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Jeff Daniels
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- Episodes featuring their films
- 4
- Movies in this archive
- 4
Rewatchables episodes featuring Jeff Daniels’s films
The Martian
2015 film
Bill Simmons · Sean Fennessey · Chris Ryan · Van Lathan
Aired October 13, 2020
Speed
1994 film
Bill Simmons · Jason Concepcion · Shea Serrano · Donnie Kwak
Aired September 21, 2017
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Apex Mountain
Die Hard successors and L.A. buses: yes
In the discussion (8)
Approx. transcript time · 01:41:45Read transcript
- Reeves, Bullock and Hopper are rejected as being at their apex here — Bill Simmons
- Die Hard successors receive support — Bill Simmons
- LA freeways are compared with the OJ chase and The Chase — Bill Simmons
- Cops with grudges are debated without a conclusion — Bill Simmons
- LA buses are accepted — Bill Simmons
- Los Angeles’s cultural visibility in 1994 is discussed with the post-riots LAPD depiction noted — Bill Simmons
- Daniels’s Speed–Dumb and Dumber year is compared with The Newsroom — Bill Simmons
- Characters named Annie are debated against Annie Hall, Misery and the musical — Bill Simmons
Who Won the Movie?
Jeff Daniels over initial Jim Carrey suggestion
In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:00:40Read transcript
- Jim Carrey is proposed first — Jennifer Lawrence
- Jeff Daniels is ultimately selected for understated straight-man balance — Bill Simmons
In the discussion (6)
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- Jim Carrey is judged at or near his apex after three 1994 hits gave him extraordinary leverage — Bill Simmons
- Jeff Daniels is assigned an apex for Speed and Dumb and Dumber in the same year — Bill Simmons
- Lauren Holly is offered as a tentative apex choice — Bill Simmons
- The Farrelly brothers are assigned a later apex with There’s Something About Mary — Bill Simmons
- Aspen and snow owls are considered and rejected as apex choices — Bill Simmons
- A frozen tongue on a metal pole is assigned instead to A Christmas Story — Bill Simmons
Half-Assed Internet Research
Carrey’s tooth, filming sites, ghost story, alternate ending, Eastwood anecdote, improvisation, and watch gag
In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 00:43:16Read transcript
- Jim Carrey reportedly removed a cap to expose his childhood-chipped tooth — Bill Simmons
- The Aspen material was filmed in Breckenridge, Colorado, and Park City, Utah — Bill Simmons
- The hotel exterior was the Stanley Hotel associated with The Shining — Bill Simmons
- The haunted hotel room is numbered 217 in the book and 237 in the film — Bill Simmons
- Carrey reportedly fled room 217 after three hours and has not explained why — Bill Simmons
- The alternate bikini-model-bus ending is rejected as the wrong ending — Bill Simmons
- Carrey reportedly refused an alternate ending in which the pair board the bikini-model bus — Bill Simmons
- Jeff Daniels reportedly learned Clint Eastwood had experienced a similar bathroom-date disaster — Bill Simmons
- The big gulfs exchange reportedly used nonactors and was improvised — Bill Simmons
- Lloyd’s watch displays a fake Casino brand rather than Casio — Bill Simmons
In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 00:34:35Read transcript
- Steve Martin and Martin Short reportedly declined Lloyd — Bill Simmons
- Nicolas Cage reportedly sought a salary the production would not meet for the co-lead before Jeff Daniels was cast — Bill Simmons
- Jennifer Lawrence recounts auditioning for Twilight without a callback before later taking The Hunger Games — Jennifer Lawrence
Most Rewatchable Scene
The airport limo and discovering the suitcase
In the discussion (16)
Approx. transcript time · 00:15:52Read transcript
- Lloyd’s despair over having no food, jobs, or intact pet is nominated — Bill Simmons
- Lloyd selling the headless parakeet to a blind child is nominated — Bill Simmons
- The boys-versus-Sea Bass diner sequence is nominated — Bill Simmons
- Cam Neely is identified as the Boston Bruins star who played Sea Bass — Bill Simmons
- The diner con is identified as a reference to Jeff Daniels in Something Wild — Bill Simmons
- Lloyd’s fantasy dinner performance and fight are nominated — Bill Simmons
- The hitman road trip and improvised “most annoying sound” are nominated — Bill Simmons
- Harry learning Lloyd carried extra gloves throughout the freezing trip is nominated
- The pair discovering the suitcase money is nominated — Bill Simmons
- The Lamborghini, hotel, tuxedo-shopping, and hundred-dollar-bill spree is nominated as a leading stretch — Bill Simmons
- The Snow Owl benefit is nominated — Bill Simmons
- The snowball fight is nominated — Bill Simmons
- The bathroom crisis is nominated as the famous scene — Bill Simmons
- The “so you’re telling me there’s a chance” exchange is nominated — Bill Simmons
- The airport limo conversation is selected as a favorite scene — Jennifer Lawrence
- Discovering the suitcase money and the following hotel-and-benefit run is another favorite stretch — Jennifer Lawrence
Casting What-Ifs
Chevy Chase and John Travolta were considered for Griffin, and several cut cameos and cast relationships are discussed.
