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Tia Carrere
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- Episodes featuring their films
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Apex Mountain
Standalone Schwarzenegger films; Tom Arnold; ice-tray theft; Westin Bonaventure; glass elevators
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- Glass elevators are explicitly affirmed at Apex Mountain, with In the Line of Fire offered as a comparison. — Chris Ryan
- Schwarzenegger’s overall Apex is rejected, but True Lies is affirmed as the best of his standalone, non-franchise films after debating whether remakes and sequels disqualify other titles. — Van Lathan
- Tom Arnold is unequivocally affirmed at Apex Mountain. — Bill Simmons
- The 1990s tango-scene Apex goes to Scent of a Woman rather than True Lies. — Van Lathan
- Curtis’s hottest scenes are compared with Trading Places and Perfect, with Perfect strongly advocated as her best appearance. — Bill Simmons
- Tia Carrere’s Apex is assigned to Wayne’s World. — Bill Simmons
- Bill Paxton is rejected for this film. — Bill Simmons
- James Cameron is rejected for this film.
- Two Dobermans being headbutted together is proposed without a clear response.
- Skiing shootouts are compared with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Inception, and Cliffhanger; Inception is preferred.
- Ice-tray theft is unequivocally affirmed. — Chris Ryan
- The Westin Bonaventure’s appearances in True Lies and In the Line of Fire are treated as its broader peak. — Chris Ryan
- Horse cops do not receive a firm affirmative response. — Chris Ryan
- Truth serum is provisionally affirmed as possibly its best use. — Bill Simmons
Elisabeth Shue Inventing Cold Fusion Award
Tia Carrere as Juno Skinner
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- Tia Carrere as Juno Skinner, an ancient-Persian antiquities specialist, receives the Elisabeth Shue Oxford Electrochemist award. The role is compared with Bond’s implausibly credentialed glamorous women. — Bill Simmons
- Carrere is praised as underused after Wayne’s World, but her True Lies performance is challenged as an unconvincing mysterious badass reliant on holding champagne. Showdown in Little Tokyo is preferred as an example of her appeal.
The most 1994 thing
Sally Jessy Raphael
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- Sally Jessy Raphael is the agreed Most 1994 choice, over Tom Arnold, Tia Carrere, Axl Rose and Madonna as cultural parents, old exercise bikes, and Sade music. — Bill Simmons
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