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Rewatchables episodes featuring Leslie Mann’s films

She's the One

1996 film

Bill Simmons · Sean Fennessey · Wesley Morris

Aired July 14, 2026

Big Daddy

1999 film

Bill Simmons · Joe House · Sean Fennessey

Aired June 28, 2024

Knocked Up

2007 film

Bill Simmons · Juliet Litman · Craig Horlbeck

Aired June 7, 2022

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She's the One The Rewatchables
She's the One

Recasting Couch

Talia Shire as the sisters’ mother; Leslie Mann in Maxine’s role.

In the discussion (4)
Approx. transcript time · 01:52:04Read transcript
She's the One The Rewatchables
She's the One

The Dennis Peck Relationship Test

Dennis Peck could break every relationship in the movie.

The panel proposes a new category here.

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:39:35Read transcript
  • Dennis Peck is judged capable of breaking up every principal relationship.
  • Hope, Renee, Heather, the mother, Leslie Mann’s character, and Francis are named as targets.
  • A Dennis Peck series breaking a marriage each week is proposed. — Bill Simmons
She's the One The Rewatchables
She's the One

The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film

Francis refusing sex with Renee; Maxine’s underwritten role.

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 01:34:41Read transcript
  • Francis refusing sex with Renee is selected as implausible.
  • The movie’s thin use of Maxine is criticized. — Wesley Morris
  • Jennifer Aniston’s movie career is debated as a product of poor choices and crowded competition, while her eventual hits are acknowledged. — Wesley Morris
Big Daddy The Rewatchables
Big Daddy

Picking Nits

Age-inappropriate TV; delivery man’s illiteracy; absent father; changed attitude toward child; unaffordable lifestyle

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 00:54:59Read transcript
  • The five-year-old watches programs aimed at substantially younger children. — Bill Simmons
  • Rob Schneider’s character’s inability to read is questioned as a comic premise. — Bill Simmons
  • Stewart’s character remains in China after learning a child has been left at his home. — Bill Simmons
  • Leslie Mann’s character’s eventual acceptance of the child seems inconsistent with her earlier opposition. — Bill Simmons
  • A $200,000 settlement and minimal tollbooth work cannot plausibly sustain Sonny’s New York apartment and lifestyle. — Joe House
Big Daddy The Rewatchables
Big Daddy

What’s Aged the Worst?

Hooters jokes about Leslie Mann’s character

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 00:44:39Read transcript
  • The gay friends remain comparatively progressive, but their portrayal would benefit from greater nuance today. — Bill Simmons
  • The repeated Hooters jokes at Leslie Mann’s expense are the strongest choice. — Bill Simmons
  • The child’s television shows divide opinion. — Bill Simmons
  • The trick-or-treating break-in and taking a man’s watch are excessive. — Bill Simmons
  • The trial is considered long and boring, though the father’s criticism supplies welcome realism for another view. — Joe House
  • Sonny’s reassuring courtroom speech to his father is unconvincing. — Joe House
Big Daddy The Rewatchables
Big Daddy

What’s Aged the Best?

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 00:36:51Read transcript
  • Acceptance of Sonny’s gay friends holds up better than expected, including the child being taught to accept them. — Bill Simmons
  • Young Jon Stewart works as Sonny’s friend in a relatively small supporting part; an initial claim that he plays the brother is corrected. — Joe House
  • Kristy Swanson and Leslie Mann are praised, with Mann the final preferred answer. — Bill Simmons
  • Mr. Herlihy continues Sandler’s funny pattern of confrontations with combative older men. — Bill Simmons
  • Sonny’s misguided parenting discovery—options rather than orders—is amusing. — Bill Simmons
  • The soundtrack captures its era through Sheryl Crow, Garbage, Limp Bizkit, Everlast, Big Audio Dynamite, Styx, Eurythmics, Springsteen, New Radicals and Harvey Danger. — Bill Simmons
The 40-Year-Old Virgin The Rewatchables
The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Half-Assed Internet Research

Shandling's ending idea; champagne for a million feet of film; withheld American Humane credit; Leslie Mann's drunk footage; repurposed Staples set; influence on The Office

