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Foosball Is the Devil: Therapy Insights of The Waterboy

• Erin Gray and Tanya Dos Santos • Season 3 • Episode 17

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In this hilarious and insightful episode of Wicked Psychotherapists, licensed therapists Tanya and Erin take on the 1998 comedy classic The Waterboy, starring Adam Sandler. 

Through a mental health lens, they explore Bobby Boucher’s social isolation, explosive anger, and complex relationship with his overprotective mama. What can this cult favorite teach us about trauma, codependency, and emotional regulation? 

A lot more than you'd think! Tune in for therapy insights, pop culture breakdowns, and a whole lot of laughs as they dive into themes like bullying, sublimation, abandonment issues, and personal growth. 

Whether you're a fan of 90s comedies or curious about the psychology behind your favorite films, this episode is for you.

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Tanya:

Hey everyone, this is Tanya.

Erin:

Hi, this is Erin and welcome to Wicked Psychotherapists.

Tanya:

Welcome back if you are returning or welcome if you're a first time listener, but, we love having you here either way. Yes. today we are continuing. If you watched and or listened to, last week's episode, you know that we did an Adam Sandler Classic and we are continuing along in our Adam Sandler. Hyper fixation as we often do with actors, actresses, or themes. And we are gonna be talking about a water boy, which is a, 1998 Classic. Yes. My, the classic now, oh my God. And you could always find it

Erin:

on, is it TBS that always has it, or something like you always find it on tv. Like, it's always like you put on the stations Water boy is always on. It's always there.

Tanya:

I'm not sure. I haven't had cable in a long time, but I'm sure it's Oh, I have it all. Yeah. yeah, it's, you know, something that, a lot of people loved. There's a lot of great humor. Showcases a lot of Adam Sandler and his little crew there. Their talents. Yes. and we're also gonna focus on, of course, some of the mental health themes because there are some of those present. So, and we also, we'd be remiss if we didn't, do you wanna give your shout out?

Erin:

Yeah, so this is my husband's favorite movie and today when we're recording, it gets, it's his birthday. So, happy birthday Todd. Happy birthday, Todd. this is, you know, your favorite movie, so hope you enjoy it.

Tanya:

Little dedication to him falls perfectly on there. Yeah. So let's get into it. So the water, boy, I have to say I watched this again over the weekend as I think you, you said you did too. Mm-hmm. I realized and remembered how juvenile the humor is, and it still, you know, still made me laugh, but I was like, oh man, it, it really is really, you know, juvenile and, ridiculous. Adam Sandler. Yeah. But, did you kind of feel differently watching it again from when, you know, maybe watching it before?

Erin:

Yeah. I mean, there's some parts that you're just like, oh, this is a little cringey. But I mean, I can't even count how many times I've seen this stupid movie, but it's so funny. it is very juvenile. I mean, it is funny'cause they're all probably like in their thirties when they're doing this movie, like all of Adam Sandler and his crew, but they're just. You know, it's just silly humor

Tanya:

acting like high schoolers basically. And even the character Bobby Boucher is like working for, and then plays for a team when he is like 31 and doesn't even have, you know, he's not even graduated from, from high school. He doesn't have his high school equivalency. So yeah. that kind of fits too. homeschooled by,

Erin:

homeschooled by mama and who knows what type of credential she had.

Tanya:

Yeah. she thinks that happy joy comes from, from happiness and rainbows or something magical happiness in rainbows. Yeah. That's her scientific inclination. Yeah. Um, yeah, so the, the movie itself, I think it's when it first opens up and you see Bobby Boucher. My first feelings towards him are just absolute like, aw, you know, like, He's just such a Pitiful character. He just seems to really, really care about water, making sure he calls himself the hydration engineer, you know, he takes it very seriously. Mm-hmm. He's got all these different types of water. he inspects it. Sterilization process is on point. And he is just mercilessly bullied by the football team. very disheartening to watch. But also you kind of can see why he was a target? Because he couldn't really defend himself. Now, I'm not saying that's right. Obviously it was not right. But, they just kind of saw him as an easy target because he didn't really know how to defend himself. He didn't really understand social cues or anything like that. Or didn't have any social skills, really.

