The that-guy threshold is challenged: Begley, Higgins, Willard and Balaban may be unnamed familiar faces to ordinary viewers; including O’Hara is disputed after Schitt’s Creek, though the cast’s 2000 status is acknowledged.
The nominator planned four nominees for Most Rewatchable Scene and adds the ending as a fifth. — Bill Simmons
One participant rejects the ending as the most rewatchable scene.
Nominee: Edward picking up Vivian on Hollywood Boulevard; the directions negotiation and her driving are essential, though it is ludicrous that he brings a hooker in a Lotus that is not his; LA geography is deferred to nits.
Because Pretty Woman is a classic cable movie usually joined in progress, the opening cocktail party at a well-known LA house had been forgotten.
Nominee: Edward seeing Vivian in the black cocktail dress; the hosts reenact "You're late. You're stunning. You're forgiven." — Bill Simmons
His double take is some of his best acting, and his skill at appreciating her is compared to Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born.
Nominee: the shopping scene, with Edward promising to spend an obscene amount of money and asking for more sucking up.
Nominee: the opera scene, the nominator's wife's favorite, loved for the Pirates of Penzance and "almost peed my pants" joke and her broken-glasses screwball moment.
After throwing in the ending, the nominator picks the shopping scene as the most rewatchable scene, and it is placed in the rom-com pantheon. — Bill Simmons
When Harry Met Sally comparisons: the "I'll have what she's having" deli scene and singing Surrey with the Fringe on Top. — Bill Simmons
Larry Miller as the helpful salesman is praised; every beat of the sucking-up exchange works.
The shopping trope echoes a crying shopping scene in "Romney Michelle's High School Reunion"; the shopping part extends to the confrontation with the boutique saleswomen and walking down Rodeo Drive in his white shirt, one of her best looks.
A special outfit category is announced for later, with the host's wife's controversial take promised. — Bill Simmons
Asked whether this created the shopping montage, Can't Buy Me Love with Patrick Dempsey is offered as a precursor and jokingly the best movie of all time.
My Fair Lady makeover scenes connect to it; the makeover is aspirational if the clothes and makeup are good, and Clueless's makeover is a successor.
A case for the opera scene, while conceding it is not most rewatchable: La Traviata is about a prostitute, and she runs the gamut of emotions in 80 seconds without dialogue. — Bill Simmons
A theory: she became a superstar so fast because her best moments show her glammed up, so people could picture her at the Golden Globes or modeling for Gucci and Louis Vuitton. — Juliet Litman
