The Substitute (1996)

Anybody else spend the better part of their life confusing Tom Berenger and Tom Bergeron?

Different OnlyFans "tiers"?? How dare they

There is nothing more relatable than when you are in the throes of agony worrying about finding a substitute teacher / writing sub plans...

Just finished a rewatch of the movie after listening to the episode. I’m not sure they fully do justice to how bonkers Forsythe is. He’s incredible, knows exactly what movie he is in and is having a ball!

Every time Stanger talks about snacks and childhood that shit is so relatable. With the major caveat that as an adult Stanger is an athlete and stud, and I’m a huge piece of shit. But the childhood stuff, wow.

Not enough jai alai in films and tv nowadays.

This guys car has been unlocked since he bought it

Can you just do a lifestyle podcast? I am feeling so heard on this episode. Major thing is key fobs! I lost my wife's key fob for her Audi at LAX security. They checked my bag and didn't zip it back up. My wife was out of town for work so she overnighted me her key but I had to rent a car to get home from the airport. Then the key didn't show up so I had to hire a tow company to take it to the Audi dealership to get a new key coded. But you need a special tow truck to go in airport parking garages because of low ceilings. Audi had to get the replacement key shipped from Germany. My wife's FOB from UPS showed up 3 weeks later after I opened a lost package claim. Cost: $2000 for the tow, rental car, and the fob (which was like $1200).

I like that Berenger was hesitant about going to the strip club until he heard it was Uzi night.

Gay Black Zombie Squad member here. Can confirm that solo jerk off content is HUGE on OF. Also Gabrus should look into making Gainer content, there is a massive market.

2:07:29 Jon: Whoops. I’m getting a Silver Alert. Jon’s dad: Shut it off, Jonny, shut it off.

Just watched Shockwave for the first time and loved it! The underwater zombie scenes are amazing! My son who grew up on CGI effects was blown away by those scenes.

When we were kids we would order extra cheese, but I’m sure it’s because that’s how they ordered the pizza in E.T. or something.

Stanger brought up a good question that everyone ignored, when will NY live show happen?

This movie always makes me think of Golgo 13. I feel like the guy in this is a lot like Golgo in a strange way

I’d pay any amount to have a 3 hour episode where Stanger just tells stories from his youth.

Trying to do the math on Stanger’s lil Wayne reference for gabrus’ nickname Jonny Valentino. Did he mean the song Mrs Officer where wayne says “bobby valentino”a couple times during the intro?

I’m right there with you, Ben. Berenger is a big part of my childhood because of my dork ass Marine brother.

Hot take: anchovies are great, especially on pizza, but anytime. I particularly like them on a cracker with a little sour cream. That’s all. I’ll see myself out.

Goddamn, all these years later just hearing Kudos made me remember “Kudos I’m Yours.” https://youtu.be/lFAbFC8YoC4?si=Lm9W-h2CY3vZZLFu

Chekov’s throwing stars.

"The principal" streaming on tubi 😜 strike while the iron is hot boyz

I was just talking about this movie with some friends who had never seen it. I watched this with my dad easily a dozen times growing up. In the same friend conversation I also brought up "the principal" another great action/comedy that takes place in a school. Stars the boys "fav" Jim belushi and a fav, lgj

Was the substitute the film that started finally farts?

OHIO would welcome yall well heh heh

The Vietnam scene inspired a lot of dads, feel free to read the comments if you want to lose a few brain cells: https://youtu.be/4EhqQBGrCms?si=zOGeCmr5qgoISPma

The principal being afraid of lawsuits is the realest shit in this movie

I must have listened to over a 100 episodes by now, how have I not heard Stangers highschool murder story yet. Holy crap.

Yeah, Ohio checking in. Dude killed himself and set free his private menagerie of exotic animals. It's been gerrymandered red despite, for example, Columbus being a historically queer city.

Hell yeah

I too had a murder committed by some of my classmates. This guy who i took drama with named Jamie Lee and 2 guys who went to our rival school murdered this sophomore named Melanie Ritchie whose dad worked with my dad. They beat her unconscious with a wrench and blew her head up with a pipe bomb. Two of them have gotten out of prison.

https://www.placer.ca.gov/8037/The-People-vs-Schultz For anyone curious about Stanger’s story.

I heard Clancy Brown and Jared Harris were both gonna be at the ABZ live show

Didn’t know Treat Williams passed. Was just watching the tv movie The Late Shift about the tv late night war between Jay Leno and David Letterman. Treat Williams played the Action Boyz lord and savior Michael Ovitz. He nailed his mannerisms. Gone but not forgotten. Rest in power king.

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Hahahahah on today episode of "the broken record Boyz"

I’ve been listening to men talk about Claude Rolle since the giant bombcast

Almost 100% what I expected, in a good way. But it is kind of weirdly thin and overstuffed at the same time -- you got Berenger's crew, Janus and Wolfson, Sherman and the librarian, Jerome and Lisa Rodriguez -- all missing that 1 extra scene or beat that would help me give a shit about them.

I never watched this because I assumed for some reason it was some saccharine bull shit "how can I reach these kids?" attempt for Tom Berenger to do a serious movie like when a comedy actor tries to get an Oscar late in their career. God damn I was not even close.

Bring back Kudos https://www.change.org/p/bring-back-kudos-granola-bars

ABZ, I streamed this movie free on Hoopla with my local library card. Now, when I watched bad lieutenant on that app, they did edit the jerk off scene, so they do mess with the films but I think the substitute wasn’t touched

This movie feels more 1986 than 1996.

Glad we got a Treat Williams shoutout. The best one is Substitute 4: Failure is Not an Option where Treat fucks up a bunch of military school neo nazis and plows Angie Everheart. Highly recommend.

2 things. I swear he wears the fake scar in "Sliver", and that's the highest I've ever had to get before a movie to make it palatable... no, nevermind,that honor belongs to R.O.T.O.R 😂 also: you're telling me this wasn't a made for TV movie??? Nice. 😂😂

Makes me feel less crazy that Ben brought up daydreaming about action scenes in grade school going down in school and church, that's wild that is a common experience. I went to catholic school K-8th grade and would straight up daydream the same stuff, mercenaries repealing and crashing through the stained glass windows, firefights, ninjas in the rafters, just planing out full blown action scenes.

Oh man, I had so much fun with this one. The whole concept is pure middle-aged dad porn with Tom Berenger sorting out punk kids and gaining their respect by sharing his Vietnam stories. The cast was also impressive, Diane Venora is an excellent actress and Hudson was a fun baddie. There were also some decent intentional jokes, Berenger dropping gang members past Hudson's office window was a solid execution of the rule of three. But the best unintentional laugh was the poor teacher who climbed a gym rope to evade Hudson's goons. I appreciate that the poor guy was screwed regardless but that was a exceptionally futile gesture.