Fixing Our Favorite TV Shows! | TNP EP. 154 - The Nerdiest Podcast

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On this episode of the podcast, we're diving into how we'd fix
some of our favorite shows, whatwe change, what we tweak to just
make them a little bit better, and also the shows that we
weren't allowed to watch. So stay tuned.

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Hello and welcome to the Nerdiest Podcast, the show where
nerds talk about nerdy things. I'm your host with the most who
is always sleep deprived, Mr. Nick Barrett.
And as always, he is back, ladies and gentlemen, back from
his wedding and honeymoon, none other than the Mr. Jackson
Glass. How are you doing?
Welcome back to the show. Dog, I'm so happy to be here.

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Thank you so much. I feel like I was gone for like
a decade and I'm back as as you.If you're watching the video,
new setup in the new apt. I got all the Legos displayed up
in here. We'll do a tour at some point.
I'm not done setting up. I literally put that picture up
while we were setting up the show because I was like, this
looks really sad. But new camera cable is going to

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be on the way. It's going to set up.
It's going to be fire. You just got to give me some
time. You got to let me cook.
But I'm so happy to be here. Thank you for holding the Fort
down while I was gone. It was truly a good time.
Of course, you know, I only fumble through two different
outros. It's all right, it's all good.
It's OK, we're back. Which means I don't have to
worry about the outro anymore now.
We're all good. Before we jump, we'll get in a
we'll, you know, get in a littlebit of a weekly.

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We can hear that, you'll hear that.
But we're going to go ahead and jump into our first topic today,
which is you heard in the Tees is going to be shows we weren't
allowed to watch. And you know, with the main
topic being how we'd fix our favorite shows, it felt
appropriate to kind of just takea minute, talk about what shows
reminisce allowed to watch what was.
So Jackson, now that you're back, kick me off.

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I'm kick it off. Cut me off.
So what do you got? So glad to be here now that
you're back. Kick me off.
Kick me off, I'm out of here. Goodbye, Nick.
So just a little context as likea a little like homeschooled
Christian boy. I was very like interested in

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film and TV and like stuff like that.
So I was like, oh, I want to watch TVI want to like like I
just love watching TV and I lovewatching movies and stuff.
But like there's some stuff you shouldn't watch like as a kid
and stuff like that. And I think that there was like
this golden age of like cable television for like Disney and
Nickelodeon and like those channels that we got to be a

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part of where this is so interesting because I was not
allowed, I was originally allowed to watch this show.
And then my parents were like, ah, this show.
It's a little like dicey, like, I don't know how we feel.
You're, you're not allowed to watch this anymore.
We cut our cable. What they didn't know was it was

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way too late because I still, as21 years old, can say every
single quote from the show, no matter the situation.
There is a special quote for anysituation, and that is SpongeBob
SquarePants, a very commonly banned show in homes.

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And now as an adult, kind of looking back, I'm kind of like,
yeah, I get it. But also like, it's not even
that it's inappropriate. It's just that I could see like,
an excessive amount of SpongeBobwould be very annoying.
Like most of these shows, I think were, were less about
being inappropriate and more like, this show's annoying.

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I don't want to watch this. Like you should watch something
else. So that's my that's I know you
have a good you've good SpongeBob stories that you took.
Before on the show, SpongeBob isalso on my list.
It was when I was famously not allowed to watch, famously got
grounded for two weeks, as I've,you know, talked about on a

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previous episode. But here's the thing, as I've
gone back, like, do I feel like I missed out on not watching
SpongeBob? Maybe a little bit, maybe just a
tad. No, you did.
But I, I don't think it like like, I don't know, I understand

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some of the memes, like I've picked up a lot of it through
like meme culture. And I don't feel like I've had
to watch the show because honestly, hot take, every time I
watch a clip from SpongeBob, I can feel my brain cells dying.
Like I feel like I'm getting Dumber as I watch this show.
So like, I get it, I understand,I like.

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It's kind of, it's just kind of a stupid comedy.
Like it's not, it's not intelligent.
But I also can understand how itlike like made its way into.
Right. Pop culture, especially for our
generation growing up with it. But no, I was not allowed to
watch SpongeBob. Do you Not under any
circumstance? Do you think if you like sat

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down and were like I'm going to watch this step is like if I
give you a list of like the bestepisodes of SpongeBob, do you
think you would enjoy them like if you tried to sit down?
Now maybe but I don't know like I've watched one of my Co
workers is really into SpongeBoband he like his I kid you not,
his Instagram real feed is literally just like the clips

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that are broken up for the vertical form.
It's so funny. That's all his feedings.
It's just that it's like SpongeBob, Tom and Jerry random
movies like so I've seen like his feed and I've seen the
SpongeBob clips and I'm like, this just does not interest me
in any. Way OK, but that's what's
interesting is I'm trying to think like, would you find this

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humorous minus the meme and minus the nostalgia?
Because part of me is like, I still will can go back and watch
a good episode of SpongeBob and be like, oh, this is funny.
Like this is charming. This is like had some good heart
to it. But how like how much of that is
just like my own like nostalgia with that.

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And kind of like, we live in such a like an ironic culture
that it's like, do I ironically like SpongeBob or do I genuinely
think it's really funny? Like, but SpongeBob has made it
in my top ten, like most influential shows before.
Like on this show, we've done that list.

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And like SpongeBob was in my top9 when we did the shows.
Oh, you're right, it was. And I just think that's great.
Anyway, what else? What's next on your list?
So I had SpongeBob another one. This one wasn't just a show, but
it is a show so like it counts. But this one was just like

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across the board, which is frustrating because my sister
was allowed to watch it and thatis Pokémon.
I was we. Were the.
We were the pokie demon household, OK?
My mom was like the Pokémon, more like pokie demon.
They have evolution. No, no, 'cause I was also the

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good Christian homeschooled kid,yes.
So we, I was not no Pokémon games, no Pokémon cards, no
Pokémon anime, nothing. Zilch, nada.
Which is funny because now, likenow that I'm older, I had
thought about getting into the Pokémon anime because my
girlfriend's really into it. So I'm like, OK, well, she

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turned out all right and she watched Pokémon, so maybe like,
it's OK. And then I tried playing a
Pokémon game last year on streamand I, I don't want to say I
hated it because that's really strong.
I didn't have as much fun with it as I thought I would.
What did you play? I played, I think it was Pokémon

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Shining Pearl on Switch, which some people have said like oh
that's the worst of the Pokémon games, don't play that, emulate
the ones on DS. And I'm like no thank you.
I haven't owned it so I'm not going to emulate it.
That is a topic for a different episode.
And then some people are like, well, Shining Pearl's a good
place to start. But if you really want to like

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get into Pokémon, you should start with this game on Switch
'cause my thing was like, I wantto play it on a system that I
own. So theoretically I could go get
one of the DS ones and plug it into my 3DS and play it that
way, but I didn't want to. I might try out, if it ever goes
on sale for a decent amount, I might try out Pokémon Legends

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Archaeus because that one is, I guess supposed to be more like a
Breath of the Wild type game. So I'm like, maybe that's what I
need to get into it and like getinto the Pokémon lore and then
from there branch out into some of the older games.
So I don't know, I might try that if it ever goes on sale.
I would get the new one, PokémonLegend ZA, but it's all like set

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in France and I don't want to put that gunk on my Switch too.
So no, thank you, I'm good, eventhough it is going to run better
and look better on switch to yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever,
blah, blah, blah. I don't care, OK?
Referring to France as gunk is absolutely wild.
I think that's amazing. We don't have any viewers from.

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I think I think it's so funny you bring this up because
Pokémon was also on my list right here.
So So here's the thing. Here's The thing is that I, I
don't ever specifically rememberbeing told, no, you cannot watch

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Pokémon or you cannot do this Pokémon.
It was more that I wasn't, I never really tried, but anytime
I like kind of brought it up, itwas more like, Nah, we don't, we
don't do that. Like we don't, we're not the
Pokémon family, which like fair because we really weren't like

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that wasn't, that wasn't what wedid.
But I remember I had friends like in I guess middle, early
middle school who were like, yeah, I, I caught this freaking
like shiny dude, like all this stuff like this and that.
And I remember just being like, I, I had a distinct memory of

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being like at a church event andthis guy was like this kid in my
grade was talking all about his Pokémon and how much he, how
much he like paid for and how much he takes care of it.
And he has all his cards in thislike laminated book and all this
stuff. And I literally remember telling
him to his face, I said, this isnot cooler than Ninjago.

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I don't care. And this is such a distinct
memory to be like, but but they don't do spinjitsu.
Yeah, they so what's the point? They don't jump up with that
give around and spin. So like, why would I care?
Right. So I just thought that was, I

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think that's really funny. But also like now my younger
siblings are like, they had likea Pokémon phase, but they're not
like, whoa, Pokémon. And I know like, like, I know
like, grown adults who, like, could tell you their favorite
Pokémon. Like, yeah, me too on a whim.
And I think that's so funny. Also throwback.

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I never played Pokémon Go eitherbecause I which that was what
like 2016 when Pokémon Go was like.
I remember is 2016, because I remember the clip of Hillary
Clinton going, we need a PokémonGo to the polls.
Okay, yeah. No, no, no.
We're done. No, no.

