Speaker 1: I was in like a public restroom and like I
Speaker 1: mean I actually went like jumped in like, oh.
Speaker 3: People laughing, I've had one flush on me, like while
Speaker 3: I'm sitting there. Yeah, and it is the most like
Speaker 3: my whole body heaves.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: All I can think about is the next time I
Speaker 2: can take a shower.
Speaker 1: I'm so horrified the blast of air across your nether.
Speaker 2: Oh it's not just air. You can feel you can
Speaker 2: feel a spray.
Speaker 1: There's a film, there's this, there's.
Speaker 2: A spray And I'm like, oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 2: The amount of people who use this thing before me.
Speaker 1: I have to burn off the top layer of my skin.
Speaker 1: It's the only answer.
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, yeah, I have I have a lot of
Speaker 2: butt to begin with. I don't need anymore.
Speaker 1: Hey in America, and this is that aged.
Speaker 2: Well, yesterday's pop culture.
Speaker 1: Today Holiday movie finale?
Speaker 2: Should all the quaintance be forgot?
Speaker 4: And some thinks something? Yeah that one, that one that's
Speaker 4: holiday we're doing. Yeah, everyone might be thinking, hey, there's
Speaker 4: one more Monday in December. Well you might get an episode,
Speaker 4: you might not. Let's put that on. Jeez, we'll see
Speaker 4: what happens.
Speaker 2: We're probably gonna put one out. You're gonna put it out.
Speaker 1: You guys, we're work hourses, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't like skipping Mondays.
Speaker 2: We'll do something.
Speaker 1: We'll do something, Yeah, Erica. Before we get to our
Speaker 1: final holiday movie of twenty twenty four, we do have
Speaker 1: a couple of five star Apple podcast reviews. Do you
Speaker 1: want to read one or shall I read first?
Speaker 2: I'll read the first one.
Speaker 1: Go for it.
Speaker 2: This review comes from Cranky Unicorn Begging for Cookies.
Speaker 1: I relate truly.
Speaker 3: Truly excellent, excellent. Congratulations see u BFC. You fucking nailed it.
Speaker 1: You know, because what it does is it calls to
Speaker 1: mind a picture. Yeah, you see the unicorn. You see
Speaker 1: the dissatisfaction on the unicorn's face. Uh huh, and you
Speaker 1: see it asking as politely as it can in that
Speaker 1: moment for someone to hand over a goddamn snick er
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Speaker 2: It's a goddamn cookie, now, don't you?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 3: They write ran out of true crime podcasts, so here
Speaker 3: I am. The only crime committed here is against the
Speaker 3: English language.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: While pursuing a true crime Reddit thread, I found that
Speaker 3: aged well all right, uh well, Paul, those those mysterious
Speaker 3: murders have finally caught up to you.
Speaker 2: All those missing teenagers in Paul's town.
Speaker 3: It's finally caught up to them. It's not my usual,
Speaker 3: but it's fantastic. I love listening to their recap slash
Speaker 3: ratings of my favorite movies, as well as their recaps
Speaker 3: of movies I haven't seen excellent. I would love to
Speaker 3: hear them cover Anaconda and thumb Billina. Both of these
Speaker 3: movies I don't think they could be any more opposite,
Speaker 3: have stayed in my brain since childhood, and I think
Speaker 3: they'd make for great episodes.
Speaker 1: Can we find a connection between Anaconda and Okay? I
Speaker 1: have it. I have it because the snake is so big.
Speaker 1: I've never seen anaconda, seen anaconda?
Speaker 2: Have you seen Thumbilina?
Speaker 1: I have not. Oh but maybe the like how big
Speaker 1: the snake is makes the people smaller, like Thumbelina, like
Speaker 1: their thumb berlinas to the snake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh huh yeah yeah or actually, but I think
Speaker 2: it is is ll coolj is in both films.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's what it is, isn't jaylo and Anaconda?
Speaker 2: She sure is sure? Shit is Paul?
Speaker 1: Do we need a beast movie month? I survived Jaws.
Speaker 1: That's the worst one.
Speaker 3: I think you definitely do Anaconda. Yeah, yeah, I'm not Rachnophobia.
Speaker 2: That's a great film. Oh that's actually pretty fun.
Speaker 1: Is that John Candy?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no, it's John Goodman. It's John Goodman.
Speaker 3: It's Jeff Danielska. It's spiders.
Speaker 1: It's great if you cross spiders. Actually, don't bother me.
Speaker 1: But a movie advertising itself as I'm going to terrify
Speaker 1: you with spiders. I'm gonna be like, I believe you.
Speaker 1: I bet you Ken, I bet you Ken. We also
Speaker 1: have a review today from Ebo thirteen and they write
Speaker 1: formidable memory Hot Foxes seconding and manifesting an episode on
Speaker 1: the animated robin Hood. Hot Fox robin Hood shaped a generation,
Speaker 1: and I cannot wait for Erica to witness it for
Speaker 1: the first time. This is not me. I did not
Speaker 1: write that. I understand. I understand.
Speaker 3: Look the response we have gotten to the idea of
Speaker 3: that fox like opening the door to people's sexualities in
Speaker 3: a way they did not know they needed. It's a
Speaker 3: joke on Kimmy Schmidt that every once in a while
Speaker 3: pops up on my Instagram feed like that. Like Instagram
Speaker 3: is like girl like I can't tell you enough how
Speaker 3: much you need to watch the animated Robinhood.
Speaker 2: Here is Tina Fey telling you you must watch it.
Speaker 1: We'll get to it. We will get to it, all right,
Speaker 1: Cranky Unicorn begging for cookies Ebo thirteen, Thank you for
Speaker 1: those five star Apple podcast reviews. If you would like
Speaker 1: that drill tote bag to go along to bring to
Speaker 1: the grocery, to bring anywhere you need to put stuff in,
Speaker 1: let me know this is you. I will send it
Speaker 1: off for you very happily. Erica, what is the what's
Speaker 1: the New Year's Eve movie that we're discussing it.
Speaker 3: Yes, today's film cover It covers New Year's Eve, it
Speaker 3: covers Christmas, It covers a whole, a whole gammut. Today's
Speaker 3: film is the two thousand and one romantic comedy Bridget
Speaker 3: Jones Diary.
Speaker 1: Yes, Bridget Jones Diary was requested by Jojo, Steph Mara, Sidney, Jessica,
Speaker 1: jan Kelly Storia, Rebecca, Daniel, Marianne Okay, Daniel, Sophie, a
Speaker 1: couple of people whose names I could not determine from
Speaker 1: their social media profiles, and of course Erica, our patrons
Speaker 1: who decide the movie our last movie every month or
Speaker 1: our less subject every month than those months that we
Speaker 1: do TV. This time we pulled Bridget Jones Diary against
Speaker 1: two hundred.
Speaker 2: Cigarettes Okay, both classic New Year's.
Speaker 1: Lastic New Year's, these movies. Now, Bridget Jones Diary did
Speaker 1: win pretty handily, sixty one percent to thirty nine percent understood, yep,
Speaker 1: which I think we both expected, but I think we're
Speaker 1: both hoping.
Speaker 2: I really love Bridget Jones's Diary spoiler you guys, which
Speaker 2: I love this goddamn movie, so I'm not. I was
Speaker 2: really happy when this one.
Speaker 3: Okay, I've never seen two hundred cigarettes though, yeah okay,
Speaker 3: and I know.
Speaker 2: You have and you like it.
Speaker 1: I like it. And let me tell you something. Every
Speaker 1: once in a while, the people who are who are
Speaker 1: commenting on these polls, the commenters were one hundred percent
Speaker 1: for two hundred cigarettes. The Bridget Jones people were like,
Speaker 1: vote and leave. I know, I'm good, and the commenters
Speaker 1: were they were trying to trying to drum up more.
Speaker 2: People, more people for two hundred cigarette cigarettes.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 3: We see you two hundred cigarettes people. We will do
Speaker 3: it one day. And also, for you classic movie snobs
Speaker 3: out there like me, I understand that I skipped the
Speaker 3: actual best New Year's Eve film of all time, which
Speaker 3: is The Apartment.
Speaker 2: I will be taking no questions.
Speaker 1: All right. So Bridget jones Diary was written by Helen Fielding,
Speaker 1: Andrew Davies and Richard Curtis from Fielding's nineteen ninety six
Speaker 1: novel of the same name. It's a fast turnaround from
Speaker 1: novel to optioned to movie to released.
Speaker 2: I read this book. I loved this book all right.
Speaker 2: Yeah when it came out.
Speaker 1: It was directed by Sharon Maguire and stars Renee Zellweger
Speaker 1: Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, and Jemma Jones.
Speaker 2: Bridget Jones Diary was nominated for one Academy Award Best
Speaker 2: Actress for Renees Elwiger. WHOA, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I'd forgotten that this was the height of Zelwegger. Wow.
Speaker 2: I do love when like comedies get their due.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but she very bravely did gain twenty pounds for
Speaker 1: the role Erica. We must remember.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, but the person she lost to
Speaker 3: is Holly Berry from Monsters, And.
Speaker 1: There's more bravery there.
Speaker 2: There's a little slightly more bravery there. I think she
Speaker 2: went without makeup.
Speaker 1: She went without makeup even then, and I'm.
Speaker 2: I'm a completist. I was like, that looks like a bummer.
Speaker 1: It's like a real drag. I can't watch that. Bridget
Speaker 1: Jones Diary spawned a film series with sequels Bridget Jones
Speaker 1: The Edge of Reason and Bridget Jones Baby following the original,
Speaker 1: making it the first movie trilogy directed exclusively by women.
Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 1: Another sequel, Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy, is set
Speaker 1: to be released in twenty twenty five, but sadly will
Speaker 1: be directed by a man.
Speaker 3: By a Manly You know what. That's men can direct
Speaker 3: things to you. Guys, they can, it can't.
Speaker 2: It's not. It doesn't have to be a woman every time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like some guys have maybe even have good ideas
Speaker 3: every once in a while.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a man can be useful sometimes sometimes not always sometimes.
Speaker 2: I saw the first two films.
Speaker 3: I did not see Bridget Jones's Baby, This movie that
Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about today, I really love. The next
Speaker 3: one is diminishing returns, I think, sure, So I wouldn't
Speaker 3: necessarily recommend end watching the sequels. Okay, maybe the third
Speaker 3: one's great and I'm missing out.
Speaker 1: But you read the second book, and you like the
Speaker 1: second book.
Speaker 2: I did love the second book.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I also think it's interesting that this is
Speaker 1: a rom com sequel, So the happily ever after at
Speaker 1: the end of this movie does not hold because it
Speaker 1: remains a rom com. So, like, I think it's interesting
Speaker 1: to do a sequel to a rom com and then
Speaker 1: like show the obvious, very big problems these two people
Speaker 1: would have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are polar opposite.
Speaker 1: Polar opposite people, and like they respect each other's I
Speaker 1: think honesty about who they are. I think that's what
Speaker 1: actually binds them together. I think it's interesting to do
Speaker 1: that because a lot of the big problems of the
Speaker 1: rom com comes in and then you're like, but these
Speaker 1: people would hate each other in two months, and they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's show that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I was thinking about this this morning if I
Speaker 3: were Helen Fielding and maybe she did pitch this and
Speaker 3: people were like, no, it's too highbrow, but like, you know,
Speaker 3: this is Pride and Prejudice. This book, so like the
Speaker 3: second book would have been Emma r Bridget Jones turns
Speaker 3: into Emma although she now has her love interest, so
Speaker 3: that's sort of elighted. But I don't know, or another
Speaker 3: one like another another, like classic novel of some sort.
Speaker 1: You are pitching a film series that someone absolutely would
Speaker 1: have would have been let in like nineteen ninety eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can get it past now.
Speaker 2: I don't think we can do it now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unfortunately, But yeah, that's that would have been interesting
Speaker 3: because that's I like that. I really like the like
Speaker 3: the analog to Pride and Prejudice in this. It makes
Speaker 3: me laugh, Like the little tiny things they put in
Speaker 3: for folks who really enjoy Pride and Prejudice excellent well,
Speaker 3: you don't have to know that story at all to
Speaker 3: enjoy the film.
Speaker 1: I don't really I saw the movie once, but I
Speaker 1: don't really know the story, and I enjoy this movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 2: You know who else enjoyed this movie?
Speaker 1: Paul Yep.
Speaker 2: The critics.
Speaker 3: Okay, Bridget Jones Diary has an eighty percent critical rating
Speaker 3: on Rotten Tomatoes and an eighty one audience score.
Speaker 2: It weirdly as a seventy.
Speaker 3: On chair Well, okay, not weirdly. We will talk about that.
Speaker 3: It doesn't age super well. By the way I said earlier,
Speaker 3: I loved that second book. That second book has some
Speaker 3: stuff that does not age well. And if you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: Erica loves that book, I should read it, And then
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, slightly racist.
Speaker 2: I know that's in there.
Speaker 1: I do, I do. I'm aware.
Speaker 2: I'm aware.
Speaker 3: It's just it's still it's still sort of funny to me.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's the seventy percent on cherry Picks.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 1: I think that's about right. I can see why it
Speaker 1: dips when we only take the women into account. There's
Speaker 1: some potential, maybe a little internalized misogyny somewhere happening in here.
Speaker 1: I think maybe a little bit, because like I'm sure
Speaker 1: everyone our age and perhaps young a little bit younger
Speaker 1: remembers like when this came out, it was like Renees
Speaker 1: zel Wegger gained twenty pounds And there's a couple of
Speaker 1: times in the movie where they talk about how she's
Speaker 1: not thin. Yeah, to be clear, Renee zell Begger when
Speaker 1: additional twenty pounds on her is still cuts quite a figure.
Speaker 2: She looks gorgeous in those scenes are like she's in
Speaker 2: her underwear.
Speaker 1: She looks great.
Speaker 2: Oh I know, I'm like, damn girl, well done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that perhaps could turn off some ladies,
Speaker 1: which I completely understand. Yeah, I would probably give it
Speaker 1: like a seventy five. I think the constraints of a
Speaker 1: rom com come in and kind of push it down
Speaker 1: a little bit. Sometimes it gets a little contrived at
Speaker 1: certain points, which is fine. I don't I'm not criticizing
Speaker 1: it really, but it just doesn't make it a transcendent
Speaker 1: movie for me. Yeah, what about you? Ninety ninety? I
Speaker 1: give it a ninety.
Speaker 2: I really do think it's a really smart adaptation of
Speaker 2: a classic.
Speaker 3: I think they did a great job updating it. I
Speaker 3: totally get why some of the humor doesn't age well
Speaker 3: in this one.
Speaker 2: The second one, the humor doesn't age well in another.
Speaker 1: Way, and I again.
Speaker 2: That's a whole other episode.
Speaker 3: But in this one, I actually think it's it's a
Speaker 3: comment on like the internalized misogyny and like just the
Speaker 3: way they feel about themselves. And I think the conversation
Speaker 3: surrounding the movie when it was coming out changed people's
Speaker 3: perspective on the film. Yeah, and like made people sour
Speaker 3: on the film prematurely, because if you just take it
Speaker 3: at face value without like I mean, I'm not kidding
Speaker 3: if you weren't alive back then or weren't paying attention
Speaker 3: back then, like if you were too young. The fucking
Speaker 3: amount of media coverage of Reneise Zelwegger gaining weight for
Speaker 3: this movie and people calling her fat and chubbo and
Speaker 3: blah blah blah, and like, yeah, that was a nightmare.
Speaker 3: I felt so bad for Renaise Elwiger at the time,
Speaker 3: and at the same time, I was like, she's not
Speaker 3: fucking fat, you guys. She went from one hundred and
Speaker 3: five to one hundred and twenty pounds. Yeah, like shut up, literally,
Speaker 3: But when you take into account the character and the
Speaker 3: character's view on herself and how it's like a parody
Speaker 3: of self improvement culture.
Speaker 2: I take it back, I actually think the movie ages
Speaker 2: quite well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an interesting perspective because I had thought about
Speaker 1: that a little bit. I think that's something for a
Speaker 1: woman to say, not a man say.
Speaker 3: I'll let you have an opinion this time. But yeah,
Speaker 3: the toxic conversation around this movie.
Speaker 1: Was awful well because I also when I was watching it,
Speaker 1: I was like, well, maybe maybe Helen Fielding, who I
Speaker 1: presume like wrote this book, maybe she is like a
Speaker 1: woman who is a little less stereotypically beautiful than renees Elwegger,
Speaker 1: Like maybe, And then you know, Hollywood gets the movie
Speaker 1: and they cast like you put glasses on a woman
Speaker 1: into suddenly she's hideous, right Like then they looked at
Speaker 1: Hell and feeling I'm like, this bitch looks like Kim Control.
Speaker 1: This bitch is so gorgeous. And it was interesting to
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, so a woman who looks like that.
Speaker 2: Still feels that.
Speaker 1: It feels that way.
Speaker 3: That's where I think it's kind of That's the where
Speaker 3: I think it agedes well, and kind of it gets
Speaker 3: to like a truth that is not universally universally acknowledged.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Erica, when did you first see Bridget Jones's.
Speaker 2: Diary Opening fucking weekends?
Speaker 1: Opening weekend and you were sat?
Speaker 2: I was in. Well, I mean, I'm the I'm the
Speaker 2: target audience for this.
Speaker 3: I read the book. I really liked it. I love
Speaker 3: Pride and Prejudice. Like I could not be more the
Speaker 3: target audience for this. The fact that they cast Colin
Speaker 3: Firth to play the Darcy role was such a coup
Speaker 3: at the time.
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember that. Yeah, like, do you know.
Speaker 3: That in the book she is constantly watching the BBC
Speaker 3: Pride and Prejudice with him in it, and they like
Speaker 3: refer to Colin Firth as like the hottest man on Earth.
Speaker 3: Oh really obviously had to take it out for the movie,
Speaker 3: but like that he.
Speaker 2: Is a plot point in the book.
Speaker 1: That is a coup.
