The Rewatchables: ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt

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The extraction calls the show “The Rewatchables (The Ringer)” and the episode “'Weird Science' With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt”.

Hosts: Bill Simmons. Guests: Kyle Brandt, Craig Horbeck.

Subject films: Weird Science (1985).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and the Zoom crosstalk (Craig) makes many attributions uncertain; ads interleaved (Quince, PayPal, State Farm, Whalefall, Tremfya, Propel, Coca-Cola, ZocDoc) were ignored. Many reaction lines between Bill and Kyle cannot be assigned confidently.

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Awards and segments (93)

Double feature

pick Mannequin: Another 80s movie where a magical woman turns up for a dorky guy.
“I'm doing Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrell, nothing's going to stop us now.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:40:14
pick The Breakfast Club: An Anthony Michael Hall double feature, since he should have had a bigger run.
“My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason, my who won the movie pick is Anthony Michael Hall.”
Bill Simmons · 1:40:35

Most rewatchable scene

pick The opening credits in the gym
“I love the opening credits.”
Bill Simmons · 0:31:58
pick Wyatt and Gary create Lisa on the computer
“Second one, they create the girl on the computer.”
Bill Simmons · 0:32:46
pick Gary's Richard Pryor routine at the table with Dino
“He's basically doing a richer Pryor impersonation”
Bill Simmons · 0:35:16
pick Chet at the top of the stairs trying to make drunk Gary throw up
“Chet tries to make Gary throw up drunk Gary.”
Bill Simmons · 0:36:16
pick The spilled red drink at the mall
“spilled drink at the mall.”
Bill Simmons · 0:37:41
pick Lisa meets Gary's parents
“next rewatchable scene, Lisa meets Gary's parents.”
Bill Simmons · 0:39:35
pick The second creation attempt at the party
“Second creation attempt at the party.”
Bill Simmons · 0:41:23
pick Chet confronts everyone in the kitchen when he comes back
“Chet confronts everyone in the blue kitchen when he comes back.”
Bill Simmons · 0:41:45
pick The grandparents frozen in the closet
“The grandparents in the closet are are, uh, it's still funny.”
Bill Simmons · 0:41:50
pick The ending, saying goodbye to the girls
“And then the ending where they say goodbye to the girls.”
Bill Simmons · 0:41:56
floated The height of the party when the magic takes over
“I think the height of the party when everything's going wrong and the magic is taking over is really fun”
Kyle Brandt · 0:42:37
pick Chet at the top of the stairs
“It's every line is quotable, and that's my favorite part, top of the stairs.”
Kyle Brandt · 0:42:49
runner-up Lisa meets Gary's parents (Gary's dad)
“My personal one is still uh, Gary's dad fucking for a lot of personal reasons.”
Kyle Brandt · 0:42:55

Sasha Jenkins Award · The actor who should have become a bigger star than he did.

winner Anthony Michael Hall: Cited Kubrick negotiating with him over Joker in Full Metal Jacket and his SNL detour.
“The Sasha Jenkins award for actor”
Bill Simmons · 0:21:47

Roger Ebert review · Bill reads Ebert's review of the film.

pick Weird Science: Three stars; Ebert called it inflamed teenage fantasy crossed with Frankenstein.
“Roger Ebert, 3 stars.”
Bill Simmons · 0:30:44

Okay, Motherfucker Award · The exact moment the movie goes up a notch.

winner Lisa's creation special-effects moment: Kelly LeBrock appearing on screen for the first time.
“which I'm gonna have to give the okay motherfucker award for the exact moment when this movie goes up a notch.”
Bill Simmons · 0:33:22

Unanswerable questions · Questions the movie raises that it never settles.

pick Were Wyatt and Gary the first movie hackers?
“Were these the 1st 2 hackers?”
Bill Simmons · 0:10:46
pick Did this movie create Alexa and AI chatbots?
“Did this movie create Alexa, AI and chat GBT?”
Bill Simmons · 0:13:33
pick Why are the Illinois houses in 80s movies so nice?
“Can I, I had this later for Illinois and an unanswerable question about Illinois, but I'll do it here.”
Bill Simmons · 1:30:30
pick Did Gary ever have sex with Lisa?
“Ever have sex with Lisa?”
Bill Simmons · 1:34:50
pick Did Lisa have sex with Wyatt?
“And then did she have sex with Wyatt?”
Bill Simmons · 1:35:12
pick What were Lisa's next few days as the new gym teacher?
“what were Lisa's next few days, like, in Shermer as as the new British gym teacher with, um, no credentials.”
Bill Simmons · 1:36:25
pick Did Lisa eat and go to the bathroom?
“Did Lisa eat and go to the bathroom?”
Bill Simmons · 1:37:23
pick Why the pointless police chase at the end?: Pads the movie to 88 minutes, as the hosts joke.
“It's so short that they just, for some reason, inexplicably put in a chase scene with police that doesn't add up to anything”
Kyle Brandt · 1:38:04

Most 1985 Thing · The most 1985 thing about the movie.

