What’s Aged the Worst?
Tweeter (2 of 3 spoken picks)
In the discussion (9)
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- The team heads to a strip joint, is entertained by their teacher and stays till dawn; high school students in a small town would already know she strips, and they swear to keep her secret while telling the whole team.
- The strip club is the Landing Strip, also used in Friday Night Lights and the name of a real one in Houston near the airport, which sets up a James Harden and Rockets joke.
- Tweeter's philosophies on women, and on everything, have not aged well: he climbs out of a car full of naked women and advises Mox that beers, shots and pills are all it takes, and is asked by Mox whether he is ready for prison.
- Billy Bob's title-winning hook and ladder is not realistic, though Friday Night Lights won its championship with the same play; the clip is cued and narrated, with Tweeter lateraling to Billy Bob, who catches it in slow motion and stares at it with no defender near him, then carries a pile of tacklers across the plane, continuing the tradition of no high school team being able to tackle.
- Also aging badly is running the hook and ladder from the 17-yard line at 17 to 14 instead of kicking a field goal to force overtime; the explanation is that there was no coach and plays were called by committee.
- Asked what aged worst, answers Tweeter, since you cringe through everything he says. — Jason Concepcion
- A case is made that concussion protocol aged worst: even Mox, the civilized one reading Slaughterhouse-Five at practice and bound for Brown, insists the test must be true-or-false questions.
- Asked whether it is the same thing, confirms it has to be Tweeter, since there are too many things, including a line he sings about breaking a girl's jaw after she broke his heart. — Shea Serrano
- Tweeter thus takes two of the three spoken picks, with the fourth panelist never stating one; he is 5'4" yet averages fifteen catches a game as the whole offense, and the film's secret is that he is bad, dropping a ball before Lance is hurt and failing to get out of bounds at the end; part of why he is a star is that every player except Wendell is white, which did not age well.