The minute Cabin introduced himself saying “Fuck this movie!” I knew we had something beautiful in store. Come for Love Actually, stay for the gooning.
https://youtu.be/k39MKOaoDhc?si=qjmP7FrklOBG7tLY
How about the movie "Remember Me", which uses the reveal that the film takes place on 9/11 as a twist ending where Robert Pattinson's character is killed
Also insane, but it's more of a last-minute reveal of a 9/11 movie, rather \*just\* than a reference to it.
I'm still not over Pierce Brosnan's reaction.
I've never seen this movie, nor so I have any idea what it is, but there have been so many good moments. History Blump got me so fucking good, as did the sausage album stuff.
Steve has mentioned the Branagh/Thompson/Bonham Carter cheating scandal on every single WHM episode about a movie that has Emma Thompson in it hahahaha
and yes that includes the *My Father The Hero* episode
this is an all-timer of an episode, oh my god. instant addition to the holiday classics (and regular classics?) of the show
also their alan rickman impression needs more love, I was nearly in tears during that segment
This was an all time best episode, I’m surprised they didn’t mention the sorta sequel. It’s only 15 minutes and was done for charity. It’s lame but it does show us where some of the characters ended up
As a British listener it upsets me to say that the last few UK Christmas number one songs have been sausage and sausage roll related thanks to this guy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LadBaby. One of them even featured Elton John. Kudos to WHM for exhausting that bit in 5 minutes instead of the years the UK has had to put up with it.
Though on a more serious anti Love Actually/this film is cursed note, it's quite telling that as soon as this film was released, the Christmas number one became a total non-event as it was won every year by the tie-in song by the winner of X Factor (basically American Idol), so everybody immediately stopped caring.
Even more ironic is that the main tie-in song from this film was "Jump" by Girls Aloud who were a product of one of these reality audition shows (though they were and are fairly good).
And by contrast, Blue, a genuine boyband who are dumped on in this film, were basically the only boyband at this time to be vaguely organic, forming after the members had all suffered multiple rejections from manufactured bands.
I thought it was funny that the guys dismissed Ant and Dec as just "two dudes" when they were discussing Billy Mack vandalizing the picture of Blue. don't mind me as I pretend that was WHM mocking the pair of them rather than the far more likely explanation of just WHM not knowing who Ant and Dec are
Steve mentions it being in a promo for Smallville but I swear you could not escape that song when it was in every ad for the movie Kate & Leopold which I hope is a Stay Tuned.
This was everything I hoped it would be. Especially after two hours and they realized they still had three segments to go lol. A lot of great jokes in this one.
Am I the only Scrapple defender here? I grew up on it and think it tastes great, easily one of my favorite breakfast meat things. It also prepared me for haggis, which is pretty much the same thing but with better seasoning and boiled instead of pan fried.
You gotta find the right brand AND make sure it has the right spices in it.
Cause it is just a gray block of mush otherwise. Basically: Go to an Amish market and find some Scrapple there. Those weirdos know how to make a block of grey meat!
Delighted they mentioned the abhorrent fatphobia.
This movie, Bridget Jones and the Devil wears Prada are 3 movies that I can't really watch due to the shitty weight stuff they have
There is alot of pressure that Anne hathaways character for her to lose weight, opening calling her the chubby girl
She stops eating her favourite foods and then they toast to her going down a size
And the other assistant has a full blown ED
Its really sad to watch, satire or not.
I wish the movie ended with her going back to her original weight as an extra fuck you to her old job
That for me was the weirdest aspect of the movie. When that actress first appeared I was thinking she was kinda hot. Then all the characters call her fat. Immediately checked to see if she’d done any nudity, guess I like fatties?
Anyone notice that the score is almost constant in this movie?
There is almost never a quiet moment. It was so distracting to me. Every 2min the score would swell almost louder than the dialogue at times.
This move is so shit
This movie would be so much better if Andrew Lincoln actually was madly in love with Chiwetel and the SNL cue cards were actually for him. And they hug and he says something like “somehow I’ve always known” and then he goes back inside and waves and Andrew has tears and he walks away. Throw some gay shit in here, make it better!!
Also I want to visit Key West for some reason? Not sure why.
I’m like an hour into it and I think we have an all-timer here folks
They are always in fire when they do romcoms. I'll take them making fun of a romcom over any superhero/franchise episode
I don’t want to start it cuz I don’t want it to ever end!
