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<v Speaker 1>Weird being way media Nike. Mister Walters.

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<v Speaker 2>Can see that guy with it now, he's an actor.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a driver and the only camp driver in his place.

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<v Speaker 2>Good evening and welcome tonight, mister Walters a taxi podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm HP your co host and with me as always

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<v Speaker 2>as my co host, Father Malone, Father him alone. How

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<v Speaker 2>are you this evening.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm feeling precocious.

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<v Speaker 2>We're going to talk Taxi Season two, episode sixteen, Tony

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<v Speaker 2>and Brian. This was written by Ken Eston and directed,

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<v Speaker 2>of course by James Burrows. Reminder, we're doing these shows

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<v Speaker 2>in broadcast order and not in order of filming. Man,

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<v Speaker 2>this is gonna be a one Father alone. We opened

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<v Speaker 2>in the garage for this episode. Bobby runs in to

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<v Speaker 2>tell alex in Elane that his new play got reviewed

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<v Speaker 2>last night.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god. He's got a stack of paper, a

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<v Speaker 1>stack with him. He's got all the papes.

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<v Speaker 2>He's got a bunch of papers, and we come to

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<v Speaker 2>find out that they're different papers. It's not just one

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<v Speaker 2>copy of the same good review. By the way, it's

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<v Speaker 2>actually very quaint when you think about it, that back

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<v Speaker 2>then you actually had to buy a newspaper the day

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<v Speaker 2>after to read a review for this like nowadays, it's

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<v Speaker 2>you know, we live in a twenty four hour news cycle, obviously,

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<v Speaker 2>but back then you had to wait till the person

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<v Speaker 2>submitted the review to the paper, that the paper was printed,

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<v Speaker 2>the printed papers were delivered to newsstands, and there was

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<v Speaker 2>a long process. So that's he had to wait a

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<v Speaker 2>whole half a day to get his review back.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh sure, there's tons of those Broadway tales where the

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<v Speaker 1>opening night and they're all waiting at the restaurant and

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<v Speaker 1>somebody rushes out at three am because they've just dropped

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<v Speaker 1>off the first edition.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a bygone era.

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<v Speaker 1>Now nowadays, you could probably just while the play is

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<v Speaker 1>going on, if you have a scene, you're off your backstage,

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<v Speaker 1>you'd probably find out exactly what people are thinking of

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<v Speaker 1>your show, because they're probably fucking spewing from the audience.

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<v Speaker 2>They're submitting capsule reviews on Twitter. Boy, this play is

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<v Speaker 2>just fucking terrible. Alex takes the paper and proceeds to

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<v Speaker 2>read the review as a cheery Bobby goads him along.

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<v Speaker 2>The review is almost completely negative. It's a revival of

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<v Speaker 2>depth of a salesman, and Bobby is playing Biff loman.

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<v Speaker 1>I would love to see this performance, by the way.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, by the way, I think we only end up

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<v Speaker 2>really seeing Bobby perform professionally once.

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<v Speaker 1>Are we talking about the Children's party audition?

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<v Speaker 2>No, that's really I guess that is a professional engagement.

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<v Speaker 2>Now there's an episode where he does he's performing in

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<v Speaker 2>a one man play about Charles Darwin.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, that's right, is that critic? Oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't wait for that one.

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<v Speaker 2>It's an awesome episode, and unfortunately this is not it.

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<v Speaker 2>By the way, speaking of Bobby, I don't know if

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<v Speaker 2>you noticed this, but he's wearing his customary leather jacket.

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<v Speaker 2>But we never talked about this. He has this it's

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<v Speaker 2>a gold or brass pin on the right side of it,

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<v Speaker 2>his right side.

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<v Speaker 1>We have talked about it, but we have not discussed

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<v Speaker 1>what it actually is. I said, he's got a button

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<v Speaker 1>on his jacket because he's an artistic sort, right, right, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>But I can't tell you what it says.

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<v Speaker 2>You see probably the best image of it that we've

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<v Speaker 2>seen so far. It's this three quarter shot of his face.

