Vault: We Test Movie Cliches In Public
The Bert Show
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Bert Show. |
| 0:01.0 | From time to time on the show, I think we're all pretty big moviegoers here. |
| 0:04.7 | I think we all dig movies. |
| 0:06.0 | And we have noticed that there are certain movie cliches that you see time and time again. |
| 0:12.0 | That's why they're cliches in movies. |
| 0:14.0 | And we try to test those cliches to see if they work in real life also. |
| 0:19.0 | We've done this a couple of different times now. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, there was one time where producer Dr dracey and phil proposed to producer tracy um to see if the |
| 0:28.4 | entire you know restaurant would applause and you know celebrate their new engagement because every time |
| 0:33.7 | you watch a movie where there's a public proposal, everybody standing around. |
| 0:38.5 | And when they did that, we got a round of applause. |
| 0:42.3 | They did get a round of applause. |
| 0:43.4 | And the coffee shop we went to even offered to cater our reception. |
| 0:48.7 | Then we sent Jen out one morning to test one of these movie cliches also. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, Phil and I went to, what was it, Walmart? |
| 0:58.9 | Yeah. No, we went to Walmart. went to Walmart and uh we tested the cliche that if you publicly start singing a well-known song that everyone will join in the celebration and start |
| 1:05.2 | singing with you and sure enough we started singing what are we saying lean on me lean on me and the |
| 1:10.7 | workers and the Walmart and the McDonald's that was inside the Walmart started singing with us. Well, actually, to be correct, all the managers of Walmart stood there and looked at us arms crossed. Like we were nuts. The workers and McDonald's were on the counter singing with us. Yeah. So we tested two of those cliches and they both worked out. Right. Perfectly. Well, over the weekend, I happened just to be channel surfing when I was in San Diego, |
| 1:29.8 | and they just have a couple of different channels for you to check out. |
| 1:33.3 | And one of the movies on was Cocktail. |
| 1:36.7 | Right. |
| 1:37.3 | Okay? |
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