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Gladiator V: Ersatz Arnie
Season 1, Ep. 43
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Alex and Kenny and of course, Liam, who has returned to a studio resembling the set of an episode of Frasier (except where Niles has been taken captive), go long into the 2000 epic Gladiator. Russell Crowe decides some tigers aren't ferocious enough, Ollie Reed makes a movie with Saddam Hussein (genuinely) and we ponder whether Derek Jacobi was in Dr Zhivago (he was not.) Our favourite announcer returns briefly, an epic fight ensues starring a Frenchman, played by a Dane with a German accent. Commodus behaves badly as per. We discuss family mottos, the origin of the phrase 'bread and circuses' and finish on a terrible joke about Highland Coos. Things get a little blue at times so be warned (wine was consumed with dinner).
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