21 Jump Street & Saved by the Bell

21 Jump Street

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dad's Film Review the podcast where a group of movie loving dads reunite to make up for lost time and indulge in the cinematic treasures they missed during the relentless grind of parenthood. Dads. I think we can allow ourselves a little collective pat on the back or stroke of the scro or whatever, because somebody somewhere recently downloaded the 50000th episode of this

Sidey: That's pretty epic, isn't it no, sadly

not

Dan: they win a prize.

So they should tell us,

Reegs: Yeah. And even if 10,000 of those were us listening to it that's still, you know, all the various friends and family members that we forced to listen to that still leaves a quite mind boggling amount of people who've tuned in to listen to this waffle. So that's really,

Sidey: it is really rad,

Reegs: Yeah.

So a big thanks to everyone and a little plug for anyone who's listening now to hit that five star rating on your platform of choice and more, especially more important than that, come to chat to us on Twitter at dads film via email, bad dads js y gmail.com, or on threads where I occasionally for lly check for Darren Leafly.

Sidey: Now

he's

Reegs: from Twitter. We've, you know, we miss you Darren, and

Dan: no, the ator. Yeah.

Sidey: I think

he had enough of Elon's bullshit.

Reegs: Yeah.

And so Zuckerberg and Musk are gonna have a fight and or a rap battle or

something.

Dan: real, is it?

Reegs: they

found the only person in the world that I want Mark Zuckerberg to beat in a fight.

Yeah, probably. In Elon Musk,

Sidey: he's actually, and I don't like Zuckerberg either. Well, I'm indifferent. I just couldn't care this, but I am enjoying that. He's, he's literally been trolling Elon Musk on Twitter.

Reegs: Oh,

It's just

Sidey: I mean, it's fairly tragic, like infantile behavior, but it's like,

Dan: couple of billionaires

Sidey: TWA outta the two. And it harms uh, cuz Twitter's where we do our most fun

Reegs: well, it's where we've had a good amount of interaction with people and that's really part of the reason that we do this

is,

Dan: we are also on Instagram. I don't think you mentioned that. So that's another way in place people can connect with is if they

Sidey: need Yeah,

Reegs: And the website and the various stuff. So just get in contact. Anyway, enough of all that onto this week's episode, which sees us visiting the place where dreams are shattered, hormones run rampant, and ginger people are relentlessly mocked with a special school themed episode. We'll start unsurprisingly enough with the chat about the top five movie and TV schools before we move on to dissect the 2012 Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill comedy reboot thing.

21 Jump Street, which is all a bit timely given Jonah Hill. Been in the news this week. We'll probably chat about that later. And then we're gonna wrap things up with a trip down memory lane with iconic TV series Saved by the bell where big hair neon and surprisingly sexy cross dressing, rain supreme.

Caution The language alone around here would get every one of us in detention, and if that wasn't bad enough, we'll be revealing, mind blowing spoilers like that time in primary school when Simon Merritt theorized that the dinosaurs died up because they all fell off a cliff. All that's left to do is introduce the dad, starting with Sidey, of course, who went on to higher education and achieved an incredible doctorate of ass Hattery from the University of Douche.

Next up, let's give it up for Peter, the professor of fatherhood, the dad who multiplied faster than gremlins in a waterpark. And with each new edition to his family, he's like a real life version of the Fast and the Furious, except his version is called The Sleep Deprived and the Depressed. And there's Dan.

And in fact, Dan we are lucky enough to have here. Sorry, it's blowing. So just blowing the desk. One of Dan's old school school reports. It's like, Written on papyrus, obviously. But anyway, here's what it says. Daniel has set himself an extremely low standard, which he has consistently failed to maintain works well when here and under constant supervision and cornered like a rat speaks French with the best Chinese accent ever.

When it comes to sports, however, Dan's contributions are nothing short of outstanding in their mediocrity. Despite the constant threat of danger from the Huns relentless bombing campaign, Daniel maintains a positive and plucky attitude. So that's great that you were able to

Dan: one of my better ones.

Yeah. You know, I'd like to show it off.

Reegs: finally there's me re Hello?

Pete: hi,

Sidey: hello

Reegs: to school this week. Do you like that? Did you like school?

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah. It was all right. We went to school together, didn't

Sidey: we? We

went to school together

and,

Reegs: like quite a long

Sidey: Peter was a mere year older than us at the same school for a time til he was kicked out.

Pete: Yeah.

Reegs: But I'll always think of you as being in the year above.

Pete: Yeah. Yeah. So you should respect me more I think. I

Reegs: I don't think it works that way, but,

Dan: Well, score is very different in my day. Of course. And I didn't enjoy it.

Pete: Yeah. lot. of, lot of buggery in your day

Dan: wasn't Yeah.

Sidey: Oh, it was a hell of a lot.

Pete: Yeah. No, there's loads of buggery in our day as well.

Yeah.

Reegs: What? You didn't enjoy school Dan,

Dan: No. No, not really.

No Primary. Yeah. I think everybody enjoys primary school. It was, you

Sidey: know, that's, just muck it about

Dan: Mucking about. But,

Pete: but that's what I did the secondary as well. Yeah.

Dan: Yeah.

No, I was never, never a massive school fan.

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

Sidey: I was whilst I would say.

Academically gifted,

Dan: yeah.

Sidey: lazy. So I did precisely the amount I needed to just get by. And the rest of the time I was talking

about

Pete: you one of those annoying ones that still got a's even though

Sidey: No, but I was happy with like B'S and C's. you know,

Pete: I like to hold Spectrum. My GCSEs were Astar all the way down to a couple of Fs and, and everything in between.

So there was, yeah. And the Astar was because it was the first year that did information technology and all you had to do was turn up to the lessons and

Sidey: you got these.

Pete: star. So yeah, it makes me look like some kind of

Dan: mastermind. Was you quite a academic child rigs?

Reegs: So

Sidey: Yes. Yes. A hundred percent

Reegs: Was

Pete: Yeah. Like, you know,

Sidey: Riggs is a scholar.

Pete: Yeah. You know, things and, and words

Reegs: think I mostly became interested in stuff when I left

Sidey: Yeah, same here. massive

Reegs: irony. Yeah. I remember like for years we ripped this physics teacher that we had who, you know, had a like

lie

Pete: Oh yeah. They go with the neck collar on all the time.

Reegs: I remember him saying, what is light? What is in its nature? And everybody pissing themselves laughing and we'd lost us from the first classroom. But actually he was asking like a really interesting question that I went on to,

Sidey: like,

yeah, you're way too young to

really grasp

Dan: I,

Reegs: no, I was just too, I was too immature.

That

Sidey: that's what I, mean. We all were, we,

Dan: we all are at school, but I'm like you far more interested in, in learning and education as an adult than I was at school.

I think they've got it all wrong. They should have just let us play

Pete: piss

Sidey: well I, I I would've had to have a note from my parents cause I was off sick last week. You were? I had a food poisoning, which is less than ideal, but I did enable me to watch a fucking shit load of stuff. Do you wanna know what I watched? Couple of series.

So I redid Twin Peak series one and two. I watched the Tour de France

Dan: a day right there.

Sidey: Netflix, which is really good if you are into that sort of thing. I watched all of Black Mirror season

Reegs: Yeah,

I've seen all that.

Sidey: good. And then film stuff. I watched Red Sparrow girl with a Dragon tattoo with the really unnecessarily like miserable ending where she goes off to, to give Daniel Greg the jacket she's had made for him.

And he is fucked off with the editor and, and you're just like, oh,

Reegs: Is that the one where she like, ties that guy up

Sidey: Yeah. I'm a rapist

Dan: Elizabeth Slander. Yeah. Yeah. She's a hell of a character. Yeah. Really great.

Reegs: Amazing mullet.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Yeah, yeah. Really kick ass kind of

Sidey: And then I watched Nice Little One Best Sellers Seen that.

It's on Netflix. It's Michael Kane and Aubrey Plaza. Oh.

She's a, he's an, he's an author and she runs a

publishing

Dan: he's, he's going on

Sidey: he's a, he's a curmudgeon old miserable fuck. And

Dan: want to, was it any good that

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: it?

Sidey: Yeah. I guess you right in the fields at the end as well. Skyscraper The Rock.

Reegs: Oh yeah.

Pete: Oh yeah, I've seen that.

Yeah.

Sidey: Amazing. Yeah.

Old Mni Shamma Land.

Reegs: that man. I keep thinking we should do that for pod, cuz

Sidey: wanna watch something real bad then go right ahead.

Reegs: I've seen it. It was the Coral all along, but yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: And Molly's game as well, which quite

Reegs: oh yeah. I read the book of that.

Sidey: It's supposed,

Reegs: King. it's oh no.

Sidey: it's the, the one about poker. Oh.

Reegs: Oh, right.

Sidey: It's the, so it is the load of people, but one of thems the famous actor and it's strongly suggested that it's Toby Absolutely one of the biggest film. Yeah, that's right. Film Jessica Chastain.

And she looks fucking incredible in it. I mean, absolute knockout. And the film is good and the story is Okay, so that was a lot of stuff. I think I probably missed some bits and

Dan: I've been bagging Sandbaggers which is this 19 78, 79, 80 series.

Only I think two series which features around a covert. Operation in the British Secret Service, and these three guys are called the Sandbag. It's basically James Bond. But it's nothing like James Bond. It's, it's real, it's all dialogue. It's really clever. It's, it's really scarily relevant. Even today it's Cold War based, because there was that going on at the time.

But a lot of the conversations and the, the porns that the people in Whitehall are moving around, you can still imagine in making those decisions today and the, the hierarchy of it all. So it's bloody brilliant. It's on YouTube and I heartly recommend it. In fact, I will put it as a, a recommendation one day.

Pete: I've, I've just been continuing my like, whimsy fest of watching, so I've done all of the Harry Potters again in the, in the last like

Dan: what, how many times have you seen them now?

Pete: tons. I even went back and watched the original two and remembered and, and yeah, they were, I was more fond of them than I'd remembered.

Sidey: We've got 700 quid in our vault and we've also got some money that people very kindly contribute to our buy us of coffee. We could go and do the Harry Potter tour.

You up for that?

Pete: I'm bang up for that.

Dan: seen all the

Pete: Yeah. I wanna go and visit Gringotts and stuff and yeah, it'd be fucking amazing.

Dan: I can think of better things to

Pete: oh,

Sidey: also

Pete: let yourself be taken away by the

Sidey: there's a magical world.

There's, there's a drive-in movie

thing going on over summer and one of the Harry Potter movies is, is one of the options.

Reegs: I was thinking of going on a Patterson bus tour,

Pete: Oh my

Dan: that's,

Pete: I would, I'd hijack

Reegs: you in for that, Dan, let's,

let's

Pete: drive it straight into a ravine just to not have to do

Dan: turn it into speed.

Pete: Yeah. And, and just again, like easy watching, I've gone back and watched a couple of like the, the top gear and grand tour.

Oh

Sidey: Oh God. The last one was awful.

Pete: But like going back and watch some of the, like the, the trips. I like the road trip. I just think I just wanna be, I want, I'd like us to do that and like, we'd be fucking useless and like, check out and fall out like immediately. But it would, yeah, just stuff like that. Go to like cool

Sidey: about

Reegs: you cry when your car got stuck on the beach or something? That's what

Pete: Chris, I, I didn't actually cry, but No, I wasn't, I wasn't particularly good at, at doing anything about it, but yeah, there

Reegs: me as well.

