Do you think Jerky Boys were a specifically Xennial thing?

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odar420@reddit

Open up ya ears ya jackass -Frank Rizzo

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RageQuitRedux@reddit

See ya tomorrow with my tools, FUCK FACE

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FlatEarthIsRetarded@reddit

PIECES WHAT THE FUCK PIECES? POUNDS BABY POUNDS!! AND I TOLD YOU TEN LIVER LIPS! 😂😂😂

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RageQuitRedux@reddit

Yeah he backed over my GOD DAMN legs, now I'm laying here in the hospital bed with broken fuckin legs, that's all I need

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JustSomeDudeNamedRik@reddit

THE NAME IS Frank Rizzo R I Z Z O

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MistahOnzima@reddit

He's got that nice brownstone on Ditmars Blvd!

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LoSunfire84@reddit

Oh man, I remember a friend making me listen to one called "Sol's Glasses" and I Just about pissed myself back when I first heard it.

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Username_redact@reddit

My brother and I still quote them all the time, and Sol's Glasses is definitely a top use

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Darkhelmet3000@reddit

I always thought he said “ass-y nipples”, lol!

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TruckNuts_But4YrBody@reddit

"We can go to the beach and walk along with all the piss clams and you can tie me to the pier for high tide" "Uhhhh"

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It was Sol's chainsaw shock, for me. I was a pizza driver and we were listening to it in the back of the store. I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the day. "Let me look and see..." Immediate chaos. "Aah, aaaahh, aaaahh. I'm gonna have to call you back. I don't think I can walk no more." Shit. Even now I'm wiping tears out of my eyes just typing it

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FlatEarthIsRetarded@reddit

Those few where Sal was selling his chainsaw and the boot with the foot still in it! 😂 comedy. And then the riding lawnmower, that was by far the best of Kamal. “You want a TV on the damn thing or what?” “You is a lazy bastard! You wanna know what I paid for it? I PAID SHIT FOR THAT MOTHAFUCKA!” 😂😂😂

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RageQuitRedux@reddit

"Don't be sore!"

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JeromeVenkman@reddit

"There's a piece of the bone sticking out"

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lukin5@reddit

Oh God and Baby Jesus

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MistahOnzima@reddit

I'll be up there with all my shoes and glasses!

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fn0rdsareeverywhere@reddit

“Shall I bring my shoes? …so I, have them?”

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FlatEarthIsRetarded@reddit

My dad introduced me brother and I to them back when we were super young, in the 90’s. I was born in 87, my pops was born in 62.

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lifeat24fps@reddit

Uncle Freddy DIED?!!!!

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howelltight@reddit

Mawtha! Freddie died!

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drosse1meyer@reddit

FRANK FRANK RIZZO

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PGHNeil@reddit

I remember a friend (who was born in 1971) listening to them back in '85-'86 so it was definitely not a Xennial thing. It was squarely teenage Gen X at the time.

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captainhindsight1983@reddit

Ok we’re casting for flat chested tap dancing freaks.

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RageQuitRedux@reddit

You know what that was? It was a fucking tuba

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captainhindsight1983@reddit

Ohhhhhh shittttttt

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RageQuitRedux@reddit

Yeah he backed over my god damn legs and now I'm lying here in the hospital bed with broken fuckin legs, that's all I need

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captainhindsight1983@reddit

You gotta be quicker than that son. Alex Trebek will walk up on that stage and punch your fucking jaw loose.

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RageQuitRedux@reddit

Sir You know goddamn well there are more than two pits in a pair

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FreebieandBean90@reddit

"And I'll bring all my shoes and glasses. So I have them."

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kramer1980_adm@reddit

Man were they ever popular in my house. Had all the cd's. Even called into their phone line, which I think was a promo for their movie, and got to listen to Gel by Collective Soul.

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SideStreetHypnosis@reddit

That whole Collective Soul album is great.

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RageQuitRedux@reddit

I've been playing this album a lot on guitar lately. December, The World I Know, and She Gathers Rain

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SideStreetHypnosis@reddit

Wonderful.

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kramer1980_adm@reddit

Absolutely love it! Just listened to it last night actually. Hoping to get it on vinyl soon.

