S03.E06: Save The Cat

It's a barn-burner, this week! Will, Liz, and Julia all bring their A-games, but stay cool under pressure as they ponder how their champions would defuse a bomb. Once the wires are cut, they'll amp up the tension further in round one when they "save the cat." Literally. Microfragments of lyrics to title songs from popular movies make up round two. How few words will it take for our players to name that song? As always, it all comes down to the lightning round! NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page. 😢 The 1990 movie Cry-baby was produced by Universal, and had a budget of about $12 million. To date, no one has given John Waters a $200 million budget. 🐈 There maybe is something going on with the cat in Inside Llewyn Davis. 🧙🏻‍♂️ The "The Original Writer" scorebreak. The "Original Writer," because if you say it's Alan Moore, he'll sic a snake god or something on you. 🤔 The Douglas Hofstadter scorebreak. The Douglas Hofstadter scorebreak is a complete and consistent system, and therefore cannot exclude paradoxes.