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Welcome to the Money Pit episode of the Pubcast. Right off the bat I have to admit that this one was a little different than our usual movie breakdowns. For the most part I'd like to have on people who like the movie we're going to talk about. I want to dive into the details and minutiae of the movie or of a movie that they've passionately supported before.
Well, this is not bat case. This time joining me are Allison, Eric, Rob, and Rachel. Four of us really like the Money Pit, but one of us really, really hates it. In this episode you're going to hear four people talk about the funny scenes and our favorite classic quotes and all the usual stuff.
And how this is Tom Hanks near the peak of the comedy part of his career. And then you're going to hear one person tear down this comedy for not having a good plot, characters that weren't realistic and did nonsensical things, and an on-screen couple that lacked any shred of romantic chemistry. While all those things are true, this is a dopey 80s comedy and that's how most of them were. Anyway, you're ready for some legitimate conflict as we break down the Money Pit.
Anna and Walter are young, single, and in love. They've got good jobs, fabulous futures, a magnificent new home that they bought for a song. Who says they can't have it all? It's going to be fun fixing it up, you'll see.
Look, this is an old house. It's going to be somewhere by $5,000. This is a deposit. A little work.
When did you think you can start? This is your check-clear. A little care. Do you really buy this house?
Yes, it is. A little imagination, and it's going to be great. Oh, the money pit! If they've got what it takes, it's going to take everything they've got.
Coming this Christmas from Universal Pictures. Alright, Money Pit, 1986. I've said this seemingly in every other podcast, every other episode. This one is the most true, or the most recent version of this.
This is the shortest, no-nonsense, pop we've had so far. This is the record holder until something else comes long to beat it. Okay. Ten words.
It's only ten words. Okay. A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house. Again.
I think they could have been nine because they went with hopelessly and dilapidated, which I've gone with only one descriptor. This is one of the... This is not a great one. So, anyway.
Overall reaction to the movie. Hold on a second, Rob, because I want to serve this up a little bit before you jump in. I want me, Allison and Eric and Rachel to give our thoughts on the overall about the movie, and then Rob, you can come in and un-sheath your sword and start hacking away. But we get into the opening song and opening scenes, which I found funny and weird because they were so 80s and so stock footage.
Stock shots of New York City. We talked about it when we watched it. And the generic nothing intro song with the theme song. That's so 80s though.
That's... They do that. So, every movie did that. But overall, and this movie is on like TNT or TBS or whatever, stupid channel, enough throughout the year that you'll see bits and pieces of it all the time here and there.
I remember watching the whole movie. It's always kind of on in the background once in a while. And watching it start to finish, not doing something else while I was on. I hesitate to use the word great.
It is really a good solid 80s comedy. Dopey and it's nice. It absolutely holds up. It's funny through out.
Obviously most of the funny stuff is sort of backloaded. But there's good little lines, good little dopey things throughout the movie. It's solid. It's not quite Tom Hanks at the peak of his goofy period, his early period.
That might be big in 1988. Do you want to say his comedy period really? And it's got to be Shelley Long's best or most memorable role in film. In film.
Right? Have to be. Yeah. What was the...
What was the girl scout? Yes, but... You're perfectly Hills. Yeah.
I feel like there's another movie that she was going to think of it. Yeah. But because you can't think of it, that's correct. Oh, Brave Punch.
So best and most memorable. The idea of the coolest career. You just spin it off. Right.
Right. I left the number one sitcom for that. I never seen it on TNT. I've not seen this movie since the 80s.
Or it must have been recorded in her house on a VHS cassette or something. Is that right? Yeah. Cool.
Yeah. We catch it probably two or three times a year. I mean, we definitely rented it. We did not see this in the theater.
Oh, at first. Yeah. Yeah. It's unlike any other.
It has been quoted. Hang on, Rob. It's so much. I mean, it's like ingrained into the fabric of our family's lives.
Yeah. Yeah. And not just like a few of us like top to bottom. Yeah.
Every single member of our family. Yeah. A lot of other movies in our house. It was sort of a few of us liked it.
Or it was something like mom. Everybody but mom or whatever. Right. But this one everybody and our family instantly jumped out all over it.
Yeah. Even our dad who is not into certain movies like absolutely love this movie. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, I remember liking it as a kid. I knew like essentially this whole movie from my memory like in the band a long time since I've seen this. So, you know, I had some positive memories too, but all of a sudden I turned over and look over at Rob and he's like, this is terrible. Oh, you hate America.
