WEBVTT - BAPS with Bridget Todd 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:03.960 On the Bechdel Cast, the questions asked if movies have 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:08.000 women and them, are all their discussions just boyfriends and husbands, 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.920 or do they have individualism? It's the patriarchy, zeph and 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:15.280 vest start changing with the Bechdel Cast. 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:19.560 Hey, Jamie, Hey Caitlyn, do you want to open up 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:21.880 a salon slash restaurant with me? 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:23.000 Yes? I do? 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.639 Okay, cool, I can't do either of the things. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.760 Oh well, wait till you see the dance. 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:33.320 Okay, okay, Well I'm also really good at dancing, so. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.680 Let's do that. Incredible, incredible. I think that that was 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:39.440 a really that was strong. I was like, should we 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.800 start to deceive each other? But just in general, just 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.000 in life anyways, Welcome to the Bechdel Cast. 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.840 My name's Jamie Loftus, my name is Caitlyn Dante, and 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.800 this is our show where we examine movies through an 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:57.240 intersectional feminist lens, using the Bechdel test as a jumping 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:58.040 off point. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:00:59.080 Absolutely true. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.680 But what is that? Though? 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.440 Well, there's a lot of different versions of the Bechdel's test. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.760 It is originally created as a joke, as a bit. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.600 As a goof yes, boof, a goof. 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:17.119 Uh by Alison Bechdel in the eighties for her incredible 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.600 comics series Dikes to Watch Out For, often called the 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.080 Bechdel Wallace Test because she co created it with her 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.920 friend Liz Wallace. Our version of the test that we 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:29.160 use requires that two people of a marginalized gender with 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.120 names talk to each other about something other than a 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.080 man for two lines of dialogue. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.720 And it should be plot impactful dialogue. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.360 And that's the test. Most movies don't pass this one 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:42.800 spoiler alert does. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:47.640 It does because the movie we're talking about today is BAPS, Yeah, 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:51.560 nineteen ninety seven. Same your Titanic came out. Sorry to 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:52.080 mention it. 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.800 That was my first note. It's like greatest yudent film. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.640 We have a returning guest today, is it Third Ford? 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:00.200 I think time. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:01.040 That's a jacket. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.240 Yeah, I'm like Steve Martinette Saturday Night Live. Yeah. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:10.080 Basically, yes, she's the host of Ihearts. There are no 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.160 girls on the Internet. It's Bridget tod welcome back. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.440 Thank you for having me. I was telling Caitlin off 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.320 Mike that y'all could not have picked a better movie 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.440 for me to talk about that I feel more strongly about. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.519 So I am so excited to be here. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:27.000 Oh, we're so excited to have you tell us your 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.959 relationship with Baps. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:33.400 Well, I remember very distinctly watching this for the first 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.360 time at a slumber party in the nineties. It was 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:39.440 one of those do you ever have memories of going 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.280 to Blockbuster and picking out a movie and being so 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.440 excited and then getting that tub of popcorn that they 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.200 had or you put it in the microwave. I have 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.320 a clear memory of my mind of like going during 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.960 a sleepover to rent this movie and watching it and 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.240 sitting on my stomach and like just loving it. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.359 I love memories like that too, where it's like I 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.720 feel like the thing that sticks with me the strongest 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:04.400 is like the politics among usually a group of girls 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.080 in the Blockbuster, where you're trying to reach a consensus 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.160 and there's like people calling each other over from one 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.600 wall to the other being like that this one and 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:12.600 then you have to debate. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.640 It's exciting and this is such a sleepover movie. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.200 It is, and so one of the reasons why I'm 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:21.200 so excited to talk about it is that it is 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.120 a movie that when it came out, was like controversial. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.480 People liked it, didn't like it, people had a lot 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:28.800 to say about it, and I loved it from the beginning. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.919 I loved it then, I love it now. If folks 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.240 ever watched Real Housewives of Atlanta, there's a scene where 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.720 one woman is trying to humiliate another woman when she's 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.080 flowing a costume party, and so she's giving everybody glamorous 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.720 Hollywood celebrities to come dressed as It's like, oh, you 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.120 come dressed as Diana Ross, you come dressed as Billie 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:48.880 Holliday And she's like, I want you to come dressed 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.240 as halle Berry from BAPS, And it's meant to be 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.760 like a deep insult. So it's definitely a movie that 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:59.480 holds a lot of wow. Co Yeah, she doesn't spoiler, 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.160 she doesn't do she comes dressed as halle Berry and 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.240 Dorothy Dandridge to sort of get around it, but yeah, 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:06.000 it was like an. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.800 Insult, ridiculous because halle Berry's looks in this movie iconic. 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.120 Yeah, the costuming is unbelievable. It helped me get around 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:18.920 a lot of plot dissonance, I. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.240 Know, and I do feel like the joke of the 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.080 movie is supposed to be like, look how tacky these 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:27.480 women look, But there are multiple outfits and halle Berry 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.320 wears where I'm like, I would wear that today, no problem. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.440 If that was in my closet, I will be very happy. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:37.839 Her character Natalie Dscell reads character like they're looking terrific. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.480 It's true, It's true, And I speaking to your point, 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.279 Bridget I was really I wasn't aware of the discourse 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.000 around this movie when it came out. It's always interesting 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.680 covering a movie that, like the way it was received, 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:55.839 was so wrong, and then having to come back around gosh, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.799 this movie is my brother's age twenty seven years later, 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.240 scary and sort of revisit it, which I'm glad that 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.400 some writers have, but not as many as I would 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:05.000 have expected. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.880 Yeah, to prep for this, I read Roger Ebert's original 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.120 review of this movie. Eviscerated it, like skewered it. It 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.520 was worst of lists. And I, even if I don't 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.039 agree with Roger Ebert, I usually love reading his reviews 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.000 and like he could not stand this movie. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.200 Yeah, I'm excited to dig into that. 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.000 I don't know Roger Ebert like when he hits, he 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:32.400 hits what he misses it's so embarrassing, and I feel 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.160 like we have had a feud with his ghosts on 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.560 this show for many years. 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.360 Right, Well, it's the thing that we have talked about 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.600 quite a lot where I mean this movie. First of all, 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.880 it was a box office flop, unfortunately, and most critics 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:49.560 hated it. But as we've talked about a lot on 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.680 the show, most of the critics reviewing movies in like 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:58.159 at least major publications in ninety seven were white men. 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.880 This is a movie about two black women made by 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.520 black filmmakers, and so a lot of critics at that 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:08.080 time were like, well, this movie isn't about someone who 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.000 looks like me, and so therefore it's not for me, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.640 and therefore I don't understand it, and I don't like it. 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.880 Yeah there's and they're also we can save it for later. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:18.560 But I feel like there was a lot of like 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:23.159 respectability politics encoded into the reviews that I was reading, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:28.760 where like it was white reviewers deciding what was appropriate 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.440 in terms of like how black women could be represented. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.520 It was an interesting thing to get into because then 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.359 you also read interviews with the writer Troy Bayer, and 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.320 she's like, I hated Robert Townsend's directorial choices and I 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.560 don't like the movie, and so you're like well, a 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.159 lot of things are going on. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.920 Yeah, that's a good point, And like, I love Robert 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:53.400 Townsend absolutely. Another movie that he had made was Hollywood Shuffle, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.880 So like, he definitely has somebody who was interested in 0:06:56.000 --> 0:07:00.080 playing with satire and stereotypes around culture and blackness. I 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.840 make a larger point, whether or not that point like 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.120 lands or false flat or whatever. I think he was 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.919 clearly doing something with this movie, and I think a 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.640 lot of the film reviewers maybe missed what he was doing. 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.160 But yeah, I read the same thing as you, Jamie, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.640 that one of the screenwriters on this movie was like, 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.960 I hated it. I had a lot of issues with 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.240 the script and this and that, and so I want 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.800 to take that into account too. But I do think 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:26.360 that some of the reviews that make this sound like 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.920 it was just a vapid, cruel movie bashing working class 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.480 black women. I don't see that, Jamie. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.760 What is your relationship with this movie? 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.000 I had not seen this movie before, and that's sort 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:41.320 of the beginning, middle, and an end of it. 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.240 I knew of it, and I. 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.800 Didn't know that Troy Bayer had written it. She's just 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.920 like a really interesting person. The more I was reading 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:52.720 about her, the Bore. I was like, she's just like 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.360 she started as a sesame street kid and she's like 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.000 Caitlin Durante Mode has. 