Frithcast Episode 71 - Storytime - The One with Boopbeak In

Episode 71 – Storytime – The One With Boopbeak In.

Things we talk about in this episode:

Opening Music:

'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]

Closing Music:

'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]

Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org

 

• Po – Kung Fu Panda – film 2008 https://kungfupanda.fandom.com/wiki/Po
• Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness – John Keats ‘Ode to Autumn’ https://poets.org/poem/autumn
• Proserpina: http://www.talesbeyondbelief.com/roman-gods/proserpina.htm
• “Nor glom of nit” - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Postal
• Chekov’s gun: https://www.nownovel.com/blog/use-chekhovs-gun/
• The fairies gifting Aurora before Maleficent arrives: from Sleeping Beauty https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Flora,_Fauna,_and_Merryweather
• Maltese Falcon film (1941) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/
• Mcguffin: a literary device around which the plot revolves but which doesn’t do anything. See the suitcase in Pulp Fiction for a modern example https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/articles/what-is-a-mcguffin
• That scene in John Wick (the quote is at 7:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZBRrYEGET8
• Eastenders Theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYa_KfLTtM
• “Curses, he missed the note” The Goon Show, series 5 episode 7 ‘China Story’ http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e17_china_story
• “Always in the last place you look, like stockings” – Flemeth, DragonAge
• Excalibur: the name of the sword of King Arthur: https://www.ancient.eu/Excalibur/
• Glamdring – Gandalf’s sword from Lord of the Rings: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Glamdring
• “Your father smells of elderberries” Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/
• Smol Snek: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/snek
• “Look at his little back leg going like the clappers” Round the Horne:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_the_Horne
• “Hey! Listen!” Navi from The Legend of Zelda games https://zelda.gamepedia.com/Navi
• Rubber chicken with a pulley in it – Monkey Island computer game: https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Rubber_Chicken_With_A_Pulley_In_The_Middle
• Tea and No Tea from the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy computer game: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
• Zac McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders: PC game from 1988 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/ZakMcKrackenAndTheAlienMindbenders
• Chamberlain – character from The Dark Crystal (Film and TV series) https://darkcrystal.fandom.com/wiki/SkekSil
• “I shall do such things, what they are yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth” King Lear, Act 2, Scene 4
• “I don’t know if they grade it, but… coarse” - Sterling Archer, Archer, episode ‘Mole Hunt’ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1539157/characters/nm0168642
• If you’d like to read the Ballad of Svipdag for yourself, you can find it here: https://thenorsegods.com/the-ballad-of-svipdag/
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