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They joke about the aftermath at the house and in the swamp, but do not choose a single definitive answer.

They imagine the next day as the police correcting the record and taking Julian back into custody.

They imagine the immediate aftermath as a messy new-family situation centered on Sonny, O’Malley’s funeral, and life after the shootout.

The beagle was chosen over the later pit bull as the movie's best pet performance.

They explicitly award the pet category to Hercules for the dog performance.

Einstein wins for being a surprisingly composed time-travel dog who mostly keeps his cool through the chaos.

The room assumes the relationship between Cole and Claire is doomed once the movie ends.

They assume Rudy would be impossible to deal with the day after his sack.

They imagine James’s future as modest and artistically frustrated, with one joking crossover idea tossed in.

They joked that the movie could start several minutes later because the opening credits and first stretch are expendable.

They use the wandering-and-phone-call stretches as the natural pee-break candidates.

Bill takes 'Beauty School Dropout' as the clearest pee-break window, while Juliet and Amanda argue the long sports montage fits the category better.

Van says the movie already has the correct amount of Black characters and doesn't need more.

They conclude the movie would benefit from more substantial Black characters, beyond the few supporting roles already present.

Van says the movie did not need more Black people in any of the workplace plotline, and the room accepts it.

Charles Nichols is selected for being an implausibly sloppy criminal mastermind and doctor.

They conclude Kaffee is good at his job, with Galloway discussed as a supporting counterpoint.

They question whether Maddie’s journalism is legit but never land on a clear winner for the award.

After comparing several hair types and villain looks, they pick ponytail villains as the best stage.

They ultimately give the edge to The Time’s stage presence, while also praising Wendy and Lisa and Morris Day’s chemistry.

They settle on the point in the movie after the sisters storyline as the best place to tune in.

They joke that the soundtrack's heavy R. Kelly presence is the worst element, while also teasing the Ali-Jada subplot as an alternate answer.

Jamie Lee Curtis' wig is called the worst visual element, and the elderly drunk doctor gets a separate complaint as well.

They agree the pop-star turn and its bad pop song are the weakest part of the movie's back half.

They explicitly choose the Whitesnake poster and related 1987-era details as the strongest period marker.

They settle on the soundtrack as the most 1987 element, with SoloFlex and the other period details treated as strong extras.

They settled on the slow, pre-digital credit-card lookup process as the clearest 1987 artifact.

After some back-and-forth, they decide Mike Myers wins the movie because his performances make it memorable even if it flopped commercially.

They agreed Dempsey is the long-term winner of the movie’s legacy, even if Peterson won at release.

They close by agreeing that Reese Witherspoon is the clear winner of the movie and that the film has strong lasting appeal.

Jerry is treated as the obvious person you would least want to be around.

Kate is nominated as the least relaxing hang, mostly because of her procedural rigidity and arguments about how things should be done.

They decide Ace would be the most exhausting hang, though Melissa is also described as a poor conversational option.

Bill offers a speculative answer that Jonathan’s surname may be Evans, but they do not prove it from the film.

They frame the final-game outcome as a question of whether the opponent choked or simply got outplayed.

They speculate about what happened after the movie, but no single answer is firmly established.

They raise questions about the fall, the chandelier, and the surrounding logistics, but do not resolve them as a formal award winner.

They choose the dorms as the movie's most scene-stealing location.

They decide the Oak Room is the most memorable location in the movie.

Sean chooses Murray Hamilton's dead-eyed, compartmentalized performance as the film's best acting.

They give the acting win to Jack Wallace, while also praising Stephen Keats in the son-in-law role.

They like Flanagan’s scarred enforcer best, while also noting Ilya’s memorable presence.

When discussing weak villain work, they favor Grant Heslov’s character over the main terrorist leader.

The projected fight footage behind Mickey is picked as the standout shot.

The reflecting-pool run is chosen as the best shot, with the slow-motion beating of Jenny’s boyfriend also praised.

The opening parkour chase was treated as the most spectacular heat-check moment, with Dench’s confrontation also praised.

They give Donald Glover the heat-check award for leaning all the way into his limited screen time and making it memorable.

Dana Carvey's credited appearance is treated as the classic example of IMDb stat padding.

They joke that the movie pads its appeal by listing future stars like Margulies, Leguizamo, and Shannon Worry.

The hosts frame the Frankie Goes to Hollywood porn-video sequence as the standout example of a fake piece of art that feels convincingly real.

They chose the fake TV program-within-the-movie as the best imitation of a real show.

They suggest Caravan as a plausible alternate title and, by extension, the best resource-style name.

They settle on 'smooched bone' as the funniest euphemistic line.

They pick the double-shot sequence as the funniest and most memorable drinking moment.

