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Double Dragon LIVE! (HDTGM Matinee)

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Double Dragon LIVE! (HDTGM Matinee)", an episode of How Did This Get Made? published February 17, 2026 (1 h 26 min, about 13,750 words). It mentions 42 people, works and ideas, including Double Dragon, Paul Scheer, Jason Manzoukas, June Diane Raphael, Alyssa Milano.

What this episode is about

A chaotic, post-apocalyptic mashup that blends steroid-fueled gang warfare, bizarre spy-paranoia, and video game come-ons, centered on a pendant split in two and the questionable spectacle of Double Dragon’s surreal plot. The hosts discuss its wild influences, ludicrous moments, and why it defies conventional sense.

Key takeaways

  • Double Dragon's chaos proves adaptation rarely travels well when source lore gets kidnapped by vibes and vibes alone.
  • A post-apocalyptic spinach-torture backdrop oddly foreshadows today’s toxic fandoms: cultish hype swallows coherent storytelling.
  • Robot Patrick vaping and cartoony street brawls show how spectacle can eclipse logic, yet oddly charm remains for curious audiences.
  • The 'two halves' pendant is a goofy MacGuffin, but it highlights how overfueled mythology can overshadow character depth.
  • Calling it a 'video game movie' without fidelity to the game reveals how branding sometimes matters more than narrative DNA.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Double Dragon, Paul Scheer, Jacob Patrick, Jason Manzoukas
  2. – 20:00: Double Dragon, Los Angeles, New Angeles, The Big One
  3. – 30:00: Jack City, Bo Adobo, Andy Dick, Los Angeles
  4. – 40:00: Alyssa Milano, Double Dragon, Jacob Patrick, Power Core
  5. – 50:00: Power Core, Jacob Patrick, Double Dragon, Alyssa Milano
  6. – 1:00:00: Alyssa Milano, Double Dragon, Jacob Patrick, Los Angeles
  7. – 1:10:00: Bruce Willis, Alyssa Milano, Bo Adobo, The Return of Bruno
  8. – 1:20:00: Double Dragon, Alyssa Milano, Jacob Patrick, Bo Adobo
  9. – 1:25:42: Double Dragon, Alyssa Milano, Jason Manzoukas

Notable quotes from "Double Dragon LIVE! (HDTGM Matinee)"

  • WE SAW DOUBLE DRAGON, SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.
    about Double Dragon · at
  • PLEASE WELCOME MR. JASON MANZUK.
    about Jason Manzoukas · at
  • Longer to bring out our resident video game expert, MY OTHER CO-HOST, JUNANE RAIO.
    about June Diane Raphael · at
  • Listen, I'm ready to talk about Alyssa Milano's hair and her pants. Please tell me the pants.
    about Alyssa Milano · at
  • Are we is this like the next movie he made or is this a little while later? Terminator 2 came out in 1991.
    about Jacob Patrick · at
  • Like there's like that juxaposition then doesn't really make sense to me. Then I don't understand. I still can't get a handle on what the power cord does like on a just on a day-to-day.
    about Power Core · at
  • We are not going to get to the bottom of this. You don't know what it's like to live in New Angel in 2007.
    about New Angeles · at
  • Following that. But we will also get into your comments, concerns, and questions all about Double Dragon. We will see you next time on How Did This Get Made?
    about Paul Scheer · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Paul Scheer — Person · Host · 2 mentions · first at
    He moderates the live show, introduces co-hosts, runs audience Q&A, and frames the movie comparisons and recurring bits.
  • Jason Manzoukas — Person · Co-host · 2 mentions · first at
    He co-leads the discussion, riffs on plot logic, and gives a recommendation of the film at the end.
  • June Diane Raphael — Person · Co-host (presented as 'resident video game expert') · 1 mention · first at
    She drives the video-game-vs-movie comparison, asks/answers lore questions, and participates in the Alyssa Milano costume analysis.
  • Alyssa Milano — Person · Referenced actor (major discussion focus) · 16 mentions · first at
    Her character and especially her hair and distinctive pants become a recurring comedic focus; her fame is discussed via other TV references.
  • Jacob Patrick — Person · Referenced actor (villain performance focus) · 10 mentions · first at
    His villain role and powers are repeatedly discussed, including jokes about his career timing after Terminator 2.
  • Andy Dick — Person · Referenced actor (comic example from film) · 4 mentions · first at
    Mentioned as a bizarre casting choice: a weatherman in the film's dystopian LA news segments.
    Postapocalyptic society where spinach torture happens and Andy Dick is a weatherman.
  • Rachel White — Person · Referenced celebrity cameo (in-film newscast) · 1 mention · first at
    Cited as part of the film's bizarre nightly news team, reinforcing the movie's surreal worldbuilding.
    Movie and TV career. I'm going to stay here and just transition to being a weatherman. Vanna White, I think it's an upgrade. George Hamilton, I think it's like it's stage. It's…
  • George Hamilton — Person · Referenced celebrity cameo (in-film newscast) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as the anchor in the film's news segments; used for jokes about lingering sketch bits.
    It's like it's stage. It's like lateral move. From the Hollywood harbor to the Tijana border, this is New Angeles's number one nightly news with George Hamilton and Vanna…
  • Bruce Willis — Person · Referenced celebrity (Return of Bruno discussion) · 3 mentions · first at
    Discussed in relation to The Return of Bruno and jokes about his blues/harmonica vanity project and cover songs.
    The Bruce Willis harmonica vanity project, which Bruce Willis tried to convince everybody he was a blues harmonica player, which as a kid was an album I owned. And many years later did I find out that.
  • Hillary Swank — Person · Referenced actor (Karate Kid aside) · 1 mention · first at
    Named to clarify there are multiple Karate Kid iterations, used as a pop-culture correction joke.
    Jaden Smith. And I was So I need to always make sure people know there are two Karate Kids and three if you count Hillary Swank. I mean I we were getting on a train while…
  • Danny Elfman — Person · Referenced celebrity (audience Q&A) · 1 mention · first at
    Suggested jokingly as a hypothetical president in the film's world; prompts discussion of his composing career.
    The person who soundtracks all of Tim Burton's movies and the Simpsons again from Oingo Boingo to be presidentele.

Companies & orgs

  • Jack in the Box — Company · Referenced brand (name confusion gag) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned during discussion of the in-movie 'Jack City' commercial and 'jacking' jokes.
    Put like a car jack in a building, you can restraighten your It's stupid, but I'm but here's there's an active commercial for Jack in the movie.

Products & tech

  • Fabraier eggs — Product · Running live-show gag · 1 mention · first at
    A repeated audience callout bit in Philadelphia; treated as a prop fans might bring for signing.
    Yeah, we would love to sign your Fabraier eggs, Philly.
  • Easy Cheese — Product · Plot gag (car fuel) · 1 mention · first at
    Discussed as absurd 'engine fuel' that makes the car go extremely fast; used as an example of setups without payoff.
    And I just wanted to talk about the Easy Cheese engine fuel.

Concepts & topics

  • Power Core — Concept · Core plot concept (debated) · 6 mentions · first at
    The hosts and audience debate what the Power Core actually does—vigilante group vs. power generation—and why police label them terrorists.
  • Post-apocalyptic society — Concept · Core framing concept · 1 mention · first at
    The hosts repeatedly argue the film depicts a localized post-quake apocalypse and critique the logic of staying in LA.
    Couldn't get out of my mind. The big quake happens, but it's not a postapocalypse in the world. It's a post-apocalyptic society in LA. Just move. Go. Move to Arizona.
  • Martial arts — Concept · Genre element (critiqued) · 3 mentions · first at
    Discussed in relation to the tournament scenes and fight choreography, often mocked as low-skill 'Karate Kid' style.
    Weren't like part of an individual. Like I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHY ARE THEY HAVING corrupt like I understand they want to establish that these guys are badasses so when they go…
  • Gangland warfare — Concept · Setting/plot element · 1 mention · first at
    The hosts describe the city as dominated by gangs with curfews and factional violence, central to their worldbuilding critique.
    Steroid therapy, gangland warfare in a postapocalyptic society where spinach torture happens and Andy Dick is a weatherman.
  • Dystopian nightmare — Concept · Tone descriptor · 1 mention · first at
    Used to characterize the film's setting as Mad Max-like, while also noting the movie undercuts it with kid-friendly visuals.
    Are so prevalent is because the big one just rattled everyone's brains into being No, I think this is some sort of like Mad Max like dystopian nightmare.
  • Spinach torture — Concept · Absurd plot detail (comedic highlight) · 2 mentions · first at
    A memorable example of the film's kid-movie weirdness: Bo Adobo is force-fed spinach, likened to Popeye.
    Burning building. So, I think that would make you switch sides. But even at that point, he is kidnapped and then is force-fed spinach, which I thought was like kind of a play on Popeye. This movie is [ __ ] wild.
  • Oregon Trail — Concept · Personal reference (video game familiarity) · 1 mention · first at
    June uses it to explain her limited video game background while discussing Double Dragon's source material.
    I know Oregon Trail and that's like I know of Mortal Kombat and that's Larry.
  • Christian name — Concept · Comedy framing device · 1 mention · first at
    Used as a joke about the villain's alternate/real name versus his villain name (Shuko).
    And do you want to refer to him as Shugo or Victor Gistman?

