‘Brockmire’ Season 4 Premiere: It’s 2030, and Jim Brockmire Just Wants to Watch VR Porn in Peace (Exclusive Video)
But his daughter shows up and spoils baseball announcer’s gross Ann-Margaret fantasy
Tony Maglio | March 16, 2020 @ 8:00 AM
Last Updated: March 16, 2020 @ 10:13 AM
Hank Azaria’s Jim Brockmire just can’t get any peace and quiet — not even enough to masturbate in his own home in the year 2030.
On the premiere of the fourth and final season of IFC’s “Brockmire,” the legendary baseball announcer is “like a kid in a candy store” with his new hi-tech on-demand porn-projection device, Mr. Magorium’s Masturbatorium.
But just as he tests out the futuristic — and creepy — system’s voice activation (“Ann-Margaret, and let’s have her sitting on my face”), his daughter Floribeth (Reina Hardesty) comes home with news that she got accepted to NYU. The news doesn’t sit well with Brockmire, who wanted her to stay in Missouri.
“New York is now just a flooded playground for the 1% of the 1%,” he tells his daughter. “The Bronx is now Brooklyn, Brooklyn is now Manhattan, Manhattan is now Dubai.”
“The worst part is, Staten Island is still just Staten Island,” Brockmire continued. “That thing is a civic blackhole that the light of gentrification and human decency can’t penetrate.”
Watch the sneak peek, which is exclusive to TheWrap, via the video above.
Below is IFC’s Season 4 description, which ought to make the time jump a bit clearer:
We start the episode in Manila in the year 2020. We meet a young girl named Floribeth who becomes obsessed with her favorite TV personality, a drunk Filipino soap opera star from the past named Jim Brockmire. She learns this is actually her father and when the aunt taking care of her suddenly dies she is sent to America to live with him. Jim, now a few years sober, is living in Kansas City and back to broadcasting. He pledges to take on his role of father very seriously and this becomes his new addiction.
Flash to the present — 2030 — The world is in chaos. Water shortages, land disputes, and wildfires are the norm. Baseball is also in decline. The world may be going to hell but at least Jim is broadcasting his favorite sport and has the love of his 18-year-old daughter who is living with him. Jim then learns baseball is worse off than he thought and will no longer be viable within five years, and his daughter is moving to New York for college because she needs some space from her overbearing father. So he does the only thing he can and follows his daughter to New York and becomes the Commissioner of Baseball.
Season 4 of “Brockmire” premieres Wednesday, March 18 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on IFC.
20 Highest-Grossing Baseball Movies, From 'League of Their Own' to 'Major League' (Photos)
Let's get into the spirit of a new MLB season with some of the biggest baseball movies that all hit a commercial home run. These are the highest grossing baseball movies of all time, ranked from lowest to highest.
20. "Mr. 3000" - $21.8 million
Bernie Mac plays a former baseball great who returns to the league at age 47 after learning he was just a few hits shy of 3000.
Buena Vista
19. "Major League II" - $30.6 million
Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen and Tom Berenger all came back for the sequel to "Major League," but Wesley Snipes had become a bigger star, and his role of Willie Mays Hayes was taken over by Omar Epps.
Warner Bros.
18. "The Sandlot" - $32.4 million
"The Sandlot" performed modestly at the box office in 1993, but it found a second life as a cult film on VHS and on DVD a decade after its release.
Twentieth Century Fox
17. "Bad News Bears" (2005) - $32.8 million
Billy Bob Thornton starred in Richard Linklater's remake of the '70s classic starring Walter Matthau.
Paramount Pictures
16. "For Love of the Game" - $35.1 million
Kevin Costner shows up quite a bit on this list. Sam Raimi directs Costner as a washed up pitcher reflecting on his career in baseball.
Universal
15. "Trouble With the Curve" - $35.7 million
Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams play a father and daughter trying to patch up their relationship during Eastwood's final season as a baseball scout.
Warner Bros.
14. "Million Dollar Arm" - $36.4 million
"Million Dollar Arm" kicked off a string of globe-hoping Disney movies, with Jon Hamm starring as a sports agent who travels to India in search of baseball talent on the cricket pitch.
Disney
13. "Hardball" - $40.2 million
This early-2000s Keanu Reeves hit stars a young Michael B. Jordan in this movie about a Cabrini Green little league team.
Paramount
12. "Fever Pitch" - $42 million
Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore make for one of the more charming rom-com couples of late. But even more special about "Fever Pitch" is that it arrived in the year the Red Sox finally won the World Series.
Twentieth Century Fox
11. "The Natural" - $47 million
Robert Redford, Robert Duvall and Glenn Close star in Barry Levinson's inspiring classic that has been fodder for countless homages and parodies.
TriStar
10. "Major League" - $49.7 million
"Juuuust a bit outside!" The University of Arizona baseball team did their own version of the famous scene from this film where the players all arrive to spring training.
Paramount
9. "Angels in the Outfield" (1994) - $50.2 million
You've got to believe! A young Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in this cute Disney movie about a baseball miracle.
Buena Vista
8. "Bull Durham" - $50.8 million
Kevin Costner again. This baseball romance even received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Orion
7. "Rookie of the Year" - $53.6 million
Back when the Chicago Cubs were still lovable losers, it made sense that they might take a flyer on a miraculous young kid as depicted in Daniel Stern's family comedy.
Fox
6. "The Benchwarmers" - 59.8 million
"The Benchwarmers," starring Jon Heder, David Spade and Rob Schneider, was a hit with audiences, but much less so with critics, earning only a 25 on Metacritic.
Sony/Columbia
5. "Field of Dreams" - $64.3 million
Even more Kevin Costner. This weepy classic went on to earn three Oscar nominations and might be the best baseball movie ever.
Universal
4. "The Rookie" (2002) - $75.6 million
Dennis Quaid stars in this inspiring true story of Jim Morris, who discovered well past his prime that he could throw some real heat and ended up making a major league team.
Disney
3. "Moneyball" - $75.6 million
Nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture, the film adaptation of Michael Lewis's book starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill was an unexpected critical and commercial darling.
Sony
2. "42" - $95 million
Before he became Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman starred as Dodgers great Jackie Robinson in the biopic on his life, "42."
Warner Bros.
1. "A League of Their Own" - $107.5 million
"There's no crying in baseball!" Penny Marshall's hilarious story of the first female professional baseball league is the only movie to crack the $100 million mark.
Sony
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Get in the spirit of the World Series with these commercial home runs
Let's get into the spirit of a new MLB season with some of the biggest baseball movies that all hit a commercial home run. These are the highest grossing baseball movies of all time, ranked from lowest to highest.