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Ron Burgundy Flute Award

Best time for a bathroom break.

Ron Burgundy Flute Award has run in 21 episodes. The most recent 21 are listed below — open any episode at its timestamp to hear the segment.

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The outdated technology references like 'your computer's gone, so are your floppy disks and your red expandable files'

The opening eight minutes - three minutes of pelican credits plus another four minutes where nothing happens until Tucci gets the envelope

Defends the movie structure, noting they need to set up Gray in the first 40 minutes even though he shouldn't be in it until Darby calls

When he's jogging near the end before Sonny gets shot

Initially suggests the Francis Capra section to get to the Broncato section, then agrees with the very beginning

Agrees the beginning feels like a one-man show explaining the setting

The very beginning

when he's sleeping in the car with the owl

agrees with the sleeping scenes padding, suggests you only need it twice and could cut all of it

The sloggy stretch in the middle of the movie during the two hour and 10 minute runtime

The gas station scene where he's with the FBI lady

The gas station scene where he's with the FBI lady

Episode	Host	Answer
‘The Pelican Brief’	Amanda Dobbins	The outdated technology references like 'your computer's gone, so are your floppy disks and your red expandable files'
‘The Pelican Brief’	Bill Simmons	The opening eight minutes - three minutes of pelican credits plus another four minutes where nothing happens until Tucci gets the envelope
‘The Pelican Brief’	Chris Ryan	Defends the movie structure, noting they need to set up Gray in the first 40 minutes even though he shouldn't be in it until Darby calls
‘A Bronx Tale’	Bill Simmons	When he's jogging near the end before Sonny gets shot
‘A Bronx Tale’	Chris Ryan	Initially suggests the Francis Capra section to get to the Broncato section, then agrees with the very beginning
‘A Bronx Tale’	Sean Fennessey	Agrees the beginning feels like a one-man show explaining the setting
‘A Bronx Tale’	Van Lathan	The very beginning
‘My Cousin Vinny’	Bill Simmons	when he's sleeping in the car with the owl
‘My Cousin Vinny’	Wesley Morris	agrees with the sleeping scenes padding, suggests you only need it twice and could cut all of it
‘Primal Fear’	Bill Simmons	The sloggy stretch in the middle of the movie during the two hour and 10 minute runtime
‘Dumb and Dumber’	Bill Simmons	The gas station scene where he's with the FBI lady
‘Dumb and Dumber’	Jennifer Lawrence	The gas station scene where he's with the FBI lady