Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

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Wikidata Q1421593, film, IMDb tt0415306, TMDB 9718: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.

Also said as Talladega Nights: the same Wikidata item, so listed here.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

In the store as #513, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006).

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (title formula): Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). The Ballad of Ricky Bobby echoes the Legend of Ron Burgundy naming pattern of the 2006 era.
    “Honestly, that's a 2006 thing is titling movies like this.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:02:38 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

Days of Thunder: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (parody target): Days of Thunder ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). The film is not a direct parody but spoofs movies like Days of Thunder; Reilly was in both.
    “I don't think this movie is like a direct parody of that, but it is parodying movies like Days of Thunder.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:05:52 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

Happy Gilmore: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (shared gag): Happy Gilmore ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). Ricky Bobby signing a woman's chest echoes Happy Gilmore.
    “there's a scene when Ricky Bobby signs a woman's chest and it's exactly like Happy Gilmore when he signs the woman.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:15:11 · Craig Horlbeck (0.70 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (repeated joke): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ⇒ Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (the host's read). Anchorman 2 recycled the pretending-to-be-blind gag from Talladega's paralyzed scene.
    “And like, that's just the Talladega paralyzed scene.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:21:14 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Jay-Z: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. industry (industry): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ⇒ Jay-Z (the host's read). A host theorizes the Jay-Z and Beyonce song "Apeshit" (video shot in the Louvre) only exists because this film made "ape shit" a thing.
    “I do not think that Beyonce and Jay-Z make a song called Apeshit without this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:33:15 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Connected to

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: 3 lines unmapped ×2 programming ×1

  1. programming (double feature): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Alternate double feature pick: Anchorman and Talladega.
    “I think I would rather watch Anchorman and Talladega nights, though, together.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:02:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

Days of Thunder: 2 lines unmapped ×1 programming ×1

  1. unmapped (parody target): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Days of Thunder. The film is not a direct parody but spoofs movies like Days of Thunder; Reilly was in both.
    “I don't think this movie is like a direct parody of that, but it is parodying movies like Days of Thunder.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:05:52 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

Happy Gilmore: 2 lines unmapped ×2

  1. unmapped (shared gag): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Happy Gilmore. Ricky Bobby signing a woman's chest echoes Happy Gilmore.
    “there's a scene when Ricky Bobby signs a woman's chest and it's exactly like Happy Gilmore when he signs the woman.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:15:11 · Craig Horlbeck (0.70 sure it was them)

Adam McKay: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (creative team): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Adam McKay. Written by Ferrell and McKay, directed by McKay, produced by Judd Apatow.
    “directed by Adam McKay. Written by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell, produced by Judd Appatow, made a bunch of money.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:01:13 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (repeated joke): Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues → Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Anchorman 2 recycled the pretending-to-be-blind gag from Talladega's paralyzed scene.
    “And like, that's just the Talladega paralyzed scene.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:21:14 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Baby Driver: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (similar element): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Baby Driver. Hosts like shifting-gears-to-music moments, evoking Baby Driver.
    “Do you like the movie Baby Driver?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:54:06 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)

Blades of Glory: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (double feature): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Blades of Glory. Pairing Will Ferrell sports comedies.
    “No, I want Will Ferrell playing sports.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:02:13 · Danny Kelly (0.50 sure it was them)

Boogie Nights: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (joke reference): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Boogie Nights. The Playgirl photo-shoot gag prompts Boogie Nights.
    “It's called boogie nights.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:58:11 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)

Cars: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (same year): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Cars. Cars (Pixar) was released the same year as Talladega Nights and is a double feature candidate.
    “Also, Cars was released in the same year.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:02:28 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

Dodgeball: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (joke reference): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Dodgeball. Chuck Norris gag: Dodgeball's Chuck Norris cameo is why they could not re-use him.
    “They had just done the fuck you, Chuck Norris and dodgeball.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:05:20 · Craig Horlbeck (0.30 sure it was them)

