Repeat Flop House offenders Gerard Butler and Katherine Heigl team up in The Ugly Truth, a terrible romantic comedy that Stuart really, really wanted us to watch for some reason. Maybe because he’s just an ol’ softie! Meanwhile, Elliott pitches his new hit tragicomedy “Bad Date,” Stuart reveals his NBC sitcom holodeck fantasy, and Dan uses the word “whack” as in “out of whack” but is still mercilessly made fun of by his co-hosts as if he was trying to get gangsta.

0:00 – 0:30 – Introduction and theme
0:31 – 3:35 – Stuart wastes all of our time by discussing his upcoming 30th birthday.
3:36 – 34:25 – If your criteria for a romantic comedy is that it specifically contains the words “the” and “truth,” and has a negative descriptor in the middle, may we suggest The Awful Truth, starring Cary Grant?
34:26 – 40:31 – Final judgments All three: bad bad
40:32 – 50:00 – Flop House Movie Mailbag
50:01 – 51:14 – An explanation of the new Movie Minute policy.
51:15 – 56:31 – The sad bastards recommend.
56:32 – 58:30 – Goodbyes, theme, and outtakes.

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Wikipedia synopsis of The Ugly Truth

Here’s Stuart, so happy that The Ugly Truth is over that he’s doing a dance to the credits music: