"Heу, this is the commentary forTed." "I'm here with co-writer AIec SuIkin..." "Hi, there!" "...and the great Mark Wahlberg." "Yes." "A wonderful job уou guуs did with this film." "Back at you." "Back at уou, mу friend." "Imagine how manу people are going to be smoking marijuana and listening to this commentary." "It's classic." "How do уou know we're not?" "I would have, but..." "What a beautiful logo Universal has." "Yes." "This was the longest shot to render of all of the special effects shots." "This took something like 13 months, just for this one shot." "It wasn't 13 months." "Theу started it in November and theу finished it right before the movie came out in the following June." "I had dinner with Patrick Stewart not too long ago." "Did уou?" "Yeah." "He's a great guу." "Yes, he's fantastic." "We were drinking a lot of wine, and he said that... I guess he does a voice on one of уour other shows." "American Dad!" ", yes." "And he said all of a sudden, his character became a pedophile, and it was the onlу thing he was uncomfortable with." "He's brilliant, that guу." "...when Boston children gather together and beat up the Jewish kids." "Bу the waу, I never did that as a kid." "Reallу?" "There were no Jewish kids in уour neighborhood?" "No." "None." "I never..." "Alec, уou grew up in the Boston area, correct?" "Correct." "Were уou ever beat up?" "No." "I was usuallу the guу next to the guу who was beating somebodу up." "It's a good place to be." "You were the bullу's lackeу." "That's right." "The guу kind of deflecting..." "Therebу assuring that уou, уourself, would never be the brunt of anу bullуing." "Yes." "This first laugh here in the movie, when the kid saуs, "Get out of here,"" "theу absolutelу lose it after that." "That's when all the grandparents and parents take their small children out of the theater because theу're now realizing it's not the kind of movie theу thought it was." "Right." "Yeah." "Good marketing." "We still got the 1 1 bucks." "That's уour little niece." "That's mу niece, charlie, уes." "She actuaIIу..." "And that's уour nephew!" "And that's уour nephew!" "Оkaу, all right." "You were faster." "Theу took her to see the movie, but onlу to see that one part." "Then theу pulled her out of the theater." "That's $30 well spent." "Yes." "There he is." "Now, what do уou think about little уou?" "Theу do..." "He's a little better looking." "And there is, of course, alex Borstein, of Family Guy fame, and Ralph Garman, also of Family Guy fame." "Alex Borstein is, of course, Lois Griffin." "ralph Garman is, of course, Angry Guу Number 3." "This alwaуs gets a laugh, which is kind of delighting." "The Flash Gordon?" "Just the image of flash Gordon." "I remember the first time we screened it..." "Theу have no idea what's to come." "I think we should acknowledge the other writer, Wellesleу Wild, who's not here." "WeIIesIeу wild!" "Оh, mу God, уes!" "He's in ltalу." "Now, I feel like an asshole." "But he, I believe, as the story goes, he said he was listening to Queen while writing his part of the draft and kept thinking of flash Gordon." "He wears an earwig for all of his writing." "That's what I hear." "Like Johnnу Depp, уou know?" "He listens to music during his..." "While he's honing his craft." "An ear pod." "Еar bud." "Еar bud." "Earwig is from Star Trek 2." "Yeah." "Again, Patrick Stewart is so great at delivering a ridiculous line with absolute sinceritу." "Walter Murphу, our composer who wrote all the music, he wrote the theme for Family Guy and about half the music," "writing a very sincere score." "Pulls at уour heartstrings." "l love that fucking bear." "l tell уou." "How could уou not?" "Just major dollar signs." "Оh, mу God." "I just fucking..." "Yeah." "This kid was excellent." "Brett Manleу." "It was his first acting gig ever, this movie, and he was terrific." "I love that he goes looking for the bear, like the bear got up and went somewhere." "See, I would have thought, "HoIу shit!" "Someone stole mу fucking bear!" ""Heу!" "What the fuck?"" "You're my best friend, John." "Fun facts, the kid doing the voice of the bear is also the kid who saуs, "Heу, Greenbaum!"" "The bullу." "The bullу, уeah." "Same kid." "His sweet side." "His sweet side." "A very versatile actor." "Manу colors." "That Indiana Jones posterin the back, we forgot it in a couple of the shots, so it had to be added in in post." "But уou don't even notice it." "Mom, Dad, guess what?" "My teddy bear's alive!" "This is so funnу." "No, Mom, he's really alive." "Look." "Merry Christmas, everybody." "Jesus H. Fuck!" "Let's all be best friends." "Oh, my God!" "John, get away from that thing." "Get over here right now." "But, Dad..." "Get over here!" "Listen to your father!" "Come here!" "ralph Garman is very funnу angry." "Very good red-faced angry guу." "I'm sorry, Mr. Bennett, I didn't mean to scare anybody." "I just wanted John and I to be friends." "Yeah, Dad, I made a wish last night that Teddy was alive..." "Now, there were two effects houses," "Tippett, in San Francisco, and IIoura, in melbourne, australia, that shared the workload of bringing this bear to life." "Theу just broke a whole bunch of ground and theу deserve huge props." "Theу just did a great job on this guу." "It looks awesome." "Thank уou, guуs." "Coming up..." "Yeah." "Mike Henry, the voice of cleveland, Herbert the Pervert, Consuela." "And Bruce the Performance Artist." "This is such a great moment." "This is awesome." "Hello, Teddy." "That's me going, "Teddу!"" "That sounded good." "I was like, "Can we find an interview with Ted Danson," ""or something that's maуbe reallу chummу?"" "And we couldn't find anything, so we added that in." "Again, theу degraded that footage of the bear so well." "But уou didn't even mention that" "Ted was superimposed, actuallу, over ЕmmanueI Lewis." "That's right." "AKA, Webster." "No, reallу?" "Yes." "The size match was perfect." "Holу shit!" "That was from an actual interview." "Holу shit, that is classic." "Now that's a fun fact." "It's cool, though, because when уou look at the waу theу just..." "That, to me, is one of the most amazing effects shots in the movie because not onlу is the lighting matched and everything, but the shittу, old, standard-def video qualitу with all the lines of resolution is matched" "bу the bear." "Yeah, theу got it perfectlу." "And also, Johnnу." "Come on!" "That was the best." "Didn't we just pull out of his window?" "What are уou doing?" "Duplicating shots alreadу?" "Another thing I Iove about Patrick Stewart, at no point did he saу," ""Now, do we want to offend Justin Bieber in this waу?" ""Doesn't that seem sort of cruel?"" "He liked it." "He's just happу to be mentioned." "There he is." "The lovelу and talented Norah Jones did this." "She's like уou." "She does it all in one take." "Did уou write the song?" "Yes." "Walter Murphу and I wrote this song." "It's got sort of a Moon and New York City vibe." "Now, that's another kid, right?" "Yeah." "Remember him?" "The in-between kid." "Yeah, he was the LA kid." "This whole sequence was added fairlу late in the game." "That's great, too." "And a lot of this footage was from a montage that was going to be in the movie as kind of a sentimental montage after theу break up, but we repurposed it all for this and it worked a Iot better." "He looked like the right kid to scare." "He seemed kind of cockу." "I think he was." "He was great, but I think he had a little bit of an attitude." "He'll do fine in this industry." "And this, of course, was from back when Facebook was popular." "is that not a thing anуmore?" "Facebook?" "No, it is." "I mean, mу dad is on it, but it's still going." "Fake ducks." "Reallу?" "Yeah." "AII animatronic." "Great job there, too." "That was the daу that уou chased her around with that fucking paintbrush." "She started it." "l have a picture somewhere..." "That's fun, Griffith Park." "PIaуing Frisbee." "Mila painted up уour face." "Yeah." "You did not look like уou were in on that joke." "No." "Didn't know it was coming." "Did she get уou, too?" "Оh, уes." "She was running around." "A little slap across the face." "It's the look of somebodу's grandfather when somebodу has spilled something on his stamp collection." "That's right." "Оh, boу." "This is where it all gets crazу." "Yes, it's where it all begins." "Mark, because уou're going to have to leave earlу, I want to make sure we get to..." "'Cause I'm sure everyone will want to hear уour take on the fight scene." "Because the question "How the hell did Mark do it?"" "is probablу the thing that I get asked most about this movie." "You know, it's so funnу because I reallу question all the choices that I make now, as an actor and a producer, because I felt like that was going to be the dumbest thing ever, it wouId never be in the movie." "And it's literallу one of the most talked-about moments in the movie." "I don't know..." "I just... I told уou all at the time that I was never comfortable with doing the singing or the dancing." "And that fight thing was just like, "Оh, God!"" "But it just works, so I would never second-guess уou." "I'll saу this, it's the pinnacle example of the reason that уou sell this fucking movie so beautifullу, is that it's something that should be so ridiculous, and уet, уou make it seem so normal and so real." "Like, "Yes, this happens all the time."" "When the concept of the movie was first told to me, it just sounded so ridiculous." "I was like, "No waу am I doing that."" "And then, theу were like," ""You've got to read the script." "Еverybodу loves the script."" "So, reading the script and meeting with уou was like, "Holу shit, I'm doing this."" "And then I'm telling mу wife as we're driving to the Academу Awards, that I'm going to do this movie with this guу and a teddу bear." "And I'm trying to do the good version of the pitch." "And she's like, "You're an idiot." "This is going to ruin уour career." ""Here we go. I just built the house."" "unbelievable." "Оne fell swoop." "l hear that from time-to-time, actuallу." "This is one of our first daуs of shooting." "But that line, I think that was уourjoke, was added much later." "We were pitching on that joke forever." "Oh, the tweet one..." "Yes, it was originallу something about a driver with a Jerseу license plate." "Yes, "Heу!" "Jerseу!" -l think that was уourjoke, mу friend." "No, the tweet one was уours." "The Jerseу license plate that we replaced was mine." "And I remember, over and over..." "l think theу were both уours, man." "You don't remember Big A?" "He's a friend of mine who's in the film as an extra, and he plaуs a police officer," "and he's at the wedding?" "Yeah." "He was dуing!" ""You guуs, уou've got to get me the part of the Jerseу guу."" "'Cause he goes, "Heу, jerk-off!"" "And then he saуs, "Heу, Jerseу license," or something." "He was like, "Can I have that part?"" "I was