Big Gross Movies

Dave Atkinson and Meg Mackay

Comedians Dave Atkinson and Meg Mackay invite hilarious guests to go back in time to study the popular culture and history of a year and then watch the highest grossing movie of that year to try and find out why it was that year's Big Gross Movie.

  • 26 minutes 40 seconds
    TV TIme Capsule - S01E05 - The Dick Van Dyke Show and why 60s womanhood was a nightmarish prison

    This episode we're looking at an episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show from 1964 and look into what kinda life Mary Tyler Moore's character would have had and read some books from the period about being a good housewife and well, jeez.

    2 December 2021, 4:44 am
  • 25 minutes 54 seconds
    TV Time Capsule - S01E04 - The Littlest Hobo and why Hockey might be a problem, e

    This week we dig up an episode of a Canadian classic and go over the weird ways Canadians can talk and pick at our "National Passtime" of Hockey and find some... not so great bits that might need adjustment.

    Sources:

    Robinson, Laura. “Hockey Night in Canada.” Sexual Assault in Canada: Law, Legal Practice and Women’s Activism, edited by Elizabeth A Sheehy, University of Ottawa Press, OTTAWA, 2012, pp. 73–86. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcb92.8. Accessed 26 Jan. 2021.

    McKenzie, Bob. From Bob McKenzie's 'Hockey Confidential' - The Road to Redemption. 21 Nov. 2019, www.tsn.ca/from-bob-mckenzie-s-hockey-confidential-the-road-to-redemption-1.1401391. 

     

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canada-accents-film-tv-1.4178680

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/milk-versus-melk-have-you-noticed-that-the-way-we-talk-is-changing-linguists-have-1.3180597

    http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/raising.html#:~:text=Canadian%20raising%20is%20a%20phonological,%2F%2C%20and%20%2Ff%2F).

    27 September 2021, 3:09 pm
  • 32 minutes 13 seconds
    TV Time Capsule - S01E02 - Taxi and why fixing the world is better than hoping it ends

    This week we are studying an episode of Taxi, we go into what Donahue was, the origins of survivalism, and Christopher Lloyd's wardrobe.

    Sources:

    Kabel, Allison, and Catherine Chmidling. “Disaster Prepper: Health, Identity, and American Survivalist Culture.” Human Organization, vol. 73, no. 3, 2014, pp. 258–266., www.jstor.org/stable/44148786. Accessed 15 Jan. 2021.

     

    Freilich, Joshua D., et al. “Patterns of Fatal Extreme-Right Crime in the United States.” Perspectives on Terrorism, vol. 12, no. 6, 2018, pp. 38–51. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26544642. Accessed 15 Jan. 2021.

     

    Brown, Jennings. “The Prepper Obsession With Clothes.” Racked, Racked, 29 May 2017, www.racked.com/2017/5/29/15663024/prepper-clothes. 

    Richardson, Reed. “The Doomsday Prepper Caucus.” The Nation, 29 June 2015, www.thenation.com/article/archive/doomsday-prepper-caucus/. 

    ANGRY Fat Guy, director. My Patriot Supply 72 Hour Kit. Potato Soup, Chicken and Rice, Oatmeal. Youtube, 27 Oct. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A9aWwWMc9I&t=353s.

    13 September 2021, 9:00 am
  • 25 minutes 9 seconds
    TV Time Capsule - S01E01 - Family Ties and why doctors used to give out speed

    Dave and Meg try out a new format and dig up an episode of 80s sitcom Family ties and investigate how you could apparently just get prescribed amphetamines for whatever in the 80s.

    30 August 2021, 9:00 am
  • 25 minutes 13 seconds
    BGM-345-2015-Paddington

    This week we were just friends and watched Paddington and had soup! CHECK OUT MEG AT TORONTO SKETCHFEST BUY TICKETS WITH YOUR MONEY AND GO TO THE SHOW WITH YOUR BODIES!

    4 March 2020, 10:00 am
  • BGM-344-2005-Constantine

    This week Dave and Meg swing back to 2005 because we remember liking Constantine and turns out, it's not bad! We talk about how being in this movie seems to have frozen everyone involved in time (except Shia), how DIY all the demon rituals are, Peter Stormare having a time, Tilda Swintoning all over the place and of course we go over the shocking amount of drowning going on.

    26 February 2020, 10:00 am
  • 56 minutes 13 seconds
    BGM-344-2005-Constantine

    This week Dave and Meg swing back to 2005 because we remember liking Constantine and turns out, it's not bad! We talk about how being in this movie seems to have frozen everyone involved in time (except Shia), how DIY all the demon rituals are, Peter Stormare having a time, Tilda Swintoning all over the place and of course we go over the shocking amount of drowning going on.

    26 February 2020, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    BGM-343-1973-Live and Let Die with Bryn Pottie

    This week uncle of the show Bryn Pottie is back to help us poke 1973's Live and Let Die with a stick because it's kinda gross now.  We first talk about the creator of James Bond Ian Fleming and his drunken stumble down easy street, then we look into the figure from Haitian Vodou people with no right to slapped into this movie with no real care before realizing a lot about ourselves and movies and just how much nice suits in cool rooms can carry a movie.

    5 February 2020, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 36 minutes
    BGM-342-1995-Mortal Kombat with Isabel Zaw-Tun

    This week we're in 1995 to watch the good bad video game madness of Moral Kombat! With special guest Isabel Zaw-Tun we first go over the Canadian tale of Madeleine Parent, Union organizer and person who helped before hopping over to a much sillier kind of fight in Mortal Kombat, a movie with lizard people, ice folks and a scorpion fella with the tone of a teen ski comedy.

    29 January 2020, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    BGM-341-2016-Doctor Strange with Brendan D'Souza

    This week we are swinging back to 2016 to catch Disney's Marvel's Doctor Strange with special guest comedian Brendan D'Souza! First we talk about the posh Englishman who moved to Saskatchewan to give everyone some mescaline for socialism, then go over a movie that for sure was made by people familiar with mescaline.

    22 January 2020, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    BGM-340-2017-Coco with Alan Shane Lewis

    This week Alan Shane Lewis is back again, this time to jump on the emotional grenade that is Pixar's 2017 movie: Coco.  First we go over some guesses people made a long time ago about what happens when we die, and then watch a lighthearted children's film about that very same question! We cried so much!

    15 January 2020, 10:00 am
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