I hate to laugh. Oh my God. All right, Rob. Start with your litany of problems with this movie.
Well, I mean, before I even get out of the gate, I want to maybe like I guess ask or what's the fancy fair and my stipulate. Perhaps I just missed the movie. Like I've missed the level that the movie was intending to try and operate on. And it was trying to be more like Lucille Ball or something or like silly, but I never figured out what it was.
And then I started comparing the people like Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall that were involved in this movie that allowed this thing to actually get. I think Rob to your point, this movie is only meant to be taken for what you see on the screen. I know, but I feel like Tom and Jerry had tighter scripts. The same effect.
Oh my God. It was a painful dialogue throughout this movie. I don't know this to be true, but I believe this to be true that it is well liked far and wide from north to south to east and west of this country. And I am shocked that somebody would come out this strong against it.
It's kind of amazing. Yeah. I mean, it's a lot of Walter. It's a low point in Tom Hanks.
Oh my God. Wow. Last for me. Maybe here.
My stroke. He comes. You know, he comes through. All right.
So two Rob's point. I wrote this down specifically because I had to look these guys up because actually worked in this. I was like, I'm like, they must have worked on something else similar. This must be their genre or whatever, because you didn't see much of this kind of movie.
It was very 80s, of course. But I looked up the director and the writer. Director Richard Benjamin, he has some directing credits, but he's much more, I believe, well known for his acting than directing. He was in the original Westworld.
If you saw his face, you would recognize him as an actor. He doesn't have a ton of credits that I can point to that you know off top your head. He knows an actor. And the writer, David Geiler, also wrote Aliens, Beverly Hills Cop II, Alien III, you know, did some writing credits.
But as a much longer and well established IMDB list for producing. So we have a director who's more known as an actor and a writer who's more known as a producer. So everyone's out of position in this two Rob's point. Right.
And then we've got Spielberg as a producer also. Yes. In 80s. Executive producers.
I don't know. I mean, sometimes I don't know what that means. Exactly how involved he was. Sometimes that's just a cash, right?
Right. Normally when that kind of money comes in there, like I want to type like runner, you know, like, right, I want to know who's over, you know, overseeing it. This was the first time he and Hanks, I think, you know, collaborated, right? And then they have a lengthy time after this of a number of projects they put together and worked here on.
So this is all shocking to me. I love it. Okay. So this, we're going to call this this five year run from 84 to 89.
The Tom Hanks early years. This is, this is what he did. I didn't have every little tiny one, but all the ones that we know in their big movie that I've gone this list. Excuse me.
We've got. So this is. In 80, 1980 to 1982, he was on Booz and Buddy. That's all he was known for.
It's all he did. And then he went on this, you know, little mini run splash bachelor party, the man with one red shoe, the money pit, nothing in common. Dragnet. That's right there.
Big. And then the burbs, you know, Eric, I know it's, it's got his moments. It's not the song. But then he hits a huge dry patch in 89s 92.
He does almost nothing of note except I guess turn a hooch. Turn on hooch and Joe versus the volcano and I'm fired up the vanities. I believe there's a Tom Hanks conspiracy in action in this nation. So, yeah, only open their eyes and look at the facts about his terrible run of movies.
Oh my God. I'm pulling up his IMDB now. So, but after that little dry patch through 92, I'm pulling it up. I don't have it in front of me at the moment, but I believe he goes on a run that is unassailable in the history of movies.
Oh, for sure. Give me one second here. Like it's out of control, if I believe, if I remember correctly. Okay, 92.
So he throws down a League of their own sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Toy Story, that thing you do. Saving Private Ryan, you've got mail, Toy Story 2, the Green Mile, Castaway, Road to Perdition, Catch Me If You Can, and I'm just up to 2002. Wow. It's a cool off after that, but there's a run of 10 years and I'm not even talking about any of the TV stuff, you know, the Band of Brothers and Brothers and from the Earth to the Moon, those projects.
But he wasn't in them. He wasn't acting. Was he like producing or something? Is that correct?
They're under his acting credits. Yeah. I don't think he was in Band of Brothers, but he was in from Earth to the Moon. Okay.
There you go. So he was on a 10, after this little whatever period, he was on a 10 year stretch that is, it's, it's ridiculous. It's no one can touch it. But so, what?
No, go ahead. No, go ahead. Because I've got really, it's more a question for Rob. It stands in stark relief.
Right. The pile of steaming. They had a different career in the mid 80s, but also, yes. He's teamed with Shelly Long, who her only credit of note to that point was Cheers from 82 to 87.
