WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:26.280 Weird way media. Nie that guy with it now he's an actor phone and 2 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:31.839 the only camp driver in his place. Good evening and welcome tonight, mister 3 00:00:31.879 --> 00:00:36.240 Walters a taxi podcast. I'm HP your co host, and with me as 4 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:39.560 always is my co host, Father Malone, Father m Alone. How are 5 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:44.719 you this evening? I'm okay if you like revivals. It's like my favorite 6 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:49.000 line in this whole episode, which we'll get to. We are talking Taxi 7 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:53.960 season two, episode six, where for art Thal Bobby. This was written 8 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:59.039 by Barry Kemp and it was directed, of course by the director in residence 9 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:03.599 or the resident director, James Burrows. Reminder, we're doing these shows in 10 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:08.079 broadcast order and not in order of filming. We start this episode with the 11 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:12.599 typical b roll as cabs roll in to the garage on a nice sunny day. 12 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:18.480 Inside, Bobby brings his bookings to Louie and asks if there's any messages, 13 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:22.920 and he gets one message and to his dismay, he got booked for 14 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:29.000 a commercial. Alex sort of counters to him that generally, when you're an 15 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:32.920 actor or a struggling actor, getting a job is a good thing, but 16 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:37.400 Bobby's complaining that it's a commercial. It's a local commercial for a suntan lotion, 17 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:41.079 and it's not the kind of work that he wants to do, and 18 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:45.840 Bobby resolves to call his agent to stop doing this kind of stuff immediately. 19 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:52.079 I'm already kind of annoyed because in season one we saw him breaking his back 20 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:57.280 to get a job, any job before the midnight of the anniversary of the 21 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.760 pact he made with himself that he was going to be an actor or give 22 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:05.920 it all up. I think it's very superficial of him all of a sudden 23 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:09.240 to start grousing that, oh, this part is beneath me. Why am 24 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:13.280 I taking the Did you have the same impression, father Malone? Well, 25 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:15.439 this is a remake of that episode, so of course I was thinking about 26 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:19.719 it. That's exactly. Yeah, I wrote that down by the way that 27 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:24.680 I totally agree. Go on. Was it not his participation as just a 28 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:30.960 drone in a commercial that prompted him to want to quit in the last episode? 29 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:34.919 No, that him being in that Ef Hutton commercial. Yeah, that's 30 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:38.039 what brings him back to acting. That was going to be his lifeline that 31 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:43.759 he wouldn't have to quit acting. He was trying to book any job anywhere 32 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.840 just so he could make that deadline and not have to quit acting. Well, 33 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:51.280 obviously the movie Fame hadn't come out yet, so he couldn't have seen 34 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:55.800 that inspirational speech. But you know, the the the born professor saying like, 35 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:59.360 look, only one percent of you are actually going to be working. 36 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:02.240 The rest of you and to be waiters and delivery people. And you know, 37 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:06.520 and of that one percent, like ninety percent of it is just going 38 00:03:06.520 --> 00:03:10.319 to be commercial work. So he's in the one percent and he's bitching about 39 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:14.159 it. And I get it, if your career is in skyrocketing, you 40 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.159 kind of resent the lower shit that you just have to do to pay the 41 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:20.639 bills. But he should realize it's nineteen seventy nine and he's getting his face. 42 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:23.639 It's a local ad, right, Okay, I see his point now, 43 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:25.719 even more if it was a national ad, I would be if Hutton 44 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:30.199 is a national ad. This is for some New York tanning salon. But 45 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:36.599 it's work, it's paid work, even something as inconsequential as a local ad. 46 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.080 I'm not suggesting he should be doing backflips and thanking his good fortune, 47 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:46.759 but I'm just saying, why respond so disdainfully at the prospect of doing what 48 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:50.680 you want to do, which is be a paid I don't know. It 49 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.639 just rubbed immediately, it rubbed me the wrong way. Yeah. To lighten 50 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:57.840 things up, we get a lack of sighting. Lacka is back everyone. 51 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.960 Louis tells Laca he has a Mesjenny summons him to his cage, and this 52 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:08.080 is total vaudeville. Instead of the customary dollar that Louis gets for a message, 53 00:04:08.520 --> 00:04:12.520 he gives Louis a coin. Then do you remember this bit? Oh? 54 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:15.840 Of course, how could I forget that, this brilliant bit of comedy. 55 00:04:15.079 --> 00:04:19.360 We've seen them do this with currency before. Louis asks what the coin 56 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:25.480 is and Loca says that it's a kebble. And immediately, like I said, 57 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.600 I could call with this was headed. But since Kaufman's involved on game, 58 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.480 because he can liven it up, so Louis asks what a kebble is 59 00:04:32.839 --> 00:04:38.399 and Loka replies that it takes two hundred and seventy kebble to make a liftniche. 60 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:41.839 And this keeps going and then Louis says, what's a lift niche? 