In a World of...Improvised Movie Homages

In a World…where we are still on our "Summer" Hiatus, so to tide you over we have created a new Clip Show! We hope to be back soon, but in the meanwhile please enjoy this episode which features six different improv games, one from each of the first 6 episodes of 2022.

This "episode" is just a quick announcement - we are takinga. break for the summer and hope to be back soon. In the meantime, this would be a perfect time to go back into our back catalog and listen to all those episodes you may have missed in the past!

In a World of…criminals who operate above the law, one man, Simon, along with his sentient Volkswagen Minibus, is a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the Department of Unending Charity, Humanity, and Excellence. Stumbling on a plot where a small community is about to be devastated by an evil man who seeks to further his own ends, Simon must get involved and protect the innocent, the helpless and the powerless.   This episode features the improv games Best of Times, Worst of Times, Last Letter, First Letter, 2-Word Typewriter, Pardon, and Cutting Room. About This Episode   In this episode, we pay homage to Knight Rider (and other "vehicle based TV shows from the 80s…"). In the 80s, there was a string of TV shows featuring a man with a very cool vehicle, and each week he would arrive in a small town and stumble upon a criminal enterprise, usually where a rich powerful man was taking advantage of a good-hearted, community minded, small business owner. There was a LOT of shows like this, but only one with a sentient, talking car, so that's the way we went! Links: Knight Rider on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_(1982_TV_series)   Time Codes Discussing the Genre, Tropes, and Outline: 05:03 Start of show: 19:02  Improv Game - Best of Times, Worst of Times: 22:19 Bugged By Crime Music Intro (a la Knight Rider): 30:48 Improv Game - First Letter, Last Letter: 32:52 Improv Game - 2-Word Typewriter: 45:22 Improv Game - Pardon: 1:00:15 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:09:41 End of show, into announcements: 1:23:41 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/

In a World…where the last unexplored frontier on Earth is not on Earth, but under it. Deep under water. One deep water crew, with the best of intentions of finding healing algae, will release something that was never meant to be released. Can they survive the wet slimy death creature…?   This episode features the improv games Last Letter First Letter, Emotional List, Ding, and Cutting Room.   About This Episode   In this episode, we pay homage to underwater sci-fi horror movies. Basically, these movies are all knock-offs of Alien, just instead of being set in space they are set at the bottom of the ocean (No on can hear you scream there either). There was a year in the 80's where six(!) of these movies were released, but there have been some more recent releases in this sub-genre, like Underwater with Kristen Stewart.  Links Leviathan on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(1989_film) Deep Star Six on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepStar_Six Time Codes Discussing the Genre, Tropes, and Outline: 04:35 Start of show: 20:22 Improv Game - Last Letter, First Letter: 25:58 Improv Game - Emotional List: 39:34 Improv Game - Ding: 50:18 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:04:06  End of show, into announcements: 1:20:04 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/

In a World…where the rich and powerful can get away with anything they want, and some feel the urge to treat others as sport, one man will find himself pulled into a most dangerous game. John Hunt is looking for answers but to get them, he will have to…game the hunt! This episode features the improv games A to Z, Theater Genres, Murphy's Law, and Cutting Room. About This Episode In this episode, we pay homage to those movies where man is hunted for sport. This is a style of movie that gets remade over and over, and it is usually ridiculous and almost always fun. Being an improv comedy thing, ours sort of expands the boundaries of the genre with some, er, fantasy and sci-fi elements… Links The Most Dangerous Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Dangerous_Game_(1932_film) Surviving the Game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_the_Game The Hunt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_(2020_film) Hard Target: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Target Time Codes Discussing the Genre, Tropes,and Outline: 04:52 Start of show: 19:26 Improv Game - A to Z: 24:58  Improv Game - Theater Genres: 34:20 Improv Game - Murphy's Law: 50:23 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:01:04 End of show, into announcements: 1:09:56 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/

In a World of fantastical creatures, fire demons, castles, spears carrying swords, and more, one girls will find herself on a quest to rescue her best friend and save a world, all at the same time. Along the way she will overcome obstacles, make allies, and tap into her inner strength.   This episode features the improv games A to Z, Timed Styles, Gibberish Switch, and Cutting Room. About This Episode   In this episode, we pay homage to those fun, sometimes cute, sometimes scary, often bewildering kids movies where a child finds themselves in a fantasy world and encounters a variety of dangers and creatures. Who are usually made up and have crazy, weird names. And who are portrayed by puppets. It's a lot of fun, and we managed to capture the feel of these wacky, charming movies (if we do say so ourselves…). Links Labyrinth on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_(1986_film) The Neverending Story on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NeverEnding_Story_(film)   Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussing the Genre. Tropes, and Outline: 04:22 Start of show: 18:03 Improv Game - A to Z: 21:20 Improv Game - Timed Styles: 31:02 Improv Game - Gibberish Switch: 38:58 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 48:41 End of show, into announcements: 1:03:13 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/

In a world…where some people dream of being a Mountie, while others are just trying to get a new start on life, one group of hapless misfits will attempt to come together to join one of the most elite crime fighting organizations in the world: The Mounties!   This episode features the improv games Trailer in a Minute, Superheroes, Blind Line, Emotional Lists, and Cutting Room.   About This Episode   In this episode, we pay homage to "Training Movies." The movies where the bulk of the story involves the training of a group of varied misfits (sometimes who are little more than cliches or stereotypes) learning how to come together so they can graduate. We focused mostly on comedies, like Stripes, Police Academy, and Feds, but in the episode we realized that a lot of movies fall into this category, like Top Gun and Full Metal Jacket!   More: Links Stripes on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripes_(film) Police Academy on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Academy_(film) Feds on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feds   Time Codes Discussion the Genre, Tropes, and Outline: 06:33 Start of show: 23:30 Improv Game - Trailer in a Minute: 25:38 Improv Game - Superheroes: 30:23 Improv Game - Blind Line: 43:43 Improv Game - Emotional Lists: 56:43 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 58:03 End of show, into announcements: 1:21:12 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/

This week features a "very special episode" of the podcast! No, there is no deep life lesson about growing up, family, or safety, but there is learning…   In this episode, Mike and Avish take a break from the improv performance to take a look back at the first six episodes of this year and share their thoughts on each episode as a whole, ideas on the creative storytelling process, and their reflections and feedback on some of the improv games they played on those episodes.   It's a fun episode that still has lots of humor in it, but it is also a great chance to see a little bit begins the scenes and get some ideas on creativity, storytelling, and improv comedy! If you like this format, let us know as we are thinking of making it a regular thing.   On this episode we discuss the following episodes (with time codes if you want to jump to a specific one): Washing Away With Beauty (Disney): 04:54 Building Love (Romantic Comedy): 12:57 Destructible Future Cyberman (Dystopian Sci-Fi Action Police): 19:37 Gargle (teen Slasher): 25:47 Climbing Intensely Down (Undercover  Adrenaline Cop): 32:51 Hedgehog-Man (MCU Origin Movie): 41:01   More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/

