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My thoughts on "When Love is Gone:" I wish it worked better. It would have served as more of an insight into both Scrooge and Belle's characters, but the way the scene works is that we're watching past Scrooge's story through present Scrooge's eyes as another human sings a slow, mournful song in a Muppet movie. It's just too much of a shift in tone and too far removed from the rest of the film, especially since the rest of the songs are so damn catchy and sung by those Muppet characters we're all already familiar with. "When Love is Gone" simply grinds the film to a halt. Plus, without it, you don't get a human character singing until after Scrooge has his magical Christmas Eve and is on a path to redemption. That way, his character turn, his mystical revelation, is all the more powerful.

In Soviet Russia shepherd herds ewe.

This week Paul, June and Jason get together to reflect on the past ten years of watching all these terrible movies, all the other things they could have done instead, and discuss their conflicting origin stories of the pod. Then we replay for you our very first episode, Burlesque with guest Nick Kroll.

Listening to Boxer right now

I'd start with them then over the solo project, it's good but might as well try the main stuff first. High Violet was the National album that really made me a fan for life. I was basically full-on obsessed with it for like a year once, it hit me haaard. Try that and Boxer and see if they click for you; if so they have a few other recent ones worth exploring too.

I'll pick out a few to note then! Not sure if you're a National fan, but if those were the records you liked this year, check out the Matt Berninger album (he's the lead singer of The National). You might like him. The Phoebe album was far-and-away my favorite, I think it's stunning. There's a few of these young women songwriters who I think are going to be running music for years to come, like her and Maggie Rogers, and I'm excited to see what they continue to do. I consider Laura Marling one of the all-time greats and she keeps putting out beautiful, smart, cool records. She talked a little about how this song on her new album was influenced by her new-found love of solo McCartney (though it is a bit atypical of her sound):

I feel like without theaters this year, I didn't keep up well on 2020 films. All my choices would be on Netflix/Hulu/etc. Even when new stuff was streaming, I wasn't drawn to watch it really. But my favorites were Tigertail and Palm Springs with some stuff like The Invisible Man, American Utopia, The Half Of It, and The Princess Switch: Switched Again not far behind. On the other hand, music-wise, I have a LONG list, but here's my top 15 1. Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 2. Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman 3. Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter 4. Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas 5. Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 6. Thurston Moore - By The Fire 7. Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? 8. Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison 9. Jess Williamson - Sorceress 10. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways 11. Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters 12. This Is The Kit - Off Off On 13. Honey Harper - Starmaker 14. Adrianne Lenker - songs 15. JFDR - New Dreams

For movies since I didn't see much in regards to new stuff this year my choices were fairly limited but here are my ten in no particular order. Host, Birds of Prey, The Gentlemen, Tenet, You Cannot Kill David Arquette, The Old Guard, Becky, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, The Devil All the Time, The Invisible Man, Palm Springs Bottom ten: The Empty Man, Tremors: Shrieker Island, The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Antebellum, Capone, The Owners, Money Plane, 6 Underground, The Stalker, Fantasy Island Since I did a helluva lot more reading I did end up reading a lot of good comics/graphic novels: the final volume of East of West was one of the best ends to a comic series I've read in a long time, Doomsday Clock, Money Shot, A Walk Through Hell, Moonshine, Joker: Killer Smile, Basketfull of Heads, Harleen, Count Crowley, Batman: the Three Jokers

I've seen bits of the Bobby Long film but I remember it getting pretty decent reviews when it came out and seeing the DVD box in Hollywood video, which makes me feel older, but I don't think it'd be a great fit for the show as it's not batcrap crazy or incredibly bad. Definite high point of listening to this show and being on this forum for so damn long was seeing the actor who played Ricky in Sleepaway Camp just sign up for the forum and chat with people for that films episode while a definite low was the summer of 2013 when the recommendation sub was inundated with weekly recommendations of whatever movie came out that week, made by a brand spanking new account, who would then just troll hard whenever someone said the recommendation really didn't work with what the show was. It went on for WEEKS before they just got bored with doing it. At least knowing this is a recap/replay episode I can make some time to listen to my audio-grab of the now lost last live episode and its near 2 1/2 episode length.

This would be awesome! I remember a while ago they were talking about releasing the original Old Dogs pilot with Scott and Kulap, but they had lost the file. I wonder if they would be interested in re-watching it again to see if they see anything different about it now. I would also be interested in an episode on that Bobby Long movie. I had never even heard of it.

It is crazy how we all look ten years younger... Maybe they should do a WALL STREET 2 episode? I have never seen it.

Still listening, but this is a real treat. I was wondering if anyone out there has any moments or bits from over the past ten years that have really stuck with them. For me, I cannot hear the word "sarong" without quoting Kroll from the FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY episode without immediately saying or thinking "a sarong never felt sa'right." Also, I am thankful for the show for putting me in touch with all of you amazing forum people (who are all objectively better than "normal" people )

Sorry, I stopped listening after you said "please pay attention, your life depends on it."

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Yea. A few of us watched California Christmas and found it (I think) entertainingly bad and fun to rip on. Turns out the team behind it has another movie on there called Roped. Both star the same married couple (and the woman is also the writer of these movies). Since this is our Bad Movie Watchalong Party, seems like a good fit!

Barry farted, that's the catchphrase, Barry farted on Bus 5

Milk, milk, lemonade, round the corner is the butter sculpture. This is the State Fair.

It's not curently in the Disney+ version but it will eventually be. They're restoring it for the 4k Blu-Ray. Here's a decent-quality version in the meantime.