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Episode 116 – Reflections of Society
Overview
We talk about horror, sci-fi and comedy this week. Each of these is used to reflect society in different ways.
Alan attended the Just for Laughs comedy fest which is 10 days of non-stop comedy. Most of his experiences were good, but a few went overboard.
There’s a good discussion of horror and an upcoming talk that Stephen is doing with his co-host from Horror Lasagna.
And the Orville and other sci-fi is discussed in our weekly ramble.
Recommendations
The Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror Episodes – IMDb
James Bond music – Wikipedia
Welcome to Horror Lasagna | Horror Lasagna
Toronto | Just For Laughs (hahaha.com)
The Orville – Wikipedia
YouTube
Transcript
[00:00:00] Stephen: Yeah. I figured it’s Halloween. This is like urban explorer, supernatural type, natural.
[00:00:06] Alan: You’re looking for let’s see, something that your relatives left somewhere in this structure, and of course you keep hearing noises that aren’t natural for that place. So I went with the fall changing here
[00:00:15] Stephen: Okay.
Yeah. I was, looking around it and seeing what I got, so I gotta get some more halloweenish ones.
[00:00:21] Alan: Exactly. Are you watching a lot of scary movies because, any number of, like all the online services have shocktober and Yes. Their Halloween, they got tons of stuff available.
They’ve revived old series. They’ve made like all. I need all the Jasons, all the saws, whatever else is available. They put together little packages of Yes. Of
[00:00:40] Stephen: Halloween. I have, and I’ve started clear back in September now, I mean I’ve been watching each week three or four scary movies and episodes of Crip Keep and Dark Side and Twilight Zone, all that.
In fact, that’s, it’s funny cause I mentioned this a couple weeks ago, I’ve been going through the Simpsons Treehouse of Terror episodes. Exactly. Okay. Which are fantastic. If people have watch ’em, I make it a part of my Halloween ritual. Now that, there’s 30, some of them, they do three little vignettes each episode.
and they’re just so funny in a very tongue and cheek, humorous way. They make fun of everything. The one episode I watched at the very end they were in the kitchen. They started imitating the Charlie Brown Christmas special at the end, where they start singing, and they always have.
Like the first episode they did the Raven from Poe and Barts the Raven. He goes, quote the Raven, Eat my shorts. Eat my short. I
[00:01:37] Alan: remember that from all the way
[00:01:39] Stephen: back. Exactly. Yeah. Colin laughs at that hysterically. That’s his favorite. And then they have the aliens that are always showing up and they do a, each year it’s they imitate something different.
One year.
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By Relentless GeekeryOverview
We talk about horror, sci-fi and comedy this week. Each of these is used to reflect society in different ways.
Alan attended the Just for Laughs comedy fest which is 10 days of non-stop comedy. Most of his experiences were good, but a few went overboard.
There’s a good discussion of horror and an upcoming talk that Stephen is doing with his co-host from Horror Lasagna.
And the Orville and other sci-fi is discussed in our weekly ramble.
Recommendations
The Simpsons Treehouse Of Horror Episodes – IMDb
James Bond music – Wikipedia
Welcome to Horror Lasagna | Horror Lasagna
Toronto | Just For Laughs (hahaha.com)
The Orville – Wikipedia
YouTube
Transcript
[00:00:00] Stephen: Yeah. I figured it’s Halloween. This is like urban explorer, supernatural type, natural.
[00:00:06] Alan: You’re looking for let’s see, something that your relatives left somewhere in this structure, and of course you keep hearing noises that aren’t natural for that place. So I went with the fall changing here
[00:00:15] Stephen: Okay.
Yeah. I was, looking around it and seeing what I got, so I gotta get some more halloweenish ones.
[00:00:21] Alan: Exactly. Are you watching a lot of scary movies because, any number of, like all the online services have shocktober and Yes. Their Halloween, they got tons of stuff available.
They’ve revived old series. They’ve made like all. I need all the Jasons, all the saws, whatever else is available. They put together little packages of Yes. Of
[00:00:40] Stephen: Halloween. I have, and I’ve started clear back in September now, I mean I’ve been watching each week three or four scary movies and episodes of Crip Keep and Dark Side and Twilight Zone, all that.
In fact, that’s, it’s funny cause I mentioned this a couple weeks ago, I’ve been going through the Simpsons Treehouse of Terror episodes. Exactly. Okay. Which are fantastic. If people have watch ’em, I make it a part of my Halloween ritual. Now that, there’s 30, some of them, they do three little vignettes each episode.
and they’re just so funny in a very tongue and cheek, humorous way. They make fun of everything. The one episode I watched at the very end they were in the kitchen. They started imitating the Charlie Brown Christmas special at the end, where they start singing, and they always have.
Like the first episode they did the Raven from Poe and Barts the Raven. He goes, quote the Raven, Eat my shorts. Eat my short. I
[00:01:37] Alan: remember that from all the way
[00:01:39] Stephen: back. Exactly. Yeah. Colin laughs at that hysterically. That’s his favorite. And then they have the aliens that are always showing up and they do a, each year it’s they imitate something different.
One year.