Did Will Ferrell's character really last with the therapist? Should they make Step Brothers 2? Is there a comedy whose sequel is better than the original?
Whether Will Ferrell's character really lasted with the therapist is waved off because it is a comedy, with a guarantee that Andrea Savage would be in any Step Brothers 2.
Asked whether they should make Step Brothers 2, two hosts say no, though one clarifies that does not mean not going; the challenge to name a comedy whose second film tops the first draws Godfather 2 as a joke, Another 48 Hours and Beverly Hills Cop 2 as nos, 'the clumps' (as transcribed) as a tease, and the observation that there was never a Stripes 2.
The Equalizer is named as a sequel better than its first film. — Bill Simmons
After the Equalizer tease, the defense is that it is really good, with Denzel Washington as a Lyft driver in Boston.
The award is explained as the person you like from a movie without knowing their name; Andrea Savage is the one who ends up with Will Ferrell here, and she is really good in The House, an underrated film that prompted a host to look her up and learn she had kids and checked out for years; she now has the TruTV show I'm Sorry, is a friend of The Watch and came on the Thrones show.
Per the oral history she was originally in Party Down with Adam Scott but got pregnant and had to leave the show, which went to Lizzie Kaplan (as transcribed); she is really funny in this movie and a good Joey Pants.
A host has never been happier to do the award until the show gets to Boogie Nights; the film is full of heat checks, a second unit whose box score would be crazy, lots of Rondo lines of nine assists, seven boards and four steals.
Nominees: Rob Riggle, in what felt like the first time seeing him, also the cop in The Hangover; Andrea Savage; the little kid bully; Derek's son singing; and Horatio Sands (as transcribed) as the eighties Billy Joel cover-band singer.
Catherine Han not only wins but is argued to be one of the great heat checks the show has ever discussed: five scenes and about seven minutes, one of the funniest movie performances ever; McKay said her first scene, where she gets turned on after John C. Reilly punched Derek and basically mounts him, was the greatest acting performance he has witnessed, and the key is that she commits, delivering an explicit come-on like a lunatic.
The hosts do not understand why she is not a bigger star, allowing that she had kids and that actresses often get fewer roles; she is never bad, phenomenal in Bad Moms, a huge hit, and in Afternoon Delight, joined the Jill Soloway universe with Transparent and I Love Dick, but never led a successful show or movie, which is called a failure not on her.
An aside asks whether the scene where Randy has a heart attack is in the final movie; it is not, and the cut scene is played, in which Randy's heart stops for a moment, he says he saw his grandmother and asks Derek whether he saw his Nana on the way in, with Derek checking that he is okay.
There are not ten seconds in the movie where Catherine Han is not funny; she gets it.
