Fletch

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[00:00:31] Hey guys, welcome to Blank Check with Griffin and David

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[00:00:48] And where around in their filmography they started becoming a Blank Check director

[00:00:53] So here on the podcast you have of course your guest host

[00:01:00] This is producer Ben

[00:01:02] And as always we have the two regular hosts

[00:01:06] We have David Sims

[00:01:07] Yeah, hi, hi

[00:01:08] And we have Griffin Newman

[00:01:10] He's gesturing

[00:01:11] The hashtag the two friends

[00:01:13] The hashtag the two friends

[00:01:14] Nailed it

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[00:01:16] And so yeah, we're gonna be discussing the 1985 comedy film starring one Chevy Chase called Fletch

[00:01:26] That's right, because this is Ben's choice

[00:01:29] Now Ben, as you said, this podcast usually is about Blank Checks when filmmakers have the success to then have a Blank Check to make whatever they want

[00:01:36] Today you're cashing in your Blank Check

[00:01:38] That's true

[00:01:39] We gave you a Blank Check to host the podcast today and pick any movie you wanted

[00:01:43] Since you so often have to deal with movies you hate

[00:01:46] Right

[00:01:47] And this is your cashing in

[00:01:48] This is one of my favorite films, which is totally ridiculous

[00:01:53] But I grew up watching this on VHS like I've seen it a million times

[00:01:58] I like Chevy Chase movies

[00:02:00] Okay

[00:02:01] Not gonna apologize

[00:02:02] No, no, no need to apologize

[00:02:03] No apology necessary

[00:02:04] I'll say this, I had to

[00:02:05] So like seems like old times?

[00:02:07] Is that a Chevy Chase?

[00:02:08] I'm trying to think of obscure Chevy Chase movies

[00:02:10] Were we talking like Fletch, Vacation, Three Amigos, like the sort of the big ones

[00:02:15] What's the Robbersons?

[00:02:16] Oh, cops with Robbersons

[00:02:17] Cops with Robbersons

[00:02:18] Love that one

[00:02:19] We've fucking Jack Palance

[00:02:20] Yes

[00:02:21] Wow, I've never seen that movie

[00:02:22] Which I believe was also directed by Michael Richie

[00:02:23] Yeah, it's a Michael Richie joint

[00:02:24] The same team

[00:02:25] Yeah

[00:02:26] I think Michael Richie was a director who could handle

[00:02:30] I think he was one of the few

[00:02:31] Yeah

[00:02:32] Yeah, cause you know like John, no not John Hughes

[00:02:35] Chris Columbus was the original director of Christmas Vacation

[00:02:38] And it was a big deal that like John Hughes had sort of like mentored Chris Columbus

[00:02:43] And gave him like a shot he's like I'm doing your favor

[00:02:46] Vacation three

[00:02:48] Like here's the third vacation where you get to direct it

[00:02:50] Chris Columbus did one week on vacation and was like John I'm sorry I can't do this

[00:02:54] I can't deal with Chevy

[00:02:56] Oh boy

[00:02:57] What is it about his reputation?

[00:02:59] Like what is it that

[00:03:01] He doesn't respect anyone

[00:03:02] He's completely egotistical

[00:03:04] He won't take direction

[00:03:06] You know, Chevy Chase is like the worst reputation in Hollywood right?

[00:03:09] Yeah, he's known for being incredibly difficult

[00:03:12] It's funny cause Amy Heckerling directed a European vacation right

[00:03:15] Which he said was the biggest mistake of her entire career

[00:03:17] Right

[00:03:21] Like the thing

[00:03:23] Yeah, here's what Chevy Chase's reputation is as like a person okay

[00:03:28] It's like Fletch if he wasn't funny

[00:03:30] Okay

[00:03:31] If he had that much contempt for everyone around him

[00:03:33] Sure

[00:03:34] But he wasn't charming

[00:03:35] Right

[00:03:36] So it's like when he's on camera he does the same thing but it's kind of like amusing and the audience is on his side

[00:03:41] But what if Fletch was just like a piece of shit

[00:03:45] And he wasn't landing the jokes

[00:03:48] And he kept on explaining to you why he was funny

[00:03:51] He's gonna sue us

[00:03:53] Yeah fine, uh Chevy if you're listening you wanna be a guest on the show

[00:03:56] You can be on our Fletch Lives episode

[00:03:59] Yeah and Chevy I love your stuff man

[00:04:01] I got nothing against you

[00:04:03] Okay alright so let's back up here

[00:04:05] Okay so yeah we talked about this last week but

[00:04:08] We presented this idea to Ben

[00:04:11] Ben's choice

[00:04:12] What's the movie you'd want to discuss the most

[00:04:15] And just right out of the gun he just fired Fletch

[00:04:19] One word answer within 30 seconds

[00:04:21] So just to dig in Ben, Ben you're from New Jersey right

[00:04:24] I am

[00:04:25] From New Jersey

[00:04:26] And this was a film you owned on VHS

[00:04:29] Yeah

[00:04:30] I will say alright like I'm not that big of a film buff

[00:04:35] Okay

[00:04:36] Comparatively to you guys

[00:04:37] Sure whatever

[00:04:38] You are our finest film critic but sure I understand

[00:04:40] You know I'm the every man's film critic

[00:04:43] But I'll say that like growing up I had some pretty trashy friends

[00:04:47] A lot of the movies we enjoyed are pretty like you know

[00:04:51] They're bad action movies, they're bad comedies

[00:04:54] Sure whatever

[00:04:55] I have this weird soft spot for those kinds of like

[00:04:57] Films

[00:04:58] I think we've all got those

[00:05:00] Sure Griffin has those I definitely have those

[00:05:02] What was it you kind of just grew up watching for some reason or another

[00:05:05] Right

[00:05:06] Just literally like I owned Clear and Present Danger on VHS

[00:05:09] For some reason like I don't know why

[00:05:11] It was like five bucks at a store

[00:05:13] Under each two is like one of my faves

[00:05:15] Yeah I've seen that movie a lot of times

[00:05:17] I don't it's not that good

[00:05:18] It's not terrible

[00:05:19] I've seen the Harlan Williams motion picture

[00:05:21] Rocket Man probably like sixty times

[00:05:23] I have never seen that film

[00:05:25] I mean if you ask me I think it's a masterpiece

[00:05:27] I can't watch it objectively

[00:05:29] This is the thing if you watch a movie enough

[00:05:31] Yeah

[00:05:32] It becomes impossible to criticize because it's like

[00:05:34] Why didn't they do this differently or just like

[00:05:36] What do you mean like

[00:05:37] That's Rocket Man it's iconic

[00:05:38] That's what happens in the movie

[00:05:39] That's what happens in the Rocket Man

[00:05:40] He farts in the suit and the two suits are tethered together

[00:05:43] How did you see that like fifty times

[00:05:44] You know why because my mom would take me to all these like

[00:05:47] Stupid comedies and she hated them all

[00:05:48] Sure

[00:05:49] Rocket Man was the only one that she found funny

[00:05:51] That's really funny

[00:05:52] So it was like this big bonding thing with my mom

[00:05:54] Where we like watch Rocket Man together all the time

[00:05:56] And then she was like we got to show James

[00:05:58] So when it came out in a video we watched it with my brother

[00:06:00] And then when my sister was born

[00:06:01] We would say like when do you think Romley is going to be old enough to watch Rocket Man

[00:06:04] Tradition

[00:06:05] You know it's like my mom hates dog farts

[00:06:07] Every family has these

[00:06:08] Like my friends the movie was Clifford

[00:06:10] You know that movie

[00:06:11] Yeah

[00:06:12] My former roommate Andy

[00:06:13] His whole family was obsessed with Clifford

[00:06:15] Their dog was called Clifford

[00:06:16] And it's just because they owned it on VHS

[00:06:19] For some reason I don't know

[00:06:20] So okay I'll say that

[00:06:22] Here are a couple questions I have for you Ben

[00:06:24] Okay

[00:06:25] Yeah

[00:06:26] And I know you feel like you're very on the defensive

[00:06:27] You got to sell us on this movie

[00:06:28] Yeah this is the thing we like the movie

[00:06:29] And we positioned it as

[00:06:30] You have to sell us on it being great

[00:06:32] Which I know made it sound a little more antagonistic

[00:06:33] I said I'd seen it once before

[00:06:34] And I thought it was okay

[00:06:35] David hadn't seen it before

[00:06:36] David watched it

[00:06:37] Liked it a lot right

[00:06:39] I realized the one time I'd seen it before

[00:06:41] Was maybe like seven years ago

[00:06:45] And I like as I was watching this

[00:06:47] Was trying to place myself in when I watched it

[00:06:49] I was in a real bad place in my life

[00:06:51] Oh no

[00:06:52] I was like I was going through

[00:06:54] I was going through some shit

[00:06:56] No it must have been six years ago

[00:06:58] Because I had just

[00:06:59] I had just hit legal drinking age

[00:07:03] And I remember I had like earlier that week

[00:07:06] Been hit with some bad shit

[00:07:08] And immediately was like

[00:07:09] Oh I'm allowed to drink legally

[00:07:11] And went out across the street

[00:07:13] To the grocery store

[00:07:14] And bought like two 24 cases of Takate

[00:07:18] And went back to my apartment

[00:07:19] And didn't leave for like five days

[00:07:20] Right

[00:07:21] Wasn't doing well right

[00:07:23] And Sophie Fader

[00:07:25] My best friend who I've called out a lot

[00:07:27] In the podcast

[00:07:28] Shout out a lot

[00:07:29] She came over to my place

[00:07:32] To try to like get me out of the house

[00:07:34] And when she came over I was watching Fletch

[00:07:36] And she's like you got to get out of here

[00:07:38] And I was like

[00:07:39] And then we went out

[00:07:40] And we like

[00:07:41] So it was kind of a tossed off

[00:07:43] Yeah and I was like

[00:07:45] It's fine but I also was like

[00:07:47] You know I was hanging by a thread

[00:07:49] Alright

[00:07:50] So I watched it a second time

[00:07:51] With clearer eyes

[00:07:52] With a better head on my shoulders

[00:07:54] And not only did I like it more

[00:07:56] But I also think there's something to

[00:07:58] This is the kind of movie

[00:07:59] That's maybe designed to be

[00:08:00] Watched 80 times on VHS

[00:08:02] Yes

[00:08:03] Like it definitely got better the second time

[00:08:05] I could imagine myself watching it

[00:08:07] In a tenth time

[00:08:08] Like it's just like

[00:08:09] Movies like this that have

[00:08:10] Wow repeat viewings

[00:08:11] Movies like this that have kind of a

[00:08:13] Convoluted plot

[00:08:15] That the first time you feel like

[00:08:16] You have to pay a lot of attention to

[00:08:18] Often play better on repeat viewings

[00:08:20] Because then you know what the plot is

[00:08:21] And you can just enjoy all the repartee

[00:08:24] You can enjoy the chemistry

[00:08:25] You can enjoy the weird little lines

[00:08:27] And that's the thing

[00:08:28] The Chevy Ad Libs

[00:08:29] The legendary Ad Libs

[00:08:30] This movie

[00:08:31] I don't want to say joke dance

[00:08:32] But this movie is so gag dance

[00:08:33] Because you go like

[00:08:34] Okay in each scene Chevy's doing

[00:08:36] This three weird physical like

[00:08:37] Pratfall hitting his head things right

[00:08:39] That are clearly Ad Libs

[00:08:40] Adding in the names

[00:08:41] The actual jokes

[00:08:42] The like one off sort of under things

[00:08:44] The things that are just funny line

[00:08:46] Readings

[00:08:47] The reaction shot you know it's like

[00:08:49] What you said what do you like about this movie

[00:08:51] In the last episode when you're setting it up

[00:08:52] Is you like this movie just like goes for

[00:08:54] Like it doesn't care it just keeps on

[00:08:56] Throwing stuff at the screen

[00:08:57] And it is dense in that way

[00:08:58] Where like the more times you've seen it

[00:09:00] You kind of like it

[00:09:02] You know everything that's coming

[00:09:04] You know you're able to appreciate each moment more

[00:09:06] Because most comedies are like build up to a big laugh

[00:09:08] Let you rest for a little

[00:09:10] Build up to another laugh

[00:09:11] This isn't like that at all

[00:09:12] No and it's all true

[00:09:13] It's just sort of a nice consistent like sort of hum

[00:09:16] You know like

[00:09:17] But it's a Vibey movie too

[00:09:18] Oh very Vibey

[00:09:19] It's also so much like just kind of a hang out movie

[00:09:21] Hanging out with this bum fledge

[00:09:22] And I was just talking a

[00:09:24] Griffin about this

[00:09:25] Yeah

[00:09:26] You know it's just I think also we're just nostalgic

[00:09:28] For this sort of movie

[00:09:29] Because Hollywood doesn't make enough for these movies anymore

[00:09:31] These kinds of movies where it's like

[00:09:32] You're making a Hollywood comedy now

[00:09:34] It has to be high concept

[00:09:36] Lots of nutty jokes

[00:09:37] Or big crazy set pieces

[00:09:39] You know really really really really silly

[00:09:42] This is not like

[00:09:43] But here's the interesting thing about Fletch

[00:09:45] Okay

[00:09:46] Well yeah and the like the Fletch

[00:09:49] Disguise thing right

[00:09:50] Which like alternates between like

[00:09:52] Which from the advertising I think they were like

[00:09:54] Really selling it

[00:09:55] I mean the tagline

[00:09:57] I hate the tagline

[00:09:58] Do you know the tagline

[00:09:59] No I don't

[00:10:00] Meet the only guy who changes his identity more often

[00:10:03] Than he changes his underwear

[00:10:05] Yeah that's maybe the worst tagline

[00:10:07] I don't want to think about Chevy Chase changing his underwear

[00:10:09] Yeah also what I want to think about is

[00:10:11] Chevy Chase's gooch

[00:10:13] Being unwashed

[00:10:15] Trust me it's the same pair

[00:10:17] Yeah and also the poster is him like holding up his wallet

[00:10:20] And like the 17 photos

[00:10:22] And they're all just different versions of him

[00:10:24] Some of them it's just him walking in

[00:10:26] And giving a false name

[00:10:27] And some of them he's like

[00:10:28] Got a fucking thing on and he's doing a voice right

[00:10:31] A little bit but most of them is just like he put on a sweat

[00:10:34] Agreed and the couple that are like sillier

[00:10:36] Feel like Chevy pushing you know

[00:10:38] Sure well when he's got the false teeth

[00:10:40] That's him pushing

[00:10:41] I'm not pushing like it doesn't work

[00:10:42] But like he was like can you please let me do the carry

[00:10:44] It would be a little sillier

[00:10:45] It feels like him saying to Richie

[00:10:46] Like let me go a little bigger on this one

[00:10:48] And I feel like when you're talking about

[00:10:49] That the movies of this ilk are a lot less

[00:10:51] Ground in reality right now are a lot sillier

[00:10:53] I feel like in a way

[00:10:55] Fletch is like emblematic of everything

[00:10:57] That was good about these types of films in this time period

[00:10:59] But also lit the fuse that fucked them up for the future

[00:11:03] Cause you look at something like Blue Streak right

[00:11:06] Which is also like a crime comedy about every man

[00:11:09] The Martin Lawrence, the fine man cop picture

[00:11:11] Yes and Luke Wilson which is like kind of a messy movie right

[00:11:15] I mean there's so many 90s movies in that

[00:11:17] Yeah but I'm throwing out Blue Streak as an example

[00:11:19] Cause it's like you go if that premise

[00:11:21] In my early 80s where it's like a criminal

[00:11:23] Pretend to be a cop it probably would have been directed

[00:11:25] By like Walter Hill you know

[00:11:28] And like all the supporting characters would have been played

[00:11:30] Like really straight and the guy would have been

[00:11:33] Like an alcoholic you know they would have

[00:11:35] Like it would have had a moody Howard Faltemeyer score

[00:11:37] But instead in Blue Streak it's got all these scenes

[00:11:39] Where like Martin Lawrence dresses up as a character

[00:11:41] To go undercover and he's like playing it to the 9s

[00:11:44] Like he's doing like an all that character you know

[00:11:47] No he'd been in Bad Boys though

[00:11:48] Let's not forget that he'd been in Bad Boys

[00:11:50] Right which I'm saying is grounded

[00:11:52] But like Blue Streak is like big

[00:11:53] And he's wearing the funny teeth and whatever

[00:11:55] Why are we talking about Blue Streak?

[00:11:56] Because I'm saying that Fletch does that a couple times

[00:11:59] But it does it in a pretty like contained way

[00:12:02] I agree

[00:12:03] And I think people were like oh that's fun

[00:12:04] If you have a comedy guy and he could do a bunch of characters

[00:12:06] And stuff like that

[00:12:07] And it started to like make the movies down the line

[00:12:11] Bit by bit sillier and sillier

[00:12:13] Where like I can't remember the last time

[00:12:14] I mean like nice guys is the last like kind of

[00:12:17] Crime comedy

[00:12:19] That feels grounded in like a reality

[00:12:22] And like a sadness

[00:12:23] The reason I really want to do Martin Breast someday

[00:12:25] Is you got Midnight Run and Beverly Hills Cop

[00:12:27] Which are like the platonic ideal of this kind of film

[00:12:31] You know

[00:12:32] Beverly Hills Cop and Fletch are the same soundtrack

[00:12:34] Yes they're very very similar movies

[00:12:36] Um I like Fletch a lot he's a good guy

[00:12:40] I like this movie

[00:12:42] Okay so here I have some more questions for you

[00:12:44] Did your family like Fletch

[00:12:47] Like it was just a movie with your friends

[00:12:48] Or were you like a Chevy family

[00:12:51] We were not a Chevy family

[00:12:53] Interesting

[00:12:54] My dad is so stubborn with comedy

[00:12:57] He like he really like hates Chevy

[00:13:00] Really?

[00:13:01] Yeah he's pretty hateable

[00:13:02] Okay because my dad did too and I was definitely raised in a household that was like Chevy sucks

[00:13:06] Bill Murray's great Chevy sucks

[00:13:08] Oh weird my dad thought Chevy tastes like genius

[00:13:10] But not so much with the movies just SNF

[00:13:12] Like he was like that's the greatest thing that ever happened

[00:13:15] Even when I got into it

[00:13:16] He would talk about his update all the time

[00:13:18] See what I

[00:13:19] All the time

[00:13:20] I was like 70's SNL and I was like 10

[00:13:22] And I was watching the old VHS as my dad was like

[00:13:24] Ah Chevy

[00:13:25] Ugh

[00:13:26] Such an asshole

[00:13:27] You know like

[00:13:28] It was always like Murray

[00:13:30] Acroyd

[00:13:31] Belushi

[00:13:32] And then Chevy it was like don't fucking get into the Chevy stuff

[00:13:34] Chevy is the best though I think Chevy

[00:13:36] I like Chevy now

[00:13:37] He's fascinating

[00:13:38] Can we talk about Chevy's career?