61 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:47.600 Back and forth, and finally Loca tells him the last denomination fifty liftnich equals 62 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:53.480 a matter, and then Louis says, well, what's the matter, And 63 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:57.720 of course what does Kaufman say, follow the bait? I don't even want 64 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:02.279 to you know, the joke everybody the bazooka Joe comic and Laka then cops 65 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:05.519 to it. He's like, I read it in the bubblegum rapper. He 66 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:09.399 says, what's the matter, And Laka says, I don't know, what's 67 00:05:09.399 --> 00:05:15.720 the matter with you? Vaudeville and he smiles. The thing that got me 68 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:23.079 he's delight, his delight. Yeah, yeah, through sheer force of charm, 69 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:27.360 Kaufman made it work for me because he's so happy and so pleased at 70 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:31.079 having given this joke that he read in a bubblegum wrapper. It totally made 71 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:33.399 it worth it. I thought it was great, right, but it was 72 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:36.079 a slog to get there, and it needn't have been, because it could 73 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:41.399 have just been what's that or that's the matter, what's the matter, what's 74 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:46.040 the matter of you? Right? The bang bang bang not shifty kebble go 75 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.759 into a lift Nitz and Fisco sent to that and oh yeah, yeah it's 76 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:55.399 inelegant. But again, at the end of it, I was I was 77 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:59.480 chuckling. I thought it was kind of funny. So then Tony enters the 78 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:01.639 garage and he looks like he just came in from a softball game. They're 79 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:06.319 putting Tony in these baseball jerseys with the short sleeves. It's not a good 80 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:11.319 look. You're talking about his ringer, his yellow and white ringer T shirt. 81 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:15.639 Yeah, I loved that. This whole episode is about yellows and blues. 82 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:21.160 Sincerely, Bobby has a yellow shirt, Dance has a yellow shirt. 83 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:27.480 Elaine and Alex are both garbed in blue. Tony comes in and he's got 84 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:31.160 with him a Burns lookalike named Steve Jensen. Steve is played by an actor 85 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:35.759 named Michael Horton. Did you recognize him, father Malone? I didn't recognize 86 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:40.839 him, but I know he's a prodigious actor. I know he does a 87 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:44.399 lot of voiceover work. He's been in an a ton of a ton a 88 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:46.920 ton of stuff, a lot of television, like you said, a lot 89 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:51.639 of voiceover work. But I saw him in this, But I didn't make 90 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:58.360 the connection between Taxi and in this movie. He was in two Star Trek 91 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.120 movies. He was in Star Trek First Contact, and he was in Insurrection 92 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:08.839 both times as Lieutenant Daniels, which he wasn't heavily featured, but he's there. 93 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.920 He looks like he looks like he does here. I mean, it's 94 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:15.639 it's the character, you know, and he's instantly more likable than Burns. 95 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:20.879 Tony just picked him up from the bus station. Evidently he's come in to 96 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:26.439 New York to become an actor, and Tony, in his very simple mind, 97 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:30.519 had the bright idea to introduce him to Bobby because that's what a child 98 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:32.680 would do. Hey, what he says, what are the odds that you 99 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:35.759 know a guy comes to New York to be an actor and I know an 100 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:42.439 act. Alex's great response is fifty to fifty. Rieger's performance in this one 101 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:45.759 is somehow better than I've seen him in a long time. And he's been 102 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:47.560 really good the whole time. But I don't know, for some reason, 103 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:54.240 he's really natural here in this episode. I agree he seems looser somehow. 104 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:59.040 Yeah, well, I think this particular episode calls on him to offer counsel 105 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.240 in a lot of ways. He does that in every episode. For some 106 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:07.560 reason, jud Hersh is free and easy in this episode. So Bobby is 107 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:15.959 introduced to Steve Jensen, and he gives Steve the classic advice when someone says 108 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:20.360 they want to become an actor, Bobby says, don't. It's just he 109 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:24.319 runs down this whole litany of why it's soul crushing to be an actor. 110 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:28.839 You're getting doors slammed in your face. It's a heartbreak after heartbreak, on 111 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:35.480 and on, and then Rieger steps in to explain why Bobby is so upset 112 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:41.320 because he got booked for this terrible sounding local commercial. But what this does. 113 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:45.919 This actually excites Steve. He says, that's great. You know, 114 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.159 you're doing it. You're being an actor. That's what you do. And 115 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:54.919 something about his youthful enthusiasm and reaction kind of softens Bobby a little bit, 116 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:01.919 and it inspires Bobby to take Steve out for breakfast or whatever and introduce him 117 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.559 to his agent. So he's going to take him out and show him the 118 00:09:05.559 --> 00:09:07.559 city a little bit. I thought that was kind of nice, you know, 119 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:11.600 absolutely so far, it's okay, you know, set up is kind 120 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:16.679 of blame, but they're they're muddling through it and everyone's given good performances here. 121 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.960 At this point, I was already having flashbacks to that Season one episode 122 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.399 where he's got to get a job or he's going to give up acting forever. 123 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:28.320 It's starting to feel a little bit like that, but we're not there 124 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:31.360 yet. See. You know what this is like a sideways aspirational episode. 