Where does "Friday After Next" rank in the Friday movie trilogy?

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Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club, the show that harmonizes the rhythm of hip hop

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with the magic of movies.

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Today we're discussing Friday After Next,

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the third installment in the Comedy Classic Friday series

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starring Ice Cube,

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Mike Epps, and John Witherspoon.

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We're three old heads who put their old heads together to vibe on these films for you.

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I'm DynoWright, podcaster, filmmaker, longtime hip hop fan,

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and watch me whip, watch me Day-Day.

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I'm JB, 80s and 90s nostalgia junkie, longtime hip hop fan.

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And as both Whodini and Moly, the strip mall and donut shop owner in this one remind us,

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the freaks come out at night.

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The freaks come out at night.

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You

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I love that album.

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I'm Boogie, a DJ, long time hip hop fan.

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And I just recently went to the WBLS 50th anniversary

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featuring DJ Cassidy's Pass the Mic Live

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Had some old school artists, just a few Melle Mel, Full Force, Roxanne Shante, Nice and

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Smooth, the reunion of 3rd Bass,

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Dres from Black Sheep, Pepa from Salt and Pepa, BBD, and

a bunch of other R &B acts as well.

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and a bunch of other R&B acts as well.

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It was real, real dope.

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In this episode we'll answer the question,

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how does Friday After Next rank in the Friday movie trilogy?

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And we'll give you five key takeaways to make you a smarter hip-hop movie fan.

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Today, we unwrap the

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most festive chapter of the Friday franchise.

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Friday After Next takes us to a Christmas time in

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South Central LA with Craig and Day-Day, two cousins who just can't catch a break.

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Their holiday season kicks off with a bang

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when a ghetto Santa Claus raids their apartment,

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stealing their rent money and their presents.

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The boys take jobs as security guards at an urban strip mall

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to make their rent money back before their landlord's muscle-bound son comes collecting.

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The most wonderful time of the year turns into a wild adventure in the hood.

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And here are five things you need to know about Friday After Next.

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The first one, it's a Christmas movie.

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Number two, we see the evolution of the dynamic between Craig and Day-Day.

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Third one, there's a shift to a more slapstick style of comedy.

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Four, this is the last Friday installment for more

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more than two decades until the fourth movie, which is scheduled for release next year.

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And the last one, the movie helped launch the career

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of the hilarious Katt Williams.

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All right, now let's kick it off talking about the first one.

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This Friday After Next is a Christmas movie.

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We love our Christmas movies and we're releasing it as we're kicking off the holiday season.

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It's the first and only holiday themed entry in this series.

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So there's some little unique elements that you see like the robber that was dressed like Santa Claus

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and some of the challenges with their gifts were stolen and things like that.

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But yeah, I mean kind of puts you in the mood,

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but I feel like there was a little bit meat left on the bone with what they could have done with Christmas time.

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It's not one that you automatically think of like, hey,

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it's Christmas time, know, let's put on Friday After Next.

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What are your guys' thoughts about?

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No, not a classic.

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It's kind of like, that's the backdrop.

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Sure, it's Christmas time, but yeah.

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Yeah, I think the first thing that comes to mind when you call it the Christmas movie is the long standing debate

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surrounding Die Hard.

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Is it or isn't it a Christmas movie?

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Elsewhere in LA.

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Exactly.

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But yeah, one thing that they did, they did a couple of things right.

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I think even though there was a Santa robbing the apartment, they-

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did play one of the all-time classic Christmas songs at that time, which was the Temptations' Silent Night,

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which I think was very clever.

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And I was like, okay, you're trying to set the tone.

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They also

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had the animated sequence

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for the opening credits

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that had the, it was like a remix of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

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from act two of the Peter Tchaikovsky

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Nutcracker.

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I was like, okay, all right, they trying to get it going.

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then there was also the classic “This Christmas” that played while they were on their way to work.

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And I thought that like those were like they were trying to get it going.

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But like you guys said, it kind of fell a little short, left a little meat on the bone.

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I mean, they did have a Christmas party at the end, if you want to call it that.

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But yeah.

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Yeah, the soundtrack is laden with Christmas tracks, like you mentioned.

