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This Is the End

Most Rewatchable Scene

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Danny McBride and James Franco argue about the magazine

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Approx. transcript time · 00:19:32Read transcript
  • Jay and Seth reuniting, eating at Carl’s Jr., smoking, gaming, and hearing the Backstreet Boys is proposed.
  • The celebrity party is proposed for Franco's self-mockery, Mindy Kaling and Michael Cera, Jonah and Jay, Jason Segel and Kevin Hart, Craig Robinson's song, and Cera in the bathroom.
  • The guests dying in rapid succession after the apocalypse begins is proposed.
  • Jonah playing with the gun and the Milky Way argument are proposed.
  • Danny McBride's breakfast entrance is proposed as the point when the film rises to another level.
  • The homemade Pineapple Express 2: Blood Red is proposed.
  • The group's conversation about Emma Watson and her armed departure is proposed, with the scene's sexual-threat humor acknowledged as potentially harder to stage later.
  • Danny McBride and James Franco's escalating argument over the pornographic magazine is the leading choice.
  • McBride's water outburst and expulsion are proposed as a close alternate.
  • Possessed Jonah's exorcism is selected as another leading scene.
  • Danny McBride returning with Channing Tatum as his gimp is proposed.
  • The Backstreet Boys ending in heaven is proposed as an audacious final sequence.
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This Is the End

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

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Danny McBride is the funniest person of his generation

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  • Danny McBride is declared the funniest performer of the prior fifteen years and the successor to Will Ferrell.
  • His recurring overconfident persona is compared with Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Will Ferrell.
  • His entrances, breakfast, ration argument, insults, and laughter at Michael Cera’s death are cited as examples.
  • The limited-film-role, heat-check shape of his career is praised rather than treated as a weakness.
  • Pineapple Express 2: Blood Red is identified as an apocalypse project within the film and as the prospective real sequel plot.
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This Is the End

What’s Aged the Best?

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Danny McBride, personal dynamics, specificity, and fan service

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Approx. transcript time · 00:33:52Read transcript
  • Danny McBride is the leading answer because he repeatedly broke the other actors during filming.
  • The David Spade theory of nonthreatening celebrity desirability is said to be validated by Mindy Kaling’s Michael Cera speech.
  • The Jay–Seth friendship tension and their relationship with Seth’s Los Angeles friends feel rooted in real dynamics.
  • Jonah Hill and James Franco insulting one another is praised for blurring performance and real friction.
  • The timely Lindsay Lohan joke and Jonah identifying himself to God as being from Moneyball are praised.
  • The enormous demon anatomy, recurring jokes about Seth, and period pop-culture references are praised for specificity.
  • The detailed apocalypse inventory and its conversion into 127 Hours are praised.
  • Jay Baruchel’s later account of disliking Jonah during filming is used to validate the tension onscreen.
  • Dicks up and Scarface style are praised as compact group-decision jokes.
  • Superbad and Pineapple Express fan service is praised for supplying reunion energy without conventional sequels.
  • Combining a one-night party comedy with Night of the Living Dead is praised as a potent premise.
  • Jonah's dog Aja and the video-confessional device are praised.
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This Is the End

What’s Aged the Worst?

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Franco context, party length, 3D television, and weed culture

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Approx. transcript time · 00:42:53Read transcript
  • The party is considered five or six minutes too short, while Craig Robinson’s departure could be shortened.
  • James Franco’s centrality and onscreen friendship with Seth Rogen are uncomfortable in light of their later estrangement and Franco’s disappearance from major films.
  • Emma Watson’s discomfort with improvised material is discussed with Seth Rogen’s later acceptance that communication failed.
  • 3D televisions are identified as a dated technological fad.
  • The movie’s heavy marijuana culture is judged less funny after legalization and saturation.
  • The proposed Hitler scene remains disputed rather than a unanimous missed opportunity.
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This Is the End

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

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Best Apatow-adjacent movie; Danny McBride is funniest

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Approx. transcript time · 00:46:19Read transcript
  • This Is the End is argued to be the best Apatow-adjacent film, ahead of Knocked Up and Superbad.
  • The reason given is that friendship saves the characters without forcing them into nuclear-family maturity.
  • The film’s willingness to kill major comic actors supports its refusal of a reassuring growth arc.
  • Danny McBride being the funniest performer of the generation is offered as a separate hottest take.
  • His control over his own television projects is praised as the reason he avoided weaker studio vehicles.
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