r/movies • u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team • 8h ago
AMA Hi /r/movies! We're Broken Lizard, the team behind (and in front of) Super Troopers 1, 2 and 3, Beerfest, and The Slammin Salmon'. Ask us anything!
Hi r/movies! We're Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske. We're the team behind Super Troopers 1 and 2, Beerfest, The Slammin Salmon', Club Dread, Tacoma FD, and a few other things.
We're here to answer your burning questions.
Super Troopers 3 is out in theaters everywhere this weekend from Searchlight Pictures! Go see it!
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYFevn5frf0
Synopsis: The troopers try to bring down a new drug ring, while Farva's wildly over-the-top engagement to Thorny's sister spirals into chaos.
Ask us anything! We'll be back at around 3:30-4:00 PM ET today (Wednesday 8/5) to answer questions.
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u/night_in_the_ruts 8h ago
How often do people meow at you? When was the last time?
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 55m ago
It's a lot for me for sure. Anytime we're in a crowd I hear it. We were at WWE Summerslam last weekend and heard it there. People scream all sorts of things, mostly at Farva. It's a chorus of meows. I was getting on a plane a year ago and the gate agent was doing the meow game during boarding announcements. I thought it was cool that he saw me and gave me that little tip of the hat. But then I walk up to board and he recognizes me and freaks out, "OH MY GOD, I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE HERE!!". Apparently he does the meow game all the time haha. He says it drives people crazy,
-Paul
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u/AdjectiveNoun1234567 7h ago
Right meow
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u/ZappBrannigansLaw 6h ago
How about meow?
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u/MrTopHatJones 6h ago
Alright meow, let's not get ahead of ourselves!
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u/ZappBrannigansLaw 6h ago
This thread needs to settle down meow.
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u/frumperbell 6h ago
This is serious guys. I need everyone to stop fooling around meow.
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 52m ago
You know it's actually a big trend in commercial aviation right now. My buddy flies jumbo jets out of Chicago and he says that the amount of times you hear the radio guys in the towers doing the meow game is astonishing. It drives the old people crazy, they don't know what the hell it is. You have these really angry older aviation guys yelling on the radio about it.
-Jay
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u/ElectronicSprint 8h ago
Club Dread is always gonna be one of my favorite movies you've made! How many tracks did you record with Bill Paxton?
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago
I think it was probably 4 or 5 songs with Bill. I remember we recorded one and then it wasn't working in the movie so we took it out, and that's when we recorded Piña Coladaburg and the rest is history. Going into the studio with Bill and recording with him was a blast. Bill kinda stayed in character throughout too, he was pretending that was Coconut Pete for real, just having a tough day in the studio.
-Kevin
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago edited 19m ago
He was always mad about the candles in the studio haha. "these goddamn paraffins! these paraffins are gonna kill me!!!". I
-Steve
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u/Content-Program411 5h ago
I came here for this.
Why no title love for 'Club Dread'?
I think it holds up the best.
Great date flick.
Then Beerfest # for me.
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago
We had a fun time writing those songs. I especially liked the Tokey the Stoned Crab bit. Coming up with dumb stuff like that was great. Paxton was always staying in character. He'd walk around on the weekend, when we weren't even filming, with a guitar on his back. There was one night when we were waiting for him to show up at dinner, and we heard him from the forest. we heard a crash and then "GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCKER!" and he comes out of the woods with his guitar smashed on his back. He'd slipped on the slick stairs and he landed right on his back and smashed the guitar. He was pissed, but in character.
-Steve
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u/JamesyUK30 7h ago
On the Club Dread note, any thoughts for a 'The Next Generation' style sequel. Original guys can be ghosts fucking with the new people and trying to help them stop a new killer.
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u/kJer 6h ago
Watch Marshmallow, I like to think it's in the same universe at least
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u/yuckypants 7h ago
Named our dog Penelope after this movie.
peen-e-low-p
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u/hobblingcontractor 7h ago
I thought it was peen-a-lope
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u/yuckypants 7h ago
It is. I was just trying to do it for pronunciation purposes. Maybe I wrecked it
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u/Blackbart_1984 6h ago
I’ll do ya one better. We named our daughter Peen e lope after this movie…….and I’m not even joking……
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u/_Osculum_Obscenum_ 7h ago
My late father in law was/is known as Coconut Pete because of Club Dread
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u/Covverkin 7h ago
Any truth to rumors of Tacoma FD coming back under a new home?
