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MacGruber
What happens when an eccentric ex-soldier, an abundance of butt jokes, and 80s action tropes collide? Buckle up for a wild ride as we dissect the cult classic "MacGruber" on this week's We Recommend Podcast! Join us as Jesse kicks things off with his gut-busting first impressions of this absurdly funny film. We compare "MacGruber" to other SNL movies, situating it in the comedic middle ground, and delve into the directorial brilliance of Jorma Taccone. From initial resistance to cult status, we share how "MacGruber" fought its way into our hearts and highlight its blend of surprisingly good practical effects and hilariously bad CGI.
Ever wondered how a mullet-wearing hero's unconventional tactics can lead to comedic gold? We share personal anecdotes of discovering "MacGruber" and celebrate its clever nods to 80s action flicks. The comedic genius of Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, and Val Kilmer shines through as we recount some of the film's most memorable scenes—think awkward recruitment tactics, inappropriate exchanges, and explosive misadventures. We dig into MacGruber's explosive rage and sarcastic demeanor, revealing the comedic appeal behind his absurd character and outrageous antics.
Prepare for laughter as we break down key moments like the celery stick gag, the chaotic missile room scene, and the profanity-laden funeral. The evolution of comedy in action films gets a shout-out, as does MacGruber's absurd obsession with his Miata. From cult classics to new favorites, this episode is packed with laughs, nostalgia, and a comedic analysis you won't want to miss!
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What happens when an eccentric ex-soldier, an abundance of butt jokes, and 80s action tropes collide? Buckle up for a wild ride as we dissect the cult classic "MacGruber" on this week's We Recommend Podcast! Join us as Jesse kicks things off with his gut-busting first impressions of this absurdly funny film. We compare "MacGruber" to other SNL movies, situating it in the comedic middle ground, and delve into the directorial brilliance of Jorma Taccone. From initial resistance to cult status, we share how "MacGruber" fought its way into our hearts and highlight its blend of surprisingly good practical effects and hilariously bad CGI.
Ever wondered how a mullet-wearing hero's unconventional tactics can lead to comedic gold? We share personal anecdotes of discovering "MacGruber" and celebrate its clever nods to 80s action flicks. The comedic genius of Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, and Val Kilmer shines through as we recount some of the film's most memorable scenes—think awkward recruitment tactics, inappropriate exchanges, and explosive misadventures. We dig into MacGruber's explosive rage and sarcastic demeanor, revealing the comedic appeal behind his absurd character and outrageous antics.
Prepare for laughter as we break down key moments like the celery stick gag, the chaotic missile room scene, and the profanity-laden funeral. The evolution of comedy in action films gets a shout-out, as does MacGruber's absurd obsession with his Miata. From cult classics to new favorites, this episode is packed with laughs, nostalgia, and a comedic analysis you won't want to miss!
We would love to hear from you! Send us an email and maybe it will be read on the podcast! werecommendmailbag@gmail.com
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Music produced by Joey Prosser. X @mrjoeyprosser
Hello and welcome to the we Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse and I'm Jason. I'm out of the game, but the game has changed, but the players are the same, because this week we recommend MacGruber Ruber. Holy shit, man. So this was your first time watching it. Yes, I could not wait for you to watch it, especially since I know you love Wolf Forte, like the rest of the world should. What'd you think, bro?
Speaker 2:I thought it was god, as it was funny, even though it wasn't sometimes. But it was so silly I could, so there was just. Sometimes I felt like I shouldn't be laughing, but I was, yeah any specific salary is that a?
Speaker 1:part where you're like okay, this isn't funny, but I'm laughing. No, and it was funny though I think it was hilarious. It was hilarious.
Speaker 2:I just God, I don't know, it was so weird. A lot of butt jokes, yeah.
Speaker 1:Which was great. It's a very big butt heavy joke. Big butt heavy movie, yeah.
Speaker 2:I love a nice.
Speaker 1:I like my films like I, like my women Butt heavy, oh God. So where would this rank on your list of SNL films? I'll run them down for you. You have the Blues Brothers, wayne's World, coneheads, wayne World 2. I'm going to say somewhere in the middle Blues.
Speaker 2:Brothers 2000,. Night at the Roxbury, superstar Ladies' man and then MacGruber.
Speaker 1:I never saw Ladies' man. You haven't. Oh my God, he's the best though.
Speaker 2:This was a good one. I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, I really liked Superstar, but yeah, this one was pretty good. Yeah, yes, yeah, so good I was making out with the tree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the director of this film is Jorma I can't remember how to, I don't know how to say his last name, tacone. He's one of the guys in. He was one of the directors of Popstar and he's kind of the smaller one he was the DJ in Popstar Never Stop.
Speaker 1:Stopping. That was the director of the film because obviously like this stemmed from snl and will forte was like a big part and reason that you know they kind of got really popular, that he was always kind of wanting to go with them to do their own films and stuff was this based on a the tv show series? Oh, macgyver.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, Well that, but also MacGruber, no MacGruber was because this came out in 2012, I believe, and the series just came out last year. Okay, and it just finally. Finally enough people watch MacGruber to. They're like, oh wait, this is amazing, let's make a TV show about it, which I think I only got through first three episodes and I still got to finish it, and we'll get into a little bit of trivia. So I guess something that I learned while doing some research was that nobody liked the pitch of MacGruber. Whenever they get around the table and they all kind of pitch their ideas, which is something that they do in SNL, like at the beginning of every week, they all get together and here's our bits Do you like them? And if nobody likes them, they don't Like. At the beginning of every week, they all get together and here's our bits Do you like them? And if nobody likes them, they don't Like MacGruber.
Speaker 1:It was the brainchild of the Lonely Island's Jorma, which I told you earlier. He was directed. He directed most of the SNL shorts for MacGruber and he did the Pepsi commercial for the Super Bowl, along with the 2010 spinoff film and the 2021 Peacock series. Cohn, however, told New York Magazine that initially, no one was into the wacky idea. Every Monday the writers and the cast crowd into Lorne's office and there's some wildly famous host that you're super nervous to talk to and you have to pitch your ideas. His pitch or he says my pitch that week was a sketch about MacGyver's stepbrother Gruber, who defuses bombs only using pieces of shit and pubic hair, got a huge groan in the room. It was almost like a boo. People were like oh God, shut up. But Takon kept pitching his ideas to Forte and eventually wore him down.
Speaker 2:Have you seen?
Speaker 1:any of the MacGruber bits Like sketches.
Speaker 1:No this is my first one. They're all pretty funny. I actually find the movie funnier than all the bits. I can see that. But yeah, there is like a lot. It's usually just him Like, because after the first couple it's always it was just like him being bad at bombs and then later on they always add like a bit, like they did one when Will Forte came to SNL as a host. It was last year and it was his MacGruber's character was into QAnon then. So it's like everything kind of stemmed. Every like little joke was about how you couldn't trust Fauci and stuff like that. It was really funny, nice, and there's always one based on they always have, depending on who who the host is a bit about whatever, whoever's there, cool. And so the sex scenes in the movie were all based on Top Gun sex scenes because they're so ridiculous.
Speaker 1:Oh man, so good, I'm going to shoot. I'm going to shoot, I'm going to shoot. I'm going to fill you up, I'm going to fill you up.
Speaker 2:Have you ever had a Molson's? Oh, what is that? I think it's a beer.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that what it is?
Speaker 2:I don't, I've never had it. It sounds like malt, like the malt liquor stuff, yeah, like a beer, I don't know.
Speaker 1:So Forte since particular about getting into the script the right amount of grunts. There was a lot of going back and forth. Does it need one more grunt?
Speaker 2:Oh no, I thought maybe it had too many.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it didn't have enough. It should have been louder, more aggressive grunts too. So they got sued by one of the show's MacGyver creators, one of the people that created the show. But because the lawsuit was never filed because it's a parody, it's kind of satire so they weren't able to get it to go. It's like just have some fun.
Speaker 2:We're all just having fun here. How long has it been since MacGyver was even on the air.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know Right, I don't even. I don't even think I've ever actually watched MacGyver. I just know the bit about MacGyver.
Speaker 2:And I have watched it. That's all I remember too, and they had a mullet.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So Fort. So Forte's mom was on set the day he filmed the celery scene, oh wonderful.