[00:13:40] I want to ask some more Ben questions

[00:13:42] Alright alright

[00:13:43] Okay so your dad didn't like Chevy

[00:13:44] Who did your dad like comedically

[00:13:46] Um he loved Mel Brooks

[00:13:48] Okay

[00:13:49] Um Albert Brooks

[00:13:51] The Brooks

[00:13:52] Good call

[00:13:53] There's some movies he's been on me

[00:13:55] Yeah loves Brooks Williams work

[00:13:57] Uh no he's been on me

[00:13:59] Five comedy plays

[00:14:00] What a throw mama from the train

[00:14:02] Is a movie my dad loves

[00:14:04] So he likes the cinema

[00:14:06] The dark 80's black comedies of like DeVito

[00:14:08] You know you know

[00:14:09] Yeah he likes the cinema of DeVito okay

[00:14:11] Hey we should do DeVito sometime

[00:14:12] DeVito is a fascinating film career

[00:14:14] Yes

[00:14:15] As a director they're insane

[00:14:17] I'm blanking now but um

[00:14:19] Yeah like you're kind of your classic

[00:14:21] Like uh 70's and 80's

[00:14:24] Like comedies I would say

[00:14:26] Like um fuck there's the one

[00:14:29] Um I can't remember let's just keep going

[00:14:31] Okay and Fletch for you it was a

[00:14:33] A buddy movie it was a friend movie

[00:14:35] Uh it was like a hangout movie for you

[00:14:37] You'd watch it together with your buddies

[00:14:38] I would with my one buddy Garrett

[00:14:40] But I also

[00:14:41] You'd watch it alone or

[00:14:42] I would just watch it at night

[00:14:43] Garrett Morris right

[00:14:45] Yeah from SNL yeah and he would say

[00:14:47] Man Chevy was such an asshole

[00:14:49] You'd say man I'm just gonna lay low

[00:14:52] Gonna lay low for 30 years

[00:14:54] Bam two broke girls that's what you would say

[00:14:56] I'm back

[00:14:57] His episode of WTF is unbelievable

[00:15:00] I should listen to it

[00:15:01] It's unbelievable

[00:15:03] His life story is incredible

[00:15:05] Um okay so you watch it with Garrett like a lot

[00:15:07] He's saying he mostly watches it alone

[00:15:09] That's why I was sensing

[00:15:11] Which I think is true for us

[00:15:13] Yeah probably yeah

[00:15:14] The comedy movies you really love

[00:15:15] You watch him alone over and over

[00:15:17] I found him

[00:15:18] My dad's been on me to watch Where's Papa

[00:15:20] Okay that's a great movie

[00:15:22] And then Alice doesn't live here anymore

[00:15:24] Those are like two of his favorite comedies

[00:15:26] Alice doesn't live here anymore it's very sad

[00:15:28] Yeah that's a pretty melancholy comedy

[00:15:30] That's a Scorsese

[00:15:31] That's one of an early Scorsese drama

[00:15:33] A dramedy yeah

[00:15:34] It's really good though

[00:15:35] I've never seen Where's Papa

[00:15:36] That's a Carl Reiner movie right

[00:15:38] Yeah with uh uh Ruth Gordon and George Segal

[00:15:40] Uh the greats

[00:15:41] And Ron Liebman don't sleep on Ron Liebman

[00:15:44] This is my last sort of like prelude question

[00:15:46] Cause I'm just trying to lay the

[00:15:48] Set out the landscape right

[00:15:49] Okay um where do you stand on Fletch lives

[00:15:52] Oh it's awful

[00:15:54] It looks I've never seen it

[00:15:56] But I was just clicking around and looking at

[00:15:58] It looks terrible

[00:15:59] I've never seen it but I just know that's the company line

[00:16:01] Ooh it's weird

[00:16:03] It's such a like

[00:16:04] He's not like really a reporter detective anymore

[00:16:07] And it leans hard into the characters thing

[00:16:09] Right into him doing the impression

[00:16:11] Maybe Chevy took over that movie a little bit

[00:16:13] Even though Richie directed that one too

[00:16:15] Yeah I would say he doesn't actually get to play as much

[00:16:19] Uh different characters as I feel like

[00:16:21] The cast are playing really big characters

[00:16:24] Big Southern characters

[00:16:26] It's got like

[00:16:27] Really over the top

[00:16:28] It's got like Arley Ernie in it

[00:16:30] And Al Holbrook it's got all these like

[00:16:32] Cleavon littles in it

[00:16:33] See that's the thing

[00:16:34] That's like the big factor that separates

[00:16:36] These types of movies from the 80s

[00:16:37] And these types of movies now

[00:16:39] Is you look at Beverly Hills Cop

[00:16:41] And like everyone else in that movie is playing a drama

[00:16:43] And that's what makes it so fun

[00:16:45] Same with 48 hours

[00:16:46] Right 48 hours is the same way

[00:16:47] This is a great example of

[00:16:48] Midnight Run is the same way

[00:16:49] Like it's Yaffa Koto who's like genuinely scary

[00:16:51] Absolutely

[00:16:52] Is the cop chasing them you know

[00:16:53] And then Fletch that works

[00:16:55] That like everyone else is like a real fucking

[00:16:57] Human being

[00:16:58] Yeah

[00:16:59] So yeah cause I'm watching this

[00:17:01] For the second time I was like

[00:17:02] How did they not make 10 of these

[00:17:04] And it is just that Fletch's lives

[00:17:06] Killed it so hard that they just like

[00:17:08] Well just Chevy's career just sort of

[00:17:10] Flamed out as well

[00:17:12] But I think it was also people hated Fletch's lives

[00:17:14] That makes sense

[00:17:15] I think it was those two things in parallel

[00:17:17] I mean we're gonna talk about the box office

[00:17:19] Because you guys gave me a juicy mid 80s movie

[00:17:21] So I'm real excited talking about the box office

[00:17:23] In the mid 80s

[00:17:24] Oh boy

[00:17:25] But you know it wasn't like a huge hit

[00:17:27] I think it was like one of those nice like sort of

[00:17:29] Did fine

[00:17:30] Got a lot of cult following

[00:17:31] You know like you know sort of a good underground

[00:17:33] And the sequel came like four or five years later

[00:17:35] I mean I think it did like 50

[00:17:38] Which today would be like 90

[00:17:40] You know 80 or 90

[00:17:41] That's like a solid showing

[00:17:43] And it probably did crazy fucking well on

[00:17:45] Video and on like HBO and stuff

[00:17:47] I mean this was the first generation of movies that like

[00:17:49] The second run on HBO was

[00:17:51] A year or two after it came out in theaters

[00:17:53] And that replay could really build up

[00:17:55] Like a cult for a movie

[00:17:57] Okay so let's talk about Chevy's career a little bit

[00:17:59] Cause I know this movie was kind of

[00:18:01] His comeback after like

[00:18:04] The back pain pill shit

[00:18:06] Well this is the thing

[00:18:07] Yeah

[00:18:08] His career was weird

[00:18:10] Cause you know obviously he breaks out on SNL

[00:18:12] In 70 what

[00:18:14] 5, 6, 7, 5, 7, 6

[00:18:16] 75, 76

[00:18:17] He's gone at the end of the first season

[00:18:18] He's gone in 1976

[00:18:20] He doesn't have a hit movie until Caddyshack

[00:18:22] Which is 1980

[00:18:23] So he's kind of just

[00:18:25] Around

[00:18:26] What about I thought the Neil Simon one

[00:18:28] Seems like Old Times did okay

[00:18:30] Seems like Old Times is also 1980

[00:18:32] Oh really?

[00:18:33] What does he do between

[00:18:34] He makes like

[00:18:35] A movie called Tunnel Vision

[00:18:37] Which I've never heard of

[00:18:38] I don't think that's even a movie

[00:18:40] That's like a weird anthology film

[00:18:41] He makes a movie called Foul Play

[00:18:43] Which he gets like a

[00:18:44] That's like a decent hit with Goldie Mohn

[00:18:46] Yeah, he did decently

[00:18:47] And he makes a movie called Old Heavenly Dog

[00:18:51] Which is a Benji sequel

[00:18:52] Where Chevy Chase is reincarnated as Benji

[00:18:55] I'm sorry it's not a Benji sequel

[00:18:57] It's a movie starring Benji

[00:18:59] It's not part of the Benji chronology

[00:19:02] It's billed as Chevy Chase and Benji

[00:19:04] The big selling point was it was the dog from Benji

[00:19:07] And Chevy Chase gets reincarnated as that dog

[00:19:10] And it's like his voice

[00:19:11] Is that in London?

[00:19:12] Yes

[00:19:13] Anyway

[00:19:14] It's Cherry Chase doing voiceover for Benji

[00:19:15] Playing a different dog in London

[00:19:17] But then he has Caddyshack

[00:19:19] Which is like a big hit

[00:19:21] And like only grows

[00:19:23] Like after it's like a big hit on release

[00:19:26] And then even bigger and bigger

[00:19:27] The more you think about it or whatever

[00:19:29] You know another interesting stat

[00:19:30] Is that he was the original choice to play

[00:19:34] Why am I freaking the character now

[00:19:36] But it's Richard Matheson's character in Animal House

[00:19:39] You mean Tim Matheson's character

[00:19:41] Tim Matheson's character, yes

[00:19:42] I'm sorry

[00:19:43] The villain

[00:19:44] No he's not the villain

[00:19:45] He's sort of the main like super slick

[00:19:47] He's the straight man

[00:19:48] Yeah

[00:19:49] It's not Otter, it's the other one

[00:19:50] Yeah

[00:19:51] Peter Rieger's Otter

[00:19:52] I don't know

[00:19:53] Anyway, the original plan was that

[00:19:54] Animal House was going to be all SNL

[00:19:56] And it's going to be like Acroyd was D-Day

[00:19:58] That was Chevy's character

[00:20:00] And then Belushi

[00:20:01] And I think Murray was maybe going to play Otter

[00:20:04] And then they were like

[00:20:06] We don't want it to seem like an SNL movie

[00:20:08] So I pushed the other guys out

[00:20:10] But yeah, okay, so Eddie

[00:20:11] Caddyshack

[00:20:12] Big he's got seems like old times that year

[00:20:14] And then again he's kind of messing around

[00:20:16] He makes under the rainbow

[00:20:18] Which is like a weird

[00:20:20] I don't know

[00:20:21] It's about behind the scenes of Wizard of Oz

[00:20:24] It's a murder mystery

[00:20:26] With him and Carrie Fisher

[00:20:27] And they're investigating the murder of a munchkin

[00:20:30] He makes a movie called Modern Problems

[00:20:32] That I think kind of goes nowhere

[00:20:34] And then in 83 he's got Vacation

[00:20:36] So it's like okay, you're back

[00:20:37] Alright, here we go Chevy

[00:20:38] Like you're going to be a big star

[00:20:41] And then couple years and then flesh

[00:20:44] We'll probably right there in that early 80s

[00:20:47] Okay, we're in that sweet spot

[00:20:49] But I know right before Fletch

[00:20:51] Is he has a back injury

[00:20:53] And then he gets addicted to back pain pills

[00:20:56] And that's like the big one that's kind of public

[00:20:59] Where then he goes into rehab

[00:21:00] And it becomes like a public story

[00:21:03] That Chevy has a problem

[00:21:05] You know, like the coke thing was just sort of like

[00:21:07] Oh, he's clearly like he's in the thing

[00:21:09] The back pain thing was like this guy's watched up

[00:21:11] Like he's a fucking mess

[00:21:12] And at that point his reputation was starting

[00:21:14] To like catch up with him, you know

[00:21:16] So I know part of Fletch

[00:21:18] And I think why Fletch is so good

[00:21:19] Is that like Michael Richie

[00:21:21] Kind of had something on him

[00:21:23] Because he was like you got to prove yourself now

[00:21:26] Right

[00:21:27] You know

[00:21:28] Let me see what, I feel like I read something about this

[00:21:32] Yeah, so you know this is based on a book

[00:21:34] Have you ever read the book?

[00:21:35] I've not read the book

[00:21:36] There are 11 books

[00:21:38] By Gregory McDonald

[00:21:39] Oh, that's cool

[00:21:40] There's a full Fletch series

[00:21:41] Which is why everyone thought it was going to be

[00:21:43] Like a bunch of movies

[00:21:45] I did not know this

[00:21:46] Fletch, confess Fletch

[00:21:47] Fletch is fortune

[00:21:48] Fletch is moxie

[00:21:49] Fletch in the man who

[00:21:50] Fletch is in

[00:21:51] Fletch won

[00:21:52] Fletch 2

[00:21:53] Like it on and on and on and on

[00:21:54] Fletch won is

[00:21:55] It's a prequel

[00:21:56] Yeah, but it's also spelled W-O-N

[00:21:58] It's about his first story

[00:22:01] But also it's how he won

[00:22:04] He won the story

[00:22:06] So some ideas were thrown at this author

[00:22:11] Burt Reynolds

[00:22:12] He said no

[00:22:13] Mick Jagger

[00:22:14] He said no

[00:22:15] Chevy Chase is throwing at him

[00:22:16] And he's like alright

[00:22:17] Maybe Chevy Chase

[00:22:18] I don't mind that

[00:22:19] Chevy Chase for some reason was not interested

[00:22:22] And then I guess maybe he

[00:22:25] Needed

[00:22:26] Yeah, it was leaned on a little bit

[00:22:27] Like alright, you need to

[00:22:28] Exactly

[00:22:29] So at this point

[00:22:30] I'm sorry

[00:22:31] European vacation has come out at this point?

[00:22:35] No, European vacation comes out the same year as Fletch

[00:22:38] A little later in the year

[00:22:39] Oh, interesting

[00:22:40] Okay

[00:22:41] So 85 is a big

[00:22:42] Because also spies like us comes out in 85

[00:22:44] So 85 is Chevy Chase owning

[00:22:46] And then three amigos is 86

[00:22:48] Okay, that was my next question

[00:22:49] Okay, yeah

[00:22:50] Fascinating

[00:22:53] And Michael Richie

[00:22:54] Let's talk about his career a little

[00:22:55] Because he has like

[00:22:56] He's one of these sort of like

[00:22:57] Under Harold the 70s directors

[00:22:59] Who has like a super fucking diverse filmography

[00:23:02] Yeah, I mean he's made some famous movies

[00:23:05] Like The Candidate and Bad News Bears

[00:23:07] But then he's also made like

[00:23:09] A dozen movies I've never heard of

[00:23:11] Smile is like the movie of his

[00:23:13] That's kind of like a quiet masterpiece

[00:23:15] Which is a satire of like

[00:23:19] Beauty pageants and stuff

[00:23:20] It's really really good

[00:23:21] And then

[00:23:22] The Prime Cut

[00:23:23] Right, the Lee Marvin action movie

[00:23:25] That sounds great

[00:23:26] Yeah, it's fucking awesome

[00:23:27] That movie rules

[00:23:28] I mean there's so many

[00:23:29] I mean I know The Golden Child

[00:23:31] Which is that Eddie Murphy movie from the 80s

[00:23:33] Which is okay

[00:23:34] I saw it on TV

[00:23:35] It's okay

[00:23:36] I don't remember it

[00:23:37] I don't remember it really at all either

[00:23:39] Yeah, Prime Cut looks good

[00:23:40] Gene Hackman's in that

[00:23:41] Yeah, and Sassy Space

[00:23:42] Damn, that looks fun

[00:23:43] Yeah, it's fucking it rules

[00:23:45] In the 90s, you know

[00:23:46] He starts to go south

[00:23:48] You know he makes

[00:23:49] He makes Cops and Robertsons

[00:23:51] He makes The Scout

[00:23:52] Which is like an okay Albert Brooks movie

[00:23:54] About baseball with Brendon Frazier

[00:23:56] I think I saw that

[00:23:57] Yeah, I've seen it

[00:23:59] He made A Simple Wish

[00:24:00] Which I think is like a really

[00:24:01] Treakly Mara Wilson picture

[00:24:03] With Martin Short

[00:24:04] And who's the other person

[00:24:06] Above the title on that movie

[00:24:08] There's three after

[00:24:09] Kathleen Turner

[00:24:10] Thank you, that's who it is

[00:24:11] Yes

[00:24:12] So you know he just

[00:24:13] I feel like he was like

[00:24:14] He was very much like a Hollywood

[00:24:16] Workman-like guy

[00:24:17] Who would just get like

[00:24:18] Put on pictures, right?

[00:24:19] But he kind of

[00:24:20] He had a voice

[00:24:21] And he had

[00:24:22] Yeah, that's sort of gritty

[00:24:23] He had a sensibility

[00:24:24] He was really good with actors

[00:24:25] I mean a lot of these guys

[00:24:26] Sort of these 70s guys

[00:24:27] Kind of lost it

[00:24:28] When they got to the 90s

[00:24:29] You know

[00:24:30] I mean even look at

[00:24:31] What's his name

[00:24:32] Ed Brast

[00:24:33] Look at Martin Brast

[00:24:34] Look at Brast

[00:24:35] But also

[00:24:36] I won't forget his name now

[00:24:37] Schlesinger

[00:24:38] John Schlesinger

[00:24:39] Yeah, you know

[00:24:40] I mean his last movie

[00:24:41] With Madonna and

[00:24:42] He's British

[00:24:43] She's British

[00:24:44] But he had

[00:24:45] No, I'm saying the 70s Hollywood guys

[00:24:46] The new Hollywood guys

[00:24:47] Yeah, yeah, the guys who came

[00:24:48] Oh, and he did the

[00:24:49] Fantastic movie too

[00:24:50] Michael Ritchie

[00:24:51] Yeah, I've never seen that

[00:24:53] Wildcats with Goldie Hawn

[00:24:55] Coaching the football team

[00:24:58] Semi-tough

[00:25:00] The Bert Reynolds football movie

[00:25:02] He did a couple football

[00:25:03] Divine Madness

[00:25:04] The Bette Midler concert film

[00:25:06] Weird filmography

[00:25:07] Okay, so that brings us to

[00:25:08] A motion picture

[00:25:09] Fletch

[00:25:10] Right

[00:25:12] Fletch

[00:25:13] So

[00:25:15] From that opening

[00:25:16] Song

[00:25:17] You know this is going to be good

[00:25:18] Right?

[00:25:19] Yes

[00:25:20] They get hit over the head

[00:25:21] With some 80s synth pop

[00:25:22] And you're like, alright

[00:25:23] Alright

[00:25:24] I believe it's called

[00:25:25] Bit by Bit

[00:25:26] But Stephanie Mills

[00:25:27] Is the name of the song

[00:25:28] Yeah

[00:25:29] Yeah, yeah, yeah

[00:25:30] Who is famous for playing

[00:25:31] Dorothy in The Wiz

[00:25:32] On Broadway

[00:25:33] Yes

[00:25:34] Oh

[00:25:35] This film

[00:25:36] A lot of disco hits

[00:25:38] This film has one of my favorite things

[00:25:40] That we can have

[00:25:41] Which is a song

[00:25:42] Where the lyrics of the song

[00:25:44] Reference the character

[00:25:45] On screen

[00:25:46] That you're watching

[00:25:47] At the moment the song is playing

[00:25:48] Yeah, they're literally telling you

[00:25:49] What Fletch is up to

[00:25:50] Yeah, I'll tell you what he's up to

[00:25:51] Fletch is working overtime

[00:25:55] But keep on telling you

[00:25:56] That he's working overtime

[00:25:57] Well, guess how else would you know

[00:25:58] You guys know

[00:25:59] Is he on the clock?

[00:26:00] Is he fucking on vacation?

[00:26:02] What's going on?

