I am your host and honored announcer, Ryan, the man who eats his pizza Hawaiian, Sansone.
Original introduction wording
- I am your host and honored announcer, Ryan, the man who eats his pizza Hawaiian, Sansa.
NO COMMON DENOMINATOR
Movie verdicts.
Courtney and Curtis: thumbs down. Ryan: thumbs way down. Katie: recorded as thumbs mid after her conditional thumbs-up explanation. No collective recommendation is stated.
Original rating systems, exactly as represented in the archive. These scales are not interchangeable.
By way of introduction.
In his absence, a man who has fought everyone he's ever trained, hailing from the upside down, the Curt Locker, Curtis, Pepperoni and Mushroom, brother, and his opponents, my co-host,
Original introduction wording
- In his absence, a man who has fought everyone he's ever trained, hailing from the upside down, the Curt Locker, Curtis Sheck, Pepperoni and Mushroom, brother, and his opponents, my co-host,
her fighting record is a perfect zero and zero, representing South Cleavy, Katie Karate McKenzie.
Original introduction wording
- her fighting record is a perfect zero and zero, representing South Cleavy, Katie Karate McKenzie.
And our special guest referee, ensuring that Katie doesn't get into her first official fight, hailing from my household, she is the Short Fuse, Courtney Sansone.
Original introduction wording
- And our special guest referee, ensuring that Katie doesn't get into her first official fight, hailing from my household, she is the Short Fuse, Court Sansone.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the following podcast is scheduled to cover in its entirety the fifth movie of the Rocky franchise, Rocky 5. This is another special presentation of Reverse Psychology and it's your main event, the Summer Movie Marathon. I am your host and honored announcer, Ryan, the man who eats his pizza Hawaiian, Sansa. Your champion, the literal son of a gun and himself, Dr. Frazier Crane's suspension continues. In his absence, a man who has fought everyone he's ever trained, hailing from the upside down, the Curt Locker, Curtis Sheck, Pepperoni and Mushroom, brother, and his opponents, my co-host, her fighting record is a perfect zero and zero, representing South Cleavy, Katie Karate McKenzie. What up? What up, what up? And our special guest referee, ensuring that Katie doesn't get into her first official fight, hailing from my household, she is the Short Fuse, Court Sansone.
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
Game / activity
Rake the Ratings: Box Office Edition ↗
How this one works
How it works
- In this game, I will give you a brief, but definitely good description of a movie.
- It will be your job to tell me if that movie did better or worse in the box office than
- Rocky V.
- If you buzz in and get it wrong, you lose a point.
- If you buzz in and get it right, you gain a point.
- You get a bonus point if you can tell me what the movie was.
- If you're right, you gain five points and take away anyone else's chance to do so.
- You will not lose points for guessing wrong on the big buzz in, but you only get to big
- buzz in once in the whole game.
Scoring
- Comparison correct: 1; Comparison incorrect: -1; Title bonus: 1; Rank correct: 5
Recorded activity context
In this game, I will give you a brief, but definitely good description of a movie.; It will be your job to tell me if that movie did better or worse in the box office than; Rocky V.
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Curtis
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 5 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 52:55
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Prompt
Question / challenge
If at any point you feel confident that you know what place Rocky V lands on the 1990s; box office, you can do a big buzz in and place your guess.
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- Correct answer: 30
- Response status: Satisfied and closed to other contestants
- If at any point you feel confident that you know what place Rocky V lands on the 1990s; box office, you can do a big buzz in and place your guess.
- If you're right, you gain five points and take away anyone else's chance to do so.
- buzz in once in the whole game.
- If you've not used your big buzzer by the end of the game, I will prompt you all in
- low-as-the-highest-score order.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
30
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- Answer qualification: I've been thinking of this number and that 24 made it feel more real to me.
- Correct: True
- Score effect points: 5
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:02:42
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Do you want to guess how much you generated?
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- Correct answer: 40 million.
- Do you want to guess how much you generated?
- I'll give you a bonus point if you give it.
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RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
46 million.
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- Correct: False
- Adjudication: Close.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:02:49
Recorded conversation
You've taken out the big buzz.
