The Rewatchables: ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano

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The extraction calls the show “The Rewatchables (The Ringer)” and the episode “'Easy A' With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano”.

Hosts: Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, Shea Serrano. Guests: none.

Subject films: Easy A (2010).

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'House of Cards' attached to Patricia Clarkson was said in the transcript; its title spelling is the transcript's.
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Awards and segments (47)

Most rewatchable scene

pick Olive's greeting-card song montage (Pocket Full of Sunshine) alone in her room over the weekend
“I'm still taken aback by how, um, I guess just how quickly charming she is during the greeting card scene over the weekend when she just keeps playing it over and over again.”
Shea Serrano · 0:24:05
pick Olive's Knock on Wood performance at the school event near the end
“But I think the knock on wood scene towards the end is just when Emma Stone is just like, and yes, now I am a movie star, like capital M, capital S.”
Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:23
floated Olive's confessional video where she tears up, the moment he knew she could do everything
“I think, uh, I think for me, that moment when you go, oh, okay, she can do sort of everything is when she has the confessional.”
Shea Serrano · 0:28:02
pick Olive telling her parents she was sent to the principal for using the word twat, and the family guessing games that follow
“Um, my most rewatchable scene is when she has to tell her parents that she used the word twat and it got her sent to attention.”
Juliet Litman · 0:29:20

What Aged the Best · The part of the movie that has held up best after ten years.

nominee The use of YouTube and vlogging: Foundational to the movie and still feels relevant ten years later.
“Number one with a bullet, the use of YouTube and vlogging.”
Juliet Litman · 0:36:01
nominee Ojai as the location: She calls the choice of Ojai precious; the transcript spells it Ohai.
“As I alluded to earlier, I think picking Ohai as the location was also very precious.”
Juliet Litman · 0:37:21
nominee Making fun of California hippies
“Making fun of California hippies.”
Juliet Litman · 1:37:38
nominee Emma Stone's wardrobe: Both the regular-girl and the supposedly slutty outfits.
“Emma Stone's wardrobe.”
Juliet Litman · 0:43:20
nominee The jokes and one-liners in the script, especially the Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson scenes
“I would just add, I think the jokes in this script for the most part.”
Amanda Dobbins · 0:43:38
winner Emma Stone as Olive: Her performance at this point in her career; he planted her flag as the lead.
“I think just this performance by Emma Stone, at this point in her career”
Shea Serrano · 0:44:24
winner The webcam framing: Offered as the more clever pick alongside Emma Stone's performance.
“So I'm doing like, that's like one and then one A for me would be the webcam framing.”
Amanda Dobbins · 0:45:38
winner The webcam device and the held-up signs that structure the movie: He changes his answer after hearing the YouTube talk, liking a device set up early and repeated.
“Listening to YouTube talk about this, I would like to change my answer.”
Shea Serrano · 0:48:29

What Aged the Worst · The part of the movie that has held up worst.

winner Marianne's Christianity portrayed negatively as Marianne: Calls it a stereotyping of Christians as uptight busybodies.
“Shea, I want to talk about this, too, because number one for me is Amanda Binds character being a Christian in a very negative way.”
Juliet Litman · 0:49:13
winner The Mr. and Mrs. Griffith and Micah plotline (the guidance counselor and the chlamydia): The movie presents it as wrong, but she says it is unnecessary.
“which is like, I would like to nominate my age the worst, which is the whole Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths and Micah plot line”
Amanda Dobbins · 0:57:26
nominee Chip, the adopted little brother, as a vehicle for adoption jokes as Chip: The adoption jokes feel aimed at the audience, not at a ten-year-old.
“Not a developed character.”
Shea Serrano · 0:59:33
nominee The Huckleberry Finn references, including the callback about Brandon and his Black boyfriend: Calls it offensive and dehumanizing to the two Black men in the movie.
“I felt that everything related to, um, Huckleberry Finn was super weird and really messed up.”
Juliet Litman · 1:00:11

Casting What Ifs / The Recasting Couch · Who almost played the roles, and who else could play Olive today.

