Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Alec, Mattson and JJ dive into the absurdity and comedic brilliance of the film "Weekend at Bernie's," a cinematic exploration of two individuals who attempt to maintain the illusion of life surrounding a deceased colleague. The central theme revolves around the juxtaposition of life and death, as the characters navigate a series of increasingly ridiculous situations while attempting to keep the charade alive. We engage in a thorough analysis of the film's humor, its cultural implications, and the dynamics of friendship amidst chaos. Our discourse also reflects on the societal tendencies to overlook the morbid in pursuit of social acceptance, revealing a deeper commentary on human behavior and the nature of relationships. Join us as we dissect this cult classic and contemplate its lasting impact on comedy and film.
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Speaker A:So you just go with the flow.
Speaker A:You don't want to be the one to, you know, cause a wave or a scene or an issue.
Speaker B:Now I will say I wouldn't be.
Speaker A:Surprised if they all knew he was dead, but just went along with it because nobody wanted.
Speaker B:Out.
Speaker C:Welcome to the what's up Podcast where we fashion ourselves cinematic judge and jury.
Speaker C:My name is J.J.
Speaker C:crowder.
Speaker C:I'm here with my co hosts, Matzenheimer.
Speaker B:You know, am I excited to be here in this one?
Speaker C:We'll find out.
Speaker B:Better red than dead.
Speaker C:And Alec Burgess.
Speaker A:What a communist attitude.
Speaker A:Let's get it.
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Speaker C:Tell a friend about us.
Speaker C:Tell a family member about us.
Speaker C:I mean, you can tell a dead relative about us if you want.
Speaker C:Or dead friend or, you know, no.
Speaker A:Ghosts, no spirits, no nothing.
Speaker B:Yeah, I was gonna say, Alec, you popping out your Ouija board?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker B:That's one thing I'll never do.
Speaker B:You know, it's funny.
Speaker B:This is totally not relevant to this movie.
Speaker B:I mean, I guess there's a dead body, but the whole like, say Bloody Mary three times with the mirror.
Speaker B:I still think about that, like, fairly often.
Speaker B:I'm like, I should do that.
Speaker B:I shouldn't do that.
Speaker B:I'll never do that.
Speaker B:I still haven't because I'm not dumb enough to do it.
Speaker B:But, like, nothing's gonna happen.
Speaker B:But something could happen.
Speaker B:But a Ouija board?
Speaker B:That's something I'd never.
Speaker B:No, not never ever.
Speaker B:Would never.
Speaker B:Could never.
Speaker B:Nope.
Speaker B:No, thank you.
Speaker C:I've done both, but that's for another time.
Speaker B:Yeah, another.
Speaker B:That one movie.
Speaker B:Didn't we review that one movie?
Speaker B:The hand movie where they held the hand.
Speaker B:Whatever.
Speaker A:Like, talk to me.
Speaker B:I'm sure I would have done that, like, in my early 20s against my will, but, like, I would never have been like, the person.
Speaker B:I do dumb stuff, but that's something I need like a JJ to be.
Speaker A:Like, let's do this.
Speaker C:And I was gonna say you'd be in trouble because I would do that.
Speaker C:Right?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:But Alex, we all.
Speaker B:We know.
Speaker B:We all know.
Speaker B:Ale Alex.
Speaker B:Alex out on but.
Speaker B:So that begs the question.
Speaker B:I know Jay's is gonna talk about this movie, so I'm very curious how you would have operated amongst this dead body and in the phobias and stuff that come with that because you're very like, again, out of that stuff.
Speaker B:But this might have just been funny for you and you just would addict with it.
Speaker B:I'm curious.
Speaker B:We'll talk about that.
Speaker C:We'll talk about it.
Speaker C:But first I gotta give us a shameless plug about our Patreon.
Speaker C:Because speaking of dead bodies, where I did ask the group to give us some like one.
Speaker C:Oh, no, we have no, we have no, we have less shame and care a little bit less over on Patreon.
Speaker C:So if you want to see some additional funny content that's even more inappropriate, go check it out there with that too.
Speaker C:Like, I did pose the question, you know, we had the vote for July, which we're working on here and that soon.
Speaker C:And then I asked, hey, give us some topics.
Speaker C:And it was mentioned that October's coming again soon.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So I didn't commit to anything, but it was asked whether or not we were going to do some more horror movies for October.
Speaker C:I know that there are several issues with that on both fronts.
Speaker C:One, Alec is Alec.
Speaker C:And two, last time Matt's had gotten a little bit of trouble from bringing bad juju to the house, I guess, but which by proxy means I got in trouble.
Speaker B:Those, those things have to be watched in secret a little bit more in.
Speaker B:In the daylight.
Speaker B:And it's very hard to do those things nowadays with kids and schedules and things and.
Speaker B:Yeah, if that happens again, Jay, you can guarantee you will get yelled at and probably yelled at in person here real soon too, so.
Speaker C:Probably true.
Speaker B:You already, you already got, you already got one on you.
Speaker B:You don't.
Speaker B:You don't need another.
Speaker A:I'm sold.
Speaker A:If JJ's getting yelled at, let's do it.
Speaker C:I will definitely get right.
Speaker C:But you'll have a handheld PC you can watch it on in secret.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker C:So with all of that said, we are in our final week of June.
Speaker C:That's crazy to even think about.
Speaker C:And we're ready to rock and roll with our final summer kickoff movie, that being Weekend at Bernie's.
Speaker C:It was released and I was unprepared.
Speaker C: ,: Speaker C:It was written by Robert Klein and it was directed by Todd Ted Kachif.
Speaker C:And it stars Andrew McCarthy, Jonathan Silverman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Terry Kaiser, Don Kalfa, Katherine Parks, Eloise DeJoria and Greg Salata.
