My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 346 - X-MEN 97 S1E5/INVINCIBLE S2E8 WITH CLEM

Episode Date: April 12, 2024

Robbie and Clem recap a devastatingly emotional week of superhero cartoons - who woulda thought?! From X-Men 97 Episode 5 to the finale of Invincible Season 2, we've got a lot to discuss this week, and it ain't all pretty. #XMen97 #Invincible #MarvelStudios Gametime: Download the Gametime app or go to https://gametime.co, enter your email, and redeem code MMB for $20 off your first purchase (terms apply). ****************************************   My Mom's Basement is a weekly podcast hosted by Robbie Fox, started in March 2019, to discuss movies, music, comic books, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and more with his friends and idols alike!   Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/MyMomsBasementWithRobbieFox Subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-moms-basement/id1457255205 Follow Robbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatrobbiefox Follow Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello and welcome to My Mom's Basement, presented by Barstool Sports, and a very special X-Men and Invincible edition of My Mom's Basement. And the third episode of My Mom's Basement this week, but the first with my co-host Clem, the first where we're talking nerdy stuff. Clem, how are we feeling? I'm feeling good, Bob. I'm feeling very good, but there's really no way I could have had a good enough week to feel better than you do right now after what had to be the pinnacle of life, maybe? I mean, usually it's like I can't say stuff like best day of my life unless i'm saying

my marriage or the birth of my kids rob fox still has like a clean enough slate other than you know maybe meeting lady fox or something with the family what a fucking weekend my boy had down in philadelphia what a weekend we said on last week's show you know i teased this video game tournament that me and brandon were going to be a part of the 2K24 Showcase Showdown. It was kind of like a pro-am because they paired us all up with wrestlers. I was paired up with Kofi Kingston, one of my all-time favorites. And we joked at the end, you were like, bring the title home for the basement. I was like, I don't know, I'll try.

Like, I was not confident going in, truly. I brought the fucking title home for the basement. I won the whole tournament. Me and Kofi won as a tag team. And classic wwe fashion there was a swerve they said but there can only be one true champion and i kind of went into business for myself turned heel on my tag team partner kofi i got a fast count to win the title from this guy greg miller who was the special guest referee he was screwed by kofi in a previous challenge. So it was very much like wrestling all weaving into one big storyline here. And yeah,

afterwards they said, Kofi, like, can we ask you what went wrong? You guys were such a good tag team. We thought you guys were destined for greatness together. And I grabbed the mic. I said,

I'll tell you what went wrong here. Every tag team has a Marty Gennetti. They love that line. You know, everyone's got a Sean. Everyone's got a Marty. And then yeah, WrestleMania was as much fun as I've ever had at WrestleMania.

The ending of night two, especially everyone's seen the clip by now. You got John Cena, you got the rock, you got the undertaker, you got Seth Rollins and shield gear. People are comparing it to star Wars. People are comparing it to Avengers end game.

It was everything that I wanted it to be and more. And then it was Cody Rhodes, like a friend of the basement, winning in the main event. It was perfect, honestly. Thank you, 2K, for bringing us out. I didn't realize we were talking Infinity War Endgame comparisons and Star Wars. Those are some heavy ones. I saw the Return of the Jedi clip you you have a cody that kind of like came back uh now i mean i said like you leaving philly you and cody both leaving philly with title belts is something

i mean that's the dreams aren't even made up because it's so like ridiculous that you would both do that um so that's awesome dude that's we the the basement boys haven't had a lot of sports success but you had an all-time sports entertainment success night, so that was awesome. And I do feel like, so I'm not plugged in at all, but it sounds like WWE fans couldn't be happier

right now. And I saw there was something with AEW where they leaked like a CM Punk backstage fight, and now everyone hates AEW. So I feel like Triple H is now in charge, Vince is gone, and WWE seems to be like skyrocketing everyone hates AEW so I feel like Triple H is now in charge Vince is gone and WWE seems to be like skyrocketing and AEW seems to be crashing and burning it seems like the tide has turned or the tide is turning I don't know what they were thinking airing that footage it was like CM Punk you know he got into two big fights at AEW backstage legitimate fights that eventually

sent him out of the company the second of which was in late august with jungle boy who is luke perry's son in real life luke perry's son um he got into a fight backstage with him and they aired the footage on wednesday and i don't know what they thought would come out of that because yeah the reaction to them airing it was horrible everyone was like why did you do that that just was it was a bad look for everyone involved so yeah it was strange but i'm still i'm not uh anti-aew i'm still riding for both i think tribalism in wrestling a little silly i get it you know i'm a fan of so many things that i have tribalism about so i understand it but i'm a wrestling fan where i'm like i think they got great wrestling. I think WWE's got great wrestling

and I think the better AEW gets, the better WWE gets and vice versa. It's the rising tide lifts all ships. Is that the phrase? It's that. I mean, I lived it, man. I lived it in the late 90s when it was WCW, WWF, and ECW. They come into the picture and it made

everyone try hard. It was incredible got more eyeballs on more money and more people just you know they're willing to take chances and do whatever it was fucking awesome so sounds like a little bit of the same here i will say that week that's like i don't know if it's a it's not a one-to-one but when tony shiviani or whatever when he announced the mankindankind won the belt. It seems like they tried to go one way, and it just blew up in their face. It's the same kind of vibes I'm getting strictly through tweets right now. So very exciting stuff for the wrestling fans.

I hope WWE is on the rise. I'm still hoping to get AJ into wrestling, and no matter how, probably better would be for my health and his health. This is the era right here. You've got Cody Rhodes, guy with short blonde hairs, the champ. AJ could see himself in Cody Rhodes. And, you know, he's like the good guy champ. We finally got the Cody era and it's the Triple H era, as they're calling it, the Polovec era. So his fans are actually happy.

