damnit that makes me so happy. and I just imagine anyone that came up in New Orleans has some insane stories. and to me, Brian Dennehy will always be the dad in Tommy Boy before anything else.
Spoiler Might have read it on here. Not sure if I shared that this last Summer, or not. The fight in the parking lot of the restaurant, where he is fighting the big bald guy, is when he got hurt. The angle they were shooting had him facing the camera, so they needed him for the shot. Goodman has the beats of the fight down well, but no one accounted for the loose gravel in the parking lot. He took a reaction to a punch, where he spun quickly and was supposed to slouch down to the steel bumper of this work truck. Unfortunately, his foot slipped on some of the rocks, and he face-planted into the steel bumper. He played it off well, and tried to tough it out, but he was bleeding a pretty good amount, so he was sent to the hospital. This was on a Friday. He was back to work on Monday.
Spoiler Ha, yeah. They actually had to use a separate double for a water scene, b/c I was too “built”, which you can hide in the upper half, by slouching and gaining a quick 10 lbs, but my legs and butt are big. Kind of funny what can constitute a stunt day. When I double older guys, they sometimes don’t want to do some things that are somewhat easy (sprinting down a hill, falling to the ground, some weapon work, etc). For this show, Goodman’s character was supposed to ride a roller coaster for a scene. If he didn’t feel like riding the coaster for any non-close-up shots, then I would have just sat there for him. He ended up wanting to do it, but I almost was paid to ride a roller coaster for a day.
Spoiler When I first heard I was doubling John Goodman, I didn’t know about his massive weight loss. I had two weeks to be ready to film, from when I was told about the gig. I ate a ton of food, thinking that I would need to fill out quite a bit. I gained 15 lbs in two weeks (235 to 250). I quarantined in a hotel, for that second week prior to filming, and did nothing but workout in the hotel room and eat heavy foods. I showed up to set and met Goodman, and realized that I was going to have to lose at least 5 lbs of fat in two days (one meal per day intermittent fasting got me there). My body was pissed at me for that fluctuation.
Last episode when he said (roughly) "I'm her husband not her lesbian partner" and she responded "don't shake his hand he's big dicking you!" was gold
Are y’all not familiar with the God squad? It’s a real thing, or was in the 80s/90s. A similar group was also in Workaholics.
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I was not in the God Squad. We had multiple units filming at the same time, and they were shooting while we were at another location. Would have been hilarious to have been one, since their filming days seemed incredibly entertaining.
These dudes were hilarious. If you grew up in the South and played sports, then you were likely a member of the FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes). They would do their shows for FCA groups everywhere. We had a ‘lock-in’ at our school, where the FCA did all sorts of wacky Christian things, like staying up late to read the Bible, play sports in the gym, and eat a bunch of pizza. About halfway through the night, the football coaches brought out these cheesy smoke machines, strobe lights, and stadium speakers, and the Power Team guys ran into the gym and yelled in our faces about Jesus, before they set up their act of ripping telephone books, bending steel rods, and bench pressing tons of weight. It was ridiculously over the top, and definitely deserving of parody.
Outside of the over the top language and plot lines, I'm finding the show to be more documentary than parody.
Very much so. Most of the people on the show are from the South, and you’d always hear people saying how the show nailed most aspects of the mega churches.
it hits very close to home. It’s over the top but there is so much truth about mega churches in this show.
Do we know who baby billy kid is? Is it Keefe because I swear I remember him wearing those oakleys and having a cat
If he is BJ then bringing it up in that episode made sense. The two issues I would have are the hunchback, although maybe they can play that off as surgery, and also the fact that he was old enough to know who they are. Oh, and he’s also banging his cousin.
Which would be funny since Judy was also accusing BJ's sister of wanting to fuck him in that episode.
this is why this theory doesnt make any sense. bj is aloof and dumb but not dumb enough to just forget baby billy like that them showing him driving to nc at the end is setting him up to go reconcile with his son i think