Episode #133 - "All I Wanted Was A Pepsi" - Show Notes

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Alternate Title: "Not Particularly Interesting Things" 

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk), Ottopilot (Otto)
• Referenced: USA Today - "Summer's Civil War: How Did Pop Culture Get So Negative" and The AV Club, "Netflix defends its decision to throw all that money at Adam Sandler."
• Dirk found a pair of pricey sunglasses.
• Evolve goes free-to-play and explodes their user base. 
• Discussion of the Criterion Collection Blu-ray for Repo Man which informs this week's music selections.
  
• Mental Floss - "15 Fun Facts About Repo Man."
• First Music Break: Iggy Pop, "Repo Man"
• More Repo Man talk.
• Taran Killem and Jay Pharoh are out for S42 of SNL.
• Referenced: Jay Pharoh's dead-on Denzel Washington impression:
  
• Hulu is killing off their free service. Be strong.
• Stargirl is coming (phrasing!) to Legends of Tomorrow S2.
• Referenced: The Archer "phrasing" reel:
  
• Supergirl/The Flash musical crossover episode announced.
• We review and discuss the hype Netflix series Stranger Things.
• Referenced: The video showing side-by-side the movies sampled by Stranger Things.
• Because we can't have fun, Barb's death is patriarchy.
• About the typography of the opening credits.
• Unmentioned In Show: Silly piece about Winona Ryder's shrill character was in the "grand tradition of badass moms." No, she was South Park's Miss Crabtree:
  
• Why Marvel's Most Wanted wasn't picked up. 
• Second Music Break: Black Flag, "TV Party"
  
• Patrick Stewart says the next Wolverine movie is likely his last rodeo as Professor X.
• Aquaman movie villain will be Black Manta.
• Dirk reviews Florence Foster Jenkins. 
• We review and discuss in semi-spoilery detail Suicide Squad and how we were at odds with the critical consensus.
• Referenced: Kevin Smith's review.
• Third Music Break: Suicidal Tendencies, "Institutionalized"
  
• The first full Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer:
  
• Further discussion of the critics' scores vs. audience ratings vs. box office takes.
• Collider's piece on the difference between how Christopher Nolan took time between his Dark Knight films and how DC is rushing things.
• Annalee Newitz on Suicide Squad reeking of desperation. 
• Vox piece on the disrespect DC has for its characters in their films - "Suicide Squad shows why Marvel’s movie universe works and DC’s does not."
• Geek.com - "Star Trek Beyond was great, so why is no one seeing it?"
• Referenced: The analysis of how things went sideways for Suicide Squad:
  
• RIP: Barry Jenner (Admiral William Ross on Star Trek: Deep Space 9) and David Huddleston (THE Big Lebowski of The Big Lebowski).
• Supernatural star Jensen Ackles and his wife are expecting twins.
• The Whopperito is a thing.
• A proper Lucille Ball statue has been deployed but they're leaving the "Scary Lucy" abomination up, too. 

Unused Alternate Titles: "I'm Vanna, Motherf*cker" or "Why Would Leonard Nimoy Lie?" or "Father of the Most Interesting Man in the World" or "Mexican, Not Brazilian" or "The Man Who Wore A Watch To Tell Time" or "Macomb County Love" or "Spoilers For A 30-Year-Old Movie" or "Beef Jerky Does Yoga" or "Disinterested Shorts" or "Tough To Pull Off The Butch" or "A Little Shilly In Here" or "Time-Controlling Skunk" or  or "Much More Manly C-3PO" or "It's Called Taste Dust" or "Atlantian Fight Club" or "Manta Durden"