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SideStreetHypnosis@reddit

Must have been floating around in the universe as I heard Gel at work yesterday evening. I have it on vinyl and it is a wonderful pressing. Very full and dynamic sound. I bought mine sealed, but used on Discogs. There were 3 different pressings of it in 2020, which was the first year it was put on vinyl. I read there were some issues with noise on the turquoise variant. No sound reviews on the MPO worldwide release on Discogs. I have the US black version. Highly recommend it. Here’s a link to the Discogs page for the copy I own in case you want it. https://www.discogs.com/release/15718025-Collective-Soul-Collective-Soul Also, they are currently on tour. This is the only album of theirs I love. I was going to see them, but from setlist data, they aren’t playing much from this release.

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kramer1980_adm@reddit

Thank you for sharing! I will definitely keep my eye out for the black one. This is definitely their top album for me. Dosage is pretty amazing too. Unfortunately I don't think that one was ever pressed to vinyl. Hopefully next year for the 25th anniversary!

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weezeloner@reddit

I have thought that album is criminally underrated for years. Since I bought it. I knew I wasn't the only one.

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kramer1980_adm@reddit

Dosage? It’s so solid. Definitely different for them, and had a couple of solid hits with Heavy and Run, and Tremble For My Beloved got some attention from the Twilight movies, but yes the entire album should be celebrated more.

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weezeloner@reddit

Actually I was talking about the Collective Soul self titled album. The blue one. I love that album. I do like Dosage but only the tracks from the Twilight soundtracks you mentioned.

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RageQuitRedux@reddit

Guess how much I paid for that? _"Hellooooo"_ I paid SHIT for that, mother fucker!

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Mr_Snub@reddit

Nah, they're a Gen X thing. Their tapes had been circulating around college campuses in the 80s.

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pqp53-ii68@reddit

“You’re goddamned right”

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ackwards@reddit

Gen X AND Boomers

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mosesoperandi@reddit

I'm not so sure it was a Boomers thing. The youngest Boomers were in their mid 20's by 1990.

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ackwards@reddit

I wasn’t into the Jerky Boys but my dad bought a cd or two. It seemed like a boomer thing at the time. But you enjoy whatever you like. No judgement

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spiffyP@reddit

My dad showed me them first, he was born in the late 40s. His coworkers who showed him were too.

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Cisru711@reddit

Agree. I felt I was a little young for them.

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translucentcop@reddit

Agreed. My Gen x older brother introduced this and Tube Bar tapes to me.

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three9@reddit

Agreed. This is definitely a Gen X thing.

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GiveMeSomeShu-gar@reddit

"So uh, what do you say we get together, and paint each other up?"

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writeamemojack@reddit

"So we're up on the scaffolding there, and this old broad in the apartment above us starts chucking hot fucking clam chowder down on us...I mean what the fuck, right?" Oh god how I died laughing as a 15 year old at this line. My wife is 7 years younger and has no idea who they are.

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No-Weather701@reddit

This and " their all gonna laugh at you" by adam sandler were treasures at my school passing them back and fortg

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Disastrous-Wonder153@reddit

"Aye, fuck me in the goat ass"

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BigMax@reddit

I still say that to myself as a curse sometimes!! It’s much better than “damn it” or something.

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bdreamer642@reddit

Have fun mosh pitting!

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greggerypeccary@reddit

Ohh man, that Adam Sandler cassette was a hot commodity at my Christian summer camp!

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TruckNuts_But4YrBody@reddit

Peter's hurt bad

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mckinney4string@reddit

His ass is blue.

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

Oh man. I always remember this one line. I think one of them was pretending to be an old lady who had warts on her ass and called the doctor: "what do I do? Do I just beat them off with a stick?"

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metalm84@reddit

Xennial is more Jim Florentine's Terrorizing Telemarketers and the related Crank Yankers show on Comedy Central. BUT, if you had Gen X older siblings like me, then it was Jerky Boys the older brothers were listening to!

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Mumblerumble@reddit

“Hey there, sizzle chest”

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pugs_are_death@reddit

They peaked just before their movie came out. And then they disappeared.

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angrylibertariandude@reddit

I totally forgot about Jerky Boys, till I randomly saw this post. Now I want to look up Jerky Boys stuff again.

