Champions & The Big Bang Theory

Champions

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dad's Film Review, penetrating deeper into cinema than your wife's boyfriend. Today's episode is all about bangs, not unlike the sound your expectations will make as they crash to the floor whilst you listen to us.

We'll be unloading our unwanted opinions like a shotgun climaxes.

Sidey: climaxes,

disappointing discarded,

Reegs: discharges and everything in between. This week we're getting our hands on Netflix's Champions, and for our kids TV section we're watching The Big Bang Theory. Yeah, Dan's kids are apparently old enough to watch a show that ran for 12 seasons and ended Uh, but when your kids have witnessed the invention of electricity first hand, I suppose standards do slip.

Fair warning, the podcast is for mature listeners, though maturity is clearly something we're all gonna struggle with. If you're easily offended or simply have very good taste, now's the time to pull out. After that, all there's left to do is meet the dads. First, Dan the only man whose midlife crisis happened during the actual middle ages.

He now thinks getting high means standing up without assistance. Next up, Chris he believes any film over 82 minutes is basically a hostage situation. His entire critique method boils down to one question. Could this have been a And rounding out our human centipede of failure, it's Sidey.

The guy who texted the group chat earlier saying, I've got something thick, veiny and throbbing that needs immediate attention. Sidey, you really do need to get those varicose veins

Sidey: at.

Cris: Cycling. Cycling. Cycling.

Reegs: Yeah. And then there's me, Weeks. Hello.

Sidey: Hello.

Cris: Riggs,

Dan: Riggs. Hello.

Cris: everyone else.

Reegs: Yep.

Dan: Thanks for the warm welcome as ever. Have you been actually watching any films, television or

Reegs: Well, the thing we've been watching with the kids is The Traitors.

You ever seen this?

Sidey: No, I've heard of that.

Cris: I've heard of it, but I

Sidey: it's like a bit of a phenomenon, isn't

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: Globally, it's like there's versions of it all around the world.

Reegs: Yeah, so we're on season one. We started on season one.

Dan: It's a good place to start.

Sidey: I don't like things with people in

Reegs: Yeah, there's

Cris: is the premise of it? What,

What, is it?

Sidey: Some people are allocated as being traitors.

Reegs: Yeah, and some people are faithful, and you're basically just trying to work out who's lying, and the traitors try and pick you off one by one,

Cris: But is that like a Big Brother thing where everybody's in one house?

Reegs: kind of like that, yeah. It's up in Scotland, so it looks absolutely sensational that they're on some manor out in the middle of nowhere, it looks incredible.

Sidey: Apparently

Reegs: it's all vacuous TV

Sidey: Season one is is apparently very good and and people love them all but I, I watched the Western Entertainment podcast and they made the point that when it's new in season one, people, the contestants don't know what to do necessarily.

And then people have seen it when they go into it after that. And so it becomes very different in season

Reegs: I had that exact conversation at home with the family saying, this will be different because people will know next time what to

Sidey: And people have strategies and how to do it

Reegs: but yeah, it's a quite kind of interesting thing of, you know, observing human behavior. The kids like it.

Cris: the quest? So, so we're all in the house and then we have to do this and I betray you and you betray me or is that?

Reegs: Yeah. People keep getting voted out basically. And I think the objective, although it's not a hundred percent clear, even though they keep telling me over and over I, if the traitors are there at the end when there's like a pool of money that they're collecting in, they whittle it down to a smaller.

It's a pool of people who are going to collectively share it, but if the traitors are part of it, they take the money instead of the, the other, the faithful, so it's them and

Cris: very good to me though

Sidey: It's really like Massively massively

Cris: yeah i've heard everybody everybody says is i've heard people talking about it

but

Reegs: It's

morally a bit shit, really, because it's just about lying,

Sidey: shit, really, because it's just about lying, basically.

Just Yeah, just

Reegs: Yeah. I don't think I've watched anything other

than

Sidey: TV, isn't it? Go on,

Dan: Homework, What about you, Chris?

Cris: I've watched the whole eight episodes of American Primeval.

Reegs: Okay. It's

Cris: really good.

Sidey: What's that on?

Cris: It's on Netflix and it's proper Western.

Dan: Sounds like a binge.

Cris: Well, I was on, I was on the plane last week to London and in airport on the plane through the airport

Sidey: like a half hour flight.

Cris: Yeah. But while you're waiting in the airport, while you are in the Gatwick

Sidey: So it's a

Cris: you, you're saying Yes.

Yeah.

Sidey: Who's in it?

Cris: There's, the actors are, I, I, I've definitely seen the guy he was in the kind of war movie with I'll tell you in a second, American.

Primeval,

and it is Betty Gilpin, Taylor Kitsch,

Dan: Oh, yeah, Taylor

Reegs: yeah.

Cris: Poirier, Shea Wingham, Derek Hinkey,

Dan: Wingham.

Cris: Dane DeHaan, Jai Courtney.

Sidey: Oh, right,

Cris: There's, honestly,

it's, I love a

Sidey: So do I

Cris: And for, for I think it's seven or eight episodes. All of them are about 40 minutes.

Sidey: Is that gonna be a season two for you not to watch?

Cris: I don't know, I couldn't care less. They're all out, they're all on Netflix. And I had them all downloaded on my phone. But, and also because I was in hospital, but, to be checked for my eyes, but in hospital it's like, Oh, you go to clinic one, check in, I will call you, half an hour later.

So I just had my headphone, one of my headphones, and I was like, I'm going to watch this. What else am I going to do? Watch all these people staring at each other. There's no point. So I actually

And

I had the Thursday morning off, so I just watched the last episode at home, and that was it. I think it's eight episodes.

It's really good, really enjoyed it.

Sidey: Okay, strong recommend.

that's

Cris: that's pretty much it. I didn't but it's good.

Sidey: I think you watched something yesterday, Chris, come on.

Dan: Newcastle Lake?

Cris: oh, yes, I watched the tune Lift the League Cup yesterday, but I wasn't in attendance. I just watched it from

Dan: was thinking it is actually called the Caribou Cup. Are you even allowed to buy caribou over here?

Reegs: What the fuck is

Dan: it

Cris: an energy drink, and now they make beer as well.

Sidey: Yeah.

Cris: They make beer as well now, but it's an energy drink. It's a Thai,

Reegs: in the good old days when it was sponsored by

Sidey: the milk?

Cris: Well, it used to be Carling Cup.

Sidey: Carling is effectively milk.

Reegs: it's

Cris: Yeah.

Dan: It was

Reegs: was,

Cris: I just think Carabao sounds so shit. So I just thought Lee Cup is the way. And when I grew up and I've ever, I first heard of this competition, it used to be called the Lee

Sidey: Of course it is.

Dan: the

Reegs: it's called

because

Cris: Yeah. It's like now it's called because of the sponsor and all that. So yeah, the tune have done it. And.

Sidey: Hawe,

Dan: How are you? How

Reegs: Have you

watched anything, Dan, other than your neighbours undressing?

Dan: Oh, no. Other than that

I

don't believe I was hugely into much this week actually. No, it was just, it was just the homework. So,

I obviously did a bit of homework on bangs because we're going to talk about top five bangs, aren't we?

