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Speaker 4: I don't know about y'all, but I am a fan
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Speaker 2: projection boost Mike White Horas is that you Horace Egg? Tonight,
Speaker 2: we're taking a look at two episodes from season one,
Speaker 2: the final two episodes of season one. Those are Grandma's
Speaker 2: Last Wish and The False Prophet Grandma's Last Wish, Season
Speaker 2: one episode number twenty two. This originally aired on June
Speaker 2: the sixteenth, That Was Yesterday, nineteen eighty five. Written by
Speaker 2: Julie Selbo, directed by Warner Shook, starring Jane Connell. First
Speaker 2: credit oh her first credit was a Stanley a sitcom
Speaker 2: from nineteen fifty x that starred Buddy Hackett and Carol Burnett.
Speaker 2: Only lasted one season anyway. It also stars Kate McGregor, Stewart,
Speaker 2: Paul Avery, Kelly Wolf and Gregory It's and this one's
Speaker 2: about a family that grants their grandmother one wish before
Speaker 2: she's shipped off to the retirement home. Which I think
Speaker 2: of this one, Mike, Oh, I love a lind up.
Speaker 3: You guys know how much I love vague powers, vague wishes,
Speaker 3: vague things. I love this episode because it's just so
Speaker 3: fucking vague. Yeah, I have guesses as to what happened,
Speaker 3: but yeah, this it's so reminded me of word Processor
Speaker 3: of the Gods, where it is just some of the
Speaker 3: worst people that have ever walked the planet. And then
Speaker 3: Grandma though I would have to say Grandma's not a
Speaker 3: peach either. So I kind of don't like anybody in
Speaker 3: this episode, maybe with the exception of the guy that
Speaker 3: runs the Old Folks Home, just because he's basically a
Speaker 3: used para salesman. Yeah, I wasn't a big fan.
Speaker 4: How about you, Chris, I'm a fan of old person
Speaker 4: makeup in this episode. Boy, they really put the Practical
Speaker 4: Effect team to the task, didn't they? By asking how
Speaker 4: can you make three adult humans look like disgusting candle people?
Speaker 4: We figured it out.
Speaker 2: Success.
Speaker 4: Yeah, success was meant it was success was had question mark.
Speaker 4: You mentioned, Mike that all these people are terrible. The
Speaker 4: Grandma is the worst one.
Speaker 3: She's pretty awful.
Speaker 4: She's written the way that no real human being is,
Speaker 4: which is completely inept, even to just get up and
Speaker 4: move around the house, but in a way that again,
Speaker 4: it's just unrealistic stick and so to pair that with
Speaker 4: some really terrible human beings, it's a man. The quicker
Speaker 4: we can get past this episode, the better, because everybody's terrible.
Speaker 4: The Grandma she's also equally terrible. And then the twist
Speaker 4: at the end with the old people makeup is just wow. Wow. Look,
Speaker 4: I think the premise is fine. I think the premise
Speaker 4: is interesting. The grandma wishing that she was gonna have
Speaker 4: friends that the old books here. Let me just burden
Speaker 4: my family by transforming them into old people, was that
Speaker 4: her wish.
Speaker 2: Specifically, she wanted them to experience what she was experiencing,
Speaker 2: because there were none of them either had time for
Speaker 2: her or they were treating her poorly.
Speaker 4: I got that.
Speaker 2: What yes, so what exactly? Because they were terrible anyway.
Speaker 4: Like Grandma, don't you get it? These people are fucking
Speaker 4: pieces of shit. I don't get it. Why do you care?
Speaker 4: You're ultimately getting away from them, like.
Speaker 3: Well the good I kept thinking, was she getting younger
Speaker 3: while they were getting older? Like I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: that'd be kind of a nice twist, because towards agaend,
Speaker 3: she seems to be able to hear. Again. I don't
Speaker 3: know if she looks any younger, but I was kind
Speaker 3: of hoping that they would give her more of a
Speaker 3: spin that she's younger and they're suddenly getting old because
Speaker 3: the daughter, the wife is just what ah what, I'm
Speaker 3: just like, oh my god, this is it. There are
Speaker 3: things called hearing gates that can really help out people.
