‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin | The Rewatchables
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2024
- All The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and they’re fine after rewatching the 1982 classic ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Phoebe Cates.
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How did we not call this particular "Mount Rushmore" the "Mount Rushmore of Rushed Mounting"?
Forrest is obviously MJ, but I'm gonna nominate Stevie Weeks with his line "I'm a premature ejaculator" in Mystery, Alaska. Bunz finally tappin Vivica A. for 3 pumps at the end of Booty Call is another classic for me.
Sean Penn was on Conan a few years back. Penn ran into the guy from his high school that he based the Spicoli character on. Turns out the dude ended up doing well for himself. Has a family, still living in Los Angeles, and still surfing but now with his kids. The clip is on RUclips.
I have never wanted to be on a Rewatchables panel more than for this movie - I graduated from high school in California in 1982, and this movie really captures what it was like for me and my peers. I swear, I knew and hung around with all these kids (I myself was a less-cool version of Rat). It was completely true that everyone had a job and you always had to go hang out somewhere. And to hang anyplace, you needed money. And of course, you HAD to have a car. In my hometown, on weekend nights, kids cruised - drove up and down the same street for hours. The goals were to find out where there was a party, and hopefully meet girls. Had to do it that way - no cell phones!
A less cool version of Rat….God bless you.
no cell phones - better times
This is great life advice -- you don't care if she comes, stays, lays or prays. Whatever happens, you're toes are still tapping.
"i'm like draymond on inside the NBA" was a nice heckle
The boyfriend at the beginning of Halloween got robbed from that premature Mount Rushmore
All implied, no evidence he actually got in there.
I graduated in '93...driving around culture was still alive and well
2000 here and I’m willing to bet it’s never stopped.
2001, and ditto. Grew up in the suburbs on the verge of rural, all we had was weed and cars lol.
can also verify as a teen in the 2010s that’s all we wanted to do
Bill grew up and no longer saw it around him.... Some things never change.
Mallory Rubin...Count me me in
Like a time machine, the opening credits showing scenes at the mall with "We Are The Beat" transport me back to the '80s.
I graduated high school in 82, this movie is the most realistic view of high school at that time that I ever saw.
that amazes me
Most memorable quote: “Doesn’t anyone knock anymore?!!!”
Kashmir man. What a song
01:00:45 - Knicks Film SCHOOL but for BJs, CR... appreciate the "shoutout" 😂😂😂
Finally someone points out the Zeppelin track/album fuck-up.
Led Zeppelin would not allow IV to be used and the scene had been filmed.
@@jeffnotch1739 amazing they allowed anything at all 😂😂 (that isn't Immigrant Song...unless, of course, David O. Russell/Cameron Crowe are filming 😂😂)
Perry’s pizza was actually very good. There are a few left in Orange County still.
When I was a kid watching this Spicoli was def the comedy gold of the movie but now that I’m 56? It’s 100% Damone. Best character. Best lines.
One of the best high school movies ever, with one of the best up and coming casts ever. Phoebe Cates? Enough said
Okay grandpa.
4 academy award winners. Must be a record for a teen comedy.
I saw Fast Times probably on cable around 83 when I was 15 years old. Still on of my favorite movies of all time.
Yes, finally!!!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏
Did I miss something, but they didn’t mention that Fast Times was the film debut of Nicolas Cage. He was then using his birth name Nicolas Coppola. From Vulture “An unknown 17-year-old from Beverly Hills High, Cage received only a bit part in the film after losing the Brad Hamilton role, for which he had auditioned multiple times, to the older Reinhold.”
'american girl' was in a pivotal scene in silence of the lambs
How dare you forget the scene with Rat and Damone in Damones room after Rat says he’s in love!??? Some of the best lines in the movie
"You're a wuss, half wimp and half pussy" Still remember this 30+ years later.
About Linda and her boyfriend Doug - in the book he was definitely real. She also sold cocaine when she was in junior high and had almost overdosed at some point. If memory serves, Doug had a lot to with her being more mature than her peers, or at least thinking she was because she had left all the stuff she considered immature - like drugs - behind.
49:05 John Connors room in T2 looked pretty sweet
Very impressive for a foster child.
For the premature conversation, Kirk in She’s Out Of My League.
