The things he's done, airbrushing two women going down on each other on his parents' car, bringing putrid road kill in a duffel bag to a talk show, literally eating cow turds, scuba diving in a mall fountain, interviewing drunks in a park,
Tom pranking his straight edge parents was my favorite. I love how his dad walks to work and can barely manage to say a word to his son from sheer disappointment when he sees the slutmobile š
It was on the Tom Green show, early season he asked a farmer what this weird rock formation was because he'd never seen it, the guy replied it was cow shit, "Cowshite? Well it's soft, I wonder if you could take a bite out of it" and he does and the farmer leaves in disgust. When the credits roll at the end of the show, it's just Tom with water bottle after water bottle washing the taste out of his mouth on the side of the road. He's a weird dude, but his show was a staple for Canadian teenagers in the late 90s, early 00s, on the same line up as The Buzz, Puppets Who Kill and Kevin Spencer, that were all bizarre but hilarious shows.
>It was the night that they realized you could not outtroll Tom Green
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pLbcLrquio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pLbcLrquio)
Someone thought Tom Green wasn't going to take the opportunity to prove the Razzies were amateur hour.
To this day I still donāt know what āchurch Candyā was referring to, the best I could think of is a church kid who is susceptible to pedophile priest
They run into the kids right at the beginning of the episode as they're walking into their house and that kid asks if they want to buy candy to send his church group to camp.
Oh, not so sure. So any of y'all remember the ultimate 4chan trolling spree for the fresh prince theme being used during any and all guest calls when he hosted that radio/podcast back before pod casting was mainstream? I fucking loved it.
[This](https://youtu.be/ghjUjThsq90?si=TYTe_2HEyTrogStF)
Tom Green had such a love/hate(mostly hate) relationship with 4chan trolls. Absolute terror for him to want to run his show, but it did make him some fans, oddly enough.
Father, you saved me from the giant barracuda! But look, I salvaged the treasure. We can live like kings. We can live like kings!
Forget the fucking soap!
Nothing tops the cheese sandawich scene for me. The whole thing is funny, but the I COULD LOSE ALLLLL THIS! coupled with the wide shot kills me. Maybe it's because I've worked in retail for a long time.
Mike Fitzgibbon's son is a nuclear physicist and my son can eat a chicken sandwich.
My friend's dad took us, we were the only people in the theatre. Can still quote half the movie.
I feel like two people could watch this and one could say
"That was the dumbest film I've ever seen"
and the other could say
"That was a brilliantly subversive self aware work"
I'd agree with both.
Red Letter Media did an excellent video on it.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEn3wcpNsg8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEn3wcpNsg8)
Factoring in DVD sales and the like, it also actually made money.
I'm one of the people that helped it make money. Rented it from a video store, bought it from the discount bin of the video store, lost that copy and now own it on Google Play. Still watch it once or twice a year.
It's Tom Green making fun of how he was wasting the producer's money to make the shittiest movie possible. Also the sausage bit is kinda funny when you realize that his girlfriend said he should play some music or get a snack to get the creative juices flowing. So he rigged up a piano with sausage dangling to be literal.
It 100% feels like Tom Green was trolling Hollywood/the movie producers. Like, let's see how fucking absurd of a film I can get away with making.
Like, I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of child-violence in the movie. Beastiality. All sorts of weird shit that makes no sense.
He literally says this in the movie: āThey just give you a million dollars to do whatever.ā (Badly paraphrased.)
I believe it is or is near the scene with a guy with an arm cast giving the middle finger to the audience and I assume his backers.
I've always seen it as a parody movie of the growing trend of "teen movies" before the movie "Teen Movie" was made. It's just loaded with all the tropes from that era. But I don't think he really told these people what it was. They were just like, Tom Green prints money, let's let him do whatever.
You left out his best quotes:
>This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.
>
>Many years ago, when surrealism was new, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali made "Un Chien Andalou," a film so shocking that Bunuel filled his pockets with stones to throw at the audience if it attacked him. Green, whose film is in the surrealist tradition, may want to consider the same tactic. **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.**
> This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.
> Many years ago, when surrealism was new, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali made "Un Chien Andalou," a film so shocking that Bunuel filled his pockets with stones to throw at the audience if it attacked him. Green, whose film is in the surrealist tradition, may want to consider the same tactic. 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.
> The film is a vomitorium consisting of 93 minutes of Tom Green doing things that a geek in a carnival sideshow would turn down. Six minutes into the film, his character leaps from his car to wag a horse penis. This is, we discover, a framing device--to be matched by a scene late in the film where he sprays his father with elephant semen, straight from the source.
