The Rewatchables - ‘Big Daddy’ With Bill Simmons, Joe House, and Sean Fennessey

Episode Date: June 28, 2024

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Joe House, and Sean Fennessey join the Scuba Squad as they rewatch the 1999 hit comedy ‘Big Daddy’ starring Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, and Dylan and Cole Sprouse.  Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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right now. We did a rewatchable's 1999 series back in 2019, the 20th anniversary of 1999 movies, which was a fantastic movie year. So, We did those for Luminary. They were behind a paywall, and then we got them back recently. And we're just going to start running them on either Wednesday nights or Thursday nights during the summer as second episodes on the rewatchables feed. So the Monday night will be same schedule as always, new podcasts. As you know, we're doing bangers only the rest of the way here in 2024. But then on either Wednesday or Thursday night, we're going to be doing rewatchable as 1999 podcast.

So this one, we did Big Daddy with Adam Sandler, and it was me and Joe House. And Sean Fennessey joined us for a bunch of it. I think he had to leave like two-thirds of the way through because he had a meeting or something. But we had a lot of fun talking about Sandler and about this movie in general. So you can listen to it right now. His girlfriend dumped him for someone else. I found someone. This old guy?

He has a five-year plan. What is it? Don't die? Now to win her back. I gotta do something big with my life. He's getting her. A little surprise. I want you to meet Joy and my son.

Our son, I adopted him. Great. Now what? Big Daddy. Yeah, that's it. Okay, yeah, that's good. Trick-a-tree. Next year, be prepared, moron.

All right, so I'm not really sure what to do with this movie either. This is the third rewatchable's 99 we've done that has aged very strangely. I really like this movie. I'm not saying it's age great. I really like this movie and I really like this movie because it brings me back to a five-year glory period with Adam Sandler. Which is why Fennessee is going to join us here for the first 20 minutes. This is timely because on Saturday night, Sandler hosted Saturday Live for the first time he was in that building since. He technically got fired.

95 is a strong word? I didn't realize he hadn't hosted. That was his first time. Holy cow. There was some real bitterness. Unbelievable. So there was a nostalgic kind of feel. So it was interesting watching Big Daddy in that whole vacuum,

like kind of reevaluated in the whole Sandler run. His five movies, I'm going to exclude Bulletproof. Okay. With Damon Wayans. I'm just going to nudge that out. It didn't really, I don't feel like that's in the move. I liked it at the time. Yeah.

People don't think. of it as a Sandler movie, though. It's not in the Sandler canon. Yeah. Well, Damon Williams was a much bigger star than Sandler at the time. Yeah, and it was a weird casting thing. But anyway, all right, I'll add it. 95 to 99 is, Happy Madison, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Boeeproof,

the wedding singer, the Waterboy, and then Big Daddy. And this was the one that did the best. It's kind of the tail end of this version of Sandler, and then he kind of didn't really know what to do from a movie standpoint. But explain the Sandler era to a Sean.

that specific five-year run. It's the peak of adolescent movie comedy. It's like stupid, funny, goofball, S&L guy who was a successful SNL cast member, but you never felt like was the greatest S&L cast member. And I think that there was a lot of doubt about whether you could build a movie career around him. This is a similar time to Mike Myers emerging as a movie star,

Jim Carrey emerging as a movie star. These guys who were sort of big and over the top and were very high concept. Billy Madison is like high concept, but low execution, happy Gilmore, high concept, low execution. Like, all these movies look like they're made for like $2 million, but it doesn't matter because you can't take your eyes off of whatever weird, like 13-year-old in a 28-year-old's body thing that Sandler's doing.

Big Daddy, I think, is like a transition point, though. It's like this is the most mature of these movies by far that he has made. It's like a movie with an actual idea as opposed to Happy Gilmore, which is like, what if some dumb bro was amazing at hitting golf balls? You know, like, that's basically the story. I'm so surprised that Big Daddy was the most successful. It is my least favorite of all of those movies. I would actually agree with that.

But I will say it makes sense to me that it was the most successful. Why? Because he's building. Each movie was successful. He was becoming more and more bankable. But this was the movie that you could, like, take your kids to. Well, you know, you can't as a matter of fact. Oh, yeah.

So I made House Watch it with that. I eliminated my movie. Even though I have an 11-year-old son, I don't feel like he's a good litmus test for should you watch this with your kid because my son is depraved. Boy, you have a legendary. You have a 29-year-old, 10-year-old. Yeah, I mean, he's, he watched the entire Bigmouth all the seasons before we even realized that he saw it. So House has a more typical normal son. He's eight years old.

He'll be nine in the summer. You wouldn't show him Big Daddy. I did show him Big Daddy. And guess what? It was a mistake. He wanted to know what Hooters was. And now he's walking around saying the goddamn jets and I wipe my own ass. His mother is not a fan.

How is that a mistake? His mother is not a fan. What was the mistake in that part? That sounds great. I didn't expect that I was going to have to explain Hooters. That was one thing. That's about time you put some hair on that kid's chest. I don't care if he's eight. Throw some chest hairs his way.

Well, he's definitely interested in chess now. I think that this movie, though, is, his movies before this almost entirely appealed to people between the ages of maybe right where your son is right now up to like 25. Big Daddy is the first time I feel like he started

making movies that were, and maybe the wedding singer to some extent, they were for like 30-somethings, 40-somethings, like, he was kind of a cult figure even on SNL. You know, his characters were, he was fired for a reason. You know, he just was not considered a successful sketch performer, even though you think

of like opera man and, and Canteen Boy and all that stuff. It was so funny and so seems iconic now. At the time, there was no guarantee that he was going to be the... He's the biggest comedy movie star the last 25 years, like bar none. Yeah, he said he made $4 billion in that S&L monologue song, and it was kind of like, I won. And it's like, yeah, you did kind of win.

He did. I was trying to think, like, $4 billion, it felt low to me when he said it. And then I actually tried to think about how much money that is. And how many movies you have to make, that do well to get to $4 billion? That's a lot of box office. It's a lot of box office. Well, this goes in two directions.

