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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

🕑 Added 2023-12-01 05:00:03 +0000 UTC

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Costa

Felicity recasts in 1999: - Drew Barrymore (always had 60s flower child babe energy) or - Pamela Anderson (good comedy chops and a perfect sexy foil to drive mojo-less Austin crazy)

Graig Kent

Re: 13th Floor. It comes from the same source as Fassbinder's German TV miniseries World on a Wire currently playing on Criterion Channel. I found it really engrossing and was quite impressed with how cyberpunk this early 1970s production was. I think David would really dig it for its Matrix connectivity. I saw the 13th Floor back when it was released and was not impressed but also have no real memories of it. I am curious to revisit to see how dealt with the same material as World on a Wire 25 years later (and in the same year as the Matrix)

The Real Stevie Lew

One thing I don’t think was mentioned as a reason why Austin Powers became such a huge hit even though the first film wasn’t a box office juggernaut is, Mike Meyers hosted the 1997 MTV Music Awards. I was 15 y/o at the time and distinctly remember how cool and culturally significant those awards were to my generation. The MTV movie awards wave was cresting at that time, and that award show was one of the best. They closed the show with “Austin Powers” singing “BBC”. At the time I had not seen Austin Powers in theaters , but seeing the character end the 1997 mtv music awards made me go seek out a copy at blockbuster. I think that’s something overlooked when talking about how Austin Powers exploded

Trevor Talley

I truly don't understand these movies getting a pass in 2023. The way they are in this ep about the scene they can't watch is how i feel about all of all three of these movies. Irredeemable garbage

Emily Varley

Don’t forget 13 Cameras

Billnetherlands

solidarity. We had it ROUGH.

ian

i will hold the memory of this episode tight when we are going through The Love Guru

Savannah

I always thought his dick was just gone because of my little kid logic when I saw it and fully never thought about how dumb that is until David said that the joke was that he just couldn’t get it up.

Laura Horstmann

There was an Austin Powers themed bar called Electric Pussycat in LA that closed in 2019 lmaooo

ian

you were too far ahead of the curve. now boba is every damn place

Winson Paine

So fun fact I had a compete collection of those goddamned cards as a man in his mid to late twenties. I would send them to Griff if I still had them, after the divorce when I moved and needed to get rid of a lot of shit they just went into a dumpster I think

Aaron Summers

I wanna say that it was Jenny McCarthy in the Juliet role. Doesn’t she turn out to be fembot and he does that dance thing?

Matt Skoufalos

He'd also been covering Burt stuff like "I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself" and "Baby, It's You" forever.

Matt Skoufalos

🖐️😥

Ben Goodman

And not just that, but Elvis and Burt had just released Painted from Memory in September 1998 and it was a very popular, Grammy-winning album! And to tie it into movies, the song "God Give Me Strength" was written for Grace from the Heart! Elvis and Burt were *inseparable* at the time The Spy Who Shagged Me was released, it's like if an early 2010s movie had a Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga cameo; it might seem odd decades from now, but they were frequent collaborators at the time

Steven Nuchols

I love how they keep taking breaks from laughing so hard just to ask "why isn't this movie working". It's working guys I've always liked this one the best of the three. Also I think it's one of the John's in They Might Be Giants wives who sings the Dr. Evil opening song

Charlie Dennis

Elvis Costello isn’t a random choice to perform with Burt Bacharach! He’s the only composer that Bacharach collaborated with on his compositions. They were good friends!

Percy Leopold Cromwell

I wonder how much of the movie was changed because of Gramms performance. It seems pretty easy to put a hyper sexual woman that he can’t sleep with due to the lack of mojo. And the beat of her sleeping with FB is already there.

Jonathan cronin

My life has renewed meaning, Griff just called out Orbitz, which I develop and launched. Wowza!

Marty TC (child-sized Cardassian)

Happened to me on the previous Austin Powers commentary, but never before that.

Chet Kazalski

I legitimately though I was out of sync because David kept saying the jokes before the movie

Mary Everett

In defense of Marie and Griffin, Alicia Silverstone had juuuuuust turned 18 at the time of filming for Clueless

Billnetherlands

The Austin Powers TCG was like being a Star Wars Customizable Card Game kid.

Kevin Fennell

I will defend Heather graham’s run on scrubs. Legit good/funny. Agreed that Bowfinger fucking slaps.

Anthony Diedrich

1000 times yes. There is no universe where this movie is better without Hurley coming back, especially if they switch the fish out of water dynamic of the first movie. That kind of shit is such a slam dunk it writes itself.

ryan mcgrath

So, who wants to start an Austin Powers TCG league?

Elliot Adler

Love how the Austin Powers/The Wrath of Khan story is back almost word for word.

Patrick McEvoy

Is anyone else having the problem that when the music plays at the beginning and end, the sound becomes garbled? Just started recently. Is that a Patreon thing?