Sh-sh--SH-SHARK!!!!! Join us in the shark cage, hang onto the dock, or hide from the flying glass as we dive deep into the Jaws franchise! You can throw US some chum by donating to our Patreon page at https://patreon.com/hunterwick, and add your voice to those who want more fun AND thoughtful content like this on the Internet.

Climb aboard the Orca as we take a Slow Burn (or maybe it's a Slow Soak) of Jaws and Peter Benchley's novel that started it all. Then we'll set sail with those that came after, the sequels and copycats. We break down the story arcs of the Jaws film and novel, Jaws 2, Jaws 3D and Jaws the Revenge. We discuss Pirahna and Orca, Sharknado and the Land Shark (he's just a dolphin, ma'am).

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Topic Index:

00:00 - Intro

01:07 - Jaws

02:11 - The shark is not working

02:50 - It's a horror movie, so randy, dope-smoking teenagers have to be punished at the beginning

03:30 - The opening sequence of Jaws is just so damn perfect!

05:04 - Jaws is one of the perfect films, particularly the acting by Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss

06:25 - Jaws director Steven Spielberg remembering his Hitchcock

08:05 - The human loss in the wake of the shark attacks

09:12 - Don't be the mayor from Jaws!

09:53 - The brilliant way Jaws is constructed as a film

11:47 - The great reveal of the actual shark

12:31 - The Mandela Effect: Brody says "You're gonna need a bigger boat." not "We're gonna need a bigger boat."

13:03 - A bit of humour in Jaws

13:40 - The incredibly suspenseful scene where Quint get a nibble on his deep-sea fishing line

14:58 - The great one-shot of Brody on the ferry with the mayor

15:46 - Incredibly, Jaws was only Steven Spielberg's 2nd feature film

17:03 - Introducing each of the main three characters in such great ways

22:16 - The electrifying scene of all three of them drinking at night on the boat

24:49 - Martin Brody's hilarious parting words to his wife as they're leaving to hunt the shark

25:10 - Another suspenseful scene Spielberg makes, without revealing the shark

26:10 - The shooting stars scenes

27:45 - Jaws isn't afraid of trafficking in jump scares

28:22 - Chad's personal story of being dragged as a kid to watch Jaws, The Car and Survive!

32:12 - Jaws as the first summer blockbuster movie

33:44 - A look at Jaws the book, by Peter Benchley, and differences between it and the film

40:23 - Jaws film co-writer Carl Gottlieb, aka Iron Balls McGinty

40:45 - Jaws 2 

41:37 - In order to get people into the water to eat, Jaws starts goosing people

42:29 - Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro in Jaws 2

42:52 - Jaws 2 set-piece, the water-skiing scene

45:25 - Sheriff Brody freaks out over some bluefish

46:20 - Another great set-piece from Jaws 2, a girl screams sh-sh-SH-SH-SHAAAAARK!!!

49:47 - The shark takes out a helicopter

50:40 - The shark fries and burns at the end of Jaws 2

51:42 - Jaws III

52:05 - For what's it's worth (not much), the plot of Jaws III

53:30 - Jaws III was originally pitched as an Airplane!-type spoof film

54:33 - Lea Thompson, for whatever reason, takes a shine to Mike Brody's idiot brother

55:23 - Jaws.... in 3D! Look out!

55:46 - A rundown of the TERRIBLE effects in Jaws III, including scenes where objects disappear due to the optical process. AND THEY LEFT IT IN THE FILM!

56:50 - The bent shark they left in the film

57:28 - The one sequence in Jaws III that isn't totally inept

58:09 - The time in Jaws III where the shark swallows a scuba diver whole and he's hiding inside the shark

58:37 - The shark explodes. Watch out for the flying guts!

59:12 - Jaws: The Revenge

59:51 - The shark takes out Sean Brody

1:00:19 - Starring Lance Guest, from The Last Starfighter

1:01:28 - Ellen Brody is traumatized by sharks, so why not vacation in the Bahamas?

1:02:03 - Michael Caine slumming it in this trash

1:03:07 - The novelization of Jaws: The Revenge offers a crackpot reason why the shark chases Ellen Brody

1:03:33 - The roaring shark of Jaws: The Revenge

1:05:15 - The inexplicable exploding shark at the end of the movie

1:05:44 - Jaws Copy-Cats

1:06:00 - The great Roger Corman-Joe Dante Jaws knock-off Piranha

1:10:30 - Piranha Part Two, first directing gig for James Cameron

1:11:07 - The terrifying horror film Free Willy

1:11:44 - Orca, a movie about a vengeful Killer Whale hunted by Richard Harris

1:13:44 - Bo Derek gets her leg bitten off

1:14:15 - Great shark attack movie The Shallows, starring Blake Lively

1:15:16 - The Landshark, from SNL

1:16:37 - The terrible shark movies they make nowadays, like Sharknado, Cocaine Shark and 6-Headed Shark Attack

1:18:07 - The wrap-up