Newcomers: Scorsese, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus - Why Did I Get Married (w/ Lauren Ashley Smith and Mariah Smith)
Episode Date: April 6, 2021Nicole and Lauren are joined by comedians, writers, producers, and sisters Lauren Ashley Smith (A Black Lady Sketch Show) and Mariah Smith (Spectacle: An Unscripted History of Reality TV)&nbs...p;to discuss the Tyler Perry marriage dramedy, Why Did I Get Married (2007). Follow Lauren on Twitter and Instagram, and check out the second season of A Black Lady Sketch Show, debuting April 23rd on HBO. Follow Mariah on Twitter and Instagram, and check out her podcast ‎Spectacle: An Unscripted History of Reality TV.Like the show? Rate Newcomers 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts and let us know what Tyler Perry hit they should check out next.Advertise on Newcomers via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Whose idea was it for us to come up to the snow?
It's beautiful here, you have to admit this.
It's beautiful, but Jamaica's beautiful.
And warm.
That makes perfect sense to me.
When four married couples head to the mountains...
Every single year, we take a seven-day vacation.
Who is this? I'm Trina. Where is Sheila? Oh, we take a seven-day vacation. Who is this?
I'm Trina. Where is Sheila?
Oh, I made her drive. We flew.
You did what?
Mike, are you hearing what you're saying right now?
Secrets will be revealed.
Oh, whoa, whoa.
How are you going to admire him when you got your situation?
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. Situation?
Trust will be tested.
I'm not the only married person with a secret at this table.
Checkmate.
And hearts will be broken.
Diane, when you get married, you give up the eyes for us, okay?
And before all is said and done...
You belong in the kitchen.
And you belong on a corner. Need a pimp?
Why is your wife so eatable?
The secret to a good marriage just might be discovered.
I need you and I love you.
Just come home.
Lionsgate and Tyler Perry invite you to the movie event of the year.
I don't know what this is all about, but I am going up this mountain to save my marriage.
Learn to love.
I'll be there for you.
Laugh.
I like that argument because making up is insane.
I'll drink to that.
And cherish all over again.
Love.
Love.
Love.
Love.
Denise Boutte, Richard T. Jones, Sharon Leal, Lamon Rucker, Jill Scott, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Malik Yoba, Janet Jackson, and Tyler Perry.
I think we did all right.
In Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?
Because at some point, everyone asks,
Why did I get married?
Written and directed by Tyler Perry.
Baby, it's going to be okay. Wow. Wow.
Oops.
Hello.
You know, I do a lot of podcasting and a lot of times I forget how to start them.
I just was talking over you and I loved it.
Wow.
We're really, we've nailed this.
We're so many episodes in.
We have a rhythm.
We figured out
Zoom. Well, you guys,
this is Newcomers.
This is our fourth episode of
our third season. We're working our way through
Tyler Perry's body of work for the
first time with the help of Perry's
scholars, super fans, and sometimes
people who've contributed.
This season is only going to be 10 episodes because 20 was trying to kill us.
But you know, people want more of this already.
Maybe we will do more.
That clip I sent you yesterday from, I think it's the Oval Office.
You sent me this clip.
Yeah, I don't know what show it was.
office you sent me the this clip yeah i don't know what show it was i i'm pretty sure it's oval office which is tyler perry's uh white house drama i didn't even realize this was happening
this clip is the sickest thing i've ever seen in my life i hesitate to even retweet it because
it's vile it's literally a young man masturbating in front of a woman and then he's like she
acts like it's fine even though she's like a business
woman and he's like some disturbed teen
or something yeah he's like I need you
here and then he she's like I have
to leave if you're gonna do that and then he
ejaculates
and then he throws it
at her and then
wipes it in his notebook with his palm
like it was the
sickest thing I've ever
seen nuts
and out of like even in context
I'm like what could this possibly be
about and why did why was it happening
and why was she like I'll sit
here that doesn't bother me I was like
it should like he's like he's like
do you hate this and she's like I
don't mind I wish you wouldn't do it.
And I'm like, yeah.
She was very calm the whole time.
And I would have been screaming, you can't throw cum at me.
That's the rudest thing.
He had a pillow on his lap, and I knew it was going sideways.
I mean, it's just, it's not good.
It was really sick.
But all that being said, everything Tyler Perry does goes away you don't expect.
I mean, I think constantly, I never would have even thought he would go into that territory
me either you know because you can't limit him but then i'm like is he gonna go to church later
and then the pastor's like you can't throw calm at the people like yeah i do think that's like oh
you mean the character because i was gonna say tyler perry going to church because i think
somebody was like tyler perry's going to hell with this clip.
Yes, that's what the clip was titled.
Like, reason 5,000 as to why Tyler Perry's not going to see heaven, which is just so funny.
I just love it.
But he also is like, yeah, his stuff is so moral at the end.
I think ultimately he'll be fine.
Today, we're discussing the Tyler Perry marriage dramedy. Why did I get
married? Which came out in 2007. And we're going to be revisiting more movies and TV shows in the
weeks to come. Maybe we'll get to some oval office stuff. I don't know. If you want to watch this
movie, you can get it on DVD or a small fee on Amazon, Apple TV, and Vudu. So obviously we're going to spoil the film.
So if you want to watch it, watch it.
But I'm so excited because we have two of my favorite people on today,
Lauren Ashley Smith and Mariah Smith.
Now, Lauren is a comedian, producer, and the head writer of HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show,
which returns for a second season later this month.
I'm so excited.
Me too.
And Mariah is a comedian, writer, producer,
and host of the podcast Spectacle,
an unscripted history of reality TV,
which I highly recommend.
And I think I was on an episode with Marcy.
You were, and it was so great.
I think I definitely was.
I think I was.
She's crushing it today.
You have a lot going on, Nicole.
Okay, and together with their sister, Rachel,
Lauren and Mariah also host the popular show Smith Sisters Live on Sirius XM's Radio Andy, which is so good. They cover everything
pop culture that you need to know. It really will keep you in the know. Welcome Lauren and Mariah.
Hi. Oh my God. I'm so excited you're here. I have to say again, where I've told you like a hundred times, but I love Spectacle so much.
It's so good.
Thank you so much.
It's a journey and it's so fun.
It's so good.
What do you mean by journey?
It's a journey and it's so fun.
That made it sound like I absolutely hated it.
Yes.
I love it.
It's a journey
through reality TV.
Yeah.
It's a journey
through reality TV.
That's the journey.
Each episode
kind of breaks down
a show that was pivotal
for reality TV
and explains, like,
how we got to
where we are now.
And it's very informative
and fun.
And I just really enjoyed it.
The season's done now.
Oh, no, you have one more episode, I think, coming out, right?
Yes, one more.
What's your favorite reality show?
Vanderpump Rules.
Oh, okay.
