From some of the Bungled to all you Botched out there…

We bring this good thing to an end this week with Brian holding down the fort in Victoria and Steve joining in by phone from Toronto. It’s more of an editorial show than anything as we chat about Charlie Sheen, the Oscars, Mad Men and what this whole “Cynics on the radio” thing really means.

1. While it might have seemed like we were doing a show about movies, TV & pop-culture, it turns out what we’ve really been doing is waiting for Two and a Half Men to be cancelled. Well…winning!
2. Now that Steve’s in the big city, he’s treated himself with a trip to his favourite movie theatre – unfortunately he went to see I Am Number Four. Brian makes up for Steve’s poor choice though by screening Incendies and The Adjustment Bureau.
3. We’re offered a touching and hilarious farewell by our colleagues, which leads us straight into our last word on Mad Men and the inexplicable hold it has on the viewing public.
4. The Oscars came and went without much in the way of poetically just moments, but we put The King’s Speech success in perspective, along with a few other awards for other equally worthy films.
5. And just when you thought it was all wrapped up, Steve has a sudden attack of diarrhea of the mouth and spouts off about his theory about the end of Shutter Island. To be honest, I lost track of time and didn’t realize we were hurtling toward the end of the show. If we’d wrapped up things the way I really wanted to, I probably would have made my final Vault pick Pump up the Volume, or maybe explained that I said “Greee-tings!” off the top of every show because of Super Troopers. This is the kind of chaos that transpires when we aren’t both in the studio. Alas, our perfect final show will have to remain a figment of my imagination.

Can’t believe this is the last one of these I’ll be writing for a while. I’ve got some sweet ideas cooked up for some “regular” blog posts, but I think that’s gonna have to wait until I get some kind of new writing zone, other than the subway. Infinite thanks go out to Brian for everything. I couldn’t have done this show with anyone else and he gets full props for putting up with my prima donna movie grandstanding.

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