Thursday, March 26, 2020

215: "Songs By Smash Mouth" - Zoom (2006)

We watched Mystery Men, we watched Rat Race, we watched Inspector Gadget, all of which featured Smash Mouth or songs by Smash Mouth.  Little did we know that the coincidence of life would lead us to Zoom.  This 2006 kiddie superhero flick features SNL alum Chevy Chase and a soundtrack filled with Smash Mouth.  Tim Allen stars as an over-the-hill superhero training a group of kids to fight an unknown enemy.  It's basically just a bunch of training montages strung together with Tim Allen quips and Chevy Chase shtick and Smash Mouth.  We dig deep into why the universe keeps leading us to Smash Mouth or if we are living in some kind of alternate reality where all movies are scored by Smash Mouth.  Enjoy!

Thursday, March 19, 2020

214: "A Diaper Full Of Skunk Piss" - Inspector Gadget (1999)

Do you Yahoo?  Well the producers of Inspector Gadget did, or at least they cashed a fat check from the company as they did with Skittles and a slew of other products featured prominently in this movie.  SNL alum Cheri Oteri appears as the mayor in this 1999 CGI crap-fest, so we watched it.  It's got everything a Saturday Night Jive movie should have, terrible editing, callbacks to scenes we didn't see, loads of ADR and sound effects, Dabney Coleman, scenes in the end credits to pad the running time, and, of course, Smash Mouth.  Want to drop us a line or send us some feedback or just say hello?  E-mail us at saturdaynightjivepodcast@gmail.com.  Enjoy!

Thursday, March 12, 2020

213: "A Racism Turducken" - SNL Season 10 Episode 16 - Christopher Reeve / Santana

We picked good old Gary Kroeger and since his film career never took off we watched a classic episode of SNL.  We're back to Season 10 exactly where we left off as this is the episode after the Hulk Hogan and Mr. T episode we covered.  Superman himself Christopher Reeve hosts with musical guest Santana.  Sketches include Jackie Roger Jr.'s $100,000 Jackpot Wad, Superman Auditions, Amish Talk Back, Superman In A Nursing Home, Dumb Soldiers, and a Saturday Night News that includes Jim Belushi and his airhorn, Paul Harvey, Buddy Young Jr, and Larry Bud Melman.  Of course there's blackface but there's also some silliness.  We are divided on the quality of this episode but enjoy of talking about it.

Thursday, March 5, 2020

212: "We Already Talked About The Talking Cow" - Rat Race (2001)

We picked Jon Lovitz as our SNL alum this week so we watched Rat Race from 2001 st
arring an all-star cast including frequent guest of the show Cuba Gooding Jr, Whoopi Goldberg, Amy Smart, Breckin Meyer, Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Seth Green, the exciting new find Vince Vieluf, Smash Mouth, Hitler's car, Dean Cain, Space Jam's Wayne Knight, Paul Rodriguez and Kathy Bates.  It's a crazy movie that we both enjoyed.  We have still yet to answer the question of whether the cow talked or not but we talk a lot about this movie.  Enjoy!