Mina explicitly selects the better-title flex, criticizing the title and misleading poster. Carell’s reported objection and working title The Wingman are discussed.
Van defends the title’s narrative progression. Alternative titles are The Makeover and How to Pick Up Women, the latter a double meaning for the lift.

1. Billy Dee Williams in Lady Sings the Blues; 2. Pitt in Legends of the Fall; 3. Smith in Hitch; 4. Gosling in Drive; 5. Tate in Love Jones

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Van’s Damn He Got It list has five ranks: Larenz Tate in Love Jones fifth, Gosling in Drive fourth, Will Smith in Hitch third, Brad Pitt in Legends of the Fall second and Billy Dee Williams in Lady Sings the Blues first. Other Pitt roles are alternatives, not his selected entry.
Redford and Clooney are additional examples; a debate compares Clooney’s fame and film choices with Gosling’s, then discusses late-blooming actors.
Van recalls his father admiring Billy Dee Williams; the hosts discuss men openly acknowledging other men’s attractiveness and remember Colt 45 ads.

“Mom, relax. It’s your husband, not Al Qaeda.”

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Craig’s flex selects Robbie’s husband-not-Al-Qaeda line as best quote and a 2011 marker.