In a World of...Improvised Movie Homages

About This Episode In this episode, we pay homage to all James Bond movies like A View to a Kill, Moonraker, Goldfinger, and the new release, No Time to Die. James Bond is timeless, and Blaine Jawn is our own timeless (?) improv comedy homage to the classic spy. In this episode we create a James Bond movie that features evil organizations, globe trotting escapades, action, doomsday devices, and, of course, romance and sex. Links James Bond on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond No Time to Die on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Time_to_Die Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 05:59 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 11:19 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 17:53 Start of show: 21:35 Improv Game - Countdown: 22:23 Improv Game - DoubleSpeak: 27:41 Improv Game - A to Z: 34:29 Improv Game - Best of Times, Worst of Times: 40:15 Improv Game - Questions Switch: 46:10 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 50:29 End of show, into announcements: 1:01:38 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/ Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Far From Disney - Transcription Avish Parashar: Segment one discussing the genre tropes. Avish Parashar: Yes, and our five minute starts now all right let's talk James Bond tropes. Michael Worth: yeah alright so um now again we're not doing James Bond we're doing James Bond esque. Avish Parashar: yeah so yeah. Michael Worth: So where's main character is. Avish Parashar: soiree dad came off. Michael Worth: lethal but also charismatic. Avish Parashar: yeah the ladies man yep. Michael Worth: This is, this is the main character he's got a high integrity like incorruptible but also. Michael Worth: It is a bit of ends justify the means. Avish Parashar: Right yeah you got does whatever he has to he. Avish Parashar: You know, he, like he's he's high integrity, but he also like doesn't care all that much about authority yeah like i'll follow orders he doesn't admission but he's not above going outside the lines and yeah right. Michael Worth: The villain is I mean God it's like pretty much writes itself the villain is usually. Avish Parashar: there's usually guys like a mastermind the main villain is usually not physically imposing usually usually is like a mastermind a scientist or rich or politician. Michael Worth: But of course he has the henchmen yeah. Avish Parashar: it's funny it's kind of it's not that dissimilar from last week in terms of the basic character structure, like last week, something got a villain that got henchmen there's a maintenance man, you know, like jaws or grace Jones or whatever. Michael Worth: yeah the edge had some sort of an effect modification device specialized weapon. Avish Parashar: yeah right yeah some kind of a unique identifier. Michael Worth: Oh yeah the villain villain is mastermind made a lot of smart enough physically imposing often rich and powerful. Michael Worth: As he needs to to to fund his maniacal scheme. Michael Worth: alright. Avish Parashar: there's always a female. Avish Parashar: yep femme fatale type. Avish Parashar: Usually i'm. Avish Parashar: Either like always involved somehow the story, like the the plot you either it's one of three things right it's either like a scientist or someone germane to the the technology it's going to be used or it's a spy on his side or it's a spy on the other side. Michael Worth: that's true yeah. Avish Parashar: it's one of those yeah. Michael Worth: yeah so and some dogs are two female but we may not be able to get to two females in this we just have to have one. Avish Parashar: Just yeah for this one will probably just need one, but you know another one may show up but yeah there's a femme fatale who's. Avish Parashar: capable depends what era of James Bond we're talking and earlier areas would often end up being like a damsel in distress, but in later would be more capable and really able to. Michael Worth: Although you'd be surprised pussy galore in goldfinger was surprisingly capable, it was Jane seymour in live and let die that was pretty much the she was the Oracle she was the seer she was the classic like. Avish Parashar: can't really yeah yeah a few through the are they kind of you know, in yeah yo. Michael Worth: yo baby host. Avish Parashar: Michelle yeoh came back right, but that was after a couple others that were more like just very passive so. Avish Parashar: yeah alright so yeah get a femme fatale got a henchman other platforms there's usually a huge complicated plot like life world ending or changing. Michael Worth: You know what blood we gonna tackle it's almost always he gets sent on a mission to discover one thing and then discovers the real plot, which is totally unrelated. Michael Worth: Like I was watching the living daylights don't ask me oh yeah cuz he did with the latest podcast remember it was like oh he's cheating with horse races. Avish Parashar: yeah That was a view to a kill but yeah. Michael Worth: Have you don't kill yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah there's like there's like a first plot. Michael Worth: A false first plot with a false flag. Avish Parashar: That reveals the big plot. Michael Worth: This is going to be harder than I thought. Avish Parashar: We may again we're going to streamline and this is what we're playing around with right now. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah the huge plot it's, this is another challenge will have its multi location right everybody who's got almost at least three different cities around the world and they're. Michael Worth: Always exotic and beautiful. Avish Parashar: exotic. Avish Parashar: Beautiful there's. Avish Parashar: Usually sex often more than one person bond has sex with like there's us like a previous random person or hence woman or a lackey. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah yes excellent like early in the movie and then he has sex at the end with the main female. Michael Worth: Right right that's me a fade to black moment for our show shows PG 13 minus the swearing. Michael Worth: yeah um so uh. Michael Worth: And then there's always a big um final like not battling a final stage battle. Michael Worth: yeah which is usually on a very dramatic. Avish Parashar: location yeah, but this is an epic. Avish Parashar: Oh there's also always like earlier there's the mission debriefing scene and the gadgets and the gadget seed. Michael Worth: Oh yeah yeah yeah act one has the mission debriefing. Michael Worth: misha OPS and gadgets. Avish Parashar: The brief that gadgets any user the gadgets throughout yeah. Michael Worth: And then I mean. Avish Parashar: I was five minutes, so any final tropes you want to throw in there. Michael Worth: Now that's gonna get a start, I think that was the big thing we got was the idea of the false first plot into the into the real plot. Transcription of the "Creating the Outline" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Excellent well done all right, so now segment to creating the outline. Avish Parashar: All right, let us now make our outline and we start with a four act structure you prior to three act structure we just split Act two into two X, we have four X opening. Michael Worth: It just helps me with the Games yeah. Avish Parashar: yep Okay, so now we kind of go back and forth on our format, do we want to start with a trailer or do we want to start with the. Avish Parashar: Because bondo is has that like prologue scene. Michael Worth: He has a cold open scene yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah so we can do both, but I think, for the sake of time for today, we should just pick one either we do a trailer or we do the high action prologue. Avish Parashar: I think I think I actually yeah for bond, and then we need a prologue yeah which that's like that that starts that opening mission that may or may not be related to the. Avish Parashar: Somebody moves it's completely unrelated but later they got smarter and that opening mission would somehow lead to the bigger story yes alright so then for act one. Avish Parashar: So we got a lot of stuff has to happen and. Avish Parashar: He needs to. Avish Parashar: He needs to get briefed. Avish Parashar: He needs the tech right the briefing and the tech he needs to go on his first exposure first level mission. Michael Worth: investigated mission yeah. Avish Parashar: you'd still usually meet the female. Avish Parashar: Usually often meet at the villain and or the henchmen the main henchmen at this point. Avish Parashar: They usually cross paths it in act one. yeah. Avish Parashar: don't write will have ways of jamming this all in there i'm. Avish Parashar: Right and oftentimes if i'm wrong he actually ended up succeeding, and the first mission, but even though he succeeds, and when you realize it allows the much beer plot. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah alright, so we got basically got into the celebrity two sections and enact one he's got to do the briefing and the tech. Avish Parashar: And then the whole sequence, where he goes on the mission meets the female meets the villains and succeeds or fails in that mission so it's kind of like too many parts there and. Michael Worth: yeah yeah the foils the first mission that you know, the first or he discovers the first he got kind of figures out and solves the first mission, but a lot of times you might not even. Michael Worth: be like Oh, we figured out that the again he was doping, the horses and then we can figure out what they're like, but then he finds out the next thing it's like well let's not worry about the horse. Avish Parashar: Sometimes it's like kind of unrelated likely fans were adobe in the horses, but while I was investigating adobe horses, I came across a meth lab I came across a. Avish Parashar: I came across a device that wants to destroy California like. Avish Parashar: Oh, we should do something about that. Avish Parashar: Alright, so in Act two so he's so usually Act two is the investigating learning so obviously each one's got a different exotic location so act one will be in one locale act to be a different locale. Michael Worth: Yes, um, this is actually where he is okay, so this is putting the other pieces of the puzzle as to how this he finds out the first plan at the end of act one the real plan to is where he discovers kind of. Avish Parashar: I feel like act one at the end of act one he discovers that there is a bigger plan, but he doesn't quite know what it is like a lot of time to like find a name like what is Center just. Avish Parashar: Go find out. Michael Worth: Right right right that's why I was researching various locations he's putting the other pieces of the puzzle usually like one locations where equipments being built one location is like when are various you know. Avish Parashar: Right, so an act to, I think, is where he needs to actually discover what the plan is. Avish Parashar: And usually the female will be with him. Michael Worth: And this is where he gets his life threatened and gets one of his first action scenes usually. Avish Parashar: Usually it's a phone after the prologue and sometimes act one now be an action scene too, but. Michael Worth: yeah but really active for a lot of good stuff have you been on a train and like he's climbing up. Avish Parashar: And there may or may not be the main henchmen but they'll definitely be henchmen yes to like do stuff. Avish Parashar: yeah alright so act three is by this point he's kind of. Avish Parashar: he's got a sense of what the plot is like what the bad guys plan is arm. Avish Parashar: And now, he wants to go and try to either learn more about or stop it. Avish Parashar: right kind of shifts modes and, like all right now we know um. Avish Parashar: Oh, you know, the one thing we left out, it was happens almost every bond movie which may be, this will be part of Act two is there's always an undercover element where he, like. Avish Parashar: pretend to be somebody else to like learn more right, so I think it has to be active if he's gonna go in disguise, as you know, Jim Jim Smythe or whoever. Michael Worth: The slide. Michael Worth: slide so brilliant disagree with the Brits called St john surgeon that's actually. Avish Parashar: I had no idea. Michael Worth: That I until I saw. Avish Parashar: Engine that's weird. Avish Parashar: All right, so uh so actually then he. Avish Parashar: Usually gets revealed add like singles minds Dr James Bond at the end of Act two so now he gets proactive proactive either in learning a proactive investigating or trying to stop. Michael Worth: At this stage of the game. Michael Worth: he's starting to stop the. Michael Worth: starting to stop the plot. Michael Worth: and Avish Parashar: that's five minutes, but we can go for like another minute to finish up every. Michael Worth: frickin James Bond. Michael Worth: yeah stop the plot at this point he attracts. Michael Worth: The attention of the bad guy and, if I remember correctly, this is where. Michael Worth: numero UNO henchmen. Michael Worth: tries to kill bond and bond narrowly escaped. Avish Parashar: yeah there's usually some kind of a. Michael Worth: New Order to tries to kill bond. Michael Worth: The bond narrowly escaped or spy bond, you know. Avish Parashar: By the end of act three the whole plot is definitely known like what the bad guys plan is which lead to act for which is the. Avish Parashar: At the final location, you know, whatever the device or the thing is the headquarters is it just the big confrontation that point like he's got to sneak and he's got to get to the bad guy and fight the bad guy and then, when it's. Michael Worth: almost always stealth, followed by disruption. Michael Worth: Of the plan, followed by killing henchmen then villain. Michael Worth: And then, and then the oral sex. Avish Parashar: Well, yes what's your sex. Michael Worth: was all gives a good spanking. Avish Parashar: All right, okay so that's our outline and. Michael Worth: When you read it a James Bond thing it looks like the fever dream of a horny 14 year old.

