Episode 6.5: Top Secret!
Added 2021-05-04 22:59:54 +0000 UTCQ- whats the worst possible way to experience a joke?
A- have three trans people try to explain it after watching it a few days before.
It's Top Secret! It's Val Kilmer's big break, a movie directed by the guys behind 'Airplane!' and 'Police Squad!'. Alice didn't like it, Abi reminisces about the kinds of movie they simply do not make anymore, and Devon gets dangerously horny. Tune in!
NB: We didn't do the usual Jazz outro on this because it was funnier to just cut off. We hope you understand
Comments
The show "Angie Tribeca" was a pitch perfect spiritual successor to Police Squad and I hope everyone watches it
Andrew Dunn
2025-04-06 09:24:33 +0000 UTCRIP Val Kilmer. Any chance we could get a "Top Secret No Notes" in memoriam?
Cyrus McEnnis
2025-04-02 15:10:30 +0000 UTCJust 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
Andrew Dunn
2024-05-13 16:41:07 +0000 UTCrandomly 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
Fingerless
2024-03-15 10:53:28 +0000 UTCI 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.
2022-05-17 14:54:42 +0000 UTCThe weird dancing is, specifically, Square Dancing -- a very American thing that I'm not overly surprised that three Brits wouldn't recognize.
Devin Faux
2021-11-14 05:07:08 +0000 UTCYou couldn't do 15 minutes of 'The Bomb Run' and flipping pointless switches now
2021-06-19 23:50:38 +0000 UTCOne of my favourite films is Dr Strangelove which definitely fits the bill of not-funny-unless-you're-actually-watching
2021-06-19 23:48:17 +0000 UTCI 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
2021-05-17 17:39:54 +0000 UTCI 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.
Dave Dorricott
2021-05-09 13:13:03 +0000 UTCI 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
2021-05-07 15:19:05 +0000 UTCMake a kjb shirt that just says "HAUNTOLOGY" in some sort of kitsch mid century font and I will absolutely buy it
A_Aphelion
2021-05-07 11:46:11 +0000 UTCThis 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.
Bill Owens
2021-05-06 14:54:06 +0000 UTCI'm not sure how long he was involved after it got going but he was one of the creators of Get Smart
Will
2021-05-06 11:52:24 +0000 UTCLove 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.
Mo Haworth
2021-05-06 08:23:32 +0000 UTCCame to say that
Kentucky Fried Commie
2021-05-05 16:19:38 +0000 UTC10:57 "Getting thrown twenty metres by a twink, that's what they want."
ZombieDwarf
2021-05-05 15:29:54 +0000 UTCVal Kilmer in Willow and David Bowie in Labrinth the men of my adolescent dreams
2021-05-05 14:24:50 +0000 UTCone of Omar Sharif's greatest films
2021-05-05 14:21:49 +0000 UTCI'm realising how much we've all missed out with there not being Mel Brooks bond satire
Rufus Dean
2021-05-05 11:34:10 +0000 UTCThe good place does actually have a lot more clever you-cant-be-multitasking jokes later on,
Void WL
2021-05-05 06:54:08 +0000 UTCThe 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.
Brian Danger Hicks
2021-05-05 02:54:01 +0000 UTCI feel like Abigail would enjoy 30Rock
A Trans Robot
2021-05-05 01:49:20 +0000 UTCI was REALLY hoping you'd get to Spy Hard :D
Dani Gould
2021-05-05 01:12:49 +0000 UTCI 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.
Teaflax
2021-05-04 23:55:55 +0000 UTCI rewatched this the other night ready for this episode, I've been looking forward to this :D
Dani Gould
2021-05-04 23:46:28 +0000 UTCMakes a good batman
Corran MacCorran
2021-05-04 23:10:26 +0000 UTC
