"She's a ho because she's sending you her coochie through the mail"; "Are they cursing their mamas in Spain?"; "Honest tramp-ass ho"; "Just enough savings to keep your fine ass in Gucci and gold"
The line about her sending him her coochie through the mail is a favorite. — Bill Simmons
'Are they cursing their mamas in Spain?' is enjoyed, and the hospital exchange about breasts in the physical is cited as another Quincy flaw. — Bill Simmons
The lick-the-sweat-off-Q line is mentioned again. — Jemele Hill
Zeke's argument with Q's mom about keeping her 'fine ass in Gucci and gold', ending with her throwing a heavy bracelet at Haysbert's head, is also enjoyed. — Jemele Hill
Quincy telling Monica to go be with Dick Vitale is called a good one and a big win for Vitale. — Jemele Hill
Dennis Haysbert was hesitant to play another cheater after Waiting to Exhale, but told Jet he took it for the father-son relationship. — Jemele Hill
It was the second time Omar Epps played a Quincy who went by Q and the second time he dated Tyra Banks on screen. — Bill Simmons
The director wanted Maxwell's This Woman's Work despite the cost, kept it in for Sundance without the rights, and lobbied the studio head until he paid. — Bill Simmons
A parallel regret: not fighting to keep the expensive original score for the 30 for 30 The Two Escobars. — Bill Simmons
Lathan never played basketball again, which is called sad given how hard she worked; she seems traumatized by the filming. — Bill Simmons
Soundtrack; 11-year-old Quincy's 'you want to be my girl'; Dennis Haysbert; the casting; Black high school cheerleaders; the USC coach's haircut; Monica's life-you-want line; roommates watching the dorm drama; the college party scene; gender conversations; the ex-player's struggle; Zeke's meeting excuse
Eleven-year-old Quincy asking 'you want to be my girl' is adorable; boys at the time usually asked 'will you go with me.' — Jemele Hill
Dennis Haysbert is one participant's what's-aged-best: Heat, Waiting to Exhale, Major League, then President David Palmer on 24, said to have paved the way for Obama, then the Allstate commercials. — Bill Simmons
Haysbert's roles often lean toward the no-good man, but here he is a caring father and bad husband, and Q's disillusion with his parents' marriage is a nuanced thread. — Jemele Hill
The high school cheerleaders and their chants are saluted as the real Black high school cheerleader experience, compared with the sanitized All American version. — Jemele Hill
The film balances present-day themes with nostalgia, especially through the New Edition opening. — Jemele Hill
The USC coach's late-80s women's basketball coach haircut and shoulder pads are a perfect personification of coaches of the time. — Bill Simmons
Monica's line outside her house that as a kid you see the life you want and never think it will not turn out that way is called pointed, a good yearbook quote. — Bill Simmons
During the love triangle, the roommates playing video games and enjoying the drama, with a shout-out to Charles O'Bannon, is classic college. — Bill Simmons
The party scene where the relationship first explodes, with alcohol and an available girl, is a familiar college breakup. — Jemele Hill
The subtle conversations about gender, including the choice between personal and professional life and the lack of visibility for women, aged incredibly well in the hosts' view. — Jemele Hill
The complication of being an ex-player, shown through Haysbert's character trying to build a life after playing, aged extraordinarily well. — Jemele Hill
Zeke's 'tell mom I have a meeting, I'll be home later' affair excuse is offered for both best and worst: the worst excuse ever, from the worst cheater ever. — Bill Simmons
The human-shield kid; whether Kelso invented the internet; running onto the LAX runway; whether the film caused more bank robberies; Chris's Super Bowl losses; Chris's and Dominic's futures; Neil's hypocrisy; Heat 2
Is grabbing a little kid as a human shield the most evil act by a movie bad guy? In context, the character immediately has to go. — Bill Simmons
Did Tom Noonan's character invent the internet? 'We can't say he didn't.' — Chris Ryan
Could a man with a gun run from an LAX hotel onto the runways? Easier pre-9/11 but still hard; a 2020 version would have to address it, perhaps at Union Station. — Chris Ryan
Did the film cause more bank robberies? The hosts cite internet claims listing armored-car robberies abroad and the 1997 North Hollywood Bank of America shootout, which they say left both robbers dead and 11 officers and seven bystanders injured and was partly blamed on the movie. — Bill Simmons
