Episode 41 - Aug 10, 2022

Slap Shot

Episode 41: Slap Shot (1977)
Theme: Sports Comedies
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis lace up their skates, tape up their knuckles, and dive headfirst into Slap Shot — the only hockey movie brave enough to ask, “What if minor league sports were just violence, denim, and uncomfortable small-town marriages stapled together with foul language?”

Join your two favorite bench-warming enforcers as they unpack:

  • How Reggie Dunlop lies with the confidence of a man who owns both a fur-trimmed coat and absolutely no retirement plan.

  • Why Ned Braden is the only player who actually knows how to play hockey, and yet somehow ends up stripping his way into a championship.

  • How Lily and Francine prove that being married to a hockey player requires booze, resilience, and permanent emotional PPE.

  • Why the Hansons are the purest souls in the movie despite committing forty-seven felonies per game.

  • How Charlestown rallies around violence the way most towns rally around chili cook-offs.

From foil-wrapped fists to fashion-show threats, from toy race cars to toyed-with marriages, Oz and Curtis break down a film that proves there’s nothing more American than replacing actual sportsmanship with brawls, rumors, and tax write-offs.


Final Verdict
Oz — Seven hockey players on a runway
Curtis — Three Hanson brothers (every time, without fail)
Both — Still wondering if anyone, anywhere, has ever actually explained the rules of 1970s minor-league hockey.

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