pick Logan Lerman as Brandon: Auditioned for Brandon, a part that went to Dan Byrd.
“Number one, Logan Luhrmann auditioned for Brandon”
Juliet Litman · 1:02:20
pick Jennifer Lawrence as Olive: Auditioned for Olive; Shea and Amanda argue she would not have worked, with Shea saying insults seem to penetrate her shell.
“Jennifer Lawrence auditioned for the role of Olive.”
Juliet Litman · 1:03:01
pick Zendaya as Olive: Recast pick: she has the confidence to make you trust Olive will be okay.
“and that's Zendaya.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:22:40
pick Florence Pugh as Olive: Might end up an Emma Stone impersonation, but she brings fire.
“she brings like some of the fire is Florence Pugh.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:23:33
pick Isabela Moner as Olive: Recast pick; cites her in Instant Family and Sicario: Day of the Soldado.
“Uh, one of my favorite uh, actors, Isabella Monair.”
Shea Serrano · 1:24:51

Joey Pants Award (Best That Guy) · The best that-guy actor in the movie.

nominee Malcolm McDowell as the principal: Named and set aside as too famous.
“The one I'm not going to pick is Malcolm McDowell.”
Shea Serrano · 1:08:59
winner Cam Gigandet as Micah: He knows him as the bully in Never Back Down.
“I got to go with Cam, the guy who plays Micah. Cam, Gigendent?”
Shea Serrano · 1:10:12
winner Cam Gigandet as Micah: To her he is one of the Twilight guys.
“He's just always like one of the Twilight guys.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:11:04
winner Dan Byrd as Brandon: Picked over Cam, whom she remembers as Volchek from The O.C.; she knows Byrd from other 2000s roles.
“However, I'm picking Dan Bird, and I know that, like, the number 2 shouldn't necessarily get this, but as Brandon, I was like, oh, that guy.”
Juliet Litman · 1:12:16

Vincent Hanna Award · Who goes too big in the movie.

winner Patricia Clarkson as Rosemary: Too much in the scene where she tries to find out whether Brandon is gay.
“She just takes it too far in the scene where she's trying to find out if Brandon is gay or not.”
Juliet Litman · 1:13:34
winner Lisa Kudrow as Mrs. Griffith: Extra, and her character is not needed in the movie.
“The only, the person who is like an extra and I like, don't really think we need it is Lisa Coudreau.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:15:00
winner Stanley Tucci as Dill: He says he picked him to get back at Juliet for picking Patricia Clarkson.
“I'm going to pick Stanley Tucci.”
Shea Serrano · 1:18:04

Dion Waiters Award · A small role that made a big impact.

winner Patricia Clarkson as Rosemary
“Patricia Clarkson.”
Shea Serrano · 1:18:36
winner Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci as Rosemary and Dill: A co-award for the movie parents, who are essential to why Olive can navigate the plot.
“I'm doing a co-award because these are made up categories and I'm doing Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:19:49
winner Lisa Kudrow as Mrs. Griffith: Never unhappy to see her, and she made an impact in maybe two days of work.
“I'm picking Lisa Coudreau.”
Juliet Litman · 1:20:51

Apex Mountain · Whether this film is Emma Stone's peak.

pick Emma Stone as Olive: Not technically her apex, but she does not reach it without this movie; she should have been nominated for an Oscar.
“So I think ultimately it's not technically her Apex Mountain, but she doesn't get to her Apex Mountain without this movie.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:26:57
pick Emma Stone as Olive: Not close to apex; her apex is La La Land.
“Um, I just don't think you can make the case that this is anywhere close to Apex Mountain.”
Juliet Litman · 1:27:40

Picking Nits · Nitpicks about a movie they love.