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Space_Rabies@reddit

Thought I was the only one who remembered the movie. All I recall is Ozzy calling them a bunch of assholes. 😂 I did like the movie!

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hulks_brother@reddit

Dude! I was just listening to them 10 minutes ago in my car. So I don't need to talk to you Jackass!

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Despises_the_dishes@reddit

Speeding up and down all over the place. Should I bring my shoes and glasses so I have them? Open ya fuckin ears, jackass. These make it into conversations at least once a week. I work in a very lax company. All men, I’m the only woman. I played a few jerky boys calls for my under 30 coworkers and they were dying. I get a lot of “Barbara is that you?”

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ih4teme@reddit

I will kick your dog!

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theDunceCapKid@reddit

Pablo honey? Pablo please come down Florida homey we miss you

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siiilenttbob@reddit

I listened to the Jerky Boys but I couldn't remember a single thing... until you said "Pablo honey" and I could hear it in my head, voice and all. Wow, what a flashback.

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Tisk_Jockey@reddit

Radiohead agrees

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CriscoMelon@reddit

Pablo Honey are you washing your ass?

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dirtympls@reddit

You can get a Cameo for 120 bucks!

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Scary-Ad9646@reddit

CKY2K had some pretty good prank calls.

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Neon_1984@reddit

“Hello…. Hello my name is peco”

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LuckyHaskens@reddit

He wants me to get a hair on top of my head

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Maverick_Heathen@reddit

Me and my brother regularly still call each other, Fruity Assed Bastards. 😄

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JustSomeDudeNamedRik@reddit

We go up on the roof and sling hot shit at each other with mops.

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LuckyHaskens@reddit

I thought I was gonna get a little break on the price

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PurgatoryMountain@reddit

Only one of them was actually good though

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ObservantWon@reddit

You want the rider mower or the push mower? The ride on mower Oh youse a lazy mothafucka aintcha

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millygraceandfee@reddit

We still say, "I wake up, my pants unbuttoned. Ahhhhh!".

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Jaderholt439@reddit

He punched my teeth….ahhhhh

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millygraceandfee@reddit

LMFAO. The "ahhhhh" after everything he says is hysterical!

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quimbykimbleton@reddit

When we’re planning to do something together that we have to schedule (going to a game, comedy show, etc.), my friend and I always remind each other to remember to bring our shoes and glasses. So we have them.

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FoldedaMillionTimes@reddit

"Eh, my chest looks like a wet blanket..."

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Chupacabra2030@reddit

Piss clams

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Enxer@reddit

Did they do the phone prank about the daughter kicking his dog?

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JustSomeDudeNamedRik@reddit

Pieces??? Pounds baby!!!

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mckinney4string@reddit

R I Z Z O Open yer fuckin’ ears, jackass

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bdreamer642@reddit

I eat hot coal. I stab customer in eye with saber.

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widget_fucker@reddit

My dad born in the ‘45 thought it was funny as f. We bonded laughing our asses off together

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thegreatrazu@reddit

Hey, chisel chest.

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kellycaleche@reddit

Gimme the tracking number, break it down

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dragon_morgan@reddit

I’ve never heard of jerky boys but they sound similar to Brad Carter who is hilarious, we used to listen to him all the time before we had a kid which made playing random prank calls a bit inappropriate

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tiredhippo@reddit

Longmont Potion Castle is the real deal

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chapchapchapchapchap@reddit

Yes, this was the one that appealed to my sense of humor. Dirk Funk, squid, Rope, Gomez, Check It Nice, Bruschiotti. I keep snorting as I recall more of these.

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tributetotio@reddit

Should I bring my _*fuckin*_ tools?

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JustSomeDudeNamedRik@reddit

I start right away

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KatheKruselover@reddit

Yes we had the cassettes and they were funny !

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TruckNuts_But4YrBody@reddit

The cassette of jerky boys 2 was hot property on a family road trip, 4 of us teenagers wanting to listen to it and we had to hide what it was from our parents

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Abiv23@reddit

Yes, Millennials went to CKY/JackAss in lieu of comedy prank calls

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TruckNuts_But4YrBody@reddit

Don't forget Tom Green

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Legitimate-Produce-1@reddit

"We are sick and we are dying! Shut the fuck up!"

