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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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Episodes

Beach Blanket Fallow

When Dave is away, all Bette's are off! Lifes a Beach and then you fallow.

May 17, 201333 min

77. Splash (1984)

Larry Crowne once caught a fish "thiiiiiissss biiiiiig"! This week Noah merMAKEs Dave watch Splash!...and we aren't talking about the reality TV game show on FOX. We're talkin' Tom Hanks, John Candy, Eugene Levy, and a Mermaid Darryl Hannah that, from the look of her "bocci balls (!)", isn't so little! This is one dilly of a sea pickle. Throughout his life, Tom Hanks has never learned how to swim and he keeps falling overboard and getting rescued by a mysterious naked Darryl Hannnah who lives of...

May 08, 201323 min

76. Weather Girl (2009)

Dullness hath no fury like a Weather Girl scorned! Dave and Noah take cover from 2009's Weather Girl, starring Tricia O'Kelley and Patrick J. Adams. After having a meltdown on air that goes viral, Seattle's former morning news weather girl has to move in with her brother to "weather the storm" of a bad breakup. She falls for her brother's best friend, who lives in the apartment next door. However, he is six years her Thirty-five year old junior. A fish and a bird can fall in love, but where will...

May 02, 201323 min

75. No Strings Attached (2011)

NO STRINGS ATTACHED, along with your retinas, after you see this piece of Rom Com! Dave and Noah delve into the Ash tray of Ashton Kutcher to retrieve the second "friends with benefits" movie of 2011. Ashton Kutcher is the son of a popular TV legend who has a habit of screwing the Kutch-dog's former girlfriends. Ashton starts humping the nearest nurse who will take pity on him, namely Natalie Portman, who's taking a break from a life of Tom Cruise Control and Queen Padme Star Wars duties. They a...

Apr 26, 201323 min

74. Made of Honor (2008)

Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream...and WE have MCDREAMY! Join Dave and Noah as they tuck into a deep dish of Dempsey with a side order of Patrick. That's a tall order for a short fry, but that fry is MADE OF HONOR from 2008, starring our main man Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan. Dempsey, a wealthy man of leisure, is the toast of the town tom cats. Michelle Monaghan is the one woman he hasn't slept with, ergo, she is his most intimate confidant. When she leaves for a temporary work trip abroad he...

Apr 10, 201323 min

73. TiMER (2009)

Time moves in one direction and this movie moves in another! This week Dave and Noah synchronize their Casio wristwatches to TiMER (2009) starring Emma Caulfield, John Patrick Amedori and Michelle Borth. It is the year 3,000ish and every twenty-something has the option of having a TiMER installed in their wrist. A TiMER is like a more portable, more sentient version of the online dating site OK CUPID. This device simply gives a countdown to the day you will meet your one true soul mate. Some peo...

Apr 04, 201322 min

72. Overnight (2012)

Now BOREding for takeoff, it's OVERNIGHT (2012) starring Rachel Blanchard and James D'Arcy. This is one redeye that will make you wish you had pinkeye! Rachel is departing from Splitsville, CA, when a chance encounter with a banjo playing Physics professor causes her overnight flight to become an overnight delight! Their relationship TAKES OFF at the speed of sound, but before their hearts can reach great new heights, they have a helluva lot of baggage to check. But this is nothing that a little...

Mar 27, 201323 min

Fallow, is it me you're looking for?

Dave is off helping blind women throw clay pots on a pottery wheel. Noah makes a twenty minute correction to the fallow episode from 2/22.

Mar 22, 201324 min

71. The Prince & Me (2004)

Call off the jesters, for this week fatty gives you the royal treatment with 2004's The Prince & Me. This crown jewel may be shiny, but beware, beneath yonder garb there be ginger-haired inbreeding! Starring Julia Stiles and Luke Mably, this franchise, (part one of four) begins upon a time when a series called "Girls Gone Wild" existed. Heavy weighs the impending crown of Prince Mably, who finds the royal Danish floozies dreadfully triflesome and boring. Whilst channel surfing one afternoon,...

Mar 14, 201326 min

70. License To Wed (2007)

It's Dave and Noah's very first GUESSISODE. The first part of this episode is recorded with our predictions of the plot, then we watch the chick flick and spend the rest of the episode on suicide watch, you dig? This week we prognosticate License To Wed starring John Krasinsky, Mandy Moore and the MORKster himself: Robin Williams! Mandy wants a traditional Cat-Lick weddin' but their priest is anything but traditional. Or even kitten-lickin' good at his Jason Priestly duties. He is going to put t...

