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Neighbors

97 minutes

Cast

Selected cast credits · Film reference

Seth Rogen Mac Radner
Zac Efron Teddy Sanders
Rose Byrne Kelly Radner
Christopher Mintz-Plasse Scoonie Schofield
Dave Franco Pete Regazolli
Ike Barinholtz Jimmy Blevins
Carla Gallo Paula Faldt-Blevins
Jerrod Carmichael Garfield "Garf" Slade
Craig Roberts Gary "Assjuice"
Lisa Kudrow Dean Carol Gladstone
Hannibal Buress Officer Watkins
Halston Sage Brooke Shy
Jason Mantzoukas Dr. Theodorakis
Brian Huskey Bill Wazowkowski
Liz Cackowski Wendy the Realtor
Natasha Leggero Prostitute

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Producer credits not yet identified.

Recasting Couch

Casting left intact

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 00:52:15Read transcript
  • Nothing to recast; the casting is liked, with Carla Gallo the only one on the fringe.
  • Rogen pushed for Dave Franco after he was cut from an earlier project; like The Graduate's age gap, he was only about five years younger than Rogen yet believable as a 20-year-old.

Half-Assed Internet Research

Script originally too close to Old School; Rogen's wife's suggestion; West Adams houses; original title Townies; improvised baby and ending scenes; unconfirmed Efron hand injury; Efron's 2013-14 Wikipedia history

In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 00:53:06Read transcript
  • The story was originally about Rogen's character and students in a frat, too similar to Old School, so it became him and his wife; it was Rogen's wife's suggestion.
  • The two houses are in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.
  • The film was originally called Townies.
  • In the opening sex scene the baby kept turning around to look, so they ad-libbed the whole thing.
  • The final scene was completely improvised; its location is debated between the Grove and Hollywood Boulevard.
  • Unconfirmed: Efron broke his hand in the fight scene with Franco.
  • Efron's Wikipedia page lists treatment in early 2013, sobriety since June 2013, a wired jaw in November 2013 after a fall, and a March 2014 Skid Row fight with no arrests.

Picking Nits

Other neighbors never complain; buying next to a campus; no jail for the fireworks and grill injuries; the title

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:02:09Read transcript
  • Why did none of the other neighbors complain about parties every night?
  • Buying a house on a campus means accepting this, as with the frat houses around the University of Pennsylvania campus.
  • An anecdote: never in a frat, the speaker almost bought a house near Occidental College across from a sorority and drove by on weekend nights, haunted by this movie.
  • Occidental is described as a generic-looking campus used in pop culture, including 90210, and a good school.
  • Shooting fireworks into a cop car or the grill hitting a man would be felony assault with real jail time.
  • The title is too easy; The Frat Next Door is floated, Townies is judged wrong, and Chase the Night is suggested.

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Braxton University's state; Division I status; its big sport

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:06:41Read transcript
  • Braxton University is probably in California.
  • Not a D1 school: the frat is kind of running the campus, while a D1 school revolves around football or basketball. — Chris Ryan
  • Braxton's big sport is guessed as water polo or women's volleyball.

Producer review

Tag; his generation gets comedy from social media; Facebook pages of Hangover quotes

In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 01:08:35Read transcript
  • Craig is brought in because he always hammers the hosts for skipping comedies from the last 10 years.
  • McLovin is argued as the all-time Joey Pants; the counter is that Joey Pants is that guy in many movies while McLovin is only in about three, plus Promising Young Woman.
  • Tag is offered as a decent recent comedy; Renner broke both arms making it and his arms were green-screened.
  • A borrowed point: the funniest movie of the second half of the 2010s is The Wolf of Wall Street.
  • Blockers' failure is blamed for studios not attempting this style again; it was the right idea, executed terribly.
  • The hosts urge Craig's generation to get off TikTok and write comedies.
  • At 26, his generation gets comedy more from social media; Superbad, Pineapple Express, 21 Jump Street and The Hangover were the biggest, with huge Facebook pages of Hangover quotes.
  • This Is the End marked the end of comedy in a good way, with Neighbors less big among the speaker's generation.