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Santa Baby is played in it as well.

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There's a few other ones.

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I'm glad you mentioned that cartoon after the initial live scene, and it was a cartoon.

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It was reminiscent of the intro to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, which I always enjoyed too.

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It was kind of offbeat humor.

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Yeah, so those elements were nice.

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Santa Claus really does go straight to the ghetto.

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Without a chimney to slide down.

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Yeah, I I prefer again, East Coast bias.

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I want snow in my Christmas movies.

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You know, I want to feel that and warmth of a fireplace.

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I want to see reindeer, all that stuff.

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All the accoutrements.

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Yeah, exactly.

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So yeah, it is a Christmas movie, but don't be like,

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I want to sit down with the family and watch a Christmas movie.

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You might be disappointed.

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Like you don't get all the feels of Christmas.

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family if you're gonna this for your family.

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Right, right, right.

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So the next takeaway that Boogie mentioned is

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we do see an evolution of the dynamic between Craig and Day-Day.

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It grows.

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So Boogie, you want to kick us off talking about how that evolves here?

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Yeah, I mean

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in the last Friday movie that we talked about,

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you know, we suggested you guys a view Next Friday

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you can kind of get the intro to Day-Day and we don't really see

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and we don't really see

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too much of, you know, of the

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chemistry that we saw between Craig and Chris Tucker’s character of Smokey.

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I think with this one, it starts to evolve a little bit.

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We started to see a little bit more of it.

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I mean, they start to finish one another sentences.

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I mean, there's more of the busting on each other back and forth between the two of them.

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Yeah, Craig, Craig, he mentally abuses Day-Day in this movie.

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Like this one line, like, you know,

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they're talking and Craig just looks at him says, don't try to out think me, man, you might hurt yourself.

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I'm like, wow.

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And like he's physically tossing him around.

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Like when they're trying to go somewhere, he's like, hey, man, just get him.

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He just grabs him and toss him.

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Man, stop throwing me around.

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So it's kind of hilarious to see that.

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But then, know, Day-Day actually does get a couple of smart one-liners in there too.

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Like I know the funniest one is,

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that I think is one of the funniest ones to me, and I say this all the time, is when

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Craig is trying to talk to Donna's character outside of the

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store and Day-Day just runs over to him and say, know, hey, I'm Day-Day,

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this is my big head cousin Craig,

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you know, Bevo Laddy, got mo head then he got body.

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I say that all the time.

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That was very good.

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That was really good.

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And just this constant, you know, reminding Craig, you know,

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we're Top Flight Security of the world, Craig.

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You know, I say that all the time too.

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Anytime I see security

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trying to do too much, I call them Top Flight.

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That's really good.

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Can’t help it.

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Top Flight.

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They mention that many times.

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The Top Flight. We’re Top Flight Security.

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And Day-Day like abuses his power.

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You know, he's halting the girls until they give him the number.

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like he I was cracking up when there's those three older older ladies were just come around caroling

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and he was like cursing them out.

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And then Craig had had to defuse them.

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Yeah. That was wild.

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Yeah, I do see the dynamic had grown like

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in the movie Next Friday.

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It's kind of like he moves out to his cousin and uncle's house.

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And it's almost like they hadn't seen each other in forever.

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And now it's like,

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it looks like they grew up together

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and they’re one liners back and forth.

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so yeah, and they become,

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I guess, quote unquote, business partners or coworkers.

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And I was cracking up the way they were

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fitting themselves into that little security

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booth, pushing each other back and forth.

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It was a little juvenile, but

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It was funny. Yep.

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They had a very like Laurel and Hardy kind of relationship,

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Yes.

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especially with

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Craig being the Oliver Hardy kind of

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always cracking on Day-Day.

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Yeah.

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It was a good rapport.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, opening scene when the intruder comes in and Craig's

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fighting him off and

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Day-Day is just daydreaming about women

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and ridiculous food and he wouldn't wake up.

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He's just talking in his sleep.

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And that set the tone for

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the dynamic between the two.

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Yeah, that was, was fun, fun dynamic.

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A great buddy movie with two of them, for sure.

