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Whiskey (Super Size Me)
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Trevor announces that he has seen Super Size Me and will run the same experiment with whiskey instead of fast food. He phones the distillery to ask whether drinking nothing else for thirty days is healthy and gets a firm, if slightly evasive, no. Then the diary begins: on Day 1 he happily toasts the camera, by Day 2 he is hungry and shirtless in a driveway, and by Day 4 and Day 8 he is wrecked, his girlfriend is furious, a coat-check girl has entered the picture and a bruise has appeared on his side. A title card says he stopped filming after Day 10, and the last shot shows him drunkenly proposing to throw himself down the stairs.
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Highly quotable.
Today I'm going to try the exact same thing, except with whiskey.
Why do you guys say that everybody should do that in your advertising all the time?
Hey, you guys think I can jump all the way down these stairs and land on my side?
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:04
Trevor
Hi, I'm Trevor Moore, and I just saw the hit documentary Super Size Me, where filmmaker Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's fast food for 30 days to see if it really is healthy to live on such a diet. Well, today, I'm going to try the exact same thing, except with whiskey. We're calling up Jameson's right now.
- 00:32
Speaker 1
Hello and thank you for calling Jameson's Distillery, this is Bethany, how can I help you?
- 00:36
Trevor
Hi, my name is Trevor Moore. I am doing a documentary on whether or not it's healthy to drink nothing but whiskey for 30 days.
- 00:45
Speaker 1
Please hold.
- 00:48
Trevor
Hi, my name is Trevor Moore. I'm doing a documentary, kind of like the Super Size Me documentary, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to drink nothing but whiskey for 30 days.
- 00:59
Trevor
And I'm not going to eat food, I'm not going to drink other drinks, I'm just going to drink whiskey for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And just to see if that's a healthy way to live. What do you think about that?
- 01:10
Speaker 1
It's not. You shouldn't do that.
- 01:12
Trevor
Well then why do you guys say that everybody should do that in your advertising all the time?
- 01:17
Speaker 1
We don't. We're responsible.
- 01:20
Trevor
Okay, so it's day one and I just woke up and I'm feeling pretty hungry. So I made a big glass of whiskey. So here we go. We start down the hatch.
- 01:43
Trevor
I'm still pretty hungry, so... This day is already day two, and you can, you can tell that it's... It's not good for the body, it's harder to drink it now, but I'm hungry.
- 02:36
Trevor
My girlfriend wants me to quit the experiment because she's worried about the effects whiskey may be having on my body. It's... It's day 8 of the experiment, and Barbara's still mad. It's...
- 03:03
Trevor
It's only a week into the experiment and it's already having an effect on our sex life.
- 03:13
Speaker 2
You made out with the coat check girl. You made out with the coat check girl.
- 03:21
Trevor
That coat check girl has a name.
- 03:26
Speaker 2
Cody. I'm not sleeping tonight.
- 03:33
Trevor
Cody Ann. We went to dinner.
- 03:42
Trevor
You can see down here that I've got a pretty bad bruise on the... on my right side. I woke up this morning and had that there. I can't help but think that may be a cause of the chemicals in the whiskey that are having an effect on my liver inside of my body. Hey, you guys think I can jump all the way down these stairs and land on my side?
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