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Quiz Show The Rewatchables
Quiz Show

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Geritol, Van Doren’s alternative life, 21 today, and accepting supplied answers

In the discussion (4)
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  • What exactly was Geritol and what did it claim to do? — Bill Simmons
  • What would Charles Van Doren’s life have been if he rejected the compromised question? — Brian Koppelman
  • Would the hosts watch a modern revival of 21? — Bill Simmons
  • What would each host do in Van Doren’s situation? — Brian Koppelman
Sneakers The Rewatchables
Sneakers

Most Rewatchable Scene

The sound-based route reconstruction leads the choices; Kyle prefers the final fortress heist, with Joanna also praising the Scrabble decoding.

In the discussion (16)
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  • The 1969 prologue divides the panel: one participant would omit it, while the casting of the younger leads earns praise.
  • The supposed NSA agents confronting Marty is nominated.
  • The password-surveillance scene is nominated for Carl and Crease both wanting a look at the seduction.
  • Marty getting caught in the mathematician’s office is preferred to the preceding surveillance gag. — Bill Simmons
  • The Scrabble-code breakthrough is nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • Cosmo’s return and his financial-equality monologue are nominated.
  • Redford’s restrained reactions make an effective counterpoint to Kingsley’s large performance.
  • The discussion questions why the film treats Cosmo’s equality rhetoric as madness and compares its aging radicals with other films. — Bill Simmons
  • Reconstructing Marty’s journey through remembered sounds is selected for its suspense. — Bill Simmons
  • The sound deductions are enjoyed despite doubts about concussion and implausible memory; the apparent missing Bay Area bridge is defended geographically.
  • Cosmo addressing Marty over the intercom and revealing Liz as a hostage is nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • James Earl Jones’s surprise arrival gives the ending an extra burst of excitement.
  • The team’s requests for rewards make the final negotiation especially funny. — Bill Simmons
  • Praises the entire Warner Brandes operation, from identifying him to the restaurant ruse. — Kyle Brandt
  • Chooses the final fortress heist as his most rewatchable sequence. — Kyle Brandt
  • Chooses the cocktail-party sound reconstruction and also praises the simultaneous Scrabble decoding and box testing. — Joanna Robinson
Sneakers The Rewatchables
Sneakers

The most 1992 thing

Redford’s clothes, computer dating, answering machines, car phones, and the Bay Area setting

In the discussion (9)
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  • Redford’s light-wash straight-leg jeans are nominated.
  • His baseball jacket is nominated and compared with The Natural; the claim that it is the exact same jacket is disputed. — Joanna Robinson
  • Mary McDonnell’s feathered hair is nominated.
  • The team affording an Oakland theater and finding easy street parking feel specific to the earlier Bay Area. — Joanna Robinson
  • Hacker graphics and manipulating a computer-dating service are nominated. — Bill Simmons
  • The assumption that computer dating could not produce a bad match is challenged.
  • An answering machine hiding place and a car-phone plot point are nominated. — Kyle Brandt
  • Siskel billing Timothy Busfield ahead of other stars is selected as a striking sign of thirtysomething’s contemporary prominence. — Kyle Brandt
  • The ending’s choice of charities for the redistributed money feels characteristic of 1992. — Bill Simmons
Sneakers The Rewatchables
Sneakers

What’s Aged the Best?

Information-age paranoia, Redford’s car, comic dialogue, and James Horner’s score

In the discussion (12)
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  • The political jabs are reconsidered in the context of 2025.
  • The information-age paranoia and unstable Silicon Valley power figures feel prescient.
  • Giving an antagonist the name Dick creates a reliable insult in the dialogue. — Kyle Brandt
  • Crease’s stumble and the familiar aging-action-hero complaint are praised as a comic stunt. — Bill Simmons
  • Mother’s conspiracy theories are compared with Aykroyd’s own public persona, despite his reported attribution to his brother. — Joanna Robinson
  • The Kennedy conspiracy exchange and the Desert Storm friend joke are praised.
  • Marty’s orange car is admired; it is identified as a 1967 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia rather than a Porsche. — Joanna Robinson
  • Crease rapidly reversing his refusal to shoot his friend is praised.
  • Cosmo’s repeated immediate threat over the box is praised for its direct wording. — Kyle Brandt
  • Crease’s silent reaction to Carl’s camouflage face paint is praised. — Joanna Robinson
  • Poitier’s unexpected profanity and response to a racist guard are praised for their force.
  • Horner’s distinctive mix of saxophone, voices, and piano is praised; the panel cites Nicholas Britell’s admiration for the score.
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