The Link

Hello, Sneaky Dragon fans, you know you love them so here they are: links a-plenty (plenty of plenty). Ian posts them on Facebook and I like to post them here. Let’s get this party started!

At the beginning of the show, we almost immediately starting talking about Japanese horror movies. I asked if there were old Japanese horror movies and then almost immediately realized I’d seen them. First, the very weird and creepy Jigoku (Hell):

Then the eerie and stately Kwaidan (Ghost Story), which, as you can see from this trailer, is a beautiful film with magnificent sets:

Creepy and great!

Ian found that a little too creepy so he wanted something Japanese and happier to cleanse the palate:

Happy memories for Ian. After so many Gamera and Godzilla movies, Sandy Frank’s name makes me break out in hives.

We talked about snow witches and sandwiches. Ian linked to this video of Sporkfull, in which one host proves the other wrong by making a scrambled egg and cheese sandwich:

I always like when someone solves a problem that I don’t have. One thing though, when I’m making a grilled cheese sandwich, I always butter both sides of the bread and cook it at a medium low temperature. That makes for a delicious sandwich!

We brought up Hinterland Who’s Who (again?) so why not learn about the loon?

The haunting flute, the grainy film. Nostalgia!

Related to our discussion of Hell, Ian likes his Hells to be ironic:

Ian has passed on this friendly bit of advice: Don’t eat dessert you find on the beach. I would say don’t eat any food you find sitting around outside.

Ian talked about a character from Hellraiser who could shoot CDs. I wonder where he shot them from? Clive Barker could shoot movies out of his ass.

I mistakenly thought this movie was part of the Transformers franchise. I don’t know what gave me that idea – other than the fact that it looks horrible.

Hollywood, you sunk my battleship!

Ian mistakenly thought this woman won an Oscar for this performance:

Thankfully he was wrong. Ann Ramsey was only nominated for an Oscar and never actually won.

We talked a little bit about the idea of a stairway to heaven and when it became an escalator to heaven. Here are some examples of this new metaphysical curiosity:

A Matter of Life and Death. A rah-ther good movie.

Warner Bros. A font of theological inquiry. Here’s a variation on that theme:

Well, I guess it beats having to draw new backgrounds or new anything, actually, since it’s basically a clip show. Anyway, here’s a real Stairway to Heaven:

Some of our local movie theatres have a new seat in the theatre that vibrates so their customers know that something is happening on the screen. These chairs are called the D-Box or Douche-Box.

It’s a pretty exciting innovation that has never been done before!

Never!

Here is a movie for your brand-new Douche-Box. It’s very rumbly.

Boy, they’re pretty happy with themselves.

Lady, you’re supposed to sit in a D-Box, not act like a D-Box.

Alamo Chophouse Cinema, I love you. Unlike that person you kicked out of your theatre. She doesn’t like you so much.

I felt Pirahna in 3D was a terrible waste of breasts.

Oh, the boobmanity!

Ian is very concerned about the steady Munchification of all TV. I mean, sure it’s okay if Detective Munch is on one or two shows, but this is getting ridiculous!

Originally, he appeared on Homicide:

Then Law and Order: SVU:

That seems fine. They’re both cop shows, but Arrested Development?

And then back on the cop show beat with The Wire?

Don’t forget, he mysteriously appeared on The X-Files. A mystery bigger than the over-arching alien conspiracy that fell as flat as a pancake in the last season. (Truthfully, I never watched it that far so I don’t know if that actually happened, but it seems like a good guess.)

He was on 30 Rock:

And then it goes coo-coo bananas when Munch gets “muppetized” for an appearance on Sesame Street!

Come on, that’s a lot of munchiness! No wonder Ian looks like this:

Here’s my favourite Munch:

Ian and I wondered what it would be like to raise boys. Ian thought it might look something like this:

Pretty close, but I think there would be more blood.

Here’s Ian’s favourite Spice Girl, Sporty Spice, yelling at Bryan Adams:

Here’s my favourite Spice Girl:

What? She sings?

We talked a bit about a major Canadian institution, Hockey Night In Canada. It’s on every Saturday night during the hockey season, and, if you grew up in Canada, you probably grew up watching it. Ian remembers the Kraft commercials that ran during the game, but he prefers this version:

Howie Meeker was a long-time analyst between periods on HNIC:

His voice, which tended to raise in pitch as he got excited, gave him the name, Squeaky Meekey. After Meeker left to concentrate on coaching, Don Cherry became the new analyst and brought a whole different style:

Ian and I returned to a favourite subject of this show: how sad it is that kids can’t play outside as we did when we were little. When my daughters saw this clip on Sesame Street they were literally amazed that kids could play like that:

And that’s nothing compared to some of the scrapes we got up to as kids!

Both Ian and I were in Cub Scouts. It wasn’t really our cup of tea, but these kids seem to be enjoying themselves:

That gym is exactly – exactly – like the gym where we had our Cub Scout meetings.

We talked a little bit about Ian’s experiences in Calgary at the Fan Expo. He posted a little bit of the panel he did with John Dimaggio and Billy West from Futurama:

They don’t look like Fry and Bender! BOOOOOO!

He also got to ride in the shuttle to the airport with Adam Baldwin. You remember him. He was my bodyguard:

Let’s end on a little joke. It’s at the 1:30 mark and Ian thinks it’s the best joke in the history of this show:

See you next time!

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