Speaker 1:And they said I'm just glad they didn't put peanut butter on it while he was yeah, right, and eat it so uh Forte says um, his mom seemed fine with it and he says that I think I saw her and maybe she even gave me a little wave and was smiling behind her. I'm so proud of you but behind her were just these aghast faces of her two friends who could not believe what they were having to watch Clutching their pearls.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like, oh God. And so I guess another thing with the celery bit. So someone was on set on the film set, was very into those celery sticks, oh no. So Forte told Rolling Stones that a random guy on set was or quite taken by the celery's forte um carried around between his butt cheeks. He says I'm doing all these very delicate procedures to get ready for the thing. And there was some guy back there who would chat me up a little bit. Forte revealed I just thought that he was part of the security team. Later I found out he was just some random guy and he had collected all the used celeries. I don't know what he did with them. Maybe he just threw them away. All I know is that this guy had collected these celeries that we were using and I often wonder, a what was he doing there? And b what did he do with the celery? What a nightmare. I'm like, uh, uh, it's terrifying. It's like is someone just eating my butt celery?
Speaker 2:Oh, you know, he ate it. They don't keep it for very long and they turn brown.
Speaker 1:Yeah, another interesting thing. So Val Kilmer and Will Forte became pretty good friends because of this movie. So, and they almost ended up being on CBS the Amazing Race because of this film where they became good friends. Kilmer later stayed at.
Speaker 2:Forte's Kilmer just called in a helicopter and took him to the end.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Kilmer later stayed at Forte's house for a few months while searching for a new LA based home for himself, and Forte introduced Kilmer to the Amazing Race. They were about to apply as a team when their own work, other work, commitments, led to them being dropped.
Speaker 2:This sounds like something you do when you're fucked up and you're hanging out.
Speaker 1:Well, that's something with these reality TV shows. They often get random celebrities. I was watching a season of Survivor and Mike White, the guy that wrote Orange County, he also wrote oh he does. The White Lotus, the guy that did that and he did really well in Survivor. Wow, I won't spoil it for you.
Speaker 2:I don't watch Survivor. I heard the new season is kind of wild though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was really wild. I was actually disappointed. I didn't really end up liking any mechanic.
Speaker 2:Someone mentioned a game-breaking mechanic.
Speaker 1:Someone invented I don't know what that even means Gamebreaking mechanic someone invented I don't know what that even means Gamebreaking mechanic, oh yeah. Or like another person helped someone else win an immunity challenge so they could get someone else out and it was like is that like even fair? Shouldn't we all just work on our own thing? But I didn't like the person that they were trying to get out, so I was totally down for it. So we're going to run down the cast real quick. So we got Will Forte as MacGruber, kristen Wiig as Vicky, st Elmo the most ridiculous name.
Speaker 2:She's great.
Speaker 1:Dal Kilmer as Kump, ryan Phillippe as Piper, yves Powers Booth as Colonel Faith, maya Rudolph as Casey, and really that's all you got some wrestlers. Chris Jericho, love his. I love his love that part. So what made you like the movie?
Speaker 2:it was just like a fun afternoon, like silly watch, you know did you watch this with, like your wife or your kids nearby?
Speaker 1:was it a little too?
Speaker 2:my six year old was nearby, she wasn't really paying attention she was just mad because I was using the television like dad runs his house my television and every once in a while she would look at me laughing and say that's not appropriate.
Speaker 1:like dad, runs this house, my television and every once in a while she would look at me laughing and say that's not appropriate.
Speaker 2:That's not appropriate, just a little bit just a little bit, but she wasn't even watching, so like I don't understand, yeah.
Speaker 1:I love this movie because, for one, it has no right to look as good as it does. I know there's some parts where the CG is terrible yeah, pretty bad, but anytime that they use anything practical, the explosions are great. You really don't expect it from an SNL film, right, right, especially in the 2010s because they most of the SNL films started failing towards the end. They're all cult classics but they don't really make that much money. It's like outside of like Wayne's World and Blues Brothers and stuff like that, which this did not make a lot of money at all. I think it dropped from being in like over 3,000 theaters to 700 theaters after like three weeks. It just sucks. I'm just so glad. I randomly was in Hastings one day and I saw MacGruber and I was like I didn't know they made a movie about the little skit. So MacGruber and I was like I didn't know they made a movie about the little skit, so I just bought it for like five dollars at Hastings, and me and my friend.
Speaker 1:Richard, at the time we went there, we went home and watched it and I think we watched it probably like two or three times after we bought it, like within the first week. This is so funny. I just love really witty, but also like I like that it's witty and also bottom barrel dumbest things you can think of.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And there's something great about that, the reason I and I think, even though it's a very stupid movie, I think it's very smart the way that they weave in eighties action tropes and just I don't know when you do things that seems super dumb but you're confident enough that, like this is going to be funny actually and you still keep doing it, Like the KFBR 392.
Speaker 1:It's so funny. It's like I don't know and they do everything perfect in bits of like threes Cause comedy is it comes in threes. They say, sure, do do a joke once. By the third time people are gonna be like, oh my God it. By the third time people are gonna be like, oh my god, it was hilarious. So it's like the point where you see him constantly whispering about the license plate, you see it in the journal that he made, and then he just like happens upon the car and by the time he happens upon the car he's in the middle of the most important phone call in the entire movie and it's like this is awesome because you're like, oh, he's gonna stop burning this car now and he's like, nope, he's going to continue, no matter what.
Speaker 1:I don't know, it's just one of those things where he didn't take a raining dump on top of the guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly and I don't know. You just put, I don't know, will Forte, kristen Wiig. They're like some of the funniest actors we have and it good, hilarious. And then even the director, jorma. Everybody knows Andy Sandberg, but I feel like Akiva and Jorma always kind of get sidelined a little bit just because you know Andy Sandberg so popular, and it's like these other two Lonely Island guys are so good, yeah, and so funny as well yeah.
Speaker 2:The shorter guy is like is yeah, that's my second favorite of the three.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mine too yeah, yeah, it's Andy, jorma and Akiva, even though I feel bad for Akiva, but Akiva used to do favorite of the three. Yeah, mine too. Yeah, it's Andy, jorma and Akiva, even though I feel bad for Akiva, but Akiva used to do more of the directing than the actual some of the bits. But, yeah, and Jorma's in like a couple episodes of Girls. Did you ever watch Girls, the TV show on HBO? Nope, he's so funny. There's his sex scene ideas. Oh man, all right, we're gonna uh hop into the film, unless you got anything else to say where you I was.
Speaker 2:I thought it was wild that uh val kilmer was the film and val kilmer is, so he's just game for it.
Speaker 1:I know he plays. It's the great thing in these type of comedies where you have like the super serious ball like villain and in a world of nothing but wackiness.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Everything wacky is coming his way.
Speaker 2:Every, every once in a while, I'll look at Val Kimmer and say, like for real Right, you chose to do this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but this was 2010. So he, like all his fame was kind of gone by now. Okay, Like after, like, he just kept. I think he ended up. He got this. Everyone had this perception that he was hard to work with on set, oh, and so I think it just kind of got him. People thought he was kind of turning into who's the guy in Godfather.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Marlon Brandoo. People thought he's turning into marlon. Marlon brando became super difficult. Couldn't remember his lines constantly on drugs or alcohol, which I think, alchemer did end up having issues with that, but he's kind of got better, especially after the cancer thing well, I didn't get cancer yeah, he ended up getting like throat cancer or something you know, doing too much drugs and stuff, I'm assuming.
Speaker 1:But yeah, he's always good. Even even like bad movies he's usually pretty darn good and I love the guy and he was like one of my favorite actors growing up. He's my favorite batman as a kid. Oh hell, yeah, I was like hell. This guy looks awesome as batman oh, he really did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those returns right uh, forever uh, forever that's the one returns, is the second mile. Uh, michael keaton one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it was. It was kind of one of those things too, whenever you watch like a big star like val kilmer come into one of these movies, I'm like I really hope he's having fun on set. And then then when you find out him and will forte are like best friends now.
