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Running Scared The Rewatchables
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The most "year the movie came out" thing

Honda Elite scooters

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  • Jimmy Smits as the villain and Sweet Freedom shoehorned into the movie open the 1986 list.
  • Walter Payton gear, the 1985 Bears, Michael Jordan, and a 1983 White Sox cap make Chicago sports central to the answer.
  • Darlane Flugel, Joey Pants with hair, and roller skating are further period markers.
  • The Honda Elite scooters win because of their era-specific ad campaign and disappearance.
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What’s Aged the Best?

Cop names; angry lieutenants; rival buddy cops; Steven Bauer’s look; uncontainable villains; unannounced visits; dead-body escalator; friendship; poster; company cars; croissant mockery; Chicago bars

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  • Ray Hughes and Danny Costanzo are praised as archetypal cop names.
  • Dan Hadea preserves the angry-lieutenant tradition and prompts a long Inspector Todd riff.
  • A buddy-cop movie with rival buddy cops is admired even though the “young” rivals are the same age as Hines.
  • Stephen Bauer’s layered clothes, beard, and unwashed energy are described as peak mid-1980s texture.
  • A villain committing murder and immediately returning to the street is defended as an essential action-movie staple.
  • Unannounced visits are remembered as common before cellphones; a recent personal doorstep visit shows the habit has not entirely vanished.
  • A dead bad guy descending an escalator, “you are the detectives, go and detect,” and the poster are preserved as memorable images.
  • Company cars, including the detectives’ unmarked car, prompt nostalgia for shared workplace vehicles.
  • The period’s derision toward croissants is treated as a comic cultural marker.
  • Chicago bars look unusually good on film and function as the characters’ living rooms.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

Reused title; uncontainable villains; Uzis; police abuse; scarf flourish; interrupted sex; repetitive final hour; soundtrack beyond Sweet Freedom; fake snow; underused R rating

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  • The unrelated 2006 Running Scared creates title confusion on cable, streaming, search, and the episode title.
  • Uzis are described as a once-common film prop that seems to have fallen out of fashion; the speakers remain unsure whether they still appear in newer action films.
  • Constant police brutality and rule-breaking are identified as another dated genre convention.
  • Crystal’s repeated scarf flip feels more like a performer bit than Danny Costanzo behavior.
  • Walking into a friend’s bedroom during sex is described as something films rarely show now, while Hines’s character seems completely comfortable with the interruption.
  • The last hour repeats confrontations with Julio and could lose roughly seven minutes, especially from the airport chase.
  • Sweet Freedom carries an otherwise weak, loud, synth-heavy soundtrack.
  • Some artificial Chicago snow looks cheap.
  • The movie is rated R, but the hosts ask why it did not “earn the R” with the adult material it repeatedly approaches.
  • A murderer being released immediately after an obvious public killing is offered as Aged Worst before the same trope is defended separately as Aged Best.
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The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

Danny–Anna chemistry; Crystal’s Italian Chicago-cop identity

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  • Anna’s willingness to leave her dentist fiancé for Danny feels unsupported because the breakup and lingering attraction are barely explained.
  • The film offers only the idea that Danny values police work more than their relationship before his Florida plan brings Anna back.
  • The competing answer questions casting Billy Crystal as Danny Costanzo without acknowledging a Jewish or mixed family identity.
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Mallory Rubin Award: Did This Movie Need a Better Sex Scene?

Fuller Hines scene; apartment-raid or Key West nudity

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  • The episode says it might have had Heinz step in for about 30 seconds.
  • The hosts ask for more sex happening in the apartments the detectives bust into.
  • The film repeatedly flirts with nudity in bedrooms and Key West but stops short.
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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

Lethal Weapon franchise potential; aspirational Key West location

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  • A planned sequel called Still Running failed because Crystal and Hines rejected the scripts, which the hosts call an enormous missed business opportunity.
  • The main take argues this chemistry and premise could have become the Lethal Weapon franchise in a friendlier release window.
  • The hosts sketch sequels that finish one last Chicago job and then defend a Key West bar from a past enemy.
  • A separate take places Key West beside Cocktail’s Jamaica and Hardbodies’ Santa Monica and Malibu as childhood escape fantasies.
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