π The Crew has spoken! Despicable Me & Minions won our latest Kids vs Parents Crew poll, and now it's time for a despicably fun trivia battle! Kids and parents put their Despicable Me movie knowledge to the test with questions about Gru, the mischievous Minions, memorable movie moments, hilarious villains, and fun facts from across the franchise. Who'll prove they're the ultimate Minion mastermind and take home the win? ππ
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Hosts: Steve Koch & Lovella Koch
Kids vs Parents is produced by Vandalpop Media
Producer: Steve Koch
Editors: Ever Cunningham, Steve Koch
Cover Design: Patrick Hardy
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00:00 - Welcome to Kids vs Parents
01:28 - Parents' Questions
06:31 - Kids' Questions
10:44 - Bonus / Tiebreaker
13:10 - Join the Kids vs Parents Crew
Quick Despicable Me question to start us off.
Steve:What food are the minions famously obsessed with?
Lovella:Ah, that's an easy one. Bananas!
Steve:You got it!
Steve:Welcome to Kids vs. Parents.
Lovella:The family trivia battle where the backseat takes on the front seat.
Lovella:I'm Lovella.
Steve:And I'm Steve.
Steve:Today is our Kids vs. Parents crew poll winning episode!
Steve:Yay!
Steve:What are we doing, Lovella?
Lovella:And we're doing Despicable Me and Minions trivia.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:It was our clear winner from our crew poll.
Lovella:Yes, we had the options of Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Star Wars, and Despicable Me and Minions.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:And thank you to Zoe from Melbourne who suggested Despicable Me.
Steve:It was a clear favorite amongst our crew.
Steve:So yeah, we're going to do a whole episode today on Despicable Me and Minions franchise.
Lovella:Yay!
Steve:Are you excited?
Steve:Yes.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Me too.
Steve:I know a little bit about Minions and Despicable Me,
Steve:so I feel like I'm going to be fairly competitive today.
Lovella:We'll see about that.
Steve:All right.
Steve:So what is the prize today, Lovella?
Lovella:Well, it's actually a punishment to the loser today.
Lovella:And the loser becomes the winner's personal minion
Lovella:and has to complete three small tasks for them.
Steve:Oh, fun.
Steve:I've already got a few things in mind for you.
Lovella:I'm going to think of them.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:You're going to think of something for me to do?
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Well, who's going to go first today?
Lovella:The parents, I think.
Steve:You want to send me in first?
Lovella:Yes, go.
Steve:Ah, all right.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:Parents, Despicable Me, Minions questions for you.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Question number one.
Lovella:What is the name of the one-eyed minion who loves guitars?
Steve:Oh, man.
Lovella:There's like a couple main minions.
Steve:Okay, yeah.
Steve:It's Bob and Stuart.
Steve:I don't think I know any other ones.
Lovella:Well, then it's between Bob and Stuart for you.
Steve:There is a third one though, right?
Steve:There's a third main minion.
Steve:There's those three minions.
Steve:Which one?
Steve:What was the question?
Steve:Which one is the one that?
Lovella:The question was, what was the name of the one-eyed minion who loves guitars?
Steve:The one-eyed minion.
Steve:Some of them have two eyes.
Lovella:Some of them have won.
Steve:That's true.
Steve:That's true.
Steve:I'm going to take a guess at Bob.
Lovella:You're incorrect.
Lovella:It was Stuart.
Lovella:Ah.
Lovella:Mm-hmm.
Steve:Bummer.
Lovella:Yeah, because Stuart, I think Stuart's the taller one with one eye,
Lovella:and then Bob's the one who's like smaller with two eyes.
Steve:Oh, okay.
Lovella:I'm pretty sure.
Lovella:I really don't know who's who.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:But anyways, next question.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:Question number two.
Lovella:Which former Saturday Night Live star voices the character Lucy Wilde?
Steve:um which former saturday night live star voice is the who's lucy wild she comes in the
Steve:second movie yeah she grews wife she's grews wife yes okay she's grews wife
Steve:So Steve Carell is the voice of Gru.
Steve:Who is the voice?
Steve:Who is his wife?
Steve:It's former SNL cast.
Steve:Was Melissa McCarthy?
Steve:No.
Steve:Kristen Wiig?
Steve:Is it Amy Poehler?
Steve:No, she's Joy.
Lovella:I didn't realize that they were all a part of Saturday Night Live,
Lovella:like actual cast members.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Tina Fey could be another option.
Steve:Could it be Tina Fey?
Steve:Kristen Wiig or Tina Fey?
Steve:I feel like it's one of those two.
Steve:I'm going to go with Kristen Wiig.
Lovella:You're correct.
Steve:Oh, really?
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Nice.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Awesome.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Are you ready?
Steve:Yes.
Steve:I'm glad I'm on the board.
Steve:Yes.
Lovella:Question number three.
Lovella:What are the names of Gru's three adopted daughters?
Steve:Oh, Agnes is one.
Steve:I don't really know the other ones.
Steve:Agnes, Chloe, and...