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- Scoring checkpoint: Katie: 4.5; Curtis: 2.5; Courtney: 1
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:06:10
Final box-office quiz result
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- Winner statement: And Curtis, you win the game with 5.5 points against all odds, despite being a movie nerd.
Follow the round structure (12)
Box-office question 1
Source excerpt ↗ 53:38RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 53:39
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Prompt
Question / challenge
better or worse
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- Prompt item: This is a movie I thought was Evil Dead, but it isn't.
- Answer qualification: Would anyone like to try to steal, for a bonus point, what the movie was?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Poltergeist
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- Classification response: better
- Score effect points: -1
- Classification response: better
- Adjudication raw correctness: Comparison: False; Title: False
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: worse; Movie: Night of the Living Dead; Rank: 128; Revenue millions: 6
- Result qualification: No.; No.; Got nothing.
Box-office question 2
Source excerpt ↗ 54:37RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 54:38
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Prompt
Question / challenge
What movie do you think it was?
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- Prompt item: This man will never beat The Rock.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 54:56
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Would anyone like to steal?
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- Prompt item: This man will never beat The Rock.
- Answer qualification: Like a man's name is the movie title.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
higher
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- Answer qualification: I have no idea what movie it is, because your clues don't make it.
- Correct: False
- Score effect points: -1
- Classification response: higher
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
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- Answer qualification: I thought it was a Sean Connery movie reference, and he's in Last Crusade, so that's why I said that.
- Correct: False
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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- Answer qualification: I have no idea.
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: worse; Movie: Edward Scissorhands; Rank: 58; Revenue millions: 24
Box-office question 3
Source excerpt ↗ 55:43RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 55:45
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Prompt
Question / challenge
A movie where everyone for sure ends up in the same place.
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- Answer qualification: It doesn't hurt you to guess.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Home Alone
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- Classification response: higher
- Score effect points: -1
- Classification response: higher
- Adjudication raw correctness: Comparison: False; Title: False
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Trainspotting
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- Correct: False
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Field of Dreams.
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- Answer qualification: It's the If You Build It, They Will Come.
- Correct: False
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: worse; Movie: All Dogs Go to Heaven; Revenue millions: 7
- Result qualification: Rank: 119; Scope: All Dogs Go to Heaven; exact admitted source wording retained
- All Dogs Go to Heaven ranked 119th.
Box-office question 4
Source excerpt ↗ 56:48RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 56:49
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Four kids who do not know how to drive, beat feet, skateboard, and totally shred.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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- Classification response: Higher.
- Score effect points: Comparison: 1; Title bonus: 1
- Classification response: Higher.
- Adjudication raw correctness: Comparison: True; Title: True
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: better; Movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Rank: 4; Revenue millions: 135
Box-office question 5
Source excerpt ↗ 57:39RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 57:53
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Few wise bad men watch a mobster go over the hill.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Good fellas.
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- Classification response: higher
- Score effect points: Comparison: -1; Title bonus: 1
- Classification response: higher
- Adjudication raw correctness: Comparison: False; Title: True
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: worse; Movie: Goodfellas; Rank: 34; Revenue millions: 37
- Scoring checkpoint: Courtney: -1
Box-office question 6
Source excerpt ↗ 58:28RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 58:30
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Another Joe Pesci classic.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Home Alone
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- Classification response: higher
- Classification response: higher
- Adjudication raw correctness: Comparison: True; Title: True
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CurtisSource excerpt ↗ 58:48
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Sharing an earned point
I feel like I should split my point with Katie because I would not have had that movie on; the brain if she hadn't brought it up.
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- Point awarded: Participant: Katie; Points: 0.5
- Curtis splits his earned point with Katie; Katie receives 0.5. This is not an extra full point.
