Shows

Neophytes of Narratology: Lawrence E. Mintz’s Standup Comedy as Social and Cultural Mediation

The Neophytes take a look at an essay focusing on how American standup comedy functions as an outlet and aspect of expression for the members of a culture and society

Bon MOTS: Dude, Where’s My Car?

The Lost Signals continues its month of comedies with a mystery about two stoners, various aliens, a doomsday weapon, ostriches and “Chinese food mind games” as we discuss, “Dude, Where’s My Car?”

And then?

Syntax Error: Comedy Games

Syntax Error jumps on the comedy train to discuss how to incorporate humor into games, and which ones we think did, or did not, achieve in this regard.

Bon MOTS: Leonard Part 6

The Lost Signals continues its comedy month by reviewing the infamous Leonard Part 6, a movie often proclaimed as one of the worst of all time.  I mean, this isn’t the worst thing that Bill Cosby has done.

Bon MOTS: Grandma’s Boy

MOTS shares shenanigans alongside some stoner/slackers (and a kindly grandmother) who are simply trying to help make the next great video game.

Syntax Error: Top Games of 2016

It’s a Syntax Error triple kill, as we return in a third season, kicking off with the now traditional top games of the year episode.

Neophytes of Narratology: The Hero with a Thousand Faces Part 2

While the Neophytes await their call to adventure, they debate the etiquette of answering a herald, how to politely chase off the trinket-bearing elderly and what exactly Freud would say about their personal threshold guardians.

Bon MOTS Netflix Roulette: The Hunter

MOTS gets stuck alongside Willem Defoe searching the wilderness for a rare and elusive animal while also trying to decipher the point of this film.