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Buca di Beppo with Drew McWeeny

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Fast Food, Healthfitness, Mike Mitchell, Snacks, Chains, Restaurants, Comedy, Ucb, Arts, Spoonman, Doughboys, Fastfood, Nick Wiger, Food

4.85.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2017

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Film writer Drew McWeeny from 80s All Over and formerly of HitFix and Ain’t It Cool News joins the ‘boys for a family style taste of Italian chain Buca di Beppo. The ‘boys discuss movie snacks and food films. Plus, a special listener submission edition of The Wiger Challenge.

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Joe's Basement.

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No, it's not the unreleased sequel to Joe's apartment, the 1996 Dario Connell Cockroach

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Buddy Comedy.

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It's the rough English translation of the name of one of the biggest Italian-American

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restaurant chains, which began in the basement of an apartment building in Minneapolis in

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1993, while predecessor and competitor of the Olive Garden states in their slogan,

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When you're here, you're family.

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This eatery makes family part of their core business concept, serving its dishes in

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giant communal portions intended for sharing.

0:27.3

Italian-American food has a long-standing relationship with Italian-American cinema,

0:30.6

and Campbell Scott and Stanley Tugi's big night Italian food is itself a character.

0:34.6

Films The Godfather, Lady and the Tramp, The Freshman and Spaceballs include Italian

0:37.8

food and memorable sequences.

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Recently, the original prestige TV series David Chase's The Sprannos featured the obsessive

0:44.8

eating of mobster Tony soprano, the virtuosic home cookery of neglected housewife Carmella

0:49.0

soprano, and the ongoing travails of tortured beta male chef Arty Bucco, whose restaurant

0:53.9

Fassuvio was repeatedly exploited by its mafia clientele.

0:57.1

The show even included as a cast member of the real-life owner of Italian restaurant

1:00.3

Reos, Frank Pellegrino, who played FBI chief Frank Kubitozo.

1:05.3

And of course, there's good fellas.

1:06.8

Martin Scorsese's 1990 mob movie where Mafiosos refused to pay huge restaurant tabs, prepare

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