125 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:35.519 You know, it's the not I'm getting the brass ring getting out here, 126 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:39.480 It's the I'm gonna quit everything and just be a cabby. Yeah. Yeah, 127 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:43.960 a lot of whining. We cut back to the garage and we can 128 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.399 see Elaine, Tony, and Alex are they're back to playing cards. The 129 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:52.240 last episode they took up chess, but that didn't stick evidently, so Tony 130 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:56.840 bops in and asks if anyone's seen Steve today, and Alex says to him 131 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.240 that they thought that Steve was staying with Bobby until he got his own apartment, 132 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:03.840 which is nice. Bobby had actually taken this guy under his wing. 133 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.639 He's letting him stay in his sweet basement apartment until he gets on his feet 134 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:13.159 and finds his own apartment. So that's cool. I took this as a 135 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:18.799 very ominous sign. Bobby expositions that he introduced Steve to his agent and he's 136 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.399 wondering how it went. Bobby keeps saying this was probably a terrible day for 137 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:28.000 Steve, getting doors slammed in your face or always miserable. So he heads 138 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:33.639 out to do his local commercial. Two of my favorite bits in this episode 139 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:37.399 have nothing to do with anything, and they both involve Andy Kaufman Locko. 140 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:45.320 So as he's on his way out to his commercial shoot, Locke presents him 141 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:48.879 with this wrapped box and Bobby says, well, what's this, and Lockett 142 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:54.320 replies, goat droppings. Bobby makes the obvious leap, and he says, 143 00:10:54.679 --> 00:11:00.000 oh, is this because it's good luck in your country? And Locke said 144 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:05.080 no, and Bobby naturally says, why are you giving this to me? 145 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:11.000 And Laca says, I don't want it just away? So obvious. Of 146 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:16.200 course, it raises so many questions in one's mind. Number one, why 147 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:20.320 does he have goat droppings? And why has he wrapped it so ornately in 148 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:26.799 a box to present to Bobby. It's great. I love the mystery of 149 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:30.799 it. I love the weirdness of it. Absolutely, all that effort for 150 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.720 something that he just didn't want, like let's the oh, this is a 151 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:39.840 rabbit hole. I don't want to go down the goat dropping. Soon Steve 152 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:43.039 comes ambling into the garage. He seems like he's in this daze, he 153 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:46.279 doesn't know where he is. He has this look on his face, this 154 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:52.159 glazed look, and the Cabby's press him out of concern, like what's going 155 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.279 on? How is your day? You know? Everything okay? And he 156 00:11:54.360 --> 00:12:00.639 says, yeah, I'm feeling great. I got a job. So the 157 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:05.679 first audition that Steve went on was for an off Broadway production of Romeo and 158 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:11.039 Juliet, and wouldn't you know it, he scored the lead. He's Romeo 159 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:15.159 and Romeo and Juliet off Broadway. They start in eight weeks. Of course, 160 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.840 they have to throw in a little bit to show how lunkheaded Tony is, 161 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.279 because Alex says, what's the part? And Steve replies, Romeo, 162 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:31.559 what plague Baudville? Oh I heard of that. Tony says, well, 163 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:35.360 you must be some great kind of actor, because Bob he's been trying for 164 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.600 a break like this for years. And at that point, the penny sort 165 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:46.960 of drops for Alex and he realizes with everybody else that this news that Steve 166 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.960 first audition out of the gate, he gets this amazing job. This is 167 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.159 going to shatter Bobby, This is going to wreck him because he's been toiling 168 00:12:54.159 --> 00:13:00.000 away for years with little or nothing the show for it. When Tony wonders 169 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:03.799 who's gonna break the news, naturally, Louie is the one who offers. 170 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:07.519 This is a parallel, not to the one where he's set a deadline for 171 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:13.200 himself. This is a remake of the episode where he goes to work for 172 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:16.440 the soap opera. Yeah, and then then he gets written out of the 173 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.879 show. He gets killed off, but not before he's already made a production 174 00:13:20.200 --> 00:13:24.159 to Louie of saying like, I'm never coming back to the garage. You're 175 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:28.120 never gonna see my face again. So he's gonna come with his tail between 176 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:33.840 his legs. And remember, Louie is so gleeful that it actually moves Alex 177 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:41.320 to violence against Louie. They chase each other around, so this is exactly 178 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:45.000 the same. So Louie is just rubbing his hands together, like, please 179 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:48.600 let me tell Bobby the bad news, because he lives for this stuff. 