{"id":5329,"date":"2026-06-03T08:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/3guysandaflick.com\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2026-06-03T12:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:45:41","slug":"podcast-265-bad-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3guysandaflick.com\/?p=5329","title":{"rendered":"Podcast 265: Bad Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5329\" class=\"elementor elementor-5329\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-15611237 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"15611237\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-958de47 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"958de47\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>\r\n  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265<\/div>\r\n    <h1 class=\"tgf-title\">Bad Words<\/h1>\r\n    <p class=\"tgf-subtitle\">\r\n      Join the Guys as they review Jason Bateman\u2019s 2013 dark comedy starring Jason Bateman, Kathryn Hahn, Rohan Chand, Allison Janney, Philip Baker Hall, Ben Falcone, Rachael Harris, Judith Hoag, Beth Grant, Patricia Belcher, Anjul Nigam, and Bob Stephenson, where a bitter adult exploits a spelling bee loophole, terrorizes a room full of children, and somehow turns emotional damage, revenge, profanity, and friendship into one of the most aggressively uncomfortable feel-good comedies around.\r\n    <\/p>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"tgf-quick-details\">\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-mini-card\">\r\n        <span class=\"tgf-label\">Release Date<\/span>\r\n        <span class=\"tgf-value\">March 14, 2014<\/span>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-mini-card\">\r\n        <span class=\"tgf-label\">Runtime<\/span>\r\n        <span class=\"tgf-value\">89 minutes<\/span>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-mini-card\">\r\n        <span class=\"tgf-label\">Director<\/span>\r\n        <span class=\"tgf-value\">Jason Bateman<\/span>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"tgf-hero-media\">\r\n    <div class=\"tgf-banner-frame\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Episode banner image\">\r\n     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/podcast-episode-image-1916934a1628b6c528810c8990dae48a.png\">    \r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/header>\r\n\r\n<section class=\"tgf-player-card\" aria-label=\"Podcast player\">\r\n  <div class=\"tgf-player-head\">\r\n    <div class=\"tgf-play-icon\">\u25b6<\/div>\r\n    <div>\r\n      <p class=\"tgf-player-title\">3 Guys and a Flick - Episode 265<\/p>\r\n      <p class=\"tgf-player-subtitle\">Bad Words (2014)<\/p>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div class=\"tgf-player-embed\"><iframe title=\"Podcast 265: Bad Words\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; 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href=\"#sources\">\ud83d\udd17 Sources<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/nav>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"tgf-layout\">\r\n  <main class=\"tgf-main\">\r\n\r\n    <section id=\"details\" class=\"tgf-section\">\r\n      <h2 class=\"tgf-section-title\"><span class=\"tgf-section-icon\">\u24d8<\/span> Details<\/h2>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-info-grid\">\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-info-card\"><span class=\"tgf-label\">Movie Title<\/span><span class=\"tgf-value\">Bad Words<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-info-card\"><span class=\"tgf-label\">Release Date<\/span><span class=\"tgf-value\">September 6, 2013 at TIFF \/ March 14, 2014 limited U.S. \/ March 28, 2014 wide U.S.<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-info-card\"><span class=\"tgf-label\">Tagline<\/span><span class=\"tgf-value\">The end justifies the mean.<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-info-card\"><span class=\"tgf-label\">Runtime<\/span><span class=\"tgf-value\">89 minutes \/ 1 hour 29 minutes<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-info-card\"><span class=\"tgf-label\">Director<\/span><span class=\"tgf-value\">Jason Bateman<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-info-card\"><span class=\"tgf-label\">Screenplay Written By<\/span><span class=\"tgf-value\">Andrew Dodge<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-info-card\"><span class=\"tgf-label\">Based On<\/span><span class=\"tgf-value\">Original screenplay by Andrew Dodge<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-info-card\"><span class=\"tgf-label\">Is It a Remake?<\/span><span class=\"tgf-value\">No. It is an original dark comedy and Jason Bateman\u2019s feature film directorial debut.<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-info-card\"><span class=\"tgf-label\">Budget<\/span><span class=\"tgf-value\">Approximately $10 million<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-info-card\"><span class=\"tgf-label\">Box Office<\/span><span class=\"tgf-value\">Approx. $7.78 million domestic \/ approx. $7.80 million worldwide<\/span><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <a class=\"tgf-return-top\" href=\"#top\">\u2191 Return to Top<\/a>\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\r\n    <section id=\"cast\" class=\"tgf-section\">\r\n      <h2 class=\"tgf-section-title\"><span class=\"tgf-section-icon\">\ud83d\udc65<\/span> Main Cast<\/h2>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-cast-grid\">\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Jason Bateman<\/strong><span>Guy Trilby<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Kathryn Hahn<\/strong><span>Jenny Widgeon<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Rohan Chand<\/strong><span>Chaitanya Chopra<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Allison Janney<\/strong><span>Dr. Bernice Deagan<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Philip Baker Hall<\/strong><span>Dr. William Bowman<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Ben Falcone<\/strong><span>Pete Fowler<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Rachael