HH 2 - Office Christmas Party / Invasion of the Bernie Snatchers (Guest: Katie Hampton)

Actress/Writer/Gamer/Stand Up/poo joke connoisseur/and Pack Theater House Team Member with "Nothing Burger," Katie Hampton, RSVPs YES to the “Review Review Holiday Helping 2: Seconds” work chat in Slacck re: "Office Christmas Party" (2016 Dir. Josh Gordon & Will Speck). Starring: Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, and Jennifer Aniston. We implore you to always measure up, and party like there IS a tomorrow.

Plot: When his uptight CEO sister threatens to shut down his branch, the branch manager throws an epic Christmas party in order to land a big client and save the day, but the party gets way out of hand.

Recorded 12/23
2hr 9mins

Transcript

I was screaming when you guys were talking about Muppet Christmas Carol. You got a hook in Ben right now. Yeah. About what? Because you couldn't remember the name of the song The Love Is Gone.

I was, like, it's the love is gone. The love is gone. I've done a I've done a drip dive actually since that time. Oh, you? Yeah.

When Disney acquired the rights and they released it, they were the ones who chose to nix that song. Some exec thought that it would be boring for kids. It's so funny. I don't know if I saw it the first time I saw it as a kid, but my parents were going through a divorce. And it, like, something clicked in my head where I was like, oh, okay.

This has nothing to do with me as a kid. It was a cool moment. And then when I got the VHS or the DVD, DVD, I can't remember which I got first. Where the hell is the song? Yeah.

Because it's a musical company. Like And it reprised and there's a reprised. Yeah. Yes. If this doesn't tell you that studio heads and producers are just like bean counters that make decision based on some crazy fucking idea that they have and don't have an artistic bone in their body.

Muppet Christmas Carol, the DVD TV cut that tells you everything. Yeah. If you go to Disney plus now, you can watch quote unquote the full version, which just includes that song. Right. I'm Right.

And it and it's a beautiful song. It's a beautiful moment. It's heartbreaking for sure. It's a fantastic film. Oh, yeah.

It is. Film. Yes. Fantastic. Hi.

If you keep up with our program, you know what we're on about right now. If you don't, we're keeping it anyway. Fuck you. Hi. It's Paul.

And it's Ben. And Katie. Hey. We're all here on the review review. I assume you probably know since you've been listening to this and you know what we were just on about and why.

But the concept of this show is we have a guest like Katie. Here who brings us a film that's 7 years old or I don't know. He just keeps pointing to me so I'm gonna send the rest of the show is She's fucking kill don't worry about what she's doing. Okay. You worry about your son.

I'm sorry. Do you have notes? She's nailing it. Okay. So Sound bites.

We have a guest that brings us a film that's 7 years old or older, not part of any major franchise, under 2 and a half hours unless we decide to break any of those rules. In this case, the rule that we broke was, oh, we voted just like this was the American democratic process where 10% of people participated and thought they were gonna get what they voted for. Wrong. Wrong. I was the electoral college, you guys.

Office Christmas party. The electoral college won. Yes. Gremlins technically won. We will do gremlins.

It's gonna happen. That's my back pocket. Like, that's my ace of spades as far as I'm concerned. Listen, if 2 white guys don't do a podcast about gremlins, I don't know what you're doing. What?

Yeah. What is the world even anymore? This podcast is just gremlins and Muppet Christmas Carol now. Actually, we are gonna rename this podcast. It's just gonna be called Where Paul Says Stupid Shit Out Loud.

I actually just thought I took that suggestion from this film and was like, yes, run with it. From this film? From Office Christmas Party. Got it. Got it.

Got it. Hey. It's definitely a theme. Absolutely. You should start a podcast, Savannah, called Podcasts Where Savannah Says Stupid Shit Out Loud.

I don't know. Julie Bell is hilarious. Amazing. She's hilarious. We watched Office Christmas Party.

At some point, we will talk about Office Christmas Party. But, Katie, you're here. Mhmm. Talk to us about you, what you do. Man, so many dumb things.

I also have a podcast called Napping Through Happy Hour where we tell real life, real drama in real time. We're working off of the white male model of just talking into a microphone, and we're like, hey. You know, we'll see how this goes. Well, we did the same thing. That's so wild.

Except ours is about movie. It's true. Ours is, like, about life and talking about therapy and stuff. Whatever it is. Sounds more important.

Sounds more important. It's not. It's really not. We also talk a lot about Fortnite, which is something that I've also been doing stupid amounts of. Great.

Oh, wow. Yeah. I, gamer, actor, comedian. I, do a lot of dumb stuff that Very funny person. Very funny person.

I appreciate that. We try to be funny. You can tell. Yeah. It's thick.

It's It's thick with effort. It's like a rhino painting that you had commissioned or something. He's trying so hard. The artist? Thomas Kinkade.

No. No. Oh, I was so convinced. I was like, I wanna see that. Ansel Adams.

Oh, good. That's a better one. Yeah. Isn't that a photographer? Yes.

You're gonna cut that. You're gonna cut that. Right? Nope. Oh, it's leaving it in.

Ansel Adams, locking it in. Well, it's nice to meet you. This is literally the first time I met you. And, Yeah. Thanks for doing this.

Thank you so much for having me. You have a lovely place, and a great setup. They they say it was gonna be janky, but it's not. It's actually quite nice. We keep trying to upgrade.

We told you, but we haven't told them that this is the first person in our new Stoods. Yep. Is that what you're gonna call it? In the Stoods? In the Stoods.

Because we did we did one solo in the Stoods. Yeah. We did. And then we did a Zoom Stood. I told Paul, I was like, I'm not sure, but I have a tickle in my throat just to make sure.

Is it allergies? Is it It was because I got alright. I'm gonna be real. I got too high on Friday. I don't usually do smoke.

I usually do an edible and call it a night. I we went to a Christmas party and some lady was very weird. And so I office Christmas party? It actually was not an office Christmas party, but it was my friend works at a restaurant, and her boss was there and Oh, a restaurant party? Everything I've ever known is a fucking lie.

Work like a lot of industry. A lot of industry people. Restaurant industry. Actually, yes. One of the writers from and some other people.

But yeah. But that's besides the point. My friends who her, her boss at the restaurant, she was telling me amazing stories about how she would just do mushrooms and talk to aliens about her trauma. And I was like, alright. I'm gonna get stoned after this.

I literally this is a a sad thing to admit. I'm so embarrassed, but I can't remember the last time that I can honestly say, like, oh, I'm too high. Oh, really? Paul's always high. Possible for me to get too high.

Is your tolerance super big? It's crazy. It's crazy. I get that. I've been stoned since, like, 1950 5.

Wow. I did not think he was that old. Oh, yeah. Remember Bill Hader's husband, pineapple, and pressed. Yeah.

That was me, essentially. Well, Katie's here. Katie is a fantastic actor, comedian, improv person, etcetera, etcetera, and brought us a really fun movie. But before we get to the point, Ben, how are you? Oh.

Gotcha. Goddamn it. Gotcha, bitch. Oh. It was my game too.

Beat you at your own game in your own home. Yeah. That's embarrassing. I got arrested for that the last time. When you beat me in my own home?

You came into somebody's home and said, we're playing my game, and then I beat them. I was arrested. It's fair that you got arrested. Especially not looking like that. Terrified concept.

I'm doing okay. Yeah. Doing well. It's the holiday season, and I'm, you know, feeling You do. Jovial and Yeah.

Are you are you feeling jovial this holiday season? I feel like many of us are not. Dickory dock? I mean, obviously, the world's burning and everything sucks, but personally, I feel okay. Good.

Yeah. Okay. That's great. I know a lot of people aren't, but I actually feel okay in my in my soul right now. So I think it's something something to celebrate.

Katie, is what he's saying? Are you still are you feeling okay? Am I feeling okay? And are you sure you're feeling okay? Well, I use denial.

The thing about denial is it works really well. Especially in Egypt. Yeah. Oh, man. Paul, how are you?

Oh, woah. Me. Okay. I'm alright, outside of, you know, the odyssey of back pain that is still occurring. Do you do something to incur this pain?

Okay. No matter what I did, who I prayed to, or what I offered, I kept getting older, and then I just bent over and picked something up, I think, is what happened. Well, you have been getting stoned since 1975. So true. Does not help.

It's been, kind of a living nightmare since then, to be honest. Oh, I'm so sorry. But Maggie the cat, the famous Maggie the cat got some teeth removed. Me, Maggie. And when she's high, she's just delightful.

She's delightful. And she's mostly been stoned the last several days. So that's been great. And I've been hanging out with her in our little stone zone. And, just 2 little peas in a pod.

It's been really nice. Do you get high with your cat? We're we have a tendency to be high at the same time. Because when I'm all the time, and she says some of the time, it's bound to overlap. No matter how hard I try to be like, I'm not doing it this time, man.

I'm like, oh, shit. I already did it. Oh, man. It's kinda how that goes. Katie, how are you?

I'm doing well. The holiday season is upon us. I am so ready to just sit on the couch and do nothing Oh, yeah. Yeah. For the rest of the year.

I keep realizing that I committed to things. Like, at last minute, I'm like, oh, I gotta leave the I gotta dress. I gotta put my makeup. But overall, I'm doing well. Did the Thanksgiving with the parents, staying home with the husband for Christmas.

Very excited about that. New Year's, no idea what we're gonna do, but we're not talking to anybody. I think I'm gonna stay home on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. Both? Oh, both.

Yeah. Yeah. Do you guys do you usually exclusive? I guess New Year's Eve usually blends into New Year's Day. I can't remember the last time that I actually, like, passed midnight into the party zone.

I usually like it's like midnight. I'm like, cool. Going to bed. Yeah. Yep.

Several years. I mean, you can always do the fun thing that we've started to do where it's, let's celebrate New York's New Year's and then just go to bed. I like that idea. I'm I'm steadily just becoming 50. It's been dark for 7 and a half hours.

Like, fuck it. Why not? Right? That's just because you need more cocaine. Cocaine.

Should we talk about this movie, Paul? Yeah. We should talk about what we're watching. Oh, shit. You're worst.

Matthew Foskett does not like it when we just go, you know, let's not talk about what we're watching. You're right. And I'm gonna make you tell me first again. Ben, what are you watching? I've been preparing for this question.

I researched. I did some I did some viewings. I'm only gonna speak about the things I saw in the movie theater. I saw Godzilla minus 1 in the movie theater, and I cannot recommend it enough. Okay.

It is in our last, episode, Buzz Olsen mentioned something that I've always known, but he said it the thing about Godzilla is that it's iconically Japanese. And I think as I'm also watching Monarch Legacy of Monsters, which is fine, but the thing that this movie does I'm not this is not a spoiler. This is all part of the marketing campaign. So it takes place directly after World War 2, and it's set in Japan. Obviously, the metaphor of Godzilla is this trauma Manifestation literal representation.

Yeah. Representation of trauma that this country is going through, right, and destruction and all through some sort of nuclear fallout. Right? And this movie, you can remove Godzilla from this movie, and it would still be a phenomenal movie. But Godzilla in the movie just makes it this I mean, there's Jaws aspects of this movie.

Wow. I I think it is the best Godzilla movie ever made. How how late into the movie do they reveal the monster? Or is it just like, hey. There's Godzilla.

Pretty early. Very, very early. Oh, wow. Okay. But not I'm not gonna say anything more.

Okay. Is the design similar to the American design? Because I've heard that they're They're pretty dissimilar. Okay. In terms of, like I feel like the American Godzilla can has a little bit more mobility, especially, like, upper mobility.

Like, they kinda, like, fix the sort of, like T Rex Eve. T Rex Eve. And this one goes back to the sort of the old OG sort of mechanical Yeah. To him, but it works really well. So American Godzilla can jerk off.

Japanese Godzilla cannot jerk off is what you're telling me. He can't reach. Like, the arms are you were doing a thing with your arms. Like, the arms were bigger. I didn't do anything with my arms, and they don't know.

They wouldn't know. They don't know either. Way. They have no idea. You know what?

I like to think they can both jerk off. They could jerk each other off. Oh my gosh. So many dicks. Like, we are.

Day. Just we should just name rename this podcast 2 dicks. Yeah. Having a dick. I love it.

I still think you should be, like, 2 dudes and the studes. But 2 dudes and the studes. And then I'll just mention one more thing I saw because I saw the boy in the heron a couple nights Oh, yeah. 2 nights ago. Giveaway.

Oh, cool. The one that he because he technically retired, then he came back for this one. Now he's not retired at all. He's gonna make another one. So Oh.

Isn't he the one that, like, famously said every movie kills me a little bit more or something? This one I think this one is particularly very personal to him. It's definitely more it's slower and more languid than most of his other movies. It still has magic in it and still beautiful. And it's his first movie to be in IMAX, which is incredible to see.

And it's very personal to him because it's about grief, and his mom died in a fire, I believe. So Oh. Oh my god. I didn't know that. Yeah.

Yeah. It it was I love Miyazaki. I think he's the GOAT of animation, and this is his first Golden Globe nomination. Wow. 1st.

Really? Isn't that insane? That's nuts. Right? Making movies since the eighties.

Yeah. And, like, iconic movies. Yeah. That well, I'm glad I'm glad he's finally nominated. But, like Anyway, Katie, what are you watching?

In terms of movies, the creator, Mhmm. Fucking phenomenal. Is it good? Okay. So good.

They shot that on a camera that you could buy in Best Buy for 4 k. It Oh, yeah. Like, basically, like, on a phone. Right? Or it was a Not really.

But, like, it was a like, this is an actual camera, but, like, I mean, it's the lenses that really did it. But they shot and locked everything in camera and then sent it off to ILM, and then that's when some of the actors found out that they were robots afterwards. They They weren't wearing mocap suits or anything? No. They weren't.

No. It like, everything is shot in camera, so everything is very practical, lived in. It's very realistic. It's I'm getting chills just thinking about it. We bought the movie as soon as it came out on Voodoo.

