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Apr 29, 2020 1 hr 5 min

Pubcast 50: Ferris Bueller (Part 2)

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Part 2 of our extra-long breakdown of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. This one includes our famous game, "How Much Are They Worth?" Do you have a movie you'd like us to breakdown? Let us know in the comments.

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12 cash. If you're not listening to Bobcats, the terrorists are winning. That's a James Worsens. Welcome to the Pope Cost.

Sit down and enjoy your point. Okay, we're back. Finally, after a long hiatus, the Pope test is back. After the past few months, we've had to fight through all sorts of technical issues, software updates, the publishing platform not working properly, and then a little thing called coronavirus hit.

And apparently my computer caught it. It was in recovery for about three weeks. The jackasses who were fixing it must be listening to Trump because the cure was definitely worse than the problem. But I make a computer back.

We can edit things. We can publish things. So we're all, we're all good. So the Pope cast is back with a new format.

If you don't, that was fine. You couldn't get together often enough to generate any sort of rhythm. So we're going back to our roots. This podcast was originally called Boardwalk Breakdown.

And we used it to just go through that week's episode of Boardwalk Empire Breakdown, the themes and the characters and all that good stuff. So now we're going to mostly focus breaking down with classic movies. Some of our favorite movies and maybe even TV shows, another pop culture stuff. So with this new format, I'm also going to experiment with some different music choices and different segments so things will evolve in the next few episodes.

So in this first episode in our new format, we decided to tackle Ferris Bueller's Day Off. A classic movie that everybody likes. There's all sorts of behind the scenes stuff that we get into. We recorded this on day six of the quarantine, which seems like three years ago at this point.

This one ran a little long, so I broke it up into two parts. So here's part two of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I said it before and I'll say it again. Life moves pretty fast.

You don't stop and look around once in a while. You could miss it. What's so dangerous about a character like Ferris Bueller is he gives good kids bad ideas. Why should he get to skip school when everybody else has to go?

Civiletic meningitis? He never gets caught. He's got my biology class. So the Ferris dies.

He's giving his eyes to Stevie Wonder. Well he's very popular yet. I recall a central park in full. Ferris Bueller Jones?

Yeah he's going to be out of summer school. They think he's a righteous dude. Can you give me a life this weekend? I can see him denying popular beliefs, setting off on some mission.

He jeopardizes my ability to effectively govern the student body. He does whatever he wants. You know I always have known him. Everything works for him.

What he wants. Very cool and he never gets nailed. Ferris can do anything. Oh he's such a sweetie.

Wake up and smell the coffee Mrs. Bueller. It's a fool's paradise. He is just leading you down the firm rose path.

Matthew Brokery, Bueller. Ferris Bueller. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Because life is too beautiful a thing to age.

What does movie work today? Okay. What would the supposed to be? Okay.

So I think my two questions that I wanted to ask are more closely related to recastardate if they were redoing this in 2020. It's a small thing but I remember talking about it with my friends all the time. And I quickly referenced it, Brendan, while we were rewatching it today. And that was Jeannie's Fiero.

That I connect to Dorr Carr. What would be the 2020 version of that car that she would have that everybody would be talking about? She got a car? I got a computer kind of thing.

A mini Cooper or something? I thought of that. But anyway, it's a small thing but just it played such a big part in watching that movie and it was so 80s and it was so stylish. Oh my god.

I wish I had that car. It was not like a high end car. It was definitely. Yeah.

Yeah. Prius. I don't think it's not trendy enough. No, not trendy enough.

The trendy cars are expensive these days. It's the cheap. It could be a cheap. Every high school kid wants cheap.

Right. Yeah. That might work. So my second question, it might be a little bit more of a debate and you sort of referenced it at the beginning of the discussion, which is the Doncashain song.

If this were remade in 2020 for the parade scene, would they do Doncashain and Twist and Shout still? Or would there be songs that would be 20 years more current? So something out of the 80s and 90s. It was filled.

