The Rewatchables' awards

The categories, most rewatchable scenes, and double features from the episodes read for them so far: 95 films and 1 episode about no one film. Every pick is a host's opinion, with who said it and when.

Picking Nits: 525 picks in 94 episodes

Every film and category

Friday the 13th (1980) · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of the movie.

pick Where Pamela was in the dormant years and why the town never suspected her
“This is my, this is my big thing is where, where is Pam in the intervening dead years while the camp is dormant?”
unknown · 1:32:26
pick Pamela is not athletic enough to pull off what she does and the fight is bad
“The biggest picking knit is his mom of Voorhees athletic enough to pull off anything in this movie because she's a terrible fighter.”
unknown · 1:33:41
pick Jason was not a good swimmer yet was swimming at night
“My last one, Jason wasn't a good swimmer.”
unknown · 1:34:20

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Why not just drive away in the truck at the end
“Still not sure why he didn't just drive away in the truck.”
unknown · 0:44:07
pick Would you survive being lifted onto a meat hook
“Would you die right away if you were lifted onto a metal hook?”
unknown · 1:19:47
pick The van's lights left on after the hitchhiker leaves
“They just leave it on, like morons.”
unknown · 1:20:19
pick Pam reading the zodiac book right after the hitchhiker
“Pam immediately starts reading the zodiac book.”
unknown · 1:21:49
pick Leatherface's chainsaw never seems to run out of gas
“That thing's running for 12 hours.”
unknown · 1:22:14
pick Sudden traffic on the dirt road at the end
“Why is there suddenly traffic on this dirt road?”
unknown · 1:22:28
pick Sally could have used more evasive moves
“Sally could have put some more evasive moves on him.”
Craig Horlbeck · 1:22:56

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Ricky is rich, so why does he end up delivering pizza
“isn't he still incredibly rich?”
unknown · 1:47:52
pick The team owner dad disappears and the son takes over without explanation
“bothers me is the opening part with the owner, the dad.”
unknown · 1:49:03
pick Dennit Jr. dropping Ricky for refusing to win the points title
“the reason Dennett Jr. moves on from Ricky is because he refuses to win the points title.”
unknown · 1:49:42
pick The Talladega race is not really why the movie is named for it
“I kind of forget sometimes that the race, it's not really for anything.”
unknown · 1:50:10

The Italian Job (2003) · ‘The Italian Job’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they like.

pick The villains leaving after shooting at people underwater: The water is freezing and they have scuba gear, so waiting would have finished them.
“When people are underwater in a scene like this, and everybody, the villains always make the same mistake where they fire bullets, and they're like, all right, we got them.”
unknown · 0:45:46
pick The helicopter strafing Hollywood with no police response: Set after 9/11, with no cops in the last half hour.
“There's no fucking way. That's the biggest knit.”
unknown · 1:05:00
pick Charlize pretending to be a cable repair person
“Um, just Shirley is pretending to be a cable repair person was ludicrous.”
unknown · 1:33:35
pick Identifying the right Brinks truck by tire size
“They figure out the the right Brinks truck in the Hollywood chase scene. based on tire size because Seth Green apparently has some incredible computer program.”
unknown · 1:33:42
pick Blowing up the exact spot on Hollywood Boulevard
“Um, Blowing up the exact square spot in Hollywood Boulevard.”
unknown · 1:34:04
pick A roadside party at the border after the Venice gold theft
“I was just going to say, if you stole a bunch of gold from Venice. Would you really have a roadside party at the border for Austria and then get on a one lane road?”
unknown · 1:34:47

Domestic Disturbance (2001) · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of the movie.

pick The obvious dubs, 'don't fool with me' versus the f-word
“Um, all the obvious dubs.”
unknown · 1:21:55
pick Rick's weak effort at a new identity
“Do you think Rick put any effort into a new identity or did he just buy like a new kind of some new clothes?”
unknown · 1:22:18
pick The unclear timeline of the divorce, pregnancy and custody trial
“Because they make it seem like the divorce just happened.”
unknown · 1:23:01
pick Rick changes his name but allows a newspaper wedding announcement with his picture
“But it's totally cool with having a newspaper wedding announcement with this picture.”
unknown · 1:23:36
pick No blood in the car after the stabbing
“The no blood in the car post-stabbing was incredible.”
unknown · 1:24:06
pick No evidence at the Southport Brickworks
“Southport Brickworks, just having no evidence at all anywhere.”
unknown · 1:24:10
pick How would they know instantly that she lost the baby
“Um, How would they know? Immediately that she lost the babies.”
unknown · 1:25:17
pick The other two convicts are still unaccounted for
“Wait, one more thing.”
unknown · 1:25:48

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) · ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ With Bill Simmons, Steven Spielberg, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The ape costumes in 4K feel a little 1968
“The ape costumes in 4K.”
Bill Simmons · 2:06:45
pick Could HAL really read their lips: Spielberg and others say it would be a walk in the park for AI today.
“Would Hal actually be able to read their lips?”
Bill Simmons · 2:07:12
pick The film never says what year it is set: Spielberg answers that 2001 is about the millennium, not a year.
“The film never actually tells us what year it's set.”
Bill Simmons · 2:07:26
pick HAL 9000
“if how so advanced, why can't he anticipate Dave's move to remove his central function?”
Sean Fennessey · 2:08:06
pick HAL 9000: Joins Sean's nit: why not close ports where there is no manual override.
“why doesn't Hal turn off all the lights?”
Steven Spielberg · 2:09:00
pick The movie was rated G
“I had one more. This movie was rated G?”
Bill Simmons · 2:09:55

Fargo (1996) · ‘Fargo’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Kyle Brandt

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Empty beer bottles as shorthand for drunk
“I think it's a little bit of a hacky way that directors show someone's drunk that there's like 6 empty.”
unknown · 0:45:30
pick Close-range headshot would not look like that
“I don't know enough about shooting somebody from 2 feet away.”
unknown · 0:49:30
pick The Lundegaards would have a dog
“First of all, the London Guards would definitely have a dog, which I think would be a fun part of the home invasion.”
unknown · 1:41:55
pick Scotty has no Kirby Puckett or North Stars poster
“Um, the fact that Scotty does not have a Kirby Pucket poster in his room is ridiculous, 1987.”
unknown · 1:42:00
pick Carl would not be uncircumcised
“no fucking way he's uncircumcised.”
unknown · 1:42:33
pick Why Carl doesn't take off and goes back for Gaear
“Why does Carl not take off?”
unknown · 1:42:37
pick The father-in-law never connects the dots
“I have the father-in-law never connecting dots.”
Bill Simmons · 1:43:10
pick The criminals stay overnight for a drive of only a few hours
“Second thing. Why are the criminals in the car for this long?”
Bill Simmons · 1:44:41

Zodiac (2007) · ‘Zodiac’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Why is the cartoonist in the editorial meetings: Fincher says Avery would not be in them either; it was needed to connect everyone.
“Why is the cartoonist in high-level editorial meetings when they're reading the zodiac letter, which is probably the most important thing in the city?”
unknown · 2:31:51
pick Ione Sky's character falling for the loose-wheel trick
“Ione Sky's character falling for the your wheel looks loose trick.”
unknown · 2:32:06
pick Toschi telling Graysmith to call Ken Narlow while saying he can't help
“Toski being like, I can't help you, but if I were to help you”
unknown · 2:32:27
pick Toschi keeps working the case for seven years after the handwriting verdict
“I have a sort of sort of related picking knit just about the insanity of being a police detective”
unknown · 2:32:55
pick Sevigny's character substitutes a cream sauce for penne alla vodka: Borrowed from Reddit and the commentary: the dish did not exist until the 1980s; Fincher admits they got it wrong.
“Chloe, on the 1st date, orders penne alla vodka, but asked to substitute a cream sauce.”
unknown · 2:33:56
pick Graysmith says no one reads Herb Caen; Zodiac did: Zodiac mentions Herb Caen in a letter, so the line is an oversight.
“I have a small picking net on behalf of my mother-in-law who was there watching the movie with us last night.”
Craig Horlbeck · 2:34:51

F1 (2025) · ‘F1’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Sonny causing minor crashes to put JP in the top 10: Likely why F1 fans didn't buy it.
“I'm just going to do this as a nitpick now.”
unknown · 0:51:01
pick Sonny Hayes is far too old to be an F1 driver: The oldest winner was 53 in 1951; Sonny would be about 52.
“Sonny is way too fucking old to be an F1 driver.”
unknown · 1:11:47
pick The movie ends three times; Baja was too much
“This movie ends 3 times, and I think you can make a case, you just stick with the 1st ending.”
unknown · 1:14:24
pick Sonny flying to Abu Dhabi and racing straight off the plane
“Sonny would not be allowed to just fly to Abu Dhabi and race.”
unknown · 1:31:46
pick Brad Pitt as a runner
“Brad Pitt is a terrible runner.”
unknown · 1:32:30
pick 1993 flashback with Pitt in a wig
“He looks like he's like wearing Wayne's World's, the old Garth wig.”
unknown · 1:34:47
pick How Sonny's van got to Las Vegas
“Why is Sonny's vein in Las Vegas?”
unknown · 1:35:36
pick Sonny racing after a 30-hour flight with a metal rod in his back
“I just don't think you can hop in an F1 car after a 30 hour flight from Abu Dhabi when you have a metal rod in your back.”
unknown · 1:36:16

Weird Science (1985) · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick It should have been rated R
“This movie should have just been rated R.”
Bill Simmons · 1:27:29
pick No 85 Bears in a Chicago-suburbs movie
“It drives me nuts that there's no 85 bears in this.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:28:56
pick Wyatt using the toilet with Gary in the room
“Wyatt is taking a shit while Gary's in the room?”
Bill Simmons · 1:29:31
pick Why there are two twin beds in Wyatt's room
“So why are there 2 twin beds in that room?”
unknown · 1:30:07

The Truman Show (1998) · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick how big the place was, with the water, electricity and no accidents
“Yeah, I mean, this was obviously the biggest nitpick.”
unknown · 1:15:54
pick why the cracks in Truman's world start happening now: The movie could use some external pressure to explain the timing.
“Well, also, one of my nitpicks was that, I was like, or, or, or lights falling from the sky or, or isolated thunderstorms happening, or, or the frequency things happening, is why is this happening now?”
Glen Powell · 1:16:13
pick the new love interest storyline: A rare case where he would add ten more minutes to a movie.
“I could have taken 10 more minutes.”
Craig Horlbeck · 1:24:08
pick Christoph going full Old Testament with no one stopping him: He wanted more chaos to show a creator desperate to keep his creation alive.
“I thought I thought it felt too calm up in the in the movie.”
Glen Powell · 1:24:40
pick Truman hitting the wall of the set calmly: The reverse of the overacting award: after a lifetime on TV he should freak out at the drywall.
“Uh, speaking of that, my one picking it, it's basically the reverse of the overacting award.”
Bill Simmons · 1:25:57