Erin:

I was gonna say he wasn't really exposed to too much, you know, it sounded like it was just him, his, his donkey. Yeah, Steve, the donkey. Just not really much, you know, he didn't really have classmates, so that's probably why as at a young age, he went to vol, either work or volunteer at the first, college football team, you know, to be the water

Tanya:

boy. Yeah. He really just had a, well, it, it's kind of like his origin story was hearing this, this, which we learned is later a false story about his dad, who he never knew. Who went in the Peace Corps and ended up in the desert and passed away because he didn't have water. And Bobby's like, oh, I would've been able to provide him water.

Erin:

only, if only am I there I could have given him his water.

Tanya:

Yeah. it's just ridiculous, but it's Funny. so he takes this really seriously and then. the coach whatever his name is, he's like, you know, just a jerk. He sees his, players are focusing way too much On bullying and teasing. Bobby, so he fires him. Of course. That's the most logical.

Erin:

wait a minute, I've had this kid has been my water boy for over 20 years. Let me try to. You know, stick up for him, but instead he is like, you are fired and then poor Bobby.

Tanya:

Yeah. That's just like a distraction for them, even though he's like so meticulous in his skills and really gives all this, instead of being like, trying to teach his players like, Hey, don't be, you know, don't be, don't be rude jerks. let's, let's just fire this, this boy. And he's like, okay. It just takes it so calmly. Yeah. So that's, that's kind of the start of the, of the movie. And we see that Bobby Boucher has a passion for, for water, and he absolutely thinks of his mother as the end all be all, because that's the way she's placed herself mm-hmm. In, in his life. And so he's like, mama knows all, mama, mama always says what Mama says. Yeah. You know? And, that's just like his creed, his motto for life. Yeah.

Erin:

Yeah. Well, she was a single mother and she probably just really. Didn't want anything to happen to him. So she kind of really suffocated him too with everything.

Tanya:

Yeah. Well, as we learn at the end that his Bobby's biological father, Robert, or Roberto, as he becomes, ends up leaving and kind of develops this new life, he goes to, I think Las Vegas or something, and he falls in love and just basically leaves her. and so she sees that as, if. Bobby tries to leave or develop his own life, he's gonna leave me. It's like her own abandonment. Mm-hmm. Issues. and she like basically projects that on his entire life and makes him, you know, doesn't want him to be college educated, doesn't want him to, to really know anything. She's like, when he loses his job, she's like, that's great, you can spend time here with me at home. she doesn't really care that. he's just lost something that he really loves, that's his personality and, who he is. a lot of mothers son codependent issues and projecting Past trauma passing it on to her son Mama Boucher.

Erin:

he also has past trauma because of, even if it's not a real story, he doesn't know at the time. his dad dying of thirst in the desert. so that's always part of him. why he does what he does too.

Tanya:

Yeah. It's like his trauma narrative. even when he goes to see, the coach, Coach Klein, and he sees the bucket that's all dirty and grungy, he's like, I will do it for free. just do not serve that ever to any human history promise. Like it's beyond his, like, like he can't, he can't handle that. That's not something he could ever conceive of. Clean, fresh water is such a part of his belief system for everybody because of that story of his dad And he's like, I'll work for free. You don't have to pay me. Which is just, insane. Mm-hmm. And then he, he goes and he works for the mud dogs. And the mud dogs. What do they do? They see, this guy that's. A little bit eccentric, a little bit, you know, has different ways, and they're like, let's pick on him. Let's show him. Let's welcome him and knock over all his, yeah. His water stand that he just carefully set up and was trying to titrate the water and sterilize it.

Erin:

Yeah. Spit in it and, which is so gross. So you're spitting in the water you're gonna drink.

Tanya:

Yeah, I was thinking that too. I'm like, what? Like really? These are os they really don't understand. Yeah. That like, okay. Yeah. You should have served it to them then.