I don't watch that.
Yes.
I don't watch that either.
It's so good.
It has such rich personal histories between the cast members that it makes it, no matter where they they whatever wealth or status they reach they'll
always be 20 somethings at heart who hate one another it's great yeah and it's like a turning
point in reality tv the early episodes their early seasons because they're hot like reality
stars are now but they don't understand the implication of doing all this on television. So it's like a beautiful time capsule.
It's a great show.
Oh, that's interesting.
Is everyone caught up on Housewives?
Jen Shaw, she's probably going to jail.
Going to jail in her box braids.
At least she has a protective style.
Wait, she has box braids right now?
Yes.
Her Instagram story, the last Instagram story she posted before the news broke was her modeling her new box braids.
I personally want to find out where she is being held and put a scarf on her books so that her braids do not get fuzzy while she is in captivity.
And so if someone can let me know where she is, I would be happy to contribute.
Oh, my God.
Well, I just saw that her chalet is also part of the scam.
What? How? I just saw a headline. Well, I just saw that her chalet is also part of the scam. What?
How?
I just saw a headline.
I just saw a headline.
I didn't get to read it,
but I just saw it right before we started.
I mean.
I mean, it's all gotta be fake.
So just to catch people up,
this is from Salt Lake City Real Housewives
and Jen Shah is like this extremely wealthy.
Who can't explain her companies at all.
You never understand how she's so rich.
And I mean, it's very confusing.
Turns out she's been running like a full on telemarketing scam where like they call people and say like you owe us money.
Like call us back.
I heard a voicemail.
I think Casey Wilson reposted it.
An alleged voicemail of Jen calling someone saying you owe us.
It sounds like a telemarketer.
And she's like, your ID number, 27770, owes us.
Da-da-da-da-da.
It's wild.
Wild.
And she had, like, they've been doing it for nine years.
Yes.
Like, it's a full-on scam for very involved.
Wow.
And all her money is fake.
So it's like, I mean, or, you know, gotten through this.
The crazy part is that
for a housewife,
Jen is one of the ones
that is the most like,
I'm this rich.
Like she,
all of her scenes
revolve around spending money
and how rich she is.
And she's got like
five assistants.
Yes, exactly.
And it's like,
one of her assistants
also was arrested.
And it's like,
if you're,
if you know you're making
this money through a scam,
maybe don't go on a shopping spree every episode with your scam. I agree. Or don't be on a show
like under the radar. That's the craziest part. Like when people do bad things and then go on a
reality show thinking that like people aren't going to dig up this shit. No, it's so insane.
It's so insane. Okay. Well,
we got to talk about Tyler Perry. This is why we're here. I mean, we can talk about Jen Shaw
all day long and I'd really be happy to, but, um, okay. So I know Lauren is more familiar with
Tyler Perry than Mariah. Is that true? Yeah. I have the honor of having, um, sat in the audience
of at least two Tyler Perry stage plays and they're not called plays or musicals. They're called a stage play.
My aunt took me when we were children.
So I saw live Tyler Perry plays.
And was Medea in them?
Medea was not in those, I don't think.
Really?
They were side adjacent, Medea adjacent.
But yeah, and Why
Did I Get Married? I think was the first Tyler
Perry movie I actually went to see in theaters.
And that was like my entry point.
Wow. What was it like
to watch this in the theater? Because
we'll get to this dinner scene. Oh my
God. During watching
in the theater, what were people's reactions
to that scene? People were screaming.
Like it was a Marvel movie. When when tasha smith goes boom people went
that boom gets you where it hurts i love it yeah boy
i think i have the next one that comes out i have to go no i have to be there. I can't keep doing this by myself.
I'm screaming on my couch.
Lauren, so was I.
I was going, what?
No.
Oh.
Ah.
And then when she smashed it with the bottle.
Again, we'll get more into it.
Oh, my God. She smashed it with the bottle.
I went, no one's going to get up?
Not one person gets up.
No one reacted at all.
And then someone said, I hope he's dead.
Yes.
And then he laid there. And they all just were like, anyway.
I'm like, this is insane.
This is the best movie I've ever seen.
My God, it's so funny.
And so, Mariah, what's your level of knowledge with Tyler Perry?
See, here's the thing.
Growing up, as we did with family members who went to see Tyler Perry's stage plays,
he was always in the realm of my being.
But what Lauren failed to mention is I was so mad that I couldn't go to a Tyler Perry stage play.
I was like nine years old.
I put juice in a wine glass.
And to spite my family, I bit the wine glass and swallowed the glass and had to go to the hospital.
What is wrong with you?
I was
so traumatized that I
couldn't go see the stage play.
I made my own drama. Wait, you have to
walk us? I love that Lauren's just nodding her
head at that wild story.
We, in fact, left at intermission
to go to the ER because we
got a page
or a text. You are so annoying,
Mariah.
You had to take,
you had to take away Lauren's good time.
Yeah.
So please walk me through the logic of,
I put,
cause I don't know where we,
how we got to you biting the glass.
Yeah.
You put juice in it.
And I was so furious that they left me at home.
I said,
I'm going to show them.
And I bit the glass.
And I didn't realize I would swallow the glass.
I thought I was just damaging something in the home.
You're like a dog eating an ornament.
Exactly.
Exactly.
The child was acting out.
And I ended up in the hospital.
Were you okay?
I ended up being okay, yes.
Did you have like internal cuts yeah they
retrieved the glass um and i how they took it was like endoscopic endoscopic can't like had to take
a camera and like take it out of me oh no ouch oh my god when i left intermission and i came to
the hospital and that little child was sitting there in a hospital gown, sitting in that little pediatric size hospital bed.
I said, I know this bitch did not.
So that's my relationship to Tyler.
Okay.
So wait, Lauren, how old were you?
So you were nine, Lauren.
You were 11.
Maybe.
Oh, no, no, no. You were not nine. Lauren, you were... Eleven? Maybe... Come on now, Lauren.
That ruins Mariah's timeline.
You were not nine.
I was younger.
I was like 11 and you were like four.
Six.
Yeah, something around there.
Because I wasn't older than 12.
Yeah, I just had to get that straight
because Mariah likes to say that she's 21.
Correct.
Okay, calm down now.
Calm down.
Let's not get on the age
unless you want me to start shooting shots, okay?
I love that you like to say that you're 21.
I like to say that I'm 47
because then people are like,
oh my God, you look so good.
And I'm like, I know.
That's a good one.
I gotta change that.
Yeah, then you switched and go that way and everyone thinks you look amazing. Yeah, that's a good one i gotta i gotta change that yeah then you switched and go that way everyone
thinks you look amazing yeah that's good uh should we jump into our news media yeah news media and we
have to explain it every time tyler perry sets a jazz man jazz man jazz man blues what does that
mean a jazz man's blues oh that's the name of the movie. Oh, no.
