The Rewatchables: ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey

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The extraction calls the show “The Rewatchables (The Ringer)” and the episode “'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me' With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey”.

Hosts: Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey. Guests: Craig Horlbeck.

Subject films: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999).

On the transcript: No speaker labels; speaker ID mostly low confidence. Ads at top and bottom. Recorded in 2019 and re-run in 2024.

Added from the extractor's memory, not said

Verne Troyer, Rebecca Romijn, Kristen Johnston, Donald Pleasence, Lorne Michaels and Barry spellings are corrected from memory.
The 'Barry (TV)' title and 'Fair and Balanced' (Bombshell) title are corrections from memory.

Awards and segments (64)

Most rewatchable scene

pick Scott Evil on Springer, then Dr. Evil's entrance, the KKK guy and the brawl
“The Springer scene is still really funny to me at the top. With Scott Evil on Springer, and then Dr. Evil coming out, and the KKK guy, and it turns into a brawl.”
Bill Simmons · 0:21:55
pick Mini Me's first scene
“Mini Me's 1st scene.”
Bill Simmons · 0:23:18
pick The Alan Parsons Project scene
“Another rewatchable scene, the Alan Parsons Project.”
Bill Simmons · 0:25:02
pick Dr. Evil asks President Tim Robbins for $100 billion and the war room laughs
“The, uh, the scene when Dr. Evil asked President Tim Robbins for $100-000000000 and the whole war room's laughing hysterically and all that was great.”
Bill Simmons · 0:25:35
pick Austin and Mini Me fight in space
“And then, uh, I had the Austin Powers mini me fight in space is. It's a really good slapstick 2 minutes.”
Bill Simmons · 0:25:44
pick The supercut of dick jokes about the spaceship flying
“Well, I think every time they do, um, the supercut where they're making all the dick jokes about the spaceship flying is probably my favorite part of the movie.”
unknown · 0:26:00
pick The Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson cameos
“The Woody Harrelson cameo and the Willie Nelson cameos are pretty incredible.”
unknown · 0:26:36
pick The Johnson joke
“I, sadly, I laughed at like the Johnson's joke.”
Craig Horlbeck · 0:26:45
pick The scene in the tent where the gerbil comes out of the bag
“What about the scene in the tent?”
unknown · 0:26:55
pick The inept guard in the fire pit, upset that she slept with Fat Bastard
“I also, I think the scene with the one inept guard when they're in the fire pit and he's upset that she slept with fat bastard.”
unknown · 0:27:08
pick Fat Bastard breaking down crying at the end of his scene
“I like the end when they he starts crying.”
unknown · 0:27:41
pick Fat Bastard and Mini Me's first meeting
“I like also Fat Faster in a Mini Muse 1st meeting.”
unknown · 0:27:58
floated Dr. Evil singing the Chili's theme in 1969
“When he starts singing the Chili's theme, but we're in 1969.”
unknown · 0:28:11
floated The coffee encounter after Dr. Evil and Frau Farbissina's sex scene
“That might be up there on the rewatchable scene too.”
unknown · 0:35:34
floated Mustafa's post-injury scene at the bottom of the mountain
“The Mustafa post injury, which they basically ran back from the 1st one when he's at the bottom.”
unknown · 0:35:48
floated Mini Me humping the lasers
“Mini-Me stopped pumping the lasers, fucking funny, and that's always gonna make me laugh.”
unknown · 0:36:07
floated Mini Me's goodbye card for Scott Evil
“I really love Mini Mee's goodbye card for Scott Evil”
unknown · 0:36:17

Most 1999 Thing · The most 1999 thing about the movie.

winner America Online (written as American Online): First on Bill's list; also the answer given at 0:30:31.
“First of all, American Online.”
Bill Simmons · 0:28:43
nominee Fat Bastard singing the Chili's baby back ribs theme
“Fat bastard singing the chili baby backs ribs theme song was like about his 1999 as you're going to get.”
Bill Simmons · 0:29:09
nominee Rebecca Romijn's cameo: Name mangled in the transcript as Romain.
“A Rebecca Romain cameo?”
Bill Simmons · 0:29:16
nominee Mike Myers as comedic genius
“Mike Myers being a comedic genius just feels very 1999 to me.”
Bill Simmons · 0:29:25
nominee The Starbucks and Seattle motif
“The whole Starbucks, Seattle motif was a big deal in 1999 because that was right around the time.”
Bill Simmons · 0:29:36
nominee Jerry Maguire jokes
“There's some Jeremy McGuire jokes here where he does the show me the money and you had me at hello that just like 20 years later just aren't going to work.”
Bill Simmons · 0:30:11
nominee Jerry Springer
“And then Springer, which we talked about.”
Bill Simmons · 0:30:24

What Aged Best · What has held up best from the movie.

pick The opening credit sequences
“Those are really good in all 3 movies.”
unknown · 0:30:59
pick The concept of mojo
“The concept of mojo is pretty good, and I do feel like it became, I think it's actually age well and probably partly because of this movie.”
unknown · 0:31:18
pick The production design and look
“I feel like, um, this movie weirdly like looks pretty good.”
unknown · 0:31:43
pick Dr. Evil as a Donald Pleasence Bond villain crossed with a Lorne Michaels impression as Dr. Evil
“Dr. Evil has a cross between Dono Pleasant's Bond villain and Dana Carvey's Lauren Michaels impression.”
unknown · 0:32:08
pick Dr. Evil's giant nipples
“Speaking of Dr. Evil, another thing that's age the best.”
unknown · 0:35:15
pick The choice to make it 13 sketches strung together instead of a conventional movie
“I think just the idea of, Saying fuck it, we're just going to make this 13 sketches connected to one another is actually the thing I like the best about it”
unknown · 0:37:05
pick The Mini Me and Scott Evil feud
“I vote for Minnie, me and Scotty Evo.”
unknown · 0:37:21

What Aged Worst · What has held up worst from the movie.

pick Felicity sleeping with Fat Bastard
“Um, Felicity sleeping with Fat Bastard has just grossed me out in 1999.”
unknown · 0:37:25
pick Kristen Johnston as Ivana Humpalot as Ivana Humpalot
“The, uh, Kristen Johnson as Ivana Humpelat, those scenes are just bad.”
unknown · 0:38:10
pick Fat Bastard as a ripoff of the uncle in So I Married an Axe Murderer
“Fat bastard being a ripoff of the uncle and so I married an ax murder.”
unknown · 0:38:21
pick Just the Two of Us as a rap song
“Just the 2 of us as a rap song, that's just hated that.”
unknown · 0:38:52
pick The musical numbers
“I didn't like the musical numbers.”
unknown · 0:39:23

Casting What-Ifs · Almost-castings and who could have played whom.

pick Jim Carrey as Dr. Evil: Myers wanted Carrey as Dr. Evil in 1997.
“Mike Myers wanted Jim Carrey to play Dr. Evo and carry past.”
Bill Simmons · 0:33:43
pick Colin Quinn as Scott Evil
“Colin Quinn turned down the role of Scott Evil in 1997.”
Bill Simmons · 0:39:28

Dion Waiters Award · A small role with a big impact.

nominee Seth Green as Scott Evil: Bill's four candidates, unless Frau Farbissina is added.
“Seth Green, Vern Troyer, Will Ferrell, and Rob Lowe.”
Bill Simmons · 0:41:17
nominee Will Ferrell as Mustafa
“Seth Green, Vern Troyer, Will Ferrell, and Rob Lowe.”
Bill Simmons · 0:41:17
winner Rob Lowe as Number Two: The speaker is not clear.
“I guess Rob Lowe is my answer.”
unknown · 0:41:55
winner Verne Troyer as Mini Me: The speaker is not clear; a second host then goes with Troyer at 0:42:11.
“I would say Vern Troyer is the Dion Waiters winner.”
unknown · 0:41:57

Apex Mountain · Who or what hit their career peak with this movie.

winner Jay Roach: Hosts agree and trace his run from Austin Powers to Meet the Parents to Trumbo and the HBO political movies.
“Ooh. J. Roach is on a Pex Mountain.”
unknown · 0:48:10
winner Verne Troyer
“Vern Troyer, no question.”
unknown · 0:49:34
winner Heather Graham: Hosts agree it is the most successful movie she was in.
“I think this is Ariapex Mountain.”
unknown · 0:50:07
nominee Lenny Kravitz: His cover of American Woman; Heather Graham was in the video.
“Is this also Lenny Kravitz's Apex Mountain?”
unknown · 0:51:23
nominee The Volkswagen Beetle relaunch
“Um, the VW bug.”
unknown · 0:50:28
nominee Random songs thrown on a soundtrack
“I think this is also Apex Mountain for, um, let's just throw all these random songs in a soundtrack.”
unknown · 0:51:11
nominee Rob Lowe: Floated that this could have been his peak; another host doubts it.
“West Wing and Austin Powers, same year.”
unknown · 0:58:29

Joey Pants Award · Best that guy or that girl in a movie.

winner Mindy Sterling as Frau Farbissina
“It's got to be Frau for our business.”
Bill Simmons · 0:51:39
nominee Michael York as Basil Exposition
“I mean, what's your relationship to Michael York?”
unknown · 0:51:49
nominee Kristen Johnston as Ivana Humpalot: Offered as a pick the speaker doesn't understand.
“I have Kristen Johnson for this one.”
unknown · 0:52:04

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

Best Quote · The best lines.

winner Get in my belly as Fat Bastard
“Best quote, there's probably get in my belly became the most famous quote from this.”
Bill Simmons · 0:54:11
pick Machine gun Jublies / try foreplay: The hosts quote the Machine Gun Jubblies exchange.
“Perhaps next time, you should try foreplay.”
unknown · 0:54:39
pick Why make a trillion when we could make millions as Dr. Evil
“you know, like, why make a trillion when we could make?”
unknown · 0:54:49
pick Do you smoke after sex? I don't know, baby. I never looked.
“Do you smoke after sex?”
unknown · 0:55:32

Unanswered Questions · Open questions about the movie.

pick Did Austin's mojo create the concept of Viagra?: Hosts look up that Viagra was approved in March 1998, a year before the movie.
“Did Austin's mojo create the concept of Viagra?”
Bill Simmons · 0:55:46
pick Mojo is taken and he can't perform, yet she says he had it all along
“It's like, well, not really, because he was in bed with you and his mojo got taken and he immediately like couldn't perform anymore.”
unknown · 0:56:50

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

winner Mike Myers
“It's got to be Mike Myers.”
unknown · 0:57:31
nominee Heather Graham
“Although I personally feel like it's Heather Graham, because I love Heather Graham.”
unknown · 0:57:32
nominee Rob Lowe as Number Two
“I liked Rob Lowe as number two.”
unknown · 0:57:51

Films that came up

Claims (48)

programming (programming): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. DVD momentum from the first made the sequel open bigger than the first's total.
“DVD could actually get momentum for a sequel”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Wayne's World. Both 90s SNL-era comedies would not work now because the era is gone.
“I don't think this movie works now.”
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contrast (contrast): Wayne's World → Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Wayne's World grew from an SNL character audiences knew; Austin Powers was new.
“It's not based on an SNL character.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:06:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Our Man Flint. Austin Powers draws on 60s spy movies like Our Man Flint and Michael Caine films.
“a couple of other movies like Armand Flint, the James Coburn movie from the 60s”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Michael Caine. Clearly based in part on a bunch of Michael Caine movies.
“There's a bunch of Michael Kane movies that it's clearly based on.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Mike Myers → Bill Hader. Myers' unmade Sprockets film mirrors a Hader/Mulaney Stefan movie that might have been.
“which is almost what happened with my players with sprockets”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:25 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Mike Myers → The Nutty Professor. Playing multiple roles was a 90s trend after Eddie Murphy's Nutty Professor.
“Nutty Professor, I think is 96.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Mike Myers → Jim Carrey. After this movie Myers passed Carrey as the biggest comic actor, as Carrey went more serious.
“I think he passed Jim Carrey, he was the biggest comic actor in the world.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Dr. No. Bond is the blueprint for Austin Powers; Dr. Evil is Blofeld.
“Dr. Evil being Blofeld and all that stuff, it's just kind of lost on the audience and it still works.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Dr. Evil → Donald Pleasence. Dr. Evil is a rip-off of Pleasence's Bond villain with Lorne Michaels' accent.
“a straight rip off of Donald Pleasance with the Lauren Michaels accent basically”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → The Brady Bunch Movie. Part of 90s nostalgia-mining comedy (Brady Bunch, Addams Family).
“this nostalgia mining comedy”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Mike Myers → Albert Brooks. Speaker thought Myers aimed for Albert Brooks-style write/direct/produce, half serious, half jokey, with Axe Murderer.
“a little bit more of like an Albert Brooks type of thing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Mike Myers → Peter Sellers. Myers' hero is Sellers, who also vanished into characters.
“his big hero is Peter Sellers, who was the exact same way.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Mike Myers → Bill Murray. Myers may have fancied himself a Bill Murray who could do both quick-change and Stripes.
“he probably fancied himself a little bit more of a Bill Murray.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Mike Myers → The Love Guru. Myers waited too long and then Love Guru bombed in 2008; a long drought since.
“we get all the way to 08 and then love grew bombs.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Mike Myers → Will Ferrell. Ferrell probably takes over for Myers as top comic of his generation.
“He probably takes over for Myers after Myers's run.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Boogie Nights. Graham's 1999 run (Boogie Nights, Bowfinger, Austin Powers) is her peak.
“She is at the peak of her powers in this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Heather Graham → Jay Roach. Roach told her hers is the only character who doesn't know it's a joke.
“Jay Roach told her, this is the only character in the movie that doesn't know this movie is a joke.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:13 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Heather Graham → Elizabeth Hurley. Graham plays straight while Hurley and Mimi Rogers wink in the first movie.
“There's something kind of knowing and winking about what Liz Hurley is doing”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Heather Graham → Dr. No. Her bikini homage to Ursula Andress in Dr. No; character based on Bond femmes fatales.
“the bikini that Ursula Andras wore in Dr. No”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:20:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Wayne's World 2 → The Doors. Wayne's World 2's Doors subplot is dated and baffling now, as Springer will be here.
“This is just like the doors thing from Waynes World, too, though.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:05 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Verne Troyer → Warwick Davis. Troyer followed Warwick Davis, Gary Coleman, Herve Villechaize as the go-to little actor.
“Warwick Davis was probably the previous one”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:24:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Mini-Me/Scott Evil fight calls back to the toilet sequence in the first movie.
“Great callback to the toilet sequence in the in the 1st movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:25:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. The first was ramshackle on a small budget; this is bigger and more expensive.
“The 1st one, pretty ramshackle”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:31:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Dr. Evil → Lorne Michaels. Dr. Evil mixes Pleasence's villain and Dana Carvey's Lorne Michaels impression.
“Dr. Evil has a cross between Dono Pleasant's Bond villain and Dana Carvey's Lauren Michaels impression.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Dana Carvey → Mike Myers. Carvey feels Myers lifted Dr. Evil from him; they fell out and did not speak for years.
“he definitely took it from him and it was why they didn't talk for like 15 years.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Jim Carrey → Dr. Evil. Myers wanted Jim Carrey to play Dr. Evil in 1997.
“Mike Myers wanted Jim Carrey to play Dr. Evo and carry past.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:33:43 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Mike Myers → So I Married an Axe Murderer. Fat Bastard rips off the Scottish uncle in Axe Murderer, then Shrek: one trinity.
“Fat bastard being a ripoff of the uncle and so I married an ax murder.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): So I Married an Axe Murderer → Shrek. Uncle, Fat Bastard and Shrek form a Scottish-accent trinity of Myers characters.
“the weirdest trinity of movie characters of all time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Colin Quinn → Scott Evil. Colin Quinn turned down Scott Evil in 1997.
“Colin Quinn turned down the role of Scott Evil in 1997.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Rob Lowe → Robert Wagner. Lowe got Number Two by doing a Robert Wagner impression on the golf course.
“Rob Lo got this part because he did a Robert Wagner impersonation for Mike Myers”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Rob Lowe → Wayne's World. Lowe and Myers had history from Wayne's World.
“they also have an amazing you know, history together from Wayne's World.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Verne Troyer → Seth Green. Dion Waiters Award (overachiever) goes to Vern Troyer.
“I would say Vern Troyer is the Dion Waiters winner.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Wayne's World 3. Myers skipped Wayne's World 3 to develop Austin Powers.
“He didn't do a 3rd Wayne's World War film so he could develop this movie”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Burt Bacharach → Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Bacharach's 'The Look of Love' on the car radio set Myers thinking about where the swingers went, and he wrote Austin Powers in three weeks.
“So one day, Burt Bacharach's look of love was playing on the car radio, Lady Mike Myers, to think about where the swingers of the world went to.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:24 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Heather Graham → Goldfinger. Details gold-paint cover echoed the Goldfinger woman, speaker thinks it won her the part.
“She was covered all in gold paint, like the, like the woman in Goldfinger.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:45:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Jay Roach. Apex Mountain for Jay Roach: most successful of his run.
“This movie made a shitload of money.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:48:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Jay Roach → Meet the Parents. Roach parlayed Austin Powers into Meet the Parents, Fockers and politics films.
“he really parlayed these freaking movies into a huge career.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:48:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Alison Jones → Barry (TV). The famous casting director Alison Jones is in Barry season two, in the scene where Bill Hader auditions for Jay Roach.
“And Alison Jones, the very famous casting director.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:48:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
career (career): Jay Roach → Trumbo. From Austin Powers to political portrayals on screen.
“he literally turned an Austin Powers movie into one of the more significant portrayers of American politics”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:49:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Jay Roach → Barry (TV). Roach appears on Barry; Bill Hader auditions for him.
“Bill Hader auditions for him.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:49:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Verne Troyer. Apex Mountain for Vern Troyer, no question.
“Vern Troyer, no question.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:49:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Heather Graham. Apex Mountain: the movie is Heather Graham's peak.
“I think this is Ariapex Mountain.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Lenny Kravitz. The movie is Apex Mountain for Lenny Kravitz's American Woman cover.
“Is this also Lenny Kravitz's Apex Mountain?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Avengers: Endgame. Both brush off time-travel logic with a joke.
“that's exactly what Avengers Endgame does too”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me → Mike Myers. Who won the movie: Mike Myers (Heather Graham for the speaker).
“It's got to be Mike Myers.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:57:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Rob Lowe → St. Elmo's Fire. Lowe was a huge 80s star: St. Elmo's Fire, About Last Night, then reinvented via SNL and Wayne's World.
“St. Elmo's fires probably.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): About Last Night → Rob Lowe. Recommended homework for Craig: a rom-com dramedy set in Chicago.
“I'd be interested if you and Liz saw that one.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (25)

fun, about Chris Ryan: Declined to join: 'I'm not a powers guy.'
“I'm not a powers guy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:43 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Mike Myers: Wrote Austin Powers in three weeks after joking in an English accent to his wife in the car about whether she swung.
“then he wrote the movie in 3 weeks”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:13:29 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Mike Myers: Possible career alternate: had he died after the third movie, remembered more fondly.
“I think he's remembered a lot more finely than he is now.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:14:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Jim Carrey: Speaker misses gopher-broke crazy Jim Carrey.
“I miss old Jim Carrey in a lot of ways.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:15:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Austin Powers: Myers got the idea at a Halloween parade in Santa Monica seeing fifteen Austin Powers costumes walk by his car.
“he saw 15 Austin Powers, walked by him.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:18:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Heather Graham: Roach told her the only character who doesn't know it's a joke; she plays it straight and adoring.
“she is playing it straight”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Springer scene: Opening Jerry Springer scene with Scott Evil is a rewatchable top choice, but will date as Springer fades.
“The Springer scene is still really funny to me at the top.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Alan Parsons Project scene: Dr. Evil's Alan Parsons Project bit and 'insulin tune' is a rewatchable four minutes.
“just that whole 4 minutes is really good.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:25:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Spaceship supercut: Dick-joke supercut of the spaceship, test audiences loved it so they reshot more cameos.
“the test audiences loved that so much”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Woody Harrelson: Woody Harrelson and Willie Nelson cameos in the spaceship bit.
“The Woody Harrelson cameo and the Willie Nelson cameos are pretty incredible.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Fat Bastard: Cries and sings the Chili's baby back ribs theme: peak 1999.
“I eat because I'm unhappy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:27:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about American Online: The movie calls AOL 'American Online'; picked as the most 1999 thing.
“It's called American Online”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Mojo: The word mojo entered everyday sports talk, maybe thanks to this movie.
“I think Mojo is a word people use and still use”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:31:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Dana Carvey: Carvey says Myers lifted Dr. Evil from him; they stopped speaking for years after Wayne's World 2.
“they didn't talk for like 15 years”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Dr. Evil: Giant nipples through the see-through shirt chosen as aging best.
“his giant nipples.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:35:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Mini-Me: Mini-Me and Scott Evil's feud is a favorite; Mini-Me's goodbye card.
“the Mini Mee Scott Evil feud is fucking great to me.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Rob Lowe: Got Number Two through a Robert Wagner impression while golfing with Myers.
“he did a Robert Wagner impersonation for Mike Myers one day when they were golfing”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Austin Powers: An hour-long Austin Powers special aired on MTV before the first movie premiered.
“A one hour Austin Powers special aired on MTV”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:44:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Fat Bastard: Makeup took 2.5 hours a day, not the rumored seven.
“Fat bastards, 2.5 hours of makeup every day, not seven.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:45:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Goldmember: Original cut was three and a half hours; Heather Graham's scenes were cut.
“the original cut was like 3.5 hours”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:45:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Heather Graham: Details cover in gold paint; speaker pinned the trifold to his wall for three years.
“pinned it to my wall.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:46:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Demi Moore: Executive producer on all three films; hosts cannot explain why.
“Demi Moore is an EP on all 3 of these films”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:47:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Viagra: The Viagra FDA approval came a year before the film; joke that mojo is a Viagra proxy.
“Viagra was green lighted for use by the FDA on March 27, 1998”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:56:04 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Mike Myers: Kanye Katrina face traced back to an SNL infomercial sketch with Heather Locklear.
“It was the Mike Myers face.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Dr. Evil: Myers brought Dr. Evil back on Fallon; the speaker found it painful, an expired artifact.
“such an expired artifact”
The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Bill Simmons (host): Loves the 90s Myers era (Wayne's World, Axe Murderer) more than the Powers films. A sucker for Heather Graham and Garth-style sidekicks. Dislikes the rap song and the Fat Bastard sleeping bit; wants comedians to stay comedians.
Sean Fennessey (host): Likes the sketch-driven silliness and Mini-Me/Scott Evil feud. Annoyed by Fat Bastard's grossness and Felicity sleeping with him. Likes Rob Lowe's resilient career.
Craig Horlbeck (guest): Producer who joins in; laughs at the sophomoric Johnson joke and loves Mini-Me's first scene. Has a fond streak for gross-out gags.

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

Sean Fantasy → Sean Fennessey
Armand Flint → Our Man Flint
Laura/Lauren Michaels → Lorne Michaels
Vern Troyer/Shroyer → Verne Troyer
Kristen Johnson → Kristen Johnston
Wayne World / Ranger World → Wayne's World
Dion Waiters (award) is real
Dr. Evo → Dr. Evil
Rebecca Romain → Rebecca Romijn
Hater → Hader
Fad Bass → fat bastard
Dono Pleasant → Donald Pleasence
Craig Corlbeck → Craig Horlbeck
Ivana Humpelat → Ivana Humpalot
Garth Ryan → Chris Ryan