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When Harry Met Fatty

David Oppegaard, Noah Warrenwww.meetfatty.libsyn.com
A weekly comedic podcast, join St. Paul author David Oppegaard and Minneapolis librarian Noah Warren as they dissect romantic comedies!
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100. Good Luck Chuck (2007)

Dave and Noah say goodbye and Good Luck Chuck! This film stars Dane Cook, Jessica Alba and your worst migraine! At the age of ten, Dane Cook gets cursed by a Goth girl at a party, forcing him to live a life of always being the "one" right before any woman finds her ONE. After meeting Jessica Alba he decides he can't lose her to the next guy. There are lots of boobs in this. Dave and Noah take a walk down Fatty lane. Come join us for this extendo episode! Thanks for listening!...

Dec 06, 201332 min

Uncle Noah's Podcast

Come visit your Uncle Noah. He's so lonely! unclenoahs.com twitter.com/unclenoahs facebook.com/unclenoahs Experience Entertainment Weekly like never before...

Dec 06, 201346 sec

99. The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)

This week Dave and Noah just can’t keep a secret, The Secret of My Succes$! This 1987 Rom Com stars Alex P. Keaton himself, Michael J. Fox, along with Helen Slater and Richard Jordan. Fox is just a country boy from Kansas who moves to New York with dreams of becoming the next Donald Trump, a Trump with an even bigger propensity to screw family members. When his first job falls through, he calls his uncle who happens run a multinational conglomerate just down the block. He gets a job in the mailr...

Nov 29, 201323 min

98. Youth in Revolt (2009)

This week Dave and Noah sing Que Sera, Sera with Michael Cera in 2009’s crap trap Youth in Revolt. It stars Cera, Portia Doubleday, Zach Galifianakis, Ray Liotta and Steve Buscemi. After swindling a bunch of sailors, Zach Galifianakis has to take his girlfriend and stepson, Cera, on the run to Clearwater, CA. While they are hiding out in a trailer park, Cera falls head-over-heels with Portia Doubleday, the girl next door. When it comes time to leave, Cera arranges to win the favor of Doubleday t...

Nov 22, 201323 min

97. 13 Going on 30 (2004)

Dave and Noah hop into a shoe closet time machine with Jennifer Garner and set the Flux Capacitor to 13 Going on 30 , starring the Alias spy herself, Mark Ruffalo and Judy Greer. On the day of her 13th Birthday, Jennifer Garner makes a wish to be Thirty, Flirty and Thriving, just like the models in her favorite magazine. A shoe closet and some novelty wishing dust Rip Van Winkle her 17 years into the future. She's Thirty and Thriving all right, but flirting with amnesia! She's a big time magazin...

Nov 14, 20130

The final fare fallow.

No dave. Noah goes Nanners Nanowrimo style. Plus, we read the Katy Perry issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Nov 07, 201323 min

96. Warm Bodies (2013)

This Halloween Dave and Noah experience love at first bite! After they finish their Hershey'sn KitKat bars they watch 2013's Warm Bodies starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, and that awesome dude from Hot Tub Time machine. The little boy from Nick Hornby's About a Boy is all "growed-up" and wearing Edward-Twilight-white-face for this daring romantic comedy about a zombie that puts down the brains for a beautiful blonde. This film turns Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet on its sev...

Oct 30, 201323 min

95. Bedazzled (2000)

This week Dave and Noah make a deal with the Devil of all remakes: 2000's Bedazzled, starring Brendan Fraser, Frances O'Connor and Austin Powers' Fembot wife Elizabeth Hurley! Brendan sells his soul for seven wishes, and he uses them all for the love of his office crush, Frances O'Connor. Elizabeth Hurley plays the Prince of Darkness but even her 19 different costume changes of hotness can't make this terrible terrible movie any more bearable. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, t...

Oct 23, 201322 min

94. The Wedding Planner (2001)

This week Dave and Noah discover that there’s always room for J-LO! They are subjected to 2001’s The Wedding Planner which stars Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras. Former In Living Color Fly Grrl J-Lo has put down the cross-colors and picked up a palm pilot, becoming San Francisco’s premier wedding planner. However, the only thing she couldn’t plan for was falling in love with the groom of one of her biggest clients! That’s right, chollo, our former Maid in Manhatt...

Oct 16, 201324 min

Falloween II: This book is Overdue!

