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92 - Eugene and Bernard’s Road Trip UNRATED (feat. Phoebe Roy) [Whit’s Endless Summer 25]
Added 2023-06-21 06:00:04 +0000 UTCPhoebe Roy (Masters of Our Domain, Ten Thousand Posts) and the lads hop in a car and head west, as they experience the trials and tribulations of Eugene Meltsner and Bernard Walton’s road trip to San Diego. Topics include the purpose of experience, the geography of the US, and the logistics of being handcuffed to a corpse.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Adventures in Odyssey
- #274 First Hand Experience
- #275 Second Thoughts
- #276 Third Degree
- #277 It Happened at Four Corners
- The Shaggy D.A. Scene
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Commercial: “The Iowa State Fair!”
Comments
The us probably has so much respect for truck drivers because it’s such a big country and there’s so many of them lol. If the uk were 30 times bigger they’d have more clout
LogalogJack
2024-10-25 11:41:13 +0000 UTCOkay, I don't know if anyone pointed this out, but I'm almost certain that the "tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree" bit is lifted nearly verbatim from an episode of Frasier. Can't think of the exact episode off the top of my head but if I find it I will report back.
Milo Neuman
2023-08-04 22:15:37 +0000 UTCAs someone rewatching Gravity Falls, I thought AJ sounded like a new member of the Gleeful clan. The Tiniest Lil' Gideon.
Dergon
2023-06-27 17:50:21 +0000 UTCI think its (mildly) interesting that with the group of gay nerds that all agree with everything, Eugene's first interaction specifically begins with a disagreement. saying "Damasco vs Georgia would be overly circumstantial".
TalkGibberish
2023-06-25 23:57:11 +0000 UTCIsn’t that basically the premise of “Vanity Fair” in _The Pilgrim’s Progress_? Summary from Wikipedia: > Just outside the Valley of the Shadow of Death [Christian] meets Faithful, also a former resident of the City of Destruction, who accompanies him to Vanity Fair, a place built by Beelzebub where every thing to a human's taste, delight, and lust is sold daily, where both are arrested and detained because of their disdain for the wares and business of the Fair. Faithful is put on trial and executed by burning at the stake as a martyr. A celestial chariot then takes Faithful to the Celestial City, martyrdom being a shortcut there. Hopeful, a resident of Vanity Fair, takes Faithful's place to be Christian's companion for the rest of the way.
Elsie Hupp
2023-06-22 06:47:12 +0000 UTCIs Eugene's group of gay nerd friends who DON'T argue, in the running for most ridiculous thing in an Odyssey episode? Even if they all had similar opinions someone would argue the contrarian view just for fun. Evangelical christians are the ones who show this kind of group think. " Now let's have a discussion about if hell is real and if the gays are going there. We all agree it is and they are right? Good. Moving on "
Jimmy McMillan
2023-06-22 04:57:59 +0000 UTCi will say, having been listening to the current You Must Remember This series on '90s erotic thrillers, it is very funny to imagine george and mary barclay going for a date night to see Basic Instinct
Elah
2023-06-22 00:38:01 +0000 UTCTo Brian's note about "adults in Odyssey don't watch movies" - to my recollection there were some adults like this in evangelical circles of this 90s-00s period, pre-smartphones and streaming, who just kind of didn't watch or listen to or even read much of anything at all, certainly nothing contemporary. My parents were certainly like this - they had two groaning shelves full of books they never opened, they bought maybe 10 CDs for themselves between 1990 and 2006, and given the choice preferred to drive and do chores etc. in silence - and not out of valuing contemplation or something either. I knew other adults like this too. Some combination of incuriosity, disdain, insularity, and calvinist fixation on the next over the now. These adults seemed to view culture and entertainment in general (even the Christian stuff to an extent actually) as frivolities to be indulged now and then but a sinful distraction if you regarded them with more than passing interest, mostly relegated to their pre-conversion worldliness. You saw this reflected in evangelical nonfiction of the time like Amusing Ourselves to Death. This could be my kid's eye view but it seems to be reflected by some of the media TWoAPW has covered - I'd be curious if other folks with evangelical background can corroborate this.
Elah
2023-06-22 00:15:07 +0000 UTCunrelated to this episode but my partner and i were watching the english dub of pom poko the other night and i heard a horrifically familiar voice that made me say "wait. wait wait" and pause it and look up who it was. lo and behold... it was andre stojka, in all his natural whittiness. i can never escape the reach of john avery whittaker
BrianAlflordIsGoodActually
2023-06-21 22:16:14 +0000 UTCThe show-within-a-show gag reminded me of the equivalent gag within the “Nickelodeon Sitcom Universe” (as described by Quinton Kyle Hoover), where all of the shows are both shows within the other shows and also diegetically canonical within the other shows (apparently because the writers are deliberately fucking with any adult viewers who would actually notice this). Which leads me to think… Quinton Kyle Hoover could be a good guest to come on Worst of All Possible Worlds, considering his ongoing project of torturing himself by watching through increasingly badly written Nickelodeon children’s shows that he openly despises (though he does not hold anything against the actors).
Elsie Hupp
2023-06-21 20:34:01 +0000 UTCWe stand in full support of all *real* Icelandic movies
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-06-21 18:48:17 +0000 UTCHate to hand it to em, but this episode actually sounds... funny??
howl's moving pictures by rush
2023-06-21 15:08:53 +0000 UTCBertrand Russell was Wittgenstein's teacher at I think Oxford. They both helped were part of the Logical Positivism movement which asserted that all problems in philosophy are reducible to logical errors, which Christians obviously disagree with. Russell specifically helped establish early philosophy of language, which later morphed into analytical linguistics. Russell is the kind of rationalist that C.S. Lewis hated and criticized constantly
By Tove!
2023-06-21 09:22:35 +0000 UTCLook, Brian, *Rams* is a comedic masterpiece about getting naked in the cold with your estranged brother, and I didn't need y'all throwing shade at Icelandic cinema like that
By Tove!
2023-06-21 09:04:22 +0000 UTC