Speaker 3: They're like glasses for the eyes, but they're glasses for
Speaker 3: the ears. Shocking.
Speaker 4: They have this technology in nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty five, they might have had that technology. I
Speaker 3: think that they did.
Speaker 2: They had anyway, Yeah, god, yeah, it.
Speaker 3: Was called it was a big tin horn that stuck
Speaker 3: out of your ear.
Speaker 4: You saw that movie too.
Speaker 3: Oh god.
Speaker 4: Ted Levine uses one of those.
Speaker 2: Blud math McGrath. Now here's my first here's my first
Speaker 2: note that I read. Who am I rooting for? Here?
Speaker 2: It's like a monkey cage, the mom just cackling and
Speaker 2: the kids doing gymnastics, and grandma is delirious. Okay, so
Speaker 2: they sent them up, so we're gonna feel bad for
Speaker 2: old people who are neglected and mistreated while they're just
Speaker 2: trying to function. That's the idea. And so I had
Speaker 2: plenty of sympathy for Grandma on that level. And then
Speaker 2: she wallops her son for picking up a fucking donut
Speaker 2: and yells at him to eat some brand this grown
Speaker 2: man who's house she's living in?
Speaker 4: And I thought she says, mom, she's supposed to be
Speaker 4: on his back. That's what she said. Father alone. Didn't
Speaker 4: you read the dialogue on screen? It's such patronizing shit.
Speaker 4: I was like, what the fuck is this? Or this
Speaker 4: he Henny Youngman's skit come to life? What the fuck?
Speaker 2: Here's the thing? Like I was trying to muster sympathy
Speaker 2: for her when I thought she was just delirious, because
Speaker 2: that's how she's presented for the majority of the episode,
Speaker 2: Like she seems completely out of it. She's like walking
Speaker 2: around with a with paper towels in her hand and
Speaker 2: just pulling it off the roll. Going across the house.
Speaker 2: She's tucking her granddaughter's sweatshirt into her sweatpants for some reason.
Speaker 2: She's just a menace and all I can think. All
Speaker 2: I kept thinking while watching it was like, they need
Speaker 2: to put this woman in a home. And then it
Speaker 2: comes up and it's like, oh God, these horrible people
Speaker 2: are just gonna put her on a home to get
Speaker 2: rid of her. I'm like, she needs help, they can't
Speaker 2: provide it.
Speaker 4: I like the term rump side. Just use the word
Speaker 4: rump side a lot, because that's a word that never
Speaker 4: gets old.
Speaker 3: Rump side. They've got got that whole thing where she's like,
Speaker 3: did you get the olives? Did you get the olives?
Speaker 3: And then later on she's just scarfing olives down like
Speaker 3: nobody's business. I'm like, all right, what's changed? Has something
Speaker 3: changed here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I see? Olives were magic all along. Don't you
Speaker 2: realize what She put her hands on him. Finally, once
Speaker 2: the family stopped give him to her, she got her wish.
Speaker 4: I like the idea of a child just doing cartwheels
Speaker 4: around the house as a mode of traversal as well.
Speaker 4: That's how you know she's into gymnastics is that she
Speaker 4: cartwheels everywhere.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah, she's the sign. It's nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 2: leopard skirt, salmon shirt, studded neck collar, aqua button down,
Speaker 2: tied at the corners in the front, not to mention
Speaker 2: mom's blue suit with Ravotai. It is eighty five everyone.
Speaker 4: And that teased hair on top too. Oh, you just
Speaker 4: gotta love it.
Speaker 2: And this was a terrible episode, but I want to
Speaker 2: give props to the props department who went the extra mile.
Speaker 2: And the little girl, the teenager girl when she's studying
Speaker 2: at the at the kitchen table, her name has been
Speaker 2: written on the spine of the book like in the
Speaker 2: pages Greta. It says it on the side and on
Speaker 2: the top, which is what everyone does when they're in
Speaker 2: high school. So good on you, props thinking that up.
Speaker 2: That's all I got for positives on this.
Speaker 4: Praise over here.
