WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:21.480 Weird being way media him. Mister Walters is see that guy with it now, 2 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:26.239 he's an actor at the phone the name, I'm a cam driver and 3 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:32.000 the only camp driver in his place. Hello and welcome once again tonight mister 4 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:36.280 Walters a taxi podcast. I'm your co host HP and with me as always 5 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:40.399 is my co host falla alone, follow alone. How are you doing HPO, 6 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:44.759 My Sonny boy. A reminder, we are doing these shows in broadcast 7 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:48.759 order and not in order of filming. This is episode twenty one. This 8 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.880 is the last episode of season one. The episode is called The Substitute Father. 9 00:00:52.960 --> 00:01:00.359 It's written by Barry Kemp and of course directed by James Burrows Resident Directors 10 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:06.079 Burrows that was his term, a resident director, a director who shapes the 11 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:11.040 entire series. The episode begins and we're starting off in the garage once again. 12 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:17.560 You had mentioned in the last episode about pans, about Burrows's thoughts on 13 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:22.799 doing a pan pensiont he does, and we start off this episode with a 14 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:26.599 pan. We're following Jeff. We pan passed the length of the garage on 15 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:30.400 Jeff. We go past the poker table, which I don't know if you 16 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:34.359 noticed, but for one of the few times in the series thus far, 17 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:38.200 there's a bunch of extras playing poker around the table. It's not the Cabby's 18 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:42.680 that we know. I like it. It's a nice touch. You know. 19 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:46.120 They shouldn't just be an empty table because our leads aren't sitting there, 20 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:48.400 Like what about everybody else? They don't get a chance to sit at that 21 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:52.719 table. It's reserved somehow. Although you could see Banta going like, nobody 22 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.400 sit at this table even when I'm not here. One of the things I 23 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:59.040 love about the shot is at least two of the Cabby's at this table. 24 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:04.599 They're older, and they're all wearing these awesome newsboy style hats like you would 25 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:07.799 see a Cavey maybe wearing it. What I keep returning to in my mind 26 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.680 is a few episodes ago you mentioned you thought that there was a Marxist meeting 27 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:14.479 going on. They show up in this episode too. Man, they're in 28 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.840 the background here. They keep popping up the background actors. God, they're 29 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:23.080 perfect. They just feel like old New York caves that have been doing this 30 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:27.199 forever. You say you want a revolution, I still get the sunshine calf. 31 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:30.719 Elaine rushes in. She's looking like she just walked right out of Annie 32 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:35.039 Hall. She has this sort of trench coat with I don't know, like 33 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:38.240 a bret. Very fashionable, but she's in a rush. She was great 34 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:43.039 as always. I gotta say I'm not exactly stoked with her reason for being 35 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:46.639 here. It should never be a plot point that Elaine Nardo is going to 36 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:51.240 be absent in an episode. That's not something they should repeat. Ever, 37 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:57.400 it felt a little bit Brady Bunch like because she rushes in and loudly announces 38 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:00.759 that she has a sick aunt in Buffalo that she has to go take care 39 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:04.759 for. I think that was actually a plot point. I think Alice and 40 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.639 Brady Bunch went somewhere to take care of a sick relative. And that's when 41 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:14.199 remember she had a twin sister who was in the army. It makes everybody's 42 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:19.400 life miserable. I'm sure Lucy Ricardo had a sick aunt in such and such 43 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:23.400 at some point. This is the oldest trope in sitcom history. She goes 44 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:27.840 to Alex and she says she needs to go take care of her sick on 45 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:30.080 for a couple of days, and she's taking her daughter with her, but 46 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:35.639 her son Jason has a big spelling bee coming up. And she would hate 47 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.039 for him to miss out on this, so could Alex take care of her 48 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:44.400 son Jason for a couple of days. After some hemming and hawing, Alex 49 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:46.719 kind of reluctantly agrees. Elaine goes, Okay, I'm going to go get 50 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:50.479 Jason. He's waiting in the car, so she's going to bring him in, 51 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:53.319 and then while she's gone, Alex says, to no one in particular, 52 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:57.159 I can't do this. He's not looking forward to this in the least. 53 00:03:57.319 --> 00:03:59.840 You know why he's not looking forward to this in the least HP. 54 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:03.719 Potentially it's because he's wearing seven hundred layers of clothing. He might just be 55 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.719 delirious here, which is why he said he has to begin with. He's 56 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:12.639 wearing a turtleneck, a button down shirt, a vest, and a jacket, 57 00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:16.160 not to mention burgundy pants. Those are automatically going to give you at 58 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:23.240 least some sort of topsy turvy brained imbalance. They definitely went too far with 59 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:27.399 Alex's costume choices. In this opening scene, he's saying, Oh, I 60 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:30.680 can't do this. I'm going to have dinner with my sister one night, 61 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:32.879 and then I have a hot date the next night, he can't possibly watch 62 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:38.199 Jason for this whole time. Perhaps ill advisedly, he goes and asks Bobby, 63 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:41.319 who, let's face it, Bobby should be the last person if you 64 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:46.600 ask Bobby couldn't keep a goldfish alive for twenty four hours. Honestly, I 65 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:49.480 would ask Wheeler, but if he said no, I would take him at 66 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:55.680 his word that he had good reason to not engage. But I wouldn't ask 67 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.079 him in the first place. I wouldn't trust him. I don't know, 68 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:00.160 you know what, And I would ask an actor, because once the kid 69 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:05.519 starts flattering him and talking about his career and stuff, can't get enough of 70 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:09.800 him. So we lose a narcissist. And that's what he that's what he 71 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:12.959 craves. But he doesn't know. At this point, we haven't met the 72 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:17.600 kid. That's the problem. Riager is preemptively asking around for help without realizing 73 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:20.600 that the kid is Nardo's kid, and it's going to be kind of special. 74 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:24.759 And I mean that in the traditional sense is special, and not like 75 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:29.240 you know, mental or anything. I think we've all been in situations where 76 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:33.399 we commit to things that we have a knee jerk reaction of. I really 77 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:35.879 don't want to do this. You know, you're going to a party that 78 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:40.000 you're not really that enthused about. You're gonna go see somebody you're not really 79 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:45.879 that But oftentimes, at least my experiences, those can turn into great opportunities. 80 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:47.000 Like you go there, you have a better time than you thought. 81 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:50.439 That's what we're gonna end up seeing here. He asks Bobby if he can 82 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:57.279 help watch Jason, and Bobby protests, and Alex gives Bobby what I can 83 00:05:57.319 --> 00:06:02.240 only describe as the gas face. He gives him this look that is right 84 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:06.759 out of Prime Minister Pete Nice's playbook. Oh my god, you're going deep 85 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:12.399 at the third base keeping oh yeah, oh yeah. And just the look, 86 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:16.079 the look that Alex gives Bobby is enough to make Bobby acquiesce. He 87 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:18.879 says, I can watch him on Thursday, but I have an acting class 88 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:23.839 on Friday. Then Alex goes over to Tony the Simpleton, who I probably 89 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:27.800 wouldn't trust with the child for completely different reasons, because I think he's like 90 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:32.439 Lenny from of Mice and Men. I think, without really really trying to, 91 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:35.800 I think he would hurt this child, like break his arm or something. 