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

Best Quote · The best line or quip in the movie.

pick Olive's improvised gossip girl in Sweet Valley of the Traveling Pants line
“yes, I believe so if I was the gossip girl in Sweet Valley of the Traveling Pants, which is just putting together so many tropes.”
Juliet Litman · 1:39:01
pick Mr. Griffith's Facebook speech about documenting your every thought
“I don't know what your generation's fascination is with documenting your every thought, but it can assure you, they're not all diamonds.”
Juliet Litman · 1:39:39
pick The Bible is in bestsellers right next to Twilight
“Oh, that's in bestsellers right next to Twilight.”
Shea Serrano · 1:40:58
pick Olive calling gossip the accelerated velocity of terminological inexactitude
“My favorite olive quip is when she refers to gossip and how it travels as the accelerated velocity of terminological inexactitude.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:41:37

Netflix Remake · Whether the movie could be remade as a ten-episode Netflix show.

pick A ten-episode Netflix remake, which she thinks works better as a Netflix movie: At ten hours the suspension of disbelief gets harder, and it would turn darker.
“I think it could be remade as a Netflix movie.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:43:00

Unanswered Questions · Questions the movie leaves open.

pick Why we never meet Olive's brother in college
“Why don't we get to meet her brother in college?”
Juliet Litman · 1:48:18
pick Who gave who chlamydia
“I don't know who gave who chlamydia in the movie.”
Shea Serrano · 1:48:46
pick None; the movie sews it up tightly enough
“I mean, this movie doesn't work if they don't sew it up pretty tightly.”
Amanda Dobbins · 1:50:14

Who Won the Movie · Who came out ahead in the movie.

winner Emma Stone as Olive: Penn Badgley is named as the one who lost the movie, since he went undiscussed.
“I mean, Emma Stone, 2010, you are the cornerstone of our teen movie rebuild.”
Juliet Litman · 1:51:06

Films that came up

Claims (58)