Speaker 3: That is great casting. Yeah, that is a coup. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I could not be more of the target audience for this.
Speaker 3: And I have seen it.
Speaker 2: I don't know fifty times, I've seen it a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how about you.
Speaker 1: I definitely saw it in theaters. I remember really liking
Speaker 1: it and thinking it was very charming, and again we
Speaker 1: cannot overstate the discussion of weight, which it's not absent
Speaker 1: in the movie, Like, there definitely is stuff about her
Speaker 1: weight in the movie. But what I was expecting, based
Speaker 1: on my memory having seen it like once in two
Speaker 1: thousand and five and one two thousand and one, whenever
Speaker 1: it was right, and then in the intervening years go by,
Speaker 1: I was expecting this to have someone calling her a
Speaker 1: fat cow every single scene. That's that in my memory,
Speaker 1: That's what it was. And then it comes up like
Speaker 1: a couple of times verbally, and then she talks about
Speaker 1: her weight a lot. Yeah, it's just not as big
Speaker 1: of a plot point as I expected it to be.
Speaker 1: At the end of the movie, I was like, huh,
Speaker 1: that's interesting.
Speaker 2: Also, I feel like two thousand and one was like
Speaker 2: that skinny Oh yeah, skinny skinny model.
Speaker 1: Look it was we love and respect peak Cameron Diaz.
Speaker 1: It was. Yeah, it was eight feet tall, one hundred pounds.
Speaker 2: One hundred pounds. It was like those genes that go
Speaker 2: down past your pelvic bone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was the genes that stopped directly above your vagina. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: vaginal coverage only.
Speaker 3: Like and if you did not have a close shave,
Speaker 3: people were seeing things. Yeah, like it was just that
Speaker 3: look at the time, like and that was so normalized
Speaker 3: in the culture that I feel like, I'm trying to
Speaker 3: remember if I thought she was fat when I first
Speaker 3: saw the movie.
Speaker 2: I don't remember that.
Speaker 3: I do remember the conversations that other people were having,
Speaker 3: but I don't remember what my own reaction was and
Speaker 3: if she looked different, like the way where I was like, wow,
Speaker 3: I've never seen someone like that on screen before.
Speaker 1: I maybe do not remember having that reaction at all.
Speaker 1: I remember thinking more like they're doing the thing that
Speaker 1: they always do, which is like Bridget rarely does her
Speaker 1: hair very well, like like she kind of brushes it
Speaker 1: and throws it back right like. Then there's once see
Speaker 1: in the beginning, very randomly where she has a beautiful
Speaker 1: quaft head of hair, like in the morning, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what what was happening on setting that day?
Speaker 3: That's her day after she's hung over? Yeah, look, yeah
Speaker 3: that's what that's that's supposed to be ugly.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, she looks amazing. And then she goes
Speaker 1: back to the again just normal hair, like nothing nothing
Speaker 1: done with it.
Speaker 3: That's over hair, bitch, you gotta live in your bed
Speaker 3: head hair. Your bed head hair is your best hair.
Speaker 1: It's your best hair. Yeah, But I don't remember it
Speaker 1: all thinking like she looks fat or at all. I
Speaker 1: don't remember thinking that doesn't like it looks like Renadese
Speaker 1: would have gained weight. Like. I just remember being like,
Speaker 1: that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was such a and it was funny, is
Speaker 3: I What I do remember when I watched it the
Speaker 3: first time was like being very impressed with her English accent.
Speaker 1: Which I read British people are, oh really yes, because
Speaker 1: apparently she used the same British British accent coach as
Speaker 1: one Gwyneth Paltrow did for Emma, and everyone thought Gwyneth
Speaker 1: Paltrow was British for a good five years.
Speaker 2: Fucking nails that accent, like truly nails it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I've read that the English people were like,
Speaker 1: good job to you.
Speaker 2: Well done, that's off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cheers.
Speaker 3: Well you know what that means, Paul. That means that
Speaker 3: we get to do our flawless.
Speaker 1: English English accents everyone throughout this recap, All right, Erica.
Speaker 1: The tagline for Bridget Jones's diary is all women keep score.
Speaker 1: Only the great ones put it in writing. No, doesn't
Speaker 1: really have anything. It doesn't actually have anything with the movie. Sorry, No, Okay,
Speaker 1: so I have I have a backup for you, because
Speaker 1: there were two on the main poster. How's this one? Okay, uncensored, Uninhibited, unmarried.
Speaker 2: That's perfect.
Speaker 1: There you go. Okay, it's actually really good. Yeah, one
Speaker 1: of the two eight bad?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to read the iTunes synopsis.
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go. Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger Best
Speaker 1: Supporting Actress, Cold Mountain, Chicago.
Speaker 2: Did she went for Chicago too?
Speaker 1: No, she didn't really went for Cold Mountain. She went
Speaker 1: for Cold Mountain.
Speaker 2: She earned that fucking oscar. She's amazing in that.
Speaker 1: And Hugh Grant love actually star in a delightful comedy
Speaker 1: about the ups and downs of modern romance. Bridget Zelwegger,
Speaker 1: a busy career woman, decides to turn over a new
Speaker 1: page in her life by channeling her thoughts, opinions, and
Speaker 1: insecurities into a journal that becomes a hilarious chronicle of
Speaker 1: her adventures. Soon, she becomes the center of attention between
Speaker 1: a guy who's too good to be true, Hugh Grant,
Speaker 1: and another who's so wrong for her he could be
Speaker 1: just right Colin Firth.
Speaker 3: Actually, except for the fact that they wrote be just
Speaker 3: right instead of just be right or something like that,
Speaker 3: that I actually really like this.
Speaker 1: I think this is pretty good. Yeah, they make such
Speaker 1: a big deal about the diary, but the diary doesn't
Speaker 1: really do much in the movie. He just kind of
Speaker 1: like hangs out in the background and then it becomes
Speaker 1: a plot point at the buryer.
Speaker 2: I know, well, because the book is written from the diaries.
Speaker 3: It's a diary. Yeah yah, so you're just reading the diary,
Speaker 3: so they like, I get it. I get why they
Speaker 3: can't do that the whole movie. I agree they should
Speaker 3: have put more diary entries.
Speaker 1: More diary. Yeah, yeah, I would have loved to listen
Speaker 1: to more of them or see her writing them more.
Speaker 1: A little Monday morning called backing for you.
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Speaker 2: We open on Bridget Jones. Renees Elwiger walking through a
Speaker 2: snowy London evening. In voiceover, she tells us it all
Speaker 2: began on New Year's Day, on my thirty second year
Speaker 2: of being single. I'm doing strong choice, I'm doing Adele.
Speaker 1: But you're doing somethout like Muppet baby. Adele's something in there.
Speaker 2: I want to I want credit for saying thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: I also enjoyed single.
Speaker 2: Bridget is on her to her mother's New Year's Eve
Speaker 2: turkey curry buffet.
Speaker 1: Is a turkey curry buffet a thing. British listeners, please
Speaker 1: reach out genuinely let me know.
Speaker 2: I want it so bad.
Speaker 3: When she showed, when she like puts that turkey curry
Speaker 3: on her plate, I'm like, that looks amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay making a turkey curry.
Speaker 3: The crazy thing is is like my husband hates doesn't really.
Speaker 3: The thing is is like the turkey is like Christmas dinner.
Speaker 3: So the assumption would be that this is You're like, oh,
Speaker 3: we're taking the leftovers and making a curry. But New
Speaker 3: Year's just a full week after Christmas. I'm like, how
Speaker 3: long did you freeze the turkey?
Speaker 1: Is this safe to eat at this point? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine.
Speaker 3: Did you make a new second turkey to have this
Speaker 3: turkey curry buffet?
Speaker 1: Maybe they have ham for Christmas and turkey curry.
Speaker 2: Turkey curry.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that does sound doesn't turkey curries sound great?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm a little more iffy on it
Speaker 1: than you all gotta be.
Speaker 2: I like a curry, you honestly, any curry, and like
Speaker 2: a nice white meat curry. Y.
Speaker 1: I like a masamon curry.
Speaker 2: Oh I do too, I do. But this therry in
Speaker 2: this film looks amazing.
Speaker 3: Continuing on, moving on, So she's on her way to
Speaker 3: her mother's party, New Year's party, knowing full well that
Speaker 3: her mother will, as always be trying to set her
Speaker 3: up with some quote unquote bushy ANDed, middle aged.
Speaker 1: Bo that was almost Australia.
Speaker 2: I think that one was Australia. No, no, no, Paul.
Speaker 2: That's how the Queen's.
Speaker 1: Peaks, because that is the Queen's English.
Speaker 2: That's the Queen's English.
Speaker 3: She's greeted at the door by her mother, Pamela, played
Speaker 3: by the excellent Jemma Jones, and Bridget says that her
Speaker 3: mother is and I'll just do this in an English,
Speaker 3: in an American accent, to quote unquote, a strange creature
Speaker 3: from a time when girkins on toothpicks were the height
Speaker 3: of sophistication.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that times at the seventies.
Speaker 2: The seventies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So basically she's calling her mother like a film
Speaker 3: baction the seventies. Some of the things the mother says, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: absolutely old fashioned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's there's gonna be some lines in the
Speaker 1: scene from the mother.
Speaker 3: Who you're like, oh, okay, I got who that woman
Speaker 3: is right away. Her mother, with a sparkle in her eye,
Speaker 3: tells Bridge that the Darcy's are there and they've brought Mark.
Speaker 3: Then she sends Bridget upstairs to change into an outfit
Speaker 3: she's laid out for her. She Bridget came wearing like,
Speaker 3: you know, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day. Really it's
Speaker 3: not New Year's Eve, it's it's the day after. So
Speaker 3: she's she's been hungover, she's exhausted, she's been out all night.
Speaker 2: She came in just like sweatpants and a nice, like
Speaker 2: great gray sweater, and her mother says to her, oh, darling,
Speaker 2: you'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you've
Speaker 2: just wandered out of Auschwitz.
Speaker 1: And I heard that line, I actually physically recoiled. I
Speaker 1: was like, holy shit, it's to be clear, it's funny.
Speaker 1: It's a funny.
Speaker 2: It's a funny line tells.
Speaker 1: You everything you need to know about this woman.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And Bridget's reaction to it, it's so like she just
Speaker 2: rolls her eyes. She's like, I've heard.
Speaker 3: That line before, believe it or not, Like I would
Speaker 3: understand why someone would be like, WHOA, that's a lot,
Speaker 3: and it's a lot to put in the first minute
Speaker 3: of a movie.
Speaker 2: The movie does not get harder.
Speaker 3: Than that, absolutely not, like even on the mom It
Speaker 3: gets a lot easier on the mom after that. But
Speaker 3: if they're like trying to like tell you exactly who
Speaker 3: this woman is from the jump, that's who this woman is.
Speaker 1: She also has a line about Mark that his wife
Speaker 1: left him. She was Japanese. Very cruel race, very cruel race.
Speaker 1: In this movie that has absolutely no people of color
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 3: I think there's one person of color who's in one
Speaker 3: scene and that's it.
Speaker 1: All right. So Bridget returns to the party in a
Speaker 1: holiday monstrosity. She says she's wearing a carpet. I do
Speaker 1: feel like that's generous. She's wearing a crimson button down
Speaker 1: with a wide lace collar under an awful embroidered vest
Speaker 1: and matching skirt.
Speaker 2: Horrible.
Speaker 1: She looks like a couch.
Speaker 2: Horrible, like a couch from the seventies.
Speaker 1: From the seventies at the North Pole that missus Claus
Speaker 1: was like, this is a lot.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put it in the basement. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: put this couch in the base This.
Speaker 1: Is this is This is for us when we go
Speaker 1: downstairs to the den and we're gonna play video games.
Speaker 2: Yeah. This is for the elves who need a break
Speaker 2: and need to crash somewhere.
Speaker 1: Visits for the elves to fuck on when they're.
Speaker 3: Because elf splooge looks exactly like this cat.
Speaker 2: That's right, it's multi colored.
Speaker 1: Bridget is immediately accosted by family friend quote unquote uncle Jeffrey,
Speaker 1: who grabs her ass and asks her about her love life,
Speaker 1: while another family friend, Una, played by Celia Imrie. So
Speaker 1: Una and Jeffrey don't really have that much to do,
Speaker 1: but I have to bring them up here because it's
Speaker 1: Celia Imri who's brilliant. It's brilliant, and she gets some
Speaker 1: just absolute banger lines, like when she points out your
Speaker 1: career girls can't pull it off forever and She's like
Speaker 1: just dancing to no music. Negative.
Speaker 3: Well her husband is actively groping Bridge. Yeah, like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's a lot.
Speaker 2: It's a lot that Uncle Jeffrey character is. But I
Speaker 2: mean like people have those people in their lives, Like
Speaker 2: women have those people in their lives and it sucks.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, I'm really glad they put this in
Speaker 2: the movie.
Speaker 1: It was something watching it for me or I was like,
Speaker 1: I bet in nineteen ninety six or two thousand and one,
Speaker 1: when I saw the movie, I would have been like, well,
Speaker 1: that's over the top and insane. And now because I've
Speaker 1: learned and listen Uncle Jeffrey's I was like, I bet
Speaker 1: that's real. That's awful.
Speaker 2: Happened to Helen Fielding.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's a real thing. Uh. So, Bridget flees to
Speaker 1: her father Colin, played by Jim Broadbent, with whom she
Speaker 1: shares both a cigarette and a kinship. Right, these are
Speaker 1: these are the two islands of sanity in this whirlwind
Speaker 1: of insanity. I have to point out, did you notice
Speaker 1: that Jim Broadbent is absolutely not smoking that cigarette?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I didn't notice.
Speaker 1: He brings the cigarette to his lips, he takes a
Speaker 1: cigarette away, then he audibly inhales and then he never
Speaker 1: exhales an he smoke, and he does it twice in
Speaker 1: the movie.
Speaker 2: He is a better actor than that.
Speaker 1: Come on, Jim, Like, I'm sure they're herbal cigarettes. Maybe
Speaker 1: he has as Maybe he's like someone who literally can't
Speaker 1: asthma or something or something. Yeah, but he smokes like
Speaker 1: that the whole time. See him smoking. He's not smoking
Speaker 1: the cigarette.
Speaker 2: There's so much cigarette smoking in this movie. It's why
Speaker 2: remember back when do people could smoke? In movie?
Speaker 1: People just everyone just smoking.
Speaker 2: Her her friends are just constantly smoking. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So Pamela Ushus Bridget over to meet Mark Darcy played
Speaker 3: by Casting Coup Colin. First, Bridget is briefly hopeful because
Speaker 3: he's a tall drink of water, tall, dark and handsome, tall,
Speaker 3: dark and handsome ding dong. Maybe Mummy got it right
Speaker 3: this time. But these hopes are crushed when Bridget looks
Speaker 3: down and sees that Mark is wearing a reindeer jumper.
Speaker 1: Can I say my immediately even if even if he
Speaker 1: did it look like Colin Firth, which is a very
Speaker 1: pretty picture, I'd been like, that's a plus, that's a
Speaker 1: sense of humor. That's what I think yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it turns out it's not as.
Speaker 1: But like I would have been, I would have fallen
Speaker 1: into the trap.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, glass houses, Bridget, glass houses. You are wearing
Speaker 2: a carpet. He still looks better than that.
Speaker 1: Best you are wearing it. You were wearing a a
Speaker 1: elf Monica Lewinsky.
Speaker 2: Dress, an afghan made of elf.
Speaker 1: Splue, do not you get wearing black light on that thing?
Speaker 3: Pamela immediately embarrasses Bridget by referencing her running through Mark's
Speaker 3: lawn naked when she was a child. She leaves, and
Speaker 3: then Bridget and Mark stand there in awkward silence for
Speaker 3: a second. He's really awkward, cannot make conversation to save
Speaker 3: his life.
Speaker 2: You will find out later that he is.
Speaker 3: A top lawyer who has to argue for someone's civil
Speaker 3: rights in court. And I'm like, but you can't even
Speaker 3: make conversation at a party.
Speaker 1: Say what you want about lawyers, Generally, they're good conversation
Speaker 1: we loquacious.
Speaker 2: This man is not.
Speaker 3: Bridget attempts to make conversations. She just keeps pointing out
Speaker 3: all her own what she thinks are faults. She's like, oo, yes,
Speaker 3: got to make some New Year's resolutions. Stop drinking so much.
Speaker 3: And then she takes a drink and she's like, A
Speaker 3: didn't stop smoking? And then she looks at her the
Speaker 3: lit cigarette in her hand. She's like ha, and then
Speaker 3: she goes and then just stop talking total nonsense to
Speaker 3: strange people.
Speaker 1: Am I right?
Speaker 2: She like pokes him in the chest. He could not
Speaker 2: look more uncomfortable. He stonewalls her. Yeah, does not say
Speaker 2: a word.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been this rude to someone?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, I can't.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm always the bridget well, I'm never the mark.
Speaker 3: I've never stood in silence for a human being in
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 1: Two of us, can you imagine we should try it once?
Speaker 1: We should? We should we should like go to a
Speaker 1: party and see which of us can go longer without speaking.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm betting you one of us loses
Speaker 1: in fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2: It won't even be close.
Speaker 3: I can't give people the silent treatment when I'm mad
Speaker 3: at them, because it hurts me more than them. So
Speaker 3: I have to think of other meaner ways to get
Speaker 3: back at people when.
Speaker 2: They fuck with me.
Speaker 1: You you more psychological warfare, Well, yeah, I get get nicer.
Speaker 3: I get yeah, well I get nicer, but also meaner.
Speaker 3: Say things that are like, Oh, they're gonna think about
Speaker 3: that in two years. That's gonna that's good. They're gonna
Speaker 3: talk to their therapists about this later. So we cut
Speaker 3: away to a few moments later, right, and Bridget's serving
Speaker 3: herself some food.
Speaker 1: It's some perfect curry, some.
Speaker 2: Turkey curry, the turkey.
