Richard, whose demeanor is radically different, though he's still a little guarded and cautious: "Look, we got lucky, don't jinx it. We only have a week left..."

Richard: "...before the loan's due. I gotta finish figuring out our trips tonight, so we can jam out early."

Tommy Boy: "Okay, I'll tell you what. You work out that scientific stuff. I'll go out and get a pizza." Richard has a map and a notebook out, lol. I doubt what he's doing is all that scientific, but to Tommy, it may as well be.

The upcoming scene is #iconic in my #personallore, as well as in the annals of #IconicComedyScene history:

This time, it's cracking me up that #TommyBoy refers to routing the trip as 'working out the scientific stuff.' 😆

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Tommy Boy: "you might wanna think about buying a quality product from me." The rhythm and the cadence are perfect. Tommy has mastered this patter and told Ted the story he wanted and needed to hear (Ted WANTED to buy from Tommy; he just didn't KNOW it yet), and it climaxes SO satisfyingly in this moment from Tommy that hangs for just the briefest instant before...

LOOK AT THAT FACE! HOW COULD YOU SAY NO TO THAT FACE?!

Ted: "Okay. I'll buy from you." Simple as that. He heard what he needed to hear. He's in.

Aw, guys, LOOK at those FACES. They made the sale! Ted's gonna buy from them! 😭

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& here is the satisfying conclusion: "...you MIGHT want to think about buying a quality product from me."

"Okay. I'll buy from you."

Simultaneously #hilarious & #heartwarming & #uplifting; #TommyBoy does the #comedy well, the #drama well, all of it SO WELL!

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Tommy Boy: "'Cause they know all they sold you was a guaranteed piece of shit." THIS IS WHAT TED WAS AFRAID OF! He didn't say it explicitly, but reading between the lines, and knowing people as Tommy does, Tommy heard that Ted's customers NEED that guarantee on the box, and he extrapolated what that meant about Ted and his relationship to his customers, and what it is he REALLY wants to provide or sell them.

Tommy Boy: "That's all it is, isn't it? Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box..." Unrelated, but Chris Farley famously took a dump out of the windows of 30 Rock onto one of the landings several stories below by hanging his (quite large) ass out of the windows, which only cracked, and perching like a bird while he shit. Omg, I'm crying laughing at a Panera Bread just typing this. Goodness, he was something else.

Tommy Boy: "... and mark it 'guaranteed,' I will. I got spare time." Affable, personable. These are things people know about Tommy Callahan, Jr. He's the son of a rich manufacturing magnate who has a lot of spare time on his hands. He took almost as long getting his four-year degree as I did, lol. He's got LOTS of spare time.

LOOK AT TED'S FACE! He's taking it in! Tommy: "But for now, for your customers' sake, for your DAUGHTER'S sake..." Does Ted even have a daughter?? He must, because this is landing.

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Be sure and always check all #alttext, but especially these 😆

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Tommy Boy (continuring) (not a typo): "Next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser, and your daughter's..." knocked up, obviously, it's on the next one.

Tommy Boy (continuring): "... knocked up. I've seen it a hundred times." And he puts a LOT of mustard, actually on all of this, but especially especially 'a HUNDRED times,' and it's fucking hysterical. No one can or could do what he could do.

Here, we get Richard, or more likely, David Spade trying not to break at "I've seen it a HUNDRED times."

Ted has listened, and oddly enough, Tommy has been speaking his language. Not OURS. It's fucking absolute nonsense to any of us. What the FUCK is he even saying?? ... but TED knows exactly what he's saying, and by the way, Ted's locked in, and he's got follow-up questions about the glue-sniffing fairy story. "But why do they put a guarantee on the box, then?" IT'S BONKERS, but they're having a back-and-forth dialogue, and Tommy is INTRIGUING this guy. He has PIQUED Ted's interest. Ted's obviously a Wacko, but probably a harmless, affable one, and by the way, he's about to buy his brake pads from Callahan.

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If the #rhetoric here is off-kilter, it's because TED is off-kilter. Sure, #TommyBoy is, too, but the point is that Tommy is vibing w/ Ted.

Tommy listened to Ted's concerns, overcame his reluctance & standoffishness, & told him the #story he wanted/needed to hear...

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Tommy Boy: "The point is, how do you know the fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer?" What?! But it works. Ted gets what he's putting down.

Tommy Boy (and this is just Chris Farley magic, and again, it TOTALLY works, because EVERYTHING in this movie works, which makes even the goofy or zany stuff resonant and memorable and satisfying): "'Building model airplanes,' says the little fairy. Well, we're not buying it..."

Tommy leans towards Ted, meaningfully, pointedly meeting his eyes: "He sneaks into your house once, that's all it takes..." WHAT?! Lol, but Ted gets it, man.

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I know, I know. They're fuckin ALL iconic, according to me, and I'm right, btw!

"How do you know the fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer? 'Building model airplanes' says the little fairy. Well, we're not buying it."

#ChrisFarley is ELECTRIC in every frame of #TommyBoy!

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Just like nobody else could give you what Chris Farley is giving you as Tommy Callahan, Jr, nobody else could give you quite what David Spade is giving you as Richard Hayden. Here, he clearly regrets some of his earlier violence, and is perhaps uncomfortable with the visible signs of that violence Tommy is wearing on his face.

It's fuckin hysterical. They're both, like, "..."

Tommy Boy to Richard Hayden, in a two-shot again (which is where this film does its best work): "Richard, do I have a mark on my face? It really hurts..."

Richard Hayden: "No, nothing. I thought you hit on the shoulder, anyway." Tommy Boy: "My SHOULDER doesn't hurt very much, but my FACE does. Right here."

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This #movie was NOT a big hit, btw. On a budget of $20M, it made roughly $38M, a modest return on a slim budget, but it really found its feet on VHS/home release.

Natch. It's 1 of the best #films ever made 🥰

"Not here... not so much here... as right here."

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Iconic Comedy Scene: the hood has flipped up on the Chavelle, and the boys are headed the wrong way into oncoming traffic on the freeway.

Chris Farley had a real knack for physical comedy, and he's hilarious freaking out here.

It's a buddy-comedy, and so we got a lot of two-shots just like this, both boys reacting to the insanity before them. Your mileage may vary, but it's comforting and uplifting for me just to see them sitting there next to each other.

Lol, they turn to look at each other. It's perfect.

I never got to meet #ChrisFarley, who died ~2 yrs after this #movie came out, when I was 10.

I would have liked to meet him, but I'm grateful we have this #film and his other extant work to remember and know him by 🙏

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Richard Hayden (left) and Tommy Boy (right) Richard [shocked disbelief]: "No way that just happened..."

Richard (VO, as camera pans across totaled Chavelle): "My car is completely destroyed..."

Tommy Boy: "I swear, I've seen a lot of stuff in my life, but that... was... AWESOME!"

Tommy Boy, to Richard Hayden: "But sorry about your car, man. It sucks."

More #iconic #comedy moments as we speedrun the rest of #TommyBoy (which, for #KCookandCatsCo, means watching it at nearly-normal-speed).

"I've seen a lot of stuff in my life, but that... was... AWESOME! ... but sorry about your car, man. It sucks."

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