The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"I don't want your life"; "Puke and rally"; "We got the rest of our lives to be mediocre, but we have the opportunity to play like gods for the next half of football"; the film's string of euphemisms for an erection
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- Setting 'I don't want your life' aside as the given, nominees include 'I'm back' and 'Puke and rally', one of which is called a good high school senior yearbook quote, and Kilmer's crude insult of Mox's father, admired as the perfect insult.
- The halftime speech about the rest of our lives to be mediocre but the chance to play like gods for the next half is cued up and played as what won him the Teen Choice Award; the hosts note how big his head is and that it reverses everything he said about football not mattering, delivered while the team has no coach.
- The 'actual best quote' is the film's run of euphemisms for an erection, which one host wrote down from pausing the movie and can recite without a note card, compared to Tyrion's string of euphemisms in season one of Game of Thrones; it prompts a joke about Van Der Beek's anatomy, and one host is teased for crossing the most lines on this podcast; the euphemism framing echoes the opening memory of the Miss Davis classroom scene asking whether a slang word counts as a euphemism for erection.