I rarely talk about it, but I was once a football (American) legend at Notre Damn.

I spent my whole life wanting to go there and play for the Notre Damn Leprechauns.

And I did it. Follow me on my journey that is disturbing like the movie #Rudy.
Like. I'm talking about the 1993 movie and not the jabroni who has seen his life and career

*burps*

implode by attaching himself onto an orange pile of toxic waste.
Speaking of prison, this all happened while my brother @Soundsaboutleft was going around and giving motivational speeches about his time in prison.



Here's a photo of him from when he gave a talk to a paper company in Scranton.
I can tell you that I didn't always get the support of my family.

Here's my dad (portrayed by Ned Bateman in the documentary) wishing me failure at the bus stop before I went to clown coll..err....Notre Damn.
But I did work hard and eventually became a football player for...a couple plays.
I was so impressive that they carried me on their shoulders

I was so glad I put on my glam makeup that day.
So sit back and read about my for...fora...my journey into becoming one of the Drunken Leprechauns of Notre Damn Football.
This movie stars Sean Houston @SeanAstin (Rudy Soho), Ned Bateman (Rudy's daddyo), Jon Flavorow @Jon_Favreau (Bebop), a young Vince Vaughn Nuys (Jamie O'Fightin' Irish), and the insanely talented Charles S. Dutton (Fortune).

We start out with a band playing music from Drumline.
Then we cut to some Industrial town whose water definitely has lead in it.
This was back in the 1970s when factories still existed in this country and they hadn't all been shipped overseas at the sole benefit of corporations and the politicians they owned.
I know all about this because my buddy Bebop told me all about it.

He said I was part of the prole...prolea... proletariat. or something.

I think that's the football team that deflated the footballs during that game against the colts.

No idea what that has to do with industry.
We start with this kid who has to wear one of those helmets to help shape your head as a baby. Ya know. The ones they try to sell you by playing upon your fears of your kid not having a perfectly shaped head.

This is Rudy Soho.

He thinks he can play football.
Rudy Soho is as deluded as me.

Left always told me that I would fail...he wasn't wrong.

Rudy Soho gets put down by his brothers and his brothers just spit on him and trash him.

So...Left again.
They run by some train tracks that are shipping industry and jobs overseas and definitely has a dead body beside them. That dead body is the American Dream.
They go inside for Thanksgiving dinner and to have his dreams crushed by his father Ned.
We're introduced to Sherry Wine (the girl who loves Rudy Soho) and Pete...the dead kid with the red bike from that episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark.

Not literally but like...might as well be.
They sit down in front of their TV. It's like I'm back home with my dad (Sounds About You're Wrong About Everything) and Left.

Except Ned isn't beating his kids with a 3 foot turkey cleaver.
Ned is belittling Rudy's brother's dreams.

"You should get an industry job. These will never go away!!!"
They sit around the TV eating when Rudy Soho says he's gonna go play for Notre Dame.

His family all laugh at him.

My family laughed at me being a successful Twitter Reviewer and LOOK AT ME NOW, DAD!!!
They start to watch the Notre Damn Leprechauns go on to lose their game or...I don't know.

I don't watch sports games from 40 years ago.
I'm too cool for that. I watch commercials from the 80s like a real man.
We cut to Rudy Soho in his room singing along to a record...uh.

It's a spoken word, but it's awful.

Listen to Henry Rollins or something, nerd.
We cut to Sean Houston before he went to Mordor.

He's playing limebacker or some such and he sucks at it.

His buddy Pete DeadSoon is on the high school team with Rudy.

It's their last game.
They all gather around to hit a tackling dummy one last time and then slip into obscurity.

Not like Al Bundy who scored 4 touchdowns in a single game.
Rudy Soho has watched the shit out of Galaxy Quest.
Rudy and Pete SoonDead walk away from practice realizing they have peaked.

I will say that Pete is a good guy and loves to sing this to Rudy Soho:

We cut to Rudy in his classroom and he sucks at school.

He sucks at football.

He's got a metric assload of heart, though.

He'd have the dumbest ring from Captain Planet.
Rudy's priest teacher shits all over him (definitely not pissed that Rudy is too old for him) and then announces tours of Notre Damn.

Rudy goes to teh bus to go on, but is stopped by the priest who definitely wasn't shuffled around.
See. The priest calls him stupid and just rails on him.

