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Rewatchables episodes featuring Pamela Anderson’s films
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- “Born to Be Wild” is selected as the deliberately generic road-trip cue — Bill Simmons
- “U Can’t Touch This” is the alternative — Bill Simmons
- “Take My Breath Away” under Pamela Anderson’s entrance is praised — Kyle Brandt
The most 2006 thing
Pre-social-media filming, post-9/11 resentment, Pamela Anderson culture, and the iPod Mini
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- The ability to film strangers before social media is nominated — Bill Simmons
- Mid-2000s anti-Muslim sentiment is nominated — Bill Simmons
- Pamela Anderson’s autograph line at a Virgin Megastore is nominated — Kyle Brandt
- The closing iPod Mini joke is selected as the strongest 2006 marker — Kyle Brandt
Most Rewatchable Scene
The Southern dinner; naked fight; Jewish bed-and-breakfast
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- The Kazakhstan opening and “Running of the Jew” are nominated — Bill Simmons
- Borat greeting and provoking New Yorkers is nominated — Kyle Brandt
- The humor-coach lesson and repeated failed “not” jokes are nominated — Bill Simmons
- Borat channel-surfing in the hotel is nominated — Kyle Brandt
- The feminist meeting and driving instruction are nominated — Kyle Brandt
- The local-news appearance and rodeo are nominated — Kyle Brandt
- The Jewish bed-and-breakfast is selected as a perfectly constructed scene — Bill Simmons
- A competing view finds the kind hosts too sympathetic for the scene to be comfortably rewatchable — Kyle Brandt
- The Southern dinner is praised while the insult toward one guest is called the movie’s meanest moment — Bill Simmons
- The naked hotel fight is praised as memorable but also uniquely disgusting — Kyle Brandt
- Pamela Anderson’s staged abduction is nominated — Bill Simmons
- The fraternity motor-home sequence is discussed without excusing the filmed students — Kyle Brandt
- Borat being cleansed in the church is the final scene nominated. — Kyle Brandt
- The Southern dinner is ultimately preferred over the more memorable naked fight — Kyle Brandt
Casting What-Ifs
McConaughey reportedly regretted declining, Crowe was persuaded after refusing, and an Isabella Scorupco offer is explicitly doubted alongside reports Basinger was first choice.
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- McConaughey reportedly regretted declining, Crowe was persuaded after refusing, and an Isabella Scorupco offer is explicitly doubted alongside reports Basinger was first choice. — Bill Simmons
- A Michael Madsen as Bud report is rejected as implausible. — Bill Simmons
- A Pamela Anderson as Lynn report is also disbelieved; the hosts discuss unreliable trivia accumulating over time.
Recasting Couch
New lead fembot; new Irish henchman
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- Replacing Robert Wagner is floated, but the casting pays off when Rob Lowe is put in as Number Two, a Robert Wagner 2.0. — Bill Simmons
- A point is started about the gentleman who played Random Task. — Chris Ryan
- That actor is called a complicated figure, to be covered later. — Bill Simmons
- An actress named on air as Ali Larder is proposed as the lead fembot; the fembots needed one future star, and Helen Mirren is jokingly suggested. — Bill Simmons
- It is odd the role did not go to Pamela Anderson; Cindy Margolis was the lower-tier version at the time, and someone reportedly auditioned for a part, perhaps Elizabeth Hurley's. — Bill Simmons
- Heather Graham as the lead fembot would have cost the sequel Felicity Shagwell. — Bill Simmons
- The Irish henchman (the Lucky Charms guy) should be replaced by a young host then working at Newbury Comics; Bono is joked about, and edgy British method actors such as Gary Oldman or Tim Roth are proposed.
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