[00:26:03] No, he's putting in the time

[00:26:04] At the beach

[00:26:05] He's at the beach

[00:26:06] Yeah

[00:26:07] I'm Patrick Johnson, Lakers Jersey

[00:26:08] We're trying to fit in

[00:26:09] He's a junkie

[00:26:10] He's over it

[00:26:11] You know Fletch is an old movie

[00:26:13] Because he's an investigative reporter

[00:26:15] Who never files any stories

[00:26:17] Seems to have an unlimited budget

[00:26:18] To travel around the country

[00:26:19] And also buy like prosthetics

[00:26:21] Like get fucking Stan Winston

[00:26:23] To make noses for him

[00:26:24] He has like one editor

[00:26:26] To run things by

[00:26:27] It's not like the editor doesn't have

[00:26:28] To say like you're going to

[00:26:29] Utah because of no reason

[00:26:31] I have to calm the

[00:26:32] Expenses department

[00:26:34] No, he's just like what average

[00:26:35] You know my favorite detail

[00:26:36] In this movie is like

[00:26:37] Not only is he like

[00:26:39] An undercover reporter

[00:26:40] Right? Like not only is he

[00:26:41] Not telling the people

[00:26:42] He's talking to

[00:26:44] Who he is

[00:26:45] But he also files

[00:26:47] The stories anonymously

[00:26:48] Right

[00:26:49] He writes his column as Jane Doe

[00:26:51] Because you gotta keep a secret

[00:26:52] You know gotta keep a low profile

[00:26:54] Or else you'll get rumbled

[00:26:55] Right Ben?

[00:26:56] Yeah, that's the idea

[00:26:57] But I think there's like

[00:26:58] A thesis to this movie

[00:26:59] Which is like Fletch

[00:27:00] Hates bullshit

[00:27:03] Like it fucking hates it

[00:27:04] What drives Fletch

[00:27:05] Is he thinks everyone's a fucking phony

[00:27:07] Pretty much

[00:27:08] You know?

[00:27:09] And like the thing he hates the most

[00:27:11] Is entitlement

[00:27:12] Like Fletch is out to get people

[00:27:13] Who think they're better than others

[00:27:15] He also doesn't take a lot of things

[00:27:17] Seriously

[00:27:18] And I like that about him too

[00:27:19] Yeah, I like his style

[00:27:20] And we'll get to this

[00:27:21] But I think that's why the scene

[00:27:23] Where the cop is pointing the gun

[00:27:24] And just Richard on Baker's

[00:27:25] Really works because

[00:27:27] Chase is not a great actor

[00:27:29] He's a great comic actor

[00:27:30] This is the best dramatic performance

[00:27:31] Of his career

[00:27:32] Exactly, it is

[00:27:33] The way his face just kind of

[00:27:34] Very subtly shifts from his usual

[00:27:36] Like shit eating grin

[00:27:37] To just like

[00:27:38] Oh, this is terrible

[00:27:40] Like I might get shot

[00:27:41] I could die

[00:27:42] Is really good

[00:27:43] Yeah

[00:27:44] The drama is really present

[00:27:45] In a scene that most movies

[00:27:46] I feel like it wouldn't be at all

[00:27:47] You'd just know like

[00:27:48] Fletch is gonna be fine

[00:27:49] I think we're leading

[00:27:50] Jordan Baker being second billed

[00:27:51] By the way

[00:27:52] Baffling

[00:27:53] Yeah

[00:27:54] Baffling

[00:27:55] Can I sidebar for one second?

[00:27:56] I am baffled

[00:27:57] Can I sidebar for one second?

[00:27:58] He's in two scenes

[00:27:59] Yeah, go ahead

[00:28:00] I saw The Untouchables

[00:28:02] It was playing at the Metrograph

[00:28:03] You went here

[00:28:04] You've been seeing some Diplomas?

[00:28:05] Yeah, and I know you recently

[00:28:06] Watched all the Diplomas

[00:28:07] I recently watched every film

[00:28:08] Barring a couple

[00:28:10] By Brian Diploma

[00:28:11] Do you remember what the billing is

[00:28:13] On The Untouchables?

[00:28:14] No, go for it

[00:28:15] It's insane

[00:28:16] Are you ready for the billing

[00:28:17] On The Untouchables?

[00:28:18] Sure

[00:28:19] This billing happened in the one year

[00:28:20] Where this would have been

[00:28:21] The order for this film

[00:28:22] Okay

[00:28:23] Mm-hmm

[00:28:24] Kevin Costner

[00:28:25] Sure

[00:28:26] My old boss

[00:28:27] Right?

[00:28:28] First bill

[00:28:29] Second billed

[00:28:30] Charles Martin Smith

[00:28:31] Hmm

[00:28:32] Over Connery, Garcia and De Niro

[00:28:35] Yes

[00:28:36] The accountant guy

[00:28:37] Remember him with the glasses?

[00:28:38] Who's the first to die in the movie?

[00:28:40] Yeah

[00:28:41] Yeah, Charles Martin Smith

[00:28:42] Then Garcia

[00:28:44] With Sean Connery

[00:28:46] Mm-hmm

[00:28:47] And De Niro

[00:28:48] I think it's two widths

[00:28:49] I don't think they do an and

[00:28:51] I think they go with Sean Connery

[00:28:53] With Robert De Niro as

[00:28:56] Isn't that weird?

[00:28:58] That's very strange

[00:28:59] We're off top

[00:29:01] But that's the only time Charles Martin Smith

[00:29:03] Will be second billed in a movie

[00:29:05] It looks like it's with De Niro and Sean Connery

[00:29:07] Okay, I'm sorry about that

[00:29:08] As Joe Malone or whatever

[00:29:09] Yeah

[00:29:10] And then

[00:29:11] What's more called Patricia Clarkson

[00:29:13] Is not even credit, like billed

[00:29:15] Only the men

[00:29:16] Do you know what her character

[00:29:17] And she's an Academy Award nominee

[00:29:19] Charles Martin Smith is the only one of that cast

[00:29:21] Who wasn't nominated for an Oscar for acting

[00:29:24] And he gets second billing

[00:29:25] Whoa

[00:29:26] Okay, yes

[00:29:27] Yeah

[00:29:28] So what Patricia Clarkson is

[00:29:30] Her character name is

[00:29:31] And the crowd's the end of that movie

[00:29:33] The woman

[00:29:34] Nessa's wife

[00:29:35] Yeah, oh god

[00:29:36] She's like got a huge part

[00:29:38] What are you gonna do

[00:29:39] Anyway, okay

[00:29:40] So Fletch, I'm sorry

[00:29:41] I think we're leading this episode too much

[00:29:42] We forgot that Ben is hosting

[00:29:43] Yes, yeah, yeah

[00:29:44] So all right

[00:29:45] We're at the beach, right?

[00:29:46] Yeah

[00:29:47] We established that Fletch

[00:29:48] Is working on a case

[00:29:49] He's trying to bust the drug activity

[00:29:51] That's happening there on the beach

[00:29:53] Mm-hmm

[00:29:54] Okay

[00:29:55] So

[00:29:56] You get a sense of who this guy is, right?

[00:29:58] You know, he's kind of silly, right?

[00:30:00] He's like always throwing out jokes

[00:30:02] And that's like right from the start

[00:30:04] That's gonna be the through line

[00:30:06] Throughout the rest of this film

[00:30:08] Yeah

[00:30:09] And I love that like

[00:30:10] David, you were saying that he's like

[00:30:11] Kind of in disguise

[00:30:12] Because he's trying to look like a bum

[00:30:13] Yeah

[00:30:14] But he also, everyone just looks at this guy

[00:30:15] And they're like

[00:30:16] This guy's not doing well, you know

[00:30:17] Yeah

[00:30:18] Like he doesn't disguise himself that much

[00:30:20] Like even though Chevy's like

[00:30:21] Really impossibly handsome in this movie

[00:30:23] Very handsome

[00:30:24] Very handsome

[00:30:25] He still looks like a guy who doesn't have his fucking shit together

[00:30:27] He's very handsome in his preppy, you know way

[00:30:29] Yeah

[00:30:30] I think it's Chevy at his handsome

[00:30:31] Well, he's very handsome on SNL

[00:30:33] Like young Chevy is really hot

[00:30:34] But anyway

[00:30:35] Yeah

[00:30:36] And again that sort of shit eating grin kind of way

[00:30:38] Not my type

[00:30:39] But like, you know, game recognized game

[00:30:41] Yeah, a guy's got a good face

[00:30:43] So

[00:30:44] While he's hanging out at the beach

[00:30:46] He's propositioned by this businessman

[00:30:48] Under the boardwalk

[00:30:50] And he

[00:30:51] You know

[00:30:52] It's so good, right?

[00:30:53] He goes up, he goes, listen

[00:30:54] I want you to listen to me for $1,000

[00:30:57] To come back to my house

[00:30:58] Tim Matheson

[00:30:59] Great Tim Matheson

[00:31:00] Yeah

[00:31:01] So Fletch throws out a couple fun lines

[00:31:02] He does it though

[00:31:03] Because he's interested

[00:31:04] He's always like looking for that next big story

[00:31:06] They go to the guy's house, right?

[00:31:08] Now

[00:31:09] The explanation for this

[00:31:11] Whole murder plot is so great

[00:31:13] I think it's justified

[00:31:15] I think it makes sense

[00:31:16] No, let's do it

[00:31:17] I think so too

[00:31:18] He's got a bone cancer

[00:31:19] Okay

[00:31:21] The bone cancer

[00:31:23] He's got the bone cancer

[00:31:24] Now in 85

[00:31:25] That probably flew

[00:31:26] You could tell people

[00:31:27] Yeah, sorry

[00:31:28] I gotta take off work

[00:31:29] I got bone cancer

[00:31:32] But uh

[00:31:33] Yeah, so

[00:31:34] Fletch can smell this

[00:31:35] This is bullshit

[00:31:36] Right

[00:31:37] But he's like, you know what

[00:31:38] There's something going on here

[00:31:40] His reporter nose is twitching

[00:31:41] There's a story here

[00:31:42] He's got

[00:31:43] Snipping the story

[00:31:45] And I love that setup

[00:31:46] Like immediately you know

[00:31:47] At the beginning of the movie they say

[00:31:48] You see in drugs hit the beach hard

[00:31:51] Right

[00:31:52] He doesn't like it

[00:31:53] He wants to bust it open

[00:31:54] You should say that George Wendt plays a

[00:31:56] Small time beach drug dealer

[00:31:58] Fat Tommy?

[00:31:59] Yeah

[00:32:00] Is that his name?

[00:32:01] Fat Tommy?

[00:32:02] Fat Jimmy?

[00:32:03] What is it?

[00:32:04] And he's got sort of occasion accent

[00:32:05] Uh huh

[00:32:06] He's amazing in this movie

[00:32:07] He's so good

[00:32:08] He should have been second-built

[00:32:10] But there's this sense that

[00:32:11] Like Fletch is breaking this story

[00:32:13] Because he actually cares for

[00:32:15] These like acts

[00:32:17] Yeah, the random junkies

[00:32:19] On the beach

[00:32:20] I mean Fletch

[00:32:22] He relates to

[00:32:25] The guys on the margins of society

[00:32:27] Right

[00:32:28] And it's easy for him

[00:32:29] To just bust those guys

[00:32:31] Right

[00:32:32] But it's like he knows

[00:32:33] There's a bigger hand at play

[00:32:35] Because that's what Fletch really hates

[00:32:37] Is whoever's in the ivory tower

[00:32:39] You know what I'm saying?

[00:32:40] And so he's on that case

[00:32:41] And he says

[00:32:42] I think I'm getting close to

[00:32:43] Busting the story

[00:32:44] I've been working on it for a long time

[00:32:45] And you get that he like

[00:32:46] Genuinely cares about like

[00:32:48] Gummy on the beach, right?

[00:32:49] Totally

[00:32:50] Okay, so then when Tim Matheson

[00:32:51] Comes with this murder thing

[00:32:53] The film sets it up as just like

[00:32:54] Well Fletch isn't going to turn down a good story

[00:32:56] Right

[00:32:57] And almost like classic like

[00:32:58] Detective style story

[00:33:00] Yeah

[00:33:01] They'll do that sometimes

[00:33:02] Or you have a bigger case

[00:33:03] And then they just throw a little

[00:33:04] Small one

[00:33:05] To kind of distract you

[00:33:06] For the time being

[00:33:07] But it's not immediately apparent

[00:33:08] That these two things are connected in any way

[00:33:10] No no no

[00:33:11] It's not

[00:33:12] Which I like

[00:33:13] You have a sneaking suspicion

[00:33:14] That it might be

[00:33:15] Well because it's a movie

[00:33:16] Yeah that's how I know

[00:33:17] And the bone cancer

[00:33:18] Bone cancer is a little convenient

[00:33:21] A little convenient

[00:33:22] Yeah

[00:33:23] So we can cut to his workplace

[00:33:26] Oh you didn't say what the final

[00:33:28] What the offer was though

[00:33:29] For Tim Matheson

[00:33:30] Oh excuse me

[00:33:31] Of course

[00:33:32] Right

[00:33:33] So the deal is

[00:33:34] If Fletch will murder him

[00:33:37] Yeah

[00:33:38] Okay

[00:33:39] And

[00:33:40] Murder

[00:33:41] And then

[00:33:42] I guess burn up his body

[00:33:43] Yeah

[00:33:44] And basically the whole idea is that

[00:33:46] Tim Matheson has bone cancer

[00:33:48] He

[00:33:50] He doesn't want to suffer

[00:33:51] He doesn't want to suffer

[00:33:52] He also though he wants to make sure

[00:33:53] His family gets the life insurance money

[00:33:55] And if he kills himself

[00:33:56] The policy will be void

[00:33:57] Right

[00:33:58] So this all makes sense

[00:33:59] He's thought of this through

[00:34:00] He wants Fletch this low life

[00:34:02] To murder him

[00:34:03] Burn him up in his car

[00:34:04] And then leave the country with $50,000

[00:34:07] And he says like you know

[00:34:08] I've been scouring the beach

[00:34:09] I've been watching you

[00:34:10] I see how you function

[00:34:12] You know

[00:34:13] You're a drifter

[00:34:14] No one cares about you

[00:34:16] You know no one will notice

[00:34:17] If you're gone

[00:34:18] You'll be able to make a new life for yourself

[00:34:19] But I can also tell

[00:34:20] You're kind of smart

[00:34:21] And you can get things done

[00:34:22] Like cause he sees how much Fletch

[00:34:23] Is working the beach

[00:34:24] Right

[00:34:25] And he doesn't know that Fletch

[00:34:27] Is working something bigger

[00:34:28] Of course he doesn't

[00:34:29] Cause he's in disguise

[00:34:30] Fletch is working overtime

[00:34:31] He's a man of many disguises

[00:34:32] Fletch is working overtime

[00:34:34] Alright so

[00:34:36] This is fun

[00:34:37] Okay this is

[00:34:38] Fun

[00:34:39] This is what we do

[00:34:40] Then we go to the office

[00:34:41] And you get a sense of what his workplace is like

[00:34:43] He is really on deadline

[00:34:45] And he's got nothing

[00:34:46] Fletch has got nothing

[00:34:48] Okay his boss

[00:34:49] He's riding his ass hard

[00:34:51] He's got uh

[00:34:52] Who's his co-workers?

[00:34:53] Gina Davis

[00:34:54] Gina Davis

[00:34:55] She's so cute

[00:34:56] She's so great in this

[00:34:57] Such a great actress

[00:34:58] I miss her

[00:34:59] This is

[00:35:00] Has she won her Oscar yet?

[00:35:02] This is like probably right before

[00:35:03] This is before

[00:35:04] It's not long

[00:35:05] Accidental tourist I think is 88

[00:35:07] Am I wrong about that?

[00:35:08] Find out

[00:35:10] Cause Beeljuice is 87

[00:35:11] 88

[00:35:12] Hey nailed it

[00:35:13] I knew she hadn't been

[00:35:14] Fedded by the time she did Beeljuice

[00:35:16] She's only been in Tutsi before this

[00:35:18] And Tutsi's three years earlier

[00:35:19] And then after this she goes

[00:35:21] The fly

[00:35:22] Beeljuice which is 86

[00:35:23] Yeah

[00:35:24] Earth girls are easy

[00:35:25] Accidental tourist

[00:35:26] Delman Louise

[00:35:27] League of their own

[00:35:28] What a run

[00:35:29] Holy shit

[00:35:30] What a run

[00:35:31] And then like the run

[00:35:32] Literally the train doesn't like derail

[00:35:33] It explodes in a nuclear bomb

[00:35:35] Well she marries Rennie Harlan

[00:35:36] Yeah and then it's like

[00:35:37] I mean I like the long kiss good night

[00:35:39] I do too

[00:35:40] But you've got you know

[00:35:41] Cutthroat Island

[00:35:42] Hero, Angie

[00:35:43] Cutthroat Island

[00:35:44] Stewart little two

[00:35:45] Never makes a movie again

[00:35:46] Hey but it's Stewart little one though

[00:35:48] I mean one and two

[00:35:49] I don't know why I said two

[00:35:50] Yeah come on

[00:35:52] And she should come back

[00:35:54] Isn't she on some TV show this fall?

[00:35:56] She was on Commander in Chief

[00:35:57] A few years back

[00:35:58] And that was gonna be like

[00:35:59] This big deal

[00:36:00] Oh she's on the Exorcist TV show

[00:36:02] Which is supposed to be very good

[00:36:04] I have heard

[00:36:05] What?

[00:36:06] From who have you heard

[00:36:07] From insiders

[00:36:08] Richard Wyatt directed it

[00:36:10] Who the fuck is that?

[00:36:11] He directed the dawn of the plan of the apes

[00:36:13] Which I love

[00:36:15] What?

[00:36:16] Yeah

[00:36:17] No Rupert Wyatt

[00:36:18] He directed the first one

[00:36:20] Not dawn

[00:36:21] Rise of the plan of the apes

[00:36:22] Sorry I get that title is confused

[00:36:23] I get this title is confused

[00:36:24] Much better

[00:36:25] I agree but I also think he's a very good director

[00:36:27] Rupert Wyatt is the guy who makes no weight in the Huntsman

[00:36:29] No it's not

[00:36:30] That's Rupert Sanders

[00:36:31] Oh right well it's fair that I mix those two up

[00:36:33] Yes

[00:36:34] Rupert Wyatt is much better though

[00:36:35] The Exorcist script is supposed to be good

[00:36:37] Gene Davis is on it

[00:36:38] I hope it's a comeback

[00:36:39] Anyway he's in the office

[00:36:40] Right he's in the office

[00:36:41] We meet his boss

[00:36:43] Played by

[00:36:45] Libertini

[00:36:46] I don't know his first name

[00:36:48] That is looking like he's Libertini

[00:36:50] I'm trying to throw facts out

[00:36:51] I don't know

[00:36:52] His boss is just

[00:36:53] I mean this is the thing about it

[00:36:55] It's almost like Fletcher's a cop

[00:36:56] Because his boss

[00:36:57] Literally is like the police lieutenant

[00:36:58] He's like damn it Fletcher

[00:37:00] You can drive with me crazy

[00:37:01] You know like he's like bald

[00:37:03] And like ahhh

[00:37:04] That's what I love about this movie

[00:37:05] Because it's a mix of all the things that I'm super into

[00:37:07] I like pulpy detective kind of stuff

[00:37:09] I love the hard boiled cop kind of story

[00:37:11] But then there's also a funny guy

[00:37:13] It's a fun but it's also a

[00:37:15] I like a reporter movie

[00:37:16] You know there's not enough good reporter movies

[00:37:17] It's a good mix of all this stuff

[00:37:19] So it just excites me

[00:37:20] It really does

[00:37:21] Well it's the sense that like Fletcher

[00:37:22] Takes the responsibility

[00:37:24] Of being a journalist

[00:37:25] Very seriously

[00:37:27] Like weirdly

[00:37:28] Like he doesn't take anything else seriously

[00:37:30] But like his editor is going like

[00:37:31] Fletcher I need a story tomorrow

[00:37:33] We're going to press

[00:37:34] And he's like I'm not giving you a story until I crack the case

[00:37:37] Because I need to affect change

[00:37:39] Like I need to fucking take shit down

[00:37:41] And so Fletcher just keeps on saying

[00:37:43] Like I'm working on it

[00:37:44] I'm working on it

[00:37:45] And Libertine he's just fucking losing it

[00:37:47] He's losing it

[00:37:48] He took an ad out for Fletcher's next column

[00:37:50] In his own paper which is truly strange

[00:37:52] Cause it's big

[00:37:53] I mean when you go to the office

[00:37:54] Whole page ad

[00:37:55] I mean like that is a waste

[00:37:57] That is a waste of newspaper resources

[00:37:59] You want to use the whole page to get money

[00:38:01] Like what the fuck is he thinking?