180 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.320 He's begging them let me give the bad news to Bobby, but Alex is 181 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:56.559 refusing. He says, all right, I'm not gonna tell him the news, 182 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:01.080 but you didn't say I couldn't call him, And then this chase ensues 183 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:05.240 where he's trying to get into the kge right. Yeah, it's good. 184 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:09.720 It's a really good bit of physical comedy. And you know what they got. 185 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:13.120 Here's the thing that reminded me again. I mean, how can we 186 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:18.039 not be reminded of that previous episode we were just talking about. But whenever 187 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:24.480 jed Hurst sort of springs up in a sort of offensive way, like to 188 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:30.559 tangle with Louis, I think of everyone in that garage, he's the one 189 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.120 I would want to fight the least. Jued Hurst seems like he could lay 190 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:39.159 anybody out. Man. I think we've all had that teacher in school who 191 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:45.360 never raised their voice, never really got into it with the kids. But 192 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:50.879 the second they raised their voice even a little bit, because it was such 193 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:56.399 a stark contrast to their normal mode of behavior, you snapped to it. 194 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:03.120 To me, that's the brilliance of Alex Rieger here, because he's usually such 195 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:09.360 a very level headed and easygoing fellow. But when he's pushed, when he 196 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:13.399 flips that switch, man, I would I'm Ali, I'm with you. 197 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:16.120 I wouldn't want to tangle with him. He'll kill you, yeah, man, 198 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:22.159 And certainly, well it's not so much him here as Nardo, and 199 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:28.679 more to the point, Tony lifting louis parallel to the floor, which is 200 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:33.799 a great site gag. Just them standing there and him clutching the cage trying 201 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:39.120 to get inside. It's almost like a painting. It doesn't excuse the fact 202 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:43.840 that we've already seen this when Judhurst ripped the grates off of the cage, 203 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:48.480 which is way more effective. This scene is funny, but there's such an 204 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:54.879 overwhelming sense of dejure vous for that first season episode. It really is like 205 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:58.960 a rewrite of that. We go to commercial, we cut back, we 206 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:06.639 see the familiar outside of Bobby's sweet basement apartment. Man looking for some cozy 207 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:11.200 fun. So the Cabby's plus Steve Jensen are all gathered in there. They 208 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:15.279 all have beers. They're waiting for Bobby to come in there. You get 209 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:18.240 the sense that they're trying to preemptively put him at ease before they have to 210 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:25.360 give him the news that Steve got this job. And Bobby bounces in smiling. 211 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:30.080 He's hugging all the Cabby's, But it becomes slowly apparent there's something in 212 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.480 the way that it's both the way it's shot, this tight shot of his 213 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:40.200 face, but the way that Bobby is going from person to person. Yeah, 214 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:45.000 Conway's great here because the gag is it's the fucking commercial that he did 215 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:49.200 tanned half his face so he looks like Batman villain Harvey two face dent, 216 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:56.240 but they don't feature it immediately. Like you said, it's this little game 217 00:16:56.279 --> 00:17:02.360 they're playing with the lighting and everything, but Conoway's full frame turning from left 218 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:04.960 to right, so you can't really make you know something's wrong. You just 219 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:11.240 don't know what until Banta speaks up. He reminded me of Richard Dreyfus in 220 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:17.440 Close Encounters when half of his face is sunburned from the lights. Half of 221 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:21.920 Wheeler's face, like you said, has this it's tanned and the other half 222 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:26.079 is not. He's moving his head shaking it left to right, so you 223 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:30.799 see tan no tan tan, and you can hear the audience sort of start 224 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:33.920 to catch onto this and laugh. It's a great visual gag that they do. 225 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.440 I thought it was really good, and Conaway is a big part of 226 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:41.720 what sells this. As much as the cabbys are trying to ignore the fact 227 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:48.279 that half of his face is dark. Tony, ever uncouth keeps asking what 228 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:53.319 happened to you have face, and Bobby explains they had to put this lotion 229 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.799 on the side of his face and it won't come off. He's tried washing 230 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:02.200 it off and it's there for a while. Bobby expresses his gratitude to everybody 231 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:07.079 because he thinks they're ostensibly there to celebrate that he did this commercial, but 232 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:11.480 really they're all there to soften the blow for when he finds out that this 233 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.079 kid got a major part right out of the gate. He gives his special 234 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:21.599 thanks to Steve because he keeps reiterating this point that, boy, after the 235 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:23.759 bad day that you had, Steve, I know you didn't want to The 236 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:26.079 last thing you want to do is be in this party. And da da 237 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:30.519 da. Bobby keeps trying to ask Steve about what happened today. Well, 238 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.680 you know, but all the rest of the Cabins Preese company shit right here. 239 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:37.559 Oh, let me get to Bobby, did you do you want to 240 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:42.160 be here or something? Wait? Rite Bobby, Hey, let's let's do 241 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:48.680 a toast. They keep finding ways to distract him from finding out how Steve's 242 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.839 day went. Steve sheepishly finally admits that he had a great day that he's 243 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:59.519 playing Romeo off Broadway, and this is actually another great little visual bit. 244 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.480 I think it was just serendipitous. Bobby hears about this and he freezes for 245 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:07.880 a minute and he takes this big swig out of his beer, and when 246 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:12.680 he puts the beer down because it had been shaken, the beer just goes 247 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:17.039 everywhere. It just starts coming out like fizzing right out of the can. 248 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:21.920 I thought it was a great match to his attitude in that moment. What 249 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:26.680 did you think the frothing of the can is great? But if you're watching, 250 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:33.359 he's drinking when he's told that the kid got the gig, and he 251 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.519 lowers the can and then remembers he's supposed to shake it, so he takes 252 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:41.279 that quick drink to make the can do that. So it looks really unnatural, 253 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:45.400 because here's the thing. If his character, if his reaction after hearing 254 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:48.039 it was to start drinking, then he would have drunk the whole thing. 