"Wet Hot American Summer"

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.

I look forward to your opinions on Stepbrothers, a movie about stepbrothers.

whas is a seriously unfunny collection of shitty sketches

anchorman is very funny indeed and is a real proper movie with scenes and shit

idk why you'd even bring anchorman up on the whas thread unless u especially hated whas and needed to bring anchorman up just to make the former look even shittier than it is (which is really shitty)

I stand by my posts in this thread.

I have softened a bit on Michael Showalter over the years, that dude is funny.

i don't remember anything about this movie except hating it... wonder if i've even ever seen the whole thing

xp Michael Ian Black's Twitter is always good for some A+ trollery.

this placed #29 in our 100 Comedy Films of All Time poll so its way overrated here for some reason

I've seen WHAS at least twenty times. :)

it appears to have taken quite the toll

DO SOMETHING!

or get the FUCK off the stage!

You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore.

I'm so old that FUCKING JESUS CHRIST was my camp counselah

Arts and FARTS and crafts.

actually the best bit is when Joe Lo Truglio briefly, for all of three seconds, has an insane mullet haircut, and then the camera cuts away and back and his hair is normal again

this is the greatest movie of all time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joxz7qTpSfw

Never not funny.

"Day by daaaaaay, day by daaaaaay, oh dear Lord, three things I praaaaaaay."

*enthusiastic clapping*

[song ends]

*silence*

"BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiBi0xMF9UY

the way Showalter says "Day B' Day" makes me lose my shit everytime

I always imagine how much kinkier a night bidet would be.

Like let's not even think of a title for this movie let's just call it "Anchorman".

There is a classic comedy set on an airplane called "Airplane!" so who fucking cares about something like this.

"Day by daaaaaay, day by daaaaaay, oh dear Lord, three things I praaaaaaay."

*enthusiastic clapping*

[song ends]

*silence*

"BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

I love this scene especially since it's a microcosm of the movie as a whole. In addition to all the continuity errors detailed in that link it seems like every character's personality changes from scene to scene

I was loving the movie just fine up to that specific point, but it was when that booing started that I knew it was all-time on my wavelength.

i always thought they started booing bc of the cross. it has been my experience that jews who would boo at a cross would happily sing along to day by day.

I think they mentioned that in the commentary track; it was an unintended alternate interpretation.

In this movie, it makes more sense when it doesn't make sense.

ha i always assumed it was the cross too

This could easily turn into another "That's where I'm a viking" debate, huh.

well if someone was actually arguing fact rather than just saying what they assumed

lol i just looked this up cos i'm totally unfamiliar w/ the musical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godspell

In the film Wet Hot American Summer, "Day by Day" is performed at the camp talent show. At first, the other campers enjoy the performance, but at the end of the song, booing ensues when an image of the cross appears behind the performers. In the DVD commentary for the film, director David Wain noted that the booing was not directed at the cross but rather at the performance itself.