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Sgt. Bilko (1996) - Jonathan Lynn | Houselights #278 · Houselights: A Film Director Podcast

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the net party.
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: Hello everybody at home, and welcome tonight. We're talking Sergeant
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: Billco from nineteen ninety six, Jonathan Lynn's attempt to turn
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: a beloved TV show into a Steve Martin vehicle, which.
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: Mostly works.
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  Speaker 2: Martin plays a career con man in uniform who's been
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: running an illegal gambling ring out of the Army's least
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  Speaker 2: productive motor pool for so long that it's become his
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: pension plan with me, who has a poker game going
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: in the back room, knows exactly which colonel to butter up,
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: and will absolutely charm his way out of giving his
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: real rating. Darren Moser and fresh off a decades long
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: personal vendetta, armed with a clipboard and the energy of
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: a man who has been waiting his entire life to
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: finally catch a white haired jerk John Mills. Now, look,
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  Speaker 2: Sergeant Bilko is a movie where Phil Hartman got the
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: assignment and graced us with his take, and Martin knew this.
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that, and about Jonathan Lynn's
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: weird gift for institutional comedy, and about whether dan Ackroyd
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: was okay during filming.
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: This is house Lights.
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  Speaker 2: M Now gentlemen, No, I love snow, so being in
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  Speaker 2: Greenland works for me. I okay, was I the only
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: one who had seen this before?
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  Speaker 4: I thought I hadn't seen it, but then it was
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  Speaker 4: more literally I just completely forgot it. And then you know,
• 1:43
  Speaker 4: when you're watching it again, you're like, Okay, this is
• 1:47
  Speaker 4: where Oh they're going to hide the roulette wheel and
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: the tire. Oh they're gonna like it all comes back
• 1:52
  Speaker 4: where you remember I have seen this at least once,
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  Speaker 4: but it was probably a decade ago.
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  Speaker 3: So for what that's worth, John, how about you.
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  Speaker 1: No, it didn't strike my fancy back in ninety six.
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  Speaker 1: And this isn't one where I'm gonna be like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was meant to get around Sergeant Pilco. This is
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  Speaker 1: one I was kind of like, yeah, it's okay, this
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  Speaker 1: goes by me.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, this was part of the like, there was
• 2:14
  Speaker 5: a whole.
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  Speaker 1: Bunch of of like nineteen fifties shows that they tried
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: to resurrect in the nineties. And I think hadn't Beverly
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: Hillbillies come out before this?
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  Speaker 2: I think so. I think it was before ninety six,
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: and I think the Flintstones came out around this time.
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  Speaker 5: I got to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Once they fumbled the Beverly Hillbillies, which is one of
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: my most beloved TV shows of all time, I probably
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: was just burned out. I was like, that's it, guys,
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: I'm out. Like, once you hurt me that bad, I'm
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: not coming back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when you say fumbled, do you mean Dietrich
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  Speaker 2: Bader did an amazing performance?
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what you meant.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I misspoke. Yes, that's that must be what
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  Speaker 5: I meant.
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  Speaker 1: And Eric Olaniak was a marvel as a comic actress.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: And yeah, and listen that Jim Varney deserved better than that.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say, because he was great
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  Speaker 1: as Jed Clampit. He got he understood that assignment. But
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody else did anyway. That's the
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: side topic. That's why I didn't see the Sergeant Bilko
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  Speaker 1: or Michale's Navy, or there was one with like Kelsey
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  Speaker 1: Grammer or something around this time period.
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  Speaker 5: Wasn't there.
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  Speaker 3: Based on anything.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't based on anything. I don't think it was well.
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  Speaker 3: Which Darren and I still are trying to get you to.
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  Speaker 1: Watch, and you're trying to get me to watch the
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  Speaker 1: line in winter, so you know, go on, Sissyphis, keep pushing.
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  Speaker 4: That mid nineties mission Impossible because that you know, oh,
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  Speaker 4: that's right, and that was from the seventies, so sixties
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  Speaker 4: and seventies so and.
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  Speaker 1: I enjoyed that one. I thought the Paulm's Mission Impossible
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  Speaker 1: was quite good.
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  Speaker 5: I like them.
