My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 404 - SKELETON CREW/CREATURE COMMANDOS EPISODE 7

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

Robbie and Clem are back in the Basement to recap the Golden Globes, discuss the recasting of Baylan Skoll in the Star Wars universe, and of course, break down Episode 7 of both #SkeletonCrew and #CreatureCommandos. This week just so happens to be the finale of Creature Commandos as well, so it's a big one! TurtleBeach: Level up your game and get 10% off @TurtleBeach with code BASEMENT at https://turtlebeach.com/BASEMENT! #turtlebeachpod **************************************** 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 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 Creature Commandos finale and Skeleton Crew Penultimate edition of My Mom's Basement. So it's a big episode. I feel like we didn't even realize that this was going to be the finale episode We would have mentioned we were watching the creature commandos penultimate last week But who does a show with seven episodes usually it's six or eight doing an odd number But hey James Gunn is an odd guy and I can't complain because the show is pretty damn good Clem

How we doing Bob? You know what my theory is when a show has a weird number of episodes What are we gonna get next week on Thursday morning? Maybe a secret episode. Maybe a secret episode. It's in the realm of possibilities, is it not? It would be a doozy to follow up the finale episode, which wrapped a lot of things up. But if one person could do it, it's all Jimmy Gunn himself.

I mean, Jim, come on, if you haven't done it, just get to the drawing board and get it out there because you wanna get people talking. Secret episodes are gonna get people talking. Secret episodes would have the whole world talking. I mean, for the Sandman, they did the secret episode. Listen, I know the Sandman is one of the most critically acclaimed comics of all time. I know people enjoyed the show,

but it certainly wasn't a show that had the world talking until the secret episode. And we were all like, holy shit, everyone's posting about it. It made me want to watch the show just so I could have been there for the moment one finally dropped. We texted each other like, God damn, the one comic book show we didn't watch, did it?

We've been talking secret episodes forever. I mean, I think it really got turned up to another level. I feel like WandaVision is when we were, which is like, you look back, we were in COVID brain state, think Wanda vision is when we were which is like you look back We were in COVID brain state just looking for any we were in denial We were like but boner can't be the fun finale right that can't be how that awesome show ended Oh my god, but hey listen Hand up this is on us didn't realize it was the finale this week

Didn't realize the Golden Globes were coming up in like two days after we recorded a lot of things snuck up on us, didn't realize it was the finale this week, didn't realize the Golden Globes were coming up in like two days after we recorded. A lot of things snuck up on us. And hey, listen, for the common man by the common man, common man makes common mistakes. And that's two very obvious common mistakes. I'm sure there was countdowns on certain nerd podcasts, breaking down Golden Globe nominees and how the Penguin can sweep, yada, yada, yada, creature commandos breaking down what's gonna happen in the episode. We're just flying by the seat of our pants, which is when we actually get stuff right and make predictions, it feels like a miracle

because we're still- Yeah, so you mentioned the Golden Globes snuck up on us. We didn't even mention like on the last episode that the Golden Globes were happening because we didn't know the Golden Globes were happening. I realized, I think I saw a commercial or something and I was like, oh shit, Golden Globes were happening, because we didn't know the Golden Globes were happening. I realized, I think I saw a commercial or something, and I was like, oh shit, Golden Globes are coming up. And I know people roll their eyes at award shows,

but I actually get excited for the Golden Globes. It's the one where everyone gets drunk together, celebrities are sitting at tables, you see odd connections of celebrities. This year I saw Harrison Ford went over and introduced himself to Timothee Chalamet, and I'm like, holy shit, this is one of the all time goats with one of the future goats.

Like there's cool moments like that at the Golden Globes. Obviously Ricky Gervais like roasted the room for like 10 years in a row, people love that. So I said, screw it, I'm excited for the Golden Globes. Also, cause I know the Penguins nominated for a few and we've been flying this flag, waving the flag. The Penguin should win every award it's nominated for a few and we've been flying this flag, waving the flag, the Penguin should win every award it's nominated for.

So I look up, there's like odds sometimes for Golden Globes, there usually is for Oscars. Golden Globes is more like shady, so I try to look up who the favorites are and I noticed the Penguin is like a heavy underdog for all three awards it's nominated for. It was Best Actor, Colin Farrell for a limited series, best actress Kristen Milioti, and best limited series itself, The Penguin. I look at this and I'm stunned to find out the Baby Reindeer show, which is a dark, twisted show. It's a true story about a stalker. The guy who wrote it plays himself in the story of his own life. Baby Reindeer is the favorite for best show. Baby Reer, the guy who wrote it plays himself in the story of his own life.

Baby Reindeer's the favorite for best show. Baby Reindeer, the lead actor's favorite for best actor and for best actress, Clem, it was Jodie Foster for True Detective Night Country, a season that we watched and at the time we were trying to give it the benefit of the doubt throughout the season I would say where we were like alright this could have a cool payoff Cool concept the whole night country thing. It's 14 days and night or however many days of night I forget by the end I think we regretted giving it the benefit of the doubt because that finale stunk out loud Oh, it was disgusting it made us regret watching the show. The fact that she was the favorite stunned me.

The fact that she won. Disgusted me. It made me think the Golden Globes are a sham to the point where, yeah, we got our Colin Farrell win. That was a shock. The underdog pulled through. It made me think, are we stopping the steel here? But in the end, the penguin didn't win, Kristen didn't win.

Hopefully the Emmys get it right, but the Golden Globes for me, they're a bit of a sham. I was going to say, Bob, you just let me know where we stand as an army against the Golden Globes. Are we embracing them because Colin Farrell got his hardware or are they enemies of the state? Because obviously the other two didn't win, our girl Christina and then obviously the show. So I guess they're enemies, that's fine. I will, I'm basically at the point with award shows where I can, I'll just get behind my people

and fight them if I have to fight them. I told you, I think I've said on the show, ever since once The Wire, like did it get nominated for any Emmys for almost the entire run? And they got like one or two in the last season. I was like, that award show is done to me. Oscars still kind of moves the needle, but there's there's been so much just just stupidity. They've been running all these award

shows. Grammys, you can lump them in. Uh yeah, you know, in a weird way, I feel like the VMAs are probably the most fair awards of all, and I think they're still going on. I don't know. But that Jodie. So this is the thing. The Jodie

Foster thing. I forgot that show had a lot of awards. I think that's the thing. I think they're still going on. I don't know. But that Jodie, so this is the thing, the Jodie Foster thing, I forgot that show happened. That when, after we would watch that every week and talk about it on here, think that was when I started to actually break about having to do recaps every week. And a lot of the shows that we kind of like skipped

or perused through in the last year, I think it was set up from that show. Cause I remember being like, I can't believe I have to do this. That felt like eating your vegetables while going to class, while like scrubbing the toilets. It was like work on work on work. It should never feel like work here.

We live in fantasy land and that was awful. I will say this, however, I liked Jodie Foster in the show, but I just hated the show so much. Maybe it's because she talked about fantasy football. I honestly that might have been the reason I like her. I didn't think she was bad too because we talked about that as we were recapping it with Frankie Borelli, I think tweeted like she's giving the worst performance i've ever seen in anything and we kind of defended her. We were like, all right, the show might not be great, but she's fun.

Like I still think Jodie Foster gave a good performance and true detective, but there's nothing memorable from her performance. We can't look back at that season and be like, do you remember that monologue she gave with the fucking when when there was icicles? I don't fucking remember her monologues. Kristen Milioti, maybe it's because it's more recent. I don't think so, though. I think it's just because it was such a more memorable performance. The range she showed in just that episode four alone, her backstory

from when she's at the fundraiser to when she's at Arkham Broken and then gasping the whole house, like that was a performance that deserved awards. She deserved to get up on stage and make a speech just like Colin Farrell did. I was happy to see she took a picture with Zoe Kravitz and Zoe Kravitz posted like the half sisters picture. I was hoping, knowing they were in the same room, that Matt Reeves would have the sense to introduce these two and get a picture to get all the fans excited for the potential of their characters. But yeah, I think getting one out of the three, if we would have got two out of the three, the Golden Globes would have been like, all right, you made a mistake,

but you got two things right. This was just, you get one out of the three. I said in my blog, I feel like the voters didn't even watch The Penguin. I feel like they looked at the thing. They said, there's a comic book show here. I know it's getting love, but Jodie Foster, she's a legacy actress.