Description: In a World…Where some will do anything to forward their agenda, one group or terrorist vegans will slap down the white house in an attempt to veganize the world. Only one man, the President of the United States himself, can stop the terrorists, rescue the hostages and prevent the White House from being completely slapped!   This episode features the improv games Prologue in a Minute, Last Letter, First Letter, Scene No Letter, Best of Times, Worst of Times, Cutting Room.   About This Episode   In this episode, we pay homage to a truly ridiculous genre: White House Action movies! The ones where the president's abode (or plane) is under attack, and it is up to the president to jump into action hero mode and stop the bad guys. These movies are usually not very good but also usually very entertaining. We certainly had a lot of fun performing it. And remember, we intend no offense towards vegans… Links Air Force One on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One_(film) White House Down on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Down Olympus Has Fallen on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Has_Fallen Time Codes Discussion the Genre, Tropes, and Outline: 05:01 Start of show: 18:20 Improv Game - Prologue in a Minute: 21:58 Improv Game - Last Letter, First Letter: 25:20 Improv Game - Scene No Letter: 38:32 Improv Game - Best of Times, Worst of Times: 49:47 Improv Game - Cutting Room:  1:03:25 End of show, into announcements: 1:12:11 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/

In a World…where some will do anything to uncover an ancient secret dating back thousands of years, while others will do anything to keep such things secret, one man will be swept into a race against time to ensure that the most important discovery in centuries does not fall into the wrong hands.   This episode features the improv comedy games Prologue in a Minute, Pardon, He Said She Said, Newsroom, and Cutting Room.    About This Episode   In this episode, we pay homage to the thrillers of Dan Brown, specifically his Robert Langdon books: Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, and Inferno. Which is interesting, since Mike never actually read them or saw the movies… Links The DaVinci Code on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code_(film) Dan Brown on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown Robert Langdon on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Langdon   Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre, Tropes, and Outline: 5:24 Start of show: 19:58 Improv Game - Prologue in a Minute: 22:23 Improv Game -  Pardon: 24:29 Improv Game - He Said She Said: 32:49 Improv Game - Newsroom: 46:00 Improv Game - Cutting Room:  58:00 End of show, into announcements: 1:11:47 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/

In a World…where some people would be willing to dominate the world's caviar supply by stealing and holding on to the world's rarest caviar…one plucky group of thieves will commit to pulling off the ultimate heist: stealing it back!   This episode features the improv games Prologue in a Minute, Dating Game, Two-Word Typewriter, and Cutting Room. About This Episode   In this episode, we pay homage to "Heist" movies. Those glorious (and sometimes convoluted) movies and TV shows where a small group of criminals (who are usually good people or only stealing from bad guys (or both)) have to create complicated plans to pull of daring and difficult - dare we say, "Impossible" heists (or "missions"). We specifically focus on Leverage (the TV show) but also the Mission:Impossible TV show and a number of movies. We also have some truly bad European accents…   Links   Leverage on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage_(American_TV_series) Mission: Impossible on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(1966_TV_series) The Vault on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vault_(2021_film) The Italian Job on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Italian_Job_(2003_film) Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre, Tropes, and Outline: 09:28 Segment 2 - Showtime!: 24:40 Improv Game - Prologue in a Minute: 27:46 Improv Game - Dating Game: 30:25 Improv Game - Two-Word Typewriter: 44:42 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:03:37 End of show, into announcements: 1:28:48 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/  

In a World where some schools are wonderful, safe, and well-off and some students have every opportunity, other schools and students struggle. One brave, noble, courageous teacher will buck the system and risk it all to make sure that his Denver area students have the opportunity to make their lives mean something by being able to attend Ski College despite the odds…   This episode features the improv comedy games 1-Sentence at a Time Trailer in a Minute, Superheroes (Cliche characters), Pardon, Question Switch, and Cutting Room   About This Episode:   In this episode, we pay homage to "savior teacher movies," where a lower income, lower opportunity, at risk group of school students get paired with a teacher who believes in them, and goes above and beyond to help them believe in themselves. We hit the major cliches and tropes in this one, but seeing as how it's improv comedy, things got silly real fast and it ended up being about wether the kids would be able to attend ski college…   More: Links Stand and Deliver in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_and_Deliver Dangerous Minds on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangerous_Minds Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 06:06 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 16:36 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 20:45 Start of show: 25:54 Improv Game - 1-Sentence at a Time Trailer in a Minute: 27:36 Improv Game -  Superheroes (Cliche characters): 30:26 Improv Game - Pardon: 39:28 Improv Game - Question Switch: 50:25 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:01:04 End of show, into announcements: 1:16:13 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/

