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Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables

Fargo 1996

With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan and Kyle Brandt · 10 March 2026 · 26,718 feet

The claim

94:48 – 97:35

… year behind us. Yeah. I mean, he was hilarious in high school. Yeah. The trademark Minnesota, yeah, appears 179 times in the script. Great. That's all I got. Apex Mountain. Okay. Well, for Apex Mountain, certainly Swedish meatballs. Because when you think about what Ikea was doing with their amazing cafe, when you would go get some furniture that you would then get divorced while you put it together. Yeah. And then also, this movie, I just, I don't really know when Swedish meatballs have peaked again. I would also say GMAC financing plans. Sure. Riley Giffenbach? Yeah. And then True Code Sealant. Would you say …

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She was a year behind us. Yeah. I mean, he was hilarious in high school. Yeah. The trademark Minnesota, yeah, appears 179 times in the script. Great. That's all I got. Apex Mountain. Okay. Well, for Apex Mountain, certainly Swedish meatballs. Because when you think about what Ikea was doing with their amazing cafe, when you would go get some furniture that you would then get divorced while you put it together. Yeah. And then also, this movie, I just, I don't really know when Swedish meatballs have peaked again. I would also say GMAC financing plans. Sure. Riley Giffenbach? Yeah. And then True Code Sealant. Would you say Coen Brothers? No. I'd say no country. It's Coen Brothers. Yeah. I would say that as well. Macy, it's not yet, but maybe after Boogie Nights we're getting there. Getting in the vicinity. Some would argue the cooler when he actually led a movie that had a lot of people in it. Yeah. Shameless, right? The show, like people love that show, Shameless. He was on for years. Yeah. I like Emmy Rossum. I never watched it, but I know people like it. Minnesota, probably the World Series in 88 or 87. Kirby Puckett. Oh, fuck yeah. Or 91. One of those two World Series. Ken Herbeck, Greg Gagne. The 98 Vikings in Moss's rookie year and Randall Cunningham and they went to the title game. They were unbelievable. KG winning that first round series against the games. Oh, yeah. Windshield scraper scenes. Yeah. Buscemi? Well. He wins a Golden Globe for that Boardwalk Empire. This is my favorite role of his. Yeah, I think there's been bigger moments. I think Con Air is probably like his apex. He got that right after this. Yeah. He starts being a movie star. He starts doing all the Sandler movies. It's funny. I would probably, I'd probably say, I'm not right, but I'd probably say Sopranos because he was also directing. Yeah. And when he was in Sopranos, it was just such a big deal. Yeah. It's like, oh my God, they got Buscemi for, I know. He's going to play Tony's cousin. And he was a maniac. Fucking unbelievable. You're right. I can't believe they're doing this. And the way his story ended on the porch is, that's so good. McDormand, no. But I don't know what it is. I think it's probably three. And I think her career was intentionally designed not to have an apex. Three billboards was like the most attention I think she got. The Blue Ox, probably the most fun anyone's had there. Yeah. Yeah. They're having a hell of a time shovel murders. Better shovel murder for you? We dance close with some shovel murders in Home Alone. That's the thing. It's implied. Yeah. The street slayer. The snow shovel. Yeah. I remember at Halloween there was a good through the face shovel murder, but this was pretty good. Fargo. Fargo the town? It could have been named Brainerd. I mean, most of the action, the movie takes place.

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What the board says

This film IS their apex
William H. Macy22,890 ftThe highest point of the career. Carries 70 of 100 of this film.
Their apex is elsewhere
Frances McDormand23,370 ftNomadland, 2021, by 2,834 feet.
Steve Buscemi21,470 ftLiving in Oblivion, 1995, by 2,556 feet.

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