Snow Day (2000): Chevy Chase and Chris Elliott

0:00 Last night's record snowball taking everyone by surprise. The entire area has ground to a hulk, and listen carefully. Schools are officially closed for a snow day on a day when anything can happen, everything will but one man who can ruin it all. Sky be stopped today this February. Noo and lots of it, folks. No schools. I've got to stand a slush full in jelly filled snow running now rules the believer. No problem you in your last snow day for us, like Jemmy Jays Chris Elliott snow Day. I'm gonna ask my friends to give me just a little foot I said. Coming this February the theaters in a world where podcasts reign supreme, Two friends dare to ask Do You Even? Movie? Hosted by filmmaker Enrique Kuto and movie aficionado David Denyer. Spoiler alert, Hello, my friends, and welcome to another

1:38 wintry episode of Do You Even? Movie? I'm, of course your host, Enrique Kuto here with my co host Double D seven feet or deeper, David Denie, and we have a very special show tonight because we are talking all about a Nickelodeon film yes, one that somehow, I sincerely don't know how. Yeah, just did not really ever, I never watched it. I was generally shocked. When you told you were generally shocked. You were just in general you were shocked. You were like you were like at the grocery store and you were like, huh, chickpeas are actually huh they're actually also called Wait, hen's never seen that. That was like, that was how it went exactly. Okay, guess what, I just want to make sure I understood. So No, I mean I have been. I mean I'm I am even more than you are of the Nickelodeon generation. Absolutely, yeah. Born in nineteen eighty six, Nickelodeon was really coming into it's all right when I was like seven years old, when I was like right at that age, so like I was watching Rugrats first time at Air Doug first time it aired, Rocko's Modern Life first time at Air Ran, and Stimpy first time it aired. I was watching Snick when it was new, and I'm not no, It's just the point point is, like I can considered myself very very fortunate that I had that experience, because I mean, lots of kids like yourself, you were you're born a little bit later, and

3:09 you still got a lot out of it, a lot of the tail end. But to me, ninety two was when nick was starting to be great and you were just now born, just didn't get it. Yeah, And I mean I think now is also a great time to mention if you have not seen the Orange Eers documentary that is all about which, by the way, yeah, Orange Years Years. Every time anyone's talked to me about it, like have you seen Orange Ears? And I'm like, what is Orange Eers? It sounds like it sounds like some kind of like a Middle Eastern documentary. I don't know. Ah, Yes, the Orangeiers of eighteen seventy Ottoman Empire, the Orangiers, but the Orange Years. Yes, yes, it's a documentary document about that era in Nickelodeon. And it was a very experimental time, not only in children's television but in television in general. Yeah.

3:57 And I was, yeah, I was very lucky. I was there. We stole cable, yes, so I was, you know, I was right there for you know, ready to be a Nickelodeon audience member. And I remember when Nickelodeon did its first film, which was Harriet the Spy, which I think we should get to that sometimes. But Harriet the Spy, Like, I remember telling you when we were watching this because this was the first time watching for me. Yeah, this was Enrique's first time seeing snow Day. I was so so happy to bring this to you and this is a first time on Do you even movie that it's a first time watch for me? Yes, it is. But when we were talking about it, I was like, dude, you don't even know how big Harriet the Spy was And you were like, no, like people really love it whatever.

4:39 It's like, no, no, no, I mean like it was everywhere. Yeah, it was at McDonald's. It was that, you know, it was that at Toys r Us it was everywhere. You were like, I wanted a spy kit. I went out and bought a notepad and like was spying on my neighbors, which I feel like the movie's point is like, hey, don't spy on people. Yeah, no, every kid as soon as they saw that movie. Oh yeah, Michelle Trachtenberg is so cool. It was just exactly, that's such a cute movie. It's such a great film. So but with that being said, I couldn't tell you why never saw snow Day. In fact, when we showed the trailer at the start of the show, I remember that commercial again and again and again and again, and I remember just not seeing it. And and I wasn't old enough. What year is snow is two thousand on the nose, yes, So I was not. It wasn't like I was such a cool teenager, Like I was just being becoming a teenager. And I will admit I do remember being a little on the old side for Harriet the Spy though, But when have I ever followed conventions? You know? Like no, I mean, you know me, I fit in, you know, that's just the way I am. I'm like that that guy in Indiana Jones. You I just blend. Yeah, oh yeah, I blend. But no, for some reason, this one never it never crossed my radar. I remember, like this was such a big I mean, Nickelodeon of course was backing

6:09 this, you know, on on cable, their own movie, their own movie crazy, promoting promoting this NonStop. I mean they're even on it. Because I have the old Paramount DVD. Even on the DVD they still have like the old things that I remember, which were the old behind the scenes like three minute clips or whatnot. It's like, here's your deep dive into snow Day coming out behind the scenes, Fiz Rats and stuff, well and and and I don't remember exactly when Viacom and Paramount became us, you know, when they merged, but I mean that was a big thing. I mean the the Nickelodeon movies were paramount movies, which is always I always thought was wild because I was like, but don't they film at Orlando Studios. Yes, you know a Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, And and and they do. But no, there's so all their movies were Paramount, Good Burger Paramount. I was around for the Good Burger Mania too, which was amazing, an amazing experience. Well, you had Harriet the Spy in ninety six, Good Burger in ninety seven, the Rugrats movie ninety eight, then snow Day in two thousand and then after that Rugrats in Paris, Jimmy newtrump Boy Genius, clock Stoppers. Oh my god, I forgot about clock Stoppers.

7:13 See. By the time clock Stoppers happened, I was kind of out of it. Yeah, because Harold the Movie, and I came back for Hey, Arnold the Movie. I had to see Hey Arnold the movie, because Hey Arnold is just one of the best cartoons of all time, and only it only gets better with age too, Honestly, I mean I would agree. Yeah, I was actually no joke trying to explain to a friend of mine the my win story from the Christmas episode of Hey Arnold, and I had to give up because I couldn't stop crying, Yah, describing how emotional that Christmas episode was. So, there's something very special about the nineties era Nickelodeon and the early two thousands era Nickelodeon. Yeah, and snow Day is kind of toward the It's kind of the beginning of the ende, that original Nickelodeon and I I went into it assuming it was going to be pretty bad because you said it was great. You were like, you were like, bro, Bro, Bro, one of my favorite movies, Bro, Bro, like favorite movies. It's so good. Bro. So I was like, man, have we have we discussed Dave picks on? Do you even movie yet? For that matter? No, anytime a film disappoints, it was decided by Dave. It was a day even if it wasn't.

8:22 Yeah, it is. Oh. My favorite though, is when I have a good movie and that becomes a hen pick. Of course it does because that because it negates the number one qualifier of being a Dave pick, which is that no one liked it. So that's the way it works. So no, so, yeah, so we sat down, we watched this. It was your many many views. Yes, it was my first time, yep. And I had a lot of laughs with it. It had I mean, obviously, I'm watching a children's movie and I'm thirty seven years old. But at the same time, I mean, there's a freaking creepy crawlers back behind you, So I'm not exactly your top of the top tier adult. I'm not an s tier adult as it were. You also did binge hey dude when you got that box set? Oh god, Well, for the record, I mean I binged hey dude because I went to a cabin in the middle of nobody and that was the only TV series I took.

9:11 So I was like, well, if the TV's on, it's playing Hey dude, I guess it's a little wild and a little strange. So no, no, So I really enjoyed snow Day. I actually thought it was super duper fun. It is so of the kids movies of that time, and that there's a lot of stuff that if you think about it too much, it is very questionable. We'll get into it, I'm sure. I am sure that we will. So you mentioned it came out in the year two thousand year, so it's a pre nine eleven kids movies. All kids movies were very different after nine to eleven that they were much like everything. I was being facetious, but Dave, here is getting really dark. Also, you're drinking a lot. I'm worrying about you, sure is. I just want to mention, by the way, your sister just got married.

