S3E5: The Great Spy Chase

I love the idea that, similar to Netflix accidentally and briefly putting the Babadook in the LGBTQ+ section, some record shop in 1960s France accidentally put a funk album in the Soviet section (I assume that used to be a section that record shops had in the '60s) and so it became a meme that the USSR is a super funky place. Maybe that's why Boney M did Rasputin and that song was a call-back to a decade old French meme? lol

"He has the ability, as a cantrip, to summon infinity Asians" nearly had me bursting out laughing loudly at work with zero desire to explain why.

Listening to this in 2024 when it was revealed that Amouranth was being abused and forced to stream by her boyfriend/husband

O yeah the beard thing. I know this because it comes up in the first Asterix and Obelix comicbook. It is that you get a point for every beard you are the first of the competitors to see.

You must forgive this rather odd mixture of actors, but I refuse to cast entirely Japaneeeeeeese

The conformist is one of the greatest films ever made, so hyped for you all to watch it :)

The 15-30-40 for counting beards does seem to be a reference to the French system of counting points in tennis, based on the face of a clock. Quinze is the first point, trente is the second point, and quarante is the third point because saying quarante-cinq is too inconvenient

My T shots used to come in a glass ampoule, stoked about Ampoule Chat

Alice running a Spycraft campaign is the least surprising thing. Fucking love Spycraft, wish more people were interested in it

millennials are killing the castle industry

As for castles and their expensiveness; I believe Nic Cage bought a castle. It became a massive expense and made him bankrupt.

Oh, one little meta-joke y'all missed : French Bond's name, Lagneau, means "The lamb" as in the idiom "meek as the lamb" which is the same in French - this name for this actor is doubly funny since Lino Ventura is a former pro wrestler & boxer and his entire acting career was always "easily exasperated laconic guy who's quick to throw a punch instead of arguing"

Thank you for introducing me to movies I wouldn’t have otherwise heard of. I was wondering if you would consider doing the girl with the dragon tattoo series? I know they adopted the first three books in Swedish. Also I know it’s a long shot but would you ever look at an episode of the Avengers TV series? I remember watching.m a few episodes on Christmas years back and absolutely being in love with Ms. Peel.

Perhaps Abbie's acquaintance could suggest to the person with the castle that they knock down everything apart from the central living quarters and convert the outworks into a more earthwork-star fort kinda configuration. Might be that a little modernisation would make it more attractive to potential buyers. Or perhaps see if any wealthy russians would like to deconstruct it stone by stone and re-build it in rostov-on-don...

God, now I guess you'll have to watch Day of the Jackal which also has France's murder squad against the OAS as the protagonists

While listening to this, I was thinking that it would adapt very well to a stage version, a lá The 39 Steps.

Barold is my favourite animal crossing villager

It will never not be funny to me every time Abby says something along the lines of "yeah my friends friend is having a really hard time selling their castle"

i wonder if this movie is where oss 117: rio ne répond plus got the bit about constantly getting jumped by chinese agents whose brother you've killed

*looks at description* Just horribly racist? Alright, so we're one up on Goldfinger at least. *hears That Gunshot Sound Effect* Oh, it's made by the guys who did Les Tontons Flingueurs! Final Verdict Summary: "We liked it, but unfortunately it was made in France in 1964."

Les Barbouzes is a great, great, GREAT movie (and not even the best of this particular director/scriptwriter partnership !)

Absolutely done in by Barold Chuckle and the Sexual Barrier and we are 10 MINUTES IN.

"if you're willing to overlook some heinous crimes, you'll have a good time watching" is a very on-brand thing for a British entertainer to say

The title music in this movie sounds like the Afro-Cuban Rhythm Club from Danger 5

I don't know if it made it's way into your Eurospy list, but I recently encountered Five Ashore in Singapore (Cinq Gars pour Singapore), a 1967 film which has the minor distinction of being the last film starring Sean Flynn (son of Errol) before he became a war correspondent in Vietnam and was likely murdered by the Khmer Rouge.