To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
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#072724
Selects: The Tulsa 'Race Riots'
"He followed the hectate school of sheriffing. How do you know what that means? From Tequila Mockingbird."
— Josh
Josh humorously misnames the film while referencing the legal principle of following the law from the story.
Jul 27, 2024
#110423
Selects: Are Election Laws Designed to Suppress Voting?
"It involves to kill a mockingbird, go set a watchman, which was the famous sequel to that book"
— Chuck
Referenced in a fan theory letter connecting To Kill a Mockingbird with Back to the Future movies.
Nov 4, 2023
#102123
Selects: Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From?
"The old dead oak tree with the big hole in it that Boo Radley hides figures in"
— Chuck
Chuck compares his property to the spooky setting from To Kill a Mockingbird to explain why trick-or-treaters avoid his house.
Oct 21, 2023
#071820
SYSK Selects: How a Flea Circus Works
"I've used the episode on book banning several times while teaching to kill a mockingbird"
A teacher mentions using a SYSK episode as a supplemental teaching tool for teaching To Kill a Mockingbird.
Jul 18, 2020
#011620
The Tulsa 'Race Riots'
"He followed the hectate school of sheriffing. How do you know what that means? From Tequila Mockingbird."
— Chuck
Chuck references To Kill a Mockingbird when discussing Sheriff McCullough's approach to following the law and preventing lynchings.
Jan 16, 2020
#102919
Where Did Trick-Or-Treating Come From?
"the old dead oak tree with the big hole in it that Boo Radley hides figures in"
— Chuck
Chuck references Boo Radley's hiding spot from the novel/film while describing his neighborhood's off-putting characteristics that discourage trick-or-treaters.
Oct 29, 2019
#010618
SYSK Selects: What Makes a One-hit Wonder?
"That's one of those rare ones where I actually think the movie is better than the book."
— Josh
Josh compares the To Kill a Mockingbird movie to the book, noting his preference for the film adaptation.
Jan 6, 2018
#053017
Are Election Laws Designed to Suppress Voting?
"The courthouse steps in the movie adaptation of Mockingbird are the same as the courthouse in the Back to the Future movies."
A listener's fan theory noted that both To Kill a Mockingbird and Back to the Future films were shot at the same location on the Universal lot.
May 30, 2017
#050316
How Megalodon Worked
"Steve Alton, he wrote a series of books called Meg about a megalodon that likes to battle people and dinosaurs and stuff."
— Chuck
Chuck mentions the Meg film series based on Steve Alten's novels as megalodon entertainment.
May 3, 2016
#081214
How the NSA Works
"to kill a mockingbird? Was that the book we used?"
— Josh
Josh references the book/movie while discussing how the NSA might use literature majors to decrypt coded messages that reference literary works.
Aug 12, 2014
#030513
What Makes a One-hit Wonder?
"That's one of those rare ones where I actually think the movie is better than the book."
— Chuck
Chuck was discussing the Harper Lee novel and comparing it to its film adaptation.
Mar 5, 2013
Cast
Gregory Peck
Atticus Finch
Mary Badham
Scout Finch
Phillip Alford
Jem
John Megna
Dill Harris
Frank Overton
Sheriff Heck Tate
Brock Peters
Tom Robinson
Rosemary Murphy
Maudie Atkinson
Ruth White
Mrs. Dubose
Estelle Evans
Calpurnia
Paul Fix
Judge Taylor
Collin Wilcox Paxton
Mayella Violet Ewell
James Anderson
Bob Ewell
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