My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 499.9 - THE BOYS FINALE RECAP

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

Robbie and Clem break down the series finale of #TheBoys and rank their Top 10 Billy Joel songs in honor of the show ending. Tune in to find out whether or not they nailed last episode or fumbled at the finish line! #TheBoysFinale #TheBoysSeason5 Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/N1ePElFezcU ****************************************   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 Follow Clem on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheClemReportYou 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 and a very, very special, the boys finale extravaganza episode of My Mom's Basement. It is the week of extravaganzas because tomorrow, episode 500 will finally drop on the podcast feed on the YouTube for everyone, our Mandalorian and Grogu Review,

which, based on just my DMO, over the course this week might be the most anticipated review in the history of my mom's basement. Everyone wants to know what we thought. The rotten tomatoes is all over the place. It's polarizing. You will get our thoughts tomorrow. But first, we got the boys to talk about, Clem.

Yeah. Part of my take has grit week going on. We have extravaganza week going on. So eat that. The cat and PFT. The boys in the basement have their own week. We have a whole week right now. Yeah, I knew you got a great week with Belichick or whatever,

but we got episode 499.75 this week, all right? guys. Belichick, Lane Kiffin, and Coach, oh, we got Billy Butcher, Mando, and Baby, yo. Eat that. Yeah, eat that. So this was obviously one we went into with trepidation after the seven episodes

that preceded it this season. It seemed like they were going to have to get a lot done in not a long episode. The runtime of it is just a little bit over an hour. And we discussed that last week, how the creator Eric Kripke said like, ah, we didn't want to do the 90 minute finale thing. Leaving this finale,

my number one takeaway is that they should have done the 90 minute finale. That like, listen, I didn't hate this. I didn't think it was a train wreck and I was very grateful for that. It wasn't one I don't think it was going to go down as one of the worst finalies in TV history or whatever. But it felt very rushed to me. And I have my pros.

I have my cons. We'll get to it all. But that was my main. Emotion leaving the finale. My main takeaway was, wow, that was pretty rushed to fit everything in that hour. I almost felt like this could have been like the last three episodes. I'll go you one bigger, Bob. You said 90 episodes, 90 minutes.

You said three episodes. Why couldn't we have just made this basically the final season? And everything that we thought was really good in this episode or was good, we could have made it really good or great and let the emotion pour out from five seasons worth of buildup. five, then, you know, or I guess four seasons worth of buildup. All right. We're buttoned in. Spoiler disclaimer.

Clem just immediately hit a major spoiler early on in the podcast. So we're going to tell you right now, if you don't want spoilers for the boys, a big spoiler for the boys. Tune out now. We'll give you, let's say, 10 seconds. We'll go 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Clem, spoil away. You get like a full episode where we're playing out the butcher heel turn and then the butcher death. Yeah.

You know, actually, spoilers. Spoilers guys. I'll throw a spoiler thing before that. But geez Louise, yeah, that is probably the word for it. I'm now realizing we have like, because I mean, everyone's seen the memes where they're comparing this to Thrones. You compare it to stranger things where it's a beloved franchises that really like hit a bump the last season where in the boys, think it's the last two seasons. But then there's ones where the finale really pisses people off.

And I actually think the finale is probably like one of the best things they did for this season. Because people are going to have their gripes. But a lot of those gripes were from this season altogether, not just in this episode. And I trust me, I have a couple of grapes for this episode that are like mini gripes for just, you know, a scene or something like that. But man, it's like in the end, it kind of just leaves you like, man, this could have been. such a better show if they had just done it right, a better franchise, if they had just done it right with looping other stuff in, or just kept it individual on its own. So I am in a sad, crazy way, grateful that it wasn't a train wreck, because we watch train wrecks on this episode.

Oh, yeah. So, or on this podcast. So, yeah, I guess I'm just happy it wasn't a training. Real great, real great times. Did you find it almost hard to focus on the finale as it progressed, because of the previous seven episodes. Like as it was going on, I found myself like being taken out of the finale a few times going like, well, like, why were we wasting so much time with V1? Why were we wasting so much time with some of these other things if the finale was just going to be like,

hey, we don't really have much of a plan, but we're going in? Like, wait, what? Like, shouldn't the penultimate episode have ended with like, here's our plan that we've hammered down and we're walking, into the White House. Again, like that poster that we loved, that's the comic recreation of Billy Butcher walking up to the White House. Like, shouldn't that have been the ending of

the penultimate episode and not just so quickly in this episode. We're like, uh, I think we got to get to the White House because the show's about to end. Like, that's how it felt to me. Uh, those people that are invading, that's Butcher and his crew, we know about that. Don't worry. We're going to take care of, but we're going to send two

guards down there. One of them's going to die. One of them's going to shoot air. And we'll figure it out. Don't worry. It's like, what? Why? You know, it's almost like, why were we so nervous about Homelander becoming immortal? Like, nothing. He didn't do anything different once he became immortal.

Like, this episode, listen, we, spoiler, spoiler, spoilers. The thing we'll have already played in this episode. So you know we're in this. But like, I kind of expected Homelander to go crazy. Go on a rampage. Take out. We were saying cities, the nuclear bomb poster. He kills one person in this episode.

and it's off screen as like an Elon Musk gag. Which I'm not going to lie. It was like a funny line. Oh, he wants to be an astronaut, right? He threw him into space. I got to chuckle out of that. In the same way, I've got to chuckle out of Homelander's antics for the last five seasons. But that was like the one Homeland or kill all episode.

He couldn't have him when he breaks down in the news broadcast. He couldn't have him at least like kill a room full of press that were there for it or something to really show us. he's unhinged. The world's got to turn on him. Another issue I had with it was like, we never really got to see what the world thought of them. I thought that would have been interesting this season to see what the everyday person thinks of all this,

what the everyday person is seeing with all of this, which I felt like the first couple seasons did a decent job of because the boys were still the everyday person before they went full soup and became this like super team, the soup resistance team. But yeah, it was like in my head, If I'm just given like a blanket score early, I think I left it going like, that was a six out of ten.

