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Speaker 2: I'm HP your co host and with me as always
Speaker 2: as my co host, Father Malone, Father him alone. How
Speaker 2: are you this evening.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling precocious.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk Taxi Season two, episode sixteen, Tony
Speaker 2: and Brian. This was written by Ken Eston and directed,
Speaker 2: of course by James Burrows. Reminder, we're doing these shows
Speaker 2: in broadcast order and not in order of filming. Man,
Speaker 2: this is gonna be a one Father alone. We opened
Speaker 2: in the garage for this episode. Bobby runs in to
Speaker 2: tell alex in Elane that his new play got reviewed
Speaker 2: last night.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. He's got a stack of paper, a
Speaker 1: stack with him. He's got all the papes.
Speaker 2: He's got a bunch of papers, and we come to
Speaker 2: find out that they're different papers. It's not just one
Speaker 2: copy of the same good review. By the way, it's
Speaker 2: actually very quaint when you think about it, that back
Speaker 2: then you actually had to buy a newspaper the day
Speaker 2: after to read a review for this like nowadays, it's
Speaker 2: you know, we live in a twenty four hour news cycle, obviously,
Speaker 2: but back then you had to wait till the person
Speaker 2: submitted the review to the paper, that the paper was printed,
Speaker 2: the printed papers were delivered to newsstands, and there was
Speaker 2: a long process. So that's he had to wait a
Speaker 2: whole half a day to get his review back.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, there's tons of those Broadway tales where the
Speaker 1: opening night and they're all waiting at the restaurant and
Speaker 1: somebody rushes out at three am because they've just dropped
Speaker 1: off the first edition.
Speaker 2: It's a bygone era.
Speaker 1: Now nowadays, you could probably just while the play is
Speaker 1: going on, if you have a scene, you're off your backstage,
Speaker 1: you'd probably find out exactly what people are thinking of
Speaker 1: your show, because they're probably fucking spewing from the audience.
Speaker 2: They're submitting capsule reviews on Twitter. Boy, this play is
Speaker 2: just fucking terrible. Alex takes the paper and proceeds to
Speaker 2: read the review as a cheery Bobby goads him along.
Speaker 2: The review is almost completely negative. It's a revival of
Speaker 2: depth of a salesman, and Bobby is playing Biff loman.
Speaker 1: I would love to see this performance, by the way.
Speaker 2: Right, by the way, I think we only end up
Speaker 2: really seeing Bobby perform professionally once.
Speaker 1: Are we talking about the Children's party audition?
Speaker 2: No, that's really I guess that is a professional engagement.
Speaker 2: Now there's an episode where he does he's performing in
Speaker 2: a one man play about Charles Darwin.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's right, is that critic? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that one.
Speaker 2: It's an awesome episode, and unfortunately this is not it.
Speaker 2: By the way, speaking of Bobby, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you noticed this, but he's wearing his customary leather jacket.
Speaker 2: But we never talked about this. He has this it's
Speaker 2: a gold or brass pin on the right side of it,
Speaker 2: his right side.
Speaker 1: We have talked about it, but we have not discussed
Speaker 1: what it actually is. I said, he's got a button
Speaker 1: on his jacket because he's an artistic sort, right, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I can't tell you what it says.
Speaker 2: You see probably the best image of it that we've
Speaker 2: seen so far. It's this three quarter shot of his face.
Speaker 2: But I still can't see what it is. I'm dying
Speaker 2: to know because I know it's so prominent. I thought
Speaker 2: maybe you had some insight. Anyway, this whole business with
Speaker 2: the reviews really doesn't go anywhere. Just then Tony comes
Speaker 2: into the garage and he has with him this kid,
Speaker 2: Brian from the episode The Reluctant Fighter. He was the
Speaker 2: kid in the wheelchair where Tony was going to fight
Speaker 2: Carlos Navarone. And then Tony had to reconcile the fact
Speaker 2: that he was going to beat on this guy's this
Speaker 2: kid's hero.
Speaker 1: Don't forget. Bobby then punches Tony in the face with
Speaker 1: a fistful of ball bearings. Okay, that's who we're dealing with.
Speaker 2: The good news, I guess, is that Bobby is no
Speaker 2: longer in a wheelchair. Whatever medical procedure he had.
Speaker 1: You know, this observation he needed, he could walk now.
Speaker 2: So that's the good news. The bad news is everything
Speaker 2: else about this episode. A quote from the fan guy
Speaker 2: that I always referred to it's the Bible of Taxi
Speaker 2: at this point their entry on this episode. I had
Speaker 2: to write this verbatim that the quote is Brian is
Speaker 2: out of his wheelchair now, but is as sin and
Speaker 2: conniving as ever. And I think those words cynical and
Speaker 2: conniving are the best descriptors I could think of for
Speaker 2: the character Brian, or at least look. I feel a
Speaker 2: little bad because he's He's nine years old, this kid.
Speaker 2: Nobody should expect him to be Olivier acting in this episode.
Speaker 2: But boy, he's so insufferable.
Speaker 1: The problem is we've gotten the cynical, conniving, con artist
Speaker 1: kid on this show already. Louis de Palmer gave him
Speaker 1: a ride. It was Tanner from The Bad News Bears.
Speaker 1: If Tanner had been playing this role, holy fuck.
Speaker 2: I feel bad because he's just a child, and I
Speaker 2: have a bias against being too critical of a kid
Speaker 2: in this circumstance. But to be really frank about this,
Speaker 2: half the time in this episode he's reading. He's clearly
Speaker 2: reading cue cards off of stage left. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you noticed that about him.
Speaker 1: No, I did not know.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of looking off the edge of the stage.
Speaker 1: You know, they've got the cattle prods there, the electric
Speaker 1: so of course he's going to be hyper aware of
Speaker 1: their presence.