RoboCop (1987) · ‘RoboCop’ (1987) With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Ed 209 demo uses real bullets
“Whose idea was it to give Ed 209 um, actual bullets for the boardroom demonstration?”
unknown · 1:35:58
pick Murphy and Lewis going into the warehouse without backup: Asks whether Murphy deserved to die.
“Did Murphy deserve to die?”
unknown · 1:36:31
pick Lewis as doesn't figure out RoboCop is Murphy for 30 minutes
“How do you feel about Nancy Allen's character not figuring out that robocops Murphy for like 30 minutes?”
unknown · 1:37:11
pick Murphy's idyllic family flashback: No family is that nice; the wife in a robe on a Tuesday saying she loves him.
“Like, that when he goes in that flashback, that is such a bullstit demonstration of what a family is like.”
unknown · 1:37:51
pick The RoboCop costume leaving the mouth and jaw exposed
“So why do you have the mouth and the jaw exposed?”
unknown · 1:38:47
pick Ed 209 as can't go downstairs
“Ed 209 not being able to go downstairs.”
unknown · 1:39:24
pick Clarence Boddicker as wanted criminal who strolls into Dick Jones' office
“Was he wanted criminal or not?”
unknown · 1:39:54

Species (1995) · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love

pick Nobody on the dream team suspects the alien rigged the car chase
“Nobody, none of this dream team suspicious at all, that the alien with superior intelligence might have rigged any part of this?”
unknown · 0:35:33
pick Nobody in 1995 turns down sex like the Palisades guy
“Anyone in 1995 turning down sex or being like, this is too fast.”
unknown · 1:18:22
pick Madsen's tough guy handing off a cat
“The 1st time we see him, he's handing a cat to his cat center, awesome moment.”
unknown · 1:20:37
pick The train porter's clothes fit Natasha and are clean
“And Natasha is wearing her clothes out.”
unknown · 1:21:16
pick How they followed her from the club to the Hollywood Hills house
“How did they follow her from the club to the Hollywood Hills house was never explained.”
unknown · 1:21:30
pick Finding semen in the hot tub water in ten minutes
“Could they really figure out semen in the hot tub water in 10 minutes, which is what happens in this movie?”
unknown · 1:22:00
pick An incredibly nice motel manager
“That is an incredibly nice motel manager.”
unknown · 1:22:34
pick People were not horny enough for her
“People weren't horny enough for her.”
unknown · 1:22:56
pick A microbiologist in combat
“They put a microbiologist in combat later on in this movie.”
unknown · 1:23:09
pick Kingsley says go home and sleep while she is on the loose
“She's still on the loose and Ben Kingsley's like, let's go home, get some sleep.”
unknown · 1:23:16

After Hours (1985) · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Why Paul flips on Marcy and makes her cry
“Not sure why he flips on Marcy and makes her cry.”
unknown · 1:34:32
pick Why Marcy actually kills herself
“Couldn't he walk to another subway station and then why did why did Marcy actually kill herself was a weird one.”
unknown · 1:34:52
pick Why not just walk home
“No, the biggest one was just why don't you just walk home?”
unknown · 1:35:20

Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) · ‘Die Hard With a Vengeance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick everything open at 7:45 in the morning, and Zeus leaving his store unlocked
“We mentioned everything being open at 745 in this neighborhood is a little dicey.”
unknown · 1:46:26
pick how Simon knew McLean wore the sign
“How did Simon know that McLean wore the sign?”
unknown · 1:47:12
pick McLean covered in injuries and blood
“I just think McLean is just covered in blood.”
unknown · 1:49:09
pick McLean never considers the $12 billion
“So McLean doesn't even think about taking the $12 billion.”
Van Lathan · 1:50:22
pick the henchmen are all 6 foot 4 German men with crew cuts
“All 6 foot 4 German dudes with crew cuts.”
Van Lathan · 1:51:13
pick McLean shot out of the tunnel while Zeus drives by: Called the jump-the-shark moment.
“We didn't talk about the biggest pick and nit.”
unknown · 1:51:45
pick Simon hands McLean the aspirin bottle with the address on it
“And then just gives McLean the aspirin bottle that has the address of where you got the aspirin bottle.”
unknown · 1:52:49

Working Girl (1988) · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Tess says I love you within four days
“As always, the timelines are an issue here because they say I love you within 4 days.”
unknown · 1:42:32
pick Tess wears all white to the wedding
“Um, Tess wears all white to the wedding.”
unknown · 1:44:17
pick No one wonders why Tess is in the boss's office with the door closed
“I have, why didn't anyone wonder why Tesla was in her boss's office so much as number one?”
unknown · 1:44:59
pick Catherine's broken leg heals in three weeks
“Um, what kind of broken leg did Sigourney have where she's good in 3 weeks?”
unknown · 1:45:22
pick Catherine still goes on the trip after her boyfriend bails
“I guess, but do you not think it's weird that she was expecting Catherine was expecting to be proposed to on this trip?”
unknown · 1:47:26
pick Alec Baldwin sleeping with Doreen DiMucci: Calls it his biggest nitpick; he doesn't understand the scene.
“I don't understand the Alec Baldwin having sex with Dominic DiNucci, whatever her name was.”
unknown · 1:48:31

Rocky (1976) · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Rocky wandering into the empty Spectrum the day before the fight
“So Rocky just waltzes into the spectrum one day before the fight to look around.”
unknown · 1:35:33
pick Five weeks to prepare, and the idea nobody would take the fight
“Five weeks. Plenty of time to prepare to fight the heavyweight champion in the world.”
unknown · 1:36:03
pick Mick's only contributions are the string trick and the cut: Argues Apollo is a much better trainer than Mickey.
“Apollo is a much better trainer than Mickey is.”
unknown · 1:37:07
pick Mick hearing Rocky's monologue from halfway down the street
“So there's no fucking way that Mick can hear this monologue halfway down the street.”
unknown · 1:38:09
pick Talia Shire as Adrian: Someone in the neighborhood would have gotten to her before Rocky did.
“My nit to pick is somebody would have gotten to Adrian before it is.”
unknown · 1:38:21

Friday Night Lights (2004) · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The coin toss, including the undisclosed truck stop: Everything about the coin toss belongs here, though it happened that way in real life.
“Every frankly, everything with the coin toss belongs in picking nets, all of it.”
Mallory Rubin · 1:32:48
pick The 1969 Buffalo nickel as the coin
“It has to be at least a half dollar.”
Bill Simmons · 1:33:06
pick The score going from 18-7 to 26-7 before the half
“Last game goes from 18 to 7 is 26 to 7 right before the half.”
Bill Simmons · 1:33:18
pick Timeline wonkiness around Boobie's MRI and the standings
“There's not only some scorekeeping wonkiness, but there's some just general timeline wonkiness.”
Mallory Rubin · 1:33:27
pick No penalties on late hits on the quarterback: Wild in the concussion-protocol era to see him kicked in the face and stay in the game.
“I'm positive that was always a penalty.”
Bill Simmons · 1:34:21
pick Winchell being Will Levis, then Russell Wilson, depending on the score
“I guess I'll just say, like, Winchell basically being Will Levis the entire movie.”
Mallory Rubin · 1:34:47
pick Preacher not playing tight end on third and short
“And I would add preacher at tight end on any 3rd in short.”
Bill Simmons · 1:34:36

Pulp Fiction (1994) · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love

pick Butch's opponent is announced at 210 pounds, yet Bruce Willis is 5'9
“Butch's opponent, Wilson, has his weight announced his £210?”
unknown · 2:11:46
pick The bullet holes already in the wall before the shots
“I mean, the 2 worst ones in this are the bullet holes that you can see behind Tribolta and St. Jackson before they actually get shot at, which you don't notice until you've seen the movie 30 times.”
unknown · 2:13:19
pick Marcellus is loose after Butch cuts him free and does not fight back
“So if he was able to just stand up like that, why didn't he fight back against a rapist?”
unknown · 2:14:14
pick The guy in the bathroom misses every shot
“How did the guy in the bathroom miss every fucking shot?”
unknown · 2:14:24
pick Honey Bunny's two different line readings
“Honey Bunny does 2 different line readings?”
unknown · 2:14:43
pick The diner robbery runs ten minutes with no customers or cops
“They're in that diner during the robbery for like 10 minutes.”
unknown · 2:15:46
pick Mia draws a rectangle, not a square
“One of my nitpicks is that she actually draws a rectangle and not a square.”
unknown · 1:02:55

Notting Hill (1999) · ‘Notting Hill’ With Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Hotel security throughout London
“Hotel security throughout London.”
unknown · 0:56:46
pick How William is picked out at the press conference: Helped a little by the pink shirt.
“How do they know to call in it on him at all?”
unknown · 0:57:42
pick William's finances and divorce; why women keep dumping him as William Thacker
“William Dacker's finances.”
unknown · 0:58:07
pick Answering the front door in his underwear
“One more, answering the front door in your underwear.”
unknown · 1:00:19
pick Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant's lack of sexual chemistry: They conclude it does not matter for this movie.
“Did Julie Roberts and Hugh Grant have any chemistry?”
unknown · 1:02:10

Twister (1996) · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick The dad's weak door lock
“Listen, I have a couple notes for dad, not to step on picking nits, but that lock just wasn't good enough.”
unknown · 0:32:55
pick Surviving the final tornado
“I don't think they survived the final tornado.”
Bill Simmons · 0:47:29
pick Dorothy as a dumb device: Easily knocked over; why not have many?
“Like a dumb device.”
unknown · 1:34:50
pick Nobody gets hit by debris: The speaker's wife's biggest nitpick.
“They never, ever really get hit by a tornado debris, which is why pretty much everyone dies in tornadoes because there's just debris everywhere.”
unknown · 1:35:18
pick Why Joe and Bill divorced: Never explained enough.
“Why'd they get divorced?”
unknown · 1:35:39
pick Five tornadoes in one day: Would be a legendary catastrophic day.
“I just want to point out they have 5 hurricanes in a 24 hour span.”
unknown · 1:36:49
pick Time for Meg's steak and eggs
“There's no way Joe actually lets them take, however long it takes for Meg to make everybody's steak and eggs.”
unknown · 1:38:26

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of the movie.

pick Vanessa was a Fembot all along
“It turns out she was a Fembot at the beginning of us to Paris too.”
unknown · 0:52:57
pick How Number Two is alive after dying in the fire pit
“How is number 2 still alive?”
unknown · 0:53:57
pick Mojo is lost and he can't perform, but is told he had it all along
“Um, I guess I don't know if this is a nitpick or an unanswerable question, but he loses his mojo and immediately can't perform.”
unknown · 0:56:33

Breaking Away (1979) · ‘Breaking Away’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Nancy (Robyn Douglass) never questioning that Dave is Italian
“is she really so dim that she can't pick up on this guy is not Italian?”
unknown · 1:25:32
pick Mike hitting his head on the rock
“Mike hitting his head on the rock never really sat well with me.”
unknown · 1:25:57
pick Rod clapping for the Cutters at the end of the race
“There's just no fucking way that Rod is clapping for the cutters at the end of that race.”
unknown · 1:26:15
pick Going from the bowling alley brawl straight to the university president ordering a bike race
“how quickly they go from the bowling alley brawl to like the president of the university is like, you guys all need to do a bike race.”
unknown · 1:26:50
pick Why the Italian team would come to Indianapolis for a 100-mile race
“So why would the Italian cycling team come to fucking Indianapolis to do a 100 race?”
unknown · 1:27:08
pick Dennis Christopher: Nominated for best juvenile actor at the Young Artist Awards at 28 or 29.
“Dennis Christopher was nominated for best juvenile actor at the Young Artist Awards.”
unknown · 1:27:54
pick Robyn Douglass: She would never talk to Dave again.
“I don't just don't think Robin Douglas is ever talking to Mike again.”
unknown · 1:28:04
pick Barbara Barrie: The pregnancy at the end seemed unusual.
“I did think about putting that in nipix that she just gets pregnant right away.”
unknown · 1:37:29

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) · ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Mallory Rubin