92 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.439 My god, this is just getting dark. All of a sudden, 93 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:42.680 and you know what, I can't even focus on Taxi right now. I'm 94 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:46.160 thinking about mc search. Alex does go to talk to Tony and and ask 95 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:50.480 him for help, but Tony says he's got sparring plans on Friday, which 96 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:54.360 is an odd thing to say, Like I got a spar with somebody on 97 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:58.040 Thursday. Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Were you implying that Banta 98 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:00.959 might hurt that child? Yeah, but I but not meaning to. I 99 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:05.720 honestly was really just daydreaming about MC search, So I didn't understand what you 100 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:11.279 were saying at all. Like what that's I'm correct, you are going dark. 101 00:07:11.360 --> 00:07:13.920 That's horrible. Now, Banta would never hurt that show. No, 102 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.240 No, I don't think he would do it intentionally. I don't think he 103 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:20.240 would hit him out of danger back Torrence, like kid got into my papers 104 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:25.079 and I just pulled on the arm. No, I think that he might 105 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:30.720 accidentally break his arm without realizing his own strength, or or do something that 106 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.160 he would immediately regret. He's a man child, he doesn't know his own 107 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:40.000 strength. I got empty search, take me away. He can't watch the 108 00:07:40.120 --> 00:07:45.600 kid on Friday because he's got sparring plans and now I also took a note 109 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:50.439 that we've got another tough guy pose for Gold. It's a tough guy productory 110 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:56.759 pose. He's sitting on the hood of the cab, but he's straddling the 111 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:01.199 left fender. It's it's very very discomforting. It's very weird. I don't 112 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.160 know why he's doing it. He's like the top monkey in the cage, 113 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:09.759 you know, just like just like he's like in a jungle book, you 114 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:15.839 know, King louis dejected. Burns asks why did Alex ask him? Which 115 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:20.000 I think is another clue that Burns is a done deal. Maybe Burns is 116 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:24.279 a ghost. At this point, have we considered that possibility that Burns has 117 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:28.920 been a ghost this entire time? Sixth sense kind of a thing absolutely like 118 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:31.680 maybe, you know, and not for maybe the run of the series, 119 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:35.600 but at a certain point, maybe when Cab eight oh four was wrecked, 120 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:41.879 maybe Burns ceased to exist on this mortal plane and he's and that's why we 121 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:43.919 haven't seen much of him, and he's had no impact since that day. 122 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:50.960 We've not seen his lovely bride, Dorothy Hamilcut since the accident. Oh my 123 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:52.759 god, HP, I think we've done it, We've unraveled it, and 124 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:56.879 it's fitting that this is the final episode. Okay, here's the thing. 125 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:03.360 I could totally watch a spinoff series, Ghost Taxi with John Burns navigating the 126 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:09.039 paranormal world. In that case, I would totally be on board with what 127 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:11.960 a rube he was, because we would all be a rube, because none 128 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.519 of us have been to the paranormal world, nor have we ever considered that 129 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:20.840 we would need a taxi. Glenn lest Charles, are you listening? This 130 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:26.080 is gold. Let's make this happen Ghost Taxi. I think the cabbys have 131 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:31.039 already written Burns off because they just don't. He doesn't seem to matter anymore 132 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:35.679 in the grand scheme of the workings of the garage. Alex, he says, 133 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:37.039 oh okay, yeah, I for some reason, it slipped his mind. 134 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:41.480 He asks Burns, but Burns, like the demon that he is, 135 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:46.159 says he has class on Friday, but he just wanted to be asked. 136 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:50.000 I would hit the guy like he makes this big show of being hurt that 137 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.600 no one asks him. Then when Alex asks him, he says, I'm 138 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:58.519 busy, you prick say that cat mind? Can you consider Burns his feelings 139 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.399 for once, nobody's asking him anything anymore. Plus, that's true, he's 140 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.360 about to lose his job or is it life, or maybe he's gone on 141 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:11.600 to a fulfilling career in the forestry Forestry Service. Hey, that's a possibility 142 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:16.200 we haven't considered yet. I hope I'm now pulling for good old John Burns. 143 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:22.480 But he does say that he can take Jason Friday morning if Tony can 144 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:26.559 switch his sparring session. So look at that. He's out there trying to 145 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:30.559 do good. They're all rearranging their schedules, trying to make sure this because 146 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:33.000 it's only for a couple of days. The spelling Bee is on Saturday, 147 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:35.360 and I want to say, this is maybe a Wednesday or a Thursday, 148 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:37.799 so it's not like they got to watch the kid for a week. It's 149 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:43.440 a very short span of time. Elaine comes back in with Jason and it 150 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:48.600 introduces him around the garage. I also noted here this is the first time 151 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.360 we've seen this, but when we see Bobby Wheeler, his shirt is legitimately 152 00:10:52.919 --> 00:10:58.399 unbuttoned more than halfway down his chest. It's very off putting. I mean, 153 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:03.240 there's a young boy in the and he's walking around like Casanova, very 154 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:07.600 disturbing. Whiller is not going to tamp out his sexuality just because some kid 155 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:13.279 has shown up unannounced in the garage. He's a line, he's got a 156 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:18.840 he's got a prance, and he's got that mane of hair that he likes 157 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:22.720 to shake around like a lot of tame him while can't be broken HP. 158 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:28.600 Elaine says some hurried goodbyes to Jason, she hustles out. Unfortunately, she 159 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:33.120 hustles out for the balance of the episode, putting that aside, putting him 160 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:35.840 that we're now going to be robbed of Elaine Nardo for the rest of the 161 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.679 episode. How about the fact that she's dropped her son off for an indeterminate 162 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:48.000 number of days with no change of clothing or like food. Did she give 163 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:52.879 him any money? Like it was just like they were driving by and kicked 164 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.240 him out of a car. He's got no bags. You would figure they 165 00:11:56.279 --> 00:12:00.200 would make a show of her saying, here's twenty dollars if you need anything, 166 00:12:00.240 --> 00:12:03.639 here's the number that you can realise me at. Here's the phone number 167 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:09.159 of my ailing aunt. Please call me and keep me abreast of the living 168 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:13.919 situations with my child, like saying is he still breathing the little things like 169 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:16.600 that, I'd like to know while I'm away. It does cast some doubt 170 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:20.000 on her story. She could be anywhere. Who knows. Do we even 171 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:22.840 know that? Are we sure that her daughter is going to be with her? 172 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:26.960 We don't know, We don't. Maybe she pawned off the daughter on 173 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.120 her art gallery people, and she's off with Tom Selleck for the weekend, 174 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:33.639 and you know what at the end of it, what she'll have at HB 175 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:41.240 A lovely me. So she leaves. Now the Cabbys and Jason are in 176 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:46.879 this awkward silence because they don't know how to treat a boy, and he's 177 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:50.600 he doesn't know these adults, so they all end up kind of amscraying to 178 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:56.679 make lame excuses. Oh you gotta go do this. Everyone leaves except for 179 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:01.120 Alex and Bobby and Jason. Alex grabs before he can rush off and asks 180 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.120 him to watch Jason while he gets something out of his locker. So Alex 181 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:11.679 goes upstairs. Bobby awkwardly starts a conversation with Jason by saying, Hey, 182 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:16.320 so you're a kid, Huh. That's pretty much how I start conversations. 