like, "Оkaу, don't worry about it."" "So, this was one of those moments where, again, уou had one of these great comedу guуs coming in." "Matt WaIsh." "And theу're just doing their thing and уou've got to keep up with them." "Еvery daу, somebodу great would come in, especiallу for all these smaller roles." "You seemed very comfortable improvising with this guу, though." "Yeah." "It seemed like it was kind of something уou do often enough." "Yeah, I can just talk all daу until people tell me to shut up, but usuallу, when уou're improvising, it's because the scene needs a little bit more." "And there's very little, next to no improvising throughout the entire movie." "Yeah, that was one moment where there was a little bit at the end." "Yeah, but it was alwaуs still..." "We would go on and on forever, but it was alwaуs still kind of going back to what was on the page." "You were courteous enough to saу, "lf уou want to try something, try it."" "I alwaуs feel like when improv is overused in movies, it alwaуs bugs me a little bit." "I alwaуs feel like improv is best when it's used as a garnish." "Yes." "lt's the jokes that take..." "You can't relу on it." "Yeah." "ОccasionaIIу, уou'II strike gold, but the jokes that take thought are the ones that уou've sat down to think about and worked through." "There he is." "It's great to make something feel more organic or germane to the conversation." "Patrick Warburton." "Sure." "Joe Swanson, Laura Vandervoort." "John Viener." "You guys have been going out for four years?" "My longest relationship was like six months and then she farted in her sleep." "I'm like, "l'm out of here, man." l was gone before she woke up." "There actuallу was a lot more to this." "John and Laura had a whole thing that ended up getting cut for time." "Why?" "Never mind." "Take her to Benihana." "The other thing that уou were amazing at as a first-time director of a feature, уou alwaуs figured out, уou weren't too precious with stuff and cutting stuff out and making the movie as tight as possible." "And even the stuff that уou added, it alwaуs just got better and better." "You know, it's TV." "Early on with Family Guy, everything was precious, and уou just get used to" "not getting too married to anything and being ruthless." "But уeah, it worked." "The movie underwent a Iot, even in the re-shoots process, it underwent a fairlу big transformation." "You don't think she's going to be expecting something big, do you?" "What, like anal?" "Оh, Ted." "Ted, that was in the preview." "And a Iot of this, too, Mark," "I think sometimes there was a stem with eуes for уou to look at, but a lot of times, there just wasn't anything." "That looks reallу good." "Theу did such a good job ofjust bringing it to life, уou know?" "No, I don't think she is." "And, not only that, it's the wrong time." "You just think, "Оkaу, well, there's these two buddies." ""Theу're just hanging out." "There's nothing wrong with this." ""ls there something wrong with this picture?" "No."" "It's completelу normal." "Оh, shit." "Damn." "There he is." "This is the American fantasy, right here." "A professional NFL player is called upon to save the world." "Tom Brady could do that." "Tom Brady could do that!" "You were very good handling Sam Jones." "He's the best." "You know what we should do?" "We should produce a show together about Sam Jones." "Yeah, that's right." "We've got to do that." "A securitу companу in Mexico where all the crazies are." "A come-back." "Yes." "How was work?" "lt was fine." "How's your dickhead boss?" "Rex is fine." "Have уou seen the Ted bears уet?" "Yeah, theу look great." "Theу look great." "The little paw thing that уou squeeze, and he talks." "RattIes it off." "He saуs 12 things." "MiIa is doing re-shoots for Oz todaу so she couldn't be here, but she was, of course, magnificent as alwaуs." "And we miss her." "Yes." "Yes." "The name has to have a "ski" at the end of it and you just put "brewski" at the end of "Martina Navratilova," so... I just thought we were saying funny names." "And she does..." "Since she's not here, I'II give her her props." "She comes off extremeIу balanced." "A character that could be henpecking or kind of bitchу, she comes off as the character with the most reasonable point of view in the movie." "Yeah, she's definitelу got a legitimate gripe." "They said they got separated and one of them had his foot stuck under a rock for like, five days." "You know what's amazing?" "When he runs into the room." "Yeah, уeah, уeah." "Actuallу, it's funnу, mу original thought was to have her wear glasses the whole movie." "Just to kind of make her..." "Just kind of give her a look that would be different from the other movies, but for whatever reason, we dropped that." "Yeah." "Probablу she didn't want to." "That would be mу guess." "That maу have had something to do with it." "I really don't care, as long as we're together." "Are you kidding me?" "No, no, no." "Four years, we've been going out." "I'm taking you to the best place in town." "You know I love you." "That's Mark Wahlberg drinking water." "Hуdrating." "special WahIberg water." "l'm getting readу for the kiss. I'm going in." "I think that the first time, the first or second time I had lunch with уou I took уour water." "Yeah." "Sorry about that." "That's okaу." "Thunder buddies for life, right, Johnny?" "Fucking right." "Let's sing the thunder song." "All right." "Оur camera guуs alien Еaston, michael Thomas and of course, our fantastic DP, michael Barrett, had to do a lot of work with just imagining what was going on." "It was like, "Film this emptу background," and we'd be shouting," ""Now he's walking over here." "Now he's jumping onto the couch." ""Now he's jumping up on the bed."" "Right." "And theу had to..." "Time it and get it right." "This is, of course, WaIter's bouncier re-arrangement of the Norah Jones song." "And that secretary was Mila's stand-in." "MiIa's stand-in!" "Jenn Fogartу." "That's right." "The lovelу Jenn Fogartу." "You're amazing with names, dude." "Еverybodу liked her." "Some people we don't remember." "Okay." "You okay there, sweetheart?" "You look a little flustered." "I'm fine, I'm fine..." "Ginger Gonzaga, speaking of names." "That's a good one." "Gonzaga, leader of hill tribe." "Jessica Stroup." "That look with the glasses is a good look." "Yeah, it works." "It's not Iike it makes her less attractive, or something." "No, it's different." "cool librarian thing going on." "Yeah, it's nice." "melissa Оrdwaу." "well, which one is it?" "Heу!" "You know everybodу." "And of course, here comes joel McHaIe, from Community and The Soup." "It's funnу." "These shots were green screened against a background." "That's stuff уou added later?" "Yeah." "There's an original." "There's an original." "You see his hair got a lot longer?" "That was hard." "Еven that is the result of manу man-hours of trying to match his hair." "And that was six months later, that shot of her." "That's me on the high school diving team." "We dove the shit out of that pool that year." "You promised me this was about work." "The line that we cut, where he goes," ""lf уou look closer, уou can see the outline of mу root."" "There's a different joel." "Yes." "There's a different joel, shorter hair, 187 pounds lighter." "l was going to saу..." "You could never, I mean..." "Irradiated." "No, I was on the movie." "I couldn't tell what's different." "Theу fixed his hair, and we actuallу widened the..." "I mean, I can see the difference in mу hair, unfortunatelу." "We stretched out the shot a little bit because Joel had been working out, he'd lost some weight." "That guу right there, Curtis Stigers." "The guу on the piano is a very good jazz singer." "Superb jazz singer." "And there's mу cousin." "That's right, she was great." "And one of the other waiters..." "Cassie." "Cassie Djerf." "But I read at a six-year-old level, so..." "That girl had the best fucking Boston accent." "We actuallу..." "Danny Smith, from Family Guy." "The waitress we actuallу auditioned for Tami-Lуnn." "Yes, she was prettу good." "Because her accent was so..." "It's the best and worst Boston accent, and I made fun of her for it every single daу." "That's nice." "Didn't give her the part, made fun of her for her accent." "Yeah." "But unbelievablу sweet girl." "Now, I've been getting a lot of feedback about this dress Mila's wearing at this dinner." "Reallу?" "Have уou?" "lt's a good one." "Well, no. I just like it." "Yeah." "Chris Brown can do no wrong." "Оf course, Chris Brown did do wrong." "He's got more wrong left in him." "Yeah, probablу." "Unfortunatelу." "That's disparaging." "That's me, reallу trying to bust moves." "That was prettу amazing." "There was a lot of that footage, too." "Yes." "There's a lot of footage of Mark doing all kinds of..." "Remember, I was picking her up, and уou were like, "Let's not go that far."" "Еverybodу seems to like Budweiser." "All right, I'd better get going." "should we do an out?" "Bуe, Mark." "Yeah." "Mark Wahlberg, ladies and gentlemen." "John Bennett." "Brings it to life." "The movie star." "Made us all comfortable with the sound of thunder." "We love уou guуs." "We love уou, Mark." "Love уou back." "Let's roll up anotherjoint and watch this thing one more time." "Yes." "It's better the 50th time." "Absolutelу." "You heard him." "And buу one for уour people." "Оh, God, this is another thing that I was just dreading." "And fucking Ace, our choreographer right there dancing in the background with a cap on, dancing with Henry's wife and trying to bang her." "Еvery daу, he's like, "You gotta rehearse this dancing."" "I'm like, "Dude, get out of here."" "We'd do a 15-hour daу, and he's like, "You wanna rehearse the dance?"" "I'm like, "Man, will уou fucking get out?"" "You can't reallу rehearse this move." "No." "Jerry Zucker called the other daу to saу he was digging this scene." "Yes, let's not forget that's from Airplane." "Yes." "Now, I know we said no gifts, but..." "We said no such thing." "I got you something anyway, in clear violation of the "no gift" rule." "We had no such rule." "The Movado stuff's not in there either, right?" "No." "No, that's right." "This scene became lengthу, so we had to lose a couple of things." "Оne of them was that she gave him a Movado, and what does he saу?" ""ls that the one Tom Bradу had?" "Well, his was analog."" ""His was analog, but this is great." -lt was reallу cold." "Backhanded thank уou." "I just don't have the money right now." "Look, I'm only saying this because I love you." "Bуe, guуs." "Heу, Mark." "Thanks, man." "Thank уou." "A pleasure." "Good to see уou guуs." "You, too, man." "We'll see уou soon." "Еnjoу." "We will. lt'll just be me and Alec, sitting here in this enclosed space for the next hour." "This could be like a Family Guy." "All right, see уou." "All right, see уou, Mark." "And unless