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The Longest Yard
The Longest Yard
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Eddie Albert
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Apex Mountain
The Longest Yard as Burt Reynolds’s retrospective apex; The Longest Yard among football movies; the 1974 Maserati
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Approx. transcript time · 01:17:22Read transcript
- Smokey and the Bandit is selected as Burt Reynolds’s commercial apex. — Bill Simmons
- The Longest Yard is proposed as a retrospective apex because it remains among his most memorable films. — Bill Simmons
- Eddie Albert, Michael Conrad, James Hampton, and Harry Caesar receive career-context discussion. — Bill Simmons
- The Longest Yard is selected as the best football movie over a large field of alternatives. — Bill Simmons
- The 1974 Maserati receives an immediate vehicle apex. — Bill Simmons
- Saturday Night Special is considered for movie-song apex and compared with its use in Blue Collar. — Bill Simmons
- The observed Anacott/Anacoste Steel reference remains more closely associated with Wall Street. — Bill Simmons
- The movie is jokingly tested against other notorious West Palm Beach incidents. — Bill Simmons
The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award
Warden Hazen, played by Eddie Albert
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Approx. transcript time · 00:31:46Read transcript
- The panel names the Overacting Award and immediately selects Warden Hazen for Eddie Albert’s heightened delivery. — Bill Simmons
Most Rewatchable Scene
The full football game, especially its huddles and comeback
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Approx. transcript time · 00:30:05Read transcript
- The opening car chase and arrest are praised for making Paul Crewe reckless enough to justify prison. — Bill Simmons
- Crewe dumping the car and joking that he could not find a car wash caps the chase. — Bill Simmons
- The warden meeting is praised for its escalating power play and Eddie Albert performance. — Bill Simmons
- The swamp push-up punishment works despite being a long sequence that might easily have stalled the movie. — Bill Simmons
- The first practice and library confrontation help show the prisoners choosing to join the team. — Bill Simmons
- The injury seminar and Caretaker drinking scene lead into Crewe’s guarded account of shaving points.
- The first half supplies memorable threats, football violence, and comic beats. — Bill Simmons
- Crewe’s deliberate interceptions, fumbled handoff, fake injury, and teammates moving away make his betrayal painful. — Bill Simmons
- Pop’s answer that punching Hazen was worth thirty years motivates Crewe to return. — Bill Simmons
- The comeback includes Nate’s touchdown and injury, a reverse, a long fourth-down conversion, and a tackle-eligible play. — Bill Simmons
- The final drive shows fourth down, seven seconds left, Crewe walking to the bench, and the crowd going quiet. — Bill Simmons
- Crewe’s brief huddle speech invokes Granville, Nate, and Caretaker before the winning touchdown. — Bill Simmons
- The goal-line score uses a freeze and multiple reaction angles to land the win.
- The apparent threat that Crewe will be shot sustains the dark tone before he returns the game ball. — Van Lathan
- The entire game is treated as one rewatchable unit, with the huddles alone telling its emotional story.
- The training and injury montages are added as alternate choices.
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Approx. transcript time · 00:57:21Read transcript
- Two candidates: Ed Lauder (as transcribed), Eddie Albert's sidekick quarterback in The Longest Yard, the head coach in Youngblood, in a hundred sports movies, the bald lieutenant type of the seventies and eighties and the lieutenant here; and Saul Rubinek, whose name people do not know though they know him from things, with the 'I treated you like a son' tirade quoted; he is not Mandy Patankin (as transcribed), he is a that guy, and he wins.
- This is the iconic Saul Rubinek performance to end all his performances, so it goes in Joey Pants while he stays eligible for Dion Waiters; two more are thrown out, Victor Argo as one of Walken's men and Conchata Farrell (as transcribed) as the casting agent at Michael Rappaport's audition, with the 'thanks so much, Mr. Ritchie' brush-off.
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