Archive for June, 2008
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The In-Joke Podcast #8
The first podcast to be edited by Gavin! Discussion about Spore, American Gods, the Dark Heavens trilogy, American Dreamz, and Chart Throb.
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The In-Joke Podcast #7 - House and Dungeons & Dragons
A discussion about the first season of the Hugh Laurie Medical Drama House, and of Dungeons and Dragons, to celebrate the release of 4th edition.
Notes:
- The television show about Dr House is known as both “House” and “House, M.D.”
- House was based on Sherlock Holmes. A few parallels can be found here.
- To this day, there is no medical evidence proving that black people have souls.
- “The American Office” refers to the US port of the British show “The Office”.
- “We’re flamingos” comes from a Boston Legal episode in which Alan Shore and Denny Crane go to a costume party dressed as flamingos. The phrase is used throughout the rest of the series to refer to their friendship.
- The friendship between Wilson and House is extraordinarily difficult to put into works. This page of quotes helps.
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The In-Joke Podcast #6 - The Peter Pan Podcast
Peter Pan is discussed, from the original play to the Disney version, to the new live-action film.
Notes:
- This podcast contains minor spoilers for Peter Pan (all versions), The Lion King, Bambi, Lilo and Stitch, Finding Nemo, and Ella Enchanted.
- J.M. Barrie’s first name was actually “James”. Not John.
- Peter Pan was first performed in 1904, and presumably that is also the setting.
- Mr Darling and Captain Hook have been played by the same actor since the first performance. It should be noted that this was done largely out of a shortage of actors, not for any thematic reasons.
- Captain Hook in the authorised sequel to Peter Pan was known as “Ravello”, not “Marvello”.
- It is not implied in the original play that the entire events are just a story told by Wendy. It should be, though. That would be a much better story!
- “Casey Junior” is the name of the train in Dumbo.
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The In-Joke Podcast #5 - Anime
A discussion about the exact definition of “Anime”, and what separates it from Western Cartoons, followed by a comparison of the different social networking sites.
Notes:
- The TVTropes page Peter mentions is Bowdlerise. Warning: that site is, as mentioned, a time-suck. It will ruin your life.
- Since recording this, Peter’s Firefox refused to open any new tabs, or close tabs that were already open. He ended up using the “Bookmark all tabs” feature and resetting his computer. (at long last.)
- When Gavin predicts that they’ve been talking for a quarter of an hour, they’ve been talking for about 10 minutes.
- Peter, writing notes for this section, refuses to research MySpace, so there may be some falsehoods in that section.
- Flashblock can be found here.
- Both Peter and Gavin have livejournals - here and here, respectively.
- Gavin once found a Facebook profile which inexplicably used astericks instead of commas. That is why they laugh when he says “Star”. That’s right, it’s an in-joke. The podcast is appropriately named, huzzah!
- Facebook, we forgot to mention, has an excellent “photo upload” system as well.