The 2021 Merry Quiz-Mas Part One

12/24/21 • 21 min

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Our bonus 'Christmas Gift' to you this festive season is the first part of a very NSFW end of year quiz featuring friends and fellow Podcasters Be There With Belson and Super Familiar With The Wilsons.

Make sure you subscribe to Be there With Belson Podcast Here for Part Two and Super Familiar With The Wilsons Here for the Final Third, dropping over the festive period.

compèred by Mark and John with Hosting duties by 100 Things regular guest Kirsty we promise Jokes at outgoing presidents' expense and confusion around months of the year.

Music is "Aria" and "Creata" both by the fantastically talented Andrew Wilson whose music can be found by searching AJCW on Apple Music, Spotify, and wherever you get your music.

Make sure you subscribe to Be there With Belson Podcast Here for Part Two and Super Familiar With The Wilsons Here for the Final Third, dropping over the festive period.

compèred by Mark and John with Hosting duties by 100 Things regular guest Kirsty we promise Jokes at outgoing presidents' expense and confusion around months of the year.

Music is "Aria" and "Creata" both by the fantastically talented Andrew Wilson whose music can be found by searching AJCW on Apple Music, Spotify, and wherever you get your music.

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Episode 59 - Scrooged

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This week we are getting festive with the spooks and talking Scrooged.

Learn with us alternate casting, How Much Charles Dickens would be worth in 2021 money and what happened to Tab Clear!

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Scrooged is a 1988 American Christmas fantasy comedy directed by Richard Donner and written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue. Based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooged is a modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive, who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit. The film also stars Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Michael J. Pollard, and Alfre Woodard.

Scrooged was filmed on a $32 million budget over three months in New York City and Hollywood. Murray returned to acting for the film after taking a four-year hiatus following the success of Ghostbusters, which he found overwhelming. Murray worked with Glazer and O'Donoghue on reworking the script before agreeing to join the project. The production was tumultuous, as Murray and Donner had different visions for the film. Murray described his time on the film as "misery", while Donner called Murray "superbly creative but occasionally difficult". Along with Murray's three brothers, Brian, John, and Joel, Scrooged features numerous celebrity cameos.

The film's marketing capitalized on Murray's Ghostbusters role, referencing his encounters with ghosts in both films. Scrooged was released on November 23, 1988, and grossed over $100 million worldwide. The film received a positive response from test audiences, but was met with a mixed response upon its release from critics who found the film too mean spirited or too sentimental. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup, but lost to the fantasy-comedy film Beetlejuice.

In the years since its release, Scrooged has become a regular television Christmastime feature, with some critics calling it an alternative to traditional Christmas films, and others arguing that Scrooged was ahead of its time, making it relevant in the modern day. It has appeared on various lists of the best Christmas films.

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Episode 60 - The Poseidon Adventure

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Full Speed ahead, lads, for this week learning about our Third Ernest Borgnine episode, 1972's the Poseidon adventure.

We are talking about Roddy McDowell's mixed up accent, so it is! As well as the largest underwater earthquake in history, grassing up Grandpa Joe for being a benefit cheat and why everyone in this hated thier fellow cast Members.

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The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallico's 1969 novel of the same name. It has an ensemble cast including five Oscar winners: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters and Red Buttons. The plot centers on the fictional SS Poseidon, an aging luxury liner on her final voyage from New York City to Athens before it is scrapped. On New Year's Eve, it is overturned by a tsunami. Passengers and crew are trapped inside, and a preacher attempts to lead a small group of survivors to safety.

It is in the vein of other all-star disaster films of the early-mid 1970s such as Airport (1970), Earthquake (1974), and The Towering Inferno (1974). It was released in December 1972 and was the highest-grossing film of 1973, earning over $125 million worldwide. It won two Academy Awards,[3] a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award.[4] A sequel, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, also based on a novel by Gallico, was released in 1979.