Midweek Mention... Dirty Work

Dirty Work

Dan: Well, it's dirty work, but somebody's got to do it. Huh? Link.

Cris: is that in the movie that line?

Dan: think that's the name of the

Cris: No, no, I know but is that

is

Sidey: that what this is?

Cris: it?

Reegs: know but

Dan: Well this was a, How did I come up with it?

Don't blame me. I just chose it. I

Cris: No, no, I know, but how did

To this

Dan: Well, I was just looking for dirty in my algorithm and this came up.

Reegs: Okay, so it could have been dirty dancing, could have been dirty scoundrels, dirty rotten scoundrels, but We got dirty

Dan: we got dirty

work and it

Sidey: hit

Dan: I was no

Sidey: Yeah,

Dan: He's hit and miss. Yeah.

Which as we, yeah. Ma mainly miss now. He was a, a comic that had some funny jokes at some

Reegs: Yeah, some of his stand up was quite funny. He's got that like, deadpan delivery, and he's sort of got that Stuart Lee thing of doing a joke until it's not funny,

Sidey: Carrying on.

Reegs: going with it until it becomes kind of funny again.

Sidey: and he was on Saturday Night Live. He would do the weekend roundup was his famous thing, his new segment which actually was quite funny.

And so this was his, sort of first lead breakout role in a movie.

Dan: Yeah,

Sidey: 1998 we're at here.

Reegs: was the same year as there's something about Mary and it was moved to not go up against it, which was probably a good idea.

Sidey: idea. And a year later, because I, originally when it started, I thought it had a look of like an 80s film, so I couldn't quite place it.

So I looked up while we're watching and I thought, okay, when we got further into it, I was thinking, okay, so it's sort of like gross out a little bit, not really. Did this come out after American Pie? I was thinking when I was watching it. It was a year before American Pie, but yeah, same year as Something About

Reegs: About

Dan: I was watching it, it was a year before American Fire, but you didn't a year or something about that, Getting kicked out of

Sidey: getting bullied, isn't he?

Dan: Yeah. Oh,

Sidey: He's getting bullied, it's him as a kid at first. Yeah,

Dan: yeah.

Reegs: He's Mitch. Mitch Weaver. And he's getting bullied at school. There's a recurring gag of him being thrown into dustbins and out of stuff.

Sidey: The first one when he gets thrown into the dumpster, I fucking piss myself.

Dan: he's kind of got He's good at revenge, he's good at getting his own back on people as a kid, and he's also got a best friend,

Reegs: Sam,

Dan: who is his

sidekick. and

Sidey: They're shown stitching up the bully by putting loads of guns in his

Reegs: guns in his desk,

Dan: and he gets taken away, and then he, he glues He's got glue on his arse, so the, the lollipop man who keeps touching up kids gets caught. He can't take his hands off him then, and he gets thrown away into prison or whatever it is. So, he

Reegs: they're mostly, they're mostly being raised by Sam's.

Father Pops, who's a retired boxer, isn't he? And he sort of teaches him to stick up for himself and

Dan: Take no shit.

Reegs: no shit. Exactly.

Dan: So then we fast forward 25 years or so, and he's getting thrown out of his apartment.

Sidey: Yeah, he's a pizza delivery guy He's just getting the sack.

Dan: For, well, because he's, he's Desperate to get a pizza there, you know, 30 minutes or less or it's free it's 31 minutes.

The guy is absolutely no sympathy slams the door in his face He goes and tries to bullshit the pizza owner guy Who knows exactly what's happened that he was late. It wasn't the customer

And so he loses his job And he's getting thrown out of his apartment.

Reegs: And he's done by his girlfriend, but maybe most heinously or not.

I was thinking about this is the amount of plaid that he's wearing. It's lumberjack shirts all the way.

Dan: Yeah

Reegs: you ever have a lumberjack shirt?

Dan: I did. Yeah.

Cris: I still have one

Reegs: Yeah because they go in and out. Right. So you just keep him in it. Yeah.

Cris: very nice and warm

Reegs: And it was very 90s because they're playing what was the tune?

Third Eye Blind, Semi Charmed Kind of Life.

Sidey: Yeah. But get some Green Day later on.

Reegs: Yeah, yeah. And Chumba Wumba was in there as well. All

Sidey: Oh, all

Cris: greats. All the all

Sidey: I get knocked down.

Reegs: 90s.

Sidey: Danbert Nobacon was in Chumbawamba. What's

Reegs: Wumba. What's his name?

