Prodigious Saps
Chad Smalley and Brendan Jones (friends for more than 30 years) reflect on movies, TV, music and comics… with a special focus on their shared love of Superman.
Episodes
June 27, 2025 • 65 mins
Prodigious Saps No. 60: "The Day Superman Kissed the World"
Our friend DC comics artist CHRISTOPHER JONES (perhaps most famous for his work on Young Justice) joins us again for a GREAT conversation about the upcoming SUPERMAN and James Gunn's vision for the DCU.
We talk about all the stuff we're excited for, take some wild guesses at what's coming next, take a look back at past SUPERMAN films and tv shows, and geek out about stuff ...
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May 18, 2025 • 66 mins
Here's our breakdown of the first full-length SUPERMAN trailer with all kinds of nerdy theories about everything we've seen so far.
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https://youtu.be/po8akuYitHc
Prodigious Saps: profusive nerdery from Chad Smalley of Blaggards and Brendan Jones of Tesla City Stories.
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May 9, 2025 • 35 mins
Here is our review of Marvel's THUNDERBOLTS. ALSO: weird similarities to SUPERMAN IV and the post-credits scene BOMBSHELL.
00:00:00 — THUNDERBOLTS review
00:23:14 — Superman IV connection #1
00:25:12 — Superman IV connection #2
00:26:12 — "New Avengers"
00:27:05 — The big post-credits scene!
There's a much longer version of this review on Patreon and Channel Memberships:
PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/posts/thunderbolts-128323873...
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April 27, 2025 • 58 mins
Prodigious Saps No. 58: "Embrace Comics or Go Away"
Here is our breakdown of the latest FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS trailer, plus more SUPERMAN speculation.
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https://youtu.be/Faxo_2JnUuw
00:00:00 — Overview
00:03:03 — Why Fantastic Four is so important to MARVEL
00:05:16 — FF trailer breakdown and theories
00:36:05 — When did Hollywood get poisoned with "Comic Book Shame"?
00:40:30 — Metamorpho in SUP...
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April 17, 2025 • 46 mins
SUPERMAN theories and speculation based on recent interviews with Gunn, Corenswet, Brosnahan, and Hoult.
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Here's our latest nerdy discussion on SUPERMAN, based on details revealed in recen...
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April 7, 2025 • 23 mins
This is our breakdown of the SUPERMAN Sneak Peek that came out last week.
Watch this episode on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/0bs4uTNOe80
The UNCUT version on Patreon and YouTube channel memberships is almost twice as long:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/superman-sneak-125892919
Here are the two interviews referenced in the breakdown:
The cast of 'Superman' chats with ET at the CinemaCon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by3SyZSSb2o
David...
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April 2, 2025 • 58 mins
Here is our review of SEVERANCE, mostly centered around the season 2 finale.
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Prodigious Saps No. 58: "The Dumb Person's Smart Show"
SEVERANCE is not our usual fodder, but we couldn't pass up the opportunity to talk about this amazing show now that the long-awaited second season has wrapped up.
SPOILER WARNING
We ca...
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March 20, 2025 • 65 mins
Prodigious Saps No. 57: "The Devil You Say, The Devil You Know"
DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN (Episodes 1-3) | SEVERANCE | SUPERMAN III | SUPERMAN 2025
So far we've only seen the first three episodes of DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN, but we're digging it so much we couldn't wait to start talking about it.
** SPOILER WARNING for the first three episodes of DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN! **
ALSO: SUPERMAN |||, SUPERMAN 2025, and SEVERANCE.
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March 5, 2025 • 65 mins
Here is our review of CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD. It's been getting mixed reviews, but we both dug it... while also acknowledging its faults. Did you see it? What did you think?
00:00:00 — Captain America: BNW Review
00:52:40 — Guy Gardner in Super Bowl teaser
00:53:24 — "A Complete Unknown"
01:00:06 — BATMAN breakdowns are coming
01:02:58 — To our viewers who don't understand sarcasm...
Prodigious Saps: profusive nerdery fro...