In this episode, we pay homage to the fantastic genre of alien invasion movies. Movies like Independence Day, Skyline, War of the Worlds, etc. Aliens arrive, and though their intentions are unclear at first, we quickly learn that they are not here to be peaceful and make friends. It's up to a military leader and her scientist ex to figure out how to stop the invasion and save the world. This episode has love, drama, and port-a-potties (yes, port-a-potties)! Links Independence Day movie on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(1996_film) War of the Worlds on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(2005_film) Skyline on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline_(2010_film) Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 03:30 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 09:47 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 16:36 Start of show: 24:55 Improv Game - Movie Trailer: 25:17 Improv Game - Best of Times Worst of Times: 26:53 Improv Game - One Word at a Time Typewriter: 34:30 Improv Game - Blind Line: 46:15 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 56:23 End of show, into announcements: 1:07:17 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/ Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish: What do you think when you think of a big budget alien invasion movie. Mike: Oh boy well so to start with um there's always the ominous foreshadowing right so it's always like. Mike: You know they find some alien tech like buried in like in guardians all over the world or look there's an establishing shot, so they let you know, right from the get go that something bad's going on. Mike: that's because the establishing act one usually act one is all about the impending dread of the arrival of the Aliens in a mysterious fashion and the US in various countries trying to establish contact with it it's almost always like that right. Avish: yeah they figured out that they're not sure, a lot of time is. Avish: Are they friendly are they dangerous in the first act it's a lot of. Avish: there's like usually there's like a military character or group that knows the Aliens are there knows the Aliens are coming, but then there's like the general populace, that is, like just discovering the aliens and not sure what's going on with them. Mike: Right right right and. Mike: You know act one usually ends with the first blast of aggression that's that's the crossing of the threshold right where it's. Avish: Like a big I mean independent they certainly. Avish: Had big aggression, but a lot. Mike: yeah. Mike: And then they did you know what they did, which was really cool and this is, if we can try and boy, this is a bridge too far, maybe, but we should try it. Mike: Independence Day nail it because they had three crossing of the threshold at the same time, so the chopper was destroyed. Mike: At the same time that the scientists will, at that time there was a doomsday timer at the same time that all the ships start opening up their lights on top of New York City. Mike: So it was like every every every feeler from our planet, that was out was getting was getting. Avish: Like a lot of shifts we're hitting a lot of fans all. Mike: The shifts in the fans yeah. Avish: that's right, then we get into the um there's a lot of scrambling like there's a total overwhelm right like the Aliens are always just. Mike: completely outside yeah absolutely dominant right then act two is the regroup and usually the counter attack and the best part is well I. Avish: Think, part two, is like the over like act one is where we're learning we're not sure Act two is where the Aliens just dominate. Avish: X three I feel is when you get kind of we're getting more proactive we're going to fight back, but it usually is relatively ineffective. Mike: mate right. Avish: You know okay we're going to drop the nuke and Independence Day, and that does nothing. Mike: yep or in or in Independence Day, though the knockoff them like virtus scored they may mount a couple of offenses in the early, just like wipe them out like just because they're just. Mike: underground and stuff like that now they're usually has to be a macguffin that changes the tide something involving human ingenuity and usually involving like the little rogue science team to kind of figure something out right. Avish: Well it's always yeah it's it's the the other civilian version like there was, like the civilian in the military yeah the civilian figure something out Independence Day, with the virus in war of the worlds, it was a real virus. Mike: yeah but we're the world's this is kind of funny like it's one of the few movies, where the humans had nothing to do with just defeated the. Avish: retrospective terrible storytelling. Mike: yeah yeah so it's a great. Avish: ultimate deus ex machina it's like. Avish: Oh yeah yeah yeah you're. Avish: gonna wipe you out, but the common cold cold. Mike: Because he's angel these aliens all this advanced technology that hungered for our world didn't research, the common virus and bacteria. Avish: Like insides where they didn't research, the planet was covered in water. Mike: yeah so 1% water yes. Avish: We, for our story we'd like a more proactive, but it could also be the author trope that comes up a lot, which I don't know we're gonna do is the hive mind alien queen trope where it's like. Avish: yeah discovered to fight back you know we don't need to destroy the entire alien race which is dominant we. Avish: got killed. Mike: queen yeah the board the board idea that you know. Avish: The Board mind or yeah a lot of. Avish: Like rain of fire which is dragons not aliens but it's like hey we killed. Avish: The Queen dragon and all the dragons die, so I. Mike: Actually, never saw that it looks good and cool. Avish: I saw it in the theater I don't remember very much about it, which should tell you something. Avish: it's yeah my recollection is I wouldn't call it a good movie, but it may have been a fun movie. Mike: you've already reminded me that there will be, because any trope there will be a Matthew mcconaughey character in our in our. Avish: character. Mike: yeah and he's gonna be in our show. Mike: Because now. Avish: Oh there's almost always um. Some. Avish: relationship in peril you know there's like the estranged. Avish: husband and wife back to each other or the father trying to save the sound of the mother trying to say or in shark NATO, where it was the guy from beverly hills. Mike: No, I know from American pie, I engineering and Terry fantastic some kind of like. Avish: To the main characters will be connected. Avish: Yes, some kind of romance or love. Mike: There is usually a general slash military leader who is initially at odds with the heroes and heroin, but then has kind of a come to Jesus thing and at three and four. Avish: yeah they're not like evil they're just. Avish: opinionated damien's yeah. Avish: yeah yeah and that's our five minutes, I think the final thing i'll throw in there is. Avish: Most of these don't have a real villain like the entire alien race is like the villain does not like a head alien. Avish: Even if it's a queen it's not like. Avish: Being a character. Mike: and much of the conflict actually allies, with a disaster movie it's like they're trying to escape a building as it's getting nuked by laser bolts or. Mike: You know the the Aliens blow up a dam and obviously it's a way it's a cheap way for people to get like a little disaster movie in there it's like Oh, they start a forest fire and you have to flee and now you have to be you have to fight, you have to defeat. Avish: Yes, I like a lot of times yeah when they are blowing stuff up the Aliens are the disaster like Independence Day, the first half of that movie is like pure just disaster movie. Mike: Exactly so that's yeah that's your thing we got to think of it's like there's a healthy component to disaster before that it's not like Star Wars or star trek where it's like SCI fi space flights and stuff. Avish: All right. Mike: we're good place we're in a good spot. Transcription of the "Creating the Outline" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish: For this movie it's going to be rough in a high level and because we're going to be using improv games to play this we may end up veering from the outline in minor ways, or even a major ways, but this is kind of our starting point. Mike: yeah we reserve the right to change anything and everything exactly. Avish: But this is what we're going to kind of roughly stick to you, so our five minute timer starts now alright so for this one you're thinking prologue well, so we always start your first time listening, where we start with a prologue or a movie trailer. Avish: We want a prologue of the Aliens arriving and all that or do you want just the movie trailer. Avish: of you. Mike: can see it either way man, you make the call today. Mike: I like them both. Avish: The movie trailer, for we last couple times we don't a prologue so let's do a trailer. Mike: yeah yeah yeah. Avish: alright. Avish: So now for outline what happens in act one. Avish: Of the Aliens need to arrive and people need to find out the military and the civilian need to find out. Mike: Right military finds out first. Mike: And they have to find out, first because they need to start mobilizing their stuff to be ahead of the civilian population. Mike: yeah realizing response alright a. Avish: Civilian a the civilians to find out, we also need to establish the relationship for the civilian right like. Mike: yeah and and