pick The computer hacking sequence into the David Lee Roth video
“The computer hacking sequence when they're navigating through this labyrinth of electronic stuff”
Kyle Brandt · 0:44:55
pick Believing you could create a hot girl out of your computer
“believing you could create a hot girl out of your computer in 1985 is the most 1985 thing about this movie.”
Bill Simmons · 0:45:11
pick Weird Science by Oingo Boingo
“The title song being written and performed by Oingo Boingo.”
Bill Simmons · 0:45:22
pick Wyatt's band posters
“Uh, Wyatt's posters.”
Bill Simmons · 0:46:05
pick The trunk full of Playboys
“Trunkful of Playboys, we mentioned.”
Bill Simmons · 0:46:23
pick David Lee Roth
“There's an 18 month window where it made sense to have David Lee Roth in your movie, and then by 86, it's over.”
Bill Simmons · 0:46:27
pick Tenderness by General Public
“And then the movie closes with general public tenderness, which...”
Bill Simmons · 0:46:38

Best production story · The most unbelievable anecdote from the actual film shoot.

winner Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Rusler defecating in a female cast member's trailer: Per Downey on Howard Stern, they did it in a trailer that was not LeBrock's.
“Robert Downey Jr. cleared up the rumors that he defecated in Kelly LeBrock's trailer.”
Kyle Brandt · 0:47:04

What Aged Best · What about the movie has held up.

pick Robert Downey Jr.
“Like, it's if you're an Iron Man guy, you got to watch this movie.”
Kyle Brandt · 0:48:44
pick Robert Downey Jr. as Ian
“Just like the specific mid 80s, Robert Downey, because the back to school and this character are very similar.”
Bill Simmons · 0:49:21
pick The 1985 special effects
“I thought the special effects age pretty well for a 1985 standpoint.”
unknown · 0:50:07
pick The parents-are-away trope and the cleanup before they get home
“My parents are away for the week as a 1980s teen movie trope has saved the best.”
Kyle Brandt · 0:50:23
pick The grandparents frozen in the closet
“What?'s grandparents just being frozen in the closet? It's so fucking funny.”
unknown · 0:51:33
pick Anthony Michael Hall's stunned double take
“And then, uh, the last one I have for you is the Anthony Michael Hall stunned double take.”
Bill Simmons · 0:55:04

What Aged Worst · What about the movie has not held up.

pick Ring cameras and Life 360 ending the parents-are-away party
“Because now you would have ring cameras and security stuff and if I went away with my wife for a couple days”
Bill Simmons · 0:50:52
pick Lisa's prolonged make-out with Wyatt, played by a 15-and-a-half-year-old: Ilan Mitchell-Smith is the actor; the transcript says Elon.
“Brock and Elon Mitchell Smith making out in that scene you mentioned.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:01:40
pick The Road Warrior biker homage climax
“If you watch this movie and are not familiar with the Road Warrior, which is like the sequel to Mad Max.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:07:47

Best Life Lesson · The best life lesson in the movie.

winner Lisa's speech that people like you for who you are as Lisa
“When are you going to learn that people like you for who you are, not for what you can give them?”
Bill Simmons · 0:52:28
pick The coach's line about shame and death: The coach's name is garbled in the transcript.
“Death is a much bigger issue.”
Bill Simmons · 1:40:06

Kim Malin Best Three IMDb Credits · A bit award for the best three-credit run, with no named characters.

winner Kim Malin: Weird Science, Die Hard, Road House; none of her characters has a name.
“Her 3 best IMD B credits, weird science, girl playing piano.”
Bill Simmons · 0:53:00

Big Kahuna Burger Award · Best use of food or drink.

winner The icy
“It's probably the icy, right?”
Bill Simmons · 0:55:25
winner The icy
“Definitely the icy, and I like that after he pours it on him”
Kyle Brandt · 0:55:27

Great Shot, Gordo Award · Most cinematic shot.

winner Kim Malin launching out of the chimney into the pond while her clothes blow off
“I can't understand how they got Kim Malin to launch out of the chimney”
Bill Simmons · 0:55:47
nominee The shower combo, with Hughes cutting back and forth between the two girls
“Would you go with the shower combo when they're talking about the girls are getting ready”
Bill Simmons · 0:55:39

Kid Cudi Pursuit of Happiness Award · Best needle drop.

winner Tenderness: General Public; chosen over the Oingo Boingo title song.
“Tenderness, general public.”
Bill Simmons · 0:56:14

Best Character Name · Best character name.

winner Chet
“Just a big brother named Chet, who's a fucking asshole.”
Bill Simmons · 0:56:31

Worst Character Name · Craig flips best character name into the worst.

winner Lisa
“Instead of best character name, I had worse character name and it's just naming your dream girl, Lisa, with just no thought.”
Craig Horlbeck · 1:03:21

Butch's Girlfriend Award · The weak link of the film.

winner Lisa as Lisa: The hot woman the boys build never has sex with them.
“And there's no fucking action here?”
Kyle Brandt · 0:59:28
pick Lisa
“I had the exact same week link.”
Bill Simmons · 1:00:08
pick Lisa making out with Wyatt on the patio
“What is she doing just making out with Wyatt out on his patio?”
Bill Simmons · 1:01:08

