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Rewatchables episodes featuring Danny McBride’s films

Tropic Thunder

2008 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Van Lathan · Joel Anderson

Aired May 12, 2026

This Is the End

2013 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Craig Horlbeck

Aired June 27, 2023

Pineapple Express

2008 film

Craig Horlbeck · Danny Kelly · Danny Heifetz

Aired October 18, 2022

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This Is the End

What’s Aged the Best?

Danny McBride, personal dynamics, specificity, and fan service

In the discussion (12)
Approx. transcript time · 00:33:52Read transcript
  • Danny McBride is the leading answer because he repeatedly broke the other actors during filming. — Bill Simmons
  • The David Spade theory of nonthreatening celebrity desirability is said to be validated by Mindy Kaling’s Michael Cera speech. — Bill Simmons
  • The Jay–Seth friendship tension and their relationship with Seth’s Los Angeles friends feel rooted in real dynamics. — Bill Simmons
  • Jonah Hill and James Franco insulting one another is praised for blurring performance and real friction. — Bill Simmons
  • The timely Lindsay Lohan joke and Jonah identifying himself to God as being from Moneyball are praised. — Bill Simmons
  • The enormous demon anatomy, recurring jokes about Seth, and period pop-culture references are praised for specificity. — Bill Simmons
  • The detailed apocalypse inventory and its conversion into 127 Hours are praised. — Bill Simmons
  • Jay Baruchel’s later account of disliking Jonah during filming is used to validate the tension onscreen. — Bill Simmons
  • Dicks up and Scarface style are praised as compact group-decision jokes. — Craig Horlbeck
  • Superbad and Pineapple Express fan service is praised for supplying reunion energy without conventional sequels.
  • Combining a one-night party comedy with Night of the Living Dead is praised as a potent premise. — Chris Ryan
  • Jonah's dog Aja and the video-confessional device are praised.
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  • Danny McBride is declared the funniest performer of the prior fifteen years and the successor to Will Ferrell.
  • His recurring overconfident persona is compared with Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Will Ferrell.
  • His entrances, breakfast, ration argument, insults, and laughter at Michael Cera’s death are cited as examples. — Bill Simmons
  • The limited-film-role, heat-check shape of his career is praised rather than treated as a weakness. — Bill Simmons
  • Pineapple Express 2: Blood Red is identified as an apocalypse project within the film and as the prospective real sequel plot. — Bill Simmons
In the discussion (12)
Approx. transcript time · 00:19:32Read transcript
In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:44:40Read transcript
  • One speaker chooses McBride and another audibly agrees; the third speaker names two possible answers without casting a final candidate ballot.
  • Rogen may eventually be remembered by later generations as a cannabis entrepreneur more than as an actor, strengthening but not winning his case.
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