let's keep it simple let's let's go with the. Mike: main hero. Mike: Love interest. Avish: I mean, if you want it, and this can come out of the improv you want to keep it simple also one thing there's like the coincidence right so it's like. Avish: It could be the military person and the civilian main character are like husband wife or access or boyfriend girlfriend or you know, instead of having an extra character which sometimes when we're doing improv can get a little confusing. Mike: Man all right, our accents are only so good. Mike: We only have I only have so many American deal with you know that, should we can do that a main character mean here leverages military commander, we have to establish. Mike: Now now do we want the main hero to have agency in terms of like there's a reason he wants to defeat the Aliens or is he just caught up in it and just happens to be heroic. Avish: Well, I think the military one wants to defeat the aliens and the civilian one just kind of gets caught up maybe because they're connected to the military person or there. Mike: huh yeah. Avish: It just happened to be. Mike: I haven't read yet tell me this is like look look getting too granular but, like the Aliens had some tech they're using the setup the assault and the main hero gets a hold of the tech or translates the tech or somehow is able to use it against the aliens. Avish: yeah I think that's good that's kind of like how Jeff goldblum figured out the countdown codependent thing. Avish: yeah all right, and then at the end of by the end of act one the Aliens will have attacked like. Mike: yeah and then there's this just mass destruction that. Avish: yeah maybe attempt contact. Avish: And then attack yep. Mike: And it bleeds out the attacks bleed over into active, because at the end of Act two is going to be a bunch of disaster scenes you know what I mean like you know that i'm trying to get through. Avish: And that's it's gonna be a lot of like yeah vignettes of disaster scrambling attacks. Mike: yeah. Mike: Military getting pummeled. Mike: Civilians fleeing right. Avish: And at this point if they haven't connected in Act two, I think, is when our main characters we'll all meet up like if we've got a military and civilian and maybe a third one they'll all kind of connected this point. Mike: All parties unify and a location yeah. Mike: See, I would, I would say I don't always like oh man, I wonder what they didn't like escape from La or whatever it is battlefield la but and watch those movies were like apparently horrible like battleship was horrible. Avish: battles a battle Los Angeles was. Avish: Okay, it was mildly entertaining. Avish: So I think at the end of Act two is when kind of everyone gets together. Mike: yeah and then, and then the yeah and then at three is usually the prep retaliatory strike. Avish: yeah and real quick if you're listening and you're familiar with story and act structure of most use a three act structure we use a four were basically divide out to into. Avish: Act two and three, because actually longer now, we have had the first half of us the reactive, the second half is proactive so. Mike: Right games, you want to talk about the end of the big act to block so. Avish: Act three right. Mike: good guys do retaliatory strike yeah. Avish: They formulate a plan and retaliate work. Mike: Usually the strike is ineffective to mildly effective, you know we'll give them the BAT you know it did it doesn't But then what usually happens is. Mike: Civilian main characters. Mike: discover macguffin right. Avish: yeah or though I think I will have like the end of act three like that's kind of how it they kind of figured out so. Mike: yeah I. Avish: figured out at the end, I think, in addition to the. Avish: I think this is where you get the big disagreement, you know you're saying how the middle of like the there's usually a more veteran military leader, I think this is where the disagreement kind of comes to a head. Mike: yeah we're the leader. Avish: In effect, tool and then they kind of have to turn to the civilian solution. Mike: mm hmm exactly and then act for is usually mounting the the assault yeah. Avish: And i'll plan and usually there's a heightened sense of danger, like the the Aliens figure out where the good guys are hiding or they have captured you know the someone important to the the main characters. Mike: yep and and yeah and the heightened sense of danger, this is the last chance, where I know we're a little over but it's all right, usually a split narrative usually there's like. Mike: When you're looking at the military side of it used to be epic battle and usually there's a smaller commando team is doing something else. Mike: You know, to mean like again yeah. Avish: This is very independent and if we're going, I mean may get too confusing for our forum, but if we had a third, to be like the third will be like. Avish: The by standards civilians like trying to stay safe there's like counter attack small desperate strike force and then everyone else just trying to survive. Mike: Right exactly. Avish: And Randy quaid flying a plane. Mike: Wait wait with the new version one with a. Avish: A biplane and like a crop missing. Mike: So, by the way, because you guys are listening, and this is how funny love this stuff that apparently that scene was in the original test screening of Independence Day Randy quaid character. Avish: or SCI fi on like YouTube the original. Mike: Like and apparently the audience just. Mike: They were like yeah X that. Avish: Terrible. Avish: I don't know and he, like. Avish: It missile like strapped in the backseat of his plane. Mike: yeah yeah like. Mike: Worst armory gunnery sergeant ever like you just let's go walk off with the sidewinder. Mike: Alright, so so. Mike: Cheap.

In this episode, we pay homage to Pygmalion movies. There's a lot of baking, with a number of rather gross secret ingredients coming into play. If you like coming of age stories where the main character steps into her own greatness, then this is the episode for you! Links Pygmalion on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(1938_film) My Fair Lady on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady The Princess Diaries on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Diaries_(film) Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 03:22 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 09:28 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 16:06 Start of show: 22:45 Improv Game - Movie Trailer: 23:00 Improv Game - Rashomon: 24:45 Improv Game - Ding: 33:10 Improv Game - Blind Offers: 39:20 Improv Game - Emotional Lists: 46:30 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 52:12 End of show, into announcements: 1:04:48 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/

About this episode In this episode, we pay homage to fantasy movies in general (like the fun Mythica series) and Dungeons and Dragons movies and games. Yes, there is a scene in a tavern... We both love these types of movies and games, so we were really looking forward to the chance to play around in this genre. Links: Dungeons and Dragons on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons The Dungeons and Dragons Movie on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_(2000_film) Mythica on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Mythica-Quest-Heroes-Robert-Jayne/dp/B00ZN31MK6 Time codes Segment 1: 04:38 Segment 2: 09:55 Segment 3: 16:25 Start of show: 25:18 Improv Game - Ding: 25:24 Improv Game - Emotional Lists: 30:58 Improv Game - Superheroes: 39:43 Improv Game - Best of Times, Worst of Times: 48:02 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 58:30 End of show, into announcements: 1:18:55 More Information about the show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/ Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and un-cleaned up) Avish: Alright, so segment one - Discussing the genre tropes alright, Avish: So now we're going to spend five minutes just talking about the commonalities cliches tropes of the genre and it's something we're well versed in so Mike. Avish: When you think of a fantasy dungeons and dragons style movie what comes to mind. Mike: Well, first it's almost always a party based a party based system, even though there is usually one major well in the film there's usually one major protagonist but this protagonist always has to be supported by. Mike: The various specialist right there's always going to be the tank or the fighter the wizard the crafty rogue you know I mean like we don't even need. To be in there. Avish: yeah very in thief and. Mike: And acrobat. Mike: Right, so all that you know clerical that stuff as a matter of fact, the mythic I think we had cleric wizard fighter in thief I think was the was the Holy quadruple. Avish: Another thief is over the fighter user client on the magic user and yeah. Avish: I would say the hero is often not always but often some kind of a chosen one or you know. Mike: or gifted uniquely or something like that yeah. Avish: yeah it's like they're special. Avish: it's not random. Avish: it's not just Frodo you know carrying a ring it's like. Avish: yeah oh my God you're able to do that, and no one can do that cool. Mike: yeah yeah totally the magic in the the part of job is that magic does exist it's not like one of these conan ones where. Mike: magic is kind of like it's like low fantasy or magic kind of reviled no no there's there's magic and there's you know. Avish: it's around knows about it, it exists and it's a big part of