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BC MARCH MADNESS 2025 - Day 12
🕑 Added 2025-03-12 18:00:13 +0000 UTCAnother tournament goes by and Ben still doesn't have an excuse to buy a sword. RoboCop moves on to the next round!
Up today - you can practically hear these images.
It's PSYCHO vs ROCKY.
With Psycho, we'd cover four films:
PSYCHO (1960)
PSYCHO II (1983)
PSYCHO III (1986)
PSYCHO (1998) - the Gus Van Sant remake
With Rocky, we'd cover six films (not the Creeds, though!):
Rocky (1976)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky V (1990)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Is a boy's best friend his mother? Or is a boy's best friend Apollo Creed?
Comments
Travis Williams
Why does this fanbase hate Rocky?!!
Percy Leopold Cromwell
Love how all the main feed ones are blowouts and these are neck and neck nearly every time
Robb Johnston
Would it help swing the vote that I am an extra in rocky V? Yeah I thought not
DRC
They should include the 1987 tv movie/failed pilot Bates Motel, starring Brewster McCloud himself, Bud Cort.
Brandon
What’s with the Psycho IV erasure?
Jason Feffer
You’d think (Ro)Bert Young would be a bigger fan of 4!
Flappy McGillicuddy-Jones III
I'm voting Rocky assuming the cut of IV with SICO, please don't make a fool of me
awoodring
It’s not great but it was the first Psycho I saw and honestly I thought the plot idea of calling into the show was a cool take
Josh Burcham
Psycho has one great movie, 1 surprisingly good slasher, and 3 back to back oddites of different natures
Josh Burcham
Yeah that's essential Psycho if you're doing the franchise
disk-kun, the mascot for the famicom disk system
I mean the mabuse series had a legasequel in the 30s lol
awoodring
No Psycho 4: The Beginning? An underrated entry! Henry Thomas and Olivia Hussey conversations with an interesting if not flawed plot
Harley Richard
So they’re doing six Rocky’s but can’t squeeze 52 Pickup into the Elmore Leonard series? Pass. Psycho it is.
Ben Walkup
I prefer 2 to 3, but yes
Robert Young
136,42,5
Felix Durand
ADRIENNNNNNEEEEEE
Michael Loiacono
Gotta have Dead Meat on as guests for Psycho 98 if it somehow takes this tourney.
Rad Rodge
Would be great to get the fellas to compare Psycho II to Star Trek Generations as legacyquel patient zero hahah, what other podcast offers this as a serious possibility
Mean Laqueefa
Psycho IV
Shoopdawoopa
Rocky is about to have a montage to win this vote
Liam Palmer
Voting Psycho. I’ve seen all those Rocky films so many times I worry I’ll get frustrated listening to podcasts about them if the hosts don’t say all the stuff I think
Alberto Manuel Lamoso
Adding my voice to the chorus of people calling for Psycho IV to be included
Ben Walkup
Psycho has 1 great movie Rocky has 3 great movies, 2 good movies, and Rocky V
MUJMT
Vote for Psycho because Psycho II is arguably the first legacy sequel ever made and is weirdly better than it has any right to be
Isaac Carter
Rocky is like absolute peak for a commentary series, Rocky IV would be an all timer
Blake Anderson
Guys what?! Rocky would be a great nostalgic series. Paulie has sex with a robot
John
How are we doing ROCKY this dirty those movies get wild
Ryan
Think of the griff impressions we will get for Rocky. Vote for Rock
Sarah e
petition to add a bates motel bonus ep
Dads FM
I GOT A FIGHT COMIN UP!
KevynOnVideo
I’m a Philly kid, so I kinda have to go with my boy. But if I may, and as I said before whenever Psycho was last on the bracket, Psycho IV should definitely be included should it go all the way.
Jacob Raleigh
H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y P A U L I E
Graeme Campbell
Watching all the Rocky movies back to back is tantamount to coating yourself in the positively charged mood slime from Ghostbusters 2. Voting against Rocky is voting against your own best interests.
Good
Picking Psycho because it’s shorter and just like Robocop we’ve all seen it and it’s been talked about to the ground. Also that’s like 4 months of Rocky movies. FUCK THAT!
Dan GERROUS
Common, imagine how great the Rocky discussion would be! I feel like it would have to win March Madness to be covered. Would love to hear the guys thoughts on these
John-Paul
What about the Bates Motel tv movie with I think Bud Cort and Lori Petty from 1987?
Janine
I met Kurt Paul not long ago, who was stunt double for Norman Bates in many of the Psycho movies….uh very interesting dude! Very chatty. Definitely a good double for Anthony Perkins!
Xander Yates
this makes me want Rocky movie thats a pyscho crossover
FreakaJebus
I voted for Psycho, but I really wish you would include Psycho IV
dorium
I want to get a full reappraisal for the maligned remake! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Patrick
Was going to vote Psycho and saw you’d be skipping Psycho IV! Rocky then. What do you have against Olivia Hussey, CCH Pounder, and Mick Garris?!?