Matt Flynn $26 Million Contract Award · The actor you thought was a lead who drags the movie down.

winner Ilan Mitchell-Smith as Wyatt
“and that's Elon Mitchell Smith, who I think drags this movie down.”
Craig Horlbeck · 1:05:10

Jamie Lee Curtis Unnecessary Nudity Award · The most unnecessary nudity.

winner Kim Malin as girl playing piano: Kyle's flex; he also floated the porn title Queered Science.
“the Jamie Lee Curtis unnecessary nudity award for Kim Malin,”
Kyle Brandt · 1:10:37

Hottest Take · The hottest take about the movie.

pick Weird Science: Argued it over Footloose, St. Elmo's Fire, Purple Rain, Ghostbusters and Against All Odds.
“This is the best 80s movie theme song that actually has the title in the song.”
Bill Simmons · 1:11:26
pick Lisa as Lisa: Lists her bad behavior toward the boys and Gary's family.
“Lisa sucks.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:15:07

Casting What-Ifs and Recasts · Almost-castings, recasts and directing swaps.

pick Kelly Emberg as Lisa
“Kelly Emberg, a motto who had been in Sports Illustrated was cast as Lisa, left after 2 days for creative differences.”
Bill Simmons · 1:16:33
pick Demi Moore as Lisa
“Also auditioning for the part of Lisa and not getting it.”
Bill Simmons · 1:16:57
pick Robin Wright as Lisa
“the other one was Robin Wright”
Bill Simmons · 1:17:18
pick Anthony Michael Hall: He chose Weird Science over European Vacation.
“Anthony Michael Hall had a choice of doing National Lampoon's European vacation or this movie”
Bill Simmons · 1:17:56
pick Robert Downey Jr. as Wyatt
“So, I mean, Downey being the, uh, being Wyatt is clearly the answer.”
Bill Simmons · 1:20:18
pick William Zabka as Downey's buddy
“I'd like to test drive dumping Downey's buddy”
Kyle Brandt · 1:20:27
pick Tom Cruise as Wyatt
“Cruise is Wyatt, like early 80s cruise, like outsiders cruise?”
Kyle Brandt · 1:25:34
pick Steven Spielberg: As director.
“Scorsese or Spielberg, probably Spielberg.”
Bill Simmons · 1:26:20
pick Spielberg directs Weird Science and Hughes directs The Goonies
“If they could have movie swapped, I would have Spielberg direct, weird science, and I would have Hughes direct, uh, the Goonies”
Kyle Brandt · 1:26:44
pick Philip Seymour Hoffman as Chet
“What role of Feeble Philip Seymour Hoffman had played clearly, Chet?”
Bill Simmons · 1:27:05

Joey Pants Award · The best that guy.

winner John Kapelos as Dino
“Is John Capalos so that guy?”
Bill Simmons · 1:18:09
nominee Britt Leach as Gary's dad
“it's either him or your guy, your guy, Gary's dad.”
Bill Simmons · 1:18:24
pick Vernon Wells as the biker gang leader: The transcript says Burning Wells and Bernie Wells.
“I have a scary bald biker guy with the ears.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:19:00

Dion Waiters Award · Small role, big impact.

nominee Britt Leach as Gary's dad
“I know it's not the right choice, but I love Gary's dad.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:19:34
winner Bill Paxton as Chet: In only three scenes.
“I have Chet, Bill Paxton.”
Bill Simmons · 1:19:50

Apex Mountain · Whether the movie is the peak of a star's career or a performance.

pick Anthony Michael Hall: Yes, this was his peak.
“This this weird science breakfast club combo is right when it happened.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:22:18
pick Ilan Mitchell-Smith: Yes.
“Elon Mitchell Smith definitely is.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:22:22
pick Kelly LeBrock: Yes.
“Kelly LeBrock also a yes.”
Bill Simmons · 1:22:23
pick Bill Paxton: No as a career peak, yes as an asshole older brother in a comedy.
“Paxton no.”
unknown · 1:22:27
pick John Hughes at Breakfast Club: Heat check: Breakfast Club is Hughes's peak, not Weird Science.
“Either way it's Breakfast Club.”
unknown · 1:23:14
pick The Weird Science party: Yes.
“This is number one high school party movie in any decade.”
unknown · 1:24:46

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

Sequel, Prequel or Prestige TV · The remake, sequel or TV show they would make.

pick An all-black-cast remake, Blackbird Science
“Maybe they're like, fuck it, let's make blackbird science.”
unknown · 1:32:11

Is this movie better with… · A famous voice or character dropped into the movie.

pick Gus Johnson calling the gym scene
“So our guy this week.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:32:49
pick Buffalo Bill
“I was thinking it could be funny if Buffalo Bill was in this movie”
unknown · 1:33:46

Memorabilia · A prop or piece of the movie they would own.