Speaker 2: He's just it's played so broadly, and the writing is
Speaker 2: so terrible. At times, it felt a little bit like
Speaker 2: a backdoor pilot for some kind of offshoot of Taxi
Speaker 2: where Tony is a new adopted dad and he's got
Speaker 2: to deal with this precocious kid. It doesn't really fit
Speaker 2: in for me with the whole esthetic and feel of Taxi,
Speaker 2: but we'll get into this. We'll get into this as
Speaker 2: we go a little further here, Tony is growing about
Speaker 2: Brian scoring the game winning run and I guess a
Speaker 2: little league game. They don't really specify, but turns out
Speaker 2: that he only took first base something, but he'ly got
Speaker 2: on base because he got hit by the ball. He
Speaker 2: got beamed. Tony asks Brian if he's checked with his
Speaker 2: foster parents about visiting him at the gym this week.
Speaker 2: This was not made clear in the Reluctant Fighter episode
Speaker 2: that I guess Brian is is a foster kid. They
Speaker 2: don't mention any of that.
Speaker 1: I thought they did make that clear, and no, because
Speaker 1: I went back and I do the episode.
Speaker 2: They don't. All they say that is that he was
Speaker 2: in the hospital, Carlos was his hero, and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: They don't make any reference to well.
Speaker 1: I think the fact that his parents did not appear
Speaker 1: in the episode implied that he was an orphan. I'm joking,
Speaker 1: of course, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: That's well, so whatever, they're stretching out the character a
Speaker 2: little bit and giving him more of a backstory.
Speaker 1: AHG, what are you talking about? His father is on
Speaker 1: screen with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah. For those folks who maybe don't remember this kid,
Speaker 2: Brian is actually played by Tony Danz's real life son,
Speaker 2: So you know, whatever, good for them. I'm happy for them.
Speaker 2: The kid isn't the worst actor in the world. But
Speaker 2: why this is a hard episode to get through.
Speaker 1: Here's what I'll say. I don't think he's bad in
Speaker 1: any way. It's just that when you consider the level
Speaker 1: of talent they usually get on the show, this feels like,
Speaker 1: well it's because of Tony, because the kid doesn't really
Speaker 1: rise above the level of a typical Disney kid. As
Speaker 1: far as performing, it's all studied. None of it feels natural.
Speaker 1: He's like doing a part, and on any other sitcom
Speaker 1: he would be the highlight of that sitcom. But this
Speaker 1: is Taxi.
Speaker 2: I don't know. There's a lot of mugging for the camera.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of smiling. There's a lot of reference
Speaker 2: to his dimples that everybody seems to find disarming, which
Speaker 2: it just bothers me because the previous episode that we
Speaker 2: just went through was this gut wrenching, sad story of
Speaker 2: Reverend Jim and his horse, which sounds ridiculous on the
Speaker 2: face of it, but by the end of it I
Speaker 2: had tears in my eyes because it's so beautiful. And
Speaker 2: now we're dealing with this kid mugging and getting Tony
Speaker 2: wrapped around his finger. It's embarrassing. It's what it is.
Speaker 1: Let me just say, as nice as I've been to
Speaker 1: his performance, it it does feel a bit like Catherine
Speaker 1: O'Hara's performance in Waiting for Goffman, when she's on stage
Speaker 1: like this is a good site for these.
Speaker 2: Weary eyes Red White and Blaine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, but like her bad acting, like is
Speaker 1: comparable to this kid's good acting.
Speaker 2: The problem isn't It doesn't end with his performance. The
Speaker 2: problem really, ultimately is the writing. As we talk a
Speaker 2: little bit bit more about this and the twists in
Speaker 2: terms of this episode, it's I just don't know what
Speaker 2: they were thinking. Probably they were thinking, well, let's, you know,
Speaker 2: Tony's nice guy, let's involve his son in another episode
Speaker 2: and see where it goes. They didn't think it through,
Speaker 2: I don't think, But nevertheless, let's gird ourselves and go forward. Here,
Speaker 2: Brian has to make an excuse to Tony about the
Speaker 2: gym because he's supposed to be at the playground that day,
Speaker 2: hanging out with rich kids so that he gets adopted.
Speaker 2: That's his scheme, is that if he hangs out it
Speaker 2: with enough rich kids, sooner or later one of their
Speaker 2: rich parents will decide to adopt him. Because he's cute
Speaker 2: and he has dimples. He just comes off as kind
Speaker 2: of creepy and conniving, so it's hard to see what
Speaker 2: people see in him. Brian even talks about how cute
Speaker 2: he is, which is so off putting. I think he says, hey,
Speaker 2: look at this smile. Who can resist the smile and everybody?
Speaker 1: And that's where it's the separation between a good child
Speaker 1: actor and a child reformer is because that had had
Speaker 1: his performance there been knowing you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It isn't p he's intentional, like, oh look at me,
Speaker 1: I'm so cute, as opposed to I'm fucking adorable. Someone's
Speaker 1: gonna adopt me, if you know what I mean. It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like he came up with the plan. And
Speaker 1: that's the last I'll beat up on him.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's a lot of talk about him trying to
Speaker 2: increase his chances for adoption in any manner that he
Speaker 2: can possibly figure out. Be it his cuteness, dealing with
Speaker 2: these rich people that just have to fall in love
Speaker 2: with this kid, it's all it feels. It's been a
Speaker 2: funny way. I don't know this is a this is
Speaker 2: an obscure reference. But famously, the Brady Bunch did a
Speaker 2: backdoor pilot called Kelly's Kids, where it was one of
Speaker 2: the Ken Barry right, he was going to be the star,
Speaker 2: and an all premise was Ken Barry adopts a child,
Speaker 2: like a nine or ten year old from a from
Speaker 2: an adoption agency. But the kid has two friends that
Speaker 2: he wants more than anything to be his brothers, so
Speaker 2: they go ahead and adopt these two other kids, Dwayne
Speaker 2: and Steve. I remember their names were Dwayne and Steve
Speaker 2: because he talks about them a lot. It was an
Speaker 2: effort to try and create a pilot offshoot of The
Speaker 2: Brady Bunch, and it went nowhere and you never saw
Speaker 2: these people again. But that's the feeling I got. Father
Speaker 2: Malone is I'm watching this because there's no real way
Speaker 2: that Brian could ever have really existed long term in
Speaker 2: the Taxi universe. There's no place for him right now.