Speaker C:It's about two idiots try to pretend that they're a murdered employee.
Speaker C:Employer is really alive, leaning the hitman to attempt to track him down to finish him off.
Speaker C:That's such a brilliant synopsis.
Speaker C:What else is there to this movie with that Alec?
Speaker C:This was a you movie.
Speaker C:So I'm curious as to why it ended up on our June list.
Speaker A:This was A movie.
Speaker C:It might have been a me movie.
Speaker B:I thought I wasn't.
Speaker B:It wasn't a me movie.
Speaker A:Yeah, I only got the.
Speaker A:The first movie.
Speaker C:Oh, that's right, I did.
Speaker C:It was a me movie and it.
Speaker A:Was a new movie.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's how much this is a you movie that I give you credit for picking this movie.
Speaker A:But I'll take it.
Speaker A:You know, it's all bragging rights at the end.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker C:I mean, look, it's also a me movie.
Speaker C:Like, this is a.
Speaker C:This was a staple, especially in my teenage years, for summer.
Speaker C:Like, we had to watch Weekend at Bernie's because it's, you know, I mean, one of the opening scenes.
Speaker C:I love, like, how stupid it is, but it's very relatable if you've lived in Arizona or somewhere that just gets miserable hot.
Speaker C:Like the melted, like, asphalt on the roof.
Speaker C:Like his shoes.
Speaker C:And then like, the ledger that they got the all over.
Speaker C:Like, it's just.
Speaker C:I love it.
Speaker C:And I love that the synopsis in here just calls them two idiots.
Speaker C:Like, to me, that's why I love this movie and why I picked it.
Speaker C:One, it's summertime.
Speaker C:It happens in the summer.
Speaker C:It's all about it.
Speaker C:It was released in summer back in the day.
Speaker C:But two, like, it's just.
Speaker C:There's no expectation of anything other than what this movie is.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker C:And from a perspective of entertainment, like, if you like just silly, goofy, over the top makes, like, you can sit and go, that's the dumbest I've ever seen.
Speaker C:But consider who we're watching, do stuff right.
Speaker C:And, like, it just fits and it works.
Speaker C:And it shouldn't work in my opinion, but it does work.
Speaker C:And it will always make me laugh for the dumbest reasons and make me feel like I'm kind of an idiot for thinking it's as funny as that it is.
Speaker C:And as I laugh because it's really, at the end of the day, not great from a, like, content perspective.
Speaker C:It didn't take a genius to put this together.
Speaker C:But all.
Speaker C:I laugh a lot at this movie still to this day.
Speaker C:And I've seen it a thousand times.
Speaker C:So, yeah, that's why I picked it.
Speaker C:And I was glad it got voted on.
Speaker C:I think that alone means that we're doing something right.
Speaker C:You and Alec.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:Matt's in poo poo before we will sandwich it between two pauses.
Speaker B:Like, again, I think I said this last podcast, if this is something that I had grown up with and had that nostalgia feel like the.
Speaker B:This movie doesn't take itself seriously.
Speaker B:And it, I mean, it can't, it shouldn't.
Speaker B:And I.
Speaker B:And I understand and I get that.
Speaker B:And that's where, like, if I had seen this late childhood, early teen, mid teen, that was my thing, like, I'm sure I'd feel differently about this movie.
Speaker B:I just don't have that connection.
Speaker B:And I.
Speaker B:Our audience that listens to us, this is like the kind of the Bill and Ted thing for me.
Speaker B:I just don't have that when it's so in your face and dumb and just like the suspension of disbelief.
Speaker B:I don't know, like, it just doesn't.
Speaker B:It doesn't land for me the way that I know it does for other people, like jj.
Speaker B:Like, I.
Speaker B:I know if I was even sitting next to J.J.
Speaker B:like, he might be laughing, but it's like I'd just be laughing because Jay's laughing.
Speaker B:But it's really like, it's not that funny to me.
Speaker B:Like, this movie should just be like a.
Speaker B:Like an SNL short or something and not a hour and a half long movie.
Speaker B:It's just.
Speaker B:It didn't land for me, but it.
Speaker B:Like, I can't believe they made a number two.
Speaker B:Maybe I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker C:That's great.
Speaker C:Alec, what about you, buddy?
Speaker A:Oh, I.
Speaker A:I think this movie is genius.
Speaker A:And the.
Speaker A:In a very kind of specific way.
Speaker A:So with a lot of movies, what you have is got foreground and background, and you're supposed to pay attention to what happens in the foreground, but the background is almost irrelevant.
Speaker A:This movie, the entire screen is being purposed.
Speaker A:Foreground, background, everything that has something going on.
Speaker A:And it all ties in beautifully.
Speaker A:And so there's little nuances that are happening all throughout that if you're just watching the movie, you're going to miss.
Speaker A:And it's just at all levels of the screen, there's something going on that's entertaining, funny, or just flat out stupid.
Speaker A:But putting context with everything else around it is brilliant.
Speaker A:And so I totally enjoy watching this movie.
Speaker A:But my favorite thing is, and I don't even know if it's actually Terry Kiser, who's just Bernie the entire time, but there's.
Speaker A:There's moments where you can tell it's Terry Kaiser.
Speaker A:Like, dude, this guy had the easiest fucking job.
Speaker A:Just sit there and act dead.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker C:Yeah, well, and like, the easiest job, but the hardest too, because, like, the amount of, like, physical exertion that he has to, like, avoid, like, when they're pulling him, like, he had to have been just horrified sometimes.
Speaker C:Like, I don't know how he kept his face normal.
Speaker C:Like, I don't.
Speaker C:Like, there's so many things like the way he plays that.
Speaker C:And I know that there was like a, a doll, a dummy version that they did for like the over the top stunts and.