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: better; Movie: Home Alone; Rank: 3; Revenue millions: 143
- Scoring checkpoint: Curtis: 2.5; Katie: -0.5; Courtney: -1
Box-office question 7
Source excerpt ↗ 59:18RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 59:19
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Prompt
Question / challenge
There and back, there and back, and there and back again.; How many times can we do this?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Back to the Future 3
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- Classification response: higher
- Correct: True
- Score effect points: 2
- Classification response: higher
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: better; Movie: Back to the Future 3; Rank: 10; Revenue millions: 87
Box-office question 8
Source excerpt ↗ 59:55RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 59:56
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Kevin puts on his dancing shoes.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Footloose
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- Classification response: worse
- Score effect points: -1
- Classification response: worse
- Adjudication raw correctness: Comparison: False; Title: False
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: better; Movie: Dances with Wolves; Rank: 17; Revenue millions: 57
Box-office question 9
Source excerpt ↗ 1:00:45RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:00:46
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Prompt
Question / challenge
Airports during the holidays are the worst.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Die Hard 2
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- Classification response: better
- Correct: True
- Score effect points: Comparison: 1; Title bonus: 1
- Classification response: better
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: better; Movie: Die Hard 2; Rank: 7; Revenue millions: 117
- Scoring checkpoint: Curtis: 3.5; Courtney: 1; Katie: -0.5
Box-office question 10
Source excerpt ↗ 1:01:23RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:01:24
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Prompt
Question / challenge
I thought this movie was about a dog and his detective, but it isn't.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Turner and Hooch
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- Classification response: worse
- Answer qualification: Right, but it's about a detective and a dog, not a dog and a detective.
- Score effect points: -1
- Classification response: worse
- Adjudication raw correctness: Comparison: False; Title: False
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: better; Movie: Tango and Cash; Rank: 24; Revenue millions: 45
Box-office question 11
Source excerpt ↗ 1:03:13RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:03:21
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Prompt
Question / challenge
A burned out office worker agrees to jump into a volcano as a sacrifice.
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- Response context: What I read for you was the AI summary.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:03:40
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Prompt
Question / challenge
If he gets it wrong, can I guess?; Uh, yes.; You can.
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- Prompt item: A burned out office worker agrees to jump into a volcano as a sacrifice.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
worse
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- Answer qualification: This is not my guess.; There's something like Bruno or Dante in the volcano.; I give up on that.
- Score effect points: 1
- Classification response: worse
- Adjudication raw correctness: Comparison: True; Title status: Withdrawn without a guess
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Joe versus the volcano?
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- Answer qualification: Is it Joe in the volcano?
- Correct: True
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: worse; Movie: Joe versus the volcano; Rank: 35; Revenue millions: 36
- Scoring checkpoint: Katie: 4.5; Curtis: 3.5; Courtney: 2
Box-office question 12
Source excerpt ↗ 1:05:03RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:05:07
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Prompt
Question / challenge
One movie wasn't enough, so they made two.; But this time, they made it absurd.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Gremlins 2
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- Classification response: slightly better
- Correct: True
- Score effect points: Comparison: 1; Title bonus: 1
- Classification response: slightly better
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 1:05:43
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Prompt
Question / challenge
If I was going to make you answer the subtitle, then what would you say it was called?
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- Correct answer: the new batch
- Answer qualification: If we had a tiebreaker scenario, I would make you answer this correctly, but we don't.
- If I was going to make you answer the subtitle, then what would you say it was called?
- You can steal for 0.5.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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- Answer qualification: I don't have a clue.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
It's the new batch.
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- Correct: True
- Score effect points: 0.5
Round context
- Correct answer: Comparison: better; Movie: Gremlins 2; Rank: 29; Revenue difference from rocky v millions: 1
- Result qualification: If we had a tiebreaker scenario, I would make you answer this correctly, but we don't.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Scoring mechanism: Comparison correct: 1; Comparison incorrect: -1; Title bonus: 1; Rank correct: 5
- Winner statement: And Curtis, you win the game with 5.5 points against all odds, despite being a movie nerd.
- Curtis wins with 5.5 points; Katie finishes with 4.5 and Courtney with 2.5. Ryan facilitates the game.
- In this game, I will give you a brief, but definitely good description of a movie.; It will be your job to tell me if that movie did better or worse in the box office than; Rocky V.
- In this game, I will give you a brief, but definitely good description of a movie.
- It will be your job to tell me if that movie did better or worse in the box office than
- Rocky V.
- If you buzz in and get it wrong, you lose a point.
- If you buzz in and get it right, you gain a point.
- You get a bonus point if you can tell me what the movie was.
- If you're right, you gain five points and take away anyone else's chance to do so.