Places & events

  • New Angeles — Place · Primary setting (referenced) · 5 mentions · first at
    The hosts analyze the film's future-LA setting, its quake aftermath, curfews, gangs, and inconsistent worldbuilding.
  • Los Angeles — Place · Referenced real-world analog to setting · 4 mentions · first at
    Used to compare the fictional quake scenario to real seismic risk and to question why anyone would stay in a localized apocalypse.
    Seems like he is some sort of oligarch.

Media & podcasts

  • Double Dragon — Media · Core topic (film being discussed) · 24 mentions · first at
    The episode is a live show breakdown of the 1994 film, including its plot, tone, cast, and how it differs from the video game.
  • Bo Adobo — Character · Referenced character (mutant/henchman discussed) · 7 mentions · first at
    A steroid-mutated gang member whose design, behavior shift, and 'spinach torture' are used to critique the movie's logic.
    Burning building. So, I think that would make you switch sides. But even at that point, he is kidnapped and then is force-fed spinach, which I thought was like kind of a play on Popeye. This movie is [ __ ] wild.
  • The Big One — Podcast · Referenced podcast (real-world context) · 3 mentions · first at
    Cited to ground the earthquake premise in real LA seismic risk; described as terrifying and produced by KPCC.
    I'm just saying there is a podcast called The Big One that KPCC put out recently. Six episodes of absolutely terrifying reality about how Los Angeles is in for the big one.
  • Super Mario Brothers — Media · Comparison reference · 2 mentions · first at
    Used as a tonal comparison: the film feels like a 'spiritual sequel' and possibly takes digs at it.
    And it also feels like it could be a spiritual sequel to Super Mario Brothers. what do you need to know? You need to know this. There's a pendant. There's.
  • Billy Hammer Lee — Character · Referenced game protagonist · 1 mention · first at
    Named while June reads the video game plot to show how little the film resembles the game.
    Read you the description of the game. the plot of the game is a about two martial artists. one is a blue suited young man named Billy Hammer Lee, and the other is a red suited…
  • Jimmy Spike Lee — Character · Referenced game protagonist · 1 mention · first at
    Named for comedic surprise ('Spike Lee?') and to highlight the game's ending where brothers fight to the death.
    Martial artists. one is a blue suited young man named Billy Hammer Lee, and the other is a red suited twin brother named Jimmy Spike Lee. and they fight their way. Wait, Jimmy Spike Lee?
  • The Karate Kid — Media · Comparison reference · 1 mention · first at
    Referenced to mock the fight style as basic 'Karate Kid one' moves and to clarify multiple Karate Kid versions.
    Go, Oh, Karate Kid. He's I love Jaden Smith. And I was So I need to always make sure people know there are two Karate Kids and three if you count Hillary Swank. I mean I we were getting on a train while watching the beginning of this.
  • Escape from LA — Media · Comparison reference · 2 mentions · first at
    Referenced as a stylistic benchmark for dystopian LA; also used to critique that Double Dragon isn't as committed to that tone.
    One of the most insane films that we have ever done. It's it's a little bit of Demolition Man, a little bit of Escape from LA. It's a lot of Street Fighter in the sense it makes no [ __ ] sense.
  • Party of Five — Media · Referenced TV show (actor association) · 2 mentions · first at
    Brought up because Scott Wolf is in the film; also referenced as an in-movie joke ('party of five').
    And then when they went to the restaurant, the hostess was I've got a party of five for Ugly. Party of five.
  • The Return of Bruno — Media · Referenced music video/album (director trivia) · 2 mentions · first at
    An audience member notes the director also directed The Return of Bruno, prompting discussion of Bruce Willis' music project.
    Wait, Return of Bruno? That was the album. That's the Bruce Willis album.
  • Terminator 2 — Media · Career-timeline reference · 1 mention · first at
    Used to contextualize Robert Patrick's casting and career momentum leading into Double Dragon.
    Are we is this like the next movie he made or is this a little while later? Terminator 2 came out in 1991.
  • UHF — Media · Comparison reference · 2 mentions
    Used to describe the film's structure as a series of sketches/commercials/newscasts rather than coherent narrative.
  • Demolition Man — Media · Comparison reference · 1 mention · first at
    Used to describe the film's mishmash futuristic tone and setting elements.
    Double Dragon. This movie, wow. might be one of the most insane films that we have ever done. It's it's a little bit of Demolition Man, a little bit of Escape from LA. It's a lot of Street Fighter in the sense it makes no [ __ ] sense.
  • Street Fighter — Media · Comparison reference · 1 mention · first at
    Invoked to describe incoherent plotting and video-game-movie energy.
    Have ever done. It's it's a little bit of Demolition Man, a little bit of Escape from LA. It's a lot of Street Fighter in the sense it makes no [ __ ] sense.
  • Mad Max — Media · Comparison reference · 1 mention · first at
    Used as shorthand for the film's gangs-and-ruins dystopian vibe.
    Are so prevalent is because the big one just rattled everyone's brains into being No, I think this is some sort of like Mad Max like dystopian nightmare.
  • General Hospital — Media · Referenced TV show (meta-joke) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as part of a chain of in-movie references tied to actor filmographies.
    And then later Marian tells Lash, You're lucky. Generally, I put people in the hospital because Lash was on General Hospital.

Sponsors

  • Jack City — Media · In-movie fictional commercial / sketch segment · 5 mentions · first at
    Discussed as an oddly prominent commercial within the film that never pays off, emblematic of the movie's sketch-like structure.
    Put like a car jack in a building, you can restraighten your It's stupid, but I'm but here's there's an active commercial for Jack in the movie.
  • 3M — Company · Worldbuilding detail (sponsor gag) · 2 mentions
    Noted as an absurd corporate sponsor of a post-apocalyptic karate tournament, used to mock the film's internal logic.

Full transcript with timestamps

Steroid therapy, gangland warfare in a postapocalyptic society where spinach torture happens and Andy Dick is a weatherman. Plus, it's a [ __ ] kids movie. WE SAW DOUBLE DRAGON, SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. Now everybody now

everybody HELLO PEOPLE OF EARTH AND HELLO PEOPLE OF PHILADELPHIA. WELCOME. Oh my goodness. Double Dragon. Double Dragon. This movie, wow. might be one of the most insane films that we have ever done. It's it's a little bit of Demolition Man, a a little bit of Escape from LA. It's a lot of Street Fighter in the sense it makes no [ __ ] sense. And it also feels like it could be a spiritual sequel to Super Mario Brothers. Um, what do you need to know? You need to know this. There's a pendant. There's two halves. A bad guy has one half. the good guys have the other. Well, one of the sides get both. You'll see. Um, that's all you really need to know. And maybe uh that Robert Patrick invents vaping. I don't know.

But I think those are really the things that you need to know before listening to this episode. Although, if you've not seen the movie, [ __ ] WATCH THIS MOVIE. PHILADELPHIA AGREES, RIGHT?

Of course they do. All right, ladies and gentlemen. I cannot discuss this movie by myself. I have two amazing co-host. PLEASE WELCOME MR. JASON MANZUK. What's up, JERKS? How you doing, BILLY? THAT'S RIGHT. HERE WE GO. Double dragon. DOUBLE D. PHILLY'S OWN. DOUBLE DRAGON. Double D as Paul said. GOT THOSE HUGE TITTIES ON THE SCREEN.

JASON. PAUL. Are you a fan of the video game Double Dragon? No. Never played it.

Real never played it. Okay. I have a huge reveal. Oh my god. June just told me right there. She didn't know this was a video game.

Wow. The video game. The arcade game THAT IS FEATURED ITSELF IN THE MOVIE. I'M CERTAIN THAT'S NOT TRUE. I'm certain I must have played the arcade version of the game. Um, but

I had it for Nintendo. See, I never had a Nintendo. I never had Yeah. No, I never had uh any of that stuff. I didn't have a fun childhood.

You didn't have a KO. I didn't have a KO. I didn't have a No, I didn't have a Atari 2600. Never had it.

Um, no. SO, I DIDN'T KNOW this and I'd never seen this movie and I watched it and I was like I IT IS SO close to a break dancing movie. Oh, yeah. It's so close to being breaking three. It it really scratches the itch of pretty much every bad movie we've ever done on the show. I mean, it hits all the tropes kind of perfectly. Um, you know, there's skateboarding, of course. There's

there's future cars for Jessica St. Clair. There's trash cans on fire. And and by the way, we are in Philadelphia.

Yeah. So, BRING US YOUR FABER EGGS, PHILLY. If you have Fabraier eggs, please let me see them uh when we come out to talk to you in just a little bit.

Yeah, we would love to sign your Fabraier eggs, Philly. Um I don't want to I don't want to wait any longer to bring out our resident video game expert, MY OTHER CO-HOST, JUNANE RAIO. WELCOME JUNE.

HI, PAUL. How are you? I'm good, thank you very much. June did not know this is a video game film.

Nope. I It stands on its own two feet then. Absolutely. You found that the Yeah. that its merits, you know, were valid just as a piece of

Listen, I didn't know there was source material. I just thought this was uh this was a a story about double dragons. I mean, you have to understand, I also don't know. I know some games on Atari. I know Oregon Trail and that's like I know of Mortal Kombat and that's

Larry. So I don't know about video games but no I've never heard of this. Well maybe this will help you that this movie while based on the game Double Dragon has literally no similarities to the game. That's what I was going to ask cuz I was like obviously um the two leads are the two guys from the game, but is like is is Alyssa Milano's character based on a character in the game?

