The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot
The bound man through the hoop
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- The bound man thrown through the basketball hoop is selected.
Categories & segments
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- Paradise Found is selected as a scene-stealing location for its improbable indoor pool and sex-club design.
- The panel emphasizes the severe sanitation and public-health implications of combining an indoor water park and sex club.
The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop
Jumpin’ Jack Flash and Talk Talk
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- Jumpin’ Jack Flash in the limo is selected.
- Talk Talk playing through the end credits is selected as co-winner.
The Big Kahuna Burger Award for Best Use of Food and Drink
Chuck's tuna sandwich
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- Vincent Schiavelli's character smearing Chuck's tuna sandwich on the door after removing the mustard wins.
The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
Underwritten Belinda and implausible jobs
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- Belinda's reason for doing sex work is considered underwritten because the movie supplies no coercion, addiction, or economic explanation.
- Chuck's choice to leave investment banking for morgue work is also questioned.
- Charlotte is identified as an unpleasant and disposable character.
What’s Aged the Worst?
Sex-worker stereotype, smoking, Billy’s ideas, and Charlotte
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- The sex-worker-with-a-heart-of-gold convention is judged dated.
- Shelley Long's onscreen smoking is judged unconvincing.
- Billy's failure to notice Chuck and Belinda's relationship for months is questioned.
- Billy's supposedly original ideas are criticized as weak, already invented, or limited to Love Brokers.
- Charlotte's obsessive dieting is described as a dated portrayal.
- Chuck and Charlotte maintaining separate New York apartments while engaged is questioned on cost grounds.
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- Mr. Carbone's furious complaint about being bypassed is proposed.
- Henry Winkler's threat to make Billy play tennis with God is an alternate.
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- Stiffs is proposed as an alternate title.
- Love Brokers wins as the title that best states the central enterprise.
The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
Boy, that Barney Rubble—what an actor
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- The boss’s son admiring Barney Rubble is selected as the most memorable quote.
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Modern movies need stronger sex-worker characters
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- Billy's chalkboard pitch is proposed as an inspiration for Alec Baldwin's sales speech in Glengarry Glen Ross.
- Vivian Ward, Lana, Ophelia, and Alabama are selected for a Mount Rushmore of film sex-worker characters.
- The principal take is that modern movies have not produced comparable sex-worker characters in decades.
- The ensemble of women at Billy's pitch is praised for representing a wide range of personalities.
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- Kurt Russell and Mickey Rourke are reported as having auditioned for Billy Blaze.
- Kurt Russell is considered plausible based on Big Trouble in Little China; Mickey Rourke is considered a much stranger fit.
- Jaid Barrymore and Ola Ray's small roles are noted.
Frat Boy Number One Award for Most Unexpected A-List Cameo
Kevin Costner as Frat Boy Number One
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- Kevin Costner as Frat Boy Number One is the example for the newly named unexpected-cameo category.
- Brad Pitt in No Way Out is offered as another movie to which the category could have applied.
- The name is debated: dropping Costner makes it shorter, but keeping cameo helps listeners understand the award.
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