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Welcome to the Spies Like Us episode of the PUBCAST. Allison Eric joined me this time and this is a movie that I'm not sure any of us thought would hold up very well upon me watching, but well, we are wrong. This movie is consistently funny from beginning to end and might not be filled with huge belly laughs, but it is a fun goofy 80s comedy. That said, I think we all agreed that this is really barely a movie.
It's just sort of a bunch of individual scenes or sketches held together by the finished of plots as a through line, but it seems to work. So here we go, breaking down the 80s almost classic Spies Like Us. Spies Like Us, Jenny Chase and Dan Eggloyd. We've got a very special assignment for you too.
This is my sister, you can all have it. You want a coffin? That's a good idea. I'm going to do that.
Wait a minute, you don't tell us why you're here. That goes off the finger. Mine ears. You almost.
No! I was over! Oh wait! Jenny Chase, get up out of here!
Dan Eggloyd, I think my high school guidance counselor said I never amount to anything. Spies Like Us. American! Spies Like Us, December 1985.
Here's the no nonsense plot. This is one of my favorite ones so far. It's super to the point. Two bumbling government employees think they are US spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
Yep, that's all you need. That's a good one. Okay, this is 85 December. I believe I saw this in the theater.
I know I'm not. I was in junior high, psyched to see it. I don't remember the circumstances of seeing it but I definitely saw it as soon as possible and loved it. Even going in the trailer, all the clips of the training montage and the cheating scene and all the desert stuff, I was in the hit go.
It was a huge movie in my junior high. Yeah, I don't think I saw it in the theater. I'm trying to remember if I even saw it in high school, maybe I did on cable or something like that. I can't say for sure I saw the theater but it was PG so I'm assuming it did.
Yeah. It was not going to be out. I would have waited until a year later when I was on TV. Yeah, I remember more the song being on the radio.
Oh, really? Yeah. Much to say about the song. No, something to say about it.
Yeah, I was only nine years old when it came out. But at the same time, I very much remember when it came out somehow even though I was only nine years old. That movie was very much on my radar and I really wanted to see it even though there was not a chance of hell that I was ever going to get to see it. So I didn't see it for the first time until I think I was in high school when I finally saw it.
I think it was when we finally got direct TV at the house and it was on cable. That's what I saw for the first time. Wow. Yeah.
So this is a year after Ghostbusters. So, you know, Dan Aykuride and that style of movie, that feel of movie was out there out and about and I was all over it, I'm sure. Yeah. Yeah.
I definitely did not see it in the theater. I want to say it was on cable or maybe a rental when I was in high school, I think. Yeah. So this was written by Dan Aykuride.
Dan Aykuride and Dave Thomas from... When you see me? Yeah. Not that Dave Thomas.
No relation? Yeah. He is the corporatized only bad guy from the rest of the development. Oh, but to shy something.
Oh, Charlie's their own dad or whatever. Yeah. Right. So to Dan Aykuride production, essentially, he came up with the story and wrote most of it.
This is one of... This qualifies, I think, as one of many of Dan Aykuride's things he produced that are associated with or have bits and pieces of the paranormal or aliens or that type of supernatural stuff in it. Obviously, it spies like us, it has a little bit of it. It's the alien scene when they're trying to distract them from the...
Which is so ridiculous. But so he has things like... And I only have a few here, but obviously Ghostbusters. Right.
Ghostbusters 2, cone heads, Ghostbusters, the reboot in 2016, he's involved in that. Any all Ghostbusters stuff, video games and cartoons, whatever, he had a hand and all that stuff. TV series, the sci factor, PSI factor, chronicles of the paranormal, hotel paranormal, some of the stuff is Canada, some of the stuff is US. He comes from a long line with his family as a bunch of quote unquote spiritualists.
His father wrote a book called A History of Ghosts. Oh, I think I did. I can't remember. You and I may have talked about this at one point.
I'm trying to think of what I can't come up, but this is... Like legit deep deep into this paranormal supernatural aliens, but also ghosts and spiritualism and his father and his grandfather are famous in Ontario from all kinds of seances and spiritual died stuff. So that's like Dan Aykuride's whole thing. Yeah.