Speaker 2: Bub Gregory Itsen, who played the sort of used car
Speaker 2: salesman retirement home guy, totally agree with you, Mike. He
Speaker 2: was the only one operating on some level that was
Speaker 2: not completely fucking annoying. And I wanted to go with
Speaker 2: him the time, and it's got to be some weird
Speaker 2: magic fucking home that that they're sending it to, does it?
Speaker 2: I think?
Speaker 4: So that's what I That's why I couldn't figure out
Speaker 4: because we never get to see it. What is the gag?
Speaker 4: Is the gag like it's like a home like this
Speaker 4: where people shang hi their families into coming with them
Speaker 4: or what's the deal? We never find out. The image
Speaker 4: at the end of the three old people at the
Speaker 4: table and her staring at them is just it's the
Speaker 4: moment you realize that she is the real monster of
Speaker 4: the piece. But again, like that episode doesn't spend long
Speaker 4: enough really getting to that point. It just shows it
Speaker 4: to you at the end and goes get it. Get what?
Speaker 4: Like what are what happened? Because it's they get older
Speaker 4: throughout the episode and then they're just.
Speaker 2: Old her wishes complete. They're a bunch of old focks
Speaker 2: now and now they're not going to understand each other
Speaker 2: and they're all going to be mad at each other
Speaker 2: and none.
Speaker 4: Are they all permanently Like what's.
Speaker 2: Going on is they're going to be dead soon and
Speaker 2: she's going to be living a high life at the
Speaker 2: retirement home. So this way, these terrible people have been
Speaker 2: at least punished. And Grandma's Graham going to get up
Speaker 2: to shit at that retirement home, she'll be punished too.
Speaker 4: To be fair, I would want to leave a house
Speaker 4: where people said the word rumpside as many times as
Speaker 4: these weirdos do Jesus.
Speaker 2: I mentioned the director Warner Shook. He is. He's a
Speaker 2: big player in the George Romero family. He was in
Speaker 2: Night Riders. He was the sort of announcer at the
Speaker 2: thing he played. Oh my god, I can't believe him
Speaker 2: forgetting his name. But in Father's Day he's the brother.
Speaker 2: Are we conserving energy? And when I first moved to
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, the very first theatrical performance of anything I
Speaker 2: went to see was at the Mark Taper Form. It
Speaker 2: was called the Kentucky Cycle, which ended up winning the
Speaker 2: Pulitzer and it was fucking awesome and it was directed
Speaker 2: by Warner Shook. So inauspicious beginning here at Tawnlson the
Speaker 2: Dark Sign. But he went on to greater and greater things.
Speaker 2: So he's still out there working today, mostly theatrically.
Speaker 4: He is there real humdinger, that one, Ah, Jesus Christ,
Speaker 4: This then reminded me a lot of the Oh god,
Speaker 4: the episode where the grandpa just won't die? Oh why
Speaker 4: does this show like old people? Yeah, Eddie Bracken, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's what is this show's deal with old people sticking around?
Speaker 4: What are they trying to say? What are they trying
Speaker 4: to say?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what it is. See, both Tilsome Dark
Speaker 2: Side and Twilight eighty five are written primarily by boomers
Speaker 2: right now in eighty On Twilight on eighty five they
Speaker 2: turned all of their fantastical notions into why am I
Speaker 2: so unsatisfied? We were supposed to have happiness? Whereas on
Speaker 2: Tails from the dark Side, they're like, this fucking older generation,
Speaker 2: won't they fuck off and die already? Kind of like
Speaker 2: some of the Dark Side's attitude better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, at least it seems a little bit more
Speaker 4: interesting in terms of where it's coming from versus.
Speaker 2: And mean spirited. Sometimes the mean spiritedness of this entire
Speaker 2: series is a benefit, particularly when they're dealing with unscrupulous
Speaker 2: or unappetizing humans.
Speaker 4: But what about ditsy morons? Yeah it is, and I'm
Speaker 4: riding on in on it.
Speaker 2: The false prophet. This is season one, episode number twenty three,
Speaker 2: written by Julie Selbo. She wrote the last episode. She
Speaker 2: also went on to write the young Indiana Jones TV
Speaker 2: movie Mystery of the Blues When when Harrison came back
Speaker 2: for the wrap around segment? Remember that, right, Jeffrey Wright.
