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- Her drunken race-day reactions and belittling of her husband are offered as the evidence.
Categories & segments
Sean Fennessey Award for Stealth Homage That Gives Every Movie Nerd a Criterion Orgasm
Possibly Ricky signing a woman’s chest as a Happy Gilmore homage
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- The participant explicitly says the resemblance may not be an intentional reference.
The Sean Penn “I Brought My Own Pack” Award for Excellence in On-Screen Smoking
Jean Girard’s poor cigarette technique
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- The panel calls the petite cigarette performance a five out of ten and a bad cigarette.
The Tom Cruise Award for Most Valiant Attempt to Emulate a Normal Human
Jean Girard’s poor cigarette technique
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- The explicit cue says the bad cigarette belongs under the “Which end do I light?” form.
The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
“Psychosomatic” and the misunderstanding about starting a fire with thoughts
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- The panel explains that this flex rewards a line that grows funnier on repeated viewing, then selects the psychosomatic exchange.
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- Shake and Bake is rediscovered as a major omitted catchphrase and proposed as the horse name.
- El Diablo and its “fighting chicken” explanation are the alternative.
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
NASCAR is better than expected; Talladega Nights is the funniest sports movie; it has aged better than Anchorman; big-budget gloss can weaken comedy
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- The first take is framed as starting a NASCAR podcast and settles on NASCAR being better than expected.
- The second calls Talladega Nights the funniest sports movie and compares it with Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, Kingpin, The Longest Yard, Blades of Glory, Kicking and Screaming, and Semi-Pro.
- The third says Talladega Nights now plays better than Anchorman.
- The last argument says big-budget gloss can weaken comedy and prefers practical, lived-in images to obvious CGI.
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
McKay’s comedies should receive long director cuts, and a continuous blooper channel would be worth watching.
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- The first late hot take asks for extended McKay cuts in place of other famous director-cut campaigns.
- A mini hot take says blooper reels can be as enjoyable as the movies and proposes a blooper-only channel.
Casting What-Ifs
John C. Reilly’s Cal role and Sacha Baron Cohen’s Jean Girard role had several reported alternatives.
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- Jack Black, Billy Crystal, and Dennis Quaid are reported alternatives for Cal; the panel thinks Black might steal too much focus.
- Michael J. Fox, Seth Green, and John Stamos are reported Jean Girard alternatives; Stamos is the one the panel can most readily imagine.
- John C. Reilly had earlier been intended for Brick in Anchorman before a scheduling conflict.
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- His drug-running, street-racing, absent-father backstory is imagined as a serious prestige series.
The Proof of Life / David Caruso Award for a Character Who Should Have Been Spun Off into Their Own Sequel
The haunted house inherited by Cal is proposed as a horror-movie spinoff.
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- The panel explicitly identifies the haunted-house story as the spinoff it wants to see.
The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award
No consensus: Gary Cole, Ted Manson, Ian Roberts, and Greg Germann
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- Gary Cole is offered as the beginner-level choice because viewers may recognize Office Space and Veep without knowing his name.
- Ted Manson is the expert-level choice and Ian Roberts is the middle-level choice.
- Greg Germann and Jack McBrayer extend the debate over how recognizable is too recognizable.
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