Try It, You'll Like it

(That's not a typo. The plastic thing my grandmother always put on top of our cakes had lost both its "y"s, so that's how we say it in my family -- Amy)

We're talking The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and teen movie classic "Sixteen Candles.

It's Joe's turn to do the quiz this time, so in honor of St. Patrick's Day he came up with a quiz on all things green in books, movies and TV.

Joe asked for works of urban Ireland in honor of St. Patrick's Day!

Amy chose Colin Bateman's Belfast thriller, Divorcing Jack.

Randy selected the 1935 John Ford classic that won a Best Actor Oscar for Victor McLaglen and John Ford's first Best Director, The Informer.

Show notes:

Intro Music: "Tell Me Ma" by Gaelic Storm

Outro Music: "James Connolly" by Black 47

Randy talks about The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and the new Madonna album, Rebel Heart.

Joe's been watching The Last Five Years and is still working his way through Parks & Recreation.

As for Irish politics, there was no Prime Minister of Ireland in 1995 so...hell, we have no idea. They haven't had one since 1972 when the Parliament was suspended (but they have a First Minister since 1998).

The Nobel Prize Stearkey refers to in the novel would have been the one that Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan were awarded in 1976 for their work for a peaceful resolution to the violence in Northern Ireland. The Good Friday accords come three years later in 1998.

Atoní Dvorák was indeed Czech and Béla Bartók was Hungarian.

An example of the Spider-Verse newspaper strip can be found here.

Linda Holmes form Pop Culture Happy Hour wrote the Bachelor Pad recap of lore, including the phrase "The Courtyard Of Abandoned Dignity."

The Florida novels Joe was trying to remember were the Travis McGee books by John D. MacDonald.

There was indeed a much better Quiet Man Blu-ray that came out for the 60th anniversary in 2013.

On the next episode:

Amy's birthday is coming up! So, birthday stories.

Randy chose John Hughe's 1984 movie, Sixteen Candles.

Joe choose the Jhumpa Lahiri novel The Namesake (and for the record, it was her story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, that was awarded the Pulitzer).

Smutty aristocracy! Cops gone wild! It's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Dirty Harry this week.

Show notes, as usual, at our blog: http://tryandlikeit.blogspot.com/2015/03/episode-38-controversy.html

It's all cats, all the time this week as we talk the Timothy FIndley novel "Not Wanted On The Voyage and the 1979 classic "Alien."

Also discussed: Jupiter Ascending, The Last Five Years and Paddington.

Opening music: "Wildcat" by Ratatat

Closing Music: "The Cat Came Back" by The Countdown Kids

In which Amy quizzes Joe and Randy about the names behind the initials of some famous people.

As always, show notes can be found on our blog: http://tryandlikeit.blogspot.com/2015/02/quiz-time-first-initials.html

Under discussion - Gillian Flynn's debut novel "Sharp Objects" and Nicole Holofcener's first directorial effort "Walking and Talking."

Also discussed: "The Boy Next Door," "Galavant," and "Predestination."

Randy wanted a book and a movie that have been under discussion as being in the mix for best of 2014. We gave him "Boyhood" and The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters.

Also under discussion: an AV Club article about Prestige vs Mid-Reputable television.

AND, we each give you something from 2014 we loved and something from 2015 we're looking forward to.

Is that enough content for you?

Amy wanted second place winners, so Joe picked MOCKINGBIRD by Walter Tevis and Randy chose "Fish Tank."

Amy also rants a bit about TNT's "The Librarians." Because she can.

Can Randy and Joe guess the Christmas song based on lyrics from the THIRD verse?