And then she essentially left Cheers to do movies thanks to the money bit. Right. So, Rob, have you seen this movie before? Like around the time it came out, and did you have the same dislike?
Or is this the first that you're watching it? No, I did see it clearly. And I remember at the time thinking it was pointless. Wow.
But not very mature in the cases. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Please describe pointless the way you meant it. Like I said, a random episode of Tom and Jerry have more emotional attention for me than Rob.
Rob was a most mature eighth grader on the planet then. I'm not even saying you're wrong, but go look at the movies that were being produced in the mid 80s that were comedies. We just did Ghostbusters last week or two weeks ago. By the way, have you seen that nutrient?
That's crazy. Yeah. That's what we'd say. But they were not exactly well thought out tight scripts that were, you know, mensa level dissertations on comedy.
It was these are all kind of dopey goofy held together by a string, just a string of funny scenes and. Yeah, I mean, I think it would be on that. They were trying to have two things like slapstick, yes, of course, with all the hilarity. But it's also.
Or it's. And then this like, um, wasn't it a remake of a career, I think it was. Yeah. It's like, you know, every day, you know, honk, like, hang, so it's kind of filling that role.
And you know, this, this is a bit of like, neither of them made any freaking sense from the beginning anyway. So, you know, I, you know, I think I got what they're trying to do, but I wanted to make sure I just wasn't like crap it on it for no reason. The part where it doesn't make sense. Obviously, lots of it doesn't make sense, but the beginning, how they get into the house situation is the most ludicrous, nonsensical thing ever.
Especially after they try and establish him as a very savvy attorney. Right. And then he just does like a series of the dumbest things you can ever do. He wants to buy buy or rent a new apartment in the city, you know, and he's throwing out numbers like, I don't know, $3,500 or whatever.
And I want to come up with $200,000, you know, buy the next Wednesday for this place. Some giant house in the country. He's not even, I don't know how he gets from here to there. That's right.
To Rob's point. It's, it's a leap of faith. That's right. She just, she just go with the floss.
Like, this is not really intended to overthink. And that's kind of what I'm getting at is all of that said, and it's ludicrous. I'm in from the beginning and okay, fine. But you could also, but you could also say the same thing about the premise of the dad stole a bunch of money as like from whatever family law firm they have.
Or whatever it is. And so the sun's trying to pay it all back. And that's why he's got no money. Like it's, I mean, that's not the thing.
That was abandoned. You know what I mean? That really was like a motivating factor in his life. And then we just never heard about it again.
Right. But that just explained why he had no money. Like it just that that's the all that it did is that she basically sunk everything into it. Okay.
That's my point. What level was I supposed to be enjoying this movie on? Like touching emotional. No.
Enjoy the joke. I mean, cartoonish over. Why do we have like a Ponzi scheme of bezelman thing going on in the background? Or the fell through the ceiling or the staircase.
It would laugh it up. It would laugh it off like, oh, it's based on, you know, let me go. It's really it's on the same level, although very, very different, but it's it's fucking asementura. It's him trying to find the stone by having having someone punch him in the forehead and count the divots.
It's ridiculous. I get it. But I did watching this again. I totally 100% forgot that the Walter dad, Walter's dad part in the very beginning and at the very end.
Yeah. And that it is in both places about the stealing the money from the law firm and then he gives it over to the scammer at the end. The same lady that sold her persona house, his son house. There's the same thing to him and scams him out of his money at the end.
I had no idea that was going to be at all. I had no idea. That was the last project. I had no idea.
It's so. But I like, but I like that he is a German. But she was saying that he was Hitler's pool man and all that stuff. And yeah.
All right. How do you down in Brazil? So, the Israeli intelligence comes to the door. You had the most beautiful.
I've never seen the 1986 domestic box office. We've done this before because we've done movies in this year, but I'll run through it quickly and I'll tell you where your money paid fell. Top gun number. So this is one through 10 top gun.
176 million. Crop it out Dundee 116. My kid to 115. Back to school.
91. Aliens. 86. Color purple.
Color purple. 84. Star Trek four. 72.
Ruthless people. 70. Out of Africa. 70.
Ferris Bueller's day off rounds out the top 10 at 70 million. And all the way down at number 27, the money pit with 37.5 million. It costs 10 million to make. So they.
37.5 million. It costs 10 million to make. So they made 37 just domestic on it. I'm sure they didn't have it.