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<v Speaker 2>But I still can't see what it is. I'm dying

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<v Speaker 2>to know because I know it's so prominent. I thought

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<v Speaker 2>maybe you had some insight. Anyway, this whole business with

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<v Speaker 2>the reviews really doesn't go anywhere. Just then Tony comes

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<v Speaker 2>into the garage and he has with him this kid,

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<v Speaker 2>Brian from the episode The Reluctant Fighter. He was the

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<v Speaker 2>kid in the wheelchair where Tony was going to fight

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<v Speaker 2>Carlos Navarone. And then Tony had to reconcile the fact

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<v Speaker 2>that he was going to beat on this guy's this

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<v Speaker 2>kid's hero.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't forget. Bobby then punches Tony in the face with

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<v Speaker 1>a fistful of ball bearings. Okay, that's who we're dealing with.

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<v Speaker 2>The good news, I guess, is that Bobby is no

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<v Speaker 2>longer in a wheelchair. Whatever medical procedure he had.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, this observation he needed, he could walk now.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's the good news. The bad news is everything

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<v Speaker 2>else about this episode. A quote from the fan guy

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<v Speaker 2>that I always referred to it's the Bible of Taxi

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<v Speaker 2>at this point their entry on this episode. I had

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<v Speaker 2>to write this verbatim that the quote is Brian is

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<v Speaker 2>out of his wheelchair now, but is as sin and

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<v Speaker 2>conniving as ever. And I think those words cynical and

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<v Speaker 2>conniving are the best descriptors I could think of for

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<v Speaker 2>the character Brian, or at least look. I feel a

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<v Speaker 2>little bad because he's He's nine years old, this kid.

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<v Speaker 2>Nobody should expect him to be Olivier acting in this episode.

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<v Speaker 2>But boy, he's so insufferable.

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<v Speaker 1>The problem is we've gotten the cynical, conniving, con artist

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<v Speaker 1>kid on this show already. Louis de Palmer gave him

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<v Speaker 1>a ride. It was Tanner from The Bad News Bears.

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<v Speaker 1>If Tanner had been playing this role, holy fuck.

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<v Speaker 2>I feel bad because he's just a child, and I

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<v Speaker 2>have a bias against being too critical of a kid

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<v Speaker 2>in this circumstance. But to be really frank about this,

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<v Speaker 2>half the time in this episode he's reading. He's clearly

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<v Speaker 2>reading cue cards off of stage left. I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if you noticed that about him.

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<v Speaker 1>No, I did not know.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a lot of looking off the edge of the stage.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, they've got the cattle prods there, the electric

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<v Speaker 1>so of course he's going to be hyper aware of

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<v Speaker 1>their presence.

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<v Speaker 2>He's just it's played so broadly, and the writing is

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<v Speaker 2>so terrible. At times, it felt a little bit like

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<v Speaker 2>a backdoor pilot for some kind of offshoot of Taxi

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<v Speaker 2>where Tony is a new adopted dad and he's got

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<v Speaker 2>to deal with this precocious kid. It doesn't really fit

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<v Speaker 2>in for me with the whole esthetic and feel of Taxi,

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<v Speaker 2>but we'll get into this. We'll get into this as

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<v Speaker 2>we go a little further here, Tony is growing about

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<v Speaker 2>Brian scoring the game winning run and I guess a

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<v Speaker 2>little league game. They don't really specify, but turns out

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<v Speaker 2>that he only took first base something, but he'ly got

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<v Speaker 2>on base because he got hit by the ball. He

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<v Speaker 2>got beamed. Tony asks Brian if he's checked with his

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<v Speaker 2>foster parents about visiting him at the gym this week.

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<v Speaker 2>This was not made clear in the Reluctant Fighter episode

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<v Speaker 2>that I guess Brian is is a foster kid. They

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<v Speaker 2>don't mention any of that.

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<v Speaker 1>I thought they did make that clear, and no, because

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<v Speaker 1>I went back and I do the episode.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't. All they say that is that he was

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<v Speaker 2>in the hospital, Carlos was his hero, and blah blah blah.

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<v Speaker 2>They don't make any reference to well.

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<v Speaker 1>I think the fact that his parents did not appear

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<v Speaker 1>in the episode implied that he was an orphan. I'm joking,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, that's ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 2>That's well, so whatever, they're stretching out the character a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit and giving him more of a backstory.

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<v Speaker 1>AHG, what are you talking about? His father is on

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<v Speaker 1>screen with him.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. For those folks who maybe don't remember this kid,

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<v Speaker 2>Brian is actually played by Tony Danz's real life son,

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<v Speaker 2>So you know, whatever, good for them. I'm happy for them.