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Why Rat did not go for it with Stacy after the first date
“Why didn't Rat go for it with Stacy after the 1st date?”
unknown · 1:28:34
pick Linda and Stacy as the age gap and why Linda has no friends her age
“What was the age difference between Linda and Stacy and would Linda actually hang out with Stacy?”
unknown · 1:29:18
pick Mike Damone as operating on credit with no cash backstop: Attribution inferred: Bill asks Mallory and the answer follows.
“Uh, I just think Damone's got to have more of a cash backstop.”
Mallory Rubin · 1:30:06
pick Rat as forgives Damone far too quickly
“Just rat forgiving him way too quickly.”
Mallory Rubin · 1:30:36
pick Stacy as too calm about being pregnant at 15
“I, this is a little, one is a little bit more serious, but I do think Stacy seems quite... Quite calm about being pregnant at 15.”
Mallory Rubin · 1:30:43
pick Would employee of the month Brad be fired for how he treated the customer
“Would employee of the month, Brad Hamilton be fired for that interaction with the customer?”
unknown · 1:31:15
pick The Led Zeppelin song is on Physical Graffiti, not IV
“There's some some picking nets with the Led Zeppelin song because it's not on Led Zeppelin 4.”
unknown · 1:31:53
winner The football season stretches past Christmas in a Southern California summer-weather timeline: Attribution inferred: he calls it his biggest one and says the others missed it. Tied to the bit that football season ends in early November and the pool day is 100 degrees after Christmas.
“Here's my biggest one.”
Bill Simmons · 1:32:18
pick Why does Linda have enough carrots
“Why does Linda have enough carrots? I feel like we would have had it 5 years ago when we were all at our peaks.”
Bill Simmons · 1:32:25

The War of the Roses (1989) · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The young-couple scenes are not remotely Nantucket
“That's just absolutely not Lantucket.”
unknown · 0:19:56
pick Michael Douglas, in his 40s, playing a student next to an undergraduate gymnast
“Well, not that Michael Douglas is 45 playing...”
unknown · 0:20:02
pick The dog insert shot during the pate scene, clearly added later: Says the DeVito scenes could go to make room for Barbara taking a revenge date.
“I already said about the showing the dog during the pot taste scene, which clearly they put in later.”
Bill Simmons · 1:19:57
pick Gavin says he kept the Roses out of the papers
“I kept what happened out of the papers. You mean when 2 people were found dead in their mansion?”
unknown · 1:21:19
pick Whether the chandelier fall would have killed them
“I think the question of would the fall have killed them. is a valid one.”
unknown · 1:21:37
pick No neighbor ever calls the authorities
“None of their neighbors at any point called the authorities.”
unknown · 1:23:09
pick The film needs one more scene of the couple happy together
“I wanted one more scene when they were happy together.”
unknown · 1:24:49
pick Where did she get a monster truck in 1989
“Where the fuck, who had that monster truck in 1989?”
unknown · 1:25:37
pick Oliver's dog is the wrong breed; he should have a white lab or a poodle
“I don't like the dog choice for Oliver.”
unknown · 1:26:23

Internal Affairs (1990) · ‘Internal Affairs’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Raymond's behavior goes unsupervised
“Uh, Raymond, out here, uh, getting in fights with Dennis, getting in fights with his wife at Spago or wherever, and just nobody, no supervision of his behavior whatsoever.”
unknown · 1:19:08
pick Arokas already seems wealthy, so why have his parents killed to diversify his business
“I don't quite understand how much time has passed in this movie because Stephen Arokis needs his parents killed to diversify his business, but he has a house in Malibu.”
unknown · 1:19:20
pick answering the phone during sex with a dirty cop
“Who answers the fucking phone as you're riding a dirty cop?”
Bill Simmons · 1:21:27
pick Peck has eight kids and a ninth on the way
“It's just too many kids.”
Bill Simmons · 1:23:02
pick in bad guy world everybody knows everything: Calls it a small nitpick he's passionate about: the criminal grapevine that knows about a hit instantly.
“This is a very small nitpick, but I'm passionate about it.”
Bill Simmons · 1:23:27

The Insider (1999) · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of the movie.

pick Wigand's wife turns on him too fast
“the a nitpick is just, the wife was out on him pretty fast.”
unknown · 1:13:26
pick Mann's script says "semifinals" for the Knicks when anyone who follows sports would say conference finals
“Nobody's ever said semi-finals.”
unknown · 1:15:32

The Big Chill (1983) · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Meg asking the guys to father her baby, and Sarah offering up Harold: Called a pretty big nitpick; the hosts then debate whether it is a good move or loser behavior.
“Well, it's a pretty big nitpick.”
unknown · 1:15:15
pick Harold's South Carolina accent
“I think Kevin Klein is elite, but what do we think about his South Carolina accent?”
unknown · 1:17:36
pick The touch football scenes: no Mississippis, a blitz, a tiny yard
“I was going to do this for picking nits, but these touch football scenes.”
unknown · 1:33:02
pick How many bedrooms Harold's house has and how the back house works
“So how many rooms did how many bedrooms did Harold's house have?”
unknown · 1:35:23
pick Harold's running company being publicly traded with stock tips
“I'm confused how Harold's company had stock.”
unknown · 1:36:47
pick Nick staying calm about a bat flying through his window
“Uh, I don't think that Nick would be as chill about a bat flying through his window after 3 lines of cocaine as he is in this movie.”
unknown · 1:38:11
pick Harold bombing the eulogy with no one mentioning it afterward
“Well, the only other thing was just like, Harold really bombs that eulogy, and then he like totally pulls it together afterwards.”
unknown · 1:39:24
pick Meg Tilly's Chloe hanging around the group after finding her boyfriend dead: Another host agrees she is a freeloader.
“If something like this happened, would you really let Meg Tilly's character hang around you and all your friends?”
unknown · 1:39:55

A Bronx Tale (1993) · ‘A Bronx Tale’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick The out-of-shape mafia guys beating up the Satan's Messengers biker gang
“Would a bunch of out of shape Italians really beat the living shit out of a biker gang?”
Bill Simmons · 1:28:54
pick The cops are at C's apartment seconds after the murder
“So little see after the murder happens.”
unknown · 1:30:55
pick 50 people see the murder and the nine-year-old is the star witness
“There's also 50 people see this murder and they pick the nine-year-old to be the star witness.”
unknown · 1:31:12
pick Why didn't Sonny just kill Mush
“Why didn't Sonny just kill Mush?”
unknown · 1:31:23
pick C's baby sister and his mother disappear from the movie
“Never seen again.”
unknown · 1:31:52
pick Goodfellas homage: needle drops like Ain't That a Kick in the Head and the Pesci part
“I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas and how much of it was just like, I also liked this about Goodfellas, so I'm going to do it again.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:32:47
pick C uses the N-word and the movie moves on
“No, just the one we already talked about, just the N-word situation.”
unknown · 1:33:44

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) · ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of the film.

pick Alice getting that high off a couple hits of one joint
“I have a hard time believing that Alice got that high off a couple hits of one joint.”
unknown · 1:14:33
pick Domino's roommate: She knows about Bill yet not that nothing happened.
“I, I, I was confused by, even though every sequence with Domino and her roommate is wonderful, Domino's roommate clearly knows all about Bill, right?”
unknown · 1:15:18
pick Dr. Bill in Uggs, drinking a beer
“Do we do we buy the Dr. Bill wears uggs at home?”
unknown · 1:17:19
pick Dialogue that doesn't sound like real people: Nick and Bill's reunion talk.
“Like, who talks like that?”
unknown · 1:18:10

A Few Good Men (1992) · ‘A Few Good (Re)Men’ Live From L.A. With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks about the film they love.

pick Taking six weeks to realize Santiago was not packed for a 6 AM flight
“It took the dream team of Caffe and Weinberg and Galloway 6 weeks to realize that San Diego wasn't packed for a 6 AM flight.”
unknown · 1:32:09
pick Sam Weinberg: Asks what good he did in the whole trial, and why they do not boot him.
“What good did Sam Weinberg do in this entire trial?”
unknown · 1:33:01
pick Putting Downey on the stand before Dawson
“Why in the name of God was Downey testifying?”
unknown · 1:33:41
pick Ross waiting a week to arrest Kendrick
“Why did Jack Ross wait a week to arrest Kendrick?”
unknown · 1:39:27
pick Kaffee's diet of Yoo-hoo, Cocoa Puffs and bar popcorn: Asks how the guy is alive.
“How is this guy alive?”
unknown · 1:36:17
pick Cruise missing shots on the Nerf hoop: Eight shots in two seconds, and he only makes four.
“Eight shots, but he's he only makes 4 of them.”
unknown · 1:38:45

My Cousin Vinny (1992) · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Does the whole town show up to the trial; nothing else happens there
“Did anything else happen in this town during the trial because the entirety of the town seems to be there.”
unknown · 0:50:08
pick Macchio is not scared enough in the first 15 minutes
“Macchio is just not scared enough in the 1st 15 minutes, and I'm not sure if it's because he's not the greatest actor or what's going on, but I would just be way more scared.”
unknown · 1:11:33
pick A manual for the hotel faucet in the hotel room
“Why is there a manual for the hotel faucet in the hotel room?”
unknown · 1:11:57
pick The wad-of-cash sequence that only exists to prove Vinny's bullshit detector
“The only reason that Waddock Cash sequence is there is so that we can see the proof of what Machio is telling.”
unknown · 1:12:52
pick The capital punishment protest at the prison, played half as a joke
“It's like, so in halfway, the death penalty is a joke.”
unknown · 1:17:06
pick Is there no press anywhere in the region
“Is there no media whatsoever?”
unknown · 1:17:20

This Is the End (2013) · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick LA geography: Franco's hillside house is supposedly three blocks from Melrose
“Where in LA could Franco had that house, but then walk 3 blocks to Melrose.”
unknown · 1:01:05
pick Seth Rogen picking someone up at the airport
“There's no way Seth Rogan is picking anyone up from the airport.”
unknown · 1:02:31
pick Michael Cera and Mindy Kaling as a couple
“I don't feel like Michael Sarah and Mindy Kaling makes sense as a couple.”
unknown · 1:02:58

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) · ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The mythology of the Holy Grail: Rejects the Grail story outside the film, while liking it in the film.
“The whole story is just absolute horseshit.”
Sean Fennessey · 0:52:40
pick Indy: Should have been more suspicious of another blonde after being burned before.
“Little more dubious of Elsa, maybe, in retrospect, we're going to pick some nits on Indie.”
unknown · 1:27:47
pick The Grail's fine print: it will not work past the seal: Too many conditions; if it fails when you leave, why guard it.
“Um, I think that there's just personally, like there's a lot of small print, a lot of fine print on the Holy Grail, you know, where it's like, you can't take it beyond the seal.”
unknown · 1:28:26

Blood Diamond (2006) · ‘Blood Diamond’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of the film.

pick Cell phone reception on the mountain
“The cell phone reception on the mountain fucking, that's a wet stage the worst and a nitpick.”
Bill Simmons · 0:54:05
pick Leo's perfect facial hair after days on the road
“As you know, this is a big nitpick for me in action movies where days pass when people are on the road.”
Bill Simmons · 1:05:10
pick Danny arrested by Liberian border guards but ending up in a Sierra Leone prison
“There's a, there's a geographical nitpick where Danny gets arrested by Liberian border guards while crossing the border from Sierra Leone to Liberia.”
Chris Ryan · 1:05:40
pick Solomon flipping out at the refugee camp fence
“He just completely flips out and it just seems like he's going to get shot.”
Chris Ryan · 1:06:27
pick Benjamin the nice guy driver getting shot
“Why does Benjamin the nice guy get shot?”
Chris Ryan · 1:07:04
pick Everyone drinking bottled Guinness in a hot Sierra Leone beach bar
“I'm not drinking bottled Guinness, which is, I wanted to know whether that was like a product placement thing, but like, they're just like crushing Guinnesses and it's like probably 100 degrees.”
Chris Ryan · 1:07:28

