Surprise Round! - The Bandicoot Method
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Welcome to Surprise Round! A show inspired by our love of unhinged hypotheticals. Join Discussion Master Murphy as he leads a group of gaseously gifted youngsters through a series of wild scenarios that may or MAY NOT feature the Grinch.
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The x men question, they are just describing "The Spleen" from the movie "Mystery Men".
Emma Henson
2025-03-06 17:47:52 +0000 UTCThat's what I'm saying! I don't care what my powers are, I'm not signing on to defend world that hates and fears me. That's too much like my real job.
Rob H.
2025-02-24 16:36:42 +0000 UTCthe fabled origins of wife worm.....
Georgia
2024-12-15 20:46:40 +0000 UTCGod I forgot Saratoga has a little song 😭
Cass DeMarco
2024-09-23 15:10:33 +0000 UTCHey I don’t know if anyone from the 2 crew reads these comments but Gary: check out the bloom app I found it while snooping through Reddit personal finance This app teaches you financial literacy and you can start investing - I personally started investing $10 a week You can buy part of stocks, etf, yields & more I’m an accountant in real life & I tend to be very skeptical and wary when recommending financial products & apps to people. Anyway; hope this helps!
Emily
2024-09-18 18:25:36 +0000 UTCNEED
Moonhead
2024-09-04 11:33:36 +0000 UTCAs soon as I head farting was my superpower the answer was instantly yes
Justin Atols
2024-08-22 22:39:45 +0000 UTCFor the True Grinch just call animal control.
Cooper Erikson
2024-08-09 12:13:09 +0000 UTCNot me jumping outta my skin at 7:30 am from the intro sound effects at full blast 😵
v_squared (Vanessa)
2024-08-02 12:50:32 +0000 UTCI just want to also weigh in and say I would buy a hat that said "Or hell, it could be the Grinch himself" SO FAST. I would wear it everyday.
Meredith Burger
2024-08-01 17:29:30 +0000 UTCI would do slappies. No hesitation. Either I win, am a champion, and have a bunch of new friends, or I lose and I gave it my all. I personally think slappys is a joke game, that this is them hazing the new guy.
The Overthinker
2024-07-23 17:13:48 +0000 UTCI would KILL for Naddpod Grinch merch, or hell, Surprise Round merch in general
Amanda Z
2024-07-21 01:35:59 +0000 UTCOmg the pocketsss shout out
Lockwood Warlock
2024-07-20 02:33:39 +0000 UTCThe way I IMMEDIATELY recognized the Saratoga jingle 😂 Emily Axford is truly the pride of the NY Capital District
Elizabeth Agresta
2024-07-17 18:22:44 +0000 UTCCan one use Bleem to emulate the Playstation on a pc and still use the cursed Bandocoot cd?
Der Singende Knochen
2024-07-17 08:18:32 +0000 UTCI'm finally listening to it and had to make sure that this was said. I'm a little surprised that Murph and Caldwell didn't think of it, they both seem like Paul Reubens fans.
Michael McDougall
2024-07-16 21:28:44 +0000 UTCAlso, you could easily get the world record speed run if you actually tried
Bulbarat
2024-07-16 19:50:59 +0000 UTCFor the first one, you could maximize your time by playing from 9pm-12am and immediately continue playing 12am-3am. Tackle 2 days in one sesh and then sleep till like 9 or 10 then you don't have to do it again till the next day since you already did today's sesh
Bulbarat
2024-07-16 19:46:33 +0000 UTCas far as i know, it started in c1. there was a few episode bit whenever an enemy was close to dead they were gonna "take them to the grinch". unless it started earlier in 8BBC
Jorgus
2024-07-16 13:51:18 +0000 UTCHere's why it is $20 - The rental is available from $19.57 per night (to honor the book's original release in 1957
Jessica
2024-07-15 18:45:33 +0000 UTCWhile you’re in Utah staying at the Grinch Cave, pls do a live show in Salt Lake😌🙏🏼.
Aaron Aposhian
2024-07-15 18:36:23 +0000 UTCSofie Bikes shit
Grass
2024-07-15 18:11:45 +0000 UTCIm saying you avoided the horror movie because you fought and won and now youre in a political/espionage thriller action movie ala Jason Bourne
Colin Kilzer
2024-07-15 14:35:27 +0000 UTCThe grinch in the last prompt is definitely an escaped genetic experiment. So you cannot expose the grinch body if you value your life.