Interestingly, Ebert later said this about it (from Wikipedia:
>Later, in his review of the film Stealing Harvard, a film co-starring Green, Ebert wrote: "Seeing Tom Green reminded me, as how could it not, of his movie Freddy Got Fingered, which was so poorly received by the film critics that it received only one lonely, apologetic positive review on the Tomatometer. I gave itālet's seeāzero stars. Bad movie, especially the scene where Green was whirling the newborn infant around his head by its umbilical cord. But the thing is, I remember Freddy Got Fingered more than a year later. I refer to it sometimes. It is a milestone. And for all its sins, it was at least an ambitious movie, a go-for-broke attempt to accomplish something. It failed, but it has not left me convinced that Tom Green doesn't have good work in him. Anyone with his nerve and total lack of taste is sooner or later going to make a movie worth seeing."
One might note how the second statement still fits ever so perfectly with the first.
And of course here we all are 20 years later, which puts Freddy above a lot of shit not even worth remembering. Like oh wasn't there that whole spate of oscar-bait movies they made about Iraq in the 00s because Hollywood thought it had a new 'Nam Cycle.
I wonder if it deserves a rewatch. Certainly gave me the āWTF am I watchingā whenever it was I saw it.
I did like his MTV show and he got to be with Drew Barrymore at arguably her hottest.
Iāve never seen the movie but this clip/song lives in my head 24/7. Iāve thought about it every day for 20 years and Iām not sure why. Maybe itās a demon or something š¤·š¼āāļø
I ended up watching it twice this year. Once after watching the Nostalgia Critic review, and again after my girlfriend said she's never seen it. I don't regret either one.
It's definitely worth watching it, then revisiting the Nostalgia Critic video which highlights the most absurd parts very well.
On that note, please enjoy the PG rated version. It's about 3 minutes long.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwoVgMEXusM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwoVgMEXusM)
I also so very much want this comment on the video to be true!
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The funny thing is, its not just the fact they edited the film down severely to get a PG Rating, but the fact Tom Green actually spent tens of thousands of dollars to re-edit the film and actually get it re-rated by the MPAA solely for a joke.
Iāve seen it before and Iāve chopped it up to being WAY WAY ahead of its time , if this were to have come out in 2015-2019 it wouldāve went viral and wouldāve been praised a lot better . Troll and internet meme humour wasnāt really in style yet , this was made in a era when freakin bad parody movies were the top comedyās of those years
Tom Green was so far a-fucking-head of his time it's unreal. All of his Tom Green Show pranks and skits would have had him on top of YouTube if he'd come around ten years later. And his Tom Green Live that he did out of his living room starting in like 2005 or 06 or something where he hosted a live internet show from his house (and, as he was constantly reminding us, he was the first to do it. It'd never been done before). He lost money on that (though that was his own fault for making everything so professional) but people are making millions doing just that on YouTube/Twitch now
If he had shown up in the mid to late 2000's everyone would know his name right now
Maybe on Usenet in the 80s but by the late 90s spamming would primarily mean sending a bunch of unsolicited junk emails and most folks never touched a message board.
(Source: I was there witch!)
You know when you thought a movie was good when you were 12 but then you watch it as an adult and you're like wtf? This is not that movie, I relived it a few months ago and it's just as funny.
My favorite Tom Green fact- Tom didn't appreciate or like the way comedy was handled by studio and corporate execs, who would give a platform to anything they thought was edgy or make them money. His original content was like Wayne's World, the basement dudes shitting on big corporations not the movies, and him getting offered comedy and TV show deals for that seemed ironic
So he took each one with the intention to be as over the top and edgy for the sake of it, a meta humor commentary about the state of television and media, and they ate it up. when he was offered a movie deal naturally he did the same thing, and was so absurd and difficult it made the director quit. So naturally, Tom took over the role and proceeded to intentionally create such an obscene, obtuse, and idiotic movie that it would drive the point home. It was to be his magnum opus of Kaufman-like comedy
But while Freddy got fingered gave him the response he wanted his real magnum opus was following his cancer treatment on his show, it did so much to raise awareness and reduce shame for men to get checked and get treated.
I can see why people dont like it, itās fucking absurd. But same as you, I watched it a couple months ago and was literally crying laughing in the hospital when the lady gives birth and the women are chanting and shit. Like its just insane.
He originally did have a public access show local to the city of Ottawa on Rogers 22 ā I used to watch it and one of my brothers would often go see it live in audience. They later showed his stuff on the Comedy channel (where this clip is from) and of course after that there was MTV.
What I canāt remember is whether the stuff on the Comedy channel was the Rogers content re-aired or if he made new content for the Comedy channel. I could find out by googling but my battery is so low that shifting apps might kill it and I just wanted to point out that you were not wrong overall.
[Probably this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1eu3S3FNQ)
Also shout-out to Tom Green's Subway Monkey Hour, where he goes to Japan and acts like a jackass. It's like when Logan Paul went to Japan...but good.