Elf: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (Apex Mountain): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Elf. Elf is Ferrell's biggest commercial movie; Talladega and Step Brothers compete as peaks.
    “But Elf, I think, is the biggest movie he's like commercially.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:41:07 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Forrest Gump: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (running gag): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Forrest Gump. Gump later becoming a NASCAR driver on a lawnmower.
    “Of course, Gump later in life becomes a NASCAR driver.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:47:27 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)

Highlander: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (dated reference): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Highlander. Highlander is one of several pop-culture references in the film that has aged.
    “The movie Highlander is referenced.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:10:17 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)

Jay-Z: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Jay-Z → Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. A host theorizes the Jay-Z and Beyonce song "Apeshit" (video shot in the Louvre) only exists because this film made "ape shit" a thing.
    “I do not think that Beyonce and Jay-Z make a song called Apeshit without this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:33:15 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Neighbors 2: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (practical vs CGI): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Neighbors 2. Practical comedy in Talladega contrasted with CGI gags that fail, such as in Neighbors 2.
    “I find that we overrely on CGI to convey humor now.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:21:37 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)

Pat Benatar: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Pat Benatar → Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Her song over the finale is picked as the best needle drop in the movie, ahead of the Journey, Audioslave and Saliva cues.
    “I kind of think that is the best needle drop in the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:04:29 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

Road House: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (quote source): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Road House. Danny's craziest quote award nominee is from Road House.
    “I used to fuck guys like you in prison.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:06:57 · Danny Kelly (0.50 sure it was them)

Seinfeld: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (analogy): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Seinfeld. Talladega is named like Titleist in the Seinfeld golf-ball episode, a funny name rather than a meaningful one.
    “it's kind of like the joke in Seinfeld, where they make the, it has to be titleist for Kramer hitting the golf ball.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:50:19 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (practical effects): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Miniatures in Star Wars and 2001 look better than computer spaceships in Avengers.
    “I think that the spaceship in the beginning of Star Wars and in Space Odyssey looks better now than the spaceship at the beginning of like Avengers.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:22:10 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)

Step Brothers: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (naming): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Step Brothers. Subtitle-heavy comedy era; Step Brothers was nearly titled with Catalina wine mixer.
    “I think Step Brothers was going to have the title, something about the Catalina wine mixer was going to be in it.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:02:42 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Superbad: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (lived-in look): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Superbad. Older comedies like Superbad feel lived in, unlike shiny modern streaming movies.
    “when I watch super bad. I'm like, I feel like I'm there at a normal high school”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:22:59 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)

The Departed: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (Oscar hypothetical): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → The Departed. Asking whether Mark Wahlberg in The Departed beats Reilly in Talladega at that year's Oscars.
    “Is he actually better in the departed than John C. Riley is in Talladeganites?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:53:12 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

The Godfather: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (analogy): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → The Godfather. Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award.
    “it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

Vice: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (later work): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Vice. The Halliburton reference foreshadows McKay making Vice a decade later.
    “And then he went and made vice.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:50:39 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Wayne's World: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (product placement): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Wayne's World. Wayne's World's product-placement bit is condensed to one scene whereas Talladega's is constant.
    “But this movie, it's ever present.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:35:25 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (practical effects): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Miniatures in Star Wars and 2001 look better than computer spaceships in Avengers.
    “I think that the spaceship in the beginning of Star Wars and in Space Odyssey looks better now than the spaceship at the beginning of like Avengers.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:22:10 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Jay-Z → Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. A host theorizes the Jay-Z and Beyonce song "Apeshit" (video shot in the Louvre) only exists because this film made "ape shit" a thing.
    “I do not think that Beyonce and Jay-Z make a song called Apeshit without this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:33:15 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (quote source): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Road House. Danny's craziest quote award nominee is from Road House.
    “I used to fuck guys like you in prison.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:06:57 · Danny Kelly (0.50 sure it was them)

programming (3)