Check the box. Legacy actress. Oh, and did you guys see True Detective One? That was awesome. It's like, yeah. Check the box. Legacy actress. Oh, and did you guys see true detective one? That was awesome. It's like, yeah, that was a long time ago. Yeah. It must, must be great. True detective, right? Check. They're lazy. Oh God. Yeah. So enemies of the state, they are enemies of the state. I said it last night, Abdul Carter, the guy who wore the Darth Vader eye black is the official athlete of the year of the basement. That was awesome. I now want the Giants to draft him. He tweeted out the picture of

Darth Vader in his back the tank on Mustafar. I saw that and he was Toner Griffin was tweeting like he tweeted the whole explanation for it. Can you see that? That was that was awesome. So I'm like, oh this guy, you're throwing on Darth Vader and And I'm not just Darth Vader, because I'm going to kill you. It's because I'm fucking in the back to take he's like, now I'm healing nerd. Right? We are big fans of my mom's basement athlete of the week, the year so far, we could say he's the rating. So like he has, yes, you've got the title. Yeah. And he gets it. If he goes on a pose next week, he goes on a pose next week. But you know, I know every week week you're gonna kind of try to get Jayden on there

I'm not gonna let Jayden just take it. He's gonna have to wear some sort of like okay Superman socks or something like Oh, can I show my Jayden shirt on the podcast? I show the Jayden shirt on the podcast if the Giants get Abdul Carter However, which is part of the reason I'm doing this because there is a chance if they decide just to do a quarterback for some reason They could get Abdul Carter at Three so I might have Abdul Carter on my team. This was such a fire Christmas gift from Lady Fox She she said she looked on NFL shop and didn't see anything that was like something that maybe I would wear Which makes sense and wearing a lot of like black band t-shirts all the time. So this is the Jaden shirt she found. Oh

Wow It was like bleached in Thailand This is the Jaden shirt she found. Oh, wow. It was like bleached in Thailand. Bleached in Thailand. That is a, Yeah. You know what? Hashtag for the week, hashtag bleached in Thailand. That's my band name. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. You mentioned Star Wars. It's a good transition to mention we have a huge recasting in Star Wars. Bailon Skull, originally played by Ray Stevenson in Ahsoka. One of our favorite parts of that show, if not our absolute favorite part of that show. We were just texting about him last night.

And I said, he did so much with so little. If we look back, he probably didn't have that much screen time in relation to other characters in Star Wars shows we've recapped but he was so goddamn memorable, so good every second he was on screen. Unfortunately, he passed away before Ahsoka even aired season one. We knew his character being as big as the character was and them leaving Cliffhanger on his character, they'd probably have to recast him and they've apparently made that recasting. He will now be played by Ray Stevenson's friend in real life, Rory McCann, who you probably

know as the Hound in Game of Thrones. If you look at pictures side by side, Clem said last night to me, he's like, I'd like to see what he looked like when he's not the Hound. And I agreed. I had to Google pictures of him because you picture him with half of his face burnt off. When you look side by side, I can definitely see it. I could see, you know, if they dye his beard gray, that this will work. We know from Game of Thrones that he is a top-tier actor. Another guy, the Hound, similar in that, I mean we got a lot of the Hound in Game of Thrones, especially by the end of the series, but he was always able to do so

much with so little. Any little scene the Hound was in, he was a fan favorite, so I actually have a lot of faith in this recasting. I think this was probably a very good recasting and probably one they thought about a lot. Yeah, it's gonna be really hard to, again, if I guess when we see him there's a chance you'll be like, wait a minute, I think that's the hound, like if I hadn't known it going in. But it's just gonna be so hard to get over that's the hound, but I said that about Carchettia's little finger, now that motherfucker is little finger for the rest of his life. The thing about the Hound, too, is like you always like the Hound, but you never were sure just how much you could trust them.

And that's kind of like the character was in the show. Right. Yeah. I said he was like the gray Jedi we've been looking for that isn't just straight dark side, but in the straight white light side is kind of a mix of the two. And that's kind of what the house was in Game of Thrones. So I like it on that sense as well. So, I mean, the fact that they're friends, obviously, he's gonna wanna crush the role. I just bummed me out too, man. That guy was my favorite character in Ahsoka.

I liked it a lot less than you did that season. So I, to lose my favorite part is kind of tough. You know me, usually it's the droids and the ships that I go towards. The one time I fall in love with a human after the motherfucker dies. So tough. Sad stuff, but hopefully they're getting season two of Ahsoka under wraps soon. I texted Jeff D. Lowe, that show Slow Horses on Apple TV.

I just saw another story about them. It's like they're filming season six right now. Season five's not even out yet. And I'm like, God damn, when Slow Horses wraps up Marvel and Star Wars better get into a bidding war with the showrunners of that show, because they're able to just produce quality TV constantly getting nominated for awards

season after season after season. Like that, it's like, what is taken, I guess the CGI and shit with Marvel and Star Wars takes a lot longer, but God damn, just write some shows that feature less CGI Yeah Alright, let's talk about a show that features a lot of CGI But a good show skeleton crew the penultimate episode aired this week We're gonna be in so much trouble was the episode title and when you read that you probably think alright

They're gonna make it back to add at in this week Even though we we've never heard of no ad at We're thinking you got to make it back cuz they're gonna think that with their parents Oh fuck after going on this crazy field trip in there Bob right been there been there done that actually not really I was I was not really a troublemaker as a kid Maybe like my sister she would be the one like sneaking out her window to go to a party. Not Bobby Fox. I was in the basement writing blogs. The little halo above your head in the old pictures does kind of check out on this. And to be honest, I was the same way.

Maybe around into high school, college a little bit, but even then out of all my friends easily, just two little angels here in the basement, just two good kids. That's what we're all about here. Come on. It's not like My mom's out of town and I threw a party. It's my mom's basement So this one actually does begin with the parents though They're trying to send a signal up through the barrier and it looks Cool like Star Wars II

But also DIY makeshift the little thing that they send up, the little parachute thing. Like looking at it I was like, alright, I can believe that parents made that in Star Wars. There's also, you think there's something more to the parents? I don't know about all of them, maybe Wim's dad? Seems like they have a lot of knowledge on this planet. Obviously they know more than the kids about what Ad Aten is, but like, do any of the parents

have like a combat backstory or something more to their character like that? Bob I'm happy you asked that question because my first note here The elephant mom is on the motherfucking sus list She is number one on the sus list right now and it's only because she was the last one to show up But then as soon as she shows up all the droids show up That can get a call reach, but I was going into that being like alright I'm gonna throw one of these motherfuckers on the sus list and as soon as she shows up the entire plan goes awry so I'm throwing that is a

Neal's mom right? Yes, Neal's mom. Yeah, it could be the family could be the mom There's been a lot of elephant. No, not the whole family. Come on. Don't throw the whole family on the sus list Okay, I'm not gonna throw the kids. I'll throw the mom and the dad like I'm just saying it might not be the mom It might be the dad then the dad might be an off dropping the dime on the mom and then that's how everything goes But I'm saying if one of the kids parents has been you know, sabotaging this from the backside I'm gonna blame Neil's parents. Just letting him know now I'm throwing it out there. Hey, I've been very wrong before. I've susless dead dogs, dead people. Yeah. It looks bad,

but I'm sticking to it. Just remember now, remember now. Definitely dead elephants now. We'll see what happens in the finale. And Bob, you know, my thoughts about Max Rebo I know they're not the same as blah blah fucking blah. You're not a fan that guy is sus as shit Mass casualty events that dude just happened to be there, you know, we'll fool me one shame on you fool me twice Ain't gonna fool me again. Yeah, that's a tough one for the rebo stands to try to defend Yes, if we're being honest, you know, we're all fans of the band But we're like you got to separate the art from the artist, you know

what I mean? Wim realizes he's got to go back to real life and he's kind of bummed out. He's like, fuck, I'm gonna have to go take that test when I get back to real life. God damn, I love Wim. He's the most relatable Star Wars character maybe of all time, because he's a kid who's a Star Wars fan who is totally scared the second he goes on this journey until he relapses he's gonna have to go back and take like a Scantron test and he's like ah fuck it let's stay in space I was like all right Wim is me as a kid this is the writing on it is fantastic he's a literal basement boy he's a basement child basement kid yeah basement boy of the week Wim yeah fuck it basement boy. He's a basement child basement kid. If you want to call the week wins