So I was filled in the 80s and those songs are from the 60s. 50s and 60s. Doncashain I think might be late 50s. I'd have to look.

So you kind of think about the retro song. Would it be like a Bon Jovi song? So I was kind of looking at that. Is it Bon Jovi?

Is it? Pour some sugar on me. I was looking living on a like what would be? It's got to be something pointed away.

To me that's what it is. Yeah. So Eric, I don't know if you had any thoughts about that. If redoing the movie, if the songs would be different in the parade scene.

If they did it, I think they would switch up Doncashain. But I think that's the one they would have to do. They would have to do Twist and Shout again. I don't think yeah.

I don't think anybody would let them get away with doing anything else. That's not the shame would be some sort of like Michael Blue Blay bullshit. Something like that from from from 1999 or whatever. So the Doncashain one for me felt like more of the one that would stick because of the German like the parade.

Yeah. The one song that I thought of that might work is Don't Stop Believing by Journey. Yeah. Kind of thinking about so this is a you're talking about this is a parade that's happening all the week.

It's mostly there. That's to me that is the Twist and Shout song. Right. I don't know.

I totally agree. Doncashain. It has to be like a Vegas crew song. Right.

It's almost like it's not the Natural songs, but it is. But I don't know what that is in 1995. Right. It's a Harry Conic song.

It's a Harry. Harry Connick Jr. something. Or it could be like Big Dead Beauty Daddy.

Oh, that's good. Yeah, that's very good. Yeah. Oh, totally.

Totally, totally. Anyway, that when we were kind of thinking about remaking this movie, is there any big part of the movie that would significantly change? And that those that scene is so iconic of the Twist and Shout and the Doncashain. Would they keep it?

I think you keep Twist and Shout and I think Doncashain has to change. I have no idea. It's what. All right.

Eric, what do you think? I agree. I agree. I agree with me.

The Twist and Shout would have to say. Apparently, you pissed off a palm card. You were using that. Oh, really?

Because it was a version he didn't like. Oh. He didn't like the. Yeah, I read that too.

He didn't like the brass instruments. Yeah. To Brassy. Shout out McCartney and just collect the check.

Okay. Memorable scenes and quotable lines. Okay. I'm just going for quotes.

All the scenes we can go through, but they're almost too obvious to even discuss. I think so I'm gonna go through. My short list of quotable lines are the most memorable quotes. If I miss any, throw them out there.

Okay. This is one of those movies because of how old it is and how old we are and how fun a movie this was. There's tons of quotes. The whole goddamn thing is quotes.

But so that's quotes. Bueller, Bueller, that was a huge one. Arguably the biggest one. The most, the biggest, most iconic one is life moves pretty fast.

If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you can miss it. That's, that was in the trailer. That was on a movie posters. That's the quote of the movie.

There's in terms of studios and marketing and right, public consciousness probably, right? And it really sums up the movie. Yeah. It's set by the main character to the screen breaking the word wall.

So this one's, this one's used in everyday life in boardrooms in wherever in offices in just joking around all the time. And I don't think people realize that, and I don't know if it originated in this movie, but it's definitely in the movie and it's people are age when they say I'm referencing this movie. It's part of my friends, but you're an asshole. Right.

I don't know if that's where it originated from. It's a part of my friends, but that's right. Okay. This is a good one.

Cameron's so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass in two weeks, you'd have a diamond. Fantastic. I almost fell out of my chair laughing the first time. Oh, absolutely.

And you said that. Yeah. That was one of the most exciting ever in my life. One of my favorite ones is one when I watched the movie and it happened today.

When it happened on screen, I have to say it. I'm compelled to say it with the movie. Hi, do you speak English? What kind of thing is it?

Right. The look at his face. He's so like reaction to it. A friend in my friend.

What country do you think this is? This is a good one from Cameron. He'll keep calling me. He'll keep calling me.

