Episode #731: Major League
Added 2024-04-02 04:00:02 +0000 UTC“Yes! Bring me more of that sharp profanity!” - Andrew on the Major League script
On this week’s episode, we’re kicking off SHEENPRIL here on We Hate Movies with a chat about the beloved sports comedy, Major League! How bonkers is it that Tom Berenger’s Jake Taylor is straight-up stalking Rene Russo’s Lynn Wells throughout this whole movie? Was the real Willie Mays Hayes murdered by Wesley’s character and this guy just took his place at the tryouts? How many pounds of gravel did James Gammon have to eat throughout his life to get that majestic voice? And who knew Sheen’s Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn was going to be such a huge sensation? PLUS: Who wins in a fight between James Gammon and Rip Torn?!
Major League stars Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Margaret Whitton, James Gammon, Rene Russo, Wesley Snipes, Charles Cyphers, Chelcie Ross, Dennis Haysbert, and Bob Uecker as Harry Doyle; directed by David S. Ward.
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Oh my gosh, so other people have seen men at work? Please do that movie please please please please please.
Sharon P
2024-11-01 18:23:43 +0000 UTCWho knows. They do really well riffing on anything and I would love to hear their prospective, so ya I hope they do it.
Chris Boise
2024-04-09 12:05:13 +0000 UTCI guess we won't know for sure unless they do cover it, but I think you always have to really ask yourself why a movie would work as a WHM episode. Major League works as an episode because the movie still plays enough stuff straight that the guys can make fun of it on their own e.g. the romance between Berenger and Russo. BASEketball, on the other hand, plays literally everything as a completely surreal and (most importantly) genuinely funny joke - when I think of WHM doing an episode on it, I wonder what they're going to make fun of that isn't already making fun of itself.
profondo robbo
2024-04-09 07:43:03 +0000 UTC"Don't give me any of that òle bullshit Dorn" is the setup for Dorn having to do sit ups. Sorry to be a baseball nerd but the final game was a one game playoff because they tied for first. In 89 it was only 2 division in each league and each divisional winner faced off in the league championship series. This was before everything was monetized to hell.
Aaron
2024-04-08 22:53:36 +0000 UTCNext year should be Burtpril.
William K. Wolfrum
2024-04-07 00:53:13 +0000 UTCI have been listening for years and beg to differ. If ‘Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector’ can be an episode, damn near anything can 😂. Plus I have total faith in the guys and their comedic talents to make any material from any movie. I didn’t think they could do as much as they did with ‘Chairman of the Board’ since that movie is horrendous but they pulled it off.
Chris Boise
2024-04-06 00:39:52 +0000 UTCI like BASEketball but I don't think it would be a good fit for the show. Parody movies (especially rapid-fire ZAZ ones like this or Airplane!) are so in on their own joke that there's not much room for WHM to come up with their own material.
profondo robbo
2024-04-06 00:37:10 +0000 UTCFun story: My father recently informed me that he and my step-mom watched ALL 10 SNIPER movies.
Christian Waters
2024-04-05 22:27:58 +0000 UTCIs this the first time we've heard Andrew's Rip Torn impression before because it's spot-on
Vicky I
2024-04-05 16:32:57 +0000 UTCMy god…
HockeenightsCT
2024-04-05 12:17:53 +0000 UTCThe guys are such not-car-guys they didn’t even acknowledge the good visual gag of Willie Mays-Hayes’ car being a Volkswagen Beetle with a Rolls Royce hood.
Albert C
2024-04-05 12:06:19 +0000 UTCOh my God we're getting Berenger. Oh my God we're getting Berenger. Oh my God we're getting Berenger. It has been far too long since that murderous muttering has graced this show, and it is a welcome return.
Todd B
2024-04-04 14:29:05 +0000 UTCMore important than either of those roles - "Who's reading that book?" "It's Eckhardt, sir."
Todd B
2024-04-04 14:27:29 +0000 UTCI look forward to Snipesgiving Month, I think it could be quality.