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.640 A million degrees and a million things. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.080 I would never mention it, but thank you for bringing 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:03.440 it up. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.840 Yeah, she has lived many lives, and I thought it 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.800 was interesting again because I feel like so many times 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.800 when we cover a movie, we're like, wonder how the 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.480 writer felt about how the adaptation of their work translated 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:18.840 to the screen, And Trey Byer was very outspoken about it, So, yeah, 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.680 I hadn't seen it before. I think there's so much 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.320 to love about this movie. It's such a sleepover movie. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.960 It's so clear who the movie's for, and everyone who 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.880 is vocally outspoken about this movie were nowhere near who 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.880 the movie's for. So I'm excited to talk about it. Caitlin, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:35.680 what's your history? 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.800 I had also never seen it, though I know that 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:44.640 it's been a request on the show from like a 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.440 few select listeners. It's a cult classic, right, so it's 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.040 not something that like tons and tons and tons of 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:51.880 people are being like, you gotta cover this movie, but 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.160 like the people who are requesting it are like, you 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.760 have to do this movie. They're very fervent. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.800 About Baps and Muriel's wedding, Like the listeners who want 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:02.960 it wanted badly. 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.079 If any of those folks are listening, who like really 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.960 have been requesting it, I hope I do it justice. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.000 I guess I'll just say. 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.720 That we've brought in a three timer. We've brought in 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:15.160 a hitter. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:16.680 Yeah. 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:20.240 No, you'll do great. This will be great, Everything will 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.400 be great. We're gonna live forever. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:23.040 Yeah. 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.520 Should I do the recap and we'll go from there, 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:30.600 Let's do it. Okay. So we are in Decatur, Georgia. 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:35.800 We meet two friends, Nissi that's Hallie Berry and Mickey 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.160 that's Natalie to sell read rest in Peace. They work 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.760 at a soul food restaurant that's owned by Bernie Mack. 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.320 Loved seeing him already. You're like, I'm in, I'm in. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.360 Can I say one thing about this? Yeah, not to 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.199 hope this is it doesn't derail things. But I just 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.439 want to say, Bernie mac rest in peace. Before he died, 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.040 he has a chronic illness, or had a chronic illness 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.080 called parcedosis, which my father also had. And so it's 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.400 near and dear to me. But folks might not know 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:07.079 that the University of Illinois Hospital Center has the Bernie 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.960 mac Center for Sarcarnosi's research, and I donate every year. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.800 Folks should donate. Oh my god, it's an undertreated, understudied 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:18.280 chronic illness that disproportionately impacts black folks, and so it's 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.000 a cause that's near to me. So please donate if 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.920 you've got extra change. And thank you University of Illinois 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.080 for studying this undertreated illness. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.880 Whow we will link to that. I had no idea. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.000 Yeah, thank you for letting me give back. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.800 What Oh, of course, yeah, we'll support So yes, Bernie 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.480 Mack is there. He's running the restaurant. Nissi and Mickey, 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:44.680 they're best friends. They have similar esthetics in that they 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:49.000 have really long fingernails. They're always wearing elaborate hairdoos that 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.520 Nissi does because she's an aspiring salon owner. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.640 She's technically making sausage at the beginning. But I consider 0:10:56.720 --> 0:11:00.120 that the hot dog representation of the movie as like, 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.640 if a hot dog doesn't show up later, this movie 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.559 still passes the Jamie Locktas hot dog test. Is there 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:06.240 a hot time? 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:10.840 Is there a hot dog represented on screen? And close enough, 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.640 I would say for this movie. So yeah, they wear 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.400 flashy clothes, they've got the hairdos, they've got the nails, 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:20.719 all that. On the radio, Nissi hears an announcement that 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.520 auditions are being held in La to cast a dancer 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:29.000 for Heavy D's dance Girl of the World, and whoever 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.200 is cast in this will get ten thousand dollars. And 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:35.080 Nisi wants to go to this audition because she hopes 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.520 to get cast and use that money to open a 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:42.199 hair salon slash restaurant that presumably she would do the 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.920 hair for and that McKey would be the chef at. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.040 I think of the idea. 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.600 Do you all think it's a good idea? Like I've 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.520 been wrestling back and forth with whether or not this 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.400 is a great idea or a terrible idea. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.560 I think it feels like it's at high risk for 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:58.319 like a fire. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.760 Lots of hair and also ki yeah, right, like if 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:07.040 someone with like a lot of hairspray and a lot 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:12.120 of like grease grill, like I guess it depends on 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:13.760 what kind of food they're serving. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.079 Seems like a high accident. 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:20.920 Well, also just seems like unsanitary and unhygienic with like 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.160 people's dander flying through the air and their hair all 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:25.520 over the floor and stuff. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:30.640 That's true, I mean spoiler alert, they end up doing it. Yes, 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.160 So I wish we could fast forward a year. It'd 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.319 be like, so what does Osha think? 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.280 Yeah, right, where's baps too? Which is all about the 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:40.560 salon slash restaurant. 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:42.760 I also it was a twist of the movie for 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.880 me to find out that the old man came up 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.959 with the term baps. Yes, yeah, I was like, what 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.760 he was just like coining on his deathbed. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.520 Like, yeah, he uses his will to coin the phrase. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:12:59.760 I just didn't see. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.040 It coming, right, because they're like, what's baps? And then 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.120 he's like black American princesses. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.600 Yeah, I was like, wait, it was his idea. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.160 Yeah, didn't see that coming. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.640 And this is like true of so many rom coms. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.640 But I just thought there was a very fun, kind 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:20.320 of bizarre liberal use of like a vague movie score 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.800 where sometimes like something's happening that is like plot impactful, 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.920 but not like the most serious thing in the world. 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:31.040 And it's like dude, dude, dude, including the entire end 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.280 of the movie, the whole last minute there's no It 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.320 was like they're just playing the score and I'm like, 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.080 I would just like to know what they're saying, because 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.520 they're saying things, m M, maybe the sound something happened. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:44.120 I don't know. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.520 And they're like, if we just put music over this 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:51.120 and show people's reactions, it'll be clear. Show don't tell 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:56.720 you know. Yeah, do you remember wire screenwriting? Okay, So 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:02.360 we also meet Nissi and Mickey's two boyfriends, Allie played 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:06.360 by Pierre Edwards that's Niecy's boyfriend, and James played by 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.280 Anthony Johnson that's Mickey's boyfriend. They're trying to start up 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:15.520 like a car service company, but right now they're unemployed. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:22.040 They have questionable haircuts. They're kind of losers. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.840 More importantly, they're not very nice to their girlfriends. Right 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:28.640 if be a loser all you want if you're a 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:29.400 good partner. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.800 They are my least favorite part of this movie. I'm 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.800 sure I'll get to it, but they are my least 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.040 favorite part of this movie. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.400 Write them out, yeah, truly. 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.040 I mean, I appreciate that Troy Byer's been outspoken about 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.280 how she feels about the final product, but I wish 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.280 she was a little more specific. I'm like, did she 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.720 want the movie to end like that? Because it feels 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.880 like the boyfriends did not deserve that. 0:14:55.480 --> 0:15:00.480 Yeah. Anyway, So then Nissi sees another ad for the 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.920 Dance Girl of the World contest and takes it as 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.680 a sign that she and Mickey should definitely go to 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.440 the audition in LA. Before they leave, though, they go 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.000 out to a club because it's ladies night and they 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.480 get in free, and a bunch of guys want to 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.760 talk to them, but none of them want to or 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.920 can spend the money to buy them drinks, including their boyfriends. 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.280 So Nissi is all the more eager to get away 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.720 and travel to LA and hopefully meet like a rich 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:33.640 guy in LA. On the flight, they're trying to learn 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:37.480 etiquette from a book. Their hair is too big and 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:41.720 it's blocking everyone's view of the in flight movie, very 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:42.320 funny stuff. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:47.160 There so many like vignettes. There's so many comedy montages. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:51.960 It's like, it's nineteen ninety seven, baby, we're doing comedy montages. 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.760 True fun fact. That flight attendant who was like, can 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.760 you lower your hair? It's a severa Wilson from that TV. 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:00.520 Oh my god. 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.920 Yeah, a lot of good cameos in this movie, including 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.240 one we're about to see, which is LL cool J. 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.160 Because they arrive in La they're at the airport, they 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:10.920 accost LL cool. 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.440 J nineteen ninety seven. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.600 They do this every time they see a famous person, 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.400 because there's a bunch of cameos sprinkled throughout the movie, 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.160 and they're always accosting whoever it is and being like, 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.560 oh my god, I'm your biggest fan, marry me, sing 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.720 for me, blah blah blah. They're always making a scene and. 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:32.239 Singing for me is like there's a Phantom of the Opera. 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:35.080 I can really relate to that scene with LL COOLJ. 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:35.400 Y'all. 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.520 I used to I might embarrass to say. I used 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.600 to write him letters, like I had his like pictures 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.080 on my wall, and I was so obsessed with him. 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.560 People forget like in nineteen ninety seven, he was a 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.440 real sex symbol and he made like music that was 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:49.560 like very sensual. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.760 What was in the letters? 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.200 Oh, I would be like, I thought there was a 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:57.280 world where we might get together, So mind you, I 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.680 was like a child. So it's a lot of like 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.840 when we meet, like blah blah blah. Yeah, I was 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:04.600 obsessed with him. 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.679 Was it the sort of thing where like ll COOLJ 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:12.800 Industries would like send you something back, like fan mail stuff. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.520 God, I wish they probably were like, let's never indulge 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.480 this child's fantasy about we're. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.360 Putting Bridget's name on a list. 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.879 If any even knows him, I would still accept a 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.480 form letter back to this day, I would still happily 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:26.800 take that. 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.480 Oh, in any case. They arrive in La they head 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.000 to the audition. There's a very long line and Nissi 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.960 kind of has like a dance off with another woman 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.959 waiting in the line, which a man nearby notices. 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:43.639 I love the dance scene. 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.760 It's so weird, it's. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.000 Just truly Yeah. 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.560 Then we don't see the audition, but we see her 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.520 coming out of it, and she hasn't done well. The 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.439 judges were like pass and she's feeling defeated and ready 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.680 to head back to Georgia. But then that man noticed 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:05.439 her earlier. His name is Antonio. He approaches Nissi and 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.199 Mickey and tells them that his boss is looking for 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.879 a dancer for a music video. It pays ten thousand 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.000 dollars and provides room and board in a mansion in 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:15.240 Beverly Hills. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.480 And you're like, you're being abducted. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:23.120 You're being abducted, Like this is what a scary proposal? 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:29.720 Yeah, and they're like, sounds great. So Antonio takes them 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:33.679 to the mansion where they meet this rich guy named 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:40.720 Isaac blakemore also his snooty butler named Manly. Nissy and 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.880 Mickey get settled in at the mansion. There's a bedet 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.960 scene where they don't know how a bidet works. 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.360 Nineteen ninety seven comedy Montage. 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.080 Yes, my first time ever seeing a bidet was this scene, 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.800 and I didn't know what a bidet was, and so 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:58.800 the scene I was still sort of like, so what 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.439 is the little toilet? Like? I still didn't understand like 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.200 the humor of the scene because I didn't know what 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:03.919 a bidet was. 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:05.680 I still to this day. 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.480 I mean, I guess I've I've seen them now, but 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.800 I've never I've never engaged. 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.000 I've never used one. I don't trust them. 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.359 I believe that, you know, now there's consumer bidets. You 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.119 don't need to be in the one percent to have 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:22.399 a bidet. I know people are evangelical about them. 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:26.480 I just don't know how you dry your ass, after all. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.600 That's my question. Too, because from what I've read, it's 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.280 like more environmentally friendly and more hygienic because they're not 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.679 like using paper on your butt, but your butt gets wet, 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.000 so wouldn't you have to use what are you using 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:39.720 to dry your butt? 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:41.880 I know someone who had like one of those consumer 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.399 bidets that you just like install in your toilet and 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:48.600 then yeah, they had a designated butt towel. But then 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.800 it's like, so now your butt towels just hanging in 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.040 your bathroom with all your buttrooms all over it, and 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.040 I don't care how effective the bidet is. It's not 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.640 killing the bacteria from your ass. 0:19:58.840 --> 0:19:59.560 It's just water. 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:02.640 And what if I'm your friend and I come over 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:03.200 and you're. 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.800 Accidentally touched the like what if you think it's a 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:08.480 hand towel and draw your hands with it. 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:12.560 It's like pa mints, you know how like yeah in 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:16.600