Speaker 3: Curry buffet, and she overhears Mark talking to his mother
Speaker 3: and him referring to her as a verbally incontinent spinster
Speaker 3: who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish, and
Speaker 3: dresses like her mother.
Speaker 2: Damn, none of that.
Speaker 1: Is a lie.
Speaker 3: To be fair, to be fair, to be fair, all
Speaker 3: of these things are true. But I find them as features,
Speaker 3: not bugs, except for the dressing.
Speaker 1: The dressing which was not her choice. Really, it's not
Speaker 1: her choice.
Speaker 2: She's in her thirties. She's in her thirties.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you something, if you had a
Speaker 1: mother like that, you'd be like, you know what path
Speaker 1: of least resistance? Fine? Yeah, Like, she's not expecting Mark
Speaker 1: to be attractive, so she puts it on before she
Speaker 1: knows what Mark looks like. Yeah, maybe uncle Jeffrey will
Speaker 1: grab my ass less if I look like a north
Speaker 1: Pole settee has Colin Firth's voice, and I know this
Speaker 1: is what he does, like this buttoned up gentleman. It's
Speaker 1: so naisy. It's so high on his mouse. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: so up there. How is he even doing that?
Speaker 3: It's like he's like he's like Couse playing posh in
Speaker 3: his His whole thing is just like, I'm just glad
Speaker 3: to make my face as tight as I possibly can.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have so much luck, Joe, I.
Speaker 2: Will not speak to you with my mouth open.
Speaker 1: So Bridget's voice over kicks in again, and she tells
Speaker 1: us that that was the moment she realized that if
Speaker 1: something didn't change soon, she was gonna live a life
Speaker 1: that would ultimately end with her dying alone. Bridget, I'm
Speaker 1: here to tell you we all die alone. Just get
Speaker 1: used to the idea. Stop worrying so much about it.
Speaker 3: Happy holidays everyone, from us at that agel to you.
Speaker 3: We will all die alone.
Speaker 2: Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Speaker 1: We cut to her apartment. She's lying in her pajamas
Speaker 1: on the couch. She's watching Fraser, she's drinking wine, and
Speaker 1: she's smoking as Celine Dion's all by myself, Blaze.
Speaker 3: Okay, except for the smoking. I've never smoked in my life. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this looks like my ideal Saturday night.
Speaker 1: I actually watched this. It was like, I bet Erica.
Speaker 1: This feels personal to Erica.
Speaker 3: This is a personal attack this movie. Look, I'm not
Speaker 3: even in my thirties. I'm now in my forties. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and watching Fraser while drinking wine on my couch is
Speaker 3: the greatest thing I've ever done.
Speaker 1: I was like, watch it. You say about a fucking friend,
Speaker 1: that's my friend. You're talking about this.
Speaker 2: All by myself.
Speaker 3: Riff is so good and to this day, I don't
Speaker 3: know if I've ever seen another movie that copies it.
Speaker 3: Where like, now we're going to get the title sequence, Yeah,
Speaker 3: of the film, the movie starts, and then five.
Speaker 1: Minutes in, Yeah, there's a cold open.
Speaker 3: There's a cold open, and we have seen that before,
Speaker 3: but we've never What I've at least never seen before
Speaker 3: is the main character doing of a lipsing for her
Speaker 3: life to Seline Dion song while the title sequence is
Speaker 3: going everything about this A plus no notes agreed.
Speaker 1: Okay, So she decides she's going to start a diary
Speaker 1: with all the truth about Bridget Jones, and she starts
Speaker 1: to list off her resolutions. She's gonna lose twenty pounds.
Speaker 1: She is at this point one hundred and thirty six pounds.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, yes, right, that's right.
Speaker 1: So she wants to be a one hundred and fifteen.
Speaker 3: One hundred and fifteen cool, cool, cool, yep. I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know what a women way. I remember reading
Speaker 3: charts because I'm I'm five foot one, five feet really,
Speaker 3: and like I remember reading charts when I was like
Speaker 3: in my teens and twenties. That's say that I should
Speaker 3: weigh one hundred and five pounds.
Speaker 1: No adult should weigh a hundred and five pounds.
Speaker 3: I remember, like in doctors' offices, like because you're five
Speaker 3: feet tall, you're very short, you really should be weighing
Speaker 3: about one hundred and five pounds.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like in one leg, I was like, what
Speaker 2: are you talking about?
Speaker 1: That doesn't take into also into account at all? How
Speaker 1: broad you are?
Speaker 3: Nothing, Like, it's taken absolutely nothing about my body composition
Speaker 3: into account, and a doctor was telling me that I
Speaker 3: need to weigh one hundred and five pounds.
Speaker 1: She also resolves to always put away last night's penies
Speaker 1: in the laundry, and also to find a nice, sensible
Speaker 1: boyfriend and stop fantasizing about alcoholics, workaholics, commitment, phobics, peeping toms, megalomaniac's,
Speaker 1: emotional fuckwits or perverts, and particularly about a certain someone
Speaker 1: who is all of those things.
Speaker 2: Emotional fuck with is the best sentence ever.
Speaker 1: I literally when she said peeping tom's, I was like,
Speaker 1: that's such a weird thing because in my head again,
Speaker 1: boy boy brain, I'm like, a peeping tom is someone
Speaker 1: who like climbs up a tree out at your window.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, no, actually, that's not what a peeping
Speaker 1: tom is. Just someone who looks down your shirt at work,
Speaker 1: boy brain, really fucks you up. You just don't see
Speaker 1: these things until you see them.
Speaker 3: Smash cut to a brief flashback as Daniel Kleva played
Speaker 3: by Hugh Grant, Bridget's boss, arrives at the company Christmas
Speaker 3: party and grimaces as she's standing on her desk doing
Speaker 3: a karaoke rendition of can't can't live if living is
Speaker 3: without you?
Speaker 1: Do holiday parties have karaoke machine?
Speaker 2: They should?
Speaker 1: Well they should, Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have karaoke with almost every team I've ever
Speaker 2: worked with. People love to go karaoke with their.
Speaker 3: Colleagues't know why I'm given the amount of songs that
Speaker 3: are about sex, yeah, and or have like words you
Speaker 3: don't want to say in front of your colleagues and them.
Speaker 2: I don't know why karaoke is a thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, the next time you go, please invite me as
Speaker 1: your date because I want. I want to karaoke with
Speaker 1: office workers and I've never done it.
Speaker 3: They do let it, they let loose. They're karaoke So yeah,
Speaker 3: he grimaces and she's like.
Speaker 2: Cat live live it with weout you.
Speaker 1: No one would watch us and think this woman would
Speaker 1: be an oscar for playing Judy Garland in twenty years
Speaker 1: not on this track line.
Speaker 2: Does she win for that she did?
Speaker 3: God damn it, Brunettes Eliger, you're on her role despite
Speaker 3: her best efforts at work, Bridget can't stop fantasizing about
Speaker 3: Daniel Eric.
Speaker 1: I have a question for you, Uh huh? Has anyone's
Speaker 1: hair ever looked as good as Hugh Grant's in this movie?
Speaker 1: And before you answer, I want to remind us everyone
Speaker 1: listening of William Kat's hair and Carrit.
Speaker 2: Literally was thinking. Except for the entire cast of Carri.
Speaker 1: No and possibly Sam neil in.
Speaker 2: Hold on he's playing Charide playing Chi.
Speaker 3: There was like a boxing motion and then and then
Speaker 3: a throat rip boxing motion. Throat Rip's that to me
Speaker 3: sounds like you're doing You're doing to work.
Speaker 2: She Wards first word driving car, road Roadhouse, Samuel's not
Speaker 2: in Roadhouse, Sam.
Speaker 1: Elliott, sam Elliot's herod Roadhouse. Maybe as good as.
Speaker 3: Hugh Grant for fuck ability, for sheer fuckability, Hugh Grant. Congratulations,
Speaker 3: you win, you win. I'm gonna take a moment here
Speaker 3: to talk about Hugh Grant because Hugh Grant has been
Speaker 3: having a moment in pop culture lately. He has been
Speaker 3: doing interview after interview because he is working constantly these days,
Speaker 3: because he has a lot of kids. He has a
Speaker 3: lot of kids. He has embraced his surly, churlish I
Speaker 3: refuse to be polite to people.
Speaker 2: It is so good. Is he the British Larry David.
Speaker 2: It's possible.
Speaker 1: It's also something about it because you don't I don't
Speaker 1: think I've ever heard a story about him being like
Speaker 1: nasty on set to people to the extent that it's
Speaker 1: a problem. Like I don't think he's pleasant, but he's
Speaker 1: not like making people cry or anything.
Speaker 2: Right, I don't know from what I've heard, I have
Speaker 2: not heard.
Speaker 3: The only time I've heard about him being nasty on
Speaker 3: set is an actual conversation between him and Emma Thompson
Speaker 3: on Graham Norton when she was like, you were a
Speaker 3: monster on Sense and Sensibility.
Speaker 2: He's like, I know, I was terrible. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: He's like, I was feeling fat and I just looked
Speaker 2: terrible and I hated myself.
Speaker 1: Because he'll say it too, he's like, I'm an asshole.
Speaker 1: I'm a grouchy asshole, and like that's who I am,
Speaker 1: And like he was everyone's dream boyfriend from like ninety
Speaker 1: four till Divine Brown.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, everyone thought he was just like wide eyed
Speaker 3: innocent and then obviously he's not. And that's the other
Speaker 3: thing too, is I feel like he gets away with
Speaker 3: so much, like no one's like, what an asshole about
Speaker 3: that guy? Because it's baked into who he is in
Speaker 3: a way where you're expecting it. Like when Patti LuPone, yeah,
Speaker 3: is kind of a bitch to someone, You're like, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's Patti LuPone.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ay, she's earned it, and b that's what we
Speaker 2: paid for and none of them.
Speaker 1: They're not denying it, they're not trying to they're not ellening,
Speaker 1: they're not being nice, and then awful back stage like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm an asshole. I know I'm an asshole. Like I'm
Speaker 1: being honest about it, and I'm not changing it because
Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Grant and I don't fucking have to. And like,
Speaker 1: on a certain level, I respect.
Speaker 2: That I do too.
Speaker 3: I have to say, I'm loving this version of Hugh
Speaker 3: Grant that we're getting.
Speaker 1: If I got on set with you, Grant, I would
Speaker 1: know my fucking lines, and I probab wouldn't look him
Speaker 1: in the eye, but like, yeah, I would.
Speaker 2: I would do.
Speaker 3: I would wait two weeks to talk to him. I'd
Speaker 3: wait for I have something really funny to say, yeah
Speaker 3: and make him laugh. And that's my that's my way
Speaker 3: in Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right. So we cut to Bridget with her found
Speaker 1: family at a bar. These are her three best friends
Speaker 1: in the world, Jude, Shaza and Tom or As I
Speaker 1: thought of them moaning myrtle, Selena Meyers Finish Nemesis from Veep,
Speaker 1: and Doctor guyas Balter from Battlestar Galactica.
Speaker 3: Yeh, all very famous actors at this point. I based
Speaker 3: quite a lot of my adult personality on Shazza.
Speaker 1: Oh, I just want you to know that I can
Speaker 1: see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that works fuck.
Speaker 1: A lot, Yes a lot.
Speaker 2: That's kind of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all I got. There's there's a joke about
Speaker 1: Tom having been like a one hit wonder pop star
Speaker 1: in the eighties and he's not.
Speaker 2: I'm laid for the whole of the nineties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it doesn't appear to be that he
Speaker 1: tried to keep writing music. It's that he just decided
Speaker 1: good enough and like I have everything I want. Tom
Speaker 1: is gay. I'm getting all of the dick that I want,
Speaker 1: so I shall not release more music.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, what do I think about the word poof?
Speaker 3: To be clear, we're not English. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 3: if you know that because of our flawless English accents.
Speaker 1: But I'm coming out of the closets.
Speaker 3: I'm going down to close and so for example, I'm
Speaker 3: hoping I didn't offend anyone just now saying it. But
Speaker 3: I'm like curious, is that, Like, I don't know if
Speaker 3: we have an analogous word that's like.
Speaker 1: A fun I would think it like now, maybe not
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one, but it's like a fruit,
Speaker 1: a fruit. Yeah, Like I do not find it offensive.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should, but it is my
Speaker 1: understanding that it's a pretty accepted word.
Speaker 2: I think so, yeah, and like they say it a lot.
Speaker 3: She says it a lot, and she's clearly like at
Speaker 3: least a tom an ally yeah, although at one point
Speaker 3: later in the movie she's like, I'm going to a
Speaker 3: party mostly poofs, which.
Speaker 1: Is the wrong the wrong way to say that line,
Speaker 1: I'm going to a party mostly poofs is the correct way.
Speaker 3: Well, because she's like, I guess I'm just never going
Speaker 3: to find a man because all I hang out with
Speaker 3: her gay men.
Speaker 1: So they're at the bar, they're drinking, they're smoking like chimneys.
Speaker 1: They take her home and she falls out of the
Speaker 1: car and none of her friends seems surprised or concerned
Speaker 1: that she fully face plants into like a snow drift
Speaker 1: on her sidewalk. They're like, bye, also, you and.
Speaker 2: I cannot underistdate how much English people drink.
Speaker 1: It's true. So we cut to Bridget at work. She
Speaker 1: is wearing a very short skirt. I think you feel
Speaker 1: like for the nineties, not particularly remarkable for now.
Speaker 2: Not remarkable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also, to be clear, she's wearing stockings. She
Speaker 1: sits down. She receives a flirty email from Daniel. The
Speaker 1: way they dramatize this email is wild because it seems
Speaker 1: like she has to click every time to see who
Speaker 1: it's from, then the subject line, and then the body
Speaker 1: of the email. It's like three separate clicks. But whatever.
Speaker 1: Daniel asks if her skirt is outsick, and Bridget cheicily
Speaker 1: writes back that she's appalled by his message, and she
Speaker 1: can see Daniel through like the glass walls of his
Speaker 1: office and she sees him get her response and kind
Speaker 1: of smirk and she's like, oh, we have sparks.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Bridget reports to her diary that her resolution to stop
Speaker 1: fantasizing about Daniel has hit a real speed bump, but
Speaker 1: she restates her mission to find a sensible boyfriend.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, instead, how counterpoints.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, instead of finding a reasonable boyfriend,
Speaker 3: she dives headfirst into further flirtation with Daniel, because obviously,
Speaker 3: who wouldn't who wouldn't want who would not want that man?
Speaker 1: Like at least a night a month?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, if you can get him for a month, great,
Speaker 2: good for you can.
Speaker 1: I ask something. Ladies, put your hands on the cancel button.
Speaker 1: I'm prepared.
Speaker 2: Oh, get ready, get ready, we're gonna cancel.
Speaker 1: Paul. This is it the outfit that she walks in with,
Speaker 1: which is the fully sheer top with her bra exposed.
Speaker 2: Yep, I wouldn't wear that.
Speaker 1: That is a little inappropriate for the office, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, I'm gonna you know what, Guys, remove
Speaker 2: your hands from the candle button. We're fine, We're good,
Speaker 2: We're good.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, no, I would say that's that's inappropriate now,
Speaker 3: where like a lot of sheer is in passion, but
Speaker 3: in Yeah no, in two thousand.
Speaker 1: And one, her black bra could not be more visible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, she's wearing she's wearing. I mean, it's not
Speaker 2: a sheer top, it's a fully see through top.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My honestly too, I would be concerned if I sat
Speaker 3: down in that that I would get like a stomach
Speaker 3: pooch in the office.
Speaker 1: I don't know everyone does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that would be my concern you have.
Speaker 1: That's why the stars have people retouching their photos and
Speaker 1: retouching their movies when they sit down.
Speaker 2: Look, they have no facts so she heads into the
Speaker 2: office in a fully see through top that no one
Speaker 2: no one says anything about. That's progressive, that's progressive.
Speaker 3: That office is like, well, all right, she looks inappropriate,
Speaker 3: but no one's gonna say anything.
Speaker 1: There is a woman in the office who.
Speaker 2: Yes, the character's name is Perpetua.
Speaker 1: It is the greatest name because she's supposed to be
Speaker 1: like the uptight woman who Bridget works with, who's like
Speaker 1: her senior.
Speaker 2: Yeah, slightly senior, and therefore thinks she owns me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is how she describes her in the But
Speaker 1: her name is Perpetua, and like, what a fucking fantastic
Speaker 1: character name, perfect Perpetua. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So she and Daniel continue their graphic email flirtation. At
Speaker 3: one point he goes, like, your tit's in that top,
Speaker 3: and she goes, how dare you harass me in this
Speaker 3: impertinent manner? I'm very important and busy, And then she
Speaker 3: gets into the elevator. He comes in after her and
Speaker 3: gives her a little surreptitious ass grab in the elevator,
Speaker 3: which she goes, ooh too, only because she wants Daniel
Speaker 3: is this okay, yeah, do not touch people's asses, And
Speaker 3: the yell actually none of this is okay. Everything they're
Speaker 3: doing is wrong. Don't do anything these two are doing.
Speaker 3: Daniel asks her out, and Bridget plays a little hard
Speaker 3: to get good for you good shop. Bridget nails this.
Speaker 3: She's like, oh, I'm busy tonight, because heyes, they're out
Speaker 3: for like that night. She's like, I'm busy and he's
Speaker 3: like tomorrow, and I'm like. She's like, we have that
Speaker 3: work thing and he's like the night after she goes,
Speaker 3: let's see, shall we? And then she walks away all
Speaker 3: coolly and then gives herself like a mental high five.
Speaker 2: She like fucking nailed it. Did I would not have
Speaker 2: guessed this woman would have that level of self control
Speaker 2: for her.
Speaker 1: All good for her. She must have really been planning
Speaker 1: this out. If he asks me out, I will respond
Speaker 1: with this sentence because yeah, as we will find, she
Speaker 1: is not good off the cuff. This is not a
Speaker 1: woman you want flying by the seat of her very
Speaker 1: short skirt because she you don't know what she'll say.