Like, in the one hand, Avengers Endgame made $2 billion in 11 days. Yeah. But Adam Sandler doesn't make superhero movies. He's just making comedies. Where he's the center of it, and then it's a bunch of random people, and then they just released the movie. So the Saturday Night Live thing, this is a weird era of SNL where the show has this resurgence from like 87 and 91, and it's built around these old school.

performers and people who were in comedy troops and could act and Phil Hartman and Jane Hooks and all these people were just really great actors who happen to be really funny and they also have all these amazing writers and Conan O'Brien's there and Smigel and all these people go on to do stuff and then from like 92 to 95

that starts to flip and it becomes like SNL becomes this vehicle to basically use SNL to make movies And you can feel it's starting to flip in the moment with Wayne's World. Wayne's World becomes a phenomenon. Huge movie. And then it's like, all right, who's the next person who can make a movie in this cast? That's how we get Tommy Boy.

That's how we get the It's Pat movie. Cone heads. That's how it becomes conceivable that Sandler's a movie star. But the problem was the show was shifting. And now you had all these people who were kind of, their character was themselves. And that's just the whole cast. And that's why I cratered. And I think, you know, Sandler, I think unfairly got thrown into that

because you had like Sandler, you had Farley, you had Norm MacDonald who's playing himself. Like the show kind of lost what its identity was. So what, these weren't performer actors. These were just kind of personalities. Yeah, I mean, Sandler was a stand-up comedian. And like his best stuff is Weekend Update stuff, I think, on that show, which is basically just stand-up comedy.

You know, it's him singing songs and doing stand-up. And he was a hugely successful music. slash album artist at the time too. You know, like his, the albums that he released to people like me who were like 14 when they came out, that was a big fucking deal, you know, not just the Hanukkah song, but like, they're all going to laugh at you, was on in my bedroom all the time. And it was a different kind of stardom. Like, Spade and Rock, Chris Rock, I think are a little bit of what you're talking about.

Whereas like those guys are another one. Those guys are just stand-up comedians. They did their best to fit in. They were just showed up on the show. And Farley was always going to be a movie start in some respects. And they were all trying to follow them like Myers and Dana Carvey model. But Sandler was like, he could do a lot of different kinds of things. You know, he ended up making a lot of different kinds of movies. And if you watch the first few

movies, you think, well, he's just going to do this juvenile like man boy thing all the time. Big Daddy is almost like a comment on him doing the man boy thing for the last 10 years. And it's like a, it's a segue. It's funny when he does this S&L sketch where he's at the Sandler family reunion and everybody's doing these different characters he played. And a lot of them variations from these five movies that he made. But when you go back to the Saturday Night Live era, the songs that he was doing, when I was growing up, with Steve Martin, remember he had the album? And he had the songs, and he would come on SNL and play music.

Those are the songs we listen to. Yeah. And that kind of, that was a big part of sketch comedy back then, the Smothers Brothers Adela era. And then that kind of went away. And he brought it back on SNL. I mean, there's no question. Some of the stuff he was doing on Weekend Update, the Hanukkah song was massive.

Still holds up, too. by the way. I mean, that was like one of the biggest things they had. They play it every year on the radio. Right. And some of the sketches that he did, I think really lasted. Like, canteen boys really funny. Incredible.

Opera Man, which I was really happy they brought that back on SNL, because that was probably the most successful version of whatever he did on that show. I did not think he was going to be a movie star. When if mid-90s, it felt like he was petering out in SNL. I thought Farley was going to be a movie star. Farley was clearly like, I would go. We'll go to the movie theater and see this guy. I didn't see Billy Madison in the theater.

It came out. I was like, oh, Jesus. I don't think Sandler thought he was going to be a movie star. I think he just made the movies that fit him and fit this personality that we're talking about from SNL. And it turned out that he caught the nation, you know, movie-going sort of publics. He caught their ear right, their eye right, something about what he was doing with that man-boy thing, just caught everybody in the right place at the right time. Well, think of the other movies, though.

Tommy Boy, dumb and dumber, the Austin Powers movies. It was kind of this absurdist or it was like, there were certain angles with how people were doing the comedies for this specific stretch. And he fits in. But it didn't feel like he was fitting in the moment, but then... I always got the impression that he was just doing what he thought was funny.

I agree. You know, like, he's not overthinking anything. And in some ways, like, over the span of time, he's gotten way more criticized for that. Like, he gets criticized for making the... grown-ups movies. You've talked about some million times. But he's doing the grown-ups movies for a very specific reason, right? He's like, I want to make a movie for my kids and I want to make a movie that lets me hang out

with my friends. And like, what, that's cool. I agree with this. I have no problem with those. And he was so transparent about it. Like, it's a take it or leave it proposition and you know exactly what you're going to get. You would never pay to go see the theater, go see it in the theater. If it comes on on a Saturday afternoon, I'm going to watch 15 minutes of it and it's fine. It's great. I know exactly what it's going to be. There's a couple of So Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, effectively the same movie. I love them both so much. Yeah, yeah.

They're basically trying to do the same thing in two different settings, and they both work really well, and they've been exceedingly rewatchable. And that was another thing he tapped into mid-late 90s. DVDs are starting. These movies are on cable over and over again, hence the re-watchables. And these were just really re-watchable. Happy Gilmore is just re-watchable. Right this second.

If it comes on, I'm on. I can't believe we haven't done a re-watchable. about... I'm ready, man. Happy Gilmore yet. I thought you deliberately invited me. This is my first rewatchable, by the way. Thank you for having me.

Is it true? Yes, yes. It's my very first one. We're losing that card. Yeah. It's off the table now. So thank you. You're like Brianna Tarth.

This is true. Yes, thank you. Thank you for taking my rewatchable V card. I thought you invited me to this one on Big Daddy as a way for you and I to show the world, to tell the world how... That was from 1999, and we were about the same age as that character, Sonny Kofax. Starting to get older. And here we are now, 20 years later, when you look back at what was going on in that era

and the way that like social mores were kind of behaving and whatnot, the fact that you and I are sitting here today having this conversation, we're happily married with children, it's an enormous success story when you look back through what we survived because holy mother F was it effed up back then. Yeah, all the hooters. We'll get into that with Wood Sage the worst. Yeah, you guys are both big daddies now. Literally.