the story. Mike: yeah exactly uh. Avish: So we're gonna there's monsters usually often a dragon or. Avish: Yes, troll like some kind of big bad monster. Mike: yep there's gonna be there's gonna be. Mike: The monster scale up through the movie so the initial attacks are with little things like orcs and knowles and all that stuff and then they usually encounter a couple of like sub bosses right like Trolls or like a minute or something like that. Mike: And you know that it culminates in like usually an epic battle when they go up against the head bad guy was good to second there's one epic battle against a large evil monster, where the party has to use their resources and come together. Mike: Oh that's The other thing the party kind of has to learn to trust each other and there's like you know some act one, I want to say bickering but like posturing and kind of things like. Avish: That I don't know for my sake of time, a lot of times in these the party is formed over the course of the movie that may take too much time for our improv format, you know, but a lot of times like Oh, they meet the thief Oh, then they meet the fighter Oh, then they meet the cleric. I mean may or may not have that. Mike: yeah it's kind of in Bremen time musicians, you know there's always a single had bad guy even if he's the member of a larger cult or a larger government there's always a head bad guy which they have to take down at the end of the movie. Avish: That is always. Either a wizard or hazmat. Mike: Yes, yes, exactly so let's just for the sake of this just make sure the BAT let's just had a bad guy be a wizard or spell a spell caster yeah. Avish: Oh, he may or may not also be the monster or the monster, maybe a secondary. Mike: Right his lieutenant um let me think what else, what else what are some other okay that's the setup the tropes the adventures they go through their i'm. Avish: busy yes here's the like quests or or obstacles there's there's almost always a journey right there trying to get from point A to Point B. Mike: Yes, um it depends upon how deep you want to get we actually refer back to even crawl for this. Mike: there's two there's two reasons you do the quests in the shows or other information quests trying to find out where the guy lives or they're stockpiling quests it's like I gotta get the magic scroll or I got to get the destiny hammer. Avish: Right, I think it's yeah I think it's a, I think it's much more cliche to say we have to go find the weapon to use to defeat the whatever. Mike: yeah the glade. If the glue well, what do you think um there's all you know all the characters are all the secondary characters that show up our character chores and or pastiche is there's like very little like. There's very little thought going into depth with these characters that's half the fun is that you're like. Avish: Oh it's a toy J. Mike: One knows a drunken fighter right he's here's a here's a half length okay he's going to be a nimble tongue, you know sneaky little TV kind of guy right. Avish: yeah yeah there's not a lot of not game of thrones or each character is like very complex yeah. Mike: or like ever on the whole point of the DVD Rom was like oh yeah you can have like a good cobalt and an evil Elf. Avish: You know kind of thing yeah that's gonna give us wisecracking your fighters off your cleric has overly pious like it's. Mike: yeah it's got no money we break it up this way this, this is an astonishingly like simplistic set of tropes we've we've broken down movies, that have been a lot more nuanced than this. Avish: yeah this just gets complicated because when you got a party got and then like it's like a lot can be a lot of plot can be a lot of characters none of those things are particularly deep or complex. Avish: New Right, and that is the end of our five minute timer. Mike: sounds good to me. Transcription of the "Creating the Outline" Segment (Unedited and un-cleaned up) Avish: Alright, so now, this is where we spend five minutes hashing out creating an outline for the movie we're going to do we're going to do we're going to use a four act structure which is similar three but we take the big actor and break it into two halves so we have for X. We're going to cover the outline now but because this is improv and improv comedy with games and we're things we may veer from this, but this is our kind of our kind of lifeline will use so let's reset the timer. Mike: yep one resume to change any and everything. Avish: Exactly alright so to discuss the outline we usually start with a trailer or prologue I feel when you're talking epic fantasy slash dungeon dragons the almost it's almost always a prologue. Mike: I think, so too, if you want to set the stage. Avish: yeah that prologue is usually something involving either the bad guy or the history or the object. Mike: Yes, yes, the pro level you either be showing the bad guy and why is evil as nefarious plan right or a scene with the macguffin object. Avish: mode this it's like the bad guy you see him being nefarious like he's trying to implement his big world ending plan, but it fails, and then you realize it fails because Oh, we don't have the macguffin. Mike: Right. Avish: He realized Oh, you know where is the macguffin and then. Mike: yeah now the only thing is in in fantasy oftentimes the macguffin device it's a subtle difference does actually have some useful powers like. Avish: yeah real macguffin like has no actual impact. Mike: Right, the Maltese falcon right it's everybody wants it know or or the The case of golden the tarantino film. Avish: Pulp Fiction right yeah this is yeah it actually does something but yeah you'll kind of learn about it, and maybe the bad guy. Mike: yep alright so act one. Avish: Act one we obviously meet the hero almost always some kind of a simple villager. Mike: yeah this is hero's journey 101 right it's like the everyday you know i'm, then you know let's play the hero's journey card like they get a call to adventure somebody helped me obi wan kenobi you're my only hope so i'm like that. Avish: they're usually yeah either they they stumble across either the either the objects or the bad guys, you know, like um you know they're out in the world, and you know they see someone being attacked, so they intervene or they kind of fall in a cave and they find this object like Oh, what is it so. Mike: yeah yeah i'm. Avish: accidentals how they get. Avish: Initially embroiled in the. Mike: Right and then you know what here's what's gonna happen, I think the hero needs to go out to fix the evil, but as woefully unequipped and must recruit help that's how the party's gonna kind of right. Avish: yeah so at the end of act one is when he kind of sets out probably on his own, and I was actually kind of start gathering up the party. Mike: yeah exactly so it says how to stop the body. But is it under prepared needs help. Avish: Yes, busy, and act one something bad will happen, it will be kind of thrust out to. Mike: who's literally is like reading like Star Wars it's like. it's like Jesus is like. Avish: How to gather his pilot and is wiki and. Active active. Mike: gathers his party and then a series now for the impromptu we just want to be like a couple of requests. Avish: And I know you like one question act by one question each. You know act like act act to me will be the quest to find out where the object is And then act three will be them questing to get the object. Mike: yeah. Avish: back to the quest to learn act threes the quest to get but then at three is going to end in some kind of a encounter disaster where they. You know, lose to the bad guy or they lose the object like they get it, but then they lose it like a bad guy gets it, and so the kind of all is lost moment. Mike: yeah yeah yeah What did you these happens, they lose either either lose the macguffin. or bad guy captures some of the party. Avish: or both. Mike: or all your all right, you know, are all the party right, you know and then what happens in act for is the ingenious rescue of party. Requiring. Avish: And then the final confrontation. Mike: Or the macguffin yep and then final confrontation. Which is almost always one of two things it's a big. Big bad monster fight. Right or a stop the big bad evil guy plans. timed it's almost always like the rituals happening and. Avish: As yeah there's urgency and usually there's some kind of twist on how to beat the bad guy it's not just like oh I killed him with my sword it's usually like oh I realized that if I you know kill his cat that will force him and i'll be his familiar so he'll be dead, then. Mike: This factory, because the. Avish: last thing i'll say runs out of time here is that X. X to certainly and even in act three you know the hero is often like. ineffectual insecure lacking confidence and act, the kind of the finale is where he steps into his or her accepts his role and confidence and realizes, the key to his power. Mike: Yes, and and the and the last other one to that is a party has trouble in the beginning kind of finding its groove. But the PowerPoint have asked for, is that the parties working together smoothly as a team they figured out each other's strengths in the way to support each other that's a really important part for good. fantasy right it's okay if they're if they're screwing up in the afternoon at three and they're like fighting against that fighting, but like they're not. Avish: optimizing but they're optimized by at for. Alright awesome all right good, that is the end of our outlining days. Mike: so simple when you put it. In a fantasy novel.