[00:38:03] I don't know if you notice

[00:38:04] This guy should be fired is what I'm saying

[00:38:06] Yeah oh no question

[00:38:07] Gea Davis promoter

[00:38:08] No question

[00:38:09] Make her the editor

[00:38:10] I don't know if you notice

[00:38:11] This guy on the street

[00:38:12] I want to run a beach doing junk in a week

[00:38:14] In the office they have like these big

[00:38:16] Giant like framed

[00:38:18] Prinouts of the Jane Doe pieces

[00:38:20] So it's clear that like the Jane Doe pieces

[00:38:22] Are like huge for them

[00:38:24] Right

[00:38:25] That's kind of like their competitive advantage

[00:38:27] Although when he mentions

[00:38:28] The one time he mentions these Jane Doe

[00:38:30] It gets no reaction out of

[00:38:32] Dana Wheeler Nicholson

[00:38:34] Cause they're in the ivory tower

[00:38:36] I just wanted someone to be like

[00:38:38] Here Jane Doe I wanted that moment

[00:38:40] But there's also

[00:38:42] A thing I love in this opening scene

[00:38:44] Where like Gea Davis is clearly like his buddy

[00:38:46] Right

[00:38:47] Like she's his ally you know

[00:38:48] They're like in it together

[00:38:50] And she's always there to sort of go like

[00:38:52] Come on boss like he's fucking flesh

[00:38:54] Come on right

[00:38:55] And there's a moment when like

[00:38:56] He walks in and Libertini's like

[00:38:58] Fletch where's my piece

[00:38:59] And like Chevy throws out like a few fucking

[00:39:01] Fletchisms right

[00:39:02] And Gina like laughs at all of them

[00:39:04] And it's this thing that counties don't do anymore

[00:39:07] Which is acknowledged that the characters in the movie

[00:39:09] Are funny to the other people in that world

[00:39:12] Right

[00:39:13] Like what I don't like is in comedies

[00:39:14] When someone does something ridiculous

[00:39:15] And everyone else is just aghast

[00:39:17] And it's like

[00:39:18] No in real life if that happened you'd laugh

[00:39:20] Like whether it's uncomfortable laughter

[00:39:22] Cause you can't believe something

[00:39:23] That insane it's happening on

[00:39:24] Or because they're your friends

[00:39:26] And you know they're funny

[00:39:27] So like he's fucking like yucking it up

[00:39:29] And G Davis is like I love Fletch

[00:39:31] Nah

[00:39:32] Like G Davis is like a fan of Fletch

[00:39:33] Like she gets the Fletch is funny

[00:39:35] She believes him too

[00:39:36] She believes him

[00:39:37] She believes him

[00:39:38] Cause he's a good reporter

[00:39:39] He's a good reporter

[00:39:40] Alright so carry on

[00:39:41] Alright so

[00:39:42] Well you know what

[00:39:43] He's gotta look into the Stanwick character

[00:39:44] Right

[00:39:45] He's gotta see what's going on

[00:39:46] Yeah so what's his name

[00:39:47] Tim Stanwick

[00:39:48] What's his name

[00:39:49] Tim Mathis

[00:39:50] Alan Stanwick

[00:39:51] Alan Stanwick

[00:39:52] So you know again

[00:39:53] He's got this drug case

[00:39:54] But you know what

[00:39:55] This guy who knows what's going on here

[00:39:57] He puts the drug case on the back burner

[00:39:59] It does

[00:40:00] It's a journalism term

[00:40:01] So you cut to the Stanwick's doctor

[00:40:04] Right

[00:40:05] And this is your first real

[00:40:07] I would say like official character

[00:40:09] Played by legendary character

[00:40:11] Director M. Emmett Walsh

[00:40:13] You know him

[00:40:14] Yeah

[00:40:15] No he's great

[00:40:16] He's one of the best

[00:40:17] Do you like this scene Ben

[00:40:18] This feels like the kind of scene

[00:40:19] That would have played well for a 13 year old

[00:40:20] Yeah I like this scene

[00:40:21] Ben's grinning ear to ear

[00:40:23] Moon River

[00:40:25] That's what he does

[00:40:27] I love it

[00:40:28] Ben is scarlet with satisfaction right now

[00:40:31] He's red with amusement

[00:40:33] He's he's I'm not joking

[00:40:35] He's bright red because he's laughing so hard

[00:40:37] Oh man

[00:40:38] Ben's just thinking about Fletcher and he's laughing

[00:40:40] So funny

[00:40:41] Yeah he's trying to work this doctor

[00:40:43] Get some info

[00:40:44] Right

[00:40:45] Doctor Stonewalls him

[00:40:46] Yeah

[00:40:47] And does a prostate exam

[00:40:48] So really like

[00:40:49] You know

[00:40:50] Fletch really blows this scene

[00:40:52] I'm not gonna say

[00:40:53] No info

[00:40:54] Except that I guess this man is Stanwick's doctor

[00:40:57] I suppose he does confirm that

[00:40:59] He confirms that

[00:41:00] And he also gets a free butt fingering out of the process

[00:41:03] You know what I mean

[00:41:04] That's not nothing

[00:41:05] Usually gotta pay a good dollar for a nice butt fingering

[00:41:08] And you know what

[00:41:09] Fletch establishes too

[00:41:10] He's really good at bullshitting

[00:41:12] Yeah

[00:41:13] But maybe not as

[00:41:14] He's obviously not getting anything out of this guy

[00:41:16] But again like

[00:41:17] You're seeing here like

[00:41:18] He can like

[00:41:19] Oh Margaret

[00:41:20] You know

[00:41:21] Oh I go to the same tennis club

[00:41:22] He's just bullshitting this guy

[00:41:24] I mean Chevy Chay is really good at this

[00:41:26] Plush play is the long game

[00:41:27] I feel like

[00:41:28] So we should say

[00:41:29] The recurring joke of the movie is

[00:41:31] He's really good at bullshitting

[00:41:33] He's good at like

[00:41:34] Seeming natural

[00:41:35] But he can't do names

[00:41:36] And every name he comes out with is absolutely ludicrous

[00:41:39] So it's one of two things

[00:41:40] My favorite is Doctor Rosen Rosen

[00:41:41] Right

[00:41:42] When he's trying

[00:41:43] Yeah yeah yeah

[00:41:44] It's either he starts out with the first half

[00:41:45] Of a last name

[00:41:46] He can't make up the rest of it

[00:41:47] Right

[00:41:48] Or it's he picks

[00:41:49] A very well known person

[00:41:50] He's Ted Nugent

[00:41:51] What's the other one

[00:41:52] Don Corleone

[00:41:53] Don Corleone was great

[00:41:54] Doesn't he say Franklin Delano Roosevelt once

[00:41:56] They go like the president

[00:41:57] He goes yeah my parents are big friends

[00:41:59] No no Harry Estrument

[00:42:00] Harry Estrument yes sorry

[00:42:01] Yeah but he goes like

[00:42:03] My name is John

[00:42:04] We're from

[00:42:05] Smokin' Whits

[00:42:06] Yeah

[00:42:07] Like he'll just like

[00:42:08] Cock and Toast

[00:42:09] Right that's what it is

[00:42:10] He's a Scotch Romanian

[00:42:11] The Rosen Rosen one's amazing

[00:42:13] The Doctor

[00:42:14] Because he just keeps on saying

[00:42:15] Doctor Rosen Rosen

[00:42:16] Who?

[00:42:17] He goes Rosen Steenberg

[00:42:18] Like he just keeps on

[00:42:19] He's like if I start with Rosen

[00:42:20] There's gonna be a doctor

[00:42:21] Who's Doctor Rosen Blank

[00:42:23] So if I have enough chances

[00:42:25] One of them is gonna hit

[00:42:26] Um

[00:42:27] Gets his butt finger

[00:42:28] I feel like Chase is

[00:42:29] Adlibbing a lot of that

[00:42:30] Right that must have been

[00:42:31] A vintage Chevy Adlib

[00:42:33] Definitely

[00:42:34] Yeah

[00:42:35] Okay so now

[00:42:36] He still isn't

[00:42:37] He's not satisfied right

[00:42:38] He hasn't gotten any stand

[00:42:39] No not enough info

[00:42:40] So now he's at the hospital

[00:42:41] Right we have the little fun

[00:42:42] Rosen Rosen moment

[00:42:43] Me is actually satisfied

[00:42:44] Because he got the butt finger

[00:42:45] But yeah yeah

[00:42:46] That's true

[00:42:47] Moon

[00:42:48] Moon

[00:42:49] River

[00:42:50] So he's at the hospital

[00:42:52] He goes into the records room

[00:42:53] Right

[00:42:54] Yeah

[00:42:55] Now you know

[00:42:56] There's just some high jinks

[00:42:57] That ensue he faints

[00:42:58] Because of a spleen

[00:42:59] Yeah he takes part

[00:43:00] In like open heart surgery

[00:43:01] Or whatever

[00:43:02] They do one of those

[00:43:03] Like hey doctor

[00:43:04] You know one of those

[00:43:05] Like drop in surgeon spots

[00:43:06] And he's like

[00:43:07] I'm not sterilized

[00:43:08] And the doctor's like

[00:43:09] Hey it doesn't matter

[00:43:10] This guy can't get sick

[00:43:11] Any more sick can he

[00:43:12] Which I think is not true

[00:43:13] Yeah

[00:43:14] It holds the spleen

[00:43:15] He faints

[00:43:16] He ends up in the records room

[00:43:17] With a nurse

[00:43:18] Right

[00:43:19] And he's doing his old

[00:43:20] Fletch routine

[00:43:21] Yep

[00:43:22] He sends the nurse off

[00:43:23] To go get him something

[00:43:24] Now you have another moment

[00:43:26] In movies that I love

[00:43:27] Which is classic computer graphics

[00:43:30] Right

[00:43:31] Like your old school

[00:43:32] Like

[00:43:33] Sure

[00:43:34] Love that stuff

[00:43:35] Then you also

[00:43:36] He's got an actual like

[00:43:37] Files

[00:43:38] This isn't the age of internet guys

[00:43:39] The computer tells him

[00:43:40] Where the file is

[00:43:41] The computer doesn't have

[00:43:42] Files on it

[00:43:43] It's just a

[00:43:44] It's a digital card catalog

[00:43:46] Yeah

[00:43:47] I'm excited

[00:43:48] That bends like guys

[00:43:50] This is cool

[00:43:51] Now I don't want to rate on your parade

[00:43:52] They are

[00:43:53] There is one massive oversight here

[00:43:55] What's that

[00:43:56] No mouse work

[00:43:57] That's true

[00:43:58] They don't show them clickin' men

[00:44:00] And I was a little upset

[00:44:02] But I'm okay because

[00:44:04] If it's MS-DOS

[00:44:05] Then you know what

[00:44:06] It gets a pass

[00:44:07] Don't need a mouse

[00:44:08] It doesn't need a mouse

[00:44:09] And physical files

[00:44:10] You're getting two out of three

[00:44:11] Two out of three ain't fat

[00:44:13] So he

[00:44:15] Pretty much

[00:44:16] Is able to figure out

[00:44:17] This guy doesn't have bone cancer

[00:44:19] Yeah

[00:44:20] Right, he's bullshit

[00:44:21] Yeah

[00:44:22] Something's fishy

[00:44:23] Okay

[00:44:24] So then

[00:44:25] Alright

[00:44:26] This is actually

[00:44:27] This is quite a challenge

[00:44:28] You guys are good at this

[00:44:29] Okay

[00:44:30] So now he's like

[00:44:31] Let's look into the wife

[00:44:32] Right

[00:44:33] And then we get into

[00:44:35] Your classic 80s vape

[00:44:37] Right

[00:44:38] She's got all the characteristics

[00:44:39] Of an 80s vape

[00:44:40] A very blown out hair

[00:44:42] Right

[00:44:43] Yeah

[00:44:45] She's like

[00:44:46] Somebody I've never ever seen

[00:44:48] Ever again

[00:44:49] That's a big one

[00:44:50] She's just the babe

[00:44:51] Movies like this

[00:44:52] The top-billed woman

[00:44:54] Is never in another movie

[00:44:56] She just disappears

[00:44:57] But the supporting actresses

[00:44:58] Are like Academy Award winner

[00:44:59] Gina Davis

[00:45:00] Yeah

[00:45:01] Like Gina Davis has three scenes

[00:45:02] But no one

[00:45:03] I challenge anyone to tell me

[00:45:05] Without looking it up

[00:45:06] Who the lead actresses

[00:45:07] In Beverly Hills cop

[00:45:10] Who's a huge part

[00:45:11] I don't know

[00:45:12] She's like third building that movie

[00:45:13] No one can tell me who the actresses

[00:45:15] Who is it?

[00:45:16] I have no idea

[00:45:17] That's my point

[00:45:18] I can't tell you

[00:45:19] I thought you were going to be like

[00:45:20] And it turns out it was

[00:45:21] Bet Davis

[00:45:22] No, but Ben's isolating

[00:45:23] A really strong point here

[00:45:24] These movies never

[00:45:25] The lead actresses

[00:45:26] Never in

[00:45:27] Yeah

[00:45:28] It is

[00:45:29] Let me tell you

[00:45:31] Wikipedia

[00:45:32] Is telling me

[00:45:33] That it is

[00:45:34] Lisa

[00:45:35] Islebacker

[00:45:36] Yeah exactly

[00:45:37] What a performance

[00:45:38] Yeah

[00:45:40] So we're at the tennis club

[00:45:41] You get a bunch of really fun

[00:45:43] Little hijinks

[00:45:44] I mean I've already

[00:45:45] At the top of the episode

[00:45:47] Right he overhears this douche bag guy

[00:45:50] Asshole

[00:45:51] Be mean to a waiter

[00:45:52] Underhill

[00:45:53] Underhill

[00:45:54] He keeps on yelling it out

[00:45:55] And he's going to fucking get this guy

[00:45:56] Because again

[00:45:57] He's against those like

[00:45:58] But this is what

[00:45:59] This is what I like

[00:46:00] It's not

[00:46:01] Like

[00:46:02] I mean the way you're making it sound

[00:46:03] It's like Chevy Chase

[00:46:04] Turns to the camera

[00:46:05] And he's like hey rich people

[00:46:06] It's all very underhanded and like calm

[00:46:08] He just

[00:46:09] He just fucks these guys over and over

[00:46:10] And he doesn't like them

[00:46:11] And also

[00:46:12] It's just

[00:46:13] It's very relaxed and subtle

[00:46:14] I think it's good

[00:46:15] I really do

[00:46:16] And the way the underhill thing is established

[00:46:17] Is just like

[00:46:18] It's like a fucking tracking shot

[00:46:19] He's walking by them

[00:46:20] It seems like it's maybe

[00:46:21] You're taken in the club

[00:46:22] And it seems like it's maybe

[00:46:23] Just sort of ambiance

[00:46:24] Right it's character detail

[00:46:25] They don't hit it too hard

[00:46:26] He's just being really disrespectful

[00:46:28] To this waiter

[00:46:29] And saying his name a couple times

[00:46:30] Like don't you know who I am

[00:46:31] Underhill

[00:46:32] Underhill

[00:46:33] And then like two scenes later

[00:46:34] You know I mean not two scenes later

[00:46:35] But like a minute or two pass

[00:46:37] And then he's ordering from the guy

[00:46:39] And goes like oh

[00:46:40] And put it on the underhills

[00:46:41] Like it's an after

[00:46:44] And it's just like yeah

[00:46:45] You know fucking like treat other people well

[00:46:48] Right

[00:46:49] Like don't pull rank

[00:46:50] You're not better than gummy on the beach

[00:46:52] Gummy's a good man

[00:46:53] You fucking under go

[00:46:55] It's just falling under hard times

[00:46:56] Yeah

[00:46:57] He's being taken advantage of

[00:46:58] Yeah

[00:46:59] So now I'm going to order

[00:47:00] A Bloody Mary stick sandwich

[00:47:02] And a stick sandwich

[00:47:03] Yeah great job

[00:47:04] It's a great deal

[00:47:05] Love it

[00:47:06] Love it so much

[00:47:07] Yeah

[00:47:08] Okay so

[00:47:09] He flirts with her a little bit

[00:47:11] Again it's still not really clear

[00:47:12] What's happening with this storyline

[00:47:14] Compared to the drug story

[00:47:16] No and he's doing the classic

[00:47:17] Fletch like who are you

[00:47:19] Dave Dave who

[00:47:20] Oh Dave Dave

[00:47:21] Matt the way

[00:47:22] Cock and toast

[00:47:24] And then he's

[00:47:25] He does the

[00:47:26] You're gone

[00:47:27] No no no

[00:47:28] You got it

[00:47:29] What's up

[00:47:30] I was remembering

[00:47:31] It's early with the doctor

[00:47:32] Where he does that thing

[00:47:33] I don't know you from the club

[00:47:34] I have never seen your name

[00:47:35] And he's like

[00:47:36] Oh my aunt

[00:47:37] Mrs. Smith

[00:47:38] And he's like

[00:47:39] Dorothy or you know Mildred

[00:47:40] Yeah

[00:47:41] He's like

[00:47:42] He says yes

[00:47:43] Yeah right yeah

[00:47:44] And she goes which one is it

[00:47:45] Yeah

[00:47:46] Oh right

[00:47:47] This is the big Fletch thing

[00:47:48] Is he

[00:47:49] Says something that's incorrect

[00:47:50] Someone catches him in the lie

[00:47:51] And he doubles down on it

[00:47:52] So like in that doctor scene

[00:47:53] He goes like Mildred

[00:47:54] And she goes like

[00:47:55] Oh shame about what happened to Reg

[00:47:56] Right

[00:47:57] And he goes oh it was so sudden

[00:47:58] He's like what do you mean

[00:47:59] He was in intensive care for weeks

[00:48:00] He's like it was sudden when he died

[00:48:01] Like the actual moment of his death

[00:48:03] Right

[00:48:04] And he does the same thing here

[00:48:05] Where it's like

[00:48:06] When she's like

[00:48:07] Where do I know you from

[00:48:08] The wedding

[00:48:09] I didn't see that

[00:48:10] My wedding

[00:48:11] I was at your wedding

[00:48:12] You know I mean

[00:48:13] He's just like constantly

[00:48:14] Like you can't catch Fletch

[00:48:16] Can't catch Fletch

[00:48:17] He's unflappable

[00:48:18] That's right

[00:48:19] Yeah

[00:48:20] Alright

[00:48:21] You can't Fletch catch

[00:48:22] You can't

[00:48:23] Fletch me if you can bro

[00:48:25] What if that's the name of the episode

[00:48:27] Oh that's good

[00:48:28] I like

[00:48:29] Well whatever

[00:48:30] We'll talk about it

[00:48:31] Okay

[00:48:32] Alright so

[00:48:33] Right

[00:48:34] He's still not getting to the bottom of this guy

[00:48:36] Now I'm pretty sure

[00:48:37] Correct me if I'm wrong

[00:48:38] This is when he goes home

[00:48:40] To his bachelor pad

[00:48:41] Correct

[00:48:42] Right

[00:48:43] Cool

[00:48:44] As bachelor pad

[00:48:45] Walks in

[00:48:46] As bachelor pad

[00:48:47] Immediately pulls some lever off the ceiling

[00:48:48] Basketball comes out

[00:48:49] He fucking

[00:48:50] Shoot

[00:48:51] He's divorced

[00:48:52] We learned that

[00:48:53] Right

[00:48:54] And he's

[00:48:55] I mean it's not cool to not pay alimony

[00:48:56] But when I was a kid

[00:48:58] I was like this guy's cool

[00:48:59] He's like in the shit

[00:49:00] He's like

[00:49:01] A master of disguise

[00:49:02] He's like kind of like a bullshitter

[00:49:04] He's like running

[00:49:05] Like climbing up a fire escape

[00:49:06] To get away from his like

[00:49:07] You know bad finances

[00:49:08] Right I mean he

[00:49:09] He uses a credit card

[00:49:11] To like unhatch the lint

[00:49:13] The

[00:49:14] Fucking what's the

[00:49:15] Unlatch

[00:49:16] The hinge

[00:49:17] Right

[00:49:18] On the window

[00:49:19] And then his

[00:49:20] Apartments filled with Laker stuff

[00:49:22] Right

[00:49:23] He's got a basketball hoop

[00:49:25] Right

[00:49:26] In his apartment

[00:49:27] George Weiner comes in

[00:49:28] As like the collection agent

[00:49:29] Like need the alimony

[00:49:30] Yep

[00:49:31] And he's like

[00:49:32] Come on my wife

[00:49:33] Like fucking fucked me over

[00:49:34] She's with a guy right now

[00:49:35] He's got tons of money

[00:49:36] She's just trying to fleece me

[00:49:37] She cheated on me

[00:49:38] The whole time with everybody

[00:49:40] I mean I can't believe

[00:49:41] Like I got stuck

[00:49:42] With this deal in court

[00:49:43] He's like

[00:49:44] Well cause your lawyer

[00:49:45] Was sleeping with her too

[00:49:46] That's a little moment

[00:49:47] Where he's like

[00:49:48] Really

[00:49:49] Yeah he didn't know

[00:49:50] Like look I passed the pass

[00:49:51] Yeah Chevy sells that

[00:49:52] Yeah

[00:49:53] He's like

[00:49:54] He's shocked

[00:49:55] But the way he says

[00:49:56] Like

[00:49:57] She was sleeping with everybody

[00:49:58] Yeah

[00:49:59] It isn't even like

[00:50:00] He's slut shaming her

[00:50:01] It's just like

[00:50:02] Fuck it's just like

[00:50:03] I can't catch a break

[00:50:04] Like he's kinda sad about it

[00:50:05] Like he's not angry

[00:50:06] Of vindictive towards her

[00:50:07] But you know what

[00:50:08] He's like fine letter though

[00:50:09] Well no he knows he blew it

[00:50:10] Because he's an investigative reporter

[00:50:11] Yeah

[00:50:12] He was probably always on the job

[00:50:13] Didn't have time for her

[00:50:14] Yeah wasn't giving her

[00:50:15] Any attention bro

[00:50:16] Fletch was working overtime

[00:50:17] Wasn't

[00:50:18] I will say can I just

[00:50:19] Briefly mention the nice guys

[00:50:21] Which I saw last night

[00:50:22] Yeah

[00:50:23] And I wanna just say

[00:50:24] Have you seen the nice guys

[00:50:25] You would enjoy it

[00:50:26] Fletch you'd enjoy this movie

[00:50:27] Oh yeah I've seen the nice guys

[00:50:28] You saw it

[00:50:29] Okay

[00:50:30] Yeah it's really good

[00:50:31] Because there's a scene early on

[00:50:32] Where Russell Crowe's character

[00:50:34] Flashes back to a girl

[00:50:36] Breaking up with him

[00:50:37] And they're just like at dinner

[00:50:38] He's like how are you doing

[00:50:39] She's like so I've been fucking your dad

[00:50:41] And he does the most incredible spit take

[00:50:43] I've ever seen

[00:50:44] Which is not the usual

[00:50:45] Like spitting it out of your mouth

[00:50:46] But he kinda like

[00:50:47] Just throws water out of his mouth

[00:50:49] Into the air

[00:50:50] It's incredible

[00:50:51] He's like taking a drink of water

[00:50:52] And he goes like

[00:50:53] I can't

[00:50:54] Do you remember this

[00:50:55] Oh it's the best moment in the movie

[00:50:56] It's so good

[00:50:57] It's not the best moment in the movie

[00:50:59] But it's so good

[00:51:00] I think it's my favorite moment in the movie

[00:51:01] Oh no no no

[00:51:02] The fucking gozzling cigarette

[00:51:03] In the bathroom stalls

[00:51:04] Best moment in the movie

[00:51:05] That is so much fine tune

[00:51:07] Physical comedy in that movie

[00:51:08] Anyway that's a movie that has a vibe

[00:51:09] Like Fletch

[00:51:10] Agreed

[00:51:11] The closest I think we've gotten

[00:51:12] To a Fletch in a very long time

[00:51:13] Your brother Joey Samms

[00:51:15] Had a really good tweet review

[00:51:17] Of the good guys

[00:51:18] Because I know you saw it together last night

[00:51:19] Go ahead yeah we did

[00:51:20] Which was the good guys

[00:51:21] More like a good movie

[00:51:22] Yeah nice guys

[00:51:23] More like a good movie

[00:51:24] Sorry sorry

[00:51:25] That was the thing that I liked

[00:51:26] The nice guys

[00:51:27] He didn't say a nice movie

[00:51:28] He said a good movie

[00:51:29] Yeah yeah

[00:51:31] Alright so

[00:51:33] Yeah so cool place

[00:51:34] We get that weird

[00:51:35] LA Lakers dream sequence

[00:51:37] Yeah that's weird

[00:51:38] Although

[00:51:39] I don't think he's wearing blackface at all

[00:51:40] So go on him

[00:51:41] No he's not

[00:51:42] He's wearing an afro

[00:51:43] Yeah

[00:51:44] I think Karim Abdul-Jabbar

[00:51:45] Did a little

[00:51:46] You know contributed to this

[00:51:47] Yeah he's not a handmaid

[00:51:48] He's credited

[00:51:49] Right so that's

[00:51:50] Special appearance

[00:51:51] Yeah that's him

[00:51:52] Good job buddy

[00:51:53] Just saying

[00:51:54] Yeah and he's being interviewed by me

[00:51:55] Saying like Fletcher's like the best player they got

[00:51:57] But he's definitely not doing blackface

[00:51:59] And the afro is just

[00:52:00] Like I mean it's one of the guys had afros at that time

[00:52:02] You know like

[00:52:03] It's got touches

[00:52:04] I mean it says like he's from Harlem

[00:52:06] Right like what's he like

[00:52:07] Yeah

[00:52:08] But whatever

[00:52:09] You know it's a different time

[00:52:10] And like

[00:52:11] It's honestly so stupid

[00:52:12] It's just dumb aside

[00:52:13] But I sort of like it

[00:52:14] We're also far away

[00:52:15] From bringing down the house

[00:52:17] You know I mean we're not like

[00:52:18] Edging into that territory

[00:52:20] And it also

[00:52:21] It's just like

[00:52:22] What's you know like what's the most important thing in the world

[00:52:24] To Fletcher

[00:52:25] He loves the Lakers

[00:52:26] He loves the Lakers

[00:52:27] He loves the Lakers

[00:52:28] He really loves them

[00:52:29] Alright so what's going on

[00:52:30] Alright so

[00:52:31] I feel like we're losing the thread

[00:52:32] Yeah no and it gets a little confusing around here

[00:52:34] But essentially let's just say

[00:52:36] Fletcher figures out that Stanwyck's wife Gail

[00:52:39] Owns to some personal stock

[00:52:41] In this Boyd aviation

[00:52:43] Who's played by Daynor Wheeler Nicholson

[00:52:45] Gail

[00:52:46] Dayno Wheeler Nicholson

[00:52:48] No Gail is

[00:52:49] Oh you're talking about the real Gail

[00:52:50] The real Gail

[00:52:51] Alright

[00:52:52] So he gets some money

[00:52:54] To go and look into this

[00:52:57] Real estate in Provo, Utah

[00:53:00] Right

[00:53:01] And so this goes on to

[00:53:03] You know there's like the fun stuff where

[00:53:05] He calls the shady realtor

[00:53:07] Right and then he breaks in after the guy's left

[00:53:10] And like again get some fucking files

[00:53:13] And taking photos

[00:53:14] He's got a little secret camera

[00:53:16] And there's a dog that jumps through a window

[00:53:19] He's got some great banner with the dog

[00:53:21] They play some great Howard Faltemeyer music

[00:53:23] The dog almost speaks English

[00:53:25] There's that weird gag where he's like

[00:53:27] Trying to distract the dog and he's like

[00:53:29] Look defenseless babies or whatever

[00:53:31] And the dog goes like woo

[00:53:33] It's a weird moment

[00:53:35] It's a very weird moment

[00:53:37] Okay so what else

[00:53:38] Do you think Benji was pissed that he didn't get that part

[00:53:40] Cause probably when they sent the breakdown out

[00:53:42] He was like I've worked with Chevy

[00:53:43] I don't think Chevy and Benji got along

[00:53:45] Oh you think probably that Benji

[00:53:47] Didn't want to work with Chevy ever again

[00:53:49] Yeah I think so

[00:53:51] Okay well so he you know

[00:53:53] He gets clearance for Utah

[00:53:55] He does all the hijinks in Utah

[00:53:57] He gets some pictures that

[00:53:59] Clearly are showing him

[00:54:01] That whatever you know

[00:54:04] Again it's like it's already getting confusing

[00:54:06] I'm trying to explain it

[00:54:08] It's like a basically he's got

[00:54:10] Evidence that Stanwick

[00:54:12] Who's claiming that he's invested all this money

[00:54:14] Into this real estate

[00:54:16] He hasn't really it's only worth like

[00:54:18] $3,000

[00:54:20] I also skipped over the part where he goes

[00:54:22] To the

[00:54:24] Aviation

[00:54:26] Or like the airport

[00:54:28] And like has the

[00:54:30] Band-aid around his nose

[00:54:32] Now this is we were talking about this earlier

[00:54:34] Probably this is what we were alluding to

[00:54:36] This is Chevy's biggest disguise

[00:54:38] Probably right he's got the fake teeth

[00:54:40] He's got like a hair piece

[00:54:42] This is him and his most SNL

[00:54:44] Yeah well there too

[00:54:46] There's the broken nose guy

[00:54:48] And then there's the like sort of

[00:54:50] Hick airplane

[00:54:52] You get two back to back that are kind of bigger

[00:54:54] Right

[00:54:56] The airplane repair guy he interacts with

[00:54:58] One of my absolute favorite character actors of all time

[00:55:00] One of the two repair guys is

[00:55:02] Burton Gilliam

[00:55:04] Who is also from Blazing Saddles

[00:55:06] He plays like Slim Pickens right hand man

[00:55:08] This movie was written by Andrew Bergman

[00:55:10] Who wrote Blazing Saddle

[00:55:12] Very interesting

[00:55:14] And he also is in Paper Moon

[00:55:16] He plays like the bellhop at the hotel

[00:55:18] Oh I love that movie

[00:55:20] He's like a great fucking character actor

[00:55:22] He's the one who's got kind of like a real leathery face

[00:55:24] And a big wide grin and he's the fucking best

[00:55:26] But you get another

[00:55:28] It's Chevy

[00:55:30] It's flesh let me show my proper respect

[00:55:32] Trying to pretend that he is an airplane repairman himself

[00:55:34] People going like you want to check this

[00:55:36] Then he checks the luggage and gets defense

[00:55:38] That they can't catch him in a lie

[00:55:40] But then you got the great lines

[00:55:42] Where he goes like what do you need to fix this

[00:55:44] And he goes like get some cable and

[00:55:46] 20 medium gauge ball bearings

[00:55:48] It's all ball bearings now boys

[00:55:50] Yeah don't you know it's all ball bearings now

[00:55:52] Yeah it's a good moment

[00:55:54] So really all the stuff that happens in Utah

[00:55:56] You've got him figuring out

[00:55:58] The property in Utah

[00:56:00] Then he checks into the property

[00:56:02] It's worth nothing

[00:56:04] Then he finds out by going to the plane

[00:56:06] And he figures out that

[00:56:08] Going back and forth from LA to Utah

[00:56:10] Supposedly he's actually flying to South America

[00:56:12] Can I throw out one more line I really like

[00:56:14] Please

[00:56:15] When he goes into the house

[00:56:16] And then the guy comes at him with the shotgun

[00:56:18] Oh yeah

[00:56:19] And he's like what are you doing here

[00:56:20] And he's like the door is open

[00:56:21] And he goes the lock was busted

[00:56:22] And he goes yeah so you see what I mean

[00:56:30] It's hard to encapsulate how

[00:56:32] How good those scenes are

[00:56:34] Like just Chevy really does have this

[00:56:36] Like great skill at those little

[00:56:38] Back and forth moments

[00:56:39] That's why I mean I think

[00:56:40] It's why the movie works

[00:56:41] I'm not even trying to impersonate his delivery

[00:56:43] No you can't

[00:56:44] Because it can't I'm just reciting the lines

[00:56:46] Because the lines are really good

[00:56:47] Good lines but he really

[00:56:48] This is his best performance ever

[00:56:49] Yeah it really is

[00:56:50] Yeah there's not even really much

[00:56:52] Competition for that right

[00:56:53] No it's his medius performance

[00:56:54] It's like the sort of most full meal

[00:56:57] Like Chevy roll yeah

[00:56:58] So I'm kind of jumping around

[00:57:00] With stairs but I mean

[00:57:01] No no I mean the plot eventually kind of gets

[00:57:03] You get the sense that basically

[00:57:05] This guy Stan Wickies

[00:57:07] Somehow connected to this drug

[00:57:09] Ring that's happening at the beach

[00:57:11] Well you got the thing with the police commissioner

[00:57:13] Right so that's what we're going to go to now

[00:57:15] Okay

[00:57:16] So Fletch okay

[00:57:18] Fletch

[00:57:19] The chief sorry the chief of police

[00:57:21] His first interaction with the cops

[00:57:24] Is you've got a very young

[00:57:26] Uncle Phil

[00:57:27] Yeah

[00:57:29] Kevin Avery from Family Meals

[00:57:31] Oh sure yeah

[00:57:32] They plant heroin

[00:57:33] Or I'm sorry no from Fresh Prince of Bel Air

[00:57:35] Yeah James Avery

[00:57:37] Yes I said Kevin Avery

[00:57:39] He was a comedian

[00:57:40] I'm messing up every name of everything

[00:57:42] Also James Avery also

[00:57:44] A voice of Shredder on Tangerine Ninja Turtles

[00:57:47] Oh I didn't know that

[00:57:48] I believe he's now

[00:57:49] Deceased

[00:57:50] Rest in peace

[00:57:51] Yeah he's now a dead man

[00:57:52] Oh man

[00:57:53] Was Shredder now dead

[00:57:54] Yeah great great guy

[00:57:55] So this is you know we're back in LA

[00:57:58] Fletch gets planted with some heroin

[00:58:01] He gets brought in to see the chief

[00:58:03] Played by Jodan Baker

[00:58:05] The chief is a bad guy

[00:58:07] Second build in the film

[00:58:10] Yeah big acting

[00:58:11] So yeah cause Jodan Baker had been

[00:58:15] No he's a bond villain two years later

[00:58:18] In the living day life

[00:58:19] Okay

[00:58:20] He just sort of been around anyway go on

[00:58:22] He'd just been around

[00:58:23] He was in the natural last year before yeah

[00:58:25] And so alright so I mean it's similar to like

[00:58:28] You know Big Lebowski

[00:58:29] It's just like you know the

[00:58:31] They bring in the

[00:58:33] You know the guy who's fucking everything up

[00:58:35] To see the chief right and the chief is basically

[00:58:38] Get your nose out of this

[00:58:39] Get your nose out of this

[00:58:40] You know we know you're Jane Doe

[00:58:42] But at the same time what's really clear

[00:58:44] Is that he's kind of giving too much information

[00:58:47] Like you can tell like right away

[00:58:49] That there's something shady about this chief

[00:58:51] And Fletch's nose is twitching

[00:58:53] Cause he smells a story

[00:58:55] And Fletch also doesn't like

[00:58:57] The establishment and he's like fuck this guy

[00:59:00] Right and he's throwing lines at him

[00:59:02] And then so they go and they bring him into a jail cell

[00:59:05] And this I think is a really cool scene right

[00:59:08] Because it really is

[00:59:09] The stakes all of a sudden

[00:59:10] The stakes are very high

[00:59:11] Get really high and he's like genuinely scared

[00:59:13] That this guy's gonna murder him

[00:59:15] Yeah it's this thing where he's just like

[00:59:16] You know what I'm probably just gonna shoot you

[00:59:17] Take this knife stab myself in the arm with it

[00:59:20] Plant it on your body

[00:59:21] Kill you

[00:59:22] That's what I'm gonna do

[00:59:23] Like he's very calm about it

[00:59:25] He's not even like worked up

[00:59:26] He's just like you know what

[00:59:27] Yeah might as well just do that

[00:59:29] And Fletch is like are you serious

[00:59:30] He goes yeah ask anybody

[00:59:31] Yeah and it makes him really terrifying

[00:59:33] Cause it's like yeah that's my reputation

[00:59:34] Fucking ask anybody I do this all the time

[00:59:37] And Fletch is like you shouldn't

[00:59:38] You wouldn't kill like a newspaper reporter

[00:59:40] Which he's like

[00:59:43] And it should

[00:59:44] It like maybe shouldn't work

[00:59:46] Because it is kind of a ludicrous moment

[00:59:48] In a way

[00:59:49] But

[00:59:50] You know

[00:59:51] Joe Don Baker sells it

[00:59:52] He's really scary

[00:59:53] In that one little moment

[00:59:54] Chevy Chase sells the fear

[00:59:56] And he's president as an actor

[00:59:57] He's reacting

[00:59:58] He's not mugging

[00:59:59] He's like fucking

[01:00:00] He's in the moment

[01:00:01] Yeah it's good

[01:00:02] And so he gives chief the beach

[01:00:04] He says he will not go there anymore

[01:00:06] He's not gonna continue this investigation

[01:00:08] He's not you know

[01:00:09] You put a gun to my head

[01:00:10] And threaten to kill me

[01:00:11] Okay I'm out

[01:00:12] Off the beef

[01:00:13] Now I mean I think I skipped over

[01:00:15] One part where like you know

[01:00:16] He's kind of going back and forth

[01:00:18] Between the office as well

[01:00:19] Right

[01:00:23] Where of course his boss doesn't believe him

[01:00:26] That he was like threatened by this cop

[01:00:28] And why would he

[01:00:29] He's flush

[01:00:30] He's throwing bullshit left and right

[01:00:31] Right he's just

[01:00:32] He's always thrown you know it's like

[01:00:34] You know

[01:00:35] I scream I cry wolf

[01:00:37] Right yeah and then Fletcher's going

[01:00:39] Like get a gun to my head

[01:00:40] And he's like oh no

[01:00:41] A gun I can't believe that

[01:00:42] Like his response to everything

[01:00:43] It's a good scene too

[01:00:44] Where he's basically

[01:00:45] And Fletcher's like you don't believe me

[01:00:46] He's like no

[01:00:47] No I don't believe you

[01:00:48] The great Richard Libertini

[01:00:50] But Gina Davis believes

[01:00:51] Now she believes

[01:00:52] I skipped over this

[01:00:53] But I don't want to forget this little

[01:00:54] Physical moment

[01:00:55] There's a part where you cut to them

[01:00:57] Looking at some micro-fiche

[01:00:58] Which again

[01:00:59] Oh my god

[01:01:00] Micro-fiche

[01:01:01] This is such a good gag too

[01:01:02] And so he goes

[01:01:03] And it's just

[01:01:04] You see the cameras looking at what

[01:01:05] They're looking and it's

[01:01:06] So they're trying to center

[01:01:07] The image

[01:01:08] Little bit to the right

[01:01:09] Little bit to the left

[01:01:10] You get a wider shot

[01:01:12] She's scratching Fletcher's back

[01:01:14] Yeah

[01:01:15] That's a fun joke

[01:01:16] Yep

[01:01:17] I love it

[01:01:18] It's a good joke

[01:01:19] But we're just

[01:01:20] We're powering through this

[01:01:21] I'm sorry

[01:01:22] I don't remember if it comes before or after this

[01:01:23] But it's the one with the lamp

[01:01:25] Oh yes

[01:01:26] The ceiling lamp

[01:01:27] Wait what?

