James Bond is a British media franchise, created by Ian Fleming. It features the eponymous spy, James Bond, a British agent of MI6, codenamed 007, traveling the world and stopping plots of world domination. It began as a series of novels, before being adapted into a series of movies that it is best known for today.

Frequent On Cinema guest Gregg Turkington at one point stated that the James Bond series was his favorite series of movies. His personal favorite (of the movies starring Roger Moore) was For Your Eyes Only.^[1] Additionally, despite Turkington's frequent and vocal distaste for music, he appears to have a soft spot for the series and its theme songs,^[1][2] fondly recalling Duran Duran performing “The Living Daylights.”^[3] His favorite Bond actor is Roger Moore.^[4][5]

Host Tim Heidecker has gone on record about his distaste for the James Bond franchise, stating he “just doesn't like” them^[6] and finds them confusing.^[7] He also complained that he hated that Bond was played by different actors,^[8] and that the music sounded too much like “detective music.”^[3] Despite this, his television series Decker has been said to have been directly inspired by the franchise.

In Podcast Episode 45: James Bond, Turkington was given an opportunity to host an episode dedicated entirely to the franchise, and revealing what he felt were the top five Bond movies. He expressed difficultly in creating the list, feeling that all the movies were of comparable quality. They were, in no particular order:

• Die Another Day
• The World is Not Enough
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Tomorrow Never Dies
• The Living Daylights

Interestingly, Turkington did not include For Your Eyes Only.

During the 1st Annual On Cinema Oscar Special, Heidecker predicted that Oscar would announce that the film franchise would come to an end with the release of Skyfall. (This did not come to pass.) Turkington, however, predicted that due to the success of Skyfall, a new Bond movie would be released twice a year. (This also did not come to pass.)

Heidecker later repeated his prediction that the James Bond series would end with Skyfall, feeling that the series would no longer be needed with the release of films such as Jack Reacher. Turkington disagreed, stating that the release of Skyfall was an “awakening” and that there would be a renaissance of Bond movie, potentially with team-ups with other film franchises.^[9]

Heidecker has stated that he would watch a James Bond movie starring Liam Neeson.^[5]