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<v Speaker 2>The kid isn't the worst actor in the world. But

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<v Speaker 2>why this is a hard episode to get through.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's what I'll say. I don't think he's bad in

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<v Speaker 1>any way. It's just that when you consider the level

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<v Speaker 1>of talent they usually get on the show, this feels like,

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<v Speaker 1>well it's because of Tony, because the kid doesn't really

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<v Speaker 1>rise above the level of a typical Disney kid. As

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<v Speaker 1>far as performing, it's all studied. None of it feels natural.

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<v Speaker 1>He's like doing a part, and on any other sitcom

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<v Speaker 1>he would be the highlight of that sitcom. But this

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<v Speaker 1>is Taxi.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. There's a lot of mugging for the camera.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a lot of smiling. There's a lot of reference

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<v Speaker 2>to his dimples that everybody seems to find disarming, which

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<v Speaker 2>it just bothers me because the previous episode that we

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<v Speaker 2>just went through was this gut wrenching, sad story of

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<v Speaker 2>Reverend Jim and his horse, which sounds ridiculous on the

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<v Speaker 2>face of it, but by the end of it I

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<v Speaker 2>had tears in my eyes because it's so beautiful. And

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<v Speaker 2>now we're dealing with this kid mugging and getting Tony

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<v Speaker 2>wrapped around his finger. It's embarrassing. It's what it is.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me just say, as nice as I've been to

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<v Speaker 1>his performance, it it does feel a bit like Catherine

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<v Speaker 1>O'Hara's performance in Waiting for Goffman, when she's on stage

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<v Speaker 1>like this is a good site for these.

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<v Speaker 2>Weary eyes Red White and Blaine.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, but like her bad acting, like is

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<v Speaker 1>comparable to this kid's good acting.

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<v Speaker 2>The problem isn't It doesn't end with his performance. The

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<v Speaker 2>problem really, ultimately is the writing. As we talk a

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<v Speaker 2>little bit bit more about this and the twists in

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<v Speaker 2>terms of this episode, it's I just don't know what

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<v Speaker 2>they were thinking. Probably they were thinking, well, let's, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>Tony's nice guy, let's involve his son in another episode

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<v Speaker 2>and see where it goes. They didn't think it through,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think, But nevertheless, let's gird ourselves and go forward. Here,

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<v Speaker 2>Brian has to make an excuse to Tony about the

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<v Speaker 2>gym because he's supposed to be at the playground that day,

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<v Speaker 2>hanging out with rich kids so that he gets adopted.

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<v Speaker 2>That's his scheme, is that if he hangs out it

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<v Speaker 2>with enough rich kids, sooner or later one of their

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<v Speaker 2>rich parents will decide to adopt him. Because he's cute

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<v Speaker 2>and he has dimples. He just comes off as kind

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<v Speaker 2>of creepy and conniving, so it's hard to see what

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<v Speaker 2>people see in him. Brian even talks about how cute

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<v Speaker 2>he is, which is so off putting. I think he says, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>look at this smile. Who can resist the smile and everybody?

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<v Speaker 1>And that's where it's the separation between a good child

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<v Speaker 1>actor and a child reformer is because that had had

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<v Speaker 1>his performance there been knowing you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>It isn't p he's intentional, like, oh look at me,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm so cute, as opposed to I'm fucking adorable. Someone's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna adopt me, if you know what I mean. It

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't seem like he came up with the plan. And

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<v Speaker 1>that's the last I'll beat up on him.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, there's a lot of talk about him trying to

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<v Speaker 2>increase his chances for adoption in any manner that he

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<v Speaker 2>can possibly figure out. Be it his cuteness, dealing with

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<v Speaker 2>these rich people that just have to fall in love

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<v Speaker 2>with this kid, it's all it feels. It's been a

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<v Speaker 2>funny way. I don't know this is a this is

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<v Speaker 2>an obscure reference. But famously, the Brady Bunch did a

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<v Speaker 2>backdoor pilot called Kelly's Kids, where it was one of

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<v Speaker 2>the Ken Barry right, he was going to be the star,

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<v Speaker 2>and an all premise was Ken Barry adopts a child,

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<v Speaker 2>like a nine or ten year old from a from

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<v Speaker 2>an adoption agency. But the kid has two friends that

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<v Speaker 2>he wants more than anything to be his brothers, so

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<v Speaker 2>they go ahead and adopt these two other kids, Dwayne

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<v Speaker 2>and Steve. I remember their names were Dwayne and Steve

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<v Speaker 2>Malone is I'm watching this because there's no real way

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<v Speaker 2>the Taxi universe. There's no place for him right now.

