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 PTG Episode 42: Remembering John Hughes ... and G.I. JOE [57:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (34)

PTG Episode 42 is brought to you by every G.I. JOE episode ever made. They’re all now in one big collector set by Shout!, available over at http://www.gijoecollectorsset.com/. Watching any portion of this really is great preparation to watch the new film, G.I. JOE: Rise of Cobra, because the film really IS just a live version of the cartoon, for better or worse. Not sure what that means? It’s all in the podcast.

Also in this episode, Gary Holmes from Just Push Play takes a quick break from his adventures in beer over at Willow Tree to call in and talk more about AFO X and Swords of Orlandia 3, which he helped write as well as reprising his role as Prince Hesperis (sp?). We also take time to remember and reflect upon the work of screenwriter/director John Hughes, whose works in the 1980s, including Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Weird Science, but also Ferris Bueller’s Day Off , National Lampoon’s Vacation, Home Alone, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Career Opportunities, and so many more, are considered by many to be genre classics and the finest, funniest films to come out of that decade. His most memorable works always seemed to be able to strike an emotional cord with just about everyone, because he often would start with stereotypes we all were all familiar with and them humanize them, turn them into 3-dimensional, real people with real problems that we could relate to. He had an amazing sense of humor and a true talent for writing comedy, but all that laughter was grounded in a sense of genuineness–though his lead characters might appear at first glance to be stereotypes, they are never caricatures unless he wished them to be. John Hughes, thank you for sharing your tremendous talent with us, and rest in peace.