LB’S NOTE: One of our fave TV writers-illustrators-screenwriters-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, talks about her “favorite show, ever” and why it still works so well.
Jerry Maguire is the Perfect Bromance
by Stephanie Bourbon
If you were in your twenties when Jerry Maguire came out, or even in your late teens, you saw Jerry Maguire and started going around saying the catchphrases of “you had me at hello” and maybe even said to your person you were with then, “you complete me” basically the entire world was caught up in Jerry & Dorothy’s love story about a financially drowning & down and out sports agent & an accountant who get together after he writes a mission statement.
It’s a great movie and still one of my all-time, 10 films on an island film that I would bring with me but have no way to watch as on an island there would be no electricity but it is that good.I’m exploring a different angle here-the BROMANCE between Jerry & football player Rod Tidwell because it’s equally as strong and often overlooked when this film is discussed.Let’s go.
“Show me the money!”
Everyone knows the catchphrase of “show me the money” of course you do; even Disney made Winnie the Pooh plushies and merch that said show me the honey. That scene is legendary. Jerry is desperate, and Rod is showing us who he is, which is a great introduction to character, by the way, by making Jerry beg and prove that he wants and deserves to be Rod’s sports agent.
This is the start of a beautiful relationship–oops, wrong movie, but you get the idea.
Let’s start there….