196. Bachelor Party with special guest Chris Cirigliano - a podcast by Scott and Pete

"What did you say Stanley? You said No Hookers!" We watched the early Tom Hanks sex romp "Bachelor Party" (1984) with one of our favorite straights Chris Cirigliano (Very Special Television Podcast) and please don't cancel us for this one! They really don't make sex comedies the way they used to. Okay this may in fact be an ultra hetero, slightly misogynistic, defintely casually racist and possibly transphobic movie (stay with us I promise we have a point) but we definitely call the filmmakers out on their BS and address the bad along with the good. And boy is there some good in this movie. Young Tom Hanks is a charming as ever and 80's Hair Metal Video Vixen Tawny Kitaen (RIP) as his fiance is serving looks for days. The crew of horny dudes throwing the party is lead by none other than Adrian Zmed (Grease 2, T.J. Hooker) who wastes no time removing is shirt and singing a song in what is absolutely not a musical. The script is full of corny "Airplane" style sight gags and absurd humor but the cast has some comedy greats in here really giving it their all. We already loved Wendie Jo Sperber but the sight of her dressed as a Night Court style street walker pummeling her husband is worth the price of admission. And speaking of a cover charge Bachelor Party takes a trip to 80's mainstay Chippendale's for some full on beefcake. Let's be honest Nick "the dick" might be the sole reason we chose this movie but the gag is top notch.  We have memories of watching this one as kids but hey, we're the last of the Gen X kids and the first of the Millenials... we were raised by our VCRs and we're all the better for it. Should we have been watching a movie with allusions to a donkey show, plenty of bare breasts and lots and lots of use of the word "hookers"? Probably not - but if it weren't for raunchy comedies like Bachelor Party readily available on VHS and cable our therapists would be out of business.

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