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And again, this bleeds into, I guess, the next

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topic or takeaway was that

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the comedy is more of a slapstick

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style of comedy.

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It's not all about like the weed and just like

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meandering through

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that whole.

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it's like

a lot of slapstick back and forth.

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We kind of hinted at at that already,

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but you want to take us a little bit

more into that, BooGie?

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Yeah.

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I mean,

we start to see some of that slapstick

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comedy like it

becomes a little more physical, as well.

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Like we see, like we mentioned with,

you know, Craig and Day-Day,

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he's always tossing Day-Day around and

like, we see that over the opening when,

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Craig tries to stop Santa from robbing him

and Santa beats him

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with the Christmas tree. Like.

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Like what?

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You know, he's trying

to, you know, then the police come over

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and in his trying to describe him is,

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you know, ODB in a Santa Claus suit

and the cops have funny names.

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So, yeah.

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Even the interaction when we first see,

Terry Crews’s character of Damon, when,

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they're trying

to, you know, sneak out to go to work

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and he's standing there and he said, come

in, give me a hug.

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You just kind of snatches them up.

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He's like squeezing them,

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you know, just the

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the constant, like, you know physical,

like over the tops of, like, we’re

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re-ntroduced to, Uncle Elroy and Pops.

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Their, their barbecue commercial,

you know, tastes

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so good, you want to slap your mama,

you know, and he Pops

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taps his mom on the shoulder and actually

actually physically slaps her on camera.

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It's like what?

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But, Yeah, it's just it's like,

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just constant stuff like that is going on

throughout the movie, you know,

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interacting with, you know, our favorite

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pimp slash store owner Money Mike.

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You know, the even with Moly,

you know, it was just a lot of that stuff.

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I mean, it's just over the top.

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It definitely my kind of humor.

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I love that.

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That's why

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I always love, like, Three Stooges

and Three's Company and all that stuff.

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So the physical comedy, like,

it had me laughing a lot.

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Throughout

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the the cops’ names were A.

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Hole and B. Dix. Yeah.

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But and I alluded to before the

my opening

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and Moly was like,

the freaks come out at night.

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He's referencing Whodini.

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A couple times they come back to “you

got knocked the F out,”

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which is a callback to, in the scenes

with Deebo in the first movie.

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You guys catch

the one store was called Toys in the Hood?

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Yes. Love that,

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love that.

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And one actor that had a smaller

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cameo was Chris Williams, was Vanessa

Williams brother in real life.

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He was the shoplifter with the girl

pretending to be pregnant,

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which I thought was a funny,

funny scene where he was.

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He was kind of having a, like a seizure

of sorts of fake seizure and,

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he's in one of my all time

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favorite episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm,

the episode’s called Krazee-Eyez Killa.

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And if you haven't seen that one, that

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he plays a prominent role in that one.

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The dynamic between him and Larry David,

you could only imagine.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. So

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the style of comedy was right up my alley.

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Miss Pearly,

also the landlord seducing Willie.

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That was a funny scene.

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Yeah, that was hilarious.

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Yeah.

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We got to mention John Witherspoon,

his signature comedy,

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where he's over enunciating the words.

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Love it.

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He had to go to the bathroom.

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Had to go to the bathroom.

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That whole thing. Yes.

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Yeah.

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At least one and one time in the movie,

he's going to have to make a dash for

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the bathroom somewhere.

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Yep. Oh man.

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Always funny.

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Always funny.

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Yeah.

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So comedy I was cracking up.

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It was, it was very funny.

I like the slapstick style.

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I'm an easily amused guy

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and this was mildly amusing,

but I didn't think it was as funny

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as the original Friday.

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And so. Yeah,

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well, the original Friday,

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it has those iconic lines

that perpetuate throughout.

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It's a different kind of movie

too, different kind of comedy.

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Yeah. Right.

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Yeah.

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It's you know first

Friday was more serious than this one.

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Yeah. True.

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I find it funnier because it was

more serious then this was like straight

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slapstick and I don't my

I like slapstick too and everything.

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But yeah,

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I wasn't laughing as hard

as some of the things

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that I was laughing at in the first one.

