Dumb and Dumber (1994) vs. There's Something About Mary (1998): Part 1

<v Speaker 1>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't
<v Speaker 1>Be Serious Podcast. My name is Dee Graves, and I
<v Speaker 1>am here with my friend Jason, who is rich and
<v Speaker 1>handsome and has a rapist wit.
<v Speaker 2>You ready to do this, mister French Tickler.
<v Speaker 1>Loves again.
<v Speaker 2>We are here today to compare two great movies from
<v Speaker 2>the nineties, Dumb and Dummer and Something About Mary.
<v Speaker 1>Two arguably funniest movies of the decade.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I laughed belly laugh every time I watch these.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. The first act of both of these things is
<v Speaker 1>so freaking brilliant that I'm in tears before we get
<v Speaker 1>twenty minutes into the movie on both of them.
<v Speaker 2>When I was in college, Dumb and Dummer came out
<v Speaker 2>and I saw it, and I immediately went home got
<v Speaker 2>my roommate. I'm like, we're going to see this, all right.
<v Speaker 2>I took him that same day. I saw it twice
<v Speaker 2>in the same day. Yes, and then I proceeded to
<v Speaker 2>drag other people. My dad, my mom, my, sister.
<v Speaker 1>Yea, we all went and saw it.
<v Speaker 2>So my college roommates Cameron Ackert, Todd Wadman, Scott Foster,
<v Speaker 2>Doug Huggen. I know, I dragged them to the theater
<v Speaker 2>here in Norman multiple times to see this.
<v Speaker 1>When something about Mary came out, I was living in Tulsa,
<v Speaker 1>dropped out of college at the time, Nice and I
<v Speaker 1>went back to see it again almost immediately after having
<v Speaker 1>seen it for two reasons. The first reason is absolutely hysterical.
<v Speaker 1>The second reason is I wanted to see the audience's
<v Speaker 1>reaction at the zipper scene, and so at that point
<v Speaker 1>I brought my girlfriend with me, and at that point
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, hey, I'm gonna run into the bathroom because
<v Speaker 1>I didn't want her to know what I was doing.
<v Speaker 1>And I walked down to the corner where I could
<v Speaker 1>see everyone's face, and when the zipper scene happened, when
<v Speaker 1>they when you see the when you see the beans
<v Speaker 1>in the Franks.
<v Speaker 2>Had to get the beans over.
<v Speaker 1>The free did see that, and the expression on everyone's
<v Speaker 1>face of instantaneous shock and then hysterical laughter is something
<v Speaker 1>that has burned into my memory forever as a priceless,
<v Speaker 1>priceless moment.
<v Speaker 2>It was so friggin funny. These movies are awesome, and
<v Speaker 2>whatever we talk about today is not going to be
<v Speaker 2>nearly as funny as the movie.
<v Speaker 1>So we can't compare with The Fairly Brothers, but we
<v Speaker 1>can't tell you the story, right.
<v Speaker 2>We are going to take a deep dive into both
<v Speaker 2>of these movies. If you have not seen these movies,
<v Speaker 2>do yourself a favor. Go immediately pauseitive podcast, go watch these.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, the movies that we watch or that we're talking
<v Speaker 1>about are over twenty years old, so you should probably
<v Speaker 1>you know, have known that you got to see it
<v Speaker 1>right now.
<v Speaker 2>Here's the other thing. We are a family friendly ish
<v Speaker 2>podcast where we would can classify ourselves more as like
<v Speaker 2>a PG thirteen type of thing.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, we're going to be.
<v Speaker 2>Talking about a few things today that might push over
<v Speaker 2>the edge.
<v Speaker 1>Use some discretion for your younger listeners with you. We
<v Speaker 1>will not have profanity on this, but there may be
<v Speaker 1>some indelicate topics because of these movies are full of them.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, how can we not and talk about these
<v Speaker 2>movies legit?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, your warnings have been given, and then so we
<v Speaker 1>may proceed now, all right?
<v Speaker 2>So dumbin Dummer was released December sixteenth, nineteen ninety four,
<v Speaker 2>with two weeks left to go in the year. It
<v Speaker 2>still was the eighteenth highest grossing film of nineteen ninety four.
<v Speaker 2>Fantastic it's really what I mean, it blew out of
<v Speaker 2>the gates. Yeah, number eighteen and ninety four and number
<v Speaker 2>twenty four overall in ninety five, so it made a
<v Speaker 2>ton of money. Its budget was seventeen million, and it
<v Speaker 2>made two hundred and forty seven point three million dollars.
<v Speaker 1>And just to keep things in perspective, nineteen ninety four
<v Speaker 1>and nineteen ninety five are arguably two of the best
<v Speaker 1>years in movie history. So in ninety four you've got
<v Speaker 1>natural Born Killers, you've got clear in Present Danger, you've
<v Speaker 1>got the usual suspects, you've got pulp fiction, you've.
<v Speaker 2>Got Forrest Gump, you've got Shawshank prediction.
<v Speaker 1>And ninety five you had Casino, you had Clueless, you
<v Speaker 1>had Tommy Buy. Another incredible year for movies, and this one,
<v Speaker 1>oh it's seven your favorite and Desperado one of my favorites. Wow.
<v Speaker 1>So anyway, fantastic, hilarious. How do we get there? Let's
<v Speaker 1>start with the Fairly brother Okay, so the Fairly Brothers
<v Speaker 1>are self described near dwells. Their dad was a doctor,
<v Speaker 1>their mom was a nurse practitioner. They had three sisters
<v Speaker 1>who all did excellent in school, and basically they barely
<v Speaker 1>made it through. I think Bobby fairly went to like
<v Speaker 1>four different high schools. He ended up playing some hockey
<v Speaker 1>I think in college, but wasn't a super student, stud
<v Speaker 1>of geology. Peter studied accounting. They're both so bad at
<v Speaker 1>those particular areas that they became salesmen after college. And
<v Speaker 1>so at about twenty four years old, they're like, you
<v Speaker 1>know what, we don't have anything to lose. We kind
<v Speaker 1>of want to be writers. Let's go out to California.
<v Speaker 1>So they moved from Road Island out to California to
<v Speaker 1>become writers. And so they would tell people, yeah, we
<v Speaker 1>moved to California and we're writers now. And people would say, well,
<v Speaker 1>if you've written anything that I would have seen, and
<v Speaker 1>they said no. What they essentially were were script doctors.