Yeah, fuck it base a boy the vehicle just for being like I don't want to take that test because when you're in the basement And you're watching the Simpsons or you're playing your 64 or whatever you're doing And that was always the thing and that that was like a 40 and slip in my head as soon as the Simpsons was over 830 p.m. That's what it was like fuck I got school tomorrow. The Scaries hit. All the homework that's when the Scaries hit like a ton of bricks a lightsaber to the gut you survived it because you can survive lightsabers to the gut but you knew it wasn't going to be fun getting there. So then the pirates that are with Jodd they have Jodd captive they find Ad Aten but they're looking at it and it's this massive green gas planet and they're like, yeah He led us astray here. That ain't fucking at-at and there's no way he's trying to kill us the coolest thing I saw I think I retweeted it last night

The way that they did this they had at-at and as a matte painting that they animated So this is total old-school original trilogy Star Wars shit They somehow painted the planet and then like animated the painting to look like this gas planet. And the visuals were sweet. Even the outside of it was very cool. It looked different, but when they're actually going in and you're seeing all of like the signals

or the transmitters, the jammers, whatever they were in the green smoke and everything, I thought it looked so cool, so unique for Star Wars. But they see the kid ship and they're able to tractor beam that in and understand, okay, maybe if we get that ship, that's the key to getting in at at another moment where I was like, God damn, the ship design on this show is also cool. The pirate ship being this big long thing that could suck the kid ship in the

onyx cinder looked cool and Millennium Falcon II kind of in the beginning and now that it shed its skin it looks like something that would almost be on Naboo in episode one. It's so shiny and sleek and I really dig that um and I I liked all of the pirate scenes we got this season. I don't know how many more we'll get in the finale where they left it off, but I was happy to see Urkel got another scene for his reel this week. Yep, yep. Pirates were good, kept it going the whole time and they'll be heard from again, I imagine at some point how and how long, we're not sure. But man, I just want to say to like, Clem of last year or the year

before and we would just say like guys expand your horizons go to different planets make them cool make them different and then we kind of got that with acolyte but it wasn't what we wanted and they didn't expand on it. This is exactly what we

were looking at treasure planet and obviously the other planets are cool but then you have the treasure but but then even the way that they hit it there that you're looking at all the other planets that were cool, but then you had the Trinidad, but then even the way that they hit it there and then you're looking at all the different technology that they're using for the storms and all that shit. I thought the dude was flying back too. I thought he was gonna get down and be like, nope, clear, it's clear after here, skip. Nope, it'll murder your ass

if it doesn't watch you down there. And this was everything, not everything we've been asking for as Star Wars fans, but that was a good chunk of what we've been asking for in terms of different planets, unique stuff. Like just be creative, you know? Think about it. It's very creative.

Even like just the fact that pirates are now a big like thing to think about in the live action Star Wars universe. I know they've existed in cartoons and comics and video games and we have factions like that, but it feels like a new thing to introduce to this right now. We've always had gangs and gangsters like the Hutts and stuff like that, but now it's like,

oh, we got to think about pirates. Oh, pirates might be boarding the ship. Like that's just cool to think about in Star Wars, the bank planet. Like that's fucking cool. There's gotta be a Star Wars mint. It was something that I think a lot of last Jedi haters even kind of liked the scene where DJ was like,

hey, check this out. The same people are making these weapons and the manufacturers and the same people are causing this war to be cyclical and continue. And this is a never ending war because like real life, it's like wars and it's like, I wanna learn, I wish the last Jedi went more into the arms dealers. Like who is funding the Star Wars

That stuff is very interesting to me and this kind of touches on that with like the bank planet I think it'll touch on it more in the finale I think a lot of the stuff of the sequels and the prequels that people did Or there was a lot of stuff the sequels and prequels people didn't like but there was stuff like the whole How the clones were made and the stormtroopers and all that kind of cool You know on secret and then obviously order 66 and all that kind of stuff. That was cool. Camino. It was done on secret and then obviously Order 66 and it's like there is cool shit there. There's a lot of stuff that was around that cool stuff that kind of just fell apart and that is another example of it.

But we haven't had that in this series. This series, every episode we've enjoyed, I look forward to it and we keep getting new parts of the mystery. And I'm telling you, when we find out one of those elven motherfuckers was the problem There have been a thorn in our side the whole time. That's gonna be the final Well the best scene of the episode in my opinion just in terms of keeping us guessing The kids are able to claw up. What's his name? Brutus the wolf pirate They claw him up almost like it's a claw machine and he's just hanging there and they're like get

away from the shipper we're gonna friggin not let this guy go and John just picks up a gun and executes him on the spot and cold blood and I was like oh fuck like it made me say out loud like oh my god and it made me realize in that moment our prediction in the beginning was wrong We are like we were like alright I said myself I'd bet my life that this ends with you know He steals the money but comes back and saves the kids in the end and they're just doing Han Solo all over again This guy's a fucking villain. They were trying to tell us the entire series This is a bad guy the owl was trying to tell us we didn't listen to the owl. We should have been listening to the owl

It's like oh, but he did he did Jedi stuff No, we did for stuff plenty of bad guys could do for stuff We had the fucking radar up on the penguin from day one and you were the one who was telling me you go look Victor he ain't long for this. I was like, I don't want to believe that not much No, no, like he's playing Dolly Parton. You can't listen to Dolly Parton and be a bad person in your core or your soul. That one was a good call by you.

This one, and Bob, I wrote the exact words that you just said down. I took the old Rich James. That was cold blooded. Because Brutus, he talked a big game and he was monologuing his ass off. And granted he would have killed John like five different times

if John didn't speak his way out of it. Or the crew didn't kind of be like, hold on a sec, you know, boss. He's just like, fuck, this guy's gonna kill me. I gotta get him first. And I actually appreciated that about John. I actually was like, I want a guy who's gonna be a villain.

I don't know what's gonna happen in the next episode with him, but he seems like he's pretty much Greedy as a motherfucker. He doesn't strike me as a guy who's gonna you know help help anyone else up on himself No, I feel like he's the kind of guy we got to put in some kind of space jail And then maybe he shows back up in like the Mando movie or something like that as like you know We can't trust this guy, but we might need his help to get out of a planet or something like that as like, you know, we can't trust this guy, but we might need his help to get out of a planet or something. You know, we were talking a little Thrones. I'm thinking maybe, um, shit, he's one of my favorite dudes on there, too.

And I'm blanking on his name. Who is the dude that always helped Tyrion out? I don't know. It's been so long since I watched the original series. The names are tough. Uh, fuck. God damn it. His mercenary. Someone's Ron of the original series. The names are tough. God damn it. His mercenary.

Someone's this Ron Ron of the black water. That's a little bit of John there, right? It's like, yeah, Ron. You're like, that's my dude. I love brawn. And then brawn would just like murder someone who's you like. You're like, what the fuck was that brawn?

He's like, I told you I'm just about the straight cash. I mean, John's and it's just, we want to make him. We want to pick him better than he is. And he's not that dude, but it's like, you kind of love him. Like if John does bad shit in the season finale here, and then we see him in Mando, I'm still going to be excited to see him.

