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Den of Thieves Benihana Award

Scene-stealing location.

Den of Thieves Benihana Award has run in 121 episodes. The most recent 40 are listed below — open any episode at its timestamp to hear the segment.

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‘About Last Night’Bill Simmons

Mother's (the Korean spa/steam bath scene)

‘About Last Night’Mallory Rubin

Agrees it's Mother's, jokes the steam baths scene is full of 'wrinkly tush'

‘Hitch’Bill Simmons

The jet skiing on the Hudson sequence — 'I would also give that Den of Thieves Benihana': a kind of New York scene he'd never seen in a movie, shot less than four years after 9/11 when the city was coming back; 'made me want to jet ski.'

‘Ali’Bill Simmons

Zaire — the film's Zaire/Foreman-fight setting ('Zaire, obviously, for sure')

‘Pacific Heights’Bill Simmons

The Beverly Hills house at 1014 North Crescent (the lady who's his next mark's house), noting it's currently listed for $30.3 million on Redfin

‘The Good Son’Bill Simmons

The house in Rock Harbor (with Sleeping with the Enemy's shorefront house as a close second)

‘The Good Son’Chris Ryan

David Morse's desert house near where U2 played the Red Rocks-style concert

‘Single White Female’Bill Simmons

Single White Female's own apartment — the Ansonia-style Upper West Side building that 'becomes a character', praised for its dim, disorienting light; it also takes his Amanda Dobbins award for best piece of real estate

‘Single White Female’Mallory Rubin

Notes the scale the movie gets out of the location — the basement, the air vents, the whole apartment — against Allie's struggling-artist backstory

‘Single White Female’Van Lathan

Adds a favorite runner-up from another movie — the apartment Josh fills with kid stuff (bunk beds) once he gets money in Big — and looks up the real building's current prices

‘Basic Instinct’Bill Simmons

The nightclub with the impressive deck and landscaping (from Basic Instinct, not Den of Thieves - appears to be a mislabeled/different movie discussion)

‘Eddie and the Cruisers’Bill Simmons

The junkyard

Episode	Host	Answer
‘About Last Night’	Bill Simmons	Mother's (the Korean spa/steam bath scene)
‘About Last Night’	Mallory Rubin	Agrees it's Mother's, jokes the steam baths scene is full of 'wrinkly tush'
‘Hitch’	Bill Simmons	The jet skiing on the Hudson sequence — 'I would also give that Den of Thieves Benihana': a kind of New York scene he'd never seen in a movie, shot less than four years after 9/11 when the city was coming back; 'made me want to jet ski.'
‘Ali’	Bill Simmons	Zaire — the film's Zaire/Foreman-fight setting ('Zaire, obviously, for sure')
‘Pacific Heights’	Bill Simmons	The Beverly Hills house at 1014 North Crescent (the lady who's his next mark's house), noting it's currently listed for $30.3 million on Redfin
‘The Good Son’	Bill Simmons	The house in Rock Harbor (with Sleeping with the Enemy's shorefront house as a close second)
‘The Good Son’	Chris Ryan	David Morse's desert house near where U2 played the Red Rocks-style concert
‘Single White Female’	Bill Simmons	Single White Female's own apartment — the Ansonia-style Upper West Side building that 'becomes a character', praised for its dim, disorienting light; it also takes his Amanda Dobbins award for best piece of real estate
‘Single White Female’	Mallory Rubin	Notes the scale the movie gets out of the location — the basement, the air vents, the whole apartment — against Allie's struggling-artist backstory
‘Single White Female’	Van Lathan	Adds a favorite runner-up from another movie — the apartment Josh fills with kid stuff (bunk beds) once he gets money in Big — and looks up the real building's current prices
‘Basic Instinct’	Bill Simmons	The nightclub with the impressive deck and landscaping (from Basic Instinct, not Den of Thieves - appears to be a mislabeled/different movie discussion)
‘Eddie and the Cruisers’	Bill Simmons	The junkyard