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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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A quick
Lovella:Nightmare Before
Lovella:Christmas trivia question to start us off:
Lovella:What is the name of
Lovella:Jack's
Lovella:ghost
Lovella:dog?
Steve:Um,
Steve:Zero.
Lovella:Correct.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Welcome to Kids vs Parents, the family trivia battle where the back seat takes on the front seat.
Lovella:Today
Lovella:we're playing
Lovella:a Nightmare Before
Lovella:Christmas trivia.
Steve:That's right.
Lovella:Which was suggested
Lovella:by
Lovella:Hamvic27
Lovella:from
Lovella:Spotify.
Steve:Thank you
Steve:for suggesting.
Steve:Thank you.
Steve:If you want to suggest a topic, you can
Steve:go
Steve:to our show notes and
Steve:tap the link.
Steve:We'd love to hear
Steve:more
Steve:suggestions.
Lovella:Yes, we love getting suggestions.
Steve:This is we're
Steve:wrapping up our spooky season today, aren't we,
Steve:Lovella?
Steve:That's right.
Steve:We
Steve:we're all done.
Steve:Halloween's over.
Steve:Trick or treats done.
Steve:We're all full of candy.
Lovella:The
Lovella:holidays are next.
Steve:We are
Steve:slowly.
Lovella:Well, actually, my birthday's next.
Lovella:So,
Steve:well,
Steve:not many other families
Steve:celebrate that.
Lovella:They should.
Lovella:It should be a
Lovella:national
Lovella:holiday.
Steve:Should it?
Lovella:It should.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:I'll write to
Steve:the president and see if he can
Steve:do that for
Steve:you.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Um,
Steve:but
Steve:we are closing it off, and we thought we'd close
Steve:Halloween off with a great
Steve:episode that is kind of Halloween and
Steve:kind of leading into Christmas as well.
Steve:So,
Steve:a nightmare before Christmas.
Steve:We thought was a very
Steve:appropriate
Lovella:yes
Steve:episode
Steve:to uh to end with yeah.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:So, Dad, what's the prize today?
Steve:Okay.
Steve:So the prize for our
Steve:episode today—it's actually a
Steve:punishment for the
Steve:loser.
Steve:So the
Steve:loser
Steve:has to refer to the winner
Steve:as
Steve:the Pumpkin King
Steve:or Queen for the rest of the day.
Lovella:Oh,
Lovella:geez.
Steve:So every time they refer to them, they have to be like, "Yes, Pumpkin King," or "Yes,
Steve:Pumpkin Queen." You are the greatest Pumpkin King.
Steve:You are the best
Steve:Dad, Pumpkin King.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Let's not aim these
Lovella:at you.
Lovella:All right.
Steve:Well, who's going to go first then?
Lovella:I think the kids.
Steve:Yes, let's send the kids in first.
Lovella:Yeah,
Lovella:me.
Steve:I love that.
Steve:Let's go.
Steve:All right, kids, you're up first for
Steve:our Nightmare Before
Steve:Christmas
Steve:trivia.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:Question
Steve:number
Steve:one: What
Steve:color
Steve:is
Steve:Sally's
Steve:hair?
Steve:All right.
Steve:So, do you know who Sally is?
Lovella:Yes.
Lovella:For a second, I was blanking.
Lovella:I was like, "Wait, who's Sally?" And I thought of the car
Lovella:from
Lovella:Cars.
Steve:Sally.
Steve:You did look at me a bit strange.
Steve:That's why I was like, "Do we know what's going on here?" Yes.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:Sally is the
Lovella:is
Lovella:Jack's love
Lovella:interest.
Steve:Yes.
Lovella:Um,
Lovella:her hair
Lovella:is,
Lovella:I believe, it's red.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:Like a redy
Lovella:orange, but I'm gonna
Lovella:like
Lovella:go with
Lovella:red.
Steve:You are
Steve:correct.
Lovella:It is red.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:Nice work.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:One
Steve:on the board.
Lovella:Yay.
Steve:Question
Steve:number two.