He'll like him over and make me feel guilty. This is ridiculous. I'll go. I'll go.

I'll go. I'll go. Shit. I'll go.

Shit. I'll go. Yeah. Fuck me in the car.

Uh, so this is a long one from Ferris. When he said this one at the time in seventh grade, I was sort of, I didn't know what he was talking about. I do have a test today. That wasn't bullshit.

It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point? I'm not European. I don't plan on being European.

So he who gives a crap of their socialist? They can be fascist anarchists. It still doesn't terms of the fact that I don't have a car. I loved it.

I never knew what he was talking about. Right. I did write down two options for best scene. They're not quotes, but they're scenes.

Okay. I've got quotes. We'll come back to the points in a second. You're still gonna throw them out there and just get them off my list.

Obviously, the DACA chain and the twisting shout on the float, it's gotta be in everyone's shortlist of best scenes or iconic scenes for the movie, right? The one that I like the best, the one that you might like the best, Alison, is when Jeannie kicks really in the face three times. So good. When she's in the house.

Those three kicks so quickly to his face, his reaction, her reaction to him falling fucking fantastic. I'm pretty sure it was one of the hardest, the first time I saw it, it was the hardest I've laughed in my whole life. It could be like still top five, the hardest I've laughed in my whole life. The whole sequence of that scene, the editing of it is so good.

It's great. Anybody have so what are some other options of the most portable lines? The secretary, when she's talking about how everybody loves Maris the geek, the voice, the movie stitches. I think he's a right just to agree.

I did. Oh, man, all of hers purposely because I couldn't choose between them. So every word out of her mouth is pure gold. Yeah.

So Eric, I was telling this to Brendan, I think for the first 20 years after watching this movie, taking a mint out of a mint dish. Like you had to say it out loud. And still, I would say at least half the time, I do it. I either say it or I think it every single time.

Yeah, I do like also, I don't trust that guy is for like a throw. I don't trust that guy is for like a throw. Well, if you're bad, yeah, you shouldn't be throwing anybody. That's great.

Another one. Give him a look. He gives him a look after he says that it's double bound. Yeah.

He's so aggravated with her. I can just imagine them going through this sort of bullshit every damn day. Yeah. So the other line that anytime it's like it happens or you hear it, you think it, which is never had one lesson.

No, that's a good one. That's a good one. That's a good one. That was one of the things I just read.

They that scene was totally improvised because they just the prop people they put the room together and the clarinet was in there and John used the MacuBrotic side and MacuBrotic like, oh, I can play it and I don't know what that's going to be. And so then and he just said, MacuBrotic can provide that line. I have a lot of other like favorite parts which are always very subtle. But I'd say we probably covered the big ones for me.

Yeah. I think there's a few on with Jeannie that I think have not been mentioned. Oh, there's a ton of Cameron that we don't deliver when Cameron was. Yeah.

Anything he says in the bed is great. Jeannie's don't go piss up a flag hole. Like it's so good. Yeah.

Yeah. One day you might need a favor for Ferris Bueller. The more you beat. You heartless winch.

Yeah. I laughed out loud today. All right. Let's move on to pet peeves.

So actually I the scene that I want to talk about for me like the first time I thought it blew my mind because I've never seen anything like it before like watching a movie when Ferris, well first Ferris, first person to fourth wall and talk to the camera. But then when there's the graphics next to him lifting out the like the camera's hair and skin. I never seen anything like that before and that Lord be. Yeah.

I thought this was great. And it made me laugh so hard. I did not look this up. There's there's probably a sidebar we could do off of this on the influences of Ferris Bueller on other movies and TV shows and stuff and things that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for this movie.

Was there a TV show that spun off of this? There was. Did it for anything was blown I think. Yeah.

I believe junk was junk prior to me Ferris. I don't remember. Yeah. We could do that some other time.

