The Worst Idea Of All Time - Episode Nine: Brendan Fraser and His Horses

Episode Date: January 21, 2019

Guy Montgomery is coming in hot with some positivity after hearing the McElroy brothers will be in Trolls 2. Timbo is chasing that good, good feeling by trying to take a leaf out of Samantha's post-flight fabulousness. Unfortunately, moods sour when it comes to Harry's tie and the Baha Men but at least we can all agree that Steve looks super cute in therapy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We just have a good rhythm together, you know, he sort of feels me out, I feel him out, and we go for it. Hello and welcome to the worst idea of all time episode 9 for this fourth season. Myself and Guy Montgomery are on a quest. A quest to watch Sex and the City, the movie, 52 times as quickly as possible. This is day 3 of a daily watch. Report in, Guy. Yeah, we're certainly in the pocket right now, aren't we? We've set it into a good rhythm. Look, can I be honest?

I was in quite a foul mood having watched this film, but I've just finished reading a Vanity Fair article in which our friends, the McElroy brothers, have fulfilled a quest to be a part of Trolls 2. Huge. McElroy brothers, of course, best known for my brother and me, affiliated with us through the eternal podcast till death do us part. And I'm just, it's really put a spring in my step.

And I look forward to slowly having the air let out of my balloon as we pour over this ninth screening of Sex and the City the film I've got reams of notes in front of me Tim a seriously solitary experience

I what I was thinking through pretty much this whole watch is I was thinking through pretty much this whole watch is I was just looking forward to jumping on the phone with you bud all I wanted to do

was hang out with my boy Guy and I wanted to throw the movie to the wind and just have a chat to you cause this movie

you know the fifth girl they say is New York you're in New York City you live there I want to get the low down

how's it going how's the move been what's the situation with monty do you know that uh today as i settled in for my third watch uh of sex in the city in as many days i thought um you know I could very well be in literally any city doing this. For the amount of time I spend in the house and down the local cafe, which I love, you know, I guess the value is in knowing the option is always there to be beyond New York. But I think, you know, the challenge in living here, half the battle, Tim, is in getting here, and then the other half is enduring being here. Usually I don't like to date the podcast with things that are happening,

but you've already opened the McElroy's can of worms, because I'd like to bring to your attention that, isn't there a massive storm bearing down on you guys at the moment? No. tension there is it there a massive storm bearing down on you guys at the moment uh no is that further south down the line uh i mean in short i've i've not heard hide nor i i spoke to one do you know what's going to happen out the window that i can see behind you in this video conference call it's just going to shatter and the place is going to flood because you've been tuned out to the news no man i so i've only spoken to one other person today and uh neither of us brought up the storm i mean that's you know that's interaction i've i've had

fleeting uh passing conversations with uh the the barista at the coffee shop. And I believe when I was taking my seat at the coffee shop, I said to the person sitting next to me, oh, excuse me, because I had to sort of, you know, side hustle my way into my chair. I said, I mean, don't worry about me. I'm drinking socially, so to speak. You're chocking that one up to a win. Yeah, yeah.

I'm hydrated. But no, I think you got some misinformation there, Tim. The very reliable folks at the apple weather app reckon that from 6 a.m through till all day tomorrow there's a 40 chance of uh lightning uh and presumably rain it's very rare to get lightning without it um i will say this very loud thunderclaps here and really impressive, you know, very American. They really go all out. They fork lightning.

I don't know if the thunder knows where it is. See, it's a brand new thing for Kiwi lads, isn't it? Because we get sheet lightning in the South Pacific, but they've got fork lightning. It's a lot more cinematic. Yeah, the whole experience is more cinematic. And cinematic and you know that's one of the things i love about living in new york city is um all it takes is a stroll down the street and you feel like you're you're the lead character in your own film as well you should and uh that goes for people

who are living anywhere not just new york because uh you well and truly are your own protagonist but tim i don't want to give you the satisfaction of uh hearing about the personal details of my life and sort of sidestepping the substance of this podcast which is uh discussing the film um can you have you i mean do you want me to start with some opinions and you can bounce off those do you have anything in particular you'd like to say um i don't have anything in particular I'd like to say about this movie. Well, fair enough. I've got a few points to raise.