Speaker 1:It's like, yes, good for you will everybody had fun it seemed like nobody had any issues on a set, thank God. All right, so we're going to start with a film. We start off in eastern Siberia, like somewhere in the mountains. You have Dieter von Kunth Love it and his men. They take control of a nuclear warhead from the Russian army after killing all the soldiers, and then he kind of gives an epic line at the end and shoots, and then we cut into the intro of the movie. Doesn't he scream at the end? At the beginning of the intro? No, that's uh, macgruber does, but this is just where you see the bad guy where he shoots.
Speaker 1:But in the intro of the movie you see all these things. You see that all his like purple hearts and everything. And then you also see like a newspaper clipping MacGruber saves the day Kills 200 people Kills 200 people. And then you see him with his saxophone, just like playing in the warehouse. Yes, that was awesome. What I love is the song in the background the whole time where it's the MacGruber song.
Speaker 1:You got lines like this guy's a fucking genius MacGruber, yeah. And then it's the MacGruber song. You got lines like this guy's a fucking genius MacGruber, and then it's like we made a fucking movie MacGruber.
Speaker 2:So good, every good hero's got to have his own thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have his good song. And so now we're in Ecuador where Colonel Jim Faith, played by Power Booth, and Lieutenant Dixon Piper Dixon Piper, played by Ryan Phillip I can't say his last name now we are searching for former Green Beret Navy SEAL and Army Ranger McGruber. When we meet him, we see that he's in a just like this little church little.
Speaker 2:It's almost like he's a monk, just a backflip and turn A backflip from a sitting position.
Speaker 1:I watched some of the behind the scenes. I actually had a guy do that. That's fucking cool, freaking rules. We learned that he did like six tours in Desert Storm, four in Bosnia, three in and then just like a billion other things that he did and he has like shot 20 times, yeah, 16 Purple Hearts three Medal of Honor, 17 Presidential Medal of.
Speaker 2:Bravery, he's got so much.
Speaker 1:All while not using guns, only ripping throats, yeah. So, once they find him, they tell him that the warhead's been stolen and that it's moved to US soil. He refuses. Even after Faith brings up cunt, he's like I still can't do it. This is where we learn that he really hates Piper. Just immediately starts off hating him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's no reason.
Speaker 1:No reason to hate him just because it's such a movie cliche for people.
Speaker 2:Yes, he's not one of his dudes, yeah and this is where we get that.
Speaker 1:I'm out of the game. The game has changed, but the players are the same, which they do like three more times in the movie, and it's amazing every time. But later that night, mcgruper explodes into a fit of rage, waking from a flashback of Kumpf killing his fiancee, casey Fitzpatrick played by Michael Rudolph in the Holodog Bible.
Speaker 2:Yeah it's so good.
Speaker 1:He's noticing it all slow and you see Kumpf out in the distance. He's like it just explodes, and then this is where he screams. He's like ah. And then he goes immediately to his own grave to open up his casket that has his stupid ugly uniform and he puts it on in the rain and then yells again. Dude, putting on soaking wet clothes in the rain, but he looks dry at the same time when he puts on his underwear.
Speaker 1:and it's just like you can see through it, because it's so wet, it's so gross. That was hilarious. It's amazing, though, and because of this, like now, that he was reminded of the revenge he wants, he accepts the mission, but first he walks into the wrong room. He's like I accept.
Speaker 2:Where did he go? And then he goes into the next one.
Speaker 1:And then, while talking to Faith, we learned that Cunt is a very respectable businessman and this is where it's getting even more and more heated towards him and Piper. Because Piper is like Cunt can't touch those codes. And McGruber, oh good, because before I thought he could touch the codes you dumbass. And then he walks ahead. I love it. Forte is so funny. It's just like his line delivery is it's wild? I don't know what it is about how he delivers lines, but it's like how I feel, like I want to be seen as whenever I'm trying to be funny, I'm just super sarcastic and a little mean all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like it's what I do to my friends, sorry friends. So time, yeah, I feel like it's what I do to my friends, sorry friends. Um. So mcgruber we also learned he's got a reputation of being very effective, also causing high collateral damage during his missions. Colonel faith wants piper to be on his team, but he's like no way, I got my own team.
Speaker 2:He's like he's the best dude we have.
Speaker 1:He's like no way, rookie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and what's this, oh man I can't remember the line, but it's like it's like oh, I got an.
Speaker 1:And what's this? Oh man, I can't remember the line, but it's like. It's like oh, I got an idea. How about? No fucking way. Whenever, like Piper's like, I'll be on your team, so mean and aggro and he's, but he's such a little dweeb. Macgruber is um.
Speaker 2:We learned that Kuntz team includes, like Hossbender, konstantin Bock, ze so it was terrible how he crossed out the gay guy's name.
Speaker 1:He was so mad at him or something yeah, because McGruber, after this he's gonna travel to find everybody that he used to work with, but before he goes out and finds them, he ends up headbutting Piper, to prove you dick too broke his fucking nose. It's so awful.
Speaker 1:I'll be pissed and this is where we get where he's going to go off and get his team. Something I love about this is that oh I forgot to say earlier when we first see him get into his Miata which I love a Miata he always carries around his radio. Even whenever he was in the monk monastery thing he still had his radio for his car. I didn't notice that that's awesome, but the reason I bring, like the monk monastery thing, he still had his radio for his car.
Speaker 1:I didn't notice that that's awesome but something I reason I bring that up is because so we cut to like the intense music of him, like getting in his car getting ready to go find all his uh previous like army buddies, and then as soon as like it's really peaking at the intense of the music, it always switches to like some 80s like soft rock like banger that he's got. It's always so funny, oh so funny and the miata.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he uncovers it like it's some kind of supposed to be like a big muscle sports car yeah oh shit I was like I have always wanted a miata, though ever since need for speed underground.
Speaker 1:Where I had a miata is like my main car the whole time oh yeah, loved miatas and then I actually got to ride in one. I was like these cars are so small, you can just weave in in and out of any space you want and it's a convertible and it looks kind of cool.
Speaker 2:I'm too big for those types of things.
Speaker 1:I don't think it works.
Speaker 2:You're too tall my dad tried to give me an 87 corvette and I couldn't fit in the driver's seat. Are you?
Speaker 1:serious, that sucks.
Speaker 2:No, like all the way adjusted, there wasn't any possible way.
Speaker 1:That would break my heart if I could not properly fit in the car like this very nice car. So Mac Rueber recruits his team. First he recruits Frank Grover. God, it's so ridiculous. They're longtime friends, one of the funniest lines in the entire movie. So MacGruber says looks like you're keeping your body tight, frank. Frank, you're looking pretty good yourself, macgruber. Well, every day's a workout when you gotta carry around a 20 pound python in your jeans.
Speaker 1:Yes, frank, you and your dick comments, macgruber. It's fun to say them, frank, it's fun to hear them, macgruber, that's why I say them, frank, that's why I listen.
Speaker 2:The predator handshake. That's why I listen.
Speaker 1:It's so funny. That's Chris Jericho. He's probably either my first or second favorite wrestler.
Speaker 2:It just depends on whether it's going to be him or Sun Cold, steve Austin I didn't recognize the wrestlers.
Speaker 1:He's so bad. He's not good in this movie, just the way he's delivering his lines. I don't know if they just told him to be this.
Speaker 2:I think they were supposed to be kind of cheesy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just like a really smiley guy and saying his lines in a real corny way.
Speaker 2:Because if that's the case, then he's great, and if it's not, then he gets the rest of his team.
Speaker 1:He got Tuck Beamer played by Mark Henry Vernon, freedom played by MVP Tug Phelps. The great colleague Tanker Lutz is Kane, who's a a mayor or governor somewhere in Tennessee oh yeah, kane, okay, I recognize that it's like Glenn, something is his real name. Didn't he have like three PhDs?
Speaker 2:or some shit like that. Yeah, like ends up that he's super smart.
Speaker 1:He was a really fun wrestler too, until he took off his mask. That was a bummer, but then he, you know, ran for and then he got very popular outside of wrestling because of it. So he tries to recruit the big show, but he is gay and I guess MacGruber doesn uncomfortable becomes like the most evil shit anything that is not the most masculine possible. But also, at the same time, I do wonder if this is a play off of 80s movies, and how macho they are, but also homoerotic that they are.