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No, I just remember like, I mean, I also had friends that
were playing Pokémon Go. I was like a little older by
this point, but I was also like,I just, I never really got into
phone games. Like there's like I played Angry
Birds as a kid, but like PokémonGo was never like an appeal to
me because also like I wasn't like I'm not going to drive
around town for this phone game.Like, that sounds ridiculous,

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but then it was a whole thing because my mom was like, are you
guys playing Pokémon Go? And we're like, no, why?
Well, apparently if you play Pokémon Go, you're going to get
hit by a bus. And it was like, because that
happened, because it was a huge thing.
They were like, oh, we're going to make this game.
We're going to make this Pokémongame where you actually have to

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go outside and go like travel around town and across this,
like just go around and find Pokémon.
Well, it became a danger becausepeople were like out on the
street and like downtown and they were like trying to catch
this Pokémon and they were so invested in it, they would just
walk into traffic. Oh yeah.

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And it was like a thing, this was like a thing.
Like there was like this, I don't know if it was a group or
like this was just my experience.
But like there was this group ofparents that was like, we need
to get rid of Pokémon Go becauseour kids are going to get hit by
a bus, which is just so I think that's so funny.

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Like that we had that that happened and then like we just,
we just didn't know how good we had it in 2016, man.
True. We thought, we thought it was
we're like, this is the worst. And then like 4 years later
we're like, can we go back to 2016?
No, literally. So that's Pokémon is also off of
my list. So if you want to go back to
your list now let's. See.

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Let's see, let's see, this is a little bit of a cheap answer and
I think SpongeBob falls into this category, but it's anything
on Nickelodeon. Yeah, literally literally
anything. Nickelodeon was the band channel
in our household. And it's funny because like I'll
have other friends like my Co workers, I talked about like,

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oh, what shows do we all watch as kids?
You know, I'll talk about like iCarly, SpongeBob, like all this
other stuff that was on Nickelodeon.
And I was like, yeah, wasn't on to watch that.
If it wasn't, people are like, whoa, Nick, what did you watch
when you were a kid? And I say, well, if it wasn't on
PBS Kids or Disney Channel, I didn't watch it.
And even then, I wasn't allowed to watch everything on either of

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those channels, right? So it was like, if it's on
Nickelodeon, hard no. If it's on Cartoon Network,
maybe It depends. There were a couple shows that
got a pass on a Cartoon Network,mainly because of The Clone
Wars, but that's it. And then Disney Channel and

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Disney XD were a little more open but still had some
restrictions. And PBS Kids was kind of just
whatever, like. Well, Disney XD was Disney for
kids that skateboarded true. So it was like, if you're like
Disney XD is like the channel equivalent of like a shirt,
those shirts that are like, don't bother me, I'm gaming or

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like I paused my game to be hereor like no girls like, like
Colton's room, no girls allowed.And then it's like, and it's
like, because all of the shows were like, oh, it's, it's boys
and it's, it's the, it's like gross.

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And it's we're so bad. And then I look back and I'm
like, Oh, this is really not that.
Like, because the thing was we didn't have cable for a long
time. And so I didn't either anything
we watched that wasn't PBS or like on DVD, because we had a
ton of DVDs and we could watch like Disney movies, Pixar

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movies, like all this, like all these great movies and stuff.
But then like if I went to my granny's house, that was when TV
like upgraded because she didn'treally like, she didn't really
like monitor what we were watching.
Like we weren't watching anything bad.
But it was like, maybe I'd sneakin an episode of regular show
when I was at her house, which like looking back, I'm like,

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that's so stupid. Like why on earth did I think I
was so bad for watching regular Show?
Because that's the other thing, like Nickelodeon was kind of a
no, which we'll go into my next one, which is like Drake and
Josh, which we started watching Drake and Josh when I was a kid.
But I kid you not, and I still stand by this is that we this

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was a base decision on my parents part.
They essentially told us that weweren't allowed to watch Drake
and Josh anymore because that's not how they wanted us to talk
to women because they were essentially like super
objectifying. And like everything was about
like the hottest girl in school.And it was like, oh, you stole

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my girlfriend or it was, you know, all the stuff.
And it was always like, who's, you know, Drake Bell sticking
his tongue down some girl's throat, like, you know, and it
was just like, not necessary forlike a 10 year old to be like,
hey, this is not how we want youto act.
So like, maybe just don't. But now as an adult, like I can

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go back and I think that's a pretty good show.
I think there's some great bits in Drake and Josh for show.
That's fair. You know, that's based.
Maybe be nice. To honestly based parents.
Yeah, be good to women. Women are.
Cool. Yeah, they're fine.
My next show, You're going to hate this.
You're going to hate this, but following in line with the Pokey

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Demon. OK.
Type mentality, right? Right.
I was also not allowed to watch Wizards of Waverly Place because
it was magic, which is a really interesting stance to take.
But I understand where like the argument comes from, like no
witchcraft, no, like Bubba. So we're going to get rid of

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that. Same for Harry Potter.
I get that. But also, if you're let me, just
let me just speak to the Christian parent.
If you happen to be listening tothis podcast and that's the
stance you take, that's fine. I understand where the where the
stance comes from. However, I think it might be a
good idea to at least be consistent.

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Because if you're going to let your kid watch Star Wars,
Narnia, Lord of the Rings, like that kind of stuff like I was
allowed to watch, but then say no to Harry Potter and Wizards
of Waverly Place because it's magic.
Well, I think you're being a little inconsistent because all
of those things have magic. The force is magic.
Lord of the Rings has magic. Narnia is pretty predicated on

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the fact that you can walk through a war magic wardrobe and
go to a completely different dimension, all predicated on
magic. I think there's a deeper
conversation to be had with yourkid about the difference between
different types of magic and what you're using it for.
And there's like, you can go down that whole rabbit trail and
have that conversation. Which my mom never did until I
was a little older, but even then I kind of figured it out by

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myself at that point. But Wizards of Waverly Place was
a hard no. And I always remember like when
these different shows would comeon on Disney Channel, like I'd
be watching Jesse or something and Wizards of Waverly Place
would be next. And I'm like fumbling for the
remote. I'm like, Oh my gosh, as soon as
it hits 5 PMI gotta turn this off or I'm gonna die.
So that was that would man, kidsdon't understand.

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Kids don't get it. They don't.
Understand they don't understandlike having.
To go to a commercial break midway through your episode and
like, you got that. You got like 30 seconds to run
in the bathroom, get a snack, dowhatever.
They don't understand. They don't get it all right.
These kids nowadays are too privileged with streaming.
Did I? Did I send you that video on
Instagram? There's this really good video

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and I wish I remember who did it, but she was like, I think
that kids the streaming age is. To blame for kids not having
time management skills was like because when we were kids it was
okay. If this is on at 7, I think I'm
in central time. If this is on at 7 central, then

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I'm going to eat dinner at 6:00 and then I have to do, well, I'm
going to eat dinner at 5:00 and then I have homework.
So I have to do that to make sure that's done.
And then I have to clean my room.
So I have to do that before 7:00.
So that I we were like planning.It was like the calendar in my
head was going to like, because I had to see what was on.
What's so funny is my family, like growing up loved like

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reality TV. So we were like, The Amazing
Race is on. I'm going to lose my mind if I
don't see if I miss one second of The Amazing Race where like
now you just you just turn it onand you can pause it.
And OK, this is another thing. My brother, when he was a lot
younger, he was notorious for pausing.

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Like he would pause everything for like an hour.
Like he would watch a movie. He'd like start a movie and then
he'd like get distracted with something else.
He'd be like, oh, hold on and pause it.
And then I'd be like, hey, I'm going to play a game.
Can I, can I take the TV? And he's like, well, now I'm

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watching a movie and I'm like, no, you're freaking not.
You're on the other side of the room.
This movie's been paused since 3:00.
He's like, well, I'm going to goback to it.
I'm like, shut up. Go back to it.
When? I'm done my turn right I'm.
Playing Star Wars Battlefront onthe Xbox One.
That's what we're doing right now.
OK, gosh. All right.

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Anything else to add on this topic before we before we shimmy
on? I don't think so.
All right. Good word, good times.
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Now, Mr. Nick, it's been a hot second since we've kind of,

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like, been together, like on theshow, like I took a break from
my wedding and all this stuff. So tell me, how have you been?
I've been good. I have not been watching anime
lately, which I know is a big change.
You might be thinking, well, what have you been doing?
Well, I'm doing a couple different things that I'm very

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excited about. Obviously when this episode
comes out, that is a big. Deal.
That's a really big deal. We'll be out.
By the time this episode comes out, I'll have we're doing a
little pre recording here, right, right, right.
So I don't have it yet as of time I'm recording, but I will.
So what I've been doing is I'm planning on selling my

(23:35):
PlayStation 4 and my Switch OLEDonce I get my Switch to because
I literally have only been usingmy PlayStation to play Persona
3. That's it.
Yeah. And I'm like PlayStation, you
know, five years into the PlayStation Five generation,
they're finally stopping puttinggames on PlayStation 4.
So I'm like, OK, well, this thing is irrelevant anyway.

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I'm about to get a new Switch to.
I don't need the PlayStation. Like not really a big fan of
their games anyway. Play with.
You anymore plus. I need the money so I can sell
that sucker for like 150 bucks, maybe 200 if I'm pushing it.
Throw some games in there, get that sucker out of here.
Gone 200 bucks towards my Switchto easy money.