Yeah. So when I saw that scene in... So I was like, oh, that connects a little bit. Yeah.
And I was like, oh, that's still... That was weird. And then this is directed by John Landes. Right.
Great director, especially of comedies in the 80s. Yes. He among his credits, and they're all pretty much focused in this time period, like mid 80s to mid 90s. Kentucky Fried Movie, Animal House, Blues Brothers, American Werewolf in London, Trading Places, Twilight Zone, Three Amigos and Coming to America, and Twilight Gods.
He sort of fell off the radar a little bit with the Twilight Zone, because that's where the helicopter crashed, and it's on screen, and it's in the movie where there was a malfunction in the crashing helicopter effect or whatever, the practical effect. And it killed the actor in one or two of the kids he was with, like chop their heads off. Oh my God. Oh my God.
Oh my God. Or it was severe. And so he was sort of... He started doing a lot less when he was back at that.
He's allowed there. Oh my God. So John Landes, all over the place, huge director, if you see these movies, they all have his feel. There's a lot of the core casting that he picks from here and there.
Right. B.B. King is in this movie out of nowhere, and he's in Blues Brothers and I keep here somewhere. I don't know that he's...
He's in Blues Brothers 2000. Yeah. So I was thinking about that. There's a couple other movies that they did I think that were in as well though.
Yeah. So I was trying to think about why the heck is B.B. King in this movie? It's great.
Weird stuff. Yeah. But I think I got the connection, but I don't want to jump the gun on something that might be saying. This is going to be a free form.
So originally it was supposed to be Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi. Yeah. And this and... John Belushi.
John Belushi, sorry. John Belushi and John Belushi died like... These two. Yeah.
So before they started production. Yeah. And so then I'm like, so is that supposed to be like some sort of like spiritual nod to John Belushi as... Because it was going to be like the Blues Brothers actors in this movie and they wanted to fit him in.
And it's just a... I don't think so. I read about... I saw something that John Landis and I think Akroyd did...
Maybe that Akroyd. But John Landis did some other movie around this time that included B.B. King and John Landis apparently is famous for bringing in people from other... Like a bunch of other directors and we'll talk about the list of doctors.
He brings in a bunch of people he knows, guys he's worked with as little cameos just through the four-way scenes. There's like a thousand cameos and specifically directors. But okay. I don't believe there's a deeper tied to it.
Yeah. I just... I thought that was just... I mean, I get like a bunch of directors.
I get other actors that he might have worked with before. But I couldn't figure out the B.B. King. And I'm like, well, maybe it's because John Belushi was supposed to be in this and it was some sort of a blues note or whatever that they put him in.
And I mean, he's not known for acting. So having the cameo, like that was like as it was gonna get. He certainly does the acting. Okay.
So watching this, we've said this before, especially with Ace Ventura. This movie holds up 100%. It's as good now, I think, as it was, 85. There are some scenes that I will giggle at the same way that I giggled.
So first time watching it. We're watching this. And Allison was rewatching it because she fell asleep during this part the first time. But the cheating on the test...
You don't have to broadcast that. The cheating on the test part is such insanity. It's so... Out of the gate, just the door opens and those two clowns are standing in the doorway shoulder to shoulder and just getting in the room, it already starts.
Chevy Chase. It starts pulling out sheets and starts cheating. Even before that. Right away.
Even when I had walking in saying, I'm sorry I'm late. I was at the reading of a will and I'd wait until the end and I got nothing. I mean, why even go through this whole explanation? Like this is just ridiculous.
He sits down and before he even reads the first question, he's cheating. It starts putting pulling on stuff. Eric, does that seem to resonate with you as much as you can find? Because we're out of our minds with that.
I enjoyed the Chevy Chase and the ridiculous like the sheetsheets behind his eye patch. Yeah. And stuff like that. But it drives me nuts the way how...
Everything about Dan Aykroyd, it's character and leading up to that, you would think he wouldn't want anything to do with such a freaking mess that is Chevy Chase. But for whatever reason, he goes along with it almost to the point where you almost think that they already knew each other at this point that he's so willing to help him. It's not a tightly written script, let's be honest. The character development is minimal at best and clearly Dan Aykroyd's character would not be involved in any of his stuff.