Well, you know, one thing I didn't know. Brendan and looking this up that it was you guys mentioned, you guys mentioned this earlier is great run of comedies, but this was released as part of the quote Tom Hanks comedy favorites collection. Yeah. On DVD.
That's not. Which included the money pit, dragnet and the verbs. Oh, which in my mind is like, Oh, wow, look at this bag of dog pool only costs 50 cents. Yeah.
Those aren't the ones you should put in there. I'm admittedly. You would do splash the money pit and big. That's true.
Well, you would do anything but this would be. Yes. All right. So Rob gives this a score of zero.
What do we think rotten tomatoes gave gives money pit? Let's go with the audience score first. Al. 74.
74. Eric. 70. Rachel.
I was going to say 70. Rob. You sheeple. Audience.
I believe it was a well received movie. I don't know why. 68. All right.
The audience score gave this to our surprise gave us a 58. Well, the audience like this less than Rob. Well, less than Rob's prediction. Yeah, that's amazing.
Okay. Critics. Did the critics love this movie or not? No.
No. No. No. I think the question is 60.
Right, Eric? Yes. Yeah. Let me give it a 60.
60. Eric, what do you think? We said audience was 55. Oh, audience was 58.
58. I'm going to say I'm going to say 53. Rachel. 50.
Robbie. 52. Before I give the critics number. I'm going to say I'm going to say 54.
I'm going to say 54. What would you give this movie? You know, like I said, I won a number. I will give it to you.
It's not pretty in one level. I would give it higher. I don't think I ever got there. I think this is a 52 to 54 movie.
All right. Oh, that's better than I thought you were going to give it. Oh, I mean, I wouldn't waste my time on it. Maybe I should say lower 48, 46.
Something not good. Okay. So somewhere between 46 and 54. Rob, you're right in line with the critics.
The critics gave it a 50%. Wow. I kind of saw that coming. I did not see the audience going below 60 for this.
Yeah. So, let's get into trivia. As Rob already talked about, I did not know this until I did research. The money pit is based on H.C.
Potters, Mr. Blandings builds his dream house. What just happened? Sorry.
I don't know if I've watched you. Watch this. Can't talk. So based on a Carrie Grant movie from 1948, the original film holds the number 72 spot on AFI's 100 years, 100 laps, what?
Because there's one left in it. I don't know. It's in the top 100. Did you think a money pit, the new money pit beat it?
Oh, no. I know. Okay. The original house, the real house and the money pit.
It was originally built in 1898, 14,000 square foot colonial. It's located just outside New York City in the Long Island village of Laddington. It was purchased in 2002 for 2.1 million. I know.
14,000 square feet for 2.1 million. And then the owners tried to renovate it and sell it. They spent, so they bought it for 2.1. They spent 5.9 renovating it and listed it in 2014 for 12.5 million.
On Long Island. Yep. And they could not sell it. Oh.
So that was 2014. It just sold in 2019 for 3.5. Wow. So they invested what?
Six, $8 million in this house and sold it for 3.5. Oh, we have the brand. Do you actually have the address? I would love the silhouette.
I'll get back to you on that. It's a nice weekend pastime. So the inside of it does not look like the movie. By podcast, I'd love the silhouette.
This house that I'm talking about is only the exterior shots. Yeah, right. The inside is different. They could sell a 14,000 square foot house on Long Island for more than $3 million.
Dude. It has, it has, what is the trees are weak. Right? Yeah.
We have trees. Yeah. I mean, I would, it feels like a land itself would be worth that much. I'm on that one.
So another height challenge in Chicago and did not like this movie. His name was Roger Ebert. He fucking hated this movie. Amen.
I didn't even read it, but now it makes me feel great. I'll read it with the hell. Robert slash Roger. Roger Ebert equals Robert.
He gave the film one star calling, I guess they're doing stars at the time, calling it a movie that contains one funny scene and 91 minutes of running time. That's perfect for Europe. He hated the scene where Hank's falls through the floor and gets stuck in the well. He hated that scene.
He screams all the wrong things until we aren't laughing. We're groaning. It didn't occur. It didn't occur to anybody that the smarter the characters were, the funnier their troubles would be making them into idiots.
Who cares if their house falls down? In 1989. I know. In 1989, Tom Hanks said some parts of that movie are absolutely hilarious, but for the most part, it just doesn't cut it.
He even Hanks was kind of the one about it. The best. She only long said. And then they'd come in about seeing that I think they missed.