Iron Man (2008) · ‘Iron Man’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Why Tony demonstrates the Jericho missile in Afghanistan in person
“Why was Tony demonstrating the new Jericho missile in Afghanistan?”
Van Lathan · 1:25:46
pick Tony has no full beard after three months in the cave
“Why doesn't Tony have like a full beard after 3 months?”
Van Lathan · 1:26:15
pick Tony never sees a doctor about his arc reactor heart
“Like, not going to see a couple heart surgeons, like, hey, man.”
Van Lathan · 1:27:06
pick Tony speeds from Malibu to downtown LA with no traffic
“Maybe sure he is, but he's the traffic is appalling in this movie.”
Van Lathan · 1:27:38
pick Tony gets cell calls in the suit at supersonic speed
“Tony can get cell phones, cell phone calls in his Iron Man suit while I was going 890 miles an hour in the Middle East.”
Bill Simmons · 1:29:12
pick Tony's Malibu house has no security
“Um, why didn't Tony's Malibu house have better security?”
Bill Simmons · 1:29:42
pick How the arc reactor and the chest hole work: Confused by whether Tony still has his heart and why the hole is so big.
“Well, I was confused and I'm a relatively smart person.”
Bill Simmons · 1:31:09
pick Tony practices with the suit for weeks while Obadiah is ready to roll right away
“So Tony learns how to use the suit for weeks just in the basement crashing around.”
Bill Simmons · 1:31:27
pick Giving the world's smartest engineer the chance to build a weapon for you: His biggest nit, also raised during the captive-sequence discussion.
“That's always been the biggest knit that I would pick like with this movie.”
Van Lathan · 1:31:59

Catch Me If You Can (2002) · ‘Catch Me If You Can’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Hanratty doesn't look at Frank's wallet for five minutes in the hotel room
“Carl's not going to look at Frank's wallet for like 5 minutes in the in the Hollywood hotel room.”
unknown · 1:28:05
pick Choppy jumps from Atlanta to New Orleans to Miami to France
“Atlanta, New Orleans, to Miami, to France is... Maybe we would have spent a couple more minutes.”
unknown · 1:28:45
pick Frank passing as a doctor
“I just think that there's too much stuff going on as a doctor.”
unknown · 1:28:56

Alive (1993) · ‘Alive’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they like.

pick They eat the dead but do not take their clothes: Everyone is freezing.
“You'll eat the dead people, but you won't take their clothes?”
unknown · 1:09:50
pick The skipped scene of Hawke and Hamilton walking and talking: Wanted a scene of the two best people connecting on the trek.
“There's like a scene missing.”
unknown · 1:11:34
pick Search parties called off too early: Seven or eight days seems too quick.
“Why do they call off search parties?”
unknown · 1:13:53

The Edge (1997) · ‘The Edge’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The nighttime ham sandwich: A supermodel wanting a ham sandwich in bed at night.
“What supermodel wants a sandwich in bed late at night when she hit a nightgown?”
Bill Simmons · 1:18:43
pick How Harold got hurt making a spear
“Uh, mentioned how did Harold get hurt as a picking it?”
unknown · 1:19:41
pick McPherson engraving the watch with the same engraver for two men: He also admits he thought for years that Baldwin planned the cabin trip to kill him.
“No, my my picking nit was the the nitpick I had was the engraver thing.”
Van Lathan · 1:22:03
pick A grizzly runs 30 to 35 miles an hour so the men couldn't outrun it
“Another nitpick is that a grizzly bear can run between 30 and 35 miles an hour.”
unknown · 1:21:26

Margin Call (2011) · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of the film.

pick Eric Dale's math on days saved by the bridge is off by ten times
“this is a real nitpick, but Eric Dale made a mathematical era when he was talking about the time saved by the people using the bridge.”
Bill Simmons · 1:12:39
pick The cancer-stricken dog and the shovel: He says it is a little much, though the shot is the prettiest in the movie.
“The cancer stricken dog and the shovel. It's a little much.”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:27
pick The dog obsession: He knows why it is there but thinks the writer might have changed it with a sixth day.
“I, I, it's the one thing in the movie that I, the, the, the dog obsession.”
Brian Koppelman · 1:15:42
pick Simon Baker's character named Jared Cohen: He says Baker does not look like a Jared Cohen.
“Simon Baker's character is named Jared Cohen, Cohen.”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:52
pick Hard to believe nobody knew the firm was this over-leveraged
“I listen, I don't know enough about the whole financial world, but I just, I find it hard to believe nobody had any idea that they were over leverage like this.”
Bill Simmons · 1:16:17

Scent of a Woman (1992) · ‘Scent of a Woman’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick A blind man driving the Ferrari through Manhattan: Called the biggest nitpick of the movie.
“It is definitely the biggest nitpick of this movie.”
unknown · 0:37:23
pick Everyone in the school would know who did the prank
“Would everyone in the school know who did the prank?”
Bill Simmons · 1:13:16
pick Slade sees everything like a bat despite being blind
“I already asked you how Slade was able to somehow see everything like a bat, even though he is blind.”
Bill Simmons · 1:13:21
pick Why Gabrielle Anwar's character is named Donna
“Why is Gabriel Anwar named Donna?”
Chris Ryan · 1:13:41
pick Where in New York the Ferrari could drive so many blocks without a stop sign or a pedestrian
“So forget about the improbability of a blind guy driving a Ferrari.”
Chris Ryan · 1:14:18
pick Baird's disciplinary process, a public hearing in front of the whole school
“I have some questions about Baird's disciplinary process.”
Bill Simmons · 1:14:54
pick The disgraced officer who plans to kill himself in full dress uniform trope: Pulled from A Few Good Men, same year; Chris answers with Colonel Markinson.
“One of my nitpicks is, and this is also pulling from another film from the same year, a few good men, is the trope of disgraced military officer who decides to take his own life while wearing his full dress uniform.”
Bill Simmons · 1:16:24
pick Why Trask popped the milk balloon on his own car
“Why did Rebhorn pop the balloon?”
Craig Horlbeck · 1:30:21
pick How the boys hijacked the PA system and rigged a balloon of milk in 1992
“A had to hijacked the PA system.”
Bill Simmons · 1:30:49
pick The job-posting bulletin board and the long Karen Rossi family sequence
“Yeah, I guess that could be a nitpick.”
Chris Ryan · 0:51:56

Unforgiven (1992) · ‘Unforgiven’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks about a movie they love.

pick Delilah's face isn't disfigured enough as Delilah
“I didn't feel like Delilah's face was kind of hideously disfigured enough.”
unknown · 1:31:21
pick How Will became a good guy after killing women and children as William Munny: Someone suggests it is largely about not drinking.
“How did Will just become a good guy?”
unknown · 1:32:14
pick Will leaving his kids alone for weeks
“I talked about we talked about him leaving the kids.”
unknown · 1:33:38

Misery (1990) · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick No car behind Paul in the opening, so how did Annie see the accident
“There's no car behind him at any point.”
Bill Simmons · 1:12:29
pick Villains keeping scrapbooks of their evil deeds in the living room
“When evil people or villains keep scrapbooks of all of their evil deeds.”
Brian Koppelman · 1:12:52
pick Paul would own a place in Colorado instead of staying at the same lodge
“I just feel like Paul would have owned his own place in Colorado at this point.”
Bill Simmons · 1:13:30
pick How Annie got out of jail after killing babies
“How she got out of jail after killing all those kids?”
Bill Simmons · 1:14:00
pick Paul falls asleep with the knife
“Here's another nitpick.”
unknown · 1:14:30
pick The bedpan and bathroom situation of a bedridden man
“I just feel like the pooping peeing situation would just be way bigger.”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:17

Knocked Up (2007) · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they like.

pick Being told to lose 20 pounds
“We mentioned they told Catherine Agger to lose 20 pounds.”
Bill Simmons · 1:13:39
pick The condom miscommunication
“Where do we stand on the miscommunication on the condom?”
Bill Simmons · 1:13:44
pick Alison staying at the bar alone without her sister
“She would never stay at the bar alone without her sister?”
Juliet Litman · 1:15:12
pick How Ben and the guys got into the nightclub
“How did Ben and Co even get in?”
unknown · 1:15:29
pick Pete's beautiful house despite barely working
“Is Rudd just really killing it?”
unknown · 1:15:49

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of the film.

pick A secret cipher-crime ring uses the most distinctive woman in Los Angeles as its front
“Is an Amazonian blonde woman the best front man for those crimes.”
Chris Ryan · 0:57:50
pick Rosewood shows up with a cement truck seconds after Axel says go get a car: One of the worst edits in an Eddie Murphy movie.
“It is the one of the worst edits, I think, of Eddie Eddie Murphy movie.”
Chris Ryan · 0:59:20
pick No sex for Axel again
“More pick nets, no sex for Axel again.”
Chris Ryan · 0:58:52
pick Dean Stockwell's character as Mr. Kane: A hat on a hat; the Carlos/Charles name reveal.
“it's just a hat on a hat thing of like, what is Dean Stockwell's character doing?”
unknown · 0:59:44

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) · ‘Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Dr. Evil building a cryo rocket inside the Bob's Big Boy statue atop a London nightclub
“Dr. Evo builds a cryogenic rocket out of a Bob's big boy statue that's located on the top of a hip London nightclub.”
unknown · 1:08:35
pick Iconic jokes that no longer land because they have been repeated too much, like "do I make you horny" and the cart gag: Posed as a question rather than a nitpick; the hosts say the 'shwing' and similar jokes are overworked.
“Are there any iconic sequences or jokes that you now like don't find funny”
unknown · 1:06:43

The Player (1992) · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Greta not seeing Griffin through the window while on the phone with him
“How does Greta not see Griffin through the window as she's talking to him and he's like 5 feet away?”
Bill Simmons · 1:32:58
pick How the studio-insider writer knew so much about Griffin's studio: The answer offered: he reads the trades.
“How would DiNofrio know this much about the inner workings of Tim Robbins' studio in the Hollywood situation during an era when there was no internet or anything else?”
Bill Simmons · 1:33:44
pick The police and press having suspects and evidence by the next morning
“How did they get so much information about the David Kehane?”
Bill Simmons · 1:34:04
pick The postcard guys stopping their harassment for a year
“Why did postcard guys stop messing with Griffin for like a year?”
Bill Simmons · 1:35:00
pick The movie not having enough cocaine: Sean says Richard E. Grant and Dean Stockwell are pretty coked up, though no powder is shown.
“Should this movie have had more cocaine, Sean?”
Bill Simmons · 1:35:17
pick What the postcard-sending screenwriter actually wants: A follow-up reading treats the harassment as cosmic justice.
“Um, I guess, like, what does the screenwriter want?”
unknown · 1:36:08

Die Hard 2 (1990) · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks about a film they love.