Speaker 1:I took a class that talked about there was a point in the class where they talked about masculinity masculinity in film and how you know the theory is is that it was kind of more of just like if you had someone super masculine in the film that was, let's say, arnold's best friend, that, let's say, predator. When you have Dylan, they're like you know, they do their clap and staring at each other and it's almost kind of like a homosexual relationship a little bit.
Speaker 1:It's like in a movie like that, the best friend. That seems like, oh well, he can't stay around too long. They might think this character is gay. That's why they always end up dying, which makes it funny that all these people end up getting together and it's like you have the chris jericho being like a whole gay reference, like acting, like sounding kind of gay right like that.
Speaker 1:They're kind of into to each other. Um, and then of course he has to die, because in an 80s movie if someone seems like, oh, they might be a little too close. They have to die to make sure that our lead character doesn't come off gay, which is something used to have to happen in like older 80s movies and things like that. So I'm wondering if, like, all this is kind of a play on it. But then you have the big show thing and it's like, oh, maybe it is kind of a play on that.
Speaker 2:Where it's like, oh no, we can't have that. I feel like they're going after every trope.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what it seems like. So that's what I put that up to, which and because, like I know, I have this like stuff I learned in college from it. I think that's what makes MacGruber even a little bit better for me. I'm like I've studied these films. I get this. But then we continue to MacGruber. He tries to recruit his longtime friend, Vicky St Elmo, which is the most eighties action film name I've ever heard in my life. Once he walks into meter we got this like she's singing this song where it's horrible it's a perfect number if it's two kids and me and you I love you.
Speaker 2:She's a terrible singer, okay um.
Speaker 1:we learned that she doesn't want to join because it's too hard for her. Uh, because she was best friends with casey um and also we'll figure out a little later she's in love with McGroover. They show the explosion. She gets splattered completely with her blood, so good, and like now, she's focusing on in our music. What does she even do? Before that, I don't know. It seemed like she worked with McGroover.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but like, what did she do? The all the other ones were like kind of like, what did she do? All the other ones were like kind of like warriors or whatever, and she's just like maybe an accountant, she's just there, she's there.
Speaker 1:Well, so in the skits on SNL it was Maya Rudolph that was kind of in her position. Oh, then she left SNL and Kristen Wiig became like kind of like the assistant that's always like 30 seconds Mac, that's always like 30 seconds MacGruber, like always did that bit, and so I'm assuming like now they just kind of kept her in that role and then just made Maya Rudolph like the love interest.
Speaker 2:That does yeah.
Speaker 1:I love this, though. When she decides like no, I'm not going to, I'm not going to go with you, he's like all right, well, if you need to get in contact with me, take this. She opens it up and it's like this giant piece of paper and in like kid, like three-year-old writing I'm at Pentecost.
Speaker 2:And immediately I thought it was going to be something weird, but I wasn't prepared. It's like, no, it's just, I'm at the Pentecost Pinnacle.
Speaker 1:It's so good. So, and then we cut to. We see Kuntz preparing the missile and we learn that they're going to fire it on Tuesday. Did you see the name of the missile?
Speaker 2:Oh, what was it? It's P-C and then like the Russian letter for O, and then K-X5.
Speaker 1:What's S with?
Speaker 2:me, I don't know. Peacock, penis cock. Oh, I don't know. I think it's the Russian letter for O. I may be mistaken.
Speaker 1:Peacock, that's very funny if it ends up being on.
Speaker 1:I did no research Back up that claim. Don't yell at him, guys, don't yell at him. So Mac and his team are ready to go and are locked and loaded. He has to meet with Faith and Piper first. We get a little fight between Mac and Mac and Piper. I'm just gonna say MacGruber instead of Mac. I keep saying Mac, try to shorten it MacGruber. Yeah, because like immediately MacGruber's like on him, like just up in his face, and MacGruber, we got this. How's your nose, rookie Piper? It's fine. I just spanked it into a giant vagina, my groomer. Oh, so my face is a vagina. Huh, well, I bet you wish your nose was a dick so you could fuck my vagina face or my face vagina. So funny Fucking A man. And they're about to like start fighting. It's like no.
Speaker 1:But he's talking about how he's. He got that van locked and loaded with the best in the business and he's got so much gun power in there and he's got C4 that he loaded himself.
Speaker 2:That I made at home and I loaded myself.
Speaker 1:Explosion.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, Call 911. No, no, no, no, no, no. Are you guys? Okay, call 911. I was dying. That's when my daughter told me it was inappropriate to laugh that hard.
Speaker 1:In the gag reel they have it where he goes a little bit longer and he's like Frank, are you in there?
Speaker 2:Frank.
Speaker 1:It's so good. And then we cut to after the funeral and you get this amazing line Colonel James Faith.
Speaker 2:That's so great.
Speaker 1:They were nice funerals, macgruber yeah, what did you think of my eulogies? Faith, very touching. I may have cut back on the F words a little, macgruber. Well, they were fucking great guys and this is a fucking asshole of a day.
Speaker 2:I like how you said eulogies. You gave one for each person. Yeah, not one big one.
Speaker 1:Pretty sure they're probably all exactly the same too, so Faith takes McGruber off the case.
Speaker 2:And they had so much time to go do five hearings. Yeah, no, it's like, so that's at least three days have passed, so now we're probably just like a couple of days away from the bomb going off.
Speaker 1:McGruber is trying to convince Piper um to like join his team and convince Colonel Faith that he is okay to continue to work on this case. And so he like falls on his knees and begs Piper not to kick him off the team and to form a new team. Mcgruber begging for Piper to join the team. Don't make me beg here, please. I will do it.
Speaker 2:I'm so sorry, I'm so goddamn sorry.
Speaker 1:Look, I'm freaking out here. I killed them. I killed them all so quickly I'm so fucking stupid I don't know what I'm doing. It gets so like kind of sad and like uncomfortable. Then there's a long silence. My grouper, I will suck your dick I will suck your fucking dick.
Speaker 1:Just join my team. I'll suck your dick. You can fuck me. You can get fucked by me. You can watch me fuck something. Just point at something in the room and I'll suck your dick. You can fuck me. You can get fucked by me. You can watch me fuck something. Just point at something in the room and I'll fuck it for you. Just tell me what you want me to fuck.
Speaker 1:Jesus christ mcgruber, just tell me what you want me to fuck and then like, because it kind of cuts away for a second and it cuts back to him, his pants are all the way down. It's like I don't have any lube, but we need some whiteout, some toner.
Speaker 2:Spotless piece of shit.
Speaker 1:It's so good. And then, like Colonel Faith walks in and Mac has his pants down. It's super awkward. But Piper's like, OK, I'll do it. And he tells Faith that, but he says he'll need more than just Piper. And then all of a sudden Vicky arrives at the Pentagon to join them in taking down cunt. But MacGruber's like Vicky, what about your music career? It can't wait yes.
Speaker 1:If anyone is worse at music than Vicky, it is me. How's that going Right? It's so funny, so they travel to Cunt's nightclub in Las Vegas to dig some dirt on him. A driver in the parking lot is rude to McGruber and angers him, so he repeats the license plate number KFBR.
Speaker 2:Yeah, all he said was like fuck you, drive away.
Speaker 1:But we all want to act like this when someone does something in a car.
Speaker 2:to us it's the worst.
Speaker 1:I remember leaving Walmart one day and this was last year and so I was driving, I didn't see the car and I was about ready to go through the stop sign and they didn't have a stop sign. So I go just a little bit like literally just like oh, and this old lady turns and is cussing me out in her car and as I'm leaving I was like I should just turn around and stare at her. I should just drive right behind her car and just stare, not actually do anything, but just to be just turn around and stare at her.
Speaker 1:I should just drive right behind her car and just stare, get out and take a picture, not actually do anything, but just to be like, wow, you're really tough. For just being some old lady I could push over. There's just something about being in a car that just makes you an angrier person than any other time on the planet.