<v Speaker 1>So when people had scripts that needed some punching up,
<v Speaker 1>these guys came in and made them funny, okay. And
<v Speaker 1>so at some point they're talking to a producer at
<v Speaker 1>Universe who works at Universal, and they said that the
<v Speaker 1>idea for Dumb and Dumber was his idea. Now here's
<v Speaker 1>the idea for Dumb and Dumber. Two guys who were
<v Speaker 1>screw ups travel across the country.
<v Speaker 2>Don Meloa.
<v Speaker 1>Now I'm not saying I've heard this or seen this
<v Speaker 1>anywhere else, but if the two guys in front of
<v Speaker 1>me are self described underachievers and they've moved from Rhode
<v Speaker 1>Island to California, I would say maybe they didn't realize
<v Speaker 1>they might have been the inspiration for their own movie.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, Yeah, Lloyd and Harry maybe should have been
<v Speaker 2>called Peter and Bobbie.
<v Speaker 1>Right. So they go and they write the first scene
<v Speaker 1>of a script and they bring it to this producer.
<v Speaker 1>He's like, this is magical. I love it. You know,
<v Speaker 1>we we definitely need to make the movie. Go ahead
<v Speaker 1>and write the rest of the script. They go back,
<v Speaker 1>they write the rest of the script, they give it
<v Speaker 1>to him. He thinks it's wonderful. He says, I'll get
<v Speaker 1>back with you right after the weekend. Monday comes, They
<v Speaker 1>don't hear anything. Tuesday, Wednesday, don't hear anything. Finally they
<v Speaker 1>call and they find out he no longer works at
<v Speaker 1>the Universal. Of course, yeah, it's a story that we've
<v Speaker 1>heard before. I really yeah, right, And so he has
<v Speaker 1>moved to Fox, and so they're waiting on him at
<v Speaker 1>Fox to give them, you know, an idea of what's
<v Speaker 1>going to happen? And after nineteen months of not hearing anything,
<v Speaker 1>they write him a letter and say, hey, you know,
<v Speaker 1>if you loved this script, what's going to happen with it?
<v Speaker 1>And he says, I'm not doing anything that I was
<v Speaker 1>associated with whenever I was at Universal, So here's your
<v Speaker 1>script back, and they didn't know what to do. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Somewhere in the process they come across John Hughes and
<v Speaker 1>they're like, hey, we're looking for a director on this thing.
<v Speaker 1>And he tells them, you know what, you should direct
<v Speaker 1>it and they're like, we haven't even written anything famous yet,
<v Speaker 1>how are we going to direct that. He's like, you
<v Speaker 1>have the movie in your head. You've already got the
<v Speaker 1>story in your head. Just make that the movie. That's
<v Speaker 1>all you have to do as a director.
<v Speaker 2>Now, wait a minute, this is John Hughes, like Ferris
<v Speaker 2>Bueler's Day Off Pretty in Pink weird Science.
<v Speaker 1>No, it's the other John Hughes, John John Bartholome, Yes, No,
<v Speaker 1>the John Hughes. Yes wow. And so they eventually get
<v Speaker 1>some producers to come along board who think that the
<v Speaker 1>script is hilarious. There's a bit of resistance to having
<v Speaker 1>them direct but at this point they've decided this is
<v Speaker 1>what we want to do. This is how we're going
<v Speaker 1>to make our break.
<v Speaker 2>Initially, the first script was called Dust to Dust, and
<v Speaker 2>that was about two idiots moving across the country and
<v Speaker 2>working at a funeral parlor. It was actually bought by
<v Speaker 2>Eddie Murphy's production company Huh, But ultimately it didn't happen,
<v Speaker 2>so it sat there dust to Dust, never gotten made.
<v Speaker 2>They later wrote a sequel for the Tom Hanks dan
<v Speaker 2>Aykroyd movie Dragnet Dragnet Part two.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>They called it their best script they've ever written. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>but it was never made right. So they go back
<v Speaker 2>to the drawing board and the fairlies and this other
<v Speaker 2>guy is.
<v Speaker 1>The name of their writing partner. Yes, thank you.
<v Speaker 2>Came up with another story. This is about two dim
<v Speaker 2>witted guys, Harry and Lloyd, who set off for Aspen
<v Speaker 2>to return the lost briefcase. Right with the whole plot
<v Speaker 2>of the movie. They called it Go West, but then
<v Speaker 2>they thought, no, what we really need to do is
<v Speaker 2>called Dumb and Dumber. But that title nobody liked it.
<v Speaker 2>They could not get any actors to agree to star
<v Speaker 2>in a movie called Dumb and dumber. It kept getting rejected, rejected, rejected,
<v Speaker 2>so they changed the title to A power tool is
<v Speaker 2>not a toy. Basically, they changed the title and sent
<v Speaker 2>it back to the same studios, same script, but instead
<v Speaker 2>of people not reading it, they then thought, okay, well
<v Speaker 2>that's interesting title, so they were read it. Yeah, okay.
<v Speaker 2>So when the Fairly Brothers finally found a movie studio
<v Speaker 2>that agreed to do this, they said, all right, here's
<v Speaker 2>the deal, we'll make it. So the script passed through
<v Speaker 2>and was rejected by every major Hollywood studio until it
<v Speaker 2>made its way to Newline. Okay, the head of New
<v Speaker 2>Line Cinema, Mike de Luca, loved the script and agreed
<v Speaker 2>to make it, but the CEO of the company hated it.
<v Speaker 2>But he said, okay, here's the deal. He gave him
<v Speaker 2>a list and he said, I will make this movie.
<v Speaker 2>You can get any of these twenty five guys on
<v Speaker 2>this list. So they sent it out rejected by all
<v Speaker 2>twenty five, every single one, every single one. But you're
<v Speaker 2>talking about big names like Steve Martin and Martin Short
<v Speaker 2>and Nicholas Cage.
<v Speaker 1>So one of the guys whose hands the script ends
<v Speaker 1>up in is a guy named Jim Carrey, who at
<v Speaker 1>the time that he had the script and looking at it,
<v Speaker 1>you wouldn't know who he was unless you're a big
<v Speaker 1>in Living Color fan. He was the token white girl,
<v Speaker 1>white guy. I loved it. I watched it in Living
<v Speaker 1>Color all the time. Did you watch it? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah I did. And I knew him from Once Bitten.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but I mean I certainly wouldn't have known. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that guy's name is Jim Carrett.