But he helps Chevy Chase cheat so quickly and so often and so freely. Chevy Chase doesn't know what KGB stands for in this agent test. That whole, when he starts crying and then flailing around and he's like, I can't, the pressure and he gets up and he's flailing around and he leans over somebody and says to me, what number is it? And it just starts writing and copying down.
Remember your pen? Yeah. And when they're re-watching the tape and Dan Aykroyd gets up out of the desk, is handing him the test and then goes into the whole thing. And Chevy Chase's reaction to watching, like seeing it on there, it turns off the TV really quick is so good.
But I don't want to gloss over Frank Oz. No, that's what this means in quality time with an understated but great performance by Frank Oz. It's so good. And I like the exchange between Emmett Fitzhugh and the monitor about the wallet.
Yeah. Yeah, there's $1,000. Yeah, there's $1,000. Maybe there isn't.
But the response from Frank Oz is so irritated and insulted that it looks like Chevy Chase is about to start laughing. Like he's reacting to Frank Oz's indignancy. So Frank Oz is so good in this part. As small as it is.
I had the hardest time recasting him in our recasting part, except for other guys. There's no reason to recast him. He could play that part again today. I know.
Yeah. The default is just having to do it again because it's fine. I was blown away by the just colossal size of the video cameras in the wall. Those doors holding up.
It's a two by three by one foot box of a camera tracking its ridiculous. It's like the cameras you would see like a Disney World to scan like a big giant area. And it's in like a 20 by 30 classroom. Like it's not.
It's a size of an unmanned drama. It's huge. Absolutely huge. The parting that he does at the beginning.
Which I don't normally laugh at that kind of humor. What gets me every time is him then making everybody think it's the other guy. Like that's the part that's super funny. And that guy is so like irritated.
He's got to accept responsibility and excuse himself for it. It's so good. It's insane. And then so the other segment that stood out to me.
And it was in all the trailers. And as a 13 year old 12 year old. I was we quoted it all the time after seeing the movie was the training montage with Bernie Casey as the sergeant or whatever. The Colonel.
That's amazing. We're like you know, vertical impact simulation now. We just go off and they just press the ground. Yeah.
What is it like G4's? Whatever. The whole thing is so stupid. But it works every time.
And what the. The long capacity test where they just drag it behind his people. Yeah. When I see how long you say float.
Oh yeah. That's what it is. Follow you say a float. It's all ridiculous.
It's all ridiculous. And I have to say after they get out of the G force simulator or whatever that then walking down the hallway is all Dan Iaccroyd. He loves that kind of ridiculousness. Yeah.
That's just that's his style. Yeah. Yeah. This has Accroyd's fingerprints on it.
I mean, obviously. So 85 box office. Yeah, I guess it's 85. Yeah.
But that puts yes. I guess the number is I guess artificially low that came out in December. So maybe didn't have the legs to go. But whatever it did not make a top 10 this time.
Yeah, I don't think it I know. So I don't think it has the universal appeal. I was like us was number 20. OK, that feels right.
At 35 million for domestic. Let me run through the top 10. I'll just do the names, not the numbers necessarily. 85.
Back in the future. Well, Beverly Hills cop. Rambo first blood part two. Well, here's the real juggernaut Rocky for.
Oh, my time sitting. Cocoon witness the goonies. Police Academy to their first assignment. I'm good with all of those up until the police again.
So I wrote this down another section, but we're going to pull it up. 85. Should remember that we did a israentera last, right? And Jim Carrey had a three run movie in the same year, I think, right?
With isra and a mask and a number, right? Yeah. Cherry Chase rivals it in 85. He throws down spies like us, fledged in national lampoons, European vacation in 85.
Although with the exception of Bruce D. That movie is really tough to watch immediately. But it did well. I'm sure it did well enough.
But three. Poppy like. Yeah. Yeah.
Quimco significant. Yeah. Movies in one year for a big star. So beyond that year.
Yeah. So by the guys made $35 million cost 22 to make. It's not a money maker. Wait, say that again?