Yeah. Jude Law is great casting because he's kind of that, he's cool. He's got that swagger. You want to like him. Yeah. He played the pirate very well. He does. And he keeps the kids hostage on board he puts the mask back on which is fucking cool it has kind of a triangle top looks like a pirate hat on the top of the mask and everything and the kids hear messages from their parents in another scene that I swear might have been in like the Jimmy Neutron

movie or something it reminded me of like a kid's movie, but in a good way, they all realize, oh, their parents love them and they wanna get back to their parents and whatnot. And they try to attack, it doesn't work. Again, I liked that. It was a trope shutdown of the kids aren't just gonna run and attack and it's gonna be great. Then SM33 kinda decides whose side he's gonna be on.

The kids call unclaimsies, they're like, unclaimsies. And he's like, it's not, it doesn't work like that kids. And SM 33 comes out of nowhere, Dex job in the face. He's like, ah, it's close enough. So SM 33 comes through clutch yet again, great robot, great droid in star wars. We haven't gotten kind of the droid with the worm in his eye type deal before, so they made him unique as well. I liked the scene again where they head through the barrier, they find the planet, all of that great stuff. SM-33 again by the end of the episode

is killed, but like he'll be back, right? He's kind of our Kenny from South Park at this point. You killed SM- SM 33 you bastard I mean this might have been the third time. I've written this in my notes RIP my dog SM 33. I hope yeah, I hope I can write that again one day because it means he's come back Yeah, I don't want him to keep dog. I don't want to become Kenny from South Parkers It was like my notes 33 fucking rocks. I love this guy RIP my dog SM 33 I feel like that's every week at this point, right? But like, straight now, listen, head beheading. If it wasn't a robot, I'd

be like, he's cooked. I feel like you get a couple. I mean, we just saw solder that back on. Fucking wind was just melting wires and put IG 11. We put him back together. We thought that guy was exploded into a trillion pieces. The baby Yoda. Yes. No scene. It's so fucking good. It plays made a figure out of that that I've seen pictures of. I think I want that figure figure. No, I don't think it talks, but it's because it's like a normal figure, but you could slide baby Yoda into IG 11. It's sick. It's awesome.

And it comes with the little fucking Babu's too. Oh my God, Bob, you're speaking my language here right now. I'm going to have, if there's one that speaks, I will buy it. Cause that is something that my house, we just, the kids just go, I tied it on the iPad. It was the one thing on safari. I would just keep that page up and they would just go, yes, yes, no, no, no, hours. So I will fuck with that. Oh man. And they would just go, yes, yes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, with all the crates but it's gold. It's straight gold. He's like how many more of these do you have? They say like 1139 I think which I was surprised because the THX 1138 is a thing so they're like one number off from that. Um little nod for the Lucasfilm nerds out there. The one weird scene this episode that me and Ken Jack talked about such a nitpick it really doesn't matter

at all to the episode when he finds the gold and he grabs it and it's all falling on him Did you notice all the gold was CGI? Yeah that are falling on him and he's into his hands and he's like Scrooge McDuck scene, you know kind of that Vibe they were all CGI and I was like, why would they do that? Like it just It looked good, but it confused me because I was like what's the point of CGI and metal blocks that's fair point I thought you're gonna say I feel like it was way too easy for him to get all the way down there past secure true it did seem easy they didn't like ID check him at all yeah I feel like he's getting melted or

something like something that the droids knew the kids were reported missing He's like I found these kids they're like it's illegal to go outside the barrier Then they're like the kids were reported missing so we're gonna alert their parents and like at that point Don't you like say like oh like maybe this guy was bad. Oh, mr. Emissary fucking red carpet right here Yeah, yeah, what the? They thought he was Epstein? The financier? The financier? The New York financier? And the kids do reunite with their parents, but it's short-lived because Jodd pulls the lightsaber on them.

And I loved this moment for two reasons. The final shot and the music in the final like two seconds of the episode felt so Star Wars to me. It was insane. The final shot was that sideways landscape almost like a Mortal Kombat style view of they're on this bridge, which always bridges in Star Wars. Bad news, almost that Kylo Ren Han solo final moment, or going back to Empire Strikes Back when Luke is crawling out onto the thing in Cloud City. And the music crescendo is also almost Kylo Ren-esque. It almost reminded me of that moment in The Force Awakens. But awesome way to leave a cliffhanger on the penultimate episode where it's like, oh, this

kind of feels like the third act of the movie is like, it's like about to end right now. So knowing we have an entire finale ahead of us next week, I'm very excited. Very excited. If this had been a movie, I would have left the movie very happy. I would have probably gotten in kicking and screaming like, got to do this for work or I take the kids hoping they're going to enjoy it. And I would have at this point been like, man, money well spent, right? Yeah, this is like a fun show that when it's all wrapped up, as long as the finale is good and they land the plane, they land the starship, whatever you want to say, it's going to be one of those things that I'll recommend to any Star Wars fan with kids. You know, it might not be for everybody. It might not be for every like jaded Star Wars fan with kids it you know it might not be for everybody it might not be for every like jaded Star Wars fan out there. That's just like a 34 year old dude that loves

Fucking Empire Strikes Back and and or but if you have kids this seems like perfect fun Star Wars to get them Intrigued in the universe get them Fascinated in the galaxy far far away. It's like perfect. It's like a great family show, which that's what Star Wars originally was. Yeah. People forget that that's what it was a kid's movie. That's who this is made for. Yeah. We want the next generation to be interested in Star Wars and this could be a good step in that. And then think of a Soka. It's like, well, they have space wells that they're traveling with. It's like, that's heady guy like me. If I watched this, I would have been like, this was kind of the Star Wars I fell in love with. It's like, that's heady. Guy like me was not ready for that. If I had watched this, I would have been like,

this was kind of the Star Wars I fell in love with. It was much different. This is almost the opposite. It's like, we have buses and schools and suburbs and things you recognize. I mean, you called it from day one. I know it was a very common tagline, but it is Goonies for Star Wars.

It's the Goonies, totally. It doesn't just diminish Goonies and it doesn't just diminish Star Wars by lumping them together It is perfect for feels like such an homage It feels like they wear that on their sleeve and they're acknowledging like we talked about John Watts this fucking guy He has the sauce he went into spider-man and did John Hughes spider-man and now he's doing Steven Spielberg Star Wars Like he's able to take the old mix mix it with the new, translate it for a new generation.

I know people will clown him for the way that Spider-Man No Way Home looks. It's half the scenes they had to film against a green screen, because they're in the middle of COVID and trying to keep these crazy secrets. But I really think John Watts, he has the sauce. I'm telling you.

So, we have a John, so if we have a sign. So if we have a sign in the basement, yeah, John Watts has the sauce and the sign is on now. Alright, we're turning it on and it's on. It's on for next week's episode which he's directing as well. He did the first episode in the last episode. So, it's like it's on for WrestleMania of John Watts has the sauce signs. Wow. Now, the only way this side that we just got in the basement, it's bread.

You can still smell like as has like a couple pieces of styrofoam on it still. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pack those things very carefully. It's neon and all that. That's on. We've turned it on now Bob next week and this wasn't even something that could happen in my mind. But next week if he flops and does not land it

It's going in the garbage. We're we're signs off the wall. Not only is it off unplug it take it down Yeah, we're putting in on work. We're hammering in new holes into the sheet cast for John watts this week He better not make us regret that at best case case scenario for that sign, if he flops next week, it goes in the garage, not the basement, the garage. Yes. It just sits there. Worst case, you can't throw something like that out. It's probably illegal.

There's probably some chemicals in it. Facebook market placed and we're putting it up. I know it's not going to go to, but it's going to sit in the garage in a carton for the rest of its days. So John Watts, you have a sign that says you have the sauce You've got this on there's there's not many signs in the basement like we trust the Reeves we trust the foggy we trust The gun the foggy. It's not lit right now for me in my it's yes It's as I've said it's flicker and we might need a repair man to come in at some point

You know, this is a shared base, but I can't have my own base. So yes, it's on but flickering. Or I don't know. It's a passive aggressive. Exactly. It's like we have the toilet paper roll and every time we go in there, it's like I'm an over guy. You're an under guy or something. It's like I come into the basement. I turn all the lights on. You come into the basement. You turn like four to five on. Okay. So let's do a sign inventory. James gun. Trust the the gun on the gun. It's on. Is it the biggest sign in the basement right now? Yeah, probably. Yeah, I think so. FIGI that's the passive aggressive. Passive aggressive. Totally. Yeah. Um, John Watts has the sauce.

