Throw in the Pal

The Pals are in the kitchen with a culinary eye this week, cooking up some red-hot takes on The Menu (2022), a black comedy about service industries, rampant pretentiousness and the twisted ties that bind artistry and consumerism. For some of the Pals, it’s a delectable treat, but others found it a bit much to chew on.

Bon Ap-pal-tite!

Some say awards shows are the most pompous, boring and unnecessary invention of modern times, but those people have clearly never heard our podcast. What’s more, this week Throw in the Pal is hosting its 1st Annual Oscars Special, where the Pals gather together to chat about the nominees (and possible winners) of this year’s 95th Pal-cademy Pal-wards!

What does red mean to you? Is it love or hatred, passion or bloodshed? Or, does it just mean that you’re red-y for a new episode of Throw in the Pal, where our titular Pals take on the ruby-red-riddled American Beauty (1999), an infamous and much-beloved classic, to see if the bloom is still on the rose or if it’s Pal-tals have withered.

“Multi-verses and Butt-plugs” is not just the title of Tom’s unpublished memoir, but also the subheading for this week’s chaotic tango with Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), the surprise hit of last year that leaves one of the Pals in tears, a couple of them scratching their heads and our listeners begging that we try not to talk Pal(l) at once!

A 30-some-years later sequel to a beloved ‘80s film (again!), this week the Pals are grounded by Top Gun: Maverick (2022), a true American movie, emblazoned with a Stars and Stripes face tattoo, with red, white and blue pumping through its clogged arteries, and our podcast heroes flying by the seat of their Pal-nts!

A 30-some-years later sequel to a beloved ‘80s film, Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) has started pinging on the Pals’ P.K.E. Meter, and now they’re in the studio ghostin’ fools and bustin’ moves, patiently waiting for someone to ask, “Who you gonna Pall?”

This week, the Pals’ knives are out for one another, as their discussion of Glass Onion (2022) proves to be the most divisive thus far, begging the questioning, “What the heck are we all shouting a-Pal-t?!”

You’ve heard of the mystical Book of the Dead, but today the Pals are riffing off the top of their heads, as Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy (1999) is excavated, unwrapped and exhumed with more care than went into building the Great Pal-rymid of Giza!

“Meow what do we have here?” is something you might ask about this week’s long-anticipated pal-wow over Tom Hooper’s Cats (2019), a maligned adaptation of the broadway musical that one of the Pals has a surprising take on…

In a shocking turn of events, this week the Pals find that one of their members misunderstood the assignment, making their conversation about Sian Heder’s Oscar-winning CODA (2021) an uproariously, unforgetta-pal experience.