We are. So it is Madison and Gilmore. The wedding singer, which was his attempt to be like, I'm actually not this guy. I'm going to go another way. I really like the wedding singer. And I don't know if it's aged that well because a lot of what made that movie work was the nostalgic 80s, kind of having fun with it. It was the same thing like how the Brady Bunch movie worked.

but if Craig watched, Craig the producer watch Brady Bunch movie, he wouldn't get two-thirds of the jokes. It's a very sweet movie. It's also he meets his match with Drew Barymore a little bit. They just have like a chemistry and they made a bunch of movies later on. So that movie really worked on, it was more of a date movie. He caught a really nice Drew Barrymore kind of early peak. Great period of her career.

And just really, all of us, like everyone in me and House is age group. We love Drew Barrymore. We were all in on her. Yeah, that's right. I saw Mad Love in the theater. Humble Brack. I will say, you know, the thing, and we'll get to it when we get to Big Daddy, the thing that I personally believe that Sandler, through all of those movies,

the single most successful aspect of them is him with, like, in a relationship. Yeah, his taste with actions. I agree. Well, not just the taste, but like the dialogue. Like him with the Joey Lauren Adams, I'm going to get her name wrong 50 times today. I like when you call her Joey Lawrence. I'm going to call her Joey Lawrence. I'm going to, I'm just, but maybe I should just do JLA, him and JLA.

Their dialogue, I was shocked at how like on point and, you know, snappy and they felt like, oh, this is good, he's got game. This is, I wish I had that game. Yeah, it was always, there's other guys, and he made a reference to this in the S&L monologue when he made the joke about Seth Rogan and goofy guys landing, good-licking woman. You know, this is a trope that's been in TVs and movies since forever. he was one of the few guys that I always felt like actually could have gotten whoever he was going after in the movie.

I agree with you. He's very believable. He's a very charming something that I could see it. It was never not believable. Well, he has that his personas are loud screaming guy or like gibberish sweetheart, you know? And I feel like there are a lot of women who just like the gibberish sweetheart, you know? And he could be very charming in that way.

He's obviously just naturally, incredibly funny and clever. So then he does The Waterboy. Not a fan of this one. It's a really weird movie. I remember liking it when I saw it in the theater, but it's not one out rewatch. He's really going for it. It's very one note. Yeah.

He's almost... Yes, it is. No, but it's almost too over the top with that character. He's basically a special needs character. I mean, this is it. You can't not say it. It's a tough watch now. I think in this point in time,

I think people would react differently to that way. They're like, why are you, are you making fun especially these people? What's going on here? My biggest problem with is I just don't think it's as funny as those other movies. The football scenes are funny. Yeah. But the other stuff isn't, and I am not a Fruza-Balk fan. That was the one misfire he's had, I think, with leading ladies.

But anyway, so he does, the water boy, it's a big hit. And that leads to Big Daddy. I can't believe how successful Big Daddy was. I was just looking at the box office. It's freaking crazy. It opened first weekend. 41.5 million. In 1999.

This weekend, that would be amazing for a comedy. What is that? Like 120 this weekend? Pretty close, yeah. Because ticket prices are at least twice as much. It made $163 million. It's the most successful in 1990s Sandler movie. Rotten Tomatoes 40%. I know Sean doesn't care.

Metacritic 41 out of 100. Sean's hero Roger Ebert, one and a half stars. I hope he's my hero. Let's scale back. Some actual Roger Ebert quotes. Big Daddy should be reported. to the child welfare office. That was his lead.

Big Daddy is a film about a seriously disturbed slacker who adopts a five-year-old and tutors him in cynicism, cruel practical jokes, and anti-social behavior. He ain't wrong. He ain't wrong. That did hit a little close to home. Yeah, people didn't like this movie. This did start the Sandler backlash, and this leads to... Yeah, what comes after this?

A really strange... Is this like Little Nicky coming right afterwards? Stuff like that. It's not great. How do you feel about Sunny Kofax, by the way? As a name or as a character? As a character name. Pretty cool.

Great name. Yeah. Great name. Jewish American Adam Sandler, a nod to his hero, Sandy. Felt like a great slacker name. Felt like the name of a guy that doesn't have any responsibilities. Sunny? Exactly. Who doesn't love a Sunny?

This is a rough run. First of all, uncredited and Deuce Bigelow, male jigolo. Little Nicky, which is a really atrocious movie. It's really one of the worst comedies of the last 20 years. It's staggeringly bad. Way too high concept in a way. It's really, really... What was the movie, The Love Guru Myers made, or the same one?

Also, similar fiasco. Where you have somebody who's at a certain point of his career and they're trying to mix it up, but they're too powerful and nobody in their life can talk them out of it. And that's how you get Little Nicky. Little Nicky really is... It's a top five worst movie ever made for any comedy. Maybe the first episode of the unwatchables.

It's unwatchable. Oh, I'd like to be invited to one of those. This is unwatchable. Punch drunk love. It's fine. It's fine. Yeah, it's an all-time classic. You guys can go to hell.

That's my take. PTA forever. I love classic. One of the great romances of the 20th century. It's fine. 24th century. For weirdos, sure. Oh, man.

Come on, guys. It's a weirdo. Weirdo rom-com. did show a slightly different side of Sandler that he was interested in the whole acting side. Yep. Then he does. Mr. Deeds, fine.

Not a fan. It's not rewatchable. Winona. Winona is in it. It's okay. It's an airplane movie. Eight Crazy Nights. It's an animated movie.

Not great. Uncredited in the Hot Chick. Anger management. You know, I called this on cable recently. It's okay. I was thinking about it because Jack Nicholson just hasn't made very many movies in the last 20 years. Of course, he's retired now.

Yeah. And it is a pretty funny Jack movie. It's not bad. What's interesting about it is it was a big deal when they were making it. I remember thinking like, holy shit. Sandler, Nicholson, this is going to be amazing. And it just wasn't. It was fine.