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  Speaker 4: It is, But as someone who's also watched every episode
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  Speaker 4: of the classic show, I can tell why the.
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  Speaker 3: Original cast were pissed off and pulled out.
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  Speaker 4: And didn't want to be in it. So fair enough
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  Speaker 4: for story of reasons like they basically, I mean, you
• 4:03
  Speaker 4: make Jim Phelps the bad guy and that's like, that's
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  Speaker 4: like cards the villain ah and he like killed everybody,
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  Speaker 4: Like like, what what is he doing?
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  Speaker 1: That's subverting expectations? Though I was told that use that word,
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  Speaker 1: I just did, you know, But did you guys actually
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  Speaker 1: revert them?
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  Speaker 5: That's yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You guys reminded me that we should probably give a
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  Speaker 2: little background on this for people who don't know. The
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  Speaker 2: source material for this movie is The Phil Silver Show,
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  Speaker 2: which ran for one hundred and forty three episodes, and
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: Phil Silvers plays Bilko as a fast talking scheming Basically,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Steve Martin's character, and while the original was
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  Speaker 2: an Eisenhower era show built entirely around one comedic premise,
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  Speaker 2: uh it oh, you know, won awards and went on
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  Speaker 2: for a long time and of its time. And this
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  Speaker 2: movie lost money that we're talking about. Yes, it's a
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  Speaker 2: budget of thirty nine million, which was nothing to sneeze
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  Speaker 2: at in nineteen ninety six, especially for a Steve Martin comedy.
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  Speaker 2: And it returned with thirty seven point nine million.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah it did, but just to do the Phil
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  Speaker 1: Silvers thing like the fifties. The whole reason you have
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: that glut of shows like that is so many, so
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  Speaker 1: many people had served in World War Two, like it
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  Speaker 1: was immediately relatable comedy to them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like it's like aha, like you know, we
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  Speaker 4: all had that NCO that was cutting deals on the
• 5:34
  Speaker 4: side and trying to mail a g poem like.
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  Speaker 1: That for the person who was too straight laced or
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: the person who was the fresh young recruit. These were
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  Speaker 1: all very relatable premises, and I think that by ninety
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  Speaker 1: six it's just it's one of those things you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to tell an old joke that didn't age well, like
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: the punchline when you say it is kind of like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it doesn't play it the same way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And on top of that, watching it in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: six adds another layer of how it doesn't work, because
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: when you're watching it, we're like, oh, so we're just
• 6:09
  Speaker 2: defrauding Congress at this point to save our careers.
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  Speaker 5: Hold on a second, traditions are upheld to this day.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. I knew you were going to say that,
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: and you're not wrong. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's a long history of defense contractors and R
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  Speaker 2: and D stealing taxpayer money. Not arguing against that whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just one of those things where, like you
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  Speaker 2: watch it in nineteen ninety six, you're like, oh, it's
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  Speaker 2: just goofball comedy, you know, Like, but it's based off
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  Speaker 2: of a premise of you know, post World War Two,
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  Speaker 2: where way more people, you know, because we're post draft,
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  Speaker 2: post people coming home, way more people have that frame
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  Speaker 2: of reference than they do than they did in ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: And then in twenty twenty six, it's just completely removed
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  Speaker 2: from it. And so now all you're thinking about is
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: thinking about it from an.
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  Speaker 1: Abstract Yeah, And I think that additionally, This is an
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: interesting one because we look at Clue and he handles
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: the ensemble really well. There's there's a balance of all
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: the characters, all the performances. Everybody's playing at the same level.
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: We fast forward to here, you know, after last week,
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  Speaker 1: and what really struck me about this was it's so
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  Speaker 1: uneven in terms of its distribution of attentions. And this
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  Speaker 1: is much more a starring vehicle type of movie, uh
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  Speaker 1: than you know, than than previously, and I think that
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't play the lens particular set of skills very well, I.
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: Know, speaking of which you know saying this is a
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  Speaker 2: starring vehicle. Albert Brooks was originally offered the role for
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: Bilko and turned it down. What do you guys think
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: about Brooks in this role? So the same script, same movie,
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  Speaker 2: but just a Brooks performance. What do you think does
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  Speaker 2: it improve it? Is it weird?