It's phenomenal. The behind the scenes are incredible. The acting is just unreal. It's so good. It it was it felt like one of those movies that you're just like, oh, I've been waiting to watch this adventure movie for so long, and, like, it's got really great poignant points.

I wept at the end. It was so beautiful. It was awe. Yeah. No.

Go see the creator. It's Okay. You sold me on watching that movie. Okay. Me too, actually, a little bit.

And you mentioned something that was that's driving me. If somebody can maybe help me out to I'll probably watch the new Zack Snyder movie when that comes out. Rebel Moon. Yeah. Rebel Moon.

Because, like, regardless of anything else, at least it's like somebody's trying to, like, launch an original story, original idea, trying to build some world build, whatever. It's like, yeah. Take a swing. Fuck it. And it sounds like this worked out in this case.

It really did. And especially with everything, all the conversation happening around AI right now, and it's very poignant for the now. Okay. Just the conceit of the movie is basically many years ago, a big nuclear explosion went off in LA, and they blamed AI. So the west is very anti AI, and the east is very pro AI and that they're, like, they're helpers.

They're part of their culture. They're part of their life. They're part of, like, their family. And you kinda just I'm not gonna say any more about it, but it's really good. I like this idea where I feel like it leads to did it in I don't know.

And that's But don't No spoilers. I I just wanna say I will watch it because of your pitch. I Same. I Well done. I appreciate that.

No. Oh, thank you. I had seen the trailer ad nauseam, I feel like, and it really turned me off to seeing the movie. Yeah. Because And I I get that.

I totally get that. I I went with my husband because he was so excited about it because they shot that on, like, essentially for a major motion picture like that is on a basically a micro budget. And they had a very tight knit crew and very small, at least, I think they only had one scene that they shot in, volume, and it was it's not even one that you would expect it to be, and everything else is very practical. That's one of the beautiful things about that movie is that they're going to these places like Thailand. It feels almost like a Vietnam War movie.

Woah. Okay. It's Alright. It's really good. And then the other thing that I'm watching right now, which everyone should check out, it is a television show called Fisk, f I s k.

It's hilarious. It's about this Australian woman who she's the daughter of a Supreme Court justice, and she's a lawyer herself, but she got fired and she's going through a divorce. And basically, the only job that she can get is as a probate lawyer doing, like, wills and acquisitions and things. And the characters that come out are so funny and so ridiculous, and they bring people back. I feel like I've not heard Where can I find this?

Netflix. Okay. Okay. It was one of those random things that that they released season 1, and it was total Australian show that I guess they were just, like, hey, this seems like up your alley or whatever. Yeah.

I binged that show in, like, a day. And it's only, like, 8 episodes, and then the second season came out not long after that, and I think it's, like, 6 episodes or something. It's not long enough. It's very funny. Okay.

Yeah. Paul. Me? Paul. Paul.

Paul. Pauljeman. Well, since we're talking about Golden Globes nominees Yes. I wanna bring up Golden Globe nominee for best musical comedy, music December. Musical or comedy?

Yeah. Musical or comedy, which May December. Is it a comedy? No. Yeah.

That category is fucking bonkers. It's always it always He is. The Martian was in that category. No matter who owns what kind of a comedy. Yeah.

The guy almost died. Yeah. I mean There are people die in common. Listen. What happens?

There are stakes in comedy too. You don't you know? Yeah. But the category still is just bonkers to me. It's weird that no matter who is presenting the Globes or owns the Globes, they seem to stick 1 or 2 movies in musical comedy where you're like, what the fuck?

Right. And this is one of those? It's a sim it's the studios. They they Sure. Put in on a higher chance.

They pitch it. Yeah. Exactly. Sure. This is the other thing.

There's a cut in that movie. Like, Julianne Moore is looking in the fridge, and she's like, I'm worried we don't have enough hot dogs, and then it cuts to the barbecue and, like, Henry, I'm forgetting his last name, the the actor that plays Kiss under it. Kiss Yep. Yeah. Alright.

Sorry. Never mind. Rest in peace. We'll we'll leave that out of this one. She's like, oh, I'm worried we don't have enough hot dogs and it cuts to the grill and there's like 60 hot dogs.

I laughed hard. And I was like, okay. Yeah. Comedy. Yeah.

Okay. That movie, I gave it 4 out of 5 stars. Uh-huh. It's Todd Haines who's phenomenal. If you haven't seen Far From Heaven or several different Todd Haines movies, but that's the one that always sticks out to me.

Really good movie dealing with a lot of really deep psychological adult subject matter and stuff about relationships and that shit. I sold Mary Kay Letourneau and Billy Fallow dishwasher many years ago, and they were nice enough people. I didn't get to know them, really. I just sold them a dishwasher. I didn't install the dishwasher or anything.

Yeah. I got mildly, like, fascinated with that whole thing. And watching May, December, and some of the things that they take from that situation, Ben and I also being from Washington. For me, the Mary Kay Letourneau thing was inescapable. Sure.

It was just, like, so fucking crazy, especially in Washington. And that's all I think I really feel like, talking about. I don't I don't have a TV thing. Alright. Well, thanks for being here, Katie.

You're welcome. I think I'm gonna go. Okay. Alright. I hope you had enough of this.

See you too. For having me. Yeah. No problem. Enough of that.

Sorry about Paul. Smell you later. Maybe I'll just rewatch Zoolander. Oh, I don't know if you know this one. Dead calm.

This ongoing joke. Is that MacGruber TV series. Billy Zane lives on our roof. I I had heard that in the last one. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm a big fan. We just got 3 little drum solos that just happened. I know. For 3 things that I mentioned that are kind of great, has anyone seen okay.

Never mind. I'm gonna back the truck up a little bit. Okay. Here we go. McGruber TV series on Peacock.

Wait. That's that's an actual thing. Yes. Oh, I I was like, oh, that would be a fun thing to do. Oh, they actually did it.

Is it with Will Forte? Yes. It's fucking wonderful. It's Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, Laurence Fishburne takes over for Powers Boothe, our IP. What do you mean?

And Billy Zane takes over for Val Kilmer. It came out, like, 2021. It's really good. That must have been heat of the pandemic when I was I get yeah. Maybe.

And everyone was not getting peacock. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Billy Zane is the one who knows. Aw.

There you go. Really, as we we retired that joke as we come into this movie. This movie. I said poor man's dumb. No.

I get it, but we retired the joke as we come into this movie? On the day of my daughter's wedding? You come into this fucking movie that has Fast and Furious, Dom Toretto, Vin Diesel jokes, and we retire the joke? No. In the face Coming into this one in 5 minutes.

On your resume You couldn't have known. On your resume, doesn't it say Paul Root retired joke? Isn't that like the subtitle? It says unretired joke. Oh, okay.

Thank you. Let's talk about it. A joke that should be retired. Let's talk about this movie. Okay.

Back. We should talk about this movie. The fact sheet lead in is playing now. I might not cut out me saying that. Archaeology is the search for facts.

Okay. We watched office Christmas party. Hey. Dreamworks and Amblin Partners. That's right.

Your buddy, Stevie Spielberg's had some sort of hand in this probably. In Reliance Entertainment, 2016, it is rated r. Mhmm. Restricted. There are male genitalia in this film.

Oh, yeah. There are female breasts in this film. It is inappropriate. Barely remember that. Inappropriate.

I do love the dick part. We're just here for the dick. Can't wait to get to the ratings. I'm very excited. It's an hour and 51 minutes long.

Budget on this film, $45,000,000. And this is the thing that upsets me when we do inflations, is this is a fairly recent film. Yeah. That $45,000,000 would now cost you 57 point $7,000,000. So in that period of time, that's when it's like It seems like we had a really horrible event and a terrible leader at some point.

I guess. Is that right? I yeah. Obsetting to think about so many things that led to this inflation. Yeah.

Opening weekend was December 9th, apropos, 2016. It made $16,900,000 adjusted that's 21.7. Final gross in North America, 54,800,000 adjusted, that's 70.2. Final gross worldwide, $114,500,000. Wow.

Adjusted, that is 146 800,000. Comedies kill it. This movie fucking slayed Yeah. At the box office. Yeah.

Yeah. In terms of at my house, well, we'll find out. Yeah. I knew it. I knew it.

Other releases this weekend, La La Land came out in limited release. And, Hurricane Smith starring Carl Weathers was released in January of 1992. I just thought everyone might like to know that. Weekend to Hollywood to Carl Weathers' acting school. Oh, right.

Right. Right. Right. Right. It's great.

The weekend top 5 was Moana. Does everybody have a favorite song from Moana? Do people like Moana? Standing. The engine.

Holding. Is that I gotta The rock song? No. That's her song. No.

You're welcome is You're welcome. You're welcome. I like shiny. Shiny. Jermaine Clement.

Jermaine? One time I was over by the here, and I was walking across the street. And this dude pulls up on a giant motorcycle, and he's like a full on Harley dude. Okay. And he is blasting Moana.

Yes. He is. Awesome. I've been standing at the and I was just like, fuck yeah. Yeah, dude.

Live your truth. By the way, to the person that's listening to this in, like, Belarus that just put that, like, red pin on a map of where Ben lives, yeah, you found it. Usually, he just, like, talks about all these things that are adjacent to his home I guess that's true. All the time. I will be swatted.

I I nearly I nearly said, oh, yeah. I love the town that you live in. And then I was like, maybe don't, like, out his living situation. So is that a I was at the corner of Yeah. 5th and 8th.

You know, right outside my place. Okay. This movie was also in the weekend top five. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Arrival not starring Charlie Sheen. I'm sorry, Ben.

There is a different one. Are you serious? I know. We'll talk about it. And doctor Strange.

That's right. That's right. Yep. I felt like this movie was the last really freaking fun frat boy movie that we've had. I feel like it was kinda like the end of that.

Like, Neighbors and this and a lot of things, like, there's a big wave. The are we gonna die? What happened? What was that? Oh, Billy Zane.

Yeah. Grab that and run with it. Yeah. Billy's out of here. Sorry.

Back to the subject. Top 5 films this year globally. Finding Dory, Robert Kilmer. A Star Wars story, Captain America Civil War, The Secret Life of Pets, and the live action Jungle Book. Other films from 2016, Deadpool, Batman v Superman, suicide squad, Doctor Strange, Jason Bourne, Star Trek Beyond, X Men Apocalypse, Ghostbusters, TMNT, I would say that.

Bad movies. In case you didn't notice, those are all sequels or reboots. Except for Deadpool. Or part of IP. I guess technically Deadpool.

Everybody knows what they're getting at here. I guess you're right. Technically, it is. It's like a decade long game. Yeah.

Because he was in X Men Origins Wolverine, was he not? Yeah. I guess you're right. And they kind of established that that was Hold on. I guess you're right, Paul.

2 episodes in a row. Clip that. This will be on the retrospective kiss. Don't worry. This on average Letterbox has a 2.5 out of a potential 5.

You can find me on Letterboxx atpaulactsbadly. You can follow me on Letterboxx@runbmc to see the delightful films I watch. I do not remember Letterboxx, but you can usually check me out at atlsassypants, e l s a s s y p a n t s, unless you're on TikTok. It's with a z at the end because my husband showed his penis on my other account. It's a whole story.

This episode is brought to you by dicks. This this episode is brought to you by penises. It's gonna be a really weird ad for those of you who listen to those things. It's gonna be really painful for you. The guardian gave this a 3 out of a I don't know.

I don't know if I missed the guardians of ghoul. Rotten Tomatoes, this is 40%. Major awards nominations, not applicable. I am done talking now. Pass the sheet over here, Paul.

Nope. I'm going home. Okay. Well, it was nice having you here, Katie. Okay.

Thanks, Katie. Bye. Yeah. Tudes and the Dudes. Yeah.

Thanks for coming to Studes and the Dudes, having a beer. Is that That was a good one. Really grateful. Wait. And now he's gonna drive away?

I have an electric car. Oh, you can't hear it. It's not impressive. It's like you're really mad, like, leaving an argument. You wanna, like, drive away or burn rubber for some reason.

It's just like Hey, fuck you, man. Fuck you. Who who are the bald? What do they what do they want? I don't want hair.

Want to not save the environment is what they want. Truly. I talk about people? Please. Oh my gosh.

I have a whole list. People. They have so many comedians in this movie. This movie is crazy Yeah. Stacked.

Tell tell me the cast. Well, I'll tell you who I have listed. I'm sure we have more than we did unlist. Starting at the top, we have the directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck. They did Blades of Glory, Lyle Lyle Crocodile, The Switch, Story writers, John Lucas, Scott Moore.

They did The Hangover 21 and Over. Timothy Dowling, role models. Pixels, this means war. Pixels, if you don't know about pixels, it is a bad movie. I will not.

No. I won't. I haven't seen it. I just saw the trailer and was like, nah. It's a bad movie.

I can't. Director of photography, Jeff Cutter, Let It Snow, A Night Let It Snow? A Nightmare on Elm Street Twitch Now. 2010, which we did on this program. How is it that this He also did Prey?

How was it that the person who made Prey, the boys in this movie, all good nice to look at. Mhmm. Yeah. Nightmare in Home Street from 2010. I think we One time director I think we had discussed well, he was a director of photography.

Right? So I think we discussed a fan episode, and they can go listen to that one. Yeah. What you know what? Yeah.

So shut the fuck up. The boys in this movie, pretty good looking. Right? That's what we're talking about. Just like you.

Aw. If I'd shave the shit out of the thing off my face. No. It's a great stash. Oh, thanks.

That is upset. I'm not upset, dad. I mean, Paul. He gets confused now. Music, Theodore Shapiro, I Love You, Man, Tropic Thunder, Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Producer Scott Stuber, Battleship, Repo Man, Volcano.

And the cast, Jason Bateman plays Josh. Horrible Bosses, Bad Words, Teen Wolf 2. Odd choice. Hey. We've talked about that movie on this program.

