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  1. industry (industry): Quentin Tarantino → Reality Bites. Reality Bites got My Sharona for its convenience store scene; licensing chose it over the gang rape scene, and Tarantino says he is glad.
    “Reality Bites also wanted it for the convenience store scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:49:51 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Reality Bites → The Big Chill. Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts.
    “And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Reality Bites → Singles. Simmons builds a four-movie Gen X Mount Rushmore.
    “For movies, I would go singles, reality bites before sunrise and kicking and screaming.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Reality Bites → Before Sunrise. Part of the same four-film Gen X set.
    “Kind of like, if you were going to explain Generation X in 4 movies, I would pick those for, which one would you knock out singles?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:03:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Slacker → Reality Bites. Klosterman says Slacker belongs in the Gen X group because its script appears in the Gen X Reader.
    “there's a anthology book called the Gen X Reader, and some of the slacker script is in that book.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:03:37 · Chuck Klosterman (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Singles → Reality Bites. Reality Bites is the aggressive real-time generational movie; Singles only reads Gen X through its soundtrack.
    “it seemed like a much more aggressive attempt to be generational.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:58 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  7. theme (theme): Singles → Reality Bites. Without the Seattle music, Singles would not even be connected to Reality Bites.
    “Whereas singles, had they used a different soundtrack.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  8. contrast (contrast): Singles → Reality Bites. Singles' leads felt inauthentic as Seattle residents; Reality Bites leads seemed like real college kids.
    “Campbell Scott, Matt Dylan, and Bridget Fonda are not, like, Seattle residents.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:31 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): Dazed and Confused → Reality Bites. Two kinds of generational movie: looking back at a past era (Dazed, Graffiti) versus real time (Reality Bites, Saturday Night Fever).
    “And then there are the movies where they actually try to do it in real time, like Saturday Night Fever is like this, and reality bites is like the clearest example.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:35 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Reality Bites: Selling out: a Grantland coworker had never heard the expression.
    “And then we realized he literally didn't know what it meant.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. contrast (contrast): Reality Bites → Slacker. Reality Bites was seen at the time as the sellout, mainstream version of Slacker.
    “this is the most mainstream version of what a movie like Slacker was.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:24 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. theme (theme): Reality Bites → High Fidelity. Frampton Comes Alive as a signal of mainstream taste echoes a Frampton cover scene in High Fidelity.
    “In the book High Fidelity,”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:06 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Reality Bites: The Good Times game: remembering episode premises; nephew Kyle at 25 missed half the references.
    “I watched with nephew Kyle, who's 25 and didn't get half of them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Reality Bites: A scene where Lelaina explains to Michael why she picks Troy was cut because the fountain's noise could not be removed.
    “But it's filmed in front of a huge water fountain, which you see in an earlier part of the movie, and they could not get the sound of the water out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:30:22 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Reality Bites: Box office: $33.4 million on an $11.5 million budget.
    “A box office success made 33.4 million.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:31:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. industry (industry): Reality Bites → Friends (TV). Friends season one captured the mid-90s roommate money tension that Reality Bites does.
    “That's why I defend season one of Friends, because I thought it did a nice job of, in these weird ways of, uh, what it was like to have a roommate in the mid 90s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:43:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  17. industry (industry): Reality Bites → Melrose Place (TV). The Melrose Place AIDS scene lampoons the TV treatment of the issue while the film makes AIDS a character.
    “this movie, out of any movie I've seen from this era, does the best job of just kind of making that a character.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:44:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Reality Bites: Troy's 'witty pop culture comebacks' picked as what aged the worst.
    “Troy's witty pop culture comebacks?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:09 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Reality Bites: Heavy product placement (Diet Coke, Rolling Rock, Big Gulps) was one way they paid for the movie.
    “There's a frightening amount of product placement in this movie, and I think it's intentional”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Reality Bites: Winona Ryder fought to cast Ethan Hawke after seeing him in A Midnight Clear; Hawke was in a slump.
    “Hawk was in a slump.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:55:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Reality Bites: Casting what-if: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Heche, and Parker Posey auditioned for Vickie.
    “People who auditioned for the role of Vicki played by Janine Garofalo and did not get it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:55:41 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. what-if (what-if): Reality Bites → Pulp Fiction. Tarantino wanted My Sharona for Pulp Fiction but Reality Bites got the rights first.
    “Quentin Tarantino, was supposed to use my Sharona.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Reality Bites: The Frampton scene was originally written with Kiss's Beth; Stiller could not get rights.
    “Stiller could not secure the rights to the song.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:00:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. industry (industry): Reality Bites → Beautiful Girls. Stiller could not clear Kiss's Beth; two years later Beautiful Girls got it.
    “And what's weird is 2 years later, beautiful girls got the rights to the sun.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Reality Bites: In 2005 a real film financier sued, claiming to be the real Troy Dyer; settled on a statement that he was not.
    “In 2005, the real Troy Dyer, who was a film financer, sued the writer and everybody in the movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:48 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  26. career (career): Ethan Hawke → Reality Bites. A shot from Reality Bites, not another film, runs in his Oscar in-memoriam montage as shorthand.
    “When he dies in the Oscar montage, it's a shot from reality bites.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Reality Bites: Best quote: sex and the Brady Bunch; 'Mr. Brady died of AIDS'.
    “Well, because Mr. Brady died of AIDS.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:43 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about Reality Bites: The best exchange: Troy defining irony as the actual meaning being the opposite of the literal meaning.
    “And he's like, it's when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:13:20 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. verdict (verdict): Reality Bites → Singles. Singles looks like a sketch about dead technology: payphones, answering machines, video-cassette dating.
    “Singles is almost like someone, it looks like now, like someone has made a sketch about technology we no longer use.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:31 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Reality Bites: The movie's unanswered questions: Winona's cigarette is always three-quarters down, in every scene.
    “How did Winona Ryder?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:22:12 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  31. contrast (contrast): Reality Bites → Kicking and Screaming. Kicking and Screaming ends with a futile romantic gesture, which makes it the superior movie.
    “kicking and screaming has such like a powerful ending precisely because the great romantic gesture is just ultimately futile.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:28:22 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. theme (theme): Reality Bites → Singles. In the Hawke clip, Singles lacked the central performance and script voice Reality Bites has.
    “But singles was trying to cop onto this grunge movement, this thing that was happening in Seattle.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:36:21 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)
  33. craft (craft): Talking Heads → Reality Bites. The Talking Heads song that opens the film throws you into that moment in America.
    “even when it starts out, that talking head song, we're on a roll, no. Like, it jettisons you into that moment in America, I think.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 1:38:11 · Ethan Hawke (0.70 sure it was them)