183 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:20.120 That's the same level of comfort. I feel usually like, so you're what 184 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:24.559 the child? Okay, how's that going for you? Jason already like immediately 185 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.919 turns the charm on these adults, and he says his mom told him that 186 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:33.840 Bobby's an actor and that he's actually a great actor. And as I alluded 187 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:39.600 to earlier, this pushes just the right buttons on narcissist Bobby, and all 188 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:43.200 of a sudden, Bobby's face lights up and he leans into the conversation. 189 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:48.559 He's totally into the conversation now. All the awkwardness is evaporated because he's been 190 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:54.120 complimented by this kid. That's right, Wheeler knows what the kid knows what 191 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:58.039 signed the bread is, butter is on. And this leads to a conversation 192 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:01.799 where Jason admits to Bobby that he's kind of nervous about this the spelling Bee, 193 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.840 and he asks Bobby how does he keep from getting nervous when he performs? 194 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:09.159 I'm sure you notice this. This kind of took me out of the 195 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:16.519 scene a little bit. Bobby's response to Jason is clearly looped in. He 196 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:20.279 says, everybody gets nervous in front of an audience, but if you look 197 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:24.720 his lips aren't even moving when he says the line. Did you notice this? 198 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:28.120 It's a rare misstep. I did not notice it. Does anyone step 199 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:33.639 on Bobby's line at that point? Just like Louie interrupt or something? No, 200 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:35.039 no, no, no. What happens? He says the line and 201 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:41.600 Alex is coming down the stairs. Alex Conway doesn't even have a line. 202 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:46.759 All he's doing is laughing, And somehow they decided maybe to make it more 203 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.840 clear that he's conversing with his boy and not just laughing. Oh no, 204 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:52.720 I understand their motivation for doing it. I'm just wondering how they got out 205 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:56.679 of it. And I guess that would be that'd be Rigger coming into the 206 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:01.279 scene. Alex comes down the steps and he announces it's getting two layers of 207 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:05.039 clothing and added a new one. That's what Alex riger just went up to 208 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.240 Dore. I'll take off this coat and I will take off the puffy vest, 209 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:13.559 cortex cortalics, and instead I will replace it with a corduroy blazer. 210 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:18.279 Well, he's probably sweated through all of those layers and he had to and 211 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.559 now he needs a sponge, so he put on a corduroy blazer. So 212 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:24.559 he says to Jason and out they're going to get some breakfast. But suddenly 213 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.120 Bobby is totally invested in this kid, and he says, no, no, 214 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.600 no, don't worry, I'll take him out for breakfast, and they 215 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:37.360 rush out of the garage. They're laughing the whole way. After they've gone, 216 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.720 suddenly very timid, and this lends credence to my theory. By the 217 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:46.720 way, a very timid Tony creeps out of wherever he's been hiding in the 218 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:50.720 garage, and he asks if they're gone, and he admits that he panicked 219 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:54.720 because he doesn't know what to do around a kid. Probably out of sympathy 220 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:58.440 to this naive simpleton, Alex offers to then take Tony to breakfast. But 221 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:03.440 this just proves my point, by the way, the idea that Tony is 222 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:08.960 afraid that he will cause bodily harm to this meaning to he's frightened that this 223 00:16:10.240 --> 00:16:15.039 child is going to be his mental superior. That's ultimately within his heart of 224 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.399 hearts, that's what he's concerned about. Meeting the meeting Nardo's child about, 225 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:23.120 or I would like to pause it. Another theory that Banta is in fact 226 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:26.679 the child's father, you gotta look at that kid, looking a lot like 227 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:33.000 Banta get the same hair. Actually it's the same hair complexion, looking a 228 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:37.639 little bit tony ish. Also, the last episode, we had a lack 229 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:41.360 of good background players. You're saying here, we certainly got a return of 230 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:48.960 the Marxist revolution, and in this particular scene, the return of Leggy blonde 231 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.279 in pantsuits. She's sitting in the back having a conversation. I just wanted 232 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:56.360 to call her, really, the one who was in the aluminum foil colored 233 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.159 no no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, 234 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:03.480 that's that's space girl. Uh okay, Lady blonde in pant suit is 235 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:11.039 this it's like this all red pant suit with this like orange shirt. And 236 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:15.079 she missed mystically appears once in a while, I guess, just so good 237 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:18.920 luck on the cab. He's so. We cut to a b roll of 238 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:23.599 a cab rolling into the garage, the cab number eight o four. We've 239 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:27.119 seen this fucking shot a lot. Man. I hope they're I hope they're 240 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:32.200 going to send out a new second unit crew for second season. Here eight 241 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.799 oh four is like the Mary Celeste of cabs. Yeah, man, And 242 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:37.240 you know what, in the end, credits of this show, like they 243 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:41.240 follow a cab through the streets of New York at night and it's eight oh 244 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:45.599 four. Again, it's the ghost cab that you just maybe it is not 245 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.920 right because Burns died in that cab, so maybe it's just a tribute. 246 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:52.119 Oh geez, I take it all back. And you know what, earlier 247 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:56.599 in the episode, when the establishing shot of eight oh four arriving in the 248 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:00.039 cat at the cab company, they do that shot from the back of the 249 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.240 cab of the silhouette of a driver. We don't know who the driver is, 250 00:18:03.279 --> 00:18:04.880 but really, who's the passenger, because who would be going to the 251 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:10.279 cab company. It's Burns. It's the ghost of Burns returning for his scene. 252 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:15.720 So we're back in the garage now and Louis is taking a complaint call 253 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:19.720 in his cage and I have to say, this is one of my favorite 254 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:23.000 Louis bits. I remembered this as it was going on. Yeah, he 255 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:29.119 says, you say one of the drivers was rude to you, and he's 256 00:18:29.200 --> 00:18:32.119 as he's doing this, he's taking notes down with a pencil and he says, 257 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:37.400 well was it he said, exactly? I see, And how fat 258 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:41.680 are you? I love the casual, insulting way that he responds. Danny 259 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:48.920 DeVito is the master of delivering these lines with just the perfect note of passive 260 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:53.640 aggression. I don't know's he just there's something so brilliant in the way he 261 00:18:53.680 --> 00:18:56.640 delivers these lines, I think. And he's got quite a few good lines 262 00:18:56.640 --> 00:19:00.920 in this episode. I had to say, this is a really good episode 263 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.480 for Louis to palmer Tony runs into the garage. He's sort of chasing off 264 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:06.519 after it. Hold on, I got to say, this is something I 265 00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:11.200 always wished one of my managers would have done for me. Not necessarily that 266 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:15.680 I'm out there like making fun of people or anything, but you know somebody 267 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:19.640 who would go, let me just ascertain what kind of an idiot you are 268 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:23.519 complaining, you know, like, oh, I see, you're actually the 269 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:27.200 problem. It's not my employee. The wonderful thing is, through the course 270 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:30.880 of the scene, we'll see him finish up this call, and at no 271 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:34.559 point are we led to believe that the person on the other end of the 272 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:38.920 call is catching on to what Louie's doing like that. The call begins and 273 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:42.119 it ends, and I think he even says, Okay, I'll make sure 274 00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:48.440 that person is reprimanded. He's able to deliver these sort of zingers without the 275 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:52.599 person on the other end of the of the phone really catching on to what 276 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:55.440 he's doing. Yeah, that's a rare talent. I've only known a few 277 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:57.640 people in my life who can do that, and they always marvel. This 278 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:02.039 is sort of an odd episode, but we do see quite a bit of 279 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:04.400 Louis in this, and we get some insight more insight into his character, 280 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:08.480 which I think is really great. It's a good showcase for Danny DeVito. 