Rewatchables Reference

• Bill: Initially Pacino's 'I'm gambling again' speech/gambling rehab scene. Then switched to John Anthony's first Sports Advisors broadcast and the moment he goes off script – 'the energy in that scene is incredible.'
• CR: Same – the sports advisor broadcast. 'If you are walking by a television and Brandon Lang is getting the 'Pretty Woman' montage to turn into John Anthony, all right, I got to stick around.'
• Sal: Infiltrating Gamblers Anonymous – 'you're all lemons.' Also: the Armand Assante dinner scene.

• Sal: Nobu, fax machines, the allusion to 'this whole .com thing.'
• CR: Desert Storm-era jokes ('it's a scud attack this weekend'); a casual 'this guy would never be president' Donald Trump joke about his hair; sports betting still being illegal.
• Bill: Pacino saying 'I'm going to do this whole .com thing around him' – 'that's the last time anyone said .com.'
• Craig: Needing four TVs to watch four games – 'the OG quad box.' Also: giant telemarketer headsets the size of specialized football helmets.

• Bill: Pacino's character being based on Stu Finer, who's still on Barstool – 'just going to age great every year for the rest of my life.' Also: the struggling hairline Super Bowl between Pacino, McConaughey, and Piven.
• CR: Bringing a character into New York City for the first time. Pacino's line 'you shut your fucking toilet when I'm talking to her' – 'I've never heard somebody describe another person's mouth as a toilet.' Also: Winged Foot is still really hard to play.
• Sal: McConaughey's pecs. Piven's pettiness. Pacino's pep talks.

• Bill: This era of sports gambling is gone – 'from 7 centuries ago compared to where we are in 2025.' The 900 lines, unregulated bookies, over-the-top advisor shows.
• CR: Guys having heart attacks at work and taking pills – 'before the pill even reaches your stomach, it appears to have worked.'
• Bill: The title 'Two for the Money' – nobody knows what it means.
• CR: Armand Assante's Novian character introduced as a huge threat then abandoned.

Bill: Preemptively gives it to Pacino, who gets the overacting award across the board. 'That guy.'

• Bill: The ending – winning the big game/saving the business intercut with Russo trying to save her marriage. 'I just care about the game.'
• CR: Armand Assante's character – introduced as important, then abandoned with no resolution.
• Sal: Piven's character is underdeveloped; the 7-year-old daughter subplot.

• CR: Should remake this as a period piece about the Wild West of pre-legalization sports gambling.
• Sal's gambling stories: His friend Harry paid $400 for an 'ACC game of the year' pick (Duke +17, Florida State won 59-20). Sal himself went 18-0-2 giving picks on SportsCenter and nobody at ESPN cared.

• Bill: Kevin Chapman (from Mystic River and Person of Interest) – 'one of the great that guys.' Also: Brandon Lang's dad in the beginning was one of the bad guys in 'Road House'.
• CR: Ralph Garman as the producer of the TV show.

• Bill: Movies that play 'You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You' by Dean Martin. Also: movies with Pacino as a cuck – 'this is my favorite for Apex Mountain.'
• Sal: Brandon Lang for fictional football players brought down by injuries.
• All three stars: Not their apex mountains.

Not formally discussed, but Bill mentioned it would work for Scorsese's energy.

Bill: Probably the Piven role or possibly Walter Abrams himself.

The Monday Night Football theme. Also: 'You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You' by Dean Martin during the montage.

• Sal: Jeremy Piven's hair – 'I'd wear it every Sunday night on Guess the Lines.'
• CR: The Algorithm Psych System – whatever McConaughey was looking at on his computer.
• Bill: Game-worn McConaughey Sun Devils jersey from the opening scene, 'maybe with the hair extensions.'

• Bill: 'Modesty's not a virtue, it might be a vice.' Also: 'great hot streaks go cold, cold streaks go hot.'
• CR: The life lesson is the Gamblers Anonymous speech – 'two for three every week.'

• CR: 'Rounders' – 'the voice over, the way it opens, it just feels of a piece.'
• Bill: Devil's Advocate – 'Walter is Satan' followed by 'Two for the Money'.

• CR and Sal: Pacino. Bill: McConaughey – 'it pivoted his arc to do serious movies.'
• Craig: 'The movie goes from fine to entertaining and rewatchable because of Pacino. If it was just another actor, I don't know if you'd revisit it.'

Craig: Initially lukewarm, but upon rewatching clips, started to appreciate it more. 'Half the things Pacino does in this movie are hilarious.' Credits Pacino as the reason the movie works as a rewatchable. 'Hebrew National, dad's penis – that's what keeps you coming back.'