And it might have been the best job they could have done given the previous seven episodes that were. But yeah, I just, I wanted so much more out of it. And I just wound up grateful that the plane didn't crash when it hit the tarmac. Well, I guess that's it. It's like I just wanted, I didn't want more out of it. I just wanted kind of what it gave me where it was like it did wrap up a lot of the loose ends. the way some of the loose ends wrapped up, I didn't even really love, but at least they wrapped them up because again, we're just like, yeah, man, finale is like next week, right? Like, I have that

right. This is an eight episode season out of ten. And I mean, we got there. I guess it could have been worse. That's the one. Like, I'm happy they didn't have like, you know, superhero smelling each other's asses for another three minutes in the finale and wasting that time. But everything just felt rushed. Even the Homelander Easter speech, where then he's like talking about obedience and he's like her you know you're blessed you to oblivion if you're against him that would have been good a few episodes ago and kind of putting the world I notice again these people are a victim to their own posters what in this season at homeland or looking from space at a nuclear explosion where I you don't need a nuke being dropped but you need like chaos in the world right or like

you can you could say that's you can say it's marketing oh maybe marketing got a hold of it and whatever Eric Kripke said the the final battle wait till you see we are going scorched earth that was the term he used scorched earth clem and i've already seen the memes on twitter they just broke some furniture in the oval office they as people said they went scorched rug they just scorched the rug that's all they did and i'm okay with it not being uh battle of the bastards level the world runs into the white house or whatever but it was just i don't know it's weird when you build it up that way. And then it's, you know, three or four people in the Oval Office getting into a fist fight.

I was okay with it. I didn't hate that at all. But it's just strange the way that they sold us on it. And honestly, I think we said it started last season, went into this season. And now we're at the point where we do have the memes or the videos coming out where they compare it from season one and some of the way it was shot with all the extras. And we felt like you were in this world. and now it's just everyone's always in a room like a sitcom, just two people somehow in some underground layer that's impossible to get to.

Everyone just gets in without any real. These fucking people got into the White House overall office. They walked right in, dude. They walked in like no security. It was, yeah. Let's go to the beginning and kind of work our way through the episode. Because, again, I don't want to be all negative. There's some good stuff.

There's some stuff that I like. French's burial. We get Huey reading his will of last rights. A lot of asshole, Joe. jokes, maybe a little too much, to be honest. And they are meta with it. Later, they have the line with the girl from Gen V, where she's like, okay, I guess we're being earnest right now.

Like when she tries to make a joke. And that felt like a very meta commentary on the episode and what the boys, I understand you've got to bounce the tone of it and what the show is used to with the weight of a finale. But yeah, I wanted a little more earnesty in the finale, I think. I don't think it's too much to ask. I think French would have liked them. I guess French he wrote it.

Yeah, he wrote it. It's like, and it's like the boys where it's like, oh, that is a funny joke. And then it goes on a little too long. And then when I add in all the other stuff I've had the last five seasons, I'm like, yeah, it just didn't hit as much as it would have made me in another show or another time. I don't know how to how else to explain it. But I'm with you on that. I also liked Homelander's Easter speech being Homelander reboots the universe. Yeah.

That's a funny. Like, you're doing the superhero. charity stuff. That was good. He goes and visits Ryan in Norway. So immediately it's like, oh yeah, we got to loop Ryan back into the show. Something that, again, probably should happen last week. This is the kind of scene that you could have thrown earlier into the show so it doesn't feel so thrown together in the end. He gives him kind of like the Vader speech of like, you and me. It's like, we could do this. And Ryan has some good acting in this scene. Like I felt like they kind of were excited to maybe let him cook a little bit. He came into the show as a little kid.

and now he's a teenager who has some good acting chops, and he called him like a lonely, miserable piece of shit. He said, you're not a God and you fucking know it deep down. That was all like some cutting stuff. Even the stuff that Ryan says to butcher, real late in the episode, skipping ahead when he says like, you're not a good person, essentially.

I thought the Ryan stuff for as little as they gave us was pretty good. And I think Anthony Slater just ruled. Like in that scene. Oh, my God. Yeah. Anthony Star, right? Anthony Star, right? Anthony Star, when I say Slater.

Yeah. Star, Anthony Star, ruled. So good. And he's ruled through five seasons, no matter if the material made him out to be truly scary and every time he was on screen, our hearts were racing like season one, or if it got to more of the

Trump parody stuff and political parody stuff in season five. No matter what they put on this guy's plate, he made something good out of it. Crushed it every single time. And I'm at the point where I'm interested to see what he does next just as an actor. I'm in on it.

I do, I would like to see him in like one of the other cinematic universes at some point as well. I'm sure he doesn't want to hop back in and just get into nonstop superhero genre stuff. But we've talked about a few times how certain characters we'd love to see him as that guy. I mean, Butcher, we said that as well. Butchers another character who I've loved and I just think has become like a parody of himself as this show. Yeah. Boy, Kuntz. Let me tell you why you're wrong.

He was an impression this episode very good. He has a great butcher. I thought the same, my wife goes, oh, like, it was just an impression to you he did. Why is he following him? I go, I was a good impression. I thought it was a real good impression. I would like to see Anthony Starr and something where he could play a straight up, like, good guy. Like, let's see if he could make that work.

And I don't think it's as big an issue as, like, the people say, the Joff Reactor. Like, I can't see him as anything else. He looks so different in real life that I think as long as you don't give him the bleach blonde Cody Rote's hair, I can buy him as someone else and I won't be too distracting. I kind of want to go back and rewatch like early seasons of the boys and just kind of remember when everything was cooking. And he didn't feel like one of the fuse. This was by the end, this felt like an NBA team where everyone's gotten older.

But he still have the few stars and they're still fucking awesome of what they do. But some of the other ones are there and they've like faded. It's not even the actors fault, just the characters and the way they're being written and the stuff they're in. It's just not the same. It's kind of like the, it's like the, it's like the Warriors right now.

It's like Steph could still do stuff. That's Holmander. And then you have Draymond and it just started to get a little depressing. Like, oh, I remember the good. Ramon's doing the roast of Kevin Hart. You're like,

what do you do? Yeah, what are you doing, Dramey? Then we do the scene with the Gen V cast and again, felt meta to me in that. They just keep going, wait, that's it. We want to do more.

And it's like, yes, so do we, We want you to do more because we spent two seasons building this up. And at the end of this season, at the end of the series, I guess, it feels pointless, especially with Gen V canceled. I enjoyed the two seasons of Gen V's season one, especially. Like I had a good time recapping it with you, but it does feel like we wasted our time a little bit there.

A lot of it. I think a lot of it's fine. Like, again, if they had just kept it separate, I wouldn't be fine with it. It just feels like, I don't know. How did they, did they had like a note at some point? Like, don't link them together. Again, I don't know if it's a viewer's thing And they were like, it's not going to carry over

But you really do feel like you didn't get anything extra From watching that show. And if anything, it is anything, if you get a little bit extra, You're like, all right, that feels good. I just feel like I got nothing. And it was just almost a waste of time. Because at the end, they weren't even making it Like, interesting to the Gen V world.

