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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

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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