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Ep 193: Dave & John Chernin (Always Sunny/The Mick/Incoming)

*music*
Yo!
Hey folks, we might be drunk, we're here, we're queer with the churnin!
Don and Dave churnin, new movie?
Yes indeed.
On Netflix?
Yeah.
Netflix, August 23rd.
Whoa!
Happy to be here.
Sell.
Well done.
I know, we're selling.
How the hell do you sell a movie?
We wrote a movie, we don't know what we're doing.
We read your movie, it was very funny.
What?
You read it?
High praise.
We did a comedy script in their way for once.
Oh!
Dude, uh...
We don't personally have the money to make it.
Sure.
We can't help you, but...
Of course.
But it was funny, a lot of laughs.
Oh, thanks.
Well, you know, we rewrite and rewrite, but yeah.
That's the process.
We're pretty happy, it's joke heavy.
Yeah, so...
If you don't know the churnin road, probably at least three or four of your
favorite Sonny
episodes, maybe more.
I mean...
More.
More, let's say more.
Probably some of your least favorites.
But no, I seriously think the Jersey Shore rap, that's fucking Rum House.
Oh, yeah.
That's a classic.
Yeah.
Classic.
You've done so many of the...
I mean, off the top of my head, I wrote some of them down, so I don't want to
do this,
but what are some more you wrote?
That's probably my favorite we wrote.
We did that, we did Thunder Gun Express.
That's a fucking classic.
We did Saves the Day, we did Timeshare.
But it's a group project.
I was just gonna say, like...
We can't take too much credit.
Yeah.
Kinda, you get the...
You all work on them together, and then slap your names on the ones.
How big is that writer's room?
We're actually going back.
We've been gone for like eight years, and we're going back next week to do the
new seasons.
Nice.
We're excited, and I think...
Fifteen?
Seventeen.
Seventeen.
Yeah.
I think there's six or seven writers this year, plus the three guys.
It's one room.
Gotcha.
Very fun room.
I like a smaller room.
Yeah.
It gets tricky.
You don't let the lady write.
We get one lady.
Okay.
Just kidding.
Very talented young women.
I think we really do only have one woman writing on the show this year.
No, two.
I think there are two.
There's two.
Look at that.
You're safe.
Yeah, he could transition.
You never know.
We did have one or two seasons where it was all dudes, and that was no good.
It's not good.
Uh-huh.
It gets kind of gross.
Right.
It gets off the rails.
I went to an all-boys school, and the jokes you make, you're like, "I can't
bring this
anywhere."
Yeah.
Right.
Not even good jokes.
At a certain point, you need a nice split to keep everybody on the tracks.
Sure.
But all the same race.
I mean, come on.
What are we doing here?
How was the pitch for the movie?
Because we're going to have to pitch ours.
We just wrote it.
Oh, okay.
We just wrote it and sent it around, and it was pretty good.
We got a lot of, "Hey, this is really funny, but we don't make these kinds of
movies."
Yeah.
Right, right.
We'll be up against that.
Thanks.
But yeah, we found Spyglass.
It was really cool.
Oh, nice.
It kind of came in at the end, and we're like, "We'll greenlight this today."
Can we watch a minute of the trailer?
Is that okay?
Sure.
Go for it.
Once that bell rings, we're in high school.
You know what that means?
Anything is possible.
She's a sophomore, man.
It's never going to happen.
She hasn't met the new me.
I don't want to dance around anymore.
Ow!
For a second there, I thought you might have been fucking the door.
Can you leave?
My parents went out of town this weekend.
My brother's throwing a massive rager.
Wow!
You clits are my three plus one.
I'm out.
I think I'm out too, man.
We're the only freshmen invited.
That's where I'll make my move on Bailey.
You're going to earn your brother's respect.
You're going to stop being scared, and you're going to lose that shitty
nickname.
What up, fetus?
Hey, fellas.
Fuck!
Are we--
When you're writing that, do you picture this while you're writing it?
