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The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop

Billy Joel's Vienna

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:21:00Read transcript
  • Head Over Heels, used twice, first seemed the winner, then Thriller, until Vienna kicks in: "that's our winner." — Juliet Litman
  • Few movies use a Billy Joel song over a sad montage this way, and it includes a train scene with a character looking out the window. — Juliet Litman
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Is There a Better Title for This Movie?

No

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:21:30Read transcript
  • The first answer is no. — Juliet Litman
  • Abroad, including Australia, it was called Suddenly 30, apparently because the original title wouldn't translate, despite Sound of Music's "16 Going on 17". — Juliet Litman
  • Asked by name whether Suddenly 30 is preferred, a third participant answers that 13 Going on 30 is better. — Bill Simmons
  • Another voice calls Suddenly 30 pretty good and likes it; "30 and flirty and thriving" is the line of the movie and probably the porn parody title. — Juliet Litman
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The Vincent Chase Award: Are We Sure This Character Is Actually Good at Their Job?

Jenna; her boss

Flex pick · Juliet Litman

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:22:28Read transcript
  • Both Jenna and her boss, played by the Andy Serkis / Gollum character, are questioned. — Juliet Litman
  • The boss loving the presentation shows terrible taste, and inviting Sparkle's editor-in-chief to the Poise party makes no sense. — Juliet Litman
  • Jenna, while committing IP theft, keeps a paper trail instead of making a phone call. — Juliet Litman
  • The response agrees neither was good at the job, which is why Poise was in trouble. — Juliet Litman
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The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

The return-to-13 ending

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Approx. transcript time · 01:23:56Read transcript
  • Back at 13 with eight days of being 30, she still ends up with Matt, though redoing 17 years should change everything; it doesn't track. — Juliet Litman
  • Unlike Big, where the kid seems to remember nothing, she does appear to remember, ripping up the paper when Tom Tom returns. — Juliet Litman
  • She presumably spends high school being kind and waiting for Matt, knowing he'll look like Mark Ruffalo in 17 years. — Bill Simmons
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What’s Aged the Worst?

No email or internet; the hockey player and his striptease; cheap apartment decor; Jenna's lack of curiosity about 2004; the art-department husband; the plastic-surgery line

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Approx. transcript time · 01:25:20Read transcript
  • Jenna hitting on a 13-year-old boy is called really uncomfortable, while the other participant thought the punchline was great and fine as a joke. — Bill Simmons
  • It would be worse with genders swapped; she looks sexiest in that scene, and Lucy would have had her committed after it. — Juliet Litman
  • Seven minutes in heaven is called gone, with pushback that it may be consensual and better than drugs; Matt's seven-minutes joke was ahead of its time. — Bill Simmons
  • There is no email or internet in a 2004 movie. — Bill Simmons
  • The hockey stuff insults hockey players; the hosts say the 2004 Rangers went 27-40, and real hockey players are stoic, unlike Alex Carlson; the goofy striptease is the worst scene, which is agreed. — Bill Simmons
  • Jenna's apartment has cheap-looking kitchen cabinets and furniture. — Bill Simmons
  • She isn't curious enough about 2004, missing an easy Michael Jackson cover joke, unlike Elf. — Bill Simmons
  • The scene where the husband of Tracy from the art department comes in, with a line about the drawers last week, felt like it was from a different movie; it was meant to show she was an awful person but didn't work. — Bill Simmons
  • Ruffalo's character talks about the plastic-surgery movement as if it were over. — Bill Simmons
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The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award

The New York Ranger's striptease

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Approx. transcript time · 01:29:31Read transcript
  • It's got to be the striptease with the New York Ranger, agreed; the guy coming into her office to make out with her is offered as an alternative. — Bill Simmons
  • Anything sexual in this movie is not well done; Big pulled it off with the gender switch and Penny Marshall directing. — Juliet Litman
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

It is not a rom-com but a teen movie; Vienna was the most underrated great pop song from 1977 to 2004

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Approx. transcript time · 01:29:57Read transcript
  • It is not a rom-com but a teen movie: they end up together only through time travel, Jenna is 13, there is no threat to overcome, and the moral is be a nice person. — Juliet Litman
  • The response: it might not even be the hottest take, just right. — Bill Simmons
  • From 1977 to 2004 Vienna was the most underrated great pop song, among the best ever with Wonderwall, Hey Jude and I Will Always Love You, and it took 28 years for a movie to unlock it. — Juliet Litman
  • Billy Joel reportedly calls it one of his two best and credits the film's popularity with girls for its late success. — Juliet Litman
  • Vienna and Summer, Highland Falls are called his underrated great songs; the other participant came to love it via the Spotify algorithm and calls it a B-side-like song that sets the scene apart. — Bill Simmons
  • A participant's daughter sang Vienna at a fifth-grade talent show, a parenting highlight, though no other parent knew the song. — Bill Simmons
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Casting What-Ifs

Reported backups Gwyneth Paltrow, Hilary Swank and Renee Zellweger; Paul Rudd and Sam Rockwell for Matt

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:33:38Read transcript
  • Paltrow, Swank and Zellweger were reportedly backups if Garner couldn't do it; neither participant thinks they work, though mid-90s Zellweger might. — Juliet Litman
  • Young Jenna looks like Hilary Swank; Paltrow and Ruffalo later made a flight attendant movie that was not good. — Juliet Litman
  • The casting director reportedly said Paul Rudd and Sam Rockwell were next if Ruffalo turned it down; Rudd could work. — Bill Simmons
  • Test audiences reportedly hated the original young Matt and young Jenna, who were reshot with different actors. — Bill Simmons
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