Just shits all over Rudy because the guy is a piece of shit.
Rudy walks away dejected.

We cut to four years later and Rudy Soho works in a steel mill.
We find out Rudy is a slacker who comes into work late.

His dad hammers him because he was lat...

ON HIS BIRTHDAY? COME ON!!

WTF, Ned.
Pete SoonDead congrats Rudy Soho for getting a year older and "Unlike me, you'll live another year."

Pete gets him a Notre Damn Drunken Leprechauns Men of Letters jacket for Rudy.
Pete SoonDead is a good guy and tells Rudy he can do it.

He starts to sing this:

We also find out Rudy has a $1,000 saved up.

Which back then was enough to buy 2398239 houses.
Pete SoonDead lights up a smoke and puts the match into Rudy's cupcake.

He goes "I should stop smoking...it's not like I'll die soon and this will spur you own to follow your dream."
We cut to Rudy being cajoled by Sherry Wine to buy a tiny ass house so he can be forever chained to this craphole town that'll have no industry inside of ten years.
We cut to Rudy doing what I think everyone should do on their birthday.

Getting hammered.

Rudy wants to go see some Notre Damn coach speaking and Pete SoonDead says he'll go with.

Rudy's dbag brother shits all over Rudy.
I'm noticing a theme here where everyone shits all over Rudy for dreaming of being on Notre Damn's team.

I mean Rudy is 5 foot nothing...he's totally not dreaming.
Pete SoonDead and Rudy's brother get into a fight.

Ned throws them out screaming "YOUR DREAMS ARE STUPID, RUDY" and then takes a picture of Rudy wearing his Notre Damn jacket and crushes it under his foot.

He then spits on Rudy's dreams.
Man. The 70s seemed to have been a great time to get drunk and fight without consequences.
We cut to the steel mill where Pete SoonDead is talking to Rudy.

An alarm happens and Pete SoonDead yells "I'm going to go die!!!"
There's some kind of fire no bad bad going on and Pete SoonDead goes to put it out.

Rudy wants to have inspiration, so he doesn't turn the water on. I mean..he tries and fails because there is no pressure.
Pete SoonDead becomes Pete NowDead
Crap. I forgot I had some dreams Left hasn't crushed yet.

I'll be back in a few minutes.
Okay. All my dreams have been crushed.
We’re at Pete NowDead’s funeral. Rudy is sad and leaves. I like Pete. I never saw his death coming.
Sherry Wine asks what’s up. Rudy wants to go to Notre Damn. She screams “Your dreams are stupid. No one believes in you anymore!!”

She breaks up with Rudy. I mean. Yeah.
We cut to the bus stop. I’m guessing the ticket back then cost a wooden nickel.
Rudy Soho is going to Notre Damn. His dad goes there to destroy his dreams and say “Your grandfather was a cuck to his dreams. He lost everything because dreams are stupid. Him losing everything when I was a kid is why I tell you your dreams are stupid. Don’t dream!!!!!!”
Ned then burns Rudy’s dreams in effigy.
Ned then says “Notre Damns is for people better than you. You can stay here and have a nice life. Uh. Until industry is destroyed in this country and we’re all broke and vote for politicians who destroy our lives because they lie to us and say it’ll get better.”
Rudy goes on the bus and tries to break into Notre Damn. The guard at front sends him to talk to a priest.
The priest and Rudy have one of those stupid conversations where each of them think they know what the conversation is about but they aren’t and wackiness ensues.

The priest thinks Rudy wants to stay a virgin while Rudy wants to join the Damn.
Rudy is like “Uh. I don’t want to be a priest. I want to go to college.”

The priest says “Uh. Dude. Apply ya freaking weirdo.”

Rudy blathers enough that the priest helps get him into Holy Moly College.
See. If Rudy’s grades don’t eat all the shit, he can keep going to Holy Moly and apply for the Damn. Maybe he can get in when dramatically fulfilling.
Rudy goes over to Notre Damn’s stadium and skulks around. Ya know. Trespassing.
He goes onto the field that has to be maintained and starts to rip the turf up screaming “Fuck yo’ turf.”

The best actor in this movie comes up to admonish him. This is Fortune.
I can tell you this. Fortune favors the bald.

That’s a damn good pun and screw anyone who doesn’t find it amazing.
Fortune tells him to go talk to Coach about being on the team.

