350 – The History Boys

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

We’re ringing in another year on the pod with our 350TH EPISODE!! In 2006, Broadway imported the National Theatre production of Alan Bennett’s The History Boys, an ensemble piece following a group of college hopeful students and their philosophically opposed teachers. The Broadway production became a Tony record-making sensation. However, prior to the transfer, the entire cast completed a film version that would arrive later in the year after the Broadway fever had cooled.

This episode, we talk about why this film marks a place in THOB history and the film’s complicated presentation of queerness and predation. We also talk about Richard Griffiths’ lauded performance, Fox Searchlight’s busy 2006, and our favorites from the past year of the show.

Topics also include the mixed bag of 2006 contenders, the successful young male cast, and college admissions culture.

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:12.8	No, the right house.
0:13.6	I didn't get that.
0:14.7	We want to talk to Marilyn Hack, Maryland Hack and friends. I'm from Canada
0:26.6	I'm from Canada water Dick Poop How do you define history, Mr. Roj?
0:45.9	It's just one bloody thing after another.
0:48.1	Hit that boy.
0:49.6	Hit it.
0:52.1	So we shall be meeting again after all
0:54.7	Well scholarship candidates now sir
0:56.7	Oxford and Cambridge
0:58.4	It's the hot ticket, standing room only
1:02.8	They're clever but they're crass
1:05.4	You can't polish a turn
1:07.9	And now for some poetry
1:10.5	Most of the stuff poetry's about hasn't happened to us yet.
1:13.8	When it does, you'll have the antidote ready.
1:16.0	Grief, happiness.
1:18.1	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast hiding a dead body to protect our gay son.
1:24.0	Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had Lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another, it all went wrong.
1:33.4	The Oscar hopes died, and we're here to perform the autopsy. I'm your host, Chris Fyle, and I'm here,
1:38.6	as always, with the Cambridge to my Oxford, Joe Reed. I'm taking that as a compliment, even though I'm not entirely sure.
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