No, it's not right now. It's on news. And is there anything else? Yeah And is there anything else is there anything else Do we we must have something for Filoni and Favreau? Yes They're like it's like um, they're a team. That's it. It's a double sign. Yeah Filoni Favreau like Like it's almost like I want to have like a, it's not even a sign. It's like a little like piece of art. It's like I have the infinity gauntlet here. Yeah. The Tony Stark has a heart thing. It's like, I want like a break in case of emergency, like something on the mantle. Yeah. For them or something. Yeah. No matter what happens

with star wars, these two are always there. And I just want to remember that, that like, we're not fucked until those guys get involved and it sucks, then we're fucked. And then what about like Matt Reeves? Does he get his own sign? Cause he works under a gun, but he's in his own crime saga, you know? And I feel like he deserves his own sign.

I was thinking Matt Reeves, Matt Reeves, the sign. I don't want to say it's shipped. I think it's here. I think, you know what? We're gonna open it up next week. We're gonna you know what? It it's here but I'm not sure it came with the batteries necessary to turn it on because the Batman part two, we don't know what is going on with this movie. They just delayed it another year. Dude, it's

gonna be seven years between the Batman part one and the Batman part two. Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy took seven years from Batman Begins to The Dark Knight Rises. Robert Pattinson just said he said I might be retired by the end the Batman trilogy is done. That might be legitimately true if it's 14 years as a whole. So right now I love Matt Reeves. I love what he did with it with honestly Cloverfield, the Planet of the Apes movies. I love everything he did before Batman. Obviously loved Batman and the universe he created here. He wasn't like writing the Penguin or anything. He oversaw everything, but we can't give him total credit for the penguin. I think the sign has arrived but like they forgot to include the remote I got something like I got it for you Bob the sign arrived

We put it up because it's fucking Matt Reeves We yeah suck in the pet you're where we've went to war with the Golden Globes over the penguin Which you over it saw and obviously the Batman is good and I think it gets better the more you're watching It's like I believe in Matt Reeves' design, right? But they sent us like the European plug. So we have to get an adapter. And the adapter is the Batman 2. And we literally cannot turn the side on until we get the adapter, which happens to be the

exact day Batman 2 comes out. And honestly, I'm not even going to say it's the day Batman 2 comes out. I'm going to say it's the day they start filming. At that point, it's like, all right, we're filming the shows on the road. Here we go. Right now, and I know he's going through personal stuff. He mentioned it on the Golden Globe red carpet. God bless Matt Reeves.

I love him like a brother. I hope he's doing well. But let's get this show on the road. I don't want this to become a George R.R. Martin thing where people are making jokes and it like a brother. I hope he's doing well, but Let's get this show on the road. I don't want this to become a George RR Martin thing where people are making jokes and it becomes a meme I don't want Batman to be a laughingstock of oh, yeah, we'll get that movie when fucking pigs fly like come on Let's it's time. You said you wanted to film this year. Let's start filming or next year. Whatever it is Let's get that script in let's find out who the villain is. Let's get a little tease

Give us a little tease. Give us a little taste. Matt Reeves. Good thing the Basement was built after the whole Game of Thrones because the George RR Martin sign we would have had to then after. Well, I mean, you can't even blame him for the I would have shattered that thing with an axe like fucking Jim Gordon at the end of the Dark Knight. I mean, you can't blame for the way it ended because he was very much like this

wasn't my stuff, but it's also cause he hasn't written and then, and then the house of the dragon stuff that we went through this last year, that might've been wasn't as bad. It's that that's still the house of the dragon sign. It's for sure flick. It's we don't turn that one on right now, but there's a chance that one will come back. That one's in the garage. If we're being honest. Yes, definitely. Definitely. There's a chance that could come back out.

Like if, if this flops, if this finale flops, maybe we take down the John Watts has the sauce sign. There's a chance the house of the dragon one can go on those pegs one day. Yeah. And that was my biggest thing is I can't have a John Watts has the sauce sign up in the basement and just be like, Matt Reeves, you don't get anything. Like if you're saying a guy has the legit sauce, I have to say, I'll be honest, too. He put out a movie this year that I didn't see that people didn't love, but I people also didn't hate it. They didn't hate it.

It was, I think it was called Wolf's. It was the one with like Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Robbie, you just brought a side into our basement here and it's like, I didn't even know this was going on. Yeah. So John Watts did make this movie, but here's the issue. It was Apple TV Plus put it straight to Apple TV Plus. And like they're the worst with their advertising.

I don't get up, like the streaming services, I give like, I give, I'm very lenient. I give passes with that. Oh, he produced the old man to John Watts That was a fucking great show with Jeff Bridges. We don't give producer stuff here, Bob. We go You're right. You know what that was? Yeah, that was me trying to pad his record a little bit Skeleton crew got a 7.2 on IMDb. I don't think that's right No, it should be higher that it should be higher. I think skeleton crew is an 8.0 at least. Yes. Well

So we'll see we'll see we'll see knock on wood And I do have for the other show that we'll be talking about a request at the end of it So we'll get to that. Okay, our review will come after the finale Which I didn't even think could fuck up and it led to a 15 minute discussion about fiction on signs that people Listening and watching are like what the fuck are the border they thought yeah I hope there's a first time listener that are like do they actually have it like a shared basement where they have these signs Like what the fuck are they telling you don't but maybe one day we will so fan art will have to suffice for now if they could have only seen how bright

the Trust the Foggy sign was in like 2019 to 20, that was our first- We had to go back and get like soft light bulbs for it because it was too bright. That was all we had in the basement. That was the first thing. Endgame was our end game predictions, end game reaction. First two episodes together.

It was so bright, you would have thought the basement was in a insane asylum with fluorescent lights. It the sun you could you thought it was the sun when you went in that's all it said and then after like the sixth mcu show one secret wars came out or secret invasion that was the end of it and that was a slow it was a slow crumble too because first episode we're like all right right, they killed Maria Hill, holy fuck, they shouldn't have done that. But we got Ben Mendo, we got Samuel L. Jackson, they're still, maybe this show is just gonna mean that much

to the MCU, maybe it's gonna have that much of an impact and effect. And by the end they're like, and by the way, Don Cheadle never fucking loved Tony Stark, he was a fucking fake the whole time. And Amelia Clarke has Dave Bautista's arm, and she's the strongest superhero you've ever heard of and we're never gonna acknowledge her ever again Nor are we gonna acknowledge that Nick Fury has a wife? Don't get me started Well that the only reason that light you turn it on is because of Deadpool Wolverine and that was a project rain movie

I don't know how much foggy had to do with the first two Deadpools I believe Ryan Reynolds made that sign Ryan Reynolds might get a sign of the basement before it's all said and done He may and there I blogged the thing about him apparently nice pool was based on the director that his wife is feuding with because he's got a man bun and he commented on like Lady Pools pregnancy and I said they might have Streisand effect himself with that because like I didn't think it was based on that director But now when I watch it, I'm gonna to think about that. And I think it makes it funnier. I thought it was based on Jenks again. That guy with the ponytail, with the bun and everything. Yeah. All right. Before we get on to the creature commandos finale, let's tell everyone about

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You need like legit, like Bose or like a normal brand not just airport it was like fresh air headphones whatever the hell it was it was not good speaking of things that are good though creature commandos finale a very funny monster was the episode title finally we get the Nina origin in this one we've gone through all the creatures at this point. Nina was the last one on the list. A very good finale. I didn't know it was the finale, but to be honest, I loved it. It was kind of just like balls to the wall, a lot of action, a lot of things to wrap up. So they got through it and wrapped all of those things up. Didn't make us cry. Didn't really make me, didn't hit my feels too much made me laugh a lot made me excited about the action

