Space Jam Pitch Meeting: The Air Jordan Commercial Turned Movie
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- Step into the Pitch Meeting that started the hit '90s movie Space Jam! Subscribe for more Pitch Meetings: goo.gl/ho3Hg6
Space Jam, starring NBA legend Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes is a very strange beast and a puzzling piece of 90s nostalgia. Based on an Air Jordan Super Bowl commercial, the movie finds a VERY weird reason to connect Mike to the likes of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and more for a game of basketball versus some giant alien bugs. The movie definitely raises a lot of questions. Like what’s up with Lola Bunny? Why doesn’t Bugs Bunny ever use the “rule book” trick again. Why was Michael Jordan the only player to be recruited? To answer all these questions and more, step inside the pitch meeting that led to SPACE JAM! It’s super easy, barely an inconvenience!
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That sweet moment when you know "super easy, barely an inconvenience" is about to be said
It always makes me smile, and I've pretty much watched all these now.
That's tight
Oh really?
It must be kind of hard to know when hes about to say it.
@@psykopandaz actually its super easy, barely an inconvenience
"YEAHYEAHYEAH" and "I don't know" are supremely underrated catch phrases.
Whoops
Whoopsie!
Underrated catch phrases are TIGHT.
Well, okay then
I honestly wonder if Ryan sits down to write these scripts with a list of these catchphrases by his side, crossing them off one by one.
"How sexy are we talking?"
"Sexy enough that people are gonna be weird about it after the internet goes mainstream!"
"People getting weird on the internet is TIGHT!"
@@AestheticGamer wow wow wow
@@AestheticGamer saying “yeah yeah yeah” and “wow wow wow” is TIGHT!
This aged incredibly well
clicking the like button and make 999 to to 1K is tight!
The most realistic thing about this whole movie is that Michael Jordan couldn't help but indulge his gambling addiction by making a side bet with the alien boss halfway through the game.
Damn
Lol. Good one!
I think it was them attempting to have Michael take the place of the Looney Tunes as the potential slave, but it wasn't conveyed too well.
@Future Productions He must have really been doing it tough from all that gambling, haha.
omg, i SWEAR thats exactly what popped into my head.
“Track and field might have been more appropriate. Don’t they have the Road Runner?”
🤣
And Speedy Gonzalez, though i don't recall him being seen in the movie whatsoever lol
@@LaLogic2 because at the time WB thought mexicans were offended by him, so he just vanished
@ interesting
Get off my back!
@@priscillajimenez27 whoa-kay lemme get off of that thing
"You're a pretty weird guy, huh?"
"YEAH!"
His delivery and expression on that line absolutely killed me.
4:00
@@Rambleon444 thanks, I needed this
A bit redundant on that last paragraph, but yeah.
I died as well
Im really bothered by the fact that you felt the need to say delivery twice
That Marvin the Martian logic does actually make sense lol
It's too bad he *wasn't calling anything*. Come on Ref!! 😂
"You can't hit a girl"
"What about Granny, she's a girl"
"Yea, but Granny's not hot"
I lost it!!!!
Lol!!!
I had to pause for a moment I was laughing so hard 😂
Lost what?
That's the only bit in this whole pitch that I disagree with
Ya see now where all them simps came from
"Because he's an alien and a cartoon"
Wow, i've never before thought about why Marvin was made a referee but...it makes tons of sense now
cracked did it first. even ryan george's channel is based on cracked's "stuff that must have happened"
@@pakyomadapakameh I can see the comparison but cracked hasn't been funny in like a long time since all the good writers went to 1900hotdog and really cracked writers were just that, writers. Most of the on camera stuff fell pretty flat to me. Not all funny ppl are...funny ppl, like with timing and camera presence and the like. Just an opinion tho. I wouldn't say Ryan based his humor on cracked. I'm sure he came across it but Ryan is...much funnier than a lot of cracked content.
I lived near Jordan when I was a kid in Chicago. He had a huge mansion with a big 23 logo on the front gate. Ya know, small and humble.
r/thathappened
r/thathappened
r/that happened
I'm going to play devil's advocate rn, perhaps Mondo did live near Jordan but near as in on the other side of Chicago. Because near can be relative right. Maybe Mondo was an obsessed loser who passed by every day. You never know.