Sidey: Shall we just do that.

Dan: that.

Sidey: Bangs! Bangs, You can interpret that in

Dan: in many different

Sidey: Some

ways. Do you want to, do you want to

Dan: do, you know, the, the, the difference? I'll set the tone. What's the difference between a gang bang and a joke? Will Smith won't, like his wife being a

Sidey: being a joke.

Reegs: Yeah

Dan: but yeah. Bang. So I, I. When I said bangs today, Nelly, my daughter, instantly went to

Sidey: Yes, I've got, I've got a whole section on it.

Dan: yeah, so, Irma Thurman's fringe in Pulp

Reegs: Well, it's a haircut that says a lot of different things. The bangs, isn't it? It can be like sleek and sexy.

Dan: Yeah.

nerdy.

Reegs: Nerdy.

Yeah.

Dan: Or,

Sidey: Edgy.

Reegs: Edgy.

Dan: Edge, edge lordy but I think for me.

Umma Thurman's.

Reegs: Who?

Sidey: Irma

Dan: Uma. Ima Umer. Ima Therma, Irma Therma in Pulp Fiction.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: She's

got

Jet black hair. She's got a really sort of

tight

haircut with wicked bang. And. And although that is one type of bang, we will mention it wasn't the first reason I chose bangs.

The Big Bang Theory, and I'm gonna choose a different bang for my next bang.

Reegs: Hmm. There were, there were other bangs though, weren't there? What other bangs, yeah.

Sidey: I had well the edgy one I was thinking was Rooney Mara in Girl with a Dragon Tattoo.

Reegs: A bit

Cris: a bit

of a short fringe though. Is that called a bang though?

Reegs: That

Cris: of those

Reegs: long things here

Cris: and really short.

Sidey: A

Reegs: short, kind of like an inverse mullet.

Sidey: Yeah. Zoe Kravitz in Batman has described online as micro bangs.

Reegs: Micro

bangs. Okay, yeah. I've

Dan: I really like going back to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, though, that character, Elizabeth Sallander just fantastic.

One of the best female characters,

Sidey: Such a sad ending way. Yeah. With a jacket thing, you know.

Dan: but still a wonderful character.

Cris: There's another kind of bang in that movie as well. I just,

Sidey: yeah. not,

Cris: not the nicest one,

I

Reegs: um, Like some sort of hipster idiot who

Sidey: it? Yeah like some sort of hipster idiot. She had glasses with no lenses in and bangs. Empty frames. What, no.

Hard no. I did start watching that show for a time, and then, no. I mean, it's better than the Big Bang Theory, but no. Not great.

Reegs: but It's not great. From

Cris: Scooby Doo,

Sidey: yeah.

Reegs: She, and she was fucking hot.

And really what Velma, I know she was a bit bigger, but you know, in, especially in Scooby-Doo monsters two Monsters Unleashed. Have you seen that one? I can't remember who was playing it, but she's

Cris: No, the blonde one was the hot one. Velma was the nerd

one.

Sidey: It was Sarah Michelle Gellar, wasn't it?

Reegs: She

well, that was in the older one, not in the newer one. Yeah,

Sidey: In if you ever go on TikTok, there's quite a lot of cosplay

Reegs: Velma.

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: You could be into that?

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: be I am into it

Should we just go boring explosion type bangs

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: What about Terminator 2 when Sarah Connor's waiting at the playground and having visions of a nuclear bang. Yeah. The Judgment Day bang.

Reegs: That's a pretty big bang.

Sidey: it all f ing like rips her skin off her skeleton. Yeah. It's a good one.

Dan: Yeah

Reegs: The hospital explosion in the Dark Knight, with the Joker

Sidey: With the all on Prime so I've rewatched all those recently. Actually, no, I've not done the Dark Knight Rises, the f ing third one is, but yeah, it's good.

Reegs: Famously, I suppose that scene went a bit wrong, right? So,

when it,

triggered it, it didn't work, and

it just adds to the whole

Sidey: chaos, yeah.

Dan: I remember when Pete said he banged his third cousin, and I said you should stop counting, really.

Reegs: Wow.

Cris: It's a quiet bang,

isn't

Reegs: It's a quiet bang, isn't it?

Cris: Well, until you actually get to hear it, because I think first is the whatever you call it, the air kind of hitting you, and then is the noise

and the light. So

that

would be, I think, quite an epic one, I guess,

Reegs: quite a bang

Cris: and also happened in real life as well as.

and also the bangs in the, what was it?

1901 or whatever the black and white Godzilla that we watched.

Sidey: I got zero minus one.

Cris: Yeah, that I don't know why I said 1901, but yeah, minus one, 1901. There was when they were testing the, the waters with the nuclear weapons,

Sidey: the bomb. Yeah.

Cris: that was quite they were quite, and you could hear the bangs and they disturbed. Something in the deep black ocean and then chaos followed.

Reegs: Yep.

Dan: Indeed bridge on the river Khoi, I showed this to the wife earlier and I was just we've been there like, you know, we went there for into Thailand, but it obviously looks very different.

But I watched the last. bit of that film just as Alec Guinness staggers onto

Sidey: the plunger

Dan: plunger and falls on it and then it pans over to the the bridge and you just see the first bit collapse and the train can't stop and it just goes over. It's a Yeah, it's one of the, I think it was voted one of the best explosions and other explosions are lethal weapon three where they actually did blow up a building.

It was going to come down anyway and they,

Sidey: Oh, so they Fred Dibner'd it, did they?

Dan: they, yeah, they, they, they went and did it.

Sidey: That's a good reference for, for no one. For

Dan: for, for fans. And

Sidey: don't get a lot of them these days.

Dan: and if you want to bang an ass, an Eskimo.

Alaska.

Cris: Jesus

Reegs: very

Dan: Yeah,

Reegs: The hollow men is a poem by T. S. Elliott about post world one Europe, world war one Europe, sorry, hopelessness, religion, redemption and it's divided into five parts, 98 lines and the.

Most famous of them are the last two which you will have heard, they go, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper, and it has been used over and over in films and TV Apocalypse Now, Marlon Brando is depicted reading it in that, and actually on the extra features, he reads the whole 17 minutes of it, and Southland Tales, did you ever see that one, the Richard Kelly,

Sidey: No, I didn't actually.

Reegs: it's got Timberlake and the Rock and all sorts in it that uses that.

And in the Gorge, which is the new Apple tv movie, it's

Sidey: And yeah, Taylor Joy and Whiplash.

Reegs: Miles, Taylor Miles. Yeah. And I have seen that. And it's okay. And the bad guys in that are the hollow men and that poem is

Sidey: Okay.

Reegs: not with a bang, but a whimper, a bit like that section.

Sidey: Yeah we've talked about this a million times. Heat, the bang, sort of gunshot sound when the heist that goes wrong and they're fighting in the street is like, great.

What about Song, Bang Bang, Nancy Sinatra?

Reegs: Oh yeah, there's a few songs

Sidey: And that was originally Cher who did

Reegs: I know, yeah.

Dan: i'm sure in roger rabbit don't have the gun that just comes out and

Reegs: With a bang flag, Yeah,

Dan: the bang

Reegs: She bangs the drums.

