Theme from Fletch is one of the most underrated themes of all time.

So good. This is the deep dive podcast into CC’s career I didn’t know I needed.

Ryan Reynolds is kind of that sarcastic, I’m too cool to care person now

Vince Vaughn would be a perfect cast for a modern day Fletch, IMO. Additionally, "God Don Don, who is it Mr. Senelininn...?" airport scene is one of my most rewatchables for Fletch.

Kid; "Are you a cop? Fletch; "As far as you know!

I never get tired of this classic!

They never mention how weird Fletch’s #32 Magic jersey is in this movie. The gap between the 3 and the 2 is ridiculously huge.

I had never seen this film, but watched it after this. Now I know the exact moment Ryan Reynolds's professional persona was conceived - which makes sense, his breakthrough role being NL's Van Wilder. Fletch is a Proto-Deadpool.

"Would you like to look at the wedding pictures? No thanks, I'm trying to quit !"

Love this movie. Fletch F. Fletch. Also the music is great too.

Fred "The Dorf" Dorfman

I find actress DWN very charming in this movie. The Rewatchables fellas aren’t giving her credit. She never struck me as being a bad actress. My impression of her character was that of a very attractive woman in a marriage that’s run it’s course. Her husband’s a wealthy guy, who’s private exploits wouldn’t surprise her, and she’s smitten and charmed by Fletch. I love her in this movie.

Seems Like Old Times is hilariously great.

Yall are missing it with Fletch Lives. Perhaps the best line in either movie is, "She felt great to me!"

I was 5 when this came out. I saw it two or three years later and immediately loved it

Alfa romeo kid was in the waltons. His deep voice is hilarious!

Fletch might be one of the most quotable movies of all time. Foul Play is worth a re-watch, Chase is great and it the type of comedy not made anymore. Worth watching for Burgess Meredith alone.

Fletch has feelings and expresses them subtly in the scenes when the guy wants to garnishee his wages and the sequence thereafter

One of my favourite movies of all time.

Woah! There's Fred! Won't he be surprised!

I do the “0h he drawls the foul” running into the ex wife lawyer I do that shit with my sons all the time

When Tommy Lasorda died a few weeks back I commemorated him by sending the clip from Fletch, "I hate Tommy Lasorda", to friends.

Don’t worry my sons hated “Weird Science “. And I’m still LMAO

They forgot, "It was something your wife said while we were in bed together. She said we had the same build. From the waist up I imagine."

Jon Hamm is now in the new Fletch, but a very different Fletch, based more on the book's character.

Don't recall having seen "The Saint"...but now that I've checked out the soundtrack, that's my kind of music: Fluke's "Atom Bomb", Chemical Brothers' "Setting Sun", Underworld, Dreadzone, Sneaker Pimps-I mean, those are artists in a genre I quite like, so thanks for bringing them up (despite being mocked and dismissed by other folks on the pod).

The highlight of this amazing pod is all The Saint talk

I saw Fletch when it came out in the theater. I made my Dad take me to see it. The scenes were clever and I didn't the want the movie to end. My only disappointment was, in the promo poster for the movie, CC was disguised as a hockey player and obviously that wasn't in the actual movie. Only Chevy can play Fletch. They should do another movie, but only if Chevy wants to. As for favorite scenes, the airplane mechanic does it for me

Great pod.. thanks fellas

Always love Chevy chase movies growing up and the good thing for me my sons a fan just like me ,has been since he was little im 49 now and he's 19 and Always quoting Chevy film quotes lol😆

1:02:40. No, it's not apex mountain for newspapers. That would be Watergate without question. Great pod though!

Weird that the certified Chevy-oligist didn’t mention that Chevy had a talk show and that it famously bombed. I don’t think we have to guess how he would of fared as the Carson successor when his show only made it 5 weeks.

I love his sarcasm his cheesy 1 liners are hilariously like when he told him if u shoot me ur likely to lose alot of those humanitarian awards or thank god the police are here.I livenyour body Larry 🤣

Chevy Chase was on The Tonight Show with Carson and Richard Pryor in 1977. The tension between Chase and Carson and Chase and Pryor was strong. Just after Chase’s remarks about talk show hosts.

Mrs stanwyk “Is there anything I can do for you or more to the point…to you” She was gorgeous

Awesome!

Forensics werent really a widespread practice until about '90/'91

Perfect casting for Fletch if remade. Ryan Reynolds

Love Mrs. Stanwyk

Oh, and I liked the instrumental music (Harold F, for the win !) so much that I bought the cassette tape soundtrack, and skipped over the typical "song" songs (stuff with lyrics, which I found boring and shrill) and just kept replaying the groovy funky electronic keyboard tracks (esp. the deep bass-y parts). Back in the day, I even taped pieces of the score off the tv when the movie was playing, bc I was so drawn to those sounds...was reminded of all this after having just enjoyed your "Beverly Hills Cop" rewatchables ep. (and had to go check out some of that music, too).

The mansion was also used in The Bodyguard.

For not going to film school, chevy did alright in foul play and beyond

Not sure why you guys think Chevy (whom I love) could have been a talk show host. He did a talk show in 1993 called The Chevy Chase Show, and it was awful. He was visibly nervous and uncomfortable, but the sketches were gold. It was hard to watch as much as I wanted to.

o i love the fletch movies both of them they are hilarious so glad my dad made me watch them in high school btw i was born in 1993.

"let's go to Wolfgang puck and get a steak"

Just for Bill, I’m queuing up The Saint right now.