Erin:

Yeah. And then that made him start thinking of what happened to him when he was just a little boy. Same thing. Mm-hmm. I think that's what sparked the anger in Bobby.

Tanya:

same guy?

Erin:

No. No, I don't think it maybe, I don't know.

Tanya:

a father or something because he looked like he had the same crossed eyes in the memory. Or maybe I'm remembering that wrong. I dunno. Maybe I, he's just, he was remembering it.

Erin:

Yeah, I don't think so. Or maybe they had the same actor just play somebody different.

Tanya:

Yeah. They were like, whatever you'll do.

Erin:

Yeah.

Tanya:

You got that crazy voice.

Erin:

Yeah.

Tanya:

But yeah, and I think that also becomes, that's where Bobby first recognizes, well, actually, coach Klein recognizes that Bobby gets so upset that he ends up sacking this dude who spit in the, the cooler and he's oh my God, this guy's got skill. And so he can, take some of this anger, this frustration of being bullied and put down his whole life. And put it towards being a good football player, a good defenseman, And being able to tackle people. and that really appeals to Coach Klein because the mud dogs suck. They're like always in the last place. And drunk. The cheerleaders are, are just drinking, drinking out of like a, a bourbon whiskey bottle. And they're passed out laughing.

Erin:

Yeah. We'll just get drunk in the stands.

Tanya:

Which is just kind of hilarious. It's like even the cheer squad has given up. They're, they're depressed and they're drinking. Bobby realizes, oh, okay. I can, I can kind of use, which is kind of like a therapy skill, right. You know, sublimating using some coping skills to say, Hey, rather than. Being stuck with some of this anger and acting out and maybe just, you know, tackling my professor, like he does that was probably not a good use of the coping skills. I'm gonna use it in a game where that's really advantageous to my, yeah. To the team and to my skills. Yeah. which is something I think we talk about with our clients. Right. You know, being able To say, Hey, if you have this difficulty, and this is kind of difficult, maybe you can transfer some of that over there.

Erin:

and it's not always healthy to keep it in. Like where Bobby probably always was like, all right, yes, okay. You know, just not really encouraged to express anger or show anything to bullies, so. Letting it out. Yeah. It's probably not the healthiest, but it is way healthier than just keeping it in.

Tanya:

Because then, he just kind of takes it on himself. It affects his own self-esteem. And then he explodes at the wrong moment. Like when the professor tells him your mama is wrong and he can't visual what, what,

Erin:

what he tackles. He tackles Colonel Sanders. Yeah. It's like, oh yeah, everybody's bullying me.

Tanya:

Yeah. He recognizes that, that set up of like, oh no, now I'm back in the same.

Erin:

Mm-hmm.

Tanya:

what do you think of the Vicki Valour or Valor? what do you think of her character kind of coming in and. I know when he first brings her up, I guess he's known her from as when he was a kid, and the mom's like, stay away from little girls. They're the devil. And yeah, Vicky's the devil. Everyone's the devil.

Erin:

devil, yeah. Oh, I mean, like Vicki obviously, probably has some stuff going on in her life.'cause it sounds like just got outta jail when she sees him again and, stealing the, sports car, whatever she does. But she. Seems like her best interest is always for Bobby, so she sees Bobby as the sweet boy, sweet man, and it's probably someone who's totally different than people she's been exposed to. And so there's some reason she's drawn to Bobby and I feel like her intentions are. True. Like to protect Bobby?

Tanya:

Yeah, I think so too. I think she maybe has kind of overly aggressive tactics, but she means, well for him, like she really is very, very protective. Like with the scene where he's taking the high school equivalency test and she has the sign saying, do you want me to kill them? Like, he's like,

Erin:

no, no, no, I'm fine.

