How Did This Get Made? - Little Italy (Re-Release)

Episode Date: August 21, 2026

Mamma Mia! We're taking a Last Looks vacation, but don't worry, Paul still announces next week's new movie before treating you all to a re-release of our classic episode on the 2018 rom-com Little Italy starring Emma Roberts and Hayden Christensen. Paul, June, and Jason discuss the stereotypical New York Italian accents spoken in Canada, all the jet black hair dye, the soccer game in the rain, Luigi's big character reveal, and so much more. (Ep. #206 Originally Released 01/31/2019) • Go to hdtgm.com for tour dates, merch, FAQs, and more• Leave us a voicemail at speakpipe.com/hdtgm• Submit your Last Looks theme song here• Join our Discord at discord.gg/hdtgm• Buy merch at howdidthisgetmade.dashery.com/• Order Paul’s book about his childhood: Joyful Recollections of Trauma• Shop our new hat collection at podswag.com• Paul’s Discord: discord.gg/paulscheer• Paul’s YouTube page: youtube.com/paulscheer• Follow Paul on Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/paulscheer• Subscribe The Dark Web w/ Paul & Rob Huebel: youtube.com/@enterthedarkweb• Listen to Unspooled with Paul & Amy Nicholson: unspooledpodcast.com• Listen to The Deep Dive with June & Jessica St. Clair: thedeepdiveacademy.com/podcast• Instagram: @hdtgm, @paulscheer, & @junediane• Twitter: @hdtgm, @paulscheer• Jason is not on social media• Episode transcripts available at how-did-this-get-made.simplecast.com/episodesGet access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using the link: siriusxm.com/hdtgm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello, people of Earth. This week, we are taking a summer break from Last Looks and treating you to a re-release of a classic episode. That's right, Little Italy. Oh, one of my favorite Canadian films. But before Little Italy starts, I wanted to announce that our new movie, the one that we're going to be watching next week, well, I guess has been foreshadowed because if you listen to our thrashing episode, you know that Jason demanded that we cover a very specific movie. And Jason got his wish. That means next week. week, we will be watching 1985's The Legend of Billy Jean starring Helen Slater and Christian Slater, and they are not related, although Christian did have a little bit of a crush on Helen. Now, the IMD breakdown of the plot reads with her brother falsely accused of attempted murder, a blonde Texas teenage stunner. That's kind of a creepy write-up already. Victim herself of attempted assault becomes a famous outlaw and martyr as both of them run away with friends. to try to clear their names.

You can stream the Legend of Billy Jean for free on Tooby and YouTube, and if you have any corrections from our last episode on Triple X, don't worry, we'll cover both Triple X and the Legend of Billy Jean on our next last looks episode. So please do not hesitate to leave us a voicemail at speakpipe.com slash hd-ttgm or write to us on our Discord at discord.gg. slash HDTGM. Now that's all I got people, so without any further ado, enjoy a little idly. Hey, Pazanos, grab your macaroni and canolies. We're going to go see a movie. Manja.

We saw Little Italy, so you know what that means. Now it's time for how to this campaign? Gonna have a good time, celebrate some failure. Not just be a hater because you know you wonder. How did this campaign? Let's follow in the mediocrity of subpar art. Perhaps we'll find the answer to the question, how did this get made? Hello, people of earth and welcome to How Did This Get Made? We're back in the studio talking about a romantic comedy for the ages.

I am joined, as always, by my co-host, Jason Manzukas. How are you, Jason? And thoughts? I don't know what this movie is. I'm excited to talk about it. I'm like, I am flummoxed. I have all the questions in all the world. Well, I believe...

Does it take place in the 40s? I know it takes place in Canada. We'll get into that. Canadian 40s? Also, joining me, as always, is my other co-host, June, Diane Rayfield. How are you, June? I'm great, Paul. How are you?

Good. June, you know, you often ask us to do a good romantic comedy. Did you get your wish? I don't know what I thought. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. Is this a good movie? Paul, is this unspooled? Are we doing unspooled right now? Is this a good movie?

Finally been asked. Yes. This, guys, this is definitely going to make the list of 100 greatest films of all time. Is this the, is this your back dooring us into a podcast episode of Unschooled by telling, what a prank. Amy is hiding under the table right now. Guys, this movie. This is wild. I mean, is this an Italian exploitation film?

I've heard black exploitation film. I, I, like, I should be offended by you. many things. I don't even know what I would have been. Well, listen, this is what I wanted to ask you. So you grew up in an Italian family. Yes. Did you ever use the words, pa? Well, I mean, different places. I'm not also Canadian. Or, Marona me. Hey, Mr. Macaroni is coming over with, with Sister Canoli and everyone's going to eat the best. So got your idiot. Everybody is talking with like, as if every single person in the movie is like straight off the boat

1930s Italian immigrants. Okay, here's my question. It takes place in Canada. Yes. Okay, okay. The movie is called Little Italy. Little Italy, New York

that the whole world knows? No. No. Little Italy. Canada. I'm assuming Toronto? I mean, look, when Jane Seymour said

you need to go back home to Canada. To Canada. I was, my jaw dropped on the floor. When the movie starts, it's like, It's like a sketch of a one-person show.

It's like, oh, I literally, we had a bunch of characters. There was old man, you know, Pollyano. You know, like, and they're little kids exploding firecrackers. Let's take a listen to some of this opening because it is pretty great. If you were to grow up in the best of all places. It would be our little Italy. We had the perfect childhood. To us, Little Italy wasn't just a few city blocks.

Hi, Mr. Battali. Hey, Mario. It was our entire world. We knew everyone. And everyone knew us. Can you push pause? At which point, I was like, what little Italy is this? I wrote, like, this is not New York City.

These are broad boulevards. These are, like, big streets. Okay. This is not our Little Italy. Well, first of all, it's like a rip-off of, like, Goodfellas. Yes. But without any of the charm or style of it. Now, this is a question.

Is there a little Italy in Canada? I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. But do they have fine. But do they have New York accents? That's the problem. Everybody's doing a New York Italian accent.

The accents in this movie are crazy. You also cast Hayden Christensen, who is not Italian at all. Oh, no. And they dye his hair in this movie. Jet black. I want to talk about the hair dye for a long time. I want to spend the majority of this podcast talking about the hair dye they used on these two characters. But this part of the movie right here where it's like their little kids that cause in trouble appears to be a flashback to like the 1950s.

Absolutely. It appears to be like the Flamingo Kid. Oh, yes. A movie that is like from the past. And I believe these scenes take place. 1999? In 2008. Oh, yes.

No. One million percent because they're just about 10-year-old kids. They have to. They're 10-year-old kids, and now they're in their 20. Okay, so these flashbacks take place when the Internet was around? Oh, yes. One million percent because... When iPhones were around? Because everyone's still alive. They all should be on their iPhones.

They are, what are they? 10, 12 years old there? Emma Roberts is what? 25? 20... It's probably like the mid-2000s. The exploding vegetable guy is. still the same guy.

Unchanged. Unchanged. Nobody, nobody changes. You know why? Because barely any of their lives have passed. This is not, four years. It could have been a week ago. This is not the olden days. This is not the olden days. By the way, this is a pet peeve. I have two pet peeves.