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February 20, 2025 • 73 mins
Here is our breakdown of SUPERGIRL (1984)
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Prodigious Saps No. 56: "Zip ZAP!"
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This movie is so weird! Which is something you will hear us say about a dozen times in the episode, ...
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January 9, 2025 • 100 mins
At long last, here is our breakdown of SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE. The last time Christopher Reeve portrayed Superman. Yeesh.
Needless to say, neither of us like this movie, but we did have a lot of fun talking about it. We also talk about some recent James Gunn/DCU stuff towards the end.
00:00:00 — Overview
00:08:54 — Breakdown
01:24:27 — James Gunn SUPERMAN & DCU news
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https://youtu.be/To1R2QiI...
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December 21, 2024 • 104 mins
CHRISTOPHER JONES is perhaps most well-know for his work on YOUNG JUSTICE, but he's also done BATMAN STRIKES!, AVENGERS: EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES, and DOCTOR WHO, among many, many other titles.
We talk about his experiences working in the comics industry, and also (of course)... SUPERMAN! We talk about the movies, the radio show, the George Reeves tv series, the animated universe, and of course James Gunn's upcoming SUPERMAN (2025)...
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December 7, 2024 • 73 mins
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First up: we touch on a few SUPERMAN-related topics and poke fun at our "It's just a movie" critics in the comments of our YouTube channel. We also wrestle with a couple of technical glitches right at the top, but it made for some funny so I left it all in.
Then we move on to our reviews of THE PENGUIN and AGATHA ALL ALONG. SPOILER ALERT: DO NOT watch the second half of th...
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November 26, 2024 • 96 mins
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Well, here we are. The people asked for it, and today we deliver. Brendan has finally watched Superman III. But... he's not happy about it.
Our opinions of the movie are fairly similar, only I am much softer on it because I saw it so many times on cable TV when I was a kid, and came to terms with its mediocrity decades ago. Brendan is still reeling from it, as you will see...
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November 8, 2024 • 58 mins
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SORRY for the lateness on this getting this one out! Several clips have been culled from this episode already, but there's still plenty of fun stuff in here that y'all haven't seen yet.
Several things on the agenda this time:
Following up on the commotion stirred up in the comments section on a recent clip from P-Saps No. 49 about the time travel sequen...
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November 1, 2024 • 98 mins
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Here is the second installment in our SUPERMAN rewatch series! And this one is a doozy, because we're covering two very different versions of the same movie.
If you're unfamiliar with either version of SUPERMAN II, as usual we're spoiling pretty much everything, so be warned!
The story of these two cuts is pretty legendary, but in a rambly nutshell: Richard Donner was hire...
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September 21, 2024 • 89 mins
Prodigious Saps No. 49: "Down the Love Hole"
Nitpicks & praise for SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE (1978)
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This week we have a long, critical discussion about Richard Donner's SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, a movie we both love dearly... in part to demonstrate that we don...
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August 26, 2024 • 39 mins
Prodigious Saps No. 48: "The International Fund for Interesting Directors"
At long last, here is our piece on Terry Gilliam's masterpiece BRAZIL. This was well over a year in the making... not because it literally took that long to finish it, but just in that I was so hellbent on not half-assing the edit that I kept kicking it down the road. It's still not perfect, but tonight, I'm letting it go.
If you dig Gilliam's work I think ...
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August 17, 2024 • 59 mins
This one is all about the acclaimed Prime Video series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel", which completed its fifth and final season last year.
SPOILERS ABOUND in this episode about all five seasons of Mrs. Maisel (particularly the last one), so if you've never watched the show you may want to hit pause on this one and come back to it later. You have been warned.
Why is this show P-Saps worthy? Well, not only is it EXCELLENT television a...
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August 2, 2024 • 62 mins
Prodigious Saps No. 46: "My Zing-Zang Heart"
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We've both seen the highly anticipated DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. We will be spoiling the bejesus out of this movie today. You've been warned.
BUT FIRST... we react to the big bombshell from SDCC. The bombshell that has shocked and befuddled the nerd world, raising nerd eyebrows, gaping nerd jaws and ...
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