Cost 22 made 35. Yeah. 22 million. I guess that making those satellites go.
Yeah. Was where they spent the big money, those cameras. I guess on location somewhere. It could be satellite animation.
Making that drive and movie teams work. All of that. The Atari special effects. Great.
Okay. Rotten tomatoes. What do we think the audience gave. I'm going to think the audience gave it.
So remember, it's what percentage of the audience gave it up thumbs up, basically, in what percentage of the audience gave it up. I'm going to say two thirds gave it a thumbs up. So I'm going to say 66. Right.
Eric. Dang. That's a pretty good number. I'll say slightly better.
I'll go 75. Okay. Three out of four. Interesting.
Rotten tomatoes score by the audience. They gave it or it ranked a 56%. Oh, it is. Wow.
I'm envisioning that for critics for sure. I would have thought audiences would have scraped by as fresh. I thought I was at 70. Yeah.
So what do you think for the critics? Oh, 45. 45 E. 40.
Oh my God. The critics gave this movie a 32% percent. So not really well received. A, didn't make much money.
And then B, it didn't rank very well with the audience or the critics. Although people who know it like it. But it's probably a movie that draws people in that like Chevy Chase's humor or like Dan Aykroyd's humor. I don't know that they're universally funny to people.
At least these kind of movies. No, but stuff like Ghostbusters, you know, those things, big broad comedies. This is in that vein. By similar or the same people.
I feel like this is court here. Oh, it definitely is. Yeah. And that's what makes it a little bit more niche.
This is more. It's less of a movie and it's more of like eight skits. Skits, skits, skits, skits, skits, skits, skits, eight scenes put together as opposed to a movie. It's not really a story that goes through it a bit, but it's like eight individual scenes.
It's like sketch comedy. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like a special episode of SNL or something.
Yeah. Yeah. All right. So this is the trivia segment of M.K.
This is let this is the opposite of most of our movies where I have less trivia and I have more. And I'm going to talk with a couple of you guys about the review. I'll go through it a little bit. I'll go through some of that.
This movie was inspired by the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby movies, the road to movies, apparently. That's explaining Bob Hope's brief, three-second period walking through with the golf golf golf golf golf golf ball, and never understood. Yeah. Bob Hope is a thing.
We all knew about him, but I didn't know why he's in this movie. What that meant. Yeah. So the road to.
I had to look at Bob Hope in Bing Crosby did like, I don't know how many, There's like four or five of them. There's I think it's ever might be more than that. Like it could be six, eight. The road to whatever city or destination or place.
And all these buddy comedies with the road to this, the road to that. So this was apparently inspired by those or an awful large to those. So hence not hoping it's interesting. I had no idea about hope.
It's also interesting that Bob Hope would agree. Oh yeah. So that's another thing. I think this, I'll hug it there in a minute.
I think this movie is largely put together by, hey, do me a favor, hey, friend of mine being this movie. Hey, why don't you play this doctor? Well based on what you were saying earlier, it sounds like that's it. A whole movie is based on favors.
It's not a traditionally cast movie. It's not. The film originally ended with the destruction of the world. But test audience didn't like it.
So a newer happy ending was shot on a sound stage in Burbank hence the bad green screen with them saying, you know, kind of are your tent or whatever. Where as clearly shot in the snow and they're doing the thing. And then they sub in these green screen moments in Burbank that were added afterwards to sort of make it a more friendly, fun movie. But originally they blow up the world.
I want to see that ending. I want to see that ending too. If it was shot, why can't we? I know.
We need to have the whatever. John Wanda's cut. Yeah. The Wanda's cut.
So we talked about John Belushi was originally going to be in the movie and he's not. OK, here's this is one case where I'm sure a favor was called in. OK. Paul McCartney was brought in to do the quote unquote title song, Spies Like Us for this movie, which appears nowhere in the movie except the closing credits or the very end of the movie.
It's a horrible, horrible song. Yes. Yeah. Peep the number seven in the US and number 13 in the UK.
It's a bad, bad, bad song. I watched the video for it. Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney.
