The Babe Ruth Story - The Best of The Cinema Snob

Originally Aired: 7/21/2014
The Cinema Snob reviews The Babe Ruth Story. While he was busy being a baseball legend, Babe Ruth still found the time to cure cancer, save animals, and cause a crippled boy to walk! What a guy!

[@najhoant]

Fun fact: the guy who plays Babe Ruth here, William Bendix, had previously been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1942 war drama "Wake Island"

[@RadNat]

Who knew Babe Ruth lived his life like a 3 Stooges Sketch

[@defender2222]

@MANCHESTER UNITED Thanks for butting in, dumbass

[@alexdionisos]

I mustve missed the bio where it said 'Shemp Howard ran behind Babe and said everything for him'

[@Astolfo2001]

This movie is more like the 3 Stooges crossed with Medaka Box minus the whole mystery aspect of the latter to me. Who knew that a 3 Stooges sketch needed a Mary Sue/Marty Stu protagonist

[@azurewriter1858]

30:15 "It's a serum. Untried. It's hardly more than a theory, it's the merest chance." And that's how Babe Ruth became Captain America.

[@sydneyslaughter7163]

“What’s more human than this little pooch?!” I fucking love that line. And delivered with such sincerity, that just made it so much better

[@Delightfully_Bitchy]

"The only disease Babe Ruth doesn't cure in this movie is Louis Gehrig's." Most underrated joke of the episode, judging by the comments. ...Also the darkest.

[@Delightfully_Bitchy]

27:55 ...Well, the darkest until I got to this joke. That's what I get for commenting before finishing the episode.

[@ginnrollins211]

Sucks he didn't participate in the Ice Bucket Challenge.

[@erikdaniels0n]

Who knew Babe Ruth and Neil Breen were basically the same person when it came to curing illnesses

[@Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets]

Babe Ruth v Neil Breen movie when?

[@MartianManHunter2258]

Except he doesn't abuse laptops

[@TheRealNormanBates]

Why do you think he called them "lap tops"?

[@thisinhumanplace2037]

Monroville hahahahhahahaha I get that reference!

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

*BUT DO WE SEE BABE RUTH'S BALLSACK?!*

[@uthertheking]

13:27 "Hiya, Babe!" The Room has ruined those words for me. Edit: Holy shit, the kid's name is Denny.

[@felicityboyd9276]

uthertheking And that scene with him was creepy. Just like Denny!

[@MartianManHunter2258]

"YOU ARE TEARING ME APART BABE RUTH!"

[@benmcfee]

Funny you bring it up because the kid with the dog sounded a lot like a child Tommy Wiseau when he said, "He won't die Babe will he he won't die." (lack of punctuation: mine). He may as well have added, "Oh hi, Mark!" at the end.

[@harmonyjones8035]

Oh hi, Uther.

[@bigdummy5012]

uthertheking "No, Denny, don't!"

[@roisinjo6155]

"You can't spell inspirational sports movie without dying children." XD

[@joshuacassidy4352]

"Oh shit that means he has brain cancer." Left me in stitches in 2014, leaves me in stitches today.

[@greenkoopa]

@M you dont care about soccer and neither do I

[@humanwolf1984]

I am Surprise that Babe Ruth had so many STDS. 😉

[@breedlejuice8691]

You can tell it's vintage snob when Brad still has hair

[@piplup2009]

Breanna Hempel and the 240p quality, not that I'm complaining it adds to the nostalgia

[@zach1997ism]

this movie is so squeaky clean about Babe Ruth that it's almost insulting. Its makes the babe seem so inhumanly innocent and outright dumb and make up so many things that he didn't do. It also never shows him playing baseball...aka the thing that made him famous. its like patch adams, completely ignoring what made patch adams a great doctor and completely simplifying it to stupidity .

[@zach1997ism]

also SHOW, NOT TELL!!!!!

[@rhett8819]

zach1997ism the first thing that came to mind was Patch Adams. At least there isn't a dead formerly molested love interest.

[@SuperShanko]

+Red Rodri I think NC mentioned she was fake for the movie.

[@zach1997ism]

There's portraying someone in a positive light and then there's acting like they're the second jesus

[@ECL28E]

Except A: Patch is still alive, saw the movie and lambasted it

[@FrenchPaul1988]

30:13 so... According to this film Babe Ruth never died, he just became Captain America ?! Makes sense, there's so much crazy OTT stuff in this film.

