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Trope on a Rope

Trope on a Rope

By: The Badger's Apprentice
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Summary

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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Episodes
  • 32 - PANDORUM (2009) - ABANDONED SHIPS

    32 - PANDORUM (2009) - ABANDONED SHIPS
    Oct 30 2026

    We continue our exploration of abandoned ships with a flickering flashlight and a comm channel that keeps cutting in and out, because of course. Theres strange noises coming from down blow but there's no rational explination for it because we're in space, right. there's no one here. Thats the point. Anyway, join a nervous Jeff and a terrified Colin (honestly hes beside himself) as we try and flush out the lower decks, alone, with the only power cell, because theres some switch we have to push or whatever. But me and Colin are mates, we'll look after each other, and i will totally not trip him up and leave him to the mutant hoard the moment the opportunity presents itself.


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    Title Music: "Black" by Christian Stoner

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    57 mins
  • 31 - EVENT HORIZON (1997) - ABANDONED SHIPS

    31 - EVENT HORIZON (1997) - ABANDONED SHIPS
    Jan 10 2026

    Happy new year, and what better way to celebrate the boundless opportunity of the future than to look at a film where unchecked ambition and scientific endevour leads the crews of two ships straight into a blood orgy in hell itself. So join myself and colin as we wander the dark and for some reason very long corridors of the good ship Event Horizon, a film that everyone at the time kinda brushed aside, even though its f**kin' awsome.


    Libera te tutemet ex inferis, y'all!


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    Title Music: "Black" by Christian Stoner

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 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
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