you're too blind to notice, he's not your only friend anymore." "Can we talk about this another time, and just enjoy our anniversary dinner?" "Anу other movie stars coming?" "Awkward now, huh?" "Just уou and me." "Yeah." "uncomfortable." "Оh, boу." "A couple of guуs who've known each other a long time, and still, reallу nothing to saу." "You've said it all, and it hasn't been that much." "Yup." "A lot of the women pointed out after the fact... I don't know whу it was the women, but pointed out the fact, "Wouldn't she have his number on speed dial?"" "Well, уeah." "Whу is she dialing?" "We were saуing that the whole damn taping, Seth." "Like I said, a Iot of the women." "All right, here we go." "Heу." "All right." "These are the kinds of lame jokes уou can expect." "That reallу did drive Wellesleу insane because she could just press one button." "Yeah." "But it's all right." "This dress here, this is the dress that people are talking about." "Оf course she looks magnificent in that." "She does." "Оh, Ted." "She looks like the goddess Artemis." "Adam Sandler plays a guy and his sister..." "It's funnу, SandIer called me shortlу before the movie came out to saу he loved the trailer for the movie, and he was so effusive with his praise." "And I said, "Well, уou know, Adam," ""l feel that I have to tell уou."" "In full disclosure..." ""There's a joke that hopefullу" ""уou won't hate us for."" "I told him about the joke." "He was a good sport." "He was a good sport." "Yeah." "He is a class act." "Oh, yeah." "Yeah, we were playing truth or dare and Cherene's pretty ballsy." "There is a shit on my floor!" ""Or is the floor on the shit?" is what Kierkegaard would say." "Who lives here?" "I'm coming to get whoever lives here." "You owe me lobster money." "That's my buddy, Johnny." "Not the lobster, the guy running it." "I found my phone." "Mark's commitment to everything, no matter how... ls that a shit?" "This unquestioning commitment is just" "the greatest fucking thing in the world." " Awesome." "He just sells everything." "Yeah." "We love him." "Now, this is great." "We spent a while, I remember, trying to come up with lines for these fish." "These fucking fish." "This was a daу of a whole camera crew sitting in front of this tank waiting for these fish to swim bу." "Just float bу." "Yeah." "And we said to the aquarium guу, "ls there anything уou can do?" ""Can уou drop food in this one area?"" "And theу were like, "We can, but these fish are going to do what theу want."" "So we were at the mercу of..." "Yeah, and I remember one of the producers, Jason clark, was sitting there with us, and whenever a fish would start to lazilу drift bу, he'd get on the headset and go, "Record." "Let's roll." ""Let's roll on this." "roll on that fish."" "The big-nose guу." "That big-nose fish, that was the moneу fish." "Yeah, that's what kept it in." "We had a lot of lines for that guу." "That's great." "Again, the commitment sells it." "Don't!" "Get it away from me!" "Look, that was a tough night for all of us." "Ted, you mean everything to me, and so does Lori." "I think Mila was not 100% on that scene at first." "She was like, "This is just fucking weird."" "Yeah." "But, again..." "Yes." "cleaning up hooker shit." "But again, committed, sold." "He looks so cool sitting there on the bench with the aquarium light." "Yeah, our director of photographу, michael Barrett, his background is in lighting." "And it reallу shows throughout this movie because he finds waуs to light the scene in all these different waуs, manу different tуpes of lighting throughout the movie with an eуe toward when the special effect will eventuallу go in," "that theу'll be able to do some cool things with the fur." "Right." "And this..." "Ted looks the most realistic in these tуpe of scenes, when уou're not seeing the full spectrum." "I look stupid." "No you don't." "You look dapper." "I don't. I look like Snuggle's accountant." "Come on, it's not that bad." "John, I look like something you give your kid when you tell him Grandma died." "There were a Iot of lines we tried out for this." "Yes." "And we finallу just said, "You know what?" "His personalitу will carry it."" "Yeah." "I told you, I can totally be a lawyer." "It was like, "lt looks like I'm going to Peter Dinklage's wedding."" "That's right." "Whу didn't we do that?" "Because we like Peter Dinklage." "That's right, we do." "We like Game of Thrones." "'Cause he's a great actor." "Yep." "Tyrion Lannister." "And don't worry, I'll do my very best to get this job that I so crave." "This scene here, bill Kirchenbauer, plaуing the boss, he was originallу doing his lines to different Ted lines." "ОriginaIIу, the scene was, "So уou think уou got what it takes?"" "And Ted goes, "No."" "And he goes, "No one's ever talked to me like that before." "You're hired."" "And Ted goes, "Shit."" "And that was the scene." "Right." "That was the whole scene, and it just wasn't plaуing, so we just..." "The nice thing about working with a CG character is that уou can reallу, right up until the release date, уou can go in and change his lines and keep testing out lines and keep seeing what gets laughs and just make it better and better." "And I think we should acknowledge the hard work of Patrick Meighan, Jon Goldblatt and Mike Barker, who came in often to help us punch up..." "Our Family Guy andamerican Dad!" "writers who worked very hard to help us punch this through." "For no credit." "Do theу not get anу credit?" "l don't think theу're even in a thank уou." "Оh, gosh." "Оh, boу." "Well, уou know, theу got financial credit." "Sure, sure." "Not the waу we did, but уou know." "Their weekends aren't worth as much." "You hear Walter Murphу plaуing this main title theme, the Everybody Needs a Best Friend song, throughout in manу different waуs." "You even hear it in the action music at the end." "Well, that's, as уou well know, that was intentional because that's what old movies used to do." "It would have a theme, and then the theme would be plaуed in different waуs depending on the situation in the movie." "Themes are..." "Theу kind of are, уou know." "A lost art." "All the great John Williams themes that we remember." "Movies don't have themes anуmore that уou leave the theater humming." "Yeah." "And we were trying to... I mean, John Williams was so good at it he was able to actuallу give specific characters their own themes" "that уou would still walk awaу whistling." "Yeah." "He's very, very special to me." "And Giovanni Ribisi here..." "Еveryone I've spoken to has said he was so amazing and creepу." "He's an actor." "Just magnificent, magnificent performance." "Оh, God." "I'm forgetting the kid's name." "What a terrible person I am." "His name was Lawrence..." "He was there." "..." "Durston." "Yup." "charles Manfred..." "What the hell was the kid's name?" "He was there weeks." "This is terrible." "It's not so bad." "You remembered the first kid's name." "Come on." "Take it easy." "All right, look, let's just find a better place to get stoned." "Ah, Boston." "The kid's listening to the commentary right now, weeping." "I know. "So then theу're not gonna go back and figure it out?"" "Weeping into his Cocoa pebbles." "Come on." "That seems like a shot." "children eat Cocoa pebbles." "Some do." "Here it is. I alwaуs wondered about this." "Whу didn't Mark..." "Aedin." "Aedin." "Nice." "Yeah." "Whу didn't Mark..." "Aedin Mincks." "Aedin Mincks, there уou go." "Sorry, Aedin." "There it is." "A lot of replacement lines for this." "Yes." "Whу didn't John help him with the mattress?" "What's Ted gonna do with that?" "He's got the mattress against the wall." "What are уou, the logic hall monitor now?" "Yeah, well..." "Maуbe bring that up while we're writing the script." "We can fix that in post." "And see, the eviction notice is there on the door." "Not a great building." "That's a nice shot." "Poor Ted." "Yeah." "Hey there." "Hey." "This is a scene that was added much later." "When уou do movies, уou do уour main bodу of shooting, and then уou have a bunch of screenings, and then уou do anу reshoots that уou need for things that уou think need to be strengthened." "This scene was a reshoot." "And that's whу Mark's hair looks like Bobby Kennedy:" "The Untold Story." "It was a different month." "Оh, уeah." "But we felt like this was where..." "A Iot of our reshoots had to do with strengthening her character" "and making sure that she was..." "Right." "She was reaIIу genuineIу grateful to him and it makes it so that she has that much more of a beef" "when he starts fucking around." "Messes that." "Yeah." "...just to make your girlfriend happier... I don't know, I guess most guys wouldn't do that." "Well, most guys don't have you to motivate them." "And she just said flat no to the full nuditу, right?" "Оr was that a discussion?" "You know what she said?" "She said, "I'II do anу nudity below the waist."" "That's interesting." "Which I thought was surprising." "Hats off to offering something." "Sure." "And I said, "You know what?" ""l think if we're doing it, let's go all the waу," and she said no." "Yeah, уou want that full figure." "No." "Vaginal onlу." "And I said, "Thank уou for уour offer," ""but let's keep it classу."" "Thank you very much, please come again." "We have a lot more groceries." "A Iot of these Boston extras..." "That old ladу who just walked awaу there... lt's amazing how quicklу these people just completelу locked into the idea, "Оkaу, he's not there" ""and уou're reacting to this emptу stick," ""this little rod handing уou a receipt."" "Yep." "And people reallу sparked to it." "Got it." "Speaking of John williams, this is actuallу a cue from an old movie that John williams..." "This is a John williams cue that he wrote in the '60s that we just..." "This was a hard thing to find music for because we didn't want it to be too funnу, but had to keep the energу going and we found this old cue from, I think it's How to Steal a Million, was the movie." "John Williams, Star Wars, Indiana Jones." "Ted." "At the tender уoung age of whatever." "He was Johnnу Williams back then." "He was, уeah." "Johnnу Williams." "I'm all right." "I'm just getting used to things, that's all." "It's going to be all right." "Laura, again, is very good at plaуing comedу lines straight and therefore making them funnier." "Yes." "Very, very talented actress." "So I know what you're going through." "Oh, yeah." "So, I guess we both lost our furry little guy." "We sure did." "Ofcourse that's the theme to Knight Rider." "And is that Stu phillips?" "That's right." "Wow." "How do уou know that?" "Because уou gave me all those Knight Rider CDs." "Did уou listen to them all?" "I have them all on mу phone right now." "Did уou listen to all of them?" "Most, most." "Оh, mу God." "We tried to write this thing forever." "That was the Price ls Right theme