pick The convoluted plot: what the villains want, extradition and the getaway plan: He says he does not understand the movie at all, then reads the Wikipedia plot; the group spends four minutes trying to work out the getaway plan.
“I was like, I don't understand this movie at all.”
Bill Simmons · 1:07:38
pick Changing the glide slope values would not make the plane crash: Aircraft instruments have mechanisms to prevent one person fooling the plane (from internet research).
“Apparently changing the glide slope values, there's a lot of stuff on the internet about this, that would not cause the plane to crash.”
Bill Simmons · 1:11:00
pick The runway fire: Jet A fuel would not catch from a thrown lighter
“It would not have caught on fire just by having a lighter thrown on it.”
Bill Simmons · 1:13:16
pick What was the villains' plan if McLean had not lit their plane on fire: Would military planes not shoot them down, and what was the retirement plan in the tropics?
“my big thing is like, what was the plan had John McLean not lit their plane on flyer?”
Chris Ryan · 1:13:32
pick McLean unloads a clip at Dennis Franz in a full office to prove his gun held blanks
“He just unloads a clip inside of a full office of people at Dennis France.”
unknown · 1:13:49
pick How John Amos's team of double agents got assigned to the Dulles detail: Why would only one agent not be in on it and need his throat slashed?
“How did John Amos get and his team get assigned to the detail at Dulles if they were the double agents?”
unknown · 1:14:26

Panic Room (2002) · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The propane sequence is unrealistic
“I just think Jody blows up.”
Bill Simmons · 0:54:41
pick Meg never gets her phone while the burglars are downstairs
“I've seen this movie enough times now that Jody Foster's inability.”
Bill Simmons · 1:25:56
pick 911 puts her on hold
“What world does 911 put people on hold?”
Bill Simmons · 1:27:55
pick Hungover Meg rigs two phone lines together
“Jody, drunk divorced mom for the 1st 20 minutes of the movie within an hour is taking 2 phone lines and rigging them together and it's like, no, no, use the yellow line.”
Bill Simmons · 1:28:19
pick Meg's fast drunk recovery
“She went from 4 glasses of wine, NIQUA, whatever else happened, and can barely pee, to all of a sudden she's running, you know, 4040 yard dashes into a room, grabbing the phone, just looking spry.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:29:08
pick Whitaker breaks in wearing the security company jersey
“shows up to the house to break in, wearing the security company, kind of jersey.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:29:51
pick No quick escapes from the panic room
“Uh, I had mostly just like the, the lack of interest in like quick, quick escapes from the panic room and just doing like little bit of like chipping away, not looking for chunk plays, but just getting, just getting 3 yards in a cloud of dust.”
Chris Ryan · 1:30:51
pick No diabetes supplies stocked in the panic room: Offered as a hot take he forgot in the nitpicks.
“Maybe put some diabetes stuff in the panic room.”
Bill Simmons · 1:38:09

The Batman (2022) · ‘Batman’ (1989) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Vicky finds out Bruce is Batman in the Bat Cave with no reveal or payoff
“Vicky waltzes into the bat cave. Finds out Bruce's Batman. There's no reveal.”
Bill Simmons · 1:13:04
pick Nobody recognizing Bruce Wayne without the mask
“all the superhero, the Batman and Superman movies hinge on this inability of anybody to recognize that this guy without the mask is the guy with the mask.”
Chris Ryan · 1:14:34
pick The cathedral finale coming out of nowhere
“The cathedral out of nowhere it comes from.”
unknown · 1:14:55
pick Vicky Vale saying she only weighs 108 pounds
“Vicky Vale says she only weighs 108 pounds.”
unknown · 1:15:12
pick Nobody in the world would be intimidated by the Joker's gang
“How about the fact that no one in the world would be intimidated by the Joker's gang?”
unknown · 1:17:32
pick Newscasters getting boils once the SmileX products are tainted
“the newscasters go from like totally normal looking to having like boils on their face”
unknown · 1:18:29

The Ice Storm (1997) · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they admire.

pick Mikey's wide receiver play: Said to be the one moment that felt directed by someone who didn't grow up in America.
“Is Mikey the worst wide receiver of all time?”
unknown · 0:56:58
pick A Nixon poster over a boarding school bed in 1973
“Would someone in boarding school in 1973 really have a Nixon poster over their bed?”
unknown · 1:14:38
pick Jim Carver never asks if drunk Kevin Kline hit his son with his car
“Isn't your instinct that drunk Kevin Klein hit him with his car?”
unknown · 1:15:06
pick How the key party is organized: a single reverend and a woman's son in attendance
“I don't understand how the key party is organized.”
unknown · 1:15:35
pick Marlboro Lights, not invented until 1977, appear in the film: Also noted the MTA did not exist at the time.
“Marlboro Lights, not invented till 1977.”
Bill Simmons · 1:08:12

Miracle (2004) · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Soviet coach benching Tretiak: Likened to a coach benching his quarterback in the Super Bowl.
“Soviet coach benching Treadiac.”
unknown · 1:02:27
pick The Lake Placid crowd, shot with too few extras: Doesn't capture the scale of the real game.
“I don't think it captured the scale of that game, like the wide shot of just, which I think if they did this movie, now they would have said just fuck it and filled it with...”
unknown · 1:03:37
pick Skipping the Finland gold medal game: Wishes for a Finland scene, but the Soviet game is the right ending.
“I don't know if this is a pickanits, but did they skip over the Finland game”
unknown · 1:04:07
pick The runtime, 2 hours 17 minutes: Disney sports movies run about 20 minutes long.
“Look, the movie is 2 hours and 17 minutes, which is too long.”
unknown · 1:04:29

The Godfather Part II (1974) · ‘The Godfather Part II’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, and Brian Koppelman

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Young Vito as Vito Corleone: How does a mute, dimwitted boy end up surviving New York and finding a wife.
“How does Vito go from being a dimwitted young boy to navigating a voyage to Us Island to surviving in New York for 10 years by himself to suddenly finding a wife?”
unknown · 2:04:05
pick Clemenza's death explained only by 'that was no heart attack': Throwaway line covering for Castellano's exit.
“Okay, how to Clemenza die, and then they go, that was no heart attack.”
unknown · 2:04:53
pick Frankie Pentangeli as Frankie Five Angels: Where did he come from, and how is he suddenly this important.
“Um, going from Comenza to Frankie Five Fingers, I think it's not the flaw of this movie, because this is the greatest movie of all time, but if you were going to pick it apart, you'd be like, where did this, where did Frankie come from?”
unknown · 2:05:44
pick Kay asks why the drapes are open before the Tahoe hit: Biggest nitpick: why didn't Kay notice earlier, and who opened them and how (Fredo giving the plans or opening the drapes).
“First of all, she's been in the fucking bedroom for an hour.”
Bill Simmons · 2:07:04

Father of the Bride (1991) · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love, mostly about the wedding.

pick No father-daughter dance; the father would be in the run of show
“There's no father, father-daughter dance.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:03:55
pick The wedding planner gets an invitation: He's working the wedding and would not need an invitation.
“No, you don't have to invite him.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:05:48
pick A 500-person initial guest list
“The initial list is like 500 people.”
Bill Simmons · 1:06:11
pick Annie says nothing to her parents for three months in Italy, yet the in-laws knew
“So she's in Italy for 3 months, falling in love with Brian.”
Bill Simmons · 1:07:20
pick No rehearsal dinner
“Also, where was the rehearsal dinner?”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:09:12
pick The couple leaves for the honeymoon the same night
“This only happens in movies where people get married and then they immediately have to go on a plane to wherever the honeymoon is.”
Bill Simmons · 1:10:31
pick 14-year age gap between Annie and Matty
“There's a 14 year age difference between Kimberly Williams and Kieran Culkin?”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:11:39
pick Snow in LA that does not cancel the wedding and melts by night
“It snows in LA in this movie, which is now you can make a case.”
unknown · 1:12:31
pick Fitting 200 guests in the house and tent
“200 people in that house is you're really going to be crammed.”
unknown · 1:14:20

Saturday Night Fever (1977) · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Tony hands over the winning check but the second-place couple already got one: He should have swapped the checks.
“Shouldn't he have swapped the checks? Like, okay, I'll take the 2nd place.”
Jimmy Kimmel · 0:20:26
pick The underwhelming dance contest: It should have been the best scene; no Rocky moment.
“I wanted more from the dance contest.”
Bill Simmons · 1:13:12
pick The Barracuda revenge fight is dropped: They should have lost the fight; the revenge plot just goes away.
“They should have lost that fight.”
Bill Simmons · 1:14:07
pick The cops barely question Tony about his friend's fall: No follow-up questions after the death.
“Don't they have more questions?”
Bill Simmons · 1:14:38
pick The $500 dance contest prize: Argues it is too small given the $4 raise joke.
“And then, uh, my last one is just, I don't know if $500 is too much for the dance contest or not enough.”
Bill Simmons · 1:14:59

The Color of Money (1986) · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick What Eddie does for a living before he meets Vincent
“What was Eddie doing before he meets Vincent?”
unknown · 1:08:16
pick Eddie's forfeit in the tournament, with no scene explaining his shift: Chris Ryan rationalizes it: the integrity of being great mattered more than the money.
“I hate the forfeit in the tournament.”
unknown · 1:08:52
pick The ambiguity of "you used us" in the final scene
“It was really just that last, like, the ambiguity of, like, you used us.”
unknown · 1:12:46

Trainspotting (1996) · ‘Trainspotting’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The condom he never had on: Renton is naked with Diane, then removes a condom in the hall that was not on him; Andy notes the UK and American versions differ.
“is naked with Diane in the bedroom and then goes in the hall and removes the condom that was not on him.”
Andy Greenwald · 1:18:20
pick The bus locker key and Renton's passport: How did Renton get Spud the key if he needed it for his passport? Andy suggests he relocked it and mailed it.
“the only thing I was like, kind of like, how did Renton get Spud the bus locker key if he needed”
Chris Ryan · 1:20:01
pick AIDS suddenly appearing in the story: Says it feels true to the book but comes out of nowhere in the film.
“the way AIDS suddenly shows up as a thing in the movie, like 50 minutes in when suddenly after like his 5th go round, his parents are like, we should find out if you have HIV or not.”
Andy Greenwald · 1:20:49
pick Sick Boy: Got much shorter shrift than he remembered, though his arc is compelling.
“I would say that Sick Boy. Got much shorter shrift than I realized in the movie.”
Andy Greenwald · 1:21:39
pick Begbie as a fugitive: Begbie's vigilante status seems murky; he goes to Scotland for a drug deal while on the run.
“Begbie's vigilante status seems a little murky because he's just like, I'm on the run, but let's go back to Scotland to do a drug deal and then let's take the bus back.”
Chris Ryan · 1:24:19

Fight Club (1999) · ‘Fight Club’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Not enough facial damage from all the fighting
“Feels like there would be just more facial damage from Fight Club, like more broken eye sockets, broken noses, missing teeth.”
unknown · 1:27:45
pick Norton's untreated fractured orbital bone and double vision
“It's just, I just feel like Ed Norton has double vision, maybe at the hour 20 mark of this movie from his fractured orbo bone that never got healed, then he got punched in it again or something.”
unknown · 1:28:01
pick Tyler's face damage not matching the narrator's
“Why didn't the Tyler face damage match the narrator face damage?”
unknown · 1:28:16
pick The police not shutting down the house of domestic terrorists: Chris answers that there are cops in the fight clubs and in Project Mayhem.
“At what point does the police just shut down this house of domestic terrorists who are having fight clubs all over the city.”
Bill Simmons · 1:29:02

Boyz n the Hood (1991) · ‘Boyz n the Hood’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, Van Lathan, and Logan Murdock

