Before Little Giants, before The Mighty Ducks, before The Sandlot, there was The Bad News Bears! And it’s time for Adapt or Perish to step up to the plate and take a look at this true sports classic.

For this episode, we watched and discussed:

• The 1976 original movie, directed by Michael Ritchie, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Walter Matthau, Tatum O’Neal, and Jackie Earle Haley. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2005 remake, directed by Richard Linklater, written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, and starring Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, and Marcia Gay Harden. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977)
• The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
• The Bad News Bears on CBS (1979–1980)
• School of Rock (2003)
• Bad Santa (2003)

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