Pete: tears.

Sidey: Idea for a program. Yeah. Bad dad's road trip cheese talk. Ah,

Pete: Ah,

Reegs: Ah,

Pete: let,

Sidey: that was so Alan Patrick.

Pete: yeah. Yeah. Oh

Dan: yeah,

Pete: yeah.

Monkey turn. Yeah, let's do it. I'm bang up for it. What I was gonna say you mentioned Chris there, someone mentioned Chris there. Yeah. Yeah. We should mention Chris like side, you were trying to fucking milk the, oh, a bit of salmonella or

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah.

Pete: Chris is actually, as we sit here recording right now, one of the bad dads is in hospital.

It has been like all weekend. We went in to see him yesterday. He reeks didn't, cuz he's a piece of shit. But the rest of us went to see him

Sidey: Go Ward.

Pete: in Goward

Dan: of all the wards. Yeah.

He's

Pete: he's really not having a good time

Dan: No, he looks like a zombie.

Pete: Well that, yeah, he's probably gonna listen to this so that so

Reegs: Well he won't

Sidey: they were his words

zombies was his words

Pete: Yeah, that was his words actually. And it was not long after he watched a zombie film, so maybe it was kind of some sort of possessive thing out of the telly or whatever, but Yeah. But he was saying that he's been watching Narcos, Mexico like so much and so intently that he felt like he was actually part of a Mexican cartel.

So, Get, get better soon,

Dan: Get well soon.

Reegs: well soon.

Pete: Yeah. Okay. Res

Reegs: I've watched Marvel secret invasion I'm up

Sidey: Yeah. I'm not to stay with that.

Reegs: I, I'm quite enjoying that. Lower stakes. No multiverse ship, not a lot of like robots and whatnot.

Sidey: So we don't have a top five to catch up on, cuz this is the first top five we've done in of four or something.

Episode cycle, something like

that.

Reegs: been a while, hasn't it?

Sidey: but we have got one tonight in it's top five schools,

Top five schools. Would you say you went to one of the top five schools, Pete?

Pete: No.

Dan: Yes, you did. Over here, you went to all of the top five schools. Didn't you kept,

Pete: No. Went to all of the top five schools. Would you, would you say I went to one of the top five schools? Well, I allegedly the one, the school

Sidey: suppose it

Pete: guys went to and I went to would be

Sidey: it depends on the criteria.

Like if the top five getting raped by

Pete: Well,

Sidey: we were in the number one school.

Pete: I, I wasn't a, I wasn't a fan of it. I liked the, the, the primary to use its full name, the pro preparatory school. But yeah, the secondary school, I thought it was fucking hideous. Like absolutely hated everything that it stood for.

Reegs: So we, we, me and you side, we were in the same year and we are 44 and in our year university and the same university as well.

Yeah. And in our year, we were talking about this before, we, we think we had a particularly weird year because we had quite a few heroin

Sidey: There's no doubt about it.

Reegs: it. A couple of

Sidey: I've got a, I've, I've

got actually a shout out for one of the heroin o overdoses when we get to our kids. Yeah, we, we have three heroin overdoses, so we went to like a fairly well-to-do school. Over here there's only one St. Michaels I think is, is more kind of inad

Pete: well, wasn't St. Michael's just to, to give the audience or the view of the listeners some context. Wasn't that Henry Caval School? Yes.

He went to St. Michael. So that was really

Sidey: we went to Vic College. And so our school year, so I remember when we joined and I thought that Pete's year was just complete violent, like

Pete: there's a lot

of yobs

Sidey: And they were, but our year we have heroin deaths. Another guy pushed out a window, another guy murdered his mom, another guy.

It was a

Dan: It was all boys school, wasn't it? You went

Sidey: yeah another two guys built a bomb and, and one of 'em blew himself up on a beach. And all sorts of fucking weird shit. So we with quite well adjusted

relatively compared to the rest. Yeah.

Dan: I, I went to the school that was considered probably the roughest at the time in, in, within the state school

Pete: That's why you're so nails

Dan: Jersey's not really a, a rough place.

It's not like, you know, so not the ghetto. But we had the kids that got expelled after being expelled, they would end up at our school and then if they weren't any good there, then they were. Special cases, Boal, boal kind of things. Yeah, yeah. But generally the, you know, the, the school was crumbling, but the teachers were the buildings.

I mean, but the teachers were really good and you know, generally it was, it was okay. It wasn't like any, anything like that, you know, so you are talking about serious kind of crimes. It was constant kind of bullying and, and you know, just belittling of

Pete: But that

Reegs: a lot of bullying

Pete: times there was fuck

Dan: But hey, that's school, isn't it?

Like, you know, but we didn't end up

Pete: you had a really good football team. I remember your year especially was

Dan: Yeah, yeah. We had a bit of a gold golden generation. Yeah. Of the, there was six or seven of us that Good play. Yeah.

Reegs: Anyway, very uninteresting.

Sidey: Yeah. And there's loads of schools in movies.

Let's go into that. we could do this by naming the school and seeing, seeing, if you can guess the movie. I'll start uh, monsters University.

Reegs: uh, University.

Sidey: I only recently have seen these two

Pete: Have you?

Sidey: Yeah, They just passed me by, but then my daughter wanted to watch 'em, so I watched them.

I thought, thought they're only Okay. You know, I'm a bit of a Pixar

naysayer.

Reegs: quite, good, isn't it?

The first one?

Sidey: It's all right. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't see, I don't particularly like Billy

Pete: I don't like Billy Crystal, but I like these films.

Sidey: But it's John Goodman, so, you know, Y and Yang. Yeah. Monsters and stuff. I just, I'm gonna be controversial and say that Pixar is really over

Dan: controversial. Yeah.

Pete: Is

university, does that qualify as a school?

Dan: Yeah. What do you think? It's an educational

Pete: dunno. I, I never made it as far as university, so I don't know if it, I mean,

Sidey: I would say that you get education there, so it probably should count.

Pete: can get education in the workplace and it's not

Sidey: Well, we've had some some nominations online, which really stretched the the

Reegs: I've got a couple as well, I

think. So

Dan: of hard knocks?

Reegs: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

exactly.

Sidey: eye one. Anyway so I'm, I'm opening Gambit is

Dan: University.

Do, do you know Lee High School?

Lee

Pete: is this a French one Lee?

Dan: La Lee. We not it's from Dazed and Confused,

Reegs: Oh, right,

Dan: is the link later film. Matthew, Matthew McConaughey was in it. Catholic. Yeah. You had the the lot. It was so a brilliant film. This when, I mean still is, I, I've great

Sidey: You're a bit of a link later fanboy, aren't

Dan: I am, yeah. And it is a, I think he just does such sweet, charming films that really capture particularly the high school and that feeling of youth and, and you know, rose.

Glass Yeah, Tim looking back and everything. So, this story is kind of about the, the last day of school. The last day of term. For, for some of them and a big all nighter that's being planned. And there's no real plot driving it through anything. It's just happening. It's just stuff that goes on, their character interactions and everything.

And they beat at their ass with these kind of cricket bats

Reegs: and Yeah.

Dan: don't they? Real cruel kind of to the kids running over. But it's made up of Yeah, it was, it was made up of so many funny moments though. This film I've seen it three or four times, but I remember the first time seeing it.

Fantastic. So if you haven't go, go for that one.

Pete: Okay. The Jerome Horvitz Elementary School,

No, it is the it's the school that features in the film Captain Underpants. And we watched, we reviewed the, the, the series

Sidey: Big fans.

Pete: Yeah. And yeah, we enjoyed it. And that was the spinoff from the film. Right. But the film itself, it's fucking excellent.

It's good fun. It's, it's loads of, so it's all that humor and I that, that we got in the series, but it doesn't feel too long. Like kids loved it, loads of like fucking bum related gags and so on, but just amusing, like ma like mani, maniacal, kind of like comedy. Yeah, it's good. Like the main like, antagonist is professor poopy pants and he comes in but he hates, he hates laughter cause he's been laughed all his life because of his, his, his name and so on.

So, yeah, he wants to. Reduce the, the part of the brain that, that finds anything funny in like, all children and like brainwash them and so on. And it sees like two kids. Kevin Hart does one of the voices. I can't remember who does the other one. But yeah, they, they create the, the, the, the superhero Captain Underpants who's who's hilariously like inept at absolutely everything.

Yeah. But that's the name of the school and it's a good film and I, it's probably not good enough to nominate as a film for us to watch, especially as we've done the, the series. But if you do get a chance to watch it, you should do cuz it's it's a, it's a, it's a mild lull fest.

Reegs: Well, similarly comic was Edward Tillman Middle which was from the fourth season of The Wire, which analyzed the effects of the sort of drug and and crime on through the lens of the eighth grade class in a school in Philadelphia.

And it's probably among the finest seasons of TV ever.

Oh,

Dan: I know I've got, I,

Sidey: right. Okay. Here's the deal. I'll do Sandbaggers. You've gotta do the wire.

Dan: started the wire twice.

Pete: so have I.

Dan: I,

Reegs: It's season four

Dan: and I know that I will like it one time, but I really have problems with the sound because you can't hear anybody say anything half the time.

Reegs: it's, it's a slog. It is a slog. There's a lot of

Sidey: you get, you get a character called

Snoop and who is a genuine gangster, like in real life. need,

Reegs: well, like many of them were,

Sidey: if you, if you're struggling at the start, you'll need the words on, but a hundred percent invest in it. It pays off like

massively.

Reegs: Okay. Yeah.

Dan: As does

Reegs: And season four, like shows you in particular, the cyclical nature of, of what's happening in, in Baltimore

Sidey: If Preki

Reegs: and Pres Baki is the teacher and the kids, you know, gradually evolve into like, sort of caricatures of the main players that have been throughout the series.

There's like a replacement, Omar, who's this flamboyant, homosexual gangster, and there's a replacement drug addict bubbles, and it's really cleverly done

Sidey: They, they start they, they have the, you know, school, school performance things and they said, well, if we don't report that and if we do this, and SBO who's come from the, the, the squad, he's like, I've just seen all this shit where we duke the stats in

Reegs: with the incredible Lance Reddick as

well.

He's,

Sidey: in the police where we just, you just, if you just don't report things, then it's not statistic, but you're not, it's not true. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. It's so good. It's really is top, top tier television.

Reegs: Oh, it's brilliant. It is

Dan: it sounds a little bit like our midweek mention where you would chop the head off one and another would replace them or they,

Sidey: Yeah, the war on drugs is you, you cannot win it.

Reegs: Yeah. And this really demonstrates how unwinnable it is, you know, when kids are involved as well. So, that is my pick.

Sidey: I'll, I'll stick in the world of TV Then Henry High, although this, this is, I've given you a right bum steer there because Henry High is the movie name of it, but it has a different name in the TV series, which came after the movie, not the other way around.

Often happens the

other

Pete: Mm.

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

Sidey: And it was Sunny Dale High, I

Reegs: Oh

Buffy

Sidey: Buffy Vampire Slay. Yeah. The movie is shit. But the TV series, as you know, I'm a big fan and series three.

So series one is just Buffy series two is Buffy and Angel and that story

Reegs: David Boaz.

Sidey: Yeah. And series three, they start to bring the entire school into it and to the point where the headmaster is the villain of the piece and

Reegs: that the English guy?