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick No football game scene showing Ricky play: Wanted a few minutes at a game to see how good Ricky was.
“We couldn't have gotten the 3 minute football game scene with one of Ricky's games just to see how ill he was.”
Bill Simmons · 1:33:32
pick Little Ricky: The young Ricky needed to be a better athlete.
“Little Ricky needed to be a better athlete.”
Bill Simmons · 1:34:03
pick No Techmo Bowl: Wanted ten seconds of people playing it.
“So they mentioned techma bowl, but I, just give me 10 seconds of 2 people playing tech football.”
Bill Simmons · 1:34:07
pick Ricky's final moments make no sense: They split up, he stops to pee and scratch a card, and acts like a sitting duck; others defend it.
“Ricky just acts as a sitting duck, right?”
Bill Simmons · 1:35:10
pick A Bird in the Hand: Asks whether Ice Cube exists in Doughboy's world, given the song playing in the car.
“Does Ice Cube exist in Doughboys World?”
Sean Fennessey · 1:37:24

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) · ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The dead Molina dummy
“The dead Melina dummy is tough.”
Bill Simmons · 1:39:50
pick Indy taking punches from the bald Nazi
“Indie taking 15 straight to the face punches”
Bill Simmons · 1:39:56
pick Why they never just kill Indy
“Why didn't they just kill Indie 7 points during the movie?”
Bill Simmons · 1:40:04
pick Marion's drinking as Marion
“Was Marion like John Paul Bonham?”
Bill Simmons · 1:40:10
pick Nobody reacts enough to finding the Ark
“I just feel like everybody is underreacting to the fact that they found the Ark of the Covenant.”
Chris Ryan · 1:41:36
pick How Indy knows closing your eyes works
“how does Indy know that closing your eyes spares you from the ghosts coming out?”
Chris Ryan · 1:42:03
pick Who maintains the snakes in the tomb
“who's handling snake maintenance in that tomb?”
unknown · 1:42:35
pick Whether Hitler really loved the occult
“Did Hitler really love the occult this much or did they just shoehorn that in?”
unknown · 1:43:03

What About Bob? (1991) · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Bob's OCD comes and goes depending on the scene: A host answers that Bob is getting better as he pursues Dr. Marvin.
“Bob's OCD craziness. Kind of comes and goes depending on the scene.”
Bill Simmons · 1:08:21
pick How the Gutmans are always around, even in a boat with no fishing poles
“How are the Gutmans just always around?”
Bill Simmons · 1:10:06
pick Dr. Marvin's plan to blow Bob up and call it suicide
“I guess I I don't really know what Dr. Marvin's plan was really like ever.”
unknown · 1:10:39
pick Psychiatrists would treat a patient's suicide as an emergency, not wait out a vacation
“The therapists, uh, that I know, the psychiatrists I know are deeply deeply committed to their patients.”
Van Lathan · 1:11:12
pick A vacation from July 31st to Labor Day is too long
“I'm just wondering, is is July 31st all the way to Labor Day a little bit too long of a vacation?”
Craig Horlbeck · 1:17:51

Predator (1987) · ‘Predator’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, Shea Serrano, and Kyle Brandt

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Why Arnold's character is named Dutch
“Why was Arnold named Dutch?”
Bill Simmons · 1:19:36
pick Sonny Landham should just be Billy in every movie
“I just think Sunny Landum should be sunny in every movie.”
unknown · 1:20:14
pick No steakhouse dinner with the team the night before
“I feel like this movie was missing.”
Bill Simmons · 1:20:29
pick Mythbusters disproved the mud disguise
“Covering yourself entirely in mud does actually not conceal your body heat.”
Bill Simmons · 1:21:18
pick No extraction effort to get the team out of the jungle
“but the lack of any kind of extraction effort to get these guys out of the jungle”
Shea Serrano · 1:21:50
pick Bill Duke's head is blown off, then back together
“Bill Duke, when he dies, he gets his head blown off.”
unknown · 1:22:42
pick The predator didn't know about mud
“This alien travels across the fucking galaxy and he didn't know about mud.”
unknown · 1:23:12
pick Is Old Painless necessary on a stealth mission
“Is is old painless entirely necessary?”
Kyle Brandt · 1:24:09

Thief (1981) · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Frank and Jessie's relationship is confusing and edited oddly
“The, the, James Khan, Tuesday world relationship is just super confusing.”
unknown · 1:10:06
pick The ending's final shootout is not obvious enough: Another host agrees and compares it to the end of Manhunter.
“The boat professed that the end is not obvious enough.”
unknown · 1:10:58
pick Was Prosky's shopping mall deal really that bad
“Are we sure that like the mall deal that Prosky was offering him was that bad?”
unknown · 1:11:24
pick Baby-stealing seems too easy
“Is baby stealing this easy?”
unknown · 1:12:47

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Chaz's tracksuits are never explained
“My only thing is Chaz's tracksuits.”
Andy Greenwald · 1:21:59
pick Why Richie says he will kill himself tomorrow
“I've never understood why Richie says he's going to kill himself tomorrow.”
Chris Ryan · 1:22:46
pick Why Royal flips from bad to good: Decides it is 2021 brain wanting scripts to explain character changes.
“I had this as a knit and then I kind of chastise myself”
Andy Greenwald · 1:23:40
pick Raleigh St. Clair subplot: Doesn't mind it in the end.
“the Raleigh St. Clair subplot stuff with Dudley while really funny is kind of like, do you need this Oliver Sachs character?”
Chris Ryan · 1:25:21

Home Alone (1990) · ‘Home Alone’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Mina Kimes

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick How Kevin cleaned up the house by the next morning
“How did he clean up the house?”
unknown · 1:23:30
pick Kevin is not lined up on the sled to go out the door; there is a half wall in the way
“Kevin is not lined up properly on his sled to go out the door.”
Chris Ryan · 1:24:39
pick The unbelievable Rube Goldberg torture traps
“The unbelievability of the Rube Goldberg like torture.”
Mina Kimes · 1:25:36
pick Little Nero's: 10 pies for $122, and pizza prices have not changed since 1990
“little Nero's, 10 pies, 122 bucks.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:25:52
pick Kevin is remarkably fearless during the robbery sequence
“he is like remarkably fearless during that part, which I thought was unrealistic.”
Mina Kimes · 1:13:51
pick Kevin showering every day while home alone
“Do we buy that a child left home alone would shower every day?”
Chris Ryan · 1:32:12

The Game (1997) · ‘The Game’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Draining a multimillionaire's accounts
“Is it that easy to drain a multimillionaire's money accounts?”
unknown · 0:54:21
pick Reading his account numbers aloud on the phone
“What's up with what's up with him actually reading his account numbers on the phone in front of Deborah Cara Unger?”
unknown · 0:55:10
pick Getting out of Mexico with no money
“He gets out of Mexico really, really easily.”
unknown · 0:55:45
pick What if Douglas drowns in the cab
“What happens if Douglas just drowns in the cab?”
unknown · 0:56:20
pick What if he doesn't jump off that part of the building: Called the single biggest nitpick.
“What happens if Douglas doesn't jump off that specific part of the building?”
unknown · 0:57:00
pick When Armin Mueller-Stahl's character becomes aware of the game as the publisher
“At what point is Armin Mueller Stahl's character aware of what's going on?”
unknown · 0:58:03
pick The stock price fuss over a children's book company
“I have been nitpicking about Armin Mueller Stahl's character, which is he's the publisher of a children's book company”
unknown · 0:58:48

Seven (1995) · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Tracy having no friends in the city as Tracy Mills
“I have some questions about Gwyneth Patrow's character, a.k.a. Tracy.”
Bill Simmons · 1:11:58
pick Tracy confiding in Somerset about her pregnancy
“It's actually a good scene.”
Bill Simmons · 1:13:37
pick How John Doe prepared and delivered the box with the head: The hosts spend several minutes on the logistics: the box size, the blood, the dry ice, the dog.
“This category is called Pick and Nit.”
Bill Simmons · 1:14:15

Easy A (2010) · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano

Picking Nits · Nitpicks about a movie they love.

pick Olive's flashbacks to 8th grade and the casting of older actors using Emma Stone's voice
“The way that Olive remembers 8th grade, which was just a few years ago, is so completely stupid that I can't get over it.”
Juliet Litman · 1:32:12
pick Olive wearing her mother's tiny hot dress to the party
“It's like a really hot dress that's like tiny and I don't believe that the lovely Patricia Clarkson character would have that dress.”
Shea Serrano · 1:33:43
pick The rich popular girl lending her room for sex at the party
“What entitled rich girl in high school?”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:34:50
pick The party scene, including the don't-mess-up-my-sheets line
“The party scene is the trickiest one to get through without being like, hold on a second.”
Shea Serrano · 1:35:15
pick The Facebook rumors going unchecked by authority figures: She says everyone would have shut it down in two days.
“I mean, listen, as soon as all of these rumors and bullying show up on Facebook and like authority figures become aware of it, it's all getting shut down immediately.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:37:48

Fletch (1985) · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks about a movie they love.

pick Why was Gail Stanwick so bad at tennis?
“Why was Gail Stenwick so bad at tennis?”
unknown · 1:06:16
pick Mrs. Stanwick seeming completely unfazed when Fletch told her everything
“Um, and then Mrs. Stanwick seeming completely on phase when Fletch told her everything.”
unknown · 1:07:26
pick Fletch, an LA sports fan, punching Tommy Lasorda pictures
“No, it's mostly the Dodgers thing that anybody obsessed with the Lakers like that wouldn't be punching pictures of Tommy Lasorda”
unknown · 1:07:34
pick Alan Stanwick's plan is not bulletproof
“I, I could take some issues with um, with Alan Stanwick's plan.”
unknown · 1:07:43
pick A big LA Times photo of a second marriage that nobody noticed
“I also want to know how somebody has a 2nd marriage that's covered extensively in the LA Times”
unknown · 1:08:08

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Cameron wears a Red Wings jersey in Chicago
“So Cameron's not wearing a Blackhawks jersey.”
Bill Simmons · 1:19:47
pick Rooney does not recognize Ferris 20 feet away, and the Buellers miss the mannequin and Sloane
“Wouldn't, uh, we mentioned Wooden Rooney recognize Ferris outside the Ferrari, unless he didn't have his contacts in or something.”
unknown · 1:21:54
pick Ferris's outfit changes in the first 20 minutes
“is in the 1st opening minutes, Ferris goes through the following outfits, starts out in pajamas, goes pajamas robe, showers, then switches to swim trunks for the iced tea by the pool.”
Chris Ryan · 1:23:15
pick Who is working the parking garage while the attendants joyride the Ferrari
“Who who's working at the parking garage?”
unknown · 1:24:37
pick Ferris and friends never drink or smoke on their cut day
“Is this day fun?”
unknown · 1:25:40
pick The school bus full of kids at 6 o'clock in the end credits scene
“Why is the whole school bus of kids coming home from school at 6 and not 3 and the whole thing?”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:37

Edge of Tomorrow (2014) · 'Edge of Tomorrow' With Sean Fennessey and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick The hospital break-out is too easy
“it sure seemed like they broke out of that hospital fairly easily.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:06:24
pick Rita sees Cage in the mimic simulator and offers to train him
“What's up with that weird scene where Rita sees Cage training in the mimic simulator”
Sean Fennessey · 1:06:36
pick How long it takes each day to explain the situation to Rita
“My biggest picking knit is just like how long would it take every day to explain the situation to her?”
Chris Ryan · 1:07:08
pick How Rita could know she lost the reset power
“Rita couldn't know she lost her ability to restart the day unless she died and the day didn't reset.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:07:40
pick Why the mimics bleed Cage to death at the dam
“The mimics trap cage to a German damn ostensibly to get their time control power back by bleeding cage to death.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:08:25
pick Why Cage and Rita keep returning to the farmhouse and running out of gas
“Though initially it seems that it is Cage and Vertaski's 1st visit to the farmhouse cage later reveals that the 2 have been there many times.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:08:59
pick The transponder theft in London; they could have used the one in the general's office
“When Cajun Rita steal the transponder from the general in London, there is no reason for them to try and escape.”
Sean Fennessey · 1:10:02
pick Rita's body count of executed soldiers
“Rita's body count and all the extra judicial killings”
Chris Ryan · 1:10:39

