What’s Aged the Worst?
The Club; answering machines; Reservoir Dogs and Goodfellas homages; talking answering machine; Lorraine-as-bunny flourish; $300 blackjack stakes; Vegas drive timing
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- The Club on cars had a ten-year run and is no longer seen; a host kept one on as an unlocked ornament on a Ford Tempo and his mom's Corolla; a daughter's confusion at it is mentioned.
- Answering machines no longer exist.
- The Reservoir Dogs homage and Goodfellas kitchen homage were funny in 1996-97, but viewers under 30 may not get the jokes now.
- Two whimsical flourishes stick out in an otherwise intimate film: the answering machine talking back to Mike, and Lorraine briefly appearing as a bunny, tied to Trent's bear-and-bunny speech.
- Having been broke gambling in Vegas, a $300-a-hand table is no way; you go to the table with the bearded guy and the old lady hitting on 17.
- The drive to Vegas: leaving at night on a six-to-seven hour drive, promising midnight but arriving around one or two, meeting the girls at 6 a.m., and a 9 a.m. audition apparently blown off.
- One host claims a 3:15 record from LA to Vegas at 105 the whole way and is told not to try it.