Topic: How do you introduce someone to DIF? (Favorite episodes.)
It came up in another thread, and I'm curious - what are your top episodes, and why? Top five, top ten, whatever.
Normally I'd answer this question with things I'd say as Mr. DIF, to hopefully get off on the right foot with someone, but I'll answer preferentially for myself instead.
1. Twilight - I think we're really firing on all cylinders here. The energy is high, there's a lot of laughs, there's a lot of mockery, and a lot of fixin.' Plus knowledge of (and mockery, and fixin') the book.
2. Titanic - A big episode, but solid throughout, plus with a well-argued contrarian stance and a lot of history factoids. Plus comedy. Favorite line: "Don't they know we have lard?" - Trey
3. Surrogates - Hard to top the energy of this one, plus the comedy, and the fixin.' Just a fun ass episode.
4. 2012: Moby Dick - Is what it is - the ultimate director's commentary, for a movie from a much maligned studio, with all of the interesting behind-the-curtain fun of an Asylum exposé plus general BTS moviemaking stories to boot.
5. Terminator: Salvation - I think the second-hardest I've ever laughed on the show was at Dorkman's bit about the ILM artist who didn't find out until shoot day that they'd be using puppets. Lots of franchise-wide insight, and good fixin.'
6. Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back - A tie. These are both awesome listening. I think Star Wars is the more solid commentary, but TESB has more of a DIF feel to it, discussing previous drafts and subtlety. Both are funny. But...
7. Return of the Jedi - The hardest I've ever laughed in an episode. "This is your pilot speaking." My god. An otherwise pretty-damn-good episode, but there's about a minute and a half of solid gold toward the 90 minute mark.
8. Legion - I'm proud of us for this one. With a minimum of atheistic snark, four atheists basically rewrite a "God movie" and make it a thousand times more interesting, and more biblical. Plus funny.
9. Explorers - Simply because of our detective work in the last third of this two-thirds-of-a-movie.
10. Scott Pilgrim - I was so worried about this episode, because I thought I was the only one who wasn't a fan. By the end, we have several good reasons why - love it or hate it - it could, fundamentally, be a lot better.
When I introduce someone, I usually send them to Twilight. What about y'all?
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