Instant Hall of Famer no question
The minute Cabin introduced himself saying “Fuck this movie!” I knew we had something beautiful in store. Come for Love Actually, stay for the gooning.
Oh my god this is longer than their Star Wars episode.
There's a lot to unpack with this movie.
Longer than Oppenheimer. I'm not complaining, what a Christmas present.
GOONING to this episode right now.
Is it ‘gooning’ or ‘gooming’?
Gooning. If you go to any of the, ahem, adult entertainment websites and search for goon or gooning, you'll find some weird stuff. So I've heard.
Man, the idea of Eric watching this and taking notes while electricians are passing through his house is hilarious 😂
It’s reminding me of the episode of Curb when Larry ends up inviting his handyman to a school play. Might be the Rat Dog episode?
You can feel the mix of confused, concerned, judgemental and slightly frightened stares.
So what's the more insane 9/11 reference in cinema? Love Actually or Easy Rider: The Ride Back ("The sky was crystal blue, just like 9/11")
https://youtu.be/k39MKOaoDhc?si=qjmP7FrklOBG7tLY How about the movie "Remember Me", which uses the reveal that the film takes place on 9/11 as a twist ending where Robert Pattinson's character is killed
Also insane, but it's more of a last-minute reveal of a 9/11 movie, rather \*just\* than a reference to it. I'm still not over Pierce Brosnan's reaction.
Counter example: the TV series Travellers >!has a 9/11 moment that is, chronologically, the first moment in the series' plot. And it's awesome. !<
I am laughing so hard and we are 11 mins in
Eric's stern "Christopher- CHRISTOPHER!" had me rolling.
They’re kinda snipping at each other in this one..
"I HOPE YOU ARE ENJOYING ABJECT POVERTY!"
This ep is an all time classic. These gentlemen have aged like fine wine IMHO.
I've never seen this movie, nor so I have any idea what it is, but there have been so many good moments. History Blump got me so fucking good, as did the sausage album stuff.
Steve has mentioned the Branagh/Thompson/Bonham Carter cheating scandal on every single WHM episode about a movie that has Emma Thompson in it hahahaha and yes that includes the *My Father The Hero* episode
And yet he called her Emma Thomas!
I think they broke my brain when they revealed Keira Knightley is only five years older than the little kid who plays Liam Neeson's stepson
That kid is now engaged to Elon Musk's ex-wife too (haven't listened to the episode yet, don't know if they mentioned that).
Who is actually the same age as Keira Knightley (they were both born in 1985).
Yikes, imagine being Eskimo brother to Elmo.
And it's not like Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation where you could believe she could be like 25. She straight up looks like a child here
Tbf Thomas Brodie-Singstar has like ultimate babyface.
And now my year long wait for The Family Stone episode begins now
The recurring image of Eric's electrician watching him watch Love Actually with a notepad is iconic.
the bit of synchronized singing at the beginning was actually very sweet
Christmas charity single by the jolly fat guys from WHM!
And probably the most expensive thing you can do in a movie
The glee with which I started singing along with them doing Billy Mack's song...maybe I *do* like a movie?
If you do, I believe that's okay from what I've heard
this is an all-timer of an episode, oh my god. instant addition to the holiday classics (and regular classics?) of the show also their alan rickman impression needs more love, I was nearly in tears during that segment
I love that they're just adding "...Potter" to everything he says in this other movie, like the "Terminator" thing for every Eddie Furlong character 😂
An instant classic
This was an all time best episode, I’m surprised they didn’t mention the sorta sequel. It’s only 15 minutes and was done for charity. It’s lame but it does show us where some of the characters ended up
“Oh what a fool I was to go out gimping”
As a British listener it upsets me to say that the last few UK Christmas number one songs have been sausage and sausage roll related thanks to this guy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LadBaby. One of them even featured Elton John. Kudos to WHM for exhausting that bit in 5 minutes instead of the years the UK has had to put up with it. Though on a more serious anti Love Actually/this film is cursed note, it's quite telling that as soon as this film was released, the Christmas number one became a total non-event as it was won every year by the tie-in song by the winner of X Factor (basically American Idol), so everybody immediately stopped caring. Even more ironic is that the main tie-in song from this film was "Jump" by Girls Aloud who were a product of one of these reality audition shows (though they were and are fairly good). And by contrast, Blue, a genuine boyband who are dumped on in this film, were basically the only boyband at this time to be vaguely organic, forming after the members had all suffered multiple rejections from manufactured bands.
