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Halloween II

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Michael Myers did not kill a Black person on screen until 2002 and was therefore jokingly radicalized by the O.J. trial.

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:11:30Read transcript
  • The argument excludes Nurse Alves because her death is offscreen and imagines 1990s court-TV and late-night coverage changing Michael’s politics. — Van Lathan
  • Later films’ Black victims are presented as the invented evidence for the transformation. — Van Lathan
Halloween II

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Laurie’s absent adoptive parents may be worse than the Home Alone parents; Brackett and every Haddonfield adult also fail to protect children.

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Approx. transcript time · 01:14:19Read transcript
  • They never appear despite their daughter being stabbed, hospitalized, attacked again, and transferred after dawn. — Bill Simmons
  • Adoption might explain emotional distance but not their total absence; an all-night adult party is the comic alternate explanation. — Bill Simmons
Halloween II

Unintentional Comedy Award

The paramedic making injured Laurie take a “big step” into the ambulance

Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck

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Approx. transcript time · 01:21:47Read transcript
  • Laurie has been unable to walk, yet receives no stretcher and must put weight on the injured ankle.
  • Jimmy’s extreme injured acting is an additional low-key overacting joke; an alternate TV ending puts him beside Laurie in the ambulance. — Bill Simmons
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