10:05 You were sitting your brains out. I was shitting my brains up. Thank you for bringing that up. Well, it's important that it be immortalized on the show. Dave. What I can only assume was gas station sushi. Oh god, I mean got very very ill. So my sister got married on New Year's great, great reception, great ceremony at A lot of fun was had, minus the fact that I woke up in a very bad situation on that day. To add insult to injury, And I've already told Enrika this. I was staying in a hotel that I will not give the name of and unfortunately at that point, why because you have something bad to say about that, I just don't even want to It's fine. I was staying at a hotel, a nice hotel, and unfortunately I was all dressed up in my tucks. I was meeting in the groom's suite four pictures because we were gonna get pictures with the photographer. And I was in there for about all about five minutes and I started feeling queasy. Long story short, I did not make it back to my hotel room in time or inside my hotel where I should say, and I ended up puking in the hallway. So that was That was the first and they were like, oh my gosh, we're we're a venue that hosts weddings. This has never happening New Year's But yeah, no, that was was not fun. But I'm doing better now, I know because you were texting me for moral support. You were literally just texted like bro, I am like puking and a lot, and I was like, hey, it's okay, it's okay. Have some beer cheese soup. Oh god, beer cheese soup. For those not aware. Everybody, yeah, exactly everybody. There was about uh, there was a period

11:37 about three actually prob it was. I think it was pre COVID, so four years ago, four or five. Actually it was five because I just texted you recently about it, because the anniversary get because that's the kind of things we keep tracking. This is what we keep track of. We uh Enrican. I were doing a marathon and we ordered from a place called europe Palace and uh see, and now you named the place that you're actually going to defame. You could believe it. I don't even are they still around? No, No, everybody died there apparently, so we we unfortunately got some vicious food port you got worse than I did. But the next day I decided that it was a great idea. Stepped it up. I stepped it up and got it. I thought it was a great idea, meeting with my family at a place that served a beer, cheese, soup, and draw like that. You name the place Carol Carolan Park, like the place that was great? You're like, and I went to this place that was really good. But then we went to Carolan Park, which has amazing brought worst, amazing beverages, amazing everything. And when you think, yes, when you think of what settles and upset tummy because I remember talking to you the day after we've both been very sick, and I was like, oh yeah, I like, I ate, you know, crackers all that night, and then I crackers and whatever today, and then today I finally fell up to it. So I had some like wanton soup from a Chinese place, and you're like, oh, yeah, I totally understand. All I had was some brought worst soup. Why why would you think that was a good idea? It didn't go well surprisingly too. Yeah yeah, you

13:09 were like, oh, bro, I don't know why, but I feel worse. And I was like, I was like, well, what did you eat? What you eat? Not much, just some brought worst to beer cheese soup. And I was like, dude, you're not supposed to feel well after eating brought worst to beer cheese soup anytime you do it well, no, no, even without food. Yeah, you definitely aren't supposed to hork that down then and then sit down at the end of the night and think all choice is perfect beer cheese soup, beer cheese soup. Here week. So that story shared forever, forever, forever, and now it's so now it's in there So getting back to snow Day, what's that so? Two thousand, one hour and twenty nine minutes. This wonderful film directed by Chris Coke. He was a director of the Adventures of Pete and Pete in nineteen ninety two. I thought I recognized the name Cousin Skeeter ninety eight, couplam in ninety eight, Cousin Skeeter so underrated. I love Cousin Skeeter.

14:03 Malcolm in the middle of two thousand A guy thing two thousand and three, Scrubs O three. My name is Earl better Off, Ted Cougartown Modern Family, work Aholics, Last Man on Earth, Young Sheldon. This is us and only murders in the building. He's actually working on right now too. So so this was his only feature though, this was his only feature. Yes, wonder why so, I mean I actually wonder why. I don't know anything about this. No, but I mean he was he was a staple on Nickelodeon. I mean, with those titles alone, and this movie was, like, like Hendrick said, his only directorial that we have for a feature. But his his resume, I mean, that's a very impressive resume. It's extremely extensive, extremely extensive writer on this film. There are two of them. You had Chris Viscardi, who was also a writer on the Angels of Pete Pete ninety two. He did the Henry and June Show, early KaBlam in ninety nine, then Dick Kablamb in ninety six, or excuse me, KaBlam in ninety eight. He did the show and in one Naked Brother's Band, another Nickelodeon show No. Seven I remember that vaguely, Alvin and the Chipmunks movie and O seven. And then our second writer is will Mcrob, who did Ren and Stimpy in ninety one. Will Mcrob's name was all over Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon, Yeah, Rend and Stimpy ninety one, Rugrats ninety two, Doug Adventures of Pete and Pete Rock was modern life.

15:09 Liquid television could blam Naked Brother's Band, Taylor Despero, Bravest Warriors, Harriet the Spy, which is a twenty twenty one cartoon. Now, by the way, I'm not surprised they're doing more with it. What was a book, Yeah, it was a book. But the reason I bring up those gentlemen not just the fact they're associated with the film. This was originally supposed to be in Adventures of Pete and Pete film. I could totally see that, Yeah, I could absolutly because there's an older brother and a little sister dynamic yep, that totally makes totally tracks. Yeah. Yeah, And then they were like, yeah, we got Chris Elliot, what do we need the name exactly? We got Chevy Chase. We've got the names in this movie, which we'll get to finishing off our creators, though. We have the cinematographer Robbie Greenberg, which prepare yourself, because this is one that I was very excited to talk about. Okay, So he does Bizarre Devices in seventy three, Lucifer's Woman in seventy four, Young Blood seventy eight, and then in nineteen eighty one he shoots a little film called Butcher Baker nightmare Maker. Do You Even? Movie? Will be right back, welcome back to Do You Even? Movie? Well? Yeah, I mean that's we often like to bring up on the show that if you want to if you want to see something you're not expecting, look up cinematographers on IMDb or what

16:44 have you. Yeah, because the every movie, as I've said before, every movie needs a camera, and every movie needs a guy using the camera. Yeah, so it's a guy only. Okay, it gets better, but you need somebody running the camera. Yeah. So you'll find like a lot of people will do like exploitation movies or adult movies or ridiculous kids movies or whatever to get their foot in the door. Yeah, and then one day it's like, oh and then also Jurassic Park two. Yeah, and then this and that. So what else? What else you got for? So then we go into swamp thing in nineteen eighty two, Wes Craven's Oh okay, Time Walker eighty two, Doctor Dracula eighty three, This Girl for Higher eighty three, Doctor Dracula, Yeah, Winter of Our Discontent eighty three, My Mother's Secret Life eighty four, Sweet Dreams eighty five, Far North eighty five. All I Want for Christmas ninety one, Free Willie for Christmas, The Arnold Movie. No that's You Go All the Way. No, No, no, no, Arnold Arnold. Yeah, he directed a Christmas movie with Tony Curtis. Yeah, no, it's not that one. This one's I don't think it is. Let me double check. I'm not trying to put you on the Spot. No, no, you're fine. No, Arnold directed one feature film, right, I totally forgot about that, and it was with Tony Curtis. Because so this is why he originally was resistant to Jamie Lee Curtis being his love interest in True Lies. Yeah, it was because he said that whenever he looked at her, all he could see was Tony's daughter, because he was good buddies with Tony Curtis. So are you sure that's not the Arnold schwartzon Perry, Well, could be.

18:11 Let's find out you're scrolling to the completely Robert Lieberman. Yeah, no, no, no, it's not. Well then never mind, you all learn something free Willy nineteen ninety three, Okay, Under Siege two, Dark Territory ninety five, finally a real film, Bulls Rush in ninety seven. Rip Matthew Perry. Uh if These Walls could Talk two thousand, Save the Last Dance two thousand and one, A Guy Thing two thousand and three, Marcy x O three does prison Break in five, Santa Claus three, O six, and Wild Hogs and O seven. Okay, as a body of work, now there are bodies for sure, es. So getting into snow Day here is the back of the Paramount DVD, it says an unexpected overnight snowfall has made roads impossible, and that means no school, no rules. Snow day. For fifteen year old how it's a chance to win the heart of a popular girl, Claire, or totally embarrass himself. For ten year old Natalie, it's a chance to create something even more than a snow day, a second snow day. But to do that, she must stop snowplow man, the town's relentless road clearing fiend. Better watch out snowplow man, because anything can happen on snow day. In this hilarious comedy, just about everything does. How did he describe snowplow man again? How was that? What was that happening? The town's relentless road clearing fiend aka working class man trying to earn a living. Honestly, yes, but he has poortental hygienis.

