The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award
James Van Der Beek's 'I don't want your life' scene
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- A new category named for Mark Ruffalo dialing it up in Spotlight; there is said to be only one obvious nominee, the 'I don't want your life' scene, and the clip is played.
- The Texas accents are very tough; Paul Walker's is super thick in his first scene telling Billy Bob he has a dream and by the end he is in Fast and the Furious.
- Two hosts perform the father-son exchange, one as the dad and one as Dawson; the reading runs well past the promised two lines, with an admission of getting caught up and being unable to stop, and a quip about being the father of a starting quarterback.
- A dad debate follows: he is called both a great, supportive dad and a terrible one; the billboard was built by boosters, whoever Buddy Garrity is for the Coyotes; the one mark against him is answering the free Brown acceptance with the Friday game plan, defended as what a dad saving $300,000 would do, since he knows your life in West Canaan is ruined if you play badly.
- Mox's dad looks like Ed Werder of ESPN and Paul Walker's dad like Chris Cooper, as if the film could not afford the real ones; a second nomination for the overacting award is the scene of the dads making the boys throw the ball, deciding the best quarterback in Texas by a three-yard throw.