Both their dads, just big, jolly, happy, fat guys. So it kind of goes i i consider myself maybe the dusty roads of barstool i could see that i love that yeah the american dream right there club exactly um we got two honestly captivating gripping emotional cartoons to talk about today you usually don't go that way with it but we got two cartoons that i'm like these were made for adults and they made me fucking feel something they pulled on the heartstrings especially x-men we keep calling it every week we're like the original x-men series kids show that adults enjoyed x-men 97 clearly an adult show that kids

could enjoy i don't know if kids could enjoy episode five who's fucking sad oh my god this is an adult show now kids you've lost x-men 97 go watch bluey or whatever else is out there by the way for the for the the olds out there the parents this last bluey episode was a very there's a very big moment in it that occurs that's going to impact the bluey cinematic universe. I know it sounds ridiculous. It's true. I'm like, shit, I can't believe that.

But so what? Bluey has its own set of drawbacks. You can watch that right now, which is crazy to say. However, X-Men no longer a kitchen. We're not even saying like, oh, kids, don't let your kids watch this. It's not going to have the blood and guts that Invincible is going to have. But it's going to have some shit that, like, you're going to have to explain afterwards. And it's not going to have the blood and guts that Invincible is going to have, but it's going to have some shit that like you're going to have to explain afterwards and it's not going to be easy. And this was, this was it, man.

This was a, this was a doozy, dude. Dude, I saw. So the guy who was fired from X-Men, kind of the creator of 97, Bo DeMeo, I think his name is. He kind of broke his silence this week. He was very quiet about the whole series but this week so many people were tweeting praise for it that he started answering some questions and he was like yeah i considered the first like post or the first four episodes to be pre-911

and the first and the rest of it would be like a post-911 type world for the x-men that was like whoa and he said i had the pulse nightclub shooting on my mind the whole episode it's like holy fuck this guy literally was like let's do like almost like a terrorist attack on the x-men and play it through that lens of you get real life cues from it and it makes you feel a little uneasy even though it's this ridiculous over-the-top superhero cartoon from the 90s it's like oh this is a little too real right now did you feel that way yeah there was a point where i was like all right like remember we were saying oh you know people are gonna be pissed when they realize the x-men they're you know the more real superheroes and it's like oh it's like it's all about you know persecution because you're different

this and that we were like all right we're cool with that and then it's like oh no we're gonna show you like the worst of humanity has to offer. And there is time where you just want to escape from it. But, I mean, hey, we're buckled in. We're riding with it. And, I mean, it's one of the best things on TV right now for what I'm watching. So it's like we're just going to have to roll with the punches here, for lack of a better term.

And I honestly don't know what's coming next. I have to say I did get spoiled a little bit obviously spoilers spoilers spoilers for people that haven't watched yet uh i did see like someone was like gambit is the number one trending topic and i go that's probably not a good thing probably bad yeah but maybe your mind went to like no dishes nothing gambit as we mentioned last week you're like damn man gambit went out yeah he couldn't deal with that relationship. He found a rolled-proof condom. My guy Gambit found a rolled-proof condom.

Nope, that was not the case. Actually, he kind of did. He got the toucher. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess. I was going to say it didn't kill him. That technically didn't kill him. The touch did not kill him. Yeah, that's a technicality that will allow.

I noticed about Gambit this week, something I've never noticed before. I never pieced this together. His voice is very similar to Benoit Blanc from the Knives Out movies. So like there was one moment where he's like, that does seem a little peculiar. And I was like, oh, shit. That's Benoit Blanc. But yeah, as quickly as I got excited about that and realized it we lost our sweet boy gambit so let's get into the episode which opens with a news report on the x-men

they're like it's a big day big time for the x-men big time for mutants and they're trying to normalize the x-men and mutants in general through the news and then the reporters you know telling cyclops this you know, telling Cyclops this, you know, we're really trying here to make you normal, but she opens the report with like, some people call them these disgusting fucking freaks. We call them mutants.

And it was like, Oh man, you know, they're, they're not as a PC with the mutants as they should be. Cause I guess it's 1997, you know, we're going to have to wait 20 years for people to come around to that.

And you probably can't even use the M word in 2024 you know i that's that's what i i was gonna say the m word in what is that 30 or so years i feel like that is a a bad thing to say it wouldn't it wouldn't fly on this podcast i'll tell you right now i would never say a mutant i would never say it um and cyclops quickly kind of fucks this all up for the x-men because they're like all right this is going to show that you're nice normal people and as soon as the reporter's like so i see that you had a son like a month ago tell me about it he's like god damn it we didn't have a son they didn't deliver my baby come on dude you can't be freaking out on television like that man i have to say It's like you could say

This is a tough episode for the Scott Summers crew But it actually made him more human Than like whatever he was all those times In the movies he was just straight up kidding It was a speed bump essentially People would just drive over him At least he showed a little bit of Panache I guess

A little bit of spunk So while this is happening A team of the other X-Men are flying over to Genosha to meet with the chair, the council there and everything. Gambit's told he's the only one that needs the plane by Magneto, which was another like right before he'd taken out. You couldn't even lift them. I mean, they lifted him up a little bit with the sacrifice, but the guy can't get a line in. He's like, ah, geez, this fucking sucks. And they're like, just a reminder, if this plane goes down, we're all going to be okay except you.