You picture like, oh, we're going to have a trailer that's going to look like
this.
Uh, no.
We pictured fetus, and we were like, that's going to be a struggle to find that
kid.
Yeah.
Right.
That guy was hard to find.
It's tough to say, like, we need like a 13-year-old Joe Pesci.
Yeah.
There was also a kid in our high school who got the nickname fetus.
So we had like a very specific image in our head, and it was hard to replicate.
Tough nickname.
Yeah.
This is great though.
Coming of age, the kids are going to love it.
Oh, yeah.
We're checking all the boxes.
We'll see.
August 23rd, once again.
And then it'll disappear into the ether.
Yeah.
August 25th, 26th.
Yeah.
We'll move on.
You'll get your moment in the sun on the Netflix top 10.
Yeah.
It's like this grab bag after that, just shifting.
I feel like they don't make these types of movies though right now.
I just saw that Vince Vaughn interview.
Yes.
Where he's like, every movie they make is like Battleship.
It has to have like some IP.
Right.
But it's so true.
Like these are, they always end up being your favorite movies if you're in high
school,
or like Superbad, or you know, American Pie.
I remember when high school was big.
Oh, huge.
Oh my goodness.
It's been a minute for sure.
Yeah.
Oh, we're doing it.
Look at that.
It's a big old cube.
You can write a movie about, geez.
Nice.
Barely fit.
Never had that experience.
Like the big dick guy.
Power play.
Yeah.
But do you get approached to be like, hey, do you want to write this like
shitty IP thing
ever or no?
Oh, yeah.
What's like the worst one you got?
A lot of Snoopy Doos.
Oh.
Candyland.
Candyland.
How is Candyland?
I don't even understand that that could be a movie.
You know what?
We thought the same.
I remember years ago, someone asked us if we'd be interested in Legos.
That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard.
Fair enough.
That turned out well.
Yeah.
That's true.
It's a good point.
Some interesting like rewrite, or not rewrite, reboot stuff gets pitched to us
and sometimes
they're just like, you guys want to reboot Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
All right.
Are you out of your fucking mind?
I know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A bad 80s movie or a decent like License to Drive or something comes around.
That would be an okay reboot.
Yeah.
That's good.
You could improve that.
Yeah.
That was already shit.
Yeah, you don't want to take a beloved classic.
Yeah.
If you were about them remaking like Back to School, I'm like, that's all Rodney.
Sacrilegious.
That gets thrown around a lot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you.
They redid a White Men Can't Jump.
Right.
That worked well.
That really came and went in two seconds.
The guy who produced this movie with us, Conor Welch, revealed when that came
out, he's
like, White Men Can't Jump is my favorite movie ever made.
Oh.
Interesting.
I like that.
Sure.
I love that movie.
I can quote that movie every line.
It's a terrific movie.
We do a lot of Stookies.
Yeah.
I'll throw that around a lot.
Yeah.
And a hook shot.
By the way, you guys brought this in.
I appreciate it.
Oh, absolutely.
Of course.
We know better than to show up and come from home at the end.
Cheers.
Whoa, you brought this?
We did.
Oh, thank you, boys.
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, Mom, it's off.
Cheers.
I was interested to see if you guys were actually going to be drinking it at
noon on a weekend.
Yeah.
I need it.
It's one o'clock.
It's like a Cabernet cask, you said.
This is crazy.
Yeah, I know nothing about it.
Smoky.
Bourbon and a wine cask.
What are the limes for?
Do you guys often pair limes with whiskey?
If we do a whiskey soda, I like a lime.
Interesting.
Yeah.
I'm a lime guy as well.
I like that.
And congratulations on your whiskey.
Hey, thank you.
Thank you.
We're sold out, which is kind of a good sign.
You worked it into the movie, which...
Yes.
I know.
Yeah, one hand wide.
I'm shitting on people writing around a stupid thing.
I'm like, anyway, our Bodega Cat movie.
Yeah.
That's a big commercial.