She is, but it's a little suspect. I'll read you the description of the game. Um the plot of the game is a about two martial artists. Uh one is a blue suited young man named Billy Hammer Lee, and the other is a red suited twin brother named Jimmy Spike Lee. Uh and they fight their way. Wait, Jimmy Spike Lee?

Yep. Um, I don't think it was I oddly don't think it was like an homage to Spike Lee.

You Oh, you don't? I think that they really were going after the Hammer and Spike, two of the scariest things. Um, but they fight their way into the turf of the Black Warriors gang with uh Linda and Adobo as members. But why they are going into that territory is because they have kidnapped their love interest.

So wait, their collective love interest. Ew. So wait, this is this this movie or the game? This is the game or the movie?

This is the I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WATCHED. I watched this on Amtrak and I was like, what's happening?

I was confused. I was so pleasantly surprised uh immediately as soon as I saw Robert Patrick. Yes. So, the game is about them going uh deeper and deeper into gang land to rescue their love interest, who I guess would be the Alysa Milano character.

That's disgusting. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. And then can Can I And then the final level of the game. You want to guess the final level of the game is?

They [ __ ] her together. I mean, that's what you just set up. They must rescue her and [ __ ] her together

as brothers and then kill themselves. I DON'T KNOW. THAT'S where we're going. Jason, it's much more honorable. They rescue her and then Billy and Jimmy fight to the death over the determination of who will win the affections of her.

They fight each other to the death. the final level of Double Dragon. Double Dragon becomes Solo Dragon at the end.

And in the video game, do they have these powers? Does did Well, in the video game, they have suits. Um, we can watch a play.

She asked if they had powers. You just said they have suits. No, they are just I'm saying that that's the only similarity. Like I And there may be a a video game person out there. you can save it for How Did This Get Played? But uh but um I they don't seem to have any re like it's not like part of their mythology. It's more like they're going in and fighting a bunch of Street Toughs and they're also Street Toughs and that's at least my memory of the game.

Your memory is mostly Street Tough related and that's TU FF. Am I right? Tough. Street toughs.

Street T. I don't want to go down there. There's street toughs and teenagers. I mean, because even in the video game, the end boss, he doesn't have any powers. He just has a machine gun

in the video game. In the video game. Well, that's not the end boss, though. The end boss is your own brother.

At the end of the game is fratricside. Like, which is a crazy world to live in. What a moral choice.

Um, so I just want to say, but is Alyssa Milano worth it? I guess. Listen, I'm ready to talk about Alyssa Milano's hair and

and her pants. Please tell me the pants. Of course. Please. I'm ready to talk about that.

I will TALK FOR 1 HOUR. 1 HOUR at least. I PROMISE YOU, PHILLY. ONE hour below the waist only.

Holy cow. I mean, look at even the glove she's wearing in this one is pretty wild.

Well, let's get into the idea of the glove. We are we are meeting a lot of different gang members and some of them are just wearing Mickey Mouse hands that seems to be like at one point they go look at these clowns and I was like do they mean like this is a gang of clowns.

Some people seem to be h some people seem to have white face paint though almost as if they were clowns.

Well, this is the weird thing. I couldn't tell if this earthquake Mhm. had if these people were insane and then the quake happened and they were just sort of let loose or if the quake shook the sense out of them if so you think and by the way

how do you think that might happen? Let's keep on going with this idea because it is 7 years later. This movie takes place in the future, but in our past, 2007 in New Angeles, and we are we are met to a world that is still experiencing aftershocks 7 years after

that was a big quake. That's what I'm saying, Jason. It was a big quake. Sure. Right. But you're saying, did it shake people into insanity?

Like, did it did I feel like this is a good time, Jason. We've never experienced the big one. We will. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of.

I'm just saying there is a podcast called The Big One that KPCC put out recently. Six episodes of absolutely terrifying reality about how Los Angeles is in for the big one.

Just a subtle plug there for that podcast. So, we are The hearing of that podcast existing just gave me the chills. You in Philadelphia don't know what we're talking about. Okay. But we live in a world that could literally create what you saw in this movie.

That's our future. THEY RIDE A JET ski right over my house. AND AGAIN, THAT WAS UNSETTLING for me.

It is not if, it is when. Yes, it is when we live in this reality. But you're saying that the reason the gangs are so prevalent is because the big one just rattled everyone's brains into being No, I think this is some sort of like Mad Max like dystopian nightmare. But let's talk about it from a different perspective. Um, which is something I couldn't get out of my mind. The big quake happens, but it's not a postapocalypse in the world. It's a post-apocalyptic society in LA. Just move. Go. Move to Arizona.

MOVE TO COLORADO. LIKE, THERE'S plenty left. The world is not over. These idiots stay here

for karate tournaments that are like normal karate tournaments, but just with bad lighting.

WELL, THAT'S WHAT I COULDN'T figure out in the in the movie. Why are they still having competitions? There were they weren't in school. They weren't like part of an individual. Like I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHY ARE THEY HAVING corrupt like I understand they want to establish that these guys are badasses so when they go out into the world and they get into fights we see that they are learned in uh whatever martial art they

but can I stop you here you say badasses they're fighting like karate kid one like Ralph Machio karate like they are not doing anything

the best I just want to I want to make sure that people are on the same page cuz uh I was getting a a print framed and it was of Daniel Laruso doing the crane and someone

cool brag. It's a pretty cool print. And the guy behind the counter was like, "Oh man, this is awesome. What's it from?" And I go, "Oh, Karate Kid." He's like, "I love Jaden Smith." And I was like,

"So I need to always make sure people know there are two Karate Kids and three if you count Hillary Swank." Um,

I mean I we were getting on a train while watching the beginning of this movie, so I'm not sure. Is there do they do they work together in their fight moves? Is that the thing about being a double dragon brother that

No, they don't do anything. Some of the moves that they did at the end were incredible and looked really fun and I'd like to try them. It was almost as if Kid in Play started doing karate. Like that was the level of fight moves.

How did June break both of her legs? Oh, they were doing that spin thing from the end of Double Dragon as the photo pose at the end of an episode

as she went flying into the audience. But I was concerned or or at least curious that we're in this post-apocalyptic world where there's still uh karate tournaments that are they're very polite. They're not like they're not they don't seem like aggressive. They they seem like gym karate tournaments, but then there's like huge sponsors like 3M, the people who make like tape. They literally have like a sign up like 3M on the wall. Like they're like, "Hey, we're getting in on this." I mean, I know LA fell off into the water, but we still got to sell our [ __ ]

sponsor something. We got to sponsor something. I guess it's underground very organized martial arts competitions.

But also, there's a curfew because there are so many different types of threatening gangs. Like, again, to your point, like imagine what the rest of the civilized world thinks of Los Angeles in this moment. Like

I mean listen I I would love to know how much federal money has been devoted to the natural disaster that's happened here. Uh our federal government we don't see there. We don't see

interesting Jason has just been assassinated. June has just gone down. It's just me.

I knew it would be Philly. I knew it. I knew it. Philly, city's dangerous. Well, to your point, June, the police are underfunded. So much so that at the big NC scene when the police decide to actually beat police officers, they really are only in a closet. Like, they don't even have like a full They don't even have like a full conference room to gather in. I mean, I could understand that though because no one's paying taxes in New Angeles because nobody has a job and there doesn't seem to be any infrastructure in place, but where is the rest of America?

Yes. Where Yeah. And has the rest of America just been like, you know what, [ __ ] it.

Yeah. Quarantine. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Like that's the thing is like it doesn't the way that other post-apocalyptic movies do. They don't give us a sense of the world. They're just like, "Nope, this is what happened here and this is what we're doing after the quake 2007." You know, but there's like, you know, by the way, SOME THIS MOVIE STARTS SOMEWHERE in China. Everything Everything seems pretty cool. EVERYTHING SEEMS PRETTY COOL. ALTHOUGH, IT DOES SEEM TO me Okay, when the movie started somewhere in China, right,

somewhere we couldn't be bothered to figure out exactly where. I thought for sure this scene was in the past.

Oh, ABSOLUTELY. EVERYBODY. It It is in fact contemporary to the rest of the movie because people are wearing like like um like what to me is traditional outfits with like stuff on them and b and there's a temple and and the um lady lash uh get goes in and gets the the medallion and then she opens up a briefcase and it's a a satellite communication system and she's like, "It's me. I got it." And I was like, "This is now

what?" But by the way, I mean, Robert Patrick, who's introduced next, we don't even meet the Double Dragon Brothers for quite a a bit. Um, he is like, "Ah, finally. I can't wait to see the Double Dragon Medallion and then opens it and there's only one part of the medallion. It's called Double Dragon." Like he like someone would have been like, "Hey, you know what? I know. It's weird. That's only one dragon, right?" And here's the thing. It's not like you would confuse it. It looks like a best friend's necklace.

It looks like one of them's got bee fry and the other one's got st ends. And it's like Lash goes somewhere in China, finds st ends and is like, I got it. And he's like, where's B Fry? And she's like, there's a B fry. I thought this was the Saint An's medallion.

What? No. What? No. Don't. Just because it got quiet, you don't have to applaud.