Sidey: Oh yes,

Reegs: in 24 hour party people.

Dan: we're

Sidey: so good. So good.

Reegs: and she bangs Ricky Martin. I don't know if it was the same banging who did the banging of the drums, or it was a different banging. She bangs and she bangs the drums.

Sidey: drums. There was some weird stories about him that turned out to possibly not be true. So let's not,

Reegs: he was gay, I think.

Sidey: Yeah, but some sort of I'm not going to say it Let's move on.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: I've

got a nickname, which he's not necessarily an actor. Although he has been in a few B movies, he's a former UFC fighter and now coach. His name is Dwayne Ludwig. His nickname was Dwayne Bang Ludwig. Okay. And he had he had a really good record. He was a multi practitioner, won a few belts, and then transitioned to the UFC.

And he, I think he fought for the belt for the lightweight belt in two thou. Oh, I'm gonna say 2010, but I could be wrong here. And he is famous for being the coach of TJ Dilla Show.

fighters. It used to be down south in Sacramento, California. Now he's in Colorado and he's very good. And he's got the point system where instructions given to fighters normally is one, two, jab, hook, cross, whatever.

Whereas for him is seven, three, nine, and For each fight. It's so, so let's say 7 3, 9 means high kick 5 8 2 means left jab cross all, all these kind of informations. And for each fight with each fighter, there's a different code. That means different things. Cheat code. Yeah. And it means do this now.

Change stance, I dunno, whatever it is in, in fights. So he's very well known and very well respected in the MMA world. And I had to give him a shout. There

And I thought it's a great nickname

Reegs: Yeah, it is.

I

Dan: fighter.

Yeah, it

Sidey: Yeah, they

did.

Dan: she gave them up,

didn't

It's a commitment. The Death Star when Luke

Sidey: Skywalker

Dan: fires two protein torpedoes.

Reegs: Protein? Protein? He fired his protein all over. Protein torpedoes all over.

Dan: Torpedoes. Torpedoes into the reactor

Sidey: you

Dan: know, causing a chain reaction.

Sidey: it's like

Dan: it was like those Linda McCartney protein

Sidey: That's right, yeah.

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: basically what goes in. Any better bangs than that?

Reegs: Well, the Big Bang, like, the entire creation of the universe, sometimes you see that depicted in

Cris: Yeah,

the theory of Big Bang,

Reegs: It's, well, Terrence Malick, A Tree of Life there's a sequence in there where, you know, it picks up the story with Sean Penn as an alcoholic father whose son has died and he's, like, processing a lot of shit going on in his life and then it kind of starts at the beginning, literally, of time and everything and we see the big bang and then human evolution and all that stuff that then leads up back to him through dinosaurs and shit, it's cool, and you get a very similar thing but told from a biblical perspective in Darren Aronofsky's Noah.

Sidey: I haven't seen that

Cris: I've seen it. It was with Russell Crowe. Yeah. Yes.

Dan: like this?

Yeah, I I must admit I Didn't

Reegs: You see him tell the story of creation and you see it. It's like the scientific story of creation, but it all happening in seven days. But as you

Sidey: Right, yeah.

Reegs: gases all coming together in rocks and shit and then coalescing, then, you know, an ecosystem and all that sort of stuff.

That's pretty cool. And then Luke Besson's Lucy does it as well. You seen that one? When, at the end, when she achieves 100 percent or whatever, her consciousness expands and it like, pfft, creates like a whole new universe type thing.

Cris: Is that Morgan Freeman and Scarlett Johansson? Yeah. Yes. Yeah. I've seen that.

Sidey: And the theory of everything is the biopic of Stephen Hawking, who contributes a lot towards the Big Bang theory and writing then the brief history of time, et cetera. Yeah. Which is kind of big banging.

Reegs: I just

Sidey: Yeah. I just got my norm.

Cris: Okay, I've got the one bang that I wanted to put in as in noise is only because I've seen this movie is now on Netflix and I'm probably going to watch it again is Sisu when they shoot with the tank after him and that the bang is is real and they the way they film it is quite a nice shot of the projectile and how it goes.

And it's quite a nice loud bang. And also a bit of a controversial bang in terms of sexuality in a film that starred both Tupac Shakur and Janet Jackson called Poetic Justice in 1993. Apparently, and it's widely, yeah, but apparently he kind of forced

Sidey: She wasn't in on it?

Cris: Yeah, he kind of forced himself. So I don't want to, you know, cry anything.

He's dead. She's never

Sidey: She had him killed?

Reegs: Mmm. Maybe.

Cris: There's, loads of theories about that, but it's a bang that it looks quite, I don't know, the movie itself is not great, but it's like two musicians that made a movie and whatever. They were never really, never romantically involved, but it was a little bit of a, apparently a little bit of a bang gone wrong.

Dan: Well,

I did mention mrs.

Mia wallace, for great bangs earlier, but I think my nom will be Spock.

Spock's bangs because he's got

Sidey: had hell of a fringe. Yeah,

Dan: that's a, that's a male bang.

Sidey: Live long and prosper.

Dan: so there we go. Straight into my nom.

Have you got a better bang than that

Reegs: well, just a quick shout out for the sculpture B of the bang, which is outside or was outside the Manchester City Arena. It was an amazing thing that it looked like just it was supposed to be like an explosion at the point of an explosion, but it was made out of these like 56 spikes that were suspended in the air.

That was pretty cool. But no, my noms are for the bang bus.

Sidey: Okay, nice

Dan: Nice. Nice bang.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: My

nom is, yeah, my nom is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows because they make a joke about the Big Bang Theory TV show, which we're going to watch and enjoy later.

Cris: and enjoy later. Um, Kiss Kiss

Reegs: Yeah, it's

Sidey: me

Dan: good one.

Cris: great film, I like the film, and it's got double bang in the name, so it has to feature.

I thought the film was actually quite good. There's

Reegs: It's two bangs for the price of

Sidey: Yeah,

Yeah. Let us know your favourite bangs.

Dan: Bang for your buck.

Sidey: Is not a sports movie.

Dan: movie. Yeah. Woody Harrelson basketball. Who'd have thunk it? Who'd have thunked

Cris: for a change? Just basketball. If you're ever in dub,

Sidey: If you like that You can wait, you can just get through the whole movie and then he does a song at the end. Yeah. His own composition. Yeah. So there is that. Don't let the sports bit put you off if you're not into sports movies.

Dan: you off you're not into sports

Reegs: song. Two hours.

Cris: So I was in three minutes, I think I've, I've definitely looked at

Dan: and three. I've definitely looked at it.

Sidey: Much like Hoosiers, this is the story of a basketball coach.

Reegs: Inspired by a real team

Sidey: Yeah. The friends

Cris: Yeah. well, It's based

Sidey: a remake of a, it's a remake of a

Reegs: remake of a Spanish film, Campiones,

and based on an actual team in

In Valencia somewhere.

Sidey: But, yeah, so Woody Harrelson is a coach, and we see him busting makes him feel good with Ernie Hudson.

Reegs: Yeah. It opens actually with him in bed with

Sidey: does, with,

Cris: Yeah, I was gonna say,

Sidey: Caitlin Olsen. That's

Cris: why I was referencing Tinder, because that's how it starts

Sidey: Ah, they're doing the wild thing.

