We can’t have a horror parody series without possibly the most popular one in the genre. We’re talking Scary Movie in this episode, from the best jokes, to how it holds up today, and its surprising success at coming quite close to shot-for-shot matches of Scream. Check it out and let us know if you still watch this one, even with the dated references!
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Cookie Walk of Halloween horror over here, let Let the Black Run podcast All season long, September and October will be celebrating with creaky funny our parodies just bring your favourites from satirical splashes to classic parodies and even some rollback Spooks.
0:30
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0:54
Hey guys, welcome back to the Blood and Black ROM Podcast.
I’m Ryan from closebytation.com and I’m joined with my Co host.
Martin, how’s it going?
Yeah, we’re.
We’re doing pretty well.
I actually, I should have started this show with just like, you know, the the age-old, what’s up, who gets in there?
1:11
Because that would have been.
Appropriate.
Yeah, would have tied in with today’s episode.
Yeah, we’re, we’re in the thick of it for Ha Ha Halloween.
We’ve done like 5 episodes now and we’re starting to get to the point of Ha Ha Halloween where we try to mix in, you know, not just with the the horror parodies or horror comedies that we’re covering, but also trying to get them a little bit more Halloween themed as well as we continue on our trajectory to the end of the Halloween season.
1:46
And while I wouldn’t say that this is very true of the movie that we have on the show today, ’cause it doesn’t really take place around Halloween, it does mention it at least briefly.
And in the beginning of the film, it actually does have just a very quick snippet of a trick or treating.
2:04
So we’re getting there.
We’re getting closer to the Halloween season and and having Halloween stuff on action like movies actually.
Ryan’s doing the whole Leonardo DiCaprio from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Like, oh, there it is, there it is there.
It is, you know That’s right.
2:19
For his Halloween spottings.
That’s right.
And you know what too?
This is a thing that I was talking about earlier that I think is a something that is a welcome addition to society as a whole is the people that sit down and go on IMDb and add a just a really random and just very obscure tag to a film so that you know that like there is one sequence or, you know, piece or spotting of a particular theme in the movie.
2:56
So like there’s a whole tag and this is actually more so, you know, more used than just like small obscure movies.
But male nudity is 1 is A tag.
So like, you know, anytime a movie has male nudity, there’s somebody that goes on to IMDb and just, you know, clicks that male nudity tag.
3:16
So if you go in and search and you want to see all the movies that have male nudity, go to IMDb and there’s a list for you with all the tags people have put on there for male nudity.
Well, there’s also way, way, way more obscure ones too, but it’s, it’s very helpful sometimes, especially if you’re looking for like, is this, is there a movie that has Halloween in it?
3:37
Like one time, you know, or is there like a, a shot of Halloween at at some point or a Jack O Lantern in the movie, Like movies with Jack O Lantern somewhere in the in the hour and a half movie.
It’s very helpful sometimes.
And so I just applaud those people who who go in and do that, those autistic people who, you know, that’s their you know, their focus is to track movies with obscure things like that.
4:03
It’s very, very helpful.
So thanks if you were out there listening and you do that.
Appreciate it helps out.
You know, so again, like there’s because there’s tons of movies that have just Halloween really quick snap, snap and you miss it.
You know, ET is one, right.
4:18
We don’t really think of ET as a Halloween movie does have a scene of Halloween in it.
They’re trick or treating and ETS in the basket.
So, you know, it’s kind of cool to point that out every now and then.
Anyway, I digress.
4:34
The movie that we’re doing today is one that we’ve, you know, I think kind of when you, when you think of horror parodies, it’s probably the one that comes to mind the most, the one that you, you know, maybe as cemented.
There’s been tons of horror parodies, obviously, as we’ve covered, but one that’s really cemented, especially at this time, the, the element of horror parody, specifically launching a number of sequels, launching a number of other films that have copied it and which to this day is still attempting to be continued with the 6th movie on the way.
5:13
We’re talking about Scary Movie, which I don’t know about you, but this was in the heyday of our growing up basically 2000.
Did you see it when it came out?
Yeah, I saw it in on the rental.
5:33
The funny thing about it was, so I don’t know why I’ll have to ask my mom one of these days or my younger sister, but my mom thought it would be OK to take my sister who is like nine years old.
5:50
It’s time to go see that movie.
And she’s also not a fan of gross out humor.
Yeah, they ended up leaving like halfway through the movie.
Oh, they walked right out.
Yeah, she she.
Mom was like this is not appropriate for my 9 year old daughter.
6:06
Which I don’t understand, like I said, I can’t remember the circumstances of like how this even happened, but it happened.
But I remember, you know, seeing it as a youth on like rental, you know, parents didn’t check back then if it’s rated R or mature game.
6:22
They’re like, oh, you want to rent that?
Go ahead.
And, you know, or if it was like a movie your parents rented, you know, you stuck it, you know, later on.
And.
Well, yeah, I remember seeing it and laughing my balls off.
Because fart jokes, fart jokes, Dick jokes, Shannon Elizabeth jokes, anything like that.
6:47
Yeah, I, I, I did not see the movie when it came out.
I don’t know necessarily the reason why I didn’t see the movie at that time.
I do remember though, I was, it was, it was summer, summertime I believe, because I remember I was at my aunt’s house for summer vacation when school was out and I was at my aunt’s house and she used to babysit Brandon Brown as well, whenever friends.
