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Fast Times at Ridgemont High · Cage Match: A Roundabout Way of Meeting Nicolas Cage

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I was getting coffee this morning and walking
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the dogs because it's going to get fucking hot
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here soon. I was just like chatting with the
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woman about her lack of AC. And in the middle
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of the conversation, I'm like, shit, I'm supposed
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to be on a podcast. I got to go high priority
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shit. Which is how I'm going to now leave every
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conversation I don't want to be. Oh, shit. Oh,
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I'm supposed to be on a podcast right now. Bye.
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That's right. Actually, that's a pretty good
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exit line. Yeah. Unless you've used it numerous
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times and then people are just like, he's very
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unreliable. That's a very irresponsible person.
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Like, man, can't count on Sean. Start entering
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rooms. Is there somewhere you need to be? Yeah.
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Shouldn't you be on a podcast right now? Fucking
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generally, there's somewhere I need to be. And
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I always forget I'm trying to get better about
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putting stuff on my calendar. Hmm. Do you have
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a physical calendar? No, I should. Yeah, you
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might need that. That's like then I get fucking
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obstinate about it. I just keep writing things
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on the. It's just you're stuck in March and you
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just keep writing it on March 5th. Same difference.
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Yeah, it's March weather. Fives are fives. I
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fives are fives. I was supposed to put something
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in my calendar for next week, and then I got
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tripped up on how we still celebrate Flag Day
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and forgot what I was doing and then like went
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like, Oh, what was that thing I put in my calendar?
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That's right. You were thinking about Flag Day
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and forgot to write it down. It'd be cool if
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we could like just bring in some other flags
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like 2025 is the year of the. I don't know. Tiger
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flag. And it's just a flag with a tiger on it.
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And we celebrate that flag for the year. Yeah,
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it's like, hell yeah. Tiger flag. Tiger flag.
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And then next year, it's something else. It's
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like one of the flags from in front of a McDonald's
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just with the arches and everything. Yeah. Yeah.
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It's like, oh, cool. Your time to shine. That
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is a better symbol of American capitalism and
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American, like, superiority than the current
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flag. Also, it's unfortunate that Flag Day falls
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on Trump's birthday, too. So does it? Yeah, no.
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Yeah, what a bitch. I got to fucking see dogma
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in the theater last night. Oh, yeah. I haven't
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seen them in a really long time, but I remember
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liking it. It's been well, it's been out of print
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for like over a decade because of fucking Harvey
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Weinstein. Mm hmm. I think. They finally got
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the I think the rights finally got like turned
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over or he let him go because he was holding
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on to them out of spite for like him and Kevin
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Smith had a falling out long before all the Weinstein
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stuff came out. So Weinstein was holding on to
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it out of spite. It holds up better than I thought
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it would. I forget how terrible the acting is
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in a. Yeah, it's not good. You look in any Kevin
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Smith film. Yeah. Not a priority, but shit golems.
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Hell yeah. I feel like Clark gets a pass because
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it's his first film. But it really does set the
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template of like no one acts. Yeah. But like
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this is a movie of really good actors and well,
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I say that it's fucking Chris Rock and Selma
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Hayek. Those are the really good actors. Those
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are the two you're pulling out. No, I was going
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to say it has really good actors thinking of
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Alan Rickman. Then I thought about the rest of
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the cast. I'm like, never mind. The movie has
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Alan Rickman. Those are the only movies with
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only scenes with chemistry. Yeah. Yeah. I kind
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of like the Alanis Morissette as God, though.
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Yeah. She's sort of a charming doofus. Yeah.
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She doesn't say anything. Yeah, it's perfect.
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She does say boop. She does say boop. I do appreciate
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this is now a dogma podcast. That's my last thought
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on it. I do appreciate the Chekhov's gun of Alan
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Rickman saying to hear the voice of God, your
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brain would melt and your heart would explode
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out of your chest. And that's exactly what happens
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to Bartleby at the end of the film. Yeah. What
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I'm saying, it was cool to see on the big screen
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and holds up better than I thought. That's cool.
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I think he was considering a sequel to it from
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something I saw online. After I think they resubmitted
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this for can or something like that. I don't
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know. Interesting. I saw headlines didn't read
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story. I same. Yeah, I have not seen clerks three.
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I enjoyed clerks two for what it is. I just like
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those characters. And I was always a fan of the
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cartoon show. So I'm like, you can do more with
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these two. But I don't need a heartwarming movie
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about how Randall has a heart attack and is dying.