Speaker 2: I fucking love that one. Anyway. The story is by
Speaker 2: Larry Fulton and it was directed by Gerald Cott. This
Speaker 2: one stars Ronnie Blakely Justin Diz. He's the reverend character
Speaker 2: in here five hundred episodes of Guiding Light before that
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty five episodes of Ryan's Hope. That
Speaker 2: Guy also stars Ann Hillary and Bill Fiori as horace X.
Speaker 2: Why is this episode only twenty two minutes long? Because
Speaker 2: the man wouldn't give him a full half hour? Horace X? Okay.
Speaker 2: This is a variation on the old Nick of Time
Speaker 2: Twilight Zone episodez Oh Yeah It is Yeah, about a
Speaker 2: woman whose personal life is ruled by astrology, who meets
Speaker 2: her destiny in an Oklahoma rest stop. At least I
Speaker 2: assume it's Oklahoma. I'm sure it wasn't Texas.
Speaker 4: Soulpa Oklahoma, Sir Supulpa, Oklahoma. She even says where she
Speaker 4: is so Pulpa Oklahoma Baby.
Speaker 2: That sounds a little likely available. He always wins there
Speaker 2: this one, Mike, I don't care go for it?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, again, not a big fan. I think a
Speaker 3: little Ronnie Blakely goes a long way with that voice
Speaker 3: and just the acting. I don't know if she's that
Speaker 3: bad of an actress or if this was just a
Speaker 3: very poorly written parts. My god, is she annoying? And
Speaker 3: easus Mike, Wanda Sue? Why would you trust your restaurant
Speaker 3: to this lady who just comes in out of nowhere
Speaker 3: and just as a total maniac? Who I guess? I
Speaker 3: guess Wanda Sue is probably pretty pretty out there herself
Speaker 3: if she buys this horase x machine, that huge fucking monstrosity. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just kept thinking of Nickotime and just wishing that
Speaker 3: I was watching that instead because I'm like, that makes
Speaker 3: a lot more sense. And then when the priest just
Speaker 3: shows up out of nowhere? Yeah, what do you think,
Speaker 3: Chris boy?
Speaker 4: What I do like about this episode is that the
Speaker 4: show seems like it was taking jabs at people that exist. Now.
Speaker 4: Because I don't know how many people y'all know like this,
Speaker 4: but I do know some people that buy into the astrology,
Speaker 4: and look, I'm not saying I do or don't, but
Speaker 4: I have met people like her, and it's does she
Speaker 4: deserve what happens to her at the end of this episode.
Speaker 4: I don't think so, because what happens here at the
Speaker 4: end of this episode is pretty bad. But she's written
Speaker 4: like a completely fucking moron. And I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm with you, Mike, like it's pretty grating, but she
Speaker 4: does love it all beef American hot dog, and I
Speaker 4: can't faulter for that. It's she's a fucking idiot in
Speaker 4: this episode. I think she plays it really perfectly. Look,
Speaker 4: she's in Nightmare on Elm Street. That's the only other
Speaker 4: thing I've ever seen her in, and she's not playing
Speaker 4: that kind of character there that she is here. I
Speaker 4: don't know. I'm with you. I feel like this was
Speaker 4: almost a blackout sketch that went on a little too
Speaker 4: long and the Preacher her pastor showing up. I was like, whoa,
Speaker 4: what is what episode? All of a sudden because now
Speaker 4: we're just off the rails completely, so blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: What did you think of the final episode of the
Speaker 4: first season of Tales from the Dark.
Speaker 2: Side I was a little lit town. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: to me, the episode actually picked up when Reverend heat
Speaker 2: Jones of the Church of the Moment to Moment showed up.