Colin Kilzer
2024-07-15 14:32:26 +0000 UTCNeed a powerscaler to tell me if Colos-ass is an Omega level mutant or if they could be
Colin Kilzer
2024-07-15 13:58:07 +0000 UTCOne of my skills for round 1 would be electrical engineering. Be sure that I can create a portable PS1 with a chargeable 4 hour battery, so I can Bandicoot wherever I am Another skill would be the skill to easily find 3 free hours a day
Samuel Ryan
2024-07-15 13:33:28 +0000 UTCI’m studying for the bar exam right now and the last scenario was great - I treated it like a little essay question on self-defense
Robert
2024-07-15 12:11:10 +0000 UTCWhen i was 5 I took the tip of a shovel to the face (right above my eye) and it was super gnarly. It cut all the way to my skull. So if slappies is shovels that's a 1 hit ko
Tavitafish
2024-07-15 08:31:38 +0000 UTCalso i LOVE the portrait of the lady on fire references
Kizzy
2024-07-15 07:11:59 +0000 UTCwhich episode did the love of the grinch begin
Kizzy
2024-07-15 07:10:32 +0000 UTCI hope greasers become part of the surprise round mythology
Ajax
2024-07-14 23:30:49 +0000 UTCThe Colos-Ass is 100% The Spleen from Mystery Men
Katie P.
2024-07-14 18:55:04 +0000 UTCI’ve loved Pocketsss for so long!! I didn’t know that they had a patreon
♡ Pixie ♡
2024-07-14 12:07:40 +0000 UTCI just need to know is if the skill learning based on how well I can learn a skill? because if its 3 hours of how much I usually learn then no cuz I take forever to learn skills. if its like sims skill building where it's just time = amount learned then yeah. I'll just play crash bandicoot without a memory card like I used to as a kid, you would think it was the only game I had with how much I would play the same levels every day.
MeekoCHAOS The Raccoon Boi
2024-07-14 05:54:17 +0000 UTCIf I were ColossAss I'd just change the way I use my powers. I'd fart into a tank to compress it ahead of time and use it for chemical weaponry, then train in martial arts with an arc at any of the clandestine paragovernmental/criminal/mystic orders Marvel has to offer. I would wear a cloak to cover my ass when not needed but my stealth missions would always be ruined, as the clap of my ass cheeks would alert the guards
Aster Ellis
2024-07-14 04:53:22 +0000 UTCthis surprise round's spit take occured at the detailing of the Terrible Tooter
Tyler Gob
2024-07-14 03:00:54 +0000 UTCPaul Reuben’s in Mystery Men is The Spleen, whose farts make people faint. “Parallel thinking” indeed. 😛
Zeon Liberation
2024-07-13 22:47:54 +0000 UTCIs peeing an interruption that restarts the clock for crash bandicoot 2?
Zoop
2024-07-13 21:16:02 +0000 UTCRelated to the “X-Men whose power is farts” topic. There is a very minor X-Men character whose code name is Soft Serve, whose mutation is that her body is a portal to the “ice cream dimension” (the same way that Cyclops’ eyes are a portal to a plane of concussive force). The character Forge described it as “the best damn ice cream [he’d] ever have”. The location of her portal just happens to be near her ass. I’m SO sure that the character is totally NOT her creator’s barely disguised shit fetish.
Justin Totino
2024-07-13 18:44:23 +0000 UTCDon't forget if you an X-man you have the whole societal mutant issue!
nandrusin
2024-07-13 18:30:04 +0000 UTCCaldwell's deep knowledge of the Grinch Lore is. So funny honestly.
Nile
2024-07-13 17:48:25 +0000 UTCTattle on Cavill and your The Snitcher
Ellie Cerceaux
2024-07-13 15:57:17 +0000 UTCEm wants to be Fart Wolverine 97! “I suck and I’m a little raunchy” He such a tool in the X-Men cartoon.
Gogs
2024-07-13 14:54:59 +0000 UTCJake big brained the crash bandicoot 3hr/day scenario. Absolute killshot.
