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I actually skipped listening to the OGYD clips. It's an incredible episode and if there were actual awards for excellence in podcast characs, Andy Daly deserves them, but it's sort of exhausting to listen to. Really, that's how I feel about a lot of mythology thick episodes. I don't dislike them, they're usually really good, but it feels stressful to listen to because everyone involved has to make the episode worthwhile and push some sort of storyline forward. I prefer the ones divorced from any sort of mythos because they can be so loose and goofy. *~*~*~JUST MY OPINION MAN~*~*~*

ACTUALITY-YES-UP-YEAH-CONTINUING?!

Man. Scott has never seemed older than when he has to ask Engineer Cody Sam what one of the most iconic songs from the history of video games is from. Also, Voyager had The Doctor and Scott Bakula Presents Star Trek had T'Pol, but everyone knows these things.

...for there be of them that will themselves laugh and PFT isn't here today.

Personally, I just find it weird that when some people say "Hey, your actions kinda make me uncomfortable." there's a distressingly large subset of people who feel like it's their job to say "Hey, fuck you for feeling uncomfortable, I know my rights." and push harder instead of "Oh, sorry. I don't really agree that I did anything wrong, but I can stop to make everyone feel better." But that's just my opiniooooooon.

Rockafire Explosion had a YouTube resurgence some 5-6 years ago due to taking requests from the Internet at large to see horrifying animatronic puppets sing weird shit. Here's some highlights:

I just want to love this episode for loving Emma Thompson so much. That's the most important takeaway from watching this awful movie: Emma Thompson is a radiant star who is the best part of anything she's in.

I just want to point out that Scott said they were presenting a baker's dozen of episodes at the top of the episode and now I have no idea what Scott's definition of a baker's dozen is. 11? Does he think that a baker's dozen is because bakers are all jerks and will only give you 11 instead of a dozen?

By the looks of it, it's actually a binary system with PFT and James Adomian. Though, Adomian has been in eclipse this year, hopefully he'll return bright as ever next year.

I always go into the Best Ofs thinking "I've heard all the eps they're gonna play, I'm really only listening to this for like 30 minutes of Scott and PFT banter" but it's never true. Listening to the eps again is always a goddamn treat and I catch stuff I missed or forgot and end up giggling for a solid 2 hours.

Spacehog did a good cover of that!

This episode should've pretty much been called Comedy Bang Bang All-Stars. Utterly a joy and it's gonna be sad come next best-ofs season when it's forgotten due to being so far in the past.

My bond girl name: My username.

Can I just say how long and hard I've tried to get Scott Aukerman to ever say "Vajayjay Leno" and then it was so easy for Paul? I'm so excited right now.

Speaking to NYC as a country music mecca: What if this actually is a works where records don't exist? Live music is king and getting and keeping your stars for your clubs is the way to get rich in the music business. And if you ran the biggest country music bar in NYC, you'd have the market cornered in the biggest city in the country. It all totally makes sense as an alternate universe where Edison failed to get recorded music off the ground.

Maybe it's just because I'm an old Buffy/musical theatre nerd, but the bit of mixing up Eliza Doolittle and Eliza Dushku fucking killed me every time. In an episode literally littered with great bits, this was the Greatest Bit to me.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh Golly!

I literally said that no one believes the monkey killed anyone. That's actually right there in the thing you quoted. The point is that monkeys are SO incapable of killing people as depicted in the movie that they couldn't even get one monkey to PRETEND to do it. They needed lots of monkeys. Saying one monkey did all of the acting makes it the tiniest bit more plausible that one monkey could actually also do the things in the movie, when just one monkey couldn't even pretend. Also, fuck you for telling me what I do and don't do when I see that movie about the train coming at me.

No, I totally get what June is saying in terms of the crediting the monkeys: Look, no one (who is sane) will watch American Psycho and believe that Christian Bale is a serial killer in reality- he's an actor! But to play a convincing serial killer on screen makes you believe that such a person could exist. If someone can mimic one accurately, then there's a level of belief in the possible existence. No one who sees Monkey Shines is going to believe that the monkey who played Ella is a murderous primate. It's just an actor monkey. But if one monkey can convincingly portray a serial killer monkey, you can get the impression that such a thing could exist- however, one monkey didn't play a serial killer monkey. It took a team of monkeys to create the impression of a serial killer monkey, so the monkeys are so innocent of the possibility of a serial killer monkey that there's not even a single monkey actor who could possibly even pretend to be one. But crediting just one gives the illusion of the possibility. It's a subtle point, to be sure, but I'm not sure it's wrong! And, believe me here, I feel like I've gone off the deep end for thinking I understand June.

For my money, Edward Scissorhands beats Edward Paperhands every time.

Natasha has to come back. She's one of those people who doesn't even have to go along with the bit- she's so weird and interesting just being herself that it's magic.

I think having Wurster on to play would be great as long as Todd Glass was also on and he just played live the entire time.

It's Monday, so you know what that means- I'm not wearing any underwear!

Since they're literally the only two Nabooian women we encounter, maybe Padme is just the Naboo equivalent of Amanda and 50% of the female population is named Padme and why the hell am I wanking that movie into trying to make sense fuck you.