First of all, Runkle's tie that you spoke about in the last episode is fucking hideous. What? Oh, my God. That is honestly one of the nastiest pieces of fabric i've ever laid eyes on i am aghast my good man it is a beautiful pink tie upon a crisp white shirt no absolutely not it honestly and because i was i was enjoying runkle this movie uh and i was thinking this guy is a great guy you always enjoy runkle you are runkle's numero uno fan i'll talk to that in a moment but let's get through the tie first

oh anyway i was enjoying it all and then i saw him in that tie and i was like what the what is going on with you man get it together you're i just just like, because I never wonder what he does for a job. I've got no idea. And then as soon as I saw that tie, I became very cynical, and I thought it was quite a sinister tie. I was like, this guy. Sinister. Yeah, this guy sells wonky insurance policies.

He shafts the little guy. He's up to no good. takes long wine soaked lunches on a tuesday who so what this is all just from the tie the pink tie that he's wearing what does it communicate to you is it just the things that you've described some scummy bottom feeding muck raking some guy yeah he's made a lot everyone else to get mine guy exactly that's exactly and this i mean and aside from that this is a lovely a caring husband a marvelous father uh truly a model partner really you know amongst the the absolute dire straits that the other girls confronted with during the film runcle is a pigeon among the

pigeons as i would say yeah yeah that is what you'd say and what i love is that a lot of people would know exactly what you're talking about uh i certainly do he's a real pigeon among the pigeons yeah oh well that's really throwing a pigeon amongst the pigeons um of course pigeons would react to that because I think they'd realise and recognise a domesticised bird and they'd probably gang up on them. I'd say it would be a pretty... Especially throwing it into the mix

because pigeons, like a lot of animals, I believe would have some sort of established pecking order, excuse the pun, and then to just throw another one in immediate suspicion from the other from the other pigeons that is not how you rock up the pigeons a genuine yeah anyway uh all of this was contained in the time and i was sort of looking forward to the tie the whole time because i was like i can't wait to see what tim singled out for praise but my god man i just don't understand well because you've told me about how the tie

makes you feel but what is it about the look of it specifically is it the shade of pink is it no no no it's the it's the it's the shape and the pattern and presumably the fabric it's just it's all like it's uh it's quite it's a thick sort of chunky tie. It looks like it's made of silk or satin, possibly a blend. It's quite, in profile, it's quite thick. Thicker than I think it needs to be. And then it's sort of got like a sewn-in imprint. It appears to be maybe slightly floral or some sort of pattern.

Yeah, but you're judging the tie by modern standards, Guy, where the skinny tie is all in. Plus, we're two slender gents. We look better in a skinny tie. Runkle's got a bit of beef on him. He needs a thicker tie. You could... This is not...

I'll give you the pattern, though. I don't like the pattern. I paid more attention to it this watch after I really, you know, nailed my colours to the flag last time. And I don't stand by the pattern. But I stand by the fact that it's a cool pink tie on a white shirt, and it looks good, generally. Look, there is no denying that it is a pink tie on a white shirt,

and I think it's probably best for both of us if we leave it at that, because I would also like to take this opportunity to issue an apology, not necessarily to you, but certainly to Charlotte. I sort of came in pretty hard. I came down pretty hard on Charlotte yesterday, it would be fair to say. I'm just finding my observations about her in my notes. my observations about her in my notes um and first of all i don't want to backtrack on anything i said about miranda but i i sort of

um i i i watched the movie in a different light today and um there are elements of miranda's behavior which i find abhorrent and i I was blind to them yesterday for whatever reason, but I found a tough company, this watch. And, you know, just, I mean, yesterday it was like, I didn't even consider how selfish she is in her treatment of Big at the rehearsal dinner. I mean, you would never, no matter what you're going through personally, you should never cast doubt on the idea of marriage and lifelong matrimony

at a rehearsal dinner, no matter what you're going through, unless you are having grave doubts about the connection of the friends or friend who's getting married to whoever. Well, she wasn't. It's just not done. She was just projecting her own bullshit and uh it is it's it's it's terrible and then beyond that you know her a constant um piggybacking her she piggybacking her experience to everyone else's you know like she's so stubborn and

refuses to acknowledge or consider Steve, who was looking very cute in therapy today, by the way. Oh my God. Oh yeah? Yeah, yeah. Your dress is flowing, huh? Fucking heck. I mean, I would have taken him back right then and there

