Show Notes: S05, E01 - Am I in a Transactional Relationship?

 

Agony Art is back for series 5, and this week we're talking tattoos with Memento and Moana, fixing relationships with Destiny's Child, and playing Christmas jingles even though Christmas is already over.

Here's all the art we recommended.

(Art we only mentioned in passing, and never intended as a problem-solving recommendation, is in italics.)

Underlined items are this week's top picks from each of our presenters. If you're only going to try one of the pieces of art we mentioned, try these ones first.

Books

• Ugly Love - Colleen Hoover
• About a Boy - Nick Hornsby
• The Expectant Dad’s Survival Guide - Rob Kemp
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
• Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

Films / TV

• Master and Commander
• Yvonne of the Yukon
• Memento
• The Matrix
• Prison Break
• Moana
• The Traitors
• Friends with Benefits
• Against All Odds
• Tarzan
• 3 Men and a Baby
• About a Boy
• The Simpsons
• Pretty Woman
• Ready Player One
• Eastenders
• Shaun of the Dead
• Crazy, Stupid, Love
• The Sopranos
• Love, Actually
• Friends

Music

• How Will I Know - Whitney Houston
• Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) - Phil Collins
• Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) - Mariah Carey & Westlife
• Strangers Like Me - Phil Collins
• Wannabe - Spice Girls
• Ooh ahh... Just a Little Bit - Gina G
• The Slim Shady LP - Eminem
• Performance and Cocktails - Stereophonics
• Bills Bills Bills - Destiny’s Child
• Bug A Boo - Destiny’s Child
• Don’t Stand So Close to Me - The Police
• No Scrubs - TLC
• Back to Basics - Christina Aguilera 
• Stripped - Christina Aguilera 
• thank u, next - Ariana Grande
• Bootylicious - Destiny’s Child
• 8 Days of Christmas - Destiny’s Child
  

A selection of the music mentioned in this episode can be found in the Agony Art Spotify playlist.

Other

• Tekken Tag Tournament (PS2)
• Metal Gear Solid

Corrections

• Aaron said “Richard Osmond” about 30 seconds after successfully saying “Richard Osman”. The latter is obviously the correct name.
• Karl said that “Polypanesian” people used to get tattoos, but we’re not sure they ever existed. He probably meant “Polynesian”.
• Aaron incorrectly said that Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow was written by Gabrielle Zemin. This was because he wrote the wrong name into his notes. This should have been Gabrielle Zevin.

Picture above © Destiny’s Child 

Episode jingles and music written and performed by Agony Art © 2020-2025