241. Brad Garrett Must Eat!

Jim Stormdancer — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0700

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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.

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241. Brad Garrett Must Eat!