19:30 Yes, he does. Welcome my synopsis and unexpect the snowfall leaves an upstate New York town covered, closing the schools and sending the kids into a frenzy to stop the evil snowplow man from sending them back to school tomorrow. With any means or snowballs necessary. You tried to make it cute at the end. There you failed. I fail. It's fine, it's fine. No, it's not okay. I think we're gonna have to talk to your parents. I luckily I have my phone hooked into the clem right now. So the cast of snow Day, it's a long list, but we're gonn to go with three mains on this. First off, we have Chevy Chase, who plays Tom Branson. He is the father of the film. I forget about his career, about how on fire he was in the late eighties into the nineties, and then when I read the height of his career, So Lemmings in seventy three, snl in seventy five, Foul Play seventy eight, Oh Heavenly Dog nineteen eighty, Caddyshack nineteen eighty, Seems Like Old Times nineteen eighty, Under the Rainbow eighty one, National Lampoon's Vacation eighty three, Fletch eighty five, European Vacation eighty five, Follow That Bird eighty five, Spies Like Us eighty five, Three Amigos eighty six, Funny Farm eighty eight, Fletch lives at Chris's Vacation, La Story, Nothing but Trouble, Memoirs of a Visible Man, Cops and Robersons, and that's when we start the decline.

20:41 Yes, and for those who don't know, Chevy Chase notoriously hard to work with, notoriously hard to work with, so notoriously difficult, notoriously unpleasant. Yeah, that is just the man. He is the man, Yes, the man that is notoriously hard to work with, but still very he is funny, very funny. I mean even in the Last Movie Star he was funny. Oh god, he was so good in the Last Movie Star. So then we have Mark Webber, who plays how Branson. He is Chevy's son in this. He was in Drive Me Crazy in nineteen ninety nine, Animal Factory two thousand, boiler Room two thousand, Storytelling, in One Winter Solstice, Broken Flowers, green Room twenty fifteen, he was in green Room. He is the guy that's the that's the lover of the chick that gets killed, the guy that goes back into the club to try and save everybody. Oh okay, okay, no, because I mean green Room phenomenal film, not phenomenal film. And then snowplow Man played by Chris Elliott Manhunter nineteen eighty six, because remember we saw him in the interrogation room in that one. Part. Of course, we did Late Night with Letterman in eighty three. What he had something to do with Letterman crazy right? For those who don't know, he was very involved. Have you ever watched the episode of Letterman when he comes on after Cabin Boy? Was it Cabin Boy?

21:56 Yeah? Is that the one that Yeah, that's the one that tanked him, right, Yeah, well it was his first movie. Yeah, it was his very first one. And then they came back on to talk to Letterman after its flop, and Letterman just really let him have it. I mean yeah, I mean I don't think Letterman hated him for going out and trying, but Letterman definitely did not let him get away with it. No, he did not. So he had the TV show Get a Life in nineteen ninety. He was in Groundhog's Day, of course, in ninety three, CB four ninety three, Cabin Boy was ninety four, Adventures of Pete and Pete in ninety four, Barefoot executive remake, ninety five Kingpin. There's something about Marry and Nutty Professor Two, The Weber Show, Scary Movie Too, Osmosis Jones, King of the Hill, Dance Flick, The Dictator Community, Nurse Jackie, and of course he's rolling on Shit's Creek, which started twenty fifteen. Well, and to give him a little do I mean, I like to pick on Chris Elliott mainly because there was this era in the nineties which I was only barely there for, But there was this era in the nineties where it seemed like everybody thought Chris Elliott was going to be like the Salvation of comedy, the new comedy leading man. And in hindsight, that's pretty silly. Yeah, that seems pretty silly. Chris Elliott is going to be like he's going to be Jim Carrey. Yeah. Now when you look back, you're like, yeah, that that's the one. That's that's the one. But he has built an incredible career for himself of being a character actor, a comedic, you know, friend character. He's kind of famous for being the weirdo and scary movie with the weird hand and stuff my stronghand so, I I mean, I you know, I give my hats off to Chris Elliott. He's incredibly funny. Yeah, but yeah he did.

23:29 He became like the butt of a joke of every joke in Hollywood for like a good three years. Yeah. And so the first time that I saw this movie, because we know your first time, because it was just a little bit ago, it was, uh, I would say about forty minutes ago. I saw this opening night. My mom took me, Erica and a couple of our neighbor friends to the theater. It was Movies five or old theater that is no longer with us. When did it release one time of the year. It was February. I want to say, oh wow, during the snow ak when nobody February eleventh. Wow, February eleventh, two thousand. They must have done that because they thought that like winter would make people want to go see it. But that's not a time when mad people. I mean, February is better than January. Yeah, but you know, so for the record, so yeah, anyway, so I went, so we would to see at Movies five. I absolutely love this movie. Of course I was eight years old, but like had a blast with it. And when we eventually got our own VHS copy, it became a tradition that Erica and I would watch this every time we got the snow day. For the most part, like there was at least one time a year when we got a snow day that we would watch those. That's adorable.

24:30 It was. It was a staple around our house. My parents loved it, We loved it, and I've still watched it this day. Even when we got a giant snowstore about six years ago, I introduced two friends to it who had never seen it. Wow. Yeah, I showed it and yet never me till today. That's been made up. Now, I I have so many vivid memories Prague for snow days. I'm just sitting watching the news and watching the little thing at the bottom of the news yes, going like, oh God, come on West Carleton, come on West Carrollton. And then it would be like and it's everyone but Wes Carleton. We hope you all die on the way. God. So did you get snow days like ever? All the time? All the time? Okay, Oh yeah, I was joking. I figured, no, we we not only got snow days, but when they had mentioned like the two snow days in a row that happened at least once or twice, that we got two full snow days. We had an entire week. We basically went to school for half a day on Monday, and then from Monday until Friday we were completely closed and didn't go back until the next Monday because it was I want to say, twenty eleven, you might remember this when we got that giant ice storm. I remember the ice storm, the ice Storm future episode. Maybe well in twenty eleven. Ice storm in twenty eleven is the twenty ten or twenty eleven we had a giant ice storm that literally closed us down for a week. I keep forgetting your your fucking fetus, So of course you, of course you were still in school getting snow days. It was my senior year. That's why I remember it. Uh huh pathetic. I also remember

26:03 I was like sitting on the living room floor of mom and dad watching The Cotton Club, which is one of my favorite gangster movies. Have you ever seen The Cotton Club? No, it's so good. So anyway, first of all, I mean, I'm not to brag, yeah, but I had some pretty fucking good snow days in my junior and senior year of high school. What'd you do? I dropped out of school. I was gonna say, yeah, so I had like one hundred and straight through and it was awesome. Do you have do you have like a distinct snow day memory of like one of the best. Uh. I didn't have friends growing up, so so no, no, I mean for me, I don't.

26:51 There were no ultimate snow days. I never lived in a neighborhood with like a lot of kids. Yeah. I there was one snow that sticks out in my mind because it was just such a torrential amount of snow. Was the first year I was probably eleven or twelve that we had enough snow in my backyard that we dug an igloo. Me and like a neighbor kid. Yeah, we dug in and then like hollowed it out to make an igloo. Yeah, And I remember that being really cool, but then getting sad because every day the igloe was just keep getting small. You just keep digging it to make it bigger, and then eventually you're like, script, let's all jump on it and carve it in. There was like we basically had a rule for snow days. It depended on how much snow we got.

27:33 But uh, before we could do anything like super fun, whether it was sledding or playing Super Nintendo. Myself or Erica and I both had to go shovel the driveway that that was the rule, but usually got that done pretty quickly. But snow days for me were always an absolute blast, and we had a major sled hill. You've seen it in front of my parents' house. That that hill we used to sled down. That son of a bitch all the time. Yeah. I never went sledding or anything like that really as a kid. Oh my god, I need to take you sledding. Well, I live in a very flat state. Yeah, I mean you live in the same state, but you guys have I guess you bought a hill in like eighteen sixteen or something. I can take you sledding on the levee the next time we get it. We get a snow day, you should come Detroy and I'll take you. I'll take you to Well. You say stuff all the time going skiing. You don't worry threatening me with skiing.

28:19 You just want me to get all sunny bonoe. So going back to your comment about this getting dumped, what do you think this movie costs? Oh goodness, Okay, I mean I like this game, but it's it's stressful because it's like, Okay, so it's two thousand, but it's a Nickelodeon movie, and Nickelodeon's hot, so I'm thinking like twenty five mil. Thirteen million dollar budget. Oh, that's actually very manageable. You want to know what the box office brought in? Uh? Not great? Sixty two point five million. It was a huge hit. It was a huge hit. Well good, yeah, gosh, you made me think it was gonna be a bomb. No, no, it was not a bomb at all.

28:59 Filmed in Alberta, Canada, they set it. They set the movie in Syracuse, New York, which we'll get to again because there's a lot of jokes we can make. Well having been to Syracuse, yes, I can make some jokes, yes, but yeah. No. The film was originally planned as a pet and Adventures of Pete and Pete movie. It got held up for several years and eventually found its way back to Chris Koch, who decided to go ahead and do it in two thousand. Nickelodeon put a bunch of money into it. They Yeah, ineas I thought. I honestly really did think it was more expensive though, Yeah, but no, Yeah, thirteen million brought in sixty two point five million, and this movie is the ideal kid power movie. And I think that's probably what I loved about it. My ideal you mean most irresponsible, most irresponsible kid power movie.

