What About Bob?

Episode 189: What About Bob? (1991)

Theme: Questionable Titles Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis ask the only question that matters: What About Bob? — a movie marriage of Vacation meets Funny Farm with a sprinkle of Good Morning America… and a dash of Cape Fear (doesn’t matter which version). Bill Murray weaponizes neediness, Richard Dreyfuss weaponizes ego, and Frank Oz steps out from behind his puppets to direct a movie that starts grounded and ends in full Looney Tunes chaos. By Act Three, it’s Bugs vs. Daffy with dynamite, duct tape, and death therapy.

Join your two favorite “is this still a comedy or a cry for help?” podcasters as they explore:

• Bob Wiley — all the diagnoses, all the phobias, all the charm… in tiny doses.

• Dr. Leo Marvin, the world’s most self-absorbed psychiatrist, whose book Baby Steps is 90% ego, 10% therapy.

• The Marvin family instantly adopting Bob because he gives them the emotional attention Leo never will.

• The Good Morning America interview that Bob hijacks like it’s a TED Talk.

• Leo’s full meltdown: institutionalization schemes, TNT theft, abduction, and the world’s least ethical “death therapy.”

From dock-diving trust issues to sailing duct tape to a house explosion that makes the Gutmans’ year, Oz and Curtis break down a cult classic where everyone slowly loses their minds… except Bob.

Final Verdict

Oz — 8 Diving Lessons
Curtis — 65 Baby Steps
Both — Still wondering how Bob shook off those ropes faster than the explosives around his neck.