October 9th, 2008 by Peter
This podcast comes courtesy of an extremely tired Gavin and Peter. A discussion of the new Pixar film WALL-E and the new Maxis game Spore.
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Notes:
- Minor spoilers for WALL-E
- WALL-E stands for: Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class.
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October 1st, 2008 by Peter
Dan Beeston returns as a special guest star, trying to find a movie that he and Peter can agree on liking, and getting sidetracked onto the history of the Disney corporation.
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Notes:
- Dan Beeston’s podcast about improvisation can be found at http://www.impromafia.com/podcast.php
- Last week’s podcast reviewed the Impro Mafia long-form show “The Wake of Simon Chesterfield”
- Since recording the podcast, Peter has thought long and hard about his favourite romance movie, and has settled firmly on Music and Lyrics, starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore.
- The Little Mermaid was made in 1989, not 1987.
- Walt Disney Animated Studios began in 1934. Walt Disney died in 1966.
- The Sword in the Stone was made while Walt Disney was still alive
- Michael Eisner became CEO of Disney in 1984.
- Spoilers for The Lion King
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas was released by Dreamworks.
- The deal was 5 films after Toy Story, and so Pixar counted A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monster’s Inc, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles, but Disney didn’t count Toy Story 2 among that number.
- Bolt is the new 3D Animated Disney film, produced by John Lasseter.
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September 24th, 2008 by Peter
Discussion of “The Wake of Simon Chesterfield” (a recent Impro Mafia show seen) as well as long-form improvisation in general, and “what we did on the weekend”, a tech run for NAP-Time, a kid’s show with puppets.
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Notes:
- The new website for the In-Joke Podcast is http://thechainsawblokes.com/podcast/. Past podcasts can be accessed directly from that site.
- Dan Beeston guest-appeared on In-Joke Podcast #16 - “Improv and The Dark Knight, with Dan Beeston”
- Kevin Gillese and Arien Konopaki have been doing improvisation seperately for 8-10 years, but their duo show “Scratch” is quite new.
- “And Time”, the Impro Mafia podcast, can be found here.
- Nat, the female improvisor, has her own blog - GirlClumsy.com.
- There were a lot of names thrown around, so here’s a handy guide:
- Dan Beeston played Simon Chesterfield.
- Nat played his widow.
- Wade played a Scottish fellow who was Simon’s manager and also Nat’s ex-boyfriend.
- A sample camera:
- When Gavin says he is “doing something with the camera”, he means filming. Not…anything else.
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September 17th, 2008 by Peter
A discussion of Jeeves and Wooster, and the fourth season of House, M.D.
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Notes: (yes, proper notes this time!)
- Mild spoilers for the second episode of Jeeves and Wooster. It also contains minor spoilers for House seasons 1 and 2, major spoilers for the end of House season 3, and even more spoilers for all of House season 4. The first half is pretty safe, but as soon as we start talking about House, switch off.
- Jeeves and Wooster was screened from 1990 to 1993. A Bit of Fry and Laurie was screened from 1989 to 1995.
- Hugh Laurie’s article on P.G. Wodehouse can be found here.
- There’s a handy website dedicated to QI transcripts. Stephen Fry’s direct quote from the referenced episode:
Yeah, you see, we have this idea that it’s rather politically correct to call anything that lives sort of around about the Arctic Circle an “Inuit” rather than an “Eskimo”, but she’s a Yupik. Calling her an Inuit would really annoy her, because she would think, “Oh, there goes another Westerner thinking they’re saying the right thing without asking me.”
- Stephen Fry was celebate from the age of 22 to 38.
- Jeeves and Wooster is set in a non-specific time, somewhere around the 20s and 30s.
- When Peter says that modern shows have inferior secondary performances, he obviously doesn’t include Boston Legal.
- Despite being able to name the producer, creator, and one of the consulting producers, Peter still can’t name any of the actual actors from House, except for Hugh Laurie. Not overly relevant to the podcast, just an interesting fact.
- Hugh Laurie was in Namibia at the time of his House audition. The story was previously told in Podcast #7.
- “Taub” sounds a bit like “Sloan”.
- Spoilers for season 3 of Desperate Housewives woo.
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September 10th, 2008 by Peter
A discussion of Scream 3 and The Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness. Spoilers aplenty.
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Notes:
- This podcast contains spoilers for The Evil Dead trilogy and the Scream trilogy.
- Some claim that the sun rising was what caused Ash (Bruce Campbell) to avoid being turned into a Deadite in The Evil Dead 2.
- Ash’s last name is “Williams”
- Patrick Dempsey appears in Scream 3 too.
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September 3rd, 2008 by Peter
A discussion of the Steven Moffat sitcom Press Gang, and the non-Steven Moffat company “Google” and their line of products.
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August 27th, 2008 by Peter
Following up on Podcast #15, a discussion of Scream 2 and The Evil Dead 2. Completely without spoilers for the first or second films.
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Notes:
- Sam Raimi lost the rights to The Evil Dead and couldn’t use any of the footage. So he filmed a simplified version to put at the beginning of the sequel which runs for 7 minutes and 7 seconds.
- Nova106.9’s website demonstrates their their desire to appear underfunded. Even though the company that owns it is one of the largest media companies in the UK.
- The actual story behind The Exorcist sequels can be found at the wikipedia page.
- The planned third Mortal Kombat movie (Mortal Kombat: Devestation) will be a reboot of the film saga. It is currently in development hell.
- Joshua Jackson’s character in “Dawson’s Creek” is Pacey Witter.
- It was David Schwimmer, not Matthew Perry, who was referenced along with Jennifer Aniston in “Scream”.
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August 20th, 2008 by Peter
Brisbane improvisor Dan Beeston hates The Dark Knight, while Peter and Gavin loved it.
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August 13th, 2008 by Peter
A discussion of two horror films, The Evil Dead and Scream.
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Notes:
- William’s YouTube account can be found at http://au.youtube.com/user/wollimi
- Scream 3 features the stars of a Scream-like movie being killed off one by one, not Scream 2.
- From Deadites online:
The torn up hills have eyes poster that is visible in the cellar of the basement was placed there in response to the Wes Craven film of the same name, the reason behind it was that in the hills have eyes there was torn poster of the movie Jaws, so Sam and the crew interpreted that Wes Craven was suggesting that the Hills have eyes was much more frightening than Jaws, so in return Sam was suggesting that the Evil Dead was much more frightening than the Hills have eyes by placing that poster in his film.
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August 6th, 2008 by Peter
A podcast with spoilers, discussing spoilers and What Lies Beneath.
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Notes:
- This podcast contains spoilers for “What Lies Beneath”, The Harry Potter series, Spider-Man 3, Saw, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King,
- Harrison Ford’s character in What Lies Beneath is “Norman Spencer”, and his wife is “Claire”.
- “The Grinch” did indeed come out around the same time as “What Lies Beneath”.
- Zemeckis told Roger Ebert that he deliberately included “spoilers” in the trailers because he believed that audiences wanted to know everything about a film before they saw it.
- When Peter says “Scorpio”, he means “Scorpius”.
- theferrett’s post about Snape can be found here.
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