I didn't like the gravity shaming in this episode. As someone that has gravity challenged himself, I did not like it because me and Gambit, I'd fall faster than Gambit, but Gambit would fall as well. That wasn't cool. And he knows what he's doing, man. That's the thing. I almost respected

about magneto he's still playing the villain while being like what i'm yeah it's when portnoy is on your teeth like porto does this with me where he'd be like frank was right club i'm just i'm just saying like i'm i'm rooting for you guys i want the bets to be good i'm like i know what you're doing dave god damn it i i think magneto and Rogue, that's how Dave looks at Frank. He kind of has that glimmer. They get to Genosha. We get some Nightcrawler. I was stoked to see our guy, Kurt Wagner.

Our guy. I love him. Nightcrawler in the animated series and the movies. He's great in this. He's an elite. I'll throw the cards in there. One of the best design X-Men characters. Did you say action figures? Action figures as well.

The council wants Magneto to be the chancellor. He will only accept if Rogue can be his queen. I got some Dune II vibes from this where he was like, I'm going to do it for political purposes. It doesn't have to be what it seems to be. And Jean, meanwhile, is trying to remember Scott. But as quickly as she's trying to remember Scott, she's making out with Logan. It feels very X-Men movies, the trilogy and the love triangle that we're getting into there.

And Logan, to his credit, is like, all right, you forgot Scott. Now you remember him. Enough, Bob. Whoa. My guy Bob had himself a nice little wolverine there that was a good one going on the yeah wolverine put puts it off right away he's he's not like trying to take her up on that offer did you see she blush when she kissed him too yeah and i was like oh man Gene's even. All right. So this is strike two for Scott. We're like, all right, he already fucking lost his cool on, you know, camera. Then got Wolvie.

And, you know, that's the thing about Wolverine. When he kisses your girl, there's just you could almost I bet like he kissed Gene. Next time. Next time he kissed Gene. He tasted tobacco. It's exactly what i was gonna say you're like wolverine's been here hasn't he and that's not cool man that's not cool you got like a hair in your mouth you're like what's that a black hair you got red hair what's going on here

the exact that's the exact size of wolverine sideburns right there that's yeah what the fuck that's weird i'm gene also what a fucking moved just be like i'm hiding out underwater right now and just looking at a bunch of bubbles people in bubbles as you do yeah as people tend to do when they want to hide around and then gene and scott are talking about nathan or so you think it's actually not gene he's talking to madeline prior and gene sees it happen and she's like oh madeline nice to see you here talking to fucking scott and Jean sees it happen. And she's like, Oh, Madeline, nice to see you here. Talking to fucking Scott. That was their thing.

Talking through telepathy and she's not happy about it. And then as soon as she's like going off about it, she gets hit with this like psychic energy bullet to the brain type thing. Doesn't kill her. But for a second, I was like, did that look like she got shot in the head, but it was with just like you know bad future omens or whatever you want to call it something bad is

about to happen in the future i'm all right so this is strike three for cyclops and i'm hitting him with the fucking i'm hitting him with the sound bite what an idiot what a fucking idiot what are you doing mind cheating on gene gray and listen i know you have a very deep connection to this woman you had a child together you don't even know which one was gene and which memories are with madeline prior but like it's like having the mom that like knows how to like scroll your phone or like it's like my kids they're like they think they're smart and be like, were you just on YouTube? No, I wasn't.

And she's like, just go to history. And I could just see. You've got Jean motherfucking Gray. The chick is hiding underwater in a lake for just fun. She's just doing it. What are you doing, bro? I understand it's tough, but you almost have to go

offline to cheat on Jean. You have to go in airplane mode. Yeah, Magneto helmet Gene. You have to go in airplane mode. Yeah. Magneto helmet on. You have to get a Magneto. It's in the mansion. The Magneto helmet. He put it on the shelf for you, Scott, which I feel like.

Can I borrow that? Can I just wear it? It looks cool. I want to see if it fits. Yeah. We're just going to try. We're going to put a visor on this thing. And instead, he's just going to try. We're going to put a visor on this thing and just throw the helmet on. And instead, he's just fucking mind cheating.

He'd almost be better off, like, physically cheating with Madeline Pryor and just hope, like, she doesn't catch whatever crazy sick thoughts you have going on in your head as you're doing whatever you're doing, smooching or whatever. So just an absolute tough look for our guy, Scott Summers. I'm going to say this, though. I think his stock is as low as it's going to be for the rest of the season.

I think we're going to build him back up because he's, at least he's getting punked in different matters other than obviously the Wolverine case, which like at least Wolverine was like, no, what are we doing here? I like that felt if he was like, fuck that little red eye,

just laying smooches down. an all-around fucked up episode for and scott like on both sides he's between a rock and a hard place like if he pisses one off she's turning into the fucking dark phoenix if you pick the other off she's turning into the fucking goblin queen like be careful dude with the two people you're playing here you're playing both sides of the fence you should not. Pick one and stick to that. Probably should be Jean Grey, too, because it seemed like I know that he had the baby with Madeline, but she seems OK in Genosha. She's like, yeah, they set me up with like a good life in Genosha. I'm ready to just make something out of this.

That was a pleasant surprise, too. I did not see that coming. I didn't. It feels a little rushed that you would just be like, oh, this woman who almost destroyed the X-Mansion, which granted, like, was a Mr. Sinister thing, but still, like, ah, we needed an X-Man, she's kind of an X-Man. It's like when, you know, me and Robbie are getting sent to the high-nude events instead of, like,

the Barstool A-Squad. It's like, ah, we got Barstool people here. It's Barstool, yeah. How much does Big Cat make? Yeah, and you're like, a lot more than me i think uh probably scott scott having those two girl women in his life is the funniest thing ever because you couldn't get a more white bread vanilla fucking x-man like scott is the the stuff the goblin queen does in the bedroom and the dark phoenix he ain't built for

