Funny / How Did This Get Made?

• June and Jason both independently notice that Justin Guarini and Kelly Clarkson can't seem to find each other on the streets of Miami despite the fact they're singing the same damn song.
  June: Find the person you're having a duet with!
  Jason: If you have the same backing track, you're close!
  • Everyone also loses it when an audience member points out that the title "From Justin to Kelly" refers to the fact that both characters are texting each other the whole movie.
    Paul: (singing) The best audience question in the wooorld! I thought it wasn't good, but it was great!
• In the Sleepaway Camp episode, the hosts spend a great deal of time trying to figure out the relationship between the deceased men in the flashback, and constantly talk circles around each other as the issue gets further muddled.
• The Avengers (1998):
  • We have Jason's reaction to an audience member who seemed a tad agitated about the fact that Emma Peel had five lines of cocaine on her kitchen counter:
    Jason: Bro, I'm going to need you to chill out on this cocaine, OK? "I mean UGH! ALL THIS COCAINE! I mean the movie is ... cocaine, right?" This guy is in a full body sweat...
    Paul: You can ... you can sit down.
    Jason: "Ah! Ah! Ahgghghghg! And I mean, is no nobody going to DO those? Is nobody going to do those lines? Like can we get in there? Does anyone know where that coke is now?"
    Paul: "Wait, you think it was prop coke or real coke? We should do coke to figure it out!"
    Jason: "I'm going to be honest, man: I couldn't focus on the rest of the movie! Because NOBODY IS DOING THAT COKE!"
  • Shortly afterwards, June wonders if instead of coke it was actually "scientific molecules".
  • Also, during the audience question portion, Paul asks the men to do their best Sean Connery impression when asking their question. Most of them nail it.
• In the Airborne episode, the entire show is derailed for several minutes when it's revealed one of the female stars was later married to Verne Troyer, best known for playing Mini-Me in Austin Powers. Partly because they were trying to confirm it live on stage.
• Ninja Terminator: Jason at one point has the revelation that, between a scene in which two women talk about their careers and two sex scenes that seemed more about the woman's pleasure than the man's, not only does Ninja Terminator pass The Bechdel Test, but it may very well be one of the most pro-feminist movies they've ever reviewed.
• The No Holds Barred episode, a live show with guest star Thomas Lennon, is rife with hysterically funny comments, but one of the best is Tompkins pointing out that Hulk Hogan clearly has trouble remembering his character's name (Rip Hunter) since the role is little more than Hogan As Himself. He then imagines Hulk asking the director to just let the other actors call him Hulk, then Rip, and cut the first part out in post-production.
• In the Face/Off Jason asks June if at the end of a series of violent, tumultuous events like those endured by Joan Allen in the movie, if like John Travolta, her husband Paul came home with a strange child for them to adopt, how would she react? June's answer would be to shrug and say "Okay."
  • Guest Randall Park's theory on how the entire movie is a metaphor for star Travolta's religion Scientology.
• June always forgetting what happens in films in the The Fast and the Furious franchise even though she spent entire episodes dissecting the plot of previous movies.
• Everyone imitating Al Pacino throughout the The Devil's Advocate episode.
• The audio montage clip of phones ringing in Perfect.
• In the Cellular episode, Ike Barinholtz notes that Jason Statham has a terrible American accent and suggests the movie would be greatly improved if his character doubled down on insisting that he is a Los Angeles native. The episode quickly devolves into the hosts essentially performing a "The Californians" sketch in Statham's distinctive Cockney accent.
• Most of the Deep Blue Sea episode, especially Evan Goldberg's unironic love for the movie and their response to the complete lack of subtlety in showing the sharks.
  Paul: Unlike Jaws, you see a shark in the first five minutes. Just in case you didn't think this movie is about sharks, it's about fucking sharks.
  Jason: The credits aren't even done. Ding-dong, who's there? Sharks!
  Paul F. Tompkins: This is a very direct movie. "Deep Blue Sea" isn't a metaphor or something. It takes place in the ocean.
• Paul F. Tompkins' fury with Lake Placid's writer, David E. Kelley (creator of Ally McBeal, Boston Legal, etc.), and his insistence on writing scripts longhand on yellow legal pads.
  Paul F. Tompkins: You gotta sort through their fucking chicken scratch of genius!
• The Jupiter Ascending episode has the cast punctuate every single one of Eddie Redmayne's lines from the "I CREATE LIFE!" speech with a quote from his obvious inspiration — Ralph Fiennes as Lord Voldemort.
• A meta-example. The review of Swordfish had comments about the John Lennon glasses Holly (Stanley's daughter) was wearing. Actress Camryn Grimes (who played Holly) posted a video of her laughing while the episode played in the background.
• During the episode on The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, Paul notes that when he asked to play the trailer prior to June and Jason coming onstage, the audience openly revolted against the idea, a first for any HDTGM live show.
• During their live show for Morbius (2022), they receive info and comic book lore about the character Michael Morbius from a random person in the crowd. At the end they thank him and ask for his name. His name is Michael. The hilarity of the situation does not go unnoticed.

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