Speaker C:But most of like the adjusting him and like the movement, like, that was all him and he just had to be limp and like, I can't imagine, like a more difficult thing as an actor than to just be like, don't react or you have to be completely limp at all times.
Speaker C:Like, that'd be wild.
Speaker A:Especially with Andrew McCarthy who is probably spending most of this time trying to get you to break.
Speaker C:Oh yeah.
Speaker C:Oh, y.
Speaker C:Watching interviews with of them talking about this movie like, you know, they had a ball.
Speaker C:Like, just.
Speaker B:Yeah, because they just did it.
Speaker B:Seemingly did whatever they wanted, which fit within the vein in this movie.
Speaker B:And they somehow figured out a way to stretch it to the amount of time needed to make a movie.
Speaker C:Well, and I think that's where I love when you Alec that you say it's genius.
Speaker C:Like, this is to me another case of like, just wildly intelligent stupid humor.
Speaker C:Like, it's so dumb and over the top and they knew this is the dumbest idea we've ever had.
Speaker C:However, the comedy in it is so smart because they're so dumb.
Speaker C:Like, even these guys who are like trying and it's funny because they pinpointed even Bernie's.
Speaker C:Like, these morons, I'm going to blame them.
Speaker C:Like, I'm gonna set them up to find it and then they're gonna be my scapegoats and they're just, they're too stupid to even realize, like, they think that they're on to something and they've gotten set up and then on accident, like, this whole thing just plays into like, well, we got he needs to be alive.
Speaker C:And like, it comes down like my favorite line.
Speaker C:Well, maybe not my favorite, but one of my favorite lines is like, what kind of host invites you to his place for the weekend and then dies?
Speaker C:Like, it just, it's like dead dude, and you're pissed he's dead.
Speaker A:It just the audacity just up and die on our weekend.
Speaker C:Seriously, it's so great, like, how ridiculous it is.
Speaker C:And yet the moments that they have the comedy are so brilliantly timed and written.
Speaker C:And then of course, I'm sure ad libbed and you know, stuff from some of these actors.
Speaker C:It's just like to me, I sit and watch and go, man, what a stroke of genius to do something so stupid.
Speaker C:But you fully committed to it, and you did it so well that I'm just sitting here laughing my ass off the whole time.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, the other thing is, Bernie's the dead guy in this, but he's not even the victim.
Speaker A:Yeah, the victim is Paulie Freaking.
Speaker A:Who pulls off a flawless hit and then spends the rest of the movie second guessing.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:So good.
Speaker A:Every time.
Speaker A:Because he's like, you know, it's set.
Speaker A:It's set up by the most beautiful line where it's like, you know, I'm a little rusty, but I could probably come out and do it.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:The entire rest of the movie just as a one running after another with, again, these two idiots.
Speaker C:And.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So poor Paulie's the entire victim, this whole process, and he's not even died.
Speaker B:What does it say about the type of parties Bernie throws?
Speaker B:Or when he goes to parties?
Speaker B:That is all his friends think, oh, this is just him.
Speaker B:He's silent, chilling, never moving.
Speaker B:Wears the same clothes for, like, two or three days.
Speaker B:Like, what is this dude just stoned out of his mind for multiple days when he's there?
Speaker B:And that's just what he does.
Speaker B:I'm like, dude's got to communicate at some point.
Speaker B:Apparently not, though.
Speaker B:Or all of his friends are just as dumb and delusional as he is.
Speaker A:Sold a Porsche for 50 grand.
Speaker A:I'm just gonna.
Speaker C:Hey, man, drugs make everything easier to deal with.
Speaker B:Oh, man.
Speaker C:Well, and that's.
Speaker C:I think that's the other part that I want to not laugh at when I watch this movie.
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:And I'm not.
Speaker C:I don't know, it's kind of like the whole, like, physical comedy to me, especially physical comedy that shouldn't be funny tends to be more funny.
Speaker C:And that's like, why I love Charlie Chaplin, like, his physical comedy.
Speaker C:The things that he does with his body and the thing.
Speaker C:So the things that they do with Bernie that you're like, how does nobody notice this?
Speaker C:Like, to me, that internally is.
Speaker C:Is because it's so ridiculous.
Speaker C:It makes it so funny to me to watch the oblivious people.
Speaker C:To your point, Matson, it's like, ah, it's just Bernie.
Speaker C:You know what I mean?
Speaker C:Like, he's just.
Speaker C:He just does that stuff.
Speaker C:Like, it's so ridiculous that there's no way that anybody be like.
Speaker C:But then I have to.
Speaker C:In my head, I'm instantly imagining, what does that group of people actually look like?
Speaker C:Like, if Bernie wasn't dead and they were having this party and for them to go, ah, it's just Bernie.
Speaker C:Like, what A boring party, at least.
Speaker C:Like with Bernie, but.
Speaker C:Or is he just, like, a voyeur and he wants to watch everybody do drugs and get drunk and do dumb, which I'm also down for.
Speaker C:Like, that can be entertaining.
Speaker C:So it's just, like, it makes me question, like, the whole situation and who Bernie was and then the fact that he's got these mob connections, and you're like, what the hell?
Speaker C:But he's smart enough to be scared about his connections to the mob and that he, you know, so he's got to lay the.
Speaker C:It's someone else's feet.
Speaker C:I just think there's so much high intelligence that's mixed with so much just ridiculous dumb that.
Speaker C:That combination makes me laugh.
Speaker B:Sorry, I didn't think about any of those things because this movie is not making you think of high.
Speaker B:High intelligence, communist movie.
Speaker B:It tells you right up front this is a dumb movie.
Speaker B:You're dumb for watching it.
Speaker B:And don't do any introspection about the character.
Speaker B:But he's been dead.
Speaker B:He's a flopping fish, and they're just propping them up, and he stinks.
Speaker B:After two days, like, oh, my gosh.