Brandon Melling
I'd rather hear your thoughts on Psycho 4 over the remake honestly. Neither one is particularly great, but 4 at least has some more interesting things going for it imo
Malcolm
Rocky franchise is wayyy over discussed compared to the psycho franchise
Brendan Crowley
why?
Connor Fitzgerald
The Rocky IV episode would be incredible. I feel like you could fill an entire commentary just discussing Paulie’s Robot.
Josh Burcham
Psycho is a ridiculous and hilarious series with a great film up top, vote for that. Psycho 3 is a classic strange horror film
Tom Silvestro
Psycho 2 is excellent and worth voting for the entire Psycho series. One of the most underrated horror sequels.
Daniel Citron
VOTE ROCKY
Austin McDougle
Psycho remake episode or Griffin talking about Jon Taffer and the Sico robot in Rocky IV, we win either way
Tony Wagner
To me, Rocky is a no brainer
Del Lorenson
Decade of Creeds!
Joe
Has anyone mentioned Psycho 4 yet?
Les Chappell
ADRIAN!!!!!!
Beef Steak Tomato
They should cover Rocky on Patreon when they do Paul Thomas Anderson on main feed. The first Psycho is an incredible dip into a filmography it would take AGES to get through normally, and then every one after that is some kind of gonzo. A like that!
Kyle Carpenter
If Rocky wins, then the series needs to include all three Action Boyz as guests on different episodes.
Karina
Where is Psycho 4 🥲
jscro
Absolutely. Why would they exclude it?
Dennis Murphy
Do Rocky you cowards! I want to see Pauly f*** that robot!
jscro
Psycho II? Psycho III? Both great. And Eric is right. They should absolutely cover Psycho IV if it wins.
GrrNoise
Seems like the perfect time to talk about a Perkins and his issues with his mother
Christian Scarbrough
Idk, listening Ben talk about punching slabs of meat, or to Griffin do a Hulk Hogan impression, or to David be joyously baffled at Paulie's robot all seem like fun times. Chances to talk about Stallone's career and the creation of the first movie, plus the wild journey that the series takes as a whole!
Erik Wacker
I voted Psycho. You really should be including Psycho IV. I assume it’s left off because it’s a TV movie but it’s really good.
Jordan Deschamps
Psycho 4!
Nathan Cranor
Psycho would be a great series but I had to vote for Sly impressions
Ginger’s Boyfriend Matt
I must experience THUNDERLIPS with the boys
Njord
YOOO, PODRIAAAAANN!
Harding Royster
The Rocky series is an incredible cinematic journey, the Psycho movies are a continual devolvement
Eric
I’m voting for psycho and they absolutely should include part 4: the beginning. They’ve covered plenty of TV movies before. No excuse.
Blake R.
Rocky is a slow burn but shit would be so fun once we got to four. The robot, people! The robot!
Owen Phillips
Psycho 2 is underrated af
Miles Lemaire
Justice for Mick Garris! I think the crew would have a good time talking about this one anyway. It’s got a fun cast.
Sam Russell
Who do you wanna support? Don Trump's ambassador to Hollywood, Sly Stallone? Or Don Trump's other ambassador to Hollywood, Norman Bates??
Pete
I think it might have been a tv movie. But I agree, they should include it.
Zachary Bach
I think because it’s a tv movie.
ders
No Bates Motel eh
Jeff Brax
Rocky would be boring.
JFox
There's no way you can skip Psycho IV. It's sheer madness.
justn
FIRST!
Zwoozy
Have they said why they're skipping it?
Miles Lemaire
Why isn’t Psycho IV included?
Calahan Riley
Y'all I have watched Rocky 4 499 times and am the world's foremost expert on it (citation needed). Make my blank check dream come true of my 500th watch being a blank check commentary
JPB Gerald
Oh I wanted the Creeds
Scotty White
You have to do Mick Garris Psycho 4.
Zwoozy
The Psycho movies are such wildly different rides, would love to hear the histories.
Kalle Färm
I really would like to convince the boys to add PSYCHO IV even though it is a TV movie. That movie's BONKERS.
Choof
Rocky would have so much more material to work with IMO
Zachary Bach
Wish they were doing Psycho 4 as well but still voting for it!
Max Woodhams
Come on guys surely we want them to watch Rocky 4, robo butler and all
John Toerner
Rocky!
Andy C
Y'all are telling me you don't think Griffin has 10 hours of Micky impressions locked and loaded, ready to go??
Riley Hogan
Psycho!
Anthony Oleszkiewicz
Rocky would be great! Impressions, real franchise building talk, Ben's take on the franchise and a couple bad movies to get loopy with
Beau
For Philadelphia. For Marie.
Bern Roche Farrelly
Psycho-A-Go-Go
Nick Domino
I just love Anthony Perkins and want to hear them talk about him
Adam Bruski
Face punch > shower knife
Joshua McNaron
Toughest choice of my life