It was all about tying it to the boys. And then it kind of like, I wouldn't say ruin that show, but definitely changed it. And then in the end, we get nothing, no payoff for the fucking boys. I, you know what? I want an apology. I'm going to start with things I want apologies for it. That's one of the things.

What's the name Eric Kripke or something like that? I think it's Kripke, yeah. Kripke, that's one of my apologies I'm asking for right there. And I think we want an apology from him and we want an apology from him to the Gen V people. Because I feel like he put them in a bad spot as well. And I want him to apologize to the people who watch Fort Rising because I will not be doing that. I will not because like, how are you going to do that with another property? and then launch another property into your franchise and be like,

oh, no, like, guys, this is going to be great. Why should I believe? Why should I believe you based on what I just watched in the last two seasons of the boys, the last season of Gen Vee, and the way you melded those two together. Trustry, I watched the league trailer for Vault Rising because they played the Boys in 40X for Premier Night. And then I think afterwards, maybe it was before,

but I think afterwards, like the special thing you got for going and seeing in theaters is the first look at Vault Rising. I think it looks good. It kind of looks like the boys remove the current political commentary, remove some of the silly bald jokes. Like, I'm sure some of that will be in there because it's in the fabric of the show. But a lot of it just looked like old school, the boys with cool, like it almost looked like that watchmen, but like before they were watchmen when it's like the old school vintage book.

Kind of reminded me of that a little bit. So I didn't watch it and be like, oh, my God, this is going to be fucking awesome. But I watched a trailer and I was like, shit, that might be good. God damn. I want to hate it so much. I just want to put it out of my life before it even starts, but I know what I'm not. All right. I'm making a pact right now. I'm not reviewing it week to week. We can review it at the end of the season. This, this is what they have to pay. The basement taxes I call it. They waste a lot of the time in the basement. However, there is one way I will review it week to week with you if you want. If during the actual trailer that they released to the general public, they're like, imagine a show like the boys, but it takes place earlier. And so all the shit you guys hated in season four and five, then I'm in. And all the shit we put you through with Gen V, then I'm in, okay? Yeah, fair, fair, deal. We get Sage and Camico talking about, you know, she's pushing Camico about French being

in her pet and pushing her and pushing her. And then Camico uses her newfound powers due to the radiation. And it works. She takes Sage's powers away and makes her super fucking dumb. And that was a little silly to do. me again. Like I'm cool with giving Sage that ending. I think that's actually a good ending for the character. And they spun me around a little bit when she said, all right, I'm going off to Harry Potter World in Orlando. That's where I want to spend the last of my time. Because it was

like, I could kind of see that for Sage. It kind of like makes sense with her character the way she was always journaling or whatever. But some of the dumb stuff, like this was, you know, 10 minutes into the episode. We got all the asshole jokes. And then we got some like the Ashley O'Fourther stuff. And then we immediately got like her being so dumb to the point where I was like, she should at least be a little competent as a person. She might not be the smartest person alive, but she wound up being like brain dead when they took her powers away. So that was a little silly to me,

but I like the Harry Potter line. Yeah. I was the same if you. I'm like, this feels almost to the point where I'm like, is she thinking it? And this is going to be her real grand scheme plan or whatever. So it was to the point where she was acting so dumb.

And obviously that wasn't the case. But I'm with you on that on those critiques. Then you do. the full turn on the deep, which again probably could have happened last week or could have happened sooner with with Homelander. Sooner. He rips his fucking balls off verbally, where he's just like there's no human being I've ever respected less than you. And the only reason I haven't killed you is to fucking watch you suffer and everything. The last crusade, Robin Hood, Prince of the Eustalk, that was good.

I like that. So they were for every time they were like pissing me off a little bit, they were. giving me a little bit where I was like, all right. They still got me a little bit. They still got me a little bit. And then he goes in, he makes his speech as the boys go through the JFK tunnels. And they get ambushed. But then Ashley, again, Ashley's just like, oh, yeah, the Ovaloff, this is that way.

I'm not going with you. Very fits in line with Ashley's character. But it just, it was so unbelievably like, we spent five or six episodes of this season looking for the V1 coming up with a plan. We have the air freshener plan. We have the security cameras. We're getting them off in the church. Thank God.

Annie knows how to get in there. And then this plan was just, we're going to show up at his doorstep and knock. It's everything that's been wrong that everyone's been complaining about, essentially, right? And it's like, it's funny in essence where you're talking about the JFK sex tunnels and this is what a tunnel would smell like and whatever. Then the door is not there. And then the entire plan. And then it's like, there's not like a hundred people there to take down multiple soups. Do you know there's multiple soups coming, right?

And legit potential aggressive people coming to murder you. And it's like, it's like an Austin. It was like watching in Austin Powers. Like it kind of was. It kind of was. Even the actual setting, like those tunnels look like it could have been in an Austin Powers movie. And I feel like Austin Powers. He always had the grates where you could like walk and then, you know, it was like great.

Yeah. So I do feel like that could have been Austin Powers, which is not a good thing. We were trying to be serious in a show. No. And I wonder where the budget went. Like, there's CG in the, in the finale. You don't get me wrong and CG throughout the season. And it usually looks pretty good.

Like, I think there's very few moments. We're not having Punisher one last kill moments where we're like, that looks like a video game. There's moments, sure, where it looks maybe a little less than a friggin avatar or whatever. There's moments where coaches punch them and it seems sped up or whatever. But like, I don't know, this had to have a massive colossal budget from Amazon. And I felt like you didn't see it on screen this season, and especially not in the finale.

I was kind of thinking throughout the whole season, oh, they're saving it for something big in the finale, and they really weren't. No, just to let down. I mean, it's all the critiques. It's funny. A lot of the gripes that the Stranger Things fans had for the final season and the finale,

I think are more true with, like, the boys. Yeah. It's like the underwhelming side of it, the stuff that just feels rushed and the logic doesn't check out. And listen, there's stuff in Stranger Things for sure that, that was like good when they went to that planet and there was like nobody there there's no monsters like that was preposterous yes but there is like and the it kind of goes but the one time where they're like that episode with collie better pay off which it did again very clunky gen v they

just had two seasons worth of stuff and they just yeah that's a good comparison actually yeah we got one episode in stranger things people demanded be included and they they did include her to a level were I think more so than we thought they would have. Like she was a big part of the finale for a while. And then this, yeah, two seasons and way less to do than Callie. Like way, way, way less to do. It's not even

comparable. What do you think people who didn't watch NV were thinking when those characters were on screen these last couple? Yeah, probably super fucking confused. Get these fucking people off of my screen. They're clearly not powerful. They don't really matter. Yeah, right? Little do they know. We got someone that can pretty much

bring anyone back to life as long as it was like a blood issue and that's as powerful as homelander and she's like chilling in the cabin like it's age of ultron and she's with like hawka like what is going on yeah oh and again the more we're talking about it the more i'm going to get a little bit of a bad taste in my mouth yeah we'll love to do what your review is after we're done with all i do i've been updated number from you but it's it's again it's it's just so frustrated but whatever it is what it is where we will and even in stranger things they gave us 45 five minutes at the end to be like, all right, we're not going to rush through the ending of these characters.

