What could be the craziest month’s for Nerd Culture in recent history, Tuong La and Pull the Plug’s Justin Godelie step up to the plate and talk about all the juicy things that came out in April! Join them as they go to hell and never return watching the newest Hellboy, zap into magical supermen discussing Shazam!, and see the Infinity Saga come to an end chattin’ about Avengers: Endgame!
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Today we are celebrating 11 years of the MCU and superhero pop culture by giving our take on an aged old question: “What are the best super powers?”. Face it, even the most jaded comic book sneerer wishes they can get up and fly out of bed,  transform into a fire breathing lizard, or shoot lasers out of their eyes! This week join Tuong La and New Mutants Justin Godelie, Dan Foerster, and Angus MacDonald as they put on the Infinity Gauntlet and materialize their take on the Top 5 best super powers!
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Ground Rules
You can’t choose a character and get all their powers
It’s the result not the the means that define the power (ie. Green lantern’s ring is the means and the hard light constructs are the result)
Gadgets and tech do not count (ie Batman’s utility belt)
Can’t be a made up super power
Nominating under the impression that our bodies can handle the super power
The Force does not count or entities don’t count (ie phoenix force, symbiote)
No universe shattering powers count
*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as our own personal unordered lists. More detailed descriptions of the caveats with each power are discussed in the episode.
Group Top 5
5. Shape Shifting
4. Healing Factor
3. Time Freeze
2. Elemental Bending
1. Teleportation
Tuong’s List
Elemental Bending
Super Flight
Hard Light Constructs
Magneto Powers
Energy Blasts
Spidersense
Super speed
Super learning
Technomancy
Super Luck
Animal Control
Alchemy Control (ie Full Metal Alchemist)
Eating fruit and being able to fuck up anything in your path for about 10 seconds (Pac-Man)
“Ring King Belt Adjustment”
“The most hilarious super power ever imagined is the Ring King manager’s power to heal your boxer’s battered body with an enthusiastic “belt adjustment.” Whenever a round is over and your fighter returns to his corner, the trainer immediately drops to his knees and goes to work on your fighter’s “belt.” Somewhere in Japan there’s an old programmer laughing their head off at the fact so many American kids had to watch this over and over”
Justin’s List
Teleportation
Power Absorption
Matter Duplication
Invisibility
Super Speed
Time Travel
Telepathy
Super Decision Making
Speaking with the Dead
Body Manipulation
Angus’s List
Healing Factor
Ability to recall events in third person ie Sherlock’s Mind Palace
Freezing Time
Hammer Space (reaching behind your back and pulling out anything)
Ability to eat anything
Ability to say the exact right thing to end a conversation
Plot Armour (the thing every protagnist has that ensures them that they’ll be okay in the end/actually learning from their mistakes)
On this week’s Improv Punch Up the boys wake up with the Tactful Tuong La in Podcavern West with no recollection of how they got there and even worse, without any scenes to punch up!  Listen as Jean Claude Vanclam and Vanjam face off in the showdown of the century, we get into the interiors and exteriors of Ant-Man vs Trader Joe, and a snow globe provides a look into the underworld, a blood donation, and fun with Siri.
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Welcome to the third year of a THREE in ONE Ranked episode where we put 15 improv groups on the spot from the Ottawa Improv Festival 2019 to weigh in on three questions that only improvisors can answer! Join Tuong La and Improv Nerds Angus MacDonald, Leslie Cserepy while we make a Top 5 and RANK other people’s answers! Also once again a certain special friend from “Daredevil” and “Spiderverse” makes a surprise appearance..
The three questions we asked improvisors this episode were:
Top 5 Ways to Become The Next Avenger (Starting at time stamp 10:33)
Top 5 Ways to Escape From Mars (Starting at (Starting at time stamp 41:56)
Top 5 Ways to Help Sasquatch Become President (Starting at time stamp 1:07:28)
Below are all the ranked lists of all three questions plus honorable mentions from Tuong, Leslie, and Angus. Detailed description of these answers are in the episode itself so give it a listen so you know what the hell we are talking about! Thanks to all our guests who were involved in making this episode!
Top 5 Ways to Become the Next Avenger
5. “Avenge Every Day Life & Peanut Butter” – Mar Khorkhordina (Mi6 Improv)
4. “Skimpy and Screaming” – Kadi Diop – (Colour Outside the Lines)
3. “Angry Super Power and Dr. Slime” – Carley Thorne (Hillary Duff Fan Club), Rhys Naylor (Thirst Trap)
2. “Take What You Have, Avengerize It, and Bribe” – Rich Hilborn (Quest Friends Forever)
1. “Pseudo Science Insert” – Cas Knihnisky, Jason McNutt (The Making-Box Brigade)
Honorable Mentions
Tuong
Be besties with Thanos so you can live and be a farmer with him after his finger snap and claim any vacant Avengers spots
Pick a fight with Captain America and as soon as he’s about to punch me hold up a portrait of Peggy Carter’s Face so he’s stunned and then punch through the portrait with a sword or something
Sleep with all the Avengers to the point where you have dirty on all of them and blackmail your way in
Angus
Sell your people sills an be like “hey I’m the party guy so you of course want me around”
Bunch of spots just opened up so I’m pretty sure I can just walk in
Pretend to be Hawkeye, get his haircut, and kinda be far enough away from them during battles so they believe it’s him. After some time they can get comfortable enough with you that when you reveal that you were never Hawkeye they will accept you anyways.