if I could have. Fucking heck is the most delirious combination of those two words you could have selected. But, you know know who refuses to even engage or acknowledge him in any way beyond as a father to brady um and like the the binary way in which he says you think and then her her persistence and carrie apologizing her constant lording of her uh motherhood career, over her friends. At some point, I feel like, I don't know,

she's got to accept personal responsibility. And I feel like yesterday, in my blindness to some of these attributes, I sort of apportioned an unreasonable amount of frustr or blame on Charlotte. And I'd like to walk that back. I'd like to apologize to Charlotte. I would like to say, you know, we've all got work to do on ourselves. I'll be the first to say it. But, you know, that's when there is value in doing this the way we are, is that I feel like uh i'm seeing the whole

picture well that's very big of you to not mr back i might add he would never self-reflect in the way that you have but that's very good of you to just take a step back take a breather and reassess the assertions that you've cast on these uh characters by day. It's not even week by week, mate. It is literally one day at a time here at West Idea Industries. One step at a time, there's no need to rush. It's like learning to fly or falling in love. It's going to happen, baby, when it's supposed to happen. And we find the reason why one step at a time

couldn't tell you the artist couldn't tell you the song title presumably one step at a time so good i don't know who that was either but the harmony that you produced suggests to me it was almost like a hall of notes kind of a number it It was a big song, and obviously I enjoyed it. Yeah. Can you Google that while I talk about Runkle? He's holding up a bottle of coconut water, folks. I wouldn't call that a bottle, sorry. It's a box.

A box of coconut water to the camera. Bit of Vita Coco today. Let's see how that goes. Yeah, how's that tricking you? Well, I tell you when I open it, you roll your sleeves up and put your fucking wrists and elbows into a bit of runkle i'm doing it the sleeves are up here's what i thought about runkle today in a world of femininity and female empowerment and strength this uh woman led almost solely woman cast really the men uh don't feature a huge amount

fuck do you know what i haven't actually thought about in this movie do you do you reckon this movie passes the bestow test because they are constantly talking about their dudes it's true actually that i mean it is that is what it's a great question if it doesn't i will be um man i won't be that shocked but it'll i'll be disappointed i'd be impressed um that is such a good question because they are there's one thing i noticed today as well is it's like virtually all of the the motives that are given to the characters in this movie are to do with their you know the relationships and the various states of disarray they are in it's madness really isn't it i mean i get that it's sex in the city it's what the series and

the books and everything's about anyway i i got i sidetracked myself we'll go back because i think the point we're in now is a better point but let let me just say this about Runkle, which is what I was leading up to. He is such an adorable man in this film. I love his loveliness. He's so, like, sweet. His delivery of, it is my lot in life to be surrounded by beautiful women, when he meets Carrie at the hospital, just stepping out of the delivery room. It almost makes you forget the tie i agree

the guy is loaded with charm and that's why i found the tie so upsetting today is because sort of it took the shine off what was otherwise uh a graceful and elegant display what do you what describe the tie that would fit the man the the angel we know as Runkle. By the way, it's Jordan Sparks, One Step at a Time. And the song was released in 2007. That's a far cry from Hall & Oates. Lord knows how that's still rattling around. 11 years later, and for no reason,

11 years later, and for no reason, I have so many song lyrics trapped inside of here. Were you working in Top 40 Radio at that point? Or was that after? No, no, no. 2007, I'm in Wellington, man. I'm working at Monsoon Poon or something. A restaurant as a server? I reckon you would have been pretty good,

but pretty cheeky. Very forward for a server, which I enjoy, but not everyone does. Good analysis. There's actually a hangover of that I carry with me today, whereby I forcibly try and become friends with everyone who works in hospitality, no matter how little interest they have in it. Um,

and the ruder someone is to me, the more aggressively I will pursue their favor. the root of the fruit, the sweeter, the fruit. That's right. but the tie, pigeon among the pigeons,

a tie for the man. Look, I, I, I can't describe a tie for runkle that better i just think it's a tie i don't notice i have um no real opinions on runkle sartorial decisions uh you know i think like a like a sound editor um you know they've done a good job when you haven't noticed their presence yeah sure and and um and that that's where that tie fails it's too loud for you guy the tie is too loud

no but i like loud you know you've seen me dress i've come to fire that's why i'm finding it pretty incredible that you're dishing out very specific fashion advice for a film that is known for its fashion. No, because that's critical of my fashion, which is pretty much inch perfect. It's not the loudness of the tie. It's the combination of things that I've already described.

