Starsky & Hutch (2004) – Filmsack Show Notes

INTRO

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This week on Filmsack, we reach out to Ben Stiller’s wig guy, down a cup of cocaine flavored Owen Wilson and never take our foot off the gas of this 2004 big screen Americana love letter of a prequel to that one 70s era buddy cop tv show starring a bad ass 1975 Bright Red Gran Torino with just a splash of white stripe on the back that makes it go fast…vahrooom… oh and some guys named STARSKY AND HUTCH? I think they are dating… unsure. Do it.  Unless it involves touching a Hugging Bear. In which case, Don’t Do it. SnooOOOp. Dropping Vince Vaughn on a Yacht. 

Anywho, welcome to the Bay City law enforcement drug lab where we employ cutting edge 1970s chemical identification using the latest equipment and techniques in our field. Is this a bag of cocaine? *smack *smack *smack … Tastes like artificial sweetener. Put this back on the streets. Nailed it! I’m good at my job.

Randy, look at me. I am not your mother. I am your partner… and lover.

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BRIEF

In this prequel-style reboot of the classic 70s TV series, uptight detective David Starsky (Ben Stiller) is partnered with laid-back slacker Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson (Owen Wilson). Their first big case? Taking down a drug kingpin who’s developed an undetectable new narcotic. Along the way, they crash parties, sabotage cheerleading competitions, and enlist the help of their streetwise informant, Huggy Bear (Snoop Dogg). It’s got jokes, action, fake mustaches, and a lot of slow-motion strutting.

Rated: PG-13 | 2004 | Comedy/Action | 1h 41m

LINKS

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335438/

WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starsky_%26_Hutch_(film)

Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/starsky_and_hutch

TVTropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/StarskyAndHutch

WHERE TO WATCH

Amazon Prime – https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.4764a46b-73e5-43e8-b24c-d8a752d6844e

Streaming: [Check JustWatch for availability]

