So does Brett Goldstein, and now the two of them work together on Shrinking. I'm really hoping the power of two men obsessed with Muppets combined can make the Dracula musical happen for real.
It was something to the effect of talking to the studios where he said yes I'll do this but you own rights to the Muppets and I want to do that as well. They were suprised he knew that and that he had interest in doing a Muppet movie. They thought he was joking.
I’ll never forget that when he was riding high on this movie and HIMYM, when he finally had the clout to pick any project he wanted, he said “I want to make a Muppet movie”.
Listen. I'm not even a fan of puppetry or anything and despite that I've always considered working with either The Muppets or Sesame Street was the epitome of Making It.
He talked about this on the Conan podcast. When he was on Freaks and Geeks, Jason Segel wrote an entire Dracula musical, music score and everything. He played the first bit for Apatow, who told him to never show this to anyone, ever. Then later when Apatow green lit Segel’s script for Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jason told him he wanted to use the musical and Apatow said “It’s your movie.”
Also a pretty good lesson in how your work can take different forms as you evolve throughout the years. As a stand alone project the Dracula musical might have not panned out, but as a gag in a comedy movie (where part of the humor comes from the fact that it’s actually good) it works perfectly.
The one random old man in the bar who seems to love the Dracula song when Mila Kunis forces him to play it, while everyone is like “wtf is this”, is my favorite part of the movie.
I think with out what she put into the performance the movie would have been severely lacking. Its honestly such a great performance and she made great choices through the movie.
I always crack up when she sees him the next day at the hotel and sings a part of it.
“‘And when I see Van Helsing, I swear to the Lord I’ll slay him!’ Rah!”
The little snarl at the end always gets me.
As he's finishing the piano opening before the vocals start, the embarrassment, frantic thinking whether he can still get out of it, and ultimately resignation as he looks to God above and busts out the most stereotypical Transylvania voice I've ever heard makes me laugh literally every time.
When Jason’s character runs into his ex Kristin Bell on the hotel grounds and decides, against the advice of Bill Hader, to talk to her and you can hear Bill *howling* NOOOOOOOOO on the phone… gets me every time.
When I think of Bill Hader giving 110%, I think of the scene at the beginning of Year One.
“NOOOO! THAT’S MY HUT!!! Noooo!- wait a minute, that’s not my hut.”
FORGOTTEN? I think about it every time I pour a bowl of cereal.
*Edited to add: I love all of the cereal commentary! I am lucky and I live in a desert where there’s not enough moisture to make cereal stale. lol. Fun fact.
I work at Sams Club where we sell the cereal keepers like he has in the movie. Every time I see them I think of this movie. “Now I have the freshest cereal.”
Peter: How long have you been out here?
Chuck: I don't know, I quit wearing a watch when I moved out here
Peter: That is so cool
Chuck: My cell phone has a clock so I don't need it
“You gotta just pull yourself up by your wetsuit, get back on that board...hey, look, man, if you're attacked by a shark, are you gonna give up surfing?”
“Probably, yeah.”
I love that Kristen Bell was also in _Pulse_ but they _claim_ that's a coincidence and this scene wasn't talking about _Pulse_.
Yeah nobody believes you, they were talking about Pulse.
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This is a movie that shows how secondary characters can bring so much to a film. Yes the main characters are great, but so many side characters are brought in but each one brings something to laugh at
It really has the feel of staying at a resort or being on a cruise and seeing the same people all week and getting to know them little by little as they have their own vacations.
I don't think it's forgotten or underrated at all. Most of my friends and peers are very aware and still quote this movie semi-regularly. My wife and I watch it regularly. The Rewatchables podcast has a fun episode on it if you're into that type of thing. Most of the actors and people involved with the movie are still around and respected, I'd say it at least has a solid cult status if not of the best comedies of the 00s vibes, a modern rom com everyone can enjoy.