Speaker 1: You know what, Elaine has children, and we've seen them
Speaker 1: like briefly one time or maybe twice, and those are
Speaker 1: characters who are intertwined with the show. And now we've
Speaker 1: got this like the orphan kid showing up for a
Speaker 1: couple of episodes.
Speaker 2: Come on, I'm not going to go into a great
Speaker 2: detail here. At some point, Brian leaves, let's say, and
Speaker 2: Tony is wondering to the rest of the Cabbs why
Speaker 2: Brian can't get adopted, which, for some unknown reason causes
Speaker 2: the rest of them to suggest that Tony adopts Brian.
Speaker 2: Alex inexplicably even suggests that Tony would make a great father,
Speaker 2: but he's ignoring the fact that Tony is young, single, poor,
Speaker 2: and engaged in a blood sport for a career.
Speaker 1: Well, you're monosyllabic. I don't know if you can read.
Speaker 1: You're a Cabby. You spend a lot of time at
Speaker 1: the track. We talked to some of your coworkers who
Speaker 1: said that you once took a speed induced trip to
Speaker 1: Florida in back driving some twenty four hours in each
Speaker 1: direction without sleeping or stopping, and you spend your time
Speaker 1: in a boxing ring getting pummeled. You haven't won anything,
Speaker 1: so we can assume that you'll be dead within a
Speaker 1: few years. Yes, let's give you a ti child.
Speaker 2: The prospect of fatherhood actually makes Tony beam sickeningly, and
Speaker 2: I use that word in my notes with pride. Then
Speaker 2: there's some business where Bobby reads another review from another
Speaker 2: paper that slams his portrayal of Biff. That part of
Speaker 2: the episode really never goes anywhere. I think at that point,
Speaker 2: doesn't Louis come in with a big bundle of that
Speaker 2: newspaper to hand out to everybody because it's such a
Speaker 2: bad review. That's about as far as we'll take that.
Speaker 2: At that point, we cut to Tony's apartment. I think
Speaker 2: this might be the first time we see Tony's apartment
Speaker 2: in this series. The rest of the Caves arrive for
Speaker 2: a visit and it's.
Speaker 1: It's quite an apartment. It's actually perfect. Once again, they're
Speaker 1: fucking nailing it here because.
Speaker 2: You thought it was perfect. I thought it was weird.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I thought it was perfect. It is
Speaker 1: so unusual, and it's something that you know that when
Speaker 1: Tony saw for the first time. He said that word perfect.
Speaker 1: I can put the boxing thing there, I can sleep
Speaker 1: up there. That I've got all this space here for training
Speaker 1: like this is great.
Speaker 2: There's a loft bed with no real there's no ladder
Speaker 2: to get up to the top of the bed, which
Speaker 2: I thought was weird. I think below that is where
Speaker 2: he has his boxing training area. He's got like a
Speaker 2: punching bag under there. There's a curtain with nothing behind
Speaker 2: it but a bureau and a dress that appears to
Speaker 2: be hung on the wall. I don't know what the
Speaker 2: dress is all about. There's a picture in the back
Speaker 2: wall of a cartoon boxing glove that looks like something
Speaker 2: out of the Beetles Yellow submarine, like the Sea of Monsters.
Speaker 2: Turns out fatherm Alone. That is actually a known print.
Speaker 2: It was by an artist called Celestino Piati. It is
Speaker 2: from nineteen seventy one. It was produced for the exclusive
Speaker 2: close circuit TV viewing in Harlem of Frasier from Madison
Speaker 2: Square Garden. This is actually a real piece of artwork,
Speaker 2: and I was like, well, it's actually kind of cool
Speaker 2: that they didn't just put some like Alex's. Remember Alex's
Speaker 2: apartment had some weird pottery barn looking stuff on the
Speaker 2: wall that didn't really appear one imports look out of place.
Speaker 2: That actually makes sense and it's actually a real piece
Speaker 2: of artwork.
Speaker 1: And what probably happened is at one point Tony dated
Speaker 1: a cultured girl who bought that for him, and he's
Speaker 1: just like, it's great, it's boxing.
Speaker 2: It's culture. I like boxing. It's culture. But it has
Speaker 2: to be said, my favorite part of this whole episode,
Speaker 2: and that's admittedly that's a very very low threshold to
Speaker 2: get over. Do you know what my favorite part of
Speaker 2: this episode was? It's actually right next to that picture
Speaker 2: of the boxing glove on the wall. Did you see
Speaker 2: what I saw? Father Malone? Evidently not, you did not
Speaker 2: on the wall next to that weird boxing glove poster
Speaker 2: hung on the wall. Is that huge plaque with the
Speaker 2: tiny fish mounted on it?
Speaker 1: How did I not know?
Speaker 2: Because it's not immediately obvious because you don't see it
Speaker 2: full on. You only ever see a corner of it
Speaker 2: because that's just the way it's framed. But that I'll
Speaker 2: remind people. In the episode from season one called Friends,
Speaker 2: Bobby killed Tony's beloved goldfish and to make it up
Speaker 2: to him. He had the mounted. It's like something out
Speaker 2: of easy Comics. It's so grim, but apparently Tony thought
Speaker 2: enough of it to put this ghastly object on the
Speaker 2: wall and there it is. Bravo.
Speaker 1: The set decorators are more into the continuity of the
Speaker 1: show than the writers are. Noted.
Speaker 2: I was so tickled to see that, because that is
Speaker 2: such a great callback to season one, and it made
Speaker 2: perfect sense to me, so I was. I love that
Speaker 2: part of it. That's the only thing I loved about
Speaker 2: the whole episode. Alex comes in and he asks Tony
Speaker 2: if you heard back from the social worker, and Tony
Speaker 2: says that he he has a good shot at adopting Brian, which, again,
Speaker 2: what kind of fantasy land are we living in here
Speaker 2: that this broke a Luca boxer has a shot at
Speaker 2: adopting a child. That's beyond me. But anyway, for some
Speaker 2: weird reason, though, Tony says that he hasn't spoken to
Speaker 2: Brian about it, which seems like that would be the
Speaker 2: first person that you would want to consult if you're
Speaker 2: looking to adopt them.