that fucking life wolverine can deal with it literally and figuratively like his you'd have the the the health regenerative regenerative gambit has probably like crazier woman that somehow because he's fucking he's down in louisiana um who else do we have in terms of men x-men which i whoever morph do you think morph is like fucking fucking turning into other people oh yeah morph is is morph would probably be like the number one draft pick if you wanted to have sex with an x-man because you can be whoever you want whoever you want yeah what if morgan what if morph and mystique had sex together that would be awesome and then it would turn into each other more it would look like a multiverse fight yeah like just crazy and we'll get into that with invincible you know yeah exactly exactly so i feel like support cyclops

like he has like something that some men would literally die for and probably die as they were doing it but he ain't he ain't ready for that man it's uh remember the the guy who wrote the uh the like 27 tweet thread the uh del curry when he divorced so he's like you ain't ready for this life man like you don't you don't want to date in the 2020s like it's different out here now um then you get rogue and gambit talking about the whole magneto relationship love triangle emotional very soapy like so over the top. So soapy. Yeah. And it was a good scene, but another one where I was like, I don't know if kids would enjoy this. Like, I'm enjoying it, but I don't know if I would like show this to my nephew or something and be like, wasn't that a great scene?

He'd be like, I don't know. They were talking about their relationship. But again, just Gambit taking L's. It's like, I guess we can be friends, mon ami. I have to go back and watch that. I like the gambit impersonation as well but not as good as your wolverine no i still like also i think he said sherry in in the first season and now he's saying share but i could be wrong i have to i have to re-watch the 90s ones in general though because i wonder if it felt this much like a soap opera because these are feeling like beat for beat that they are soap operas now that i have said i watched a few with my wife way

back when we first started dating and i'm like holy shit this is straight out and then the the you're getting the whole um news feed where it's like you're getting extra soap opera stuff with gene and scott which by the way do you feel like a mutant reality show is on the table i feel like that's coming yeah definitely yeah like the real world in the x mansion yes that's exactly what i thought because that's around the time when like the real world started and kind of like you know define the genre so good point survivor on genosha survivor on genosha the, the game. Now, is this the part where we kind of go back to the flashback of Rogue and Magneto? I'm telling you, I don't want it to be gross here. I know it's a cartoon.

It's not a kid's cartoon. So I'm allowed to say it. When Rogue is dressed in like the, like Savage Island or whatever the fuck clothes, you could smell the sex in the air. It's disgusting. It's disgusting it's disgusting and i i can't let my kids watch that because they're gonna be like dad it's kind of like nala with the eyes it's like what is she looking at him like that and i'm like you could smell it in the air it's a weird it's like the the uh sugar daddy kind of like old man young girl kind of

vibes to it and it's just it's a, it's a lot. It's a lot. I know large is going to love it though. Whatever you want. And then we get the gala to end the episode. So it opens with like Rogan Magneto, this over the top long dance could have been a little shorter. Okay. Yes.

It was a lot. It was a lot. I didn't long dance. Like it was getting to the point where I was like, all right, somebody say something. Give me some dialogue. In true lies. When he's dancing with T getting to the point where I was like, all right, somebody say something, give me some dialogue. In true lies.

When he's dancing with Tia Carrera. And I was like, what are we doing? And that's, that's much different. That's a fucking camera movie. It felt a little much for the, but I guess they're just 25 minute episode.

This was a 1% of the runtime was just this dance scene. I think they're just really, really trying to get your head out of like, like X-Men value. You're like, Oh, like you're just trying to lose yourself in it basically because they know what they're about to do to you i have this was my note that i had earlier in the episode though that obviously i forgot by the end of it genosha ruled i was like fuck i want to go to vacation oh yeah it looked like disney or something yeah like a mix between like wakanda and disneyland it's pleasure island if there was mutants.

That's how I was like, or like a really cool Caribbean island, all inclusive resort that just fucking was awesome. I'm like, this place seems great. And obviously not. Yeah, it's like people would probably want to go there. Like you're saying on vacation. I know the world in this cartoon is anti mutant, but if they just saw footage of of genosha i think they'd be like oh shit i want to try that dessert that you just you know made out of nowhere you just made it appear like that fucking muffin in the force awakens um you can get on the dance floor too come on yeah i was just about to say smooching

and you know it was weird as you hear like the kiss sound effects as the cartoons are kissing and i was like i don't want to hear that it was that was a little too much for me i um back to college when like my buddies would like to get really drunk and then you smooch on the dance floor then the next word it's like dude on the dance floor it's like big god hey listen me and mrs clem had a few smooches on the dance floor back in the day as well i am no uh it's like you no, I'm guilty as well. Madeline Pryor then gets hit with that kind of like psychic blast bullet to the brain type thing.

And she's outside too. And she hears, you see it in the closed captions. If you have closed captions on as well, cable say like, turn the music off, get out of there she sees cable she notices his eyes they were talking about the blue eyes of nathan before

or the brown eyes she sees the brown eyes and it's like your eyes and he's like i'm sorry mom and he fades away he can't stop it in time but he looks over his shoulder he sees the like green bomb bursts happening like something is about to go down some people have even tweeted a screenshot did you see the watcher in the sky during this so i did not see it live but then i saw me neither i go i go this fucking show yet again i'm gonna say it put in more effort than 90 of the mcu post-mg it's crazy that kind of shit and that's how you know it's a big moment when the watchers watch it... The Watchers, oh yeah, exactly. The biggest moments

in the whole Marvel Universe, all the multiverses, he's there for. And when he's there for this, it's like uh-oh. Unfortunately, the Gala gets bombed. I don't even know if you should say bombed, but like you know, the Sentinels come and destroy shit. And it's not just normal

Sentinels. There are normal Sentinels, but it's this it's not just normal sentinels there are normal sentinels but it's this massive like bug sentinel they call it like a godzilla sentinel it's got a weird belly it's shooting out sentinels um immediately nightcrawler gets hit i thought they were gonna take nightcrawler out of our lives like that i thought they were gonna bring him in and take him out that made me very nervous nervous, but then we got like, he's alive. I think Gambit checks the pulse or something. Magneto is covering up some of the, is it the Morlocks? Is that what they are?