  1. programming (double feature): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Blades of Glory. Pairing Will Ferrell sports comedies.
    “No, I want Will Ferrell playing sports.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:02:13 · Danny Kelly (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (double feature): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Alternate double feature pick: Anchorman and Talladega.
    “I think I would rather watch Anchorman and Talladega nights, though, together.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:02:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. programming (double feature): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Days of Thunder. Another double feature option: pair with Days of Thunder.
    “Or just watch Days of Thunder.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:02:33 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (analogy): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → The Godfather. Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award.
    “it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (analogy): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Seinfeld. Talladega is named like Titleist in the Seinfeld golf-ball episode, a funny name rather than a meaningful one.
    “it's kind of like the joke in Seinfeld, where they make the, it has to be titleist for Kramer hitting the golf ball.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:50:19 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (18)

  1. unmapped (creative team): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Adam McKay. Written by Ferrell and McKay, directed by McKay, produced by Judd Apatow.
    “directed by Adam McKay. Written by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, starring Will Ferrell, produced by Judd Appatow, made a bunch of money.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:01:13 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (naming): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Step Brothers. Subtitle-heavy comedy era; Step Brothers was nearly titled with Catalina wine mixer.
    “I think Step Brothers was going to have the title, something about the Catalina wine mixer was going to be in it.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:02:42 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (repeated joke): Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues → Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Anchorman 2 recycled the pretending-to-be-blind gag from Talladega's paralyzed scene.
    “And like, that's just the Talladega paralyzed scene.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:21:14 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (later work): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Vice. The Halliburton reference foreshadows McKay making Vice a decade later.
    “And then he went and made vice.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:50:39 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (similar element): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Baby Driver. Hosts like shifting-gears-to-music moments, evoking Baby Driver.
    “Do you like the movie Baby Driver?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:54:06 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (title formula): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. The Ballad of Ricky Bobby echoes the Legend of Ron Burgundy naming pattern of the 2006 era.
    “Honestly, that's a 2006 thing is titling movies like this.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:02:38 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (joke reference): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Dodgeball. Chuck Norris gag: Dodgeball's Chuck Norris cameo is why they could not re-use him.
    “They had just done the fuck you, Chuck Norris and dodgeball.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:05:20 · Craig Horlbeck (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (parody target): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Days of Thunder. The film is not a direct parody but spoofs movies like Days of Thunder; Reilly was in both.
    “I don't think this movie is like a direct parody of that, but it is parodying movies like Days of Thunder.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:05:52 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (dated reference): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Highlander. Highlander is one of several pop-culture references in the film that has aged.
    “The movie Highlander is referenced.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:10:17 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (shared gag): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Happy Gilmore. Ricky Bobby signing a woman's chest echoes Happy Gilmore.
    “there's a scene when Ricky Bobby signs a woman's chest and it's exactly like Happy Gilmore when he signs the woman.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:15:11 · Craig Horlbeck (0.70 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (funniest sports comedy): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Happy Gilmore. Talladega is argued as second funniest or funnier sports movie, with Happy Gilmore as the challenger.
    “I think it's more universally loved than Happy Gilmore, and I think it's probably an easier sell to somebody.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:18:41 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (same team): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Same Ferrell/McKay run; Talladega came right after Anchorman and the hosts rank which has aged better.
    “My hot take is that this movie has aged better than Anchorman.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:19:11 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (practical vs CGI): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Neighbors 2. Practical comedy in Talladega contrasted with CGI gags that fail, such as in Neighbors 2.
    “I find that we overrely on CGI to convey humor now.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:21:37 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (lived-in look): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Superbad. Older comedies like Superbad feel lived in, unlike shiny modern streaming movies.
    “when I watch super bad. I'm like, I feel like I'm there at a normal high school”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:22:59 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. unmapped (product placement): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Wayne's World. Wayne's World's product-placement bit is condensed to one scene whereas Talladega's is constant.
    “But this movie, it's ever present.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:35:25 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (running gag): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Forrest Gump. Gump later becoming a NASCAR driver on a lawnmower.