Dave has gone Dodo. Noah celebrates a happy Falloween. Beware, he has library stories that will make you clutch your bookmark in terror!

Oct 10, 201324 min

93. License to Drive (1988)

This week Dave and Noah take a joyride, but not with '91 Swede-rock sensation Roxette, they join the two Coreys in a Caddy for 1988's License to Drive , starring Corey Haim, Heather Graham, Corey Feldman and a bottle of champagne so big, you'll never be able to fit it in your glove compartment! After flunking his written test for a driver's permit, Corey Haim gets asked out by the hottest Roller Girl in California. She's got a brand new pair of rollerskates and he's got the keys to his Grampa's ...

Oct 02, 201323 min

92. Lucas (1986)

This week Dave and Noah BUG OUT on 1986's Lucas, starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Wynona Ryder and Jeremy Piven. What Corey Haim lacks in social skills, he more than makes up for in his love for bugs! While out on one of his entomological quests, he comes across one damn fine specimen: Kerri Green, the new girl in town. He falls for her, but school begins and she yearns to take to the fields as a cheerleader. Corey joins the football team and endures a heap of homoerotic torture ...

Sep 25, 201323 min

91. Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

This week Dave and Noah take the McDreamy Express back to sKool!!! 1987's Can't Buy Me Love stars Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Seth Green and Malachai from Children of the Corn ! Before he became Dr. McDreamy , Patrick Dempsey was 'lil McSpazzy, and through a convenient turn of events he secretly pays the most popular girl in his high school one grand to date him for a month. Popularity, sex, and a snazzy Columbus Day dance ensue, only to quickly succumb to a miscalculated tsunami-esque abu...

Sep 17, 201323 min

90. Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

This week Dave and Noah crash the party of last century! Can't Hardly Wait from 1998 stars Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Seth Green and an assortment of other poor souls who have since succumbed to the Y2K crisis at the turn of the century. In order to earn her Ghost Whisperer wings, Jennifer Love Hewitt breaks up with the most popular stud in school. Hearing that Jennifer is footloose and fancy free, Ethan Embry takes it upon himself to put out the torch that he's been carrying for her his...

Sep 04, 201323 min

89. Just One of the Guys (1985)

This week Dave and Noah get their "just desserts" by watching Just One of the Guys from 1985. This poor man/woman's Tootsie stars Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner and "Johhny Lawrence" the Cobrah Kai bully from Karate Kid! Joyce Hyser almost has it all: a bangin' bod, a college boyfriend to bang her bod, her own swimming pool, a friend that wears Cosby sweaters and a sexually precocious little brother. However, her life can't be complete without a Summer internship at the Phoenix SunTimes. When her e...

Aug 30, 201323 min

88. The Nanny Diaries (2007)

This week Dave and Noah put down their food diaries and pick up The Nanny Diaries, starring Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Captain America and the ebony of all ivory: Alicia Keys! How far will Scarly Jo go to find herself this summer? Having just graduated with a degree in Anthropology, she randomly gets offered a job to be a nanny for Laura Linney's Upper East Side Strife. Minding a precocious brat whose parents alternate between being perpetually bitchy or lecherously horny t...

Aug 22, 201323 min

87. Grumpy Old Men (1993)

This week Dave and Noah get a case of the "grumpies" and head over to Wabasha, MN for 1993's Grumpy Old Men. This is the conclusion of our Four part Summer series Fatty Goes Local, where we celebrate all Rom Coms related to Minnesota. Grumpy Old Men stars The-Odd-Couple-turned-Old-timers Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. These two are proof positive that you don't need a family to have a feud, just a neighbor. Having spent decades feuding over the love of one woman, (who oddly enough isn't in the ...

Aug 14, 201323 min

thank you fallow, may I have another? EW#1227

Dave has turned around bright-eyed and isn't available. Noah has a birthday and the worst first week of being 34. Listen closely for the breakdown, right after the closing theme. Its a stolen moment of for reals.

Aug 09, 201333 min

86. She's All That (1999)

The dreck of the Nineties is alive in Dave and Noah's psyche as they suffer through 1999's She's All That starring Minnesota native Rachael Leigh Cook. This is part 3 of our summer series Fatty Goes Local , where we celebrate the fruits of our state's talent pool. Or talent-lake perhaps? With Eight weeks left of his high school career, big-man-on-campus Freddie Prinze Jr. gets dumped by Harrison High's most popular prom queen. Freddie wagers with his buddies that before the end of the school yea...