Harris<\/strong><span>Eric Tai\u2019s Mother<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Judith Hoag<\/strong><span>Petal Dubois<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Beth Grant<\/strong><span>Bedazzled Judge<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Patricia Belcher<\/strong><span>Ingrid<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Anjul Nigam<\/strong><span>Sriram Chopra<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Bob Stephenson<\/strong><span>Bill Murhoff<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Steve Witting<\/strong><span>Proctor at Spelling Bee<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Madison Hu<\/strong><span>Ling Quan<\/span><\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-cast-card\"><strong>Michael Patrick McGill<\/strong><span>Beet Red Father<\/span><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <a class=\"tgf-return-top\" href=\"#top\">\u2191 Return to Top<\/a>\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\r\n    <section id=\"awards\" class=\"tgf-section\">\r\n      <h2 class=\"tgf-section-title\"><span class=\"tgf-section-icon\">\ud83c\udfc6<\/span> Awards<\/h2>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-awards-list\">\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-award-card\">\u2b50 Toronto International Film Festival - Premiered in 2013<\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-award-card\">\u2b50 2011 Black List - Andrew Dodge\u2019s screenplay appeared on the industry list of notable unproduced scripts<\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-award-card\">\u2b50 No Academy Award nominations were verified for the film.<\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-award-card\">\u2b50 No Golden Globe nominations were verified for the film.<\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-award-card\">\u2b50 Metacritic lists the film with a 57 Metascore, based on 36 critic reviews.<\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-award-card\">\u2b50 Rotten Tomatoes describes the movie as scabrously funny and gleefully amoral, with praise for Bateman\u2019s performance and directing.<\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-award-card\">\u2b50 The film\u2019s biggest win is giving Jason Bateman a nasty, sharp-edged directorial debut where the hero is technically the villain, the children are collateral damage, and the emotional growth comes wrapped in insults.<\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <a class=\"tgf-return-top\" href=\"#top\">\u2191 Return to Top<\/a>\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\r\n    <section id=\"plot\" class=\"tgf-section\">\r\n      <h2 class=\"tgf-section-title\"><span class=\"tgf-section-icon\">\ud83d\udcd6<\/span> Short Plot Summary<\/h2>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-plot-card\">\r\n        Guy Trilby is a bitter, middle-aged man who discovers a loophole that allows him to enter a national spelling bee meant for children. As angry parents, shocked officials, and terrified young competitors try to figure out what the hell is wrong with him, Guy bulldozes his way through the competition while reporter Jenny Widgeon follows him, hoping to uncover his motive. Along the way, Guy forms an unlikely bond with Chaitanya, a lonely young contestant who keeps trying to be his friend despite every warning sign imaginable. <em>Bad Words<\/em> is a dark, mean, uncomfortable comedy about revenge, abandonment, arrested development, and the strange possibility that even the biggest jerk in the room might still be hiding a wound under all that profanity.\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <a class=\"tgf-return-top\" href=\"#top\">\u2191 Return to Top<\/a>\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\r\n    <section id=\"quotes\" class=\"tgf-section\">\r\n      <h2 class=\"tgf-section-title\"><span class=\"tgf-section-icon\">\u275d<\/span> Key Quotes<\/h2>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-quote-grid\">\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-quote-card\">\u201cYour chair called me for help.\u201d - Guy Trilby<\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-quote-card\">\u201cI\u2019m not that good with people.\u201d - Guy Trilby<\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-quote-card\">\u201cI\u2019m here to win.\u201d - Guy Trilby<\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-quote-card\">\u201cYou\u2019re not a very nice person.\u201d - Chaitanya Chopra<\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-quote-card\">\u201cI\u2019m not here to make friends.\u201d - Guy Trilby<\/div>\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-quote-card\">\u201cI\u2019m going to destroy these kids.\u201d - Guy Trilby<\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <a class=\"tgf-return-top\" href=\"#top\">\u2191 Return to Top<\/a>\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\r\n    <section id=\"trivia\" class=\"tgf-section\">\r\n      <h2 class=\"tgf-section-title\"><span class=\"tgf-section-icon\">\ud83d\udca1<\/span> Trivia<\/h2>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-trivia-grid\">\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-trivia-card\">\r\n          <h3>Director<\/h3>\r\n          <ul>\r\n            <li><em>Bad Words<\/em> was directed by Jason Bateman.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The film marked Bateman\u2019s feature film directorial debut.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The screenplay was written by Andrew Dodge.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Dodge\u2019s script appeared on the 2011 Black List before the film was produced.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Bateman directs the movie like a comedy with a grudge, keeping the tone dark, uncomfortable, and just sentimental enough to sneak up on you after the insults land.<\/li>\r\n          <\/ul>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-trivia-card\">\r\n          <h3>Cast \/ Casting<\/h3>\r\n          <ul>\r\n            <li>Jason Bateman stars as Guy Trilby, a 40-year-old who enters a children\u2019s spelling bee through a loophole.