It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up for the Tri-State Watch Party, we went with Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Netflix Watch Party app ended up being a little complicated, so we just set a time to hit “play” and then chatted through instant messenger. Click the jump to read some highlights from the conversation.
The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, Nathan, and the parents (Parents represented here by Marian, because Dad would chisel a message in a stone tablet before typing anything on a phone.)
(Kathryn says something in a different IM thread)
The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, Nathan, and the parents (Parents represented here by Marian, because Dad would chisel a message in a stone tablet before typing anything on a phone.)
Hannah
8:30?
Nathan
Elizabeth
Sounds good!
All rented here! (I actually have a VHS that Uncle Bill gave me but I’m not going to hook up my VHS player
Kathryn
Aww.
Hannah
Heh we’ve got the DVD here
Kathryn
Amazon’s ready to go here.
Hannah
Playing
Kathryn
Pressing play now.
Elizabeth
Playing!
Kathryn
It’s been quite a while since I watched this.
Nathan
I’d forgotten Robert Redford directed this.
Hannah
I loved him in Northern Exposure
I’ve been in love with at least three men in this film
Nathan
I do wonder why Rob Morrow decided to do George Burns for this role.
Hannah
Heh
Elizabeth
I forgot Hank Azaria was in this!
Nathan
So had I.
Hannah
He’s one of the three 
Nathan
Yep!
Elizabeth
Goodness I keep seeing Hey It’s That Guy in every scene
Hannah
Heh
Every time I play “vim” in WWF I think of Geritol
Kathryn
What exactly WAS Geritol anyway?
Hannah
noooo idea. “Tonic” apparently
Kathryn
And the winner is La La Land. NO WAIT.
Hannah
Why is John Turturro so good?
Elizabeth
AWK. WARD.
Hannah
Haha
Nathan
That’s Martin Scorsese!
Hannah
I forgot Scorsese was on this
Elizabeth
I miss the peacock logo, is that weird?
I’m sure Hannah doesn’t
Hannah
Hahaha NOPE
Oooooh nooooooo
Nathan
Elizabeth
I feel like this is peak pretty for Ralph Fiennes?
Hannah
THERE HE IS HE’S SO PRETTY
Nathan
This was before English Patient, right?
Hannah
Probably peak pretty. Peak sexy is the English Patient
Yes, year before
Elizabeth
Good point
Oh Hey, the lady Elizabeth has been in some things, I know her from Stir of Echoes
Hannah
Two years after Schindler’s Last
LIST
Kathryn
I can’t imagine how hard he had to work to become the charming pretty boy after his character in Schindler’s List
Hannah
I think it was more that he worked hard to be disgusting in that
He’s just naturally beautiful, Kathryn. It’s a curse.
Elizabeth
hahah
Kathryn
Hee
Elizabeth
Man he’s tall
They have a lot of blush on Fiennes
Kathryn
The lighting director just LOVES him.
Hannah
Ralph Fiennes trivia: He had a long-term relationship with a woman 17 years his senior. She was Gertrude to his Hamlet
Elizabeth
Awww
Kathryn
“Look at the crisis of education in this country.” And nothing has changed.
Nathan
In fact, it’s gotten worse.
Hannah
The “annoying Jewish guy” thing is more insidious given those two guys are Jewish
Elizabeth
I was JUST thinking that
Kathryn
Man, he walked in the door RIGHT onto the slippery slope.
Elizabeth
Coulda all been over right there
Hannah
About as much resistance as most people would give, I bet
Elizabeth
I love the banter with these guys
Hannah
I already feel so much tension here
Elizabeth
Turturro sells ALL the rage and bitterness
Hannah
Yessss
Nathan
We should watch Miller’s Crossing.
He was great in that one.
Elizabeth
This is the worst part, that they make him goof it on an easy one
Hannah
I’m just uncomfortable for everyone in this situation. Even the producers
Yeah, that’s particularly cruel
Elizabeth
I swear if I was him I’d have intentionally lost on a different question earlier
Or is it only one question per show?
Hannah
“Some white guy got lost”
More than one question, but I imagine he felt like he needed to obey
“Utz”
Elizabeth
Yeah, they could’ve yanked all the money away I’m sure, but I’m with the wife on this one
But she doesn’t know they fed him the answers right?
Kathryn
Lady makes a good point.
Elizabeth
Mmmm, Chinese takeout..
Hannah
Ooooooh
Kathryn
Heeeere we go
Elizabeth
So heartbreaking…
Hannah
This takes place in like 1956, right?
Elizabeth
Yes?
