Episode #53 -- What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

or: “Coming To Theaters In 2023: The Bathroom Edit of `Once Were Warriors’”

Oh shit.

oh fuck

How do we do this again?

Uh… MOVIES!

Just what is a movie, though? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a movie as— aw forget it, this isn’t working. Hey, everybody! We’re back and we’ve got six new episodes for you all, piping hot and fresh out of the podcast oven… which is our mouths? Nope, too gross.

We’re back! In this episode we watch 1999’s What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?, a movie that we had never heard of that is a sequel to Once Were Warriors, another movie that neither of us had seen or heard of. It’s about street gangs and family drama in New Zealand, and there are weird tonal shifts and abrupt endings and characters who are retconned into existence only to be killed almost immediately so that they can get the plot rolling. Which is weird, right? It’s not just us who think that? Shouldn’t the death of a character in the movie carry some sort of emotional resonance with it, and not just be like hey who’s that guy wait he’s dead now who cares? What we’re saying is that the producers of this movie should have created a time machine to travel into the future to read this blog post about their movie and then hired us to punch up their script and then gotten mad at us when we put werewolves in it.

Other stuff:

We reference Tom Scharpling’s bit from the Best Show about jokes. Here’s the clip we’re talking about, which we probably have linked to before in a previous blog post at some point but who gives a fuck, because it’s so great:

We also discuss clips from the Korean TV station SBS’s show Animal Farm, which are usually your run of the mill “Hey, look at this animal doing this funny and/or weird thing” but which also tend to have excellent titles, such as:

Cat Actually "Talks" To Give Her Treats?! *LIT*

Maltese Dog Walks Backwards AF Without Rear Sensors

Cray Chicken Beats The Hell Out Of Doggo With A Fly Kick LOL

In conclusion, this is clearly the best YouTube channel ever, thank you for coming to our TEDx talk.