Speaker 1:I've never been more angry outside of a car than I am when I'm inside of a car, because your life is at stake, yeah constantly just the stupidest thing, like someone, just like turning out in front of me and it's like not even close to hearing, but I'm like, oh, I wish I was going faster, but anyways. So in the nightclub, mcgruber gets on stage and announces who he is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just drawing old ladies in a notebook, so mcgruber gets on stage and announces who he is yeah, crazy, just drawing old ladies in a notebook. So MacGruber gets on stage and announces who he is, his intentions and where he will be the next day. Yeah, piper is super angry, since all MacGruber achieved is expose himself and his missions without finding anything out about Cunt, because the nice thing is they didn't know MacGruber was alive. So he completely ruins it because he's an idiot and bad at his job.
Speaker 2:Very emotional character yeah.
Speaker 1:And then at Cunt's home, his right-hand man tells Cunt that MacGruber is back. He tells his crew not to underestimate MacGruber though. So the three, they have a sting operation planned, their sting operation when he was painting the old lady. Yeah, yeah, that's when all that happened. We're just talking about older ladies.
Speaker 2:It's just, tom was all alone.
Speaker 1:Just sitting there he was painting her. Oh man, that's whenever it's like kind of one of the best bits where it's just like this is so funny, ben, they're not drawing attention to it like insanely so good, and then the painting's kind of awful. Yeah, it's pretty bad.
Speaker 2:He may have done it himself, yeah, so now Piper, vicky, st Elmo and MacGruber.
Speaker 1:they're getting ready for a sting operation. We have Vicky portraying MacGruber and hanging out at a coffee shop as bait.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because he said he would be there too. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But what? What I love is that. So you know, piper walks out of the bathroom and it's he's like hey, macgruber. And Vicky turns around and she's like, oh, I thought you were MacGruber. Macgruber comes out, it's like what? And he's also like, oh, nothing's gonna happen to you, don't worry we'll be right there and they're just gonna be so surprised when they realize it's not not me and who knows what they'll do. She's like uh, what?
Speaker 2:yeah, he never thinks about like past the first step of anything. He doesn't at all.
Speaker 1:He just wants to do some sort of like funny bit or like just an overly planned out situation.
Speaker 2:He wants to fight crime like an 80s action hero Exactly.
Speaker 1:So we get the scene where Vicky's inside the coffee shop and it's like super awkward at the coffee shop because every time she does something McGruber's like no, I wouldn't do that. So she orders a small latte but. Mcgruber's like no, I like Tazo teas. So she's like oh, never mind, I'll take a Tazo tea.
Speaker 2:And then he says the most important part is that he talks her through how to drink, how to drink it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Also, like right before that, Vicky leaves a tip and he's like I don't leave tips. Yes, so he's like pull that out. So he starts pulling it out.
Speaker 2:The guy behind the counter is just like wow, she just falls to the ground.
Speaker 1:Well, she also says because she says sorry while pulling the tips out, she's like sorry. He's like McGrew's, like I wouldn't be sorry. Don't say you're sorry. It's like I'm not sorry, but I'm sorry as me. And then explains how to drink like what the drink of it? And then Hall's Bender, when it comes to henchmen, attacks MacGruber and Piper in the van, but MacGruber runs down and kills Bender. But the whole time you have Vicky just laying on the ground like, ah, I'm like they're all tired In the middle of a coffee shop.
Speaker 1:And then, once it's done, she like stands up all awkward Sorry, I thought my friends were dying, they're all fine, though. She just walks out. And then also, once Hossbender's dead, they walk up to him and he's like it's like Hossbender dead at the age who?
Speaker 2:wait, h dead at the age who wait, wait husbander dead at the age of who the fuck cares? That's kind of cool how they killed him too yeah, the mop.
Speaker 1:It was great, cause they're always good enough to be like. Oh okay, let's, let's make sure MacGruber can kill someone in this situation it may be in the most fucked up way possible that he can do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hilarious scene he's good at Hilarious scene, just kind of laughing the entire time during the whole scene. So they check the trunk and they find a large amount of cash in his trunk and an appointment later that day that he has to buy some passcodes. Piper says it's obvious that Bender was going to take the cash to the place where the transfer codes was going to take place. It's funny because the whole time McGruber was trying to figure out what all this means and like Piper's like oh, it's pretty obvious. He's like ah, yes, I knew that.
Speaker 2:I thought of it before you did yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:And with Vicky disguised as Bender and Piper disguised as McGruber the team attempts to break into a warehouse to stop Cuth from getting their rocket operation codes.
Speaker 2:It's like why he's like I gotta put everybody in a costume, except for himself, it's always gotta be MacGruber.
Speaker 1:And this is where we get the best distraction in movie history. Macgruber distracts the guards by putting a piece of celery in his butt, holding by putting a piece of celery in his butt, holding him completely naked holds his testicle in balls and just kind of does this little, like it keeps his legs together so he's just like hopping out a little bit and it's so. Everyone was definitely surprised, it's so weird, but it's weirdly, something that you can't take your eyes off of. And it's a perfect distraction.
Speaker 2:Well, it's like Lethal Weapon 4.
Speaker 1:Is that I've never seen Lethal Weapon 4.
Speaker 2:Donald Glover runs out to distract this armored guy because they can't get it. They can't hit him with their bullets, and so he runs out with his pants down clucking like a chicken, oh dang.
Speaker 1:I was wondering what movie it was from, because I was wondering what movie is from, because I was like I've seen most of the lethal weapons. I don't think it's all three and two, so, or three and four, so I'm like I don't really know. It's a problem, like, if they go too far into like the action movie sequels. I'm just like I don't know them.
Speaker 2:They didn't play all the time on TNT I don't know that was a what do you call that? A deep, deep snatch, deep cut.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a deep snatch, I guess, yikes. No, that's not what it is. And during this whole celery scene, piper kills most of the men, but Gruber and Piper get set to watch the deal go down.
Speaker 2:Yes, all of them.
Speaker 1:He tells Vicky to go in as Hoss and make the transfer. He says they won't realize she isn't hoss. But as soon as she opens the door they immediately realize it's not, it's not him kill her. It's so funny her scream, but when she runs away like just like a little run have her mustache hanging off god, dude, she's kristen wigg's like one of the funniest people ever.
Speaker 1:Yeah she was probably hilarious it was whenever that she was on snl. It was between like will forte um, andy sandberg, bill hater, kristen wigg and maya. Rudolph is like jesus christ. How did they get these five together? They're so funny, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Maya Rudolph's hilarious too.
Speaker 1:My favorite era of SNL, for sure, For sure. So during the shootout, MacGruber doesn't help Piper because he's creating something. He throws a tennis ball and it smokes up a little bit, and that's it.
Speaker 2:When he was digging through the thing, he was just like putting his fingers yeah, it's so ridiculous, it doesn't work.
Speaker 1:Because the main bad guy ends up getting away with the money and the codes. And then Vicky St Elmo comes up. He's like Vicky, are you OK, I peed my jeans, I peed them. I peed them. So funny, it's so funny.
Speaker 2:They start shooting at her pretty fast. It's so funny.
Speaker 1:Don't blame her.
Speaker 2:It's so funny man. They start shooting at her pretty fast. It's so funny.
Speaker 1:So we cut to Faith telling MacGruber that Cunt is having a charity event that evening and orders him not to show up there because Faith still thinks Cunt thinks Mac McGruber is dead. Macgruber completely ignores his orders.
Speaker 2:He doesn't tell him.
Speaker 1:He's completely fucked the mission up. Piper tells Mac to keep a low profile, but comes in hot as hell.
Speaker 2:It's all Miami Vice. It's just straight up like a scene out of there. He and St Elmo are the only people wearing white. Really, Everyone else is wearing black. Oh, so it's like the worst possible.
Speaker 1:So obvious yeah, so McGruber is going to meet up with Vicky at the party after he takes care of some business upstairs. What we learn is he took an upper decker and cunts master bedroom, which is what you do to your adversary.
Speaker 2:It's so funny, that's great.
Speaker 1:Piper at base camp finds MacGruber's diary and it looks kind of like a Jack Torrance from shining obsessively, cause he's been obsessively writing down the license plate number from earlier.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and yeah, with like none, no clues.
Speaker 1:And then by the end of the diary you just have pictures of MacGruber just pooping on the guy in the car and the car.
Speaker 2:It's a maniac.
Speaker 1:He's going overboard.
Speaker 2:Woo, it was God. What do you call that? He's obsessed, I guess yeah, he's obsessed over it.