I didn't. So obviously I think the whole ceiling was cute and I think some of it is funny specifically when she can't find him, but she gets the house. I love the scene where he goes out to the backyard and he starts the bees start forming him. We're not going to see where they could have added music and kept it going for 10 or 15 more seconds.
And it comes in and goes, we get a week, three or whatever. That could have been a fun year scene for sure. I was disappointed. I was waiting for something to really take off there.
But, Rach, there is another cut of the movie that has it longer. Oh, really? Yes. Eric, am I wrong?
Yes. When we were the version of it that we first got, when we take it off TV, it was edited differently for content. So they put some scenes back. Yeah, they put some scenes back in and there's more of after he tries to first puts his pocket knife into the tree and the one falls over.
Yeah. They show like every single tree fall. All those trees go down. Yeah.
You guys have like an anniversary. Directors cut Blu-Ray off of CBS in 94. Yeah. This movie at the end features our guy Alexander Goodenoff directing the symphony to perform Beethoven's Ode Joy, which was also the main song in Die Hard, where he was in himself as well.
So that's his theme song. It is. It's his walk-up song. Pour out some whiskey for Alexander Goodenoff.
So this is my last piece of trivia after this. You guys can jump in. But this is my favorite piece of trivia because this is a whole different thing. Alexander Goodenoff.
He's the actor who played. What's his name? The Maestro. Max.
Max. He was a Russian ballerina, or belly dancer. It's not exactly a ballerina, but he was on tour in 1979 with the Bolshoi Ballet in New York City. And he defected while he was in New York.
He was a KGB-responded by putting his wife, who was also in the company, putting her on a plane to Moscow. And the flight was stopped by authorities before takeoff, like some whole big production. And then after three days, Jimmy Carter was involved, President Jimmy Carter, with the Soviet leader, Brezhnev. The US State Department was involved.
And they were satisfied that his wife had chosen to willingly go on the flight home. And she didn't say, fuck it. I'm going home. I'm more Russian.
I feel more Russian than American. And he always loved to be American. So he defected and stayed here. Oh my gosh.
She flew home. And this incident was dramatized in a 1986 movie called Flight 222. I had no idea about that. Interesting.
My goodness. That was 50% more riveting than the money picked. That's the movie that I want to see. I want to see Alexander Gudinoff's story.
Somebody defecting sounds only like Humpa Red October. That being a real thing. Actually, what do you know that means? It's affecting.
Literally. What was the word? Robert Williams. Was it Moscow on the Hudson?
Yeah. He's a Russian that defects. Literally today someone in the Olympics from Belarus defected on their own. Some gymnast or track athlete or something defected trying to leave and seek the asylum in Tokyo.
Yeah. I thought it was something like she got kicked off the team because she was criticizing her coach. Oh, she probably didn't want to go back and have them beat her with the cat at 9 to 10. I don't know the soul story.
You can be right. I did see something though. I just pretend it was affecting and it works. That's all I got.
There was a ton of trivia. There's a bunch of other little garbage. I didn't add all that stuff. Yeah.
I saw it was that this movie was sort of like a negotiation point with Kathleen Turner. Right. I had that in the casting. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, sorry. Listen, what is it? Jule Niles?
Jule Niles. The sequel to the remancing of Remancing the Stone. You can absolutely see her in this movie, but it obviously, well, it would have done like one thing that this movie didn't do, which was any sexual tension. Yeah.
I love Nash just trying to find anything to dig. There are no two people on earth. I want to see you having sex and Tom Hanks and Shelly Wong. Oh my God.
I mean, and for a while there, like between chairs and everything else, we tried to make her sexy. It was terrible. She can't be sexy. She was.
No. You could be cute and like lovely, but that's about it. No, but she was. She was barely that even in that show.
By the way, I've been watching cheers on and off on crime or something. Yes, you have. I like that show more than I remember. Oh, we can do it.
I've done the same thing, right? Did the whole first season. Yeah. It's the funniest show ever put together.
It's really, really good. And the well-miked audience laughs. Yes. We need a new sitcom in an extremely ginormous bar.
Yeah. So the only two trivia pieces that I had, one, I don't know if it's really trivia, but I never really paid attention to it. So Art Shirk, the Shirk Brothers, the name, of course, was picked because they just like disappear. And so like they're each, they shark.
Yeah. So they're just in each of the C ones and then they're out of there, which of course makes perfect sense now that I think about it, but I never really made attention to that. But I've been, since I can remember, always like focus on the lead or the main guy in the cheap girls. Like who is that guy?