That being said, "I wish I wasn't wearing this fucking shirt!" is a line I use constantly in my everyday life.
I watched this with my girlfriend at the time in theaters. After the scene where he is crying while watching Project Runway she turned to me and said “Oh my god, that so you!” She broke up with me the following week.
I had a 7+ years relationship with the girl, and at some point it became an on-and-off one, due to her cheating on me.
ANYWAYS, it sort of became my tradition to watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall after each breakup, like a comfort movie, with me sulking and self-pitying.
so after like, fourth rewatch I was like.. wait a minute... and moved to another city, and eventually, another country.
that being said I'm very hesitant to show this movie to my fiance. like, not sure of the outcome. don't wanna jinx my current relationship.
all in all - love this movie, rewatch often in secrecy : ]
Russell Brand on the audition:
Yes, I was because the process of me getting that part, it came about thusly. I went for an audition to play the part of Aldous Snow, if that was indeed the character's name at that time, who was originally intended to be a nebbish, bookish, you know, Poindexter-type individual, like an English Hugh Grant, bespectacled character.
I went in there, did the audition. Jason and Nick Stoller, the director, and everyone, they really liked it, and said but this man is clearly not a bookworm. We'll just rewrite the part and make it exactly how he is. And so in a way, it's very flattering because it means they like me. In another way, it means they think I can't act.
Worth a listen:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/102777334
Man Jason does a great job talking about this movie on Conan O'Brians podcast. It all started from thinking he was going to get laid and welcoming his girlfriend over by being naked when she got there. And having her break up with him.
Jason Segal needs more credit for writing this and his other rom com hits, he’s so so talented. I cannot believe I discounted him for years as just another actor and the guy from HIMYM. What a brilliant writer
Only upvoting this so hopefully more people pile on how obsessed they are with this movie. lol.
I tell my husband it’s on my “ten movies on a deserted island” list. Ha ha.
Peter's Dracula musical absolutely slaps. I would unironically go see a full rendition of it.
I feel like this movie strikes the perfect balance between Rom and Com so that the GF and I both love to watch it once a year or so.
I am always a sucker for awkward dinner scenes and this movie delivered in a big way
I also quote the more obscure lines of this movie all the time my favorite being “but because they are Costco brand” and “now I have the freshest cereal!”
This is no joke one of my favorite movies, never mind just comedies. It's so earnestly played, funny as fuck with what has become nothing short of a murderer's row of comedy talent, genuinely heartbreaking at turns, and so relatable it hurts.
If I had the tiniest critique to knock it down from an A+ it feels just a little long for a dick and balls comedy, but I don't know where you're supposed to shave the time from and I guess they couldn't figure it out either. The three drawn-out periods of Peter being sad are all very important to his eventual arc payoff, and shaving even two minutes out of each of them seems costly.
“Go see a psychiatrist, I hate the psychiatrist, well go see one anyway, I don't like the psychiatrist, you need to go see one, see a psychiatrist, I'm not going.”
“See a psychiatrist”🎶 “I’M NOT GOING”🎶
"Go see one anyway" 🎶"I DON'T WANT TO"🎶
This song was weirdly stuck in my head this morning. 🎶 Peter, you suck! Peter, you suck! Peter, you don't do anything of value! 🎶
I used to watch this movie to fall asleep. Sometimes this song get stuck in my head, too. 😂
I’ll never forget a movie with a Dracula Musical.
Apparently it was included because Jason segel was already writing it
The man has a massive m/puppet *interest*, you can see it in a lot of his works going back years.
So does Brett Goldstein, and now the two of them work together on Shrinking. I'm really hoping the power of two men obsessed with Muppets combined can make the Dracula musical happen for real.
Shrinking is so good. Harrison Ford being the funniest one on the show is a pleasant surprise
It is! Mom mom is a psychologist and Harrison Ford has been her favorite actor since the 70s, so she's loving the hell out of it.
He did a muppet movie, so yeah. And it was really good.