<v Speaker 2>Now I knew him from Once Bitten. But that movie
<v Speaker 2>was cute and.
<v Speaker 1>Humorous, and he was kind of leading.
<v Speaker 2>He was, he was the main guy, but he wasn't
<v Speaker 2>Jim Carrey like on display, you know what I mean.
<v Speaker 2>It's like nineteen eighty five. It was a long time
<v Speaker 2>before a Sventuer.
<v Speaker 1>Long time well, and a Spincher is the key here,
<v Speaker 1>because he was going to be able to do the
<v Speaker 1>movie for a paycheck of one million dollars if they
<v Speaker 1>signed him before A SPINU.
<v Speaker 2>Was released, a million bucks.
<v Speaker 1>Jim Carrey for a million dollars. Yes, As it turned out,
<v Speaker 1>they didn't get that done, and so I think they
<v Speaker 1>offered him seven hundred thousand. And then when ace Ventura
<v Speaker 1>came out, they had to offer him seven million dollars,
<v Speaker 1>seven million.
<v Speaker 2>Dollars, seven million bucks because they waited too long and
<v Speaker 2>ace Ventura was out like a rocket.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, and so the thing was though, with that ace Ventura,
<v Speaker 1>suddenly they had star power from a guy who was
<v Speaker 1>willing to do the movie. And that is what allowed
<v Speaker 1>the studio to go, Okay, we're going to invest enough
<v Speaker 1>that you can pay him seven million dollars. We'll invest
<v Speaker 1>sixteen million dollars. A little less than half will go
<v Speaker 1>to him, and the rest of it you can use
<v Speaker 1>to make your movie.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, let's think about this for a second. We talked
<v Speaker 2>earlier this summer, flashback to our Smoking the Banded episode. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that was made on a budget of four million dollars.
<v Speaker 2>Burt Reynolds was paid one million of that four million
<v Speaker 2>dollar budget. Yes, Jim Carrey was paid seven million dollars
<v Speaker 2>of a seventeen million dollar budget.
<v Speaker 1>What the hell are we doing here, Harry.
<v Speaker 2>That's nearly half of the budget. It's incredible. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>here's the kicker to go along with that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Do you know what Jeff Daniels was paid to do?
<v Speaker 2>Dumondemer Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So Jim Carrey was the one who asked for Jeff
<v Speaker 1>Daniels to be in the movie. They didn't want Jeff
<v Speaker 1>Daniels to be in the movie. They knew he was
<v Speaker 1>a good actor, but they thought, you know, this isn't
<v Speaker 1>the right guy for this comedy about stupid guys, the
<v Speaker 1>ridiculous stuff that he's going to have to do, and
<v Speaker 1>so they deliberately low balled him and they offered him
<v Speaker 1>fifty thousand dollars. Handy Heat instantaneously said yeah, I.
<v Speaker 2>Know they were trying to drive him away with that
<v Speaker 2>low ball offer.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. His agent said, do not do this movie. It
<v Speaker 1>will kill your career.
<v Speaker 2>He said, he had three agents on the line. They said, look, dude,
<v Speaker 2>we're trying to get you an oscar. You can't do
<v Speaker 2>this to us. Don't do this movie.
<v Speaker 1>Still his most profitable movie today.
<v Speaker 2>It's incredible.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So when Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels they got together
<v Speaker 2>and they were auditioning using the hot tub scene. Huh right,
<v Speaker 2>so they're naked, they're in the hot tub or not naked,
<v Speaker 2>but you know, undressed mostly, And Jim Carrey said he
<v Speaker 2>went over to Jeff Daniels and motor voted him. And
<v Speaker 2>when Jeff Daniels just went with it. Jim Carrey was like,
<v Speaker 2>this is my guy. Yeah, I have to have this guy.
<v Speaker 1>He's I mean, in any other movie he's the comic guy,
<v Speaker 1>but in this one, between those two, he's the straight man. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the guy with the poop scene is the straight man.
<v Speaker 2>It is.
<v Speaker 1>It is dumb and dumber.
<v Speaker 2>Yes.
<v Speaker 1>By the way, here's that's a good question. Which one's
<v Speaker 1>dumb and which one's dumber?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Harry Jeff Daniel's character is dumb. Yeah, Lloyd Jim
<v Speaker 2>Carrey's character is dumber.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I totally agree. Okay. I watched this movie with Caleb,
<v Speaker 1>my eleven year old. The movie starts and he asks
<v Speaker 1>me that question, and I'm like, I tell him the
<v Speaker 1>same thing that you just said. Yeah, Jim Carrey's the
<v Speaker 1>dumber one, Lloyd. Lloyd's the dumber one, right, And he's like, no,
<v Speaker 1>I don't think so. And we watch and we watch,
<v Speaker 1>and at the point that Lloyd says, yeah, he must
<v Speaker 1>work out, Caleb turns me. He goes, you're right, he's
<v Speaker 1>the dumber.
<v Speaker 2>Roll For me, it's when he's trying to read, he's going, hey, dumb, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>all right, before we get too far down the road,
<v Speaker 2>I do want to talk about casting in both of
<v Speaker 2>these movies. But let's flip back. Let's talk about there's
<v Speaker 2>something about Mary.
<v Speaker 3>His friends would say, stop one and they've had enough
<v Speaker 3>of that his.
<v Speaker 1>Friends, right, and which, interestingly I mean this. That movie
<v Speaker 1>came out in nineteen ninety eight. It was the third
<v Speaker 1>movie Dumb and Dumber, was the first movie we had
<v Speaker 1>Kingpin in the middle, right. But the story actually starts
<v Speaker 1>ten years earlier, when these two guys in nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 1>eight are living in a rent control apartment in California,
<v Speaker 1>and their names are Ed Decker and John Strauss, and
<v Speaker 1>they are they're script writers. They're working on a script together,
<v Speaker 1>and they realize that their neighbor, an aerobics instructor, likes
<v Speaker 1>to change her clothes when she gets home from work
<v Speaker 1>with an open windows and blinds.
<v Speaker 2>God bless her.
<v Speaker 1>That's how they felt as well.
<v Speaker 2>They saw the aerobics instructor.
<v Speaker 1>They saw every single day, like clockwork, she would come
<v Speaker 1>in the door. They would go hide behind the couch
<v Speaker 1>and just peek over the edge and see her change
<v Speaker 1>her clothes in the open window the way. And at
<v Speaker 1>some point, as one of their first visages of this
<v Speaker 1>is they're cowering and peeking and spying. They one of
<v Speaker 1>them turns the other and says, this is really actually
<v Speaker 1>pretty disgusting. We're a couple of stalkers here, and the
<v Speaker 1>other one says, don't think of us as stalkers, think
<v Speaker 1>of us as detective. And it is that moment that
<v Speaker 1>was the light bulb moment where they said, imagine if
<v Speaker 1>some guy hired a private detective to go spy on
<v Speaker 1>this girl that he had liked, and the private detective
<v Speaker 1>sees her and falls in love with her.
<v Speaker 2>It's a great hook.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, so thank you again, aerobics instructor. We appreciate your
<v Speaker 1>contribution to the movie industry.
<v Speaker 2>Giving it up to her.
<v Speaker 1>So they write a script that is there's something about Mary,
<v Speaker 1>and they get it to a studio who's excited about
<v Speaker 1>making it, and it ends up in what we call
<v Speaker 1>development hell right, the studio has its own ideas about
<v Speaker 1>how things should go, and basically they develop it into
<v Speaker 1>a terrible script instead of a wonderful script, and it
<v Speaker 1>goes nowhere for years. Fortunately, before all of that happened,
<v Speaker 1>when they had their original script, they showed it to
<v Speaker 1>a couple of friends of theirs named Bobby and Peter Fairly,
<v Speaker 1>and so years go by. They finally, after I think
<v Speaker 1>it was eight years, they finally get their script back.
<v Speaker 1>It had been in development hell for that so that
<v Speaker 1>puts it at nineteen ninety six. They get it back,
<v Speaker 1>they're trying to figure out what to do with it,
<v Speaker 1>and happen to run into the Faarilies again, who go, hey,
<v Speaker 1>whatever happened with that script that you were writing? And
<v Speaker 1>they said, well, it never got made. We actually just
<v Speaker 1>got it back, and they said, we would love to
<v Speaker 1>make it awesome, and so there you go. And so
<v Speaker 1>they gave it to the Fairlies. The Fairlies worked their
<v Speaker 1>own magic on it, and they did tons of work,
<v Speaker 1>including that introductory scene, which is key. It is key
<v Speaker 1>to the success of that movie.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, let's talk about that for a second, because I
<v Speaker 2>heard the same thing. Kingpin in ninety six was the
<v Speaker 2>fall up to Demon Dummer. I mean, it's not a sequel,
<v Speaker 2>but it was their next.
<v Speaker 1>Movie, next movie for the Pharilans.
<v Speaker 2>It didn't do very well.
<v Speaker 1>It did I didn't like it.
<v Speaker 2>Did you like it?
<v Speaker 1>I still haven't seen it.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Well, it didn't do as well obviously, and so
<v Speaker 2>when they were working on there something about Mary. They're like, listen,
<v Speaker 2>this may be our last movie, so we're putting every
<v Speaker 2>amazingly funny thing we can possibly think of and cramming
<v Speaker 2>it into this movie. They were talking to their mom, actually,
<v Speaker 2>and their mom reminded them of an event.
<v Speaker 1>Their mom Mary, their mom Mary.
<v Speaker 2>Who if you'll notice the main woman in Demon Dummer,
<v Speaker 2>her name is Mary, and obviously there's something about Mary.
<v Speaker 2>But she reminded of an event way back when when
<v Speaker 2>her sister had a party at their house and one
<v Speaker 2>of the young men got his privates means and franks
<v Speaker 2>that means caught in the zipper, and their dad was
<v Speaker 2>a doctor and he had to go in and help
<v Speaker 2>this kid. Yeah, and they laughed, they said, they laughed
<v Speaker 2>at the recollection of that story so much. They're like,
<v Speaker 2>we have got to put that in. Okay, So let's
<v Speaker 2>talk about casting for Dumb and Dumber real quick.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>We talked about the list of twenty five names that
<v Speaker 2>if they could get any one of those names then
<v Speaker 2>they would do the movie, but unfortunately they all rejected it.
<v Speaker 2>So me, being curious, I want to know the names
<v Speaker 2>on that list, right, So here are some of the
<v Speaker 2>names that I came across Nicholas Cage and Gary Oldman
<v Speaker 2>was the first choice pairing.
<v Speaker 1>Nick Cage would definitely take the risks. I could see
<v Speaker 1>that Gary Oldman at that point had done very little
<v Speaker 1>that we know him for at this point, but he
<v Speaker 1>had done Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead, which is kind
<v Speaker 1>of a two idiot but more like a Shakespeare two
<v Speaker 1>idiot kind of thing. I could see it.
<v Speaker 2>He was Dracula, I know.
<v Speaker 1>But when was that? Yeah? I guess so still.
<v Speaker 2>Nick Cage, Gary Oldman, I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>Man.
<v Speaker 2>Here's some of the other names, Okay, yeah, Steve Martin
<v Speaker 2>and Martin Short, sure, Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers.
<v Speaker 1>Ooh s greg yea interesting.
<v Speaker 2>Rob Lowe was considered for the role of Harry. They
<v Speaker 2>really wanted Chris Elliott, the guy who played Woogy and
<v Speaker 2>There's something about Mary, And then they also considered Chris Farley. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>they briefly considered the two Corries, oh wow, until the
<v Speaker 2>studio said, look, dude, those guys are not bankable actors anymore.
<v Speaker 2>You can't have those guys, right. That was the absolutely
<v Speaker 2>right call.
<v Speaker 1>My gosh.
<v Speaker 2>So Lauren Hawley, she was a star of picket Fences.
<v Speaker 2>She had been in like soap operas and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 2>She actually turned down the role that Courtney Cox got
<v Speaker 2>in s Ventura.
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay, so Jim Carrey knew her, was familiar with her.
<v Speaker 2>Had an interest, tight little package affirmative.
<v Speaker 1>Oh look at the fun bags on that one.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, real quickly with the other members of the cast. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>Karen Duffy, she was on MTV a lot. They called
<v Speaker 2>her duff remember her. She played jp Sha. She was
<v Speaker 2>one of the early fans of this script. And the
<v Speaker 2>only part they had was the hit man.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, that's right, which.