[01:01:28] Yeah

[01:01:29] That's when he is

[01:01:30] Like the chandelier

[01:01:31] He's in the house

[01:01:32] And there's the chandelier

[01:01:33] That's like a bunch of different like domes

[01:01:35] Okay

[01:01:36] And he walks into it

[01:01:37] And one like lands perfectly on his head

[01:01:39] Oh yes

[01:01:40] And then he tries to get out of

[01:01:41] Like the other ones

[01:01:42] It's just a really good

[01:01:43] Like Chevy

[01:01:44] Fucking accidental physical business

[01:01:45] But

[01:01:46] The most incredible

[01:01:47] Physi-median

[01:01:48] I mean

[01:01:49] It's pretty remarkable

[01:01:50] That he's in the community

[01:01:51] Whenever they would let him do that

[01:01:52] Like all the way to that

[01:01:53] Right

[01:01:54] Do you remember that scene in community

[01:01:55] Where he's like surrounded by keyboards

[01:01:57] Yes

[01:01:58] And he's trying to get out

[01:01:59] And he can't

[01:02:00] He just can do wonders

[01:02:02] With very little

[01:02:03] What's amazing is on community

[01:02:04] Even when we watched

[01:02:05] Like the last couple of times

[01:02:06] He's been on SNL

[01:02:07] He can barely move

[01:02:08] Yeah he's not

[01:02:09] Right

[01:02:10] In scenes where he's just supposed

[01:02:11] To be sitting at a table

[01:02:12] Talking to people

[01:02:13] He can't move naturally

[01:02:14] But he still can do

[01:02:15] Like the pratfalls

[01:02:16] Yeah

[01:02:17] It's amazing

[01:02:18] So okay

[01:02:19] So where we left off is

[01:02:21] Threatened by the chief

[01:02:23] Okay

[01:02:24] So he's gonna though

[01:02:25] He's gonna like then

[01:02:26] Go back to the clubhouse

[01:02:28] And see this wife

[01:02:30] Sure Dana Wheeler Nicholson

[01:02:31] Now he's got all this evidence

[01:02:32] To present to her

[01:02:33] It's like saying her name

[01:02:34] I think he's also got

[01:02:35] A bit of a crush on her

[01:02:36] He does have a bit of a crush

[01:02:37] She's pretty cute

[01:02:38] Yeah

[01:02:39] And you know

[01:02:40] Clearly a divorced guy

[01:02:41] You know

[01:02:42] Pretty lonely

[01:02:43] Bachelor pad

[01:02:44] Yeah and she's married

[01:02:45] But he also knows

[01:02:46] To a scumbag

[01:02:47] To a real scumbag

[01:02:48] And he's got a lot to see

[01:02:49] His real wife

[01:02:50] Yeah

[01:02:51] Well he doesn't know that yet

[01:02:52] Spoiler alert

[01:02:53] He's got another wife

[01:02:54] Something fishy

[01:02:55] And now

[01:02:56] He's got a picture of

[01:02:58] The other wife

[01:03:00] Right

[01:03:01] And like

[01:03:02] Oh so we have gotten to that scene

[01:03:03] Where he goes back home

[01:03:04] Meet the parents

[01:03:05] Cause he's like jumping around

[01:03:06] So much

[01:03:07] It's like kind of hard

[01:03:08] It's like hard to kind of

[01:03:09] Get that across

[01:03:10] But it's just like

[01:03:11] In Utah

[01:03:12] There's like four moments

[01:03:13] It's like him going to

[01:03:14] The airport

[01:03:15] Then him going to

[01:03:16] The realtor

[01:03:17] And then going to the house

[01:03:18] To find that it's like bogus

[01:03:20] And then finally seeing the parents

[01:03:22] And confirming that he is

[01:03:24] Married to a Utah woman

[01:03:25] Different woman is a big amist

[01:03:27] Right

[01:03:28] Yeah it's a little

[01:03:29] It's a little all over the place

[01:03:30] But that's all you really need to know

[01:03:31] But also it goes down

[01:03:33] Smoother the second time

[01:03:34] It does

[01:03:35] It really does

[01:03:36] Yeah

[01:03:37] And it's also

[01:03:38] It's this tapestry for which

[01:03:39] Chevy Chase to be Chevy Chase

[01:03:41] Let's Chevy be Chevy

[01:03:42] That's right

[01:03:43] So I mean sure

[01:03:44] It's a lot of Chevy Chase

[01:03:45] But I'm okay with that

[01:03:46] But that's the thing

[01:03:47] So the gale of Beverly Hills

[01:03:50] Dana Wheeler Nicholson gale

[01:03:51] She's rich

[01:03:52] She's been writing the checks

[01:03:54] And that's the whole flimflam

[01:03:56] Which I, a word I try to use on every podcast

[01:03:58] That he's deploying here

[01:04:00] Tim Matheson's flimflam

[01:04:02] The classic Matheson flimflam

[01:04:04] The classic Matheson flimflam

[01:04:05] Is you know

[01:04:06] Married to Utah lady

[01:04:08] Playing both sides

[01:04:10] Been on the side

[01:04:11] Married to Beverly Hills lady

[01:04:13] She's underwriting the whole brigade

[01:04:15] Yep

[01:04:16] That's no good

[01:04:18] I just did a like swoop

[01:04:19] With the hand

[01:04:20] You did

[01:04:21] I did

[01:04:22] Okay

[01:04:23] The old MFF

[01:04:24] Well after the Provo visit

[01:04:26] We geared up towards

[01:04:27] The sort of the drawing room reveal

[01:04:30] The big mystery you know

[01:04:31] Solved right

[01:04:32] The showdown

[01:04:33] Yes

[01:04:34] Yes

[01:04:35] Well I mean we're missing a big scene

[01:04:36] Which is

[01:04:37] Goes back to

[01:04:38] Of course

[01:04:39] The romantic scene

[01:04:40] Goes back to the clubhouse

[01:04:42] He orders a big

[01:04:43] $400 launch

[01:04:44] Oh and of course

[01:04:45] He gets Mr. Underhill back

[01:04:46] Right I forgot about that

[01:04:47] Yep

[01:04:48] He orders two lobster humidors

[01:04:50] Champagnes

[01:04:51] A bottle of Dom

[01:04:52] I believe a bottle

[01:04:53] Two bottles of Dom

[01:04:54] Two bottles of Dom

[01:04:55] Two orders of very expensive caviar

[01:04:57] And every time

[01:04:58] He could blue the caviar

[01:04:59] And he goes

[01:05:00] That's $70

[01:05:01] He goes

[01:05:02] Well thank you for telling me that

[01:05:03] I guess I'll only order two

[01:05:04] And then

[01:05:05] And then

[01:05:06] And then

[01:05:07] And then

[01:05:08] Every time he has an interaction

[01:05:09] With one of the waiters

[01:05:10] He goes

[01:05:11] You know what

[01:05:12] Take $30 out of that for yourself

[01:05:13] Like he keeps on giving them really nice tips

[01:05:15] Because he likes the little guy

[01:05:17] Yeah

[01:05:18] It's almost annoying that it's only a $400 tab

[01:05:20] It feels like I really wanted it to inflate

[01:05:22] To sort of cosmic proportion

[01:05:23] Yeah

[01:05:24] So he's

[01:05:25] Confronting now

[01:05:26] Beverly Hills White

[01:05:27] Right

[01:05:28] To let her know what's up

[01:05:29] And so you know

[01:05:30] He's like Alan

[01:05:31] He's a bad guy

[01:05:32] Okay

[01:05:33] He's married to this woman

[01:05:35] But I need you

[01:05:36] You can't tell anybody yet

[01:05:38] Okay

[01:05:39] Because I think

[01:05:40] He's involved in something bigger

[01:05:41] I'm not sure what

[01:05:42] I just need you to keep your mouth shut

[01:05:44] Okay

[01:05:45] Yeah

[01:05:46] She's like

[01:05:47] How can I do this

[01:05:48] What, you're crazy

[01:05:49] But for whatever reason

[01:05:50] Because it's a movie

[01:05:51] She's on board

[01:05:52] She's on board

[01:05:53] And then he like sort of

[01:05:54] He, I forget what the line is

[01:05:55] But he throws some sort of pick up at her

[01:05:57] And she's like

[01:05:58] That's a really good time

[01:05:59] To make a pass at me

[01:06:01] Like it's another scene that I like

[01:06:03] Like in the same way that Gina Davis laughs

[01:06:05] At his jokes in the office

[01:06:06] Where it's like

[01:06:07] He's incorrigible

[01:06:08] And the characters are acknowledging like

[01:06:10] The bit that you're doing

[01:06:11] But also like

[01:06:12] Yeah, at this point you're a more

[01:06:14] Stand-up guy than my husband

[01:06:16] Like this might work

[01:06:17] Right

[01:06:18] You know she's calling him out on his thing

[01:06:19] And then the underhills get the check

[01:06:21] It's $400

[01:06:22] They're like who the fuck is this

[01:06:23] Bungalow one

[01:06:24] They run over there

[01:06:25] They knock in the door

[01:06:26] Fletch is trying to slip out through the bathroom

[01:06:27] And he's like just trust me

[01:06:28] And she gives him

[01:06:30] One of her husband's suits

[01:06:32] Yep

[01:06:33] And mentions that you guys are similar builds

[01:06:36] Yeah

[01:06:37] This is a clue

[01:06:38] This is a clue

[01:06:39] A key detail

[01:06:40] To keep in mind

[01:06:41] Now we're just kind of jumping around

[01:06:43] Because we want to just get through the plot

[01:06:45] Right

[01:06:46] So there's a great chase scene

[01:06:47] I think it's super funny

[01:06:49] It's like very silly

[01:06:50] It then leads to him going into like

[01:06:53] What would you say like a

[01:06:55] Underpass

[01:06:56] No no

[01:06:57] The like meeting

[01:06:58] Of like the older people

[01:07:00] Oh yeah

[01:07:02] Like a I don't know

[01:07:03] Okay

[01:07:04] Oh yeah well this is a long chase scene

[01:07:05] It's a really long chase scene

[01:07:06] It's a really stupid

[01:07:07] You do have a car for like a teenager with braces

[01:07:08] And he goes like do you have a license

[01:07:10] And he's like no I don't know

[01:07:11] I would also say that like poppy synth music

[01:07:14] Starts to be less effective around here

[01:07:16] It starts to get a little annoying

[01:07:18] And it's just because I think the footage they had

[01:07:20] Was kind of just boring

[01:07:21] Yeah the action is not too interesting

[01:07:24] That's sort of the difference between a movie like Fletch

[01:07:26] And a movie like The Nice Guys

[01:07:27] The Nice Guys has like kind of

[01:07:29] High octane crazy action

[01:07:31] And I would argue Midnight Run too

[01:07:32] I mean yeah they're

[01:07:33] Of course

[01:07:34] This movie the action is very perfect

[01:07:35] The action is very perfunctious

[01:07:36] Yeah but it's really just

[01:07:37] It's only really this one sequence

[01:07:38] Yeah it's really just like

[01:07:39] Let's have something happen

[01:07:40] And so whatever he kind of gets out of it

[01:07:42] Right he just using his like bullshitting skills

[01:07:45] Yeah yeah he's flat

[01:07:46] He never did that before

[01:07:48] Anyway but let's go on to the showdown

[01:07:51] Showdown

[01:07:52] But does he go to the beach?