So Tyler Perry sets
A Jazzman's Blues as next film
at Netflix. Perry originally
penned the film 26 years
ago. 26 years ago?
That's a long ass time. He's been
working for so long. It's the first screenplay
he ever wrote. I wonder
if there's been edits.
And he's been trying to make it for over two decades
why is he trying can't he do anything he wants maybe maybe this is like a big budget maybe this
is like a grand to do oh it is look it takes place over 50 years yes from 1937 to 1987 the story
follows an investigation into an unsolved murder
unveiling a story full of forbidden
love, deceit, and a secret that's
been held for 40 years. The film
will shoot primarily at Tyler Perry Studios.
It'll be released on Netflix later this
year. Wow. Okay. I mean.
That's amazing. I do
feel like it is interesting that he
had to sit on this for this long, considering
he has a show where a child masturbates in front of some lady in the local office.
Oh, my God.
It's like, I don't know.
Let's make it all.
I mean, it's all happening.
But he is prolific.
I mean, this makes you wonder, like, he must have a room or, you know, a floppy disk full of five billion scripts that are just waiting.
Well, here's the thing.
I don't think he does because I remember he was on a late night show
and he said that it takes him like two or three days to write a script.
And I'm like, that's problematic to me.
It goes to show what you're putting in.
So I think that he just, when the idea comes, it pops in his head.
He puts it on paper and he'll make the movie within like a couple of months.
Like, what's this movie set over a span of 50 years?
We'll be out later this year.
It doesn't make no sense.
I mean, yeah, that's wild.
I wonder when they're going to start shooting.
Well, that's the thing, because now we did cover that he has a whole quarantine like setup where he's like a
calm cranking out yes he's cranking out content and so i mean i can imagine that he just is like
you know using one of his army bases because somebody tweeted us that that is an army base
like the the place that he bought yes it's an old army base oh Like the, the place that he bought. Yes. It's an old army base. Oh, I didn't realize that.
Cause we were like wondering,
cause it looked like all those army barracks.
Yeah.
Um,
we didn't understand why he built it like that,
but he didn't.
I wonder if eventually Tyler Perry will like incorporate his studio into
becoming a town and then he'll be like mayor of Perryville.
Yes.
Don't give him any ideas.
And then take that back.
I think that it seems so close to how he could do a sitcom called The Mayor and it'll be just like the woman to dance and accept Tyler Perry.
And it's real.
I have to say, and I texted you this, Nicole, but I was, when I was watching this yesterday, this movie,
I started like,
I felt like a burst of joy and like laughter when he came on screen.
Like there was something about like,
yeah, now that we're watching all these movies and seeing how he casts himself and
there's a range,
but like a lot of times he's just playing like a handsome husband.
Yes.
And there's something about it that like makes me like giggle.
Like,
I don't know what it is. Like, I don't know. He's like a pediatrician in this one. And there's something about it that like makes me like giggle. Like, I don't know what it is.
Like,
I don't know.
He's like a pediatrician in this one.
And then he also,
I also was like cackling after,
um,
I guess it was when he got hit with the,
look,
I got hit with the wine glass or bottle.
And then Tyler's like,
I'll get my doctor bag.
And I was like,
why did you bring your pediatrician doctor bag with you to this?
He also said something that killed me. Why did you bring your pediatrician doctor bag with you to this all adult trip?
He also said something that killed me.
So there was a cop at dinner because Sheila brings the cop with her and they start fighting and he's like, maybe I should go.
And Tyler Perry goes, no, we gonna need some law enforcement. And I was like like way to like foreshadow what's gonna happen
but then nothing in my wildest dreams could prepare me no what was gonna happen oh my god
that line is iconic we're gonna need law enforcement every single person having an
insane secret was my favorite thing i was like my, this is what everything should be like. I want to be this fun.
I feel like there's an iconic dinner scene in the most recent season of
succession that now watching,
why did I get married back?
I was like that,
that scene.
And why did I get married?
Walked.
So succession could run.
And that is beautiful.
It's true.
Not enough things get like wild like that,
where it's like,
oh,
you think it's weird that I'm cheating on my wife?
Well,
how about the fact that you,
and then she's like,
like,
then he goes,
you have VD.
And then he's like,
the woman's like,
you have VD?
Who'd you get it from?
Whatever.
And then he's like,
yeah.
And she's like,
no,
you got it from Walter or whatever.
And he's like,
I'm not gay.
I slept with Walter.
And I was like,
wait,
what?
And then he leaps to choke her and is's like you're evil when he chokes her when he
chokes her out well we've been talking about this because he has this way tyler perry has this way
of like making characters so mean that you're like i don't care what happens to them like
especially in like uh dire of a mad black woman when like the guy is like so evil that you're like, I don't care what happens to them. Especially in Diary of a Mad Black Woman
when the guy is so evil that you're like,
you know, whatever.
He's just a horrible person.
He might as well rot.
In this movie, there's a couple characters
who are just so harsh.
But you still, he doesn't go as far in this one.
You still are supposed to like them.
Are you serious?
Well, except for Mike.
Mike goes pretty far.
But Mike is horrible.
He's horrible,
but he's still in the group.
Like at the end of the movie,
he's like,
he's like talking to her
and she's still kind of like,
I don't care about you
and you're a bad person.
But like he like,
even touched her arm at the end.
I don't know if you saw it.
I think it was kind of like
not supposed to happen.
But they're like milling about
and to like start dancing.
And then he like touches her arm.
Like the woman that he was married to,
he was so mean to,
which was,
if you go back to that first scene,
I didn't even understand that they were married because I was like,
why is he saying this?
He's on the plane with another woman sitting behind his wife.
His wife gets kicked off the plane for being overweight.
And he is like just go just
drive i'm like why do you hate her and then and then he called her a fat ass and she could
definitely hear it yeah 100 yeah and then the other woman was like stop or whatever and i'm like
who is this what's happening the other woman's like i'll get off the plane he's like no and then
i'm uncomfortable and this white lady I was like oh no
and I was like more about this white lady than your wife how could the wife not know he's cheating
with that other woman he's sitting with at that point I'm like I know they're acting like a couple
and they hate you right like it's not going well yeah I like had I took issue with that because
like that was crazy as a fat lady I was, we're not all that sad and fat.
Some are happy fats.
It was really over the top.
It was cartoonish.
And the fact that they had to have, I was looking it up, Jill Scott was in a fat suit.
She said she gained 30 pounds for the role additionally because she said if her head didn't match the fat suit it wouldn't make sense.
Mm-hmm.
Which I was just like
That's what would make it
not make sense.
That's where the wheels
would fall off.
Like, got it.
And so I'm just like
this is such a horrible portrayal
and then the scene
when she comes in
in the lingerie
and he is
as the scene fades
and he's still laughing
at her.