Speaker 3: So Bridge so she has an immediate dinner with her family,
Speaker 3: her profound family, her friends. She's like, okay, quick summit
Speaker 3: of the friends. They advise her that the next evening
Speaker 3: at their business function, she has to look gorgeous, and
Speaker 3: then once she's at the party, she has to ignore
Speaker 3: Daniel and mingle and party with all the glitterati that
Speaker 3: are there. Her friend Jude has this amazing line here
Speaker 3: where she says, no pressure bridge, but your whole future
Speaker 3: happiness now depends on how you behave in this one
Speaker 3: social occasion.
Speaker 1: I can't do that woman's voice. No pressure bridge, but
Speaker 1: your whole future depends on this one occasion.
Speaker 2: I absolutely love that actress. She's in everything once you
Speaker 2: know her, she's in absolutely everything, and she's brilliant in everything.
Speaker 1: So we cut to the book lawn this as the
Speaker 1: next night. This is their big work event. They work
Speaker 1: at a publishing house.
Speaker 3: I remember we said that they work at a publishing house.
Speaker 3: This is going to be important later, so I want
Speaker 3: to mention this. And she is a marketing assistant, maybe
Speaker 3: a marketing coordinator, like slightly higher up than an assistant,
Speaker 3: but like she is in marketing.
Speaker 2: Yep, just want to make sure that's clear.
Speaker 1: It's very much seems like a job that she fell
Speaker 1: ass backwards into it, like a low level job at
Speaker 1: this company right out of college.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she has a communications degree.
Speaker 1: And like she's worked her way up two rungs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one rung at most.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We cut to this book launch where Bridget is
Speaker 1: doing her best to circulate oozing intelligence. Unfortunately, after failing
Speaker 1: to connect with Salmon Rushdie.
Speaker 2: Who is in this movie playing himself, Yeah.
Speaker 1: She runs directly into Dowur Mark Darcy. Bridget, despite fantasizing
Speaker 1: about calling him a prematurely middle aged prick with a
Speaker 1: cruel raced ex wife, manages to charm a small smile
Speaker 1: out of Mark when she introduces him to Perpetua. Mark
Speaker 1: introduces her to his colleague Natasha played by m Beth.
Speaker 2: Davitz, who's amazing in everything she does.
Speaker 1: Natasha has her eyes on Mark right he's divorced now
Speaker 1: and they've worked together for a while, they're both barristers. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: we see Mark and Daniel make eye contact across the party,
Speaker 1: and Bridget sees like a tension between them, like there's
Speaker 1: an immediate recognition, and then look away. It just just
Speaker 1: occurred to me, why is Mark at this party?
Speaker 3: Because Perpetua seems to have invited Natasha and Natasha brought
Speaker 3: Marcus her date. O. It is the barest of threats,
Speaker 3: because Natasha and Perpetua seem to be quite close.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're right.
Speaker 2: Later in the.
Speaker 3: Evening, Okay, Bridget's boss, so Bridget, So Daniel is Bridget's boss.
Speaker 3: But Daniel has a boss named mister fitz Herbert.
Speaker 1: Who is the tits pervert who she calls.
Speaker 3: Mister Tit's pervert because he stares at her tits all
Speaker 3: the time without actually knowing her.
Speaker 2: Name or what she does at the office. And mister
Speaker 2: Tit's pervert is like, I need you to introduce me
Speaker 2: before I introduced the author of this book. The book,
Speaker 2: by the way, is called Kafka's Motorbike.
Speaker 1: They had like a cardboard cutout of the author. He
Speaker 1: did he not look like the guy who did supersize me?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: It does?
Speaker 2: He does?
Speaker 1: He looks like Morgan's Yeah, is is Morgan? Because Morgan
Speaker 1: Spurlock was a thing around this, like is he gonna?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna cameo in this movie? Is this random ball? No,
Speaker 1: he doesn't.
Speaker 2: Morgan Spurlock was after it like super Size Me was
Speaker 2: after this.
Speaker 3: So Bridget goes on stage to introduce mister fitz Herbert,
Speaker 3: but of course she gets that thing that happens when
Speaker 3: you're like nervous and you're like, she like, don't say
Speaker 3: titz Perbert, don't say tits perper, don't say stitz Pberber.
Speaker 3: And she stumbles terribly. Yeah, and she just kind of
Speaker 3: makes it ask of herself. There are two kind of
Speaker 3: super cringe moments in the movie that actually are I
Speaker 3: find a little hard to watch.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is one of them.
Speaker 3: There's two, both of both of them are her giving
Speaker 3: a big speech, so she stumbles through it.
Speaker 2: It's terrible.
Speaker 3: The boss humiliates her further by like making fun of
Speaker 3: her as soon as he gets on stage and then
Speaker 3: introducing the evening's honoree or whatever.
Speaker 1: Not Morgan Spurloc.
Speaker 2: Not Morgan Spurlock.
Speaker 3: The other guy, the guy who wrote Kafka's Motorbike, the
Speaker 3: book they're trying to sell.
Speaker 1: I really prefer is Sartre's Model T.
Speaker 2: I like cont tricycle.
Speaker 1: CON's tricycle is good, But have you read Nietzsche's unicycle?
Speaker 2: Is it better than Dosoyevsky's dodge?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. But I think that's the real
Speaker 1: that's the winner, that's the gold standard. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So she's standing.
Speaker 3: Alone at the bar smoking a cigarette, looking really sad
Speaker 3: and pathetic because she just humiliated herself in front of
Speaker 3: a room full of very famous people. Mark spots her
Speaker 3: and he tries to go to talk to her because he,
Speaker 3: you know, he wants to cheer her up a little bit.
Speaker 3: But he stops because Daniel literally swoops in. He like
Speaker 3: swoops in behind Bridget, grabs her around the waist, and
Speaker 3: he's like, all right, I insist on taking you and
Speaker 3: your little skirt out to dinner.
Speaker 2: Now. She of course takes him up on it because
Speaker 2: she wants to get the hell out of there.
Speaker 1: We cut to them at dinner. Daniel's telling Bridget how
Speaker 1: he and Mark knew each other from Cambridge. Daniel's even
Speaker 1: Mark's best man, but they aren't close any longer. And
Speaker 1: Bridget's like, oh why, And he says a few years prior,
Speaker 1: he introduced Mark to his fiance and it turned out
Speaker 1: to be a catastrophic mistake, implying that Mark broke up
Speaker 1: his engagement by sleeping with his fiancee.
Speaker 2: He's mister Wickham and he's lying to Lizzie.
Speaker 3: Remember that part in Pride and Prejudice forere Mister Wickham
Speaker 3: lies Lizzie and tells her that Darcy is a cad,
Speaker 3: but it actually turns out mister Wickham as a cat.
Speaker 2: That's what's happening right now.
Speaker 1: There should be a Pride and Prejudice roller coaster that
Speaker 1: you narrate like that ride in Prejudice, and you get
Speaker 1: dressed in full regency clothes, everything get strapped don because
Speaker 1: you don't want one of the dress get caught in.
Speaker 3: A wheel, and then you go up and down a
Speaker 3: gentle roller coaster and you're like, oh no, oh no, the.
Speaker 2: Regiment's in town. The Regiments in town. Everyone grab onto something.
Speaker 3: And then he goes through like mister Collins tunnel, like,
Speaker 3: oh no, mister Collin's gonna read to us from the
Speaker 3: Bible for four hours.
Speaker 1: So Bridget is shocked and offended on Daniel's behalf. And
Speaker 1: then after dinner, Daniel invites Bridget back to his place,
Speaker 1: but she refuses and he says okay. Then he pulls
Speaker 1: her in for a kiss, and surprise, surprise, they wind
Speaker 1: up back at his place. Right. It's very charming. She
Speaker 1: has on spanks. She was worrido ornsks earlier. She put
Speaker 1: them on, and then he starts to very charmingly tease
Speaker 1: her about the spanks.
Speaker 3: Well, because she got some scary granny panties known for
Speaker 3: holding in your tummy so that you can get into
Speaker 3: a flagrante de lecto situation easier. And he goes, these
Speaker 3: are very silly little boots. As he takes off her
Speaker 3: boots and he goes, this is and this is a
Speaker 3: very silly little skirt. And then he like lifts up
Speaker 3: her skirt. He goes, and this is, oh my god,
Speaker 3: enormous panties.
Speaker 1: The two fall into a sexual affair, but Daniel obfuscates
Speaker 1: when Bridget wonders what will happen at the office. After all,
Speaker 1: they've only been boning two days. What is she talking about?
Speaker 1: So I would guess it's about March in the year.
Speaker 1: So we started in New Year's and like two to
Speaker 1: three months have passed at this point.
Speaker 3: Sure, we cut to Bridget in the mall, informing us
Speaker 3: in voiceover that as soon as one part of your
Speaker 3: life starts going right, of course, another must.
Speaker 2: Fall spectacularly to pieces. And we find her mother. Her mother.
Speaker 3: Her mother works as like a demonstrator, like a product
Speaker 3: demonstrator at a mall. And this product is so phallic
Speaker 3: it it's called have it off because it's the French
Speaker 3: word for egg, which is oof or whatever. But it's
Speaker 3: like she pronounced it, is.
Speaker 2: It having it off? And it's basically like she it
Speaker 2: looks like you're masturbating an egg.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're mesurbating an egg or cocking a shotgun shotgun.
Speaker 2: And then there's like an after spray that like shoots
Speaker 2: the egg come at you.
Speaker 1: What is the after spray supposed to be? Presumptively, these
Speaker 1: have to be hard.
Speaker 5: Boiled eggs, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't need it
Speaker 5: to be explained to be clear, Like this joke lands
Speaker 5: on me one hundred percent of the times on when
Speaker 5: she was moving where a woman has to explain why
Speaker 5: she's masturbating an egg to a group of people at
Speaker 5: the mall.
Speaker 2: So afterwards, Pamela takes Bridget for a coffee and she
Speaker 2: explains that she's frustrated.
Speaker 1: In her marriage.
Speaker 3: She's like, I have no power, no career, no sex life.
Speaker 3: You know, I shouldn't have had kids to begin with.
Speaker 1: She says, having children's not all that's cracked up to
Speaker 1: be given the chance again, I'm not sure i'd have
Speaker 1: them to her daughter, her only.
Speaker 3: One, by the way, but she doesn't have a sibling. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and she's like, and I've been talent spotted and Bridget's like,
Speaker 3: what do you mean? And an opportunity might arise for
Speaker 3: her as a demonstrator on like a QVC channel, on
Speaker 3: like a British version of QVC with a man named
Speaker 3: Julian who sells.
Speaker 2: Jewelry for way too cheap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you see the movie, you're like, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: those Diamonte quote unquote Diamonte hearings are twenty dollars twenty pounds.
Speaker 3: A few weeks later, Bridget heads over to her parents'
Speaker 3: house and she finds that Colin, her father, is now
Speaker 3: living in Squalor like he is. He's the parents have
Speaker 3: essentially broken up and the father is living alone and
Speaker 3: he's just miserable and depressed without her mother. And he's
Speaker 3: watching Pamela on TV as Julian's assistant. Pamela is apparently
Speaker 3: carrying on an affair with Julian, and half their friends
Speaker 3: have had them around for dinner at this point.
Speaker 1: That's awful.
Speaker 3: Pamela is so mean to I mean, it's kind of
Speaker 3: a joke, right, like Pamela Everything Pamela does because she's
Speaker 3: so like, she's so ridiculous that it's funny and it's kind.
Speaker 1: Of a joke.
Speaker 3: But if you really take the situation at face value,
Speaker 3: I cannot believe Colin takes her back.
Speaker 1: There's a line that she has later where she's like,
Speaker 1: you know, she's the odd woman out. Bridget is very
Speaker 1: close to Colin and she and she's always out in
Speaker 1: the cold, and I'm like, you had bumped that up
Speaker 1: so we could see that a little bit more. But
Speaker 1: she's just again, this is a woman who's like the
Speaker 1: third line of hers is comparing someone to Auschwitz.
Speaker 3: Like, to be fair, had Auschwitz existed in the regency era,
Speaker 3: I'm sure missus Bennett would have said the same thing
Speaker 3: to one of her daughters. So Bridget suggests that Colin
Speaker 3: and she go to Uncle Jeffrey's upcoming quote unquote Tarts
Speaker 3: and Vicker's costume party. Let's put a pin in that
Speaker 3: because I want to talk about that later and flirt
Speaker 3: with other women in order to make Pamela jealous. That's
Speaker 3: what you got to do, is you have to win
Speaker 3: her back. You got complacent in your marriage, Mom ran
Speaker 3: off with the first guy she met. Now you've got
Speaker 3: to win her back. This is all terrible advice. Yeah,
Speaker 3: don't follow any of this advice. People, This is bad, bad, bad,
Speaker 3: And she goes, after all, that's how I got my man,
Speaker 3: and Colin's like, you a boyfriend? She goes, I do, dad,
Speaker 3: and he is perfect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe now.
Speaker 3: Is not the time to tell your dad about the
Speaker 3: perfect boyfriend you have. Well, his marriage has just essentially ended.
Speaker 1: So we see Bridget and Danielle heading out to the
Speaker 1: country for a holiday weekend in combination with the upcoming
Speaker 1: Tarts and Vicars party, and now we're in springtime. Looks
Speaker 1: like May or early June or something. Tartsan Vickers party
Speaker 1: are apparently a real thing, by the way, in the UK,
Speaker 1: is it really? Like from what I can tell, it's
Speaker 1: a real thing that they do that, Like you're supposed
Speaker 1: to come dressed up as either like your sexual fantasy
Speaker 1: or your most like buttoned up pure or like a.
Speaker 3: Vicar or like a priest or like a Yeah, I
Speaker 3: did not know that was a thing. Genuinely, I thought
Speaker 3: this movie like invented the premise. That is amazing and
Speaker 3: I want to go to one so badly. If you
Speaker 3: are a listener in the UK, I will buy a ticket.
Speaker 3: I will buy a ticket and I will show up
Speaker 3: as both a tart and a vicar. I'll figure it out. Yeah,
Speaker 3: invite me, please invite me.
Speaker 1: It has to do with the robe in lifting up
Speaker 1: the robe. It it's what underneath the.
Speaker 3: Hundred It's a pregnant it's a pregnant n showing ass
Speaker 3: crap somehow, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I will do it. You guys, invite me your Tarts
Speaker 2: and Bigger party.
Speaker 1: Please. I was because I was trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: I was looking up and it seems like, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is a thing from what I can tell. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, who knows.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be fun?
Speaker 3: And then we could practice our game of not talking
Speaker 3: to people for ten seconds and see who wins.
Speaker 1: As people sweat. Oh my god, I'm being so rude
Speaker 1: and being so rude.
Speaker 2: And these are English people, they know how to be polite.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Bridget and Daniel arrive at a small inn where
Speaker 1: all the rooms are booked for a wedding except theirs
Speaker 1: and one other, which turned out to be Marx, who
Speaker 1: has arrived with Natasha and will also be attending the
Speaker 1: Tarts and Vicars party. The chill between the two men
Speaker 1: is a parent, and Bridget supports Daniel by barely acknowledging Mark.
Speaker 2: She puts her nose in the air at him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. We cut to a lake where Mark is rowing
Speaker 1: Natasha while they're working on a case together. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Daniel and Bridget each have their own canoe and a
Speaker 1: rowing run. Rowing in lakes romantic or just awful?
Speaker 2: I love rowing a lake, do you really?
Speaker 3: I mean, I've never done it romantically, but okay, that
Speaker 3: sounds like have you never done it in Central Park?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 1: Why would I want to? Paul?
Speaker 2: It's so fun, is it?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: I don't know, disagree, And I'm not even the athletic
Speaker 2: one of the two of us. I trust me. We're going,
Speaker 2: You and I are going. We're going to the boathouse,
Speaker 2: running boat. We're going out there.
Speaker 1: We're also gonna sit a time for how long it
Speaker 1: takes it for both of us to wind up in
Speaker 1: the Central.
Speaker 2: Park that in that gross reservoir green water.
Speaker 1: So, while Mark and Natasha are doing very like barristery things,
Speaker 1: Bridget and Daniel, I think, are drinking Budweiser, which feels
Speaker 1: very weird.
Speaker 2: They're drinking like the cheapest beer they could find and
Speaker 2: then quoting poetry to each other.
Speaker 1: But in a like dirty limericks. Yeah yeah, they wind
Speaker 1: up falling in the water. They're laughing hysterically. Natasha can
Speaker 1: barely contain her disgust, while Mark looks on a bit longingly.
Speaker 1: I would say mm hmm. And then we cut to
Speaker 1: that night in bed and Bridget asks Daniel if he
Speaker 1: loves her. Ladies, gentlemen, everyone in between and outside those backs,
Speaker 1: don't do that.
Speaker 2: Wait, wait for them to say it first.
Speaker 1: They'll say it. If they're gonna say it, they'll say it.
Speaker 2: Are you sure, Paul, I shouldn't ask everyone if they
Speaker 2: love me? That was a problem.
Speaker 3: Okay, I knew what the barista that was a bad idea.
Speaker 3: But I really thought the guy taking my tickets at
Speaker 3: the movie theater, I thought we had a bond. I
Speaker 3: really did think we had a bond.
Speaker 1: Well, you always tip him, which I understand. You think
Speaker 1: you're you're getting in.
Speaker 2: All I want is for everyone to love me all
Speaker 2: the time. So is that too much to ask?
Speaker 1: Daniel manages to distract her with sex. Earlier in the scene,
Speaker 1: he says like she says, like, oh, the thing you
Speaker 1: just did is illegal. In another multiple countries, and I'm like, anal,
Speaker 1: sex does not have to have a gentle cuddling directly afterwards.
Speaker 1: There's the whole thing that goes into it.
Speaker 3: Maybe they did something else that's illegal in other country.
Speaker 3: Maybe they sixty nine Is that illegal in some countries?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Please, in some countries, fucking shaking hands is illegal. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I assumed, but sex too, But but it
Speaker 3: could be something else. I suppose you're right, because the
Speaker 3: gentle cuddling.
