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July 16, 2025 12 mins
Can you name the highest-grossing summer movie from any year between 1975 and 2024—without Googling?In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew dives into a high-stakes, laugh-packed game of cinematic trivia that spans nearly five decades of summer blockbusters. Hosted by the ever-clever Kevin “KT” Turner, the game pits Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, and Krystina Ray against each other in a battle of movie memory, pop culture instincts, and hilarious guesses.The Rules Are Simple, the Stakes Are High: Pick a year, guess the top summer movie. Get it right on the first try? Three points. Need a hint? That’s two. Still stumped? One point if you can pull it together. And yes, it gets intense.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Those the sticky, the giant, typical boom feet. Yes, so
this is something I was thinking of because we've talked
a lot about you know, Superman just got one hundred
and twenty million dollars, We've had summer blockbusters, the movies
are back. How about the top summer movies of all time?

(00:22):
And I have the years nineteen seventy five through twenty
twenty four pulled up in front of me. So let
me just tell you the rules real quick. What are they?
Rules are? You will pick a year and then you
can take a shot at it for three points. If
you miss, I'll give you a hint for two points,
and if you miss that one, I'll give you another
hint for a point, and we'll just go around and
around until we're bored with it. I've got the label here,

(00:45):
Ben Skinn and Christina. So, Ben, if you like to
pick a year between nineteen seventy five and twenty twenty four,
all right, I will go with nineteen seventy five. All right,
he's going all the way back to nineteen seventy five.
What's your guess on what the highest grossing movie of
the summer was?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, I was trying to remember Oh, you know what.
What I was trying to think of that was Jaws.
But I think they just had their fifty year Rena.
I'm gonna go ahead and say, Jaws, you wouldn't give
been three points.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I think, let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's really well done. But they just had their fifty
year anniversary, right, So two hundred and sixty million, That
summer did really well. Nineteen seventy five off the board,
Skin nineteen seventy seven Star Wars. I'm riding down three points.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Okay, he's correct there, it is good job. This sucks Christina.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, oh god, let me let me go with ninety three.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
I think okay, ninety three. Oh, nice strategy, and her
guess is going.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
To be Jurassic Park.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Correct.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Wow, I'm such a nerd.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
That's how you play this game. That is how you
play it.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Know what you know it's gonna get tough later though,
say it's all tough right now.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, I didn't realize you just picked the year and
then you got to come up with the movie. Yeah,
but I'll give you a hint to get a hint
for lesser points. Okay, Ben, you're.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Up all right? Well, you can all admit this is fun. Okay, yeah, okay,
so we got what years are going? Uh, seventy five,
seventy seven, and ninety three.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
All right, I'm gonna say eighty one. Okay, the Empire
strikes back.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I'm sorry, that's incorrect. No, your hint for two points? Steal? No, yep,
your hint for two points? Can we stay in eighty one?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Now?

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Since I chose it is the star of the movie
was Christopher Reeve? Oh Superman? I'm sorry, Ben, No for
one point. Your other hint is what would come after Superman?
Superman two? To say, Lois Lane. There we go four
points for being right there, Skin.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
I think people will be talking about that joke for years.
Uh give me nineteen eighty three and it'll be a
return of the Jedi.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
That is correct. That's three points. Are you having fun
playing games with? Skin?

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Sixth Christina, Jurassic Mark is the only one I had.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
You'll figure it out.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
Well, I'm trying. I'm just trying to think of last year. Uh,
why is mission impossible last year?

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Or twenty three?

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Let's let's go twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Twenty twenty three, Mission impossible? Incorrect? Your first hit here?

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Uh, huh is.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
The director of the movie was Greta Gerwig. Oh, Barbie,
that's correct. Two points of Pristina Barbie was the twenty
twenty three.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
That's right, totally new.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
It vincid eighty one skin. You just picked eighty three.
She picked twenty three. Okay, Ben, it's a six' five
four skin Leads, ben what year would you? LIKE i
will go With i'll go with the twenty twenty, four

(04:15):
twenty twenty. FOUR i like it a. Lot and your
guess on this movie is fast. Ten, OH i love.
It it's not correct for two. Points it is an
Animated disney movie that's also a Sequel how To Train Your.
Dragon good, guess but, no and your third one will

(04:38):
Be this cast Had Amy, Poehler Bill, hayter oh. More
and it's about. Emotions it's about the. EMOTIONS i forgot
the name of.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
THAT i did, too AND i actually watched it on a.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Plane, yeah being along, Back, yeah, Yeah i'm gonna say
When harry Met, sally.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
All have what you're? Having thank? You no one, point
so it would have been one inside out two inside out.
Too by the, Way harry Met sally was on the other,
day and uh my wife was just kind of watching
it for the first. TIME i was, like you've never seen,
this AND i was, LIKE i really haven't, Either AND
i was kind of in the other room doing some,
work AND i JUST i was so annoyed by the

(05:18):
Dialogue Man, Billy crystal And Megrin wonder walking around town
like a bunch of know it alls about everyone's relationship
or kiss my. Ass all, RIGHT i think it holds.
Up it was so.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Annoying, yeah, yeah coming up next the second half of
this incredible, game and my phone's ring it oh ninety
seven point one The. Eagle don't turn the. Dial be
listening for your chance to Win pantera. Tickets we'll give
away a pair today and tomorrow And Friday rock With
Us The ben And Skin. Show, uh we're in the
middle of a game that came out of Movie. News

(05:52):
it's the summer Blockbuster shenanigans and here's K. T.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah so basically the highest grossing movie of a year
between seven tventy five and twenty twenty, four which would
be you, know last. Year and if you don't get
it the first, time we give you a couple of.
Hints so the way the scoring system is going right.
Now ben has, Four, skin has, Six christina has? Five
Skin you're. UP i Think i'm gonna go with nineteen.