But there is there is a version there is an episode we could do on the influences or spin-offs extensions of Ferris Bueller almost. Pet peeves. I don't have the pet peeves like nothing stood out like oh I would say would have done this or I would say wouldn't have done that or something the plot was I didn't like it or a character I didn't like or whatever it is. I had no pet peeves with this movie.

Nothing stood out. I don't either. The only thing that came up and it came up again today is we were watching it which is if you're from Chicago the logistics of doing everything that they're doing based on where they're located in the city and if you have a car it's difficult. You could never do that day.

But sidebar I can remember which one of our kids had this as a math assignment they had to plot out the on a map you know where they went what was the distance how long would it take to get there what would be the fastest mode of transportation to do all of the different things in the city of Chicago that Ferris and Cameron and Sloan did that day and could they do it in that amount of time. Which kudos to that teacher for coming up with the assignment. Great but that's sort of that's a common Hollywood thing is like the geography never works out. No and like if you watch effectively every movie doesn't but John Rick does one where like so John Rick two or three like in one scene he's in Brooklyn and he turns his corner in the bunnies downtown Manhattan doing something and he's going down this street and all of a sudden he's in New Jersey somehow like you play with the geography all the place but yeah it's about the visuals.

Yeah but I would have known that had I not Chicago so it's definitely a thing but it doesn't even qualify as a pet peeve I mean we're all aligned there's no real flaws with this one that jumped out of us at least. Watching the movie today was the only time I really came thought of this but a pet peeve that I have is living in Chicago that Chicago all day long ago to read this field are all over the sea Chicago and Cameron is wearing a Detroit Red Wing through. I know apparently that was a John Hughes thing because he grew up partially at least in Detroit and was a fan of the Red Wings Gordial. Yeah I would have called this a pet peeve but I always wondered even at the beginning how did the mom not go in the room when she comes home to check on him.

No I mean how did I mean okay again it's dad looks over he sees him in the car like how do you know. He doesn't recognize his parents. I know. Speaking of the dad going back to the quotes Rapa Hautalarama.

Yeah there have been numerous times where I've uh uh quoted that scene. Alright let's move on to Rotten Tomatoes. Okay I've got two scores for you. I want you to guess what you think they are.

The audience score you know zero to 100 percent and the critics score zero to 100 percent. What do you think Ferris Bueller's Day off scored with the audience zero to 100? 87. Eric what do you think?

Eric is closest. The audience gave it a 92 percent which I think is low. I'm surprised it's below 95. Yeah.

Yeah. What do you think the critics score was Al? Critics are generally harsher than the audience but 71. I was gonna say 75.

Eric is closer again. Of course he is. Barely. He sort of prices prices right at you.

Uh critics score of 80 percent. Really? Certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes but 80. And is that so is that a current would that have been at the time of the movie came out like thumbs up thumbs down, Cisco New York kind of thing.

It's an aggregate of everything. Everything. Old scores and new scores whatever. I don't know who's reviewing it now but you know.

Like I mean they'll have Roger Ebert reviews from 85 or whatever. So okay to that end or more Rotten Tomatoes stuff there you can go through all the reviews. So I picked out one two three four five five reviews that I thought were interesting. Obviously you can get the highest of the high lowest of the low but I picked a few that were notable just because of the publication they're for or the reviewer and then what that to say.

So you'll see a pattern in some of these. Kathleen Carroll the New York Daily News. Fairies Bueller has some cheerfully zany scenes but it lacks the originality and verb of Hughes's previous telltale team comedies. So she sort of luke warm on.

Yeah. Oh New York Daily News. Variety that doesn't say what it is but Variety said and they don't reviews from the time too. Yeah.

Fairies Bueller exhibits John Hughes on off day. Paucity of invention here. Lays Bueller the total absence of plot or involving situations. So again that is why I kind of picked a lower because I want to say I remembered it was more like audiences loved it more than critics loved it.

Yeah what you would expect right. I'm surprised that the New York Daily News and Variety were like eh it's okay that's weird. The New York Times. Nina Downton.

