Role Models (2008)

For November’s theme of COMFORT FOOD we wanted to try and keep it clean. We didn’t even come close. Every episode says “fuck” at least 12 times. So many “shits”. There’s always a “cunt” popping up randomly. Revisiting and discussing films that meant a lot to our childhood just reminded us that we were also crude as children. So let’s get crude with a movie that actually meant a lot early in Bob and Angela’s relationship. For years, whenever they would travel and stay in a hotel, they would turn on the hotel room cable and inevitably find the 2008 comedy “Role Models” directed by David Wain and starring Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott amongst several other comedy stalwarts of the day. They couldn’t possibly watch anything else once they discovered that “Role Models” was on. Maybe it passed you by? On the surface, it seems indistinguishable from several comedies throughout the 2000s. While there are tropes, we feel that this one stands out pleasantly. These types of comedies have quietly faded from the current movie theater landscape. People might claim “woke” is to blame but the reality is that those brands of comedies just got very stale. They were beat into the ground. All the quirky jokes are in superhero and fantasy movies now and that’s also starting to feel quite stale. The future of comedy at the movies has yet to really reveal itself and it will have to be something fresh and unique to catch the spark again. Anyway…”Role Models” is kinda funny. Check it out. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: [email protected] Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought