Rewatchables Reference

• Bill: Game 7 of the World Series, including the collision at home plate – 'one of the most brilliant moments ever in a sports movie'.
• Mallory: 'There's no crying in baseball' – one of the most iconic scenes in movie history.
• The Dottie/Kit recruitment scenes in Oregon.
• The tryout montage at Harvey Field.
• Jimmy's 53-second pee scene.
• The 'Dottie quits' scene – 'It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.'

• Bill: Geena Davis – Thelma & Louise back-to-back with this is one of the all-time runs.
• Mallory: Madonna as Mae – 'it should be absurd, but it works.' Perfect casting.
• Geena Davis and Lori Petty as completely believable baseball players.
• Rosie O'Donnell – peak likability, apparently the best baseball player in the cast.
• All the Jimmy Dugan-isms: 'Avoid the clap,' the waitress in South Bend.
• The quality of the baseball play across the board – shockingly high and convincing.

• Bill: Kit kind of sucks – Bill's daughter Zoe said 'she's not a good character.' Both agree Kit is super annoying and never earns redemption.
• Bill: As time passes, the Madonna cultural impact erodes – his daughter didn't know anything about Madonna.
• Old Dottie (the older actress) – 'not quite bringing it, pretty TV movie-ish'.
• Mallory: Marla Hooch quitting the team after marrying Nelson – 'all-time what aged the worst'.

• Debra Winger was originally cast as Dottie but left because Madonna was cast – big L for Debra Winger.
• Demi Moore was pregnant. Christopher Walken couldn't be afforded for Walter Harvey.
• Marisa Tomei filmed an audition tape but wasn't considered a good enough player.

• Madonna's 'tell old Mr. Rich chocolate man that he ain't closing me down' line.
• Marla singing 'It Had to Be You' – dialed all the way up.

Mallory: 'He's in the movie for 12 minutes. Easiest one ever.' Comes up with 'It's been a thin slice of heaven' and 'pickle tickle.'

• Bill: The guy who played Stilwell (Grown Up Stilwell) – also Chubby from 'Teen Wolf'.
• Bill: The guy who played Squiggy on Laverne & Shirley as the baseball announcer.

Bill: 1992 Sandra Bullock as Kit – would add likability. Mallory pushes back: 'you can't not root for Sandra Bullock'.

• The cast was all banged up: Rosie had broken fingers, Lori Petty had a broken foot for half the shoot.
• Tryout scene at Wrigley Field, home games at League Stadium in Huntingburg, Indiana, championship in Evansville.
• Madonna contributed 'This Used to Be My Playground' but it wasn't on the soundtrack due to contractual reasons.
• The peeing scene was Penny Marshall with a hose in a bucket.
• There was a stunt double for Geena Davis's split catch.
• Six cast members rented a house; Francis Ford Coppola sent cases of his wine.

• Geena Davis – Thelma & Louise then this. 'Apex literally, maybe of beauty, humanity, acting – pick a noun.'
• Penny Marshall – dined off Big and this movie. Most successful movie she made.
• Lori Petty – 'until the day I die, I'll be Kit.' Definitely apex mountain.
• Women's baseball/sports movies – yes.
• Baseball movies – yes.
• Long movie pee scenes – either this or Austin Powers in the finals.

• Bill: No smoking anywhere despite being set in 1945 when everyone smoked.
• Bill: Kit gets traded before the playoffs – what kind of league allows that?
• Bill: In Game 7, first base open – and they DON'T intentionally walk Dottie, the best player in the league?!
• Mallory: Kit's pitch count across the World Series must have been insane.
• Mallory: Why is Dottie hitting fifth in the clinching World Series game?

• Did Dottie drop the ball on purpose? Geena Davis: 'I know the answer and I am not going to answer that question.' Both Bill and Mallory think she got trucked by her sister.
• Mallory: What did Mae say to the priest in the confessional? (The priest dropped the Bible twice and came out sweating.)

Amazon was making a new version (Abbi Jacobson co-creating and starring). Mallory is excited; Bill is cautiously open since it's been 30 years.

• Bill: The ball that Dottie drops at the end – 'like the Bill Buckner ball'.
• The catcher's mitt signed by Tom Hanks with 'Avoid the clap. Jimmy Dugan.'

Both agree: Geena Davis. Thelma & Louise back-to-back with this – two of the most important mainstream pop culture movies of the decade from a female empowerment standpoint.

• Craig Horlbeck had not seen the movie before. He 'fucking loved it' – 'It's perfect.'
• Craig: 'I had no idea this was a true story. I didn't know the AAGPBL was real.'
• Craig: This is his favorite Tom Hanks character ever.