Much like the year 2024 itself, we’re taking the Year of the Weasel into 2025 with the mandate “more of the same, but worse”! So in that spirit, here’s Pauly Shore doing some decidedly shaky accent work in a limp Coen Brothers imitation so obscure, we didn’t even know it existed until last November. But wait, don’t leave yet, the score is by legendary session musician Jeff “Skunk” Baxter!

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00:00:00 Trailer for The Curse of Inferno (John Warren, 1998)

00:05:04 Not gonna lie, we’d rather be watching this

00:12:09 Trailer for Raising Arizona (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1987)

00:15:44 I Got the Hook Up starring Master P (Michael Martin, 1998)

00:15:47 Repos (Sal Martino and Master P, 2006)

00:17:04 2Eleven (Derek Scott, 2015)

00:17:15 Sloppy Seconds (Lisa Brown and Anthony Williams, 2023)

00:23:17 Major League: Back to the Minors (John Warren, 1998)

00:25:31 “Freak-a-holic” Official Music Video by the Egyptian Lover

00:35:01 Tuneland, another random media project where Skunk Baxter showed up in the late ’90s

00:35:53 More on Shelley Duvall here

00:37:35 Ah, what might have been

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00:53:00 “Reelin’ in the Years” by Steely Dan featuring Skunk Baxter (Live on The Midnight Special, 1973)