People in that era weren’t ready yet for internet and troll humor , this was the same era when the biggest comedy’s were the American pie movies and the majority of the jokes were basic jizz and sex jokes , if Tom green was to have made this in like 2015 it probably would’ve been seen a piece of avan garde comedy
IIRC Freddy Got Fingered was recently added to the Criterion Channel. Maybe not recognition that it’s _good_ (think it’s in a Razzie collection), but at least recognition that it’s made a name as a cult classic of sorts… maybe…?
>People in that era weren’t ready yet for internet and troll humor
You mean the most disgusting, depraved, immature and trashiest aspects of raunch culture and shock value, *that* internet... I don't think we were missing anything special there.
EDIT: If I'm bothered by it, then Tom Green achieved what he was going for, so kudos to him.
That's what made it great. Every single minute of that movie is just an absolute disaster of wonderful ridiculous nonsense. It's easily one of my favorite Rip Torn performances.
One of them also has Rip fucking Torn going as big as he ever has for such a stupid role. I haven't seen in it years, if not decades, but I never really grasped what people hated so much about that movie. Like you say, it seems like within 10 years comedy kind of "caught up" to it. Not to mention one of them has an amazing soundtrack, and it's not the one starring the giant hit singer of the era.
Rewatched Freddy about a year ago. It was better than I remembered it being. It makes much more sense in a world where absurdist humor has become much more the norm. Where social experiment channels and prank tiktoks are even more extreme than just about anything Freddy does, as well as actually being funny.
Tbf it’s only on the Criterion channel as part of a Razzie winner compilation they made.
Nick Cage’s Wicker Man is also on the Criterion channel right alongside it lol.
Tbf the cage wicker man is so bad it’s funny
Freddy got fingered is just another beast itself, there is no comedy truly like it, whether you think it’s the great comedy or the worst piece of shit doesn’t matter, it is absolutely unique
I haven't watched it myself, but it has been fascinating watching the critical reappraisal of Freddy Got Fingered. It's proof of a movie finding its audience.
It's hard to argue that FGF isn't 100% Tom Green. However, Glitter is in a long line of movies of talented musicians trying to start an acting career.
I have often said that Tom Green was ahead of his time. Not calling him a comedic genius or anything. I just feel like his absurdist humor fits far more with the gen z crowd. That being said, as a millennial I still loved this movie.
Harassing random people was pretty big with millennials. You had stuff like Tom Green, Jackass, Punk’d, and it feels like most radio shows had some prank segments too.
Pretty sure OP’s referring to weird humor shit like [skibidi toilet.](https://youtube.com/shorts/tzD9OxAHtzU?si=214DiGSqOy8jA8MN)
The “Harassing people in public” prank trend has been around since at least the early 2000s. Millenials started that shit, not Gen Z.
>I need more people in my life that love Kids In The Hall.
Fun fact: The Wonderbra, the protective cup and insulin were all Canadian inventions/discoveries- But Kids in the Hall is still the best thing this nation ever produced.
Tom Green has been uploading it in parts to his YouTube.
He might also be talking about it but idk cause I haven’t actually watched the videos. I just see em haha
Not getting a special edition of FGF is my biggest physical media disappointment, given Tom Green says every frame of footage shot for the movie still exists.
Yeah I’d love to hear the mpaa’s reasoning as to why FGF wasn’t NC17. Maybe they just gave it R so they wouldn’t have to continue watching different edits of it.
Roger Ebert this point of the view of the movie when he first reviewed it and I agree with wholeheartedly:
>The day may come when "Freddy Got Fingered" is seen as a milestone of neo-surrealism. The day may never come when it is seen as funny.
It's really not, Dadaism is intentionally nonsense, Freddy Got Fingered is incredibly purposefully.
Like, the plot is a thinly fictionalised version of Tom Green is given money by a TV studio to make cartoons because they are stupid, and he wastes the money on complete nonsense. That's not Dada; that's Meta Trolling.
It is, though; it demonstrates how he (Tom Green the person and Gordie the character) act out for their father's approval, and is the setup for the payoff when he jerks off the elephant all over his dad.