Stamp of approval at Stone Cold Fucking Classic

Noyce: Dead Calm and then Clear and Present Danger

Joe Don Baker was in a few Bond movies.......He married into the Broccoli family

Paul Rudd could do a Fletch.

Fletch is Chevy chase at his best

Joe Don Baker was playing The Whammer from The Natural in Fletch.

Fletch’s apartment 🏆

no mention of Rockford Files, which i felt this drew a lot from

Tennis was HUGE in the 80s. Some people are extremely uncoordinated

You guys ever going to do the professional?

What kind of name is Poon ?

1:00:28 according to Moe's menu it was spelled Cocktoastin.

I grew up loving Chevy Chase but never watched Fletch for some reason. Finally did and didn’t love it. Maybe I waited too long. I have a funny feeling it would’ve made a better impression on me if I saw it as a kid and I would still love it

9:25 I think that has less to do with Chevy and more to do with the general zeitgeist of humanity. 1984-1986 were the peak of western civilization. Pretty much any art that came out in those years; film, music, design were just the high point.

Ryan Reynolds seems to fancy himself the modern day Chevy

With regards to the recasting couch, it would not surprise me if it were made known that GIna Davis was asked to play the part of Gail, or even acted in a couple of scenes as Gail, but couldn't take Chevy being Chevy and accepted the Larry role instead and DWN swooped in, could be the good hang with Chevy, and the movie was made with DWN as Gail.

So many quotes and funny moments. I love the part where he hits the car with the tennis racket. Just for starters.

I thought I heard some stray rumor they were going to make Fletch a TV show, with Chevy playing him. I'd prefer that than to see someone else take over the role.

Chevy Chase is the best

I actually loved Fletch Lives. It isn't as good as the first one but it's still funny. The Bug Busters scene might be by favorite.

FINALLY! FLETCH LIVES NEXT!

Chevy Chase is GOD!!!!!Always was always will be!!

Bill loves The Saint because of Elizabeth Shue. And I understand.

Good call by chris on jim brown for best athlete actors..

Hear no evil, see no evil. Next!

Fletch F. fletch

My guys. 👍

I honestly want PTA to do the next Fletch with whoever. Gosling, I think works. I immediately thought Joaquin, but then it's just inherent vice... but that's okay

I once changed my MySpace profile name to Dr RosenPenis ca. 2005

I liked "The Saint".

Libertini was in all of me

Who's to say that the fake name "John Cocktoasten" (which clearly sounds like an inelegant mishmash of phallic puns) wasn't an homage to avant-garde French filmmaker Jean Cocteau...and then they just stuck the suffix "sten" onto the end of name (bc they didn't know where to go with it from there, it sounds like an afterthought anyway) ? I'm 50, and saw Fletch in my early teens. At that point I had no critical eye for good or bad acting, plausibility of plot, etc. I just knew what I found funny or dramatic and which actors I liked seeing/hearing. Back before the internet, I studied credit sequences (and read movie review books) to learn names for who these folks were-and I admit, both Tim Matheson & Dana Wheeler-Nicholson were like catnip to me, I simply delighted in their screen presences. So there LOL

Freida’s Boss.

I too enjoyed the saint !!!

Chevy Chase might be the ultimate "you like him or you don't" actor, and a large part of his schtick was asshole. Not just that he was an asshole, his character was an asshole. The problem is he played THAT same character in every movie and people simply got sick of him. Many of his successes were carried by other people, though not Vacation movies, obviously.

Jon Hamm would be my new Fletch

please do Mitchell on the Rewatchables.

Great. I can download the audio of this for 25MB, whereas the regular podcast site requires 180MB!!! It didn't used to be such a data hog, but somebody has royally screwed it up.

Chase as great on Community. Dan Harmon utilized him well. However, I doubt that he would have succeeded on NBC late night. His Fox show lasted a month. Letterman would have taken him down.

Have you ever seen a spleen that large? No, not since breakfast. Geena Davis was a brand new actress. DWN has a famous father... and it's the 80s, tan, beachy blondes were the gold standard.

Sean mentions the Fletch Carson appearance and feeling some tension...you might be on to something. Chevy has a black eye. Johnny popped him one

Fletch tells his wife's attorney to leave his rubbers outside if he's wearing any.....then, after paying the back alimony, tells him to, "Keep $10 for yourself......go get yourself a nice piece of ass".

Uncle Phil is one of the cops

I think this movie is just a worse Beverly Hills cop, but Fletch lives is a great movie that I think improved 10x on fletch

The fletch and geena Davis Larry dynamic is odd.

So Jon Hamm is Fletch...

Did Dana Wheeler Nicholson run over Fennessey's mom?

Ryan Reynolds would be the perfect Fletch as Chase and him they have same sense of humor. The TV show Psych reminds me most of Fletch.

Nonsense. If you love Top Secret you'll love this

I'll have a steak sandwich, and a steak sandwich

1:10:40 yoink!

Modern Problems was awesome. Sorry, said it. Ryan Reynolds Deadpool would be a recent comparable wiseass.

I'm constantly caught off guard by how seemingly erratic your collective movie knowledge is. You guys seem to know EVERYTHING about every horrible and not horrible American film from the modern era. And yet you can do 75 minutes on Fletch, which you say is a favourite film, and not mention, one single time- Groucho Marx. It's an oversight more egrigious than reviewing The Town and not mentioning Eddie Coyle. That was impressive. This is kind of crazy. Have none of you ever seen a Marx Bros. movie? I mean, all the silly names Chase uses? All the one liners? No ? No comprende? Ah well. What you guys know about you really know about. Enjoyable episode.

Cocktoaston