They land on the burrito thrown at Fat Amy as the most notable food moment, even though they dislike what it signals in the scene.

Craig proposes the suck cut as his favorite food-or-drink bit, and the room accepts it as the category winner.

The bourbon shot is preferred because the scene makes his drinking feel tied to the character's situation.

They estimate the film’s body count at roughly a few hundred deaths.

They discuss the deaths in the Bolivia payroll ambush but do not firmly pin down a fully verified total on air.

They note how hard the role was to cast, but do not identify a real casting miss in the final discussion.

They argue the friend group is thinly drawn and that some casting choices, including Brancato, are a miss.

The beach scene was treated as the biggest overacting heat check in the movie.

After debating Farley and Chevy Chase, they settle on Farley because his skunk scene and final-role energy go furthest.

They agree the story would fit better as a limited series, with side characters and subplots expanded out.

They ultimately say the story needs to stay self-contained and should not be expanded into a series.

Everyone agrees the concept could be adapted today, though they argue it would need structural changes or even a flipped premise to work best.

They think the movie’s conspiracies, lair, and supporting cast would work well as a long-form series.

They pick Hanks for the astronaut movie lane, with the suggestion that Floyd is the Hanks role and Bowman the Cruise role.

After a long debate, they chose Hanks as the better overall fit for the father role, despite Cruise sounding more entertaining.

Tracy Camilla Johns is identified as the standout minor role and the clear winner of the category.

The hosts eventually agree that Madsen's brief but loud party-host turn takes the award, with Randall Park also nominated.

Barleycorn’s is singled out as the standout location used repeatedly in the movie.

The Chinese restaurant is treated as the most memorable location in the movie's run of scenes.

The hosts debate the category and ultimately land on Anna Deavere Smith as the best fit for the role/player-position notion.

They settled on Val Kilmer because his one-scene comeback is such a remarkable acting moment that it outweighs everything else.

Michael Bowen is the strongest answer, though the hosts also mention Julianne Moore and Tom Cruise as contenders in the broader category chatter.

They explicitly crown Roxy as the character making the biggest heat-check move in the film.

The hosts agree Richard Pitino is the cleanest example of a person essentially playing himself in the movie.

The panel sides with Wilbon and Kornheiser as the best example of excelling at playing themselves.

They agree the film works better by leaving the consummation offscreen because the movie is about yearning and buildup.

They joke that the Stallone-Janine Turner material is dull and suggest the movie could have used a better sex scene.

The blimp hangar is treated as the standout scene-stealing location.

Downtown Baltimore is singled out as the scene-stealing location.

Craig's director-choice answer is a Wes Anderson Robocop version.

They never firmly settle on a director-city winner, but discuss Dominique Dunne and the boy as possible candidates.

They answer Spielberg as the clear directorial fit for the material.

They note that Bob Fosse was once circling one of the early screenplay versions as a possible director.

After debating Candy, Bacon, and Sutherland, they choose John Candy for delivering the most startlingly effective one-off role.

They choose the machine-gun attacker for his brief but high-energy Terminator-style run, while noting Clive Owen as an acceptable alternative.

They identify the baseball throw and Satchel Paige mention as the movie's token sports-adjacent moment.

They jokingly proposed several sports-adjacent inserts, but never chose a definitive actual scene the film needed.

They pick Annabelle as the unusually attractive, independent love interest who owns a bar and cheerleads on the side.

They invent this category and give it to Nancy Travis for playing a very attractive butcher despite the job seeming wildly improbable.

The room gives the award to the recurring Booty Sweat joke because it still works for them every time.

They settle on the movie's deadbeat-but-employed world as the thing they most enjoy about it.

Kyle enjoys knife sharpening and machine-gun bullet belts; Bill enjoys villains missing close-range shots.

Fake commercials draw shared enthusiasm; other picks include race-car sounds, entering cars through windows, shifting gears, and real sports announcers.

They settle on Ed Harris’s double thumbs-up as the clearest GIF-worthy moment.

They pick De Niro's reaction during the grace scene as the most usable GIF moment.

They settle on the no-no-no reaction face as the image most likely to travel as a gif or meme.

They picked the Love Brokers pitch as the most giftable moment, with the window-through-the-hoop gag as the main alternative.

They pick the teenage kids as the weakest family element in the movie.

The room lands on Lily Taylor as the weak link, though Joanna also praises her performance while criticizing the character’s fit for the moment.

The hosts praised several visually striking openings and movement shots, but did not settle on one clear winner.

They singled out Jake standing in front of the Hustler billboard as the standout visual.

They choose the finale’s model-driven Harrier jet sequence as the best shot-related craft moment.

They pick Killian’s entrance through the Cadre Cola sign as the movie’s most cinematic shot.