[@masonallen3961]

Snob's reaction to when Babe Ruth talks about sueing the church is hilarious. I'm laughing so hard.

[@peateargryfin844]

I don't know jackshit about baseball, but even I know that Babe Ruth was not a combination of the dumb guy from Of Mice and Men, Forrest Gump, and Jesus.

[@Launchpad05]

'I'm Teddy Ruxpin. Vote for me, and I'll be you're best friend forever.'

[@MrPiccoloku]

NO! You gave me nightmares as a child, and you didn't even do it in a cool way that I liked, like The Watcher in the Woods!

[@Launchpad05]

@@MrPiccoloku If you don't vote for Teddy Ruxpin, then you ain't black.

[@PapaTaurean]

When I was 9, I read a biography about Babe Ruth... and oddly enough, I was a lot like this movie... but even at that age, i knew a pile of bull when I saw it.

[@dromalloma2651]

Papa Taurean What tipped you off?

[@PapaTaurean]

drum rum ever The fact that a beer drinking, rich, New Yorker could be "squeaky clean". This was the 80s... it's a stereotype for a reason

[@visaman]

Brandon Roberts The 20s and 30s mostly.

[@CenetaurmanE52]

The saddest thing about these kinds of documentaries is that they scrub out & change what's already a legitimately interesting story into something incredibly milquetoast and bland.

[@awesometomling]

Also agreed

[@1Hol1Tiger]

It was a time in America of great naievty where poointing out the darkness in the world was as bad as performing the acts yourself.

[@bobbyshaddoe3004]

CenetaurmanE52 I find it interesting that this film essentially represents a very unique aspect of Hollywood at a very different time, that they would go out of their way to cover up any aspect of salaciousness in a biopic, but now it seems they will go out of their to make a life story that contains elements of salaciousness even more salacious.

[@1Hol1Tiger]

Our society has changed, we used to try and pretend we're crystal clean, "Good Ol' US of A, the Free People!" We've realized we can't hide the dark part of our world anymore... so we've decided to embrace it and in some cases, even invite it.

[@lizzychrome7630]

They did that to Domino Harvey.

[@endlessnoise9173]

The John Goodman version is pretty accurate. I don't know why no one makes a biopic about John McGraw. His life was fascinating.

[@warlordofbritannia]

Potential Dark Sports Comedy Opening: Scene: Pastoral, short angry man in foreground, visibly frowning. “Hi I’m John McGraw, you may know me as the legendary manager of the New York Giants. But what you wouldn’t know is that I have a tendency to lose loved ones to typhoid. That’s why I’m here to prescribe Connie Mack Life Insurance, because sometimes the world is a bitch.” If it warrants a sequel, I demand that Sam Rice’s story be told.

[@servoaugusta513]

Babe Ruth died for our sins

[@ItWILLbeWONDERFUL_THERE]

BOB CORBY died for our sins. Ask Linkara. (That Guy Riffs SCHOOL SPIRIT)

[@dragonkeeper19600]

Legendary baseball player Babe Ruth: "Let me touch you!"

[@thedangerwich5476]

now that's the Babe Ruth i know!

[@warlordofbritannia]

I don’t think the real Ruth ever had to ask for a hanky-spanky, usually the ladies would just fall into his lap...meaning between his legs

[@Remythechef]

"I have to touch you!"

[@ardvarkboy]

"Not The Babe Ruth Story : A XXX Parody"

[@manticorephoenix]

"sue baseball? Nah, thatd be like suing the church!" possibly the greatest ironic quote ever constructed

[@Elementa2006]

This is what happens when you have Babe Ruth be played by William Bendix, who was best known for playing the funny goofball particularly his role as Chester A Riley in the Radio and TV sitcom Life With Riley.

[@DonaldRilea]

And nasty thugs and torpedoes in crime dramas of the same era, too.

[@RobAGabor]

He was awesome in The Glass Key.

[@sewthernbelle]

Badre Bally and the guy that was literally called dumber than me by Lou Costello in Who Dun It

[@CthulhuianBunny]

13:56 His son died not long after meeting the Babe, leading the old gentleman to become the tight-fisted, shout-happy house of horrors owner Mr. McDougal.

