GOd you guys must have cast iron stomachs to watch this entire thing. MY dry heaving was so bad I had to take intermittent breaks.

That was one hell of a gunt on Andie McDowell.

ANd I didnt know the black stud from Judging Amy (Yeah Hartford!) was retarded to. I thought he was just a freaky chubby chaser who knew the best kept secret of all time. That retards give great head.

"Anjelica Huston HATES segueways!" Segueways?? Guys, I think watching this movie has dropped your collective IQ's a bit.

There are some great men out there, men who take the hard hit so that others can be happy. B-side, you are that man. I am moved and touched that you watched this, so that I wouldn't have to. I would ask you to bear my children, but as I announced to everyone on the M4 this morning, I had my tubes tied.

doh, the fact that this movie was made, and broadcast ... all of our IQs are a little bit lower today.

First of all, it was like Rosie was channeling PeeWee Herman playing a retard, what with that creepy "i know you are but what am I" laugh.

And what was the point of this movie? There was no conflict, no Rosie kills a kitten unintentionally, no Rosie burns down her house, no Rosie turning tricks. It was just like some random events strung together that just kinda *bam!* ended.

I had to tune in for a few minutes just to see it. It did not disappoint. The train didn't just wreck, it flew off of the tracks and crashed into an entire neighborhood of innocent bystanders. It was made-for-tv-movie perfection! (Of course, I could only stomach about 5 minutes of it before I had to switch back to ABC.)

And what's the deal with their mom? I thought for sure she was dead. what the hell did the stepdad do to make her forget all of those years she wanted people to treat Beth like a normal person? Marry an ex-con, move to scottsdale, then forget about your kids? What the hell?

During one of the scenes where she was talking about Jesse, I thought she was going to say "HEY RACHEL! ONCE YOU GO BLACK!"

wow.... i just watched this trainwreck last night in order to fully appreciate the recap. Yikes.... embarrassing. I wish it was worse so that it would cross over to camp. However even worse than Rosie's retard were the hallmark commercials...

J-Unit- I did not give you adequate credit in the post (I read the bottom and saw B-side, it was not till I looked closer and saw that you assisted)- but the "Once you go black" comment deserves a laurel all of its own.

Man I'm mad I missed this film. Remember when the Hallmark hall of fame had good stuff, like "The Secret Garden"?

I liked this movie much better when it was Rainman. Yeah, definitely.

So it's FUPA? I thought the word for that particular anatomical feature was biff.. FUPA is much more descriptive.

It could have been worse ... maybe. Rosie could have recruited her old friend Madonna to put in a cameo or something.

BRILLIANT commentary!

You guys are amazing. I only made it through the first hour, and was screaming so loudly at points ("Rosie-tard" was a frequent turrets-like expiulsion), I was sure I would be asked to leave the quiet, friendly, shady lane in which I reside.
I heart Anjelica as well, (super-heart), so it's still taking a lot of effort to wrap my mind around this particular career choice. Is it really THAT hard to get a directing gig if you're female? There HAS to be another way!

How do you justify something like this?

Keep up the good work,

Adele H

P.S. I wnated to have a RTBWMS viewing party, but no takers, even amongst my comedian friends. Astonishing.

It was beyond awful...what was up with her kermit voice?? I don't know how any of them can live with themselves...

My BF summed it up best..."I am embarrassed to live in a world where this exists".

CBS should have cast Shannon Lucio in the Andie MacDowell role and renamed it Spring Break Tard Attack.

I tried watching this, just for a laugh after Family Guy and American Dad and I couldn't even make it 30 seconds! As always, boys, you deserve a medal.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again... You Are Doing God's Work.

'Spring Break Tard Attack...' oh Jesus, gotta breathe--you guys are killin me!

I only could stomach about 30 seconds, when I realized that Rosie was indeed going to spend the entire time talking with her jaw sticking so far out she could see her own teeth.

Rosie really should have stuck with her proven talents and produced this as a musical. Ten years from now, college campuses across the nation would be doing their own interactive revivals, initiating "virgins" by forcing them to eat dirt and tickle each other. Veterans would know to show up in mismatched sneakers and Tweety Bird t-shirts.

