When Harry Met Fatty
50 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 10 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA weekly comedic podcast, join St. Paul author David Oppegaard and Minneapolis librarian Noah Warren as they dissect romantic comedies!
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100. Good Luck Chuck (2007)
December 06, 2013 06:00 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBDave and Noah say goodbye and Good Luck Chuck! This film stars Dane Cook, Jessica Alba and your worst migraine! At the age of ten, Dane Cook gets cursed by a Goth girl at a party, forcing him to live a life of always being the "one" right before any woman finds her ONE. After meeting Jessica Alba he decides he can't lose her to the next guy. There are lots of boobs in this. Dave and Noah take a walk down Fatty lane. Come join us for this extendo episode! Thanks for listening!
Uncle Noah's Podcast
December 06, 2013 05:40 - 46 seconds - 798 KBCome visit your Uncle Noah. He's so lonely! unclenoahs.com twitter.com/unclenoahs facebook.com/unclenoahs Experience Entertainment Weekly like never before...
99. The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)
November 29, 2013 15:54 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThis week Dave and Noah just can’t keep a secret, The Secret of My Succes$! This 1987 Rom Com stars Alex P. Keaton himself, Michael J. Fox, along with Helen Slater and Richard Jordan. Fox is just a country boy from Kansas who moves to New York with dreams of becoming the next Donald Trump, a Trump with an even bigger propensity to screw family members. When his first job falls through, he calls his uncle who happens run a multinational conglomerate just down the block. He gets a job in ...
98. Youth in Revolt (2009)
November 22, 2013 01:07 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBThis week Dave and Noah sing Que Sera, Sera with Michael Cera in 2009’s crap trap Youth in Revolt. It stars Cera, Portia Doubleday, Zach Galifianakis, Ray Liotta and Steve Buscemi. After swindling a bunch of sailors, Zach Galifianakis has to take his girlfriend and stepson, Cera, on the run to Clearwater, CA. While they are hiding out in a trailer park, Cera falls head-over-heels with Portia Doubleday, the girl next door. When it comes time to leave, Cera arranges to win the favor of Doubled...
97. 13 Going on 30 (2004)
November 14, 2013 01:04 - 10.9 MBDave and Noah hop into a shoe closet time machine with Jennifer Garner and set the Flux Capacitor to 13 Going on 30, starring the Alias spy herself, Mark Ruffalo and Judy Greer. On the day of her 13th Birthday, Jennifer Garner makes a wish to be Thirty, Flirty and Thriving, just like the models in her favorite magazine. A shoe closet and some novelty wishing dust Rip Van Winkle her 17 years into the future. She's Thirty and Thriving all right, but flirting with amnesia! She's a big time...
The final fare fallow.
November 07, 2013 01:21 - 23 minutes - 11 MBNo dave. Noah goes Nanners Nanowrimo style. Plus, we read the Katy Perry issue of Entertainment Weekly.
96. Warm Bodies (2013)
October 30, 2013 15:22 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MBThis Halloween Dave and Noah experience love at first bite! After they finish their Hershey'sn KitKat bars they watch 2013's Warm Bodies starring Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, John Malkovich, and that awesome dude from Hot Tub Time machine. The little boy from Nick Hornby's About a Boy is all "growed-up" and wearing Edward-Twilight-white-face for this daring romantic comedy about a zombie that puts down the brains for a beautiful blonde. This film turns Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet on ...
95. Bedazzled (2000)
October 23, 2013 22:18 - 21 minutes - 10.4 MBThis week Dave and Noah make a deal with the Devil of all remakes: 2000's Bedazzled, starring Brendan Fraser, Frances O'Connor and Austin Powers' Fembot wife Elizabeth Hurley! Brendan sells his soul for seven wishes, and he uses them all for the love of his office crush, Frances O'Connor. Elizabeth Hurley plays the Prince of Darkness but even her 19 different costume changes of hotness can't make this terrible terrible movie any more bearable. If the road to hell is paved with good intent...