29:44 Uh, there's a lot in this film that if it literally happened, would be not only felonious, but very scary for everyone involved. Do You Even? Movie will be right back, welcome back to do You Even? Movie? So let's get into it. So snow Day opens with a voiceover as we meet Hal Branson, who again who's played by Mark Weber, and he is basically explaining how snow forms and leads into a snow day. We see Natalie, his sister, come out of the house who was played by Zena what's her last name, Warrior Princess Zina Gray and she catches a snowflake on her tongue, and that's how we open up with snow Day. We then meet Tom Branston who's played by Chevy Chase, and he is in a hula skirt giving the weather as he is one of the local weathermen in the town, given a forecast, pushing him to be the wacky wacky weather man.

30:44 Yes, so he's in a hula skirt talking about how it's going to be a heat and there's gonna be it's gonna be a heat wave, there's gonna be plenty of sun, nothing to worry about. And then we meet Tina, his his manager, who is played by Pam Greer, and that's when she tells him that they're number two in the ratings and that in order for him to wear pants again, he's gonna have to step up his game, which that does become the running gag is that she says, like, if you want your pants back, you're gonna have to get more ratings. So then we meet Chad Simmons, who is the competition to Tom, and he is the guy that everybody loves and of course Tom hates him, and we'll get more into him as we go into the movie. We meet Principal Weaver who is outside in a nice sunny day grill in a steak and he suddenly gets pelted with a snowball. He's looking around and he's like, is that the best you got? And then he holds up a radio playing a song heat Wave, and we cut to Natalie and Chet and Wayne Chet is played by excuse me, it's Josh oh Man here we go again with this guy, would you stop? Chet's played by Jade Scott Yorker. He didn't have much a career after this. And then Josh Peck plays Wayne, who are the two friends of Natalie, and she's telling them that it's going to snow.

31:48 She's gonna make it happen, that they've gotta have faith and it's gonna snow. Josh Peck of Drake and Jo. For people who aren't like super in the Nickelodeon, he became super famous, super famous star and has a podcast now too. Of course who doesn't, Yes, we fucking do so this is true. Dave just realized we have a podcast. I I gosh, spoiler alert, there you go. But no, no, so some people who were about to become pretty big on Nukelodeon. And I want to mention, I mean, the way that this is set up is that we're we're sitting here in Syracuse, New York for those who are not aware.

32:34 Upstate New York is known for its extreme winters, and as a young man who spent many Decembers in New Hampshire, which is even more extreme. Yes, the winters are quite a they are legit out there in Ohio, where you and I both reside currently. Yes, we get a mix. Sometimes we have a mild winter. Sometimes we're like, holy crap, I can't believe how much snow we're getting, how much ice we're getting out cold. It's I was just looking at last year around this time that we're recording this, and there was that giant power outage during that huge winter storm that was like that, but it brought temperatures down to like negative three and then knocked out power. Because I remember my house got down to forty two degrees before the power came back on. I was worried about you. Yeah, well I was too, because I was because I had two weeks earlier, I had bought a new furnace and I'd paid out the ass and I was like, you know the only problem with having a new furnace is if you have no electricity, it didn't really do a very good job. It does not know it doesn't. But no, So this is that's extra special, is that snow days are a big deal in this community, in this world of sorts that they're building. But every shot, I would not be surprised if they literally filmed it in the dead of summer because it looks like summer.

33:50 It does filmed it in spring, in the spring yet because it doesn't look at all like winter. There's no dreariness. There's blue skies, but it looks like Canada because you could just like hear people playing hockey in the background of the soundtrackers, I'm like, oh, the soundtrack. We'll get to the soundtrack too. Oh boy, here we go. So we then meet Hal who is Natalie's older brother, the one that gave the voice over at the beginning, played by Mark Webber. He is at the pool with his friends Lane and Bill and they're watching well, he's watching Claire Bonner, who was played by Emmanuel Shakiri, and he has a crush on her. He wants her, and he is just talking to his friends about how he's gonna get the courage to go up and talk to her, but they tell him that like he doesn't exist to her like that that is not gonna happen.

34:31 He makes a fool of himself and falls into the pool right in front of her, and she is doing a hide. She's doing dives off the high dive, and he sinks to the bottom of the pool with one of your Favorite lines, where he basically states, my original plan was to sink to the bottom and drown, but fate had other choices. Score. Yeah, he seems like like my original plan was to sink to the bottom of the pool and drowned, but fate had other plans. And I was like, man who wrote this me? So yeah, he finds her anklet. She wears this very obvious anklet that's a blue whale. An anklet is a bracelet for your ankle, and it has a blue whale gem on it. Charm, yes, sord charm and yeah, I pulled the data used the wrong word, you did, but uh so he snatches it up, and you would assume any sane person would then, I don't know, give it back to her. Hey you drop this, Uh but it's going elsewhere. It's going elsewhere. It's going elsewhere. We're gonna We're gonna go ahead and just say right now that how might be a little bit of a creep in this time. Well, he's definitely madly in love, madly in love. So he takes the bracelet and we see them sitting outside as Claire's waiting for a ride. Suddenly we see Chuck pull up and that's her ex boyfriend because they just broke up. He's trying to get her in the car and she tells him that they broke up and that she needs some time, which gives Hal hope. So he takes the bracelet home with him because that's what I guess makes sense. That's that's what you do. So we then see Natalie sneak into Hall's room. She opens up a glass case that has five action figures in it and takes them out, and she's playing with him on the porch.

36:01 How returns and he scolds over taking them out because they're gonna be collectors items and he's gonna sell them someday. And she tells him that you can't break up the team, and how It tells her, don't worry. Teams split up all the time. That's just the way it is. Ha take that younger sibling, younger sibling. Indeed, what was do you remember the first time that your sister was too cool for you? Oh? God, it was, I mean at first, not last, because last would be wedding. Ye, So I was probably it was probably when I was about five or so. There was one like I remember, like I got kicked out of hanging out with her and her friends, like was told to like leave the room, and even the parents backed it up. Oh this on the parent Your mom and dad were like, son, you are very lame.

36:42 Stop annoying your sister. This. Your dad was like, hey, pal, you're a little fucking Melvine. Why don't you go play with you stupid nes or something? All right? Hey, hey eh how'd that feel? I think I went to play with my Fisher Price castle set in my bedroom after that. So yeah, yeah, was a little fucking Melvin. Ah. So so that was that was Wow, that's young. How much older is your sister? Then? Wow? See, I man, my sister was a loser though. Yeah. So so, like my sister was nine years older than me, and I feel like it wasn't until I was like nine that she was like go away. No. I distinctly remember being not I wouldn't say exiled, but I remember there there was a point to where that we we was exit. It was exiled. There was a point where we definitely started to separate from hanging out as much, but we were still very close growing up. It doesn't sound it sounds like you've got some serious sour grapes I don't know, man, this is a safe place to discuss it. Oh is it just you and me? Just me and all the listeners? But uh but but no, go play with your fiship price.

37:53 Yeah, punk cats, get out of here. Kids, you bother me. See, Luckily, I was a really cool kid. Like I smoked Menthol cigarettes when I was well, I'm talking about when I was six. Yeah, I smoked Menthol cigarettes. I drank malt liquor. I was really into score sazy, but not in like a dickish way, like I just like appreciated this mess on scene. Oh yeah, So I was a pretty cool kid, you know. And then I when I and then when I went to school, it was like, yeah, you're so smart. Here's some bad and then it was like, okay, I guess I'll just I'll just suffer through my whole childhood. So anyway, oh boy, what No, I got beat up all the time. I know you did.

38:34 I'm sorry, Dave, if it makes you feel better, because you know, we didn't meet each other until we were you know, I was late my late twenties. You were early twenties. Yeah. If I knew you back then, I would have beat the shit out of you because you would have been so much smaller than me. I kicked my own ass. Still, sometimes that's something you should talk to with a professional not not here on the show. I am. I am a professional lifestyle coach. Coach, yes, but that one I'm not touching. So getting back to snow Dag, What's snow Day? We then meet the Branstons at a nice dinner, So we meet once again. We see Tom, we see the little brother Randy, Nat and How and then we meet Laura, who is played by Jeane Smart and she is a workaholic. She apologizes for being late, and that's when Chevy makes a joke at her and he's like, Randy, call security, So she sits down. She's starting to find out about their day.

39:19 Randy shows her that he can fit his whole fist in his mouth. Damn right, he can. And that's when her phone starts ringing and Chevy offers her a dollar if she'll let it ring. So for about three, four or five seconds, the phone rings and then she gives the dollar back, rushes off, and that is when Chevy takes the dollar back. We then see How is in his room and we're going back to the creepiness. He's listening to Foreigner with waiting for a Girl like you and just holding the anklet up to his face and smelling it, and then he puts it on. And for the record, kids, as the lifestyle coach of do you even movie? If you are madly like feloniously in love with the one and you managed to obtain some of her sterling silver or silver jewelry as this appeared to be silver jewelry, yes, don't smell it because silver doesn't hold smells.

40:13 Silver is a very clean metal. Uh huh. It's very antibacterial. So you're not gonna get any of that wonderful ankle stank you were hoping for. Ankle stick, it's not going to be there. I'm here to be honest with you. I'm not here to placate you. So if you're out there and you know who you are, the anklet doesn't smell like anything, it does not. No, no, it does not. No, You're you're better off just closing your eyes and wrapping it around your neck and well we'll finish this later, Okay, So how gets busted fantasize and give her claars brace it by nat he kicks her out of the room, and that's when we see Tom comes into Nat and she's checking the weather thermometer and she says the temperatures dr and he's like, well, we may be getting something.

41:01 Gets her hopes up a little bit and gives her a snow globe, but also mentions that Al's wearing an ankle bracelet, a girl's ankle bracelet. Yeah, she mentions that, to which my immediate response was, it's an anklet. It's an anklet, thank you. So Nat tells us about where the anklet bracelet, and that's when Tom tells her that, you know, How's got a lot of stuff on his mind, you know, girls, and he's like, well, actually it's mainly probably just girls. That's when they're interrupted by Laura, who shows that Randy has now got his fist stuck in his mouth and needs help getting it out, which I mean, hey, they set that up, Yes they do. So how leaves, He goes to a diner and meets his friends and he's trying to talk to Lannon Bill again about how he's gonna make his move on Claire. He approaches the table that she's sitting at the diner and isn't noticed at all. All her friends in her ignore him, and that's when he realized that he's completely invisible, so he leaves. We cut back to Nat who is fantasizing about a snow day and she starts to have snow fall in her room. It's actually kind of a beautiful little scene, I'm cute, where she just kind of closes her eyes and basically manifests snow so as their eyes are closed, and they did a beautiful job with it. Yea, it really starts to snow in her bedrooms. It does, and the flakes are like very convincing and fine, which makes me think that they use like a legitimate snow machine for that scene. No potato flakes, no foam. One of my favorite things.

42:21 By the way, side note about snow movies, next time you watch. It's a wonderful life. The different ways that they created the snow are like it's wild. Like there are some scenes where, if you really pay attention, there's one scene where he's running down the street and he's literally being pummeled with soap foam like it is no but it's not like it's not like, oh, that snow looks kind of like foam, because we work with a lot of fake snow that has used his foamy. No, no, I mean it's it's like straight up snow foam, like it doesn't look like snow, and they use like every kind of fake snow or snow effect they could on that movie. That's like we were watching Ice Harvest a couple of weeks ago and that scene when Cusack falls down the hill and you can clearly see it's just a sheets with snow over it. Oh yeah, yeah, that's a common one too, is Yeah, you put a big, a big cotton sheet, yeah, to kind of cover it all up. But no, so that's something that's worth mentioning. Yeah, but no. So it's a beautiful scene. It's like really thought out, it's really emotional.

43:16 Yeah, and I really liked it. And man, I would freaking love if this had been a Peat and Pete movie, although by that point they were so over. Yeah, yeah, they were way over. So her daydream is interrupted by her mom, who asked her what she's doing and she says catching snowflakes. She reminds her that tomorrow's a school day as she tucks her in and she says good night to her. We cut back to the weather thermometer as we see the temperature start to drop, and then we see Tom back at work as he's blowing up an inflatable because he'sn't dressed in like pool attire because they're expecting you know, sunny, sunny weather. And that's when he notices that there is a huge snowstorm moving into the valley. And that's when I pointed out one little girl's wish. One little girl's wish leads to dozens of homeless people die, people tie. Please, please God, just one sudden, unpredicted cold snap so that people sleeping in the streets will just freeze solid and die. J So Tom breaks the news live on air that snow has come in there, expecting a large amount of it. We see snowflakes starting to fall outside. We cut to the next morning as Natalie's waking up because the snow globe which she slept with falls out of bed.

44:24 Well well, I mean like they're just friends. They're just friends, they shared a bed, they shared a bed, So the snow globe falls out of bed, rolls to the door, waking her up. She goes to the window and then rushes to the door, opening it, and I shit you not when I say there is at least three feet of snow on the ground in front of this door, and she screams snow. And it's another one of those great moments because she goes snow and it like pulls away from her and gets like a crane shot. It's it's really lovely, it's really cute. So then we then see the valley as completely covered in snow, and we see all the kids next are crowded around the radio. Because kids back in the before you would get alerts on your phone, you had to either watch the TV station or listen to the radio to hear about school closing.

45:06 I'm gonna straight up, we never sat around the radio in nineteen ninety five or anything. No, No, this was like, this is a very old school feeling thing that they were all sitting around the radio. Yeah. I love that. One of the kids, uh, one of the kids that's listening to the radio literally has a snowball and he's pouring syrup onto the snowballs to eat it. He's basically making a snow cone as he's waiting to find out if their schools are closed. So they go through the announcements and they're like, you know, this is closed, this is closed. A week of poker and my house is canceled. And that's all the closings. And then they're like, oh, one more thing. All schools are closed officially for a snow day. We see principal weavers start to cry, we see the mother of some kids start to cry, and all the kids are cheering, getting ready to enjoy their snow day. But that is cut short as we meet snowplow man played by Chris Elliott, who rounds the corner as NAT's getting ready to go outside with his rig Darling, Clementine, do you even move? He will be right back. Welcome back to Do You Even movie? Chris Elliott with nasty teeth, who is Rogers Stubblefield. He has a crow named Trudy. Literally all he is. The entire villainy of him in this film is simply that his teeth are ugly yes, and he is old, yes. And he does his job yes, which his job is directly related to public safe public safety, like because I remember when the

46:40 first show the ball, like, ah, let me attack him. It's lately We'll show you getting our parents to work safely, Like, you gotta how our parents if they die, they die. So the kids run and take shelter as snow plumb man rounds the corner, and Natalie tells how that this is the year they're gonna exactly that they're gonna act their revenge. They're gonna do the legendary second snow Day and stop the snowplow man. And I want to point out, as a person who's been to Syracuse a few times, when they were saying, like when earlier, when they were like doubting it, They're like, if it even snows. I was like, homie, Like, I know they were making a lot of global warming promises in the nineties. Yeah, but Syracuse is getting snow. They're getting snow.

47:20 Look I I I could be I could be a weatherman in Syracuse. Hey, guys, chance of snow because it's fucking February. You can't say that on the air. Oh, a chance of accumulation of frozen precipitation because it's fucking February. So Hal decides to tell her that he's not gonna be a part of this, and he's gonna use this snow day as a chance to declare his love to Claire, and Nat tells him that she doesn't need him anyway, that they're gonna pull this off without him. Then we see that Laura is trying to leave. She goes into the garage. She puts a troll doll up on her dashboard and she pushes the gross door opener and the garage lifts and there is snow all the way to the top of the ceiling. The reveal is so good. The garage door is just opening and you see snow and opening and opening and opening and opening, and it's snow, snow, snow, and then like right at the top you got like a half a foot you can see the sky. Yes, I love that.