But we do know that people are not of their right mind. Was it because of the quake? We don't know. Was it because, you know, Andy Dick gave up on acting and decided to become a weatherman? Like, there are weird choices made in this movie? Like Andy Dick's like, "I survived. I don't want to leave LA from my burgeoning movie and TV career. I'm going to stay here and just transition to being a weatherman." Vanna White, I think it's an upgrade. George Hamilton, I think it's like it's stage. It's like lateral move. From the Hollywood harbor to the Tijana border, this is New Angeles's number one nightly news with George Hamilton and Vanna White. In our top story tonight, it's daylight savings time again. Now, make sure you set your clocks one hour ahead tonight or tomorrow evening, you may accidentally find yourself out after curfew.

I always get them mixed up whether to go forward or backward. That's great. B Andy, how's it look out there?

Oh, boy. You two are crazy. Um, June, what do you think is going on in New Tokyo? I just saw that right now. Andy Dick is in front New Tokyo. That seems as if there was an earthquake in Japan and Tokyo sailed over.

I think that's what's happened. No, I think what happened is that possible or Japan is gone. Japan is gone. Some piece of land mass is there and they're like, "Well, it's New Tokyo now."

I thought it was Little Tokyo downtown that's somehow split off and floated into the ocean.

Well, what's interesting is this map appears to have the Capital Records building like right there in Lake Pasadena. If you know anything about Hollywood, and you shouldn't, um, this map is aggressively wrong. It's

But who knows, Paul, after the shake, after that big shake. But that would mean that would that would mean the way this map is structured that like a lot of the west coast would come off and then Pasadena would come running up to the west coast, but then other parts of the west like the west side would stay totally intact.

Well, the Pacific Ocean basically comes up to vine is what this is saying. Yes. It seems that neighborhoods have jumped over each other.

Yes. Yes. Anyway, these people decide to stay. They're heroes, you know, and a lot of people say a lot of things about Andy Dick, but you know, he stayed. When the quake happened, he stayed. So, one of the things that you see in the karate tournament is like a little uh guy just going like like every time there's an earthquake rumble, he's like jacking it up like like jacking up a car. Jacking it up.

What? Jacking it up. Oh. Uh, no. But they're like, this movie is based on the premise that like if you put like a car jack in a building, you can restraighten your It's stupid, but

I'm like, but here's I mean, there's an active commercial for Jack in the movie.

Like, it's the focus is on just the commercial. This is why I love this movie because this movie starts off we're in China. We're in a big bad guys lair. We're at a karate tournament and then we go into Weirdell Yankovic's UHF where we just have like a a bunch of [ __ ] sketches. It's like here's a commercial. Here's a funny newscast. Here's an exceptionally long weather report.

Yeah. And it keeps going. At one point I was more interested in who was in the NBA finals because George H was like in the NBA finals is here again. And I'm like, "Oh, who who is it going to be?" Uh, you know, uh, and and we never got to it. All right. So, here's Jack City.

It's Sunday. You're watching the Raiders Gladiators game on TV and suddenly the house collapses.

How embarrassing. But it's not your These are those classic LA accents. Those classic Southern California quintessential accents THAT ARE SYNONYMOUS WITH THE CITY ITSELF. I I also feel like they were trying to take a subtle dig at Super Mario Brothers a little bit. Uh but maybe I'm wrong.

You think these guys are Mario and Luigi? Yeah. Oh, interesting. Because they're like not plumbers, but they're jackers.

See, I thought they were jackers. I don't like that. Jack. I don't like that. And I don't like how quickly it came to your mouth.

By the way, there's the t-shirt. Jack City. Get these guys. It's not bad. I like a jack.

I will say I liked the sequel, the new one. New Jack City. All right, here we go. It's all about word play, Philly.

It's everybody's fault. That's why you got to go to Jack City where you can choose from hundreds of decorator colors. So remember, if you didn't buy from us, you don't know Jack City.

Also, just a pause, never comes back in the movie. These jacks are not a part an important part.

For sure they were going to be like some re for because they're set up like three different times in the first act. You see people during the fight sequence jacking up posts. You see them later jacking something up. Then you see the commercial and I was like okay that's going to be part of it. Nope, not at all.

So a couple questions about Shuko and Shuko's motivations. And do you want to refer to him as Shugo or Victor Gistman?

I I will I mean I love his Christian name, but I prefer to call him Shuko. So Shuko, I guess, owns most of Los Angeles.

Seems like he is some sort of oligarch. Yeah. So I'm confused about what he actually needs from these powers given what he's been able to accomplish without them. Also, also, why is he also the person who killed their father? Like, what is his what's like why are all of these people connected to each other? He also doesn't seem to have any martial arts background at all. Any like and and look the we get the biggest insight into his motivation in this scene where he reveals what he really wants. I mean, this is this is basically it. Like, if you go, "What's this movie about?" It's about this character saying this.

How hard can it be to pull my beloved dragon out of the river? Huh? I mean, it's down there.

The river's really deep. Lewis, any news? I JUST WANT TOTAL DOMINATION OF ONE MAJOR AMERICAN CITY. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR? Is it Is it

That's what he wants. Total domination. It seems like he's succeeded. He got it.

Yeah. Like hang a mission accomplished sign over the aircraft carrier. Baby, we did it.

He is working out of a mall. Anything is bought for a price. It also seems though that a lot of I mean, correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know the source material, but it seems that a lot of the um medical experiments he's been able to do have happened without these medallions.

Yes. Well, those are just Yeah, that's like he's some sort of like, you know, stero he's giving these guys steroids or Yeah. Know, he's seems to be trying to create like monsters. I wrote down he is creating a bunch of extras for nothing but trouble. A movie that we did on this podcast.

This movie has a lot of mutants. Very nothing but troubling at points. It does feel and that monster that's created

a rejected clumps character. And that monster is created to be the most powerful man in the world.

By the way, his name Boadobo. Boado. Okay. So, Bo, part of the Mohawk gang. He The problem with him is he was much more flexible. He was much more

um malleable and quick and I think stronger before he became that monster. Of course. Of course. No. Once he becomes this roided out kind of monstrosity, he has to be put inside of a plastic suit that becomes like that can't move or can't do anything. So, he just kind of wanders around like

I know much scarier in the beginning, right? I know that there is like a theory about if you use steroids your penis gets smaller, right? I imagine that how big he is. Is his penis so so tiny?

Is that is this what you were thinking about during the movie? Is that why you have all those pictures in there drawn?

I was like, now again, picture the body tiny tiny tiny peep and that's why he's so mad. You think that? Okay. Okay. You think Bo Adobo is so mad because he's been made to ingest so much steroids that it has made his penis so so small that he's full of rage. But arguably what happens upon his being full of uh uh uh these steroids is he becomes quite emotional and starts rooting for the good guys.

Right. Well, I think that's after he loses the battle, right? And he's left for dead. Yeah, I guess that's

right. They do leave him for dead in a burning building. So, I think that would make you switch sides. But even at that point, he is kidnapped and then is force-fed spinach, which I thought was like kind of a play on Popeye. This movie is [ __ ] wild.

It's crazy. I I I'm realizing now genuinely I don't I didn't pick up on a lot of stuff, but I just watched it like colors and shapes going by.

Usually I'm able to intuit it more of what's happening. And in this one, I was like okay red and blue are still in it, but uh I don't know what's up with this guy. This guy looks like Bane now. Yeah, I couldn't quite figure it out. Robert Patrick

was doing, as far as I'm concerned, the best Charlie Sheen impression I've ever seen. I love Ro Robert Patrick in this movie. And I I Googled I said, "When did, you know, when did Terminator 2 come out? Are we like, is this like the next movie he made or is this a little while later?" Terminator 2 came out in 1991. This movie came out in 1994, so pretty close. Like, this is like, you're hot. What's your next move? Double Dragon. I got the call. Bobby P, I got you that job. And it's called Double Dragon.

Do you know any martial arts? No. No worries. When it comes to martial arts, we'll turn you into two guys with swords. You just think real hard, wish on a medallion, and you will turn into two guys with swords.

The crazy thing about him is that medallion that's hanging on Scott Wolf's neck is he goes through all of this all of these different um I guess body shifting moments to jump into people's body to use the power of the soul to get in there to get that other medallion. There are so many points in this movie that that medallion is this close.

Oh yeah. And he could have just Everybody came grabbed it. Just get it. It's outside of his shirt. Just just go right there and just grab it like that.

I mean, this I don't feel safe. I don't like it. I don't feel safe, June. You know, no touching. I mean, this movie also posits that everyone fights terribly because at one point the Double Dragon kids are attacked by like conservatively like 45 people at least like they are they are surrounded by a a battalion of people and don't no one surrounds them. They're not particularly good fighters. I mean they're not like you don't watch these moves and go like

whoa. You've got to watch these movies like I took karate for six months. Mark Dascos is a legit like for me also one of my very dear co-stars in John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum.

Um he is legit like one of the best. I [ __ ] love him. He's doing such amazing work in this. But every you're right. Everybody else, if you told me they didn't block or plan any of that fight and they were just like, "We have 400 extras. You and Scott are just going to jump up and down and they're going to fall down randomly."

By the way, it's during this fight, that big fight scene where I thought maybe everybody got the just their sense shaken out of them because there's a male there's a mailman in there. There's some there's a A MALE PERSON

AIR MAIL. I'm like all of a sudden wearing like the world like the tryyouts for WWF like 80s WWF.

But that gentleman that gentleman is in his uniform, his postal uniform, and it really looked like he was just delivering the mail one day.

The big one is Well, should we understand that the mailmen are part of one of the gangs?

Yes. Right. Like that's what's happened. Like all groups are now them unto or jobs are unto themselves gangs.

