Pretty Much Pop #199: Missioning Impossibly
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On the eight-film action series that launched in 1996 (based on the 1966 TV series) in light of its apparently final film. Featuring Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al.
Is this a coherent narrative as the last film would have you believe, or just an excuse for a series of Tom Cruise physically challenges? Maybe the latter is enough for us!
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| 0:00.0 | This is pretty much Poppec culture podcast, and I really hope one of you guys wrote down what we're supposed to talk about today because the mission assignment message is self-destructed in like five seconds. |
| 0:18.9 | Today we are talking about the series of Tom Cruise running videos that comprises the Mission |
| 0:23.8 | Impossible film franchise that launched in 1996, taking its theme song. |
| 0:27.9 | It's a few bits of premise from Bruce Geller's TV show that ran from 1966 through 1971. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Mark Linton. |
| 0:34.4 | I think this series really failed in its potential as a star vehicle for Emilie West Vez. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm Al Baker, and I'm just delighted that a movie about the International Monetary Fund has managed to run for so long. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm Sarah Lynn Bruck, and the real Mission Impossible is trying to remember the plots for each of the Mission Impossibles. |
| 0:55.3 | Preach. |
| 0:56.5 | This is Lawrence Ware, and it may take me a while to get going, but I will wow you in the end. |
| 1:03.1 | So who watched the whole damn series of films for this, bro? |
| 1:07.4 | The whole damn thing. |
| 1:08.5 | Me? |
| 1:09.1 | Multiple times. |
| 1:10.4 | All right. I did it for enjoyment. They did it for homework. Multiple times. All right. |
| 1:10.9 | I did it for enjoyment. |
| 1:11.9 | They did it for homework. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, that's fair. |
| 1:14.2 | I had never really connected these. |
| 1:16.0 | I had seen all these films, but I'd never made any attempt to connect them together. |
| 1:20.9 | I just watched them, you know, five years later when this one came out, whatever, such |
| 1:24.8 | that I just would mix them all together. |
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