[@heathercalun4919]

12:53 So I take it this was that scene Seinfeld was satirizing in the episode where Kramer had to get back that birthday card signed by all the Mets? Credit to Thomas Dekker, who played the infirmed child in that episode, because it takes some quality acting for the audience to recognize something based on seeing the satire first, let alone from a child actor.

[@rezopolisdreams4446]

This is Babe Ruth, the fanfiction! I’m crying with laughter

[@mikepatrick5909]

Babe was actually thin when he played for the Red Sox. He didn't put on weight until he aged..Which was normal for players of that era...

[@godzillasaurbuttersworth3176]

This is maybe one of my favorite Snob episodes 👌

[@MrChaotic4]

This movie is terrible for the opposite reason that Wired is. This depicts Babe Ruth with too much praise while pointing out nothing negative about him whereas Wired only depicts John Belushi's downfall and points out very few positive things about his life.

[@gracefutrell1912]

There was the movie that tried to show all sides of him call the babe but for some reason they cast John goodmen in it and I don’t like they don’t show him struggling to get to where he was that could’ve made him relatable .

[@petercharleskrug]

Wow....For a film that's supposedly trying to glorify Babe Ruth, they sure do make him look REALLY stupid.

[@JeonardShadby505]

13:27 TFW you find your son getting up from his chair, because he forgot he was supposed to fake this degenerative bone disease in order to get both of you into the baseball game for free.

[@Ben-ts8mz]

Jesse Shade nice crimson king profile pic

[@davidspring4003]

it's a sad day when not even William Bendix can save a movie.

[@antonmasters8626]

I thought I saw him before, his name escaped me.

[@Kitties_are_pretty]

This makes 1948 look terrifying and horrible.

[@MartianManHunter2258]

Well George Orwell did begin 1984 in 1948

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

I miss ''believe It or not''.

[@nathanhuerta4445]

Who doesn't?

[@JeonardShadby505]

CaptainMarvell92 Returns Yeah, me too. That Dean Cain was one hell of a host. Oh wait, you mean the...theme song for...the Cinema Snob--oh, in that case, never mind.

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

CaptainMarvell92 Returns Nothing gets me in the mood for some Cinema Snob like listening to a cheesy 80s sitcom theme song while watching clips of people getting hacked to bits.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Its the opening of Greatest American Hero.

[@Remythechef]

A hospital that's racist against dogs. Man, the 40's were truely freighting times

[@davidjames579]

"Get out four legs, we don't serve your kind in here"

[@RobAGabor]

More like the 20s.

[@MrZackavelli]

Lol you're like 20 years off

[@trustno173]

Isn't that a thing Snoopy Come Home?

[@yahnibmartin4376]

say that to ww2

[@rasmusdegn9690]

One of the absolute Snob Classics.

[@athiestangle907]

That guy playing an 18 year old version of Bade Ruth reminds me of that scene in the disaster artist where Tommy Wiseau tells Greg Sestero's mom that he's 19.

[@NormanMStewart]

Yeah, and I'm 14.

[@OurFoundingLiars]

Conspiracy; Babe Ruth was murdered by the Babe Ruth candy company for advertising reasons. Keep asking questions

[@liluziadvert6355]

Our Founding Liars please do an episode on that

[@Greendalewitch]

Holy shit. BABUNIMATI CONFIRMED

[@minionofgruumsh]

Except that the candy bar is the Baby Ruth, not the Babe Ruth. ;)

[@Kitties_are_pretty]

I blame the Zionists.

[@Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets]

Maybe it was more like. Highlander thing, except with disease. It would make a better highlander film than anything after the first one anyway.

[@travisdelafuente1150]

"Oh wait, that's 18 year old George? That's a 42 year old man!" My thoughts exactly.

[@stranget92]

So if Babe Ruth cured cancer, does that mean Neil Breen was related to him as he cured cancer in Double Down?

[@Objectorbit]

I forgot this fucking movie had him accidentally nearly kill a fucking dog. Wow.

[@bruceygoosey908]

So, that light was the cause for his death? Patrick in the corner: Life, death, Life, death, Life, death, Life, death, Life, death, Life, death, Life, death, Life, death!

[@Zice033]

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! This one was always one of my favorites!

[@dupwnt]

Classic Snob episode. Good to see it back.