I thought it was all great. What about you? I'm with you. I'm basically everything there. However Babies spasming and then mutating not cool James Gunn. So that was true That was bad Bob and that was vibes of the scene in Guardians 3 when you see the evolution happening and it's clearly like hurting the animal so much and you're just like oh you cringe a little bit yeah I so it's we had three weeks ago we had the kids in the scene or two weeks ago last week we had what was the scene there was a scene last week that I did not like that I had a Oh, uh frankenstein killing the old lady was yes did not like that. So we've got kids

We got old ladies and now we have like a baby's baby basically and she's Spasming the lungs are outside of her body which as soon as they say that you're like Oh, it's nina if you didn't put it together already by that point But I liked how they showed it like I liked her origin I liked the stuff with her dad Where he figured out how she could sort of try to live a normal life and she can only breathe underwater Because her lungs outside of her body or gills and whatnot seeing that she was trying to play lacrosse She was just like so fascinating. What is that sport? And she's so bright-eyed and then the kids putting her down that you felt really

bad when they're like, they're gonna say a ribbit. They're calling her a fucking frog. Hear me out. Hear me out. By the end of the show, when she's diving in trying to kill the princess. Sup? I know I said it about the bride last week, but like Nina, sup? Hey, I honestly wasn't on that page with you, but I'm happy. I'm not the only guy making these claims anymore.

It made me be like, all right, maybe I understand the shape of water a little more. Kind of along those lines. I have a theory about this and granted, it was a little more, I put this down in the beginning when she's first born. I'm like, well, this is clearly Nina. And then obviously it seems like the mutation happens after her dad injects her with all the shit. But maybe it was like a mutation that was ready to take

and it just needed to get happened. Theory here. Did Nina's mom fuck Aquaman and this isn't even that guy's daughter to begin with I love that theory like that theory I love that theory that's a good theory I think this in this world it's sad to imagine that this might be the the bastard daughter of Aquaman who is dead the dad's dead too like it's a trash it's a tragedy it's's a tragedy. It's essentially a Shakespearean tragedy.

The dad dying, that was sad too. That was the dad trying to just like get out in front of his daughter and tell her he accepts her and whatnot and boom, shot. That was fucking crazy. And like honestly, I kind of throughout the series was like, I appreciated Nina for like, she seemed like a nice person. Yeah, she was okay. She was never stand out.

But she was like, oh, so like, yeah, I'd be like, all right, enough, Nina, enough, Nina. By the end of like, oh no, Nina was like the nicest person of them all. And he was like the one legit good person there was. And it's sad that it feels like she's like actually dead. Like, I think they're going to bring her back. I think she's dead. I think, yeah, I think you have to leave her dead. The fact that the stuff with her dad, she had such a sad life that mom left because of her.

Just a brutal, I almost feel bad now for just being, I just hand waved me all season, like get her off the screen, get her out. In related news though, the bride, when she fucking, she's like, you just killed the best person ever, the bride fucking rules. I think she's like you just killed like the best person ever the bride fucking rules I think she's the big winner of this season. She's the best character on the show

I think easily even in the beginning when frankenstein comes up He's in the cab at first almost like a deadpool type scene where he's talking to the cab driver about his problems The cab driver's just like ready to friggin jump out of the front seat Um, and he crawls up that castle the second she sees him it's not a big dramatic scene she just fucking starts shooting his ass she's she's putting bullets in his body walks right up to him shoots him again that was awesome like that was such a good way to play it after the entire season focused on him trying to get back to her she's like you're a fucking stalker boom that just like cemented her as my favorite character

on this show, I think. And there's been a lot of good characters. I didn't think I would really like give a shit about a lot of the characters on this show. James Gunn proved me wrong again. The bride, I loved your backstory. I loved the Frankenstein stuff. I loved this week.

I loved last week. And when she becomes more of a badass, I love the phosphorus backstory where he's got that cool gang that looks like the Batman forever gang and shit. Like there's some great characters on the show. Rick Flagg senior. I'm excited to see Superman now.

Frankenstein was great. Who thought, who would have thought that we're watching a DC show and we're like Frankenstein is awesome. Yeah. And even GI robot who was like our dude. Cause he hates not GI robot. I forgot about it. He's back. He's back.

I thought he was dead. He's bigger than ever. So I was just tickle pink. I was tickle pink with this entire season series, whatever you want to call it. And then the whole ending and the twist, we saw you with the play face. Yeah, they think they're being set up. Waller and Diebeard call in and they're like we've made a mistake You you know, she was killed for nothing you think oh was she but you're like no because the the woman that they're looking at

That the heads was snapped and whatnot. That was all the clay face Frankenstein shit They're not aware of that so I did like that was almost like a felt like an Agatha Christie style like ending where they're like but I put it together here and they're in the fucking the library and everything. The animation of the final gunshot in the princess's forehead. That was bad ass. That was another thing that made me out loud be like, oh shit, like the bullet gun through the blood splatter. Um, I had one more note of a funny line. I thought it was very funny when the bride called a phosphorus ghost rider.

It was one of those silly, we're cross-referencing, making jokes like that. I know people got annoyed when they referenced Batman and Black Widow and stuff. Probably the target audience for that. I'm the nerd that will wreck it all, things like that. I know it's stupid. I know it's a cheap pop in wrestling terms, but I don't give a shit. I laugh. gonna lotty Bob If a baseball game and it's like the Cubs beat the Mets 1310 and they're like the Bears kicked the field goal to win

I love that shit. There's a certain jokes that just play with certain people that plays with me every single So very good stuff people are kind of So very good stuff people are kind of Like dissecting one of the lines that phosphorus said where he said it's been like 15 years since I've touched Or felt a touch or something like that and they're saying well It certainly seemed like Batman was around when he was turned into phosphorus So is the DC used Batman now confirmed to have been around for 15 years? I don't know if it's confirmation I think a lot of this stuff especially especially on the cartoons, is canon until they say otherwise. You know,

where it's like, sure, this is the story, they might change it in the future. Rick Flagg's not going to have gray hair and Superman and stuff like that. I do think by the time the DCU Batman comes into the picture, if he's still going to be a separate Batman than Robert Pattinson, which we don't know, Matt Reeves was asked about that on the picture, if he's still going to be a separate Batman than Robert Pattinson, which we don't know. Matt Reeves was asked about that on the red carpet. He was like, we'll see what makes the most sense for the story. Andy Muschimetti, however he say his last name, who made the flash and is supposed to direct the DCU Batman movie. He's still saying it's going to be separate. His movie was pitched as Batman and his son, Damien Wayne. So you would imagine he might not be an old Batman,

but it makes sense that Batman might be around for 15 years in the DCU. I like the idea of having separate Batman. I know it might be confusing for some people. I love the idea of having a solo, gritty, real world patents in Batman and a fantastical Batman who wears blue and gray and has the boy wonder by his side and fights people like Dr. Phosphorus and Clayface and

Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy. Give me a fantastical side of Batman that you could take your kids to see and we can get the next generation interested in Batman as well and then give me the fucking stuff that could be rated R basically with how dark it is in the epic crime saga that's my take. I'm fine with it either way I remember when we first heard that this might be the case it was like all right guys this is a lot but this is also like coming off of all the shit with the Snyder films and all these different yeah you know things existing so it's a reset I'm excited that's all you could ask for for DC.

I'm excited too. I'll tell you. Oh, King Shark. We forgot to mention King Shark. King Shark, yes. So Creature Commando Season 2 is confirmed. They're already making Season 2. And at the end, the bride is shown like her new team. I didn't recognize a few of the background people. I'm sure they're comic people that, you know, obscure characters like some of the ones they featured on this that people probably geeked out about. But King Shark is the one I think most people

are very excited about. Not voiced by Sylvester Stallone. Unfortunately, they didn't get him back for the cartoon. But I'm just happy to have King Shark. It's not like that voice is the most important. He sounds like this, he talks like this. Anyone could do that. Yeah, I was like, I got a message on my phone so I looked at it and then I saw he was on the screen like, oh shit, did I miss like some big heavy hitters coming and then I went back and like, oh, there's probably a couple people that are good.