He’d said “1957 is already here” for the car
Hannah
Oooh
Ooof
Elizabeth
Man I knew how that scene would end and I was STILL chewing my nails
Kathryn
Still wonder what they could have done to him if he just gave the right answer.
Elizabeth
Or lost earlier
Hannah
He didn’t have any other ins to the entertainment industry, I think
Kathryn
And the deal with the devil starts…now.
Hannah
Another slip down the slope
Elizabeth
The casual cruelty to Herb just kills me
Kathryn
But of course by losing an easy question he looks like a schmuck and no one will hire him.
Elizabeth
“The Egghead turned National Hero.” Eff off, news guy.
Hannah
The New York dynamics of all this make me wonder if the investigator being from outside of Boston is more significant than I’d realized
Is Brookline to Boston as Queens is to Manhattan?
Elizabeth
We should ask Nathan’s cousins
Oh I forgot he blew it on a bookie
Hannah
Yeeeaaah, Herb did dumb shit, too
Elizabeth
Oh yeah
Hannah
“Big uncircumcised prick” is good too
Elizabeth
Ah, Judge is on the take?
Kathryn
Mentally unstable finger pointer. Uck.
Hannah
Research before the internet was SO ANNOYING
Elizabeth
What was the Chuck and Beans cartoon? “Life before Google: “I’d like to know more about that.” “That’s a damn shame.”
Hannah
I would watch the Today Show if there was the possibility of a chimpanzee dismembering people
Elizabeth
hahaha
“Lincoln’s Commando.” Make that a contraction instead of a possessive and it becomes a totally different book.”
Someone needs to punch that fan in the mouth
Kathryn
I was JUST about to say that.
Hannah
Such a good shot tho
Elizabeth
Mmmm, I could go for a Reuben
Apparently I’m hungry
Hannah
“Reuben sandwich” is shorthand for “JEW”
Haha
Elizabeth
Heh
Kathryn
Hmmm I sense an arranged distraction
Hannah
Frasier did this bit with mustard and corned beef
(And Saul Rubinek, hence the theme)
Kathryn
He’s grasping at straws here
Elizabeth
“Who?” “Who? Da Great White Hope.”
Hannah
Heh
This is why I know about rugalach and Gene Krupa
Elizabeth
Nice to connect Sputnik with his dreams of owning a Caddy
Kathryn
I just looked up what was in rugelach and now I want some
Elizabeth
And I want corn on the cob
Someone should’ve told me to eat before this
Hannah
Haha
Elizabeth
“Next birthday you’ll all get a dirty limerick.” “I CERTAINLY hope so.”
Kathryn
Tensions rising…
Hannah
“Worked”
Kathryn
Hannah could you play this game?
Cause I couldn’t
Elizabeth
Man there’s some long-standing issues there.
Hannah
I know the last one was Lear
I might be able to guess the plays sometimes; couldn’t summon appropriate quotes, though
Dad says Thomas Merton would’ve worn a black habit
Elizabeth
That’d be the thing that’d get me, I might get the quote’s source in context but not come up with my own
OH I DIDN’T KNOW THAT WAS THOMAS MERTON
Hannah
Heh, they just kinda slipped it in there
Elizabeth
Mind. Blown.
Kathryn
“Can I call you Dick?”
“Sure, Dan.”
This is all so slimy
Elizabeth
OH, the card to pay for the therapist!
Sliiiiiimy
Hannah
They are so good at being gross
Elizabeth
“The thing of it is, I looked it up, it’s true.” Always liked that line
AH, there’s the reveal.
Forgot that part
Hannah
There it is
And still justifying
Kathryn
I was one of those saps
Burn
Hannah
Yipes
That’s Danny from West Wing!
Nathan
Just sitting in that room would give you lung cancer.
Elizabeth
Yay Danny!
FOUND IT. I know Mira Sorvino has been in a ton but I know her from the House episode with the woman at the north pole.
(The lawyer’s wife.)
Elizabeth
I’m glad at least someone gave them the finger when they were supposed to flub it.
His place is cluttered but I like it
Kathryn
Me too!
Hannah
I do look forward to the time when we no longer use the “rewind, rewatch, repeat” exposition tool
Elizabeth
I never even noticed how often we use the rewind trope
This is WAY harder than our Tuesday Pub Quiz
Man that whole scene was SO WELL DONE
Hannah
That push-pull shot
Elizabeth
Yes!
Kathryn
Is that what it’s called when the focus goes weird like that.
Elizabeth
Something about zooming in the lens, but pulling the camera back?
Hannah
Yes (I don’t know what it’s called). Hitchcock invented it (or at least made it famous) in Vertigo?
Elizabeth
GET IM!
