RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop Most Rewatchable Scene The ED-209 boardroom demonstration In the discussion (12) Approx. transcript time · 00:27:20Read transcript Murphy arriving at the chaotic police station is an opening choice. ED-209 killing Mr. Kinney in the boardroom is the declared number-one scene. Clarence Boddicker’s warehouse pursuit and Murphy’s murder are considered despite the execution being hard to watch. RoboCop’s first day includes the convenience-store arrest and shooting through the woman’s legs. RoboCop returning to Murphy’s house supplies the human core but is also a pee-break candidate. Bob Morton’s apartment combines cocaine, sex, and Clarence’s grenade attack. The cocaine-factory shootout includes falling gunmen firing as they collapse. Toxic-waste Emil and Dick Jones’s final death are late alternatives. ED-209 wins even though RoboCop is absent from the scene. The recurring dollar-buying television joke is treated as a central satirical catchphrase in RoboCop’s first-day sequence. RoboCop ending the Mayor Gibson hostage crisis is another first-day scene candidate. Clarence leaving a futuristic video disc behind prompts a question about whether its evidence could be recovered.
RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop “OK, Motherfucker” Award for When the Movie Goes Up a Notch Murphy’s brutal execution In the discussion (3) Approx. transcript time · 00:34:17Read transcript Murphy’s hand being blown off changes the movie from comic spectacle to a brutal execution. The shot through the woman’s legs is another jump-out-of-your-seat escalation. Toxic-waste Emil being hit by the car is treated as a final extreme escalation.
RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop The Ron Burgundy Flute Award for the Best Time for a Pee Break RoboCop returning to Murphy’s former house, despite its importance to the ending In the discussion (2) Approx. transcript time · 00:39:10Read transcript The house return is called the possible pee break. The scene is still necessary because Murphy’s family memories support the ending.
RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop Marion Cobretti Pizza Cutting Award: Why Didn’t They Stop This on Set? A drug lord carrying estate Cabernet around the cocaine house is the inaugural example. In the discussion (2) Approx. transcript time · 00:42:22Read transcript The greasy drug lord walks through the cocaine house holding an estate Cabernet. The new award is named for something that should have been stopped because it would never happen.
RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop The most "year the movie came out" thing Leza Gibbons In the discussion (4) Approx. transcript time · 00:45:58Read transcript ED-209’s stop-motion effects are charming and linked to Phil Tippett. Over-the-top street thugs and watching banks of televisions through a store window are very 1980s. Falling backward out of a building is another period image. Leza Gibbons wins as a defining 1987 celebrity presence.
RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop What’s Aged the Best? The politics, dual villains, media satire, SUX commercial, Peter Weller’s committed suit performance, and a remarkable 1987 theater lineup In the discussion (8) Approx. transcript time · 00:49:16Read transcript The film’s future-crime and corporate-policing ideas are praised as unusually durable. “Dead or alive, you are coming with me” works as a setup and callback. Clarence Boddicker and Dick Jones make the two-villain structure work. The futuristic gas price and Media Break news format feel current. The 6000 SUX commercial makes fun of bigger-is-better vehicles. The name Dick and the pause before saying it are celebrated as period villain-writing. Peter Weller endured heat, water loss, and a restrictive suit while insisting on being called Robo or Murphy. A theater marquee with The Lost Boys, RoboCop, Predator, and Full Metal Jacket captures the strength of 1987.
RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop The Big Kahuna Burger Award for Best Use of Food and Drink RoboCop’s organic food paste In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 00:55:59Read transcript The paste reportedly used parsnip, tomato puree, and crushed Butterfinger bars.
RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot RoboCop’s expanding alley-wall shadow during the rescue In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 00:56:18Read transcript The crew had RoboCop walk backward so his shadow would grow against the wall.
RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop No existing needle drop In the discussion (2) Approx. transcript time · 00:56:46Read transcript The nightclub kick-to-RoboCop scene is identified as a missed music opportunity. Rockwell, Peter Murphy, XTC, and Death Leppard are floated as possible directions.
RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop Chest Rockwell / Brock Landers Award for Best Character Name Dick Jones In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 00:58:11Read transcript The panel argues young writers should name villains Richard so someone can call them Dick.
RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop Is There a Porn Parody of This Movie? RoboCock is the immediate parody title. In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 00:59:33Read transcript The title RoboCock is supplied immediately when the category is proposed.
RoboCop · The Rewatchables ·August 5, 2025 RoboCop The most GIFable moment RoboCop open-mouthed in the factory chair In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 01:00:20Read transcript The factory-chair image is described as a common reaction gift for terrible news.
