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http://www.anchorman-themovie.com/

― ModJ (ModJ), Friday, 23 January 2004 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

'Love that fanny..'

― ModJ (ModJ), Friday, 23 January 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

oh god

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

If this isn't ILX's new favorite film by the end of the summer I will jump naked off the Bay Bridge.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

aw, i thought this was going to be a chance to talk about anchormen in general, listing our favorites and stuff. sigh.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember Colette, a thread is whatever you make it....

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 January 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Lord I've tried the best I can
I've asked everybody in Kazakhstan
But I still don't understand
Bob Wilson - anchorman

I've been to Kent, Gwent and Senegal
I've even been to look for Jim Rosenthal,
Found him on his knees by the Wailing Wall,
crying Bob Wilson, anchorman.

It's cold and lI'm hungry and I'm Dundalk
I've got no bus fare, I gotta walk
It's raining soup and I've got a fork
Where be my Camper van?

I marvel at the things we find beneath the ground
That man can go faster than the speed of sound
But I still can't get my head around
Bob Wilson - anchorman

I'd like to meet Stephenson the engineer
I'd like to meet Faraday and buy him a beer
And I'd love to meet the one who had the bright idea (of)
Bob Wilson - anchorman

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

He's got no eyes you know, Bob Wilson.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought this was about DOuglas from those butter ads

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

or indeed

http://espn.go.com/media/pg2/2002/0301/photo/kent_i.gif

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.papermag.com/magazine/mag_03/mag_apr03/beautiful_people/images/cooper.jpg

swoon.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

dammit Boyler beat me to it

― chris (chris), Friday, 23 January 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Let the record reflect the fact that I typed them out myself, and relied not on google or someone else. This thread is the only part of the interweb with those song lyrics. Welcome, googling HMHB fans.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 23 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

This was very funny!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It was pretty good, but it wasn't nearly as funny as I'd hoped it would be.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i laughed so hard i got a cramp during the sex panther bit.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

leah, my jaws hurt from laughing so hard. i don't really remember any of it now though.

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"it smells like bigfoot's dick!"

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought some of the subtle humor about the 70's was good. Although right now, all I can remember of it was where the newsguys were walking and littering.... funny because it's true!

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

this film had subtle humor?

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

It was pretty good, but it wasn't nearly as funny as I'd hoped it would be.

I'm not alone!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It could have been funnier - Steve Carrell is capable of much more than the character he played .. But I don't think Will Ferrell is too funny usually.. Seems like he can only deliver his lines one way ..

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"it smells like bigfoot's dick!"

YES!

Also "Go back to your home on WHORE ISLAND!".

This film made being a comedian seem like a really good idea!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"BY THE BEARD OF ODIN!"

"gun show"

"whale vagina"

"San Diago"

the whole milk=bad idea moment

trident!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I am quitting my job to become a professional comedian and get my union card.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

'yogging'

― HKM, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

(partial) List of scenes from the trailer that don't appear in the film:

"my wife's probably going to get the kids" "fantastic"

"you know, stories, leads?"

"love that tushie!"

"You took a bullet for me!" "And I would not do so again"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Entire "You're on the air" sequence moved into the titles.

"Ron Burgundy is down, and it is BAD"

"I'd like to be a female anchor." "And I'd like to be King of Australia. Seriously, you sound like an insane person."

Hitchhiking with beard and guitar.

"Take me. Take me right now"

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest there'll be a lot of extras on the DVD.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I threw a trident and killed him

Yeah I saw that!

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

you might want to lay low for a while, because you're probably wanted for murder.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw this last night. I had pain and tears and cramps. Best stupid film I've seen since Zoolander and it's so so so much funnier. "Tits McGee" and "You're a big hooker and I'm going to slap you in public" were two of my highlights.

― Lara (Lara), Saturday, 2 October 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The DVD should be a treat. My appreciation of it will likely grow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 2 October 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely someone can get their hands on a pirate copy sooner? I am going to do some digging.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 3 October 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The "punted" your dog scene had me in tears that shouldn't have been cried but were anyway.

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Sunday, 3 October 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

It is truly, truly wonderful!

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 3 October 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

It is Father Ted the movie. Sort of.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 3 October 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that's heady praise. I can see the conceptual connection but even so, I can't go that far.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 October 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I can kind of see that, even though I like the show better. I think the movie will be much improved on dvd.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 3 October 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew OTM.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 4 October 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

So, so, so funny.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 7 November 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man. I've now seen the trailer for this twice and it was UNBEARABLE...even more so the second time. Bleah.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 7 November 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest there'll be a lot of extras on the DVD.

Well, funny you should mention that.