Sidey: No, that's Anthony Stewart head. He's, he's the li librarian. he's

the, he's her watcher. And it also introduces the faith character who's, No, Elisa Dko super hot. But they, cuz it's all like ludicrous how, why is this town like vampires? And they tried to sort of explain how it all gets brushed under carpet by bringing the school into it and, and having that sort of thing.

And it's all about the ascension and turning the headmaster into the big fucking like monster thing. I love that show. It's fucking great. I know I nominate it a lot, but you know, it does all happen to take place around the school. Yeah. So hard to leave that one

Dan: Well, there's probably been a ton of movies that have been based on this school called Harvard.

Can you think of the one that I'm thinking of

Reegs: it, you'll be going for some sort of John Grisham thing? I think something like in that vein.

What He

Dan: He knows me so little. It's the social

Sidey: Oh, okay.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: And it, it's similar to what we were talking about earlier. I can't remember. It was on or off air. The Zuckerberg, Elon Musk.

Yeah. Kind of fight this going on at the moment. But that film had obviously the, the story of how Facebook started, it had Garfield in it. And Justin Timberlake, was

Sidey: Yeah, Timberlake. The Napster

Reegs: Napster, Sean, whatever his name was. Michael.

Dan: He, he was the one who said, drop the off the Facebook. He said, it's just Facebook

Reegs: I used to slam Na Napster back in the

Dan: Yeah.

Well, th this, this is

Pete: network worth watching? Yeah. Really? It's like Facebook itself

Sidey: Tarantino's Got it. As like the best film of the naughties.

Pete: Why?

like what happens? It surely,

Reegs: I don't dunno if it's the best

Sidey: it's, it's a, it's an Aaron Sorkin script so that, you know, he's

Pete: well that changes everything.

But I dunno who he

is.

Dan: the

Sidey: Well, he's just really good at writing

Dan: He's done loads of amazing

Sidey: I don't particularly like it cause I don't really like Jesse Eisenberg, but he does a really good portrayal of how much of a cunt Mark Zuckerberg is.

Dan: Yeah. Turned up to 11, you know, just burns all his mates and how he, he kind of, they started kind of together within that

Sidey: It's about, it's literally about rating women on, on the campus is

Reegs: That's how it

Dan: and yeah, from that comes Facebook. But it was, I enjoyed the movie. I, I would recommend to see it not as a strong recommend, but certainly I wouldn't avoid it for

Sidey: moderate

Pete: Moderate. recommend

Okay. So this one, I can't give you the name of the school because as much try tried as I, as I might might I couldn't find it.

It wasn't anywhere. So what the name of the school? No, I dunno.

Reegs: the name of the program.

Pete: the name of the film and this one I haven't mentioned it for a while, but this is, this is a film that made me absolutely sob my heart out towards the end of the film. And I won't spoil it cuz one day I might nominate this, the film The Mighty.

Fuck. Like every time, every time I just see the name I'm like, I, it, it got

Dan: it's, I've,

Pete: No, it's Sharon Stone. Kieran Culkin. Who?

Dan: Owen Wilson in

Pete: he's

not in it. Kieran Kin is, is a, a lad with a condition. Okay. He has to walk with like calipers, I think it's called. He's got like a, a growth hormone deficiency.

He's quite kind, like profoundly physically disabled, but like razor sharp mind. And he like bodies up at school with this like, lad there, this Eldon Henson is the, the actor's name. I've seen him in quite a few things, but he's, he's basically a bit, huh?

Sidey: That's his initials,

Pete: Yeah.

And he's like, effectively, you know, he has kind of like learning difficulties and so on, so you can kind of see where this is going.

He's a big strapping lad and they buddy up together and, and what the, the bigger lad does is carry Kiran Kin's carries, I think it's called Kevin, around on his shoulders. And they basically pretend to be kind of like a, you know, like a knight. He's a knight with it. And

Sidey: this he, he dies, right?

Pete: Well, this, it, it's, yeah, it's yeah.

I won't, I won't spoil anything, but there's some fucking, yeah. It's, it's a real like gut wrencher, but yeah. Obviously sets it a school and externally to the school as well. They go out on some they become almost like vigilantes and, you know, like, like apprehend muggers and things like that in the local neighborhood.

But they're still getting loads of shit at school for being like, you know, not, you know, different Yeah. For being different. Yeah, it's a really fucking upsetting film.

Dan: It was the wonder I was thinking of, and I dunno why I thought of that, but it follows not a dissimilar scene with a, a young la have you seen that one? He plays a, a young boy called,

Sidey: Stevie

Dan: Maggie Paulman Owens on this. And it, it's, it's a real heart, you know, target. It just really pulls at the, the strings.

I'll have to try and

Pete: has it got anything to do with schools, Dan? Yeah. Okay, good.

Dan: Yeah. He's, he's at a school.

So that's

Reegs: Well, you, you said that you couldn't get the name of the, of the school in your one. Yeah, and I'm the same with this one, but I know it's set in school is Fast Times at Ridgemont High. But just for the life we can't get it. There is a couple of Netflix ones for you if you want, if you want that sort of thing.

Of course. Dale Secondary School.

Dan: More Dale,

Sidey: high school

Reegs: music, musical sex education.

Sidey: Oh, shit. Of

course. Yeah. Yeah. That is really

Reegs: Butterfield and whoever she is. Who's so hot. I can't.

Sidey: she's in bar She Barbie. Well,

Reegs: It's not though, is she?

Yeah.

Alright. Right. Okay. She's actually, well, she looks so much like her anyway.

Sidey: Uh,

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: I think her name is

super hot.

Reegs: cool as well. And another Netflix one is Hawkins Middle School. Stranger. Stranger Things. Yeah. Which I've watched and enjoyed in particularly the last season with the Heavy Metal and the

Sidey: leaning more into the horror, horror

Reegs: stuff. Mm-hmm. That's Yeah.

Sidey: I got a couple of universities for you. If, if you like Harrison University,

it's the university from old school, seen that one Will Farrell. Mm-hmm.

The

other Wilson brother where they, Luke Yes. Where they start their own fraternity. Yeah. Have you ever been to a frat party? I have.

I have.

Pete: you? Yeah. Any

Reegs: was that? What was that

like?

Dan: Where did you do that?

Reegs: In America?

Sidey: Yes. Stetson,

Dan: place.

weeks

Sidey: Stetson University. And I wanna say that it was the Lambda Kai fraternity, but that's probably totally wrong. But it is just like load of manchild babies with fucking shit booze and,

Dan: and breaded cops

Sidey: awful music. And yeah, red and blue cuts had a fucking great time, to be honest.

Reegs: Yeah, I

Sidey: Yeah. And really hung, I lost my passport. Had a huge freak out the day after. Of course you look back at it when you're in your forties and think, oh, they're all fucking tracks. But at the time, fucking brilliant.

Reegs: They were probably thinking the same about you, I'm

Sidey: I'm no doubt I was the coolest guy there.

And Barden University, I really, really wanna nominate one of these films. It's pitch perfect.

The acapella singing stuff, it's actually really good.

I,

Pete: is watched. All

Sidey: and, and another one that I'm not nominating it cuz it's more of a sport film. Adam Sonner joint.

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

Sidey: The water boy.

Oh yeah.

So that, that, the only reason I would wanna bring up is because it was filmed at the university that one of our, friends university in, he went to the University of Florida. Stetson. And it was filmed there, trivia. So I technically I was

Dan: Wow. Yeah. By association. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: Stard with Adam son. That's

Dan: incredible. We, you'll know Ry Dale High

Reegs: from that fucking awful

grease. Oh,

Pete: Yeah. yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dan: it's so

Sidey: Riggs loves that. Riggs

Dan: I know you're a big fan, so I couldn't miss it out. Go Grease Lightning. But the film that I was badly describing earlier the Wonder,

Reegs: oh God, have gotta hear about this

again.

Dan: Breer Prep School. That was the name of the

Pete: Breacher Prep School.

Dan: Yes, Breer.

Reegs: preacher.

Pete: Okay. Excellent. You wanted

Dan: that little bit of info to be taken. You, you should check this out. This will be my nomination, I think for this thing. Have you never seen this film? Wanda, with Owen Wilson

Sidey: you've made it up.

Dan: I haven't, it, it's the story of August Gie Pullman. He's got facial differences and as a

Sidey: amazing facial

Dan: school for the first time in fifth grade, yeah.

He's got like, he's had to have all this surgery done as a kid and everything, and he's going into like the, the mainstream school and his parents are obviously, you know, really nervous for him. And he wears a space helmet everywhere because he feels really cool in it. And it also obviously hides his, his kind of looks and everything and just how he's had to get through.

And it's, it's a true, based on a true story, it's, it

Sidey: gotta get through this. All right.

Pete: Sounds horrible.

Dan: It might not be paston a true story.

Pete: Alright. Just rattle through a couple that we don't necessarily need to, I mean, we can't do a schools one without talking about Hogwarts, right. Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.

Sidey: You would pull your kid out of there in a heartbeat. It's like the most dangerous place

Pete: Especially, especially like when the,

Sidey: every

Pete: kids get to the sick form and it's like the guy who killed Dumble do, well, everyone thinks killed double, did kill

Sidey: double Iss.

A headmaster. Yeah.

Pete: yeah. Is become, has become headmaster.

Yeah. But yeah, there's, there's a lot of concern, welfare concerns going on there, especially. Yeah. I mean, goes far back as the, the first one, but then the Chamber of Secrets, big fucking snake killing Pathways. Yeah. Yeah. And all of that. Anyone know where Horace Green Prep School is from? Yeah. Okay.

Good.

Dan: Horace Green Prep School.

Sidey: It's School

of

Cock,

Pete: that is the School of Rock. We've got,

Sidey: I read a thing about that this week Jack Black saying it's like the film he's most proud of

Pete: It's fucking brilliant. Yeah,

Sidey: it's amazing. And it apparently had like quite a significant impact on how.

Gore's approach teaching music.

To have it more like band based and people working together rather than just, you go and practice the violin and you fuck off air and play the pink

Reegs: we had like three,

three,

years of like some shitty keyboard playing merrilee.

We roll

Sidey: Yeah.

Pete: Yeah. Oh, did, did you guys have

Sidey: Mr. No, we had Mr. Davis.

Pete: Oh, do you not have Higgins at

Sidey: Did someone jump on?

Reegs: Dean? Yeah. Jumped on his back. Yeah. Thought he was Andy.

Dan: He right. He jumped on a teacher's

Reegs: Yeah.

He thought he was Andy. He thought he was Andy Thomas. He jumped on his back.

Pete: Did you, you did have Higgins at Prep or

Sidey: I didn't go to prep.

I, I was better than that. I was better than that. Okay.

Reegs: the recorder story About the

Pete: recorder story, the, the one that was like epic. You, you, it was so you'd even heard it before you went into his lesson, but it was basically so when you were like, I dunno, seven, and obviously they thrust a recorder into your hand, it was like, right.

Whatever you do, do not run with it. Because what, there was a kid who like, and this, this is the story that did the rounds. A kid like tripped with a recorder in his mouth and he like, li literally priced his whole face off.

Reegs: Yeah. It's the story. Yeah. And we were about seven when they told us this, and I believe that

Pete: Yeah. I I, I never ran with a recorder again. Yeah. Like, yeah. I'd soon run with scissors. So yeah, I got fucking like, here's what, here's one that is, I think it's a school. I think it's a school. Well, it is a place of education. If I were to say to you the Hooper Street Residential Assessment Center,

Reegs: that doesn't sound like a school.

