The Rewatchables ·
Who won the movie
Will Ferrell
Just one Oscar
Will Ferrell
Dion Waiters Award
Molly Shannon
Overacting Award
Molly Shannon
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:17:44
The first take is framed as starting a NASCAR podcast and settles on NASCAR being better than expected.
The second calls Talladega Nights the funniest sports movie and compares it with Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, Kingpin, The Longest Yard, Blades of Glory, Kicking and Screaming, and Semi-Pro.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 2:00:58
Craig Horlbeck: The panel identifies self-motivated racing and accepting places besides first as the movie’s intended lesson.
The film
Directed by Adam McKay · Sports
108 minutes
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
The real development pitch was the six-word description “Will Ferrell as a NASCAR driver.”
The dinner and grace sequence
The other race-car drivers
“If you ain’t first, you’re last”
The panel debates Nextel, Halliburton, the gay French villain, Amy Adams’s small role, and Sacha Baron Cohen as the most 2006 element.
Fake advertisements and commercials
The racing photography; Leslie Bibb’s performance; the marketing jokes
Lucky Charms
The crane move into Ricky’s car; the long crash; the race-pageantry footage
Ricky Bobby
No — Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Pat Benatar’s “We Belong” at the ending
Susan’s “hard as a diamond in an ice storm” line
Sacha Baron Cohen’s very slow, exaggerated French accent is the only proposed weak link.
Dated cultural references, homophobic humor, child-hitting, and a line about unconscious sex are cited as aging worst.
Molly Shannon
Possibly Ricky signing a woman’s chest as a Happy Gilmore homage
Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck
Jean Girard’s poor cigarette technique
Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck
Jean Girard’s poor cigarette technique
“Psychosomatic” and the misunderstanding about starting a fire with thoughts
Shake and Bake
NASCAR is better than expected; Talladega Nights is the funniest sports movie; it has aged better than Anchorman; big-budget gloss can weaken comedy
John C. Reilly’s Cal role and Sacha Baron Cohen’s Jean Girard role had several reported alternatives.
Reese Bobby
Flex pick · Craig Horlbeck
No consensus: Gary Cole, Ted Manson, Ian Roberts, and Greg Germann
Molly Shannon
Keep Adam McKay and the existing cast
The production’s NASCAR access, unpaid brand placement, the stars’ first race-car experience, cast ages, and improvisational filming
McKay’s comedies should receive long director cuts, and a continuous blooper channel would be worth watching.
Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, NASCAR, Sacha Baron Cohen, and several cultural details receive Apex Mountain discussion.
Tom Hanks as Ricky Bobby
The panel questions Ricky’s missing fortune and the ownership transition at Dennett Racing.
No
Tom Brady doing the race commentary is the proposed addition.
The unanswerable questions cover Carly and Cal’s future, the slingshot, Ricky’s parents’ conception, Cal’s Playgirl spread, and praying to baby Jesus.
Tentatively survives: Cal and Carly, complicated by Susan
The panel proposes a new category here.
The haunted house inherited by Cal is proposed as a horror-movie spinoff.
The Wonder Bread hat and race suit, Crystal Gayle shirt, cougar prop, Ricky’s car, Reese Bobby’s wardrobe, and Laughing Clown malt liquor are nominated.
The lesson remains disputed between accepting second through fifth and living by “first or last.”
Anchorman is the final double-feature choice after debate with Blades of Glory.
