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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 Qualley — Blue face dialing it up the whole time, and Qualley's monologue where she screams 'it's not a porn!'
Alan Cumming — Alan Cumming as Boris
Sean Bean — Sean Bean moment on the train where he goes 'see you in hell' and gestures to indicate killing
Sean Young — Sean Young - specifically her final warehouse scene performance where she's convulsing and shaking
Sean Young — Described Sean Young's warehouse scene performance as psychotic breakdown with twitching, sweating and shaking
Sean Young — Discussed Mark Ruffalo's head-smacking scene and agreed about Sean Young's bizarre warehouse performance being like a seizure