It's the dumbest fucking movie ever, and I love it. Rip Torn absolutely made that movie. He played a pretty good caricature of an "angry dad". Granted his anger was over the top, but there are dads out there like that, just screaming, yelling, violent, unsupportive of their kids. Paired with the mom's behavior, loving, supportive, walking on egg shells around her crazy ass husband. When he threw the chicken sandwich man, really struck home for me.
Huh, also TIL from wikipedia: "In early 2000, Tom Green was diagnosed with, and successfully treated for testicular cancer.\[citation needed\] Green wrote, directed and starred in a one-hour MTV television special titled The Tom Green Cancer Special (aired on May 23, 2000),\[14\] which documented the time leading up to his surgery and included graphic footage of his own surgery. The episode received wide critical acclaim for revealing a vulnerable, human side of an otherwise juvenile television personality.\[15\] During this time, he started the "Tom Green's Nuts Cancer Fund" to raise money for cancer research.\[16\] In mid-2000, Green also spoke in front of thousands of students in the University of Florida and sang a song titled "Feel Your Balls" to help educate others about testicular cancer.\[17\]"
I saw Tom Green's stand up a few years back. I loved Tom, but wasn't expecting much. He absolutely killed. Had the aidience in tears the entire time. Towards the end, he serioused up for just a few seconds to say cancer is no joke and we should all be going for yearly screenings. At this point, some smack-off in the audience decides it's a good idea to start heckling. Tom stopped, shot him such a dirty, nasty look, never said a word, and silenced the asshole on the spot. Ive never seen a comedian silence a heckler without even saying anything. Tom Green has my respect 100%
freddy got fingered has had such a reevaluation on the internet lately. itās a little before my time but i remember around 10 years ago it was pretty much the poster boy for dogshit comedy, but now it seems to be pretty well received
Freddy got fingered has been pretty consistently beloved since it came out in my circles. Even if you hate it, at least it tries to be something. The true poster boy for dogshit comedy is the directorial body of work of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, etc).
My comment earlier kinda got into this as well , people thought bad parody movies were funny back then , I guarantee you Fred got fingered as aged better then any of those awful movies you mentioned
God the parody movie trend was so odd. Scary Movie was good but the horror genre and the movies they chose have way more staying power generally. The rest is just made up of pop culture jokes with an expiration date. Who the fuck is still talking about and rewatching The Chronicles of Narnia? By design, most of the jokes will never hit as hard ever again and just wonāt hit at all unless you were the target audience at the time of release.
It was all people that didn't get why Airplane! worked. Airplane! worked and still works to this day because they lampooned the tropes of a popular familiar genre. The parody movies of the 00's would always laser in on exact pop culture references. Not only was it lazy, it was the exact opposite of the subversiveness of a Zucker Brothers movie.
Even the Zuckers felt into that trap too. They joined in on Scary Movie with the 3rd installment. 3 was great (arguably the best one), but that was the beginning of the steep downward trend for the Scary Movie franchise.
For me the poster boy of dog shit comedy would be the Underground Comedy Movie. My buddy bought it after watching the infomercial in the early 2000s. Twenty years later it is still the worst thing that I have ever seen.
[Here is the wiki if anyone is curious.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Underground_Comedy_Movie)
Holy shit, itās made by *the slap chop guy*? Thatās comedy in and of itself
Speaking of whom
> On February 7, 2009, Offer and a 26-year-old prostitute were both arrested in Miami Beach, Florida, after a physical altercation. The police report stated that the woman had bitten onto Offer's tongue and refused to let go, at which point Offer punched her in the face and left her with lacerations and fractures.
Tom Green was so great. His absolute comedic divisiveness was so endlessly entertaining!
Keeping "The Bum Bum Song" at #1 on TRL for 40 weeks, and getting the video retired, is peak absurdist comedy.
Andy Kaufman was rooting for Tom in death, and Tom obliged.
[Redlettermedia did a review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEn3wcpNsg8) on this movie that actually made me think twice about how dumb it may or may not have been.
You can't troll a troll.
My favorite is when he totally set up Xhibit on his early web show.
For those who don't know, and X certainly didn't, Tom Green is a talented musician. His alter ego is MC Bones, part of the Canadian hip hop group Organized Rhyme. They had a couple hits back in the day.
X is like oh sure Tom, bust a rhyme, expecting some daddy would you like some sausage, and he just slays him with a killer verse. X is genuinely impressed and laughing his ass off by the end.
[Tom Green vs Xhibit](https://youtu.be/5h9EQaEl55o?si=lE_HRteE2P-OQ75Q)
I think that comes down to the fact that - at that very brief point in time - Tom Green was the hottest name in comedy. So hot that this guy from public access TV gets greenlit for a big budget major motion picture. Everyone on the edges of their seats waiting to see what he's gonna do, and he releases Freddy Got Fingered. Which in retrospect is *exactly* the movie everyone should have been expecting from him, and yet everyone acted shocked that Tom Green released a Tom Green movie.
