Planes, Trains, & Automobiles: The only Thanksgiving movie?

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

We called our own 20-somethings, Sebastian and Avi, in to help us look at the most iconic Thanksgiving movie ever. Steve Martin and John Candy starred 1987’s Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. The film was written and directed by John Hughes, the writer/producer/director responsible for teen films like The Breakfast Club, and slapstick comedy juggernauts like Home Alone, and the National Lampoon’s Vacation.

Does this slapstick holiday classic hold up? Is it still funny to later generations? What makes it funny and why does comedy seem to run in cycles. Did anyone else think there might be a dark, true crime twist at the end? Avi did.

You can find Sebastian on Instagram @sebastian_brambila and Avi on Instagram @avi.lieu.

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0:00.0	I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.
0:10.0	Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit
0:15.0	because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top
0:20.0	and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to top.
0:25.0	Join in every sip with Red Cups now Back at Starbucks.
0:40.0	How are you seeing Thorea Migos?
0:43.0	No, is it like you see Bas and Carl?
0:46.0	It's from...it's Chevy Chase, right?
0:49.0	Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short.
0:54.0	I've seen that.
0:56.0	We're in the ballpark now.
0:58.0	Yeah, well yeah. We're here to talk about holiday special or first holiday special.
1:04.0	Real holiday special. We're talking about plain strains and automobiles, the only real Thanksgiving movie.
1:12.0	It's the only one.
1:14.0	You can take...you can come up with any other one that might be on some place.
1:17.0	Is there a Harry Potter? I have one.
1:20.0	What do you got?
1:21.0	Tilly Brown.
1:22.0	Oh.
1:23.0	This turkey or something?
1:24.0	I don't know.
1:25.0	But he's got a home movie and it's animated so discount.
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