Yeah. Then he did 2004-51 dates, and that moved him into this second part of his career, where it was kind of the adult rom-com thing. And kept going, rain over me is an interesting movie? Yeah, drama. And then, in my opinion, the most interesting movie he made was funny people. The first hour of him and funny people is the best he's ever been in a movie, in my opinion. I thought he was amazing in that Noah Boundback Netflix movie, The Myowitz Stories.

Oh, yeah, you love that one. I mean, I just think he's a really good actor. And it's interesting because he's definitely not a good actor during these movies. Big Daddy, he feels like the first time when he needs to have, like, emotional stakes in a story, you know, because there's kids involved. With great results. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't always work. I didn't feel the stakes. I don't feel like he took the stakes very seriously.

Yeah. I thought funny people, I thought he was terrific, though. He's very good. I'm fine with him going that route. The first, like, 65 minutes of funny people, if I'm flicking channels, I'll usually watch. And as soon as he goes off, as soon as he's headed to Leslie Manshouse, I'm out. Yeah. They just never figured out what to do with that part.

And then the ultimate end result is it just goes terribly and they don't end up together. And he just kind of ends up with Seth Rogen. It's not what I wanted from footy people. I think it's one of the reasons, though, why he's now at this awesome moment in his career and why SNL was so good and that Netflix special from 2018 was so good is because he's basically got all the lessons

of man-child, juvenile boy character. He's got all the lessons from him trying to be a serious actor. He's got all the lessons from I was like a big pop star with hit songs. All the lessons from I was an SNL star. Like those are all, you'd be lucky to have one of those things. I agree with you.

And he's had four or five. And he's also a big animated movie stars. He's got these Hotel Transylvania movies that kids love. He's had a lot of phases of his career. And so now they're all kind of converging and you got this guy. That Netflix special, if people haven't seen it, I would highly recommend it. It's really kind of hammed a sweet spot. And if you're a longtime fan of his, like, it is really rewarding.

He's my kid's favorite actor. And I don't say that lightly. Like, they love Adam Sandler. What do they see? If they were on a desert island and they can only have movies from one actor, he's the hands-down choice. Have they seen? They love all the 90s ones.

I mean, at least, so going through, it's Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison. They like Big Daddy. And then 51st dates. And then the run from 2010 on, grown-ups, just go with it is like Zoe's probably like one of her three favorite movies ever. Ben likes that's my boy, which is completely inappropriate.

Grownups one and two are kind of like the iconic movies for the kids. who were born in like the mid-2000s. Like they're on a million times. That's their Billy Madison. They've seen all them. Blended is another one. And then the Hotel Transylvania stuff. Blended not aging well right now.

It came out like three years ago. But that's a whole other story. I forget. What was that one? That was one in Africa. Not great. I don't remember. I don't remember it either.

I don't watch that one. What are your favorite Adam Sandler? What's your favorite movie of his? Mine's happy Gilmore. Surprise, surprise. Host a fairway role in here at Joe House. Yeah. Mine is happy Gilmore as well.

I'm going to make the case for Just Go With It, though. Oh, my God. So probably Zoe's favorite movie. Here's the cast. This is Aniston? Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Brooklyn Decker. Dave Matthews is in it. Nice.

It's set in Hawaii. Dan Patrick has a key role. It fits into my Hawaii theory. Who couldn't you get, by the way, that? This is an incredible list. Like, think about it over his career. He could get everybody. Here's the synopsis of Just Go with it.

On a weekend trip to Hawaii, a plastic surgeon convinces his loyal assistant to pose as a soon-to-be-divorced wife in order to cover up a careless lie he told to his much younger girlfriend. So the assistant is Jennifer Aniston, which is ridiculous. And the much younger girlfriend is Brooklyn Decker, who's throwing like 109 miles an hour in this movie. I got to watch a little bit of this. Everything set in Hawaii. It's great. Just go with it. It's an awesome movie.

I love this movie. Stanley figured it out. Like you said, he made a ton of money and then was just like, how could I hang out in friends. Where can I go on location? I want to go to Hawaii. I want to do a safari in Africa for three months. Let's just make a movie there and come up with a dun pot. God bless. He's not hurting anybody. Grownups is like, I love Kevin James and Spade and Chris Rock. What if we just all camp somewhere with our families and made a movie? It's a way to get Spade money. That's a paycheck. That's great. Yeah, he kept Spade relevant. I thought like Spade was going to, and now Spade is like

huge Spade Assents. I don't know about that. 1130 comedy thing? Yeah, he's he's back. He's back. Huge Instagram. I'm about a spade of science. There's a spade of science right now. It's a spade of science. All right. So we'll go to the categories.

You don't have to stay because I'm going to go. Thanks, Sean, thanks, guys. That was great. Good luck on the show. Take your coffee. I'm honored to be in a movie podcast with Sean. Seriously, it's incredible.

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Sean's gone. We're going to zip through these categories. It's weird. This was one of the hardest rewatchables I've had to do because the first category is most rewatchable scene. I didn't really have a lot of rewatchable scenes. Actually, my favorite scene is when Sunny blows the surprise birthday party for John Stewart.

At the very beginning. Yeah, I really like that scene. Which part? When he ruined the surprise? Just like the whole scene. It's only Sunny. It's only Sunny. Yeah, it's only me.

It's only me. It brought me back to, you know, those dysfunctional relationships. relationships that you're kind of... It really did resonate. Yeah. There was that, and that was, again, to the point that I mentioned earlier, like, that was our era of, I don't know, maybe that's still going on where the girlfriend gets pissed off in a kind of irrational way and goes off.

And the boyfriend disappears for all that time. You're at a party. Like, how many times did that go down? The guys and John Stewart... There's no texting. There's no way to communicate. Right. By the way, the boyfriends would flip out too.

But if it was like, somebody would take off. off, then it became a huge soap opera. We got to find so-and-so. That's right. That's right. To be fair, there were a lot of... I would say maybe a higher ratio for the girlfriends. Off their rocker.

