Ending Of: My Best Friend's Wedding

Hot and Bothered

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s bi-weekly scene study, Vanessa and Hannah analyze the ending of My Best Friend's Wedding. They interrogate the constraints of monogamy and introduce a new segment to the show where they ask 'does this movie hate women?'

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0:00.0	I'm pawns gum.
0:04.0	Well, lower actually.
0:07.0	I'm like the fungus that feeds on ponds gum.
0:11.0	Lower.
0:13.0	The pus that infects the mucus that cruds up the fungus, that feeds on the ponds gum.
0:24.8	I'm Vanessa Zoltan.
0:26.8	I'm Hannah McGregor.
0:28.3	And this is hot and bothered.
0:30.8	AKA Giamati Watch.
0:32.6	Okay. Hannah.
0:48.8	Hannah, do we want to take a minute?
0:50.3	Because we didn't talk in last week's episode about one of our favorite moments.
0:55.2	I would argue for Ariana and myself, not just in this movie, but like in film.
1:00.3	So should we spend a moment talking about Paul Giamatti?
1:03.6	Oh, no, I've got a better idea. Let's make it the scene that we talk about in the bonus episode.
1:08.8	Perfect. Okay, everybody, if you want to hear us talk about, this is the
1:13.2	scene where she talks to Paul Giamatti and Dermit Mulroney sex ring off her finger.
1:17.4	Yeah, it's an important scene. It's the most important scene, and it takes place in this
1:22.1	liminal space of a hallway. Stop analyzing that. That's Patreon. You need to pay for this.
1:26.6	You need to support us on Patreon if you want to hear about liminal spaces.
1:31.6	Okay.
1:32.9	So I've decided that the ending of this movie starts with her chasing Michael because.
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