pick Wyatt's trunk full of Playboys
“Wyatt's incredible full ass treasure chest of Playboys.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:38:45
pick The Wyatt family portrait with Hitler mustaches drawn on it
“they all have the Hitler mustaches drawn on them.”
Bill Simmons · 1:39:10
nominee Kelly LeBrock's sleeveless jacket
“I would get that if I would give it to my wife, but she's not wearing that.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:38:41

Who Won the Movie · Who came out of the movie best.

winner Anthony Michael Hall
“my who won the movie pick is Anthony Michael Hall.”
Bill Simmons · 1:40:35
winner Kelly LeBrock as Lisa
“I had LeBrock written down.”
Kyle Brandt · 1:41:24

Films that came up

Claims (84)

contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Better Off Dead. Weird Science is one of eight 'semi-deranged' 1985 teen movies; Better Off Dead parodies the teen movie while being one.
“Um, which is almost like parodying the teen movie as they're making a teen movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:05:09 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Weird Science → Teen Wolf. Teen Wolf is on the list of weird 1985 teen movies and was already a Rewatchables episode.
“There's Teen Wolf, which we've already done in the movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:05:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Secret Admirer → The Ice Storm. Secret Admirer is a teen movie that turns into couples with marital issues, like The Ice Storm.
“There's Secret Admirer, which is a combination teen movie, but it's also like the ice storm.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:05:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Mischief → Weird Science. Mischief goes back to the 50s but has the same premise of kids trying to get laid.
“And then mischief, which goes back to the 50s, but is basically the same premise of kids trying to get laid.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:05:41 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Weird Science → Splash. Before Weird Science, the 80s had magical beautiful women appearing to ordinary guys; Splash's mermaid loves Tom Hanks.
“So before weird science, we have Splash, where there's this beautiful mermaid that comes out of the water and loves Tom Hanks, all right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:06:40 · Kyle Brandt (0.75 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Weird Science → National Lampoon's Vacation. The red-Ferrari woman who keeps appearing in Vacation is another magical 80s dream woman.
“You have vacation where like the dorky dad's driving cross country and, 0 my god, in a red Ferrari.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:06:49 · Kyle Brandt (0.70 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Weird Science → Mannequin. Mannequin, a couple years later, is a weirder version of the magical woman who finds the dorky guy; Weird Science is the best known of them.
“Like these magical women who are almost science fiction, but are so beautiful, come and find the dorky guy, and weird science was right in the middle of that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:06 · Kyle Brandt (0.75 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Weird Science → Can't Buy Me Love. Can't Buy Me Love is another version of the 80s premise of guys trying to get laid, by buying a fake girlfriend.
“And you left out Can't Buy Me Love, which is another version of this where the guy's like, what if I used all my lawnmower money for a couple years and bought a fake girlfriend for a couple months?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:17 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Superbad → Weird Science. Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad.
“Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Jonah Hill → Anthony Michael Hall. Jonah Hill's Superbad character is very similar to Anthony Michael Hall's character, almost his son.
“Jonah Hill's character is very similar to the Anthony Michael Hall character.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:08:04 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Superbad → Weird Science. Both end with the two friends going off with girls separately and reconvening, the friendship being the real subject.
“Superbat ends with the 2 guys separately going with these girls that they like and then reconvening at the end”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:08:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Weird Science → WarGames. Both movies are about teenage computer hackers, and both end up with a nuclear missile; Weird Science's kids are more premeditated.
“I think they're a little bit more premeditated than in war games, but they, ironically, they both end up with a nuclear missile.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:11:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.60 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Weird Science → Sneakers. The last pod Bill and Kyle did was Sneakers, also a computers-in-the-dark-ages movie.
“this isn't interesting because the last pod you and I did, we did sneakers, which is in the 90s, and we still didn't know what computers could do.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:12:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Pump Up the Volume → Weird Science. Pump Up the Volume is named as a movie that clearly created podcasts; the question is whether Weird Science created Alexa.
“And we've talked about this in the past, like pump up the volume, clearly created podcasts.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:13:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Her. Weird Science did years earlier what Her does: making a fake hot woman because you cannot meet a real one.
“Like, that was the movie 15 years or so later, whatever that was that weird science was doing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:14:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Weird Science → Her. Derek Thompson's male-loneliness podcast ties the 1985 premise to today: kids who cannot meet anybody would not leave the house.
“Derek Thompson just did a podcast for us about male loneliness”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:15:07 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
theme (theme): John Hughes → Taylor Sheridan. Bill's notes pair Hughes and Taylor Sheridan as the two greatest creative forces, as if on the limitless drug.
“Hughes and Taylor Sheridan are the 2 greatest creative creative forces we've ever had.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:16:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): John Hughes → Weird Science. Weird Science feels like Hughes heat-checking, coming right after Breakfast Club.
“Also, the weird science to me feels heat checking for Hughes too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:16:35 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
people (people): John Hughes → Anthony Michael Hall. Hughes loved Hall and pitched the next movie on the Breakfast Club set.
“He wants to make every movie with him and he's like, I got our next movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:16:54 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club.
“Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
“Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Anthony Michael Hall → Sixteen Candles. Ebert wrote that Hall was the geek in 16 Candles and the intellectual in The Breakfast Club.
“he wrote that Hall was the geek in 16 candles in the intellectual Breakfast Club.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:17:55 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hall's Gary is charismatic and confident, more like Ferris Bueller than a nerd.
“Gary feels more like Ferris Bueller to me.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
people (people): John Hughes → Anthony Michael Hall. Hughes saw Hall as his proxy, Scorsese to De Niro.
“This is like, I'm Scorsese and you're De Niro, basically.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:20:27 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Anthony Michael Hall → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hall turned down Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller; Ferris would have been the move away from the dork side.
“And He turned down both roles.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:20:30 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Anthony Michael Hall → Johnny B. Good. Trying to escape the dork typecast, Hall became the jock in Johnny B. Good, which the speaker finds boring.
