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Pointless Spin-Off

Sonny Yang and Rory Machell

52 episodes

2 months ago

In a world of endless sequels, prequels and extended universes, one film history / improv comedy podcast will attempt to create the most pointless cinematic spin-offs imaginable. Join comedians Sonny Yang and Rory Machell each episode as they improvise a wholly original tale about a nameless and unimportant background character from a random movie or series. 9 times out of 10, the character dies! Opening theme by Timepiece Follow us: Instagram @pointlessspinoffpodcast TikTok @pointless.spinoff Twitter @PointlessSpinff YouTube @pointlessspin-off-podcast

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In a world of endless sequels, prequels and extended universes, one film history / improv comedy podcast will attempt to create the most pointless cinematic spin-offs imaginable. Join comedians Sonny Yang and Rory Machell each episode as they improvise a wholly original tale about a nameless and unimportant background character from a random movie or series. 9 times out of 10, the character dies! Opening theme by Timepiece Follow us: Instagram @pointlessspinoffpodcast TikTok @pointless.spinoff Twitter @PointlessSpinff YouTube @pointlessspin-off-podcast

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Episodes (20/52)

Pointless Spin-Off

Season 4, Episode 4 - Bullsucker: The Whistleblower Saga

Pointless Spin-Off is taking a mid-season break but we just thought we’d drop an episode for our adoring fan(s) as a token of our appreciation and to let you know we haven’t forgotten about you. Enjoy our improvised spin-off to The Whistleblower (2010) / bittersweet ode to Doug Walker the Nostalgia Critic and we’ll catch you in the second half of the season!

1 year ago

53 minutes 6 seconds

Pointless Spin-Off

Season 4, Episode 3 - The Grabbed

In our very 51st episode, join us as we journey to Rory’s ancestral homeland and embark on a good old fashioned hard-boiled detective caper with all the hallmarks of a classic neo-noir thriller: saxophone music, someone’s bare asshole, a GameFAQs guide, etc. Inspired by the 2012 film ’Grabbers’.

1 year ago

52 minutes

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Season 4, Episode 2 - Zack Snyder's Weasly-F*ck Sun: Part Three - A Man of Dirt (50th Episode Extravaganza!)

In our special extended 50th episode extravaganza, Sonny, Rory and special guest improviser Phillip Whyte journey into Zack Snyder’s ’Rebel Moon’ universe to bring you a space operatic tale like no other. Suck it LucasFilm!* * Make more of those classic LucasArts adventure games, then we’ll talk.

1 year ago

1 hour 18 minutes 9 seconds

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Season 4, Episode 1 - John Carpenter's The Fog II: The Sleet

In our long awaited Season 4 premiere, Sonny and Rory return to the studio (and then back to Rory’s apartment after we got kicked out for running over time) to bring you a pointless spin-off of John Carpenter’s 1980 classic ’The Fog’.

1 year ago

53 minutes 8 seconds

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Season 3, Episode 4 - Halloween 2023 Special #1: The Skies Have Noses

In our first of probably three Halloween special episodes for 2023, Sonny and Rory take to the skies of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes as we thankfully avoid the aforementioned hills altogether in the safety and comfort of a US Air Force fighter jet.

1 year ago

44 minutes 16 seconds

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Season 3, Episode 3 - Jack Dollar: Rory’s Third Annual Birthday Episode Spectacular

Go, go, go, go, go, go. Go, Rory. It’s your birthday. We’re gonna party like it’s your birthday. We’re gonna sip Bacardi like it’s your birthday. And you know we don’t give a hoot it’s not your birthday. You can find Rory in the club, bottle full of bub’. Look, Rory’s got the X, if you’re into taking drugs. Rory’s into having sex, he ain’t into making love. So come listen to Rory’s 3rd Annual Birthday Spectacular Episode, if you’re into getting rubbed.

2 years ago

48 minutes 52 seconds

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Season 3, Episode 2 - Zhang Wu and the Shift of Hell

In our very forty-sixth episode, Sonny and Rory embark on a globe-trotting* adventure** with one of the background waiters from the opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as they find out if you really can teach an old dog*** new tricks****. * in and around a single city ** series of fruitless tasks *** some prick **** ways to die and suffer

2 years ago

1 hour 7 minutes 8 seconds

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Season 3, Episode 1 - Chick Sprint: The Chicken Run Saga Continues...

Sonny and Rory return from their hiatus to bring you the premiere episode of Pointless Spin-Off Season 3! Join them in their new studio space as they cook up a tasty improvised sequel to Aardman’s Chicken Run.

