Saving Silverman

Episode 69: Saving Silverman (2001)

Theme: Wife’s Choice
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis wrap up Wife’s Choice Month with a movie marriage so deranged it practically requires couples therapy: Tenacious D meets Full Metal Jacket plus The Nun and the eighth inning of a Boston Red Sox game. The result? Saving Silverman — the early-2000s comedy that somehow stars Jason Biggs, Jack Black, Steve Zahn, Amanda Peet, Arlie Ermey, and Neil Diamond… all acting like they’re in different movies, yet somehow performing the same chaos.

Join your two favorite members of the Let’s Talk About Flix-verse as they unpack:

• How Darren Silverman is the most Jason Biggs character Jason Biggs ever Jason Biggs’d.

• Why Wayne and JD are the greatest best friends ever, despite solving every problem with kidnapping.

• How Judith is so villainous she makes Cruella de Vil seem emotionally supportive.

• Why Sandy is ready to become a nun until the movie remembers this is a sex comedy.

• How Coach Norton treats murder like an acceptable extracurricular activity.

• Why Neil Diamond shows up, agrees to help kidnappers, and sings at a wedding like this is all totally normal.

• How the wedding aisle turns into WrestleMania 17 with folding chairs and flying teeth.

From raccoon fights to Arby’s seduction, from fake funerals to real car cliffs, from ping-pong-playing strippers to jail-break pest-control vans, Oz and Curtis break down a movie that proves early-2000s comedies were absolutely operating on their own feral logic.

Final Verdict

Oz — 5½ Sequin Shirts
Curtis — 66 Diamonds in the Rough
Both — Still unsure which part was the “Saving” and which part was the “Silverman.”