Speaker B:I just go.
Speaker B:Not learning nothing from this movie, J.J.
Speaker B:not one thing.
Speaker A:I thought about all the things J.J.
Speaker A:thought about.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:But no.
Speaker A:What I win is, have you guys ever been around someone who's rich or seen how people act around someone who's rich?
Speaker A:Nobody's telling them anything that's agreeing with everything that they're doing.
Speaker A:You don't want to be left off the list.
Speaker A:And so I had no problem with people, you know, just kind of going with the flow because they don't want to not be invited to the next party.
Speaker B:We could.
Speaker B:We could say some stuff that might get us canceled right now with that lead in.
Speaker B:But I will.
Speaker B:I'll refer from.
Speaker A:Everybody who's watching knows what I'm talking about.
Speaker B:I'll refrain from aiming some rich individual that we.
Speaker B:Yeah, a lot of people could be on that list.
Speaker A:Hey, but that's the thing.
Speaker A:Like, you can hear it even from, like, ex sports players.
Speaker B:I mean, I'm not saying you're wrong, though.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Where their entourage does not do anything except agree.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:You want.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker B:You want those handouts to keep coming your way.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:You stand close to the sun, you're gonna get a little bit of heat off it.
Speaker A:So you just go with the flow.
Speaker A:You don't want to be the one to, you know, cause a wave or a scene or an issue.
Speaker B:Now, I will say I wouldn't be.
Speaker A:Surprised if they all knew he was dead, but just went along with it because nobody wanted.
Speaker C:Out.
Speaker B:Well, he had a nice place.
Speaker B:This I will give him in spades.
Speaker B:Very jealous.
Speaker B:Want to know where that.
Speaker B:Did they actually film this?
Speaker B:Where.
Speaker B:I wonder where they actually filmed it.
Speaker B:But I want that house.
Speaker C:Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker C:I don't know where they filmed it.
Speaker C:I didn't look.
Speaker A:North Carolina, I think.
Speaker C:Doesn't it say, I mean, obviously somewhere with a beach, but really, let's see.
Speaker B:Where they filmed it.
Speaker C:I would just say that was the other thing I wanted to talk about is like, how interesting it is like in our time to go back and watch a movie like this with that perspective in mind of like, there's a lot of people that are actually no longer safe from all the shenanigans and crazy wild that they got up to.
Speaker C:And then you get these like magic lists of people that attended parties and you're like, well, how in deep.
Speaker C:How deep in.
Speaker C:Were they going to these parts?
Speaker C:Because I mean, like you said, Bernie's what a party.
Speaker C:And it's not like people didn't know about it because that's like one of their motivations of these two knuckleheads, like digging in and getting so excited about this discrepancy that they've been set up to find is they're like, oh, we're gonna get an in, we're gonna get our move up the ladder and now we're gonna get invited to Bernie parties and other places and we're gonna fight.
Speaker C:You know what I mean?
Speaker A:So, like made it.
Speaker C:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker C:And so it's like, man, it's a, it's an interesting commentary now.
Speaker C:And I'm sure that, look, if you're in Hollywood, like, because we know a lot of times the Hollywood is where all the call outs are coming from.
Speaker C:So like, if you're in Hollywood, maybe they.
Speaker C:Maybe this was a true commentary to a certain degree before we were ready to hear about the issues that have been going on in Hollywood to that extent.
Speaker C:But I mean, it's a, it's an interesting insight when you think about the situations that a lot of people are in these days for sure.
Speaker C:Moving forward because you know there's some shady going on amongst the rich because.
Speaker B:We'Ve seen it 100 and Alec, you were correct.
Speaker B:North Carolina.
Speaker B:Bald Head Island.
Speaker C:Bald Head Island.
Speaker C:I didn't know such a place existed.
Speaker C:Does now there's some weird named places I'd have to pull up.
Speaker C:I just shipped some stuff to a place that I, I Saw.
Speaker C:Gosh, I'm trying to remember.
Speaker C:Even the mailman, when I.
Speaker C:The mail place, when I took it to get it scanned and shipped out, like, he was like, I didn't know about this city.
Speaker C:I was like, me neither.
Speaker B:Whether it's.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Because it was probably named by someone in Weekend at Bernie's.
Speaker B:They're just like, we're just gonna f.
Speaker B:With this town.
Speaker B:Or they probably have stupidly named streets as well.
Speaker B:People come up with street names sometimes.
Speaker B:Like, maybe just maybe just don't do that.
Speaker B:I mean, maybe not.
Speaker B:Like, yeah, stick to something normal.
Speaker C:Maybe think it through at the very least, because, yeah, it's gonna bother me.
Speaker C:But it was.
Speaker C:I was like, that's an unfortunate name for a city.
Speaker C:Like, someone actually did that.
Speaker B:You like the.
Speaker B:The dad popping in on the.
Speaker B:The steamy scene.
Speaker C:I mean, it's funny because it's relatable, you know, like, you're like, that's uncomfortable.
Speaker C:Even if it never.
Speaker C:Because I'm.
Speaker C:I don't know.
Speaker C:Is that something like, that ever happened to the two of you?
Speaker C:Oh, I.
Speaker B:Not to that.
Speaker B:Not to that extent, but trying to think.
Speaker B:It's far less risque.
Speaker B:But it was highly embarrassing.
Speaker B:I was a sophomore, and this will be funny for you, jj, because, you know, this person, Martin.
Speaker B:I was dating Martin's sister, who was a senior at the time, and I couldn't drive yet, so I was in the passenger seat of their Toyota Tacoma, and for whatever reason, and this one was, like, during the day, so, like, wasn't super late.
Speaker B:It was, like, probably, like around dinner time or something.
Speaker B:I don't know what was going on, but we started making out a little bit.
Speaker B:Like, not supposed.