7:17
And I feel comfortable saying that name on here because it is so generic and difficult to pinpoint, pinpoint exactly who that might be.
So yeah, but I did, she used to, she used to babysit him as well.
And I remember him coming over one time and basically talking about Scary Movie and telling me all the things that happened in the movie.
7:39
I think I remember specifically him harping on the fact that they, you know, Ghostface stabs Carmen Electra in the boob and it pulls out a, pulls out her implant and some of the other things.
7:56
And actually at this point in time, we were very obsessed with Scream.
We were so obsessed, in fact, that we would do like comic book reinterpretations of Scream.
I, I very vividly remember us basically doing a storyboard of Scream 3 and just completely storyboarding it out, basically writing a comic surrounded it.
8:23
And so it, it was, it was, you know, Scary Movie was obviously another thing that interested us quite a bit.
So definitely remember all of that.
But I never saw it at the time and it took me a long time to actually see it.
And actually, I think I may have even seen like Scary Movie 4 before I saw a Scary Movie 1, so, you know, so I remember I went to see one of them in theaters as well.
8:50
I want to say it was Scary Movie 4 that I actually saw in theaters.
Or it could.
It was either 3 or 4.
I can’t remember actually.
Yeah, I think it was 3 because it was the when after like Signs had just come out and stuff like that.
So but yeah, I definitely the the film franchise has been a part of my viewing for for years, but for whatever reason I missed out on a scary movie when it first came out.
9:20
Anything else you want to add in the intro before we we move on?
Nope, this is a little just a little film that ended up into a mediocre and franchise.
We’ll talk and we we’ll talk about that after as well about the franchise and the the first film and how that kind of translates.
9:43
But all right, so we’ll take a break real quick.
We don’t have a beer on the show for today for a couple of reasons, but you know, sometimes you just need to take a a night off of drinking, especially as you get to be our age.
I am having a Jenny Oktoberfest.
9:59
We’ve we’ve covered them before, but still solid, still good.
Thank you, Martin, for getting me a pack because I had been looking for to get a pack this year because I hadn’t had one and you came through.
But you you have, you don’t have beer, you don’t have alcohol whatsoever.
10:17
What do you got?
I have today some tailors.
Tailors of hair.
Right.
Yeah, Scottish.
Breakfast tea.
That’s awesome.
Nice little black tea.
10:35
And now is that a caffeinated tea?
I believe it would be as a black tea because you’re you’re risking fate, tempting fate by having a black caffeinated tea at 7:30 at night.
10:51
I don’t.
This is my I.
I certainly would never have done that.
I would have.
Well this is my second one so I might be screwed.
I would have picked the decaf herbal at this point I think because I can’t I can’t do caffeine that late in the night.
11:06
Now you’re can I, you know.
That’s how you know we don’t have ADHD.
It’s not putting us right to sleep.
It’s.
Listen, it must be pretty caffeinated because I’ve been up since 4:45 this morning.
And there you go.
I don’t even feel tired yet.
It’s, it’s the, it’s, you know what the commoner would use for fuel before Monster was a thing, you know, Monster and Red Bull like, you know, it’s, you know, the, the English commoner was still having to get up at 4:00 and go to work and serfdom.
11:41
So, you know, they had to have something.
They didn’t have Red Bull.
They had Scottish breakfast tea to keep you going.
I want I bet they don’t even.
They’re not even allowed to sell monster over it like Europe.
11:58
Well, why would they when you can have a cuppa and just be set for the day?
You got your flavour, you got your energy, it’s all that you need.
All that you need is a cuppa.
Cup of tea.
That’s a great kink song, by the way.
12:14
What’s that?
Have a cup of tea.
Oh, it’s just a blatant statement for you to have a cup of tea.
I didn’t even.
I didn’t know that.
Yeah, it’s a nice, it’s a nice country song.
It’s off their more country influenced album as well.
Hillbillies.
Listen to it.
12:29
Great album.
Instead of a beer recommendation, you get a music recommendation on this one, Yeah.
Beautiful, to Ryan chagrinning.
Wait, I’m sorry, did you say Shabarian Gifts is coming back?
12:47
I let’s go.
Is that what you said?
We can do that and we can also do we didn’t double up this year.
We’re going to do like 10 movies in four weeks.
We’re going to do Shaber didn’t give Part 2 and six different versions of Christmas Carol.
13:06
Yeah, I was actually trying to think of another one instead of Lacey Shaber that would have another Christmassy pun involved with the with their name.
But I don’t have to, you know, I have to think of one if we, if we don’t go the Lacey Shaber route because actually she doesn’t have that many movies because at a certain point the people over at Hallmark said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
13:32
Lacey Chabert, 32 years old.
She’s a little bit too old to be playing the protagonist in these movies, don’t you think?
60 year old women are seeing themselves in in the in the spotlight here as this protagonist in 32.
I think that’s a little too old for these people, don’t you think?
13:48
So anyway, that’s a, that’s a, that’s, that’s, that’s down the road.
We need to find more.
We need to find more Mariah Carey material.
That’s right.
Yeah.
All right.
14:04
So scary movie.
Yeah, so scary movie, like I said, 2000s movie released the in July of 2000.
And again, it’s important to note that the scary movie The when it first released was it’s kind of a big deal in terms of horror parody.
14:22
You know, there had been horror parodies previously, but this one for whatever reason, really broke out.