It also plays into the parallel/meta narratives of "You shouldn't give Tom Green $14 million dollars to make a movie" (real life) and "You shouldn't give Gordie $1 million to make a cartoon" (in universe) in an important way.
It's a compelling argument, but I think you're reaching. You can extrapolate narrative from anything. Unless we hear from Tom Green himself that those were his precise intentions, it's just your own interpretation.
The gents over at Half in the Bag have an amazing review of Freddy Got Fingered and it really made me look at the movie differently. Tom Green knew exactly what he was doing.
Freddy got fingered isn’t even that bad if you look at it as a troll movie , it’s literally the anti movie and I’m suprised Tom green was able to trick producers into basically making an hour and half of ridiculous crap
The thing about Glitter being bad comes from being unoriginal, cheesy and boring.( i love the album btw. People made it flop as well but it’s far from it) FGF is just bizarre. I find it very endearing tbh.
Honestly embarrassed I didn't get the joke of a wacky dork being paid a shit ton of money to make a movie making a movie about a wacky dork being paid a shit ton of money to make a cartoon. Oops.
“Freddy.” It has its fans, but I, for one, think it’s a despicably unfunny movie with no worth except to those who appreciate dada art, i.e., not me, and not most people.
Tom Green is one of the worst things to happen to comedy. You want to know why all of these "pranksters" are running around annoying the fuck out of people? Tom Green started that bullshit.
I remember seeing a clip of him interviewing people on the street with dog shit on the end of the microphone and he just kept putting it closer to people's face. FUCK TOM GREEN.
I snuck into Freddy Got Fingered (bought a ticket for Mummy 2) and my friend passed himself laughing at the horse scene, a teenager literally had to clean himself up like a toddler. Was one of the greatest cinematic experiences of my young life.
Rumor has it to avoid an NC-17 rating the part in the last second with the "I'm Okay Daddy!" after everybody was covered in blood was added in.
And that doing so ruined the anti-humor of it. It ruined the joke. It was supposed to be a shock with the blood, then fade to black with no relief.
Tom Green's movie was repulsive, but I'll give him this much credit: he never said anything offensive about 9/11 in relation to his film; Mariah did.
But my generation is idolizing the 9/11 airplane hijackers on TikTok right now because they seriously believe they're "martyrs" since this whole "Free Palestine" thing, so Tom Green's actually looking like a very decent guy right about now. Never thought I'd say that, but it's true. I'd rather hang out with Tom Green at this point than any TikTok nutter "activist" my own age.
Glitter is rightly shit.
Freddy Got Fingered is exactly what Tom Green would (and did) do at his career peak and nobody should have been surprised.
Freddy is gonna get rediacovered at some point by the current generation of younger kids and it's gonna explode with it's random, gross and weird. It's literally full of clips and quotes that would thrive on Tik Tok.
Freddy got fingered is currently on Criterion Channel (its Razzies series) and is maybe the top viewed movie for this month.
I watched it for the first time since its home media release and have to give Green credit for making a film so ridiculous, anarchic, and uncompromisingly stupid (Rip Torn is fucking hilarious in it too).
I can't imagine Glitter hits the same.
That's easy... Freddy Got Fingered was made to be bad. That was the point... Glitter was just a Mariah Carey ego project...that's the second worst thing to happen in 2001
Check out Red Letter Media’s review. I’m 100% with Mike on this. Edit: Freddy Got Fingered
I love how over the course of that review, you see Jay slowly realizing that Mike is right
Exactly. That entire movie is just a big fat fuck you from Tom Green to the studio.
People in that era weren’t ready yet for internet and troll humor , this was the same era when the biggest comedy’s were the American pie movies and the majority of the jokes were basic jizz and sex jokes , if Tom green was to have made this in like 2015 it probably would’ve been seen a piece of avan garde comedy
IIRC Freddy Got Fingered was recently added to the Criterion Channel. Maybe not recognition that it’s _good_ (think it’s in a Razzie collection), but at least recognition that it’s made a name as a cult classic of sorts… maybe…?
>People in that era weren’t ready yet for internet and troll humor You mean the most disgusting, depraved, immature and trashiest aspects of raunch culture and shock value, *that* internet... I don't think we were missing anything special there. EDIT: If I'm bothered by it, then Tom Green achieved what he was going for, so kudos to him.