Steve:Chloe.
Steve:Martha.
Steve:Chloe and Martha.
Lovella:All right.
Steve:Agnes, I'm right.
Lovella:Agnes is correct.
Lovella:Chloe is not.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:What was the last one you said?
Steve:Martha.
Lovella:You were kind of close.
Lovella:It was Margot.
Lovella:Margot?
Lovella:Oh, really?
Lovella:Margot.
Steve:Oh, that's what I meant.
Steve:You misheard me.
Steve:I said Margot.
Steve:Oh, yeah, sure, buddy.
Steve:I said Margot.
Lovella:No, no changing.
Steve:Roll the tape.
Steve:Roll back.
Steve:I'm pretty sure I said Margot.
Lovella:All right, whatever.
Lovella:You said Meredith or something.
Steve:Martha.
Lovella:You said Martha, Chloe, and Agnes.
Lovella:The correct answers were Agnes, Edith, and Margot.
Steve:Agnes, Edith, and Margot.
Lovella:Can you tell me who's oldest and who's the youngest?
Steve:Agnes is the youngest.
Lovella:Who's the middle and who's the oldest?
Steve:Oh, that's easy.
Steve:It's, what was the, Margot is the oldest.
Steve:And what's the other ones in the middle?
Lovella:Edith.
Steve:Edith is in the middle.
Steve:That's correct.
Lovella:You still don't get the point though.
Steve:Oh, don't I?
Steve:No.
Steve:You run a tight ship.
Lovella:Alrighty.
Lovella:Last question.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:What language do the minions speak?
Steve:what length they don't speak any language they just mumble one of their length it's a language
Steve:minion these minionese you're correct really yeah it's minionese that's their official
Steve:language. That's their official language. In your knees. Yay. Well, I guessed that one.
Lovella:Yeah. Good. I needed to get on the board. So you got two out of four, I believe.
Steve:Yes, I got two out of four. You did. You did. I'm kind of relatively happy with that. I think I
Lovella:prefer three. Well, boohoo. Cry about it. I'm not going to cry about it. I'm going to move on and
Steve:I'm going to ask you some really hard questions so you only get one. All right, buddy. Let's go.
Steve:All right, kids. You're up next. Okay, kids. Minions. Despicable Me questions for you. Here
Steve:Question number one.
Steve:What does Gru plan to steal in the first Despicable Me movie?
Lovella:Minions, tonight we steal the moon!
Lovella:The moon, if that wasn't obvious.
Steve:I like you giving me the context of the line.
Steve:That's great.
Steve:Thank you.
Lovella:It's so popular.
Steve:You are correct.
Lovella:There's so many trends on that one.
Steve:You are correct.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:Steal the moon.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:On the board.
Steve:Question number two.
Steve:What is Gru's full first name?
Lovella:Grudini.
Steve:Grudini?
Lovella:I have no idea.
Steve:His full first name.
Lovella:Full first name?
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:Gru Gru.
Steve:Gru Gru?
Lovella:I don't know.
Lovella:I really don't know.
Steve:You don't know that one?
Steve:Oh, good.
Steve:I got you.
Steve:I stumped you.
Lovella:I haven't really watched any of the Minions movies.
Lovella:And I've only watched the Despicable Me movies like once or twice.
Lovella:So.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Well, you are incorrect.
Lovella:What's his full first name?
Steve:His full first name is Felonious.
Lovella:That's so terrible.
Steve:Felonious Gru is his name.
Lovella:Oh, man.
Lovella:That's so bad.
Lovella:I feel bad for anyone with a type of name like that.
Steve:Hey, anybody who, if you're a Felonious and you listen to the show, I feel for you.
Lovella:We love you.
Steve:We still love you, even though Lovella doesn't think your name is very good.
Lovella:I just feel bad.
Lovella:That's all.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Let's move on to question number three before we offend more of our Felonious listeners.
Lovella:Sorry, listeners.
Lovella:We still love you.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Question number three.
Steve:What colour do the minions turn after being transformed into evil minions?
Lovella:Purple.
Steve:Yeah?
Lovella:Yeah, they've got the purple with crazy hair, I think.
Steve:Yeah?
Lovella:They're purple.
Steve:You are correct.
Steve:They turn purple when they turn evil.
Lovella:I think that's, yeah, that's in the fourth one.
Lovella:No, that's not, wait, I have no idea.
Lovella:Never mind.
Lovella:I don't know about the movie.
Lovella:I just know the 10 purple.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Final question.
Steve:What does Gru use to shrink the moon?
Steve:What does Gru use to shrink the moon?
Lovella:It's shrink something.
Lovella:Shrink stick.
Steve:A shrink stick?
Lovella:Shrink stick.
Lovella:No, it's like cool.
Steve:That's a cooler name than shrink stick?
Lovella:It's something shrink or shrink something.
Lovella:Wait, is it the shrinker?
Steve:What does it look like?
Steve:Describe what it, do you know what it looks like?
Steve:Does he hold it in his hand?