Speaker 1: Tony is intimidated by Brian. Yeah, is he admits it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And you know, Brian has other plans, so he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to counteract or counterman those much. Still, he should
Speaker 1: have floated the idea, you know, just say, like, you know,
Speaker 1: you can always live with me.
Speaker 2: Well by other plans, do you mean this idea that
Speaker 2: he's going to hang out with rich kids, Yeah, to
Speaker 2: get a DoPT Okay.
Speaker 1: That okay, that is his specific plan right now. But
Speaker 1: you know, if that isn't happening, he's got a plan
Speaker 1: B and C so and none of those clearly include
Speaker 1: Tony Banta or he would have said, Tony, we should
Speaker 1: be together right.
Speaker 2: Right, So it just seems odd to me that he
Speaker 2: would be making I mean, he's talking to somebody about adoption,
Speaker 2: a social worker without actually speaking to the boy himself.
Speaker 2: It seemed a little rash. Brian's coming over, and that's
Speaker 2: why Tony wanted everybody there. He's going to be laying
Speaker 2: this on Brian, and he wants his friends there for support.
Speaker 2: Although maybe one of the funniest bits of the episode,
Speaker 2: which again is a low bar to get over, Jim
Speaker 2: is there and Tony isn't even sure why Jim is there.
Speaker 2: He's like, not even sure if he invited him, and
Speaker 2: Jim even says me, neither. I thought it was an oversight.
Speaker 2: But the funniest part of it is somebody, I think
Speaker 2: Tony throws him a beer or tries to throw him
Speaker 2: a and he just completely is in his own world.
Speaker 2: Jim is and it just kind of sails past him
Speaker 2: and hits the couch. I don't know why, but I
Speaker 2: thought it was really really funny.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I cackled when that maybe laugh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the only reteaming part of the episode is
Speaker 1: and it's because of Jimyntowski.
Speaker 2: Tony says he's so excited he couldn't even sleep last night.
Speaker 2: He's already checked out the local school he scouted out
Speaker 2: in an apartment with another bedroom. There's a knock on the door.
Speaker 2: Its Brian. Tony has a sudden change of heart and
Speaker 2: asks everybody shades of the Burns episode where they all
Speaker 2: had to hide in the bathroom while yeah, he had
Speaker 2: to have a fight with his wife.
Speaker 1: Everyone in there, and we found that very very funny.
Speaker 1: So you take the rest of the cabbys and stick
Speaker 1: them in the bathroom. The hilarity increases geometrically.
Speaker 2: There's a mildly funny bit about Jim thinking that they're
Speaker 2: going to play hide and seek. So anyway, I'll go
Speaker 2: into the bathroom and the scene suddenly becomes a two
Speaker 2: hander with just Brian and Tony, and Brian comes in
Speaker 2: because he's excited because he met a kid at this
Speaker 2: playground with rich people that has a rich aunt and
Speaker 2: uncle who want Brian to stay for a while, which
Speaker 2: will hopefully lead to adoption. Now this kind of scared
Speaker 2: me a little bit for Brian's sake, because it just
Speaker 2: sounds like he met these people on the playground and
Speaker 2: they said to a nine year old boy with no
Speaker 2: parental supervision, come home. I want to come home with us.
Speaker 2: We're not weird at all.
Speaker 1: Forever. You'll be part of our family. Now, don't you
Speaker 1: want to call me Dad?
Speaker 2: It's played completely straight. You're not supposed to question this
Speaker 2: at all. It's just how things work in Brian's world.
Speaker 1: Hey, remember we're talking about a world hp where there
Speaker 1: was the masher as a archetype in life, not just
Speaker 1: on sitcoms. Like it was expected that somebody was going
Speaker 1: around with a trench coat flashing people, and that's just
Speaker 1: part of modern day living. So here's another.
Speaker 2: Well, take it on face value that these people are
Speaker 2: genuine and they have this boy's best interest at heart.
Speaker 2: Weird thing as a car starts honking as they're having
Speaker 2: this conversation. I mean, Brian has been in the house,
Speaker 2: in this apartment for maybe five minutes, and this car
Speaker 2: starts honking, and that's apparently that's these people. Brian's prospective
Speaker 2: adoptive parents are picking him up at Tony's house, which
Speaker 2: makes me think, why the hell did he even go
Speaker 2: to Tony's in the first place if it's just going
Speaker 2: to be a five minute got to get his stuff?
Speaker 2: Does he though? I don't Does he leave? Does he leave?
Speaker 1: He packs?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: He pancks some things up before he goes.
Speaker 2: Does he I don't remember that part?
Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly. And the honking of the horn means that
Speaker 1: their driver is an impatient motherfucker who was just like,
Speaker 1: what am I? Is it not enough that I fucking
Speaker 1: do their errands? Fatherland? Now I'm picking up kids fucking Manhattan.
Speaker 2: You're right, it's probably the chauffeur. It's Cadbury waiting outside
Speaker 2: for this insufferable child.
Speaker 1: And the kid is probably so boastful that he's probably
Speaker 1: said to the driver, I'm going to soak these people
Speaker 1: who are all there worth? The driver's like this little motherfucker.
Speaker 2: Ah, I can't believe this fucker.
Speaker 1: They're going to adopt him, and if I say anything
Speaker 1: against him, they're just going to fire me. So all right.