But what move is that to try to land on someone but announce your jump because you are letting them know. It's like it's like saying look out below, but you're trying to kill them. So you should be like sh jump. You shouldn't be like

You think you should say sh and then jump? I was trying to make it for the podcast audience that they would be very quiet. I'm hunting double wagons. I I didn't I didn't I didn't catch a lot. I couldn't if you told me I couldn't tell you anything about Alyssa Milano's character. Like zero.

Well, she's very well defined. I know she's leading some sort of powerpore kid rebellion.

The kids are just a new faction of the power core. So she's got kids working for her.

No, those kids don't have homes. They don't. They're homeless. I believe they are homeless.

Oh, she says this is a safe space for them. Okay. So they don't get pulled into gang violence. So they don't get like those Mickey Mouse after school program. How out of touch is her father that he doesn't know she's wearing a wig?

Can you imagine? Your daughter is wearing a wig every day and you're like, "You look great, sweetie.

But by the way, your daddy's little girl kisses the top of her head. It's a wig." But by the way, I do need to point out that when we meet Alyssa Milano at home and she's combing out that wig, um, she puts on like a house coat and is dressed the way my grandmother dressed around the house as a woman in her 50s that didn't really have a job. I was like, this is an odd choice for a youthful young woman to be wearing a house coat indictment of your grandmother. A jobless woman in her 50s wandering about in a house coat. What shame? What shame Nana GET A JOB, NANA.

She didn't need a job because she had all them Faber eggs. Got those eggs, Philly. Give us those eggs. I mean, I know Paul used to to nurse a really serious crush for Alyssa Milano, so this must have been

I did have an Alyssa Milano poster over my bed. What? She was in a hockey jersey and like looking Who's the boss style?

Is that Is that when she played for the Flyers? I don't remember. I I wonder if that book

huge pull by the way. I was like 5050 on whether that's right. Like genuinely, I was like, I'm just going to go for it.

No, I had a huge crush on her. And then I This is the poster. I just pulling it up right now.

Paul, be careful. Paul, be careful. You might spontaneously ejaculate. This might be like sense memory. This could be Pavlovian.

Um, so she's in a New Jerseys devil. Uh, okay, Philly. Okay. So, there it is. I mean, I you could see it a little bit. Um, and that's what I had over my bed. She's in ripped jeans. New Jerseys devil. And of course, we know. And And I traded it.

Wait, I don't I think it's New Jersey Devils. I don't think it's New Jerseyy's devil. I just

I don't think it's possessive of the devil. I don't respect it enough. Rangers forever. Better than Islanders.

Paul, this is Philly, remember? I know. These people eat horseshit off the street.

LOOK UNDER YOUR SEATS. THERE'S A FRESH APPLE UNDER EVERY SEAT. MUNCH, MUNCH, you weirdos. Yeah, I think I traded that poster for

You traded it. Yeah. My friend was like, "I want that poster." And I was like, "What will you trade me for?" And I think I got a Ghostbusters mirror.

What? Like a mirror that had the Ghostbusters logo on it? So what? So you could jerk off to your own image?

No. To the ghost? Replace the thing you jerk off to with a mirror. THAT'S very sad. OH GOD, PAUL, you lost that trade. I don't mind telling you you lost that trade.

Melissa Milano, I it was like a real like I feel like sex symbol. Who's the boss?

Yes. from I was exactly from Who's the Boss in that way that like I get why she's in this movie as this character. I just couldn't figure out what she was doing.

Oh, and by the way, they have a great Who's the Boss reference in it? Oh, I don't know.

Oh, it's great. I'm just old and I'm just older than you guys enough that Who's the Boss and Alyssa Milano kind OF I MISS.

OH, IT'S SO GOOD. ALL ABOUT DOUBLE trouble twins. Oh, that's good, too. Um, but basically there's uh the the line was this. In the final battle, Linda, that's Linda Lash, says to Marion, "Now who's the boss?" And then later Marian tells Lash, "You're lucky. Generally, I put people in the hospital because Lash was on General Hospital."

Oh. And then when they went to the restaurant, the hostess was like, "I've got a party of five for for Ugly." Party of five.

I was very excited to see Scott Wolf. I feel like we didn't get enough of his dimples in this movie.

Got to get those dimps. Where were they? And where WAS HIS BARE BUTT? BY THE WAY, I have to say this is a movie where a lot happens, but I can't tell you anything about any of these characters. And I think Scott Wolf is a dick. Like in this character, like in this movie, like he's not likable. Like he does like dirty punches in the beginning. Like he's an [ __ ] He cheats. It's like there's nothing sympathetic. I want to root for him. I'm like, "You're a dick." Like one of his main complaints is like, "YOU'RE ALWAYS PLANNING."

OKAY, if that's the biggest dig. Like in this post post-apocalyptic world, you always make plans like we have to have enough food. We don't have money. We shouldn't wreck the car.

I think I I I don't have a I can't like make a good reading about Scott Wolf. I loved him so much

in Party of Five. Yes. That I just Yeah. That I just was very happy to see him.

Come on. You never saw Party of Five? Never saw it. Oh my god. So good. I don't go in for that.

Here we go. Pilot episode of Party of Five. Let's do it. Turn the lights down. We're all just going to watch it.

So, I want to say something about Alyssa Milana's hair. The daughter hair or the blonde highlighted hair?

This blonde hair. So, it's so tough because she's such a beautiful woman. Thi this hairo will not look good on anyone. Not a single person. There's no way for it to.

That's I could pull it off. Jason, that is like a a Swedish pop star's hair. That is Robin can do this,

right? Yes. Okay. Robin can do this. Or or I believe this might be the haircut that the woman from Dian still has.

It's just so confusing cuz there's no um there's no shape to those bangs. Like some are very long, some are very short. It really upset me. Well, it's interesting because what I couldn't figure out in the movie is I I understand her bleached out short kind of punk rock haircut is essentially does in a way make sense to me in a if the movie is a post-apocalyptic true wasteland uh uh um escape from LA Johnny pneumonic style, but it's not. She is also meant to be a normal suburban daughter who's got a cop as a dad and has to go to school or do whatever.

Her brother's on VR roller coasters. The only thing that really saw the future in this film

like there's like that juxaposition then doesn't really make sense to me. Then I don't understand. I still can't get a handle on what the power cord does like on a just on a day-to-day.

Do they restore? I think I think it's break dancing. No, they restore power to the city

to the core. Maybe there's a lot of black. Yes, there's a lot of blackoutswhere.

I think that they make those kids pedal bicycles. There there there are a lot of blackouts and they and the and the dad says at one point, "Oh, that power core. They're responsible for the blackouts." And she goes, "No, Dad. The power core makes the power." Or some rough version of that language. Do you think Okay, let me understand this. This is what I'm going to conjecture. Alyssa Milano has all of New Angeles's orphaned children or lost children who she is using as slave labor in order to power the city electrically.

I wouldn't dispute that. And we'll get out the audience. in case she's the villain of the movie.

IF THAT'S THE CASE, WE GOT TO FREE THESE KIDS FROM THE power core. Children, can anyone speak to that? Can anyone tell us if we're right or wrong?

Wrong. Hold on. We'll go over and find out. Ma'am, you better have a concise answer. I'm coming to you right now.

Just quickly, Paul, before you go to her, she is the one who saves the day at the end of the movie.

Powerorn. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Because what's his face? is Robert Patrick doesn't like the lights

is what and and I had I that's one of the things that I had missed. I really missed

I had missed that that would that he is that if he's wearing exposed to too much light his magic doesn't work.

Like here's the thing. He's got the two medallions. Doesn't that isn't that in this movie the equivalent of the Infinity Stones? Hasn't he now assembled like all of the the hallows? Can't he conquer death now?

Like he's put the two together. That's like having the resurrection stone, the Elder Wand, and the cape.

And I think that's one of the problems with the movie. But I would argue that light just made him drop it, right? Light made him drop the the thing and then they were on the ground and then that was it. It was over. Like I just understand that just shining bright light on him made the medallion fall off of his

What you're also right about is when the medallions came together for that double dragon moment. The only thing that really happened was they got suits.

Yes. WHEN ROBERT PATRICK HAS BUT one half of the medallion, he can turn into the smoke monster from Lost. HE CAN HE CAN he can possess other people, right? With the exception of Scott Foley, who he can't possess because he's got the other half of the

Scott Wolf. Scott Wolf. Sorry. Sorry. He also can't, to be fair, he also can't possess Scott Foley either.

Okay. Um because he just is such a big fan of to me are of the same. They are in the same Okay, got it. Anyway, so he he can't anyway. So he can do all of this crazy [ __ ] with one half, right? When he is when he combines both when Robert Patrick combines both not Robert Pat Yes. combines both halves of the medallions. All that happens is he turns into two guys with swords. THAT'S IT. THEY DON'T HAVE MAGIC POWERS. THEY'RE JUST TWO GUYS WITH SWORDS.

BUT how cool would it have been if they had enough money to make two Robert Patricks of swords?

Was that an option? I feel like that's what we should have done. But let me just hear what the power core does. What do you think the power core does? So the power core are like the vigilante anti-gangs. They basically fight the gangs and try to restore safety to the city, which is why the gangs all looked scared when they showed up. Also, the police seem to think kind of Allah Batman the power core are terrorists shooting down planes, but really they're only shooting down planes full of drugs. At least that's what Alyssa Milano says to her.