Partially because I think of the popularity of Scream, of course, and Scream 2.
Actually, most of this, I think the screams of the time, Scream, Scream 2 and Scream three had all released at the time by the time Scary Movie had hit.
14:46
Because even Scary Movie does have a few references to Scream 2IN it.
Actually Scream 3 was in 2000.
So it might have like literally just come out as scary Movie was coming out as well.
I don’t off the top of my head, I don’t know what.
15:03
OK, so it released in February.
So yeah, it it, it was a little bit too recent probably for them to be riffing on.
So you get Scream and Scream 2IN Scary Movie for the most part.
So, you know, of course, this was a time of a couple of different things.
15:19
Team Craze.
It was a time of slasher revival thanks to Scream specifically.
And it was a time of Kevin Williamson as well, which, you know, again, this movie kind of riffs on that a few times, but you know, Dawson’s Creek was quite big at the time as well.
15:42
And so you kind of have a perfect storm of ideas going on.
And then you have the Wayans brothers as well, kind of fresh off of their own show and, you know, writing some pretty good funny material to to kind of add to the the parody element of this, you know, slasher parody.
16:05
So I guess in terms of what I wanted to talk about first, what do you think about how do you, how do you, how do you feel about Scary Movie parodying first and foremost Scream?
Does it do a good job of doing that parody?
Yeah.
16:21
I think it does.
It is kind of weird to think about though.
Like by the time this is coming out, there’s already been basically, you know, 3 screen films, so.
Right.
Seems like it’s a little late get little late getting there.
16:38
But I mean, because it does like, you know, as you said, a lot of Kevin Williams and stuff it, you know, all ties together.
But you know, like the opening scenes like kind of like a very much, you know, beat for beat parody of the opening scene of Scream with Drew Barrymore.
16:57
So.
Part of part of the thing with Scary Movie kind of being late to the party as well is that Scream released basically besides Scream three, you know, Scream 1/19/96, Scream 2 right back-to-back in 1997.
17:15
They, they really did not wait to get those out.
And so, you know, again, there’s partially the, you know, the element of surprise and, and not expecting that the film would be as popular as it was.
And I think that kind of led to not really getting around to the, you know, actually releasing a parody of it until it kind of cemented its legacy.
17:38
And that I think that’s probably part of the reason why Scary Movie waited until 2000.
But by that time, there definitely was a legacy.
And so I think you’re right though now nowadays, like if a trend happened 3 or 4 years ago, it’d.
17:55
Be so, it wouldn’t even be relevant.
There’d be no.
Yeah, I and I think I think we see that actually quite a bit in that, you know, if you’re sometimes you will catch a movie that seems a little bit dated in its references and you notice it right away.
You’re like, whoa, wait a second.
18:11
That was like there was like a three-year old meme, like now, now that is cringy.
And and this time period like that’s if you’re using a three-year old meme, then you’re just way too late to the game and it’s not funny anymore.
And I think that that’s kind of the difference.
18:26
It back then I you might have been a little bit more accepting of the fact that it was a little late.
I don’t, I don’t know, I think it’s just seems like we’re more accepting of the whole idea.
But I don’t know, maybe that’s just maybe I’m maybe I’m, you know, speaking in the future and I you know, I because I didn’t necessarily live through this period and member remember it very well.
18:55
You know, obviously I would wouldn’t have been that old at the time.
So maybe maybe it was a little even at the time, maybe it felt a little dated.
I don’t know.
You know what we could do?
You know, we’re going to have to start doing now, too, now that it’s been 25 years since the year 2000 and the film takes place in well, it was made in the year 2000.
19:14
We got to do the Conan O’Brien bet in the year 2001.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, what do you so?
And, and I guess you’re right too, because the film, you know, it definitely has a even earlier than 2000s feel to it.
19:32
It still feels like it’s really stuck in the 90s for a lot of its scope.
And that partially is because it’s riffing on screen, but it really feels stuck in the 90s in a lot of ways.
How do you feel about the references now?
Like are they are they super dated?
19:47
Like if a person if it’s like, let’s say like a Gen.
Z or a Gen. alpha was watching scary movie now or are they are the references like too obscure now?
Even Is it like ATS Eliot poem or you’re like, I just don’t know.
I need references.
I I need footnotes here.
20:03
I don’t, you know, I.
Can’t believe, I can’t believe.
I can’t believe you’re comparing, which you’re also dating yourself there too with like, hey, is it pop?
Yeah.
Exactly.
Anyone know what that is?
Well, you’re the one that’s more tapped into the, you know, horror genre, you know, and reading on Reddit and such, like, I don’t feel, I don’t feel like it could probably, I don’t think like Scream has probably had as much, you know, lasting impact as, you know, we would think.
20:42
I think the recent films have kind of done a bad job of trying to bring enthusiasm back.
But at least changed the trajectory of what you recognize as scream.
And the fact that it’s been like it took them over a decade to, you know, make a new one.
21:01
Obviously I know what you did last summer and Candyman, stuff like that.
No one’s really, you know, urban legend, like all the shit that was coming out then.
Don’t think I believe so.
I could be wrong, right?
Like, OK.
But I feel like that’s not stuff that people are heavily revisiting and looking with with rose colored glasses.
21:25
You have to be Gen.
X or a millennial for the all of that stuff to hit because it was all coming out right at the same time.
