- 'Tommy Boy'.
- 'Tommy Boy'. - 'Tommy Boy'.
Still funny, still holds up.
- You just think of Chris Farley,
because that's what 'Tommy Boy' is.
- Chris Farley, David Spade, road trip, brake pads.
- It's just nonstop.
There's so many great moments of physical comedy.
- Physical comedy never ages.
- Fat guy in a little coat.
♪ Fat guy in a little coat. ♪
- That's really good (laughing).
- 'Tommy Boy' definitely still holds up.
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- 'Tommy Boy'.
It is a film about the death of the American working class
and also about how funny it is when Chris Farley falls over.
- 'Tommy Boy' holds up for me,
mostly because Chris Farley is a force of nature.
For people of a certain age, he is the funniest person
who has ever lived and will ever live.
- It holds up because the comedy is timeless.
It's really physical.
Sometimes older comedy films will have references
that are super outdated, but it's just Chris Farley
running around being a pscyho and that's timeless.
And any generation, you could put the movie
in another country and people will still laugh,
just because he's so physical.
You don't need any words in this movie.
That's why it holds up.
- The first thing I think about when I think about
'Tommy Boy' is David Spade and Chris Farley.
They are just such a great tandem.
Obviously, they were both on SNL at the same time
and they really do have this lovable chemistry
of David Spade just getting annoyed
at Chris Farley's continuous antics.
Just constantly destroying things.
- There's all this plot construction around it.
It's a convoluted movie.
These two idiots you like from that TV show, now,
they're gonna go on a road trip together.
One's goofy, one's straight-laced.
- I think they play off each other really well.
You have a cervic, smart, sarcastic, quippy one
and then you have the big goofball.
You get it from all angles, all the comedy you can want.
- The entirety of 'Tommy Boy' is just Chris Farley
in different places with breakable stuff.
They're like, what if he broke an airplane bathroom?
What if he broke a car?
They did that for two hours, it's great.
This movie for me could just be completely Chris Farley
trying to walk across factory floors without dying.
- You should hate this guy
because he's got everything going for him.
He's basically getting handed a company.
He's had an easy life.
He's been given everything.
He just continues to break everything in his path
and mess up and mess up.
But you love him because you know his heart's
in the right place and you know that he really
loves his dad and he cares about this company.
So you just root for him,
even though he's a big, doughy oaf.
- Farley's skill with his comedy is how quick he is.
He always surprises you with
how fast his body movements are.
It always surprises me,
even though I've seen 'Tommy Boy' a million times.
- Underrated performance for me, David Spade.
Honestly, he doesn't really get enough credit
for how good a string man he was for all of Farley's stuff.
As unlikeable as he was, Farley was likable.
They played off each other perfectly.
- Don't get your!
(whooshing)
- [Flight Attendant] He's a big dumb animal isn't he folks?
- David Spade plays it so underhandedly in such a fun way,
because Farley is so broad and
sucks up all the air in the room with his performance.
And then, Spade just deflates him
with these cutting remarks.
- He's mean to him, but Tommy needs some structure.
He needs somebody like that in his life to put him in place
and tell him what not to eat and what not to break
and how to behave and don't light things on fire.
He needs that.
- I also think that's why David Spade
is really important in this movie because without him,
you don't feel bad for Chris Farley.
You don't have any sympathy for him.
But because David Spade is there to berate him all the time,
or get so annoyed with him, I don't know, you're just like,
"Okay, but he's trying."
- I love the whole wedding thing.
I like how it throws the audience into the action.
You've got Dennehy just eating
ham sandwiches left and right.
Dennehy really goes so big
because he knows he's only in 10 minutes of the movie.
- Brian Dennehy's out in the first act,
which is very tragic, but if you gotta go,
going while dancing with Chris Farley
at your wedding to Bo Derrick is a good way to go.
- Dad?
- Somebody call 911!
- That's actually one of the saddest scene in that silly,
'90s comedy era, is Brian Dennehy dying at his own wedding.
It is a kick in the nuts.
Heart attack at the wedding?
And they have to just keep things light,
so it's only sad for a few minutes
and then Chris Farley falls off a boat
and then you're like, "We're back baby, let's do this."
- For me, the great performance in it is Rob Lowe,
and Rob Lowe's introduction
is something that brings me such joy to watch.
When he steps off the bus and is instantly such an asshole.
Before he utters a single word, he's a guy you love to hate.
The moment when he finishes drinking his carton
of chocolate milk and just casually tosses it
into a baby's stroller that's passing by.
