Episode 25.5: Q&A 4

Hello from the future, I think Laufey would actually make a banger theme based on her single Madwoman

Re: muppets: all Scandinavian actors/characters are the Swedish Chef. “Es wär’ die straight, und denn die Floosh…” (chain pull sound)

Devon, you could not defeat a Cassowary. They are dinosaurs in drag and they will disembowel you. They have humans beaten on speed, size, amount of razor claws, and ruthlessness.

the muppets bit has me cry laughing, dear god

Just the idea of Kermit as bond in casino Royale with a guy sticking his hand up through a chair with no seat with the puppet while the bad guy keeps hitting him (the puppeteer) on the head.

Oh Mountain Goats theme song. Dr No Children

Bluey recommendation, you should do something with Stumpfest the best 10 minutes of animated cinema ever devised. It has a lot to say about masculinity.

Horse with a dog mouth: Lopers, a creation of Zooophagus, absolutely fantastic and horrifying creatures (affectionate)

Revisiting this after the highlight clip got put on Youtube. We need Muppets season after Rambo season and Robbery season.

I would also like to nominate the woman who never learned to read for a Kaufman

could do a bonus episode of the muppets movie

*elmo voice* I could shoot you from STUTTGART and still achieve the proper effect

Listening to this again and imagining Muppets Goldeneye where Miss Piggy kills Sam the Eagle with her Thighs

Rhodie Bond only like six percent more racist than normal Bond

My kingdom for a Janelle Monae Bond theme

39:15 A View to a Honk

Feel absolutely robbed there was unrecorded muppet talk

"No one ever asks what Sergeant Bash did in Northern Ireland." Well I didn't really feel the need to - man's got a flamethrower, the answer's clearly "nothing good".

So funny you guys had a long muppet discussion in this ep. I just watched the great muppet caper and I think it would make for a great bonus video

you're right that bond has to remain a human. despite how funny it is to imagine a muppet doing Bond Shit, the most important factor of choosing who in a muppet adaptation is the one human is that human's quality as an outsider*, someone who is held apart from the rest of society by some factor, whether it be misanthropy (as with scrooge), naivete (as with jim hawkins), or being tim curry. aside from the fundamental loneliness of being a spy, bond, as has been noted multiple times on this podcast, is meant to be a "man out of time". no better way to reinforce that sense of isolation than to have sam the eagle-as-m telling him off, or having to collaborate with kermit "felix leitner" the frog. the swedish chef is le chiffre (...le chef-fre...) *this is a principle that has led to vicious debate within my family over who, in the muppet version of moby dick, is the one human.

Ooh, for next week: a movie with a bunch of Bond references and interesting things to say about masculinity, as well as a famous British actress doing an American accent (pretty well, it seems to me, but maybe you'd pick up on some glaring mispronunciations I missed). It's also a genuinely charming and funny movie, so I'd love to hear your take on it: John Cusack and Minnie Driver in Grosse Point Blank.

You absolutely could NOT take a goose. Geese are huge and nasty. Swans are even worse, though.

Gonzo as Boris, with pictures of bikini-clad chickens all over his computer screen.

Sweetums as Jaws

So after baby be this needs to be a muppet podcast

Also, the trick for a crocodile is to get your hands round its mouth (and yes, fight it on land). The muscles that open its jaws are so weak you can easily hold them closed, and their attack is based around bursts of power. Keep its jaw shut for a few minutes and it'll get tired. its how Steve Irwin used to do it (RIP)

George Bailey asking the best questions!

Spiderman 3 is the best spiderman movie. Every villain is a takedown of an aspect ofwhat's wrong with the US: Harry is an heir to an entrepreneur, Sandman is an indictment of access to medical care, Brock is a deconstruction of the concept of the self made man.

the muppet part is I think the hardest Alice has laughed in the entire podcast history

The obvious muppet Bond movie would be one of the Craig years, but with everyone replaced except Judi Dench M. She still plays it completely seriously.

I'm not sure why but my feed hasn't updated with the new ep

this Q&A killed meatloaf

If we can have Gwenom we can have symbiote Mary Jane

Alice has such a great fucking laugh. This was an awesome ep.

Fozzie Bear is the comedian that Statler and Waldorf kill - just his furry face glaring down at Moore in the coffin

no time to die would be perfect with muppets......u even have a 30 year old twink muppet to play q ernie is right there

okay, i now need to ask: which muppet should get the honour to torture bond's balls?

also for something like an Eagle if you knew it was coming i bet you could beat it

Personally I was thinking Pitcairn Bond but your answer was equally correct. Thank you for the Q&A!

Funny as fuck, thanks for making me nearly crash my car in the rain! But also fuck you for calling my question dogshit 😁 Till next time or until I can’t afford it any more.

But if you give a horse the intelligence of a corgi they’re just gonna start letting themselves out of their stalls and wandering about.

Someone leave a duffel bag of money with a note that says "For Muppet Bond Only" on Devon's porch please.

Was this recorded before Meatloaf passed away????? If so, cursed

Bunsen HoneyQ

"Meat Loaf" didn't age well lmao

rhodesian bond is indeed the most cursed bond

If anyone wants HBO recommendations, Station Eleven is a masterclass in thoughtful adaptation. The book is one of my favorites, and the series manages to take the book's intimate experience of what it means to *live* in the apocalypse and import it into an even kinder universe.

Now, I take your point, folks, but consider that if ANY BOND LEAD would donate money to an anti-James Bond podcast called "Kill James Bond" it would be Craig. 100%

I think there was a missed opportunity in there to insinuate that Spectre (or Theresa May) created omicron to prevent the KJB No Time To Die live show

Sam Eagle would be Mads

Y’all sleeping on Dead Metal, she literally transitioned between the original series and the reboot, smh my head

would sell my soul to watch Devon beat the shit out of a shoebill or cassowary