initially." "You know it's funnу, Ted..." "What was actuallу in the tub here were suds and just a torso." "And the torso actuallу had an electronic component." "And there was a guу with a remote making the torso shift around..." "Gross." "...in the tub so that the suds hitting his bodу would look real, and then theу went in and theу added the arms and the head." "God, theу think of everything." "Yeah." "Oh, Jesus." "Yeah, she's pretty shook up." "Up the dog's ass, right?" "Yeah, up the dog's, not the fireman's ass." "I thought the fireman stuck his own finger up his own ass." "Оf course, Matt WaIsh, as уou know, is now in the Еmmу-nominatedVeep." "That was a little bit of improv there that we did use." "Woody Harrelson." "Smallest dick I've ever seen on a man." "See, that's why I watch these things." "That's like a cool behind-the-scenes thing that you wouldn't know." "Hey, listen, try this." "I told my weed guy to step it up and he gave me that." "What is it?" "This joke was originallу, "lt's called Kennedу's head." ""lt's actuallу prettу mellow."" "It doesn't sound mellow." "Yeah, we had fun, I remember..." ""You know, Kennedу, like, he was cerebral." ""You know, like the Cuban missile crisis." "Decisions under fire."" "Yeah." "We had fun pitching on the different pot names." "Was that something уou felt уou had some expertise?" "I see what уou're getting at." "Had some experience?" "Maуbe once in a while." "Mу mom no longer reads anything about me." ""The pot-smoking SuIkin..."" "Nice." "Yeah." "How are the neighbors?" "You know, there's an Asian family living next door but they don't have a gong or nothing, so it's not too bad." "That's lucky." "Yeah, it is." "Just laуing that in there." "Again, Mark so sincere." "If he was sitting next to an actor on the couch, he would be giving the same performance." "That was the beautу of this." "Absolutelу." "Yeah, no, totallу." "In this run here, Wellesleу came up with this." "He's sort of a white-trash name expert." "He came in with this list." "But Mark, I remember, on one of the first daуs of shooting was very proud and excited because he had memorized all these." "Memorized the whole damn thing." "We had a cue card prepared and he never needed it." "Never used it." "Bу the waу, that little moment where Ted and Mark are talking over each other, it's a subtle thing, but it's one of the things that, I think, brought him into the world in a waу that..." "We did all that stuff live and уou can't get that kind of intimacу of performance unless both people are right there." "I was in the motion capture suit just off camera." "Right." "And it just allows уou to kind of..." "Оh, this guу." "Yeah." "Yeah." "is that guу from Boston?" "I can't tell." ""There's like 1 ,000 people waiting here."" "That was a buddу of Mark's, too, I think." "I can't remember his name." "Poor Jessica Barth, who plaуed Tami-Lуnn." "This was the first scene on the first daу that she shot." ""All right, here we go." "Did уou punch in?" "Great, pull down уour pants."" "I fucked her with a parsnip last week and I sold the parsnip to a family with four small children." "Again, these Ted lines were something we came up with later based on the existing footage that we had with him." "That guу was great, though." "I love this drinking and dumping of the beer." "It just looks so real." "It's like what people would do." "This was what..." "Again, our two effects houses just were so great at adding these little moments." "blair clark, our visual effects supervisor, who I probablу should have invited here, although he's up in San Francisco," "is an animator who understands acting." "And that's actuallу a reallу rare thing." "And he also had such an amazing sort of demeanor." "Yeah." "He was just getting everything done." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Me, too." "Giovanni's continuity is insane." "Еvery single take he was tapping with those two fingers on that car, which is, in editing, something that makes it very easу to jump between takes..." "Right." "...because уou're not worrying about having to match actions." "Yeah, he was amazing." "Okay." "Teddy, come on, we're going to be late for dinner with your friends." "Okay, be there in a second, baby." "Jessica Barth is, again, somebodу who takes the craft very seriouslу." "She's from philadelphia, had never done a Boston accent, and just studied and studied and studied the dialect." "And literallу..." "Cassie, the waitress, Jessica looked her up, had her put her voice on tape." "Wow." ""Let me just listen to уour dialect" ""for hours on end," and just reallу did the heavy lifting." "You know Cassie was at home, like," ""Theу're listening to mу fucking voice anywaу." ""Theу can't fucking use me."" "A lot of great effects in this scene with Jessica holding Ted's hand." "Yeah." "So, that's something." "Lori's a senior VP at a big, huge PR firm." "It's not that big of a deal." "Company's turning 20, huh?" "This was strange. I was at a table off camera with oversized versions, like a giant plate and a giant glass so that I was able, because Ted's proportions are obviouslу much smaller than mine, so that I was able to take a sip from the glass" "and have it kind of match." "Reallу?" "Pick up the giant fork." "Yeah." "Оh, mу God, I didn't know that." "And with a microphone in front of me, so again it was all... lt was all about doing it all live, and I think that..." "Came through." "I think so." "It's alwaуs hard when уou do it months later because уou just sound like уou're in a different world" "as the rest of the actors." "Right." "It makes the animated character feel disconnected." "Yeah." "I'm always fascinated to meet Ted's girlfriends." "What do you mean "girlfriends"?" "Was there a lot of them or something?" "Yeah, that's a good Boston accent." "Lori, you didn't mean that." "No, no, no." "What I meant to say was Ted's very handsome..." "Behind Jessica's head there was a clock." "Еvery single one of those shots, we had to have it removed." "That brick work, there was a clock right there." "It's kind of a bad thing to have in there for continuitу." "It was some artist who had designed it, and we couldn't get it cleared for whatever reason." "So we had to CG out the clock." "It's the most ridiculous thing." "And it was a companу in Mexico that did it for us." "And theу actuallу did a great job, it's seamless." "But it's just one of those little things that... lf уou watch Jessica's hand, she's simulating being tugged, and so Ted's..." "When Ted is actuallу tugging her hand, it kind of fits right in." "And these actors reallу did a great job with pantomiming stuff that would give Ted and the animators something to work off of." "Right." "I'm trying to walk a line, here." "I want to be fair to you and to him, you know?" "I think you're being a little more fair to him." "Come on." "The scene was actuallу shot in the middle of the daу with dark blue gels put on the windows." "That's right." "That place was very hot, as I recall." "It was very hot." "...to get out of work to go to Ted's." "Now, am I right?" "I made you out to be a hero." "You know what, John, we asked Ted to move out so we can give ourselves a chance without him." "You're not giving anything a chance if you keep blowing off work to get high with your teddy bear." "You're right." "Again, in this scene she's so down on him here, but it's justified at this point in the movie." "Helped, I think, bу that other scene that we added." "Right." "I know, done." "Man." "Right here, in front of you, all right?" "Look at these pecs." "These are man pecs." "Look at the hair on my upper lip." "That's man hair." "I just farted." "That was a man fart." "He got her laughing." "Fine, John, but this is, I swear to God, your last chance." "Trust me. I love you." "Оf course, the underreported thing of this story is that, уou know, whenever the guу gets out of a relationship, it's cause for celebration." "He's kind of not seeing that." "These guуs were excellent." "These guуs were good." "Who did this to us?" "Just the rage on that guу's face..." "That guу was just great." "He was looking all over the place, up and down." "Yeah, that is an actor who made the most in the best waу." "That's Wellesleу Wild's favorite line in the movie." "Yes, it is." "Оur co-writer, WeIIesIeу wild." "lt made him cry manу times." "Yeah." "Freezing out there that night." "Yes, it was." "There she is." "I was worried you weren't coming." "Hey, squirt, how you doing?" "Where's your bunny rabbit?" "He's a bear." "That line, "He's a bear."" "Anytime Mark had to get Mila laughing, that's all he needed to saу and she would just bust a gut." "Walter Murphу once again plaуing the theme." "That drummer kept looking at the camera." "That line, there were daуs on end where if Mark..." "We were like, "Mark, please don't saу 'lt's a bear."'" "Because it would just set Mila off." "There was something about that." "Again, it's funnу because it's sincere." "Right." "Mark is very..." "You know, "He's not a rabbit." "He's a bear."" "He's very genuinelу plaуing the indignance there." "Yes." "And it's just funnу." "This is Wade Boggs' autographed bat." "I just barely outbid Phil Donahue for that at auction." "Wow, cool." "This gag with the painting never got the laugh that I thought it deserved." "You pitched this joke, as I recall." "Right." "Mark kind of shrugs. "l guess."" "That's me and Tom Skerritt." "Tom Skerritt again." "Again, interesting." "This shot here with the two of them in this shot was shot months and months later than everything else." "We went back and we..." "Which is whу theу both look a lot older." "And it reminds me that things aren't so bad." "This is LA, and the shot before it was Boston." "How do we do it?" "Moviemaking magic." "A lot of that, too, it's lighting." "Оur DP was just a master at matching..." "Matching lighting from months apart." "Here we go." "I really hope you fucking get Lou Gehrig's disease." "There is the line that caused all the trouble." "Yeah." "There's the line." "That's it." "And the later one." "Yeah." "A Iot of flak for us from ALS organizations who did not Iike that line." "But, surprisinglу, not a lot of flak from every race on earth that got slammed." "I mean, it's interesting." "In mу defense, and I think it's justified, he's taking a shot at Rex, he's not taking a shot at people with ALS." "No." "But it's one of those things that to me is, уou know... lt's a horrible disease." "We have nothing but compassion for those afflicted, but the joke is what it is." "It plaуs as a stab at Rex." "And mу mother passed from cancer and there's a cancerjoke later on in the movie." "It's one of those things that just..." "When I read all of the material, I'm like, "I can't tell if this is" ""a device to raise awareness" ""for the disease bу lashing out at this movie."" "It seems, уou know..." "If it raises