The Rewatchables: ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck

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The extraction calls the show “The Rewatchables (The Ringer)” and the episode “'Knocked Up' With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck”.

Hosts: Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, Craig Horlbeck. Guests: none.

Subject films: Knocked Up (2007).

On the transcript: Auto transcript, no speaker labels; many name errors and mid-roll ads (Angry Orchard, FanDuel, Searchlight, Quince, Tremfya, Vuori, Whalefall) at 0:00-0:01:44, 0:31:57-0:33:44, 0:59:01-1:00:34 and after 1:27. Hosts overlap and speaker attribution is often a guess.

Awards and segments (87)

Double feature

pick This Is 40: Bill wants to run the same characters back, picking the sequel as the pair.
“I would say this is 40 because you're just, you're running it back.”
Bill Simmons · 1:20:56
pick Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Craig saw only a glimpse of the supporting guys and wants a movie where they are more prominent, especially Jason Segel.
“So I would go like forgetting Sarah Marshall.”
Craig Horlbeck · 1:21:20
pick Adventureland: Juliet likes that it shares cast members like Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig and Martin Starr and is directed by the Superbad director.
“I would go with Adventureland, which is one of my favorite movies, and it has a lot of these people, Bill Hader, Kristen Wig, Martin Starr.”
Juliet Litman · 1:21:43

Most rewatchable scene

pick The guys ripping on Martin the bearded guy (Scorsese on Coke, Yusuf Islam, Robin Williams knuckles).
“I just so you know, nothing delights me more than a bunch of guys making fun of a friend for some sort of them making fun of Martin the bearded guy.”
Bill Simmons · 0:33:46
pick The nightclub scene, especially the dice bit while Seth Rogen dances.
“I just, I love being in a nightclub with them for that 5 minutes.”
Bill Simmons · 0:37:06
floated Kristen Wiig's weight-loss scene at E!.
“The, uh, the weight loss scene with Kristen Wig is really good.”
Bill Simmons · 0:35:09
floated The double date where the two men tell Rudd and Mann to take the time machine back and have each other.
“I love the double date.”
unknown · 0:38:52
floated The Vegas trip and the doorman scene with Craig Robinson.
“And then I have the Vegas trip is really funny because it ties in that whole stretch of the Vegas trip and the doorman scene when they can't get in the club and Craig Robinson has this whole thing.”
unknown · 0:39:45
pick The fantasy baseball draft scene.
“Um, the fantasy baseball scene is just...”
Craig Horlbeck · 0:40:04
pick Alison's first visit to the guys' house, with Jonah Hill awkward watching Wild Things.
“I like when she goes to the house for the 1st time because I feel like that is a very good representation of how anyone would feel.”
Juliet Litman · 0:40:43
pick The breakfast table scene with Seth Rogen and Maude Apatow.
“I just, one we didn't mention, actually, when Seth Rogen is interacting with Maud Apatow for the 1st time at the breakfast table and they're explaining why he slept over and whatever.”
Juliet Litman · 0:41:27

What Aged the Best · What in the movie holds up best today.

pick Jonah Hill yelling
“And him yelling. Jonah Hill yelling has aged the best.”
Juliet Litman · 0:42:12
pick Debbie and Pete's Brentwood house and its coastal California interiors
“Debbie Pete's house and the neighborhood of Brentwood looks the same and still fabulous.”
Juliet Litman · 0:44:44
pick The Laramie Tunsil gas mask: He didn't know what it was at the time.
“The Laramie Tunsil gas mask, I think his age's the best, because I didn't know what that was at the time.”
Bill Simmons · 0:44:13
pick Jason Segel naked after the earthquake, cigarette in his mouth
“Jason Siegel loving to be naked.”
Craig Horlbeck · 0:45:29
pick Seth Rogen's Matthew Fox dig
“And then my last one was Seth Rogan's Matthew Fox dig.”
Craig Horlbeck · 0:45:46
pick Ryan Seacrest making fun of himself
“The Seacrest making fun of himself and being funny, I think, is at what stage the best.”
Juliet Litman · 0:46:22

What Aged the Worst · What in the movie plays worst today.

pick The Sprint trio cell phone close-up
“It's been rough times for the sprint trio over the next 15 years.”
unknown · 0:50:46
pick Catherine Heigl's 2005 club wardrobe
“Um, we must discuss Catherine Heigel's wardrobe?”
Juliet Litman · 0:52:14
pick Debbie being anti-vax
“Debbie being anti-vax?”
Juliet Litman · 0:53:12
pick The fake-looking prosthetic pregnancy bump
“Her prosthetic bump?”
Juliet Litman · 0:53:05
pick The actors playing Ben's friends using their real names: Because those actors are now iconic, who they are as real people intrudes on the movie.
“I think that's aged poorly, especially because so many of those actors are now iconic.”
Juliet Litman · 0:51:55

Slow Ride Award · The best needle drop.

pick Rock Lobster by The B-52's
“I gotta go rock lobster, the B 52s.”
Bill Simmons · 0:47:21
pick Rock Lobster by The B-52's
“Start of the movie.”
Craig Horlbeck · 0:47:30

Big Kahuna Burger Award · The best food or drink that made them hungry or thirsty.

pick The two beers
“I'm going to go with the 2 beers.”
unknown · 0:47:49

Benihana Award · The best scene-stealing location.

