BudPod with Phil Wang & Pierre Novellie - BudPod Classic #6 - The Duvet Wife

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

Every Monday we will be releasing a hilarious snippet of a 'Classic' episode of BudPod for you to enjoy and reminisce in.This week’s BudPod Classic takes us back to Episode 116 - 'Duvet Wife'. Release date: 26th May, 2021Link to the full episode below -Apple PodcastsSpotifyEnjoy and KOJI ! X Get bonus BudPod on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Punisher, Phil, I can't emphasize this enough. In every episode, each episode is an hour long. And what feels... Oof! Huh? Oof, I said, oof. Oh yeah, each episode is an hour long. It's a Netflix series. But half an hour of each episode,

I think, at least half an hour of every hour, is just wife, dead wife flashbacks. Yeah. Endless, like... You know how the equivalent in Batman is his parents being shot in front of him? Yep, every single time. Every single movie. It's just the opening credits now, essentially.

Do you think in thousands of years people will be like, well, in a traditional Batman, the start is the ritual killing of the parents. And this is a time where audiences would go and buy food or go for a piss. It morphed into a break, which is why in the breaks in our holographic movies, there's always two people dressed for the opera being shot in an alleyway. That's where that's from. Isn't that interesting, kids? So The Punisher, though, it's every episode.

It's like if the mugging happened in every episode of Gotham. Right. You'll start a new episode of The Punisher, and they've got a slightly fuzzy filter on the lens, and The Punisher, a horrible man, like an awful, cruel, murderous man, is sort of going, "'Eh, baby, I love you," and kind of waltzing with a woman in a wedding dress who seems to be glowing. Yeah. Every time there's a...

These superhero things where there's a gruff, a gruff anti-hero male lead. The flashbacks to their wives are like, there's no way they were married. The daintiest, loveliest, satin-clad, blonde Disney princess was out with, oh, right, oh, yeah, I'm gonna fucking kill you. I'm gonna kill you. Murders McGruff. Murders McGruff, it happens in, it's in fucking, what's the other one? The Boys as well on Amazon, which is a great show, but even in that, the main, his wife

is also like, where do they meet? Where do they even meet? Was she his counsel? Was she his social worker? How do they meet? But they always describe the wife as being feisty and like, oh, she could keep up with me. But in the flashback, she's just going, making cookies and smiling and hugging and kissing. And he's like... And he's spending forever under the duvet. Just spending forever smiling under the duvet. Smiling under the duvet in blaring sunlight.

So bright! It's so bright that the sunlight has gotten through. How many togs is that duvet, like, five? And the sunlight just pierced right through it? It is a tog. How hot are these people? Yeah. And they're never sweating and they're always just like smiling and breathing into each other's mouths.

How fun is it to just smile under a duvet? I've seen couples in love and the cornerstone of a loving relationship is not, no one ever says, oh well, every week we make sure to spend at least three hours a week smiling under a duvet. It kind of, yeah, like the sort of pajamas that an angel would wear in a bed in heaven, so flowy, pure white white and only on sunny days. Yeah, only when it's lovely outside do we stay under the duvet. When it's raining, we go out, I guess.

Yeah, then you can have a flashback to us dressed in the rain kissing or something and then that's another nice flashback but it's it's it's always just yeah floaty floatiness in bright white light as if they're already dead. And the trouble is that this happens in just every episode of The Punisher. Yeah. He'll he'll he'll trip down some stairs and knock himself out. You go here we go. He's unconscious.

We've got a fucking 10 minutes of him chatting to his dead wife, who keeps sort of saying mysterious things like, come home and stuff. Is it ever pertinent to what he's trying to do? Does she have some information that he forgot? No, it's not even like psychic powers. It's literally just, remember me from last time? I'm the reason you're murdering all these people. I think it's almost they're doing it out of worry,

because he does kill people so horrifically. Right, right, right. That's the whole point of Punisher, is that it's just... It's like Saw, basically. It's just like Gawporn. Yeah, you're not supposed to even like him. But they keep going, oh shit, do you think the audience remembers that this is because his wife is dead? And it's like, yeah, we remember.