In a World…where good cops may find themselves on their own…Lance Hurricane is a good cop, a good husband, and a good man. When he finds himself in the middle of a giant plot to corrupt the nation's politicians, he must use his mastery of the martial art, "Octopus Fu," to stop the plot, even if it drives him…Near to Exhaustion!   This episode features the improv comedy games Prologue in a Minute, Two-Word Typewriter, Ding, Gibberish Switch, and Cutting Room.  In this episode, we pay homage to a genre that we love, but that doesn't really qualify as "good cinema." But darn it, they are fun movies! And the genre is of course, classic Steven Seagal movies, specifically from his early days. His first four movies, where his movie titles all had three words. So much fun, so much fighting, so many bad one-liners, and so much terrible acting! Hopefully we did the genre justice, or else Seagal may come find us… Links Steven Seagal on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Seagal Hard to Kill on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Kill Out for Justice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_for_Justice   Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 05:56 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 16:25 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 20:15 Start of show: 24:08 Improv Game - Prologue in a Minute: 26:10 Improv Game - Two-Word Typewriter: 28:30 Improv Game - Ding: 37:17 Improv Game - Gibberish Switch: 46:40 Improv Game - Cutting Room:  55:58 End of show, into announcements: 1:08:36 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/   Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Alright, we are now going to spend a few minutes talking about the genre our experience with this kind of genre and i'm. Avish Parashar: Also, getting into some of the clubs and commonalities and boy, there are some cliches in this sort of thing, yes, I thought I set a timer here it's gonna quack like a duck when it's done so Mike let's talk Steven seagal you and I kind of. Avish Parashar: enjoyed and bonded over the years and our younger days were creating the martial arts regularly and watching this kind of nonsense. Michael Worth: Oh yeah believing it actually was like functional martial arts and actually worked right. Michael Worth: Alright, so how specific are we getting are we getting Steven seagal specific or just the general 80s like. Avish Parashar: Probably the more Steven seagal specific at least right now I mean we don't have to jump into discussing the tropes but just kind of. Avish Parashar: You know. Avish Parashar: Like your thoughts on the Steven seagal genre in July. Michael Worth: 1 of all first of all there's something gloriously nostalgic about this, because this this film, you know you gotta think when it came out in the 80s, it was done for the low budget like let's just get butts in the seats, and so the. Michael Worth: The focus is on basically badass fight scenes and, most notably segall just like being completely invincible and he's never in any trouble like he just he goes he waits through the plebes he went to the lieutenant's any ways to the chief bad guy. Avish Parashar: yeah it's ridiculous is that even when he fights the big bad guy he. Avish Parashar: Barely gets touched. Michael Worth: yeah I think the worst seattle's yet he got stabbed once by Tommy Lee Jones in under siege during the call a knife fight. Avish Parashar: yeah. Avish Parashar: And even though he looked so yeah this era where they it was an era before again, you know we recently recorded are taken episode, where it was like Liam neeson. Avish Parashar: And we talked on that one about somewhere along the way they realize you get a good actor interaction movie it kind of elevates it. Avish Parashar: This is from that era were all they were looking for someone who had action skill so yeah van damme will have like some martial arts training was like a dancer could you great body busy. Avish Parashar: You have speak they go yeah Jeff speakman. Avish Parashar: You got um, then you got say girl who was like a legitimate like whatever seventh degree a keto yeah no. Avish Parashar: No real acting talent. Avish Parashar: So i'm sure he would digress. Avish Parashar: He definitely disagree. Michael Worth: Oh yes, let's take all could do no wrong and to god's world seagal is the most cigar you can never say go. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah and even read stories like he's like one of the most. Avish Parashar: hated guests outside of that live like when you talk about the cat stories like they talk like their worst guests he's like because he's like an attitude was like almost violent and just like arrogant. Michael Worth: He also, I believe, had a big REP in Hollywood for like injuring a stuntman all the time because because you know he basically like. Michael Worth: Like did the stunts like he was actually trying to do it, you know and like you do, like some of the dogs in the webinar because it's almost like most things. Michael Worth: I don't think they're very practical, but if you're letting the dude get to your neck with that, like forearm strike and then he frickin does it. Avish Parashar: like this yeah they're not I mean you know they're not like street fighting practical they'll work if you can lot you know it's not a matter of. Avish Parashar: Like they're legitimate techniques that are very difficult to land in combat but the techniques themselves are like legitimate and that they'll work like to bend someone's risk that way they're going to flip over in a circle yeah. Michael Worth: funny enough i'm going to go a little diatribe here a red because i've been training Brazilian Jiu jitsu and what all the upper belts are starting to train now. Michael Worth: Our wrist locks but they're coming out of grappling so you're already kind of tangled up in the clothes, but these guys have been landing. Michael Worth: Whatever the kota guys share they've been landing enough people but it's in a grappling contest and they all say the same thing, but the only reason I can get away with this is that you and I already touching each other and there's no punching. Avish Parashar: bag yeah yeah it's not yeah exactly it's not like grabbing some of this out of the air. Avish Parashar: But you know we also you know we watch movies about killer robots and space aliens and giant lizard so like I. Avish Parashar: I love a like this, I love to see what I got fight scenes because they're so cool looking in there, so fluid and. Michael Worth: Well, that that's the thing about. Michael Worth: describing these fight scenes and Erica of the game we're going to do, because the the the cigar stuff since this new striking it's not like the bourne identity was like jerky camera back it's like this really cool stuff we're. Michael Worth: Throwing a baseball BAT and to go like step to the side and throw the guy through a plate glass window, so the fight scenes of segall are super exciting and dramatic and everyone's getting thrown into objects and thrown into like you know storeroom, as you know, items in the store way. Avish Parashar: That is also why they're so short, though, because, like. Avish Parashar: there's no punching and kicking right so like in a normal a fight scene, you know Bruce Lee van damme Jackie Chan. Avish Parashar: they're punching each other and they get hit like Oh, they come back and they fight they hit the other guy that Oh, they come back and they get hurt a little like, if you want really watch the same movie, especially with the henchmen it's like one move for enjoyment. Avish Parashar: enjoyment attacks him. Avish Parashar: He does the you know i'm gonna knock the elbow down and do the rich hand strike across your throat. Avish Parashar: yeah that guy's done next I punches of all i'm going to sidestep grab your risk autograph reverse it up you're done. Michael Worth: yeah. Avish Parashar: It just one hit it's like that's me he just like. Michael Worth: Yes, what i'm gonna do a sacrifice, if not he, like hip. Michael Worth: throw like boom he's done right so so it's fun it's beautiful to watch but it's a really fast, which also brings up the whole like seagal just can kind of wade through people. Michael Worth: um The second thing that I love about the signal is he's unabashedly like wants to be like the every man every in every movie he's like a family man he's an Italian he's like Roman Catholic like he's just like he's got his niche he's just. Avish Parashar: Basically, got to be himself, because he can't act so. Michael Worth: Basically he's himself he's he's his own perfect version of himself right like you know. Michael Worth: yeah good father, a good husband like, although the cost of the force love him, it is like yeah that's that's art not imitating life. Avish Parashar: yeah he stands up to power, he does what's right like regardless yeah. Michael Worth: Speaking of power it's it's so the plots of these are also so gloriously paper thin that's so much fun to check out because that's part of the charm of this stuff it's like you just want a bunch of bad guys and you want a lone wolf to just take them down so they're just like. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah I mean we're talking about like the cliche is and stuff you know you've got. Avish Parashar: yeah he's almost always rogue in some way you know. Avish Parashar: People in charge are corrupt or they're not corrupt, but whatever he's been told to like lay off. Michael Worth: Your time because the bad guys have too much political power. Avish Parashar: yeah kind o