Well, but no, but the boyfriends would get drunk and irrationally mad. Yeah, yeah, and then have to be talked back. Exactly. There was a lot of, like, cajoling in our era. Why? Why did it have to find so-and-so? He disappeared two hours ago. Nobody knows where he is.

How could we get that time back? So much time of our college years devoted to going and search of either a drunk. Or hoping we'd run into each other later in the night. It's a miracle that we ever saw each other. We'd be like, oh, hey, you're here. There's a lot of that. Craig, you're here and doesn't have that.

Now, we have to find my friend's app. You know where everybody is every moment of the day. Yeah, I don't know if I like that. I don't use it. Might as well have like a microchip up your ass. I mean, you know exactly where with the GPS and everything else. I mean, junior year, my junior year, your senior year, Jacko, when he was hanging out, the Carostree guys.

And we just assumed he was at the Carrow Street. But if I wanted to see him, I would go over there and hope he was there. I couldn't just text him, be like, yo, where are you? You coming back? Can you imagine? All of our texts would have been, yo, won't play hoop? Yeah, 630? Cool.

You want to eat? Want to eat? Yeah. Food? Sure. Right, food. It would be like food. It would be food.

It was more fun the other way, where we'd have to actually get a hold of each other. Make a plan, and I'll meet you at this time, and I'll see you in several hours. and then you'd have to show up on time. Otherwise, it wouldn't happen. Yeah, so the surprise birthday party, it brings me back to 1999 in a lot of different ways. Him blowing the engagement was my favorite part. Wait, wait, wait, you're not going to propose.

I tried to do with Sander Voice. That was terrible. I also really like the McDonald's breakfast meal scene. That was my favorite one, except for it was very jarring. I forgot about it. How upset he was? Well, he yells at the poor,

African-American lady behind the counter, it's a very, it's a violent, horseshit! Horset! Oh, horseshit! Like, whoa! I had to put my head back on my shoulders after that. It's very antisocial. You can't really do that. It's so over the top that I enjoyed it.

Plus, it has the Steve Bouchemy part where they're going to bring them a sausage sandwich and they don't bring it to them. Why was Steve Bouchemy in this movie? It's a great question. This is like, this is that, this was the era, though, like these crazy-ass cameos. You don't know from one, what walk of life, you know, Sandler and Bouchemie were boys. He's like, come on, be in my movie.

They ran into each other at a cocktail party. Probably. I also like when he takes the kid to the park and they're watching the rollerbladers and then he puts the stick on the thing. Again, so antisocial. And fine if that movie is, if the whole movie is just a slapstick movie

where it's all physical comedy stuff. and the point that you're making is like in that era, you know, people falling down and busting themselves up has like a sort of charm to it. Like, you know, it has continuously throughout comedic history, it is why the guys getting hit in the balls remains the all-time top YouTube watch. Well, this was a year before jackass and it makes sense.

Yes, sure, that's right. This was how can we torture other people of humor, basically? And, you know, to be fair, there's a little assumption of the risk. Like, the folks on the rollerblades are coming around that corner flying. And it's a death turn to just merely, you know, survive it. Throw on the stick down takes it on that level, though. Any other rewatchable scenes, Craig? I love when he's watching the hockey game and it's the playoffs,

and he wants to watch the kangaroo thing and they're yelling at each other. All right. That's right, yeah. It's overtime right now, and there's a penalty shot about to take place. This happens, like, once every 10 years. Kangaroo shark, kangaroo shark, kangaroo. It's a good one. I like that one, too.

I was going to say the kangaroo one. I also like, and this is because, as I mentioned a bit ago, the element of this movie that works the most for me, the best for me, is Sandler with J-L-A. And so I like him sending the five-year-old, and her immediately like, oh, you sent the five-year-old? Yeah, yeah. This is the game we're going to play. So I'm going for most re-watchable surprise birthday party. What do you go for? I'm going to do the kangaroo dance.

Okay. What's the most 1999 thing about this movie, other than all the stuff we just mentioned? For me, it's all the Hooters material. That feels so trapped in 1999 in 10 different ways, like making fun of somebody that they worked out of Hooters, the fact that they end up back at a Hooters, how Hooters-Z the whole movie is. I thought this is a thing. From 1999. And this is the point I was making earlier about you inviting me onto this as my first rewatchable and us at this moment in our lives, looking back at that era and how, I mean, I don't know how to say it.

It's casual misogyny, right? Yeah. It's like, it's funny. The beat down that he's going to administer throughout this movie to this woman is her having worked at a hooters. And it's like a, it's a double thumbs up comedy storyline. Ten jokes to Leslie Mann about Hooters. Yes, yes, yes. He's Hooters shaming her.

This was the issue with my 8-year-old. This is not a movie for an 8-year-old who was born in 2010. Yeah. Sorry. I would say that's the most 1999 thing about this movie, other than the terrible cartoon that the kid liked. That felt very 1999 to me. Your kid wouldn't watch that now.

But you know what? He gave Barney 35 seconds. There was a 30-second time when he stinted when he indulged it. Also, we'll get to this later, but there's also his two gay friends being in love was like a very, let's be edgy in 1999 way. Now it's like nothing. It was edgy and it was genuinely 1999-ish. Yeah, but it was progressive for that time and for that movie. I mean, it's a as a counterbalance to the Hooters line, you know, it's like a pretty interesting that it was just accepted thing.

As we're going to what's age the best, I have that as one of the what's age the best is I hadn't seen this movie in a while. And I remember the whole two gay friends thing. And I was like, oh, man, this is going to go really badly. And I was like, I mean, I'm sure they would change a couple things. But for the most part, it was actually like pretty interesting that they did that 20 years ago to movie. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, the five-year-old kid is introduced to the two gay guys.

And, you know, he's instructed to just roll with it. And that's solid. Another what's age the best for me is young pre-daily show John Stewart as his brother, just as like the fifth lead in this movie. What do you mean his brother? You mean as his pal? As his pal, I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. I wasn't, I was surprised. And the reason I was surprised is because it is apparent that at that point in John Stewart's career, he was not on a parallel track with Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler, the balance of power there. He's lucky to be in an Adamson movie. Yes. The real problem for Stewart was he just had a bad agent.