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Kathryn Hahn plays Jenny Widgeon, the reporter funding and following Guy\u2019s strange revenge mission.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Rohan Chand plays Chaitanya Chopra, the cheerful young competitor who becomes Guy\u2019s unlikely friend.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Allison Janney plays Dr. Bernice Deagan, one of the officials horrified by Guy\u2019s presence in the competition.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Philip Baker Hall plays Dr. William Bowman, the spelling bee figure at the center of Guy\u2019s deeper motivation.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Bateman had known Kathryn Hahn and Allison Janney before the film and cast them without a traditional audition process.<\/li>\r\n          <\/ul>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-trivia-card\">\r\n          <h3>Soundtrack \/ Score<\/h3>\r\n          <ul>\r\n            <li>Rolfe Kent composed the film\u2019s score.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The music supports the film\u2019s mix of bleak comedy, emotional damage, competition tension, and awkward adult-child bonding.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The score avoids turning Guy into an obvious softie too early, letting the bitterness and comedy do most of the damage first.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The film also uses contemporary songs to underline Guy\u2019s reckless, miserable, emotionally stunted energy.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Basically, the music has to make a spelling bee feel like a revenge thriller, which is a deeply stupid sentence and also exactly the movie.<\/li>\r\n          <\/ul>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-trivia-card\">\r\n          <h3>Location<\/h3>\r\n          <ul>\r\n            <li>The story follows Guy through regional and national spelling bee settings.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Principal photography took place in Los Angeles.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The national spelling bee final was filmed at the Sportsmen\u2019s Lodge in the San Fernando Valley.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The movie\u2019s competition settings are intentionally polished and kid-friendly, which makes Guy\u2019s adult bitterness feel even more aggressively out of place.<\/li>\r\n            <li>It is basically the cleanest, most respectable environment possible for one grown man to verbally torch every child within range.<\/li>\r\n          <\/ul>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-trivia-card\">\r\n          <h3>Behind-The-Scenes<\/h3>\r\n          <ul>\r\n            <li>The film was produced by Jason Bateman, Jeff Culotta, Sean McKittrick, and Mason Novick.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Production companies included Aggregate Films, Darko Entertainment, and MXN Entertainment.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Focus Features released the film in the United States.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The reported production budget was approximately $10 million.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Principal photography took place over 29 days at the end of 2012.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The movie grossed about $7.78 million domestically and about $7.80 million worldwide.<\/li>\r\n          <\/ul>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-trivia-card\">\r\n          <h3>Nostalgia<\/h3>\r\n          <ul>\r\n            <li><em>Bad Words<\/em> fits into the early-2010s wave of sharp, mean-spirited adult comedies with a hidden emotional core.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The movie plays against Jason Bateman\u2019s likable everyman image by making Guy Trilby aggressively rude, bitter, and difficult to root for.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Its spelling bee setup gives the comedy a built-in contrast between wholesome kid achievement and one adult man who has absolutely no business being there.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The Guy and Chaitanya relationship gives the movie its small but important emotional center.<\/li>\r\n            <li>It is the kind of comedy where you laugh, feel bad for laughing, then laugh again because Bateman somehow made a children\u2019s spelling bee feel like a revenge cage match.<\/li>\r\n          <\/ul>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-trivia-card\">\r\n          <h3>Easter Eggs<\/h3>\r\n          <ul>\r\n            <li>The fictional spelling bee was named the Golden Quill instead of using the real Scripps National Spelling Bee name.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The movie\u2019s title works on two levels: the spelling competition itself and Guy\u2019s weapon of choice, which is basically verbal assault with punctuation.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Guy\u2019s childish behavior mirrors the kids around him, but his pain and motive reveal why he never really moved on from the wound driving him.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The film keeps hiding emotional clues inside Guy\u2019s cruelty, especially around Dr. Bowman and the reason Guy entered the bee.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Chaitanya works as a comedic foil because he keeps treating Guy like a friend even when Guy behaves like a warning label in human form.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The Golden Quill setting lets the movie turn spelling words into duel weapons, proving that vocabulary can be violent if you are enough of a jerk about it.<\/li>\r\n          <\/ul>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"tgf-trivia-card\">\r\n          <h3>Misc.<\/h3>\r\n          <ul>\r\n            <li><em>Bad Words<\/em> is rated R.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The movie runs 89 minutes.