Waffling Taylors Goes To The Movies
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Mo (who was on the show very recently in the episode You Want Tangents?! We’ll Give You Tangents with Mo) joined Squidge to talk about the ultimate fighting game movie… game… movie: Street Fighter.
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Content Warning
This episode contains spoilers and swears. But it also contains some seriously bonkers tangents and silliness. You have been politely informed. There are also topics which might not be suitable for the ears of the innocent. But nothing in this episode, or this podcast as a whole, is to be taken serious.
Please listen responsibly.
Show Notes
As is now tradition, Squidge provided a short intro to the episode. Whilst both this episode and part 2 are “Goes to the Movies” episodes, they’re also WT Lite ones because of the way that Squidge ran it.
Squidge
Waffling Taylors Lite, the pocket-sized podcast that packs a gaming punch.
In this first serving of bite-sized banter with a side of game goodness, we catch up with Mo from The Squonk & The Hag Podcast to cover the 1995 live-action movie of Street Fighter: The Ultimate Battle.
We cover everything from Defeat by Typing Cookie, Arcade Stick Ham, and Cape with a P.
So without further ado, sit back, grab some snacks, and get ready for this episode entitled "Street Fighter: The Ultimate Battle Championship X Ultra Alpha Super Turbo Turkey Puncher Edition with Mo - Part One".
Take it away guys
Before they got started, Squidge wanted to give Mo a chance to talk about her podcast and introduce herself:
Mo
So I am one of the co-hosts from The Squonk and the Hag, which is a true crime and scary stories podcast. My co-host is my best friend who lives in another state, and this the podcast, kind of, turned into a reason for us to just have that mandated once a week meet up and record. We, you know, like I said, we’re on hiatus because I… when I transitioned to this job it was, you know, extra hours, getting up to speed, and then just like mental energy taken up.
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I am a complete nerd. I like to do crafts, I like to make stuff. The easiest way to put it is: if they sell it at a craft store I can probably… I’ve probably tried it. Right now I’ve been making a lot of friendship bracelets, and I have one that says, "Grabthar’s hammer" which is one of my favourites. And then I have another one, which actually ties into our episode today and it says, "it was Tuesday" and it is red and black beads for Bison’s costume.
Initial Thoughts
Keen eye’d (or ear’d?) listeners will note that Squidge had covered this movie with Jay and Z-Boi previously (and here’s a link to that episode). But that was a) in an older format and b) not with Mo.
Well I mean, honestly, this is going to be the better episode because I’m here
I mean, from what you’ve told me, you’re nuts about this film. So this is going to be nothing but pure gold.
This is one of those movies that Chris and I watch all the time. We’re chronic rewatchers.
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So Street Fighter, Galaxy Quest, the Pacific Rim movies. Like, you know, it’s usually something that’s, you know, action-y and light, you know… like movies like this they’re just so fun.
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But like, you watch something like Street Fighter and it’s just so outrageous and so silly. And like, we’ve talked about this a little bit on Discord and stuff, but Raul Julia’s cape work alone. And I could.., it’s just stunning. It’s just like, he had to work at it because the flair. So I don’t know if you’ve ever worn a cape and tried to do some of those flair moves. It’s not easy. It is not easy at all.
The Scenes We Want To Highlight
Being the gentleman host that he is Squidge wanted Mo to go first with scene selection:
So the one that I lose it at, Chris and I just go, "what the actual f$ck?!" every time, is the stealth boat with the vhs player, where he watches this random scene with charlie and their wives, while other people are in the boat. And he’s just sitting there watching while driving a stealth boat. There is so much about what I just said.
First of all, why is Stealth Boat? Second of all, why is there a VHS installed? Third of all, does he just randomly carry this tape with him at all times? Fourth of all, one of the people in the boat, which I think it’s Kylie Minogue is one of them, thinking while he sits there and watches this tape and talks to it [and] tells Charlie he’s coming?
And… well, those are very good questions, really.
Honestly, first time I saw that scene I didn’t actually realise it was their their wives. I thought it was just William Guile—which just doesn’t suit him—and Blanka… I thought it was just them two on a date, harassing some women, and there was a creepy guy filming them. I didn’t realise they were married.