281 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:15.960 Tony runs into the garage playfully chasing after Jason. He's gotten over his reluctance 282 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:22.240 to to watch Elaine's son. He recognize, I guess or he accepts that 283 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:27.359 he's his intellectual superior. Tony tells Louis, oh, two boxing lessons and 284 00:20:27.400 --> 00:20:32.240 he can already beat my brains in. And here we get another great Louis 285 00:20:32.279 --> 00:20:36.160 line. Louis replies, what took him so long? It's classic to Palma. 286 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:41.039 We get a lot of that in this episode. I love when he 287 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:45.319 gets after Tony. It may be like I really appreciate that because of my 288 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:51.079 history with this series so far. But we talked about this at length a 289 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:56.559 couple of episodes ago, that Louis is really the only person who can get 290 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:03.000 away with insulting Tony in this fashion because he's Tony's boss, and even though 291 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:10.079 Tony could literally punch him into oblivion, Tony will never do that because Louie 292 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:14.200 is his superior and it's a wonderful dynamic between the two of them, and 293 00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:18.680 we see it here. Tony goes to get Burns, who's apparently going to 294 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:22.599 be taking over watching Jason. He's going to take Jason out. Louis wraps 295 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:29.359 up his complaint caller and he starts his own conversation with Jason. He admits 296 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:33.720 to Jason that it's kind of funny he doesn't dislike Jason as much as he 297 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:37.519 does other kids, and he's in a rare bit of candor. Louie says, 298 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.039 well, it must be because they both have a single mother raising them 299 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:45.559 in common. Without being saccherin about it, they're peeling some of the layers 300 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:48.599 of the Louie onion back and giving you some insight into him. Oh, 301 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:52.279 make a mistake, this is a Louie episode. It really kind of is, 302 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:56.000 isn't it. Oh? Ye, as we'll see we get shades of 303 00:21:56.119 --> 00:22:00.000 everyone's reactions here. They're all involved, they all have the little mini arcs. 304 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:06.839 This is about Danny DeVito's Louis de Palma figuring out his place in the 305 00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:08.960 universe and whether or not he can have children, or whether or not he 306 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:12.160 would want them. I wasn't thinking of it in those terms, but you're 307 00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:17.240 absolutely right. As we'll see, Burns comes out and he says that he 308 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:19.480 and Jason are going to go see Death on the Nile. Oh, it's 309 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:23.400 a perfect kids film. Agatha Christie, Yeah, really, played by Peter 310 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:30.359 Houston. Okay, so look, this episode aired on May fifteenth of nineteen 311 00:22:30.519 --> 00:22:34.519 seventy nine, which means that probably filmed a few weeks beforehand. Death on 312 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:40.279 the Nile was released in September of nineteen seventy eight and ended up playing for 313 00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:42.319 about two years. For those of you who are under the age of one 314 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:47.160 thousand, movies used to play in movie theaters for long periods of time. 315 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:49.359 They'd stay around forever, So Death on the Nile was definitely around in the 316 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:55.000 spring of nineteen seventy nine. But it begs the question, since that's the 317 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:56.880 age, these are other movies that were playing that he could have taken the 318 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:02.599 child too, like The Whiz or Lord of the Rings to Ralph foxt how 319 00:23:02.599 --> 00:23:04.799 about Watership Down. You could have taken it into that, but I think 320 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:07.359 in keeping with the Death on the Nile theme, like why not take him 321 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.319 to go see hardcore? That was also playing time. How about the Deer, 322 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:15.720 That's a perfect kids movie. I think the absolute perfect kids movie would 323 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:22.759 have been Paradise Alle featuring Sylvester Stallone and armand De Sante as brothers in Hell's 324 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.200 Kitchen in the nineteen forties. Tom Waits is in that movie too. Oh 325 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:30.319 my god, it's a trifecta of greatness. All those would have been interesting 326 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:34.079 options. We can only hope that they don't end up at the Circus Cinema 327 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:41.960 on the forty three was playing right then. I guess Jason admits to Burns 328 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:45.680 that he feels bad because he hasn't really started studying for the spelling Bee that's 329 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.519 going to happen in a couple of days. Burns rather childlike. He doesn't 330 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:53.359 pout, but he sulks about right. I guess we won't go to the 331 00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:57.200 movie, and I'll have to tell Susanne that we're not going to meet her 332 00:23:57.240 --> 00:24:03.119 afterwards and seeing how did you acted? Burns is and this shows how mature 333 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:06.359 Jason is for his age. He insists, no, let's go to the 334 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:08.839 movies. Let's go. I have plenty of time to study. I'll put 335 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:11.599 us oute of my studies. Let's go see your movie. Silly, silly 336 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:15.799 man. When I say mature, obviously he should be studying. But he's 337 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:22.319 at least able to recognize the disappointment in Burns, and he tries to make 338 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:25.480 him feel better. And I think that's admirable for a boy that young. 339 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:30.400 Here's the last I'll say about Death on the Nile. Yeah. I saw 340 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:33.079 Death on the Nile in the theater. I was taken to see the movie 341 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.119 by my grandmother. Really yeah, and oh I loved it. I thought 342 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:40.640 it was like the most adult thing in the world. I thought, oh 343 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:45.079 my god, look at adults being adults solving trimes. Was it an R 344 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:48.720 rated movie? I don't think it was R righted I out of curiosity, 345 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.519 But this is the last episode of the season. Let's just want to break 346 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:55.039 this down a little bit. What was your first R rated movie in the 347 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:59.960 theater? Do you remember? Does a drive in count Absolutely? I remember 348 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:07.079 we're seeing the film Orca with Richard Harris and uh, what's her name but 349 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:15.039 Jacqueline Bessett. Who oh, no, jacquelbe said bo uh Derek, oh, 350 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.200 Derek, Yes, yeah, Orca with those two. Yeah, that's 351 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:22.920 the first R rated thing I remember seeing projected, and that was at a 352 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.799 drive in and it was in a double feature, I'll point this out with 353 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:30.319 Star Wars, and it was the opener for Star Wars. So I had 354 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:34.759 to struggle mightily not to sleep through Orca in order to get to Star Wars. 355 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:38.720 I got as far as Darth Vader showing up at the in the doorway 356 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:41.480 of the Tanta four, and then I was asleep on the top of the 357 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:45.680 car. You must have been pretty young if if Star Wars was the main 358 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:48.400 feature, it might have been a re release of Star Wars. See. 359 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:52.720 For me, the first R rated movie that I saw in the theater was 360 00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:57.519 Beverly Hills Cop with Eddie Murphy, so I would have been eleven. I 361 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:02.960 remember my dad, my brothers were away. It was just me and my 362 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:04.720 mom in the house. I don't know where my brothers and my dad were. 363 00:26:06.400 --> 00:26:08.839 And yeah, she just decided to take us go to the movies. 