We definitely have. Yeah. He's a boxer instead of a basketball player, and now the dad is the uncle. Otherwise, same movie Oh my god. As the first.

Olivia Munn, Tracy, X Men Apocalypse, The Predator, buddy games, TJ Miller, otherwise known as a guy who put up a bomb threat Yeah. In New York Has gone insane. Plays Klay. I know he really was riding high, and he sank his ship fast. You know?

And I feel like this was the last time we saw him at his peak. I Was this in Deadpool. Right? Yeah. I mean, even Deadpool, it was kind of like, oh, buddy.

You doing okay? But then it was, like, his stand up special that I was like, this guy's lost it. I love Silicon Valley. Me too. I had the best time watching that show.

It's a great show. So yeah. Ugh. But he really did. Like, he rose high, and he sang fast.

Yeah. Well, you know The emojis will do that to you. I was in New York when he made that threat, Volley thread. Oh, great. Oh, no.

I remember seeing it on, like, Twitter. I was like, oh, oh, that's Nice. Okay. Cool. 2 of celebrities playing games.

Yeah. He was in the emoji movie. I forgot about that. Wasn't he also the Mucinex guy? I know Jason Mantzoukas was and or is.

He I feel like he was later. Like, Mantzoukas came in after, but I feel I I don't know. Maybe I got a lot of is always picking up the crumbs of TJ Miller, who is all set. Cutting that out. Jennifer Aniston plays Carol, where the Millers, the good girl, cake.

And she's popular. She is. You might know her by, I don't know, a couple projects. Okay. Snitch?

I guess. Yeah. She's she, she has been around in the yes. A moment or 2? Yeah.

Kate McKinnon is a gem, and I want her to be protected for all eternity. She really, ties the room together. Does she not? Yeah. Yeah.

She not only wove that sweater vest dress, but she wove this movie together. Yeah. The outtakes of her farting. Oh my god. And I love that she's also you know, there are some comedians that are they're like, you never laugh at your own joke because the joke is for the audience and it's not for you.

I love that she can't keep it together because, I mean, it's the original joke, the fart. It's so great. Yeah. She can't she can't keep her shit together. My girlfriend came home Yeah.

From a walk And these be being physically active, which I can't really do, the outtakes at the end were playing, which, like, what was the last movie that did, like, people had a good time doing this? Like, I don't remember the last time I saw that. But, Kate McKinnon was doing that, like and I was, like, she actually, like, pushed one. Like, she really went for it. Yeah.

And my girlfriend died laughing. Yeah. Yeah. I thought the outtakes were very funny. Yeah.

I actually laughed a lot in this movie. Courtney b Vance is a funny person to be in this movie. Right? Wow. But I love it.

Plays Walter, Space Cowboys, Isle of Dogs, The Hunt for Red October. Mhmm. Jillian Bell, Trina, 22 Jump Street, Inherent Vice. Candy Cane Lane, that's a new one. Queen, haven't seen.

Absolutely. She is this fucking hilarious human being. Yeah. Rob Corddry, also very funny. Jeremy, hot tub time machine, warm bodies, seeking a friend for the end of the world, and plus countless other people that are in the phone.

Fortune Feemster, you guys. Fortune Feumster. She's the Uber driver. Yeah. Yeah.

But Carol, this is so chock full of so many, like, groundling actors, so many very good comedic actors that have either been in the periphery in a lot of projects or they've been Oh, yeah. In the comedic scene. Sam Richardson. Sam Richardson, like, post Detroiters. Yeah.

Yes. Vanessa Bare, Randall Park. Randall Park. Matt Walsh. He goes up for, like, a scene at the beginning of the movie, and then he's like, alright.

Later. That's his game. He always does that. He shows up for, like, a scene and kills it. He doesn't wanna just be the guy in the beginning that's like, hey.

Fuck yourself. Here's my bill. And then Yeah. Like and then you get paid. I just think of Matt Walsh as the, was it the in parks and rec, he's, like, the city inspector when they're running the, the citywide, like, tests where they're, like, locked down in the courtroom.

Yeah. That's what I think of him as well. I mean, I think Veep, I think, you know Oh, Veep. I have not seen Veep. I just finished watching that recently.

Paul has been And I was like, oh, man. The Trump Trump's team, like, literally was just like, do that. Yeah. Exactly. No.

A 100%. They were just like, I think we can actually do this. Yeah. I have a there's a gentleman on my improv team that looks identical to Matt Walsh, and every time I do improv with them, I'm like, it's just it's uncanny. It's so crazy.

His name is Watmalsh. It is. It's weird. Design Why wouldn't I say Watmalsh? That's his British.

That's how you pronounce him. Watmalsh. Yes. I, Do you wanna read some fun facts for us? They're fun.

I absolutely do. Great. I I I do wanna get, like, a couple more of the actors out. Oh, please do. If you don't mind.

Please do. Jamie Chung Yeah. Was the the girl with the low cut top. Kate McKinnon, obviously. Rob Cordray.

Caron Sony, the IT guy. Yeah. Yes. He's in Spider Man across the Spider Verse. He's great.

And he's also in Deadpool. Deadpool? Yep. He's the taxi driver in Deadpool. I love that this is Sam Richardson pre his blowing up.

Yeah. And he's such a small like, you get all of these actors by minute 13.5. Like, you I was blown away Yeah. In this viewing because I'd seen this once well, we'll get to it. But I didn't obviously, now I'm like, holy shit.

All these people are in this movie. Yeah. Think about that. That's 13 pages where you set up, like, 15 characters. Yeah.

Probably more. The script for this movie is pretty fucking fantastically written, especially when you consider something Katie's gonna mention and something bent. Like, there are 11 credited producers on this movie. Yeah. Eleven credited Yeah.

Producers. So what does that mean actually? God only knows. Yeah. So, like, being able to have as many chefs in the kitchen as they do, that's pretty impressive to be able to churn out anything.

Like Yeah. Discernible. Mhmm. Yeah. Jillian Jillian Bell is I love her because, Jillian Bell was in Groundlings at the time that I was taking Groundlings, and she was, like, one of the lead casts.

And, one of my friends was One of the superstar, like, students. Like, hey. You know, model yourself after this Yeah. Type of person. And Fortune Feimster was also a student at the time, but in, like, the higher echelons of the program.

And I remember her saying, like, look, just have fun. Like, stop worrying about all of, like, the crazy stuff that, like, everyone expects you to do. Do what you find funny, and, like, the rest will follow. And then a minute later, she blows up. I I just I love this movie purely for showcasing so many great talented comedic actors and comedic talented actresses that aren't playing the usual roles.

The fact that Jillian Bell plays a freaking pimp is just, oh, I was like, oh, what a dream role to to play such one pimp in a movie. Sure. Yeah. Usually, you're playing the hooker. You're, you know, you're auditioning for the slut.

You're, you know, it's the low cut top girl or whatever. It's not necessarily the HR lady that farts all the time and also, like, gets down in the party. Like, I don't know. Yeah. At the very end of this movie, not necessarily my favorite writer, not necessarily my favorite director, but my favorite husband, but one of my favorite actresses and a good a good comedic actor.

Ben Falcone plays the Oh, yeah. Doctor at the very end of the movie. Mhmm. Oh, I didn't notice that. Melissa McCarthy's, husband is the doctor that he tries.

Like, give the money to, and he's like, no. No? Nope. I'm a doctor. I'm stealing right here.

He can't drink right now. And he's like, oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sure.

Sure. Sure. He's like, no. I can't do that. Ongoing joke that actually hits on that last one that I thought was pretty funny.

And the on the because the 3rd time, I was like, okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. They're gonna do it they're gonna keep doing it.

I have to. It's one of those things where it's like you do it once and you're like, okay. That's kinda funny. And then you do it again, you're like, this is kinda getting bold. And then you do it, and it comes back around.

And you're like, okay. Now it's funny again. The barrage of sound effects that just hit you were brought to you by Ben McFadden encouraging me to triple down on my bad jokes. Are you unretired now? I told you I'm unretired.

This is the problem is I'm not retired anymore. Oh, okay. Yeah. This is the problem you're having. Like, I took off 45.

I'm back in 23. K? Fun facts. K. Fun facts.

Flu game. Flu game. In a photo of Carole and Clay, Jennifer Aniston and TJ Miller, dad is actually just Jason Bateman in a wig. Did anyone notice that? I didn't.

I I didn't notice that. Something's familiar about it because I was, like, I remember seeing it because I watched it this weekend to prep for this, and I was, like, there's something about that photo. And there's 2 photos of the dad. There's the photo of just the dad and TJ Miller Young, And then there's I thought he looked weird, but I didn't notice it was Jason Bateman. Yeah.

I did. There's one in the background of the office. Yeah. I saw that. And he's, like, leaning against an old school, like, machine that looks like a janky, like, Kodak whatever.

Original machine. Yeah. That's Jason Bateman. That's wild. It's like his face.

I find that so funny. Yeah. Amazing. This is the 5th collaboration of Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston. They also starred together in the breakup, the switch, and horrible bosses 12.

Oh, lucky us. Yeah. Yeah. Super horrible bosses. That movie.

Oh, I do love that movie. I've not seen the second one. I have not seen the second one either. I feel like don't make a sequel to a really funny movie. I'm just putting that out.

I liked the first one quite a bit. Yeah. Colin Farrell. Colin Farrell and everything. Oh, so great.

Yeah. He's fucking great. He's he's a comedic genius. Yeah. Yeah.

He's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Former Chicago Bulls all star Jimmy Butler was cast in the movie due to his close relationship with actor Mark Wahlberg, who thought Butler would be a nice choice given the setting of the of the film in Chicago. Yes.

It was set in Chicago. They shot mostly in Atlanta for, like, all the interiors and stuff, but a lot of the exteriors was all Chicago. So every time you see them in the snow, that is real snow. They are freezing their balls off. They shot mostly pickups, like, in Chicago, like, exteriors, etcetera, etcetera, or, like, where they were just gonna be able to get, like, quick shots where it's, like, look, we're gonna get, like, 2 angles and then move on.

Hey, Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler. Would you go do this movie for me? Just go do this movie for me real quick. I'm I'm too busy.

I'm too busy. I'm producing I'm producing entourage. Too murdery. I'm producing entourage. I need you to go be in a go be in a office Christmas office at this Christmas party.

I don't know what it's called. I just produce it. Wahlberg. Get you Wahlberg. Okay.

I gotta go say what up to your mother for me. I do love that, like Fuck you Butler. Of Mark Wahlberg has included Andy Samford's impression. Yeah. Just do it.

To say what up to your mother. Yeah. So good. Just do that now. I died at fuck you, Butler.

Where Rob Cordray just blurts it out involuntarily. Yeah. Well, he he even does that when, like, he first walks in on set too, apparently. There's, like, a behind the scenes thing. He was, like, he was, like, I mean, what else are you supposed to do?

Rob Cordray. Oh, man. Cocks and dicks. Rob Cordray is one of those actors that I feel like could definitely win an Oscar in Virginia. Have you ever seen the movie Butter?

No. He's a really, really talented He's big. Guy. He's very funny. He's very talented.

Yeah. He's wonderful in the movie butter. The butter with Wait. There's 2 movies named butter? Yeah.

No. You look it up on IMDB and I feel like What's butter? It's a story of Paula the racist old cook from the Food Network. Paula, what's her name? You're talking about Yeah.

What's her name? Paula Paula Racism Train? I don't know her last name. I honestly don't know what you're talking about. It's okay.

Okay. Paula butterbrain. Cut it out. Don't worry about it. You think I wanna cut out cut out Paula butterbrain?

I was like I'm trying to win a potty. That's the award you get when you win for best podcast is a potty. I don't know. Is it a toilet? Please tell me it's a toilet.

I can't it's just like it's just a microphone coming out of a toilet. It's a potty. It should be the order. It's not a toilet. It's a potty designed for an infant.

Going potty. Wow. Literally just like an $8 potty. This is where we've this is where we've gone. And who brought us here?

You guessed it. I do I do feel like Jimmy Butler was, like, second to, like, them trying to get someone bigger. Yeah. I do feel like they were just long was he in the league at this point? Does anyone know?

Few years. That I don't know. 2 years, 4 or 5 years. Basketball person. I mean, I love playing it, but I'm a fan.

Okay. Okay. I enjoy. I like Jimmy Buckets. That's right.

Yeah. Someone calls him Jimmy Buckets, and I was like, oh, that's a good nickname. I hope that's I honestly had to look him up to make sure that he was a real player. No. They came up with that nickname in this movie.

No. Is it really? No. Oh. I improv'd.

Oh. Now it's just a lie. Okay. Now I'm just confused. I know.

It's just a flat lie. Sorry. You were gonna say? I was gonna say the next fun fact. The movie takes place in Chicago, but, most of the film was shot on location in Georgia, and mostly just fill ins and pickups were in Chicago.

Seems shot in post production were edited to tie scenes together and or bring the viewer into the locale. We try it's like when we talk about ADR, we're like, you know what? Not everybody knows what ADR is. That's true. Automatic dialogue.

No. Not automatic. Replacement? Yeah. Automated.

Is it automated thing? Dialog replacement? Yeah. That's what I saw. Yeah.

And ADR is not easy. I hate it. I did ADR for one thing, and it was not good. Did you did you cry afterwards? When I saw it?

No. When I when I did ADR. I didn't cry during the ADR. I cried when I saw what they used in the take, and I was like, oh, no. Oh, that's the worst when they get your worst take.

Yeah. It just sounds bad. I'm like and you had a director there who was, like, kind of directing me. It was I did not like the direction I was getting. It was moving on.

Sorry to hear that. The script got an uncredited rewrite by Lee Isberg and Jean Stupinski of The Office, the US version, and there are 6 credited writers. Wow. So these 2 are uncredited, but There are 6 that were credited. They just came in to punch it up then.

