The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson
Corporate society is inevitable
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- The chosen lesson repeats Bartholomew's claim that corporate society is inevitable.
Categories & segments
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- Network is selected as the highbrow pairing because it connects media with sports and entertainment.
- Enter the Dragon is selected as a less-highbrow pairing associated with the same era.
- The Longest Yard is considered as a pairing of early great sports movies.
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- The final vote awards the movie to James Caan.
Podcast choices
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- James Caan
Most Rewatchable Scene
The Jonathan–Bartholomew argument during the tree-burning party
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- Producer Craig selects Jonathan's argument with Bartholomew during the tree-burning party as his most rewatchable scene. — Craig Horlbeck
- Craig also praises the party as the film's most interesting sequence. — Craig Horlbeck
Picking Nits
Producer Craig objects to the uniforms and to the players not looking like elite athletes.
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- Craig calls the jerseys and helmets the worst-looking uniforms he has seen in a sport. — Craig Horlbeck
- Craig objects that most of the players look like ordinary workers rather than elite athletes. — Craig Horlbeck
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- The podcast states that Roger Ebert gave RoboCop three stars.
- The panel says Ebert could have added another half star because the film was ahead of its time.
Most Rewatchable Scene
The ED-209 boardroom demonstration
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- 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.
“OK, Motherfucker” Award for When the Movie Goes Up a Notch
Murphy’s brutal execution
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- 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.
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
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- The house return is called the possible pee break.
- The scene is still necessary because Murphy’s family memories support the ending.
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.
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- 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.
The most "year the movie came out" thing
Leza Gibbons
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- 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.
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
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- 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.
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