Larry the Cable Guy: HEALTH INSPECTOR

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I caught the last second or two of the trailer the other day on TV, but just mustered up the courage to watch this a minute ago:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/larrythecableguyhealthinspector/large.html

I'm at a loss to decide which is a more depressing inclusion to the cast, Biff from Back to the Future or Buster from Arrested Development. I'll go with Biff.

Fart jokes! Rednecks! Stereotypes! Git ready to git r done!

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Sunday, 19 March 2006 01:18 (twenty years ago)

GITTING R DONED MARCH 24s 2006

― account settings (account), Sunday, 19 March 2006 01:23 (twenty years ago)

i love this guy

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 19 March 2006 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Can it beat the 8% tomato rating of Ultraviolet? Find out soon!

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 19 March 2006 01:33 (twenty years ago)

Ack! The title makes me think it will be this T-shirt: the movie:

http://www.menofleisure.com/images/giftshop/shirts/t411.gif

(That site also offered a shirt that said "pocket pool hustler.")

― Abbott (Abbott), Sunday, 19 March 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

LARRY THE CABLE GUY: CABLE GUY

― account settings (account), Sunday, 19 March 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

i know wtf http://myspace-804.vo.llnwd.net/00425/40/83/425863804_l.jpg
RIIIIIIIIIIIGHT?

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 19 March 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/46/114410888_81e2bba875_o.jpg

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Sunday, 19 March 2006 02:22 (twenty years ago)

further proof of the decline and fall of american culture

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 19 March 2006 07:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't get it... the quicktime movie breaks on me. who is this guy? is Larry supposed to be gay?

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Sunday, 19 March 2006 07:46 (twenty years ago)

ok, just googled and wikied...

NEVER MIND! </Emily Latella>

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Sunday, 19 March 2006 07:47 (twenty years ago)

I mean, maybe Seattle has just become so 'bear' dominated as far as influx goes to Capitol Hill/Hipsterville or something that my sexuality radar's all messed up, but if you were to plop some mid-aged guy in bright sleeveless flannel and a very insecure hypermasculine demeanor (judging from the photo above) in between Pike and Pine, he'd be cruised and double-fucked in 5 nanoseconds.

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Sunday, 19 March 2006 08:01 (twenty years ago)

ive always wanted to make larry my bottom, hes the ultimate nascar dad

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 19 March 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

he's pretty far from a nascar dad

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 19 March 2006 09:56 (twenty years ago)

rrr! we're bears! rrr!

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 19 March 2006 10:33 (twenty years ago)

Perfect example of why humanity doesn't deserve to exist!

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Sunday, 19 March 2006 11:03 (twenty years ago)

Biff from Back to the Future

Really good on Freaks and Geeks!

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Sunday, 19 March 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

but if you were to plop some mid-aged guy in bright sleeveless flannel and a very insecure hypermasculine demeanor (judging from the photo above) in between Pike and Pine, he'd be cruised and double-fucked in 5 nanoseconds.

I feel so wanted.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 19 March 2006 21:55 (twenty years ago)

usher is larry the cable guy
directed by the director of freaks & geeks
produced by the producer of the paris hilton sextape

― account settings (account), Sunday, 19 March 2006 21:57 (twenty years ago)

why is there a hasidic jew on a toilet and what does it have to do with health inspection?

― stockholm cindy is a guy with a belly button piercing (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 19 March 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

So bummed that the amazing David Koechner is in this. I look forward to David Cross' review.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

so, in partial response to account settings' post upthread, i'm forced to consider if the title "Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector" is supposed to indicate that he has the dual title of cable guy AND health inspector in this film or what. will he be fixing cable along with being a health inspector? does this add another layer of complexity to the film that i hadn't considered before? will he be grappling with the decision to choose between both jobs? peel the onion, people. PEEL IT.

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Finally... a Yahoo Serious for Mississippi.

― darin (darin), Monday, 20 March 2006 08:20 (twenty years ago)

except he went to an elite prep school in nebraska

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 20 March 2006 09:20 (twenty years ago)

and his schtick comes from flordia, there may be something interesting, in the working out of political consertavism, and the overlap in the west/midwest/south/fla. b/w certain elements of the culture...

the cross letter makes a big deal about the differences b/w nebraska and fla--and darin thinks hes from mississippi, which is a whole other beast...

but the interesting thing, is that the whole blue collar thing talks about the urban/rural spilt but refuses the formerly iron bound baggage of american geography...

the movie will not be to ilxs taste, but i think mr the cable guy, is a really interesting political figure

