Trivia With Budds

Is Plastic Man A Marvel Or DC Character?

·7 min
The episode opens with the question 'Is Plastic Man a Marvel or DC character?' Host Ryan Budds introduces the show and sponsor Crowdpurr, a trivia platform he uses for corporate events. He teases a triple connections puzzle involving bulb, ear, and spear to be solved later. The plastic trivia quiz begins with 11 questions covering pop culture, products, and history. Questions reference Mean Girls' Plastics, American Girl dolls, Solo's red cup, boba tea, Crocs' Jibbitz, John Travolta's 'Boy in the Plastic Bubble', Radiohead's 'Fake Plastic Trees', Sun Chips' compostable bags, G.I. Joe's Snake Eyes, Fox's The Swan, and Plastic Man. After a break, Budds provides answers, explaining Mean Girls was written by Tina Fey, Solo Cup introduced the red cup in the 1970s, and boba tea uses wide straws. He notes Jibbitz are Crocs accessories, Radiohead charted in 1995, and Sun Chips discontinued loud bags in 2010. Budds reveals Snake Eyes was made all black to save costs, The Swan aired in 2004, and Plastic Man is a DC character. He suggests Jim Carrey would be a good Plastic Man. The episode concludes with a fact about mountaineers getting sunburned mouths from snow reflection and the triple connections puzzle answer: bulb, ear, and spear refer to vegetable denominations like turnip bulbs, corn ears, and pickle spears.
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