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Approx. transcript time · 01:09:47Read transcript
- It has to be Jason Segel; Kunis has a nice shot, but Segel wins because he also wrote it, which pushes him over the top, even though one host really wants to give it to Kunis, who becomes a star from this moment on and is that host's favorite part of the movie.
- Her character beats the dick, which is not in the top ten or maybe top fifty; hers was a nothing part that she made really fun, whereas Kristen Bell's part was developed; asked to name five things about Kunis' character, the hosts get a bad relationship, dropping out of college and working at a hotel, and still like her.
- Segel won because of the writing: everything that makes the movie unique and weird and keeps you coming back is permeated by his personality, his interests and his vulnerability, and the film changed how he is viewed, since you usually cannot be an action star after a movie like this.
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Approx. transcript time · 00:53:47Read transcript
- The opening joke is Jason Segel's dick as Apex Mountain, met with doubt that it is the apex and the suggestion it has more to grow since it was cold in the studio; the hosts suspect the 'six to midnight' line from Jonah Hill's character, possibly only in the unrated version, is Segel's own note to anyone asking about his dick.
- Segel himself is Apex Mountain, no question: he is on How I Met Your Mother and is the writer and star of a movie, and it is not getting any better for him than right here.
- His career did not go where one host expected: he seemed headed for an Albert Brooks type lane, and the film recalls Modern Romance, Brooks' second movie, a persona loosely based on himself about the relationship between men and women, goofy yet sincere; Segel never kept making those crypto-autobiographical broad comedies.
- After The Muppets he co-wrote The Five-Year Engagement and Sex Tape with Cameron Diaz, played David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour in 2015, and appeared in This Is 40, This Is the End and Bad Teacher; one host thinks he had some issues, and ten years on a CBS show for seven months a year will slow a film career.
- It is strange when somebody writes a really good movie and does not keep doing it, as with Affleck and Damon never writing another film together after Good Wanting (as transcribed); maybe you make too much money, and in interviews Segel comes across as thoughtful and reflective about his place in Hollywood.
- Segel was a successful high school basketball player at Harvard Westlake and a teammate of Jason Collins; his How I Met Your Mother character's nickname White Chocolate comes from that, his real nickname was Dr. Dunk, and the hosts hope he writes something and gets a second act.
- Nobody else qualifies: Mila Kunis did even bigger and better things after this, Kristen Bell obviously did, and so did all the bit players; Billy Baldwin's peak was Sliver, not this.
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