Episode 430 - Forrest Gump
Added 2019-07-07 19:29:41 +0000 UTCOn this month's bonus episode, the gang chats about the Oscar-winning, AFI darling, Forrest Gump! Did Forrest sabotage the rest of those shrimp boats using the power of the Lord? How great is Sally Field? And when you boil it down, isn't this film really just about a man bothering people at a bus stop?
Forrest Gump stars Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Kurt Russell; directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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The Genesis Device!
Allison
2025-08-24 23:37:14 +0000 UTCHoly shit! Is this the Genesis of The Movie Trailer game?
Matzar
2025-04-05 17:59:04 +0000 UTCMan, I thought I was the only one on the planet that didn’t like this movie.
Sharon
2024-11-01 18:05:04 +0000 UTCWhenever my spirit needs a pick me up, I come back to this one and listen to The Usual Suspects rant 😂 "The moron! Did you see him?!" 😂🤣😂 The 44:30 mark for anyone who is interested
Dennis Stack
2024-07-11 10:19:02 +0000 UTCThe almost universal love this movie got in its heyday made me feel that much more alone when I was young
Noura Sarayel
2024-05-15 12:43:03 +0000 UTCLt. Dan depressed on New Years is my spirit animal.
Ray,thisisWalter
2024-01-06 00:04:25 +0000 UTCGlad to see this movie get taken down a few pegs. FOREST GUMP: stealing accomplishments from Black People.
Ray,thisisWalter
2024-01-05 23:21:29 +0000 UTCbtw, it's super cool to hear how far you guys have come politically. like it's really nice to hear you all calling out the racism and the boomer perception of socialism.
Araña
2021-01-06 21:38:12 +0000 UTCi saw this movie once in college, and dumbass that i was my friends and i did a drinking game to it. we drank so much and got so rowdy we had the cops called on us and i nearly died of alcohol poisoning. /don't/ drink every time he says "mama".
Araña
2021-01-06 21:32:23 +0000 UTCg-d, when you all mentioned the fruit company i thought it was gonna be a chiquita banana reference and forrest ended up overthrowing a latin american government.
Araña
2021-01-06 21:30:51 +0000 UTCThank you guys for this episode; Although the boomer bashing was a bit much because some did do good things; however, for someone who suffers from severe depression, you had me laughing my ass off. I needed this episode today. I have been going through some rough times and I have to say. This was fucking hilarious.
Melissa
2020-08-18 17:38:57 +0000 UTC"cause in communism you eat your own babies" good thing there's no one in the offices these days cause I can't stop laughing out loud
Chrissy N
2020-06-15 20:41:59 +0000 UTCThe guys who started the Black Panthers were all born in the 1930s and early 1940s, which makes them part of the Silent Generation. Baby Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964
Robert McCarthy
2019-07-25 16:24:44 +0000 UTCYou guys talked a lot about boomers hating the black panther party... but the members of the black panther party are also now boomers... generational analysis is useless
Anna Stansfield
2019-07-24 03:06:02 +0000 UTCI like how Forrest sometimes sounds a lot like Al Gore :p
Pete Sharwarko
2019-07-12 02:05:52 +0000 UTCYou have all inadvertently created a film cosmology where Forrest is so lucky because he magically leached all of Jenny’s. Also, for some reason (Steve?) gently singing the Silvestri score which led to the composers as bullies riff was just beautiful
Boots Century
2019-07-12 01:24:20 +0000 UTCI think Steve thought FG was about Al Gore, he was doing his Gore impersonation the whole time
Smaug
2019-07-11 22:54:46 +0000 UTCEric Szyszka with the Love Vigilantes joke made my day! Thank you, Eric!
daniel trice
2019-07-10 15:38:29 +0000 UTCThis episode is worth a Patreon subscription all by itself and I wish I had friends as discerning as this in 1994 when all my friends liked it
Jesse Bacon
2019-07-10 02:45:07 +0000 UTCthese are the best! please do more take downs of big-budget movies that tend to be remembered fondly today. My all time WHM episodes are definitely ones like Three men and a baby, mrs doubtfire, and yeah now forrest gump. Best line was the "shroud of turin" happy face. too good take my money.
Kurt Ellis
2019-07-09 23:38:40 +0000 UTCBoy do I here this fucking movie
Geoffrey Zoref
2019-07-09 22:33:17 +0000 UTCI was a fan of the greatest hits soundtrack when I was a kid. A whole generation of kids more into classic rock than current rock. Needless to say, I was a fifty year old in a high schooler's body. No Nirvana for me!
