Talking Tropes Podcast

Finally Tom and Jerry can be watched in its four-hour hyper-violent glory! Can Jerry resurrect Superman before Tom gathers the infinity stone/allspark/motherboxes and destroys the world? We recap all the differences between the Joss Whedon cut and the Snyder Cut of the HBO Max tent-pole blockbuster, TOM and JERRY!!!! Lots of controversial opinions in this one, folks! Watch to the video podcast here https://youtu.be/NpwWCsY_W-E Tweet at us @talkingTropes to let us know what TV Tropes you want us to talk about next.

Three Whovians (does anyone still use that term?) take a nuanced look at the new Doctor Who New Year's Special of 2021, Revolution of the Daleks, written by the inconsistently terrible Chris Chibnall. Is this his best episode yet? Watch the Video Podcast here https://youtu.be/JEWY4MqI06Q Tweet us your Chibnall opinions @talkingtropes

Three friends rank all the Doctor Who Christmas Specials and grade them on Christmas-ness and Englishness. Watch to the video podcast here: https://youtu.be/VDa4xgjjTmw Tweet us your least favorite Doctor Who specials @talkingtropes

Two cousins continue to watch every Stanley Tucci IMDB credit. In Wiseguy (1989), a CBS crime drama, Tucci plays Ricky Pinzolo, a crime boss in the Garment district on 7th Ave. NYC. He tries to defraud and acquire the business of one Eli Sternberg, a Jewish businessman played by none other than Jerry Lewis. An undercover cop named Raglin, with the help of his boss McPike (played by Breaking Bad's Jonathan Banks) try to take him down from the inside. Watch the video podcast here: https://youtu.be/2mVQbNgN9jA If you love Stanley Tucci, tweet at us @talkingtropes

We watch all the Hanukkah or Chanukah episodes and specials we could find. Let's talk about why these token Jewish episodes feel so empty and why they have been crushed by the overwhelming volume of Hallmark Christmas Specials. Watch to the Video Podcast at https://youtu.be/t3qD3mpLM70 Tweet us your favorite Chanukah episode @talkingtropes

We're still watching every Stanley Tucci IMDB credit, and this time we have special guests Mac and Max from YouTube's "Under the Influence" Podcast to discuss one of their favorite filmmakers, Todd Solondz's first film and Tucci's biggest film role at the time: Fear, Anxiety, and Depression. This one is very much in keeping with the trend of starving artists in NYC, but this time with much more of a Woody Allen vibe. Check it out! Also check out our guests here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzNHJZuUdxG7lFSJI1B3Bng Check out our video podcast here: https://youtu.be/IlJdBay4yTw Tweet at us if you want to be a guest Stan on our show @talkingtropes

Why so serious? Why not listen to us recap a comedy clown bank robbery movie featuring Stanley Tucci, who continues to be typecast as the most interesting mafioso in the room. Sure, Quick Change is forgettable trash, but this is Tucci's first interaction with Tony Shalhoub! Watch the video podcast here: https://youtu.be/zhfIE1H0hxs Tweet us your favorite Tucci IMDB credit @talkingTropes

Let's finish up our festive Thanksgiving special episode by recapping the two NCIS: New Orleans Thanksgiving episodes. Is New Orleans the superior NCIS show? Well if nothing else, it has Scott Bakula and CCH Pounder. Let's talk Turkey, Tropes, and COINTELPRO. Check out our video podcast here: https://youtu.be/6-LfyF8Iggg Tweet us your favorite FBI coverup @talkingtropes

What's the most American holiday? Thanksgiving! And what's the most American TV show? NCIS of course. We return to our most beloved(?) crime procedural and all of their bizarre and tangentially Thanksgiving-related specials. Watch here for the video podcast: https://youtu.be/TOL6Rz1puX4 Or tweet us your favorite Thanksgiving episode @TalkingTropes

As we continue to watch everything on Stanley Tucci's IMDB page in order, we stumble upon a clear example of late 80s white feminism with the obliviously titled Slaves of New York. Taking place in the pretentious and exploitative art world, Tucci is cast as Darryl, perhaps the only honorable man in NYC. Watch the Video Podcast here: https://youtu.be/MvnOMMztjAU Tweet at us @TalkingTropes if you want us to do The Witches next

All of our interactions at work, with friends, and with our education are now done through Zoom video chat. Why shouldn't our TV be the same? We take a look at all the fictional TV shows integrating Zoom interfaces into their TV specials and new series.