Like James Dixon. Oh. Was his agent back then? Yeah, and he just was as usual making a lot of mistakes, putting him in positions to fail. John Stewart succeeded despite his agent. Wow, that's not surprising. Love to Baby Doll.

A lot of Baby dolls clients have worked out that way. No, I remember Big Daddy. This is going to be a big movie, baby. Big movie. It was a big movie. It was right. Actually, it was really smart for John Stewart to be in this movie. It made $164 million.

And it kept him... I remember he was in this. He was in some rom-com that Angelina Jolie was in. He was in Larry Sanders. Like, he was really trying to be an actor. Yeah. I actually thought he was a good actor. He was good in Larry Sanders.

He's fine. We love Larry Sanders. I mean, Larry Sanders is incredible. I don't think you and I have ever been closer from a pop culture standpoint than we were in 1999. Because we had like Oz, the Sopranos, all these movies, sports. We had to talk about them with each other.

I didn't have a podcast back then. I would just call you and Jacko. We had to talk on the phone though. You couldn't like send text. You couldn't send notes. You couldn't watch simultaneously in exchange because we weren't on the phone watching at the same time. We would call each other and hope the one of us answered.

And then if they answered, we would just talk for 45 minutes. That's great. It doesn't happen anymore. No. Now you have to text, say, hey, man, you're around? I mean, I know it's a completely different category, but this is how we enjoy the malice in the palace. We were, we knew we both knew we were going to be home watching that.

Well, it was incredible. I watched the game and then was away from the TV when it happened. And then you called me, being the good friend you are, 45 seconds into the brawl. I got to see, I came in late, but I got to see it anyway. The Christy Swanson-Lesley Man combo. I'm throwing that in what's age the best. Christy Swanson got us from the 90s.

Yes. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She was in that Charlie Sheen movie. Yep. She was in higher learning. Everybody had a crush on her. Never quite got to where I wanted her to get to career-wise. Do you feel that way?

Well, I want a little more from Christy Swanson. I don't know. What was the other one she was in? She was in Ferris Bueller. Yeah, early. Yeah. I think she hit her proper ceiling. Really?

Yeah. I'm going to go to it. that really. This was the era also. She's Playboy cover model, Christy Swanson. That felt a little desperate to me. I mean,

that was the era. In the late 90s when you're in Playboy, it was actually like a detriment versus a pot. Like when Jeannie busted it? Cindy Crawford was in Playboy. Well, that was. That was wonderful. Christy Swanson.

Oh, the program. That was the other one. I knew I was forgetting one. She's good in the program. Good in the program. And then it just kind of, lost momentum. Her late 90s were the Phantom,

eight heads in a duffel bag, lover girl, Tinsletown, ground control, early edition of the TV series? I don't remember that one. Not familiar. Big Daddy and then it was really over.

That's right. Way to go out. Great way to go out. In Dude Where's My Car, she played a character named Christy Boner. That's what it really ended. Yeah. But her and Lesley and young Leslie man.

Wow. Congrats, Judd Appetown, yet again. Congrats. Spectacular. Great job by you. Yeah. Because she was also and she's the one, which had the best-looking cast in the history of any movie. I'm still.

Cameron D.S., Jennifer Aniston at her apex, Amanda Pete, Leslie Mann, and who was the fifth one, the one? Maxine Baines, the one that Ed Burns dated. That's right. What year is this? 96. Aniston, like, during her, like, Barry Bond's 73 home run season. incredible. The height of her friend's powers.

All time. Top five all time for me. I understand. Yeah. We're probably getting in trouble just talking about this. Undoubtedly. Sandler, I was going to say,

we mentioned this earlier, but never got enough credit for the casting of whoever his babe in the movie was going to be or love interest. Brigitte Wilson. Julie Bowen. Oh, sure.

Sure. I remember Julie Bowen, of course. And everybody was in love with her forever. And then she finally hit it huge in the ABC show, Drew Barrymore, and then it just kind of kept going, Aniston, and some Hayek.

Pretty good. Always a great job by Sandler. It's true. Another what's aged the best, Mr. Hurley? But everybody's so busy with their crap lately, no one ever comes. Like I'm not busy? Hey, Mr. Hurley, how about you shut up or I'll smack you two to wall like last Monday?

Last Monday was a fluke. Bring it on, woman. I like, Sanler always have these old characters that wanted to fight him. It was like Bob Barker, Mr. Hurley, which has always made me laugh every time. It's a good gag. Yeah. I like the concept of the new school of child raising when he feels like he stumbled on to something. And he goes, you give the kid options, not orders.

It was so stupid. That is how it works out. It's pulled in a lot of different directions with this movie. And then the soundtrack, I felt like did actually a nice job of, it felt 1999-ish to me. I totally agree with this. Sweet child of mine, the Cheryl Crow cover. when I grew up by garbage. Limp Biscuit, Everlast, big audio dynamite. They had some old 70s ones that were a little nostalgic, like sticks and new rhythmics, things like that. Growing up, Bruce

Springsteen, the new radicals were in here. You get what you give. Harvey Danger's in here. Just felt 1999-ish. Some of the staples that you would want. I don't know why Everclare was in what they did not to be in this movie. They must have just been in disbelief. I mean, they were right there. They were around the hoop. You only need one. How does father of mine not get in this movie? It would have been a great one. Would have been a great one. So would stage the best test? Out of everything I listed. Wow. Let me think about this. I'm going to say Leslie Mann. Okay. I really, because her career, it's a really, really impressive. Long 25 year career. And, you know, God bless her for, the Appetal relationship and whatever that's created for her

and self-determination of the roles that she takes on. But I'm a huge Leslie Man fan throughout the entirety of her body of work. Yeah. And you're doing a great job tiptoeing through this. I'm enjoying it. I'm a huge Leslie Man fan. But like, you know, the body of work.