Sidey: Nobacon. He chucked, of water or booze or something over John Prescott at the Brit Awards.

yeah. Anyway,

Reegs: Yeah, there's better politics, I

Dan: There's better politicians. He could have done that for really, but

Reegs: he's had his nose bitten off by a Saigon an ex Saigon whore. And then they kind of get into a bar fight. This really made me laugh that they start getting into a bar fight. So Chris Farley puts some fighting music on and he says he's going to put street fighting man by the Rolling

Sidey: He gets the number

Reegs: he gets the number wrong and it's Pina Colada.

And they're getting the shit kicked out of them by these

Dan: Yeah. He's also moved into Sam's house after being kicked out of his own with his popcorn machine. The only thing that he owns. At one point he sees a guy wearing his shirt walking by, and he goes, Hey, that's my shirt. And the guy offers to give it back until he realizes he's like the hairiest guy in the world.

And he goes, no, you, you kind of forget about it, man. So there's a few little jokes that, that aren't too bad. At one point he's saying to pops, he's saying just how, how weird he is and how kind

of

Sidey: kind of Yeah, and he's saying and he starts beating him up real bad and he

Dan: Yeah. And he, he's saying, you know, come over here and he starts beating him up real bad and he goes I fucking hear you You're just over there like you it's not like um, right in some films They'll have a conversation with somebody in the next room and just pretend that they couldn't hear him, but clearly he could

So it started off kind of promising to me this with a few little sort of jokes and and skits

Sidey: I laughed quite a few times to, to this point.

It started to dry up. I must be honest. It

Dan: They do

Cris: the police thing, you know, where they

Reegs: no? They do, yeah. It is funny because he's like, Oh, we've come into these police uniforms somehow.

That's basically the script. And they sort of phone in like, They phone in this thing saying there's fake coppers and then they send the real coppers there. The kids get all cocky and get the shit kicked out of them by the real

Dan: shit kicked out of them by the real police.

Reegs: But it comes at a cost because Pops has a heart attack and they take him to the hospital where he tells Mitch the truth about himself or more accurately shows him a picture in his locker

Sidey: girlfriend in the car.

Reegs: his mum. So, yeah, Pops is actually Mitch's father, but he swears, you know, swears him to secrecy that he won't tell Sam, but he doesn't necessarily agree with it.

It's a big dilemma for him throughout the movie, whether or not he tells Sam that they're, you know, Probably brothers.

Sidey: His doctor pops is Chevy Chase.

Dan: He's got a gambling addiction.

Reegs: Yeah, he bet on Mr. T in Rocky three

Yeah, so he says he'll bump pops to the top of the list if he'll give him 50 k

Cris: debts. So they need 50k in

Reegs: Gambling debts, so they need 50k in two weeks and they don't have a clue how to get it They set themselves up as construction workers but they don't know how to do that

Sidey: know how to do that.

Yeah, what time's

Reegs: time's lunch he says

Sidey: they

Reegs: And they and they they go and test food additives and stuff and he has a hallucinogenic Brownie that sends

Dan: Well,

Reegs: to a cameo from adam

Dan: Eating about four of them, hasn't he? And then he just takes the tiniest little bit and he comes out in like hives and he's sweating hallucinations. He sees Adam Sandler as the devil.

Reegs: And Gary Coleman.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: For

Dan: Gary Coleman's driving the car. Yeah. So they've, they've obviously tried to find a job and said, get alone. They went through the, the, the more realistic kind of things. But as you say, all these kind of plans fall by the

Reegs: Well, what what kicks them on a bit is they get jobs at as cinema, as Ashers, and it's run by Don Rickles who just gives them like a drill sergeant style, like Beasting. So, they set up a. Situation and this is gives him the idea for the business that is the center of the movie, I guess, because the staff there start to pay for the guys to kind of pull a prank on Don Rickles, the horrible manager and so during some important screening, they put a gay porn film on men in black who like to have sex with each other was the title of the movie that they all watched and

Sidey: You look, you kind of look like an alien. I think we should have sex.

Reegs: And they say to 'em afterwards, dude, that was amazing. You should do that for a living. So they do in fact, open a revenge for hire business.

Dan: there's a, there's a girl who's met in the bar, which he later sees in the street. And he calls Mary, I

Sidey: I love that bit. He's just shouting it across the street for ages. It's just

Dan: Mary, that's not my name. Well, I just guessed you didn't tell me. And then as he's walking along, he goes so where are we going, your apartment?

Sidey: going? Your

Dan: But she's going to work and she tells him there's a, a a live commercial going out there today. So, he sees his opportunity.

Yeah, to he, he was in Anchorman, wasn't he, the

Reegs: Kirchner.

Dan: And they're gonna do a live advert selling cars Seems

Sidey: that seems fraught with risk doing a live advert.

But it's handy in the plot.