Speaker 2: Tony tries to talk to Brian to see if this
Speaker 2: is what he really wants, and the kid doesn't pick
Speaker 2: up on any of Tony's hints. Because Tony is dropping
Speaker 2: hints that, you know, hey, you may want to stay
Speaker 2: here for you know, the kid is not picking up
Speaker 2: any of this. Then the sound of glass breaking gets
Speaker 2: Brian's attention, and apparently somebody in the bathroom knocked something over,
Speaker 2: and he realizes that the bathroom is filled with his
Speaker 2: with Tony's friends. He even makes a dumb joke about
Speaker 2: how the cat, Oh, you told me all your friends
Speaker 2: did everything together. I didn't know that meant going to
Speaker 2: the bathroom. It's stupid. Brian leaves, and he vainly tries
Speaker 2: to console a suddenly downcast Tony that hey, they can
Speaker 2: still hang out even after he gets adopted. Whatever. Brian
Speaker 2: leaves and the cabbies come out. They hurt everything, and
Speaker 2: they then try to consolet Tony, but he asks to
Speaker 2: be left alone, and as they file out all of
Speaker 2: I couldn't help noticing. I don't know if you noticed this,
Speaker 2: but he's sitting on the couch and he looks really upset,
Speaker 2: and everybody leaves, but there's this scattered laughter coming from
Speaker 2: the audience. Did you notice that it's very peculiar.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know what was happening. Maybe it's the
Speaker 1: audience on the side could see everybody like crowded into
Speaker 1: the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I think what happened was so they leave
Speaker 2: and then at what then happens is that Jim is
Speaker 2: still in the bathroom and he comes out, making like
Speaker 2: a hide and go seek joke, like oh ready or
Speaker 2: not here I come. I think what happened if I
Speaker 2: had to guess father alone is I think probably this
Speaker 2: might have been like the second or third up the material.
Speaker 1: Is coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I think happened. But me, as a
Speaker 2: viewer who's not supposed to be privy to any of this,
Speaker 2: I just thought it was really odd that in the
Speaker 2: midst of this really sad moment for Tony, the audience
Speaker 2: is laughing.
Speaker 1: Can't see as Andy Kaufman doing something fucking bonkers up
Speaker 1: and he's.
Speaker 2: Got his conga drums and he's ramping up.
Speaker 1: Sure, he's dressed like Tony, and he's minding everything Tony
Speaker 1: is doing. Andy Kaufman has a new character. It's Tony Tanza.
Speaker 2: He just starts doing, Oh, that would have been so incredible.
Speaker 1: Rest the hair, like get pumped up, like get actually built.
Speaker 1: You know, I'd just love to know he would do it.
Speaker 2: We fade the black and we fade back in. Tony
Speaker 2: is coming into the She gives his bookings to Louie, and,
Speaker 2: out of character maybe a little bit, Louie actually compliments
Speaker 2: Tony's bookings. Usually were used to him making some joke
Speaker 2: at their expense about how they're not booking much, but
Speaker 2: apparently Tony is pulling in all kinds of big books.
Speaker 1: You'll notice that Louie is only ever happy with these
Speaker 1: characters when they're at their most miserable, because that's the
Speaker 1: only time they ever focus on their fucking jobs.
Speaker 2: This is true. Tony is glom and he just says hey.
Speaker 2: He asks if he can drive the day shift too,
Speaker 2: and Alex and Elaine come over to chat with Tony.
Speaker 2: They see how Distraughtie is and they want to talk
Speaker 2: to him. But I couldn't focus on that. I was
Speaker 2: too busy looking at Elaine's western garb. She's still going
Speaker 2: all country western. She's dressed like Dolly Parton, basically, did
Speaker 2: you see what she was wearing?
Speaker 1: I did, And look, I'm not happy with the continuing
Speaker 1: western trend going on here at Sunshine Cap, but if
Speaker 1: it has to happen and she's going to wear those jeans,
Speaker 1: then I'm all for it.
Speaker 2: Having said all of that, she looks incredible no matter
Speaker 2: what they put her in. She should be dressed in
Speaker 2: downtown New York chic. Yeah, they persistent putting her in these,
Speaker 2: and it's because we've made this point. This is the
Speaker 2: time of the beginnings of country goes pop and I
Speaker 2: think this is a reflection of that.
Speaker 1: Sadly, yeah, and that it makes me because they're doing
Speaker 1: it to a Wheeler as well, it makes me think
Speaker 1: that those two characters are flightier than I had initially
Speaker 1: thought that they. Elaine ought to be dressing like a
Speaker 1: New Waiver, you know what I mean, like a refined
Speaker 1: version of that, but yes, downtown New York like bohemian
Speaker 1: sort of that new wave chic.
Speaker 2: We've seen her pull it off before a lot of scarves,
Speaker 2: a lot of interesting hats, and things like that.
Speaker 1: You should be dressing like Annie Potts in UHTI.
Speaker 2: Oh pretty of course, yeah pretty in pig exactly exactly
Speaker 2: like hip she does nothing hippy, but yeah, dressing like
Speaker 2: Dolly Parton. There's nothing look. I love Dolly Parton, but
Speaker 2: in this context, it it doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2: But nevertheless, Alex believes Tony's working so much because he's
Speaker 2: trying to make more money so that it'll be more
Speaker 2: appealing for Brian to come live with him, and Alex,
Speaker 2: recognizing this, warns Tony that he can't compete financially with
Speaker 2: Brian's prospective parents, but Tony just glumly replies that he
Speaker 2: just wants to hit the streets since Brian walked out
Speaker 2: on him. Elaine tries to make excuses for the kid,
Speaker 2: but and I actually liked this part too. Alex is
Speaker 2: so fed up, like with everything. He says what everybody
Speaker 2: else is thinking, which is everybody's making excuses for this kid. Yes,
Speaker 2: he's had a hard life, but that doesn't give the
Speaker 2: kid the right to play with people's emotions and like
Speaker 2: Tony and treat him so poorly. Basically, Alex lays out
Speaker 2: this idea that Brian's value system is all messed up.
Speaker 2: He tells Tony to go to the Brennans, his adoptive parents,
Speaker 2: and tell.
Speaker 1: Them to her.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's exactly what we're seeing here. He's like,
Speaker 2: he wants Tony to go to this estate where this
Speaker 2: kid is living the sweet life and try to make
Speaker 2: the case to him to Brian why he should adopt
Speaker 2: him instead of these high falute and rich people. Tony
Speaker 2: actually admits he's afraid that Brian will outwit him if
Speaker 2: he tries. This is a nine year old child, which
Speaker 2: leads to a dumb, dumb joke from Louis. I don't
Speaker 2: remember what it is, but it's just another joke about
Speaker 2: what an idiot Tony is. But somehow Alex wears Tony down.
Speaker 2: But Tony says, only if you go with them. Everybody's
Speaker 2: going to have Alex go with them. It's Louis going
Speaker 2: on a date with Xena and her parents goa He's
Speaker 2: gotta have Alex with him. I guess he is the
Speaker 2: stable one in the garage, so it makes sense, but
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Hang the head that wears the emotionally stable crown.