We see her pants.

Reegs: they've had a hookup as the, as the kids

Sidey: Yeah, and he's being a total douche afterwards, like, on his iPad, like, researching basketball moves. She's trying to talk to him about, you know, possibly this might be a thing, or whatever. Or, you know, just Yeah, and he's mostly talking about what

Reegs: Yeah. And he's mostly talking about what a big shot, you know, we get a little bit of backstory straight away.

Like, you know, he could have been in the NBA and he, he wasn't or he's, there's, he's had run ins with people and he's ended up in the J leagues,

Dan: Marcus Markovic.

Sidey: Marinovich.

Cris: I did like this when she's like, Ah, so you've got six more leagues until the NBA.

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: No, until you're one below, I think he says. Let's see.

Reegs: But she's fine with it, actually. I mean, she's, you know, she's like, this is just a hookup, it's fine. for her

Dan: It's not the first time I've swiped

Reegs: It's not the first time I've swiped right, exactly.

It's

Sidey: exactly. He's got one

book.

Reegs: He's got one book, which she ridicules him for, and she, she leaves. And then we, we do see him in his job at the

Somewhere.

Cris: Stallions or

Reegs: The stallions? It could be. Yeah, the wild stallions. Coaching them for Ernie Hudson. Yeah. Winston

Cris: He's in Des Moines, Iowa, no? Yes. That's where,

yeah.

Reegs: He is.

Sidey: And, yeah. Ernie Hudson's calling a play for the, at the end of this game. Um, Woody Harrelson just says, No, that's rubbish, we're not going to do

Dan: He can see it ain't going to work.

Sidey: They have a, they have a a disagreement on the side of the court which is obviously not great because fucking every sport is televised in the states no matter what level it is and it comes up on sports center because big news

Reegs: is. And it

Cris: yeah, the

alien

Sidey: and we see him he shoves and he has into the ground and is like then oh fuck what have i done

Reegs: It's clear what they're trying to establish. He's this tactical genius, but, you know, doesn't connect with people. Ernie Hudson will later tell him he couldn't run that play because the guy's lost his head because his mother's in hospital or something.

Whatever it is, you know, some human element he's

Sidey: I, I know that because I'm, you know, I understand the players. I've got a connection with players.

You haven't, you just,

Reegs: And this is obviously a pattern for Marcus because he's, and it's busted up his career as he's dropped down the league. So lots of promise and potential,

Sidey: Yeah. And he's then, as we are shown, been shown it on ESPN Sports Center. He, you know, it comes back from the telly and he's watching it in the bar and the barman's like, do you want me to turn it off?

He's like, no, no, turn it up. And then he's getting pissed and then he's going to drive home. Ill

Dan: And we learned that, yeah, they fucked that play up.

Sidey: He's watching two people get arrested and then just drives into the

Reegs: police. And I

Sidey: isn't it? He's just looking

Dan: two guys that are getting arrested, they're like, giving him thumbs up, thanks mate, and legging it off. Because the police go over obviously breathalyze him and he's next meeting his lawyer on the steps of the courthouse. And as they go up the lawyer is saying, nah, I do these loads of these, don't worry.

Ah, Flippin heck. It's the it's the real kind

Cris: Holy Mary or

Dan: Yes, it's a it's a really strict judge who hates this kind of drunken driver case. And The the lawyer's just trying not to condemn his future cases,

Sidey: he doesn't, but you

Dan: Yeah, and he doesn't really you know, he's not the kind of character that wants to do that but he Manages to get himself sent down into jail.

But just before she's about to,

Sidey: Well, she gives him the choice.

She says, right, I'm sending you to 90 days community service.

Dan: no, no,

Sidey: I'm not doing that. She's like, all right, fine, you're going inside for 18 months. He's like, okay, I'll, I'll, I'll take that. I'll

Reegs: take the 90 days.

Dan: I don't want to, I don't want to, I want to give to the community. I don't want to, I don't want to have to serve you know, against my will. So he talks himself into coaching a learning disability team basketball.

And

Reegs: Intellectual disabilities seemed to be the way they were describing this group of people during the movie, which was a new

Sidey: phrase. I hadn't heard that, no.

Cris: Yeah,

Reegs: Intellectual disabilities seemed to be how they were, yeah.

Sidey: So yeah, he goes, he's basically given this thing, right?

You're going to this town. This is where you need to turn up at this time. And you're going to teach these kids. So basically, you know, it's a sponsored program.

Reegs: It's at a rec center, which is run by

Sidey: Cheech and Chong.

Reegs: amazing. Woody Harrelson's a big fan of Smoking the Old Weed, so maybe him

Cris: And also,

Dan: Oh, it's 100 percent that

happened.

Cris: This is also the point where you realize that he's completely ignorant to these kids conditions.

Reegs: Well, he hasn't met him yet

Cris: No, no, but even before that, he's like, what? As in like,

Reegs: oh yeah, he goes to use the R words, doesn't he? And the judge said, he says, what do I call these?

And she says, call 'em by their names. Yeah. So

Sidey: yeah, Yeah, there's loads of that. Of Cheech Marin saying, well, these kids can do, like, loads of stuff.

Some of them, you know, this guy, Benny,

Reegs: Well, he's like, he says, you know, you don't have to make them be the Lakers, like, this is not about

Sidey: not about that. And so, when we get to meet them, there's there's kind of a spectrum within the group of different, but some quite pronounced, like, severe

Reegs: There's all sorts, you know, there's I think the one of the my favorites is Johnny Who will turn out to be Alex's brother Kevin

Sidey: yeah, yeah.

Reegs: He describes himself as the homie with an extra

Sidey: pony. That's quite embarrassing though.

Reegs: Syndrome he's an animal lover who like has a real aversion to showering

Sidey: Yeah. Well, later on when they, when they go back to his house and his, his mother's there and his sister and they're saying, Oh yeah, we take, we, we take all these animals back from the animal shelter because none of, none of them are ever killed.

And they were looking because

Reegs: None of them. Yeah. And who else is there? There's Marlon, who's like a walking encyclopedia wearing the Peter Cech type

Sidey: There's one lad Darius who can really play and he just says no he refuses to get involved and so we're going to find out a bit more about his his backstory but we kind of need him on the team because they're hopeless I mean they are hopeless

Cris: Yeah, there's Showtime,

who

Reegs: Showtime, Showtime, he's got

Dan: All the celebrations.

Reegs: of, a sort of over the head backwards

Sidey: Yeah. He turns his back on the ring.

And

Reegs: then some amazing celebrations, and if it sounds like we're having fun, it's only because they're having so much fun, and the movie is not patronising at all, these are very fleshed out,

Cris: No, no, it was, yeah.

Dan: But one thing is really clear straight away. I mean,

Reegs: which he never does. Yeah, three or four of them live together in a

Sidey: Yeah, three or four of them live together in a sort of shared housing program where they're, they're sheltered.

There there's people help us there all the time. Benny mentioned him. He lives on his own. He's able to live on his own. He's got a job, but that interferes with his ability to

Reegs: Well, he's being taken advantage of, really, at his work

Sidey: and so yeah, you're right. They are, they're quite a tight knit unit

Cris: tight knit What's the guy with the girlfriend?

