Original Myers mask; Myers head tilts; lack of gore; the title; opening credits and music; Myers stalking Haddonfield all day; the driving exchange; the opening single take; nobody believing kids; neighbors shutting their lights; Bob's seventies van; the "blackest eyes" line; horny Myers; Kyle Richards as Lindsey; Sports Century Michael Myers column; Carpenter's filmmaking
The original mask is the best they ever did; the hosts recount that it was a Captain Kirk mask bought for two bucks on Hollywood Boulevard, eyeholes widened and spray-painted bluish white by Tommy Wallace, that Hill and Carpenter wanted him faceless and non-human, and that he becomes known as the Shape. — Chris Ryan
The hosts recount that a smiling clown mask with frizzy red hair was also tested but felt too weird, so they went with the Shatner mask. — Chris Ryan
The original mask was thrown out and never recreated, a big gripe of the host's buddy Jeff about the sequels; necessity was the mother of invention, including reusing leaves. — Chris Ryan
The head tilts, the smart lack of gore, and calling it Halloween rather than Halloween Massacre, The Shape or Michael Myers. — Chris Ryan
The opening credits with the pumpkin and the music, including the variations for Myers in motion versus Laurie crossing the street and the scare cue, with a Jaws comparison. — Chris Ryan
Michael stalking Haddonfield all day, though the girls should notice the same station wagon tailgating them. — Chris Ryan
The "For God's sake, Sam, he doesn't even know how to drive a car" exchange acknowledges how ridiculous his driving is. — Chris Ryan
The opening single take on a new camera, the "panel glide" as heard, is inventive, if maybe not a top-three single take. — Chris Ryan
The horror concept of nobody believing little kids, and the neighbors turning off their lights and closing their shades when Laurie comes to the door. — Chris Ryan
Bob's seventies van is added as an aged-best pick. — Bill Simmons
The "blank, pale, emotionless face, the blackest eyes, the devil's eyes" line; seeing little Michael makes the Shape scarier. — Bill Simmons
A host says deleted TV scenes on YouTube include Loomis before the medical board and "You fooled them all, Michael." — Chris Ryan
Horny Myers, watching hookups and the girl in the laundry room, "basically going through puberty in the movie." — Chris Ryan
A host notes that Lindsey was played by future Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards, who is in the new Halloween. — Chris Ryan
A personal pick: the speaker's own 2002 ESPN column written as a Sports Century episode about Michael Myers, satirizing media people and getting past Walsh's satire rule. — Chris Ryan
Carpenter's full filmmaking contribution: co-writing with Hill, directing and composing a score done in five days on a Casio, like Coppola also doing the Godfather music. — Chris Ryan
