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The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Platoon parody effect; two qualified reactions to the portrayal; two proposed role swaps and Craig's response
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- Tropic Thunder is said to affect later viewing of Platoon in the way Walk Hard affects music biographies because many shots closely parody Platoon. — Chris Ryan
- One answer says the blackface performance has never personally offended him, while emphasizing that blackface outside this satirical context is objectionable.
- A separate qualification agrees that it had to be as good as it was to meet that bar.
- A second answer says he is not offended by the blackface at all, understands the joke, and can laugh at material like it.
- Matthew McConaughey is proposed for Tug because Ben Stiller's version feels too similar to his Zoolander mode, with Stiller moving to Rick Peck.
- Bill Hader is proposed for Jeff Portnoy because he would have brought fresher improvisation than the already-established Jack Black.
- McConaughey as Tug is explicitly endorsed when Craig is asked, but the Jack Black replacement is challenged because Black's physicality and Chris Farley-like energy enliven the jungle passages. — Craig Horlbeck
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- The field is Ed O’Neill, the announcer, Alice Cooper and Chris Farley, with Officer Koharski added.
- O’Neill wins over Cooper and Farley; his earlier Wayne’s World driver’s-education sketch is recalled.
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- The field includes Jim Downey, Chris Farley, Don Rickles, Chevy Chase, and the delighted opera critic.
- Farley is initially selected for one of the strongest comedy heat checks in the category.
- Chase earns the co-win for his low-frequency doctor performance and bookie logic.
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- Farley wins for reaching an almost category-renaming level of commitment during the skunk sequence.
- Jack Warden is the louder alternate.
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- Chris Farley's brother is selected for the shoehorned theater appearance.
- Koechner is rejected after Anchorman made him recognizable.
What’s Aged the Best?
The note-to-self device, period soundtrack, bloopers, Jack Warden, Jim Downey, Artie Lange, and Chris Farley
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- The note-to-self recorder remains a funny extension of the lead comic persona.
- A rapid sequence of three period pop hits fixes the comedy firmly in the late 1990s.
- Closing-credit bloopers are praised as a comic tradition associated with the Cannonball Run films.
- Jack Warden holding the invented old-men magazine remains a strong visual gag.
- Jim Downey's homeless-man routine repeatedly sets up sentimental music and wisdom only to be cut off.
- Jack Warden's long supporting career is celebrated through The Replacements, 12 Angry Men, Shampoo, The Verdict, and Heaven Can Wait.
- The compact jokes about stopping people and the brothers’ parentage are praised for efficiency.
- Artie Lange's casting looks smart because the film helped lead to his later radio career.
- Chris Farley's final film role preserves one of his strongest short comic appearances.
- The catalog of note-to-self lines is praised, with the beer reminder called the most memorable.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The dead-hooker trunk reveal is praised for escalating through the remote-controlled trunk openings and a remembered Saigon story.
- The dead-fish revenge sustains a silent pose while violence occurs offscreen, recalling an older broad-comedy serial.
- 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.
- The abrupt ending and final line about the doctor's death are praised for refusing a normal resolution.
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