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This is the thread where we discuss Anchorman

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 29 April 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

...Though it could not POSSIBLY be as good as Anchorman.

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 29 April 2006 23:25 (twenty years ago)

choose your bandwidth

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Saturday, 29 April 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

DO YOU PPL NOT SEE

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 30 April 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

when I said I was anticipating this, I guess I wasn't paying attention to the fact that it's a Will Ferrell movie.

tho it does have Richard Fish in it

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 30 April 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

YES! It was everything I hoped for.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

Not wacky enough. Too much Will Ferrell. Not enough gay Mos Def and Elvis Costello.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

Is everyone's favourite British-Jewish comedian his usual amusing self?

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

fucking hilarious. biggest laffs i've had all year in a theater. the baby jesus stuff had me in stitches.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

"We want to retire to Switzerland and design a currency for cats and dogs to use."

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

xpost it's worth it just for the prayers. At the end, it feels kinda empty but it's like funney every minute during.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

and the kids! my god.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

"Somebody made a tape of something dying!"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

the cats and dogs line was genius. the cougar part was the real highlight though; i had trouble staying in my seat for laughing too hard.

why isn't this thread 300 posts long? is there another one tha i've missed?

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 17 September 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

"how much you sellin' that weed for old man"

I saw it twice in the theater--very, very funny.

― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

I liked it. It made me giggle.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 18 September 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know this thread existed! I am in awe of this movie!

― Allyzay is a town of people, people who DIED (allyzay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

Much better than Anchorman.

― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

cosigned 1000000000000000000000000000000x

The bit with We Belong almost made me lose all control of myself!! Also: "Say...I love...crepes."

― Allyzay is a town of people, people who DIED (allyzay), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

"You have made me spill my machiatto" is my new catch phrase.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the Jenga commercial moment - very Zucker Brothers-esque.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

the commercials for this were the first funny thing i've seen will ferrell do, so i wanna see it. there are no actual drivers in it, tho, right (other than DW and BP)?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

"If I wanted you boys to grow up polite and sensitive, we would have called you Dr Quinn, and Medicine Woman".

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

i loved how baron-cohen's character was the embodiment of a paranoid red-stater's idea of a "european".

― latebloomer scrabbly dabbly doo (skawreeng) (latebloomer), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

They knew exactly what they were doing. As did Baron-Cohen.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

And vice versa - Ferrell was the embodiment of a paranoid European's (or New Yorker's) idea of a red state American.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

They knew exactly what they were doing. As did Baron-Cohen.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), September 19th, 2006.

i know, that's what i was saying! i liked that, and thought it was funny.

i tend to come across airheaded sometimes.

― latebloomer scrabbly dabbly doo (skawreeng) (latebloomer), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

no WAY was this half as funny as anchorman

it had a solid 20-30 minutes for HI-LARIOUS though. molly shannon and gary cole were awesome

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Bringin’ the har-hars:
-everything involving prayers and the different jesuses
-everything involving gary cole, molly shannon, and that panther
-“SHAKE AND BAKE!!!!!!” (and the stupid new identities/whatever they came up with at the end which were more WWF than anything else but who cares)
-everything involving “the invisible fire”

Sasha...I dunno. I feel like his character SHOULD have cracked me up but somehow it just didn’t, it fell flat. I’m pretty familiar with NASCAR culture in general though, and I wonder if I’d have laughed harder if I still thought of the sport as a pathetic yahoo wankoff the way I did 6-7 years back.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:23 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't even finish Anchorman but I really enjoyed this. Better satire, better dialogue, better improv, better female leads, better everything.

― Zwan (miccio), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm ... not sure ... what to do with my hands"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

"i'd like to share something kind of personal with you... i got a chubby from driving this fast."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe this thread has gone on this long without the "because i like to party" line being mentioned...
by far my favourite moment in the whole thing

― robin (robin), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

There are two actual drivers ... DE Jr gets Ricky's autograph at one point, and in one race Ricky Bobby defeats Jamie McMurray (in his old Ganassi car) while flipping him the bird. Both the Fox and NBC announcing crews are represented. As a race fan there are more than a few subtle jabs at auto racing mixed in with the many not-so-subtle ones. Ricky's F1 rival being shown driving a Minardi (defunct team that was a periennial backmarker) was a highlight. I went to the NH race last weekend and there was a huge Ricky Bobby merch trailer, favorite items were the Laughing Clown hat and a "I'm Coming For You" Jean Girard t-shirt.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I was so into this movie, everything was so completely on point, that I didn't even REALIZE how great it was until late in the film when Will improvised some joke about becoming a friendly crack dealer that fell completely flat, and I blinked a couple times and did the math and it turned out that was the ONLY CRAP JOKE IN THE MOVIE.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

why have i not seen this?

something is fucked in the state of denmark.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

"Is that Mos Def and Elvis Costello?"
"...No."