career (career): Easy A → Crazy, Stupid, Love. The next year Stone was in Crazy, Stupid, Love and The Help, a sign Easy A launched her.
“And then the next year, she was in Crazy Stupid Love and the Help.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:03:02 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Easy A → Superbad. Easy A is described as coming straight off Superbad in Stone's rise.
“Yes, so Emma Stone, she's come to us. Straight off, super bad.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:03:11 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Emma Stone → Cameron Diaz. Stone's arrival feels like Diaz after The Mask: a beautiful leading woman who is extremely funny.
“kind of reminds me of, um, Cameron Diaz when she hit the scene with like the mask”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:04:25 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Easy A → The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Like that film's setup, the premise turns creepy without its star; Emma Stone's gravity holds Easy A together.
“It's like a very similar thing with the setup for the 40-year-old virgin, without Steve Carell in that movie, it becomes exceptionally creepy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:05:19 · Shea Serrano (0.85 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Easy A → Mean Girls. Easy A bridges the 1997-2004 wave of teen movies (peaking with Mean Girls) and the Netflix-era revival.
“from 1997 to like 2004-ish peaking with mean girls.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:07:27 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Easy A → She's the Man. Amanda Bynes's last film is Easy A, a bookend to a career that included the cult classic She's the Man.
“she's the man is like a cult classic now.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:09:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Easy A → Hairspray. Amanda Bynes was very good in Hairspray too.
“she also was very, very good in hairspray”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:09:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): She's the Man → Channing Tatum. Channing Tatum is in She's the Man, one of his first movies.
“obviously Channing Tatum's in it, one of his 1st movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:09:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Easy A → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it.
“I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Easy A → John Hughes. Easy A is in open dialogue with Hughes: Olive says her life is not a John Hughes movie and the finale has a Hughes montage.
“But also she, like, literally says in the dialogue, my life isn't a John Hughes movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:12:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Easy A → Mean Girls. Both are self-aware teen comedies that know the tropes, though Easy A is far less vicious.
“You know, like in a way that mean girls does, though it's far less vicious than mean girls.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:13:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Easy A → Clueless. Both have an archness and literary references that make them play for adults and kids at once.
“I think that there's like an archness to both EZA and clueless that make them feel like they're for multiple generations.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:15:42 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Mean Girls → Rachel McAdams. Juliet argues Rachel McAdams, not Lindsay Lohan, is the real protagonist of Mean Girls.
“Do you think that I guess you would make that would be arguing that she's the protagonist of Mean Girls”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:17:44 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Easy A → Clueless. Clueless sits at number one for Amanda; Easy A's Emma Stone is her number two among teen-movie leads.
“Number 2 for me is Emma Stone.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:18:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): She's All That → Easy A. Written through a male normative gaze, She's All That feels like a different world from Easy A, Clueless and Mean Girls.
“there's such a, like, kind of, um, normative gaze in She's All That that does not feel as present in some of the other movies we're discussing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:19:18 · Juliet Litman (0.55 sure it was them)
people (people): She's All That → Freddie Prinze Jr.. Juliet files She's All That as a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie, with Matthew Lillard a joy.
“like, that's like a Freddie Prince Jr. movie to me.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:19:34 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Alicia Silverstone → Clueless. Silverstone is lightning in a bottle in Clueless but never had a soaring career after.
“she really, she hasn't really had a soaring career after that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:20:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): Rachel McAdams → The Notebook. Rachel McAdams's 2004 gets credit for both Mean Girls and The Notebook.
“Which, and I think you really have to credit Rachel McAdams for both of those.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:21:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
people (people): Bring It On → Gabrielle Union. Shea wants a 2000 Gabrielle Union teen movie after Bring It On; she also appears in 10 Things and She's All That.
“I would like to see that 2000 Gabrielle Union teen teen movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:21:55 · Shea Serrano (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): Stanley Tucci → The Devil Wears Prada. Easy A is part of Stanley Tucci's comedy phase, alongside The Devil Wears Prada.
