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Episode 74 – The One With 20 Giant Cats

Things we talk about in this episode:

Opening Music:

'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]

Closing Music:

'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]

Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org

• “Exits stage left” Bluebottle, from the Goon Show
• The Watershed: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/advice-for-consumers/television/what-is-the-watershed
• Cracked: https://www.cracked.com/
• Cats: https://www.catsthemusical.com/
• The Rise of Skywalker (2019): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2527338/
• “Walking uphill both ways….” ‘When I was your age’ trope - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhenIWasYourAge
• Diablo - https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Diablo_(Game)
• Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q
• Mirror Universe – from Star Trek: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Mirror_universe
• Pokemon Trainer – from Pokemon: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Trainer
• “We were set upon by like, five, ten, twenty big… huge lads” From Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (1991)
• Smudging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smudging
• Ghostwatch https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41740176
• Starks – from Game of Thrones https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/House_Stark
• Obelix – from Asterix and Obelix: https://www.asterix.com/en/portfolio/obelix/
• Road Runner from the Wile. E Coyote cartoons https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Road_Runner
• The guards in the Count of Monte Cristo: to escape from the Chateau D’If Edmond Dantes has swapped himself for the body of his friend The Priest, and put himself in the body bag to be thrown over the cliff. As he gets thrown off the clifftop, he grabs the keys at the Wardens belt and takes the Warden with him (2002)
• Captain Mal Reynolds, naked on a rock: from the opening of Firefly episode 11 ‘Trash’ https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Trash
• Terrordogs – from Ghostbusters https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Terror_dogs_(Type_of_Creatures)
• Doppleganger https://www.britannica.com/art/doppelganger
• Jedi and the dark side – from Star Wars https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-101-servants-of-the-dark-side
• The saga with the 20 giant cats in is Vatnsdæla saga which you can find an article about here: https://grapevine.is/mag/articles/2014/08/25/they-are-a-gruesome-lot/ here https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/vatnsdaela-saga/ and here
• https://www.usask.ca/english/icelanders/applic_Vatns-Grettla.html
• ‘Three coins in a fountain’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Coins_in_the_Fountain_(film)

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