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  Speaker 5: I do think it improves it.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing is, I'm very biased because Albert Brooks
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  Speaker 1: just walks on screen and I start laughing, which was
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: very awkward during drive. But like, I think that the
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: performance does matter because Steve Martin's really sort of doing
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: a riff on Steve Martin in this role.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing his stand up stick right, whereas I.
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  Speaker 5: Think Albert Brooks would have been.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: It would have played a lot better in sort of
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: that like low key, smarmy sort of thing, like that
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  Speaker 1: oily vibe. He's not up for comedy, he's sliding through
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  Speaker 1: the comedy. I think Brooks's style lends itself to this
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  Speaker 1: material a lot better.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the the vibe it makes me more.
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  Speaker 4: It makes me think it would be better translated to
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  Speaker 4: like a college frat, animal house kind of style. Like
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  Speaker 4: the level of pranks and jokes and things he's getting
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  Speaker 4: away with felt more like, oh, Delta houses running a
• 9:06
  Speaker 4: gambling ring under the principal's nose, Like it felt like
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  Speaker 4: that level of gotcha. But we're on an army base
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  Speaker 4: and so it like that did not make sense in
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  Speaker 4: the It didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Balance at all.
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  Speaker 2: Such a mystery as to why the US Army did
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  Speaker 2: not want to have anything to do with this.
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  Speaker 4: That quote at the end like thank you US Army
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  Speaker 4: for zero support, just like we keep our names out
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  Speaker 4: of this. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They worked with They worked with them for months trying
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  Speaker 2: to get their support and use an active base, and
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  Speaker 2: after months of script revisions, the Army just said, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, We're just we're just not gonna do.
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  Speaker 5: This, you know. I think.
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  Speaker 1: I think what's interesting though, is the fact that they
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  Speaker 1: call it out at the end did make it seem
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  Speaker 1: like it was an intentional joke where they were like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't even bother asking the army, Like it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like they're trying to been the fact that the Army's like,
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  Speaker 1: co screw guys.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I add.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't get support from the army. Oh okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I didn't get that at all. I thought my tongue
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  Speaker 6: in cheek where no, no, no, I didn't. I thought
• 10:13
  Speaker 6: it was more tongue in cheek where it's just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we're showing the army as a bunch of buffoons,
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  Speaker 6: so obviously the army is not gonna capitulate. This is
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  Speaker 6: like the anti Top Gun where yes, that's true, that's true.
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  Speaker 5: They were Navy.
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  Speaker 4: It's like NASA and the National Oil Drillers Association both
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: refused to help in this movie, and we're like, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we know, like that's.
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  Speaker 3: Not a surprise.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: What I think is a real shame is that, like
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: I love as an actress, Glenn Headley, I really love
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: her work pretty much in anything.
• 10:48
  Speaker 5: That she shows up in.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: She's so unique, and I think that if they had
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: rebalanced the script to focus around them more somehow this
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: would have worked better.
• 11:01
  Speaker 5: Where with the art you do you think too?
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: I do? I feel like.
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  Speaker 2: She's so good and she's so funny, and I want
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: to see more of her, But I feel like that's
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: what stopped the movie dead.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not disagreeing with you. What I'm saying is they
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: should have picked that as their lane. And then what
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: you could have is that he's so preoccupied with her
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: that his troops can get away with murder and he
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't care because he's over here worried about her.
• 11:33
  Speaker 5: Instead of being focused on his skates.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: Right, instead of hitting an instigator, he's just he can't
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: split his time, and so it becomes you could reframe
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  Speaker 1: it as he has to choose does he want to
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  Speaker 1: be in love or does he want to be in
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  Speaker 1: the army, And then at the end he chooses to
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  Speaker 1: be in love sort of thing where he's like, you
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: know what, neither one of you have been benefiting from this.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to leave the army and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give my life to her now again.
• 11:58
  Speaker 5: As we love to.
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  Speaker 1: Say that's rewriting the movie, but I think that's a
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: better movie. I think that's the sort of thing you
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: should do. Is that a thing we say, Yeah.
