Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: How do Corey and Topanga navigate their new married life?
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Except this summer, I discovered a role-playing game that was so perfect for me. And if there's anybody out there who's a fan of Stranger Things... There's a few, I'm sure. A few fans. And there's a crossover, too, between D&D and Stranger Things, obviously, because Stranger Things brought D&D back. Well, there's actually a role-playing game built around the concept of Stranger Things itself.
It's called Kids on Bikes. And the whole idea is that you get to play kids on bikes in a small town who are running around figuring out a mystery or some sort of supernatural thing. It is the most fun. And this is the only time because I've never DM'd, which is Dungeon Master, if you don't know, or GM, Game Master. That's a more generic term. Right. Right.
I've never done that until we discovered this game. And it is so much fun. Basically, you actually have to get on a bike. No, but your bike gets to give you certain benefits.
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Chapter 3: What challenges do Corey and Topanga face with their living situation?
Like you pick your bike based on, you know, like it's color and whether it has tassels and that it's kind of like your spells, you know, like it gives you different abilities or your class maybe is what, you know, but you basically, well, the best part about it, the way the game works is you get together and you build the town as a group.
So, like, I did this with Indy and two of his friends, and I did it with Shiloh, too, for a session. But, like, we get together, and you all, like, answer questions about the town. So, like, you go in order, and you're like, what's the town, like, the high school mascot? What is this town's industry? What is this, you know?
And the only real rule, like, before you start this is it has to be before cell phones. Oh, OK. So you have to be kids on bikes before cell phones. So basically the 90s or earlier. So you figure out what time period it is and then you get together and then you build this town and you all answer questions.
And the best part is at a certain point after, you know, like, oh, what's the town like the industry of the town and where to like what's the high school like and where's all what are the things going on? And then you go, what are the rumors? Yeah. And everybody, all the players get to come up with like, I heard that the math teacher is an alien. I heard that in the lake, there's a dead body.
And then you, so that's like session zero is you just come up with the town and draw out a map and you all come up with rumors. And then as the GM, what I get to go and do is like run off and take those rumors and create a game built around a group of kids investigating like the rumors or the myths of the town. It is so much fun. And you can go kind of anywhere you want.
You can go like more horror. You can go more supernatural. You can go like X-Files-y. You could go like straight just mystery. Like you're just a bunch of kids dealing with, you know, some, some bad person in town or whatever.
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Chapter 4: How do the parents react to Corey and Topanga's decisions?
You can kind of build it however you want. And it's not like, it's not like a fighting game. You know, it's not like D&D because sometimes D&D can get very like, I'm taking my sword. Yeah. It becomes like a video game, whatever. It's very much a storytelling game and you, and you get to create like, you know, they have archetypes for the kids.
You get to be like the jock, the new kid from out of town, you know? And so you create this friend group and maybe you're not all friends. Maybe you're like, don't even really know each other, but this mystery, this adventure is going to bring you together.
It is like the storytelling sweet spot for me because like, I love like first season of stranger things is still like one of my favorite things ever made. I didn't really stick with it after season. What was that? Will you don't like it? It was good. To me, if you pull out the 80s aspect, it was just a totally basic television show. I kind of wish they had just pulled out the referential.
To me, that was the nostalgia that people loved more than anything else. But see, I love like Eerie Indiana. Remember that show? I love X-Files. I think Marsden was on Eerie Indiana. Yeah. I love like any... And I also, of course, like going back to like Stand By Me, Goonies, like I just love those kinds of stories. And I feel like...
you know it hasn't still like they've tried to bring back that like Amblin but like to me when you do it so referential I get less interested like that's where Stranger Things kind of lost me it was like this is cool like I love the characters I thought the actors were so good but like I didn't need everything to be like that movie poster from that thing you've seen and this is that other yeah I get over that too but like actual storytelling like David Harbour is so good and I just like I yeah and I just love the idea of like you know even like Super 8 remember that movie yeah
Um, it like, wasn't great, but I love the idea of the movie. Like that's, I just want to live in that world. Was that Spielberg? That was a Spielberg one. He produced it. Um, but it was, uh, JJ Abrams was the director.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, with, with, with kids on bikes, can Danielle still dress up in costume? I was going to say, I love this idea. As long as I, as long as I just get to kind of be like a, a kid, uh, in a decade, uh, In a town, on a bike. You don't have to be an elf. You don't have to be a dryad. No, you can just be whatever. Can I be an elf or a dryad if I want to?
