I am your host and honored announcer, Ryan Two-timing Sansone.
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Movie verdicts.
Original rating systems, exactly as represented in the archive. These scales are not interchangeable.
By way of introduction.
Willing to take on a comatose person, holding a spit bucket as we speak, and hailing from the upside down: Curtis the Murtis Scheck.
And his opponent, my co-host, who has seen all of the movies, representing Curtis’s old house: old-school Kenny.
And our special guest referee, giving us a full Scheck house, hailing from the secret capital of dentists: Ethan no-teething Scheck.
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
Game / activity
Camping Collaboration ↗
How this one works
Premise and rules
- You are headed to Warden State Forest, a sprawling pinewood forest about an hour outside of Philly.
- Like last time, you will collect camping gear and explain how you will use it to survive wilderness scenarios. But this time you will face each scenario together as a group.
- persistent equipment: You can reuse them. This time, this is what's in your gear. And you can use more than one tool at a time, like mix and mash.; initial announcement: You're not getting any new items.; later exceptions: target: skills; consumable qualification: You don't lose a hatchet because you use the hatchet. You still have the casings the emergency food rations were in, but you don't have the food inside because you ate that.
- If he wins with the tent, then he's going to get three points and then two points and then one point. So you get the most points for having the best contribution, both in terms of will you stay alive because of it? And also, did you have a funny explanation that I enjoyed?
- I will rank your answers both in terms of effectiveness and entertainment value.
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Title: camping collaboration Activity description: Like last time, you will collect camping gear and explain how you will use it to survive wilderness scenarios. But this time you will face each scenario together as a group. Activity premise: You are headed to Warden State Forest, a sprawling pinewood forest about an hour outside of Philly. Adjudication method:…
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Title: camping collaboration Activity description: Like last time, you will collect camping gear and explain how you will use it to survive wilderness scenarios. But this time you will face each scenario together as a group. Activity premise: You are headed to Warden State Forest, a sprawling pinewood forest about an hour outside of Philly. Adjudication method: I will rank your answers both in terms of effectiveness and entertainment value. Scoring mechanism: If he wins with the tent, then he's going to get three points and then two points and then one point. So you get the most points for having the best contribution, both in terms of will you stay alive because of it? And also, did you have a funny explanation that I enjoyed? Rules: persistent equipment: You can reuse them. This time, this is what's in your gear. And you can use more than one tool at a time, like mix and mash.; initial announcement: You're not getting any new items.; later exceptions: target: skills; consumable qualification: You don't lose a hatchet because you use the hatchet. You still have the casings the emergency food rations were in, but you don't have the food inside because you ate that. Participants: Ryan, Kenny, Ethan
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Kenny
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 5 recorded contributions
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Recorded conversation
Activity request: Before you go, you enjoy a lavish shopping spree to gather gear for your trip. Method: Ethan, you claim the number four, so you get to claim four items on the list of gear. Ryan, you've got five. Kenny, your last item? Rules: You can all stay in the tent, but he gets credit for using the tent. Final state summary: No one's getting the space blanket.
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To get us started, I need each of you to give me a number between one and five.
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3
Choice: 3
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4
Choice: 4
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5
Choice: 5
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Participant cited: Ethan
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Ethan, you claim the number four, so you get to claim four items on the list of gear.
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Participant cited: Ryan
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Ryan, you've got five. What's the first thing you'd like? And then, Ryan, you've got two left. Raw respondent mention: Brian?
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Participant cited: Kenny
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Kenny, what are you claiming? Kenny, your last item?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
sturdy weatherproof tent reusable water bottle or bladder duct tape paper map and compass
Choice: sturdy weatherproof tent reusable water bottle or bladder duct tape paper map and compass
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small hatchet sturdy knife paracord and or rope emergency food rations camp stove
Choice: small hatchet sturdy knife paracord and or rope emergency food rations camp stove Answer qualification: I want a big camp stove.
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multi-tool water filter fire starter
Choice: multi-tool water filter fire starter
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Rules: Ethan, as an Eagle Scout, you are incredibly resourceful. At any time, you can scavenge to find one additional item of your choosing from the list. Ryan, despite being a bit of a scatterbrain, you're incredibly lucky. At any time, you may reach into your pocket and discover you have a mystery item. And Kenny, as a telecommunications professional with some…
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Rules: Ethan, as an Eagle Scout, you are incredibly resourceful. At any time, you can scavenge to find one additional item of your choosing from the list. Ryan, despite being a bit of a scatterbrain, you're incredibly lucky. At any time, you may reach into your pocket and discover you have a mystery item. And Kenny, as a telecommunications professional with some clout as an Emmy nominee, you may at any time call for the assistance of Harrison Ford. Now, there is no clearing for him to land his helicopter, so he cannot rescue you, but he can parachute down anything you want. It does not have to be from the list. You get to keep it. And you can use more than one tool at a time, like mix and mash. Final state summary: Ethan thought he was almost to the camp when he kind of collapsed from exhaustion, but he was just going in circles. So he's like 10 feet from you at most.