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: It can be, you know, No, I agree, I mean
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  Speaker 4: I think I was. When I was watching her performance,
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: it made me think, Okay, what else was she doing
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: right around this time? And she had just done mister
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: Holland's Opus, and you know, which is again when you're
• 12:25
  Speaker 4: given a character and role like that. This is more
• 12:29
  Speaker 4: like you know, Canada City comedy. But yeah, maybe I
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: think you're right when you called it about balance. Like
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: every time he goes off base to talk with her,
• 12:45
  Speaker 4: it just stops the action completely. So maybe again, you know,
• 12:50
  Speaker 4: getting back to rewriting, do something like maybe she's been
• 12:54
  Speaker 4: living on base housing with him, so she's actually there,
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: and the and the school is you know, the Colonel
• 13:04
  Speaker 4: dan Aykroyd is now put in a bind where he's
• 13:06
  Speaker 4: got to actually enforce the base policy of you can't
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: live on base if you're not married, like I got
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: you got thirty days, or I got to kick her out.
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  Speaker 4: It's something like tie those two plots together, because they definitely.
• 13:19
  Speaker 5: Felt like an A and a B.
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: Well, I can I can say definitely the thing the
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: plot element that should have been cut from the beginning,
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: Like let's just make it super basic and he has
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: to win one final card game so they have the
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: money so that they can go off or whatever. Like
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: you take your idea, then introduce like the final card
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: game thing. We expect that with this type of movie.
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: The whole hover tank thing is puzzling at best. That's
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: the nicest way I can put it. Now, It's no,
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: it's nineties. It's so nineties.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: It's the it's the age of the internet technology booming,
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: you know, like it's it's where people don't always understand
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: how advanced technology is or what it can do. We
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: saw this all over the place in the nineties. This
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: was very much representative of its time.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Yes, but I'm I'm just saying the movie works better
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: if you cut it and focus on I love that.
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: It's so stupid, because it is.
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm glad it's not stupid funny, it's just stupid.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: But I'm glad that they didn't lampshade the problem with
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: the tank. Like the first thing that you think of
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: with a hover tank is how on Earth. Is it
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: going to fire without it just zooming backwards.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: That's exactly the problem, And that's exactly the problem. It's
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: my head canon is that, you know, Austin Pendleton's character,
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: he just got fired from Nova Robotics and so went
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: enlisted into the Army and is now trying to get
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: his hover tank working, because I feel like that's the
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: same thing that he would try to come up with.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: I just think they're so like, we've spent all of
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: this time talking about how we would have rewritten, restructured,
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: read this, read that. I think it just speaks to
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: the fact that this movie just you know, we hear
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: all the time about movies being shelved, and then you
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: run across a movie and you're like, well, if that's
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: a thing, then.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean, I guess, I guess you could.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: You can't shelve a Steve Martin movie in the nineties, No, No,
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: you just can't do that, especially get Dan Aykroyd and
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Phil Hartman in the cast, you know, and you guys.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about Phil Horton.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So, how did you guys feel about Hartman's performance?
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Was he just Hartman doing Hartman like Martin was doing
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Martin or do you feel like he understood what was
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: going on with the movie and what he needed to bring.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Was he the funniest person on screen? Or was he
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: truly adding to the ensemble, like, you know, allowing Akroyd
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: and Martin to kind of bounce off of him.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: I think that Hartman was playing the straight man, but
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: he was desperately in need of the right funny man
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: to play off of. I think he was playing off
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  Speaker 1: of a character that wasn't manifesting on screen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Bilko, Bilko is the problem because he's like half
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: straight man, half funny man, depending on the scene. Like
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I meant to take him seriously
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: or if he's meant to be the butt of all
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: the jokes, or if I meant to like root for him,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: like obviously root for him because he's the main character.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: But yeah, and then I just this whole thing just
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: feels like a sketch, Like this is an SNL sketch
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  Speaker 4: that instead of being three minutes, we padded it out
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  Speaker 4: to ninety four and it suffered.
