The Cable Guy
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Sep 11, 2026
Mark HowardHOST
Yeah, I, I think-
Jason DunstallHOST
Cable Guy.
Nathan BrownPANELIST
Mm.
Mark HowardHOST
I think we've only got...
Danny ChifleyHOST
Some of the TV shows we did get were Seinfeld and The Simpsons, and in the '90s both had episodes about this thing called cable.
Danny ChifleyHOST
And then there was that 1996 comedy starring Jim Carrey called The Cable Guy.
Danny ChifleyHOST
What is this cable? It appeared to have something to do with TV, and it was quite expensive.
Danny ChifleyHOST
U2's whole Zoo TV shtick in the mid-'90s was commenting on information overload through satellite TV.
ZachHOST
So summer of 96, because this came out in June of 96, right? And let's go ahead and take a look at what was going on at that time.
ZachHOST
And we're looking at, let's see, Dragonheart, The Rock, The Cable Guy, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Independence Day.
BrianHOST
Yeah, that was a pretty big movie.
ZachHOST
Yeah, that was a pretty big movie.
James Cullen BressackHOST
And then the last thing that he also did, when people remember in Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins going, hello, Carrey, it's good to see you.
James Cullen BressackHOST
He never says that in Silence of the Lambs, but in The Cable Guy, Jim Carrey puts chicken on his face at Medieval Times and goes, Hello, Clarice, it's good to see you.
James Cullen BressackHOST
Silence of the Lambs.
James Cullen BressackHOST
And so that's why people remember this.
Granville MoonwalkerHOST
Well, in The Eternal Sunshine of Kev's Spotless Mind [laughs]
Kev in the JohnHOST
In, in, [laughs] in that first photo you showed me with his expression, he looks like someone has plugged into his arse, the Cable Guy.
Kev in the JohnHOST
I worked for that one.
Granville MoonwalkerHOST
Yes, man.
Kev in the JohnHOST
Oh, crikey.
Granville MoonwalkerHOST
Um-
Kev in the JohnHOST
The, The Cable Guy was a dark comedy, wasn't it? So that was edging serious, but still Jim Carrey.
Granville MoonwalkerHOST
Yeah.
PeterHOST
I've never seen Ransom.
PeterHOST
Space Jam, Jerry Maguire, Cable Guy.
PeterHOST
I've seen all those.
PeterHOST
So yeah, there's a bunch.
Stephen HydenGUEST
No, it's irreplaceable.
Lena MorganHOST
If you lose White Rabbit, then you get to keep Somebody to Love, which does mean you get to keep Jim Carrey singing Somebody to Love and the Cable Guy, which is important.
Lena MorganHOST
Seminal.
Lena MorganHOST
A core memory for many of us.
Judd ApatowGUEST
Yeah, and so I was aware enough of quality, and I really believed in my own opinion of what was good, so I always felt like I knew if something was good, and the idea if people liked it or critics liked it was separate than my own sense of it.
Judd ApatowGUEST
But when The Cable Guy came out and it didn't get the reviews we wanted, and it did okay in the box office, but not what they wanted...
Judd ApatowGUEST
I was kind of really thrown by it, and Gary Shanley said, you should talk to Warren Beatty.
Judd ApatowGUEST
He set me up to have lunch with Warren Beatty and Warren Beatty said, you know, you never know if these things are good for like 10 years.
Frank SantopadreHOST
Yeah.
Judd ApatowGUEST
And he says, you know, time will tell you if it survived, what people really thought of it, if it made an impact.
Judd ApatowGUEST
And now the cable guy is, you know, 30 years.
Judd ApatowGUEST
We're
Josh MuellerHOST
They're doing a lot of practice in the yards, and then there's a big joust at the end, and it's great.
Josh MuellerHOST
Number five, The Cable Guy.
Josh MuellerHOST
For all the reasons you mentioned, I probably should have had it higher.
Josh MuellerHOST
Number four, The Last Duel.
NicoleHOST
I
MarkHOST
became like, oh, I'm going to buy everything I could find at the record store, including the Cable Guy soundtrack.
MarkHOST
Did you watch the movie, The Cable Guy? I have
NicoleHOST
seen The Cable Guy.
NicoleHOST
Jim Carrey.
NicoleHOST
Forgotten movie.
5 MINS LATER
NicoleHOST
but it was another leg of marketing.
MarkHOST
For like a middle schooler, it practically did matter.
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