Apex Mountain
Ben Stiller’s2004 clout; Christine Taylor; dodgeball; Talk Like a Pirate Day; announcers for a fictional sport
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- Stiller’s2004 stretch is affirmed because his clout got a first-time director’s dodgeball film made; Mary and Tropic Thunder are alternatives but the group returns to2004.
- Vaughn is assigned to Wedding Crashers the following year, while Taylor is affirmed here.
- The sport of dodgeball is emphatically affirmed for being revitalized by the film.
- Stunt casting is proposed through Armstrong, Norris, Shatner and Hasselhoff, with amazement that these appearances fit a modest budget.
- Talk Like a Pirate Day is affirmed for2004; pirates generally are debated against Pirates of the Caribbean and actual historical piracy.
- Inflatable athletic cups are proposed and compared with Austin Powers’s different penis-enlarger prop.
- Movie announcers are proposed against Bob Uecker in Major League; Cotton and Pepper are affirmed for a fictional, non-major-league sport.
- Cash in suitcases is proposed through the deliberately unimpressive appearance of a hundred thousand dollars.