- This is impossible. Can't we just hire them both?
- No. We've been through this.
We've only got the budget for one dancer.
- Yeah, but they're both so great.
I can't decide between them.
- Well, that's our job. That's what Chippendales pays us for.
- I know, but these guys have been through hell:
a five-hour audition, three callbacks.
- Well, look, if you want to give up your salary
so Chippendales can hire both these guys, that's fine with me.
- Okay, okay. - No, no.
- Okay. Marcy, bring 'em in.
- This is the part of the job that I hate.
[laughter]
- Adrian, Barney.
[sighs]
Listen, before we start, I just want to say once again
that either one of you would make a fine addition
to the Chippendale family.
I know you've been put through a long, long audition
and it's been hard.
But I think that in itself is a testament
to how good both of you are
and just how difficult our choice is.
I wish I could just flip a coin and be done with it,
but we can't.
We're Chippendales.
Marcy, music.
[ Loverboy's "Working For The Weekend"]
- [singing] Everyone's watching
To see what you will do
Everyone's looking at you
Oh
Everyone's wondering
Will you come out tonight
Everyone's trying to get it right
Get it right
Everybody's working for the weekend
Everybody wants a little romance
Everybody's goin' off the deep end
Everybody needs a second chance
Oh
You want a piece of my heart
You better start from start
You wanna be in the show
Come on baby lets go
[music continues]
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you, Adrian, Barney.
If you could just give us a minute, we'll have our decision.
[laughter]
- Oh!
- Oh, Adrian, you were great out there, man.
I know it's gonna be you.
- Oh, what are you talking about, Barney?
You got it, and you know it.
- Whatever--whatever happens, you're the best.
- Buddies?
- Buddies.
- They're ready for you, guys.
- Adrian, Barney,
well, we've made our decision.
But before we tell you, I just want to say once again
how truly difficult it was for us to make our choice,
and to thank you for your patience
throughout this long, arduous audition.
- Thanks.
- We're gonna go with Adrian.
- I knew it, man.
- [cries]
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I just never wanted anything so much in my life, you know.
And now that I've got it,
I just can't deal with it.
- Well, that's okay, Adrian, we understand.
Barney, we all agreed that your dancing was great.
Your presentation was very sexy.
I guess-- I guess, in the end,
we all thought that
Adrian's body was just much, much better than yours.
- Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Okay.
- You see, it's just that, at Chippendales,
our dancers have traditionally had that lean,
muscular, healthy physique, like Adrian's.
Whereas yours is, well...
fat and flabby.
- Right, right.
- [groans] - Oh, no.
- No, Barney. No, no.
No, Barney, we've-- we've made our decision.
- Excuse me, can I--can I-- can I make a point?
- Sure.
- I just want to say
that this guy, he is one hell of a dancer, you know?
And he has got the sexiest moves I have ever seen.
And if you're really serious about going with me,
you know, it can only be because his body is so bad.
- Thanks, man. - Sure.
You know, because on straight dancing and presentation,
ain't no way I'm better than him!
- Amen. Amen.
You see, Barney, we considered the possibility that
our heavier female customers might actually prefer
a heavy, heavier man
that they could identify with,
but then we decided...
- [thinking] Even as I stood there
listening to them explain why they had chosen me,
I still couldn't believe it.
Ever since I could remember,
I had dreamed of becoming a Chippendales dancer
and now I was one.
I never saw Barney again,
but I'll never forget him and how,
for one brief moment, he brought out the best in me.
That was the time of my life.
- [singing] I've had the time of my life
And I've searched through every open door