The Rewatchables ·
Just one Oscar
Candy
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:09:20
Bill Simmons: Candy under-respected and skipped between Belushi/Farley despite most enduring body of work.
Bill Simmons: Belushi most talented,Farley funniest,Candy best blend and stronger acting discussed.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:30:07
Bill Simmons: Never wallet in glove compartment,fire risk.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
Deleted wife, pizza, beer and reimbursement scenes; production logistics, improvisation and generosity anecdotes.
Del’s home may be emotional rather than literal; whether a bus qualifies as an automobile remains unsettled.
Reported Hanks and Travolta alternatives prompt disagreement about age and role suitability.
Wrong-way driving; hotel check-in through the pillows; the emotional return (best essential scene)
Candy’s quirks, ordinary antagonists, callback details and unpredictable travel.
Mess Around.
Deleted hot-dog-and-cigarette scene versus Doritos with tequila in the hotel.
None
Braidwood Inn wide shot and Del alone in the car under falling snow.
The wife and family lack development after subplot cuts.
Traveling sales, the cover song and pre-digital travel habits.
About 90 seconds after the car fire and hotel check-in, before Del outside in snow.
No better title.
Those aren’t pillows; ball-lifting and sideways-baby lines are runner-up suggestions.
Candy receives insufficient historical respect; Belushi, Farley and Candy are compared on talent, humor and acting.
None
Unidentified actor playing Ferris Bueller’s father preferred over several recognizable supporting faces.
Dylan Baker as Gus’s son.
Clooney, Affleck and several all-Black pairings considered; remaking the film is opposed despite hypothetical casting.
Martin no; Candy’s Uncle Buck; road-movie split between this and Midnight Run; Thanksgiving movie and train stop yes.
Bradwood / Braywood, with transcript spelling unresolved.
Money and shared room, bathroom timing, driving duration, burnt-car safety, black eye and short overall ordeal.
Untouchable, with conditional interest in a different all-Black cast and curiosity about the aftermath.
Illness and a limited stay before marital conflict, or Del becoming an Uncle Buck figure.
Buscemi belongs somewhere in the film.
Candy
Del’s shower curtain rings or trunk.
Keep the wallet out of the glove compartment; ask people about their trauma.
John Candy named and repeated; unique speaker count unverified.