About this episode In this episode, we pay homage to slasher movies, specifically Friday the 13th. At least that's where we start. This being improv comedy, things take on a direction of their own and we end up with something that's a horror movie more along the lines of Jeepers Creepers, or something more supernatural and monster based. Still, we have a lake, and a cabin, and final girl, so that's all good. And at some point someone stumbles... Links: Friday the 13th on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th_(franchise) Jeepers Creepers on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeepers_Creepers_(2001_film) Time codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 03:30 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 08:56 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 15:54 Start of show: 22:25 Improv Game - Ding: 23:42 Improv Game - What Happens Next: 25:50 Improv Game - Spoon River: 33:26 Improv Game - Timed Styles: 40:27 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 47:00 End of show, into announcements: 58:13 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/ Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish: Alright So yes, here's what we're going to talk about in general, we may or may not use any of these tropes we're talking about the tropes of the slasher genre yes so Mike, what do you think of when you think of slasher movies. Mike: Alright So the first thing I think of is is that the protagonists are going to be usually teenagers yeah so we're going to be dealing with that now there's some ways, you can play around that but, by and large, even like the remakes like screaming final destination it's like teenagers and stuff like that. Avish: And there's always a group and they always. Other than one maybe to get picked off over the course the movie. Mike: Right so right so there's basically a war of attrition there's usually a single bad guy. Although you don't have to mean you could have like a cult or something like that, but. Avish: yeah but usually, when you're talking slasher movie it's it's it's. One bad guy unless you're turning us on his head like screen, but one bad guy usually well my you think. They always have some kind of aspects. Whether it's a mask. Mike: unique weapon yeah yeah right a weapon or a mask or. yeah Now the question is, do the This is one trip that happens, usually the kids disturb something that unleashes the villain you know, like if we're going for like supernatural day like disturbed Indian burial ground or if it's just normal they like I don't know. Avish: I think along those lines, what I was thinking is that almost every slasher movie is based around some kind of event or anniversary so like Halloween Halloween Friday 13th around summer camp prominence around the prom like there's always something and usually that ties into the you know Halloween Michael myers first killed on Halloween Friday 13th at the camp where he died prom night someone got something happen to the prom. Mike: dude this is this Memorial Day weekend this art we're gonna send this Roman morial day it's good. Avish: Right well consider that I feel like memorial day's already all about like soldiers dying so that's it all right yeah there'll be around some anniversaries some holiday some event and then the killer ties into that. Mike: yeah yeah. Alright cool so there's. Avish: The final girl it's almost 99% of time, the females, the main character will survive to the end. Mike: She in the early slasher flicks there's not a lot about her except of two things she's always she's usually virginal but in the later slasher flicks there's usually something special about her that ties her directly to the killer you know. Avish: yeah so we can add that in yeah a lot of slasher movies, are just random killings, but then they started making it more personal even Halloween the first Halloween was totally random, but then, and how into the right content so it's a sister. Mike: Right right so there's usually relationship there now speaking of deaths, the deaths are flamboyant and over the top. Right and and and silly glory you don't mean like. Avish: Really gory dad's a variety of deaths. Mike: variety of deaths now are we playing the trope where they're usually contrived to be trapped somewhere where the cut off from civilization in a cabin in the woods underneath under in a cave. Mike: That kind of stuff. Avish: yeah I feel like they need to be, well, I guess, they don't need to be, but I feel like yeah there's always that thing about why don't these people just get the police which you know somebody in the later Friday 13th they did, and then the police would die but yeah yeah they're usually someplace a little bit remote so it's can just get help or run away. Mike: yeah yeah exactly and there's obviously a lot of, everyone's trying to get in bed with everyone else. Avish: there's lots of like yeah there's like six capades and yeah yeah and. Mike: there's also a note in terms of the teenagers or their trips for the teenagers do we have the bullying jock do we have the. Avish: Center usually stereotyped yeah there's like the handsome jock the the slot the Virgin. Yeah friend the best friend nerdy wants to be the boyfriend you know that's. Mike: Stereotypes galore also a the villain, even though he may have an effect oftentimes uses interesting found weapons and objects to to kill that kind of ties in with the extravagant types of death, like, yeah he's afraid you very, very silly things in you know and i'm doing Freddie. Avish: kind of use the environment yeah yeah revise their improvise they're murderers and also, number one they're sort of well three whether they're supernatural or not, they all a um are relatively impervious to harm until they die. Yyeah number two they all have kind of magical speed slash teleportation abilities. Mike: that's true right there was a suddenly appear and and usually and i'm only going for this unnaturally strong. Avish: Like naturally strong, yeah and they also i'm almost always a false death almost always die ones may not actually be dead and come back. Mike: that's true false death all right, and then. Natural speed and natural strength. Avish: Alright cool alright, so our five minutes I feel like we. Mike: yeah we got we have we have a good list of trumps there. Transcription of the "Creating the Outline" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish: step to creating the outline all right now that we're talking about our troops we're gonna spend about five minutes talking about our outline from a high level now just full disclaimer because it's improvisation Our actual story may end up deviating from the outline but we spend five minutes coming up with a rough outline and we usually use a for an instructor, which is something it's like a three act structure just divides Act two into two parts. To this call story engineering. Mike: And I think it worked well for our show as. Avish: Okay, so five minutes, our first thing is. We always start with either a movie trailer or a prologue. What do you think for this one? Mike: If we do a promo we can do a setup of the tragedy that happened that that drafted the villain you know. Avish: yeah I feel the probably one of two ways, it could be the tragedy that created the villain or it could be like a random kill the kind of sets the stage, but we can do a profile, we know a fast prologue that kind of well I guess it'll come out of the improv will do a prologue. Mike: yeah it's gonna be one of two ways either yeah I look at it either random killing the cold open or it's it's the killer up with the with the settings and then. Avish: A lot of times it is like in the past and then it's like you know. 27 years ago and then it's like present day. Okay, so then act one act one is usually we meet the cat obviously we meet the characters they all arrive. Mike: yeah right well the teams location introduce the characters. Avish: We started getting there may be a death or two in here but it's more general general sense of creepiness and you're being watched. You know, and sometimes like. One of the non core people die here like in the early it's like the guy who owns a gas station gets killed or. You know, someone or the group main group of teens gets killed. Mike: Secondary car, not with main group yeah also a events conspire. To strand them at this location, the car runs at a gas or you know. There yeah there's a there's a hailstorm or something right a. Avish: concert bar and, Often up if it is about like if there's an event going on this is usually like the prep for the event right it's like. yeah people can dial prom night they're like getting ready during the day to go to the prom and if it's like Halloween at the daytime and they're like at school and getting their costumes and so. Mike: yeah yeah. Avish: gotten to the the Big shebang yet. Mike: Right right uh yeah. Avish: I will have a death or two yet in there. Mike: Alright cool. Okay. Avish: So at to I gotta get a slasher movie actor is often where people are dying, but like the main characters the main character doesn't know it yet. So it's like you know, like in the in the in the camp, like the main characters doing their thing. And then around the camp, like the other kids are dying, but the people who are still in the cabin don't realize it so you're. Getting the deaths in the stocking in the terror, but it's not to like the middle of the second act that people realize that oh crap there's something going on here. Mike: yeah i'm right right so so actors, when that when the first suite of deaths occur. But it doesn't. Get get back to the main party. Avish: yeah the main don't know yet really they kind of like they're wondering like they think everything's kind of okay or someone's goofing around they're like oh where's Johnny oh. Mike: yeah. Oh it's cars gone, you must have must have gone into town to like. Avish: yeah you're all those who prides went off to have sex, you know, then blah blah blah. Mike: yeah yeah right right first few deaths occur Okay, so that actually might just be Act two is just like a couple of really good. Avish: Well, the thing about the slasher movie they're not very complex in their. Mike: plot it's like oh my God takes the kids off one, at a time until it's just him and the final girl and then. yep uh so act so, then what I would say at three or four Block three is they discover the bodies. Avish: yeah they discover the bodies. They try to get away or get help, but they can't, for whatever reason. Mike: yep oftentimes this point in time is someone will uncover. The history of this place uncover critical cultural lore. That explains who the person is. Avish: yeah they're like find the room, or the book or the. Mike: Or the news article right what. Avish: The person that all local who like stumbles and. Mike: yeah yeah yeah i'm. Avish: A lucky position. Mike: And at this point now let me ask this question there's one or two ways it goes either they go predator, and they start like trying to like build traps for the for the bad guy or they're just trying to get away and it just took him picking them him or her picking them off. Avish: I think we're talking like at slasher movie yeah they're just trying to get away and getting killed. Mike: yeah yeah so uh. Avish: there's very little proactive missing from. Mike: yeah the business is hard to know what does he have to plan the two. Work on escaping. You know and yeah maybe it's something like like getting gasoline for the car so i'm like that, but like real primitive stuff they're not like oh yeah, we would like. Avish: To the guy yeah if there are if they are being proactive it's to get away, not to like. Try to fight Jason. Mike: yeah now, then. Avish: We got to get across the lake where the fuel tank is and. Mike: um yeah. Avish: And, by the end of act three I think everyone is dead, except the last the final girl. Mike: I was going to push them into act for were like at four is going to be where like the the bad and goes back and just like kills off the last chunk of the characters in the. Avish: movie to me act for the final bid is almost always like the extended chase and but. Mike: Definitely, I said we're gonna skip it, but you, you and I are in agreement that either nap foolish and after what you said, which is a bad guy comes back. And one by one quickly rips through. yeah everyone except main car and maybe one other. Avish: Maybe one of the. Mike: That one other if they if they live to throughout three they're dying and X for their diet. Really they're dying in okay we're gonna do this ready act for let's let's assume one other Okay, because here's what happens two cars extended chase fleeing monster. come up with a an environmentally cool way to kill the monster false death they think they're out of it, typically gruesome death for that second character and then the final. Avish: The final final death. Mike: Okay, that makes sense. yeah just like, just like in aliens right where they claim they blow up it's just Bishop. And and ripley ambitious like. Oh we're all saving Brian right. All right. Avish: All right, perfect alright, so we got our basic act structure, so we have five sets with prologue X one X two X three x four.