And you know, you you’d be like, Oh yeah, I get that.
I get that.
I get that.
I remember that you.
Know right.
And I mean, I think it goes further than that too.
21:41
You know, it does have some legitimately funny elements to it, but a lot of them are very dated to the, to the time period.
And you, you, if you didn’t live through that time period or at least have some inclination of what they’re talking about, you might not even really see it as a joke whatsoever.
21:57
You know, So the whole joke about what’s up and, you know, parodying the commercial, I feel like it’s going to really go over the head of people who may not even know what that commercial is, you know, because at this point, you know, it was all the rage back in the day.
22:15
But now I don’t know that it really has stood the test of time where people are still talking about it.
The amount of shitty new grounds flash shit that came out that Budweiser commercial I.
Mean that alone would keep you from buying Budweiser.
22:33
Just like I’m not going to send any more money to the company that created that fucking isn’t.
That hilarious, though, when you think about it like that was such a big like, oh, isn’t this such?
Isn’t this great?
Isn’t this fun?
Same thing too.
22:49
It’s like, Oh yeah, the frogs that go bad.
Yeah.
I.
Sure, this is the most magical thing.
Like art, like commercials back then, you know.
You don’t know.
Yeah.
I mean, I feel like that’s the least.
They had character though.
That’s right.
23:04
And I feel like that they were, they were much more simplified.
And I feel like that’s part of the reason that people watch the Super Bowl now and the commercials and they’re like, yeah, all these commercials are shit.
They suck.
The commercials suck partially because people are sick of being marketed to, partially because there’s an expectation that they should be as funny as these very like, as you said, the very simplified commercials that we used to have that people were like frogs talking.
23:33
That’s fucking hilarious.
You know, like I thought, how?
You.
It’s another scorcher today.
I thought you were going to get the central air from Sears.
I’ll call today.
I’ll call tomorrow.
I’ll call now.
I’ll call.
Now, yeah, I know.
And again, like it’s, it’s they’re simplified things and people found them hilarious or they they, they lasted.
23:57
And I do think that that’s part of the reason that we do find so that we have like fatigue at this point.
We have I.
Get I get because I have State Farm.
I get so fucking irritated and pissed off if I ever see a God damn State Farm commercial because they have like 7 different celebrities in there.
24:18
Like the whole Chiefs team.
It’s like why do my rates keep going up to like ridiculous levels?
Oh yeah because you’re paying these cunts to be in this commercial.
Just have some douchebag be like hey get home and auto insurance with State Farm you.
24:34
Know you’d rather have this stripped down Napoleon Dynamite version?
Like hey guys, get state form.
No, not even though.
No, that costs money.
Just have.
No, I yeah, I mean, I mean not, not even.
No, no, no, no.
Just like that.
Just like, yeah, there’s no reason to be like, here’s Patrick Mahomes, here’s Andy Reid, here’s fucking former Gulf legend Arnold Palmer, and like, here’s, you know.
24:56
Low rates?
Go look us up the end of commercial 10 seconds. 90 year old porn star Nina Hartley shovings like State Farm like badges up for cooch an asshole Come on down, you know and.
Actually, I guess right, you brought that up, but I’ll I’ll get us back into Scary movie a little bit too.
25:14
Like the whole you know the how dated is just to have Carmen Electro in your opening.
You know, as the Drew Barrymore stand in literally naming her Drew.
Yeah, not only that though too.
Standards back then were a lot different.
25:30
Man calling saying she had a fat ass again very.
They couldn’t even get to imagine the BBLS that were going on in 2025.
Yes, I, I get you.
25:48
So again, we kind of talked about this, but I wanted to go back into it a little bit more because it really struck me that the film is very much a a specific parody of Scream, occasionally pulling in other elements like the flashback sequence of I Know What You Did Last Halloween, which is our little Halloween reference.
26:10
Besides that Carmen Electra trick or treat thing where she beats up the trick or treaters on her porch with the but So what do you like?
I I kind of got a little bit confused and also, but also like entertained by the fact that scary movie is so constricted down to that.
26:30
It just is boiled down to that one element of parodying screen because I feel like a lot of the later series films in this franchise, they were way more scatterbrained ADHD pulling in all kinds of sources of different horror movies.
26:49
And you know, like literally every scene would be a different reference to a horror movie.
And then, and a lot of times too, they had, they had a really, really, but very small plot.
They like barely anything because they were so scatterbrained to try to figure out all of the horror references that they could fit in that they really didn’t have much of a story to go off of.
27:12
Scary Movie at least really does.
It sticks very closely to Scream throughout most of the film, and it basically plays out as a Scream esque movie, you know, with jokes thrown in.
Like, did you like that about it?
27:28
Would you?
Do you wish that some of the newer scary movies would get back to that sort of scope of, you know, let’s take one movie and try to parody most of it?
Yeah, no, like, I definitely wholeheartedly believe that because that style that you’re talking about is way too frantic and way too like, you know, they’re more like skits.
27:52
Like you think of something like, you know, what the hell did we see that was dreadful?
Epic movie.
I think you tried Epic.
Movie, yeah, like where it’s like, you know, not based on anything.
It’s just like, you know, films crammed into like, you know, scenes and like, you know, superhero movie and stuff like that.
28:10
The 2000, mid 2000s were crammed with at least here it’s like, OK, we have the bones of Scream, we have the scenes of Scream and we’ll scatter and other references throughout.
