Juliet Litman

3 sketches, 67 claims, and 25 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–3 of 3 sketches.

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

Stances

  • Alison has no friends and no inner life, the movie's biggest pitfall
  • Heigl torpedoed her own career with the Vanity Fair interview
  • Rom-coms of 89-05 are women-driven; Apatow flipped it
  • Double feature should be Adventureland

Humor: Deadpan, with rapid-fire pop-culture detail and a self-deprecating ceramics-influencer bit.

In their words

  • “The character of Alison is ridiculous.” (0:11:22)
  • “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.” (1:21:43)
  • “She should have had an abortion.” (0:56:26)

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

Stances

  • Emma Stone is the center of any rebuilt teen movie
  • Dislikes Mary Ann's Christianity being tied to her prudishness
  • Thinks the Huck Finn references and chlamydia subplot are offensive or unnecessary
  • Picked Patricia Clarkson for overacting
  • Doesn't see Jennifer Lawrence or Florence Pugh (Midsommar baggage) as Olive

Humor: Dry, self-deprecating moderator who plays referee and cracks wry asides about hot takes.

In their words

  • “I'm not a Molly Ringwald fan, but I guess you should include her.” (0:16:19)
  • “I'm just a lowly reality TV podcaster.” (0:01:42)
  • “And I was real, I was like, what the fuck the 1st time?” (1:01:31)

The Rewatchables: ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins (guest)

Adores the film's social critique and Tim Meadows, loves rom-coms like Morning Glory and teen movies like She's All That, hates the music choices and the Kalteen-bar plot hole. A sucker for the Aaron Samuels fantasy.

Stances

  • Gretchen is the true villain
  • Regina would never fall for Kalteen bars
  • Tim Meadows deserves more credit

Humor: Self-deprecating, Instagram-stalking jokes about Aaron Samuels as her trainer.

In their words

  • “What I learned is that Gretchen Wiener is the true villain of the movie.” (0:29:08)
  • “I now love Killian Murphy retroactively.” (0:26:55)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Rewatchables

Their claims

Showing 1–67 of 67 claims.

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. 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)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)
  12. 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)
  13. 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)
  14. 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)
  15. 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)
  16. 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)
  17. 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)
  18. 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)
  19. 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)
  20. 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)
  21. 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)
  22. 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)
  23. 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)
  24. 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)
  25. 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)
  26. 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)
  27. 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)
  28. 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)
  29. 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)
  30. 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)
  31. 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)
  32. 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)
  33. 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)
  34. 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)
  35. 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)
  36. 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)
  37. 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)
  38. 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)
  39. 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)
  40. 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)
  41. 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)
  42. 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)
  43. 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)
  44. 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)
  45. 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)
  46. 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)
  47. 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)
  48. 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)
  49. 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)
  50. 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)
  51. 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)
  52. 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)
  53. 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)
  54. 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)
  55. 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)
  56. unmapped (generational pick): The Kissing Booth → To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Kissing Booth revived teen movies but To All the Boys was smarter and crossed generations like the lineage films.
    “to all the boys I love before really had a cross-generation.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:02:39 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  57. unmapped (timeline slot): Mean Girls → Scream. Scream gets slotted between Clueless and Mean Girls in the smart-teen-movie lineage.
    “can I throw that in between clueless and mean girls?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:04:52 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  58. unmapped (shared family): Heathers → Mean Girls. Heathers was written by Daniel Waters, brother of Mean Girls director Mark Waters.
    “It was written by Daniel Waters, who is the brother of Mark Waters, who directed Mean Girls.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:06:57 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  59. unmapped (siblings): Daniel Waters → Mark Waters. The writer of Heathers and the director of Mean Girls are brothers.
    “It was written by Daniel Waters, who is the brother of Mark Waters, who directed Mean Girls.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:06:57 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  60. unmapped (cost of fame): Alicia Silverstone → Clueless. Stories about Silverstone being anorexic on the Clueless set are cited as devastating, tying her fate to Lohan's.
    “stories about Alicia Silverstone just being so anorexic on set of Clueless are like pretty, are like pretty devastating”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:17:25 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  61. verdict (favorite teen movie): Mean Girls → She's All That. Asked for a favorite high school movie, one guest picks She's All That, itself a ripoff of an earlier film.
    “I like really loved she's all that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:19:27 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  62. programming (recommendation): Rachel McAdams → Morning Glory. Juliet pushes Morning Glory as a wonderful underrated McAdams rom-com.
    “This is a great time to remind everyone to watch the wonderful film, Morning Glory”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:27:18 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  63. craft (craft): Christina Aguilera → Mean Girls. Damian's talent-show number is a Christina Aguilera song, "Beautiful", named as a favorite moment.
    “And then he sings beautiful, right? Yes, he does. Christina Aguilera song?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:33:57 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
  64. people (cast shock parallel): Mean Girls → Spring Breakers. Claudia from Party of 5 looking grown up in Mean Girls was a 2004 shock, like Vanessa Hudgens in Spring Breakers.
    “It was kind of like when Vanessa Hudgens was in spring breakers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:39:06 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
  65. people (cast overlap): Mean Girls → The Girl Next Door. Cuthbert's other film, with Paul Dano in the cast, is called a great teen movie (transcribed 'Backstore').
    “Backstore is a great teen movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:53:06 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
  66. unmapped (calorie-counting): Mean Girls → Bridget Jones's Diary. Calorie knowledge memorized like multiplication tables, as in Bridget Jones, shows Regina would not fall for the Kalteen bar.
    “There's a good passage in Bridget Jones about how she just, like, has calorie counts memorized, like multiplication tables.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:08:36 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  67. theme (genre DNA): Mean Girls → Heathers. Mean Girls is described as part Heathers and part after-school special; the ending was pushed away from Heathers toward the relatable.
    “This movie is like part Heathers and part after school special.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:11:54 · Juliet Litman (0.55 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–25 of 25 fun items.

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. 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)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)
  12. 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)
  13. 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)
  14. 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)
  15. 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)
  16. 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)
  17. 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)
  18. 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)
  19. fun, about Heathers: Fun fact: Heathers was written by Daniel Waters, brother of Mean Girls director Mark Waters.
    “It was written by Daniel Waters, who is the brother of Mark Waters, who directed Mean Girls.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:06:57 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Rachel McAdams: They recall being shocked McAdams was 27 when she played Regina; later debate whether she was 25.
    “I remember being shocked to find out she was 27 when she was in Mean Girls.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:27 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Gretchen Wieners: Juliet's villains-podcast takeaway: Gretchen Wieners is the true villain because she gives Regina her power and is the only one who learns nothing.
    “What I learned is that Gretchen Wiener is the true villain of the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:29:08 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Mean Girls: Soundtrack rant: the film is aimed at young women but the music sounds like a deodorant commercial; no hip-hop in 2004; probably budget.
    “instead of actually being good.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:37:11 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Amy Poehler: Saul Rubinek award for overacting nominees: Kevin G, Damian, and Simmons' hot take on Amy Poehler's cool mom; the group gives it to Kevin G.
    “This is my hottest take of the podcast.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:54:43 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Mean Girls: Best nitpick: Regina George falling for the Kalteen bar, and Katie winning prom queen after the burn book, which they explain as a rejection vote.
    “This is a rejection vote.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:09:54 · Juliet Litman (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Rachel McAdams: Who won the movie: McAdams, who came out of nowhere and made an all-time character, beats Lohan at her peak.
    “I just think Rachel McAdams comes out of nowhere.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:18:18 · Juliet Litman (0.45 sure it was them)