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heresmytwopence@reddit

“Look at your fucking food! Maybe you poison everybody!”

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tearlock@reddit

My cover band performs "Gel" from time to time which was a Collective Soul song from the movie soundtrack. I feel like people always enjoy the performance as it's instantly catchy, but i can't tell if they actually know it. When i ask the audience "What movie was this song featured in?" Not one person has been able to answer correctly.

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Disarray215@reddit

“They quit. They said they got a better job working for The Monkees.”

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ttufizzo@reddit

The fackin Monkees!

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Disarray215@reddit

Plus you get to see Helmet play Symptom of the Universe. Lol

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MrRazzio@reddit

i like the blue, big brown balloons. we used to eat lobster too.

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MrRazzio@reddit

i need a box please. thank you? please.

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CletusVanDamnit@reddit

Crank Yankers were better, honestly. Jerky Boys were tons of fun, though. The movie they made was...not good at all, unfortunately.

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JeromeVenkman@reddit

Saying Crank Yankers were better is like saying Carlos Mencia was funnier than Richard Pryor.

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CletusVanDamnit@reddit

No, because that would be wrong and stupid. What I said is factual.

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YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit

Well, that's not true, at all.

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Victory33@reddit

Tracy Morgan calls were top notch.

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Nwcray@reddit

I’ve got mail I’ve got mail I’ve got mail I’ve got mail Yaaaaaaaay!

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epidemicsaints@reddit

Agree. Jerky Boys is a little too "morning zoo" radio for me. It's Wanda Sykes on Crank Yankers for me. I worked almost a decade in call centers, she is so believable and true to life. I would have fallen for all of it. The one where she is saying the atm is spitting out money at her, demanding gratitude for calling or she will not reveal the location, and talking to a make believe grandson is so funny.

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YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit

GET BRETT WEIR, I SAID!

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blumpkin_donuts@reddit

Yep.

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Username_redact@reddit

Who the fuck you calling specific? I'll come down there and screw your head in with a ratchet, that's how specific I am

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ThingsOfThatNaychah@reddit

I was introduced to them by someone born in the late 1960s, for what that's worth.

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KellySlater1123@reddit

This is Sol Rosenberg lmaooo

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CriscoMelon@reddit

This is Sol. Sol Rosenberg. Yes, he told me he would take me down to the beach where we could walk along the beach and step on piss clams and rub sand all over my ass nipples.

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CriscoMelon@reddit

It was foundational in the formation of my sense of humor. GET BRETT WEIR ON THE PHONE!

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dangermouseman11@reddit

GET BRETT WEIR I SAID!

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Ecypslednerg@reddit

I’m 50 and I played these for my 12 year old. He was dying. To this day he will randomly say to me, “… I’ll see you with my nub.”

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RangeLife79@reddit

It was something to do before the internet took off.

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Lazy-Operation478@reddit

I still call pretty much everybody swizzlestick, lol

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redundant35@reddit

I remember them! We were just talking about this at work and I was the only one that remembered anything about them.

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Chalupa_Dad@reddit

Maybe. For me personally, as a younger Xennial, I have no real connection to the Jerky Boys. I DO have a huge connection to Adam Sandler's early comedy albums, though.

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DeadieBear@reddit

You wanna... look at my Juggs while you play with your coknbawls?

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brackthomas7@reddit

The important question is are they have sex, or working out?

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Slim_Margins1999@reddit

Fuck me in the goat ass. You button hooked me. I didn’t think you were gonna button hook me.

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Rshoe66@reddit

I still randomly say fuck me in the goat ass🤣🤣🤣.

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No-Weather701@reddit

Yeah heyy its me tha talkin goat. Great huh?? Now can you let me down from this fucking truck. You know the old man is a fucking drunk dosent let .e out of the back. The other day he was soo drunk he was beating me with a stick, so drunk he dropped the stick and saud goat put up your dukes. I was lik i got no fuckin dukes! " what i remember. Lol

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Chalupa_Dad@reddit

This is the one for me

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cgentry02@reddit

I know my way around New England, I can tell you that much.

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pugs_are_death@reddit

Welcome to Woosta!

