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1976 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Van Lathan

Aired March 4, 2025

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Rocky The Rewatchables March 4, 2025

Buddy the driver

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Candidates include Marie, Tony Burton, Joe Spinell, Stu Nahan and Bill Baldwin.
Buddy the driver wins as the definition of the award; his license-plate joke became a repeated family joke.
Burgess Meredith is rejected for having too much screen time.

Rocky III The Rewatchables May 25, 2022

The score, Thunderlips, Eye of the Tiger, Clubber Lang, Apollo, the pinball machine, Adrian, the supporting announcers, and key Mickey dialogue

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The recurring fight overture still signals that Rocky’s comeback is beginning.
Thunderlips holds up because the wrestling is authentic and Hogan performs moves absent from much of his later career.
Eye of the Tiger remains culturally durable and was central to Hogan’s early crowd response.
Clubber Lang remains one of the strongest sports-movie villains because his spare presentation and verbal performance create menace.
Apollo’s training role is praised as one of Carl Weathers’s fullest performances in the series.
The rare Rocky pinball machine remains desirable and is said to sell for about nine thousand dollars.
The ten selected title-defense opponents have absurdly specific credited names that the panel enjoys reciting.
Clubber’s slow look into the camera became an iconic Mr. T image.
Rocky’s affluent house visually captures how far the family has risen.
Adrian’s appearance and confidence plausibly reflect the family’s new wealth while preserving the gradual change from the first two films.
Mickey’s warning that Rocky cannot win establishes the template later reused in Rocky IV.
Bill Baldwin and Stu Nahan are both said to have aged nicely.

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