- You will not lose points for guessing wrong on the big buzz in, but you only get to big
- buzz in once in the whole game.
- Comparison correct: 1; Comparison incorrect: -1; Title bonus: 1; Rank correct: 5
Comic bits and episode moments.
Conversation excerpt
Opening context ↗
the following podcast is scheduled to cover in its entirety the; fifth movie of the Rocky franchise, Rocky 5.
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
I know it, but for the listening audience, what's your history with Rocky?
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Oh, I'm a big fan.; I love a boxing movie.; So yes, like a true Rocky enthusiast, I've seen all the movies, but I choose to only; believe in the first three.; I will say a big Creed fan, though.
Source details
- Answer qualification: How familiar were you with Rocky specifically?
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
You want to share some more about that?
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Well, anyway, the point of my story is simply that I made a list of all the Hunger Games movies; and assigned a month to them.; But I listed them out in reverse order.; But that is how I am now conditioned to think about films.
Source details
- Prompt proposition: You told us that you can't watch movies normal anymore.
Conversation excerpt
Prompt ↗
This is your space to tee off on Curtis.
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded contributions
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Courtney and I bonded in college over two things.; One was the Olympics and two was the amount of times you can watch Harry Potter movies; and still think they're incredible.; Like it's it was an equal partnership.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
And in defense of myself, if I may, I also was easing Katie into it.; And so we just mute the TV.; And when they started dancing, we would play Eye of the Tiger.; And I just been easing her into Rocky that way.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
It's time to talk rock.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
Yeah, what's your fight record?; I have never, in my life, thrown a punch or been punched.; You guys should fight.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
Can I tell you not related my biggest beef with this entire film?; Like everything is changing and we do absolutely nothing to resolve that in this movie.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
Source details
- Final state summary: Five sections in the book.; 20 awards in total.
Conversation excerpt
Whole-film verdicts and invented subtitles ↗
After that, we actually turn our thumbs up or down.; And while we are there, let's also give the movie a subtitle it deserves.
See how they answered
What everyone brought to the table · 10 recorded exchanges
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 47:10
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Whole-film thumbs prompt
Question / challenge
After that, we actually turn our thumbs up or down.
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- After that, we actually turn our thumbs up or down.
- Because you, of course, get two thumbs, as you know.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 47:14
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Invented subtitle prompt
Question / challenge
And while we are there, let's also give the movie a subtitle it deserves.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
We did our best.
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- Answer qualification: Final subtitle retained: We did our best. Later alternatives do not replace it.
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WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Additional subtitle suggestion
We tried.
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- Answer qualification state: Other participant suggestion
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Additional subtitle suggestion
Ran out of other ideas.
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- Answer qualification state: Original respondent alternative not adopted
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Additional subtitle suggestion
Rocky V, I can't believe we're still doing this.
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- Answer qualification state: Other participant suggestion
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
Listen, I think Rocky 5 is the one he forgot he had a kid.
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- Adjudication: I think you nailed it.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
So for me, I'm going to go Rocky 5, a whole lot of garbage.
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- Answer qualification: In the whole, of course, Rocky's head.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
So I would call this Rocky V for Vendetta.
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- Adjudication: Oh, Curtis, you win some.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Additional subtitle suggestion
Rocky V, The Streets.
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- Answer qualification: Is it like Step Up 2, The Streets?; Yes, exactly.
- Courtney supplies Rocky V, The Streets; Katie recognizes the Step Up reference. It is a separate suggestion.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
Two of us were born.; Two of us weren't for this.
Conversation excerpt
Predicting Rocky IV ↗
And your prize, of course, is why don't you tell us what to expect next week when we cover the previous movie, Rocky IV.
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 1 recorded contribution
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Well, I think because some of it was spoiled, I'm pretty confident that the movie starts with Apollo Creed dying at the hands of Ivan Drago and ends with Rocky defeating Drago.; However, the middle of the film is about a Russian submarine captain who is planning to defect.; Rocky is a part-time CIA analyst who figures it all out.; That part is a shot-for-shot remake of The Hunt for Red October.
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- Answer qualification: I think that Creed II convinced me this must be a good movie.; So I think it's gonna be a thumbs up for me.