In a World…where there are good men and evil men, and some seek to help while others seek to destroy…one of the evilest groups in history seek an object of such immense power it could completely change the course of World War II. The US government will call upon the intrepid accountant adventurer, Phineas Jones, to beat the Nazis in their race to acquire the mythical and magical Stubble of Apollo!   This episode features the improv games prologue in a minute, emotional lists, best of times worst of times, ding, and cutting room.   This episode also features our friend and movie podcaster extraordinaire, Craig Price! Mike and  Avish had the pleasure to be a guest on Craig's Matinee Heroes Podcast, as well has his super fun recasting game show, Cast-Off! Craig is a huge fan of Indiana Jones movies, so we use his expertise in our planning section. In this episode, we pay homage to one of our absolute favorite heroes and movies: Indiana Jones! This episode specifically parodies Raiders of the Lost Ark (but we hope that we will do our first sequel with this one!). We hit most of the tropes of a good Indiana Jones movie and boy, did we have fun doing it!    Check out Craig's Stuff! Avish and Mike on Matinee Heroes talking about The Omen Avish and Mike on Cast-Off! Recasting Interview with a Vampire Avish and Mike on Cast-Off! Recasting Dick Tracy (COMING TODAY!) Matinee Heroes Home Page (Cast-Off episodes are here too) Links   Indiana Jones on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones   Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes with Guest Craig Price: 06:37 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 23:08 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 30:45 Start of show: 35:35 Improv Game - Prologue in a Minute: 38:08 Improv Game - Emotional Lists: 40:18 Improv Game -  Best of Times, Worst of Times:  50:48 Improv Game - Ding: 1:00:00 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 1:08:51 End of show, into announcements: 1:26:00 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/   Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up)   so mikey why don't you begin by letting everyone know what today's genre or starting movie is. Michael Worth: This is such my pleasure i'm so excited to do this we're going to do a fantastic archaeology exploration type movie in the style of indiana Jones or King solomon's minds. Avish Parashar: let's just say indiana Jones. Avish Parashar: knock off, which is interesting because the book King solomon's mines came out. Avish Parashar: The whole quarter main thing came out long before raiders of the lost Ark raiders lost Ark was almost it almost to that. Michael Worth: It was it was an homage to the 30s pulp exploration, you know, doctors, the savage jungle and that kind of stuff. Michael Worth: yeah but. Avish Parashar: Once but once raiders lost Ark came out like cool let's get on this gravy train and they made an hour to Ellen quarter made movies, which were bad. Avish Parashar: weather was bad I didn't even bother watching the second one, because. Avish Parashar: The first of all, so bad. Michael Worth: No it's so bad, it was so, but the best part about it was the fact that Jerry goes with it, the music and the end the score is like legit so uh yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah Mike and I did a movie like podcast slash Facebook live for a while we review an 80s movie each week and we did this one, and it was terrible. Avish Parashar: But we found is almost every week, we talked about how bad the movie was when are we talking about a bad movie the score was always amazing it's like they get better so that's three or like. Michael Worth: This Jesus man well because they knew that we'll get to that a bit, but they knew that the movie was terrible and the only way they could possibly sell which it was to make at least make it sound epic right, so all right, so this. Avish Parashar: We love we both love indiana Jones all genre but this episode is double specials got two additional reasons why it's extra special number one, we have to prep for this episode we interviewed our buddy Craig price. Avish Parashar: was a great movie guy he hosts a podcast called matinee heroes. Avish Parashar: which you can find a matinee heroes COM, or just look up matt night heroes on whatever he also hosts a a a kind of a game show called cast off that Mike and I have appeared on before and we're going to appear on again coming up soon depending when this comes out. Avish Parashar: Where you compete against one recasting famous movie so Mike and I competed recasting interview with a vampire and now we're gonna get crazy. Avish Parashar: So it's a lot of fun craig's a big movie guy he loves indiana Jones so we go in depth into the tropes. Avish Parashar: So we're gonna do that for a trope discussion, the other reason that i'm excited about this genre. Avish Parashar: Is that way back at this point about a year ago, when we first had the idea for this podcast we didn't know if this show format would work, so of course we just jumped in like good improvise it let's try it. Avish Parashar: yeah very first one we ever tried was a indiana Jones movie now that was so new we were just testing stuff out we didn't even bother to record it, which is a shame, because it went really well. Michael Worth: Did I did I was a good show you first really production entertainment, which is record everything record everything right. Avish Parashar: yeah we. Avish Parashar: should have recorded it we didn't. Avish Parashar: But does the first time, returning to this so i've been almost a year since we've done in indiana Jones so we're gonna do today. Avish Parashar: That one was called phineas Jones and the cult of Marmara um we're not going to do the call tomorrow, but we are going to stay with phineas Jones as our main character. Avish Parashar: Yes, you'll see that further adventures of phineas Jones in the in the. Michael Worth: unreleased or the release sequel to the unreleased original which has been lost in the midst of time. Avish Parashar: Exactly it's like when there's a pilot that that's not aired but they still turn into a show that's. Avish Parashar: that's what this is going to be like. Michael Worth: it's gonna be. Avish Parashar: So real quick before we get into all this craziness if you liked this show, if you like, what you hear. Avish Parashar: Please give us a rating and review head over to wherever you listen to your podcasts ideally apple podcast give us a five star rating. Avish Parashar: And if you feel so inclined, just a short review a couple sentences about what you like about the show, and why other should listen and help us out a lot it'll help others find the show and help us grow this podcast. Avish Parashar: Alright, so we are going to start and again, our first segment, which is discussing the tropes we're going to drop in our conversation with Craig price. Transcription of the "Creating the Outline" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: segment two, we are now going to create an outline Based on this information that we talked about with Craig and Mike and I know. Avish Parashar: we're going to create a high level outline we're going to use a four act structure and again, this is a rough guide because of improv comedy we may not follow this outline exactly but there's going to be our rough guide of what happens in each segment of the story yep so like a. Michael Worth: Oh man i'm already all this, you know mean indiana Jones but I love this stuff I think it's one of my favorite films Harrison ford's been in a first of all. Avish Parashar: i'm making a call right so that's going on and i'll real far limb there. yeah. Avish Parashar: So contrary in that I like raiders of the lost Ark I know exactly. Michael Worth: Being like I like to be in the conversation now that's different. Michael Worth: That will be a bold statement yeah or or or the mosquito coast whoo that's it that's it that's it. Michael Worth: So, first of all going to be the call right now, because I know this this this flow we're doing a prologue not a trailer because they always do a prologue that's a fun little cold open unrelated to the main quest. Avish Parashar: yeah and. Avish Parashar: For this prologue you will be the one singing anything goes in China. Michael Worth: Yes, in China. Michael Worth: Steven spielberg's wife right and play police gotten that right. Avish Parashar: yeah at least wife at the time, I know they're still married or not. Michael Worth: yeah who knows man and Hollywood whatever so uh it's pretty easy act act one is establishing of our character in his everyday life, because you know this guy is is not a. Michael Worth: Just like in the library and indiana Jones he has a normal life and it gets sent out on missions uh and then the establishment of. Michael Worth: Information that some artifact exists, whether it's oh we've got news clippings of somebody excavating this pyramid or whatever, and that is the gestation to send them out on a quest we don't see. Avish Parashar: It so there's the prologue that act one is like. Avish Parashar: You have the like the exposition yeah. Michael Worth: The inciting the inciting information is really what it is. Avish Parashar: yeah and then you either it's a conversation with the professor, you know the government comes in, or you know the villagers came to him in yeah yeah. Michael Worth: orange or a private investor in who. Michael Worth: You know, has an affair, the private investor in the last crusade. Avish Parashar: Yes, yes, his. Avis

In a world…where some people will go to any lengths to get prized magnolia wood, one man will be forced to return to a life of violence to rescue the only thing he has left in the world that he cares about.   This episode features the improv games Trailer: Trailer in a minute, Last Letter First Letter, Pardon, Best of Times Worst of Times, and Cutting Room. About This Episode   In this episode, we pay homage to Liam Neeson, who has become a genre unto himself. It all started with Taken, so that is the one that this mostly homages, but there are many Liam Neeson action movies out these days. There are also strong John Wick elements in this episode…   More: Links   Taken on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken_(film) Liam Neeson Action Movies on EW.com: https://ew.com/movies/liam-neeson-action-movies-ranked/ Seth MacFarlane as Kermit the Frog doing the Taken monolog (at the 5:40 or so mark): https://youtu.be/AP_aom1IgqI Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 07:15 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 15:09 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 19:03 Start of show: 23:08 Improv Game - Trailer in a minute: 25:08 Improv Game - Last Letter First Letter: 27:42 Improv Game - Pardon: 33:35 Improv Game - Best of Times Worst of Times: 42:18 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 49:14 End of show, into announcements: 1:04:43 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/

In a World…where there are more things in nature that we don't know than that we know…one noble expedition will awaken something more terrifying than they could imagine…   This episode features the improv comedy games Movie Trailer in a Minute, Last Letter, First Letter, Emotional List, and Cutting Room. Oh, and a giant Kangaroo… This episode is an homage to giant creature movies like Godzilla and King Kong. And while in both of those franchises the monster eventually becomes a hero and ally of humanity, in this one we take the approach of the original movies, where the creature, while innocent, is a hude danger and must be stopped. Links   Godzilla on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla King Kong on Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong   Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 06:00 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 16:37 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 22:22 Start of show: 26:42 Improv Game - Movie Trailer in a Minute: 28:17 Improv Game - Last Letter, First Letter: 30:41 Improv Game -  Emotional List: 47:00 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 56:28 End of show, into announcements: 1:13:46 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/  