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 20 March 2006 09:23 (twenty years ago)

im surprised my brother hasnt answered yet,hes a huge "blue collar tour" fan and will back up claims of unfunny vs funny re:rural humor vs snarky new york/l.a. humor....but then i love all th ernest movies so whatevs

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:55 (twenty years ago)

You know, I'm not a huge David Cross fan ("Ever notice how fucking Christians always go to fucking church? Christ, motherfuckers, YOU'RE ALL FUCKING STUPID.") But this Open Letter to Larry the Cable Guy is hifuckinglarious.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 27 March 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

youd think with all the snotty (sic)s piled across that article to mock larry's stupidity maybe david cross would actually spell 'elitism' right

― +++, Monday, 27 March 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah that was the first thing I thought when I read that letter too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

how come he's a health inspector and not a cable guy? shouldn't this have been the sequel?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

well hes right about the bullshit anti-muslim stuff but id rather someone who isnt a smug asshole be saying it

― +++, Monday, 27 March 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Currently at 10% on Rotten Tomatoes, although it appears only 10 publications bothered to review it.

Best quote:
"That's how awful this picture is. It can't even come up with new diarrhea jokes." - Filmcritic.com

― erklie (erklie), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah well you can't pick your champions sometimes.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

and positioning fart jokes vs, gasp, anti-bush humor (approval rating at what, 34%? preaching to the converted) - yeah sorry i couldnt keep up w/ the subversive, groundbreaking humor of scary movie 2 & 'just shoot me'

― +++, Monday, 27 March 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Did Larry the Cable Guy's whining really need a ten page, point by point response?

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

its such an inept response the length doesnt really matter

― +++, Monday, 27 March 2006 18:28 (twenty years ago)

+++, you're thinking of David Spade, not David Cross

― erklie (erklie), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

never mind! IMDB helps. I'll grab my coat!

― erklie (erklie), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

what does git-r-done mean?

the wikipedia page didn't help, nor did watching most of one of his comedy central specials.

also, he's terribly unfunny. ron white, on the other hand, can be occasionally fan-fucking-tastic. i love his delivery.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

'get it done', i haven't listened to his act in years but i think its generally but not necessarily used as mock encouragement for just about anything; it was used semi-sincerely at my hs graduation but obv its been appropraited.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/ahepola/git_r_done_for_god.jpg

― tpf, Monday, 27 March 2006 18:52 (twenty years ago)

ok i actually sort of knew it was the same thing as "get it done" but what i don't get is if that's all it is, why is it funny, or a catchphrase, or... my head hurts.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

It's this thing.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 27 March 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

true dat

― tpf, Monday, 27 March 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

the reason you dont get the specific context in which git-r-done is funny is because its funny in every context

― +++, Monday, 27 March 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

You see it is funny because it is "git 'er done" (sic, git-r-done) which implies lack of patience for finishing a task while sounding down-homey by referring to something as "errr," like it is a woman.

In a sexual context, it's like saying to finish her off so you can go back to sitting on the couch watching television and eating a bucket of lard. Laziness and impatience.

― more like blue collar sadface tour (mike h.), Monday, 27 March 2006 19:17 (twenty years ago)

There was some pre-weekend buzz in Hollywood about how this movie was going to pull HUGE opening weekend numbers out of nowhere, since it was targeted at an unrepresented demographic group, a'la "Passion of the Christ" or "Diary of a Mad Black Woman"...
but fortunately it only pulled in about 7 million bucks, coming in at number 6.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

t/s: Larry the Cable Guy Health Inspector vs. "pre-weekend buzz in Hollywood"

― account settings (account), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Cross has his own failings (including writing "responses" that are a bit too long and anal-retentive), but he's basically right. this dude's schtick is way more patronizing and insulting to southerners than anything Cross's "liberal PC" ass has ever done. Also agree with Sterling about Ron White - I don't really laugh at much of his stuff, but he isn't playing a completely obvious (and boring, and pointless) caricature and he does pull off more of a "loveable asshole" kind of delivery.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:19 (twenty years ago)

"you might be a redneck if" is funnier

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Isn't Jeff Foxworthy a closet Democrat?

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

The mind boggles at the idea that anyone would consider hating Muslims or gays to be "un-PC" these days. Yes, what brave stances those are. I salute your courage, Mr. The Cable Guy.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

he's rilly stickin it to them terrerists

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

"See, commie rag head carpet flying wicker basket on the head balancing scumbags drive like THIS . . . "

― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

I thought 'peckerwood' was the derogatory term for white people not 'peckerhead'? This Cross fellow doesn't know what he's talking about.