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  Speaker 2: M okay, okay, So when I watched this in preparation
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: for this podcast, we were the three of us were
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: talking and were like, who has seen this? And I
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, yeah, I've seen this, right, Yeah, no,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I've seen this. And I was really confused because I
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: was like, no, I know I saw this as a kid.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: But as I finally watched it, I was like, holy crap,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: memory unlocked and I knew every single joke, every single line,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: every single character. I watched this like crazy when I
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: was a kid, I don't know. I don't remember owning
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Sergeant bilkoh, so, like, I'm not quite sure i'd seen it.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Somebody taped it off the TV, or yeah, maybe.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: I taped it off of the TV, or they just
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: showed it on TV a lot. I can't remember, but
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: I remember just so much of it.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: And I brought it up like last week and I
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: was hanging out with my uncle and I said, I
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: was like, you have you seen Sergeant Bilko? I'm talking
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: about it on Tuesday and he's like, He's.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, I love that movie so much.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: And like my uncle Rick just sixty years old. He
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: works in hvac is you know, was raised by a
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: mechanic and does nothing but watch stupid eighties and nineties comedies,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: and he loves this movie like he is the that's
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: what we do well, he is he is the target
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: demographic for this movie. And I think that's the thing
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: is that when you look at this movie, when you
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: go into it knowing what to expect, that it's a
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: stupid ass nineties comedy with where like the fat, stupid
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: private or whatever is the butt of the joke. And
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: that's the era this was filmed in. You give it
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: a little bit more leeway.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I think I don't, because I went through the nineties
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: and I didn't give movies like this too much quarterback
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: then either. I think that these are the sorts of
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: things where if it works for somebody cool man, that's great.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: And I'm not even saying that in a dismissive like
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I like competito things.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: Trust me, look at my letterbox list, I watch crap.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I know this guy was just pitching me a nineteen
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: seventies horror film that was probably shot on video.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: What was it called Messiah of Evil?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Messiah of Evil?
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: It's from the writers of American Graffiti. How could you
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: not want it?
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Sounds like something Riff Tracks would cover, or like MST
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: three K.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: It is exactly something that would have a blast with
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: this movie.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: They would really have fun with this movie. But it
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: is a great mood piece with a lot of liminal spaces,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: so dig it. But this is just the type of
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: thing where it's like sometimes comedy just doesn't work and
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: it's not even a for you thing. It's just comedy
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: just doesn't work, but it can still make somebody laugh
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: because you're like, comedy is the most taste based thing
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: out there. Like even somebody who's not a big drama
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: fan can watch The Godfather and be like, Okay, I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: get it. I know why people love this. I can
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: watch Stars and Bilco and I can say the same thing.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Okay, I get it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I know why somebody would laugh at this, but it's
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: just not my sense of humor. And then so I
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: sit there and I just start picking at it and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: I get, you know, distracted and bored while I'm watching it,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: because that's just the way it works with comedy.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: That's just me no.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: And it's like I think everything we're saying is true,
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: like it being a Steve Martin vehicle is what got
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: a green lit, but also kind of doomed it because
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: like I could I don't know. I haven't given too
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: much thought, and like, who else could have played Bilko better?
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: I'm kind of leaning more towards like a Harold Ramis
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: or if there's more structuring involved, Like it's not just Bilko,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: it's the dynamic between him and the other players, Like there's.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Uh, you know what, I understand what you're saying. It's
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: not Ramis.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: But the thing is, the whole time I was watching this,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: I was thinking of this is like a family friendly Stripes,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: which had Harold Ramon Murray, and I'm like, Bilko, if
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: you're not going to have Albert Brooks, this is a
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Bill Murray role, because Bill Murray is that sort of
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: He's right, Stripes didn't exist, right, Yeah, and and that
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: that's the type of vibe you're going for with this character.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Or just fully embrace it. And for the love of
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: God help me for saying this, just go ahead and
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: cast Polly Shore in it and be done.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: With it and just put him in the role.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: No, just go too far in the other direction. No,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, just go too far in the other direction.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I would probably laugh at that because of it, Like
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: this is insanely stupid, like it was so overcompensate in
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the other direction that I'd be along for the ride
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: in that case.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: You know, Robin Williams expressed interest in this role. What
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: do you think that would have looked? Like?