About this episode In this episode, we pay homage to martial arts movies. Specifically, "modern mystical martial arts movies" like the recently released Shang Chi movie. Also, TV shows like Wu Assassins and Iron Fist. We are both big fans (and practitioners) of the martial arts, and we love these types of movies. Hopefully that love shines through in this fun and action packed episode! Links: The Shang Chi Movie on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang-Chi_and_the_Legend_of_the_Ten_Rings About the comic Shang Chi on the Marvel Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang-Chi Wu Assassins on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Assassins The Iron Fist TV show on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Fist_(TV_series) About the comic Iron Fist on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Fist_(character) Time codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 04:43 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 10:20 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 19:52 Start of show: 28:00 Improv Game - 4-Letter Word: 28:20 Improv Game - Emotional Lists: 33:50 Improv Game - He Said, She Said: 43:57 Improv Game - Blind Line: 53:36 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:08:22 End of show, into announcements: 1:23:31 More Information about the show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/ Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish: We're now going to spend five minutes chatting about the genre tropes and cliches and things so I got my timer and away we go yet maybe I might kill me again kick us off when you think of this modern martial arts mystical movie. Some things that come to mind. Mike: So what comes to mind right off the BAT we've got one main character and the main character. Usually, has no knowledge of his hidden potential let's there's a couple ways, you can do it, but I like that one he's like you know kind of a chosen one. And so it's the main character, no knowledge of his hidden potential and he is kind of call to adventure usually by a mentor figure right shows up and it's like turns out, you have this power, and you know you have to rise to the challenge and blah blah blah kind of thing um the. Avish: End true hero's journey fashion, he always refuses that call first like he doesn't believe the person or even if he realizes it then he doesn't want it, so we kind of tried to walk away. Mike: yeah yeah exactly now. Avish: And where you were saying he which, for us it probably will be, but it could be a. It could be a female as well, like buffy or whatever yeah. Mike: yeah yeah exactly um okay there's a couple of ways to go with it a lot with can be fun and we can play this one is it's it could be someone from the West. That That then is like trained by like an Eastern mentor kind of thing um or you could just go the traditional like if it's done in China or Hong Kong everything's you know oh they're all native to that region, there is a bad guy the bad guy is. off he yeah he's often also a martial arts dude wizard. Avish: Oh, I think the bad guy yeah it's always a martial arts, you have the big martial arts fight, and I would say the bad guy is either. Either has a similar power um you know, like the yin Yang type thing or once the heroes power, you know, like like oh you've got the iron fist with the bag I wants iron fist So if I kill you i'll get the iron fist. Mike: yeah. Avish: Exactly so they are also mystical. Mike: Now the question is um, here's there's two tropes to this one is there's a training element where this guy has to learn to guide or whatever has learned to harness the power and there's kind of. A rocky esque moment you know, usually as much philosophical, as it is physical or it's like his power emerges from him completely ready to go as like the ancestral energies course through him, you know I mean almost like he. inherits the skill of his 10,000 warrior ancestors and stuff you know i'm saying. Avish: yeah yeah and and a lot of times the person may already be a martial artists just not a mystical martial arts they've already got a lot of like the training and stuff in place. Mike: yeah. Avish: But then, all of a sudden, the the chosen one this comes out and then they become ultra badass Rom. From a from a storytelling standpoint, we can decide, depending on the improv game and stuff I think storytelling wise it's us little easier to not have the training sequence, because that doesn't really ever progress, the story it just sort of right development, but we can kind of decide, we got to be online. Mike: You know it's funny do you do it technically is a mystical martial arts movie highlander. Avish: yeah I guess that is it's like. The chosen one yeah. Mike: So this ties in with this trope there's almost always an earthly detective element to this like this there's This is like this battle is happening in our world like beneath it so there's almost always like. Avish: there's always yeah a cop or someone who. Mike: is investigating these mysterious things you know. Avish: yeah the highlander that, had it in in blue assassins there's one I think in. iron I haven't seen it yet, but i'm assuming there'll be some. yeah but every man yep. Mike: yep I mean a highlander they had what's your face Brenda the. Avish: yeah the gator person. Mike: um let me think what is the ultimate quest to the bad guys either trying to get the power wouldn't get my highlighter or iron fist or it's a quest from a gun. Avish: it's a. Mike: gun, a lot of times the hero is the protector of the macguffin. Avish: yeah the heroes, the protector of the macguffin but without even knowing it, like the macguffin is like part of their spirit or soul inside of them or it's like this medallion they have they don't realize that medallia and that was passed down from to their parents. Mike: Is yeah. Avish: But golfing. But yeah I can combine it too I feel like. I feel like the bad guys and a lot of these their their ultimate goal is power slash Ascension it's like Oh well, if I can kill you and take your soul or get your medallia and macguffin you know, then I can, because the God of blah blah blah, you know I can rise that level of power, I can become the chosen the highlander right like. Mike: big trouble little China, except that didn't have the mystical assassin dude oh my God he man is this as well. Just like everything in. Avish: big trouble little China is barely is I mean it didn't have the Marsh offices all mystical had like that the Asian friend was like them that's very much a mystical martial arts. Mike: geez man. Avish: And same thing right and one of the growth, the green eyes are getting more like a mortality is a big one. Mike: yep yep is there a love interest in this, there can be it's not a central. Avish: are usually is for our movies, that may or may not be necessary, but I feel like there's usually a romantic interest in there. Mike: In private romance is always interesting. Avish: So that's our five minute time, the only other thing i'd add is obviously there's a there's there's fights and henchmen and martial arts. Mike: Oh yeah like he's got a when he gets into act to which will go the next one he's going to be chewing through bad guys that's half the fun, you know is him, just like. Avish: yeah which is going to be interesting to convey in an improv audio format, but you know. Mike: I think I have an idea for a game. Transcription of the "Creating the Outline" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish: Right now we're gonna spend about five minutes hashing out our outline for this movie we are going to. We use a four X structure which is like a three act structure we just split act to into first half and second half, it flows, a little better it's because we're engineering which eventually will have a link and affiliate link to buy from our website. Mike: Oh yeah that's a great oh my God yeah. Avish: And and disclaimer here is we're going to come up with the outline for our story here. The because it's improv is short from improv things that wacky and crazy, we may veer from it, but this is our kind of starting point and lifeline so for five minutes begins now. Alright, so we always begin with either a prologue or movie trailer. Mike: What do you feel, and I know what i'm feeling. Avish: For this kind of mystical thing a prologue often works. Mike: Yes, Sir studio dog has arrived he's he votes for the prologue as well. Avish: Alright, so we'll do a prologue and that will usually not involve the hero at all, usually it's like the bad guy can you meet the bad guy and you learn a little bit on what they're after. Mike: yep and you learn if there's a macguffin usually see the macguffin right. Avish: That yeah. Mike: You know the stage is set in Shakespearean context. Avish: yeah okay so that's prologue alright so in act one we obviously meet the hero. Mike: yep pro I just I just deleted it from our thing meet the hero, and we are let's follow the hero's journey and he is truly ordinary meaning he might be martial arts, music it's a normal dude. Avish: dude yeah. Mike: yeah he has a department, a little. Avish: yeah he's got a its got apartment he is a musician and he does Brazilian jujitsu he just he just boxing on the side of. Avish: dogs. Mike: Fantastic person that was never really a. Call to adventure uh. Avish: I think, and this, especially if you want to romance interest, I feel like in act one. Somehow he gets involved there's like a fight scene, where he does something your mystical without realizing it or he's like what the hell happened the mentor comes. And oftentimes not for us fighting the romance injuries they're like he rescued her from bad guys or whatnot because we want managers sometimes as an outside observer or the COP and sometimes it's like it's like the damsel in distress like oh they're after the Princess or you know. And then let's go he refuses, the call and then something happens at forces into. Mike: it's really easy to stick surveys, because guess what he refused to call that guess what that guy shows up trying to get him. Avish: yeah. Mike: Now the hero, maybe the mentor shows up and gets the hero away now we've entered the Special World you know this takes raised bad guy shows up, I mean i'm i'm typing it in here where i'm drilling a little bit in but it's kind of follow the hero's journey pretty. Avish: Pretty easily the free yeah then he has to the turning point, we have to accept the call yep. Mike: bad guy shows up and makes trouble put inputs here in danger cool so I act one ends with blue that crossing the threshold he in the mentor of the fleet temporarily defeat the bad guy. Avish: Except for he's gonna lose, but the mentor comes and saves them and then. Which is another another two movies, that are in this genre are both mortal kombat and the new mortal kombat. Mike: Right right very much so yeah. Avish: that's what happens in mortal kombat like rating comes and saves them. That before soon to be. Mike: referenced several movies, with Christopher. Lead bear this is fantastic. Avish: We do need a whole Chris Orlando genres are. Mike: Very job. Avish: All right, alright, so we got the prologue so in act one so an act to um, so this is like the reactive where they're kind of learning. about what. What the bad guys want they're investigating they're probably on the run a little bit. Mike: In hiding. Avish: yeah. Mike: Just like teenage mutant ninja turtles oh my God. Avish: Man they're all there. Mike: He says this is great i've fallen in love with the genre uh and then of course this is when the hero has learned to develop his powers. Avish: yeah there's going to be training it's going to be here. And devotes his powers Okay, you probably loses something here like he, like if I beat henchmen but maybe loses a fight to the main