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

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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 h