I mean, the thing is the game is flexible. But, no, I like the idea that you sort of keep it grounded and, like, the whole thing is that you're, you know, you're still just kids.
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Chapter 5: Why do the characters emphasize the direction of rooms?
Why there never seems to go and takes a left. It's like the room is never on the left. It's always on the right. Is there a reason for that? No, I think just this, just where the set was exactly where they have the room for the set construction. Gotcha. Okay. I didn't know if there was some like, well, if you shoot this way, then you can't see into the whatever kind of thing.
We never go to the left and the other, we go to the bathroom. But no dorm, like all the rooms are always to the right. Yeah. Yeah. That's funny. And so I didn't know if there was a reason for that or not. Okay, I guess not.
Chapter 6: What challenges do Cory and Topanga face in their new living situation?
Topanga and Angela's room is to the left. When in that hallway, their rooms, there's, you know, the boys was over to the right. Where the triplets came out of?
The triplets came out.
Yeah, I think that was their room, right?
I don't know.
Was it that room or I was actually picturing it more like where the bathroom is, but you're right.
I don't know.
I didn't know if there was a reason for that.
Okay. Okay.
It's disgusting. Tattered furniture, dirty appliances, stained carpet, police sirens blare as Topanga composes herself. It's the worst place. Where are the bloodstains though?
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Chapter 7: How do Cory and Topanga cope with the difficulties of married life?
This is where Topanga's dad ended up. We need the bloodstains on the wall. This is like that bad. That shock outline of a body. That's what we need. I did actually think that there was going to be a chalk line. When the door opened, I thought, oh God, please let there still be a chalk line. That would be great.
We cut to a commercial because it is in fact not nice, but then we return to the new room. Now inside, Topanga opens a cabinet door and it falls right off the hinges. Okay, so it needs a little bit of work. Corey has an idea. I think we should think about the worst moment in our lives and it'll only make us feel better about this one. They stand in silence for a moment trying to think.
Finally, Corey realizes it's this, isn't it? Topanga nods in agreement. Yeah, it is. But she reminds him things are never as bad as they seem. Corey sarcastically responds, you're right. Everything's terrific.
Chapter 8: What insights does Alan provide about marriage and responsibility?
It's just fabulous. And then back in the hallway, another fresh young married couple has arrived with their luggage and hear Corey shout, I hate my parents and we live in a crack house. The couple share a nervous glance and scurry down the hall.
It's a pretty funny bit to have, you know.
To have already there the other couple, yeah.
Yeah.
Back inside Corey and Topanga's new trap house, Corey continues to wallow in the sadness. But why don't we find the good, Topanga? Let's find the good, because I don't know where it is. He scans the room and asks, is it underneath that pizza box? I don't know. It could be. He bends down to pick it up and he finds a group of cockroaches hiding underneath it.
Do you remember having cockroaches on set like this? No, but I also don't. I didn't think they were real. I mean, although they were moving... They looked fake to me. Yeah, I couldn't tell. I don't know. I think they were battery operated. Tiny little batteries. Seems a lot of like a lot more work than just finding tiny, tiny little batteries.
It was probably real cockroaches, but I don't remember. I have no fear of cockroaches. We had Madagascan hissing cockroaches, so it would not have bothered me at all to have them there. So I don't remember them. Corey jumps onto the couch in fear. Nope, that's where the vermin are hiding.
She calls him a baby and stomps on the insects without hesitation, repeating the move as Corey points out they're still alive and their drunken cousins from Louisiana have arrived. And now they're both stomping on the floor with ferocity when a woman opens the door. She's holding a baby and staring at the crazy couple jumping around.
Corey and Topanga finally notice the visitor Why would somebody just open the door? Oh, this seems like a safe neighborhood. No knocking. Seems like a safe neighborhood. The police siren encouraged that. With a baby in your arm. You know, I mean, I understand, like, but you knock. Why wouldn't the door just be open? Why not just keep the door open so she's standing in an open door?
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