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    I know exactly what episode he is talking about. It was the one where Martha and the Doc go back to medieval England. What's funny is that later on that season they had a ep where the Doctor loses his memory and is teaching in a boarding school in the early 1900s. That was the only ep that dealt with racism because the white woman nurse was snooty as hell Martha. But when the Doctor was having health problems, she had to push that white woman out of way.

     

    "Uhh, blacks don't have the mental faculties to be doctors!", the nurse said.

     

    Martha names all of the bones in the hand and is like, "I don't have time for your stupid ass. Get me some hot water so I can sterilize these nasty rust collectors you call medical instruments."

     

    It was very satisfying seeing the nurse's racist ass handed to her. They should have more eps like that.

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    "A View to a Kill" is basically Walken doing a great Walken imitation, surrounded by a pretty bad movie. I would put this Walken performance almost up there with "Seven Psychopaths," "Suicide Kings," "Biloxi Blues," and "Annie Hall." His smile right before he dies is an AWESOME choice. I might take Walken and Barden as the best Bond villains. By the way, check out Walken's IMDB. WTF? "The Deer Hunter," "Balls of Fury," "King of New York," "The Country Bears," "Domino," "Kangaroo Jack," etc.? My theory is that Walken has two agents, one who went to NYU film school and one who is illiterate and hates him.

     

    Walken takes any job that comes along his way. In interviews he says that if his schedule is open, he's doing the part, period. That's why he was in the live action disaster known as Brian Williams Buys His Daughter A Part in Peter Pan on NBC.

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    Yes, I agree with you, and, yes, Bond movies are misogynistic. That's nothing new. However, usually the women are shown to be into him too, if not initially, they are either won over by his "charm" or the plan is to seduce him to kill him or whatever. At no point in the movie does she show any interest in him and even looks as though the very idea kind of disgusts her*. If at the auction there was a shot of her giving him the once over, then I wouldn't mind as much; that would just be a Bond movie being a Bond movie. However, I'd argue that most Bond women are supposed to represent some kind of male sexual wish fulfillment. In this case the wish seems to be, "Wouldn't it be awesome for Bond to have sex with a woman, not because she thinks he is suave or handsome or because she thinks he's an okay dude, but because she has no choice?"

     

    In this regard, I think May Day is set apart from your typical Bond woman.

     

    *I am editing to concede, that the problem is probably the assumption that Bond is just that awesome that ALL women, even if they hate him or want to kill him, want to bone Bond. Which brings me back to Shariq's original post where he said there is no universe where Grace Jones and Roger Moore (well past his prime) would have sex. In which case, the problem is a casting issue. Moore, at this point in his career as Bond, has no chance in Hell of pulling that off.

     

    Yeah, Grace Jones is basically passed around like a toy in that scene. Crazy! It comes full around in the new Casino Royale where Bond has sex with a woman who has been a prostitute her whole life. The takeaway from that scene is supposed to be that Bond has such good D that he makes her forget about all of the sexual exploitation in her life.

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    I remember watching this as a young kid and there was the implied sex scene between Roger Moore and Grace Jones. Even as a seven-year-old, I shook my head at that. There is no amount of quantum mechanics that would produce a universe where someone with a body like Grace Jones to have sex with someone with a body like Roger Moore. This took me right out of the movie...and I was just a kid. The technobabble goobledly-goop on Transformers was more believable.

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    A cargo cult isn't just used to describe cultish behavior in general. It's a metaphor for someone replicating the trappings of something without understanding the underlying dynamics, and therefore failing to get the results they want. Andrew really mangled the definition.

     

    Moreover, I don't buy the argument that anthropological terms like cargo cult are racist. Is the term fetish racist?

     

    Mongoloid is an anthropological term. Is that racist? I think so. Anthropologists are not removed from the larger culture they are surrounded by and even though they are "supposed" list their own biases in their research, doesn't mean that they do or are even aware of them.

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    OOOOh boy! I remember this movie scared me to death as a child because the end is John Lithgow in a dress talking in a high voice. Very jarring.

     

    But for anyone who has not seen it, this is John Lithgow's version of the "Nutty Professor" -- he plays multiple roles; just replace the fart jokes with pedophilia.

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    My parents used to love liver, then my mother got a liver transplant and can't eat it now because of the wastes in it. (That qualifies for irony, right?)

     

     

     

    Ok I finally looked up the show and it just seems like a glamorized remake of A Talking Cat!?!

     

    I see it as a remake of Honey Boo Boo but the family has more money and is better looking.

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    "I've already been there, done that, got the t-shirt, you're just showin' reruns."

     

    This line was burned into my head during countless commercial breaks during WWE Raw. I can't imagine the crossover audience is that big, but both shows are on USA, so...*shrug*

     

    Yeah, I saw the promos when I would take in my daily NCIS/Law and Order rerun marathons (don't judge me). It's that whole USA branding they do now -- characters, and closeted gay men, welcome!