Leech. Leech is like the little green guy. So him and Leech get hit. He's like, don't be afraid. They get hit. And then it's like Omega level threat, you know, not detected or whatever. And it's like, oh, where did they go? Obviously, we don't think

magneto's dead but this sends rogue into a fury she tries to go after the thing that's basically indestructible if magneto couldn't kill it with a fucking subway whip then she can't but then gambit is the guy who steps in front of her and he's the one who takes the uh takes the sacrifice he gets stabbed he charges it up really badass he says my name's gambit like remember it fucking big explosion and then in a very very very infinity war scene rogue is holding gambit at the end his body she says i can't feel him or i can't feel you that felt very um wanda and vision at the end like i can't feel him anymore but so sad and what like you know last week we were like yeah pretty good episode made us feel fun nostalgic video games are awesome

and this week it's like man humanity is not great huh we just had our like x-men 9-11 basically is what the yeah like really really just devastating and we just saw right before we went live, we saw the midseason trailer. Captain America's coming in. Captain America's shield is in the midseason trailer. What the fuck is going on? I love how the shield just plays. It reminds me of when Spider-Man came and got the shield and it was like, holy shit, Spidey's coming, you know, during Civil War. So it had the same kind of vibes where it's this whole new,

you know, the animation went coming back. And that got the feelings going. They had to throw the Motendo episode. Now I know why they kind of doubled it. You can't be like, all right, next episode, Jubilee is in a video game with some stuff.

You cannot do that. Also, note to self, I like to watch the X-Men in the morning before the day really gets started kind of bring my mood up and then we're ready for the pod whenever can't do that anymore apparently it's an adult show and there's gonna be some adult fucked up shit and our sweet boy can you watch this before bed you watch this no i can't do that you might be having fucking

nightmares again yeah i have to watch it at a very distinct time after breakfast but before before sleep uh probably before lunch even it's it's just completely fucked but our boy gambit gets to throw he just emptied the clip of all his gambit isms he's like oh you know got me on the river there and i hate you like a son of a fucking game of blackjack and you just throw it all his casino lingo out i loved it i was so happy he had his moment i don't love how it all ended but uh yeah that i can't feel you and just kind of bringing it back with wanda it's like fuck man they got us good and i the worst part is bob i didn't even see it coming no i didn't see it coming either but you have to think with cable involved there will be time travel involved will the rest of the season be

focused on let's make sure this gala doesn't get bombed will they go back in time and try to prevent this from happening breaking news on my mom's basement thursday april 11th 12 39 p.m eastern time breaking breaking breaking gambit's coming back alive he's alive he's never been more alive he's the most alive person in the mc right now is gambit there's gonna be great news multiple gambits by uh the end of uh this this toss him in that dr sinister baby juice and yeah he'll be all right if you know if i was a betting man i'd say over under how many gambits will we see the rest of the year over one half one and a half gambits i'm telling you we're gonna see extra gambits i don't know how it's gonna happen

he's gonna be just fine folks i promise you i think he'll be okay you ever because everyone because he's got a one with rogue that's the love story there by the way i know i just said dr sinister again i can't stop myself from saying dr sinister i i don't know why i said it once and now it's like half my brain says dr sinister every time it's fine it's kind of weird i was thinking the other day because they're like oh oh, Dr. Nathaniel Essex. But then he's like, he dropped the doctor to become Mr. Sinister.

It's like, no, I didn't go to fucking evil med school for a year. Med school is like, we can't sign off on what you're doing now. You got to drop the PhD. That's what made him evil.

He's like, well, then I'm really going to be mean and I'm going to take this baby and throw him in fucking toxic goop. I'm with you, Bob. I've thought Dr. Sinister a few times and I still don't understand why he is not called Dr. Sinister. It sounds it doesn't sound.

Do you think is Mr. Sinister more badass or is Dr. Sinister? I don't know. Like, Mr. Sinister is his name, so it's more like iconic in my mind. But Dr. Sinister sounds fucking sweet to me. Yeah, I feel like it might be and i don't know what this universe maybe dr doom was or it was just thinking doom like and he's like i don't want to have two doctors it would be a good tag team like the evil doctors and doctors yeah because i mean think about dr doom it's like kind of almost the synonym for

dr sinister right so you have to- Yeah, oh shit, it is, yeah. It literally translates to, as PFD would say. Dr. Bad, as we said, bad, you know, Mr. Bad. So he had a drop, which again, is only going to fuel him to be more angry because he's like, I was born first. He's older than Dr. Doom, but he got put on first.

So it's a tough look for Mr. Sinister, nonetheless. A great episode of X-Men though. We got a great finale for invincible season two as well but and this is not to put it down i enjoyed x-men this week a lot more just based on how much i didn't see it coming how much i wasn't prepared for this to feel like a finale level episode in terms of the events and everything but we will get into invincible season to the finale. Right after we tell you about game time, our friends at game time, the official ticketing partner of Barstool sports.

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season two episode eight it's the finale of this season. It feels weird that it's the finale because of the mid season break. We complained about that when they did it. It, it made me like feel worse about this because I was like, oh, but it just came back. What do you mean? It's the finale. Like we just got it back in our lives. So it was a good episode overall.

