205: Love Machine

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2014

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In the long tradition of big, giant robots came 1999’s “The Iron Giant,” the film Brad Bird made before he made “The Incredibles.” It was kind of a flop in its initial release, but this animated feature has become rightfully recognized as a classic. We debate the Giant’s original purpose, break down a surprisingly large succession of poop jokes, and ponder the Giant’s ultimate destiny to be the benevolent robot-king of Iceland.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable Number 205, August 2014.
0:12.9	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable podcast.
0:15.3	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:16.4	And in this episode, we're going to be talking about Brad Bird's 1999 animated motion picture.
0:23.5	It's the movie he made before he made The Incredibles.
0:25.6	It's The Iron Giant.
0:27.0	It was a box office bomb, but it is universally loved by critics and by many people out there and has had quite a following after it left the theaters that nobody, the empty theaters, and went
0:39.9	on into home video where it is, is beloved.
0:42.0	We're going to talk about it tonight.
0:43.2	Let me introduce the, uh, the panel that is going to be discussing the Iron Giant with
0:47.3	me.
0:47.8	David Laura is out there.
0:49.0	Hi, David.
0:50.2	Hello there.
0:51.1	Good to have you.
0:53.1	Uh, Steve Lutz also out there. Hi, Steve.
0:55.7	Hey there, Scout.
0:58.3	It's very nice.
1:00.2	Everybody drinks some espresso and Tony Sindler joins us.
1:04.5	Tony, it's good to have you here.
1:06.0	Hey, squirrels in my pants, Jason, and it's climbing its way out of here.
1:10.8	Everybody avert your eyes.
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