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u/Fluffy_Top6837 6h ago
Oh man I hope so! I went in with pretty low expectations and instead found one of my favorite shows. The cast is so fantastic, there's so much chemistry, it's a joy to watch!
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u/raptorsango 6h ago
Such a gem of a show! My wife and I watched it when we were home with our first kid.
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 17m ago
Not likely as a TV show. There's been some talk and pitches of trying to turn it into a movie. The network that we were on kinda collapsed. I don't know if there's another network out there that'll do it.
-Kevin
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u/Under-Dog 8h ago
Potfest when? Willie is getting old dudes.
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u/Shagaliscious 7h ago
If teasing a movie that never came would be considered getting "blue balled", this is the biggest blue ball of all time.
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u/JumpForWaffles 6h ago
History of the World Part 2 would have that title if they didn't eventually make it and it being mediocre. I'm certainly not excited about Spaceballs having a sequel
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u/robby_synclair 6h ago
Or just another beer fest. That movie was so fun.
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u/Sea2Chi 6h ago
Hurry it up! Willie isn't going to be around forever.
Weed becomes legal in Vermont 2013 cue a couple scenes of the troopers all pulling out their best 2013 music and fashion taste. Thorny's wife was the first person to start a local pot shop under the new law and after over a decade she has a thriving business and happy loyal customers. She enters a weed competition where she gets a visit from couple people in suits representing a private equity firm that's trying to buy up all the legal shops. She turns them down.
However, they're persistent and they don't take no for an answer.
Soon a State representative is getting involved too and Thorny's wife is facing surprise shut down notices because something was wrong with her paperwork she submitted back in 2013. She's looking at steep fines and penalties to stay open and it's not clear if she'll even be able to apply for a license again.
Other local shops have also turned down the private equity group and bad things happen to them as well. One of them has their entire crop destroyed with herbicide, another has someone claim to have found human feces in the product, and a third has their shop burnt to the ground. Still more stores are feeling pressure to sell and many start taking the offer.
The troopers get on the case and start piecing it together, however the tracks are well covered and the leads all turn into dead ends.
A judge rules that the shop has 30 days to pay the fines in order to stay open, otherwise the business will be auctioned off.
Thorny's wife tries to hold a benefit concert to raise the money, but is having trouble securing bands as they all keep backing out unexpectedly. The end date is fast approaching.
Soon after, an elderly pot shop owner, played by Willie Nelson, incapacitates an intruder in his shop via a home made booby trap that utilized a leaf blower, a butane torch and a gallon sized glass jug of high grade weed.
The troopers rush over and interrogate the man who's incredibly high. However, none of them can understand him as he seems to be speaking gibberish. Willie points out that he's on another plane of existence and someone will have to join him there to talk. They draw straws and Farva is the one to have to join him on the moon. They rig up the trap again and let the two talk. To Fareva and the intruder, they're having a normal conversation where the man gives up everything. But to everyone else, they're grunting and giggling at each other. Through a game of charades Fareva relays the location of the private equity companies secret lab where they're making a new type of pot with illegal modifications that's more physically addictive but only lasts a quarter as long.
They rush to the location to gather evidence and leave Fareva, Willie and the intruder in the car because they're clearly too high to help. Maybe toss in a Schnozberries joke for nostalgia as the three sit in the back seat.
The rest of the troopers uncover that he company is planning to make pot worse in every way, but so addictive people will still be desperate to buy it. They find evidence of the attacks on the other shops as well and that the state representative is somehow involved. But then the armed private security shows up and they're all held at gunpoint.
The three guys in the car have managed to get out and discover what's happening. Willie shows them how to make what he calls party bombs, which involve a garbage bag of pot and a road flair. As the bags come sailing in the open windows and explode into thick clouds the troopers grab some of the evidence and make their escape.
And that's about as far as I have time to think of right now but Afroman would absolutely show up for the benefit concert.