Is he phoning it in? I can't tell if he's phoning it in or what, but he looks like, like an 80 sitcom dad, like trying to play a musician, like he's trying to play up in the video and try to like bad sweaters and the whole thing of that. The only way that could happen is if it was a favor to a friend. So the thing that I saw about that, Paul McCartney, is that he also wrote the theme song for James Bond Live and Let Die, of course.
And so they called him the favor to have him write the theme song for another spy movie. I know. I get the connection and why, but there must have been like some money slits of people. That's a lot of firepower.
John Landis saying, dude, that's where that's, if this movie costs $22 million, seven million head of Paul McCartney to write that song. We need some Jews for this movie. It's not going to, it's not what we think it's going to be. We need a Paul McCartney attachment to it.
Do you think if it came after this, you said this came the year after Ghostbusters, like, were they just looking to try to get another song, a theme song to hit the church? They should have called, Reaparker Jr. then, done that. Yes, I don't know.
To me, that's the, it so him and that song so don't fit this movie. I mean, clearly they didn't love it enough to put it like in the opening title or opening credits or opening scene. The missile at the end of the movie is targeted at Detroit. Why would it be DC or some other strategic location?
Motor City. Well, Dan Eckhart has some type of Detroit. The movie Doctor Detroit, I don't know if there's something there or whatever, but yeah. Of all the places I'm going to hit first, Detroit's not on the short list at all.
I mean, especially now, but even then, like, great. Okay, we'll I want to get to this in a second, but an entree to my take on the all the doctors and the cameos. One of the doctors is named Le Fong. Okay.
Last name is Le Fong. This is a name used by John Landis in this movie and also in the Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000. The name Le Fong comes from the movie, It's a Gript. I never heard of it before, but it's a John Landis thing apparently.
So just he's just trying to fit it in somewhere? I guess, yeah. He can act like he loves Le Fong and want to put it in all for you to leave it. So I've got one thing that I had looked up because I was really obsessed with the names of the generals and like the military guys.
I didn't see anything about that. Colonel Rombus, I was like, and then there's General Slime, which I was thinking like, okay, Rombus is kind of like, it's at angles and like, it's rigid and then like S line. So I like this guy is kind of like blurs the edges, the general in terms of like discipline. So I was like trying to figure that out and then nigs.
I'm like, what nigs doesn't mean anything, but the other two do like, why is that? And I found something about it. Hang on, I don't, his name is not Rombus. It's Rombus.
Rombus? Yeah. But I think it's Rombus. I go to top it's R H U M B U S.
Got it. But do you think Rombus though? Rombus Rombus. Rombus Rombus.
I don't know. Anyway, but it was close enough that I'm like, that's such a weird thing. So I found it was it's connected to the Ace Tomato Company. And so the Ace Tomato Company is based on a real company called United Fruit.
That is now Chiquita Benanna. And there were general nigs is a reference to this like business magnet kind of guy, his name of Henry Megs. Yeah. Who's the uncle of the founder of the United Fruit Company.
And so it was. So it was. And the United Fruit Company and Chiquita Benanna were like well known to be like fronts for CIA operations. OK.
And so they took United Fruit. I know. I know. But it's that's where it came from is United Fruit was a real front for CIA operations that came up with Ace Tomato.
Megs is the name of the founder or one of their close to the founder of United Fruit and General Megs is connected to Ace Tomato. So that's where that's it. Which again, knowing that the other line or the other names were unique enough that it just caught my attention. I wanted to see if there was anything general slime, general Megs, Colonel Rumbus, Mr.
Ruby, Mr. Keys. But I believe that Ace Tomato stuff, the Rumbus and the slime. I don't know about that.
Megs sure. Fine. But I don't know. OK.
So some of the cameos in appearances in this movie. We talked about a few of them. Bob Hope is Bob Hope. Frank Oz is the test monitor.
BB King is the Ace Tomato agent. The security guy. Yeah. One of the doctors, excuse me, is Terry Gilliam from Money Python, who is also a director.
Yeah. There's like 87 directors in this. Yeah. He threw a bunch of director.
Yeah. And they're all security guards. The drive in. Yeah.