You know, I think that’s much more smart.
28:27
It makes the film more cohesive and doesn’t make it seem like it’s just like an Internet pilot show.
Yeah, I agree.
I think I’d like.
I was actually pleasantly surprised by it really sticking to one basic element and doing a very good job of of parodying it to my, you know it, it looks like Scream.
28:51
They did a great job of trying to imitate all of the ideas of Scream, you know, basic shot for shot elements of Scream.
You know, this is a lot more impressive than when you get to the later scary movies, which are basically just references, you know, like it.
29:07
Nothing looks the same.
It’s just a reference to the movie, and you either get it or you don’t because you’ve seen it or not.
I think the Scary Movie, for all of its dumbness, you know, for its dorky, goofy like airplane S comedy at times and slapstick elements, is actually still fairly smart in the way that it’s written and how it tries to present a parody of actual, you know, trying to imitate the original.
29:39
And I like that a lot.
I think that that works really well for the movie.
It’s especially if you’ve seen those movies.
It does a great job.
It it Even so like you mentioned, the fact that like we get a few other references like candy man, the Matrix is in here to some extent, even though it’s, you know, it’s obviously not a horror movie, but those elements are brought in and they feel like they are at least within the realm of what the film is trying to do while it’s still parody scream.
30:10
And I really like the way that it brings in.
I know what she did last summer as well, because I think that it works well.
The transition is great if they did a good job of showing, you know, trying to parody that too and capturing the feel of that very well.
So I think like it.
It all just works really well.
30:26
And I was kind of surprised at how smart it actually seems.
You know, once you really think about it, doing its parodies, you know, does a good job with it, which is not something that you can always say about these types of films, especially the later ones in the 2000s that were really just like trying to cash in on the appeal of a parody without putting in the work to do it.
30:49
Not only, I’d say.
Not only that though, too.
Sorry I lost my.
Trick.
No, no, no problem.
So I guess moving on, how How funny do you think Scary Movie is?
Well, as a prepubescent child teen, you know, preteen, I thought it was hilarious. 25 years later, it’s got some moments, but a lot of it’s not super, super hilarious.
31:25
Like, like, like, like you said with like the whole like, what’s that bit that’s not going to make anyone laugh, you know, as we talked about just basic pot humour of like we’re ripping smoking doobies.
31:41
Got my Roach coaches.
You know, no one gives a shit.
It’s not funny.
You know, it’s it’s definitely a mixed bag with the humour.
Yeah, but there are some great parts.
31:57
Like the whole you know, what the hell James Van Der Beek cameo.
Yep.
That’s fucking hilarious.
Like, you know where this theme song’s playing and he comes, you know, popping through the window and he’s like, oh shit, wrong, you know, wrong set.
Like pops out like.
32:14
Right.
This is also the era of men entering through Windows.
Sam invented it.
Yep, exactly.
From Clarissa explains it all.
Hey, Sam.
I love that.
I love this this, this 90s thing that is like, if you watch back in the 90s, you’d think everybody was just popping in through windows.
32:32
There’s a ladder and everybody in a lattice work at everybody’s house just so they can climb up the window.
I know like the dads just leave it up like.
You know, yeah, like, oh, we don’t know that you’re visiting, you know, just a random ladder sitting against the the house all the time.
32:50
Listen, you’re 12 years old.
If you fall off that thing, it’s not my problem.
You’re just, you’re just stupid.
But yeah, like the, the humour is definitely a mixed bag.
I think for me, like the funniest joke still to this day from the movie is when the fucking guy is up on top, the teacher’s on top of the roof and they’re like, oh shit, he’s going to jump.
33:16
And then Sydney comes out and she does the whole screen like what are you wearing anymore?
Like like in Scream was, you know, Neve Campbell yelling, you know about the killer and the teacher hears and he’s like, what am I waiting for?
Fuck.
You.
Shit jumps and kills himself then.
33:35
Still hilarious that the very Butch gym teacher with her testicles fuck out.
Yeah, and that’s what I said, like all the all the maggot people are, that’s how they imagine like every trans person going into the bathroom is like, it’s just like this really over ridiculously.
33:58
We all have our in person.
You know, we all have our little seat.
It’s stupid, but it’s funny.
Like, that’s the other thing, too.
You’re either going to laugh at, like, a lot of the gay jokes or you’re going, you’re going to find that, you know, poor taste.
34:15
Yeah.
And actually I think.
Find it too much in poor taste because I think it’s kind of at the, yeah, it’s not really mocking gay people as much it is as it is making a joke of the fact that, like, he’s so in the closet that he has to be doing these, like, ridiculous things.
34:32
And so I didn’t really find it too offensive.
And I think probably the one that’s you would find the most offensive is is Doofy if he were really going to take offense to anything that’s in this film.
And at that’s at the same point, I think the movie comes back to the conclusion at the end where, you know, he shows that he’s really not, you know, a mentally handicapped person.
34:53
And so the the offensiveness is like mitigated, I think, in that yard that he’s just an awful person.
So you know.
Well, also too, because that’s from that’s the ending to the usual suspects, right, Which I know you haven’t seen.
35:10
We’ll have to do that in the podcast.
But that’s like the very famous work, Kevin, Kevin Spacey’s, you know, acting like, you know, acts like that and like he couldn’t possibly be the one.