It

Pete: It well, so basically this was kind of like a halfway house between, it was like kids who were so like poorly behaved and disruptive and, and showed like, you know, aggressive and physical like behaviors. And bef they had this like asce, they went to this assessment center before it was chosen, whether they'd actually go to Bool and so on.

And this featured in the 1983 British film made in Britain with Tim Roth. Oh,

Sidey: Oh, it's Westham thing, isn't it?

Pete: it. Have you seen that? It's basically about Westham fans, like, you know, young racists, like growing up. And the, and in it he, the reason, one of the reasons why he ends up in there is cuz I, you know, at the beginning he's like, he's a skinhead, he's got a SWA tattooed on his head.

He's like, you know, 16,

Sidey: singing Westham songs.

Pete: And he's like throwing, you know, bricks through the window of like a, you know, a shot run by some, like a Pakistani family or whatever. But the, the kind of like, the weird thing is, has anyone seen this film? I know it's, it is like, it is one of those kind of like gritty eighties, like a bit like scum and like, and other things, which is a SEL as well, isn't it?

Yeah. But he, he like, but he, he basically gets put in this, and in his like room, like, in his like digs, he's with a black lad. And because he's now thrust into this like scenario, he just ends up befriending him like immediately, rather than causing like friction in this like, you know, small room and then converting this black lad to basically become a racist.

So like ba like target, like people of like Indian or Pakistani origin and so on. And it's like, but they all get their come up and, and it's not a happy ending. He ends up in Cel. He's just a complete fucking, like, deadbeat waste of space. But it's like, must be the earliest role that Tim Roth has been in, cuz he's, you know, this, as I say, it's like early eighties and he's a fucking power, like he's a piece of shit in it.

But he's like a really

Dan: can you, you can see his potential

Pete: Like, yeah. Yeah.

Dan: yeah, yeah. It's good looking back, like as we did in Heather's in, in the thing, you know, see early and early Kristy and Slater and things. You can see he's got star quality. Same as Winona Rider in that. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: A couple of comic booky ones for you.

Almost certainly an undercover sort of pedophile ring, but Professor Charles Xavier's school for gifted youngsters which features throughout the X-Men franchise. Andy's memorably in one of them where Quicksilver runs around it. It's a pretty good scene if you know when it's blowing up. That's quite cool.

And pretty functional name Midtown High School for Peter Parker in Spider-Man. So yeah, that's pretty uninteresting. Get a couple of TV ones out the way. Springfield Elementary of course. And South South Park Elementary. Yeah, yeah.

Pete: And Bel Air Academy.

Reegs: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Pete: yeah. You know where that was from, don't you?

Reegs: Yeah.

Pete: Good.

Sidey: We've not mentioned hill Valley High School, I don't think. No. Which you kind of see change over the course of various different Time iterations.

It's back

Pete: future. Oh, back to the future. I was gonna say. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Sidey: Should we go over to the, the Twitter

Reegs: yeah, because there were some really good ones online.

Sidey: We had Joe Bevis the Fish School in Finding Nemo.

Oh

Pete: yeah, that's a good one. I like the, the Ray in his songs. Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah.

Very good.

Andy Jameson,

Hogwarts, mystic Falls.

Hi. Hi. I'm not

Pete: Has he not put what film it's from? No. What a

Sidey: I

know Springfield Elementary, Jedi Temple on Coon

Pete: Correspond.

Sidey: because

That's where

Reegs: the young links.

Get it.

Sidey: Yeah.

Uh uh uh, Russell Davies. I like this one. The Derek Zoo, Zoolander Center for kids who can't read Good

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Sherma High School.

He's put in brackets obviously, but so obviously, I dunno what it

Reegs: Oh, it's breakfast Club.

Sidey: Right. Okay. Haven't seen it. Sanus High, which,

yeah.

And this is a good one. Chuchu Gav vsc. Anyone know him? Maybe if I read it that way.

Dan: Choo

Reegs: choo.

Choo

Sidey: It's Gab, I think. Isn't it

Reegs: Gav?

Oh, didn't he drop the top gun? Wasn't he the one who dropped the elite,

Sidey: well it's, it's, it's, a, it's

a, gav. I dunno if it's our Gav, but it's a Gav. Anyway, thanks. Gav. On March 3rd, 1969, the United States, the United States Navy established an elite school for the top 1% of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to ensure that the handful of men and women who graduated with the best fighter pilots in the

Dan: that is our Gav,

Pete: yeah, it's gotta be,

Sidey: they succeeded today. The Navy calls it fighter weapons school. The flyers call

Top

Gun, top

Reegs: That is talking about, that was one of the, the highlights of doing this pod. I think I really enjoyed

Sidey: So that's it. I think that's, that's, that's the,

Reegs: gotta go in.

Sidey: So what are we gonna put

Dan: EDA High School? Do you know that one?

Sidey: No.

Okay. Oh. Yeah. Should have got it from Ed. By what you putting in?

Dan: I'm gonna go and put in Wanda,

Sidey: Right? That film you made up.

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: Pete

Pete: I'm doing a Rigs. I haven't mentioned this one yet, but the, I didn't, I wasn't so much into like Grange Hill and, and stuff, but like

Reegs: battle

Pete: when I was a kid, you know, those kind of like coming of age TV series things were, it was an Australian one called Heartbreak High. Yeah. Fucking loved that. So many hot girls in it and yeah, I just used to like routinely fall for all of them.

Yeah. I'd like jerk off. Yeah. So yeah, I'm going for Heartbreak High Stasi. She was like, yeah. Alternative and fit and stuff. Great. Yeah.

Reegs: I'm going for Edward Tillman Middle from The Wire.

Sidey: Yeah. That's good Shout. I am gonna go for Sam Demas High School,

Reegs: because it rules,

Sidey: because that, that's the guy I remember even more so than Bill and Ted's actual presentation where he's got nothing to say other than Sam Dimas high school football rules. Yeah. And then you can just see the teachers go fucking hell.

So yeah. Bill and Ted, there we

Reegs: very good.

Dan: Excellent. Solid,

strong.

Sidey: We

have cheese today.

Pete: Yeah, we do. Yep.

Sidey: Which we selected ourselves.

Pete: So, so, and I went into the cheese store. I'm doing it disservice there. It's a delicate Hess and of sorts. And yeah, we laid down the law. We said to the, to the guy there that as part of the cheese scripture, we wanted to refine our Yeah. To just exclusively blue and soft cheeses. We pretty much had it with all the hard

Sidey: Yeah. They can fuck

off.

Pete: And, and yeah, there's the odd good hard one that we can get ourselves. But yeah. So we, we've done that. So, but we yeah. To pave the way for that subscription. We, we got two blues and a soft. Yeah. The soft is a, I think a new one to us is a, a long, yeah.

Which is, it's not a laur, it's not as creamy, but it's still pretty good. It's got a nice,

Sidey: it's got an

like, you know, it's like champagne

Pete: Yeah. Yes it

Sidey: does. Then we've got that actually's over there. Yeah. The farthest one from me.

The harder

one Yeah.

Pete: the stitch, Elton

Sidey: stitch and it's a blue, but Not as tangy as say as stilton. No, but, but real good.

Reegs: I don't believe I don't believe I've had any of that one.

Sidey: And then the oth the one in, in between those two. It's like the mother load cheeses that we've ever had.

Pete: well, it's, we didn't get the name of it. It's two words and I can't remember. And the first word began with an ember. We, I don Dunno if we'll ever get there, but it's kind of a, it is a triple cream cheese, but with the blue, it's kind of like a really sophisticated, elevated Camba Zola where you're mixing soft and blue in the same wedge.

Yeah. And it's, yeah, it's taken home. The, the, the trophy tonight,

Sidey: I think This road trip, jeez.

Thing's got potential. Anyhow. Got next. It segues like incredibly well into this week's movie. Yeah. Which I picked, this is the last thing that I picked out of my nons. Mm-hmm. And it, because it appeared on Prime. So we did 21 Jump Street which I dunno if you know, it used to be a TV series.

Yeah. And now is a movie. It has a sequel called 22 Jump Street Cleverly Done. And so this is Jonah Hill I think he's got a writing credit on it as well. Does he? Not Certainly a producer credit

Reegs: I would imagine it. I mean, a lot of it is ad-libbed, right? You can

Sidey: well, yeah, almost all of ice cubes stuff is, is ad lib for sure.

So yeah, it's like setting the sea, the premise of it is like a buddy cop thing. Comedy.

Reegs: But Well, it's, it's about, I mean, really uniquely the concept is cops having to go undercover

Dan: punch 'em with a toast and the cheese, it's really good.

Reegs: Sorry. Cops having to go undercover in a high school. That's the, that's the hook of the TV series, which I never watched.

It's obviously propelled Johnny Depp to stardom.

Sidey: Yeah.

And we, so it's, it opens up with Jonah Hill back in high school years. Mm. Literally standing. Yeah. And I only realized what that meant watching this film. Really? Yeah. So he, he is like.

Eminem up to the max, and he's trying to ask a particularly attractive young lady to prom.

Reegs: he's choking

Sidey: joking and when she kind of gets wind that, oh my God, he's about to ask me, she freaks out. And Channing Tatum's character who is called Jenko, is, he's the jock, and he's got some sort of really bad long haircut and thing going on, and he's taken a piss out of him from behind a a locker just like laughing.

And it's all very cringe and embarrassing.

Reegs: And he's the superstar hero jock.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Yeah. He, he's the kind of guy who, who laugh at anybody for trying in school. And then he just, the way he did it was cool and everyone else, and he points fun. Jonah Hill doesn't

Sidey: Yeah. And it very quickly, it's the, the end of their high school.

You know, it's like, well, you're not gonna make it because your grades are shit. Yeah. Jen Co. No. What was it for

Dan: Athletic Athletics,

Reegs: Athletics, let him down,

Sidey: Yeah.

So they're not gonna get to go to, they're not gonna get to follow the gyms that they had originally planned. And so it cuts to like the, the only logical choice is to go to police cop school.

Dan: Yeah. And they, they kind of see each other in the, in the line again, don't they? And Jenko soon realizes he's not gonna pass this without Jonah Hill's.

Sidey: They can

Dan: help and they're gonna dovetail and, and like they didn't do in college in now realize they can use each other and they start become mates,

yeah.

Reegs: et cetera, et cetera.

And yeah, some funny scenes of them

Dan: Well, they, they start out on the bike, don't they? They, they've got all these kind of dreams of, you know, high speed chasers or detectives and all the rest of it. And they're on like two mountain bikes going through a very quiet park trying to find trouble as much as anything else.

Or, or trying to make trouble.

Sidey: Yeah. They've

had, they, they do find

trouble. They've done, they've had no arrests, they've done nothing and they get the chance

Reegs: it's like scoot. They're getting cats and stuff,

Sidey: Yeah. All that cliche stuff feeds

Reegs: out of a pond

Dan: and that's it. What they, they do go, do you think this is a police matter?

And then they just lob the, the Frisbee fervor into the lake or, or whatever it was.

Sidey: Yeah. And then they, they do like, they catch some people, don't they?

Reegs: one percenters, a biker gang don't. Is

Sidey: yeah.

Well, Jenko eventually like catches this guy, rugby hackers in the ground and he obviously doesn't know how to read him his rights. And hes like, he's humping him.

Reegs: Yeah. You have the right to suck my dick.