That's Leslie West, who is the guitarist, lead guitarist for the band Mountain, which I feel like I've seen this guy before, but I couldn't quite place it. And with that voice and all, like I'm like, who is that? And it's Leslie West. I, except for one point of reference, I don't know who Leslie West is.
I don't know a band called Mountain. I believe both of those things are made up. Except for I hear Howard Stern mentioning the renowned man. That's it.
But yeah, that's a real dude and that's a real band and whatever. Eric or any other trivia stuff. I'm going to move on to the recasting. Well, again, just to remind everyone, Stephen Spielberg was involved in this movie.
He doesn't regret it a bit. Come on, man. He made three and a half times his money or the studio did. That's a big, that's better than Space Jam.
Oh my God. Okay. It is a recasting debate. It is time to recast the door.
It's time to be constrobated. Okay. There's really just three. It's Walter.
It's Anna. It's Max. If anybody has extras for the Shirk Brothers or Estelle or Curly or whatever, fine. We'll do that.
It's really just three. And I had trouble with Walter. Me too. You'll see when we get there, but I had some trouble with that.
We'll do a normal style. I almost wanted to go do them in groups like we've talked about, but let's just do it normally. I'll start. I have this rule that I tried to impose on people or at least myself with the age thing.
I tried to keep the actors kind of in the same age bracket as originals. I found that extraordinarily difficult with this one because I am too old. I don't know any actors less than 40 really. So I'm playing fast and loose with the ages on this one.
Walter, I have four, unfortunately. One of them I know is too old, but he's my favorite one. Ready? What?
1000 first real quick. How many posted notes? I have two post-its and then a third blank one. Oh, really?
Yeah. I got lots of scribbles. I've written like half the script on one of them because I had so many quotes. So it's like reading the, I don't know, the terms of service.
When you buy like a watch and it comes with like a quad fold paper. It's like opening up the, all of the side effects, like if you're part of the troll or something like that, where it like opens up into like a seismic us map, like a two. It's written down so small. Okay.
Walter, I have four. One I don't like, but I have my here because I just do Joseph Gordon Levitt. No, I had him too. I wasn't really a fan of that one, but I liked it enough.
My third is Jake Johnson from New Girl. Right. My second place who could be my first place, depending on age, is Chris Pine from Wonder Woman. You're seeing?
Yeah. Or whatever else he did. The one I think that works the best. I think it's easiest and I will be surprised if no one else has this one.
But he's too old. I'll keep it is Jason Sudeikis. Yeah. Yeah.
That's why I have to. I'm with you with Joseph Gordon Levitt. Totally. Good.
I wasn't, I hadn't had that one, but we got it. Yeah, kind of douchey. But. Sorry, Joseph.
Do dooshy. Al, give us your water. I had Bill Hader. That's good.
That's a good one. Donald Gleason, who I love to cast. Yeah. And I think my number one is Jason Seagull.
Whoa. Jason Seagull. You almost nailed it. Is he still even acting?
I think so. But that's a good one. Yeah. Don't you dare.
Yeah. Don't you dare. That we both. Rend our family asunder.
You just said a rend. I can't believe it. You passed a thunder. A thunder more common than red.
It's got to be. Okay. Eric, give us a Walter. My, I suppose I had the same difficulty too as far as like trying to find like someone about that same age, but the more I thought about it, they don't necessarily have to be young because like.
Like, Shelley Long's character was married once before. So if they both had lives before all of this happened, so it doesn't really matter if they're a little bit older. Yeah. I also, I did have Jason Sudeikis was on my list.
And right around that same age, maybe a little older Jason Bateman. Oh, that's good. That's actually really good. I feel like that one.
And I, and then the other one that I had, I think Jason Bateman is probably, probably would be my number one, but then another thing that I had was Paul Rudd. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Eric. So, Ray and I were talking like as a combo, this is perhaps the movie that Paul, Paul Rudd and Leslie Man should make. Inside of this is for. Oh, yeah.
I mean, Paul would have been perfect. You know, I think he looks like he's 35, but like, yeah, that's good. Yeah. Paul Rudd, yeah.
I had two others though. I had, uh, Janet, I thought I'd give him. Oh, I thought about him. And I had like, well, my favorite is BJ Dovac.
Yeah. I think he could have really. That's good. That's good.
That's good. That's good. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I could sit here and sort of. Change my mind.
Yeah. I would say that I think all of these ideas are excellent. I definitely agree with what Allison said that Joseph Love is great. The Jason Bateman.