<v Speaker 2>Was originally supposed to be a male character. But they're like,
<v Speaker 2>what what the heck. Charles Rockett, who plays Nicholas Andre, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>he was the guy if you remember, he said the
<v Speaker 2>F word on Saturday Night Live in like in the
<v Speaker 2>seventies and was fired from Saturday Night Live. Okay, so
<v Speaker 2>that's kind of what he was known for. Harlan Williams,
<v Speaker 2>who plays the motorcycle police officer, Yes, and also the
<v Speaker 2>hitchhiker in There's Something About Mary. Yes, he finished second
<v Speaker 2>for the role of Harry.
<v Speaker 1>I could see him in the park. Yeah, he's got
<v Speaker 1>the he's got the right dumb like if you've seen
<v Speaker 1>Half Baked, he's he's got the ability to play stupid
<v Speaker 1>pretty well.
<v Speaker 2>Well, according to the Fairly Brothers, he's impossible to direct.
<v Speaker 2>So they said, look, this is how we wrote it,
<v Speaker 2>this is what we want you to do. It doesn't matter.
<v Speaker 2>He's going to do it however we wanted to. So
<v Speaker 2>they were kind of glad that they didn't land him, right,
<v Speaker 2>but they said, well, you know, we got this role
<v Speaker 2>of the highway patrolman who drinks urine out of beer bottles. Right,
<v Speaker 2>I'll take it, sticking.
<v Speaker 1>Them back on a little grandpa's cuff, sir.
<v Speaker 2>You feel is aware that drinking alcohol have an open container.
<v Speaker 2>They got Terry Garr from mister.
<v Speaker 1>Mom Yes, and young Frankenstein and a slew of.
<v Speaker 2>I mean everything. Yeah. One person that I wanted to
<v Speaker 2>mention real quickly is cam Neely. Cam Neely is a
<v Speaker 2>professional hockey player played for the Boston Bruins.
<v Speaker 1>He's Sea Bass.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, right, and so they have a knack of
<v Speaker 2>putting in professional athletes in their movies, right right, real quickly.
<v Speaker 2>Sea Bass is the guy who chases them across the
<v Speaker 2>country and is the guy who's going to distribute the
<v Speaker 2>manly love and the the stall in the bathroom real
<v Speaker 2>quickly on that scene. Right, So that scene is so
<v Speaker 2>frigging funny, But they pump the brakes just enough for
<v Speaker 2>my taste.
<v Speaker 1>You mean they pump the brakes right when you see
<v Speaker 1>his leopard print underwear.
<v Speaker 2>The deleted scene of his leopard print underwear and his yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I mean his you can see his package there. So anyway,
<v Speaker 2>when you're watching with your kids, they kind of are
<v Speaker 2>under the assumption that maybe he's just gonna get beat up.
<v Speaker 1>Sure, because of these two movies, there's only one that
<v Speaker 1>you can watch with your kids. And even still, there
<v Speaker 1>might be some scenes that you have.
<v Speaker 2>To fass that's true.
<v Speaker 1>Like I fast forward through most of the heart shape
<v Speaker 1>hot tub scene and Caleb Cock going, there's nothing inappropriate here,
<v Speaker 1>There's nothing, And I'm like, you just don't know, and
<v Speaker 1>I'm not wanting to have you figured out and me
<v Speaker 1>and explain it to Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Really, yeah, some of Little Philly break your heart. No,
<v Speaker 2>it's a girl. Okay, let's talk about casting for something
<v Speaker 2>about Mary sounds great.
<v Speaker 3>Run.
<v Speaker 2>So when the Fairly Brothers were casting before, there's something
<v Speaker 2>about Mary. They immediately thought of Jim Carrey for the
<v Speaker 2>role of Ted.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 2>He had done great and he was a full blown
<v Speaker 2>movie star. Yes, I mean a full blown movie star
<v Speaker 2>from nineteen ninety four. The Mask was a number one movie.
<v Speaker 2>A Spentura was a number one movie, and Dumb and
<v Speaker 2>Dummer was the number one movie. That's the first actor,
<v Speaker 2>I think, to have three number one movies in the
<v Speaker 2>same year. And he had actually worked with Cameron Diaz
<v Speaker 2>in The Mask, right, but I think at that point
<v Speaker 2>it was a little bit too expensive and he had
<v Speaker 2>all kinds of other things going on, so they said,
<v Speaker 2>let's get this guy Ben Stiller.
<v Speaker 1>Now, at this point, ben Stiller had done a lot,
<v Speaker 1>but hadn't done anything big. So I was talking to
<v Speaker 1>Arlen on the way over here today. Actually he called
<v Speaker 1>me up. We're talking and I talk about what we're
<v Speaker 1>going to talk about the night, and he's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>are you going to talk about the Ben Stiller Show?
<v Speaker 1>And I'm like the what. He was like, Yeah, he
<v Speaker 1>had a show. It was like the Ben Steller Show.
<v Speaker 1>And he tells me about this episode that he's seen
<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, no, I didn't even know that was
<v Speaker 1>the thing. He's like it was only like two episodes.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I think he's speaking hyperbole. No, there were
<v Speaker 1>literally two episodes of Ben Stiller Show and that was it.
<v Speaker 2>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>And then he goes on and he does like some
<v Speaker 1>serious roles. He does like reality bites just before this,
<v Speaker 1>and he was kind of building. But there's no question
<v Speaker 1>that this was a breakout role for him.
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely absolutely. You know John Stewart, they thought about him
<v Speaker 2>as the role of Ted.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay, I could see that same type of deal. Sure. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So the Fairly Brothers come to the studio they say,
<v Speaker 2>we want Ben Stiller, right, and the studio says, I
<v Speaker 2>don't think so this this guy is unproven, he hasn't
<v Speaker 2>really done anything. We don't really know him. Go back
<v Speaker 2>to the drawing board. So the Fairly Brothers come back
<v Speaker 2>and say, well, okay, we want this guy named Owen Wilson.
<v Speaker 2>They're like, wait a minute, now, we really don't know
<v Speaker 2>this guy. Yeah, so let's go back to Ben Stiller, right,
<v Speaker 2>And so that's how they landed on Bill Still.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I think they would have been happy had
<v Speaker 1>they gotten Owen Wilson. And interestingly, Owen Wilson and Ben
<v Speaker 1>Stiller have done a few things together.