Speaker B:Not something that was supposed to turn into anything because I was gonna get out, then all of a sudden hear a knock on the.
Speaker B:What was the window and turn like, oh, my gosh, it's my mom.
Speaker B:Like, oh, no.
Speaker B:You're like, this is just weird.
Speaker B:Like, awkward.
Speaker B:Just very awkward.
Speaker B:And my mom's like, pretty goody two shoes.
Speaker B:She wasn't just like, you know, not super happy about all that.
Speaker B:But it.
Speaker B:Like, it's fine.
Speaker B:But it was awkward.
Speaker B:It happened one more time.
Speaker B:I don't remember the second time, but, yeah, that I definitely felt.
Speaker B:I still remember how it felt.
Speaker B:Like, it was very awkward.
Speaker B:Just one of those, like, damn it, Mom.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's a weird.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:I've never.
Speaker C:Never had it happen to where it's like.
Speaker C:Like, I had to happen with some, like, personal time when I was younger, but never coupled up program.
Speaker C:I think the closest.
Speaker C:Like, my dad used to, like, enjoy making weird.
Speaker C:Shocker.
Speaker C:I mean, that's.
Speaker C:My dad and I are very similar.
Speaker C:Less so now that he's older.
Speaker C:But, like, when I was in high.
Speaker B:School, I was gonna say, jj's got to get these shenanigans from somebody.
Speaker C:Yeah, no, my dad.
Speaker C:My dad's funny because he's the guy that, like, everybody wanted.
Speaker C:Like, all my friends were like, yeah, we'll go to JJ's because JJ's dad's funny.
Speaker C:And we liked it.
Speaker C:Like, they were, like, hanging out with my dad as much as they did me.
Speaker C:I was like, what the.
Speaker C:But my dad loved to make a little weird.
Speaker C:Like, and he didn't have a problem.
Speaker C:So, like, I remember one time I had a bunch of friends over and a girl I was dating at the time stayed after a few people had left.
Speaker C:And here in this house, like, in the basement, which is where I was at at the time, we had a TV and I had like this whole living room area.
Speaker C:And then there was like this old shitty dimmer switch, like, that had like the different buttons for the different level of light.
Speaker C:And so everybody had left except this girl I was dating.
Speaker C:We were sitting down to watch a movie, and of course we were going to make out and hang out and whatnot.
Speaker C:Well, my dad, I was like, basically, my dad had been down there with all my friends.
Speaker C:They all left.
Speaker C:And I was like, looking at my dad, like, time for you to leave.
Speaker C:So he finally gets up to leave.
Speaker C:He walks over to Light.
Speaker C:He's like, here, let me, let me help out with the lighting for the movie.
Speaker C:And so he goes down to like, all these.
Speaker C:There was like, six buttons and he hits the next one down and he goes, oh, we need a little more mood than that.
Speaker C:A little more mood than that.
Speaker C:And like, I'm sitting there going, oh, my God, dad.
Speaker C:Like.
Speaker C:And of course, like, this girl's, like, sitting there uncomfortable because we both know we're gonna make out.
Speaker C:But my.
Speaker C:She's like, yeah, but your dad's, like, almost encouraging.
Speaker C:Well, he gets to the bottom and turns the lights all the way off and he's like, oh, that's too much mood.
Speaker C:And then goes back up a switch.
Speaker C:So like, my dad, that.
Speaker C:And that's just one example of, like, George's full on opportunities to embarrass the.
Speaker C:Out of anyone that I knew and myself included.
Speaker C:And it's one of the reasons that it's very hard to make me uncomfortable and to embarrass me because my dad did such A fine job.
Speaker C:My whole childhood that I grew up to go, look, it can't be any worse than the my dad did.
Speaker C:So it's rare that I get embarrassed, but thankfully never for full on adult activities.
Speaker C:I always made sure I wasn't in my house for that reason because I just didn't want to deal with that.
Speaker B:Oh, yeah, I never, like, it was very rare that anything like that ever went down in my basement.
Speaker B:I can think of only a hand.
Speaker B:Not even that.
Speaker B:Maybe like twice or.
Speaker B:Because I, you know, I won.
Speaker B:I wasn't dumb enough to let that happen.
Speaker B:Nope.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's a little.
Speaker C:It's a little awkward.
Speaker B:Funniest thing that happened with anything like that is I used to get bloody noses, like all the time that they wanted to cauterize my nose.
Speaker B:Making out the girl and things were starting to happen and I just all of a sudden.
Speaker B:And dude, all over her face and her chest, it's like.
Speaker B:And we're not talking.
Speaker B:Like, I got him quick, like fast.
Speaker B:It wasn't like drops.
Speaker B:It was like, wow, that killed the mood immediately.
Speaker B:Yeah, I like, like, it looked like Braveheart style.
Speaker B:Like.
Speaker C:No, that's no good, dude.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:Wow, Great story.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:That's the most of it.
Speaker B:Yeah, like, it was bad.
Speaker B:Like, it was, it was.
Speaker B:It was very messy and.
Speaker B:Oh, bad.
Speaker C:Like, that relationship didn't last much longer.
Speaker B:She went on a mission.
Speaker C:Oh, there you go.
Speaker C:That'll do it every time.
Speaker B:In fact, I think that was the last time too, because she was going on a mission and it was funny.
Speaker B:I was like, yeah, that.
Speaker B:Yeah, a bad never happened since don't really get bloody noses anymore.
Speaker B:I'm really glad I didn't cauterize my nose.
Speaker B:I was like a walking hazard my half of my senior year.
Speaker B:Like a dude.
Speaker B:I have other stories of my nose, but my goodness, like, it was bad.
Speaker B:Like, that's funny.
Speaker B:It's embarrassing.
Speaker B:Thankfully that that girl was from college days, so no one, like none of my actual friends barely knew her that well because of that story got out.