    “Of course, Gump later in life becomes a NASCAR driver.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:47:27 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. unmapped (joke reference): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Boogie Nights. The Playgirl photo-shoot gag prompts Boogie Nights.
    “It's called boogie nights.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:58:11 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (same year): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Cars. Cars (Pixar) was released the same year as Talladega Nights and is a double feature candidate.
    “Also, Cars was released in the same year.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:02:28 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Pat Benatar → Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Her song over the finale is picked as the best needle drop in the movie, ahead of the Journey, Audioslave and Saliva cues.
    “I kind of think that is the best needle drop in the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:04:29 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (Apex Mountain): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → Elf. Elf is Ferrell's biggest commercial movie; Talladega and Step Brothers compete as peaks.
    “But Elf, I think, is the biggest movie he's like commercially.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:41:07 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (Oscar hypothetical): Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby → The Departed. Asking whether Mark Wahlberg in The Departed beats Reilly in Talladega at that year's Oscars.
    “Is he actually better in the departed than John C. Riley is in Talladeganites?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:53:12 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: The film was pitched with no script in six words and Sony greenlit it.
    “The pitch was Will Ferrell as a NASCAR driver.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:05:27 · Craig Horlbeck (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Most rewatchable scene: the Baby Jesus dinner grace. Hosts say it's quotes per minute; Danny credits the scene with popularizing 'ape shit' and wildly theorizes about Jay-Z.
    “Quotes per minute that still stick to this day.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:45:33 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Most enduring line: 'If you ain't first, you're last.' The hosts say it's now in the lexicon; one researched claim ties it to Vince Lombardi's 'winning isn't everything, it's the only thing'.
    “1st or last is now just a part of the lexicon.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:48:37 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Most 2006 thing: Nextel patch, Halliburton sponsorship, Circuit City, Yasmine Bleeth, sideburns with soul patch, the gay French villain. Winner debated between Halliburton and the French villain.
    “I think it's the making the villain a gay French guy.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:52:22 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Test-screening legend: the head of NASCAR laughed at the driver's wife line and then everyone else laughed.
    “no one would laugh until he laughed”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:55:46 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Needle drops: King of the Road, Paint It Black in French, Faithfully, TNT, Audioslave's Cochise, Saliva's Click Click Boom; the best pick is 'We Belong'.
    “I kind of think that is the best needle drop in the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:04:29 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Alternate titles during development: High, Wide and Handsome and Red, White and Racing; NASCAR did not like the name.
    “It was going to be high, wide, and handsome.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:04:47 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Hottest takes: the funniest sports movie ever made; has aged better than Anchorman.
    “the funniest sports movie. Never made.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:18:03 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Casting what-ifs: Cal was shopped to Jack Black, Billy Crystal, Dennis Quaid; Jean Girard to Michael J. Fox, Seth Green and John Stamos.
    “Michael J. Fox, Seth Green, and John Stamos.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:24:48 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Product placement: Sony reportedly did not charge Wonder Bread, Old Spice or Perrier, and hosts still wonder if it's the most product placement in a movie ever.
    “Sony did not actually charge brands like Wonder Bread, Old Spice or Perrier to feature their products in the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:34:10 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: The slow comeback scene: Ferrell's hesitant 26 miles per hour pace is an homage to the actors' real terror in a test drive.
    “he's going like 26 miles an hour”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:36:17 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: The dinner scene took a full day to shoot; Ferrell fed lines to the kids and the camera operator had to say cut because he was shaking from laughing.
    “The camera operator had to say cut. because he was laughing so hard.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:38:35 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Plot unanswerables: where did Ricky's $21.6M go (Carly and Cal embezzled?), does the slingshot work, did Dennit's dad die, why is Talladega not special.
    “Where's all his money?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:48:00 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Sequel idea: McKay once thought of Ricky Bobby going to Europe for Formula One; hosts say it should stay untouchable.
    “McKay said they had an idea where Ricky Bobby goes to Europe to do Formula One.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:50:52 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Memorabilia wish list: Wonder Bread hat, Crystal Gayle shirt, the stuffed cougar, Reese Bobby's wardrobe, six-pack of Laughing Clown malt liquor.
    “I want Game Warren Reese Bobby's wardrobe.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:59:49 · Craig Horlbeck (0.30 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby: Life lesson fight: 'first or last' versus 'you could be second, third, fourth or fifth'; the bit where Reese scalps the tickets he sent is called the best bit in any movie ever.
    “The scalping of the tickets immediately after finally showing up is the best bit in any movie ever.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:01:15 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

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