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And then I'm also selling my Switch OLED 'cause I won't need
that once I have the switch to anyway.
So. But what I've been trying to do
is finally go through and finishPersona 3 and my plan is to
finish the finish it this weekend.
So I will update you guys on thenext episode if I did end up
finishing it or not. I'm I think within I'm in like
the final third of the game, butI'm in like the final third of

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the final third. So I'm like within spitting
distance of the end. So I'm like, OK, this is good.
I'm going to finish it like one more good like weekend grind.
We got it unlocked. As soon as that's done,
Playstation's getting unplugged from the wall out of here,
making room, Facebook. Marketplace like it is so.

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I've been doing that and on the TV front, I started a show that
I didn't think I was ever going to watch, nor was I going to
like because I didn't like the show that it's based on.
But I'm enjoying this show a lotmore.
And then it's Young Sheldon. I am currently on the final
season of Young Sheldon. Seven seasons in, right?

(25:28):
That's a lot. I think 12 episodes left and
then I'm done. So I also might be done with
Young Sheldon by the time the next episode rolls around.
I'm really enjoying it. It's not a sitcom per SE.
Yeah, it's like single. Camera, right?
No, it's. Multicam.
Oh, really? Well when you say single camera,

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what do you mean by that? I mean like.
Like Multicam would be like Friends, Friends Seinfeld, where
single Cam would be like community parks and Rec.
The Office. Yeah, it's more.
Like community. OK, that's a single.
That's a single camera sitcom. Yeah, so it's really good.

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I enjoy it. Ironically enough, my least
favorite character is Sheldon. Listen.
I've never wanted to punch a kidmore than Sheldon Cooper.
Like he's just annoying at times.
And then there's a couple times where like he has some moments
with his twin sister and his momand his dad, like the rest of
his family. There are some really sweet

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moments in there where I'm like,OK, you are now less than
punchable. It's fine.
But outside of that, it's actually like really heartfelt
and really like there were a couple, especially towards the
like latter part of the show. Once you get connected to all
these characters because all of them except for Sheldon were

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mentioned or like his mom showedup for a couple episodes.
His siblings were there like there were a couple one offs
here and there. But this is like, no, we're
we're deep diving into Sheldon'sfamily.
And I love that. I really love his family.
And when I started it, I knew they were doing another spin off
show with his older brother Georgie and his wife.

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And I was like, I don't know howyou do that.
Like, how are we getting anotherspinoff show out of this?
And then Season 6 is pretty muchall about Georgie and Mandy.
And by the time I got to the endof it, I was like, you know
what? No, I get it.
I'm like, thoroughly invested. Now.
I understand why you make an entire spinoff show just for
them so. I had when they announced that I

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had such a banger tweet 'cause it was like they have announced
a sequel to Young Sheldon and I was like, yeah, it's called The
Big Bang Theory. What is wrong with you?
Can't wait for. A Big Bang Theory remake where
they just go back and do it all again and make it maybe better
this time. No, it's an animated remake.

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Let's do it so. Yeah, that's what I've been up
to, Persona 3 and Young Sheldon.I'll report back once I finish
both of those things. But Jackson, you've been gone
for a wedding and a honeymoon. How have you been?
How's it going? Listen.
First things first, I like it onthe record that Nick said.
Nick said directly quoted beforewe started recording.
You will have to RIP me out of the grip of hell to get me to

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stop playing. Switch 2 to record next week.
So just so you know, if he's like irritable on the next
episode, he's very much intending to not be not be
present and just try to play Switch.
Here's the thing, it wouldn't bethe first time.
No, because we did this whole song and dance with tears of the

(28:44):
Kingdom. We did this time it's a brand
new switch, so it's a little I'mlike OK, slight side tanger and
then I'll let you go. I, I'm kind of upset that
Nintendo shifted all of their stuff to Thursday releases
instead of Friday because like Switch 2 comes out on a
Thursday, gets delivered to my house on Thursday while I'm at

(29:06):
work. And I'm like, oh, that's great.
OK, fine. If it was a Friday while I'm at
work, it's like, OK, I get home,I get to open it up on a box, do
the whole thing, and then I havethe whole weekend to mess with
it and like play with it and have fun.
This is like, no, you get home Thursday night, you can start
setting it up, do your file transfer, download Mario Kart
'cause I got the digital version, and then go to bed and

(29:27):
go to work Friday morning. And I'm like, what are you
talking about? I'm not taking Friday off work.
I have it off work because I worked a little overtime for it,
right? But what if I didn't?
But it's a little ridiculous. Then I have a ridiculous.
Here I'm also kind of upset because most of my launch nights
probably just going to be spent downloading stuff, Yeah.
Which is the sad reality of likemodern day gaming is like most

(29:51):
of your time will just be downloading.
Like, yeah, I'm gonna have to. Wait for like the system
transfer from my OLED to the newthing and then I have to wait
for Mario Kart to download 'cause I can't do those two
things simultaneously. I won't have Fortnite.
I won't. So my plan is just to get all
the data transferred, download Mario Kart, play Mario Kart for
a little bit and then like download.

(30:14):
Other stuff while you're gone, Yeah, like, right.
Before I go to bed, queue up Fortnite, some of my other
digital games right? Unfortunately Hulu and
Crunchyroll will not be backwards compatible with Switch
to Dawn as long as I can get Monopoly from the Switch.
We'll be able, right? It'll and what if we'll get an
updated version? No.

(30:35):
No. I hope they don't update it, I
want them. To you.
Broken and charming, but you. Know they never will.
Why if it's broken? Makes.
Money. Why fix it?
So anyway real. Wedding honeymoon.
That's government policy. So yeah, I got married, so suck
it. I this is a ring.

(30:57):
If you're watching on the video,you see it is it has a classic
Fender guitar string woven into it.
So that's kind of cool wedding. Like I won't, I won't bore you
with the the details, but essentially it was literally
perfect and objectively the bestwedding you've ever been to.
So it was like exactly what we wanted and it was perfect.

(31:22):
And if you've been, if you're like a long time long term, like
fan of the show, like we did an episode like the day I got
engaged and we just were just like, yeah, I'm going to propose
later. And then we talked about Legos
for like an hour, but it's just like very surreal because I'm
like, oh, that happened. Like we, we did that we had a
wedding because like everyone talks about their wedding.

(31:45):
But then I was like, Oh, this isthe day we're going to talk
about forever. So the big hit, the big hit that
I've heard was our vows. Because we did, we like wrote
our own. We did the traditional vows, but
also we wrote our own thing because I've always said now if
you do something different, likeit's fine.
But I've always thought like, why are all these people here at

(32:08):
your wedding and they don't get to hear like your public vows?
Like I think that's ridiculous because I'm like, I came all
this way to your wedding and I don't get to hear what you're
promising each other. Like that's bull.
So now that's we were so we werelike, we want to do public vows,
but we're also like, we want to read them cold.
So like there was a thrill to like, I never heard her vows

(32:30):
when I was I heard it for the first time at the altar and she
heard mine at the first time at the altar and it was like kind
of kind of baller. But her vows are phenomenal.
Like I cried. Everyone said mine were good.
Like everyone there was a not a dry eye in the audience.
And I was like, yeah, that was the point.

(32:51):
The thing is, like, we've both been in like event planning
situations through like school and work and church.
Like so many scenarios where we've been like event planners
where we were like, what was that, you guys?
Dropped something on the floor. Oh, what I thought.

(33:12):
Something fell off a shelf. My bad.
Continue. We've both been in like the
event planning world for like a while, multiple times, multiple
contexts. So we were like, no, this is
going to be like a like it was so like, no, we know what we're
going to do. Like we're going to do this,
we're do this, we're going to talk to this person that.
So it was really like we had a ton of help, like our families

(33:36):
were like instrumental to the process because I was still in
school and she was working full time.
And so like they were so helpfulto like, 'cause I'm like, I'm in
school, I can't call like a caterer at 3:00 PM, but then
they close at 5:00, so I can't call them after.
So it was a whole thing. But like, that was phenomenal.
We had a live jazz band play. They were phenomenal.

(33:59):
Nick was there. He had a wonderful time.
Your whole family was there. They had a great time.
We honeymooned in Leavenworth, WA, which is a Bavarian village
in the middle of Washington state.
If he didn't know we flew out, We got married Friday, flew out
Saturday and then Sunday I vomited 4 times.

(34:21):
I was horrifically ill and yeah,word on the street is some kind
of virus spawned, was spread, was.
I don't know if like someone wassalty like always a bridesmaid,
never the bride. And then just like like in the

(34:42):
in the dip or something and we're like, I'm just going to
sneeze on everybody. I don't know.
Every day I learn of someone newthat was horrifically like
violently vomiting after my wedding.
And it's kind of the point whereI'm like, I don't care anymore.
Like like I broke my 15 year notvomiting streak at your wedding.

(35:02):
I'm like, OK and you had fun. Like jeez, did you die?
So honestly that anywhere else, anyone else like I'm like this
could have ruined our time. But like we're just like what a
good story. Like I ended up being fine after

(35:22):
after my fluids were replenishedin the ER, but that's a story
for another day. We were fine, everyone was fine.
We got some money back. So I call that an unethical life
hack at more than anything else.If you want half price catering,
just, you know, let out a little, just let out a little
flu and it's, you know, it'll befine.

(35:44):
So that's a joke. Don't do that.
That's a joke. Don't do that like a tapeworm.
In the dip. Yeah, we just kind of hung out,
chilled in the mountains, hit the pool, ate good food.
That's about it. Came home and immediately went
to work. I'm off school.
This is summer. So like, you know, living large,
making a lot of videos, working hard on the podcast.