Speaker B:I mean, that would have never.
Speaker B:My friends never would have let the end of that happen back then.
Speaker A:So I love that the last three weeks of this podcast just been like, trauma unpacking.
Speaker C:I know, right?
Speaker C:How is it, how is it that our summer kickoff movies turned into, like, embarrassing stories?
Speaker B:And I'll give.
Speaker B:I'll give our audience one more because this feels like a dumb Weekend at Bernie's thing.
Speaker B:So this was junior year.
Speaker B:We were at a party and my buddy Mike Frouke, he Can take claim for this.
Speaker B:For whatever reason.
Speaker B:I don't even know how this started happening.
Speaker B:I was sitting in a chair, Will say three or four feet from him.
Speaker B:And it was like very dark in this basement.
Speaker B:There's music maybe.
Speaker B:I don't know if there was like a strobe light effect or anything, but where we were at, like, I couldn't see much.
Speaker B:Like, it was like pretty dang dark.
Speaker B:For whatever reason.
Speaker B:I don't even.
Speaker B:I don't even know how this happened.
Speaker B:My buddy Mike got his hands on a six pound medicine ball.
Speaker B:Don't ask me where this.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:This girl in Chantilly.
Speaker B:I guess her.
Speaker B:Somebody worked out downstairs.
Speaker B:He had it.
Speaker B:He was tossing it like between his hands.
Speaker B:I didn't see it.
Speaker B:Had no idea.
Speaker B:And then all of a sudden, like, any great dude is like, hey, Hiner, catch.
Speaker C:Oh, God.
Speaker B:Me.
Speaker B:Like most dudes, how do we sit in chairs?
Speaker B:We don't sit.
Speaker B:Tight legs.
Speaker B:We're not cramping.
Speaker B:We're not.
Speaker B:We're not cramping the balls.
Speaker B:We're letting them.
Speaker B:We're letting them breathe.
Speaker B:We're letting them be easy.
Speaker B:And so all of a sudden I am talking to someone else.
Speaker B:And I vividly remember this because I couldn't see anything.
Speaker B:But I turned, I heard his.
Speaker B:I knew where he, like, he was.
Speaker B:And I turned to his voice half.
Speaker B:Like eight, half a second later, one eighth of a second later, just.
Speaker B:Just the worst smush.
Speaker B:And I've.
Speaker B:I've gotten some really bad sack taps.
Speaker B:Like, very, very bad.
Speaker B:Never in my life, even to this day, nothing.
Speaker B:And I've been hit with a lacrosse ball that nothing has come close to this six pound medicine ball.
Speaker B:Because he.
Speaker B:He told me later, he.
Speaker B:He lobbed it up, like up into the air.
Speaker A:Like, give you more time to catch it.
Speaker A:What a nice.
Speaker B:Just square.
Speaker B:Like, I mean, he hit.
Speaker B:He didn't.
Speaker B:Like, you know how you get hit?
Speaker B:Like right, like right sack, left.
Speaker B:Like, no, just.
Speaker B:Just these sand pancakes.
Speaker C:Like the turtle from a couple weeks ago, dude.
Speaker B:And I like, I, man, I don't remember all the feelings, but I remember it was.
Speaker B:It was a long time later.
Speaker B:I was worried, like, I was worried about my pee situation.
Speaker B:Like, the system.
Speaker B:I got some ice.
Speaker B:I went out, I had like some ice pack.
Speaker B:I went into the back of that person's house, like by the shrub, just to see if I could tinkle.
Speaker B:Thankfully, with a lot of fear.
Speaker B:Took me a while to pee because I was worried that I was going to see blood.
Speaker B:It worked.
Speaker B:We were fine.
Speaker B:I Was very mad at my friend the rest of the night just beside myself.
Speaker B:And I have.
Speaker B:We'll probably say this for next podcast.
Speaker B:I actually won't work with next month.
Speaker B:But he got me again later on a different thing.
Speaker B:But that was one of the most painful thing.
Speaker B:And I've been tased and that video is crazy.
Speaker B:But that was so painful.
Speaker B:And I can imagine that could have happened that weekend at Bernie's and I would have never.
Speaker B:I was never the same from it.
Speaker B:I'm terrified of medicine balls.
Speaker C:Yeah, that's.
Speaker C:Funny story, by the way.
Speaker C:And I feel almost bad for your balls other than I would have been laughing my ass off.
Speaker B:Oh you.
Speaker B:Dude.
Speaker B:My, my.
Speaker B:I mean it was.
Speaker B:It was like a.
Speaker B:What do you call this?
Speaker B:Hyenas.
Speaker B:People were.
Speaker B:Oh yeah, people were dying.
Speaker B:They were dying.
Speaker B:Ladies were dying.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:I definitely went down in massive street cred for a while.
Speaker C:Oh yeah, it would have been hilarious.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:It was brutal.
Speaker B:So I don't recommend it.
Speaker C:Don't.
Speaker B:Don't play with medicine balls, Alec.
Speaker B:Just don't let it happen.
Speaker A:No, never balls.
Speaker C:You know, it's funny.
Speaker C:So ironically enough, as I was watching this movie recently for getting ready for this, I was thinking about this is the kind of shit that somebody would make tick tock videos about, you know what I mean?
Speaker C:And not have their.
Speaker C:Like someone actually dead, but like someone that they knew, like being Bernie and being limp and like the adventures of whoever.
Speaker C:And they just have random TikTok videos of them, like dragging them to do dumb.
Speaker A:Dude, that's a million dollar idea right.
Speaker C:There, dude, I'm telling you.
Speaker C:And now somebody's gonna listen to it and they're gonna pop up and they should be like, God damn it.
Speaker C:But I'm too lazy to do that.
Speaker C:But the, the other thing was.
