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Overacting Award

Most exaggerated performance.

Overacting Award has run in 106 episodes. The most recent 40 are listed below — open any episode at its timestamp to hear the segment.

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

Matthew Modine — the dance when he turns off the utilities, 'the worst end zone dance you've ever seen,' like an offensive lineman picking up a fumble.

Ruffalo-Hannah Rubinick Partridge (Rhys Ifans) for dialing up the overacting

The actress playing Gozer (a Grace Jones lookalike/stand-in since Jones turned down the role)

Margaret QualleyBlue face dialing it up the whole time, and Qualley's monologue where she screams 'it's not a porn!'

Alan CummingAlan Cumming as Boris

Sean BeanSean Bean moment on the train where he goes 'see you in hell' and gestures to indicate killing

Sean YoungSean Young - specifically her final warehouse scene performance where she's convulsing and shaking

Sean YoungDescribed Sean Young's warehouse scene performance as psychotic breakdown with twitching, sweating and shaking

Sean YoungDiscussed Mark Ruffalo's head-smacking scene and agreed about Sean Young's bizarre warehouse performance being like a seizure