(36:07):
So, you know, I I'm very excitedabout the summer.
The summer's been very good so far.
I have been married three weeks today.
Wow. As time of recording.
Has she really been three weeks already?
Yeah, yeah, three weeks today. So, you know, keep an eye out,
follow me on Instagram to see when my book on marriage comes
out because I obviously I'm justan expert now.

(36:29):
That's incredible. I've already gone for you to
marriage advice and I'm not evenmarried yet.
No, he. Has genuinely so you know, if
anyone needs marriage advice, don't ask me because I'm
dropping my line. Instagram, drop a line hey?
Guys, drop a comment, drop a comment down below if you have
any marriage questions. I'm just like I'm an open book.

(36:49):
I love responding to comments. Just let me know.
Let me know what you want to know about marriage and I'll and
I'll respond and let you know what I think.
So anyway, that's that's what I'm doing.
We've always said like podcast guess is a wife privilege.
So like maybe maybe in the future we can have a little
little wife cameo and see see what happens.

(37:11):
Crazy. You got to get me and.
Her to do like a Star Wars trivia or something?
I kept no. I kept saying that I was like, I
want to do Star Wars trivia and she's like, no, but I'd lose.
And I was like, no, you wouldn't.
Like my like we've been togetheralmost three years now and all
I've heard is like nerd out StarWars stuff, like way above my
pay grade type stuff. So like and she's like, well,

(37:35):
but if it's about like ships andguns, like I wouldn't know.
I'm like, I would tailor it likeI'm not gonna be like, what is
this troopers gun? Because I know you're.
CR2 blaster. Thank you very much.
Right, Trooper. Defaults the E. 11 She was she.
Was nervous, DC-15? Yeah, she was nervous 'cause she
was thinking like if any of the questions about the artillery,
like Nick's gonna win, like it'snot gonna be fair, was like, I

(37:59):
would. I can tailor questions.
So can you call yourself a? Star Wars nerd.
If you're not well-rounded in all the guns.
I mean, come on, I know the guns.
Because DL 44. DL. 44 Boba Fett.
Uses an EE 2 standard. Rebel Blaster.
Is that? A2.
ADC. Correct.
Yeah, I literally. Only know it because of battle,
because of Battlefront. Now and now Fortnite and now

(38:23):
Fortnite now. Fortnite's just the Battlefront
3 we never got. No, that's so.
True. Like especially.
With this Star Wars season? No, literally.
So anyway, people keep asking like, how's your married life?
And I'm like, it's good. It's not super flashy.
I'm just like really happy to like not have to say goodnight
anymore. You know, it's like, I don't
have to, I don't have to like gohome.

(38:46):
I, we can just go to bed. And I'm like, this is actually
peak. Like we can just watch movies
and then just go to bed. And then I wake up and she's
still there. Yeah, Right.
Right. That's never happened to me
before. That's never happened to me
before. So yeah, anyway, married life is
awesome. You should get married.
Well, I'm. Listen man, I got a girlfriend

(39:09):
so I'm trying on step one. Hey, three if.
Any if any nerds out there like how do I get a girlfriend?
Drop a comment down below. Let me help you.
Yeah, given. It one of us is married and the
other one has a girlfriend on the way to marriage, I think we
might have a thing or two. It's possible.
Guys, it's possible. Guys.
Don't let them tell you don't think it's not.
They can. They can.

(39:31):
Nerds usually make a lot of money.
That's all I'm saying. Like everyone's like, oh, nerds
just stay in their mother's basement all the time.
And I'm like, no, nerds have drive.
Like if you find the right nerd,like they're not going to fool
around. They're going to be loyal.
And then they're going to be like, yeah, this is my hobby.
I've been, they're like, well, nerds are so like, I don't know
you. And I'm like, nerds have been

(39:53):
like connected. Like, I'm sorry, you want to
talk about commitment issues in men We have been playing nerds
played the same Mario Party character for 20 years just
because they kind of liked Greenwhen they were three years old.
Like, this is not like you want to talk about commitment issues.
Nerds will be. The most loyal, they will never

(40:13):
cheat on you because why would Icheat on you at the bar when I
can be at home playing video games or building?
Like you will always know where I'm at.
I'm always at home. My girlfriend never has to worry
about me going anywhere 'cause if I'm not at work, I'm at home
playing video games or working on a new video.
That is it dude. I you don't got to worry about

(40:35):
it, OK? That's all I'm saying.
Nerds don't play. They're committed.
Nerds don't play. They just play.
Yeah, they just. Play with Legos, which means
they'll also be great parents because they already have plenty
of experience with kids. That's so true.
OK, so inside baseball, let's workshop some like married nerd
merch after this episode. I'm in OK.

(40:59):
I'm in a. Shirt that sounds like.
Proof, nerds. Can get married proof, nerds.
Can Oh my gosh. OK, so can we get shirts?
That I'm married to a nerd, married to a.
Nerd. And there's like an arrow.
Oh my gosh. All right, so you know why
you're here. You know why you're here.

(41:20):
We're here to fix our favorite shows.
Now, I don't know how you want to structure this.
We can go back and forth if you'd like, but we kind of have
some crossover shows, but also some like shows that we like
personally selected essentially in the way I took this and you
may have interpreted differentlyand you can let me know, was
kind of like, this is one of my favorite shows and I love this

(41:43):
show. But if like in an ideal
scenario, this is what I would change about the final product
and I would have done this instead.
And then just kind of like why Iwould do that.
And these are some pretty like, none of my shows are like deep
cuts. So like hopefully you've seen
most of them. We'll let you know if the show

(42:04):
we're talking about has spoilers.
Pretty much all of the shows we're talking about have
spoilers. So if you're like, I'm in the
middle of friends, I don't want to know how it ends.
Then like, OK, the show's from like 1990, whatever.
So like, that's on you. Anyway, Nick, hit me with your
first. Hit me with the first show I'm
going to. Go from the bottom of my list up

(42:25):
because the two I have at the top are like crossover.
Yeah, well, I guess technically only one of them's a crossover,
but the first one is, I don't know, it's not a deep cut, but
it has more of like a niche following.
And that is none other than the hit show Star versus the Forces

(42:46):
of Evil. Now, I do have a little note
here that says notes for all my different shows.
For Star, I just put where do I even start?
Because here's the thing, I think Star is a great show.
It's one of my favorite Disney Channel shows.
Like if we ever did a top 10 Disney Channel episode, it would
definitely be in the top five, if not the top three.

(43:08):
That said though, I think there's a lot of things I would
change without like because it sounds bad.
When you say like, oh, I want tochange this and make it better,
that implies that it's not good as it is.
And it, I mean, it is good. A lot of stuff comes from the
final season, but that's more onDisney for not giving them an

(43:28):
actual final season and just saying halfway through season 4
that they're like, all right, well, you lost your time slot,
bye, bye, bye, end your show, bye bye.
So one of the bigger things I think is the show sort of loses
its villain identity about halfway through 'cause they're
trying to do this thing with Toffee at the beginning, and

(43:49):
then they kind of did a good narrative through line and then
they brought him back and then proceeded to like ditch him
again. So I think it would have been
better if he was like the narrative or even if like he was
working for a bigger batter person instead of just making
like the villain the. Villain at.

(44:10):
The end of the day was like, it's the bigotry and the hatred
that we have for ourselves. And that's the problem.
I'm like, no, give me a bad guy,OK?
Someone's got to be orchestrating all of this.
Like give me something and then they never really did.
And then the other thing I wouldchange is 1 spoilers.
By the way, as Jackson alluded to, I'm not going to say it for

(44:33):
all of them. Just assume that I'm going to
spoil everything is I think the conclusion of Star and Marco's
characters was really rushed really quick.
And you can tell when you watch the fourth season, 'cause they
had like they kind of wanted Marco to go this way and they
kind of wanted Star to go this way.
And then they realized halfway through that the end point they

(44:54):
wanted to get to was just moved a lot closer.
So like, OK, so we have to get him out of his relationship and
her out of her relationship and then bring them back together.
And then they get to date for like 2 episodes and then they're
separated and then they actuallycome back together and it's the
whole thing. Yeah.
So I think that could have been handled a little better, even
though I like that I ended up together because it was clearly
like the romantic end game from the start.

(45:17):
So I, I, I would fix that. And then also just how the show
ends, where it's like we're going to take this magic realm
and we're going to take Earth and we're going to mash them
together and that's the end of the show.
No explanation on what this looks like, No explanation on
how this works. No explanation on how this even
happened or why it happened other than the assumption that

(45:42):
the universe did this because two teenagers fell in love.
And that's the explanation. And it's not even an explicit
explanation. It's just an assumed
explanation. So I think the show could have
could have used another season or even like a straight to
Disney plus movie to explain something like they could have

(46:03):
done a little bit more of a follow up.
And I think the show's good. The final season has its its
pitfalls. I still really enjoy it, though.
That's what I would change. That's that's how I would fix
fix that show. Jackson, take it away.
Good word. This is a show I've never seen,
but I'm like completely on your side.
So my first show is a show that I actually really love and it's

(46:25):
been very near and dear to my heart for a long time.
But that being said, I mean, this is one of my favorite shows
of all time, but I also like have think that it gets the most
valid criticism ever. And I'm like, no, you are so
right. And that's Wanda Vision now.