Steve:Or is it a giant thing that is attached to a building?
Lovella:No, I think it's Shrink Ray or The Shrinker, something like that.
Steve:You have to pick one of those.
Steve:Is it The Shrinkinator 2000?
Lovella:What?
Lovella:I'm just going to say Shrink Ray because that's the coolest thing I can come up with.
Steve:You are correct.
Lovella:Really?
Steve:The Shrink Ray.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:The Shrink Ray.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:I don't think he has a cool name for it, like The Shrink Ray 2000 or The Shrinkinator.
Lovella:Dad, those are old people.
Steve:They are way cool names.
Lovella:No, that's old people names.
Steve:What about The Skibbity Shrink Ray?
Lovella:Oh, let's not.
Lovella:Let's not go back to those dark days.
Steve:Okay, we're going to stay away from that.
Lovella:Oh, yeah.
Steve:All right, we're moving on.
Steve:All right, well done, Lovella.
Steve:You got three out of four.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:It was just felonious that you didn't know.
Steve:All right.
Steve:All right, let's move on to our bonus or tiebreaker round.
Steve:The bonus tiebreaker question is worth two points.
Steve:First person to buzz in gets the opportunity to answer if they get it right.
Steve:Two points of theirs.
Steve:If they get it wrong, two points go to the other team.
Lovella:All right.
Steve:Which means I would win if I win this.
Lovella:And if I won, you'd just be in the dust.
Steve:I'd be an even bigger loser.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:But I'm not a loser.
Steve:Not yet anyway.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Tiebreaker question.
Steve:Lovella, go ahead and read out the tiebreaker question for us.
Steve:Here we go, everyone.
Steve:We don't know the answer to this.
Steve:Neither of us know the answer.
Lovella:Bonus tiebreaker question.
Lovella:How old is Gru in The Minions, The Rise of Gru?
Lovella:Buzz.
Steve:Oh, I don't know.
Lovella:Okay I don't think I've actually fully watched this movie
Lovella:But I know he's not like an adult
Lovella:I know he's a kid
Steve:Okay
Lovella:I'm gonna guess 10
Steve:Okay
Lovella:I'm gonna say
Lovella:I'm gonna say a 10
Lovella:I'm gonna say 10
Steve:You're gonna say 10?
Steve:The 10 year old?
Lovella:I believe he's in that like either tween teenage
Steve:Okay
Steve:Is it said in the movie?
Steve:It must be said somewhere in the movie
Lovella:Probably
Lovella:Most likely
Steve:Okay well I'm not willing to guess
Lovella:I'm just gonna guess 10
Steve:You're gonna risk it?
Steve:Because I get the two points if you get it wrong.
Steve:Which I'm happy to take.
Steve:I'm going to guess 10.
Lovella:All right.
Steve:All right.
Lovella:I'm scrolling down.
Steve:Scroll down and tell me the answer.
Lovella:11.
Lovella:Oh.
Lovella:Oh, my gosh.
Lovella:I said it was like 10 or 11.
Steve:You did say 11.
Steve:You said 10 or 11.
Lovella:I should have done 11.
Steve:That means parents win.
Steve:I do fall.
Steve:I do.
Steve:Take the win.
Steve:Two points of mine because you buzzed in too early and thought you knew everything about the minions,
Steve:but you don't know everything about the minions.
Lovella:I'm confident.
Lovella:You were too shy and scared.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:I appreciate you going in and having a go.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:I win though.
Steve:Parents win.
Steve:Yeah, yeah.
Steve:How did you do in your car?
Steve:I hope the kids, I hope you did better than the parents did.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:Oh.
Steve:Thanks for planning.
Steve:Oh, wait.
Lovella:That means I'm your minion now.
Steve:That does.
Lovella:What do you have set up for me?
Steve:The first thing I'm going to do is make you fold all of my clothes,
Steve:all of my laundry.
Steve:You're going to have to fold all of it.
Steve:And I mean all of it.
Steve:Socks and undies and T-shirts and all that stuff.
Lovella:Bye-bye, bye-bye.
Lovella:That is Minionese for no thanks.
Steve:And you don't get any bananas while doing it.
Steve:Bye-bye.
Steve:Well, thank you for playing Minions Despicable Me trivia today.
Steve:Every month we put out a poll for crew members
Steve:that choose the next episode that we do.
Steve:So if you would like to have a say on the next episode we do.
Lovella:Join the free crew by tapping the link in the show notes
Lovella:or head over to playkidsworthparents.com.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:Our next poll will be coming next month.
Steve:So make sure you sign up right now
Steve:before you forget and you miss the opportunity.
Steve:Yes, please.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:I'm going to put another four options of episodes to do
Steve:and you'll get to vote.
Steve:So thanks for playing today.
Steve:Thanks to Zoe again for suggesting.
Lovella:This was so fun.
Lovella:Hope you had a great time.
Steve:And thanks for all the crew for voting.
Steve:See you next time.
Steve:Bye.
Lovella:Bye.
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