And I'd sooner move on, to be honest. I mean, I'll give it another outing tomorrow or whenever the heck. I'd happily never talk about the tie again. Well, there you go. In fact, in some ways, I'm sorry I brought it up in the first instance. But should we get back to the validity

of the Bechdel test to apply? Okay, do you want to try and place a conversation that isn't centered around a man i i'm doing it right now i'm rolodexing in my head i'm trying to think of some time when they're talking about their jobs because it's like yeah fuck what do you know my brain just flashed to sex in the city too and i was like oh there's that bit when miranda's in to Sex and the City 2, and I was like, oh, there's that bit when Miranda's in the board meeting at her work. I was like, no, the test is a conversation

between two women when they're not talking about a man. Right? That's the test, right? That's the test. That is exactly the test. Maybe the scene where Charlotte, Samantha, and Miranda are talking about Mexican food. I don't quite know the particulars of the chest

when they talk about the pudding because I know they're not talking about a man during that part of the conversation. The broader scene or conversation as a whole, I think, touches on men. But that sticks out to me as a moment when they're discussing something aside from their partners otherwise it's a it's a challenging pool oh uh how was your flight

when they all catch up they say how was when at the very start and samantha says and i've noticed this every time fabulous and you know what that really speaks to me because i i started to think to myself i was like man when people asked me how my flight was i would never say fabulous and i need to start i need to start fucking picking my socks up and being a little bit more delightful to be around i i first of all couldn't agree more and second of all found that line to be quintessentially samantha uh i got a real kick out of it today fabulous i i she the she's got the flourishes uh which you know that they tell me why she was uh as popular and such a sort of breakout star as she was samantha is uh she's a joy de vivre

that is you know there's a draw it's the person you'd most want to emulate of all the characters and I think that's why people desperately want

to be categorised as Samantha hell yeah she's also what's the falling out that she had with SJP in real life someone's family

member passed away I can't even remember I don't know the origins of it either I thought it was to do with SJP was the actress's name who played Samantha I can't even remember I don't know the origins of it either I thought it was to do with SJP Was the actress's name who played Samantha? I've forgotten Kim Cattrall I thought it was to do with

Money and screen time Because SJP was an executive producer But I don't know enough But before we get off screen I'd like to continue Discussing the film on screen Samantha's the only character who displays any competence at her job in this movie yeah true miranda's got a lot of um there's a lot of nods to the fact that she must be good to be in there well no she's always very stressed

about there's no yeah that doesn't suggest she's good. Someone who's constantly stressed and talking about their work while simultaneously never doing their work is the very definition of someone who's bad at their job. Samantha at the wedding, and we don't even see her applying her skills professionally. We see a lot of images of Smith Garrett, who, as another insert, can I say, fucking slamming hottie.

Those opening credits when you see him from the series and he's got long hair. Him with long hair is a big yes, please. Which bit? Oh, the very start, the credits. Yeah, it's like it's not a full frame shot. It's an insert of him. But so at the wedding, when big jilts carry,

Samantha immediately steps in. Stop saying jilts, man. They've given you that word. Use your own language. I don't like that you've adopted jilts from the film. I haven't. Jilt is, that's common language. That's in the bloody.

Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry. Maybe it just sticks out for me. They say it so many times. I'm like, who the fuck says jilt? That is not a verb in common usage. No, because it's not a behavior in common usage. Very rarely is there a genuine jilting. And so I think, and it's a nice word.

So I think in the event of one happening, what little light there is to glean through this thunderstorm is that we can throw the word jilt around willy-nilly so you think you're jilted by runkel's tie oh no certainly frustrated i i really thrown a pigeon in the mix haven't i yeah yeah um but no so at the wedding samantha says after the jilting, she immediately steps into problem-solving mode. She's obviously familiar with delegation. She just really flexes.

She says, you take her and I'll stay here and deal with all of this. And deal with all of this. I love it, eh? She gives away the smaller, easier job. I mean, it's no small job comforting a friend who's gone through the most traumatic emotional experience of their life, but it's certainly not addressing everyone at quite a large upscale wedding and saying,

look, 201 guests. If you did invite the contractor as Carrie sarcastically suggested, if not 200, I don't think big can understand sarcasm. So I have no doubt he invited the contractor. Angrily. Yeah.

