Stealing Honor (In the Style of a "Reluctant Thief" Movie Like Thief or Sabotage ‪)‬ In a World of...Improvised Movie Homages

About This Episode


In this episode, we pay homage to Reluctant Thief movies - the ones where a (somewhat) honorable criminal is trying to leave that life behind but is forced back to commit one...last...job. This one took some weird turns (as they should - it’s improv!) but we’d like to think we managed to tie things together with a nice little bow.


Time Codes
Segment 1 - Discussion the Genre Tropes: 04:01
Segment 2 - Creating the Movie Outline: 10:01
Segment 3 - Picking the Improv Comedy Games: 16:24
Start of show: 21:16
Improv Game - Movie Game: 22:17
Improv Game - Scenes Without the Letter: 24:20
Improv Game -  Newsroom: 32:09
Improv Game - Best of Times, Worst of Times: 43:05
Improv Game - Cutting Room: 52:38
End of show, into announcements: 1:08:20





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Transcription of the “Discussing the Genre Tropes” Segment (Unedited and Un-Cleaned up)


Avish Parashar: segment one.



Avish Parashar: Discussing the genre tropes.



Avish Parashar: Alright, so we're going to start by spending five minutes talking about the tropes and commonalities and cliches in this genre, so I will set our timer here for five minutes so Mike when you think of this type of movie what comes to mind.



Michael Worth: So first of the the main character can be followed, obviously, the main character is a retired slash left is like behind him specialist of some sort it's usually like a cyber like a look a bit of a criminal, what is it the victimless crime kind of thing because safecracker or a.



Avish Parashar: yeah it's not yeah it's not like the muscle or the killer it's the yeah someone who's really smart who.



Avish Parashar: yeah doesn't like it, I think fickleness is a great way to describe it like there's like the feeling expert that safe cracking expert.



Avish Parashar: Or maybe even like the you know the deceptive person, but yeah it's not the one who goes in and kills the guards.



Michael Worth: Right um so what happens is no basically this This is basically like a heist movie basically um and there's a couple ways there's a couple ways that trumps can go one is the dude was there, the main bad guy is always this kind of villainous.



Michael Worth: scheming for his own wealthy kind of thing, so he usually runs a corporation or a gang or something like that.



Michael Worth: Definitely it's a trope of the corporation was always a good one, you know where it's like oh i'm a company, I need you to like steal something from a rival company or I need you to like you know steal.



Michael Worth: or or break in and kind of gain this data or something like that swordfish, is one of those kind of like that.



Avish Parashar: yeah.



Michael Worth: Where they get a.



Michael Worth: X men to do you know.



Michael Worth: um so the other trope is there's two ways this can go one is the dude is a solo guy, in which case.



Michael Worth: He spends a lot of there's a lot of casing the joint and kind of a building a plan or it's a heist party and he he builds his like team of three or four people and they kind of go in leverage style and my.



Avish Parashar: yeah I think go either way, I think I think the highest plan is more interesting, I think the solo plan is a little more simple for improv so we can kind of decide which want to do.



Michael Worth: I think i'm solo plan which is kind of cool.



Avish Parashar: And i'll say that usually.



Avish Parashar: there's some leverage like they use the person like they've kidnap the daughter, the best friend the parents usually kidnapping, it could also be like a debt like.



Avish Parashar: You know this person owes but even if