Ruthless People
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Oct 23, 2026
Gil AlexanderHOST
You're right, because the Wizard always, when he was giving out the presents to the lion and the scarecrow and the tin man, all he's like, what's this? Where
Steve FezzikGUEST
I stole it from aggregated it from... was from the movie Ruthless People when Judge Reinhold is dressed up as Bozy for the ransom drop and someone jacks him during the ransom drop.
Steve FezzikGUEST
So he picks up, he's trying to get the ransom money and then someone's robbing him and he's looking up and he's like, he knows police is everywhere and he's like, what's...
Steve FezzikGUEST
This what is this? Stop him and give the bag to Bozo and put your hands in the air.
Gil AlexanderHOST
You're right, because the Wizard always, when he was giving out the presents to the lion and the scarecrow and the tin man, he's like, what's this? Where
Steve FezzikGUEST
I stole it from aggregated it from... was from the movie Ruthless People when Judge Reinhold is dressed up as Bozy for the ransom drop and someone jacks him during the ransom drop.
Steve FezzikGUEST
So he picks up, he's trying to get the ransom money and then someone's robbing him and he's looking up and he's like, he knows police is everywhere.
Steve FezzikGUEST
And he's like, what's...
McGraw MilhavenHOST
Tarekan is a savant when it comes to the Oscars, and each month we're gonna do a, uh, throwback movie.
McGraw MilhavenHOST
Tonight he wants to do a deep dive into that 1980s movie, Ruthless People.
McGraw MilhavenHOST
It was critically accan- acclaimed and a smash at the box office, starring, among others, Bette Midler and Danny DeVito.
McGraw MilhavenHOST
We'll get into that with him a little bit later on.
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McGraw MilhavenHOST
But, uh, some breaking news today about Timothy Busfield, and the judge in New Mexico dismissed all the charges against Timothy Busfield.
McGraw MilhavenHOST
Stay right there.
McGraw MilhavenHOST
We're gonna go back to the feature, Ruthless People.
McGraw MilhavenHOST
You forgot how good of a movie that was.
Derek HunterHOST
We got to have this as a drop.
Derek HunterHOST
There's a line in the movie, Ruthless People.
Derek HunterHOST
It's a great if you've never seen the movie Ruthless People, it's from the mid 80s.
Derek HunterHOST
It is so good.
Derek HunterHOST
So good.
RickAUDIENCE
You know-
Brian ThomasHOST
... it's like the, the, the, the buggy whip manufacturers from Ruthless People or whatever that story was.
Brian ThomasHOST
You know, at one time there was a whole bunch of buggy whip, buggy whip manufacturers, and as the automobile was introduced, fewer and fewer of them existed, and you had the one remaining buggy whip manufacturer that manufactured the best out there.
Brian ThomasHOST
Nobody could beat it.
G-ManHOST
So after that, he moved to New York.
G-ManHOST
He worked with Kathy Bates on a, in a, uh, stage production called Curse of the Starving Class, but it was just after that that he got three different films, and one was Ruthless People with Danny DeVito-
WhiteyHOST
Yep
G-ManHOST
... and Bette Midler.
Vinessa ShawGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Omri KatzGUEST
It was more, like, I loved Ruthless People, uh, Down and Out in Beverly Hills.
Vinessa ShawGUEST
Oh, wonderful.
Omri KatzGUEST
Like, all these great movies.
David BazzelHOST
Yeah.
Roger ScottHOST
It's the 40th anniversary of, uh, Ruthless People.
David BazzelHOST
Okay.
David BazzelHOST
I don't think I've seen that movie.
Roger ScottHOST
Helen Slater.
David BazzelHOST
Was this, was-
Roger ScottHOST
Ruthless People
David BazzelHOST
...
Kira Jade OppitzHOST
[laughs]
Keean Murrell-SnapeHOST
Fourth was Ruthless People, which had been open for a month.
Brodie KerrkillenHOST
Never heard of that.
Keean Murrell-SnapeHOST
Uh, it's a good movie.
Scott WeinbergHOST
fascinating? It sometimes works the other way.
Scott WeinbergHOST
I am blown away that a movie like Ruthless People is all but forgotten.
Scott WeinbergHOST
That movie was a smash hit in 1986.
Scott WeinbergHOST
Smash hit.
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