Speaker 2: They leave the garage and we fade out to what
Speaker 2: appears to be a mansion, probably maybe somewhere in the Berkshires.
Speaker 2: I don't know where it's located. They don't make reference
Speaker 2: to that, but we cut inside this completely garish room
Speaker 2: as a maid kind of announces that they're there and
Speaker 2: asks them to wait while the Brennans will be there momentarily.
Speaker 2: But I got to say, I know we've given the
Speaker 2: set decoration department, like their flowers, for all the good
Speaker 2: work they do. This was terrible. This room was supposed
Speaker 2: to be the library. It didn't look anything remotely like
Speaker 2: a library to me, father alone. It's just so gaudy.
Speaker 2: It's supposed to look expensive, but it just looks cheap.
Speaker 2: I didn't like it at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you think it looks cheap for nineteen eighty.
Speaker 2: Are you asking if maybe this was just the opulence
Speaker 2: that was appropriate for.
Speaker 1: The time at the time. Yeah, yeah, Like this is
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties version of like a nouveau reche situation where
Speaker 1: they're paying fealty to the older kind of idea of
Speaker 1: what a mansion and antiques are, but they're switching it
Speaker 1: up so the library can have a window as its
Speaker 1: main feature, and the books are not necessarily in your face.
Speaker 1: You have to find them down in shelves below.
Speaker 2: Well, the only thing I was really reminded of in
Speaker 2: terms of the set it what came to mind. And
Speaker 2: I can't account for this, but do you remember there's
Speaker 2: a movie with Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason called The Toy.
Speaker 1: Do I remember?
Speaker 2: Probably around that time? Hard to forget right.
Speaker 1: I remember all the horrible moments of.
Speaker 2: Terrible movie.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen the original French film?
Speaker 2: I have not, I've not. Is it good?
Speaker 1: Funny? All star American racial problems that that movie just
Speaker 1: doesn't want to deal with but is all about are
Speaker 1: absent in the French film.
Speaker 2: Basically, a boy has his father essentially rent a human
Speaker 2: being to be the kid's friend for I don't know
Speaker 2: a week and live with him at his mansion. Anyway,
Speaker 2: the decor of that mansion, I guess you're right, reminded
Speaker 2: me of this library that Tony and Alex are entering in.
Speaker 2: So maybe there's something to what you're saying, which is
Speaker 2: of the time it was dreger to have that sort
Speaker 2: of I don't know what you call it, but it's
Speaker 2: this leather couch that looks that's shiny and looks so uncomfortable,
Speaker 2: and it's made of I don't know, there's rivets running
Speaker 2: through through the whole thing, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they're called.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but just particularly But I think what you're saying
Speaker 1: is it doesn't look good because it's not as nuanced
Speaker 1: as the other character apartments are. And even when it's
Speaker 1: not about those characters, because sometimes like remember we went
Speaker 1: to that high school gym and you and I were like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go live in that gym. So
Speaker 1: it's possible for them to wow us in some ways.
Speaker 1: But I think what they're going for here is this
Speaker 1: sort of realism. That's what these wealthy people would have had,
Speaker 1: would have built for their home. It's just that you
Speaker 1: and I are like, that sucks. And let me just say,
Speaker 1: do not see the toy, but go to YouTube and
Speaker 1: watch the wonder Wheel scene because it's fucking hilarious. It
Speaker 1: almost saves the entire movie. It doesn't because it's a
Speaker 1: terrible movie. Although you know, what's her name, isn't it?
Speaker 1: The weather Girl from from Johnny Carson Tonight's show. Well,
Speaker 1: the wife in the Jackie Gleeson's wife in it. What's
Speaker 1: her name? She was on the car, She was on
Speaker 1: the Carson Show a lot. She would sheould play this
Speaker 1: like wacky Weather or girl or something.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to look this up. By the way,
Speaker 2: do you recall who directed the toy?
Speaker 1: It isn't Richard Benjamin, isn't.
Speaker 2: No, it's Richard Donner. It's fucking Richard Donner.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. That hurt.
Speaker 2: Ah, I know what you're talking about. It's Teresa Ganzel.
Speaker 2: That's the wife.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's real funny in the movie. And it's a
Speaker 1: shame that it's this movie that she's so good in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was on Carson a lot. Good memory fathered along.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah. But the Wonderheeled scene where the wonder wheel
Speaker 1: is deflating and he's begging the Wonderweel not to die
Speaker 1: is it still makes me laugh? Ah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a good scene. Alex and Tonia in
Speaker 2: this opulent, supposedly opulent library and Brian comes in. He's
Speaker 2: followed by the Brennans, these rich this rich couple that's
Speaker 2: thinking about adopting him. The best thing I can think
Speaker 2: of about this scene is the writing of it, is
Speaker 2: that they never make an effort to make the Brennans
Speaker 2: seem like very snobby, rich people who look down on
Speaker 2: Alex and Tony. They're actually very very nice, very down
Speaker 2: to earth. They try like hell to make conversation with
Speaker 2: Alex and Tony, mainly Tony. But Tony is such a
Speaker 2: dummy that none of these attempts go well. And even
Speaker 2: I think Brian is like he kind of slaps his
Speaker 2: face with the exasperation at what an idiot Tony is.
Speaker 2: If I recall, missus Brennan skidaddles to look to check
Speaker 2: on dinner while mister Brennan continues in vain to make
Speaker 2: small talk. But like I said, honestly, the guy seems
Speaker 2: like a cool dude who's just trying to relate to
Speaker 2: these yahoos from New York City. But so I appreciated
Speaker 2: that the episode didn't demonize them and make them seem
Speaker 2: like villains.
Speaker 1: I guess no, I mean, what they should have been
Speaker 1: even nicer, that it should have just been an all
Speaker 1: internal conflict with Tony here. He doesn't need to talk
Speaker 1: to the kid about it at all, and do you
Speaker 1: know what. This scene reminded me of a very recent
Speaker 1: episode where Tony not Tony, where Louis meets the folks. Yep,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, wasn't that good? Do you want to
Speaker 1: talk about that mom some more? And like how great
Speaker 1: she was since she was threatening to murder Danny Divader?