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<v Speaker 1>You know what, Elaine has children, and we've seen them

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<v Speaker 1>like briefly one time or maybe twice, and those are

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<v Speaker 2>Come on, I'm not going to go into a great

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<v Speaker 2>detail here. At some point, Brian leaves, let's say, and

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<v Speaker 2>Alex inexplicably even suggests that Tony would make a great father,

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<v Speaker 1>Well, you're monosyllabic. I don't know if you can read.

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<v Speaker 1>You're a Cabby. You spend a lot of time at

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<v Speaker 1>Florida in back driving some twenty four hours in each

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<v Speaker 1>direction without sleeping or stopping, and you spend your time

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<v Speaker 1>so we can assume that you'll be dead within a

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<v Speaker 2>The prospect of fatherhood actually makes Tony beam sickeningly, and

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<v Speaker 2>I use that word in my notes with pride. Then

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<v Speaker 2>there's some business where Bobby reads another review from another

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<v Speaker 2>paper that slams his portrayal of Biff. That part of

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<v Speaker 2>the episode really never goes anywhere. I think at that point,

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't Louis come in with a big bundle of that

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<v Speaker 2>At that point, we cut to Tony's apartment. I think

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<v Speaker 2>this might be the first time we see Tony's apartment

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<v Speaker 2>in this series. The rest of the Caves arrive for

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<v Speaker 1>It's quite an apartment. It's actually perfect. Once again, they're

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<v Speaker 2>You thought it was perfect. I thought it was weird.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh no, no, I thought it was perfect. It is

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<v Speaker 1>so unusual, and it's something that you know that when

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<v Speaker 1>Tony saw for the first time. He said that word perfect.

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<v Speaker 1>I can put the boxing thing there, I can sleep

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<v Speaker 1>up there. That I've got all this space here for training

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<v Speaker 1>like this is great.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a loft bed with no real there's no ladder

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<v Speaker 2>I thought was weird. I think below that is where

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<v Speaker 2>he has his boxing training area. He's got like a

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<v Speaker 2>punching bag under there. There's a curtain with nothing behind

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<v Speaker 2>it but a bureau and a dress that appears to

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<v Speaker 2>be hung on the wall. I don't know what the

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<v Speaker 2>dress is all about. There's a picture in the back

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<v Speaker 2>wall of a cartoon boxing glove that looks like something

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<v Speaker 2>Turns out fatherm Alone. That is actually a known print.

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<v Speaker 2>It was by an artist called Celestino Piati. It is

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<v Speaker 2>from nineteen seventy one. It was produced for the exclusive

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<v Speaker 2>close circuit TV viewing in Harlem of Frasier from Madison

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<v Speaker 2>Square Garden. This is actually a real piece of artwork,

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<v Speaker 2>and I was like, well, it's actually kind of cool

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<v Speaker 2>that they didn't just put some like Alex's. Remember Alex's

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<v Speaker 2>That actually makes sense and it's actually a real piece

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<v Speaker 1>And what probably happened is at one point Tony dated

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<v Speaker 1>a cultured girl who bought that for him, and he's

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<v Speaker 1>just like, it's great, it's boxing.

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<v Speaker 2>It's culture. I like boxing. It's culture. But it has

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<v Speaker 2>to be said, my favorite part of this whole episode,

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<v Speaker 2>and that's admittedly that's a very very low threshold to

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<v Speaker 2>get over. Do you know what my favorite part of

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<v Speaker 2>this episode was? It's actually right next to that picture

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<v Speaker 2>of the boxing glove on the wall. Did you see

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<v Speaker 2>what I saw? Father Malone? Evidently not, you did not

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<v Speaker 2>on the wall next to that weird boxing glove poster

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<v Speaker 2>hung on the wall. Is that huge plaque with the

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<v Speaker 2>tiny fish mounted on it?

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<v Speaker 1>How did I not know?

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<v Speaker 2>Because it's not immediately obvious because you don't see it

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<v Speaker 2>full on. You only ever see a corner of it

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<v Speaker 2>because that's just the way it's framed. But that I'll

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<v Speaker 2>remind people. In the episode from season one called Friends,

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<v Speaker 2>Bobby killed Tony's beloved goldfish and to make it up

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<v Speaker 2>to him. He had the mounted. It's like something out

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<v Speaker 2>of easy Comics. It's so grim, but apparently Tony thought

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<v Speaker 2>enough of it to put this ghastly object on the

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<v Speaker 2>wall and there it is. Bravo.

