If you know the Monty Python “Summarize Proust” sketch, and you remember who won that contest, you know the two reasons for this analogy.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 118: “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”
Who was better at defusing bombs? Jack Palance in post-war Berlin or Bill O’Brien at post-Sandusky Penn State?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 117: “Ten Seconds To Hell”
Glenn Ford’s “Ben Wade” is trying to stay out of prison. So, what does he have in common with a Cuban pitcher?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 116: “3:10 to Yuma”
A “romantic comedy” disguised as a “war movie,” but it’s really about two of my school teachers.… Read More Story Time With J-Dub: Episode 6 – “Father Goose”
A movie featuring Communists filmed in a country run by a Fascist. What could possibly go wrong?… Read More Classic Movies My Wife Hates – Episode 5: “Doctor Zhivago”
Yet another connection between Van Johnson and the National Football League.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 115: “Battleground”
You might be cool, but you’ll never be “Got an entire sport created because of your movie career” cool.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 114: “A Guy Named Joe”
Just in time for the Summer Games, a tale of the Olympics, screwing, and Olympic screwing.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 113: “Personal Best”
A tale of two separate 1970s summer events which forever link TV star Martin Milner and Olympic pole-vaulter Bob Seagren.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 112: “ADAM-12 – Camp”
The obscure dreams of legendary film maker Akira Kurosawa and a deranged sports blogger somehow involve an even more obscure Ron Gant reference.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 111: “Dreams”
There’s only one other entity on Earth as popular and as shitty as this movie….McBarf.… Read More Movies Everybody Loves That I Hate – Episode 11: “The Sound of Music”
From what unknown entity does MLB umpire Joe “Major Kong” West get take his marching orders?… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 110: “Dr. Strangelove”
The hysteria that gripped the West coast in 1941 happens nearly every year to football fans in places like Dallas and Minnesota.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 109: “1941”
What’s the difference between a “fairy tale” and a “myth?” Too many people believe myths.… Read More Movies Everybody Loves That I Hate – Episode 10: “The Jackie Robinson Story”
Dubsism is the only place which can show you the connection between Doris Day and the Soviet Union’s National Hockey Team. … Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 107: “The Man Who Knew Too Much”
Only Dubsism can show you the thread binding Victorian England to Sealy, Texas in the late 1970s.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 106: “Great Expectations”
Instead of the “Old West” of the 19th Century, imagine a 21st Century Gregory Peck riding in to Fenway Park to gun down the Boston Red Sox.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 103: “The Bravados”
Most popular depictions of Frankenstein’s monster show him as a shade of green. But how close were we to Andre the Giant as “Redskin-stein?”… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 102: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Politicians, lawyers, and used car salesman have nothing on the sleaziness of college football recruiters.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 101: “Johnny Be Good”
O Romeo, Romeo…Wherefore art thou, Romeo? Well, he’s certainly not playing for the Minnesota Timberwolves anymore.… Read More Sports Analogies Hidden In Classic Movies – Volume 100: “Romeo and Juliet”
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