Tanya:

test. That wouldn't be good. No. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And so I think that she does seem to be fiercely loyal to him, like she does see something in him. But, when she comes over for that barbecue Mama Boucher, Helen, whatever, Kathy Bates, whatever, she, she's always Kathy Bates to me, but she just does not approve of this girl. Right.'cause it's, she sees it as a person who's gonna take her boy away. Right. Right. then she starts embarrassing him, which I thought was so manipulative and emotionally abusive to be like, oh, did you see his sheets? Like, do you know what he does? Like, do you know he wears these types of like embarrassing pajamas, like cartoon pajamas? No, just, that's a sheet. And showing his like key rooted, you know, sheet, which is just disgusting. And then Vicky, the whole

Erin:

she's just like, you know, she's probably disgusted the whole time, but she's like, oh, that's fine. I love superheroes. I love this. And, you know, she's just, she's like, okay. The people though, she was like, all right. I am not gonna say I love that he pees the bed.

Tanya:

Yeah, that's a little, a little too far. But she was like, I, I'm still with him. I'm still here. Yeah. but yeah, that's, and then the, the scene where they're, they're eating and she's barbecuing. The, the little, alligators, alligators. And they're, they're just like mini. I was just like, oh, that is so disgusting. I was kind of curious. I wonder what that was made of, because then, then the, the actress, or Vicki takes a, a bite of Yeah. The head off of one. Yeah, I'm sure it was probably just, I wonder if it was like, like gummy bear-ish type stuff maybe,

Erin:

or maybe some candy or something or something. I was kind of curious about

Tanya:

Yeah, because I think I wanted gummy bears at that time and I was like, I wonder if that's a gum bear, gum bear flavor. I was in the mood gummy bears. yeah, I think she's fiercely loyal and she does see something very different than, you know, she's kind of rough around the edges, so she's probably, met a lot of characters who they didn't mean well and she sees that he does, he does mean well. He is like a good person. He maybe doesn't understand things and can't really stick up for himself. Mm-hmm. He really is truly a good natured person. Yeah. So I think that's, you know, kind of. Match there. And he just, he likes her because she's, she's nice to him and she's, you know, just kind of, kind of different, kind of has some wild ideas. she, I also like that she's, she can fix things up. She's very mechanically inclined. Yeah.

Erin:

and she's, it's interesting too'cause she's a really strong woman and independent and, you know, so. It's interesting that he's drawn to that where his mom is too. His mama is very independent. She had to be independent since Roberto left them.

Tanya:

like there's similar characteristics, but they're different because I think he senses, and this is going way too deep for the water boy, but this is what we do. you know, that I think is someone who wants. him to be able to do what he wants to do, whereas his mother, mama Boucher is very smothering. And wants, control over him.

Erin:

Vicki sees like he's having fun on the mud dogs. He likes playing football. He's able to be honest with her and tell her that he's doing it where he tells his mama that he's gotten attacked by a gorilla or whatever,

Tanya:

Oh my gosh. She puts up the wanted sign of, of wanted, and just a drawing of a gorilla and then like, like dollar sign, like what is she gonna do when she gets'em? Yeah. Like, like, you know, yell at him or kick him or what? I don't know. What are you gonna do? And I don't think anybody would be like, oh, if I saw Gorilla, yeah. I'm gonna go and I'm gonna go

Erin:

get it for you.

Tanya:

But I don't know. Who knows? once again, this is the Water Boy world, and we're just going way too deep with it. it is hilarious. we do see Adam Sandler's crew in there, right? You got the Rob Schneider and, the same guy that was in the same,

Erin:

lemme pull it up quick. Yeah, the same, Pete, Peter, Dante, he was in Mr. Deeds. And Rob Snyder as a usual. Henry Winkler I think is in a couple of, I feel like we see Henry Winkler in some other movies that they do together.

Tanya:

I think so too. That sounds right. Who's like the fawns? I mean, like, that's just nuts.

Erin:

and Henry Winkler is really great in this movie too.

Tanya:

Mm-hmm.

Erin:

Yeah.

Tanya:

And he

Erin:

has a lot of psychological stuff going on too with his bully Coach Red.