Kate
2024-04-04 01:41:06 +0000 UTCIf they just got rid of tom berengers "the notebook" this movie would be alot better
Ray Kruger
2024-04-03 20:04:27 +0000 UTC"You want me to drag him out of here, kick the shit out of him?" had to have been mine and my brother's favorite/most repeated to movie line to eachother. It's a silly, crass, perfectly-delivered line and holds a special place in my heart
RJ Cunningham
2024-04-03 19:02:16 +0000 UTCI really hope you guys do " King of New York" because that was my request for this year 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽 so much material to work with it would perfect!
LaShanda Pendleton
2024-04-03 17:21:06 +0000 UTCSadly, probably about the same 😂
Jeff Wanless
2024-04-03 15:14:29 +0000 UTCI don't know anything about you, but I am guessing you would look more convincing throwing from a mound than Chelcie Ross looks in Major League.
jribs
2024-04-03 15:08:38 +0000 UTCHa nice! I saw it on my 13th bday and laugh at the jazz thing too, mainly because I live in UT. I don’t like sports either but give me a good sports comedy and I’m in!
Chris Boise
2024-04-03 15:05:30 +0000 UTCI was 10 when BASEketball came out so I have seen it 20+ times and I have a huge soft spot for it. I do not follow the NBA but whenever I hear anything about the Utah Jazz, I always think of the opening scene explaining how sports teams change cities: "The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City, where they don't allow music."
jribs
2024-04-03 15:04:27 +0000 UTCOh yeah, that'd make a good one. May join you in that next year 😅
johnny stocker
2024-04-03 01:55:31 +0000 UTCI did a request for another crazy sports comedy ‘BASEketball’ (1998) I hope guys do one day.
Chris Boise
2024-04-03 00:19:45 +0000 UTCThe bit you guys did of Gammon eating metal and rocks eventually evolving into impressions of Gammon in Terminator 2 might just be a season highlight. Absolutely brilliant stuff.
Busiris
2024-04-03 00:03:56 +0000 UTCYou guys Action Boyz did a The Rookie episode yesterday!
FiddlersGreenDay
2024-04-02 23:49:04 +0000 UTCMy god I love this movie, thank you very much for doing an episode on it. Growing up in Scotland, this was my first exposure to baseball (what the fuck was my father thinking letting me watch this at 8 years old?) and I've loved the sport ever since.
Christopher Bruce
2024-04-02 23:22:05 +0000 UTCFun Fact: On Audible, for free with Audible+, there is a version of Moby Dick as read by Porkins and Colonel Eaton himself, William Hootkins. It is...ok.
The Wheel
2024-04-02 23:16:34 +0000 UTCNice pull. I haven't seen ML2 in like 25 years and never saw 3, so I wouldn't remember that part.
Mark Ibarra
2024-04-02 22:46:27 +0000 UTCThat line is used in the sequel in a way that is so clunky both the actor and the character are embarrassed by it
Kevin Lynch
2024-04-02 22:45:22 +0000 UTCYou went to Salesian?! Cardinal Spellman HS for me! Bronx Unite 😂
Lynette Michelle
2024-04-02 22:19:20 +0000 UTCThe sequel has my favorite bit of Gammon where he turns into Devito penguin just before hilariously having a heart attack
Chris Tobias
2024-04-02 21:48:34 +0000 UTCJust listened, great ep...you guys talk about Chelsey Ross being mid 40s in this, Gammon was born in 1940 so he was apparently somehow FOURTY-NINE when this came out. And he and Sheen apparently got along famously on set. Here's a quote from the king of Sheenpril... "James Gammon? You want to talk about an absolute fucking warlock? This guy shows up one morning, and he's so hung over that he has the bar still attached to his head. I've never seen a man in this much pain trying to make a cup of coffee. He was an awesome dude."
johnny stocker
2024-04-02 19:21:04 +0000 UTCI realized that I was older than the crusty old pitcher while watching this... then I wept
Jeff Wanless
2024-04-02 18:44:28 +0000 UTCWild that Homicide isn't streaming anywhere. BTW, L.A. Law is streaming on Hulu, and New York Undercover is on Peacock, if you're interested.