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Cliff turning down the hitchhiker: Asks whether wife-killing Cliff would really turn her down in 1969 because she isn't 18.
“Are we sure Cliff would be that afraid to get a blow job from a hitchhiker that's not 18.”
Bill Simmons · 1:10:22
pick Cliff's dog never going to the bathroom in the trailer
“Did we ever figure out why Cliff's Dog never shit and pissed in the trailer?”
Bill Simmons · 1:11:01

Skyfall (2012) · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Bond's scorpion tricks at a Turkish bar while supposedly dead and keeping a low profile
“Uh, just the idea of like keeping a low pro and you're like, the British guy in Istanbul and like a Turkish beach, just scorpion tricks?”
unknown · 0:35:03
pick Bond in khakis in bed right after sex on a Turkish beach
“And then the next shot is he is wearing khakis in bed.”
unknown · 1:19:08
pick MI6 selling Bond's apartment
“I would just be really fucking mad if they sold my apartment.”
unknown · 1:22:00
pick Hackers needing 3 to 4 months to decode one list of agents, and the list of NATO agents being on one hard drive
“Uh, it takes 3 to 4 months for hackers to decode one list of agents, I think, at the timeline situation.”
unknown · 1:22:18
pick The hacker posting the reveals on YouTube
“The hacker is using YouTube.”
unknown · 1:22:36
pick Q running the unofficial breadcrumb trail on the giant screen at headquarters, on the computer that just got hacked
“But so Q's doing like the top secret where like a breadcrumb trail.”
unknown · 1:23:28
pick Bond strangling a man underwater with his knee
“Can you strangle a guy with your knee?”
unknown · 1:23:56
pick Bond always saying his name, dressed impeccably, and never simply shot in the face; Silva lures him to an island to explain his plan: The hosts answer that Silva wants M's attention, not a quick kill, like the Joker plot.
“Um, I, so James Bond, um, is an international secretive operative, who tells everybody his name, who is always saying his name, and who's always dressed impeccably, and is incredibly handsome, and sleeping with strangers all the time.”
Chris Ryan · 1:24:53

The Holiday (2006) · ‘The Holiday’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Kari Simmons

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick A wedding reporter for the Telegraph owning a picturesque cottage
“A wedding reporter for the Telegraph is owning this picturesque cottage that's on par with the mansion in Brentwood that even though it's in Pasadena.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:01:18
pick No family or friends to spend the holidays with
“Where are these people's families?”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:01:54
pick Christmas Day is never acknowledged in a movie called The Holiday
“Christmas Day just totally fast forward.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:02:57
pick No vetting process for the home swap
“What is the vetting process for home swapping?”
unknown · 1:03:51
pick Cameron Diaz's character announcing she is bad at sex
“I really, truly don't understand Cameron Diaz's sex life and why that's a plot line in this movie, where she's suddenly like, I'm bad at sex.”
unknown · 1:04:34
pick Cameron Diaz's character only says great
“Literally, the kids are like, look at our magical tent and she's like, it's so great.”
unknown · 1:06:48
pick Jude Law's under-five daughters have their own cell phones in 2006
“In 2006, why do Jude Law's daughters who are both under five, I think?”
unknown · 1:07:30
pick Jude Law is very tan for a man who lives in England in December
“Jude Law, very tan in this movie for a man who lives in England.”
unknown · 1:09:02
pick Kate Winslet's frumpy tan, white and cream wardrobe
“They make her look so bad and her wardrobe is terrible.”
unknown · 1:09:41
pick It snows but never rains in England
“Not enough rain in this movie.”
unknown · 1:10:08
pick The red bikini that unties at the back
“It bothered me when, um, Jasper was like...”
Kari Simmons · 1:11:20
pick The drive from the airport that somehow ends up on the PCH and a Sunset sign
“The drive.”
Kari Simmons · 1:11:43
pick The driver will not take her down the path to the Cotswolds house
“The driver, when she gets to the Cotswolds will not drive her down to the house.”
unknown · 1:12:27

The Shining (1980) · ‘The Shining’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks about the film.

pick Danny's neck bruises clearing up so fast: Answered with ghost logic.
“Boy, Danny's neck bruises sure cleared up fast, didn't they?”
unknown · 1:26:42
pick Danny not getting cold in the maze
“Why didn't Danny get cold in the maze?”
unknown · 1:27:02
pick Two different Gradys: Charles and Delbert: Debated as doubles, reincarnation or just a mistake.
“So why the 2 Gradys?”
Bill Simmons · 1:27:44
pick Dopey vanishing from Danny's wall and the chair changing: Likely continuity errors the conspiracy fans read as symbols.
“There's 2 other weird things that they mentioned in the documentary.”
unknown · 1:28:54

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks about the plot and logic of a movie they like.

pick Mikey stealing the bearer bonds and showing them to a cop: Why Mikey stole them, why they tracked him to Detroit, and why he shows them to Axel right away.
“Mikey was a security guard in Beverly Hills, who just ended up stealing a bunch of German bear bronze.”
unknown · 1:12:46
pick Guns in the strip joint under long coats: Hard to believe two men with leather dusters could walk in unnoticed.
“Is it that easy to bring guns in a strip joint?”
unknown · 1:14:26
pick Axel's car driving from Detroit to Los Angeles: Doubts the car could make the drive, and that they would not buy him a plane ticket back.
“Oh, I just, I don't think that Axel's car could have made the drive from Detroit to Los Angeles.”
unknown · 1:15:00
pick Jenny Summers' income as Jenny Summers: How much an art gallery job pays for such nice clothes and car; the hosts wonder if she was a drug dealer.
“I was going to do this nitpick, but I did spend some time wondering how much Jenny Summers made running the art gallery because she had nice clothes and that car was fucking nice.”
unknown · 1:15:22

Gone Girl (2014) · 'Gone Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Shea Serrano, Mallory Rubin, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Amy's money belt at the hotel: A meticulous planner has no good way to hide her money and the belt falls off when she jumps.
“Can't figure out how to hide her money.”
unknown · 1:17:44
pick Amy's suicide plan: She loves herself too much to ever kill herself.
“I just think she loved herself too much to ever actually kill herself.”
unknown · 1:19:35
pick The incompetent FBI interview: No one presses her on the box cutter and she is let go while covered in blood.
“Um, We talked about how incompetent the FBI was.”
unknown · 1:19:56
pick Nick going down on Amy with her underwear still on: The sex scene makes no sense with her underwear never removed.
“Nick is going down on Amy and does not remove her underwear.”
unknown · 1:27:16
pick Nick leaving Bleeker the cat among the broken glass: Nick walks the cat through broken glass and leaves him alone.
“I just don't like that when Nick is sweeping off the broken glass in the kitchen.”
unknown · 1:28:38
pick Tanner Bolt's Google trick: A $100,000 lawyer is sold on finding a registered sex offender anyone could Google.
“So the thing that sold you on an $100,000 retainer lawyer is that he could Google a guy.”
unknown · 1:29:19
pick The Mets hat: He wears a Cardinals shirt half the movie, so the Mets hat does not make sense.
“Should have just been a cardinal's hat doesn't make sense.”
unknown · 1:29:33
pick Amy covered in blood during the FBI interrogation: They would want her clean; the blood is a movie flourish for the shower.
“Just Amy covered in blood during the FBI interrogation.”
unknown · 1:29:58
pick Amy's trust fund math: Almost all of a million minus 870 thousand still leaves over $120,000, so they are not poor.
“Y'all are not poor, like at, like fucking relax about the fucking depression or whatever.”
unknown · 1:31:07

Collateral (2004) · ‘Collateral’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The cab surviving a body landing on it
“I mentioned would Fox's cab be drivable after the body lands on it.”
unknown · 1:08:25
pick Vincent knowing so much about jazz
“Would Vincent really know everything about jazz?”
unknown · 1:09:03
pick The second kill happening on a busy Santa Monica street
“I just don't think you could really double tap, kill 2 people off of Santa Monica without it causing a bit of a stir.”
unknown · 1:09:53
pick The empty late-night train station
“There's also some late night train station stuff, like just nobody works at the train station.”
unknown · 1:10:07
pick People walking across highway bridges in LA
“I don't know anybody in my life who's walked across a bridge over a highway in LA.”
unknown · 1:10:32

Reservoir Dogs (1992) · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The crew eating breakfast together in costume before the heist: Shouldn't they not be seen together in public? Another host says it is pre-surveillance state.
“They wouldn't really eat breakfast for a bank heist.”
unknown · 1:18:01
pick The woman driver pulling a gun on the carjackers: Makes less sense with two guys than one.
“The female driver is going to pull out a gun and shoot the 2 scary guys that are carjacking her, she's going to point the other guys.”
unknown · 1:18:04
pick How Keitel gets two shots off in the three-way shootout: Has bothered him for 27 years; explained away as story convenience.
“How did Keitel get 2 shots off at the end?”
unknown · 1:18:34
pick Tim Roth as Mr. Orange: The accent is bad and keeps changing; a pet peeve.
“I just think the accent's bad.”
unknown · 1:27:22

When Harry Met Sally (1989) · ‘When Harry Met Sally’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins

Picking Nits · Nitpicks about a movie they love.

pick Harry looks too old in college
“Harry in college looks way too old.”
unknown · 1:09:50
pick Sally drops Harry off at an odd spot in the park in 1977: Came from his wife watching the night before.
“This came from my wife last night watching.”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:54
pick New York to Chicago would not take 18 hours
“It does not take 18 hours.”
unknown · 1:10:31
pick We never see Harry and Sally at work
“Why didn't we see Harry and Sally ever working at a job and did it matter?”
unknown · 1:10:42
pick Why Harry broke up with Aunt Emily
“Why would Harry ever break up with Aunt Emily?”
unknown · 1:12:02
pick Harry's panic after sleeping with Sally
“Why was Harry that freaked out after sex with Sally?”
unknown · 1:12:28
pick Marie and Jess with two phone lines by the bed
“Why did Marie and Jess have 2 phones, one on each side of their bed with 2 different phone lines?”
unknown · 1:13:25
pick No best man speech from Harry
“How did we not get Harry's best man speech?”
unknown · 1:14:27
pick Why Marie and Jess did not meet Harry and Sally sooner
“Why didn't Marie and Jess get to meet Harry and Sally sooner?”
unknown · 1:15:25
pick Picky Sally uses the hot food bar tomato tongs
“Also, yeah, someone as picky as Sally would absolutely never do that.”
unknown · 1:15:50
pick The dating timelines, I love you after a month
“The dating timelines in this movie are just absolutely unacceptable.”
unknown · 1:16:20

