323 - Addicted To Lots Of Money And Tanning, "Tell Him About The Card, Egon", and Bane's Origin Story Is The Bane Of His Own Existence

Mr. Silver

(break room, American Dad on...commercial break up.  There's one for an addiction service. 2 later, there's a second different addiction service)

Me "Um...is this a hint about the viewer demographics for 'American Dad'?"

Gary "I was wondering that myself."

Me "Hi! Are you at home in the middle of the day, watching 'American Dad' and chasing the dragon? Call now! We can help!"

1:17 PM Mr. Blue

LOL

There's always "Have bad credit and need a quick loan?" commercials on during Maury.

That and for trade schools like Everest, and a frequent commercial for ICDC college... featuring Master P and his son Lil' Romeo rapping the school's theme song.

1:20 PM Mr. Silver

Odd things, those, addiction service commercials. The "Malibu" service looked like a high end spa, with beautiful people being active, hosted by a weasel-looking fellow in a pink shirt expecting us to believe he was born with the name 'Pax'. The second were all real-looking people, but they all had bizarrely sunburn-red faces but with huge white patches around the eyes.

1:21 PM Mr. Blue

Yeah, the Malibu one is weird.

"I was an addict for 20 years, now I’m not!" It doesn't say anything about the techniques of the Malibu service helping him. He could've been addicted to yoga.

1:26 PM Mr. Silver

"I was addicted to siphoning tons of money off of rich suckers. Now I've turned it into a business, so it's a legitimate job now!"

1:28 PM Mr. Amethyst

^ Stock broker?

Mr. Silver

"This outage is killing me, Mr. Silver!"

"Hope so, Dan."

"Hmm?"

"Sorry. May I have your workstation ID please?"

"Oh! It's..."

12:00 PM Mr. Green

LMAO!

12:01 PM Mr. Amethyst

LOL

12:10 PM Mr. Silver

“What's taking so long?”

12:12 PM Mr. Green

I can understand. It has been something like 8 hours...

12:13 PM Mr. Silver

I like to envision 3-4 techs fiddling with every permutation of 40 tiny dip switches and saying things like "How about now?".

Anyway...

"Its a card that needed replaced, Dan."

"A card? It's been like 10 hours!"

"Well...the card is approximately 20 feet by 15 feet and needs hoisted to the top of a 60' tower."

12:15 PM Mr. Amethyst

LOL

7:35 AM Mr. Brown

Well, it looks like I get a CPAP now to sleep with.

I already slept with one on, and it definitely helps.

7:36 AM Mr. Silver

Plus you feel like a junior spaceman!

7:36 AM Mr. Brown

Right! LOL

Or a cyborg.

7:38 AM Mr. Silver

Well...the cyborg part is correct.

7:41 AM Mr. Brown

“I am Locutus of Borg. Let me sleep.”

8:00 AM Mr. Silver

"Resistance is futile, you will be asleepinated."

8:04 AM Mr. Brown

I also sound like Bane from the Batman movie when I talk.

8:05 AM Mr. Silver

"You are the sleeper this bed deserves."

8:17 AM Mr. Silver

Morning, Mr. Blue

8:17 AM Mr. Blue

Gentlemen

8:18 AM Mr. Silver

I have difficulty with Bane...

8:19 AM Mr. Blue

Which one? In the new film or in the one with Clooney?

8:23 AM Mr. Silver

Both really.

In the comics he's "brilliant"...for a painkiller addict, I suppose.

In the Clooney movie he's a moron.

8:24 AM Mr. Blue

Yeah.

8:25 AM Mr. Silver

In the recent movie...which I didn't see but read some stuff about...I don't believe any of this “origin and abilities” crap.

8:25 AM Mr. Brown

Yeah. It does not say anything about him using something to give him great strength. Its implied that he already has it.

8:26 AM Mr. Silver

He has a pain relief spray in a mask...yawn.

8:26 AM Mr. Blue

You'd think it'd be better to have a port in his vein or something.

8:27 AM Mr. Brown

I mean, feeling no pain would make you rather difficult to take down.

8:27 AM Mr. Silver

Also...I'm sure being born and raised in a dark third-world prison could somehow make a physically powerful and mentally brilliant human...