She's hot and you had a crush out of her. That's right. Okay, good. What stage is the worst? I forgot that I did. is the thing. Oh, and then on What's Age the Best, which I'm also putting in What's Age the Worst. His two gay buddies, it also aged the worst from a standpoint where if you did this now, you would do it probably in a smarter, more nuanced way. But I'm still proud how they handled it.

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That's by far it. TV shows the kid watches. I don't have any problem with those. I didn't like it. The trick-or-treating scene is just crazy. He breaks into the guy's house. The guy's giving his watch. I don't know what happened to that.

I'm telling you. That's just a bad idea. And then the trial is just long and boring. That's the worst eight minutes of this movie. There were two things that resonated to me that made this, that elevated this from, you know, because I feel like it's pretty much a disaster, this movie. I mean, it just. You mean, as it's aged?

Yeah, well, because the entirety of the kid plot is so implausible and incredible and not, you know, it's a vehicle for the relationship component. And if it was a movie, you need to take something on a little less weighty to get your relationship, you know, sort of dynamic worked out. You can't have a kid show up on the doorstep whose mother died and that's the reason that he's been orphaned. You're nitpicking with a guy whose previous movie was about a special. needs football player in New Orleans, who became a sensation. But that was a single note vehicle. Like, it wasn't. You're saying Sandler tried to achieve more with this one and didn't quite get there.

And, you know, it was a launching point for something it feels like, you know, where he was trying on things more seriously. But to me, the best part of, the two best parts of Big Daddy are most of the dialogue that he has with JLA. Because I think it really does, you know, it's smart, it's thoughtful, it's snappy, there's a good exchange, they have chemistry. And then I thought the dad, the dad's speech at the trial was the single best part of the movie. Oh. This kid, this is an abject moron.

You would never entrust him with any kind of responsibility. And he came in and gave it the whole thing a dose of realism that I subscribed to. Okay. Sandler's response to it was you know, Sunny Kofax's Your Don't Be Scared Dad speech preposterous. I think it's probably the lesbian

man jokes that have aged the worst. They still made me laugh. I think I'm just a bad person. Casting what ifs. I only had one. Bill Murray and Jack Nicholson allegedly considered for the lead role of this movie. Wow.

Bill Murray would have been intriguing. Yeah. What's funny is this is basically the Stripes character from that Bill Murray. Murray played, right, Big Daddy. The guy who had a chance to do a lot more,

but he's got the shitty job, he hates it, lives with a girlfriend who thinks he needs to grow up and make more money. This is Stripes. This is stripes as Big Daddy. Except it doesn't come at the expense of a five-year-old boy, which is still... It just comes at the expense of national security.

That's fine. We can live with that. Dionne Waiter's a word. I just had... I mean, we could have written down nine names. I just wrote down Leslie Mann. I thought we'd move on. fine. I'm not going to argue.

She's in like five scenes. Right. She hits like seven threes. Halfass internet research. I do like Hurley for the Mr. Hurley for the Dan Waiters Award, though, the old guy. He's terrific. Every scene with him is a terrific.

Would you go with him or Leslie Mann? It's got to be Leslie Mann. I've already. Craig? What about Rob Schneider? It's too Rob Schneiderly for me. He's like sewing the Rob Snyder venn diagram. He's got bad facial hair, weird accent.

Yeah, it's not. He's physically abused. It's just like every rock senator. He's vaguely Eastern European. Yeah. It's poorline racist. Is he Turkish? I mean, I don't know.

Half assernate research. Adam Sandler met his wife in this movie, Jackie. She played the waitress in the bar that gets Julian Routbair. Started the tradition of having his wife cameo in almost every Adam Sandler film. The scuba Steve action figure, a fictional doll made up by Adam Sandler. Alan Covert plays one of the two gay guys. he's appeared in 25 Sandler movies. Wow.

It's his buddy from NYU. Yeah. It's like if I was Adam Sandler and I just put you in every movie. That's his house. Covert is his house. Yeah. It's the last Adam Sandler comedy before he founded Happy Madison Productions, which then proceeded to make a ton of money.

The young boy was played by the Spouse Twins, Dylan and Cole, who also played Ross's kid on Friends. Oh, wow. I would not have got that. It was in the sweet life of Zach and Cody. They were the two stars of that Disney show, which apparently happened. I don't remember. You remember that show, Craig?

Yeah. Okay. Those were those kids. The urination scenes were faked with hand pumps that were held and squeezed when the actors turned away from the camera. That's a relief. I'm glad you looked that up. This is a big Syracuse movie apparently.

Lots of Syracuse reference sprinkled throughout, including the Barney Stones, which was their equivalent, I think of McGuire's at Holy Cross. Okay. The Barney Stone. Congrats. Somebody made a Holy Cross movie, and there was like, McGuire's, it was probably featured. We would have been excited. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. Maguire was this dump bar. The two Holy Cross bars were

McGuire and Joe D's when we were there. They were just disgusting. They wouldn't change the pumps ever on the kegs. So you drink the draft pitchers and you just get headaches the next day, but it was like $2 cheaper than bottles. I mean, the headaches really like started while we were drinking. I feel like we might have CTE from those cakes. Probably. I can't even imagine how disgusting those tassies. for her. Yeah.

It's amazing that we didn't end up in the hospital more often. Jesus. Apex Mountain. I guess the Spouse Twins going to throw them in coming off friends in this movie.

Things are really looking up. They get a Disney show. You could talk me in a Sandler for Apex Mountain here. Huh. Why? Because this is the biggest movie he made.

At that time. It allows him to launch his own company. He's now had five hits in a row comedy hits. he is an A-plus-less comic actor and there's just no question he's going to make a multi-billion-dollar slate of comedy movies at this point.

It's incredible. I'm going to have a great... I'm going to agree with you. And it was such a shitty movie. It is a shitty movie. I liked it. I liked it. I love that movie.

