The Big Kahuna Burger Award for Best Use of Food and Drink
RoboCop’s organic food paste
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- The paste reportedly used parsnip, tomato puree, and crushed Butterfinger bars.
Categories & segments
The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot
RoboCop’s expanding alley-wall shadow during the rescue
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- The crew had RoboCop walk backward so his shadow would grow against the wall.
The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop
No existing needle drop
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- 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.
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- The panel argues young writers should name villains Richard so someone can call them Dick.
Is There a Porn Parody of This Movie?
RoboCock is the immediate parody title.
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- The title RoboCock is supplied immediately when the category is proposed.
The most GIFable moment
RoboCop open-mouthed in the factory chair
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- The factory-chair image is described as a common reaction gift for terrible news.
Did This Movie Need a Random Sports Scene?
A warehouse half-court basketball game for Clarence’s gang
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- Clarence’s gang playing three-on-three basketball or a shooting contest in the warehouse is proposed.
The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
The movie being too short and its unexplored Murphy-family story
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- One panelist wants five or ten more minutes, including a deleted chase and cemetery visit.
- The movie never establishes Murphy with his family before his death.
- A scene where Murphy’s wife recognizes RoboCop at the station is proposed.
- A competing theory says Murphy’s marriage may already have been bad, explaining how quickly his wife moved on.
What’s Aged the Worst?
The sequels and 2014 remake, police strikes, a WCW RoboCop tie-in, suit-production conflict, and Clarence Boddicker’s name age worst.
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- The sequels and 2014 remake are rejected because the original remains available.
- A police strike is questioned because the panel says none has happened in America since the 1910s.
- RoboCop joining Sting in WCW is mocked for the collapsing jail-set bars.
- The suit conflict briefly led Verhoeven to fire Weller before rehiring him.
- Clarence Boddicker is criticized as an implausible name for the character.
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- Bob Morton is cited for dialing up his performance.
- ED-209’s flailing and crying after falling down the stairs wins.
- ED-209 is also interpreted as a Freudian projection of Dick Jones’s sexual insecurity.
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
The Dick Jones puppet fall nearly ruins the technical achievement; Kyle Brandt as RoboCop
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- The Dick Jones puppet fall is called a terrible last-second special effect.
- The fall is compared unfavorably with Hans Gruber’s fall one year later.
- Kyle Brandt is proposed as an especially plausible alternate RoboCop.
Casting What-Ifs
Peter Weller ultimately won the role after a long search; the discussion covers many alternate Murphy, Lewis, and Boddicker choices.
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- Jonathan Kaplan left to direct Project X, and Verhoeven initially dismissed the script.
- Schwarzenegger, Ironside, Rucker Hauer, Tom Berringer, Armin Asante, Keith Caradine, and James Remar were Murphy possibilities.
- Steven Seagal appears among possible Murphy headshots and is developed as a comic alternate.
- Stephanie Zimbalist was cast as Lewis but a Remington Steele pickup prevented it.
- Michael Ironside declined Boddicker and Kurtwood Smith moved from auditioning for Dick Jones to Boddicker.
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