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- Jim Carrey is the explicit winner. — Craig Horlbeck
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Watch Party: Best Viewing Scenario
Solo viewing; teenage sleepover
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- The film is described as a sweaty, campy erotic thriller for the MTV generation. Mallory recalls adolescent sleepover viewing focused on its famous scenes; Van recalls wanting more sex and less courtroom material.
- Watch-setting choices are solo viewing or a teenage sleepover; Van recalls his father reacting to the movie, prompting a proposed goddamn category. — Van Lathan
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- Ebert’s three-star rating is explicit; the hosts praise his lurid-trash description and correct loved it to liked it. — Bill Simmons
Most Rewatchable Scene
The motel threesome
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- Sailing, the Jeep ride and Van Ryan arrival are scene candidates. Third Eye Blind into Why Can’t We Be Friends is a needle-drop choice; the later shift to jazz may be thematic. — Bill Simmons
- Sandra’s sexual dialogue and Teresa Russell’s exaggerated delivery are discussed as poor acting that suits the movie, with Black Widow and Whore career references.
- The car wash and I Want What I Want cue are praised for deliberate excess, prompting a playful celebrity-attraction hall-of-fame digression.
- Kelly telling Sandra and the police-station reaction are rewatchable for bad acting; Sandra’s self-centered response and dead-father line reveal character. A different-movie award is considered then rejected because the excess fits. — Bill Simmons
- Susie’s police account and Murray’s second-day courtroom scene are candidates, with the sleazy brilliant-lawyer type admired.
- Reported contractual and filming details of the motel scene are discussed alongside its unusual explicitness for the era; claims about alcohol need exact-source qualification. — Bill Simmons
- The motel threesome is praised for revealing the conspiracy while serving the plot rather than merely adding sex, and is declared the leading scene.
- The pool scene and Bacon’s filming reaction are runners-up; the shower reveal creates an expectation of a Dillon/Bacon relationship.
- The ending and explanatory credits are candidates, but the motel threesome wins, with the pool scene second and the extended cut recommended.
The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop
Third Eye Blind into Why Can’t We Be Friends; I Want What I Want
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- Sailing, the Jeep ride and Van Ryan arrival are scene candidates. Third Eye Blind into Why Can’t We Be Friends is a needle-drop choice; the later shift to jazz may be thematic. — Bill Simmons
- The car wash and I Want What I Want cue are praised for deliberate excess, prompting a playful celebrity-attraction hall-of-fame digression.
The most 1998 thing
Bacon’s camcorder; soundtrack; teacher/student plots; cast; absent ballistics
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- Most-1998 choices include the soundtrack, teacher/student plots, cast, absent ballistics and Bacon’s bulky camcorder, the latter called the obvious winner.
What’s Aged the Best?
Credit stingers; throuples; class themes; literary detail; shorts; goth style; Florida; nudity; poster; Rubin-Vega; dialogue; Jeep
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- Aged-best choices are credit stingers, throuples, class-war themes, Susie’s literary detail and short shorts. — Mallory Rubin
- Goth styling, South Florida scandals and the location’s cinematic qualities age best. — Van Lathan
- A counterargument begins that Florida is effective atmosphere but underused in the plot; it continues in the next packet. — Mallory Rubin
- Florida’s atmosphere is defended, while an objection asks why the alligators never kill anyone or dispose of a body.
- Bacon’s nudity, the poster, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Sandra’s dialogue are additional aged-best choices. — Bill Simmons
- The Jeep receives late praise, qualified by its vacation practicality.
The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot
Dillon’s yeah; wet Kelly in the foyer; pool emergence
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The Den of Thieves Benihana Award for Scene-Stealing Location
Van Ryan house; Tropic Motel
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- Scene-stealing locations are the Van Ryan house and Tropic Motel, with the home’s balcony, dock and guesthouse praised. — Bill Simmons
How Would Van Lathan Get Out of This One?
A motel visit framed as adult political and cultural outreach
Flex pick · Van Lathan
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- Van explicitly selects How Would Van Get Out of This One, inventing a defense of a motel visit as political/cultural outreach with adult college fans; the lengthy story is a comic hypothetical, not an event. — Van Lathan
The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
The missing Sam–Ray relationship
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- The missing Sam/Ray sexual relationship is a weak-link and aged-worst choice. Reports conflict on why filming was abandoned, but the hosts think an explicit relationship would make their conspiracy more coherent.
- The hosts reiterate that the omitted Sam–Ray relationship could be implied without explicit imagery. — Bill Simmons
Mallory Rubin Award: Did This Movie Need a Better Sex Scene?
Sam–Ray; extended pool; Sam/Gloria; Sam/Sandra
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- Better-sex-scene ideas are restoring Sam/Ray and the extended pool material, adding Sam masturbating while watched by Gloria or a Gloria hookup, and a Sam/Sandra reconciliation; pocketing underwear is praised as character detail. — Mallory Rubin
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