8:35 AM Mr. Silver

Bum "Who's the new guy handling on Maple St?"

Bum 2 "The guy with the mask?"

"Yeah."

"Calls himself Bane...prison kid from some craphole in the Caribbean. Lupe says he can barely choke out decent Spanish, let alone any English."

"Sucks...he getting any money with that weird sign he uses?"

"What's it say?"

"'Will conquer city for misplaced philosophical satisfaction...please help.'"

"What a nut."

"Yeah."

There...that is the result of Bane's origin story.

8:38 AM Mr. Brown

In Bane voice, "I was beaten so hard that I became smart."

8:39 AM Mr. Blue

I think the prison had some intellectuals in it. It was kind of a political prison, as well... so I can see him getting smart in there.

8:40 AM Mr. Blue

My issue is, how did the prison sustain itself? Where was the food? Did someone just dump scraps into the big hole every few days?

8:41 AM Mr. Green

Bane was trained by the League of Shadows in Dark Knight Rises.

8:44 AM Mr. Blue

Oh that's right, it was Marion Cotillard that was raised in the prison; that was the twist.

8:45 AM Mr. Brown

Right, but Bane was there. He just he did not grow up there, as far as I can tell.

8:45 AM Mr. Blue

I think he was left there for being in love with Ras al Ghul's daughter.

8:46 AM Mr. Brown

No, he was put in there because he was insane by Ras al Ghul's standards, and he would not train him anymore.

8:46 AM Mr. Green

He saved the daughter...he watched over her after her mother was killed. The daughter was the child that escaped the pit.

8:51 AM Mr. Silver

Sez here (Wiki) he was born and raised in the pit, he was trained later, and kicked out (by RaG) after that.

8:52 AM Mr. Blue

I’ve seen it a few times and even I don't remember...it's kind of convoluted.

8:54 AM Mr. Silver

I can't see a person like that, however gifted, beating anything but a fat drunk Batman.

But...as stated, I haven't watched it.

8:57 AM Mr. Blue

Batman's initial attempts to beat him involved trickery and gadgets and other stuff.

Bane just doesn't fall for it.

It's not until it's will vs will that Batman defeats him.

9:04 AM Mr. Brown

Yeah, either way Bane had a insane part to him that even the shadow did not like.

9:08 AM Mr. Blue

The 2nd one is definitely the best of Nolan's Batman films.

9:10 AM Mr. Silver

(grumble...)  Finally sat down to watch that one day, got about 60% through.  Mrs. Silver comes home.  "I wanted to see that!"  "We can start over, no problem!"

Never did

9:16 AM Mr. Green

I really liked Batman Begins. I thought Nolan did a good job on the origin story.

9:20 AM Mr. Blue

I liked the origin stuff because it hadn't been done, on film at least.

9:20 AM Mr. Silver

I liked the origin stuff.

I didn't like the villains and their plot.

9:21 AM Mr. Blue

Batman Begins could have almost been a prequel to Burton's Batman.

9:23 AM Mr. Blue

The League of Shadows' plot wasn't really convincing to me.

9:24 AM Mr. Silver

Me “Ras...Ras...why are you wasting any time on this?”

Ok...Scarecrow was a sadist...I liked that.

But how did the League get involved? And to ultimately accomplish what?

9:25 AM Mr. Blue

No doubt... There's a lot more corrupt cities on earth than Gotham. How about Lagos or Caracas?

9:26 AM Mr. Silver

Cheaper, easier, more conclusive and less prone to catastrophic failure from...like...it raining...to just set off a nuke.

Ras "I'd like there to be a train involved."

"Yes boss."

"I'd like to be on the train on the unbelievable off-chance I could have a conversation with Wayne."

"Sounds good."

"Lots of death and devastation."

"All in the plan, boss."

"And I'd like to be able to get off the train before...you know."

"That would be ideal, and that's where we're hitting a snag. What about just staying here in Nepal? He's not likely to ever be able to stop the plot alone or even find you, and we're going to film it all anyway, you know. ... You hate jet lag..."

"Oh... Yeah, that would work."