Scorsese or Spielberg?
Martin Scorsese wins through the Cape Fear thriller comparison
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- Martin Scorsese is selected because the premise can be viewed as a thriller
Categories & segments
Catherine Tramell Award: Would You Throw Your Life Away for This Obvious Stay-Away?
Mary is the obvious stayaway because her history attracts dangerous stalkers
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- Mary is selected because dating her would invite conflict with obsessive former suitors
- A speaker says he would accept the risk anyway
Picking Nits
Mary’s living and work arrangements, Dom’s plan, Brett Favre’s availability, and Tucker’s long game are questioned
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- Why an orthopedic surgeon shares a modest balcony complex with Magda is questioned
- Mary’s apparently light patient and surgery schedule is questioned
- Ted failing to connect Dom with his high-school identity is questioned
- Dom helping Ted while planning to pursue Mary himself is questioned
- Ted reaching Brett Favre during game week is questioned
- Pat Healy’s long-term plan to sustain his lies is questioned
- Tucker’s long-term deception is called baffling
Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake
The movie is declared untouchable
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- A sequel, remake, or all-Black recast is rejected in favor of leaving the movie untouched
Is This Movie Better With…?
Fergie is the favored impression addition, with several recurring characters considered
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- Fergie is proposed to send Healy to Miami
- Robert Evans is proposed for narration about Mary
- Wayne Jenkins, Zane Lowe, Robert Evans, and Ryan Ruocco are among the listed options
Probably Unanswerable Questions
The successor to 1990s rest areas, Ted and Mary’s future, and the missing sequel are debated
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- What replaced rest areas as the era’s clandestine meeting place is questioned
- The podcast equivalent of clearing one’s head before a date is jokingly debated
- Whether Ted and Mary married is questioned, with a short relationship predicted
- Why the hit movie never received a sequel is treated as the largest unanswered question
What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?
Mary’s golf bag, Warren’s earmuffs, and the prop-maker’s case of hair-gel samples are selected
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- Mary’s signature golf bag is selected
- Warren’s red earmuffs are selected
- The prop briefcase containing many hair-gel samples is selected
Best Double Feature
Kingpin, American Pie, and Dumb and Dumber are proposed
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- Kingpin is proposed for a Farrelly brothers pairing
- American Pie is proposed as the following summer’s comedy companion
- Dumb and Dumber is proposed
Who Won the Movie?
The winner is disputed among Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, and the Farrelly brothers
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- Matt Dillon is selected for being the viewing’s funniest surprise
- Ben Stiller is selected for the long comedy-star run the film launched
- Cameron Diaz is selected because the title, poster, and cultural impact center her
- The contemporary 1998 winner is framed as Diaz while Dillon is the retrospective winner
- The Farrelly brothers are credited with the film’s construction and immediate promise
Roger Ebert's review
Roger Ebert's stated score is three and a half stars.
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- The stated review score is three and a half stars.
- The quoted review praises the film's many quotable lines and the survival of its fragile comic vision inside an expensive production.
Most Rewatchable Scene
The fame montage wins, while the first hotel call is a strong personal favorite and several other scenes receive support.
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- Venkman's biased ESP experiment with the two students opens the candidate list and is praised as very funny.
- The library investigation is praised for exploiting the uneasy quiet and scale of a large library.
- Dana's groceries, the frying eggs, and the Ghostbusters television commercial are nominated together.
- Venkman being slimed during the hotel call leads directly into one participant's favorite: the fame montage set to the theme song.
- Louis Tully's party is praised for Rick Moranis's improvised financial introductions and detailed comic business.
- Possessed Dana's invitation to Venkman is admired partly because he recognizes she is not herself and refuses to exploit her.
- The finale is praised for Ray's comic timing when he realizes he imagined the marshmallow figure and for the decision to cross the streams.
- The jail and mayor sequence, including Venkman's confrontation with Peck, is another finalist.
- The first hotel call is a personal favorite because the team uses its equipment for the first time and the scene functions like an origin story.
- The group ultimately identifies the fame montage as the most rewatchable scene.
The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop
Ray Parker Jr.'s theme over the fame montage wins the needle-drop comparison.
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- The theme song begins as the film moves into its news-and-celebrity fame montage.
- The sequence is compared to the emotional lift of the Pursuit of Happyness needle drop and called a serotonin hit.
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