Dan: Yeah. And there's like people looking on as they're

Sidey: And it immediately cuts back to their captain. He's like, we couldn't fucking arrest this guy. Cause you don't, you fucking dumb ass doesn't even know how to read his Miranda rights.

Reegs: He says Do how to do it. He, yeah. You have the right to remain an attorney.

Pete: Yeah. Cause he's whispering it too, right. I mean, you also get in, in the, like the, the bike patrols sort chasing with the one percenters. Another scene where Jonah Hill is, is choking because he's, he's got his gun out and he is like freeze and the guy's running towards him and he, he chokes cuz he choked us, the girls to the prom.

Yeah. Now he's choked, kind of like taken down the bad guy.

Reegs: gets smashed out the way, doesn't

Pete: he? Yeah, he does. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, they're both kind of like in hot water with their captain back at the, at the, at the station.

Dan: and

Reegs: and

it's a lot of ad-libbing

Dan: stereotypical black angry captain who, who he kind of, brings that in.

Oh no,

Pete: not this, we haven't got, we haven't got to him yet. Yeah, yeah. This is the captain at, at their normal kind of like day job or whatever.

Sidey: It's Ron Swanson.

Reegs: Yeah. it?

it is Nick Hoffman. Yeah.

Sidey: and Nick Hoffman, and he does this big spiel about how they're gonna send about school and it's just a rehash. And, and he does the whole thing about remakes. Very meta. And I dunno if anyone watched 22 John Street.

Reegs: They go really

Sidey: do the,

Reegs: for that.

Sidey: they really go into it about how sequels and just do everything the same, just

do everything the same, but it worked last time. Just do everything. So they really lean into that kind of meta thing. I sometimes that doesn't work, but I thought it,

Reegs: I thought it worked in this.

Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, basically it turns out that the guy that they didn't properly arrest was had some drugs. Is that right?

Sidey: H

Pete: Hfs.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: fucking

shit. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: And that's how they end up assigned to Captain Dixon's task force, which operates out of a Korean church.

Sidey: for some reason.

Dan: what? What, what's it called? The Aroma of

Reegs: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dan: And they, they go in, they're all like in their blues caps and everything.

Sidey: Is that undercover?

Dan: Yeah. Looking the worst, undercover, undercover cops in the, in the church.

And then he introduced himself as an angry black captain.

Captain, doesn't he? And he says, you know, I am this, and they do lean into all these kind of stereotypes and everything.

Reegs: I think they're literally playing straight outta Compton in the background

Pete: Yeah. One, one of the scenes there are. Yeah.

Dan: And

they, they, there's not just them, there's other kind of crews and, and duos partners up of detectives, and they're all set into this school.

They're saying you're going back to high school. It's because you all look fucking 12 or something. And you're gonna get back in there and infiltrate the dealers and then

Sidey: well, he shows them the video of and it's, he was the, the guy who was in.

Yes.

Scott Pilgrim. Young, young. This is young kids, young, young nick or something like that.

Who's the like fill in bass player? He, it's be, it's called holy fucking shit cuz that's what everyone says when they take it. Yeah.

And it shows you the four phases of it and it's super like cha

comic

Dan: They're watching like a YouTube video.

Sidey: He's filming

Dan: uploaded this video and he goes, this is why we've got a problem.

Sidey: confidence. The different stages.

Dan: Yeah. What was the first stage?

Sidey: actually five phases picked. Did you happen to make note of what they

Pete: Yes, I did. Yeah. So the first one is the gigs.

Sidey: Oh yeah,

Reegs: giggling. yeah,

Pete: yeah, the gig giggly bit. And then the second one is trip in major sack.

Yeah. Phase three is over falsity of confidence. Phase four is Fuck Yeah. Motherfucker. And then phase five is sleepiness. Yeah, yeah,

yeah.

So yeah, you see the, the guy, he's got a funny name. I can't remember the kid's name. It's like

Dan: flam,

Pete: them or like, it's a fucking, it's, it's like, and his first name and surname rhyme again.

I've got it written down here. I haven't, I can't be bothered to look it up.

Sidey: the plan is that it's being Distributed around school. Yeah. And we want to infiltrate find who the dealer is and find where the supplier is coming from. Yeah. That's that. Well,

Reegs: So they have to be set up with like fake identities and enrolled in the school.

Uh uh, which they instantly fuck up.

Sidey: Sorry.

Pete: But Well, what you find out with the, with the drug, they watch it and they're kind of like giggling cuz like, they're thinking like this kid's having fun and all of this and stuff. And then you get like, at the end of, it's like, well this kid OD'ed on this stuff.

Like it's,

Dan: he goes, I can watch this kid all day.

Pete: Yeah, yeah, yeah,

Dan: brilliant. Like, and then they go, oh no, he's dead. So they, they go into the school,

Sidey: he says, I've enrolled you, you are the fucking athlete. You're on all the, I've put you on all this and then some drama shit and all that fucking shit that no one cares about you. I've put you on like advanced chemistry and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So

Dan: So what can go wrong? Goes

Pete: wrong. And, and they're gonna be brothers.

Dan: They're gonna be brothers and

Pete: They've got a cool muscle

Reegs: car

and they've gotta move into Schmidt Jonah Hill's character's home where his picture of him looking like Fred Savage,

Sidey: is obviously a real picture.

Yeah. I thought And his, his so his, his parents are proud of him and it is one of those things where he's got the participation trophy and he's fucking mortified. Like, take it down, you know, I'm not a fucking kid anymore. And then he just goes on and

Dan: got that for trying,

Sidey: wearing underwear in this picture? No, I'm not.

I fucking remember. I'm not fucking naked. And the mother is like, really embarrassing.

Reegs: Yeah, And so

Dan: do manage to pick up some really hot wheels though, to go to school because they're, they're trying to. Well, GENCO in particular, he's trying to, well, don't

Reegs: knows how it

Dan: He's trying to tap into cool.

He's saying Don't, don't double strap, like with the bags, you know, don't double strap.

Pete: He's, and he goes, he goes, I'd no strap if you could do that.

Dan: And, and so he's giving him like a crash course in cool and going, right? We need wheels. And they do

Reegs: Don't try

hard at anything. He says That's

the first thing make fun of people who do try

be

Dan: in

Reegs: and and punch the first person that you meet on the first

day of school, which he then proceeds to do,

Dan: well first they've driven in, they park in the disabled spot, which they think is gonna be really, really cool.

But people are just kind of giving them odd looks. And then this one guy comes up to, happens to be gay. And he,

Pete: well you don't know that,

Dan: No, but he, he punches him. And then everybody thinks it's because he is gay or he says something to the effect of, okay, he

Pete: punch the gay kid.

Dan: And,

Sidey: Jonah Hill. He says, actually it would be, it'd be worse if he hadn't watched it.

Pete: Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: It's like, not discriminatory, but they're under strict instructions by the captain. Do not get expelled. Yeah. Like, cuz you are, nobody else knows you're, don't

Reegs: fucking Yeah. But also expelled straight away. Somehow they fucked up their secret identities and swapped them.

Sidey: at Jen's a moron, and he just, he can't remember anything and he,

Reegs: He ends up, He

gets the names wrong.

That's right. So he's gotta be the, he's like, oh, chemistry, that's the one with shapes and shit. It's, so, he's gotta go and pretend to be like a

Dan: and and then you got Jonah Hill who's meant to be like a, an all

Pete: sports jock.

Yeah.

Dan: track athlete. or something.

But yeah. And all the time they, they're obviously trying to infiltrate where this H Fs drug is, is coming from.

Reegs: they find Jen Schmidt finds on a, like, scrolled on a chair, I think in

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: Drama group,

Dan: via the, the, the kind of love interest that

Reegs: Bree Larson,

Sidey: didn't realize it was her for about

Pete: for a fact.

Sidey: 20 minutes, just so young in this.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, she looked really nice.

Reegs: Yeah. And so he gets a lead on who to call to source some hfs, and he calls a number and he, he's, we've already been introduced to Dave Franco's character Eddie.

Is it Eric?

Sidey: Yeah. He was, he was with the guy when they punched him. They're all, all kind of there.

Pete: A, a notice in that scene where he punched him. Everyone's like double strapping on their bags as well. So

Dan: Oh, well that's what he say. Everybody's double strapping. He saying, what should I do? What should I do? Goes just keep single strapping it. But yeah. Dave Franco's character is one of the cool kids, but they're not cool in the sense that Geno's Mob was called back in the day where it's Jock's and it's all that, although they do

Reegs: care about the environment.

Dan: yeah, they do identify those

Pete: groups. It's like, oh yeah, there's the gossip. It's like, I dunno what the fuck. They're like,

Dan: are they? What are they? Yeah, it's just

Sidey: it was the, they were Kauai I think is them. Wouldn't you

Pete: Wouldn't

know.

Reegs: I would

Sidey: Yeah. So yeah, they get the lead that Dave Franco.

He's the one who's dealing the stuff, but they, they need to get in with him to find out where he's getting it from.

Reegs: Well, they have to,

Sidey: so they so go to him and they're like, oh, we want some of that stuff. And he is like, okay. How age one? And they're like, oh, I guess so. like one.

Dan: hit 1,

1, 1

Sidey: they're this awkward

Dan: Yeah, but you gotta do it now,

Sidey: now. So I know you're cool. So they do it

and then we get, it's

Dan: I can't believe that they would

Sidey: they get this brilliant fucking sequence of them going through the diff the five

Reegs: Well,

f first they go to the toilets to try and puke it up and they're like

sticking the fingers in each other's mouths.

Dan: Yeah. And the, the janitor kind of comes by and he thinks, fucking hell, I've seen it all now and just turns away again. And he's, they, they have these kind of conversations.

Sometimes it just can't, sometimes, you know, I try to, and it's like,

Pete: so we, we actually, we know a pair of identical twins who

one of them was like feeling sick, wanting to be sick, but couldn't be sick.

And like, so his, his twin brothers saying like, oh, stick your fingers down your throat. So he's doing that. Can't make himself sick. So the other twin has put his fingers down his brother's

Sidey: throat,

Pete: and the one who's doing the fingering has vomited.

Reegs: That

Pete: happened, but, so it just, it reminded me of that, that these two brothers fingering each other

Reegs: anyway.

They can't bring themselves to vomit, so they have to kind of go back to class on the way

coming

up as they're talking to the extremely dodgy, straightaway PE teacher.

Dan: that's it. They need a, they need a hall pass. And the PE teacher sort of stops him, and he's just the ultimate jock, kind

Sidey: He's like, he is looking at James Taylor going, look at the

Dan: Woo. He motherfucker, he's just so excited to see somebody so big at high school.

He's thinking, right, I'm gonna, oh, this kid. But he, he's, he's already heard of him,

Reegs: They're coming up on the, the, the like tripping phase. And

his

Pete: they're getting the

Reegs: is like, and his eye is moving around his

Sidey: face.

Dan: That's right. Like a, like a slug. His, his mustaches

Pete: Yeah, it's the giggles first. But then they get like the hallucinogens and then at one point his head's like a,

Sidey: a an ice cream cone

Pete: cat, and then it becomes an ice cream cone. So it's

fucking,

Sidey: love him though. He's he's, he's called Rob Riggle.

Reegs: Yeah. He's,

Pete: he's like, he basically plays the

Sidey: he's this guy. Yeah.

