When the subject of Top 5 Michael Jackson videos emerged from the Cup during the weekly topic choosing ceremony, we could barely contain our excitement. Not grabbing ours crotches and screaming “hooooo” excited, but pretty enthusiastic.

In a bid to tempt fate, Joe attended the ceremony already dressed as MJ from the Bad video (as he confesses in the pod he did at the age of 10) though Dan was evidently less successful in his attempt to influence the Cup by dressing as his favourite type of vegetable.

So with a very competitive top five to get through, we fired up the Youtubes for what can only be described as mostly extremely long and unreservedly bonkers videos from the Jackson back catalogue.

How much did Vincent Price make from his non-rhyming voice over in Thriller?

Why does a “pool table” have no pockets in Beat It?

Who was originally supposed to be the recipient of the line “your butt is mine” in Bad before Wesley Snipes. 

Download this week’s episode to find out all this and more…

This Weeks Video Links

Thriller

Smooth Criminal

Black or White

Leave Me Alone

Bad

Beat It

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When is a prequel not a prequel? 

When it’s kind of mixed in to a sequel. 

Like The Godfather Part 2.

But what other films deserve the more traditional prequel treatment?

Well, the Cup this week has given the 2 Guys a challenge of giving their top 5 films ripe for prequels.

It’s fair to say that one of them goes down a much darker path of cinematic choices than the other, but fear not - the prequel ideas are based (mostly) on ‘official’ back stories rather than their own concoctions.

So sit back (unless you’re on the bus or train commenting), relax (again, unless you’re on the bus of train commuting) and enjoy two grown men doing a top 5 and clearly not being able to count to 5.

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BONUS

This is Dan watching a Starwars trailer, I'm pretty sure its Dan anyway, ok its not him but lets just say it is

https://youtu.be/LlFeBxSBZUo?si=YZwQMVIhJ5I9oYOd

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Like someone having a Ferrero Rocher at the ambassador’s reception, we are being truly spoilt by The Cup this week.

It has blessed us with the review topic of The Films Of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Like kids in a candy shop, pigs in effluence or two middle aged men on a podcast, we’re giddy with excitement as we venture into timeless classics such as The Terminator, Terminator 2, Predator and Jingle All the Way. 

We finish with an all time great top 10, somehow managing to shoehorn Taylor Swift into a chart featuring the The Shamen and PM Dawn, and not just so we can use #TaylorSwift.

Bill Burr's brief and not very PC summary of Arnie's career - https://youtu.be/JUrMSK8XWFc?si=evlyXJG4T2ntc3-g

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Another week, another review. 

And this time Lego has emerged from our cup and slid under the microscope of the two Guys’ gaze.

Which is the worst Lego set ever? How on earth can a set be worth $200,000? And why are big boxes of Lego so filthy?

We have a tribute to Carl Weathers, a hero of the pod from his roles in Rocky and Predator and inductee into the International Moustache Hall of Fame in 2016. 

We finish on a general discussion about favourite school subjects, a suggestion given to us on X by @jamiesinai. 

We won’t pretend our school dissection is in any way structured, disappointing given one of the presenters gushing over his love of English, but suffice to say there are some things mentioned that would be unlikely to happen in school nowadays…

The best bicep shot in film

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This week sees the launch of our amazing new theme tune thanks to Dave Bass Productions, but that’s not all…

Of course, we have some petrol station fact checking from last week’s show.

This week we review cinemas - are they actually any good or did they used to be better? Does excellent sound quality make up for people rustling their sweet wrappers? How many cups will they score?

We also give you our top 5 film theme tunes. Will Robocop or The Shining make it into our hall of fame? (spoiler: both do, but what else will?)

Some Links for the after the show

Wizard of OZ goes colour

Theme tunes, please do give these a listen with headphones, all are well worth it

The Shining

Raiders of the Lost Ark

28 Days Later

Robocop

The Godfather

Superman

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We go deep into Petrol stations and then we go back in time to go through the top toy of each year of the 90s

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Don't forget to subscribe and if you write a 5* review we will read it out

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We are doing a top 5 for the best ever kids cartoon them tunes and then we have a mass debate of who is better cats or dogs

follow us on X @2G1CPOD and give us your ideas of what you want reviewed next

As promised here are some links to our theme tunes this week

Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles

Gummi Bears

Mysterious Cities of Gold

Thundercats

DuckTales

Pinky & The Brain

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We review Bread, this is what the world needs to hear

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Enjoy it or be brown bread

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We are reviewing and comparing Christmas from when we were young compared to know

Have a fantastic Christmas everyone and remember 5* review get read out

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This week we review The 90s High street as asked for by you the listener

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