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Recasting Couch

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Jamie Lee Curtis, Ellen Barkin, Linda Fiorentino, Demi Moore, or Emma Stone as Belinda

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 00:54:42Read transcript
  • Jamie Lee Curtis is treated as the likeliest period replacement for Belinda.
  • Ellen Barkin and Linda Fiorentino are proposed, with concern that Fiorentino is too early.
  • A late-1980s Demi Moore and a time-shifted Emma Stone are proposed as later-era alternatives.
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Half-Assed Internet Research

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Keaton preparation, cast friction, and the Stutz

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 00:57:08Read transcript
  • Michael Keaton reportedly played 10th Avenue Freeze-Out to enter Billy Blaze’s character.
  • Henry Winkler named Shelley Long as an annoying co-star and described framing disputes over their relative height.
  • Billy's car is identified as a rare 1981 Stutz IV-Porte built on a General Motors platform.
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Apex Mountain

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No clear individual apex

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  • Michael Keaton is rejected as at apex but his debut is treated as an extraordinary leap and his funniest film performance.
  • Henry Winkler, Shelley Long, Ron Howard, and Barney Rubble are rejected as apex cases.
  • Idea men and early-1980s entrepreneurial New York are considered plausible period apexes.
  • Sex-worker comedies are assigned Risky Business rather than Night Shift.
  • Morticians are assigned Six Feet Under; Jumpin’ Jack Flash is rejected.
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Picking Nits

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Morgue inactivity, consequences, finances, and careers

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Approx. transcript time · 01:00:12Read transcript
  • The women’s lack of depicted substance abuse or other crises is questioned within the movie’s stereotype.
  • Billy's behavior is interpreted as an unmentioned cocaine addiction.
  • The Times Square morgue is implausibly quiet on the night shift.
  • Chuck and Billy getting their jobs back after arrest is considered convoluted.
  • Charlotte disappears in the second half, making her setup scenes feel expendable.
  • Charlotte’s Thanksgiving scene and near-heart-attack reaction in court are defended as funny despite her later disappearance.
  • The Christmas party is considered too brief.
  • The ten-percent share and transportation costs are questioned as insufficient to fund Billy’s expensive purchases.
  • A fifteen-to-twenty-percent commission or higher customer rates are proposed to make the business finances plausible.
  • The business is estimated to operate for roughly one month, from around Thanksgiving until the day after Christmas.
  • The short operating period is still judged insufficient to fund Billy’s car and watches.
  • The business operating without any security is questioned.
  • The group reacts too slowly after Franklin’s murder and the women’s reassignment.
  • Billy falling from successful broker to towel attendant and his unexplained qualification as a mortician are questioned.
  • The claim that there were no phones is made explicitly as a joke while discussing that slow reaction.
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