RoboCop The Big Kahuna Burger Award for Best Use of Food and Drink RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop’s organic food paste wins. In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 00:55:59Read transcript The paste reportedly used parsnip, tomato puree, and crushed Butterfinger bars.
RoboCop The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop’s expanding alley-wall shadow during the rescue wins. In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 00:56:18Read transcript The crew had RoboCop walk backward so his shadow would grow against the wall.
RoboCop The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 No existing needle drop wins; the panel argues the nightclub fight needed a stronger 1980s song. In the discussion (2) Approx. transcript time · 00:56:46Read transcript The nightclub kick-to-RoboCop scene is identified as a missed music opportunity. Rockwell, Peter Murphy, XTC, and Death Leppard are floated as possible directions.
RoboCop Chest Rockwell / Brock Landers Award for Best Character Name RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 Dick Jones wins Best Character Name. In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 00:58:11Read transcript The panel argues young writers should name villains Richard so someone can call them Dick.
RoboCop Is There a Porn Parody of This Movie? RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCock is the immediate parody title. In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 00:59:33Read transcript The title RoboCock is supplied immediately when the category is proposed.
RoboCop The most GIFable moment RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop open-mouthed in the factory chair wins Most GIFable Moment. In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 01:00:20Read transcript The factory-chair image is described as a common reaction gift for terrible news.
RoboCop Did This Movie Need a Random Sports Scene? RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 A warehouse half-court basketball game for Clarence’s gang is proposed. In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 01:01:08Read transcript Clarence’s gang playing three-on-three basketball or a shooting contest in the warehouse is proposed.
RoboCop The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 The movie being too short and its unexplored Murphy-family story are the weak links. In the discussion (4) Approx. transcript time · 01:03:32Read transcript One panelist wants five or ten more minutes, including a deleted chase and cemetery visit. The movie never establishes Murphy with his family before his death. A scene where Murphy’s wife recognizes RoboCop at the station is proposed. A competing theory says Murphy’s marriage may already have been bad, explaining how quickly his wife moved on.
RoboCop What’s Aged the Worst? RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 The sequels and 2014 remake, police strikes, a WCW RoboCop tie-in, suit-production conflict, and Clarence Boddicker’s name age worst. In the discussion (5) Approx. transcript time · 01:07:03Read transcript The sequels and 2014 remake are rejected because the original remains available. A police strike is questioned because the panel says none has happened in America since the 1910s. RoboCop joining Sting in WCW is mocked for the collapsing jail-set bars. The suit conflict briefly led Verhoeven to fire Weller before rehiring him. Clarence Boddicker is criticized as an implausible name for the character.
RoboCop The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 ED-209 wins for its helpless reaction after falling down the stairs; Bob Morton is the human candidate. In the discussion (3) Approx. transcript time · 01:11:00Read transcript Bob Morton is cited for dialing up his performance. ED-209’s flailing and crying after falling down the stairs wins. ED-209 is also interpreted as a Freudian projection of Dick Jones’s sexual insecurity.
RoboCop The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 The final Dick Jones puppet fall nearly makes the movie choke away its technical achievement; Kyle Brandt as RoboCop is the other hot take. In the discussion (3) Approx. transcript time · 01:12:36Read transcript The Dick Jones puppet fall is called a terrible last-second special effect. The fall is compared unfavorably with Hans Gruber’s fall one year later. Kyle Brandt is proposed as an especially plausible alternate RoboCop.
RoboCop Casting What-Ifs RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 Peter Weller ultimately won the role after a long search; the discussion covers many alternate Murphy, Lewis, and Boddicker choices. In the discussion (5) Approx. transcript time · 01:15:34Read transcript Jonathan Kaplan left to direct Project X, and Verhoeven initially dismissed the script. Schwarzenegger, Ironside, Rucker Hauer, Tom Berringer, Armin Asante, Keith Caradine, and James Remar were Murphy possibilities. Steven Seagal appears among possible Murphy headshots and is developed as a comic alternate. Stephanie Zimbalist was cast as Lewis but a Remington Steele pickup prevented it. Michael Ironside declined Boddicker and Kurtwood Smith moved from auditioning for Dick Jones to Boddicker.