And then like, you know, he’s, you know, gets escapes at the end and goes from like walking around with like a limp to, you know, confident and like, I fooled them all before they figured it out.
35:36
But that I mean, that is a nice, like little funny like touch right there.
I I do also too, now that I think about it, I think maybe a lot of those, like, gay jokes too, were like, weren’t like one of the big things floating around Scream.
35:53
I think we talked about when we did scream.
Is that Billy?
And why am I drawing blank?
Yeah, yeah.
Billy and Stu, you know, one of them was like a closet, you know, closet and.
So Yep, Yep, Yep.
36:08
And I, and I think, yeah, I mean, it’s a pretty, pretty good pinpoint of something that was kind of discussed when the movies came out.
But, you know, I, I like I, I, I actually, I don’t mind any of the jokes really to that extent.
I think some of the funniest ones are the ones that just really point out like either puns or like goofball antics that the film kind of loves to play with, you know, a lot some of the the the jokes that don’t land that well are like some of just like the slapstick humor that it has.
36:46
I don’t know that it does it extremely well.
You know, it’s fairly funny, but not everything lands but the.
Whole I was going to say the whole with do feel like smell my shit when fucking you know, GAIL sucks on his finger and she’s like, oh, it’s that.
37:05
And then like 20 minutes later, you know, he’s at the fire station and the guy’s like not fire station, police station and the guy’s like, smell my fingers.
What the hell smell like?
That’s the sense of you becoming a man.
Smell my fingers.
What the fuck’s that?
37:26
Some of the funniest things that I think, you know, written from a black perspective, though, is like that whole scene where Anna Faris is being chased and she’s goes on to the computer and dials 911 and just types in white woman in trouble and the cops are literally in the driveway already.
37:43
Fucking hilarious.
It’s just like just the, the racial differences between, you know, responding.
Not only that though, to the whole news team showing showing up like this.
Black news, white people down, we’re getting the fuck.
Around.
37:59
Yeah, the Army stock joke is fucking hilarious.
Yeah, that is hilarious.
I’m like, oh, freaking breakdown there.
With the king of the war like oh it’s this Titan army stock.
I know that it yeah, that is a great 1.
38:20
And that’s kind of just like a throwaway joke too.
That’s just kind of in there and it’s blinking.
You miss it for the trailer.
It’s it’s great though, So I think some of those where that it’s really like kind of messing with actual racial stereotypes and things is probably where scary movie excels the most.
38:37
There are some others that are, you know, like chuckle worthy, funny, but I think those are probably the main ones that really stand out in terms of like the films kills and and how it plays out with with scream.
I think those are OK.
38:54
I don’t know if there’s anything really like that stands out about how it does the kills.
You know, one that I think is kind of clever is the whole garage sequence where she tries to crawl out the the doggy door and eventually ends up breaking the garage door opener.
39:13
It’s kind of like a good playoff of the original screen.
And then Shannon Elizabeth’s character, who is like, so obsessed with not believing in this killer that when the killer is actually in front of her, she’s like, oh, I bet you want me to run away, don’t you?
And he’s like.
39:29
Oh the fucking broken leg.
Like still gets.
Me.
Oh yeah, that would get you, huh?
Yeah.
Broken bone Ting.
Snap like I’ve been there.
Don’t.
Oh, I’ve broken my ankle.
I bet that’ll be easier for you to chase me.
Yeah, it is pretty funny.
39:46
When they say, when they do the whole fucking, I know what you did last summer.
Like, no, stop doing the, you know, congenial, you know, congeniality ball.
That’s hilarious.
Because that like, you know, because they’re all like, which is like again, like one of the stupidest things in movies.
40:05
When someone’s like, please stop.
They’re doing it and they’re all like, what’s going on?
Yeah.
Is she acting?
Is that like up there acting?
And then, you know, they’re like you won, you won.
And she’s like, fuck that guy.
I’m going up there and getting my crown.
This is a great moment too.
40:22
Like I said, they did a they do a good job of actually parodying the movies in this one.
You know, sorry, no, I was going to say, you know, one thing I wanted to talk about is the one character micro PP.
40:38
Oh yeah, Lachlan and Rose.
Yeah.
Yeah, because I don’t believe that’s his penis for a second.
Did you see the level of hair on his legs in pubic region?
That man above that when he’s got his towel on is, you know, like he’s on the swim team, not a hair he found.
40:58
So I, I, I don’t know if I believe that.
Aerodynamically inclined.
Yeah, you know.
Yeah, yeah, I I see you’re really studying the photo.
I was, yeah, ’cause it was a polar.
It’s a.
Polaroid, it’s, you know, we’re watching it in 1080P now.
41:14
And so, you know, get to really, you know, lean in and see, like, but that part is funny, though, so you’re gonna stop making fun of me.
And then Cindy’s like, oh, I had that happen too.
And they’re like, he’s like, he’s got a small PP too.
41:30
And she’s like, no, I got a letter too.
Yeah, one thing we didn’t talk about is the rare appearance of Sherry O’terry in this movie.
Everyone’s second favorite cast mate of Will Ferrell’s partner in SNL.
41:49
That’s right after Molly Shannon.
To be honest with you didn’t.
I didn’t even realize back in the day that was her.
Oh, really?
No, no, I definitely did.
Yeah.
For I’ve.
I’ve known it for for quite a while that she’s in this movie.