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2013.<\/li>\r\n            <li>The film opened in limited U.S. release on March 14, 2014 and expanded wide on March 28, 2014.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Metacritic lists the film as a comedy\/drama with a 57 Metascore based on 36 critic reviews.<\/li>\r\n            <li>Your 3 Guys and a Flick ratings page lists <em>Bad Words<\/em> as Episode 265, with Don rating it 3.00, Ken rating it 3.25, Jon rating it 3.25, and an overall rating of 3.17.<\/li>\r\n          <\/ul>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <a class=\"tgf-return-top\" href=\"#top\">\u2191 Return to Top<\/a>\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\r\n    <section id=\"sources\" class=\"tgf-section\">\r\n      <h2 class=\"tgf-section-title\"><span class=\"tgf-section-icon\">\ud83d\udd17<\/span> Sources Cited<\/h2>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-source-pill-wrap\">\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/3guysandaflick.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 Guys and a Flick - Latest Episode<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/3guysandaflick.com\/?page_id=49\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 Guys and a Flick - Ratings<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2170299\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb - Bad Words<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2170299\/fullcredits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb - Full Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2170299\/awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb - Awards<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2170299\/quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb - Quotes<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2170299\/taglines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb - Taglines<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2170299\/soundtrack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb - Soundtrack<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2170299\/locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb - Filming Locations<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2170299\/trivia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMDb - Trivia<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt2170299\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Box Office Mojo - Bad Words<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl1128629761\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Box Office Mojo - Release Details<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-numbers.com\/movie\/Bad-Words\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Numbers - Bad Words<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/bad_words\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rotten Tomatoes - Bad Words<\/a>\r\n        <a class=\"tgf-source-pill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/movie\/bad-words\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Metacritic - Bad Words<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <a class=\"tgf-return-top\" href=\"#top\">\u2191 Return to Top<\/a>\r\n    <\/section>\r\n\r\n  <\/main>\r\n\r\n  <aside class=\"tgf-sidebar\" aria-label=\"Episode sidebar\">\r\n    <div class=\"tgf-side-card\">\r\n      <h3>Episode Snapshot<\/h3>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-rating\">\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606 <span style=\"color:#fff;font-size:16px;letter-spacing:0;\">3.17<\/span><\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-side-row\"><span>Episode<\/span><strong>265<\/strong><\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-side-row\"><span>Movie<\/span><strong>Bad Words<\/strong><\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-side-row\"><span>Year<\/span><strong>2014<\/strong><\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-side-row\"><span>Genre<\/span><strong>Comedy<\/strong><\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"tgf-side-row\"><span>Director<\/span><strong>Jason Bateman<\/strong><\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"tgf-side-card tgf-cta-card\">\r\n      <h3>Got a Movie Suggestion?<\/h3>\r\n      <p>Tell the Guys what movie they should review next.<\/p>\r\n      <a class=\"tgf-cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/3guysandaflick.com\/?page_id=996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"black\">Submit a Movie<\/font><\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/aside>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 data-interaction-id=\"ee7e5ef\" class=\"e-ee7e5ef-08f7926 e-heading-base\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"ee7e5ef\">Other Dark Comedy Movies...<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56828cd elementor-grid-2 elementor-posts--thumbnail-left elementor-posts--align-left elementor-grid-tablet-2 elementor-grid-mobile-1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-posts\" 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Words\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__meta-data\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-post-date\">\n\t\t\tJune 3, 2026\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t<a class=\"elementor-post__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/3guysandaflick.com\/?p=5329\" aria-label=\"Read more about Podcast 265: Bad Words\" tabindex=\"-1\" >\n\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<article class=\"elementor-post elementor-grid-item post-211 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-comedy category-dark-comedy\" role=\"listitem\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-post__thumbnail__link\" href=\"https:\/\/3guysandaflick.com\/?p=211\" tabindex=\"-1\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/3guysandaflick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/train_busan_banner-300x150.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1787\" 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