Mar 07, 201323 min

69. Breaking Dawn Part II (2012)

Fatty is now leaving Forks, Washington, population: zzz, zzz, zzz. The end of a saga is upon us as Dave and Noah are subjected to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and a breakfast burrito worth of CGI found in George Lucas' Roomba. K-Stew has a new attitude: she now sucks blood instead of screen time, but the salad days of her new marriage are over. Her and R-Pat have been accused of committing the most heinous of all vampire cri...

Feb 28, 201323 min

Fallowlist

Dave is on a farm in upstate New York. Noah watches Teen Wolf Season Two and listens to his jams.

Feb 22, 201326 min

68. The Girl Next Door (2004)

Valentine’s Day is like a box of chocolates, you never know which one will cream all over your face. Fatty rings The Girl Next Door starring Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert Timothy Olyphant and Paul Dano. Hirsch is a straight-A senior gunning for a scholarship to Georgetown. His straight A’s take a turn to straight “V’s” when a new girl moves in next door to him and goes to town on his george. Metaphorically, of course, these are high schoolers for Pete’s sake! After they’ve been dating a spell, H...

Feb 14, 201323 min

67. Miss Congeniality II (2005)

This sequel is a drag. Literally. Miss Congeniality II: Armed and Fabulous stars Sandra Bullock, Regina King, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson and a whole bunch of drag queens. Picking up a mere two weeks after the tumultuous events that took place at the close of Miss Congeniality, Sandra Bullock finds that returning to work at the FBI is turning out to effin' be AY-yi-YI! Her reputation and celebrity preceeds her, causing her cover to be blown which gets her partner shot. (Bullock is a fantastic ...

Feb 07, 201323 min

Never Been Kissed (1999)

Drawing a blank? Well she DREW BARELY MORE than one when trying to remember her last true kiss. Never Been Kissed starring Drew Barrymore, David Arquette and that sexy dude from Alias. Drew Barrymore is an uptight copy editor with a checkered high school past who yearns to be a reporter. One day she gets an opportunity to go undercover as a highschool student to write her first article abouthow kids these days REALLY live. Determined to rewrite her past, Drew never expected she'd be copyediting ...

Jan 31, 201324 min

DEAR FATTY, WHY SO FALLOW?

No Dave. Noah Mourns the passing of a local legend. And he gets drunk and tells the tale of a worst week ever.

Jan 25, 201336 min

65. The Five Year Engagement (2012)

Get this couple some velcro, cuz they seem to have trouble tying the knot! The Five Year Engagement, from 2012, stars Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt and Alison Brie. Jason is a chef and Emily is a gal who's practically made-to-order for him! They get engaged and she gets an offer for post graduate work in Michigan. They push their wedding date back two years and Jason quits his San Francisco treat of a Sous Chef job to follow her to the Great Lake State. Only the state of their relationsh...

Jan 17, 201323 min

64. 27 Dresses (2008)

More like 27 messes! Katherine has been dreaming of her wedding since she was a low-gl. But before this low-gl can become a Heigl who's happily betrothed, she is cursed to walk amongst the pomp and circumstance of matrimony 27 times over, serving many a Lord draped in white and satin. Her sister comes to visit and seduces her only romantic interest, (her boss), out from under her. They fall hard and fast, asking Heigl to officiate their wedding, which will be in three weeks. Meanwhile a rogue re...

Jan 09, 201323 min

63. Just Married (2003)

Wedding Bells, this film smells, Ashton laid an egg! Ring in the new Millenium for the Thirteenth time by watching JUST MARRIED starring Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy, and the French Alps! Ashton is a radio traffic announcer and Brittany is just a rich girl who’s gone too far, (but you know it don’t matter anyway), by marrying Kutcher and taking him on the Honeymoon from Hell. These two may be young and blessed with perfect skin (Ashton looks like a Gelfling from Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal ...

Jan 03, 201324 min

Noprah Warrenphry's Favorite Fallow

Noah Warren gets possessed by the spirit of Oprah Winfrey and this fallow episode of When Harry Met Fatty becomes another episode of Noprah Warrenphry's Favorite Things! Whatever you do...DO NOT look under your seat!

Dec 28, 201221 min
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