Look here, film snobs. Perhaps you’ve already looked ahead to round two and seen that the topic is pop culture depictions of the afterlife. I’m gonna disappoint you right now and tell you that we do not get to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 1999 masterpiece After Life. That’s just a thing you’ll have to contend with as you trudge through the lowbrow muck we’ve provided you. But it makes for a great game nonetheless! Adam, Chloe, and Paul have a great time talking piracy, jamming out to songs sung by characters in cars, and (you guessed it) exploring pop culture depictions of what happens after we die. Despite all that, this episode is not morbid at all, and hews to the light tone you’ve come to expect of this show by this point.
Contestants
Quizzes Played
Yo Ho Ho
Which champion would become the most successful 'terror of the seas' in terms of terror.
Tunes in Transit
Identify the movie with people singing in vehicles.
Where You Going?
Name the pop culture property from its vision of the afterlife.
Reviving An Ancient Art Form
Questions about sitcoms of the 2020s.
At Least One Thumb Way Up
Questions about movies of the 2000s and 2010s that Roger Ebert gave four stars.
Fraternities
Pop culture questions with "brother" in the answer.
The Riddle
With a music box it begins and ends,
A Cole Porter based film about socialite friends.
Not a love triangle, more of a square,
Though Kitty and Michael make quite a pair.
Answer
Peter Bogdanovich's 1975 musical flop At Long Last Love is bookended by shots of a music box, which foreshadows the plot about four socialites pairing off in various combinations for no good reason. See, Michael's in love with Kitty who's in love with Johnny who's in love with Brooke who's in love with Michael, which leads to a number of Cole Porter songs, all sung live, in an homage to 1930s musicals. The core of the ensemble is Burt Reynolds as Michael and Madeline Kahn as Kitty.