Ryan consistently pronounces Ubisoft as "Ooh-bee-soft". He very occasionally seems to remember that it is actually pronounced "Yoo-bee-soft", like in this week's podcast (7/19/2011).
Number 16. It's a reference from Kindergarten Cop. Arnold- I have a headache. kid- maybe it's a tumor. Arnold-AAAGH IT IS NOT A TOO-MAH. IT'S NOT A TOO-MAH
I don't know if it's been mentioned but I think the "Min" prefix is a call-back to when carrie gouskous said "Ray-min" once on a podcast instead of 'Rayman', without a hint of irony, and was subsequently mocked thenceforth for doing so.
#41 might be a reference to 1943's Warner Bros. short Falling Hare starring Bugs Bunny.
...at the 1:30ish mark, Bugs pronounces 'Diabolical Sabotage' and I've long adapted that pronunciation, as such whenever Ryan uses sabotage all I can think of is this old cartoon.
" now, start updating the list with possible reasons why he pronounces things that way...obviously "Frah-gee-lay" is a reference to A Christmas Story..right? "
I would love to if I had the slightest idea. I could post in user ideas, like yours and ColnelT's.
This is obviously a fair bit after A Christmas Story but I'm pretty sure I remember Homer Simpson saying "frah-gee-lay" at some point (although that itself could be a reference to ACS). "
yeah well that point it just turns into a chain, Homer saying Frah-Gee-Lay would be a reference to ACS, so even if Ryan was referencing the simspons, in the end he would be referencing ACS......my head is going to explode.. "
To make this worse, both ACS and The Simpsons could be referencing an older use of this joke. Groucho Marx in "Animal Crackers" from the 1930's. Mr. Davis is either an old soul, or he is the undead Groucho Marx
" The origin of the "-min" must come from Superman: The Movie, and Marlon Brando's pronunciation of "Krypton" as "Kryp-TIN." Legend has it that Brando became fatigued during the delivery of a line and couldn't form the "-ton" without passing out, resulting in a "-tin" instead. Ryan appears to have adopted it for other words, and I support him fully. "
i always assumed it was saying it like you would a last name. like the name Bateman, you don't say it bate-man, you say it bate-min. so like saying "oh this is my good friend Ron Spiderman", at least that's how it's always sounded to me.
@Xeiphyer: Ah! I remember that fellow. But I still don't think that's it. In the movie they seem to put more emphasis on the "AY" in his name, whereas Ryan drops it to an "ah".
