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Ep 176 - Framing Device

Released: Thursday Sep 12, 2019 at 01:42 PM - Length: 0:57:22

Top Five Kyle Eva Cir Nick
5 The designer adding elements inspired by his life - Dandy Dungeon People paying to see what's in the pit - Freaks Multiple uses through the novel - The Name of the Wind Different aspect ratios for the different layers of the story - The Grand Budapest Hotel
4 How Rhys and Fiona ended tied up and kidnapped - Tales from the Borderlands Main character saying the title of the film - I Walked with a Zombie The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922 - Eaters of the Dead Each vignette opening and closing with a book - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
3 Verbal Kint recounting the story in an interrogation - The Usual Suspects Mary Shelley telling the story - Bride of Frankenstein S01E10 - Blurryman - The Twilight Zone (2019) Francis recounting the story as one of cinemas first unreliable narrators - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
2 The game along Place on a theater stage - Foul Play Stories being told within a dream - The Company of Wolves Artist gets struck by lightning and ends up trapped in his own comic book - Comix Zone Journalist trying to work out what his last words meant - Citizen Kane
1 Edith returning to her family home - What Remains of Edith Finch George Clinton's disembodied three-eyed head introducing - Cosmic Slop E19 - Legends of the Dark Knight - Kids telling stories of Batman - Batman: The Animated Series Oscar being taken by limo between various 'appointments' - Holy Motors

Mentioned
Literal-Minded Jacques Tourneur F. W. Murnau
Dramatic Irony Out of the Past Angela Lansbury
Shout-Out Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil Cult Classic
Added Alliterative Appeal Halloween (1978) Body Horror
Alton Brown Cat People Anthony Davis
Office Space The Leopard Man Big Ol' Unibrow
Backstory Black Alibi - Cornell Woolrich The Simpsons
Norman F***ing Rockwell - Lana Del Rey Killer Cop Beard of Evil
Doin' Time - Sublime The Bagheeta - Val Lewton Evil Twin
Inception Michael Crichton Charles Laughton
Unreliable Narrator The 13th Warrior Red Right Hand
Rashomon The Coen Brothers Community
Vantage Point The Western Paddington (2014)
"Rashomon"-Style Tim Blake Nelson Lightning Can Do Anything
Word of God Colossal Sega
Death of the Author Colossal Warner Bros.
Robert E. Howard Jennifer Aniston Biopic
Edgar Rice Burroughs Jake Gyllenhaal John Travolta
Conan The Barbarian (Franchise) The Good Girl Gotti
Epistolary Novel Bubble Boy Sega Genesis Classics
John Carter of Mars John Ford Anthology
John Carter Stagecoach HBO
Saving Private Ryan Jack Lemmon George Clinton
Onion Games Tom Waits PCU
Dungeon Crawler Bryan Singer Batman: The Animated Series
Non Linear Storytelling Kevin Spacey Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Pulp Fiction Benicio del Toro Frank Miller
Crime Fiction Elsa Lancaster So Bad, It's Horrible
Title Card Mary Shelley Armand Assante
Manchester by the Sea The Twilight Zone (1959) Gotti (1996)
Patrick Rothfuss Jordan Peele Paddington 2
The Kingkiller Chronicle 2 Pac Edith Scob
Harry Potter Robert Wiene RL Burnside
Aspect Ratio World War I Kylie Minogue
Memento War Is Hell Moonlight (2016)
Telltale Games Tim Burton Birds Of Passage
Title Drop Batman Returns Embrace of the Serpent
Forrest Gump German Expressionism Eva Mendes

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