Aug 01, 201322 min

85. 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)

Dave and Noah abstain from using their brains during this week's rom-com 40 Days and 40 Nights, starring Josh Hartnett, Shannon Sossamon and Maggie Gyllenhaal. This is the 2nd installment of our annual summer series Fatty Goes Local!! This week we put on our "heartlights" for St. Paul, Minnesota's hunk-a-saurus honkey Josh Hartnett. Ever since he's learned that his recent ex-Noxzema model of a girlfriend is engaged to be married to an even bigger douche, our boy Hartnett finds it hard to enjoy a...

Jul 24, 201323 min

84. New in Town (2009)

Fatty goes local! Dave and Noah take a staycation and visit New Ulm, MN for this week's movie New in Town starring Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., and every extra that was passed over for the Cohen Brothers' Fargo. Zellweger is a Miami hotshot clawing her way up the corporate ladder. She is assigned to downsize a plant in New Ulm, MN. This is a town full of secrets, most of which involve Blanche Gunderson's mysteriously tasty batch of tapioca pudding. It's like Fried Green Tomatoes , but wit...

Jul 17, 201323 min

FALLOW EW #1226/1227

There is no dave, only Noaaaaahhhh! Noah gets the best crack in town from a moose. He then reads from the scripture of last week's double issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Jul 12, 201324 min

83. The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Dave and Noah break out the calamine lotion for this week's rash from the past, The Seven Year Itch starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell. Ewell is a middle-aged New York publishing exec with an overactive imagination. Having just sent his wife and kid away for the Summer, he comes home to find a pinup-girl-turned-Toothpaste-model renting the space above his place. He's got the only air conditioner in existence and she's gotta lotta heat. A chance encounter involving a tomato plant brings her do...

Jul 04, 201323 min

82. My Life in Ruins (2009)

Dave and Noah get KRAKEN on this week's Greasy Rom Com My Life in Ruins , Staring Nia Vardalos, Alexis Georgoulis, Richard Dreyfuss and the ancient ruins of the ACRAPolis! Nia Vardalos is praying to the wrong Gods. After her main man dumps her and she gets laid off from being a professor of Greek History, she is doomed to a lifetime of giving tours of the ancient land that has broken her spirit. But a mysterious new driver is willing to teach her a thing or two about how to get her own ancient r...

Jun 26, 201323 min

81. Fired Up! (2009)

Dave and Noah get "spirit-fingered" by this week's romantic comedy Fired Up! Starring Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen and Sarah Roemer. Eric and Nicholas are two high school football jocks who con their way into Cheerleader Camp for the girls, for the glory and for the gonorrhea! Dave has eaten his cheerios and is filled with the spirit of the mighty pom-pom while Noah quizes him on his knowledge of Cheer history.

Jun 19, 201323 min

80. Seeking A Friend for the End of the World (2012)

Dave and Noah duck and cover under their nearest apocalyptic Rom Com: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, starring Steve Carell and Kiera Knightly. It is the year 2021 and humanity is about to go the way of the dinosaur. In 21 days asteroid "Matilda" will hit earth. Applebees restaurants are offering skinny margaritas along with their ecstacy laced orgies, Patton Oswalt is trying heroin and getting tail left and right and Steve Carell's wife has just run out on him. He helps his neighbor,...

Jun 07, 201323 min

79. I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)

She could never be your woman but she'll always be Catwoman. Dave and Noah take a break from doing The Batdance and sit down to watch Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd do what only Ashton and Demi could pull off: Spring-Autumn relations. 2007's I Could Never Be Your Woman begins with a period. Michelle Pfeiffer's daughter is well on her way into womanhood while Michelle herself is slowly exiting through the gift shop. She is a writer for a teen show called You Go Girl who can't get over the former...

May 30, 201323 min

78. Knight & Day (2010)

Good Morning Fatty Listener. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves two stars, one past their prime and the other playing essentially their own batty self (you discern which is which). You may have seen this movie before, since it involves a secret agent trying to woo a vapid blonde in exotic locales such as Salzburg, Austria and the Witchita International Airport. Knight and Day (2010) stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. You have 23 minutes to complete this mission, and as always...

May 23, 201323 min
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