Episode 6.5: Top Secret!

The past relationship between Hillary and Nigel is a reference to the movie “The Blue Lagoon.” Hillary is the equivalent to Brook Shields character, and Nigel is the equivalent to Christopher Atkins character, especially the costume. I was born in 1983 and this was an old reference even when I was young. I’m not surprised the 1990s born hosts missed that reference.

I know november and devon from wtyp but idk the 3rd host well, that said. My god her voice is angelic and I'd listen to her talk about anything for hours

I am back after watching the loaded gun 33 1/3rd and can confirm it does not age well

In Novembers's defense, I am also VERY hot and cold with slapstick humor. It's either crying laughing at Airplane!'s flop sweat or... I'm sitting crossarmed, frowning and mouthing "Fuck off" in utter misery.... to the same fucking gag!

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

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

So what I'm getting is "You need a lover's patience to watch Top Secret"

Dunno If you guys care about recommendations at all, but I'd love a TripleX Episode. I think it's a really fun Bond parody.

Fascinated and confused by Abi's complaint about The Good Place. I hate the Austin Powers humor she mentioned, and can't think of an example of it from TGP. Also with the full plot of the show basically being a Sartre play, I hope she revisits it eventually

The best early youtube sketch comedy was similar to this, I feel. TomSka's literal drinks is a personal favorite.

You used to be able to walk into a book store and pick up a copy of your favorite book, "Europe on 5 Quaaludes a Day"

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

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

The dancing scene before 'Tutti Fruitti' there is a joke in the choreo! They're doing exactly the Sound of Music dance that Judie Andrews and Christopher Plummer do. It's sweet

The Swedish bookstore gag has one joke that gets completely lost when the dialogue is reversed. The subtitles have Hillary saying “you may have book of Swedish poems by Van Briesen” But what she actually says is “you may have a book, ‘Europe on five quaaludes a day’.”

It makes me so happy that Abi loved the Japanese Garden bit as much as I did.

I looked up what Val Kilmer looked like in this movie and I have to agree with Devon - that is a man who needs to be topped

This movie is just so much fun when you're drunk. I remember watching this with my brother, when we were living together in a shit hole in Columbus. And we just had a ball!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I feel like Abigail would enjoy 30Rock

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

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.

I rewatched this the other night ready for this episode, I've been looking forward to this :D

Makes a good batman