Filthy Guppy
2024-07-13 14:05:01 +0000 UTCRelease the grinch himself hat!!!! (And the filthy guppy cut)
Filthy Guppy
2024-07-13 14:04:06 +0000 UTCBecome the ultimate handyman! Plumbing, engineering, electric, carpentry, welding
Adrian Woodhouse
2024-07-13 13:49:47 +0000 UTCtheres a mini portable ps1, i know this cus some guy in grade 9 was playing it in class, it has a disk drive that would absoluty take the cursed copy of crash, and i dont have 3 hours a day anyway so no
Simon Hughes
2024-07-13 12:37:30 +0000 UTCI feel like covering your tracks on the last one is so much worse. You have to be better off telling people and having them see what attacked you. If you try and hide it, it will look much more like a straight murder
Thomas Hegarty
2024-07-13 11:28:31 +0000 UTCGenius
Thomas Hegarty
2024-07-13 11:24:47 +0000 UTCYou have to think about how miserable you’d be after a while though. You will never be able to stop, and it would be hellish to play the game for 3 uninterrupted hours EVERY DAY once you’ve already done everything you can in the game.
Doonkers
2024-07-13 10:44:31 +0000 UTCwhat is the photosynthesis part of this??
Aiyana
2024-07-13 04:43:08 +0000 UTCthis ep should have been called wife worms and grinch germs
Mack N
2024-07-13 04:12:01 +0000 UTCI would absolutely buy a "or hell, maybe the Grinch himself" hat
Aidan Boyle
2024-07-13 03:11:30 +0000 UTCIf I was ColossAss I would for sure die in the dumbest way possible like getting skewered with a spear up my exposed asshole. no way am i taking it
Mack N
2024-07-13 03:04:16 +0000 UTCGod I love surprise rounds
Becca
2024-07-13 01:58:08 +0000 UTCIn regards to slappies I feel like you guys might need to look up slapping contests on YouTube they're actually like. Unhinged and insane and does not look fun at all
Bulph
2024-07-13 01:19:40 +0000 UTCOrange is the new green.
Chris Skipper
2024-07-13 00:53:05 +0000 UTCOne of the skills has to be curse breaking to at least try and make some wiggle room
Babygramps
2024-07-13 00:06:33 +0000 UTC“He lives alone.. really confidently” so casually then followed by “oh yeah I guess you’re right.” Emily I love you so much hahahahahaha that killed me.
Adam Sutton
2024-07-12 23:50:03 +0000 UTCI'm definitely reporting my killing of the Grinch, the fact that he's a monstrous humanoid creature who came into my home and attacked me means I should be able to get away with self defense, and the stunning implications of the Grinch being real might be significant enough that the specifics of my killing of him isn't really the main focus. And I need answers on Grinch physiology that can only be obtained if his body is studied
Evan Schmidt
2024-07-12 23:33:55 +0000 UTCMy friend who is a doctor says she would not consider a germ a Grinch. Metaphorically only.
Canadian Schubert the Mushroom 🍄
2024-07-12 23:24:35 +0000 UTCI didn’t expect Jake to go full Tony Soprano on that last one
The Fun Yaunt
2024-07-12 21:35:00 +0000 UTCput ‘I’m the wife of the party and wife is good’ on my gravestone
Melissa Shilale
2024-07-12 21:24:52 +0000 UTCim way too attached to the greasers and must defend my honor
FusRohNahSon
2024-07-12 21:09:02 +0000 UTCFunny how The Boys just had a "hero" who farted webs from his extra anus recently.
Alex Nerini
2024-07-12 21:02:08 +0000 UTC*hard look in the mirror* “you ARE the wife of the party, and wife IS good”
Crumb Gunderson
2024-07-12 20:21:07 +0000 UTCI think the first one has a definitive answer, use it to become good at streaming, and use that skill to stream you playing the game
Cam The Frog Man
2024-07-12 20:00:37 +0000 UTCI would definitely buy a "or hell... could be the grinch" shirr
Connor Dub
2024-07-12 19:40:55 +0000 UTCOne Grinch Bed?
Professor Pratt
2024-07-12 18:52:24 +0000 UTCLoose? Like granola or change?