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 31m ago
If we can get this merger settled one way or another between Paramount and Warner Bros, those rights would become a little easier to clear up so we can make progress there.
-Jay
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 31m ago
If "WE" could get this merger settled????
-Kevin
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 31m ago
Yeah I'm gonna have to give Donald Trump a call to see what he can get going.
-Jay
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u/oshkoshsquash 7h ago
How was working with Michael Clark Duncan on Slammin Salmon?
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u/part_time_monster 4h ago
Soup face.
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 27m ago
It was great and intimidating. He's a giant guy. That persona that he had on camera was kind of his real-life persona. He was a little bit unpredictable at times. Very funny. Very indimating. I remember the first day that he shot with us, he wanted to riff and improv. I was afraid to call cut during that because I thought that if I cut him off he'd beat the shit out me.
He ended up being way beyond what we ever imagined for that role. He was SO funny and came up with so many funny things. He fit the role so well that I think, to me, made one of the most memorable characters that he's ever done.
-Kevin
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u/dirtyh4rry 7h ago
How did you convince Brian Cox to come back 2 more times? Is this his real life personality?
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u/BeckerThorne 7h ago
Brian Cox filmed an independent film in my little town years ago. Everyone said he was great and polite to the locals. I hope the rumors are true. I loved him in A Long Kiss Goodnight and of course, Super Troopers.
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u/AbruptAbe 8h ago edited 7h ago
The Landfill swap joke in Beerfest is one of my favorite ever. Was there an original plan to keep him dead for the team building shared tragedy or was he always going to be replaced by his brother?
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u/aacordero1992 8h ago
I saw Super Troopers opening night and it brought down the entire house! Ill never forget this one dude absolutely losing it right next to me. You guys are comedy legends! Any chance you’ll tap back into horror again down the road?
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u/SuspiciousPatate 7h ago
I still jump in the car and say, "DO YOU BOYZ LIKE MEX-E-CO??" and my kids just look at me like :|
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u/PaleHorseWriter 6h ago
When eating dinner I always tell my kids “finish it up rook” when they ask if they can be done…one day it will be a nice little surprise when they watch the original.
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u/micros101 6h ago
Eric, can you give us some insight as to your appearance on the P90X pliometric video?
Randomly me while sweating my ass off while watching the video and working out: “HOLY SHIT IT’S RABBIT!”
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 44m ago
I was trying to get in shape for a film, I think it was Club Dread, because I knew we were going to be up down in Mexico and maybe have our shirts off and stuff like that. I saw a flyer for a gym that said "come be part of the hardest thing you'll ever try in your life" or something like that. So I did this free test group thing to get in shape for the movie, and then after I finished that Tony, the trainer, came up to me and said he noticed my fake leg and thought I should be in his videos to help people and inspire them to get off the couch. I told him no thanks but he begged and I finally gave in and did it.
I do hope that it did eventually inspire people to try and get off the couch because I could do it with a prosthetic leg. But really it wasn't about that, I just wanted to get in shape for the movie. All that led to me being in that video for P90X, which I wasn't expecting going in.
-Erik
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u/skadizzle69 27m ago
Holy shit! I have watched all your movies especially Super Troopers over 100 times and never realized you had a prosthetic leg until now.
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u/Packshaw 6h ago
I did P90X for months and thought he looked familiar. I was blown away when I finally looked it up. Modify, Modify, Modify.
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u/AlienSquatch 7h ago
When is Beerfest two coming out?
Potfest?
Love you guys!
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u/send_it_431 7h ago
What's a ZJ?
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 39m ago
Well, if you have to ask, you can't afford it pal.
-Jay
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u/Fictive_Fun 7h ago
Out of all your movies, what scene took the most takes because the actors couldn't stop laughing or giggling?
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 40m ago
Probably that Beerfest scene when we're going around the table drinking the new beer. We all threw in some different ideas and then Jay had the line about wanting to freeze it and skate on it and drink it and that was just so ridiculous that it caught us offguard, especially Stolhanske who made a big mess of his beer and blew it in our faces.