(46:46):
Wanda Vision Disney Plus original kind of was the first
Marvel. It was the first Marvel Disney
Plus show. And when it started, we were
kind of like, whoa, like what ishappening?
Like it was a mystery for a longtime.
And it was like, why are we in sitcom mode?
Like why is Wanda doing this? Like where is this in the

(47:08):
timeline? Like what's going on?
And that was something that Marvel hadn't really done
before. And that was like actually have
decent pacing for once and like kind of do a slow burn.
Marvel had never really like pulled that off in, in the MCU
before. So that was kind of a big deal.

(47:31):
And we were like, whoa, this is really cool.
And we're getting like weekly 22minute episodes.
And it was like, whoa, we're we're obviously going through
the decades on these sitcoms andstuff.
But the problem is as it went on, we were like, oh, sitcoms,
this is great. Like all this stuff.
And then in the last like 2 episodes we're like, we're

(47:54):
immediately going back to everything wrong with Marvel in
general. And it was like her brother came
back and it was like, but his name was Ralph Boner.
And we were like, OK, that's, that's fine.
Like, but then we never revisited him and like, we don't

(48:15):
really know why he was there in the 1st place.
Like even like, what is it like five years later?
Like we really don't or four years later we're like, we don't
really know. We don't really know why he was
there. Like we haven't followed up on
that yet. And I don't know if there was
another plan in in action that was like got scrapped eventually
because Marvel loves to do that.And so then the last episode

(48:41):
really tanks the show because itwas like, Oh my gosh, Juan is on
this crazy character arc, and we're showing it in one of the
most bizarre, creative ways thatMarvel has never done before.
Like, this is a deep character dive, but we're doing it through
sitcom, through different mediums and that kind of thing.

(49:03):
I just eat up. I adore that kind of stuff.
It was a mystery and it was donesuper well.
We're trying to figure out what's going on.
And then the last episode they're like, oh, she's the
villain. She's so bad.
And then it's like, wait a minute, we just like reversed
her character arc that we've been building to this whole
time. And then she kind of was.

(49:24):
But then they're like, well, Agatha's the villain, but also
Wanda's the villain and she sucks.
She's been doing this. And it's like I thought that was
the point was the arc. So here's my here's my Wanda
vision is that the final two episodes were mad disappointing.

(49:44):
And this was bad because it completely abandoned the concept
of the show was it was Wanda's character arc told through
sitcoms through the through the decades as as kind of a way of
her coping through her grief. But it was a mystery and wasn't
fully explained at the beginning.

(50:05):
That's awesome. We should have kept that.
We should have. And they kind of touched on this
in the last episode where like they kind of like went back in
time, like through the decades again.
But I think there was a huge opportunity to do like, and they
should could have still done an epic final battle, but they
should have gone through all thedecades again and have like

(50:28):
fought through the decades as ifthese all of the episodes were
like time capsules. So they're like, oh, we're
fighting in the 40s, we're fighting in the 50s, we're
fighting in the 60s, we're fighting.
And then 'cause her kids get involved like part way through,
like they can get involved. Like they're having this fight
here and then they're here and you can like similar to like a

(50:49):
like the what Cuphead likes to do where it's like they're
fighting style is based on the decades and it's they're
essentially different charactersgoing through all this stuff.
And there was a huge opportunityto capitalize on the medium that
they chose for this show insteadof just reverting it back to
just standard Marvel, which is not what we wanted.

(51:12):
Also, I think their justification for the sitcom
thing was fine, but not like super clear and was essentially
like, well, she was super traumatized, but like sitcoms,
so she just wants to live in a sitcom.
And it's kind of like, OK, but like, maybe you don't even have

(51:35):
to justify it. Maybe in a weird way, like what
we're seeing is not reality. And I think there's this really,
we kind of talked about this in the Minecraft movie review where
it was like, why do you have to explain it?
Like, why can't this just be themedium of the art and it's
interpretive. Now Marvel can't do that 'cause

(51:56):
they're Marvel and Martin Scorsese was right.
But like, I don't know why they couldn't have just been
interpretive. Also, I don't know if this is a
hot take or not. I think it needed a full season,
like a sitcom. I think that they could have
fully leaned into it and done 12or 22 episodes and they could
have done the 20 minute, 22 minute thing where they're like,

(52:18):
we're going to do 1222 minute episodes and this is going to be
what the show is. So it was essentially like broad
term. Like they had such an amazing
concept that they were like, this is what Wanda Vision is
going to be. And then couldn't really
actually give it it's justice. So I think if they were fully

(52:38):
like, we're doing a Wanda sitcom, but something is wrong,
that could have been huge if they actually just poured their
soul into that. But then we have what we have is
good. We have is great, but it could
have been better. And that's how I would have
fixed Wanda Vision. That's fair.
You know I rest my case. You make a lot of.
Good points. It does kind of like fall back

(52:59):
into the Marvel tropes at the end, and I appreciate that.
I like your idea of them like fighting through the the
decades. That would have been really
cool. And now that I think about it,
almost like AI don't know. I feel like that hasn't really
been done before, no. I like that.
I appreciate you that's. My, that's my longest pitch.
That was my most passionate. Like, yeah.

(53:21):
I feel like the star one will probably end up being my longest
just because it's not like the other ones I have Bullet pointed
out a little more. The next one here will be a
little short because I only havelike one thing and that's for
Ninjago. OK, this sucker, the only thing
I've changed. This sucker should have ended at

(53:43):
season 10. That's it.
Like that's my change. No more.
None of this season, 11/12/13, we're switching to 11 minutes
now we're going back to 22, but it's a different show.
But because we haven't had a successful brand outside of
Ninjago, we need to put the nameon there and we're going to keep
going. And it's going to kind of like
spin on and ruin the legacy of this entire show just ended at

(54:03):
10. Yeah.
We're done. It because I think if you follow
like the Hagmann brothers who started the show at season 1,
did everything all the way to season 10, Season 10 was their
last like thing and they were holds up.
Yeah, they were. Very open about that of like, I
think it was 8-9 and 10 was likethis trilogy of shows or trilogy

(54:30):
of seasons where they really were like going full crazy doing
everything they wanted to do. All these callbacks to the
beginning of the series and likethe previous seasons and they
really leaned into that. And then they they stepped away.
They were done and I remember when that like came out and
everyone looked at it and then the new stuff came out and
everyone. Was like, oh, I don't know about

(54:54):
that one buddy. And I just feel like.
Ninjago has not been the same since then and I've I've tried
to get into it multiple times like I've tried to watch the new
stuff multiple times and I cannot get into it to save my
life. Like some of the sets are cool,
but other than that like I really I can't well the.

(55:15):
Characters are completely different now, like what's the
point of keeping up when I feel like the character arc was
wrapped? Yeah, like the.
Character arcs for all these characters were pretty
substantially wrapped in season 10, so I just think the show
should have ended there. That's really the only thing
when we. Were putting this list together,
I realized I was like I could have a completely separate list

(55:37):
that was like shows that should have ended sooner and I'm like,
oh gosh, that might be like something to put on the idea
docket. The next show that I have a few
points on is another Disney Plusoriginal that kind of took the
world by storm and I think it's gotten some unnecessary hate
recently and that's The Mandalorian.

(55:59):
Now when I say unnecessary hate,I am referring to just the first
season. You guys are all over Instagram
and Twitter being like man the Mandalorian sucks.
Like you weren't pissing your pants for that first season when
it was coming out weekly. Do not lie.
So right I have receipts OK? Do not lie.

(56:22):
To me. The first season of The
Mandalorian was pretty revolutionary for Star Wars
'cause it was the first time we'd seen Star Wars take that
medium. If it was the week, it was the
weekly Star Wars thing. But it was super high budget.
It was on Disney Plus, it was weekly, and it was really new.

(56:43):
It was outside of the Jedi. It was outside.
Like we weren't really sure who the character was.
Like, this is the common theme is shows used to have patience.
It used to like kind of like ease the audience through the
story and let them like stumble over the truth and find stuff
out about themselves and like slowly reveal where my biggest

(57:06):
critique about The Mandalorian, specifically the first season is
why on earth did he take his helmet off in the first season
when they knew that he was that they were going multiple
seasons. There was no way on earth this
was going just one season. Like they knew they were going

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like full franchise. And his whole thing is I can't
take the helmet off. It's part of my religion.
Like I'm super like it. It's about like the identities
thing, right? But then he freaking takes it
off in like the end of the firstseason.
And then the second season starts and you're like, oh, like
you keep talking about how you can't take it off and it's part

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of your religion. It's a whole thing.
And like, I get it, Pedro Pascalis hot.
But like, we don't need to see that.
Like as an audience, we had thatspoiled even though the other
characters didn't. And then in the second season,
we threw Bill Burr in there and like, Bill Burr can see him with
his helmet off and there's all this.
And I'm just like, why are we hyping it up?

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Like, oh, the Mandalorians can'ttake their helmet off unless
they want to, and then they justdo.
And so like, that is my biggest critique.
I also think thinking more broadly about The Mandalorian,
and there's so much controversy about this.
Like there's all this stuff, butlike, Cara Dune should have
stayed, should have been throughout the whole thing.