255 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:52.519 And he doesn't do it. He just does this quick like and it's just 256 00:19:52.519 --> 00:19:55.519 to shake the can up enough. I watched the scene twice because I watched 257 00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:57.519 the episode twice, and the first time I was like, what was wrong 258 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:02.000 with that? And then it second time, did it? He missed his 259 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:07.200 cue HB But the gag still works. Yeah, it still works. Bobby 260 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:10.279 then tries to give Steve some encouragement and say, oh, this is great, 261 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:12.319 and he tries to rally the Cabby's, and the Cabby's again are all 262 00:20:12.359 --> 00:20:18.880 feigning indifference to this news. And that's when Elaine gives that great line reading 263 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:21.440 where he says, is this great? He's on Romeo, He's doing Romeo 264 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:25.000 and Juliet, And Elaine says, well, yeah, I guess if you 265 00:20:25.119 --> 00:20:27.799 like revivals. It's like an Altman thing because like everyone's speaking at once, 266 00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:30.920 you know, so this is cacaphony of voices, but hers just sings right 267 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:36.599 out, you know. According to the Lovies book The Official Taxi Fan Guide, 268 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:40.240 Mary Leeuhanner takes full credit for that particular line. She came up with 269 00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:45.039 that line during rehearsals and she insisted she's going to be the one to deliver 270 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:48.599 that line. It works wonderfully. It's a great moment in the episode. 271 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:52.000 It is Bobby goes back over to Steve and he says, oh, it's 272 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:56.440 great, you made it, and he starts hugging him by the shoulders. 273 00:20:56.440 --> 00:20:59.839 You made it, you made it, you made it, And he goes 274 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:04.000 for being nervously happy to choking him and saying you made it, you made 275 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:07.440 it, and starts throttling him by the neck. I thought it was a 276 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.440 fun little transition for Conaway. His face twists into this rictus of anger, 277 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:15.799 and I thought it was a funny little two faces taken over here, Harvey. 278 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:22.519 Then just soon the coin will merge. So you're carrying the Batman analogy 279 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:26.720 to its final conclusion there. You couldn't pay me enough to have my face 280 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:33.400 look like that. That's Tony Well, what a sensitive guy. We cut 281 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.799 back to the garage and Wheelers coming in. He's still got half of his 282 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:41.119 face is still tanned, and he asks Louis for a cab, and Louis 283 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:48.240 he can't help just laughing right in Wheeler's face when he sees this half tan 284 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:51.480 going on the rest of the cab. He's all try to buck Bobby up, 285 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:55.920 but he proclaims that he's not an actor anymore. It's all, he 286 00:21:55.920 --> 00:22:00.440 says, it's all a bunch of luck. He's fishing for sympathy, and 287 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:04.359 I find it annoying that he's doing this because he knows that they're all going 288 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:07.240 to try to cheer him up or convince him not to do it, but 289 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:11.880 he does it anyway. It's dumb. The modern equivalent is I'm leaving this 290 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:18.119 Facebook group. Okay, yeah bye. By the way, I was going 291 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:22.359 to use that example, but Facebook is not in anymore. We're very old. 292 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.200 We're reviewing taxi we're talking about that's as modern as we get. It's 293 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:30.519 like my Space. When you're gonna leave a MySpace page and you say I'm 294 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:34.119 leaving. Bobby says that he's already left a message for his agent, saying 295 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:38.759 as much that he's quitting acting and he's done. Steve comes in to ostensibly 296 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:42.680 to apologize to Bobby for what happened, but then he asks Alex if he'll 297 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:48.559 run some lines with them, and then Alex sagely suggests that he run lines 298 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.599 with Bobby instead. This is it's dumb, like reverse psychology. A kid 299 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:57.200 wouldn't fall for this. It's dumb. Yeah. And also he should be 300 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:03.200 rehearsing for the play that starts in two weeks with the cast, and not 301 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:06.880 here at the garage. What is Steve doing here? Go find an apartment. 302 00:23:07.359 --> 00:23:11.160 It's insulting the way that it's written. It's so obvious what Alex is 303 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:15.799 trying to do that even Tony the lunkhead knows what he's driving at. I 304 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:18.359 think he even says, oh, I know what you're getting at. Steve 305 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:23.400 and Bobby get ready to run this scene from Romeo and Juliet where Romeo fights 306 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:30.440 with Paris and kills him, and after initially Bobby makes a big show of 307 00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:34.599 seeming so bored he's not giving anything to his performance, Steve actually says, 308 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.119 hey, can you give me a little more, Let's really make this work. 309 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:42.599 Yeah, it's so again this dramatic petulant thing that Wheeler sometimes does that 310 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:47.839 I really do not like. Where he's got a Snickers bar half in half 311 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:51.200 out of his mouth. He's not even chewing it. He's just mumbling around 312 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:53.920 it like I'm a dickhead. He's holding it like a cigar, he's not 313 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:59.119 eating it. The whole point of it is to rouse his acting passion so 314 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:02.839 that he won't quit. Bobby finally gets into the spirit of the performance. 