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What About Bob?

Recasting Couch

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

Tiffani-Amber Thiessen is proposed for a clearly high-school-aged Anna, then an all-Black remake develops around Sterling K. Brown, Sanaa Lathan, J.B. Smoove, and Tracy Morgan, with Kevin Hart rejected.

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  • Will Ferrell is proposed as Bob because he could balance an annoying character with likability.
  • Phil Hartman is proposed as Leo because the role needs rage that remains comic.
  • The existing cast is first declared perfect before the discussion pivots to an all-Black version.
  • Tiffani-Amber Thiessen is proposed if Anna is meant to read as an unmistakable high-school student.
  • The panel worries that a more conspicuous teen-star casting would disrupt the family’s intentionally ordinary quality.
  • Sterling K. Brown is proposed for Leo in the all-Black version.
  • Sanaa Lathan is proposed for Leo’s wife.
  • Kevin Hart is identified as the obvious commercial Bob choice but rejected because the panel doubts he would disappear into the character.
  • J.B. Smoove becomes the preferred Bob because he can charm the family while aggravating Sterling K. Brown’s Leo.
  • Kenan Thompson is considered for Leo as an undervalued performer.
  • Tracy Morgan is also proposed as Bob and receives strong support.
  • The remake discussion pivots to an all-Black cast for What About Bob.
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What About Bob?

Half-Assed Internet Research

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

Research covers the miniature house explosion, a reported Spielberg Oscar campaign, Murray’s awards history, the Murray-Dreyfuss feud, the Virginia filming location, and Charlie Korsmo’s academic and legal career.

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  • The explosion used a three-quarter-scale replica rather than destroying the expensive real house.
  • Steven Spielberg is reported to have spent his own money campaigning for a Bill Murray Oscar nomination.
  • The panel notes Murray has only one Oscar nomination despite his long importance to movies.
  • Sean Penn’s win over Murray’s Lost in Translation performance is criticized; the winning film title is unclear in the machine transcript.
  • Murray is reported to have acknowledged that aggravating Dreyfuss helped the movie.
  • Dreyfuss is reported to have called the experience unpleasant while still admitting Murray made him laugh.
  • A Dreyfuss account says Murray aggressively confronted him and threw a heavy glass ashtray.
  • The panel condemns physical harm but treats Murray’s verbal insult as darkly funny.
  • The vacation house was filmed at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia.
  • Charlie Korsmo is reported to have chosen What About Bob? instead of the Terminator 2 child role.
  • Korsmo later earned physics and law degrees, practiced law, taught corporate law, and received a federal board nomination.
  • The group calls Korsmo a legend in both acting and his later academic career.
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What About Bob?

Apex Mountain

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

Charlie Korsmo’s acting career and “death therapy” receive strong cases; Good Morning America, Lake Winnipesaukee, and patient-therapist movies are debated, with Analyze This favored for the last.

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  • Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss receive explicit negative Apex verdicts.
  • Julie Haggerty also receives a negative Apex verdict.
  • Charlie Korsmo receives an acting-apex verdict even though his later academic career may be a larger achievement.
  • The movie’s “death therapy” concept is proposed as an apex.
  • Good Morning America receives a possible case based on the era’s cultural centrality of morning shows.
  • Lake Winnipesaukee is proposed but left unresolved.
  • Patient-therapist movies are compared, with Analyze This favored because it was a large hit and important to De Niro.
  • Bob being foisted onto Leo is proposed as a Foist Apex candidate.
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What About Bob?

Picking Nits

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

The panel questions Bob’s shifting symptoms, the Gutmans’ constant availability, Leo’s murder plan, and the length of Leo’s vacation; Bob’s apparent inconsistency is answered as gradual improvement through Baby Steps.

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  • Bob’s OCD behavior seems to come and go: he cannot leave home or touch a doorknob, then suddenly socializes with the answering-service workers.
  • Anna’s immediate invitation of Bob is called a borderline nitpick and prompts debate about the character’s age and possible attraction.
  • The response is that pursuing Leo forces Bob into increasingly difficult interactions and therefore functions as treatment.
  • Bob touching the family car without a napkin becomes evidence that his trust is growing.
  • Bob’s impersonation and detective work show him re-entering the world rather than remaining static.
  • The Gutmans appear across the lake whenever the story needs them despite supposedly running a diner.
  • Leo’s plan to blow Bob up offers no credible explanation for the death or evidence.
  • The panel accepts that Leo has lost his mind but still finds the attempted-murder mechanics excessive.
  • A participant’s only nitpick is that committed therapists would treat possible patient self-harm as a 911 emergency.
  • The producer questions whether a psychiatrist would leave patients from July 31 through Labor Day.
  • A roughly thirty-five-day vacation is judged unusually long for an active practice.
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What About Bob?

Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

A ten-episode Netflix version is rejected as too long for a one-joke engine; the earlier all-Black movie version remains the preferred remake path.

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  • The proposed ten-episode version would use Sterling K. Brown and Tracy Morgan from the recasting discussion.
  • The panel says the story is fundamentally a compact movie and would be difficult to sustain for ten episodes.
  • In Treatment is cited as a television structure that can track multiple patients rather than stretch one doctor-patient joke.
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What About Bob?

Probably Unanswerable Questions

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

Questions ask whether Leo is an attempted murderer, whether Bob was foisted on him, why no sequel happened, and what a sequel without Leo could be.

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  • Leo’s effort to blow Bob up is judged attempted murder that should lead to jail.
  • Bob’s previous doctor transferring him to Leo is proposed as an all-time foist.
  • The absence of a sequel is attributed partly to the stars’ hostility.
  • The panel says a sequel still needs Dreyfuss because his performance is essential.
  • A conventional reversal sequel is compared with Analyze That and the observed “Meet the Fokkers.”
  • One 2021 sequel pitch makes Bob a successful television self-help figure whose progress collapses after Leo dies.
  • A reported royalties dispute with Disney is raised as a practical reason Dreyfuss might not return.
  • Possible sequel titles include But Seriously…What About Bob? and What About Me?
  • The all-Black sequel is later given the title What About Van?
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What About Bob?

What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

Bob’s local shirt, Leo’s puppets, the Wagoneer, and the Lake Winnipesaukee house are the choices.

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  • The game-worn Bill Murray local shirt is one choice.
  • Leo’s therapy puppets are another choice.
  • The mentioned Waggonier is praised as a great car memorabilia choice.
  • The lake house is the final aspiration and strongest lifestyle choice.
  • The panel imagines a shared timeshare and participation in the town’s local culture.
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What About Bob?

Who Won the Movie?

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

All three participants choose Bill Murray.

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  • Bill Murray receives the first immediate winner choice.
  • Two further participants agree without qualification.
  • The performance is compared with a unanimous MVP season.
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What About Bob?

Producer review

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

Producer Craig’s sole added point is that Leo’s July 31-through-Labor-Day vacation seems too long for a psychiatrist with patients.

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  • The producer introduces the vacation length as an omitted Picking Nits answer.
  • The period from July 31 through Labor Day is estimated at about thirty-five days.
  • The hosts agree that a month away from active patients seems unusually long.
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Predator

Most Rewatchable Scene

Predator The Rewatchables

No consensus: the slaughter run, jungle gunfire, Dutch–Predator finale, and wardrobe arrival all received strong support.

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  • Dutch and Dillon’s arm-wrestling greeting was nominated.
  • The discovery of the skinned bodies was nominated.
  • The compound rescue was nominated.
  • Billy sensing that something is wrong in the jungle was nominated.
  • Blaine’s death was nominated.
  • Mac’s grief response after Blaine dies was nominated.
  • The team’s indiscriminate sustained gunfire into the jungle was nominated.
  • Dutch discovering that mud hides him from the Predator was nominated.
  • The helicopter-arrival wardrobe breakdown was introduced as a “Zapruder scene.”
  • The slasher-style sequence where the team is hunted one by one was nominated.
  • Dutch’s final one-on-one trap sequence against the Predator was nominated.
  • One host chose the jungle firing; another chose Dutch versus Predator; another chose the slasher section.
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Predator

What’s Aged the Best?

Predator The Rewatchables

Arnold’s iconography and battle cry, Old Painless, one-liners, production mythology, Sunny Landham, Jesse Ventura, Poncho, the creature fix, structure, score, and heat vision were praised.

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  • Arnold’s first cigar shot remains effective action-star iconography.
  • Dutch’s battle cry remains effective.
  • Old Painless remains an iconic action-movie weapon.
  • The movie’s compact one-liners remain effective.
  • Arnold plays the escalating threat with unusual seriousness.
  • The cold, wet jungle shoot became durable production mythology.
  • Van Damme’s firing from the original creature role became durable production mythology.
  • The cast’s dawn workouts and physical competition became durable production mythology.
  • The reshot final third created a cleaner creature confrontation.
  • Sunny Landham was praised as a uniquely authentic and unpredictable screen presence.
  • Jesse Ventura’s wrestling persona translated into an unusually memorable supporting action role.
  • Poncho’s reactions and supporting presence were praised.
  • Stan Winston’s replacement creature design was treated as essential to the film’s success.
  • The shift from ensemble combat movie to slasher and then one-on-one duel was praised.
  • Alan Silvestri’s score was praised.
  • The thermal-vision effect was praised as both legible and durable.
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