You guys are brilliant. This was hilar. I can't even believe R.O.D. would be daring enough to play a RETARDED person in a movie. Like does she have no idea what people think of her?

The funniest thing about the entire RTBWMS debauchle is reading the crap on Ro's blog. Literally hundreds of people writing how the movie moved them, blah blah blah.

I was surprised, however, that she approved my post in which I told her (a) there was no point to the movie; (b) the entire thing was atrocious; and (c) it didn't seem like she was acting.

She probably only approved my post because I began it by complimenting her performance on a League of Their Own. I knew that would do the trick.

I think the remark from Eddiebosox about developmentally disabled folks and oral sex should earn him at least a day in hell (where I pray all they will show him are Dr. Phil reruns and "my favorite things" episodes from Oprah). Really.
This whole collection of jokes about "retards" seems unnecessary when the movie itself and at least one of the stars is fodder enough for plenty of well-deserved jokes.

This is my first time visiting this site....

"Maybe this movie should be renamed, "Rosie O'Donnell Takes a Shit.""

...and I'm hooked for life. My deepest respects for watching the entire way through; I could barely stomach the commercial.

Haha, hilarious recap. What was the point of the movie though? It doesnt sound like there was any plot at all.

just so you'd know what Rosie's fan's are saying...from Rosie's blog
Sage said:

OMG my tin man heart has cried already!!!

I smell an emmy!

-sage

....so emmy's smell like poo??

here's the blog link
it belongs in Ripley's Believe it or Not
http://www.rosie.com/2005/05/01/da-movie/

I have never laughed so hard. I love you guys

Where do these people come from? Another reader from Rosie's blog:

"Bonny said:

What an awesome delight you were, Rosie. I laughed from beginning to end, cried from beginning to end, but mostly smiled from beginning to end. Smiled because it has been so long since we’ve seen you ‘in action’ and it was this film that brought you back to us.

Everybody did a WONDERFUL job. You should all be very, VERY proud. Especially you."

fun undergrad film project: intercut scenes from RTBWMS with Jan DeBont's Speed

I knew this would be good. I'm so glad you guys watched this movie, so we wouldn't have to. Thanks for taking the bullet for us. Nothing short of watching this movie in your presence while you wrote your comments would make me endure this. Good work! I'm laughing so hard, I'm afraid I'll wake my daughter up.

Check out the user comments and posts on imdb.com, especially the glowing reviews of this horrific movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420128/

So are the fans of this movie the ones that keep voting for Scott Savol? And will Scott S. someday star in "Riding the Bus With My Brother?"

oh my god.. all i kept thinking when i saw rosie on tv was : "C IS FOR COOKIE!" she's a dead ringer for the Cookie Monster.. was she deaf too? why did she have to be so loud? i had to turn my tv down like 10 times!

I can only hope CBS cranks out more of this crap so we have something hilarious to read two days later on TVGasm!

All weekend long, I kept hearing radio ads that had the "YOU'RE WEIRD!" clip and I knew that was about all I could stomach of this movie. Kudos to you for surviving!

Loved the toilet seat commentary, the giant salad bowl, the bonsai tree hopping away! Awesome.

You know, I tend to be a bit sensitive about/ not a fan of "retard" jokes. But frankly, this movie itself made the retard joke. People with disabilities should be mad at Rosie, not us! we're just reacting to it, dude.

I saw Riding the Bus With My Sister and let me tell you my little web friend, the situational comedy is back and I mean BACK with a bang on Network TV.
I have never laughed so hard in my entire life. I know Rosie's film acumen is right up there with Jean-Pierre Melville so, I'm sure, she knowingly uses every modern film cliché and ignores everything that has every been made in the way of film and sticks a big fat lesbian finger at the rules!
At let me tell you, IT PAYS OFF BIG TIME.
Movie Cliché 1:
1. Andie MacDowell plays the business woman who must learn that making money, supporting yourself, and not being reliant on men for affirmation is ALL WRONG!; she must learn to "love" and not a easy man to love at that; a man who also, is focused on contributing to society, and who gasp!...has a bank account.
2. It's all about family! Forget about people that add things to your life. The only thing that matters in life is sentiment and you guessed it, FLASHBACKS!, tons of them, at every corner, MacDowell's character has these haunting images throughout the film of when she made rational judgments--even as a child--and you guessed it: it hurt the retard's feelings.
3 Life lessons so general that they are no help to anyone at all, such as Respect you elders! or Time mends all wounds!....how can you use such life lessons? (you got me)...but who cares!...The are so general and non-descript that no one could possible get offended or hold you responsible if you followed them and things went tragically wrong, such as if you took in a 'tard to show it love!

