Agents of SMOOCH

For our very first anniversary and our 50th episode, join us for our Valentine’s Day party! It’s part draft, part improv storytelling, part limes, and all ridiculousness. A large cast of our Agents has gathered to make the movie of our collective dreams. With no storyboards, no scripts, and no plans, we jump into the international waters of our imagination, each Agent bringing an actor of their choice. Together we find our North Star while singing sea shanties and folding towel art. Your Cruise Director is waiting! Meet us on the lido deck of the Agents of S.M.O.O.C.H. Love Boat. We’re shipping everyone!

Let's Make a Romance Movie!

Annette Wierstra with Shelly Brisbin, Lisa Schmeiser, Amanda-Rae Prescott, Moisés Chiullán, Riley Silverman and Kathy Campbell

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*Dream Cast featuring: *

• Oded Fehr as Eyal
• Gugu-Mbatha Raw as Amara
• Anya Taylor-Joy as Emma Queen
• Keegan-Michael Key as Doctor Aubrey
• Lupita Nyongo as The Captain
• And Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal returning as Sally Albright and Harry Burns
• With Phil Collins as himself
• Special appearances by Bill Nighy, Robert Picardo, Manny Jacinto, and more!!

One of our amazing Incomparable members, Martin Kailuweit, gifted the Agency with the perfect trailer for our made-up romance/spy movie. Watch it on YouTube.

And the credit sequence for when we inevitably “Moises” the movie into a limit HBO series. Watch it on YouTube.

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Is it a Gothic Romance series if we don’t wander the English moors? Of course not! Join our agents as they discuss Jane Eyre focusing on the 2011 movie and the book. While we like the moody story of Jane and her Mr. Rochester, we have a few suggestions for the next adaptation.

Jane Eyre (2011)

Annette Wierstra with Heather Berberet and Moisés Chiullán

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Link to the Broadway Jane Eyre Musical

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Happy Valentine’s Day Agents! Today is OUR day. It is also our 5th anniversary and we are celebrating with not-a-draft of One True Pairings (OTPs). This is such a wide and encompassing topic and yet some Agents think that it includes all together too much Star Trek. But at the Agency we like a lotta things so in this not-a-draft there is an OTP for everyone.

One True Pairing (OTP) Draft

Annette Wierstra with Jean MacDonald, Sarah Murphy, Kathy Campbell, Shelly Brisbin and Moisés Chiullán

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ROUND 1 Jean: Strange New Worlds, Spock and Nurse Chapel Sarah: 2009 Star Trek Reboot, Nurse Chapel and McCoy Kathy: Schitt’s Creek, David and Patrick SMOOCH Episode
Shelly: The Original Star Trek, Kirk and Spock Read more on AO3 Moises: Star Trek DS9/Lower Decks, Elim Garak and Julian Bashir Annette: Covert Affairs, Annie and Eyal

ROUND 2 Jean: Orphan Black, Cosima and Delphine & Alison and Donnie & Alison and Felix Sarah: Roman Holiday: Anne and Joe SMOOCH/LTS Episode Kathy: The Wheel of Time, Moiraine and Siuan Shelly: The Good Wife, Alicia and Kalinda Moises: Pride and Prejudice, Lizzy and Darcy > Ehle and Firth > Bridget and Mark Darcy > Knightley and McFadyen > Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Annette: Firefly, Wash and Zoe

ROUND 3 Jean: Doctor Who, Husbands of River Song, River Song and 12th Doctor (Peter Capaldi) Sarah: Our Flag Means Death, Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet SMOOCH Episode Kathy: Agents of SMOOCH and 50 Shades of Grey SMOOCH Episode
Shelly: Moonlighting, Maddy and David Moises: Star Trek: The Next Generation dual OTPs, Deanna Troi and William Riker, Beverly Crusher and Jean-Luc Picard Annette: Doctor Who, 15th Doctor and Rogue

OTHER THINGS DISCUSSED

• Kathy on Jean’s Voyager Podcast
• Kathy & Jeans’s Orphan Black Sestra Cast
• Shelly’s old movie podcast Lions, Towers & Shields (LTS)
• LTS’s Gene Kelly’s Butt episode
• SMOOCH Twilight Episode
• SMOOCH Twilight Commentary
• SMOOCH Christmas Prince Commentary
• 12 Days of Love Actually

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In our last episode, we couldn’t get enough Star Trek in the Draft. So today’s mission is all about romance in Star Trek. The Agents gave their director some homework and she came prepared. es, this franchise is all about seeking out strange new worlds, but also sexy aliens. Really, a spaceship is just a locked room romance and we are all looking for love in confined spaces. Let’s meet on the holodeck and boldly go where no one has gone before.

Romance in Star Trek

Annette Wierstra with Jean MacDonald and Shelly Brisbin

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Some of the specific episodes we discuss and our Director’s homework:

• Spock & Kirk: The Original Series (TOS)
• T’Pring and Spock: TOS, Amok TIme; Strange New World (SNW), Various episodes
• Paris & Torres: Voyager, Day of Honor
• Kirk & Keeler: TOS, The City on the Edge of Forever
• Spock & Chapel: SNW, Those Old Scientists
• Mariner & Jennifer: Lower Decks, Mining the Mine’s Mines
• Picard & Crusher: The Next Generation, Picard
• Space Pirates: Discovery Season 3

Want more Star Trek? Listen to the Incomparable’s Star Trek Podcasts: Voyager Revisited: Hosted by Jean MacDonald
Random Trek: Hosted by Scott McNulty Vulcan Hello: Hosted by Scott McNulty and Jason Snell

Or go back in time and listen to Shelly Brisbin’s old movie podcast Lions, Towers, and Shields

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Get your snacks ready and PJs on. Our Agents of SMOOCH have a mission to draft our favourite sleep-over movies. The Agents side-track into important sub-missions such as Instagram pyjamas and the weather and what is needed in an official SMOOCH cocktail and pirates and...

This was recorded as a membership episode so it does have some NSFW language.

Sleepover Movie and Snack Draft

Annette Wierstra with Shelly Brisbin, Amanda McTaggart, Moisés Chiullán, KatyBeth Schmid and Kathy Campbell

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Round 1: Favourite sleepover snacks Shelly: Sesame Crackers Amanda: Reeses Peanutbutter Eggs Kathy: Ice Cream Sunday Bar Annette Marshmallow Ripple Chip Goodness

Round 2-4: Favourite sleepover movies Shelly: Death Becomes Her, Clue (1985), Chicago Amanda: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Moulin Rouge, Pitch Perfect Moises: Disney’s The Three Muskateers, Game Night, Josie & The Pussycats KatyBeth: 10 Things I Hate About You, Singing in the Rain, The Mummy (Oded!) Kathy: Legally Blonde, Spice World, Twilight Series
Annette: Clueless, Barb & Star go to Vista Del Mar, Music & Lyrics

Bring out your dead: Shelly: Ball of Fire, Bringing Up Baby, Turnabout Amanda: Hamilton, Disney Pixar Movies, Pirates of the Caribbean, Practical Magic Moises: The Thin Man, Just Imagine, Madam Satan, The Little Mermaid, Marry Me KatyBeth: The Pirate, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Wedding Singer Kathy: The Craft, When Harry When Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, 13 Going on 30, Bring it On, Highschool Musical, Dead Man on Campus. Annette: Dirty Dancing, Princess Bride, Ever After, Austenland, The Lost City, Eurovision Song Contest, Mammas Mia, Romancing the Stone

Also some more we had to throw in: Magic Mike, Show Girls, Burlesque

Baz super cut for the Record

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