2 years ago

47 minutes 56 seconds

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Season 2, Episode 19 - Belated Halloween Special /Xmas Holiday Special / Season Two Finale Spectacular: The Nightmare Before Ratmus

In our combined belated Halloween / Xmas / Season Two Finale special episode, Sonny and Rory present a spooktacular pointless spin-off to Tim Burton’s and Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, which also doubles as a prequel to our very first episode. It’s been a bumpy season, but we hope you enjoyed it nevertheless. Happy holidays and happy 2023!

2 years ago

1 hour 23 minutes 46 seconds

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Season 2, Episode 18 - The People’s Munchausen

You are not well. We recommend staying at home and listening to our latest Pointless Spin-Off of ’The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’. It’s the best thing for you. (the gag is that this episode synopsis resembles an interaction between a caretaker and a ’patient’ as if it were an instance of Munchause by-proxy syndrome)

2 years ago

57 minutes 26 seconds

Pointless Spin-Off

Season 2, Episode 17 - Whale Lord: The Fisher King Continued

In our very forty-second episode, Sonny and Rory present their very own take on the classic tale of Pinocchio the silly wooden boy, specifically the prop Pinocchio toy from Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King (1991). Featuring the debut of Rory’s Robin Williams impression (it’s pretty good).

2 years ago

58 minutes 21 seconds

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Season 2, Episode 16 - Rory’s COVID Birthday Special

In this week’s episode, Sonny and Rory face the unimaginable as COVID forces them to record the podcast remotely via video call. How will they cope not being in the same room together? Also, it’s Rory’s birthday again.

3 years ago

49 minutes 53 seconds

Pointless Spin-Off

Season 2, Episode 15 - Starbuck: Grande (40th Episode Cum-tacular)

In our very special 40th episode spectacular, Sonny and Rory present the unofficial romantic comedy prequel to the 2011 Canadian film ’Starbuck’ that examines the secret lives of the millions of sperm cells within a single donation vial. Whole lotta cum talk in this! TW: self-harm

3 years ago

52 minutes 29 seconds

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Season 2, Episode 14 - Dog For Night

In our very thirty-ninth episode, Sonny and Rory present the completely pointless and unnecessary canine spin-off of Francois Truffaut’s Oscar-winning classic ’Day for Night’ and also share some scandalous* behind-the-scenes stories of their own experiences working on films sets. * (mundane)

3 years ago

1 hour 4 minutes 1 second

Pointless Spin-Off

Season 2, Episode 13 - Fascimile Sham-lamet: The French Dispatch Parte Deux (ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL PART II)

In our second back-to-back One Year Anniversary Special, Sonny and Rory put on their journalist hats and get the inside scoop on the murky world of underground student protestors from some guy who, sadly, isn’t Timothee Chalamet.

3 years ago

1 hour 5 minutes 30 seconds

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Season 2, Episode 12 - Sleepy Time Junction: Battle Royale with Cheese (ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, PART I)

In Part 1 of our much belated One-Year Anniversary Special, Sonny and Rory ponder what would happen if one of the murderous school children from Kinji Fukasaku’s BATTLE ROYALE happened to play hooky on that fateful day. Featuring our first ever bonus Pointless Spin-Off of a piece of printed media!* * a novel tie-in to a video game

3 years ago

1 hour 10 minutes 18 seconds

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Season 2, Episode 11 - Marvel’s Black Wid-Sow

Some new Marvel legends arrive in our ver first Pointless Spin-Off of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Sonny and Rory follow a trio of truffle-hunting lab pigs on a relatively low-stakes globe-trotting mission to prove that they have what it takes to collectively become the next Black Widow. Featuring the obligatory discussion about whether Marvel movies are true cinema.

3 years ago

55 minutes 15 seconds

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Season 2, Episode 10 - World War Z-2: World of P

In our very thirty-fifth episode, Sonny and Rory leap, flip and tumble across the rooftops of a pre-Apocalypse Jerusalem as they join a ragtag gang of parkour enthusiasts in their unofficial prequel to ’World War Z’ titled ’World of P’. The ’P’ can stand for either parkour, prequel or podcast, let’s be honest.

3 years ago

1 hour 13 minutes 18 seconds

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Season 2, Episode 9 - Jack and Michael (feat. Barbie and the Three Musketeers)

In our second ever venture into the Barbie multiverse, Sonny and Rory encounter a couple of low-level guards who’ll do anything to rise through the ranks and become just like Barbie and her elite musketeers - even if it means resorting to toxic incel behaviour!

3 years ago

50 minutes 40 seconds

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Season 2, Episode 8 - Tower Heist II: One Last Career (SEASON TWO VOLUME TWO PREMIERE)

Teaming up for one last job (until the next episode), Sonny and Rory embark on a mission to help a college freshman lose his virginity in 24 hours, before an old family curse does something vaguely bad to him.

3 years ago

1 hour 32 seconds