pick Swingers Diner
“The Swingers Diner.”
unknown · 0:48:09
pick Geisha House
“I know this is a speed round, but we just, we must mention Geisha House.”
Juliet Litman · 0:48:51

Great Shot Gordo Award · The best shot of the movie.

pick The mushrooms-in-Vegas sequence filmed from the audience seats
“I have them when they're on mushrooms in Vegas, how they filmed it when they were in the seats.”
unknown · 0:48:38

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

winner The fantasy baseball cheating subplot: Nine minutes of sidetrack with no payoff; Bill thinks Judd fell in love with that storyline.
“but this whole fantasy football cheating subplot sidetrack we take for really no payoff at all, I don't know if it was worth it.”
Bill Simmons · 0:49:42

Ron Burgundy Award (best time for a pee break) · The best time to go pee during a tough stretch of the movie.

winner The 7.5 minutes of labor before the hospital
“I would take a long 7 minute pee during that.”
Bill Simmons · 0:54:36

Better Title · Whether the movie had a better title.

pick Knocked Up: No better title; it is the perfect one.
“Knocked Up is the perfect title for this movie.”
Craig Horlbeck · 0:55:08
pick Knocked Up: Notes that abroad it is called A Little Bit Pregnant or Slightly Pregnant but she would not change it.
“I think knocked up is a fantastic title.”
Juliet Litman · 0:55:23

Best Quote · The best line of the movie.

winner Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond: Bill also floated the line about having kids and dreams going out the window.
“Or marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of everybody loves raymond, only a dozen last 22 minutes.”
Bill Simmons · 0:55:28

Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · The hottest take on the movie.

pick Katherine Heigl and Lindsay Lohan: Calls them the two lost superstars of the decade.
“I just think her and Lohan are the 2 lost superstars from this decade.”
Bill Simmons · 0:25:19
pick Flesh of the Stars is a better name than Mr. Skin
“Flesh of the Stars is a better name than Mr. Skin.”
Craig Horlbeck · 0:56:12
pick Alison should have had an abortion: Argues Ben has nothing and Alison herself said she didn't want the child to define her life.
“She should have had an abortion.”
Juliet Litman · 0:56:26

Casting What-Ifs · Almost-castings and auditions.

pick Anne Hathaway as Alison: Originally cast and dropped out, reportedly over the plan to use real birth footage; Juliet says she would have been good.
“Anne Hathaway, originally cast.”
Bill Simmons · 0:57:06
pick Mila Kunis as Alison: Auditioned and didn't get it; Apatow remembered her for Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
“We know Mila Kunis auditioned and didn't get it, but Jed Appatau remembered her and put her around forgetting Sarah Marshall.”
Bill Simmons · 0:58:28
pick Sydney Sweeney as Alison
“but I have Sidney Sweeney in the Heiger role.”
Bill Simmons · 1:04:49
pick Gaten Matarazzo as Ben
“What about Gated Moderazo from Stranger Things?”
unknown · 1:05:05

Ruffalo-Hanna-Rubinek-Partridge Overacting Award · The most over-the-top performance; the Teddy KGB Award segment (a second overacting round) is folded in here.

winner Charlene Yi as Jodi: The pigtailed stoner; Bill says the character didn't work and she went too hard on the improv.
“I don't know. I just, that character just didn't work for me.”
Bill Simmons · 1:01:14
nominee Ken Jeong as Dr. Kuni: Too mean and over the top as the doctor.
“I think it's Ken Jong.”
unknown · 1:03:29
nominee Martin Starr: Doing his own thing, and it works.
“Martin Starr is just doing his own thing and I love it, but he's It kind of works.”
Bill Simmons · 1:03:22

Judith Myers Award · The character who would be killed in the first few minutes if it were a horror movie.

pick Jay Baruchel: Bill then corrects himself that Michael Sarah is the one who gets impaled in This Is the End.
“That has to be Jay Bar show, right?”
Bill Simmons · 1:02:03

Best That Guy · The best that-guy actor in the movie.

winner Tim Bagley as the OB-GYN
“His name is Tim Bagley.”
Bill Simmons · 1:02:30
nominee Joanna Kerns as Alison and Debbie's mom: The mom from Growing Pains.
“Her name is Joanna Kearns, growing pains before your time, Craig, but it was a Kurt Cameron sitcom.”
Bill Simmons · 1:02:43
nominee Alan Tudyk as Alison's boss at E!: Bill agrees he should have had him.
“I'm shocked you're not talking about Alan Tudek.”
unknown · 1:02:58

Dion Waiters Award · Small role, big impact.

nominee Ryan Seacrest
“Ryan Seacrest.”
Bill Simmons · 1:04:10
nominee Bill Hader
“Kristen Wig, Bill Hader, Iris Apatow, Stormy Daniels and Craig Robinson.”
Bill Simmons · 1:04:11
nominee Craig Robinson
“Craig Robinson seems really good, but I think for me, it's Kristen Wig.”
Bill Simmons · 1:04:30
winner Kristen Wiig as the E! executive: Two scenes, really funny in both; Craig breaks the tie for Wiig.
“It's got to be wig.”
Bill Simmons · 1:04:34

Half-Fast Internet Research · Trivia dug up online.