In a World…where people feel safe and assume monsters aren't real…there exists a second world of evil and vampires. However, there is one man who walks in both worlds, and he may be the only thing between evil and light. He is…SLICE.   This episode features the improv comedy games Movie Trailer in a Minute, Best of Times / Worst of Times, Last Letter / First Letter, Blind Line, and Cutting Room. About This Episode   In this episode, we pay homage to vampire hero movies - those awesome action movies where the vampire (at least one of them) is the hero. We recorded this to prep for Morbius, but since we hadn't seen it yet this episode is much more of an homage to Blade.   It is also the first episode we recorded in 2022, and we tweak our format a bit. We hope you like it!   Links Blade on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_(film) Underworld on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_(2003_film) Morbius on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbius_(film)   Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: Start of show: Improv Game - Movie Trailer in a Minute Improv Game - Best of Times / Worst of Times Improv Game - Last Letter / First Letter Improv Game - Blind Line Improv Game - Cutting Room:  End of show, into announcements: More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/   Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Alright, so if you've been listening for a while, you know, this is our five minutes segment where we discussed the tropes and cliches our second change we're doing to our format trying this out for 2022 is. Avish Parashar: Mike and I bring a lot of history to a lot of these movies and genres so which may be comes out in the show, but maybe the audience is aware of that so we're going to expand this segment to closer to 10 minutes. Avish Parashar: But so we're going to start first by talking a little bit about the movie and our experience with the genre and Mike this is. Avish Parashar: probably true for many movies matrix certainly um, but this is one we actually saw together. Avish Parashar: We played. Avish Parashar: together in the theater way back when so take us back, would you remember, like what What did you think when you saw blade for the first time. Michael Worth: Oh man I forgot that we start the theater together to you know the um what did I think my first take was um i'm damn this is stylish like this was like because. Michael Worth: Up until now, what other superhero movies were there, there was Batman Batman was cool but I had a bit of the Gothic this at the other end seen Superman so this comes in and the. Avish Parashar: Opening when it goes this. Avish Parashar: Before was this before after spider man, this is right around spider man. Michael Worth: This was before Spiderman, but it was a because spider man is as a mom as an MC you so yeah it was before Spiderman um and it was after Batman cuz Let me take a look here. Michael Worth: bleed film um but I remember walking in and you're watching them go to that rave club and it's all like full that great 90s like. Avish Parashar: It does oh yeah. Michael Worth: And it's all you know slickly shot and then, when the blood comes down. Michael Worth: And the guys you see the reversal you guys the guy that's gonna get eaten and then blade shows up and they're all stuck around have covered and read being fair like hot shit this movie it's doubling down on visual imagery like. Avish Parashar: It was yeah. Michael Worth: So stylish. Avish Parashar: Was it was so cool and Wesley snipes was just cool as blade. Michael Worth: Yes, absolutely. Avish Parashar: excited because I think they do a remake with a mashallah alli and I think you'd be great as a blade yeah but Wesley snipes was just so and he delivered the most ridiculous one liners so well. Michael Worth: Oh, the credibility people forget about Wesley snipes like about a he's a legit martial artists like he trains hard and he's kind of Michael J white when he's got like legit chops to he can make shuts down so smugly like self pompous some of the Fuck is always trying to escape. Avish Parashar: The line I love that. Michael Worth: so good, and he just delivers it with such like, just like I do this lads fucking stupid, but i'm gonna make it awesome right um. Avish Parashar: it's funny because when blade came out I feel like I read a lot of comic was growing up and I read a bunch of spider man, but I think when it came out I didn't even realize that bleed was a marvel comics character, I just thought it was I got cool vampire movie. yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: And it was so it doesn't feel like a comic movie it feels like a vampire movie. Avish Parashar: Great. Michael Worth: A good darkness to where the vampire is the hero is a vampire hunter first in the style of van helsing it's not like he's like a superhero right. Avish Parashar: yeah it's like a vampire vampire hunter which is awesome. Michael Worth: yeah exactly and and the plot is legit I didn't like, and this is this is always going to be a problem, going to see if more be as well. Michael Worth: As this the vampire villains are hard, it is hard to set up a vampire film to be blades match because blade is pretty clever and the amazing physical specimen so you got to play the vampire mastermind against him because blade can wade through. Avish Parashar: yeah he just like phase waves of bad guys would like a mastermind meeting them all. Michael Worth: Right, and so the mastermind of the first one was deacon frost and his big thing was he's trying to resurrect the blood God um it was a decent enough. Michael Worth: hook, for it but, and it was you know, certainly a very solid hook, in terms of yeah again okay vampire trying to resurrect an all powerful for us trying to like you know become immortal or you know super powered. Michael Worth: But it just I think like anything else the protagonist is defined by how good the antagonist is and I thought that decompress was great in this as a character. Michael Worth: yeah whiny email 90s post-punk you know. Avish Parashar: And if I recall correctly blade tues better in that context, like blade to actually look like was good from blade and had like a better villain and had almost like an alien sort of subplot like. Avish Parashar: Yes, like a aliens feel to it. Michael Worth: It did because that was one where they their experiments kind of vampire and made vampire vampires like a metal vampire and he could convert vampires into reapers and it did have an alien's five to it. Avish Parashar: yeah and. Michael Worth: They brought out the one thing that blade didn't do as well, they brought it and blade to was they brought out some of like the light hearted like badass humor of Wesley snipes his character blade like he was very grim in the first one. Michael Worth: And the second we did a lot more funny lines a lot like that scene, where he you know i'm steers up decks who's buying the blows a kiss at his bike before it goes off. Michael Worth: And fun kills the vampires like it was yeah. Avish Parashar: It was really good. Michael Worth: So I would I would actually live out of state as we're starting to move into blade blade you know doing this oh my gosh we incorporate elements of blade too, because that was. Avish Parashar: Another I think. Avish Parashar: Any kind of jack and it's funny like we call this blade it's gonna be more of an homage to blade but you know, this also kind of kicked off the like the whole underworld series is kind of like this. Avish Parashar: Right yeah yeah so the vampire and what's his name is a werewolf and like yeah so yep it's. Michael Worth: I have to also say that one of the things for you as we start to build the actors and it's always fun for us to try and do this in another podcast but. Michael Worth: The action scenes are beautifully choreographed like Wesley snipes knows karate or Kung fu fill it up Filipino cali and Judo so his shit is tight like he's doing all the trapping and all the wing chun. Avish Parashar: He knows yeah but. Avish Parashar: It was like a combination like superhero vampire and martial arts movie which was it at the time wow. Avish Parashar: Very you know with brain we're that was we were both. Avish Parashar: very regularly training together martial arts, I was like we just saw this cool, so I think we like incorporate that. Michael Worth: into our training yeah yeah, we were told we weren't you and I are both. Michael Worth: Training G condo in cali and then we had come off of rookie tempo and small circle Jiu jitsu so we had the lots of stuff that we see this guy with all the outside. Avish Parashar: yeah alright so let's kind of transition point, then, so this kind of our history with it we love so much of it, so what are then. Avish Parashar: blade specifically but really any of these kind of you know sort of vampires among us, but the vampires the hero type movie what are some of you said you know, like, and this will be hard for the podcast but choreographed fight beautifully choreographed fight scenes. Michael Worth: yeah totally full full of slick martial arts, I mean it's definitely is a high martial arts quota. Michael Worth: and Avish Parashar: You know just just general like action and, like popcorn action yeah. Michael Worth: yeah yeah slickly shot, you know slickly told in our in our in our point um it's the underworld is a great idea there's a shadow world full of the Raven loft Go