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That's not what I want Randall for. Yeah, not
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at all. So. Welcome back to cage match. I have
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not figured out a new intro for whatever the
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fuck we're doing now. Today, we're discussing
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fast times at Ridgemont High, and I feel like
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we should discuss this movie just as much as
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Nick Cage is in it. So let's keep talking about
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dogma. It's worth talking about. Yeah. But yeah,
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it is. It's remarkable how little he's in this.
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But yeah, we introduce yourselves. Oh, I'm Sean.
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I'm Nick. And I'm producer Peter. Welcome back,
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everybody. Season three, baby. Three. OK. Yeah.
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Four. Three. When? I don't know. Ten. Well, you
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know, I keep thinking about Daryl on his Defoe
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podcast. They like break it down in such a strange
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way. They're on like season 12 and it's like
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and we're in 2005 for Willem Defoe. It's like,
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what the fuck? Well, to be fair, that's fucking.
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British UK style. Yeah. Like they have a different
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numbering system like they have like their seasons
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are eight episodes long. Yeah. Fives are still
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fives, though. So. But yeah, obviously, fast
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times at Ridgemont High. Yeah. I thought I had
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not seen this movie before. And then as soon
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as we started it, I was like, oh, I've seen this
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entire movie. I know what I'm doing now. And
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that was a relief. I really like Spicoli. Spicoli
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makes me laugh. Yeah, his interactions with Mr.
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Hand. Crack me up. That is absolutely the best,
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like two part buddy. Yeah, they're the greatest
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duo. Yeah. So because everything else is sort
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of just like weird vignette characters that have
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no arcs for the most part. Sean and we're talking
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about that. It's like, who is this movie actually
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about? Yeah, I would assume it's about the girl
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who? Yeah, Stacey. Yeah. Judge Reinhold's sister.
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Who just wants to bang. Mm hmm. Played by Jennifer
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Jason Lee. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. This is one of those
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movies I missed when I was like the appropriate
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age to like like this, like I enjoyed the performances.
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I thought the stories were fine. I didn't dislike
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the movie. I enjoyed watching it. But the relatability,
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I feel at 40 completely out the window. Oh, yeah.
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It's definitely a movie for teenagers. Yeah.
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So something about a fucking. Teenage sex romp
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hits different at 40, especially when the primary
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character is supposed to be 15. Mm hmm. And there
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is grout. There is like full frontal nudity of
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an actress who is 19 at the time. And I'm like,
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this is early uncomfortable. I do not like any
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of this. Did I sleep through Bush? Like, no.
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Yeah. OK. So just boobs. Yeah. Full boobal nudity.
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Yeah, Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Jason Lee boobs.
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Yeah. Yeah. I'll see you got the names. I yeah,
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I never get the names. That's just like sweet.
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There's Stacey and Linda with our character names.
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Nice. Yeah, I was realizing too that like I had
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never seen this movie and most of my reference
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was just the Reinhold clip of like his fantasy,
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but mostly from The Man Show, which I don't know
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if you ever saw that episode where they did it.
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They lampoon it, but it's like. That maybe it's
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Jimmy Kimmel coming out of the pool, taking off
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his top and having Corolla's in the bathroom,
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eating a corndog while watching. Awesome. Yeah.
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That's about all I remember from the show. Oh,
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I want to talk about trampolines. There was that
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there was the guy who could drink beer fast.
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Yeah, he's dead now. Well, yeah, he probably
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has esophageal cancer that got him. Well, that's
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upsetting and a downer. Yeah. I was going to
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talk about how Judge Reinholdt was whacking up
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in the toilet, like on his knees in front of
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it, just whacking one into it. Yeah, good old
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Judge. Fucking knock. And he wasn't even so put
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out by it either. Yeah, right. How do we want
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to break down this movie since it is mostly the
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yes. Do we each want to take like a character's
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arc and just like do a quick like run through?
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No. Are we just giving up the pretense of like
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discussing what the movies actually happens in
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the movie? Oh, we could give it a try. Give a
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quick summary. So it's the final year of some
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some of these students high school careers. Judge
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Reinholdt is a senior. He and his girlfriend
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break up because she just has, you know, so much
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more life to live, which was a relief to him.
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Well, he wants to break up with her because she
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won't put out. Yeah. Which is reasonable. Yeah.
