Episode 36, ‘The Billy Crystal of Acting’, on Whoopi Goldberg
This week Dave and Steve continue their wildly successful series of actor profiles, this time with the legendary Whoopi Goldberg. What began as an opportunity to make fun of Nicolas Cage and his weird career has evolved into a more thoughtful look at what makes particular actors work so well — and, with Whoopi, Dave and Steve take to the challenge with aplomb.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Unnatural Selection.
Dave accidentally makes a sweet Highlander reference.
Steve begins to answer his own question and, as one might expect, sounds smart…
… until he stops making sense altogether.
Dave tries to bring order to the chaos.
I am become zombie, destroyer of worlds.
Dave mentions Hitler for no reason whatsoever.
Steven apologizes for referencing 2012.
In all things, slow > fast.
For no justifiable reason, Steve throws shade against Douglas Coupland.
Steve forgets the kind of zombies present in Dawn of the Dead (2004). He should be ashamed of himself. Also, he is objectively wrong about it being the best zombie film.
The editor cannot find the Highlander quote that Dave keeps referencing.
As usual, Steve laughs at the set-up and not the punchline.
Episode 34, ‘What is the best colour in the universe?’, on the Academy Awards
Dave and Steve return with an episode that was definitely, 100% recorded this week. No doubt. There is certainly no way that it was recorded immediately following the Oscars and then ignored until this week. Nope. This week they tackle the topic of the Academy Awards, conceptually, rather than specifically — although they do delve into particular cases to help draw out their broader points. Additionally, Dave tanks any possibility of Steve getting involved in politics ever again.
Dave and Steve have an irrational hatred and love for the movie Gladiator.
Dave laments the loss of his childlike sense of wonder.
Confession time: this episode was recorded months ago, before Dave had seen The Martian. We apologize for lying to you.
Al Pacino and Russell Crowe starred in the 1999 Best Picture nominee The Insider. Dave and Steve will be happy and devastated to know that it was a box office flop.
Dave viciously slanders Leonardo Dicaprio.
Steve uses the phrase “they used to have…” very loosely.
How does anyone justify Meryl Streep’s nomination for The Devil Wears Prada?
Steve suggests that The Style Guide is on par with The Academy Awards.
Dave makes bold claims about films that he has never seen.
What does ‘best’ even mean? And, like, have you ever really noticed how weird hands are, man?
Steven claims that he is not a special snowflake.
Steven claims that he is a special snowflake.
Dave has read books before.
Is Brie Larson going to be another Sandra Bullock situation, Dave?
Listen for Steve’s entirely appropriate use of the word “arcane”.
Steve is incredulous that Beauty and the Beast was nominated.
Episode 33, ‘Everyone had all this Superman baggage’, on Movie Adaptations
Hey look, Steven’s back!
This week, Dave and Steve cover the vast array of movies based on books — although, as it turns out, they miss talking about almost all of the notable ones such as American Psycho, Heart of Darkness, The Godfather, and The Devil Wears Prada. Still, they give it the ol’ college try and get through a goodly number. Regardless, Dave thinks its nice working with proper villains again.
Steve catches himself right before he says, “Fight-battle”.
Let’s see if we can make this podcast the top Google hit for the term ‘bragsplanation’.
The Matrix was pretty clearly an adaptation of both the Bible and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.
Dave makes a terrible mistake which is corrected thusly: Johnny Mnemonic the novel by Terry Bisson was an adaptation of the film Johnny Mnemonic directed by Robert Longo and starring Keanu Reeves which was an adaptation of the short story “Johnny Mnemonic” by William Gibson.
Dave hates O Brother, Where Art Thou? in a different way than Scott hates The Princess Bride.
Episode 30, ‘The World Progressed and the Movie Can’t’, on Pacific Rim and other bad movies
This week, Steven is away working so Dave sits down with special guest Scott Thompson to discuss one of Scott’s favourite movies Pacific Rim. The conversation also finds it’s way into other bad movies that we love, but don’t worry, it always comes back to Pacific Rim.
Dave wanted to title this episode “Pacific Grim”, but failed to work the pun into the conversation
Without a single spoiler alert, Dave goes on to completely spoil Pacific Rim
Dave can’t just talk about one bad alien movie, so he brings up another
Scott brings up Steve-O just to give himself some Podcast Cred
Scott may also have admitted to a felony
While spoiling Demolition Man, Dave can’t help but take another shot at Sandra Bullock. Dave is officially an internet bully
Dave and Scott use Snakes on a Plane as a jumping off point to talk about movies that were made to be bad
Dave very successfully auto censors his own swear words
Of course Arnold Schwarzenegger comes up, just to test Dave’s ability to spell while writing the show notes.
The concept of sentiment always makes people think of The Goonies
To the entire world’s surprise, Scott tries to claim that Princess Bride is a bad movie and that we only like it because of sentiment… Dave saves the day.
It wouldn’t be a Styleguide if someone didn’t mention the Avengers.
Episode 29, ‘I hate how much you like Frasier’, on comedians playing themselves
This week, on the Dave and Steve show, Dave and Steve explore television shows where comedians play versions of themselves. Then they realize that is a very limited genre and end up talking about sitcoms, late night shows, and Steven’s feelings.
Episode 28, ‘Do you always go naked?’, on time travel
This week, Dave and Steve go back… to Back to the Future. Well, kind of. They take on the broader concept of time travel in movies and, to am such lesser extent, novels. Follow along in their (thankfully) straightforward episode.
Steve takes an unpopular perspective on 12 Monkeys.
Dave doesn’t like when you explain things to him.
Talking about the plot of Star Trek 4 makes one sound crazy.
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is a “hilarious comedy”.
Steve puts his failure to achieve an engineering degree to good use.
Any question in which the answer is Hot Tub Time Machine is the wrong question.
Believe it or not, Steve is correct when he calls the time travel machine from Seven Days a sphere — “Chronosphere” to be correct — but the writers were incorrect to call it a sphere, because it has flat sides all around.
Dave and Steve share a love for Scott Bakula’s earlier television escapades.
In retrospect, the plot of The Time Traveller’s Wife sounds kind of creepy when Dave explains it.
Did Dave and Steve piss of Dr. Who fans? Who cares? Who who?
If you haven’t already shut off the podcast while shouting “bullshit, you idiots”, don’t worry. You’ll have more opportunities later.
Billy Shakespeare, famous Hollywood producer…
… which leads into Steven saying some of the craziest nonsense he has ever said on the podcast.
Pauly Shore’s decline is the greatest tragedy of our age.
Planet of the Apes (1968) > Dawn of the Planet of the Apes > Rise of the Planet of the Apes > Escape from the Planet of the Apes > Beneath the Planet of the Apes > “Return to Beneath the Planet of the Pigs” > Planet of the Apes (2001) > Conquest of the Planet of the Apes > Battle for the Planet of the Apes.