@@portable_rat Not saying next door, same town a few blocks away. When Jordan lives in your area, everyone knows about it. Idc really if people think it's a lie. I'm sure you can find a pic of his old houses. Highland Park, IL. The point is.. Not small and humble lol
when you realize MJ's house in Space Jam was ridiculously below his pay grade but you grew up poor so you thought it was extravagant and totally appropriate : (
Ikr
Well, this got real quick haha
Oh I get that about... practically every single movie and show I watched as a kid :3
Seriously. It may have been a crap house for a superstar, but to 97% of Americans it was an amazing house.
*me seeing a glance of house from this video, thinking its amazing while sitting in my apartment*
"I guess people will buy anything if a famous person's name is on it."
"That's the whole idea behind this MOVIE, yeah!"
BEST JOKE EVER
Not a joke though, just facts...
That was also the reasoning behind Suicide Squad.
Goop
@@eddydrouet1888 Trump
666 likes *yay*
"I'm pretty confident there's no permanent damage."
"Wow"
"....wow!"🤣🤣🤣
I rewound it just to watch that part again. LMFAO!
The single best Wow of all of Ryan’s Wows
I had to rewind it a few times myself. Then I chocked on the popcorn I was eating from laughter.
Lola Bunny single handedly awakened an entire generation of furries
And it was Sally Acorn before her. Both voiced by Kath Soucie.
Don't forget Disney's Gargoyles lol
Let's not forget the OG furry: none other than Ms. Jessica Rabbit!
Everyone here is forgetting Gadget from Rescue Rangers.
Idk about furries but yes I did jerk off to her
Scientist seeing the earth core: "Wait, it's all cartoon"
Other scientist: *Always has been*
☠️
🤔🤯
well technically only the portal was below ground
Someone get @KyleHill on this.
lmao
Robocop the original.
"So you have cocaine for me?"
"A what?"
"An 80's movie for me?" Lol
Sgt Snoke Em I’d buy that for a dollar.
"Weird of you to specify the decade but yes sir I do"
What 80s movies writers weren’t on drugs and pc culture were they?! “There be WHALES Captain!” 🐋. Ok, what the hell was with that movie?
@@ConnanTheCivilized I'll tell ya what was with that movie... blow lol
-“What about granny, you said she got crushed”
-“Well, she’s not hot, so who cares”
6:26 😂😂😂
🤟
I felt so bad when lil Tweety got hurt!
I was literally just thinking “it’s been a few days since I’d seen a pitch meeting” lol
LOL that animated face
I liked that movie as a kid
I never thought about the fact that Marvin the Martian being a loony tune and an alien would mean that he was kind of a neutral party 😂
"And now Michael's assistant is there, but he's too fat and slow."
"It's too bad they didn't recruit other basketball players."
"Shut up about that."
"Oh okay."
HAHAHAHAHA
I loved this movie when I was younger. So much so that I never thought about any of the things they brought up in this pitch meeting. I love these things!
I made the number of likes 69
Yeah. It's not like Larry Bird was right there with Michael Jordan when he got sucked into the golf hole or anything.
“Are who’s going to spend the money and deal with all these celebrities?”
“Whoops!”
“Whoopsie!
Not to mention that an entire team would be harder to legally associate with Warner Bros. than just one celebrity.
Didn't you say granny got crushed?
-Ya but she's not hot so who cares? LMAO
Yeah, you wouldn't wanna ruin that flawless complexion by getting crushed, now would you!
Bruce F i paused the video to check if anyone loved that as much as I did.
I came down just for this :D XD
Bruce F 😭😭😂😂😂😂😂
Well... WAS she hot?
It's been a while since I've seen _Space Jam._ I had no idea how big cocaine was in the '90s.
It's a hell of a drug
Very big
Coke was, and is always King.
@@lukewright9031 I agree totally. Pepsi cannot match coke whatso ever
And the 80s and 70s and...Miami was created by cocaine
"You don't feel like working"?
"Hellll No"!
- literally me, everyday!
It's "work" because they have to PAY you to do it.
“Well she’s not hot so who cares?”