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Yeah. It's a high schooler movie. Yeah. Yeah.
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So it's just the story of like the last year.
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There's one girl who works at OK. So most of
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these people work at the mall in some form of
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food or another. One of the servers at the pizza
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place. Hooks up with an older guy and they bang
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in the dugout At the point. Yeah, they call it
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the point weird She just kind of become like
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that's her association with dating now is just
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banging. So she becomes a banger a people banger
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then who else is miss their spicoli he's a Like
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a stoner surfer kid played by Sean Penn Yeah,
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he's the best. I love when they enter the restaurant
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and just take their shirts off and it's like,
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hey, what's the sign say? No shirt, no shoes,
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no dice. Oh, that's right. Shirts on boys. I
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do like I do like it's like I know you had shirts
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on when you came in here. Yeah. That was fun.
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So, yeah, he's kind of a dingus and he's. Most
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of his story is centered around this one class
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with his history class with Mr. Hand, who's just
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a very strict kind of guy, which doesn't work
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with somebody like Spicoli. Judge Reinholdt is
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going through a series of jobs. Yeah, he gets
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fired a lot. Yeah. Oh, did you guys look at the
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IMDb of his boss? His boss, Dennis Taylor, the
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one who fires him for, you know. Call him the
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customer piece of shit or whatever. His IMDb
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profile picture is awesome. Oh, I didn't see
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it. Oh, perfect. Wow. I believe that's probably
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from Voyage of the Rock Aliens. That that has
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big voyage of the Rock Aliens energy. It is weird
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to see. Oh, my God. That's amazing. Pretty good,
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right? Is strange to see because this movie.
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What year did this movie come out? 82. So it
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is like weird to see there are actors in this
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film who I'm like, I know that person. It isn't
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till the credits. I'm like, it's like, holy shit,
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that's that's a very young Forrest Whitaker.
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He looks like a fucking giant dude in this. I
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mean, Forrest Whitaker is is pretty big. He's
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like 6 '2", but he looks massive by comparison
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to like, yeah, demone or rat or something like
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that. Demones a piece of shit. Yeah. Yeah. OK.
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He's a he's a little snake. But, you know, he
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did it for the right reasons. No, he didn't.
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And then immediately. So, yeah, there's the other
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story of what is it? Mark Rat Ratner and Mike
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DeMone. Mark works at the mall and has a crush
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on Stacey and gets all of his advice from his
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cooler friend, Mark. who everyone fucking knows
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is a skis bag. Yeah. And like we're introduced
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to Forest Whitaker's character because Mark's
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like, hey, man, like just trying to like be like,
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I'm friends with this guy and guys like, don't
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fuck with my car. I like how they handled Spicoli
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fucking up his car. That was clever. Yeah, because
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they have like the big game against the rival
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school, Lincoln, which also assassinate Lincoln
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stickers. Yeah, pretty good. I don't think high
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school ever lived up to the movies about high
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school. Which is probably for the best, considering
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the amount of statutory rape that's in these
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films. Yeah, that's true. God, you're such a
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downer. Just let the kids fuck. Like I said,
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like these movies hit differently at 40. I suppose.
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Especially when I don't have like, oh, this was
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a fun movie I used to like. Yeah. I could go
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back and watch Revenge of the Nerds. It's not
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cool. Yeah, that one doesn't does not age well.
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No, those ones are very much in the. We're going
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to have very questionable. Yeah. Material, but
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it's lots of boobs and then porkies has a hand
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job. Oh, yeah. I do like the take on this, like
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female director. So I do like the like we're
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going to do the reverse porkies where it's the
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girls who are like the sex obsessed ones and
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all the guys are kind of like. Just don't touch
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my no area. Dorky boys in high school, right?
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Yeah. Even, you know, Damone is this like slick,
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cool guy, but he busts a nut in 20 seconds, you
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know. I love that. It's like, I think I came.
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Didn't you feel it? I think so. Sure. I think
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I felt something. Yeah. And then this fun, like
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awkward teenage comedy comes to a screeching
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halt when she's like, I'm pregnant. I need an
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abortion. Yeah. Hey, that's life, baby. But then
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we get that sweet moment with her and Judge Reinhold
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and they like bond. Yeah. Get your older brother
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to drive you to the bowling alley across from
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the abortion. It's kind of interesting that Amy
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hasn't really done anything else. You know, I
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mean, since sorry, she did like clueless, you
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know, is a notable one. But then there was. Not
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much else a couple more called loser vamps And
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that's it Interesting. Is she still alive? She
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is alive. We should write a letter to her Hey,
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why aren't you doing she has an upcoming credit
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for clueless, which you know, I don't know what
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that actually means Stage revival she did. She
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was a writer. I'm look who's talking. Oh, there
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you go. Yeah But not look who's talking to Now,
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let's find out. That's important right now. All
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the hot hits. But I thought this was a fun little
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film. If you, you know. Aren't a prude like one.