Papa likes Mamba. What? This is the song for this. It should have been Macarena. Yes. It should have been Mapo number five. And so the pizza shop is like the gingham table cloths and the checker table Claus and like the little flowers and the parents dancing around.

I mean, it is so reminiscent of like the 1940 New York, little Italy that we all. Basically like that moonstruck family. And we are watching all this before we know it's in Canada. And I would say that even with the wide streets, you could have pretended that you were in New York. Maybe. Why were we in Canada? Maybe.

Like I know that there was a tax credit along the way. but then someone had to say Little Italy in Canada Yeah, why did that become the... But then I feel like... Well, I did notice it's sponsored by Air Canada. Oh, yeah. Air Canada gets one of the biggest

credit cards at the end of the movie when you're watching the bloopers. Did you watch bloopers? No. Oh, you missed out. Oh, the bloopers are really worth the price of admission. This is an Air Canada production. Did it was any of this...

Do you think the majority of this was filmed like on an Air Canada? This is possible. But weirdly, when Hayden Christensen's dating that girl, She is, like, from, like, airplane. Airplane Airlines. I don't know, but, like, it is. Everybody talks like they're a 1940s New Yorker.

Yeah. Oh, what are you doing? Everybody, Danny Aiello, like, everybody. Danny Aiello, I think, is the only Italian person in this movie. No, listen, Milana's client. There are other, like, real Italian. I would say if you were to look at a ratio chart, it would be, yeah, it's view. I would say they're in the minority.

Well, that's why, okay. So to just go back to the hair dye for a second. Oh, okay. They both, our two leads, look undead. For the majority of the movie, they look. There was a moment where I was concerned. They look unwell. Hayden Christensen, Hayden Christensen, right?

In particular, looks like sallow. Sallow. He doesn't look like a well man. No, and I've seen him after this film, so I know he's fine. I don't know what was happening with the makeup there, because there's a point where I was like, is he a junkie? Because, like, it looked like his teeth had even a gleam to it. And the hair dye.

What was so strange about the choices they made to make people look Italian was they could have, I mean, he is a blonde. They could have just dyed his hair, like, with some darker highlights to just sort of give him a little more color on his hair. They dye his hair from, like, a CVS box, jet black. Yeah. Oh, and then. Jet black.

And then they have the audacity to, put him in a scene where it's pouring rain. And I'm like, oh, this hair dye is going to run. I mean, like, he is going to. Well, I think it was permanent, babe. I don't think it was. You don't think they put it on every morning? I would love it.

I would love it if that's... I think they were painting it on every day. That would be amazing. The, the, the, the, I felt like I over and over I wrote, is this a sketch? Right. Like, because it was so, um, so over the top that they were aping

all of the Italian stereotypes and archetypes of these movies. Like, I mean, like putting firecrackers and fruits and vegetables. I mean, every... One of the classics. One of the classic bits.

But like, to the grandparents, to the making of the sauce, to the... Oh, you've got to squeeze a tomato like a man, but don't squeeze them towards. A man. A manja, manja. Everybody's doing

crazy Italian accents as well as, New York accents, while also all being in Canada. Oh. And nobody has. Not a single person in this film has a Canadian accent. Sure. They don't have a Canadian accent.

They don't talk about immigrating to this country. Nope. They don't talk about nobody. There isn't a single person in this movie who has a computer or a phone. No. Oh, you're right. You're right. I never, no one is ever on a phone.

Which makes me think honestly. She is on a computer one time when she's making her menu, which is like when she makes her menu for her restaurant. Yes. I mean, that menu is. She's just like dragging like word art. Like clip art. What many Denny's menu?

How many menus are you? It's like clipy's going to jump out and be like it looks like you're making a menu for a new restaurant. Can I help? I mean, I'm not trying to be elitist here, but when you go to a fancy restaurant, there are not normally pictures, glossy pictures. No, drawing pictures of an egg plan. Okay, the craziest thing. So I started to think after a while

because nobody has any connection to the outside world and she keeps on referencing like, don't you guys want to get out of here? Mom, did you ever want to leave here? Maybe there is a little Italy in Canada where they have no concept of the other little Italy in New York City.

Wait a second. Are you, wait a second. Oh, I love this. So you're saying that they are... They think they are little Italy. They are the main one. They are the main one. The only little it.

Are you guys familiar with the movie The Specialists? Oh, yes. I believe we need to do on this podcast. It's on our list. Is it Travolta that's in this movie? I thought it was Salone. It's, okay, it's two men who are brought to a new city to, like, start a new club. Oh, no.

This is Travolta and that guy. Yes. To start a new club and like be American and it's awesome and blah, blah, blah, blah. And what they realized in the movie is they've been. secretly taken to Russia and are training like Russian spies to act like Americans. Like this feels like... It's called the experts.

I watched it all the time. Because here's the thing. There is no way in Canada... I love that movie. I love that movie. There's no way in Canada that that accent, I feel, would ever come to fruition. Again.

That accent wouldn't find its way from an Italian language married to a Canadian accent. Also, no reference, the only way it could exist is if part of the extensive voiceover was like, our dads met in Brooklyn. Yes. Blah, blah, blah. They came from Italy. They blah, and then they moved here to Canada.

Although that would imply that every Italian around them, like her girlfriends, are also just picking up from that one accent. Yeah, I agree. You're right. because everybody's acting like they're straight up in, like, in hardcore Italian Brooklyn in like the 1940s. I mean, and again, we're saying this movie, by the way, this movie came out this year, 2018. No, Paul, I'm picking off my earphones. It's a current movie. This movie just came out.

This movie you can't even. What are you saying? When would you have guessed this movie came? 2002? This movie came out this. Like last month. Yeah, last month. It was in the.

theater for like a day and it just came on iTunes that's the reason why we're talking about it it literally just came on iTunes June's I wish June's facial expression could be projected it came out September 21st June is upset June is aghast I can I think the only word is aghast you look like you've just seen someone get murdered in front of you June it looks as that June is seen a ghost I am stunned to my core. I am shaken like a rattle inside my body. I am so shocked right now. I don't know which end is up.

I don't know anything. What? Yeah, September 21st, 2018. This movie was probably in- weeks ago, you're saying weeks ago. Weeks ago. It came out in theaters. This movie was in production a year ago.

In Canada. I mean, and so we have to talk about, I mean, consistently throughout this process. So you can't even blame like it's like systemic racism. Right. On it being from 20 years ago. Okay. Because here's the reason why I thought. But here's the reason why I thought it was from, I don't know, at least five years ago.

Okay. So a big part of the movie is Leo, one of the, Hayden Christensen's part. He wants to update his pizza restaurant. You're saying it Leo? Leo? They pronounce it. Leo. Leo.

But they pronounce his Italian family calls him Leo. Okay. I don't think you've been... I think you've been married to Paul for too long. It's rubbing up. Yeah, I mean, they're not calling him by... They call him Leo. Leo.

They call him Leo. They're constantly refers to Leo. Princess Leo. So he wants to update his family's restaurant and bring it to, I guess, this current year. to this September. June, can you tell him how he wants to do that? He wants to do it. And this is why I thought it was so dated by creating a pizza app.

