We made it! The season five finale. Shannon, Kari, and Erica are each two-time winners, but two of their perfect streaks end today. After hammering into My Champion and nailing The ½ Point, we’ll start melting brains with an opposite songs game featuring backwards clips and all kinds of kooky wordplay. We’ll follow that up with confused descriptions from our pal Old Man MacTavish, who is mixing up TV and movie properties starring the same actor. And, you guessed it, it all comes down to the lightning round.
Contestants
Quizzes Played
If He Be Worthy
Which champion is going to take the fewest number of swings to hammer in a nail?
Two Sides Of The Same Record
Given two artists and one song title, guess the second song title which is the semantic opposite of the first.
Old Man MacTavish's Screen Size Confusion
Leonidas is confusing same-actor roles from TV and film and needs you to identify all three elements.
Adult Stitchuations
Questions about R-rated Comedies.
My Very Energetic Mother
Every answer contains the name of a planet (or former planet) from our solar system.
Blew It Up
Questions about pop culture primates.
The Riddle
They're coming in peace from their alien hive
Perceiving of time like it's "Slaughterhouse-Five"
With circular language, her brain is rewired
So all of those flashbacks have not yet transpired
Answer
In the 2016 movie Arrival, based on Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life, the heptapods come to earth in a non-violent, purely benevolent fashion. Linguist Louise (Amy Adams), starts to expereicne the past, present, and future all simultaneously as she begins to learn their language. This perception is eerily similar to that of the Tralfamadorians from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Because these heptapods don't percieve time linearly, their visual lanaguage presents in circles to be read all at once. As such, the sections of Louise's life presented as being her past are revealed at the end of the film to actually be her future.
Match Results
Episode Notes
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For Deep Throat, we would also have accepted Liam Neeson ("Deep Throat: The Man who Brought Down the White House") or Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams ("Dick") or even Jerry Harden ("The X-Files").
The Universal Wisdom Scorebreak: it pretty much all boils down to Be Excellent To Each Other and Party On, Dudes!