pick Jay Baruchel is terrified of roller coasters, so his reactions were real
“Jay Barr show is terrified of roller coaster.”
unknown · 1:05:22
pick A DVD special feature where Michael Sera is fired and Bennett Miller co-directs
“Do you know about this special feature on the DVD where Michael Sarah gets fired from the film because he's arguing with Appatau, and then another director named Bennett Miller comes in to codirect with Appatau, and it's all like basically a wrestling work.”
Bill Simmons · 1:05:30
pick Heigl's Maxim Hot 100 ranking in 2007
“Juliet, where do you think Catherine Hagel was ranked on Maxim Magazine's hot 100 of 2007 list?”
Bill Simmons · 1:05:45
pick Heigl's animals in 2014
“She owned 8 dogs, 4 cats, 9 horses, 2 donkeys, 2 goats, and 8 chickens.”
Bill Simmons · 1:06:15
pick Wild Things: Neve Campbell topless in a pool scene that is not in either version of the movie
“Wild Things a movie.”
Bill Simmons · 1:06:45

Apex Mountain · Where a star's career sits on the mountain at this movie.

winner Katherine Heigl: Bill compares it to Vinny Chase in Aquaman territory; the others agree.
“Heigel's got to be, yes, right?”
Bill Simmons · 1:07:45
winner Seth Rogen: Bill argues the apex is right now, with Superbad coming two months later and anything greenlit.
“It's probably that 2 months later.”
Bill Simmons · 1:09:54
nominee Leslie Mann: Probably her peak as lead actress in a big movie, in This Is 40.
“I think it's probably leading, this is 40.”
Bill Simmons · 1:10:05

Hall of Fame · Which movie hangs on a person's Hall of Fame plaque.

pick The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Apatow's plaque; this one close)
“I think I would go with a 40-year-old virgin, but this is close.”
unknown · 1:12:17
pick Superbad (Seth Rogen's plaque)
“I think that's super bad.”
unknown · 1:12:32

Best racehorse name · The best racehorse name from the movie.

nominee Drinking Bone
“Smash Martian, or this is my favorite, Drinking Bone.”
Bill Simmons · 1:03:08
nominee Pregnant with Emotion
“Pregnant with emotion?”
Craig Horlbeck · 1:13:25
winner Flesh of the Stars: Bill agrees it is the winner.
“And then, I mean, could you toss in flesh of the stars?”
Craig Horlbeck · 1:13:28

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

Unanswerable Questions · Questions the movie leaves hanging.

pick Can you get pink eye from farting on a pillow?
“Can you get pink eye from farting on a pillow?”
Bill Simmons · 1:16:38
pick Can a woman on top not get pregnant?
“Have there been studies on this?”
Bill Simmons · 1:15:16
pick How does Ben pay for anything?
“How does he pay for literally anything?”
unknown · 1:17:31
pick Did this movie teach more people about childbirth than any class?
“Did this movie teach more people my age about childbirth than any class or anything else?”
unknown · 1:17:47

Sequel, Prequel, Prestige TV, All-Black Cast, or Untouchable · What kind of follow-up or remake treatment the movie would get.

pick Prestige TV series, an eight-episode Amazon show
“this is, to me, feels like a prestige TV 8 episode that I could see on like Amazon.”
unknown · 1:19:02
pick A Sex Lives of College Girls tone for HBO Max
“I love that show, and I feel like that tone applied to knocked up for like HBO Max could work.”
unknown · 1:19:36

Is this movie better with… · Whether a favorite character actor would have improved the movie.

winner Catherine Hahn: Could have played Alison's friend, Debbie, or the doctor.
“Catherine Han could have played the Ken Jong, Dr. role.”
unknown · 1:20:05

Oscar Pick · Who should have been nominated or won.

pick Jonah Hill as Jonah: For best supporting actor; another voice says screenplay is the most likely.
“I was thinking Jonah Hill for best supporting actor.”
unknown · 1:20:18

Best Age to Watch · The ideal age to see the movie.

pick 21, when it came out
“Um, I saw it when it came out.”
unknown · 1:20:38
pick 23, as old as the guys in the movie
“you want to be as old as the guys in the movie, right?”
unknown · 1:20:45

Memorabilia · A prop they would want from the movie.

pick The Laramie Tunsil gas mask
“Gas mask.”
Craig Horlbeck · 1:22:18
pick Ben's random samurai sword
“I had the random samurai sword that Ben owns one of his 2 possessions.”
unknown · 1:22:26

Coach Finstock Award · The best life lesson.

pick Don't fall for an unemployed stoner making a Mr. Skin ripoff site
“I would go with, don't fall for an unemployed stoner is making a Mr. Skin ripoff site.”
Juliet Litman · 1:22:35
pick You can't get a woman pregnant if she's on top
“You can't get a woman pregnant if she's on top.”
unknown · 1:22:57

Who Won the Movie · Who came out ahead from making the movie.

winner Seth Rogen: Succeeding as a lead opened the door to any movie he wanted, and Superbad followed two months later.
“I'm going with Seth Rogan.”
unknown · 1:25:11
nominee Judd Apatow
“Judd.”
unknown · 1:25:10

Ideal Length · The ideal runtime for the movie.

