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This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan light a candle for all the former child stars doing porn and robbing gas stations and lament the end of trashy 90s television \\u2014 the genital warts of American society. We watched The Cable Guy and discovered that Americans would rather have their comedic heroes talking out of their rectums than critiquing our dumb media consumption. Put on your Doc Martens and pop in your Mazzy Star mix CD because we go back to a morally murky time \\u2014 the 1990s.

The Cable Guy (1996)

d. Ben Stiller
Writer. Lou Holtz Jr.

Starring:
Jim Carrey
Matthew Broderick
Leslie Mann
Jack Black
Janeane Garofalo

Oddball cable installer Chip Douglas (Jim Carrey) attempts to strike up a friendship with customer Steven Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) by offering him premium channels at no cost. When Steven rebuffs Chip\'s frequent need for companionship, Chip goes from a mildly eccentric acquaintance to a full-fledged psycho stalker. Though it\'s increasingly apparent to Steven that the cable guy is dangerous, convincing his friends, family and the authorities of that is another matter entirely.

Things discussed in the show:

Free will / tabula rasa

F is for Fake (Orson Welles,\\xa0Gary Graver, Oja Kodar,\\xa0Fran\\xe7ois Reichenbach)

Brain Smasher... A Love Story and Andrew Dice Clay vs. William Shakespeare (Albert Pyun, Teri Hatcher,\\xa0Yuji Okumoto)

Daisey Ridley

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

The Last Dance (Phil Jackson,\\xa0Michael Jordan,\\xa0David Aldridge, Chicago Bulls)

It\'s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Glenn Howerton,\\xa0Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito)

Hurlyburly (Anthony Drazan, Sean Penn,\\xa0Kevin Spacey,\\xa0Chazz Palminteri)

Space Force (Steve Carell,\\xa0Greg Daniels, John Malkovich,\\xa0Ben Schwartz)

Veep (Armando Iannucci, Julia Louis-Dreyfus,\\xa0Tony Hale,\\xa0Anna Chlumsky)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers,\\xa0George C. Scott,\\xa0Sterling Hayden)

Hyperdrive

Hannah - 2011 (Joe Wright, Saoirse Ronan,\\xa0Cate Blanchett,\\xa0Eric Bana)

David Lynch

Little Women - 2019 (Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan,\\xa0Emma Watson,\\xa0Florence Pugh)

Anne of Green Gables (Megan Follows,\\xa0Colleen Dewhurst,\\xa0Richard Farnsworth)

Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, Adam Driver,\\xa0Scarlett Johansson,\\xa0Julia Greer)

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Uncut Gems (Benny Safdie,\\xa0Josh Safdie, Adam Sandler,\\xa0Julia Fox,\\xa0Idina Menzel)

Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher, Val Kilmer,\\xa0Tommy Lee Jones,\\xa0Jim Carrey

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Tom Shadyac, Jack Bernstein, Jim Carrey,\\xa0Courteney Cox,\\xa0Sean Young)

The Mask (Chuck Russell, Jim Carrey,\\xa0Cameron Diaz,\\xa0Peter Riegert)

The Ben Stiller Show (Judd Apatow,\\xa0Jeff Kahn,\\xa0Ben Stiller, Andy Dick,\\xa0Janeane Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk, John F. O\'Donohue, David Cross)

Permanent Midnight (David Veloz, Ben Stiller,\\xa0Maria Bello,\\xa0Jay Paulson)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, Charlie Kaufman, Jim Carrey,\\xa0Kate Winslet,\\xa0Tom Wilkinson)

Jenny McCarthy

Sonic the Hedgehog (Jeff Fowler, Pat Casey,\\xa0Josh Miller, Ben Schwartz,\\xa0James Marsden,\\xa0Jim Carrey)

In Living Color (Keenen Ivory Wayans, Jim Carrey,\\xa0Kelly Coffield Park, David Alan Grier, T\'Keyah Crystal Keym\\xe1h, Tommy Davidson, Jamie Foxx, Damon Wayans, Jennifer Lopez)

Justin Beiber

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise,\\xa0Nicole Kidman,\\xa0Todd Field)

Matthew Broderick 1987 car accident

Daybreak (Aron Eli Coleite,\\xa0Brad Peyton, Colin Ford,\\xa0Alyvia Alyn Lind,\\xa0Sophie Simnett)

The Warriors (Walter Hill, Michael Beck,\\xa0James Remar,\\xa0Dorsey Wright)

WarGames (John Badham, Matthew Broderick,\\xa0Ally Sheedy,\\xa0John Wood)

Project X (Jonathan Kaplan, Matthew Broderick,\\xa0Helen Hunt)

The Menendez Brothers

The Andy Dick Show (Andy Dick,\\xa0Paul Henderson,\\xa0Lacy Livingston, Ashton Kutcher, Jason Biggs)

The Sarah Silverman Program (Dan Harmon,\\xa0Rob Schrab,\\xa0Sarah Silverman, Laura Silverman,\\xa0Brian Posehn, Steve Agee, Tig Notaro, Justin Roiland, Ron Lynch)

The Jerry Springer Show (Jerry Springer,\\xa0Peter A Kelly,\\xa0Steve Wilkos)

Trial By Murder / The Jenny Jones Show

The OJ Simpson trial

Our scary future of deepfakes

Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, Tom Hanks,\\xa0Meg Ryan,\\xa0Ross Malinger)

Turner\\xa0&\\xa0Hooch (Roger Spottiswoode, Tom Hanks,\\xa0Mare Winningham,\\xa0Craig T. Nelson)

Mtv news / Tabitha Soren / Kurt Loader / Matt Pinfield

Liquid Television

Cable Guy soundtrack (Primative Radio Gods, Silverchair, Toadies, Porno For Pyros, Cracker, Cypress Hill)

Singles soundtrack (Alice in Chains, Chris Cornell, Paul Westerberg, The Lovemongers, Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, Paul Westerberg, \\xa0Jimi Hendrix, Screaming Trees, Smashing Pumpkins)

Gift (Jane\'s Addiction, Perry Ferrel)

Next week: Raising Arizona