364 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:11.960 Maybe we had nothing else to do, and I had this a similar reaction. 365 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:17.680 I thought, Wow, this is such an adult movie that I'm seeing, 366 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:19.160 you know, like, there's not a lot of sex. There's really 367 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:23.240 no sex in it. None. There's a strip club scene only putting myself 368 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:26.440 in my mom's place. It wasn't a lot of moments where she would have 369 00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:30.920 had to cover my eyes. It's because something objectionable was happening. It was 370 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:33.359 a lot of language and in violence, obviously, but I'll never forget that 371 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:37.599 was the first I remember walking out of it saying wow. Actually because by 372 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:41.839 then I had seen many rated movies on cable, but it was a big 373 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:44.839 deal to see them in the theater. I guess, yeah, HP. 374 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:48.519 Let me tell these two stories together. A decade later, in nineteen eighty 375 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.039 nine, my grandmother and I went to the movies and she wanted to see 376 00:26:52.039 --> 00:26:55.359 Beverly Hills Cop too, and I wanted to see whatever the fuck I wanted 377 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:59.319 to go see. So we went to separate movies and at the end I 378 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:02.599 asked her how Beverly Hills Cop Two was, and she said to me, 379 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:07.160 why won't they just let Eddie be Eddie. I just want to let that 380 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.680 out into the world that my grandmother was a cool lady. So they're going 381 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:14.519 to go to this movie. You barely can hear it, but Bobby, 382 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:17.079 when Bobby hears it, they're going to go to the movies. Bobby does 383 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:21.480 say, but it'll be g rated. So by now, I think Bobby's 384 00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:25.960 really feeling himself as a surrogate parent looking out for Jason, which is great. 385 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.000 Alex tells him to be back by six because he's got Nicks tickets. 386 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.400 Oh my god, they're running this child ragged. Don't they understand He needs 387 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:37.039 to study, He needs to know how words are spelled. I think there's 388 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:41.680 a moral in our future, but we haven't gotten there yet. Burns and 389 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:48.400 Jason go to see Death and then Nihle and good movie. Peter used to 390 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.920 know hercy. It's what every ten year old kid wants to see. Madam 391 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:59.200 already the fun. That's why Peter used to know. So Alex checks with 392 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:03.000 Tony to see about additional coverage for Jason because they've run out of options now 393 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:10.640 they you know, neither Tony nor Bobby nor Burns can cover him for a 394 00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:15.519 period of time. And at this point, Louis starts to loudly cough to 395 00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:18.640 try and get their attention to indicate that, hey, he'd like to watch 396 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:23.359 Jason, because clearly Jason and he have shared this moment and he feels like 397 00:28:23.400 --> 00:28:27.400 he'd like to watch Jason. It's like Burns all over again, except Louis 398 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:33.480 means it. Clearly. Alex and Tony have figured out what Louie is after, 399 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:37.839 but they keep playing this charade to make him become even more ridiculous with 400 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:41.200 his coughing. And he's coughing, and I guess the point where Louie is 401 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:45.960 almost hacking up alung. He's coughing so dramatically that's too much. It was 402 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:51.920 exhausting. It is too much, And we get another vaudeville moment because Tony 403 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:55.759 finally says, I got it. Let's ask Louie. And Alex's reply is 404 00:28:56.640 --> 00:29:03.599 I don't want him to catch his cold, so but up up, we 405 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:07.359 need a sounder for that. Every time that happens. As we fade out, 406 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:11.519 everybody's all smiles. They're all coming together because they all love taking care 407 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:18.680 of this Elaine's sun. So we cut to this is this part was interesting? 408 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:23.400 We cut to a nighttime b roll as we fade into what I believe 409 00:29:23.480 --> 00:29:30.119 is Alex's bedroom and his apartment. This is another interesting sort of set decorating 410 00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.680 situation where he's getting changed in his bedroom, he's putting on a shirt. 411 00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:40.119 But in the doorway, you see it's like a corridor and there's even a 412 00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:45.920 radiator. Did you see on the wall there's at least eight pictures of what 413 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:53.680 look like child drawings of trains just plastering this part of the hallway. And 414 00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:57.079 then ominously, right on top of that is a giant piece of paper that 415 00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:00.680 I could The only thing I could read on it was the word in large 416 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:06.200 letters, the word collection. Did you see this too? I didn't, 417 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:11.160 but now I'm frightened. I'm intrigued, because, I mean, the train 418 00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:15.079 thing is weird enough as it is, but this leads me to wonder is 419 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.240 Alex is he getting evicted? Is he in trouble with a collection agency? 420 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:22.960 Why is there this giant paper on his wall covering all these trains? Now 421 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:27.599 that you put it that way, is this a child criminal organization that is 422 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:32.440 threatening him, but they're letting him know that the train is coming for him? 423 00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:37.799 Is there an enforcer named the train or because it's a child criminal organization, 424 00:30:38.319 --> 00:30:42.359 is he that chow chow. So is this like a Bugsy Malone situation? 425 00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:47.359 I hope so Alex has dressed for it in the past. We mentioned 426 00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:49.640 in an earlier episode he was just very much like a like an extra from 427 00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:55.160 Bugsy Malone. So maybe that gang is showing up. Fat Sam's gang is 428 00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:59.119 going to show up here to let him know he can't be parading around like 429 00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:03.480 them sending him a message, that's what they're doing. So Alex is changing 430 00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.720 in his bedroom and Louis and Jason arrive. Jason's wearing a sport code and 431 00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:11.519 button down shirt and the collar, I swear to God is about twenty inches 432 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.880 wide. It's the biggest caller you've ever seen on a ten year old boy. 433 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:19.359 Jason announces that that Louie took him to the wrestling match, which sounds 434 00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:22.240 like a lot of fun. Actually, I'd love to go to the wrestling 435 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.680 match with Louis and Louie's mom, right, Hell, yes, that would 436 00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:27.720 have been I would. I wish we had spent a little time there with 437 00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:34.960 them. It was probably like really old school wrestling matches with like gorgeous George, 438 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:40.480 George the Animal Steel and all these great It's gonna yeah, and it 439 00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:44.960 took place in like a community center or some sort of like like a gym 440 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:48.720 somewhere like a hall. Yeah, exactly, like some high school auditorium. 441 00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:55.319 I'd love to have been part of that experience. And they just judging from 442 00:31:55.359 --> 00:31:57.440 their demeanor, they had a great time. And it's nice to see that 443 00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:01.119 Louie has really stepped up, that he's really enjoying. As we said, 444 00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:06.519 this is kind of Louie's story. He's enjoying taking care of Jason, spending 445 00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:10.079 time. All the cabbys love this kid, so Elaine is doing something right. 446 00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:15.160 Louis asks what Alex and Jason are going to do, and Alex says 447 00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:19.480 they're going to go out for ice cream, which begs the question. We 448 00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:22.200 see Alex getting dressed. He's putting on a nice button down shirt and he 449 00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:24.680 has a nice pair of slacks. It's like the middle of the night. 