Rudy goes to annoy Coach. Coach listens to him because it’s the 70s and the internet didn’t exist yet. Ya had to fill those hours.
Coach realizes that coke exists in the $0s and ushers Rudy out.
We then cut to some boring class blah blah blah blah.
In this class is Bebop. Rudy’s friend and, luckily for him, he existed before the red pill and, eventually, gets laid.
Bebop slams Rudy for putting in effort. They leave. Outside Rudy is checking out the corkboard for rooms to rink.
An attractive girl talks to him and Bebop sees this. He decides to use Rudy as his wingman in exchange for learnin’ him good.
I would legit hang with Bebop. He’s weird but funny.
Bebop does talk about his girlfriend in Canada. Ya know. Totally exists.
So they bound over harassing women for Bebop.
Rudy tries to break into the practice field. Before he can the team exists and Rudy Soho stalks Coach.

Seriously. He’s not that into you!
We cut to Rudy trespassing again. Fortune calls him out. Rudy wants a job. He wants to help the team. God. Put that effort into your grades.
Fortune is awesome and gives him a job at minimum wage. Which could buy you a house, a car, and send all your kids to college back then.
We then cut to a montage. Instead of training to defeat an enemy it’s a montage of Rudy creeping on women to get Bebop laid, Rudy making more money than most people make today, and him getting learnin’ from Bebop.

The women laugh at Bebop. He cries a lot.
We then cut to a lunchroom and a hot girl comes to talk to Bebop. He goes mute when he girl talks to him.

Turns out she has an “ugly” roommate and she wants to hook them up.

Bebop acts like he’s too good for Elsa. Pfft. Be happy with her. She can sing and has snow and shit.
We then cut to Rudy annoying the shit out of Fortune. Fortune is a good person and allows it.

Rudy unlocks the window so he can break in later because he has a trespassing fetish.
Fortune is a good person and perfectly portrayed by Dutton.
We cut to them going into the Drunken Leprechauns’ locker room. It smells like testosterone, swamp ass, and STDs. Rudy gets all hot and bothered by it.

He reads some dumb plaque from a Guppy fish.
Rudy goes around reading off names of players to prove he can read or something. He’s doing everything but working. Fortune calls him out.

Rudy does that stupid record from the beginning. The shitty spoken word I mentioned.

Do your job, Rudy Soho!!!
We cut to Rudy committing a B&E so he can sleep on the company’s casting couch at night.
We then cut to Bebop exploiting the proletariat Rudy.
He makes Rudy Soho go harass some girl. Rudy asks her to wave at Bebop. Not cool, Rudy. She doesn’t have to placate your creep friend.

Soho signs up to be on the boosters or some shit. People who waste their time on that shit. Go bang or drink or anything else!
Did others do college activities or whatever? I sure as hell didn’t.
Also. Rudy lies and says he’s a Notre Damn student. He lies and harasses.
We cut to Rudy wasting his time with the boosters in the locker room. He harasses the girl (Mary) some more.
Then he starts talking about how they out gold in the paint and she just emasculates him by saying “What’s your name again?” in a tone that would make most men cry.
She needs Rudy’s student ID so she can get him tickets. Ahh. That’s why. Free tickets.

Oh. And they go get drunk together. I get boosters now.
Of course there’s an Irish band at the bar. Geez. I guess you lot stick to a theme.
Rudy annoys Mary while she’s drunk. He confesses he’s not a student on accident. She tells him he can’t do no more.

Then she says “Give up on your dreams!” and spits on him.
We cut to the Notre Damns band playing and marching and marching while playing.

Rudy tries to buy a ticket with $10.

One person wants $100 (3 houses back then) and a kid wants $20.

Rudy tries to bribe his way in. Then he annoys some more people for tickets. Wtf.
I just realize that this and Walk Hard are the same movie.
We cut to the stadium being trashed.

Huh. I just realized Rudy is a maintenance guy. Why didn’t he just sneak in that way?

Plot holeeeeeeee!!!
Speaking of sneaking in. He breaks in for the couch again and finds a key and some blankets from Fortune. Fortune is legit the best part of this movie.

I would buy that dude beers.
The next day Rudy continues to not do work as he runs around the field like he’s playing.

Do your god damn job, Rudy!!!
Fortune even promises he’ll watch Rudy’s first game he plays.