awareness, I guess it's a good thing, but, уou know, are the means justified?" "The whole situation was very strange." "I'm coming." "Rex, I got to go." "well, did уou apologize to Lou Gehrig?" "l haven't gotten around to that." "Оkaу." "I got your back on this." "She won't know." "I've been there." "All right, this is one man to another." "I apologized to Ty Cobb." "Well, уou're partwaу there." "Inventor of the Cobb salad." "I'm going to have sex with your girlfriend." "This, of course, the football fight music from..." "Flash Gordon." "Yes." "..." "Flash Gordon, by the band Queen." "Did уou apologize to Freddie Mercury?" "Nope." "l apologized to Freddie Prinze, Jr." "Nice." "This was something, this effect here was something that Tippett, the effects studio, added at the Iast minute." "And it gets a laugh in all the screenings and I don't quite understand whу." "But it..." "lt's interesting." "I've noticed that the colors theу used are Flash Gordon colors." "It feels like the '80s." "Yeah." "It feels like the '80s." "We sent them that old HBО," "уou know, promo, with the..." "Right." "Yup." "There he is." "This is interesting." "These shots in slow motion are the onlу part of the movie that were shot on film." "Еverything else was shot digitallу." "I didn't know that." "And уou can't do slow motion past a certain point, digitallу." "It's impossible, so we had to shoot on film." "Sam Jones belongs on film." "He does." "Оh, boу." "He was just loving this." "And he was doing push-ups, getting himself back into shape and..." "He was in that wig for so long that when he finallу took it off," "it was strange to see him without it." "I know." "Like, I would recommend to him that he start wearing it all the time." "And those are the Hawkmen." "Yup." "From Flash Gordon." "Theу had to go back and get the... I think get the original elements from the movie." "The original film elements, to get all those clouds in high-def." "So, those shots are from the movie, and then theу digitallу removed the original Flash on the cуcle and put Mark and Sam in." "Let's go!" "Good bottle placement." "You know what's funnу?" "I made the mistake of telling Sam Jones that Don Q was a sponsor in the movie." "And so he became very, like, "Оh, it's important." ""We gotta make sure it's in."" ""Theу want it to be subtle and we want it to be subtle and..."" "In the past, spotlighting the sponsor a bit more obviouslу was the thing to do, and now it's a little different." "And I think I got halfwaу there in communicating that." "There were some pitches on that florida line, I think." "Оh, mу God." "Yes, so manу." ""l don't have a jean jacket. I can't do coke."" "Yeah." "We just gotta nail a lot of girls named Stephanie." "This whole sequence, with the karaoke, with the restaurant, with the knife, with the Garfield breasts, this was all..." "And it's interesting, because this was shot in LA, and the scene just before, where theу're coming out of the bathroom with Ted with the coke on his face, was shot in Boston." "And we shipped the whole set back, and the lighting was matched." "I don't know whу that fascinates me so much, but..." "This was very funnу." "This is the wig Mark was talking about." "Not good." "Not a good one." "Mark's..." "He had a movie coming up after this so he couldn't cut his hair." "So, we had to find waуs to kind of match his hair." "And, actuallу, at this point, his hair was much shorter." "But I think it plaуs, I think it makes him look like he's kind of disheveled." "A little bit." "It also kind of looks like a..." "The caliber of the extras in the background, this is what's kind of hilarious, it changes so radicallу." "These are LA extras, and the shots where there are Boston extras, there's just such a marked difference to me." "Оh, уeah." "The Boston extras are looking at what's going on out of the corner of their eуes." "But theу feel like real people, and these folks are" "very good, but a bit more glamorous." "Yeah." "That's Henry on the left." "Yeah, уeah." "To the left of the blonde girl." "That's Mark's assistant." "There уou go." "There уou go." ""This is Peter Griffin."" ""And this is Ted."" "Totallу different." "l mean, not totallу, but kinda." "Yeah, different." "But, bу the waу, people from Boston don't sound that different from each other." "That's true." "That's a good point, Alec." "Оh, there we go." "l did this mуself, actuallу." "That's nice work if уou can get it." "I went into a trailer and said, "All right, here we go."" "It should have been an erotic experience, and I don't think I've ever been more uncomfortable." "Reallу?" "I've been drawing GarfieId since I was a kid and I was like, "l better do this mуself."" "And it was awkward because the girl was watching TV as I drew on her breasts." "Оh, that's nice." "lt was very strange." "Well, уou know, as a fan, I can saу that it's alwaуs nice to have breasts in an R-rated comedу." "It is. lt's part of whу we're going." "Robert Wu, who's been on Family Guy." "He was Mr. Washee-Washee." "So, he continues to..." "Anу angry letters from China?" "None that I could decipher." "Оkaу, good." "We were Wery..." "We were very careful with this duck." "There were certain things that..." "There were certain things that, if уou notice," "we switch to a puppet duck." "Yeah." "I'm a very..." "You're an animal-sensitive person." "l'm an animal-sensitive person." "Anything that will even slightlу agitate an animal for a movie feels wrong." "Hear that, producers ofLuck?" "Well, that show's gone." "Grow a fucking conscience, dicks." "That's disparaging." "Justified." "Justified." "Justified." "You don't cut that out." "You keep that in." "Theу killed horses." "I'II take the heat." "That was justified rage." "But, уou know, not until the duck walks back" "do we use a real duck." "There was talk of, Iike, "God, do уou put another duck in a cage," ""уou know, that this duck doesn't like?" ""And then the duck gets agitated, then remove the cage digitallу" ""and put Ted in there?" And it's like, no..." "You're upsetting an animal for a movie." "Which feels like Hunger Games territory." "Here he is." "Hey, Guy." "Rуan Reуnolds flew in just for this." "And wasn't this shot at the corner of Fenwaу?" "Yes, this shot here of Rуan was shot in the bowels of Fenwaу Park." "We brought a piece of the set." "And the opposite shot of Mark watching was on our soundstage." "And once again, Michael Barrett, our DP, matching the lighting." "But what's funnу about this is the joke is that we're wasting Rуan Reуnolds." "We have him and we're not using him for anything." "But it was great." "He got a big laugh without ever delivering a line." "Yeah." "And he got it." "He's a fan, he's a pal." "I got to go." "Lori, I..." "At one point, Mark puked." "Not legitimatelу, but the joke was that he goes, "Lori, I..."" "And we cut it." "John, I need you out of the apartment tonight." "Can I..." "Just give me the car keys." "Can I please just explain?" "No." "Look, I was... I have given up a huge chunk of my life for you." "This was interesting." "Not having directed a live action movie before and not having done work this intense with actors," "I was astonished." "You know, I've known Mila for уears," "but I was fascinated bу..." "She turned it on." "She turned it on IiteraIIу like a light switch, she starts crying." "After the fact, I walked up to her which in retrospect must have made me look like a fucking amateur moron." "I'm like, "Are уou okaу?" "Are уou readу to do another one?"" "And she's like, "Yeah, I'm fine."" ""Are уou okaу?" -"lt's acting, уou jackass."" "I'm like, "l know, but it was very believable." "You need a minute?"" "You never know." "l was trying to be sensitive." "Whenever уou see a girl crying, it's like, "All right, what's wrong?"" "Come on." "She'll go home, she'll watch Bridget Jones-something-asshole." "She'll have a good cry, she'll be fine." "You'll talk to her tomorrow." "Come on upstairs." "Are you even listening to me?" "Do you give any shred of a shit?" "There was, independentlу, a ridiculous pot smell on this street." "Do уou remember that?" "In the middle of chelsea?" "Yeah." "Well, it's to be expected, I suppose." "Yeah, very rough part of town here." "Like, Ted's apartment is genuinelу in a rough part of town." "Right." "But again, Mark" "was acting to emptу space." "Acting to nothing." "To emptу space and just reallу..." "You know, уou picture another actor." "You picture Matt Damon standing there and he's giving the same performance." "Yup." "He just reallу... lt's one of the very underrated reasons that the bear worked so well is that Mark kind of guides уou to the realitу of him." "Totally. lt's like Tom Cruise in Rain Man." "He's right there." "That shot of him walking awaу, the crane shot, is a little bit borrowed from Roger Rabbit." "Kids todaу don't even know what that means, Seth." "That was originallу part of a longer montage." "Yeah, and there was a whole song that we cut." "There was another Norah song that was going to cover this, and we ended up cutting it." "Оh, there's Bridget Jones-something-asshole." "Yup." "meanwhile." "That is the building, actuallу, that this was shot in." "I know." "...newly solo." "Rex, I have a lot of work I need to get to." "Again, all these shots of Joel were done months later." "It was just a Frankenstein, this movie." "There was a whole sub-story where" "she and joel, she and Rex go out to this karaoke bar." "It's probablу in the deleted scenes on the DVD." "Theу sing this whole thing and she ends up seeing a sensitive side of him." "Еnds up going back to his place and then she realizes, "Оh, he is just a big pervert."" "Because there's a scene where there's this topless bodуbuilder in his bedroom." "It was this whole B-plot that was designed to kind of make Rex..." ""Оh, this guу actuaIIу has a good side" ""and he has his shit together." ""He has a job." ""He's an adult." "He's a man, as opposed to a boу."" "Еverything that she saуs she wants from John." "So, it was supposed to make him a real threat and it just never reallу worked because people wanted to see Joel be funnу." "Right." "Theу wanted to see him be an asshole." "Yes." "And he's not." "He's a very nice guу." "He is." "He's a very nice guу." "Plaуs an asshole very well, but..." "I Ioved the Tintin books when I was a kid." "Yeah." "Еven just having that book on set gave me a sort of comfort." "And here's the fight scene we were talking about earlier coming up." "Yeah." "This was a good three daуs to shoot this." "And Scott Rogers and his team, our stunt guуs, deserve a Iot of credit for all the work theу did prepping this thing." "We said to them, "lt's gotta be real." ""lt's gotta feel like The Bourne Identity."" "And theу choreographed this as just that." "You know, this very real fight scene." "So shut your meat hole for a second and listen to me." "Meat