48:13 That's such a great review. Knocks the troll doll off the dash We see Hal apologizing to her and he's like, you know, there'll be other work days. So now Hal is off to go find it, find Claire. Randy is causing terror in the house using a vacuum on the money. Yeah, like literally by Annie. The kid just is coming up with the vacuum, like vacuum in your legs because I remember my first thought was like, hey, that's what you get. It was just an a clause where everybody could get it. And and because I feel like we should just get this out of the way right now. There's a there's a c story and the sea story of this of this film, because the A story is the snowplow. Well, actually a story is a love story. Yeah, the story snow plow. But the sea story is this mom who is always working way too much, just getting wasted on workahol. Apparently is what you workhol, workahol. I'm gonna people that hates the phrase workaholic because it doesn't make any sense. Always pound in work ahol. But but I just want to get it out of the way, because why why we won't want to talk about the sea story a ton? Yeah, but there are these little bits throughout the whole movie where the mom is getting into something else with the little kid chasing him around. At one point he just runs out and he's covered blue paint. It's unexplained blue paint. Yeah, love that. But what the culmination of that is is toward the end it just shows them making a little snowman and you realize that she realizes that it's nice to be home, yes, and that her family, you know, is to be cherished and this day is to be cherished. Just want to throw out real quick, really nice sea story because we're pretty much almost exclusively going to be talking about the

49:45 game B story from here on, and I didn't want to like derail it by talking about the sea storymore. But it's really sweet. I thought it was a perfect little addition. And to have an overworked mom connects with me because I had an overworked mom. I didn't have a dad around to be overworked. My mom worked all the time. My mom drove in the wet, in the bad weather to go to work, you know, so it was nice to see it overworked mom take a second and be like, actually, is kind of nice hanging out with my kid. Yeah, oh it's it's a super sweet sea story. So how it makes this trek out in the snow defying Claire principal Weaver goes out to his car, ambushed by snowballs from all the kids that are just targeting him. Polite, polite, I shot it. They made they shoot it like a war scene because he dives into the trenches. No, no, it's absolutely a war scene. I was just thinking, like, man, if this was my neighborhood, though there would have been rocks in some of those snowballs. Oh god, oh we did that. We did snow We did tennis balls. That was That was like the meanest I think that we did. That's not even mean.

50:40 You can't even shatter a window with a tennis ball. You can't try hard enough. I mean, well, okay, hold on, now, in my neighborhood, we would have put the tennis balls out overnight so they'd free solid. That's a good call, but it's way easier to just use billiard balls. Jesus, but where'd you grow up? That would hurt and kill. I was gonna say, no, it doesn't hurt. If you hit him hard and hard enough, you know, then it's just a snap of the fingers and then there's no more problem. So how meets up with Laine, who is excited about the snow day as well, and she is telling him that they're gonna have the best day, maybe they'll start an avalanche, and that she wants to do a snow angel, which she demonstrates in front of him, but also says that you can never get the perfect snow angel because there's always gonna be the hamdprint when you get out. He extends his hand to her, pulls her out, and then she has a perfect snow angel in front of her, and that's when he tells her that he's not going to be a part of that, and he's going to go profess his love to Claire. And that's when you realize that this young woman cannot do a proper sit up, no, because you could just sit up. There's no need for hand prints if you just if you just put a little bit more time into your calisthenics. So Laine says that she's gonna enjoy watching this end in Flames Nat ventures into Chet and Wayne's snow forth that they've made.

51:53 You were talking about igloo earlier. They have made a hell of an igloo. It's beyond an igloo. It is like a tunneled snowf told snowfall and the and the way we it's revealed to us as bike following a really long extension cord. Yeah, because they have an old TV set and they're playing Nintendo or Super Nintendo or whatever on They've got a lot of lamp to some lights and some Christmas lights up in there, so they've got like this whole like underground under snow bar Barcelo. Yep. So the fun is cut short as snowplow man makes another round around the corner. They take cover, exiting the fort and they go outside, but they have a little periscope. They look up and see where he's at, and they decide that they're gonna hit him with a snowball. So they go through the various snowballs they have, they choose one and Natalie hits Roger dead in the face with it. The plow drives straight into a car. Yeah, yeah, no, this is like felonious. Felonious is the word of the night for this film. Yeah, so the plow goes dead, the kids start walking up to the plow to see if everything's if snowplow Man's dead or anything, and the plow suddenly kicks into action. And the way they show it is the snowplows a little light like flades out and then when they walk up, it fades back on, and then the then exhaust starts kicking. Yeah, you're like, ah like, but that means that they were hoping for death. Hoping for death.

53:06 They were like, it's over. It wasn't bad enough that he literally ran into a car. No, which apparently there were no ramification, no ramifications emphasis on ram yes, clearly because next he's gonna ram into the snow ford or try to. Yeah, he just goes off road, yes, and just chasing them. The best part is when he crushes their snow ford. He's like, all you think is is like, ha, ha, crushed some kids. So Principal Weaver, still being assaulted by snow runs past Hallen Lane as they're making way to Claire's house, which has now been bombarded by a bunch of boys who have found out that Claire is single. So it is, as they call Claire Stock, Claire Stock is hilarious. It is. It's it's, uh, what does that movie? Say anything? Ye, say anything. It's like say Anything times fifty. It's just all these dudes with signs and boomboxes. And my favorite is she so she opens her blinds and there's a dude hanging on her balcony who jumps off and gets caught by the crowd. No, it's like it's like any good like event like that. About a third of them are there because they really wanted to be there. Everybody else just want to be a part of the action.

54:07 So they so House sees that he is not the only one going after Claire, and of course the party's broken up by Chuck, who rides up on his skidoo, scaring everybody off. He tries to persuade Claire to talk to him, and she says that she'll love that she doesn't want to talk to him, turning up the TV, revealing that she is watching How's Dad on TV? She's watching Channel six. Yeah, And I want to mention, for those who are not used to seriously snowy weather, a skid is another word for snowmob snows so, revealing that they're watching Tom's broadcast, House suddenly gets an idea and he rushes off. Chuck gets invited inside by Claire for a few minutes, and that's when we see Tom is dressed as a snowman at Skelter Hill, or as the kids call it, suicide Hill. Yeah, and he says it like as the local kids like to call it suicide Hill. It's like, yeah, it's because it's steep, it's very steep.

54:54 It's because you might die. So he gets on a sled and he says he's gonna get a little push from his friends. They push him and in natural Chevy fashion. It doesn't go well as he goes ramping down the hill off a ramp and the cameraman chases after him, leaving the camera completely stable on the tripod. Hal runs up and confesses his love to Claire. Says that it's a snow day, anything can happen. He confesses all these things that he knows about her and that he's going to see her later. Basically just he just he may as well have just been Max Headroom hijacking a broadcast. Yeah, and uh, and we get some solid late stage Chevy Chase physical humor. Yes, we do that, being that I think Chevy was in like one shot, one shot. Yes. So so Tom consoles halis, and you know, when I want to get a girl's attention, I would just put on some gloan. But House says, you know, this girl's special, and he's like, you know, I understand that.

55:40 But then Tom's interrupted by his cameraman that says they were taping Channel ten last night and Chad Simmons is now taking credit for the one to be uh to discover that the snow for being the guy who figured it out first. Yeah, and that pisses Tom off. He goes and starts chucking snowballs at a billboard. They pull him away, and how thinks that it was a success for what he did. But then Chuck and Claire ride by on his skidoo, and he realizes that Claire is somewhat into him because she smiles at him as they ride past, and Chuck, of course her ex, the boyfriend who was supposed to be the ex who is just a total total Chad energy, and this is of course when they play the last there she goes. As Claire rides past, she goes. So we cut back to Nat and Chet and Wayne who are putting ketchup on Wayne, who is laying in the middle of the road. They're setting a trap by making it look like there's a maimed child in the middle of the road. They're putting ketchup on him and just but it's it's I would call it ribbons. Ribbons. I think that's the best way to put it, you know how, Like it's not they weren't squirting a puddle. It's it's thatches. So it looks he looks it looks like a potato pancake. So snowplow man drives up and he's ironically eating French fries. As this happens, I would not I would say he was an ironic ironic French because he was just eating. It wasn't like he was eating them to prove a point. That's true. So he gets out he's he was fri So he walks up to Wayne and doesn't miss a beat and just starts dipping the fries in the ketchup, just knowing immediately what it

57:13 is. I wanted him to be like once, like I was hoping for child blood. So he continues to dip the fries. Meanwhile, Nat and Chat sneak into the snowplow, but Chet also starts painting on the pin up that that Roger has on his darling Clementine, and Nat sneaks into the snowplow. Trudy starts they don't just paint the pin up, they basically make it look like me. They and circle glasses. Thanks thanks snow Day, Thanks sont enters. The plow gets found up by Trudy, who starts alerting Roger. He's like, hey, get out of my plow, and Nat steps out holding Trudy and basically says that we're gonna take her and we want the second snow day. They run off and that's when snow plumb Man decides to kidnap wame. So now he kidnaps a child and how with Gusto. So we cut to a skating rink where we meet mister zel Wigger played by Iggy Pop, Yes kids, Iggy Pop playing a skating rink owner who's in a neck brace and he is putting everyone to sleep on the ice playing Al Martino records. We even see a kid who falls asleep off skating and goes over a wall. Oh no, and I that was probably one of my favorite little touches in the movie is the fact that it's like the guy who's running the snow rink is just playing slow ballads. Yes, and we literally see that kid just he's literally like a sleep rolling and he just rolls and or slides and slides and then just goes right over the banish over the So funny, So funny. So Lane decides that she's going to help. How she pulls away mister Zelwigger by saying that somebody in a in the woman's bathroom put Al Martina bites the big one on that pulls him away. He gets out