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some_body_else@reddit

Sit on the corner of the bed and watch me whack off...at a medium pace

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IndianaFartJockey@reddit

I felt like the song "Piece of Shit Car" was about me at the time

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Prossdog@reddit

Same here. I know who they are and I probably listened to it at some point but I don’t really have any memory of them. But I can still recite all the words to At A Medium Pace. lol

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UnklVodka@reddit

Lamby nipple chops is still widely used in my area… by me.

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rooftopranch@reddit

Honorable mention to Roy D Mercer as well!! “Well how bigga boy are you?”

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jessek@reddit

Dunno, thought they were whack compared to other prank call tapes

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VictorZiblis@reddit

All my friends would either listen to Adam Sandler stuff or the Jerky Boys. The Jerky Boys fans all grew up to be MAGA shitheads.

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CMooreP@reddit

Pablo?

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ALL2HUMAN_69@reddit

“I am the Egyptian magician”

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sealovespdxME@reddit

Radiohead named an entire album after one of their bits

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HamsterMachete@reddit

I think we were the last era of crank callers. Caller ID and *69 ruined the fun.

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Smoky1279@reddit

Prank calls are still pretty popular. Check out Phone Losers of America on YouTube and The Snow Plow Show podcast. The host has been prank calling since the mid 1980s.

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kramer1980_adm@reddit

Ownage Pranks on youtube was pretty good too.

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Prestigious_Egg_6207@reddit

Man, my baby boomer mom LOVED Jerky Boys.

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thousandfoldthought@reddit

You guys sell lobstahs? Can I lick them?

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Your_Daddy_@reddit

“FRANK FUCKIN RIZZO!!”

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Tek_Ninja_Kevin@reddit

There is a terd on the seat on my minivan. I swear thats wanda Sikes

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SideStreetHypnosis@reddit

Caller ID killed prank calling.

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Jets237@reddit

In arrested development George Michael Bluth (Michael Cera) was a fan of them and he was supposed to be born around 1990 - so maybe some millennial spill over

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keep_it_kayfabe@reddit

Had a new co-worker start a few weeks ago. He seems like he's my age and for some reason mentioned the Jerky Boys. We bonded immediately. Hahaha!

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ilovecheaptrick@reddit

Yup cuz only us xennials be talking about em

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wheniwaswheniwas@reddit

I remember them being a thing but I think they were aimed at people a bit older than me.

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Mesterjojo@reddit

The snake...the snake bit my eye!!!

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fuggettabuddy@reddit

Nooooobody came close to what Johnny Brennan did. The man’s bona fide genius and those tapes are timeless. Get Brett Weir I said!!

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JeromeVenkman@reddit

Why do you think they were scripted?

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Jack0Trade@reddit (OP)

I don't. Especially as big as they were, I feel like they would have got milli vanillied the first time they were out in public. Just realizing, if someone didn't have the context of what time frame they came out, would they believe it in today's climate of AI everything.

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JeromeVenkman@reddit

AI still a long time away from creating something as believable-sounding as those calls were. But to your point, yes, people would believe it because the majority of people already believe the incredibly fake and scripted shit that TikTok and Facebook is flooded with every day.

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Jack0Trade@reddit (OP)

Also am high and overthinking. Sorry.

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Crackiller1733@reddit

Yes!!! We were the tip for everything, prank calls, the internet, bad words in songs…..

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Martyisruling@reddit

The first one, most definitely was not scripted. They just flamed out, and when they split up, they fell off the radar completely. Jerky Boys aren't the only ones to do this. Touch Tone Terrorists did it even better. And I think that guy even worked on Crank Yankers. I know they used his best bit on that show a lot. Where he had a bunch of phone numbers that were one digit off from the Power company and shipping company and people would mistakenly call him.

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Muffin-sangria-@reddit

Sal Rosenberg.. was just talking about the second album a few weeks ago. I think it’s totally a xenial thing. Listening as 40yo me, I’m nostalgic and cringing 😬

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Theodore_lovespell@reddit

He whips me with the rods

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BrewItYourself@reddit

People in this sub think everything that has occurred in our lifetime is specific to xennials. Just look at the dang banner. Goodies is a classic movie, sure, but it’s not one specific to us like, say, Home Alone.

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