Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 506 of the podcast with sleep apnea!
This week: words of wisdom; farmer’s hours; rooster crown; exclusive butter; expensive spice; workshopping with Christ; repellent to mosquitoes; Seinfeld was…okay; joke hater; family humour; mistrust da police; context; the jazz help; moral conundrums; white R&B saviours; you might be a comic; the germ of satire; show the evil; the power of dissuasion; smoking in the pits; disinterest schooling; the last three questions; Tile Tales™; day journey; the laughing bear; beer marks; Dave recommends Annette; love shark; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; more bananas; Alive! The Musical; skinny fat; spooky sumos; memorable horses; apple manoeuvres; Marvel stinkers; apple soup; apple sauce, apple sauce; and, finally, everything is great.
Question of the Week: What is your favourite Marvel duo?
Sub-question of the Week: What is a comedy that has aged well. What is one that hasn’t?
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I enjoyed the dynamic between Peter Parker and Tony Stark as played by Tom Holland and Robert Downey Jr. Every aspiring teen-aged superhero needs a mentor to help them deal with all that great power and great responsibility stuff. It wasn’t that IRONic that a humble science nerd was getting guidance from an arrogant genius billionaire inventor. For all his faults, Tony ultimately proved to be a model of self-sacrifice. It was nice of him to bequeath Peter those nifty high-tech glasses in Spider-Man: Far From Home. I’m glad Sony and Disney worked it out so these two characters could meet up.
My sister the teacher tells me that in BC, staff and students are not allowed to smoke or vape anywhere on a school’s property. But they can and do just go across the street to get their nic fix. Some students try to vape in class, but she figures it’s more for the thrill of getting away with something. Students also try to get away with using their phones during class, but they haven’t figured out that staring down at their crotches for long periods of time is a bit of a giveaway.
Stark and Peter was such a great idea and you think it seems natural because their chemistry is so smooth with one another. I wonder how much of that acting isn’t acting as much as it’s Downey Jr.’s way with Holland as a young actor, because we all know where Downey Jr. came from. In the comics, Tony Stark was never that way with Parker, he pretty much had to figure out the whole superhero biz on his own but I like that it naturally progressed that way between those two in the cinematic Marvel world.
My question kind of stems from working in a comic store years ago, if we had the Marvel and DC films around like this back in the mid 80’s there’s no telling what conversation would have been like. Instead we only had Howard the Duck to talk about which lead to a fight and my boss not speaking to me for almost a week. But it’s funny how many conversations from working in a comic book store weren’t about comics at all, so many days we discussed everything BUT comics. I think it’s funny how many think that’s all we used to talk about when I worked at Lone Star Comics but it was quite the contrary.
Speaking of Lone Star Comics….David, your story about the southern comedians on your radio station and the Renaissance Faire/D&D had me on the floor! You just reenacted every other weekend at Lone Star just as I remember it between my customers. We had the good ‘ol Texas boys in and around the store, just shopping and in the Summer especially was a Renaissance Faire called Scarborough Faire. Customers would dress for this event and stop in on the way to it wearing all their medieval cosplay, your retelling of the southern comedians sounded not unlike many of the reactions I remember. One such customer named “Lady Jessica” used to begin every sentence with “Prithee dear sir”, so when Ian said “Prithee this!” I just about fell out.
I guess I should answer my own question then about Marvel duos. I seem to gravitate towards Thor Ragnarok so many times when I just want to put on a Marvel film, so it must be the comedic element of Thor and Hulk for me. I never saw that one coming and it was such a surprise how great those two pulled off the whole “Mightiest Avenger” grudge fest with one another. It’s funny how much of these partnerships were not like this in the comics but went a way in the films that was such an enjoyable departure. For a more serious close second, I think Chris Evans and Scarlet Johansson really had a solid chemistry between Cap and Black Widow. I’m glad it was those two and I’m glad it didn’t get romantic, I bought off on the fact that they trusted one another with such a strong bond between them.
I’ll admit I’ve never seen either of the Ghost Rider films so one day I’ll check those out along with Thomas Jane’s Punisher which I’ve never seen either. Maybe I should make a day of it and throw the Dolph Lundgren Punisher onto the heap as well…
Ian, you’re absolutely correct about Spider-Man 2, Raimi directed a solid superhero milestone back when he was making his contribution to the genre. Dr Pepper had promotional tie-ins with the first two Raimi Spider-Man films, so I remember how much fun it was to work on those so far ahead of the release and then getting to see the private screenings! Do you remember seeing the Dr Pepper in those films? The pizza place Peter is fired from at the beginning of Spider-Man 2 has Dr Pepper crap all in the background and in the first film we see Peter practicing with his web shooters on a Dr Pepper can. It was fun and I’m still proud to be associated in that small way to those films.
Hi,
You promise… ok… you asked us for shows to critic and, oh, you said maybe you will answer. But this is unbearable sneakiness, we answered and we want answers. And I will tell you, you really don’t want me to be sneaky on you, I know where you live, I now all your digital habits… Wait a minute… You tell us them each week. F… me, you really know how to get the fun out of stalking. Too sneaky for me.
But I don’t care, I have changed my answer, so after watching Spaced, the geekiest romcom. Or is it Densha Otoko? Which is rather the most otakuest. Are otakus geeks and vice versa?
Anyway, the youtube channel Dead Parrot (a Python reference?) suggested me Green Wing.
A strange and weird comedy. Starting with a John Oliver cameo (I very like Last Week Tonight) and going deeper and deeper in the weirdest of human behaviors, ending with one of the shortest and saddest definitive ending (Mac on his bike). One scene compared to a complete episode for Six Fit Under.
Shot on location in a real hospital it’s got a reality feeling, but in the same time completely alienated their real environment (like patients only exists as props).
All characters have all a kind (or several) of social and psychological disorders. You even got in the middle of the series a literal oedipus case.
I really liked the scariest and craziest of all the characters: Sue White, the predatory in chief one. Her acting is such a tour de force. We all root for Mac the most in control, using only his humour (and intelligence) to deflect the others attachment or attacks.
They all struggle to find a place in a ever ending ego battle. Life if you will.
The brits are very good at melancholy, hence the desperate humour. Don’t they have understood the Meaningless of Life first, and subsequently invented the none sense and pushed it to none sensical heights? If that makes any none sense, at none.
But sometimes their practical jokes are not so funny, for instance brexit or Margret Tatcher.
Byyyyyeee
Why did I wrote none sens for nonsens ? Tell me ? I did make a fool of myself, which is sort of on point in this case…