Mean Girls (2004) · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick Regina George falling for the Kälteen nutrition bars: His wife thinks it's the biggest flaw; Regina would know about weight loss bars.
“she can't believe Regina George fell for the call teen bar thing.”
Bill Simmons · 1:07:39
pick Katie winning prom queen after the burn book
“How did Katie win the prom queen after the burn book debacle?”
Bill Simmons · 1:08:58
pick Kevin G. and Janice Ian thrown together at the end
“How did Kevin G. and Janice Ian get thrown together at the end?”
unknown · 1:10:12
pick The ending is too neat, too high school PSA; Fey and Meadows end up together
“Because it is, like, too neat and too high school PSA.”
unknown · 1:10:21
pick Katie's speech at the end
“I mean, also, like, this speech that Katie gives at the end sucks.”
unknown · 1:10:40
pick Regina getting hit by a speeding, empty school bus; no crosswalk system
“Why didn't the school have a better crosswalk system?”
unknown · 1:11:35
pick The plastic tiara breaks too easily
“Seemed a little easy to break the tiara, that plastic.”
unknown · 1:12:05
pick Aaron Samuels chases the purse thief and never asks why Katie was with the coach
“Although I never understand the part where he steals the purse.”
unknown · 0:23:02

The Natural (1984) · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The national anthem before games: That did not happen until after World War 2.
“At the beginning of the games, the national anthem is being sung.”
Mallory Rubin · 1:19:22
pick Fowler barely throws the game he was bribed to throw
“If Fowler, the pitcher in the last game, was going to throw the last game if he was being bribed to throw the last game.”
Mallory Rubin · 1:20:00
pick The newspaper copy is gibberish and the dates jump around: Called her biggest nitpick.
“Um, the newspaper copy, if you actually freeze frame it, it's just gibberish underneath the headline.”
Mallory Rubin · 1:20:44
pick Roy's silver bullet and internal organs
“Utterly confounded by everything that has to do with Roy's internal organs and gastrointestines.”
Bill Simmons · 1:21:09
pick Pop's lineup construction
“You put your slowest guy in the 2 spot.”
unknown · 1:23:23
pick No one hears the gunshot in the owner's box
“No one hears a gunshot go off in the owner's box in the stadium before the game.”
unknown · 1:24:04
pick Roy never changes his name
“Change your fucking name.”
unknown · 1:24:27

Reality Bites (1994) · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick How anyone wins the Good Times game
“How did you win the good times game?”
unknown · 1:10:12
pick How the roommates pay rent
“How do you think they paid rent?”
unknown · 1:10:41
pick Whether Steve Zahn's character lives in the house as Sammy
“I thought he lived there.”
unknown · 1:11:00

Old School (2003) · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Ellen Pompeo's character touching Luke Wilson's after a string of red flags: The biggest flaw of the movie; the counterpoint is she has bad taste in men.
“There's like 9 different times she should have been running.”
unknown · 0:56:03
pick Vince Vaughn's Beanie not cheating: They have to zip it up so he stays within normal behavior and is not evil, though the scene where he pulls back is well acted.
“Why wouldn't Vince Vaughn be a cheater?”
unknown · 0:57:10
pick The back-to-school competition plot in the last act: It starts to become too much like Back to School, a conflict scene Animal House started.
“One of the flaws of the movie, I think, is when it starts to become too much like back to school, you know, where there's like a competition element to it.”
unknown · 0:34:32

Tombstone (1993) · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The unnecessary narrator
“Why do we need a narrator?”
unknown · 0:59:50
pick Maddie's drug overdose and its lack of payoff
“Maddie dying of a drug overdose.”
unknown · 1:00:01
pick No great poker scene: Wyatt versus Powers Boothe and Kilmer at the table was a wasted opportunity.
“It's really upsetting to me that they didn't have like an awesome poker scene in this movie.”
unknown · 1:02:05
pick Confusing edits, nighttime twice
“There's a bunch of like weird edits where there's like, it's like nighttime twice, and it's like unclear whether it's the same day or not,”
unknown · 1:03:13
pick The killing after Doc kills Ringo, a lynch mob third act
“Here's my biggest problem with the movie is after Doc Holiday kills Johnny Ringo, which is just an amazing scene.”
unknown · 1:03:28

Taken (2008) · 'Taken' With Bill Simmons and Shea Serrano

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick The Paris fifth-floor apartment two 17-year-olds get to stay in: Who gets an apartment like that?
“That 5th floor apartment in Paris was just like, phenomenal.”
Bill Simmons · 0:58:42
pick Kidnappers leave the destroyed cell phone behind but lock the door: Odd choices by the kidnappers.
“Would the kidnappers have really left the cell phone behind the destroyed cell phone?”
unknown · 0:59:13
pick Recognizing Marco's voice from the words good luck: Doubts one could identify an Albanian from two words.
“Can you really recognize a specific Albanian's voice just by having them repeat the words good luck?”
unknown · 0:59:32
pick Why not just kill Liam Neeson in the sex club instead of handcuffing him: Shea says they needed to ask him questions first.
“Why wouldn't they just kill Liam Neeson in the sex club, Shea?”
Bill Simmons · 1:00:02
pick Jean-Claude carrying an unwrapped baguette: A cartoonish French detail.
“One of my favorite Jean-Claude bits is when he comes home right before then and he's carrying a baguette, but it's not in a bag and it's not wrapped in paper.”
Bill Simmons · 1:00:56
pick Brian improvises a transmitter and disguiser on the fly in France: Would seem to take months of planning.
“The other nitpick I have is somebody's in France just buying shit in the fly, but they can somehow have the transmitter where they're on the phone sending people, the bad guys to a location that they're not at.”
Shea Serrano · 1:01:25

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) · 'Mad Max: Fury Road,' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, Micah Peters, and Jason Concepcion

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Did Immortan Joe have a point
“I literally wrote down, did Morton Joe have a point?”
Sean Fennessey · 0:56:56
pick Tom Hardy's voice is dubbed throughout
“I also raised his Tom Hardy's voice completely dubbed in this movie.”
Sean Fennessey · 0:57:02
pick If the green place were real, more people would know about it
“If the green place were real, why would more people not know about it?”
unknown · 0:57:56

Mission: Impossible (1996) · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of the movie.

pick Jim shoots Claire first on the train for no reason
“I just didn't quite understand why Jim had to shoot Claire.”
unknown · 0:55:59
pick Jim and Claire's relationship, including his trashing her to Ethan
“Also, Jim and Claire in general.”
unknown · 0:56:39
pick Krieger's endgame as Franz Krieger
“what's John Renault's endgame here.”
unknown · 0:57:30
pick Kittridge offering Max a deal at the end
“What really happens at the end when Kittridge is like, we can work out a deal, international arms dealer to Max?”
unknown · 0:57:42
pick The helicopter in the train tunnel
“But like, what's the science on, um, helicopter and train tunnel?”
unknown · 0:57:59

Midnight Run (1988) · 'Midnight Run' With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick The three TV movie sequels starting in 1994 with Christopher McDonald as Jack Walsh
“Three TV movies starting in 1994 with Christopher McDonald playing Jack Walsh.”
Bill Simmons · 0:57:56
pick The "Serrano's got the discs" plan, and the FBI going along with it: A bounty hunter impersonating an FBI agent gets the federal government behind his plan.
“My biggest nitpick is the Serrano got the disk.”
Chris Ryan · 0:58:38
pick Marvin keeps catching up to them across the country despite four concussions, in a world without cell phones
“I find it a challenge to believe that someone with the mental acuity of Marvin, especially after going through so much head trauma throughout this movie, consistently is able to get ahead of the Duke and Walsh's westbound traveling.”
Chris Ryan · 1:00:16
pick Grodin carries a money belt with about 500 grand and never offers it as a bribe, and Jack won't take one: Both called borderline nitpicks.
“That was a borderline nitpick for me.”
unknown · 1:06:16

Jaws (1975) · 'Jaws,' With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick The movie dropped the book's mafia subplot that explains why Mayor Vaughn keeps the beach open
“In the book, the mafia is blackmailing him to keep the beach open.”
Bill Simmons · 0:50:13
pick Mayor Vaughn is sociopathically committed to keeping the beaches open
“I still, I just have a weird problem with Mayor Vaughn being sociopathically committed to keeping the beaches open.”
unknown · 1:15:51
pick Quint destroys the radio and keeps them out on the water
“I don't and this is an interesting nitpick is Quinn really fucks them.”
unknown · 1:26:51

Forrest Gump (1994) · ‘Forrest Gump’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they like.

pick Forrest's bus stop wait and not reading the map
“How long was Forrest at that bus stop?”
unknown · 0:48:22
pick What Forrest did from 1970 to 1974: The movie skips ahead; the answer seems to be ping pong.
“What did Forrest do from 1970 to 1974?”
unknown · 0:48:56
pick Why Jenny never found the right guy
“Why didn't Jenny ever find the right guy?”
unknown · 0:50:52
pick Jenny leaving the morning after she sleeps with Forrest: The biggest nit; the hosts float theories (he was bad, she was pregnant, or it is just poorly written) and settle on poor writing.
“And it's why she, and my biggest nit to pick in the whole movie, is like, don't fully understand why after she finally sleeps with Forrest.”
unknown · 0:51:26

The Social Network (2010) · 'The Social Network' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a movie they love.

pick The movie's invented wound: Mark starting Facebook because of a girl: Matters because the movie is now treated as a record of Facebook.
“But they're trying to, this movie is trying to say that there was like a native wound, that there was something wrong with this guy because of a relationship and that caused all of this.”
unknown · 0:57:37
pick Harvard shown as too white and too much like prep school
“Harvard is way wider and way less foreign than it is in real life in this movie.”
unknown · 0:58:28
pick Eduardo and Divya cast with part-white actors
“You've got Eduardo Saverin is a Brazilian guy played by an Englishman.”
unknown · 0:59:12
pick Harvard is not as fun as the movie makes it look
“Harvard is not as fun as it seemed like it was in this movie.”
unknown · 0:59:49

You've Got Mail (1998) · 'You’ve Got Mail' With Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

pick Zabar's cashier given an unidentified accent and a knock-knock joke: The one cheap moment, and uncomfortable in a very white movie.
“Making Sarah Ramirez have like a weird, unidentified accent, like turning her into like some kind of like ethnic cashier, that wouldn't fly.”
unknown · 0:47:40
pick The book moguls as mohair-couch supervillains with matching boats
“I do pause at the idea of, uh, 3 like book moguls as these supervillain mohair couch swaggering guys with matching boats in the in the pier at 72nd Street or wherever it is and somewhere around.”
unknown · 0:46:35

The Departed (2006) · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan

Picking Nits · Nitpicks about a movie they love.

pick Why Leo would agree to the undercover deal
“Why would Leo agree to this undercover deal?”
Bill Simmons · 0:38:33
pick Damon's apartment with an impossible view of the State House: A Boston guy's nit.
“it always struck me that no apartment that I had ever heard of had such a great view of the state house.”
Bill Simmons · 0:39:16
pick Would Leo and the doctor actually get together
“Would Leo and the doctor actually get together?”
Bill Simmons · 0:40:11
pick Why Vera Farmiga's character does not turn Damon's character in
“Why didn't Vera Fermiga turn Damon's character in?”
Bill Simmons · 0:41:55
pick Why a more famous actor did not play Leo's killer: His biggest flaw of the movie.
“This is my biggest flaw of this movie.”
Chris Ryan · 0:42:37
pick Nicholson not suspecting Leo, or Sheen not suspecting Damon
“Nicholson, not suspecting Leo.”
Bill Simmons · 0:44:03
pick The rat on the balcony at the end: Chris Ryan reads it as a bow on the movie.
“Why didn't anyone talk Scorsese out of the rat on the balcony at the tail end?”
Bill Simmons · 0:44:30