God that’s so depressingly true to reality
WTH is your profile pic?
That pfp needs to just stop doing that thing that it’s doing, I think it’s called existing
Like, I want to agree with you, but your profile picture just makes me so uncomfortable and uneasy.
@@lucasbell4831 this looks like jaiden animations rule 34. Please tell me it isn't.
@@Muppet567 it is
I didnt even think about mj living in a normal house ...wow..lol mind blown
why is there no replies
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It's probably classed as a mansion these days.
His house is a mantion in other countries
Kool to see you on here! Diggin the latest album. Beast mode is my jam :)
Is “You’re a pretty weird guy huh” “YEAH” going to become another catchphrase?
If so
YEAAAAH
I DoooOOoooooN't Knooooooww
@@Nahasapasa Well okay then!
Oh new catchphrases are TIGHT
How about " because the movie has to happen "
I don't know, it sounds like it'll be difficult to make another catchphrase.
"You're a pretty weird guy, arent you? "
"Yeeeaaah 🙃"
"Alright, well we'll put it in the movie, as long as you promise not to come near my kids and family..."
"Its a deal!"
😂😂😂
“He doesn’t live in a mansion, he lives in a normal house”
“That’s probably the least realistic thing you’ve said today”
Edit: Comes back 6 months later to 1.7k, I don't even remember writing this!
Imagine living in a separate house in 2019.
Ooh, normal houses are TIGHT!
Casey Jae thanks I didn’t hear him say that
*looks at the house*
...y'know, it's still pretty much a mansion; that's really big for a "normal house"
@@EG-cm5th Yep. That's a lot bigger and nicer than my house.
“You’re a pretty weird guy huh?”
“Yeahh!”
The timing on the R. Kelly thing couldn’t have been tighter.
What timing?
R. Kelly has been sketchy for about 30 years. The timing is always tight on that.
@@jlmurph2 yeah always an easy target. I saw a shirt years ago that was a parody of a kiss shirt saying piss with a picture of r Kelly.
Tight tight tight!
@@jlmurph2 oh the double standard beastiality loving defenders for lola criticizing r.kelly is super easy, barely an inconvience!!!
The not being allowed near schools joke. This guy really loves to keep the darker humour alive in a lot of his videos. I appreciate that.
Have a like.
Someone: "It's impossible to brainwash an entire generation into having a cartoon animal fetish"
Lola Bunny Creator: "Actually it's super easy, barely an inconvenience"
Oh really?
Jessica Rabbit started the cartoon fetish. Actually, I heard it was Betty Boop who started that, but Jessica Rabbit really delivered. Then came Lola Bunny (the original). But the liberals had some problems for 2 decades, and she was downgraded to non-sexy version of herself.
Really?
@@michaelsong5555
Well thank you liberals for that... isn't it always the conservatives that complain about "oversexualisation in kids movies and degeneracy and furries" and not liberals? Maybe the makers of the new movie just didn't want to oversexualize a kid's movie character
I don’t think it was the liberals I think it’s just the writers wanting her to become a character
Especially in the looney toons meets suburbia one where she’s a complete lunatic
When Michael Jordan stretched his arm and producer guy said “Fantastic”
I understood that reference
...4
Two references
Jackson war315 what and when
The fact that it's called Space Jam can reference Michael Jackson's song "Jam" with Jordan being in the music vid
.... Holyshit I just got it
"then Lola bunny will give me a big kiss on the lips" bruh honestly same 😅
"Don't you mean she kisses Bugs?"
"Yeah that works too"
😂😂
@qixart gravity You're a pretty weird guy, huh?
@@grimlord3181 UwU
Disgusting
@@nonapplicable2009 no u
The intro scene of kid jordan is actually important.
You see, this movie is actually a movie about michael jordan, bugs bunny and the gang are just a neat little addition. Its about him regaining his love for basketball, and by starting where it all began, it comes back around at the end of the movie where jordan uses toonforce, something that only works if its funny, inherently meant for fun and entertainment, and for jordan, nothing is more fun than winning in basketball, so it allows him to materialize his airwalk and stretch him arm longer than he ever has before, a dunk that he's been perfecting since he was a kid.