Pete: single film, but it's always fucking like, really,

Sidey: in in the other guys. He's really

Pete: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Dan: is one of his bigger parts actually playing this, this guy.

So, he, he says, right, I'll give you, I'll sign your hall passes. Providing you are on the track team today. And he's pointing at Jonah Hill, who, who's saying, yeah, yeah, that's me.

Pete: because now he's in the confidence phase, so he's taking it on.

Yeah.

Dan: I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll do it, I'll do it. Oh,

Reegs: And Jenko has to go back to music class, and he just completely trashes. He shout, fuck you, miles Davis. And throws himself through a symbol.

Sidey: guy, the teacher confidence

the teacher's been lecturing them about like all this other shit, and he's going, I did cocaine with Willie Nelson's horse and all this shit.

Yeah.

Reegs: And he writes a bunch of like fours on the, yeah. Anyway, it's good.

High

Dan: it.

In, in the, in the, in the physics, doesn't it?

Sidey: Yeah.

Pete: then, but Jonah, Jonah Hill goes off to do the, the relay, and he's running around with the bat on,

Sidey: on,

Pete: he's like knocking the other people's batons outta their hand. And then he's got like a bat on penis. It's so fucking really

Sidey: Childish, but brilliant,

Pete: really strong chains.

Reegs: I think goes back and gives some great performance in the and it gets

Sidey: gets the lead role,

Reegs: he gets the lead role, and he, it's, you know, against all the odds. He's the popular one now and Jenko is the dork and he's embracing his dork role by like Neil Odd and all

Sidey: He's, they're doing lightsaber

Pete: Oh, that he's, yeah. What's the password? Neil Ard. Neil before Zd. Yeah.

Dan: whi, which is just a, a total transformation of them both because obviously Jenko was the, the jock, the coolest guy, and now he's turned into a nerd and he's starting to see all the benefits of being a nerd and the fun in that, and. Likewise, Jonah Hill.

He's thinking, wait a minute, people actually like me for being not only that nice and sensitive and, and all the kind of things that he naturally is.

Pete: smart as

Dan: And smart.

Sidey: not only that, but he's now, he's had a real connection with Bree Larson's character.

Pete: I,

Reegs: extremely dodgy. This really in the movies context, isn't it?

Sidey: Cause

Dan: they have been told do not, and they're pointing at Genco when they say it, but they're saying, look, just keep your hands off the girls

Reegs: I don't think they

Pete: Jen CO's his teacher has taken

Sidey: She's great.

Pete: a sh Yeah. She's like hating herself and like un barely able to control herself around

Reegs: Wiggling her ass at him. It's Ellie Kemper from the office.

Dan: Yeah, she's a funny character in this.

Reegs: They, I think they cook up the idea for a party and they, they're like,

Sidey: oh,

a Schmidt's house, isn't

Reegs: Yeah. Where are we gonna get drugs? And then they just bomb it off to the

Dan: they're like, yeah, Coke

Sidey: bag.

Reegs: Yeah.

Oh yeah. Big Coke. And they're like, we don't wanna ruin their lives. It's

like, oh,

Dan: Pound of weed.

Right. Okay. Took that back with a load of kegs and,

Reegs: and they're gonna bug. Well, I just, I don't think Schmidt knows this, but he doesn't.

Dan: No. They, he's had his nerd

Reegs: with his nerds

Dan: To say, who are going, I can't

Pete: yeah.

Reegs: bug

Dan: phones. And they, and GenCos that dumb. He just doesn't pick up on anything. He's like, Does that mean you can or you can't?

Eventually, obviously it turns out they can and they do as you know, your man comes through, I've forgotten his, the character's name Eric. Yeah. Yeah. He, he comes through and he's their lead suspect. He, they know that he's gonna get the drugs and they know that he's gonna be the pathway through to the dealer, which is where they wanna get the supplier.

Reegs: Mm-hmm. There's also, there's a terrific scene where he is been trying to get Schmitty. He's been trying to get in with Eric, and he sees somebody he knows in the.

In the, in the, in the shop

Dan: Phyllis. Phyllis is, is kind of

Reegs: she tries to blow his cover. the

Dan: next door neighbor who just wants to pinch his cheeks and talk about him in nappies and,

Pete: so infuriating.

Dan: Proud of

my policeman and they're

Pete: Are you undercover right now? He's like, yes,

Dan: yes. I'm gonna I'm gonna have to punch you in the face.

Pete: Yeah.

Dan: And her,

Yeah. He ends up pushing her into a, like a load of shoe boxes or something and

Reegs: anyway, they have

Dan: just grabbed my junk man Yeah. As to try to defend himself in front of his friends.

Reegs: They, they have the party and somehow it escalates into a big fight, doesn't it? Cuz Jonah Hill gets stabbed in the short,

Pete: Yeah. These guys, these guys come round.

Dan: they gate crash get

Pete: sorted out by Eric,

Reegs: Oh, That's right.

Pete: know, they don't really feel like sort of beer, you know, toeing the line at the party. And so Schmit, Jonah Hill stands up to them and then it ends up in a tussle which eventually, like Genco comes down and like completely batters.

Absolutely everyone.

Dan: is good at

Pete: well, yeah,

Dan: he's amazing at

Reegs: himself.

well. There's like a proper action scene going on in the background and in the foreground. Schmitt, he's kind of

faffing

Pete: wrestling with the, with this guy, but he ends up sort of somehow getting stabbed and he's got a knife hanging out of his back,

Dan: every bit, the whole party just kind of.

Shuts down and, and closes and looks at him and he's, they pull it out and they are gonna duct tape it up and he goes, let's do some shots. And then they're like, yeah. It's like one of those crazy frat parties that side goes

Reegs: This gets him firmly in with Eric, doesn't it?

Sidey: it

Pete: yeah. Who in the street? After the party, when the parents come back and, and kick everyone out that he, like, he says, listen, like you're a cool guy.

I trust you. Do you want to get in on the action here? I've got all this stuff. I can't distribute it myself. So now he's got like the, he's into the supply. So they're getting, you know, money back from, they're getting money from the captain

to,

Dan: And at the same time, Jenko is, is further away from the, the call club and, and Eric and everyone, because as soon as he turns up that same night at that same time he's like, I, yeah. Well, your brother's a bit of a dick actually, but just me and you.

So they're starting to feel this separation where GENCO is like in high school different, but the roles have reversed and Yeah, we're getting,

Reegs: I

didn't see it coming.

Dan: No,

Sidey: Who, who, who knew?

Dan: who would've

Pete: they flipped, reversed it. Okay. I guess the next thing is there's another party the, the next night.

But it's, it's a quieter one. And it's like, you know, Molly's there and Eric and everything. Jenko hasn't been invited. So he's, he's hanging out with the nerd guys, but they're listening in on the, the conversation. And this is where Schmidt is. Yeah, he bet. He says, oh yeah. They're like, oh, your brother's a bit of a douche.

He's like, yeah, yeah. He's adopted like from a really lame family. And and then he, but then they're listening in whilst he's like plucking up the courage to, to invite Molly to the, to the prom. And he, he literally chokes as he's he's asking her, but then still manages to,

Sidey: and she,

Pete: her, but then to seal the deal, like,

Sidey: It's so cringe. She's, she's obviously got the hot swim and

she's leaning in.

for the kiss and he just gives her a handshake.

Pete: He goes like, put it there, man. Like, yeah. And they're like shaking hands. He's like, yeah, I've put it right there. Like,

Dan: Well, I'm assuming if she's in high school though, she's like

Sidey: underage

Dan: 17 or

Sidey: no, this high school.

Not

uni.

Dan: uni, uni. I dunno. What did high school go up to there?

Sidey: Well, I'd imagine she'd be 17

Dan: Yeah.

And so,

Sidey: good old enough for a BBC presenter.

Dan: Oh,

Reegs: oh.

Dan: Topical

Reegs: or not though, actually, because I don't think by the time

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: Yeah.

It might all be rubbish just to get news and slip through other

Sidey: In any case, they

somehow there's gonna be, there's gonna be a transaction.

A

re-up

Pete: right

They heard the word pinata.

So,

And then just before Schmid's gone into school to do his big play as Peter Panton, he's like in some fetching tights and so on. Yeah. And he's just about to go on stage. And this is obviously like, you know, a big deal for Molly. And Jenko sees a p a guy leaving the school with a pinata, so he is like, fuck, this is it?

Like, we gotta go. So he goes and, and grabs Jonah Hill and he's like, oh, I need you to come and help me with like my pinata. And they're like, is that like

Reegs: he's forced to abandon Bree

Pete: Yeah, yeah,

yeah. Because

Sidey: he has been making noises about, well, maybe this is it for me. Like, I'll fuck the police force off and I'll

Pete: Jon's good. Yeah. He's

Sidey: like, no,

Pete: in too deep.

Reegs: I'm gonna just be this guy now.

Pete: like, what are you talking about? Like, you're not this actual person, like, but they, yeah, so they follow the, the pinata and it ends up that it's back to the, the one percenters, the motorcycle going and there's like a fucking weird car chase scene where they like, they keep losing because they, because the, the car, their car, the muscle car has been like clamped because they keep parking in the disabled bay.

So then they, they still, there's a driving school like right next to it, so they still like the, so it's got the dual controls and steering wheels and so on that either crashes will get stuck in traffic so they move on.

Sidey: Yes, there is, there's a big, there's a big pile up in there, traffic, and they just keep going to the

front, move onto

Pete: next car that they,

Reegs: and they keep doing, they do a recurring gag where there's like a truck that's got fuel on it and it gets shot

Sidey: it's gonna blow

Pete: nothing.

Reegs: the, like a air canister, like canisters on it and all that. And in the end, the thing that does is a is chicken fan of chickens. Yeah.

Pete: Yeah. But each, each time they like, you

Sidey: there's one with a

hot older lady, the

Pete: one's like, there's a guy and he's like, right, get outta the car.

He's like, no, fuck. He like, headbutts him. Jonah Hill's like, yeah, you just got fucking, fucking headbutted, man. And then the next one's like a hot, he's like, oh my God, you're so hot. Like someone's gonna pick you up. That lifts her out of a car. Yeah. So they, but then they, they have another argument and basically kind of like blow the opportunity to follow the bikers.

And I think they, you know, one of them, they crash into one of them and he like jumps all over the car and stuff. So it's,

Dan: you'll never know what you can't achieve until you don't achieve it.

Pete: Yeah, So they they get back to

Sidey: or they blow it.

Pete: they get expelled. Oh.

Sidey: completely blow it. they fight on

Pete: Yeah, they come back to the school and then have a big, quite an amusing scene.

Especially with the bit where he is like harnessed up and then he goes to attack him just going up in the air like Peter Pan with his

Reegs: well, he's sort of doing matrix moves as well though. Yeah.

Pete: They must have had so much fun making this film.

Reegs: does look like a laugh. Yeah.

Pete: Yeah. So they have a big fight on stage and, and like, they're kind of like the stage manager's like, oh, I should try and do something.

But he's realizing that this is actually way better than the, the show itself. So he kind of lets it roll. But yeah, they, they get expelled. Yeah. And

Sidey: they're outta the program.

Yeah.

Pete: up in front of ice cube.

Dan: Yeah. Insane. Well, they, they've been told that if any of his offers are court given alcohol to minors, they'll find themselves in prison with a snorkel duct tape to their mouth of me shit down the north snorkel. So they know this guy means business and to turn back up at his office at this time with everything going really, really bad.