There are going to be three different DVD versions, all released end of December. One is just a straight up full screen disc with these extras:

Outrageous Bloopers and Outtakes
Over 15 Minutes of Side Splitting Deleted Scenes
Bill Kurtis Interviewing Ron Burgundy
Ron Burgundy Biography-An A&E Special
Ron Burgundy's MTV Music Award Interviews
Afternoon Delight Music Video
Behind-The-Scenes of Afternoon Delight Music Video
ESPN Audition

The second one has the unrated cut of the movie, ten more minutes added (but would that just be the 15 minutes or so of the deleted scenes mentioned above?) and all them bonus features plus.

The THIRD one, however -- that could be the winner. It's a giftset that contains the unrated extended cut w/all features...

*PLUS* a full new film, Wake Up Ron Burgundy, on a separate disc. Not much is known about this except that it's outtakes and side things from all the Anchorman footage straight up -- allegedly the original cut of the film was something like 4 hours -- and so this is probably going to be something like the alternate Spinal Tap footage on that DVD, something where it's the parallel take on the story or the like.

I've been thinking about this film more and more, I suspect getting the DVD will be a good thing indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, one other technical note about the DVD:

English, Aramaic, French and Spanish subtitles and language tracks

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

aramaic! haha

i wonder if the super-extended version will include the SLA plot that was cut out!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 November 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Fucking awesome! I'm definitely going to spring for that third DVD.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 14 November 2004 22:02 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

The DVDs are out and available -- Amazon listings here if you're so inclined.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Awesome.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

haha aramaic!

― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Passion of the Ron would have been a fine movie (Ron leads the disciples to Pleasuretown, no crucifixion necessary)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 December 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i have just ordered the super-duper version from amerika. psyched out of my mind.

i'm just going to throw this one out there. if you don't like it, send it right back...

― henry miller, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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yeah!! but funny.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:14 (twenty years ago)

although i find replay value to be completely unpredictable with all of the ferrell, vaughn, stiller etc stuff.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:14 (twenty years ago)

Wedding Crashers - excellent replay value
Zoolander - slightly less, still good
Old School - less still, but I'll stop and watch it on cable
Anchorman - not much
Dodgeball - none
Starsky & Hutch - I couldn't even watch it once, much less multiple times

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:16 (twenty years ago)

wedding crashers - no
zoolander - no
old school - YES
anchorman - less than expected
dodgeball - dunno
starsky & hutch - saw it on tv last week, was strangely hypnotic

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

what about... ZERO EFFECT?? i saw it in the theater! (?????)

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

thats really good for like bargain ramis/coens/something

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

LAUREL AND HARDY FILMS ARE ALL THE SAME

― the confusing situation Enrique currently endures (Enrique), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:34 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1037314/U-S-newsreader-faces-jail-leaking-saucy-emails-anchorbabe.html

A veteran newsreader has been charged with hacking into his glamorous co-presenter's emails and leaking them to the press.

Larry Mendte, 51, is accused of trying to ruin Alycia Lane's career.

Insiders said Mendte and Miss Lane, 34, appeared friendly on camera, but actually loathed each other.

The older journalist was said to be jealous of Miss Lane's £400,000-a-year salary - £50,000 more than he was paid for their evening news bulletin on a station in Philadelphia.

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr5JU_UDvNY

lol~

― goole, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

haha jesus what is with these two??

http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=13&num=14435

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otx9JR9K70k

― goole, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

the opening is not very promising

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

this script got greenlighted? -_-

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:06 (sixteen years ago)

all of a sudden all the sketch comedy groups at my school make a lot more sense

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:21 (sixteen years ago)

i never found that liveblogging madcap comedy improved the experience but.....

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2010 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

it's kinda like doing something while the TV is on

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:27 (sixteen years ago)

it's kinda like using a dictaphone at a concert

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2010 16:34 (sixteen years ago)

it's not much like that is it?

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2010 16:35 (sixteen years ago)

I guess not. I did laugh at the erection bit.

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:36 (sixteen years ago)

i refuse to be a further part of your distracting yourself from one of the great performances of our time. good day to you.

― quiz show flat-track bully (darraghmac), Monday, 15 February 2010 16:41 (sixteen years ago)

haha. I see upthread people see it as the new zoolander - I didn't really like zoolander either. currently thinking about whether this or meet the parents ranked higher on the film poll

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

the coronado bridge is not really the coronado bridge, it's some bridge in long beach. also, the san diego zoo isn't really the san diego zoo, it's some worthless LA zoo.

― iiiijjjj, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:43 (sixteen years ago)

okay 2x2 rubiks cube is a good sight gag

― dyao, Monday, 15 February 2010 16:55 (sixteen years ago)

the coronado bridge is not really the coronado bridge, it's some bridge in long beach.

