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Episode 6.5: Top Secret!

🕑 Added 2021-05-04 22:59:54 +0000 UTC

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Andrew Dunn

The show "Angie Tribeca" was a pitch perfect spiritual successor to Police Squad and I hope everyone watches it

Cyrus McEnnis

RIP Val Kilmer. Any chance we could get a "Top Secret No Notes" in memoriam?

Andrew Dunn

Just realized, the agent who dies with a smile on his face is the same actor as the first guy to get killed by Xenia Onatop in Goldeneye, who dies with a smile on his face

Fingerless

randomly remembering about how one of ZAZ's highest effort/shortest screentime gags was done by accident. In Airplane!, a quick shot plane crashing through the airport window after a taxiing mistake was done with a full scale model because apparently they weren't aware that it would usually be done with miniatures

I know this is over a year ago but the one recent comedy that comes to mind that I'd recommend is Death of Stalin. Black comedy based on the graphic novel of the same name and focuses on the power struggle following Stalin's death. Similar writing to In The Loop and The Thick of It.

Devin Faux

The weird dancing is, specifically, Square Dancing -- a very American thing that I'm not overly surprised that three Brits wouldn't recognize.

You couldn't do 15 minutes of 'The Bomb Run' and flipping pointless switches now

One of my favourite films is Dr Strangelove which definitely fits the bill of not-funny-unless-you're-actually-watching

I saw this film when I was little so the combination of hearing all the sight gags described and half remembering them from about ten years ago was actually the best way to experience the jokes

Dave Dorricott

I really want to watch this film cos I've not seen it since I was a kid, but I dont know if I'll have Abbie or Alice's reaction. Best case scenario is having Devon's reaction cos its never occurred to me before now how hot young himbo Val Kilmer was.

I loved this episode and would like to have the podcast wildly veer off once the Bond movies are over. To echo the boomer sentiments, I think we don't get a lot of this style of comedy today because 1) It was driven into the ground by Friedberg and Seltzer in the 2010s (who really shifted things from actual gags to just references) and 2) The success of McKay/Apatow movies that relied a lot more on letting people improv and editing it down into a movie

A_Aphelion

Make a kjb shirt that just says "HAUNTOLOGY" in some sort of kitsch mid century font and I will absolutely buy it

Bill Owens

This is perhaps putting too fine a point on it, but it always seemed to me the cow suit joke was meant to say that getting your dick sucked was okay, but being a bottom wasn't. I think it's the kind of cheap gay joke that was okay in 1984, and it's the thing I liked least about this movie from the first time I saw it.

Will

I'm not sure how long he was involved after it got going but he was one of the creators of Get Smart

Mo Haworth

Love that Alice didn't even bother to get out the anti-thirst spray bottle that time. The battle is lost. It's over. This podcast is nothing but horny now.

Kentucky Fried Commie

Came to say that

ZombieDwarf

10:57 "Getting thrown twenty metres by a twink, that's what they want."

Val Kilmer in Willow and David Bowie in Labrinth the men of my adolescent dreams

one of Omar Sharif's greatest films

Rufus Dean

I'm realising how much we've all missed out with there not being Mel Brooks bond satire

Void WL

The good place does actually have a lot more clever you-cant-be-multitasking jokes later on,

Brian Danger Hicks

The whole Hillary/Nigel backstory is a riff on The Blue Lagoon (1980), which I haven't actually seen and so all I know about it is trying to back construct it from this movie. I will warn that Spy Hard has a pretty egregious trans "joke" in it.

A Trans Robot

I feel like Abigail would enjoy 30Rock

Dani Gould

I was REALLY hoping you'd get to Spy Hard :D

Teaflax

I never really got the weird war/spy movie crossover vibe of Top Secret!, then again, that's kind of incidental to the humor, I guess. Also, I just quoted the Police Squad locksmith line on my Swedish podcast yesterday.