A podcast. And a podcast. Wait, is this podcast? No, maybe I just made that up. A pizza podcast I'm all in on. But the app for a small six-seat Italian restaurant seems like an incredible waste of money. What could ever be on that app? Just a delivery service?

Look, we order from a place here in Los Angeles called tomato pie. have an app, but they also have four locations. So that at least justifies something. Man, to spend the money developing an app. Would be crazy. Unless you're doing other content. And I guess that's why I thought he said

podcast. Do you think that they were going to do like, you have to be generating some other online community? Maybe some web series, some cooking classes. I don't know. And he also, meanwhile, he also has like really unique, fresh ideas for new pizzas. Oh. So he is not only like a just a straight up great businessman entrepreneur waiting to happen.

He is like a professional level chef waiting to happen. But that's the problem I have with the timeline of this movie, Jason. But here's the thing. They react to the idea of putting a fig on a pizza. This is why the world feels so strange and so isolated, as though it's the craziest thing they have ever heard of. Yes. Well, I mean.

That they would put a fig on a pizza. That they would ever dare to put a fig on a pizza. Are they not allowed out? So you're believing that they don't, they're not even allowed out of the area of literally. Well, all I know is that she keeps on telling, she keeps on asking people like straight up,

why haven't you left? Why don't you want to leave? Yes. And nobody has a great answer. And I believe you when I say like, I think that perhaps people in Canada aren't allowed to experience other kinds of pizzas. Like the idea of like a fancy fig laden pizza,

of course in New York exists. Right. In like the late night. But in Canada, Little Italy, probably doesn't even yet exist. This movie doesn't even get fixed. Here's the thing. They're just getting sushi right now. They're just getting sushi Canada.

To all our Canadian listeners, fuck you. But when we talk about things being like Little Italy, Little Korea, it's usually adjacent to a giant city. Right. What is this little in reference to what? I'm assuming this is Toronto. So it's, I'm assuming this is Toronto's Italian neighborhood. So you're telling me that in Toronto, they don't have any pizzas.

that have like gloating this day. Can I just... Can I just... According to this movie, they... According to this movie, they have only ever had cheese on a pizza until 2017. Let me just throw one thing out at you guys.

This movie was also directed by the director of Mystic Pizza. No! Yes. Yes. Does he only make pizza-based movies? Wait a... What? I almost brought up Mystic Pizza as a reference.

Because she's wearing... the shirt that Julia Roberts wore. Are you kidding? Yes. No, I'm not kidding. No. No, it is directed by the guy. Can I ask you a question? Did that person make slice? Another pizza-based movie? No, this guy has a very interesting career. Yeah, he has like, he made Opportunity Knox with Dana Carvey, grumpy old men, Richie Rich, my favorite Martian, Miss Congeniality, How to lose a guy in 10 Days. Welcome to Mooseport, Just My Life and Rewins, and Atlantic gold. Like a bunch of good movies. When I saw Mystic

Pizza, I fell completely in love. Like, like true crush. Yeah. Young, like, I have a crush on this woman in this movie who to me was so beautiful and so, like,

exciting to watch and, and, you know, and it was Annabeth Gish. Oh, Annabeth Gish. It was not Julia Roberts. I was like, who, Who cares about Julie Roberts? I'm on a gish tip too. Give me this Annabeth.

Gish. See, I felt that way about you. This gish is going to make me gush. Listen, the scene between gish. And the babysitter's dad, the babysitting dad, is one of the best scenes. I mean, I couldn't, I could not get over what I was watching at that tender age. Yes. Yeah.

It's amazing. And she's incredible in it. And still incredible. Love you. America's sweetheart. Everybody says. Look. We love, I like an Annabeth.

She could have been pretty woman. I like an Annabeth Gish. I like a Jamie Gertz. I feel like these people know. Oh, that, oh. Jamie Gertz. Oh, don't. Come on.

Jamie Gertz was everything. She was my favorite. But now we're back to the 80s. Now we're back to ladies of the 80s. Did I already talk about this on the podcast that I created a fake Jamie Gertz fan event and my blockbuster video? What? You have talked to about that.

Okay. Not the first time I'm hearing of it. Okay. All right. Well, there. go let's do an old episode and retell that story that very rarely comes out. Oh, Jamie. All right.

Gish. Gish and Gertz. By the way, I'm going to pitch a movie. Gish and Gertz. To both of them, Gish and Gertz. It's the new Caggy and Lacey. Talk to me about the fact that when we're introduced to Hayden Christensen, it seems to me that he's just a delivery boy.

Yes. He doesn't seem to be the chef. He doesn't seem to be, you know. And so that's a good point. that's what I found to be so weird. He just seemed to be the person they would send out. His relationship to the pizza, in the setup of the movie,

is that he loves delivering the pizza so he can fuck the women who are there to get the pizza. Sure. But yet he loves... That's the only connection. But yet he loves pizza so much. He's installed a very expensive pizza oven

in his apartment. Like, I mean, he worked... Not even in his apartment, in Luigi's apartment. That's Luigi's apartment? Yes. He's living with Luigi now. I didn't realize.

Oh, can we talk about when he goes up to Luigi's roof? The rooftop garden? Yes. Did you notice something interesting about it? All the random lamps? Yes. There are so many lamps. Every time you look and I know this is a visual thing.

These are indoor lamps that are just like have all been painted and are just on the rooftop. Listen, in Southern California, the design aesthetic is all about bringing the indoor outside and the outside inside inside. but in Little Italy, Canada, I feel like the weather conditions year-round are not... June, we were in Canada. Remember how cold it was? Our children refused to walk outside. They're like, it's too cold. When you would breathe, it would hurt your lungs.

Oh, yeah. This is not a place where you have... Literally, I'm counting right now. 15 indoor lamps that are outdoor. Oh, wait, is that the roof? That is the roof. Yeah, these are all indoor lamps, shaded lamps, shaded lamps, Table lamps. Shaded lamps.

It's the kind of thing that, like, they're using as light for the movie. But if you think about it, like, the first time it rained, that would cause an electrical fire. Oh, instantly. Amazing. I mean, definitely. But, I mean, I guess the thing is, is that their chemistry was so good that you weren't even looking at that kind of light. You don't even notice all the lamps. This place is, like, drowning in lamps.

I found their relationship to be confusing. Yes. Because she comes back to Canada and doesn't seem to have any, like, she's not upset with Canada. She doesn't race to get back. There doesn't seem to be any, like, movement like, well, I'm not only here for a couple days. She seems to be like, I'm back in. We also never get a satisfying, you know, like it's the movie starts with this flashback where they're like teenagers, 12, 13, somewhere in that zone probably. They're playing soccer.

They're lighting firecrackers. They're like, they're the neighborhood best friend kids, right? Right. And then. They play soccer together. They play a team sport one-on-one, which is the dumbest thing ever because one person always has to be the goal. And they're obsessed with who's the winner and who's the loser.

And the setup is always he's just shooting on her. Yes. Her only ability to win is to block. No, listen, I was a soccer player. Oh, okay. Traveling song will break. Yes, and an athlete in general. Okay.