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Luke Skywalker probably shouldn't have been there.
We kind of got like freaking like Book of Boba Fett, like a
teaser episode in the middle of The Mandalorian.
And I just really feel like after the first season, it just
kind of slowly declined. And there's some great parts of

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the second season of The Mandalorian.
I really do think that, but likethe third season is not worth
it. And it's so hard because this
the first season when it was coming out, we were like, Star
Wars is so back. This is actually really good and
this really great. The same way people are talking
about Andor now, people were flaunting over the first season

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of the Mandalorian. And I don't think that it it
needs the hate. But I'm also like, well, the
third season's not great. The second season is hit or
miss, but the first season, like, they should have just kept
it. Like they should have just kept
the consistency. But there was so much like
there's a lot of political like context behind the scenes and

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stuff. And like Gina Carano was pretty
like, like it's controversial, but like she was pretty unjustly
fired. Like, we saw her at a convention
talk about this and she showed the whole story and we were
like, whoa, like that's kind of messed up.
And it will like, it just hurt the show because the show was
really great. And it was all about the
Mandalorians and all this stuff.And then we were like, well, now

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it's about all bounty hunters. We're like, OK, I don't know,
like Boca Tan is cool. But like, why are we so focused
on her like all this? So it was just really like, got
deep in the weeds of Star Wars. And it was like, this used to be
a stand alone thing. Like why can't Star Wars just be
stand alone again? There was like, but Andor and I
will get to Andor. I'm gonna get to Andor.

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Was like freaking out of her andor right now and I'm like, I'm
going to get there, but I'm watching other stuff right now
anyway. Yeah, essentially.
Like he shouldn't have taken hishelmet off and then they should
have just like stayed in their lane essentially.
And then they're like Book of Boba Fett.
And it's like, no, that show wasgenuinely horrific.

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So yeah, that's essentially whatI got on The Mandalorian is like
first season laid some great groundwork and then we were
like, no, we're not going to do that at all and completely
pivoted. So that's what I got that's.
Fair. You know what, you're right.
And I think that it is weird that they were like, well, he

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can't take his helmet off. And then they kept doing it
every single season, almost as if to make it a point.
In the. Third season that he needed to
go back to Mandalora to like be reinstituted into the religion.
He essentially need to be re baptized.
So the Mandalorians clearly workby works, not by faith.

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I don't have to tell you about that.
So anyway, keeping on the Star Wars train.
Yeah, let me hear it. All right, listen.
All right. Y'all know I'm ready, You know I
would. Die for this show Star Wars The
Clone Wars. Let me hear it.
The only thing? I would change is I think the

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Clone Wars is a phenomenal show.I really do.
Especially for the era it was coming out.
It was kind of a dry period for Star Wars.
The Clone Wars was really the only thing we had because it was
all pretty much pre I think withthe exception of season 5, it
was all pre Disney acquisition. So it was a pretty like no new

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movies on the horizon, maybe a new game here and there.
The Clone Wars was really all they had going for them.
It was really good. But I think the first two
seasons suffer from a lot of like filler, one off episodes.
And I think that's because they were just trying to fill out the

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seasons and trying to get and like, see, are we going to get
another season? Are we going to get another
season? And then once they got to season
3, they were like, OK, we know we're getting another season
going into the third season. So we can do a lot more
narrative arcs. Some of my favorite arcs come
from like season 4 with the Ambara arc and how they brought

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in Darth Maul again. And like all of that stuff.
They get into these more like overarching like 3-4, five
episode arcs and they're all really good, but the first two
seasons don't really have that as much.
They have a couple where they kind of tried to do the more
like O2 episodes are connected and that's that's what that is.

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Or like 3 episodes are connectedand then they kind of like bleed
into this next thing, but not really.
I just think there was a little more room to not do as much
filler stuff and kind of keep everything a little more plot
relevant, even if just you've reorganized the episodes you
have and connect them a little better.
Because I don't think the content itself is necessarily

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bad. Like what really throws me off
is the first episode of the Clone Wars is like Yoda going to
this planet with a bunch of clones and getting stranded
there. It feels like a very random
episode to start on. It's not like a hey, this is the
Clone Wars. This is what's going on.
Here's the context. It's like, no, here's Yoda.

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He's doing this thing which was weird.
Is technically the first episodeof the Clone Wars.
Is the Clone Wars movie that came out like a year before
which. Is the one that.
Has Anakin, Obi Wan, Ahsoka, Count Dooku, like all the
characters we know of from the prequels.
And that's technically the firstlike the beginning of the clone

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wars but the start of the TV show is not that.
But then later on in season 2 there's an episode that comes
before the clone wars movie. So the timelines really
confusing. So just just streamline
everything together, make the first like chunk of episodes
what the movie was, because thenyou're establishing Anakin and
Obi Wan's relationship. You're bringing in this new

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character who's exclusive with the show in Ahsoka, and you're
establishing her relationship with Anakin.
And then you can go on and do basically whatever else happens.
So that's what I would change. Everything post like season 2 is
incredible. Can I keep it?
100, though, I feel like this iswhat a lot of anime is doing
right now is it's like, well, wehave this time with like the

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timeline is kind of confusing because we have movies and the
manga and the show, but they're like, let's recap or let's make
let's add this episode in so that we can lead up to the movie
or let's let the movie recap theshow or the show can recap the
move like they know how to like let it flow better.

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And I'll also say like this has been a a long standing
conversation on the show was I've never seen the clone wars.
And every time I try to start, Ican't do it because I'm like,
like, it's so frustrating because I'm like, this is good,
but like, what are we doing? Like where are we?
Where are we going? Like, what's the point?

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And I know like I could eventually get there.
I just haven't taken the time todo it.
So I I understand that testamentas someone that has struggled to
get into the Clone Wars in that way.
So do you have any more one offsor are we pretty much groups
together now? I have one more one off, but
it's pretty short. All right, let me.

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Hear it? So I also put My Hero Academia
on here and the only thing I would fix because I do like the
anime and I have like an emotional attachment to it, I
would fix. I think seasons 5 and 6 are the
weakest just because they clearly hit some kind of weird
like they switched up their director and something happened

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in studio bones where seasons 5 and 6 completely mis prioritized
what the story was about. Because in season 5 the first
half is all like this training arc and then it goes immediately
into another training arc which then goes into this arc all
about the villains. Which in the manga is not how it
goes. In the manga it's training arc
into villain arc into other training arcs.

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So they're like separated, but the anime was like, well, the
third movie is coming out and the movie is tied to the second
training arc, so we're going to flip them.
So this arc comes out around thesame time as this movie so that
it makes sense so that like you can get the tie in and you can
like understand that. But because this villain arc got
thrown all the way to the end ofthe season, it got the least

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amount of episodes, the least amount of budget, and the least
amount of priority, which sucks because it's a really good arc
that gives you a lot of good exposition on to why the
villains are the way that they are.
It's not trying to make you be like, ah, yes, rah rah, let's
cheer on these villains as they destroy the world.
It's more like highlighting how hero society failed these

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individuals and then showing youthe consequences of that action.
So that going into season 6, when they do start destroying
the world, you're like, ah, I understand why they're doing
this. It doesn't make it OK, but I
understand why they're doing this.
And Season 6 kind of had a similar thing where they had a
lot of fighting on the front end, but then they put all of

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the time in production on the back end.
So the front end and even like the front of the front end, like
the first five episodes had a lot of good animation, great
stuff. And then you get to this major,
like the first major confrontation between Deku and
Shigaraki, you know, the main hero and the main antagonist.
And it's animated like a clip show.

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And it was so disappointing because it was one of my
favorite fights. It's one of like the most well
drawn the manga and they're likeclip show, slide PNG across
screen, whatever, like move on. And then the second-half got
really good and season 7's really good.
So I just think like redoing those and kind of like
reshifting. And I know in a perfect world

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they wouldn't be on a yearly schedule, so they would have the
time in the budget and they did the best with what they had.
But that's what I would fix about that, so okay.
I think we are. Very good group stuff now, yeah.
And I think this is a Group One,but if not, I'll start with it.
And that's Parks and Rec. It's not but Parks and
Recreation. And you can give me your give me
your take. Since you've seen the show like

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and you're a fan, tell me what you think.
So Parks and Recreation, I thinkI'll say that it's underrated in
my opinion in the sense that like, I, I think a lot of people
like too many people prefer to the office over Parks and
Recreation when like parks and rec has so much to offer.
But I have a few notes. And one is it's that the first

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season is not as bad as people think.
I've heard so many people be like, Oh my gosh, the first
season of Parks and Rec is so hard to get through once you and
I'm like, is it though, like because you like the office And
the issue with the first season of Parks and Rec is it's just
like the office. So like, what's the problem?
And my note is that Leslie Knopes, Michael Scott meter

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needed to just be turned down like a little bit like just she
was to Michael Scott. And that was the point because
Parks and Rec was a result of the Office being so popular.
So that needed to get turned down.
But then it does like in the second season, she's like
actually her own character instead of just the female
Michael Scott. So like, that's that.

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The other note is that Ron Swanson's wife, Tammy, I cannot
stand her. I don't think she added anything
to the show. Which one?
I think the librarian shoot or the really.
Strict one the. Oh.
The librarian 1 was like shows up and they like have like in.

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I don't even know what word to use but it's like absolutely
raunchy interaction, yes. She's the one that I'm thinking
like she's just like there for shot comedy like which it's
funny because it's his wife in real life.
Like that's their like, like it's Ron.
It's freaking Nick Offerman and Megan Mullaney.