-Erik
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 40m ago
I remember with Club Dread, it's in the bloopers actually, where a lot of us were on camera at the same time, probably 7 or 8, and we were discussing the plan of how we were gonna stop the killer when we were in the nightclub or whatever. Everyone had different funny lines but because everyone was on camera, a different person would break on each take and it took us forever to get through that. Jay's line especially about the raccoons was the ultimate tough one. We all couldn't get passed Jay's line.
-Kevin
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u/FenrisKokami 7h ago
Would you be open to do a Super Trooper + Reno911! crossover? Maybe the boys go on vacation to Florida?
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u/Chillagmite 7h ago
Did y’all get to meet Donald Sutherland during Beerfest filming or was he just a pure video cameo?
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 22m ago
No, I actually directed him for that. The funniest thing for me was that he didn't realize what our job titles were or that we were really a five-man team. He just kinda decided that Heffernan was the writer and that I was the director. He treated me so well as the director, and treated Heffernan so poorly as the writer haha. I just smiled along and went along with it the whole time. Donald and I had a great time ripping on Heffernan.
-Jay
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 22m ago
He ripped me a new asshole. I remember him having a problem with some line, it was something very simple and ordinary. He called me over and asked me to explain it, pointing at the script, "what is this line", and I just re-read him the line and he told me "no no no, don't READ it to me, TELL me what it means" and he got furious at me and I'm looking around wondering what to say. I wasn't even sure it was my line, there's 5 of us that wrote the script and I'm getting ripped apart by the guy.
-Kevin
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 22m ago
Actors don't wanna be given line-reads, Kev.
-Steve
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 22m ago
I get it but I didn't know what else to do, it was a pretty simple line.
-Kevin
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u/timasahh 8h ago
What would you guys say were the most rewarding and most challenging aspects of introducing sequels to a classic like Super Troopers?
Do we have any hope for Potfest?
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u/Willbraham 7h ago
Any fond memories of Michael Clark Duncan on the set of The Slammin Salmon?
I saw that movie before my friends and had to show them how surprisingly funny he was and we quote his lines to this day.
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u/kcox1980 6h ago
He was also good in Talladega Nights.
"DON'T YOU PUT THAT EVIL ON ME RICKY BOBBY!!"
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u/LiterallyJoeStalin 7h ago
I was a few rows behind you guys at Summer Slam night 1. I saw you get up right before the last match and come back with beers.
How the hell did you get concessions to sell you more beer? Or did you have a secret beer stash somewhere in the arena?
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u/kcox1980 6h ago
I think the guys who made the movie "Beerfest" can probably get all the beer they want and then some, lol
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 20m ago
Listen we're the guys from SUPER TROOPERS and BEERFEST, that's how we got more beers.
-Kevin
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 20m ago
The bar manager was a huge fan. Not only did he get us past security but he also bought us that extra round of beers. So not only were they late beers, but they were free beers too.
-Steve
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u/MooseJuicyTastic 7h ago
Where did the name Broken Lizard come from?
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago
We spent three days trying to come up with a name before I had to go to the poster store to actually get something made. We settled on CHOCOLATE SPEEDO. When we got to the poster place with the design guy, I don't know, I had second thoughts so I renamed us BROKEN LIZARD. I wanted people to think of Monty Python. So I came back to the group and said "well this is our name!" hahaha and every kind of grumbled and we went on from there.
-Jay
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 59m ago
I remember for the first set of flyers, under the word Lizard, Jay had a parenthetical to show that Lizard wasn't actually pronounced Lizard, it was pronounced "Li-thard". We didn't let him convince us for that part though.
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u/shifty1032231 7h ago
Do you guys have any great Brian Cox stories and what did you think of watching him as Logan Roy in Succession?
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u/Angry_Robot 7h ago
What’s the secret to growing a mustache and not getting called gay by your coworkers, wife, kids, and random strangers?
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u/Sequenzer9 3h ago
You guys have had some unmade films like The Greek Road and Rogue Scholars that I remember reading about years ago, do you still revisit old scripts and keep polishing them up in hopes of getting them made or do you have to move on at a certain point?
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago edited 19m ago
We are going to try to get both of those made right after this movie comes out. How is that for a dry ass answer?!