[01:07:53] Because the final beach scene is important too

[01:07:55] Right

[01:07:56] He goes to the beach looking like sort of a vagabond

[01:07:58] With a long beard

[01:07:59] Bald cap

[01:08:00] Yeah right

[01:08:01] And he finds Gummi

[01:08:02] And he's like

[01:08:03] Gummi played by Larry Flashjanken

[01:08:05] An amazing name

[01:08:06] Yeah quite an name

[01:08:07] He goes to Gummi and acts like

[01:08:09] He's pieced it all together and confirmed it

[01:08:11] Right

[01:08:12] And in the process gets him to confirm his suspicions

[01:08:14] And is like so you're running the drugs

[01:08:16] And he's like I'm not

[01:08:17] I just carried them

[01:08:18] I'm not selling

[01:08:19] So Chief Carlin

[01:08:20] Right

[01:08:21] So then he goes to Fat Jimmy

[01:08:23] Or whatever his name is

[01:08:24] George Wendt

[01:08:25] Cajun George Wendt

[01:08:26] And is like

[01:08:27] Hey Gummi told me everything

[01:08:28] I know what's the chief

[01:08:29] What's going on here

[01:08:30] And he goes look

[01:08:31] They abreasted me

[01:08:32] And said I was either going to serve time

[01:08:34] Or I had to sell the drugs for him

[01:08:36] And he goes are you getting a cut of the action

[01:08:37] He goes no it's all going up to the chief

[01:08:39] I'm just getting some stuff

[01:08:40] I'm getting my fix that's it

[01:08:42] So then he's got the two of them

[01:08:43] He brings them back to the office

[01:08:45] The editor is like what the fuck is going on

[01:08:47] Why do I got Fat Jimmy and Gummi

[01:08:50] In my fucking office

[01:08:51] And he's like

[01:08:52] I'm really close to breaking this story

[01:08:54] And there's like Fletcher fired

[01:08:57] Yeah he fires him

[01:08:58] Yeah

[01:08:59] I want to say something about Larry Flashjanken

[01:09:00] That I just found out

[01:09:01] Yeah

[01:09:02] The first African American actor

[01:09:04] To star in a TV series

[01:09:06] On each of the big three networks

[01:09:08] He was in the White Shadow on CBS

[01:09:10] He was in Bay City Blues on NBC

[01:09:13] And he was in Finder of Lost Loves on ABC

[01:09:16] That was a milestone

[01:09:18] Congrats to Larry Flashjanken

[01:09:19] And we're talking regular

[01:09:20] Yeah no that's an amazing career

[01:09:22] Now Finder of Lost Loves

[01:09:23] I've literally never heard of

[01:09:24] But check out this promo image

[01:09:27] Boy oh boy the 80s

[01:09:28] Is that Delta Burke

[01:09:32] It is not

[01:09:34] I've never heard of any of these people

[01:09:35] But anyway he was fourth billed at that day

[01:09:37] Okay

[01:09:38] Alright so

[01:09:39] We're getting to the final big scene

[01:09:42] Of the film okay

[01:09:43] He's figured it out right

[01:09:45] He knows that Alan Stanwyck

[01:09:47] Right is flying in the drugs

[01:09:49] The chief is then bringing them to Gummi

[01:09:51] Who then is delivering them the fat Sam

[01:09:54] And then you know selling the drugs from there

[01:09:56] And that's that

[01:09:57] This has all been revealed

[01:09:59] But also he still has to live up

[01:10:01] To the initial agreement

[01:10:04] The clock is up

[01:10:05] He's got to murder this guy

[01:10:06] He's got to go murder this guy

[01:10:08] But he's made an agreement

[01:10:09] He's said that this is the time and the place to murder

[01:10:11] So he goes back to his house

[01:10:13] Wearing the suit

[01:10:14] I love that this scene visually

[01:10:15] Is a reversal of the opening scene

[01:10:17] Because Matheson is now in the

[01:10:19] Tattered Mad Johnson jersey

[01:10:21] And Fletch is the one behind the desk

[01:10:23] And Matheson is the one who's sort of

[01:10:25] Like slacking back

[01:10:26] Fletch has figured it out

[01:10:28] He knows what's happening

[01:10:29] All out

[01:10:30] Now as they start

[01:10:32] You know kind of like

[01:10:33] I'm gonna explain my whole plan

[01:10:35] I'm gonna explain my plan

[01:10:37] That whole thing

[01:10:38] Then you know

[01:10:39] Gayle, Beverly Hills Gayle shows up

[01:10:41] Yeah

[01:10:42] Alright so now Alan knows that he's fucked

[01:10:44] Right

[01:10:45] And Gayle says I already know most of it

[01:10:46] I just want to hear you say it

[01:10:48] Yeah that's good

[01:10:49] His plan is to kill Chevy

[01:10:51] Right

[01:10:52] And burn his body

[01:10:53] Basically to reverse what his proposal was

[01:10:56] And then like fake his death

[01:10:58] And flee

[01:10:59] Get away

[01:11:00] With his Utah wife

[01:11:01] And go to Brazil with the three million dollars

[01:11:03] Damn

[01:11:04] Yeah

[01:11:05] This is 85, 3 million Brazil

[01:11:06] You're set

[01:11:07] Yeah

[01:11:09] Okay so

[01:11:11] He um

[01:11:12] You know the

[01:11:14] Beverly Hills wife shows up

[01:11:17] And there's a great line where she

[01:11:19] You know she says

[01:11:20] I just want to see it for myself

[01:11:21] And he goes it's funny

[01:11:22] There's something your wife said to me

[01:11:23] While we were in bed

[01:11:24] Yup

[01:11:25] Right that fun little moment

[01:11:26] That's a good moment

[01:11:27] And then there's a visual thing

[01:11:28] Where Matheson looks over to the wife

[01:11:30] She's like

[01:11:31] She like nods

[01:11:32] And Matheson just sort of takes it in

[01:11:33] And he can't really fight it

[01:11:34] Cause it's like

[01:11:35] Why two wives

[01:11:36] I mean yeah

[01:11:37] Yeah

[01:11:38] Not really going to stick up for myself

[01:11:39] In this scenario

[01:11:40] Yeah what am I going to say

[01:11:41] You've dishonored me

[01:11:43] What am I

[01:11:44] Yeah

[01:11:45] Uh

[01:11:46] But yes

[01:11:47] And it's because

[01:11:48] You know

[01:11:49] He realized they had similar bills

[01:11:50] You're going to burn me up

[01:11:51] You know like

[01:11:52] You're going to reverse the plot

[01:11:53] Like we were saying

[01:11:54] But then

[01:11:55] Guess who also shows up

[01:11:57] The chief

[01:11:58] Joe Don

[01:11:59] You're forgetting a good detail too

[01:12:00] What's that

[01:12:01] Lech has a secret weapon

[01:12:03] A letter

[01:12:04] Oh yes

[01:12:05] Because Lech is a man of letters

[01:12:07] And he knows

[01:12:08] That the pen is mightier than the sword

[01:12:10] Yeah he's written a letter saying

[01:12:12] If I don't

[01:12:13] You know

[01:12:14] He's basically it's like

[01:12:15] If I die tonight

[01:12:16] This letter gets mailed

[01:12:17] Yeah and it's published

[01:12:18] As the final Jane Doe piece

[01:12:19] And it explains everything

[01:12:20] That he's just cracked

[01:12:21] Now Matheson has a good counter to this

[01:12:23] I'll be in Brazil

[01:12:24] Yeah

[01:12:25] Who fucking cares

[01:12:26] Yeah

[01:12:27] I'll be sitting on the beach

[01:12:28] When the you know

[01:12:29] First edition comes out

[01:12:31] With 3 million Brazil

[01:12:32] And he says

[01:12:33] I heard their extradition

[01:12:34] Extradition process is very difficult for murder

[01:12:36] I assume it's even more difficult for

[01:12:38] Double murder

[01:12:39] And it's like

[01:12:40] Oh shit he might kill both of them

[01:12:41] He might have to

[01:12:42] And then the chief fucking

[01:12:43] Bloss through like

[01:12:44] The Kool-Aid man

[01:12:45] That's right

[01:12:46] And he's like

[01:12:47] I think I overheard something about

[01:12:48] Extradition

[01:12:49] Right

[01:12:50] He starts figuring out

[01:12:51] He's going to get the

[01:12:52] It's all going to fall on his lap

[01:12:54] He's like fuck the way

[01:12:55] You think you're going Matheson

[01:12:57] Yeah

[01:12:58] Shoots that motherfucker

[01:12:59] Dead

[01:13:00] He shoots him just

[01:13:01] Like out of nowhere almost

[01:13:02] It's kind of brutal

[01:13:03] It is

[01:13:04] He shoots Matheson dead

[01:13:05] I mean listen up

[01:13:06] That's how you get second bill

[01:13:07] That's yeah it's true

[01:13:08] Joe Don is like

[01:13:09] Yeah you were wondering why I'm second bill

[01:13:11] Bam

[01:13:12] Because Matheson was going to be too

[01:13:14] And then Joe Don shot him

[01:13:15] Yeah he gets the end

[01:13:17] He gets the end

[01:13:18] And so uh oh

[01:13:19] Is Flesch going to make it

[01:13:21] I'm not sure if he is

[01:13:22] I don't need anything

[01:13:23] I'm a little nervous

[01:13:24] I'm worried

[01:13:25] But then

[01:13:26] I think he's going to make it

[01:13:27] I'm real scared

[01:13:28] You know he's crafty

[01:13:29] He's always looking around

[01:13:30] He's always trying to figure out

[01:13:31] Ben's making an end gesture right now

[01:13:32] Making a finger gesture

[01:13:33] He's smacking together his thumb

[01:13:35] And his two center fingers

[01:13:37] His middle and his ring finger

[01:13:39] And he notices

[01:13:40] Well there's a fireplace

[01:13:41] Uh uh gauge to turn the gas on

[01:13:43] Turns that fucker up

[01:13:44] Yeah

[01:13:45] Boom big fucking flame

[01:13:47] Right in Chief's face

[01:13:48] Yeah

[01:13:49] Knocks him out

[01:13:50] Gets the gun

[01:13:51] Girl though

[01:13:52] Is the one that gives the final blow

[01:13:54] With a tennis racket

[01:13:55] Yeah she knocks out Joe Don

[01:13:56] With a tennis racket

[01:13:57] He showed her how to serve

[01:13:59] That's right

[01:14:00] At the country club

[01:14:01] Bam it all comes together

[01:14:02] It all comes full circle

[01:14:03] I love it when a plan comes together

[01:14:05] Flesch says that right

[01:14:06] Yeah I love it when a Flesch comes together

[01:14:07] The plan says that right

[01:14:09] And so in the end

[01:14:11] The Chief is busted

[01:14:13] Flesch is the big hero

[01:14:15] Because he published this great piece

[01:14:17] That probably got picked up

[01:14:18] By a bunch of different papers nationally

[01:14:20] But what else does he say to his boss?

[01:14:21] I quit

[01:14:22] He quits

[01:14:23] Fuck you you didn't believe in me

[01:14:25] He didn't believe in him

[01:14:26] Well Flesch I mean of course

[01:14:27] I mean come on

[01:14:28] I was just giving you a hard time

[01:14:30] I'm out of here

[01:14:31] He also has a big stack

[01:14:33] Of things he wants to write off

[01:14:34] Yeah

[01:14:35] I like that too

[01:14:36] That's like wigs

[01:14:37] Yeah wigs and fake teeth and stuff

[01:14:39] Plain tickets

[01:14:40] And he also gets his final blow

[01:14:42] And as he's like

[01:14:43] Writing up his final piece

[01:14:44] Pulls a chair out

[01:14:46] From the secretary

[01:14:47] Oh yeah

[01:14:48] So she sits on the fucking floor

[01:14:49] She falls down

[01:14:51] But Flesch hates phonies

[01:14:53] And he knows that when the chips were down

[01:14:55] His editor didn't believe in him

[01:14:58] He's got

[01:14:59] He can pick his own editor now

[01:15:01] Yeah

[01:15:02] You know

[01:15:03] He's fucking Flesch man

[01:15:04] Maybe he'll go to the Sacramento Bee

[01:15:05] Don't call him Irwin

[01:15:06] He's Flesch

[01:15:07] Right

[01:15:08] Do you know that his

[01:15:09] I don't know if they say

[01:15:10] In the film

[01:15:11] But in the books it's like

[01:15:12] A big running joke

[01:15:13] His name is like Irwin M. Flesch

[01:15:15] So his initials are I.M. Flesch

[01:15:16] Yeah

[01:15:17] They do mention that once in the movie

[01:15:19] Yeah

[01:15:20] Fletcher

[01:15:21] And so in the end

[01:15:22] He takes the plane tickets

[01:15:24] That were purchased in cash

[01:15:26] With you know

[01:15:27] Like drug money cash

[01:15:28] Someone's gotta use them

[01:15:29] But somebody's gotta use them

[01:15:30] And so he convinces

[01:15:32] Beverly Hills Gale

[01:15:34] To go and take a flight with him

[01:15:37] And then you've got a great little

[01:15:41] Unnecessary scene of them walking on the beach

[01:15:44] With some really dumb voice over

[01:15:45] And he's trying to sell her on the Lakers

[01:15:47] Right

[01:15:48] And he's trying to sell her on the Lakers

[01:15:49] She doesn't know anything about basketball

[01:15:50] I mean she's expressing a lot of my opinions

[01:15:52] On basketball

[01:15:53] Which is like

[01:15:54] Don't you think it's childish

[01:15:55] That they have to dribble the ball up

[01:15:56] And or like bounce the ball up and down

[01:15:57] He goes it's dribbling

[01:15:58] It's dribbling come on

[01:15:59] But there's the voice over that hasn't been there

[01:16:01] Since the beginning of the film

[01:16:02] And what's the final

[01:16:03] It pops in one time

[01:16:05] In the middle of the movie

[01:16:06] Really?

[01:16:07] It's very jarring

[01:16:08] What's the final joke of the movie

[01:16:09] So the final joke of the movie is

[01:16:10] She really doesn't grasp basketball

[01:16:13] But we have our own version of one on one

[01:16:16] She thinks I'm the bravest man

[01:16:18] There is

[01:16:19] Yeah

[01:16:20] Which is

[01:16:21] They're talking about banging

[01:16:22] Right

[01:16:23] And then he goes

[01:16:24] Also I charge the whole

[01:16:25] A trip to

[01:16:27] Mr. Underhill's American Express

[01:16:29] Do you want the number?

[01:16:30] Bit by bit

[01:16:32] Bit by bit

[01:16:34] Bit by bit

[01:16:35] That's great

[01:16:36] I mean Fletch

[01:16:37] Fucking

[01:16:38] Sticks the landing

[01:16:39] We should say

[01:16:40] Then the closing credits

[01:16:41] In Sioux

[01:16:42] And it's just freeze frames

[01:16:43] Of like the best parts of the movie

[01:16:45] Basically

[01:16:46] Like while the credits play over them

[01:16:47] But they're just close ups of Fletch

[01:16:48] Yeah it's just Chevy Chase's

[01:16:49] Fucking shit eating grin

[01:16:51] It's like you forgot how much

[01:16:52] You liked Fletch

[01:16:53] They're gonna show you some pictures

[01:16:54] Of Fletch

[01:16:57] Well there's the joke earlier

[01:16:58] In the movie where the parents

[01:17:00] Stamwicks parents try to show him

[01:17:03] Their photo album

[01:17:04] Cause he wants the one picture

[01:17:06] Of him with the wife

[01:17:07] And he goes do you want to see

[01:17:08] Some more from the reception

[01:17:09] He goes no I'm trying to quit

[01:17:11] And then this

[01:17:12] And the credit sequence feels

[01:17:13] Like a photo album

[01:17:14] Of Fletch

[01:17:15] Of like Fletch is fine this moment

[01:17:17] That's true

[01:17:18] Yeah

[01:17:20] Fletch is a great guy

[01:17:22] I mean I

[01:17:23] Yeah this is

[01:17:25] I'm so glad that we did this

[01:17:26] This is so ridiculous

[01:17:28] But it's also like

[01:17:29] This is not the kind of film

[01:17:30] We've really covered yet

[01:17:31] Well this is the thing

[01:17:32] It's fun to talk about these things

[01:17:33] And it is kind of fun

[01:17:34] What we like about him

[01:17:35] I would say like

[01:17:36] This one plot wise

[01:17:37] Is pretty convoluted

[01:17:38] Like I think we did

[01:17:39] Some you know justice

[01:17:40] Without really getting into it

[01:17:42] Like you know

[01:17:43] It's got a lot of business

[01:17:44] It's got a lot of moving around

[01:17:45] But overall

[01:17:46] I mean come on guys

[01:17:47] It's Chevy Chase

[01:17:48] And it's like fun

[01:17:50] And it's like a detective movie

[01:17:52] Like it's got

[01:17:53] It's got fucking

[01:17:55] Card catalogs

[01:17:56] It's got micro fish

[01:17:58] Alright it's got disguises

[01:18:01] I can't sell you enough on this

[01:18:02] Yeah I

[01:18:03] I don't need to be sold

[01:18:04] Cause I've already bought in

[01:18:06] I'm a Fletch fan baby

[01:18:07] I really liked Fletch

[01:18:09] I really liked Fletch

[01:18:11] I could see it being the kind of movie

[01:18:13] I would watch over and over

[01:18:14] When I was a younger man

[01:18:15] I don't know that I'm going to

[01:18:16] Watch it over and over now

[01:18:17] But I really liked Fletch

[01:18:18] Um so

[01:18:19] We talked about

[01:18:20] Fletch lives

[01:18:21] Fletch lives rather

[01:18:23] I've messed up almost every name

[01:18:25] Of anything

[01:18:26] Any proper name

[01:18:27] Of an actor or title

[01:18:28] I fucked up today

[01:18:31] Fletch lives

[01:18:32] Kill the franchise

[01:18:34] Yes

[01:18:35] Okay

[01:18:36] As did Chevy Chase

[01:18:37] If Chevy Chase had stayed

[01:18:38] A superstar

[01:18:39] Fletch lives quality would not have

[01:18:41] Really been a problem

[01:18:42] They would have made a third Fletch with him

[01:18:43] But you know

[01:18:44] He went off the rails too

[01:18:45] He made the Chevy Chase show

[01:18:46] Yeah

[01:18:47] That's what happened with vacation

[01:18:48] Was like European bomb pretty hard

[01:18:50] But the game of third shot in Christmas

[01:18:51] Was a rebound

[01:18:52] Right

[01:18:53] And they

[01:18:54] Fletch that didn't happen

[01:18:55] He was out of chances right

[01:18:56] Um

[01:18:57] Okay so 1997

[01:19:00] Kevin Smith is hot

[01:19:01] Right?

[01:19:02] He's got this sort of overall deal

[01:19:03] Chasing Amy

[01:19:04] With Miramat

[01:19:05] Has just come out

[01:19:06] And everyone's like

[01:19:07] Oh Kevin Smith

[01:19:08] The comedy director of the future

[01:19:09] You know

[01:19:10] Kevin Smith

[01:19:11] When's he gonna make like

[01:19:12] A bigger mainstream movie

[01:19:13] And he goes

[01:19:14] Harvey Weinstein who's this guy

[01:19:15] And he goes

[01:19:16] I wanna reboot Fletch

[01:19:17] Oh I didn't know this

[01:19:18] Okay

[01:19:19] So the third Fletch movie

[01:19:21] Is like one of Hollywood's longest running

[01:19:23] Like

[01:19:24] Reboot

[01:19:25] Like they've been trying to do this

[01:19:26] For literally 20 years

[01:19:27] I'm about to blow your mind

[01:19:28] This is like a long story

[01:19:29] With a long list of names

[01:19:30] Okay

[01:19:31] This is awesome

[01:19:32] So he goes to them

[01:19:33] And the original pitch is

[01:19:34] Son of Fletch

[01:19:35] Yeah

[01:19:36] Chevy Chase plays

[01:19:37] Like past the torch

[01:19:38] Joey Lauren Adams who is like

[01:19:39] You know Kevin Smith had been using a lot

[01:19:41] At that point

[01:19:42] And was dating as well

[01:19:43] Okay

[01:19:44] Who's great in

[01:19:45] Hey

[01:19:46] Yeah

[01:19:47] She's a great actor

[01:19:48] She's great in chasing it

[01:19:49] Yeah she's a really good actress

[01:19:50] I like her a lot

[01:19:51] I wish she was still around

[01:19:52] Doing stuff on a large basis

[01:19:54] She would play Fletch's daughter

[01:19:57] Her new boyfriend is Jason Lee

[01:20:00] Jason Lee sort of gets trained

[01:20:02] In the way as a Fletch

[01:20:03] Becomes the new sort of Fletch

[01:20:04] Yeah now let me say something about this

[01:20:06] This is the god awful stupid idea

[01:20:07] I agree

[01:20:08] It's a John

[01:20:09] Jason Lee

[01:20:10] Fucking idea

[01:20:11] Yeah he can't carry that character

[01:20:12] No

[01:20:13] I mean Kevin Smith repeatedly tried

[01:20:14] To make Jason Lee happen

[01:20:16] You know that was never a good idea

[01:20:17] No I like Jason Lee a lot

[01:20:18] I like Jason Lee too

[01:20:19] This is not

[01:20:20] Fletch is not the right role for him

[01:20:21] No

[01:20:22] But he plants his flag in the ground

[01:20:24] And he sort of says

[01:20:25] Like I'm making Fletch with Jason Lee

[01:20:27] Or no one

[01:20:28] And so wine seems like great

[01:20:30] Okay all green lighted

[01:20:31] As soon as Jason Lee is

[01:20:32] A movie star

[01:20:33] Is a leading man

[01:20:34] Right

[01:20:35] And so Jason Lee is doing all their stuff

[01:20:37] Let's remember Jason Lee was like

[01:20:38] He already tried this trick with mall rats

[01:20:40] And that had fucking blown up in everyone's face

[01:20:42] Right

[01:20:43] But then it's like you know he's doing

[01:20:44] What was it 3 to Tango

[01:20:46] Like he's doing a

[01:20:47] Not 3 to Tango

[01:20:48] No what's the one Jason Lee did

[01:20:49] Kissing a fool

[01:20:50] What's the one that Jason Lee is in

[01:20:52] Am I going to have to look up Jason Lee right now

[01:20:53] He's one of those three person romantic comedies

[01:20:55] Where it's Jason Lee

[01:20:56] Like Nev Campbell and another guy

[01:20:58] Well 3 to Tango is

[01:20:59] Matthew Perry, Nev Campbell and Dylan McDermott

[01:21:01] Right

[01:21:02] Which is one of the worst movies ever made

[01:21:04] That's the one where Matthew Perry pretends to be gay

[01:21:06] Right

[01:21:07] I think kissing a fool is

[01:21:09] Maybe

[01:21:10] Matthew Perry

[01:21:11] Kissing a fool 98

[01:21:12] No Matthew Perry is not in that one

[01:21:13] Is David Schwimmer

[01:21:15] Jason Lee

[01:21:16] Got it

[01:21:17] Schwimmer Jason Lee

[01:21:18] Hayek

[01:21:19] Millie Avatar

[01:21:20] Oh okay

[01:21:21] I don't know her

[01:21:22] But he was like doing that

[01:21:23] And then he was getting bigger parts

[01:21:24] In the Karen Crow movies

[01:21:25] That's the movie that was directed by

[01:21:26] Entourage creator Doug Ellen

[01:21:27] Exactly

[01:21:28] Thank you

[01:21:29] Uh exactly

[01:21:30] Thank you

[01:21:31] No no

[01:21:32] Oh yeah

[01:21:33] Jason Lee's run is

[01:21:35] You know

[01:21:36] Yeah he makes movies like that

[01:21:37] He's in dogma obviously

[01:21:39] But it's a small role

[01:21:40] He's in almost famous

[01:21:41] In which he literally plays someone who is upstage

[01:21:43] By his co-star

[01:21:44] Like that's like the role

[01:21:46] He's a great character actor

[01:21:47] He's a great supporting player

[01:21:48] And I mean

[01:21:49] He's in vanilla sky where he's like

[01:21:50] Tom Cruise

[01:21:51] Yeah

[01:21:52] I'm your friend

[01:21:53] Like you know over and over

[01:21:54] So I mean

[01:21:55] Yeah so

[01:21:56] Look forward to our vanilla sky

[01:21:57] Yes definitely happening very soon

[01:21:58] Um but Kevin Smith just sits back

[01:22:00] Like I'll wait for you to be one

[01:22:01] Over on Jason Lee

[01:22:02] But as he's waiting

[01:22:03] The project evolves

[01:22:04] He drops the son of Fletch idea

[01:22:05] And it becomes hard reboot

[01:22:07] It's Fletch 1

[01:22:08] We're doing that book

[01:22:09] Which is the origin story

[01:22:11] And Jason Lee will be Fletch proper

[01:22:13] Because at this point

[01:22:14] It's the idea of like

[01:22:15] Start a new series right

[01:22:17] Around this time Weinstein

[01:22:19] Is throwing out names of people

[01:22:20] He wants to play Fletch instead

[01:22:21] Right

[01:22:22] Okay

[01:22:23] So he goes

[01:22:24] Here are guys out green light

[01:22:25] To play Fletch tomorrow

[01:22:26] And they send out straight offers

[01:22:27] These actors had the chance

[01:22:29] To play Fletch

[01:22:31] Jimmy Fallon

[01:22:33] Adam Sandler

[01:22:34] And Fallon must have been later

[01:22:35] Not in the elite 90's

[01:22:36] No this is by 2003

[01:22:38] Okay

[01:22:39] I'm saying there was a lot

[01:22:40] That makes it okay

[01:22:41] There were five years of Smith

[01:22:42] Just waited

[01:22:43] You didn't mention Affleck

[01:22:44] Please

[01:22:45] Oh that's what I'm mentioning

[01:22:46] Okay

[01:22:47] He goes Fallon

[01:22:48] Sandler

[01:22:49] Pitt

[01:22:50] Will Smith

[01:22:52] Wait whoa

[01:22:53] All those guys pass

[01:22:54] Of course

[01:22:55] And then Weinstein goes

[01:22:56] What about Affleck

[01:22:57] Your friend Affleck

[01:22:58] And they go to Affleck

[01:22:59] And Affleck goes

[01:23:00] Yeah I would do that

[01:23:01] So now the project is on

[01:23:03] Ben Affleck is Fletch

[01:23:05] In Fletch 1

[01:23:06] Directed by Kevin Smith

[01:23:08] They start fucking like

[01:23:09] Scouting locations

[01:23:10] They're starting to like

[01:23:11] They're in you know

[01:23:12] Pre-production

[01:23:13] They're not like ready to go

[01:23:14] But they're starting to develop it

[01:23:15] Was it set in Boston?