94. The Wedding Planner (2001)
October 16, 2013 21:52 - 23 minutes - 11.1 MBThis week Dave and Noah discover that there’s always room for J-LO! They are subjected to 2001’s The Wedding Planner which stars Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras. Former In Living Color Fly Grrl J-Lo has put down the cross-colors and picked up a palm pilot, becoming San Francisco’s premier wedding planner. However, the only thing she couldn’t plan for was falling in love with the groom of one of her biggest clients! That’s right, chollo, our former Maid in ...
Falloween II: This book is Overdue!
October 10, 2013 18:07 - 24 minutes - 11.4 MBDave has gone Dodo. Noah celebrates a happy Falloween. Beware, he has library stories that will make you clutch your bookmark in terror!
93. License to Drive (1988)
October 02, 2013 21:11 - 23 minutes - 11 MBThis week Dave and Noah take a joyride, but not with '91 Swede-rock sensation Roxette, they join the two Coreys in a Caddy for 1988's License to Drive, starring Corey Haim, Heather Graham, Corey Feldman and a bottle of champagne so big, you'll never be able to fit it in your glove compartment! After flunking his written test for a driver's permit, Corey Haim gets asked out by the hottest Roller Girl in California. She's got a brand new pair of rollerskates and he's got the keys to his Gr...
92. Lucas (1986)
September 25, 2013 23:11 - 23 minutes - 11 MBThis week Dave and Noah BUG OUT on 1986's Lucas, starring Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Wynona Ryder and Jeremy Piven. What Corey Haim lacks in social skills, he more than makes up for in his love for bugs! While out on one of his entomological quests, he comes across one damn fine specimen: Kerri Green, the new girl in town. He falls for her, but school begins and she yearns to take to the fields as a cheerleader. Corey joins the football team and endures a heap of homoerotic t...
91. Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
September 17, 2013 19:37 - 23 minutes - 11.1 MBThis week Dave and Noah take the McDreamy Express back to sKool!!! 1987's Can't Buy Me Love stars Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Seth Green and Malachai from Children of the Corn! Before he became Dr. McDreamy, Patrick Dempsey was 'lil McSpazzy, and through a convenient turn of events he secretly pays the most popular girl in his high school one grand to date him for a month. Popularity, sex, and a snazzy Columbus Day dance ensue, only to quickly succumb to a miscalculated tsunami-esqu...
Fallow Public Access
September 12, 2013 04:11 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MBDave is at a Rave. Noah meets Royalty.
90. Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
September 04, 2013 19:25 - 22 minutes - 10.6 MBThis week Dave and Noah crash the party of last century! Can't Hardly Wait from 1998 stars Ethan Embry, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Seth Green and an assortment of other poor souls who have since succumbed to the Y2K crisis at the turn of the century. In order to earn her Ghost Whisperer wings, Jennifer Love Hewitt breaks up with the most popular stud in school. Hearing that Jennifer is footloose and fancy free, Ethan Embry takes it upon himself to put out the torch that he's been carrying for...
89. Just One of the Guys (1985)
August 30, 2013 03:40 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MBThis week Dave and Noah get their "just desserts" by watching Just One of the Guys from 1985. This poor man/woman's Tootsie stars Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner and "Johhny Lawrence" the Cobrah Kai bully from Karate Kid! Joyce Hyser almost has it all: a bangin' bod, a college boyfriend to bang her bod, her own swimming pool, a friend that wears Cosby sweaters and a sexually precocious little brother. However, her life can't be complete without a Summer internship at the Phoenix SunTimes. Whe...
88. The Nanny Diaries (2007)
August 22, 2013 23:19 - 22 minutes - 10.8 MBThis week Dave and Noah put down their food diaries and pick up The Nanny Diaries, starring Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Captain America and the ebony of all ivory: Alicia Keys! How far will Scarly Jo go to find herself this summer? Having just graduated with a degree in Anthropology, she randomly gets offered a job to be a nanny for Laura Linney's Upper East Side Strife. Minding a precocious brat whose parents alternate between being perpetually bitchy or lecherously h...
