Ice Cube On The 20th Anniversary Of “Friday”

April 16, 2015

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Ice is happy that he’s given the world two decades of “Bye Felicia.”

TranscriptCONAN: You know what's hard to believe, it's hard to believe it is the 20th anniversary of the movie "FRIDAY', 20th anniversary! [Cheers and Applause] ICE CUBE: Oh, yeah. CONAN: It still feels like it was eight years ago. Really does. ICE CUBE: Seems like we smoked that yesterday! Yeah, "FRIDAY' is like one of those little movies that just, we did it. We was like Yo, the cool people are going to like this movie and everybody else ain't going to understand it. But so many cool people in the world 'cause everybody loved the movie, so it's pretty cool. CONAN: It's interesting, it's become a cult classic. So many fans you guys are going to have a big screening, is it Monday? ICE CUBE: Monday, which is 4/20, which is the -- [Cheers and Applause] -- the day. We're going to have a screening Friday. And it's cool, you know what I mean. CONAN: The fans, they know the movie so well that they yell out, it's like rocky horror. They yell out at certain parts. They know the lines. They chant at certain parts of the move yifment certain parts of the movie that have become part of like just American speech. ICE CUBE: I mean, boss Felicia right now, that is the phrase to get anybody out your face that's saying something stupid, bye, Felicia! It's got to craze. CONAN: You realize you said that to me -- you said that 10 times. I never knew what you were talking about. But now I got it! It's amazing. It's line in the movie and it just grew and grew and grew. It's become part of a culture. ICE CUBE: All of the lines of "FRIDAY' movies. It's a basketball player named Zach Randolph. They call him Z-Bo, which was Dibo was the bully in the movie. He has a bully game when he plays. This movie has kind of -- got into people's hearts and that's why we are having the screening and everybody come out. I know you guys know the movie. Come out, yell at the screen. We're doing some great, we're having some fun on Monday.

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