I thought good, not as good as the season one finale but how are you going to outdo the omni-man invincible fight i guess and it it left a little more to be desired than the season one finale right like we didn't get much of a conclusion with omni-man so i didn't realize this was a finale as i was watching it. And I think that's probably because obviously every week it'll come out, but the halftime of the series, and then it just never had that oomph to it

of finality. This is the thing. Who's the guy, the dude with the big brain? Angstrom Levy? Yeah. That dude was awesome when he came in and you seem like, Oh shit. And he's going between dimensions.

And then we just kind of like forgot about him. And then he came back at the end. I don't know, man, I was expecting more. I, I, I wanted more.

I think, I think if they had done it, I don't know how much they're going off of the comic books and whatever. I just, I think very closely. They're following. Yeah. A lot of the lines from this episode or word for word.

So if you're going off the comic books, that's just, it it is what it is it didn't feel as someone who didn't realize he was watching the season finale it didn't feel like one to me it was like all right what do we have next week and then i went online and i saw people being like all that you know commenting about the finale and i was like oh shit that was that was it too and it did feel more than a regular episode with some of the finale but it also does go to show how, how much some of their like middle of the season episodes will have like, Oh shit moments where characters, you know, you thought we're going to be bigger guy or whatever.

So we've had a lot of like stuff over the last few things, but I do think that like halftime of the season threw us off. I'm also like, did one and a half seasons binging. And then it was like, caught up to you guys. And it's like, and we're done. And it's just like what the fuck so i'm definitely caught some whiplash going and stopping

and now we're waiting i i gotta shout out my boy nick parisi basement boy die hard um he was telling me he kind of felt the same way about this and he said that like it's hard to obviously season one the way that goes how that ends And even the premiere of it. Right. And he said that there is like, he goes, he's hoping season three will be a little more. And I said like a little,

a little better. And I said, it does. How is it in the comics? And he goes, Oh, it could be awesome. So we do have some good shit coming our way.

Potentially. I think you get into a lot of evil, invincible variants, which we get a little bit of in this. Obviously they, they start introducing them. I think you get into a lot of evil Invincible variants, which we get a little bit of in this. Obviously, they start introducing them. I think going forward, Invincible is going to get a little multiversal, which I know some of us will roll our eyes at

because everything's going multiversal right now. But if they follow the comics, I know Robbie Guchman here at Barstool reads them too and loves them. I do still have faith in them. I'm not leaving Season 2 down on the show i'm not leaving season two down on the show i'm leaving season two down on the the format of the show the four episodes four episodes put a screeching halt in the momentum of season two that was a horrible idea but let's get into

it opens with um omni man fighting the viltrumite mech suit guys and he's like really it looks like he's like breaking out of jail and then you realize it's like just a test they're like oh cool you're up to full strength you could stand trial now that craig guy who was um i think it's clancy brown um mr crabs oh that so many of the guys on the show i'm like oh shit they got this yeah even uh angstrom levy sterling k brown who's like a fucking you know top of the top in terms of like echelon of actors so it's crazy every single person my sweet chloe brett bennett bennett is in this i didn't realize oh who is she she's one of the girls that like sneaks into the thing you know when they like prop up the door or whatever and go in yeah and they said it was like kind of

a minor role for something when they when they announced her people were so excited obviously she has the shale background i loved her in uh dave so i was like oh man we got chloe bennett and then i didn't even know the entire time um funny title card this week with like the the runner he's like he's like i gotta keep it up so i could be and then it hits you with the invincible and a lot of people have these spoilers included um made a reference to like the title card, something fell off of it finally. So now it's blue and black. And that's apparently the second suit that Mark will get.

Um, he, he doesn't have it yet, or I guess it's kind of third suit if you consider that makeshift suit he had, but you know what I'm talking about. And this suit is a little more of like a darker Mark. I,

I don't want to say it's spider-man with the black suit but the way people are talking about it sort of feels like it is so i know people are excited about that as well i this is the thing with mark in general i do wish i may just again i'm i can't understand a mold guys i just need kind of the reminder of how evil he is in basically every other realm you know and i think that would help with the season and again it cannot be understated i do think they really fucked up the pacing of it with the halftime whether or not if they weren't already then delay the season i think that's the way agreed i think it would have been better just to do like eight straight episodes because

like we were falling on we recapped episodes that weren't even the same episode because we were all over the place like and listen maybe that's not invincible's fault maybe i'm looking for someone to blame on that but blame the old guy confused us don't confuse us just make it easy on the nerds you know oh yeah i do appreciate the weekly releases i will say that because we can at least catch up every single week when there's an oh fuck moment which this show will have a bunch of which the boys is the boys a dump or is it weekly it's three episodes up front and then weekly yeah that's right because that's what jen v was i remember by the way r.i.p to the actor from jen v who passed away that guy i know so sad yeah absolute bummer uh so i'm excited for the boys because, again, those oh fuck moments do happen like midseason. Which, look, look, look at what X-Men's doing.

They're doing what these other shows we've been asking them to do. They're doing oh fuck moments in the middle of the season. Who would have thought? I don't want Gambit to die every fucking episode or, you know, beloved child character. Jacob's Kenny. Exactly. These last words every time more than me

more than me um and then we pretty much get right into it with this episode angstrom has mark's mom he's got debbie he's threatened to kill her he's threatened to kill oliver the little baby that you called sus um any monologues for a while he's pissed that Mark doesn't remember him from episode one of this season when it was against the twins and everything like that. And multiversal fight starts pretty much right away. Goes into a dino realm, goes into a realm with the, this Arachna kid who seems a lot like another superhero that we've heard of before. He's got spider abilities, could shoot webs.