<v Speaker 2>Since then, Yeah, they have.
<v Speaker 1>But they were in love with the movie Bottle Rocket,
<v Speaker 1>which was Owen Luke Wilson's first movie. It's great movie,
<v Speaker 1>and in watching the movie they saw something where you're
<v Speaker 1>starting in one direction, then all of a sudden, there
<v Speaker 1>is a sharp turn and you're going in an entirely
<v Speaker 1>different direction. And that inspired them in their script writing,
<v Speaker 1>and that, I'm sure is why they proposed Owen Wilson
<v Speaker 1>is an alternative. When they do a script, they say,
<v Speaker 1>we don't want to know what happens at the end,
<v Speaker 1>because if we know what happens at the end, somehow
<v Speaker 1>it's going to come through to everybody else. And so
<v Speaker 1>we leave the end open and decide what it's going
<v Speaker 1>to be when we get there.
<v Speaker 2>So they said, let's go back to Ben still. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>they were in love with Cameron Diaz.
<v Speaker 1>Duh, I mean, who who's not? Right?
<v Speaker 2>Then they had to cast the role of Pat Healy.
<v Speaker 2>So they thought Bill Murray perfect. He had just done
<v Speaker 2>King Ben right, and they thought, let's get Bill Murray
<v Speaker 2>in here. But they thought he was too old, right,
<v Speaker 2>and he probably was, yeah he was. So they talked
<v Speaker 2>about Hanka's area. They talked about QB. Goodding Junior and
<v Speaker 2>Vince baughn. But here's the kicker. Cameron Diaz. She's on board.
<v Speaker 1>You know her Her boyfriend is this guy from the eighties.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, Matt Dylan.
<v Speaker 1>Matt Dylan.
<v Speaker 2>People don't realize this. Karon Diaz and Matt Dillon had
<v Speaker 2>dated for like three years.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and then they broke up.
<v Speaker 2>They broke up right after this movie. So I just
<v Speaker 2>find that interesting. They were a couple and they were
<v Speaker 2>really in love. And I read some stuff and he
<v Speaker 2>said basically he lived in New York, she lived in
<v Speaker 2>la It ran its course and it was dead.
<v Speaker 1>Huh. So just real quick, I got to say this
<v Speaker 1>since we're on Matt Dylan. Yes, the interest scene of
<v Speaker 1>Pat Healy where he stands up and his pants are
<v Speaker 1>and that was Matt Dylan's idea, as was the mustache.
<v Speaker 1>And I think the mustache is perfect. If Matt Dylan
<v Speaker 1>plays this part without the mustache, he's too appealing.
<v Speaker 2>He's still good looking, yes.
<v Speaker 1>But you give him that Pencilton porn stash and now
<v Speaker 1>he's creepy.
<v Speaker 2>So Chris Farley was actually considered for the part of Warren. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>that's Cameron Diaz's brother. Yeah, he's middlely challenged, and he's
<v Speaker 2>the guy who runs around my gosh, and and in
<v Speaker 2>time he touched his ears, he goes crazy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Warren is actually a contribution by the Fairly Brothers
<v Speaker 1>to the to that original script. He wasn't in the
<v Speaker 1>original Ed Decker John Strass script. Warren is actually based
<v Speaker 1>on a real person that the Fairly Brothers grew up with,
<v Speaker 1>whose name was Warren. Okay, and he makes an appearance
<v Speaker 1>in the movie. You remember in the movie when Cameron Diaz,
<v Speaker 1>when Mary is handing out lunches to all of the
<v Speaker 1>special needs works, the guy who leans in and gets
<v Speaker 1>and steals a kiss from her, that's the real Warren.
<v Speaker 2>All right, that's cool.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>One of the other things I want to talk about,
<v Speaker 2>casting wise, Markey Post.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So Markey Post is a perfect cast for that
<v Speaker 1>part because she's as much a Mary as Mary. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>she's totally you.
<v Speaker 2>Could major babe from the eighties.
<v Speaker 1>Very much, and and nailed the part with the back
<v Speaker 1>teene and all of it, and trying to ask about
<v Speaker 1>whether it was the beans or the Franks with the hand. Yeah. Yeah, Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>there are a couple other interesting casting things that happened,
<v Speaker 1>okay with this movie, and they relate back to dumb
<v Speaker 1>and Dumber. Okay, first, let me say in the movies,
<v Speaker 1>all of the extras are friends of the Fairly Brothers.
<v Speaker 2>I love this.
<v Speaker 1>I like, I mean, like you just you see people
<v Speaker 1>in their movies that are extras, and I guarantee they
<v Speaker 1>either grew up with them, or they're related to somebody
<v Speaker 1>that grew up with them, or who's involved in the
<v Speaker 1>movie or their crew or something like that. Just as
<v Speaker 1>an example, you'll remember the guy in the jail cell
<v Speaker 1>as they're closing the door, the guy with long hair
<v Speaker 1>and the mustache, the old man. It's Cameron Diaz his dad.
<v Speaker 2>That's her real dad.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, like their parents are in the movie. They've got
<v Speaker 1>all kinds of friends from high school and stuff in
<v Speaker 1>their movies.
<v Speaker 2>But I thought that was an exaggeration, Like I thought.
<v Speaker 2>I read that, and I thought, okay, you know, they've
<v Speaker 2>got some friends scattered out when they're at the bar.
<v Speaker 2>I watched the commentary and the Fairly Brothers are like, well,
<v Speaker 2>that's Jim Smith, and that's Betty Lou Johnson, and then
<v Speaker 2>they named everybody in the background.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yeah, they're literally throughout the commentary, they're like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>that's that guy that grouped down the street from us. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>and so they also tend to stick with the same actors,
<v Speaker 1>and so just I'll give you three examples and I'll
<v Speaker 1>hopefully end with the best. So Dom's wife his wife,
<v Speaker 1>which I mean, my gosh, we're talking about dream wife
<v Speaker 1>number one. Right, I'm gonna make some cookies, butterscotch chocolate chip.
<v Speaker 1>And then when the news article comes on, I'm not
<v Speaker 1>going to describe what happens. But anyway, so that she
<v Speaker 1>she was actually the wife of one of their producers.
<v Speaker 1>She was in the She was in Dumb and Dumber
<v Speaker 1>as one of the waitresses.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, not Flow, the other one.