Speaker 1: There's there's there's an aftermath. Not trying to be gross, but.
Speaker 2: Like there's consequences.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think everyone can have a very good time
Speaker 1: and then perhaps a shower.
Speaker 3: Okay, So let's say they did something else that I
Speaker 3: nominate sixty ninetys.
Speaker 1: I'm down for that.
Speaker 2: It's the only other thing I could think of that
Speaker 2: might be late in other countries.
Speaker 3: The next morning, Bridget wakes up to an apologetic Daniel.
Speaker 3: He is up and dressed and packed and she's just
Speaker 3: waking up and he's telling her he has to head
Speaker 3: back to London for work, and she's like, no, can't
Speaker 3: you just at least drop me off at the party
Speaker 3: first and like come in with me for ten minutes
Speaker 3: and say hi. So, like, so I've talked to you,
Speaker 3: up to my family and friends. Everyone needs to see you,
Speaker 3: and he's like, I can't. I have to go to
Speaker 3: the office. She goes, what could be so important.
Speaker 2: He's like, well, you don't know what's important because you
Speaker 2: just fanny around with the press releases. Yeah, he diminishes
Speaker 2: her work.
Speaker 3: And she looks upset and he's like, I'm sorry, and
Speaker 3: then he explains to her that like quote unquote, the
Speaker 3: Americans are coming to shut them down. So she realizes
Speaker 3: he's really stressed out for work. Okay, she backs off,
Speaker 3: He drives her, and he drops her off to the party.
Speaker 3: We cut to Bridget heading into the party alone and
Speaker 3: she is dressed as a playboy bunny.
Speaker 1: This is the same year as earlier.
Speaker 2: I looked it up.
Speaker 3: As I was watching this, I was like, this movie
Speaker 3: walks illegally Blonde could run. It is essentially the exact
Speaker 3: same outfit, except this one's in black and then the
Speaker 3: other was in pink. So she gets there dressed in
Speaker 3: like a Sunday brunch. She's dressed like a like the
Speaker 3: playboy bunny in the most uncomfortable sexy outfit. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the problem with the sexy outfit idea a structure.
Speaker 2: It's so hard to breathe and eat in one of those.
Speaker 3: Like later, she's getting a hot dog at the barbecue
Speaker 3: and I'm like, girl, where where are you gonna fit
Speaker 3: that hot dog?
Speaker 1: Hey, listeners, future Paul here, girl, where are you gonna
Speaker 1: fit that hot dog? Title of Erica's sex tape.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, once she's already arrived and Daniel has left her there,
Speaker 3: she realizes that no one else is in costume. Turns
Speaker 3: out Uncle Jeffrey changed the plans and forgot to tell Bridget.
Speaker 3: Of course he didn't forget, He just wanted to see
Speaker 3: what she would show up in. He belines towards her
Speaker 3: and starts like playing with her little bunny cottontail at
Speaker 3: the end and like grabbing her ass.
Speaker 2: And Una comes up and is like Jeffrey.
Speaker 3: So Bridget heads to find her father and he is
Speaker 3: dressed like a vicar, and he goes, at least I
Speaker 3: didn't spend as much money as burn it. And then
Speaker 3: they cut to some random guy dressed like as the Pope,
Speaker 3: like he spent hundreds of dollars on his outfit.
Speaker 2: It turns out that not only did Pamela show up
Speaker 2: to that party, but she fucking brought Julian with her.
Speaker 3: So he is now face to face with his wife,
Speaker 3: whom he's separated with, and her new boyfriend. And he
Speaker 3: is just depressed and sad. He wants to sit alone
Speaker 3: in the garden and cry. And Bridget's like, no, go
Speaker 3: out there, It's only a temporary glitch. You two love
Speaker 3: each other. You gotta save this marriage. I don't know
Speaker 3: why she has so much skin in the game. She's
Speaker 3: in her thirties. Divorce isn't the worst thing in the
Speaker 3: world both.
Speaker 1: You know what, she doesn't want to have to take
Speaker 1: care of her father.
Speaker 3: I would rather take care of my of the father
Speaker 3: than and you know what this gives her an excuse
Speaker 3: to do is cut that mother out of her life.
Speaker 1: Well, that's true. Fair, you take the good, you take
Speaker 1: the bed.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Bridget runs into Mark, who comments that Daniel isn't good
Speaker 1: enough for her, and Bridget says she thinks Daniel would
Speaker 1: say the same thing about him, and Mark is like,
Speaker 1: what So after all of this disaster at the party,
Speaker 1: Bridget is like, I'm just gonna go to Daniel's. I
Speaker 1: need to go spend time with my perfect boyfriend. So
Speaker 1: she heads there. He lets her up and he's like, look,
Speaker 1: I'm still working. I'm so sorry. Why don't you head
Speaker 1: home for a bath and I'll see you later. She
Speaker 1: hears a noise and she's like, is there someone else
Speaker 1: in your apartment? And he's like, of course not, and
Speaker 1: she goes. She busts into his room, but there's no
Speaker 1: one there, and she's like, okay, I'm so sorry. I'm crazy.
Speaker 1: It was a really bad day. He's like, no problem,
Speaker 1: leads her out, and now she's leaving, she sees a
Speaker 1: woman's pink coat hanging on the the coat rack. That's it,
Speaker 1: thank you, And now she knows for sure. She runs
Speaker 1: back upstairs. She throws open the door to his en suite. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and sitting in there is a woman whose name will
Speaker 1: learn it Laura Buck, naked with just a like a
Speaker 1: large portfolio in front of her to cover all her bits,
Speaker 1: which implies that the woman was just sitting on the
Speaker 1: edge of a tub for the last five minutes, and
Speaker 1: that that woman knows who Bridget is yes, and has
Speaker 1: no issue with who Bridget is. Yes.
Speaker 3: This is interesting. This whole storyline is very interesting. By
Speaker 3: the way small bit, but it made me laugh. The portfolio,
Speaker 3: says Pemberley Publishing. Hmmm, for the again, for the Pride
Speaker 3: and Prejudice fans out there, Yeah, that's the part of
Speaker 3: the roller coaster we go through where where it's actually
Speaker 3: really nice and there's like and there's like a teenage
Speaker 3: girl playing flawless piano while at Pemberley. Yeah, and then
Speaker 3: your uncle gets to go fishing. Maybe we're not on
Speaker 3: a roller coaster anymore. Hang on, I've lost the thread.
Speaker 3: I'll come back, I'll come back.
Speaker 1: It's more that like that that that gentle ride. This
Speaker 1: goes up and down for kids. Yeah, it's not really
Speaker 1: a roller coaster. It's a ride in prejudice.
Speaker 2: It's a ride in prejudice.
Speaker 1: Also, I just want to point out that Laura has
Speaker 1: one of the lines it's really directly about Bridget's weight
Speaker 1: where she said I thought you said she was thin
Speaker 1: to Daniel as Bridget's leaving, and it's like, woman, there
Speaker 1: is no need, bitch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's the lydia.
Speaker 3: I guess if we have a lydia in the film,
Speaker 3: it's this woman. So Bridget is despondent, but of course
Speaker 3: she has to still see Daniel at work because they
Speaker 3: work together, so she tries to remain professional. She has
Speaker 3: to go into his office to give him like some
Speaker 3: weekly report on like sales.
Speaker 1: I just want to point sorry, I just want to
Speaker 1: point out here that she has changed how she's dressing completely.
Speaker 1: She's now wearing like sneakers and a skirt that goes
Speaker 1: like past her knees yep, and is fully covered up.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, she's in her depression era.
Speaker 1: She has clearly been punched in the soul and is recovering.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and has to work with the fucking guy who
Speaker 3: punched her in the soul. So Daniel closes the door
Speaker 3: and he tries to apologize to her, and but Paul
Speaker 3: writes here and he's not wrong. It is a truly
Speaker 3: epically bad apology where he points out that Laura is
Speaker 3: younger and they've grown very close and that he.
Speaker 1: Needs something extraordinary.
Speaker 3: Look, he's being honest with her, but he still sucks right,
Speaker 3: Like he's like, look, I think you and I are
Speaker 3: people of a certain age who are looking for something
Speaker 3: more extraordinary before we settle down.
Speaker 2: And I think Lara is the more extraordinary over you.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, dude, just say I'm sorry, Like I
Speaker 1: always thought it was a casual thing, and I'm really sorry.
Speaker 1: I hurt you. The end, the end, the end.
Speaker 3: I hope we can still work together and I will
Speaker 3: do everything I can to make this less awkward for you.
Speaker 3: Do you need to take some vacation? So Bridget scoffed
Speaker 3: at all of his like equivocating his nonsense, and she's like,
Speaker 3: how can you be so into her? You've just met her?
Speaker 3: How can she be this extraordinary love of your life?
Speaker 3: Then she realizes it, she goes like, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: you didn't just meet her. They've known each other for
Speaker 3: quite some time, and Bridget was actually the side piece.
Speaker 3: Bridget was never the main girlfriend. That makes Laura both
Speaker 3: very mean to Bridget. Still, this is all Daniel's fault
Speaker 3: for both of you. Neither of you should be going
Speaker 3: after the other. Ye Also that makes Laura way too
Speaker 3: cool with Daniel being like, fine, go back to England,
Speaker 3: fuck some girl, but then you have to come back
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 1: Weird. Go get yourself a little spotted dick in England
Speaker 1: if you need it, and then come.
Speaker 3: Back, and then come back come back to your to
Speaker 3: your meat loaf. I don't know, trying to think of
Speaker 3: your your hard pretzel.
Speaker 2: What's like the most American.
Speaker 1: Wod I could think of your apple pie?
Speaker 3: Your apple pie? Ooh, actually spotted dick versus apple pie.
Speaker 3: I go with apple pie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I go.
Speaker 2: I'm going with apple pie.
Speaker 1: Slight spoilers for bakeoff for you. They make a spotted
Speaker 1: dick in bake off this year, and no part of
Speaker 1: it looks appetizing.
Speaker 2: Haha.
Speaker 1: I've seen actual dicks with spots that look more appetizing
Speaker 1: that dessert.
Speaker 3: That's illegal in several countries. Paul, I'm so glad we
Speaker 3: live in the United States. So Daniel says, Okay, there's
Speaker 3: one more thing I have to tell you. Bridget, Laura
Speaker 3: and I are engaged.
Speaker 1: Yeah boom. Bridget decides she has two choices. She can
Speaker 1: give up or she cannot give up, and she decides
Speaker 1: to not give up. I'm every woman comes on as
Speaker 1: we watch a montage a Bridget exercising, throwing out liquor bottles,
Speaker 1: throwing out her cigarettes, throwing out her self help books
Speaker 1: about pleasing men. There's a great title here.
Speaker 2: Oh I have all the titles.
Speaker 1: Oh please, do you want to hear them all?
Speaker 3: So the books that she throws out are what men want,
Speaker 3: how men think, and how to make a man want
Speaker 3: what they think they don't want, and then she replaces
Speaker 3: them with how to get what you want and what
Speaker 3: you have, which is a weird title.
Speaker 2: Life without men and women who love men are mad.
Speaker 1: She generally goes around getting her groove back. This is
Speaker 1: a time lapse. This moves us probably into like the autumn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, because we're gonna be on November fifth, Verie, Yeah, we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna be on Bonfire Night in like two minutes. She
Speaker 1: ultimately winds up getting a new job on a morning
Speaker 1: TV show that she gets through brutal honesty. She tells
Speaker 1: the interviewer that she has to leave for old one
Speaker 1: because she shagged the boss, which is excellent. There's this
Speaker 1: cute little thing where she interviewed. She interviewed different places,
Speaker 1: and like the first one, she doesn't.
Speaker 2: She has the same line in all three.
Speaker 3: She's like, I'm deeply committed to sharing the news about
Speaker 3: like our global environment. Yeah, and then the guy it's like,
Speaker 3: what do you think of the El Nino phenomenon and
Speaker 3: she goes, actually, I think it's a blip.
Speaker 2: Basically, Latin music's on its way out.
Speaker 1: My favorite one. She goes to a kid's a kid's station,
Speaker 1: and they're like, you know, She's like, I'm really passionate
Speaker 1: about communicating with kids, and they go, oh, do you
Speaker 1: have any kids of your to go o christ No, yeah, excellent,
Speaker 1: But any case, she gets a job at this this
Speaker 1: morning TV show that the guy says, unfortunately, just so
Speaker 1: you know, no one gets sacked for shagging the boss here.
Speaker 2: So in the book he's a coke head.
Speaker 3: Oh, and like he's like the worst boss, but also
Speaker 3: kind of like she gets away with a lot because
Speaker 3: it's a total coke head.
Speaker 1: She heads back to her to her publishing house, and
Speaker 1: she triumphantly quits, informing Daniel in front of the whole
Speaker 1: office that if keeping her current job means working within
Speaker 1: ten yards of him, she'd rather have a job wiping
Speaker 1: Sadam Hussein's ass.
Speaker 2: Aries p e cit. Find out what it means simmy
Speaker 2: aries pct.
Speaker 3: And the whole the whole office like applauds her as
Speaker 3: she walks out, triumphantly said to Aretha Franklin's respect, great.
Speaker 1: Moment for Perpetua here where she yes, she actually says,
Speaker 1: if she backs down, I'm going to fire her bony
Speaker 1: little ass.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Perpetua, Yeah for being totally spineless. Yes, like
Speaker 2: so basically Perpetua realized has known the entire time what's
Speaker 2: going on between Bridget and Daniel without anyone telling her.
Speaker 2: She's like, I got your back, Bridget, Like you stay,
Speaker 2: stay your course. This guy's fucked you over here. You
Speaker 2: deserve better.
Speaker 1: Renees Ell Legger has now triumphantly quit a job in
Speaker 1: both of the movies we've done starring Renzell Legger. Oh no,
Speaker 1: not in Empire. Does she quit an Empire Records?
Speaker 2: She doesn't quit Empire Records. No, no one quits. Why
Speaker 2: would you quit? It's the perfect job, perfect job?
Speaker 1: What job do you think? She quits in Cold Mountain?
Speaker 2: H splitter, failed midwife, just a bunch of failed midweh.
Speaker 2: You know what, After a few of these, I think
Speaker 2: this is on me. This one's on me, you guys.
Speaker 1: Does she quit anything in Judy not drugs, Sanity.
Speaker 2: In Chicago? She quits jazz.
Speaker 1: In Chicago, she quits not shooting people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not shooting someone for a change.
Speaker 1: She must have quit a couple dance classes too, based
Speaker 1: on her performance. I will never let it go.
Speaker 2: Oh, we'll never let it go. I look, I am
Speaker 2: a stand.
Speaker 1: I love he gives a fantastic performance in Chicago. I
Speaker 1: love the acting. I'm perfectly happy with the singing. Watch
Speaker 1: the stage version of Hot Honey Rag, and then watch
Speaker 1: the movie version of Hot Honey Rag.
Speaker 2: You are now comparing her to Gwen Verdon.
Speaker 1: In my head, I was compared her to and Ranking,
Speaker 1: but yes, also Gwen Verdon. It is a dance show.
Speaker 2: That is impossible. That's not fair.
Speaker 3: So Bridget starts work at her new job at the
Speaker 3: at the station. Right throughout the movie, we should mention
Speaker 3: She's like, we hear the diary snippets that her diary
Speaker 3: snippets always begin with, like how much she weighs, how
Speaker 3: many cigarettes she's had, and how much outcohol she's had.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and sometimes food stuff gets in there too.
Speaker 1: At one point she says forty two cigarettes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in a day.
Speaker 1: In a day.
Speaker 3: There's one where after she leaves Daniels for the first time,
Speaker 3: she says, twenty cigarettes all post coital.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'm like, what, how weren't you tired? Was
Speaker 1: it wasn't his jaw tired?
Speaker 2: Does it no wonder? He broke up with her she's
Speaker 2: staying up his apartment. He doesn't seem to smoke. She's
Speaker 2: the only one in that relationship that smokes.
Speaker 3: He must have like the minute she left, he opened
Speaker 3: all the windows and he's like, I can't have sex
Speaker 3: with this woman again. If I do, it has to
Speaker 3: be somewhere in a hotel because I cannot have the
Speaker 3: smell in my apartment anymore.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to stop making sequels soon because this
Speaker 1: character will be dead by the time she's sixty five
Speaker 1: from Emphysina. Can we talk briefly about what exactly her
Speaker 1: job is? Do you know?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Because I don't. This makes no sense, Okay. Good.
Speaker 3: Also, at the very beginning of the film, I just
Speaker 3: want to mention when she introduces her friends, right, Tom
Speaker 3: is a fair not fail. Tomas is very successful, one
Speaker 3: hit wonder. Jude works in finance. Chaza, the one that
Speaker 3: I modeled my life after is a journalist. Yeah, a
Speaker 3: hard hitting journalist.
Speaker 1: And you are also a hard hitting journalist, never forget.
Speaker 2: Likes to say fuck a lot. Both those things are
Speaker 2: exactly me.
Speaker 3: Right, So her now, Bridget gets a job as a
Speaker 3: soft hitting journalist to be fair, like she's not she's
Speaker 3: supposedly not.
Speaker 2: Supposed to go after big interviews.
Speaker 3: Although hang on to your butts because something's coming right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: And so like they say, like, why is she on
Speaker 3: air talent? How did she go from being a marketing executive,
Speaker 3: not even executive, a marketing like this assistant or whatever
Speaker 3: coordinator at her company to be coming on air talent
Speaker 3: at a morning show?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Does England have seventy five morning shows? They just need blondes.
Speaker 1: And also it feels like maybe there was a cut
Speaker 1: scene where like she was supposed to be the segment
Speaker 1: producer and then someone like called out sick because they're
Speaker 1: like rushing her to do all of these things and
Speaker 1: nothing's set up, nothing's prepared, yeah, which you would presume
Speaker 1: was actually her job as the producer. Yeah, but then
Speaker 1: there's there is another producer on the set, so that
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense, and the segment's a disaster.