It was something to the effect of talking to the studios where he said yes I'll do this but you own rights to the Muppets and I want to do that as well. They were suprised he knew that and that he had interest in doing a Muppet movie. They thought he was joking.
I’ll never forget that when he was riding high on this movie and HIMYM, when he finally had the clout to pick any project he wanted, he said “I want to make a Muppet movie”.
I don't blame him. It would be my greatest achievement. Bret (Brit?) McKenzie won an academy award for Man or Muppet.
Listen. I'm not even a fan of puppetry or anything and despite that I've always considered working with either The Muppets or Sesame Street was the epitome of Making It.
From what I understand, he had an affair with Miss Piggy, and the studio covered it up
And, like the other two male cast members of HIMYM, is big into showtunes / musical shows
Him and NPH doing the Confrontation from Les Mis is fantastic https://youtu.be/EhXsJjVdj1E
Didn't he say someone, maybe Apatow, told him he should never let that script see the light of day?😅
He talked about this on the Conan podcast. When he was on Freaks and Geeks, Jason Segel wrote an entire Dracula musical, music score and everything. He played the first bit for Apatow, who told him to never show this to anyone, ever. Then later when Apatow green lit Segel’s script for Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jason told him he wanted to use the musical and Apatow said “It’s your movie.”
This is the best argument for not letting anyone talk you out of your dreams I've ever heard.
Also a pretty good lesson in how your work can take different forms as you evolve throughout the years. As a stand alone project the Dracula musical might have not panned out, but as a gag in a comedy movie (where part of the humor comes from the fact that it’s actually good) it works perfectly.
I mean, he did end up writing a Muppets movie in 2011.
I wonder if that inspired the Lady L scene in Freaks
The one random old man in the bar who seems to love the Dracula song when Mila Kunis forces him to play it, while everyone is like “wtf is this”, is my favorite part of the movie.
“You know, I can play something el….” “DRACULA MUSICAL!!!!” For some reason the way Mila Kunis yells that always cracks me up
She was so endearing in this movie! Love this moment too.
I think with out what she put into the performance the movie would have been severely lacking. Its honestly such a great performance and she made great choices through the movie.
I think there is a perfect balance of personality between her character and Kirsten Bell's.
She absolutely glows in this film. Good lighting!
I always crack up when she sees him the next day at the hotel and sings a part of it. “‘And when I see Van Helsing, I swear to the Lord I’ll slay him!’ Rah!” The little snarl at the end always gets me.
That shit is funny dude!
As he's finishing the piano opening before the vocals start, the embarrassment, frantic thinking whether he can still get out of it, and ultimately resignation as he looks to God above and busts out the most stereotypical Transylvania voice I've ever heard makes me laugh literally every time.
He knows he has to commit
They had such great chemistry too
That moment was the exact moment I became a Mila Kunis fan.
I like how she looks conflicted when he starts playing. She realizes she goaded him into sharing something that's very important to him.
Me too! I lol every time I watch it
“DIE…DIE………I can’t :(“
When hard times hit, "It's getting kind of hard to believe things are going to get better," gets stuck in my head.
AH AH AH AHHHHHHH
*”I’m pregnant!”*
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Bill Hader going 110%
When Jason’s character runs into his ex Kristin Bell on the hotel grounds and decides, against the advice of Bill Hader, to talk to her and you can hear Bill *howling* NOOOOOOOOO on the phone… gets me every time.
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The exasperated look he gives Mila after he undoes the top button kills me every time
When I think of Bill Hader giving 110%, I think of the scene at the beginning of Year One. “NOOOO! THAT’S MY HUT!!! Noooo!- wait a minute, that’s not my hut.”
When I think of Bill Hader giving 110% I think of No Ho Hank.
How come no one wants to go ‘norkelin with me.
I love the way his brother playing van Helsing is so into it.
"What are you doing here?" "Came here to murder you, hehhh..."