Squidge’s chosen scene is all about escalation, without actually going anywhere:
So Ryu and Ken have found out that the weapons that they’re trying to sell to Sagat are just toys, right. So they’re dragged into where where the electrified electrified bulletproof cage is, and Vega’s there.
And you’ve got the—and actually I found this out—so the music that’s playing, right. I’m so sorry for the pronunciation of this but it’s called Georges Bizet’s Habanera and it’s from the opera Cameron. That’s the music that goes on, and that’s what usually you get in, sort of like, YouTube videos where it’s meant to be, like, there’s explosions and stuff and they have explosions to go to the music that’s playing in the background. And that’s just adding to the cheese factor, right.
So Ryu’s been dragged into the main thing, his shirt’s been ripped off, right. And Vega’s there, and he’s doing stuff, he’s playing to the crowd, he’s a wrestler. He’s got his hand in the air, he’s all beautiful, he’s oiled up. You know, we don’t need to see oiled nipples but we see them.
Ryu gets his shirt ripped off him, as one would do in this situation. He’s handed a sword which looks like aluminium stretched over cardboard, and he’s flailing it randomly. It looks kind of impressive, right? It looks kind of impressive, and he throws it, and it misses Vega’s face, and it hits a wooden post, right. And he’s like, "what?!" And the crowd is starting to turn on Vega.
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So they’re gonna fight hand-to-hand. So to get the crowd back on on side with him, [Vega] just does a backflip. And, apparently, that works. So when in doubt, do a backflip and everyone will love you that’s what we’re taking from this scene.
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Next thing you know, the wall bursts. And General mother-f$cking Guile bursts through the shack door. And he’s in a tank that’s equipped with ballistic missiles and nothing else.
Yes! Yes! Every time, the missiles!
And I don’t know if you noticed when, so because they’re obviously props. So like when he goes to the wall they like bounce on the sides, because they’re lightweight. And not secure and they’re like, what, 12 foot long or something like that. Because they’re like the length of the tank, they’re just like bouncing around like pool floaties.
And then the the music’s starting to heighten, it’s going bam-bam! And then it stops.
And Guile flicks up from [under the tank’s] hood And he goes, "you’re all… … … … … …under arrest," which is just brilliant.
And Mo’s next scene was… well, to say that it was a corker would be cheating. In Mo’s own words, “this movie is so fun,” which proves that all the scenes in this movie are corkers.
I’m going to talk about when Chun-Li breaks into the complex and she goes down to the morgue. And Guile is still there. Why? Why is he laying on a gurney covered with a sheet?
Like, he faked his death. Okay, cool. Understood. Then he laid on a gurney for hours in the morgue, covered by a sheet, laying completely still with no one else around.
That’s dedication for you. It’s almost like Guile’s, an actor, right? A method actor. "I’m dead.&quopt; And just lays there.
And then she breaks in, and he’s laying there motionless. And then she pulls the sheet back. And it’s like, if you thought someone was going to break in, put, like, a decoy there. Like, either an actual corpse or, like, a ballistics gel dummy, or a crash test dummy, anything. Make some pillows look like a person.
And then when she breaks in step out from like behind a door, or a shelf, or something, and then talk to her; and be like, "hey gotcha." Don’t lay in a morgue like a weirdo. Like what is wrong with you?
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Music
Links to the music used in the podcast can be found below. Definitely check them out, because they're amazing tracks by awesome musicians.
- Intro music is Massive Scratch - Eight Bit/Chiptune
- Spoiler Break music is Spectrum (Subdiffusion Mix) by Foniqz (BandCamp)
- Pallet Cleanser music is Breath Deep Breath Clear (Wu Chi) by Siobhan Dakay
- Chilling by HoobeZa
- Lounge by HoobeZa
- Carefree by HoobeZa
- Bloom by HoobeZa
- Mellow by HoobeZa
- Killer instinct ALL announcer voice clips
- Outro Music is Massive Scratch - Eight Bit/Chiptune