Carla Gallo is the probable pick: she comes in red hot, hits a couple threes and goes off the rails, and the ensuing fight has a bottle hitting Patrick.
The homeless guy should probably have been considered for the award. — Sean Fennessey
Andrew Keegan could not draw the anatomy gag and David Krumholtz showed him how; the film was shot entirely on location, with Stadium High School in Tacoma as the school; Kat's poem took one take with natural tears
Andrew Keegan (Andrew Keaton, as transcribed) did not know how to draw the anatomy gag and David Krumholtz showed him; the hosts find this baffling, debate whether it is a drawing rather than knowledge problem, and one notes that the on-screen attempt in four parts is not how it is done, though building it serves the punchline.
It is a very well directed, tight 90-minute film that hits all the right notes, down to the process of drawing the gag.
The movie was filmed entirely on location, so the gigantic stadium, staircase and Hogwarts-looking school is a real school, Stadium High School in Tacoma, Washington, which is wasted on teenagers; asked what happens there when it rains, the answer is that they shot in summer, and it is a grand vista for Heath Ledger's debut.
Research found the poem took only one take and the tears were natural and improvised.
Parts of the soundtrack, including the One Week remix and an unironic Smash Mouth cue; the school's lax discipline, from the flashing to the sausage prank, the arrow and the golf balls; Kat's crop tops and platform flip-flops
Some of the soundtrack has aged worst: the film opens with a remix of Barenaked Ladies' One Week, disputed as a remix, positioned as the popular girls' music that Kat drowns out with riot grrrl; a very unironic Smash Mouth cue feels corny, and Smash Mouth, who also covered Can't Get Enough of You Baby for Can't Hardly Wait, were a nineties soundtrack staple who no longer are.
Some soundtrack bands now read as jokes, such as Daz by Brick and Saturday Night by Tagana (as transcribed), though George Clinton and the Cardigans are also on it; one host realized they spent a lot of time with the CD as a teenager and saw Barenaked Ladies and the Cardigans at Atlanta's Jingle Ball.
Flashing a teacher to get someone out of detention would be received differently now, and the teacher would fear for his job; the school's discipline is lax overall, with Miss Perky merely telling Patrick Verona not to do it after his sausage prank on a lunch lady, Bianca shooting a teacher in the rear with an arrow, and a character firing golf balls into a crowd with no consequences.
The persistent trope of nerds getting away with things because they are smart, as in Stranger Things, appears here when Joseph Gordon-Levitt and David Krumholtz descend into a nerd lab like a parallel society.
Bianca's outfits are good but Julia Stiles' are poor: crop tops that are not coming back and platform flip-flops from Delia's that date it to a specific moment, though platforms are back on the market and slides were everywhere; the sisters have similar styles executed differently.
