#202: ONLY HUMAN - POOR MR. GIRAFFE
Join your flesh creatures of the APDC plus special guest Sean Walsh as they review the season 3 episode “Only Human” from the 1986 classic animated series, The Transformers!
Excitingly new fleshy-forms!!! Nerd room with meme-lord Serge Bomba!!! Rock n’ Roll is NOT a B-list character!! Old Snake!!! Loosey Goosey!! Crystal Pepsi!! Re-review by Fats Rimble!! What’s you poison?! Stolen valor!! Synthoids!! Rodimus and Michelle… sexy possibilities?!! It’s so noir!! Iconic Moments! Script Deviations!! In the Real World!! Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats YOU!!!
THE NO-GAME – 17:09 SHOUTS OUT – 24:16 COCKTAIL – 28:22 REVIEW – 38:00 REAL WORLD – 1:49:00 SCRIPT DEVIATIONS – 1:55:23 RATE THE SCHEME – 1:57:14 ICONIC JOEMENT – 2:00:00
We have a BUY US A DRINK cocktail today, boys! Oddly our next one will be a Cinco de Mayo BUAD cocktail, but this one came in first and was specifically requested for “Only Human.” I’ll tell you the cocktail and then I want to read the very sweet email she sent us concerning the history of this drink and her story. I did ask if it was okay first, just so you know. She’s a woman after my own heart, as you’ll see. This is:
THE LONE RICKEY
· 3 oz. (90 ml) Tanqueray gin
· A single ice cube
· Sometimes with an olive
Here’s what Emmy wrote us:
Hi guys,
I want to gush for a moment about all the joy you three kooks have brought into my life.
I’ve been listening since about halfway thru the film episodes. Thank you so much for sharing the ridiculous buddy flick that is your lives, and it’s been so fun meeting all the new friends that have come along.
My name is Emily, class of 2000, lifelong Transformers fan, classic Beetle driver, PNW born and raised, currently living in Portland with a view of Mt. St Hilary. Also a raging alcoholic for the better part of twenty years.
In my twenties I just drank gin, usually Tanqueray and tonics, but if I was stopping in somewhere for a quick round, I would order this, great for traveling, or airports, because less bathroom trips, and less factors for an unknown bartender to make you a shitty cocktail.
I believe the origin is from killing time at a dive bar in Utah, during an overnight layover, they didn’t have tonic, and I didn’t drink sweet things, so two shots of gin with an ice cube it was.
It should mellow with the ice for a few moments, can be taken as a shot, after a long summer afternoon of wearing a suit, and wandering in the SLC sunshine, I did find it quite refreshing.
Btw, I won’t be like supper offended if someone wants to sub a TnT, or whatever.
I picked this episode because I remember it fondly from being a kid, I was excited about it, being a GI Joe fan as well.
I could go on about my feelings about being transgender, growing up not understanding what that meant, because the 1980s, feeling like I was wearing a costume all the time, and having moments of weirdly relating to characters like Cobra Commander, but I’ll keep it short.
I’d spent crafting a ridiculous looking “man costume” that ended up looking like incognito Cobra Commander in Marvel comics, and was often viewed as “overdressed”.
If you want to, check out a few years back on my Instagram
@rickieraccoon
There’s so many things I’d like to say, you all feel like old friends to me, but I should probably wrap this up.
Thanks for the years of entertainment, and here’s to many more!
Big love to the MTMTPod cats (I REALLY hope to hear more from them!) the Reanimated crew, Mike, and Caleb’s Grandma!
‘till all are one!
Emmy