Tanya:

He kind of has a history with him that we find out where basically Red stole his plays that, you know, coach Klein had made up back in their early days when they were both up for the head coach job. Red just aggressively took it from him and was like, you know, are we gonna have to use force? And took it. Got the job.

Erin:

What I really like about that scene is they didn't even try to make them look younger. Mm-hmm. I thought that too. Oh my gosh.

Tanya:

That's so true. And the wigs were so horrible, like. He's got this like poofed out hair that just looks so, so much like a wig, you know? And it's not even like the same color. Like it's just ridiculous. So funny. And yeah, they've got like wrinkles and stuff and they're like, yeah, we're like young, young coaches. They're in, we're in college. Which I think is like, that's part of, I love that in Adam Sandler's movies, they don't try because they just want you to laugh at that. Just so ridiculous in and of itself, which just makes it even funnier. Yeah. So that really is, yeah, he does have an issue. He kind of never really stood up. Against, red, you know, so he, whenever he sees him, when he is playing against him, when he senses like, oh, he is using those bullying tactics, he kind of withdraws. And has that same kind of feeling of like, I can't win this and get put back into that place.

Erin:

Just like when the whole football team comes on their bus, when the mud dogs are celebrating their win and he coach Red calls out Bobby Boucher for not having a, diploma or whatever, and saying that he lied Coach Klein doesn't stick up for him. And then when Bobby finds out the truth, it's, you know, he is, he's really upset, you know, like, why couldn't you stick up for me? But it's going back to Coach Klein was back to that young adult feeling the, you know, like, here's my bully and I can't stick up for him. I'm, you know, so instead of traumatized standing up for someone who I want to, I can't.

Tanya:

Yeah, trauma. Trauma affects you in, in a lot of ways. And he, instead he said, I, I ran in here and I cried under my desk like a 10-year-old little girl, you know? And yeah, I cried and cried and cried. Yeah. He says, yeah, it's, um, yeah. And then, and then what's kind of ironic is it shows Bobby's personality and his character. he helps out, coach Klein and helps him to kind of deal with his bully by, you know, visualizing. him as a little baby and being like, oh, he can't really do any harm, or as like a cute little puppy

Erin:

You

Tanya:

know, then it, helps him to kind of push through that. So, again, Bobby's kind of doing some therapy with other people. Yeah. You know, he's kind of pushing some visualization exercises.

Erin:

Well, he sees when he sees too that Coach Klein helped him with those visualization. Yeah. Then Bobby's like, wait a minute, this worked for me. Let's make Coach Klein see a little baby or little what, you know, whatever little puppy or something so he can start doing his plays and he's not as intimidating.

Tanya:

I cracked up at the image of the baby, and especially the dog. When the dog came on, I laughed so hard because it was just so outta place and it was like these ears and it was just. This little cocker spaniel, and he was like, oh. And I was thinking like, oh, it does look cute. And then I was like, oh my gosh, this so funny. It was just so bizarre. And he was just looking, he kept looking at him smiling and red's like, why are you smiling at me? So there's, a lot of themes in here with bullying, mother, son relationships, how trauma can affect you. How being in a codependent relationship with your mother and your mother Keeping you in that can affect you. but also with Bobby Boucher kind, overcoming that and being able to show that he does have this capacity to be this person. He was kind of being held back and he wasn't really given the opportunity and the chances for this. and even learning in school, he gets really upset at Colonel Sanders and tackles him when he says Mama was wrong. But then it seems like he's really kind of taking on those courses and is learning something. Yeah. From it, you know, because later he is like, alligators are angry because of an elongated Abdullah oblong, you know? or Yeah. Medulla Oblongata. Oh my gosh.

Erin:

I, you know what I mean? That part, no one's gonna call you out on it instead of just being honoree or whatever,

Tanya:

Mama says it's'cause they got all those teeth and they can't brush their teeth And kind of funny. But, yeah. it really is like, he's kind of like noticing, oh wow, I've been kept in this, in this world, but I still love my mama. You know, at the end he's still, you know, still respects his mom and still understands that she went through a hard situation. That's why she was trying to keep Her son close to her.