Ratner didn’t score on the first date with Stacy because he didn’t pay attention to Damone’s plan. He played Kashmir from physical graffiti, NOT side 2 of Led Zeppelin 4.
Side 1. This has always bothered me. I'm sure Crowe and Heckerling would have known this detail. So either it was a licensing issue (the prevailing theory on the 'net) or a creative choice to show that Rat wasn't paying attention.
He would’ve scored either way he just got too nervous and left
@8584zender Crowe has talked about it several times. Back then, Led Zeppelin did not license their music to anyone, ever. Because Crowe knew the band, he was able to appeal to them personally. As a favor, they granted him one song and one song only.
Just as a example of how stingy the band was with licensing. In 1993 Richard Linklater arranged a private screening of 'Dazed and Confused ' for the band and they still turned him down.
Memories of you. Ron Johnson
Did Bill overlook the fact that Martin Brest plays Dr Miller in the cadaver scene? Seems like a glaringly oversight. Otherwise, fantastic episode. 🤙
25 years later, I’m pretty sure ffd memory would kick in if you handed me a Wild Things vhs
Magic Johnson WORE those short shorts. My word. (@15:50)
Bill Pullman in Lost Highway is petitioning for a fifth president to be added to the PMEJ Mt. Rushmore.
fast times is my apex mountain for HS movies by far
Great Job on one of my movie favorites. I would have thought you would mention the Springsteen connections in the movie. Jersey Devil T-Shirt on Brad in last scene, Brad's bumper sticker and younger sister in the movie as a cheerleader. Crowe must have been a huge early fan of the Boss.
No cares about jersey except for the losers who live there.
@@keeganshigh You don't the smell of toxic waste?
I ❤ The Anniversary Party
CR's pod career peaked at 1:15:16
Booksmart! Was waiting for them to mention Booksmart during that run of female led high school films.
THE PEOPLE ARE READY FOR BLADE RUNNER
Blue Oyster Cult had a resurgence around the time of Fast Times.
3 best actor oscar winners (penn x2, whitaker, cage), 1 original screenplay winner (crowe - also nominated), 1 best picture nominee (jerry maguire - written, directed, produced by crowe), 2 directors guild nominations (crowe), 1 SAG winner (edwards 6x), 1 SAG nominee (cage for adaptation, moonstruck and honeymoon in vegas), 1 supporting actress nominee (leigh), 2 tony winners (backer, walston), 1 emmy winner (reinhold), 1 tony nominee (crowe), 1 nat. society of film critics best screenplay winner (heckerling - clueless), 1 golden globe nominee (stoltz)...............and cates married an acadamy award and 3x tony winner (along w/ 2 emmy noms)
You know when you’ve watched too many Rewatchables when you preemptively lower the volume for CR’s Wayne Jenkins
1:32:45 Lol, Bill did not want to discuss bookies in high school. Pretty much ended the podcast when it came up a 2x time.
D.E.N.N.I.S. System Shoutout by CR?! 💉💪 41:18
He is a Philly guy after all
No discussion of the Spicoli dream sequence?
annoys me that this movie gets only 3 stars on my Uverse TV listing. it's the definition of a 3.5 star cult classic
The podcast version is actually better because it has the audio clips from the movie. Maybe you guys can sync both up to have the video clips in the video version so they’re more uniform.
royalties
Yup. I like the podcast version better because it has the trailer of the movie and a proper intro.
here in louisiana, the football finals ain't till the middle week of december
Same with California. Bill’s son even plays HS football and bill didn’t know that CIF championship is like last week of November/1st week of December. Regionals the next week then state championship the week after. In the 80s that all happened about 2 weeks earlier
Where does Vincent Eastman (Richard Gere in "Intersection") fit in to your Mount Rushmore?
Some more evidence Spicoli was a genius. I just realized it this morning.
As Mr. Vargas' class is entering the morgue for a field trip, he stops Spicoli and asks, "Hey, are you in my class?" Spicoli responds, "I am today."
