Shampoo · The Rewatchables ·December 9, 2025 Shampoo Picking Nits The daughter’s reaction, party-house geography, loan logic, instant valets, and transported motorcycle In the discussion (6) Approx. transcript time · 01:42:23Read transcript Felicia’s muted response to the possibility that George slept with her teenage daughter is questioned. The ownership and geography of the large party house are confusing. Whether Jill slept with Johnny Pope and whether the ambiguity preserves her agency are debated. George’s plan for securing a salon loan lacks credible financial detail. The valets retrieve cars implausibly quickly from the crowded party. George arrives by car but leaves on a motorcycle that had no shown way to reach the party.
Shampoo · The Rewatchables ·December 9, 2025 Shampoo Just One Oscar Robert Towne’s screenplay In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 01:48:39Read transcript Robert Towne’s screenplay is the serious choice after comic supporting-performance suggestions.
Shampoo · The Rewatchables ·December 9, 2025 Shampoo Probably Unanswerable Questions The group asks whether George gets a salon and whether Lester and Jackie last. In the discussion (3) Approx. transcript time · 01:49:05Read transcript Whether George ever opens a salon is left unresolved. Whether Lester and Jackie remain together is asked; the panel expects them to separate. George’s later life is imagined as a series of failed salon jobs and possible drug trouble.
Shampoo · The Rewatchables ·December 9, 2025 Shampoo What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie? The Triumph, jacket, blow dryer, earring, and Almost Famous/Say Anything props In the discussion (4) Approx. transcript time · 01:50:10Read transcript The Triumph motorcycle is selected despite the speaker’s fear of riding motorcycles. George’s brown leather jacket is considered and criticized as too thin and ordinary. The blow dryer is proposed as a usable studio prop. The earring is selected because the apartment scene spins on it.
Shampoo · The Rewatchables ·December 9, 2025 Shampoo The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson Selling out is challenged by the counterlesson that Jill finds a way out. In the discussion (2) Approx. transcript time · 01:53:26Read transcript The film’s apparent lesson that everyone eventually sells out is proposed but challenged. Jill is described as clawing her way out, leaving optimism and hope in the ending.
Shampoo · The Rewatchables ·December 9, 2025 Shampoo Best Double Feature The Parallax View, The Rules of the Game, and Nashville In the discussion (3) Approx. transcript time · 01:54:51Read transcript The Parallax View is selected as the dark counterpart to Beatty’s Shampoo persona. The Rules of the Game is selected for its interrelationships and wistful tone. Nashville is selected as another sprawling, musical, political film from 1975.
Shampoo · The Rewatchables ·December 9, 2025 Shampoo Who Won the Movie? Warren Beatty In the discussion (1) Approx. transcript time · 01:55:38Read transcript Warren Beatty is chosen with agreement. Podcast choices Speaker not identifiedWarren Beatty
Rocky II · The Rewatchables ·December 2, 2025 Rocky II Most Rewatchable Scene Round fifteen; Apollo and Duke; Adrian awakening through the training turn In the discussion (28) Approx. transcript time · 00:24:33Read transcript The repeated ending of the first film is questioned for marathons, though the opening fight supplies action before a long stretch without boxing. The opening credits and remastered Rocky theme are nominated. Rocky wheeling over to Apollo and asking whether Apollo gave his best is nominated as a short scene. Rocky’s zoo marriage proposal, including his awkward phrasing and invitation to the tiger, is nominated. Rocky struggling to film the Beast aftershave commercial is nominated and described as painful to watch. The group digresses on period aftershave advertising and the appeal of the Beast campaign. Mickey testing Rocky’s injured eye and warning that another fight could hurt him permanently is nominated. Rocky returning to work in the gym and Mickey challenging his dignity is separately praised for Stallone’s acting. Rocky’s quiet job loss and request to finish the workday are praised as understated setbacks. Duke warning Apollo that Rocky kept coming and is wrong for them is praised as a great