We're really going to take our time. I feel like there should have been at least 45 minutes of, like you said, the Huey and Butcher stuff. Like that's kind of the epilogue of the finale in a way. Like, that should have been at least 45. They give you 20 maybe after the homeowner stuff. Yeah, yeah. Brushed aside for the most part. Brushed aside in the finale.

episodes, seasons at a time. Yeah. We get to the White House, not yet in the Oval Office. Starlight takes the deep, flies away with him. Huey shoots the whole smoke thing on the ceiling. He's like, you don't fucking think I know how to do this. Boom. Tells him the model number, whatever it is.

Mother's Milk gets one good moment in this season when he kills O'Fother with the ball gag that Ashley said earlier was super reinforced. That was actually, I thought, a good kill. And I liked O'Fother in this season. I wish he would have been around earlier. I wish we had like two seasons worth of him as Homelanders guy or even three because like he was such a massive part of this season and then therefore a decently big part of the finale. DeVee Diggs crushed playing him. It just felt like how much do we really like have a not against this guy. He's horrible.

But like we don't have that emotional weight that we've been carrying for years against him. Yeah. Even when he was doing what he was doing it, he wasn't evil. he was just like entrepreneurial, I would say. You know what I mean? Yeah, because the conversation with Ashley, it seems clear to me that the subtext is like they both want to turn when she's trying to gauge him and he's trying to gauge her.

And it's like, yeah, that speech. Yeah, everyone's just mad. I'm just trying to make them believe. Like he could barely even get through that privately with Ashley. So great job by David Diggs with the material he was given. But for him to be, it was like, you know, it's Homeland or the Deep and O'Fathers. in the end.

It's kind of, that's what the seven has come down to. It's just like a little bit anticlimatic, maybe. And again, for a show about superheroes, you're like, oh, this is pretty cool. We have superheroes fighting. And I'm then like, we really haven't had much of that. We've had superheroes and supervillains chasing each other or going to the same spot to get the same item, which, again, the virus was the biggest thing started with the season. That meant nothing until obviously.

in the very, very end. But still, nothing. Then it was V1, which in the end, that basically did nothing, right? Vault Rising. There's a big trailer. It's a five-episode trailer for Vault Rising.

There we go. So I'm happy for the people in Vault Rising. Really excited for something that I said, I will never review and probably wouldn't even watch it. I have my druthers about it. And then, yeah, so,

God, man. I'm getting, like, I am slowly getting a little angry. But again, I had fun this episode. I was like, all right.

And they did wrap some stuff up. But like, I'll give you another nitpick I have. They're in the White House, right? And she takes the deep. Why does she go to the beach with the guy whose superpower is being with ocean animals? And she doesn't know that they've turned on him. She has no. She's shocked when they turn on them when she throws him in the water.

Yeah. So, yeah, that's silly. And it's also we're in the White House. The White House isn't the size of the Mall of America. so when she flies out the side of it with the deep and Mother's Milk kills, he, you know, explodes the head of O'Fother. Homelander is still making his speech and you could say, oh, he's going crazy. He's not aware and he doesn't hear any of this. I saw someone tweet like, oh, it's the same reason you turn your radio down when you're really trying to pay attention to the directions.

No, no, no, no, no. It's not because Homelander is an immortal superhero and we are stupid humans. You know what I mean? Like there was just something to it where. it was like, it felt like the battle like, all right, here we go. Oh, father's dead. The deep's taken out of the equation. We've raided the White House.

We've got smoke going off everywhere, gunshots. And we cut back to Homeland her. And he's like, and by the way, I will, you know, take everyone down to smithereens or whatever. It was like, shouldn't it be time for him to get going or him to start fighting? Or like, it was just like the pacing wise. I was like, oh, that's a little clunky. Yeah, it was especially clunky. And again, when you have a full season.

If Amazon had come back and said, listen, we're not going to bring the boys back for season five. They're like, what are you talking about? We just have to wrap up. This is our final season. They said, listen, we'll give you one episode. This would have made a lot more sense if this is what we were given, right? Yeah.

And instead, we got this episode after seven episodes where kind of nothing happens. It's just tough, Bob. It's just tough. I will say this. I will say this. When Homelander says, I will be the God of the Ashes, that was a lot of the heart. That was a little more. Bar.

Yeah, absolutely it was. That was sick. And even like his speech, I thought his speech was good, but a little too little too late. Butcher and Camico arrive. You get the full battle, and it's happening on television. The camera people run out of the room, which again, like, come on, let Homeland or fucking kill somebody. They run out of the room on skates. But the camera flips on its side so everyone can see it.

It's all being broadcast. Again, we're going scorched earth, but nobody even unplugged a wire, apparently, because everything's being broadcast. She throws the deep into the water at the beach. He's killed very good death for the deep. I was a little confused when they did the justice for Ambrosia or whatever. Because that was a while ago. And it was also like, how did they find out of it? Like, did they know?

Did I forget that they knew or whatever? I felt like it should have just been like, you fucked this up with the pipeline and with the genocide for the fish. So I don't know. That was again, it felt like they were trying to loop something back around. Like, oh, remember that. but it didn't really make sense in the context of the story. Yeah, my wife goes, oh, are they talking about the octopus?

I'm like, no, there's no way they're talking about the octopus. How would they know? I thought it was one of the creatures that died in the oil spill. Nope, turns out it was the octopus. It was a cheap pop. That was the boys doing a cheap pop. Week. All right, put that on the apology.

I need apology for that. Took me out of the deep's death, which, you know, again, was probably my second favorite character in the show. for the whole run. Like I think if you asked me at the end of season two, I'd say, Homelander, Butch, Huey, Deep, probably my top four characters, right? Yeah, maybe at that point,

Annie would have worked their way in two. Yeah, sure. Five, star lighter. You can't throw her in there, too. Let's throw a woman in there. That makes this look better too. We don't even can say it. Black Noir was up there as well,

but that's a whole other thing. Yeah, yeah, he was great early on, the first black noir. But he didn't really speak, but obviously he had all the other stuff about his character. Anyway, like, and then, So, like, Starlighter kind of just, like, became this like, whatever.