Speaker C:And then I went down this rabbit hole of the.
Speaker C:That I used to do when I was a kid for fun that people do now for TikTok or similar to make money.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker C:And then you're telling me this story is one I didn't think about the other day.
Speaker C:We used to call that game can you sit still?
Speaker C:And like we would sit in chairs in a garage much like you are, or down in the basement, and we would have random items and we would just call, can you sit still?
Speaker C:And everybody would just sit there.
Speaker C:And whoever called it would throw an item with the goal of hitting you in the nuts.
Speaker C:And you couldn't move if you moved.
Speaker C:Everybody jump your ass.
Speaker C:And we'd give you a nice little friendly thumping.
Speaker C:Like we Wouldn't beat the out.
Speaker B:You saw the enemy, at least you could identify the danger.
Speaker C:That's fair.
Speaker C:But I'll tell you what.
Speaker C:Like we stopped the.
Speaker C:I'll tell you when we stopped playing because usually it was like a pillow or like a rubber ball or like a tennis ball or like a golf ball.
Speaker C:Like something that's not gonna feel good.
Speaker C:But it's not.
Speaker C:But we were over at my buddy Lamar's house this.
Speaker C:And he had.
Speaker C:You remember those marbles that were like steel?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker C:He had one size of a pool ball.
Speaker C:Pool ball, billiards ball, dense.
Speaker C:And I remember sitting.
Speaker C:His garage was like a.
Speaker C:They built it as part of their house instead of putting their garage.
Speaker C:So it was like a whole nother room with tv.
Speaker C:We're out on the couch and I hear it sit still.
Speaker C:And I was like, God.
Speaker C:And I knew, I knew what he was gonna grab this lobs this giant ass 8 ball size steel marble at my junk.
Speaker C:And I.
Speaker C:And it just full on because I'm like you.
Speaker C:I was kicked back watching TV with my legs wide.
Speaker C:Hey.
Speaker C:And it wasn't.
Speaker C:I didn't get squished mine.
Speaker C:It like hit him in a way that it like pushed him into my guts.
Speaker C:And I swear I thought they were gonna have to like go in and stretch those sons of back outside that.
Speaker B:In like your heart, not just your stomach.
Speaker C:I was gagging.
Speaker C:I was like.
Speaker C:And so at that point, like that was the end of the game.
Speaker C:And I'll tell you what.
Speaker C:Well, I.
Speaker C:I won't go there but maybe we'll save that for the Patreon content.
Speaker C:But yeah, like that's the kind of that I thought about as I was watching this movie going.
Speaker C:I'm amazed I haven't seen some form of Bernie's like carrying our friend around on Tick Tock or Instagram.
Speaker C:Like that's the kind of that people.
Speaker B:Get paid to make money.
Speaker B:A bunch of things they didn't want to do.
Speaker C:Yeah, yeah, me too.
Speaker C:But we did it for fun.
Speaker C:Like we didn't do it to like put it on camera and out ourselves.
Speaker C:Like we did it and people were like, what are you guys doing?
Speaker C:Don't worry about it.
Speaker A:Nothing.
Speaker C:You know, now we're like, let me put it on Tick Tock so the world can watch it.
Speaker C:You know what I mean?
Speaker C:So it was just interesting.
Speaker C:So yeah, it made me think of that.
Speaker C:Anyway, should we rate Weekend at Bernie's?
Speaker A:Do it.
Speaker B:Do it.
Speaker C:My movie.
Speaker C:I'll go first.
Speaker C:I'm giving it a four.
Speaker C:Look, it's Stupid.
Speaker C:It's dumb, and I know it, but it makes me laugh and it entertains me.
Speaker C:And it's short and it's to the point.
Speaker C:And there's never a dull moment.
Speaker C:There's always something going on.
Speaker C:Kind of.
Speaker C:Alec, to your point that even if it's not in the foreground or with the main characters, there's some weird going on on the beach.
Speaker C:There's some silly happening in the background at the party.
Speaker C:And then you have the obvious, just absolute ridiculousness.
Speaker C:I will say that to give some credence to Matson, it is ridiculous to the point that even I sometimes go, jesus, we have reached a new low, right?
Speaker C:Like, I watch it, I go, man, this movie was.
Speaker C:It's ridiculous.
Speaker C:How is it so popular?
Speaker C:But.
Speaker C:So I do have some hard times.
Speaker C:Like, there are some pretty ridiculous.
Speaker C:Like, there are moments when you carry them around in public.
Speaker C:Like, I get with the rich people, and they're like, I'm gonna leave it alone sometimes in the car.
Speaker C:And, like, I'm just like, sunglasses don't fix that.
Speaker C:But whatever.
Speaker C:So I.
Speaker C:I can't give it a five, but I will watch this anytime.
Speaker B:Is this a four in terms of comedy sake, or is this a four across the board?
Speaker C:No, Like, I think it's a four.
Speaker C:Legit four.
Speaker C:Like, it's not a nostalgia four for me.
Speaker C:It's not like a.
Speaker B:All right, all right, let's cut JJ off.
Speaker B:Let's.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker B:All right, people.
Speaker B:You know.
Speaker B:You know, I'm a man of the people.
Speaker B:I'm not gonna lead you how that keeps.
Speaker B:Like, yeah, I'm gonna give this movie A2.
Speaker B:Like, look, let's be honest.
Speaker B:We're.
Speaker B:If we're talking across the spectrum, is this a great movie?
Speaker B:No, it's not.
Speaker B:But is this a terrible movie?
Speaker B:It's not a great movie.
Speaker B:It's not even close.
Speaker B:But there are many things.
Speaker B:It feels weird to say this that I would definitely not watch before I watch this movie again.
Speaker B:At least.
Speaker B:At least this movie has some things to offer in terms of a few jokes here.