She, that scene where she's... I know this to be true because June's dad spoke about this at our wedding was one of the big things that he highlighted, the private accomplishments were you're traveling soccer and basketball. He spent the majority of his speech just going over my stats as an athlete. I do remember him passing out homemade cards, a player cards. But it was like a Bo Jackson card, like on one side you were baseball and the other side you were football.

So I recognize, you know, I mean, and listen, if you look at me right now in my physicality, you might not automatically think that's an athlete. Elite athlete. No, that might not come to my, or maybe it does. It does. Okay, great. But if put on a court, if like push came to shove and I was having to play one-on-one, whatever, I do feel like you would see, something would come back.

There's a history there. Yes. Okay. When Emma Roberts is. playing soccer. In the rain. She looks so deeply uncomfortable and out of her league. Yep.

And like she has never, not a single time once played a game of soccer. And Hayden Christensen is not only in the, well, in the film, is coaching the soccer team. And then basically he's like, let's go outside right now and let me kick these balls at you. Well, that's the thing is like he's drilling shots at her. And she, you're right. I noticed the same as I was also captain of my high school soccer team. Oh my gosh.

Guys, I played soccer for like a couple years. She has none of the skills, none of the instinctive skills to of a keeper, right? Right. And it's hard to be a keeper. It is very hard.

Oh, guys, this is not a sports podcast. Save it. When their kids, it's fine. When their kids, it's fine. But when they're adults, he's just drilling shots straight out. Well, she hasn't been playing for years. She's going making food.

But why, first of all... Oh, I want to talk about the London. Oh. The best line of the whole movie, the line that made me legit laugh is when Jane Seymour is walking down the line and Gordon Ramsey and everybody's food. And she hands a woman two pieces of a split loaf of bread, which the woman that has to put on either side of her head. And Jane Seymour says, what are you? And the girl goes, a moron sandwich. I was like, a moron sandwich was the funniest fucking part of this movie.

And by the way, that's in like minute two 30. And then it goes downhill from there. But at that point, I was like, oh, we might be in for a really fun ride. But why did she leave? We never got. Sorry, all of this buildup, which is to say, like, we never understand why she left really. Why she left to go to England in the first place?

And why do we, why are we rooting for her to stay or be home? To kind of put some markers on it, she was obsessed with him. I guess he didn't know that. So I think she went away because she was like, I am too into him. I need to like get out of town. But they never, they only, I thought they were exes. First, I thought they were siblings. Yes, which is troubling for a romantic comedy.

Well, but I was excited to see a sibling movie. Yeah, I was excited to see it. Oh, not a romantic movie. No, well, I was excited. I was excited. I was excited to see a sibling movie that might have romantic undertone. Which is, which is, No big deal, a category on porn hub.

But they were not siblings. They were not former lovers or exes. They were just, you know, she just in voiceover, like has an aside about like needing to get away from him or no wonder I had a crush on you or whatever. Yeah. And then she comes back and it's as if he's the love of her life. When she sees, when he does the double take in the bar.

Oh, it's. It's the greatest double take. Please, please fans edit together. That double take just over and over and over again. I mean, and they really pump it. They really do. From a directing standpoint and an acting standpoint, everyone is bringing their A game on this double take.

And then, and again, just to get me back to the scene that I really want to talk about, he sees her and his first instinct is, let's get out so I can drill balls at you. And someone says, hey, It's raining out, and you think, oh, maybe it'll be a light mist. They shoot this fucking thing in disaster movie rainstorm. I mean, first of all I can think of, how miserable is every actor on that day? Every actor.

And because not just our leads go to the soccer field. Everybody. All of the patrons of Luigi's bar. Yes. Without an umbrella to be seen. There's a couple umbrellas in the background, but most of them are completely just getting drenched. And they're so excited about it. It seems like the entire bar, the owner, the bartender, everyone leaves to go out to the soccer field.

I guarantee everybody got sick on that shoot. I mean, I've never been more uncomfortable than in rain shoots. So we're supposed to understand. And this is what's confusing because it all pays off in the end when I guess she lets him win the final pizza contest. Well, because she always says, admit it. You let me win? Or you never let me win. But I never understand, like, what?

I believe she would always win, but he would say, I let you win. And then she would say, no, you didn't. Okay, but then in the rain soccer game, he's not letting her win. No, and he's, in fact, winning. He scores on her way more. She never get, honestly, she never gets a shot to. She saves three. For those of these soccer fans out there, for if you listen to Men and Blazers,

who've just come over here, this is kind of a little cross. crossover talk. I'd love to talk English Premier League right now. Get Franklin Leonard back over. Arsenal.

So, I mean, I mean, this, so this whole movie is predicated on this unrequited, super passionate love,

but he never has to come to it. She never has to come to it. Their, and their breakup, I literally was like, when they, or when they got, like,

upset with each other. Yeah, their, their end of second act, fight was I wrote, why are they mad at each other? Yeah, I couldn't figure it out. No idea.

I mean, I'll tell you. Sorry, I just want to go back to the In the Rain scene. Yeah. They all go out to their thing and they're starting it up. And she's got two like wildly stereotypical Italian

like girlfriends. Oh yeah. And she's like, you set this up and they're like, I don't know. They're like crazy like Italian stuff. I hear those men in London really get you hot. Oh, well, he's an investment. He goes, oh, he was an investment banker who had a sizable portfolio but didn't know how to manage it.

Is that how you ladies talk to? What's so crazy about that seed is they've literally sit down for one second with her after not seeing her for five years and immediately hound her on like the graphic details of her sex life. Who you fucking? How are they doing? Oh, terrible. Like apparently like she is like straight in a row says three next. things about the men in England.

Like trashes them. Trashes them about going down on girls. Oh, yeah. Trashes them about their dick size. About their dick size and use and abilities to use it. She's like, they get into it. Anyway, they go out to the soccer field and, yeah, her friends are like, yeah. And then one of her friends, they cut to her receiving a phone call.

Because she says, oh my God, little sales got diarrhea. I have to go. It's like, why? Why are they explaining that the friend needs to leave? Who cares? She's like, I'm not shooting this rain scene. By the way, if she doesn't want to be in the rain scene, like, she doesn't have to be. But there are some amazing things to watch.

Like, I guess there's like a famous story of who's a guy in Lawrence of Arabia, Peter Routel, who said that, you know, whenever he would be in a big group scene, he would try to find a way to hide himself. So he didn't have to be with the big group so he could, like, do less coverage. and this movie when you watch it like Danny I yellow is always like doop do dip dip dip he has one shot that's isolated or they got him in this thing

but especially at the airport at the end he is so far away from that group not a part of it I watched stuff like that I watched the extras there's a guy holding a sign on an airport I couldn't get over him everybody just watching

one pass of just extra work on this movie is amazing when he when Danny Iiello says and when Danny Ayello says sausage and peppers. That was my nickname. Ew. Like Mr. Sausage I get.

Whatever, but sausage and peppers. Like, what are the peppers? And the peppers is the balls? But why are the peppers the balls? I wouldn't want to be called sausage and peppers. I usually say that. Ooh, careful with the peppers. Do we think that they...