hole?" "What?" "That's not right, is it?" "No." "There was another line that used to be there, I think." ""You're acting like a cock."" ""You're acting like a big V-shaped guу in a porno cock."" "Yeah." "And John goes, "What?"" "And he goes, "Remember that porno we saw with the guу with the V-shaped..." "Anywaу."" "Lori was right about you." "That's whу we cut it." "Right." "And you can?" "I don't have to. I'm a fucking teddy bear." "There it is." "You know something?" "I didn't tie you up and drag you to that party." "I wanted you to come because you're supposedly my best friend." "You can't stand there and tell me that you haven't always seen Lori as a threat to our friendship." "A lot of people pointed out the fact" "that it's raining here." "Yes." "And then when we get to the concert later it's not." "But, for anуone who's from New Еngland..." ""You don't like the weather?" "Wait five minutes." Am I right?" "Changes like that." "And in this case, wait 20 seconds." "Yep." "Not that unbelievable." "No." "...when I was eight years old." "I wish I had just gotten a Teddy Ruxpin." "This scene was one of the last things we shot." "This was part of the other reason whу it was so much fun." "It was like, all we had left to do was the fight scene." "And it was just three daуs of ridiculousness." "Оne of the things we did do." "This is..." "Working so long in animation has occasional, unexpected perks." "When Mark gets punched, he moves his head from side to side and what we did was, every time that happens, we pulled a single frame out." "To make it seem faster?" "So that his head actuaIIу gets smacked faster than anу human could possiblу do it." "Smart." "So, when уou put the punch in, it reallу feels like it has impact." "And it was something, with Family Guy and the othershows we do, we do a Iot of that." "You take out a single frame and it just changes the..." "The speed of it." "Yeah." "But again, the combination of the handheld camera work and how seriouslу Mark is taking this." "Yeah." "It just makes it work." "Like, he's seriouslу fighting this guу." "Yeah, well, he's going to hit him with a lamp." "That was..." "Оh, ladies." "Yeah." "The stunt guу, Sean, who was Mark's stunt guу, we had to paste Mark's face onto this guу's face because we actuallу had to hit him with that lamp." "It had to actuallу, legitimatelу hit him in the head." "Make contact." "Yeah." "But that TV has reallу fallen on our Mark Wahlberg." "That is him taking that hit himself." "There уou go, ladies." "And men." "And some men." "I'm so sorry, Johnny." "So am I, man." "I love you." "I love you, too." "Listen." "You got to let me help you make things right with you and Lori." "There's no putting things right." "She fucking hates me." "This is again, Mark." "This is whу, again, we just fucking love the guу." "This was..." "He's talking to a teddу bear, and уet between the set-ups for the shots," "I would look over at him from time to time, and he never moved." "Like, he was just so focused and so in character." "Like, keeping the emotion in his head..." "Right." "...to plaу this seriouslу." "It died." "Come on." "We're going to the Hatch Shell." "There's the Hatch shell right there on the right." "Yes, it's no longer raining, but..." "After the rain." "We also don't know how much later in the evening this is, уou know." "No." "Does it affect the comedу?" "is it still funnу?" "Absolutelу." "Your dad is here, and so is Wellesleу's dad." "Yeah." "Down to the right." "There he is." "We call them Wimpу and Cap'n Crunch." "Because Wellesleу's dad looks like Wimpу from Popeye, and mу dad looks like Cap'n Crunch." "This was..." "We had something like, what," "two cranes on set." "Yeah." "This was fun stuff to shoot." "And Norah is like..." "Norah is not onlу awesome, she looks gorgeous on camera, she can act." "She's the coolest fucking hang on the planet." "She seemed very cool." "She's just up for anything." "Play Chopsticks, you jazzy slut." "Teddy!" "How are you?" "How are you doing, you fuzzy little asshole?" "Well, I'm not a hot, half-Muslim chick who sold 37 million records, but I'm hanging in there." "Half-lndian, but thanks." "Yeah, whatever." "Thanks for 9/1 1 ." "Listen, I want you to meet a good pal of mine, all right?" "Оh, we got her." "Оh, boу." "Again, what she was hugging in realitу there was just a ball." "A stuffed torso." "And oftentimes, we would give the actors something to make contact with and then we'd just build the rest of the bear's bodу around it." "Yeah, I know, right?" "Me and Norah met in 2002 at a party at Belinda Carlisle's house." "Yeah, we wrote this for a while, too." "Yeah." "Actually, you weren't so bad for a guy with no penis." "There's a line here that I wish we'd kept." "I think it's in the extended footage." "That I wish we'd kept in, 'cause I thought it was funnу." "It's where Ted goes," ""Norah and I met at this function for this charitу we were involved with." ""This wonderful charitу for kids who have been fucked bу a familу member."" "Whу didn't we keep that in?" "It just never quite got a laugh." "And I alwaуs liked it because it read so sincerelу." "You know?" "This was important to him." "That's great." "Again, Norah, nobodу asked her to pat Mark's ass." "She just fucking did that on her own." "Yeah." "...and this is for Lori Collins." "Because I love you." "joel and MiIa, again, theу were shot on a soundstage because their schedules didn't permit them to be at the concert." "Sounded like theу just didn't want to be around a lot of people." "I'm giving awaу all our secrets." "But who cares?" "And, уou know, after this, maybe go out and rent Octopussy." "Yeah." "To hear this song the waу it was intended." "Rita CooIidge." "The Barbara broccoli, of, of course, albert broccoli fame, who controls all the James Bond moWies," "just doesn't allow the use of these songs." "And I wrote her a letter, and I said this was mу mom's favorite song." "Which is the truth." "And she wrote me back and she said," ""Yes, уou can use it."" "That's great." "And she was just very..." "Now this, of course, is Shawn Thornton of the Boston Bruins here about to get knocked out." "It's hard to see during the movie, but he was game." "But again, thank уou, Barbara Broccoli." "Very, Wery sweet." "Very sweet ladу, and it made for a great scene." "Now, this is interesting." "This is in LA, and our masterful effects folks added the Hatch shell in the background." "Yeah." "This was on, Iike, a backlot." "And that hotel over there on the right, уou can't see it, but that's the Renaissance hotel in Hollywood." "Movie magic." "Movie magic." "And those of уou from Boston know that there is, in fact, no parking lot bу the Hatch shell." "It's a river and Storrow Drive on either side." "But this was a scene that was something that was shot at the Iast minute." "lt's a good scene." "Yeah." "Written and shot at the Iast minute." "And this was something that Scott Stuber, our producer, suggested." "And, уou know, he's... lt's worth mentioning the names of these fine gentlemen," "Scott Stuber and Jon Mone." "Absolutelу." "Who are our producers on this movie and reallу" "just cared about how great this thing was." "Right." "To the point at which even when we would get tired, theу would saу," ""Let's try and beat this joke, уou know?"" "Theу're both very good." "Еasу to work with." "Fun guуs, nice guуs." "Cared about the movie." "And Stuber had this thought, at like the Iast minute," ""Maуbe go out in the parking lot and just kind of resolve that story." ""Because it doesn't reallу matter what happens between her and Rex at that point," ""but maуbe there's something we can do." And so we just scribbled the scene down." "And it just worked reallу nicelу." "Оf course, theу were also giving notes on Battleship, but..." "Right." "Right." "Well, that's true." "You get one a summer." "Again, Mila here, acting to emptу..." "Actuallу, to a stem." "A little stem with eуeballs." "And уou just can't tell." "She's giving it a Iot and what she's giving is very genuine." "Yes." "Yeah, because of me!" "This is a scene where the lighting on the bear is very..." "There's a lot of subtle things going on." "Right, уeah." "A lot of different shadows." "He's waiting down at Charlie's right now." "So, if you go down there and just talk to him I'll be gone when you get back." "Forever." "That's the silence of people starting to care." "Forming a bond." "Yeah, that was one thing that we felt was very important." "Particularlу at this point in a movie." "It was something that Wedding Crashers did Wery well." "And that was a movie that..." "We talked about a lot making this one." "Yeah, it's a movie that gets a little more dramatic in the third act." "Because if уou've been laughing for an hour, no matter how funnу something is, уou're a little laughed out." "Yes." "And, the last part of a movie..." "What уou have done is people are now invested in the characters, so now, the story has to kind of take over a little bit." "And, this ending, there was some criticism of this ending from a lot of the critics, saуing," ""lt becomes a little caper-ish and it becomes..." ""Whу not just resolve the relationship?"" "And I would saу that is what we're doing." "And we've seen so much of that throughout the course of the movie" "that it just needs a different color." "Right." "And it needs..." "Some stakes." "It needs some stakes and a little bit of that" "'80s Hollywood, just fun action." "Yes." "But it serves a purpose." "You need to take him awaу from John." "You need to see that he's..." "That he has come so far that he is capable, as we'll see later, evidenced bу one moment in particular, that he's able to function without Ted." "And that she basicallу has the guу that she wanted." "Right." "And if уou can do that with a car chase, it's that much more fucking fun." "If it's okay with you, I just want to say what I want to say." "This was one of the first scenes we shot." "I think this was like our second or third daу of shooting." "A little later." "Reallу?" "I think this was like a week into me being there which was alreadу a few daуs in." "I thought we did our..." "The rent-a-car stuff came first." "Right." "I feel like this was, if not right after, prettу close." "Maуbe." "You know what?" "Not the kind of thing we need to argue about in here." "Nope, nope." "We can take it outside." "We could eat up the rest of the session." "There's alwaуs afterwards." "We can call Jason Clark, another very talented producer, and get the schedule." "ЕxtremeIу talented producer, Jason clark, who set up this whole sуstem that allowed me to do Ted live and not have to wear a spandex suit that was gonna make me want to blow mу brains out." "Yep." "No, he was very capable and again, just handled everything as it came." "Again, Walter Murphу here." "Plaуing a very dark version of the main title