Wow. They're shooting down planes. Thank you ma'am. And here's the weird thing about it. Here's the the very strange thing about the power core. It they seem when you go into their layer, it seems very bright and colorful. Like it seems like a camp.

Isn't it full of arcade games? But that's what this Why would the police ever have the idea that they're terrorists?

Yeah, but Power Core's HQ seemed like a rec center, not from Electric Bugaloo, the one where they're trying to save the rec center. And what I couldn't figure out is why are they a threat at all? This seems to be kids at play.

This is daycare. This is Jim. This is Yes. Boy, wouldn't it have been great if it was like that that Jimie and it was just a bunch of like little kids.

This is the problem of making a post-apocalyptic film for kids because they're keep on mixing and matching things. Like, yes, it's so brightly colored and there's video games and people are eating pancakes for dinner and popcorn for dinner and it's gross to feed someone spinach cuz spinach is gross, you know? But then like you have a guy smoking like the bad guy like you have like some adult themed [ __ ] going on with some really Pee-Wee Playhouse kind of [ __ ] going on there, too. It's It's a bizarre bizarre film. I I know that a lot of the kids did like the Huey Lewis in the news reference. Um the henchmen Hueie and Lewis and what's the news?

Not for nothing. If this is aimed at kids like they killed if it's aimed at kids

kill Sattorii like boom, she's dunzo. I thought for sure she was going to come back.

Of course she I thought she was going to come back because it seemed like she was the true keeper of the double dragon uh legacy or history or whatever. The fact that she's just like wiped out. So these two dildos can run around.

AND SATATOR, WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? AND Satatori looked to be their same age, yet she was their guardian.

Yes. Yes. And And why not make Sattorii an older woman like who brought them in? No, she's like, "You're you're 18. I'm 19. I adopted you. I guess the rules work differently."

There was a moment that I loved. I pointed it out to June. We were watching cuz we were sharing AirPods. Aw,

we both had one AirPod uh watching this movie. Or as June calls them, Airbuds. June called them Airbuds the other night and I have thought about it a lot. Just the idea of putting two golden retrievers in your ears with that are like that are chasing tiny basketballs. If if the air IF THE THING I WILL DESIGN THESE. It is the basketball is the thing you put into your ear. What hangs outside of your ear is the golden retriever.

So, it's a perfect It's a perfect product. Philly, please help me get this to market. Sharks, I need your help.

Can we pull up a picture of her pants? We got to talk about Guys, we got to talk about these pants. Okay, I'm going to say one thing right now about them before you even pull up this photo. I thought they were jeans at the beginning of the movie.

Okay. I thought they were shorts. Okay. Oh, I thought they were shorts. By the end, I thought that they were um

chaps span. Yeah, like spandex on top and then jeans on bottom. Just pull up a photo.

I'm gonna try. I'm curious. Is there anybody in the audience who did not notice Alyssa Milano's pants?

Well, by the way, everybody did. Good. There is a there is a moment in this movie I wrote down. These guys like ass because

Oh, when they're going into the tube, by the way, it's a kids movie. Um I June, you said so confidently like, "Pull up a picture of those pants." I'm sorry. I don't know if I have I don't know if I have them. And I feel like we're in we're getting into

I feel like we're in the zone. We're getting into the um right when they climb through the tunnel. Oh yeah.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. There we go. There we go. Okay. Okay. So, wait. So, wait. So, wait. SO,

OKAY. NOW, NOW WE CAN GET to work now. Okay. Now, we can get to work. OKAY. DOES ANYBODY HAVE A LASER POINTER? We need a laser pointer.

So right now those look like jeans. Yes. Those No, Jason. Those look like one pair of angle looks like jeans.

That looks like one pair of jean that's been jeans that's been cut into Well, YES. IF THE LEGS HAVE BOTH BEEN CUT OFF EXCEPT FOR TINY strips connecting EACH LIKE LIKE GARTER BELTS of jeans.

I would say denim garter belts connect the bottom to the top, right? Like so basically from the knee down is jean from from like just from it's LIKE IT'S LIKE A THIGH HIGH BOOT made of denim.

But she is also wearing shoes. She is wearing shoes. This is what's so weird about this shot is I actually am I'm very excited to see this from behind.

You are seeing it from behind. I know. And I'm excited to see it from behind because

Okay. Okay. Wait a second. Pause. WHAT? WAIT. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. TIME OUT. TIME OUT. THERE ARE bicycle shorts underneath.

All right. So, bicycle shorts. So, so keep in mind there is full skin in between the lower leg and the butt.

EVEN THOUGH THOSE ARE STILL PART OF, I BELIEVE THE same item of clothing. Although, wait, I just I something just occurred to me. I think that her gloves are made out of

the jeans. The jeans. Go back to it. I'm just looking to see if Wait, what? I think you're going to have to do the for the movie.

Type in the movie. Paul Alyssa Milano pants. I was typing it in quickly. YOU THINK GOOGLE'S LIKE, "I KNOW EXACTLY THE ONES YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUDDY."

NO, OF COURSE IT'S JUST ALYSSA MILANO WEARING [ __ ] pants. Oh, wow. I would love IT IF YOU IF IT JUST YOU SAID Alyssa Milano pants and your thing said again.

All right, so here we go. We got a good picture of her pants. OH, YES. THAT ONE.

Now we're talking. Okay. Okay. OH MY GOD. IT'S EVEN CRAZIER THAN I THOUGHT. This is wild.

It's even crazier. Okay, somebody is screaming something from over here that is legitimate. Okay, that is part of her camouflage, which is the spray paint allows her to remember people were blended into the wall. BUT HERE'S THE THING. GUESS WHAT'S NOT CAMOUFLAGED? THE FLESH OF HER THIGHS. If you want, YOU KNOW WHAT? OUR MILITARY DOESN'T DO. They don't have camouflage from here down, here up, and then just generous skin.

But by the way, I like the idea that's her camouflage, but it should be the whole body. It's not like people are just going to see her from the waist down.

But now I'm thinking, okay, you want to enlarge? You can hit that. Wait, I just want the cursor. I don't need to enlarge it. Okay. So, this this is not the same as the bicycle shorts in the back. This is a different

Yes, it is. People are saying it look that was gray and this looks like lace. Wait. Okay, hold on. I think it is. Okay, fine. So, these are jean string attached to

those. It's some sort of garter that's connecting the bottom jean to the top jean, I think. CAN I ASK THE AUDIENCE A QUESTION? DO YOU think what's on the bottom of her legs is the same as what's in her uh crotch region?

No. You think those are It's a pair of shorts and then a garter belt with jean bottoms.

What? [ __ ] you, Philly. What? I agree. I agree with the audience. [ __ ] you.

I agree with the audience 100%. I agree with the audience 100%. Hold on. Yes, absolutely.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I believe that she is wearing jeans and a green tea. And when she goes undercover, she puts on her garters and attaches this the uh the spray paint pants.

I get you, Philly. I'll eat horseshit with you. I guess so. I guess so. But like,

wow. Why? All right. Well, obviously, no way. This is this is for the work she's doing.

This is not functional. It just can't be. Otherwise, people would have adopted it.

Obviously, students everywhere would be wearing these. We are not going to get to the bottom of this. You don't know what it's like to live in New Angel in 2007. Okay. So, let's go to the audience right now to hear uh from them. Maybe they have questions besides the pants that we can talk about. And I'm going to ask you in the audience tonight a question. Um, we hear about Madonna divorcing Tom Arnold. We hear about Jerry Brown being the vice president of the United States. In this world, what celebrity do you think might be the president of the United States? In this world? All right.

Your name, your president, and your question. My name is Bos. The president in this world.

Yes. Oh, not the president in our world. We know that that wouldn't be a hard thing. I I just take a guess. You could say anything. Still Donald Trump. Okay, great. Perfect. See, it was perfect. All right. Now, your question. Okay. So, the quake, I think it had a bit a little bit more impact on the area than New Angel than maybe had mentioned. Uh because in that weather forecast, I saw a place called La Canyada.

What? That's That actually is a place in Los Angeles called La Kinyatta. But go ahead. It is I am serious. So, okay, we'll move on. You did it, Philly. You did it. First question out of the gate. You did it. All right, ma'am. Your name, your president, your question.

Uh, hi. My name is Mo. Um, president Tony Danza. Great. Excellent, Angela. Um, end of the movie, they they get into the car at the very end with Bo Adobo, whatever his name was, and they think that Scott Scott Wolf is possessing him. Um, so they get in the car with him, but then he's actually in the trunk of the car the entire time. So my question is, what was he doing in the trunk?

Great question. And also, does it does he have the power to possess bodies at that point?

Yeah. Yes. So, I thought he Wait, don't they doesn't he have the power of the double dragon?

So, so once he becomes the double dragon, those powers are interchangeable. They can both

They have to combine it in order to both have the powers. No, no, because Robert Patrick is going in people's souls the whole movie.

Only with the medallion half, right? Oh, right. Can we get these down a little bit and house lights up a little bit?

You're right. Because I thought that was odd because it was all Yeah, you're right. I was like, why did they assume he was in the other body? They don't even know. They just got them. They're like, we got to figure out these medallions a little bit more. I mean, they're rubbing it for a good part of the movie. Uh, your name.

Why does everybody rub it like it's Aladdin's lantern? I don't know. Your name, uh, your president and your question.

Hi, Whitney. I'm so nervous. Hi. Uh, my president is You got this, Wendy. Whitney.