450 00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:30.559 Why is he dressing up so fancy to take the kid out for an ice 451 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:34.400 cream cone? I couldn't figure out staking him to the plaza, getting up 452 00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:37.880 some golds like the ice cream something. It's very fancy and it's very late 453 00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:43.079 to be having ice cream too. Why wouldn't riger just go buy some ice 454 00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:45.720 cream and make Sundays at home like Welcome home, Jason. Let's have some 455 00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:50.359 ice cream and get some studying done, get a little bit of hot fudge, 456 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:52.079 make their own Sundays. Right there would have been great. It made 457 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:57.640 perfect sense. Jason once again says that he really needs to study for this 458 00:32:57.839 --> 00:33:02.559 spelling bee. Now it's Friday, the Friday before the Saturday where the spelling 459 00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:06.680 bee is going to take place, so he's run out of time. Effectively, 460 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:12.160 Alex admits that they've kept him so busy all the cabbies that he hasn't 461 00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:14.880 had time to study, and he kind of feels bad about it. Alex 462 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:17.200 asks, are you gonna be okay tomorrow for this spelling bee? And Jason 463 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:21.599 says he just needs one good night to study. At that point, there's 464 00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:25.880 horn blasts outside. It's Louie's mother hawking the horn comes My favorite line, 465 00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:30.559 my favorite line reading in the entire episode. It's Louis shouting down to his 466 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:34.039 mother. What does he say, Tom down, you crazy lady. Look, 467 00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:37.039 keep your pants on, crazy lady. And that's on, crazy lady. 468 00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:42.680 I don't know something about crazy lady. When you're talking to someone you 469 00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:49.000 love is hilarious. It's quintessential Louis de Palm. It's perfect the way he 470 00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.519 yells that down, Like you said, the dichotomy, because we know that 471 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:57.960 Louis loves his mother very much. She's a single mother, raised him alone. 472 00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:01.839 But they have such an funny, antagonistic relationship, but there's real love 473 00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:07.240 there. I love to see that. Equally acceptable is devil Woman. It's 474 00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:10.239 charming the way that he treats her and calls her these names, but you 475 00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:15.880 know that he loves her. Alex leaves Jason alone in the bedroom to study. 476 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:17.599 The kid takes out like a big pile of books. I think there's 477 00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:22.519 a dictionary mixed in there. And sure enough he opens the books and just 478 00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:28.079 as quickly, Jason shuts his eyes and falls asleep right there in the bed, 479 00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:30.440 right on the books. So he's had no time to study. Oh 480 00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:35.639 my god. On a very special tax day, we fade in. It's 481 00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:38.119 a school auditorium. It's time for the spelling bee. Look, the last 482 00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:43.559 episode, you didn't like the set decoration for the Plaza Hotel. They more 483 00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:47.840 than make up for it with their rendering of a school auditorium. It was 484 00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:53.880 amazing. Well, let's talk those goddamned exit doors because I want them in 485 00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:59.800 my house right now. The exit doors are painted in an arrow pattern with 486 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:01.920 the word exit on it. It is a work of art. It is 487 00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:07.159 gorgeous. I would sit in that auditorium and just stare at those doors. 488 00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:12.559 People who like us, old people who have lived through the period that's sort 489 00:35:12.599 --> 00:35:15.840 of rendered in this show. We saw this. This was a thing that 490 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:21.840 you saw in public buildings. There must be a name for that style of 491 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:24.719 design. But yeah, it was an arrow, pointing, straight up, 492 00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:31.199 giant arrow that covered the door with the word exit written vertically going up the 493 00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:36.480 door. It was brilliant. There's a stage. There's an actual stage with 494 00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:39.960 American flags on it and a moderator. On the left hand side. There's 495 00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:45.760 seating for what appears to go on for rows and rows of chairs with parents 496 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:52.239 filing in. It was one of the best set decorating that we've seen yet 497 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:54.760 on this show. I thought it was wonderful. Yeah that's saying a lot, 498 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:59.519 because yeah, look, but in the last episode it was the lackluster 499 00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:05.599 third ap a new location. But every other episode has just been topping itself 500 00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:09.679 over and over and over again. We're always impressed with how amazing they make 501 00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:14.840 their world whenever they step out of that garage, and this is a topper. 502 00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:17.079 What a way to go out. They topped themselves. I mean like 503 00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:22.519 we've seen them build gyms with a boxing ring in them, We've seen them 504 00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:27.119 build out reception halls for high school reunions. This topped at all. The 505 00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:30.280 only thing that they just didn't top was Bobby's basement apartment, which I think 506 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:34.880 is still the gold standard. But this was great Bobby's basement apartment. That 507 00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:39.079 was a recurring location. We're talking about the third act locations that take place 508 00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:44.119 in a location that we'll probably never come back to. At this point, 509 00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:49.920 a nervous Alex and Jason file in the rest of the cabbys arrive to watch 510 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:54.000 Jason compete, and he's thrilled. It's like all of these surrogate fathers come 511 00:36:54.039 --> 00:37:00.760 in here to watch Jason. It's just a fun little scenario where these cabbies, 512 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:04.320 these sort of some of them, like Louis, we didn't know that 513 00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:08.639 he had this in him to be kind of an expectant father figure in a 514 00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:14.239 way, and it's just wonderful to observe. And Louis says to Jason he's 515 00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:16.719 got nothing to worry about. He's had to look at the rest of him, 516 00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:22.480 and they're all loses. Something in the way that De Palma says the 517 00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:30.000 word loses, It rolls off his tongue like honey, it's perfect, and 518 00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:32.559 he says that a bunch of times in this scene. I love it. 519 00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:37.679 HP. I'm I'm gonna hire Danny DeVito in a cameo to call you a 520 00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:42.480 loser. I would love that. The moderator, as I said on the 521 00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:45.360 stage, announces the start of the beat. All the kids file in, 522 00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:51.760 the moderator announcing the name of each contestant, and after the first girl is 523 00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:55.239 introduced, I love this moment. The father who's sitting near Louie proudly says 524 00:37:55.280 --> 00:38:00.679 to Louie, hey, that's my daughter, and Louis says, will she's 525 00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:06.480 a loser right to the guy's face. It's so great. Jason is introduced 526 00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:09.599 and the Cabby's it's like they're at like a Yankees game. They go nuts 527 00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:15.079 cheering for him. At this point, Louis bets the father whose kid he 528 00:38:15.199 --> 00:38:20.239 just insulted. He bets the parent twenty bucks that Jason's gonna win the spelling 529 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:24.639 beat and his father has understandably taken aback, and he says, I do 530 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:29.000 not bet on my child, to which, yes, you guessed it. 531 00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:34.880 Louis comes back and says, that's because you know she's a loser. Couldn't 532 00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:38.119 get any better. So carnucopia of losers for you here. I'm in love 533 00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:43.840 with the idea that it's this guy's doing nothing more than cheering his daughter on, 534 00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:49.000 and he's got this yahoo in the audience who calls her repeatedly a loser. 