Picking Nits

Minor complaints and logical inconsistencies.

Picking Nits has run in 160 episodes. The most recent 40 are listed below — open any episode at its timestamp to hear the segment.

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‘It Follows’Bill Simmons

Jokes that if Jay slept with the boat guys too, she'd be bordering on the record for most sexual encounters by a 'normal' main character in a movie

‘It Follows’Chris Ryan

The movie's logic that sex 'rolls back' the curse is flawed/convenient, comparing it to a 'hairdryer next to the swimming pool' level of plot contrivance

‘It Follows’Joanna Robinson

Believes Jay had sex with the lake guys purely as a stalling tactic to buy time against the entity, not as a real attempt to pass it on, since she then has sex with Paul afterward

‘Law Abiding Citizen’Bill Simmons

Questions whether you can really stab someone 20 times with a spork

‘Law Abiding Citizen’Craig Horlbeck

Questions why Jamie Foxx's character made everyone come into the office at 6am to wait and see if they might die instead of staying home or far apart

‘Law Abiding Citizen’Van Lathan

Confused early on why Clyde kills his cellmate when it seems purposeless; also questions why the DA is personally flying around in a chopper investigating like a detective when there must be other crimes in Philadelphia

‘Apollo 13’Amanda Dobbins

It's a parenting nitpick that they let the youngest child watch the live broadcast not knowing if his dad would come back alive, essentially letting a four-year-old potentially watch his father's death live

‘Apollo 13’Amanda Dobbins

Mary Haise's character got the shaft in the movie, barely any scenes beyond being pregnant in the bedroom

‘Apollo 13’Bill Simmons

Not enough cigarette smoking shown given it's 1970 (everyone in the control room and house should be smoking except the kids); also notes real astronauts complained the depicted arguing in the spaceship was unrealistic

‘Apollo 13’Rob Mahoney

During the emergency landing scene, two women drop a salad bowl, spill about 10% of it, and then implausibly just scoop the spilled salad back into the bowl

‘Speed’Bill Simmons

Dennis Hopper's running age has aged the worst; also nitpicks: Hopper watching college football on a weekday morning makes no timeline sense; Halle Berry almost played Annie because the role was originally written as an African-American paramedic 'to justify her ability to drive the bus,' which he found nonsensical; notes continuity errors like Jack's leg limp changing/disappearing; recommends Janeane Garofalo's bit about the stereotypical bus passengers in Speed

‘Speed’Chris Ryan

Nitpicks the timeline/season of the movie (shot late summer-December but seems to take place in fall) and questions whether Howard is watching live games or delayed tape while gambling; also criticizes the breakup backstory between Annie and Jack ('being in the bomb squad is why you're fucking here baby') as illogical

Episode	Host	Answer
‘It Follows’	Bill Simmons	Jokes that if Jay slept with the boat guys too, she'd be bordering on the record for most sexual encounters by a 'normal' main character in a movie
‘It Follows’	Chris Ryan	The movie's logic that sex 'rolls back' the curse is flawed/convenient, comparing it to a 'hairdryer next to the swimming pool' level of plot contrivance
‘It Follows’	Joanna Robinson	Believes Jay had sex with the lake guys purely as a stalling tactic to buy time against the entity, not as a real attempt to pass it on, since she then has sex with Paul afterward
‘Law Abiding Citizen’	Bill Simmons	Questions whether you can really stab someone 20 times with a spork
‘Law Abiding Citizen’	Craig Horlbeck	Questions why Jamie Foxx's character made everyone come into the office at 6am to wait and see if they might die instead of staying home or far apart
‘Law Abiding Citizen’	Van Lathan	Confused early on why Clyde kills his cellmate when it seems purposeless; also questions why the DA is personally flying around in a chopper investigating like a detective when there must be other crimes in Philadelphia
‘Apollo 13’	Amanda Dobbins	It's a parenting nitpick that they let the youngest child watch the live broadcast not knowing if his dad would come back alive, essentially letting a four-year-old potentially watch his father's death live
‘Apollo 13’	Amanda Dobbins	Mary Haise's character got the shaft in the movie, barely any scenes beyond being pregnant in the bedroom
‘Apollo 13’	Bill Simmons	Not enough cigarette smoking shown given it's 1970 (everyone in the control room and house should be smoking except the kids); also notes real astronauts complained the depicted arguing in the spaceship was unrealistic
‘Apollo 13’	Rob Mahoney	During the emergency landing scene, two women drop a salad bowl, spill about 10% of it, and then implausibly just scoop the spilled salad back into the bowl
‘Speed’	Bill Simmons	Dennis Hopper's running age has aged the worst; also nitpicks: Hopper watching college football on a weekday morning makes no timeline sense; Halle Berry almost played Annie because the role was originally written as an African-American paramedic 'to justify her ability to drive the bus,' which he found nonsensical; notes continuity errors like Jack's leg limp changing/disappearing; recommends Janeane Garofalo's bit about the stereotypical bus passengers in Speed
‘Speed’	Chris Ryan	Nitpicks the timeline/season of the movie (shot late summer-December but seems to take place in fall) and questions whether Howard is watching live games or delayed tape while gambling; also criticizes the breakup backstory between Annie and Jack ('being in the bomb squad is why you're fucking here baby') as illogical