Whitney. Um my You got this, Whitney. Thank you. U, my president will be Terry Cruz.

So, you you think this is like an an idiocracy scenario? Yeah, very much so. And there's two observations I made since you're in John Wick 3, which I love you. You're great. Um, did you notice the two twins, they always that whole group with like the heterlock clone and everything, they always synchronize their glasses and eating gum together. Mhm.

Um, but did you also notice that the restraints that they had? Who's the Asian guy?

Huy and Lewis. No, the the Mark Oh, Mark Dascos. Yes. He was in restraints. It looked like [ __ ] Those were the worst restraints I've ever seen cuz he could easily get out of those. So,

like [ __ ] for like making a friendship bracelet. Like a box. Oh, I was thinking Pulp Fiction. Yeah.

I remember making friendship bracelets in camp in like day camp. Oof. Tough stuff. Nobody wanted him. All right. A man in a blood sport shirt has a question. Sir, your name, your president, your question.

Ryan, probably Mel Gibson. Okay, great. And I just wanted to talk about the uh Easy Cheese engine fuel.

Oh, yeah. So, at one point they read the ingredients of Easy Cheese, they throw it in there, and they basically go like a million miles an hour. So the car, my understanding is the car is run on trash.

Very much like Back to the Future 2. Yeah, exactly. And so they have to put trash in to make the car run and then it they pick up a like Yeah. an aerosol bottle and it says do not combust. They throw it in anyway and the car goes super fast. A scathing indictment on snack food. You would think though that again that would come back later in the movie. That that would be a skill that they learn once in act one that in act three they're like boom now we know how to go faster in the dragon mobile.

And that is really the problem with the movie. The only problem with the movie as far as I see it is that there's nothing um heroic about these two characters. There's nothing they don't use their smarts. They really don't use their skill except for that one awesome move. They they don't have um they don't seem really to have a mission

at all. They just sort of go along with it. They just are like happening. They're kind they're they're almost like a couple of doofuses who keep happening into like the movie should be about Alyssa Milano like the leader of a like the active leader of a

story. That's what I I was so upset she died early on. I would have loved to have watched her journey. your name, your president, and your question.

Uh, my name is Frank. My I think the president of this world is definitely Jerry Springer.

Great. And, uh, there's a lot of incredible technology in this movie. I'm glad we talked about the trash car. There's the the video game rendering thing that, uh, the bad guy uses when he loses vision. But I think we have to talk about ganget linkup, which is

Yes. Uh, the onboard computer in the car. Is that what it is? The onboard computer in the car? Yeah. I thought that was fascinating. Is that I will ask, is that from the video game?

No. Where you get the stats on each person you're going to fight? That's what I assumed it was cuz he said like this is Bo Adobo. He's a he's steroids. He can lift 800 lb. I was like, "Oh, maybe this is like one of the guys in the game that you fight and these are his specifics." You know what I'm saying?

Sir, your name, your president, and your question. Uh, my name is Rob and I think uh Danny Elfman would be a good president. I can only imagine his uh score. Uh,

weird, but I like it. You want Danny Elfman from Oingo Boingo? Absolutely. The person who soundtracks all of Tim Burton's movies and the Simpsons again from Oingo Boingo to be presidentele. Rob you're from Philly.

All right, your question. So during when when they first introduce Adobo and again when they're in the chase scene and the whole part where the um he has to activate the game simulation for him to see because there's newspaper in front of him. Was it just me or was him and his colleague like basically jerking each other off? I agree. I I wrote that too and because because and they fight over how they're doing it wrong. Like how and the the the motion was like you don't use a joystick. You don't do this to a joystick, right? A joystick doesn't respond to like torsion.

You know, a joystick is forward, backwards, shoot, shoot, shoot. But they were like twisting it. At one point, Bo Adobo is like,

"All right, I'm in I'm in as much as the balcony as I can physically get to." That's right.

Be careful up there, Paul. Be very careful, Paul. Really careful. Not only Keep in mind, not only is this a balcony, it is a balcony in Philly.

Yeah. Just keep I am right now in the balcony boxes. You have a question. Okay. Your name, your You do or you don't?

I do. Okay. Your name, your president, your question. Okay. I feel like if he said Jerry Springer that Judge Judy would do a good job

as president. My name's Katie. Um, my question is, do you know that the Jack City guys are from Philly?

Oh, wow. Really? They are. They had a They had a show on channel 12 called Furniture on the Men. They're the furniture guys. They are local treasures.

Wow. And they live half a block from where they filmed a scene in Mannequin 2. Wow.

They're also in Mannequin 2. Not bad. Best balcony question we've ever gotten. I almost feel like Well done.

Great job. B I almost feel like we should end the show. I mean, a woman just started dancing when that was announced.

Yes. People lost their minds. Oh, boy. This guy out of his seat. This is not going to be good. All right, let's see.

This guy. Oh, wait. It might be great. It might be great. Holding something, Paul. He's holding a medallion.

A double dragon medallion. Oh my god. All right, sir. HE FOUND IT. HE FOUND THE DOUBLE DRAGON MEDALLION.

SIR, your name, your president, your question. Uh, my name is Tony. Uh, my president would be Rodney Dangerfield.

Great. Uh, the director of this movie, uh, in addition to directing hundreds of music videos, also directed The Return of Bruno.

Wow. Wait, Return of Bruno? That was the album. That's the Bruce Willis album. Bruce Willis. I think probably the music video of it.

The music video for Okay. One of the the Bruce Willis harmonica vanity project,

which Bruce Willis tried to convince everybody he was a blues harmonica player,

which as a kid was an album I owned. And many years later did I find out that Under the Boardwalk was not an original Bruce Willis tune. I loved Bruno.

What? I love Bruno. The return of Bruno. Were you like Were you like, "Hey, Mom. Let me just put on some Return of Bruno. Pour you a glass of Chardonnay."

I some under the Boardwalk, if you know what I mean, mommy. Smooch, smooch, smooch. I really was in for a shock that most of those were covers. Secret agent man thought these were all originals.

You thought Bruce Willis wrote Under the Boardwalk? That would make him unquestionably the most talented person in history. I mean, I saw Blind Dates, so I knew

Melissa Milano pants. Why did that man have a Milano pants is a t-shirt option? It's just the Google search bar. It's the Google search bar and it's Alyssa Milano pants.

Paul, last question before we move off of Alyssa Milano's pants. We're back on it. We're back on it just for one second. The character in the video game, what is she wearing?

All right, Google that up. In the video game for the nerds, is is Robert Pat's character like the boss, the big boss? No.

What? He's not in the game. He's not in the game. Okay, thank you. All right, so

is anybody else in the game? This is a Bobo. This is the game. Yep. Wow. So, we'll see the little story.

You might as well have made a movie out of DigD dog. Make me a DigD dog movie. All right. Hold on. It's going to start the story. Hold on. All right. We're picking our mode. There's Okay, there's Alyssa Milano. She's punched in the stomach.

Wait a minute. Is this the Mohawk gang? Yeah. Is that Bo Adobo? Bo Adobo punches Alyssa Milano in the stomach.

Takes her. Wait, is that Alyssa Milano? Yes, Jason. It is. Okay. And she's wearing a little red dress.

Griger. And then that's our guys. Both of these are our guys. No, just the blue guy.

One in blue. Okay. Can you pause please, Paul? This is blowing my mind. The fact that this is the game is is categorically insane.

And now here are the two brothers fighting to the death. The brothers fight. They're brothers.

They are brothers. He gets he gets her out of wa She's on the What? And they start kissing.

This is what? Also, THERE'S A CAT. WHAT'S THAT CAT DOING UNDER? ALSO, THERE'S A CAT.

By the way, she looks very comfortable. HERE'S A COUPLE QUESTIONS. I HAVE QUESTIONS. A, THERE'S A CAT. B, WHAT'S THE VEST ON the hanger?

Do you see the vest? What's that waiting for? She's relaxed. THE CAT IS REALLY WHY IS THE CAT THERE? AND LIKE WHAT? HE BEATS HIS BROTHER TO DEATH. Then she's like, "You win. I'll [ __ ] you. Let me just put my [ __ ] vest on."

And by the way, this game has no dialogue. Not even a little bit of dialogue. Wait a second. I think I just heard it. It's the red vest, isn't it? It's his brother's vest, Jason.

WAIT A MINUTE. THAT'S A TROPHY. That vest is a death trophy. THAT'S WILD. YOU'RE AND YOU'RE TELLING me You're telling me that that blue beats red? Markos wins every day of the week. Also,

well, in that world, they also have no medallion and no power. Also, okay, fine. But Alyssa Milano, so she would have [ __ ] whoever won and hearts would have come out of her head.

And also, DOESN'T WHY NOT JUST FIGURE out a way to live as a throppple? Doesn't double dragon sound like a sexual position where brothers [ __ ] the same woman? Why can't they just double dragon her at the end? Do you guys think, and I'm dead serious, do you think that that cat is really red dragon reincarnation just watching?

There's something about that cat. I'd like you to go back to it, Paul. Can we look at the cat, please, about that? I agree with June. The cat's a [ __ ] pervert.

Very eerie. The cat's like, "Okay, I'm watching, but I'm also going to lick this puss while this is happening." By the way, that should be the shirt. Just the cat. But in the cat's eyes, you just see the red dragon. You just see your brother kissing the girl.