Conversation excerpt
Closing conversation ↗
And thank you for bumming around the streets of Philly with us tonight.
Conversation excerpt
Cat outtake ↗
I needed a minute to get my cat off of my mantle.; I want a montage scene of Katie trying to get this cat.; Can you try cutting a monologue at your cat?
Source details
- Its timing relative to the activities is unestablished; no extra scored event is inferred.
And the award goes to…
Selections stay with their own movie part and selector. Some attributions are not confirmed.
What was recorded
Their choices, kept with the original category and movie part · 1 recorded exchange
Conversation excerpt
Five-part movie awards
How this one works
How it works
- So we divided the movie into five parts for each section.
- And everyone will hand out one award.
- 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.
Award categories
- Highlight: For a moment or scene that was particularly good.; Low light: For a moment or scene that was particularly bad.; Punchy: Awarded to the person we most wanted to punch in the face.; And the moment that inspired it.; Hottie: For a moment or scene that inspired a hot take.; Punchy uppy: For a moment or scene that made us think of something better the movie could have done.; Mvp: Awarded to the person who earned most valuable player status in the moment that locked it in.; Wild card: If none of the standard categories fit a section, feel free to substitute them with a custom award of your own invention.
Recorded activity context
So we divided the movie into five parts for each section.; And everyone will hand out one award.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 08:18
Movie section 1
After a brutal fight in Russia, Rocky returns home to a retirement imposed by Adrian and the doctors.; But with his fortune squandered by Polly and the accountant, they must sell all their cool stuff.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I feel like Stallone, his acting in that scene where he's like shaking and he's all fucked up and he doesn't know what's happening.
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- Choice: highlight
- Answer qualification: So highlight to Rocky, low light to me and my setup.
- Adjudication: That is a good pick.; So I take that back.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
The MVP is to Rocky for saying that two feet in front of his kid, talking about how he's going to violate.
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- Choice: MVP
- Answer qualification: I told you I didn't really agree with it being an MVP, but I had nothing else.; And I really was entertained by that line.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
This sweater that he is wearing.; It's a gray turtleneck.; So that is my my round one goes to the sweater.
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- Choice: My wild card is for costume design.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: CourtneySource excerpt ↗ 14:44
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Action
Courtney has sent the picture of this sweater.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I have a very long list of low lights, but the one I went with is the brain stuff is crazy.
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- Choice: low light
- Answer qualification: Like most of it's inaccurate.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 17:13
Movie section 2
Adrian and Rocky return to their old neighborhood life and little Rocky gets bullied by street tops.; Duke eggs on Rocky.; They'll return to the ring.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
You know, Mickey used to say a fight ain't over until you heard the bell.; We ain't heard a bell yet, have we?; And I'm like, that's a good life motto.
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- Choice: highlight
- Adjudication: Good pick.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
George Washington Duke.
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- Choice: punchy
- Answer qualification: It's too bad we don't have lawyer money to sue him for harassment.; Not here, but that is insane, right?
- Adjudication: I think there's many times you could have wanted to punch him here in this block.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I was not a fan of the flashbacks to Mickey.
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- Choice: low light
- Answer qualification: But this isn't a punchy epi.; I'm not I'm not giving advice.; I just think that it was bad.
- Claim: I'm like 150 percent certain this was not a new film clip.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
The father-son bond they set up at the beginning is really well done.
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- Choice: highlight
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 24:16
Movie section 3
Tommy Gunn wants Rocky to train him.; Rocky does too.; But Rocky neglects his son to pin all his self-worth onto Tommy.; Robert defeats his bullies, then befriends them.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I think I want to go with my punchy to Rocky for neglecting his son.
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- Choice: punchy
- Answer qualification: But instead, Rocky just intentionally leaves his own son out and ignores him repeatedly to focus on this stranger who walked into his life.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
I love the fight, and I love that it is like the traditional 13-year-old boy thing of like, he kicked the shit out of him, and now they're friends.
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- Choice: highlights
- Answer qualification: So Bobby getting, beating up the shitty kid, and then they became buddies.
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Cajonis is Latin for Spanish nuts.; Yeah, someday you can punch out your pup.; Hey, he's the fittest of the survival.
