What is Bad News Bears's IQ Score?

Bad News Bears has an IQ Score of 93/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Passive tier. The score breaks down to 24/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 22/50 Educational Value, and 24/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Bad News Bears educational?

Bad News Bears is low on educational value, 22/50 on TVI's rubric. Watch for entertainment, not for learning.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Bad News Bears IQ Score 93/200

Bad News Bears has an IQ Score of 93/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Passive tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-08-22·Methodology

comedysports

93/ 200

Passive

Light cognitive engagement, background-safe viewing

Score Breakdown

Legacy score. Published under our earlier workflow, before the current standard took effect in August 2026. A founder reviewed and approved it against our methodology, under a process that does not meet the standard we hold now. What this means →

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Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3.1

Formula

round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)

Database scale

2,605 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Richard Linklater →

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The TVI Take

Linklater's 2005 remake of the 1976 Walter Matthau original. Billy Bob Thornton as the drunk Little League coach.

The remake adds little the source film did not already do better, and the profanity-laden updates often read as forced contemporaneity rather than reimagining. Competent execution but inessential, the rare Linklater film with no clear reason to exist beyond the studio paycheck. Modest entertainment from Thornton's commitment to a thin part.

People & Production Richard Linklater · United States 19 connections