“he becomes the jock in Johnny B. Good”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:21:18 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Stanley Kubrick → John Hughes. Kubrick loved John Hughes movies, which is why he wanted Hall.
“So Stanley Kubrick, for some reason, love John Hughes movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:21:53 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Anthony Michael Hall → Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick, a Hughes fan, wanted Hall as Joker and negotiated for over half a year.
“decided he wanted Anthony Michael Hall in full metal jacket.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:21:57 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Matthew Modine → Full Metal Jacket. After Hall did not take Joker, the role went to Modine.
“and he went to Modine.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:22:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Jonah Hill → Anthony Michael Hall. Hall was sweet where the later horny-guy leads, like Hill, are angry yellers.
“Anthony Michael Hall was sweet, and I think a lot of the guys who wanted to get laid in the later movies are angry.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:23:42 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Kelly LeBrock → Hard to Kill. LeBrock's first three credits are The Woman in Red, Weird Science and Hard to Kill.
“This is her IMDb, woman in red with Gene Wilder, weird science and hard to kill, which we've already done in the rewatchables.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:26:39 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
people (people): Kelly LeBrock → Steven Seagal. LeBrock met Seagal around 86 or 87, before he was a movie star, and they were married over a decade.
“She meets Steven Seagal around 87 when he's going from like stunt trainer right above...”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:27:15 · Kyle Brandt (0.45 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Kelly LeBrock → Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline. Phoebe Cates is the happy version of a lost 80s actress who found love; LeBrock's is the depressing one.
“So the 2 the 2 lost actresses of the 80s for falling in love were her and Phoebe Cates.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:28:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Kelly LeBrock → Austin Powers. A decade later LeBrock would have been the Elizabeth Hurley part in Austin Powers.
“She's probably the Elizabeth Hurley part in Austin Powers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:30:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Al Feldstein. The movie is based on a 1951 pre-Code comic by Al Feldstein.
“this was based on the 1951 pre-comics code comic made of the future by Al Feldstein.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:30:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Weird Science → Roger Ebert. Ebert gave it 3 stars and called Kelly LeBrock wonderful.
“Roger Ebert, 3 stars.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:30:44 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Frankenstein. Ebert's review says the movie combines male teenage fantasy with Frankenstein's monster.
“Inflamed male teenage fantasies and Frankenstein's monster.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:31:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Anthony Michael Hall → Richard Pryor. Hall does a Richard Pryor impression in the Chet-stairs scene; Hughes and Hall both loved Pryor.
“He's basically doing a richer Pryor impersonation”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:35:16 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Anthony Michael Hall's Pryor-style drunk scene was test-driven in The Breakfast Club, so execs wanted more of it in the next movie.
“They, uh, they soft tested the Richard Pryor too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:35:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Superbad. Weird Science's ending was 'completely ripped off by super bad'.
“Uh, really satisfying ending, then just completely ripped off by super bad.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:42:03 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Danny Elfman → Weird Science. Elfman is not a fan of the title song and is dismissive of it in interviews, though the speaker likes it.
“So Elfman, like not a fan. He's kind of dis about it, which is really annoying.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:45:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Weird Science was shot at the same high school as The Breakfast Club, here called Shermer High School.
“You mentioned this movie was filmed at the same high school as the Breakfast Club and it was actually called Shermer High School.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:48:32 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Weird Science → Back to School. Downey's Back to School look and this character are very similar, hair included.
“because the back to school and this character are very similar.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:49:21 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Downey Jr. → Less Than Zero. Downey did not really pop until Less Than Zero.
“I don't think he really popped until, uh, until less than zero.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:49:45 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Weird Science → Poltergeist. The party-scene effects, objects moving around the living room, hold up like Poltergeist.
“like poltergeist.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:50:19 · Kyle Brandt (0.35 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Weird Science → Risky Business. The parents-away-and-clean-up-before-they-return trope runs through Weird Science, Risky Business and Adventures in Babysitting.
“Adventures and babysitting, risky business.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:50:32 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Vanessa Angel → Dumb and Dumber. The TV Lisa, Vanessa Angel, was also in Dumb and Dumber.
“They made a TV series in the mid 90s with Vanessa Angel as Lisa.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:51:48 · Kyle Brandt (0.45 sure it was them)
career (career): Kim Malin → Die Hard. The piano girl's second credit is the Die Hard hostage found with a goon.
“she's the hostage that Hans Gruber's Goon find having sex back in the office”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:53:36 · Kyle Brandt (0.45 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Kim Malin → John Cazale. Kim Malin's three unnamed-character credits are pitched as a triple crown, against Cazale's five perfect credits.
“So John Kazeo is the best 5 movie IMDb run.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:54:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Dazed and Confused. Ilan Mitchell-Smith as lead is compared to Wiley Wiggins as Mitch Kramer: a lot put on a young unproven lead.
“very similar too, is the Wiley Wiggins dazed and confused performance as Mitch Kramer.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:05:31 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Robert Downey Jr. → Weird Science. Downey would have been the right Wyatt, with Hall and Downey as the two stars.
“I think you could have realistically put him in that in that Wyatt spot and it would have played.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:07:02 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Wayne's World → The Doors. Wayne's World 2 depends on knowing Oliver Stone's The Doors, as Weird Science depends on knowing The Road Warrior.
“We talked a lot about Wayne's World 2 and we're like, it's very, very dependent on knowing Oliver Stone's the Doors movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:07:39 · Kyle Brandt (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Mad Max 2 → Mad Max. The Road Warrior is the sequel to Mad Max.
“which is like the sequel to Mad Max.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:07:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Weird Science → Mad Max 2. The climactic biker-gang sequence is an homage to The Road Warrior with the same actor and makeup.
“it's pulled right from this movie that had just come out, same actor, same makeup, same everything, they're like doing an homage to it”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:03 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Weird Science → Mad Max 2. The Road Warrior homage is a nine-minute sequence, about 10% of the movie.