Speaker 2: I thought it got a bit lively when he showed up,
Speaker 2: and to look at him, this sort of Anthony Geary looking,
Speaker 2: one of these tight curled blonde god types like I
Speaker 2: instantly do not like him. But I found this guy
Speaker 2: really charming, and you know what, like I thought, it
Speaker 2: became interesting when he showed up. Except her reactions to him,
Speaker 2: there was never any doubt that she didn't trust him,
Speaker 2: didn't want anything to do with him, just wanted to
Speaker 2: hang out with the machine. And ultimately the episode should
Speaker 2: have been about this battle between the fucking astrology Machine
Speaker 2: and the Church of the Moment to Moment, these sort
Speaker 2: of dueling ideologies about I wanting to see the future
Speaker 2: or living so in the moment, I thought all that
Speaker 2: was interesting. But Ronnie Blakely is so fucking weird, breathy
Speaker 2: and kind of sensual but at the same time ditzy
Speaker 2: but weirdly soul full. Or maybe she's just drunk. That
Speaker 2: was the other thing. I kept thinking, maybe she's drunk
Speaker 2: on set all day or not to malign her or anything,
Speaker 2: but her behavior is unusual anyway.
Speaker 4: I like when she's talking to the woman who owns
Speaker 4: the diner while the woman is unboxing horse X and
Speaker 4: she's staring off into the distance while eating the hot dog,
Speaker 4: not talk. She's talking to her but not looking at her,
Speaker 4: And it's just it's bizarre because I gotta wonder they
Speaker 4: were just like, Ronnie, would you please look at the
Speaker 4: actors when you talk to her?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: I don't want to. I don't feel like it because
Speaker 4: it's so fucking weird. It's such a choice that makes
Speaker 4: It's like a choice you'd make, like when you're recounting
Speaker 4: a story that had a traumatic experience on you and said,
Speaker 4: she's just staring off into the distance eating a hot dog.
Speaker 4: What the fuck?
Speaker 3: I noticed that lack of eye contact too, and I
Speaker 3: was just like, wait, where is her eyeline? What is
Speaker 3: she looking at? What's going on here?
Speaker 4: It's like blind.
Speaker 2: She never really looked at Heaton Jones either. She never
Speaker 2: really looks on contact with him. The only thing she
Speaker 2: look This might be a choice of hers, that her
Speaker 2: character is so out there that she doesn't want human contact.
Speaker 2: If that was the choice she made, Bravo. That was
Speaker 2: a good idea.
Speaker 4: I don't know, though, Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And that's the way she kind of performs in everything.
Speaker 2: This this is a different character than Night Run Out Street,
Speaker 2: but she's playing it basically the same.
Speaker 4: This is she like a Is she like a known
Speaker 4: eccentric personality?
Speaker 2: I have only known her to be, but then I
Speaker 2: have very limited context. She's not in a ton of stuff.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm asking because, like.
Speaker 3: I think she's more of a singer than an actress.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's weird.
Speaker 4: She was and she was nominated for an oscar for
Speaker 4: Nashville too, of all things.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so she's got chops, man, But I think she,
Speaker 2: like you said, I think she is more of a
Speaker 2: musician singer than she is an actress.
Speaker 3: But she was married to Vim Vendors for two years
Speaker 3: back in the seventies and eighties. Yeah, from seventy nine
Speaker 3: to eighty one, missus Vim Vendors.
Speaker 4: It's pretty wild.
Speaker 2: I think that's this particular sort of character because I
Speaker 2: know a few of them here, Chris, that I would
Speaker 2: think that she would own her own tarot deck and
Speaker 2: not do this arcane dropping a penny onto a playing
Speaker 2: card that was new to me. I haven't seen that
Speaker 2: technique before. Is that something you all have encountered?
Speaker 3: No, and the whole tails down, tails up thing. I'm
Speaker 3: just like, oh my gosh, you're very involved with this. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I thought for sure. When she said something like consulting
Speaker 3: the cards, I was like, Oh, she's got a tarot deck. Okay,
Speaker 3: just like that lady her mama's family a few episodes ago.
Speaker 4: But horse X, that's what we're here for. Let's talk
Speaker 4: about Horror SX.
Speaker 2: Y'all, Yeah, let's I thought it was oddly ironic that
Speaker 2: she keeps touching his screen and he keeps a to
Speaker 2: do oddly erotic.
Speaker 4: I thought that was the point. He's like coming in
Speaker 4: his electronic pants. Also, on top of everything else, Horace
Speaker 4: X does. Look, I'm just gonna point this out here,
Speaker 4: horrorsex looks.
