Funny Games (No Not the Movie)

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Having a bad fur day? Well throw on your leisure suit, escape monkey island and join us as Holden takes us through the history of humor in video games in an episode demanded by all those Toe Jam and Earl and Boogerman fans. What makes humor work in video games and when does it fall flatter than a pickup line in Arkham City? Plus a dissection on why quips are the most overly used form of humor now in both video games and everything else. You'll definitely be GLaD(OS) you checked this one out! Want even more Nerd of Mouth? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/nerdofmouth

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0:00.0	Nerd of mouth.
0:19.6	Well, it finally happened.
0:21.8	Two of my greatest loves on the docket to be discussed in one incredible knee-slapping
0:27.8	episode of Nerd of Mouth.
0:29.7	It's me, your Booger Man co-host, Jake Young.
0:32.8	With me as always is my Sands Undertale co-host, Holden McNeely.
0:38.8	That's right.
0:39.6	I literally just pitched this idea so that I can talk about Beat Em and Eatam.
0:44.0	No.
0:44.9	I'm so, yes, it's happening.
0:46.4	It's finally happening.
0:47.3	Beat him and Eatam is making it to a main stage podcast proper.
0:53.3	Mike, you're here. And fired and, uh, and fired from being a
0:57.0	psychonaut because I would just go, I'm in your head. It's me, Michael.
1:02.5	Wait, how dare we not be annoying with our intro with, uh, in a borderlands way? I don't know how
1:07.7	they do it. Oh, no, no, no. Skippity. I mean, if there is not a Skibbitty reference in the next in Borderlands 4 that's
1:16.0	around the corner, then somebody's getting fired.
1:18.8	Well, that movie was definitely a toilet. Yeah, yeah. There's like a guy somewhere at Gearbox
1:24.5	software who answers directly to Randy Pitchford, who's, like, chief
1:28.3	inanity officer.
1:31.1	Like, his whole point is, like, to make sure there's enough dated internet references per
1:35.7	fight to.
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