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It's also probably worth noting that Paul and June know Ben Stiller. Ben produces Burning Love through his production company, who also signed a development deal with Human Giant years ago. Stiller was also on Night of 140 Tweets, the charity event Paul and Rob Huebel organized.

I hope one day that we get to meet the Cake Elders and sit in on one of their meetings. If not on CBB, then on the Pod F. Tompkast or on Superego.

I'm buying this movie.

Let's go back to how insane Furious 6 is. Because I got back from seeing it this afternoon and it was the greatest two hours of my life.

I'm bumping this because it is fantastic. I haven't seen the sequel helmed by the Crank guys, but I'm guessing it'd be a decent double-feature episode. Some random stuff: His superpower is making people realize they're bad guys, which causes their eyes to burn up. His catchphrase, which he says when using that super power, is the wordy "Your soul is stained with the blood of the innocent." He has a weird obsession with eating specific ratios of jelly beans out of a martini glass. This is never explained as anything besides a hyper-specific character quirk. The three hench-demon take on the forms of water, earth, and wind, for no explicit reason, versus Ghost Rider's fire. The devil - the devil - is outrun for 15-20 years by normal human Nicholas Cage when Cage doesn't want to give away his soul per the contract he made as a teen. By the same token, when at the end the devil offers to take back the Ghost Rider power, Cage explicitly says he's going to keep it in order to forever hunt down/sabotage the devil. The devil basically says "drat" and disappears without a fight.

New rule: if the movie is so widely enjoyed by sane, rational people that their Amazon reviews would be too boring for Paul to do the 5 Star Reviews segment, it's a bad choice for a movie. If you go through the backlog of episodes, when was the last time there was a fairly new release that you could plausibly see a bunch of your trusted friends defend as a genuinely good (not just fun a la the Fast and Furious movies, but good) movie? Even The Odd Life of Timothy Green, which was met more with a critical "meh" than a "wha?", was too close to the realm of a good movie to get a straight episode out of.

Yeah, it's more of a satire of comic books and comic book movies, released years before the real boom of comic book movies in the 00's.

I loved the movie as a kid too. But take the movie out of context and try to analyze it from an objective perspective, and you'll realize how crazy banana pants this movie is. Imagine explaining it to someone who had no idea what Space Jam was. This is a movie where popular cartoon characters we know in the real world actually exist, but for some reason hide in an underground world, apparently re-enacting those old cartoons in perpetuity for our entertainment. Then, an alien species with a failing theme park (!) decide that the best way to boost sales is to kidnap these cartoon characters, because unlike humans, they know the cartoon characters are real and know where to find them. Also, the aliens are cartoons too? So the cartoon characters challenge the aliens to a high-stakes game of basketball, because of course, and the aliens respond by turning into (invisible?) pink goo and violating a number of real-life NBA players to "steal their talent" through their noses. The talent is then kept in a magical basketball, until the aliens use it to go through puberty. So the hero cartoon characters kidnap one sole real-life retired basketball player - also playing himself, as the lead of the movie - and teach him how to warp the cartoon world around him. Imagine pitching this exact movie to a studio today. How. Did. This. Get. Made?

I feel as if it's my duty to let everyone here know that there is an entire subsection of Reddit devoted to people making surprisingly good mash-ups of the Space Jam theme and a bazillion other songs.

I have no idea what you're talking about. The man known as Paul F. Tompkins, as they said, has only appeared a handful of times on the show.

I hope Gilly's "Sorry!" becomes the new Borat's "My wife!"

I loved the brief return of Scott's "Maybe It's Just Me" segment from the CBB TV show.

Right before the name change to Bang Bang and the removal of Death Ray-related merch from the Earwolf store, I was hoping to save up enough money for the grey Comedy Death Ray shirt with Scott's face - the one that was based on this logo. Now that I'm older and have a big boy job, I can afford it, and though I've scrounged around the net and eBay, I've come up with nothing. Anybody know where on the net I could find one - or anybody have a medium shirt they'd be willing to sell, so long as you don't have infected lesions all over your body or something?

When was the MAR-ON bit, can anyone write down the time? I apparently got distracted and can't remember listening to it.

This was the first time I watched a movie in anticipation of the podcast (even though I saw Spidey 3 opening day). And there were so many things I never noticed before re-watching it this week that I was hoping you guys would mention. Aunt May retells the story of how Uncle Ben proposed to her. She makes a big deal about how good of swimmers they were, and how he looked good in a bathing suit. So apparently they swam to an island, where Ben proposed with a giant diamond or something. Wait, did he swim over with an engagement ring? Did he stash it on the island? If he swam with it, where did he keep it? Was there a pocket on the suit that he put an engagement ring in and just hoped it wouldn't come loose in a river? When Peter's giving Mary Jane one of his pep talks, he says she just needs to pick herself up, and get back on that horse, to which she snaps "Don't give me the horse thing!" Immediately my mind just imagined Peter constantly using that phrase with her, everywhere they go, even in situations that didn't really merit it. "So the grocery store is out of milk. It's alright. We just pick ourselves up, get back on our horse..." "Well, the Knicks lost. But once they get back up on that horse..." "My horse died. I'm a little down in the dumps, but soon my smile'll get right back on that horse..." I was hoping Jason would go off on a huge rant imagining that. No questioning HOW DOES A GIANT CLOUD OF SAND FLY AROUND THE CITY?!? Glad they caught the crowd nonsensically, immediately demanding Gwen kiss Spidey just because they were about two feet from one another.

I probably hadn't seen this movie since I went crazy for it when I was 8. Buying all the toys, renting it every time I had friends over... Everything you guys said was true. The boats. The half hour of set-up with boring characters talking around the globe. The weirdly majestic, almost bouncy score. The terrible CGI that would barely pass in a SyFy original movie these days. I'm so sad now.

Oh man, I would kill for an entire episode with Samberg as Nic Cage. That impression screams out for some crazy CBB-style improvised backstory a la Tompkins/Daly/Adomian's characters.

So Bjork's cover of Rolling in the Deep already has a lock for the Best of 2012 episode, right?

Anyone else hear Kulap and Paul's yelling matches and think of Jason Mantzoukas? Something about exactly how they kept saying each other's names sounded just like one of Jason's vocal tics. I'm relatively sure no one else thought that.

Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert, hopefully even together. Old improv partners; both (especially Colbert) enjoy the surreal. Carell even did Between two Ferns.

"I think the F Plus could work better as a more heavily-produced show. Layer the music with the readings (like in a This American Life segment) and save the riffing for interstitial segments, and I'd be more likely to listen to it." Sorry to reply so late, but this suggestion by JW is fantastic. Play up the dramaticness of the reading in order to differentiate it from the casual commentary. They could even preserve the old format by recording the reading early, editing in music, and then playing the reading with music during the group recording but pause it for a second if they want to make a good comment. Then once the reading ends, riff to their heart's content.

Plus, from what I understand, the episodes are being released a few weeks behind recording. Totally Laime wouldn't have heard the criticism of the "boing" on Ham Radio by the time they submitted their own "boing" segment.

I think the difference, honestly, was that Totally Laime used it ironically, with a wink towards how corny it was, while Ham Radio, while arguably doing the same, was using it in a sketch that was already trying to make a somewhat serious point about what is and isn't hacky in comedy. To put it another way, Laime's use of the boing was similar to how Scott uses overly long intro music to all the segments on Bang Bang. It's a joke unto itself. On the Ham Radio clip, it wasn't as clearly used a joke, and even worse, it was part of a sketch that arguably seemed to be saying "doing X, Y, and Z is hack comedy," while using a corny sound effect without commenting on it.