3 – Cartoons, Lies, and Video Tape
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2014
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Featuring Emergency Backup Co-Host Chris Sims!
In which Rachel and Chris X-plain three cartoons and track a disagreement to its source; Gambit is definitely the worst person you know; Broadcasting Standards and Practices is tired of your death ceremonies; Storm doesn’t have an inside voice; and we finally get around to mentioning that one dude with the claws.
X-Plained:
- Weaponized creepiness
- The evolution (and Evolution) of X-Toons
- Why you hate Cyclops (and Rachel doesn’t)
- Adaptation overload
- Broadcast standards, practices, and laser rifles
- How to order pizza like a weather goddess
- A paramilitary after-school club
- G-Rated Wolverine
- Comics based on cartoons based on comics
- Morph
- The Batman Standard
- The Wolverine and the X-Men trifecta of perfection
- Why the Mojoverse works better on TV
- Dazzler’s secret second job
- Basic jacketry
CORRECTION: In this episode, Rachel mentions that Morph’s first comics appearance is in Exiles. It’s not: he’s in Age of Apocalypse. Mea culpa.
You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, serious question. Do you think Gambit is creepier in the comics or on the cartoon? |
| 0:04.9 | Um, comics, Chris, obviously. Yeah, but in the cartoon, there's an episode where he tries to make out with |
| 0:11.3 | Rogue while she's asleep, and then later he catches her when she's asleep and then later he catches her when she's |
| 0:14.8 | falling and saves her life quote unquote even though she's invulnerable and can fly |
| 0:19.2 | and then calls her fat and that episode was written by an actual pickup artist. |
| 0:23.4 | Point, but I'm still going to say comics because an X-factor they actually just |
| 0:26.8 | straight up weaponized his creepiness. |
| 0:28.8 | Wait, is that the X-factor where they were pretending to be mutant hunters? |
| 0:31.8 | No, later one. Okay, the one with Havick, where they all worked to be mutant hunters? No, later one. |
| 0:32.7 | Okay, the one with Havoc, where they all worked for the government? |
| 0:35.4 | Later one. |
| 0:36.2 | Oh, the one with Jimmy Madrocks, where they were kind of noirish private eyes. |
| 0:39.4 | No, the current one, where they're like in-house superheroes for a really thinly veiled Google Standin. |
| 0:43.6 | Oh, well anyway, someone hacks into fake Google's super secure servers and it turns |
| 0:47.4 | out whoever it is is operating from the Secret Island Headquarters of the Thieves Guild |
| 0:50.8 | or Teves Guild as we say, which Gambit who's on the team is now running. |
| 0:55.3 | Well, wait a second, I thought Gambit was exiled. |
| 0:57.6 | Chris, do you really want to open that door because that's an external thing and there's no turning back |
| 1:02.1 | from that? That's going to be the rest of the |
| 1:03.7 | episode if we go there okay fine fine no externals so they go to the teams |
| 1:07.5 | guild island right and it turns out the hackers this dude named nil who's |
| 1:10.6 | somehow got in a hold of danger. Wait, Danger, the expansion murder room? |
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