S3E18: OSS 117: Terror in Tokyo

Surely "the Paris Controversy" was the Trojan War?

The Real Housewives of SPECTRE. 5 minutes later, Abby says it.

My headcannon is that the yellowface guy was a European just showing up to the Organization interview in yellowface and they had to take him because will all the not tolerating failure made them desperately short-staffed.

Not Maya Busivex! She's the worst...

So listening to this, you guys talking about how you've seen the same movie way too many times now, I'm SUPER excited for Robbery Season because - it's the exact opposite. Spy Movies are so frequently about a detective trying to uncover some plot or foil a plan but Heist movies are about pulling off a plot! It'll be really cool to see all this stuff from the other side of the job.

This movie reminded me of a book by Stross, the Atrocity Archives. In the second book, there is a bad guy who is immortal because he is bound to an artifact that warps reality to conform to the plot of a story- in this case, Bond/Euro spy, and he keeps subverting the story and using the power of plot beats to survive. I remember this because the book ends on a fucking yacht and it explodes.

Evil Genius was actually a game about managing your polycule

Does November still want a long coat, like a trench coat or a great coat? Cause I got one recently, it was Italian Surplus from a Lithuanian seller on Etsy. They have a weird sizing system, had to convert my imperial size to metric and then to their system, I'm north of 6ft, like 6'5", and kinda chubby with a 50" bust/chest, that's the one that goes around the torso under the armpits, and not just width. So I got a size 64, but a size 62 would have fit a bit better, took just under a month to get here, in Wales, tracking didn't start till it got into UK from EU, so like 3 weeks of nail biting, it was around £70. Just, if November wants one, they are available...

I have no idea if the gang reads these, and this truly has nothing to do with this terrible movie, but I just listened to the Trashfuture episode with the three of you, and the part at the end where you urge us to survive hit me at a time when I needed it. Thank you. Solidarity and love to any fellow trans people reading this.

Okay, we've talked about how applying subtitles to some foreign language use but not all tends to just be a racist thing. That said, I would get such a kick out of only putting subtitles for the specific words the protagonist understands. Really, the fewer the better

"They start quoting Confucius... Which is Chinese, not Japanese." SO IS THE NAME "CHANG"!

Only one person has ever beaten the final round of the game show, and he now works for Kool Aid

You know, the conceit "The Movie (tm) but with the main character 5 minutes behind, yet it's still all happening out of sheer narrative momentum" *could* be an interesting premise

Maybe the different barrel colors aren't a cultural thing. Yellow is filled with liquid petrol which, as demonstrated by MythBusters, doesn't just explode when shot (hence the cigarette). Red, on the other hand, is apparently for storing large quantities of mixed tannerite

Completely unrelated to this weeks great episode, but I just found out through a cursed YouTube algorithm that Seth MacFarlane has completely ripped the HNCH app for minions joke in S22 E12 of Family Guy

OSS 117 has a memo on his desk titled "SPECTRE determined to strike inside military base" dated three months before the movie.

Not really irrelevant to this movie, but they need to react to Doc Savage. The archetype of so many actions / heroes, with 1930s sensitivity and knowledge. He's an ubermensch who cures criminals by operating on their brains. This is portrayed as unronic and heroic.

Shout out to the line "bomb in your car performance improvement plan," which made me laugh during my marathon today so I didn't notice the hill I was going up until halfway through. Thanks y'all!

I can't believe they put Ghost in the Shell 2017 in the pick a movie bracket yet still have not done 1995

Deconsecrated ambulance is like Ferrari... and I *LIKE* Ferrari

Real housewives of spectre is so good. 3 of them are married to blofeld but theyre all different unrelated guys

You want me through that wall. You NEED me through that wall.

it stands for Barm, Dultural Dinsensitivity, Sun-provoked violence & (still) Misogyny

Great episode, only Abi's game show idea at 34:20 is literally just Takeshi's Castle, so I fear it might not get further than the drawing board :')

Disappointed it wasnt the UNCLE sex clown inflatable wasnt in the bed instead of the 117 version, mid film

Tim Ballard, the guy Sound Of Freedom is based on, is currently facing sexual harassment allegations for his use of said Husband Gambit

Wasn't expecting Devon to answer my burning question about the WTYP pronoun mixup in the jazz outro of a KJB episode, but I'm thankful they did. I was very confused.

I think the facial scars is because Germans had a thing about fucking up their faces fencing. So it's a extension of that.

I know it was a joke, but I really do think you could get Real Housewives of SPECTRE Island to at least pilot, and I'm 50/50 on whether Hulu would actually pick it up.

The rise in the cost of living has seen more and more SPECTRE wives joining HENCH

Which Beowulf are you doing? I'm assuming the weird Zemeckis version but I'm holding out for the Christopher Lambert one.

Devon sounds as if they are in some sort of metal room. Praying for them

i read that as fucking epilepsy

That Ambulance chaser set up and pay off was masterful

Somebody get November a big chef's hat actually, that was wonderful.

IIRC, fortune cookies were a Japanese thing and only became a Chinese restaurant thing when Chinese Americans took over restaurants during Japanese internment and white people were like, “where’s my fucking cookie?” I am willing to be corrected

Im a newer patron in the field agent category. havent heard my name yet (been about 3 weeks), is there a turnaround time before ill start hearing it?

You know it’s going to be a good episode when it’s 3 minutes in and we’re already off on a tangent

I swear I read 'eurospy' as 'eurobussy' and I know it's because I listen to this podcast

See, in the 1960s, you didn't have Video Games yet, so the only way you could get your Signalis experience was by watching differing, ever-more-slightly unnerving versions of the same movie Of course, in the 60s, Hollywood White Men Directors hadn't yet discovered the Sesbian, so the end result was demonstrably worse than Signalis.

I don't understand what Abi means when she says the Paris controversy, is this something Paris Lees said or something?