rant · moment 26 of 33
Trying to Track Down His Lost NYU Student Films
from #213 - Who's Gonna Put You In Jail | The Tim Dillon Show · #213
4 min
Tim recalls appearing as a kid in two NYU student films, "When the Pom-Poms Stopped Waving" and "Truck Stop," and asks the audience to help him find copies from the university archives.
- Tim appeared in an NYU student film called Truck Stop in the early 90s and has been trying unsuccessfully to get a copy for years.
- The film was about a family abandoned at a truck stop in New Jersey, shot over two weeks in an old shutdown diner.
- Tim has messaged the filmmaker John Morning multiple times without success and considered threatening a lawyer to get the film.
- He was also in another NYU student film called When the Pom-Poms Stopped Waving, about a cult of cheerleaders who killed themselves.
- Tim appeals to the audience to help him locate copies of both student films, which he believes are archived at NYU.
- He makes a joke about NYU being run by Dominicans, attempting to reference a comedy bit he half-remembers.
- Tim tries to recall a stand-up clip where someone joked about Puerto Ricans or Dominicans running Hollywood, but can't quite get the premise right.
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