pick About 1 hour 45 minutes, cutting the labor and the fantasy cheating sidetrack
“So you're basically getting, you're speeding through all the labor stuff.”
unknown · 1:26:09

Ebert Review · The reading of Roger Ebert's review; there was none for this film, so Bill read another critic.

pick Knocked Up: No Ebert review; Bill read Emily Nussbaum's review instead (no star rating), which says Alison made basically zero sense.
“No Roger Ebert review.”
Bill Simmons · 0:31:03

Films that came up

Claims (88)

lineage (lineage): Knocked Up → When Harry Met Sally. Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift.
“It starts with when Harry Met Sally.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Mean Girls → Knocked Up. Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'.
“I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Knocked Up → Mean Girls. Bill groups Knocked Up with Mean Girls, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Sarah Marshall and Bridesmaids as the 'com-rom' cycle.
“Mean girls, 40 year old virgin, wedding crashers, knocked up, Sarah Marshall, EZA bridesmaids.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:48 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Knocked Up → When Harry Met Sally. Craig defines the com-rom: comedy about romance rather than romance with comedy.
“I love it, because it's instead of a romance that has comedy, it's comedy about romance.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:04:02 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Knocked Up → When Harry Met Sally. Craig says the newer movies focus on the men while the earlier ones focus on the women.
“The men are the kind of the focuses and the early ones it's focused on the women.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:04:10 · Craig Horlbeck (0.75 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Woody Allen → Annie Hall. Juliet traces the first rom-com era to Woody Allen and 'the sort of Annie Hall of it all'.
“I think that's the sort of Annie Hall of it all can't be ignored fully”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:04:39 · Juliet Litman (0.75 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Nora Ephron. Juliet judges Nancy Meyers better as a writer than as a director, grouping her with Nora Ephron as writers with a specific female lens.
“Nancy Myers is like better as a writer than as a director”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:04:54 · Juliet Litman (0.75 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Judd Apatow → Nora Ephron. Juliet says the rom-com era of female writers like Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers was changed when Apatow arrived with his crew.
“And then Judd Appatow comes to town with his crew and changes that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:09 · Juliet Litman (0.75 sure it was them)
people (people): Tina Fey → Mean Girls. Bill notes Tina Fey wrote Mean Girls while the group argues it is a teen movie rather than a rom-com.
“So I was thinking, like, Tina Fey wrote that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:27 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Starting Over → Knocked Up. Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies.
“It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Wedding Crashers → Knocked Up. Bill says Wedding Crashers and Mean Girls became genuinely funny, which is what Apatow figured out.
“I think the thing Appatau figured out on wedding crashers and Mean Girls and some of these other things was, they became genuinely funny.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:06:03 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): When Harry Met Sally → My Best Friend's Wedding. Bill says Harry Met Sally is genuinely funny, unlike Pretty Woman or the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks movies; My Best Friend's Wedding is funny but not hilarious.
“My best friend's wedding is funny, but it's not like, it's not like hilarious.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:06:19 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): When Harry Met Sally → Pretty Woman. Juliet calls Harry Met Sally an anomaly among 89-05 rom-coms because the writing is so sharp and it has a real vibe.
“But Harry Mitzally is an anomaly because the writing is so, so sharp.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:06:37 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Harry Connick Jr. → When Harry Met Sally. Juliet credits the Harry Connick Jr. music with giving When Harry Met Sally a real vibe that sets it apart from other 1989-2005 rom-coms.
“it has a real vibe to it, the Harry Connick Jr. music, like all of that, which separates that from many of the other rom-coms that were in that era from 89 to 05.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:06:41 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): When Harry Met Sally → Woody Allen. A speaker says Harry Met Sally uses New York as a character, which was the Woody Allen trick.
“Well, and it uses New York too as like a real character, which was the Woody Allen trick.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:06:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Judd Apatow → The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Bill says Apatow put idiot 22-year-old men into a rom-com, a trick he also used in 40-Year-Old Virgin.
“Judd figured out how to like put them in a rom-com and make it work.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:08:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Knocked Up → The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Bill says the first half is idiots hanging out and the second half is more rom-com, less funny and more heartwarming; he notes 40-Year-Old Virgin was already covered.
“He did it in 40-year-old version too, which we've already done”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:08:36 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
people (people): Judd Apatow → Freaks and Geeks (TV). A speaker notes the cast had worked together before in Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared.
“Well, they were in freaks and geeks and undeclared together too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:09:50 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Judd Apatow → Adam McKay. Bill says McKay and Ferrell were doing the same improvise-and-keep-rolling thing at the same time as Apatow.
“Adam McKay and Will Ferrell and those guys are kind of doing the same thing at the same time.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:10:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Judd Apatow → Knocked Up. Bill lists everything Apatow produced 2005 to 2011, the best comedy producing run anyone has had.
“That's got to be the best comedy producing run anyone's had.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:10:54 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Bridesmaids → Knocked Up. Bill frames Bridesmaids as Apatow's answer to the criticism of the female lead in Knocked Up.
“And bridesmaids is the mic trap, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:11:00 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Knocked Up → Bridesmaids. Juliet contrasts Alison having no friends with the best-friend role that was essential to the 89-05 rom-coms.
“The best friend is a crucial part of all of those women driven rom-coms from 89 to 05.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:12:21 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Judy Greer → 27 Dresses. Juliet cites Judy Greer in 27 Dresses as one of the iconic rom-com best friends, alongside Heather Burns and Carrie Fisher.
“Judy Greer is in that movie. and she is like one of the iconic best friends.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:12:30 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Knocked Up → This Is 40. Bill says halfway through the movie it becomes a Rudd and Mann movie, which becomes This Is 40.
“the movie pretty much becomes like a Rudd and man movie by the end of it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:12:53 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
people (people): Paul Rudd → Judd Apatow. Speakers read Rudd's character as a proxy for Judd, with Apatow's own wife and kids on screen.
“It's his wife and his 2 kids, but with Paul Rudd not playing him”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:13:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Funny People → This Is 40. Juliet reads the Funny People affair plot as the flip side of the This Is 40 marriage fantasy.
“that's like the flip side of this is 40 or something like that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:14:39 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Maude Apatow → Euphoria (TV). A speaker says Maude Apatow, a child in Knocked Up, now has a crucial role in Euphoria.
“And she has this crucial role in euphoria.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:15:25 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Judd Apatow → Girls (TV). Juliet says during the run Apatow was developing Girls for HBO.