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 01:00:29Read transcript
  • The host reports Gary Shandling came up with the ending, per Apatow, noting it was important to show Andy having better sex because he was in love, which led to the musical number. — Bill Simmons
  • The host reports the film company does send champagne whenever someone shoots a million feet of film. — Bill Simmons
  • The host reports the American Humane Association withheld its no-animals-harmed line because several tropical fish were accidentally killed; the hosts joke that the credit has no effect on release, making it an animal snuff film. — Bill Simmons
  • The host reports Leslie Mann got drunk at a club with Seth Rogen and her friend Denise, who filmed her, and she used that footage for the scene; outtakes show Apatow feeding her lines. — Bill Simmons
  • The host reports the electronics store was not a set but a Staples that had just shut down. — Bill Simmons
  • The host reports the movie changed The Office: after a first season where Carell's character felt too nasty and menacing, seeing him as a buffoon here led them to incorporate more of that. — Bill Simmons
The 40-Year-Old Virgin The Rewatchables
The 40-Year-Old Virgin

The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 00:56:56Read transcript
The 40-Year-Old Virgin The Rewatchables
The 40-Year-Old Virgin

The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award

No affirmative selection

In the discussion (3)
Approx. transcript time · 00:55:52Read transcript
  • Elizabeth Banks dials it up, though it is in the script; she is called worthy, but it is hard to give the award in a comedy. — Bill Simmons
  • She is doing the 50s-and-60s sexpot comic character of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Mansfield, not far from Singing in the Rain. — Sean Fennessey
  • Asked about Leslie Mann: 'You could', but both performances are exactly what they should be, and it is hard to give this to comedies because doing it is doing it right.
The 40-Year-Old Virgin The Rewatchables
The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Most Rewatchable Scene

Poker game

In the discussion (18)
Approx. transcript time · 00:31:55Read transcript
  • The opening store scene does a lot, with Seth Rogen's story about a Tijuana show featuring a woman and a horse, which turned out not as cool as it sounds. — Bill Simmons
  • Paul Rudd accosting Jane Lynch over the Michael McDonald DVD, ending with the 'Yamo burn this place to the ground' line; the speaker's son got bored about 40 minutes in but watched that bit on YouTube over and over.
  • The same DVD played over and over in the store is very real to anyone who has worked retail. — Bill Simmons
  • The poker game feels like an SNL sketch; the line about a breast feeling like a bag of sand makes it the speaker's personal favorite scene. — Bill Simmons
  • The Leslie Mann scene is bonkers, the only unrealistically unhinged scene, but in a good way. — Bill Simmons
  • The body-waxing scene was like Caddyshack's Baby Ruth scene coming out of the theater.
  • The hosts say the waxing was done for real with five cameras and an actress as the waxer, so the nipple was not oiled and his right nipple was ravaged; it was really Carell's chest, and they had to keep waxing it for later shirtless scenes. — Bill Simmons
  • Paul Rudd bringing over a big box of porn and the Boner Jams '03 mix tape, followed by the Everybody Loves Raymond tape; Boner Jams '03 is called the favorite line in the movie.
  • The speed dating scene is really good, with Mo Collins's character flagged to come up later for the Dion Waiters category. — Bill Simmons
  • Andy's first date call to Catherine Keener while the others do 'you know how I know you're gay', which has not aged well in some ways but is Rudd and Rogen cooking. — Bill Simmons
  • The support group scene and Seth with his dad, who berates him about his little Jew fro. — Bill Simmons
  • The ending, where losing his virginity turns into a musical number with the whole cast, is called a really good choice and credited to Gary Shandling because they couldn't figure out the ending. — Bill Simmons
  • A special shout-out goes to the extended version of the Kevin Hart and Malco scene, compared to Clemens and Cecil Fielder going toe to toe; the lister agrees and had it in what's aged the best.
  • Andy following Rogen's character's tips in the bookstore: the just-ask-questions bit, the 'be David Caruso in Jade' advice, then the best line in the movie and the 90-second seduction by Elizabeth Banks. — Sean Fennessey
  • The David Caruso in Jade reference may have aged best or worst, since producer Craig would not know what Jade was. — Bill Simmons
  • Formal pick: the poker game, because it is perfectly written. — Bill Simmons
  • A second voice agrees the poker game is the most iconic now: the chest waxing was, but the bag-of-sand line is the one quoted back. — Sean Fennessey
  • It fits the movie because the other guys' sex talk makes sex seem gross and foreign, so Andy's choice to stay home with his electronic drum kit seems understandable. — Chris Ryan
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Films in the archive

17 Again

2009

Big Daddy

1999

Knocked Up

2007

She's the One

1996

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

2005

The Change-Up

2011