Speaker 1:He tells Vicky he left an un-Upperdecker-and-Cunts-Master bedroom. Then he gets mad because Vicky calls some guy handsome Really so that guy's hot. Is he so hot that you would leave this mission and go marry him right now? Is he that hot? He gets so pissed off.
Speaker 2:I think it went a little far. Sometimes I go a little too far. This is one of those.
Speaker 1:It's so funny, though, to me.
Speaker 2:It was funny. I just thought that they tried too hard. I don't know Just a little bit.
Speaker 1:So MacGruber goes to confront Cunth and threatens him and his guards who are going to throw him out First. There's a little bit of a poker bit where he walks in and it's kind of like a scene over Royale from James Bond. Yeah, james Bond movie 007. Yeah, yeah, and he's like he's, he's bluffing, I can see it in his eyes and of course he's not blushing.
Speaker 2:He's got like the best hand in the thing. Look all the senators money yeah it's so funny.
Speaker 1:Um, and also, before he says he's gonna throw him out, you get the c4 bit from cunt. It's like. It's like, oh well, I actually had a whole army, but then I had him in a van with C4 and it completely blew him up. No way. It's like, yeah, I know you idiot. And then so, yeah, you got. He threatens all the guards who are going to throw him out. You got my grouper. Let me tell you how this is going to go down. First, I'm going to kick you in the chin, break your jaw in four places. I'm going to take you karate, flip you over my back and then knee your nose into your brain, killing you instantly. I do want to get a throat rip in here. I think that's going to be you small fry.
Speaker 2:One thing I do.
Speaker 1:One thing I do know at the end of the day, cunt, I'm going to rip your dick off and shove it in your mouth, and that is non-negotiable. Who's first immediately gets thrown out of the room. I just had to put that whole line because that's the first time he brings up ripping cunt's dick off and shoving it in his mouth, which he does many, many more times.
Speaker 2:It's so funny.
Speaker 1:So McGruber returns to the Pentagon, where Faith reprimands him and takes him off the case as he's walking out. I will suck your fucking dick. I will let you fuck me, says it all sad.
Speaker 2:I like how the colonel faith is not really phased by it. No, not at all. This is the normal shit. This is MacGruber at his best.
Speaker 1:So MacGruber and Piper have beers outside his trailer while MacGruber explains his history with Cunt you ready.
Speaker 2:Sure Lieutenant Piper.
Speaker 1:What did he do? Why did Cunt kill your wife McGruber? To this day I have no idea. We actually all went to college together. Believe it or not, we were very close friends. Then, after graduation, he got engaged to her. He asked me to be his best man and right about that time I started banging her and mowing her balls.
Speaker 2:That's a piece of shit.
Speaker 1:She was actually the first person I felt comfortable enough around to let eat out my butt. Anyway, shortly thereafter she left him. She left him for me. She was actually carrying his child at the time. There you go. I asked her to terminate it, obviously, so we could start fresh and she agreed we were so in love and he took that from for me, that's really fucked up, that's a beautiful story, thanks, oh, bro.
Speaker 1:It's like as soon as he, as soon the first time I watched that, watched that scene, I was like, oh so I'm not on the gruber side here. You know what cunt actually blow fucking everything up, dude. That's the shittiest thing that could ever happen that's how you create a horror villain right there. So funny though I just Will Forte's delivery of just saying the most heinous shit and craziest stuff, but just saying it so calmly. She was the first person I felt comfortable enough to eat my butt.
Speaker 2:Man, that is a level of comfort I have not reached Same.
Speaker 1:So cunts men show up and MacGruber uses Piper as a human shield to survive an ambush. I love he's like ah he's thinking because it looks like he's going to jump in front of him to save Piper. Instead, he jumps behind him and uses him as a shield the whole time. They believe that Piper was killed in the attack, but he reveals that he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
Speaker 2:How'd you know?
Speaker 1:Commending MacGruber on his quick thinking, only to realize that MacGruber wasn't aware of the vest. Piper leaves the team. I love it as he's about to. He's like let me out. He kicks MacGruber's car as he's driving away. Did you kick my car? Did you kick my car Really? He gets something to bash it in and like just drives off. Then I love it, love this part as they're driving. You just hear Vicky bye, piper, get home safe.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Hilarious man, Just hilarious. So seeing MacGruber has been shot in the leg, Vicky takes him back to her house through a horrible wound, the bullet oh dude, I'm getting a boner just thinking about it. Oh my god. So they pull up. She gets in the house and he's got this giant hole in his leg and she's trying to find the bullet and it's right next to his ball Trying to pull the bullet, out with the pliers Not flinching or anything.
Speaker 1:And this is where she confesses her love to him, admits she's a virgin, and then they make love. It's a really hot build up. She's like wait, don't you want me to sew up your gaping wound?
Speaker 2:No, leave it open. I like holes. I like holes.
Speaker 1:God, horrible shit and this is where it starts off and it's kind of like the Top Gun sex scene where it's like close-up shots of their bodies, them kind of rubbing each other. It's really sensual and then it goes. I'm gonna fill you up. I'm gonna fill you up, vicky, I'm gonna fill you up and he's like what.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna fill you up. How about I'll just talk and then also in this scene, like you see her moving her head a lot and that's because they put sweat on his face so much that she was trying to dodge, like the dripping sweat off his face and she had her hands up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was trying to block it.
Speaker 1:It's so funny. And then so immediately he rolls over and he's like I gotta go. Because he's so sad. And so he goes to his bride's grave in shame because he feels bad about having sex with someone other than his dead wife, but her ghost gives him her blessing and has sex with him on her tombstone. So funny. And this is where he's like huh, huh, huh and she's like huh huh, it's so funny.
Speaker 2:The guy sees him just humping the air, yeah, and he's just humping the air.
Speaker 1:It's like I'm going to shoot, I'm going to shoot, I'm going to shoot, I'm going to shoot, I'm going to shoot, I shot, I shot.
Speaker 2:Maya, she's like I shot too, I shot too.
Speaker 1:The bloopers. The gag reel for this part is very funny, especially when he's humping the air, because you see him do it and he's like this is really hard to do. Is this enough? You can tell he's like okay, I'm kind of uncomfortable doing this. Now he's like it hurts to keep doing it like this. I was like oh, I never, never just sat there and there, but yeah, I guess it would be pretty uncomfortable. Oh man, so that's probably like the most ridiculous like 10 minutes in a film ever. Right, it was amazing you get the wildest Two sex scenes.
Speaker 1:Well, you get like the insane backstory for Cunt and MacGruber and then like two of the craziest sex scenes. It's like right up there with the movie the Room. Um. So Faith calls MacGruber and says that the X5 has been recovered. He says that Cunt was not involved and that this was a work of the Chechen rebels. Faith asks MacGruber to to Cunth had given this information to Faith to relay to McGruber. Mcgruber is not convinced. Mcgruber finds and destroys the KFBR 392 car after seeing it, after he sees it parked by the side of the street. And then we also see Faith is what we think is killed because he gets shot by the senator.
Speaker 1:By the way he just starts whacking on it during the whole conversation. He beat the shit out of it and he ends up pulling uh, uh, pouring gasoline on it to catch it on fire he was ready for this. Yeah, he was prepared, he was prepped as soon as he ever saw that car. He's gonna do it. And then the guy as he's leaving. The guy comes out hi, what the fuck fuck you gets in his car, drives off.
Speaker 2:Sweet, sweet revenge, I guess. Yeah, so he goes to Vicky's.
Speaker 1:Macgruber discovers Cunt has kidnapped her and realizes Cunt's plan to blow up Congress during the State of the Union. So Cunt calls MacGruber to gloat, MacGruber traces the call and it's this whole thing. It's like who is it?
Speaker 2:Because he thinks it's Vicky. He's trying to keep him on the phone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and he. He's like, if you ever want to see Vicky's cell phone again, you better meet me here and he's like he's like and we're just being clear, right, Vicky's cell phone is Vicky, correct?
Speaker 2:He's like yes, and then, while trying to trace the call that we got.
Speaker 1:You've been a great a great villain for me and a great adversary. And he's like well, actually, and once it finally traces a call, I can't wait to cut off your dick and shove it in your mouth. Time to pound some cunt. And then you get the music bit again where it's like I think it's the wolf mother song woman plays and then it immediately cuts to something Not lame, I think, music rules. All the music in the movie rules.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was good music. It was definitely a different vibe.
