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Animal House

Picking Nits

Animal House The Rewatchables

The fraternity’s expulsion process, implausible logistics, and omitted comic payoffs draw numerous objections

In the discussion (11)
Approx. transcript time · 01:15:13Read transcript
  • Dean Wormer should not need constitutional research to expel students with zero grades
  • Several actors look too old for college, though that may aid the joke
  • Mandy should hear or see Bluto moving the ladder
  • Moving a twelve-foot ladder while standing on it is questioned
  • Flounder’s brother should understand the risks of lending his car to the fraternity
  • Boone’s neglect of Katie for the road trip is questioned
  • Mrs. Wormer attending the Delta party is called implausible
  • More explanation is requested for Fawn’s kiln-explosion death
  • Not showing Flounder vomit on Dean Wormer is called a missed payoff
  • A store having ten thousand marbles is questioned
  • The completely covered Eat Me float car appears impossible to see out of
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Animal House

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Animal House The Rewatchables

The origin of double-secret probation, the film’s genre influence, student majors, and Greg’s repression are debated

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 01:19:18Read transcript
  • Whether the film coined “double secret probation” is questioned
  • Whether the film invented both modern sex comedy and college comedy is questioned
  • The students’ majors and whether communications existed as a 1962 major are questioned
  • The Omega fraternity is jokingly compared to the Illuminati
  • Greg’s sexuality and repression are debated from his relationships and fixation on the Deltas
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Borat

Most Rewatchable Scene

Borat The Rewatchables

The Southern dinner and naked fight lead a broad field; the Jewish bed-and-breakfast is another favorite

In the discussion (14)
Approx. transcript time · 00:27:47Read transcript
  • The Kazakhstan opening and “Running of the Jew” are nominated
  • Borat greeting and provoking New Yorkers is nominated
  • The humor-coach lesson and repeated failed “not” jokes are nominated
  • Borat channel-surfing in the hotel is nominated
  • The feminist meeting and driving instruction are nominated
  • The local-news appearance and rodeo are nominated
  • The Jewish bed-and-breakfast is selected as a perfectly constructed scene
  • A competing view finds the kind hosts too sympathetic for the scene to be comfortably rewatchable
  • The Southern dinner is praised while the insult toward one guest is called the movie’s meanest moment
  • The naked hotel fight is praised as memorable but also uniquely disgusting
  • Pamela Anderson’s staged abduction is nominated
  • The fraternity motor-home sequence is discussed without excusing the filmed students
  • Borat being cleansed in the church is the final scene nominated.
  • The Southern dinner is ultimately preferred over the more memorable naked fight
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Borat

The most "year the movie came out" thing

Borat The Rewatchables

Pre-social-media filming, post-9/11 resentment, Pamela Anderson culture, and the iPod Mini are identified with 2006

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 00:45:17Read transcript
  • The ability to film strangers before social media is nominated
  • Mid-2000s anti-Muslim sentiment is nominated
  • Pamela Anderson’s autograph line at a Virgin Megastore is nominated
  • The closing iPod Mini joke is selected as the strongest 2006 marker
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Borat

What’s Aged the Best?

Borat The Rewatchables

Local-news bloopers, pre-smartphone public pranks, the conference-run anecdote, and throwaway lines are praised

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 00:48:20Read transcript
  • The local-news sequence and the durability of local-news bloopers are praised
  • Pre-smartphone public pranks are praised because spectators had neither camera phones nor social posts to expose the filming
  • The naked conference run reportedly required three attempts; an engineering-lecture audience barely reacted to the first
  • A collection of short throwaway lines is identified as the film’s lasting comic strength
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