― Allyzay is a town of people, people who DIED (allyzay), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

plz to give context of "because i like to party" line, i totally can't remember that part

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I went to the NH race last weekend

loudon? used to be the speed capital of new hampshire before they built the speedway there.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

which is kind of funny now that i see it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Cal Naughton, Jr.: Ricky, if you turn on the stereo, how do you control the volume on the television?
Ricky Bobby: If you have the stereo on, why would you turn up the volume on the TV?
Cal Naughton, Jr.: Cause I like to party.

― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

thanx zaxxon. why never any love for jamie mcmurray?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha xpost i didn't remember that either

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Thursday, 21 September 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

holy shit this was unbelievable. Far better and tighter than Anchorman.

I hope the exposure that SBC got from this and the other shenanigans makes the Borat flick a big hit. Also, I completely didn't recognize Jane Lynch w/ the long hair. You knew you'd seen her elsewhere, and I knew her voice, but I couldn't place her.

The audience starting humming the Journey song during the scene.

Did anybody notice that Wayne Kramer & Tom Morello did the music for the flick?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

i was dying during the scene where the one kid was talking shit to his grandpa

"shut up you chimp or i'll go ape on you like a spider monkey"

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the crack joke was great.

― wolfwolfwolf (wolfwolfwolf), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

dude that shit with the Pat Benetar song STILL makes me laugh.

― Allyzay ＇へ＇凸 (allyzay), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

... and the discussion of the nacho fountain at the wedding.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

and the invisible fire sequence. "Baby Jesus" AND "Jewish God"

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

"By the way Ricky I watched ze Highlander movie. It was shit!"

qft

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

netflix sent this to me today. I will laugh again.

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

This was shit (sort of): Product placement hell. "Haliburton? Now there's a stock I'd like to get in on" FUCK YOU HOLLYWOOD! FUCK YOU WILL FERRELL YOU ARE NOT FUNNY!*

Except the baby jesus arguement, the Cal as Magic Man moment, the cougar in the car, "harder than a diamond in a snowstorm", "I like to Party", "Dr Quinn and the Medecine Woman", "I'm ... not sure ... what to do with my hands", there were probably one or two more minutes but still WTF with Baron Cohen's accent?

This is what kills me in a way, I starter by really enjoying the film but by the end I couldn't laugh because of all the product placement! It just really got on my nerves. Sad but true...

*Sometimes he is but most of the time, no. His schtick gets very tiresome.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

"We got those in there for profilin' purposes. We also got the Pet Shop Boys and Seal."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

is SBC's accent supposed to be kind of off? it's torn between laughing at people who think french people are pretentious and laughing at french people for being pretentious.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah i think maybe a little

― A B C, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

few xposts

Aw, c'mon, the rampant product placement is clearly part of the joke, like Nascar is all lol logos everywhere! The scene with the big fast food dinner and the Applebee's bits are straight up "dudes have no taste" digs. I'm not even sure how the Halliburton joke counts as product placement as the name has become more notorious for the war than any shopping impulse that it may trigger. The product placement wasn't gratuitous, it was usually part of a gag.

― m bison, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think this movie was all that funny throughout (SBC in particular was frustratingly unfunny), although the entire dinner table sequence was funnier by itself than most other comedies ever hope to be. I did love Mos Def's racing knowledge though.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

of course his accent is supposed to be off??

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 28 March 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

this shit was funny.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I Loved Anchorman and I loved this. WIll Ferrell is great!

― admrl, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I thought SBC was pretty hilarious.

I don't remember Mos actually having any lines!

― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'll back up kv nol on the product placement being extremely irritating. I think they tried to make it into a joke by making it totally obnoxious, but guess what, "funny" obnoxious product placement is still fucking obnoxious. Though I don't think the Halliburton reference was actually product placement.