Are we to believe... Turn the sausage. Don't burn those peps. Don't burn those peps. Lick the peps, bite the sausage. Oh, careful with those peppers. Oh, those peppers are very sensitive. The skin and the peppers. That's a spicy pepper, huh?

What are these seeds doing in my peppers? I got to put on my junk trunks to protect. I got to put on my junk trunks to protect my sausage and peppers. Junk trunks was crazy. Is that a phrase that has ever been uttered before? I guess probably. It's probably... It's probably Canadian slang.

Oh, and now, are we to believe that in Canada, people also hate all Indian people? Yes, that was... That was, like, that was the other thing where I was like, this movie is new. This is a recent movie. Yep. For it to have... Days old. 1980s era stereotypes is crazy.

I mean, they call one of the characters Slumdog. He goes, Jai Ho, Slumdog. What? And then... So the Korean... Okay, I... My favorite character in the movie was Jesse, not Jesse,

the Indian girl from the other, from Jesse's... I don't know who she was, but I thought she was one of the stars of the film. Yes. I would watch a whole movie about her. So one thing we've not even broached is the plot of the movie,

which is that... Hayden Christensen and Emma Roberts's fathers were... The reason their best friends is because they were all family. Their fathers were best friends, and had their own pizza place. And so blah, blah, blah, blah.

It was family. The whole family under one roof, blah, blah, blah. At the end of the cold open, the fathers get into a fight and separate. And so now they have... After winning the best pizza competition. Right. And so now they have side by side... Yes.

Pizza competition and bikini contest. No big deal. Put them together. A little spice and a little nice pizza. Male and female bikinis, although the men... I appreciate it. The men's being up there. The men's bikinis are more bike shorts, but that's fine.

And then So then they have side by side competing pizza restaurants And they are in a feud Right It's a very, you know, you could simplify and say It's a real Romeo and Juliet situation Sure, in a pizza place But each pizza place has its own Indian work

Like person, employee They split down the middle Because I would say that one of the things That was so confusing to me was that first scene There are eight people working in one small pizzeria And I was like, there's too many people like And there's and no client, no customers. Yeah.

I feel like all you need in a pizza place of that size, that square footage is one person making the pizza. Yep. A single person. One person, maybe not even waitressing because it seems to be pick up. It seemed to be like a pickup counter situation. Oh, Marcus, call us. And then one person, really two people, one person at the cash register and one person making pizza. Yeah.

And this is what. And if Marcus Limonis was coming in to say this, he would say this, he would say. say, he would say, you need to mend this feud and get back together because this was never better than when you did it together. Because he would say process product. That's what we're doing. That's what we got. That's what, guys, I'm not even kidding. Please, if you're out there and you know Marcus Limonis.

He's tweeted at us. That's fine that he's tweeted as, but we need him on the show. Oh, we'll come to the show. He wants to come on the show. He's in Chicago, right? But he's in L.A. a lot. Oh, okay. Because I was going to say, next time we go to Chicago, I want Marcus Lomonas.

on this show. We should find a movie like a big biz where someone stuck, like the worst, like a bad version of baby boom. Like, you know, and then be like, what did she do wrong with the baby boom? Also, Marcus, if you agree to come on this show, you can be 100% in control. In charge. You play the sound clips. You tell Devin when to hit the theme song. This is a dream come true for me.

You have no idea. Marcus, you run the show. You do the ad reads. This movie, but even between the two Indian... All the ad reads are for Marcus Limonis businesses. He's like, CarMax. Sweet Peets. Sweet Peets.

The simple Greek. Dad bags. Oh, come on, Marcus. Oh, my goodness. Camping world. We love Marcus Lemos. We love you, Marcus Lemos. We love you, Marcus Ler.

Just so you know, there is an episode where we talk about Marcus Lomonas. We cut out, I would argue, 20 minutes of that conversation. We cut it out. We got to put it up as an extra. I mean, we cut about 20 minutes out. You were not there that night, June, but we went deep into Marcus. I didn't even know you watched the show, Jason. Of course I watched the show.

Do you watch the show just because he's Greek? Of course. I, well, contractually, I have to watch all shows like Greeks. That is part of the deal. And also because, you know, that's all my family wants to talk about. but has any and all Greek shows. Would you make a version of this movie? There's like a Greek-centric version of this movie?

It's called my Big Fat Greek Wedding. And Andrea Martin is in both. Andrea Martin, I was going to mention that at one point, but Andrea Martin is the grandmother, has now played stereotypical ethnic grandmothers of Greek and Italian descent. She's Armenian and she's also from Maine. Yeah, isn't that amazing? Yeah, and doing amazing work.

Listen, so is Alyssa Milano. I thought Alyssa Milano was a breath of fresh age. She was great. I appreciated her a lot. I actually said... Really, really did. I actually liked the two brothers, too, Salvatore and Vincenzo. I thought...

I actually don't think that there were any... Like, I don't know. I liked all the color around this movie. I do believe I like the color around this movie. I think that there had some issues with some things. The main characters? Yeah, the main characters. So that's my favorite thing about watching bloopers and movies

because you can tell the relationship between the actors by watching that gag reel at the end. There's not a single shot of hating Christensen and Emma Robbers enjoying themselves, having a laugh, someone messing up a line, the other one sort of smiling. There was not a single piece of footage that they could use to show like, oh, these two people could stand being in a room together. They're meat cute, or not their meat cute, but they're like falling in love montage is my

favorite thing where they clearly got the rights to shoot at like a festival, like a, like, you know, like a San Giro feast or something like that. And all they do is try on different Italian stereotype shirts. It's like, like, what are you looking at? My flags? And there's like little Italian flags over both breasts. And it's like, I'm the real Italian stallion. And it's like, my macaroni is always al dente.

You know, it's just like real. And they're just like, oh my gosh, these are great. Like they love those shirts. Oh, yeah. And I felt like they almost love those shirts more than they love each other. For sure. For sure. Well, he's like, get up early in the morning.

I'm picking you up. And then he picks her up at, like, dawn to bring her to a street festival. A street festival? So they can buy a t-shirts. And then they go and blow up fruit, vegetables rather, again, at the old man's... And leave him a gift basket. But then they leave him a gift basket. But then...

He's like, what is this? They see water. And unlike Grimlins, they drive right towards it to get wet again on that bike, to get wet. And then they go at that... Just so they can go home and take... their clothes off, I assume. Like, I assume in Canada, maybe this is Canadian, actually. In Canada, people can only get naked if their clothes have been soaked through.

There's no other reason to. It's more pure. Which maybe makes sense as to why on a non-summer day when they said it was cold out, the fire hydrant was out and going. If people in Canada have to, like, get in the bath with their clothes on, then take them off to get in the shower. There's going to be such a Reddit thread. I'm sorry, Canada.

I'm sorry, Canada. We're just drawing conclusions based on what we saw about. Listen, I'm trying to understand. We want to understand your culture. They love Starbucks. We know that. That was crazy, too. I couldn't even follow that Starbucks right.

I mean, the Starbucks thing that they're addicted to caramel lattes. Yes. Andrea Martin drinks a number of. 17 of them? Lattees that I'm not even kidding. It would hospitalize her. Yeah, there were 10. She's too old for that much caffeine.

