Episode 7
Adam Scott
"Who the fuck is Adam Scott?" Well I'm sure you know about Adam Scott by now. He was on a very successful show called Parks and Recreation. Adam also was in a movie called Step Brothers. He's done numerous things in his career and he always gets the laugh. Dax sits him down and grills him on how he scored that Step Brothers gig over him. It seems likely that it was with his pure charm and wit.
What's this all about?
No matter who you are there is always a person that ends up getting something that you wanted. In this episode of Armchair Expert, Dax gets to chat with a guy who was able to score a role over him. The conversation gets interesting when Adam reveals he went for Dax’s role in Zathura. In the end both see that the roles they won truly belong to that person. Oh, this episode is also about Monica’s hot Grandmother. Run to your time machines and fire them up here!
What did they say?
- @1:40 Side note about Monica…. Dax talks about Monica’s Grandmother for the first time. He’s firing up the time machine as this is being typed. We will hear about Monica’s Grandmother again.
- @7:15 “There wasn’t really a template for the Sci-Fi Action Comedy half-hour show.” Adam talks about working on the show Ghosted. The show was a challenge due to its new twist. Adam sells the show as a Midnight Run meets the Twilight Zone.
- @19:42 “Chocolate Ice Cream and a Zippo Lighter.” Dax makes an unsuccessful attempt at an analogy using chocolate ice cream and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Adam and Monica sound puzzled since those two things go great together. Leading Adam to combine the zippo with the ice cream.
- @22:47 “You’re from Santa Cruz?” Adam details his life in Santa Cruz. Dax of course got mushrooms from Santa Cruz.
- @29:50 “All the guys I would see in Thrasher I would see on the half pipe.” Adam talks about going to parties in Santa Cruz as a kid with pro skaters Keith Meek and Rob Roskopp.
- @41:51 “You’re a real student of Lee” Adam admired Spike Lee so much that he wanted to go to NYU. He even wore a Knicks hat and grew a goatee. It also opened up his music horizons to include hip hop acts like Public Enemy.
- @52:33 “I shouldn’t have been a guest on the show.” Dax explains how he ended up on Letterman. Surprisingly, it has nothing to being on Punk’d and everything to do with Bonnie Hunt’s show Life with Bonnie.
- @55:35 “You actually had to go and fend for yourself.” Dax and Adam discuss how they found their “tribes” during their teen years before the internet. Dax brings up the band The Exploited from the last episode with Pete Wentz.
- @1:01:34 “Who the fuck is Adam Scott?” Dax recalls losing the role of Derek in Step Brothers to some guy named Adam Scott. Dax in the end loves the job Adam did (so does a whole bunch of other people) and went on to be a big fan of Adam’s work.
- @1:04:09 “I auditioned for Zathura.” Adam tells Dax how he auditioned for the role that Dax would ultimately get.
- @1:11:15 “He really is a lovely, regular dude.” Adam and Dax talk about how wonderful Will Ferrell is as a person.
These are the facts...
- @1:28:11 The Fact Check begins
- Movies like 48Hrs., Rush Hour, Cop Out, Men In Black and Die Hard with a Vengeance all borrow thematic elements from Midnight Run.
- Michael Rosenbaum is the person knocked out cold in the beginning of Hit and Run.
- You would need a CT Scan or a MRI if you were to get knocked out cold from a puch. Not a PET Scan as Dax had said during the episode.
- UC Santa Cruz had Pass/Fail until 2000. Dax has a thing for schools that do Pass/Fail grading since this is the second time he brought it up. The first mention was during Joy Bryant’s episode.
- There is a whole history of surf gangs in Santa Cruz. There have been fatalities.
- Castle Wolfenstein was made for the Apple II in 1981
- The average ticket price for a movie in 1983 was $3.50.
- McTwist is a skateboarding and snowboarding transitional trick invented by McGill of Powell Peralta fame. The trick consists of a front flip with a 540 degree rotation.
- Nate Tuck met Dax during his time there at the Groundlings.
- In 1989 River Phoenix was nominated for an Oscar for the movie Running on Empty.
- The Santa Cruz area relies on agriculture, tourism, high tech and educational industries.
- Burt Reynolds was the 4th biggest box office star in the 70’s and the 3rd biggest star in the 80’s.
- Smokey and the Bandit was 2nd in 1977 behind Star Wars, it grossed $127 million.
- Avatar was in release for 34 weeks.
- Spike Lee’s signature move on a dolly is called the double dolly shot.
- Bonnie Hunt’s sitcom was called Life with Bonnie.
- Jerry O’Connell’s character name in Stand By Me is Vern.
- IGA is a grocery store.
- Groundlings and Upright Citizen’s Brigade are comedy schools. Groundlings is only in L.A. UCB is in NYC and L.A.
- Without a Paddle had a 19 million dollar budget and grossed 69.63 million. Zathura had a 65 million dollar budget and made 64.3 million.
- Monica could not check to see if 60% of Will Ferrell’s skill set is writing.
- The Frog in the Boiling Water is a fable.
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