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I just set aside the few scenes with. Yeah, if
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you're not a prude, if you set those scenes aside
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and watch the movie without those, it holds up
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just as well. If you have joy in your heart.
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Yeah, she did. Right. Look, who's talking to.
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Okay. Good. But I really like just the the slice
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of life action. I love the. Sorry, I'm just really
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into this Judge Reinhold character, too. Yeah,
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he's a Brad's a lot of fun and all of his jobs
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just suck. Yeah, he's getting through it. I'm
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glad nothing ever happened to his car because
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it starts out and he's like I only got four payments
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left on this bad boy Yeah, and I was like don't
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fuck up the car I like when he got fired and
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then he bangs on the bathroom door and he's like
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I hope you had a good piss Because he had to
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replace the guy at the register. Yeah Reinhold
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has some pretty good lines In terms of a structural
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arc, he has the best one in the film. I feel
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like the movie starts off with him on top of
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the world flipping burgers. He's got a good job
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on top of the world flipping burgers. He's like
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a junior manager. Yeah. I mean, that's how he
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sells it. Right. Yeah. He's like, I got a good
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job. It's my senior year of high school. You
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know, I'm going to like, so my wild oats. Mm
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hmm. And then immediately, he gets fired and
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he gets fired because a shitty customer like
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starts fucking yelling at him, calling him names,
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and he like gets frustrated, stands up for himself,
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goes through a slew of fucking shitty jobs, including
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having to dress like a pirate. As a waiter. And
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at the end of the. Which is also his masturbation
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outfit later. At the end of the film, he's like,
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it's his first day being, you know, the night
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shift at a gas station like. Quick Mart and gets
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held up. Another rude customer is like yelling
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at him and stressing him out. And he's, you know,
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throws coffee on the guy and like saves the day
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and makes assistant manager. Yeah, I know. When
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when I got to that point, Rachel had just gotten
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home and she was like, how much of this movie's
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left? I was like, I don't know. I think the credits
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are about to roll. And then it was like, and
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now Brad has a new job. Like, what the fuck?
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How much more is in this movie? I was like, oh,
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still nothing. But yeah. Well, that was the thing.
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It's like I'm I'm not a huge fan of like the
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vignette style of film, completely disjointed,
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like a ray of scenes like the characters were
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likable, but they're not being a through line,
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you know, kind of, you know, made it hard for
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me to maintain interest. And it covers like an
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entire year, too. So like the time frame isn't
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like, oh, here's three weeks. It's. Here's an
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entire school year. Yeah. A little less to connect
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to things too. Yeah. That way. Unless you're
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Stacy, then you're connecting all over the place.
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All over the place. And in the end, she learns
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that she just wants love and a boyfriend. And
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she gets with the little theater usher kid. The
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one who's had a crush on her the whole time.
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He seems like a nice boy. Yeah, they seemed fine
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for each other. I did like that he did like the
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classic, put up your dukes kind of fighting style
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when he was trying to beat up Mike DeMone. Yeah,
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his fisticuffs skills were undoubtedly top notch.
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Yeah. What was your favorite Spicoli bet? I like
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when he ordered the pizza to the class. Yeah,
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ordering the pizza in the class was pretty good.
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That could be that that's probably the best one.
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I like when he's having that dream also. His
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little like sex dream. Yeah. Yeah. He was just
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like a bad ass surfer. And there were like women
19:54
just throwing themselves at him. It was great.
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You had a sweet trophy. Yeah. I kind of liked
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his relationship with his little brother. Yeah.
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Just like so contentious. I will say I do find
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it interesting how who got like Sean Penn gets
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top billing in this film for having a character
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who has. Practically no association with any
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other character in the film, except he meets
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up with Judge Reinhold twice, but they don't
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really have like an arc or like aren't friends.