That was unsettling. And they react to Starbucks as if, again, to June's point, it was just invented. Like, what is this new coffee place in town? Oh, two more! Everybody's got, oh, my God, two more. Everybody sounds like it's Mario Brothers. I feel like the director sent everybody Mario Brothers as like an accent. Research.

As like a cornerstone for their accent. Speaking of Mario Brothers, Let's talk about Luigi. Sure. The Asian man who has a very thick Italian accent. And the entire time, I'm like, okay, are they not going to even, you know, touch this, broach this? And then they do. And here you go.

Those sound like excuses of men who's not being honest with himself, huh? Kepa. I'm not being honest with myself. King of us for a second. Luigi, again, is not Italian. And even the Italians in this movie speak with so much. incidental actual Italian in their dialogue. They have, they are peppering.

Oh, you work the peppers. They are peppering all of their sentences with real Italian words. Yes. Which does, it doesn't make any sense. It just doesn't make, I grew up in a family where people spoke Greek and they never would just insert Greek words. Nope, I'm the same way. But listen to what's going on here on the accent, the story.

So we have this man, an Asian man who has a very, very. thick Italian accent, which you just heard a little bit of, and listen to this. Look, I'm not trying to be mean or nothing, all right? But have you looked at yourself in the mirror? Luigi. Your real name is Li Zao Ping. You're Chinese, bro. When are you gonna be honest with yourself?

That you're not even Italian. Here's that accordion. You know, when I told my dad I was gay, he threw me out of the house. Do you still be my friend? Luigi. Come on. You think I wouldn't be your friend just because, well, you like guys, so what?

No, because I'm not Italian. Okay. I mean, you're Chinese, bro. This reveal that Luigi is gay plays very late in the movie. Luigi is a side character that doesn't really even deserve this treatment. very fun, liked him in the movie a lot but when he reveals he's gay my jaw dropped. I was like

really? Because it's like I was like where is this what is going on? I thought this is a double reveal because I up until this point I assumed he was just Italian man you thought this was like Gene Simmons in that movie with uh... I guess this guy's

just Italian Do we ever find out who they're talking to? I know that's a small point but like narration always To us. All right, so it is Toss. It wasn't to Jane Seymour. I thought that maybe they may have told her the whole story when she showed up at the wedding.

I also thought that Jane Seymour was at their new restaurant. Did not realize it was a wedding and did not realize. It was a wedding? Oh, yeah, it was the wedding. Their wedding? Yeah, because they're dancing. No, not their wedding. Oh, oh, oh, okay.

Wait, at Pizza Organica? Yes. Pizza Organica. At Pizza Organica at the end of the movie when Jane Seymour is there, that's a wedding? Yes. Oh, I didn't catch that. You thought it was like the old. opening of a restaurant, I assume.

And she's just, Jane Seymour is now a part of this wedding. Like, she's crashed the wedding. So let me get this straight. You probably thought it was the opening of the restaurant because there's five million signs that say organic. Pizza organica.

Because finally they are bringing organic ingredients to pizza. But if you are having a wedding, hosting a wedding for your grandparents to get married, do you need that much signage? Also, literally on every table there's a giant sign. Also, like, like, like, how long? They were still open for business. They were still open for delivery.

Deliver, yeah, delivery and take out. How long has it taken to get pizza organica up and running, right? So I think both dads must have sold their shops. Sure. And they took over that corner to make a bigger restaurant. And it is knocked out the middle wall. Okay. Okay.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Right. Then they redid it. They redid it. And then how long? I think they're up and running because the kitchens are still there.

I mean, again, I'd love to talk to Marcus about this. But the kitchens are still there. They knock out a wall. But it looks like they set up a new bar, a real nice new bar. That's right. I'm saying six. Six months. Six months.

But then. There's no employee training. So it takes six months to like build it out and get it ready and do all the work to get it. They've got a pizza organic, a neon sign outside. You're telling me. People in the community already know this, there's pizza there. Jane Seymour has arrived to beg Emma Roberts to come back and work for her because I don't know what. But you're saying like she's allowed six months to pass.

Well, but she did say that the other. chef she put in charge made... She did hire someone else. She hired the other guy and then he gave the critic like a diarrhea. Oh, so much diarrhea in this movie. Which, by the way, I don't mind. But by the way, and I appreciate that about you, you really look kindly. You throw a kind of diarrhea.

Here's what I want in a movie. I want a believable love story. I want colorful side characters and then I want hot, wet dumps. Can I ask you a question? Because maybe I'm misremembering this. But at the end of the movie, right before the credits hit, I thought they were at Pizza Organica. They are having a wedding. Jane Seymour is there.

There's a dance. There's a lot going on. And then a man fully an Indian garb gets up and says, hey, everybody, get the fuck out of here. So that's a part of the gag grill. Yeah. Oh, okay. So that was the first clip from the gag grill. Oh, that's from the Indian restaurant.

Wait, when did they go to? That was from that, like, sensual curry restaurant or whatever the fuck that was. Remember when the... We need to talk about the reefer. Can I... Oh, we need to talk about the reaper. We need to talk about the police woman who like felt up... Everybody, every woman in this movie acts like Hayden Christensen is the single

greatest-looking man in history. And that's what's troubling. I do think... I do think that the hair and makeup department on this movie should be taken out into a field and shot... A Canadian field? Yes, a giant Canadian field. I do think...

How about just putting... They started to spray tan him because they were looking at the dailies and were like, oh, something is very, very wrong here. But I have to leave. June does have to leave. June, any final thoughts before you go? No, I mean, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. No, listen, we stopped the movie a number of times to just do things and we had a couple of errands to run. So it was a real stop-start experience.

This movie felt like five hours long. It's an hour and 40 minutes and it just is long. I stopped it at one point to be like, well, I must be near the end. Not even close. That's when we stopped it, too. That 22 minute mark is, those 22 minutes are hours long. From 22 to 20, it feels so long because we stopped it twice. It's still 20 minutes?

Yep. Thank you, June. There are so many things, June, that I want to know your opinion on. Do you think the grandparents were having sex in the church up until they got caught? Is that like where they go to fuck? No, I feel like they were, yeah, they were very, pure. Okay. How crazy, just

because I want very quick June reactions off of these things, at the pizza contest, when they finish the contest, Emma Roberts pulls, like, he wins, she lets him win, she walks off stage, her suitcase is there, there's a cab waiting, a yellow cab, a yellow cab

waiting, when she gets to the airport, she's had a full wardrobe change. She's now in like a pink flouncy dress, Like, what's... Anyway, sorry. And what kind of traveling outfit was that? Yes.

I may have a lot to say about her costumes, but I don't know. I have to have to save it for a mini. June's got to run. She's a professional businesswoman. See you later, June. Hi.

Goodbye, June. All this talk, though, makes me go, like, there is no real reason, though, that you needed to say it was Canada. Right? I mean, there's nothing in this movie

that's specifically Canadian. Like, they could have faked it for New York. I think they contractually had to. for some reason. I guess Air Canada to give them a lot of money. It must be, wait a minute. Is this one of those Canadian?

Is Hayden Christian Canadian? Christensen? It might be one of those like, one of those like, did the Canadian film board make this movie? Okay, so like a gooby-esque kind of thing. He's like their money, so they had to.