Steve:What
Steve:are the names of
Steve:the three
Steve:mischievous children
Steve:who work
Steve:for Oogie
Steve:Boogie?
Steve:It's been a while since you've seen this movie, isn't it?
Steve:Probably two years
Steve:ago.
Steve:Did we watch it last year?
Lovella:I don't know.
Lovella:I think we did,
Lovella:but I haven't
Lovella:watched it in a while.
Steve:What are the three
Steve:names of the mischievous children who work for Oogie
Steve:Boogie?
Steve:This is a bit of a tricky one.
Lovella:All right,
Lovella:Bob.
Steve:We always go to Bob
Steve:when you don't know the answer.
Lovella:Because Bob,
Lovella:it's
Lovella:just Bob.
Steve:One day we're gonna get this.
Steve:One day you're gonna get that right if you just keep going with Bob every time.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:Two more.
Lovella:Willy
Lovella:Wonka
Lovella:and Bob.
Steve:Willy Wonka
Steve:and.
Steve:Waldo, Waldo.
Lovella:That's
Lovella:my guess.
Lovella:You
Steve:are of course
Steve:incorrect.
Steve:I have
Steve:no idea.
Steve:You are way, way, way off.
Lovella:I know
Steve:the answer
Steve:is
Steve:lock,
Steve:shock, and
Steve:barrel.
Steve:Oh, lock, shock, and barrel.
Lovella:Well, I got Bob, which is like barrel.
Lovella:So I know it
Steve:starts with the same letter.
Steve:That's as close as you were
Steve:with any of them.
Lovella:Tisk
Lovella:tisk
Lovella:tisk.
Steve:Unlucky.
Steve:No, no,
Steve:no, no, no, no.
Lovella:Okay, just
Lovella:let's
Lovella:move on.
Lovella:Let's
Lovella:forget about Bob, Willie, and Waldo.
Steve:We'll move on to question
Steve:three.
Steve:Okay,
Steve:question
Steve:number three.
Steve:What
Steve:is the name of the song Jack
Steve:sings when he first
Steve:discovers
Steve:Christmas Town?
Steve:All right.
Steve:What is the name of the song he sings?
Lovella:I
Lovella:I think it's
Lovella:what's
Lovella:this.
Lovella:What's this?
Lovella:What's this?
Lovella:There's
Lovella:something
Lovella:in the air.
Lovella:What's this?
Lovella:Hey, hey!
Steve:Don't sing too much.
Steve:We have to pay royalties.
Lovella:Whatever.
Steve:We don't have the budget for that.
Lovella:But yes,
Lovella:it's
Lovella:what's this?
Steve:That is your
Steve:answer.
Lovella:Yes, that is
Lovella:correct.
Steve:What's this?
Steve:Well
Steve:done.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Question
Steve:number
Steve:four.
Steve:What does
Steve:Oogie
Steve:Boogie
Steve:use
Steve:to decide what
Steve:happens to his
Steve:prisoners?
Steve:Okay,
Steve:so he
Steve:uses something that helps him
Steve:decide
Steve:what
Lovella:I think it's.
Lovella:I'm gonna
Lovella:guess
Lovella:and say it's one of those like
Lovella:spin the wheel things.
Steve:Ah, why do you say that?
Lovella:I don't know because
Lovella:I feel like I remember
Lovella:something
Lovella:about when he has like his song and stuff
Lovella:or
Lovella:whatever.
Lovella:There's
Lovella:something
Lovella:about
Lovella:like spin
Lovella:the wheel kind of thing.
Lovella:I don't know.
Lovella:I'm just guessing a spin the wheel.
Lovella:So
Steve:a
Lovella:spinning a spinning wheel, a spinning wheel that decides their fate.
Steve:You
Steve:are
Steve:incorrect.
Lovella:Oh,
Steve:you it was a good guess.
Steve:That was a good guess.
Steve:I know.
Steve:It
Steve:is
Steve:dice
Steve:or die.
Lovella:Oh yeah!
Steve:He rolls
Steve:dice.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:Yeah, I
Lovella:remember that now.
Steve:Remember that now.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:That ends your round, Lovella.
Steve:You got
Steve:three.
