Fifty listener questions taking the form of “What is the ___ of video games?” are defeated by the full panel of the Insert Credit Show.
Questions this week:
- Vanilla Bean asks: What is the Aphex Twin to Radiohead to Coldplay of video games? (07:32)
- John H: What is the Studio Trigger of video games? (08:46)
- Danimal: Who (or what) is the Wednesday Campanella of video games? (10:14)
- Henry: What is the Action Comics #1 competition of video games? (11:42)
- Tomarrow: What is the meat and potatoes of video games? (12:49)
- Kiko b: What is the peanut butter and jelly on white bread of video games? (13:42)
- Ian: what's the everything bagel of video games? (14:52)
- Gaagaagiins: What is the 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner of video games? (15:37)
- Chris B: What is the "walking by a store on a hot day that has the front doors wide open with the AC blasting and you catch a sudden blast of freezing air" of video games? (16:52)
- Justin: What’s the “Live Free or Die Hard” of video games? (18:24)
- BrillPickle asks: What’s the Normcore of video games? (20:10)
- BrillPickle asks: What’s the healthgoth of video games? (21:09)
- Spencer: what is the "going to the movies but spending the whole time on your phone" of video games? (22:08)
- Cwumble Fletkh: Who is the Oedipus of video games? (23:08)
- Fighting fudon: What is the “I’ve had too much coffee and now I feel like death” of video games? (23:58)
- JackOakLeaf: What is the Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in The Godfather of video games? (25:24)
- Jimi: Who are the Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer of video game characters? (26:21)
- Jomch: What is the Frasier of videogames? (26:39)
- Dillson: What is the Hatsune Miku Guitar Synthesizer Stompbox of video games? (28:00)
- kory: What is the Jaws 19 from Back to the Future Part II of video games? (28:34)
- Anonymous: What is the finding an onion ring in your fries of video games? (29:12)
- Classic Anonymous: What is the Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud of video games? (31:22)
- U G: What is the Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves of video games? (32:29)
- Shlooter McGavin: What is the “reading a magazine back to front” of video games? (33:26)
- gordon "matty" freeman: What is the “vinyl just sounds better, dude” of video games? (34:31)
Insert Credit Quick Break: Patreon listeners, please check your info because Patreon screwed up (34:57) - Maybesheforgot: What is the O Brother Where Art Thou of video games? (35:37)
- Jeff Mangum: Who or what is the Neutral Milk Hotel of video games? (36:43)
- Skeletoncounter: What is the Wes Craven's New Nightmare of video games? (38:16)
- Gaagaagiins asks: What is the comparison between the theatrical and extended cuts of the Lord of the Rings trilogy? (40:52)
- LeFish: What is the finding out Santa isn’t real of video games? (42:42)
- Anonymous: What is the going back in time to kill baby Hitler of video games? (44:09)
- Charlie: Who, or what game, is the first Mark Twain of video games? (45:28)
- Arvid: What’s the “built like a brick outhouse” of video games? (46:05)
- Buy Gebord: What is the Society of the Spectacle of video games? (47:20)
- Marxseny: What is the “It’s not a phase, mom” of video games? (48:19)
- Barclay: What is The Illuminatus! Trilogy of video games? (49:20)
- Crumbling Kwelfis: who is the jean-luc godard of video games? (50:29)
- Dustin: What is the high school reunion of video games? (51:31)
- Cole: What is the Nissan Sileighty of video games? (52:43)
- La_cuna: What or who is the Ricky Jay of video games? (53:35)
- Kyle: What is the Mission Impossible of video games? (55:32)
- Torbjorn: Who is the Søren Kierkegaard of video games? (56:42)
- Antho: What’s the Canadian tuxedo of video games? (57:40)
- ana: What is the cinéma-vérité of video games? (59:06)
- Snowtire: what is the Star Citizen of video games? (01:00:08)
- Smander Jettz: Who is the Ezra Miller of video games? (01:01:03)
- Brayden Bunker: What is the aeropress of video games? (01:02:53)
- Samf Sankey: who is the Jim Varney of video games? (01:05:47)
- Swift Justice: What is the BABYMETAL of video games? (01:07:03)
- nate: what is the 4'33 of video games? (01:09:06)
Recommendations and Outro (01:09:27)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Super Mario series
- Super Mario Bros - Star
- The Stars and Stripes Forever
- Turkey in the Straw
- What's The Buzz
- Koji Kondo
- Django Reinhardt
- Limehouse Blues
- The Entertainer (rag)
- 1812 Overture
- La Marseillaise
- Happy Birthday to You
- Aphex Twin
- Radiohead
- Coldplay
- Bayonetta
- Devil May Cry series
- Ninja Gaiden series
- Final Fantasy XVI
- Dragon's Dogma
- Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
- SNL "Dear Sister" Parody
- Studio Trigger
- WayForward
- Gainax
- Wednesday Campanella
- Castlevania series
- Final Fantasy XIV Online
- Bonk's Revenge
- Action Comics 1
- StarTropics
- EarthBound
- Call of Duty series
- Angry Birds
- Destiny
- Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
- Sonic Mania
- Days Gone
- Assassin's Creed series
- Resident Evil series
- Raw Danger!
- Die Hard (film series)
- Normcore
- Roblox
- Health Goth
- Bullet Witch
- P.N.03
- Rez
- Indiana Jones
- Oedipus
- David Cage
- Men in Black (1997)
- MadWorld
- JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future
- Shenmue
- Skies of Arcadia
- Marlon Brando
- The Godfather (1972)
- God of War
- Seinfeld
- Frasier
- Cheers
- Virtua Fighter
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Diddy Kong Racing
- Donkey Kong Country
- Liquid Television
- MIKU STOMP
- Undertale
- Groove Coaster series
- Back to the Future Part II (1989)
- PlayStation 9
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- Understanding Comics
- A Grammar of Gameplay
- House of Leaves
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- Doki Doki Literature Club!
- Yesterday's Enterprise
- Christopher McDonald
- Tasha Yar
- Grand Theft Auto series
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Brütal Legend
- Guitar Hero
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Final Fantasy IX
- Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
- Bubsy series
- Broken Age
- Monkey Island series
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
- Fable series
- Blaster Master series
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
- Lord of the rings extended edition
- Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES
- Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 - Portable
- Santa Claus
- Tool-assisted speedrun
- Castle Wolfenstein series
- FarmVille
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Mark Twain
- Octopath Traveler
- The Society of the Spectacle
- The Righteous Gemstones
- Succession
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy
- Xenogears / Xenosaga universe
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
- Game Freak
- François Truffaut
- Super Smash Brothers series
- F-Zero
- Nissan 180SX
- Initial D
- Ridge Racer 6
- Ricky Jay
- Mission: Impossible
- Mission: Impossible
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Michael Brough
- Cinéma vérité
- The Stanley Parable
- Among Us
- Star Citizen
- Star Ocean
- Baldur's Gate III
- Ezra Miller
- Reginald VelJohnson
- Family Matters
- AeroPress
- Aero the Acro-Bat
- Mulholland Drive (2001)
- Jim Varney
- Ernest P. Worrell
- Paul Reubens
- Nintendogs
- Babymetal
- BioShock
- 4′33″
- What's Inside the Box?
- Super Mario Clouds
Recommendations:
Frank: Listen to episode 300
Tim: Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants
Brandon: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), Trader Joes Rice Cracker Medley
Jaffe: Sandman Mystery Theatre
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.