Ass Backwards
What mysteries are revealed when you live Ass Backwards? Each season, Mike and Brad work their way backwards through a major film franchise: Brad watches the movies in reverse order; Mike doesn't watch them at all. Starting where they finish, predicting what has already happened, saving the exposition for the end -- this is Ass Backwards.
Episodes
19 episodes
2.5: Brad and Mike Break the Universe. Again.
SEASON FINALE!In this Very Special Episode, Brad and Mike shatter the space-time continuum. Everything is familiar, but nothing is as it seems. What starts as a dumb horror movie from the past becomes a glimpse into our own...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:14:43
2.4: It All Starts With Piranha II
Brad and Mike stumble upon the lost origins of cinematic history! Can an entire career be summarized in one movie? Yes. Yes it can. Everything links back to Piranha II: The Spawning.
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:12:31
2.3: Piranha '95: Don't Get Chased By Waterfalls
This week we travel through the veil of Scream to 1995, where the piranha wear plaid and the real heroes recycle!While America is busy spending its peace dividend, trouble lurks in the ocean. Well, actually a lake. No, sorry, but there'...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:18:06
2.2: Piranha 3D: Fish Gone Wild!
Are the fish the least objectionable predators in this movie? Who among us will fall prey to the Busey cycle?And how much Ving is enough ving?Tune in this week to find out!
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:10:44
2.1: Piranha 3DD: This Time It's Overtly Sexualized
SEASON 2 BEGINS! Returning to our normal format, we boldly explore the Piranha franchise, which spans a shocking 35 years of film history. What happens when you let exotic dancers run a water park? What did Todd Packer do after he ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:09:10
MINI SEASON! Jaws: What is This Doing Here?
THE END OF THE MINI SEASON!Mike hops out of the Captain's Chair of the S.S. Benjamin Button, and gives Brad the chance to experience a rare event: a good movie. Actual discussion ensues.That's it, enough with the crazy experimen...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:20:36
MINI SEASON! Jaws 2: Exactly the Same, but Different
MINI SEASON!Brad continues his graduate education on the Jaws series, as Mike patiently explains to him the plot of these movies (hint: there's a shark). SEASON 2, WITH NORMAL FORMAT, COMING SOON!
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:31:34
MINI SEASON! Jaws 3: The Sexiest Fish
MINI SEASON! We continue our deep dive (get it?) into the Jaws franchise so that Brad is not an ignorant buffoon for Season 2. Mike calmly explains the calamity that is Jaws 3 while Brad struggles to hold everything together.
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:32:35
MINI SEASON! Jaws 4: A Dish Best Served 40 Years Too Late
SPECIAL MINI SEASON!In Season 2, we'll be discussing the Piranha film franchise, a bizarre ripoff of Jaws. But Brad is the only person who grew up in the 80s but never saw ANY of the Jaws movies. So we decided to do this special Mini Se...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:24:57
1.10 EMERGENCY EPISODE: Fast 10 Your Seatbelts!
Emergency Episode! As the relentless onslaught of Fast & Furious movies continues, we bring in special guest Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine to tell us what the heck happened in Fast X. Spoiler alert: It's the end of the world as we know it...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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58:20
1.9: The Conclusioning of the Fast and the Furious
The Fast and the Furious. Our epic journey finally reaches its beginning.RACE WARS! We end with the beginning. Somehow a franchise becomes celebrated for its multiculturalism while beginning with... a RACE WAR. Perhaps the most philosop...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:56:36
1.8: Approaching the Dawn of Time: 2 Fast 2 Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious but no 2 Live Crew? A Franchise writ in Etch a Sketch. As we near the end/beginning of this series, we are backing into simpler stories, lower stakes & Old School Hollywood racism. This movie is what happens wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:16:01
1.7: Crashing Into Tokyo Drift
TOKYO DRIFT! JAPAN BEFORE JUVY! The movie that should have killed the franchise. The Minority-Report -Goo Screenwriters gave themselves a fascinating challenge: Can we make a movie with equally grotesque racial & sexual stereot...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:00:47
1.6: The Pre-Crime of Fast & Furious
Fast & Furious. The movie too furious for definite articles! This film shifted a sputtering series of gearhead movies onto the path to becoming a global phenomenon. The key? Screenplays written by three 14 year old boys in a Mi...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:43:27
1.5: The Origin of Film with Fast Five
Fast Five. TRAIN ROBBERY! The Fast & the Fugitive! Family on the Run, and the only thing that would make it better is Tommy Lee Jones. This week In fast physics, mass is determined by the density of the cool. Elena & Dom do...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:43:13
1.4: Wrong Way to Furious 6
Furious 6. Furiouser and furiouser. CHEKHOV's GRAPPLING GUN! A Runway longer than a Russian novel! The Family fights a Doppelganger crew. We meet Betty, aka Evil Soap Opera Letty. Mike & Brad debate the Talmudic question, "Is t...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:19:41
1.3: Benjamin Buttoning Furious 7
Furious 7. WRENCH FIGHT!!! The series turns soap opera with amnesia and a secret marriage! Jason Statham killed Han, so he must be family. In this universe, God (might be) a woman's butt, a billionaire can afford an Abu Dhabi skyscraper but not...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:05:30
1.2: Backwards into the F8 of the Furious
The F8 of the Furious! Dom Goes ROGUE! A lifelong criminal REALLY starts breaking the law! A baby gets weaned on / rescued from an AWACS plane. Attack of the Zombie Cars. Sub vs. Sports Cars! Lamborghini v. Tundra! The Two Kinds of Fast & F...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:08:26
1.1: Enter the Furiousiverse with F9
F9! Mike & Brad begin their journey at the moment the Fast & the Furious series becomes self-aware. Come for the sexual chemistry between Helen Mirren & Vin Diesel, stay for the majesty of Project Rocket Car. John Cena is a blood re...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:09:41