Jeff Spicoli, stoner, burnout, and surfer dude, could be in any of a bunch of places since he is obviously cutting another class. He's also not going to get credit for attending Vargas' class. Why not just cut school totally? He could go surfing, he could hang out and smoke in the VW bus with Eric Stoltz and Anthony Edwards, he could be buying Tasty Waves, he could be cruising in the VW bus, or any of a multitude of things. But what does he choose to do? He CHOOSES to attend a biology class that he's not even registered for so he can gain more real world knowledge of the human body.
That, my friends, is a man thirsting for knowledge.
I was born in 1974, graduated in 1992, and Fast Times felt like what high school in the late 70s/early 80s must have felt like, because my experience was -not- like that at all. Granted, I grew up outside of Chicago and this is based in California. For example I just thought Spicoli was just kind of a dumb guy. We didn't have stoners like that. Weed was hard to get, in fact in junior high a friend and I made up a batch of fake weed with a bunch of spices and stuff, and burned bay leaves because it kind of smelled like weed. It was far too light colored though, so we put wet coffee grounds and soy sauce in it, and I hung out of my bedroom window with a hair dryer and a colander trying to get it to dry. Sold it for $20. We did the driving around thing though. We would hit the highway and get off at an exit we've never gotten off at before and just find our way back on the side roads listening to music and talking.
As for where were the parents, almost all of my friends were from single parent families or were just one step away from it. A stay at home parent was the rarest thing ever, and most of the time they were occupied with younger kids while we were pretty much free to go wherever we wanted. Our thing was all about getting around town on bikes before any of us could drive, and we were all poor so if anyone did eventually get a car it was some land yacht from the 70s that was on its last leg. My first car was a 1980 Chevette that had a University of Anchorage sticker in the window... you KNOW nobody shipped that hunk of shit from Alaska to Chicago. All of the oil leaked out of it and the engine seized trying to go over an overpass. My second car was a 1974 Mustang that we called the Rustang. They both lasted about a year each. Then a 1983 Nissan Sentry with 250,000 miles on it that I bought for $200 had the water pump die on it after I had it about four months and blew the engine, then a 1979 Chevy Impala that I bought for $100 and put $400 of repairs into. Just total shitboxes.
Drugs were rare, getting laid was rare and everyone who was able to hook up spent 100% of their time with the girl from then on, so they were never around. It was Miller Genuine Draft, shitbox cars, classic rock and early thrash metal and shopping mall four courts. We missed out on the Dazed and Confused/Fast Times/Sixteen Candles/Breakfast Club shit. We were the malaise between stoney classic rock and cool hip hop and it flat out sucked.
Jim does it twice in american pie. How is he not MJ?
Damon Wayans in Blankman is a Mt. Rushmore candidate.
I nominate Tree Lane in Mystery Alaska as deserving on the Mount Rushmore of prematuredness.
Apex mountain for Tom Petty songs in a movie is not up for debate. It's 'American Girl' in Silence of the Lambs.
100% agree. Egregious miss by the team.
mentioned it too. didn't occur to me to check if someone else did!
Unanswerable question.
Mike Damone definitely stole the cassette deck from the car when he dropped off Brad's wallet.
20 year anniversary of Troy and still no rewatchables on it!!
THAT'S MY SKULL. Aged the Best.
Mount Rushmore: kevin spacey in “The Ref”
Is the pool scene the most rewatchable scene of all-time?!?! In that, it literally may be the most rewatched scene from any rewatchable?!?!?!
There is an amazing pop punk song titled “Phoebe Cates” by Fenix TX, released in 2001 dedicated to this scene! That’s how much of an impression it left in pop culture.
Superbad hit the spot too
Love Fast Times and Dazed, but I definitely prefer Pump Up the Volume to The Breakfast Club.
Add Blankman to Mount Rushmore !
If Mall ever quits what is the ringer anymore 46:30
Great episode....give us more Mallory Rubin on the Rewatchables please!
1:15:00 love moments like this
"State of Grace" Rewatchables when???
Phoebe Cates and Sharon Stone are definitely in the self-love finals. I don't know who wins but its probably going 7.
Driving around shitfaced stayed strong thru '99. I can assure u.
Mall movies. Bad Santa.
59:55 I disagree that the Linda/Stacy relationship has aged the worst. Linda is clearly fronting - she’s inexperienced and trying to impress Stacy. Hence the bad bj advice.
