"Wet Hot American Summer"

Small cameos of Judah Friedlander and Jane Krakowski

This movie is HILARIOUS.

But here's what's freaking me out: The image of the DVD in the first post, made in 2004, says "From the director of Role Models," which came out in 2008.

?????????

The image link changed, it used to be the cartoon poster.

Protip: The deleted scenes are the funniest

DO NOT WANT the new cover art.

yeah, lol at pushing elizabeth bands, who i didn;t even remember was in this shit.

ahhh I see xpost. FWIW the original poster is much better.

Everyone who likes this movie should check out the series Stella, which stars director David Wain, and actors Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter. It's available on DVD.

I like those guys, but Stella was UNfunny.

Maybe they learned a lesson and Michael & Michael will be good, but I'm skeptical.

otoh, THE STATE dvd comes out next month! Finally!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND7yJ7sMosk

so classic

ok so i got the state box set... never seen it before, what of it should i watch? sketch dates soooo badly, i'm worried about jumping right in

watch it all, dip your balls in it.

everyone who likes this movie should not check out the movie The Ten. I saw some of it on showtime recently. Not their funniest stuff.

so rong

IT WAS A GOOF!

I've had a copy of The Ten someone gave me three months ago that I still haven't watched yet. Good grief, I'm lazy.

guilty of sloth

lol

IT WAS A GODDAMN GOOF!!!

I think Wain was the powerhouse in Stella

I like those guys, but Stella was UNfunny.

I didn't like Stella on Comedy Central, but "Stella Shorts" is amazing.

Stella was UNfunny

so much rong on this thread ffs

Michael & Michael is pretty boring, I think.

too bad. didn't look great from the trailers but i want to like it.

watched the first ep last night and it was pretty lol-less, apart from the ending.

love that amazon has updated that gif on the top, so that it looks like "From The Director Of Role Models" was being hawked on the box four years before the movie was released.

david wain does seem to be the common denominator for all their best work though, huh

Yeah, too bad. I liked Stella quite a bit. (But I will still watch.)

weird: I was just randomly talking about this movie approximately 45 minutes ago!

"randomly talking about" = "singing the song from the training montage while getting dressed"

I watched the pot buy episode of Michael & Michael last night (forgot to watch the debut last week) and I was laughing consistently through the whole thing. Maybe I'm just an easier mark?

it's a great karaoke song

Maybe I'm just an easier mark?

Maybe you have more joy in your heart than I do!

: )

they're screening this movie in brooklyn this wknd

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)—“Can Of Vegetables”

HJB: I auditioned for another part in that movie; I was friends with those guys. I didn’t get it—it went to A.D. Miles. The best story there is that they recorded a scratch track—not the official movie version of it—to use as a template before. Then we went back in to record the polished version, just applying the same lines to picture. We had come up with the line about me sucking my own dick; I think I just said that, we were fucking around and I had said it on the scratch track version. And they were like, “You gotta say that, let’s leave it in.” So I was recording it, doing the line different ways, and David Wain and Michael Showalter got a phone call. They left, and it was just me and the audio engineer. There was this awkward waiting, and he pushed the button and said, “Hey man, really funny stuff.” I said, “Yeah, it’s really funny.” “Yeah, except for the thing about sucking your own dick. I mean, a can wouldn’t say that. I don’t wanna take over the process, but, uh, if you’re cool, you should say stuff like—I jotted down some ideas, and I bet those guys would love it.” I was playing along, like, “Yeah, that would be a huge help! I don’t wanna say this! It doesn’t make sense! A can is an inanimate object!” And the guy’s like, “I know! That’s why I was thinking you should make it funny! Like, you should say, ‘I stew my own vegetables a lot.’” I can’t remember what he said, but it was something that was like—geez, the lamest. And I was like, “Oh that’s great!”

Then the guys walked back in: “Sorry Jon. Alright Peter, let’s do another one.” [Laughs.] And I was like, “Well, listen, I stew my own vegetables all the time.” David Wain and Michael Showalter go, “What are you doing?” “I just think it’s funnier to say I stew my own vegetables than suck my own dick.” “Why?” “Because it’s a can.” “No…definitely say suck your own dick.” It was this totally waste-of-time argument that I was doing. I was like, “Yeah, whatever, I’ll say suck my own dick, but—I dunno, stew your own vegetables is pretty funny.” “No, that’s not funny at all.” We were overtly insulting this guy, who was sitting there grimacing. They never knew about it.

After, the [engineer] guy was like, “Those guys were assholes.” And I said, “Yeah, no shit.”

http://www.avclub.com/articles/h-jon-benjamin,51327/2/

How is it that the picture at the top of the thread says "From the director of Role Models" when that didn't come out until 2008??

I loved this movie; I thought it was pretty great how the directors just kind of threw a bunch of bizarre things in the scenary or in the costumes to make the film look a lot sloppier than it really was. Like it would be raining, then it would cut and it would be clear, then raining again. It's really more of a collection of skits than an actual movie (I can barely remember the actual plot) but it was great overall. Surprised how many of those guys wound up becoming stars since this was basically box office poison.

love that amazon has updated that gif on the top, so that it looks like "From The Director Of Role Models" was being hawked on the box four years before the movie was released.

― da croupier, Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:03 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

Oh, confusing.

surprised Chris Meloni didn't make the new school cover.

that benjamin story is hilarious

I just watched this. I didn't hate it, I feel kind of warmly towards it, like and have always liked Garofalo and Showalter and Poehler and etc.

But I can't imagine laughing out loud at anything in this movie! And yet it's clear that people do.

I was always very Upright Citizens Brigade >>>>>> The State, so maybe that's my problem. But Poehler didn't make me laugh in this, either.

Or maybe you have to see it when you're 15? Because I'll still rep for "Airplane!" or even "Naked Gun" which similarly deploy these moments of "we're going to put this in because it's wacky and it's so wacky you'll laugh even though there's not, per se, a joke." i.e. I'm not sure I can make an objective case that "Excuse me sir, I speak jive" is a knee-slapper and the can that sucks its own dick is not, but to me, the first is funny and the second is just random.

it's not that the can sucks its own dick it's that it does it a lot do u see

http://the-toast.net/2013/11/07/foreshadowing-wet-hot-american-summer/

well I guess I have to watch this again now

Anchorman was such a stupid and unfunny movie. I remember sitting through it with this weird feeling like wow comedy filmmakers have just completely given up. Like let's not even think of a title for this movie let's just call it "Anchorman". Let's just be as generic as possible here. I think a year later I saw another WF movie about him joining a basketball team or something and like Anchorman I didn't laugh a single time. I think most of the humor has to do with how inherently funny the idea of 70s/80s mustaches are. Which is not really at all.

you are wrong in so many specific ways!

1. This is not the Anchorman thread.