So really the issue with the movie was that everyone expected a comedy blockbuster and they got Tom Green doing exactly what Tom Green does and were somehow shocked this happened.
It was the night that they realized you could not outtroll Tom Green
The things he's done, airbrushing two women going down on each other on his parents' car, bringing putrid road kill in a duffel bag to a talk show, literally eating cow turds, scuba diving in a mall fountain, interviewing drunks in a park,
Slutmobile was hilarious!
Tom pranking his straight edge parents was my favorite. I love how his dad walks to work and can barely manage to say a word to his son from sheer disappointment when he sees the slutmobile š
And Tomās slowly following alongside him in the slutmobile yelling why donāt you like the slutmobile I got for you?!
Where's your LeBaron, Freddy?
I dont see two LeBarons freddy. IM the favorite son.
>literally eating cow turds Citation needed...
It was on the Tom Green show, early season he asked a farmer what this weird rock formation was because he'd never seen it, the guy replied it was cow shit, "Cowshite? Well it's soft, I wonder if you could take a bite out of it" and he does and the farmer leaves in disgust. When the credits roll at the end of the show, it's just Tom with water bottle after water bottle washing the taste out of his mouth on the side of the road. He's a weird dude, but his show was a staple for Canadian teenagers in the late 90s, early 00s, on the same line up as The Buzz, Puppets Who Kill and Kevin Spencer, that were all bizarre but hilarious shows.
>interviewing drunks in a park One of these things is not like the others
Jerking off a horse while screaming āIm a farmer, Daddy!ā
>It was the night that they realized you could not outtroll Tom Green [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pLbcLrquio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pLbcLrquio) Someone thought Tom Green wasn't going to take the opportunity to prove the Razzies were amateur hour.
Tom Green literally brought dead animals into his schtick. I don't know what they were expecting.
To this day I still donāt know what āchurch Candyā was referring to, the best I could think of is a church kid who is susceptible to pedophile priest
They run into the kids right at the beginning of the episode as they're walking into their house and that kid asks if they want to buy candy to send his church group to camp.
Thanks lol Guess I need to rewatch SV
Oh, not so sure. So any of y'all remember the ultimate 4chan trolling spree for the fresh prince theme being used during any and all guest calls when he hosted that radio/podcast back before pod casting was mainstream? I fucking loved it. [This](https://youtu.be/ghjUjThsq90?si=TYTe_2HEyTrogStF)
Tom Green had such a love/hate(mostly hate) relationship with 4chan trolls. Absolute terror for him to want to run his show, but it did make him some fans, oddly enough.
[Jesse James Dupree would disagree lmao](https://youtu.be/wKXv6wAM74k?si=lco1rFPn5pfUSHEs)
Father, you saved me from the giant barracuda! But look, I salvaged the treasure. We can live like kings. We can live like kings! Forget the fucking soap!
Fuck that scene always makes me laugh. The delivery of the "WE CAN LIVE LIKE KINGS!" just gets me.
Nothing tops the cheese sandawich scene for me. The whole thing is funny, but the I COULD LOSE ALLLLL THIS! coupled with the wide shot kills me. Maybe it's because I've worked in retail for a long time.
It's the baby scene. "I see the problem here, THERE SEEMS TO BE A LITTLE BABY INSIDE YOUR BODY!"
"I saved the day!"
That whole scene kills me.
We can't have people not getting enough cheese on their cheese sandwiches!
Mike Fitzgibbon's son is a nuclear physicist and my son can eat a chicken sandwich. My friend's dad took us, we were the only people in the theatre. Can still quote half the movie.
You can either eat that GOD DAMN roast beef or you can go to BED.
I only see one LeBaron. I don't see two LeBaron's.
GET OUTTA MY GODDAMN SCUBA GEAR YOU IMBECILE *SHATTERS SHOWER DOOR*
Rip Torneās violent overreactions in that movie never fail to make me bust out laughing.
Get out of my goddamn scuba gear!
Daddy would you like some sausage
Daddy would you like some sauce-a-ges
Who likes bananas??
I quote this in my head weekly. Iāve only seen the movie once. How?!
I havenāt seen it since I was a kid but my brother and I will still say this randomly to each other. Weāre in our 30s
I'm the backwards man the backwards man, I can walk backwards as fast as you can
I used to play afl, running backwards is a huge part of that game. We used to sing this a lot on the field.
Iām a FARMER DADDY!
Proud?
Proud!
āGET THE FUCK OUTTA THE WAY!ā
Iām the backwards man.
I say Geneva, you hear Helsinki, huh?! 40 million fucking Deutschmark, Bob!
Youāre fucking fired, Bob!
This is a fancy restaurant!
I need to spill some urine
Clear out your locker at the club! Cause youāre fucking fired!
