Throw in the Pal

If Booksmart, does that mean Moviedumb? The answer may surprise you...

What's this?! An episode where the Pals have decided to discuss the sometimes illustrious, oft-ignominious life of Oscar, Sesame Street's grouchiest denizen? Or is it, instead, a dialectical in which the automobile industry of Australia and its multivalent products (colloquially known as Oz-cars) are given a right old lashing of the Pals' ever-waggling mouth slugs? Or, perhaps, it's some third, ev...

You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow... Well, no, not quite like that. That's less of a whistle, more of a, uh... wet trumpet, I guess. Overall, not a very pleasant soun-- Hup, still goin' are ya? Right, well, yes you... you certainly are enthusiastic. By the by, couldn't help but notice the golden cap you have on one of your incisors. That's... yeah, that's...

On the seventh day, God rested. He had created the heavens and the Earth; all things terrestrial and cosmic had unfolded and sprung from His benevolent palms, twisting together in arcs of splendour and horror to find shape in four key elements: fire, water, wind and soil. And yet, in his infinite wisdom and boundless scope, the Lord had neglected the fifth and final element, the crucial component...

Why do we kiss? Is it just to swap spit? To supplement words when we lack any wit? Are we driven to taste what someone has eaten? Does it lift up our spirits when our will has been beaten? And what about watching others lock lips? What's up with that? Seems sorta suspish... Are we perverts, romantics or something between When we're moved by the smackin' we see on the screen? This rhyme holds no an...

Did you know that in French, death is known as "the little orgasm". It's true, kinda! Perhaps that's why Marion Cotillard looks like that when she snuffs it in The Dark Knight Rises. Well, since people have been dying on the big screen almost as long they've been dying to get onto the big screen, the Pals compiled some of the most convincing (and even some of the most non-vincing) death-de-liars o...

The Exorcist is a story of pain. The pain of late 20th-century America, torn asunder by the dual impulses of its self-avowed exceptionalism: the urges to expand and to conserve. The pain of raising children in a world where spurious, quasi-religion dichotomies of vice and virtue erode under the weight of moral relativism. The pain of confronting one's own frailties, not just those of the flesh but...

[read as a flamboyant pirate] Why durst we cry when we're happy 'n sad? Is it cos of the burden of being, me lad? The land-lubbers cling to their dirt and their dwellin, While seafaring cineastes're like to be yellin' For somethin' twixt joy and a tidal despair That costs naught but yer tears, so buyer's beware! In venturin' this far, you're showing some foul Inclination to voyage, and to Throw in...

So there's a man walking through a dense woodland area, until he finally comes to a solitary cabin with rooms to let. He walks up to it and raps twice, loudly, on the door. "Who's there?" comes a reply. "Bob," the man responds. "Uh huh, Bob Down, I suppose?" says the now-wary voice emanating from the cabin. "I've heard that one before, mate! You'll hafta do better than that." "Now, look here," Bob...

You know who deserves an Oscar when it comes to showbiz? That guy on every film set who is always dealing with the trash left behind by the cast and crew. He should have someone to help him with that, perhaps some green little fuzzy guy comfy in confined spaces who leans towards grumpiness. If we could all collectively agree that the chief custodian of all movie productions deserves such an accomp...

I hate the way they talk so much, I hate the way they laugh. I hate that they’re so out of touch, I hate the constant gaffes. I hate the way that their do bits, I hate it when they sing, I hate these opinionated sh!ts, And I really f$&@in' hate it when they sing. I hate the fact that they are always around, Even though the pod’s hit a wall, But mostly I hate that they can’t rhyme, Not any one...

Christmas: from the Latin "Christ", meaning "friendly guy" and the German "mäss", meaning "gathering". Movie: from the bovine "moo", meaning "good" and the French "viè", meaning "Who?!" Pals: from the Sesame Street letter of the day "P", for "Pugsley" and the suffix "-als", meaning "etc." That's a quick etymology lesson to explain why this week's episode is called Short n Sweet - Christmas Movies...