315 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:06.240 I think he even goes off book. He doesn't even need the book anymore, 316 00:24:06.279 --> 00:24:10.920 he could just recite it from memory. Their impassion performance compels the rest 317 00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:15.839 of the garage to applaud loudly, which leads to my third favorite Laca moment, 318 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:18.839 and I think this was also done in season one, if I'm not 319 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:23.480 mistaken, at some point where they're applauding this performance and Loaca happens to be 320 00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:27.880 walking in and he thinks that they're applauding for him. He says nothing, 321 00:24:27.920 --> 00:24:33.000 but he just nods and receives the applause and walks across the garage. That 322 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:37.160 joke is evergreen. I don't care how many times I see it in how 323 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:41.920 many different shows or how many different situations. Somebody mistaking applause for their own 324 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:48.720 adulation is always hilarious. Every favorite moment I've had is about Laka, And 325 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.240 you could take those out of the episode entirely and it would not change the 326 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:57.440 episode one bit except make it less funny. So you could just watch some 327 00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:03.920 special featuring Andy Kaufman instead of this episode. Oh and I would have enjoyed 328 00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:07.920 it a hell of a lot more than this, not to spoil my review, 329 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:11.599 we wouldn't have gotten to see Bobby Wheeler do his death thing for the 330 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.960 fucking thousandth time in two seasons, not even five episodes. Into the season 331 00:25:17.079 --> 00:25:22.920 six. Yeah, I could do without his hammy, you know. Oh, 332 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.720 As he gets stabbed with an imaginary sword and he falls to the ground, 333 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:36.599 I am slain. I expected in my life that people would proclaim that 334 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:40.960 a little bit more. It seemed to me that in every Shakespearean play, 335 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:44.119 when you die, you yell you are slain, whether stabbed or not. 336 00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:48.319 So I thought that was just a thing we all did. I don't know, 337 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:49.920 I guess I never gave it much thought. But try to yell I 338 00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:53.200 am slain right before I die. If I have the last breath in me, 339 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:57.079 I am slain, or maybe put that on my tombstone. So we've 340 00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:02.880 seen him do dying better than this in previous episodes, and here's where it 341 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:07.559 actually counts, because this is supposed to be reinvigorating him in some way. 342 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:11.960 I guess it doesn't actually though, does it. It doesn't really, because 343 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:18.480 what happens is he falls to the floor, everybody applauds, and he says 344 00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:21.599 to Steve, hey, you know a kid, you're great. Steve's response 345 00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:26.119 is, you can't give up acting. We're led to believe that this performance 346 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:32.640 has affected Steve to the point where now even he thinks that Bobby can't quit 347 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:37.480 acting because it's such an amazing performance that it's an actor is complimenting him on 348 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:41.720 his performance. But in reality, it's not that good of a performance. 349 00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:45.279 But then again, neither is Steve Jensen's performance as Romeo. But that's neither 350 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:52.079 here nor there. That's because I've stuck in that seventies kind of leftover from 351 00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:59.039 the sixties Romeo and Juliet performance of Shakespeare. Everyone's still doing Shakespeare acting instead 352 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:03.960 of acting in Shakespeare. I think we probably have Kenneth Branna to thank for 353 00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:10.960 bringing Shakespeare back to the masses, making it more approachable and making the dialogue 354 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:15.039 more sensical to modern audiences. He didn't change the dialogue, but it's the 355 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:18.519 way he's performed was the key there, right, But I think you're right, 356 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:22.759 it's still very Shakespearean. That's what we all suffered through in high school. 357 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.400 As I said, he says to Bobby, you can't quit acting. 358 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:29.480 The real truth of it, he says, is that look, if he 359 00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:32.400 can be that good, If Bobby can be that good and he still can't 360 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:36.279 get a job, then this just proves that acting is nothing. But luck 361 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:40.960 He's actually right, it's one hundred percent right. He could have gotten off 362 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:45.200 a bus and walked into an audition and gotten a lead. The stars did 363 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:48.319 not align for him for whatever reason, and they did for Steve Jensen. 