And he's still laughing.
It's heartbreaking.
Oh my God. But that was one of those
things where I was like, are we gonna get a point where
he gets like, you know, thrown over
a cliff or something? Because I feel like
in the other movies, when
someone's being that evil, they have some sort
of moment where it's like they're being punished
for it. But if only he got to still have that
lady. The only way he was punished
was he married Trina. She doesn't cook.
She doesn't clean
she doesn't do his laundry and he's like what do i do yeah like that's the only way i really
fucked up that's so stupid also tasha smith i have not seen her in anything she's a national
treasure she's really good beautiful and she has such they are she's an identical twin yeah oh she does yeah is her twin also an
actor her sister is named sidra smith she's a model she has uh i think the last i saw her she
has a shaved head and it's stunning like they're so and tasha smith also runs an acting program
like she is just truly iconic incredible she's so's so funny. She has the range.
Yes, she did.
I want to see her do something more nuanced
where she gets to like really play with levels
as opposed to extremes
because she is so funny
and then so like vicious.
And then I just really,
I've, and then she's in a ton of Tyler Perry stuff.
I've really enjoyed her.
Speaking of Tasha, because there was one thing that struck me when I first saw the movie and then when I rewatched it again, is that Tasha Smith is supposed to be she's like a hair guru, basically.
And in the scene where her husband doesn't want to have sex with her because he has BD, as they say later, and she just lays her head on the cotton pillow without a scarf as do all the other women
in the movie that i wanted to put my foot through the television because i was like this is
completely unrealistic there is no way that this woman who has a hair empire is laying that her
beautiful blowout and or expensive extensions on a cotton quilt so how do you think they get away
with that i mean because don't you think someone would say like,
well, why would I lay down like this?
Honestly, I think they are making these movies so quickly
that it's like if you ask a question,
you lose half a day and they're like,
we don't know.
We got to keep going.
I like that theory.
I thought she was so hilarious though.
I wondered if she was improvising sometimes
because she had some lines that were so great. And like, even though there was that point where like, I wondered if she was improvising sometimes because she had some lines
that were so great.
And like,
even though there was that point where like,
I can't remember what they were talking about,
but they were like,
we should be nice and not be judgmental.
And she was like,
no,
she said something that I was like,
this was improvised.
She was like,
suck my butt or something.
I don't remember.
Yeah.
She had some lines that were like,
that wasn't,
that couldn't be scripted. In one scene remember. Yeah, she had some lines that were so... And I was like, that wasn't that couldn't have been scripted. Yeah. In one
scene she says, okay, America's
top next something to the woman in her chair
and she flipped next top and I was
like, that was an improvised line. That's exactly the same
thing. I was like, if we could have gone back
and done it again, but there's no time.
But no, you can't. No time.
One take.
Alright, well I think we should take a break and
come back and get really deep into the plot of this movie.
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Oh, we did it the same time how cute okay let's read this plot a bit and we will just walk through this movie because there is so much that happens so much even just the beginning
i don't even know if it's covered right here but so okay eight married college friends travel to
colorado for their annual week-long reunion yeah so we need to set up how that happens because Janet Jackson.
Janet Jackson is a narrator who's not narrating.
She is some sort of professor of love and has written a book about her friends.
Her students are asking her intimate questions about her friends.
But then she's like, I don't talk about those things.
And it's like, you wrote a whole book about it, man.
With their names.
Yes, their actual names and
intimate problems and we get uh we get a a bit of a glimpse that she has some sort of um tragic
thing that's happened in her marriage that is not to be talked about and sorry for your loss we hear
but how is your marriage and then her husband shows up and he's like time to go and then she's
like that's how my marriage is and it's like yeah that was so wild how was your marriage well he's right there you can ask him and then he's
like we have to go and then she's like see i was like that wasn't a good example ma'am um okay so
they're joined by trina a single woman who's friends with sheila one of the married women
now that that that's the woman who is having, we find out later,
is having an affair with Mike?
Mike.
Yes, Mike.
And it's so obvious.
It's very, very obvious.
So Diane and Terry drive and argue most of the way
because Diane refuses to stop working.
This fight is nuts.
That's Tyler Perry.
He named himself Terry just because he wanted to mush it together.
Yeah.
Tyler Perry, Terry.
Yeah.
Terry.
He was like, I can't remember another name.
Just call me Terry.
But he was just like fighting with her in a way that like was so vicious.
And he's like, well, did he talk about sex then?
Or is that later when he's like, we don't have sex.
I want children oh
okay later so angela and marcus argue throughout their train ride and this is funny oh that's
oh man tasha smith she is just oh wait what is she i can't remember what the two gay men behind
her say that made me laugh so hard it's about theirifi. She's trying to take a nap. Yes. And then
her husband's like, oh, don't mind her. She's
drunk. And then they're like, probably a
40. They're like, I'm a
remote liquor. Evil white
people. Cartoonishly racist.
It sucked because I was like,
the only way I'll get in one of these movies
is if I'm like a fucking racist
bitch in the movie who's like,
kick this person off the plane.
What are you drinking a 40?
Like, it's like, you can't.
There's no role where I could really shine.
And I don't know about this.
Oh my God.
So Sheila and Mike travel separately
after Sheila de-planes because of a two seat requirement.
Also, when she walks off the plane
and her hips are hitting the seats,
I was like, oh boy.
She drives in the snow with no GPS while Mike continues on the flight and flirts with Trina.
The fourth couple, Patricia and Gavin, arrive by limo after Gavin picks up Patricia at a lecture she is giving.
Patricia is the author of a book called Why Did I Get Married?
Also, I just want to say that any time I see a scene on a plane, it's usually the plane looks like it has so much more space than any plane actually does like you're like how no one has as much room they made that
plane so tiny uh-huh to really make this point and it's so it is a truly vicious scene and it's
totally insane the the man who's sitting next to her like is just like upset for one millisecond
that i will tell you this though as a fat lady you do not wiggle around
she like sat down and like was like I'm making space for me no you come down and you don't move
you get really tiny so she also got into the middle seat without him getting up and I'm like
no one in the right mind see the dimensions don't make sense without the aisle member getting up and i'm like no one in the right mind see the dimensions don't make sense without the aisle member getting up yeah and that probably would have helped that more i think if he had
to get up but i mean i don't know it's it was a very mean scene and everyone was really ridiculous
and it was just like this is absurd so let's see diane falls asleep not long after arriving
her secretary calls while she's asleep and ter Terry tells her not to call during their vacation. Which is wild.
You can't do that. She has a job. Such a boundary
cross. And he was so rude on the phone
to Monica. He said, uh-huh,
I know, but this is me telling you. Click.
Uh-huh. Yeah. I said no.