She was just bouncing around. Huey just became like a background character. Butch became almost a parody of himself. So it's like, honestly, Deep and Homelander, but the only two that I think kind of kept their, like, for lack of a better term, they traded water at the very least. They did better than that, you know? And to then have the deep go down like he did. And I guess the death was like he died.

And I knew he was dying in the ocean once they turned on him. just a matter of how they were going to do it, right? And I don't even think the death was all that, like, it was brutal, but that's very par for the boys. But like 35 sharks attacking him feels like it would have been a better way. Would have been better, right? Yes. Each grabbing a limb and fucking tearing him up and blood fills the world.

It would have been better. Yes. And he's like he wants his neighbor or his childhood friend, like, to really focus psychology. Jeremy. He went in the water for a second. They're like, there he is. It's like, he was on the beach a second ago. It's not like, you know, so again, that's like a nitpick, but it's just an annoying nitpick because it's like this just makes no fucking sense.

It's like, it's almost it's, I don't want to sound like a fucking like super nerd about it, but it's like it's almost just insulting our intelligence with this. Just a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. And blazy is a good word for the finale. It felt a little lazy. And I feel bad thing that because I know Kripke's been saying like I've been staying up all night. I can't sleep. I'm so worried what people are going to think about the finale. We worked on it so hard. And it's kind of like. Fuck him. I don't know, dude. Like, yeah, he's, he's been talking about it. Like, he's been trying to defend Game of Thrones. Like, he's like, people just talk about Game of Thrones. Like, it's a mid show now.

And it was one of the most revolutionary shows ever. It's just they fumbled three episodes. It's like, well, you kind of fumbled, like, seven. I thought the first episode of this season was good with A-Train and stuff. And then, like, I don't know. I like the Seth Rogen one. But again, I liked them as just in a vacuum episode of the boys, not really in a final season. Like, now that we see the full picture.

It takes those down a little bit in my mind. When Camico's in the White House, I think as she starts charging up and Boch is like, blast him. Homelander realizes what's happening. So he tries to flee. And right as he tries to flee, Ryan shows up. Captain marvels it, as we refer to it in the nerd universe. She shows up at the last second for the save. And Camico finally, they grab him and she's finally ready to do the blast.

and we get like forced ghosts Frenchie, which was, I guess, nice for Camico. It didn't work for me. Like, I love Frenchy, but it almost, I almost felt like it lessened his death a little bit because you threw him in there in the finale. And I don't know if the thought was like,

ah, he's been in every episode since like two, or maybe he's been in every episode even. Like we want to make sure he's also in the finale. But again, pacing-wise is where it threw me off, where it was like, here we fucking go. she's about to blast his powers out and mona me my my monk yo like it's like oh all right and then it kept going it was one or two minutes of this maybe it just felt like forever long yes definitely too long just took you out of the whole moment and i'm like this is kind of like i understand what they're doing

but it doesn't really go for me here i thought he's going to say it wasn't rage it's love i was going to say maybe passion would be the word because i don't think love is what made her blasts. And then my wife was like, oh, maybe it's one of like the psychics, like the mind control. That would have been cool. And that would have been cool because they thought, hey, we're going to fuck with her head. Now realizing they're weaponizing her to them blow homelanders powers away. And instead, it was just a force ghost that went on too long and just felt weird.

Again, it feels lazy. Hey, listen, I'm a blogger. I'm a blogger in the year 2026. I'm lazy. I don't give them fun. I know. Game, respect game is I guess what I'm saying. Good work, dude. You know?

But I heard it, though. Like, when I blog something, I will go back and I will fucking keep updating it as I'm writing it to make it as good as I possibly can. Maybe he'll do that. Maybe next week we'll check out on. It'll be an hour 14 minutes. Is that our new secret episode? Instead of a secret episode, yeah, it's just the George Lucas, special edition.

I would. I'm here for it. We're in support of it. Listen, Cripi, go back, fix that. Listen, I'm in support of that

for Punisher, one last kill. Go fix that one shot. I don't care if it wasn't that much CGI. Fucking fix that shit. Yeah. Don't do,

like a little bit of professional fucking pride here. That's all we're asking for. That's all we're asking for. Then we find out the blast worked. And this is a scene that I liked. I liked seeing Homelander without powers,

finally stripped of his powers, and finally being the little bitch, we all knew he was on the instance. side. I would have liked it a little more if, and I don't know if this would have made sense, if he was reverse Captain America and if he got like scrawny at the end. I thought that would have been cool. By the end, he almost looks like he's fucking, he looks like me. Like I could have been his body double. I think that would have been cool, but I was okay with the route they took where he's immediately like, I'll suck your dick. I'll eat your fucking shit on TV. Like, I know

that's ridiculous. And in his big moment, we're kind of doing an eating shit joke. But that worked for me. And I don't know. I thought the whole way it was handled where it was just a one-on-one fight then between Butcher and Homelander. And he's like, this is for Frenchie. This is for Becca. And then the fucking eventual crowbar leading to the brains getting spilled over the desk. Like all of that, I was like, all right, listen, I'm satisfied with that being the Homelander death.

In the grand scheme of things, I think that was a good death. Maybe you could have done more of a weapons thing as well where like you pull them apart limb by limb again like you didn't do for the deep. I thought that could have been cool too if it was everyone literally is like ripping this guy to shreds. Even you could have done like a general public, you know, flooding the White House. But I was happy with this. This I don't have many nitpicks about. I mean, just in terms of the death, I said they kind of nailed it. Like they got to the destination instead of like a two hour ride.

it was like of 18 hour and 35 minute ride through like just back roads and roads without fucking pavement we got a flat tire there's a nail on the tire right now one point we were like in like i don't know a couple feet of water too so there's probably water damage to the car the AC in the car doesn't work anymore when he tries that fucking head yeah i was like shit that felt satisfying for all the fuck up stuff these guys done again i would have liked more of him scrawny hair is all fucked up. He's getting his ass just beat. He has no comeback. He's just an absolute nothing. Which he had

to limit that a little bit longer as well. But yeah, the suck your dick stuff like, yeah. He kind of just took his pride away. So that was cool. That explains the heavy spoilers tweet, by the way. Yes. We saw heavy spoilers, a guy who we really like his channel, great channel for nerd content.

He tweeted the image of the guy from the Firefest documentary. That was like, I'll suck your dick for water, which is one of the most insane things ever said on the documentary. And we didn't know what that meant. And we were like, does that mean he hated it? Does that mean he would suck a dick for a good episode? Like, what does that possibly mean? It was obviously a direct line reference. And he tweeted today like, I'm never vague posting again with how much, you know, drama that caused on his timeline or whatever. But it made me laugh when

Homelander said that. I was like, oh, that's what it meant. Yep. Yep. So I was happy about that as well. But I did, I was like, this could go. I actually thought it was going to be the deep saying he was going to suck dick. That's kind of where I thought we were going. Yeah. I was hoping it was going that way. And I'm happy it wasn't like, oh, this episode was so bad. Yeah. And then we get kind of like the jump cut to Ashley giving the speech where she's like, oh yeah, Homelander was deeply unwell. And then an immediate another jump cut to she's been impeached and taken away. Like she finally wins, but she doesn't. Another one where I was like, I'm satisfied with. with that character ending.

That was perfect. No notes, the beat before and then after where she then rested. Perfect. That was the funniest moment of the episode, I think, for me. Yeah. Of the season? Are you going to say the season?

I'll say the season blindly. Like, that was a plus all around. Good work. That was really funny. Whoever did that, you don't have to apologize for anything. No. And then I will demand an apology for the next scene where Butch goes to Ryan.

He's like, it's just you, me, and terror. and Ryan's like, you're a bad guy. I want no part of you. And he walks into the room and he's like, all right, Tara, it's just me and you. Terror's fucking dead, Clem. We just had to deal with the dog dying in the show last week with Punisher, which was a more excruciating death, obviously.

But why'd you have to fucking kill the dog, man? Was that the last straw of homelette or butcher's lost everything and got to send him on this path? I get it. But, man, I didn't like that. RIP my dog terror That was fucking brutal I don't I

That I'm like What will be doing here at this point now We're just killing dogs I know and it's it's 20 minutes left in the episode And I'm like why are we doing this And then it like kind of hit me when he takes the vial And he goes and Huey has to chase him I'm like oh man

We're really going to try to shoehorn this into 20 minutes left in the series Like that was a big issue We had a pause and I saw the time And I'm like man they're really just gonna just yada yada this whole thing man i was so pumped so bummed because they did it it's like almost like like grand theft auto comes out was a gtac 6 right but it like comes out as like an nesc game like an eight-bit game it's like it's like a 20-minute game and it's all an eight-bit that's what it feels like

it's like they gave us this final season which i guess that by the end you're like hey they're it did the thing but it's like yeah it should have been done on a you know 80-hour game on playstation 5 instead of an end-and-he-as, you know, a big game that takes 20 minutes to beat. So that's kind of the differences in terms of what I was hoping we get to the season to what we actually got. And again, like, I guess they did, I was going to say, I guess he did the right thing with, like, I think that was their way to go better late than ever. But it's probably in the comics. I don't know. It is.

Credit for that. I found that out kind of after the fact. The ending with Huey and Butcher is pretty loyal to the comics. And Eric Cricky said that was kind of the one thing he knew from episode one. that he wanted to truly stay loyal to and have that be the ending for those characters together, which I was cool with. But to continue your NES GTA analogy, it's almost like, yes, that happened, but we were able to play the PS5 demo last year.

Because it felt to me like season four set up for Butcher might go full heel and Butchers Unhinged. And I think this would have been such a more interesting season if it felt like Butchers after Homelander. The Sups are also, or the boys are also after Homelander, but they're not working together. And there's, you know, they could cross paths a bunch of times. But I would have liked if the descent to madness would have happened over the course of the entire season, which felt like what they were promising with season four, with the ending of season four. And they kind of like repeated that arc that we've already sort of seen Butcher go down with the dissent to madness. So that was like a weird thing to me where, listen, succession.

Spoilers, there's a huge death like three episodes into the final season, you know, where it sent that series in a way where you were like, what the fuck's going to happen next? You should have killed Homelander, I think, in the penultimate episode, maybe even before that. I think Homelander shouldn't have made it to the finale because then the finale would have been like, holy fuck, this is now, you could have done a more small scale thing with Huey and Butcher. And it wouldn't have had to be a Scorst Earth battle because it would have been the personal connection that you've developed now for five seasons. in seven years or whatever, I think that would have been the way to go. Like that that was what I referenced before as almost like a distracting thought of like, I was trying to rework the season as a puzzle in my head as I was watching this because it was like, why is this not working for me?

And then you go and like analyze why. And it was, I think because of that. And I don't, I know we're going to come. People might be mad at us for being as negative as we're being. But it's just, I got to be real. My guy, Bob, this is this is. word of the year. Real Bob is real. The Mando review has some real stuff in it. This is going to have some real stuff in it.

I know. I think it's, Mando review tomorrow. Look out for it. Might get real on that one. And listen, I think it's coming, like, I don't think, if people think we're super negative, they can think that, but I think it's coming from a place like love. I think we wanted more from it. I don't think we're saying it was garbage. I just think, like, they did some good stuff in this episode that I wish they had been able to flesh out for multiple episodes, if not the entire season. I don't, I think you could have just wiped a lot of the virus stuff away.

I think it'll wiped a lot of the V1 stuff away. I think there's just like little, just funny stuff with the lava guy and the, you know, the sniffing dog and cat and all that kind of stuff. And he kind of like, you have to keep Homelander making himself a god. Maybe you don't even have to do that.

I still think he could have had a homeowner's a bad dude. And we know he just wants power. He could have just kind of kept that direction. And, you know, a lot of the political commentary, you could have probably just like, listen, we got plenty of that in season four, kept that to like yeah because again i'm sure the country i'm sure the country's going to be have similar pangs years from now but it's going to just it's going to kind of be stale this this content

it's going to make it less rewatchable yes i think for sure dates it and then you get the epilogue where you get uh butcher and and hughy this is kind of the epilogue in my mind they go to the the tower and they're in the room with the seven and they have that talk where hughy walks in kind of like hey man, what you think about doing with that thing? What I have to do, you know? And they go back and forth. Good scene, really good acting between these two, like Jack Wade and Carl Urban. They fucking crush it, as always.

And like a good death for Butcher in that kind of had to happen, you know? Like, he couldn't let him just go live out on a, you know, a happy ending right off into the sunset. He's living in a bad guy. He's a bad guy. And he's done such bad things throughout the series that I was okay with this where it was also like when when Huey says, oh, like I'm going to call you an ambulance. Like that panic speaks so much to who Huey is as well. He didn't want to do that. He was forced to the brink.

