S09.E07: Predicated On What?

The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

The characters team up to kill the Giantess in “Into the Woods.” Not the witch. If you read this before listening and keep that detail in mind, what follows will make a bit more sense. But after a rocky start (which is also due to Taylor’s deep character flaws re: season two of The Wire), Ben, Michael, and John make a strong showing in this competition, identifying movies whose titles are complete sentences, as well as movies that contain elements that use both colorful and monochromatic palettes. And of course, it all comes down to how each will fare in the lightning round.
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🔤 A to Z is a pretty shameless rip-off of How I Met Your Mother, but points for having Katey Segal as the narrator.

🥋 No, the five point palm exploding heart technique from Kill Bill isn’t real, even if it was in Bloodsport, too.

🍣 Jiro, from Jiro Dreams of Sushi, lost his Michelin stars not because of a drop in quality, but because he stopped accepting reservations from the general public.

🐰 The Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo scorebreak. Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo any chance we can get this 80s classic on Steam? Please? [8/10 There’s an Usagi Yojimbo video game?]
🎨 Jamie Foxx was on four seasons of In Living Color, but not all five.

😈 In the comics, Sin City does occasionally use colors other than black and white. In addition to “That Yellow Bastard” there were pops of red and blue in places.

🐟 Contrary to common misconception, while Rumble Fish is written by S.E. Hinton, it has no story or character connections to The Outsiders.

🪽 In Wings of Desire, the use of color is also used to comment on the division between East and West Berlin.

👱🏻‍♀️ It’s not just Taylor – the director of Blonde says that there isn’t a story reason for the shifts between black and white and color.

🏥 The Kingdom Hospital scorebreak. Kingdom Hospital 345 medical dramas on TV, and this is the one that gets canned right away? [3/10 It was different than other doctor shows, but how many episodes did you expect from the US version of a Lars Von Trier TV series?]
🎭 After its 25 year run on Bravo, Inside the Actors Studio moved to Ovation, where it’s still running.

⛳️ Dorf on Golf and the rest of the series were released direct-to-video, for $29.95 a shot, and sold hundreds of thousands of copies.

🎙️ Aline is technically not about Celine Dion, except it totally is.

🪶 The Decameron was a major influence on The Canterbury Tales.

🎞️ You can follow Ben on Letterboxd

🐦 John is on Twitter

🐦 And also as Angry Sondheim

🎶 Michael has a Spotify playlist of "Eighties Ladies: Beyond Thunderdome”

🤔 Submit your At-Home Riddle or Harmonic Mean answer