He is a Canadian actor and producer. This is adding up. Yes, all right, all right. And then I think the writer might also be, oh, wow, this is a real. Now we're getting. Getting into it. By the way, I'm, so yeah, they really have to make a big deal out of it.

So I bet that's why it's so specifically Canadian. Oh, and the writer is also Canadian. See? Venei, uh, Vermani. Okay. So this is, okay. All right. So I think, I think they had to.

I think that was, I bet that is part of it. And which is. Finance by the Canadian government. Yeah, yes. Basically, because they have a, they have a, they have a, a, Canadian government has a, like a film board that basically finances movies. Right. To be shot in Canada that have a certain amount.

of Canadian performers and all the rest. We can, I'm sure, talk to her. I'm sure a lot of Canadian people are going to weigh in on all of this on the message boards. We need to get into it deeply. There was one, or I'd say two really funny performances. I love the mortuary guy. Sure.

He was very funny. Comes in straight up grabbing his dick. And sniffing a heel. Yep. Oh, look at that big toe. Another performance I really liked was the female police officer who's kind of a but costing Hayden Christensen. It's all a big mistake.

It's all just a- Hits against the wall. Shut up and spread them. Oh my God, that is your carton guns, mister. You didn't declare that you had two amazing man guns. You hide in anything else? Oh, what have you got here? A six-pack.

Oh, no, I'm sorry, that's eight. I'm gonna go south now, okay? Hey, now. You pack in heat here, mister? My God, were you breastfed? There anything in your pockets that might be sharp or hard or pokey in any way. But that was like from a different

movie. Yes. That was like from a different movie where she wasn't high. She, no, she wasn't she hadn't eaten the pizza. Oh, so at one point, the, um, one of the, yeah, during the prank war, between the now, uh, the former best friends competitive pizza owner, dads, one of the dads replaces the other one, the other one's oregano with weed. And by the way, when you see the cut to that weed, that's a lot of weed. That's like thousands of dollars worth of weed. And so that guy had to go, buy that on the legal market and then grind, like the amount of time you're grinding it. Probably, you know, he probably mixed it in with oregano just so it wasn't totally, like, I bet it's a subtle.

But then they, so he, they feed weed to all of their patrons, but the patrons are then acting as if the weed is like ecstasy or peyote. I mean, I was like, oh, is it, mushrooms? They put magic, because look, Jason, I've never smoked weed. I know you have never smoked weed. I don't believe in it. And so the idea that you would see these people reacting, I would. would say this is the most truthful performance of weed.

Like an old woman is atop one of the tables dancing erotically. Like weed doesn't make you like horny and want to dance on tables. I don't think, again, I've never tried it. And I've never tried it either. I just watch movies to let me see how people would react to it. Exactly. But there's so many issues with that. Also, they're packed.

We need Seth Rogan on this podcast. My goodness gracious. It was like that was itself But I didn't mind See that was the stuff that I was like I don't mind prank wars between I love it Like if the story had been more about

The rival pizza And I liked stuff like I liked that the wives of the warring Best Friends Were still friends And would have secret But they had like glasses of red wine In the planters

But it was a poured red wine Not like they don't keep a bottle in there No they have pre-poured glass glasses of red wine hidden outside in planters. And they put it back in the point. Then they put it back in as if like, well, I'll come back later and have this plant wine. Oh,

did you remember that scene where Luigi goes? He calls him bad Rocky or some of that. Or no, no, he says like, now you have to be Rocky. Yes. But they reference it earlier too because they play a Rocky theme,

but they clearly couldn't afford the Rocky. Oh, I didn't notice that. Oh, it's an amazing theme here. Take a listen. It's just, just like one beat off. there is so many weird all of the how about this how about when the flight attendant scene happens

Emma Roberts shows up at Hayden Christensen's house to play soccer right ding dong she rings the bell cab pulls up flight attendant comes out ding dong she rings the same bell uh oh two girls here to see the same guy great the guy comes down Hayden Christensen's like oh Lisa oh my god

hey good to see you to the flight and is like, all right, go on inside. Yeah. And then, so the blonde goes upstairs into his apartment for, like, future Bones-O. Yeah. Get ready for me. And now, Nikki is like, Emma Roberts, rather, is like, okay, so I guess I'll see you later. And he's like, no, how about dinner tomorrow night?

And my place, right here, where I'm going to fuck this girl tonight, you come tomorrow night and I'll make you food. I'll make you food tomorrow night. Tonight, not good, because you just saw that girl go up there. I'm going to fuck that girl. He's a ladies man. But tomorrow, oh, I got to remember to wash my sheets. But, okay, anyway, tomorrow, you come over.

And she's like, yeah, okay, I'll come over. I was like, what the fuck is going on? This is, I mean, she shouldn't be with him. She should go. I was rooting for her to go back to London. And there's a point in the movie. Yes, go back to London. Go back to London.

Be a chef. You are killing it over there. And there's a moment where she says, like, you're never going to leave. She never asks them to leave. He never says he can't leave. If Marcus Limonis was giving these people advice, he would say to her, go to London. Go to London.

And if you want to come back later, having learned everything you need to learn, come back later. He could say to her, look, the pizza market in Canada is not strong enough for you to give up your career

from a very high-priced, you know, culinary institute. I'm Marcus Limonis, and I'm pulling up to, what the hell is this? Wait, where am I? Did I pass through a portal back in time?

Am I in Italy? No, Marcus, you're in Little Italy. I would love... Because they stopped him from driving his new car. They were like, no, no, no. We have to give you a car from the 70s to drive into Little Italy. I would love that they would have made like a full like crossover promotion. Like the profit goes to Little Italy.

Like, but it's just like, and it's all like they all be their characters. No one's like, it's like the Star Wars holiday special with Marcus Lemos. And he's like, what happened? You guys, wait a minute. So you're telling me the guy next door, used to be your best friend? So I went across the street and I talked to Vinny. Now, what they don't realize is he's got the sauce, but he's got the crust, and together

they make a great pizza. Now, they can't let their personal problems get in the way of what I'm not kidding is the best pizza I've ever tasted. Now, I'm going to go to my lighting guy. You remember him from season one. He's going to put new light fixtures in, make this place look really shining. Remember when I met with those people that make plastic units for displaying things? What a great way to sell merch.

Now, you know when we reconfigured those small RVs to be portable homes? We're going to make that into a food truck. How about Little Italy tiny homes? How about Tiny Homes? By the way, instead of an app, they should have done a food truck. Yes. Like, why not? I mean, obviously do a food truck.

The movie came out last year. Last year. Jason, do you want to know what the tagline for this movie was? Three generations, two families. one forbidden love. But it's wrong because it's three generations, two families, two forbidden loves.

Correct. I don't want to give short shrift to Danny Ayello and Andrea Martin, who actually I really enjoyed in this movie. Oh, I thought their stuff had the most actual chemistry. Yeah. Like they had, their scenes together were both funny and like very sweetly romantic

in a way that the movie, this is a romantic comedy, but the two leads don't have any, any chemistry or any palpable kind of energy between them. I mean, look, I just to use the terms of the film, I felt that their chemistry was Vente. Yeah. And I felt like Hayden Christensen's and Emma Roberts was tall. Oh, interesting. Grande?

