366: Spoon!

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Destiny has her hand on our backs, and she’s pushing! That’s why we’re talking about The Tick, Ben Edlund’s hilarious superhero satire, in all its forms. From the original comics to the groundbreaking animated series to the 2000s live-action series to the all-new series premiering on Amazon Prime Video this month, we’ll cover it all. The night is young and we have umbrellas in our drinks. Evildoers, eat our justice!

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0:00.0	The incomparable number 366 August 2017.
0:11.3	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable Podcast.
0:13.7	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:15.8	And before I get on any further, I just have to say, spoon!
0:20.6	Which is my clue to tell you that we're talking about the tick.
0:23.6	The tick.
0:24.6	The blue superhero in all his forms, comics, TV shows, more TV shows, more TV shows.
0:32.5	Joining me to talk about it, I have two wonderful guests.
0:34.8	Glenn Fleischman is laughing right now.
0:36.6	Glenn, the night is young and we have umbrellas in our drinks. Hello.
0:39.6	Well, chum, I think it's time to start leaping across buildings and breaking parapets. We can solve the problem of the world is not too big for us to reach.
0:49.6	Also, uh, Tony Sindelar is here. Tony, you're not going crazy. You're going sane in a crazy world.
0:56.1	You're not Jason Stel.
0:57.1	Jason Stills have eight legs.
1:00.0	Barry.
1:01.1	Anyway, many references are going to be made tonight to the tick.
1:05.6	The tick created by Ben Edland, who you may also know, he wrote for Angel and I think Firefly, I'm not sure, and he's
1:15.5	written for other TV series. But back in the day, he created the hero The Tick for a local
1:24.6	comic book store in New England, Tony. Is that correct? They're a chain, but yes, they're a local chain. Yeah in New England, Tony. Is that correct?
1:28.5	They're a chain, but yes.
1:29.8	They're a local chain.
1:30.8	Yeah, New England comics, I think.
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