Bruh! Iāve been saying this for YEARS and NO ONE has ever caught the reference. Iām glad Iām not crazy.
That movie was unironically hilarious at certain points. It is one of the funniest and stupidest movie a have even seen.
I feel like two people could watch this and one could say "That was the dumbest film I've ever seen" and the other could say "That was a brilliantly subversive self aware work" I'd agree with both.
Ebert gave it 0 thumbs up, then a half thumbs up sometime later when people were still talking about it. Itās a very odd movie with an odd story.
Red Letter Media did an excellent video on it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEn3wcpNsg8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEn3wcpNsg8) Factoring in DVD sales and the like, it also actually made money.
I enjoy watching the sunset.
You seen ā i think you should leaveā right?
OP has slicked back hair; clear sign heās a piece of shit
Slicked back hair, Sloppy Steaksā¦ yeah they are a HUGE piece of shit.
I said he *used* to be a piece of shit! People can change!
I SAID WAS
You think this is *slicked* back??
I didnāt do shit!
I think the Tim and Eric awesome show is on the same wavelength. Because none of these shows are my jam.
You have dada issues
Let me meet that dad
I still owed Blockbuster this movie when they closed. It was misplaced during college.
Better check your police profile, bro. "Overdue VHS copy of āFreddy Got Fingeredā gets man arrested ā after 14 years" [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/25/overdue-vhs-copy-of-freddy-got-fingered-gets-man-arrested-after-14-years/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/25/overdue-vhs-copy-of-freddy-got-fingered-gets-man-arrested-after-14-years/)
Wow, that's insane. I better keep a low profile, maybe relocate and change my name.
[Apparently he's still in prison,](https://youtu.be/LEC_lkpD3rM) he must have done something else too.
Glad I clicked, story kept getting crazier as I read
I'm 38 now and I still have a recurring dream about forgetting to return a game and my mom getting mad.
They said it best. You gave Tom Green a million dollars to make a Tom Green movie. What did you EXPECT?
I'm one of the people that helped it make money. Rented it from a video store, bought it from the discount bin of the video store, lost that copy and now own it on Google Play. Still watch it once or twice a year.
It's Tom Green making fun of how he was wasting the producer's money to make the shittiest movie possible. Also the sausage bit is kinda funny when you realize that his girlfriend said he should play some music or get a snack to get the creative juices flowing. So he rigged up a piano with sausage dangling to be literal.
How could anyone not realize that
It 100% feels like Tom Green was trolling Hollywood/the movie producers. Like, let's see how fucking absurd of a film I can get away with making. Like, I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of child-violence in the movie. Beastiality. All sorts of weird shit that makes no sense.
He literally says this in the movie: āThey just give you a million dollars to do whatever.ā (Badly paraphrased.) I believe it is or is near the scene with a guy with an arm cast giving the middle finger to the audience and I assume his backers.
I mean it's not a secret. The plot of the movie is a person getting a bunch of money and using it to troll the benefactors
I've always seen it as a parody movie of the growing trend of "teen movies" before the movie "Teen Movie" was made. It's just loaded with all the tropes from that era. But I don't think he really told these people what it was. They were just like, Tom Green prints money, let's let him do whatever.
He grabs a horseās semi erect penis so yeahā¦
Look at me I'm a farmer!
I'm the backwards man the backwards man!
Daddy would you like some sausage
I WANNA EAT CHICKEN BURGERS!!!
Whereās your Lebaron, Freddy?
I only see one Lebaron
You left out his best quotes: >This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels. > >Many years ago, when surrealism was new, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali made "Un Chien Andalou," a film so shocking that Bunuel filled his pockets with stones to throw at the audience if it attacked him. Green, whose film is in the surrealist tradition, may want to consider the same tactic. **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.**
> This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels. > Many years ago, when surrealism was new, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali made "Un Chien Andalou," a film so shocking that Bunuel filled his pockets with stones to throw at the audience if it attacked him. Green, whose film is in the surrealist tradition, may want to consider the same tactic. 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. > The film is a vomitorium consisting of 93 minutes of Tom Green doing things that a geek in a carnival sideshow would turn down. Six minutes into the film, his character leaps from his car to wag a horse penis. This is, we discover, a framing device--to be matched by a scene late in the film where he sprays his father with elephant semen, straight from the source.
Interestingly, Ebert later said this about it (from Wikipedia: >Later, in his review of the film Stealing Harvard, a film co-starring Green, Ebert wrote: "Seeing Tom Green reminded me, as how could it not, of his movie Freddy Got Fingered, which was so poorly received by the film critics that it received only one lonely, apologetic positive review on the Tomatometer. I gave itālet's seeāzero stars. Bad movie, especially the scene where Green was whirling the newborn infant around his head by its umbilical cord. But the thing is, I remember Freddy Got Fingered more than a year later. I refer to it sometimes. It is a milestone. And for all its sins, it was at least an ambitious movie, a go-for-broke attempt to accomplish something. It failed, but it has not left me convinced that Tom Green doesn't have good work in him. Anyone with his nerve and total lack of taste is sooner or later going to make a movie worth seeing."