Dan: It's handy in the plot. They get a load of hookers that pretend to be dead in the car and then while the advert's going off going live Sam has just got the remotes to all the boots and and you get Norm just pointing out the fact that there's loads of dead hookers in the car and then he's Gets free air time by saying, look, this is revenge.

If you want call 555 revenge. com or whatever the hell it was. And absolutely nobody really comes in.

Reegs: Well, there is a circus. Small person. I wanted to point this guy out because it's his name is Arturo Gill. He was stationed in Bill and Ted's

Sidey: STATION!

Reegs: Yeah. He has to get his revenge on the bearded lady, lady who is Rebecca remain. Yeah she's a sort of dwarf abuser. So they shave her beard off for that sort of first client.

Dan: That's one revenge. What were some of the other

Sidey: this old

Reegs: dad who complains about the neighbors, it turns out to be gangsters, and they're sort of, you alright Chris? He's just broken his collarbone or

Dan: that was so painful.

Reegs: looks really

Dan: There's the old funny bone going off right now. Fire up the arm.

Cris: They hide dead fish in the

Reegs: They they, they hide dead fish in the house and then there's like a gang shootout that happens off screen. With everybody dying

Dan: horribly.

It's just a matter of three minutes of them just literally staring at

Reegs: It's just about like three minutes of them just literally staring at the camera while all the stuff is happening off screen. It's hilarious.

Dan: screen.

It's hilarious. Get a few quid from that, but they're really not making anywhere near the 50, 000 they need until another moment we get shoot mcgavin.

Reegs: he gets put in the sights of Travis Cole.

That's right. Shoot. Mcg Gavin, Christopher McDonald. It is viral scene where they end up in prison where Sam has to have gang rape explained to him.

Dan: Yeah, physically explained

Reegs: Yeah. And Mitch is then yeah. Raped and then afterwards.

He says, he calls them out, he says it's ridiculous, completely ridiculous, what hurts the most is the lack of

Sidey: respect.

You fellas

Reegs: You fellas have a lot of growing up to do. I was pissing myself through this, it's really tasteless,

Dan: Yeah, well, I'd started watching this with Nelly 'cause it said a 12.

Very quickly I realized this is not a, this may be a 12 in 1998, but if you were 12 in 1998, you could watch it today. Yeah. Maybe that's what it meant. Yeah. But it is not one for the, for your 12-year-old these

Reegs: No.

So anyway, Shoot McGavin gets them out of prison and gives them a job to get a basically a low income housing thing that he owns. He wants to get it like condemned and get all the people out.

Dan: so he can knock it down

Reegs: he hired

Dan: And

people can park their, their Mercedes and Buicks

Reegs: Yeah, so They leaflet, drop the building and say it'll be bug sprayed or whatever. It, but just before they do it, I think it turns, is it, before they do it, it turns out that Kathy, the love interests grandma lives there. So it's a bit of a

Dan: He thinks

Sidey: running a brothel.

Yeah.

Dan: he thinks she's running a brothel. It turns out it's a,

Sidey: Southern club.

Dan: a sewing club. So easy

Cris: that what you call

Dan: up. But they, they bring more fish. They, they torch the place.

Reegs: cherry bombs down the toilet.

Dan: Yeah. Not always successful when one doesn't go off. He decides to take a shit on that toilet and eventually it does go off And they totally trash the building and the plan goes to

Reegs: and also, he's

Dan: the price and also, he's not going

to give him the 50 000 he promised that would have fixed Their dad's heart.

Reegs: Yeah. So they bribe some homeless guys to create a distraction, don't they? To, to bust in to see Cole, who at this point is sort of

to

Dan: it for a dollar, but they would do it for two. Yeah

Reegs: They're all former executives that used to work for Cole. They're now homeless.

Dan: And one guy kind of just goes into this reminiscing stage, doesn't he, each time, and each time they just kind of, it cuts away and there's nobody else listening to him.

So they are They get up to, to Cole's place. And the, he's just not gonna pay. He's, he's not having any of it. Shoot mcg. Gavin is not having it. So they, they need to find some other way to have him play him when things look to be absolutely shit. He brings out his voice recorder, which he keeps bringing out

Sidey: note to self,

Dan: Note to self, note to self various times and he'd left it on record when.

Travis Cole was there. I'm sure Travis Cole was a name of another another character in another film. Maybe it was Last Boy Scout he was in? I don't know. But,

Sidey: little

Reegs: There's a little subplot again, or not subplot. The whole thing about the parentage comes out. So, Sam finds out he's his brother. He doesn't react well to the news.

He's like, Pops was the only thing that was mine in my life, and now you've come to take it. So there's a bit of that to

Dan: So there's a bit

Reegs: back together for the finale,

Dan: They're just staring out over the top of a building, aren't they, for ages. And then he realizes and goes, wait a minute, is you pissing?