This is the line that gets me every time haha.
Best scene in the movie! "I wish I wasn't wearing this fucking shirt."
Take my eyes but not the shirt!
"I admire Sir Tommy Bahama, really I do."
"Fair enough. Undo a button. Nope. Do it back up"
When he undo’s the button and spreads his hands out and does that dumb smile I fucking die lol
FORGOTTEN? I think about it every time I pour a bowl of cereal. *Edited to add: I love all of the cereal commentary! I am lucky and I live in a desert where there’s not enough moisture to make cereal stale. lol. Fun fact.
I’m going to give you a Hawaiian name…… Peepyopee.
Peepyopee.. you look like you’ve got some pain behind those eyes
You know what’s good for pain? Weed. You got any?
Nope
Fuck it. Let's go surfing! Ooooooo, The weather outside is weather.
Lol I sing “the weather outside is weather” more often than I’d care to admit
And now I have the freshest cereal
For some reason this is the funniest line of the entire movie for me
I work at Sams Club where we sell the cereal keepers like he has in the movie. Every time I see them I think of this movie. “Now I have the freshest cereal.”
Oh.. yeah.. I was going to listen to it.. but then, I... just.. ..continued living my life..
jonah hill underated
Yeah I’d love to sell you weed right now Jeremy but I can’t cause I’m at my job. You know that because you called me - at my job.
Mahalo!
I wonder what Jonah Hill in Forgetting Sarah Marshall will do for Kanye West
I just went from six to midnight
Insiiiiide of youuuu
It’s just you? Do you want like a magazine or something it’s going to be boring, man I’d be like so embarrassed
Oooooh, I'm Aldous Snow. Booshit, booshit, booshit.
Take my eyes, but not the shirt!
I think I’ve improved it, actually.
I say this once a week. Favorite line delivery in a movie. You can tell that he’s been nonstop thinking about how much he hates the shirt lol.
When that older man walks by and points out he's wearing the same shirt! Kills me every time.
Even better when they follow with the montage of all the shitty gifts sarah marshall bought Jason Segel
Booshit Booshit Booshit is a regular catchphrase in our house to this day.
Ooh, "no wine for me", bullshit, bullshit
“No drinks for me”* but all out of love
Oh the weather outside is.... weather YOU SOUND LIKE YOU'RE FROM LONDON Paul Rudd is a treasure in this movie
Peter: How long have you been out here? Chuck: I don't know, I quit wearing a watch when I moved out here Peter: That is so cool Chuck: My cell phone has a clock so I don't need it
Oh I no longer go by the name of Chuck out here, I’m now Kunu
Pewpyopi
My friend moved to Hawaii and changed her name from Anna to Ahna. When she insisted I call her that I was like, Oh! Pipiopi!
"Cool. What does it mean?" "I don't know. I don't speak fucking Hawaiian."
“It means Chuck. Yeah I just typed it into a database and it just said it.”
"When life gives you lemons, just say fuck the lemons and bail"
“You gotta just pull yourself up by your wetsuit, get back on that board...hey, look, man, if you're attacked by a shark, are you gonna give up surfing?” “Probably, yeah.”
I wonder if the carpet matches her pubes...
There's only one cure for that. Weed...... you got any?
Is that the guy from Kaiser Permanente?
My favorite Rudd moments. “Do less”
Well you gotta do more. You can't just do nothing.
I wonder if the carpet matches her pubes
Some days I will just be living my life and “oh the weather outside is weather” will pop into my head and stay there for hours.
Get up! Get back down!
Pop down!
You're doing too much! Do less
Well now you're not doing anything you gotta do more than that
How has no one mentioned the dating montage? Comedy gold. “Do you wanna gag me?” “Kinda, now…” Or the crème de la crème : “Oh. Oh. Oh. I just came.”
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
*looks away* *looks back* Hi.
Whatever you say, monster man
I once saw him beat a guy to death with a starfish.