“he was developing girls, which then came out on HBO in 2012.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:15:37 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Judd Apatow → Lena Dunham. Juliet says the dude-movie run gave way to Bridesmaids and launching Lena Dunham's career.
“after doing all these movies with the dudes, gave way to bridesmaids”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:15:44 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Judd Apatow → Ivan Reitman. Bill asks whether Apatow is, for Craig's generation, what Ivan Reitman and Lorne Michaels were for him.
“people like Ivan Reitman, just really revering them as I was like in college”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:14 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
career (career): Judd Apatow → Superbad. Craig says Apatow gave all these guys their own movie, such as Superbad for Jonah Hill.
“He like gave Jonah Hill his movie super bad.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:35 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Judd Apatow → Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Craig says Apatow then gave Segel his own movie in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
“Then he gives Siegel it and forgetting Sir Marshall.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:17:37 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Superbad → Knocked Up. Bill points out Superbad came out two months after Knocked Up.
“And by the way, Superbag came out 2 months after this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:18:31 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
career (career): Katherine Heigl → Grey's Anatomy (TV). Bill says Heigl got more attention from Grey's Anatomy and was good in Knocked Up, laying seeds of a major star.
“She goes on Grey's Anatomy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:19:10 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Katherine Heigl → Julia Roberts. Bill lines up Heigl with Reese Witherspoon, young Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts as someone you can tell 'has it'.
“you kind of know it when somebody has it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:19:26 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
career (career): Katherine Heigl → Sandra Bullock. Juliet says the Vanity Fair cover treatment Heigl got was one Sandra Bullock got after Speed.
“Sandra Bullock got it, right after speed”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:20:11 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Katherine Heigl → Knocked Up. Juliet recounts Heigl saying in Vanity Fair she could not be proud of Knocked Up because of sexism, then walking it back on Howard Stern.
“She says that she can't be proud of knocked up because of the sexism in it, which she then had to walk back on Howard Stern.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:20:46 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): Katherine Heigl → Grey's Anatomy (TV). Juliet says Shonda Rhimes does not suffer insults, so Heigl was banished from Grey's Anatomy after the Vanity Fair article.
“She does not suffer insults.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:22:29 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Katherine Heigl → Lindsay Lohan. Bill's hottest take: Heigl and Lohan are the two lost superstars of the decade.
“I just think her and Lohan are the 2 lost superstars from this decade.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:25:19 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): 27 Dresses → Picture Perfect. Juliet puts 27 Dresses in the same category as Picture Perfect with Jennifer Aniston, one of the most abominable movies of all time.
“I would put it in the same category as like picture perfect with Jennifer Aniston”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:26:05 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): 27 Dresses → Hitch. Juliet says 27 Dresses is a cross between Hitch and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
“it's kind of like a cross between hitch and um, how to lose a guy in 10 days, essentially.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:26:16 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Seth Rogen → The Ugly Truth. Bill relates how Rogen on Howard Stern pointed at Heigl's The Ugly Truth, which Bill calls terrible.
“he pointed to Hegel's work, the movie, The Ugly Truth, which is terrible.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:26:59 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): Judd Apatow → Girls (TV). Juliet says Apatow took the criticism to heart, evolving into Girls and Bridesmaids.
“I also do think he took the criticism to heart.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:28:11 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
people (people): Judd Apatow → Lena Dunham. Juliet recalls spending a day with Apatow in 2009 where he always named Lena Dunham as his favorite in comedy, right after Tiny Furniture.
“without a doubt, always said Lena Dunham.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:28:27 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Roger Ebert → Knocked Up. Bill notes there is no Roger Ebert review of Knocked Up, guessing Ebert had health issues.
“No Roger Ebert review.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:31:03 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Emily Nussbaum → Knocked Up. Bill reads Emily Nussbaum's 2007 critique that Alison is a completely inconsistent character.
“She was just a completely inconsistent character”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:31:29 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
career (career): Martin Starr → Silicon Valley (TV). Bill says Martin Starr is the same guy in everything, like in Silicon Valley, but figured out his lane.
“He's in SoCon Valley.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:34:58 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Kristen Wiig → Knocked Up. A speaker says Wiig's weight-loss scene is the first time she does her thing on camera.
“It's kind of the 1st time like Wig does her thing on camera.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:35:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (reference): Knocked Up → Wild Things. Juliet points to Jonah Hill watching Wild Things in the house scene.
“and he's watching Wild Things.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:41:02 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Knocked Up → This Is 40. Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much.
“This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Ryan Seacrest → American Idol. Bill says Seacrest self-mocking in Knocked Up is better than his American Idol or Kardashian work.
“It's better than American Idol, Seacrest.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:47:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The B-52s → Knocked Up. Best needle drop pick for Knocked Up is the B-52s' 'Rock Lobster' when Alison and Ben go back to hook up; Craig agrees.
“I gotta go rock lobster, the B 52s.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:47:21 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
unmapped (reference): Knocked Up → Swingers. A speaker notes there is a Swingers joke when they drive to Vegas, and wonders if under-20s get it.
“They have a swinger's joke in the movie too, when they're driving to Vegas.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:48:20 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Ashton Kutcher → Knocked Up. Juliet insists on mentioning Geisha House, partly owned by Ashton Kutcher, as the hot restaurant of the moment.
“I didn't mention Geisha House and the Great Ashton Kutcher.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:49:06 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Knocked Up → Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. The pee-break category is named after the Anchorman flute scene; Bill uses it to mark Knocked Up's 7.5-minute labor stretch.
“The anchorman flute. P-break Award for best time to go go pee”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:53:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
unmapped (reference): Knocked Up → Everybody Loves Raymond (TV). Best-quote pick: marriage as a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond.
“marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of everybody loves Raymond”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:55:35 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Anne Hathaway → Knocked Up. Bill raises Anne Hathaway as originally cast as Alison and dropping out over how the birth footage would be used.
“Anne Hathaway, originally cast.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:57:06 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
career (career): Anne Hathaway → Rachel Getting Married. Juliet argues Knocked Up would have fit between Devil Wears Prada and Rachel Getting Married for Hathaway.
“Like, her next, like, pretty important role after Prada in 06 was Rachel getting married and that wasn't until 08.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:58:09 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Anne Hathaway → Get Smart. Bill says instead of Knocked Up, Hathaway was in Get Smart.
“Instead she was in Get Smart.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:58:20 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Kate Bosworth → Knocked Up. Bill reports alleged auditions by Jennifer Love Hewitt (transcribed 'La Feud'), Kate Bosworth and Christina Aguilera.
“Allegedly, Jennifer La Feud and Kate Bosworth auditioned.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:58:22 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Mila Kunis → Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Bill says Mila Kunis auditioned for Alison, didn't get it, but Apatow remembered her for Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
“We know Mila Kunis auditioned and didn't get it, but Jed Appatau remembered her and put her around forgetting Sarah Marshall.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:58:28 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Sydney Sweeney → Katherine Heigl. The 2022 recast: Sydney Sweeney in the Heigl role after Euphoria.
“I have Sidney Sweeney in the Heiger role.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:04:49 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Gaten Matarazzo → Seth Rogen. The recast for Rogen: Gaten Matarazzo from Stranger Things.
“What about Gated Moderazo from Stranger Things?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:05:05 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Michael Cera → Knocked Up. Bill describes a DVD special feature where Michael Cera is 'fired' and Bennett Miller co-directs, a wrestling-style work.
“Do you know about this special feature on the DVD where Michael Sarah gets fired from the film”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:05:30 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Katherine Heigl → Entourage (TV). For Apex Mountain, Bill asks if Heigl is at Vinnie Chase Aquaman level.
“I don't know if, is it Vinny Chase Aquaman level?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:07:47 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
career (career): Seth Rogen → Pineapple Express. Bill says Pineapple Express comes right after, so Rogen's apex is later.
“Pineapple Express is right after this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:08:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): Seth Rogen → Long Shot. A speaker says Rogen is now in legitimate normal movies like The Long Shot.
“he is like in like legitimate normal movies, like that movie the long shot.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:08:46 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Seth Rogen → Superbad. Bill says Rogen peaked around Knocked Up plus Superbad two months later, so he could green-light anything.
“he can get anything greenlit that he'd ever want.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:09:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Leslie Mann → Big Daddy. A speaker loves Leslie Mann in Big Daddy and thinks she's one of the best comedy moms.
“I love her and Big Daddy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:10:27 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Leslie Mann → The Other Woman. Bill says his wife likes a Cameron Diaz movie, The Other Woman, where Mann is funny.
“I think she's really funny in that one.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:10:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Knocked Up → The League (TV). Bill says Knocked Up may be the most high-profile fantasy moment in a movie, since The League is a TV show.
“It might be the most high profile fantasy moment.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:11:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Judd Apatow → The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Hall of Fame plaque for Apatow: 40-Year-Old Virgin vs Freaks and Geeks vs this movie.
“I think I would go with a 40-year-old virgin, but this is close.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:12:17 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Judd Apatow → Freaks and Geeks (TV). Hall of Fame plaque for Apatow: another speaker goes with Freaks and Geeks.
“I think he would go with freaks and geeks.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:12:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Seth Rogen → Superbad. Hall of Fame plaque for Rogen goes to Superbad: 'that's like his baby'.
“I mean, that's like his baby.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Knocked Up → Big Daddy. Bill compares Ben's money-from-nowhere set-up to Sonny in Big Daddy: it doesn't have to work because he has all the money.
“Sonny get run over by, uh, like a cab in Big Daddy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:16:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Knocked Up → Juno. Bill asks if this is the best unplanned-pregnancy movie; Juliet thought of Juno but is not a fan.
“But I think this has to be the best unplanned pregnancy movie, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:18:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Knocked Up → Catastrophe (TV). A speaker calls Catastrophe basically Knocked Up with older people.
“Isn't that basically knocked up with older people as same kind of theme?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:19:19 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Knocked Up → Sex Lives of College Girls (TV). Juliet imagines Sex Lives of College Girls' tone applied to Knocked Up for HBO Max.
“I feel like that tone applied to knocked up for like HBO Max could work.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:19:36 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Kathryn Hahn → Knocked Up. Recasting: Kathryn Hahn (transcribed Catherine Hahn) would be a great older sister, even Dr. Ken Jeong's role.
“Catherine Hahn would be a great older sister, like freaking out.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:20:00 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Knocked Up → This Is 40. Bill picks This Is 40 as the double feature for Knocked Up, running it back for 4+ hours.
“I would say this is 40 because you're just, you're running it back.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:20:56 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): This Is 40 → Knocked Up. Craig's double-feature argument: This Is 40 is just the last hour of Knocked Up stretched to 2.5 hours.
“that entire movie is like the last hour of knocked up, but for 2.5 hours.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:21:08 · Craig Horlbeck (0.85 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Knocked Up → Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Craig's double feature: Forgetting Sarah Marshall, to spend time with the supporting guys.
“So I would go like forgetting Sarah Marshall.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:21:20 · Craig Horlbeck (0.85 sure it was them)
career (career): Jason Segel → Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Craig says he wants a Segel movie after seeing a glimpse of him, so would double-feature Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
“Give me Siegel now.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:21:29 · Craig Horlbeck (0.60 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Knocked Up → Adventureland. Juliet picks Adventureland as the double feature because it shares Hader, Wiig and Starr.
“I would go with Adventureland, which is one of my favorite movies, and it has a lot of these people, Bill Hader, Kristen Wig, Martin Starr.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:21:43 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Greg Mottola → Superbad. Juliet notes Adventureland's director Greg Mottola also directed Superbad.
“directed by Greg Matola, also directed, super bad.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:21:50 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Adventureland → Almost Famous. Bill asks Juliet if they'd quit if the show covered Adventureland without her; she says she'd quit only for Almost Famous.
“I would be pretty upset, but I think quitting would only be for almost famous.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:22:08 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Knocked Up → Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Imagining Alison's life after the movie, Bill says she might meet a better guy than Rogen and it becomes a Forgetting Sarah Marshall situation.
“and it becomes a forgetting Sarah Marshall situation where.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:24:39 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Seth Rogen → Superbad. Bill says Seth Rogen won the movie: leading-man credibility plus a hit he wrote two months later.
“a movie that he wrote coming out and also being a huge hit”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:25:36 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