And I think they also find out at this point that HFS has gone to another school. Yeah. So the, the big thing to try and contain it in this one score has already been lost. They need to start

Sidey: and they keep get, every time it get cuts back to anything. Back at Jump Street with the captain, you get all the other undercover and like, oh, we just blew some massive prostitution ring.

And we, they're all like

Massive, massive overachievers. And these dude dickhead keep fucking it up. So they're fired. They're like kicked off the program completely. Yeah. And instead are recruited by Eric to be the muscle

For the

Pete: yeah, cuz e Eric's feeling like he's a bit in over his head now with

Sidey: he is,

Pete: with the, with the suppliers and the gang and all of that kind of stuff. So yeah, they so they do end up going to the prom.

I love to, they had to do their chores first. Yeah. So they like get, they got like the bulletproof vest and all these guns and stuff. And then the, the mums and the next thing they having to like mow the lawn everything in their tuxedos which is another good scene. But yeah, they go to the, yeah, it all, it all goes off at

Sidey: he, they, they, they bromance up again, doesn't he? And he he says, oh, will you be my date to the prom

Pete: They

Reegs: white tuxes.

Sidey: it's only a tux if it's white. I think otherwise it's a dinner jacket or suit.

Dan: there's a, there's a nice moment. I'm not sure if it's, it's coming around this, but it's quite sort of teary where he, he.

He fesses up to Korean Jesus, and he says, I really don't wanna fuck this up Korean. Jesus, please just make this happen. I'm sorry for swearing. I don't really know how to end a prayer. And, and Genco should

Sidey: piss himself

Dan: in behind. But yeah, there there's lots of clever little moments like that.

Yeah. In this

Reegs: at prom they discover the teacher basically is behind it.

Yeah. Or, and that's how they end up.

Dan: Yeah. The, the, the,

Reegs: Rob Riggle,

Dan: Rob Riggle, their track coach, the sports guy,

Reegs: he's the man who's been supplementing his teacher's income by

Dan: And he, he's just so happy about it as well.

He just laughs it all off and he's going, of course I'm doing that motherfucker.

Sidey: fuckers, he's just created this stuff by. Chuck, it is like

flaming mos

Reegs: Doritos and chemicals or something. And he is just,

Sidey: Just by pure chance he's come up with this new drug.

Pete: Yeah.

Reegs: It's not, exactly Walter White

Pete: and

he's like strong armed Eric into being part of it. Cuz he caught Eric smoking weed. So he is like saying no, if, to stop you from getting kicked out, you're gonna have to become one of my mules.

Reegs: Yeah.

So then they're carted off to a meeting with the one percenter gang. Yeah. Which is obviously gonna be a problem because the one percenter gang know

who Genco and Schmidt are, yeah. And they're trying to just turn their backs on

Pete: the the, very comes up and they're like, I recognize you guys.

He was like, oh yeah, I was in a, an advert

Reegs: french fries.

Yeah.

Pete: And then he makes up a song on the spot.

Reegs: Yeah.

Pete: It's, it's so good.

Reegs: Yeah. But it's not long before

Sidey: is that true Romance romances bit?

Reegs: Yeah.

Pete: Yeah. It it is. Yeah. It

Dan: Well it's all in a hotel room.

It's a Mexican standoff. They're all shooting each other.

Pete: Yeah. Well

Reegs: because two

of the Yeah.

two of the bikers turn out to be Johnny Depp and I guess the other guy who was

Sidey: trailer, John City. Yeah.

Reegs: Street

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: and yeah, they were undercover the whole time infiltrating the drug gang.

I think they're pretty quit swiftly killed, aren't they?

Sidey: They, well they kick off cuz it's like, oh, we've been doing this fucking for eight years,

trying to, trying to get to the

top

Reegs: fucked your sister or saw,

Sidey: yeah. And then and

then I got

Pete: tattoo on my dick. And he is like, oh yeah. Like you didn't actually need to do that was just fucking with you.

Sidey: did maybe jump a bit cuz Johnny Depp was just shot through the neck

straight

Pete: the throat.

Sidey: Yeah. And you're like, oh fuck. Like

Dan: He's gone. Didn't

Reegs: had a, had a friend to play last week and the friend said to us my daddy's got a tattoo on his, what was the word

Sidey: Phallus?

Reegs: No, she's only six.

So on his Willie Willie, something like that. Yeah.

Pete: So the, your daughter's school friend's dad has a tattoo on his Willie. Yeah. I want to know what it is now. Can we find that

Sidey: It's the bit where he pisses out of

Pete: Oh, between

his legs?

Reegs: Yeah.

Pete: I need to know what that tattoo is. Yeah. Can you ask your, can you go on like social media and ask your friends your daughter's

Reegs: No,

Sidey: of illegible until it gets a hard on

Reegs: Yeah, that's what it was. Like a trumpet

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: A trombone. Yeah. Trombone.

Reegs: Trombone.

Pete: Anyway, we digress.

Reegs: It's big gunfight.

Yeah.

Pete: then there's another chase scene this time involving stretch limos.

Reegs: Oh yeah.

Pete: And the one that they

Reegs: and that chick's trying to give him

Pete: a, it's amazing.

It's like he, like, like, not now I'm trying to fire guns. Like, and she's like, that's amazing.

Reegs: They improvise some sort of bomb using, he's been talking about covalent bonds the whole time and it's got some thematic resonance because I, I can't even remember about how covalent bonds work, but it ties into how he feels about Jess GENCO and Schmidt

Sidey: Yeah, it's two atoms. Thatcher then Ben, she the same molecules or something, and then they bond and blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah. And yeah. So

Dan: Well one part of could of unobtainium of a nuclear reaction flux capacity carried the two changing in his atomic isotope in a radioactive

Reegs: Yeah, Yeah.

yeah, yeah,

for sure. Exactly that. And so he improvises this bomb out of some shit in the limo and blows them.

Sidey: It blows the, the, the car up, which leads to the shoot the, the final shooting with Mr. Where they shoot his dick

Reegs: off where Riggle gets his dick shot off. Yeah. And then tries to pick it up with his teeth.

Dan: Yeah.

He's not my dick. He's my dick.

Reegs: actually. Eagle eyed viewers, if you look in, that's actually a hot dog. He's trying to pick up, but his penis is visible in the background,

Sidey: Okay. It does play out very well when he returns in 22 Jump It does. Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Yeah. I, I didn't get into the, the 20 twos.

Reegs: I've seen that as well. Yeah, it's good

Pete: Mm.

Sidey: Because he's in 22. He's cellmates with Dave with Eric, Dave Franco's character

Dan: who, who they

Sidey: say

and he's got a, he's,

Dan: he says at one point, you know what they're gonna do to me, handsome guys like me, find you a grape. And he's like,

Reegs: So yeah, that's wrapped up. They're all heroes and where do we go from there?

Then sh

Pete: Schmitt and Molly have a kiss. because she's been kidnapped. She'd passed out at the, at the prom and

Sidey: But she knows his true identity.

Pete: does know his true

Sidey: And like you say, rigs, it's very dodgy.

Reegs: Yeah. It's really dodgy.

Sidey: And basically Ice Cube just announces the sequel there, and then after the climax of the film, and then it's Load of shots of different scenarios that have played out. Brilliant. And we do get to see the Jenko does Fuck the teacher. Yeah. Betterman.

Pete: yeah, yeah. yeah. And the, yeah, the, all the, all the sequels that, that run through the credits of fucking quality.

I was, I was trying, as I was watching 'em, I was like, I'm gonna try remember that. But there's so many of them. But yeah. Good. Good

Sidey: this, this was way, way better than I thought it was gonna be.

I,

had seen it before.

Dan: I had a major worry cuz when I went on to the account to watch this, you know, sometimes it's got that little red bar and it tells you how far you've watched along previously. Yeah. And, and I'd not recall watching this before, but obviously at some point I'd watched this and I'd turned it off.

I hadn't seen the whole thing, so I'm thinking I must have started this. And it's just shit like, you know, and I, I've turned it off.

but

I think I must have just fallen asleep or, or whatever. It just stopped because I really enjoyed this. It was it, it was lots of laughs and they're silly, immature laughs, but I'm a silly, immature person, so it fit

Pete: you are.

Sidey: It it does, it does have the silly kind of you know, lowest common denominator humor at times in it, but I think the chemistry between the two liter so

Pete: it's so

Reegs: so

Sidey: so

so good.

Pete: imagine though, like that film or the, and the sequel without those two in those roles.

Like, and I haven't seen a lot of stuff for chatting Tatum Minute, but he's fucking, I mean, he's a fucking, he's easy

Sidey: well put together.

Pete: but he's a really, he's, he plays that role fucking brilliantly as well.

I

Sidey: think

this is the third we did. Lucky Luke, which he's in, or Luke like where

Reegs: Lucky Logan.

Sidey: Lucky Logan. And we did

Reegs: Logan,

Lucky, even we did the other one. Yes.

Sidey: Magic Mike.

Which we really enjoyed.

Reegs: He seems like a really likable guy.

Yeah. And he's really funny in this and the sequel is pretty good as well.

Sidey: Sequel's really

good. It just, he carries of the same.

Reegs: And Jonah Hill. Despite some of the stuff that's been coming out recently, I find a really interesting guy. I don't want, I don't think he likes people talking about his struggles, but he's had a lot of them and they're extremely relatable.

And

Sidey: the film where he start to lose all the weight.

Reegs: And he talks about some of that stuff in the really compelling Netflix documentary Stutts, which is like a series of

like

Dan: like that. Yeah.

Reegs: So yeah, he's an interesting guy

Pete: and he's a, he's a really, really good actor because he can do straight stuff really fucking

Sidey: well

as well.

Oh, I watched Moneyball while I was off again. Right. He's great in that

at totally different role. I mean, he's like the kind of nerdy it is not played for laugh at all, whereas this like comedic type everything great. In this I noticed something in the credits, a name popped up that I recognize someone who did the music for the film.

Pete: Barry Manalow.

Sidey: No, even better than that. Mark Mothers Bore. Anyone know He is, he was in one of my favorite ever bands. I will donate 75 Pence to the charity of Your Choice, if you can guess it.

s No,

Reegs: your favorite of a band's Jean?

Sidey: Ween, Chicago,

it's not Ween, but Good Guess

No.

It's

Dan: Boston.

Oh,

Reegs: Oh, Divo.

Yeah.

Sidey: He was the singer dude in Divo, so I did

even That was great. About a big winner at the box office. I spoiled it already for your budget was 42 mil and it took over so inevitable sequel after that. Yeah. And I would say that the sequel is a triumph just like this.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Okay.

Well I might check that out than the the sequel because this,

Sidey: you can't get wrong.

Pete: yeah. It's, it's more of the

Dan: the same. More the same. It's

Reegs: but it's still pretty consistently funny. Yeah. And there's a meta thing as well.

Pete: Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: Well, strong

Reegs: Recommend. Strong

Pete: Very strong Recommend

Reegs: This has gotta be one where we're gonna play the theme tune. Right. You said you didn't remember it. I can't believe

Sidey: honestly, it was so unremarkable to me. This theme tune, but here it is.

In any case, you can decide yourself. See what I mean?

Reegs: No, honestly, I have been

singing that.

Enjoyed

Pete: listening to it again, just

Dan: I'd like to hear it once more,

Sidey: here it, it isn't but it's saved by the bell. Which I'm surprised it's taken us this long. Like word of warning, it's a 22 minute tour if you haven't seen one of these in a while, so strap yourself in because it has one of those things, I'm just gonna get into it that makes me almost certainly hate something is the candle laughter.