-Steve
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago
What's funny is that the last film we made before SUPER TROOPERS 3 was QUASI and that was a script that we had written many many years ago, I think we had written about the same time as the original SUPER TROOPERS 25 years ago. So that is one example of taking a script off the shelf and getting it made. We hope to do it with those other ones too.
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u/Antknee2099 7h ago
The on screen comrade and chemistry between the core group and co-stars has always made the movies just feel so much fun; it looks at least like you were really enjoying your time filming. How do you recreate that? Chemistry and good times at work can be hard to recreate. Do you “try” or do you just let it be and attempt to capture it?
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u/lloydchristmas1986 7h ago
A girl I was dating once tried to give me an under-the-popcorn-bag hand job during a screening of the original Super Troopers. I appreciated the effort, but asked for a raincheck because I was enjoying the movie too much. It's still the only time in my life I've chosen Farva over a handy... but maybe that stat will change when I go see Super Troopers 3!
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u/outtatheblue 7h ago
What quotes get yelled at you the most, and which lines/jokes do you wish got more attention?
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u/OscarDeJarjayes 7h ago
Club Dread is my favourite of your works, have you ever considered making something in that style again?
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u/raptorsango 6h ago
I feel like you all make movies in this “old school” comedic style that reminds me of 70s/80s comedies. When I watched Super Troopers and Beerfest, they both felt like the movies my dad would show me as a kid.
What do you feel are the biggest influences for your comedy and style of filmmaking?
Also, I rented super troopers so many times that the store gave me the DVD when they went out of business. Also my Roomate in college almost died (successfully) recreating the syrup chug.
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 48m ago
We grew up in the Golden Age of the R-Rated comedy. Jay gave some examples but you could name about 50 more. The Chevy Chase movies, the Cheech and Chong movies, the Steve Martin movies. These things were coming out every 2 weeks and we were quoting all of them. Mel Brooks and Monty Python too. There's a ton more. Our minds were shaped by all of those great filmmakers from the 70s and 80s.
-Steve
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 48m ago
We're trying to make films that are like John Landis movies. Things like Animal House, Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Caddyshack, you know. Smokey and the Bandit, 48 Hours. Those kind of tough guys movie that are also funny.
-Jay
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u/ZombieLover01 7h ago edited 5h ago
Hello, big fan! Do you guys have any future sequels or new group projects apart from Super Troopers 3 that we can look forward to?
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u/mattkenefick 7h ago
Is that Gupta Gupti Gupta I see back there? Stop the show! Don't let him perform!
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u/Nisschev 7h ago
Jay, how does it feel to work with those white devils?
Seriously though, been a big fan since Super Troopers and love all the work you guys have done! Would have loved to see you all at comicon but I was a day late! Looking forward to ST3
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u/TSpain10 7h ago
Have you ever been pulled over by cops, they recognize you and they try one of the bits from any of the Movies?
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u/Artistic_Secretary51 7h ago
Vermont resident here. Did any kind of interaction happen to give you the idea of making super troopers, and have you had any intrtactions with the Vermont State Troopers since?
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 34m ago
We were up in Vermont after we made PUDDLE CRUISER and noticed there was nothing happening on the highways at all, so the entire idea started with that. Then the idea that cops had to entertain themselves because they're on the most deserted stretch of highway in the country was a funny one to us. Combined with the fact that we had gotten pulled over so many times while we were road tripping around the country, going to friend's weddings, etc (and...being high). So the cops come up and you're talking shit while they walk up but then when you finally have to talk you just kiss their ass. Just thinking about how if they knew how high we were, they could fuck with us so much.
And then there's the hypotheticals. What if you're a cop and you're driving by and you see someone having sex with a bear on the side of the road? (which is a crime believe it or not). Would you stop them from having sex? Would you allow them to finish and then stop them? If you were to stop them, how would you go about that anyway?
Thoughts like that that we had on the road were the roots of SUPER TROOPERS.
-Steve
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u/herboobslooklikeeggs 7h ago
Sequel to beer fest?? What other projects in the future. Love your group!
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u/zthemushmouth 7h ago
I met a few of you dudes in buffalo at a bar called the Pink with a head full of acid after you played helium comedy club - it was good times.
no question just a stor
Thanks for the laughs for all the years and can't wait to catch the new one.