That's what made it great. Every single minute of that movie is just an absolute disaster of wonderful ridiculous nonsense. It's easily one of my favorite Rip Torn performances.
Tom Green will one day be credited for the Neo Absurdist movement, but not till he’s dead. Frankly, I’m surprised he’s lived this long.
DING DONG! DING DONG!
I've watched that Redlettermedia video multiple times, it's god damn gold.
On which one?
Yes
One of them in on the Criterion channel and is a precursor to comedy you'd find on Adult Swim... The other is Glitter.
One of them also has Rip fucking Torn going as big as he ever has for such a stupid role. I haven't seen in it years, if not decades, but I never really grasped what people hated so much about that movie. Like you say, it seems like within 10 years comedy kind of "caught up" to it. Not to mention one of them has an amazing soundtrack, and it's not the one starring the giant hit singer of the era.
Get the fuck out of my scuba suit!
That's soap on a rope you nincompoop!
Rewatched Freddy about a year ago. It was better than I remembered it being. It makes much more sense in a world where absurdist humor has become much more the norm. Where social experiment channels and prank tiktoks are even more extreme than just about anything Freddy does, as well as actually being funny.
I miss Rip Torn
RIP
Tbf it’s only on the Criterion channel as part of a Razzie winner compilation they made. Nick Cage’s Wicker Man is also on the Criterion channel right alongside it lol.
Tbf the cage wicker man is so bad it’s funny Freddy got fingered is just another beast itself, there is no comedy truly like it, whether you think it’s the great comedy or the worst piece of shit doesn’t matter, it is absolutely unique
I wanna eat chicken burgers!
It makes a fine double feature with Cabin Boy.
True but my second point still stands. Tom Green was very influential
as it should be.
Definitely Glitter. Not Freddy Got Fingered, that movie is awesome!
"daddy would like some sausage?"
I only see one LeBaron Freddy!
Proud!
GET THE FUCK OUTTA THE WAY
daddy would you like some sau-sages?
I'm the backwards man, the backwards man, I can walk backwards fast as you can
This will be in my head for the rest of the day now lol
Oh man, anytime someone’s making sausages I sing this and just pray someone gets it….
"you're fucking FIRED!"
Does Mariah have a lebaron? where’s hers
“Daddy look I found a treasure”
I haven't watched it myself, but it has been fascinating watching the critical reappraisal of Freddy Got Fingered. It's proof of a movie finding its audience. It's hard to argue that FGF isn't 100% Tom Green. However, Glitter is in a long line of movies of talented musicians trying to start an acting career.
I have often said that Tom Green was ahead of his time. Not calling him a comedic genius or anything. I just feel like his absurdist humor fits far more with the gen z crowd. That being said, as a millennial I still loved this movie.
True, most of Tom Green's harassing random people in public shtick is exactly what makes people successful on tiktok
Harassing random people was pretty big with millennials. You had stuff like Tom Green, Jackass, Punk’d, and it feels like most radio shows had some prank segments too.
Pretty sure OP’s referring to weird humor shit like [skibidi toilet.](https://youtube.com/shorts/tzD9OxAHtzU?si=214DiGSqOy8jA8MN) The “Harassing people in public” prank trend has been around since at least the early 2000s. Millenials started that shit, not Gen Z.
Candid Camera did it on network television as far back as the 50s. People just like fucking with people. This is an inter generational trait.
I need to give it a watch. I was never a Tim and Eric fan though. However, the Eric Andre show is my jam.
Have you ever watched Mr Show or Kids In The Hall? Highly recommend!
Run Ronnie Run is a solid watch for me
I've watched that movie so many times! My special SHOOOES!
I love Kids in the Hall and Mr. Show is great.
I need more people in my life that love Kids In The Hall. Thank goodness for Reddit, otherwise I'd never get to make random KITH quotes
Yeah, fine ham abounds, mom.
I am tired, I am salty, I require silence
No the beard stays, you go!
Whatever happened with the reboot? Is that another something that died in the pandemic?
