Apex Mountain
Kristen Wiig; Jon Hamm; Paul Feig; diarrhea in movies; Chris O'Dowd
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- Maybe the film is Guy Fieri's Apex Mountain.
- Kristen Wiig: yes, while still on SNL.
- Jon Hamm: definitely, with Mad Men and The Town happening at the same time.
- Melissa McCarthy is a tough one; The Heat is praised, and this is called her best performance, though her New York Times best-actors-of-the-century listing is debated.
- Maya Rudolph: not her apex; her SNL stretch and The Good Place judge run rank higher.
- Rose Byrne: no; Neighbors is more likely. Apatow: probably not, since he did not direct it.
- For wedding movies it is a finals between My Best Friend's Wedding and this, possibly adding Wedding Crashers.
- Paul Feig, who created Freaks and Geeks and made Ghostbusters, definitely peaked here critically and commercially.
- For shit scenes in movies, Succession and Harold and Kumar are cited and it deserves a follow-up pod, but this would be the peak; it is agreed as Apex Mountain for diarrhea in a movie.
- A Lamar Jackson aside becomes the joke podcast Leave Lamar Alone.
- Chris O'Dowd: yes, joked against Thor: The Dark World.
- Wilson Phillips peaked in the early 90s, but the film gives them a belated or second Apex Mountain.
- Milwaukee's apex was Laverne and Shirley.