“It comprises 10% of the whole movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:08:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Vernon Wells → Commando. The Weird Science biker leader is the Commando villain.
“And it's our guy, Bernie Wells.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:09:06 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Weird Science → St. Elmo's Fire. St. Elmo's Fire has a title song but does not work the plot in.
“But it doesn't really work the plot into it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:11:47 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Wendy and Lisa → Prince. Wendy and Lisa wrote the Purple Rain song that Prince performs in the film.
“he came up with this awesome song that Wendy and Lisa wrote for him.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:12:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Purple Rain. Purple Rain's song barely advances the plot; it is just Prince kicking ass with a song.
“It's just basically him kicking ass with a song.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:12:33 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Against All Odds. Against All Odds is the speaker's stealth entry, circled a couple times on the pod.
“we're going stealth against all odds.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:12:45 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Weird Science → Oingo Boingo. The speaker imagines the title song was written after the band was told the plot and shown the film, Frankenstein vibe included.
“I'm making this movie. It's about these 15 year old kids that create basically like the perfect woman and she comes out of the computer and has sex with them.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:13:46 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Footloose. The best 80s theme song with the movie's title in it: Footloose is the finalist opposing Weird Science, but Loggins wrote it first and the title followed.
“I feel like Loggins did Footloose.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:14:27 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Kenny Loggins → Footloose. The speaker's read is that Loggins wrote the song first and the film took its title from it.
“I feel like Loggins did Footloose. He wrote the song and then they were like, good song. We should name the movie Footloose.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:14:27 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Thomas Dolby → Weird Science. Dolby is joked to be the biggest loser of the title-song debate because his own science song came two years later.
“Thomas Dolby, who 2 years later did, she blinded me with science.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:14:52 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Kelly Emberg → Weird Science. Kelly Emberg was first cast as Lisa and left after two days over creative differences.
“initially, Kelly Emberg, a motto who had been in Sports Illustrated was cast as Lisa, left after 2 days for creative differences.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:16:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Demi Moore → Weird Science. Demi Moore auditioned for Lisa and did not get it.
“Also auditioning for the part of Lisa and not getting it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:16:57 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Robin Wright → Weird Science. Robin Wright, a soap actress, auditioned for Lisa and did not get it.
“Well, the other one was Robin Wright, who would go on to become the most beautiful woman in the world and Princess Bride.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:17:18 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Anthony Michael Hall → National Lampoon's European Vacation. Hall had a choice between European Vacation and Weird Science and chose wisely.
“Anthony Michael Hall had a choice of doing National Lampoon's European vacation or this movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:17:56 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): John Kapelos → The Breakfast Club. Kapelos plays Dino here and the custodian in The Breakfast Club.
“Yeah, I mean, he's the custodian in the Breakfast Club.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:18:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Britt Leach → Father of the Bride. Gary's dad actor is the grocery store manager in Father of the Bride and in The Great Outdoors.
“He's in, he has a scene in Father of the Bride when George Banks crashes out, as they say, at the hot dogs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:18:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): William Zabka → Weird Science. Zabka should have been the bully against Hall in Weird Science, as in all the 80s movies.
“Like Zabka just should have been in all these movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:20:36 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Bill Paxton → Aliens. Paxton is funny even in serious movies like Aliens (game over, man).
“And then even in serious movies like aliens, when he's just like, you know, game over, man”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:22:05 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Home Alone. Chet is a top asshole older brother in a comedy; his competition includes Home Alone's Buzz, though Uncle Frank is worse.
“He's competing against the Home Alone, older brother.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:22:37 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): The Breakfast Club → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Bill ranks Breakfast Club above Ferris, though both are pantheon.
“They're both pantheon for me, but breakfast club's an all timer for me.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:23:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Weird Science → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech.
“Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Weird Science → Risky Business. For houses cleaned up before the parents return, Risky Business still beats Weird Science.
“I still think it's risky business.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:25:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Tom Cruise → Weird Science. Cruise would have been a Wyatt, though the pick was early-80s Cruise or Losing It Cruise.
“Cruise is Wyatt, like early 80s cruise, like outsiders cruise?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:25:34 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Chris Columbus → Steven Spielberg. The closest Hughes and Spielberg crossed was Spielberg protege Chris Columbus directing Home Alone.
“Chris Columbus was a Spielberg protégé and he ended up directing Home Alone.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:26:38 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Steven Spielberg → John Hughes. Movie swap: Spielberg directs Weird Science and Hughes directs The Goonies, which he produced.
“I would have Spielberg direct, weird science, and I would have Hughes direct, uh, the Goonies, which he produced”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:26:44 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Philip Seymour Hoffman → Weird Science. Hoffman would have been a great Chet in a recasting.
“What role of Feeble Philip Seymour Hoffman had played clearly, Chet?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:27:05 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Weird Science → Mannequin. Kyle's double feature pick is Mannequin, another magical-woman 80s movie.
“I'm doing Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrell, nothing's going to stop us now.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:40:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night.
“My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Weird Science → The Breakfast Club. Making Weird Science was reportedly the condition for Hughes being allowed to make The Breakfast Club.
“this was how he was allowed to make the Breakfast Club if he also agreed.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:44:13 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Weird Science → Pretty in Pink. Hughes just wanted to finish Weird Science fast so he could make Pretty in Pink.
“So he's just trying to get through this because he wants to make pretty and pink.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:44:22 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (25)

