Episode 300: KILLER BEAN FOREVER (2008)

Trylove

KILLER BEAN FOREVER is an independently created animated feature about Killer Bean, a vigilante anthropomorphized coffee bean with a chip on his shoulder and a bitter rivalry with the troublesome gangs of Beantown. Claiming inspiration from classic action cinema, particularly the work of gun fu genre pioneer John Woo, the idiosyncratic KILLER BEAN FOREVER became a cult hit some 10 years after its original release, racking up dozens of millions of YouTube views.

As we embark on another 100 episodes, we decided to take an episode to cover a movie that we’re fairly completely certain will never play at the Trylon Cinema (at least, not officially). In this episode, we also touch on our recent experience at the 2024 Trylon Horrorthon, discuss how seriously we should take the effort of KILLER BEAN series creator/director/writer/animator Jeff Lew, and even do a bit of soul-searching about the very nature and purpose of Trylove, a Movie Podcast.

Long live Trylove.

**References: **

• Watch KILLER BEAN FOREVER on YouTube
• Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/
• Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/
• Donate to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund to help them show more film

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Podcast art by Emily Csuy. Intro theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Dance Party" by Justin R. Durban and Jeff Lew from the KILLER BEAN FOREVER soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 300: KILLER BEAN FOREVER (2008)

4:32 - Cheers to 300 episodes

11:46 - HORRORTHON VIII: DRINK THE BLOOD OF HORRORTHON

27:34 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

35:42 - A passion project and honing 30 years of craft for one purpose

50:21 - Genuineness, irony, and the trash/camp line

58:40 - Our favorite bits, idiosyncrasies, and details

1:06:26 - What drove the 299 episodes before this

1:10:27 - Creating a sense of place

1:20:08 - The Junk Drawer

1:26:33 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2008

1:27:29 - Cody’s Noteys: Killer 3ean (trivia on movies we watched by Discord stream)