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- Jack Rabbit Slim’s is the scene-stealing location selection.
Categories & segments
The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop
You Never Can Tell; multiple alternatives
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- Let’s Stay Together, Son of a Preacher Man, and Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon are proposed.
- Misirlou transitioning into Jungle Boogie is proposed for the surprise musical switch.
- You Never Can Tell accompanying the dance is a personal selection.
- Flowers on the Wall, sung by Butch in the car, is an honorable mention.
- If Love Is a Red Dress, heard as the characters enter the pawnshop, is an honorable mention.
The Big Kahuna Burger Award for Best Use of Food and Drink
Big Kahuna Burger
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- Big Kahuna Burger is the initial choice for its namesake award.
- The five-dollar milkshake and Jimmy’s coffee are proposed as alternatives.
- The Wolf taking substantial cream and sugar is considered a surprising detail; Tarantino's own preference is offered as context, while Fabienne is noted as asking for black coffee.
- Brett’s Sprite is added as another candidate.
- Big Kahuna Burger is the agreed winner, with the milkshake acknowledged as a strong runner-up.
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- Vincent’s drug use, consideration of sleeping with his boss’s wife, and failure to protect her make him a candidate.
- Vincent loses Butch, overlooks the hidden gunman, shoots Marvin, antagonizes the Wolf, and leaves his weapon unattended.
- Vincent’s Amsterdam stay is jokingly imagined as an exile for incompetence; the movie does not establish this explanation.
- Vincent's extraordinary three days and incompetence are identified as an overlapping hottest take.
- Zed is nominated for failing to secure his captives and relying on the restrained Gimp to supervise Butch.
- The Wolf is challenged for reckless driving, condescension, and a seemingly obvious cleanup-and-junkyard plan; his rapid cleanup is the initial defense.
- Marsellus is questioned for fetching his own doughnuts despite his apparent wealth and authority. A more modest level of criminal success and enjoying errands are offered as defenses.
- Brett is questioned for betraying Marsellus; a defense says he may not know what he stole and was betrayed by Marvin. Trusting Marvin is itself challenged.
- Zed is the final bad-at-his-job choice.
The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
Fabienne’s twelve-minute stretch
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- The twelve-minute stretch with Butch’s girlfriend is selected as the weak link.
- Fabienne is defended as necessary to show Butch’s domestic side before he returns to violence.
- The performance, potbelly discussion, and forgotten watch are criticized; the claim about one-sided sexual behavior is disputed.
- Her breakfast choices are criticized and defended, and the entire stretch is described as skippable and the film’s weakest section.
- A possible pregnancy is considered and rejected as unsupported by the scene.
- Juliette Binoche is suggested if Fabienne remains French.
- Salma Hayek is suggested as a Latin American alternative.
- Jennifer Beals is suggested as an American alternative; the argument is that another performer could make the same writing work.
- The potbelly conversation and private baby talk are defended as deliberately intimate and uncomfortable, citing Tarantino's stated intention that viewers feel they are intruding.
- Butch's attraction to the taxi driver and commitment to Fabienne are questioned. Sending Fabienne back for the watch is proposed and rejected as unlikely to succeed; skipping this stretch on a family viewing illustrates the pacing objection.
What’s Aged the Worst?
Weinstein; imitations; slurs; dated details; forensic carelessness
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- Harvey Weinstein is selected for aged worst.
- Decades of imitations, especially in the mid-1990 s, are selected for aged worst.
- Racial slurs, especially Jimmie’s dialogue, are considered increasingly jarring. The discussion distinguishes their uses without resolving the justification for Jimmie’s language.
- Tarantino’s racial slurs are defended as his perception of how criminal characters would speak, while the language remains uncomfortable and his claimed familiarity with Black communities is discussed.
- Butch’s chair-escape slow motion looks dated and uniquely artificial within the film.
- Characters are careless about forensic evidence: Butch merely wipes a gun, and the apartment killings leave a conspicuous bloodbath and early-morning gunshots.