In a World…where some appreciate art, there are others who appreciate it just a little too much. This is the story of Raymond, a poet, who has the unfortunate experience of meeting his number one fan… This episode features the improv games Movie Trailer in a Minute, Ding, He Said She Said, Emotional Lists, Cutting Room, Show Notes:   About This Episode   In this episode, we pay homage to "bed-ridden horror movies, most specifically Stephen King's Misery. In fact, this episode is basically a straight-up parody of that movie/book. If you are a fan of Stephen King, Annie Wilkes, and Paul Sheldon, this is the episode for you!   Links Misery on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_(film)   Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 03:56 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 10:17 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 17:35 Start of show: 24:05 Improv Game - Movie Trailer in a Minute: 25:55 Improv Game - Ding: 27:39 Improv Game - He Said She Said: 34:16 Improv Game - Emotional Lists: 42:00 Improv Game - Cutting Room:  50:18 End of show, into announcements: 1:01:53 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/   Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: segment one discussing the tropes so now we're going to spend five minutes discussing the tropes of this type of movie so i'm gonna set my timer for five minutes. Avish Parashar: And Mike why don't you start off since you're the one who initially mentioned the genre when you think of misery rear window carol's game. Mike Worth: Joking yeah yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: That one at the rear window knock off with Charlotte both like whatever. Mike Worth: yeah or the phone booth one, whatever that one is. Avish Parashar: yeah phone booth you mean phone booth. Mike Worth: what's that when we live photo booth and that's called Feral. Mike Worth: Apparently, I had a lot of wine last night um so you know here's the overarching thing that I think is actually big for all of Stephen king's things, but I think really applies to this, which is Stephen King loves to show true evil. Mike Worth: When a small person in a small slice of America gain some element of power he's not about having a huge distractible. Mike Worth: You know, like overlord who's like built an army of robots he's about the small town sheriff who could just let his bigotry run rampant and that turns into something horrible. Mike Worth: And so that's very much what happens in misery you've got this small town small obsessive person she's I mean she's a nurse, you know, so what I mean is. Mike Worth: A central tenet should be this person should feel completely normal as a person, and then, when this obsessive psychosis manifests it makes it that much more terrifying and money. Avish Parashar: yeah yes terrible. Avish Parashar: yeah and and along the lines you basically you got two main characters your protagonist and antagonist. Avish Parashar: And then maybe a couple of small you know, like the COP who ends up dying, or like the the assistant or girlfriend who kind of helps because the person depending on exactly the setup so, but it really is like it's really like a two person story yeah. Mike Worth: yeah totally and and not only that it's a 2% story the protagonist. Mike Worth: has something the antagonist wants and the whole point of the story is that it's a giant kind of like psychological torture porn where. Mike Worth: The antagonist is trying to get the protagonist to exceed to his or her wishes in the case of misery it's you know finishing the book but, but this is not. Mike Worth: she's not just being he or whatever is not being cruel, for the sake of being cruel in his own twisted world the antagonist wants to help the protagonist by exceeding. Avish Parashar: yeah I mean, especially if you're going down the misery route yeah It is like. Avish Parashar: The villain is. Avish Parashar: You know it's not like saw or hostile where the villain just wants to kill and torture and name there's like they have some code or some justification in their in their mind they're not the villain right they I think they're yeah yeah they're like they almost think that being helpful. Mike Worth: Exactly exactly that's that's part of what makes it so horrific like you know in misery, where she smashed his legs and stuff I gotta be really careful I don't want to like beat for beat turns into misery, because because there's other things we can do, but there's that's that now. Avish Parashar: But that doesn't always make for a fun day when we've done that, so when we just had to do like a parody that ends up being pretty fun. Mike Worth: let's do we when we've done quite well so okay that's good now the other, the other trips or this it's almost always in a. Mike Worth: Small kind of picture picture is kind of Well he can be. Mike Worth: I was gonna say misery takes place kind of like a little Colorado. Mike Worth: lodge and Stephen King likes that whole New England thing so that's part of the trope um the protagonist is almost always ill equipped for this he's not like an army ranger who's been like crippled it's like an author or a painter or you know just maybe just. Avish Parashar: yeah he's not like a combat veteran. Mike Worth: Know uh he has to it is heavy on the psychological at winning and and there is an the. Mike Worth: protagonist defeats the antagonist by using. Mike Worth: her own goals or his own goals against him it's not like the antagonist suddenly regains the ability to escape and just fleas he finds a way to like turn the tables. Avish Parashar: yeah he actually defeats the except in phone booth but that's all of the thing but yeah he finds a way to defeat the the antagonist and along the way, though there's usually at least one if not two like tense sequences of like them, trying to escape. Avish Parashar: You know, maybe they're healthier the other person knows. Avish Parashar: or they break in where they're not supposed to and but the other person is coming back and so there's not like that that kind of tense the future tense sequence or some nature. Mike Worth: yeah there's always going to be, it is Stephen king, so it could be a couple of deaths and the deaths are going to be, I mean I hate to say it, but usually the set one of the second tier character bites it, you know. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah. Mike Worth: And not only that it it the deaths are not gruesome and they're not graphic, but they are terrifying because it's kind of like the the idea. Mike Worth: Of this. Is the person is showing. Avish Parashar: terrifying in the movie in the movie and misery, she shoots the Sheriff in the. Avish Parashar: Books funds over him with a lawn mower I think. Mike Worth: Oh, you serious oh. Mike Worth: yeah about that never got the books, the Stephen King books is good. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah and in the movie she hobbled them with a hammer, in the book she cuts off megaman X yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah. Mike Worth: So that's pretty much it, I mean, is it are the tropes that simple well you know what look a Stephen King look at the book cujo what does cujo about a Feral dog they're trapped in a car and a House like his stuff can be really. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah he really digs into like I mean that's The other thing I didn't mean to say as much the the protagonist usually has some kind of. Avish Parashar: flaw or issue that kind of gets explored through the through the trauma. Mike Worth: Right like an issue would be like what like his inability to like commit to his family or or the fact that he's. Avish Parashar: yeah he's never lost his misery, but I think in misery like he kind of you know his like creative burnout and like he was not gonna do any more misery stories right, you know he's like creatively burnt out from it, I think he has an alcohol issues and his past and i'm. Avish Parashar: Good man yeah that Stephen King oh yeah. Avish Parashar: You know yeah. Avish Parashar: Gerald game, which is another one or something, but that one like the woman had her whole life, she was abused as a kid and repressed it never dealt with in you know, the fact that it's such a small story lends itself more to like internal. Transcription of the "Creating the Outline" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: kind of reflection yeah right so that are as a bunch of controls, so now we get to. Avish Parashar: Creating the outline so now we're gonna spend about five minutes just generating a high level outline for this movie we will. Avish Parashar: We use a four X structure. Avish Parashar: And then each one will have an improv game we'll get to that later and then this is a starting point, because it's in probably May. Avish Parashar: stick to this, we may veer off of it a little bit or we may completely abandoned it halfway through, but this gives us a sort of starting point. Avish Parashar: Through outline. Avish Parashar: We always start with either a prologue or a trailer yeah. Mike Worth: This is gonna be probably a. Mike Worth: trailer but now i'm not sure. Avish Parashar: All right, well let's let's see what i'm doing that in our and I was. Mike Worth: Like reading a piece of music, you always leave the intro till the end because because that you know. yeah. Mike Worth: X one X one. Avish Parashar: X two X over X one um I mean that you gotta these stories get started pretty quickly, so we need to establish the hero, and the villain and whatever situation, whatever reason he gets trapped needs