Ray Harryhausen is a well-known special effects movie effects guy. He was one of the doctors, Dr. Marston. One of the drive two of the drive in security.
People are Jill Cohen's of the Cohen brothers and Sam Raimi, director. Yeah. And then this is not really a cameo. But the younger Russian girl woman agent, or at the bombsite, or the missile, is Vanessa Angel from Kingpin.
Oh, that's where I've seen her. Yeah. It was her first movie. This was her first movie?
Yeah. Anything on your end, Eric? Yeah. Just more directors.
Like, you know, Michael Abtad. I can't remember exactly what he directed, but Martin Brest. He did Beverly Hills Cop and Center of a Woman. Whoa.
Yeah. Wow. And I'm going to do it. And Glee.
Oh. Yikes. All right. It is time for recastrobate.
Better close the door. It's time to be constrobate. The ones I have on my list, we all know, but just to refresh ourselves, are Emit Fitzhugh, Chevy Chase, Austin Millbarge, Dan Aykroyd, Karen Boyer, Donald Dixon, and Bernie Casey as Colonel. Robust.
Robust. I also threw in a test monitor. It was my only well card. The best of them.
Mr. Ruby, Mr. Keys, General Slime, General Miggs. I don't care about any of them, they can be played by anybody.
Like a bunch of directors? Like a bunch of directors. It doesn't matter. It'd be Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, like, Wes Anderson's in there.
Christopher Nolan guarding the gate at the end. So I have, I mean, this is the way I did it. I'd like to offer a suggestion. I would miss do it in Paris.
I can make mine work that way if I need to. Okay. I mean, that's the way I cast it was kind of thinking about it in Paris, but if you prefer to go buy character, I can do that. I don't care.
But Paris or Trios? Well, I guess it's Trio. Yeah, I mean, I consider that for the Karen Boyer. It was mine or largely mine or not made for Paris.
I think. Whatever. First, I want to think about this. I thought of just today, so I didn't prep you guys on it, but it didn't take much prep.
I want to recast the Soviet Union. It's funny to say that because I thought about it from that perspective. So I think the candidates are right. China, North Korea, Iran, and I thought, well, it could just be Russia.
Russia is also coming back around. They're like an old fan favorite. They did this 10 years ago. Russia might not have been on there, but do we want this to still be Russia or the Soviet Union or should it be like North Korea or something in our recast?
Yeah. I think if we change it, then yeah, that would have definitely affected my casting. Well, like if we were doing China or North Korea, that definitely would definitely would change my casting. Because there were people that I wanted to cast.
It would change your casting of the American parts? Yeah. Because of spy in that country. Yeah.
Okay. Of the spies. Well, then. Yeah.
I thought about that and have an option for a different country. Oh my God. See, I didn't fully flush it out. It was not well thought through.
Well, let's do this one by one. Okay. And then on your second pass, you know, on your Austin Mill Barge, you can say I picked this person to go with this this Fitch U. Yeah.
Okay. Emmett, Fitch U, Javi Chase. I had, oh, see the, I have a problem with number three. I'll just say it.
So I have a number of three options, but I really have four. Number three is a tie because you're just sneaking in four. I kind of am. I'm flipping a coin.
This duo could be either whoever wins this battle royal or this battle between these two people who ever wins this final spot could either be Emmett, Fitch U or Austin Mill Barge for the coin either one. Got it. It's very complicated. Wow.
It's Bill Hader slash Jason Sudeikis. Yeah. I had Sudeikis as my Austin Mill Barge. I'm like, oh, he actually do the Fitch U part.
I'm like, oh, Bill Hader. I'm like, good. How does he fit? Yeah.
Which one does he fit? So they're both sort of either one. Yeah. I had Jason Sudeikis on my.
I had him on my Barge, but so I blew that for myself so far. But my two winners for the Emmett Fitch U were Joe McHale. Oh, that's good. Who played Chedi Chase in the movie Feudal and Stupid Gesture on Netflix about the time.
So Joe McHale, I think that'd be, I think he. That's actually pretty good. I think he's really good. That's really good.
Yeah. Yeah. The other one I had is sort of an easy go to was Ryan Mills. Oh, yeah.