She again, very, very rare to see her in a in a movie.
42:10
This is one of them right now.
She does a lot of like voice acting, not so much actual acting, but voice acting.
Yeah, the scary, scary movie.
I definitely remember her being in scary movie and I, I, I what do you think?
42:26
How do you think she does?
Is, you know, Cheerio Terry was SNL character who played very specific but very memorable characters.
But I feel like, you know, home, you know, knowledge of her name is probably pretty non existent.
42:46
You know, would not think to think of her by name.
I feel like you would have to be watching that period of like mid 90s up to 2000s SNL probably to you know, like she’s like one of the cast characters, like like Chris Kattan, like, but you know, forgotten to time.
43:09
But no, I think she’s she’s really funny in this like she’s got some great lines with like, you know, like who who got copped to feel who copped to feel get your ass over here, you know, like, you know, hey, you got it for Sydney.
You got a fat ass like you know, she’s, you know, real funny, does a good job doing GAIL.
43:32
Yeah, yeah, I liked it.
I like, I liked it quite a bit.
And I also like the the sheriff as well.
He is great in all the stuff that I’ve seen him in.
And this one, he’s really funny.
I love that the whole sequence where they bring Anna Faris down for questioning at the Police Department and he just pulls out a folder and he’s like, I want to show you some photos and he just pulls out all these, you know, and normally would be a suspect line up.
44:01
Instead it’s just photos of him and you know, like AG string.
It’s like, and then like the dialogue is really great here too, because they don’t really, it’s not like outspoken or anything.
They just kind of he just shows the photos and she’s like, no, no, you know, he’s like not even this one.
44:20
No, no.
Come on, you knew.
You knew Drew.
Yeah.
Tell us about Drew.
I didn’t know Drew.
How was she in bed?
I’m just just kidding.
It’s an old contract because it’s an old Malaysian trick.
Didn’t get you.
Good for you.
Him and Tom Arnold.
44:39
Because Tom Arnold plays, you know, Dewey, I’d knock off and Shrika if I know what you did last Friday the 13th.
They got like the same fucking vibe going on.
Like, you know, like, you know, like he could have been on Roseanne, you know, he could have been Roseanne Barr’s wife for sure.
44:58
Husband, I mean.
Roseanne Barr’s wife.
Yeah, whatever.
Oh, what else?
What else?
What else did we talk about?
Anything that you wanted to get in that we didn’t discuss?
How’d you like the penis through the head?
Yeah, yeah, actually I like that’s, that’s a that’s a Scream 2 reference that I actually I like quite a bit.
45:17
I think that again, that that is a pretty iconic sequence from screen 2 because it is, you know, like that first opening shot, the one that really drives home the element of the slasher film from Scream 2.
45:33
So I like that they parodied that.
And again, this film kind of goes into both Scream one and two here.
You know, it makes sense character wise.
They’ve been hinting at the, you know, the gayness of of his character for quite some time.
And then all of a sudden, you know, glory hole with a penis through the head.
45:50
I think it’s I think it’s great.
It’s it’s probably one of the better kills in this movie for sure.
That’s creative.
And this film loves to have male nudity in it, which I mentioned at the beginning of the film or or at the beginning of the podcast with the IMDb reference.
46:05
This film has quite a bit of male nudity actually, from asses in the shower room to Dicks and you know, everything in between.
Got normalize.
Even even a come joke as well with the whole sequence where Anna Faris goes primal and you know Bobby blasts her off into the ceiling like a Spiderman.
46:29
It’s so fucking stupid, but like like like like like that’s like 1-2.
That’s like, you know, like that, like I said, like the fart, like the kind of fart and shit jokes like that, like the like I I.
46:44
Laughed like child like.
Well, yeah, like back in the day, you probably found that, you know, like Carmen.
I thought that was hilarious and.
You’re like, what’s that sound?
Oh, I farted.
No, the popcorn.
You know what one really got me though that I thought was fucking hilarious in this movie was when they panned back to the popcorn and the jiffy pop and it was fucking huge on the stove.
47:05
Fucking like a giant bean bag on the stove.
It’s so stupid but so funny to me.
I don’t know why.
I just that one really got me right.
I saw that one.
Yeah.
I didn’t remember that joke.
But like, stuff like that, though, is kind of the the charm of this movie.
47:22
Like not everything is going to hit for you, but just some really stupid shit just works quite well at times.
And I think that’s, I don’t know, that kind of adds to the flavour of Scary Movie that some of the other ones, you know, in the franchise, the later ones, they don’t have as much.
47:41
They don’t have that charm or that those like couple of jokes, the snappy jokes that you’re just like that worked.
I’ve been lucky I’ve only seen the first 3.
OK, Yeah.
I don’t even think I’ve seen two, to be honest with you.
But I’ve seen, I think I’ve seen 3-4 and five.
47:59
I don’t, I don’t think I’ve seen two.
But, you know, have to rectify that at some point or we’ll have to do it and we’ll have to do it next time.
I don’t know.
Isn’t 3 the one where they got the jigsaw and shit?
48:17
I think that’s four.
I think that’s, I don’t know, they kind of all blend together in my.
Life maybe I have seen 4.
Of them, yeah, I don’t really know.
I mean, they kind of all blend together.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That’s four.
Just taking a Doctor Phil who’s make the damn break though.
Yeah, anything else that we didn’t discuss?
