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David (probably): “Leave the gun; take the cannoli.”?? Come on guys, nobody’s going to get some obscure cooking show reference.
It doesn’t bother me that David is clueless about pop culture. I mean, he grew up in Germany – it’s not his fault that he thinks David Hasselhoff is more famous for his singing than for his acting. What baffles me is that he thinks his opinions about pop culture should carry any weight whatsoever. Leave that stuff to Matt and Mercedes and Torch (and pretty much anyone else)!
What I’m saying is, a man’s gotta know his limitations.
P.S. – put me in the Serpico+Sicario camp also.
SERPICO!!!
(insert Charlie Day GIF here)
You don’t think that was the first place the members went especially when they said that was where they went?
Sicario?
Its when zorro drives from spain to Japan to become zoro
My FIL is from Garfield St in Tuckahoe.
Good news is that presumably David will start watching more movies now that he is married. At least that is how it worked for me. In his defense, I don’t remember any movie…except Blues Brothers.
Maude? “God will get you for that, Walter.”
“It’s got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it’s got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks. It’s a model made before catalytic converters so it’ll run good on regular gas. What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?”
That movie never gets old. It’s aging better than I am.
When I was in middle school, I had a neighbor who was a CHP officer. I was fascinated with the Dodge Polaras they were using back then. The Ford Explorer Police Interceptors now commonly in use would absolutely smoke those Polaras (and the Crown Vic PIs) in every aspect of what they are called to do now.
A slight tangent… Dan Akroyd and crew had another badass car in Ghost Busters. There are probably others.
Crown vic PI were nice, but really needed the 3rd gen explorer drivetrain as 240hp and a 5spd was far better for chases. The sub 120mph top speed wasn’t fine as most could beat that in a bone stock car.
Off topic, but where’s Adrian been?
Oh I’m……around.
Or that Maude’s housekeeper was Florida Evans, who would leave to move back to Chicago with her husband Henry (later renamed James) for the events of Good Times.
What kind of guy changes his name from Henry to James? It’s just not believable television.
What I want to know is: did they have all those mouthy kids in Connecticut with them? And how come nobody later ever mentions living there?
I mean… it’s Connecticut. Not a particularly strong flex.
He is thinking of Sicario. This is exactly how I imagine an Anglo person trying to recall this unfamiliar word.
How do we find the answer? A little clockwork Orange? Tie him down, a drop of acid in his eyes force him to watch all the suggestions? Yeah I’m okay with that.
Rookies. I would bet The Untouchable with Robert DeNiro because DT wouldn’t get the name right but the movie was a cop movie and DT would confuse DeNiro with Al Pacino.
De Niro was in Ronan, a movie with some of the more epic chase scenes of all time. An honorable mention goes to George Clooney in The Peacemaker. And obviously, Steve McQueen in Bullitt.
I always confuse Dinero and Pacino. Blew my mind when I watched Heat.
I was in my twenties before I realised John Wayne and Clint Eastwood were different people.
Clearly he means Zardoz starring the late great Sean Connery, or Serpico, probably Serpico.
Sicario. He mixed up Pacino with Del Toro. Hilarious!
Does David even know Pintos can fly?
That’s the Vietnamese, hot sauce, right?
Tuckahoe went on to be the location of many fictional tales set in the RuPaul’s Drag Race universe. Ru sure does love Bea Arthur and puns.
Also, please put me on the ‘he got Serpico and Sicario mixed together’ list.
Did you know that there are two towns named Tuckahoe in New York state?
One is where your car breaks down on the way to Sara Lawrence, the other is where you car breaks down on the way to Montauk.
Serpico – he means Serpico. The lone uncorrupt cop targeted by a corrupt system.
This is what I’m thinking too.
Nailed it!
What do I win!
Maude short-lived?!? It had six seasons and over 140 episodes! That’s a long-running show by today’s standards.
Anyway, the only logical explanation is he was watching Sicario, fell asleep, briefly woke up to see an ad for Scent of a Woman, fell back asleep, and then woke up a second time with Meet the Parents playing. He obviously sees DeNiro and Pacino as the same person (who doesn’t?). While fact checking Matt’s recent piece on Severence, looked up Ben Stiller on IMdB, saw that he was in Zoolander and remembered him from Meet the Parents while still under the mistaken impression that was the ending of Sicario. Makes perfect sense.
Maude was awful. The worst part was when I found out that all the characters were supposed to be like 40 years old. They look like they’re 70+. The 1960s must have been really rough on that crowd.
Shit, look at a photo of people fighting WWII. They look like they should be claiming their retirement benefits and all of them were like 22.
They have a pretty good excuse, though.
There is no excuse for poor skin care. Wear your sunscreen when harvesting your dustbowl beans you raisin-looking fockers.
Hoooooo Nellie! You go girl!
On a relatively related note, I was discussing The Office with my wife last night. The UK version was obviously successful (check Gervais’ bank account for proof) but ran for a total of 14 episodes over two seasons and a two part Christmas special.
The American version runs for 9 seasons, several of which lack the main characters from the start (Stringer Bell from The Wire was the boss for a while for crissake). American TV will never stop producing episodes while people are tuning in, even if they ran out of story 6 seasons ago and have to rely on BJ freaking Novak to write garbage filler content to keep it going.
I guess my pointy is that episode count doesn’t mean any of them are worth watching. The content could be long-drained of any reason to tune in but Americans crave familiar characters and will keep watching even if nothing is happening.
So, you’re saying they eventually become The Walking Dead?
Worse. They all start hoping that they become The Walking Dead.
Probably the most famous episode(s) of Maude were the season 1 two-parter, “Maude’s Dilemma,” which rocked the world with the revelation that Maude drives a ’69 Corvair:
That is why that episode is famous, right? Huh? Bea Arthur pregnant? Yeah, I don’t think so. Gotta be the Corvair thing.
Zitaro, the whimsical picture show about the utopic town created for those suffering from incurable teenage acne, and the joy they find in not having to be concerned with face cleansing rituals. Drags a bit in the third act, but pops nicely at the end.
Maybe DT was thinking about Zathura? Or Sleepy Hollow?
Wait, was it supposed to have Al Pacino in it? Wasn’t he in That’s My Boy? No, that was James Caan. Al was in Jack And Jill. We’re either of those what DT could have been thinking of?
Maybe it was Dennis Hopper, and DT was thinking of Space Truckers.
I hope he’s thinking of Serpico.
No that is just what they want you to think. I know these characters they are hiding something
Wait until he hears about Shazaam staring Sinbad.
Maybe David started watching Sicario, fell asleep, and then dreamt that Al Pacino was in it. And then also dreamt that the “S” was a “Z” and that there was one less “i”.
I would up my membership by a couple tiers if we got a DT movie blog about Eraserhead, or any Lynch film.
Tuckahoe, that’s fun to say, Tuckahoe.
There is a Tuckahoe road in my hometown in New Jersey. Didn’t expect to see that word today… Tuckahoe, Tuckahoe, Tuckahoe.
David could start his own web series of “The disconnected man”, asking him about very popular movies or music and he tries to describe them. Then watches/listens and gives his feedback.
Would win all the awards, david is a sensation but doesnt know it since he is disconnected from pop culture.
Give him a name (could be a movie title / tv series / pop star) and make him talk about what he thinks that name refers to for five minutes. I’d tune in.
Unfortunately, they’d need to generate another 5 minutes of filler garbage in order to monetize it on youtube.
I don’t do podcasts or web series, and most of my YouTube viewing is junior racing series, but I would watch the hell out of that.