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Trope on a Rope

Trope on a Rope

By: The Badger's Apprentice
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TROPE ON A ROPE is a weekly podcast where Jeff and his mate Colin, along with their guests discuss and dissect the common movie tropes that have come to define cinema.


From the high concept sci-fi mind-f**k that contorts ideas of reality and identity; the young and naive small-town musician who is thrown into the deep-end world of money, high fashion and fame; and the brooding anti-hero whose methods test the bounds of an audiences acceptance; to the grizzled cop that will work the case no matter what their superiors say; the time-loops that allow our protagonist years’ worth of personal growth in day; and those films where Liam Neeson just f**kin’ punches shit in the face.


We’ll look at them all, compare, contrast, and contemplate which are raised up the flag-pole for all to salute, and which are hoisted by their own petard.

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  • 30 - DON QUIXOTE (2018) - TERRY GILLIAM

    30 - DON QUIXOTE (2018) - TERRY GILLIAM
    Nov 28 2025

    Hi there adventurer, we round out our wanderings through the strange world of Terry Gilliam movies with his 2018 mulligan THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE. So join Jeff and Colin as one of them probably mispronounces the name of the main character, they both attempt ill-advised and borderline actionable Spanish accents, and get side tracked by the time Johnny Vaughan tricked a bunch of people into thinking they were going to space.


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    Title Music: "Black" by Christian Stoner

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    43 mins
  • 29 - DOCTOR PARNASSUS (2009) - TERRY GILLIAM

    29 - DOCTOR PARNASSUS (2009) - TERRY GILLIAM
    Oct 21 2025

    Hello, join us as we work our way through the turbulent waters of TERRY GILLIAM films, a man with unbounded imagination that often comes up against real world problems. In DR. PARNASSUS he (not for the first time) came up against the problem of his main character dying halfway through filming, so had to come up with some crafty solutions to navigate his way around it. Problem is that the film, as inventive as it is, has a real problem (not for the first time) with women and how old they are... its a bit crook.


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    Title Music: "Black" by Christian Stoner

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 28 - BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1988) - TERRY GILLIAM

    28 - BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1988) - TERRY GILLIAM
    Oct 8 2025

    Hey everybody!


    After a lengthy hiatus we are back, and will be so with new episodes every couple of weeks from now on. This time around we are looking at Terry Gilliam films, though at the time of recording we hadn't realised that yet, Instead we intended to do "The Adventure of..." films, but then accidentally chose two Terry Gilliam films (The Baron, and Dr. Parnassus), so abandoned that plan, swapped out The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Don Quixote, and treated ourselves to a Gilliam trilogy. So join us on our adventures, cuz things are about to get weird.


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    Title Music: "Black" by Christian Stoner

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    51 mins
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