Felipe Hallenbeck
2024-04-02 18:13:20 +0000 UTCOh man, as problematic as a lot of this movie is, definitely an ell for me. I love skinny Wesley Snipes.
Paul DeCoursey-Clark
2024-04-02 16:55:29 +0000 UTCMy former high school mascot just changed from Braves. But it was mandated by state of New York and would not have changed if not. Thankfully most people I know seemed to understand the reason.
Matt Reid
2024-04-02 14:45:21 +0000 UTCFunny enough, the trailer for Major League was so ubiquitous at the time that one of the more memorable jokes was actually cut from the final movie and became a sort of Mandela Effect that people falsely remember. In the restaurant, after Vaughn gives up a Heywood HR: Jake: "That ball wouldn't have gone out of a lot of parks." Ricky: "Name one." Jake: "Yellowstone?"
Mark Ibarra
2024-04-02 14:39:30 +0000 UTCPairing this with Night Game has the pod on a baseball kick. They hate movies, but love ball games! Down for it.
Jason
2024-04-02 14:36:43 +0000 UTCThe dick biting fight is one of the funniest protracted bits since the Jeff Bridges “fuckin witches” rant from Seventh Son.
Gone
2024-04-02 14:33:50 +0000 UTCWhich tracks, because they keep fucking up the move too.
Mark Ibarra
2024-04-02 14:33:26 +0000 UTCThe youth football team from my hometown? Yup, just checked. Still the Redskins. In SoCal!!! Jeeeeesus.
Mark Ibarra
2024-04-02 14:30:03 +0000 UTCThis picture really makes you feel all the ass sweat and functional alcoholism of C-land
Eren Keskin
2024-04-02 14:26:31 +0000 UTCI think Rachel Phelps went on to acquire the Oakland A’s.
jribs
2024-04-02 14:24:57 +0000 UTCTom Berenger trying to court Rene Russo in this movie: https://youtu.be/MNILLyX9084?si=jBJArctn_My56PUr
DMAC
2024-04-02 12:07:47 +0000 UTCWatched this with my Dad in the early 90s and quoted the hell out of it with my cousins. Love this movie. The saddest part was not understanding why Jake had to ice his knees so much, and turning 36 this year ... I get it now.
Watch_N_Rewatch
2024-04-02 11:34:33 +0000 UTCI hate Randy Newman.
Catboyslim
2024-04-02 11:33:12 +0000 UTCI'd never seen this one before so I gave it a watch yesterday... Woof. This should be a fun episode to listen to.
Carey Johnson
2024-04-02 11:09:20 +0000 UTCLemme think about it Charlie, I'm on the other line with a guy about some white walls, I'll talk to you later..
Nathan Lemire
2024-04-02 11:09:06 +0000 UTCI legit want to buy the shirt 😂
Ray
2024-04-02 07:53:12 +0000 UTCMy highschool mascot was also the Indians and it definitely still is. I grew up in Bumfuck, Idaho.
Ray
2024-04-02 07:52:50 +0000 UTCI get a laugh every time I see that logo!
Doug Dee
2024-04-02 04:54:59 +0000 UTCThis movie is like 50% pretty great and 50% 'Yikes', which should make for a fun episode. Love Gammon in this, like a hall of fame lovable old curmudgeon performance. Matthau-esque i would even dare to say.
johnny stocker
2024-04-02 04:18:17 +0000 UTCOh, hooray! This is the first free screening I attended after starting a high school job at Cineplex Odeon in 1989. I loved it then, and it might not hold up (guessing there are some jokes that are horribly offensive in retrospect), but excited for the ep!
Vōclō
2024-04-02 04:05:48 +0000 UTC
