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Overacting Award
Most exaggerated performance.
Overacting Award has run in 110 episodes. The most recent 40 are listed below — open any episode at its timestamp to hear the segment.
Gives the Stallone/Rambo II Underacting Award to Paul (Keir Gilchrist) rather than an Overacting Award ('I'd rather give the latter to Paul')
Agrees it's Paul — 'a little more energy from you'
Mentions the Ruffalo/Hannah Rubenek cartridge as overacting award option, but pivots to giving John Rambo (Adrienne King as Alice) the Underacting Award instead - says she's not freaked out enough, not animated, unrealistic problem-solving reaction to finding her friends dead.
Agrees with Bill's underacting take on Adrienne King, noting other final girls (Marcy, Brenda, Annie) were more interesting/low energy comparisons.
Piles on the underacting critique of Alice (Adrienne King), riffing on her unrealistic calm reaction ('no no no it's okay') upon discovering her friends' deaths.
Agrees the hitchhiker is a strong pick, jokes he's 'apparently the only SAG actor'; doesn't name a separate definitive pick of his own
The hitchhiker at the gas station/dinner scene ('you ruined it' and all that stuff)
Actually flips it to an 'underacting' award for Stallone in Rambo 2 - calls him monosyllabic, mailing in scenes with one-word answers, especially in the scene meeting Erickson (Martin Kove) and later the awkward rom-com-style dialogue with Co (Julia Nixon)
Agrees fully with Bill, naming it the 'Sly Stallone underacting award' - cites Stallone barely speaking real dialogue ('the mind is the strongest weapon') and doing even less in Cobra
Matthew Modine — 'we don't even need to really go in this' ('I want him out of here!'); if it were an Oscars field, all five nominees would just be different Modine clips.
Matthew Modine — specifically his 'five Budweiser drunk acting.'
Matthew Modine overacts multiple times ('goes five different times') throughout the movie