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- Choice: I'm going with a wild card for Polly-isms.
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Prompt
Question / challenge
And I want to know, do you think Polly was in any way in on the scheme with the accountant?; Or do you think he was just a dummy who didn't read the document he was handed?
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- Response context: We skipped past it in the first scene, but I do want to interrogate this a little bit real quick.
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I think he's just pretty dumb, to be honest.
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I think he is a dummy.; And I think he was trying to be in on it.
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Recorded conversation
It's like, I wish we got a lot more of Tommy just peppering advice to Bobby while his dad's ignoring him.; And then we could have, like, got a real monster out of Bobby.
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- Choice: punchy-uppy
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Movie section 4
At Christmas, Rocky's Santa traditions are poorly received by Robert and his teenage friends.; Tommy is lured into a contract with Duke.; Adrian reminds a devastated Rocky that his family is what counts.; He wins back the admiration of his son through the power of knock-knock jokes.
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I'm going to give this one my low light because it is monologues and montages.
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- Choice: low light
- Answer qualification: And I'm mentally checked out right now.
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No, the punchy is that Rocky is oblivious.; And he's totally being a dick to his kid.
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- Choice: punchy
- Answer qualification: And he's giving Tommy the chain with the boxing glove on it.
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If he'd have just face planted at the end of that, that would have been great.
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- Choice: I am also giving a punchy to Rocky.
- Answer qualification: Not quite a punch, but he has a lot of face damage.
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The whole movie, I think Adrian is the MVP.
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- Choice: MVP
- Answer qualification: I want to give my MVP for, in particular, a monologue that was given in this section of; the movie by Adrian in the middle of the street to Rocky.; She's the only one I don't hate.
- Adjudication: I completely agree.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
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Movie section 5
Tommy wins the title and thanks Duke, but the press bitch slaps him as a wannabe still; in Rocky's shadow.; So he brings a camera crew to challenge Rocky to a fight in the ring.; Rocky counters with a brawl in the street and cleans Tommy's clock.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Recorded conversation
Tommy's whole speech.; He was walking away and you think you're winning because you got a guy from behind.; But I don't like Tommy.
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- Choice: low light
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But and honestly, I don't know if this counts as a punchy uppie or a hot take, but I think there should not have been a final fight in this movie.
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- Answer qualification: I guess that kind of undercuts my point, doesn't it?
- Curtis explicitly leaves punchy uppie versus hot take undecided; neither category is silently selected.
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I'm going to give the MVP to my boy, Rocky.
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- Choice: MVP
- Answer qualification: Because he does what Rocky does.; And he still will get up because he's got that heart, man.
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Recorded conversation
The MVP for sure, for sure is George Washington Duke.
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- Choice: MVP
- Answer qualification: He gets the silver here.; Yeah, he's a great heel.; He's a great bad guy.
- Adjudication: I don't think he was that good of a bad guy because he's so over the top.
Source details
- Method: The highlight.; The low light.; The punchy.; The hottie.; The punchy uppy.; And finally, the MVP.; The wild card.
- Activity description: Highlight: For a moment or scene that was particularly good.; Low light: For a moment or scene that was particularly bad.; Punchy: Awarded to the person we most wanted to punch in the face.; And the moment that inspired it.; Hottie: For a moment or scene that inspired a hot take.; Punchy uppy: For a moment or scene that made us think of something better the movie could have done.; Mvp: Awarded to the person who earned most valuable player status in the moment that locked it in.; Wild card: If none of the standard categories fit a section, feel free to substitute them with a custom award of your own invention.
- So we divided the movie into five parts for each section.; And everyone will hand out one award.
- So we divided the movie into five parts for each section.
- And everyone will hand out one award.
- 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.
- Highlight: For a moment or scene that was particularly good.; Low light: For a moment or scene that was particularly bad.; Punchy: Awarded to the person we most wanted to punch in the face.; And the moment that inspired it.; Hottie: For a moment or scene that inspired a hot take.; Punchy uppy: For a moment or scene that made us think of something better the movie could have done.; Mvp: Awarded to the person who earned most valuable player status in the moment that locked it in.; Wild card: If none of the standard categories fit a section, feel free to substitute them with a custom award of your own invention.