The Big Kahuna Burger Award for Best Use of Food and Drink
The poisoned fish.
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- The fish and the escalating description of food-poisoning symptoms are selected.
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The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot
The wave covering Ted and Elaine on the beach.
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- The beach wave that leaves the lovers covered in seaweed is selected.
The Slow Ride / Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness Award for Best Needle Drop
The sped-up Bee Gees disco sequence.
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- The sped-up “BGs” music in the disco is selected.
Chest Rockwell / Brock Landers Award for Best Character Name
Ted Striker; Leon.
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- Ted Stryker is selected, with repetition of his name helping the joke.
- Leon is a simple alternate character-name choice.
The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
One participant wants five more minutes of jokes, while another defends the short runtime and leaving the audience wanting more.
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- One participant proposes another jive scene, more Stephen Stucker, another child-adult exchange, and an airplane-bathroom scene.
- Another participant prefers the short runtime and argues that it leaves the audience wanting more.
What’s Aged the Worst?
Robert Stack’s rejected backend, Kareem’s no-longer-surprising casting, the extra slap, racial material, and the translated-jive localization problem
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- Robert Stack taking an extra twenty thousand dollars instead of a percentage is identified as a costly decision.
- The jive dialogue creates translation problems, with a Bavarian dialect used in German.
- The original shock of Kareem appearing in the film has faded with time.
- Leslie Nielsen returning to slap the passenger again is identified as a gag unlikely to be made now.
- The African basketball sequence is identified as uncomfortable for contemporary children.
Apex Mountain
Robert Hays is debated for Apex Mountain; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s appearance immediately after the 1980 title is identified as a literal peak.
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- Kareem’s role is called a literal Apex because it followed the 1980 championship and a dominant Finals performance.
- Robert Hayes is proposed for Apex Mountain because the movie and television success gave him unusual visibility, though the case is debated.
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- Both directors are considered ill-suited to the deliberately cheap visual style.
- Steven Spielberg is selected because 1941 shows comparable bombastic comedy instincts.
Picking Nits
The war timeline, medical equipment, food-poisoning symptoms, speed of onset, storage of sick passengers, and proposed Lake Michigan diversion
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- Ted’s age and conflicting wartime flashbacks make his war history unclear in a 1980 setting.
- The tube pulled from the sick girl is questioned because its removal immediately causes convulsions.
- The poisoned fish should cause vomiting or diarrhea rather than sedation.
- The group argues the fish symptoms would not happen that fast.
- The group asks where all the incapacitated passengers were placed.
- Kramer’s immediate proposal to divert the airplane into Lake Michigan is criticized for risking innocent people.
What Piece of Memorabilia Would You Want From This Movie?
The exterior miniature airplane and the inflatable autopilot
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- The miniature used for exterior airplane shots is selected.
- The inflatable autopilot is selected, though the original reportedly disintegrated in storage.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson
Trust a distinct comic instinct and commit to the straight-faced casting choice.
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- The filmmakers’ decision to cast dramatic actors and trust their own unusual comic instinct is selected as the lesson.
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- The Naked Gun is proposed as a companion comedy.
- Zero Hour! followed by Airplane! is proposed to reveal the parody’s direct borrowings.
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