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Activity request: Curt, I want to loot Harrison Ford. Answer qualification: Can I get the whip? Adjudication verdict: Kenny has the whip, and he's also got range now, so you gotta be careful with that hatchet. Rules: So everything under your little list of things you have, you have. Final state summary: Kenny also has a rotting corpse that he has to deal with.
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Scores: Kenny: 10; Ryan: 7; Ethan: 6 Winner statement: That brings Kenny the winner at ten points.
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That's camping collaboration. Kenny might have won, but I kind of think you won. So, I think you're the real winner.
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Round sequence: 1 Activity premise: Inevitably, this gets you lost. As darkness falls, you will need to rough it overnight.
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How do you get rest while protecting yourselves from danger?
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I could use my multi-tool to get myself enough sticks to build a little small shelter, and I'll be safe, whether Ethan shares his tent or not. Answer qualification: I got a knife built into the multi-tool. There's a saw built into that thing I've got.
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I didn't take wilderness survival, and I don't know anything about that, but I can kind of stand behind Kenny while he's doing that, and I can use my sturdy knife and do whatever he's doing with his shitty multi-tool and just kind of copy and paste. Answer qualification: I'm not using the hatchet here. Raw respondent mention: Brian, I got to say, you were so poised to get at one point here, just being a copycat.
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I'm going to hang back when we're hiking a bit because I'm not sure if I trust Ryan, and I'm going to keep track of where we are on the map. Yeah, and so because I know where we're at, because I was keeping track in the back of the hiking trail, I decided to make my way out while you guys were sleeping. Answer qualification: If I went for the obvious thing, I wouldn't be any fun.
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Scores: Ethan: 1; Kenny: 3; Ryan: 2 Adjudication: You have somehow snatched failure out of the jaws of victory. Kenny, you get three for actually doing something. And you somehow got two points. Result qualification: Instead, in pitch darkness, there's no moon tonight. You can't see.
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Round sequence: 2 Activity premise: A storm has rolled in overnight, and a downpour begins. Surrounded by trees, you risk lightning strikes. If your boots get soaked by the rain, it will wreak havoc on your feet.
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How do you get through this?
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handheld two-way radio
Action: Before anyone does anything, I'm going to check my pockets for a random item for no reason. Choice: handheld two-way radio Method: Let me randomize the list.
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Everyone said that I successfully built a shelter last time. I'm just hanging out in it, right? If you don't let me in, I will hit you with the hatchet in your head till you die. I will knife Ethan and I will hatchet Kenny. Now that I can use that every time I'm lighting your tent on fire with a camp stove, probably. I also lassoed Kenny with the paracord and or rope, if I can do that. I also ate my food rations and didn't share.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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I will let you into the shelter if you give me a tool. I'm going to use my Eagle Scout skills to get a windproof lighter and light you on fire. We're going to take the multi-tool and we're going to duct tape it to a tree so that it will be a lightning rod. I believe I have repair tape. Selection or action: windproof lighter Answer qualification: I opened up the deal to everyone.
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Yeah, sure. Duct tape it to the tree that he built his shelter on. I tried to make a deal with Ethan. It didn't work.
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Scores: Ryan: 3; Ethan: 2; Kenny: 1 Final state summary: He just smashed it to bits rather than trying to get inside. You're all wet and cold and you all have concussions. You are sitting under a leaky taped up tent. Adjudication: Ryan, I'm going to give you the nod on this one. So Ethan, you get the second place for your attempts.
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Round sequence: 3 Activity premise: You see in the distance that a large grizzly bear has been stalking you. It is approaching, seemingly ready to charge.
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How do you overcome the beast and survive the battle?
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Harrison Ford in a costume
Well, first off, I'm calling Harrison Ford at this point. Yeah, can I just get Harrison Ford? But I want him dressed as Indiana Jones. Choice: Harrison Ford in a costume Answer qualification: For the record, it's Harrison Ford. It's not a part he played. It's a working whip.
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And I'm sharing some with Harrison Ford because we want a hydrated champion. Answer qualification: He would have wanted some water when he was having the heart attack.