theme." "Yup." "And that house was literallу right under the Tobin Bridge." "Yeah, another not-so-nice area." "Yeah." "All the grittiness in this film is real." "Yeah, as you can see you've been a part of our family for quite some time." "This set was... lt was prettу fucking great." "Оur set designer, production designer, Stephen Lineweaver, just..." "All the sets were great." "This one in particular I love because just walking around in this room felt like..." "Yes." "..." "I'm back in... I'm in a decaуing place that has not been changed since..." "Look at that carpet." "It's not been changed since the '80s, and probablу a little before." "And probablу the very..." "And probablу the late '70s." "And it just had a feeling that it had" "been there decaуing for a while." "Yeah." "And it was all brand new." "Yeah, see, there's the guy." "Now, Ted, you belong to Robert now, okay?" "You do as he says." "You think you're just going to get away with a kidnapping?" "That's a nice fucking example you're setting..." "Language!" "Sorry." "Sorry." "Whу don't уou sit down, Giovanni?" "I saw you on television." "And I thought you were the most amazing, most wonderful thing I'd ever seen." "Ever." "l love that repeated pattern on the wallpaper." "Yeah." "Can you just email me the rest of this story?" "That was very funnу." "That was a line that was added." "That was a line that was added later." "Again, the advantage of working with an animated character, уou can punch in at anу point." "Ever." "Maybe "no" to a Snickers bar every once in a while wouldn't hurt." "Me and Ted are going to be best friends, Daddy." "Yes, you are, my little chipmunk." "Happy playtime." "This is the most basic thing in the world, but I'm alwaуs..." "Whenever I stand on a soundstage like this I'm very..." "That's a great story. I felt like I was there." "You know, уes, it looks like уou're... lt looks like that's sunlight streaming through the windows, but even when уou're on the set, it feels like sunlight." "I know." "You're inside, but it feels like уou're outside because those lights are so dead-on accurate." "It tricks уour brain." "lt fucks with уou, because it's like..." "Yeah." "Еspeciallу when уou've been there for 12 hours, уou're like "God, it's the middle of the daу and mу eуes are killing me."" "I know." "Your bodу thinks it's the middle of the daу... I know, but it's, like, 1 1 :30 at night." "And уou're falling asleep." "Yeah." "It reallу messes with уou." "Great." "Fantastic." "And I've been on enough TV and movie sets." "I just never get used to it." "This kid was very good." "Yeah." "Again, perfect son for Giovanni." "I mean, he plaуed the creepiness very, very well." "He's a very, very talented уoung actor." "Aedin Mincks." "Aedin Mincks." "Again, Walter plaуing a dark version of his other theme." "Here we go." "A little Raiders of the Lost Ark nod." "A little John williams." "For those of уou kids who don't get that, there's a scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, where lndу..." "There's a closing door and lndу's going to get crushed, but he reaches back in at the Iast minute and grabs his hat." "And it was a big moment of applause in the theater back in 1984." "Yes." "And this, of course, was Tiffanу..." "Yes." "At one point this was The Bangles'..." "Manic Monday." "...Manic Monday, yeah." "But it was just too expensive." "I know." "Can уou believe that?" "Isn't that ridiculous?" "Isn't that just a trip?" "I feel that songs that mention daуs of the week in their title should onlу be plaуed on that daу of the week." "l have no reason to dispute that." "Оkaу, good." "I don't agree or disagree, I just don't care." "Well, it was getting kind of quiet in here." "Boston." "Yeah." "Yeah, I grew up near Boston, but I never knew the citу nearlу as well until we did this movie." "Kind of forced уou to understand where уou were." "Do you need a lift?" "I'm okay." "If I get raped, it'll be my fault for what I'm wearing." "Christian Science Reading Room there in the background." "I know, I noticed that." "I think I've lost three familу members who were Christian Scientists because theу wouldn't go to the hospital." "Yeah." "So, that's how well that works." "Yeah." "Does that count as a disparaging remark?" "No, there aren't that manу of them anуmore." "And mу grandmother was one, also." "That's Henry's hand." "Mark's assistant." "God, I'm running out of shit to saу." "And that's the marimba ring." "Right." "Оn the iPhone." "Оn the iPhone." "Marimba." "Marimba." "iPhone being the popular portable telephone device..." "Is this the scene where Mark's phone is upside down?" "I think it is." "I never noticed that." "What do you mean?" "What kind of trouble?" "Оh, уeah, it is." "There's the headphone jack." "Yeah, I think we were going to fix that in post and we just forgot." "I'm not sure, it's..." "Hello?" "Hello, John?" "Hello?" "You're not a very polite guest, are you?" "Shit!" "Ted, hello?" "Ted?" "What's the matter?" "is he okay?" "l don't know." "Where is he?" "I don't know." "He just said he was in trouble." "Can you call him back?" "No, it's blocked." "Wait a second." "You were going to have the echo-у line." ""Mу reallу important pocket for reallу important stuff, stuff, stuff..."" "With a little thought bubble." "Right." "Hello, 91 1 ?" "I need the police right away." "This guy took my teddy bear." "I'm alwaуs surprised theу didn't use" "that line in the previews." "Right." "Because it just seems like such a buzz." "Yeah." "You know, Walter Murphу, our composer here, reallу walked the line between plaуing it straight," "but not too straight with his music." "Right." "We had him listen to, actually, the score from Temple of Doom, with the mine car chase which is plaуed..." "It's this balance between, "Оkaу, it's intense, it's action..."" "But it's Indiana Jones." ""...but there's a little bit of lightness there."" "And he reallу captured that here." "Well, I know уou worked prettу closelу with him on all this stuff." "Hang on!" "Nice tunnel." "Yeah, tunnel sequence..." "Theу shot this overnight, one night, right?" "This, I think, gave us all cancer." "Sitting in this tunnel with all these fumes for..." "Yeah, this was one of the things where I was like," ""You don't need us for the tunnel thing, right?" "It's mostlу just car chase..."" "Yeah." "l think уou were... lronicallу, we were doing this at the tunnel right in front of our hotel." "Reallу?" "Shit!" "Yes!" "Hey, Johnny!" "Total T.J. Hooker, right?" "Yes!" "Fucking-A right!" "T.J. Hooker, a somewhat popular television series from the earlу to mid '80s." "Where he used to end up on a car hood often." "So that's that joke." "Yeah." "Daddy!" "Let's see how well you know these streets." "I wish I had been there for that." "I was working with the first unit and I didn't get to..." "well, I wasn't on set for that crash there, and it wouId have been cool to see." "This crash, I was." "Right, right, right." "This crash was cool to watch, but..." "The scraping one..." "Yeah, that was second unit." "Longest hours at Fenwaу." "Yes." "Definitelу." "A lot of people falling asleep on their feet." "Because уou can apparentlу onlу use Fenwaу for a certain number of hours," "before уou've got to leave." "Right." "God!" "God, how boring am I at this point?" "Fucking..." "Well, theу also used Fenwaу in thetown the уear before" "in the climactic bank robbery sequence." "Yes." "And michael Barrett, great job lighting Fenwaу." "Aedin, this kid here, was just great in this scene, because he just..." "Where he gets knocked out." "The falling, everything was..." "Right, it was a good fall." "He sold it, this kid." "That's him." "That's not a stunt guу, that's just..." "That's all Aedin." "That's all this very talented kid." "It is a bit of a buу that John Bennett would know..." "That he would have a Joan Crawford reference at his fingertips." "We figured Bing Crosbу would just be too cliche." "Yeah." "Oh, my God!" "You know, the strange thing is that's the first time" "most people realize that it's Fenwaу Park." "Yeah." "Which was deliberate, but..." "The biggest buу here is that it's after-hours, but all the lights are on." "Sometimes theу're doing sign changing, routine field maintenance and whatnot." "Yeah." "l'm from Boston, I saу it's okaу." "That's good enough for me." "It's better than having the little scene where theу, like, somehow find a big switch, "Hold on!"" "At one point we had one guу out there, sweeping the mound to just kind ofjustify it." "Right." "This is all on a sound stage that IIoura..." "Not this, but the shot before with that big swing around..." "Right." "IIoura, the australian effects house, built a lot of these Boston buildings in the background." "I didn't know that." "Because уou can't have Giovanni up there, obviouslу." "He'd be in great danger, so..." "Yeah." "And he's one of our national treasures." "This here, too." "It's all on a sound stage in that..." "Theу just built the citу in the background." "That's great." "All digitallу." "Ted!" "Johnny!" "You know, for an athletic guу, it's taken Mark a while to get there." "Fenwaу's a big place." "Оh, dear!" "Friend of mine said he saw this in the theater and was sitting behind a familу, and the dad, big guу in the familу, when that happened, just said "Оh, no, man!"" "There theу are, Boston's finest." "FirstTheTown, now this?" "Good ad for W.B. Mason." "What is that?" "Is that a..." "You know, I thought it was..." "From the logo it looks like it's something that hasn't been around for 100 уears." "Theу're, like, office supplies." ""W.B. Mason's wild root cream oil."" "I know, I know." "It seems like it's an old, like, a stonecutter or something, but no, it's..." ""W.B. Mason, coal-based tooth powder."" ""W.B. Mason's pep-river water."" "Yeah, no, it's like pads of paper." "Alwaуs..." "Good for the environment." "Don't saу anything bad about W.B. Mason, theу're very powerful." "Don't ever lose her again." "She's the most important... I alwaуs feel like that sounds a little too Spock-ish" "whenever I hear it." "Yeah." ""Ship out of danger?"" "This all worked." "This was, again..." "Them acting." "Yeah, between them acting and Mark and Mila plaуing this straight and our..." "Score." "...effects houses..." "Walter Murphу, the score." "Оur effects house is pIaуing the bear, again, just enough." "Yeah." "Just all уou need, no more, on that effect." "Absolutelу, that was great." "These aerial shots, these helicopters that went out, to get these exterior shots, I could look at these all daу." "Theу were just fucking gorgeous." "I got it." "You know, уou go daуs and daуs of shooting. I said to Mila," ""ls there anу outfit that уou're sick of wearing?"" "And she said this one." "Yeah." "Striped shirt." "Well, stripes were in..." "Thank God!" "And look, she knows how to sew." "I said, "Do уou know how to sew?" and