Boo! This week on Sneaky Dragon, Ian and Dave celebrate Halloween. Ian thinks Halloween might be his favourite holiday, but he doesn’t like Halloween stores; Dave loves fireworks – a rather strange Vancouver Halloween tradition – and encourages kids of all ages to blow themselves up; they discuss the recent appearance of a mysterious devil statue; talk about costumes; Ian has never heard of anyone being made to sing for their candy; he thinks musicians should jump on the chance of a Halloween hit; Dave has taken a visiting friend to a local haunted house and gets freaked out; Ian is freaked out by interactive theatre; Dave saw The Conjuring – Ian won’t; and, finally, Ian asks should Christians believe in ghosts.
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Titus! Lolita! Ben Hur! Spartacus! Elisabeth! Jeanne d’Arc! Julie & Julia!
Annie Hall, Micheal Clayton, Lincoln, J. Edgar, Dr. Strangelove, Harry Potter, Frida, Jack
Tarzan. Batman. Bambi. And… Stuart Little. Yes, I think that’s all of them. Good work everyone!
Bambi’s mom should have gotten an origin story movie: (
Let’s go a little further back: Mildred Pierce, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth, My Man Godfrey, Marty, Johnny Belinda, Gilda, Glen or Glenda, Adam’s Rib, Emma, Coffee…er…that’s all I’ve got.
Eugene Onegin! Jules et Jim! Christine! Okay, I’m done.
Finnegan’s Chin!
This got more reaction than the time I “claimed” there were no animal Muppets.
Loved your Spooky Dragon episode. Thanks for the mental image of Mayor Gregor Robertson throwing his hat James Bond-style onto the excited appendage of the mysterious Red Devil Sculpture.
Regarding ghosts: there’s an interesting story in the Bible where the Witch of Endor uses a familiar to conjure up the spirit of the prophet Samuel at the request of King Saul to find out how things were going to go in an upcoming battle with the Philistines. Spoiler alert: not well. And that time Jesus walked on the water, his disciples freaked out at first, thinking they were seeing a ghost. So Biblically, it seems people of the time did believe in the spirits of the dead, but it was against Jewish law to be a necromancer or medium and try to contact them.
Obviously posting to this episode really late, but:
David, I disagree with you re Mennonites’ view of the book of Revelation. I grew up in a Mennonite church, and I don’t recall Revelation ever being discussed. The modern Mennonite church focuses on Jesus’s work and the importance of love and service to our fellow humans. The apocolypse, the rapture and hell don’t factor into it. That may not be the case for some orthodox Mennonite congregations, though, I don’t know.
http://home.mennonitechurch.ca/cof/summary
Also, if you’ve not seen it, you might like the History of Christianity series produced by A&E.