He even plays ignorant about the blanket and key.

What a great dude.
We then cut to the priest who got him in shitting on his grades. “Bs and an A. Shit like this won’t make you a Drunken Leprechaun!”
Rudy gets his mail and a letter from Notre Damn saying “Fuck you. You can’t come. Give up on your dreams!!!”
Rudy goes back home for Christmas. As he walks down the street, everyone in the neighborhood screams “Give up on your dreams!!”
Rudy goes inside and everyone shits on him. These kids even call his ass out on wearing a jacket for a school he’s not at.

He talks about getting into Notre Damn and the phone rings. It’s someone saying “Give up!!”
Rudy’s family shits on him some more when Sherry Wine and Rudy’s other brother walk in.

Rudy’s brother is cucking him.
We hear the TV get louder and the announcer says “Give up on your dreams!!!!”
Rudy leaves because he didn’t like being cucked. As he leaves we hear a car horn that says “Give up!!”
We cut to a montage of studying and Rudy sucking at sports/training.
Rudy tries to sleep in the library overnight like a hobo, so he’s kicked out by the librarian who says “Wake up and stop dreaming. I mean it. Give them up!!!!!!”
We cut to more mail opening action and the new letter from Notre Damn says “What part of fuck you and give up on your dreams don’t you get????!!”
We cut to Fortune being awesome while playing poker. Rudy is mad and says “I’m a failure.”

Fortune calls his ass out “Dude. You got an education. Notre Damn football isn’t the end all of life. Do something else. Achieve dreams beyond a jersey. Also. Go do some work!!”
We cut to more studying, sucking st sports, and praying.

Rudy gets another letter from Notre Damn submission that is just a middle finger on one page and a dong on the back saying:
We cut to more montages of sucking at sports and studying.
We cut to a trio of priests. They’re laughing. I’ll leave it at that.

The priest who helped talks to Rudy. Rudy is praying for Notre Damn to not DDT his dream.
The priest starts to sing a song:

The priest then leaves to go slam sacramental wine.
We cut to more mailbox action.

The dude is Andy from Shawshanking with these letters.

Rudy opens the letter and…
It says “Fine. Stop fucking annoying us. Come on over and shut up about it. And if you send us another letter…fuck you. Also. Give up on your dreams!!”
Rudy is all excited and goes home to show off the accepted letter. Ned is all happy. Then says “Give up on your dreams. Come. Take some shifts here to make money. Give up!!!!”
Ned gets on the speaker and says “My son is going to Notre Damn. Also. He needs to give up on the football dream. Have you seen how short you are???!”
Dude. Rudy’s brother is like left. Pissed at his good fortune.
We cut to the Drunken Leprechauns practicing.
The assistant coach shits on the Walk Ons. He’s great.
Basically says:
We then get a montage of Rudy being underwhelming at football but having so much heart that it makes up 99% of his body.
We randomly hear an angel coming down from heaven to go “Give up!!!!!!!!”
Rudy keeps screaming “Never give up. Never surrender!!!”
We get more people, but they turn to the camera and say “@Soundsaboutrig4 Give up on your dreams!!”
We then see the offensive coach decides to give Rudy a shot. We cut to some other dude talking to Rudy. He’s a legacy who is forced to play football for his dad to pay for his stuff.
The coach goes “If you don’t give up, you can stay on the team.”

Rudy jumps up in down without shoes on. He cuts his foot on glass and the coach goes “Give up on your dreams!”
We cut to Rudy going to Fortune to quit and to give back the key.

Rudy Soho demands Fortune come watch any game he’s in.
Can I point out that this dude is able to work a part-time, minimum wage job and is able to pay for tuition at Notre Damn and room/board.

This dude would have no chance at his dreams today. So be glad you were around back when.
We cut to a montage of Rudy getting the ever living dog shit kicked out of him at practice. I mean they’re beating him like he owes them money.
Rudy is on the ground hurt and everyone screams “Give up on your dreams!!”
He gets up and runs another play. Some dude doesn’t put Rudy on his ass, so Rudy yells at him and then gets stomped.

Basically a chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.
We see Rudy and Legacy walking. The big guy from above points out that he might get owned. Rudy Soho says “Just do it, bitch.”