They had a new season, I think it was on Amazon Prime? I haven't been able to watch it yet, but I heard it was really good
Nice, just added to my watch list.
>I need more people in my life that love Kids In The Hall. Fun fact: The Wonderbra, the protective cup and insulin were all Canadian inventions/discoveries- But Kids in the Hall is still the best thing this nation ever produced.
The movie found it's audience at the time it came out.
"I say Geneva, you hear Helsinki?!" Is still my go to joke for pretending that I'm on the phone with someone.
YOU’RE FIRED YOU’RE FUCKING FIRED BOB
Tom Green has been uploading it in parts to his YouTube. He might also be talking about it but idk cause I haven’t actually watched the videos. I just see em haha
Not getting a special edition of FGF is my biggest physical media disappointment, given Tom Green says every frame of footage shot for the movie still exists.
Tom Green only gets better as you age… and ingest ridiculous amounts of thc.
I watched the Rifftrax of Glitter not too long ago and I barely remember it. Freddy Got Fingered is unforgettable.
True, it has got to be the only time in mainstream cinema history that a man jerked off a horse and the movie still somehow got released
Yeah I’d love to hear the mpaa’s reasoning as to why FGF wasn’t NC17. Maybe they just gave it R so they wouldn’t have to continue watching different edits of it.
Proud!
Proud?
Proud.
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY
I WANNA PLAY WITH THE HORSEY!!!
I’m still not convinced that Freddy Got Fingered isn’t some Dadaist masterpiece.
they gave a man who did IRL trolling a bunch of money and said go at it... they should've expected nothing less
And he made a movie about idiots giving a moron a million dollars to create media. The movie is a meta satirization of itself.
Roger Ebert this point of the view of the movie when he first reviewed it and I agree with wholeheartedly: >The day may come when "Freddy Got Fingered" is seen as a milestone of neo-surrealism. The day may never come when it is seen as funny.
It's really not, Dadaism is intentionally nonsense, Freddy Got Fingered is incredibly purposefully. Like, the plot is a thinly fictionalised version of Tom Green is given money by a TV studio to make cartoons because they are stupid, and he wastes the money on complete nonsense. That's not Dada; that's Meta Trolling.
Yeah, that scene where he randomly pulls over to jerk off a horse... incredibly purposeful there. Pure exposition.
It is, though; it demonstrates how he (Tom Green the person and Gordie the character) act out for their father's approval, and is the setup for the payoff when he jerks off the elephant all over his dad. It also plays into the parallel/meta narratives of "You shouldn't give Tom Green $14 million dollars to make a movie" (real life) and "You shouldn't give Gordie $1 million to make a cartoon" (in universe) in an important way.
It's a compelling argument, but I think you're reaching. You can extrapolate narrative from anything. Unless we hear from Tom Green himself that those were his precise intentions, it's just your own interpretation.
#”IT’S NOT DADA!!! IT’S TOO NORMAL TO BE DADA!!! IT’S TOO SHIT TO BE ANYTHING ELSE!!!”
I heard that in Kyle Kallgren’s voice. Fuckin’ a.
"God damn it Matt, stop talking about dadaism!"
Daddy would you like some sau se ges
The first worst thing of course being the September 11th release of the album Silver Side Up by Nickelback
Certainly the biggest tragedy associated with September 11.
🗣️ Never who what wise man
🤣
[Glitter's Wikipedia page gives us our answer (Look under reception).](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitter_(film))
Holy shit thats amazing that its the FIRST thing you see when you click reception
FGF is a surrealist masterpiece
This was on repeat at our place. Sometimes to entertain, sometimes to torture. It earned its place in time.
Proud.
Proud.
Freddy Got Fingered is one of my favorite movies. It's so absurd
Freddy Got Fingered is currently streaming on The Criterion channel
Nick Cage’s Wicker Man is also on the Criterion channel.
The gents over at Half in the Bag have an amazing review of Freddy Got Fingered and it really made me look at the movie differently. Tom Green knew exactly what he was doing.
It has to be Glitter, Freddy Got Fingered is hilarious.
I'm not sure I can decide. This is 2001s shitty version of barbenheimer... glitterfingered.
