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12 Months of Mike Month 11: The Love Guru

The end of our year-long immersion in the filmography of Mike Myers is in sight; but hoo boy, is this final stretch a test of endurance. Our penultimate film is 2008’s The Love Guru: the movie that finally put Mike’s career out of its misery after The Cat in the Hat roughed it up and left it for dead. Join us as we discuss the unfathomable depths to which Ben Kingsley sinks in his performance, and repeatedly refer to Romany Malco as “Romany Falco.” But really, who cares? Nothing matters! God is dead, long live Pitka!

00:00:00 The Love Guru Theatrical Trailer

00:07:32 Entertainment Weekly: “Mike Myers: Man of Mystery”

00:12:28 WHO THE FUCK IS GRAHAM GORDY

00:14:41 Here’s the Love Guru/American Idol Cross-Promotional Tie-In, If You Dare

00:32:54 Yep, He Made That Joke in an Earlier Movie

00:38:15 Romany Falco

00:38:25 A Taste of Romany Malco’s Past Life as a Feline Rapper

00:41:52 A More Realistic Portrayal of a Man as Well-Endowed as Jacques “Le Coq” Grande

00:44:03 The First of, We’re Afraid, Several Interminable Hindustani Music Parodies in The Love Guru

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00:49:55 The Love Guru‘s Obligatory Late-Career Mike Myers Nightmare Fuel

00:53:57 The Best 20 Seconds in The Love Guru by Default

00:57:27 We Guess We’ll Count This as a Catch Phrase

00:59:27 Seriously, What is Going on with Pitka and Rajneesh?

01:09:34 #StinkMop

01:12:59 (It was Rob Huebel, by the way)

01:19:09 The Last (Thank God) of The Love Guru‘s Interminable Hindustani Music Parodies

01:21:34 “Sexy Sadie” by the Beatles (from The Beatles, 1968)

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July 30, 2021

12 Months of Mike Month 7: Austin Powers in Goldmember

Since the very beginning of this ill-fated project, we’ve been dreading a rewatch of Austin Powers in Goldmember, and let’s just say it didn’t disappoint. Join us as we discuss how Goldmember makes Fat Bastard look like one of the great characters of literary history, and why we’re relieved that there’s still (knock on wood) no sign of a fourth movie on the horizon. We’ll be back by the end of the month with a movie that, somehow, seems like a breath of fresh air at this point: The Cat in the Hat.

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April 2, 2021

12 Months of Mike Month 6: Shrek

The wait is ogre! We’ve reached the halfway point of our 12-month series on the films of Mike Myers, and (sigh) the quarter-way point of the four goddamn Shrek movies we decided to include for some reason. Still, we had fun discussing what makes Shrek a Mike Myers character (spoiler alert: it’s mostly the Scottish accent) and the slow transformation of Shrek from lauded Palme d’Or competitor to Gen Z meme fodder. Remember to tell us which Mike movie represents your birth month, and we’ll see you again next for (deeper sigh) Austin Powers in Goldmember.

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February 26, 2021

12 Months of Mike Month 5: Austin Powers – The Spy Who Shagged Me

Well, folks, we watched the second Austin Powers movie and lived to talk about it. Join us as we discuss infuriating anachronisms, the decline of Mike Myers’ side characters, and of course, the “Urkelization” of Dr. Evil. And then join us next month as we examine the first of… Jesus Christ, are we really watching four Shrek movies?!?!

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January 29, 2021

12 Months of Mike Month 4: Austin Powers – International Man of Mystery

The bad news is, we’re a day late for Month 4 of our year-long deep dive into the cinematic oeuvre of Mike Myers; but the good news is, the movie we’re discussing may just be the best of the bunch. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery holds up surprisingly well, and feels in retrospect like Myers’ peak as a singular creative voice. It’s all downhill from here, folks! We’ll be back later in January for what will likely be a much more sobering look at the 1999 sequel, The Spy Who Shagged Me; in the meantime, though, this is our happening, baby, and it freaks us out!

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January 1, 2021

12 Months of Mike Month 2: So I Married an Axe Murderer

Well, we’re only two months into our year-long foray into the cinematic oeuvre of Mike Myers, and we’re already starting to regret it. 1993’s So I Married an Axe Murderer is, we take no pleasure in reporting, a thoroughly mediocre film that also has the nerve to subject us to way too many shots of Myers’ unclothed lower body. Let us know what you think in the blog comments or on social media, and join us next month for a much better Mike Myers movie from 1993, Wayne’s World 2.

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October 30, 2020

Dystopian Dance Party Presents 12 Months of Mike

After another nearly year-long hiatus, the Dystopian Dance Party podcast has returned with something literally no one asked for: a year-long deep dive into the cinematic ouevre of Saturday Night Live alum/man of a thousand catchphrases/notorious Hollywood diva Mike Myers. In this first episode, we delve into Mike’s pre-feature film career and (sort of) explain why we’ve been possessed to do this. Come for the cracks about Cat in the Hat, stay for the clips of ’70s and ’80s Canadian TV shows!

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September 18, 2020

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