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Mikeython - 2010 - Part 17

Thursday, December 16, 2010

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Thursday December 16 & Friday December 17, 2010

THE MIKEYTHON takes the airwaves for twenty-eight straight hours! No recap is available as the entire epic event can be downloaded from various sources, mainly at www.mikeyshow.com. This concludes the weekly recap for the Mikey Show for 2010 since day one back in February. Every show, every day they were on the air live!

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Dirty Dancing watch alonglive broadcast chaosmovie commentarydance and romancePenny's pregnancyfailed mambo liftdirty dancingwatchalongradiocomedymikeypatrick swayze

Mikey, Jay, Woods and the rest of the studio attempted a live Dirty Dancing DVD watch-along, but their countdown failed and a later disc malfunction forced everyone to resynchronize through scene select. They relentlessly roasted Patrick Swayze's dancing, Baby's clothes and the movie's 1960s setting, while debating why women love the film and whether a movie built around dancing has enough plot. Baby carrying a watermelon, Penny's pregnancy, Robbie's refusal to help and Johnny's increasingly intimate dance lessons generated the longest riffs, especially the recurring joke that Penny needed quaaludes. The group finally understood the stakes of Johnny's hotel gig and watched Baby botch the climactic lift they had practiced in the lake.

What happened, in order

  1. The Botched Watch-Along

    Jay and the crowded studio twice try to synchronize listeners' Dirty Dancing DVDs, only for the first countdown to fail amid warnings about cables, microphones and blocked equipment.

  2. Opening-Credits Roast

    Once the movie finally plays, Mikey, Woods and the others immediately talk over the credits with jokes about Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach, 1980s slow motion and the cramped studio.

  3. Why Women Love the Dancing

    The hosts marvel at Johnny's dancing, compare it to showing off in baseball and argue that women repeatedly watch the movie for Patrick Swayze's seductive routines.

  4. Watermelon Underground

    Baby's famous watermelon entrance becomes an extended riff about a secret dance club where nobody uses drugs and everyone supposedly snorts watermelons and drinks Diet Coke.

  5. The Disc Derails

    The DVD suddenly freezes or jumps, leaving Jay blamed for the mishap while the crew scrambles through scene select to get home viewers synchronized again.

  6. The Quaaludes Run

    Penny's pregnancy crisis is misread as withdrawal and turned into a frantic studio-wide search for 'ludes' before the hosts finally recognize what is actually wrong.

  7. Robbie and The Fountainhead

    Robbie refuses to help the pregnant Penny, insults her and hands Baby The Fountainhead, prompting the hosts to mock his cruelty and Baby's attempt to intimidate him.

  8. Abortion and Bagel Shirts

    The crew abruptly realizes the money is for an abortion, then pivots into mocking a patterned shirt as Johnny begins teaching the inexperienced Baby to dance.

  9. The Gig and the Forest Road

    After sorting out that Johnny needs Baby ready for a crucial hotel dance gig, the hosts joke that her secluded training trip would be alarming with anyone except Patrick Swayze.

  10. The Lift Falls Apart

    Baby loses her nerve during the mambo performance and botches the lift, leading the room to narrate Johnny's imagined fury and compare the failure to Mikey winging a routine.

People mentioned

MikeyJayWoodsLaurenSiennaRebeccaPatrick SwayzeJerry OrbachBabyJohnny CastlePennyRobbie