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Hm, I don't think it would have worked.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: He's too much. I like, if if we're putting Bill
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Murray in the Bill core role, I could almost see
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Steve Martin in the Thorn role as the straight but
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: as the two tightly wound, He's more that character that's
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: father of the bride, that's plain strains automobiles, like he
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: does that really well. This, like you said, was his
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: stand up Like, like I just the tone of how
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: he delivered everything.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: All right, So I do want to give some praise
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: to this, and so I want to talk about one
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: particular scene in section that I think was freaking hilarious.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: It's when there was a surprise inspection and they were
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: on their way and they're like, holy crap, what do
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: we do? And so they switched the signs from Barracks
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: A to.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Barricks might be favorite scene.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: And then they have to def like they all line
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: up and then like his number two is standing in
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: his room and it's clearly a woman's room, and Thorn
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: brings out a brazier. He's like, do you want to
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: explain this? He's like, I'm under the impression that you're
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: no longer allowed to ask me that question, sir. This
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: because this was at the beat, This was right in
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: the heart of don't ask, don't tell.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, that joke does work.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I laughed harder honestly at the first room that they
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: went into.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: The black family is a black.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Family in the picture, and the guy's like, it's my
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: favorite sitcom. It's the cast of my favorite sitcom. It
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: makes you laugh, but it really makes you think. That
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: was funny. To me, that was great because that's a
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: type of crap lie that I try.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: To come up with. In the moment where I was like,
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: I don't know what to say right now that I
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: found funny.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: But but again, that whole bit could work in you know,
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: some sort of school based comedy, like with the dorm
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: room situation or something like. That's the level of humor
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: that this movie was trying for. And you know the hustle.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: But yeah, that was the the A A barracks b
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: barracks swap is my It's the funniest part because it's
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: so they deliver it so dryly, and they're just like squirming,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: like why did you get us into this mess?
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Bilko?
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I I'll you know, if we're gonna be talking about
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the positives, I thought that the seeing Bilko trying to lie.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: But again, Bill Murray delivering these types of lines and
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: jokes I think works even better for me. Where it's like,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: is that a pile of you know, horse crap? It's like, yeah,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: to attract the flies away from the food, sir. And
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: they look up and they see the horse finally, and
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: they go what is you know, like the horse is
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: up there, and it's like fresh.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: Is better than anything, sir. Like that that worked for
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: me too, But again.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: It's I imagine it delivered with a slightly different type
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: of energy and it's even fun year But that was
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: funny as well. I even liked I mean like I was,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I was with it. I was giving it as much
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of a chance as I could. And when you first
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: go in and there's a tug of war with the horse,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: and then you find out that they basically scammed the hustle. Yeah,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: they hustled the other the other barracks, and you know
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the big guy like out Tug of Wars the horse
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: That was funny to me too. It so like for
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the for the very beginning of it, I was along
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: with it, if I'm honest. It really wasn't until the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: hover Tank that I completely completely started dissociating from the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: movie and I was like, okay, well this is I'm
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: not quite sure what they're doing here.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: What what kills me is?
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: When we got to the ending, it kind of reminded
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: me the end of the ending of Greece where stay
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: with me? Where so you have that the new guy,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I can't remember his name, but the new guy, the
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: guy who was in Galaxy Quest and.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, that would be a Wally.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Wally.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Darryl Mitchell, Darryl Mitchell. Thank you.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: You have Daryl Mitchell coming in, and you know, like
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: he he loves his job, he loves the service, wants
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: to defend his country, and he's he's kind of like
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the foil where he's just like he's the conscience and
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: telling them that they're doing wrong. He's like the audience.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: And then at the end he's like, you know what,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I like you, Sergeant Bill Coo. I'm going to break
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: the law for you. Now and I'm gonna I'm going
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: to roll back as an odometer because you know, we
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: had a connection. And so you're like, so you took
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: this good serviceman corrupted himself now that like, and and
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: everybody's supposed to smile and say like, yeah, yeah, that's
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: that's nice.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: That's nice. He's now a terrible, terrible serviceman.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, because it's about the human connection. That's what count Like,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: if the Army isn't about making friends, what is it for?
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: It's not about anything but that.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: So I have a question for you guys, because I
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: feel like we haven't even hit the thirty minute mark
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: and we're we're itching to get to our ratings. Yes,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: but I do have a question for you guys. We
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: don't normally do this, but I feel like this is
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: something that we should do with. This is a movie
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: that warrants this question. What would the movie look like today?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I'm saying you got greenlit in twenty twenty six, who
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: would you cast?
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: What would it be about?