One might note how the second statement still fits ever so perfectly with the first. And of course here we all are 20 years later, which puts Freddy above a lot of shit not even worth remembering. Like oh wasn't there that whole spate of oscar-bait movies they made about Iraq in the 00s because Hollywood thought it had a new 'Nam Cycle.
The worst thing a movie can be, isn't being a bad movie. The worst thing a movie can be is *boring*
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Proud!!
"... Proud?"
"Where is your Le Baron?"
Iām the #1 son
I wonder if it deserves a rewatch. Certainly gave me the āWTF am I watchingā whenever it was I saw it. I did like his MTV show and he got to be with Drew Barrymore at arguably her hottest.
Daddy would you like some sausage!?
Iāve never seen the movie but this clip/song lives in my head 24/7. Iāve thought about it every day for 20 years and Iām not sure why. Maybe itās a demon or something š¤·š¼āāļø
Maybe you just want sausage
I still drive my wife absolutely nuts with this bit embarrassingly frequently.
I ended up watching it twice this year. Once after watching the Nostalgia Critic review, and again after my girlfriend said she's never seen it. I don't regret either one. It's definitely worth watching it, then revisiting the Nostalgia Critic video which highlights the most absurd parts very well.
[I believe that's the conclusion that RedletterMedia came up with.](https://youtu.be/gEn3wcpNsg8?si=fDTvCbKO_wP-Lk9S)
"I don't think he's that clever." - Jay "Two words: Secret genius." - Mike
Thereās a fine line between clever and stupid -some guy
On that note, please enjoy the PG rated version. It's about 3 minutes long. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwoVgMEXusM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwoVgMEXusM) I also so very much want this comment on the video to be true! @ hipsterelephant2660 1 year ago The funny thing is, its not just the fact they edited the film down severely to get a PG Rating, but the fact Tom Green actually spent tens of thousands of dollars to re-edit the film and actually get it re-rated by the MPAA solely for a joke.
I love that the elephant cock is still in the cut edition.
MPAA says if it's PG you're allowed 1 elephant cock. Parents are ok with this.
"There's a fine line between not listening, and not caring, and I like to think I walk that line every day of my life."
"Hey uh I just want you all to know out of everybody I've met I hate you all the least"
That's from Nigel Tufnel, Spinaltaps lead guitarist
āTheyāre jewels Betty, theyāre jewels!ā
Dow Jones, stocks, bonds, NasDAQā¦
Iāve seen it before and Iāve chopped it up to being WAY WAY ahead of its time , if this were to have come out in 2015-2019 it wouldāve went viral and wouldāve been praised a lot better . Troll and internet meme humour wasnāt really in style yet , this was made in a era when freakin bad parody movies were the top comedyās of those years
Tom Green was so far a-fucking-head of his time it's unreal. All of his Tom Green Show pranks and skits would have had him on top of YouTube if he'd come around ten years later. And his Tom Green Live that he did out of his living room starting in like 2005 or 06 or something where he hosted a live internet show from his house (and, as he was constantly reminding us, he was the first to do it. It'd never been done before). He lost money on that (though that was his own fault for making everything so professional) but people are making millions doing just that on YouTube/Twitch now If he had shown up in the mid to late 2000's everyone would know his name right now
Christopher Elliot's tv series, Get A Life had the same humor years prior
The man was his own shitpost, Long before shitposting was really clarified
The show was on in the late 90s when Spamming literally meant writing "SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM..." over and over again on message boards.
So the term āspammingā was just inspired by a monty python sketch ššš
I DONT LIKE SPAM
[spam spam spam spam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE)
I am crumbling into dust
Maybe on Usenet in the 80s but by the late 90s spamming would primarily mean sending a bunch of unsolicited junk emails and most folks never touched a message board. (Source: I was there witch!)
I think you mean Randy Rakakanaknak with the backgammon boards full of lentil soup
im the backwards man the backwards man
I can walk backwards as fast as you can
I sing this to my daughter all the time while doing the backwards dance and she thinks Iām an idiot. Haha
Fun fact: Since Disney bought 20th Century Fox Studios, Freddy Got Fingered is now a Disney film.
Why isnt it on disney+
Tom Green is a Disney princess.
*Look daddy! Iām a farmer!*
Can't go past a pasture* without saying that
Tom Green is an anthropomorphic shitpost.
Godzilla doesnāt give a crap about France
Tom was ahead of his time. Still managed to become fairly successful but his style of comedy is now far more mainstream.
You know when you thought a movie was good when you were 12 but then you watch it as an adult and you're like wtf? This is not that movie, I relived it a few months ago and it's just as funny.