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I offer him some of my food. If you beat this bear, I will cook something up on my camp stove that definitely works. Medicingly, I'm like, if you don't kill this bear, I'm going to kill you. Answer qualification: Well, I was going to give him some food and then you said I didn't have any. So yeah, now I'm going to threaten him. I'm going to check the helicopter, see if there's food in there. Adjudication verdict: What you've done is done. I'm just telling you the outcome of your own words.
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Scores: Kenny: 3; Ryan: 2; Ethan: 1 Final state summary: So what happened is there is a crashed helicopter several yards away. Harrison Ford lands. He uses his costume whip to whip at the bear. It gets scared off. Ryan's threatening him the whole time. And then he has a heart attack and dies. Rules: You don't lose a hatchet because you use the hatchet. You still…
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Scores: Kenny: 3; Ryan: 2; Ethan: 1 Final state summary: So what happened is there is a crashed helicopter several yards away. Harrison Ford lands. He uses his costume whip to whip at the bear. It gets scared off. Ryan's threatening him the whole time. And then he has a heart attack and dies. Rules: You don't lose a hatchet because you use the hatchet. You still have the casings the emergency food rations were in, but you don't have the food inside because you ate that. Adjudication: The goal was to survive the bear, not to coddle Harrison Ford.
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Round sequence: 4 Activity premise: You are out of food. The only water left you got from a local stream. Dysentery cannot be far off. And if that doesn't kill you, starvation will.
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How will you finally escape the forest? Answer qualification: Beyond survive, you have to get out of there.
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Well, I'm gonna use my water filter to fill Ethan's water bottle up with fresh water. I'm filtering that water, and it's just dripping into my mouth. I'm following the stream. Let's put him in the water and use him as a raft. Answer qualification: You're not gonna get to Ethan, because I've got a whip to keep you back.
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I'm gonna take my windproof lighter, and I'm gonna light up this map, and you guys can go to hell. I think it would be more respectful to Harrison Ford if we used my repair tape to mummify him. And then he can belong in a museum. While he's up there, I grab some brush, and I use the windproof lighter to start a fire at the bottom of the tree.
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Ethan has to agree to that, and I will definitely stab him. What if I kind of, like, paracord up to the top of a tree, and I kind of, like, scout around, and I'm like, I can then probably see civilization. I kind of think if you light up the fire, though, I think I could kind of Spider-Man to the next tree. If you don't light me on fire, we could oar down the stream. Curt, I jump to another tree.
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Scores: Kenny: 3; Ethan: 2; Ryan: 0 Final state summary: While there, Ethan, thinking quickly, lights that fucker on fire. And as he is worried about the flames, Ryan leaps to the nearby tree, misses it almost entirely, falls to the bottom, cracking his neck, and dying. Ethan and Kenny working together float down the river on a sturdy Harrison Ford, reinforced…
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Scores: Kenny: 3; Ethan: 2; Ryan: 0 Final state summary: While there, Ethan, thinking quickly, lights that fucker on fire. And as he is worried about the flames, Ryan leaps to the nearby tree, misses it almost entirely, falls to the bottom, cracking his neck, and dying. Ethan and Kenny working together float down the river on a sturdy Harrison Ford, reinforced with some weatherproof tent. They make it out alive and never tell anyone anything about it. Competitive scoring statement: participant: Ryan; history: status: SUPERSEDED; points: 1; text: One point to Ryan for dying. status: CURRENT; points: 0; text: You get zero points for dying on this round.
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The performed introductions are shown above. Since we're here, since you're talking about what you've seen, which Rockies have you seen? Hopefully this one. Hopefully Rocky II. I have now seen Rocky II. It was my first time seeing it. Although, so I think the only one I had seen all the way through was the first one. So I had that going for me. And then I knew…
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The performed introductions are shown above. Since we're here, since you're talking about what you've seen, which Rockies have you seen? Hopefully this one. Hopefully Rocky II. I have now seen Rocky II. It was my first time seeing it. Although, so I think the only one I had seen all the way through was the first one. So I had that going for me. And then I knew the gist of what happens in the succeeding films. Time out. What do you mean you knew the gist of what would happen in the succeeding films? Plural. Because all these movies are the same. I remember seeing just the beginning of the fourth one where we see the living in America, dancing and everything. And then Apollo Creed being killed. Not even the beginning. That's like in the middle of the movie. Is that in the middle? Okay. Well, I saw that part. He came into the middle of the movie on TV once. It was the beginning to him. We've all done it. Exactly. Listen, the world revolves around Ethan. We get it. Look, the entire premise of this program. Are you going to tell me like, oh, the order you watch things isn't the order it happened? Ethan, we do it in an order, just not in the normal order. We still have standards. All right. Whatever. The point is, I saw that scene as a child and it disturbed me because I was like, how could this man so full of life be knocked out and killed? You know, what's interesting is I think the first time I saw Rocky IV was on TV and I only remember seeing that scene. So maybe it was the same time. I don't think I was aware that someone could die in a boxing match like that. Oh. They usually don't. They usually don't. I mean, it has happened. It's not like it's an unprecedented event. I think he's the only one who's ever been dressed like Uncle Sam though. Okay. So had you seen anything else or that was it? You got scarred from one moment. Just the first one and then the scene that's apparently in the middle of the movie for Rocky IV. And then, yeah, that's pretty much it. Haven't seen the Creeds. Didn't see Rocky Balboa.