sports-movie monologue. Apollo calling Rocky out on television through Mickey deciding they should fight again is nominated. Paulie’s behavior at the press conference prompts an extended objection to the harm he causes Adrian and Rocky. The eleven-minute coma stretch is criticized for its length. Adrian waking, telling Rocky to win, and Mickey asking what they are waiting for is selected as a favorite sports-movie turn. The one-arm exercise against the sun, chicken-catching, and jump-rope work announce the energized training montage. The montage is praised for establishing the heightened training template of later Rocky films. Rocky beating up scrap metal is singled out as a standout training-montage image. The hosts estimate roughly six weeks of serious training before the fight. Rocky dropping the heavy log and choosing to pick it up again is praised as a perseverance moment. The scrapyard hammering prompts a joke about a spinoff following the scrapyard owner. Mickey’s largely silent assistant receives praise for the medicine-ball training and stomach punches. The montage’s contrast between neighborhood-supported Rocky and ego-driven Apollo is praised. Rocky’s run through Philadelphia with the children is nominated, while its estimated distance and finishing sprint are questioned. The fight’s escalation into “World War III” and Rocky refusing to go down are nominated. Rounds three through fourteen and especially the fifteenth-round double knockout are nominated. Rocky’s victory speech produces a debate over ranking the day against marriage and his child’s birth. One final choice is round fifteen, with the Apollo-and-Duke conversation as a secondary favorite. Another final choice is Adrian waking followed by “What are we waiting for?” and the training montage.
Rocky II · The Rewatchables ·December 2, 2025 Rocky II “OK, Motherfucker” Award for When the Movie Goes Up a Notch Adrian’s “Win,” followed by Mickey’s “What are we waiting for?” In the discussion (2) Approx. transcript time · 00:34:57Read transcript Adrian saying “win” is identified as the point when the movie goes up a notch. The group agrees that “What are we waiting for?” is a better category name because this film accelerates immediately afterward.
Rocky II · The Rewatchables ·December 2, 2025 Rocky II The most "year the movie came out" thing A 9.5% mortgage, fifteen-round fights, paper hate mail, and major fights on regular Philadelphia television In the discussion (5) Approx. transcript time · 00:44:17Read transcript A 9.5% mortgage on a $16,000 Philadelphia house is nominated. Roberto Duran appearing as a sparring partner leads to an extended period-boxing discussion. Fifteen-round championship fights are nominated. Receiving and reading physical hate mail is nominated. Major fights airing on regular television and being held in Philadelphia are nominated.
Rocky II · The Rewatchables ·December 2, 2025 Rocky II What’s Aged the Worst? Affordable housing, Paulie, weight training, Adrian missing the fight, stickball, domestic expectations, background boxing, and Rocky’s exaggerated impairment In the discussion (8) Approx. transcript time · 00:44:30Read transcript A young couple being able to afford the house is identified as having aged worst. Paulie is selected as having aged worst. The claim that boxers should never lift weights is questioned. Adrian not attending the fight is criticized. Stickball and children playing outside are nominated as dated images. Rocky telling Adrian to start dinner after she returns to work is criticized as dated. A background boxer’s technique and hairline are mocked. Stallone is criticized for making Rocky seem too cognitively impaired in this installment.
Rocky II · The Rewatchables ·December 2, 2025 Rocky II Steven Seagal shitting on himself award for most unbelievable anecdote from the actual film shoot Stallone’s pectoral injury (uncertain) and Talia Shire’s scheduling conflict as explanations for plot choices In the discussion (3) Approx. transcript time · 00:48:01Read transcript The host says he is not positive he believes Stallone’s claim that a torn left pectoral forced the switch to right-handed fighting. The group notes that one-handed exercises in the training montage may support the injury account. Talia Shire’s work on Old Boyfriends is reported as the reason Adrian misses the fight and her scenes were filmed later.