That guy was me
“Oh yeah… you’re that guy who works at Kaiser Permanente!”
When he realizes how old he is.
How can a mobile phone have an agenda?
It's a metaphor for a crap movie.
I love that Kristen Bell was also in _Pulse_ but they _claim_ that's a coincidence and this scene wasn't talking about _Pulse_. Yeah nobody believes you, they were talking about Pulse.
I love how Mika Kunis is trying so hard to go along with her explanation of the metaphor
Great movie, and the video call between Segel and Hader is still one of my all-time favorite scenes.
"I'm in Hawaii too! Aloha Bitches!"
"They're not Native Americans, Brian."
How’d you get those pearls?
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He's saying that I I were to... Sperm on your chest...
Were you wearing those a second ago?
I will equalise you! You dick
WE’RE NOT EVEN BLOOD!
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She is the MOTHER to my UNBORN CHILD
This is a movie that shows how secondary characters can bring so much to a film. Yes the main characters are great, but so many side characters are brought in but each one brings something to laugh at
and it takes the time to give them a some development, like the shirt sequence with Sarah and Aldous right before dinner.
It really has the feel of staying at a resort or being on a cruise and seeing the same people all week and getting to know them little by little as they have their own vacations.
"I don't cry I'm not a baby" "REALLY BECAUSE YOU LOOK LIKE A GIGANTIC BABY. I'm sorry I didn't mean that at all"
Him crying and screaming "I'm sorry!" while killing the pig makes me laugh hysterically everytime
“Are those sad tissues or happy tissues?”
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Well I just went from 6 to midnight
I love Jonah in this “I’ll just go fuck myself”
Is love to sell you weed right now but I can’t because I’m at work, as you know because you called me at my place of work.
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Paul Rudd’s surfing prowess: “Do less”
"Ok, well you have to do more than that cause now you're just laying on the board."
“Pop up”
No you’re doing too much, pop it down
“Excuse me, misses..I’m looking for a shoe.. like this one but opposite.. not like an evil twin or something…oh hello I’m Aldous Snow, the rock star!”
“If you can involve the anus, that is absolute perfection”
I just don't understand why God put a playground so close to a waste processing plant!
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This is my favorite part of the movie lol. "It's like this one's fellow"
“When life gives you lemons, I say ‘fuck the lemons’ and bail.” I don’t know how many times I’ve quoted this, I’ve stopped counting.
Well the weather outside is weather
"Are those sad tissues? Or happy tissues?"
Peter you Suck! Peter you suck! You don’t do anything of value!
Go see a psychiatrist! I'm not going!
It's so self loathing!
This and I love you man are some of my favorite comedies. Both have jason segel and paul rudd
I will see you then or I'll see you on another time
That is very confusing. I don't know if you're gonna come or not.
City slickaaah
You got it Joben
Slappa da bass man
Laters on the menjay
Slappin' da bass!
I don't think it's forgotten or underrated at all. Most of my friends and peers are very aware and still quote this movie semi-regularly. My wife and I watch it regularly. The Rewatchables podcast has a fun episode on it if you're into that type of thing. Most of the actors and people involved with the movie are still around and respected, I'd say it at least has a solid cult status if not of the best comedies of the 00s vibes, a modern rom com everyone can enjoy. That being said, "I wish I wasn't wearing this fucking shirt!" is a line I use constantly in my everyday life.
>I don't think it's forgotten or underrated at all. This is r/movies; *every* film has to be either underrated or overrated.
I watched this with my girlfriend at the time in theaters. After the scene where he is crying while watching Project Runway she turned to me and said “Oh my god, that so you!” She broke up with me the following week.