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    I see the promos for that Crissely Knows Best show and the father seems like a very, very closeted man. And he's throwing sass around all over the place. Like one of the promos, the son says something about getting with his girlfriend, and his father (Crissley) snaps his fingers like Antwan from "Men on Films" and says, "Whatever you doing, I've already done it, baby!"

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    I love Pete Holmes. In my early 20s, I got so philosophical that my upbringing said "Hey, be a preacher" but I know now that THAT was a result of eating a bunch of mushrooms and thinking that I understood everything. And I love Pete Holmes because he understands God in the same way I do. The concept of God, how can we possibly understand that? An all-knowing, all-powerful being that just looks down on us and knows that we're imperfect but just looks down on us. The big Jesus teaching is "be in this world, but not OF this world" and its just impossible. We're in this world. This is all we know, so how can we not be OF this world?

     

    That's the teaching of every religion. To take part in this world but have one foot in this other world, the spiritual world, where the real stuff is being manifest. Be in this world, but not of this world is the same as Buddha telling you to shun your attachments to material life. In Islam that's the jihad (the struggle); In Christianity, that's your cross to bear; all of these religions have metaphors for the mental and physical work you have to do to deny your base instincts, because it only by denying your base instincts that you have a chance to commune with the divine.

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    I think movie could have been good if they hyped up the scientific angle much more and gave it a The-Island-of-Dr.-Moreau-type vibe. The nugget of this story is like a Critchon nove -- man messes with nature, and nature fucks man over. But they would have had to lose the good guy lawyer main character and make him one of the evil scientists who is using the monkey like a tool to improve his life instead of respecting the animal's life. This would have been a great movie if they had a Timecop time car, rode to the year 2014, and copied the plot of Rick and Morty's Mr.Meeseek episode and just find-replace with chimps.

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    Probably the worst thing about this movie is this: it spends an hour telling you a harrowing story a man who had a life altering injury and became a paraplegic. Most of the movie shows him struggling with this very real, very relevant adaptation of his life. Its frustrating for him, he is angry with it, and he sees the change in everyone around him. People talk down to him, his girlfriend leaves him, its just a nightmare unending. Then at his lowest moment, he tries to commit suicide. The poor guy, you are never given a reason to do anything but feel sorry for him. When he survives the attempt, you want to root for him and want him to win. But what does winning mean?

     

    Well, in Monkey Shines what it means is suddenly being able to regain control of your body again. There is no real redemption, there is no triumph over adversity here. The struggle to deal with an injury like that, and the depression and frustration it causes, is real. That his disability is so flippantly disregarded, and the "happy ending" completely reverses what the first hour of the movie spends establishing, its kind of dickish. Its like people who are disabled are just ruined meatbags with no hope for happiness or a real life unless they regain the ability to use whatever part of their body has been disabled. I would have at least liked it if the happy ending was Allen and his gf enjoying their lives with him being a paraplegic.

     

    I agree with this. The message is pretty harsh to people who are disabled. "Hey, cripples! Your lives are worthless unless you can move your bodies. George Romero says so."

     

    It sort of like if at the end of Mac and Me, Mac touched his alien hand on the boy's legs and the boy got up out of the chair and dunked a basketball. It's a bad message to send.

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    Shariq! I'm sorry I unnecessarily escalated the discussion. I half read the comments without looking into the source of your claims. Once I realized it was the Abduction episode I started it up and immediately remembered it was one of the few episodes I disliked and never finished due to Jessica Chaffens comments. I Guess her Ronna and Bev character isn't too far from the truth. I wouldn't try to rationalize what she was saying. But from Paul, June, and Jason, maybe I'm blinded by my love for their comedy, but I would give them the benefit of the doubt when they describe a minority character as such. I know they are far from the utmost authority on the subject, but I do trust that what they say is more of a jab at the writers and director for using minority characters as walking stereotypical grabs at minority viewers, rather then a sign of disrespect towards those actors and their ethnicity.

     

    I'm a white guy, with black family. I know I don't carry it with me like other minorities do. I still get the occasional guy at the bar saying some racist shit to me and he thinks I'm gonna agree with him just cause I'm white. I like to think I know the difference between when some one is being offensive to a group purposefully, and when they are attacking the idea that people can be defined by the stereotypes attributed to them by bad writing. But I haven't spent one day of my life as a black person so although I wrongfully criticized you earlier, without speaking up I wouldn't have this moment of reflection.

     

    I like them as well and support their projects. I guess I just expect more from them than, say Adam Corrolla, on certain topics and issues. They're alternative comics and I expect them to be an alternative to the regular bullshit that passes as comedy in mainstream America.

     

    And you don't have to apologize to me for anything. People are free to say what they like and what they feel. Even though it causes some people uneasiness, I happen to like it when the threads get into real topics surrounding entertainment and movies. We all consume this stuff and have ideas on how it operates. Some of the best discussions are when the posters are talking about sexism in movies, women's roles in entertainment, POC representation. I mean, we had one of the best discussions on feminism in the thread for Spice World...the fucking SPICE GIRLS MOVIE! I mean this was a movie produced by the guys behind American Idol, not bell hooks, but it still offered a way to talk about those subjects.