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Activity request: So like what's some shitty job you'd be willing to do just to be part of that world?
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So like what's some shitty job you'd be willing to do just to be part of that world? Raw respondent mention: Ethan, what would you be a janitor for?
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But what I would happily do is be the janitor for a movie theater. If I was able to just watch movies for free all the time, that's what I would do.
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I picked Cirque du Soleil. And I would absolutely be a janitor if I could just stand there during the show and watch and then clean up after happily.
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And my first thought was being like a towel boy or like the guys that wipe the sweat off the court at a basketball game just for the chance to like actually be courtside. Response context: Well, first of all, I kind of got to do this already because I was an intern and the bottom of the totem pole at Saturday Night Live.
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I would love to be like a food taster, like someone on one of those food game shows, you I'm willing to eat grits as part of the judging panel. Answer qualification: I will do that for the show just to be on it.
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By the way, there is a second Mozgov commercial that you guys should look like.
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Activity description: For each section, everyone will hand out one award. Rules: So to keep things interesting, try not to reuse the same award twice. If none of the standard categories fit a section, feel free to substitute them with a custom award of your own invention. Method: The highlight. For a moment or scene that was particularly good. The low light. For…
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Activity description: For each section, everyone will hand out one award. Rules: So to keep things interesting, try not to reuse the same award twice. If none of the standard categories fit a section, feel free to substitute them with a custom award of your own invention. Method: The highlight. For a moment or scene that was particularly good. The low light. For a moment or scene that was particularly bad. The punchy. Awarded to the person we wanted to punch in the face in the moment that inspired it. The hottie. For a moment or scene that inspired a hot take. The punchy yuppie. For a moment or scene that made us think of something better the movie could have done. And finally, the MVP. Be awarded to the person who earned most valuable player status in the moment that locked it in. Once again, we're offering a seventh non-standard award, the wild card. If none of the standard categories fit a section, feel free to substitute them with a custom award of your own invention.
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What everyone brought to the table · 3 recorded contributions
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I am channeling Rocky tonight. I can't read for shit.
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In the entire series we've done here, only two times have we had three unanimous votes for an MVP. In this movie, it was to Mickey. And in both cases, Hannah and Ethan gave it to the dog.
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But I feel like it was a huge missed opportunity to parody the I'm With Stupid shirt by having I'm With Child on it.
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The events of the first film have left Rocky and Apollo in the hospital. After a slow recovery, Rocky marries Adrian. The first section ends with Rocky on his knees, as you'd expect, playing stickball with some rando kids.
Round sequence: 1 Prompt item: The events of the first film have left Rocky and Apollo in the hospital. After a slow recovery, Rocky marries Adrian. The first section ends with Rocky on his knees, as you'd expect, playing stickball with some rando kids.
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For each section, everyone will hand out one award. Raw respondent mention: Ethan, why don't you open it up for us? Kenny, how about you? What's your award?
With Adrian pregnant, Rocky needs to make ends meet. But when advertising campaign falls apart, his ninth grade education doesn't qualify him for more than menial labor. This part ends with a post-snow-coned Pauly driving off in Rock's car.
Round sequence: 2 Prompt item: With Adrian pregnant, Rocky needs to make ends meet. But when advertising campaign falls apart, his ninth grade education doesn't qualify him for more than menial labor. This part ends with a post-snow-coned Pauly driving off in Rock's car.
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For each section, everyone will hand out one award. Raw respondent mention: Ethan, what do you get? Kenny, how about you?
Adrian goes back to her part-time job, and Rocky goes back to the gym. Apollo successfully campaigns to draw Rocky out of retirement for a rematch. So this part ends with Rocky disappointing his baby mama as soon as Mick shows up.