That's our, yeah.
Two hour commercial.
They always sound you guys were always great at that.
Like integrating products into the show and then selling them on the side.
Yeah.
Like what do they sell?
They did the dick towels.
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
Yeah.
They always have a few of those.
A lot of merch coming out of that show.
Yeah.
There's so many.
I mean, there's so many great...
You did the skiing episode too, right?
We did that one.
Yeah.
That's a fucking...
That's a great episode.
Thank you.
I love the Dennis monologue with the, what is it?
What's with the woman about I will enter you?
Clean.
Yeah.
You must be clean.
I don't think we can take credit for that speech.
I think that's David Hornsby.
Oh, nice.
He's awesome.
Yeah.
That's a great, this is a great scene.
I want you to clean yourself, for I will enter you hard and deep.
And it will last for as long or as short as I please.
But you will be clean.
Only when you are clean will you know my power.
That's fucking great.
The power thing, that was a true story from one of the girls in the writer's
room.
Yes.
Some guy said that to me.
I want to give you my power.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
Holy shit.
So how did you guys, I mean I don't go James Lipton on you, but how did, did
you write
a spec script to get hired?
Yeah.
In the days of spec scripts.
In the days of spec scripts.
And it was like early enough that I don't think there were a ton of Sonny spec
scripts
going around.
Right.
But yeah, wrote a spec script, got hired to work as Rob McElhinney's assistant.
What?
On another show that they were doing and then we just kinda kept nagging them.
Yeah.
They gave us a script on Sonny.
Damn.
Really?
Yeah.
You were just kinda like, hey can I write?
We had, you know, they were really cool.
When I was their assistant and knew we wanted to write, they would let you
write scenes for
episodes every now and then.
Yeah, they were just really cool about ushering young people into that room.
See, you hear that kid just gotta get in the door.
Yeah.
I don't understand assistant, you mean writer's assistant?
I was the writer's assistant on another show they did.
Oh.
Boldly going nowhere.
Got it.
It was like Sonny meets Star Trek.
I remember it for a minute.
Yeah, it was really funny.
We wrote a bunch of them and then kind of repurposed them for Sonny over the
years.
But yeah, then I was writer's assistant on Sonny and then John came on.
We wrote a script together and then he came on season five?
Season six?
Season six?
We wrote a script season five.
Yes.
Yes.
Damn.
I wrote a How I Met Your Mother spec script years ago and I figured hey, this
show's
not that funny.
I could do this.
Yeah.
I think that's the move.
Or writing like a fucked up How I Met Your Mother.
Right.
Like famous spec was always the 9/11 Seinfeld.
Yeah.
What?
I don't even know this.
Someone wrote a 9/11 Seinfeld spec.
What?
Yeah, like years after it had been off the air and it was genius.
What?
There are a couple other Sonny writers who wrote a Golden Girls Gone Wild
script.
Yeah.
Whoa.
Robert Zell was going harder.
And that was hilarious.
Because you're just showing you're funny in it, right?
Yes.
Because it's not pretty much.
I mean, we would take meetings with writers who wrote, like someone wrote a
script about
a talking vagina and we were like, well, we need to meet these women.
Yeah.
That's weird.
That's out there.
That's funny.
At a certain point, anything you can do to stand out from the hundred other
scripts,
I think is the move.
I think we got to shoot this 9/11 science.
Can we get our hands on the script?
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
Whoa, man.
It was very quick.
Good for you.
It was 2016.
I would have thought earlier than that.
Yeah.
Maybe that's a rewrite.
You got to give it a little time.
It just needs one more polish.
So when you read scripts, do you guys want to direct also or just write?
We wanted to, we directed the movie, but mostly because I think in TV, the
writer just has
a lot more power and in movies, you know, it kind of gets cast aside.
So we wanted to have as much creative control, I guess, as we can, but we didn't
know what
the fuck we were doing when we ended up directing a movie.
Sure.
I knew I was fucked when I wa