We continue to watch everything Stanley Tucci has ever done with his 1980s TV guest spots on The Equalizer and Crime Story. We also take a look at what we could find of the forgotten syndicated show The Street, where Tucci stars on a real "show about nothing" but with cops. Follow us on twitter @TalkingTropes

What's the spookiest Halloween tradition of all? Critical theory! We take a look at Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure and his queer reading of stop-motion animation. We try to apply this reading to the creepiest, spookiest stop-motion filmmaking team of all time: Tim Burton and Henry Selick. That's right, Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Coraline, Frankenweenie and more! Happy Halloween! Check us out on Twitter @talkingtropes

A follow-up on our last mini trope recap. Let's discuss our hottest takes on a slightly disappointing but still charming final season of Netflix's animated show from Radford Sechrist: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts! Spoilers ahead! Tweet at us @TalkingTropes to let us know what we should do a mini pod on next!

Shocks, surprises, twists of all sizes. We're talking about a director who was pigeon-holed by critics and scholars like us into always being measured by how "satisfying" his twists are. Let's talk about M. Night Shyamalan's best and worst twists. Major spoilers for 6th Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening, Devil, The Visit, Split, and Glass. Some of the audio is a little messed up but most of it is fine. Check out our video podcast at https://youtu.be/BByjFA1yPoE Follow us on twitter @talkingTropes and tweet at us if you have a suggestion on a trope we should talk about next.

Finally, a meaty film role (and by meaty we mean BEEFY) for the Tooch in George Romero's cult classic Monkey Shines which is The Shining meets Rear Window meets Monkey! By far, Romero's strangest film, check out our fun, Tucci-focused recap. Follow us on twitter here for more Tucci content @TalkingTropes Or check out our video podcast here: https://youtu.be/3ltMLgNiN2A

Plenty of furries love Disney, but does Disney love furries? With special guest, filmmaker and documentarian, Dominic Rodriguez, we explore the history of Disney and anthropomorphic animals and how the furry fandom got started. Check out Dominic's film Fursonas (2016) and follow him on twitter @videothewolf Follow us on twitter for more tropes and content @TalkingTropes Listen to our audio podcast at https://soundcloud.com/talkingtropes

We continue our binge of the entire IMDB page of actor/director/writer/producer Stanley Tucci. Today, we watch his three appearances in the 1980's iconic cop show: MIAMI VICE!!! Tucci plays a scared witness named Steven Demarco and a NJ mob boss named Frank Mosca as he completely steals the show (as well as stealing a lot of laundered pasta/drug money). You can follow us on twitter for more Tucci content @TalkingTropes Watch the video podcast at https://youtu.be/KEU5_hCbEag

Two Jews run down the list of comedic interpretations of history's purest evil dictator. From Mel Brooks to Taika Waititi, there's a long, proud history of making fun of Hitler. But what is the actual joke? And how has that joke changed over time? Here's a link to the article I referenced: https://abcnews.go.com/US/head-naacp-branch-fire-anti-semitic-facebook-post/story?id=72101481 Here's the Lindsay Ellis video that partially inspired this discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cPPSyoQkE Here's a Comedic Hitler playlist, this is not in any way an endorsement of these skits as most of them are not funny at all: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVlPf18cSXSgqqR_5b9DpLyBdal2JCuHh Tweet at us @TalkingTropes Or watch our video podcast here https://youtu.be/04KtvdJg31k

The first episode of a new podcast where we watch everything on Stanley Tucci's IMDB page in order. We start with some introductions, then jump right in to Tucci's first film roles: Prizzi's Honor, Kojak: The Price of Justice, and Who's that Girl starring Madonna. You can watch the video podcast here https://youtu.be/-LvNUi8jbjs Or tweet at us @talkingTropes