- Los Angeles diners are disappearing, and robbing diners for cash-filled wallets seems less plausible now.
- Buscemi’s tiny Buddy Holly part feels wasteful; he reportedly lacked time to play Jimmie.
- Roth’s predicted next-great-star trajectory is questioned despite strong work in this film, Reservoir Dogs and Rob Roy.
- Marvin’s visible dummy in the trunk is criticized.
- Bullet holes visible before the divine-intervention shots are criticized.
- Smoking while drinking a milkshake is considered an unpleasant combination.
- Craving a cheeseburger after heavy cocaine use is questioned.
- Older pop-culture references may no longer register.
- The cab’s rear projection is defended as a deliberate old-movie homage.
- Tarantino’s acting is defended in retrospect, especially opposite Keitel over linens; his angry tone toward Jules is the specific stretch considered unsuccessful.
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- Travolta’s felt-pen demand and Tarantino’s angry Jimmie delivery are initial options.
- Plummer’s climactic diner intensity is praised as successful excess.
- The diner manager is the stated winner for his exaggerated pleas to cooperate and avoid heroics, compared with television and cartoon performance.
In the discussion (1)
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- The existing title receives an emphatic no-replacement answer.
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Butch abandons his corner; Vincent’s wild 72 hours; replace girlfriend time with boxing
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- Butch is condemned for leaving his corner men to be tortured and only redeeming himself by rescuing Marsellus.
- Vincent’s roughly 72 hours are proposed as cinema’s wildest character stretch, spanning killings, miraculous survival, cleanup, robbery, drugs, attraction, overdose rescue and his own death.
- Eight minutes of Fabienne’s material could instead show a Tarantino-directed fatal boxing match; even a newly revealed deleted version would be exciting, though Tarantino’s limited sports interest is noted.
Casting What-Ifs
Casting notebook alternatives
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- The original notebook already wanted Keitel, Walken, Roth and Plummer; Fishburne was Jules before Jackson, with Murphy another listed possibility rather than a confirmed offer.
- Murphy’s move toward family films makes accepting this material uncertain, although it might have been a valuable career choice.
- Madsen committed to Wyatt Earp instead of Vincent, and later Vega-brothers speculation linked his Reservoir Dogs character with Vincent.
- Miramax reportedly resisted Travolta and pushed Day-Lewis; the panel imagines his unusual contemporary-hitman interpretation while strongly preferring the actual casting.
- Dillon reportedly asked for a day before accepting Butch, during which Willis became available; the lost role might have changed Dillon’s trajectory despite later successes.
- A competing Dillon story says he wanted an onscreen boxing match rather than merely asking for time to decide.
- Virginia Madsen was an early Mia choice.
- Miramax preferred Meg Ryan or Holly Hunter before Tarantino won the argument for Uma Thurman.
- Max Julien and Sid Haig reportedly declined Marsellus; Jackson was another backup while Fishburne remained the intended Jules.
- Cusack and possibly Oldman were considered for Lance, followed by Tarantino and then Stoltz; Buscemi’s unavailability led Tarantino to Jimmie, a preferable outcome to replacing Stoltz.
- Irène Jacob and Julie Delpy were considered for Fabienne.
- Delpy’s perceived intelligence makes the panel more interested in that version.
- Phil LaMarr read for Jules and Brett before being cast as Marvin.
- Courtney Love’s claim that Cobain would play Lance and she would play Jody is explicitly doubted.
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- Jackson is preferred over Thurman, with Roth added; Jackson, Roth and Waltz are singled out for delivering Tarantino dialogue.
- More Walken-Tarantino collaborations are desired because of his monologue skill.
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- Greene/Zed and Whitaker/Maynard are considered through character recognition; Calderón may be beyond the category.
- Gallagher is proposed through Trudi and The Commitments; Sweeney is considered recognizable by name, while Steers remains Flock of Seagulls.
- The cab driver and diner manager are alternatives, but Jody’s silent friend Trudi, played by Gallagher, is the final choice.
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