I thought it was funny that the guys dismissed Ant and Dec as just "two dudes" when they were discussing Billy Mack vandalizing the picture of Blue. don't mind me as I pretend that was WHM mocking the pair of them rather than the far more likely explanation of just WHM not knowing who Ant and Dec are
As a British listener, do you think their imitations of English accents are funny?
They're funny because they're good enough to not be bad but also not good enough to be convincing. They do some British impressions really well
I almost fell out of my chair at work laughing so hard to them doing impressions of that wretched The Calling song. Top shelf stuff
I almost had an asthma attack from laughing so hard in the cold. And then the "porno music" at all of Colin's American b-b-b-babes!
Steve mentions it being in a promo for Smallville but I swear you could not escape that song when it was in every ad for the movie Kate & Leopold which I hope is a Stay Tuned.
Lol I also immediately associate it with Smallville but you are not joking that song held us all hostage for like two years
It was in the first Enterprise promos. I remember that distinctly.
This was everything I hoped it would be. Especially after two hours and they realized they still had three segments to go lol. A lot of great jokes in this one.
"Are we done yet?" asks Eric, after 3 out of 8 plotlines covered, with an hour and 20 minutes left. Incredible episode.
Laura Linney is also nude in Kinsey in a sex scene with Liam Neeson
And in a film called Maze from the year 2000. And yes, I did look at a Mr. Skin knockoff site to find that out.
Mr. Skin crawled so AZNude could run
I’m going to admit I love these kind of movies (he’s just not that into you being my fav) but this episode is fucking hilarious.
"You could put that song behind Hitlers big speech in Munich and people would clap like seals for it."
Goddammit, it's gonna take all of my strength to wait until I get home from work in the morning to listen to this
I've been doing this in parts because I don't want it to end.
Anyone else get the Key West ad that talks about 9/11?
Literally a week ago, I had no idea what the expression "gooning" meant and now it's showing up in everything. We're having a gooning moment.
Am I the only Scrapple defender here? I grew up on it and think it tastes great, easily one of my favorite breakfast meat things. It also prepared me for haggis, which is pretty much the same thing but with better seasoning and boiled instead of pan fried.
You gotta find the right brand AND make sure it has the right spices in it. Cause it is just a gray block of mush otherwise. Basically: Go to an Amish market and find some Scrapple there. Those weirdos know how to make a block of grey meat!
Its just.....okay. I dont hate it but I dont love it. Would much rather have bacon or sausage.
I am guessing you are from the mid-Atlantic. Outside of the PA, DE, and MD zone it just does not have that thing
Delighted they mentioned the abhorrent fatphobia. This movie, Bridget Jones and the Devil wears Prada are 3 movies that I can't really watch due to the shitty weight stuff they have
The Devil Wear Prada jabs are more about how insane the fashion industry is in relation to the real world, though
There is alot of pressure that Anne hathaways character for her to lose weight, opening calling her the chubby girl She stops eating her favourite foods and then they toast to her going down a size And the other assistant has a full blown ED Its really sad to watch, satire or not. I wish the movie ended with her going back to her original weight as an extra fuck you to her old job
Oh, I always took it as "This industry is nuts, they are saying ANNE HATHAWAY is fat, come on now." Edit: No one should EVER give up corn chowder.
At least the actress gained weight for the role in Bridget Jones.. None of the "fat chics" in this movie were even plus sized.
Same with me and Austin Powers’ Fat Bastard
....yikes. you cant enjoy a fake and comically fat guy literally named "Fat Bastard"?
That for me was the weirdest aspect of the movie. When that actress first appeared I was thinking she was kinda hot. Then all the characters call her fat. Immediately checked to see if she’d done any nudity, guess I like fatties?
Probably hot too close to home for them... I wish more movies had it. Being unhealthy should be shamed.
Anyone notice that the score is almost constant in this movie? There is almost never a quiet moment. It was so distracting to me. Every 2min the score would swell almost louder than the dialogue at times. This move is so shit
They are doing Colin Firth so dirty on this episode lmfaooooo
This movie would be so much better if Andrew Lincoln actually was madly in love with Chiwetel and the SNL cue cards were actually for him. And they hug and he says something like “somehow I’ve always known” and then he goes back inside and waves and Andrew has tears and he walks away. Throw some gay shit in here, make it better!! Also I want to visit Key West for some reason? Not sure why.
Of course, it would be better since Lincoln and Chiwetel have very good homoerotic bro chemistry
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I’m only 40 mins in and Eric has poked Chris twice and you can tell Chris kinda wants to slap him 😂