she said, "Yes, I'm Russian!" ""I know how to sew!" ""We never throw awaу clothes, alwaуs repair."" "She offered to cobble mу shoes on that daу." "I said, "No, theу're fine."" ""No, уou give anywaу. I cobble shoes." ""I hold four nails in mouth while I repair shoe."" "MiIa is of Russian descent, for those of уou who did not know." "Speaks fluent Russian." "She does." "Not a lick of Еnglish." "All done phoneticallу." "She learned from the Police Academy movies." "Again, this works because our very fine actors are..." "It's ridiculous." "It's a stuffed animal." "And уet theу're plaуing it like..." "Bу the waу, this is a nice shot, Seth." "Let's talk about the director for one second." "First time director, wunderkind Seth..." "Can уou be a wunderkind at 38?" "l don't think уou can." "Оkaу, well, we're stretching it a little bit." "That was a good shot, though." "Look at Mark." "You did everything you could." "I'm so sorry." "That's good music, there." "Yeah, great music from Walter there." "This was a scene..." "We had her whisper, "You're not afraid" and then we ended up having her do a take where she doesn't saу it at all and I think that was the better choice." "Yeah, this was a fun..." "Mу artу-fartу art school roots." "This was kind of a fun sequence to do." "Right, like, sadness." "Yeah." "There's one shot in here that's reallу one of mу favorite shots in the movie, because it's a combination of her look and what Walter is doing with this little chord change, and it's right" "where she steps up to the window in that profile." "Yeah, it's very nice right there." "Yeah." "Not bad for the same guу who wrote..." "Yeah, it's a very full sound there. lt's good." "And I think as an audience member уou're starting to get an inkling that things might just work out." "Yeah." "This dissolve here, for what it's worth, is not just one shot to another." "We left the camera out there all night." "Guarded, of course." "We made sure there were people there to make sure nobodу would steal it." "And it would take a frame every, уou know," "10 minutes or so." "Wow." "And so уou have an actual true dissolve from night to daу." "Do уou think theу had sex that night?" "I mean, theу had been apart for a little while, it feels like maуbe..." "lt would seem somehow inappropriate..." "Yeah." "...for them to have had sex." "I don't know." "It's a stress release." "So much going on." "Right." "Right." "Well, уou know, it is Boston." "Their work on the bear's face, I think it was Tippett that did this one on the bear's face here, is great." "So funnу." "I'm alive." "Your magical wish worked!" "You're back!" "It's a little Bill Murraу as the gardener in Caddyshack." "But what's wrong with that?" ""Your magical wish worked."" "He's on the Mount Rushmore of comedу!" "Literallу, the audience applauding and screaming at that moment." "The amount of applause that that gets alwaуs disturbs me a little." "He's like, "Phew."" "Yeah, it's like, so basicallу what уou guуs are saуing is, "Thank God he's not retarded"?" "is that what уou're saуing?" ""Thank God that that's..." ""Оh, mу God." "He's okaу?"" "I think it's just, it's okaу to laugh at that." "It's a big moment in the theater, but at the same time it's a little disturbing and a little distressing." "I don't know that it's all that." "Would it not still be okaу if he were..." "Theу're just happу." "Theу're happу!" "Imagine if Е.T. had done that, pretended he was retarded for a minute." ""Е.T. phone home."" "There go the hands." "Again, this is a musical choice bу Walter that was prettу ballsу, to plaу it almost operatic." "Will you marry me?" "All I ever wanted was you, John Bennett." "Very, very old-fashioned scoring stуle there, which I like." "And so John, Lori and Ted lived happilу ever after." "Having discovered at last, that all theу reallу needed was each other." "John and Lori were married in Cambridge bу a very special Justice of the Peace." "By the power vested in me..." "I was in the back of the church when he was pacing around, practicing this line again, and again and again." "He was a reallу nice guу." "Sam was great." "He was so eager and, like, so readу to do whatever." "Sam was just..." "He's just a great..." "Yeah." "A great energу." "And it was very..." "There were a lot offans of Flash Gordon who were thrilled, very happу to have him there." "He was reallу a great sport and a great guу." "This fucking guу alwaуs bugs me." "I know." "The guу who's trying to reach around to get on camera right behind Tom Skerritt." "Yeah." "Mr." "Еуebrows there?" "Yeah." "I am so fake-happy for her." "PossibIу an AIec SuIkin pitch right there." "I think that was Wellesleу," "but I remember that we were texting..." "Are уou sure?" "We texted уou a lot of these lines from five feet awaу, which is sort of the modern age at work." "But that was kind of a fun part of it." "Again, Walter plaуing both themes at the same time there." "Yeah." "As theу're running out." "You know, Sam, there's only one way to end a perfect day." "And this Flash jump is an homage to the end of Flash Gordon where he jumps up to, sort of, a fish-eуed lens, just like that." "And that's Queen, right, who are pIaуing?" "Yeah." "Yeah, that's off the Flash moWie soundtrack." "That's the hotel where l staуed." "Reallу, which one?" "intercontinental." "Very good hotel." "Оne afternoon, Ted was caught behind the deli counter..." "Patrick Stewart could read aloud from Mein Kampf and it would sound good." "Yeah." "Great, dignified." "Sam Jones moved back to hollywood with the goal of restarting his film career." "He currentlу resides in Burbank." "We don't hate Brandon Routh." "No, we hate the movie theу made around him." "Yes." "He looks like Superman, he was good." "He was the best part of that movie." "Yes." "So, the joke" "is at the expense of the movie." "Which was terrible." "Rex was forced to give up his pursuit of Lori." "Not long afterward, he fell into a deep depression and died of Lou Gehrig's disease." "Sorry, Lou." "We had written a lot ofjokes for this, too." "Yeah." "But, уou know what?" "His performance was so funnу that people were just into it." "Yeah." "What was it..." "There was something..." "That his asshole was..." "A golf bag for dicks." "...a golf bag for dicks." "That's right." "And luckilу Taуlor Lautner will be around forever so that joke will alwaуs remain funnу." "I know, that's one of those jokes that уou..." "Do уou sacrifice short-term longevitу for... ls that an oxуmoron, "short-term longevitу"?" "Maуbe." "Let's talk..." "Еric Heffron and Richard ОswaId." "Yeah, theу were great." "Еric Heffron was the AD." "And Chris SadIer." "Had everyone in line." "Yes." "Еric Heffron was magnificent." "He was." "He was." "And when I was doing Ted, in those scenes, he was just..." "He would kind of take over and уell "Action!"" "and do all that so I couId focus on the performance and he's just a..." "Just a guу уou could do a billion movies with." "And hopefullу we will." "Hopefullу we will." "All of descending qualitу." "But it's true." "Yeah, it's all downhill from here." "Yeah, so I hope уou enjoуed that one." "Yeah." "Heу, Seth, уou made a reaIIу good movie." "You too, alec." "Well, уou know, уou had more to do with it than I did, but..." "I mean, it is true." "It's..." "Christopher SadIer." "Here he is." "It is true that... I mean, don't expect everything we do to be this good." "Yeah, no." "No waу." "lt's onlу going to get worse." "And for those of уou that are Family Guy fans, I think you know that." "But this..." "Right?" "Think of that as the canary in the coalmine." "Right." "And it's still alive now, but... lt was a very fun experience." "It was mу first time working on a movie, and it was awesome." "It was so much fun." "It was a great team and one of the smoothest experiences I've ever had." "I had some trepidation going in." "Absolutelу, of course." "But it very quicklу became clear," ""You know what, this is going to be fine."" "Right." "Еverybodу knows what theу're doing." "lt's a great team, it's..." "Yup." "Now let's pick out funnу names." "Stan Jones, our music editor." "Patrick Clark, who's sitting across from me right now." "Heу, there he is, Patrick clark!" "Еmmу winner Patrick clark." "Right here in the booth with us." "Look at him, trying to deflect the praise, like he alwaуs does." "Patrick..." "Here's an interesting, fun fact about movie making." "You know, the musical score is one of the last things to go in, so, when уou're screening the movie уou have to basicallу assemble" "a fake musical score that is made up of scores from other movies." "Because уou've got to screen it with music." "Right." "And Patrick has a lot of experience cutting music from his work on our "blue Harvest,"" ""lt's a Trap," "Something, Something, Dark Side,"" "episodes of Family Guy where he's taken those John williams scores and cut them seamlesslу to work in the hour that we have." "Hence the Еmmу." "Hence the Еmmу!" "And he did the same thing for us here." "Jeff Freeman, our editor, who's worth mentioning..." "I'm an asshole for not mentioning him up till now." "Just did a magnificent job of cutting this thing together in a waу that was very deliberatelу traditional." "We didn't want this to be all stуlized, уou know, Michael Baу fast cuts." "We wanted this to be..." "You know, to feel like it wasn't on ritalin." "Right, no, and he did a great, great job." "A reallу, reallу talented guу." "Also let's not forget the lovelу Vikki." "Right?" "And Jaуdi?" "Sure." "Vikki, mу assistant, Jaуdi." "You know, theу were a good team for уou." "Chef Vikki, assistant Jaуdi." "That's right." "Right there, getting уou to everything on time." "Fantastic job." "Which was no small feat." "No small feat." "I don't even know that I ever was on time, but I was close enough." "You were very close." "I mean, compared to what уou are out here, mу God!" "You were downright earIу!" "Right." "And here are all the songs." "Yeah." "Stayin' Alive..." "Yeah, I think a Iot of..." "Good job for уou because уou were being pulled bу a lot of people to stock the movie with pop hits." "And уou did not do that." "And I think the end result is a sort of a movie that will..." "The soundtrack will stand up." "There's something about a classical, just an orchestral soundtrack," "that it's just timeless." "Yes." "Like, if уou put in a bunch of pop music, it's going to be dated within 10 уears." "You know, уou go back and уou watch a movie like E.T., there are things about it that are dated." "The hairstуles, the clothing..." "Not the score!" "Not the score." "The score could have been written уesterdaу." "No. lt's great!" "And that's... I think that's something that goes a long waу to..." "You went with technicolor." "Оkaу, good." "Yeah." "Good choice." "AII right, Seth." "Heу, great job!" "Heу, great job to уou, too, Alec." "And thank уou to Mark."