Leslie
Take a taco truck park it outside Avengers Tower, sell tacos for months, and then ask them to be part of the Avengers
Become a judge, you choose an Avenger whose the weakest, commit a crime and plant evidence against them, and during the trial you make the plea deal to become the next Avenger
Deep Fake a Tony Stark Porno and blackmail your way in
Top 5 Ways to Escape from Mars
5. “Embrace, Stay, Swimsuit” – Daphney Joseph (Coko & Daphney)
4. “Shit Potato Medley Space Uber” – Didi Guenin, Sara Meleika (The Fresh Paint)
2. “Terra-form and Take Martian” – Nick Kanellis – (The Magnet Theater Touring Company)
1. “Rocks, Freeze, Babes” – Isaac Kessler (2-Man No-Show)
Honorable Mentions
Tuong
Get a stick and draw “HELP I’M DYING YOU NASA MOTHER FUCKERS” in the sand hope one of their satellites read it
From the ships wreckage, put yourself inside where you would normally put a torpedo and launch yourself into outer space and hope for the best
Swear off chocolate for life (ie Mars Bars)
Angus
Scrap parts from the Curiousity (or the Opportunity) Rover and make a space ship like Matt Damon would
Dig until you find long dead alien technology and either terraform Mars with it or build a space ship
Make mars so appealing that everyone wants to come there and when they do, steal a ship and fly it back to earth (Aka “Fyre Festivalling”)
Leslie
Find the Curiousity Rover, find the biggest hill, build a ramp at the bottom of it, and then Evil Knievil that shit
Eat a Mars Bar (Mental Escape)
Find a Martian, Seduce it, and when your about to fuck you go “no no no we need condom from Jupiter”. When your on your space ship on your way, and when the martian lets it’s guard down, shove a grenade down it’s throat and take the spaceship
Top 5 Ways to Help Sasquatch Become President
5. “Podium PR” – Melissa Britney, Hailey Robateau (A Little Awkward)
4. “Dress up as Bernie Sanders” – DJ Mausner (Crybabies)
3. “Court That Mountain Vote” – Jonas McLean (Outtake Improv)
2. “Build that Brand” –Â Ken Hall (2-Man No-Show)
1. “We Bought a Zoo” – Brian de la Bruere, Aaron Paulsen (Shrek, Whenever You’re Ready)
Honorable Mentions
Tuong
Dip Sasquatch in Cheetos Dust and put a MAGA hat on him
Part of Sasquatch’s Campaign Promises is to let you hang out in the secret club with all the other cryptids
Make a biopic of Sasquatch played by method actor Christian Bale and Lady Sasquatch Amy Adams and win an Oscar. After you will appear on late night TV and SNL and get that Hollywood Vote and influence their audience to vote Sasquatch 2020
Angus
Have a slogan ready like “Think of the Possibilities” because if Saquatch is real what else is?…or like do a Smear campaign against the other crpytids
Election by Combat
Have Sasquatch host a shitty reality TV show where he makes decisions not based on logic, paint him orange, and make him say some pretty reprehensible shit and have him not own up to it
Leslie
Set up a meeting with Obama and steal his brain juice
Crash the Democratic Convention and whip chili dogs into the crowd but like in a chili dog gun
Become VP and then get the president to meet you next to an electric fence and then push him in by accident and become the president
On this edition of Talkin’ Tuong, join Tuong with the Titular Taylor Fleming as they wrap up all things March and go Higher Further Faster talking about Captain Marvel, get spooked by their dopplegangers with Jordan Peele’s new horror – Us, and see how high Dumbo soars in the new Disney live-action remake!
Note: This episode had some technical hiccups along the way where we lost connection with Taylor a few times but hey that’s live production for ya (and part of the fun!) so we left it all in!
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On this week’s Improv Punch Up we have the Judicious Joel Garrow (GRIMprov!) This time The Undertaker and Mankind relive their Hell in a Cell match, or should we say, Driver’s License match? Captain America gets some time in the theatre and feels what it’s like for his property to be stolen, and 3 Badass dudes face the ultimate foe: NATURE!
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Below are the video clips we used in the show (these clips are not our own and were used for creative purposes) All the Rights in This Content Belong to Their Respective Owner/s.