But I just, I really like that she thrives under pressure. The only time when we see her not, like a similar application is when they arrive at the honeymoon and the man who sort of attends the house or whatever hotel says, I was expecting a Mr. and Mrs. Preston or something along those lines. And Samantha says, you'll be waiting a long time.

Takes a drink from him. We'll talk. And I think her priorities are out of line there i think she puts sass before functionality or substance because we then see you know the caperish fall out of this which is that's what makes the house is already prepared the damage is done guy it's not going to be undone by telling the guy i greet you at the door i think her priorities in that moment are what defines samantha jones that that right there that is samantha in her element it's true i i guess yeah i just think because when they they run into the room and they see all the rose petals and stuff and they clean it up and they go no more

honeymoon stuff i'm like just say it on the way in you know he's got a team of people true get the word around the workers if you will absolutely um but yeah that's that's my it's my bit i wish we saw more of mexico when we're in mexico just while we're there beyond i don't think it was shot i don't think it was shot mexico not for a damn second i've been in more like mexican feeling restaurants in los angeles than the one that's depicted on screen i think we see there mexico i i think we see there mexico um i i genuinely believe that's how they holiday there and i I mean, I'm inclined to agree, but I just,

I don't know what the budget was in this movie, but it's something ludicrous. Why, how could they not go to Mexico? Why wouldn't they? It'd be huge. Absolutely. And also they probably shot it, you know, in LA.

It's not fucking far. No, I would actually think they probably shot it in New York mostly. Just because of the movie set. Of course. My bad. think they probably shot it in new york mostly um just because of the movie set of course my bad that's right not at all the other coast but um if you're gonna do i mean do you know what i feel like someone gave them that note and they fucking took it to heart on the second movie like right oh locations is what you want huh yeah? Yeah. There are parallels between the two. Well, why don't we fucking pack up this whole operation

and these four gals, put them in a box and send them to Morocco and then tell you that it's Abu Dhabi. How about that? Do you know what would be great? Screen to screen. Get them up at the same time. I want to map out the beats as they come.

I want to see when they go to abu dhabi against when they go to mexico i want to see how they treat the respective staff at respective resorts um there are there are lessons to be learned okay here's here's what i can do to help that guy um they're very similar length they're not identical what i could do maybe is cut together um i'll get the two files jam them together side by side and maybe put all the sound from one movie in the left ear and all of the sound from the other movie in the right so you can pick what one you want to listen to just by moving the cups around if you design that my promise to you is i will watch both with both ears in the whole time.

Done. My dude. This is a Faustian bargain. That is not Faustian. I'm not getting immortality. I've just signed myself up for the longest two and a half hours of my life. Doesn't Faustian just mean a deal with the devil? Or does it mean you're getting everlasting life out of it I always remember it's from Dr. Faustus right

which was a play where I think a man bargains for immortality and it was then the inspiration for the movie Bedazzled I could be wrong wow good knowledge Bedazzled was that one with liz hurley right uh well it was originally um a peter cook and dudley moore film but there was then a brendan fraser and liz hurley version um what do you think of brendan fraser by the way mate i read that i think it was this year there was a big write-up about like what the fuck

happened to brendan fraser and he was just on a ranch with his horses he seems like a deeply simple man but one who's kind of having a good time he's got a deeply simple face but that article gave me a lot of respect from he i think he went through quite a lot. Yeah. I can't remember the particulars. Do you remember? I feel like he was potentially sexually harassed in some way. Yeah, that rings a bell. But anyway, he got really into horses and bow and arrows. And I'm all for that. No criticism over here.

Yeah. And he's just like like he's out there raising his daughter right on like a ranch it's fucking cool man because he was a bankable brendan fraser i think is quite an inspiration for all of us because he was a guy who got dangled just like paycheck after paycheck he became for a brief time mainly from the mummy franchise very bankable he went from this kind of ludicrous comedic relief star who had a hot bod see george of the jungle to a legitimate kind of action star who could be relied upon to bring in the big bucks see the mummy and then he kind of just realized he wasn't happy doing this so he fucking bought a ranch and got some lovely horses. Good on him.

