Pop Goes Your World: Gen-X vs. Millennial Pop Culture

After a few weeks off, the guys return and take a look at some of their favorite ‘narrated’ movies. Chris and Derek each put together a top 5 list of their personal favorite movies that prominently feature a narrator as part of the storytelling process. 

For the trivia segment of the show, Chris has Derek try to name the actors that provide the voice of several movie characters. 

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With Halloween around the corner, Derek suggested that he and Chris go back and watch the 1981 comedy/horror John Landis film, “An American Werewolf in London”. The guys discuss the themes of the film, the box office, scenes, cast and behind-the-scenes trivia about the making of the movie.

For the trivia segment of the show, Chris has Derek play a game of “Name That Tune” where Derek must guess the titles of disco songs based on a sampling of their lyrics.

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It’s finally available on the streaming services! Chris has Derek go back and watch the 1982 sex comedy, “Zapped!” starring Scott Baio and Willie Aames. The guys discuss the box office performance of the film as well as the cast, quotes, scenes, themes, music and more.

For the trivia segment of the show, Derek has Chris play a game of “Pick the Flick” where he has to guess movies with an exclamation point in the title.

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We’ve all heard some version of this idea before. It’s a standard question: “If you could sit down and have a beer with any celebrity, who would it be?”. This week, Derek and Chris each present a top 5 list of such celebrities. They also discuss one question they’d ask each celebrity if given the chance to sit down for a drink together.

For the trivia segment of the show, Derek takes a seat in the Winner’s Circle of “The $100,000 Pyramid”.

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This week, Derek and Chris go back and watch the 1984 film, “Revenge of the Nerds” starring Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards and Curtis Armstrong. They focus mainly on how the movie looks through the lens of 2024, with some interesting takes on either side of the debate. The guys then discuss the box office, the cast, scenes and quotes from the movie.

For the trivia segment of the show, Derek has Chris play a game of ‘Pick the Flick’ where Chris has to guess the titles of movies with the word ‘Revenge’ in the title.

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This week, Derek and Chris go back and watch the 2006 Christopher Nolan film, “The Prestige” starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. The guys talk about the cast, scenes, box office, critical acclaim and more.

For the trivia segment of the show, Chris asks Derek questions about magic in pop culture: movies, TV shows and music all featuring magic in some way or another.

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This week, Derek and Chris look back on 300 episodes of the “Pop Goes Your World” podcast. They discuss some of their favorite episodes, best (and worst) movie reviews, previous guests on the show (and guests they’d love to have on the podcast), and shows they’d like to perhaps ‘do over’ if given the opportunity.

For the trivia segment of the show, Chris has Derek try and name the titles of TV shows that have all exceeded 300 episodes.

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This week, Derek and Chris go back to the year 1984 to a time before Tom Hanks was an award-winning actor and the most-respected actor of his generation. It was a time when Tom Hanks starred in a raunchy sex comedy. The guys review “Bachelor Party”. Chris and Derek talk about the box office performance that year, the cast, memorable scenes, quotes and behind-the-scenes trivia about the movie.

For the trivia segment of the show, Derek has Chris play a game of ‘Pick the Flick” where Chris has to guess the titles of movies about bachelor parties.

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This week, Derek and Chris run down some of their personal favorite movies that are ‘third installments’ in a movie series or franchise. Chris’ movies are all older Gen-X films (surprising, I know). Derek’s movies are mostly newer films. 

For the trivia segment of the show, Chris debuts a new game, “Name the Tagline” (complete with a brand new theme song). In the game, Chris gives the tagline form a film, Derek has to guess the title of the film that goes with each tagline. The common thread is that all of the movies are ‘third installments’. 

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This week, Derek wanted to have Chris watch a ‘newer’ film so the guys watched and review the 2017 Wolverine movie, “Logan”.

Chris has seen very few of the Marvel movies and he was completely unaware of the Wolverine character going into it (he had never even read a Wolverine comic book), so this gives a fresh perspective. Chris and Derek discuss the box office, the cast and their overall takes of the film.

For the trivia segment of the show, Chris quizzes Derek on some general ‘superhero’ trivia.

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