“this is kind of the Stanley Tucci comedy phase”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:30:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Easy A → Book Smart. Book Smart (like Easy A) has supportive parents who show up, played by Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow.
“Like we saw this in book and book smart.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:31:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
people (people): Lisa Kudrow → Book Smart. Lisa Kudrow plays a supportive parent in Book Smart alongside Will Forte.
“It's Will Forte and Lisa Coudreau, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:31:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Emma Stone → Zombieland. Stone's screen time grew from Superbad to a core part in Zombieland, then the whole movie in Easy A.
“getting more and more screen time every time up until zombieland where she's got like one of the core parts, but not the core part.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:44:54 · Shea Serrano (0.85 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Easy A → One Tree Hill. The webcam broadcasting echoes Peyton on One Tree Hill, so there was a precedent.
“There's 2 pieces of this movie that have strong callbacks to one Tree Hill.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:47:17 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Easy A → (500) Days of Summer. Like 500 Days of Summer, Easy A sets up a structuring device early (the signs) and repeats it all movie.
“I really like in the movies, when they like set up a device early on and you know they're doing it”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:48:33 · Shea Serrano (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Easy A → One Tree Hill. Mary Ann's clean-teen Christianity recalls the virgin-professing 'clean teens' of One Tree Hill.
“And that also reminded me of one Tree Hill, where they had the clean teens”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:49:20 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Easy A → The Scarlet Letter (Demi Moore version). The movie nods to the Scarlet Letter and its puritanical heritage; Olive jokes about watching the Demi Moore version.
“does its best or at least at times nods to the Scarlet letter and kind of like, you know, the puritanical heritage”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:52:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Easy A → Election. Olive's unbothered, stronger-than-the-bully stance continues the Tracy Flick character through Book Smart's Beanie Feldstein.
“the Tracy Flick character that we have seen just grow and grow all the way up to like the most recently book smart with Beanie Felsian's character.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:56:33 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Logan Lerman → Easy A. Logan Lerman auditioned for Brandon, which would have made the movie very different.
“Logan Lerman auditioned for that.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:02:45 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Jennifer Lawrence → Easy A. Jennifer Lawrence auditioned for Olive; the panel doesn't think she could play the unbothered goofiness.
“Jennifer Lawrence auditioned for the role of Olive.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:03:01 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Jennifer Lawrence → Silver Linings Playbook. Emma Stone could have done Silver Linings Playbook, and Lawrence could have done Crazy, Stupid, Love, but not La La Land.
“Do you think Jennifer Lawrence could have been in crazy stupid love?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:06:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Jennifer Lawrence → La La Land. Lawrence could not have done La La Land because of its performative singing and dancing.
“Do you think, I'm trying to think, do you think that Jennifer Lawrence could have been in La La Land?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:06:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Emma Stone → La La Land. Stone's performative quality works in Easy A's numbers and webcam and also in La La Land.
“I mean, it also works in La La Land.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:07:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Jennifer Lawrence → The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a role for Lawrence that Stone couldn't do, because insults must bother her more.
“it's got to be hunger games.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:07:42 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Jennifer Lawrence → X-Men: First Class. Lawrence fits X-Men: First Class where Stone doesn't, though Stone is a better Gwen Stacy.
“I could not see Emma Stone in the X-Men new class”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:08:02 · Shea Serrano (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Malcolm McDowell → A Clockwork Orange. Juliet's definitive Malcolm McDowell role is A Clockwork Orange, while Amanda thinks Entourage.
“Um, A clockwork orange?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:09:20 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Malcolm McDowell → Entourage. Amanda always thinks of Malcolm McDowell as Terrence from Entourage because of the glasses.
“I always think of Terrence from entourage for some reason.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:09:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Cam Gigandet → Never Back Down. Shea's that-guy association for Cam Gigandet is the bully in Never Back Down.
“For me, he's the bully and never back down.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:10:23 · Shea Serrano (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Cam Gigandet → Twilight. Amanda knows Gigandet as one of the Twilight guys.