Grande, yeah, Grande. Trente or I don't know, like whatever the... Oh, no, no, I'm sorry. You're going the opposite way. Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. I thought you were...

No, Vente and Tau. That's what I kind of see. I mean, did... And my other question is, did Starbucks pay to get in on this? They have to have. They can't have that much Starbucks. Exterior Starbucks. Interior Starbucks.

Starbucks cups. So many Starbucks scenes. And it's only, they only discover so interesting. They only discover Starbucks when they are discovered flirting in the confessional. And the priest kicks them out. And then they discover Starbucks. By the way, this is like, you know, when George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg got together, to make raiders, you know, it's like, oh,

with these two great guys together? And that's how I kind of feel about this movie. Air Canada and Starbucks coming together to make a move. To make great content. Two of our greatest content providers. Well, Jason, obviously, we had some strong opinions about this movie. There are people out there with another opinion.

And it's now time for second opinions. That is John L'Jois with his second opinion. That is John L'Jois with his. Second Opinion theme, which I love so much. So good. Jason, these are five-star reviews, Cole from Amazon. As of today, which is Halloween, there are only 42 reviews total for the film. 55% five stars. And so I don't have many to read, but I have these two. This is from Sean Amadon, and it was written just a couple of days ago. My wife really enjoyed this movie. I, however, thought it was okay. But since my wife is always right, I give it a 10 out of 10.

Five stars. Great. So that was the first one. This one is written by Marilyn Campbell. As an actual culinary arts grad, I truly appreciated the aspects that almost every food-related show completely ignores. And while some of it comes off as a joke, it makes it way more realistic and delicious. Yum. Ew.

First of all, there isn't that much food. talk in this movie. Very little, in fact. I mean, basically she just says that pears cut down the acidity of cheese. The figs. The figs. Yeah. Yep. And I guess smushing the tomato like a, but don't do it like a man. I mean, not much. Yeah, very little. She continues to go, the competitions, the family feuds, the families loving each other through the feuds, the multi-generational connections, because that is family. I love all of the fantastic quotes. Are there? Fantastic quotes in this movie.

I would love to know what those are. And I want to remember them all. I can barely remember a line from this film. I'm just so glad I decided to rent this. A new favorite. Great job all around five stars. Wow. Wow.

That's all I got. That's tough stuff. It is. And so like I said, this movie came out September 21st. It's 102 minutes. It's rated R. For what? No, it made it cursing?

I guess cursing, but there really isn't even much cursing. Just that kind of awkward ass shot of that one guy. Of Luigi. You see Luigi's butt, but like Emma Roberts is in a bra at one point, but that's... But a very tasteful... Like totally. Not not very... And it's not very sexually, nothing very sexually.

Like, there's just some kissing. Do you think it's because they squeeze those tomatoes so hard? Yeah, probably. Opening weekend was... Is it a Canadian art or an American art? Canadian R is this when they stay out after 6 o'clock. Oh, well, this movie has them out at night. They're out at dark.

You know, so this is an R-rated movie. We don't want kids to see this. We really should have had Seth on this episode. He could have answered a lot of our questions about Canada. Guys, Canada, we'd love to come and do live shows in your country so we can understand what the fuck you guys are up to. We really needed an audience. How did this get made in Little Italy, Canada?

Set it up, dummies. Oh, my God. So the budget, the opening weekend it made about... I would redo this movie in Little Italy, Canada. I'm typing it in right now. Little Italy Canada. I think it's probably Toronto. All right. Little Italy...

I mean, I bet a bunch of cities have Little Italy's. Right. Well, Toronto, yeah. Sometimes referred to as College Street West. It's a district in Toronto that's known for its Italian-Canadian restaurants and businesses. I'm looking at it. You know, they got a little movie theater there. By the way, it does not look like the place where they shot this thing here.

And there's a statue of Johnny Lombardi on the street who launched Canada's first multicultural radio station from Little Italy. Oh, nice. And, oh, look at this. Movies film nearby. Nearby. Yeah. Police Academy. Scott Pilgrim in the world.

Yeah. The Long Kiss Good Night. The TV series Beauty and the Beast. And Little Italy? Near Canadian Little Italy. But not this movie, Little Italy. No, not this is not listed. No, no.

Interesting. Italians arrived in Toronto in large numbers during the 20th century, and they settled in the area known as the ward. By the 1920s, most Italians had moved west, and the city emerged as Little Italy. Greece is very similar. Lots of Greeks in Toronto, lots of Greeks immigrated to Toronto. It's like one of the largest Greek cities in the world.

is Toronto. Oh, I did not know that. Yep. And one of the big tourist attractions there is the Italian Walk of Fame, which has noteworthy Italian Canadians. Interesting. Which I'm now just going to go there and just find out who those are. And I don't see any ones that you would immediately,

immediately read. Oh, boy. Okay. So we've made $200,000 in the opening weekend. No one knows what the budget is. It's already up to about a million, but not yet at a million. The movie came in number 241 of all the movies released in the last 365 days. The top three of this year, Black Panther Avengers, Infinity War, Star Wars, The Last Jedi.

It was beaten by the Meg, and it beat nothing. So there you go, people. This is Little Italy. Jason, any final thoughts? This is some pretty wild stuff. watch it just because of how, like, how much of a parody of one of these movies it seems like. Yeah. You know, it's like they're, they're, they're, the way the movie starts especially, I would watch,

like, I wouldn't watch this movie, but I would maybe watch the first half hour just to, just to see how they're aping all of those old school like, you know, that's back when you can ride your bikes all around town. This is our little Italy. I do think it's a movie that's good to ride fast forward because when you see something interesting, if you stop it, it probably is worth it. Something interesting might be happening. But it's not worth it to fully watch.

Even an hour and 40 minutes? No, it's rough. It's rough. But there is some very fun, funny stuff. Some good performances by a lot of the supporting people. Enjoy the movie, stay for the blooper reel, which I'm always a fan of. I can't believe the guy that did Mystic Pizza made this movie. Yeah.

I mean, it's a real, I mean, clearly that was the connection that they wanted. I mean, Emma Roberts, too. It's like, this is the new mystic pizza. This is the new, I mean, is it the new mystic pizza? I don't know. If it is, who's Annabeth Gish? Right. I mean, the girl with the diarrhea kid, I think.

All right people. Jason, your movie right now is out. Yes, the Long Dumb Road. It is out now in Los Angeles, in New York, in Austin, I believe. It's also available on VOD. And it is on VOD. You go to iTunes right now. It's called The Long Dumb Road.

It is a movie that I am, like, me and Tony Reveloy are the stars of this movie. From Spider-Man. Homecoming and Grand Budapest Hotel. Exactly. If you like me, if you think I'm funny on this show, on other shows, please go and rent or buy this movie. It would mean so much to me. That would be amazing. I need people to see this movie.

And also, it's genuinely very funny. It's a great movie directed by Hannah Fidel. Check it out. And that is all for this week. I want to give a big shout out. And thank you to Ariel Halley for pulling all these amazing clips. Nick Kylie for doing all this research. Cody for doing all the

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