S6E45: Herpe The Love Bug Strikes Back

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The hosts discuss the 80s film The Ice Pirates and its unexpected humor and tonal dissonance compared to Star Wars.

Send us a text or voice message As we count the days until we get new Star Wars we decided to pass the time with a wholesome old 80s classic. We discuss the film The Ice Pirates from director Stewart Raffill. As we find out, this film wasn’t quite as wholesome as we remember, as its riddled with sophomoric humor and cringeworthy dialogue and jokes. It’s not all bad though, there is also the endearing, and just plain outlandish moments. This tonally dissonant film is like Star Wars, but with m...

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Host: Force Insensitive

Topics covered

• Star Wars
• film review
• 80s classic
• sophomoric humor
• cringeworthy dialogue
• tonal dissonance

Keywords

• The Ice Pirates
• Stewart Raffill
• Star Wars
• 80s film
• humor
• film review

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Books & works: The Ice Pirates

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