241. Brad Garrett Must Eat!

Lords:

• Abby
  • https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/10813
• Pat
  • https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyperheartcom/gotchacards

Topics:

• The pear scene
• Capsule machines vs. claw games
• Designing UIs for TV
• This be the Verse, by Philip Larkin
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse

Microtopics:

• My Brother the Car.
• A card game that is not totally random.
• Deciding to focus on something else in 2020.
• Rock Paper Scissors vs. Rock Scissors Paper.
• Which of the twins to take a kidney from
• Committing to a bit that breaks the rhythm of what people expect you to say.
• Making a game where people get crushed by debt but making it fun.
• Everybody Loves Raymond.
• Sitcoms that have plenty of opportunity to disappoint you.
• A show that lives and dies in the performance.
• Nine years to stop trying.
• The most profitable sitcom of all time.
• Adapting Raymond.
• Ray Romano explaining the concept of having parents to a puzzled audience.
• The kind of argument where both people make sense and are both trying to be nice.
• Trying to be nice but failing.
• 'Til Death.
• The demeanor of a revenant.
• Whether Brad Garrett listens to this show.
• Hitting 100 episodes and going into syndication.
• Musicians needing a body that can strike.
• Writing an increasingly ludicrous sitcom for an audience of nobody.
• A son who is always on the wacky tobacky.
• A sitcom husband who notices that his wife has been recast and realizes he's on a sitcom.
• Continuing to give Brad Garrett chances to star in sitcoms because he's so tall.
• A sitcom that made you feel seen.
• The workplace sitcom vs. the domestic sitcom.
• Aimlessness in a post-Seinfeld era.
• Abed Ghaith's striptease.
• Is that Abed Ghaith's penis in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
• Claw game skill issues.
• A billionaire trying to figure out how best to do good in the world and who decides to operate several generous claw machines.
• Decorating a desk space with a pocket full of miniature delights.
• Mona Lisa Breakdancing.
• The rice cooker that King Piccolo was trapped in.
• Rubik's Cube but all the faces are Mahjong tiles.
• The coolest and most popular racial atrocity.
• Ramen Man vs. Kikko Man.
• A bowl of ramen in the shape of a tube.
• Homer Simpson: visual ripoff of Kinnikuman.
• Seeing an aquarium fish that looks just slightly too human.
• Reading a book about bugs and itching like mad.
• Worrying that you are ruining eyes for yourself.
• Famous JAV title "Reincarnated as a Spider"
• Conveying the idea of receiving a DM on social media to a television audience.
• My face in a tube dot com.
• Saying "youshmoob" really fast and hoping nobody notices.
• Wanting to put a Russian Roulette scene in your TV show but being unable to negotiate the rights to Russian Roulette from ELORG so you need to hire Alexey Pajitnov to design a replacement game.
• A joke that is very funny when you explain it but impossible to convey in any known medium.
• The flag that says "bang!"
• The Joker not being confident enough in his jokes so he has to use laughing gas.
• Silent Comedy Joker has to work a bit harder.
• Naming a difficulty level after a pop culture allusion to babies.
• The ending of a Clockwork Orange in the UK depicting the protagonist as deciding to renounce violence and become a better person, but in the US they omitted that chapter because it's unrealistic.
• The UK edition of A Clockwork Orange depicting the protagonist renouncing violence and becoming a better person so he joins the police force, whereas in the US edition the protagonist decides to remain brutal and violent so he joins the police force.
• Where's the bridge, Larkin?
• This be the verse you grave for me.
• Poets being jerks to all different kinds of people.
• Kefka creating a tower of garbage in Final Fantasy while everyone tries to convince him it's worthwhile to have a family.
• Which kids inspired Lord of the Flies.
• Suggesting that your mom read Chainsaw Man Part 1 so that you can talk to her about grief.