No, Pink Shark is the heavy hitter. Oh, fuck. Because there was also like a post credit scene and I thought that was going to be the old fucking thing. Yes. And not really. Not really. Which is fine. It was kind of just a whatever, yeah. I almost would rather them not. I want that to be Marvel's thing. Yes. And not really. Not really. Which is fine. It was kind of just a whatever, yeah. I almost would rather them not.

I want that to be Marvel's thing at this. Yeah. Remember we said- Jameson kind of said that too. He was like, it'll just be like a fun thing for the audience. Yeah. Because we were saying, would we want them to do that? And it does feel kind of like taking on someone else's thing.

Whether it's Star Wars, DC, Marvel has kind of put their claim on that. It does, but at the same time, it's such a good way to tease next projects like comic books sometimes have like in the next issue and it'll have a little you know speaking of comics by the way still going strong an absolute Batman issue for just dropped this week and Issue four if you're not in on this Batman yet. I've been talking about on the show It's like a badass blue-coll collar Batman. He's built like fucking Brock Lesnar, as you can see on the cover here. Get in early because you could still get the first three issues. They're

still, you know, face value five bucks a piece. Issue four goes back and it's like, all right, we're gonna take a break from this arc before we finish. It's a six issue arc altogether. But this is a break and they have a totally new artist in doing the year one for this weird Batman and this I'll show it maybe I could just get people interested in this uh issue. This Batman is testing things out and dressing more like a real bat. He has like silicone fangs that have like a sedative in them. So he's biting people on the on the throat. Like you can see in

this panel, it's very cool art in this scratching people with claws. He's biting people here. And then they're like passing out or whatever. And then he goes back to the Batcave and he basically says to himself, he's like, this is fucking stupid. I shouldn't be doing this and realizes basically instead of, um, instead of doing all this hokey shit, he should just hit the gym and start pumping some iron and become a strong ass Batman. He confronts Joe chill as a child in this tells them I fucking hate you. And then the episode and or the issue ends with him going into Joe chill You know spoilers, but I feel like it's a good tease um, he goes into Joe chill as an adult goes to confront him as a

Prisoner cool stuff just cool ass artwork. Not all the artwork looks like this because there was a guest artist on issue four, but Yeah, go support. Uh your local comic store, pick up some absolute Batman's. It's been fun to me and Clemmer take a walk to the comic book store once a month. Jose joins us on some of them and yeah, it's good stuff. It feels fun to be back in on comics. I love they brought the old DC logo back. There's a little creature commandos ad on the back for you. I dig it, man.

Oh, and here, let me grab the variant cover because the variant cover is even cooler. I'm not a big variant cover guy but this one looks so cool and I gotta admit Soto looks like a Mets styled variant cover. A little bit of anger in that voice ever since Juan Soto came here I get a little bit more anger in the voice of Yankees fans because they actually had to live with one guy leaving their team for once god for fucking bit god forbid I love Bob Fox is really getting excited right now with these comic books that's see that's dope blue and orange yeah and that's the axe that is on his chest yeah that's the bat comes off the chest the ears come off

and become knives he's a little more brutal than Batman still doesn't kill but he'll fucking He'll cut your ears where the hospital is and be like I think the hospitals three blocks that way might be three blocks that way good luck where it's like I don't know you're saying you don't kill but you might have killed that guy I got it people maybe when the series ends, we'll have a Clemmer. I just want to hear Clemmer get his excited voice on and just break it all down because I know he's in on it. He's very in on it. That's it for Skeleton Crew and Creature Commandos this week. Do you want to talk a little surviving Barstool before we get out of here?

Yes. And also for just because we wrapped it up and I said with the IMDb rating for skeleton crew IMDb for this one's seven point nine. Oh, yeah And I I saw you were able to negotiate this. So thank you ball scale Balls rest in power. We have the ball scale kind of rest in power because the young name show today they confirmed What I already knew I didn't want to announce it. Only Stans will continue at Barstool with Glennie Balls. Huge news. Huge news. Yeah, he's no longer full time but Glennie Balls will still kind of be in the mix. But I negotiated a deal where Barstool keeps the ball scale IP. On Creature Commando's

ball scale. It's interesting. Obviously we've said there's a lower ceiling with animation for the two of us. I think I Would say if James Gunn's the suicide squad was four balls and peacemaker was four point five balls Peacemaker was 4.5 balls because I really liked Peacemaker. I would say Creature Commandos is a solid 3.5 balls. Okay. How about this? People might hear 3.5 and think harsh, but I think that's pretty good.

I don't know what I had for Peacemaker suicide squad, but I'm going four to five. I Okay, I really liked it and I'm kind of bummed it's done and I'm happy Yeah, they wrapped it all up and I didn't feel a lot of the maybe it's just like the short run times There's a lot of things. I just loved about it. So, you know what you're convinced me. I'm going three point seven five I'm correcting my ball scale I'm going three point seven five because as I'm thinking about it if I can adjust your ball tunes adjusting my balls if I compare it to other cartoons I'd liked it a lot more than the last season of invincible to be on like a lot more significantly

more so yeah 3.75 I'll go now as far as survivingstool goes what a weak spoilers for surviving barstool if you're not caught up Speaking of catching up. I was sending you Honey texts from my mom. My mom would text me like oh my god is Kirk still pissed at people and I was like big time She's like is there they staying at a hotel? I'm like no Airbnb. She's like this Kelly talked to Ria after this I'm like, yep. They're super close there. I like no Airbnb. She's like, this Kelly talked to Ria after this. I'm like, yep, they're super close. They're great. I loved last night. 9pm is Biz as nice as he seems. I was like, yep, he's the absolute best. Um, I think she's got a crush on Biz or something after all those Tommy John ads, but it is an amazing, amazing show that is coming down to an awesome

conclusion with the pink wedding. People go and left and right. I know a lot of people on the show are mad. The on name show we watched today was like an hour long fight between Kirk, Whit and Dave. And the game is rigged and stuff. As someone that was eliminated so early, it almost feels like I'm so removed from the show that obviously I'm not mad about personal connections and this it had no effect on me. I'm just a viewer. And as a viewing experience, it is amazing. It's like the best show on TV where we get excited for it. It's 7.55 and we're like, we can't wear Dave Chappelle. You got any more of that surviving bar stool?

Yeah, it's been an absolute roller coaster. The pink wedding was, I think it sounds like the guys who did it, like Jeff and I saw Tommy have said that they thought it was going to be good and they somehow surpassed it the way it all broke out I mean those there was tears there was the challenges were great I liked some people were saying there shouldn't be challenges that are just left a chance like the dice game. I like that I think that's chaos thrown into the game and I'm thinking if I were in this Like I would need challenges like that, which maybe that's bad

It's like maybe you should be eliminated if you can't win challenges, but I got shaky hands that thing with the coins and the keys I'd be like No, I'm with you and whether like if I'm watching another reality game show like the challenge or something There's times where there's physical there's times where there's mental and then there's times where there's just straight luck And I kind of like all three because It gives everyone a shot and then all that does is lead to more chaos In the elimination and drama side of things which is why everyone watches this shit because we're all sick and twisted people that love watching people You know stab each other in the back and combat it. Yeah, I the thing that was almost lost

And they couldn't do it because obviously you have to break it up again was almost lost and they couldn't do it because obviously you have to break it up and you have episodes and ads and all that if they could have just made the pink wedding a two-hour episode because you have to think how much those people's heads because you forget by the end of the third game with the dice those people have been there and just you know so that whole thing i was talking to like everyone that was involved in that we were were talking about it in the office. That was over six hours, that whole pink wedding, the voting process, and nobody was allowed to leave the turf unless you had to go to the bathroom. So it's like people are running waters

onto the turf for people. People are running little sandwiches or cookies onto the turf. Nobody was eating, everyone's sleep deprived. That seemed like a total stress or another one of those moments. I know I've said this on my mom's basement said it on the rundown with you this week. Another moment where I was like, why did everyone say before the

game like Robbie Fox is a K go up to the finals. This kid's gonna he's so nice. He's just gonna what does that have to do with surviving bar stool? It's like sure. Maybe people would Hypothetically The thought was maybe they would feel bad to vote me out or something cuz I'm nice but watching this I'm like Oh, that was everyone fucked me before the game cuz I had no shot. They wasn't like oh, they fucked me I would have made it. It was like no they fucked me

Maybe I would have made it a little further But I certainly shouldn't have been a big target because the anxious me you think I would have handled the pink wedding Well, I think I would have crumbled. I wouldn't absolutely Yeah, and there was a little talk about me on the on name show this week Because there was talk that the game was rigged in Dave and Dan's favor Kirk and Whitney were saying this personally Personally, I didn't feel that way. They were saying there's X amount of people that would never vote Dave off, never vote Dan off.