Yeah. Apparently. I might have been if they were on set, they were pitching jokes while they were gone. Yeah. Something.

Well, you or I, Ben, who's gonna present the question. So surprise question for you. Oh, please. Surprise. I do have one more fun fact that we can do later.

Oh, please. Give us your fun fact first. The Game of Thrones throne that was shown Oh, yeah. Is the real throne from Game of Thrones. Funny.

That is very funny. This isn't even a Warner Brothers. It's not a Warner Brothers probably as far as I know. Yeah. But, yeah, they because they were shooting in Georgia.

I guess someone had it or something. And I'm sure they had a multiple on that on Game of Thrones. Right? I'm sure they must have. Yeah.

Here's a pop quiz question for you. Okay. What is the log line in this movie? And when I say log line, I mean, it's like 1 or 2 or 3 sentence synopsis, quick synopsis that would show up in the IMDB profile, not the tagline, which is some people have mistaken what the logline is. So what is the logline of this film?

Hit me. Alright. CEO Jennifer Aniston, has to shut down her brother's branch of a computer systems company while they're trying to rally the troops, at the end of a profitable, but not profitable enough quarter, and sibling rivalries, occur. So that No. Keep going.

They go You're in the weeds. It's great. The most epic party because corporate office parties suck nut sacks, and everyone just wants to party like in the old days. Like like it's 1999. Like it was 1999.

Like it was on sale for 1999. Yes. That's actually I mean Is it close? On, like, a good You're on a good path. And then, like, the wagon just fell off of a cliff.

Yeah. The train went it's I I remember you guys doing this to the other dude, for the rain, and I was like, oh, yeah. I sure, like, think of, like, what I would pitch this movie as. I was like, it's an epic party, and shit goes wrong. Yeah.

It's what you always want your stuck up stuffy office to do, And then Potty potty potty potty potty. Yeah. Oh, you wanna party with the guy in the $4,000 suit? Come on. No.

I wanna potty. I wanna potty potty potty potty potty potty potty. If you keep acting like that, we're not gonna win 1. The log line is is brought to you by Penises. The pod.

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A quick break and we'll come back with our Goddamnit. Rating and then we'll start the movie. Hooray. Finally. Be right back.

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I used to be. I actually used to take the first two days off of work and get, like, violently drunk. Violently drunk. Oh, Paul. Like, to a degree that, like Like, where you would grab some Christmas lights and try to swing across an office?

No. I told you I got violently drunk. It wasn't just, like, sober activity for a larf. Oh, my bad. Yeah.

No. I got violently drunk. Take that, Courtney b Vance. Like, flipping cars with My brother-in-law is really big into, like, I do I do the, brackets with my Yeah. Some of my friends and my brother-in-law, but I I don't really follow it that closely.

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Little chunky pie. I did a little choke. He made a little tricky trick. Fist on his chin. Yeah.

He's lunging over. He's such a little stinker. Scamper. Little rascal. Oh, boy.

So we're gonna play Do you wanna play a game? Do you wanna play a game? Here's straight human centipede over in the men's room. So I know we're doing soft, but now I'm quoting off his Christmas party about a different what happening in my brain? It's so upsetting.

What happened? I hate that every single time I hang out with him. Uh-huh. We play a little game to decide the order of how we're gonna talk about this film. We're gonna discuss our previous history, if we have any, what our rating was in that previous history, then we're gonna discuss our current rating having just recently watched it.

Hey, I watched this like 5 years ago. I thought this. Now, I just watched this. This This is what I think now. Before we discuss the movie in order.

Mhmm. But to figure out who's gonna reveal these ratings first, Katie, there's a stack of yellow cards right here. If you'd be so kind as to take a random yellow card, we are playing a round of cinephile. Katie, you get to take the freebie on the card if you would like. Who is the actor?

You may go first. It's Brian Gossling. It's Drive. Okay. And I'm on the clock.

La la land. Interesting choice. Barbie. Oh, man. It's hard.

Right? Like, when terrible at this. We all, like, freeze. No. I got this.

Oh, the one with Steve Carell. Right. I know what you're talking about. Where his head is on the pancakes in the poster. Right.

And That's it. Yep. It's it's that movie that movie with because he, like, took that movie. I'm sorry. Why?

K. Is it not is it not Ryan Gosling? No. It has a title. It's not that movie.

Okay. I can't full title. Movie is the title. Drive. No.

Drive to Drive to shopping cakes. Experience? Crazy stupid destination? I said forget about it, girl. Crazy stupid love, but that's not the one that came on the pancakes, is it?

Yes. If you're thinking of Dan in real life secret world. Yeah. Dan in real life is the pancake. That's the pancakes.

Oh. Crazy stupid love is Steve Carell on the couch and there's, like, 2 legs in front of him and he's, like, looking up. Oh, then yeah. I'm gonna be honest, like, I am so relieved because, like, I was, like, the rolodex in my brain was like, e x e Ryan Gosling has failed. Placed me on the pines.

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Not the promise, but the The big the believer. It's where the girl's dying or some shit. I right? No. I was thinking of the, the movie about The girls dying.

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Yeah. Oh, freaking the Blade Runner 2049. There you go. The other guys. The other guy.

The nice guys. The nice Guys. Which we thought about watching for this episode. Holy shit. It's so much easier when you don't have pressure.

It really is. It is. Well, terrible news. I guess you have to give us your, original feelings about this movie, original experience, and that rating. Okay.

Go for it. So the first time I watched this, my husband made me watch it and he was like, I I like to watch this around the holidays. He likes to party. He likes to party. Wait.

Not really. Potty or party? He likes You both? Party. I like to party at the party and to party at the party.

New jam hitting your ears. I'm not a frat boy movie person. Like, it's not it's not my jam, but this had so many people I loved in it that I was over the moon with this. Just the pacing of this, the writing of this, the characters in this, the circumstances in this, the penises in this. I mean, there's only one that that you've There's only one?

Well, there's only one physical one that you see. Yeah. Like a more dick than 5 seasons of Game of Thrones. It's true. They finally started putting dick in, but there was a while there.

It was just like boobs boobs It was. Which also reminds me of another Andy Samberg. I'll say they they they swung really hard in the other direction, I think, as a result of all the boob criticism. Oh, yeah. Dicks, dick, dick, dick, dick.

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Honestly, this has my emotional love and my comedic love. So I give this a 4 out of 5. That's your original like, when you first saw it, this was a 4 out of 5. Yeah. Okay.

My first experience of this was very soon after it came out to streaming. Ben, what was your first experience of this? I was trying to remember that. I think that it was watching it with friends while, like, hanging out. So I can't actually I don't think I'm gonna give myself a rating for that because I don't actually think I paid attention to the movie.

I can for mine. Oh, one second. Oh my god. You actually snapped it. Cracked his I know.

He cracked his neck. So bad. He snapped his neck in half. Paul is dead. Paul is legally dead.

Thank you so much for being here. No one should be that pale. Even if they spend all their time inside. Billy Zane is taking over for Paul. Even if they are Dracula and they literally are in a coffin.

Belize they have more colors. Much more attractive than Paul, and he is great. Okay. He's very iconic and his back is fine. I give this I am a great actor as you said.

Off mic too. Shit. Oh, no. She did say good. Okay.

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I thought so. I like it. When you explain it the 4th time Yeah. That's when it's funny. Isn't it Ben?

That's how comedy works. That's when it gets funnier. Yeah. That is that is That's right. Yeah.

So now we all just have rewatched this movie. Sorry. Please don't apologize. That's so hard. I didn't just spike your microphone.

There was something in our last episode that made Ben, like, spit his water out so hard that it sounded like it must have partially gone up his nose. And I had, like, cut part of it outside. It doesn't sound like violent. Wait. When what when was it?

I gotta I will say, I think I say something that makes you, like, you and you're, like, I almost spit up my whatever. And I was, like, it's that same feeling where it's, like, I'm trying to swallow, but some of it's, like, trying to get out my nose. And you get that Bernie feeling. Is that what just happened to you, Katie? That Bernie Sanders feeling.

Yeah. That Bernie Sanders. He's begging for money. That's all it is at the end of the day. I'm asking you once again.

None of my policies Was that Bernie Sanders or was that Nixon? You'll never know. Oh. They are side hustlers. Do they kinda sound similar?

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Brought to you by Tricky Dick. Oh, Invasion of the Bernie Snatchers. I knew it. I knew it. So should we start the movie?

Current ratings. We just watched this movie. Has your rating changed, Katie? My rating has not changed. You're so sore.

I'm so I laugh just as hard. Solid. Paul Jimin. I'm at like a a happy, like, a chubbed up 3. Chubbed up 3.

So I could potentially stay at a 3. I could go up to a 3 in a half. A hard 3. Not a soft 3. A hard 3.

I meant, like no. I'm in a mid 3. I'm at, like, a Like, I'm at a pakamintos. I'm at a chubbed up 3. Got it.

May I ask? This fucking program. I'm 40. I love that you're randomly British sometimes. Is that the thing?

The film. The film. The film. What is it that the humor is so basic? Like, what what is it that gives you, like, the 3?

You wanna jump on that right now? I do, honestly. Okay. Couple few things. 1, I fucking love this cast.

Yeah. And part of that is, like, something we talked about in previous episodes where I come in with a certain expectation of what I want to see or what I think I may see rather than judging things for what I'm seeing. Now in this case, I felt like I was a lot better about that, but it is hard to detach this cast from how hard certain things, like, land on me. Okay. There is also, like, toward the end of the movie, although I like the car chase and the reasoning for the car chase, and I wanna try to give this movie additional credit for, like, so many writers, especially, and script being as effective as it is.

Mhmm. That green screen's real fucking rough at the end of the movie. Yeah. It it It's real there's some really fucking rough moments of certain things that are just just let this be like a small, but, like, why what what happened here where this had to be like this? Like and I don't wanna be thinking about this.

Okay. I don't know. There's those couple things and, something that you said where it's like a lot of situational things in this or some are simple to track. Mhmm. In that sometimes, it does feel like this maybe was written by some folks that wrote on The Office.

It feels like a very large, as I've said, I actually enjoy, like, high budget episode of television. If you told me this was, like, this was made for HBO, I'd be like, oh, okay. Yeah. I get that. 3 is not I feel like, Ben, I'm doing a you now.

3 is not a bad score for me. Like, 2a half is, like, this is average. This was worth my time. If I felt this was up somebody's alley, I'd be like, you might try this. This is a movie that I was like, I'm glad I watched this again.

This was a solid movie. If this is I think up somebody's alley, I would tell them, but is this something that's gonna replace, like, any of my Christmas rotationals? Am I gonna make it a priority to watch it again? I don't think so. It's not But I liked it.

Ben, what was your current rating? I couldn't give it a original rating because I I don't remember actually sitting down Yeah. That's okay. Giving it my attention. I absolve the I didn't ask for that.

Take it back. I I blame the thank you. I said you need a fucking bridge. I laughed way more than I thought I would. Like, I was real I thought it was very funny.

I'm gonna give it 3.5 Yes. Baby Jesus'. Oh. That was pretty funny. We'll just preface that my really my only issues with the movie come in the 3rd act.

Oh, which ones? Interesting. I mean, we can I'll bring them up now, but then we can we need to start the movie. There's we wanna get get ahead of the game here. For me, the driving force of this movie is the the idea that they need to throw this party to to grab this big fish.

When that falls apart, the movie, when it starts bringing into these it starts bringing out these, like, extra sort of outside forces to drive the drive the story elsewhere, and it leaves the party, that's where I start to wish we were still at the party Interesting. For me. I think that the party is is the most interesting part of the movie. And the fact that the party gets, like, blown out of control and that and that that there's all of these people that keep coming to the party, that to me is really, really funny. When the things go outside of that and we start introducing this, like I I like the pimp storyline.

I think I just wish it had been more tied into the party, I guess, and, like, stayed in the building. And I think part of that is because I'm a huge Die Hard fan. One second. Counterpoint as the person giving the lowest rating on this. This is a credit to the writing of this movie, in my opinion.

This movie has, like, 4 misunderstandacles, miss miracles of misunderstanding. Things are misheard. Sure. Like, things happen through what seems to be happenstance or things come back around as you said, Ben. But there's this they're talking with Walter and either at the time he's being let go or he's been let go or whatever.

By accident, it's essentially we have to invite him to this party. The party's back on by accident. Dude has to bring his fake girlfriend by accident. The pimp get like, all these things, like, line up to get this thing that, like, was mentioned in the first act of the movie, early on in the movie, to make it make sense that we're coming back to that in the 3rd act. That that actually ends up being the crux of the movie in the in the weird, like, kind of short third act.

But the but my issue is that the antagonist of the movie is the CEO of the sister. And to me, what I felt like I was watching in the 3rd act was the writers realizing they wanted the sister to be to have a come around and turn around on everything, and they needed an outside force that was driving the story elsewhere. And that's why they took it outside of the party and made it more about this, like, pimp storyline. The thing that I love about it is that you redeem Jennifer Aniston's character Yeah. In all this because the entire thing is that she's the Grinch.

Like, through and through, she tells a kid, fuck you. She tells her, like, Santa's gonna, like, take away all of her presents and stuff. Honestly, Jennifer Aniston is still on her comedy game. She is crushing it, especially when she delivers the line. Who can I talk to to, like, get this plane off the ground or whatever?

And the attendant is like, that would be God, ma'am. And she's like, oh, her. Yeah. Yeah. And just slays me every single time.

I like the idea that there is always something within a Christmas movie where there's a little bit of magical reasoning that I think you're kind of covering. And I think Jennifer Aniston's turn when she's, like, on board to go save her brother, I feel like that's where the heart finally comes in, and we didn't see a lot of heart from her. Yeah. For sure. Yeah.

But that that's the only reason I love that they bring back her Crock Maga Yeah. Cheating and, like, suddenly, Jeff Anderson is just kicking ass. They're really good at hitting 2nd or 3rd beats in a Herald. They're great at it. Yep.