Speaker 2: So there's no twist in this. I don't know what.
Speaker 2: I don't know what twist he would make. Maybe one
Speaker 2: of them admits that they need the child to complete
Speaker 2: some sort of satanic rite.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that would have been great, you.
Speaker 2: Know, But none of that is in the offing. They
Speaker 2: they just seem like very decent people who just, you
Speaker 2: know when I want to care for this kid. Tony
Speaker 2: decides to leave, but Alex, again being Alex, who's always
Speaker 2: got something he wants to uh, some principle that he
Speaker 2: wants to stand up for, Alex refuses to leave until
Speaker 2: Tony tells Brian when he came all this way to
Speaker 2: tell him. Alex further tries to make the case to
Speaker 2: Brian that they're more important things than money, but he
Speaker 2: gets nowhere. None of this gets Alex anywhere. Tony admits
Speaker 2: to Brian that he was kind of hoping that he
Speaker 2: wasn't going to be so happy because he was hoping
Speaker 2: that maybe he'd adopt him, and Tony then proceeds to
Speaker 2: plead his case for adoption to Brian. But to be honest,
Speaker 2: Brian acts like a total dick to Tony. Tony's really
Speaker 2: laying it out and really pouring his heart out to
Speaker 2: this kid about how much he looks forward to being
Speaker 2: a dad and he wants to make this kid happy.
Speaker 2: But Brian basically is his position is, look, I got
Speaker 2: to look out for myself and frankly, you're not where
Speaker 2: I'm headed.
Speaker 1: So no, well, the kid is not wrong, Honestly, I
Speaker 1: know he is a dick and ultimately is not deserving
Speaker 1: of Tony's affection. However, he's right in.
Speaker 2: The hard truth of it all. You're right.
Speaker 1: He's with his wealthy family who are acting lovingly towards him.
Speaker 1: Or he can go live with the Peluca who's going
Speaker 1: to be punched to death, leaving him in some tenement
Speaker 1: and then back to square one, and now he's not cute,
Speaker 1: and now he no longer has the dimples. Thanks Tony,
Speaker 1: your pal.
Speaker 2: Tony realizes that it's a lost cause, and he he
Speaker 2: leaves with Alex and that's that, and then we cut
Speaker 2: back to Tony in his apartment playing solitaire. He gets
Speaker 2: a call from Alex, who asks Tony if he wants
Speaker 2: to see Horse Feathers the Marx Brothers movie. Is that
Speaker 2: horse Feathers? That's what that is? Right?
Speaker 1: Of course, think about the writers on this show. You know,
Speaker 1: every one of them was a fucking fanatic for the
Speaker 1: Marx Brothers, so.
Speaker 2: Horse Feathers seemed an odd choice. But whatever. Tony turns
Speaker 2: him down anyway and.
Speaker 1: Says he just about a boxer trying to adopt a
Speaker 1: kid who wants to be adopted by a wealthy family.
Speaker 2: Like a bad penny, he always turns up. Brian barges
Speaker 2: in to the apartment with a suitcase, and Tony at
Speaker 2: first he thinks Brian chose love over money, but he's
Speaker 2: going to call the Brennans just to make sure everything's cool,
Speaker 2: but Brian tells him not to. And the truth is
Speaker 2: they didn't want to adopt Brian at all, and Brian's
Speaker 2: words they quote had no taste, So it's not a
Speaker 2: case of Brian choosing love over money. It's a matter
Speaker 2: of they didn't want the kid. After all, so he
Speaker 2: is forced to go back to the guy who really
Speaker 2: cared for him in the first place and to try
Speaker 2: and make up with him, which Tony is pretty upset
Speaker 2: with every reason that Brian is settling for him now,
Speaker 2: and Brian is. At this point, Brian is strutting around
Speaker 2: the apartment, He's upt ending drawers, he's making wise cracks,
Speaker 2: as Tony is getting more and more upset at how
Speaker 2: fickle Brian is. There's all this mugging, more mugging from Brian,
Speaker 2: which is driving me up the wall. Finally, Tony is
Speaker 2: so upset he tells Brian, a nine year old boy,
Speaker 2: to hit the road.
Speaker 1: He was staying with a foster family, wasn't he.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But that's all gone now.
Speaker 1: I mean, well, he's got to go back and apply
Speaker 1: to the fucking program and get back into it, because
Speaker 1: you fucked up, kid.
Speaker 2: Brian is like, what was that movie with Macaulay Culkin,
Speaker 2: The good.
Speaker 1: Son with Elijah Wood.
Speaker 2: He turns up the charm when but when no one's around,
Speaker 2: he becomes this demon child. This is what we're seeing.
Speaker 2: Brian is trying to say to Tony he loves him,
Speaker 2: but Tony is firm that's it's not gonna happen. But
Speaker 2: this is the weirdest part of the whole episode for me,
Speaker 2: Father Malone. Somehow, Tony has this brilliant idea that they're
Speaker 2: gonna cut cards to decide whether this nine year old
Speaker 2: child gets to stay with Tony or leave to an
Speaker 2: uncertain future.
Speaker 1: Love it. This is the best part of the episode.
Speaker 1: I'll say that Tony Banta has decided this child's fate
Speaker 1: will be decided by a deck of fucking playing cards.
Speaker 2: So high card stays. So they're gonna cut cards. They're
Speaker 2: gonna compare cards, and whoever gets the high card, like
Speaker 2: if Brian gets the high card, he gets to stay.
Speaker 2: If vice versa, then he's gonna leave. So they cut
Speaker 2: the cards, and conspicuously, of course, Brian doesn't show the
Speaker 2: card that he got to the audience because they're not
Speaker 2: going to set up this elaborate trick with the cards.
Speaker 2: So Brian flips an eight and Tony flips a King.
Speaker 2: But Tony then says, all right, I'll go to King.
Speaker 2: I got to keep you, and that leads to a
Speaker 2: giant hug from Brian as we fade out. By the way,
Speaker 2: we never see Brian again for the duration of the series.