And there's somebody

Sidey: I'm gonna kill you!

Dan: comes up, comes up the stairs totally soaked.

Reegs: Yeah. So then there's a big finale where they use everybody who's been in the plot so far. The resident of the building, this army of prostitutes and homeless men, their noseless friend Chris Farley, the brownies with hallucinogenic additives they're used to. Make the bodyguards go out the picture, aren't they?

And they're hallucinating Gary Coleman in a fight against Ken Norton, who smashes him out with one punch. It's amazing. And anyway, they ruin the opera of this like sponsored performance where even John Goodman's there for 30 seconds as well.

Dan: Yeah. Comes on as the, the compare, doesn't he?

Reegs: Yeah. So the whole performance has gone to shit with all these crazy people and skunks in there and all sorts. There's a really pretentious guy who thinks everything is part of the performance and is clapping and saying how marvelous it is. And then there's a little bait and switch with the tape recording at the end where they try to make you think he's fucked it up, but he hasn't.

And of course, Travis Cole is exposed. His confession is played over the theater's sort of sound system,

Dan: They, they've also fed him the his crew, the chocolate bars. So when he, he's saying to his accountant, do not pay these people 50,000. Guy's hallucinating and, and thinks he sees. So, they're going to get paid.

Pop gets the money through Chevy Chase, who has to be talked into not

Sidey: gambling.

He's got an amazing, every

Reegs: got an amazing, every time he appears on screen, he's got another injury. It's like Jay Leno, like he starts off with nothing and then he's got like a hand and then a foot and a cast, and then his neck's in a brace and yeah, it's quite funny.

So Cole is taken down. They have this fight that they end up falling on a fat opera singer.

Sidey: that

Reegs: And then the plot wraps up in about 30 seconds with his dog being raped by a skunk, because of course. And they, he tells you as the sort of camera fades out that Chevy Chase was beaten to death, wasn't he?

Doesn't he?

So he's dead, that's it, goodbye.

Dan: pretty much. Yeah, it, it was a film there that we've talked about and we've, we've chuckled our way through that a little bit. But we probably hit all the high notes of the film.

Reegs: It's only about 80,

Sidey: Eighty one minutes?

Dan: Yeah.

it

could be, Probably could have done about 40 minutes.

Reegs: I laughed way harder at this, all, pretty much all the way through. It's really tasteless, but it just made me

Dan: laugh at it. It is, it it, it was silly for me. It started strong. It had its moments. There was, there was a lull in between where I was kind of just not with it.

Sidey: Yeah, it lost me probably a third half the way

Dan: But then there was some more jokes that that kind of hit home a little bit

It was I've not seen him as a lead character before Norm I can understand why I probably didn't see too much of him, but there was definitely You know some real bizarre moments of comedy and he's you know Adam Sandler John Goodman Chevy Chase Rick Don Rickles

Reegs: I've seen a lot of these like, I've seen like a lot of Rob Schneider movies, like Kevin James, like some really fucking awful shit.

So I know that this stacks up as being like, one of the more mediocre of those. So that's

Sidey: It was a, it was a big flop.

Dan: Yeah, no, it, it, it kinda

Sidey: it doesn't, he doesn't have, I would say

Any real sort of star quality to carry a movie. And I don't think the movie does a good job of showing off like his particular comedic skills.

So it wasn't a great match there. And if you're trying to play it off as like a double act, the other guy is just not strong enough either.

Dan: either.

No, the other guy really wasn't strong enough but, yeah.

Sidey: did make me laugh, more at the start Chevy Chase is a real piece of shit as well. So it was annoying

Reegs: Farley's last ever movie.

Sidey: Yeah, what a way to go out. Yeah. He's quite

Reegs: He was quite good in this as well. He gets his nose replaced at the

end

Dan: the

end.

Yeah.

Reegs: goes off with the hooker in the, with the

Dan: Yeah, really, really silly. It was like I say, definitely had some, some good jokes and, and some, some chuckles along the way. Did lol for me a little all the way through, but,

Reegs: I would think this is in Breachy's wheelhouse, which it's got Adam Sandler in it and it's all those sort

Sidey: because they wanted to make a hard art movie and they had to make a

Reegs: died. So that made it more challenging.

Dan: Say this was this came out on I think prime.

And it says it's a 12. It's not a 12. And maybe if it would have Gone for a 15 or

Sidey: something. Yeah. So

when

Dan: So when you're watching movie with your daughter, it's not great.

Reegs: And photo, here's a photo of your mum blowing

Sidey: you

know, blowing some,

Dan: Yeah. They, they're jokes that tend to fall a little flatter in the company of children. But otherwise yeah.

Reegs: Strong recommend.

Dan: recommend.