You left off one of the alltime great "premature ejaculation scenes". NUBOMB TURK in "hollywood knights". Who can forget Fran Drescher saying, "Turk, did you come"? Turk-"a little", "what do you mean a little either you came or didn't come"!
Mallory never disappoints. Glad she’s on the pod 😂😂😂😂
Yup. And asking the Phoebe Cates bikini top scene to CR and Bill at 26:45 mark. Glad we got to witness the moment in video here.
Anyone else still pissed they haven't done Pulp Fiction yet?? Wth.. whats the hold up with one of the most important films of the past 30 years
Mal, we hardly knew ye. Glad you're back.
Gen X here. I'm not defending Ron who yeah, total loser, but back in the day, 16 year olds worked, had their own cars, and pre-HIV f&cked like bunnies in their teens. We essentially lived like adults that couldn't legally drink but didn't care. I dated 20 year olds when I was 15 or 16 and it was not abnormal. Our parents often had left school at 16 to start their adult lives, so no, we were not infantalized until we were 21. We were considered young adults, not children. For better or worse.
She also lied about her age, and I don't see him as a loser just for wanting to hook up.
Can someone please get CR a cable-tie for that laptop power cable? It's making me twitch.
Hotest take: Ratner %100 stole the radio out off rats sisters car.
Fast Times is so much better and deeper than the rip-offs that followed. How many so-called teen movies even up to today are even dealing with serious subjects like underage sex and abortion?
There’s a legendary Premature ejaculation scene by Ed Harris in the movie Pollock.
Kyle McLaughlin in Showgirls for a PE Mount Rushmore ?
*MacLachlan
How do they not mention the guest appearance of Nicholas Cage at the football game?
✌❤🎥
Diner-glaring ommission from the Rewatchables. This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Better off Dead, the Outsiders. Plenty of classic early-mid 80's movies left to review.
Good Premature scene is She's Out Of My League
Came over from Spotify just to watch Mallory’s Romo impression
Still no Craig cam?
it's indeed a bit weird when they kick it to him for a few mins and we're stuck watching the rest of them watch him
Good. No Sean to complain about the nudity.
Bill looks baked.
am i the only one who found stacy more attractive than linda? probably in part due to attainability. certainly more likeable as well
mallory is terrific. FU haters
statutory rape scene involving a 15 year old and a scuzzbag in his mid-to-late 20s. would that happen today? the only reason it isn't shocking is that leigh is obviously older (she was nearly 20 during filming)
To CR and Andy, please please do Trainspotting 2
-Sick boy
Listening to @ringer
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and they are crucifying the Mike Damone 5 point plan and not one of them realized that #5
“Listen to side 1 of Led Zeppelin IV”
And then movie cuts to “Kashmir” on
Physical Graffiti
Kids these days
I always felt like Stacy Hamilton became sexually active because she thought she was supposed to be, and not because she wanted to be. Her hookups are so cringe to watch and she gets into situations she’s not remotely ready for. I think that’s why Ebert hated the movie.
That was an active choice by Heckerling - she wanted to remind us that these were not adults, bur kids trying to BE adults, with all the missteps and discomfort that involved. She said something like, "I wanted them to be naked, not nude."
I shaved my chest... but I guess my chest wasn't good enough.
Halfway through….is this a classic episode? I think it might be a classic episode.
Isn’t it possible that the reason that Linda’s “relationship advice” is so bad is because it’s all bullshit to begin with? She’s just as inexperienced as Stacey, but, doesn’t want her to know. There’s even one moment where it DOES seem like Stacey is on to her nonsense.
Probably should finish the show before I comment next time. 🤣🤣
Seeing fast times with CR gave me such a hyped feeling then seeing Mallory’s name sent me into the depths of hell. What a shame :(
You're not alone there
OH GOD A WOMAN!
Agreed she sucks and her laugh is damn annoying
An annoying woman
I find CR more annoying
Poindexter (Tim Busfield) Revenge of the Nerds has a premature ejaculation scene after they set up the cameras in the sorority house.
So many Mike Demoan’s here dissing Mallory, fascinating as they show their limp personalities, go back to your Fox News podcasts
Mallory is Rewatchables gold !!!! 🤌
Kashmir is not on Led Zeppelin 4.
they're not making out, which is when damone says to put on IV ;)