He's, he's good. I can't remember his name, but he's

Reegs: guy, he's in a band.

Sidey: Yeah, he works in a factory making dye and just keeps dyeing his hair. Yeah,

Cris: he's got two girlfriends.

Sidey: And although they're obviously not going to be great at basketball, but they just celebrate each other's but they love that Showtime just shoots the ball like that.

Reegs: And, and they're like, he says to him if he ever scored, he's like, no, he is not even got close.

Sidey: even close.

Reegs: one day he'll hit the rim or something.

They say something like

Sidey: watching it going, right, I'm waiting for this to pay off.

Reegs: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So he meets them all at the and I think he's immediately taken with, with the group that he meets and he accepts a lift home from Johnny who offers it. And it turns out his lift home is with Alex, his swipe right Tinder date from earlier.

Sidey: And all the while that this is going on he's trying to negotiate, you know a job opportunity somewhere else the guy that He was with in des moines Has said there's some bullshit about my uncle is with The seattle supersonics or something like that and i'll probably be able to get you in and maybe get you an interview.

He's like, okay brilliant And you you're watching it again. Well, he's obviously he's going to have this journey with the friends team And at some point there's going to be a clash with this other, you know

Dan: You can see it coming. You can see all the

Reegs: All the predictable

Sidey: Yeah, it's absolutely fine,

Dan: but it's the journey on the way and the laughs at one point they get kicked off the bus

Reegs: That's an amazing sequence,

Dan: yeah, he's just, one of them's chatting so much and other ones kind of

Reegs: throwing They actually face a little bit of prejudice from that woman on the bus. They

Cris: the driver.

Reegs: her that, and the driver

Sidey: Well, they throw something at the driver, man.

Reegs: that. Yeah, yeah, it was more understandable

Sidey: But they're just singing, and one of the guys who's got headphones on, he's singing this song, and there's a lady with her daughter there, and she kicks off about, can't you be quiet, and you're like, why don't you fuck

Reegs: I think what she says is they should have their own bus or something like that.

Yeah.

Sidey: So he's starting to give a shit now.

He's like, no, I'm not having that. And then, but then one of them puked all over.

Cris: them pees all over it. Yeah, and they're getting a little bit better. I

Dan: he

Sidey: proper exorcist. Yeah.

Reegs: yeah.

Dan: Yeah, and they're getting a little bit better. I mean, they, they are playing a little bit better and it's still for Woody as a

Reegs: deal of emphasis placed on

Dan: There's

not, but there is, there is for Woody Harrelson's character still. He's still a coach that wants to win. He's still trying to get them to improve

Reegs: Teach them new skills, like the pick and roll.

Sidey: They need to get better because of the thrust of the story.

Reegs: from the pick and roll, Chris, yeah.

Sidey: the, the conflict is going to be that he's still a good coach and that's how he's going to get picked up. You know, so that, so they need to get better for that to happen in the story. And then we see you know, they start to have a few competitive games and it's really all about just. Everyone having fun and encouraging everyone to get involved and, and just do the best you can, but, you

Reegs: They do have some good strong players. Like you said, there's Constantino is her name. She's actually a famous actor, actress, actor.

Sidey: a total

Reegs: Yeah, Madison Tevlin. She, she just kicks out. She says, Oh, you'll know McConaughey

Sidey: today. And all

Reegs: gives him a load of grief.

Sidey: it's a related

group.

Reegs: and yeah, so they, she comes in and he's quite a good player, but the one he really kind of wants to, to get to the team is, is Darius.

Sidey: He takes them outside, doesn't he, to one of these courts where you, sort of, winner stays on type thing. And they eventually get on the court. And he feigns that Darius is just there watching, but he won't get involved.

And eventually, oh, my legs gone. I can't do it. You know, you're gonna have

Cris: And then

Sidey: He's

Cris: hip, then it's his back, it's like everything seems to

Sidey: Darius just said, no. That's all he said. No. And he said, come on. You can't, you can't leave your mates. They're all out there. I'm not involved. It's just you. And then, he's given them the back. We we see him play and he's outstanding.

He's a proper player. And we find out then his back story is that he was really good player in high school. Probably going to get a scholarship to go to college and there was a road traffic collision with a drunk driver and that's why he won't.

Reegs: with yeah. Woody Harrison, because he knows Woody's offense is also drug driving, and he understand. Yeah. he's traumatic brain injury. Yeah.

Dan: it. takes the moment a little bit later on the film where Woody Harrelson goes up to his front door and just apologizes and says, look, I'm, I'm never

ever do that again.

I might drink, but,

Sidey: He says, do you still drink? He goes, well, yeah, I do like a

Dan: yeah.

Sidey: But

I'm not ever gonna

Dan: I will never ever get in a car and he goes and leaves. And of course we eventually then

Reegs: He doesn't ask him to play for him or anything, he just says I, he actually just says I understand.

Dan: think he learned a lot from Gene Hackman in Hoosiers.

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: did. He watched it, yeah.

Dan: where he didn't want to ask

Sidey: Because he is also learning a lot of life lessons from these

kids,

Cris: He's

Reegs: It's very much an on off relationship with them. They blow hot and cold. He gets a second book to learn. She's a traveling Shakespeare

Dan: It's a lovely, casual relationship. Huh, remember them?

Reegs: Mm.

Sidey: He says to her, like, where's this going? Because I might have to leave and says look don't worry about it.

Yeah, and you know,

Reegs: It's off and on, they blow hot and cold, sometimes she's into it, sometimes he's

Sidey: it? She

Reegs: There's a big issue, really, with, with Johnny,

Sidey: gets attached Well,

Reegs: Well, it's more her, she, she,

Sidey: as you're hiding behind that has

Reegs: an interest in living in the group home with some of his friends and it's kind of Alex who's holding him back because maybe she doesn't

Cris: And that was awkward dinner conversation,

Reegs: was I?

Weren't it

Cris: be honest. Ah,

Sidey: When her mum says,

Cris: meatloaf is amazing. Da da da. And then it's like, ah, so you what? You said you're going to be We don't talk about that. We Oh, okay.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: And her

mum just says to her, Well, you know, Another boyfriend you're scaring away. And she says, Come on, you two are having sex.

It's awkward.

Reegs: And there's a nice little meta thing as well, like just, you know, cause you're sort of asking the question whether she's exploiting her brother with disabilities a little bit in the same way that you could, if there were accusations that could ever be levied against the movie, you could at least say it was discussing that within it.

So, yeah.

Sidey: When he

calls her out for that, she gets, she gets the arse and tells him to fuck off basically. And then again, yeah, I think that they do, they, they sort of, she still turns up for games because obviously her brother's there. And then when he's, he does get the job offer to go to the NBA as like a third coach.

And he just says to the guys, look, I'm gonna, I'll finish out my 90 days and fuck off.

Dan: I've finished my 90 days actually, I'm going beyond that, he's seeing a

Sidey: Finish the

Dan: finish the

Reegs: announces it like this big triumph. Do you remember? Cause he's, they've made the finals, the Special Olympics, I

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: especially Yeah.