But good scene. And then the like real epilogue, epilogue after that is another thing where they spent maybe five minutes on it. And I felt like this could have been 20 minutes. I'm not asking for the full 45 like stranger things. but you could have spent 20 minutes showing us the Stan Edgar thing. He goes back to Vaude as interim CEO. I felt like that was maybe a Bob Eager reference

because I think Bob Iger had to go back to Disney as interim CEO or whatever for a little bit. And you give us Piano Man, which immediately was like, okay, you saved Piano Man for a good moment in season five. I appreciate. Mother's Milk getting remarried, sweet moment. Ryan being his best man, even sweeter.

That was really nice. Canico goes to France. as an ending like Alfred and the Dark Night Rises. I was expecting her to see Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle. Give him a little fucking. And then Huey gets offered a government job. He turns it down, walks into the video store where it's revealed, and he is pregnant. And the baby, they call Robin, which is a sweet full circle thing.

Some people on Twitter are like, that's insane. He's naming his baby after his ex-girlfriend. Shut up. That's a nice full-circle woman. I was okay with that. And that's the ending of the boys. I was happy that they didn't end it on like a spin-off note. I was a little worried that he was going to be like, now I have to go to Mexico where there are also boys.

Like I was, yeah, yeah, I was worried about that. So I was like happy with the way they ended it. But again, I would have just like maybe a little more length than stretching it out. And I loved the crew pictures during the credits. Really nice touch. Like that should almost be a. stable for series finale on shows.

Like show us all the cool behind the scenes photos of people having fun and maybe the people that aren't on screen every week that don't get the cred but have worked on this show for seven years

their lives. You know, Jack Quaid and Victoria Newman, they're married now. Like, so many people's lives have changed over the course of this show. Give us a little glimpse of that in the credits.

I like that. It reminded me a little bit of like the tribute to the Fox era at the end of Deadpool and Wolverine. Like, what a great moment that was as well. Yeah, there was something recently in the credits that we liked where they showed, like, the crew and stuff. I can't remember what movie or show it was.

But, yeah, stuff like that, I think they should always do because it also got me to watch the credits, which, you know. I know, I stuck around. I don't know any of these people. I wasn't like, oh, that's so-and-so from craft services. I was just, oh, this is nice. And it's always cool to see, like, you see, like, some death scene or you see the way they do it all, the from behind the scene. So, yeah, I thought that was cool. I also thought there was a chance of any was going to die when she, like, left there, like, the girl.

people saying people thought it was going to be another speedster runs through her yeah like i'm like was like oh would they really kill a pregnant woman well they just killed a dog like 10 minutes earlier so i think the gloves are basically off with this fucking show these people yeah sick sick people i'm happy they also weren't like you know hewis doing his thing saving the day and then we just like pan to a frozen soldier boy it's like right now but again like soldier boy like oh you should be so much time than soldier boy no soldier boy in this episode so and also to like see like who's going to get him. He's just in the fridge.

Bob, you know what word I was when I heard Soldier Boy? I saw like the tweets and you told me that he wasn't going to be in it according to like the tweets. I was incredulous when I read that. No. Cragulous. That's a key word. That's today's word.

Yeah. All right. So that was that I still think, listen, after talking about it, maybe there's some more nitpicks that frustrated me. I still think in the grand scheme of things, I'm not, I'm going to go. six out of ten i'm not going to go lower than that uh it could have been it could have been a two out of ten with how some of the things were set up and in the end again i don't think it's like one of the worst finale's ever i think they made some good decisions it was just way too rushed so this i'm i

think i'm going to join you with six out of ten for the finale i'll probably go like for the final seasons like four and a half out of ten for me but the six out of ten for the finale and this is how like sometimes where uh if the finale's bad but The season was good. It leaves a bad tasting mouth. This almost leaves a better taste of my mouth because it did a better job than a lot of the stuff this season. And listen, we're both sour patch men there here, right? We both love our candy.

You know, we get just a bad batch of candy. It's like, I've never had this candy. I'm trying it. The red, so what is it? Red, orange, yellow, and blue, say, right? And the blue, we'll say, hypothetically, isn't great. It's kind of not a good candy. but the other three are terrible.

So it then seems better compared to the rest. You know what? At least there's a blue here. I'll eat the blues. Yeah. That's what this finale is. It's just better than the other candies in the bag. Which again, other than, you know, I would say the highlight of the season,

other than anything in the finale, A train's arc, I thought. Yes. So very well. It's kind of weird that that was all this season, right? Tremendous. The A train getting out of the way, the snap neck death. That was like, that was the emotional weight I was talking about. probably sound like a broken record at some point on this show.

But that was the tone that I was looking for out of this. And the finale came the closest to going back to that tone for sure. Okay. Yeah, I'm with you. All right. To end it on a fun note, I text to you, I said it put together in my top 10 Billy Joel songs. We were talking about it last week. And the more I thought about some of the songs I was naming last week, the more pissed off I was getting with myself.

I said, that was a rush. I said, no, no, no. I wasn't thinking of all the good songs. So I went on Spotify, listened to some Joel this morning. Piano Man, of course, got me in the mood. And I put together my top 10. So last week, I named a couple songs that I really liked. And we didn't start the fire.

I named this maybe one of my top five. It's an honorable mention for me. It's not even my top 10. My honorable mentions, I put just the way you are. We didn't start the fire. And you may be right. Okay. My 10 prelude, angry young man, Liberty DeVito,

just fucking goes off on the drums on that song. So good. turnstiles. Um, the entertainer. Classic little acoustic guitar, give me. Big shot. A song that's a lot like big shot, but Zanzibar, I think they're very similar, but two great songs. It's still rock and roll to me.

Can't believe I didn't have that. That's number six for me, kind of like an Elvis flare to it. Uh, number five. Come on, you know I love my New York Knicks. It's New York state of mind. Bing. Bong. Number four, Vienna.

Number three, moving out. number two piano men number one scenes from an italian restaurant that's my top 10 and i feel good about that one and this is the thing i think about joel top tens i don't think you can have any real criticisms because if you like a lot of the commercial stuff the man just made fucking hits and as i learned in the hbo doc a lot of them weren't even hits when they came out they became later in life unlike the greatest hits albums when those come out eventually yeah exactly um or if you like the like deeper cut stuff it's like that's cool too to each their own yeah um so this is tough for me i'm a joel guy as well uh so this is like so this is my 10 as of right now may 26 23 p.m.