I think he gets a layup. Yeah. But Joe McHale, I think it's number one. Yep.
For assume. So he gets part. It's part. Eric, let's go with your Emmett Fitch U.
All right. I also had three. Yeah, I was trying to think of actors that were sort of like fast talking, womanizer, or can play that type of character. So I had three.
Two of them were set already. My number three is John Hamm. Oh, that's really good. And then I also had Ryan Reynolds was my number two.
And my number one was Jason Sudeikis. Yeah. As my Dan Aykroyd. Yeah.
And then I switched. So for me, again, I thought about it in pairs. So I don't know if we want to go like I do this kind of in pairs. We're going to do awesome no barge and then you guys can do your your tribute into your Dan Aykroyd.
So I kind of played around with us a little bit and ended up with four pairs that I'm really struggling to rank. So I had Jason Sudeikis and Maya Rudolph together as Emmett Fitchume and awesome no barge. I had back Bennett and Mikey Day. Yeah.
Yeah. Who's who? I had back Bennett as Emmett Fitchume and Mikey Day is awesome no barge. I had Kate McKinnon and Melissa V.
Essignor together. You lead hard as an S. I did. I did.
But again, it's about the chemistry of the people together. The one that I kind of like a lot is Anna Kendrick as the Emmett Fitchume character with Bowen Yang as the Austin Millbarge character. That's a whole different movie. It's a different movie.
I was trying to think about a different country. So I was thinking about if China was the country or North Korea or whatever and this is going to sound terrible because I don't know what his ethnic background is. But being the piece of Asian descent that that could work for a different movie. Right.
That's interesting. Okay. I already blew my Austin Millbarge was Jason Sudeikis. Yeah.
I'll hit her can do that one. My other two were Jake Johnson from the girl. Oh, yeah. Let's go.
And then I thought this is a perfect spot for podcasts regular and showy day slide into a Austin Millbarge. That's good. That's good. I like Jake Johnson for that.
Yeah. Eric, who's your dad right there? So for this one, I was going to try to think of more of like nerdy type characters that could be like the fast talking sort of spot out some like geek speak kind of actor. I thought of both Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Oh, and together would be a good duo just for the both of them. Yeah. Yeah. And then Jason Schwartzman.
Those were my three. That's good too. That's really good. That works.
That totally works. I do like John Hamm like for the Emmett Fitzheum. I'm trying to think of who he would be paired up with. That was a really good suggestion.
Okay. Karen Boyer. Yeah. Now, Dada Dixon.
Yeah. Uh, she was cast for specific reasons. Yeah. Well, of course, um, the world only knows her for this movie and was in buddies, right?
And, Wayne's World. She worked in the, she was Garth Dreemberg. Right, right, right. I was like, dream we were.
So, oh, oh, she's a lady. Fucking lady. So, she, uh, so I was trying to figure out who she is. And I could only put together a combination of Margot Robbie and Galvado.
Yeah. Okay. If you melted them together, that's Dada Dixon. So, two of mine are Galvado and my winner.
Yeah. Uh, my winner. Yeah. I like better, uh, just because it's not as obvious is Elizabeth DeBicke from Tenet.
Oh. Right. From, uh, man from uncle. Yeah.
I had thought about her for a little bit. So she is six foot three. Really? She's that tall?
Oh. Hence, she works with my Joel McHale as Chevy Chase. So, uh, that he actually worked. Wow.
I had no idea she was that tall. She is all just angles and wrists and neck and feet. She's just an angular giant. Um, so yeah, that's, that's my, uh, Karen Boyer.
So I had to go with my two female spies. I had Taryn Edgerton doing the, um, uh, spy undercover as the doctor. So he's playing that part for them. I had also had Margot Robbie, but I had Felicity Jones and Rose Byrne.
Rose Byrne comes up a lot for us. Rose Byrne will be good. She would be, I think she would be fantastic. It's good.
I mean, I went through all these names and the more I think about it, this is a straight part. She doesn't have any jokes at all. Yeah. It's, yeah, it's pretty generic.
It's could almost be anybody. Yeah. I mean, it's the straight man though in comedy. So that's why I liked it.