364 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:52.160 It could be his look. It could just have been that day they were 365 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:56.079 ready for that actor for that part. Bobby is speaking the truth here. 366 00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:00.680 It's a crapshoot. No matter how you slice it. We can't control himself 367 00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:07.240 any longer. This is the same fit of glee and laughter that he couldn't 368 00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:11.440 stifle back in that season one episode. He bursts out laughing from his cage, 369 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:15.640 and he really calls Riager on Riager's transparent scheme to get Bobby to do 370 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:19.319 this scene. He says, what's on our mind, which is that was 371 00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:22.759 a really lame thing for him to try to do. It was so obvious 372 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:26.920 that it was reverse psychology at work. Here. Bobby's the one who confronts 373 00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:33.160 Louie, which normally we would have expected Alex to be the one to say 374 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:37.240 that's enough, I've had enough. But Bobby gets up and explains to a 375 00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:41.880 chuckling Louis, like Louis can't even keep a straight face during this exchange between 376 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:45.240 the two of them, and he says to Louis, look, acting is 377 00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:48.240 nothing but a bunch of heartbreak. Does Louis know how it feels to have 378 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:53.359 your dream slip away time and time and time again. But then Bobby admits 379 00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:56.200 to Louis that he came into the garage that day is it really is a 380 00:28:56.240 --> 00:29:00.240 beaten man. But he's found something that's going to get him through all of 381 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:04.440 the hard times chasing his dream to become an actor. He's found a light. 382 00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:08.839 You know what that light is? It? To you, Louis, 383 00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:15.000 I'm gonna make it just to fuck you. Conway's great here. He could 384 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:18.559 have been histrionic, He's not. He could have been underplaying it. He 385 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:23.880 isn't. He's right in the sweet spot there where he's just telling it like 386 00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:27.079 it is. There's all the menace in the world in it, with it 387 00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:32.599 none of it being presented as that. It's fucking good man. It almost 388 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:37.000 redeems the episode. But it can't. Possibly Jeff Conaway has to do this 389 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:42.079 while Danny DeVito is right across from him. He's laughing his ass off through 390 00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:45.440 the whole thing. He can't. It's supposed to be this idea that Louie 391 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:52.400 can't stop chuckling, so Conaway has to get deep down and serious and break 392 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.599 it down for Louie. I would have been cracking up because Daniel Vito's right 393 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:00.680 there cracking up. You're right. It almost redeems the previous twenty six minutes 394 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.759 of the episode. But it doesn't it. We don't quite get there to 395 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:07.240 your point. He basically says to Louis, Look, you're the reason that 396 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:11.519 I'm gonna keep going. Every time I get beaten down, I'm gonna tell 397 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:15.920 myself that someday I'm gonna come back and shove everything you've said to me, 398 00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:21.000 write down your fucking throat. And then he says, excuse me, I 399 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.200 got to call my agent, So you're gonna call the agent back and tell 400 00:30:23.240 --> 00:30:26.799 him I'm not quitting. I'm back then, but then he does this move 401 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:33.000 where he raises the forearm and kicks out the legs simultaneously like a piston, 402 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:37.519 Like I'll kick you in the fucking face, Louis to Palmer, Miss stump 403 00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:41.160 on you crunch. I thought that was Loui's move, though, that's Louis 404 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:45.400 does that. Oh even, yeah, you're right, I guess he has 405 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.680 done that in the past. I think that was his the echo of Louise 406 00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:53.799 doing that move like a second, I like it even more. Yeah, 407 00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:59.200 the last two minutes of this episode is really really good. Then we have 408 00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:03.000 another what really passes for a bumper where and this is a very odd bumper. 409 00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.880 I gotta say, a stupid bumper. It makes no sense at all. 410 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:11.240 Suddenly the coffee machine has gone and it's replaced by the candy machine again. 411 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.920 Why because we needed to be there? And yeah, okay, so 412 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:19.599 Louis pissed off, like you know, an animal has to act out and 413 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:23.480 smash something. So he's like, y'all like candy, Well take this, 414 00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:29.799 and he dumps the candy machine over and then half heartedly stomps on maybe two 415 00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:34.279 pieces of candy before walking off, all triumphant and angry and dismissive of them. 416 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:41.240 But he just gave everybody free candy. It's not much of a take 417 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.240 that to the rest of the cabbes. It's just like, I just overturned 418 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.759 this candy machine. I stepped on two or three candy bars, but the 419 00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.400 rest are fine, have at it. Hey, I'm gonna have to pay 420 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:55.359 for this candy machine. The boss is going to freak the fuck out on 421 00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:57.880 me. I might lose my job. Now have some free candy I win 422 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:05.960 the other thing that redeemed this bumper for me. And this is so niche 423 00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.079 and I forgive you if you didn't notice this, But I don't know if 424 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:15.160 you remember. In the season one episode Hollywood Calling You and I had a 425 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:20.240 spirited discussion about an extra that was in the back. I dubbed him something 426 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:22.559 like Captain Marvel. I thought he was part of the film crew. You 427 00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:25.000 thought he was part of the camp company. And I believe you were right 428 00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:29.400 in that case. Well, not only that, but this confirms it because 429 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:34.240 as Louie is walking off triumphantly after stepping on two or three candy bars, 430 00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:38.279 who's in the background watching all of this take place. Captain Marvel's there. 