And then he decides that's all not important at all, baseball is king
@@niyioguntona7747 eh, still somewhat ties in with his childhood with his dad and all influencing with those 2 sports, and his detour into baseball helps solidify the themes of him getting back into his Basketball groove.
"I'm already not allowed near schools and playgrounds."
"That's actually quite comforting." XD
Executive: "Wow, you really don't know the rules of Basketball."
Writer: "No sir, no I do not."
"Weird of you to specify the time period." 😂
Speaking of 20th century films, please do the Back to the Future movies. 🙏 🙏 🙏
I can picture that now "and his mom has the hots for him. That's tight wait what?"
@@shawnyewest3966 mother and son incest is tight!!
@@TheFlash-je3bl Well, John Mulaney kinda did it.
Yeah Yeah Yeah!
Yes! That's what I've said before!
"You're a pretty weird guy huh?"
"YEAA"
That "yea" was hands down the best part of this video.
Love that they incorporated Michael Jordan’s actual gambling addiction.
Well that explains the tiny house
💀💀
Do a pitch on *"Monty Python & the Holy Grail".*
I wish I could like this post twice!
"It's got to be difficult to get coconuts in a temperate zone."
"Actually no, it's super easy, barely an inconvenience."
Oh frick YOS
Ah,oral sex is ti..
No,please don't tell me about your opinions on oral sex.
Oh,okay.
"Oh no, will King Arthur be able to beat the black knight?"
"Yeah, it'll super easy, barely an inconvenience."
The cartoon face saying “wow” 🤣
"So them Lola is so greatful that she give me a big kiss on the lips."
"Dont you mean gives bugs a kiss on the lips."
Me: Yeah sure if your into that sort of thing!
lol
You listened!!!!! Thanks!
Nice idea bro
Do the Princess Bride next! And The Fifth Element! Let's just stay in the 90s for awhile!
90s Godzilla could be a laugh. Or the survival genre, Deep Impact/ Dante's Peak, etc.
Writer: And then Westley dies
Producer: wait what? isnt it gonna be hard for them to win after the protagonist dies?
Writer: actually it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience
@@TheShaunika Writer: You see he's only mostly dead
Producer: Yeah
Writer: So that means he's a little alive
@@Undomaranel 5th elements is tight! well not sure he is gonna find lots of things to say its a pretty cool film that doesnt take it self too seriously.
that would be TIGHT!!?
LOVED Space Jam as a kid. I questioned none of this stuff back then but now it’s hilarious looking back in hindsight 😂
Usually the plot holes that he brings up don’t hit me this hard, but when he brought up that they travelled to the baseball game in a spaceship from the center of the earth, that really blew my mind 🤯
Huh,the thing in this that makes the most sense is Marvin the Martian as referee. As both a toon and space alien his calls would be unbiased. Good write in for Pitch Meeting Guy, guess he was due for one.🤔
Plus- this movie makes better use of a shoehorned Bill Murray appearance than Ghostbusters 2016.
but still not as good a Bill Murray cameo as Zombieland.
I actually love u thank you for blessing me with this great video
Happy that you didn't say our Pitch meeting lord's name in vain. It must've been super easy (you know the rest)
The inability for screenwriter guy to distinguish between the plot and his fantasy is a nice touch haha
Exec: “I guess people will buy anything if it has a famous person‘s name on it”
Screenwriter: “that’s the whole idea behind this movie, yeah”
Space Jam A New Legacy: Oh…you have no idea
Space Jam is an incredible movie. It’s so good I don’t ever need to rewatch it in order to prove it
tropicAces good one
I've seen it twice this year already
I recently rewatched it with my kids... I still had fun, but you notice a lot more of how bad the pacing is.
An 8 minute pitch meeting.
“ Weeee Neeeeeeeed Yoooouuuurrrr Heeeeellllllpppp!!!!!” 😮
Randal Graves "It. Is. Alive! "
"And we have Allen Rickman look like one of those aliens from Mighty Morphing Alien Rangers for the whole movie." "But wouldn't that confuse small children to wonder if he's an alien or not?" "I don't know, get off my back!"