His villain is someone that looks a little bit like an octopus or a worm the way they handled that was so funny i love that i love the way they handled the the little batman thing and i believe that was man bat bob oh yeah sorry i didn't mean to say that definitely definitely was not batman no way was that batman it's the same thing it was in the comics too. They had like a one panel thing where you could see like the gauntlet and the black cape and stuff. The way that they're able to translate those moments from comics to television, pretty impressive. Same thing going back a couple episodes when they went to Comic-Con and they did the whole animation bit.

Yeah. Like that was a comic bit for comic artists and writers like that so i love all of that i even love the dino realm later on he goes to the walking dead realm when you can actually make the jump through multiversal worlds fun that's what we love i think we complained about it a little bit in multiverse of madness because it was so quick they showed us like the paint world and the dino world and shit but they didn't spend any time in those worlds and that's even if it's just like the time he spent in the spider-man world it's you know you get a quick bit out of it i love that that was and that's what makes these like non like the non-marble dc it's like that's what makes them standalone where it's like you can still poke it's ecw right it's a wwf and wcw back in the day and that's what makes the bwo

yeah yeah exactly and it's like yeah guys we love this shit as much as you if not more that's why our careers are like doing comics it's because we all love this shit it's like that's the kind of stuff that should be celebrated so that part was like a really fun part of this episode that's the thing like when there's like the post like when this episode's over you think of the stuff that you're like oh shit that was the end of the season you forget about some of the real fun stuff dinosaurs like talking and shit yeah it's like planet of the apes but dinosaurs yes um levy yells at debbie for saying it's gonna be okay because that's like what he was saying he's like how do you know it's gonna to be okay? You don't know it's going to be okay. They do, you know, the flashbacks and whatnot. The fight continues.

He can't separate Mark from bad Mark. So even though this Mark is good, Mark, he's so crazy about his life and his trauma and his heartbreak that he can't separate those two. One of the Mark variants even killed his son right in front of him. So I could see how that could uh you know cause you to hold a grudge it's a real mind fuck when you just like sit back and you think about it like but this mark is good it's like yeah but like infinity other marks are the worst most dangerous terrible thing that's ever happened to earth and it does kind of like i i see where he's coming from that's why i wish i had more of this character because i really did enjoy yeah he was good he was really good

because i fucking love the actor too i saw what was the movie i saw with him in the other day um it's uh it was up for academy award this year author yeah oh american fiction good movie great i like that movie yeah i really enjoyed it yeah it's really funny movie yeah um debbie puts up a fight but unfortunately gets her arm snapped snapped right in half and this was another one where you're like all right this guy's a fucking bad motherfucker he's snapping mark's mom's arm in half she can't be doing that to the moms and the fucking black eyes running the family they get the same black eyes. I know the same exact thing. Yeah.

On, on, on big dead matching black eyes. And Mark is lost for a while. Cause he's being sent through these multiverse worlds. It goes into that like caveman world and he's around the fire. He doesn't remember how long he's been lost. Um,

when he comes back and he sees his mom all fucked up, he just loses it. Fight continues. He starts fucking pounding angstrom because angstrom's about to you know pause anxious about to kill him then mark starts beating the fuck out of him covered in blood like head to toe he's red dripping angstrom blood and then he kind of realizes like oh fuck i killed him he's like i thought you were stronger and like he realizes oh no i'm becoming my dad i swore off killing i just killed he's like very much and he's lost still he can't get back you cut to the ship alan our guy alan the alien gives omni man a message

like a to start the jailbreak that was a big moment too so like getting the mark emotional moment was like oh fuck this kid he's fucked up for life and then you see alan the alien and you're like oh alan what a guy there is something when you hear uh seth rogan's voice it does like bring you back like a happy happy older time when he was in all those fucking funny movies like oh it's alan he's back yeah everything's good everything's good i was like after like watching mark emotionally weigh like the balance of his soul basically and then we just get set the road and maybe get a seth rogan laughing you're like oh everything yeah crazy fight though um i go back and forth on like part of me wishes they didn't kill angstrom because i like sterling k brown and i like this character and he was cool we didn't get enough of him but like

it is a a really good moment for the season two finale to kind of mirror season one a little bit with the way omni man was standing over mark beating the fuck out of him and stuff and you know this sets up all of season three pretty pretty much. Now, Mark, obviously the thing with his dad is, is there a part of him that's also like, am I now evil Mark, like the other infinity marks? Probably. Yeah. You know, I'm sure that's going. Am I going to fulfill that prophecy? Yeah. Yeah. And he basically like, Angstrom basically made him, he turned him into that essentially in a fucked up crazy way, you know? So it is very interesting how that and then also turned angstrom into angstrom yeah he was the chicken or the egg the fact that oliver only exists in this one dimension as well is very interesting and now

i'm like does that make him less sus or does that make him more sus because then what if mark stays good and then oliver becomes the mark of the evil you know son of omni man who you know wants to take out the entire speech or is he like the anya taylor joy of dune where he's the baby and he's the real prophecy mark's gonna be the bad one lisa and al gaib versus yeah yeah that's a good question we are crossing a lot of heavy duty and we're keeping it at ground level though that's what the basin does we don't dive too deep into this because we'll get lost at least i'll get lost and speaking of lost mark is still lost until an older guardians team comes to say save him they're like 20 years older um eve in this universe says that mark's universe eve

has feelings for him so she's like either shit or get off the pot basically either tell her you got feelings or let her go live her life you're messing around with her right now also uh robot and this one takes off his fucking robot as rex and mark is like what the fuck is rex um good moment and they you know get him back to his mom and brother he like, what the fuck is Rex? Good moment. And they, you know, get him back to his mom and brother. He visits him at the Pentagon. Same black eye. He breaks down in her arms.