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fun, about Knocked Up: Bill's theory: the rom-com boom runs 1989 to 2005, then comes the 'com-rom', comedies that also have romance.
“I'm going to say 1989 to 2005 is the rom-com boom.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:09 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Judd Apatow: Bill on why the hangout scenes work: guys just busting each other's balls for five hours at a poker game or fantasy draft.
“all we're doing is making fun of each other for 5 hours.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:08:57 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Judd Apatow: Apatow shot reportedly a million feet of film and let the guys keep going.
“like a 1000000 feet of film for this thing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:10:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Knocked Up: Juliet's biggest gripe: Alison has no friends except the sister she lives with.
“The fact that like the friendship is like such is the most fun part of this movie and she literally has 0 friends is so shocking.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:11:35 · Juliet Litman (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Judd Apatow: Bill reads the Rudd character as a stand-in for Judd, with Apatow's own wife and kids on screen: 'Judd's really going through something'.
“Judd's really going through something.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:14:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Maude Apatow: Watching the Apatow kids in the movie is odd since we know how one of them turns out.
“It was really weird to rewatch it with these little kids that we know what's going to happen to one of them.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:15:28 · Juliet Litman (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Katherine Heigl: Heigl's Vanity Fair interview (Annie Leibovitz shoot, written by Leslie Bennetts) insulted Knocked Up, Grey's Anatomy and Shonda Rhimes in one article.
“She manages to insult basically everyone that then and still matters in what she wanted to be doing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:20:39 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Katherine Heigl: Heigl said the movie paints the women as shrews and the men as lovable, goofy guys.
“paints the woman as shrews as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun loving guys.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:21:01 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Grey's Anatomy (TV): Heigl was written out so completely that her husband's departure storyline shows only body doubles and no faces or voice for her.
“It is the biggest fuck you to those 2 actors.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:30:09 · Juliet Litman (0.75 sure it was them)
fun, about Grey's Anatomy (TV): Bill's aside on how shows write out people they dislike, compared to SNL cast standing distance from the host.
“It's like at the end of SNL, like how close the cast stands to the host is like how much they like them.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:30:22 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Knocked Up: Martin the bearded guy gets ribbed in the nightclub: 'Scorsese on Coke', Cat Stevens after Yusuf Islam.
“Late John Lennon, Martin Scorsese on Coke.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:33:59 · Craig Horlbeck (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Knocked Up: Craig's favorite: the dice joke when the guys watch Seth Rogen dance in the nightclub.
“the dice thing when they're watching Seth Rogen dance.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:36:49 · Craig Horlbeck (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Jonah Hill: Jonah Hill yelling has aged the best: 'he's one of the best yellers in comedy history'.
“He's one of the best yellers in comedy history.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:42:15 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Jason Segel: Craig's best-aged pick: Segel naked after the earthquake, cupping his junk with a cigarette in his mouth.
“After the earthquake, he's fully naked, cupping his junk and just got a cigarette in his mouth, middle of the night.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:45:33 · Craig Horlbeck (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Ryan Seacrest: Seacrest's self-mocking rant is called his most lovable moment, better than American Idol or Kardashian Seacrest.
“Like, that is the most lovable he has ever been.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:46:58 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Knocked Up: What aged worst: Heigl's low-rise, flowy halter wardrobe of the mid-2000s.
“her outfits are so of that moment”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:52:22 · Juliet Litman (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Knocked Up: P-break award: the 7.5 minutes of labor before they reach the hospital, which Bill would cut entirely.
“It is 7.5 minutes that you could cut so easily.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:54:05 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Knocked Up: In other countries the movie is called A Little Bit Pregnant or Slightly Pregnant; knocked up is not a term there.
“in other countries, it's called either a little bit pregnant or slightly pregnant”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:55:12 · Juliet Litman (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Knocked Up: Best quote: 'Isn't it weird when you have kids and all your dreams and hopes go out the window?'
“isn't it weird when you have kids and all your dreams and hopes go out the window.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:55:28 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Knocked Up: Craig's hottest take: Flesh of the Stars is a better name than Mr. Skin; the film's fake site.
“Flesh of the Stars is a better name than Mr. Skin.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:56:12 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Knocked Up: Juliet's hottest take: given the circumstances, she should have had an abortion.
“She should have had an abortion.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:56:26 · Juliet Litman (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Anne Hathaway: Hathaway reportedly left over plans to use real birth footage, which turned out to require paying the baby as an extra.
“they would have had to pay the baby as an extra”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:57:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Katherine Heigl: Bill's half-fast research: Heigl in 2014 owned 8 dogs, 4 cats, 9 horses, 2 donkeys, 2 goats and 8 chickens.
“She owned 8 dogs, 4 cats, 9 horses, 2 donkeys, 2 goats, and 8 chickens.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:06:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Wild Things: Jonah Hill's Wild Things scene shows Neve Campbell topless in a pool, though she isn't in either version of the actual movie.
“she's not topless in either version of the actual movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:06:51 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Knocked Up: Ideal-length ruling: cut the labor stretch and the fantasy-football cheating sidetrack entirely.
“We don't have the fantasy football, cheating sidetrack at all.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:26:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Bill Simmons (host): Loves hangout comedy where friends rip each other, improvised bits, and a well-timed needle drop. Sucker for sports analogies and for the stars-who-have-it argument. Wary of bloated runtimes and subplots that go nowhere.
Juliet Litman (host): Deeply versed in rom-coms (Nora Ephron is 'my personal god'), TV, and celebrity careers. Loves a good meal scene and a believable detail. Cannot stand a female lead with no friends or ambition.
Craig Horlbeck (host): Loves the guys-hanging-out half of the movie and the ensemble cast he grew up with, plus nightclub banter and Segel. Dislikes the 'too much' improv characters like Ken Jeong's doctor. Relates Apatow to his generation as the only reference for how young people acted.