87. Grumpy Old Men (1993)
August 14, 2013 16:31 - 22 minutes - 10.6 MBThis week Dave and Noah get a case of the "grumpies" and head over to Wabasha, MN for 1993's Grumpy Old Men. This is the conclusion of our Four part Summer series Fatty Goes Local, where we celebrate all Rom Coms related to Minnesota. Grumpy Old Men stars The-Odd-Couple-turned-Old-timers Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. These two are proof positive that you don't need a family to have a feud, just a neighbor. Having spent decades feuding over the love of one woman, (who oddly enough isn't...
thank you fallow, may I have another? EW#1227
August 09, 2013 04:54 - 33 minutes - 11 MBDave has turned around bright-eyed and isn't available. Noah has a birthday and the worst first week of being 34. Listen closely for the breakdown, right after the closing theme. Its a stolen moment of for reals.
86. She's All That (1999)
August 01, 2013 03:25 - 22 minutes - 10.5 MBThe dreck of the Nineties is alive in Dave and Noah's psyche as they suffer through 1999's She's All That starring Minnesota native Rachael Leigh Cook. This is part 3 of our summer series Fatty Goes Local, where we celebrate the fruits of our state's talent pool. Or talent-lake perhaps? With Eight weeks left of his high school career, big-man-on-campus Freddie Prinze Jr. gets dumped by Harrison High's most popular prom queen. Freddie wagers with his buddies that before the end of the scho...
85. 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
July 24, 2013 20:51 - 22 minutes - 10.8 MBDave and Noah abstain from using their brains during this week's rom-com 40 Days and 40 Nights, starring Josh Hartnett, Shannon Sossamon and Maggie Gyllenhaal. This is the 2nd installment of our annual summer series Fatty Goes Local!! This week we put on our "heartlights" for St. Paul, Minnesota's hunk-a-saurus honkey Josh Hartnett. Ever since he's learned that his recent ex-Noxzema model of a girlfriend is engaged to be married to an even bigger douche, our boy Hartnett finds it hard to ...
84. New in Town (2009)
July 17, 2013 17:45 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MBFatty goes local! Dave and Noah take a staycation and visit New Ulm, MN for this week's movie New in Town starring Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., and every extra that was passed over for the Cohen Brothers' Fargo. Zellweger is a Miami hotshot clawing her way up the corporate ladder. She is assigned to downsize a plant in New Ulm, MN. This is a town full of secrets, most of which involve Blanche Gunderson's mysteriously tasty batch of tapioca pudding. It's like Fried Green Tomatoes, b...
FALLOW EW #1226/1227
July 12, 2013 02:56 - 23 minutes - 11.1 MBThere is no dave, only Noaaaaahhhh! Noah gets the best crack in town from a moose. He then reads from the scripture of last week's double issue of Entertainment Weekly.
83. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
July 04, 2013 00:11 - 23 minutes - 11 MBDave and Noah break out the calamine lotion for this week's rash from the past, The Seven Year Itch starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell. Ewell is a middle-aged New York publishing exec with an overactive imagination. Having just sent his wife and kid away for the Summer, he comes home to find a pinup-girl-turned-Toothpaste-model renting the space above his place. He's got the only air conditioner in existence and she's gotta lotta heat. A chance encounter involving a tomato plant bring...
82. My Life in Ruins (2009)
June 26, 2013 02:32 - 23 minutes - 11 MBDave and Noah get KRAKEN on this week's Greasy Rom Com My Life in Ruins, Staring Nia Vardalos, Alexis Georgoulis, Richard Dreyfuss and the ancient ruins of the ACRAPolis! Nia Vardalos is praying to the wrong Gods. After her main man dumps her and she gets laid off from being a professor of Greek History, she is doomed to a lifetime of giving tours of the ancient land that has broken her spirit. But a mysterious new driver is willing to teach her a thing or two about how to get her own anc...