(06:17):
Eighty he's gonna go with nineteen, eighty, Folks AND i
Think i'm gonna say The empire strikes? Back i'm? Sorry
is that The empire strikes? Back or The empire strike?
Back fair? Question it's The empire strikes. Back that's. Correct
three points For jeff Skin, Wade christina.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
Okay twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Two twenty twenty, two twenty twenty, two a big year
in the world of. Movies you'll remember it from this.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Hit, wait you didn't give her a chance to? Guess
is IT i jumped setting it?

Speaker 5 (06:48):
Up is it top?

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Gun?

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Maverick you damn? Sure Is?

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Christe?

Speaker 5 (06:51):
Sorry? Ben how to get an easy?

Speaker 1 (06:53):
One such a great? MOVIE i think it's the, best
maybe the best. Ever what year is? That twenty twenty? Two,
yeah and that was a total of seven hundred and
one million dollars over the. Summer have a great. Summer
let's go get. It get it for, Real go get, It, Ben,
Yes we'll. Go nineteen ninety. Four nineteen ninety.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Four interesting with, Conviction, yes, Sir Independence, Day Independence, day.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Seems i'm playing the. MAN i could TELL i got that,
wrong not. CORRECT i love your strategy AND i love
the gas Animated disney film in the. Jungle, oh, well
you got this. Dog but also and on the. Planes,
okay you've got this. DOG i like to move, it move. It,

(07:46):
oh what's? UP i think they'll look the farting and
then looking at the. Reaction, no that one was, Later, Ben,
okay thank.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
You well if it's not on, planes and it's Not
Ben stiller And Chris rock and he's saying planes like p.
Planes oh the open. Planes, yeah where in the? Jungle
what does that?

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Mean open? Planes what does that? MEAN i think just?
Animals oh uh did you Say? Pixar, No? Disney, Oh
Lion king yeahack there it is two? Points you ben
up to? Six, Christina, nope skin, yep let's do nineteen seventy. Eight,

(08:27):
okay and let's Say Close encounters of The Third. Kind,
uh you'd be, wrong my. Friend okay for two points
A pg, movie although a little bit of edge in the.
Material h, tough. Hint, yeah that's not even a.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Hint it is just guess A pg movie from nineteen seventy.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Eight you're not. Me, Okay i'll Go superman. One that's
incorrect for one. Point John, Travolta oh That's. Greece that's.
Correct greece eight really, yeah under thirty two million that.

(09:08):
Summer christina for the lead if you can get this.
Right oh, no she doesn't like the.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Pressure, no Because i'm just LIKE i think of. MOVIES
i don't even know if they actually came out in the,
summer let, alone what year no one. Does let's go twenty,
fifteen twenty Fifteen, God guardians of The.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Galaxy guardians of The galaxy is her. Guests that's. Incorrect
that's a baller guess man for two. Points Chris, Pratt,
okay that's her guess AND i got A pg movie with.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
That, well it's not a. Movie degree was it the
very First Jurassic? World that's?

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Correct two points For. Christina that takes her up all
the would have been nineteen eighty. Five nineteen eighty five
is the year that he. Wants he loves the eighty
Five bears and he loved this. Movie back to The, Future, yes,
Incorrect back to The. FUTURE i love your steel, BRO
i love your. Stees you get real. Excited you've always

(10:18):
loved this movie for two points because of a type
Man JOHN. J Rambo Rambo First, Blood First Blood part
one or? Two oh, wait he should get half points
of Its.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
First Blood part one or. Two But Richard crenna was
in the. Original BUT i think that's an error on
you for the.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
It Says, Rambo First Blood part. Two he, Yeah judge's
error will give bit. Two But Richard, CRENNA i don't
know that he. Was was he? In he? Was he
was in Super.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Brief, yeah so the height he was In First? Blood
sorry that all? Right, quickly, Skin i'm gonna go, slowly.
Skin oh, Sorry i'm gonna go nineteen eighty, six, okay
top gun down out three.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
POINTS i was about to get eighty five on, That
dad Gummet, okay.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Yours, yep.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
Yep, sorry give me two.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Thousand two thousands a year she. Wants it's the year she.
Gets what is it the? Castaway it's not? Castaway damn,
Good Tom. Cruise wasn't it? Not Tom? Hanks?

Speaker 5 (11:43):
Okay was it a mission?

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Impossible it was the one after mission impossible for one point.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
One after mission?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Impossible remember His superman hit the number after? One? Two,
yeah you got. It all, Right skin's got, Thirteen christine's got,
Eleven ben's got. Eight we'll pick this up in twenty twenty.
Seven all, right thank, You.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Kevin coming up next in the news, quickie the Great
walmart sex toy.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Heist that's the story that's going to be discussed next
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