Yeah, that's cool, man. Anyway, sorry, what were you... No, no, I think what you were saying was much more interesting. I just wanted to say, you know, speaking of the sequel, is it possible, could show business be so cynical? Could Mattress Pikelet king be so cunning as to purely insert the kiss between stanford and anthony uh as set up for the sequel because that does not service the story whatsoever there is no value to be gained from that kiss

here's what you got to keep remembering. We haven't seen all of the TV shows, so there could be some stuff that we're missing from their relationship. I'll also tell you that at the very end, when we're at the second wedding for Carrie and Big in the cafe, they are sitting together. You don't see it for long, but you do see it. That, to me, bolsterssters my theory that it doesn't mean

anything that it's no that it's a cunning bit of it's it's like a oh it's like it's a device popularized by the marvel cinematic universe now where they put little fucking teasers about what's what's to come next at the end of films because we also see the dog who gets its own little sort of moment in sex in the city too samantha's one man's one man's cash grab is another man's plot development of the universe though you know i mean it could just be a furthering of the story of a minor character you're looking at it so cynically though which i enjoy why i mean but why bother like that we're handing out the world man we're not given enough time to care about either of them really although i mean you're right they

are from the show and i actually did uh i'm gonna dive straight into a shining light here uh do it is that anthony or anthony by the way oh i couldn't tell you. I've been alternating pronunciations this series because I literally cannot figure it out. But he is the holder of the prestigious Guy Montgomery's Shining Light. When they're preparing for the wedding, he says, Who let the dogs out? Get these dogs out of here.

That's all we need is the lift of a leg on the train of address. Especially in work mode him and samantha both show themselves to be competent at their job he's uh he's a character he gets people to the wedding he uh though i don't want to derail your your wider point because this isn't technically while he's at work but when he is at the um baby shower he sees samantha and without any self-censorship says mother of god what's with the gut but that is like that is um samantha like that i feel like they're a more natural energy or friendship match samantha and

anthony than anthony and charlotte which seems somewhat like an odd coupling to me. Actually, you're right. The way they speak. Samantha even does this exact thing to Miranda when Miranda's sitting out and reveals that she hasn't waxed her bikini line ahead of the Mexico trip. You're right. Take your victory lap, Guy Montgomery.

You've nailed it. That'd be a great match. Yeah. But anyway, he really brought it. That'd be a great match. Yeah. But anyway, he really brought it. That line was a lot of fun. Do you ever think about who let the dogs out the song when he says it? Because that's the only place my brain goes. Who let the dogs out?

It's a reference. Do you know that song is about about women that are deemed ugly by the Baja men dancing at the club it doesn't shock me to hear but I always thought of the Baja men as bastions of

equality and feminism you know real champions of the cause and now you tell me I have to readdress the memories I've carried of this group. Never meet your heroes.

I thought they were worried about, yeah, I guess, well, I haven't met them. And they've been demoted. So I can meet them now because they're no longer my heroes. So actually, thanks a lot, Tim, because you've given me motivation to look up the Baja men, take them out for a coffee, talk to them about... You're welcome. Can I do my shining light?

Or did you... It felt like you were winding up to a cool point. Do you have something you want to throw out? Nah, dude. I just wanted to say, nah. My shining light this week is the flight attendant on samantha's flight as she's coming back from new york to los angeles uh the last time after she's broken up with smith get it and she's

hoeing into a lit she's in first class hoeing into a little dessert out of a glass bowl that fucking actress who's the um the uh flight attendant i actually don't usually say actress i say actor for both genders i don't know why i said actress i think it's because we were talking about the baja men the poison yeah it's seeded into my brain um fuck she is good man i reckon she is she's going to be real funny in real life she's got to be like an improviser or a very experienced comedic actor like she's something special she's on screen ever so briefly but she absolutely nails her mark um i love that i'm gonna look out for her um and she's so good she says ma'am we're uh about to land i'm gonna need to take that and she does that beautiful disarming thing where you give a little wink as you say something that's an instruction to take the bowl

away samantha's having none of it by the way folks if you haven't seen the movie she wants to get every last calorie out of that bowl into her gob but the flight attendant persists and it's a funny tug of war over a crystal dessert bowl in first class what a bit of poetry on a flight absolutely