Erin:

speaking of being close too, like then, you know, when she finds out the truth that he was playing football, that's when she fakes us. You know, like this illness or whatever's Oh, yeah. In like a fake coma. It's just, you know, very, again, trying to control Bobby so that he has to quit football, but also stay with her.

Tanya:

Yeah. I'm like, oh, you're gonna make, you're gonna destroy me if you do these things. And then when she hears all the people outside his window being like, oh, water boy, water boy. She's like, oh, maybe I have been beating him too Selfishly. People love him. It's really funny though, in the hospital room where like Steve, the donkey is allowed and then like her whole bed set up is allowed. Yeah. And like just her canopy bed and all her crap is in there. And it's like basically I, at first I was like, oh, they, they got back home. Like, that's weird. And then I was like, oh, they're still at the hospital. She just made it her own. Yeah. I was accepted, but that's the world of Adam Sandler is, you know, just this ridiculousness and this silliness. Yeah. Which is just always fun to visit. We are looking at, you know, of course some of the therapy, skills and themes in this, but obviously this is just overall a really funny movie that, still, it still holds up.

Erin:

Again, if you have cable, you'll see it on like weekly. It's on something. I don't know, it's just Adam Sandler, like I said in Mr. Deed's episode. It took me a while to get on that Adam Sandler thing'cause I was like, oh my God, he is so immature, but he's so funny. And now that I understand Adam Sandler, I just, there pretty much almost all his movies I love.

Tanya:

He's always, you know, there was just a phase where he was completely. Absolutely ridiculous. He may be matured a little bit, but, you know, in different, not really. He's still, he still shows his immaturity in a lot of different ways, but it's just hilarious and his perspective. yeah, and I do think that he is really skillful and being able to take on these weird, goofy characters. Mm-hmm. and just humiliate himself and make really silly, funny movies. Yeah. don't know if he's working on anything right now. Is he still, well, there is,

Erin:

we did talk about this, like there is gonna be a Happy Gilmore two. Right. Yeah. So Tanya and I are going to be doing Happy Gilmore one and two in the near future. And also if you guys have any other Adam Sandler movies that you can think of that you know,'cause we do get the fan mail and we do read it. And if there's anyone that's like, Hey, what about this? You know, we'll do it.

Tanya:

For sure, for sure. We would love that because he's hilarious and we can always find some mental health themes in there. Of course, you may not wanna look at it from that perspective. That's just kind of what we do. But we just really enjoy these movies. They're funny. And it's a good break from all this stuff going on. Yes,

Erin:

Yeah. Kind of watch the

Tanya:

water Boy. Yeah, some, some fun stuff. It was nice to just. Last night, Sunday night, you know, I was just kind of like, Hey, this is, this is a nice decompressor after watching various other shows that I was telling you about, but I don't watch. Yeah. Tanya watch watches a

Erin:

lot of dark stuff, which I, I have too. I've been, we've been watching some dark show, like Dark Siri, but I like comedy.

Tanya:

Yeah. It's good to you. Definitely. Especially with, with the nightmares I get from the true crime stuff. Yes.

Erin:

Maybe you shouldn't, yeah. Maybe you should make sure you don't watch that late at night or

Tanya:

I tell myself that and then I end up just doing it. And I'm like, I won't, and then I do it.

Erin:

just two more.

Tanya:

yeah, yeah. I get, I get kind of hooked on it, but that's just me and my own issues. Mm-hmm. Anything else that we wanna add to the Water Boy, which is

Erin:

I think we covered most of the topics that we had said we wanted to, it's obviously spoilers but again, this was released in 1998, And it's a good movie. it's not politically correct, of course, but it's funny and it's. A good movie. It's Adam Sandler.

