Awesome / Best of the Worst

• Everyone, yes everyone, takes part in the delicious destruction of the American Flatulators tape. Completed with Rich Evans throwing a cement brick on top of the firey mess, thus being very cool about fire safety.
• Mike defending A.A. Roberts' labor of love, Tales From Genesis Space.
• To destroy How to be a Teenage Ninja, they get none other than Len Kabasinski to return to the show, "mailing" the VHS to him so he can deal with it personally. When the tape died, it was... without honor.
• The end of the Max Landis episode features a cameo by Macaulay Culkin. He feeds on children's films of The '90s to keep himself young.
• Mike, Jay, Rich, and Jack on the 10th Wheel of the Worst in which they completely rip apart the Exploding Varmints video and the man who made it. Through all of their joking, they get serious for a moment at the end and acknowledge what a horrible example of animal cruelty it was. Mike sums it up perfectly by calling the video "sickening, disturbing" and "cruel" and calling the shooter a "sick fucker" for his sheer enjoyment in violently killing defenseless animals.
• During the screening of The Killer Eye, Jay (in response to the homoerotic elements) asked if they were sure that they weren't watching a David DeCoteau film. This was almost certainly done in half-jest. He was exactly right; David DeCoteau did direct the movie under the name Richard Chasen.
• In Wheel of the Worst 13, they watch all of the tapes on the Wheel. Afterwards, to destroy 6 of the 8 tapes they watch, they drop a bowling ball of the top of a flight of stairs onto the tapes. It completely obliterates 5 of the 6 tapes.
• The guys opt to destroy both Playing Dangerous movies by taking them to a pistol range and using them for target practice. Extra awesome when Josh scores a Critical Hit on the VHS cassette for part 1, nailing it right in the spool and sending ribbons of videotape flying downrange.
• The guys gave Surviving Edged Weapons a legitimate standing ovation, and it is the first inductee in the Best of the Worst Hall of Fame.
• The crew goes on a road trip to Beaver Dam Wisconsin (where The Pit was filmed) in order to find an actual pit in which to throw Mankillers. Although said pit doesn't exist, they do find several landmarks from the film, and reproduce shots from it perfectly.
• Silk proves to be the dullest film the gang has ever watched. They realize while watching it that there is no comedic material to work with. So what do they do? Rich breaks the glass on the Emergency Case, and draws forth Pass Thru, a film by Neil Breen!
• Patton Oswalt's guest appearance in "Plinketto #8" broke new ground in more ways than one. Not only is he the most high-profile celebrity guest the show has ever had, but his appearance also serves as a sort of unofficial crossover with Mystery Science Theater 3000!
• Jack Quaid in "Plinketto #10" is an even more impressive "get" for the boys in almost every respect, being a legitimate TV and movie star. Given his extremely busy schedule it's a wonder he managed to book what must have been a full day's worth of shooting in Milwaukee^note he appears to have been in the area at the time because he was also part of a panel for Star Trek: Lower Decks at a con in nearby Chicago but he commits fully to the Best of the Worst schtick and seems genuinely pleased to be there, meaning he's either that big a fan or that good an actor. Although he had interacted with the RLM gang on Twitter a few times in the past his appearance came a total shock (and not advertised or exploited at all by them, although that is typical). Even more impressively the lineup of the movies they watch is one of their best, with one smash unexpected success (Stone Cold) and even their disappointments having some saving graces.
  • Not only that, but he also managed to get both movies he wanted to get off his ball drops (100 Million BC and The Bog), a most impressive feat.
• After years of playing himself up as an uncoordinated klutz for the show, Rich not only proves to be surprisingly talented at Black Spine "Junka" in its third installment, but after a certain point, he begins milking the suspense for the camera and showing off.
  Rich: Oh — oh, you thought I was going to "Rich Evans" that shit? [flips off the camera with both hands]
  [...]
  Rich: [deliberately fiddling with a tape just as it's almost out] Oh, i-it's... s-stuck.
  Tim: Yeah, Rich... "stuck"...
• It's downright cathartic watching the guys tear into Dr. Sherryl Krazier for her inept advice on how to deal with bullying, not to mention the downright disturbing way she gets the children to act out bullying scenarios by focusing on their actual physical flaws and inviting their peers to mock them. On more than one occasion, Krazier literally starts physically attacking her subjects^note she tosses wadded-up balls of tissue paper at them, so she's not actually hurting them (at least not physically), but still, leading the gang to suspect she has some very deep-seated mental issues of her own. They even put forward a theory that people who, in general, are ineffective at recognizing the problems with bullying were, in fact, bullies themselves in their younger years and want to downplay the trauma they caused their victims for the sake of their own guilty conscience. Their seething hatred for her and her ineffective methods is contrasted wonderfully with Detective J.J. Bittenbinder later on. Bittenbinder brings his experience on the beat in Chicago to his lectures, providing children and adults alike with practical and effective advice. He also refuses to sugar-coat or couch the dangers his audience will be facing in euphemisms, and his plain-talking earns plaudits for his refusal to talk down or condescend. By the end, his video wins Best of the Worst and they even add him to the Hall of Fame and give him the coveted And Starring, the first time it hasn't gone to Rich Evans.
• For their Spotlight episode on Glenn Danzig's Death Rider in the House of Vampires, Jay re-edits a scene (which is long, slow, and free of music or sound effects to the point of almost being raw footage) into something that, if not exactly good, is at least more watchable than the actual film.

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