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Slap Shot The Rewatchables
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Picking Nits

Ownership finances, hockey logistics, sudden crowds, Ned’s career and Francine’s parade route.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:27:42Read transcript
  • The Chiefs should already have more fighters before the Hansons, even if Johnny is meant to fill that role.
  • The supposedly excellent goalie gives up many goals; perhaps the defense is responsible.
  • Syracuse's five championship-game additions appear to ignore a trade deadline.
  • Anita's preference for a tax write-off over selling the team is disputed; others explain loss offsets and question the team's value.
  • McGrath's claim that NHL scouts have contracts ready seems dubious.
  • Reggie seems implausibly free to stand around taunting Hanrahan during play.
  • Lily's accent is hard to place despite the Cardinals hat; Crouse's natural speech may explain it.
  • Reggie's arrangement with Lily is unclear: provoking Ned versus the casual romantic fluidity of the small-town setting.
  • The owner's identity should be researchable, though slow communication and the players' lack of investigative effort offer explanations.
  • The Hansons' debut unexpectedly draws a full crowd despite previously empty games; a connecting scene seems missing.
  • The team apparently never practices, leaving the Hansons off the ice for over a week; a road trip is offered as a defense.
  • Ned should have found a place among the many NHL and WHA teams, unless his behavior makes him seem unstable.
  • Francine could take another route instead of driving through the parade; her indifference to hockey is defended.
Slap Shot The Rewatchables
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Ned’s short NHL career and early divorce; the Hansons’ debut as a must-attend fictional game.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:34:06Read transcript
  • The Eddie Pratt tragedy is imagined as either paralysis or an on-ice killing.
  • Ned's NHL future is imagined as cut short by a knee injury before college coaching; the Bradens are expected to divorce before the decade ends.
  • The Hansons' debut is considered among the sporting events one would most want to attend, alongside Hoosiers, The Natural, Teen Wolf, The Longest Yard, Field of Dreams and Rocky IV.
  • Rocky III is raised before Rocky IV is favored for attending the fight in Russia; Eddie is then jokingly suggested and disowned as a Knicks movie.
Slap Shot The Rewatchables

Best Double Feature

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All the Right Moves
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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The Sting
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The World According to Garp
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  • All the Right Moves keeps the pairing in the same filming city. Butch Cassidy and The Sting are also accepted; Shoresy episodes extend the hockey milieu.
  • The World According to Garp offers a George Roy Hill pairing.
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The Andy and Red – Zihuatanejo Award for What Happens the Next Day?

Reggie becomes a hockey broadcaster, with a scandalous firing imagined.

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  • After Minnesota, Reggie is imagined as an ESPN hockey analyst in the Don Cherry or Barry Melrose mold, perhaps later joining Spittin' Chiclets.
  • A darker alternative has ESPN firing Reggie around 1991 after inappropriate conduct or comments.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High The Rewatchables
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Roger Ebert's review

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  • The one-star review praises the lead actress while objecting to the film’s vulgarity.
  • The panel rejects the verdict. One participant thinks a later review admitted a mistake, but cannot substantiate it; the review is compared with the strict teacher’s perspective.
  • A reported screenwriting credit makes the judgment surprising; the one-star score is repeated. No denominator is spoken.
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