Thursday, November 27, 2025
Time: 4:50 PM
Song: Today
Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins
Mode of Consumption: Listening to radio while driving to my parents.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/0GRxGPPrL61m6sl14h9a7Z?si=51768db510204484
For the last several years on Thanksgiving, Jodi and I have watched the 1990s Pauley Shore movie “Son in Law.” The basic plot is that the looney “Crawl,” who was raised in Las Vegas and is in his sixth year of college in California, travels to South Dakota with his new friend for Thanksgiving break.
It’s a light, goofy movie to finish off the holiday fun.
There are a few things we are starting to think about more as we see this movie every year.
First, this is supposed to be South Dakota in late November, but in various scenes people are dressed like it is mid-Summer. I’m not saying you can’t get warm days in November, but it’s not likely. In fact, you’re just as likely to get inches of snow.
Second, there’s a scene where Crawl is awakened at 5 AM to start his first day of farm experience and it’s clear they are showing the sun rising. Well, the sun doesn’t come up Midwest in November until about seven. Plus, it’s gets dark by 5 PM.
Third, the famous scene where Crawl takes the combine for a joyride. The combine is covered by a tarp, as if it’s been cleaned and is ready for storage for winter. But, when the tarp comes off, he finds a field nearby (with green still in it even though it’s very late in the year) and writes his name with the combine. It’s a funny scene, but if there was still a field needing harvested, the combine wouldn’t have been covered, and getting the crop in would have been the priority at this point of the year.
These are small things, and probably most people don’t think about these things on one viewing. Frankly, it’s not important to the story.
Jodi put it best.
“Well, someone from California probably wrote it.”
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