BEN & SKIN'S HOT POTATO SALADTOPIC 1

Ben: When Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn team up on a movie project, it typically equals auto-gold in my world. (Quick side note: Made is one of the most underrated comedies of our generation). Which is why I can't believe that critics are vomiting up internal organs when asked about Couples Retreat.

Skin: I was pretty jacked up to see it, but the reviews have been garbage. It's a shame when one of your heroes starts mailing it in. That's why I don't watch Heroes. Really, unless Vince Vaughn is just doing T from Swingers, which is basically playing himself, he ain't all that great. Which leads me to believe he should just make documentaries about how fun he is to hang out with.

Ben: Meanwhile, Zombieland is getting rave reviews. I wasn't aware that there was a need for yet another zombie flick, but this one must be turbo-awesome. It stars the smart kid from Adventureland and The Squid and the Whale, includes a direct face-slap on the city of Garland and a surprise appearance by the great Bill Murray.

Skin: Thank God there's still a demand for quirky-crazy-violent-country guys in films. I want to make sure Woody Harrelson stays busy. He's this country's finest actor.

TOPIC 2

Skin: I'm digging the way Harry Connick Jr. made a stand on an Australian "talent" show, and told some artists performing in blackface as the Jacksons that it was offensive to America. He did it in an intelligent, assertive and classy way. That's money. The downside is that he's fallen off so hard that he's judging televised Australian talent shows. Has he become Hasselhoff?

Ben: Wow, I wasn't aware that Australia had TVs. Maybe that's how they realized how hot Nicole Kidman is. Good for Harry. I was wondering why he was releasing another new album of previously released standards called Dingo Stole Me Baby So I Threw Another Shrimp on the Barbie Just Like Sinatra.

Skin: I heard that record. Very experimental, yet mainstream Australian. He ditched his piano, and every song is unaccompanied didgeridoo, save for backup vocals from Kylie Minogue and Russell Crowe that are run through Auto-Tune. Crowe was so committed that he put on 40 pounds and argued with Ron Howard about the motivation for his vocal performance. So intense.

Ben: That awesome story reminds me of bloomin' onions. Hey, if you had to bet your life on it (and, by the way, you do), who pulled more in their day – Ernest or Crocodile Dundee?

TOPIC 3

Ben: Man v. Food is now fully entrenched in my fall TV rotation. The host, Adam Richman, proves his greatness each week

but officially won my heart by eating a 5-pound cheeseburger like it was a slider. Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office and It's

Always Sunny in Philadelphia have been hitting on all cylinders as well.

Skin: Man, I wondered what happened to that dude. He was so great as a kid on Eight Is Enough, but he didn't seem to age well. Last I remember he was on Love Boat looking like an Ewok and planning on a drug habit. I'll have to check it out. The Office is such a great narcotic. Have you seen the once-great-but-then-two-decades-of-failure Chevy Chase in 'Community'? I think I'm feeling it.

Ben: Chevy Chase's awkward presence ruins any show for me. He was ready to be a judge on Australian TV 15 years ago. My worst fall TV habit is watching a show called The First 48 every night before I fall asleep. The show follows real detectives as they attempt to solve actual murders in the first 48 hours after they occur. Every night I dream of getting brutally murdered over a homeless drug deal gone bad.

Skin: That's a great show. I saw the one where that detective had to get Reggie Hammond out of jail to help catch Ganz and Billy Bear. Thank God they're off the streets. If they make that into a flick, Crowe might be a good option to put on 40 pounds and play the detective.

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