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Jonah Hill

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Rewatchables episodes featuring Jonah Hill’s films

This Is the End

2013 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Craig Horlbeck

Aired June 27, 2023

Knocked Up

2007 film

Bill Simmons · Juliet Litman · Craig Horlbeck

Aired June 7, 2022

Superbad

2007 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan · Sean Fennessey

Aired August 9, 2021

Moneyball

2011 film

Bill Simmons · Chris Ryan

Aired August 7, 2017

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This Is the End The Rewatchables
This Is the End

Apex Mountain

Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, and movie pitches

In the discussion (10)
Approx. transcript time · 00:57:21Read transcript
  • Seth Rogen is placed at or near apex between this film and Neighbors. — Chris Ryan
  • Jonah Hill is assigned The Wolf of Wall Street or Moneyball rather than this film. — Bill Simmons
  • James Franco is placed near apex, with 127 Hours as an alternate. — Bill Simmons
  • Danny McBride is accepted at apex based on Eastbound & Down and this film. — Bill Simmons
  • Craig Robinson is placed near apex through Hot Tub Time Machine, The Office, and this film. — Bill Simmons
  • Michael Cera is assigned Superbad and Emma Watson is assigned Harry Potter.
  • The Backstreet Boys and comedies overall are rejected as apex cases.
  • The film is selected as apex mountain for audacious movie pitches.
  • The use of Melrose is praised but its convenience is questioned.
  • Aja, textbook twatage, and Channing Tate-yum are proposed for best resource/name-style phrases. — Bill Simmons
This Is the End The Rewatchables
This Is the End

The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

Missing post-credit scene in hell

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 00:42:13Read transcript
  • The abandoned post-credit scene with Franco, McBride, Jonah, and Hitler smoking in hell is identified as the missing piece. — Bill Simmons
  • The panel argues the film should return to hell after the heaven ending and include more condemned figures. — Bill Simmons
This Is the End The Rewatchables
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.
This Is the End The Rewatchables
This Is the End

Most Rewatchable Scene

Danny McBride and James Franco argue about the magazine

In the discussion (12)
Approx. transcript time · 00:19:32Read transcript
There Will Be Blood The Rewatchables
There Will Be Blood

Recasting Couch

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Henry; Paul Dano retained as Eli

In the discussion (2)
Approx. transcript time · 01:42:13Read transcript
  • Hoffman as the false brother would create a different two-actor confrontation at a fitting career moment. — Bill Simmons
  • Ledger is the strongest Eli alternative but perhaps too beautiful; most other candidates feel too contemporary or famous for the period world.
Project X The Rewatchables
Project X

Apex Mountain

Most cast, party scenes and props qualify, with several explicit alternatives.

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:00:23Read transcript
  • Most cast qualify except the later star; the actress in the three Pitch Perfect films may peak there. North Pasadena as a movie location is supported. — Bill Simmons
  • Party scenes are called unparalleled, with Animal House, the original House Party, Superbad and Neighbors as comparisons.
  • Ecstasy as a positive plot device is considered a peak, with lack of aftermath criticized; Almost Famous is the go-to roof jump, this at least final four. — Bill Simmons
  • The zipline’s origin is uncertain; bouncy castles and tequila revolvers are strong candidates, though the latter plays differently after COVID. — Bill Simmons
  • Jonah Hill imitation and sweater vests are further peak candidates. — Bill Simmons
  • Risky Business retains the peak for a parent’s car in water; Ferris Bueller is an adjacent car-destruction comparison. — Bill Simmons
Superbad The Rewatchables
Superbad

Apex Mountain

Michael Cera; Martha MacIsaac; comedic cops (possible); McLovin's Hawaiian driver's license

In the discussion (14)
Approx. transcript time · 01:03:45Read transcript
  • Jonah Hill, twice Oscar nominated and now a director, was on a Belushi-like track; 21 Jump Street is offered as his apex, after Moneyball changed opinions, though this may be the movie he is remembered for. — Sean Fennessey
  • Jonah and his peers are thoughtful fans of earlier movies who planned their careers. — Bill Simmons
  • This is definitely an Apex Mountain for Michael Cera, with Juno the same year and Scott Pilgrim in 2010.
  • His 2010s dip is attributed to not wanting fame and choosing smaller indie parts as an art-house fan; Molly's Game and Twin Peaks show a possible second life in a White Lotus-style series, though at 33 he is too young for the part mentioned there.
  • Research aside: Martha MacIsaac was 23 and Cera 17 during the sex scene. — Bill Simmons
  • Christopher Mintz-Plasse is raised with an unclear "absolutely, yeah," then credited with more career than expected (Role Models, Neighbors, Promising Young Woman) and a good essay about being trapped as McLovin. — Bill Simmons
  • Emma Stone no, Martha MacIsaac yes, Bill Hader no. — Bill Simmons
  • Rogen's 2007 was massive and his mogul career since (shows, weed line, books, pottery, Sony hack, fighting Ted Cruz) is the most impressive of the group; Long Shot shows his ideas, and his apex is probably Neighbors.
  • Pineapple Express got greenlit because of his stardom, from a generation that wanted to make its own Midnight Run or Lethal Weapon; producer Craig is asked about it and it is predicted as a late-300s episode, 383. — Bill Simmons
  • Comedic cops could be at Apex Mountain since the subgenre faded after this; Observe and Report was darker, and 21 Jump Street is offered by Craig. — Bill Simmons
  • Apex for flipping a boner into the waistband is asked as a question. — Bill Simmons
  • A joke Apex for Dartmouth credits the movie for Ringer staffers going there. — Bill Simmons
  • Goldschlager vodka was not a real vodka; Goldschlager is called an evil liquor, and a modern version would be marketed with an NFT. — Bill Simmons
  • The Hawaiian driver's license has got to be the peak, a cultural wave with shirts of it; one host's son Ben has a McLovin license flag from Amazon covering a window. — Bill Simmons
Superbad The Rewatchables
Superbad