Professor Pratt
2024-07-12 18:51:25 +0000 UTCObsessed with the idea of cryptid investigators and now I need to see y'all play a one shot that's like a procedural of like Mothman and Bigfoot trying to investigate who killed a Chupacabra or something. It would be a great excuse to play something in Monster of the Week.
xatlern
2024-07-12 16:45:09 +0000 UTCRespectfully when emily said she wanted to make one of her skills “hot” I just wanted to yell to the universe “but Emily you’ve already logged your 10,000 hours in HOT!”
Shel B Kennas 1st fav sprite girl! Torn between never wanting Skaldova to end and excitement for Duncle + Triplets to return
2024-07-12 15:45:14 +0000 UTCIn the ColossAss world, do you look like the Spleen from Mystery Men?
Eddie Jentz
2024-07-12 15:42:45 +0000 UTCOh I’m loving the intro
Wholesomethot
2024-07-12 15:29:33 +0000 UTC"I think, for me, the fantasy of X-Men is that kind of like...communal living" followed by an earnest, inspirational-in-itself dream of being inspirational as the Colossass. E Ax is the GOAT
Zachary Smith
2024-07-12 14:49:11 +0000 UTCGerm Carrey
Rennifer
2024-07-12 14:33:30 +0000 UTCSaw the grinch at a festival I went to a few weeks ago, he was drinking an Oberon
Jessica Olsen
2024-07-12 14:32:03 +0000 UTCIt’s also the same power as the main character in South Park: fractured but whole
Larry Thomsen
2024-07-12 14:22:24 +0000 UTCQuestion is, does the enchanted disk itself wear out like a normal disk would?
ACK
2024-07-12 13:57:10 +0000 UTCGrinch is Jason VanHoorees and Crash is Freddy Kruger
Keanu DRAMAFACE
2024-07-12 13:35:47 +0000 UTCFor the xmen question, there is a character from morrisons new xmen called dummy who is literally sentient gas. His gas form has to be contained in a latex suit and when it gets ripped open the characters make a fart joke. Side note, you should definitely read new xmen because it’s full of characters who’s powers kind of suck.
Isa Gamez
2024-07-12 13:34:35 +0000 UTCAlso as someone from upstate New York I immediately knew what Emily was singing
Shane C
2024-07-12 13:32:19 +0000 UTCPutting it out there that I would buy that Grinch hat
Shane C
2024-07-12 13:22:13 +0000 UTCI wonder if Caldwell plays dark and darker?
katon
2024-07-12 13:10:24 +0000 UTCi desperately need to know if y'all have heard of the movie Osmosis Jones.. truly the germ equivalent of a universe within a snowflake
Ambz
2024-07-12 13:06:08 +0000 UTCThe bike riders was a good movie. It was filmed in my home town of Cincinnati
Riley Holmes
2024-07-12 12:49:40 +0000 UTCR.I.P the 1st Krakoan Age.
Agiddysea
2024-07-12 12:48:40 +0000 UTCI have stayed in the grinch's cave as a bit and it was deeply unsettling
Alien butt puppet
2024-07-12 12:37:12 +0000 UTCI would do anything Henry Cavill asked. I would not even hesitate. My loyalties rest with him. If it went sideways, I'd feign innocence and convince everyone else it was an accident. I'd then say he was there because he's going through some stuff and just wanted to be involved, and he needs support, not anger. And everyone would believe me because I have a physical disability so they always think I'm beyond pure. In case it's not obvious, I'm joking. I'd never use my disability for something like this. Using it to get people to open doors for me even though I can do it? Hell yeah. Using it to cover up a crime? Not unless it was my mother and she was justified.
Rachel the Freckled ADHDer
2024-07-12 12:32:28 +0000 UTCcyclops blasphemy https://youtu.be/DxQ1uvm9cmk?si=PU_tC48Iy15nToX1
dylndmg
2024-07-12 12:29:09 +0000 UTCColossAss sounds like an AU Deadpool
Myka
2024-07-12 11:49:52 +0000 UTCWill Caldwell DM a trinyvale cosmic horror Grinch-sode? Or maybe a call of Cthulhu one shot from Emily?
