Dave & Buster’s with Allan McLeod

"Dave & Buster's with Allan McLeod" is Episode 70 of *Doughboys*, hosted by Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger. "Dave & Buster's with Allan McLeod" was released on September 15, 2016.

## Synopsis

Actor and comedian Allan McLeod (*You're The Worst*, *Drunk History*), aka "Molasses Boy", talks with Mitch and Wiger about video arcade/eatery Dave & Buster's, discusses growing up in Alabama, and brings a portion-sized surprise. Plus, the debut of Dinner and a Movie.

## Nick's intro

In 1953, Michael Kogan, a Russian/Jewish businessman who had settled in Japan during the Second World War, founded Taito Trading Corporation. Like the many foreign industrialists then gravitating toward the island nation, Kogan aimed to capitalize on post-Imperial Japan's rapidly modernizing economy, and so he imported vending machines and jukeboxes, as well as his ancestral homeland's national spirit, vodka.

In 1969, a Tokyo engineering-school graduate named Tomohiro Nishikado joined the company - at first designing mechanical amusements and, later, after Nolan Bushnell's *Pong* initiated the video-game craze, arcade games. In 1978, following minor successes like *Speed Race* and *Western Gun*, Nishikado created Taito's killer app, *Space Invaders* - an enduring classic that launched the Golden Age of Video Arcades. In the 1980s, the dank cabinet-filled halls became omnipresent at shopping malls in Japan and North America.

In 1982, restaurant owner, David O. Corriveau, and arcade owner, James W. Corley, merged their businesses under one roof in Dallas, Texas, naming the eatery by combining their names, creating a grown-up version of Bushnell's Chuck E. Cheese's. The concept exploded in popularity during the 1990s by focusing on the alcohol-consuming adult market, just as more powerful home consoles from Nintendo, Sega, and Sony pulled the youth market away from arcade sticks and on to their living-room couches.

Now with over eighty locations in North America and over 500 million dollars in annual revenue, the original bar arcade continues to be a force in the chain-restaurant sector, and perhaps the only arcade that remains at all relevant.

This week on *Doughboys*: Dave & Buster's.

## Fork rating

* Forbidden Fruit South Of The Border Sangria
* Short Rib & Cheesy Mac Stack
* *The Real Ghostbusters*
* *Luigi's Mansion*
* *Mario Kart Arcade GP*
 Mike Mitchell
* Backwoods Blueberry Lemonade
* The Caveman Combo
* *Luigi's Mansion*
* *Mario Kart Arcade GP*
* a haunted house game
 Allan McLeod
* Maker's Mark Smokehouse BBQ Burger
* *The Real Ghostbusters*
 shared
* Boneless Buffalo Wings
* Pepperoni Pretzel Pull-Aparts

Jack Allison and Evan Susser went with them to Dave & Buster's; they both had Original Coronaritas. Susser had a Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad.

## Dinner and a Movie 🍽️🎥

In this new segment, the Doughboys have a picnic basket and are sneaking some food into a movie.

For this episode, the film was *Sully*, starring Tom Hanks; so the food choices are plane-related, *Sully*-related, or Hanks-related. And gnocchi, which Allan likes and had recently.

* Sunkist
* bag of pretzels
* bag of peanuts
* one mini-ear of corn
* silver sardines
* bowl of gnocchi
* sugar cookie

## Snack or Wack

In Snack or Wack, The Doughboys have a snack and decide if it is 'good' or 'bad.'

For this episode, Allan McLeod made The Doughboys some Portion Bread (Allan's old family recipe found here), and serves them one quarter portion.

Nick and Mitch enjoyed the bread and now The Force Awakens is Mitch's favorite movie.

 Mike Mitchell

## Toast Spoonman

I don't know if you were there since it was so long ago, but back in 2010, many of The Birthday Boys came to my shitty UCLA night-school sketch class and very politely answered questions like "So do you like comedy?" and "Who are you?"
If your willingness to engage with night-school dregs like me is any indication of your character, well I gotta say, I think that you're just the bee's knees. A big boy with a heart of gold, that's what you are. You'll never let anyone fuck your wife.

## Nick's *Heathcliff* rant

After ranting about Heathcliff in the prior episode, Nick was reminded about the Garbage Ape, a notorious Heathcliff character, by previous guest Sean O'Connor. Nick calls the Garbage Ape an "abomination."

Here are the three *Heathcliff* comics that Nick brings up in this episode.

## #hashtags

* #ToastMolassesBoy
* #TrueGrit vs. #NoCountryForOldGrits
* #HotYoda
* #ChampionChicky
* #NameThatNickName

## The Feedbag

 Allan McLeod

## Restaurants

 Dew Drop Inn
 Hominy Grill

## Plugs and Drops

 *South Park*John Williams "Harry Potter Theme" (I believe)
*Big Bang Theory*
 *Star Wars: The Force Awakens* | Allan makes portion bread!

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* DD47. The Force Awakens Commentary, Part 2
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