2.2: Piranha 3D: Fish Gone Wild!

Are the fish the least objectionable predators in this movie? 

Who among us will fall prey to the Busey cycle?

And how much Ving is enough ving?

Tune in this week to find out!

SEASON 2 BEGINS! Returning to our normal format, we boldly explore the Piranha franchise, which spans a shocking 35 years of film history. 

What happens when you let exotic dancers run a water park? What did Todd Packer do after he left Dunder Mifflin? What single line of dialogue have you never heard in a movie before? We answer all these pressing questions, and more!

THE END OF THE MINI SEASON!

Mike hops out of the Captain's Chair of the S.S. Benjamin Button, and gives Brad the chance to experience a rare event: a good movie. Actual discussion ensues.

That's it, enough with the crazy experiments. Next week, we're back to our normal format, as SEASON 2 BEGINS!

MINI SEASON!

Brad continues his graduate education on the Jaws series, as Mike patiently explains to him the plot of these movies (hint: there's a shark). 

SEASON 2, WITH NORMAL FORMAT, COMING SOON!

MINI SEASON! 

We continue our deep dive (get it?) into the Jaws franchise so that Brad is not an ignorant buffoon for Season 2. Mike calmly explains the calamity that is Jaws 3 while Brad struggles to hold everything together.

COMING SOON: SEASON 2

SPECIAL MINI SEASON!

In Season 2, we'll be discussing the Piranha film franchise, a bizarre ripoff of Jaws. But Brad is the only person who grew up in the 80s but never saw ANY of the Jaws movies. So we decided to do this special Mini Season 1.5: Mike describes the films for Brad to understand. 

If this isn't your thing, no sweat. Just go straight to Season 2. 

Emergency Episode! As the relentless onslaught of Fast & Furious movies continues, we bring in special guest Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine to tell us what the heck happened in Fast X. Spoiler alert: It's the end of the world as we know it.

The Fast and the Furious. Our epic journey finally reaches its beginning.

RACE WARS! We end with the beginning. Somehow a franchise becomes celebrated for its multiculturalism while beginning with... a RACE WAR. Perhaps the most philosophically dense of the movies featuring meditations on the Duality of Ludacris, the Ur-Street Race, the three stages of a homophobic insult, and Letty's outfit providing the evolutionary missing link between the two types of Fast & Furious Women. Mike teaches us how to flirt while eating tuna fish & Brad offers up the Ballad of Lefty Krantz. 

Lesson of the Episode: "Never blow your biscuit."

2 Fast 2 Furious but no 2 Live Crew? 

A Franchise writ in Etch a Sketch. As we near the end/beginning of this series, we are backing into simpler stories, lower stakes & Old School Hollywood racism. This movie is what happens when Miami Vice & Dukes of Hazzard have a sloppy, racially-charged one night stand. Van Morrison & Umberto Eco swing by the podcast. 

This episode's lesson: "Why Jump the Shark when you can Jump the Yacht?" 

TOKYO DRIFT! JAPAN BEFORE JUVY! 

The movie that should have killed the franchise. The Minority-Report -Goo Screenwriters gave themselves a fascinating challenge: Can we make a movie with equally grotesque racial & sexual stereotypes? Spoiler Alert: Racism wins. Is Kid Rock's biggest hit just Doo Wop with Angry Drums & a Meth problem? Sean, our low rent Brian joins the Yakuza before he gets over jet lag. Mike & Brad embrace cancellation as both have a moment of cultural misidentification. 

Lesson of the Episode?:"By watching these movies backwards, Brad accidentally watched them in the correct order."