In this film Hughes has created a character who is every teenage whose fantasy but in the process he has lost some of the authenticity of his other movies. I think that the others always had kind of these deeper emotional components to them. Yeah this movie it was far lighter I mean he's talking to the audience and it's yeah it's kind of I don't know if they need the right word but it's yeah it but I always struggle with that because not that particular but when but it's it's not trying to be those other movies it's a different formula of a movie it's a different kind of movie almost a different genre than the other ones right. I agree.

So don't measure against the other ones they're not the same category. Measure against what it's trying to be but whatever fine. So I've got that's kind of how Hollywood works though they yeah and that's one of those good problems. You know the same thing over and over again this is what you do good we want to get to with that and so I've got I've got an excerpt of Gene Siskol's review and Roger Ebert's review.

Okay of the time of the time. Okay good they both wrote these lengthy reviews I just picked out sort of the gist of each one. I think I went to all the details of the character of this the character that John Hughes whatever so these are the distilled versions of their reviews. So here's Siskol and then there's the matter of the film's overall structure.

At the end of the picture we get the message that Ferris may have an altruistic motive for ditching. He may be oh sorry it may be that he really sees himself as a as the class pied piper setting an example for free living spirit free living spirit for his uptight friends who have typical rotten parents. If the element of Ferris as teacher had been scattered more frequently throughout the movie it would have been a better film. The picture should be re-edited.

Whoa. Two stars he gave two stars out of four. His mini review was like less than a sentence is it's not worth cutting class Gene Siskol. Wow.

So he obviously went to more detail but there he even talks about the Ferris is a do-gooder trying to help Cameron or this Garth character that didn't make the cut but he saw that without knowing all that backstory I'm sure. I didn't see that at the time it's just a kid cutting class. I think the knucklehead. That's why Gene Siskol is Gene Siskol.

I don't know. So now here's Ebert's review. He's generally easier than Siskol I think but I don't know if that's the case exactly but different obviously. Ebert here is one of the most innocent movies in a long time.

A sweet warm hearted comedy about a teenager who skips school so he can help his best friend wins himself respect. In all of his films adults are strange distant creatures who love their teenagers but fail completely to understand them. Don't use this film. That's the case here all right.

All of the adults including the Bumwing school Bumwing high school Dean Jeffrey Jones are dimwitted and one-dimensional. The movie solutions to Cameron's problems are pretty simplistic but the film's heart is in the right place and Ferris Bueller is slight whimsical and sweet three stars three out of four. So Siskol gave it two said it was okay but they should have re-edited the whole thing. Ebert said three out of four and it's a warm-hearted comedy.

I think he got it a little bit. I think he's got it. He intended it to be more. Yeah these reviews are interesting because they didn't have the knowledge in hindsight that we just talked about.

He came to call it a cult classic because it was so mainstream and so big and hot. It's gotta be on whatever list of top comedies. I don't know where you put it but it's in the top 100 movies to watch during the quarantine. Here's people who stay off needed in there for sure.

A quarantine class. Yeah. It's so much of it. It's so ingrained in pop culture.

Yeah you can't even say it's like a cult classic because it's a better way to pop culture. Yeah. So this leaves us with two categories left. Would this movie work today?

My first thought is no because of the cell phones but when you introduce cell phones into this it just makes it a different movie but would it work? I don't know. I feel like it could because I think he could be doing like having pictures of him but he's posting on Facebook or on Snapchat or whatever of not feeling good that he's posting while he's doing all these other things to kind of have a false trail. It becomes more of a scavenger hunt.

Yeah. He's finding all these hints and includes online through whatever social media thing or who knows what. There's more of a chase in it than the term. Or can it also be a joke within itself where people are taking pictures but they're never quite you know how we saw how it's pure.

Yeah. You can't quite get them. I thought of that with the parade scene. I love it.

Kind of thinking about he's had all of those girls around him so like his face is always kind of like he's sort of covered up. That would be great. Yeah. And he's changed his clothes so many times.