And

after a while,

Reegs: a lot of things in this that I

Sidey: I was able, I was able to phase that out. Two of the characters at the very start do a high five. And even that wasn't a convincing performance. No. It's like they couldn't even do that

Reegs: that. It's a great intro though, because you get all that the, the surfboards and all the blah, and then you get like Zack, like Mark Paul Gossler, like literally spinning in his chair and looking at thing and AJ is like flexing his muscles and then sort of looks right at the camera and whatever they're all pressing

Sidey: who the actress who plays Lisa? Her name

Reegs: Yeah. Lark. Vorhees.

Sidey: Jason's,

Wait, wait to say that

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: I also, Lark is just an out there

Christian Name, name.

Reegs: Yeah, it's a good strong name.

Sidey: So the first, so this, this episode is season one, episode five, and it's Screeches woman I think it's called,

Pete: it is. Yeah.

Reegs: I know two well I think I know one fact that I knew from research, which may prove one other fact in this because, but maybe I should wait for the end cuz he is gonna end up yeah, maybe I don't wanna spoil that bit

Sidey: yet Okay. I'm intrigued. Yeah. The plot basically is that Screech who we know is a nerd who is also for some reason friends with the most popular guy.

Dan: he's a nerd, but he's also kind of daf, doesn't he?

Reegs: Well, no, it's because Zach is a total sociopath

Sidey: and

I think it's like Bart and Millhouse kind of thing.

Reegs: He's manipulating him cuz he's doing his

Pete: of, but yeah, you're right, you're right dad. He's not just. Like normally, like the nerd would stereotypically be like the, the brains of the outfit as well.

Like, whereas he's very much not that he's also like, completely like stupid and inept as well.

Sidey: So the crux of the, the matter is that he, they are paired up to do a science project. Yeah. And we see Mario Lopez

Reegs: Well, Zach breaks the fourth wall to tell us, which I thought you'd hate cause it's very Ferris Bueller Que. And he talks directly to us. He tells us he's manipulating this poor fucker.

Sidey: Yeah.

And, and so the, yeah. He's built some sort of awful looking,

Reegs: electromagnetic aerial hymenoptera detector.

Sidey: Something to do with detecting canaries or something. Yeah. Yeah. But so one of the first things that struck me is when Screech sat down with Zack and Tiffany Amberson Wharf. the age difference to me, she looked like an adult and he looked like he's about 10.

Yeah. And they're supposed to be in the same class at school. And I

Pete: but they, the the,

Reegs: you do get that though.

You know, those kids at school who are like 15, but they're six foot three and got a

Dan: well girls that look much older than boys are the same year, but yeah.

Maybe not to this extreme.

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

Pete: but I think they were, they were roughly the same. In fact, he was, was he? He would've been, he'd have been 47 now and she's 49. So only two years difference. But

Sidey: they look vastly different

Pete: They do, yeah. But I think at that age as well, girls are like grown up more. Yeah, she

Sidey: absolute

knockout.

Pete: this right, so hang on, hang on. So I'm not allowed to, you are saying that she's like, she's not of legal age

Sidey: No, but I would've fancied her at the time when it was age appropriate.

Pete: saying now Oh she's knockout.

Sidey: Yeah. cuz she's now

Pete: same terminology that I

Sidey: be our age she's 49 Pete.

Pete: Yeah, that's fine.

And Jodi foster's way like loads older now as well. So it's the same

Sidey: you specifically fancied to Lula now?

no judgment

Pete: as, 13 year old me, I do. Yeah.

Sidey: Oh, you change June now,

Listen, of operation re

Pete: look, I play, I play with myself when I watch it. And then it's a victimless crime, right? It's a victimless crime. No one's getting hurt there.

Sidey: for some reason.

Well, Screech is longing for the companionship of a lady.

Reegs: Lisa, specifically Lisa,

Sidey: got the hots for

Reegs: a recurring thing throughout, saved by the bell that he fantasizes about

Sidey: she has a, a bow and they kind of in insinuate that she's not into this guy. Yeah. And they convince Screech that she's kind of only with this guy to make him jealous and all this sort of thing.

And it's barely

basically screech won't, or can't focus on doing Zach's work for him. So

Zach, Zach cooks up a plan of

helping him out and making him feel better by using a really amazing mobile phone Yeah. Or cell to call screech and, and, and take on this persona of Bambi.

Yeah. To make screech think that there's someone out there for him

and there's a hilarious Yeah. Hilarious

scene in the school bathroom where Mr.

Belling Belding

is taking a shit.

Yeah.

I also have a weird thing about American toilet stalls. Yeah. They have an enormous gap at the bottom.

And also the door's

Has a gap right

And I know that people don't necessarily wanna look in and watch your shit, but

Pete: I think it's to make it easier access for people with the assault rifles and stuff,

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: that's true.

Well, Oscar for story's never had a problem.

Pete: Yeah, true, true.

Sidey: So

Reegs: yeah. Belding's taking a shit and Zach is pretending to be a chick flirting with screech on the other end of the conversation and Belding hears it and thinks a female student called Bambi is propositioning him. Yeah. Which he's not really that alarmed about.

Flattered more than anything, I would say. Pretty dodgy. And that plays into the rest of the plot somehow.

Sidey: Yeah. Essentially it escalates to the point where Screech is intrigued and still can't do the work because he's now infatuated with this invented character and now wants to arrange to meet. And Zach has to rack his brains to find a reason why they can't. But basically it becomes a really progressive thing about trans stuff.

Reegs: Well, I think it would've been easy for him to get somebody else to pretend to be Bambi, but he doesn't, he glams up, puts on a wig and shoulder pads and a lovely sort of purplely blue dress.

Sidey: It was a very full on outfit for a first date I For kids.

Reegs: Yeah.

Pete: And

Reegs: he, he goes off to seduce screech and they fuck. That's amazing. No. So they do go off to the, the max, don't they? Cuz there's only like three locations in the whole fucking thing.

Sidey: School corridor.

Reegs: Yeah.

Zack's bedroom

Sidey: or the diner. The diner

Reegs: or the, yeah.

And

Sidey: diner thing has got like the owl character from Happy Days. It's the guy who runs that is a recurring character in it as well.

He,

Reegs: he's a magician. He magics up some

Sidey: He, he gives screech pep talk, doesn't he? And the, the way that Zach is able to get away with it is to say, to Screech, well, look the only way I will continue to see you, you have to gun all your friends. Yeah. You have you have to leave them, kick them in touch.

And you're just with me all the time. Andree. It's like, the better man is like, so I just can't do that

Reegs: But did they kiss? Did they kiss? No. Isn't it is there's a moment where you think they're gonna kiss, didn't they?

Sidey: I was hoping so, but it didn't. So that, so that this bit was what reminded me of Simon Cunningham, who is one of the heroin overdose victims from our school, because we had a party at Nick Ton's gaff in the sick form, and it was fancy dress.

And Stu Cameron came in drag, looked almost exactly like, Zack does in this. And I remember Cunningham looking through like the, we were in the kitchen through the hallway and Stewart was like facing the other way. And he's like, oh, the fuck, Z look at the legs on her.

Reegs: Lovely.

Sidey: Amazing

so that's, that's basically how it plays out. He

is like, I know I have to fuck you off. Bros. Before ho

Reegs: so Dustin Diamond had his first ever kiss on screen. Really? Yeah. In this program? Not this program

obviously,

Pete: that's not that surprising. Really. No. No. What he is,

Sidey: Zack. Zack Nearly in this goes to the toilet with the Yeah, with the girls because they don't know, or Tiffany have a TH's character doesn't realize that it's Zack and she's like, oh, I'm just gonna go off for a shit dot, wanna come with me?

Zach said, yeah, I'll come.

Pete: yeah.

Sidey: And

yeah, that's how it ends. Does it?

Reegs: Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah.

Dan: So I have seen Saved by the Be Before, but I didn't watch this episode for this week.

I remember liking it. I

Sidey: It's not that bad.

Dan: this being you know, a show that I, oh, yeah, okay, I'll, I'll watch and I would give it my time and attention. Is it worth it now?

Sidey: I think when you, when you watch it, you realize that Zack is probably one of the worst people on earth. Right. He's her horrendous.

Dan: Didn't pick

Sidey: manipulative and selfish

Dan: all. No. Didn't,

Reegs: total sociopath. But yeah. Right. We've watched a lot of things that have been 22 minutes-ish for the pod, and this wasn't the worst of the 22 minute

things I've watched,

Dan: Okay.

Sidey: I did find myself like clock watching. Like, God, I

wasn't God

Pete: I, got to the point where I was, I just fast forwarding like five minutes of it and feeling like I didn't miss anything.

Sidey: didn't,

you didn't.

Pete: So yeah, I, I just got, I luckily, I fast forwarded right up to the point where Zack was in drag and it became interesting again. But

Sidey: it was Elizabeth Berkley I'd say. Oh, Mario Lopez as well. Had he, he's had success. But Elizabeth Berkley was the

Reegs: he was married to Ali Lar.

Sidey: From Scream, no final destination. Cuz she obviously did show guys. Yeah. great Um, Dustin Diamond, obviously we know about his unfortunate years.

He was never able to shake off the stigma of laying screech. And he had, he had a sex tape, got leaked and

Dan: because it became a cult classic.

Sidey: he stabbed someone and went to prison and then he died.

Dan: It was a bit of a cultural phenomenon at the time. This, as I remember, all these characters, all these people were, you know, everybody knew

Reegs: I think it's very

unfortunate, that in the intro sequence he stressed as Michael Jackson. he is?

Do you

Dan: I know.

I think it all adds to it these days.

Pete: Yeah.

Sidey: Sad. It came back as saved by the bell, the college years, and then it was rebooted in its entirety as just saved by the bell with a different load of irritating

Reegs: tone down the psychopathy of Zach and you've got the setup for every school drama ever.

The weird best friend and the

Dan: Yeah. It's very formulaic in that, but it is 22 minutes. Little adventures each week, minor dramas and, and all the rest. I remember enjoying it. When I was a, a younger kid, like, but sounds like I wouldn't enjoy it much now.

Sidey: Oh, you wouldn't now. I mean, like, like you say, re it's not the worst thing we've ever seen and that's about the kindest thing I could probably say about

Reegs: it.

Strong recommend.

Dan: almost time for me to beat you all at Attack again, but have we got anything else coming

Sidey: seem like something that's gonna happen. I dunno what's gonna

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: no. Who's

Sidey: I, what I do know is we've got a two subscription for next week.

Dan: Okay. We've got 700 quid and potentially a cheese tour.

Sidey: Yeah. And we'll have some sort of nominations lost track of who's doing what, when and where. But we'll figure

it

Reegs: uh, Maybe, hopefully Chris will be

Sidey: Yeah, I was about to say, hopefully Chris can do some

Pete: very much like that. Yeah.

Sidey: eye themed

content. Maybe,

Dan: and maybe even, maybe even Howie will, will

Pete: I'm not that guy

Dan: with his presence.

Yeah.

Sidey: Imagine if there was six of us. We've never done that before.

Reegs: no. I know.

Pete: that'd be chaos.

Sidey: Yeah.

So, all that remains is to say side signing out

Reegs: out.

Pete: Ttfn,

Dan: Dan's gone.