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Like they are married. And so it's really funny to be
like, I'm sure they're having a great time.
But for the context of the show,I'm like, this is really out of
character for Ron Swanson. I don't think this is funny.
Like so like I would just kind of take her out.
Like, I don't think she's I don't think she's worth it at
all. Also, final note is the last

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season of parks and Rec is really bad.
And no one talks about how bad the last season of parks and Rec
is because they do this weird like future time jump.
And it's like kind of the bit isthat everything is a hologram
and like it's the future. And I was like, this is not this
is not the show that does that. This is not the make a joke

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about the future having a hologram show like this is a
very grounded show. Like what's the what are we
doing here? So I think like I see why they
time jumped for the last season because I think they kind of
wanted to do that. But like that kind of bit is
more of a finale kind of thing than an entire last season kind

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of thing where it's like, oh, I wonder what we're going to be
doing in 10 years. And then you take a few minutes
to show it. You don't need the entire last
season of the show you've been building to like, undo some
character work so that you can get them back to the point they
started by the end of the show. That is not how that works.

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That is really lazy writing and I don't appreciate it.
So I would have just not let them do that.
So. I agree with you partially, OK.
I agree with what you're saying about Leslie at the beginning
and taking out Tammy. I understand.

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Yeah. And I partially agree with you
on the time skip part. My issue does not come with the
fact that it's a time skip. It comes with how they handled
doing the time skip and the whole like bit was, oh, we've
jumped 10 years in the future and now everything's super high
tech and blah, blah, blah, blah,blah.
Because it's something that got really outdated really quick.

(01:12:59):
Yeah. So there were some like good
points brought up because they like they kind of were trying to
get into the whole like, well, Amazon is sending out all of
these or like the Amazon, right?Equivalent, You know, parks.
And Rec is sending out all thesedrones with those people's
addresses and like, collecting information and like trying to
show how dangerous and bad that is, which we all know.

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And we're kind of like in the we're still getting through that
right now. But right, I think that was
fine. But one of my favorite episodes
of Parks and Rec is in the finalseason when Ron and Leslie get
trapped in the office and they have to like have that heart to
heart and like get over themselves to really get to the

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bottom of what was going on. So I think if you like get rid
of the final season, you lose stuff like that.
And I think you probably could have, you could have split that
season in half, had half the season be in the current time
and then the other half be a time skip.
And you could still have some ofthat stuff.
And I think it would work because I liked getting to see

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like more of Leslie and Ben's relationship, more of Andy and
April's relationship, like just seeing how all of that's
affected in the future. Because I, I, it drives me up a
wall when a show is like, here'sall this stuff.
And the office did this with Dwight and Angela and it drove
me nuts. And it did it with Michael and
Holly too, where it said here's the end of the story is them

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ending up together and that's it.
And you don't get to see anything else of how that played
out after the fact. So I like that they took the
time, even though it wasn't perfect, to still show some of
that and like show us these characters after the main events
that we're used to. Yeah, and I, I think it's

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interesting you bring up that episode where they're trapped in
the office because I, that is, that is also my favorite part of
this, the last season specifically.
And I just remember like Ron Swanson being really heartfelt
and being like, I eventually looked up and realized I didn't,
none of my friends were here. And like that's a very big deal

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for him to say that because he would like never admit that they
were friends or whatever. And I thought that was very
sweet. But I'm also like, I feel like
we could have this conversation without the futuristic time jump
weird jokes because time jump, like you can do a time jump
correctly, but I didn't, I didn't feel like this was the

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show that needed to do that. I felt like it was, we need
another season, but we don't have a season's worth of
material. So let's do a time jump so we
can kind of like start, we can kind of like get some of that
stuff out of the way and we can just kind of jump into something
funny. That was kind of how I took the
last season and I just don't love it.

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That's fair. But.
That's Parks and Rec. I think we have a few group, few
shows that we both feel stronglyabout.
I have. OK, I'll kick it off.
I have two more and one of thosebeing community.
Yes. I.
Love Community, dude, I'm still trying to find the Blu-ray.
I'm so I also have, I also have The Office on here.

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We'll talk about that in a second.
I got my girlfriend into The office.
She's loving it. And I like want to tell her to
watch Community, but I don't know where to tell her to watch
Community. Yeah.
Because it's like. Everywhere and nowhere and I
can't find the Blu rays anywhere.
Like I genuinely don't think that movie has a DVD release.

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I don't the show. Yeah, there's no.
Way. I've never found it anywhere.
Not on Amazon, not on like nowhere.
Interesting. So I feel like I've seen it.
Maybe I'll. Find it somewhere someday.
Yeah, maybe. But I didn't really.
Have a ton of community notes but I wanted to hear yours I
feel like. Ours are going to overlap.

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Yeah. Yeah, because my I have 3.
The show's got some issues. I have 3.
Notes and all of them refer to the same.
Yeah. And it's all romantic.
That is like my biggest issue with the show because I
rewatched it last year before they took it off Netflix.

(01:17:23):
One no more Jeff and Annie. Let's just take that subplot out
entirely. Gone.
Gone. Yeah, no, no more wrong.
And if you OK if you want. To do that, like if you wanted
to throw in another female character for him to be into,
may either make him younger or make her older because I don't
have an issue with them togetheroutside of the age difference.

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That's it. Yes, because she's like a child.
Like, yeah, she's 18. And you can skirt the line of
being like, well, she's an adult.
And I'm like, yeah, I didn't know.
You're right. But.
She's. Like an adult, he's.
An adult, like, we have a section of the like an episode

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of the show dedicated to him turning 40 years old.
Yes. And she'd still be like 20-3,
yeah, or 24 and. Also like her entire character
is she's the kid, she's like. Mature.
And the ditzy one like AH gets into trouble 'cause she doesn't

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know any better. Yeah.
And so like and. He's like when they the dad of
the group, right? Whoa, pump the brakes here.
Yeah, no. I wholeheartedly agree.
Get that out. It's.
Just creepy. The second one is don't do
revolving door dating. That was really annoying where
they just started cycling through the different pairs

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where they're like, and it's Jeff and Britta, now it's Jeff
and Annie, Now it's Troy and Britta.
Now we're back to Jeff and Britta.
And now we're going to hint at Abed and Annie, but not really.
And now we're going to oh, that reminds me, another one that's
not on my list. Brie Larson.
Should have stayed. That's so true.
She should have said. They were a good so good they

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wrote one good couple in this entire show and then she
disappeared for no reason and I will never forgive them for
that. The only.
Good thing Brie Larson is and that was a personal attack or
something. Yeah, no.
For real. I'm like, Dang bro.

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So yeah, don't do the revolving door dating.
I don't think Troy and Britta worked out very well and I don't
think the writers did either 'cause they broke up.
And then the last one is make Jeff and Britta end game.
I think that's another thing community suffers from is it
starts off with the same premiseas like Friends and How I Met
Your Mother. And then there's no romantic pay

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off at the end because the wholereason they even started the
study group was so that Jeff could try to like, hit on Britta
and. I know there's like character
growth and development and whatnot, but they still could
have gotten together at the end and you not invalidate that
character development. Here's what I think.
Should have happened is there's I don't know if you remember

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there's one there's like a one off joke at the very end of like
the second to last season where she's like, well, let's just get
married and he's like what? She's like.
Wait. And then they're like, kind of.
It's the joke for the episode where they're gonna get married,
but then they're like, oh, just kidding.
Like that would be a disaster. Yeah, because.

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That was like, wasn't that Shirley's wedding?
Yeah, they were. They both got like super drunk.
And then they're like, well, let's just get married.
Let's just get married. I think they should have done it
Which? Is the second time that joke was
married? Yes.
I think that they should have just gotten married and then
that was the rest of their relationship was like, well,

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we're married, but they're both kind of like, well, let's just
try like, let's just figure it out.
Like because I agree, like community starts off as this
really simple like, oh man, oncewoman so man, you know, jumps
through social hoops to get woman like very basics, every
sitcom plot. But then it like and it becomes

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so much more just like every good sitcom.
But then like we never went backto that good like final that end
game, like you're saying. Also, I don't know if this is a
hot take. Give them a little flowers.
The final season of Community isactually kind of good.
No, it is. I kind of like the final season

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of Community, my favorite episode of Community.
And this is like, not like there's a lot of great episodes
of Community. You could say I love Garretts
wedding is my favorite episode of community.
That's in the last season where they're like, they crash his
wedding and you realize this whole time he's like, you guys
suck. You guys are horrible.

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I don't like you. And then they're kind of like
realizing this whole time that they're jerks, but then it
completely flips because you realize Garrett accidentally
married his cousin. And it's like, so who's the bad?
Person here, I just remember. Like crying, laughing at that
episode like that is such a good.
I love that plot. Oh, OK.

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Anything else that you're going on about community?
No, I think that's it. OK, This is a show that we I'm
going to get, I'm going to toss you one.
This is a show we we've talked about on the show before and we
both feel passionately about andthere's a lot of there's a lot
of issues that you can you can bring up and that is Friends.

(01:22:49):
Here's my I could do an hour on what I would change about
Friends, which is so funny because I love friends.
I think that's a real. I think it's like it like
weirdly kind of addicting and mesmerizing.
Yeah, I watched. All the episodes in 39 days I
remember. That that was probably not
healthy. So that was years ago.