fun, about Gary's dad: Kyle's friend group quoted 'who's this camp character you keep talking about' for 12 years when a friend disappeared into a relationship; Gary's dad is the legacy of the movie for them.
“I don't know why, but Gary's dad was like the legacy of this movie for us.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:10:06 · Kyle Brandt (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Anthony Michael Hall: Stanley Kubrick negotiated with Hall for Joker in Full Metal Jacket for more than half a year before it fell through.
“They negotiated for over half a year.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:22:11 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Saturday Night Live season 11: The 85 season opened with a drug-test sketch that has been erased from the internet.
“The opening sketch of the entire season is Lauren Michaels giving the cast a drug test.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:26:03 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Kelly LeBrock: Bill's theory: playing a perfect person made her want someone who thinks he is perfect, hence Steven Seagal.
“And my theory is that she has to play like a perfect person and like that's that's tough to get over.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:27:58 · Kyle Brandt (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Kelly LeBrock: LeBrock described her Weird Science role as Mary Poppins with breasts, from a Hughes documentary; she is the best part because the character is made to improve the boys.
“she plays Mary Poppins with Brest, which I thought was a good way to describe the character.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:29:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Roger Ebert: The Ebert-review bit: Ebert gave it 3 stars after a tough week; Kyle guesses Ebert wished he could make a woman too.
“I never met Roger Ebert, but I'd venture to guess that there's a point in his life he wish he could have made a woman”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:31:19 · Kyle Brandt (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Weird Science: The sleepover scene: kids rewound the computer-rendered chest-enlarging moment; the scarcity of nude images in the 80s made it a scrambled-porn apex mountain.
“This is a scrambled porn apex mountain.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:34:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.30 sure it was them)
fun, about Kyle Brandt: Kyle was asked many times to do The Challenge and always said no.
“I got asked many, many, many times.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:38:59 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Bill Paxton: Chet is in only three scenes, takes an hour off, and yet is the best Weird Science.
“but I think the best weird science is when he's on screen.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:42:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Oingo Boingo: Elfman is dismissive of the title song and video; Beavis and Butt-Head's reaction became the best thing that happened to it.
“Butthead's like, why didn't they let this guy back in Duran Duran, and Beavis goes, because he sucks.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:45:47 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about David Lee Roth: There was an 18-month window where David Lee Roth made sense in your movie.
“There's an 18 month window where it made sense to have David Lee Roth in your movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:46:27 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Robert Downey Jr.: Downey told Howard Stern he and Rusler joked about leaving a deposit in a trailer and did it in a female castmate's trailer, not LeBrock's.
“He admitted they eventually did it in one female cast member's trailer, but it was not Kelly LeBrock.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:47:24 · Kyle Brandt (0.65 sure it was them)
fun, about Kim Malin: The Kim Malin run: three IMDb credits, none with a name; proposed as a new category.
“borderline new category, the Kim Malin, your best 3 IMDb category, just with no context.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:53:16 · Kyle Brandt (0.35 sure it was them)
fun, about Anthony Michael Hall: Hall's stunned double take is held three or four seconds.
“the Anthony Michael Hall stunned double take.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:55:04 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Ilan Mitchell-Smith: He was 15 and a half when he filmed the extended kiss with LeBrock; Kyle wanted an apex mountain of uncomfortable kisses (Cape Fear, Blank Check).
“I was going to do an apex mountain for uncomfortable kisses.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:03:37 · Kyle Brandt (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Lisa: The hottest take: Lisa sucks, she pulls a gun on Gary's dad and wipes his memory.
“Lisa sucks.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:15:07 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Bill Paxton: Paxton showed up in the party scene in sunglasses and a trench coat just to be around the set; cast calls him the nicest person.
“Apparently he dresses up in his sunglasses in a trench coat, trench coat, and he's in the party scene.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:21:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Weird Science: Kyle ranks its party scene, with the mansion, lake, magic food and bartenders, the number one high school party in any decade.
“This is number one high school party movie in any decade.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:24:46 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Losing It: Cruise reportedly bought every copy of Losing It; it cannot be found, along with Soul Man.
“And then he went and bought every copy that was left.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:26:17 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Weird Science: The Chicago-suburbs nitpick: the 85 Bears are nowhere in the movie.
“It drives me nuts that there's no 85 bears in this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:28:56 · Kyle Brandt (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Cameron's house is in Lake Forest, near the Bears and Bulls facilities, five minutes from Michael Jordan's.
“I know where Cameron Fry's house is.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:31:17 · Kyle Brandt (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Kelly LeBrock: LeBrock wore a jacket sold to a pawn shop in Beverly Hills for $25,000.
“I just want to point out the jacket, worn by Kelly LeBrock in this film, was sold to a pawn shop in Beverly Hills for 25,000.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:38:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Weird Science: The Playboy-trunk souvenir wish.
“My souvenir bill will be, uh, Wyatt's incredible full ass treasure chest of Playboys.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:38:45 · Kyle Brandt (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Kelly LeBrock: She calls Hard to Kill 'hard to watch'.
“She refers to hard to kill that movie if you ask her, but she refers to it as hard to watch.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:41:37 · Kyle Brandt (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Weird Science: Craig's reaction on learning LeBrock married Seagal is called the favorite moment of the pod.
“Craig, if we could rewind this pod, the part where you had a natural reaction to Kelly LeBrock, we married to Steven Seagal was my favorite moment.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:44:36 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Bill Simmons (host): Loves 1980s teen comedies and the Hughes run, ranking The Breakfast Club an all timer; lists teen movies by year and tracks careers and what-ifs. Rates the movie fun but is bothered by how Lisa is written and by the age gap in the kiss.
Kyle Brandt (guest): A Hughes-head who has pushed to cover Weird Science for about five years; loves the quotability, Gary's dad and Chet, and 80s mall and party scenes. Cannot stand Lisa's behavior and the lead's line readings, and is bothered that the Chicago-area setting ignores the 85 Bears.
Craig Horlbeck (guest): Younger producer who joins by Zoom, calls the movie one of the most 80s movies ever and the unusual scenes inexplicable. Expected R-rated content and was slightly disappointed by PG-13, yet thinks LeBrock crushed it.