Leah3T, I remember the Hallmark Hall of Fame "Secret Garden" movie well. It was one of my favs as a kid; it was wonderful. Hallmark has lost its corporate mind to go from funding that sort of gem to settling for this crap. That's what Rosie's crazy fans should be crying over.

Ashes! I'm so glad my siblings and I are not the only ones who remember that movie! That was a rainy day fav at the 3t house.

I wonder if Riding the Bus with my sister will be re-broadcast or available on some other medium for viewing. I think we should all start having regional tvgasm screening parties to watch some of the shows/movies covered on this page.

She did NOT have her tubes tied! She had her tubes tied UP!!!

God, people, get it straight!

First of all, my wife and I watched the whole thing, laughing hysterically the whole time.

Second, on this morning's Howard Stern show, prank phone calls were played with Rosie's lines of dialogue from the movie. Calls were made to a Howard Store "Toilet Seat assistance on aisle 1."
We laughed so hard, I think I tore abdominal muscles.

Finally, I need, let me repeat, NEED, sound samples from this movie, to attach to emails, instant messages...etc.

"HELLO"

"GOOD MORNING"

Little help!

MarkC

Bravo! You guys took a truly putrid piece of crap movie and made it funny as hell! I enjoyed this recap very much. Keep it up!

"It could have been worse ... maybe. Rosie could have recruited her old friend Madonna to put in a cameo or something."

She did, but at the last minute she had to go to the gyno to have the cameo removed.

One word: bollocks

Regarding my post yesterday...
My friends are comedians. Not me. I just like to laugh, which I am doing plenty of reading everybody's entries/responses here.
Awesome.

Missed the Stern calls today. Hope he replays them.

Adele H

GUNT is said in these parts, not FUPA. guess its one of those regional dialect things.

This trash was heavily advertised on the local sports talk station for some reason. didnt know 25-45 year old males were the target audience.

I think I'm gonna puke now. Even though I never saw the show, just reading it and having the time to read it, along with mental pictures of Rosie Odonnell bouncing around in my central nervous system, makes me want to reconsider that gay guys offer down the street!

this is the best thing I have ever read in my life.

What? WhatWhat Whaaaaaaat?!......is happening here? I thought this was a comedy bit! The walls of reality are crumbling before me! (oh no, thats just the apocalypse approaching)

I'm looking for something Howard Stern aired on 5/4/05. It was "Another One Bites The Dust" with a soundover of Rosie ODonell saying "I GOTTA TAKE THE BUS". Any leads?

Hello All,

As a British bloke living in Britain, I was denied the wonderful opportunity of watching this paragon of the cinematic arts. However, I heard about it via Cash Peters on UK Radio 5's Up All Night show. I really wanted to see it.

Thanks to the excellent commentary from J-Unit and B-Side, and the montage of Rosie's best moments, I now no longer feel so left out.

I found Rosie's portrayal very reminiscent of the South Park Special Olympics episode, where Cartman pretends to be "special" so that he can compete and beat all the other really "special" people. I feel as though this 20-odd minutes of animation was the sum of Rosie's research, she only forgot to add the cycle helmet.

The comments from other visitors to this site have had me in stitches, as did the original ball-by-ball commentary on the film - you have won a new fan and I shall spend some time reading the rest of this site now. I am all for sites that takes the piss out of people who take themselves too seriously.

Have a good un, and keep up the excellent work.

Brad, Yorkshire, UK.

PS: I seem to think the word is GUNT round here, but FUPA is, as another poster mentioned, much more descriptive.