Reegs: You're going to go to the Special Olympics, it's going to be amazing. And I'm going to leave afterwards. And he's like expecting them all to kind

Sidey: oh, well done. Yeah, well

Reegs: done. But they call him out for it.

Dan: well, the last coach left and they hate him because yeah, they, they want that, that connection. They want that longevity and relationship with him and they, they really like him. And for them, it's not about winning. It is about the. The people, about the, the time they spend, the laughs they have,

Sidey: well there's a, a news reporter calls 'em out and says, you know, don't you think that this your story's been exploited by this NBA team who've had a load of shy PR and they're just getting you in to, you know,

Cris: To cover over their

things,

Reegs: Yeah, because there was a, I think there was a thing of a bullying culture wasn't there or something, and loads of stories at the Seattle Supersonics. So that's like almost based on a real life thing I

Sidey: guess

Reegs: but also he's been exploiting his mate as well, which, you know, he'll realize he was, he was really just using his fucking strange looking, fell friend with his connections to the NBA in the first place.

Dan: The guy who's got a massage people and just take farts in the face all day. Yeah.

He's

like, oh, I can't stand this.

Cris: They do need to go to Winnipeg and they do need money.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: So

Sidey: Yeah, Benny that we, is it Benny? Yes. Benny that we mentioned, he's working at this restaurant and he's basically just been treated like shit by the boss. Who's getting tax breaks by having disabled people work at the restaurant. And every time that Benny wants to play, he's told no. And don't be seen out front of the restaurant.

You know, you stay in the back and wash the dishes and do all the shite jobs that no one else wants to do. And they go down and well, he just asks. And is told no.

And he's like that's it.

Dan: two or three lines that

Reegs: He's rehearsed sort of, like, two or three lines that are very cogently, you know, put together and that sort of

Dan: Woody

Sidey: done.

So we see Woody House in cosplay. Amazing. And,

Cris: alex,

Sidey: Alex, they go there, she's

some sort of official and he's there as a Mexican officer.

Reegs: Officer Sanchez So he has to be See

and

Sidey: and they just bullshit this guy and saying that you've been a fucking horrible bastard. These people how about you fucking. Basically blackmail him

Dan: shout, it's all a trip out

Sidey: for this ship or we're gonna like take all your all the tax break money back and he's like fuck Probably does some quick numbers in his head and just the next thing you see is a plane taking off from there on their way

Dan: and they're, they're kind of skiing dry skiing through the through the corridor of the hotel the night before the game

Cris: They play curling, yeah.

Sidey: Constantino turns up with her boogie board.

Dan: Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Never you mind she's got attitude with

Sidey: No, she's got skis.

Cris: No, she's got the skis.

Sidey: the, the big ones. The first time she turned up, wasn't it ? Yeah. Yeah. There it says Right. Big game tomorrow. No matter what, the window's door, let's just do it right, go to bed, get some rest, and they're just fucking hoofing around.

Dan: right, go to bed, get some rest, and let's just do it right.

Reegs: running up and down the hotel corridors,

Dan: corridor and it's the night before the game.

So they're having lots of laughs and they suddenly play a team that, again, just look amazing.

Sidey: They're just bigger than them, aren't

Reegs: say that Darius as well as he's decided he's come back into the team he told coach before they went that his mother had told him that he needed to start working on

Sidey: She wanted him Yeah, she wanted to forgive the woman who hit him with the car. She's like, I can't do that yet but I'll start

Reegs: practice on you. Yeah.

Sidey: So Darius

Reegs: Darius is back in the team, which gives him a bit of a shout and a chance to really

Sidey: it's kind of like operation, give the ball to Darius. Yeah.

Reegs: Well, it's very much like Hoosiers. And they actually name drop Hoosiers in it, and I was getting, like, so many shades of when you were talking about it. There's so many parts of

Dan: of it. Of who?

Sidey: a lot of parallels

Dan: Hazes. Ah.

Reegs: They actually name drop it in that

Dan: Ha ha ha ha ha.

Cris: Ha ha ha Ha

Dan: It

Sidey: again the game, is tight and it comes down to a key moment and they're going to

Reegs: Is the key moment when Marlon has his finger dislocated,

Cris: ha ha ha

Reegs: it's like at a

Sidey: just resets it himself

Reegs: About hyper elasticity, it's a property that some people with

neurodivergent

things have, so they can actually

Sidey: but

Cris: It looks

Sidey: It's right angles.

It's just going off at right angles.

Dan: an L. Yeah.

Sidey: yeah, they're going to, they're going to come down to this one moment in the game and they've, before the, no, it's, I think it's at halftime because they're getting whooped at halftime and it gives them this big speech about like, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter what happens in the game. You know, you're a champ. You live on your own. You know, you've done all this, all this shit, all this adversity and you've come through it all and you're all champions and they're all fucking buzzing. And then it comes down to this one moment that you've been waiting for the whole year.

I think this is the last film of Showtime to do his get his chance to shoot the

Dan: Well, you, you've got the pick and roll and,

Reegs: roll,

Sidey: That's right, they set it up for that.

Dan: they set it up perfectly and he normally falls asleep at a pick and roll until he says,

Reegs: Well, he wasn't allowed to move, because he told him, the first time they did it, he told him it was a statue, and it was quite hard to, like, work around it after

Sidey: just takes it completely literally, doesn't he? The statues don't move. And Until

Dan: some Shakespeare statue

Sidey: Hermione, yeah.

Dan: and it's on the pick and roll. It's on. He bounces the ball. He's right under the basket. He's done this shot a hundred times.

He's got a chance to win it, but then then he sees he sees outside showtime says he's free But of course he's free because he's a million miles away from the fucking ring.

Reegs: And he's never even sunk a basket in the

Dan: So they so they give it to he throws it to showtime Who then sets up his classic showtime shot and it slow mo's up doesn't it the ball it goes really high and

Sidey: It

Dan: for the first time,

Showtime gets anywhere near the ring and it hits the

Sidey: Did you think it was going in? And

Dan: it bounces up and it takes another bounce and it bounces up again off the rim and it drops off and they, the buzzer goes and they've lost by

Reegs: And they celebrate wildly though, that's the

Cris: That he hit the rim, yeah.

Reegs: It hits the rim and falls out and they all

Sidey: He

says,

Dan: rim! He's hit

Sidey: well what are you celebrating for? You lost. And he's like, no, he hit the rim. He's never done that before.

Reegs: he, he says we were already champions. He told

Dan: He's got his like, big ball kind of celebration going on and everything. Showtime's got all the celebrations and

Sidey: then he just, yeah, Woody Harrelson's like, Yeah, you're right. And they just, they just get involved with the celebrations

Reegs: And the reason they were champions is because they'd all overcome their own personal battles.

Benny had stood up to his boss. Johnny has become a champion in a moment that he'll actually name for himself as becoming a champion because he goes to tell Alex, I want to go and live in the group home with my friends and he will be allowed to, you know, that will happen. So yeah, great, lovely stuff.

They were

Sidey: He's also fucked the SuperSonics off, we didn't say that, but he declined that job

Reegs: That happens quite at the end, doesn't it? Yeah.

Cris: We are towards the end

Reegs: Yeah. Right at the end.

Dan: well he decides not to take the Seattle job

Reegs: Yeah,

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: he decides that

You know, everybody else was right and he takes a, he does take a different job though. At

university.

Sidey: he goes to see Ernie Hudson again, doesn't he?

Dan: and who's, who's setting him up with a local university.

But the the fart smelling assistant takes over the friends. So there's a succession going on there. And,

Sidey: Well, I think the implication is that he'd still go back and watch them and be

Reegs: involved, He'd oversee it, yeah, absolutely.

Dan: And Johnny's moved in with his friends and then there's obviously you've got

Sidey: Woody's song,

Dan: song and also

Reegs: Wumba as well, which is a movie, a song that they, what is it called, Tub Thumping? Is that the

Dan: of the song? And Showtime making a shot.

Sidey: Post credits, yeah. Yeah. If you

Cris: Oh, I didn't stay to watch

Sidey: it. He nailed one.

Dan: one from, from downtown,

Reegs: Woody's Backwoods

Dan: with his backwards shot. So, yeah. It was a really nice film. I felt I'm a, I'm a soft spot for any sports movies. Yes, they don't win, but in Remember the Titans,

Sidey: in many ways. It's

like

Dan: they tell you about, and next season they came back and when I was thinking, well, why don't you just show me next season then?

Where is this one? They were winners. Because of the adversity they came through and all the the, the characters. There was loads of laughs on the way. I thought there were, you know, some brilliant performances in there as well from all around. The, the, what was her name? The, the Madison Tevlin.

I thought she was fantastic. I think she's just got brilliant comic timing. And

Reegs: film doesn't exist without the cast

Cris: Oh yeah.

Reegs: cast are amazing and you know, there are people in the world who don't realize that people with disabilities have passions, have talents goals, that they get drunk, that they have sex, that they you know, play in bands, that they do ballet and this movie, you know, shows you all of that about, It's People with disabilities and there are whole scenes that you've probably never seen before where there were eight or ten disability, you know, people with disabilities on screen having scenes together.

You just don't get that. So it's great thing that Bobby Farrelly is done here. This

Cris: it was funny. Are you hard yet, coach? Are you hard yet?

Reegs: thing.

Sidey: Yeah, it was really good. I really enjoyed it. It was great. I was at the end going, I should volunteer and do

Reegs: volunteer and

Sidey: quite inspired, yeah. It was good. I really loved that shot to the drop in the game.

Dan: that shot to have got there in the game. And

Sidey: they never won

Dan: and it

Reegs: And it, and it really does sideway, sidestep like sentimentality in many cases, like, cause it is a gross out movie, like, there's something about Mary or some of the other stuff that the director's also done before.

It is that kind of movie, it just has a cast that you don't see all the time in movies,

Sidey: Yeah, and everything they do that's funny, you're just laughing along at the stuff that they're doing, it's

Reegs: fleshed out characters, and everybody's in on the joke, and yeah.

Sidey: Really good

Cris: Yeah.

Dan: Strong

Cris: enjoyed this. Yeah, it was good, good fun. I caught myself laughing a couple of times. I was just watching it, and just, Puh!

Sidey: Next time walking

football,

Dan: watching

Cris: game. Yeah.

Dan: The big ball celebration.

Sidey: Yeah. Strong recommend.

Cris: Yeah.

Sidey: big Bang

Theory. Yeah.

So excited about this got nominated.

Cris: this, is

Sidey: Anyone with a sort of infantile

Reegs: say. Do your children watch this?

Dan: Well, I watched it with my daughter today. She's 13. I mean, it's not a five year old thing. But I think if your kid's at secondary school, then

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Face reality, they're getting much worse than this in the playground. Probably

Sidey: probably funnier than this though.

Dan: I don't know, I mean, it depends how you like your canned it's one of the things that, Yeah, it's one of the things that instantly hits you with this is canned laughter. And I said to Nelly, who was about to say to me

Reegs: is that?

Dan: No, I

said, Sidey's gonna hate this, it's got canned laughter.

And she said, I was just about to say, I hate canned laughter.

Sidey: Mate

of mine

Dan: gave me a DVD

Sidey: ROM of this years and years ago.

And it's like, oh this is amazing mate, watch this, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get right on that, bin, fuck off, I hate this, it's fucking awful.

Dan: Yeah, is it because of the can laugh

Sidey: Yeah, that's part of it, it's just not funny, the writing's shit it's just absolutely like, paper thin

Dan: Well, I think I'm like a million series with

Sidey: with, 279 episodes of

Dan: Right. Yeah, there's a lot and this was season one episode one.

Sidey: Don't get wrong, like, people love this, but I'm not one of them.

Dan: And this episode features Sheldon and Leonard,

Reegs: They do open by talking about something very, very interesting, because they're talking about wave particle duality, the two slit experiment. And I always think that is a fascinating

Dan: But it kind of shows what the fuck is going on with life. If you don't know what that experiment is, YouTube it or something, because it will flip your mind to the point where you think we are just living in.

There are laws to this universe. We don't know what's going on. And It's a different

Reegs: And there's a few good liners in there. He

Dan: And there's a few good liners in there. She said, he goes is this the high IQ sperm bank? He said, if you're going to ask that, then it's not a good sign.

Reegs: She ignores him, so he does her entire crossword in so we can see how

Dan: Yeah, and then they start to have second thoughts and they they sneak out and you see the the social anxiety and awkwardness of the characters and Then it goes into a quite a well known lively theme tune, which is like this

Sidey: No, it's not. I'm not fucking doing it.

Dan: going

Reegs: not at this point either as well.

It's quite a lot of plot before it gets to that. I've got, I wrote when it is 'cause they actually see Penny first. They go, they go back to where their apartment is and they go up the stairs, which will become a recurring set for the Big Bang theory or feature over and over in the episodes. Coco.

Yeah.

Sidey: She is a very attractive lady.

Reegs: is very attractive. Her character is non-existent in the pilot. There's just nothing to her at all. She really is just a pair of boobs on a pair of legs for the, for the two guys to kind of ogle. Yeah. But she will become a bit more fleshed out over

Dan: yeah,

Penny, she's just moved in and they can't believe that they've got a hot girl right across the hallway.

Sidey: Meet boyfriend

Dan: we meet her boyfriend a little bit later on, who's an absolute unit,

Reegs: a little bit later on who's an

Sidey: When Sheldon was going on about his chair, I was like, oh my god, am I Sheldon?

Reegs: Yeah, of course you are. Everybody relates to Sheldon in some ways.

Dan: Yeah. Yeah. I

Sidey: I sit there, no one else can sit there, don't sit in my chair,

Dan: Yeah. Yeah, really.

Reegs: the very specific reasons, though, is why that chair is very good.

Dan: Yeah, that's right.

She sits in his spot and he's like, I sit there. And she's going, But, does it matter? Can you sit somewhere else? And he's like, No. That doesn't make sense in my

Reegs: It's based upon like reasons by, you know, the temperature, how strong

Sidey: Angle of the TV.

Reegs: of the TV. Very

Dan: Even though the angular TV wouldn't have mattered because the TV wasn't on and the window wasn't open. It was just all these kind of

Sidey: Creature of habit.