Speaker 1:Man, I love 80s pop music. It's like I can't dance, but it makes me want to try. Yeah.
Speaker 2:It drinks in you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sure. So Piper agrees to help MacGruber again, to help save other people, not because of MacGruber. And then he's like well, actually, you actually will be saving me, so don't worry about it. They are scoping out Cunt's place. A guy walks by and MacGruber unnecessarily rips the guard's throat out because it's his main move. He's like get used to it, it's kind of my thing. As soon as he does it, piper's like Jesus Christ, why would you do that?
Speaker 2:It's a show.
Speaker 1:It's all bleak, yeah, but the thing is I love whenever he rips out the throat. He's like all right yeah.
Speaker 2:I did it.
Speaker 1:That's another one. It's just like. So, like, all right, I did something good Instead of like. I'm assuming they're getting that from Roadhouse, because that's something that happens in Roadhouse.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just love to see this.
Speaker 1:You've never seen Roadhouse. No, oh man, we're going to do that on the pod. I just got to figure out when Natalie wants to do it, because she's got to be on that one. So they're making their way into Cunt's compound. Macgruber rips another guy's throat out and talks about getting a turkey Like you're bowling the thing I love. Before he gets this, because they're in the calm rooms, he throws throat lodgings down.
Speaker 2:It's like what he rips it Better eat the whole bag. That's so stupid.
Speaker 1:And also one of the best lines of the movie is actually here where he's talking about. It's like, yeah, I got to get as many throat rips as I can. It's like bowling, you know. If you get three, call it a turkey and I will suck as many.
Speaker 2:I mean, I will rip as many throats as I have to. You didn't hear that right.
Speaker 1:Because he's always right there to say I will suck your dick if he gets in a hot jam or something. It's like how many dudes. Has he blown to get out of a situation?
Speaker 2:Hundreds.
Speaker 1:So McGrober, using the intercoms, gives off his location and then when the guys get there to the control room, because he says I got something set up for them, even though that's where the microphone is.
Speaker 1:And he tells Piper like, oh, I set up a trap and as soon as they walk in, a piece of string is tied to a cup and when they open the door it falls on them and it's like a tiny bit of water comes out. And then they get a shot of like you're all wet, and it's the dude that had his throat ripped out as a sign you're all wet. Piper's like it's like McGroover's like. What do you think about that? What do you mean? The really bad trap or the desecration of a corpse? Oh God, I'm exhausted. I've just been laughing so much.
Speaker 2:From MacGruber for two days they have a lozenge.
Speaker 1:So they get pinned down and MacGruber finally agrees to use guns, because he says that he doesn't like to use guns because Because they're loud and scary and he's scared of them. But then he grabs two OZs and he starts shooting and he loves it.
Speaker 2:He gives it the good old college try.
Speaker 1:He's really bad at it and he's like because the first time he shoots he's like oh, I got a barrel. It's like great, you should try to hit somebody next time, but I love it. Because he's like why have I not been using guns this whole time instead of my shitty contraptions? Oh, it's so good.
Speaker 1:He throws the weapons, yeah once he's done and piper's like where's your guns? Such a classic bit in an action movie. So so a guy has a shot on piper and mcgruber tries to save him, but the henchman gun doesn't go off, so thought that counts, you know, um. And then he goes and like they kind of knock the guy down with like the gun, but it's like great gun. But and he's like and he's sitting there and Piper's like go ahead, do it.
Speaker 2:Get your turkey.
Speaker 1:And then he does it, rips it out, and then he's like oh, I got jumped up Because they took too long. Yeah, he had knives, oh, and then because he kind of spins Piper where it's almost like a dance move and then rips his throat out so funny. So they go into the room where Vicky is and she was trying to escape the chair, and next time we see Vicky she's on the ground with a chair completely broken around her but she still can't get up.
Speaker 1:And Cunt captures them in the missile room. Cunt is going to set up Mac with a manifesto that says Mac set everything up. But MacGruber doesn't understand that Cunt wrote it. He's like I promised Cunt, I didn't do it.
Speaker 2:It wasn't me. I didn't write that, because it does look like a satire.
Speaker 1:And then Cunt's like what are you talking about? Yes, I wrote it, you idiot. And then the most traumatizing, the most disgusting thing happens in this entire movie cuts off his mullet cuts off mcgruber's hair. It's extremely traumatizing vicky's is screaming but then this upsets mcgruber to the point where he starts pounding some blood rage yeah he like rips everybody's throats out, um, and just pounds uh. Cunt and crew into submission and mcgruber handcuffs cunt to a handrail piper.
Speaker 2:Does the celery distraction during all this. That was the funniest fucking shit, yeah what he's like.
Speaker 1:Hey, look at me, it's like the music's swelling up and he's just like bouncing it but he looks so proud and straight up a groover. Everybody's like what the fuck? Is that something funny during the gag reel? I guess because around Phillipy's butt is so muscular in tone he kept breaking the celeries, clenching, trying to jump up and down, so he's like constantly pulling them out. It's like this one's broken puts another one in he's like can we just?
Speaker 2:be done with this, guys. Just like he's having the best day of his life. So uncomfortable during the scene, he's like all right that's enough right, but it's so fun.
Speaker 1:It's just like his face during it, where he looks so proud and just a little hot because he's just I bet he sold those celery sticks that guy just kept grabbing on. I'm sure I don't know if he made it on to the second celery bit.
Speaker 2:On the block market for things that have been in actors' asses. Yeah, I've got a ton of things. This whole room is filled with things that's been in Tom Cruise's butthole.
Speaker 1:Anything could be, yeah. So now we get to where it's the classic SNL MacGruber bit, where it's like two minutes MacGruber and where he's got to turn off the bomb.
Speaker 2:Deactivate the bomb. Yeah, disarm it.
Speaker 1:And he's constantly getting distracted because he wants to marry, he wants to ask Vicky to be for marriage and he ends up proposing she accepts. She's like, all right, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2:But we have to do this, macgruber, because he asked for a bunch of things, and then we think he's going to do something to the warhead, but he made a ring, yeah and like when he was getting ready for this and he opened up his trunk full of just random bullshit.
Speaker 1:I was just like what? This is so much random stuff, what?
Speaker 2:am I looking at here? Is this like a medicine cabinet?
Speaker 1:Apparently they came up with a celery bit because in an episode of MacGruber he opened up like all his stuff and there was just a carrot in like the briefcase or like his trunk in one of the episodes. And that's what gave Jorma the idea for the celery bit.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess I'm glad it's not. It wasn't a carrot.
Speaker 1:Right, I don't know. Probably harder to insert, easier to insert.
Speaker 2:Harder to pull. To pull, yeah, because they're a little slick too, you know. Yeah, they're a little slick.
Speaker 1:So when he opens the warhead he is immediately overwhelmed by all the wires. He's like what the fuck? I'm only used to like three wires. It's like, oh, here's a green one, oh, there's so many green ones, and he's freaked out. He's like I can't do this, so and cunt is just trying to kind of gloating at him. It's like you're too late, macgruber. And he's like, oh yeah, he just pulls out the warhead core and then Kuntz like, oh well, there's still enough something in it to blow up the whole, all of Washington. Then he like ends up pulling out the guidance system and as the missiles about to say he's like he's Valcomer says something right there.
Speaker 2:he's like oh, he's Valcomer says something right there. He's like oh, weak, Isn't it weak?
Speaker 1:Something like that. Yeah, weak, and as the missiles exploding, cunt escapes using an axe to chop off his handcuffed hand.
Speaker 2:At least.
Speaker 1:And then the whole gang escapes and we watch this horrible CGI backdrop exploding and a bunch of buildings falling down.
Speaker 2:But they did it and every time there was an explosion there was a bunch of buildings falling down, but they did it, and every time there was an explosion there was a sound of a leopard.
Speaker 1:Yes, the leopard, because that's in the SNL bit Every time there's a roar and there was even like a squeaky duck. Yeah, there's a couple of eagles. There's like a duck. There's so many animal noises in it I didn't even think about putting that in a note.