Yes. The way men
assert their authority in this movie, even
in the small things, like when they get the keys to the
house and the sheriff purposely hands the
keys to Tyler Perry and not the wife.
It's like always about what the man says and what the man,
even the women making their plates in the breakfast scene.
It's just too much.
I also felt like the,
the sheriff made a big point about how it was going to storm and they were
going to be like trapped or something.
And then that really wasn't a problem at all.
Any part of the story.
It was nothing they
went even sheila getting to yes yes okay um okay so patricia gab and angela and marcus all arrived
subsequently still fighting with one another and when mike arrives without sheila diane patricia
and angela berate him and trina they try to reach sheila but get her voicemail i gotta say nobody
makes a big enough a deal about this man
showing up without his wife
and with another woman.
I'd be like,
you can't come in the house
until you fully explain
why your wife
is traveling separately.
And who is she?
Who is she?
And that you made her
get off the plane.
And he's shocked
when people ask about her.
Yes.
He's shocked.
He's like,
oh, that's Trina.
There was a room.
So Sheila runs into bad weather and is helped by troy the local sheriff who works alone she spends the night at his office with sheila absent
mike sneaks into trina's room in the middle of the night like a cartoon the next day it's like
sheila arrives with troy everyone eats breakfast together and Troy stays.
Later, the men gather to discuss the 80-20 rule,
which states that men get 80% of what they need from marriage,
yet they tend to go after the 20% that someone outside can provide,
although it's almost never true.
During a heated argument with Angela,
Mike reveals several secrets the couples have been hiding.
So this is the big scene.
I mean,
and we're talking an hour 30
in at this point.
So much has happened.
Mike
contracted an STD
after he cheated on Angela.
Diane had a hysterectomy
after her daughter was,
no,
they said it was
had her tubes tied.
I don't think it should have been tied.
Was born and kept it
a secret from Terry
and Gavin blamed Patricia
for not protecting their young son
in a car accident that killed him a year prior,
which is like devastating and so over the top.
Yeah.
And Mike cheated on Sheila with Trina,
which obviously is the least of it at that point.
Yes.
But it sets off the craziest stuff.
I mean, that scene is truly iconic.
I feel like it is.
I loved it.
It's so amazing. It starts, and i was thinking how fun it must have been to make like to shoot that scene because there's like these reveals happening and
like people getting crazier and crazier to the point and you're i know at some point i'm gonna
hit him with a wine bottle that's exciting oh it's just so it's so, even the way that they sat Richard T. Jones and Tasha Smith at like diagonal corners of the table because they were the two kind of driving the conversation.
And it really blows my mind that Mike thought that like, okay, well, I've been outed as a cheater on this trip at which I brought my mistress is a secret on the level of your husband thinks you it's your fault that you killed your child.
Like an equivalent reveal.
He goes he goes so hard against everyone else because he's so mad that it got him that he's cheating.
Even though it's the most obvious thing ever.
And you're like, you can't call out that they have problems because their son died
like that yeah you are horrible that's why i thought he was gonna get like killed or something
i mean truly that and then and then finding out about the accident and then janet jackson's like
having her whole like meltdown because she thinks she's a horrible person wait what did janet say
she was like mike you gotta. It's getting too dangerous.
Everyone,
everyone's like one-liners in this scene
took me out.
Like, I had to pause it
after she said that
and I laughed
for such a long time.
It took me so long
to get through this movie.
I couldn't stop laughing.
Oh my God. So, so okay after the revelations
angela reveals that she's the one who gave marcus the std after she slept with somebody else
and his reaction we said it earlier but we gotta repeat it his eyes get so big and he chokes her
he stands up to choke her yes he gets up like like, putting his hands out, like, here we go.
Like, it's fully.
It's so crazy.
It's so crazy.
It's pure comedy.
It is.
Also, before they get to the reveal, they're playing this jaunty music that makes you think it's going to be a nice, fun scene.
And what a misdirect.
What a misdirect.
It's like.
It's like. It's truly so funny like if you think about writing something like i'm just picturing tyler perry writing this
and i'm like to let yourself just go and then this happens and then this happens this happens
it's like it's so crazy it's so fun to write like and then and then she says this is that
they choke each other and then they gotta pull each other off it's like this is good i honestly in my memory when i watched it in
theaters i re-watched it the other day and i was like i remembered this as a straight-up comedy
i had no recollection of it being that dramatic because in my memory it made me laugh so much and that is
true but it is not a comedy no but it does make you laugh because it's so shocking it's like
there's so many things that you're like i cannot believe they're doing that even though it's like
sad or like you know mean or whatever it makes you laugh oh and i'm sure with like singing with
an audience it's like that also colors it because you're like oh everyone was laughing you know
what i mean like yeah it's like that's a it because you're like, oh, everyone was laughing. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, it's like,
that's a comedy.
So, okay.
After the revelations,
Angela reveals she's the one
who gave him the STD.
Okay, yeah.
So Mike tells Sheila
he wants a divorce
and she smashes a wine bottle
over his head.
The couples decide
they can't stay in the house
any longer.
Sheila checks into a local hotel.
Troy visits her
and takes her up to a mountain
where she cries
and mourns the loss of her love
and the only life she knew.
And Troy comforts her. When Mike gets hit with the bottle he like he sets his body up to be
hit but i had no idea it was coming he's like he stands up and then sits back down like not finishes
dinner to like lean over to sheila and be like you can have our vacation home it's in a bad
neighborhood you're welcome and then i'll put bars home. It's in a bad neighborhood. You're welcome. And he goes, I'll put bars on the windows.
It's a bad neighborhood, but you can have it.
And you can have your car.
And then when he's like, hello.
Hello.
And then snaps at her.
Hello.
I'm like, you are evil.
And then he said he wants the,
did he say he wants the kids or something?
So rude.
I feel like that's what he said,
but maybe I misunderstood something.
But I felt he was like, I want the boys.
You can have that bad house.
But then instead of like getting up, he just turns his body and waits to get hit with a wine bottle.
He's like, ready?
Also, the precision with which Jill Scott, Sheila, a lay person who is not a street fighter or any kind of martial artist in any way,
picks up the bottle and from the side and in her blind spot hits them across the head.
I also just really wonder if a wine bottle would shatter that way.
That's what I think.
Oh my God.
I think it would hurt a lot and not shatter.
It wouldn't.
I think so.
I don't even think it would hurt a lot and not shatter. I think so. I don't even think it would hurt that much.
I think that it would be like,
it would be like,
that was uncomfortable.
You don't think it would hurt?
Like a thick wine bottle?
I don't think it would hurt that much.
No, it would hurt.
I think if it shattered like that.
Because the wine bottle also looked empty.
Mariah.
Yeah, if it was full,
that's another story.
