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The Wedding Singer- Episode #857

Zen Pop

Todd and Cathy Adams

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.9 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Cathy and Todd discuss The Wedding Singer and why this Adam Sandler–Drew Barrymore rom-com lived fully inside the 80’s, the music, the clothes, and all that emotional earnestness. They talk about the chemistry that made it work and the unexpectedly sharp stuff underneath, and what happens when genuinely open-hearted people fall in love with each other. They get into Steve Buscemi’s awesome chaotic presence and why the soundtrack sold so many copies. The Wedding Singer helped reframe the ’80s as emotionally formative and it’s remained one of the most loved rom-coms of its era.

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0:00.0

Hey, somebody gets some pants on that kid.

0:05.4

Until he got stood up at his own wedding.

0:08.5

I woke up this morning and I realized I'm about to marry a wedding singer.

0:12.1

Once again, things that could have been brought to my attention yesterday!

0:15.8

Hey, Psycho.

0:17.0

Get out of my Van Halen T-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up.

0:20.8

This is my fiancé Glenn. I don't even know your last name. It's Gulia. Julia's last name is going to be Gulia. Julia, Gulia. That's funny. Why is that funny? I don't know. I just... You are the worst wedding singer in the world, buddy. Well, I have a microphone and you don't. So you will listen to every damn word I have to sing. The wedding singer. I said hip hop. I hip to the hip to the hip hip hip hip hop. You don't stop the rock to the bang, bang, boom. You say up, jump the boot to the bigger. All right. If you haven't already figured it out, we're doing, what are we doing, sweetie?

0:54.4

We're doing the wedding singer. And Todd, that's you when you get a microphone.

0:59.0

Because sometimes we have a karaoke machine.

1:01.1

Cameron, too.

1:01.7

And Cameron, too. And we take it places. So, like, we're going somewhere.

1:05.4

We bring the karaoke machine or when people are at our house.

1:07.9

And Todd takes the microphone. And I find it to be great because then we don't have to scream over each other. Yeah. Because he'll be like, we're going to start a game. But, you know, I don't know if everybody feels that way. I have a cousin named Julia. Mm-hmm. I don't even need to say her last name. I guess she may not want to be spoken about. Probably not.

1:33.5

But I remember whenever I would see her, which would be random, she wasn't really a close cousin or isn't.

1:35.3

But I would say Julia Gulia.

1:40.6

And I feel like anybody named Julia really took a hit when this movie came out.

1:45.0

Well, I bet people said Julia Gulia before this movie came out and the joke was played on that idea. Before this movie came out. Of course. Because it just rhymes. It's like it rhymes with

1:50.7

someone's name. Well, what about Julia Shmulia? Yeah, but no one's going to have the last name

1:54.3

Schmulia. Or maybe they do. I'm sorry anybody with that last name. We just want to apologize

2:00.5

in advance for anybody whose last name is Shmulia.

2:04.1

But yes, this is the wedding singer, Todd.

2:06.3

And it's from 1998.

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