Tanya:

Yeah, there's definitely gonna be the 1998. And I'm not, you know, of course we don't, we don't excuse this, but there, there is, there are some, you know, terms that are used, some things that are probably some people, you know, maybe that grew up in a different generation that are, that are younger. Probably would, would be like, wow, that's really, that's really hurtful. Know awful. The way, you know, he was bullied, the names he was called and the things that were allowed.

Erin:

Hopefully people don't call people anything like that now, and it, no, it's not Right. it was a different time.

Tanya:

it was something where I think that was kind of thrown around a lot. should we get onto our, I'm not gonna say this is a fun question. Oh, but it's an interesting one. Okay. Well, it's kind of a gross one. Oh, so it's cuisine based. Okay. Oh, gross. Okay. So if you had to choose between eating the snake and the movie or the alligators, which would you choose?

Erin:

Well. The snake. At least she sliced it. You know, she gave Coach Klein the knee kneecap or whatever she said, and the alligators. I don't know how else you eat the alligators, except how Vicki did just go right in it and just eat the head. I don't know. They're just, they're both so unappetizing looking. I guess if I was forced, I would choose the snake. What about you?

Tanya:

Go the other direction. I would choose the alligators because I know that there is alligator meat that, you know, people have told me. I think one of my sisters said she tried it and it tastes like chicken. she had it when she was visiting Florida a while back. and I just picture that that may be more palatable. But I don't think I would eat it the way Vicki did. But I think I would probably go for that because the thought of eating a snake is like the innards, just

Erin:

like the texture just makes it sick. Yeah, both of it. Both of it just seems so gross. I would just ask, Helen mama if I could not eat, but

Tanya:

she would be very insulted though.'cause that's her specialty cuisine, it seems.

Erin:

you fresh catch whatever I catch.

Tanya:

Yeah. That's her, that's her thing. That's her specialty. Oh my God. I'm still like picturing that snake on the table just makes me absolutely. Well then they're gonna have

Erin:

squirrel for dessert, so that's also yummy.

Tanya:

Yeah, that was cotton, like that, that light thing. And she was like, yeah, squirrel. Squirrel. yeah. So, I mean, to each their own, maybe some people do. Eat that, you know, whatever. I just personally, it doesn't appeal to me.

Erin:

I mean, no,

Tanya:

I'm sure most people, I also think if people were to eat that, it would be served very differently.

Erin:

Yeah. I don't think you would have the full snake wrapped up with an apple and some mouth or however it was.

Tanya:

Yeah. And the alligator probably would be like in pieces, not like in a hole, like not the baby.

Erin:

Yeah. And you wouldn't see the babies. You'd be like, oh, babies.

Tanya:

we wonder what, you know, if, if you have an answer to that and some explanation, but That's our thoughts on not only cuisine that is. It's not appealing to us, but also, a movie, let us know.

Erin:

And I have seen people eat snake on like naked and afraid and stuff like that when they have to, you know, but, and I think Survivor, but I don't know.

Tanya:

I think I was, I was judging it based on the way it was served. Oh yeah. In the movie. Oh yeah. Definitely. Disgusting. Like that's what I would do. Yeah. so gross. But if it were served up differently, maybe, maybe my opinion would, would change, you know? But just in the movie, I'd probably go for that alligator.

Erin:

I'd have to do the snake. Yeah.

Tanya:

yeah, if you have any thoughts or anything that we missed out on or anything you just wanna add, if you love the water board, if you hate it, if you don't really care, if you just wanna watch it and see if you're of the younger generation. Yeah. First time. Or maybe third time, but watching it at different times, let us know.'cause my opinion was definitely very different. you know, I used to just kind of capitalize this when I was younger, but now it's kinda like, this is stupid, but it was like a stupid laugh, you know, like mm-hmm. It's, it's, but it's still funny. It's still very enjoyable. so yeah. So make sure to, follow us on. Socials, we are on everything. Yeah. Instagram, Facebook, and even YouTube. Just look up wicked psychotherapists.

Erin:

And don't forget, stay wicked and keep your mind well. All right, everybody. Have a great week. Bye-bye.

Tanya:

Bye.

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