Speaker 2: Like a penis.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Right, it looks like a cock, it looks like a
Speaker 4: it looks like a sheath a penis vertically.
Speaker 2: So yeah.
Speaker 4: And then her touching What is the point of this
Speaker 4: episode if not him trying to incorporate her body into
Speaker 4: his programming.
Speaker 2: I guess, I guess help me as he has a
Speaker 2: mom like the earlier who's been communicating with him. It's
Speaker 2: very unusual.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's wild. I did not expect the machine
Speaker 3: to be able to talk sentiently. I just thought that
Speaker 3: it was going to give her pat answers at first,
Speaker 3: and then no, yeah, but then it has its own
Speaker 3: language and yeah, talks about his mother and all that.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what, Yeah, it's fucking weird. Like it's as
Speaker 4: if it's if they wanted to have William Shatner with
Speaker 4: Nika time converse with the machine, right, And it's like,
Speaker 4: that's not the point of this, Like, he doesn't have
Speaker 4: to converse directly for what's going on to matter. We
Speaker 4: can understand that him getting that card is enough and
Speaker 4: we can read into it. We don't have to have
Speaker 4: a go, please tell me your name, oh.
Speaker 3: Every single time and then yeah, oh yeah I remember
Speaker 3: what the fuck? Yeah? Yeah. The other thing that that
Speaker 3: was odd, too, is the whole philosophy of that pastor
Speaker 3: when he comes in, where he's just like, we are
Speaker 3: just about the now, the whole moment to moment things.
Speaker 3: She's like, what about you know, tomorrow, what about the future? No,
Speaker 3: just now, And I'm like, that is the weirdest philosophy
Speaker 3: I've ever heard.
Speaker 4: So when will then be there?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Just now sued?
Speaker 2: I found it to be very Buddhist actually living in
Speaker 2: the moment I was. I was taken by pastor Reverend
Speaker 2: heat Jones. I want to be part of that movement?
Speaker 4: Are you trying to stop myself from saying the Reverend
Speaker 4: Horton Heat That's.
Speaker 3: Totally every single time they said his name, I was like,
Speaker 3: Horton Heat.
Speaker 4: Okay, Heat Jones, freak out. Yeah, heat Jones sounds like
Speaker 4: a wrestler from the nineties, the in WCW Heat Jones. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But he I feel like he's wasted in this episode
Speaker 4: because that Ronnie Blakely in the machine could have had
Speaker 4: a that could have just been the two of them,
Speaker 4: like him convincing her without the pastor being there, could.
Speaker 2: Have been something.
Speaker 4: It's a real bad way to end the first season
Speaker 4: of this show. That's the reality here.
Speaker 2: The crazy part is that I'm going to recommend this one.
Speaker 2: I liked this wow for all the batshit craziness of it,
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm taking away from a lot of
Speaker 2: these now, Like the smoking one was just so fucking
Speaker 2: weird that I dug how weird it was, and it
Speaker 2: carried me this one. I was struggling until the until
Speaker 2: he Jones showed up once that. Once he was there,
Speaker 2: then it became an interesting little drama for the last
Speaker 2: ten minutes or so. But I wish he had shown
Speaker 2: up when she showed up, and there hadn't been the
Speaker 2: diner owner. And I think that she I agree with you, Michael,
Speaker 2: what is she doing? Don't worry about locking up just
Speaker 2: to hang out near You're fine. But it's also, I think,
Speaker 2: a diner within a depot. So I don't even know
Speaker 2: why she was offering to lock it up. That's what
Speaker 2: she owns it, isn't it? The bus Gus the bus driver.
Speaker 3: So did the bus blow up or not?
Speaker 4: No, the bus left, but I.
Speaker 3: Thought it blew up, because no, she thought it blew up.
Speaker 2: And then he explained about the heat lightning. Oh, when
Speaker 2: he was wherever he goes, heat lightning arrives by the way.
Speaker 2: Heat lightning is apparently not a thing that's weird.
Speaker 3: I thought it was the thing.