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: It's gotta be in the arm services, that's the That's
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the only thing I'm gonna stick. It could be Army, Navy,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: air Force. Hell, I'll even let you do Space Force.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: No, that's what I was going to say, because if
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I have to stick with a bizarre technology angle, like
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: that's a necessity, I have to approach it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, I'm a one to one.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I can't ditch some aspect of this movie in order
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: to make the movie that I think it should have
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: been back then, and I gotta have the weird tank
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: thing in there. Space Force is immediately where I'm going
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: to straight down going for Space Force and then for
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: lead actor Darren. I'll let you go first on that one.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I think Space Force, you go with the lead act. Oh,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I'm going my own direction, John, I wasn't building a
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Space Force.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: I with Navy. They're on an aircraft carrier and they're
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: trying to get the flywheel airplane catapult to work, which
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: you know doesn't because that isn't possible. But okay, okay,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: Space Force. Well, now we're.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: About this space for aircraft carrier. There you go.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Problem solved anyway. Oh gosh, main comedy guy. For now,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: it's who do we have?
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: It's even well, what's crazy is like there's a show
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I have not seen it yet, Abount Space Force with
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Steve Carrell and I hate and I hate that that
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: basically would be this, like we're probably out on that.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I've seen a couple of episodes of it. It's cute,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: you the clips that you see online are definitely the highlights.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: But it's there's a reason it didn't catch on too much.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not trashing it like it's cute. It's it's sort
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: of like forgettable humor sort of thing where it's like,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, it is kind of like this where
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not going to remember in ten years
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: that the show ever existed.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: But I didn't.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't like turn off the episode after one I
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: didn't turn off the series after one episode.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: I was like, screw this show. This isn't up front
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: to come like. It was just it was just there.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: I Uh, who would we put in? I don't want
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: to do Correl.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I Correl if anything would take the place of Hartman
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: in this. I could see Correll as a Hartman character
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: because he does that well. I if you, I mean,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: if you take it back ten years or twenty years ago,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I'd put Jim Carrey as the Bilco role. But no,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: wow today honestly, and people can come at me, they're
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: gonna get add at me about it. They're going to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: be angry whatever. I don't care, but I'll stand by
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: this if anything, have you guys ever seen Tires on Netflix?
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I would put Gillis as Bilkoh and then his Foil
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: as Hartman's character. Those would be the guys that I
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: would have at the core of this as the colonel.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I would probably have like Burt Krusher like, I would
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: just go all in and go with the crazy, silly
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: comedy angle of it all. So those would be my
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: three that I would position everything around, and then I
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: would have kill Tony pick all the remaining cast with
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: stand up auditions.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: I would do Donald Glover bilko Oh, that's a good choice, and.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Thorn Bill Hater's Thorn beautiful, love it, love it. I
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: think that's great.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: You have to throw Charlie Day in there.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: Charlie Day. Oh, yes, Charlie Day's a good choice.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Charlie. I would do Air Force.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I definitely stay with Space Force, but Charlie Day would
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: be Austin Pendleton's character. He's been driven crazy by the
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: project that he's working on and he's just unhinged.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: He's just like it was not gonna work.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: It's like, you know, I told that when we wrote
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: the first paper it's not gonna work. It that they
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: gave me millions of dollars. I don't go and do
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: with it because it's like totally yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And they don't let him in on it.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: So when the cannon supposedly works the first time and
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: it blows up, blows up like Charlie Day's like kissing
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: people in the stands.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: He's like, oh my god, oh my god, we figured
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: it out. That sort of thing. Yes, I like that.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Cast you know why the hover tank won't work on
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: the moon because there's no air, right, yeah, yes.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: See, I like that. I like that idea.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: They air and shoot it down. That told them this.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: It's not just a simple defrauding the government sort of thing,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: is that the project makes no sense, but nobody's going
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: to like defund it because and you could even have
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: instead of having an admiral or general or whomever show
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: up at the end, it's a congressman who talks about
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: all the jobs that it's bringing to his district, and
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: he refuses to cancel the project. And you're gonna make
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: this damn thing work because I need factory jobs. In
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: this Town again or something like that, that.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Played by Brian Cox.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: You're just Brian Cranston as Brian and Brian double double senators.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, either Brian Cranston is the senator at the end,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: or he's the colonel.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, Cranston is Ackroyd's character and Cox