bad guy. Mike: yeah. Avish: Like managed to get away. Mike: yeah. Avish: If he's like Oh, I think, maybe in Act two even though he's accepted the call he hasn't like fully embraced his destiny so he's like trying to do things his own way, but then he gets in a fight and realizes like oh crap my way is not going to work yeah. Mike: You know, you know what could happen here uh. The again there's there's some sort of macguffin thing there's maybe an early conflict where the hero tries to stop an element of the bad guys plans beats the hedge fund, but the bad guy. achieves the plan it defeats the hero, but the bad guys goal wasn't to like defeat the hero, you know let's hit the bad guy like I don't know how to get a gym from. he's trying to build a spell my name is Jim the hero goes in like defends the gym against the henchmen but losing to the big bad guy. Avish: Right and i'd say usually hero is kind of like cocky or arrogant and then like, just like the humbling moment where he's like he thought he did good be Benjamin but it's like oh no and then he's like all right, I got to really listen to you know master rate in and do it right. Mike: So that's act to a at this point in time, also usually the the the investigative comes into because whatever he's doing or has done an act one or two is gets the the attention of the police and stuff like that yeah that all right, so that was pretty passive act in terms of he's just growing as a hero and stuff like that. Avish: yeah and there's like a little bit of action scenes there so act three is finished up yeah. After our show damn it we're. going to offer five minutes here care um so in act three. This is more proactive so he's actively trying to stop the bad guy here right. Mike: This is where the bad guy will do two things, he will up the stakes in dissuading the hero from interfering and that will cause the hero to even more intently wanted to feed him this is usually where the love interest gets kidnapped. Avish: yeah that's like how the act and a lot of times it's like yeah. Mike: Because what the what the bad guys doing is basically said dude stay away i've got your girlfriend and that of course makes the hero want to get them even more right. Avish: yeah nothing on this i'm like it kind of succeeds, and doing what it needs to to stop the bad guy but then the bad guy kind of one ups him by yeah kidnapping or threatening something so we have to like. You know they like get the gym first, but then the bad guy shows up like oh you don't give me the gentleman kill all these people and then they're like. Mike: 40 exactly. And then usually This point is when the mentor if he died, the mentor sacrificed himself here, but the mentor doesn't always doesn't. Avish: always happen, but if they don't die they disappear like they get captured or or like another modern martial arts mystical remote Williams know. Mike: Right. Avish: wing chun sort of dies, but then he comes in and it turns out he's alive, at the end because you know he's done all right. yeah the the hero, the hero loses his like safety net, the mentors guy Ben kenobi is now dead yeah. Mike: Exactly Oh yes, safety nets gone. Avish: And then act for is the kind of final confrontation and resolution. Mike: This is a final like loads of fight this is a good old fashioned loads of fighting this is literally like the the old game, the dented it ended it ended the karate game. yeah the five levels of the temple this is game of death, but he doesn't he just sending. Avish: yeah don't do bad guys. Mike: chewing through the henchmen. Avish: And usually if depending how we establish the characters the and sometimes the romantic interest and the investigative copper of the same person sometimes they're different. But if we're going to have multiple threads running, then you know the love interest was kidnapped can so agency and escape and do her thing and the COP can be working the angle from his or her side and then you know everything kind of coalesce is, at the end. Mike: there's often a time danger fight at the end when you fight in the head bad guy you know, like there's a doomsday clock going. Avish: Oh yeah but if he doesn't stop it by by the time the moon rises that. Mike: Right right right or left with a conjunction happens the hero seems the final form and defeats the villains, you know he comes into his true power. Avish: And then oh that's good that's the kind of final trope flash in the outline. there's usually some mental block the some reason there's something stopping the hero from embracing their full. Their full oneness and you know. Usually it's like insecurity, which I think is kind of lame but usually it's some mental block or something they don't realize is preventing them from totally. Mike: And so they assume the final form and defeat the villain and then the hero, you know becomes the new protector of the macguffin. Or you know because he's there's some sort of protecting element, or like this isn't more like he's becoming a crime fighter he really is like supposed to be like a protector, or something. yeah so. Avish: Or, in theory, until the sequel you know he saved the world and he's like free to live his life he's like I have yeah. Mike: yeah. Avish: The highlander until you realize that there are aliens and right side just I show up because, because we can always improve a movie but not that one. I think we've got a nice little outline.

About this episode In this episode, we pay homage to classic summer camp movies, like the Meatballs movie with Bill Murray or the Poison Ivy movie (the one with Micheal J. Fox, not the one with Drew Barrymore…) We attempt the difficult task of juggling a cast of characters in this ensemble style movie homage and, overall, it went pretty well. Five main kid campers, one good counselor, one bad rival camper, one bad rival counselor, and a few additional characters. A challenge, but lots of fun! Links: Meatballs movie on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatballs_(film) Poison Ivy movie on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_Ivy_(1985_film) Time codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 05:00 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 11:53 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 19:04 Start of show: 26:33 Improv Game - Movie Trailer: 26:39 Improv Game - Cocktail Party: 28:10 Improv Game - Ding: 38:13 Improv Game - A to Z Story: 48:08 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 57:08 End of show, into announcements: 1:10:36 More Information about the show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/ Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and un-cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Alright, so first what we are going to do is we're going to spend five minutes talking about the cliches and tropes of the genre and commonalities so Mike I know you said you haven't seen a. Michael Worth: One of these in a while. Avish Parashar: But what do you think of when you think of your camp a movie. Michael Worth: Well, usually it's kind of a bit of a fish out of water kind of thing, so what happens usually is is the hero is usually a semi normal person. That goes to this camp, the camp is, of course, run by a bunch of oddball misfits and there's this kind of very caricature people so that's, the first thing I think of is that. The main character is kind of the voice of the audience or the eyes of the audience and they're just basically experiencing this really bizarre off the wall loony environment. Avish Parashar: that's kind of one yeah and I feel like there's always two sort of storylines. One is like the counselors and one is the kids. And they obviously overlap, but you know I think you're like main character you're kind of normal one is the counselor usually um and then there's always like there's always a kid who's like shy or introverted. Who's like that the main kid character yep and they sort of become the hero, in the end, somehow. Michael Worth: Right or they have a heroic moment one of their specific skill sets kind of thing that's a very classic thing right there their skill set. Avish Parashar: Just yeah because. These movies always build up to something usually a competition, like a a with both meatballs and poison Ivy have like the color war, the competition with the other camp. Yeah and that's where the that's The thing that all misfits like even if they're cool there's always like a nerdy Karen nerdy camp kid there's usually like an overweight camp kid that there was making fat jokes about. Michael Worth: yeah yeah. jock there's a there is a romance that often bruise and uh it's usually, let's let's focus on the kids for Saturday we'll get to the counselors usually the romance blooms between um well usually the main character um. And he usually has to grow or do something to kind of convert the love interest from looking at him in one way to look at him in another way right you don't mean like he has overcome some sort of that character flawed character limitation. Avish Parashar: yeah, although I will say that I find that more of the counselors I feel like the kids are little young to get to like too much of. Michael Worth: That as a counselor yeah yeah maybe that is the cows would be like the team counselors right they're not like adults but uh. Oh yeah the counselor there's like a boy or a male or female counselor and you know. Avish Parashar: yeah usually it's you know. guys trying to impress the girl who's either got a boyfriend or isn't interested and he kind of has to like grow and overcome and show her that he's actually not just a goofball. Michael Worth: Now, who are the bad guys in these kind of things, is it usually a rival camp. Avish Parashar: there's yeah I would say there's two ways of going there's the rival camp um, although I think the only see the rival camp at the actual competitions rival camp. But then I think within the camp itself there's there's like the bullish so you know in camps you generally have like your cabin right your cabin mates and they're all kind of. Cool, but then it's like another cabin that maybe has more of a bully or the Council who's like the the head counselor who's like dominating and doesn't like or maybe it's a rival for their romances interest. Michael Worth: yeah yeah so, so this is actually a pretty deep movie thinking about what we've got is we've got. The kid that comes to Camp right um he's gonna be like one of the main characters he's surrounded by these misfits to be so kind of become one with there's a there's a rival cabin full of jerks. At the Council level there's the cool counselor who's who's peripherally involved with the with the with the good guy kids. But then there's usually an evil head counselor or an evil rival counselor that is. But the rabbit had cancer is kind of like incumbent he kind of like he doesn't really make life miserable for the good counselor because good counselor is like bill Murray, he just kind of skates through just like everything's. Avish Parashar: Dallas over much rule following like this is the way things have to be done. yeah and the Council is more like bonding like the main character Council more bonding with the kids and things to help them come out of their shells and grow. Michael Worth: Exactly so he's got a mentor he becomes kind of a bit of a mentor figure um you know, in a comedic way and then yeah culminates with you some big competition. And you know what for this maybe we'll just keep it within the camp where it's like the cab there's an intro cabin competition, and so the misfits like revenge of the nerds there's somebody that can be similar to that right. Avish Parashar: Well yeah I mean it's not exactly camp, but I mean college is basically camp for 18 year olds. Michael Worth: camp with booze basically. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah it's a similar type thing, though, builds off of the outcasts they have their strengths, they got bullies and then they have the final competition. Michael Worth: yeah definitely definitely the second tier characters are character matures like there's like very little character depth to any of the buddies in the good guy there. Avish Parashar: yeah they've got their role like. Michael Worth: It yeah right there there there Arc types right there dork. Avish Parashar: The job or. Michael Worth: The awakened uh. Avish Parashar: it's like sometimes like a sex crazed one. Michael Worth: yeah yeah yeah what is obsessed with those sneaking over to the girls locker room and see stuff. yeah there is. I don't care.I didn't care there's the token Asian there's always this and it's usually the nerdy. Avish Parashar: 180s movie definitely. Michael Worth: I don't care if you want to race with whatever dude that we're we're we're supposed to. Avish Parashar: Be token Asian character, I don't know if we're gonna put on the effective. Michael Worth: Asian accent for do I can't do that no. Avish Parashar: we're right now we're just talking about the tropes there's yes. they're all tokens right there's like a token black kid of the token Asian kid yep. If we're talking about an 80s cat movie then like you know the token Asian kids going to be the nerd of the gadget kid you know, like data from from the goonies. Michael Worth: yeah exactly oh short round. Avish Parashar: All right, well, that was our timer so that brings us to the end of our. Discussing the genre tropes. Michael Worth: yeah it's actually surprisingly fluid genre. Avish Parashar: yeah it's it's pretty straightforward but there's a lot of like moving parts that may or may not find the ways yeah. Transcription of the "Creating the Outline" Segment (Unedited and un-cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Alright, so now we are going to spend five minutes talking about the outline Mike and I are going to hash out. Our outline we use a for act structure if you're familiar with the three act structure there's that's the standard storytelling when we just break act to into two parts. So he's a for extra just works better with the improv and kind of helping define the story what happens at the end is when we go to perform it we may not stick completely to this outline just because the nature of improv but. This is going to be our starting point, so our five minutes starts now. Okay alright. So first do we want, we start with a trailer or a prologue. I feel for this it's probably makes more sense to a trailer I don't know the prologue really. Michael Worth: yeah um I think the trailer might make more sense actually so we'll do that we'll we'll do some sort of trailer. Avish Parashar: OK. Michael Worth: that'd be easy F1 a pretty easy, which is a main a kid character or main camera character. Avish Parashar: yeah it's kind of like day one at the camp right like. Michael Worth: yeah arrives at Camp yeah. Avish Parashar: They want arrive you kind of meet the misfits you meet the counselor you sort of meet everyone. Michael Worth: meet the misfits meet. uncle good guy counselor right. Avish Parashar: yeah. Michael Worth: All right, uh let me think at women can browse the camps, do we meet the yeah we meet the bullies at this point. Avish Parashar: yeah and I think i'm. So this is kind of a meeting type thing or you're doing a lot of establishing and then something needs to happen at the end of act one i'm probably something that. You know, puts either the main counselor or the main kid into some kind of situation where they need to succeed. you've got like some kind of twist like oh. Michael Worth: All right. Avish Parashar: A lot of these movies it's like the first act is almost like them going to camp and then act one is like. Act two is like them savage again, but I think that'd be a little too long. Michael Worth: So yeah so aqua at the end of act one a the glove is thrown down that's what's going to happen, something happens where I the main camp or or the main camper and his cabin. The challenges issue it's usually probably going to be like you know, the end of the summer get the color war or the cabin war. Avish Parashar: yeah they kind of meet the right it's almost like the the first interaction with the real bullies happens at the end of act one. Michael Worth: yeah again going back to one crazy summer right when they when they at the end, they have the great yacht race, this is another very used to that. yeah. Avish Parashar: Like building up to that. Michael Worth: With a young JEREMY piven. Avish Parashar: yeah and it's not camp, but in a lot of ways Harry Potter almost is like that right they go to the school they get set up at the school. Is over the year and then it culminates in. Michael Worth: Right. Avish Parashar: Right right whatever at the end zone. Michael Worth: So at two. Avish Parashar: All right, no act one basically just meeting everyone and then kind of having some interaction. With the rival slash bully. Michael Worth: Yes, a Act two is the misfits trying to do activities. Avish Parashar: And I think. This one's yeah and I think what happens in Act two is that they're all kind of doing the activities. Michael Worth: And then let's let's say for this this one that it's like a score all summer so as a whole but there's there's a vestige. Avish Parashar: cumulative score yeah. Michael Worth: yeah cuz then it's vested in them to be like Kevin, we have to build this Derby car, we have to like build this canoe or whatever or. Avish Parashar: Here I would say some, if not all of the kids but definitely the main kid I think is a reluctant participant they're not trying to get away or avoid they're not giving it all the teams are the groups not come together, like they're all sort of. Michael Worth: Like you're not fooling each other but they're not they're. Not clicking. Avish Parashar: yeah they're not clicking there the card sort of like still feeling each other out. Michael Worth: Right and and. It OK and OK, and they might even be getting also sabotage by know as an x three x because we sabotage. So that was the two ends. Avish Parashar: were some event that brings the team together like you know. yeah they they bond over something the bullies do something, but then they all kind of bond together so they kind of a bonding moment and act to. Michael Worth: yeah yeah exactly and that could be also driven. By the counselor the cool counselor like he may be like we're all going to go out and go to a party or something and they all like they all work together to solve a problem or some like that, and then you know, can they kind of. Avish Parashar: yeah like in poison Ivy which I just watched a. Michael Worth: yeah you got to be the expert on ax to sort of ends where. Avish Parashar: i'm the one kid tries to run away but there's some kids would snuck off the the main camp and when the kid gets caught he doesn't. reveal who the other kids were who gave away, and so this the kid who is shy and not bond with anyone, but everyone like suddenly. appreciates him and respects him for not reading them out like that sort of thing happens where they they bond they have some shared experience that makes them bond a little bit. Michael Worth: yeah yeah yeah exactly yeah exactly so now at three the misfits start gaining. Because they started doing really well, and now the bad guys start sabotaging them that was I was gonna say happened before, but like not an act to what happens in that three because the bad guys are like oh man we're started lose points and blah blah blah right. Avish Parashar: yeah and so yeah they do well, but then the bullies bad guys sabotage so from this outline, it seems like, and I think it makes sense for an improv thing is our focus is going to be on the kids I think the counter is going to be, I think, trying to run two parallel stories in this format. Michael Worth: yeah that I wish more people and that's a lot of brainpower man. Avish Parashar: yeah so then for right now we'll keep the focus on the the kid so yeah the bullies sabotage and do things. Avish Parashar: So the kids are doing well and they seem like they might have a chance of winning but then the bullies sabotage and it often ends, I would say, with a disaster or a betrayal so. Michael Worth: Well, I was thinking yeah that's right we're taking extra minute. Avish Parashar: Yes, remember. Michael Worth: The trail like maybe, for example, a bad guy counselor like who's playing by the rules like invalidates them or something like that, like like you know remember overrule he again he's not gonna be a big part of it, but he could be the deus ex makana for the for the betrayal. Avish Parashar: You know, he could invalidate he could come up with some loophole or some fake rule as to why they don't get their points. But betrayal sometimes is like the one of the kids was like forced into sabotaging his own team. Michael Worth: yeah like. Michael Worth: hijacking the thing that they're building or something like that. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah or yeah or someone gets hurt. Michael Worth: This fit black DM blackmailed. Avish Parashar: Like it does like like and meatballs I think like the best runner got injured arm, which is why, like the kid who's like the main character had to run in her place so like there's some kind of disaster at the end of act three. Michael Worth: yeah and now for X four X four is going to be usually there's a final challenge, and this is where it comes down to like because of all the machinations a final challenge. Michael Worth: misfits have to win right and here's where. Look, the creativity of it somehow. Whoever is the the recipient of the Act three issue. comes back like he gets healed or. Avish Parashar: yeah or if he was the betray or he comes back and like steps up. And usually. that's usually not the main kid who's kind of more of a loner and that main kid usually steps up and does something to help them win. Michael Worth: yeah be trey are redeemed himself. yeah and then main character. steps up demonstrates character growth to win the day And become you know the little. Avish Parashar: Like a little heroes last. Michael Worth: Year of the misfits yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: The rudy of that moment. Michael Worth: uh yeah yeah and and, by the way the betrayal, as we said before right is not done by the main character. Avish Parashar: yeah I would say the main character is not the one who does the betraying yeah. Michael Worth: i'm already like okay so who's gonna be shot asked it today, because this is literally going to be a shot. Avish Parashar: Right nothing wrong with a pretty good outline, I think.

About this episode In this episode, we pay homage to Disaster Movies. The intention when we started was to do something more like a "natural disaster movie," but things quickly morphed into a "man messes with nature and nature bites back" disaster movie. Even with all that, we hit the main tropes and quite an act 3 twist! Links: About Disaster Movies on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_film The Core on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core Armageddon on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(1998_film) Time codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 04:49 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 10:58 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 16:53 Start of show: 24:26 Improv Game - Movie Trailer: 24:35 Improv Game - Four Letter Word: 25:40 Improv Game - Newsroom: 32:38 Improv Game - One Word at a Time Typewriter: 39:23 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 45:25 End of show, into announcements: 58:33 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/