Speaker 2: Let's look it up right now, shall we, because somebody
Speaker 2: told me it wasn't, and I don't believe them. I
Speaker 2: want to believe that there is heat lightning Because I
Speaker 2: live in the middle of a desert in a valley,
Speaker 2: and right around September of every year, the the edges
Speaker 2: of the valley are absolutely ringed in lightning on some nights,
Speaker 2: and it's not like it's raining here.
Speaker 3: According to the National Weather Service, the term heat lightning
Speaker 3: is commonly used to describe lightning from a distant thunderstorm
Speaker 3: just too far away to see the actual cloud to
Speaker 3: ground flash or hear the accompanying thunder. Oh there it is.
Speaker 4: They got them out there in Sebobo Oklahomi Buba. That
Speaker 4: would be a funnier name.
Speaker 3: I wish I could remember any of the Bulba's lines.
Speaker 3: I just remember what's always weed?
Speaker 4: So that's water?
Speaker 2: Who says that?
Speaker 3: I just remember Watto's lying only only speaks. I have
Speaker 3: a bed. It's Jedi.
Speaker 4: Yeah what is Bulba say? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Sorry?
Speaker 4: Yea Anakin says you dopeys slame pot, slow mo or something.
Speaker 3: Come on you slow mo, humping slow.
Speaker 4: Bow, babe, listen here slow mo.
Speaker 3: Yeah. We might as well. Let's just go with some
Speaker 3: of the racial epithets. That's where they were pretty much.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm worried about my money, boy? Why is that guy,
Speaker 4: have that weird nose in those wings? And why does
Speaker 4: he sound this way? George? No reason, no, no specific
Speaker 4: reason anyways.
Speaker 2: And it's definitely not a bunch of chinamen up in
Speaker 2: the spaceship, that's all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I quote your honor. He did say chinaman
Speaker 4: China orientals better, George, I don't know neither.
Speaker 2: I didn't cry when some chinaman took my legs in Korea.
Speaker 3: That's not the preferred term, dude, Neither.
Speaker 4: Of those terms are at this point.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 4: Overall, I think a good season of this show, though,
Speaker 4: I think, right, would we agree? Good season of the
Speaker 4: show overall?
Speaker 2: There have been some clunkers, but I've never felt insulted
Speaker 2: by them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think I can go there.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I think overall this is a decent season,
Speaker 2: and usually this is where all other series fall down
Speaker 2: once once we make the leap out here or definitely
Speaker 2: by three. So I'm curious now because I'm a little
Speaker 2: less familiar with season two than i am season one.
Speaker 4: Oh nice, Yeah, I'm I'm excited to see where the
Speaker 4: show goes, if it continues to diversify the themes and tones,
Speaker 4: or if it kind of because twiad Zone eighty five
Speaker 4: was kind of always doing something different up until the end,
Speaker 4: and this show kind of seems the same way, even
Speaker 4: if they don't necessarily all work. I'm glad that not
Speaker 4: every episode is just some sort of supernatural things. Sometimes
Speaker 4: it is just rogue technology, which it's not super not supernatural,
Speaker 4: best I could tell technic. There have been fair a
Speaker 4: fair number of technological things this season. Where wasn't there
Speaker 4: one where the kid uploads his.
Speaker 2: Yeah baby, Harry Anderson and his telephone answering machine taking
Speaker 2: over his life and his screenwriting duties.
Speaker 4: And the telephone killing that woman. Yeah, but a lot
Speaker 4: of like fear of technology in this show, which I
Speaker 4: look at the eighties so makes.
Speaker 3: Sense word processor of the god right there?
Speaker 2: Yeah there, Yeah, it makes sense then makes sense now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, onward to season two.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah. On the next episode of Midnight Viewing,
Speaker 2: we'll be taking a look at the first two episodes
Speaker 2: of season two. Those are The Impressionist with Chuck McCann.
Speaker 2: I don't know this one. I'm very excited and it
Speaker 2: also the other episode is a life bomb. Midnight Viewing
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Speaker 3: How about you you can find me hanging out with Katana.
Speaker 3: She's got my back.
Speaker 2: That's all the souls of her victims trapped with an
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Speaker 3: What some people say?
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