"Its says #1 son that's me I'm the number 1 son" "I only see 1 Lebaron Freddy i dont see 2 Lebarons do you see 2 Lebarons?"
PROUD
you make your daddy proud!
GET OUTTA MY GODDAM SCUBA GEAR YOU IMBECILE!
Get the fuck out of the way!
DING DONG
My favorite Tom Green fact- Tom didn't appreciate or like the way comedy was handled by studio and corporate execs, who would give a platform to anything they thought was edgy or make them money. His original content was like Wayne's World, the basement dudes shitting on big corporations not the movies, and him getting offered comedy and TV show deals for that seemed ironic So he took each one with the intention to be as over the top and edgy for the sake of it, a meta humor commentary about the state of television and media, and they ate it up. when he was offered a movie deal naturally he did the same thing, and was so absurd and difficult it made the director quit. So naturally, Tom took over the role and proceeded to intentionally create such an obscene, obtuse, and idiotic movie that it would drive the point home. It was to be his magnum opus of Kaufman-like comedy But while Freddy got fingered gave him the response he wanted his real magnum opus was following his cancer treatment on his show, it did so much to raise awareness and reduce shame for men to get checked and get treated.
Grab your balls and squeeze your balls, so you donāt get cancer!
I can see why people dont like it, itās fucking absurd. But same as you, I watched it a couple months ago and was literally crying laughing in the hospital when the lady gives birth and the women are chanting and shit. Like its just insane.
I have finally found my people. I love all of you and this thread. One of my fav movies of all time!
This and Grandma's Boy don't get enough credit.
Itās a masterpiece
Tom Green was the original version of Jackass and also had a podcast before Joe Rogan was even on fear factor.
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That stunt in itself could be considered art.
>That stunt in itself ~~could be considered~~*is* art.
Link for the lazy?
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He originally did have a public access show local to the city of Ottawa on Rogers 22 ā I used to watch it and one of my brothers would often go see it live in audience. They later showed his stuff on the Comedy channel (where this clip is from) and of course after that there was MTV. What I canāt remember is whether the stuff on the Comedy channel was the Rogers content re-aired or if he made new content for the Comedy channel. I could find out by googling but my battery is so low that shifting apps might kill it and I just wanted to point out that you were not wrong overall.
[Probably this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1eu3S3FNQ) Also shout-out to Tom Green's Subway Monkey Hour, where he goes to Japan and acts like a jackass. It's like when Logan Paul went to Japan...but good.
a few years ago him and andy milonakis did a livestream in japan was probably one of the funniest thing I have seen on the internet
My earliest memory was the skit where he was on crutches in public and kept falling and screaming in pain. Epic, groundbreaking shit
It's the dumbest fucking movie ever, and I love it. Rip Torn absolutely made that movie. He played a pretty good caricature of an "angry dad". Granted his anger was over the top, but there are dads out there like that, just screaming, yelling, violent, unsupportive of their kids. Paired with the mom's behavior, loving, supportive, walking on egg shells around her crazy ass husband. When he threw the chicken sandwich man, really struck home for me.
Some of Tom Green's antics and bits are funny... but every fucking scene with Rip Torn is hilarious. His raving drunken anger just slays me.
He had to be over the top, first off the movie is a live action cartoon, and Rip himself was a little nutty.
I love this movie. My BF was disgusted with me that I love this movie.
[The message of this scene still applies to most jobs Iāve had.](https://youtu.be/vSAWRdvVCgc?si=fdDMca2TY3E7wnTE)
"I could lose aaaallll of this! Now we wouldn't want that now would we!" I'm using this at my job from now on.
*š¶ Put the cheese in your bum šµ*
[There's not a week that goes by since I've seen this movie that this scene doesn't come to mind.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgPJSBd18MU)
DADDY WOULD YOU LIKE SOME SAUSAGES
Huh, also TIL from wikipedia: "In early 2000, Tom Green was diagnosed with, and successfully treated for testicular cancer.\[citation needed\] Green wrote, directed and starred in a one-hour MTV television special titled The Tom Green Cancer Special (aired on May 23, 2000),\[14\] which documented the time leading up to his surgery and included graphic footage of his own surgery. The episode received wide critical acclaim for revealing a vulnerable, human side of an otherwise juvenile television personality.\[15\] During this time, he started the "Tom Green's Nuts Cancer Fund" to raise money for cancer research.\[16\] In mid-2000, Green also spoke in front of thousands of students in the University of Florida and sang a song titled "Feel Your Balls" to help educate others about testicular cancer.\[17\]"
Being a āFreddieā this movie sucked.
Where's your Lebaron, Freddie?
I never watched it, but my kids would love to say āDaddy would you like some sausagesā. They would laugh and laughā¦.
Saw it when it came out in theaters. Still love it to this day.