I mean, like that that is like the message of that is really wild. That that like, oh, once you beat all of the villains,

in order to get the woman, you have to kill your brother and then [ __ ] her while a cat watches. Well, you don't have to [ __ ] her while the cat watches. The cat wants it.

You got to watch cuz the cat is the actual boss. The cat. Wow. And I swear to God, pause for a second. If that cat was on the couch, I wouldn't have thought twice. If that cat was outside of the table, I wouldn't have thought twice about it. If that cat was on that little dresser over there, it would never have occurred to me. There's something about the position of that cat. Here's what I'm going to say, and I'm and I don't want to spend too much time on the game. This is a brick house. There's no way it survives the quake. There's no way the big quake happens. Brick house, boom, you dunzo. Guess what? Every brick house to the ground. It's got structural foundation. We know.

I I I don't even know what to make of that. this the game that that is what the movie is ba that is I'm serious when I say like a more interesting movie could be made of joust the game where you where you sit like a knight on an ostrich's back and fly around jousting people with uh okay now what do they [ __ ] what

I just wanted to see if this was a better version of it same thing just kiss kiss

I mean I guess Now that I see what she looks like in the game, I'm happier about how she looked in the movie.

Here's what my qu Yeah. Yeah. Here's my question, too. Is when they're done, can will you rewind a little bit, Paul? And so, so here's the thing, right? Rewind a little bit. Okay. So, Greg, go ahead. Play it from here. Okay. So, she's like, "You did it." And he's like, "Yes, I killed my brother for you." Right. I killed him dead. He was my brother. Smooch, smooch, smooch. Right. And then they look right at us

as if to say, "Is this what you wanted? Is this what? They look right at the player. They look RIGHT AT THE PLAYER AND SAY, "You did this. You did this. You made a brother kill brother just for the love of this woman." And it isn't even the love of the woman. IT JUST IS LIKE to the victor go the spoils. Does she have agency in this at all?

No. Nope. Didn't even have a say. All right, ladies and gentlemen. We obviously have an opinion about this movie, but there are people out there with a different opinion. And it is now time for second opinion.

I got home, searched Amazon Prime and I threw on double dragon. There's a big earthquake jugos roam the streets who alissana will fight. There's a medallion these bros got to keep safe from discount Gary old man. Was that their girlfriend or their aunt? I can't tell but she'll die just to keep them alive. Time for second opinions. Got to check Amazon. Find out who gave five stars to this [ __ ] show. There's bad acting and writing and who costumed this crap. Let's go check Amazon for A COND. GIVE IT UP FOR MOLLY. GREAT JOB, MOLLY.

Come here. All right, here we go, people. Double Dragon Second Opinions. These are cold from Amazon.com. There are 80 reviews for this film. 80. Not many. 58% are five star reviews. 58%. But they're all very personal. Um, this one written by Alorno writes, "I love this movie. I'm sorry. Five stars." And then this one's written by T. Leger. He goes, "Love this movie. I was there during some of the filming in Cleveland. I got to meet everyone but Robert Patrick who's from Cleveland. Five stars. This one's interesting. From Guom B Pro P. He writes, "Excellent. Sorry about the delay of my comment. Five stars."

So, if you were waiting on him to finally get around. Yeah. Sorry about the delay. I didn't mean to keep you waiting. I've been I've been meaning to put this comment up, but my apologies to everybody. I know you've been expecting it.

This one is interesting. This is from holosuite uh atyahoo.com. Australia. I love this DVD. You probably think I'm wacko, but I've never seen prequels or sequels or video games. This is my first experience of Double Dragon. For me, it's an hour and 36 minutes of escapism and light entertainment. The props, the lighting, the setting, the costumes are a spectacle to watch on an 84 cm television. Whoa. Five stars. Honestly, is that like this big? 84 cm? Isn't that very small? Um, this one is written by Sullem and he writes, "Please send me all of the movies of Bruce Lee. I live in San Diego. My address is 9 The point of Coronado Canyon. My zip is 92118.

My home number is 6915184715. Thank you." This person does not know how Amazon works. If they think that's how you order videos on Amazon is you go to the Double Dragon comment section and say, "Please send me all of Bruce Lee's movies. Here's my address." Jason June, obviously those people love the movie. Would you recommend that people see this film?

It's funny. I of course did not like the movie, but I didn't struggle through watching it. And that says a lot for me. It really does. So for

especially considering the fact that before we started you're like the last thing I want to do was watch a movie called Double Dragon right now.

Yes. And it was but I saw Alyssa Milano. I saw those pants. I saw some things that I liked and it was absurd. And it was absurd in the way I think that they were intending for young audiences with the theater backdrop and the absurd props and and all of that stuff and gumballs. I love that trope where people who are fighting in movies, they never just stop and let the gumballs go by. They just continue to run.

Can I ask just stop and let them all find their resting point? Yeah. Was there a time when small round balls was a weapon of choice for anybody? You would think in its how often it's used in movies that it would be one of our main tactics

for unsettling the enemy is just to loose the balls on them. That's why the American troops were able to storm the beaches at Normandy because the balls just got stuck in the sand.

Really? Yeah, that's that's true. That's true. They were the the uh the the forces were just pouring like big marbles down the hill. It's getting

stuck a lot about history. Okay. So that that probably tracks. Jason, what do you think?

Oh, yeah. I would watch this. This is like this is again I don't remember having watched it.

Yeah. So, I don't know. I can't It's one of those things that is like um when you take ambient and you don't remember that you made a turkey sandwich.

Yeah. Like somehow this movie does that to you where I woke up and I was like, "How did I get here? What's going on?" Okay. I don't remember it. I couldn't tell you much about it. It seemed fun. Again, colors, shapes, movement, all that stuff. It's got it in spades. I wouldn't I would say especially for this project of watching it for the podcast. Absolutely. It's not tedious. It's not awful. It doesn't wear out its welcome. It's not doesn't feel too long. I even have a more fullthroated recommendation. I think this movie is so fun and so bizarre and so weird. It has every trope of the movies that we watch on this show, but they're all together and it's shorter and less tedious than all those other ones. You got elements of everything in here. It's so weird. No choice really makes sense. And it has this effect where none of us are quite sure what we watched or what the plot was.

Yeah, I'm not sure. And we still enjoyed it. So, a fullthroated recommendation. Double Dragon Forever. Make a sequel now.

Yes. Like make a sequel. Make a direct sequel that is con like use Mark and Alyssa and Scott now and have them still be have it be new. It's like

make it in 2009 and then go. Um interesting. A big thank you to you Philadelphia.

YOU'VE BEEN YOU [ __ ] DID IT, PHILLY. an amazing crowd. THANK YOU FOR HAVING US. ONE OF THE BEST CROWDS WE'VE HAD on this tour. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

THAT'S RIGHT. GET OUT THERE. DO IT UP, PHILLY. All right. Thank you, Philadelphia. You guys were amazing and we did catch our train and we did get to go home. Let me tell you about the shirt that we designed for this show. It's one of my favorite ones. We didn't talk about it explicitly, but it is what the cat saw. It is an amazing uh shirt that calls back the double dragon game and it's basically the cat watching uh one of the brothers make love to the Alysa Milano character from the video game. It's one of our bestselling shirts and people hadn't even seen the episode. So uh definitely head over to tub.com/stores/hdtgm to check that out. A big thanks to Devin, our engineer who was live in Philadelphia and saved us from uh near doom with those audio issues. My god.

Whoa. Rough one. Also, a big tip of the hat to our producer, Averil Hi, who pulled all of those amazing movies for this tour. She's fantastic. You can follow her on Movie [ __ ] on YouTube and then all the other social media sites. Uh, a big uh tip of the hat to uh Cody uh who is also our producer here in LA. And I also want to give a a warm and generous thanks to Nick Kylie who does all of our research and Kyle Waldron who does all of our amazing design. We have an amazing team. everybody here at Earwolf. And if you want to continue this conversation about Double Dragon, please give me a call for the mini episode next week. It's 619 P A L A SK.

That's 619 Paul ask. You don't have to just ask about the movie. You can talk about anything you want. We've been getting into fantastic conversations on our mini episodes. Love, relationship, job advice, whatever you want. We will tackle it each and every week on the mini episode. Take a listen in and we will be playing a deleted scene about Alyssa Milano's pants on that episode as well. So, tune in for next week's mini episode where we tell you the movie that we are going to talk about the week following that. But we will also get into your comments, concerns, and questions all about Double Dragon. We will see you next time on How Did This Get Made?

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Who speaks in "Double Dragon LIVE! (HDTGM Matinee)"?

Paul Scheer (Host), Jason Manzoukas (Guest), June (Junane RaiO) (Guest), Robert Patrick (Guest), Andy Dick (Guest).

What is "Double Dragon LIVE! (HDTGM Matinee)" about?

A chaotic, post-apocalyptic mashup that blends steroid-fueled gang warfare, bizarre spy-paranoia, and video game come-ons, centered on a pendant split in two and the questionable spectacle of Double Dragon’s surreal plot. The hosts discuss its wild influences, ludicrous moments, and why it defies conventional sense.

What is mentioned in this How Did This Get Made? episode?

42 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Double Dragon, Paul Scheer, Jason Manzoukas, June Diane Raphael, Alyssa Milano, Jacob Patrick. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Double Dragon LIVE! (HDTGM Matinee)"?

The episode runs 1 h 26 min; the transcript is about 13,750 words in 338 timestamped sections.

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