Yep. They are. I really quickly wanna agree with Katie that I love that all these, like, misunderstandings and things are like, well, these are I think you're lower than me, Paul. No. I know.

But no. I know. But it's shit. I lost it. I had it.

Damn it. It's 3rd act? For me yeah. I mean, I think the 3rd act for me is just where I start the jokes start to fall to the wayside for the, like, outrageousness of the story, if that makes sense. And I feel like if I was comparing this to any movie that I love, I would compare it to game night, which is a movie that I'm I'm sure you can't help it.

Love. Well, you have to. You have to be isn't in this, though. No. Oh my god.

That, like, that movie continues to ride the comedy high. Distribution. That movie continues to ride the comedy high throughout raising of the stakes. While this movie, I feel like the jokes kinda start to fade away for the the store the story to progress. It's interesting.

Part of what's so fun about It's Inevitable This is Gonna Happen about game night or some of the other movies that have been mentioned to me during to me during this episode. To you. Right. Thank you. But look at good.

Yes. This is good. They're both looking at me, everyone. Yeah. I don't know.

This episode what? Okay. Never mind. Put it put it away. Part of Don't Part of why this movie is Part of why this movie does not land for me is it's things like Olivia Munn saying to Jennifer Aniston, like, you're gonna be alone and you're really gonna hate it.

And then Jennifer Aniston being like, right, now I have to save my brother. The chemistry between characters and the way that certain news is delivered or, like, this is the why for you Mhmm. From other people just seems like very cavalier, very haphazard. Like Mhmm. There's not a lot of emotional stakes involved.

Like, when Olivia Munn tells Jennifer Aniston, get your shit together or your brother is gone and you're gonna be alone forever. I'm like, well, I'm not inspired. I also think I wanna start the film now. I wanna start the movie. Oh.

So here we go. I'm gonna press the button. Do it. Cock the movie. Sack the movie.

Sack the movie. And now, our feature presentation. Excellent. We are now in the office brunch party or we should go to a brunch party because people are less likely to get I like the I like the alcohol free mimosa. Oh my god.

And they can only take one. He still takes 1. Yeah. He does. He does.

Because first part of the movie, Jason Bateman is meeting his divorce lawyer who's played by the wonderful, the great, the legendary Matt Walsh for, like, one scene. Yeah. Yeah. And he's great. Yeah.

And he basically is, like, makes him sign all the stuff and you we get this idea that he's closing his divorce. He's happy about it. He's glad it's over. Although, he's giving up pretty much all of his money. And he's not a dick about it.

That's the big thing with Jason Bateman through this movie. I never have a reason in any way to dislike him. I'm always just like, yeah. I want him to do well. He seems like a genuinely nice character.

Which is hard for that Jason Bateman to do because I feel like a lot of his characters come off as, like, pedantic. Michael Outh is one of the worst people in one world. Right. It's horrible. He's often played the everyman.

I mean Yeah. We talked about it before with Horrible Bosses Yeah. Or even with Game Night. Game Night. Yeah.

He's so good in that movie. He is great in that movie. That's right. Yeah. Oh, I forgot about that.

That was a good movie. I also love his dry joke delivery is unparalleled. He's one of the greats. In some He can say there it is like no one else. And his looks his looks of looking at somebody when they say something or fuck up, the casting of him as Michael Bleuth is one of the best castings ever because he's No.

That's true. That's sexual harassment. Yeah. He he's a master at the throw it away. He is.

He is. Yeah. This isn't about you. Yeah. No.

And he he always throws it away. I think that's what makes him such a great leading man in a lot of these comedies is, you know, I'm kind of the shed upon person. And especially, you get this in the very first scene with Matt Walsh. He's like, oh, you gave me a Christmas card? Oh, it's your bill.

Yeah. I mean, it's like the Christmas card has, like, a photo of Matt Walsh and his kids. Dressed up as new kids on the block. As One Direction. Oh, One Direction.

That's right. It's pretty fun. My wife says it's pretty funny. As he laughs because his wife has told him it is funny. It's real it's good.

And then we see, Jason Bateman go to his bigwig job in Manhattan. But, like, he Like, he is tempted by Manhattan. The phone call with the mom and dad where they're like, are you bringing your wife? And he's like, no. We do what are you what?

Real to me because, like, when my college girlfriend and I broke up, my dad was still, like, friends with her. Oh, no. Oh, that's tough. And he'd be like, yeah. Her and I are gonna come see your play.

Like, I was in a show, and they're like No. I was like, don't Why are you hanging out with my ex girlfriend? Her? That's weird. Oh, that is weird though.

Stop. Oh, that was We both probably have a lot of weird trauma with our dads. Hey. Let's throw mine on the Shocker. Yeah.

Let's all let's get in the trifecta like we like. But I do love that as he's talking about that, the mom asked something to the effect of, like, if he's gonna dress up as Santa. And he's like, no. People who dress up as Santa are, like, sad. And then he turns and sees the guy doing the charity.

I'm like And gives Unless unless they're doing it for charity, he's like, I've got no cash. And then the dude pulls out a card reader. The square. Yeah. This this moment, it's a and I'm gonna try to lay off this a little bit.

But it's this moment where it's like so many things hit other 30 rock. Ben knows I'm a big 30 rock person. Katie, I don't know if you know this or whatever. I mean, it makes sense. It's a great show.

It's phenomenal. Well, the guy who plays Councilman Jam, I'm forgetting his actual name. John Oh, you're Tyler Johnson. John Glaser. He was in 30 Rock for Oh.

An episode. Yeah. And Liz has made deal breakers. It's like if your guy still wears a nametag, that's a deal breaker and Liz turns toward the bookstore window and John Glaser is, like, pointing at the book That's right. Or that whole thing.

And that reminds me so much of that. And there are so many they're not related at all, but there are so many things in this movie that I'm like, oh, it just hits me like a an NBC show in a way Yeah. Somehow. Yeah. No.

And I and I get I get the comparison of, like, this is just like a big budget HBO version of The Office, which which I like. Yeah. But it's a party movie. It's a party movie. Yeah.

And so Like Gremlins. They are the ultimate party species. No question. Y'all are gonna be so mad at me for taking Gremlins' eyes. No.

I don't care. Paul can't get your guys. Is gonna be, like, writing in. Dude, trust me. I'll get my day.

We'll get our day. It'll be after midnight. I'll eat something. I'll jump in the shower. When we get to the office, and they're like a tech company.

Mhmm. They do, like Data storage Yeah. Or subcut. Yeah. Whatever.

And we meet a cast of characters. Oh, Kate McKinnon, who's the classic HR lady She's classic HR lady making people wear not Vigi shirts. Right. Nope. While she wears her multidenominational sweater.

Katie, you remember Sam Richardson shows up, and you're like, okay. Yeah. Sam Richardson, I assume. Yeah. This is Sam Richardson before you would even recognize Sam Richardson.

And it's funny because even in the movie, one of those things Jamie Lee Curtis in trading, places and Yes. Great Christmas movie. Right. They're they're in that. Yeah.

You know? Sam Richardson just comes in, and he's like this uptight guy that can't get a break. He's just rageful. And then Just the rims on the Lexus. Yeah.

Exactly. He's just like There's just so many care like Randall Park. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah.

Having Vanessa Bair might be a great side character. I will say this is the only reason this is one of the only reasons why I will not give this a 5 is the scene with Vanessa Bair and Randall Park Yeah. Where he turns into a creepo. I love that. I have to skip it.

I have to skip it every time because I'm Really? It's so gross. It's a teaser. We're gonna we're gonna get there. So we meet these cast of characters, but we really meet TJ Miller who owns this company Right.

Or is the owner of this branch of this company. Who says I'm gonna ride a train on these guys. Don't think you need that. No. I gotta mention too, we meet Olivia Her?

Olivia and my. In this moment essentially as well. And when Bateman says, now you wanna peg the company to a theory. And I'm like, bro, I can we play Mad Libs for a second? Because, like, now you wanna peg the company to Ben.

What do you wanna peg the company tour with? A penis. You're really with the sponsor here. I'm trying to we we have bills to pay. That's how we get that money.

Well and, also, Olivia Mun likes the best delivery of suck my dick. Oh, yeah. Apparently, where I thought it was, like, she had the 2 the 2 hands should meet at the same level, and then she should be moving head down rather than just moving the bottom hand. But, you know, it's still Nobody saw that on the podcast. But I'm still doing it.

You're still doing it. You're still doing it. It's like now you want to peg the company with, I don't know, whatever that, pegging device was from Broad City that was made specifically for your body. Yes. That's the one you want.

So TJ Miller wants We're throwing a Christmas party for for everybody, and, they wanna give everyone a gift. And so TJ Miller and, Jason Bateman leave to go Christmas shopping to grab everybody a present. And while they're on this outside adventure and they buy vibrators That he thinks are massagers. Nerf gun fight, which is pretty fun. That's, like, something I would do.

Those are definitely vibrators. I do I I did think it was odd that there were nerf guns in what appeared to be the jewelry aisle. Yeah. Was this like a Macy's or a Yeah. It's like a random assortment of, like, hey, think of this gift for you.

Was it actually supposed to be massager, but it was actually a vibrator or was it a vibrator? I think it was a I think it was a vibrator, but it was, like, very publicly displayed. Yeah. So that's why I was, like, it's supposed to be a massager. I like when he was like, adds a penis.

Fan. It was a Billy heard you say. The fan said And it was modeled after him. Just so everybody knows. That moment where TJ Miller and and Jason Bateman, like, when we're getting an idea of their friendship was they're going shopping and they they get in this nerf gun fight and whatever.

Like, they clearly enjoy each other's company. That chemistry works for me. Yeah. Like even in that moment when they're looking at the rhino painting and he's like, yeah, it's like he's trying too hard. And then he says the artist, and he was like, oh, I never thought of it that way.

It's like it's like this douched out rhino with, like, sunglasses and, like, a tribal tattoo. Yeah. Yeah. And he commissioned it? Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. They also really set up the bridge thing early on. They do a good job of that. He's like, how fast do you think you have to be going to go over that?

How fast do you think Vin Diesel will be going? Dom Toretto. Dom Toretto. Yeah. No problem.

They only get more fast, more furious. Yeah. It's just it's a very quotable movie. And, like, the fact that, like, Jason Batewood has only seen the first movie, and I was like, oh, I'm the same. He's like, what are you talking about?

Why haven't you seen the rest of them? They only get more fast, more furious. They only get 2 bends and 2 buries, sir. Oh, yeah. You make a really good point, Katie.

I think this movie just really wants to be a movie that you quote and mostly have fun. And can kinda go, like, does this movie wanna be a background movie and how much credit do you give that if that's what it wants to be? That's the thing that's hard for me is it's too well written to be that if that's what it wants to be. It's definitely not a movie that we put on and just mute it and, like, have a party. Right.

It Right. It's a quotable movie that is fun. I think there's a lot more magical reasoning in this that Lot of magic misunderstandings, misunderstandacles. And we'll get to it later. And a lot of BD's e story lines.

Yeah. There's a lot of things. Well, when you have, like, 20 main characters. Yeah. And I think they do it pretty expertly, and they weave everything together really well.

Yeah. As you said, Ben, sometimes, like, it doesn't work for me when they hit it the 2nd or 3rd time, but they do a good job of making sure to, like, we're gonna tie up almost everything. Like, the script just hits a lot of beats. Yeah. And in terms of beats, I love when I'm able to do this.

Randall Pock Randall Pock. Wow. Hit me that hard. Randall Parks to Pock. Yes.

Oh, yeah. It got me. It got me. They're they're gone, and we see the office people by themselves and Randall Park and, Vanessa Bear. Vanessa Bear.

Vanessa Bear. Yeah. And they're got out of these office. Dicks. Yeah.

These hanging out at brunch with a couple of pig dicks. There's so many I think you should leave people in this. Mud. Uh-huh. Yeah.

Which is so funny to me. Detroiters. Yeah. Detroiters. Yeah.

Exactly. Well, I mean, I love that, like, you're seeing Randall Park and Vanessa Behr as we just see the legs of Jennifer Aniston and then divine joy rip Rudolph or Randolph? I think it's Randolph. Yeah. Divine joy Randolph as the security guard.

She's like Oh, yeah. From only murders. Only murders. Yeah. Yeah, dude.

Please deliver that line again because the way she says that Oh, she yes. She's she's like, oh, somebody's getting fired today. Like, yeah. Like, just smells it. It's so good.

I love her in Only Murders too. I think she's great. She's fantastic. Yeah. She's great.

Again, like, the actors that you see in this movie are not just, like, one off, like, I don't know what I guess they're called. They go on to be huge. They're big. They're big. A lot of these people are like veterans in terms of stand up comedy improv, like children's hospital or, NTS USUV, whatever.

Paul Schuster. Right. Right. Like a lot of these folks scared, Scott Aukerman type, like, shows. Like a lot of these people have just been very funny for a very long time.

And if you have paid attention to almost any of them, but especially if it's most of them. Imagine if you're just like a Jennifer Aniston fan and you, like, come into just like this treasure trove of talent. Like, holy shit. It's comedy endgame. It's like it like Woah.

Dude. I've never thought of it that way. There's so many good comedians in this movie and, like, current ones too. And it's you see so many of these people just as, like, random bit parts and everything. And, like, to see them have full arcs that are played out and then also wrapped up at the end is just such a treat to see.

Yeah. It really is. We gotta we gotta keep going. Yeah. We just I know.

So we're I hate tension. We we introduced the outside force here, which is Jennifer Aniston's the CEO of the company. We learned the father's passed away and that TJ Miller and her brother and sister, and that she is closing branches, cutting costs. She's Scrooge. Making sure she gets her bonus.

Yeah. And she's just she's trying to kill the fun. And the the thing that we learned in the meeting, which is very funny, the whole meeting is very funny, is Gee Mailer won't it. It's the biggest, yeah, it's the biggest Well, he will when he wants to. Part of the movie, which is she is going to fire 40%.

