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They agreed the Quentin Daly-style bad sports opinion is the kind of thing they love in this movie.

They discuss pairing a meal and drink with the movie, but never settle on a single canonical answer.

In the football-program debate, Long Beach Poly was treated as the stronger and more dominant program.

They celebrate it as a funny trip movie with a great Dracula-musical bit.

They pick Michael collapsing into the sinkhole as the movie’s most gifable moment.

They choose the factory-chair dream-face moment as the most gifable image from the movie.

They choose Heather's confessional close-up as the most giftable moment.

The panel favors the wild Demi Moore virtual-reality jump-scare as the most shareable clip-worthy moment.

The tuck dance was picked as the most gif-able moment, over several other iconic reaction shots and gestures.

They agree the most gifable moment is Kevin's mother screaming his name when she finds him.

They land on Goodman shaving his head as the most gifable moment.

The movie is framed as a frustrating but lovable sequel, with Predator 2 offered as another strong example.

Bill argues the first 70 minutes are Apatow's best work and that the movie is underrated.

They say this is a very strong futuristic action movie, though not quite as good as Terminator 2 or Total Recall.

The hosts agree it is sincere, funny, and better now than it was on release.

The waterfall is chosen as the scene-stealing location, with the Cliffs of Dover offered as a secondary pick.

They identify the National Mall as the standout location-based scene.

They say Tarkin should have been fired for backing the Death Star despite obvious fatal flaws.

The hosts jokingly conclude that almost everybody in the movie deserves to be fired for incompetence.

They agree Get Out is the best Jordan Peele movie and the strongest rewatch here.

They say Swayze becomes shorthand in hip-hop for exiting the verse, making his name the lasting cultural tag.

They admire its twists, cable rewatchability, and Affleck's performance.

They run through several performances and disagree on which Boston accents work, so no single winner is supported.

They joke through Gene Hackman's personality and fandom history without arriving at a clear good-hang or bad-hang verdict.

They say the Spencers would be a tough couple to socialize with, even if the movie itself is a good hang.

They say Animal House still does the funniest fake-credits gag, beating Stripes’ ending cards.

They settle on the judge being tossed from the helicopter as the best ending/image payoff.

They mostly use this slot to praise Henry’s intimidating physicality, especially the way he stalks and corners people.

They highlight the opening imagery and the bloody hand in the pitcher as the most memorable shots, with praise for the ending montage too.

They pick Barrett's death shot as the best image, while also praising the tarmac shot of Hathaway after he's sprung from prison.

The clearest quoted line is Henry’s “Don’t fuck with me,” which they treat as the standout quote.

The hosts agree the cloud-filled way-station sequence is the big visual surprise of the movie.

They settle on the exterior KGB shot with the steam and city atmosphere as the most cinematic image in the film.

They pick the slow-motion arrow sequence as the movie’s most cinematic shot, though another tower shot is also praised.

They discuss several strong visual moments, but never settle on a single winner.

CR highlights the boat-ride image of Celine backlit on the Seine as the standout cinematic shot, with the ending also praised.

They pick Unstoppable over Striking Distance as the better Pennsylvania action movie.

For greatest quote, the room lands on Jessup's 'you need me on that wall' line over the other nominees.

Bill wins the house debate by choosing Alcatraz from The Rock as the greatest San Francisco screen house.

They pick the final Matrix-Bennett showdown as the movie's funniest accidental comedy beat, especially because of Bennett's performance choices.

The hosts ran through production trivia about improvisation, Maya Rudolph's pregnancy, Hamm's uncredited role, and the film's title history.

They focus on deleted material and background lore as the kind of production-research detail that surfaces in this category.

They rattle through a stack of location and trivia notes without settling on a single winner.

They note this was George Kennedy's last movie and then pivot into production trivia and sports-movie nitpicks.

They like the baseball-Hall-of-Fame analogy and use it to identify the movie most associated with a filmmaker's legacy.

They rate Crisp as the better villain figure on the Hans Gruber scale, with the mother getting a lower score.

They share research notes about the book’s treatment of Janeway and Doc and about the real-life runner in the flashbacks.

Bill celebrates its emotional beats, Keanu performance, and surprising staying power.