Wrestlers: The Undertaker & Mankind (Mark Calaway & Mick Foley
Booker: Vince McMahon
Promotions: World Wrestling Federation
Captain America (1990) – Stealing a truck
Source: RETRO CINEMA GROUP
CREDITS:
Directed by: Albert Pyun
Written by: Stephen Tolkin & Lawrence Block
Produced by: Joseph Calamari, Menahem Golan, Tom Karnowski & Stan Lee
Starring: Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox, Scott Paulin, Ned Beatty, Darren McGavin, Francesca Neri & Michael Nouri
Production Company: Â Marvel Entertainment Group, Jadran Film & 21st Century Film Corporation
Distributed by: 20/20 Vision, Columbia Tristar Home Video & Metro Goldwyn-Mayer
Riki Oh: The Story of Ricky – Shower Scene
Source:Â GoogleGoogleÂ
CREDITS:
Directed by: Lam Nai-choi
Written by: Lam Nai-choi & Tetsuya Saruwatari
Produced by: Chan Dung Chow
Starring: Fan Siu-wong, Fan Mei Sheng, Ho Ka-kui, Yukari Oshima & Frankie Chen
Distributed by: Golden Harvest
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Can you feel it? The snow is melting, the temperature is starting to rise, and the world around us is starting to come alive! That’s right Spring is here and is ready for some ranking! This week join Tuong La and Little Rays of Sunshine Justin Godelie, Shannon Godelie, and Laura Gordon as they plant their seeds in the PodCavern (don’t be gross) and grow a Top 5 Best Things about Spring list!
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Ground Rules
Like our other Seasons episodes, we cannot nominate “concepts”
There will be overlap between Spring and Summer, so focusing on things that are more distinctly Spring
*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as our own personal unordered lists.
Group Top 5
5. First Patio Visit
4. Spring Cleaning
3. Kickoff to Music Festival Season
2. Growth of Greenery
1. Longer days/More Sunshine
Tuong’s List
Longer Days/ More Hours of Sunshine
Easter
April Fools
Animals awaken
Outdoor Walks
Flowers
Light jackets
Tulip Festival (Ottawa)
Picnics
Outdoor Noise of Spring (leaves rustling, birds singing)
Dishonorable Mention: Spring Allergies, Bugs return…
This week on The Improv Punch up we are joined by the Kinetic Krystal Merrells! On this episode, the kids on the magic school bus learn a grave lesson on Pluto, we tune in to a live special edition of Ontario Today to solve people’s problems, and we find the ultimate match for a one inch punch: a bouncy castle!
Below are the video clips we used in the show (these clips are not our own and were used for creative purposes) All the Rights in This Content Belong to Their Respective Owner/s.
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Kill Bill- One Inch Punch
Source: Movieclips
CREDITS:
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Written by: Quentin Tarantino
Produced by: Lawrence Bender
Starring: Umw Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah & David Carradine
Production Company: A Band Apart
Distributed by: Miramax
Magic School Bus Pluto Helmet
Source: Anglea Isbell
CREDITS:
Based on: The Magic School Bus by Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen
Developed by Alison Blank, Kristin Laskas Martin & Jane Startz
Voices of: Lily Tomlin, Lisa Yamanaka, Danny Tamberelli, Daniel DeSanto, Tara Meyer, Erica Luttrell, Maia Filar, Stuart Stone, Renessa Blitz & Malcoml-Jamal Warner
Production Company: Â Â South California ETV, Nelvana & Scholastic Entertainment
Distributed by: Nelvana
Ontario Today – Gardening: Hot peppers and surviving the heat
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Remember when Saturday Mornings were the best time of the week? What better way to start the weekend than to wake up in your jammies, eat your favorite sugary cereal, turn on your oversized CRT TV’s, and binge watch cartoons for hours on end. It was truly a wondrous era that swept North American pop culture for years on end which has sadly vanished in this day in age. So hop in our time machine as Tuong La and Nostalgic Cartoon Lovers Axandre Lemours, Alli Harris, and Catherine Ballachey take you back to the glory days of being a kid and rank the Top 5 best Saturday Morning Cartoons!
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Ground Rules
Shows could air on weekdays but people have to have a connection with watching that show on Saturday Mornings primarily
Due to the age of this group, the shows we will be discussing will be primarily from the 90’s and 2000’s
Cartoons nominated are more catered for children and less “adult swim” type of cartoonsTuon
*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as our own personal unordered lists.
On this week’s Improv Punch Up, Leslie and Angus are joined by the “Eye Catchin” Sachin Sinha! Open your ears and get ready for some alternate scenes where Tum Tum, Rocky and Colt and get into an altercation with some sexy mummies, the son of Godzilla gets himself into a sticky silky situation, and the Goodfella’s participate in prison’s hottest new baking show!
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Below are the video clips we used in the show (these clips are not our own and were used for creative purposes) All the Rights in This Content Belong to Their Respective Owner/s.
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3 Ninja’s Deleted Ending
Source: The3ninjakids
CREDITS:
Directed by: Jon Turteltaub
Written by: Kenny Kim & Edward Emanuel
Produced by: Marthat Chang, Shunji Hirano, James Kang, Jason Ing, Yuriko Matsubara
Starring: Victor Wong, Michael Treanor, Max Elliot Slade & Chad Power
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorrains Bracco & Paul Sorvino
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
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