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Hank Azaria
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- Episodes featuring their films
- 7
- Movies in this archive
- 5
Rewatchables episodes featuring Hank Azaria’s films
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
2004 film
Craig Horlbeck · Danny Heifetz · Danny Kelly
Aired August 6, 2024
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What role would Philip Seymour Hoffman play?
Charles Van Doren
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- A younger Philip Seymour Hoffman was proposed as Charles Van Doren. — Bill Simmons
- The Hank Azaria role was proposed as an alternative. — Bill Simmons
- The David Paymer role was proposed as an alternative. — Bill Simmons
- An older Hoffman was proposed as Mark Van Doren. — Bill Simmons
In the discussion (1)
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- Azaria was praised for throwing hard in every brief appearance. — Bill Simmons
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- Hank Azaria was argued as a true “that guy” at the time, before viewers knew his face. — Brian Koppelman
- Barry Levinson was selected as the controversial winner for viewers who would know him only as the doctor from Rain Man. — Bill Simmons
Most Rewatchable Scene
No consensus: Van Doren–Stempel game/montage; Goodwin–Van Doren friendship/Connecticut
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- The Chrysler opener was praised, though its Sputnik button was criticized as overly obvious. — Brian Koppelman
- Stempel’s first appearance inside the 1950s quiz-show set was nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Van Doren’s interview and the producers’ uncertainty about whether he took the bait were nominated. — Bill Simmons
- The Paymer–Azaria comedy-team exchanges were nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Stempel learning he must lose, including the $70,000 humiliation line, was nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Van Doren beating Stempel after recognizing the audition question was nominated for its “what would you do” tension. — Bill Simmons
- The “things are looking up for Charles Van Doren” montage was nominated. — Bill Simmons
- The fake shoe-tie used to delay the limousine was nominated. — Bill Simmons
- The chocolate-cake confrontation between Charles and his father was nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Stempel’s testimony was nominated. — Bill Simmons
- The network president lobbying Van Doren and warning that speculation becomes fact was nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Charles confessing to his father and Schofield’s reaction were nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Van Doren’s statement about borrowed wings and an unbuilt foundation was nominated. — Bill Simmons
- The ending was included among the candidates. — Bill Simmons
- One preference was the stretch from Van Doren beating Stempel through the montage and shoe-tie. — Brian Koppelman
- A competing preference was the Goodwin–Van Doren near-friendship from the club through the Connecticut visit. — Brian Koppelman
In the discussion (1)
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- Dion Waiters nominees include Azaria, Baldwin, Brown, the waitress and Reuben's mother. The mother's restaurant misunderstanding is initially favored, then Baldwin becomes the agreed final choice. — Bill Simmons
The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"Because she's got a great ass and you got your head all the way up it."
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- Instead of more lessons, a run of Pacino lines begins with the chop shop scene, called a favorite scene in the movie: 'Did you fall in love last night?' and 'Don't waste my motherfucking time'; Pacino is still in Scent of a Woman mode for the first hour, it feels improvised, and the two other actors seem to wonder what is going on.
- 'You can get killed. Walk it in your doggy.' (as transcribed) is aimed at one of two Black actors in the scene, one Tone Loke and the other identified as the comedian Ricky Harris; 'Shut up, Ralph. Sit down.' is added.
- From the end, when he thinks De Niro is gone, 'Bon voyage, motherfucker'; a run of scenes about the crew's exit plan seems to get the chronology wrong, since simply pursuing them would have caught them; 'All I am is all I'm going after.' (as transcribed) is called a really good line.
- The best one, for its pauses (likened to Pat Summerall doing Murder, She Wrote), is Pacino's line to Hank Azaria's character, the result, called the best 10 seconds of Pacino's career; whether it was scripted or ad-libbed is wondered, nobody in the scene seems to have known it was coming, and Azaria is judged either overmatched or playing an overwhelmed man.
- From the diner scene, 'There's a flip side to that coin,' then a seven-second pause before 'What if I got to take you down?' (as transcribed), called incredible.
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