Speaker 3: The two times we see her working, she is on
Speaker 3: air talent. Yeah, Like that's her job, And I'm like, how.
Speaker 1: Did she get this job? She's shagging this post too,
Speaker 1: did we skip something?
Speaker 2: She's shagging this She's the coke kit.
Speaker 3: So she's at work one day and she realizes that night,
Speaker 3: she looks at her her journal, and she realizes, oh shit,
Speaker 3: I have to have dinner with Magda and Jeremy.
Speaker 1: And she goes.
Speaker 3: The Only thing worse than spending time with the smug
Speaker 3: married couple is lots of smug married couples.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: She goes to this dinner party, and to her dismay,
Speaker 3: it's literally like her and ten people, five of whom
Speaker 3: like all five couples.
Speaker 1: Right. Can I make one small observation about this dinner party? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so presumptively all of these people are approximately Bridget's age,
Speaker 1: early thirties. Yeah, that's it. The dinner party they have
Speaker 1: laid out. It is candlelight on the table.
Speaker 2: It's elegance.
Speaker 1: There's a candelabra, it's plated appetizers. I throw a lot
Speaker 1: of dinner parties, I am now, as we have said,
Speaker 1: in my forties, I have never ever thrown a dinner
Speaker 1: party like this. This looks awful.
Speaker 3: I have, and let me tell you it takes weeks
Speaker 3: ye a preparation to get like, to make it look
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: And she was at work, which means this is a
Speaker 2: this is a this.
Speaker 1: Is a midweek.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fucking Candelabra lit dinner party for eleven people. Yeah,
Speaker 3: for presumably twelve. They might abridge it where she was
Speaker 3: still with Daniel. She's no longer, right.
Speaker 1: I would also like all of our listeners to know
Speaker 1: that it is okay to dump friends who suck. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say that right now. You can dump friends
Speaker 1: who suck.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The only thing I will say about the scene, because
Speaker 3: I've seen it a lot, is her particular friends who
Speaker 3: invited her seem okay, fine, it's fine. Yeah, it's the
Speaker 3: it's their friends who suck. Another PSA for this episode,
Speaker 3: you do not have to go to your friends' parties
Speaker 3: if they're shittier.
Speaker 2: Friends are there and you.
Speaker 1: Can tell them that's why, and you absolutely.
Speaker 3: Look, I'll get real with with you. Paul has a
Speaker 3: couple of duds in there, and I have told him
Speaker 3: and I have yet I have not seen those duds
Speaker 3: in several years. I have to assume those duds are
Speaker 3: still coming around once in a while. But he knows
Speaker 3: better than to invite me when those dunes are there.
Speaker 1: Oh, I will tell you this is the true story.
Speaker 1: I will tell you Erica. Erica is a lovely, friendly,
Speaker 1: beautiful person. Having a dinner party. There are very few
Speaker 1: people in my life. If they're like, I do not
Speaker 1: like that person, I'll be like, done, you don't ask
Speaker 1: me this, you do not she does not ask of me.
Speaker 3: Someone said something super sexist to me once like that
Speaker 3: one never. I never want to be sat next to
Speaker 3: that person again dinner.
Speaker 1: And I was like, done, no problem, and bless you.
Speaker 2: I have not seen that person in years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so all of my friends who haven't met Erica
Speaker 1: be aware.
Speaker 2: Yeah one of you, one of you is a dud,
Speaker 2: I said, a couple. It's not true.
Speaker 1: There really was good, just the one.
Speaker 2: Everyone else is lovely.
Speaker 1: It's you, you and my friend Adam that have carte
Speaker 1: blanche that when you're like I don't like that person,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I should never meet them because I'm meaner
Speaker 1: than both of you by far.
Speaker 3: That's a really high bar, because Adam is the truly
Speaker 3: nicest person there's I'm scum compared to that.
Speaker 1: So thank you. So okay.
Speaker 3: So she arrives at this party and not only is
Speaker 3: she surrounded by quote unquote very happy couples, but there's
Speaker 3: a new couple in attendance.
Speaker 2: Mark and Natasha are there? Cool?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so everyone at the dinner is this, Paul writes here,
Speaker 3: and he's not wrong comically smug and awful about Bridget's singlehood.
Speaker 2: It's not the movie's fault. It doesn't age. It doesn't
Speaker 2: age well.
Speaker 3: It's just because it's not that it's it's offensive, not
Speaker 3: aging well, it's just outdated, not aging well. Where I
Speaker 3: feel like there was a genuine pressure of women in
Speaker 3: their thirties and the nineties when the book was resolutely
Speaker 3: to be married, to have kids, to like, like, if
Speaker 3: you're thirty three and single, what the fuck happened to you?
Speaker 1: Like he repeatedly refers to herself as a spinster.
Speaker 2: Yes, she was, Yeah, in a bad way.
Speaker 3: I love the word spinster. I reclaim the word spinster,
Speaker 3: and like this is a pre sex in the city society. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that the book was written in, to be clear, And
Speaker 3: then the movie is modeling the book, right, So I
Speaker 3: understand why, like someone now would be like, well, this
Speaker 3: movie is trying to tell me that I should be
Speaker 3: married by thirty three, and like, I don't disagree with that,
Speaker 3: to be clear, but I'm gonna give the movie a
Speaker 3: slight pass on this because I think the movie is
Speaker 3: pushing up against those expectations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me tell you, I saw this at a
Speaker 2: formative age. I saw this movie when I was like
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one years old, and it did not affect
Speaker 2: my Like I gotta be married by thirty, right, like
Speaker 2: or else what's gonna happen to me?
Speaker 1: It's also interesting to think about, like they keep referring
Speaker 1: to Bridget as a career girl, but it doesn't really
Speaker 1: seem like Bridget is a career girl. Like she doesn't
Speaker 1: care about it. She didn't care about her job at
Speaker 1: the publishing house. She would have dumped it in a minute,
Speaker 1: in a minute. Yeah, Like, it's not like she's ambitious
Speaker 1: in driving towards something career oriented. It's that she hasn't
Speaker 1: found her person, and so she's working and hanging out
Speaker 1: with her friends and like having good time, which is
Speaker 1: what you should do. To be clear, a romantic partner
Speaker 1: is not the end all in of your life. Please
Speaker 1: understand that, like, have fun, have a happy life, and
Speaker 1: if you want a romantic partner in that, hopefully that
Speaker 1: happens for you. But like, don't let that be, don't
Speaker 1: let that define you.
Speaker 2: Are you sure I'm writing this down? I shouldn't find that.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna cross out find a husband
Speaker 3: from my bucket list.
Speaker 1: Had finally, finally, finally, No.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, and like Shaza and Jude are working
Speaker 2: girls are like our career said, working girls, our career women, right, like,
Speaker 2: but Bridget is very Bridget and Tom are very much not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Tom has an income. Tom has I don't know,
Speaker 1: like he has that Bill Niki song from Love actually
Speaker 1: under his belt.
Speaker 2: I wonder what his one hit, Wonder was about.
Speaker 1: I wonder.
Speaker 3: I bet you he was like some like band Aid
Speaker 3: Live Aid, like like charity song for Africa that they
Speaker 3: play every year at Christmas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that tracks. That sounds right.
Speaker 3: So Bridget handles it all with a plumb. They're all like, Bridget,
Speaker 3: why there's so many unmarried women over the age of thirty,
Speaker 3: And they all stare at her, and she's like, I
Speaker 3: don't know, can't help that. Underneath our clothes, our bodies
Speaker 3: are covered in scales. Like she's trying to make a
Speaker 3: joke out of it. Right, There's one particular couple that's
Speaker 3: really horrible to her.
Speaker 1: They should be shot in the back of the head,
Speaker 1: so awful.
Speaker 3: And she's and she like cuts them off, and she's like,
Speaker 3: how many marriages now end in divorce? Is it one
Speaker 3: in three or one and two? And Mark goes one
Speaker 3: in three and she's like, thank you. So she and
Speaker 3: Mark are on the same page.
Speaker 2: After the dinner, she's leaving early, clearly before everyone else.
Speaker 2: She goes downstairs.
Speaker 3: She puts on her coat, and Mark approaches her and
Speaker 3: apologizes for his past behavior. He's like, listen, I'm really
Speaker 3: sorry that I was unforgivably rude to you when I
Speaker 3: first met you at your mother's thing, right, and then
Speaker 3: I was wearing a reindeer jumper that my mother had
Speaker 3: bought me the night before.
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful teal color.
Speaker 2: They have money, Yeah, so their ugly Christmas weater is
Speaker 2: going to be better than our ugly Christmas weather.
Speaker 1: It didn't look it.
Speaker 3: And he's like, listen, I just want you to know
Speaker 3: the contrary to appearances, I'd like you you just as
Speaker 3: you are, And Bridget's stunned. She's like, wait, what you
Speaker 3: like me just as I am? No, that's the nicest
Speaker 3: thing anyone's literally ever said to me. And at that moment,
Speaker 3: unfortunately before it seems like he might ask her out
Speaker 3: Natasha comes downstairs. She goes, Mark, we've made excellent strides.
Speaker 1: In the case.
Speaker 3: Come along, and she like snaps at him and he
Speaker 3: gets embarrassed because his date is embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he just runs.
Speaker 2: He goes, well, good night, and he runs up stairs.
Speaker 1: I love the idea that this this, this fleet of
Speaker 1: douche canoes that is somehow helping Mark and and Beth in.
Speaker 1: What we will find out is like a human rights case. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like someone thought outside the box, someone moved fast and
Speaker 1: broke things in the law, because that's how law works.
Speaker 1: All right. Bridget turns thirty three and assigned a big
Speaker 1: job at the TV station. She's interviewing two defendants in
Speaker 1: a political extradition case.
Speaker 2: Obviously they get just one to Bridget. Obviously, Obviously she's
Speaker 2: literally never heard of these people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And basically it's a Kurdish freedom fighter and the
Speaker 3: British woman he's married to, and they want to extradite
Speaker 3: him to where he will most certainly be murdered. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and Bridgie goes, well, that's exciting. Look, it's a wrong
Speaker 3: com Let it go.
Speaker 1: Let it go, Yeah, let it go. This is not
Speaker 1: how TV works. But who cares?
Speaker 2: Who is how journalism works. Anything works.
Speaker 1: Do not yes and yourself into this situation at your
Speaker 1: actual job, though, because you will not do well. So
Speaker 1: we cut to the courthouse where the case is taking place.
Speaker 1: Bridget steps into a local deli to pick up some
Speaker 1: cigarettes and she runs into Mark there. She goes, you
Speaker 1: like me as I am.
Speaker 2: He goes, excuse me, She's like nothing.
Speaker 1: Nothing. Her crew rushes in and they say we screwed up.
Speaker 1: The subjects are gone, and Brigitt goes, oh my god,
Speaker 1: did other people get to interview them. I'm going to
Speaker 1: be sacked, and Mark is there to save the day.
Speaker 1: He gets his big hero a moment. It turns out
Speaker 1: this big case and he's been working on with Natasha
Speaker 1: for all these months, was this one. He is the
Speaker 1: lawyer for the Kurdish freedom fighter and he gives Bridget
Speaker 1: the exclusive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the case went well, guy. The guy did not
Speaker 3: get extradited and or murdered. Yes, he's going to stay
Speaker 3: in England and be safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And of course she nails it because she has
Speaker 1: done all the work that she needed to do prior
Speaker 1: to leading up to this.
Speaker 3: She asks hard hitting questions in that interview. Honestly, the
Speaker 3: interview is a little bit charming.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did check. It appears that this man, based
Speaker 1: on his name, he hasn't a lot of credits based
Speaker 1: on his name, is actually of at least some sort
Speaker 1: of Middle Eastern descent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully presumably Kurdish.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: That night, it's her birthday. She's got this exclusive.
Speaker 1: She is a hit.
Speaker 2: She attempts to make dinner for her and her friends
Speaker 2: as her like great act of triumph? Right, why would
Speaker 2: you want to cook on your own birthday?
Speaker 1: Is it actually her birthday?
Speaker 3: It's her birthday, for her thirty third birthday. She invited
Speaker 3: her friends over and she's going to make them a
Speaker 3: four course luxurious dinner.
Speaker 1: Oh, kids, you can't do that. What if you want
Speaker 1: to make a four course dinner I haven't done before?
Speaker 1: Email me. I can coach you through it.
Speaker 3: No, girl, if it's your birthday and don't do it
Speaker 3: for your own correct and your three friends canonically make
Speaker 3: more money than you do. What you do is you
Speaker 3: say I've made us a reservation. Is the most expensive
Speaker 3: restaurant I can think of that I can't forward by myself.
Speaker 3: And you make them pay for your dinner? Yep, that's
Speaker 3: how you do your birthday done. So anyway, she attempts
Speaker 3: to make dinner.
Speaker 2: It doesn't go well.
Speaker 3: While she's doing that, her mother is calling her, and
Speaker 3: her mother is like, I kind of regret my relationship
Speaker 3: with Julian. Turns out he's kind of a shit. And
Speaker 3: we cut to Julian and he's getting a manicure on
Speaker 3: set and he yells. He yells at the manicures. He goes,
Speaker 3: oh careful, you ham fisted gunt. Excellent makes me laugh
Speaker 3: every time.
Speaker 1: Her mother also says the sex is still surprising, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I.
Speaker 2: Don't still surprising.
Speaker 3: The other morning I woke up and I felt the
Speaker 3: most enormous and Bridget cuts her off. By the way,
Speaker 3: it is Bridget's birthday and her mother calls to complain
Speaker 3: about her boyfriend, does not say happy birthday during the call,
Speaker 3: does not acknowledge that it's Bridge's birthday at all. So
Speaker 3: Bridget gets off the phone and the doorbell rings. She
Speaker 3: goes to the answer the door and she finds Mark there.
Speaker 3: He's there to congratulate her on her successful interview. He
Speaker 3: has the newspaper with like a headline about her getting
Speaker 3: the interview. He asks her if she's busy and she
Speaker 3: invites him up. The dinner is terrible that she's making,
Speaker 3: so he's like, okay, do you have eggs? And she's
Speaker 3: like yeah, and he's like, okay, I'll make an omelet.
Speaker 3: So there's at least an omelet to each yeah, for
Speaker 3: this dinner, and the two.
Speaker 1: Of them connect.
Speaker 3: They kind of make fun of her parents, of her
Speaker 3: mother really like it's very cute, very flirty. Bridget's friends
Speaker 3: arrive and they are shocked to find Mark there in
Speaker 3: a good way.
Speaker 2: They're like, whoa, you're here.
Speaker 1: No one's gonna be upset about seeing Colin first when
Speaker 1: they walk in.
Speaker 2: And there was a scene earlier after he's like, I
Speaker 2: like you just the way you are.
Speaker 3: They cut to her friends and they are dumbfounded that
Speaker 3: someone could be that nice to anyone just the way
Speaker 3: you are, not like with bigger tits or a smaller
Speaker 3: nose or a better personality or anything.
Speaker 1: And now with all the improvements we prefer you with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like no, I think she's like talking about herself honestly.
Speaker 3: The friend Jude and she's like no, just and they
Speaker 3: all they're like, fuck me, They've never heard.
Speaker 2: Of anyone being that romantic.
Speaker 3: The friends good naturedly choke down Bridget's horrible, horrible dinner.
Speaker 1: She says that she reads the recipe, says, tie up
Speaker 1: the celery with string. She takes out this blue dyed twine. Twine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: basically she ties up leaks, not celery with it, to
Speaker 1: be clear, and then the blue dye seeps out into
Speaker 1: the broth. Hopefully she used broth not water, but who knows,
Speaker 1: And then she serves it. She's killing her friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah, blue soup. They're doing that thing where they're eating
Speaker 3: and then they're going they don't know quite what they're tasting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cyanide.
Speaker 3: After the dinner, her friends toast Bridget, and Tom says
Speaker 3: to Bridget, who cannot cook, but to whom we love
Speaker 3: just as she is, and the other two go just
Speaker 3: as she is. Mark figures out that Bridget has been
Speaker 3: talking about him to her friends. Yeah, and he locks
Speaker 3: eyes with Bridget. She locks eyes with Mark. Sparks sparks
Speaker 3: are flying. The friends all look at each other like, awa,
Speaker 3: we did this, We helped to.
Speaker 2: Make this happen.
Speaker 1: The door buzzes and Jude goes to retrieve Daniel mother fucker,
Speaker 1: who has appeared with a bottle of champagne, and he says,
Speaker 1: I thought you might be alone, and he pulls Bridget aside.
Speaker 1: He tells her he hasn't meanable to stop thinking about her.
Speaker 2: Why would he think she was alone? Motherfucker?
Speaker 1: What a cunt? Because he has no she has no friends.
Speaker 1: Of course, obviously once I left, you ceased to exist.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought you'd be alone and depressed and killing
Speaker 3: yourself on your thirty third birthday.
Speaker 1: You're without my dick.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He tells her that everything with Lara is over. Laura
Speaker 1: dumped him when she realized that he wasn't over Bridget,
Speaker 1: and before Bridget can respond, Mark interrupts and just says,
Speaker 1: I'm leaving. And Daniel smartily suggests they put their past
Speaker 1: behind him, and Mark just kind of rolls his eyes, sighs,
Speaker 1: and leaves.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Not only that.
Speaker 3: Daniel puts his arm around Bridget and he's like, stay
Speaker 3: and have a drink with us. He's pussing him and Bridge, Yeah,
Speaker 3: much to Mark's dismay.
Speaker 2: Right at one point, he's like he talks about her interview.
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm so glad that that kid, that that
Speaker 3: that Kurdish bloke had got free whatever, he says, and
Speaker 3: it's like, okay, so you know she's had an amazing
Speaker 3: day at work and you still think she's sitting alone
Speaker 3: pining for you in her apartment.
Speaker 2: Fuck you forever, dude.