I am here to say on record,
someone can hit me with a wine bottle
on the back of my head,
and I will tell you if it hurts or not,
because I am convinced it's not that painful
and it would not knock me out on the floor
like it did that man.
Well, that's the thing.
He basically dies.
He falls.
He gets hit with a sugar glass,
which is whatever,
and then he falls to the ground,
and he is gone.
Like he's dead.
I'm like,
he's not dead,
but he passes out.
And someone's like,
I hope he's dead.
And they do not react at all.
Everyone sitting at the table acts like that happens every day. And like,
nothing matters.
I just love that.
And that's such a theme with Tyler Perry movie to movies too,
where it's like the craziest show would go down
and everyone's just like,
yep, that's our world.
But also I'm like,
were there other retreats like this?
I wouldn't keep coming.
They don't do anything like a retreat.
They had been there for two days
and they did nothing to strengthen anyone's marriage.
Which is true because Janet Jackson sets up
at the beginning of the movie that the reason they go
on the trips is that they go as couples
and they ask the question, why did I get married?
And they try to make sure that they keep their relationship
strong. That does not come through at all.
At breakfast,
Janet Jackson does say,
don't press buttons, don't make
them mad. And that
seems to be her only thing.
It's like, don't make men mad. But isn't that funny? She's like the expert and that's to be her only thing it's like don't make men mad but isn't that funny she's like
the expert and she's that's like her advice it's like this doesn't seem healthy wait they skip over
the scene where the men are together and that's when like the secrets are first revealed before
they're revealed to the women and right it was like such a like misogynist misogynist it was men themed bad it
was bad men and the man is which one is accused of being gay because he doesn't cheat on his wife
that's janet jackson's husband janet jackson's husband and i was like that's such a leap
yes not to mention they lost a child oh my god the scene
at the beginning when or when they first get to the cabin and the and tyler perry is talking to
the man who lost a child and he's like like that guy says to tyler perry like why don't i thought
you'd have a bunch of kids by now and he's like hey i don't know i really want to i'd love to
have a couple kids and he's like i thought you'd have four but oops you're telling me that if that happened in real life that wouldn't be the first thing on your mind
about that person that they lost their child like yes you're just gonna make a comment like that and
then like mid-sentence back yeah all of the men's interactions are so toxic i can't handle it yeah absolutely so okay where are
we in this thing uh this is okay so the couple's head back home patricia breaks down emotionally
and gavin agrees to reconcile this scene is intense it's janna jack Janet Jackson heaving and sobbing
and then she
palms his face and runs her hand down
and I was like, that's a choice.
Marcus's ex-girlfriend and the
father of his child, Keisha,
shows up at Angela's salon.
This is funny. After they start fighting,
Marcus finally stands up for both women.
After he doesn't come home for days, Angela
realizes she's wrecking her life
with constant arguing.
The scene with Janet Jackson and her husband,
this is them finally facing that they lost his child,
and he's like, look at the picture, look at the picture.
And she's like, no, no, no, do you want salmon or chicken?
She's totally, I can't look at it.
And then she breaks down and I was like,
I was impressed by her acting i
thought it was good and i thought i was too but i will say the lady the thing is the janet jackson
of it all jumped out in that scene because the lady had no idea how to cut the asparagus that's
all i could focus on that's what i was watching i was going i couldn't handle it i honestly thought i was crazy i was like i eat it wrong exactly maybe you do cut the tip off
little by little so you know where to stop i know i never cut asparagus in her life in her life so
she was taking the stalks of asparagus and going chopped with the part you're supposed to get rid
of yeah chopping that into little bits wait like she was gonna eat supposed to get rid of the bottom the bottom
it's really hard so you're supposed to get rid of it i see but and i eat asparagus a lot so i was
also like i think i'm maybe oh what if she's gonna put it in something i don't know i was like am i
crazy i was so like what focused on that i was like that is the jackson I was like, am I crazy? I was so focused on that. I was like, that is a Jackson.
I was like, that's someone who's been famous since they were seven.
Because she's never cut vegetables before in her life.
It was so odd.
I was focused on him pushing that photo on her while she was holding that big old knife.
Yes.
And I was also like, oh, I thought I forgot a stabbing in the movie.
I'm like, she's about to stab him.
But then when she was crying, I was like,
what's she thinking about, you know, the actor?
Like, I was like, she has a lot to pull from.
That's what I was thinking.
I was just thinking, like, she has so many big life experiences
that we all know about that are horrible
that you're like, okay, you got a lot of,
you got a well to pull from to add to this scene.
This is good.
I thought it was impressive, but know nicole didn't okay so it was it was a choice i just the the palming of his
face and running her hand down really no no no that was weird i mean and i think i think it was
very intense for the man to be pushing that photo in front of her i'm like yeah and he was crying by
the end of the he
was crying he was good too yeah and then she was saying like she thought it was her fault and i'm
like how have you not had this conversation yet like this is weird like yeah well maybe it's like
they never went to therapy it happened she was too traumatized because she was like in the accident
so like he just was focused on getting her well and then they just never talked about this dead baby oh and then there was another thing that the that was called out where like they
said he had said to somebody else that it was her he came to their house crying and saying it
she it was her fault i was like what yeah and they told janet that i was like that is so that's
so mean yeah i don't know what to do with that. Okay. So Dan.
Oh,
now here we have this one.
Diane and Terry fight over a paternity test.
He had done on their daughter.
Oh,
this is crazy too.
This is crazy.
So,
okay.
After Diane forgets Terry's birthday,
he moves out.
Patricia.
That's the last straw.
Patricia meets up with Diane and Angela and they make a list of the good and
bad things their husbands have done
hoping to reconcile their marriages.
But okay, we got to talk about the paternity test.
It's nuts.
So they're in the car and like,
basically they're leaving after having the big fight.
This is when that happens, I think,
where he's like,
he's like, well, I had a paternity test done
because I just wasn't sure if our child was mine.
And she's like, oh, did you?
And what did you find out? And's like oh it's mine and she was
like really and then she gets on
the phone or something
she puts her headphones in yeah and he's like
oh I see how it is
you can't hear me anymore like
I'm like
you just dropped the biggest bomb
and it seemed like
she's trying to imply it's not his kid.
So it was just like make him angry.
That marriage, they don't need to be together.
They don't like each other.
No.
When he's like, I'm moving out.
I was like, good.
You hate each other.
There is nothing there.
And when they were fighting.
It's crazy.
When they were fighting before he moved out, he was like, you need to be quiet and do not wake up my daughter.
They go upstairs.
He opens the door to make sure the kid is still sleeping, closes the door, and then continues to speak at the same volume.
Oh, God.
And the baby, I'm sorry, looks like a corpse.