Declan Konesky
2024-07-12 11:26:17 +0000 UTCWhen i got married. PlayStation ran a billboard campaign: PlayStation: It’s Like A Dozen Roses for Him. So, my new wife got me a PS1 and Crash Bandicoot 2. I don’t know about 3 hours at s time, but I certainly logged my fair share of hours (especially on some of the bonus rooms where it took you all the way to the beginning of the room rather than a checkpoint). 25 years later my wife still says she can hear Crash dying and me muttering expletives at 1am. No skill increases and I probably did become s little dumber, but boy did I love that game. The game sounds and phrases are still a part of my vocabulary.
Professor Pratt
2024-07-12 11:18:53 +0000 UTCLove the show, love this episode...but if I send you a Goosebumps will there be more 8 bit book club?! PS hate the show never listened to it
Kellyd
2024-07-12 10:34:45 +0000 UTCHey Murph, I just finished Lies of P. Definitely my favorite game from the past few years. What was your favorite area/boss? What was the hardest boss for you?
CorbanClyffe
2024-07-12 10:32:30 +0000 UTCI don't really care about being an xmen but I think colossass would be more fun if their whole butt is showing rather than like. just their asshole (what i originally pictured) because then it can be styled. its like assless chaps. turn it into fashion
Aiyana
2024-07-12 10:31:10 +0000 UTCat first I was saying no to the crash bandicoot one because I feel like that requirement would just make me anxious even though its totally feasible for me, but after talking about how you'd beat it like day 2 I'm in because I'm autistic and I love to just do stuff over and over again. I'd just learn every possible thing about the game and crash bandicoot would become my new special interest. I think being multilingual would be my money making version of this cause jobs do look for bi/multilingual employees
Aiyana
2024-07-12 10:23:29 +0000 UTCWoo
Jake Alcott
2024-07-12 10:13:12 +0000 UTCHugh-bristic 🥴
Pali Endi
2024-07-12 10:06:35 +0000 UTCThe Sarasota jingle reminds me of the song Andy Warhol by David Bowie.
Shawn McNerney
2024-07-12 09:55:49 +0000 UTCI used to play PS1 games on my PC via an emulator + the actual disc. So just get a disc drive on a laptop and you're all good.
Vaelyhn
2024-07-12 09:42:51 +0000 UTCSo another parrelel thinking moment. In the 1999 movie Mystery Men Which is a campy superhero movie Paul Ruben plays a character called Spleen with fart powers he just doesn't expose his butthole
Eric Pierce
2024-07-12 09:11:32 +0000 UTCSubquestion for the crash bandicoot = skills. Are you allowed to swap out your skills if you think you've reached a good enough level at them?
Luka Vrečar
2024-07-12 08:50:36 +0000 UTCInstead of Colossass, can I sell you on Skunky Brewster?
Ben Ramirez
2024-07-12 08:48:19 +0000 UTCPut some respect on his mf name: https://mysterymen.fandom.com/wiki/The_Spleen
Dylan DeMarco
2024-07-12 08:46:38 +0000 UTCFirst skill: Sleep Mastery. I can nap in 20 minutes what used to take hours. I can use that time to make sure my 3 hours happen. Boom.
Allen S
2024-07-12 08:30:49 +0000 UTCHear me out! For the first question! If you make the first skill being good at twitch streaming and the second skill speed running that 3 hours of crash bandicoot pays for itself. Daily streams of speed running and just go until you create a world record so good noone can top it. Meanwhile you set your three other skills investing, money management and photosynthesis. You stream for like 5 years and then retire a beloved content creator. Just tell your fans you've peaked and you're moving on. You lose all the skills but leave behind a legacy and financial stability.
Shy-senpai
2024-07-12 08:17:08 +0000 UTCjust in time to listen to during work!!!
inky
2024-07-12 08:05:18 +0000 UTCThank god this popped up for the last couple hours of my shift Thanks Jelk!
Hashtaggles
2024-07-12 08:04:41 +0000 UTCCalling it now, this is the no-grinch episode EDIT: It’s guddam Christmas in July
Thortron
2024-07-12 07:56:12 +0000 UTCLFG (let’s fucking grinch)
Nate Ness
2024-07-12 07:49:54 +0000 UTC
