Rat Race
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Sep 11, 2026
John Patrick Owatari-DorganHOST
But I would argue that it's a subversion of the road movie genre, which was quite popular in the decade or so prior to this movie being made.
John Patrick Owatari-DorganHOST
Because in a road movie, traditionally, and I'm mostly constructing it out of a framework built on the Bob Hope road movies, but we've seen other movies, like Rat Race is a road movie that's much more modern.
John Patrick Owatari-DorganHOST
In many ways, those sort of pairings are meant to be equal but different, right? Both the straight and a sort of traditional road movie, because the original sort of basic version of a road movie involves a classic comedian combo, right? The straight man and the idiot, right? Or the goofy guy or the wild guy.
John Patrick Owatari-DorganHOST
There's always a straight man and some sort of thing that's supposed to be opposite of a straight man, right? But they're equal.
Dan GibbonsHOST
So he was just like earnest dude lead throughout the 90s, but I don't know that he ever really broke out huge.
Dan GibbonsHOST
Vince Villouf, I know as the guy with a tongue piercing that made him comically hard to understand in the 2000 movie Rat Race.
Keith ColeyHOST
Oh, okay.
Keith ColeyHOST
He's
Matt RosenGUEST
And I'm like, there's the one comedy that I go back to that everyone is like, oh yeah, that movie is like deranged.
Matt RosenGUEST
It's like Rat Race.
Matt RosenGUEST
And I...
Matt RosenGUEST
And that movie is so perfect to me and like no one, it's so underappreciated, but that movie is like fucking perfect.
Becky SloviterHOST
Like every comedian ever is in that movie.
Becky SloviterHOST
It's great.
Becky SloviterHOST
So when Rat Race came out, for me, it just was like, only saw it once.
Matt RosenGUEST
Yeah.
Josh McBrideHOST
stay at the previously negotiated rate while everybody else got bumps and then i
Seth GreenGUEST
said i'll come back anytime anytime write this character into the show i'll come back anytime and i wound up coming back in the fourth season doing like a very funny bit but it was great it was uh rat race and knock around guys I was like, I'm going to make these movies.
Seth GreenGUEST
I was like, I got offered this movie, this drama, by the guys that wrote Rounders that are directing this movie.
Seth GreenGUEST
This is the movie they wrote and are directing.
Seth GreenGUEST
Rat
Josh McBrideHOST
race.
Josh McBrideHOST
Rat race.
Josh McBrideHOST
Rat
Chris GordGUEST
yeah i never even saw a trailer for that so like idiots actually got the trailer for uh for some movie i forgot what it was but like
Connor PetreyHOST
i uh what one of uh just because this ending disappointed me and and for some reason because we were talking about the concert thing i i i just i haven't watched this film in at least 15 years but it's popped in my head of a concert film and then mixed with my feelings about the ending of this where i just was disappointed was uh have any of you seen uh the movie from like 2003 rat race
Chris GordGUEST
yeah i had
Connor PetreyHOST
2001. i
Austin ProctorHOST
Oh, that's not a sequel.
Austin ProctorHOST
Jeepers Creepers, Rat Race, Joyride, Session 9, Jason X, Ghost of Mars, Osmosis Jones, Hardball, and Bubble Boy.
Austin ProctorHOST
Uh...
Austin ProctorHOST
IMDb summary in 1945, following the end of the Second World War, a woman lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands before coming convinced that the home is haunted.
GuHOST
High concept slapstick road trip screwball comedy starring Breckenmire, Amy Smart, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooden Jr., Seth Green, John Lovitz, and Rowan Atkinson.
GuHOST
Rat race.
GuHOST
Rat race! I think you said 2011.
GuHOST
It's 2001, maybe? I said 2001.
GuHOST
Yeah, all right.
MacHOST
And if I
GuHOST
said 2011, good job looking past what I said.
MacHOST
I saw Rat Race in the theater.
FesterHOST
One movie.
FesterHOST
What was that? It was the movie Rat Race in 2001.
MichelleHOST
I never even heard of it.
FesterHOST
Yeah.
MJHOST
The celebrity handprints are in the concrete.
MJHOST
We go there, the only one
FesterHOST
they had playing was Rat Race.
FesterHOST
And it had a bunch of big actors in it that I thought would
Mike SchulteHOST
... and we held a vote of our own to request for one of your next reviews.
Mike SchulteHOST
Results came to an all-time classic, but possibly underrated comedy of Rat Race.
Mike SchulteHOST
If you guys could find it in your busy schedule and time to dedicate a podcast to my crew and add that little joy of a review, it would mean the world to them.
Mike SchulteHOST
Much appreciation for all you guys do.
Sean PryorHOST
Thank you so much, man.
Mike SchulteHOST
When you come back, we'll have some Cedar Ridge with you.
Mike SchulteHOST
But yep, you guessed it, today's movie is 2001's Rat Race.
Mike SchulteHOST
We're gonna be doing a scene-by-scene deep dive analysis on the entire movie.
ChungaHOST
Corn glizzy? That should be the name of a band.
ChungaHOST
So, for those of you who don't know the cock doggy, that's Rowan Atkinson in Rat Race.
ChungaHOST
We're not being gross.
ChungaHOST
We're not being gross.
ChungaHOST
It's Mr. Bean in Rat Race.
ChungaHOST
I think I'm touching it.
ChungaHOST
I think I found you.
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