[@alisonk7329]

This is definitely my favorite episode of the Cinema Snob; I am in hysterics every time I watch it. Thank you for re-uploading it, Brad!

[@Ireallywouldrathernot]

Hooray for Futurama reference!

[@andrewthomas8888]

Babe Ruth was an old teenager. Lol!

[@SAM-ru4vx]

just like earnest borgnine

[@paulnash9851]

One of his best episodes ever. A very welcome return to some excellent classic Snob. Just great.

[@AquaLantern]

Blegh, this is reminding me way too much of the Patch Adams movie...

[@Wallyworld30]

I loved this movie when I was a kid. Then again I've played baseball since I was 7 and automatically loved anything baseball.

[@CollectionofHorrors]

"Jiminy crickets! Now I gotta kick my own ass."

[@sfighter0085]

To be honest, I don't really know all that much about Babe Ruth. But I can tell when a ""Biopic" takes liberties, and this movie basically makes out Babe Ruth to not only being one of the all time baseball greats, but also makes him out to be "Jesus". I really need to tune up my "American History" sometime. lol

[@skinnyzachfilms]

"--And then he blew him" 😂

[@servoaugusta513]

Why would a regular doctor be able to do anything for the dog?You know there's a reason why we have veterinarians.

[@SuperShanko]

It's Hollywood. "I know I'm just a proctologist, but I'll take care of this shrapnel in your horses heart quick like and he'll be just fine!" Or my favorite. "Look, I'm a weapon smith and engineer, you're also a mechanical/electrical engineer, but between the two of us in this dank cave with limited supplies and lacking anesthesia, surely we can create new technology to save my heart.

[@FrenchPaul1988]

Hey, that second one is not just Hollywood, but also 1960s comic books. :p

[@SuperShanko]

I know, but.... You know what, it makes it even crazier.

[@billyfitzgerald3442]

There are deleted scenes in the movie that make it more believable. There is a one hour montage of 150 billionaires being kidnapped, having the same exact plan and dying before it finally gets to Robert Downey Jr.

[@KyleRayner12]

Come to think of it, baseball was one of the few things Forrest Gump didn't succeed at.

[@mattmiles799]

Thumbs up for adding that awesome SCTV skit

[@Zcumgod]

I'm with ya, Snob, I'm with ya.

[@dabunnyman9133]

3:50 Holy crap, the guy playing Ruth's dad looks like John Goodman who starred in the second worst Babe Ruth biopic. This is a creepy coincidence.

[@hmm7917]

Hey Babe Ruth can you fix my leg braces I'm tired of being crippled

[@theeddytripp]

Haha the Leela joke! Love it! U the man Cinema Snob! Wish I’d found your channel way sooner

[@outis-aka-nobody1064]

It never ceases to dissapoint me that there's no "Breath for me" reference when Babe is asking that guy to play for him. Would that have been one too many Wired references?

[@christopherjustice6411]

I just got back from a trip to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. I got to see Babe's jersey and locker. I also got to see the jersey and locker of the man who surpassed him. Hank Aaron.

[@enlightenednormie242]

Thanks for sharing..?

[@hjscollages]

Thank you for reuploading this video. It's one of my favorites.

[@BrawlYoshi]

Thank you so much for re-uploading this one. It's one of my favorites

[@awesometomling]

Yes! So glad this is finally uploaded it's still one of my favorite Snob episodes I watched over and over again on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses years back. Classic :)

[@pouletsept5099]

So nice to see this up again. My most favorite episode in the series.

[@MichaelZigerlig]

better portrayal of son goku than in dragonball evolution...

[@Ratciclefan]

Thanks for uploading. I couldn't find this full anywhere. :)

[@ssjup81]

This is still one of my all-time fav snob reviews. Glad it's on YT again. I don't have to keep going to the site to look it up.

[@piplup2009]

That dog getting hit by a ball looked very convincing :/

[@CurliFox]

The yell did too. Considering the history of animal abuse in American cinema, it was probably real.

[@WinterSteele]

Been wanting to see this one again for a while, but I couldn't find it on KZbin. Thanks for posting it here!

[@undertakerdan55]

Two snob uploads in one week. Brad you are spoiling us.

[@ashwinnair3645]

Well, it's a re-upload. So...don't be, I guess. EDIT: Oh wait, this is a best of. Yeah, okay, proceed to be spoiled.

