From On Patrol #81: Moving Pictures at the Movies
January 12th, 2015
Mitchell Greenberg and I are massive Star Wars fans, and when it was announced that they were making a seventh movie I thought it’d be fun to recast the original – which I can only assume is coming down the pipeline. We’d get so worked up talking about Star Wars that we’d forget we were on air. Mitch and I always had such a natural way of talking and making each other laugh that he could come down with no preparation and I knew it’d be great. Picking an actor to play Obi-Wan led us to a discussion of Richard Dreyfuss, and this argument about how the kid in Mr. Holland’s Opus lost his hearing – I see this as the most notorious On Patrol moment, besides Will’s Keyboard. I still think the fire truck was responsible, although I’ve gone out of my way to not rewatch the movie and find out. We actually ended up making a short film based on this conversation, where Mitch and I had to reenact the argument like five times. I think that forever ruined Richard Dreyfuss and Mr. Holland’s Opus for us. The moment where we simultaneously question whether or not Richard Dreyfuss is alive was pure genius.