Christmas isn't what you think it is. It isn't contained within the waking, sometimes sleepless days of the yuletide season; it doesn't simply begin and end at those polar midnights of late December. It's not quantifiable by tallying cards and presents, not merely a protracted spree of buying and giving, wrapping and tearing, hugging and crying. Christmas, really, is more akin to music or memory t...

Dancing is a lot like making love: it takes heaps of practice, can be very cinematic and is virtually impossible to do when you're a podcaster. Also, something do with feet, I guess... This week, the Pals are cutting a rug and never shutting the fug up about their favourite times the silver screen was almost torn to pieces by the sharp sashays of some of the world's nimblest nae nae-yers. Hoo-ray!

Now, this is a story all about how Galinda's actually Glinda now And we're talking bout Wicked Massive hit of the year So take a break from all your worries and lend us an ear On the stages of Broadway, born and raised Where this musical originated back in the days Of George Bush, Usher and low-rise jeans It sure was a hit of grandiloquent means Elphaba's green, and people are mean "What's up with...

F is for the way the snow falls fast R is recording a film podcast O is "Oh my gracious, this is so outrageous!" Z is the zillion times we've all heard Elsa's sing-song rhymes So E's enough of the poem mode N so now we can listen to the episode [Sung to the tune of L-O-V-E but then it just sorta falls apart, I guess] Enjoy the latest Throw in the Pal!

When you watch a movie, the agreement you enter into through participation with the medium itself is that you shan't be required to read. Yet eagle-eyed cinema-goers will notice that some filmmakers still insist on putting a bunch of wordiplex junkery at the start of their colourful picture shows, apparently to commend those who did all the work and that to make the movie run. They're called "open...

Remember when you were sick from school and your grandpa who you didn’t like that much and looked an awful lot like TV’s Colombo came by to read you a story about a fantasy world where no one has the same accent and eels can shriek and extra fingers are somehow a disadvantage and originally he kinda took it easy on all the horny stuff in the story but leaned reeeal into it by the end because at th...

So how do you truly define an "ick"? Is it simply something that makes one sick? Behaving quite twattish or acting a dick? Something involuntary a tic? The Pals aren't sure either, so they've made a quick Installment that deals with actors that prick Their hairs up on end, or make their sight thick With visions of red due to anger, so stick Around for this ep (especially if you're name's Rick!)

A harrowing war film about a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team in Iraq led by a loose cannon! A WWE wrestler whose whole shtick is a little too confusing and niche to get picked up by the mainstream! A band that plays math-rock mixed with noise punk whose members don't grasp the nuances of mixing or songcraft! A location that a kid who gets bullied too much at a stereotypical American Hig...

What is it we go to the movies for? Do we seek some recognition of ourselves, reflected through the dark, prismatic mirror of cinema? Is it in the hope of seeing our deepest desires performed by dramaturgical manifestations of our collective id, watching behaviour we long to embody but couldn't possibly imagine enacting in the waking world? Or is it to watch as things go ka-blammo and ka-boosh, to...

Where are you most likely to find the world's most-famous form of Diesel? Better yet, what's an accurate description for a speeding motorist? Or, if you're feeling cheeky, what's the best way of describing the means by which each of the Pals lost his virginity? If you answer is, "In a car", you're correct. But "Fast & Furious" also works.

Tom was right, Tom was right! Na na ni na na! 😛

This week, what is it that the (dead)Pals have (wolver)seen that they’re dying to deliberate? Still not sure? We’ll give you a clue: it’s this year’s most anticipated new entry in a flagship cinematic series! Now would you care to take a gue-? No, it’s not Inside Out 2, try again… Nope, not Dune 2 either, although we get how you might have- Ok, no, not Furiosa, and upon reflection maybe the set-up...

For the first ever Favourite Starring Role edition of Short n’ Sweet, the Pals deliberated long and hard about which actor to pick, which famed thespian they would trawl the filmography of in search for their best, most iconic part. What acclaimed performer has the consistency, the nuance, the restraint, nay, the well-established and totally unshakeable sanity to be worthy of such a choice? These...