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

Julia Lippman / Juliet Lemon = Juliet Litman
Craig Horlbeck / Craig Horbeck = Craig Horlbeck
Appatow/Appatau/Appetau/Appitau = Apatow
Hegel/Heigel/Hagel/Haggle/Heiger = Katherine Heigl
Rogan = Seth Rogen
Siegel = Jason Segel
Hater = Bill Hader
Wig = Kristen Wiig
Rudd/Red = Paul Rudd
Michael Sarah = Michael Cera
Jay Barriso/Jay Barris shall = Jay Baruchel
Greg Matola = Greg Mottola
Joanna Kearns = Joanna Kerns
Alan Tudek = Alan Tudyk
Catherine Hahn = Kathryn Hahn
Lena Donald's = Lena Dunham
Gated Moderazo = Gaten Matarazzo
Laramie Tunsil gas mask = Laremy Tunsil (gas-mask bong)
Mount Romcom more = likely Mount Rom-Com Rushmore
Nano Tuaneau = unclear (possibly Nana Visitor, Shannon Doherty reference)
Leslie Bennett's = Leslie Bennetts
Debbie Pete's house = Debbie and Pete's house
Judith Myers = Judith Myers (Halloween)
Ruffalo-Han Arubinek Partridge overacting Award = unclear category name
Stranger Book = Sandra Bullock
physics road = unclear title
This Is 50 / this as 40 = This Is 40
Dan waiters / Dion Waiters = Dion Waiters award
Kurt Cameron = Kirk Cameron
Kurt Goldsmer = Kirk Goldsberry
Denise Richards nude / Nev Campbell = Neve Campbell