He's such a dick.
He's a dick in the best way.
- Rob Lowe and Bo Derrick in this film make me feel like
they just crawled up out of sewers to be together.
They're both so slimy.
Even when she's coming out of the pool,
I feel like you ca see a film coming off of her
because she's so hot, I'm like,
"I don't know, I think she's
"borderline reptilian in this movie."
- 'Tommy Boy' is a movie that people probably quote
every day of their lives and don't even realize
that they're quoting it.
Holy schnikes started with Farley in 'Tommy Boy'
and I say, "Holy schnikes" three times a week.
- Holy schnikes.
- Not every day, let's be honest.
I don't wanna exaggerate.
(door crashing)
- What'd you do?
- In my mind, the best line is, "What'd you do?"
When Richard pulls the car door off.
Just an incredible, on the spot response
to something that he knew was coming anyway.
♪ Fat guy in a little coat ♪
- Take it off, dickead, I'm serious.
- It's a beautiful song (laughing).
The reason fat guy in a little coat sticks in your head
is partially because he's in a little coat,
but it's also because
♪ Fat guy in a little coat ♪
is really beautiful.
That's the only song a man can sing to me.
- I was a big kid.
As a chubby kid growing up, you get
a lot of mileage out of the fat guy in a little coat thing.
Farley gave us a huge edge.
Put on a small blazer and you entertain
a whole dinner party when you're 11.
That was like I killed with that.
That was my thing I stole from him for years.
- Bees everywhere!
God, they're here!
- Allergic to bees?
- Me too.
- [Tommy] They're huge and they're sting crazy.
- We'll come back later and check on you.
- After seeing Chris Farley use the bees ruse
to outsmart the police, I would totally use that,
100% in any situation.
If someone's like, "Hey, I'm moving next week
"and you have a truck.
"Maybe you could come by and help."
I would just be like, "Bees, bees!"
It works in any situation.
"Hey, wanna go to brunch?"
And it's someone you don't like that much
and it's just like, "Bees, bees!"
- She's sleeping.
What you do is you put your shoulder into her and you push.
- And?
- They fall over (laughing).
- Cow tipping is one of those things that people
always talk about and seeing it in 'Tommy Boy'
awoke me to it's possibilities.
'Tommy Boy' put cow tipping on the map.
I bet hundreds of people saw 'Tommy Boy'.
I bet a million people saw 'Tommy Boy' and tried cow tipping
and then went to the hospital or got shot by a farmer.
- Hey, get off my property!
(gun firing)
- Run for it!
- I just always wanted to know this.
So they hit the deer.
They put the deer in the backseat of their car,
and then they travel a lot of miles,
maybe even an entire state.
And so this deer comes back to life and then runs off.
It's in a different climate.
Does it have the same environment?
Can it eat the same things
in Minneapolis as where they picked it up?
Forget about reuniting with it's deer family.
It was a buck.
It was probably the patriarch of it's family.
It just abandoned a whole family of deers
and now it's dropped into a totally different ecosystem
and I doubt it survived.
- If 'Tommy Boy' came out today, I think there would
probably be some think pieces about body shaming happening.
But Chris Farley, he's still the hero.
He still gets the girl at the end.
He's clearly a very body positive man.
As he says, "I don't know if you know this,
"but I have a bit of a weight problem."
He's cool with it.
- My hot take about 'Tommy Boy',
they make the guy who's obsessed with the guarantee
on the box out to be some kind of asshole.
He's not.
He's right.
He's trying to sell something to his customers.
Tommy's trying to flim flam him with
all this language about butchers and cows and T-bone steaks.
That guy's right.
Put a guarantee on the box.
You want someone you can trust.
- The lesson people need to learn
when watching this film is there's something
we gotta do about these jobs that are being lost
because it's really nice in the movie
that they all get their jobs,
but the reality is like 10 years later,
those jobs are probably going away again.
Honestly, lowkey, for a slapstick comedy,
this film is super political.
There's a huge message.
We do not have factory jobs anymore.
It's so sad that Chris Farley's gone.
Obviously, he's a tremendous talent,
but also, we could really use 'Tommy Boy' right now.
- IF you haven't seen 'Tommy Boy', what are you doing?
It's got Farley, it's got Spade,
it's got Brian Dennehy dying on the dance floor.
What more do you want?
What did you do?
Classic.
See I just fell into quoting the movie
while trying to describe it to you.
Watch 'Tommy Boy' now.
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