The Joey Pants “That Guy” Award

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 00:54:34Read transcript
  • The fuck-my-life liquor store guy who reappears at the party, Joe Nunez, is loved, with a little Hurley from Lost. — Bill Simmons
  • Joe Lo Truglio as Francis, from The State and Brooklyn 9-9, is the perfect execution of his itchy, intense, bug-eyed talent, including the nonviolent-warrant line. — Bill Simmons
  • The Coke guy who cries while Cera sings plays Patrick; it is between him and Joe Nunez, whose IMDb peak is this. — Bill Simmons
  • Erica Phillips as the clerk taking the veterinary exam, also in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, is liked.
  • Jody Hill and Ben Best, the Eastbound and Down creators, on the couch are a good one, including Ben Best noticing Jonah's pants. — Sean Fennessey
  • The award is a tie between Joe Nunez and Kevin Bresdenhan (transcript spelling). — Bill Simmons
Superbad The Rewatchables
Superbad

Casting What-Ifs

Shia LaBeouf as Seth; Jennifer Lawrence as Jules; Kyle Gass as Officer Michaels

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 00:51:59Read transcript
  • Rogen was meant to be Seth but got too old and became Officer Michaels; after about two years without a Seth, Apatow on the Knocked Up set told Jonah to read into a camera and within an hour he was Seth, per a Ringer piece. — Bill Simmons
  • Shia was circled for Seth but was offer-only; it could have been the best thing for his career or the worst for the movie, with Transformers in 2007 changing his path and a bad wig needed to dork him up.
  • An unconfirmed internet claim says Jennifer Lawrence was considered for Jules, the Emma Stone part; she may have been a little young. — Bill Simmons
  • Officer Michaels was originally offered to Kyle Gass of Tenacious D. — Bill Simmons
  • There was little else because it was their crew and they knew who they wanted. — Bill Simmons
Superbad The Rewatchables
Superbad

What’s Aged the Best?

Title sequence and 1976 funk song; 70s funk soundtrack; the title; DTF; drunk-women theme; Slater and Michaels; Seth's lines; Cera's performance; McLovin's store terror; slow-motion catch trope; homeless guy

In the discussion (16)
Approx. transcript time · 00:36:52Read transcript
  • The opening title sequence uses Too Hot to Stop, a real 1976 funk song that was licensed rather than written for the movie.
  • The mostly 70s funk and disco soundtrack and title reflect 90s kids trying to be 70s cool in a 2007 movie; confusing if you think hard, and the stars were often asked what super bad means. — Sean Fennessey
  • "One Crazy Night" would not have the same feel; one theory is kids who played the Pulp Fiction soundtrack a lot, and the shirt he wears suggests a setting around 2001. — Chris Ryan
  • Superbad is just a good title. — Bill Simmons
  • Rogen tweeted on the 10th anniversary that the movie invented DTF; Jersey Shore people said they got it from the movie and the Situation trademarked it on shirts. — Bill Simmons
  • The theme that you should not take advantage of drunk women was ahead of its time in 2007, unlike 70s and 80s comedies with Animal House the worst offender; the guys are horny but have a decent moral compass. — Bill Simmons
  • Rogen and Hader are in their own buddy-cop movie that intersects this one; a Slater and Michaels show or where-are-they-now movie would be watched and crowdfunded. — Bill Simmons
  • Seth's lines, including anti-poon, the back located on his cock, cargo shorts, who directs his porn and the lube line, are part of his 20 great lines. — Bill Simmons
  • A request to let others say some lines, followed by the police car running red lights, doing donuts and shooting it while on fire.
  • Officer Michaels on having a gun: like having two cocks if one of them could kill someone.
  • Cera's line about conversing with adults and a man who climbed five mountains cuts to Jonah chugging. — Chris Ryan
  • Who won between Jonah and Michael is interesting; Cera redefines his one-pitch persona with perfect, singular line readings and facial expressions. — Sean Fennessey
  • The movie nails McLovin's fear in the store, with the camera zooming in on his abject terror. — Sean Fennessey
  • Added late: the slow-motion leap to catch something soaring through the air, like the Risky Business egg, with the Goldschlager bottle here.
  • Also added late: the homeless guy attacking McLovin behind the restaurant and later recognizing him on the bus as McMuffin.
  • Watching with subtitles reveals a line in the bar as they arrive: someone yelling at the bartender to get these nuts out of their shells. — Sean Fennessey
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Films in the archive

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

2008

Knocked Up

2007

Moneyball

2011

Superbad

2007

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

2005

The Wolf of Wall Street

2013

This Is the End

2013