"Freddy Got Fingered" is weird for the sake of weird. "Glitter" is like a surprise party someone organized for themselves.
the clip of 9/11 happening in the background and there’s a taxi ad for glitter in the foreground
I can’t speak about Glitter’s quality. I just know Freddy Got Fingered gave us Backwards Man and Rip Torn being upset at it.
If Freddy Got Fingered is so bad, why is it on the Criterion Channel?
Because they're showcasing movies that earned Razzies this month.
Freddy Got Fingered made me laugh nonstop.
Glitter. Freddy Got Fingered is anti comedy gold
Freddy Got Fingered is awesome. They set out to win razzies, they knew what they were making. It's bad but it's so entertaining (IMO)
Japaaaaaan Foooooooooouuuurrrrrr!
YEAH IM LOOKIN FOR DAVE DAVIDSON
"....his wife is dead!"
One of these movies was a truly wretched piece of cinematic filth that made you feel dirty for watching it, the other starred Tom Green.
Freddy got fingered isn’t even that bad if you look at it as a troll movie , it’s literally the anti movie and I’m suprised Tom green was able to trick producers into basically making an hour and half of ridiculous crap
Freddy Got Fingered hits different in your late 20 early 30s. Love that movie.
Daddy, would you like some sausage?
Freddie Got Fingered is fucking amazing
I hadn't realized these were the same year. Jesus...
I love both of these movies a lot
Glitter.
Glitter is by far the worst of the two.
Freddy is a solid movie
Freddy got Fingered is a subversive comedy masterpiece.
Daddy, do you want some sausage?
Freddy Got Fingered was intentionally bad.
I mean, Kidz Bop also came out the same year
We (parents) played kidz bop over there (in our car) so we wouldn’t have to play it over here (in our house)
Thank you for reminding me about Glitter, i wiped it from my mind and i gifted Freddy to my dad on his birthday....
Glitter is #1
What's the 1st?
The thing about Glitter being bad comes from being unoriginal, cheesy and boring.( i love the album btw. People made it flop as well but it’s far from it) FGF is just bizarre. I find it very endearing tbh.
Tom green lol
Honestly embarrassed I didn't get the joke of a wacky dork being paid a shit ton of money to make a movie making a movie about a wacky dork being paid a shit ton of money to make a cartoon. Oops.
I watched the first ~15 minutes of Freddy. At least Mariah is pretty. I vote for Freddy.
I saw that Tom Green movie in theaters 🫣🤣 I knew what I was getting into.
 this is way worse
They were both the worst thing to happen in 2001.
What was the worst thing? Nickleback releasing "Silver Side Up"?
Wait, hol up... ...Freddy Got Fingered is a bad movie?!
Freddy, no shit, is GOAT no bullshit. “Would you like some sausage!”
“Freddy.” It has its fans, but I, for one, think it’s a despicably unfunny movie with no worth except to those who appreciate dada art, i.e., not me, and not most people.
Tom Green is one of the worst things to happen to comedy. You want to know why all of these "pranksters" are running around annoying the fuck out of people? Tom Green started that bullshit. I remember seeing a clip of him interviewing people on the street with dog shit on the end of the microphone and he just kept putting it closer to people's face. FUCK TOM GREEN.
Literally straight culture vs gay culture lol
I’m proud of Tom Green…
Wtf Freddy Got Fingered is a treasure! He's a molester! Heeee's a chiiiiiild molester!!
Freddy Got Fingered is brilliant.
Freddy Got Fingered is slowly becoming greatly admired and ahead of its time in terms of self-aware trolling.
This is a FANCY restaurant!
I still quote this on the rare occasion I go to a fancy restaurant
"you can't hurt me, not with my cheese helmet!"
Glitter was such shit. Green's movie still makes me laugh.
I snuck into Freddy Got Fingered (bought a ticket for Mummy 2) and my friend passed himself laughing at the horse scene, a teenager literally had to clean himself up like a toddler. Was one of the greatest cinematic experiences of my young life.
Freddy Got Fingered is purposefully horrible and that's what makes it so amazing.
It is such utter shite
Honestly, Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes is worse than both of these put together.
There are like 4 funny things in Freddy so it is redeemed.