The daughter is laying in bed, just face up, squarely center in the bed it's wild yes
oh well i i love where their story goes i don't know if we get to we have to get into that once
we get back down there but okay so what's next uh sheila settles into a new life in the mountains
she gets a job at a general store troy's father she's on the phone with all the women and they're like where are you and she's like i got a job at a general store and they're
like a general store like because it's not even a thing like you have to know she's in the mountains
at that point yeah it also i was like so sheila's just starting a new life she don't call nobody
yeah she's what she has no obligations back home't she? It seems like she didn't even get divorced.
Like she didn't deal with any.
Yeah, nothing.
She just stayed there.
She starts building a relationship with Troy.
There's a scene where the camera focuses on the least sexiest parts of this.
Oh, my God.
Like his shirt line.
I was wondering.
Like his chin.
Yes.
What?
I was like, I am married to a woman
so maybe I've just been
out of the game
and I don't know
what is sexy about a man
but they were going
to like his elbow
his
yeah
his under
like little
under his lip area
where like a soul patch
would be
like what
his neck
like where his hair
meets the neck
or something
I was like
this isn't
like hot like how about isn't like hot.
Like how about some muscles?
Like what are they doing?
Yes, anything.
And then she even like after they zoom in on all this stuff,
then they do kind of a comical thing on Jill Scott where she's like,
she can't believe how hot it is.
And then she's like, do you work out every day?
And I'm like, you could tell that from his neck?
But then after she's like, you work out every day he's
like yeah you can go on a walk too and she's like me walk somewhere no better eat cheesecakes
what is happening Jill I can't run from here to the door I know and he's like with some work
you could it's and then later when uh when it's like revealed that they're together or whatever and
her mike is like did she get a gastric bypass and he's like no she worked out and mike is like
i know it's so it's so rude well and so then
we we have to talk about how when ty Perry and his wife get back together.
So he's like at,
he's in his new house,
which is like amazing.
And he has this,
he has the woman that the wife thought he was cheating with his nurse.
And she's in scrubs just in case it's not clear.
And the wife comes in and she's like,
I want to fix everything.
And he's like,
you do.
Well, she's pregnant with twins. And then she's like, I want to fix everything. And he's like, you do?
Well, she's pregnant with twins.
And then she's like, okay, we'll work through it. Which I'm also like, it sounds like he's moving on.
It doesn't sound like he'll work through it.
And then he goes, just kidding.
I was like, I couldn't believe that.
I was just like, wait, so this woman you keep bringing over,
you are sleeping with her and she's got twins.
And then Diane's just like
well deal with it deal with it and i was like oh god just kidding i'm the nurse if i'm the nurse
you're getting sued for sexual harassment
you're standing there talking about some yeah i knocked her up with twins to your wife i mean
i'm in your house so we've got questions there. But like, this is a lawsuit.
It totally is.
And she just goes along with it.
Like, I think I would scream out like, no, I'm not.
Like, it's like, you can't just.
How does she know what he's doing?
And then he was like, not just say, but scream out.
Well, because you'd be so shocked.
And then like, she's the wife is like, we'll work through that.
And I'm like,
it's too late.
And then he says,
they're kidding.
And I'm like,
do you know how long it would take me to come down from realizing that was a
joke?
Like I would be like,
Oh,
okay.
Like I,
I need to like process this,
but she's just like,
yay.
And then they just hug and they're like,
we're together.
It's so funny.
Okay.
So later,
all the couples reunited an award gala where patricia is being
honored and diane patricia and angela are shocked when sheila arrives and introduces
troy as her husband i mean i'm shocked too the timeline same the timeline is so because she
didn't tell anybody no it's been like because she's like my janet jackson told us that she
had this event coming up like shortly like it wasn't
like a long time I think she actually
said and it was very wedged in the conversation
she was like you guys have eight months to get
your tickets or something like that
oh my god when she's sitting on the
husband's lap and I was like why did she name
that specific amount of time you're right
and then no because that was when
that was when they first got to the cabin yeah
yeah and I was thinking, why eight months?
Because I thought, okay, someone's going to have a baby.
Or like, I thought something would happen.
But no, it just was like so that they could justify Sheila getting married in that time, I guess.
Mike gets jealous, tries to reconcile once he sees Sheila with Troy.
But Sheila tells him to enjoy his life with Trina.
Patricia accepts her award and confesses her love for Gavin in her speech
about love,
respect,
and trust.
And that's it.
And then they all dance.
What a outstanding movie.
It is.
What a film.
I loved it.
Twists and turns.
And honestly,
just that scene,
that dinner scene should win some sort of award.
I don't,
they don't give awards for scenes,
but it's,
it's perfect.
I agree.
It's honestly so good.
And it,
it was like,
there's so many twists and turns.
I,
and just like with every movie we've watched,
I'm not bored at all during these movies.
I'm like,
I want to know what's going to happen.
I'm very invested in all the characters.
There's something shocking coming out of someone's mouth every two minutes.
So if you look down or look away,
you will miss something good.
Yep.
And it's just,
it's solid.
So this was written by Tyler Perry,
directed by Tyler Perry,
released October 12th,
2007.
Janet Jackson won an outstanding supporting actress at the NAACP image
awards.
Also the NAACP image awards.
Tyler Perry was nominated for
Outstanding Supporting Actor. Jill Scott
was nominated for Outstanding Actress.
Jill Scott was also nominated for Best Actress
at the BET Awards.
Wow. Now,
critically, and this is the theme here, the film
was not well received. It currently
has a 48% fresh
rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but I would say it's
decent. One critic from
The Hollywood Reporter wrote,
none of these flaws
will matter much
to Perry's devoted audiences
whose support has enabled him
to virtually build
a media empire.
Sounds like this person
is bitter.
Virtually build.
Enabled?
They were like,
you dumbasses
have been down the road
this far.
What's going to change?
Wow.
Well, of course,
and this is how it always goes,
audiences liked the film
for the most part,
giving it a 78% audience score
on Rotten Tomatoes.
And the film's budget
was $15 million
and it grossed $55.2 million
at the box office.
I mean,
I do feel like
these reviews are so irrelevant
to these movies.
Yeah, they don't fucking matter.
You cannot analyze these movies
and compare them to anything.
It's just people are having fun
and they're liking it and that's the answer i think it's great um okay so we have a little
trivia about this movie this is an adaptation of tyler perry's play of the stage same name which
debuted in 2004 so that must have been a fun one can you imagine i mean that would be a fun
it would be so much fun to see live especially especially the, I'll keep talking about it to the day I die, the dinner scene.
The characters Marcus, Angela, Patricia, and Gavin weren't part of the stage play.
So what, there's only two couples?
That's a big chunk of the movie.
Okay, that makes sense because at the end of the movie, Jill Scott has that big speech as if she's the main character of the movie.
speech as if she's the main character of the movie and now
I understand that she must have been
like the main character in the play
and that was a hold over
from it.
