Jordan Peele shares opening credits to Nope’s in-universe sitcom Gordy’s Home!
Ricky "Jupe" Park stars in the fictional sitcom that inspired the unforgettable SNL sketch
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[The following contains spoilers for Jordan Peele’s Nope]
The mythology of Jordan Peele’s Us heavily leaned on Hands Across America, a real-life fundraising event that did not involve wearing a red jumpsuit and stabbing your doppelgänger but did raise $35 million (nearly half of which actually went to charity!), but for Nope—which debuted at the top of the box office charts this week—Peele invented his own pop culture touchstone to hang the movie on.
We’re referring to Gordy’s Home!, a fictional ‘90s sitcom in the universe of Nope that got good ratings and pretty good reviews in its first season but ended—and became a morbidly fascinating artifact for freaks who want to sleep in a room full of Gordy’s Home! memorabilia—after one of the chimps playing Gordy snapped and brutally killed several members of the cast. Though never explicitly shown onscreen, survivor Ricky “Jupe” Park (Steven Yeun as an adult) says it was immortalized in what sounds like a pretty incredible Saturday Night Live sketch (with Chris Kattan as Gordy).
Today, Peele shared a clip of the Gordy’s Home! opening credits, which seem perfectly pleasant and normal out of context, save for the bootleg VHS-style screen distortions, which are always going to be spooky to younger generations. In fact, the clip is even surprisingly light on Easter eggs for Nope, which helps make it feel more like a real thing from that universe and not a DVD extra, but there are a few things to note: The mom and dad on Gordy’s Home! are involved in the space program in some way (space is where UAPs come from!), there’s a quick moment of young Jupe (Jacob Kim) hiding under a table that is just a bit chilling, and the credits end with a shot of Jupe and Gordy doing their famous exploding fist-bump.
Gordy’s Home! isn’t specifically important to the actual plot of Nope, but it is thematically important for the stuff the movie has to say about TV and movies and how we make TV and movies and how people get swallowed up by the act of making TV and movies… so to speak.
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I actually felt Gordy’s freak-out was less thematically about the making of movies and moreso about the theme that runs through the movie where you can’t tame nature because they’ll kick wildly (like the horse) eat your face (like Gordy) or suck you up into the sky and spit out the non-organic matter (like the UFO aka JeanJacket). Somewhat climate-change-y parable too. Definitely a few layers to watching this flick anyway though.
It was also way more important to the plot in my opinion. Every time Jupe thinks back to “the incident” he’s absolutely thrilled. Hell, he thinks the SNL skit parody is the definitive version of things. He loves that after it happened, Gordy came over to hang out like he was special. He thinks he has some magical connection with the inherently dangerous.
Jupe’s blissful memories of it fascinate me and creep me out
I read it as Jupe is actually still traumatized about it (hence the freaky flashbacks when he’s talking about the SNL skit) but he puts on a brave face about how iconic the SNL skit is. when in reality they were making jokes about the chimp destroying his castmembers but he’s playing along saying it was a great skit. his trying to tame the UFO is trying to reclaim that trauma that yes it will listen to him because Gordy fist-bumped him.
Yeah that is absolutely what it’s about. You can’t just go around doing whatever you want with wild animals. They’re wild animals.
Yeah, I’m gonna need Hammond, Oteri, Kattan, and Scott Wolf to bring the sketch to fruition.
I’m thoroughly confused. Gordy Home is from where? Is it in the new movie Nope? If so, how could it inspire an SNL skit if it’s brand new? This story leaves out so much relevant info I want to scream! This is journalism? Most people are not Peele scholars! Please fix this! Thanks!
“We’re referring to Gordy’s Home!, a fictional ‘90s sitcom in the universe of Nope that got good ratings and pretty good reviews in its first season but ended—and became a morbidly fascinating artifact for freaks who want to sleep in a room full of Gordy’s Home! memorabilia—after one of the chimps playing Gordy snapped and brutally killed several members of the cast. Though never explicitly shown onscreen, survivor Ricky “Jupe” Park (Steven Yeun as an adult) says it was immortalized in what sounds like a pretty incredible Saturday Night Live sketch (with Chris Kattan as Gordy).”
I want one full episode of this show on the DVD as a special feature, and I want it to have an audio commentary by people in character pretending to be the maker’s of the show!
There was this episode of the BBC show “Inside No. 9″ that was shot like a live TV Xmas special from the late 70s/early 80s, with “commentary’. Not to spoil too much, but it was comedic yet ended incredibly darkly and disturbingly, as that show is wont to do. Feels like this could work for “Gordy’s Home!” the way you see it haha
saw that pic and thought it was some kind of Star Trek backstory of Harry Kim.
Jupe?
Nope!
that song is kind of a banger in the 80s sitcom theme song type of way