In the discussion (5)
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- Chevy Chase wanted to play Griffin, but Warner Bros. rejected the idea. — Bill Simmons
- Robert Altman reportedly considered John Travolta for Griffin. — Bill Simmons
- The panel prefers Robbins and notes his early-1990s career run. — Wesley Morris
- Jeff Daniels golfing in surgical clothes and Patrick Swayze doing karate were filmed and cut. — Bill Simmons
- Greta Scacchi and Vincent D’Onofrio were in a relationship and had a daughter. — Bill Simmons
Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake
Already made as The Newsroom; Sports Night is the closest show to the film
In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:21:09Read transcript
- Asked whether it could be a ten-episode Netflix series, the answer is that it has already been made as The Newsroom, a Sorkin show about what if the news were the most important thing in the world; it was heavy-handed, though Broadcast News is heavy-handed too, and Olivia Munn's high-strung producer was hilarious.
- The Newsroom is called one of the funniest shows of the last ten years, unintentionally, every episode funnier than the last until it got good at the end, which made it worse; Sorkin, on one host's podcast, said he had a pebble in his shoe writing it and never got an episode right, a line his own characters would say; the reason it should not be a show is that Broadcast News is three people in a room while Newsroom had ten with ABC plots, checking in on Alison Pill and Sam Watterson (as transcribed).
- Death Patel (as transcribed) and Chris Messina get laughs just by being named in a wild cast; one host would still watch it every Sunday for twenty years without claiming it taught him anything about being human, the distinction between enjoying and good; it crammed Holly Hunter's character into nine or eleven minutes of Emily Mortimer, and the mistake was making Jeff Daniels, the William Hurt figure, the star rather than the Hunter figure.
- The hosts wish more shows were that polarizing, recalling that two of them died on Vinyl Island; Sports Night is the show closest to Broadcast News, more modest with more space; Goodnight Beantown, a Boston show with Bill Bixby and the woman from The Incredible Hulk, did not work.
Apex Mountain
Bullock: tentative yes
In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 00:40:44Read transcript
- Reeves is judged to have higher peaks ahead.
- Bullock is judged to have gone higher later; an off-podcast choice heard as miscongeniality is reported as a movie she carried to $200 million.
- A tentative Bullock choice is offered despite uncertainty.
- Hopper is proposed, with disagreement over his earlier work and Easy Rider’s generational significance.
- Daniels is rejected individually, but a combined Speed and Dumb and Dumber year is floated.
- Sam the bus driver is suggested without a firm ruling. — Bill Simmons
Picking Nits
Tires, payphone timing, gasoline, bus stops, cameras, the bomber’s home, the jump, and Annie’s driving (several disputed)
In the discussion (13)
Approx. transcript time · 00:30:38Read transcript
- Could Jack shoot the tires before the bus reaches fifty? — Bill Simmons
- The counterargument is that Hopper could detonate remotely and watch on camera; the reply distinguishes the unarmed speed-trigger phase.
- Answering a payphone after the explosion is questioned, along with how the caller knows Jack will be there; a video-game side-mission analogy defends answering.
- Stabbing the fuel tank to hang onto the bus is questioned, and the missing consequences of the lingering gasoline smell are mocked. — Bill Simmons
- Stopping for Annie after departing is questioned, then defended through a bus-driver father’s habit of waiting for regulars and bringing tacos. — Bill Simmons
- The blast that kills Helen seems likely to destroy a tire and cause an accident.
- The airport tire spikes appear to damage a tire, yet the bus continues without consequences. — Bill Simmons
- An unnamed participant describes accidentally driving over Staples Center tire spikes without tire damage, challenging the assumption that spikes always work. — Bill Simmons
- Hopper’s repeated Wildcat clue is interpreted as deliberate taunting rather than a slip. — Bill Simmons
- A 1994 onboard camera is questioned, then defended through recollections of early school-bus cameras; an uninterrupted feed still seems implausible.
- Entering a bomber’s home without anticipating explosives is criticized, while Daniels’s death expression is admired and compared to Dumb and Dumber. — Bill Simmons
- The bus could not survive the landing even if it somehow completed the jump. — Bill Simmons
- Annie’s ability to drive the bus is questioned; replies suggest parking is the hard part and much of the task is going straight. — Bill Simmons
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