The show's recurring bits

Apex Mountain: The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits.
Who Won the Movie: The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off.
The Ebert review: Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show.
Casting what-ifs: Who was almost cast, or who should have been.
Most rewatchable scene: The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels.
Aged best / aged worst: What holds up and what does not.
Picking Nits: The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits.
Double feature: The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick.

Names the transcriber got wrong

Kyle Brant → Kyle Brandt
Kelly LeBranc/LeBarck/LeBron → Kelly LeBrock
Elon Mitchell Smith → Ilan Mitchell-Smith
Robert Russler/Rustler → Robert Rusler
Capalos/Koppolis → John Kapelos
Brit Leach → Britt Leach
Bernie Wells/Burning Wells → Vernon Wells (guess from 'from Commando')
Kelly Amberg → Kelly Emberg
Kazeo/Kazale → John Cazale
Craig Horbeck → producer's surname unclear; Gahau -> another producer, unresolved
Wyatt rendered 'white', 'wide', 'Wadd'; 'white and gay' → Wyatt and Gary
Superman (0:09:23) → Superbad; Superbat -> Superbad
weird size / weird signs → Weird Science
Q's clearly told Oingo Boingo → probably 'Hughes clearly told'
Rogan and Hader → Rogen and Hader; Michael Sarah -> Michael Cera
Running Man (0:24:05) → unclear
Raj/Rash (Ebert) → likely 'Roger'
Snake cars/Snake guys → unresolved film Ebert gave one star
Daniel Rudy Rudiger → unclear
multiple migs → unclear
Dave TV → unclear
Sasha Jenkins award, Zawatane award → segment award names, unclear
Brest (0:29:25) → breasts
Kim Cattrell → Kim Cattrall
the Hades were just different (0:35:02) → unclear