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Like Reinhold comes. Intersect. Yeah. Comes in
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second. Jennifer Jason Lee, Phoebe Cates after
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that. But yeah. And like Jennifer Jason Lee is
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again, arguably who this movie is about. So I
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just I find it interesting. Like the like the
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way they broke it down. And then Nicholas Coppola.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, let's talk about that. He's
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in the background twice. Oh, he's in it four
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times. Four times. So some of them are just really
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fast. So like, I think I think I spotted him
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at the dance. Yeah, he was at the dance. I missed
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the dance one, but he was at the burger joint
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or something. Flipping burgers. That's that's
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the most acting he does like a close up on him
21:06
for a second. Right. So he's cracking eggs in
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that that breakfast scene. And then there's the
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one moment where the customer is being a shit
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and it shows Brad's bud, Nick Cage and whoever
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the other guy is. And they're both standing in
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the window and then they kind of just duck down.
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That's the acting. Then there's at the football
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game, too. Yeah. He's cheering in the crowd once.
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And he's we're first introduced to him when he's
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at when Judd Reinhold pulls up in the car and
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there's a line about like four more payments.
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He's right there as well. Oh, I didn't catch
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him there. They were all gathered around the
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parking space. So he makes a woo sound. He makes
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like five, five times on screen, baby. Something
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like that. Yeah. But it's cool. I mean, it's
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interesting that this was where you really made
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the switch from using his true family name. You
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know, it's like coasting along on that wasn't
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working. So switch it up. Appreciate that power
22:04
man. Power man. But yeah, I mean, like for what
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it is, I think he did a fine job. Like it's face
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acting mostly. Yeah, that's right. Have I told
22:16
the White Power Man story on this podcast? The
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White Power Man. Yeah. I don't believe you've
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told the White Power Man story. So Nick Cage
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character, Nick Cage, Nick Cage's screen name
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comes from Luke Cage Power Man. Back in my. convention
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working days. There was this like big fat white
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guy dressed as like classic like yellow blouse
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tiara like Luke Cage. Mm hmm. And just from across
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the room, you hear me yell, look, guys, it's
22:49
the white power man. And the guy stops in the
22:55
middle of the convention floor, looks down and
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is like, just like mortified. What have I done?
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I have made a critical error. That's incredible.
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That's the white power man story. Nailed it.
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Short and sweet. Love it. Just like Nick Cage's
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performance. Yeah, he never, never milks it or
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goes too long. Not in this film. No, not a lot
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of opportunity for him to do much in this. Yeah.
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Of all the Nicolas Cage films, this was not one
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of the worst. It's true. Yeah. Which is says
23:30
a lot. I do kind of appreciate is like the two
23:33
the two major movies we saw where Nicolas Cage
23:36
plays second banana was Racing with the Moon
23:38
and Zandily, which was Sean Penn and. Judge right.
23:42
Yeah, that's actually kind of funny. I know it's
23:45
weird. We were reading that Nick Cage book and
23:48
they were talking about sort of the falling out
23:50
of Sean Penn and Nick Cage. And I don't know
23:52
what happened. Yeah. Couldn't sanction his buffoonery.
23:57
What about falling out of Nick Cage and Judge
23:59
Reinhold? Yeah. Well, I mean, he did shoot him
24:02
or whatever. No, he let him drown. Isn't that
24:05
what happened? Didn't Judge Reinhold drown? In
24:08
Zonda Lee, I got to need to remember. We watched
24:12
that. I'm pretty sure he just let himself drown.
24:14
Yeah, probably. What? God, I always like I go
24:18
back and watch something from the 80s and it's
24:20
like starring Judge Reinhold. Mike, really? And
24:23
you're like, hell, yeah, this is going to be
24:24
a good movie. Yeah. Handsome, great years. Yeah.
24:27
But it's one of those things where I'm like,
24:29
oh, yeah, I forgot Judge Reinhold was a thing.
24:31
Yeah, he really had a moment. Yeah. And they
24:35
were all bangers. Except for. Oh, what was it
24:39
that we looked up? There's some like. No, I think
24:41
we decided that there were no, no mistakes. Okay.
24:44
Mistakes that we were not going to look up anything
24:45
else. Perfect. Another way clerks the animated
24:49
series before the curve is they did the judge
24:54
judge Reinhold joke before Arrested Development.
24:59
Art and media peaked at clerks the animated series.
25:04
Tell me I'm wrong. He's been in a lot of stuff,
25:07
but we are just going to stick with the statement
25:09
that Judge Reinhold has never done a bad movie
25:11
or piece of media. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's rocking.