[@SuperShanko]

+Ashwin Nair It's like Manson said, if you hadn't seen it it's new to you.

[@FrenchPaul1988]

I had heard it referrenced in other episodes, but never actually saw this episode. I'm surprised that it seems to be a more recent episode than Wired (seeing all the allusions to this movie Snob makes here) though, but mostly cause I had seen this review way before it was on here (actually I think it was fully uploaded on League of Super Critics, and I mean the full episode, not a 7 minutes clip show).

[@ashwinnair3645]

SuperShanko: Oh, no no no. I meant "Don't get spoiled for weekly double uploads, it's just a random re-upload". I later realized he was double uploading regularly.

[@kryskilgannon]

Brad, you're the absolute best.

[@AA-in4so]

One of my all time favorites, awesome episode!

[@endlessnoise9173]

This is one of my favorite reviews of yours. Great jokes all around.

[@adamcheek2244]

This is still one of my favorite Snob reviews of all time, as a Snob fan, movie fan, and baseball fan. Brad, thank you for uploading this!

[@PauloHernandezXD]

This movie just randomly popped into my mind >:3 Begun watching Cinema Snob in 2014-15 & these videos will always be the best ^~^

[@davidjames579]

"If you could send an autographed ball, it might be the incentive the youngster needs, to live". Kid must really hate his parents, if they're not enough of an incentive for him to live, but a baseball is.

[@weapon877]

Word on the street is there is no Santa Claus 😂

[@SuperShanko]

Finally! Love this episode.

[@betteryearentertainment4004]

Anyone else wanna see the Snob tackle Arthur Hiller's "The Babe," starring John Goodman, as a counterpoint to this?

[@robinhoodwasasocialist.1401]

Wasn't John goodman babe Ruth once?

[@SuperShanko]

Yea.

[@dhansen1991]

john doe yeah it's actually a good movie well it was when I saw it when my dad show it to me when I was a kid

[@MegaMagicdog]

Yes. His biopic was a bit more accurate and showed more of Ruth's foibles. It was called, "The Babe".

[@Clay3613]

Goodman doesn't think was good either.

[@Musicradio77Network]

This movie was from 1948, it was following the passing of a baseball legend. It was a pretty good movie, and I used to taped it off of one of the movie channel like Movie Plex. There were other great baseball movies besides this, is another classic "Pride of the Yankees" with Gary Cooper as Lou Gerrig. (aka the Iron Horse).

[@mayitriggeryou]

As soon as I head "Susquehanna", all I could hear was Shemp saying "Susquehanna-22-22".

[@evrbody]

SUSQUEHANNA HAT COMPANY??!?!?!

[@robrophside3691]

4:27: "You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards." - Ryan Stiles

[@Metalmara]

Brad is my spirit animal

[@Targisvear]

Dude, don't call Brad an animal.

[@matthewpaul6904]

One of my absolute favorite episodes of The Snob

[@NameEntry]

One of the funniest ones in a while now. Comedy gold.

[@madhatter984]

Another great snob video

[@shawnconway6009]

has it really been three years since this episode? Honestly, it's one of the better ones too, because it's so wonderfully absurd.

[@wadewilson9751]

Thanks, Snob....for curing me of the Bronze John.

[@Psycho5275]

There's a picture out there of Babe Ruth when he was seventeen. The Movie appears to be accurate when an adult is playing teenage Babe

[@visaman]

Psycho5275 John Goodman was the star.

[@taggz1988]

"Um...and then The Droogs rape someone?" I almost choked on my food when I laughed at that

[@Tareltonlives]

This is one of my favorite episodes

[@marcpelosi380]

Why does he sound like Dom DeLuise?

[@GasmaskAvenger]

Yay, one of my all time favorite Snob videos is now on the Stoned Gremlin channel!

[@coreyweber2340]

One of my favorite Snob episodes, because the film is totally ridiculous

[@SpeedyEric1]

I had a feeling you'd post this review on KZbin, 'cause it's one of my favorite 2014 Snob reviews. 11:18- And that joke would get dated 2 years after this review was first released.

[@undreal7398]

I watched this so much as a kid...I think it was made for a young demo...Babe Ruth had an amazing story regardless of this tripe.

[@Amy.B]

Any thoughts about "The Babe" with John Goodman?