Macaulay Culkin; pigeon ladies; benevolent Christmas homeless characters; New York holiday setting; Plaza pop-culture status; kerosene ropes; Daniel Stern; Joe Pesci’s1992 run
New York as a holiday setting receives support, with Miracle on34thStreet acknowledged as a competing classic. — Kyle Brandt
O’Hara’s later Schitt’s Creek and Guest films complicate her peak; Heard’s identification as the Home Alone father gives this period a tentative case alongside other roles. — Bill Simmons
The Plaza receives agreement specifically for popular-culture prominence rather than historical importance; lost children are compared with Taken without a firm final choice. — Kyle Brandt
Kerosene-soaked ropes and Stern receive clear affirmative answers; Pesci’s diverse1992 run after Goodfellas also receives support. — Bill Simmons
Fricker’s period around So I Married an Axe Murderer is initially proposed, then her My Left Foot Oscar is named as the actual peak; the toy store’s peak is the piano scene in Big. — Bill Simmons
Kevin’s pizza makes a movie-pizza shortlist, alongside Back to the FutureII, Wayne’s World and Iron Man; Loverboy is the explicit favorite, so this pizza is not the apex. — Kyle Brandt
Along Came Polly and the first Home Alone join the pizza discussion; a thin New York slice looks better on screen than messy Chicago deep dish. — Kyle Brandt
The fake-movie comparison includes the Home Alone gangster films, Logjammin’, Boogie Nights’ Angels Live in My Town, Simple Jack, Stab and South Park’s Terrance and Phillip film; Cleaver and a Forgetting Sarah Marshall television parody are added without a definitive apex answer. — Kyle Brandt
Cycling movies receive agreement, ahead of American Flyers; Quicksilver and other films are considered while discussing a possible cycling month.
Used cars and Daniel Stern are rejected, with Stern’s Home Alone, City Slickers and The Wonder Years period preferred.
Irritable Italians and the 1978 Masi Gran Criterium bicycle receive affirmative selections.
Peter Yates is initially rejected for Bullitt, then reconsidered because of this film’s Oscar success and unknown cast; no settled final answer emerges. — Bill Simmons
Hart Bochner is rejected in favor of Die Hard, with his directing of PCU also praised.
Indiana movies divide opinion between this and Hoosiers, with a tentative preference for Hoosiers. — Bill Simmons
Hard-to-find Blu-rays receive an affirmative nomination, illustrated by the expensive out-of-print Twilight Time release.
Villains named Rod receive an affirmative late Apex nomination.
Cattle vacations get a yes, but another reply says it depends on whether Westworld counts as a cattle vacation, which is called a good call.
Shooting the running of the bulls in Pamplona for one scene is called a real Hollywood flex, with a joke about a missed Rossellini movie. — Bill Simmons