― J. Broum, Monday, 27 March 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

sadly, this movie is terrible

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

i was actually excited...it pains me to pan you in print, larry

― strongo hulkington is a guy with a belly button piercing (dubplatestyle), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

LTCG was on Regis this morning. When you see this Nebraskan doing his character out-of-context, it's horrible.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

Saw him on Leno a few weeks ago waiting for Neko Case to come on. Watching fellow guest Julia Louis-Dreyfus trying to pretend he was funny was just excruciating.

― darin (darin), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

was it as excruciating as Julia Louios Dreyfus pretending SHE's funny?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:34 (twenty years ago)

It was really awkward and uncomfortable.

― darin (darin), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:57 (twenty years ago)

she shoulda said "I know you probably think I'm just an uptight rich liberal PC Jew, but I really love that dumb-redneck thing you do."

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 27 March 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to watch Neko Case hatefuck Larry the Cable guy with a bass guitar neck while chanting GIT R DONE GIT R DONE GIT R DONE

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:21 (twenty years ago)

sadly, this movie is terrible

But I thought you went to sleep with dreams of Larry the Cable Guy! Did they turn out to be nightmares?

― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

neko case basically = larry the cable guy/david cross right?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

No, you're thinking of Roseanne.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:24 (twenty years ago)

roseanne = sally field in punchline X ron white

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:29 (twenty years ago)

conor oberst = emo phillips/bill maher

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Larry the Cable Guy = Larry King + Hillbilly Jim

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:32 (twenty years ago)

Larry the Cable Guy = Hank + Boomhauer + Dale + Bill (- Bill?)

― send your men of science quick (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:41 (twenty years ago)

jody that's like saying 'jerry seinfeld = groucho + harpo + chico + zeppo (-zeppo?)'

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. I suppose I shouldn't read too much into that last post, right?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

I don't even see similarities between Larry and King of the Hill, aside from some vague relationship to the South.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:46 (twenty years ago)

IT'S ALL FLYOVER ANYWAY WILLY LET THEM LOSE THEIR SOULS

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

the hank = groucho is iffy (peggy's probably closer) but boomhauer = harpo and dale = chico align nicely i think

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:50 (twenty years ago)

What relationship does Larry King have to the South?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

i don't know - what?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Ah, see, I thought the Larry here...

I don't even see similarities between Larry and King of the Hill, aside from some vague relationship to the South.

...was Larry King.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

larry king of the hill!

― send your men of science quick (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

QED

― send your men of science quick (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

haha larry king = (boomhauer X dale)/bill's love life

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:57 (twenty years ago)

i think you may be on to something

― send your men of science quick (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 01:59 (twenty years ago)

everytime i see 'they call me tater salad' in gas stations i'm so tempted to check it out - 'why do they call him tater salad???' - but never do cuz i don't want to ruin the mystery and i don't feel like spending eight bucks on a ron white dvd. i always read it in my mind as similar to 'they call me mr. tibbs'.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

more likely "They call Me Mr. Pibb"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

Substituting some terms, the above means Larry King = (Harpo X Chico)/Bill's Love Life.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:03 (twenty years ago)

Cheap puns! You want em' I got 'em.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

nabisco's all call me mr. pibb

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

dude's a freak for the pibb

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

his tater salad gag is so worth it. also his vegitarian gag and most of his wife jokes.

haven't heard a single particularly racist, anti-immigrant, or anti-gay thing out of his mouth and he actually has a few signature gags against homophobia. his death penalty stuff was pretty irritating tho and all his stuff on how california cops aren't as badass as texas cops, etc. the irritating part was also that they were pretty good gags.

still his newest special dragged a bit -- like he was trying too hard to please.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:28 (twenty years ago)

whos the dood on the redneck comedy jam that has white hair a cigar and a whiskey and a black suit? i like that mans style.

― shredding repis on the gnar gnar rad (chaki), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:38 (twenty years ago)

that's ron white. he's a funny man.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:43 (twenty years ago)

It's a shame he wasn't on the Blue Collar TV show. It might have actually been funny. The Blue Collar Comedy Tour record is a curiousity -- there's Goober, Goofus, Gross-Out, and then this guy, who bits a lot from Bill Hicks without biting any of his material.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

I FUCKING HATE THIS GUY

― Dan (FUCK HIM) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:40 (twenty years ago)

HORSE APPLES

― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

the second ron white special was not as good as tater salad.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://imdb.com/title/tt1001562/

the only interesting thing about this new one: yaphet kotto as "alonzo mosely"

― omar little, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:39 (eighteen years ago)

Snakes on a Plane!

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 21 February 2008 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

Quotes:[from trailer]
Larry: Dang, my hand hasn't been this sore since the first episode of Baywatch!

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 February 2008 09:44 (eighteen years ago)

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