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Right?

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Yeah, yeah.

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The first Friday, the dialogue was,

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was dialogue propelled that movie like.

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Yeah.

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Because it was like even like,

you know, there weren't a lot of like

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flashy or action type scenes

or where's the like a lot, a lot going on.

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There's moreso dialogue

and just sitting around and just,

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you know, people just sitting around

having a conversation.

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But the one liners that came out of those

convos was the straight up

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classic material.

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Yeah.

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I mean, still like

cultural touchstones for me.

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Yeah, yeah yeah yeah, definitely.

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So one of the things mentioned like I,

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I think the first Friday

probably holds up as the best, right?

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I mean.

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Oh yeah. Yeah,

yeah. That that's a classic.

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You're going to tell somebody

watch Friday.

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It's the original like a lot of trilogies

or sequels like the first one.

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It's like yeah.

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The one you have to see. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We see the same thing

with, the House party series.

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It's like the second one didn't

hold up as well as the first one,

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and most people

have never even heard of the third one.

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Even little on the fourth one. Yeah.

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Like there's a third and fourth one?

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I'm like, yeah. There are.

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I've never watched the fourth one.

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I've watched the third one. But yeah.

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The fourth, the one with Kid ‘n’

Play in it, or the fourth

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one that came out like last year?

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No, the fourth one.

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It was like a House Party 4.

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Yeah, there’s a House Party 4. Yeah.

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In the house.

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It follows the same storyline,

but like the House party three

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shows, kid get married and introduces

his cousins, his younger cousins, and they

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they're the main characters

in the fourth one.

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Yeah, right. Sure.

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But yeah, exactly. Sure.

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It sounds great.

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Right?

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Like Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2, right.

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Breakin’ is solid.

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The Breakin’ 2 was good for a bit

and then went off the rails.

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Yeah.

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You gotta have Breakin’ 2: Wrath of Khan

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The secret of the ooze.

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Yeah.

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Oh, man.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Khannn!

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C C O N N.

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Khan.

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Speaking of sequels and trilogies

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and whatnot, this movie Friday After Next

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is the last Friday installment

for more than two decades

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until the fourth movie, which is scheduled

for release next year, apparently.

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So we're just looking at that.

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: 00:16:20

Yeah.

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So even as of June of 2024,

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Ice Cube was saying

that it's in the works.

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For 2025. It’s in the works.

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There's an article from Entertainment

Weekly that, talks about it

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June and according to Ice Cube he’s

not actually that pleased

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that it took so long,

obviously 23 years. To.

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Get the next one, especially since

major characters have now since passed,

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: 00:16:45

like John Witherspoon and Tiny Lister and,

Anthony Johnson are all gone.

359

: 00:16:50

Oh yeah.

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: 00:16:51

Yeah, even though Ezal

wasn't in this third movie.

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: 00:16:56

You know, he was.

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: 00:16:57

You know, pretty good character

from the first one.

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: 00:16:59

Yeah. There's no Deebo in this one either.

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: 00:17:02

Yeah.

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: 00:17:02

The Deebo role is played by Terry Crews.

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: 00:17:05

Yeah.

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: 00:17:06

He's the muscle, different muscle

this time.

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: 00:17:09

Yeah.

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: 00:17:10

Different muscle. Yeah.

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: 00:17:10

That's right. Right.

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: 00:17:14

And this one took us back to the hood.

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: 00:17:15

So original Friday was in the hood,

South Central.

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: 00:17:18

And the Next Friday

they move out to the suburbs with,

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: 00:17:24

Day-Day and Elroy

and then back here to the hood.

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: 00:17:28

So you have more of the urban feel

with the strip mall.

376

: 00:17:31

A lot of it happens.

377

: 00:17:31

A wild and crazy strip mall. Yeah.

378

: 00:17:35

So. So one thing that I did notice

about the strip mall.

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: 00:17:39

And this is a callback to, Boyz n

the hood.

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: 00:17:43

There was a liquor store, and a check

cashing place in the strip mall.

381

: 00:17:46

That's right. Yeah.

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: 00:17:48

It's like.