40% of their staff. She's a traditional standard CEO. Yeah. And she's removing their Christmas party that they had planned. Bonuses.

Unless they can make it if unless they can make a certain amount of money by, like, 2 days from now. Yep. Like, I guess their quarterly number was supposed to be 7%. They hit 6.5, and she's like, well, you need to be 15. 12.

12. Oh, 12. 12. Yeah. 7 12 is the new 7.

Yeah. Well, I actually really like when Olivia Munn shows them Air Oh, yeah. And they introduced that Air Anywhere. The Internet. Anywhere.

Anywhere. A I r. And, Jennifer Aniston says, like, there is nothing like this that exists. And she says, yeah. Because I invented it.

I haven't invent like, there's a couple good little retorts that are there. Yeah. I mean, she's basically Theranos. Right? Yeah.

Yeah. Yes. She's like, yeah. No. It doesn't exist yet, but we're it's a it's a thing I have and Just get her a black turtleneck and And then make her talk like this all the time.

Yeah. No problem. I I do like the meeting too. Like, the way that they structure these things where people misunderstand a situation like you would in a sitcom. Yeah.

Courtney b Vance and the data city meeting thing where Yeah. They go to him. Yeah. He's a big fish invest Yeah. He works for an investment company.

That's a company for tech company. He's a buyer for a tech company or a rep for a tech company that picks other companies to say you're gonna do our servers or whatever it is. Okay. But basically, like, he has a very large contract that he's picking somebody to help out with and he's, dude, he's getting Adele. Hello.

Like, he tells him, dude, I'm getting Adele. Yeah. And they're like, if we just wine him and dine him, take him out, and show him, like, we are a family. He keeps saying all these things. Like, we need to be in a place that's, like, a family.

All you wanna do is automate, send jobs out of the US. Yeah. And he he the thing that I think is a well written line is that he when they asked him to come by and he was like, I'm sure it's great carpet and you've got great cubicles. And I think that's such a great line to say, like, I'm sure you I'm sure it's fine. I'm sure I'm sure it's a fine business.

And I think that that's an important really important thing to establish because they realize, oh, he doesn't wanna see our company. He wants to see how we take care of people. Right. Yeah. And can it regardless, can I look at the same carpet for the next 10 years, 15, 20 years?

Right. Can I stare at your fucking carpet? Can I live with that? It's also it comes to the heart of the whole movie as TJ Miller is always trying to recreate what his father did for the company and how his father was basically a father to all of these employees. Then it comes out in such a kid fashion when he said, you gotta go with us.

Yeah. He's just like pleading with us. You got you got to love me. Yeah. Please.

It he's like a cross between Michael from The Office and Job from Arrest Development to me. Like, I just wanna please daddy. Whoever's just Whether it's Jan or my dad. He fully recognizes his privilege too. Yes.

It's which is funny and good. He's just like, I'm a rich kid. I I I'm a rich straight white guy. Except for that one or when he says straight, it's like, except for that one time. Exactly.

That was amazing. That one time he was brought to us by penis. I'll probably cut that out. Why? Probably not.

Did. A penis. Don't cut the penis. The Xmas party, it's happening. They've got all the supplies.

So now they go They're gonna get a hold of Yeezy. On top of it. In the area. And I I think that, like, for me, I I was thinking, like, party movies. Old school?

Mhmm. Animal House. I was definitely getting married to the other ones. Yeah. And, like, throwing a big party.

And, obviously, parties and movies are always fucking outrageous. Yeah. Right. As someone who's planned events, I'm like, this is absurd. Okay.

What are we doing? We mildly. When you're doing a party movie and you have a movie budget Yeah. Why wouldn't you wanna have the best party? Rangers, you know, a live baby.

A a Christmas tree made out of beer. Yeah. The lighting, the, like, everything that happens in the there's caterers. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, these it's like the producers, writers, the folks that we mentioned when you go over their filmographies, they're professional party. They're like John Ralphio and Tom. Like, welcome to my I am a party professor. Welcome to my laboratory. Or no.

720. 720. They're David 720. It's because you're on the Worldwatch. Twice.

What do you think? I think they're gonna be broke by the end of this sentence. So, man, Adam Scott, man. Very quickly too, the Kate McKinnon HR person, and when you look at the signs all around in the movie Yes. The sign that says HR.

Party like there is a tomorrow made me laugh. It's also in green and red, like, alternating stuff. And then it it's very festive, and it's just, like, one of them is just very big brother. It's just HR is watching. And it's red by the copy machine because she knows exactly what's gonna happen there.

Yes. Everything yeah. She's trying to use as much toner as possible. And the when we get to the point of we learn there's a big snowstorm in Chicago too. Right?

So this Christmas party, like, it's starting. The snow is already going indoors. Yeah. And it it's not necessarily a big rager right out the gate. It's very much, like, when your corporate office party is, like, we're gonna be so lit.

Okay. Yeah. Boom. They're also they only that's only Seth 200. So it's not that many people.

Yeah. But I guess they can invite whoever they want. Well, Jamie Chung says, I just invited everyone in Chicago Yeah. At a point. Well, and that is the point where we go to the airport and because they're doing this all behind her back.

Jennifer Anderson. Jennifer Anderson's back. And we see that all flights are canceled. She and she's stuck in the the VIP lounge, which have you have you guys ever been in one of those? Oh.

No. No? I've only seen them in movies, and I always have seen them in them. Have you been in them? I have.

Oh my gosh. Are you a frequent flyer? I'm not. The my dad is my dad was. My dad used to travel for work a lot.

All my travel was has usually been through his miles and his, like, top whatever. The time that I've gone as an adult is because we missed our flight on the, like, 2 days after Christmas. Yeesh. And it was one of those things where the plane was still there, but they had closed the door. No.

And we had we, like, ran there to the gate, and they're like, sorry. And I'm just like But right there. But it's right there. Right there. And then Macaulay Culkin waved at you from the plane.

Yeah. He stuck on it. He's gone. And I was like, come on. Yeah.

Away from home. Alone. But no. So my dad was like, I'm so sorry that you missed your flight. Go into the VIP lounge.

I'll cover it. Whatever. And we went in, and we're like, this is this is another world. This is I knew it. You know, you also do you know that you can pay to go in there?

I've heard that. I refuse. Yeah. No worries. The thing that I think is helpful in that is that the food is free in there.

And so if you're going to buy food outside anyway, and you're stuck for a long period of time, you have free food, you have free Wi Fi, you have plugs, You have, like, comfy couches. Do they have showers and stuff? I thought I heard something about that. There are showers in some. Yeah.

A lot of them. Shout like, there's, like, a full locker bathroom. Anyway I wanna mention too that If you go in the locker rooms, you'll see penises going on. Jennifer Aniston, there will be an old guy just, like, doing laps, like, stretching in the whole thing. Putting baby powder on his balls.

Everything else. Or stepping on his foreskin. So but This is why I got married. So I always see one the entire day. You're like, woah.

They're wheels. But when that vocal. When Jennifer Aniston shows up at Jason Bateman's apartment. Yeah. They do exist.

They do exist. And says, come to New York, buddy. I'll double your salary. Like, let's get out of here. And this is another one of those moments where I'm like, well, he's not going.

He doesn't even answer in that moment. It's like, he doesn't yeah. That's not happening. But as is quoted later in the movie, like, he doesn't say no. And, like, that's a big sad point to it.

And I I agree because I feel like the delivery that Jason Bateman gives is, like, stop harassing me. Leave me alone. Let me just work my job. And I I do get that, but I also understand why everyone gets so pissed at him later on. Sure.

Where they're like, yeah. But you didn't say no. Like, Olivia Munn tells him, like, yeah. But I had the balls to say absolutely not even though she said triple my salary. And she's like, I only got double.

She got a better offer. Yeah. She got a way better offer. TJ Miller going through the stairs, by the way, down that sled is pretty it's a pretty funny I'm sure it's a stunt person, but it's a nice little piece of physical comedy. They do have him on a a dead man rope, but I don't Explain to the people what a dead man rope is.

Oh, yeah. Oh, pretty please. It's a it's a stunt thing where, basically, it's like a wire or something like that that they follow you down when you're, like, going into a fall so that Is it on a is it on a mechanical pole? It was actually some of the behind the scenes, you'll see a dude, like, guiding it. Oh, true.

So I think I don't think it was as mechanical. Yeah. It it wasn't like weights or anything like that. It was just like a really big dude. You're not flying, you're falling Yeah.

With style. Great. Okay. Now part of the DJ, the whole deal. Bam, bam, bam, bam.

Sam Richards. Take your peepees out. I love it. Get them near the butthole. No.

Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Have to go to the parking lot of the Rite Aid. Past the bank of lights.

Right. Just, like, gives them a map to, like, where's the fuck zone. That's where you go fuck. Not in here. You're living in fuck gardens.

Whatever Job says. And they're and they're just trying their hardest to make this party as lit as it ever does. Because, again, we're already in we're in this world where we need to catch the big fish. Right? And I think the the b story line that's happening here is that one of the newer higher ups has been making up a girlfriend this whole time.

Yes. To the 2 frat boy tech bros, whatever. I don't and they know he's full of shit. Mhmm. And he's been lying this whole like, saying that he's got this hot girlfriend, and they finally were like, oh, she can come tonight.

And so he has to, like, panic. You see him on, like, on Tinder or something like that, just swiping on anyone who woke up. Yeah. And the crux of it is that he finally hires a high class prostitute. Fuck.

A sex worker. Sex sex work is work. And the sex worker happens to be actress Abby Lee from Lovecraft Country. Oh, shit. Yeah.

She shows up in a few things, I think. Yeah. She's Yeah. A couple things. Yeah.

Yeah. She's great. Okay. Yeah. I thought she was really solid.

That's the other thing about this movie too is, like, I may not always agree with whatever the chemistry level is, but, like, every performance is solid. Oh, yeah. The performances are great. Yeah. Well, and Abby Lee shows up and Jillian Bell comes out as her pimp.

And It's a great season. Dude, the most relatable part was when she talks about her g cal being all fucked up to all of her appointments during 2019. So good. Honestly, I'm having a hard week. I'll be at Whole Foods if you need me.

Yeah. My favorite part of that is where she has the gun and she's like or before she has the gun, she's like, yeah, but we're friends. Right? And he's like, yeah. And she's like, no, we're not fucking friends.

Yeah. She pulls out the gun. She's like, I don't know what I'm gonna do and points it at him and then puts it in her own mouth. Yeah. I'm like She's like, what?

Uh-huh. I don't know what. I don't know. It's very good. Character.

This is great. And Walter shows up to the party because as he told us Is that the name used to party? Walter of Courtney b. Vance. Oh, yes.

Yeah. He he used to use to party. And he's there, and he he's a little dour. He's had a bad day. Oh, he's had a bad day.

We don't The extra luge made me laugh when Jason Bateman did it. And that was a real luge that they had to rig, and it was, like, it was melting on set so they could only get that in a, like, a couple of, like Like him and Courtney v Vance, essentially? Yeah. Well, like, Jason Bateman, like, had to do that a couple of takes, and apparently Olivia Munn was trying to coach him in how to swallow. Wow.

I like her more than I thought I did. She seems great. And she also left Aaron Rodgers. There you go. They all do.

Yeah. I mean I just love the shot of the ice luge and him grabbing its ass. Yeah. He was so cool. Ben, by the way, the joke I was trying to make in one of our previous episodes about the mistletoe being on your belt buckle, I was trying to be Jason Bateman in the eggnog luge.

Yeah. No. I get it. You wanted to kiss my peepee. I'm sorry.

They're a sponsor. Save it quickly. You wanted to kiss my Tina's hardcore device. Thank you. Sorry.

By by the way, as the party's starting when the 2 parents show up with the kid and they're like, he has the iPad. He just took a fucking look up. Just like the edibles gonna hit. Just fucking take them. I love when he's like, okay, this edibles about to kick in.

Tit. After they finally get Jason Bateman to, like, agree to just put the kids somewhere. Because every every character like, you know these people. Like, every single character is like, oh, yeah. But irresponsible parents, they just, like, take edibles and they didn't know what to do with their kid because no one could come and babysit.

He's always got that confused fucking look on his face. Yeah. Yeah. And that poor kid, oh, he's got such dark circles under his eyes. I know.

Like he's just on an iPad all of the time. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Katie, plug your ears or unplug your headphones. Because this is the this is the daycare hookup.

Oh, gosh. What's the daycare? This is the Randall part of the store notes. Vanessa Bare and then, like, they like, it's kinda loud in here. Do you wanna go somewhere and talk?

She asked, like Tim. Let's go She asked him. Make out. And listen. Vanessa Bare, her introduction when she's screaming at her ex about, like, having some hooker, like, babysitting her cancer, That that girl is one of the smileiest, most hysterical Oh, gosh.

Her smile is so great. It's, like, iconic how their smile is. And then, like, seeing them just walking into this Daycare. Yeah, kinder care something or other, and And then they're trying to get hot and heavy, but Randall Park just keeps calling her mommy. And then he wants to put on a diaper.

He probably would have taken a pass by her. Full mommy. The best part of that is Vanessa Barry's line of, like, save that shit for the 5th date. Yeah. When she's like, dude, it's real.

That's real. Man. Like, love bomb me a little. It's real. I've always wondered for people who have, like, really hard kinks where they're like, so nice to meet you.

I would like to go out, to eat, and later, I want you to shit on my chest. Like, when does that come up? I normally wait until, like, I've said I love you. Okay. And then, like, after I get the shit on my chest, Oh, yeah.

That's when I start to mean it. It's about 45 minutes into the day or I normally set a timer for 55. Penis scoring distance device can also be used for rounding times 30 seconds or less. Like a yeah. I'd like to push the hour.