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Here's my notes about friends, Ross and Rachel.
I'm going to say since they are,as we're saying, like they are
the romantic end game of the show, right?
So I'm not going to say that they shouldn't get together.
I'm going to say that they should have gotten married in

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season 8 when she got pregnant. And I'm kind of I want to know
your thoughts on this too, because you kind of touched on
it was I'm so sick of shows thinking that a finale needs
like a huge event. You know, like I don't will they

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won't they doesn't work for 10 seasons.
Like eventually they have to choose.
And so like Friends having such an ambiguous ending of like,
well, they have a kid together and she stayed for him, but
like, we're not going to see them get married is so like
bizarre because I'm like, would the finale of Friends hit any

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different if they were just married?
I feel like it would have ended sweeter.
Like I feel like it would have just been like, well, we're all
married. We're all, you know, we all got
kids now. Like we're older, we got to move
on. And like, I feel like that would
be a much sweeter. And the office does that too,
like you said, where it's like we have to end on Dwight's

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wedding because that's a big deal.
Like it's a big thing when I'm like, I want to see the married
life. Like I want to see what happens
after. Like in my mind, like this is
not a end point. Like this is a checkpoint for
sure, but it's not an end point.Like your life doesn't end when
you get married. And I know this because I'm

(01:24:56):
still alive and I got married 3 weeks ago.
So yeah, hey, did I mention thatI got married?
Also quick thing, Joey and Rachel should never have been a
thing ever. That was another revolving door
dating thing that shouldn't haveworked.
And also and I had another pointand I cannot, I'm trying to.
Oh, they should have given Joey some.

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Joey should have gotten married at the end.
Joey deserved better than to enda single because this entire
show Joey has been like, oh, I have a big family, I love a big
family, I want kids. Like this whole thing Joey ends
up being super sweet by the end of the show and he it's the only
one that ends single. I'm like, well you can't enter,
you can't. You can't introduce a new

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character that gets married to amain character at the end of the
show. That's bull crap because we
threw Paul Rudd in there to marry Phoebe in season 10.
Why couldn't Joey have also ended well?
Also Paul Rudd is one of the best aspects of that show and
he's in like 1 season. Not even.

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Yeah, so like. Anyway.
That's kind of my spiel on Friends.
That's what I would have changedlots of just like misused
characters in that show. That just drives me up the.
Wall. OK, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll
contribute a little bit here. OK, because we can't make too
many drastic changes. I wouldn't eliminate Rachel

(01:26:25):
entirely. I would just make her a better
character because she kind of stays like 2 dimensional and
flat throughout the entire show and does not change.
She might have a little like, oh, I'm a girl boss, I need to
get out there and do some work instead of relying on my dad to
give me money. Like, OK, yeah, but you're still

(01:26:45):
a terrible person. Like that doesn't change that's
what I'm looking. I'm not looking for you to be
like, oh, look at me. I'm all independent rah rah rah.
But no I agree if if her and tell it to your baby daddy.
Like if her and. Ross were the end game.

(01:27:06):
They should have. They should have ended up
together. I kind of wish they did like
what they did with Jim and Pam where they got together and then
they stayed together. And I appreciate that sitcoms
kind of moved into that trope because The Office did that and
then Brooklyn 99 did that. And I really appreciated that
because it it kind of like brokethe societal norm of like, when

(01:27:27):
things get tough, we just like bail and call it a day.
Whereas those two couples were like, things got tough.
We're A-Team, we're going to work through this together.
And friends, Friends do that with Ross and Rachel Chandler.
They did do that. Monica and Chandler are an
infinitely better couple than Ross and Rachel.
Like everyone knows that. Amen, brother.

(01:27:48):
Amen. Gosh.
I think Joey. Should have ended up together.
Joey's ending in Friends is alsothe same issue I have with Raj
from Big Bang Theory where the whole show he just talks about
like being this hopeless romantic who really wants to get
married into it and then he endssingle and I'm like of all the
people to end single, not him right?

(01:28:09):
Give him an actual arc. Yeah.
So yeah, that's all I have. All right.
We're cutting close on time, butwe have one more show that we
have mentioned in passing it a couple times and that is the
office, The office. What a way to end now.
Big event, big event, big event.Oh Lord.
Now, the The thing is about the Office is I don't want to say,

(01:28:31):
well, The Office should have ended at Season 7 when Michael
left. And I don't want to say that
because that feels too easy. And that's not as nuanced.
There's much more nuance to it than that.
But also the more I think about it, the more I'm like, you know,
there's not really a whole lot that I like about seasons 8:00

(01:28:51):
and 9:00 about the office 'causeI was kind of looking and I was
like, they should never have gone meta because you get like
Brian the boom op comforting pant, which just vomit.
Because like, like you said, it was like the point is Jim and
Pam, they are the end game. And then we're kind of like in
our final moments trying to break them up.

(01:29:12):
Like whose idea was this? Like they're the solid couple.
The show is not was never intended to be meta.
It was just the medium. Like you don't have to explain
the medium, just be confident. I'm sick of this.
Also why did Angela marry that random senator Like she we just
needed? Oh yeah.

(01:29:33):
This is why. Senator.
Supplies which? Is the her and.
Oscar closer together as friends.
I'm like that. One, that was really weird too.
That's a sign that your character should just get
together. Like you are throwing up
pointless roadblocks to keep heraway from Dwight.
Like just give up and put them together.

(01:29:54):
Also, let's say in this scenariothat we have to have nine
seasons of The Office. Like we have to keep going, let
Dwight and Angela just get married and then Michael leaves
and then let Jim be the general manager because that was the his
character arc was he was kind ofthe goofy sales guy and he was

(01:30:17):
like, oh, I'm going to get out of here.
I hate this company. Like it's whatever.
But now he's like, oh, I'm married.
I have like kids, like I'm I'm the manager now.
And there's I feel like there's some really sweet moments that
he has with Michael throughout the show that hinted at him kind
of becoming like that going intomore of a leadership role that

(01:30:41):
we never touched on. We'd rather have him leave the
Philadelphia so that the boom upguy could hit on Pam.
Like who thought that this was agood idea?
And then we put Andy in there, which we ruined the Andy
character because he was not a bad character.
We just ruined him at the end. So anyway, that's how I would
fix the Office is I would just just let Dwight and Angela get

(01:31:04):
married and then Jim should justbe the general manager after
Michael. It's not that hard like.
OK, that's how it. Certainly is a take.
I had to stop when you were like, oh, I'm not going to say
we're just going to end when Michael leaves and so on.
And so because it's literally the first note I have.

(01:31:26):
But mine is a little more nuanced.
It's not The show ends when Michael leaves.
I think I would cut Season 9 andSeason 8 would be the final
season. And instead of doing this
revolving door of like Will Ferrell, Robert California, that
other guy, like this revolving door that eventually leads us to

(01:31:47):
Andy, that eventually leads us to Dwight, I would say just make
it Dwight. Because didn't Michael write him
a letter of recommendation when he left?
I think so, yeah. He wrote some kind of like
letter that was like, if I had to pick someone to run this
branch after me, it would be Dwight.
So you let that fall to the nextperson because who was no say

(01:32:12):
Saber had already bought Dunder Mifflin at that point.
But whoever was making that decision make the decision that
it was Dwight. And to your point, when you put
endless roadblocks up, what ended up happening was Dwight
became the manager and then had that weird thing with a gun that
then got him kicked out of beingmanager for a season and 1/2.

(01:32:35):
So let's. Eliminate that he's the manager
for the final season. We still get to see Jim go off
and do the thing in Philadelphia, take out the meta
stuff with the boom guy and likethat other chick who was like
trying to hit on Jim and like leave the gym and Pam stuff.
But also he think let Dwight andAngela get married in that final
season, like maybe towards the halfway point so that we can see

(01:32:58):
what Dwight's happy ending lookslike.
Because if you know, if Michael,Jim and Dwight are the three
main characters that we're following, right, Right.
We've. Seen Jim and Pam get together
and that's their happy ending, yeah.
We now have seen. Michael and Holly get together,
which is their happy ending. So now let Dwight and Angela get
together and let them have theirwedding happy ending type stuff.

(01:33:23):
And then you end the show with all of them like coming back
together for some kind of reunion.
Like it doesn't have to be a wedding where everyone is there.
You could do like an office reunion, office party, like
something even just be like, oh.Michael wants to come back for
New Year's or something like that.

(01:33:43):
Like, oh, Kelly's throwing a NewYear's party and like, Michael
just shows up, you know? Like, I don't think it needs to
be huge and bombastic because those little things are big for
the characters. So like, let us feel that too,
because life is not like that. Like life is not, oh, everyone
is going to get together at thismoment, at this time.
It's like we need something morenatural.

(01:34:04):
And honestly, I really, really like the idea of Dwight being
manager, marrying Angela halfwaythrough.
My only thing is, if Dwight is the manager, I need to see him
interact with Jim at Dunder Mifflin.
Yeah. Because I think that Jim, if if
we make Dwight the manager and then Jim moves, then like I kind

(01:34:28):
of lose that that fun like Jim and Dwight dynamic.
And I'm kind of I would be very sad to lose that because there's
so much opportunity for Dwight as the manager to have that
there. That's fair.
But I also. Take out everything.
They did to Andy that was so literally UN unnecessary, so
uncool. He was actually had developed

(01:34:50):
into a good character, was in a good relationship with Aaron and
then they just like through thatthey.
Just they just like, really hated him.
They assassinated. Him.
That's a character assassination.
Right there, that's. Crazy.
That's so true. All right, well, unless you have
anything else to add, no, I think we're pretty ready to tie
a bow on it. So guys, thank you so much for

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