My Brother, My Brother And Me: MBMBaM 456: Good Happy Taste!!!

April 23, 2019 6:17 AM

Keep your head on a swivel as we celebrate this birthday season, because there's a LOT OF STUFF out to get us. Fridge traps, Cager the Basketball Monster, Minecraft Spiders — just, like, look lively, friends. Suggested talking points: Creams and Cakes, Birthday Boy Billy, Guinea Pig Brother, Fridge Epidemic, Disrespectful Hoops, Happy Taste Good, Joe's Apartment But With Spiders, Boo Club
posted by Tevin (11 comments total)

The idea of Munch Squad ending fills me with sorrow.
posted by meese at 11:03 AM on April 23, 2019

"I'm just a guy, in a ghost costume, standing before a group of people whose opinions I don't respect, asking if y'all wanna transform this into a Boo Club, because if not I am gonezo."
posted by Navelgazer at 12:45 PM on April 23, 2019 [4 favorites]

i'm sure if munch squad "ends" it'll still be pulled out at live shows, like haunted doll watch is. i definitely think the bit is getting kind of stale, and the thing i enjoy most about it is the theme music anyway and i'm sure he'll find some new way to interrupt griffin with a new bit soon haha
posted by JimBennett at 4:48 PM on April 23, 2019 [1 favorite]

(though i thought this week's munch squad was phenomenal and would be okay with less munch squad if they were all as ridiculous as "Happy Taste Good" is)
posted by JimBennett at 4:54 PM on April 23, 2019 [1 favorite]

To me, Munch Squad would be fresh as long as there are ridiculous garbage food PR stunts, which in this country would be in perpetuity, but if they say it's getting tired, I trust them.

Cager is even funnier-looking than I thought he would be. I thought they were describing a big cloaked dude. The "Washington Generals" was the name of my K-12 school's team, and yet no one ever mentioned these guys (which, why would you, I guess).
posted by Countess Elena at 6:31 PM on April 23, 2019

Wow this episode went some places and I loved it.
I was happy to hear that munch Squad might be ending. I don't dislike it but I like it more when they just answer questions and talk to each other. I tend to dislike podcasts where someone is reading from something they prepared (even though Justin's reading voice is much less annoying than most, it's still a reading voice). I feel like it used to not be every week and that was fine; like you don't have to kill it but just space them out.
posted by bleep at 6:58 PM on April 23, 2019

Also during the whole Globe Trotters bit I was like damn if they didn't name the episode after this there must be something crazy coming up and there was. But I dunno not as crazy as the word journey that Griffin took us on with the basketball baby.
posted by bleep at 7:00 PM on April 23, 2019

Yeah I was picturing Cager being a cartoon character and not somebody's nephew after they gave him $15 to make a Mankind costume.
posted by Navelgazer at 5:17 AM on April 24, 2019

What Adventure Zone character did Griffin kind-of sound like when he was doing the "cakes and creams" bit? It was very familiar to me but I couldn't place it, so I'm thinking it was a TAZ NPC.
posted by Rock Steady at 11:37 AM on April 24, 2019

Haha yes I thought it sounded like his NPC voice, not like anyone in particular though maybe a bit like Magic Brian but without the german.
posted by bleep at 1:24 PM on April 24, 2019

It reminded me of Winthrop and Muffy, but younger.
posted by meese at 3:52 PM on April 24, 2019