Eastern time yeah this could change for sure yes it could it'll like it changes when i'm on a like a mix or whatever i'm like oh i'm kind of like more of the move for this i've always i it's like the weather you come and go with joel songs so italian restaurants pretty much locked in at one piano man's locked in at two just because i think they are a cut above um they're first part of time when piano man was one it was my Joel song but as i've gone old i really appreciate to your restaurant um just the way you are three uh the entertainer four and then we didn't start the fire five and the reason why is because just the idea of the song is just incredible i just love the idea of it and references the song and then the fact he did a newer one or the what was a fall

boy did there all boy did there yeah yeah yeah I'm only the good die young Vienna for the longest time because sometimes I'm in accruiting I'm you know cruder mode so that's for the longest time I know I don't have that like I didn't have so many like some of the ones you're your listing right now are so fucking good and they're not even on my list

the variety and Joel is crazy and that's why I love the joke from stepbrothers when it's like no we're just playing it's certain kind he does have like eras the stranger was nine and I guess for now just because it's 10 is my life. She's always a woman was 11, moving out, 12. So yeah, you know what? I'll go. She's always a woman. I've been,

I'd be getting to that one lately. So through that one on for Mother's Day as I was making breakfast for the wife. A little French time. And neither of us mentioned Uptown Girl, arguably his biggest hit, which is a great song. They make fun of it in Trainwreck or whatever. It's a great bit throughout that movie. But that's how much variety Joel has. We could do fucking, it's still rock and roll to me in Uptown Girl. And the same, then you throw Zanzibar in there. You then, you know, it's crazy. Shout out Billy Joel and shout out the voice for using a lot of Billy Joel,

because that was for sure a highlight of the series throughout. I loved it. And like pressure is like one that I just loved because I used to play at the end of Knicks games. Like three seconds. Oh, really? Last shot. So that always gets me hyped up. And I just have to say this for the people that have heard it, turn the lights back on.

I think it's his last or newest single. I was really bum when he didn't play when I saw him at Rigler Field like last year. And apparently he plays that at some shows not others. and I was really kind of like heartbroken. It was his first song in like 25 years or something crazy like that. Forever. And it's a good song. It really is a good song.

It just sounds like a classic Joel song. For real. And again, I said it last week, anyone who hasn't watched the HBO doc, if you're a fan, got to check it out. It's really interesting the way his whole career comes together.

And how easily he could have just kind of like screwed out of having the great career he had, right? Yeah. And then you look at his Madison Square Garden run. There's nobody else that could have done that. Once a month for a decade or whatever. whatever it was, it was outrageous. I was very grateful to get to go to one of the last shows.

I think I went through a show in the last year, brought Lady Fox, and we still talk about how great that was. You know, whenever we're over the in-laws house or whenever we're with, like, older people, and they're like, oh, you guys go to a lot of concerts,

huh? And we start listing off the concerts we get to. People are like, oh, oh, never heard of them. Oh, interesting. And then we get to Billy Joel, and they're like, oh, how was Billy Joel? Yeah, that must have been amazing, you know? Maybe I'll ask you this on a future episode here.

I'll let you tickle your brain because this is something you can't answer on the fly. I had someone asked me if you were stuck on a desert island for the rest of your life or say not even that eternity. Your Bob R.P.R. boy, Bob Fox, he's underground. You have five artists to listen to for the rest of your life. That's all you're doing is just sitting in quiet listening to music. And so this is for eternity here. This isn't, you know, a couple years or whatever.

Yeah. It's eternity. What are your five artists? So think of that. That was something we had a, We did this when we were drinking the other day. And Joe was one of mine. Spoiler alert.

Five would be definitely hard to come up with. I could give you three right now. That would be no doubt. And then there's a million bands that could be interchangeable for spots four and five. For me, the Beatles, all time low and Oasis are so easily locked in as one, two, and three. After that, there's so many bands. I could throw kiss, motley crew, guns and roses, Green Day, the foo fighters, blink, 82 power more and Murphana, like Led Zeppelin.

I have a million bands that could be interchangeable. It kind of depends on the day you ask me. But that is a good conversation we can get into in a later episode. Maybe something a little more music oriented. Speaking of later episodes, by the way, I teased, well, this is out of order. On episode 500, I said, we might have to get Jose in the basement next week. So I hit him up today. I said, are you available for media, as Jared Karabas would refer to it as?

and he said, yeah, I'm down to come in the basement. Talk a little spitey next week. So we're going to get the professor in because next week we got no shows to recap. It's weird. We've been recapping shows for months now. But we're going to hit a little dry spot before House the Dragon comes back. Yep, yep. So I'm excited here, which is we've just crushed how much.

I mean, so what was it, 10 daredevils or? Eight daredevils. Eight Invincibles. Eight Invincibles. Ten malls. 10 months, yeah. A movie in Mando. Is that it, though?

I mean, that's a lot. That's a lot, but that's since March. That's like the, you know, last two months pretty much. That's a lot of little. People have been saying to me, oh, you're slacking on movies this month on my letterbox. It's like, yeah, because I got a lot of fucking TV to watch. And Lady Fox is on a work trip.

She watches these shows with me. So she's going to get back from the work trip. I got a show her the penultimate episode of the boys. and then the finale of the boys, she still hasn't watched the finale of Daredevil. And I swear I'm not forcing this honor. She likes these shows. Did you get the secret episode into the bear yet?

We haven't even got that in yet, dude. We haven't gotten the scene. When we were going to watch that last week, and then we were like, all right, we got to get through some of these shows because we're also watching Mad Men. We're watching Euphoria. We're watching How I Met Your Mother.

I'm deep into how I met your mother, by the way. I'm like halfway through season four. Oh, my God. It's tremendous. I just got to an episode. where they do that the storm lasted three days. And there's a little twist in that one. I said it was,

I'm not familiar with your game type twist. Where I've been loving how I met your mother, but I was like, that was Christopher Nolan-esque in the way that they spun me on my head by the end of it. Just such a good show. So listen, we've got a lot of fun stuff to follow in the basement. Tomorrow, episode 500.

Please tune in. Even if you're not going to watch the Mandalorian and Grogo, I think there's like five to ten minutes at the beginning of the podcast where we just talk about, mom's basement for a little bit just watch that give us a little thumbs up help us out for episode 500 we'd appreciate it we appreciate you guys for being here through 500 we set to 500 more and we'll hit that especially because we're already like almost there we fudge the number so much i can't believe we're saying this in our 499.99 episode right i don't you never know we made it the 499.

oh yeah wait i said it was did i say it was 499.75 today because i think that episode already came out this is 499.9. All right, we got to re-record all 499.99.99. All right. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow for the Mandalorian and Groke. Homelander's dead.