Why are they being pursued by a pair of Scandanavian dudes in disco vests, a group of babes in black jumpsuits, and a nerdily intense UFO cult?
Following their victory, Christian and Edge portrayed themselves as villains, shifting their in-ring personas from borderline goth to a comedic pair of "cool dudes", winning the Tag Team Championship six more times (for a total of seven).
Yes, despite the implications of their name, Mumbai Science is the creative title for a pair of white dudes (Maarten Elen and Jonas Kiesekoms), and not the name of a course my uncle is currently teaching at CalTech (Calcutta Technical Institute).
Or the so-called Minimalists, a pair of white dudes who travel the world to proclaim the joys of simplicity, and just happen to be close friends with evangelical legend Rob Bell.
The show's announcement was met with immediate backlash from people who think that, uh, maybe a pair of white dudes aren't the best team to helm a series about modern-day slavery, and that a bunch of Confederate imagery might be a little incendiary given our current political climate, and HBO and Beinoff and Weiss have yet to address the concerns.
The show, titled Confederate, caused a big stir online from people who thought that, well, maybe a pair of white dudes best known for making a fantasy show about dragons and zombies and incest aren't the best people to tactfully address modern-day slavery.
There were a couple of Dudes, as in the Preakness runner-up First Dude and the swiftly improving Game On Dude.
THE GREY (Joe Carnahan) A pack of dudes.
On the way, we meet Germans Spang and Horndachter, a pair of middle-aged dudes on a motorbike odyssey from Germany through eastern Europe into Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and back home to Germany; 15,000km in six weeks.
The most delicious chapter, though, is titled "Finding Leo", a Hunter S Thompson-stylescapadede, only instead of a pair of 30-something dudes roving through 60s Vegas, it's two teenage girls let loose in 90s LA – a far more dangerous pairing and unhinged scenario.
