Chasing Childhood

Episode 107: The Waterboy


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This week we're drinking some high quality H2O and rewatching an Adam Sandler classic better known as The Waterboy (1998). Naïve yet kind Bobby Boucher was sheltered from the world by his overprotective mother and now at thirty-one years old he has never left home, still believes that alligators use toothbrushes, and is a heavily abused waterboy for the local college football teams. Everything changes during football practice when Bobby unlocks his inner rage and tackles one of the players, earning himself a spot on the team and shaking up their small town forever. We used to run out the VHS on this comedy as kids, but we have to ask: do the jokes still land as adults? Or does the plot (and punch) line fall flat 24 years later?? Let’s find out together!

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