81. Fired Up! (2009)
June 19, 2013 18:41 - 22 minutes - 10.7 MBDave and Noah get "spirit-fingered" by this week's romantic comedy Fired Up! Starring Nicholas D'Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen and Sarah Roemer. Eric and Nicholas are two high school football jocks who con their way into Cheerleader Camp for the girls, for the glory and for the gonorrhea! Dave has eaten his cheerios and is filled with the spirit of the mighty pom-pom while Noah quizes him on his knowledge of Cheer history.
It puts the lotion on the fallow...
June 14, 2013 00:58 - 23 minutes - 11 MBNo Dave. Noah drinks and podcasts from his closet, then loses his "shirtless virginity" with a panda-shaped man.
80. Seeking A Friend for the End of the World (2012)
June 07, 2013 04:09 - 23 minutes - 11 MBDave and Noah duck and cover under their nearest apocalyptic Rom Com: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, starring Steve Carell and Kiera Knightly. It is the year 2021 and humanity is about to go the way of the dinosaur. In 21 days asteroid "Matilda" will hit earth. Applebees restaurants are offering skinny margaritas along with their ecstacy laced orgies, Patton Oswalt is trying heroin and getting tail left and right and Steve Carell's wife has just run out on him. He helps his nei...
79. I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
May 30, 2013 18:34 - 22 minutes - 10.8 MBShe could never be your woman but she'll always be Catwoman. Dave and Noah take a break from doing The Batdance and sit down to watch Michelle Pfeiffer and Paul Rudd do what only Ashton and Demi could pull off: Spring-Autumn relations. 2007's I Could Never Be Your Woman begins with a period. Michelle Pfeiffer's daughter is well on her way into womanhood while Michelle herself is slowly exiting through the gift shop. She is a writer for a teen show called You Go Girl who can't get over the f...
78. Knight & Day (2010)
May 23, 2013 04:11 - 23 minutes - 11.1 MBGood Morning Fatty Listener. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves two stars, one past their prime and the other playing essentially their own batty self (you discern which is which). You may have seen this movie before, since it involves a secret agent trying to woo a vapid blonde in exotic locales such as Salzburg, Austria and the Witchita International Airport. Knight and Day (2010) stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. You have 23 minutes to complete this mission, and as a...
Beach Blanket Fallow
May 17, 2013 19:33 - 33 minutes - 14.9 MBWhen Dave is away, all Bette's are off! Lifes a Beach and then you fallow.
77. Splash (1984)
May 08, 2013 17:44 - 22 minutes - 10.8 MBLarry Crowne once caught a fish "thiiiiiissss biiiiiig"! This week Noah merMAKEs Dave watch Splash!...and we aren't talking about the reality TV game show on FOX. We're talkin' Tom Hanks, John Candy, Eugene Levy, and a Mermaid Darryl Hannah that, from the look of her "bocci balls (!)", isn't so little! This is one dilly of a sea pickle. Throughout his life, Tom Hanks has never learned how to swim and he keeps falling overboard and getting rescued by a mysterious naked Darryl Hannnah who ...
76. Weather Girl (2009)
May 02, 2013 04:05 - 23 minutes - 11.1 MBDullness hath no fury like a Weather Girl scorned! Dave and Noah take cover from 2009's Weather Girl, starring Tricia O'Kelley and Patrick J. Adams. After having a meltdown on air that goes viral, Seattle's former morning news weather girl has to move in with her brother to "weather the storm" of a bad breakup. She falls for her brother's best friend, who lives in the apartment next door. However, he is six years her Thirty-five year old junior. A fish and a bird can fall in love, but where...