Alex Miraski
2019-07-09 18:00:04 +0000 UTCI still love this movie but I'm not American, I live in the UK, so maybe its because of the American history/pop culture references that ages it poorly for an American viewer today?
Tim Ward
2019-07-09 07:39:24 +0000 UTCHad the VHS of this movie and my parents wore it the fuck down. And as an adult this movie has had astounding diminishing returns, especially when there was that Family Guy episode that just showed the parts of Jenny ditching Forrest at intermittent points of his life till ultimately she passes away. DOES SHE OR DOES SHE NOT ALSO INFECT HIM WITH HIV???? Seriously how is this totally glossed over?????
Daniel Garcia
2019-07-09 06:57:12 +0000 UTCAlso has a below average IQ but will still die with more money then most Gen X or Millenials will
Dan sulin
2019-07-09 01:13:38 +0000 UTCTeacher needed a break from you damn kids!! Forest Gump is a good three days of Class wasting for HighSchool
Dan sulin
2019-07-09 01:13:03 +0000 UTCYou take the high road and I'll take the low road...
Andrew Burt
2019-07-08 23:57:22 +0000 UTCI have cousins who were obsessed with Forrest Gump when we were kids. No joke, they would actually play as Bubba and Lt. Dan. I have a special hatred for this movie.
Andrew Burt
2019-07-08 23:54:25 +0000 UTCIt still astounds me that there's a real life chain restaurant that came out of this movie!
Unicorn Trista
2019-07-08 19:52:38 +0000 UTCYour Forrest Gump impression is getting dangerously close to Tobolowsky. I want a bit where it’s the two of them sitting down for an “Inside the Actor’s Studio”- type show.
Jarrod Hornbeck
2019-07-08 18:55:14 +0000 UTCNo joke, my mother owns a Forest Gump commemorative sweater and as a child (and also today) I was confused as to why there's a large feather on it...
Lindsey
2019-07-08 16:27:54 +0000 UTCIf you want another boomer problems movie, check out "The Big Chill". I watched it last year for the 1st time. Afterwards, I was like "Man, that generation has never suffered any adversity." (Unless you're queer, POC, single mother, etc.)
Havo
2019-07-08 14:36:27 +0000 UTCside note, in many articles they say Jenny doesn't have HIV, she has Hep c. . . . although they never say it
Toaden
2019-07-08 14:23:25 +0000 UTC*rabble rabble pitchfork rabble*
Jon Brubeck
2019-07-08 14:19:22 +0000 UTCThat episode of The Simpsons was terrible
Swan Benson
2019-07-08 13:49:28 +0000 UTCgod I'm dying here. all these post 80's Forrest scenarios are hilarious.
Frank Grimes
2019-07-08 12:23:13 +0000 UTCThis movie was part of the one-two Philadelphia and Gump punch that landed Tom Hanks as an immortal Hollywood star. We can thank it for the role it played in that wonderful occurance.
Alexander Farr
2019-07-08 03:48:23 +0000 UTCWell, we've got an episode right up there with Mortal Kombat and Pippi Longstocking.
Brian Moore
2019-07-08 03:34:49 +0000 UTCForrest Gump is the fucking Baby Boomers’ model citizen: dumb, clean cut, follows orders and doesn’t question authority.
Paul
2019-07-08 02:17:38 +0000 UTCDefinitely heard Eric say cum. I feel like he wanted to but the restraint was just unreal lol
Jason Banks
2019-07-08 01:48:19 +0000 UTCMy name is Forrest and I was 10 when this movie came out so I fucking hate it, although I suspect that would be the case regardless. Because it's horrible.
Forrest Lillibridge
2019-07-08 01:42:08 +0000 UTCKurt Russell?! Wait. WHERE?!?!
Tyrone Grizz
2019-07-08 00:50:09 +0000 UTCI rewatched this 10 years ago and it's ok to like a movie, but it's a piece of shit. We HAD to watch it in school when I was 14 for who knows why.
Luke Jacobs
2019-07-07 22:50:23 +0000 UTCI’m screaming Braveheart in my apartment.
Kyle
2019-07-07 20:35:02 +0000 UTC🎶what if god was a mediocre white man with an intellectual disability🎶
Johnny Wrong
2019-07-07 20:29:21 +0000 UTCI always laugh at the scene when he says: "I went to see the president...again" (Forrest rolls eyes), like it was such a common occurrence. Or in the end when he tells us Lt. Dan signed him up for some fruit company...shit if he had them stocks then and until now, woo boy
Frank Grimes
2019-07-07 19:33:16 +0000 UTC