Vince Vaughn screams “I’m gonna be famous!!!”
We cut to more montages of practice and injuries and serving food and people holding signs saying “Give up!!”
We cut to Rudy sacking Vince Vaughn. Vince is mad and yells “Don’t you know Favreau and I will become famous together in a few years???!!!”
Vince gets yelled at by the Coach. “Some of your movies are overrated!!”
Legacy comes in and yells at Rudy. “Give up on your dreams!!!!!”
I’m not saying this movie is repetitive, but I could copy/paste half his god damn movie.
We cut back to yet ANOTHER scene of his family crapping on him.
We then cut to Rudy interrupting coaches “special snow time.”
Rudy wants to play. The coach says “I’ll help you achieve your dream of playing at least one play as a leprechaun. I swear I won’t leave soon and not tell the next coach to let you play. Totally won’t. Nope. Not at all!”
Rudy calls his family to tell them it’s happening.
We cut to Bebop. Rudy is sad because the coach quit.

Bebop is off to Miami Law with Elsa. She’s tired of Olfa’s shit.
Bebop says he’ll come up for his game. Man. I bet Soho never stopped talking about the Leprechauns.
More god damn montages of football and shit. Now we get to add disappointment at not being on the dress list.
Rudy sees Mary and goes up and says “Don’t I know you.” Yeah, but no way she remembers you. It’s been like 2 or 3 years.
More god damn montages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This movie stole all the remaining montages and that is why we don’t see them as often now.
It’s the final

*farts*

game and Soho isn’t on the list. The others on the team go “Sorry. I told you to give up on your dreams!”
Rudy, finally, gives up on his dreams. Finally!!

Legacy yells at him “Now I want you to NOT give up on your dreams!”
We cut to Soho trespassing again. Fortune says “Why aren’t you at practice?”

Soho whines “I got into a great college and it cost me almost nothing. All paid for with a part time job. But I didn’t get to go onto a field!!”
Fortune knocks his nonsense down and we find out Fortune was a player. He got mad and gave up on his dreams.

So he tells Rudy to not give up on his dreams.
Rudy heads back to practice and demons and angels and bears and everything scream “Don’t give up on your dreams!!”

Make up your damn mind!!
Everyone does that slow clap shit. Ugh. Just the fucking worst.
We then cut to a scene where a bunch of athletes give up their spot for Rudy. They all go get drunk and only Rudy appears on the field. The Leprechauns resign and everyone blames SoHo.
I kid. They all give up their spot. Imagine being the poor prick who actually loses his spot. Everyone else talented just did it in spirit. They knew they’d go on anyway.
Wait. Err. Hmm. How did this get here??

Okay. Stop. Stop it!

Sorry about that. Left is a prick.

I’m back. Rudy calls everyone to come watch him.

His family and Bebop all come.
We cut to some booster trying to get in with Soho. Rudy gets a jersey and

*yawns*

Man. This movie is wayyy too long.
We see Ned saying that the Notre Damn field is better than his family.

Then we cut to a priest throwing a:
The weird dude from Major League talks because he’s the coach
Then we

*yawns*

Going to field

*yawns*

You ready champ

*burps and yawns*

*snores*
This movie should have been a half hour after school special about never giving up.
Sports. Wooo.

I can’t believe I enjoyed this movie. So many god damn montages!!!

We get a montage of a montage of a montage of sports montages.
They keep pestering the coach to let Soho play between plays of plays of *yawn*
The game is almost over and the guys start chanting Soho! Soho! Then the crowd does because movie.
‘“It's a movie remember ... not all that's true."

After a dismissive sigh, Montana undermined some of the main storylines in the movie saying, "The crowd wasn't chanting ... nobody threw in their jerseys."’
‘Montana acknowledged that the real Rudy did play in the final home game ... and did get a sack -- but stated that when the players carried Rudy off the field, they were "kinda playin' around ... I won't say as a joke, but playing around."’
‘Joe finished, "He worked his butt off to get where he was ... but not any harder than anybody else."’

theatlantic.com/entertainment/…
Stop posting that!!!
They put Soho in and he gets a sack as people chant his name.
Everyone cheers and they carry him off the field.
Was it necessary to do that Left???! Give me back my phone!!
So that was Rudy Soho. It’s a sappy sports film that’s there to teach you to never give up on your dreams.

It’s fine.

It just has more montages than the entire Rocky series I think.

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