535 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.639 It's perfect. In season two we should have a segment like Loser of 536 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:54.440 the Week. A bit of trivia. By the way, one of the 537 00:38:54.559 --> 00:39:00.400 kids on the stage is introduced as Mary Lou Hartman. As you might guess, 538 00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:04.199 this is a relative of Mary Lou Henner. In fact, this is 539 00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:09.320 Mary Lou Henner's niece Suzanne. In a little cameo, Wow, good good 540 00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:15.280 for her keeping here in the family. Better than Conaway's sister scamo right where 541 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:20.199 they just during that soap opera the beginning she got laughs though, so maybe 542 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:22.280 Conaway's sister is the victor here. What was it it was like? For 543 00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:25.679 better or for worse? Was that better? For worse? My god, 544 00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:30.280 man, I keep getting it wrong. The spelling bee starts and Jason takes 545 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:36.440 the stage. Banta says, oh, the first round is always the toughest, 546 00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:38.559 and again Louis can't help but give it to him, and he replies, 547 00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:42.840 you ought to know, Banta, that's the only round you fight in. 548 00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:46.000 Of it, He's giving it to Tony any chance he gets. It's 549 00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:51.239 great, Louis, heaven, I didn't think of it until you mentioned it. 550 00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:55.679 But this is really Louie's episode. I keep returning to that central notion 551 00:39:55.960 --> 00:40:00.639 right now. We used to feel doubly robbed that they were so interested in 552 00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:06.400 the goddamn plot of this episode of keeping this kid from studying that we did 553 00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:08.320 not get to see Louis de Palm and this kid at the wrestling match together, 554 00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:12.559 with Louis falling in love with him and wanting to be a dad. 555 00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.800 And that would have been a great set. They would have built the whole 556 00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:20.239 wrestling ring, maybe like an auditorium or a hall of VFW where if they're 557 00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:22.239 fighting, would have been great. I'm in this high school auditorium. Put 558 00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:25.239 a ring in there. Instead of the seats, we still get the doors. 559 00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:31.320 Uh perfection. Jason correctly spells the word phosphorus, and again the Cabbes 560 00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:37.440 are cheering like they're at a baseball game. Alex is embarrassed and he says 561 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.400 to know in a particular you know, excuse our excitement, to which Tony 562 00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:44.960 adds, yeah, we're his father, which is actually kind of sweet. 563 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:49.440 I've been beating up on Tony for this whole episode, but that's kind of 564 00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.119 nice to see him feel like a part of Jason's life. He didn't think 565 00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.039 he could handle it, but he is. Yeah, man, you know 566 00:40:55.159 --> 00:40:59.119 that's you beating up on Banta. I don't have any problem with that guy. 567 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:01.760 Hey, look, I'm admitting that I'm a little wrong in this case. 568 00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:06.119 I can change. So we fade out or we fade in. And 569 00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:08.320 it's clearly later on in the competition. I think a lot of the kids 570 00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:12.880 have been knocked out. It's Jason and I think a couple of other kids. 571 00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:15.760 Oh a note, by the way they cut to the Cabby's. Did 572 00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:20.559 you notice they cut to the Cabbys and Jeff Conaway really makes a meal out 573 00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:23.760 of this yawn to sell the idea that they've been sitting in this auditorium forever 574 00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:29.719 watching this play out. Did you notice that it's right, Bobby Wheeler registering 575 00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:34.920 to everyone in the auditorium. Eat things up there, man. He's supportive, 576 00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:39.280 but he ain't that goddamn supportive. He just yawns like nobody's business. 577 00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:44.519 It's crazy how much he yawns. The third to last kid is knocked out, 578 00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:49.599 and now it's just between Jason, and ironically it's the daughter of the 579 00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:53.239 man that Louis repeatedly insults, and they go back a few times, and 580 00:41:53.800 --> 00:42:00.239 unfortunately, in a head to head matchup, Jason loses on the word for 581 00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:02.320 meal. And that's the word I wasn't familiar with. You know what? 582 00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:07.679 Vermal means something green. I don't know what. According to the Mirriam Webster 583 00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:15.639 Dictionary, for meal is a noun which means gilded silver. Who knew? 584 00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:21.280 You learn something new every day. The other girl in the spelling Bee nails 585 00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:24.400 the word and she wins, and Louis, of course, jumps out of 586 00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:30.000 his chair and starts yelling fix, Fix, and the other caves hustle him 587 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:34.280 out of the auditorium before he can cause any more trouble. They cut to 588 00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:38.039 the garage and the rest of the caves are trying to cheer Jason up. 589 00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:44.960 About his spelling bee defeat. Again, Alex admits that the Cabby's should feel 590 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.239 bad because they kept him too busy to study. At that point, Elaine 591 00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:53.599 hustles back in. She's still wearing her trench coat beret combo, but it 592 00:42:53.639 --> 00:42:58.320 sounds like her aunt is on the mend, which is good. Looks like 593 00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:01.840 Elaine didn't bring any clothing for her selfie either. She's clearly too irresponsible to 594 00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:05.320 be a parent. You got that phone call and just hustled out the door. 595 00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:08.239 It casts doubt on what she was actually doing. I think you're I 596 00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:13.199 agree with you. I think she was spending that time with the art collector 597 00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:19.119 played by Tom Selleck from the Caveto four episode. She's still wearing the same 598 00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:23.039 clothes she wore three days ago. She gives Jason a kiss and says, 599 00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:27.960 how are you? I missed you? How is the spelling beat? And 600 00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:34.480 Jason tells his mom that he lost, and Alex again takes the bullet for 601 00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:37.920 Jason and says it's all their fault because they kept him too busy, But 602 00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:43.639 Jason admits it's his responsibility to do the studying and he didn't do that, 603 00:43:43.719 --> 00:43:46.840 and it's his fault for not studying, and Elaine is so proud of him 604 00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:52.639 for taking responsibility. Jason says, is goodbye to all the caves. And 605 00:43:53.079 --> 00:43:58.440 after Elaine leaves, all of the cabby's there, and again it's Burns, 606 00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:02.039 it's Tony, it's Bobby, it's Louis and Alex. They all become really 607 00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:08.360 pensive. They're missing their proxy fatherhood and they get very reflective about it. 608 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:13.320 And Louis, of all people, breaks the silence by sharing a bottle of 609 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:16.880 twelve year old scotch that he's been saving for a special occasion. I noticed 610 00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:21.400 it's almost a twelve year old bottle of scotch. To me, that's realistic, 611 00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:25.519 because you can't expect a bunch of New York cabbies in this garage to 612 00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:30.199 have something that's like a Louis the thirteenth, like a bottle of super expensive 613 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:35.239 scotch. That to me seems realistic. That's the best they can afford. 614 00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:37.840 Well, I think Louis didn't Louis say they found it in a cab Did 615 00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:42.000 he say that? I don't remember that part, which begs the question can 616 00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:46.960 you imagine what the lost and found at a cab company in nineteen seventies New 617 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:53.079 York looked like it must have been a treasure trove of the weirdest and coolest 618 00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:59.280 stuff ever. Everything in that garage just looks like it has soot all over 619 00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:02.239 it. Imagine that the the Lost and Found is just so gross. When 620 00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:07.880 you dig through that box of biline that probably yeah, it'd be Saturday Night 621 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:15.320 Specialists and afro picks Galore Louis pulls off this bottle of scotch, and all 622 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:20.400 of these men admit that they're thinking about having kids now or wondering about what 623 00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:23.519 it would be like because they've got this. They've had this glimpse of what 624 00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:25.800 it would be like to be. Of course, it's not the same thing, 625 00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:30.719 because this kid is fairly mature, and it's not like they're changing diapers 626 00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:34.440 or anything. The experience has been positive enough that they all feel like, 627 00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:38.199 well, are we missing out? Hug of the Pole, the poll of 628 00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:45.199 fatherhood, the title pull the primal Pole. Yeah. Even Bobby, who's 629 00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:49.599 the most self absorbed of all of them, even he is now wondering about 630 00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:52.800 what he might be missing. Not because he says, well, I've been 631 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:55.719 I spent my whole life avoiding this, but now I'm wondering what am I 632 00:45:55.760 --> 00:46:00.400 