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Next episode updates! (Patreon)

Published:
2025-03-03 19:04:03
Imported:
2026-06

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Hey everyone, we're planning to finally record our episode on The Cable Guy towards the end of the week. In addition to that movie, we've each been watching a lot of Ben Stiller's early film work, both as a director and a star. We'll touch on his work in films like Heavyweights, Permanent Midnight, and Reality Bites. I also revisited Tropic Thunder and watched Zoolander for the first (and most likely last) time.

The Patreon show will focus more on Jim Carrey as we'll be revisiting the first two Ace Ventura movies. (Sorry, no Ace Ventura Jr.) I know Ryan is also very eager to finally check out Jim & Andy...

Anyway, drop some more suggestions in the comments of things we might be overlooking and also give us your thoughts on The Cable Guy for us to read out on the show!

Thanks for your continued patience & support!

Comments

Nate Gonzales

Ben Stiller has come a long way as a director. His work on Severance is some of the best direction I've seen in prestige TV.

Jason Patterson

The winter extravaganza was amazing, just do more of that please. Every episode should end like "Mr Smith goes to Washington "

Anthony Hoffman

The Cable Guy rules. One of the few Jack Black performances I enjoy.

Gavin Fitzgerald

Heat vision and jack was a tv pilot that garnered a cult following. Also i feel like you got to touch on man in the moon a little bit

Lux Anatis

Re-watching The Cable Guy, I was reminded of a movie I saw back in my days as a Blockbuster Video manager, when I would watch almost quite literally anything and everything, called Enduring Love. It stars Daniel Craig and Rhys Ifans and plays out like a much darker, much more homoerotic re-imagining of it. Have either of you even heard of this? Also, since I think I was asked, I ALMOST did revisit Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as my choice for family movie night last week, but my daughter vetoed it in favor of my alternate pick, the Beatles jukebox musical Across the Universe. Both are movies I really enjoyed when they were new that I've been afraid to revisit now that I'm older, but I was pleasantly surprised to find this one held up pretty well. A great way, at the very least, to share the music of The Beatles with a musical theater kid.

Nigel Fordham

I’ve always liked Cable Guy, so many funny scenes, I never understood the hate it seemed to get.

Luke Gordnier

Man can’t believe ace ventura jr got overlooked. Was really looking forward to hearing both your thoughts on it

Kyle Reitenauer

"Jim and Andy" really made me look at Carrey differently, for better and worse. It's somehow heartfelt and gross. Excited to hear your opinions on it!

Lux Anatis

As for suggestions for future episodes, I'm not going to stop asking you to revisit the 90s Halle Berry comedy BAPs. But, with my Oscar fever beginning to break, a double episode on The Comedy and Entertainment, starring Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington respectively, would personally make me really happy.

Heath Chamerski

Loved Cable Guy ever since I saw it in theatres back in 1996, but watching it now I can’t help but think it’d be even better if Ben Stiller had also starred in it in the Matthew Broderick role, I don’t think Broderick is very good in this but I still love the movie.

Tyler Mammen

I’ve heard Zero Effect talked about with praise, definitely seems almost cult classicy to me

Steven Trotter

Heidecker is Persona Non Grata in this house

Lux Anatis

The political climate of the past decade may have destroyed his brain, but I still consider him one of the funniest guys alive for the most part even if he is past his prime. The Comedy should have had a lot more attention than it did considering its themes during the time it was released.

Scott Ruisch

I heard the guys mention The Ben Stiller Show so I was going to bring up Heat Vision And Jack. No way it would have worked as a series but the pilot is like lightning in a bottle !

JokersJuicyAss

Is the cartoon also going to be talked about given I think a couple of episodes is on the DVD

The One and Rory

It's been ages since I watched The Cable Guy, as my introduction to it was from that Simpsons episode of Homer tearing up the script and crying "RUINED JIM CARREY'S CAREER!!!". Judging by the poster, I thought it was a horror film, as Chip's stare makes him out to be a slasher villain. After watching it, I found it an interesting piece to look back on, as its dark comedy and eccentric nature wouldn't have been what people expected from Carrey during this era. Stiller came out okay, with it being one of his first collaborations with Jack Black (Tropic Thunder and that Heat vision & Jack pilot being another), and he's proving to be quite adaptable over the years; falling back on his directing gigs to stay in the Hollywood system. My memory is fuzzy, but I recall laughing at Chip's phone call with Steven, as that spider is crawling on his face without any reaction from Chip. However, moments like the rude password game leave me confused, as I don't exactly see the awkwardness for what it is. I think the tone is The Cable Guy's biggest enemy, as it wants to be a messed-up dark comedy while being a goofy Jim Carrey vehicle. A Different Man was similar to this, but it pulled it off to stronger reception, with The Cable Guy having mixed results. Also, Broderick being a bad actor as usual.

JokersJuicyAss

Man The Simpsons is really dated at some points, that and that Mel Gibson episode being prime examples of this

Zenshift

I always enjoyed it. It just has some tonal swings like The Cable Guy where it gets all serious. Early gags like Stiller unlocking 15 different locks on Zero’s front door worked great.

Ryan Lancello

I liked The Comedy a lot. Be funny to get Joe to watch it.

Lux Anatis

He should and so should anyone of his generation with the stomach for irony poison. I can't think of anything else that demonstrates the cultural, spiritual dead end the hipster mentality amounts to.

Brian Fields

Entertainment is a fascinating film. While it's hard to summarize how it makes you feel, it def. makes an impact.

Sidetracks

Heartfelt & Gross should have been its title

Mary and Steve

Hey guys, did you see the stuff about Warner Brothers DVD disc rot? They’ll replace certain discs if affected - might be worth going over your physical media collection(s)

Mary and Steve

*stuff released on disc from 2006-2007