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* VillainsOutShopping: Much to the confusion and delight of the hosts, the villain of ''One Spy Too Many'', Mr. Alexander, spends one scene warming his hands over a brazier and then ''toasting marshmallows'', and in a later scene delivers his dialogue while ''searching for his car keys''. This, combined with his stated goal of breaking all Ten Commandments and somehow consequently surpassing Alexander the Great and ruling the world, has them speculating that his motivations are incomprehensible and his true desire probably is "Find keys". This also gets them on the track of imagining various classic Bond villains ambling around, walking through doors and forgetting why they'd come into a room, and complaining about the monorail running late.

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* VillainsOutShopping: Much to the confusion and delight of the hosts, the villain of ''One Spy Too Many'', Mr. Alexander, spends one scene warming his hands over a brazier and then ''toasting marshmallows'', and in [[https://youtu.be/LpkO89msqIc?si=3pnftRVV66XvRs9L a later scene scene]] delivers his dialogue while ''searching for his car keys''. This, combined with his stated goal of breaking all Ten Commandments and therefore somehow consequently surpassing Alexander the Great and ruling the world, has them speculating that his motivations are incomprehensible and his true desire probably is "Find keys". This also gets them on the track of imagining various classic Bond villains ambling around, walking through doors and forgetting why they'd come into a room, and complaining about the monorail running late.
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* SuddenlyShouting: Abi became enraged trying to make sense of the world of ''WesternAnimation/Cars2''.

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* SuddenlyShouting: Abi [[https://youtu.be/CyeUkvl1oqY?si=3Y6TIMP1iLx6NkYS became enraged enraged]] trying to make sense of the world of ''WesternAnimation/Cars2''.''WesternAnimation/Cars2'', causing Devon, trying vainly to come up with explanations, to say "Don't hurt me!"
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* AbortedArc: Season Three [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/kill-james-bond-87904335 was announced]] as encompassing every findeable Eurospy movie in release order. While most of the first handful they covered were good or interesting, as they went on more and more of the films they covered were boring and formulaic, leaving them without much to talk about. Given that [[https://www.imdb.com/list/ls096065315/?sort=release_date%2Casc&st_dt=&mode=detail&page=1 Eurospy covers a lot of films]] they cut this down on the advice of helpful fans, announcing that starting with ''That Man In Istanbul'' they were doing "bangers only" and covering only another eight rather than... forty.


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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Eurospy encompasses a lot of 1960s movies that are all but forgotten and not available for purchase or streaming. Some were spliced together from subbed and dubbed versions by the hogs. The best ones, Devon says at a few points, they'll make available for fans to download and see themselves.


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** The lead in ''That Man From Istanbul'', who may or may not be actually named Tony Mercedes, is constantly referred to with other names like Tony Montana, Tony Mycelia, Tony Menopause...
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* YouHaveFailedMe: They get a lot of mileage out of this, particularly when the execution method is a CoolAndUnusualDeath (such as in ''The Helicopter Spies'', where the BigBad presents his failed Mook with [[https://youtu.be/FJE1tDrgcA4?si=8FR1j2vS5RfSVd0w a tiny gold box with one pill in it]] that kills him instantly upon taking it). When a Mook in ''That Man In Istanbul'' instead kills the people who were about to execute him, the hosts are ecstatic.
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** While they forgot to do so in the episode itself, in the episode after ''The Spy With My Face'' they awarded a Kaufmann Star to [[AC: The Vault]] because it's such a bizarre high concept thing in such a zany madcap movie that the hosts were forced to stop and talk about it at length. [[AC: The Vault]] is a countermeasure against ''aliens'', using it would deactivate every nuclear weapon on Earth, and you have to wear goggles to look into it because if you ''don't'' you're compelled to go inside and won't come back out. "You can't save a man who no longer exists." ...And it just looks like a shipping container, because the budget for the film was very modest.

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** While they forgot to do so in the episode itself, in the episode after ''The Spy With My Face'' they awarded a Kaufmann Star to [[AC: The Vault]] because it's such a bizarre high concept thing in such a zany madcap movie that the hosts were forced to stop and talk about it at length. [[AC: The Vault]] is a countermeasure against ''aliens'', using it would deactivate every nuclear weapon on Earth, and [[https://youtu.be/5CSCnndwbgk?si=1tMrn9yM5mNtyrPb you have to wear goggles to look into it it]] because if you ''don't'' you're compelled to go inside and won't come back out. "You can't save a man who no longer exists." ...And it just looks like a shipping container, because the budget for the film was very modest.
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** Whenever they discuss actors, directors, studios etc that are still working, Abi has a conflict of interest and carefully says something complimentary. This cracks a bit on their ''House of Gucci'' episode when November plays Jared Leto saying "Criminal tax eva~sion~" in a ''very'' silly voice.

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** Whenever they discuss actors, directors, studios etc that are still working, Abi has a conflict of interest and carefully says something complimentary. This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE0vH4ZW9lk cracks a bit bit]] on their ''House of Gucci'' episode when November plays Jared Leto saying "Criminal tax eva~sion~" in a ''very'' silly voice.

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* HateSink: While the franchise as a whole is one for the show, the hosts have particular contempt for the Connery films for their overt racism and misogyny, with Connery's version of Bond being the most overtly predatory. This even extends to ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'', where the subtext of pining for the good old days is read as reactionary, as though the best Bond is the one who explicitly rapes two women in [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} two]] [[Film/{{Thunderball}} consecutive]] movies.

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While the franchise as a whole is one for the show, the hosts have particular contempt for the Connery films for their overt racism and misogyny, with Connery's version of Bond being the most overtly predatory. This even extends to ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'', where the subtext of pining for the good old days is read as reactionary, as though the best Bond is the one who explicitly rapes two women in [[Film/{{Goldfinger}} two]] [[Film/{{Thunderball}} consecutive]] movies.movies.
** They did at least find some funny things to talk about in even Connery Bond films. The Rambo series... while the first one had aspects that Abby in particular liked, the {{Sequelitis}} kicking in and displaying increasingly conservative politics, the {{Gorn}}, the degree to which women exist to be brutalized, and Rambo losing his vulnerability and simply becoming a lionized badass altogether made them sadder and angrier, to the point of giving the last two movies a higher SCUM score than any Bond movie.



* IdenticalStranger: The ColdOpen for the episode on ''Film/{{Breach}}'' is Abi talking about her first encounter with the film: she and some guys from school spotting the poster and noticing that Ryan Philippe was the spitting image of their friend "Paedo John".

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* IdenticalStranger: The ColdOpen for the episode on ''Film/{{Breach}}'' is Abi talking about [[https://youtu.be/HNT7jAcOJsU?si=wgmtFcgQ4zYC45OK her first encounter encounter]] with the film: she and some guys from school spotting the poster and noticing that Ryan Philippe was the spitting image of their friend "Paedo John".


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** Whenever they discuss actors, directors, studios etc that are still working, Abi has a conflict of interest and carefully says something complimentary. This cracks a bit on their ''House of Gucci'' episode when November plays Jared Leto saying "Criminal tax eva~sion~" in a ''very'' silly voice.

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