Aug 11, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 10 segments
We're wrapping up Classic Hood Comedies Month with the trilogy that helped define the genre—Friday, Next Friday, and Friday After Next. From the front porch on Crenshaw to the suburbs and finally the…
Austin T. YoungPanelistCastroPanelist
Ricky RodriguezPanelist
Megan TobarPanelistMegPanelist[upbeat music] Welcome back to the Watchtower Film Podcast, a film review podcast on the Tower Cast Network.
By Cinephiles, for Cinephiles.
Of course, of course.
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
We are finalizing our hood comedy series-
... with the quintessential hood trilogy amongst- [laughs]
You wanna know why? 'Cause you ain't got no job.
You ain't got shit to do.
No.
Um, the fuck you stealing boxes for? [laughs]
Uh, so yeah, we're back.
We're gonna talk about, uh, the entire Friday trilogy.
I forgot, uh, you guys were saying the quotes.
I was like, "Oh, yeah, yeah, all three of them."
All three of them.
We gotta talk about all three of them.
That's right.
That's right.
Um, before we get to that, I wanna introduce everybody in the room.
We, we have everybody today.
This makes me so happy.
It's been a couple episodes.
That is true.
Where was everybody last week?
They were, they were just rolling.
Rolling, rolling, rolling.
Um, Mr. John Ericaster offering a write, a, an acting perspective amongst other things.
Uh-
He's a director now.
He is.
Yeah.
Uh, shit, I already forgot what I was gonna say.
Top flight security, motherfucker.
[laughs]
Peep the hat.
Mr. Michael Delah offering a cinematography perspective.
[laughs] I'm trying to see what the hype be.
Mr. Ricky Rodriguez and Austin Young in the back.
They, they don't have a camera on them quite yet anymore.
They may not have one forever.
I don't know.
We'll see.
I had forgotten.
Yeah, but they, you can hear their voices though, so say hi to the crowd.
Ricky, put that mic on your mouth.
Pimp in distress.
Pimp in distress.
And we ha- what are you sniffing, Meg, for God's sake? [laughs]
Cool.
So she's, she's-
... sniffing a peanut butter cup in the background.
She's sniffing peanut butter instead of eating it.
It's a thing, I guess.
Is that how you get your hair more blue? By sniffing peanut butter?
Oh, good, good, good.
Um, but we have, uh, the funny, the always funny, the always proud to be in the room, Megan Tobar.
So we're back, you can hear.
Um, we're-
... we-
What about our humble film servant?
This guy right here.
This guy right here.
All right.
That, that, that guy.
Huh?
[laughs]
True.
Or outline-
Oh, there's a couple.
That hairline.
There's maybe two.
Oh.
There's two?
I'll take out a loan and put a bet that no.
That's my dog.
Um, [clears throat] [laughs]
I'm humbled.
We're ba- I'm humbled.
Cinephiles of the world.
Who?
Your mama.
[laughs]
She Cinephiled the fuck out of me, son.
Wow
[laughs] She's, she's watching the hood comedies, right? Ann's watching the hood comedies.
[laughs] So let me know when you talk about real cinema, kid.
No, like, uh, I was gonna watch the first two yesterday and then she was like-
[laughs]
... okay, I might be like, you know, popping in and out and all that kind of stuff 'cause it's like by the laundry room.
Yeah.
Well-
It's not that bad.
Yeah.
So Me- Meg's mom.
[laughs]
I watched the first Friday in high school in a class.
Bro, I must have seen this-
Oh, wow
...
in an elementary class, man, elementary school.
For sure.
I ain't never seen it.
Shh.
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