Yeah. Yeah. He's at the border trade at the really field at Shae Paul. Yeah.

But I did think about you know rather than the guy walking through the halls with the soda can collecting change would be like a GoFundMe thing and then what like would be done with the month like going back to the do-go-d-er thing like what would he end up doing with that money in a very different way. Instead of a girl in the hall talking on the payphone he'd be texting people in class. Yeah. Yeah.

So again it had the graphics on the screen of people reading their text that they're typing. Yeah. Would he be on his own YouTube channel like Facebook LIVING? Wherever he was.

I don't know about that. But I think you were talking all the technology that he had. But you were talking earlier about all the technology that he had. Today he still would have all of that text but it would be much more sophisticated that he would use it again for videos or pictures that he would have created already as a false trail so to speak of what was happening with him not feeling well for the day and that's what gets spread around all through the high school and all of this stuff while he's out doing whatever.

He had a technical online apparatus to show that he was sick in various ways. Yeah. So I had this one area that I wanted to have this for other movies. I included it for this one but I didn't have an answer for this.

But what would or could a sequel be to this movie? I don't know that this one needs a sequel. I don't know that anything makes sense. But we were talking about earlier today.

The sequel that I want to see really doesn't involve Ferris. Like I want to see like Cameron the college days. You know Cameron at school. What is he doing?

Or I want to see and Rooney after he's fired his principal. Where does he go and what sort of stupid things is he doing. I want to see those stories not so much the Ferris story. Or yeah I mean I always wondered about like I could never think of a decent sequel and tell you somebody else a story.

What if her senior year becomes Ferris and takes her day off because she sort of has this change of heart at the end of the movie. Oh genies they off? Yeah and have genies they off. I like that.

I like that. I had thought of kind of thinking of the different character angle is of course the Charlie Sheen character. Well so it'd be Jeannie and Garth's Weekend at Bernie's or whatever it is. Or just having a story or having a parallel story you have Garth's story his whole movie and then his movie ends with him at the police station.

I mean he's singing there. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. That's the question. Do you go prequel?

Do you go simultaneous movie? Do you go sequel or what an old one? Well one thing I toyed about when I was coming up with the 2020 version is but he's too old which is having Matthew Broderick be the dad. Oh yeah not as Ferris but just be the dad as a nod to the old movie.

Oh I have him as Ed Rooney. I have him as the principal. He's not the guy I forgot but yeah. Alright well let's move to the finale here and this is the celebrity net worth how much are their worth game.

Let me pull this up. This is going to be interesting because we have a lot of not big names on this list. So Eric if you're not familiar this is where you have to guess the net worth of these celebrities and close this one to it wins that round and whoever gets the most wins overall just for shits and giggles. I almost always finish last so you should have no problem finishing at least second so we'll see how that goes.

So the contenders the five contenders for this movie are Jeffrey Jones and Ed Rooney. Jeffrey Gray, Jeannie, Mia Sarah, Sloane, Alan Rock, Cameron, Matthew Broderick, Ferris. You got a picture of the scene? Well Corey Maemz on the Charlie Sheen.

Charlie Sheen's breakout movie apparently. Alright so let's start with Jeffrey Jones. The way that Jeffrey Jones is net worth. And he didn't have some legal issues or was that just a show pornography involved or was that a kind of a false show?

I don't know I don't know if it's your fault. He appears in the hunt for October that's all I know. And wasn't he and how are the duck? How are the duck?

Who's an Amadeus? He was a beet juice? Oh Beetlejuice. Okay all right.

I'm gonna say 1.5 million. Whoa. Out of the box 1.5 round. I think that's a little bit.

I'm going I'm going with legal troubles. Well Beetlejuice, Ferris, hunt for October. Any number of other parts here and there. Plus some legal issues.

Maybe there's a divorce in there. I don't know. Um residuals, above the 80s. I'm gonna go with five.