75. No Strings Attached (2011)
April 26, 2013 00:51 - 22 minutes - 10.8 MBNO STRINGS ATTACHED, along with your retinas, after you see this piece of Rom Com! Dave and Noah delve into the Ashtray of Ashton Kutcher to retrieve the second "friends with benefits" movie of 2011. Ashton Kutcher is the son of a popular TV legend who has a habit of screwing the Kutch-dog's former girlfriends. Ashton starts humping the nearest nurse who will take pity on him, namely Natalie Portman, who's taking a break from a life of Tom Cruise Control and Queen Padme Star Wars duties. Th...
74. Made of Honor (2008)
April 10, 2013 23:25 - 22 minutes - 10.7 MBMartin Luther King Jr. had a dream...and WE have MCDREAMY! Join Dave and Noah as they tuck into a deep dish of Dempsey with a side order of Patrick. That's a tall order for a short fry, but that fry is MADE OF HONOR from 2008, starring our main man Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan. Dempsey, a wealthy man of leisure, is the toast of the town tom cats. Michelle Monaghan is the one woman he hasn't slept with, ergo, she is his most intimate confidant. When she leaves for a temporary work trip abr...
73. TiMER (2009)
April 04, 2013 05:28 - 22 minutes - 10.5 MBTime moves in one direction and this movie moves in another! This week Dave and Noah synchronize their Casio wristwatches to TiMER (2009) starring Emma Caulfield, John Patrick Amedori and Michelle Borth. It is the year 3,000ish and every twenty-something has the option of having a TiMER installed in their wrist. A TiMER is like a more portable, more sentient version of the online dating site OK CUPID. This device simply gives a countdown to the day you will meet your one true soul mate. So...
72. Overnight (2012)
March 27, 2013 18:06 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MBNow BOREding for takeoff, it's OVERNIGHT (2012) starring Rachel Blanchard and James D'Arcy. This is one redeye that will make you wish you had pinkeye! Rachel is departing from Splitsville, CA, when a chance encounter with a banjo playing Physics professor causes her overnight flight to become an overnight delight! Their relationship TAKES OFF at the speed of sound, but before their hearts can reach great new heights, they have a helluva lot of baggage to check. But this is nothing that ...
Fallow, is it me you're looking for?
March 22, 2013 15:05 - 24 minutes - 11.3 MBDave is off helping blind women throw clay pots on a pottery wheel. Noah makes a twenty minute correction to the fallow episode from 2/22.
71. The Prince & Me (2004)
March 14, 2013 01:39 - 25 minutes - 12.2 MBCall off the jesters, for this week fatty gives you the royal treatment with 2004's The Prince & Me. This crown jewel may be shiny, but beware, beneath yonder garb there be ginger-haired inbreeding! Starring Julia Stiles and Luke Mably, this franchise, (part one of four) begins upon a time when a series called "Girls Gone Wild" existed. Heavy weighs the impending crown of Prince Mably, who finds the royal Danish floozies dreadfully triflesome and boring. Whilst channel surfing one afternoo...
70. License To Wed (2007)
March 07, 2013 03:28 - 22 minutes - 10.8 MBIt's Dave and Noah's very first GUESSISODE. The first part of this episode is recorded with our predictions of the plot, then we watch the chick flick and spend the rest of the episode on suicide watch, you dig? This week we prognosticate License To Wed starring John Krasinsky, Mandy Moore and the MORKster himself: Robin Williams! Mandy wants a traditional Cat-Lick weddin' but their priest is anything but traditional. Or even kitten-lickin' good at his Jason Priestly duties. He is going t...
69. Breaking Dawn Part II (2012)
February 28, 2013 02:21 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MBFatty is now leaving Forks, Washington, population: zzz, zzz, zzz. The end of a saga is upon us as Dave and Noah are subjected to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II, starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner and a breakfast burrito worth of CGI found in George Lucas' Roomba. K-Stew has a new attitude: she now sucks blood instead of screen time, but the salad days of her new marriage are over. Her and R-Pat have been accused of committing the most heinous of all vampir...