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: 00:17:49

Yeah, I was like, yep there we go,

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: 00:17:52

there we go.

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: 00:17:53

Art imitates life. Yep.

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: 00:17:56

Yeah.

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: 00:17:58

So where it was.

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: 00:17:59

Right? Right, right. All along.

389

: 00:18:04

Furious is right.

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: 00:18:08

It was one of Terry Crews' earlier movies, but

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: 00:18:11

what I think is more impactful is the movie helped launch the career of Katt Williams.

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: 00:18:15

That was our fifth takeaway.

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: 00:18:16

Katt Williams played Money Mike and he was hilarious

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: 00:18:20

as he was fending off Terry Crews in this one

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: 00:18:24

and with his pimp style and way of speaking.

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: 00:18:28

And it was around the same time where he was launching his comedy career,

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: 00:18:32

his standup comedy.

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: 00:18:34

And Katt Williams is a...

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: 00:18:36

He's everywhere today, media mogul.

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: 00:18:40

And this is early, early days of Katt Williams getting that recognition on the big screen.

401

: 00:18:48

Katt was he he every scene he was in it was just fun so funny

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: 00:18:53

because I mean for one I mean his physical stature

403

: 00:18:57

he's a little guy

404

: 00:18:59

but he talks so big

405

: 00:19:01

yeah he talks very big and

406

: 00:19:02

yeah he talks so big

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: 00:19:03

it's just like you know if you've seen any like

408

: 00:19:06

you know 70s you know

409

: 00:19:08

blaxploitation flicks and you've seen any pimps in those kind of movies

410

: 00:19:12

he's he's carrying that persona

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: 00:19:13

like full on steam through this movie but in a very

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: 00:19:18

comedic tone and the thing about it, his character is not trying to be funny.

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: 00:19:21

He's absolutely dead serious,

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: 00:19:24

but you can't help but to laugh at it because it's so hilariously over the top.

415

: 00:19:28

I mean, he's down to his dress.

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: 00:19:30

I mean, he's got the permed out hair, which

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: 00:19:33

became a signature of his.

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: 00:19:36

He's got the flashy, shiny clothes on, the hat, the glasses, the rings.

419

: 00:19:42

And, you know, I mean, he's even has a...

420

: 00:19:43

a cameo scene with him

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: 00:19:46

and Bishop Don Magic Juan, know, who's

422

: 00:19:48

well known in the hip hop world for accompanying Snoop throughout his journey.

423

: 00:19:54

There's the one liners that come out of his mouth, like you know,

424

: 00:19:58

pimp in distress, pimp in distress.

425

: 00:20:01

It's like, what?

426

: 00:20:02

That was part of my favorite parts of the movie even though I didn't particularly find it all that funny.

427

: 00:20:07

He was really funny and he wasn't even that loud, but he talked big.

428

: 00:20:12

Yeah.

429

: 00:20:14

Yeah.

430

: 00:20:15

The way, the one part when, you know, after, you know, Craig and Day-Day,

431

: 00:20:21

you know, foil the shoplifters, you know, plot to get away with some clothes.

432

: 00:20:27

And he's walking towards the booth with the blade

433

: 00:20:30

and the way they grabbed him up, his feet are just kicking in the air as he snatched them up.

434

: 00:20:35

And then when he meets Damon at Craig and Day-Day's party and he...

435

: 00:20:39

and Damon snatches him

436

: 00:20:43

and he's like, ooh, that was like I was in the Matrix.

437

: 00:20:45

It's like, man

438

: 00:20:49

That was good.

439

: 00:20:50

I do I do like some of the other pop culture references.

440

: 00:20:53

They referenced Deion Sanders and doing the Deion dance

441

: 00:20:58

now Deion's back in the spotlight as the Colorado coach.

442

: 00:21:00

And it's just something about Barry Bonds and I love sports references.

443

: 00:21:04

So I want to Barry Bonds you with this.

444

: 00:21:07

Yeah, Uncle Elroy came out with the bat.

445

: 00:21:09

Mm hmm.

446

: 00:21:11

Yeah.

447

: 00:21:12

That kind of stuff will be memorable for sports fans and kind of

448

: 00:21:20

date what timeframe where these guys were at the top of their game.