“He's just always like one of the Twilight guys.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:11:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
career (career): Cam Gigandet → The O.C.. Juliet knows Gigandet as Volchek on The O.C., who leads to Marissa's death.
“For me, he's Volchek from the OC.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:11:30 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): Dan Byrd → A Cinderella Story. Dan Byrd played a similar role in the Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray Cinderella remake.
“he plays a somewhat similar role in the Hillary Duff, Chad Michael Murray Cinderella remake”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:12:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Patricia Clarkson → Mean Girls. Clarkson's cool-mom scene is a slight nod to Amy Poehler's cool mom in Mean Girls.
“This is like a slight nod to mean girls, Amy Poehler, your dance is funny.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:13:41 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Patricia Clarkson → House of Cards. Seeing Clarkson as Jane Davis in House of Cards, speaking in riddles, gave a new version of her.
“She plays a character named Jane Davis, and she is very much just like, she only speaks in riddles.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:19:06 · Shea Serrano (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Easy A → Black Swan. Stone should have been nominated for the 2010 Best Actress race against Black Swan, The Kids Are All Right, Rabbit Hole, Winter's Bone and Blue Valentine; the Oscars don't acknowledge comedy.
“However, the Oscars... Don't really acknowledge comedy.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:26:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Easy A → Emma Stone. Easy A isn't Stone's peak, but she doesn't reach it without this movie.
“it's not technically her Apex Mountain, but she doesn't get to her Apex Mountain without this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:26:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Emma Stone → La La Land. Not Easy A but La La Land is Stone's Apex Mountain, once she wins the Oscar.
“It's got to be La La Land, right?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:27:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Cruella → 101 Dalmatians. Cruella is the origin story of the evil lady from 101 Dalmatians who wants coats from dog fur.
“Cruella is the origin story of this lady.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:28:52 · Shea Serrano (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Emma Stone → Cruella. Stone's next move after the La La Land Oscar was Cruella, as in an evil Stone origin story from 101 Dalmatians.
“Hey, do you want to see a movie where Emma Stone is evil?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:29:06 · Shea Serrano (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Cruella → Matilda. Another child-movie villain, Ms. Trunchbull, still terrifies as an adult.
“Still terrifying as an adult.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:29:24 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Cruella → Easy A. If Easy A's unlikely premise worked, maybe a Cruella movie for kids can too.
“And they made it work.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:29:46 · Juliet Litman (0.45 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Emma Stone → Crazy, Stupid, Love. In Crazy, Stupid, Love she's overwhelmed into speechlessness by Ryan Gosling and gets the Dirty Dancing lift.
“Emma Stone is all of us in that movie and then at the end gets to do the dirty dancing lift.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:30:18 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Emma Stone → Birdman. Easy A through Birdman was an impressive run before Aloha halted it.
“I think EZA through Birdman was like a pretty impressive run for a young actress.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:31:04 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Will Gluck → Easy A. Easy A is probably director Will Gluck's peak.
“Probably the director well Glock's peak, in my opinion.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:31:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
career (career): Easy A → Peter Rabbit. After Easy A, Will Gluck made Friends with Benefits and then the live-action Peter Rabbit movies.
“he makes friends with benefits and then he does the live action Peter Rabbit movies.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:31:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Easy A → Twilight. A bookstore clerk in Easy A was also in Twilight, a joke about Twilight sits beside the Bible.
“Oh, that's in bestsellers right next to Twilight.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:40:58 · Shea Serrano (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Easy A → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay.
“Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Easy A → Stranger Things. Netflix has launched careers (Millie Bobby Brown) but teen movies now go straight to Netflix and skip the group theater experience.
“All of the recent teen movies are just Netflix releases.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:43:35 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Easy A → Marvin's Room. Juliet's first coed theater outing was Marvin's Room, in contrast to seeing teen movies with friends.
“The 1st movie I saw with like boys and girls, like it was like a co-ed group outing was Marvin's room, which is so depressing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:46:09 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