Speaker 1: There's something about toxic exes that they can sense it
Speaker 1: when you're happy. There's a shift, there's a shift in
Speaker 1: the ether, in the firmament, in the atmosphere. They smell it.
Speaker 1: They don't, they don't even know they're smelling it, but
Speaker 1: it will make them text you.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, I have to go to Greg's house right now.
Speaker 3: Don't ask why. I sense he's happy. I must go
Speaker 3: murder his cat.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, yes, I must. I must go say I've
Speaker 1: rethought everything and I'm actually in love with him. Ha
Speaker 1: ha ha. I must blow up this happiness.
Speaker 3: So now we turn to my favorite scene in the movie.
Speaker 3: Paul tell me the scene isn't isn't the best? It's
Speaker 3: so goddamn good, it's funny.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So Bridget turned to Daniel and she's like, why are
Speaker 2: you here?
Speaker 1: What are you doing?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 3: And he's like like, well, why was Mark Wenker Darcy here?
Speaker 3: And then Mark reappears and he goes, oh, great. He's
Speaker 3: back and Mark goes outside Cleaver.
Speaker 2: He's like, should I bring my dueling pistols or my swords?
Speaker 1: Like what the fuck?
Speaker 3: And Mark is not kidding. He's like, meet me outside, yeah,
Speaker 3: and Daniel's like, all right, fine.
Speaker 2: He rolls his eyes.
Speaker 1: The original catch me outside girl was Mark Darcy and
Speaker 1: jumps diary.
Speaker 2: He's like fine, and he goes outside and he's like,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do? Hit me? And Mark's like yes,
Speaker 2: and he punches Daniel in the face twice.
Speaker 3: Daniel is like ouch, ouch, okay, okay, okay, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. He pretends to give up, and then he
Speaker 3: grabs a garbage can lid behind his back and smashes Mark.
Speaker 1: Over the head with it, right, which you could like
Speaker 1: legitimately hurt somebody like that. I mean you can do
Speaker 1: like punching them too, but like you're bringing in foreign
Speaker 1: metal objects and smashing it upside someone's head.
Speaker 3: He's been sucker punched. He's not having it because he
Speaker 3: came down there. He's like, I'm not gonna fight you,
Speaker 3: and Mark's like, too bad, I'm fighting you. Punch it's
Speaker 3: raining men starts to play It's rain and.
Speaker 2: Hallelujah, it's rain and man. Amen. Tom is so excited.
Speaker 3: All of Bridget's friends, truly are so excited to see
Speaker 3: a real fight. These are upper middle class, like professional people.
Speaker 3: They have not seen a fight since middle school, and
Speaker 3: they're so excited to see one. I will admit I
Speaker 3: get very excited sometimes when I see a fight on
Speaker 3: the subway. It satisfies the bloodlust in me that I
Speaker 3: don't often get satisfied.
Speaker 1: It brings you to your true happy place, which is
Speaker 1: the active gladiatorial arena in ancient Rome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it depends on the fight. Sometimes if it seems dangerous,
Speaker 2: that's no fun.
Speaker 3: If it's two teenage girls, it is the greatest thing
Speaker 3: I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Because I know neither of them were gonna kill me.
Speaker 2: It's fine.
Speaker 3: So Tom runs across the street to the Greek restaurant
Speaker 3: across the street. He opens the doors, the double doors,
Speaker 3: and he goes it's a fight.
Speaker 2: It's a real a fight, and the waiters like a fight,
Speaker 2: a fight, and they all come outside to watch, right,
Speaker 2: and that's when we see Okay, little backstory. I read
Speaker 2: somewhere that Colin Firth and Hugh Grant were allowed to
Speaker 2: choreograph this fight themselves.
Speaker 1: Oh they had to fight.
Speaker 3: Choreographer help them so they didn't hurt each other, because
Speaker 3: the grief was we need you to fight, like two
Speaker 3: men who have literally never fought before. Would two like
Speaker 3: middle aged professional men, yeah, who don't know.
Speaker 2: How to fight? And it is truly the funniest fight
Speaker 2: scene I've ever seen committed to film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't think of one better.
Speaker 3: There is a moment where they're both just kind of
Speaker 3: kicking at each other with one foot because they don't
Speaker 3: know what to do. So the fight escalates and escalates.
Speaker 3: Eventually they go inside the Greek restaurant. Like one punches
Speaker 3: the other and he goes inside the restaurant and they
Speaker 3: have to stop for a minute to saying happy birthday
Speaker 3: to someone whose birthday cake is like is the Parthenon,
Speaker 3: And they're.
Speaker 1: So proper they keep landing on people's tables and be like,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I'll I'll pay pay, I'll pay for
Speaker 1: all of this, I'll pay for all of this.
Speaker 3: And then ultimately the fight picks back up because Daniel
Speaker 3: grabs Mark by the torso and pushes him out.
Speaker 1: The window of the restaurant.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so they destroy the front of the restaurant, and
Speaker 3: they end up on the street, and Mark and Daniel
Speaker 3: are both like kind of tired and exhausted and hurting,
Speaker 3: and they're like, Okay, that's enough, that's enough, no more fighting.
Speaker 3: And then Daniel under his breath goes wanker, and Mark
Speaker 3: can't contain himself. He punches him one more time and
Speaker 3: punches him out, knocks Daniel out cold. Bridget scolds Mark,
Speaker 3: She's like, what the hell is wrong with you? You
Speaker 3: pretend to be all normal and moral and helpful in
Speaker 3: the kitchen, but you are just like the rest of them.
Speaker 3: You are as insane as every other man I've ever
Speaker 3: met yep. And Mark apologizes, but he's too angry to
Speaker 3: really apologize. He goes, well, I'm sorry you feel that way, basically,
Speaker 3: and he storms off.
Speaker 1: So Daniel comes to He says they should go upstairs.
Speaker 1: He says, if I can't make it with you, I
Speaker 1: can't make it with anyone.
Speaker 2: What it?
Speaker 5: What is?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: You always dreamed having someone to say I'm such a mess.
Speaker 1: You're my only chance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, You're the only person who'll put up with my bullshit.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Bridget turns him down. She says, that's not good enough,
Speaker 1: and then she throws his own words back at him.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for something more extraordinary than that. Good for you,
Speaker 1: Bridget yep.
Speaker 2: Exit Daniel from the film.
Speaker 1: Yep, I will miss Daniel, but there are sequels, and
Speaker 1: like any good toxic X, he will feel that moment
Speaker 1: where she might be happy. Yeah, he will pop up again.
Speaker 2: He's like, I think she's in Thailand.
Speaker 1: I should go to her there, and we cut to
Speaker 1: Christmas right. Bridget is spending it with her father and
Speaker 1: Pamela comes home. Bridget kind of goes upstairs and she hides.
Speaker 1: She listens to her parents as they talk, and Pamela
Speaker 1: asks Colin if they can make another go of it,
Speaker 1: and Colin says he doesn't know, and Pamela starts to weep,
Speaker 1: and she says. He says, I'm joking you daft cow.
Speaker 2: Now, what is this relationship, Paul? What is this relationship?
Speaker 1: I think? Here's here's my theory. Here's my theory. They
Speaker 1: over peppered the sauce with Pamela because the whole concept
Speaker 1: of the movie is got fucking cheats on him and
Speaker 1: moves in with someone else that Colin genuinely loves Pamela
Speaker 1: and her complaints are legitimate. We don't see them. But
Speaker 1: she's like, he doesn't pay any attention to me anymore.
Speaker 1: Like it's a very common trope, right, like the marriage
Speaker 1: has gone stale, but we don't see him do that.
Speaker 1: We only have her word for it. And again, this
Speaker 1: is the woman who we met with the Auschwitz reference.
Speaker 1: It's like we're a little iffy on pam you know, so,
Speaker 1: like I think they they needed to make her more
Speaker 1: sympathetic and him less sympathetic because he just forgives her.
Speaker 1: Although somehow the powers of Jim Broadbent make you daft
Speaker 1: cow sound affectionate so sweet.
Speaker 3: Honestly, it's these actors, because Jemma Jones too, Like on
Speaker 3: paper Pamela is the worst, but like she plays her
Speaker 3: in this way that's so sweet, yeah, and so like daffy, yeah,
Speaker 3: kind of like you're like, well, it's not her fault.
Speaker 3: She's just daffy, like she doesn't know what she's doing.
Speaker 1: And she says, like, you used to be mad about me,
Speaker 1: you never paid any attention, Like she does explain to
Speaker 1: him what happened? Did we hear? Do that?
Speaker 2: So I have no career, I have no life, I
Speaker 2: don't kid anymore to raise, like, what even do I
Speaker 2: do with myself?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So they embrace and they get back together, and
Speaker 1: in the next day her parents are off to the
Speaker 1: Darcy's wedding anniversary party. So we're in between Christmas and
Speaker 1: New Year's yep. And Pamela points out with a twinkle
Speaker 1: in her eye to Bridget that Mark will be there
Speaker 1: and she has a hard time of year for him,
Speaker 1: after all, his wife left him around Christmas for the
Speaker 1: best man at his wedding who was his best friend
Speaker 1: at Cambridge Row. And everything falls into place, she said.
Speaker 1: Pamela says, you know, he was coming home and he
Speaker 1: found them in a most unorthodox position, which there's a
Speaker 1: brief flash back to this happening. It's not that unorthodox,
Speaker 1: it's pretty orthodox.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I think the movie wanted a PG thirteen and
Speaker 3: that was the best they could do. They're like, we
Speaker 3: can't get more on a box in this and still
Speaker 3: still have a PG thirteen.
Speaker 1: We can't go side saddle. We don't know how high bobs.
Speaker 1: Bridget says, Oh my god, I'm coming. I'm coming. Give
Speaker 1: me five minutes. I'm gonna get ready.
Speaker 3: In case you're wondering that is Daniel. So Bridget shows
Speaker 3: up to the party looking the best she's ever looked
Speaker 3: in the whole movie. That black dress stunning, Yeah, love it.
Speaker 3: She spots Mark, and before he can flee, Bridget apologizes
Speaker 3: for the misunderstanding and the history with Daniel. She's like, listen,
Speaker 3: he lied to me about who you were. I'm so
Speaker 3: sorry I believed him. So they kind of mend the
Speaker 3: rift between them, and she pulls him aside and she
Speaker 3: tells him, listen, I like you just the way you are,
Speaker 3: and it would be really nice if you wanted to
Speaker 3: come over sometime and spend time with me and hang
Speaker 3: out and get to know each other better. Before he
Speaker 3: can respond, we hear glasses clinking and everyone is called
Speaker 3: back into the main room for a toast.
Speaker 1: You know what's interesting about this movie that just occurred
Speaker 1: to me and why I think it works better than
Speaker 1: some other romantic comedies. They're both deeply flawed, whereas lots
Speaker 1: of times with romantic comedies you get like Kookie flaws,
Speaker 1: like she's a club and he's uptight, you know, and
Speaker 1: like they they blow those flow those flaws up to
Speaker 1: not not to an unto a realistic place like he's
Speaker 1: really uptight and he's kind of an asshole.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, she calls him haughty and arrogant in this scene,
Speaker 3: she's like, listen, I'd like you just the way you are,
Speaker 3: even though you're haughty and you're arrogant and your mom
Speaker 3: dresses you stupidly, and I really think you need to
Speaker 3: rethink the side your sideburns.
Speaker 2: And how long they are.
Speaker 1: So they go in for the toast and Mark's father
Speaker 1: announces that Mark has been offered a partnership in a
Speaker 1: New York law firm. His father says Mark will be
Speaker 1: going to New York. He'll be taking his law partner
Speaker 1: Natasha with him, and then he makes an inference that
Speaker 1: maybe someday they'll be partners in more than in.
Speaker 2: Just law right, and then the band plays Dun Dun.
Speaker 1: Everyone toasts and Bridget shouts no. Everyone looks at her
Speaker 1: and like, like the smooth operator that she always is,
Speaker 1: she says, it's just such a shame for England to
Speaker 1: lose such a great legal brain.
Speaker 2: We should do this in an English accent to really
Speaker 2: submit the moment. It's just such a shine flying Land
Speaker 2: to lose such a legal brine.
Speaker 1: It's really too bad. Adele isn't a movie star.
Speaker 3: We see Mark arriving at JFK, which really has to
Speaker 3: just be Heathrow with the sign above that says welcome
Speaker 3: to JFK, because I can't believe they flew him all
Speaker 3: the way out here to kill that scene. Well, Bridget
Speaker 3: changes the title of her journal from Bridget Jones's Diary
Speaker 3: to Diary of Bridget Jones Colon, Spinster and Lunatic.
Speaker 1: Hey gotta own it.
Speaker 3: She's just humiligated herself in front of everyone she's ever
Speaker 3: grown up with. A few days past and her friends
Speaker 3: show up to cheer her up and take her to
Speaker 3: Paris for the weekend, help her forget all about Mark.
Speaker 2: Stupid Darcy. Good friends, good friends.
Speaker 3: They usher her out into the snow and they are
Speaker 3: good friends at the same time, toy like, come the
Speaker 3: fuck on, Bridget, hurry up. They all start to climb
Speaker 3: into the car while Bridget hunts for her keys to
Speaker 3: lock up the apartment, and as she's standing on the sidewalk,
Speaker 3: Mark appears behind Ooh.
Speaker 1: He tells her he was in America but he forgot
Speaker 1: something in England. He'd forgotten to kiss her goodbye, and
Speaker 1: all across the land basements flooded simultaneous. Would she mind?
Speaker 1: He even asked for consent Erica.
Speaker 2: Would you mind if I kissed you, hi, lie Dah.
Speaker 1: Bridget says not really, and they go for the kiss,
Speaker 1: but before they do, Bridget asks if this means that
Speaker 1: he's not going to America, and he smiles and says not.
Speaker 1: Her friends are like, are you fucking coming or not?
Speaker 1: And she's like no, They're like yay, and they all
Speaker 1: drive away right, and she brings Mark upstairs. He goes
Speaker 1: to kiss her, but she excuses herself. She said, give
Speaker 1: me one second.
Speaker 3: She rushes into her room to change in her underwear.
Speaker 3: She says this is an occasion for genuinely tiny knickers.
Speaker 2: She's changing out of.
Speaker 3: Her granny panties and into some sexy underwear. Meanwhile, Mark
Speaker 3: is browsing through her books magazine she told him to.
Speaker 3: He's not like snooping. She's like, read some magazines, enjoy yourself.
Speaker 3: And he finds her open diary just on the table,
Speaker 3: and there's all sorts of less than complimentary things written
Speaker 3: about him inside of it. He finds a passage where
Speaker 3: she's like, I'm glad his clever wife left him.
Speaker 2: He's such an asshole.
Speaker 3: Bridget suddenly hears the door slam and all she has
Speaker 3: on is like a tiny cameusol in those genuinely tiny nickers,
Speaker 3: which are, by the way, leopard print yep or no
Speaker 3: zebra print, zebra print.
Speaker 2: Don't think leopard print, No, no, I believe zebra Okay,
Speaker 2: what if we just argue about this for forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Goddamn it, Erica, how dare you? Paul?
Speaker 2: It is misogynistic of you to assume leopard print.
Speaker 1: Learn your fucking African animals, you idiot.
Speaker 3: So she opens the window and she sees Mark walking away,
Speaker 3: and she's like, Mark, what's happening?
Speaker 2: And he ignores her, and she's like, what the fuck?
Speaker 2: So she turns around.
Speaker 3: She sees the open diary on the kitchen table and goes, oh, no,
Speaker 3: he read the diary. She runs after him, and then
Speaker 3: two seconds later runs back into the apartment. She's like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's freezing, by the way, it's snowing. It's heavily snowing
Speaker 3: out right. She puts on some sneakers and a tiny
Speaker 3: cardigan over the cami. She is still pantiless, playing tiny
Speaker 3: tiny African themed nickers.
Speaker 1: African theme definitely, and running.
Speaker 2: Through the streets of the city.
Speaker 1: Ain't no mountain high enough, Ain't no man no enough.
Speaker 1: She finds Mark coming out of a store. She stammers
Speaker 1: out in apology. She finally ends it with saying, for
Speaker 1: Christ's sake, it's only a diary, and Mark says, I
Speaker 1: know that, I'm just buying you a new one, and
Speaker 1: he holds out a new diary for Bridget. New start
Speaker 1: that you smile at each other. They embrace in the snow.
Speaker 1: They kiss, and Bridget pulls back and she says, good
Speaker 1: boys don't kiss like that, and Mark says, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: they fucking do. He kisses her. He wraps his overcoat
Speaker 1: around her as they make out in the snow so.
Speaker 2: Hot Colin Firth saying, oh, yes, they fucking do. Damn, damn,
Speaker 2: damn ma.
Speaker 1: That's the end of the movie. Although there are the
Speaker 1: home videos the end that play over the credit.
Speaker 2: The home videos of the end are excellent. It's it's
Speaker 2: set to me and missus Jones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's ostensibly like eight year old Mark and
Speaker 3: four year old Bridget at his at his birthday party,
Speaker 3: and they keep cutting to her and she's just eating
Speaker 3: an entire.
Speaker 2: Quarter of the cake and then she finds a wine
Speaker 2: bottle and starts drinking out of.
Speaker 1: It, very British. It's so cute, It's okay.
Speaker 3: Then they keep cutting to Mark and he's like wearing
Speaker 3: a bow tie and very proper. Yeah, and Bridget's just
Speaker 3: like taking her clothes off and running around. It's adorable.
Speaker 1: It's adorable. And that is the end of Bridget Jones's Diary,
Speaker 1: our very first New Year's film. I think I think
Speaker 1: so too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Happy New Year everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh so, we are going to play a couple commercials.
Speaker 1: We be right back with our random observations and final rankings, and.
Speaker 2: We're back, Paul, Paul, give me some random observations about
Speaker 2: Bridget Jones and SIY.