<v Speaker 1>Right, excuse me, Flow. Detective Stabler was the bartender in
<v Speaker 1>Dumb and Dummer. Yes, and here's this one. See if
<v Speaker 1>you know this mag.
<v Speaker 2>That's missus Noogie Berger from Dumb and Dummer newborn new
<v Speaker 2>born born, Okay, missus Niggieberger.
<v Speaker 1>Yes. So do you know who else? She was in
<v Speaker 1>one of the Fairly Brothers movies. No, she was the
<v Speaker 1>land lady in Kingpin.
<v Speaker 2>Oh.
<v Speaker 1>When we were talking on the phone about Kingpin, I asked,
<v Speaker 1>you did anybody steal that movie, you said, Bill Murray,
<v Speaker 1>I think a lot of people might say the Landlady
<v Speaker 1>stole that. Yes, So the land Lady is the dog
<v Speaker 1>lady in Dumb and Dummer. She is the land lady
<v Speaker 1>in Kingpin, and she is Magda, the constantly scanning the
<v Speaker 1>airwaves for indecent folks, roommate of Cameron Diaz.
<v Speaker 2>The one who, if you'll remember, was there spying on
<v Speaker 2>Cameron Diaz. He turns us back to get a bigger
<v Speaker 2>pair of binoculars as Karendiaz is changing clothes and accidentally
<v Speaker 2>sees Magda with her top off, ands like yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and that lady actually is it pretty nice?
<v Speaker 2>She's a great that's all fake.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's in her mid forties at the time they're
<v Speaker 1>filming all this stuff, so not the hag that they
<v Speaker 1>presented her to be.
<v Speaker 2>Quickly, they wanted to cast a professional athlete, as Karon
<v Speaker 2>die is his former boyfriend.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 2>They mentioned Brett several times in the movie Brett and
<v Speaker 2>they even call him the pac Man at one.
<v Speaker 1>Point, right, Green Bay Packers.
<v Speaker 2>Who they really wanted was Steve Young. Okay, he was
<v Speaker 2>the quarterback of the forty nine ers, right, he's a
<v Speaker 2>pretty religious guy. He's a practicing Mormon, and when he
<v Speaker 2>read the script he's like, guys, I can't do this right.
<v Speaker 2>Funny but no, So then they thought let's do Drew Bledsoe.
<v Speaker 2>He was the quarterback I think at the Patriots at
<v Speaker 2>the time. For whatever reason, didn't work out with him,
<v Speaker 2>and so they got Brett farv FIV, which that was
<v Speaker 2>Ben Stieler. Yes, Ben Stiller is a sports fan. He
<v Speaker 2>knew the proper pronunciation of Brett Farre's name. Yes, but
<v Speaker 2>he's like, wouldn't be funny if I mispronounced his name?
<v Speaker 1>Who had done that right?
<v Speaker 2>It's a weird spelling, a weird spelling. So that does it?
<v Speaker 2>With casting for something about Mary?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay.
<v Speaker 2>One of the things I forgot to mention and wanted
<v Speaker 2>to talk about during Dumb and Dummer. Kind of the
<v Speaker 2>plot of the movie is revolving around the kidnapping of
<v Speaker 2>Mary's husband. His name is Bobby. Yeah, okay, and they
<v Speaker 2>had some scenes written with him. There's a funny deleted
<v Speaker 2>scene where he's in a trunk and they throw it
<v Speaker 2>down the stairs and they poke in with a broom
<v Speaker 2>and they actually he's actually escaping. You see the trunk
<v Speaker 2>like scooting away and they have to go grab him anyway.
<v Speaker 2>That guy was played by another actor. They wanted Mel
<v Speaker 2>Gibson to be in that part. Okay, at the time,
<v Speaker 2>you think about Mel Gibbson in nineteen ninety four of Me,
<v Speaker 2>he's like America's hunk.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 2>They wanted her husband to be such an unattainably good
<v Speaker 2>looking guy to minimize the Lloyd's chances even more.
<v Speaker 1>Right, So you're saying there's a chance, yeah, just real
<v Speaker 1>quick on that. Yes, as I did my own segue there.
<v Speaker 1>It's interesting both of these movies. There are lines and
<v Speaker 1>scenes that are absolutely hysterical, and there are lines and
<v Speaker 1>scenes that are not hysterical, but they're the most memorable,
<v Speaker 1>Like they stand the test of time. Like I didn't
<v Speaker 1>laugh at that line, but everybody said, yes, still say it,
<v Speaker 1>they still say. So you're saying, there's a chance that
<v Speaker 1>it's those lines weren't laugh out loud lines, but they
<v Speaker 1>are lines that stand the test of time. And so
<v Speaker 1>I got to say that's some that's some good writing.
<v Speaker 1>The Fairly Brothers, it's very easy to throw them in this.
<v Speaker 1>You know, they're just crew disgusting humor guys, and that's
<v Speaker 1>how they've made their millions. But the truth is their
<v Speaker 1>movies would not have been what they were if there
<v Speaker 1>wasn't a heart.
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely part of these movies, huge, huge part.
<v Speaker 1>So growing up, their favorite their favorite TV show was
<v Speaker 1>The Andy Griffith Show, and what they loved about it
<v Speaker 1>was number one, it was funny, it's always you're always laughing.
<v Speaker 1>But number two, there was always heart. You loved the
<v Speaker 1>characters that were involved. And so that's what they try
<v Speaker 1>to do for each of their movies. And so, just
<v Speaker 1>as an example, if you think about Dumb and Dumber, right,
<v Speaker 1>You've got one scene that you're just going once you
<v Speaker 1>rewatch it, you're like, why am I watching this? What's
<v Speaker 1>going on? Here? Is the scene where Lloyd is trying
<v Speaker 1>to convince Harry to go across country with him, and
<v Speaker 1>Harry's out and then Jim Carrey gives this very dramatic
<v Speaker 1>he's got the dramatic music playing and he's just, you know,
<v Speaker 1>I'm just tired of being alone, you know, And it's
<v Speaker 1>this really kind of moving moment. They hug and Harry
<v Speaker 1>is like it's okay, it's okay, and then he's like, okay, that's.
<v Speaker 2>Enough and he's like boohooing into his shoulder. Yeah, yes,
<v Speaker 2>but you're right, that's he's very touching. He says, you know,
<v Speaker 2>I'm sick and tired of eking my way through life.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sick and tired of being and nobody, but most
<v Speaker 2>of all, I'm sick and tired of having nobody.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And it like pulls at the heartstrings, you know it does.