In a world…where some people are meant for greatness while others just want a shot…one team of misfit lacrosse players will have to bond and learn to work together to win the game, go the championship, and save their coach and team.   This episode features the improv games 90 Second A to Z, Old Job New Job, World's Worst, He Said She Said, and Cutting Room. About This Episode In this episode, we pay homage to those very entertaining misfit sports movies, like The Replacements, Necessary Roughness, and many, many more. Mike and Avish are actually big fans of Necessary Roughness and have quoted that movie many times over the years, so this episode features a lot of that Scott Bakula classic in it. You can also learn just how little about lacrosse Avish knows… Links   Necessary Roughness on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessary_Roughness_(film) The Replacements on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Replacements_(film)   Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 05:56 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 17:41 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 22:41 Start of show: 29:42 Improv Game - 90 Second A to Z: 33:56 Improv Game - Old Job, New Job: 37:27 Improv Game - World's Worst: 48:54 Improv Game - He Said She Said: 59:14 Improv Game - Cutting Room:  1:08:05 End of show, into announcements: 1:22:19 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/   Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: All right now we're going to spend about 10 minutes talking about the genre well they're talking about the tropes but also can talk about our experience and kind of what we think about these genres. Avish Parashar: And kind of pull out the tropes that we will use in the discussion so I don't have my duck time I have a different time are here today Oh, but I will set it so 10 minute timer starts now. Michael Worth: or five minute timer or 10 minutes 10 minutes. Avish Parashar: Well, we now we've switched it like a little longer time or because. Oh. Michael Worth: yeah. Avish Parashar: Just like rifling through the toilet so when you when you think about this movie like what's your. Avish Parashar: kind of well, I know what my memory is, but what are, like some of the movies, or what are your memories of experiencing this genre. Michael Worth: Well it's funny because, although we are doing football, the first one that comes to mind is major league because that one kind of was the the rebooting of all those other movies came out afterwards, if necessary, roughness and and. Avish Parashar: on any given Sunday, I think this is a ravenous might have been before but around similar maybe that's the reference later, you might be right yeah. Michael Worth: First of all, what you love, is what I love about it is this. Michael Worth: The coach is always really likable like like he's you know he's not like a tough coach that has to like learn to grow as a person he's already a good guy and so he's trying to just kind of work among this whole real unfair thing you know, like. Michael Worth: Is it could it's cushioning Janeiro and major. Avish Parashar: In necessary roughness and so Robin is. yeah. Michael Worth: There is, I don't want to put any pressure idea but coach scenarios last words were when our i'll die. Michael Worth: Robert lotion event so good, so the coach is always like a good guy like he may have butt heads with with this with this, you know. Avish Parashar: he's like a mentor he's not the coaches like he's like a main character, but he's he rarely goes through, like a character transformation right. Michael Worth: he's the mentor Arc type he's the obi wan. Michael Worth: yeah and so, and you know. Avish Parashar: Gene hackman is like the. Michael Worth: replacements you've got the guy was like I don't know I gotta set a white walls, on the other. Michael Worth: Guy was from major league. Michael Worth: And then of course you've got whoever plays coach Janeiro is really plays pretty well he plays the. Michael Worth: drums on oh yeah yeah um so it's pretty easy one of the great things is part of the fun of this these kind of shows is there's a significant chunk of time of them ferreting out these players to stock their team. Michael Worth: leading them to the most bonkers situations, you know, like Kathy Ireland is like a girls soccer team they're like okay we're gonna you know get that or I think they have. Michael Worth: The Welsh smoker and he's like a soccer player. Avish Parashar: ifans yeah. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah. Avish Parashar: that's it's all misfits because you know these movies. Avish Parashar: And I think that's the when I when I publish this episode and i'm going to describe it as like a sports mitts misfits movie. Avish Parashar: Because that's really what these are and yeah you, because obviously the premise is that, like we don't have a budget or reputation to get real players, so we got to like just pull these like castoffs and other sports yeah the female kicker the the the Irish like smoker kicker. Michael Worth: yeah we usually get like you said linebackers are like ex cons right there like coming out of prison for all like. Avish Parashar: Just oh yeah yeah yeah the COP and the con. Michael Worth: As like yeah was it a. Michael Worth: Who was the COP. Avish Parashar: It was somebody who back row row. Michael Worth: yeah and he was fantastic have that luxury basically this jacked up like FBI guy right are you. Avish Parashar: crazy yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: cuz it's like. Avish Parashar: These movies, are all like On one level they're all terrible um but like are terrible it's such a good way, I mean like major leagues, probably the one that flirted the most of being like a legitimately good movie. yeah. Avish Parashar: Just terrible. Avish Parashar: Terrible but in such a good way. Michael Worth: To get you the ball I catch the ball. Michael Worth: yeah and you know what in the other thing is is there's two ways to go with this and i'm tired tropes little bit um. Michael Worth: The the players all start off immediately feuding and fashioning right like like there's already like they have to learn to grow together as a team that's part of the fun of it so like in the beginning. Michael Worth: What I love about movies, like this is no holds barred and how bad they are in the first couple of games. Avish Parashar: are truly terrible yeah. Michael Worth: Like things that would never happen in a sport habit, because these people are so incompetent like you know, like like one of them gives another player a concussion because they want to, they want to be the one to like. Avish Parashar: Get the back, because they're. Avish Parashar: People in with non sports or non football background so yeah it's like all the martial artist does a tackle by doing a spinning tornado kick like oh. Michael Worth: yeah he looks like like kicks out the dude muy Thai style to. Michael Worth: Exactly yeah I actually think i've already got an idea for that we're going to get one of those guys as a Judo QA and like I said. Avish Parashar: You get the terrible list of them and the thing that's like there's always not always but, at least in more than one there's the. Avish Parashar: The brawl with the opposing team, followed by the bond like that's kind of how they bought it I haven't necessary roughness that happens in the replacement sale I get a brawl yep. Avish Parashar: And for that that's like the MID points, because then, after that, like they're all buddies they're like a gel together and then now they're like all right now let's eat again. Michael Worth: Now what the replacements did, which was Okay, but I don't really feel like we need to do, that the bad guys in their placement, where this the the the initial players are on strike because remember how like they. Michael Worth: kind of coming in in in things like major League and necessary roughness I think it was just. Michael Worth: They were trying to have a winning record they're trying to make it to the playoffs and so there's there might have been some team in the back and they're like you know you some point you're gonna have to play the lions. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah necessary roughness it was the opposing team that was like the big university might necessary roughness that school is like a small like state school. Avish Parashar: scrappy team yeah Texas university and that's what they fought within the brawl replace it with the scabs yeah the. Michael Worth: enemy team that's. Avish Parashar: that's a lot of fun yeah I mean major league didn't have as much, but I think they did have like the Yankees or something like a bad guy was like the actual owner of the. Avish Parashar: team. Michael Worth: Oh, the woman who was the actress yeah yeah so bad and yeah and and they also immediately also played up with some. Michael Worth: They put a little more of the romance angle that corbin bernstein got cheated on by while thing which was a funny art but that's a lot for us to do you know I don't know if you want to. Avish Parashar: Know yeah we're pretty pretty key to the sports we, I think, having an opposing team team is good, and you know obvious things it's almost like the story designed around like moments, you know, like oh what what happened for karate guy had to play football, you know. or. Avish Parashar: The randomness of like you know, in the replacements is like. Avish Parashar: You got the two like bodyguards who are like the alignment it's like how there was a gun and shoot the ca

