07.17.09 ED HELMS IS GOING TO CEDAR RAPIDS
Well this sounds like it might be cool. Ed Helms is attached to star in Cedar Rapids, a spec script (read: an entire script, not a pitch based on some exec’s derivative, half-baked idea) written by Phil Johnston. To be produced by Sideways writers Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor.
The story centers on a wholesome and naive small-town Wisconsin man (Helms), who, when his role model dies, must represent his company at a regional insurance conference in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big-town experience.
Phil Johnston wrote the script on spec. He was a broadcast journalist in the Midwest who moved to New York to attend film school at Columbia. [THR]
Other facts about Cedar Rapids I learned from Wikipedia: Ashton Kutcher, Elijah Wood, and Ron Livingston all once called Cedar Rapids home. Cedar Rapids’ nickname is “the City of Five Seasons,” for the traditional four seasons, and a fifth season which is a time to enjoy the other four. Cedar Rapids was the setting for a musical, “The Pajama Game.” Also, I think I heard this somewhere, Cedar Rapids’ most popular postcard is a dog wearing a baseball cap. Here is a picture of some people enjoying Cedar Rapids:
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ED HELMS IS GOING TO CEDAR RAPIDS
Ooh the glamor. Cedar Rapids makes Wichita look like Paris, Texas.
Well, it’s no Las Vegas, but also.. it’s really no Las Vegas.
LINCE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME???
So it’s like ‘Fargo’ meets ever Amanda Bynes movie ever?
Dude, we totally could have collaborated on a meaningful post about Cedar Rapids. The Mighty Feklahr feels this reveals your TRUE “merit” as a journalist and total lack of professional integrity.
Now, can He still submit anal sex photoshops?
Iowa: Fields of Opportunities
Fact: The Cedar River goes through Cedar Rapids.
Fun Fact: When you drive over the bridge, you can point to the water and say, “Cedar River?” (lol, get it? Like, “See the river?”)
can He still submit anal sex photoshops?
You weren’t all along? I have been for years.
Fact: Cedar Rapids found out the hard way that the town doesn’t float.
So, Robo, I have been trying to think of something funny or interesting to say about Cedar Rapids for like ten minutes now. I gotta say, the closest thing I got is a jibe at Mr. Shucks of the Cedar Rapids Kernels.
Fuck. Cedar Rapids, the only place in Iowa more boring than Hills.
Crap-yeah, but it was only really the Bohemians that got flooded out, so who the fuck cares?
Cedar?
I hardly know her.
Then again, Cedar Rapids was the only place in my life where I had a gun drawn on me by a non-family member!
Cedar Rapids?
Only steers & queers come from Cedar Rapids and there ain’t many cows there either; so most of the steers are gay too.
Fact: Cedar Rapids stinks like high holy hell because of the Quaker Oats plant.
Fun Fact: The rest of Iowa stinks like high holy hell because we cover the ground for acres upon acres with shit! Gotta love them balmy summer days when it gets to 105 degrees with a dew point approaching 85! Fucking smells like a porto-potty in a microwave!!!
[with a flourish Crappy lifts the veil off of and old school dynamite plunger detonator. Twirls ends of handlebar mustache and depresses plunger. Płÿåü explodes. Dust clears and his clothes are torn, he's covered in soot, and has funny spikey hair. Crappy snickers maniacally and disappears stage left.]
You forgot the best part of that gag P dawg.
Cut me some slack, Rcap.
I’m Filmdrunking from my hospital bed.
Cedar Rapids: Where hangovers are mandatory.
Cedar Rapids: Birth place of the Roofie
*chugs piss from bed-pan*
WTF? Is “I’m Filmdrunking from my hospital bed” code for something badass like bricking on Bryce’s dead nazi grandmother’s face or something, or should I CKT a little more often (read: ever) and find out whats up with y’all?
Crap-Pauly just has another anal prolapse is all.
Fuck Cedar Rapids…next!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Did you bring enough piss for everybody?
Pauly, steal me some more ky jelly while you’re there. Apparently, you need a real reason to go to the hospital before they’ll let you in to steal from their cabinets. It’s Surgical Lubricant, not surgical lubricaN.
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