Talking Tropes Podcast

All of our interactions at work, with friends, and with our education are now done through Zoom video chat. Why shouldn't our TV be the same? We take a look at all the fictional TV shows integrating Zoom interfaces into their TV specials and new series.

We continue to watch everything Stanley Tucci has ever done with his 1980s TV guest spots on The Equalizer and Crime Story. We also take a look at what we could find of the forgotten syndicated show The Street, where Tucci stars on a real "show about nothing" but with cops.

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What's the spookiest Halloween tradition of all? Critical theory! We take a look at Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure and his queer reading of stop-motion animation. We try to apply this reading to the creepiest, spookiest stop-motion filmmaking team of all time: Tim Burton and Henry Selick. That's right, Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Coraline, Frankenweenie and more! Happy Halloween!

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A follow-up on our last mini trope recap. Let's discuss our hottest takes on a slightly disappointing but still charming final season of Netflix's animated show from Radford Sechrist: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts!

Spoilers ahead!

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Shocks, surprises, twists of all sizes. We're talking about a director who was pigeon-holed by critics and scholars like us into always being measured by how "satisfying" his twists are. Let's talk about M. Night Shyamalan's best and worst twists. Major spoilers for 6th Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening, Devil, The Visit, Split, and Glass.

Some of the audio is a little messed up but most of it is fine.

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Finally, a meaty film role (and by meaty we mean BEEFY) for the Tooch in George Romero's cult classic Monkey Shines which is The Shining meets Rear Window meets Monkey! By far, Romero's strangest film, check out our fun, Tucci-focused recap.

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Plenty of furries love Disney, but does Disney love furries? With special guest, filmmaker and documentarian, Dominic Rodriguez, we explore the history of Disney and anthropomorphic animals and how the furry fandom got started.

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We continue our binge of the entire IMDB page of actor/director/writer/producer Stanley Tucci. Today, we watch his three appearances in the 1980's iconic cop show: MIAMI VICE!!!

Tucci plays a scared witness named Steven Demarco and a NJ mob boss named Frank Mosca as he completely steals the show (as well as stealing a lot of laundered pasta/drug money).

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Two Jews run down the list of comedic interpretations of history's purest evil dictator. From Mel Brooks to Taika Waititi, there's a long, proud history of making fun of Hitler. But what is the actual joke? And how has that joke changed over time?

Here's a link to the article I referenced: https://abcnews.go.com/US/head-naacp-branch-fire-anti-semitic-facebook-post/story?id=72101481

Here's the Lindsay Ellis video that partially inspired this discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cPPSyoQkE

Here's a Comedic Hitler playlist, this is not in any way an endorsement of these skits as most of them are not funny at all: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVlPf18cSXSgqqR_5b9DpLyBdal2JCuHh

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The first episode of a new podcast where we watch everything on Stanley Tucci's IMDB page in order.

We start with some introductions, then jump right in to Tucci's first film roles: Prizzi's Honor, Kojak: The Price of Justice, and Who's that Girl starring Madonna.

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