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Borat The Rewatchables
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Most Rewatchable Scene

The Southern dinner; naked fight; Jewish bed-and-breakfast

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  • The Kazakhstan opening and “Running of the Jew” are nominated
  • Borat greeting and provoking New Yorkers is nominated
  • The humor-coach lesson and repeated failed “not” jokes are nominated
  • Borat channel-surfing in the hotel is nominated
  • The feminist meeting and driving instruction are nominated
  • The local-news appearance and rodeo are nominated
  • The Jewish bed-and-breakfast is selected as a perfectly constructed scene
  • A competing view finds the kind hosts too sympathetic for the scene to be comfortably rewatchable
  • The Southern dinner is praised while the insult toward one guest is called the movie’s meanest moment
  • The naked hotel fight is praised as memorable but also uniquely disgusting
  • Pamela Anderson’s staged abduction is nominated
  • The fraternity motor-home sequence is discussed without excusing the filmed students
  • Borat being cleansed in the church is the final scene nominated.
  • The Southern dinner is ultimately preferred over the more memorable naked fight
Borat The Rewatchables
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The most "year the movie came out" thing

Pre-social-media filming, post-9/11 resentment, Pamela Anderson culture, and the iPod Mini

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  • The ability to film strangers before social media is nominated
  • Mid-2000s anti-Muslim sentiment is nominated
  • Pamela Anderson’s autograph line at a Virgin Megastore is nominated
  • The closing iPod Mini joke is selected as the strongest 2006 marker
Borat The Rewatchables
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Borat

What’s Aged the Best?

Local-news bloopers, pre-smartphone public pranks, the conference-run anecdote, and throwaway lines

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  • The local-news sequence and the durability of local-news bloopers are praised
  • Pre-smartphone public pranks are praised because spectators had neither camera phones nor social posts to expose the filming
  • The naked conference run reportedly required three attempts; an engineering-lecture audience barely reacted to the first
  • A collection of short throwaway lines is identified as the film’s lasting comic strength
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