In a World…where criminals lurk and some treasure lays hidden…a group of misfits embark on a quest to save their town, save their families, and save the day!   If you like the Goonies (and Improv Comedy) then you will love the adventures of Giggles, Toothpick Girl, Digital Nerd, and Muscles McGee!   This episode features the improv games Countdown,, Superheroes, Blind Line, Ding, Cutting Room   About This Episode   In this episode, we pay homage to those crazy kids adventure movies where the children get into some seriously dangerous situations but manage to make it fun and to come out winning. We both love the Goonies and this episode is a loving tribute (we think…) to that movie.   Links   The Goonies on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goonies The Goonies Virtual Live Script Read with Original Cast: https://youtu.be/UDQUE_B1Q24 Time Codes Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 04:19 Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 09:43 Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 15:59 Start of show: 22:46 Improv Game - Countdown: 24:26 Improv Game - Superheroes: 28:54 Improv Game - Blind Line: 35:05 Improv Game - Ding: 43:05 Improv Game - Cutting Room: 49:13  End of show, into announcements:1:04:32 More Information About the Show, Mike, and Avish   Subscribe to the podcast: http://AvishAndMike.com/Subscribe/ Our Website: www.AvishAndMike.com Our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/143183833647812 Avish's site: www.AvishParashar.com  Mike's site: www.MikeWorthMusic.com/   Transcription of the "Discussing the Genre Tropes" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: Discussing the genre tropes all right now we're gonna spend five minutes talking about the tropes cliches and commonalities of the genre of this type of movie so i've got my timer and we're going to spend five minutes, starting now all right Mike. Avish Parashar: Why don't you kick us off when you think of this kind of movie kids versus adults. Avish Parashar: What are things that jump to your mind. Mike Worth: Well, the first thing is there's actually two things so one is i'm going to jump in no particular add order the criminal or the bad guys in this tend to be. Mike Worth: mildly competent but not so confident that they can't get out smarter by the kids and the two examples i'm thinking of is the is the fraternity brothers from home. Mike Worth: duties and also Joe pisco and Daniel stern from home alone they're competent. Mike Worth: Because the passion passion. Avish Parashar: I mean different movie. Mike Worth: But it's still a great movie still a great movie. Mike Worth: Like they're constantly figure out that you know these guys are leaving and they're and they're working theory things where the finale brothers kind of figure out what the treasure is, but they can get smarter about the kids so that's kind of an important things. Avish Parashar: I would say I narrow that down and say they are like. Avish Parashar: they're competent strategists there in company tacticians. Mike Worth: they're like. Avish Parashar: They have a good plan and ready to go, but like when it comes to like dealing with the obstacles of the children they're they're idiots and. Avish Parashar: Almost to a comical standpoint right the way they fail is. Avish Parashar: Is comical. Avish Parashar: yeah that's like they fail in a way that no real criminal would fail when it comes to. Avish Parashar: The kid. Avish Parashar: plan is like Oh, we got a good plan we. Avish Parashar: sneak in this. Mike Worth: Yes, and that that idea of comedy fail is really huge if you think about all of the of the ways that i'm using the goodies in the home alone. Mike Worth: bad guys, the way it feels almost like pratfall almost buster keaton right they have those kind of have really silly fun physical fails or or you know they almost a while it can be looked at ah they'll fall, you know. Avish Parashar: yeah I was about to say there's like slapstick yeah one point at home alone, I believe the kid rigs a blowtorch to burn off patches hair. Avish Parashar: Oh yeah he just goes when, in reality, he get like. 30 birds yeah. Mike Worth: I did, did you see some some graphics artist at La who's like i'm going to take all the seeds from have a lower macaulay culkin wants to the villains, but add real blood splatter. Mike Worth: it's the first time, you see, when the to paint cans come down and they hit the guy. Mike Worth: You see teeth fly out digital and all this blood explodes and they hit the ground this isn't funny anymore, this is not funny at all anyway. Avish Parashar: Exactly. Mike Worth: So there has to be like decimal point is, it has to be cartoony because, which obviously That means we can't be putting out our huge visual effects budget for this podcast. Avish Parashar: yeah sorry guys next year just going to use a corn syrup yeah. Mike Worth: About kids what's the truth of the kid or the kids up. Avish Parashar: Well, I would say, maybe less about the kids but the kids situation is that they're. Avish Parashar: on their own, they get isolated from adults, either because they're the goonies who decided they needed us on their own now they're away. Avish Parashar: from home alone his parents have them, so the kids are isolated they can't go to kit adult for help, or even even in like the goonies when trunk tries to call the COPs like they don't believe them. Avish Parashar: So right kids are on their own ah, you know they're usually they're pretty clever yep um they're clever they are not, they have no physical attributes it's not like Oh, the kid happens to be like an eight year old. and Mike Worth: Electric ninja whatever. Avish Parashar: way not like the sidekicks ninja. Avish Parashar: or like a gymnast if you have any like tangible. Avish Parashar: it's just a normal kid yeah but he's like clever. Avish Parashar: there's some level of wise accessory either one of the kids are the main kid is a wise ass. Mike Worth: yeah yeah um now that the the other trope is they're both after the same thing either that look in this case actually both after the House. Avish Parashar: You know kind of thing he's pretty. Mike Worth: Good there or they're both after one I will ease up. Mike Worth: yeah the kind of it as. Avish Parashar: PG PG. Avish Parashar: PG 13 on. Avish Parashar: The yeah the bad guys want something and the kid, for whatever reason, the kid or kids or an obstacle to it like. Avish Parashar: Right. Avish Parashar: Good well they went off the House the kids in the House, they want to feel the jewels that kids want to get the jewels first. Mike Worth: there's a healthy element of MacGyver ISM uh you know, even in the goonies that when the kids are kind of getting through there they're being clever and kind of solving puzzles because the healthy omit of drivers and like are solving problems creatively. Mike Worth: And what's the final thing um. Avish Parashar: And there is. Avish Parashar: You know they're cut off from adults but there's one misanthropic ally. Mike Worth: dwight. Mike Worth: I the shovel. Mike Worth: or oh man with a shovel the slot or whatever yeah yeah yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah. Mike Worth: For men uh yeah I think that's. Avish Parashar: Like misunderstood everyone thinks is a bad guy but turns out to be a good guy and helps to keep it in yet. Mike Worth: Exactly uh I think that's pretty much hit man, this is a pretty bread and butter basic film yeah. Avish Parashar: yeah as long as it comes in the obstacles and the. Mike Worth: And the tone, the tone is action comedy that it's a very light non fearful thing and like you said, the obstacles are creative and interesting and continually into the bad guys well either continue to kind of forge forward. Avish Parashar: Alright, well, that brings us that's right at the end about here the duck. Mike Worth: yeah we're on point. Avish Parashar: Fantastic alright, so that now brings us to. Transcription of the "Creating the Outline" Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up) Avish Parashar: segment two creating the outline, we are now going to spend five minutes, creating a high level outline for this movie. Avish Parashar: We use a four X structure we're going to go through the four X is basically a three act structure, but we split Act two into two parts, more reactive part of more proactive because that's. Avish Parashar: Good screenwriting and it's easier for our break down, and this is our outline, we will roughly follow it, but this is kind of a starting point it's improv comedy so we may veer very much from what we say we're going to do a check yes alright so starting now. Mike Worth: Okay, so actually it's pretty easy it's we want to establish the kids and we can establish their parents and you know we can't have one kid or we're thinking. Avish Parashar: I kind of need to establish why the adults aren't there. Mike Worth: Right when that happens at the end of act one is is is that the kids are kind of cut off not dangerous way look at the adults are not there, the kids end up in a park. Avish Parashar: So you know we don't need. Avish Parashar: We don't need to do a lot with the parents, but we need to kind of meet them are the adults yep and then set up their reason for not being. Mike Worth: Exactly, we also need to be the kids and and then we need to also establish the identities of the villains, and I think at the end of act one is when the macguffin shows up. Avish Parashar: The macguffin as in the thing they're all after. Avish Parashar: yeah yeah it depends yet whether it's a quest one or a home invasion one. Mike Worth: I think this is still a macguffin it's like Oh, you have to protect the House why because though all right. Avish Parashar: I would say we kind of launched into the. Avish Parashar: We launc