58:45 of the booth, hal rushes into the booth dedicates a song to Claire, which gets everybody amped up, and I believe it was a I think it was a ska song again. Well yeah, because the moment there's snow the sky music and it doesn't stop. It doesn't stop. So Claire gets a song dedicated to her. Chuck rushes the window, tells how that he's so dead. Back in the plow, Wayne tries to reason with the slow snowplow man, but Roger's giving him no response. Wayne goes to open the door and the handle comes off in his hand and he goes, I'm toast. So then we go to the Branson residence where Laura meets snowplow man at the door and he tells him that he's trying to find Natalie because he's offering free plow rides. Yeah, he tries to make it sound like the daughter is getting something a free ride in the plow, which actually, would you kind of bitchin if you'd had a huge snowstorm. I'm kind of bitching to get to ride in the plow, absolutely, But he's really just lying to a parent in order to get access to her child. And Wayne was in the cab and he's spelling hell help on the window and he's like, uh, Wayne finished up his plower right. Oh, the kids love to toot the horn. They sure love to toot the horn. Do you even move?

59:53 He will be right back, welcome back to Do You Even movie? So then that's when Randy rushes in covered in blue paint. He runs out, Laura chases after him, and Natalie calls the house. Snowplow man goes in, and they decide that they're going to do a trade for Trudy and Wayne, and they agree to meet at rendezvous. We cut back to the diner where Laane meets Bill, who's building a fry house, not unlike Texas Chancel masker two. Well, I'm built chi little fry house. And she tells Bill that she's been sent by Howe, who is at the football stadium building a shrine to Claire because he she needs to grab her to bring it to see the shrine. And that's when she goes to the table to confront Claire's friends and trying to Basically they're telling Claire that, like, you know, if you date this guy, it's going to be the end of your social career. Lane sweeps in and tries to like explain that how such a sweet guy tells this really sweet story about how he gave mount them out to a baby chick, and I love this, It's so good. So then she convinces Claire to go with her and they decide that from that point that they're going to go over to the stadium. But back at the plow, Nat and snowplow Man argue about who's going to get first, because as snowplow man rides up, Wayne is tied to the front of the snow plow. It is very uh, witness man, it's very mad Max beyond snow globe, you know, it really is. So Nat breaks down, letting Trudy loose.

1:01:23 Snowplow Man releases Wayne, he drives off, and Nat basically thinks that she's been defeated. They're not going to get the second snow day. So her and the gang go off, and Wayne, of course is like, you know, great plan, guys, excellent, terrific. I mean he looks all like frostbitten too. Yeah. So back of the football field House shows off his shrine to Claire, which is the pattern of a whale that he has somehow made in the snow in a matter of time. Somehow you mean by digging it is shovel, But how like, how that quick? We don't know how long it took though the snow day is only one day, there are twenty four hours in the days. It's that's that's like airacy. That's the one. That's the one part that takes me out of this movie. It's not that hard to make the line art of a freaking whale.

1:02:09 So Claire tells him that that she likes zebras and how reveals what about your bracelet? Revealing that he has the bracelet. Just at this point, Chuck and his cronies roll up, catching him with the bracelet. He confronts, how like, what are you doing with this? And how While Chuck is talking to Claire, sneaks off and steals the ski sdew and starts a snowmobile chase with them, a snowmobile chase worthy of James Bond or Diehard two. And oh, I mean that is a really good one. Forty to fifty setups, by the way, forty to fifty camera setups. They had the skid was pulling the two skidoos. They had the key, the key grip, Rudd driving the operator, the camera guy was on the back of it, the director was on the side, and somebody else. There were four people on the snow bill be pulling the other two snowmobiles. I mean that sounds normal to me, honestly, but I mean it's definitely intricate.

1:02:58 Yeah, and uh and also like it's worth mentioning. I have ridden skids and recently I got to rent a skid and I was literally told by the owner of the shop just have at it. Yeah, she told me she'd gotten that bad way up to one hundred and five once on the lake. So I I chickened out at about ninety two. Man, that thing goes fast. Most skids go fast as cars. So when they're having this chase, all I could think was, like, you know, I mean, I'm sure there are a lot of skids that like top off at fifty or sixty still really fast, still really fast. So after a few minutes of the chasing, Chuck crashes the skidoo into a soccer net, how rides off.

1:03:43 We cut to Tom, who is covering an ice sculpture competition and he comes across a kid who has sculpted Chad Simmons. He tries to get the chisel from him. There's a huge struggle that happens live on the TV, and the kid ends up kicking over the ice sculpture, shattering it entirely. Then we cut back to the house as Little prepares for a meeting. Randy has snuck outside, and this is when we have one of the cutest scenes where she tries to get it back in the house. They have a really cute little snowball fight, and that's when she loses her phone. And that's the basically the end of the c story because she decides that she's gonna play with her son. So you think Chevy got like a cool million for being in this. I had to because he's barely in it. And uh, I think he got like a just straight up a million bucks. Yeah. So Natalie returns Meltar, one of the figures, to the spot, and that is when Enrique decided that Natalie is loosing her mind, because the action figure comes to life. No, it's not when I decided. It was when the American Medical Association decided she was a schizophrenic. The little Girl's like, well, I guess it's all over, and then the doll is just like, wait, little Natalie, you should be killing small animals. No, Like, there's this whole scene where they all stop motion animated, come to life. Allis of them to give her advice. Yeah, it is funny. Yeah, but as she's just watching them, her eyes are all just there's a light and all I could think was like, this is a sign of a serious mental health health problem. Yeah, like Louis, this little girl is in a crisis right this second. So Meltar convinces her not to give up and to unite the kids to defeat snowplow Man together. So

1:05:15 she takes Meltar and goes off again. Hol is ambush by Lane, who tells him tough break with Claire, and he still thinks that it's destiny. And Lane's clearly fed up with this and tells her to leave him alone, that she doesn't want to hear about the super bracelet anymore. He chases after her, asking her why she's so upset, and that's when she turns around, planning a kiss on him, stating that he said it was a snow day and anything could happen. Wait, you mean to tell me the slightly tom boyish best friend that was in love with him all along. I I will say, yeah, guys, it's two thousand. That's a freaking trope. That's a huge trope. But I will say I felt like they did it in a cute way. They really did, and they did the thing where she kept trying to help him get the girl he wanted even though she liked him. They really pushed this whole snow day is the day to try whatever thing you don't anything to try, and the impossible. Yeah, which I wish I could remember. I watched that David Ducoveny movie that Meg Ryan directed. Oh oh god, I cant remember the title little bit, but it takes place on leap year, on Leap Day, and that's one of the big gags in that movie, is like that leap Day is the day anything can happen because it's extra. But uh, it just made me think of that a little bit. But no, so it's it's done pretty well.

1:06:27 He gives her a kiss, he returns the kiss a bit, and then they separate, and then of course we go immediately into the all is lost, will they won't they? Moment that every screenplay worth its salt should probably have. So we cut then to Chad Simmons, who is at a spot interviewing a crowd, and Tom confronts him about being the first to call the storm. Chad is trying to be like, you know, no, no, I know what I'm talking about, Like, you know, you're you're just second tier. I'm the big guy, and that's when Tom calls him out and says, you know, why don't you explain where snow comes from? And Chad just completely stutters over these words and loses a crowd and he has to admit in front of everybody that he's a fraud and that Tom was the first one to call the snowstorm, giving Tom his redemption, basically revealing that the other weather man was just a television personality and not a true meteorologist. Yes, so then we meet Hal who's back at the pool.

1:07:16 He catches Claire doing her dives. Claire invites him up to the high dive as they sit and you can kind of see that he's a little uneasy. He doesn't know. He didn't think he would get this far, and that's when she asked him, you know, you said anything can happen on the snow days. This we had in mind. She plans a kiss on him and he says, you know, that is exactly what I thought would but it's not feeling how I was supposed to do, and he realizes what he put Lane through. He starts going through his mind about all the signs that she was given today. I love when you have emotions, you use like eight extra words. Moving shut. So Claire tells him that he knows what he has to do. We then see snowplow man arriving to the final unplowed street that he has not touched yet, and he decides that he's going to give the wheel to Trudy. So the bird fly and he starts driving with Trudy on the wheel. Natalie then comes out from the side steps in front of him. He pauses the plow gets out and tells her, you know, get out of the way. She says that she's not going to.