Round sequence: 3 Prompt item: Adrian goes back to her part-time job, and Rocky goes back to the gym. Apollo successfully campaigns to draw Rocky out of retirement for a rematch. So this part ends with Rocky disappointing his baby mama as soon as Mick shows up.
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For each section, everyone will hand out one award. Raw respondent mention: Kenny, why don't we start with you this time? All right, Ethan, what about you? All right, Curt, how about you?
Rocky half-asses his training because he feels guilty that Adrian doesn't approve. When she falls ill and his son is born premature, Rocky turns to the church for strength. So this block ends with Rocky getting scolded in a chapel from Nick at 3 a.m.
Round sequence: 4 Prompt item: Rocky half-asses his training because he feels guilty that Adrian doesn't approve. When she falls ill and his son is born premature, Rocky turns to the church for strength. So this block ends with Rocky getting scolded in a chapel from Nick at 3 a.m.
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For each section, everyone will hand out one award. Raw respondent mention: Kenny, what do you got?
Adrian comes out of her coma to give the fight her blessing. Rocky gets serious and montages the shit out of training. So this section ends in classic fashion with Rocky just staring at a sink.
Round sequence: 5 Prompt item: Adrian comes out of her coma to give the fight her blessing. Rocky gets serious and montages the shit out of training. So this section ends in classic fashion with Rocky just staring at a sink.
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For each section, everyone will hand out one award.
As the fight begins, Rocky takes a beating. Both of them fall and Rocky barely manages to get to his feet before the count, winning the title.
Round sequence: 6 Prompt item: As the fight begins, Rocky takes a beating. Both of them fall and Rocky barely manages to get to his feet before the count, winning the title.
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For each section, everyone will hand out one award. Raw respondent mention: All right, Ethan. What's your award?
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Recorded conversation
are you surprised watching this movie how much Apollo and Rocky are friends going forward?
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No, because I think, honestly, that part works really well. So, I think they did a nice job of transitioning him from foe to partner. And then, by 4, friend.
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Activity request: It's time to decide if this was a good movie. Also time to give it a fitting subtitle.
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It's time to decide if this was a good movie. Raw respondent mention: Ethan, where's your thumb? Kenny, please tell me you can beat a soft thumb. So Curt, this is interesting, right?
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Also time to give it a fitting subtitle. What is the subtitle you're giving out?
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My thumb, I'm giving it a soft up. Answer qualification: Like, I'm not that excited about it.
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WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Rocky 2 the limit
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I'm giving it a mild thumbs up. Answer qualification: The movie's a bit messy all around.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Rocky 2, Beyond the Distance.
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enthusiastic rock hard thumbs Answer qualification: I get why you guys are soft there, but like the rest of it is really good.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Rocky 2, Right Hooked on Phonics.
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This is a thumbs down. Answer qualification: It's just not a strong thumbs down. But it is a thumbs down.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Rocky I. I can't believe it's not better.
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Final adjudication: I think we can definitively say we slightly recommend this movie.
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Activity request: Why don't you tell us what to expect next week when we cover the previous movie, Rocky?
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What everyone brought to the table · 6 recorded exchanges
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Why don't you tell us what to expect next week when we cover the previous movie, Rocky?
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I think Rocky is working at the docks and is too old to begin a professional boxing career. But something pushes him to finally follow his dream, and he manages to land himself a title fight despite starting completely over the hill for a boxer.
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How does Rocky get his title shot?
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As in, somehow Apollo saw something in Rocky and decided to give him a chance for a real fight. So, I feel like he's probably brawling in a lot of no-name-nothing fights. And somehow Apollo finds out about him and is like, I want to fight this kid.
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Give us a thumb prediction.
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But I'm hoping and expecting a thumbs up. Answer qualification: It is absolutely possible that the movie itself can fail to achieve the thumb up.
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Well, thank you for chasing the chickens with us tonight.
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You guys as a collective have a very good Rocky impression.
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September will be Bernard Kowalski month, as we watch two of his films, Night of the Blood Beast and Attack of the Giant Leeches.
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Movie award
highlight
Target: Rocky asking Apollo in hospital whether he gave his best
Target clarified from the adjacent transcript.
Recorded selection and reason: And he asks him, did you give me your best? It just felt very cute. He really needed that validation.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: highlight And he asks him, did you give me your best? It just felt very cute. He really needed that validation.
08:59–09:00: Ethan, why don't you open it up for us?
09:00–09:01: I went with the highlight.
09:01–09:03: I give the highlight award here.
09:03–09:04: Oh, coming at the gate strong.
09:05–09:05: Oh, God.