25:15
He's crushing it. Prove us wrong. Is that our
25:18
next podcast judging Reinhold? Oh, no. Not a
25:22
chance. You don't want to watch all of Judge
25:25
Reinhold's films. I mean, I would watch all of
25:28
the Beverly Hills cop films. I would watch Zanderle
25:32
again. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Fast times again
25:37
gremlins gremlins or whichever one he's not in
25:40
gremlins to gremlins Whichever one he's in the
25:44
first just in gremlins. Yeah, and I know this
25:47
because of clerks the animated series mm -hmm
25:50
when Randall is trying to get his $7 back for
25:53
every bad movie He's went to and he gets Spielberg
25:56
in there and he's like might I remind the judge
25:58
he's never been in a Spielberg movie It's like
26:00
I was in gremlins, but gremlins to I'll allow
26:03
it Gremlins 2 seems like more of a Judge Reinhold
26:08
kind of vehicle. You would expect him in there.
26:11
Yeah. Oh, Gremlins also had Phoebe Cates. I forgot
26:14
about that. Well, yeah, I don't know what else
26:17
we had to have to say about this one. I mean,
26:19
as far as Nick Cage movies go, he was present.
26:23
He was available in some scenes. Yeah. Yeah,
26:26
it's great. It's where it all started. When we
26:29
first when we first were starting this process
26:32
and we were just coming up with like what it
26:34
was going to look like. I was talking to Andy
26:35
about it and he's like, fast times are reaching
26:37
my best Nick Cage movie. I'm like, it's not the
26:40
star of that film. I hadn't seen it yet, but
26:42
I knew he wasn't the star. I knew he's just like
26:43
a bit player. And now that like in retrospect,
26:47
I'm like. Has he seen it in the movie? I mean,
26:54
unless it's like Andy's favorite movie and Nick
26:56
Cage is also in it. So he's just like, that's
26:58
the best Nick Cage movie. That's not the only
27:01
way you could go about it, though. Yeah, I don't
27:04
know. I think overall, it was, you know, it's
27:06
a nice weird walk down memory lane for how movies
27:09
used to be. Yeah. It gave me like big Valley
27:13
Girl vibes. For sure. I will say this movie is
27:17
cut. Really? Well, it is a it's like it's the
27:21
editing is really quick. It doesn't like it doesn't
27:23
have that thing of like 80s early film where
27:26
it's like much longer shots and much longer like
27:30
dead time between scenes. It cuts like a modern
27:33
film. Yeah, the scenes don't linger for sure.
27:36
Yeah. I wanted more Mr. Hand, though could have
27:39
always used more hand more hand job. OK, I really
27:45
enjoyed last thing I'm going to say, I think
27:48
when Mr. Hand came to tutor Spicoli in his room
27:53
and he just like looks around and it's just all
27:56
the nudie magazine stuff taped up on this wall.
28:00
And he's just so disappointed. All right. Any
28:05
final thoughts on fast times at Ridgemont High?
28:08
If you're watching this movie for Nick Cage,
28:10
don't. Yeah. But if you're watching it for Judge
28:14
Reinhold, cool. Yeah. And Spicoli. Yeah. Yeah.
28:18
Sean Penn and Judge Reinhold crushing it. Yeah.
28:23
I don't know that we I don't know if the trailer
28:25
dropped between episodes or between like we'd
28:30
wrapped up the original run like season two,
28:34
but I don't know that we've ever discussed the
28:36
Spider -Man noir trailer. No, we haven't talked
28:40
about that. I don't think so. I am so excited
28:45
for how terrible this thing is going to be. I
28:47
have no hope that this is going to be good. Man,
28:49
I hope Judge Reinhold plays a Nazi in it. That'd
28:52
be so good. Or a Nazi sympathizer and then Spider
28:57
-Man can beat him up. It's going to be a thing.
29:01
Yeah, I mean, it will exist. I don't know if
29:04
I have hugely high hopes for. No, I don't. I
29:07
think it's going to be bad, but I'm here for
29:09
it. And I'm looking forward. We need to keep
29:11
this whatever this stick is going to turn into
29:14
with the cage. We need to keep it going long
29:16
enough so we can get to and review Spider -Man
29:19
Noir episodes of noir. Yeah, that's fine. In
29:23
the realm of like all the Sony Spider -Man movies
29:30
like. the the new things like the Madame webs
29:34
and the vampire boy. I don't know why I'm blanking
29:38
on all of this right now. Yeah. Morbius and Craven
29:40
and things like that. How do you think it's going
29:43
to hold up? Like, are you expecting like a venom
29:46
level bad where it's like bad but enjoyable?