That makes sense. This is Tyler
Perry's first self-directed
dramatic role
and a sequel was released on
April 2nd, 2010 which I'm
going to watch.
Whether we have to or not, I'm going to watch it.
I will absolutely.
Perry also created a comedy drama television series
based upon the two films titled Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse.
Truly, it is like the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Everything is intertwined.
The series stars Michael Jai, I think I'm saying that right,
White, and Tasha smith okay
as marcus angela okay and it ran from 2011 to 2017 on tbs seasons one and two what uh on own
for seasons three through six wow wait that's like a huge run and tasha smith had a whole show
this is like wow she's getting paid she's so good like i she's great really like
her i'm a me too i thought she was hilarious um that's amazing see this is crazy though like i
there's truly he has a spinoff for everything there's a sequel there's like 10 other i mean
he he is making 10 shows at once i think we found out last week that he like has made six tv series in
quarantine like he has released programs like fully i don't understand how oh wow he's very
he's he's a talented man he moves very quickly also i really i i think i said this like in
another episode i really love he mixes like
stars with people
that you just haven't heard of who are just as
capable that's a great
point that's such a great point because in what
world like well what's interesting is
like I can't imagine any other filmmaker
um giving
Janet Jackson who's a huge star
a starring role in a movie
but in a Tyler Perry movie, it works so well
because you get Janet friggin' Jackson
and these other black actors
that you kind of know their faces,
but you don't ever see them in, like,
big blockbuster movies.
And so it's a really cool mix.
I wonder if Jill Scott,
because she starred in Ladies Detective Agency.
I wonder if that, that was like an HBO series. I wonder if that came after this. That's a great question. Number one, Ladies Detective Agency. I wonder if that, that was like an HBO series.
I wonder if that came after this.
That's a great question.
Number one,
Ladies Detective Agency.
I want to know about
the conversation around her
gaining 30 pounds
to make her head look
the same as the suit.
I just need to gain
30 pounds in my head.
It's mostly going to be
in my head.
I don't know how you control.
It's mostly going to be in my head. I don't know how you control. It's so wild.
That's so crazy.
It is crazy.
That's a lot of weight to gain just for your head to match.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know about that.
I'm not here for it.
I wouldn't do it.
No.
It's a lot to ask of anyone.
Yeah.
Would you do that, Warren? Me? to ask of anyone yeah would you do that warren would you
yeah would you no me no i don't think i would either i'd be like just tape some prosthetics
to my chin but see the problem is like when and i mean i think like we there's like so many examples of
people wearing fat suits or whatever where it's like this is so fucked up like it's just like
it's it's like gwyneth paltrow in that movie like shallow yeah there's just so many examples of it
just being weird and like i mean it doesn't seem good i gotta say my favorite example is tyra banks
on her talk show puts on a suit gets on a stage and goes
people were mean to me
and I'm sorry that that
whole look like she goes on the street and people are
like looking at her I'm like you look
crazy you are clearly
wearing prosthetics
like you don't look
exactly that's why
they're looking people are gonna look at you
like this is absurd
i want to see a picture of her actually in that she was like people didn't realize people didn't
treat me like the star tyra bane you have god like yeah tyra and then yeah it's really funny to come
out like you learned something is like just like okay yeah oh god also it's showing me a real house
wife melissa gorga Why is she in this?
For fun, I guess.
Oh, boy.
People are ridiculous.
You're going to get looked at.
That looks like not a person.
Dr. Oz?
Oh, my God.
There's a Dr. Oz one as well.
This is nuts.
Okay, yeah.
Here's a Cosmopolitan article.
Stop wearing fat suits to, quote, understand what it's like.
Wait, this is crazy
and there's like a woman because wasn't there a tv show that did this was there or something it was
something weird because i don't know what this is from this image but that's so crazy this is so
funny just the sheer amount of celebrities who've worn fat suits for no good reason and it seems
like it's always out of boredom.
Oh my God.
Wait,
do you remember this show?
This just reminded me of the show black white.
I just Googled this.
Do you remember this?
Yes. They would have two.
Okay.
So it's,
I'm looking at the Wikipedia now to remember this.
It was on FX and it was two families of three,
one white family and one black family.
And they would use quote studio quality makeup and trade races and experience what life was like in the family shoes.
This is so insane.
It's so wait a minute.
It's wild.
So it's that's wait.
I want to find photos of this,
but of course I bet you they're like scrubbed from the internet.
I want a season two so bad.
Yeah.
Well now,
I mean,
can you imagine like,
this is so insane.
So this,
wait,
the show was produced and created by ice cube.
I didn't realize that.
And RJ Cutler.
And,
um,
it ran for five weeks.
Okay.
The makeup is actually kind of impressive.
It's very good.
It's unavailable on Amazon. How do i get to watch this i need to
watch it again now it's probably on youtube i bet oh here we go yes wow the makeup is really good
isn't it i'm kind of shocked i don't remember yeah this is nuts that's so crazy yeah i want
to re-watch that now so that was from, what, like, over 10 years ago.
I can't believe it. Crazy.
I love how we've just started
Googling. Oh, yeah.
The last time I was Googling and
describing what we see. Oh, my God.
Well, I think we've come to the
end since we're just Googling.
Lauren, do you guys
have anything you'd like to plug?
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we have our five hallelujahs um segment where we read five star reviews it really makes me
hallelujahs okay i know we're gonna cover medea goes to jail, but did you watch any of it? Oh my God.
I watched the whole thing because we were supposed to, we were supposed to record the other day. So
on my lunch break, I started it and Medea when she's at court and she's like, sorry,
like she just puts a T after like just normal. Oh, I know. It made me laugh so hard. I find it
hilarious. And that movie also,
which we'll get into is so ridiculous because she doesn't go to jail to like
the last 10 minutes.
I was like,
go to jail.
Isn't that what this is called?
She eventually goes to jail.
Should have been the title.
I thought all the comedy would be in jail,
but we had to just see how she got there,
which was like really great.
Okay.
So this review comes from Mickey Loco, would be in jail but we had to just see how she got there which was like really great okay so this
um review comes from mickey loco my favorite new podcast i'm a huge star wars and lord of the rings
fan and this is the funniest thing i've ever heard i binged both seasons i was crying almost
every episode i grew up with the show so it's hilarious hearing perspectives from someone who
has never seen it oh wait i want to read this one too. This one's from Xtofer.
If my calculations are correct,
violently taps calculator.
Let's see.
I should be giving this podcast
$64,283,974,5020
of the 82 cent stars.
But Apple only lets me give five.
So here you go.
That's from Madea
frantically typing under calculator
which is the funniest thing
I've ever seen in my entire life.
Oh, it's so funny.
So, yeah, write us more reviews because we'll pick one to read.
And we'll be back next week with another great episode of one of God's angels, Tyler Perry's works.
See you then.
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