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Ghostbusters

Casting What-Ifs

Ghostbusters The Rewatchables

Michael Keaton is the favored alternate Venkman, Jeff Goldblum interests the panel as Egon, and numerous reported candidates receive credibility checks.

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  • Chevy Chase's claim that he declined Venkman is treated skeptically, though a preliminary conversation is considered possible.
  • Michael Keaton is the favored Venkman alternative because he had already played comparable fast-talking comic leads.
  • Tom Hanks, Robin Williams, Steve Gutenberg, and Richard Pryor are listed as other reported Venkman possibilities with varying credibility.
  • Christopher Walken, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, and Jeff Goldblum are discussed as reported Egon candidates; Goldblum draws the most interest.
  • Daryl Hannah, Denise Crosby, Julia Roberts, and Kelly LeBrock are reported as Dana audition possibilities, though the panel doubts some claims.
  • John Candy is reported to have declined Louis Tully after proposing a German accent; Sandra Bernhard reportedly declined Janine.
  • Paul Rubens is mentioned as an alleged Gozer possibility, but the claim is explicitly doubted.
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This Is the End

The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award

This Is the End The Rewatchables

Danny McBride is the funniest person of his generation

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. The limited-film-role, heat-check shape of his career is praised rather than treated as a weakness. Pineapple Express 2: Blood Red is identified as an apocalypse project within the film and as the prospective real sequel plot.

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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.
  • The limited-film-role, heat-check shape of his career is praised rather than treated as a weakness.
  • Pineapple Express 2: Blood Red is identified as an apocalypse project within the film and as the prospective real sequel plot.
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The Player

Casting What-Ifs

The Player The Rewatchables

Chevy Chase and John Travolta were considered for Griffin, and several cut cameos and cast relationships are discussed.

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  • Chevy Chase wanted to play Griffin, but Warner Bros. rejected the idea.
  • Robert Altman reportedly considered John Travolta for Griffin.
  • The panel prefers Robbins and notes his early-1990s career run.
  • Jeff Daniels golfing in surgical clothes and Patrick Swayze doing karate were filmed and cut.
  • Greta Scacchi and Vincent D’Onofrio were in a relationship and had a daughter.
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Dirty Work

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

Dirty Work The Rewatchables

Chris Farley and Chevy Chase are co-winners.

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  • The field includes Jim Downey, Chris Farley, Don Rickles, Chevy Chase, and the delighted opera critic.
  • Farley is initially selected for one of the strongest comedy heat checks in the category.
  • Chase earns the co-win for his low-frequency doctor performance and bookie logic.
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Dirty Work

Most Rewatchable Scene

Dirty Work The Rewatchables

The jail sequence is the durable favorite, with the dead-fish revenge, dead-hooker trunks, skunk release, and several compact cameos also praised.

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Approx. transcript time · 00:34:07Read transcript
  • The childhood opening credits are praised for casting children who resemble neither lead and for the superglue revenge against a predatory crossing guard.
  • The frat-house prank works through fake police calls, robbery, and a blunt final insult.
  • Chevy Chase's first doctor scene is praised for coldly rejecting the heart-transplant patient before trying to sell a hospital bed.
  • Don Rickles' hospital-room insults are praised as a concentrated comic performance.
  • The Men in Black pornography scene wins laughs by pushing a thin premise into blunt absurdity.
  • The dead-hooker trunk reveal is praised for escalating through the remote-controlled trunk openings and a remembered Saigon story.
  • The dead-fish revenge sustains a silent pose while violence occurs offscreen, recalling an older broad-comedy serial.
  • The jail scene remains funny across repeated viewings because the lecture about respect collides with the more painful assault.
  • Chris Farley's skunk release is described as an unnerving, fully committed burst of comic chaos.
  • The abrupt ending and final line about the doctor's death are praised for refusing a normal resolution.
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Dirty Work

1998

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Dirty Work

1998 film

Bill Simmons · Sean Fennessey

Aired September 21, 2021

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