48:40
All that Miller High that Miller Miller Genuine Draft and Colt 45 relabeled.
Yeah, the Colt, Colt 45, they call it.
Yeah.
Killer, killer, actually.
What do you, what do you think about the the changes to the ghost face mask?
48:56
Like especially when he’s getting high and stuff.
That’s funny.
Yeah, like where they all of a sudden the mask is just like a scrunched up face and stuff.
And again, it’s so fucking stupid, but it’s.
Same thing dude with like the was up like that’s what makes the was.
Up hard he’s.
49:12
Funny because he it the mask goes from there.
Yeah.
The rap thing was really funny too, like when they’re rapping and Ghostface ends up killing everyone.
Yeah, like from rapping, and then Shorty’s like, oh man, that’s fucking cool.
49:29
That was awesome.
Yeah, I do.
I mean, I again, that’s one of those things that I think is really stupid in this movie, but just charming and funny.
Is that like the the attention to detail sometimes of like changing the mask out, which is, you know, something you probably wouldn’t think of it, but it’s just a good detail that you pick up on.
49:52
There’s a couple other things that you might see in the background of this film too, like when they’re in the the cafeteria, if you look on the menu in the back, it just says like same shit more same shit, stuff like that.
And so there’s there’s definitely stuff that you can pick up on if you watch in the background.
50:09
It’s pretty, pretty funny.
I like it.
What else?
Anything else that we didn’t talk talk about I.
Think that’s about.
It all right, so we’ve got to rate this film.
50:28
I got to come up with a rating actually, because I don’t have a good one off the top of my head.
I I didn’t I didn’t think of 1 I should have on a scale of zero to 10 delightful beer bongs, which this film has a a number of bongs in various different elements.
50:51
The Anna Faris sucking one down.
What would you give?
I was probably fucking that Colt 45.
Oh.
Yeah, yeah, right.
I mean, I’ve never had Colt 45, so I mean, I’m going to temper that a little bit.
I’m just, you know, I don’t see the peel malt liquor period, but maybe it is good.
51:09
I don’t know, but I can imagine.
That being like, swill, just absolute swill.
What would you give Scary Movie?
Give it a six out of 10.
It’s still pretty funny.
You know, I think again, like I haven’t talked to the youths of late, but I think like a lot of the humor isn’t going to age well and resonate.
51:34
If you didn’t kind, and this is true.
The lot of comedies weren’t somebody who lived through that time period to get the references and the parody.
Even if you’re like a younger fan of these movies, I think it still won’t resonate.
51:49
Like I said, a lot of nostalgia here for this movie for me and like the films out of parodies.
You know, a lot of jokes that are still like funny as you said that they do have some great little hits.
It doesn’t like it doesn’t.
52:05
It’s not consistently funny but they keep them rolling enough and because it’s an actual story instead of just like skits and stuff it and grounded in the original screen film, it does make for a nice easy watch.
52:23
So 6 out of 10 and I still think it’s pretty funny.
Yeah, I would actually get this a 7 out of 10.
I think it’s pretty funny.
It it definitely got me a lot more with the stupid jokes than I expected it would at this point.
You know, it kind of has that same charm and appeal.
52:38
But I definitely agree.
I think that this movie has not aged particularly well, perhaps more than most films of the time because of the references, but it just is probably going to be hard and very like kind of esoteric for some people to pick up that aren’t aware of this time period.
52:59
You kind of have to have some sort of intimate knowledge of the time period to be able to pick up on some of the jokes.
And I feel like you have to have a pretty intimate knowledge of Scream and, or I know what you did last summer to really get a lot of the references because those are the primary too.
53:15
There’s a couple other ones that you’ll like obviously get like, you know, the Matrix is not one that’s very difficult to pick up on, but some of the other ones, it just really relies on the audience.
And I feel like at this point, we’re so far removed from it at this, you know, 25 years now.
53:31
It there are certain things about it that are probably going to be difficult for the average contemporary viewer to appreciate.
With that said though, I do think it’s quite funny.
It’s got a killer cast, you know, with Anna Faris, the Wayans Brothers, Shannon Elizabeth being here.
53:48
It’s just like the very who’s who of the 90s and 2000s for this type of film.
So I mean, with that, I, I think it’s really an effective movie.
I think it’s quite funny, does a great job of parodying scream, in my opinion.
54:04
I think it’s, you know, like pretty shot for shot at times.
And they do a really good job of recreating the sets and everything and even some of the shots.
So, you know, with that said, I think they do, you know, a pretty excellent job and I still would recommend it for people who are really into scream.
54:23
And we forgot to even mention there are a couple of Blair Witch references here too.
So another interesting one that they get in.
All right.
So with that, that ends our coverage of Scary movie.
I think we’re moving on.
54:39
I don’t know what are we doing next to something something similar to scary movie, right?
I think we.
I think we should take a week.
Away from this type of.
Yeah.
And then and then revisit.
Yeah.
OK, Yeah, sounds good.
54:56
I think we’ve got like 3 more weeks left, so plans for some other stuff.
So that’s fine.
Well, I’ve got a couple others that I really want to do, so we will move on to those and and then, you know, get some other movies in.
55:13
We there’s definitely one that we want to do that’s very similar to Scary Movie.
And so it’s probably not good to do it right at the same time.
Too much.
Overlap, That’s right.
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55:29
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55:46
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56:04
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