Does This Still Work?

Fun. Fun. Fun. Yeah. Suck on a lollipop (or whatever!) and join Joe and George as they take a gander at one of the oddest films they've watched for this show that wasn't titled Blue Velvet. Hands down, the cringiest horror movie that contains no horror both men have ever seen.

Links

Freedom of the Heart video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhKkDJ8_K78

The Final Original Peanuts Strip

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2000/02/13

Toys R Us

https://nypost.com/2000/09/08/toys-r-us-swapping-herald-for-times-sq/

Toy R Us Megastore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNWBV7QCjbs

It's a movie about Chinese American women and their immigrant mothers so who better to talk about it than 2 guys who are not those things? But George used to be mistaken for Japanese so maybe that will help? (No, it won't. Don't be racist.)

Links

Model Minority

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-1993-08-08-0000006314-story.html

Will you believe a man can fly? No. But watching this as an 11 year old, Joe was ok with that. However, as an old fart, how does he feel about it now? And what about George? He thinks Rashida Jones would make a great Lois Lane, if that helps any. (It doesn't.)

Links

Rash Baby

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/12/08/group-picks-diaper-doll-as-worst-toy-on-sale/32c0be82-165e-4ff6-b089-2e49a04a2636/

Commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jodquTXAoWM

Rex Reed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Reed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuS6F0IdUAM

StackExchange

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/24116/how-did-superman-turn-back-time-in-the-first-movie

Glynn Lunney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glynn_Lunney

Is there such a thing as Manic Pixie Dream Prostitute? This is the film where Julia Roberts teaches us all that being a hooker can be fun if the right rich guy comes along. George and Joe are not that guy but they still dare to ask, Does This Still Work?

Links

IMDB for Pretty Woman

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100405/

90s Prostitution

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/18/nyregion/crack-addiction-is-forcing-prostitutes-onto-the-streets.html

And it was Eliot Spitzer who was our prostitute loving NY Governor, apologies for Joe's brain fart.

Rich Folks

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1990/10/09/on-this-years-forbes-400-list-the-rich-start-getting-poorer/9454c8d6-88e1-49a6-9d76-2f106f0eb288/

Is this the dawn of Dad Jokes? Joe and George take a look at a film neither had seen before this and yet they still managed to know just about every line in it. Like literally... just... about... every... line... in... it.

Links

The Making of Jive Talk from Airplane!

This clip has Jim Abrams with David and Jerry Zucker, the writers/directors, and Al White with Normal Gibbs, talking about how they worked out the language in that scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fkZdz4Vz10

The script for Zero Hour!

Zero Hour! was released in 1957, and was the inspiration for Airplane!. By "inspiration," I mean it took so much from it that the producers had to officially acquire the rights. This is the dialog script, with bolded lines where the dialog is identical between the two movies. In particular, the line: "The life of everybody aboard depends on just one thing: Finding someone back there who not only can fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner." was what prompted Abrams and the Zuckers' to make Airplane!.

http://www.rogermwilcox.com/zero_hour.html

Mariel Boatlift

https://www.nytimes.com/1980/05/11/archives/retarded-people-and-criminals-are-included-in-cuban-exodus-200.html

Cuban flight

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/08/17/three-jetliners-hijacked-to-cuba/d099faa4-4dec-4776-908a-2651a65f30b5/

Any movie with the punchline "Dr. Fa**ot" has got to still work, right? Let's find out as the boys, joined by guest Darin Patterson, take a very sober look at the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2009. Links

Marriage

https://people.com/celebrity/ivanka-trump-marries-jared-kushner-in-lavish-ceremony/

Ebert Review

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hangover-2009

Do you want to see a dead body? Try the internet! You know, the thing you're on right now. But before computers, kids had to go to the railroad tracks to see a corpse. Isn't that sad? Joined by guest Noah Lugeons, the boys take a look at this Rob Reiner classic.

Links

Boy George

https://apnews.com/article/0aeba433110e5dcea244daf6f22703ee

Noah

http://scathingatheist.com

https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic-ebook/dp/B08KWN3VKF/ref=sr_1_1?

https://twitter.com/PiatPod

Would a TV Show set in a watermelon patch with black actors in blackface actually be a hit? Well, Donald Trump was President, so who knows? Either way, sit back and listen as the boys take a look at this Spike Lee classic.

Links

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/27/arts/television-radio-a-new-neighborhood-for-the-black-sitcom.html

It's the classic story of boy meets man. Boy becomes Nazi. Then boy tries to stop his brother from becoming a Nazi. Yes, that's right, Joe & George are covering their second Hitler lover of the year following 7 Years of Tibet. But will they enjoy this Brownshirt any better?

Links

• Car Makers
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-us-carmakers-help-nazis/
• Russia
  • https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-05-04-1998124027-story.html
• Companies
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_the_Holocaust

Did we have you at hello? If so, will you show us the money? Yes, Joe and George are taking a look at this 1996 hit movie. Does it still work? Let's find out. But here is the real question, is Tom Cruise actually hot? The answer may surprise you.

Links

1996 in sports

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-12-29-9612290247-story.html

Concussions End Brett Lindros Career

https://apnews.com/article/86d6a1e2422d27f2d6a3585aab480be0