Well, the long shots are real, at least.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 February 2010 17:04 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

Sequel is happening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=MrNA7RjU91I

― Number None, Thursday, 29 March 2012 11:53 (fourteen years ago)

A fine thing!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 March 2012 12:22 (fourteen years ago)

i've been thinking the terrible people in my life have been low on material

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 29 March 2012 12:27 (fourteen years ago)

how is that other sorta sequel 'Wake Up Ron Burgundy' that they made out of the deleted scenes/cut footage? anyone catch that?

oh and can i just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdtSkqYT6U8

― piscesx, Thursday, 29 March 2012 12:50 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

lol hueg etc

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17mtntp62j34bjpg/original.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:22 (fourteen years ago)

We have trailer, sorta.

http://gawker.com/5912001/the-anchorman-2-teaser-trailer-will-rock-your-world

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:13 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

can't believe they're releasing a sequel to this shit trash movie

― 乒乓, Monday, 14 October 2013 03:30 (twelve years ago)

Will ferrell is looking mad old in all those dodge spots. Also yeah this movie kind of blew.

― sleepingbag, Monday, 14 October 2013 03:33 (twelve years ago)

four weeks pass...

http://m.pitchfork.com/news/52957-heres-ron-burgundy-riding-a-tandem-bicycle-in-amsterdam-with-daft-punk/

cool story

Sequel looks horrible

― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 11 November 2013 06:33 (twelve years ago)

Ferrell is roughly as funny as cancer

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 November 2013 06:34 (twelve years ago)

http://www.jerriblank.com/201_cancer.mp3

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 11 November 2013 18:30 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

Had some moments.

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 January 2014 14:42 (twelve years ago)

haha wow

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, 9 January 2014 14:47 (twelve years ago)

Yeah.

Overall, there was no need to make this movie.

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:25 (twelve years ago)

the first anchorman man movie came out when i was in seventh grade and for the entire year all anyone at my school did was reference jokes from it. now, no one has even seen this movie and although i was aware that it was being made hadn't even realized it was in theatres. why is it so bad?

― flopson, Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:34 (twelve years ago)

How anybody imagined this would be any good at all is seriously confusing me

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 January 2014 17:39 (twelve years ago)

"Let's all get perms!"

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 January 2014 11:52 (twelve years ago)

^^^
Movie needed more random ass shit like that, fewer lessons/narrative

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 January 2014 11:52 (twelve years ago)

Seriously they should have thrown plot entirely out the window and gone full dada, skits everywhere. This somehow felt more straight laced than the first movie.

A+ though:

-all Carrel/Wiig shit
-awkward/dumb racial dynamics
-a smattering of random one liners

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 January 2014 12:07 (twelve years ago)

Cameos sucked except g. Kin near and h. Ford

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 January 2014 12:07 (twelve years ago)

Oh stuff with the son was good, applegate was a treat, cable news shit had some teeth

― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 January 2014 12:09 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

this was rife with problems but I really laughed through nearly the whole thing. after the first 15 minutes I was afraid it was gonna be a composite of everything I didn't like about the first one but it got really good after that. all those Raymond posts are otm really

― frogbs, Saturday, 25 January 2014 04:23 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

what the hell?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/movies/anchorman-2-returns-call-it-2.html?hpw&rref=movies

― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:33 (twelve years ago)

like the scenes in those movies haven't always been replaceable?

― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:41 (twelve years ago)

right but a theatrical release?

― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 21 February 2014 21:50 (twelve years ago)

three weeks pass...

blecch

― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 20 March 2014 14:07 (twelve years ago)

eleven months pass...

tried to figure out why the first Anchorman was so hilarious at first, and so aggravating to me on repeat views. settled on the fact that the unexpectedness/randomness of the jokes do a lot of the work (as evidenced upthread, pacing is often ignored), and once the surprise element wears off, there's not much left. Contrasting with some of my favorite comedies where they stay as funny on later viewings.

ie the strength of the movie on its first viewing is its universe having no set boundaries, so ridiculous shit like a newsanchor violent, medieval newsanchor brawl can break out randomly. and then said ridiculous factor crescendos to where you start anticipating how far they'll go. too many of the jokes were funny for purely that reason? I mean the bear/dog shit was funny on its own right IMO but some of the other jokes I found myself mostly laughing cos it was a non-sequitur or completely out of left field, and then when the novelty wore off, just wasn't funny.

Not that it's all that way. I still say "This burrito is good but it...is...filling" in Ferrell voice if I'm at taco bell with friends, i mean.

― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 20:43 (eleven years ago)

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