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: is the congressman who goes after Cranston.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I could see that. I could completely see that. See,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: we've made a better movie in the modern era just.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: By recasting with that.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Even if I Acquiesce and I say, uh, you know,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: take Gillis gill Us at least is in the supporting cast.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: If he's not the lead, he's at least in the
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: supporting cast. He's one of these characters. It's on the
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: side here. My question is who is taking the place
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: of Glenn Headley's character. Who's in there? Hmm yeah, right,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: that's a tough one.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Who would be a good pairing for Ooh, it's uh
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: fleabag because they never.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Got actually just thinking of.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: You, because they never got to make that show work
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: when they were supposed to be together.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, would they was that mister and missus Smith they
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: were trying to.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was supposed to be mister and missus Smith together. Okay,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: mainly just because I want to see them together. I
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: don't even think that it would be a good choice.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I just want to see them together.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: I could see waller Bridge in there.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: I could see that because she could play the flustered
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: part of it very well.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I could see. Yeah, I could see that.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: All right, let's pull the ripcord.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: They have that in the Army planes, the airborne jumps
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: out of airplanes.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Airborne, all right, Darren air Force.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: No, I don't know how.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Will's wheels are you giving this movie?
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: This movie? Yeah, it didn't age well. The jokes do
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: not land. But you're not wrong, Tristan, in that it
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: has its audience, it has its nineties like I'm just
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: watching something for fun. What sad is like? We've seen
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: this type of structure of the getting Away with It
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: under the Authority figures nos done better in so many
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: other movies like this doesn't necessarily bring anything new to
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: the table in that regard. So yeah, I'm I'm just
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: gonna give it a nice one. I'm not gonna watch
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: this again. I'm not gonna remember this. I'm gonna go
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: watch playing the trains and automobiles to remember what an
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: amazing actor?
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: A nice one? How does that work? A nice?
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Giving it one Rolette wheel? There's only one Rolett Wheel
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: in Roulette?
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: All right, John, what nice rating are you gonna Ginvince?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not gonna be nice. I'm gonna even a
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: nasty one, is what I'm gonna give it. I don't
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I wasn't angry at the end of it. But this
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: is something where I think, in five years you'll have
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: to remind me that I had seen it, and then
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: I will insist that I still hadn't seen it, and
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: then you'll pull up my letterbox and you'll be like, look,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: you logged it on this day in twenty twenty six,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and I'll go, huh, son of a gun, I saw
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: this movie, so I'm giving.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: It a one.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: I uh so, I have nothing but nostalgia for this
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: movie after seeing it again, like it took me back
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: to when I was a kid and just laughing my
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: butt off as a child because it's such stupid humor
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: and this made I don't I don't care who knows it.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: I don't care what you guys think. I don't care
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: what the internet thinks this made me laugh harder than
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: my cousin Vitty. So I'm giving it the same rating
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: as the Oscar Award winning my cousin Vinny with three
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: stars because I probably will watch this again.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: This movie broke him John, it broke our each their
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: own No, like.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Is this like I can't. I can't. It's not a
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: movie I can defend.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: No, I get it what you said. I watched this
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: a ton growing up, and I don't remember where my
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: you know, copies be.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: War three stars.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: I knew it was going to be up there a
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: little bit, but that's okay.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Just like if you look at my rating of Star
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Trek five, like there's a four and I there's a
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: feel below it because I have an I have a
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: very specific emotional feeling. I get it, man, and I
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: don't I respect it. At least you're honest about it. Cool,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: that's great. My always may vary, and.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: This is definitely one of those times when I am
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent honest about it. You can't defend this
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: movie like, no, No, this is this is This is
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: a garbage movie and it's stupid humor. But that's the
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: appeal is sometimes you need the McDonald's burger like you
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: can't eat steak all the time. All right, Darren, what
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: are we doing next week? And let's see if it's
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: better than the one, one three. Sergeant Bilco, Well, we'll see.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: As we wrap up the House of Jonathan Lynn, we're
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: going to be covering not the first yard, not the
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: second yard, but the whole nine yards. From two thousand,
• 37:30
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• 37:32
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