29:50
Or are you looking for Madame Webb where it's
29:53
just like unwatchably bad? I never did you watch
29:56
it? Oh, yeah, I watched it. I waited till It
30:00
was like on Max or something. But yeah, it is
30:03
not good. I have not watched any of outside of
30:07
the Spider -Verse films. I've watched no Sony
30:09
output for any Spider -Man media. Oh, it sounds
30:12
like you need. You haven't even watched like
30:13
the Venom movies. Oh, those ones are actually
30:16
all right. Yeah, they look fine. I like Tom Hardy,
30:19
but I'm just like, yeah, I don't care about this
30:21
character outside of his association with Spider
30:24
-Man. Yeah. So Madame Webb was just. Terrible.
30:29
Like the acting was awful. The story was bad.
30:33
The characters were bad. And it it's just such
30:38
a train wreck. Definitely worth watching. Sometimes
30:42
shitty things are worth watching. Yeah. Morbius
30:45
was bad in a way that's not like hyper entertaining.
30:51
It's just a bad film and it stars Jared Leto
30:55
and that's. also bad. I mean, the best thing
30:58
to come out of Morbius is the Internet trolling
31:01
Sony to get them to do a second theatrical release.
31:04
Yeah, it's more been time. Is Craven even out
31:09
or is that like? I have no clue. I mean, yeah,
31:12
it came out. It was bad. OK. I mean, I assumed
31:16
it was bad. That was with the three name guy
31:18
from fucking kickass, wasn't it? Aaron Taylor
31:21
Johnson. That's the one. Those are the three.
31:24
I need to watch Craven and then I'll let you
31:27
know where I feel it sits. Yeah. I agree. I think
31:31
Spider Noir is going to be pretty fucking terrible.
31:35
One second. I saw this article the other day.
31:36
I didn't read it because I didn't care. But because
31:39
we're talking about it, Dakota Johnson opens
31:40
up about the Madam Webmas. Quote, it wasn't my
31:43
fault. Yeah. Yeah. I would point fingers elsewhere,
31:48
too, if I were part of that. Yeah. She also like.
31:53
kind of just shrugged off the, oh, it's a flop.
31:57
It fucking happens. Like, what am I supposed
31:59
to do about that? Sometimes shit, shit. Yeah.
32:02
Sometimes it's shit from a butt, you know. Is
32:05
that shit from a butt? That is one of my favorite
32:09
subreddits is that shit from a butt and it's
32:11
just pictures of food that looks like shit. I
32:18
love the Internet. Yeah, thank you all for listening.
32:20
If you are interested in supporting us on Patreon,
32:22
which seems insane to say at this point, but
32:25
thank you. Apparently we're going to keep going.
32:28
Yeah, we're doing this shit. We're going to run
32:29
through the back catalog. Are we just going in
32:30
chronological order now? I think so. We're going
32:32
to figure it out. There are a couple of movies
32:33
that are like very short performances like this
32:36
where we have to just sort of decide if we're
32:38
going to do a few at the same time or if we're
32:40
going to do movie reviews of movies that he's
32:43
barely in, you know, so we'll figure it all out.
32:47
What would be next if we were just going chronologically?
32:50
Maybe Rumblefish. Yeah, I think we should do
32:52
that one. That's a that's a Francis Ford Coppola,
32:54
right? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, that is. Yeah.
32:57
Cool. Yeah, we'll do that one. I think and we'll
33:00
probably try and have a guest for that, too.
33:02
That's a 7 .1 stars on IMDb. Yeah, I think he's
33:06
like a medium character in it. So we'll find
33:11
out. Thank you to our Sparkle buddies, Josh.
33:17
Wait, it's different. Josh, Josie, Rico, Matt,
33:20
Adam, Bill and Stewart. And to our cage dancers,
33:23
Ira, John Freeman, Lance, Nathan and Cameron.
33:27
Nice. Oh, my God. In a few weeks, we'll get to
33:30
finally watch the boy in blue. Yeah. Greasy bottom
33:33
boys. Greasy bottom boys. All right. Good enough.
33:44
It's our new sign off. Good. Fucking nailed it,
33:50
boys. Good enough.