Whoa. Five million. Alright Eric. I'm just um I'm gonna say three.

I guess I'm splitting the difference. I don't think we're all gonna be low though. I don't think so. Someone has hit it on the nose.

So Eric when someone gets it exactly you get a bonus point. So instead of winning one point in that round you win two. Okay. So it's worth twice as much.

Obviously it's in a game of five. That's a big deal. So Jeffrey Jones, net worth 1.5 million. Oh yeah.

So Allison gets a double whammy. Let's see if I can see anything out here. I'm a dais, Ferris Bueller, easy money. He was on TV shows, Sarah and Co-Jack.

Fantastic. In 2003 he played no contest to felony charges related to child pornography and solicitation. He is registered as a sex offender. It's a petarass dude.

Quintana man. He can roll. Alright, uh Jennifer Gray. I guess I'll get weird timing but I'm gonna make a correction for what he said before.

Jennifer Aniston, I look at some when we're talking Jennifer Aniston did not play Sloan on the TV show. She played Jeannie. Oh yeah. For Aniston, she's a Jeannie on the Ferris Bueller show.

Got it. And she almost didn't take friends because of that, right? I didn't realize they were that close. Yeah.

That was, she had done a pilot and stuff like that for Ferris Bueller, the TV show and then the friends came and it was real close. Okay, Jennifer Gray. What is her net worth? We know her from 30 Dancing.

We know her from this. And then I don't remember her anything and anything else. I know I've seen her in other things but she looks so generic. She was, she comes ago if you never knew she was there.

Yeah, she's a Lego minifigure. Like she's just a blank slate. Whatever. So I'm putting her at, I think she's done some stuff that we don't know about.

Couldn't even be like the voice of the stuff. I don't know, she married. I don't know either. I got stuff.

I'll put her at 2.3 million. Okay. That's 30 Dancing Money. You think, right?

30 Dancing Money. Still got it. Still coming in. I'll give her a second.

All right. Al. I'd say eight and a half. Oh, you know, I just, you know, she's very, I don't know if she's still married to him but I think she was married to Bill Colton, Agent Colton, that actor.

Oh, really? I think they were married. I don't think still are. I don't know.

Jennifer, Jennifer Gray's net worth. That was a make her guess. I said 8.5. Yeah, 8.5 now.

2.3 for me. 6 for you. She had a net worth of 10 million. I think you just, I almost said 10.

Yeah. All right. This round, we are writing down our numbers before we say it. Okay.

So that we don't steal each other's or don't prices rate each other. Which is not what I, I know, I'm just saying before. Okay. Only, only done this in the past.

We've done it that way. Okay. Okay. Mia, Sarah.

We only know her from legend and for those people. And time cop, that's it. I'm gonna write down my, I've got my number. Allison's got hers about you, Eric.

Yeah. I get, I get, I'll play, I'll play 1.5. 1.5 for Eric. I said 1.

What do you got? 800,000. 800,000 is Mia Sarah the same as MIA. Somebody has hit this on the nose.

This is two in one game. It's not me. Mia Sarah's net worth is 1.5 million. He rack back in the game.

You're down three to one. Because Allison is killing both of us. Well, he got it on the nose. We got to, you got to double.

So you're down three to two. The legend from there wants to be a, she was in Queenie daughter of darkness, a stranger among us, time tracks, which would garbage, time cop, quality Chicago, Hope, Jack and the Beanstalk, the real story. Birds of prey, the animated series, um, see a sign of York, the witches of Oz. She won a Saturn award, a Saturn award for her performance in time cop.

Wow. Was Jean Claude. Fantastic. Nice.

All right. Alan Ruck, you know him as Cameron. I know for sure he did that Michael J. Fox show, Prince of the X-Men City.

And you've seen him here in there about a moment, exactly. He was in speed? Yes, he was. He was definitely on that bus.