09:05–09:12: Yes, because I thought the part very early on when they're in the hospital and Rocky goes
09:12–09:16: over to Apollo's room and peeks in and says, hey, Apollo, it's me, Rocky.
09:16–09:16: Great.
09:17–09:17: Rocky.
09:17–09:21: And he asks him, did you give me your best?
09:21–09:22: It just felt very cute.
09:23–09:25: He really needed that validation.
09:25–09:29: And he respected Apollo enough to know that maybe he didn't.
09:29–09:32: Maybe he was toying with me because he's so good.
09:32–09:33: And I don't know.
09:33–09:34: I just found that very cute.
09:34–09:36: And so that stuck out as my highlight.
Movie award
punchy uppie
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: Like, from a filmmaking perspective, I kind of wish that the movie just started with the ambulances coming down the street. You don't need to watch 10 goddamn minutes of the last movie.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: punchy uppie Like, from a filmmaking perspective, I kind of wish that the movie just started with the ambulances coming down the street. You don't need to watch 10 goddamn minutes of the last movie.
Movie award
low light
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: It is for Adrian's passiveness.
Source detail: Answer qualification: The low light isn't that this is bad writing or anything. It is that I did not enjoy watching this woman who knows they're on a bad road and just can't grab the wheel.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: low light It is for Adrian's passiveness. Answer qualification: The low light isn't that this is bad writing or anything. It is that I did not enjoy watching this woman who knows they're on a bad road and just can't grab the wheel.
Movie award
wild card — retroactively fine award
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: the marriage proposal, which was, I don't think, a good scene at all.
Source detail: Answer qualification: Like, all of that is so much better having watched what Michael B. Jordan does in Creed.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: wild card I'm going to present the retroactively fine award to the marriage proposal, which was, I don't think, a good scene at all. Answer qualification: Like, all of that is so much better having watched what Michael B. Jordan does in Creed.
Movie award
a wild card slash a punchy-uppy
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: I was giving the Timofei Mozgov bad commercial award to Rocky. Action: And my punchy-uppy is basically, show the commercial. So the audience gets a chance to see the finished product of just how bad he did.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: a wild card slash a punchy-uppy I was giving the Timofei Mozgov bad commercial award to Rocky. Action: And my punchy-uppy is basically, show the commercial. So the audience gets a chance to see the finished product of just how bad he did.
Movie award
punchy
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: It has to go to Pauly, who suggests that Rocky should punch his own sister in the mouth.
Source detail: Answer qualification: I'm giving the punchy. I'm giving the punchy. I'm giving the punchy-uppy.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: punchy It has to go to Pauly, who suggests that Rocky should punch his own sister in the mouth. Answer qualification: I'm giving the punchy. I'm giving the punchy. I'm giving the punchy-uppy.
Movie award
hottie
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: I kind of wish they stuck with this kind of as his act together, but is also an asshole Pauly.
Source detail: Answer qualification: Yes, that line is egregious and awful. I'm saying the snow cone eating Pauly is the version I want to have.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: hottie I kind of wish they stuck with this kind of as his act together, but is also an asshole Pauly. Answer qualification: Yes, that line is egregious and awful. I'm saying the snow cone eating Pauly is the version I want to have.
Movie award
punchy uppie
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: We really sit in Rocky's like shitty times. We could cut out a bunch of that and not lose anything. You just see him get rejected from a job once.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: punchy uppie We really sit in Rocky's like shitty times. We could cut out a bunch of that and not lose anything. You just see him get rejected from a job once.
Movie award
mvp
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: I'm actually going to give my character MVP for Mickey because the scene in which he tells Rocky he doesn't have it anymore.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: MVP I'm actually going to give my character MVP for Mickey because the scene in which he tells Rocky he doesn't have it anymore.
Movie award
mvp
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: Obviously, I'm going with Buttkiss the Bull Mastiff as my MVP.
Source detail: Answer qualification: He's nice to Rocky. He seemed to take direction well. He wears a football jersey, which is very funny for a dog.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: MVP Obviously, I'm going with Buttkiss the Bull Mastiff as my MVP. Answer qualification: He's nice to Rocky. He seemed to take direction well. He wears a football jersey, which is very funny for a dog.
Movie award
punchy
Target: Rocky, for bouncing his rubber ball in the bathroom without washing his hands
Target clarified from the adjacent transcript.
Recorded selection and reason: He bounces it twice, puts it back in his pocket, and doesn't wash his hands.
Source detail: Answer qualification: It's unhygienic.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: Punchy He bounces it twice, puts it back in his pocket, and doesn't wash his hands. Answer qualification: It's unhygienic.
