MARCH MADNESS 2024 - Day 20
🕑 Added 2024-03-20 16:00:25 +0000 UTCIn another close race, the Equalizer defeats Ernest and sends him to movie jail.
Up today - formative comedies with sophomoric sensibilities.
It's HAPPY MADISON ORIGINS vs AMERICAN PIE.

Fun fact - Alyson Hannigan and Jason Biggs once presented Adam Sandler with a People's Choice Award! For "Favorite Comedic Movie Actor" !!
With HAPPY MADISON ORIGINS, we'd cover the six Sandler vehicles that led to the creation of his Happy Madison production shingle with LITTLE NICKY:
BILLY MADISON
HAPPY GILMORE
THE WEDDING SINGER
THE WATERBOY
BIG DADDY
LITTLE NICKY
With AMERICAN PIE, we'd cover the four theatrically-released films:
American Pie
American Pie 2
American Wedding
American Reunion
So - Bobby Boucher's momma? Or Stiffler's mom?
Comments
Laura Horstmann
My real birthday is in January but I’ve been celebrating it publicly in May since high school lmao. I call it my May Birthday.
Sara Malec
I voted for American Pie *solely* so we could get another Weitz episode.
Broccololipop
I watched little Nicky so many times it broke my vhs player.
Luke Crawford
This comment makes me feel proud to be an American
Tyler Duggan
Aye, but… there’s the Highlander.
Martín Peréz
🎯
Martín Peréz
Fart yeah.
Anthony Regina
Sandman could take it all
Janet feeney
Good on ya -I stupid love Little Nicky
PJ McColl
Doesn't anyone want to force Chris Weitz to talk about all of the sequels he has nothing to do with in a single marathon recording session?
Kevin Love Hewitt
Since when do we get extras on commentaries? 😂 Someone please Refresh my memory if I’ve forgotten.
David Celaya
You got me straight podcastin’ boo.
Laura Bee
I am here to vote for Buscemi’s appearance in Wedding Singer alone
Tyler Duggan
My money is on Highlander
zero
For a long time I would vocally make the case that it was "this generation's 'Carry On...'. Not sure how that's worked out for either the series or me.
24HRVideo
11 y/o psyche Sandler wins for me hands down. When I stop thinking "He called the shit poop" is funny, call a doctor
Ray
I just need Rodney Dangerfield playing with those head boobs in Little Nicky, now that's culture.
Ray
What? You don't like Chris Farleys tits in Billy Madison? Outrageous.
Ray
Do you think him and Adam are still friends? I always see him with the others, but Rob's absent
Ray
I'm struggling to place which ones which lol. Ones aged significantly better comedically.
Ray
Eh, let them do it on their own time. It's Happy's time now.
Adam Mincks
I feel like it’s going to be a “Kong versus Godzilla” collision course between Tabletop Games and Happy Madison in the finals, and Tabletop Games might be the only one that could stop it.
Boo Sting
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Rebecca C
Is there anything that can stop Happy Madison?
Ben Staub
I can't believe we're just throwing away another Chris Weitz commentary by not voting American Pie. Don't you people understand!?
Jordan Fish
Come on get Happy
Carolyn Lewis
Wow, I had to look this up to see if it was real or a bit. All too real. :-(
Josh Mclane
DJV
Whatever wins, I hope it’s crushed immediately.
Janine Liberty
They should have me on as a guest to talk about the time that I, through an insane confluence of circumstances, saw Little Nicky three times in theaters.
24HRVideo
The battle of 11 year old psyche vs 15 year old psyche
Blake R.
#Justice4Ernest
CT13
If Sandler wins will we get a bonus commentary for Rob Schneider's newest stand up special released by Fox Nation "Woke Up in America"? You'll never believe his material on "cancel culture", I'll just say he's not too fond of it.
Jeremiah Drueke
I’m American and I don’t get it either. I think I was too old when his “comedy” was new and I never fell for his man child persona.
Literaltruth
If there's one thing I'm praying for in this entire March Madness it's that Adam Sandler "comedies" don't win. It's one of those ultimate "I really don't get Americans and the things they like" things for me
Jordan Gibson
Thank you everyone for supporting my need for Little Nicky to be on the podcast. For those of you that don't know, he is a very sweet boy from the south. The deep south
Justin Hiltz
Justice for Ernest
Aaron Crabtree
Happy Madison all the way!