Kathryn
That was pretty impressive planning there.
“Dick?”
“Dan?”
Elizabeth
“Why don’t you go talk to your family.”
Kathryn
I’m amazed I feel a little sympathy for him right now.
Oh look, now it’s gone.
Elizabeth
hahaha
Hannah
Heh
The way he bends over backwards to protect him
Elizabeth
He knows he’s gonna have to call him
Kathryn
YIKES
Sorry, startling gavel there
Elizabeth
Hee
Hannah
Uncle Bill is in there
Elizabeth
Yes!
There’s Uncle Bill on the left!!
Hannah
Yep!
Elizabeth
Craaaaaaap
Kathryn
Rats
Hannah
Yipe
Kathryn
Of course, because this is all personal
Hannah
These guys are all Pixar characters
Elizabeth
Yeah, if the lawyer had told him not to do it ahead of time he still would’ve
Kathryn
Yeahp
Hannah
The pointed pen click
NOBODY CARES ABOUT SPLIT INFINITIVE, CHARLIE
Elizabeth
“Mr. Friendman’s gone to Mexico.” Ooooouch….
Hannah
Yiiiiikes
Oof
Elizabeth
Uncle Tom of the Jews AAAAAAA OUCH
Kathryn
Heh, love Tom in the background “leeeaving now.”
Hannah
Sundance summoning in all his favors, haha
Elizabeth
Heh
Eeeewww the pow wowing about golf with the judge
Hannah
WFF said this is how Merv Griffith’s wife came up with Jeopardy: questions before the answers
Elizabeth
Makes TOTAL sense
Kathryn
Imagine answering the casting call for “Rich, white, disgusting looking old dude.”
Hannah
Mom says, “Throw them under the bus! All of them”
Kathryn
Yes!
Elizabeth
You lying piece of crap Van Doren
Kathryn
Just couldn’t keep his mouth shut.
Loving the bromance going on here.
Elizabeth
Aw shoot I remember this scene
Hannah
Ethan Hawke!
Nathan
I was wondering if that was him.
Elizabeth
No way I was WONDERING why Dead Poet Society popped into my head
Kathryn
Ow
This is brutal
Elizabeth
Watching his dad deflate like a balloon
Kathryn
“Your name is mine.”
Elizabeth
That one line kills me
Nice speech, good owning of privilege, little pretentious of course.
Hannah
A speech about owning up to privilege
Elizabeth
Yay Uncle Bill!
I’m glad ONE guy called him on it!
Hannah
Kathryn
Apparently a lot of this is word-for-word from the real hearing.
Elizabeth
Throwing himself under the bus
Oh wow the Joker’s Wild, I remember that show
Hannah
Stemple laws. Every time Pat Sajak asks the contestant to pull the finale envelope out of the wheel
Nathan
My grandmother & I used to watch that.
Elizabeth
“Stemple laws” iiinteresting
Hannah
CALISTA FLOCKHART
Elizabeth
WHAT
She was one of the floozies I bet
Hannah
just saw her name in the cast list
Nathan
Or one of the students.
Elizabeth
You’re right, looks like she was the one who busted in asking about Ode to a Grecian Urn, wow.
I seriously can’t remember the last time I watched that movie. Definitely holds up
Kathryn
Huh. Ralph Fines is going to play M in the latest Bond movie. That should be interesting.
Oh, looks like he’s being playing that part in the Bond series since 2015. The things you miss when you stop caring about a series…
Hannah
There are plenty of movies that in retrospect I thought I liked just because I was being snotty. I love it when they hold up
Heh
Also, Quiz Show lost Best Picture to…Braveheart
NO, WAIT
Elizabeth
I haven’t seen Braveheart since before Mel went off the rails, so I don’t know how it holds up?
Hannah
FORREST GUMP
Oh it very much does not
Elizabeth
Holy cow, so this movie came out the same year as Shawshank Redemtion?
Hannah
Yuuuup
Makes my heart hurt, but it’s Gibson violence/martyr masturbation
Nathan
And Pulp Fiction, too
Kathryn
I need to listen to the Best Pick episode about Braveheart again
Hannah
WHOO BOY does Tom hate it, haha
… and gives good reason
Kathryn
What was that comment, that if you took out everything factual from the movie Braveheart and left in just the stuff that wasn’t true you’d…have the movie Braveheart.
Nathan
Anyone else got Mack the Knife stuck in their head?
Hannah
Heh, yep, pretty much
I still can’t believe that kilts were like 400 years .later.
Nathan
Ella Fitzgerald’s version is the best.
She forgot the lyrics part way through and started ad-libbing.
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