Speaker 2: This is it. I don't know, what do you suppose happens.
Speaker 1: To Brian Listen. He's not ever gonna stop being a
Speaker 1: conniving little dickhead. So the fact is, let's just say
Speaker 1: he kind of lives with Tony. Now, I imagine that
Speaker 1: kid is mainly out on the streets up to no
Speaker 1: good and then he sleeps there. So it's more of
Speaker 1: those situation's like three o'clock in the morning and Tony's
Speaker 1: getting up and like eating raw eggs because he's training
Speaker 1: for a fight, and he hears something he's like, oh hey,
Speaker 1: I hate Tony. And then the kid goes up to
Speaker 1: the loft bed and goes to, okay, you need anything,
Speaker 1: you need any money? No, I'm okay, I'm okay, I
Speaker 1: just need.
Speaker 2: The better ending for this would have been they cut
Speaker 2: the cards and Tony flips the King, and the kid
Speaker 2: flips the eight, and instead of it being a matter
Speaker 2: of like, okay, you get to stay anyway, if Tony
Speaker 2: just like points to the door and just just like
Speaker 2: all right, the car cards have.
Speaker 1: Spoken, that equally good, in my mind would be the
Speaker 1: kid post the King, Tony posts the eighth and the
Speaker 1: and the kid says see you and packs his suitcase,
Speaker 1: and the ladiers like, I win. I don't have to
Speaker 1: stay with you, or he gets.
Speaker 2: To stay in Tony's apartment and Tony's the one who
Speaker 2: has to leave. He's gonna find.
Speaker 1: A place to I won the apartment. What do you
Speaker 1: mean are the stakes you didn't realize?
Speaker 2: Tony already admitted that Brian excelled at outwitting him, so
Speaker 2: it would only stand to reason that he would pull
Speaker 2: a trick like that. He's can like we can't. I
Speaker 2: can't stress it enough. This kid is up to no
Speaker 2: good through the whole fucking episode. That's the end of
Speaker 2: Tony and Brian. I'm not even sure we should have
Speaker 2: to bother doing this, but as is our custom, we're
Speaker 2: gonna talk about yellow lights. What does he yell light mean?
Speaker 2: Reminder that one yellow light is the worst taxi episode
Speaker 2: and five yellow lights is a classic episode. Father alone
Speaker 2: is our custom. I'm gonna throw it to you first.
Speaker 2: What could you possibly give Tony and Brian?
Speaker 1: Uh? You know, I think I liked this episode a
Speaker 1: little bit more than you, But I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's worth an extra light just to be contrary. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming you gave it one, I'm probably just gonna give
Speaker 1: it a one. It's not I mean, there are a
Speaker 1: couple of bright moments here. We did both laugh out
Speaker 1: loud at one point in this episode.
Speaker 2: Sure, the bit with with Jim missing Jim.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like that enough for an extra light to get
Speaker 1: it to two?
Speaker 2: Not at all? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now you know what I think. Every bullshit scenario
Speaker 1: we just sort of off the top of our headed
Speaker 1: here is better than this episode. So it's gonna remain
Speaker 1: you know, one yellow light.
Speaker 2: No surprise, I gave it one yellow light. This is
Speaker 2: such a terrible, terrible episode. It's completely unrealistic and a
Speaker 2: waste of everyone involved. Avoid at all costs. Just don't bother.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess you could watch it and marvel
Speaker 2: at how wrongheaded the whole episode is and maybe get
Speaker 2: a chuckle from Jim missing a beer tossed to him.
Speaker 2: But that's not worth twenty eight minutes of your life.
Speaker 2: But you'll never get back, so you're not missing much.
Speaker 2: That will do it for this episode of night, mister
Speaker 2: Walters father alone, Where can folks find you when you're
Speaker 2: not clocked into the garage?
Speaker 1: You can check me out at midnight viewing. That's the
Speaker 1: podcast I host with a whole bunch of people, and
Speaker 1: oh check out. I don't know what else do I do,
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh you have a Patreon.
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what, you know? You can check me out.
Speaker 1: If you want to like my stuff at all, go
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Speaker 2: He I've said it before, I'll say it again. Father
Speaker 2: Malone produces more quality content than anyone else I've ever known,
Speaker 2: and I am particularly fond of the weekly roundup he
Speaker 2: does with Ripley Jean, his erstwhile co host. It's just
Speaker 2: a great way to get caught up on some current
Speaker 2: movies and TV shows that are on streaming, and also
Speaker 2: some odds and ends that he finds interesting that week.
Speaker 2: It's kind of you never quite know what you're going
Speaker 2: to get, but it's wonderful. It's a great way to
Speaker 2: start the week. Those debut on Sundays, right, Father Malone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's supposed to be a Monday show, but I
Speaker 1: get too excited when I finish it, so I just
Speaker 1: put it out there as soon as it's done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Sunday's usually Sunday morning. And let me point out
Speaker 1: another show that I am involved with or was involved with.
Speaker 1: The show called Noise Junkies. HP has pretty much taken
Speaker 1: over there. Go listen to Noise Junkies. He's done it.
Speaker 1: He's doing great work about specific albums and people involved
Speaker 1: in the music industry. He did one about Grace Jones's
Speaker 1: album Slave to the Rhythm, which is fucking awesome. I
Speaker 1: thought I knew everything about that album, and I learned
Speaker 1: a lot, so very kind.
Speaker 2: I do have fun with it. As he mentioned, I'm
Speaker 2: also on the Proud to be on the weirding Way Network.
Speaker 2: Besides finding me here, you can find me occasionally as
Speaker 2: a guest on the Culture Cast with Christashu and I
Speaker 2: would encourage you to check out Noise Junkies. There's already
Speaker 2: some great episodes, but lately I've kind of taken on
Speaker 2: some interesting solo minisodes. I call them that they're a
Speaker 2: little more bite size and they've been fun to do,
Speaker 2: so check those out if you will. I also have
Speaker 2: a band camp, hpmusicplace dot bandcamp dot com, which I've
Speaker 2: I have fun with as well. Check that out. But
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