Some funny scenes, but really disappointing in comparison to Anchorman.

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

And SBC was one of the best things about this movie.

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Walker and T.R. are the most funniest kids in all movie history. "Gramma, you're gonna break us like a coupla wild horses, aint'cha?" BEST FAMBLY CIRCUS LINE EVAR.

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

i have zero memory of mos def being in this film

― gff, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

He was at SBC's garden party with Elvis Costello!

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit that's right! yeah that was great

― gff, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

No way was this as good as Anchorman, if for no other reason than the dead weight of 15 minutes of kiddie Ricky Bobby/montage stuff at the beginning that would've been way funnier and faster if they'd done it as expository dialogue by adult Ricky Bobby (we didn't need a crap child actor showing us why Ron Burgundy is the way he is, did we?). Also I'm a SBC hater but I know I'm in the minority here on that point.

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

the "unrated" cut on the version of the DVD most people I imagine end up with actually fucks up several of the gags that I loved in the theater.

not saying sbc is the new peter sellers or anything but I think random beardo I overheard on some east village sidewalk describing his performance as "inspector clouseau as a gay nascar driver" basically nailed it.

whole movie generally hilarious and fantastic, though.
i hold a completely opposite opinion of anchorman.

DON'T YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON ME RICKY BOBBY

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

this was a more sincere film than 'anchorman'.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I really wanted to hug John C Reilly in this movie.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I was really underwhelmed by Anchorman, even Paul Rudd isn't funny in it. Talledega Nights was much funnier.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

I can't decide if this is worth renting or not.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

SBC was really funny in this.

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

this was a more sincere film than 'anchorman'.

That one guy that quit on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:53 PM (4 minutes ago)

...ha?

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

is there anything in this movie as funny as "go back to your home on whore island" or Kelly Bundy hitting Farrell over the head with a teletype machine?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Interview on Fresh Air here where Will Ferrell talks about how John C Reilly was so taken with their filmmaking/writing process that he'd spend extra time hanging around on set, coming up with extra gags to put in the flick.

― kingfish, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

"writing process"? Anchorman looked 90% improvised to me.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

it seemed very affectionate in the end. i'm not saying that's entirely a bad thing but being an effete anglo i kind of prefer 'go fuck yourself san diego' to applebees/nascar love. (because i barely know what those things are.)

"the "unrated" cut on the version of the DVD most people I imagine end up with actually fucks up several of the gags that I loved in the theater."

this is the version i saw and this does seem to be the case often.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a DVD but I'm not sure if it was the unrated cut -- some examples of what was different please?

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

actually having mos def and elvis costello talk.
in the theater they don't, they pass right by the table off to the bushes and ricky goes 'hey was that mos def and elvis costello?' to which sbc responds "no" which is forty times more hilarious to me

also I don't remember the boob flashing contest at the end from the theater version

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

in the theater they don't, they pass right by the table off to the bushes and ricky goes 'hey was that mos def and elvis costello?' to which sbc responds "no" which is forty times more hilarious to me

Oh, that explains why I don't remember them talking. It was a hilarious anti-cameo.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

the ridiculous flashing contest was not in the theatrical version, and it drags on incessantly and obnoxiously, AND you don't even actually get to see tits. it is the most pointless bullshit i have ever seen appended to a movie and basically is the reason why the "director's version" or whatever is awful.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Best bit:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zKDC2iBQTYg

― schwantz, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

ally and tom off the money, leslie bibb's reaction to amy adams' boobs was hilarious. maybe it was better in the theater, but i didn't see it there so i can't muster up that much hatred.

― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

― s1ocki, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

sometimes i wonder how you people are human and living

― homosexual II, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

The fastest get paid, and the fastest get laid.

― kingfish, Thursday, 1 May 2008 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

the "unrated" cut on the version of the DVD most people I imagine end up with actually fucks up several of the gags that I loved in the theater.

otm, they messed with the "currency for cats and dogs" bit, which pisses me off

― latebloomer, Thursday, 1 May 2008 05:27 (eighteen years ago)

wow. the dvd cut kills the "was that elvis costello/mos def?" joke, too.

― kingfish, Thursday, 1 May 2008 06:45 (eighteen years ago)

you can find the theatrical on dvd too, you just have to hunt for it. it's really fucking annoying.

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 May 2008 07:11 (eighteen years ago)

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