That Marvin the Martian is the ref is actually pretty clever of the writers:D
4:01 That monster is responsible for at least 50% of furrys
"You're a pretty weird guy, huh?"...The way he says 'Yeah!' is the funniest part of this and the last 10 other episodes I've watched.
4:16 "Yeeeah!" That face.
For anyone here after the new Space Jam pitch: Ryan's "yeah" at 4:16 is incredible
“You can hit a girl” “but granny got hit” “but she’s not hot so who cares” 😂😂😂
"You don't feel like working, hell no" 😂
"Because the movie has to happen"
It's a surprisingly common plot device!
@@vikiai4241 But it's not hard to use. In fact, it's super easy, barely an inconvenience.
It does
Get off his back
Fair enough!!
catch phrases are tight!
“You’re a pretty weird guy huh?” *raises eyebrows and smiles “yeahh”
"Space Jam", a movie so ambitious, it is the origin of the phrase "Its so crazy, it just might work"
Because tons of movies like “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and “Howard The Duck” hadn’t already happened? There were (still are) lots of movies with celebrities visiting cartoons and vice-versa. Most of them were terribly handled and aimed at the wrong audience
“emm_gee12” lol. You could say that about any movie. But most of them didn’t work. As a kid I thought Space Jam was really good as a whole but it had lost of bad decisions that soured it a little.
@@ConnanTheCivilized If you're gonna get all "I'm the history guy" on this... "A Trip To The Moon,"* "Gertie The Dinosaur."
* "Those were all practical effects!" I think the issue here is less "was it an exact proper mix of modern cel animation and live action" and more "it was cartoon enough".
scooby-doo 2002 pitch meeting
fckn fck yeah
Please make it happen.
> "Michael Jordan .. lives in a normal house.."
> *shows huge elaborate house*
> Me: *hollow laugh in British*
It's still not at mansion level.
His kitchen in the movie is larger than my whole home :(
Yes I thought it was a mansion when I was a kid haha
That's a middle class home... Maybe your just very poor and everything larger than a trailer looks like a mansion
^ dude you have no idea about house prices / rents over here.. What Americans think of as a "middle class home" is easily twice the size of what the averagely well-off person in the UK can afford to live in. And if you're actually properly poor you're lucky if you can get one bedsit room to live in / maybe a room in a house-share..
Lola rabbit was the Scarlett Johansson of my adolescence.
The Rabbit Johansson of your adolescence?
The Rian Johnson of your adolescence?
Oh nooooooooooooooooo
7:52
"Wow.'
"WOW!"
Now if you could juuust do a Pitch Meeting for _Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse_ that would be *tight.*
'So how does Peter Parker react to Miles coming to his aid?'
'What do you mean?'
'Well I mean he did tell him to stay away for his own safety, I imagine it'll be hard for him to change his mind'
'Actually it was super easy, barely an inconvenience'
'Well OK then'
@@Ryan_Thompson_Guitarist lol "why does Miles have shock powers and why would that cause him to break free of the webbing?"
"I don't know"
"Fair enough"
"so you got another spiderman movie for me?"
"yes i do"
"so what's peter going to do this time?"
"actually this time spiderman will be black & be named miles morales"
"oh so no peter parker?"
"actually he's going to mentor miles on how to be a better hero"
"oh so i guess we won't need to deal with another dead uncle again"
"well actually"
"oh don't tell me....ok tell me"
@@SmashLiXs "oh so no Peter parker?"
"No he's dead sir."
*whimpers* lol
Huge acid trip
There's just something so satisfying about watching pitch meetings all Sunday long.
Watching pitch meetings on Sunday is tight
That Marvin the martian part blew my mind. I never thought of that
The comment section does appreciate the "get off my back" catchphrase enough
I like it! It's usually, "I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about that."
I'm gonna need you to get off the comment section's back about that
@@Grasslander Ok. Let me get off that thing.
“I’ll get off that thing”
"Does appreciate"? Wait, what?? 😅
Naming movie titles that has nothing to do with the plot is TIGHT!
say tight is tight
Tight
Yeah yeah yeah 😁
"Do you really expect me to have an answer to that?"
"No, I guess not."
