Daffy takes his trouser test, we explore the Tooniverse’s Westworld-esque towns, and the confirmation of an Agency for the retrieval of escaped Toons.
3.02 — THE WEIGHT OF WATER and The Past
Season 3 continues with the next in our Kathryn Bigelow mini-season: 2000’s THE WEIGHT OF WATER. One of us is more in favour of the film than the other, but we settle into a good discussion of the representation of past events on film, novel—movie adaptation, and valuing ‘a valiant effort’ above ‘safe and uninspiring’ […]
5 – Escaped Toons
We meet a barely recognisable rabbit, get a little closer to understanding the Egghead phenomenon, and witness to devastating effect escaped Toons can have on our world.
3.01 — POINT BREAK (1991) and The Female Gaze
We kick off Season 3 with a fresh approach: we’re going director-by-director, for four weeks at a time. The subject of our first four weeks — the director of our first four films — is the fêted director of ZERO DARK THIRTY, subject of an early PP episode, and the forthcoming DETROIT: Kathryn Bigelow.
4 – The Trouser Test
Facing an onslaught of violence and casual racism, our heroes struggle to identify the point at which cannibalism becomes acceptable in the Tooniverse.
100 – THE PRESTIGE (2006) and Misdirection
To mark our 100th episode, we go back to the film that in part gave the podcast its name: yes, it’s The Prestige on The Prestige!
2 – Hot Dog Sub
In which some pressing questions are answered regarding the relative sentience of Porky Pig and his dog