Son in Law

Episode 240: Son-in-Law (1993)

Theme: Gosh Barn It!
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis drop the ultimate country-fried, late-90s crossover event by checking out the 1993 Pauly Shore cultural vehicle, Son-in-Law. It is a cinematic landscape where a wholesome South Dakota farm girl heads off to a California university, morphs into a rollerblading "Crawlet," and brings home her professionally inane RA to act the part of her fiancé for Thanksgiving. Join the hosts as they navigate the precise physical dimensions of a barn door, the logistics of a fast-acting head shave, and the highly specific artistic parameters of being a weasel.

The hosts break down:

• Crawl (Pauly Shore): A walking caricature who is a master of every collegiate major for exactly two weeks, proving that you can successfully hack a computer with your knuckles if you believe in yourself.

• Becca (Carla Gugino): The farm-girl-next-door who goes through a full visual and linguistic rebirth in a single month, returning to her hometown speaking in a private dialect that nobody else understands.

• The Supporting Lineup: A collection of highly overqualified character actors (Lane Smith, Cindy Pickett, and a very young, non-aging Patrick Renna) who spend the film performing actual acting while working around a human Tower of Babel.

• The Barn Climax: A high-stakes scene featuring a massive, Game-of-Thrones-scale barn door that reveals a highly compromised position in the hayloft involving a peppermint-patty-sized dose of roofies.

• The Cameo Matrix: A brief but glorious crossover event where Brandon Fraser pops up as Link from Encino Man, establishing that the 90s alternative universe was fully integrated.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 72 Funny, Funny Riddles Curtis — 44 American Gothics