[01:23:16] Yeah probably

[01:23:17] Gross

[01:23:18] Three weeks later

[01:23:19] Smith sets his movies in Jersey

[01:23:20] I mean yeah

[01:23:21] But I was just thinking Affleck

[01:23:23] This is 2003 now

[01:23:24] Three weeks in

[01:23:25] Affleck's like

[01:23:26] I can't do this

[01:23:27] Affleck's got to make like

[01:23:29] Geely

[01:23:30] Right?

[01:23:31] Okay so Affleck pulls out

[01:23:32] This is like right before

[01:23:33] Geely comes out

[01:23:34] So now they're back

[01:23:35] To like square one

[01:23:37] Here's the new group of names

[01:23:38] That get thrown out

[01:23:39] Okay

[01:23:40] Zach Braff

[01:23:42] Who's popping off the scrubs

[01:23:44] Right

[01:23:45] Dave Chappelle

[01:23:47] Who I think is a brilliant choice

[01:23:49] Yeah Chappelle would have been good

[01:23:50] Oh he would have been so good

[01:23:51] Yes

[01:23:52] And Kevin Smith was like

[01:23:53] Totally for it and Weinstein

[01:23:54] Was like no way

[01:23:55] The thing was

[01:23:56] I think the story that I've heard is that

[01:23:58] Smith was like

[01:23:59] I do Chappelle

[01:24:00] And Weinstein was like

[01:24:01] No how about Zach Braff

[01:24:02] And Smith was like

[01:24:03] Like he thought about it

[01:24:05] And then he dropped out

[01:24:06] When I made Jersey Girl

[01:24:07] Good job buddy

[01:24:08] Yeah

[01:24:09] The other one

[01:24:10] That got thrown out there was

[01:24:12] Ellen DeGeneres

[01:24:13] Yeah

[01:24:14] I would be

[01:24:15] Yeah I would be into that

[01:24:16] She's got the same kind of shaggy

[01:24:18] Like running commentary quality

[01:24:20] To her comedy

[01:24:21] Where she's just kind of chatting

[01:24:22] To herself a lot

[01:24:23] So she'd probably be pretty good

[01:24:24] I think the key to Fletch is

[01:24:25] To be the smartest person in the room

[01:24:27] And Fletch has to be unflappable

[01:24:28] Sure

[01:24:29] And so stand ups

[01:24:30] People with like strict comedy background

[01:24:32] And sketch or stand up

[01:24:33] Like Chase, like Chappelle

[01:24:35] Like DeGeneres

[01:24:36] Are better than just like

[01:24:37] An actor who's kind of funny

[01:24:38] Oh no I mean like

[01:24:39] Affleck could be a total bored

[01:24:40] Or like

[01:24:41] Oh it'd be a knight

[01:24:42] Someone who's that handsome

[01:24:43] And like just kind of a boring movie

[01:24:44] Star at doesn't work

[01:24:45] That's not what you want

[01:24:46] I wouldn't want that

[01:24:47] Braff

[01:24:48] Who knows

[01:24:49] I don't think he's confident enough

[01:24:50] And that's apparently what it came down to

[01:24:51] As Smith said

[01:24:52] He's not confident enough

[01:24:53] I mean Braff's comedy

[01:24:54] I mean his scrub's character

[01:24:55] Yeah

[01:24:56] The joke is the opposite

[01:24:57] Is that he's kind of like

[01:24:58] Silly

[01:24:59] Right

[01:25:00] Is that Fletch isn't like

[01:25:01] Conventionally cool

[01:25:03] But he doesn't give a shit

[01:25:04] What anyone thinks

[01:25:05] But anyway

[01:25:07] On the other side of town

[01:25:08] Brett Ratner knows that

[01:25:10] The Fletch writes are maybe

[01:25:11] Up for renewal

[01:25:12] And he goes to New Line

[01:25:14] And he goes could we get Fletch

[01:25:15] I do it with Chris Tucker

[01:25:17] Well I didn't know about that

[01:25:18] That's crazy

[01:25:19] Okay

[01:25:20] So then that falls through

[01:25:21] Weinstein re-ups the rights

[01:25:23] Uh, Zach

[01:25:24] Bill Lawrence

[01:25:25] The creator of Scrubs

[01:25:26] Bill Lawrence, creator of Scrubs

[01:25:27] Great TV writer

[01:25:28] Comes on and goes

[01:25:29] I love Fletch

[01:25:30] I like that it had an edge

[01:25:31] I like the film took place in the real world

[01:25:33] That Fletch was like an asshole

[01:25:35] You know

[01:25:36] He can recite Fletch

[01:25:37] Line for line he says

[01:25:38] And he goes

[01:25:39] And he writes all the books

[01:25:40] I want to do Fletch

[01:25:41] Smith is off the project

[01:25:42] Bill Lawrence everyone's like

[01:25:43] Cool idea

[01:25:44] Who do you want?

[01:25:45] Zach Fraff

[01:25:46] Ugh

[01:25:47] This was announced

[01:25:48] This film was announced

[01:25:49] Was formally announced

[01:25:50] Was going ahead

[01:25:51] And then Fraff bowed out

[01:25:53] He said

[01:25:54] Fraff summed up the challenge of Fletch

[01:25:56] Remake

[01:25:57] He's saying whoever takes on the remake

[01:25:58] Really has to nail it

[01:25:59] And even then

[01:26:00] Most people hate it unless it's Chevy Chase

[01:26:02] He feels like the expectations are too high

[01:26:04] He drops out

[01:26:05] Yeah he went out wrong

[01:26:06] I mean that is like so

[01:26:07] A film like designed for a Chevy Chase type

[01:26:11] You know

[01:26:12] It's like perfect

[01:26:13] It really is

[01:26:14] Okay so we're like 2006 now

[01:26:15] Right

[01:26:16] Bill Lawrence is still on

[01:26:17] Weinstein goes out to his next three guys

[01:26:19] Justin Long

[01:26:20] Ugh

[01:26:21] God

[01:26:22] John Krasinski

[01:26:23] Yeah

[01:26:24] Ryan Reynolds

[01:26:26] Why is it all like the dregs of like

[01:26:29] Fucking comedic actors?

[01:26:30] Ryan Reynolds has a Chevy Chase vibe

[01:26:33] That is what he does

[01:26:34] But I mean he wouldn't be good

[01:26:35] He wouldn't be as good

[01:26:36] But he's the right type at least

[01:26:37] He's too hot

[01:26:38] Yes

[01:26:39] Yeah he's too good looking

[01:26:40] He's too good looking

[01:26:41] I mean that's kind of the problem with a lot of Hollywood these days

[01:26:42] He's too hot

[01:26:43] But Reynolds said absolutely no way

[01:26:44] Direct quote it's hallowed ground

[01:26:46] I don't want to touch it

[01:26:47] Hallowed

[01:26:48] I'm sorry

[01:26:49] I'm mispronouncing everything

[01:26:50] It's hallowed out

[01:26:51] Okay so then Bill Lawrence goes

[01:26:52] I don't know

[01:26:53] I want to focus on TV

[01:26:55] I'm dropping out

[01:26:56] They get Steve Pink

[01:26:57] Yeah

[01:26:58] Who's like John Q. Saxe body

[01:26:59] Co-wrote like high fidelity

[01:27:00] Grosspoint blank right

[01:27:01] Yeah he later directed

[01:27:02] The Hot Top Time Machine

[01:27:03] The Hot Top Time Machine

[01:27:04] Movies and accepted

[01:27:05] He comes on

[01:27:06] Okay movement traction

[01:27:08] Who you gonna cast

[01:27:09] Joshua Jackson

[01:27:11] Ugh

[01:27:12] From Fringe

[01:27:13] Oh my god

[01:27:14] And Dawson's Creek

[01:27:15] Yeah

[01:27:16] So this is now like 2007 right

[01:27:19] I like Josh Jackson

[01:27:20] I just don't mean

[01:27:21] Yeah this isn't the right choice

[01:27:22] Right

[01:27:23] Okay so that happens

[01:27:24] It falls away

[01:27:26] Weinstein's career is in a weird place now

[01:27:28] They've now set up the Weinstein Company

[01:27:29] The Miramax has dissolved right

[01:27:31] The rights eventually just fully lapse

[01:27:34] Warner Brothers picks it up

[01:27:35] And they're like

[01:27:36] We made an aggressive bid

[01:27:38] For all 11 Fletch books

[01:27:40] We have the rights to the entire Fletch library

[01:27:42] We want to make Fletch

[01:27:43] A good, grounded

[01:27:45] Like medium budget

[01:27:46] So it doesn't get overblown

[01:27:48] Action, comedy

[01:27:49] Like mystery series

[01:27:50] They bring on a series of writers

[01:27:52] To try to cover it

[01:27:53] Doesn't seem to be going anywhere

[01:27:55] And then two years ago

[01:27:56] They pick the guy who I actually think

[01:27:59] Is the best guy they've had yet

[01:28:01] But the movie hasn't made any progress

[01:28:03] Jason Sudeikis

[01:28:04] Oh yeah definitely

[01:28:06] Jason Sudeikis

[01:28:07] I love that

[01:28:08] Has all of the Fletch qualities

[01:28:10] Totally totally

[01:28:11] Sudeikis is a good choice

[01:28:12] I agree

[01:28:13] He's a really good choice

[01:28:14] Now

[01:28:15] I have so much trouble with him

[01:28:17] Because I think he could be so funny

[01:28:19] And talented

[01:28:20] And I agree with you guys

[01:28:21] He has the same vibe

[01:28:22] But he's never totally clicked

[01:28:24] In a movie for me

[01:28:25] I don't know if he's had the chance

[01:28:26] He may not have had the chance

[01:28:27] No, you're pointing at him

[01:28:29] I know that he may not have had the chance

[01:28:30] But he's been in a lot of movies

[01:28:32] And he's never clicked for me

[01:28:33] That's all I'm saying

[01:28:34] I'll say this

[01:28:35] Have you seen Sleeping With Other People?

[01:28:37] Yeah, he's good in that

[01:28:38] I think he's really good in that

[01:28:39] And I think the thing he does

[01:28:40] In that movie that makes me

[01:28:41] Feel very encouraged about

[01:28:43] The idea of him playing Fletch

[01:28:45] Is he plays the guy who acts like

[01:28:47] He knows everything

[01:28:48] But secretly is kind of miserable inside

[01:28:50] Right

[01:28:51] You know?

[01:28:52] Yeah

[01:28:53] He's doing the smartest guy in the room thing

[01:28:54] But there's like real pathos to it

[01:28:56] I think Chappelle is the best name

[01:28:57] Of anyone they threw out

[01:28:58] I think Chappelle would have been incredible

[01:29:01] Especially if we're talking

[01:29:02] Like early 2000s

[01:29:03] When he was like in it

[01:29:05] You know?

[01:29:06] That would have been amazing

[01:29:07] I don't know if I wanted

[01:29:08] The Kevin Smith version of that

[01:29:10] But a better person

[01:29:11] Making a Dave Chappelle Fletch

[01:29:12] Would have been awesome

[01:29:13] But Sudeikis is the second best name

[01:29:15] Of anyone who's been connected

[01:29:17] Of those like 25 people

[01:29:19] Over the last 20 years

[01:29:21] So we, you know

[01:29:22] Maybe we're getting Fletch

[01:29:24] I hope so

[01:29:25] FYI we're not getting Fletch

[01:29:28] That was announced in 2013

[01:29:29] It's been three years

[01:29:30] Nothing's happened

[01:29:31] I believe it's 2014

[01:29:32] I think you're right

[01:29:33] Maybe it's 2014

[01:29:34] I think in 2013 they bought

[01:29:36] They got a script

[01:29:37] 2014

[01:29:38] 2014 they attached Sudeikis to it

[01:29:40] They have not attached their director

[01:29:41] I think 2015 they said

[01:29:42] They had a new script

[01:29:43] I don't know anyway

[01:29:45] That's what we're saying on Fletch

[01:29:46] Fletch is a cursed property

[01:29:48] It's not gonna happen

[01:29:49] And maybe it shouldn't

[01:29:50] Fletch is a good movie

[01:29:51] Like we may not need another Fletch

[01:29:53] It still pretty much holds up

[01:29:55] I'd say, you know

[01:29:56] Like I think all

[01:29:57] It's still got some really great jokes

[01:29:59] I mean time kinda

[01:30:00] Wasn't as kind to some of the

[01:30:02] Like other elements

[01:30:04] Like I feel like there's a couple

[01:30:05] Of like racier

[01:30:06] Yeah

[01:30:07] Kind of jokes

[01:30:08] But otherwise

[01:30:09] It still holds up

[01:30:10] Like I think in the first film

[01:30:11] It's like

[01:30:12] I'd say for me

[01:30:13] I always thought of it as like

[01:30:15] If you build a movie around a personality

[01:30:17] Or like, you know

[01:30:18] Like this is Chevy's movie

[01:30:20] I think this is such a strong

[01:30:22] Example of like

[01:30:24] Taking a comedic actor

[01:30:26] And building a movie

[01:30:28] Around his sensibility

[01:30:30] It's a great Star Vehicle

[01:30:31] Yeah

[01:30:32] It's a really really good Star Vehicle

[01:30:33] Yeah

[01:30:34] Can I throw something out there

[01:30:36] For all you Hollywood bigwigs

[01:30:37] Who are listening

[01:30:38] Oh yeah

[01:30:39] I don't know

[01:30:40] Maybe Sudeik is just a loosely attached

[01:30:41] Maybe you're waiting on a script

[01:30:42] Maybe you're trying to find a director

[01:30:43] Maybe that's laps

[01:30:44] Maybe he's not interested anymore

[01:30:45] Maybe the game's open

[01:30:47] I got

[01:30:48] Four words for you

[01:30:49] You guys suggest him?

[01:30:50] Okay

[01:30:51] Ready?

[01:30:52] Here's my suggestion

[01:30:53] And let's see

[01:30:54] If the hairs stand up

[01:30:55] On the back of your neck

[01:30:56] Ben

[01:30:57] Hosley

[01:30:58] Is

[01:30:59] Flet

[01:31:02] Alright

[01:31:03] Has the dude ever carried

[01:31:04] A movie before

[01:31:05] No

[01:31:06] No, never

[01:31:07] But we didn't know

[01:31:08] How long it would take

[01:31:09] Until he did it

[01:31:10] That's right

[01:31:11] Um

[01:31:12] Great stuff from all you guys

[01:31:14] I want to talk about the box office

[01:31:15] Okay

[01:31:16] I'm very excited

[01:31:17] The weekend of May 31st 1985

[01:31:19] Okay

[01:31:20] I mean

[01:31:22] Fletch opened number two to seven mil

[01:31:24] It would eventually clear fifty

[01:31:26] Very nice multiplier

[01:31:27] Yeah

[01:31:28] You know those are the days in Hollywood

[01:31:29] Where you would kind of just

[01:31:30] You know stay around in theaters

[01:31:31] Making the same amount of money

[01:31:32] We get for a week

[01:31:33] Leggy

[01:31:34] You know leggy run

[01:31:35] Can you name

[01:31:36] Can you think you can name

[01:31:37] Any of the other movies

[01:31:39] In the top ten?

[01:31:40] Yeah

[01:31:41] 1985

[01:31:43] Huh

[01:31:44] Okay

[01:31:46] Like what was number one?

[01:31:47] God

[01:31:48] So I'm trying to think through other years

[01:31:50] Like okay

[01:31:51] So I know eighty something's broken

[01:31:52] Encounters of a third kind?

[01:31:53] Most encounters is not

[01:31:54] That's the way earlier

[01:31:55] That's seventy seven

[01:31:56] That's the same year as Star Wars

[01:31:57] I don't know anything

[01:31:58] Okay

[01:31:59] That's alright

[01:32:00] Eighty three is Jedi

[01:32:01] Eighty six

[01:32:02] Eighty four is ET

[01:32:04] Or eighty five is ET

[01:32:05] Eighty I can't remember

[01:32:06] I think 80

[01:32:07] Oh no ET is earlier

[01:32:08] Eighty two

[01:32:09] That's right

[01:32:10] Look I'll give you some hints for number one

[01:32:11] Okay

[01:32:12] Number one it's in its second week of release

[01:32:14] Okay

[01:32:15] It's making fourteen million in its second week

[01:32:17] Pretty good for 1995

[01:32:19] It's an action R rated super violent drama

[01:32:22] Beverly Hills Cop Two

[01:32:23] It's a sequel

[01:32:24] Nope

[01:32:25] Beverly Hills Cop

[01:32:26] Rambo first

[01:32:27] First two

[01:32:28] Rambo two

[01:32:29] Rambo first blood part two

[01:32:30] Yes

[01:32:31] Ben nailed it

[01:32:32] Ben nailed it

[01:32:33] Yes

[01:32:34] Beverly Hills Cop two

[01:32:35] Of course not

[01:32:36] Beverly Hills Cop one hadn't come out yet

[01:32:37] Beverly Hills Cop one

[01:32:38] Has come out

[01:32:39] It's in its twenty sixth week of release

[01:32:41] It's number five at the box office

[01:32:42] Isn't that crazy?

[01:32:43] That's insane

[01:32:44] It's made two hundred and twenty million dollars

[01:32:46] Wow so Fletcher Beverly Hills Cop are out at the same time

[01:32:48] Yeah but Beverly Hills Cop had been out for a while

[01:32:50] Right yeah yeah

[01:32:51] Okay

[01:32:52] Number three is a James Bond movie

[01:32:54] Is the James Bond movie of the year

[01:32:56] I believe it is the last Roger Moore bond

[01:32:58] Right because he said Living Daylights