New and a Bit Alarming

Let's go to the movies this week, because the city's ours! Which city? NYC! That's right, it's three different songs serving the same narrative function. One is good because of the writing, one is okay because of the acting, and one is GARBAGE.

Well, my arms are repaired! And it's time to break from the films for an EXCRUCIATINGLY deep dive into the emoji-only translation of "It's The Hard-Knock Life". Also, we take a quick break to analyze the Austin Powers franchise. And, weirdly, predict a plot point from The Batman several months before its release.

Hello! For those of you that follow me (Brian) on the socials, it turns out I broke both of my elbows. So the show is going to go on hiatus for a couple of weeks, because as I found out uploading this weeks Tinseltown, you use your elbows a surprising amount while typing and editing, which REALLY hurts. But I should be good to go before too long, and in the meantime, please enjoy this Tinseltown f...

It's time for "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here" at last! Brian mostly spends this episode defending slumming theatre legends!

The Responsible Boyz are NOT, as it turns out, doing "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here", which is fun and pleasant and plot-relevant. No, we're doing "Little Girls", which is a mean and bad song designed to lure older actresses to the set.

This week: Annie 99 adopts a dog! Annie 14 experiences a dissociative episode! And Annie 82 goes off the rails! It's "Tomorrow"!

This week, we look at "A Hard Knock Life", a song which is done reasonably similarly in all three versions, but with some... Well, some stark differences. Also, the orphans miiiiiiiight be trying to roofie Miss Hannigan.

Finding nothing much to say about "Maybe", a basically fine song with three basically fine adaptations, the #ResponsibleBoyz also do a quick overview of every song they're NOT reviewing. 

The #ThreeResponsibleBoyz are here, and ready to review all three film versions of Annie, bit by bit. Also the Mummy movies. But not any of the ones you know.

Flonk and Brian contribute 2% to the total earnings of "Trojan War" a movie that is JUST GARBAGE.

Flonk and Brian take a look at that odd thing that shows up occasionally, movies with suspiciously similar plots that come out within months of each other. Spoiler: It's all a really convoluted excuse to review a reeeeeeeal chunk of crap.

I mean, sure everyone's taken their turn kicking around "Space Jam: A New Legacy". But we did the last one, so. you know.

The #ResponsibleBoys are taking a look at a flashy reboot of a franchise no living child has any affection for, "Yogi Bear". Also, this episode, you get THREE siblings! Because our brother was in the room and we ambushed him. That's what you get when you sit in a room with us for too long. Eventually a podcast just breaks out.

Welcome back to To Be or Not to Be a Bit Alarming, our Will recap podcast. Oh, you remember Will. It was on Pivot. It is so a real show! And channel!

Well, this dumb movie is over, and we're ready to be done. This week, the animators actually have to try a little, we make fun of something dumb Ben Shapiro did several months ago, and Chiwetel finally finds his inner ham.

"Didn't there used to be a ghost in this movie?"

This week, we cover yet another profoundly mediocre episode of the world's worst prank show, Pixar In Real Life.

The Choo-Choo Kid and Teach are back to be your responsible friends and also to watch TWO musical numbers! Also, Teach gets obsessed with Obsessed.

After watching a DECADENT fifteen minutes of film, we are left with almost nothing to say. Scar implies some backstory, Shenzi maybe has a grudge, and a beetle do what a beetle do with doo doo.

In this episode, the movie does "Hakuna Matata", we compliment an actor, and honestly, it's mostly talk about Academy Award musical performances.

We take a break from our prepared remarks to discuss "Lambert the Sheepish Lion", a short that Flonk found by mistake.

I hope you were already prepared, because the song Be Prepared is not going to really inspire you to engage with preparation in any meaningful way.

"HYENAS AND LIONS HAVE BEEN AT WAR WITH LIONS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME." - Shenzi, this movie

Did you know rhinoceroses can't dance? Strange but true facts like these are yours to behold, as the #ResponsibleBoys take on "I Just Can't Wait to be King".

As the plot begins, we start questioning in earnest what the point was, analyze some voice acting, and explore the strange world of tropical bird skeletons.