Why is Mr. Feeny a Car?! - S02E02 - Airwolf (1984) Pilot: “Shadow of the Hawke”

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Boy, these shows really loved their feature length pilots, didn’t they? This week’s shadowy flight takes Jay and A.Ron into the world of a real man’s: Stringfellow Hawke. Stoic, heroic, traumatized war vet, appreciator of fine wine and finer art, musically gifted, philosophically complicated, mysterious and irresistible to women, stunt pilot by day and mercenary pilot by night. It’s A LOT. Airwolf is still badass, the villain is campy fun, Archangel is cool as coolwhip in his ice cream suit and patchglasses, but nearly every scene without a helicopter is deader than Gaddafi, who may or may not appear in this episode. Btw, did you know you can like, die, just by staying outside too long? It’s TRUE! Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the Club! Got something to say? Send it in to [email protected]. You find our co-host Jay McKane streaming weekly over on https://www.twitch.tv/blue_jay_streams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys it's Mimi Webb, I'm the new brand ambassador for Maybelline. Make up your
0:06.0	mix with the glow-up playlist and shuffle your looks with my favourite Maybelline
0:10.0	products. The new Color Tattoo eyeshadow sticks only at SuperDug.
0:15.0	Welcome to Why Is Mr. Finiacar, a TV guy to action television of Yester Year, which
0:37.5	apparently means 90 minute feature film length, two-part pilots all the time every time.
0:44.3	I'm Jay McKayne, with me as always is my brother from another mother, Aaron Hubbard,
0:48.8	how you doing today, Aaron? I'm in good spirits. I'm really looking forward to breaking
0:54.3	down one of my favourite shows from my childhood, Airwolf. I thought Airwolf was a jet until
1:03.3	I watched this show. I thought it was a jet. I know, I know you did. It's so funny.
1:08.3	It's like you're not, it's a, they explain it's like a cross between an attack helicopter
1:13.3	and a jet. It's got foldable retractable rotors or some shit and then it turn on an
1:19.3	afterburner and it just flies baby. So do you want to set us up with a little, what,
1:26.3	what appeal to a baby Aaron about Airwolf when you're watching this live? It's funny because
1:35.3	it's almost everything that's not flying a helicopter is pretty terrible in the show. I was
1:40.3	actually, I was actually surprised at how much I remembered about this episode, but like,
1:45.3	you know, because like that girl getting that girl dying of exposure spoiler earlier,
1:52.3	the girl, the girl, the girl, the girl dying exposure blew my mind because I saw this
2:00.3	like at six or seven and like, like, okay, she's got a sunburn and like, I didn't like,
2:06.3	I didn't know that like, there's places so hot and so dry, you could die just by being
2:11.3	left out in the sun for like a day or a few hours, whatever, especially these skinny western
2:16.3	women bodies. So like, I didn't get a lot of the obvious gross stuff, but like, I was just
2:22.3	realizing like what a fucking chokehold Stringfellow Hawk had on my early conceptions of masculinity
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