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What’s Aged the Best?
Chuck under attack, basketball, soundtrack, and comic asides
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- Chuck's repeated mistreatment by the dog, strangers, girlfriend, delivery man, and schoolgirls effectively sets up his eventual revolt. — Bill Simmons
- Mr. Carbone's repeated accusation that Chuck went over his head remains a reusable line. — Bill Simmons
- The rain-slicked alley basketball game and a bound man thrown through the hoop are praised. — Chris Ryan
- Richard Belzer's villain and the original That's What Friends Are For are praised. — Bill Simmons
- Chuck's mother using a séance to berate her dead husband and Billy's barbershop exit are praised. — Bill Simmons
- The Van Halen, Rolling Stones, Night Shift, Al Jarreau, Pointer Sisters, Talk Talk, and Burt Bacharach soundtrack is praised. — Bill Simmons
- The small asides, including reactions to Charlotte's photo and Lupe's pickle-girl history, are praised. — Chris Ryan
- Ron Howard's racially awkward SNL promotion is discussed as a period artifact. — Bill Simmons
Probably Unanswerable Questions
Why not name Vince Vaughn's character Trent and make it a Swingers sequel? Is it acceptable for an actor to play a character with his own name? Should TV characters cross over into other shows?
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- Why not just name Vince's character Trent and make it a sequel to Swingers, since they never acknowledge they are borrowing the IP.
- On actors playing characters with their own name, like Jack Nicholson playing a Jack, one host is all in and another finds it vexing, either the actor not wanting to think of another name or everyone deciding Jack fits, noting Chinatown moved to Jake.
- On extending a character into another vehicle, one host is fine with it and recalls Coolidge from The White Shadow becoming the janitor on St. Elsewhere, made by Gwyneth Paltrow's dad, and an episode where the actor who played Salami appears as a different character; the later version is Richard Belzer's Munch moving from Homicide to Law & Order; Boghossian (as transcribed) being the same guy in Billions and Succession would have shattered it.
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