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fun, about Easy A: Shot on location in Ojai at a local high school; the production wasn't prepared for the lack of indoor hallways and had to improvise the direction.
“they weren't prepared for the lack of indoor hallways, so they had to do a lot of on the on the scene, um, improv”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:23:05 · Juliet Litman (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Bert Royal allegedly wrote almost the whole script in five consecutive days; the 'blacklist' story doesn't really check out.
“good old Bert allegedly wrote almost all of it in 5 consecutive days.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:23:28 · Juliet Litman (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Most rewatchable scene: the Pocket Full of Sunshine bed montage, about two minutes that makes you root for Olive.
“By the end of that weekend, the scene is, what, a minute and a half, two minutes long, but by the end of it, you're like,”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:24:56 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Amanda's pick: the Knock on Wood performance is pure star quality and needed in a teen comedy.
“And you always need a musical number in a teen comedy, in my opinion, or some sort of performance.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:26:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Shea's pick: the confessional is where you know Stone can do everything; she weaponizes her giant eyes.
“she really, like, weaponizes her eyeballs, these gigantic eyeballs that she has”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:28:37 · Shea Serrano (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Shea picks the twat kitchen scene as his most rewatchable; the family also calls out the T-word guessing game.
“my most rewatchable scene is when she has to tell her parents that she used the word twat”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:29:20 · Shea Serrano (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci: Olive's parents are called the most underrated movie parents; the table's quip-heavy family bit.
“I think that these are probably my most underrated movie parents”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:31:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Emma Stone famously auditioned via YouTube, sending a webcam reel.
“Emma Stone famously auditioned via like YouTube.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:36:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Ojai: Ojai is the Woodstock of California: wealthy, hippie-ish roots, a Ferris Bueller suburb it's not.
“It's kind of like the woodstock of California.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:38:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Ojai has 'pink moments', branded sunsets on the mountains; one shows when Olive and her mom talk on the car roof.
“they have what they call the pink moments”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:38:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Bart's Books, the outdoor Ojai bookstore, is where Olive goes to read the Bible.
“Barts books featured in EZA.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:40:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Webcam framing and the hand-held signs combine analog and digital to structure the film into acts.
“It was a really good combination of like analog and digital”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:48:18 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Shea grew up with the FCA at school and sees Marianne's clique in it.
“if you were in the FCA, you behaved exactly like she behaved in this movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:50:09 · Shea Serrano (0.90 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: The chlamydia subplot: Thomas Haden Church's marriage ends; Shea feels bad for him, the movie skates through.
“she gives the student chlamydia.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:57:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Jennifer Lawrence: Why Lawrence wouldn't work as Olive: insults seem to penetrate her shell, while Stone's roll off.
“With Emma Stone, all of the insults just sort of roll off her back very much.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:04:13 · Shea Serrano (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Malcolm McDowell: That Guy award: Shea won't pick the principal because he's too famous, and asks why he's here at all.
“why is Malcolm McDowell the principal in this movie?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:09:06 · Shea Serrano (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Cam Gigandet: Shea's That Guy: the bully in Never Back Down, goading the fight at the party in the clothes-off scene.
“fucking outstanding bully performance.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:10:25 · Shea Serrano (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Lisa Kudrow: Overacting award fight: Kudrow shouts 'who would you believe'; defenders say she turned 2 days of work into impact.
“I feel like she is very wisely, has never like tried to go for such a huge role outside of her range.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:20:59 · Juliet Litman (0.45 sure it was them)
fun, about Zendaya: Amanda's recast: Zendaya, because you trust she will be okay.
“You need to believe they're going to be okay.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:23:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Florence Pugh: Recast idea: it would be a 'justice for Amy' casting that makes you root for Olive.
“she also makes, like, that's a justice for Amy movie.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:24:10 · Shea Serrano (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Emma Stone: Stone's Oscar win for La La Land was overshadowed within minutes by the Moonlight envelope mix-up.
“she wins the Oscar for La La Land, and then literally the next award is the Moonlight Lala Land debacle”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:27:58 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Nitpick: Olive's 8th grade was only three years ago, and younger actors with Stone's voice flash back.
“The way that Olive remembers 8th grade, which was just a few years ago, is so completely stupid that I can't get over it.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:32:12 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Best quote: Olive improvised the Gossip Girl in Sweet Valley of the Traveling Pants line.
“she said, yes, I believe so if I was the gossip girl in Sweet Valley of the Traveling Pants”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:39:01 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Easy A: Unanswerable: no one meets Olive's brother in college; Shea doesn't know who gave whom chlamydia.
“Why don't we get to meet her brother in college?”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:48:18 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Penn Badgley: Who lost the movie: Pen Badgley, who the podcast never even discussed.
“It's a resounding pen badgley.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:50:48 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Juliet Litman (host): Loves Emma Stone's charm and the way Easy A learned from the teen-movie canon; a Clueless and Mean Girls-school viewer who is cool on Molly Ringwald. Can't abide the Christians-as-villains stereotyping and the chlamydia/Huck Finn bits. A sucker for The O.C. and One Tree Hill, and for a well-made quip.
Amanda Dobbins (host): Adores Easy A as a summary of the teen-movie canon she liked: John Hughes, Ferris Bueller, Clueless (her number one), and Mean Girls. Loves star-quality musical numbers, Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci as parents, and a good recast game. Cannot stand plot choices that don't hold up, like the party scene and Facebook shutting everything down.
Shea Serrano (guest): Loves watching Emma Stone be goofy and winning, set-up-and-repeat devices like the signs, and a well-played bully (Cam Gigandet). Hates when movies flash back too recently, puts up with the Hollywood-sharp hot takes, and bristled at the script's awkward bits. A sucker for That Guy awards and Dion Waiters heat checks.

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

'Julie Adlett, man' = Juliet Litman
'Shay' = Shea Serrano
'the Connects' = The Ringer's 'The Connect'
'EZA' / 'easy, eh' = Easy A
'Will Glock' = Will Gluck
'Ohai' = Ojai
'Dan Bird' = Dan Byrd
'Thomas Hayden Church/Tom Hayden Church' = Thomas Haden Church
'Lisa Coudreau/Cudrow/Cujo' = Lisa Kudrow
'Pen Badgley' = Penn Badgley
'Cam Gigendent/Gig and debt/Jigen Day' = Cam Gigandet
'Beanie Felsian' = Beanie Feldstein
'Isabella Monair' = Isabela Merced (guess)
'Never Worst Prada' = The Devil Wears Prada
'Book and book smart' = Booksmart
'Sober lining's playbook' = Silver Linings Playbook
'Marbles Avengers' = Marvel's Avengers (ad)
'Vincent Hanna' and 'Dion Waiters' are the show's overacting award names
'X-Men new class' = X-Men: First Class
'Ms. Trunchable' = Miss Trunchbull