Dan: yeah,

Sidey: That was the one relatable

Reegs: the same things. Which have happened. Yeah, which have happened. Absolutely, that's one relatable bit.

No, no, no, no, no.

Sidey: nah, nah, nah, nah,

Dan: misses, misses because she's doesn't know how to do it. Well, everybody knows

Reegs: He's very dysfunctional, isn't he? I mean, he's socially unaware, let's say. This

Dan: I mean, this had a spin off of Young Sheldon. I mean,

Sidey: Absolutely awful. Worse than this,

Dan: Oh, Young Sheldon's amazing!

Really like Young Sheldon.

Reegs: I've never seen it. And then we meet the rest of the gang as well, including Jewish engineer Howard Wolowitz with mummy issues and thinks he's a ladies man. And you've also

Dan: He's got a Gameboy no, he's got like a Nintendo belt

Reegs: He's got amazing belt buckles Raj KI think is his name.

He's a mute Indian guy. Seems to be a bit weird.

Dan: They're all physicists and engineers, the kind of people that don't get to speak to beautiful hot certainly don't have the luck to live next door to them and certainly don't have them coming in and out of their shower,

Reegs: and certainly don't marry them At some point later in one of the

Sidey: Who gets voter?

Reegs: Leonard marries penny right.

Later in one

Dan: he's

Sidey: So yeah, this is, you know, your sort of quintessential, like lowest common denominator, American sitcom canned laughter, very basic.

That's what you're gonna get. And if you can make your piece of that, which lots of people have, you will love it.

Reegs: I like the sciencey bits sometimes that are in it.

Sidey: I'd rather just watch like Ns know, thing and just talk about that. Or Brian Cox, whatever.

Reegs: Yeah, i'm not going to go for to bat for this extremely mediocre program but

Sidey: but like Dan is,

Dan: no, I do, I I like the I like the actors in it.

Reegs: Kaylee kawako. I like

Dan: I like John Mark Gki,

Gki. He Yeah I, I think he's good. He's, he's Belgian, you know,

Sidey: That one's perfect. They were getting, like, so, obviously this is the, we watched the pilot.

Reegs: the pilot, obviously

Sidey: Invented the question mark. This is the pilot, obviously there's a million series of it, and much like Friends or Seinfeld, when they got, you know, deep into this, they were earning crazy money.

Dan: were earning crazy money. 900

Reegs: That'd do, wouldn't it? For 20 episodes a

Dan: half an episode.

Sidey: well finish it.

Reegs: Yeah, you might as well finish the

Dan: bothered.

Reegs: be honest.

and everybody's been in it as well. A lot of celebrities and real scientists and you know, I don't know,

Probably.

someone else has been in it as

well.

Sidey: take the piss out of Stephen Hawking's robot

Reegs: Yeah, they do,

Yeah.

Dan: Yeah, it's where I remember him from Roseanne actually, working with John Goodman. I mean, that show great laughs as well.

Sidey: Roseanne Barr as well.

Dan: Yeah,

Reegs: I think again, you know, more seeing definitely, although they don't label it as such for Sheldon, definitely having a kind of obviously neurodivergent lead

Sidey: Yeah. I just assume he is autistic in some way.

Reegs: It's sort of, yeah. It was, it's an interesting choice and not really been done before, especially in the long running syndicated

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: Apparently he just showed up to set when, not set, but the auditions, and was like that the whole time. So, like, didn't break character, so went kind of as Sheldon already and was being really annoying until they were like, Oh, I know what's going on

Sidey: We've never seen anyone do that

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Well, sounds like you guys weren't absolutely into it, but I think,

Reegs: I don't mind it, I've, right, if I want something absolutely mindless on then it's on, or I

Dan: I've watched this with the kids.

Right. You know, I mean, it's not anything that I sat, settle down and watch on my own, but it's, it's. Kind of safe for secondary school kids, you

Sidey: Yeah, yeah, it's harmless.

Dan: it's got laughs in it, but it's not completely wet either, you know, it's got

It talks about other issues in an ad. Yeah adolescence. It mentions sex, you know, it's it It's got stuff that will make you feel slightly awkward watching it with your, your kids, but they're laughing and you think, well, okay, you know, this is as I say, it's, nothing they're, they're not hearing in the schoolyard.

So, I would rather, and as you said, Riggs, there's a little bit of educational.

Sidey: Every episode is named after some sort of theory, isn't it? I gather,

Dan: it? Oh, is it? Yes. Yeah. We

Sidey: We live and learn, yeah, a strong recommend from me.

Dan: it me. Oh,

Cris: Oh, amazing.

I, my brother used to like this. I thought it was turd. I, I couldn't understand. I thought it's, and because I was Too you.

It's not only that, I remember when I was younger, in my younger days, and this has gone for a long time, right? Yeah it just reminded me of my brother's mates. All engineers, all nerds, all virgins.

Sidey: No.

Reegs: a solid no, via Virgin Mates,

Cris: and die.

Sidey: okay strong

Cris: recommend

Strong

Dan: recommend. Well it comes to the end of another fantastic episode.

Reegs: yeah, I think it might be me, but I,

Dan: It

is you. We're speaking now.

Reegs: No,

he was pointing at me,

Sidey: Yeah. Re to res to nominate

Cris: you know what, now I would say towards the end of Niznay, or whatever you say it in good old English, I thought it's appropriate to bring out, if anyone has two hours of their lives, and they want to get mildly to, medium to highly aroused, The Bangers Tour by Miley Cyrus is free to watch on YouTube.

It's raunchy, to say the least.

Sidey: that's PornHub though.

Cris: I know, but it's free to watch on YouTube and it's

Sidey: I think the music is better on PornHub as well. Yeah,

Cris: probably it's called bangers. You can watch it with the sound off. It's just because it

Sidey: I'll be honest, my Harris does absolutely nothing for

Cris: the end of it's more about everything else that's happening. It's quite, well,

Sidey: okay. I'll have a quick look. I'll give it a quick look.

Cris: But yeah, anyway, that's towards the end of a bang

Reegs: Well, we've got

Sidey: bri might nominated now.

Reegs: 20 minutes now. Do you want to bang one

out?

Sidey: is why so long.

Why will we await possible nominations?

Reegs: Do you want me

Cris: what work.

Sidey: able to contribute. Do you want

Reegs: it out.

Sidey: could do it.

Dan: we've got to figure it out and this could be the start of 10, 9, 8, 7, 6,

Sidey: I wonder whether we get some noms from people.

Dan: That'd be

Sidey: We're all sorts of things to

Dan: Maybe start thinking about that. Podcast world out there. We are

Sidey: as far as I can work out, the only movie with 500 in it is 500 days a summer and I'm not fucking talking about that show.

Dan: you know, we've got maybe 10 more pods to go. And then we're gonna, because we re released some, so it would be 500 fresh episodes.

In around about 10 or 12 episodes time, we're going to do some maths. We're going to crunch some numbers There's going to be some data in an excel spreadsheet That will mean we can give more accurate figures, but think about it.

Sidey: Yeah, I was thinking about maybe a documentary week, but I'll let you know. All that remains is to say, Sidey signing out.

Reegs: Reegs has left the building.

Cris: lot of the day

Dan: Dan's gone