Timothy Busfield

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Mentioned in discussions

The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

Sneakers · The Rewatchables ·October 14, 2025

Stephen Tobolowsky, with Donal Logue and Eddie Jones also discussed.

In the discussion (4)

Approx. transcript time · 01:24:51Read transcript

• Timothy Busfield is ruled ineligible; Stephen Tobolowsky is the leading choice.
• Tobolowsky’s early-1990s run is praised, with Groundhog Day still considered his defining role.
• The panel calls Tobolowsky first-ballot material and jokes about adding his name to the award.
• Donal Logue and Eddie Jones are additional candidates.

The most "year the movie came out" thing

Sneakers · The Rewatchables ·October 14, 2025

Redford’s clothes, computer dating, answering machines, car phones, and the film’s Bay Area setting evoke 1992.

In the discussion (9)

Approx. transcript time · 00:53:22Read transcript

• Redford’s light-wash straight-leg jeans are nominated.
• His baseball jacket is nominated and compared with The Natural; the claim that it is the exact same jacket is disputed.
• Mary McDonnell’s feathered hair is nominated.
• The team affording an Oakland theater and finding easy street parking feel specific to the earlier Bay Area.
• Hacker graphics and manipulating a computer-dating service are nominated.
• The assumption that computer dating could not produce a bad match is challenged.
• An answering machine hiding place and a car-phone plot point are nominated.
• Siskel billing Timothy Busfield ahead of other stars is selected as a striking sign of thirtysomething’s contemporary prominence.
• The ending’s choice of charities for the redistributed money feels characteristic of 1992.

Films in the archive

Sneakers

1992

Rewatchables episodes featuring their films

Sneakers

1992 film

Bill Simmons · Kyle Brandt · Joanna Robinson

Aired October 14, 2025