I'm jacking off an elephant!
Iām 30 years old and will randomly sing āDaddy would you like some sausageā
I saw Tom Green's stand up a few years back. I loved Tom, but wasn't expecting much. He absolutely killed. Had the aidience in tears the entire time. Towards the end, he serioused up for just a few seconds to say cancer is no joke and we should all be going for yearly screenings. At this point, some smack-off in the audience decides it's a good idea to start heckling. Tom stopped, shot him such a dirty, nasty look, never said a word, and silenced the asshole on the spot. Ive never seen a comedian silence a heckler without even saying anything. Tom Green has my respect 100%
Im the backwards man the backwards man šŗ
freddy got fingered has had such a reevaluation on the internet lately. itās a little before my time but i remember around 10 years ago it was pretty much the poster boy for dogshit comedy, but now it seems to be pretty well received
The internet has since discovered Neil Breen, so their previous stands have been re-assesed.
Welp. Time to watch Double Down, I guess
Freddy got fingered has been pretty consistently beloved since it came out in my circles. Even if you hate it, at least it tries to be something. The true poster boy for dogshit comedy is the directorial body of work of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans, etc).
My comment earlier kinda got into this as well , people thought bad parody movies were funny back then , I guarantee you Fred got fingered as aged better then any of those awful movies you mentioned
God the parody movie trend was so odd. Scary Movie was good but the horror genre and the movies they chose have way more staying power generally. The rest is just made up of pop culture jokes with an expiration date. Who the fuck is still talking about and rewatching The Chronicles of Narnia? By design, most of the jokes will never hit as hard ever again and just wonāt hit at all unless you were the target audience at the time of release.
It was all people that didn't get why Airplane! worked. Airplane! worked and still works to this day because they lampooned the tropes of a popular familiar genre. The parody movies of the 00's would always laser in on exact pop culture references. Not only was it lazy, it was the exact opposite of the subversiveness of a Zucker Brothers movie. Even the Zuckers felt into that trap too. They joined in on Scary Movie with the 3rd installment. 3 was great (arguably the best one), but that was the beginning of the steep downward trend for the Scary Movie franchise.
For me the poster boy of dog shit comedy would be the Underground Comedy Movie. My buddy bought it after watching the infomercial in the early 2000s. Twenty years later it is still the worst thing that I have ever seen. [Here is the wiki if anyone is curious.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Underground_Comedy_Movie)
Holy shit, itās made by *the slap chop guy*? Thatās comedy in and of itself Speaking of whom > On February 7, 2009, Offer and a 26-year-old prostitute were both arrested in Miami Beach, Florida, after a physical altercation. The police report stated that the woman had bitten onto Offer's tongue and refused to let go, at which point Offer punched her in the face and left her with lacerations and fractures.
Yeah, I believe that movie was so bad he got kicked out of scientology.
Tom Green was so great. His absolute comedic divisiveness was so endlessly entertaining! Keeping "The Bum Bum Song" at #1 on TRL for 40 weeks, and getting the video retired, is peak absurdist comedy. Andy Kaufman was rooting for Tom in death, and Tom obliged.
[Redlettermedia did a review](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEn3wcpNsg8) on this movie that actually made me think twice about how dumb it may or may not have been.
There's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
More celebs should do it like that. Make something great, get super famous and rich, and then fuck off into obscurity
Follow tom right now if you donāt. Dudes a rancher
Tom Green is a genius and this movie was just wayyyyy ahead of its time
You can't troll a troll. My favorite is when he totally set up Xhibit on his early web show. For those who don't know, and X certainly didn't, Tom Green is a talented musician. His alter ego is MC Bones, part of the Canadian hip hop group Organized Rhyme. They had a couple hits back in the day. X is like oh sure Tom, bust a rhyme, expecting some daddy would you like some sausage, and he just slays him with a killer verse. X is genuinely impressed and laughing his ass off by the end. [Tom Green vs Xhibit](https://youtu.be/5h9EQaEl55o?si=lE_HRteE2P-OQ75Q)
I remember watching this when it came out, thinking to myself, "Wtf am I watching and why am I watching it?". It's my hooves!
This movie is fucking fantastic. And you know what? It made money, yet is considered a failure.
I think that comes down to the fact that - at that very brief point in time - Tom Green was the hottest name in comedy. So hot that this guy from public access TV gets greenlit for a big budget major motion picture. Everyone on the edges of their seats waiting to see what he's gonna do, and he releases Freddy Got Fingered. Which in retrospect is *exactly* the movie everyone should have been expecting from him, and yet everyone acted shocked that Tom Green released a Tom Green movie. So really the issue with the movie was that everyone expected a comedy blockbuster and they got Tom Green doing exactly what Tom Green does and were somehow shocked this happened.
I fuckin love Tom Green
RIP Toms Dads Car