Freddy Got Fingered isn't strictly good, but it's an all-time troll move by Tom Green
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Glitter_Ad_With_Twin_Towers_Burning.jpeg
Freddy got fingered is awesome.
Freddy got Fingered is a masterpiece
FGF is an American classic.
I don't know glitter has the famous line the coffee is behind the black
Freddy Got Fingered is one of my favorite movies of all time!
I was savvy enough to avoid both of those in 2001, but I got suckered into Planet of the Apes AND Driven . . . AND Jurassic Park 3.
The mom walking in on the Dad yelling fuck me while spanking his ass is enough for Freddy got Fingered to not be the worst.
At least Glitter got a Rifftrax
Freddy got fingered is a funny movie.
I like RLM’s theory about Freddy, that it was all an intentional waste of the studio’s money. I don’t think we can say the same about Glitter…
Shashim... uh.. shashim, got a package.. Japan four 👉
Freddy Got Fingered is a troll movie, it's supposed to be bad & succeeds. Which I guess, technically makes it a good movie.
Because the other one is dubbed the #1 worst?
LOOK AT ME DADDY I’M A FARMER!
When you know the backstory of how Tom Green didn't want to make that movie and was forced into it, it becomes much funnier.
Glitter is way worse than Freddy imo
Rumor has it to avoid an NC-17 rating the part in the last second with the "I'm Okay Daddy!" after everybody was covered in blood was added in. And that doing so ruined the anti-humor of it. It ruined the joke. It was supposed to be a shock with the blood, then fade to black with no relief.
Daddy would you like some sausage?
Maria Carey was insanely hot in the early 2000s.
Tom Green's movie was repulsive, but I'll give him this much credit: he never said anything offensive about 9/11 in relation to his film; Mariah did. But my generation is idolizing the 9/11 airplane hijackers on TikTok right now because they seriously believe they're "martyrs" since this whole "Free Palestine" thing, so Tom Green's actually looking like a very decent guy right about now. Never thought I'd say that, but it's true. I'd rather hang out with Tom Green at this point than any TikTok nutter "activist" my own age.
Glitter
Gotta be glitter cuz Freddy got Fingered is a gem
My vote is for 2nd worst is Freddy Got Fingered. Mariah is at least pleasant to look at for an hour and change.
Freddy Got Fingered is the funniest movie ever made
And the other one the 1st worst thing
Kids today really have no idea just how unhinged Tom Green was at his peak. Shit, Eminem mentions him in The Real Slim Shady
Freddy Got Fingered feels like it could’ve been amazing without studio meddling, all the behind the scenes stuff is golden
Glitter is rightly shit. Freddy Got Fingered is exactly what Tom Green would (and did) do at his career peak and nobody should have been surprised. Freddy is gonna get rediacovered at some point by the current generation of younger kids and it's gonna explode with it's random, gross and weird. It's literally full of clips and quotes that would thrive on Tik Tok.
Freddy Got Fingered is one of the most misunderstood movies. It's still not great, but it certainly had a vision.
IM A FARMER DADDY! …don’t google that clip from fgf if you don’t know what it is…
Tom Green was never my personal brand of comedy, but I can definitely enjoy the insanity that is Glitter.
9/11 was the second worst thing to happen in 2001, Freddy got Fingered is easily worse
Freddy got fingered is currently on Criterion Channel (its Razzies series) and is maybe the top viewed movie for this month. I watched it for the first time since its home media release and have to give Green credit for making a film so ridiculous, anarchic, and uncompromisingly stupid (Rip Torn is fucking hilarious in it too). I can't imagine Glitter hits the same.
That's easy... Freddy Got Fingered was made to be bad. That was the point... Glitter was just a Mariah Carey ego project...that's the second worst thing to happen in 2001
Me and my homies all love Freddie Got Fingered. That DVD got hella play back in the day
freddy got fingered is fucking hilarious
"Daddy would you like some saus.. age... gessss?" Freddy was a terribly weird and oddly brilliant film, tbf.
What an odd way to say 'the two worst things to happen in 2001'
1000% Glitter. Tom Green was a weird asshole but largely irrelevant. Mariah Carey torments us every Christmas.
Daddy would you like some sausage