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Film credit
Don Rickles
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- Episodes featuring their films
- 2
- Movies in this archive
- 3
Rewatchables episodes featuring Don Rickles’s films
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Mentioned in discussions
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- James Woods is selected. — Bill Simmons
- Don Rickles is nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Catherine Scorsese is nominated. — Bill Simmons
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- The field includes Jim Downey, Chris Farley, Don Rickles, Chevy Chase, and the delighted opera critic. — Bill Simmons
- Farley is initially selected for one of the strongest comedy heat checks in the category. — Sean Fennessey
- Chase earns the co-win for his low-frequency doctor performance and bookie logic. — Sean Fennessey
Casting What-Ifs
Howard Stern declined Satan, while Rodney Dangerfield was considered before Don Rickles.
This discussion recalls a choice from an earlier episode.
In the discussion (3)
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- Howard Stern was originally offered the Satan cameo and declined it. — Bill Simmons
- Rodney Dangerfield was the initial choice for the insult-comic role before the director chose Don Rickles for faster attacks. — Bill Simmons
- Dangerfield is separately proposed for a cameo as Jack Warden's hospital friend. — Bill Simmons
Most Rewatchable Scene
The jail sequence
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- The childhood opening credits are praised for casting children who resemble neither lead and for the superglue revenge against a predatory crossing guard. — Bill Simmons
- The frat-house prank works through fake police calls, robbery, and a blunt final insult.
- Chevy Chase's first doctor scene is praised for coldly rejecting the heart-transplant patient before trying to sell a hospital bed. — Bill Simmons
- Don Rickles' hospital-room insults are praised as a concentrated comic performance.
- The Men in Black pornography scene wins laughs by pushing a thin premise into blunt absurdity. — Bill Simmons
- The dead-hooker trunk reveal is praised for escalating through the remote-controlled trunk openings and a remembered Saigon story. — Bill Simmons
- The dead-fish revenge sustains a silent pose while violence occurs offscreen, recalling an older broad-comedy serial. — Sean Fennessey
- The jail scene remains funny across repeated viewings because the lecture about respect collides with the more painful assault.
- Chris Farley's skunk release is described as an unnerving, fully committed burst of comic chaos. — Bill Simmons
- The abrupt ending and final line about the doctor's death are praised for refusing a normal resolution. — Bill Simmons
The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance
Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head; John Ratzenberger as Hamm
In the discussion (4)
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- Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head is the pick, with his lines quoted.
- Hamm, voiced by John Ratzenberger, is added; Ratzenberger voices a character in almost every Pixar movie.
- Wallace Shawn, transcribed "Wallace Sean", as Rex is also mentioned before the question goes to others. — Sean Fennessey
- Asked for more, the reply backs Mr. Potato Head. — Shea Serrano
Casting What-Ifs
Mickey Rourke as Danny; Michelle Pfeiffer as Lacey; Bo Derek as Lacey; Don Rickles as Al; Pink Floyd for the music
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- Mickey Rourke was the other final candidate for Danny; they correctly decided he was not funny enough. — Bill Simmons
- Michael O'Keefe is good: a great golf swing, and he can hang on screen with Chevy Chase at his funniest. — Sean Fennessey
- Rourke on that era's cocaine-fueled set would have been ugly; Danny is good when Smales tries to hit him with the golf club. — Sean Fennessey
- Michelle Pfeiffer reportedly turned down Lacey because she did not want to be naked; she could have pulled it off, though she never played a character that frisky. — Bill Simmons
- Pfeiffer and Rourke as Lacey and Danny would be a different movie, an Adrian Line erotic thriller; Rourke would compete with Ty, and O'Keefe landing Lacey should feel like a stretch. — Bill Simmons
- Producer Peters is said to claim he had Bo Derek for Lacey before 10 and Ramis rejected it; Lacey is assumed to be about 25 and Danny about 17 or 18. — Bill Simmons
- These movies shifted American comedy from a Jewish writing tradition toward Irish Catholic voices; Danny's eight-kid family is loosely based on the Murray family, and the young caddy landing Lacey set a template. — Sean Fennessey
- Don Rickles was considered for Al; he is judged too mean and perhaps better as Judge Smales. — Bill Simmons
- Pink Floyd was wanted for the music and declined, thankfully; Ramis's left-of-center interests like Zen Buddhism are noted, and Kenny Loggins came through instead. — Sean Fennessey
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