I'm really looking forward to that even in your retelling of the line that little pause there it's a real joy. And certainly, you know, well, there's not always a lot to look forward to as we trudge through these. What are soon to be the adolescents of this season, the teenage years you know the moody hormonal boner having pubic hair growing pimply oily virginal confused uh terrified you know weeks days i mean hours who knows how it's going to shake out um it's nice to have these little benchmarks to look forward to and judge one another on um look forward to and judge one another on um speaking of a little easter egg for you to look for next time is when they're unpacking carrie's apartment you know in the heady days of uh the

promise of marriage and heaven on fifth uh and samantha puts on walk this way by i think aerosmith and run dmc run dmc you guys it just is it just run dmc or is it with aerosmith am i imagining that i think do you know what i think that song is not only a sample from aerosmith i think aerosmith like came on the track with them yeah so yeah but either way it is i am learning to hate with every atom of my of my being um there's a an lp in the background as as the camera pulls away from the close-up on the cd player and uh on the lp i had to pause it because i was like what is he doing there because i thought i'd seen noel fielding uh across the front of an lp yes of a on a weird comedy lp that uh sjp was keeping on hand um and i was like wow that's a really obscure detail and then i looked a little closer and noticed that it was in fact um joan jett uh

the album cover being for her album uh i love rock and roll and noel fielding has 100 jacked her style if you look at this album cover i'm going to send it to you right now actually, Tim. It is a carbon copy. Anyway, certainly something to look for. Actually, I could not show it to you now and you could treat yourself later or do you want me to send it to you now? No, send it to me now, mate. Why wait for dessert

when dessert can be served right now? Because the waiting makes it sweeter? You got it. Did you send it or not? Oh, no, you've just sent... Oh, you could not be more right. Holy shit.

That could be Noel Fielding. Like, even in the photo. It's remarkable. So what you're looking for, folks, if you're Googling at home, if you got your phone out and you're looking on Google Image Search, you're looking for Joan Jett, I love rock and roll. You'll see it immediately.

It's the pink blazer with a black shirt underneath. She's got a little chain and a neckerchief. That could be Noel Fielding. A genuine dead ringer. Everyone thinks he's so fucking original, but he's just been ripping Joan J jett the whole time that's right if you watch back the mighty bush it's just you know the same lyrics reassembled into entire television shows have you ever seen i can't remember the comedian who does it but it's on one of the panel shows like uh what's that one called eight and a

half cats that's what it's called i think what what you're describing is Simon Amstel roasting him on Nevermind the Buzzcocks. That's it. He absolutely devastates him by doing as a, if you're a like comedian the worst thing anyone could do is like figure out exactly the thing that

you do to create all your jokes and then articulate that and he does it so fucking deftly oh boy yeah yeah it's great clip it's at any rate really impressive i know you've got to go uh pretty much now can i yeah yeah yeah you do i i just this is probably too big a question to throw at you right now but i'm doing it anyway where do you put this movie right now on the ninth watch against the pantheon of worst idea films uh it's not really a fair comparison like i it lands in second grown-ups to his first just because it was so long ago.

I still... I want to watch it, eh? Yeah, I'd watch it and I'd have positive memories. Sex and the City, the film, I think no matter how dire and toxic this relationship becomes, I would like to go on record as saying, you know, inarguably a better piece of filmmaking than sex in the city 2 we are your friends uh those wounds are still fresh

so um i can't really i i still would sooner not have anything to do with that movie um so i'd say it's second what about you you've summed that up beautifully. It's like hearing my own thoughts vocalized through your voice. Yeah. No, you've got it spot on. Well, look, on that note, I don't know how to characterize it. It's not quite depressing because we have accepted that this isn't the worst film we're going to engage with in this project. Nonetheless, there's a long road to hoe guy montgomery let us get on with our lives ever so briefly before our next watch uh this is taking a vastly different style of time away from

us than the previous two projects which were a watch a week we are currently doing a watch a day it's unpleasant it's um logistically quite difficult and it is putting a strain on external relationships but the experiment must continue that's right uh i just like to to um end this episode with the same quote that uh carrie bradshaw uses to end the entirety of the movie which is some of the most fucking horse shit baloney uh i've ever heard which is that maybe some labels are best left in the closet maybe when we label people bride groom husband wife married single we forget to look past the label to the person. Maybe that's your fucking problem, Carrie. Don't lump me in with that horse shit.

I see people. Thank you. Good night. We just have a good rhythm together. He sort of feels me out. I feel him out. And we go for it.