Speaker 2:I'm so glad you brought that up because it's so good because I thought it was coming from like one of my kids games.
Speaker 1:No, it was just. It happens like 10 times in the movie. So it cuts to 6 months later at MacGruber and Vicky's wedding. Behind, like in the wedding, we see his dead team members as ghosts mirroring and it's all kind of mirroring his wedding to Casey. Macgruber spots Cunt with an RPG, he saves Vicky and battles Cunt and he gets the upper hand and he's wanting to cut his dick off and Cunt's like, just do it, and he's got no dick. This is the stuff Ruins. Everything Looks horrible and so he throws him off a cliff behind the altar, shooting him with a machine gun and launching a grenade as he falls off the cliff, incinerating the corpse and finally urinating on it, urinating on it from the top of the cliff, and everybody in the background is like, oh we didn't have to do all this, it always takes it too far.
Speaker 1:And then MacGruber yeah, that's fucking awesome, a masterpiece.
Speaker 2:I love how when the attack started, he shot the priest with a rocket launcher.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I thought that's who during the credits. Whenever he's on top of the corpse about to take a dump on it, the preacher would like the priest, but there's probably nothing left of him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think that at all, but yeah, so that's the film. That's the end of the movie. It's kind of great, it's amazing, it's disgusting. Give us MacGruber 2. I also got to. I'm going to probably, after this, just end up re the whole Magruder series, just so.
Speaker 1:I know, just so I know, yeah, so we're going to head to our categories. The first category is the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. We talk about the good of the film, something that we like. The bad of the film, something we didn't like. The ugly, something that didn't age well. The fine, something that did age well For me. The good I put Will Forte and just I don't know a good SNL sketch, you know Crushes Love it. Love when they can turn it into an entire movie and it works.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I really like just the comedy in a. I don't know just the way their characters or they are as people.
Speaker 1:Just how outlandish they are. Yeah, I like that, it's always great.
Speaker 2:It's kind of cool.
Speaker 1:Love it. When they're overdoing it, it's the best.
Speaker 2:Overdoing it on purpose. Yes, on purpose, and that's kind of Will Forte's thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean it is. It's kind of always like that yeah.
Speaker 1:So for the bad movie is and how there's not enough people that have seen it. So if I bring up mcgruber, usually it's kind of like what your reaction was at first, like never heard of that who's in it. Oh will forte. Yeah, I'll check it out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got anything bad, something you didn't like.
Speaker 1:They leaned really heavily on um like the like uh, potty jokes, I guess yeah, it's definitely a super, super childish movie yeah, they leaned heavy into the immaturity of this character and that threw me off a few times well, I actually want to go back to the good something that I liked, so I like that they leaned into the immaturity of the characters.
Speaker 2:I mean, I like a little lean. Yeah, I feel like they went a little overboard.
Speaker 1:It's like a little too much like Michael Jackson lean. Yeah, I get it Way too far. It's just funny because we did Hot Fuzz last week.
Speaker 2:But you weren't able to join.
Speaker 1:But it's like you went from like super witty, intelligent comedy to talking about 80s action and old action movies and 90s to this where it's all 80s and 90s action movies and it's like the opposite. It's clever in its own way but it's just super immature.
Speaker 2:All right, so the ugly something that it aged.
Speaker 1:Well, it's pretty much just the one gay joke. I just like whenever I said retard yeah, they say that too. It was just whenever, because I kind of forgot about the big show like kissing another guy and I was like, oh okay and then like him immediately scratching off the thing, I was like damn, I, damn, I realize you're homophobic.
Speaker 2:That was the most immature thing, yeah.
Speaker 1:If they took that out I'd be like, oh, there's really nothing, that's really they don't really need me there. Yeah, it is definitely a joke that people in 2010 or 2011. I get it.
Speaker 2:This is like bordering on the time where it's like just like two more years later.
Speaker 1:Everybody like no, we don't do that anymore. Actually, what do you got for something that aged?
Speaker 2:well, mine was just action comedies, love them yeah, I like, I like, uh, the snl actors and yeah, whenever they get together, they have really good chemistry.
Speaker 1:I know and I wish they were doing more. I wish they kind of became bigger. Yeah, like I wish wolf or tay was in like two or three movies every year and kristen wick she always ends up coming. It's just. I guess we just don't really do comedies anymore that come out in theaters. They're always there's always like a billion of them released every month, but they're just lost in the streaming world where it's like I didn't even know this was out. Yeah, like there was. I don't know if you actually know this, but did you know? Know Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell have a Lifetime movie? No, it's played completely serious. No, like an actual Lifetime movie. I got to check it out.
Speaker 1:I can't believe I haven't seen it, because I was just looking at Kristen Wiig's filmography and I was like dang, I got to watch that. It's got to be bad. So next we're going to move on to our next category. It's called Double Feature. It's where we recommend a movie that goes along with this movie. You want to go first?
Speaker 2:you want me to go first sure I would recommend the show Bodkin on Hulu. I haven't watched it. I need to.
Speaker 1:It's fun, it's about podcasters yeah, will Forte is a podcaster for True Crime is it super funny or is it kind of more serious? It's a little bit of both.
Speaker 2:You know a little bit of both, like he's goofy but also super serious sometimes, and it's kind of a really shocking to see him play like that. Yeah okay.
Speaker 1:So for my double feature I'm going to recommend spy. It stars melissa mccarthy, jason statham, rose burn, jude law and miranda hart. It's really funny. It's just about how melissa mccarthy's characters becoming a spy. Even though you know it's melissa mccarthy, she doesn't look like a spy. She's constantly kind of combating jason statham, who's like the best spy ever.
Speaker 2:It's so funny dude, seriously, if you haven't seen, it.
Speaker 1:I think it's on hbo. It's really funny and it's really smart it's not melissa mccarthy's yeah and it's like right before, she never made a good movie ever again. Oh, oh, well, that's good.
Speaker 1:Well, just because I feel like most of her movies now. It's just like man, this really isn't that great. She's got really good bits, but it's like the whole movie in itself isn't super funny. The Muppet one was insane. I still got to watch that, but no, this movie Spy is so funny. Jason Statham, he's like such a go hard in it and he just like the stuff that he says in it, like Melissa McCarthy's like what are you talking about?
Speaker 1:it's so good. So if you haven't seen Spy, definitely check it out. It's a perfect double feature for this movie. Hell yeah, also there is a movie called. I think it's either called Ordinary or Ordinary People. I think it's just Ordinary. I watched it because it's called Extraordinary and I watched it. It's kind of like a horror comedy movie. Wolf War Tate's in it and he's so funny in it. It's a really good movie.
Speaker 2:I think it's on.
Speaker 1:Shudder, Check that out too. Just kind of came to my head, and that's the episode this week. Thank you for joining us, and I'm actually going to do a bit with Jason and I'm going to give him a few options. I'm just going to describe what the movie is and then he has to pick on which one he wants to do. All right, For the first movie that you can pick from, it's called. I'm not going to tell you what it's called actually.
Speaker 1:So, it's a movie that takes place all on Zoom meetings and it's a horror movie and it's less than an hour and 10 minutes long. All right, the next movie stars Dwayne the Rock Johnson and Christopher Walken and it's an action comedy. The next is a horror movie that takes place in Los Angeles, where people are arriving for a dinner party. The other is a Tom Cruise movie where the world is going to end no way and the last one is a tom cruise movie where he's trying to stop something wrong.
Speaker 1:Don't really have to say a lot about is a busy buddy yeah, um, damn the one with duane the rock johnson.
Speaker 1:All right, so our next movie is gonna be the rundown. It's kind of one of those movies that I saw a billion times growing up and it's really funny. It also got sean sean william scott in it. Uh, uh, american pie guy. Yeah, um, stifler, he's in it so funny in it. No, but this was like a big movie like with me in high school, just because it was constantly on Comedy Central and stuff and I watched it a billion times and I was also big into wrestling and the Rock was really.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he was huge.
Speaker 1:Transferring to being an actor around this time, and it was kind of the first movie where it's like he can do this. Actually he's got it. So make sure to join us next week for Spy, or no, the Rundown. So yeah, join us next week for that. It's on Hulu or Peacock, whichever one you got, you can watch it before we do it next week. I would like to thank everybody for joining us.
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