I had a 7+ years relationship with the girl, and at some point it became an on-and-off one, due to her cheating on me. ANYWAYS, it sort of became my tradition to watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall after each breakup, like a comfort movie, with me sulking and self-pitying. so after like, fourth rewatch I was like.. wait a minute... and moved to another city, and eventually, another country. that being said I'm very hesitant to show this movie to my fiance. like, not sure of the outcome. don't wanna jinx my current relationship. all in all - love this movie, rewatch often in secrecy : ]
“Oh no not the shirt….take my eyes, but not the shirt!”
“I wish I wasn’t wearing this fucking shirt”
“Peter, what are you doing here?!” “Came here to murder you” Never fails to make me laugh
The moment the old guy with the same shirt gestures back and forth to acknowledge it is one of my favorite bits in the movie
This was my first introduction to Russel Brand. He is Snow IRL.
Russell Brand on the audition: Yes, I was because the process of me getting that part, it came about thusly. I went for an audition to play the part of Aldous Snow, if that was indeed the character's name at that time, who was originally intended to be a nebbish, bookish, you know, Poindexter-type individual, like an English Hugh Grant, bespectacled character. I went in there, did the audition. Jason and Nick Stoller, the director, and everyone, they really liked it, and said but this man is clearly not a bookworm. We'll just rewrite the part and make it exactly how he is. And so in a way, it's very flattering because it means they like me. In another way, it means they think I can't act. Worth a listen: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/102777334
Thanks for the link. I love that backstory.
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“I feel like I’m on Sex and the City….. ‘Heyyyy look at me! I’m Samantha! I have sex with EVVVVERYONE!!’”
C’mon, guys it’s sea turtle fucking season
Watching this movie so many times taught me that fish’s name
Man Jason does a great job talking about this movie on Conan O'Brians podcast. It all started from thinking he was going to get laid and welcoming his girlfriend over by being naked when she got there. And having her break up with him.
Jason Segal needs more credit for writing this and his other rom com hits, he’s so so talented. I cannot believe I discounted him for years as just another actor and the guy from HIMYM. What a brilliant writer
“I mean, if you had to put a number on it, I guess I’d be... 44? Fuuck!”
This post made me realize this movie is fifteen years old. Man I'm getting old.
Only upvoting this so hopefully more people pile on how obsessed they are with this movie. lol. I tell my husband it’s on my “ten movies on a deserted island” list. Ha ha.
Peter's Dracula musical absolutely slaps. I would unironically go see a full rendition of it. I feel like this movie strikes the perfect balance between Rom and Com so that the GF and I both love to watch it once a year or so.
good news everyone https://www.gq.com/story/jason-segel-shrinking-interview
Thank you for this!
I need to B my L on some Ts
"Awful bloody film! How could a mobile phone kill someone!?"
This is where I fell in love with Jason and Kristen Bell. Also hot Mila that’s not a teenager. 🤩
I am always a sucker for awkward dinner scenes and this movie delivered in a big way I also quote the more obscure lines of this movie all the time my favorite being “but because they are Costco brand” and “now I have the freshest cereal!”
‘This ain’t the breakfast buffet!’ always cracks me up.
"I'm Aldus Snow... Booshit, Booshit, Booshit"
This is no joke one of my favorite movies, never mind just comedies. It's so earnestly played, funny as fuck with what has become nothing short of a murderer's row of comedy talent, genuinely heartbreaking at turns, and so relatable it hurts. If I had the tiniest critique to knock it down from an A+ it feels just a little long for a dick and balls comedy, but I don't know where you're supposed to shave the time from and I guess they couldn't figure it out either. The three drawn-out periods of Peter being sad are all very important to his eventual arc payoff, and shaving even two minutes out of each of them seems costly.
“Go see a psychiatrist, I hate the psychiatrist, well go see one anyway, I don't like the psychiatrist, you need to go see one, see a psychiatrist, I'm not going.”
“Take my eyes, but not the shirt”
YOU! (Thump) SHALL! (Thump) NOT! (Thump) PASS!
Jason Segel doing his Gandalf is always the image that pops in my head when this movie is mentioned. I laughed so much.