And then they started going down the list and I was like, oh shit, are they gonna get to my name and they're gonna be like, of course, he would never vote Dave off. That one is more complicated than Dan. Dave, obviously, if you're me, I think my smartest strategy going in was align myself with Dave, who I know I have this pre-existing Disney boys type relationship with, and try to bring Dave

to the finals because you would think nobody wants to give the hundred millionaire $250,000 of his own money. I think I'm not the only one with that strategy. I think half the people playing that game probably had the exact same strategy as me. So it's like, would I ever vote Dave off? I think I could have been convinced in the right scenario. I think it would have taken a lot of convincing. I think if like Rhea and Rhone and maybe like Francis and some of my friends on the game We're like we have to do this right now. I think they probably could have convinced me. That's a little trickier Dan I definitely would have voted off Whitney was saying like oh Robbie would have never voted Dan off in a million years No disrespect to Dan, but like we don't have the relationship like me and Dave do so there's

no doubt I would have voted him off when it was down to it was Dan, Whitney and Will who I knew was the alliance on my tribe early on the moon tribe and then a left was me Megan making money mincy and wallow. I think I talked about this when he talked about my elimination. At that point, my best play was to try to vote Dan, Will or Wit out because they seem like the obvious alliance. I caught them talking in a room privately the night before they voted me out and was like, well, fuck, I know I'm not in on this, even though they're telling me that. And I never really trusted Dan at any, like I trusted him to a degree, but there's a lot of conversations

we had on camera where as soon as he walked away, I would look at the camera and go, I don't know if I could believe any of that. Like I knew my ass was in the jackpot early. I didn't think I could, I knew that Mincy was basically Megan's puppet in our eyes. We were like, Megan has the closest relationship with Mence, so she can convince him to vote wherever. Wallow at this point, I had spoken two words to in my whole life, and maybe I should have tried to get closer to him for the game. But he was closest with Big Cat out of everyone at Barstool, let alone our tribe. So I was like, I can't turn Wallow on the one alliance he might have.

And the other person was, who did I say? It was Megan, Mincy, Wallow, oh, and me. Maybe, like, maybe we could have all four of us aligned and voted somebody out. I just didn't think I could convince anybody of that. So that was, I was like, maybe my best plays loyalty. But yeah, I would have voted Dan out. Maybe I would have voted Dave out. That one's more complicated. I wouldn't have liked to vote Dave out. I would have liked to in an ideal world, me and Dave go to the finals together and I get voted the winner. Dave's complicated because you see how he reacted to Jerry last time.

And you do say, I don't want to make my life a living hell. Not even that. It's how we reacted to Team KFC back in the day. I have my own PTSD. You know, I'm like, we're in a great spot. We're in the best spot we've ever been. Why would I want to turn my back on that?

But yeah, like in the right scenario, I think I could have been convinced of it. We'll never know that because the game didn, the game didn't the cookie didn't crumble that way But I thought I thought that was um, but it was an interesting discussion. I do personally, I don't feel like the game was rigged because Dave and Dan were in it and they weren't in Alliance and Obviously they have a power dynamic over us, but they were in the game last year and they both got voted out right away like it's something that the competitors have to be conscious of and if it's if they're not conscious of it, I feel like it's more on the competitors that Dave and Dan, it's no secret that they're our bosses. Everyone has to go in like Dave when Dave goes in, he goes to win. That's just how his mindset is. And Dan says that

was his mindset this year, where last year was kind of just whatever. And they made it far and Dave was saying to them this week, he was like, if he would have went for Rhea before the pink wedding, I wouldn't have had numbers. And it's like, yeah, like a very specific thing had to a very specific series of events had to happen to be in the scenario we're in now. I don't think it was as easy as like Dave and down to the bosses. So obviously they were going to make it this far. When they had the merge, that's when they had their chance to start picking those people off. Yeah, like you said with Rhea, they decided not to. Obviously, the Rico, uh, idle passing was like an oh, fuck crazy TV moment.

But as you see, it felt like it's not like real reality TV, like a historic reality TV moment. Yes. Yeah, it was. That was wild. Kirk, Kirk being like, what the fuck are you doing? And then when he goes back his little like his I'm gonna ruin your fucking life like that Dave put in another one bites the dust video the Kirk lines the Kirk walking up to Rico and being like I'm gonna tell your wife you're sleeping someone at work and then Rob in the background goes Jesus Christ and I mean like through this all everyone

all the angry competitors who are coming out at Dave and the bussing guys going at him, Wic going at him, Kirk, everything. And Dave is just like, you only make him stronger when you let him know how much you hate him and how angry you are. Unfortunately, he's loving it. It's like the whole, and I'm angry. We've seen this, the GoPrez Go days, right? This is like Dave, Dave doesn't always interact with people at bar. So he usually has his enemies outside of our school when there's something that's like that

Seriously contentious but someone like this and he has to just get the groundswell support He will then I got my go-pro is go people and like he thrives off this he fucking gets Yes, Tommy whip up a press release. Yeah Yeah, the press release comes out you know, it's already too too this is unfortunately it's there's there's some Batman comics my favorite Batman comic from back in the day the Frank Miller the Dark Knight returns where he's fighting this mutant in the mud and he's like you don't realize this isn't the mud this is an operating table and I'm the surgeon Dave is the surgeon like this is this is where he thrives, you think you were fucking think you adapted to the darkness

He was born in it. Okay, if we didn't get enough Batman references on this pod Common I have more left in the in the utility belt. Okay, I have more I Did watch the entire Dark Knight trilogy in between the recording of the bad boy? 25 you know, you gotta like christen the year by just getting the watch through and tell you what, it gets better every time. All three movies, the entire experience gets better every time.

The Dark Knight specifically, every time I watch that movie it gets better, but the trilogy, once you do it, it's like, I was thinking about watching The Dark Knight, Lady Fox was like offered to watch them with me. So I was like, all right, you don't get that offer every day. Let's watch the whole trilogy. She gave me an inch. I took a mile.

Yeah, exactly. She's like, I have to be very careful. Yeah, I appreciate you getting the Dark Knight in at the last minute there, too, because I was like, yeah, I'm going to go the whole episode. You got it. No, I think we had to know. I worked one in with the hit and the sign. Oh, yeah. That's true. I made sure we weren't gonna we weren't gonna miss that opportunity. It's our where's Waldo at this point.

It's our where's Waldo. But it's like a very obvious like Waldo's on the front page of everything. Yeah. All right. That was my mom's basement for January 10th, Friday Friday January 10th. Hopefully everyone has a great weekend next week We've got the skeleton crew finale. Maybe we'll do an earlier episode No, well, no because we've got surviving barstool next week. So I want to be able to recap that I think still Friday Or is it Monday Tuesday Wednesday next week? We'll see it'll be the day after surviving bar ends because Skeleton Crew will be wrapped up by then and we're going to want to talk about the entire show when everything's

wrapped up. So thanks for listening. We'll see you then. Can't wait.