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977. Frame Rate - Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer

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Comedy

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This episode was paid for by special bean Mike Scorpio via the Pick the Flick tier. They picked it and we flicked the bean! Thanks, Mike! This episode covers the 1984 anime from the highly popular Urusei Yatsura series. Abe and Swaim discuss its dreamlike filmmaking style, its relevance to modern movies, and its legacy. Michael also gives anime an ultimatum. Features: Michael Swaim: https://bsky.app/profile/michaelswaim.bsky.social Abe Epperson: https://bsky.app/profile/abeepp.bsky.social Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store

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0:00.0

Scorpio

0:24.0

He

0:27.5

deconstructs tropes from the spy genre

0:30.0

Hank Scorpio

0:32.2

You surely know that Simpson's episode, right?

0:35.3

You only moved twice.

0:35.9

I do know that Simpson's episode.

0:37.4

I didn't know they had a song.

0:38.4

Is it, is it gold member? Is it like Goldfinger? I don't know if it is actually Earth the kid singing, but it's someone doing an Earth a kid. If not that, over the credits of that episode, they do a full workup parody of, it is not To the exact tune of Goldfinger, but yeah, they do a James Bond sign.

0:55.1

Is that the one where he has like a flamethrower at one point?

0:57.7

Right, right, but the joke in the song, and the episode a bit, but the song lyrics really crystallized. It's like, and he gives you three weeks paid vacation each year, Hank Scorpio. The joke is he's a good boss. That's all the song focuses on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it turns out he's not a good boss. Well, no, he is a good boss. He's also willing to murder anyone to take over the world. But if you're on his side, like, he's good to his henchmen. That's the joke. Nicer than Mr. Burns would ever be to them. Yeah, yeah. Mike Scorpio. Who he think. Marge gets a drinking problem, I think. No, well, that's Hank Scorpio. Hey, let's switch gears and thank our Patreon, Patreon, Patreon. That always trips me out. I always use it incorrectly because I was like, come along, Patrians.

1:46.8

Right, because it's like, but we have a Patreon.

1:49.2

It sucks.

1:50.2

I'm going to go on record.

1:51.5

I don't think we've said this publicly outside social media, but Patreon sucks.

1:56.4

And I want to start saying this robustly, not the Patreon sucks, but that if you're doing

2:03.5

anything through the Apple app, including purchasing anything from our collections tab or our store

2:08.5

or even subscribing as a patron through the Apple app, it costs you more.

2:14.9

And they're just about to crank up the price.

2:16.7

Patron announced like, well, we couldn't negotiate with Apple.

2:20.0

They said no.

2:21.0

And they're like forcing it.

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