EP. 580: Air Bud Never Dunked

• 🐾 The Great Air Bud Lie: Did he actually dunk? Spoiler: No.

• 🎬 Ed Explains a Movie: Ed gives a play-by-play recap of Air Bud, complete with dog courtrooms, clown breakdowns, inexplicable basketball tryouts, and a subplot involving a clown dying of AIDS (??).

• 💩 Brian’s Colonoscopy Countdown: Brian bravely preps for his colonoscopy on-air while debating whether it’s safe to drink the laxative during the episode.

• 🎺 Trombone Trauma: Why being forced into band instead of basketball is child abuse.

• 🐶 Pet Hygiene Crimes: Giving a dog a bubble bath and then brushing its teeth with your mom’s toothbrush.

• 🧼 Mr. Noodle's Dark Arc: From Elmo's World to murderous birthday clown with a vendetta.

• 🏀 Basketball Realism Breakdown: Why middle school hoops has never, ever worked like this—coach firings, dog mascots scoring points, and the dreaded invisible ball practice.

• 🧒 Movie Tropes Ripped Apart: Dead test pilot dads, janitors who used to be Knicks players, and the magical law of “let the dog choose.”

• 🎖️ Lakers Talk: The Dodgers’ billionaire ownership takes over the Lakers, and Brian is ready to declare the LeBron era over.

• 🧢 Fashion Disasters: Eric Christmas and 1990s clownwear.

• 📺 Mandela Effect: Why you swear you saw Air Bud dunk, and why it never happened.

• “He dunked on the poster. I saw him dunk.”

• “Golden Retrievers shed like a son of a bitch.”

• “There’s no rule a dog can’t play basketball—but there’s no rule against bayoneting someone either.”

• “The Lakers are back—Rob Pelinka and his leather jacket are not.”

• “He scored two points. The whole movie. And they made a franchise.”

• R-rated MST3K for 90s kids movies

• Comedy meets sports nostalgia

• A grown man's colonoscopy journey

• Dogs, clowns, and basketball (in that order)

• Shitting jokes and solid satire

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