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- Why did they give Nick Cage the less fun part, since Travolta becoming evil is so much more fun than Cage becoming the nice guy trapped in Cage's body; the counter is that Cage gets the first 40 minutes to be evil and had more fun in this movie, so his was the better role.
- They did not direct Nick Cage, Nick Cage directed this movie, or freebase cocaine directed Nick Cage; you needed Cage because he is very good at being crazy and had to have trouble processing being another person, which Travolta could not do.
- Who signed on first? Cage, the hosts decide, since he would look at the roles and want the one who kills a kid and assaults a teenager in the first 40 seconds. Who got paid more? Split between Travolta, fresh off Greece (as transcribed), and Cage, coming off the Oscar, The Rock and Con Air; the joke is that Travolta was told 15 and Cage got 20, or was paid in Chiclets.
- Was Cage's acting just as bad here as it would be for the next 20 years, bad in a good way, or straight up great and the same as in all his movies? One host threatens to walk off the stage if the panel decides he was bad in this movie, and the choice narrows to good versus good-bad.
- Does not know that he has seen a Nick Cage movie since this one, though he did see 8mm. — Chris Ryan
- The audience is polled and says good-bad; a clip of Cage's interview about the role is played in which he says he meditated on the idea of wearing the face of the man who killed his son, literally not metaphorically, offered as proof that he was a good actor fully in it; the hosts guarantee Cage would still insist today that he took his face off and wore it.
- Asked how he would explain to his wife that it is really him wearing someone else's face, says he would come home freaking out, laughing and crying, wearing Neil's face. — Shea Serrano
- In the movie the only reason she believes him is that he names his blood type, O negative or so, and talks about the son's bed; one host would try to come up with memories he has not tweeted about so she would know he was serious, though there is no way it is happening either way.
- An audience member adds an unanswerable question: when Castor wakes up bandaged after the switch, why not just kill him; the hosts call it a strong point they had not thought of and joke about the Geneva Convention, the Bill of Rights and the rule of law keeping this from being a dictatorship, since removing his face in an office park is already the act of human rights here while he still has the sanctity of life.