<v Speaker 1>And so when the studio saw that, they're like, what
<v Speaker 1>the crap is this scene doing in here? Why do
<v Speaker 1>you have this? This is absurd? We take this out.
<v Speaker 1>And the Fairly brother said, listen, in two minutes, this
<v Speaker 1>guy is going to be selling a dead, headless bird
<v Speaker 1>to a blind, crippled boy. You have to like him
<v Speaker 1>in order to not hate him in two minutes, right,
<v Speaker 1>And so that's why the scene's in there. You think
<v Speaker 1>about that first hysterical eighteen minutes of there's something about
<v Speaker 1>Mary everything he is heavily you fall in love with
<v Speaker 1>Ben Stiller during that time period.
<v Speaker 2>He brought Warren of Baseball right, like he's a good
<v Speaker 2>hearted guy. He had already protected him on the schoolyard,
<v Speaker 2>not even knowing who he was, right.
<v Speaker 1>And just that moment when you've got this obviously geeky guy.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's a little weird that you've got thirty
<v Speaker 1>something year old actors playing high school students. But if
<v Speaker 1>you start off your movie with a guy playing a
<v Speaker 1>guitar and another guy playing a drum in the top
<v Speaker 1>of a tree, you're willing to suspend your belief quite
<v Speaker 1>a bit, right. And so you see Ben Stiller in
<v Speaker 1>this ridiculous way, with these ridiculous braces on, and you're like,
<v Speaker 1>I'm okay with that. Let's keep on going, right, And
<v Speaker 1>then he defends Warren without knowing that it's Mary's brother.
<v Speaker 1>They walk home, You're already in love with her because
<v Speaker 1>she's talking about the forty nine ers. And then at
<v Speaker 1>that moment where she asked him to the prom, and
<v Speaker 1>you're like, okay, this goddess just asks this toad. You
<v Speaker 1>fall in love with him, right. You're rooting for the
<v Speaker 1>guy who has no hope. And then they followed the
<v Speaker 1>best moment in his life with the worst moment in
<v Speaker 1>his life and he messes it.
<v Speaker 2>All on we got a bleeder?
<v Speaker 1>How are you not going to root for that guy
<v Speaker 1>throughout the whole moment.
<v Speaker 2>I totally agree with you, and I think that's why
<v Speaker 2>Dumb and Dumber two was not as good. I thought
<v Speaker 2>the characters were. Even though there's still Lloyd and Harry
<v Speaker 2>and it's still Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey, they were
<v Speaker 2>a bit more mean and it was less hard and
<v Speaker 2>more over the line, Humer, you know what I mean.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't see it anyway. Did you see Dumb
<v Speaker 1>and Dumber Earth?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, there's one funny scene in the prequel one, and
<v Speaker 2>it's how Harry Lloyd meet. Yeah, and they're both running
<v Speaker 2>and they come around the corner at the same time
<v Speaker 2>and they run into each other and Harry knocks out
<v Speaker 2>Lloyd's chips his tooth and it's in his forehead.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, that's hysterical.
<v Speaker 2>So that's how he gets his chip tooth. Yeah, Which
<v Speaker 2>that part was the only funny part in that movie.
<v Speaker 2>But let's talk about that for a second.
<v Speaker 1>Jim Carrey actually took a chisel and knocked out part
<v Speaker 1>of his No, I'm kidding, he didn't really do that.
<v Speaker 1>He already had lost the tooth.
<v Speaker 2>He had already chipped his tooth.
<v Speaker 1>When he was a young man and had a some
<v Speaker 1>sort of cap on there. And so for the movie,
<v Speaker 1>he had them remove the cap in order to give
<v Speaker 1>him the kind of snaggle tooth.
<v Speaker 2>Look. I heard that he removed it himself with a
<v Speaker 2>beer cap.
<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, that's a better story.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, that is Jim Carrey's actual chip tooth. And
<v Speaker 2>the bowl haircut was Jim Carrey's idea.
<v Speaker 1>M hm.
<v Speaker 2>He said, let's give me the dumbest cut you can.
<v Speaker 2>So they gave him the bowl cut. And then for
<v Speaker 2>Jeff Daniels, they said, for the next while, don't cut
<v Speaker 2>your hair, don't wash your hair, yeah, don't comb your hair.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean that's perfect. So they're set to direct
<v Speaker 1>Dumb and Dumber, Yes, the first movie they've ever directed.
<v Speaker 1>And so at some point Peter Fairley, two weeks two
<v Speaker 1>weeks before the movie's supposed to start filming, Peter Fairley
<v Speaker 1>goes to this dinner and there's a British movie director
<v Speaker 1>there sitting at the table with him. And if you're
<v Speaker 1>not a director, you probably don't know what coverage is.
<v Speaker 1>But that just means you do a whole bunch of
<v Speaker 1>different cameras so that you know that you've got a
<v Speaker 1>lot to work with in the editing room, right right,
<v Speaker 1>And so he's talking to this British director and he's like,
<v Speaker 1>so do you have you know I'm about to direct
<v Speaker 1>my first movie. Do you have any advice for me?
<v Speaker 1>And the director says, make sure you have plenty of
<v Speaker 1>coverage and Peter fairly is like, what's coverage? And the
<v Speaker 1>British director stands up and he calls his wife. He's like,
<v Speaker 1>come over here, come over here.
<v Speaker 3>He's directing a film in twos and he doesn't know
<v Speaker 3>what covery that.
<v Speaker 1>He's totally freaked out. The day before they're supposed to
<v Speaker 1>start filming, he won't get out of bed. Like Bobby
<v Speaker 1>and other people are there. They're like, we got to
<v Speaker 1>just go do He's like, no, we don't know what.
<v Speaker 1>When we've gotten in over our heads, I don't.
<v Speaker 2>Know what to do.
<v Speaker 1>But they got him out of bed.
<v Speaker 2>His older brother finally got him out of bed by saying,
<v Speaker 2>you are one pathetic los no offense, no, no, you're taken.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so we have to stop now. Unfortunately we're loving
<v Speaker 1>what we're doing. But come back next week we'll have
<v Speaker 1>part two of Dumb and Dumber Versus. There's something about
<v Speaker 1>man moving or lose it.
<v Speaker 2>Sister