1:08:11 He you know, comes at her for a little bit and says, you know you've lost you know, get over it. And that's when Natalie reveals that she is holding meltar and he goes, oh, what's that and she goes listen to the wind, and that's when we hear the cry of a thousand kids who come from all sides of the streets, and they're all holding hockey sticks. They're all ready to rumble, and they all charge at Roger and drag him away. And we next see snowplow man tied to a caution children playing sign, which is a wonderful touch. Yes, and they leave him tied to that sign. Yes, And I decided to do a little research for the show. Okay, the average temperature no in February, let's just call it February, Okay, Okay in Syracuse, New York is a high of thirty four okay, and a low of seventeen. Oh my god, So he died. He died. He died because because no one came to help him. Because and then they take the snowplow and they unplow the entire town, thereby guaranteeing no school tomorrow, to which I replied, it would have been faster and easier to just ram the plow through the school to the school. Yes, so, but I'm not a doctor. So snowplow man is left to watch his plow be driven away by three miners. Yes, and they start unplowing all the streets Meanwhile, we catch up the how who returns to the rink to speak to Lane, but he is ambushed by Chuck, who throws him around for a little bit, but suddenly the snowplow man or the snowplow breaks through an ice wall and puts Chuck into into a

1:09:43 mound of snow. Chuck looks out and doesn't get creamed, but instead gets stuck in a big snowplock again. Left for dead. Left for dead, Yes, I joked that immediately that because he's like all in the stokes of one arm and head. I was like, you know, the warm if the snow's providing the insulation, is gonna make him think he'll see the sun again. But he will not. He will. There is so much, so much deep and dangerous assault. As we wrap up with one final big moment in the snow Day, David so how thanks Nat for saving him, and Nat unveils that she borrowed Meltar. Howe tells her not to worry, that she he belongs to her now and that to watch out, there's a lot of saving of the world they gotta do. He returns to the ice and tells Lane that Delane tells him she wants nothing to do with him, so he goes after her and he slips, faking an entry on the ice lane, rolls over, and he grabs her legs, pulling her to the ground. They share a kiss, they make up. We see them arrive together, and Tom is now back at the weather station in pants. Randy and Laura are laughing in the snow together. Nate, Chett and Wayne are happily again driving the snowplow, just having a great time committing unspeakable felonies.

1:10:53 And the movie ends as we cut back to Principal Weaver, who has finally returned home. Oh, oh, excuse me, you left out something really important. What is that? The older brother turned to his little sister. Yes, and he said, hey, because the next day is gonna be snow day. He said, do you have any plans for the snow day tomorrow? Telling us that tomorrow he was going to finally spend that special time with his little sister that he should have all along, because now he's seen what matters. And then we get to that evil principle who did nothing other than want to educate children, And so he returns home. He gets behind his door, he shuts it he turns around laughing, only to immediately start crying as snowballs belt him inside his home. Yeah apparently, and they're in his house throwing snowballs at him and in my opinion, probably also stealing the colin right out of the wall. And that is snow days to day than Nickelodeon film. And I have to say, first viewing, it was all the dumb fun of kids movies that I kind of miss. Yeah, I feel like kids, and correct me if I'm wrong. I don't watch as many kids movies as A used to, but I feel like kids movies aren't as reckless as they once were. They aren't as adult as they once were, which I mean obviously makes sense, but I feel like there was a time and Nickelodeon was a major element of this time period. There was a time period when making entertainment for children was kind of unknown, so it was about outsider artists who couldn't get work anywhere else would make the cartoons, they

1:12:24 would make the TV shows, and this kind of was one of those last feelings of like treating kids kind of like little adults, but not like Harriet the Spy did. Harriet the Spy did it perfectly, but snow Day did it in a way that was funny and a bit too insane. I mean they they the kids literally take over the town. I was joking where they were like, you know, there'll be no snow Day. I was like, tomorrow we take down the power grid and the telephones. But yeah, that is snow Day. I final thoughts on this I, like I said, I saw this opening night, I've loved it ever since. This is a Nickelodeon like top tier movie for me, Like I remember watching this movie many times. The cast is great. Everyone big and small names work in the movie, but Chris Elliott honestly steals every scene he's into though. Yeah, I would agree. And also the soundtrack is two thousands af what's what do you mean? I mean, let's just let's just list a couple of artists here, all right. So we've got smash Mouth, ninety eight degrees, LFO, Hoku, My Town, the Hippos, Mighty Mighty Boss Tones not to mention as well Brian Setzer Orchestra, and uh my god, we also have Skylar Fisk, who was it was a like one time artist.

1:13:36 Man. I love this movie. I mean, the soundtrack is a massive time capsule. Yeah. So as we close, would you would you like to know one of the craziest behind the scenes about snow Day, Uh, something that actually happened is legit trivia. Yes, of course, a real bank heist took place near the filming location and the Felons drove right past the production assistant, who immediately alerted everyone on set. The Felons were surprised to see that they were driving through a film set, shortly before driving headlong into and becoming hopelessly stuck in a fake snow drift. The police immediately apprehended the two bumbling crooks, to the amusement of all on set. That's hilarious and talk about bad luck. And that was in Vancouver. That was Alberta, Alberta. Yeah, And to give you perspective on the snow, fifteen thousand bales of hay plastic kept underneath to keep the glround frozen. They used.

1:14:30 They sprayed the trees with one hundred and twenty foot of foam that they could shoot up in the air. Snow machines were used. They had tower systems that were used that were usually used for water seer resort. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, And ski resorts and it took over two hundred thousand truckloads of snow to get everything set up in the movie. Oh, I believe that this is a very snowy movie. Yeah, the just the atmosphere alone is really worth watching. No, it absolutely is. So my final thoughts on snow Day. This is an absolute rented. You can find this readily available right now to stream. You can find it readily available to rent. I don't think it has a Blu ray yet, but you can still find the Paramount DVD pretty cheap on it and was out there in four K digitally.

1:15:11 Yes, it is shocked me. Shocked me too, and I have not seen it yet, but there was in twenty twenty two, Nickelodeon did a remake that is a musical. Oh god, yeah, you know, I try not to be a old man shaking hand at the my hands at the clouds, but like, okay, fine, yeah, And Jerry Trainer plays the snowplow man who was the brother on I Carly and he was also crazy Stephen Drake and Josh if you remember that. Unfortunately, that was the last time ye time there yet, But no snow Day Absolute rented. I cannot recommend this movie enough. It's a great family film. And like, like Enrique said too, like this is this is kind of the kids movies they really don't make anymore. Eight farts eight farts. There were eight farts. No, that's not my rating, but there were eight farts. There were eight farts, all done by Josh Peck, only by fat Kid, lol, fat Kid. So we always like to wrap up the show with a recommendation. I'm going to give another movie that has a bunch of unruly kids that again that they show. You didn't say rent it, stream it or I said, I said rent it. I said rent it? What I don't believe you, I said rent it. No, I would also give it a rent it. Yeah. But if you want a recommendation of another movie where kids are completely crazy and take over the place, I have to recommend Heavyweights from nineteen ninety five. Oh, that's a really nice that's a really nice recommendation. Plump kids are lured into a joint into joining a posh fat camp with the promise of quick weight loss in good Times, only to find that it is a woodland hell hole run by a psycho x fitness instructor played by Ben Stiller and this movie was also written by jud Appatow.

1:16:42 Oh oh yeah, I remember that. Yeah. If I had to give a movie with similar vibes sleep Away Camp nineteen eighty three. I'm just kidding. I was like a camp Nowhere as well, I have Nowhere would be or no, I do have one. Okay, bush whacked, Yes, that's my that's my recommendation that may have to be on the show. Some Stern could have totally played snow plow man. He would have done. I don't think he would have been. I think we would actually felt bad for him. That's actually fair. I think Stern has a lot of empathy. So but no, I I think I think it's a really fun movie and definitely worth watching, worth paying a couple of shekels if you must to check out snow Days from the Heyday of Nickelodeon movie two thousand So Davy, Yes, before we get out of here, mm hmm, thanks for introducing me to the movie battle. I really did enjoy it. I guess it's on Paramount Plus and ship. Yeah, but I also want to say a huge thank you everybody who's been listening and viewing every week. It's been really cool.

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