Steve:Is that right?
Steve:You didn't get lock, shock, and barrel.
Steve:Two, and you didn't get dice.
Steve:Yes, you got two.
Lovella:I got
Lovella:two
Lovella:out of four.
Steve:You got two out of four.
Steve:That's
Steve:pretty good.
Lovella:That's
Lovella:okay.
Steve:You happy with that?
Lovella:Satisfied.
Steve:You satisfied?
Steve:Okay.
Steve:I
Steve:am up next.
Steve:Parents, you're up next for a nightmare before
Steve:Christmas
Steve:trivia.
Lovella:Alrighty, here we go.
Lovella:Question
Lovella:number one:
Lovella:Who created and produced
Lovella:the Nightmare Before
Lovella:Christmas?
Steve:Okay, that is
Steve:Tim Burton.
Steve:He is
Steve:the king of all those like
Steve:creepy, weird movies.
Steve:He did
Steve:Edward Scissorhands.
Steve:He did,
Steve:yeah, some other ones I've got off the top of my head.
Lovella:That is
Lovella:correct.
Steve:Yay!
Steve:Nice.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Question number two.
Lovella:Here we go.
Lovella:What is Zero's nose
Lovella:shaped like?
Steve:What is his
Steve:nose shaped like?
Steve:What is it shaped
Steve:like?
Lovella:Um, yeah, kind of like like
Lovella:circle, triangle, kind of stuff like that.
Steve:I think it's a pointy nose.
Steve:I think he has a pointy nose,
Steve:or is it?
Lovella:Is that your answer?
Steve:No, it's not my answer.
Steve:Hang on, let me just think for a second.
Steve:Or does he have a red
Steve:shining nose like Rudolph?
Lovella:Rudolph
Lovella:the Red Nose Reindeer.
Steve:Um, no,
Steve:I don't think he has a
Steve:glowing nose.
Steve:I'm gonna say.
Steve:No,
Steve:maybe he does.
Steve:Why would you ask this question if it was
Steve:a normal pointy nose?
Steve:I'm gonna say it could
Lovella:be a normal pointy nose.
Steve:This seems like a strange
Steve:question.
Steve:It means that his nose is
Steve:kind of
Steve:a
Steve:distinguishable
Steve:feature.
Steve:I'm gonna say it's a a round red nose, like
Steve:Rudolph.
Steve:Yeah,
Lovella:you are
Lovella:incorrect.
Lovella:Is it?
Lovella:It is in the shape of a
Lovella:pumpkin.
Steve:Oh, is it?
Lovella:In the shape of a pumpkin.
Steve:Oh, it's a pumpkin shape.
Lovella:A glowing
Lovella:jack o' lantern.
Steve:Oh,
Steve:I didn't know that.
Lovella:Yes, it is a glowing jack o'
Lovella:lantern.
Steve:I
Steve:mean, I knew there was something.
Steve:I felt like there
Steve:was something
Steve:on the front of it.
Steve:But
Steve:yeah.
Steve:Okay, I didn't know it was a pumpkin.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Question
Lovella:number three.
Lovella:What kind of creature
Lovella:is Sally?
Steve:Okay,
Steve:she is
Steve:all stitched together,
Steve:right?
Steve:She's got all these stitches,
Steve:like she's been
Steve:sewn
Steve:together.
Steve:So I'm going to assume she is a doll,
Steve:a rag doll, a doll.
Lovella:You are
Lovella:correct.
Steve:That is my answer.
Lovella:She is a rag doll.
Steve:Yay!
Steve:All right.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:A rag doll.
Steve:Nice.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Is that my?
Steve:Was that my final question?
Steve:Have I got another?
Lovella:No, you got one more.
Steve:Oh, got one more.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:All right.
Steve:Nice.
Lovella:Last question.
Lovella:Here we go.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:In
Lovella:what year was the
Lovella:Nightmare Before
Lovella:Christmas
Lovella:released?
Steve:Oh man, I was waiting for multiple choice.
Steve:Non multiple choice?
Lovella:No,
Lovella:I'm
Lovella:leaving you on your own.