Like, I like to bring it to the absolute last time. You're like, oh, you haven't gotten a dessert yet, but I do need poop on my on my belly. I need a little grape poop on me. Pardon me. Pardon me, poop on me.

So the rooftop situation. Oh, yeah. Another thing where it's like they walk onto the rooftop and it's like, oh, they're gonna get locked out here. And also we've introduced they have they have a will they won't they situation. Yes.

And they've had one for a while. Yeah. Just Mayman and Olivia Munn. Did any so I feel like there's some something there that's supposed to make me feel like he might it's like he's choosing between Jennifer Aniston and Olivia Munn or something. I don't and am I am I misplaced in that feeling?

I I didn't get that. I got the the whole man eater vibe from Jennifer Aniston for sure. I never got that Jason Bateman was willing to go that route. I feel like similarly to his decision about the job in New York, I didn't think he was, like, really all into it. Do you think she was?

I think There's, like, a sexual energy of I feel like she would I feel like she would totally dom Oh, yeah. Him. Oh, yeah. Like Horrible Bosses. Yes.

Exactly. She gives off that vibe. I mean, I I I also love the morning show, and that's that's her vibe these days. We're the Millers? Anyway?

Yes. Yeah. Great movie. She's really fun. She really is.

I I haven't seen any of her recent Adam Sandler projects, but I love that she's in Adam Sandler's costume. And Myrrh Mystery 2? Because I haven't seen them yet. I haven't seen them yet. Murder Mystery was actually kinda funny.

Okay. I'll check it out. Oh, yeah. Sandler was the bomb in uncut gems, yo. Hell, yeah.

We'll just give you a high five. The car alarm across the street is going off as a result. So Walter is on Oh, yeah. The setup is good. The hooker setup.

The sex worker is also a cocaine Oh, she calls her dealer. No. A prostitute. Oh. Okay.

One of her great lines. Look like I gossed to on her tonight? Yes. Exactly. Oh, was it real?

That was so good. Sorry to interrupt you. No. It was a good line. It was a really good that and, like, tell me if you want me to dance sexy.

Yeah. Just like, no. Grinding on him. And how ignorant do you have to be to see this girl and be, like, only $200 a night? That makes sense.

Yeah. What? Checks out. Yeah. In Vancouver.

Yeah. He's Washington. Such a shill for this whole situation. And the other weird fun fact is that apparently they had a choreographer on set for that dance scene, and the choreographer would told Quran, like, just show me your moves. Just see what you can.

And he's like, those are my moves. This this awkwardness is the best I can do. Yeah. I do love him, and he's the Indian Spider Man in Across the Spider Verse. Yes, sir.

And I think he's just so he's fantastic. Great in that. Yeah. Oh, he crushed that role. He was so good in that.

That whole movie's great. He's great. Yeah. Those 2 those are my those are the best. The best.

I'll I'll leave it at that. As Jennifer Aniston is grounded. She is not leaving Chicago. But she looks at her phone Yeah. And she sees the party's happening.

Right? Well, she gets an Uber Oh, right. And finds out from her Uber driver. Uber driver, fortune, Feimster. There's, like, a dance off with, like, sumo suits or a date, like, for sure.

Man's sumo suit. And all but the biggest thing is that TJ Miller is wearing $300,000 on his On his person. On his person. And the next biggest thing is that we find out when I say Zeno, you say tech. Zeno.

Tech. Zeno. Tech. So that Walter's like, fuck it, man. I'm I'm joining the family.

That's it. He is. He did get a big face full of cocaine. Yeah. A lot a lot of cocaine.

I mean, like, this is this is the moment where everybody gets on board with the party. Everybody gets on board with Xenotech. Everybody gets on board with everything. And it it's all because Abby Lee accidentally leaves a bag of cocaine that Kate McKinnon then puts into the snow machine that pumps it out. It's a good setup.

Like, it's a good little device that's written in there. Like, it's established before. We know how it works. Yeah. Everything just is logical.

That's the other thing about this movie is until he jumped the fucking shark, everything just feels, like, very, like, okay. Okay. Okay. I think Everything was tracking pretty normally. This part it I mean, obviously, the party is outrageous and continues to be outrageous.

There's a actual baby. Yep. It's like we're learning he's spending an exorbitant amount of his money His own personal money. On this party. And his inheritance.

Aniston finds out in this Uber that she's in with Fortune Feimster. With Fortune Feimster. Who's a great great little boy. This is the joke that really works for me that they hit a couple times. Because they hit this thing that they hit at the end of the movie where they're like, we're gonna have the part we might have the party.

We'll do a little drinking. Whatever. Yeah. And, like, I'm like, alright. Like, I it it's it's like, we're a little outside of the realm of realism here, and it's like, what what line are you guys trying to ride?

Which is like, they don't have to pick 1. Who gives a shit? But at the at the end of the movie, they hit it again, and I'm, like, okay. But they hit the fortune Feemster Carol thing again, and I'm, like, great. Carol.

Like, some of those things work for me, some of them don't. Carol. But, like, the, like, Carol the way the TV guide? Yeah. Like, get screened for scoliosis or whatever.

I'm Carol. I'm in the beginning of up. Yeah. Carol's an old person's name. And, honestly, like, seeing seeing someone like Fortune Fevers sort of, like, essentially, at the beginning of her career, cracking up Jennifer Aniston is just it's such a heartwarming moment where I'm just like, hell, yeah.

Do your thing, dude. If you're fortune Feumster, like, you've gotta be, like, on a fucking cloud 15 at that point. That that's when the the cocaine smoke hits me in the face. Like, that's, like, that's my biggest high, if I could get someone like that to laugh. Yeah.

No doubt. Cocaine snow. Yeah. So Jennifer Airston finally gets to the party to Uh-oh. Not happy.

Mommy's home. Yep. And Dicks have been 3 d printed and the whole fucking deal. Oh, yeah. This is right after Courtney Beavan says, I wanna be a part of Zenotech.

Yep. You got my $15,000,000 contract. Yeah. You're saved. Sam Richardson's having an orgy in the bathroom.

That's right. Hell yeah, dude. He's like, it's finally happening. So good. So, yeah, she gets there, and Courtney v.

Vance takes a header into a filing cabinet. Fuck, man. I I don't know how they shot that scene. I really don't know how they did that, but the sound it makes, how quickly it goes It's hot. It's brutal.

Yeah. That's like you're like, oh, he's dead. He's dead. And and the fact that, like, he the next scene he pops up and, like, that is bloody. It's great.

They're all knocked out. Has anyone looked, like, at Helms in Hangover? That same tooth? You mean egg Helms? Yeah.

Egg. Thank you. Egg Bert? Yeah. Did you watch that movie?

Which movie? We Came Together? No. Have you seen that, Katie? I have not.

Great. Good to know. I'm done speaking for now. Okay. Thanks, everybody.

No. That's what I've been waiting to hear for, like, 5 years. Walter. We find out, Walter, there was no contract to give. Another one of, like, the misunderstandings that Yeah.

From Kate to, like, this beautiful Kate McKinnon, he's been fired. Yeah. And he was fired. Like, you won't be part of this. It meant, like, oh, he wants to work there.

That's why he wanted the family. He wasn't getting Adele. Hello? He was going with Adele. Her?

No. And and we kind of later revealed, they do set up in the first act. His his company is not paying for his meal. His breakfast. Yeah.

His breakfast. Like, his drinks. Since my company is not paying for it anymore. Like, he you're he's done. They they they put that seed in, and it it's one of those things where you're just like, oh, yeah.

I guess he's just like the curmudgeon they have to win over, and you're like, oh, no. There's reasons why he's just He's fired. He's fired. And, like, not necessarily knowing it then, but yeah. This big fish is nothing.

He's he's a dinosaur. He's a t rex that, like, can't jerk off. He's the old style. That's why he's so mad. The old style.

Because the new style t rex. The old style T Rex with the arms that don't jerk off. Oh my god. It doesn't have the jerk off T Rex action. T Rex.

Ticked her back. This is a horrible Christmas present. I want the one with the jerk off action. I majored in mobility. I majored in T Rex jerk off action.

You're the worst dad ever. That is that. What did you even major in? Canadian television history with the boys and Drake. Drake.

Degrassi, baby. Those those outtakes of him just going through he, like, majored in Always started with Canadian. So Canadian linguistics, Yeah. That was good. Linguistics.

That lost Bateman. Yeah. It did. That that was that was good. Yeah.

Like, he he really threw it away. Speaking of people throwing it away. Right. Well, and I I think this is, again, I think this is peak TJ Miller before the greatest fall of all. Yeah.

I mean, like, it's not like he had a really great fall, but, like, it it was just, like It just happened quickly. He burned bright. He he did. He burned bright. He burned out.

And it's unfortunate. The hottest, most beautiful stars. He just didn't burn as bright as the bomb that he was. Nice. That was good.

Got it. Got my point. Jimmy Butler. Jimmy Butler? Like, out of fucking nowhere, but we find out that the IT manager, the actor from Deadpool and across the street.

Geron, Jenny. Yeah. Thank you. Goes downstairs and he's, like, mad. And he's, like, I want I want my money back.

Like, this is terrible. And Julian Bell is, like, oh, customer service isn't available. It's because her she's been giving a fan. Jobs to dudes in the bathroom for $40. While he was going to find the 2 k.

Yeah. And they did hire a zipline. They did. I think you're just here for the zipline. No.

No I'm not. I'm not what? Are you sure? Nope. Are you sure?

We've done so many. I think This podcast sucks. Just watch. Just references. Just watch the things that we reference all the time.

This is bullshit. Katie, we're leaving. You do it better. Don't let Katie take over. We're gonna improve this.

I love that you both have let me go 5 times. Yeah. Thank you so much for being here. Of course. Of course.

So Thank you for having me. Paul, thank you for being here. Am I here? I don't know. I mean, I'm here.

Mhmm. Anyway, shenanigans ensue. You're right. We get turned into the whole Jillian Bell story where TJ Miller comes out basically distraught because they don't have his own hands. He's gonna lose everything.

He's gonna lose everything. He's gonna lose the company. He spent all his money on this. Like Yeah. And I I have to say, I know this comes just a little bit later than this scene, but, like, you know, Jillian Bell is like, hey, Santa.

You wanna party? And he's like, yeah. The best delivered line I think TJ Miller has ever given is when he's getting high with them, and he says, the money is on my person. And he says my person, but the way he takes the drag It's a good delivery. It's really well done because it sounds like in his personal safety Well, because as we my person is safe.

Right? That's because as a Yeah. As somebody as somebody like, I think he says it's on my person. It's safe. Safe.

Yeah. Yes. He does. I think one of my things that I wish and I know, like, I spent some of this time, especially in the end of the second to the third wishing writing what I wanted, and I think it's hard for me not to do that sometimes. Sure.

But I think one of the things I think would have been bigger reveal is if that he had fallen off the wagon. Well, he did because he was he was only supposed to have 2 drinks. That's not but that's what I mean. Like, at at like, as knowing sober people and being like, I feel like if he was a sober person, he he falls off the wagon here. I feel like that is a huge fall.

And that to me is like, oh, no. Like, he is doomed now. Well, do you know what I mean? No. I do.

That's fair. Yeah. I do. It's a bigger fall. Also, God would drive a minivan.

Yeah. The minivan with full of parrot shit. Why do you drive a minivan? You don't even have kids. It's a Kia.

And it's it's what God would drive. And it's also, excretions from their genitals. From the parents. It's not poop. It's it's not don't worry.

It's excretion for their genitals. It's just cum. It's just cum. Because this episode is brought to you by Penises score and distance measurement rounding device. Dummy penises.

Okay. There we go. Use of it. Just fuck it. Throw it all out the window.

So Katie, you were talking about one of your favorite line deliveries. This movie has one of my favorite line of all time, which is Kate McKinnon Of course. Saying before they go into the club. Because this is this is the turn the movie has taken. We're not as worried about the party.

We're not worried about signing Courtney b Vance. Now it's more like one of TJ Miller. We gotta save TJ Miller. Like Olivia Munn told, like, was gonna kiss Jason Bateman, Rob Cordray is peeing everyone. More time.

I think that if he if he was a sober person who falls off the wagon, I feel like that's a bigger drive for everybody. And it might be a bigger drive for Jennifer and it's just to be like, I don't wanna see him die today because of this. I felt like that when they, like, jumped in the car to go after him, which I know is partly, like, more like this guy could die, the pimp could kill him, whatever. But I think I think part of it is also, like, just trying to talk him, bring him off. Like, when Jason mentions, I'm gonna drive off this with you if you don't stop.

Yeah. Yeah. It's him saying, like, the choices that you're making impact other people. Yeah. The Kate McKinnon line, I turned myself in for sexual harassment.

Yeah. You remember Andrew from the copy room? I dropped the toner so I could bend over it and let my nose just graze his butt. And he told she totally improvised that. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Because there was, like, different reasonings that she had with the They used the best one Yeah. In my opinion. Yeah. Were you gonna say it?

Do you know the line? Oh, god. I I I don't I don't I don't know it specifically. Okay. And then I said, if you don't fuck me right now, buster, I'll ruin it.

If you don't fuck me right now, buster, I will ruin it. Because the setup is very, like, tame. You know? Okay. Well, like, it needs to be That's weird.

It's like, you know, it's weird, but it's not really, like, reportable or whatever. You don't fucking hear right now. So And then he goes there it is. That nope. That's yep.

That's sexual harassment. Yeah. Actually, when the movie starts to take these weird turns okay. We planted the seed for, like, the emotionally unstable pimp. Mhmm.

And bringing that back. And TJ Miller having these issues and bringing that back. And also, like, the all these mistakes and misunderstandings that led us to hear, as you said, Katie, like, something that's weird about Christmas movies, like, it's even Die Hard. Why does this guy have a fucking chance against all these people? It's a goddamn Christmas miracle.

Ointment Hans. That's because he's a fly in the ointment, Hans. Mhmm. Clay. Hey.