21:40–21:41: All right, Kurt, how about you?
21:41–21:44: I'm giving out of Punchy in this section.
21:44–21:48: I was going to say, if you were to do an MVP to some other thing I didn't have on my radar, that would have been tough.
21:48–21:55: Rocky, throughout the films, has a rubber ball that he occasionally will just sort of bounce as he's walking and thinking and whatever.
21:56–21:58: And in this part of the film, he's in the gym.
21:59–22:00: He goes into the bathroom.
22:00–22:05: A relatively gross, you know, not very well-loved bathroom.
22:06–22:07: And a public bathroom.
22:07–22:09: Imagine all the sweat and awfulness in that bathroom.
22:10–22:15: He bounces it twice, puts it back in his pocket, and doesn't wash his hands.
22:15–22:17: What the actual fuck?
Movie award
punchy
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: I'm giving it to the spittoon guy. Somehow makes the spit go into Rocky's face.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: punchy I'm giving it to the spittoon guy. Somehow makes the spit go into Rocky's face.
Movie award
low light
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: So I'm going to give my low light to this whole idea of the coma.
Source detail: Answer qualification: It feels like a bit of manufactured drama.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: low light So I'm going to give my low light to this whole idea of the coma. Answer qualification: It feels like a bit of manufactured drama.
Movie award
mvp
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: Mickey. I picked a different moment. Mickey comes to him and, like, perfectly threads the line of, like, I'm your friend. I'm here for you.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: MVP Mickey. I picked a different moment. Mickey comes to him and, like, perfectly threads the line of, like, I'm your friend. I'm here for you.
Movie award
mvp
Target: Mickey
Target clarified from the adjacent transcript.
Recorded selection and reason: He got my MVP as well for this section. Pretty much everything he says is an amazing quote. You're going to eat lightning. You're going to crap thunder.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: MVP He got my MVP as well for this section. Pretty much everything he says is an amazing quote. You're going to eat lightning. You're going to crap thunder.
27:39–27:44: Mickey comes to him and, like, perfectly threads the line of, like, I'm your friend.
27:44–27:45: I'm here for you.
27:45–27:53: Also, you are, like, he gives him sort of a really prescient, thoughtful speech about the
27:53–27:59: whole situation without being, I'm piling onto you and making your life even worse at
27:59–28:00: this low moment.
28:00–28:02: I don't know how he does it, but it was very impressive.
28:32–28:35: It's another good scene from Mickey.
28:35–28:37: Like I said, Burgess Meredith is great in this movie.
28:37–28:38: He's really good.
28:39–28:40: And that scene is great.
28:40–28:44: Like, it's just like, it's like those two scenes are, like, I think what made me solidify.
28:44–28:46: He's got to get the MVP for me.
28:46–28:50: He takes his shot at motivating Rocky, and then when that doesn't work, he sticks by him,
28:50–28:51: too, which I think.
28:51–28:51: Exactly.
28:51–28:53: He just goes, all right, I'll just sit here with you then.
28:53–28:55: You know, it's like, all right, good, cool.
28:55–28:56: I'm going to pile on, too.
28:56–28:58: He got my MVP as well for this section.
28:59–28:59: Oh, nice.
28:59–28:59: Very nice.
28:59–29:02: Pretty much everything he says is an amazing quote.
29:02–29:03: The best one.
29:03–29:04: You're going to eat lightning.
29:05–29:06: You're going to crap thunder.
29:06–29:09: I don't know what that means, but I am motivated after it.
Movie award
punchy
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: I don't know why Burgess Meredith needs to be so, so gross.
Source detail: Answer qualification: Nobody told me that punchy means that I'm punching them. But yeah, I'll punch him. If I realized that was a thing, then Polly would be the first one I want to punch. But I was just like trying to find things for each section.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: punchy I don't know why Burgess Meredith needs to be so, so gross. Answer qualification: Nobody told me that punchy means that I'm punching them. But yeah, I'll punch him. If I realized that was a thing, then Polly would be the first one I want to punch. But I was just like trying to find things for each section.
Movie award
wild card — The Derek Zoolander Award for Babies That Look Like Derek Zoolander's Baby and Also Who Don't Read Good
Target: Rocky’s baby, compared with Derek Zoolander’s baby
Target clarified from the adjacent transcript.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: wild card The Derek Zoolander Award for Babies That Look Like Derek Zoolander's Baby and Also Who Don't Read Good.
30:44–30:46: Adrian comes out of her coma to give the fight her blessing.
30:46–30:49: Rocky gets serious and montages the shit out of training.