Misfit Minded
Finally something I vote for that looks like it will win. I was taking nothing but Ls for the last few matchups. lol.
Owen Condon
Happy Madison origins seems like a freight train
Alison R.B.
Sandler 💯 baby!
Luke Crawford
American Try Hard with a Vengeance
Luke Crawford
I'm pretty disappointed in us as an audience overall...
Zachary Stein
This bracket lost all meaning after Ernest was pushed out
Douglas Wykstra
I dunno, I think the pursuit of a big-tittied hit went to Sandler's head on that one.
Douglas Wykstra
I'd love an American Pie series some day, especially because I remember the last two entries committing surprisingly hard to the emotional underpinnings of the films in between the sex jokes and gross-out gags (which was always the secret of the first film's success). That said, Happy Madison is just too strong.
Del Lorenson
*Bob Barker voice* The Pie is wrong, bitch!
Seymour Butz
The people need to know
Dalton Johnson
Voted for American Pie as it’s such a weird franchise and funny to watch as the years go by
Luke Crawford
I think it has more to do with the fact that American Pie just sucks. But that didn't stop The Equalizer, so let's see what happens...
Blank Check with Griffin & David
Kevin Nealon boob headed hit
Jeff Brax
No thank you to Sandler
Adam
Little nicky was a big tittied hit with me personally
Anthony Pierre Coco
He definitely does an absolutely necessary course correct in Waterboy from the Canteen Boy sketches where we’re explicitly supposed to be on Bobby’s side in the movie, versus the SNL sketches where we were supposed to side with the bullies causing Canteen Boy misery
Sean
Can we get cyber ninjas to get to the bottom of Ernest getting robbed?
Evan
More like American Tried
Luke Crawford
I'm just saying that 102.64 of you are statistically liable if we end up having to listen to an Equalizer series...
David Thompson
Maybe I’m showing my age but, Grownups might be the first time I pissed myself laughing. Happy Madison all the way
Holden Martinson
Voted for American Pie because, even though Happy Madison would rule, that 60% gap is kinda mean. We don't need to do the Pie wrong. Who are we? A bunch of Jims?
Rad Miracle
We can just tell Adam Sandler we ate the pie
Matthew Chmiel
Before I place the vote, we listening to the R-rated cut where he fucks the pie doggy style or the Unrated cut where he fucks the pie in missionary position?
Matthew Chmiel
OOH. That was the grossest thing I've ever heard in my life. LET’S GO!
Billnetherlands
Honestly, I always viewed American Pie as a bro-y thing. Sandler's characters were outsiders, and I always gravitate toward that. I also feel like the first American Pie is the only one I would need commentary for.
David Rosenblatt
I think Happy gonna win it all
Luke Crawford
My heart is absolutely broken over Ernest 😭💔😭💔😭 Is there a thumb on the scale here by suggesting that Jason Biggs yielded the "best" award in this picture?
Christopher Roundhill
I’m just going to keep making the joke every time Sandler comes up: If voting for Happy Madison Origins is cool, consider me Miles Davis.
Seymour Butz
I will die for the Pie
Tom Jorgensen
MOMMA
Martín Peréz
“He’s losing his mind…. And I’m reaping all the benefits!”-john lovitz
Mike Ostrov
Sandler is also a total loser in all those movies, except maybe the Wedding Singer where he's such a sweetheart. He's just a combative awkward loser instead of a shy awkward loser.
Oliver Brindle
Allen Covert Ops....that a joke?
Greg Jagger
How dare you all send Ernest to movie jail
The Real Kal-El
Ernest robbed, time for my runner up to win it all
zach pyke
Sandler is going to run the table after this.
Chris
Praying Happy Madison goes all the way
Curt Weiler
Happy Madison is a WAGON
Justin Bertolero
Sandler going all the way
Dustin
What?
Matthew Chmiel
As a millennial, this might be the hardest bracket yet.
Anthony Pierre Coco
About the Blank Check fanbase, rather
Anthony Pierre Coco
It says something about Blank Check that the franchise ostensibly built to speak to us awkward nerds spoke to us less than a silly man going “hadaheehoo”