431 00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:43.440 He's got the same shirt, he's got the same pants, he's got the 432 00:32:43.440 --> 00:32:46.359 same hat. It's the same fucking guy. He's still a cavey. So 433 00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:50.440 you're just sort of reveling in that right now. I got what it tells 434 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:54.559 me is he must have been a co producer or somebody on the staff, 435 00:32:54.599 --> 00:33:00.680 because why would an extra still be there after one season's already gone? Are 436 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.240 you crazy? Have you watched like an entire run of cheers. Look around 437 00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:07.279 that bar. All of those patrons are pretty much the same in most of 438 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:13.920 these background cabbys we've been seeing forever now, Blonde, leggy pants suit, 439 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:16.920 blonde is there. I've seen Appleman in the background. We've seen a bunch 440 00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:21.759 of these people. Man, Lumberjack, Apple. Yeah. There was something 441 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:28.480 thrilling in seeing this extra looking exactly like he did the previous season for no 442 00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:32.160 good reason. He's just there. I found it delightful. That's the episode 443 00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:37.400 that is where for Art Thau Bobby. Now we're going to talk yellow lights 444 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:40.519 as we do. What does a yellow light mean? A reminder we grave 445 00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:45.759 this episode on a scale from one yellow light to five yellow lights. One 446 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:52.079 yellow light is a terrible taxi episode. Five yellow lights is the perfect taxi 447 00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:55.440 episode, and as is our custom Fallow Malone, I'll throw it to you. 448 00:33:55.920 --> 00:34:01.640 What do you give where for Art Thou Bobby? A poor remake of 449 00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:07.839 a previously annoying episode. I'd like to say that there are good things in 450 00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:09.360 it, and I think I already have, but I don't need to JUSTI 451 00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:13.920 find it any more than that. This one was better paced than the previous 452 00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:17.119 Banta episode. It moved along at a steady clip. It's just that we've 453 00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:22.360 seen all of this before, We've seen it done better, and if they're 454 00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:24.760 going to do aspirational episodes, they got to come up with something new other 455 00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:30.280 than I'm going to quit and I'm going to quit. Well, let me 456 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:34.920 ask you a question. You gave the Banta episode two yellow lights. You 457 00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:38.800 think this episode is worse than the Banta episode. Yeah, I hadn't seen 458 00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:45.199 the Banta episode before. I've seen this one before. I'm kind of surprised, 459 00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:49.880 but I will tell you that I gave this episode two yellow lights because 460 00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:57.239 you're frequently wrong, but so my rationale on this and again I say this 461 00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.119 often, but I don't have to explain myself to you, but I will, 462 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:02.519 and the interest of our viewers. There's I think there's some funny stuff 463 00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:07.280 with the Cabbys and Louis. It's you know, I chuckled a few times. 464 00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:09.480 I love this stuff with Laka, despite the fact that it has nothing 465 00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:14.719 to do with the episode itself proper. I agree with you that it's far 466 00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:20.000 too similar to some of the episodes we saw in season one. In particular, 467 00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:24.400 the episode called Bobby's Big Break featured Wheeler pushed to the brink of quitting 468 00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:30.960 acting by circumstances out of his control. So yes, there are such similarities 469 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:34.840 between those two episodes, But all in all, I still think this is 470 00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:39.760 slightly below average, if not enjoyable, on some of its own merits. 471 00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:45.480 So I gave it two yellow lights. We're not worlds away like I always 472 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:51.719 say, but you know it's worth noting. Yeah, don't be poor poor, 473 00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:55.400 don't be poorly written, and an echo of an earlier episode. That's 474 00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:59.719 my ultimate takeaway here. I liked all the lot of stuff too, and 475 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:02.320 I like that last moment with Conaway, but the rest of its kind of 476 00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:07.280 bad. Yeah, but you also said you liked Alex in this episode better 477 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:13.880 too. This doesn't right. I might have to go to two yellow lights. 478 00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:17.079 Don't let me convince you you gave the score. You gave it, 479 00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:21.000 Okay, listen, I gave it the one because I'm so mad that they 480 00:36:21.039 --> 00:36:23.800 wasted our time with the Wheeler episode doing this with Wheeler when we've already seen 481 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:29.039 this with Wheeler. But you know what, the Harvey two face makeup and 482 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:32.719 his performance, you know what, not even Riger, not even Riger's performance 483 00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:36.480 here. I'm gonna go with Conaway's performance gets it an extra hollo light. 484 00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:40.360 I'm going up to two two yellow light. We're in agreement perfect, So 485 00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:45.360 that will do it for this episode of night Mister Walters follow Malone. Where 486 00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:50.119 can people find you when you're not clocked into the garage. You can hear 487 00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:54.119 me over on weirdingwaymedia dot com, where I have shows like Dark Destinations it's 488 00:36:54.119 --> 00:37:00.800 a radio drama and Midnight Viewing, a horror anthology podcast where we review tales 489 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:04.880 from the dark side, and midnight viewing anthologies Attack, where we review all 490 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:09.199 kinds of anthologies. You're covering Batman on the anthology series right, Yeah, 491 00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:14.760 We've already covered Almost Got Them from season one, and the next up is 492 00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:19.519 Legends of the Dark Knight from season three. 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