Steve:I got to figure it out.
Steve:Ah,
Steve:um,
Steve:boy, oh boy.
Steve:Ah, nightmare before
Steve:Christmas.
Steve:It's in the two
Steve:thousands.
Steve:Yeah, I don't know two
Steve:thousand
Steve:and
Steve:eight.
Steve:Two
Steve:thousand and eight
Steve:is my answer.
Lovella:You are.
Steve:How close am I?
Lovella:You are not close.
Steve:Really?
Lovella:It
Lovella:was
Lovella:the correct
Lovella:answer was
Lovella:nineteen
Lovella:ninety
Lovella:three.
Steve:Oh,
Steve:okay.
Steve:Wow.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:It was nineteen.
Steve:Wow.
Lovella:I thought two thousands as well.
Steve:Way off.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Way off.
Steve:All right.
Steve:So I got.
Steve:Did I only get one right?
Lovella:No, you got two.
Steve:I got two.
Lovella:You got two.
Steve:Oh, good.
Steve:Two, and you got two.
Steve:Yeah, I got three.
Steve:So that means we're on a tiebreaker.
Lovella:Ooh, that's hard.
Steve:All right, let's move to our tiebreaker round, or it's a bonus round if you're not on a tie in your car.
Steve:You can use this for a bonus question.
Lovella:All right.
Steve:It is worth
Steve:two points.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Okay.
Lovella:So first person to buzz in, get the correct answer, wins
Lovella:those
Lovella:two points.
Lovella:But if you buzz in and you get the incorrect answer, then
Lovella:those two points go to the other team.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:So they can
Steve:steal.
Steve:If they,
Steve:if they, if they just sit back quietly and let you get it wrong,
Lovella:that's usually what you try to do.
Lovella:That's what I
Lovella:never works.
Steve:That is sometimes my
Steve:my
Steve:strategy for sure.
Steve:All right, here we go.
Steve:Bonus
Steve:or tiebreaker
Steve:question:
Steve:What
Steve:is
Steve:hidden
Steve:inside
Steve:Oogie Boogie's
Steve:sack?
Steve:Buzz, Buzz.
Lovella:Think
Lovella:I know.
Steve:I know.
Lovella:It depends on.
Lovella:Wait, are we talking about?
Lovella:Okay, Oogie Boogie.
Lovella:Oogie Boogie sack.
Steve:Yes, Oogie Boogie sack.
Steve:What is inside it?
Lovella:As in what he carries, or what he literally
Lovella:is?
Steve:It gets
Steve:opened up at some point in the movie, and
Steve:everything comes out.
Steve:Okay, I know the answer.
Steve:I buzzed in first.
Steve:It's like
Steve:bugs.
Lovella:I was gonna say that's
Lovella:what's inside of him,
Lovella:though.
Lovella:I feel like that's what's inside of him.
Steve:Okay, let me scroll down and see what the
Steve:answer
Steve:is.
Steve:The answer
Steve:is
Steve:bugs and
Steve:insects.
Steve:Yes.
Lovella:Good job.
Steve:That means
Steve:I
Steve:win.
Steve:I beat you by one point.
Steve:Parents win.
Lovella:Congratulations.
Steve:Thank you so much.
Steve:I am glad we finished the spooky season with a win.
Lovella:Yes.
Lovella:All right.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Well, that wraps up our spooky season on Kids vs Parents.
Steve:We hope
Steve:you've had as much fun playing
Steve:these spooky
Steve:battles
Steve:as we've had making them.
Lovella:And hopefully, we didn't
Lovella:scare the parents too much with how
Lovella:smart we are as kids.
Steve:Oh yeah, you didn't scare me.
Lovella:Oh,
Lovella:I knew.
Steve:You sure
Lovella:about
Lovella:that?
Steve:I knew
Steve:how smart you were.
Steve:You're a smart kid.
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Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:So
Lovella:thanks for playing along
Lovella:with us
Lovella:this
Lovella:spooky
Lovella:season.
Steve:We'll see you
Steve:for
Steve:another battle soon.
Lovella:Bye.
Steve:Bye.
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