They did a little monster girl robot talk, some immortal stuff to end the episode, some Egyptian stuff, which was weird. I don't know what we're going to get out of that. Very moon nightish. The scarab and whatnot. The montage was very good with Omni-Man and Mark, their old footage, and when Mark is still in that makeshift suit and shit, and Debbie and Mark talk on the roof. He can't tell Eve how he really feels. He almost does it on the bridge,

but he holds back at the last minute. And then this season ends on Omni-Man admitting to Alan that he's he's got empathy he's developed some some human empathy so he's he's against the viltrumites again i miss my wife he misses his wife after all that you know that was that was a twist i loved when the older guardians came back to save him i love that was good like that And they can just tell they've like been through all the battles through time or we'll probably see that. Yeah.

In their world, Mark was lost forever and things went very bad. Yeah. So you need, we're going to be dealing with that with cable coming back. Very similar. Yeah. It's like,

it is fucked with invincible. It's like when the big dog, like Marvel is, has already been diving into the multiversal shit. And the x-men are now doing it as well i can understand why it's a lot but it's like whatever it's a coincidence it is what it is uh they might do it better than anyone that's the thing it's just like the boys if they do it better than the the established names that i know i'm fine saying they are the champions the boys was number one in my mind. I think going into this, right.

I said this year, I think the boys Deadpool and Deadpool is going to be another. Oh my God. Me and Bob. We are at least Deadpool is like the whole movie takes place in a different multiverse. Like at least it's a different concept where it's not like, you know,

we're still in our universe and we're getting a little piece of this multiverse and this one it's a different concept where it's not like you know we're still in our universe and we're getting a little piece of this multiverse and this one and this one and this one at least they're like all right this whole movie is just in another one enjoy yeah like that's a little yeah a little separation from what we've gotten can hashtag my multiversal basement because that'd be the hashtag for the week it It's a long one, but fuck it. It's a long one. If you made it all the way to the end, hashtag my multiversal basement. There you go. It's your hashtag and spell check for this week. Yes, exactly.

I really want Mark and Eve to get together. But it sounds like he's, is he, is he like, why does he want to tell her? Is that going to fuck shit up if he tells i think he's just nervous yeah that he's becoming something that you know he's not in the right space for a relationship right now he's murdering i don't know yeah that's i also like i want them to be together i agree with you but there is part of me and they've built it in a very smart way i like amber and i And I like Mark and Amber. And I'm like, she was very understanding of the superhero life.

But you know what? Probably not. Probably not best. Probably should be with another superhero. So I would compare it to, like, I'm not comparing us to superheroes. I am not doing that. Maybe I should. But I'm not going to.

It's like we are with girls, women, that understand what it's like to be with a bar school person they're making us dress like idiots for a fucking house of the dragon thing and they're like oh yeah how to buy paper plates so rob could robbie can become the crab master or whatever yep however if you like were dating someone that works at barstool it would be like oh no like i know why we're doing this you have the constant fear of dave always you know winker so it's like you could get we have like we have great versions of it now and then we could also who really knows i'm not saying it's better or worse it would just be different and i but i hope they get together but i'm sure at some point that'll probably there's i'm gonna call it now i haven't read the comic books mark and her get together she dies that's what makes mark become evil that's what snaps this

mark and it's the worst thing to ever happen in this universe is that mark has someone he doesn't want to lose like that it'd be pretty good but i don't want to lose that to me either so that no me either i don't want to be right i'm hurt with this knowledge i'm i called like a infant sauce i did it with a dead dog i know i fucked up but i'm doing it again who cares all right that was the uh invincible season two recap we'll be back next week to talk x-men we'll talk other stuff as well i'm going to vegas right not right after this but i'm going to Vegas, right? Not right after this, but I'm going to Vegas tomorrow morning for UFC 300. So maybe I'll tell some stories from that. And we'll have the boys sooner than later. Before you know it, it's going to be the boys wrapping right around.

Yep. One last note. I was going to float to you live on the pod. I've got a few tweets about it. I got a few DMs. Do you want to do a fallout? Oh, yeah. So I was never a fallout guy.

I never played the fallout video games. I think I downloaded the demo for a couple of them when that was a big thing. You could download free demos and stuff. Um, but I think the show looks sick. It's Jonathan Nolan who wrote half of the dark night. So yeah, I'm in on that Walton Goggins.

I'll check out fallout, but I also think it's, they dropped everything at once. So we'll have to pace ourselves. So yeah, I'm in on that. Walton Goggins. I'll check out fallout, but I also think it's, they dropped everything at once. So we'll have to pace ourselves. So that's the thing. Um, they did drop it all once. I've seen the reviews online.

I've been awesome. And I know people have asked, Hey, you guys are gonna cover on the basement. And again, I've never played the games. I'm like you, I don't,

I have no clue what the fuck the games are about. I see the fucking nuclear stuff. And the guy with smiling with the thumbs up. I know that guy this means nuke boy i think they call him yeah yes however i also never had watched or played the last of us and it became one of my favorite tv shows so i'm gonna go in blind i watched the first episode this morning getting ready for the pod in case you had seen it yet and i gotta say to say, this has potential. Okay, cool. I'll check it out. Download it for the plane ride if you have to.

Get it set. It's on Prime for the people that are listening. It's on Prime. It dropped all eight. There's eight episodes. The first one was like an hour and a half. If that's the case, it's going to take a little while to get us going up. I actually have a fucking NBA team that's going to be in the playoffs. I have power things. Robbie's fucking flying every UFC every other weekend. They're having fucking huge cards.

But we will potentially do a fallout recap, maybe end of April or something like that. But one episode in, I'm like, I can see the potential here. Kind of like we're beginning the last of us. Awesome. I'm excited now. I'll download a couple episodes for the plane. All right. Thank you, everyone, for listening. We will talk to you guys next week.