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This Is the End

2013 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Craig Horlbeck

Aired June 27, 2023

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This Is the End The Rewatchables
This Is the End

Probably Unanswerable Questions

Bodily functions, Aja, Michael Cera, and Jay Baruchel

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:03:17Read transcript
  • The panel settles on two bowel movements per day rather than six. — Bill Simmons
  • Aja the spaniel is initially presumed dead, then identified as the dog Seth holds in heaven. — Bill Simmons
  • A crude question about Michael Cera’s body is answered affirmatively as part of the film’s persona joke. — Bill Simmons
  • Whether Jay Baruchel is genuinely difficult is debated using his dislike of Los Angeles and real resentment of Seth’s newer friends. — Bill Simmons
  • Jay is defended as better company in Canada and as skillfully playing his own type.
  • His pleasure at Mindy Kaling’s compliment is cited as a revealing moment within the caricature.
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This Is the End

Picking Nits

Impossible Los Angeles geography and celebrity behavior

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 00:59:53Read transcript
  • Franco’s supposed hill house cannot plausibly sit three blocks from Melrose and appears to combine several neighborhoods. — Bill Simmons
  • Six men being frightened away by Emma Watson with an axe is questioned, then defended because the characters are helpless actors. — Bill Simmons
  • Seth Rogen personally meeting Jay at the airport is considered implausible at his 2013 fame level. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Sending a driver is proposed as the plausible alternative.
  • Michael Cera and Mindy Kaling are considered an implausible sexual pairing, though that mismatch is defended as the joke. — Bill Simmons
  • Waiting at the airport gate after 9/11 is identified as a separate implausibility. — Bill Simmons
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This Is the End

What’s Aged the Best?

Danny McBride, personal dynamics, specificity, and fan service

In the discussion (12)
Approx. transcript time · 00:33:52Read transcript
  • Danny McBride is the leading answer because he repeatedly broke the other actors during filming. — Bill Simmons
  • The David Spade theory of nonthreatening celebrity desirability is said to be validated by Mindy Kaling’s Michael Cera speech. — Bill Simmons
  • The Jay–Seth friendship tension and their relationship with Seth’s Los Angeles friends feel rooted in real dynamics. — Bill Simmons
  • Jonah Hill and James Franco insulting one another is praised for blurring performance and real friction. — Bill Simmons
  • The timely Lindsay Lohan joke and Jonah identifying himself to God as being from Moneyball are praised. — Bill Simmons
  • The enormous demon anatomy, recurring jokes about Seth, and period pop-culture references are praised for specificity. — Bill Simmons
  • The detailed apocalypse inventory and its conversion into 127 Hours are praised. — Bill Simmons
  • Jay Baruchel’s later account of disliking Jonah during filming is used to validate the tension onscreen. — Bill Simmons
  • Dicks up and Scarface style are praised as compact group-decision jokes. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Superbad and Pineapple Express fan service is praised for supplying reunion energy without conventional sequels.
  • Combining a one-night party comedy with Night of the Living Dead is praised as a potent premise. — Chris Ryan
  • Jonah's dog Aja and the video-confessional device are praised.
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This Is the End

Most Rewatchable Scene

Danny McBride and James Franco argue about the magazine

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Approx. transcript time · 00:19:32Read transcript
Legally Blonde The Rewatchables
Legally Blonde

What’s Aged the Worst?

Sequels and a planned Legally Blonde 3; Bend and Snap nail-salon scene; no suitors for Elle; lecherous law professor; pool-boy stereotype; reshot ending; Bruiser the Chihuahua

In the discussion (7)
Approx. transcript time · 00:48:17Read transcript
  • The 2003 sequel Red, White and Blonde, a 2009 direct-to-DVD spinoff and the musical preceded a Legally Blonde 3 reportedly coming next year with Reese and Mindy Kaling involved; it feels like a mistake. — Bill Simmons
  • The Bend and Snap nail-salon scene is really bad and unappealing, though it became its own phenomenon.
  • Nobody hits on Elle except Luke Wilson and the lecherous professor; at Harvard she would be asked out constantly. — Bill Simmons
  • The horny law professor would not happen in a 2021 version and is visible coming for 90 minutes. — Bill Simmons
  • The pool boy gay stereotype is the part most criticized, was a flaw 20 years ago and is not funny. — Bill Simmons
  • The reshot ending is poorly done, with a wig and a long zoom on her face; it could have ended after the trial with the epilogue. — Bill Simmons
  • Bruiser is added late: Chihuahuas are very turn of the century, evoking Taco Bell.
Bridesmaids The Rewatchables
Bridesmaids

Casting What-Ifs

Rebel Wilson and Busy Philipps for Megan; Mindy Kaling for Lillian; Greta Gerwig and Judy Greer; Paul Rudd's cut blind date

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Approx. transcript time · 01:17:28Read transcript
The 40-Year-Old Virgin The Rewatchables
The 40-Year-Old Virgin

What’s Aged the Worst?

Lionel Richie 'Hello' scene; eBay-store collectibles novelty; dead tech such as VHS porn collections, VCRs, recordable CDs and the VHS DVD dual player; the 'you know how I know you're gay' running bit

In the discussion (9)
Approx. transcript time · 00:48:33Read transcript
  • The Lionel Richie 'Hello' scene is put in both aged best and aged worst. — Bill Simmons
  • A personal pick: Get Out ruined Catherine Keener, whose tea-stirring character makes her creepy in all her earlier films; the speaker admits it is personal and unfair. — Bill Simmons
  • Pushback: Keener is amazing and oddball enough that she and Andy work, with her weird eBay store. — Bill Simmons
  • The eBay store and collectibles trend felt new in 2005; the speaker recalls a column around 2000 about finding a vintage Patriots jersey and hunting cards and uncut sheets, before 20 years of nerd collector culture. — Bill Simmons
  • So much dead tech makes it a full period piece: a big box of porn tapes, buying a VCR, recordable CDs and the VHS DVD dual player.
  • Porn collections on VHS and everything VHS; you can't even buy a VHS player now except on eBay. — Bill Simmons
  • The running 'you know how I know you're gay' theme would not play in 2020, though it is essential to how the characters interact. — Bill Simmons
  • The gay panic joke has not aged well; per a DVD commentary, the scene was supposed to be Rudd's character describing ways he would kill himself before an improvised pivot, so a well-known scene was never in the script. — Sean Fennessey
  • Rudd's character's obsession with his ex, played by Mindy Kaling, at the dating event makes him a stalker and a dirtbag.
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Films in the archive

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

2005

This Is the End

2013