449

: 00:21:25

Both Barry Sanders and Deion Sanders as players.

450

: 00:21:29

Hall of Famers.

451

: 00:21:30

For sure.

452

: 00:21:31

Yeah, so.

453

: 00:21:32

Yeah, There you have it with Katt Williams,

454

: 00:21:35

big time role for him, on his meteoric rise there.

455

: 00:21:39

Yeah.

456

: 00:21:40

Yep.

457

: 00:21:42

He's internationally known right now.

458

: 00:21:45

I think right now there's a lot of

459

: 00:21:46

references to his name in the media because

460

: 00:21:49

not to bring a dark cloud, but there's this whole situation with P.

461

: 00:21:52

Diddy that's been going on.

462

: 00:21:53

And Katt Williams mentioned stuff about this like

463

: 00:21:57

years ago and everybody thought he was joking

464

: 00:21:59

years ago and everybody thought he was joking and he was dead serious.

465

: 00:22:02

Like, wow. Seems like Katt was right along.

466

: 00:22:03

seems like Katt was right all along.

467

: 00:22:05

Mm-hmm.

468

: 00:22:06

Katt well Katt, Katt's with

469

: 00:22:09

the Club Shay Shay right with Shannon Sharpe he’s on his show

470

: 00:22:12

is he regular on the show or he's he's is he co-host?

471

: 00:22:15

I don't know.

472

: 00:22:16

I know he's I've seen a lot of clips with him with him

473

: 00:22:19

Now he had a long infamous interview with Shannon

474

: 00:22:24

on that Club Shay Shay where he just kind of

475

: 00:22:27

was open and honest.

476

: 00:22:28

- I'm airing everything out.

477

: 00:22:29

He just called out everybody.

478

: 00:22:36

He called out everybody.

479

: 00:22:38

Yeah.

480

: 00:22:39

He put it out that like Hannibal Burress did with Cosby

481

: 00:22:44

We got you.

482

: 00:22:46

Yep, yep.

483

: 00:22:47

So there you have it with Friday After Next.

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: 00:22:52

We covered all the aspects here.

485

: 00:22:54

If there's anything left out, speak up.

486

: 00:22:56

Otherwise, we can go around do our ratings of the movie.

487

: 00:22:59

(record scratching)

488

: 00:23:02

Boogie for Friday After Next.

489

: 00:23:05

Would you bring that funky flick back

490

: 00:23:08

or leave it in the vault?

491

: 00:23:10

I mean, despite I'm not being fully on with it being a Christmas movie,

492

: 00:23:15

even though, you know, it's got the undertone, saying, yeah, I'm gonna bring that funky flick back.

493

: 00:23:21

I enjoyed it.

494

: 00:23:22

I don't think it holds up to the original, but it was good for some laughs.

495

: 00:23:27

I hear you.

496

: 00:23:28

DynoWright, Friday After Next.

497

: 00:23:30

Bring that funky flick back or leave it in the vault.

498

: 00:23:33

Despite me not being all that-

499

: 00:23:35

laughing at it so much, I will bring this funky flick back.

500

: 00:23:38

It has a few good laughs.

501

: 00:23:41

Yep, and I'm aligned with you guys.

502

: 00:23:43

I will bring this funky flick back.

503

: 00:23:46

Again, I'm a big fan of slapstick and it did have me laughing quite a bit.

504

: 00:23:50

Yeah.

505

: 00:23:50

So I enjoyed it.

506

: 00:23:52

Right on.

507

: 00:23:52

Wow, look at that, that's a trifecta.

508

: 00:23:54

All three Friday movies bring that bring that that

509

: 00:23:58

We did it, guys.

510

: 00:24:01

Yeah, we don't need Cube on our bad side.

511

: 00:24:05

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

512

: 00:24:07

you got a hat trick, man, a hat trick.

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: 00:24:09

(laughing)

514

: 00:24:16

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: 00:24:20

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: 00:24:22

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: 00:24:29

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: 00:24:48

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527

: 00:24:53

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528

: 00:24:55

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: 00:24:59

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530

: 00:25:01

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