Yeah, Kyle loves it. I think you're just an old fart. New category. The Christy Swanson Award for most predictably borrowed 80s movie trope. This goes back to the Stripes thing. This was an 80s movie trope of the kind of lovable loser

guy who overachieved with his girlfriend who realizes he's a loser and sets the tone early on like you're a loser. Usually moves out, has sex with somebody. Body double, I remember, with the Brian de Palma movie. He's a loser actor. He comes home. His wife's just riding

some dude in the bedroom. This was over and over going to theme the 80s and it's a callback with that character. Yeah. As soon as you see her for a split second, you're like, oh, I know what this is. I know what's going to happen. She's going to tell him to grow up. She's going to get her shit together.

She's probably cheating on him. Like, we've been here before. The Joe Pantilyoni Award for Best That Guy. It's probably Mr. Hurley. I don't even know what his name is, but I will say Joseph Bologna is in this movie. Oh, yeah. He's definitely one of those guys. We know him as Joe Bologna, but I think probably Craig's generation probably doesn't know what it is.

He's the defendant, I mean, the attorney for the state. Yes. Right. I want to make sure I got it right. Would this movie have been better with Steve Buscemi, Danny Chero, Michael K. Williams? We have Steve Buscemi. The category has been canceled. The Saul Rubenek, they knew a word for Best Overacting.

I got to say, sorry, Adam Sandler, you're acting after social services takes your kid away is really bad. It's incredible. It's really like a really bad two minutes where he's like kind of upset. And it's just, I maybe would have done a second take on that one. This is the whole point of why this movie is absurd and why using the storyline of a five-year-old child as the vehicle for this relationship maturity thing is so dead wrong. There's no resonance whatsoever, no emotional resonance. You're just an old fart. I mean, the five-year-old whose mother is dead is now living with a moron.

And he knows that he's, that Sandler's a moron. And, you know, they, they, uh, have some laughs together. And then the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the jig is up. And the kids like, oh, I was kind of having fun here. And Santa was like, well, I'm not, I can't give you any promises, but he may not see you again. What? What a party pooper. Jesus.

And me? That's the movie. God. Who invited you? Hooters. Picking Nets. I mean, you could pick nits. Every scene in this movie, you just picked the knit.

My big nitpick that's an actual nitpick is the little kids watching shows that you don't watch when you're five, you watch when you're three. I feel like he would have graduated beyond the idiotic show. Out of all the nits to pick, that's the one. Yeah, it just bothered me. I was like when my son was five, my son was watching like real shows at that point. I mean, the kid was kind of a dumb ass. I guess this is my bigger point. Is it a gag that Rob Schneider's character can't read?

Is that a gag? Is that funny? If we're going to pick Nitz, Rob Schneider's character, I don't know what's going on there. I mean, this is the thing. Also, John Stewart, his character, he goes to China, but finds out he has a little kid who's left on his doorstep. What's he do? Stays in China. You got it under control, right, buddy?

I'll be back in four weeks. You got it on control? I got it on control. Okay, I'll see you in four weeks, buddy. another picky knit Leslie man The Hooters character It's kind of established

She's not a good person She's out when he's like I'm keeping the kid All of a sudden the last scene The kid's calling her mommy Come on She's out She's fine a new guy

You can come around Best quote He didn't cheat on her Yeah I don't think they're working that one out Best quote I'm going with So from now on

It's Dr. Bigger Boobobs McGee. Hey, congratulations. You and Big Boobo's McGee are going to be real happy. Don't call her Big Boobes McGee. You want to explain to your children you met their mother while she was waitressing at Hootie's. Sonny, that was five years ago. She's a doctor now.

And my fiancee. So from now on, Dr. Big Boobes McGee. Congratulations. Like that. It is terrific. That is terrific. That quote's good. Yeah.

Could this be remade as a 10-episode Netflix show? Actually, I think yes. Oh, my God. No. Yeah. No. I think you could. How?

How? As like a slapstick eight episode Netflix comedy where I'm trying to think what a Who's the 2019 Sandler? Is there one? No, probably not. I don't think. It's just a different type of comedy now. You have to choose which comedy it's going to be.

This is part of the reason why the movie was, you know, not that easy. But watch. Is it going to be slapstick? Is it Andy Sandberg? Oh, Andy Sandberg has a kid left on his doorstep. I'd say no. It's not, it's not, not remake. That's what I said.

I don't have any unanswerable questions about this movie because there's just not a lot of depth. So we're going to have to cancel that category this week. You spat all over my iPad. Who won the movie? This is a great one. The dad, the dad won the movie for me. He called the son exactly what he is, a total moron. Okay.

I felt vindicated. When the dad gave his speech, I felt like, this is it. This was validating everything that I am experiencing watching this movie up to this point. The dad and the judge, the judge is like, I'm this far away from throwing your ass in jail. I say Sandler won the movie because of what it did for his career and his production company, but also like, it goes back to what Ebert wrote. Big Daddy's a film about a seriously disturbed slacker who adopts a five-year-old and tutors him in cynicism, cruel practical jokes,

they had a social behavior. The question is, who could have played the lead role in that movie and still made you want to root for him? Not many. Man, that's a great call. So, Sandler, Will Ferrell, maybe? Yeah. Well, right.

But Will Ferrell's track record in terms of the relationship dynamic. Because, again, that was the thing that made sense to me. I want to nitpick something. I forgot, by the way. The idea that he's living where he's living in New York on $200,000, that that was the settlement, even in 1999, it needed to be like a $2 million settlement for him to be in that apartment? Yeah, the kind of jerk off that we're supposed to believe that he is. $200,000 is gone.

Like just the rent itself, unless his dad's paying for that rent, you know, the one day a week and it's funny with the toll booth taker or whatever, that's, you know, he brings home $70 a week, I guess at that point. But $200,000 is not, well, no, I'm just saying nitpicking. $200,000 is not enough. that money's gone. In 1999, that's like $750,000 now. Still, that's not enough.

New York at any time. That's it for Big Daddy. Thanks for listening. Thanks to Joe House. Thanks to producer Craig. We'll be back next week. All right, that's it for this special edition of the rewatchables 1999.

Produced as always by our guy Craig Horlebeck. Don't forget, you can go to the Ringer Movies YouTube channel and watch a lot of the movies that we've done over the last seven years. And I will see you back on this feed with a brand new episode on Monday night.