The common thread throughout their sketches is their tight-knit friendship, which seems the most important thing in their lives. This was the main plot point in Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, their first feature film, loosely inspired by kid-favorite films like The Goonies (or, for the millennial girls reading this, Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain, starring Christina Ricci and Anna Chlumsky). Herlihy, Higgins, and Marshall play three best friends who met in elementary school and are now confronted with the changing nature of their friendship as they get older and embark on their own lives. They decide to go hunting for a treasure in order to recapture that friendship spark.
A couple of weekends ago, I gathered my best friends for dinner and a viewing of the boys’ cinematic masterpiece. (Yes, we refer to them as “the boys,” and I will neither confirm nor deny that our group chat is named after them.) We were expecting to have a good time, mostly because we were all together, but it turns out Foggy Mountain was a very funny movie. It was silly and ridiculous and had the best John Grisham joke at a time where there simply aren’t enough John Grisham jokes, but it also featured some surprisingly, earnestly tender scenes between Higgins and his love interest, played by the fantastic Meg Stalter. When every day brings a new, fresh hell, giving into the absurdity of Please Don’t Destroy’s comedic stylings was one of the few things that brought me unbridled joy. So go ahead, press Push on that escape pod (YouTube video)—and explode yourself into the word love (and laughter).