Fallowlist
February 22, 2013 08:25 - 25 minutes - 12.2 MBDave is on a farm in upstate New York. Noah watches Teen Wolf Season Two and listens to his jams.
68. The Girl Next Door (2004)
February 14, 2013 02:29 - 23 minutes - 11 MBValentine’s Day is like a box of chocolates, you never know which one will cream all over your face. Fatty rings The Girl Next Door starring Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert Timothy Olyphant and Paul Dano. Hirsch is a straight-A senior gunning for a scholarship to Georgetown. His straight A’s take a turn to straight “V’s” when a new girl moves in next door to him and goes to town on his george. Metaphorically, of course, these are high schoolers for Pete’s sake! After they’ve been dating a spel...
67. Miss Congeniality II (2005)
February 07, 2013 02:05 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MBThis sequel is a drag. Literally. Miss Congeniality II: Armed and Fabulous stars Sandra Bullock, Regina King, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson and a whole bunch of drag queens. Picking up a mere two weeks after the tumultuous events that took place at the close of Miss Congeniality, Sandra Bullock finds that returning to work at the FBI is turning out to effin' be AY-yi-YI! Her reputation and celebrity preceeds her, causing her cover to be blown which gets her partner shot. (Bullock is a fan...
Never Been Kissed (1999)
January 31, 2013 00:53 - 23 minutes - 11.1 MBDrawing a blank? Well she DREW BARELY MORE than one when trying to remember her last true kiss. Never Been Kissed starring Drew Barrymore, David Arquette and that sexy dude from Alias. Drew Barrymore is an uptight copy editor with a checkered high school past who yearns to be a reporter. One day she gets an opportunity to go undercover as a highschool student to write her first article about how kids these days REALLY live. Determined to rewrite her past, Drew never expected she'd be co...
DEAR FATTY, WHY SO FALLOW?
January 25, 2013 07:41 - 36 minutes - 17.1 MBNo Dave. Noah Mourns the passing of a local legend. And he gets drunk and tells the tale of a worst week ever.
65. The Five Year Engagement (2012)
January 17, 2013 00:37 - 23 minutes - 10.5 MBGet this couple some velcro, cuz they seem to have trouble tying the knot! The Five Year Engagement, from 2012, stars Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Chris Pratt and Alison Brie. Jason is a chef and Emily is a gal who's practically made-to-order for him! They get engaged and she gets an offer for post graduate work in Michigan. They push their wedding date back two years and Jason quits his San Francisco treat of a Sous Chef job to follow her to the Great Lake State. Only the state of their re...
64. 27 Dresses (2008)
January 09, 2013 23:13 - 23 minutes - 10.6 MBMore like 27 messes! Katherine has been dreaming of her wedding since she was a low-gl. But before this low-gl can become a Heigl who's happily betrothed, she is cursed to walk amongst the pomp and circumstance of matrimony 27 times over, serving many a Lord draped in white and satin. Her sister comes to visit and seduces her only romantic interest, (her boss), out from under her. They fall hard and fast, asking Heigl to officiate their wedding, which will be in three weeks. Meanwhile a ro...
63. Just Married (2003)
January 03, 2013 01:59 - 23 minutes - 10.8 MBWedding Bells, this film smells, Ashton laid an egg! Ring in the new Millenium for the Thirteenth time by watching JUST MARRIED starring Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy, and the French Alps! Ashton is a radio traffic announcer and Brittany is just a rich girl who’s gone too far, (but you know it don’t matter anyway), by marrying Kutcher and taking him on the Honeymoon from Hell. These two may be young and blessed with perfect skin (Ashton looks like a Gelfling from Jim Henson’s The Dark Cr...
Noprah Warrenphry's Favorite Fallow
December 28, 2012 00:16 - 20 minutes - 9.58 MBNoah Warren gets possessed by the spirit of Oprah Winfrey and this fallow episode of When Harry Met Fatty becomes another episode of Noprah Warrenphry's Favorite Things! Whatever you do...DO NOT look under your seat!