I also remember him being on some other before Spin City and thinking about it now, sort of a precursor to friends where it was like a bunch of young people, sort of group of friends, sort of living together. And he's part of that. Sounds vaguely familiar. Oh, three songs?

See, I, I think I know what it is. I don't know if he was in it though, but there was one coincidentally that we're talking about this that Molly Ringwald was in called Townies. Oh. It was a friend, a friend's ripoff for a season.

Oh, yeah. I want to use a map one. I don't know. All right.

Do you have your number, Eric? Just say yes or no, then Elton and I come through ours down. Yes, I have my number. All right.

My number is 12 million. Whoa. I've got five. Mine was four.

Okay. See, when I'm like a huge outlier, it's always a problem. I feel like he, did he do any directing? I don't know.

I feel like there's something big that we're missing. Oh, I think there definitely is. Alan Ruck, are they net worth of 10 million dollars? Wow.

It's been city, blocks and blues on the runway. Is it producing or something? He's in bad boys in 83, not that bad boys, but the bad boys chart, starting Sean Penn. Class with Sean Cusa, that is all that old stuff.

I guess appearances on tons of shows like scrubs, Stargate, Atlantis, Cougar Town, Ghost Town, The Happening, I Love You Beth Cooper, Extreme Measures, TV, and Persons Unknown. So lots of little stuff. Great. Nickled in nine to 10 million.

Wow. All right. And the finale, the big gun, Matthew Broderick, what is his net worth? Thank you.

This is the Sarah Jessica department money. Good job. I don't know. I don't know how they calculated exactly.

So we just go with whatever they do. I would think there's some connection there, but I don't know how much of it sort of leads over. I'm going to put him at, I've got a number, Alison's got a number. Do you have a number, Eric?

Yeah. All right. This is a net worth. Alison, what do you got?

I feel like I'm going way out on a limb going first. I've got 52 million. Ooh, I've got 25. 25, I get 25 with also my gun.

Damn. Wasn't he big with the producers on Broadway? That's Oh, the producers. Of course.

That's where I'm banking. I'm banking. He banked on that. I said 25 million.

Eric said 25 million. Alison said 52 million. If you add them all up together, yours, mine and Eric's were still almost $50 million off. What?

Matthew Broderick has a net worth of $150 million. Oh my God. Hey, you've got the effect of the city money you've got. Gotta be, right?

I mean, it's not making 100 million over 100 million dollars off of a run on Broadway. No. He's going to go through his. He made his, okay.

So this is not his IMDB, but this is what they list as the reasons for his number. Oh, so Eric, you're right. This is, so let's can inform our numbers in the future. Okay.

He's an American actor with a net worth of $150 million. That is a combined net worth with his wife of more than two decades activist Sarah Jessica Parker. So they've got Ferris Bueller, they've got Glory, War Games, election. Would you like to play a game?

Yeah. Brighton, beating the audience. They've got the producers. They've got how to succeed in business without even trying the musical, 20 award for the producers.

Blah, blah, blah. Yeah. So they don't mention cable guy on here, but sure. That gets missed, of course.

So Alison wins that. I'm an accident. She gets four. I get one.

Eric gets two. Alison wins. Once again, the host of the show gets the shaft. It's wonderful.

It's a nice way to prove that it's not a fixed game. Oh, no game has been less fixed in this game. I created, I put it together. Can we do a bonus of Charlie Sheen?

Because I feel like that was a missed. As a bonus, what do you think Charlie Sheen is his net worth is today? Okay. Who knows what it was 10 years ago, but today is a number that would be, I think, significantly less.

Okay. Eric, I got a number. Do you have a number? Uh, oh, all right down.

Yeah. 61. Alison says 61. I say 170.

Whoa. Mine is 200. 200. Whoa.

Do it. That freaking two and a half man. Right. Oh, shh.

I'm wondering how much this morning. This number is so vastly different than any of us thought. It makes me think that it's something is wrong. Charlie Sheen's net worth according to our source of truth, celebrity net worth.com.

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