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What About Bob?

Apex Mountain

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

Charlie Korsmo’s acting career and “death therapy” receive strong cases; Good Morning America, Lake Winnipesaukee, and patient-therapist movies are debated, with Analyze This favored for the last.

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  • Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss receive explicit negative Apex verdicts.
  • Julie Haggerty also receives a negative Apex verdict.
  • Charlie Korsmo receives an acting-apex verdict even though his later academic career may be a larger achievement.
  • The movie’s “death therapy” concept is proposed as an apex.
  • Good Morning America receives a possible case based on the era’s cultural centrality of morning shows.
  • Lake Winnipesaukee is proposed but left unresolved.
  • Patient-therapist movies are compared, with Analyze This favored because it was a large hit and important to De Niro.
  • Bob being foisted onto Leo is proposed as a Foist Apex candidate.
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What About Bob?

Half-Assed Internet Research

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

Research covers the miniature house explosion, a reported Spielberg Oscar campaign, Murray’s awards history, the Murray-Dreyfuss feud, the Virginia filming location, and Charlie Korsmo’s academic and legal career.

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  • The explosion used a three-quarter-scale replica rather than destroying the expensive real house.
  • Steven Spielberg is reported to have spent his own money campaigning for a Bill Murray Oscar nomination.
  • The panel notes Murray has only one Oscar nomination despite his long importance to movies.
  • Sean Penn’s win over Murray’s Lost in Translation performance is criticized; the winning film title is unclear in the machine transcript.
  • Murray is reported to have acknowledged that aggravating Dreyfuss helped the movie.
  • Dreyfuss is reported to have called the experience unpleasant while still admitting Murray made him laugh.
  • A Dreyfuss account says Murray aggressively confronted him and threw a heavy glass ashtray.
  • The panel condemns physical harm but treats Murray’s verbal insult as darkly funny.
  • The vacation house was filmed at Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia.
  • Charlie Korsmo is reported to have chosen What About Bob? instead of the Terminator 2 child role.
  • Korsmo later earned physics and law degrees, practiced law, taught corporate law, and received a federal board nomination.
  • The group calls Korsmo a legend in both acting and his later academic career.
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What About Bob?

The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

What About Bob? The Rewatchables

The observed “Catherine Irb” is disqualified for later television fame; the phone operators, the actor who played Tommy Carcetti, Tom Aldredge, and Charlie Korsmo are considered, with the unnamed Tommy Carcetti actor receiving the clearest win.

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  • The observed “Catherine Irb” is initially proposed before her long Criminal Intent run disqualifies her.
  • The telephone operators are considered but may be too brief to qualify.
  • The performer known as Tony Soprano’s sister is recognized and rejected as too well known.
  • The performer later known as Tommy Carcetti is the favored That Guy choice, but his name is not spoken in this transcript.
  • Tom Aldredge as Mr. Gutman is recognized from The Sopranos.
  • Charlie Korsmo is debated because his child-star run made his name familiar to movie fans.
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What About Bob?

1991

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What About Bob?

1991 film

Bill Simmons · Sean Fennessey · Van Lathan

Aired May 4, 2021

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