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We are joined once more by professional lovely chap Miles this week, and delve into the realms of replacement Muppetry, when soundalikes are trying too hard, amphibious George Lucas, tiny foetal Idris Elba in a cave, plus Andy puts his serious head on, for at least a couple of minutes!

As the cinemas aren't quite open yet, and we are restricted to smaller screens at home, it's a good job there's a new Transformers series to binge on Netflix! Spoiler free chat ensues, so fear not. There's also a cyclical strand of Streisand, a bit too much singing for one podcast, and Arron crashes the sorority sleepover over the road! Almost. Bring a burger!

It's (still) the apocalypse! So don your face masks, and power up the fart spectrometer, as we settle in for some comfort watching with the warm Sunday dad-jokes of Stan and Ollie, and comfort gaming, with the twisted point-and-click of Guybrush Threepwood, plus some discomfort gaming, as Andy struggles as a web-slinger, but makes a good tourist in virtual New York!

We love scotch, scotchy scotchy scotch, on the SmorgasPod.. we also love cats, and dogs.. but which is best? We relate some emotional cat tales, imagine an all-dog remake of Frasier, get some much needed pussy closure from a previous pod, and both our missusses get a new hairdo! All this before bedtime!

This weekend we are joined by friend, fellow podcaster, and all round good chap Glenn from Back to the Eighties, and manage to have a good old chinwag about movies we are impatient to see (thanks, Lockdown!), fake Samuel Pepys (thanks, Facebook!), scenes deleted for the greater good (thanks, Stephen King!), and Andy's inability to spot when a girl is trying to lead him astray (thanks, moral compass!)

All this, and Tupperware sleeping arrangements too!

It's a Celebrity Crush Match this week, as Arron and Andy cringe inwardly and outwardly at their younger selves and the stars they went starry-eyed for back in the day, when Marrying an Axe Murderer was unappreciated, 12 year olds finally had movies made just for them, and the far future was closer than we thought! All this, plus what the f*ck is an interrobang‽

It's an NDA Jam this week, so we're not allowed to talk to you about the new Back to the Future Transformer, or how Doc Brown made a functional time machine in the Wild West, nor indeed about Richard Dreyfuss' coke mountain, or who does the best Alan Alda impression, or which we prefer: Red Dwarf or Hitch Hikers.. but guest Miles Watts might tell you! Watch out for Kertwangers!

Everything is twenty years old today! Or it seems to be, as we slide into discussion on slippery sex, multiversal madness, angry Andy's accidental avalanche, Dread Dormammu diction, cowled Keaton comebacks, and cartoons of questionable colour! All on your Super Saturday Slice of SmorgasPod!

Whether you remember him as the android Ash, Bilbo Baggins, or even Chef Skinner from Ratatouille, the late Sir Ian Holm had a career to celebrate. And we try to do that, but spin off as usual into talk of spaceship greeblies, Ellen Ripley: Space Ninja, what to do with RoboCop, and how we feel when people whose work we admire turn out to be not very nice people in real life.

Let's delve into the SmorgasPod archives, and dust off some of the original wigs used in the first Three Wogies sketch in 1952! Well, not really, but we will discuss movie props, and their rise from zero to collectable hero.. And speaking of heroes, Andy's looking forward to the newly unveiled PS5, with the excellent looking Miles Morales Spidey game seemingly a launch title! Plus: Uncanny Valley CG people! Or, are they?!