The character's line that the Super Bowl cleaned him out is placed as the Chargers-Niners Super Bowl with jokes about him backing the Chargers against Steve Young, gambling touts and betting the Pro Bowl. — Chris Ryan
What happened to Chris? He moves to Vegas, maybe starts a sports book, and is probably killed within two years by someone he owes. — Bill Simmons
Dominic's life looks dark per Drucker; a Netflix version could have Portman as a detective chasing Dominic, and Neil and Eady may have had a son. — Bill Simmons
Was Neil a hypocrite for going back for Chris during the bank shooting? He breaks his own rules throughout, including hiring Haysbert's fry cook as a driver. — Bill Simmons
Heat 2 options: modernize with new people and tech, an all-Black cast, Kelso starting Facebook, or a generational sequel with Portman's character, Dominic, Neil and Eady's son and the girl Cheritto grabbed seeking revenge. — Bill Simmons
Introduced as a new category with nominees: everything Voight is doing, Haysbert's Fu Manchu, Pacino's blow-dry look, De Niro's Van Dyke and Val Kilmer's bad-guy hair, a look only possible in the mid-90s. — Bill Simmons
Asked for a favorite, the answer is Voight's everything, with a joke that Voight's makeup artist should get the heat-check award. — Chris Ryan
A follow-up head-to-head between Voight's everything and Tom Noonan inexplicably in a wheelchair is answered with the wheelchair, though Noonan can walk; the hosts joke he lost the ability after inventing the internet. — Bill Simmons
Empty-telephone threat; "The action is the juice"; "The sun rises and sets with her"; Haysbert quitting the diner; tracking crooks without electronic surveillance; the walk-away-in-30-seconds philosophy; the music; Vincent Hanna's jewelry; Trejo's zip-up hoodie; Mann's L.A. locations
Neil's 'I'm talking to an empty telephone' is called the best phone threat in the history of cinema, with Van Zant's terrified look. — Chris Ryan
Also aged well: 'for me, the action is the juice', Kilmer's 'the sun rises and sets with her', Haysbert quitting the diner and beating up his boss, tracking crooks without electronic surveillance, the walk-away-in-30-seconds philosophy, Moby at the end and the music generally. — Bill Simmons
Vincent Hanna's jewelry: a wish to be a guy who wears gold chains and bracelets again. — Bill Simmons
A borderline nominee is Michael Mann, 'clearly an alien', whose gatherings are always big laughing dinner tables or dance parties. — Bill Simmons
Trejo wearing a zip-up hoodie with no shirt underneath. — Bill Simmons
The other host's pick is 'the action is the juice', loved more since the point about Sizemore going for it. — Chris Ryan
This version of L.A. and its locations, such as the taco stand next to the car wash on Pico, should have been on the list; East Coasters knew L.A. only from movies and it takes on new life after moving there. — Chris Ryan
Rejected roles, alternate endings, Milwaukee production logistics, baseball-player casting, injuries and stunts, Wild Thing history, sequel tensions, cast friendships, and Margaret Whitton’s dispute with Ron Shelton
An alternate ending exposed Rachel Phelps as secretly supporting the team, but test audiences preferred her as a straightforward villain. — Bill Simmons
Milwaukee stood in for Cleveland during filming, including County Stadium and local crowd scenes. — Bill Simmons
About 20,000 extras were recruited for the Yankee-game crowd scenes. — Bill Simmons
Dennis Haysbert recalled being emotionally overwhelmed when the team ran onto the field as the crowd roared. — Bill Simmons
A filming shoulder injury led Charlie Sheen to stop for cortisone shots and anti-inflammatories on the way to work. — Bill Simmons
Mitch Williams adopted Wild Thing with the Cubs, and the movie sequence is credited with creating the closer-entrance-music tradition. — Bill Simmons
Wesley Snipes complained about repeated sliding after getting strawberries, and Steve Yeager answered that he had done it for twenty years. — Bill Simmons
The fictional owner plans to move the team to Miami, and the discussion connects that premise to later Cleveland and Florida baseball history. — Bill Simmons
The hosts find Willie Mays Hayes’s wall of dirty black gloves creepy when imagining him bringing a date home. — Rembert Browne
A Jake-and-Lynn marriage scene intended to follow the Yankee game was filmed and deleted. — Bill Simmons
Dennis Haysbert's Yankee-game home run reportedly traveled 315 feet down the left-field line and hit the top of the wall. — Bill Simmons
The oral history says Sheen coordinated women flying into Milwaukee, and Sheen compared it with women passing each other on the road during Young Guns. — Bill Simmons