TRAILER/CLIPS

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SHOW NOTES

• Can’t Smile Without! Ben Stiller Doing Stiller Stuff.
• Based on the TV show. Which I used to love.
• Bay City. The Seventies. The myth.
• How do you lose a plane? 
• 3 out of 4 planes made it…  Coke it cost money. This perm cost money.
• What are you… his lawyer?
• I don’t want to tan weird.
• “No such thing as a petty crime. There is only the law.”
• Leather Jacket and Tight Jeans.
• “In Bay City. When you cross the line. Your Nuts are mine.”
• One is a dyed in the wool cop and the other is just playing the game.
• Randy, You want my badge. Take it. Hey hey hey..
• 12 partners over the past 4 years.
• His mother was a good cop and has a tradition of family… that is why he gets a little slack.
• You know something. You 2 deserve each other.
• The reluctant partner.
• I promise I am not going to kill Terrence again.
• Cocaine with a Twist. 
• He brought old coke. This is new coke.
• No coke smell. Same coke run.
• Huggy’s Place! 
• Let’s drop some Snoop music.
• Huggy is the good bad guy. Kiss the cane fist.
• Does he have a iron crease in his tight jeans?
• Nobody touches the bear.
• Think of us as Luxenberg.
• Hell nah. You shot Corky.
• What the f is an aquarium.
• This HuggyBear meetup discussion with all kinds of common knowledge information.
• I want those old headphone cans on the beach run.
• The Odd couple of the 70s 
• Hutch is the loosey goosy one and Starsky is the straight arrow.
• Crime called in sick.
• The intro to Starsky’s car is just what we ordered.
• Ford Grand Turino. Car Rules. Don’t knock on the car. No Coffee.
• Nothing harder to solve than a floater… push it out for the next precinct
• One is streetwise the other is rule oriented.
• Found a wallet… nothing in it.
• Bay City Kitty
• “The Nearly There” foundation. 
• Nice Boat… oh… its a yatch.
• 70s girl shorts.
• be careful with those moves… Starsky is good with the ladies?
• Randy, here is my number… in case you 
• Starsky… maintaining eye contact with the naked lady… Hutch .. no problem eye contact.
• Randy, is this the dickweed you were telling me about?
• This movie is a love letter to big ass American Cars.
• I like your Lincoln. I know some people that know some people that rob some people.
• I lay it out for y’all to play it out. What does that mean?
• Just me standing here scrubbing myself with this brush.
• The rest of the force hates them.
• Love all this Americana love. So many beautiful shots. Didn’t expect that from a comedy.
• This is my little man Toto
• That’s a fake mustache… Their undercover work is subpar… 
• I’m not Big Earl I’m Jeff…
• I like that the people are smart and the cops are dumb… instead of like the portrayal in the TV show.
• Just be who you are… that’s what’s really cool.
• Randy, let me see your belly button. Are we cool? I got one too.
• it’s gonna get weird. 2 Dragons… on camera. Grab Afternoon Delight. 
• It is artificial sweetner? and take your bag of artificial sweetner with you.
• Owen Wilson Dragon Head.
• They did get it right. These TV Buddy cop movies did have these little couple date scenes.
• Coffee Flavored Cocaine.
• The Angel and the Dreamer.
• Itchy Teeth means the cocaine.
• Dance off!! Dancing Rick.
• DJ Patton Oswald.
• Disco Big Rig.
• Disco Vietnam.
• Settle Down. I’m a cop.
• Stop shooting my car.
• Haha… its a tiny little man and he has knives. Throw more knives.
• That knife scene was classic.
• Big Wink
• Good cop… Crazy cop
• Not a boat… A Yatch.
• Daughter’s Bar Mitzvah… Send in the Pantomimes and the clowns. Boo
• The worst undercover.
• Of course you do, that’s why you are my girlfriend on the side.
• All this music is fantastic picks.
• remember my true love… my partner. Nothing is as fun without you.
• They blew up Hutches house!
• Never wish for good friends.
• I don’t cry. I work out. I got hobbies.
• Low key chics in Bikinis
• I am a urban informant… not a snitch.
• Taping up Snoop.
• You got to take that shit back to Florida.
• Slapping HuggyBear is a mistake.
• I know even more about grass.
• You want to use my wig guy. 
• We have already established their undercover work is subpar.
• Do it. Do it. C’mon Do it. Mori Finkle. What’s your character.
• Finkle wants some Dinkle.
• Do it… that’s my thing.
• Bay City Volkswagen. 7 of them… that would be insane.
• New Car Smell… pop the trunk.
• Don’t shoot the Volkswagen
• He shot the captain!
• They did not hold back on the Car scenes… they knew the assignment.
• Love the action music…very much like the TV show but big enough for the movie.
• We are going to take this car and land it on that boat.
• Mom used to say this car is too much to handle..
• Randy, look at me. I am not your mother. I am your partner… Do it. Do it.
• It’s not a boat. It’s a yatch.
• That’s for putting hands on HuggyBear
• HuggyBear runs this town.
• Why go to the starting line when you can just go straight to the finish.
• Aaaah yeah. Original Actor Cameo! Love it.
• Ben Stiller: the most intense cop in a pastel wardrobe.
• Owen Wilson is basically playing Owen Wilson but with a badge.
• Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear = chef’s kiss.
• That Torino is the real third star of the movie.
• “Do it. Do it. Do it.” – legendary line delivery.
• Vince Vaughn has never looked more like a Bond villain crossed with a realtor.
• Mid-2000s soundtrack meets 70s flair.
• Will Ferrell’s cameo = unhinged dragon whisperer energy.
• Guy jumps off a roof… onto nothing… for love.
• Starsky on sugar = coked-up Looney Tune energy.
• They really do parkour before parkour was cool.
• The cheerleader sabotage scene is… something else.
• Polyester: the real villain of the film.
• Dance-off + gunfight = end credits we deserve.
• The ending honors the OG Starsky and Hutch cast cameos.