Speaker 1: There is one line from this movie that has stayed
Speaker 1: with me for years, for the for the twenty years
Speaker 1: plus since I since I saw this, and it's it's
Speaker 1: a good it's just a good joke that her friends
Speaker 1: are coaching her and they're like, so you have to
Speaker 1: introduce people with interesting facts, so you know, you would say, like,
Speaker 1: so this is Erica, she enjoys podcasting and comes from
Speaker 1: Washington Heights. And this is Daniel, he enjoys publishing and comes.
Speaker 2: All over your face. Yeah, it's a great joke.
Speaker 1: It's a great joke.
Speaker 2: It's so solid. Yeah, I don't know if we really
Speaker 2: like talked enough about how funny this movie.
Speaker 1: This movie is funny.
Speaker 2: It's so funny. There's a moment at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the movie where she's she's talking to Jude on the
Speaker 2: phone and Jude's crying and Bridget's like, no, it's not
Speaker 2: your fault, you're lovely.
Speaker 3: It's vile Richard's fault. He's just a knobhead with no
Speaker 3: knob And then she looks up and Daniel's looking at
Speaker 3: her and trying to say but she goes is some
Speaker 3: people's opinions of cough coup, so good?
Speaker 1: Did you? Speaking of the three friends, there is an
Speaker 1: insert shot of the three of them when it's at
Speaker 1: the end she's made the blue soup. They're all going
Speaker 1: to be dead in two weeks poisoning of the blue soup.
Speaker 1: But the she's with the two men, she's with Daniel
Speaker 1: and Mark, and the three of them are all smoking
Speaker 1: cigarettes and just like staring at her. Just a short
Speaker 1: insert shop absolutely glued to what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: In drama, in Bridges Life.
Speaker 1: Good friends, good for excellent friend, good friends.
Speaker 2: They choked down that meal. I mean, I swear to God,
Speaker 2: I don't like that.
Speaker 1: Is I wouldn't need it. That was a good friend.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. You showed me something blue that's not supposed
Speaker 1: to be blue.
Speaker 2: I honestly think I would do it. I think I
Speaker 2: just to not start anything. I just choked down the
Speaker 2: food for that one friend of mine who sucks except
Speaker 2: for that one guy who says something shitty to me
Speaker 2: once again.
Speaker 3: Part of that scene where she's trying to impress the intellectuals,
Speaker 3: she's practicing smart conversation or quote unquote where she thinks
Speaker 3: a smart conversation. So she's she intends to ask people
Speaker 3: how they feel about the situation in Chechnya, and she's
Speaker 3: trying to make sure she pronounces Chechnya correctly. And then
Speaker 3: when she's at dinner with Daniel, she sits down at
Speaker 3: dinner with Daniel. She's trying to impress Daniel, and she goes.
Speaker 2: So, how do you feel about that situation in Chechnia?
Speaker 2: Such a nightmare?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: And he goes, oh, I couldn't give a fuck, Jones.
Speaker 2: I have to admit I do love Daniel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are moments here. He is very fun.
Speaker 2: I couldn't give a fuck.
Speaker 1: Yeah what, I only have one more. It is a
Speaker 1: PSA for this episode. I believe I've said this before
Speaker 1: on the podcast, but I'm gonna say it again. Nobody
Speaker 1: should be fucking in front of a fireplace. They just shouldn't.
Speaker 1: It's too too hot. You will dehydrate, you will pass out.
Speaker 1: It's not I get it makes a pretty picture, Hollywood,
Speaker 1: I understand, I do. But you will be sweating. Whoever
Speaker 1: is on top will be pouring sweat Allah Patrick, ewing
Speaker 1: directly into the face of the person beneath them. It's
Speaker 1: so hot, it's so dry, it gets in your bones.
Speaker 1: It puts you to sleep. It's not a good place,
Speaker 1: no matter how soft.
Speaker 3: That bearskin rug. No, that poor bear, that poor bear
Speaker 3: had to die for you to fuck on it.
Speaker 1: That's not that's not bear.
Speaker 2: That's all right. Peter should get involved. That's disgusting.
Speaker 3: Don't fuck on bearskin rugs, you guys, it's disrespectful to
Speaker 3: that bear.
Speaker 2: I just have one more tune. It's one of my
Speaker 2: favorite lines in the movie.
Speaker 3: She's in bed with Daniel, her phone rings is there
Speaker 3: in her apartment and she answers the phone Bridget Jones.
Speaker 2: One toon sex goddess with a very bad man between
Speaker 2: her thighs.
Speaker 1: Mom, Hi, excellent, which is why you just shouldn't answer
Speaker 1: the phone like that. I mean, now we have caller ID.
Speaker 3: Yeah now you yeah, you just never answered the phone.
Speaker 3: Erica viall but sex goddess. Oh hi Dad, Hi Dad?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Oh no, oh no, I have to
Speaker 1: explain myself.
Speaker 2: It's got awkward.
Speaker 1: Eric. How should we rank? How should we rank Bridget
Speaker 1: Jones's diary? How about one to ten alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics,
Speaker 1: peeping tom's, megalomaniac's, emotional fuck wits and or perverts.
Speaker 2: Yes, there it is no more, no more.
Speaker 1: That's so easy to say.
Speaker 2: Emotional fuck wits.
Speaker 1: Yeah good.
Speaker 2: How about one to ten toxic exes.
Speaker 1: If you don't smelling your happiness, if you don't mind.
Speaker 3: If you don't mind, Paul, I need to go over
Speaker 3: to someone's house right now and tell them they're adopted.
Speaker 3: Their mother told me, but they never told them.
Speaker 1: There's no joy in the air. Oh okay, quick, quick,
Speaker 1: send a dick pic. One to ten illegal sex acts
Speaker 1: which are really just nothing.
Speaker 3: It's like sixty nine ing or just dry humping. Little
Speaker 3: reach around, little reach around that's illegal in a lot
Speaker 3: of places.
Speaker 1: You guys.
Speaker 3: One to ten and I'm going to give Paul the
Speaker 3: credit for this one ride in project is the greatest
Speaker 3: amusement park ride of all time.
Speaker 1: I think you should do this one. It gave you
Speaker 1: so much joy. You open a Jane Austin theme park.
Speaker 1: I think it would be.
Speaker 2: But is there not one already? Honestly, there's a whole
Speaker 2: movie called Austin Land.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 2: That is basically that premise. There should be like a
Speaker 2: teacup ride called Mister Bingley's House.
Speaker 1: We're a tea at the Egg.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're all having tea.
Speaker 1: There should be archery classes, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: There should be archery classes. Yeah, night Lee's archery class.
Speaker 1: Penmanship, Oh for sure.
Speaker 2: Some Mansfield park. One that's just a little dark, don't
Speaker 2: bring your kids. That's the Haunted House.
Speaker 1: And then at the end of every day, one lucky
Speaker 1: patron is gifted a millionaire to marry who's perfect in
Speaker 1: every one.
Speaker 2: Perfect, Who's flawed, but yet somehow that makes them more perfect?
Speaker 1: Yes, whose flaws only add to the perfection, Yeah, to
Speaker 1: the allure. Yeah, yeah, this one, this one, this one, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, do you want to go first or should
Speaker 1: I go first?
Speaker 2: I'll go first on this one.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Look, I do think this film ages quite well.
Speaker 3: I think the conversation around it to maybe tainted a
Speaker 3: lot of people's perceptions of what the film was, even
Speaker 3: though this is a woman who, like to her bones,
Speaker 3: wants to be like settled down and married and and
Speaker 3: all of that stuff.
Speaker 2: Like that's a result of basing this on a novel
Speaker 2: that's two hundred years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like that's another like you have to have that
Speaker 3: plot point, right, That's like that's what she's driving towards,
Speaker 3: that's what she thinks she needs to drive toward. But
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of self actualization that happens
Speaker 3: in the course of the movie where she realized she
Speaker 3: dumps Daniel. That's new, that's not from pride and prejudice,
Speaker 3: Like that character turns out to be a shithead and
Speaker 3: that's all there is. But like in this there's like
Speaker 3: Daniel comes to her and is like, hey, I think
Speaker 3: I think you and I should try to make this work,
Speaker 3: and she's like, actually, no, like I deserve better and
Speaker 3: I can do better, and I would rather be alone
Speaker 3: than within with.
Speaker 1: Someone like you.
Speaker 3: And so there are like updates to the to the
Speaker 3: original work that I think make it age very very
Speaker 3: well even today, even twenty five years later. No people
Speaker 3: of color, obviously sorry, and even gay representations. Is like
Speaker 3: one dude, it's Tom, Hi, Tom, just standing out in
Speaker 3: the background.
Speaker 1: It is two thousand and one. Yeah, so that was enough.
Speaker 3: Frankly, he hits on someone, he flirts with someone, So
Speaker 3: it's not like, you know, he's not like sexless or anything.
Speaker 3: The fat jokes are not jokes. What you remember, what
Speaker 3: you thought were coming were jokes, and they're not. They're
Speaker 3: her grappling with how she looks and her weight and thinking,
Speaker 3: I must improve myself. I will never get anyone if
Speaker 3: I don't improve myself. I must smoke less, I must
Speaker 3: drink less, I must work out more, I must be thin,
Speaker 3: I must be perfect.
Speaker 2: And she she tries no matter.
Speaker 3: The harder she tries, the worse it gets for her,
Speaker 3: and she actually ends up gaining weight throughout the movie,
Speaker 3: and I think, and Mark loves her anyway does not matter,
Speaker 3: and she realizes by the end that's the point, Like
Speaker 3: it doesn't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't fucking matter. He looks me just as I am.
Speaker 3: So I think it ages quite well despite some of
Speaker 3: its two thousand and one isms, because it does have
Speaker 3: quite a few two thousand and one isms.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give it a seven. Okay, I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: a seven out of ten.
Speaker 1: Uh. Ride in Prejudices, I have not made Erica this
Speaker 1: happy maybe ever in our entire friendship.
Speaker 2: That's so good, so funny what I've said.
Speaker 3: Ride and Prejudices, where you have to go through the
Speaker 3: Mary Tunnel where it's just stopping to read a book
Speaker 3: for an hour, Mary the Best Bennett's sister.
Speaker 2: I said what I said, Okay, how about.
Speaker 1: You, Paul? Uh yeah, No, I think you're right like
Speaker 1: I do exactly what you said. With the perception of
Speaker 1: the movie has really made everyone think that it's all
Speaker 1: about a very petite Renee Zellwegger calling herself fat the
Speaker 1: whole time and everyone calling herself fat, and that being
Speaker 1: the jokes, which it's not. It just isn't like, that's
Speaker 1: not what the movie is actually saying or trying to do.
Speaker 2: I don't have rose colored glasses, do I write? Like
Speaker 2: am I being crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so. I think
Speaker 1: that it's I think that the two thousand and oneness
Speaker 1: of it comes out in this sense that I, as
Speaker 1: of viewer, fully believe that women of all shapes and
Speaker 1: sizes go through these kinds of struggles, which I think
Speaker 1: is what the movie is is driving towards. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: in saying that, the movie still does erase an enormous
Speaker 1: portion of the population that does not look like renee
Speaker 1: Cell Wegger, which is, to be fair, the vast majority
Speaker 1: of everybody, like Reneelle Wegger is very very good looking,
Speaker 1: you know, is al right fine, you know. So there's
Speaker 1: that portion of it, which I think, like in our
Speaker 1: in our current culture, which is a little more focused
Speaker 1: on stuff like this, the more aware of stuff like this,
Speaker 1: it comes off as a little disingenuous, ill glib. Maybe,
Speaker 1: So I see yours. I see what you're saying. I
Speaker 1: think that's an accurate, totally valid reading. And I could
Speaker 1: see someone looking at it and being like, sure, but
Speaker 1: still everyone in this movie is a size too, like
Speaker 1: Perpetua is a size maybe four, But like there's not
Speaker 1: even people of size or people, yeah, like people of color,
Speaker 1: like on the edges also living live like it's it's
Speaker 1: very homogeneous in its in its view of people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think those would be the two ways to
Speaker 1: go for it, and I think both of those pathways
Speaker 1: are valid given how you how you're gonna feel about it.
Speaker 2: I also want to point out that Daniel never calls
Speaker 2: her fat, never talks about her like he's into her
Speaker 2: from the jump like there's no he's not, like you
Speaker 2: be cuter if you lost five pounds, like he's deeply
Speaker 2: into her giant, lovely boobs.
Speaker 1: The calls are definitely coming from inside the house or
Speaker 1: from other women. Yeah, Mark and Daniel have no issue
Speaker 1: with Bridget's weight. Yeah, Daniel may have an issue with
Speaker 1: her smoking, as we discussed. But so yeah, I think
Speaker 1: how well the movie is gonna age is kind of
Speaker 1: going to depend on your perception of that those two
Speaker 1: paths the movie can take. I do agree with you
Speaker 1: that I think the path the movie wants to take
Speaker 1: is the path path you're describing.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's worth pointing out two female director writer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it has the backup, it has the receipts on it.
Speaker 1: So I think I think overall ages pretty well. There's
Speaker 1: no people of color. It's two thousand and one. Let's
Speaker 1: go people, Let's just do a little better than this,
Speaker 1: Like you're in London. I'm fine with the gay character.
Speaker 1: Like he gets he gets just as much, if not
Speaker 1: more than the other friends. And he's fun. He has
Speaker 1: a good time. As a couple of scenes, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give it a six. I'm going to give it
Speaker 1: a six out of ten. Ride in Prejudices. Would they
Speaker 1: have like the animatronics you know in Disneyland they have
Speaker 1: like the for the Jurassic Park that have like beating one.
Speaker 1: We have like Gwyneth Paltrow, and.
Speaker 3: They have one that's Lady Catherine de Berg just telling
Speaker 3: everyone what garbage they are.
Speaker 1: As we pass by Gwneth Paltrow. They would just film
Speaker 1: her in her home and they would just add a
Speaker 1: dress on her and post everything would work. Everything would
Speaker 1: just make sense. I suspect there are gonna be people
Speaker 1: who feel like the movie age is much worse. I
Speaker 1: think the biggest complaint I hear about this movie is
Speaker 1: it's about Renee Zelbecker being fat, and I don't think
Speaker 1: that's what the movie intends. I think that the talk
Speaker 1: around it at the time has colored a lot of
Speaker 1: our perceptions of a colored mind. I know, it definitely
Speaker 1: colored what I was expecting when I watched this movie,
Speaker 1: So I suspect that has happened for other people as well.
Speaker 1: It's take on women and their weight and how society
Speaker 1: perceives them, I think is a little more interesting than that,
Speaker 1: A lot more interesting.
Speaker 3: Let's get real earned, Yeah, fucking earned. Like the actors
Speaker 3: gained twenty pounds and everyone lost their shit.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, like actors gained fifty pounds and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: what an amazing thing?
Speaker 2: Is how great?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, and this actress gained twenty pounds and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: is she gonna fit in the seat? How's she gonna
Speaker 1: go to the premiere?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: We have to butter the doors so she can get through,
Speaker 2: is christ?
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm gonna give it a six, a six
Speaker 1: out of ten. Ride in Prejudices and I don't feel
Speaker 1: the need to offer a palate cunser. I think this
Speaker 1: is this is kind of the first Bridget Jones. I
Speaker 1: think is kind of like movie classic. You should you
Speaker 1: should watch it? Yeah, rom com class agreed. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: outside and beyond the binary, we have two Michael's.
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Speaker 1: Michael kaines, I'm Michael Kaine from the Muppet Christmas Carol.
Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Michael Kaine from Day Rotten Scoundrels. And I'm Dunkirk.
Speaker 1: No get out here, Dunkirk. We only got two Michael
Speaker 1: Kines to die.
Speaker 2: Shut up, Dunkirk. No one wants you here.
Speaker 1: We're here today to thank Grace.
Speaker 2: Grace's mother says, Grace loves to listen to that aged
Speaker 2: well with her mother's love later here. That's awful nice,
Speaker 2: isn't it. Governor.
Speaker 1: I don't think Michael Kaine, says Governor.
Speaker 2: I think Michael Cocaine, says Governor. All the fucking toy.
Speaker 1: You're Michael Cain. Don't sound educated.
Speaker 2: My Michael Kain's from the street.
Speaker 1: From the streets. Michael Cain from the streets.
Speaker 2: I don't like your poshow Michael Kain.
Speaker 1: From the streets to London. Michael Kaine, you're Michael Kain,
Speaker 1: is tossa your Michael Kain's a real wanker.
Speaker 2: Oh you're Michaelkain. Can bugger off.
Speaker 1: I've had enough of you, sir. Are you challenging me
Speaker 1: to a duel?
Speaker 2: I am challenging you to a duel.
Speaker 1: Let me get my white glove off. I'm smack you
Speaker 1: in the face with it.
Speaker 2: Oh, don't cook. Come and bring me my pistol.
Speaker 1: A pistol. You want to have a duel with a
Speaker 1: pistol with me?
Speaker 2: Michael Kaine, Michael Kain, you in the face with my
Speaker 2: dueling pistols?
Speaker 1: All right, well, thanks to Grace. I don't know if
Speaker 1: even one of us is going to survive this duel.
Speaker 2: This due is gonna get ugly. I'll meet you at
Speaker 2: Hyde Park. My accent has changed.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I sound like a spice girl. This Michael Cocaine is
Speaker 2: a fucking spice girl.
Speaker 1: It's kiny spice.
Speaker 2: It's old spice.
Speaker 1: Old. Oh you know what we had there, dueling, Michael Kaine.
Speaker 1: We had a cane mutiny. It is yes, oh, Erica.
Speaker 1: Any final thoughts on Bridget Jones's diary.
Speaker 2: Do you smell that there's happiness in the air? Excuse me,
Speaker 2: I have to go change someone's passwords on all their accounts.
Speaker 2: We did dirt, didn't we We didn't do I was
Speaker 2: sure we've done that movie. In my head, we have
Speaker 2: done dirty rotten scoundrel.
Speaker 1: I'm not gas lighting you. I promise we've done.
Speaker 3: Dirty rod scoundrels. I have, okay, I worries of us
Speaker 3: doing dirty rotten scoundrels.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 2: M