Speaker B:There.
Speaker B:Like, it's short.
Speaker B:It's visually.
Speaker B:I mean, I'd love to go to Bald Head island now.
Speaker B:I gotta.
Speaker B:I mean, it's not the Hamptons.
Speaker B:Let's not get confused.
Speaker B:But it looked dang cool.
Speaker B:This isn't a good movie.
Speaker B:Do I want to watch this movie?
Speaker B:I can't believe they made a Number Two.
Speaker B:It must have made enough money.
Speaker B:Like, I.
Speaker B:Heaven forbid I'll ever watch Number Two.
Speaker B:And now doing this podcast that's probably.
Speaker C:Careful There are people listening.
Speaker B:Gosh, it's just.
Speaker B:It's a subpar movie.
Speaker B:But JJ apparently like subpar movies, and they get four.
Speaker B:So, like, should we.
Speaker B:I don't know how we in good conscience listen to his rating system.
Speaker B:I just don't know.
Speaker B:Like, this is Bill and Ted humor.
Speaker B:JJ gets blinded.
Speaker B:I think we understand this guy.
Speaker C:All right, Alec.
Speaker B:And we probably shouldn't listen to Alec either, because we know.
Speaker A:He is the strength of the people.
Speaker B:If this movie was in black and white, this would have been a five.
Speaker B:This would have been a masterpiece.
Speaker B:In Alex, he based the still, give it a five.
Speaker A:So be careful.
Speaker A:As I said, what you wait for.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'm unhinged and crazy.
Speaker A:No, I'm with jj.
Speaker A:This is a brilliant movie, and I love it.
Speaker A:And I think that it comes from a lot of the little things.
Speaker A:Like, I crack up when Andrew McCarthy throws Bernie on the dolly and it's just wheeling him around, and because it's happening in the background, it's having the background where he lays him down, the dolly straps his ass down and just, like, skips across the pool.
Speaker A:Pool deck with wheeling him.
Speaker A:Or you've got, you know, taxing the strain, and he's got his whole setup going.
Speaker A:And it's just.
Speaker A:It's just enjoyable because you're like, why would you ever do that?
Speaker A:But at the same time, if you were the person, if you were Andrew McCarthy, you're thinking of all the ideas of, how can I keep this going for as long as possible?
Speaker A:And 100.
Speaker A:That's one that you would think up.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:And so I enjoy it.
Speaker A:It makes me laugh.
Speaker A:It is a very good movie.
Speaker A:And I think majority rules on this one.
Speaker A:But, yeah, it's a four.
Speaker A:It's a four for me.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:You don't think.
Speaker C:You don't think John Hughes didn't get some inspiration for Home Alone when he's got the strings and he's doing all, like, the.
Speaker C:The sing alongs and in the windows.
Speaker C:Oh, yeah.
Speaker C:You know, he was like, oh, look at this.
Speaker C:I know what I'm doing.
Speaker C:He put that in there on purpose.
Speaker B:Let's look up what you all rated Home Alone.
Speaker B:Like, probably rated it worse than this movie.
Speaker B:That feels like a freaking cardinal sin.
Speaker C:I don't think so.
Speaker C:I think we rated Home Alone.
Speaker A:I wasn't on for Home Alone.
Speaker C:I don't remember, but I.
Speaker C:I would imagine.
Speaker C:I love Home Alone, so, man, I bet I gave it real high.
Speaker B:I might have to break off and do this on my own.
Speaker B:I'm gonna save the people.
Speaker C:Oh, we know that won't happen.
Speaker C:I have a hard enough time wrangling the two you for this as it is.
Speaker C:And then lately I'm the problem.
Speaker C:So it's just like we're a show waiting to happen.
Speaker C:None of us are going solo.
Speaker C:Who are you kidding?
Speaker C:And with that, Alec, why don't you tell everybody where they can find us when they're not listening to our ridiculousness?
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:So my spin off podcast, since I'm ditching these two jerks.
Speaker A:No, it's like JJ said, Patreon is the best place to get in contact, get a part of the content, vote on the movies I put out.
Speaker A:Like I've said before, and all this month the votes really matter to us.
Speaker A:Like it's pure bagging rights to get our movies picked.
Speaker B:So yeah, don't go out there.
Speaker A:You go pick.
Speaker A:You deny Matson the ability to watch his stupid ass movies.
Speaker A:It is nothing but shit show fun, you know, going back and forth.
Speaker A:So Patreon's place to get involved there.
Speaker A:Best place to watch this on YouTube.
Speaker A:So you can see Matson's raised eyebrow as he's like, what am I doing?
Speaker B:Should I ate during this whole freaking podcast.
Speaker B:Like Brad Pitt and oceans.
Speaker B:All the oceans.
Speaker B:Movies like, come on now.
Speaker A:Making irrelevant comparisons.
Speaker A:It's perfect.
Speaker A:This.
Speaker A:That's what YouTube's for.
Speaker B:I'm providing fuel to the brain and making objective decisions here, unlike my co hosts.
Speaker A:Okay, YouTube's place to watch us.
Speaker A:Patreon's a place to get involved with that.
Speaker A:Let's thank our two patrons that I know of, CB and Rich Charles changed the name all the time, but they're the ones currently that are holding all the power in the choices.
Speaker A:So if you don't like the content we're putting out, remember, it's not our fault.
Speaker A:With that, I'll kick it back to the king of Crash, the colossus of clout.
Speaker A:Jj.
Speaker C:That's right.
Speaker C:Appreciate it.
Speaker C:And we're just done with this one.
Speaker C:So with that, as always, we appreciate you tuning in.
Speaker C:We'll catch you on the next one, guys.
Speaker B:Next one will be better.
Speaker B:Just trust me.
Speaker B:Bye.
Speaker A:Hasta la vista, baby.
