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Animal House The Rewatchables
Animal House

Picking Nits

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

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

Probably Unanswerable Questions

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

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

Most Rewatchable Scene

The Southern dinner; naked fight; Jewish bed-and-breakfast

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

The most 2006 thing

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

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

What’s Aged the Best?

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

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