missing? Then, Alex, of course, being Alex, he bringing them 633 00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:02.159 back down to reality a little bit, and he says, they're only thinking 634 00:46:02.199 --> 00:46:07.119 about the good stuff, not about all the money and the heartache that goes 635 00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:09.639 into it. What I found interesting, Father Malone, and I'm curious if 636 00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:14.760 you had a similar reaction, is not once does he ever talk about the 637 00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:20.679 fact that he is a father. Yeah, at no point during his laundry 638 00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:23.840 list of all of the woes that come along with being a father, he 639 00:46:23.880 --> 00:46:30.079 never says, now I hear that this is what it's like because he didn't 640 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:34.079 go through any of this because he didn't raise that job. I think it 641 00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:37.199 would have been a very interesting choice head, because he could have then made 642 00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:40.679 the point like, well, I'm feeling it even more acutely than all of 643 00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:45.960 you because I had fatherhood and I gave it up. I willingly gave it 644 00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:50.559 up, and now I'm not a day goes by that I don't think about 645 00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:53.199 that decision. But he doesn't do any of that. That I think was 646 00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:57.880 a little bit disingenuous. I think they missed an opportunity in the writing to 647 00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.480 really nail it, you know, Yeah, you think about all the bad 648 00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:05.960 stuff I certainly did, and I ran as far as I could, all 649 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.440 the way to the Sunshine Cab Company like the rest of you losers. So 650 00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:12.400 don't think you're just going to run out and have a kid now suddenly, 651 00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:15.800 because Nardo has a good one. But it's sweet that they're all sitting around 652 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:22.159 wallowing a little bit in there uncertainty and their sadness over possible missed opportunities. 653 00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:27.079 We actually have a bumper in this episode, and it's actually cute. All 654 00:47:27.119 --> 00:47:31.719 these men, these cabs are still in the garage drinking. Louis breaks into 655 00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:37.119 the song Sonny Boy with Alex, and eventually all the rest of the cabbes 656 00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:42.320 join in and they finished the song together and it's a sweet note and the 657 00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:45.960 show on. But by the way, we also get for the season finale 658 00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:50.480 to get another Pan's a tough guy sitting on the cab moment. Did you 659 00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:52.400 notice that? Oh, certainly he's on the hood of the cab again. 660 00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:55.880 He can't help it, He's got to sit there. He doesn't belong. 661 00:47:57.559 --> 00:48:02.280 Can I say that the Sonny Boy sequence were because Alex keeps doing that like 662 00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:07.880 jokey Mystery Science Theater three thousand d kind of thing. Maybe like you know 663 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:12.360 calin response where he's asking questions where the next lyric of the song will be 664 00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:15.159 the answer. It's it is very cute again, it keeps it from getting 665 00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:22.559 two sugary sweet and saccharin. It's a little funnier that way should have ended 666 00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:27.039 with Jeff getting on the microphone and going, could somebody go pick up a 667 00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:31.320 passenger? Are all of you drunk right now? Is that really? We 668 00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:37.800 have no Cabby's Great Laca since the Mama Gravis episode. I believe we haven't 669 00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:42.000 seen hide nor hair of Laka. I don't know where he went. Did 670 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:45.320 he go back to the old country? Is he living in shame because of 671 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:47.840 what his mother did with Alex? Still? Who knows, but we haven't 672 00:48:47.840 --> 00:48:52.599 seen him for a couple episodes. Now, as is our custom, we're 673 00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:54.840 going to talk about yellow lights. Now, what doesn't all light mean? 674 00:48:55.039 --> 00:49:00.880 As a reminder, we grade each episode on a score of one to five 675 00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:06.639 yellow lights. Five yellow lights is the perfect quintessential episode of Taxi. One 676 00:49:06.719 --> 00:49:10.119 yellow light is it doesn't get any worse than this. This is the worst 677 00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:15.760 that Taxi has to offer. As is also our custom, I'm going to 678 00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:20.280 throw it to you father alone, how many yellow lights do you give Substitute 679 00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:27.079 Father. This the season finale of season one of Taxi Substitute Father. I 680 00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:30.320 give two yellow lights. It is neither here nor there. It is neither 681 00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:35.519 hot nor cold. It is lukewarm. Therefore I spew it from my mouth. 682 00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:39.400 Really. Wow, that is very terse and to the point. It 683 00:49:39.480 --> 00:49:45.760 just didn't really make you feel anything either way. No, it's good to 684 00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:50.480 see the gang and particularly the relationship between Louis and the boy, but it 685 00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:54.360 only made me wish that it was an entirely Louis episode with the boy and 686 00:49:54.639 --> 00:49:59.360 made me obsess on a scene that didn't happen, But they brought it up, 687 00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:04.639 so I feel justified in doing so. Which is the deleted scene of 688 00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:09.800 Louis to Palma and the child at a wrestling match released the DiPalma cut. 689 00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:14.760 I can't disagree with what you're saying. Well, I can, but I, 690 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:20.559 on the other hand, I gave this episode three yellow lights. Actually, 691 00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:23.280 when I came into this episode to watch this episode, I had a 692 00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:28.440 memory of watching it however many years ago at the last time I watched it, 693 00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:34.360 and just the memory of the plot and the synopsis made me think, 694 00:50:34.440 --> 00:50:37.000 going in, Oh, this is probably going to be a two yellow lighter. 695 00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:40.519 But then I watched it again it was better than my memory led me 696 00:50:40.559 --> 00:50:45.960 to believe it was going to be. It is a very SITCOMI plot, 697 00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:50.880 there's no question, but I think it's really nice to see the male leads 698 00:50:51.480 --> 00:50:57.559 of the show showing this different side to their personalities, especially Louis, because 699 00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:01.119 to the point that You've made several times, it becomes a Louis episode because 700 00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:07.920 he's probably the least likely to go on to have kids, so it becomes 701 00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:10.800 more special for him this bond that he makes with Jason, and I really 702 00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:15.800 like that. Yes, it's a fairly predictable episode. You know that they're 703 00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:21.440 running this kid so ragged that he's bound to fail at the Spelling Bee, 704 00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:27.039 But I really liked seeing these cabbes band together to take care of e Lane's 705 00:51:27.360 --> 00:51:31.519 son. And there's some really, really solid laughs during the spelling be scene. 706 00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:36.719 Particularly it's all Louis. I mean, if I'm being honest, Louis 707 00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:40.280 is really the driving force to the humor in that part of the episode, 708 00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:45.440 So I still found it genuinely funny. I love his line readings. We 709 00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:50.880 talked about keep your pants on crazy lady. That is quintessential Louis de Palma 710 00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:53.400 right there. For those reasons, I'm going to give it three yellow lights. 711 00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:58.239 This is slightly above average for me. If Burns had taken him to 712 00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:01.719 see Halloween, which was still playing theaters, then I would get a bit 713 00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:05.800 of three yellow lights. If he had tried to do that, then Bobby 714 00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:07.119 would have objected and said, no, no, it has to be a 715 00:52:07.199 --> 00:52:10.519 g rated movie. I'm taking him to see a holiday movie. And then 716 00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:15.199 Bobby Wheeler would leave and he'd say, I wonder if Halloween is still scary 717 00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:17.920 in the middle of June. It's the end of season one. Folks, 718 00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:22.199 Thank you so much for sticking with us, and we look forward to more 719 00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:29.159 taxi talk for season two coming soon. Follow alone. When you're not clocked 720 00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:31.800 into the garage, where can folks find you? I just want to stop 721 00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:37.480 before I plug anything and say farewell, John Burns. We'll meet again. 722 00:52:38.599 --> 00:52:43.239 Don't know where, don't know where. He might have been a ghost the 723 00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:45.559 whole time. 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