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Also, the OCD part of me wants to say thanks to YOU, Cameron, for making us look at a Thread with a giant typo in its title all week.

I've never seen the movie of this either! (Don't tell my mum, she'll kill me) I saw a terrible stage production of it years ago and then in about 2008 or something I was working as an audition reader for the Stratford Festival when they were casting their production of 'Cabaret' so I had to read opposite everyone coming in to audition for the show. This is my main memory of the musical: this audition process. Great pick, Quasar, and sorry for taking 'Across the Universe' off the table. Mea culpa.

I was just about to change my Member Description to TNH and you beat me to it Cameron! Also: there are no rules about how this works. So long as Scheer says it. (bonus: we'll find out once and for all if Scheer lurks in the MM threads...)

The Ted Neeley Handsome Memorial Musical Mondays Thread? Extra bonus points because the acronym includes MMM...

From now on, that's our internal litmus test. Challenge: anyone who can get the phrase 'Ted Neeley handsome' into an on-air C+O (which includes live questions for those going to Austin) wins the internet. Bonus points if Scheer says it himself. "Jeff Fahey has aged in 'Body Parts' compared to 'Lawnmower Man' (he's no longer Ted Neeley handsome), but I am still wondering what June thinks of him..."

This sounds like a whole new game thread. We post hot-or-not images to the thread, and every now and then Cam Bert's mom casts judgement. Prizes to whoever nominates the person that Cam Bert's mother fancies most that week!

Your mom sounds awesome, Cam Bert. What grace.

Nailed it, Cam! Awesome C+O!

Awesome, although I liked your handwriting.

YOU RULE

Hey Jammer, what will it take to commission a custom-made Jaded Mandarin avatar for Tom?

Found you! And whoa! For serious -

So I guess we just resign ourselves to the fact that the bulk of all future shows will be live?

I dunno, I think kids would still watch Canoe Ninjas. Surely 'ninjas' is the coolest part of this. Anyone else get thinking of 'Airborne' and its random generic surf scenes off the top and how similar it was to the generic surf scene when the two stunt men actors surf and accidentally surf-board-murder the scuba ninja? And THEN! The teacher at the school who gets Ernie Junior to sing Beach Boys because he's Asian is played by the director of the film, just like how the terrible teacher in 'Airborne' is played by the writer of the movie? I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT I AM NOT SUGGESTING A CROSSOVER UNIVERSE. Anyway, in both Airborne and Surf Ninjas the terrible teacher is played by someone on the crew who should know better. I mean, seriously. Why ask Ernie Junior to do a cultural presentation at this school? He's clearly a burnout that the teacher doesn't trust. Why doesn't he ask to see his presentation in advance? How long did he have to get ready for Mr. Wu to come to the school? If this is such a big deal, why does he just throw Ernie Junior under the bus? Add to that the fact that the auditorium is full of kids, many of whom are Asian, so it's not as though Ernie Junior is the only 'ethnic' kid at a whitebread school. What is Barba Ram doing at that school anyway? I would like him to be a member of the Jump Street team. On top of this, when Ernie Junior sings his song for Barba Ram, he changes the phrasing so it's clearly in tribute to the great man: "Bar-bar-bar, Bar-barba RaM". Of course the song is about going to a dance, looking for romance, so he saw this Eastern Mystic and thought he'd take a chance... When they sing the song in the end, it's not the Barba Ram version anymore, it's back to 'Barbara Ann', but Barba Ram is taking lead vocals, and now he's singing about how he went to the dance, looked for romance, etc. Once Barba Ram's job was done in Santa Monica, did he then head straight back to his oppressed island home in shame? Did he ask no one about who this lost Prince guy might look like before the coronation? Why is he so surprised?

I do believe he asked Lauren how she HEARD about the BAND U2. http://www.earwolf.com/episode/me-2-im-talkin-u2-to-u-too/

Did you hear the episode of 'With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus' with Andy Daly, where he presented the true story of how he came up with the idea about how he wanted to pitch a podcast all about the discography of U2 from beginning to end, only to discover that Scott and Scott were just about to do the same thing themselves? He goes ahead anyway and hosts Lauren's show, calling his new show "Me 2, I'm Talking U2 2 You, Too."

This is SPOT ON. I couldn't get past the thought about how HEAVY those boards would be, just hewn out of solid timber. Without wax or treatment those boards would get heavier and heavier, would start absorbing the seawater, and would have a really hard time cutting through the water. Even with the fact that surfing is really hard and all of those people (including Iggy, whose whole "I don't surf" thing is just abandoned) start cutting up barrels like they're Kelly Slater, the boards they're on would be like surfing a pier.

Seriously, from time to time I find myself wishing U2 would release a new album on the off chance that that would make those guys restart the podcast. Absolute number 1 podcast all time for me.