Bill. Bubby. I'm your white knight. I'm gonna watch it. I'm gonna watch it tonight.

So I'm watching it on Thursday in the theater. Woah. Dope. I've never seen I've only seen with this in the theater. I think AMC is doing a thing or something, but, it's actually that's my husband and I, that's our our movie that we don't have a song.

We have a movie. It's our movie. Yeah. That's cool you guys don't suck. I like that.

Very much. Yeah. I like that. You guys consider it a Christmas movie? Yeah.

Big time. Thank you. Okay. We did a Die Hard V Die Hard vengeance movie or episode. And you are transitioning to the perfect point.

So we walk into the crime club, Jason Bateman wearing the ladies jacket and the whole deal. Oh, yes. And there's a reference, a light reference, to a movie called Aliens. Mhmm. Because they're playing the knife game.

Katie, have you seen Alien? I have seen Alien. Have you seen Aliens? Alien with dollar sign? I I have only seen it, like, partially one.

I wasn't asking for any reason. We're just gonna write a lock. Which one do you prefer? We're moving right along. Alien.

Thank you. Okay. Shit. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

The retrospective this episode is canceled. You don't know why I'm saying that, but it's canceled. Phoenix will be so sad. Vin Diesel only got shit on me. I'm so mad.

I'm so mad about this. Freddy Krueger did my tables. So we're talking about the knife in between the fingers. Is that what the reference? Yeah.

But mostly, it's like, I have this belief that more people like aliens. Ben has a belief that more people like alien. We both agree that they're both fantastic. But we're having trouble figuring out what the general consensus is. So my idea is to contact all of the guests through the year Okay.

And say, what's better between Die Hard and Vengeance? What's better between Alien and Aliens? So we he and I can have a definitive answer for both of those questions. Well, I have to say it's Alien because it's like All Alien's winning by a lot. Thank you.

That was us high fiving by now. And Katie taking over for me as cohost. Thank you so much for being here, Paul. Done with this bullshit. So they get there and yeah, they're pretending to be like hardcore.

Picking up him or somebody. But then she speak he he speak in Russian? She does. Jennifer to me makes sense. She knows, like, Krav Maga.

She's a CEO. She's, like, worldly. Like, what Yeah. Let's there's no reasoning for it. It's, again, that magical reasoning.

I mean, it is very much, like, in Die Hard. Right? She's, like, I I make deals like this every day. Right? Yeah.

Right. Right. And what I love is that, like, what she says in Russian is like, take pity on him. He's wearing a woman's coat. Yeah.

Like, he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. And the guy's like, fucking, come on. All the way in. Well, like, frankly, if Jennifer Aniston were like, do x y z, I'd be like, yeah. Okay.

When we learn Kate McKinnon goes in there, and the dude who's got the knife with the finger, and she's just like, oh, I don't wanna fuck that guy. Like Yeah. We see that she's, like, opened up entirely now. I The party has completely blown her wide open. It really as soon as it was, like, I say h, you say r.

H. R. H. R. God.

This Yeah. You know what? We're back on, people. This podcast is going. She's gone full fuzzy wig.

Yeah. Yes. I love when, the king of the throwaway, Bateman says, she's surviving only on salad and smart water. Like, that's probably improv and him basically, like, she is the the face of smart Water. I I cackled at that, like, because when this came out, this was probably towards the end of her Smart Water campaign Yeah.

Or whatever. I feel like that was, like, a more of a, like, a 2012 type of thing or whatever. Oh, yeah. I I totally forgot about that. Jim Bateman didn't.

I know. Something like that. Yeah. I mean, like, he spent all his money on this party because he knew that this big fish was the only way to keep Mhmm. His business.

His thing to his life is to bring to the world what his dad did, and he's Right. Just learned that he is not going to accomplish that, so he's done. And you may think that we're nearing the end of the film. We're actually nearing the end of the second act because there is a very short third act. And this is the 4th.

I think this is the 3rd act we're in. I feel like we're in the 3rd. I would say the car chase is the beginning of the 3rd act. Yeah. We're we're at the the lowest of the low Okay.

Lead characters where it's like, okay. We don't have our any events. All hope is lost. We might as well jump this stupid bridge. And probably die.

Well and, like, I gotta say, like, as You made it? Jennifer Aniston's, like, I took Krav Maga for 9 years. I can kick anybody's ass. And then she's like, I got this. And they're like, yeah.

Fuck them up. And then they cut away. I'm like, come on. Don't do that. She's, like, what, in her fifties at this point?

I don't know. There's stunt people. There's stunt people, but, like, I mean, what she's And she's really Louboutins and What she did do, I felt like was a little bit more The arm bar. Than Queen Latifah. Set it off.

Equalizer. Set it off. I love the Queen. I love the Queen, but the the TV show equalizer was rough to watch. I watched equalizer too recently.

Oh, no. Isn't there 3 of them? I'm sure I'm sure it is. There's 3 movies with Denzel, but there is a 2nd show with the franchise. But are all the Denzel ones Antoine Foqua?

I believe so. Oh, yeah. I think so. Okay. I believe so.

I haven't seen any of them. I just, like, it's one of those things, like, they've talked about Jennifer Aniston being great at fighting. Now we've seen she's probably pretty good at this with the iron bar you mentioned. Yeah. It'd be fun to watch.

And then they're like, we're gonna let you fight, and then they just cut away. I think of, like, in game night with the Rachel McAdams. Yes. The yoga stuff. Yeah.

That I think there are some slight missed opportunities of showing us stuff like that in this. It might have been bad takes. I'm not gonna lie. The car chase thing where I come to, like, nerdy fucking there's a green screen, and I should this, like, mid budget comedy should be more realistic. Paul does this Paul does this all the time.

I I could I do. But it's just one of those things where I'm, like, I don't know if it's like because actors couldn't be in whatever place or whatever the problem is. But it's like, is there any way to work that out? I don't know. It's like backdrops in this movie kinda like in Die Hard and other movies where you're like lights don't turn off, people don't move, and it's more noticeable for me in movies that are newer Yeah.

Than they are in older films. But the car chase and the way that they tie that up with the writing where it's like, yeah, we're gonna do the Fast and Furious shit is fun. I I would say, like, this was one of the most realistic scenes though, is that, like, he's going, like, crazy fast, and Abby Lee is in the back going, you know, you can't shoot him because then we'll get going for a wreck. And I was like, I love that reasoning, and that is very true. And the fact that Julia Bell's like, I can't get him to stop.

See? Look. Stop the call. Yeah. Puts the gun barrel against his head as Jennifer Aniston's in the minivan next to them screaming.

Yeah. And Jason Bateman's committed, like, look. If he's gonna drive over into the Fast and the Furious I'm gonna do it too. We're gonna do it. And then the Christmas miracle happens where they take out the Internet for the entire which because you kinda forgot about that as an audience.

Right? Yeah. Yes? Yes. And but also, like, not a thing.

Right. I know. I I love that this main Internet line. Happened to, like, crash the car into, I guess, the hub of all of Chicago's Internet. Yeah.

And, I mean Cell service. We again Was it cell service? Everything. Yeah. No.

But it wouldn't be cell those are different things. It was now? Well, they set it up in the beginning where she's like, what's the hardest thing about the Internet? And everybody gets their one take about, like, what's hard about the Internet. Right.

It was like Asian male representation in porn. That is such a great line in porn. So Yeah. I feel like, what? That was the thing is that, like, it was hard to get on the Internet, and then suddenly they have a solve for what could save the company, which is that sort of linchpin moment of, like, wait, I know how to save everyone.

That comes when they're all in the hospital, trying to sort of in the denouement of this entire story. Yeah. And Olivia was like, I think I can do this. And she does. And she does.

She's excited. Well, they just with a team. Right? They all come together like the well, they go back to the building and clearly, these outside partiers came in and Destroyed everything. And that was part of me was like, ah, I wanna see that.

I wanna Oh, we did. We did. I mean, we saw we it was like a it was a mini montage in the end where it was where Dwight Rudolph was, like, tasering everyone. And you see the flame wall. Like yeah.

Yeah. But I think I just wanted I I think for me, I wanted the main tension of the movie to exist within that bubble party. Well, as I've said before, Ben, we can't just talk about what we wanted to see. We have to talk about what we saw. I know.

And this is what we saw. And I again, I didn't have a bad time. I understand. No. I Sure.

The the Internet thing happens. They bring that back. They tie off the story with, like, Jillian Bell and the sex worker. They tie off the Olivia Munn and, like, Jason Bateman thing. They tie off the thing with the the company.

Like, all these things get even Jennifer Aniston in her turn, like, that gets tied off. The way that they go, we're we're gonna try to not leave many strings hanging outside of like, hey, intern, you work here now or whatever that happens at a point. But very little is left to, like, chance or wonder. Yeah. Right.

It's written pretty tightly. Yeah. And the internet saves the fucking world somehow. Olivia Munn gets her air anywhere, any air to work. And I honestly I forgot about that and thought it was going to be, like, the guy who was like, let's burn this fucking place to the ground.

That they would burn it to the ground and they would get insurance money. Oh. That's what I thought was gonna be the end. But, anybody else play by official monopoly rules like Jennifer Aniston? The official monopoly rules?

There are official rules and I know them. And anybody would like to play monopoly Official monopoly rules? Yes. Did you I mean, I feel like I've time to play the entirety. There is a time limit.

It's like fireworks. Bidding for properties that you pass on, etcetera, etcetera. Time limit of that game as long as this episode of the show. As I decide to let you live is as long as the game We should rank this movie. We've talked about this movie now.

I feel like we've hit a lot of good points. Right? If anyone has any other points they'd like to hit. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. The thing comes back with the, like, we're not gonna be drinking, but we're gonna be drinking as they're leaving the hospital.

And we get the Ben Falcone, as you mentioned, Katie Yep. Thing and We get fortune Feimster going for Carol. Carol again. Carol. Carol.

Lady there. Carol. The 2 old person. Carol. Are you sure you're not Carol?

In one of the most quotable lines that my husband and I quote all the time, bunch of bitches. Bunch of bitches. Yeah. I do like the bunch of bitches. Yeah.

Yeah. And then, I another very realistic moment from Vanessa Bayer at the very end when Quran tries to, kiss Vanessa here. And She's like, no. Like, oh, no. Like, maybe we go out for coffee first.

Yeah. And she's like, oh, actually, fuck it. Yeah. Well, we're gonna be let in. We're coming out.

And now we're gonna give we just discussed this film ad nauseam. Boy, did did we. Yeah. Right? What is our new ranking, though?

Because I was, like, in my full, like, interruption mode, like I like to do to everybody. Sorry, everybody. How would we like to re rank this? Oh, oh, Katie, you go first because Well, I'm gonna stick with my strong 4. Yeah?

Yeah. Absolutely. A forward 4. A hard 4. Tina's hardcore device is easy to set and use.

Excellent writing, very quotable moments, peak improvising, hilarious cast that somehow they have managed to tie up every storyline, which I think is a feat. That's the name of my autobiography. Somehow I manage. Oh, wow. Tie it back to The Office.

Sounds familiar. Me Next Yeah? I think? Let's say, yeah. Okay.

I am gonna come up a tiny bit. Yes. I think I was nitpicking on some dumb shit like I do. I had a good time watching this movie. I'm gonna take my own advice and say, like, this is what you saw.

You had such a good time talking about it. As Katie, you mentioned, like, it's so fucking quotable. And I think part of the the mission of this movie is to, like, we want you to have a good time and remember a lot of the things that are said and reuse it in your life. Yeah. And, bunch of bitches.

Bunch of bitches. Has been and I forgot where it came from. And apparently, I'm not the only one. I'm gonna give it 3 and a half inches of 3 dimensional printers. Or in fact, your penis.

Yeah. I I thought of I'm so I'm so close to wiggling, but I think I think I'm I'm like a I'm like a I'm a I'm like a hard 3.5. Okay. Yeah. I'm like I'm like go 3.8?

I'm like 3.75. I will watch this again at some point. I I will watch this again. Insane. Yes.

And I and I will watch it again, and I enjoyed watching it. And I laughed out loud quite a lot Yep. Which is rare for me to do these days. It's deceptively great in that respect. I mean, like, how many comedy movies have you seen where you're like, okay.

I mean, I feel like most American comedies now just just aren't very funny. It's been really fun to, like, sit and reminisce about, which is normally what I mostly want from a comedy. Yeah. Something I can reference and bullshit about with people. And, also, like, for the holiday season, what a what a great film to send to all of our beautiful people out there Right?

And to say happy holidays to you. Holidays, everybody. If you like this film, please try Bad Moms, Bad Moms Christmas, The Night Before, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Animal House Girls Trip, Horrible Bosses, won both either Game night. Game night, great film. Night before.

Correct. Dungeons and Dragons. Last holiday, Queen Latifah, we talked about. Our bookend themes, Jamie Henwood does the front, the back, the what are we watching? That's Matthew Foskett.

Oh, some of those new ones you heard. Guess who did those ones? That was me. I did those ones. Hey, Katie.

You're amazing. You're hilarious. You're so talented and wonderful. Thank you for being here. Where can the people, like, find you, interact with you, etcetera?

Please come back. I'll interrupt less. Absolutely. I would I would love to. This has been a lot of fun, honestly.

You can always find me at at l sassypants, e l s a s s y p a n t s, sometimes with a z if you're on TikTok. You can also catch me on the 1st and third Wednesdays of the month at the Pack Theater with nothing burger improv. I am also all over the place doing random ass shit. So just check it out. I I've always got something going on.

Thank you so much, everyone. Join us on 111 for the review, review, retrospecticus. Happy holidays. Grab your friends and your family. Hold them tight.

And I hope you have a nice, warm, loving Peace. Holiday. Peace. Be safe. Make out with the HR lady.

I'm not. I'm just really not. I don't know. Maybe I am. You're good.

I'm so That's very nice of you to say. I was just putting it out there.