     

    And from now on, I'll lay off the Florida gifs....

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    it is possible that they never crossed paths since they never shared any scenes together.

     

    I bet you Brandy's mother had that in the contract. Something like if Brandy even gets a whiff of Kim's perfume, she's quitting and Perry's on the hook for emotional distress. They had a reality show for a little bit and Brandy's mom is a shrewd negotiator. I would have loved to have had her on my side when I brought my car.

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    But if they do, I hope it's "The One Who Killed Somebody with Her Car" and "The One Famous for Banging The First One's Brother".

     

    OH SHIT!!!! I totally forgot that Kim Kardashian was fucking Ray J. Man, was that weird on the set or what? I bet Kim asked Brandy to tell her brother to stop singing that "I hit it first" song.

     

    ...And Brandy killed someone via cat?!!!?

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    I agree with your larger point, but I take issue with your last para. Granted, the Glitter episode was not one of the better episodes to say the least, but the Staying Alive episode was the best fucking episode of this podcast ever!

     

    Man, there was a little part around when the Pete Holmes ep where there are like five to six GREAT ones. I always listen to those..."Blackie" notwithstanding.

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    Shariq, I have an honest question about this (actual about a different post, but it was easier to quote this one) and I am in no way trying to be disrespectful. But you mentioned the secretary in Devil's Advocate being on CSI for 16 years and them not knowing who she was and them referring to her as "the one who looks like she should be in a yogurt commercial." For me, I have never watched a single episode of CSI, nor Criminal Minds. To me, calling her "yogurt commercial girl" puts an image in my head that calling her by her name never would. In fact, I have listened to that episode a couple of times and as far as I can recall they never referred to her race at all. I also don't remember Devil's Advocate the movie, but if she is referred to as the secretary I can't imagine her role in the movie was that crucial to the plot. In my mind, they have maybe an hour and a half to give the plot of a movie and make fun of it. Asking them to give the IMDb highlights of every minor character, regardless of race, would just open a rabbit hole of insanity.

     

    (I have also lived in Florida for many years, there are good places and bad places. The most recent Cracked podcast discusses some of the reasons why Florida is no crazier than any and all other states.)

     

    :)

     

    So that's one of my favorite eps because I loved that movie when I was younger. Everything about that ep is good except for that exchange. Tamara Tunie plays the wife of one of the lawyers at Satan and Associates. There is a scene where she's changing her shirt and then demon boobies come out. When they were describing this scene they were just like "the one who..." And June was like, "No, she's a regular on Law and Order" and they were like, "naw, she's the one from the yogurt commercials." First, I doubt that she has done a yogurt commercial; they were saying that has a joke because of her hair. Basically saying she looks like she belongs on a yogurt commercial.

     

    Secondly, she's been on TV for the better part of two decades. I don't watch NCIS Los Angeles, but I know LL Cool J and Chris O'Donnell are on it. Plus, she's on Law and Order SVU, aka the most re-run-ed TV show in the history of TV. So, even if this yogurt commercial is real, it makes more sense to mention the 15+ seasons of TV that she's done than the short-run yogurt commercial.

     

    Now, the secretary was this character actress who didn't have a big role in the movie. She basically gives Keanu the cases and she shows a demon face that causes Charlize to kill herself. But she's this actress that they point out by her real name. They describe her entering the movie and they all say her name.She's not a big star and whatever her claim to fame it is not on right now, like SVU.

     

    As far as them naming the players, I happen to like that because I do quick searches to see what else they have been in, or to get a picture of their face (I don't watch all of the movies before hand). And it's not like its hard work. Paul already has the IMDB page for the movie open to give the extra production notes during the show. Plus, they have already seen the movie, so they know these people's faces. It's just scrolling.

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    I think that a couple of the big problems with the discussions of this nature are that a) they are by nature hard to measure since it is an internal attitude that someone may or may not be willing to admit and B) we all to often rely on anecdotes when these are really statistical issues.

    Maybe hypothetically they refer to a black supporting cast member by nickname only 80% of the time, but only 30% of the time for a white supporting cast member, maybe they're both 50% I don't know and really nobody here has taken the time to listen to each episode carefully and quantify how they refer to supporting cast members by race. All we have are specific incidents where they have done one or the other. In my opinion it makes it really hard to have a meaningful discussion about discrimination when all you have are examples and counterexamples.

     

    It's not really the nickname part though. It's the actor's/actress' real name. Like all of the nicknamed people, they say their real name at some point in the podcast. The nicknames are funny. So, there was this time when they were doing one of the Leelee Sobieski movies and Paul called her "bobo Helen Hunt". Then Jason called her "baby Helen Hunt" and they settled on that. After the description of what happened in the movie, Paul says her real name.

     

    I'm gonna listen to this ep, because I do hope they do it well. The last couple have not been so great. I just hope that its not a whole bunch of "the one who..." and no actor's real name is said at all...aside from Kim Kardashian and Brandy.

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