243 - The Cable Guy (feat. David Armstrong)

I remember Susan Smith vividly. I was living like 30 minutes from where it happened and man, it was all-consuming in local media.

Wow! I've seen every Carrie movie other than this one and it is fantastic! Crazy that Brian has to be on defense for it but it's nice, it brings the same sort of vibe Siskel and Ebert would have. The scenes where Chip is pointing out his buddies are definitely an inspiration for Tim Robinson's CalicoCutPants bit and in general I'm just floored that not only one manic comedy star but two if you include Jack Black are in this movie as big parts. It's too bad that Tim Robinson isn't given this type of vehicle to work with because I would genuinely love to see something this big and insane with an actually funny and interesting to watch person and not just Chris Pratt or Kevin Hart or The Rock getting shoved into every comedy role

The Banjo Kazooie music was a nice touch, guys 🫶

If you like The Mask, check out the comics. They're a fucking trip and have a lot of interesting art.

Hello, I am here to do damage to everyone here including myself. I saw this movie in the movie theater, as a child.

I’ve never seen this movie but I think I’m just old enough to understand what you were saying about trials being on TV. I am too young to remember the O.J. Simpson stuff, but the thing I remember being on TV when I was a kid was Casey Anthony. The singing of somebody to love is surprisingly excellent and now that song is stuck in my head. Also, I had to actively avoid spitting out my drink when he said “I am the bastard son of Claire Huxtable!”

The discussion of "crime of the week" movies reminds me that they reached their peak in the 1990s when they released three(!) different Amy Fisher movies within a few weeks of each other. One even starred Drew Berrymore!

You know what's fucked up? Podcasts are my babysitter. You guys are the ones keeping me pacified.

A.J.’s medieval accent sounds like a horny snake a newspaper cartoon

You guys really need to to a Star Trek episode of some sort. Maybe cover the Original Series and that good old science fiction optimism.

The nostalgia about The Monoculture is always amusing and I think that there's more rose tinting in the lads view of it than they might assume since so much of the discussion seems to forget that a significant number of households, even at its peak, didn't have cable TV. Not even for moral or availability reasons, my family just couldn't afford it while I was growing up. This doesn't even take in to account for the various types of alienation that people outside the golden demographic of young white dudes might have felt during the 90's. Particularly with Jim Carrey as a then closeted trans woman who very much remembers the end of Ace Ventura.

didn't get any of the references to older TV as a kid (gen Z) but i still loved this movie. message of substituting actual human relationships with movies and TV (and the Internet) hit me hard as a wee introvert, who used this very movie as such a substitute. plus who doesn't love 90s Jim Carey?

When Brian said “he’s doing the audition thing” I fully expected that sentence to be “he’s doing the autistic thing” because yes I always look at someone’s forehead instead of their eyes.

I know this isn't the right place to ask this but I don't know where else to ask. I live in Canada And I'm a huge fan of a play called 7 stories by Morris Panych. I'm curious if that play has any reach outside of Canada or not? Are you folks aware of it? Cheers

i could listen to brian talk about pon farr all day

I really appreciate brian holding it down as a true cable guy defender at all angles 🤝

Fucked up you didn't get Brian Quimby for this.

way back around a decade ago, before his anti-vax turn, i remember seeing a clip of jim carrey not acting but giving some kind of lecture to an auditorium, borrowing a lot from echart tolle, and it's one of the most upsetting things i've ever seen. he had this intense desperation like he was begging everyone to believe this vaguely optimistic spiritual-ish mish-mash and the saddest eyes i've ever seen. honestly you rarely ever see a person losing a fight with their demons so badly. ever since then seeing jim carrey in anything mostly makes me scared and sad. i don't know what happened to that man but it can't have been good and i get the sense he's been deeply unwell for a long time.

The problem that you highlight in the 90s Cape Fear remake is the same problem that Death Wish has. When Sidney Lumet was going to direct, he wanted Jack Lemmon for the lead, a pacifist descending into darkness until violence is the only way he feels alive. Then the director changed and Charles Bronson was cast, and even Bronson agreed that he was wrong for the story. Fantastic score in that movie though.

Contractual obligation to bring up Ben Stiller’s noise/avant garde found-sound band, Capital Punishment. One of the other notable members is Peter Swann, the Supreme Court Justice for Arizona.

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