🤣🤣🤣
I live solely for the expression on Writer guy’s face after the smash cut to Producer guy as a drug induced drawing with a real mouth 😂 Just the most blissful surprise, it’s incredible
I just had the best idea.
*”THE ROOM” PITCH MEETING!!*
I'd love to see a pitch meeting for Big Trouble in Little China.
YESSSS
Omg yes lol
6:26 "Well , she's not hot"
Why would you say something so controversial , yet so brave ?
I dont know how to feel about this
Who came back? Waiting on a new pitch meeting now..
Best part about Lola Bunny now?
The current Looney Tunes show turned her into an obsessed stalker, and they definitely play up the creepiness.
But she is less sexy, which I'm sure has mixed reactions.
What, she has a show?
@@mackcummy4976 The Looney Tunes show. Kind of fun spin on them living in suburbia
@@aprill5082 I looked it up. She went from sexy to weird.
Yeah, she's like an entirely different character in that show...
6:10 - "doesnt he have children at home?"
"Yeah, I guess he doesnt care about them so much"
Is funny cause it is true hahahahaa
To be fair all the good basketball players talents were taken lol
The real life producer guy of Space Jam 2 definitely watched this pitch meeting and took the lola bunny stuff on board.
"It's a deal sir I can't already go to near schools and playgrounds."
"That's actually confronting to know good"
My favorite part
😂😂😂
You suck at English, and you used the wrong word.
So the movie won't be aging well
@@norgepalm7315 wow try pronouncing an arabic word actually try reading one
You're a pretty weird guy.
*YEAH!*
“Track and field might have been more appropriate. Don’t they have the Road Runner?”
This looks like a masterpiece compared to Space Jam 2.
Well guess I'm gonna go watch Space Jam 2 pitch meeting instead of the movie then
😄😄😄😄NOT😎
Both are masterpieces compared to DragonBall Evolution. 😂
@@rylanmalis1162 🤣😂🤣😂😂😂
"So they go get Michael Jordan?"
"So they Go Get Michael Jordan!"
😂😂😂💀💀💀🤣🤣🤣
😂😂
All the emojis in this make me wanna die
@@naturallyproblematic combined with his overtly gay profile picture
Me: What should I write in the comments?
Other me: I don’t know!
Me: Fair enough.
Me: you could just write a quote from the video
Other me: oh writing quotes from the video everyone already watched is tight!
Yeah yeah yeah
that was super easy, barely an inconvenience!
"Is it clever meta-humor, or just lazy writing?"
That explains a lot of recently bad movies. Well, okay then.
Here after they nerfed Lola bunny 😔
Yikes
I'm a simple man, I see a pitch meeting, I click on it
Seif Williams amen
Clicking is TIGHT
Unoriginality is a testament to your simplicity.
Cool me too
Do a Pitch Meeting for The Room! And do it in character as Tommy Wiseau!
"You look nothing like our picture of Tommy Wiseau! Did you just put on a wig and pretend to be him?"
"I did not put a wig on! It's not true! I did NOOOOOOOT."
Oh hai Mark.
Ru gonna do a new a pitch meeting for A New Legacy. Opening line should be “So, you have a 90 minute Warner Bros Commercial for me?” Because that’s what the movie is.
New Legacy wasn't a 90 minutes Warner Bros commercial. It was a 115 minutes Warner Bros commercial.
@@michp88 Eek that’s much worse
@@johnrutkowski4166 I know! 😅
“Because granny’s not hot.”
Says you!
Do mean girls. Please.
Omg yes
Good call
+
I already do, it's called my ex
This
Seriously, you guys are killing it recently. That second wow...
Just one guy. :)
@@fastacker2 🌬 *WHOOOOSH!!!!!!!!*
@@wildone8397 Nothing but net!
6:18
Why is this alien so cheeked up? Jiggle
Really missed the opportunity to say "oh so beating the little aliens at basketball must be pretty easy then" "Oh no, it's super difficult, a huge inconvenience!"
That’s the opposite of the thing!
@@mattbennett1557 That's a thing like the other thing
That R kelly bit... LMFAO.. good one
They could've snuck in a part where someone got peed on, but that wouldn't happen for another six years!
@@christopherregan1654 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Back to the Future pitch meeting please
Is nothing sacred?