Hour 1: I Hate This Game
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What is 'Back In My Dave' and how does it relate to movie tropes?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast. Dave, you have a back in my Dave for us here? I do. I do. Sorry for stepping on the Cody family toes here, but here we go. This is a movie specific back in my Dave. Movie tropes used to mean something. You know what I miss? I miss the scene when the two guys are wrestling for the same gun and then it goes off and you don't know who got hit because they both make that same stunt stroke face at each other. and hold it for like seven seconds, until finally after like, uh, uh, those seven seconds go by, then somebody finally falls down. But really, it's a wasted seven seconds, because we already knew it was gonna be the bad guy who died. What, they're gonna kill the good guy?
Mama didn't raise no fool. And I miss when zombies were at least nice and slow. At least I could rest easy with the knowledge. If there ever were a zombie attack, they wouldn't be able to catch me, because you can't eat what you can't catch. Now though, I feel like I'm living on borrowed time because of the fast zombies. And I miss when a semi-regular cause of death, in movies and only in movies, has never ever happened once in man's recorded history, we've talked about this before, but like dying while fighting on top of a moving train. No one's ever actually died that way on the planet Earth.
What nostalgic movie moments does Dan miss and why?
But hundreds, nay, thousands of characters lost their fictional lives while throwing hands with an action hero. The death toll among just Bond villain henchmen alone has got to be in the four figures. And I miss how the bad guys in a high-speed chase were just good enough shots. They could always hit the back windshield, but just inaccurate enough to never actually hit anybody in the car. That's some seriously bad luck. And I miss when anyone would die in a movie, it would always be with their eyes open. And I don't mean just like a little bit, but their eyes were there. When people would die, their eyes would be all the way open. But then someone would come along and they would take their index finger and their thumb and they would close the eyelids on the dead person.
But then movies being informed by older movies, they were like too much with the like specific information. digits using it and then it just became like a whole hand and they just like will rub the hand and then magically the eyes would be dead would be it would be close and then they're just like you know what this whole thing is taking too much time let's just throw a sheet over them and move on and uh and i know a lot of people are with me on on missing the days when movies weren't preceded by a half hour's worth of commercials but the one that's plum inexplicable and therefore deeply vexing is the one For the movie theater itself, come see your movies at Blank Movie Theaters. Hey, movie theater, we're already in you.
Let's chop-chop and make with the show, eh? And when the movie ended, it was over. You didn't need to sit through the credits unless you wanted to see the name of a family member who was a key grip or something up on the big screen. Now I gotta sit there for an extra five, 10 minutes watching this scroll in small font to see if there's some leftovers to share. And I like leftovers, but still. And I miss when fraudulent Hollywood marriages were buoyed by public displays of assaulting Wiseacre Oscar hosts. It's like being a beard in exchange for A-list status has lost all meaning. and i and and this one even it's not as bad as it is in con but still i miss when the oscars didn't require 27 standing ovations over the course of the night i'm not against honoring enduring achievements but come on he who starts the standing ovation is really honoring himself for being a great guy as much as the person they're ovationing so somehow clapping from a seated position
now makes you a jerk if the person in front of you stands and no one wants that so now you've got to get up and you know what that means for the person behind you so now we're all standing here clapping like a bunch of jackasses potentially wasting valuable seconds that could have been used to get a little further away from the fast zombies that are going to be here sooner rather than later that's how it used to be back in my dave wow very good dave great dismount there davey
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is 'Back In My Dave' and how does it relate to movie tropes?
0:00–1:22
2
What nostalgic movie moments does Dan miss and why?
1:22–4:38
3
How do movie tropes influence modern storytelling?
4:38–10:04
4
What are the major criticisms of the Oscars discussed in the episode?
10:04–12:49
5
How do the hosts feel about the current state of NBA media coverage?
12:49–24:41
6
What are the implications of negative commentary in sports broadcasting?
24:41–37:09
7
How do current NBA analysts compare to past legends?
37:09–39:16
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