30:49–30:52: On the night of the fight, Adrian and Polly stay home with little Rocky,
30:52–30:55: while big Rocky seeks a blessing from his balcony priest.
30:56–30:59: So this section ends in classic fashion with Rocky just staring at a sink.
31:00–31:01: I would like to give my wild card.
31:01–31:01: Great.
31:02–31:03: This is the name of my award.
31:03–31:08: The Derek Zoolander Award for Babies That Look Like Derek Zoolander's Baby
31:08–31:09: and Also Who Don't Read Good.
31:10–31:10: Yes.
31:10–31:12: It did look like that.
31:12–31:13: I was trying to place it, but you're right.
31:13–31:15: It's Derek Zoolander's Baby.
31:15–31:15: Yes.
31:15–31:17: The hair on this kid is wild.
Movie award
low light
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: I'm pretty sure they swapped out the version of Gonna Fly Now. To have a children's choir singing it. But it made the song worse for me.
Source detail: Answer qualification: But where I, and maybe I'm not even accurate on this, but I tried to listen to both versions to know.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: low light I'm pretty sure they swapped out the version of Gonna Fly Now. To have a children's choir singing it. But it made the song worse for me. Answer qualification: But where I, and maybe I'm not even accurate on this, but I tried to listen to both versions to know.
Movie award
highlight
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: It's called Going the Distance. It hits hard. And it sets a tone that's gonna carry us through the rest of the movie.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: highlight It's called Going the Distance. It hits hard. And it sets a tone that's gonna carry us through the rest of the movie.
Movie award
hot take
Target: The back-to-back training montages, including Rocky running with the children
Target clarified from the adjacent transcript.
Recorded selection and reason: It's kind of dull, in my opinion. And I have always kind of disliked him running with all those kids. And now I'm like, no, we're just in a parody of Rocky, is what it suddenly feels like to me.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: hot take It's kind of dull, in my opinion. And I have always kind of disliked him running with all those kids. And now I'm like, no, we're just in a parody of Rocky, is what it suddenly feels like to me.
34:37–34:39: I'm coming in with my hot take.
34:39–34:42: I think both of these back-to-back montages that are...
34:42–34:48: Pause for a moment for Rocky to look at his kid for a minute, put it down, and then another montage starts up.
34:48–34:49: Yeah, I kind of think it's just one montage.
34:50–34:51: It's kind of dull, in my opinion.
34:51–34:57: And I have always kind of disliked him running with all those kids.
34:57–35:00: It's the same thing like The Comer, where it's like manufactured drama.
35:00–35:07: This feels so fake and phony to me, where it's like he's running, and it just feels like a movie where there's way too many kids.
35:07–35:08: Like, they overdid it.
35:08–35:14: And now I'm like, no, we're just in a parody of Rocky, is what it suddenly feels like to me.
Movie award
hottie
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: My hot take is the way this movie should have ended is Rocky gets knocked the fuck out by someone stronger, better trained, and more motivated. And as a result, he loses his sight. Adrian dumps him for fighting against her wishes, and he's left with nothing. Back to carrying buckets.
Source detail: Answer qualification: I stand corrected. It's not a punchy uppie. That is a hot take.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: hottie My hot take is the way this movie should have ended is Rocky gets knocked the fuck out by someone stronger, better trained, and more motivated. And as a result, he loses his sight. Adrian dumps him for fighting against her wishes, and he's left with nothing. Back to carrying buckets. Answer qualification: I stand corrected. It's not a punchy uppie. That is a hot take.
Movie award
hot take
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: I think that the ref was paid off by Tony, the mobster, because this fight should have been stopped way before the 15th round.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: hot take I think that the ref was paid off by Tony, the mobster, because this fight should have been stopped way before the 15th round.
Movie award
highlight
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: I think it's the slow motion bit.
Source detail: Answer qualification: And I did like there was a slow motion moment where Rocky is getting his light knocked out of him.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: highlight I think it's the slow motion bit. Answer qualification: And I did like there was a slow motion moment where Rocky is getting his light knocked out of him.
Movie award
highlight
Target: Not separately resolved; recorded wording follows.
Recorded selection and reason: I also want to give a highlight for real crowds.
Source detail: Answer qualification: I'm just saying that I was struck positively by how much more dynamic the crowd seemed in this one. It's not that those ones sucked. It's that this is a step above.
Original award record and evidence
Choice: highlight I also want to give a highlight for real crowds. Answer qualification: I'm just saying that I was struck positively by how much more dynamic the crowd seemed in this one. It's not that those ones sucked. It's that this is a step above.