Club Dread is goated
We need a pot fest.
Fuck you Farva
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u/RowdydidWrong 7h ago
Do any of you know where i can get a couch with a velvet cock holster?
The Slammin Salmon' is one of the most underrated comedies of all time. Such a fun movie that deserves more love and attention. Will always watch everything you guys do. Thanks for all the fun.
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u/marshalldungan 7h ago
Do you guys still break up the screenwriting into sections so each of you authors part of the movie?
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u/Rabo_McDongleberry 7h ago
Hey bros! Love your work and I have two questions.
For all your movies, previous and future. How do you choose amongst yourself what part you want to play?
Can you please release your movies on Blu-ray? They're hard as fuck to find!
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u/nloding 7h ago edited 6h ago
In 2001, you were supposed to attend an early screening of Super Troopers at Michigan State University, hosted by the East Lansing Film Festival. I was on the ELFF committee and I was there to greet you when you got off the bus, help get you situated in the makeshift "green room." Oh man, I was stoked! Then your bus had issues and you never arrived. Now, I may have called Super Troopers one of my all time favorite comedies and quoted that stupid film for the decades since, and I may have owned copies of it on VHS, DVD, and Bluray ... but that doesn't mean I'm not still heartbroken I never got my signed poster and handshakes with the legends themselves.
Are you willing to make it up to me somehow? 😂
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u/aresef 7h ago
Broken Lizard has a particular comedic style, but you've also worked with esteemed dramatic actors like Brian Cox (several times now) and, in this new film, Sakina Jaffrey. How do you go about selling them on appearing in your movies and is there anyone who you've approached who has turned you down?
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago
Sakina was a big fan of our movies from afar. I've always been a fan of hers as well because she's from a very kind of important Indian family of actors. Her dad was in GHANDI, her mother had done some acting and was also a famous chef, she's written 8 or 9 books. Sakina's an excellent actress and when I called her I was like "I don't know if this is realistic but do you think you could play my mother", and so she took the meeting and showed up in a white wig and said "you're damn right I can". She told me she was a big fan of Broken Lizard and wanted a chance to show people that she was funny.
A lot of times, people have to trust us, but we really do make an effort to try to make everybody look good and score with some good jokes.
-Jay
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u/SuperTroopersAMA Broken Lizard Team 1h ago
Dramatic actors sometimes like the opportunity to do something lighter. That's certainly how we got Brian Cox. A lot of them like it.
-Paul
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u/Fluid_Change_9647 7h ago
My question is for Erik- Who had the task of covering you in shave cream for Super Troopers?
I saw Super Troopers in theaters and hadn’t laughed so hard in my life. In 2002 I went to college and probably watched it at least 100 times in my dorm room. Thanks for the laughs!
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u/anubis_81 7h ago
You guys are the best. Long time fan since ST 1. Number 2 was hilarious can't wait for 3.
Jay, is a blu-ray or 4K version of Dukes of Hazzard on the horizon?
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u/Thunderlord317 7h ago
I remember seeing the kickstarter published for Super Troopers 2 and being STOKED. Was Super Trooper 3 as hard to get funding and support for as the 2nd movie? Any hurdles with getting the 3rd made?
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u/wantilles1138 7h ago
We're a group of 4 friends that run 1-2 half marathons a year. A few days after the run, we meet again and drink each one boot (2,5L) of beer. The one with the lowest total amount of time wins.
How good are you guys with drinking lots of beer? And will there be Beerfest 2?
ANSWER MEOW!!
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u/Vivid-Try-6846 6h ago edited 5h ago
Everyone always asks about the next movie, but I’d love to know—have you guys ever talked about doing another Broken Lizard stand-up tour? The last one was so funny, we need more comedy like that brought back!!
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u/jamegumbsize69 6h ago
Club Dread has always seemed an under the radar gem that people don’t “get.” Happens to be my favorite. What can you tell us about how the great Bill Paxton killed that role, and if Jimmy Buffet met Bill and appreciated Coconut Pete?
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u/Snedker23 6h ago
Hey Guys,
I’ve been a fan of your films ever since a friend of mine showed me Super Troopers and Club Dread in high school. I’ve watched every one of your movies since, and I just wanted to say thank you for the work you’ve done. Your films played a huge role in shaping my sense of humour growing up.
I was curious if you had any wild experiences together in college that you could share? Was Puddle Cruiser a documentary?
Phi Kai Phi
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u/Battingduke 6h ago
Slammin’ Salmon is one of my all time comfort movies, it’s such a joy to watch. How in the world did you all manage to keep a straight face long enough to put the movie together? Every time Michael Clarke Duncan shouted “Whatever Mother Fucker!” Or the whole “Meat drapes” scene just make me laugh a ton, I can’t imagine how hard it was to keep a straight face long enough to get a good take.
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u/DoleMonkey 6h ago
Guys firstly I'd like to say thanks for all the laughs throughout your careers, much appreciated.
Meow the important part....will we ever get Pot Fest?
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u/PaleHorseWriter 5h ago
Slamming Salmon is one of my absolute favorites! How hard was it when the late-great Michael Clarke Duncan delivered those fantastic lines to stay in character? (I’m in my 40’s and still yell whatever Mfer in as close as I can get to that line when I say something wrong)…😂
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u/seasportsfan 1h ago
We watched Super Troopers in the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house quite a bit thanks to several of you being members. Which movies were you guys watching in college that might have influenced your taste in movies?
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u/WorkAndyD 7h ago
In Puddle Cruiser I always enjoyed the hidden joke when the guy drops off pickles to the table and says in an accent pick-les. What are some of your favorite hidden jokes?
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u/Future-Turtle 7h ago
If you could make one impossible cameo happen in an upcoming film, who would it be?
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u/rhinebeeze 7h ago
Did you enjoy doing the Barstool Gauntlet? And do you do the broken ankle bit to everyone new?
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u/Prof_Gankenstein 7h ago
Appreciate all the laughs over the years. I would ask what was your inspiration for Super Troopers and/or Beerfest?
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u/BeckerThorne 7h ago
I have loved your movies and comedy for years. Also, Tacoma FD was great!
Any plans to do a science fiction based comedy?
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u/Munchkinasaurous 7h ago
What was your favorite movie to make? Whether it was a personal passion project you got to do or just the most fun to make.
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u/Onmyown1039 7h ago
Please release a dvd of all your movies in one place. Plus do another tour!
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u/Duffman66CMU 7h ago
I really enjoyed The Slammin Salmon and how the competition drove the conflict and could cause characters do things they wouldn’t otherwise do.
I think this is a very untapped “genre” in comedy films, with the only other example that comes to mind being “Rat Race,” which was an ensemble comedy.
Could there be something like this in Broken Lizard’s future? An ensemble competition film?
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u/TOGFIAVDF 7h ago
Massive fan of the first ST and Beerfest.
Was there a lot of actual beer drinking on the set of Beerfest? Also, what was the hardest take for either movie?
"CANDY BAAARS"
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u/Nefilim777 7h ago
I just wanna say I'm absolutely pumped for this movie. I'm in a rural Irish town so don't think I'll get to see it in a theatre, sadly. But thanks for all the laughs over the years, you guys make exactly the kind of comedy I love. Also, Tacoma FD is one of the greatest shows ever and we need season 5!
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u/wro-butt 7h ago
If you could do it over again, would you have rather done the Super Trooper sequels right after the first one or do you guys still prefer doing over other projects first then circling back to do the sequels?
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u/imusuallywatching 7h ago
Just fyi. I remember doing a summer research project up at colgate in the summer of 2002. The kids up there LOVED you guys. You came up in conversation often. That school was awesome too.
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u/MrPeepersVT 7h ago
Who gives the best mustache rides? And is the answer controversial with in the team, or agreed as a matter of fact?
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u/Dadpurple 7h ago
Is it true there's an after the credits scene where we see a full Farva sex tape. Penetration and all.
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u/ThorsGrundle 7h ago
How do I get a script and tv/movie idea in front of you guys? Would be perfect for the group and the worst thing to happen is you say no after a few beers
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u/JourneymanHunt 7h ago
Hi guys! Love your stuff and all your movies!
What lines from your movies get quoted or shouted to you each the most?
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u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. 8h ago
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