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<v Speaker 1>The set decorators are more into the continuity of the

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<v Speaker 1>show than the writers are. Noted.

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<v Speaker 2>I was so tickled to see that, because that is

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<v Speaker 2>such a great callback to season one, and it made

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<v Speaker 2>perfect sense to me, so I was. I love that

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<v Speaker 2>part of it. That's the only thing I loved about

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<v Speaker 2>the whole episode. Alex comes in and he asks Tony

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<v Speaker 2>if you heard back from the social worker, and Tony

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<v Speaker 2>says that he he has a good shot at adopting Brian, which, again,

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<v Speaker 2>what kind of fantasy land are we living in here

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<v Speaker 2>that this broke a Luca boxer has a shot at

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<v Speaker 2>adopting a child. That's beyond me. But anyway, for some

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<v Speaker 2>weird reason, though, Tony says that he hasn't spoken to

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<v Speaker 2>Brian about it, which seems like that would be the

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<v Speaker 2>first person that you would want to consult if you're

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<v Speaker 2>looking to adopt them.

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<v Speaker 1>Tony is intimidated by Brian. Yeah, is he admits it? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, Brian has other plans, so he doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>want to counteract or counterman those much. Still, he should

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<v Speaker 1>have floated the idea, you know, just say, like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you can always live with me.

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<v Speaker 2>Well by other plans, do you mean this idea that

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<v Speaker 2>he's going to hang out with rich kids, Yeah, to

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<v Speaker 2>get a DoPT Okay.

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<v Speaker 1>That okay, that is his specific plan right now. But

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<v Speaker 1>you know, if that isn't happening, he's got a plan

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<v Speaker 1>B and C so and none of those clearly include

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<v Speaker 1>Tony Banta or he would have said, Tony, we should

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<v Speaker 1>be together right.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, So it just seems odd to me that he

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<v Speaker 2>would be making I mean, he's talking to somebody about adoption,

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<v Speaker 2>a social worker without actually speaking to the boy himself.

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<v Speaker 2>It seemed a little rash. Brian's coming over, and that's

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<v Speaker 2>why Tony wanted everybody there. He's going to be laying

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<v Speaker 2>this on Brian, and he wants his friends there for support.

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<v Speaker 2>Although maybe one of the funniest bits of the episode,

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<v Speaker 2>which again is a low bar to get over, Jim

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<v Speaker 2>is there and Tony isn't even sure why Jim is there.

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<v Speaker 2>He's like, not even sure if he invited him, and

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<v Speaker 2>Jim even says me, neither. I thought it was an oversight.

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<v Speaker 2>But the funniest part of it is somebody, I think

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<v Speaker 2>Tony throws him a beer or tries to throw him

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<v Speaker 2>a and he just completely is in his own world.

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<v Speaker 2>Jim is and it just kind of sails past him

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<v Speaker 2>and hits the couch. I don't know why, but I

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<v Speaker 2>thought it was really really funny.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, I cackled when that maybe laugh. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>this is the only reteaming part of the episode is

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<v Speaker 1>and it's because of Jimyntowski.

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<v Speaker 2>Tony says he's so excited he couldn't even sleep last night.

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<v Speaker 2>He's already checked out the local school he scouted out

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<v Speaker 2>in an apartment with another bedroom. There's a knock on the door.

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<v Speaker 2>Its Brian. Tony has a sudden change of heart and

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<v Speaker 2>asks everybody shades of the Burns episode where they all

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<v Speaker 2>had to hide in the bathroom while yeah, he had

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<v Speaker 2>to have a fight with his wife.

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<v Speaker 1>Everyone in there, and we found that very very funny.

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<v Speaker 1>So you take the rest of the cabbys and stick

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<v Speaker 1>them in the bathroom. The hilarity increases geometrically.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a mildly funny bit about Jim thinking that they're

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<v Speaker 2>going to play hide and seek. So anyway, I'll go

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<v Speaker 2>into the bathroom and the scene suddenly becomes a two

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<v Speaker 2>hander with just Brian and Tony, and Brian comes in

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<v Speaker 2>because he's excited because he met a kid at this

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<v Speaker 2>playground with rich people that has a rich aunt and

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<v Speaker 2>uncle who want Brian to stay for a while, which

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<v Speaker 2>will hopefully lead to adoption. Now this kind of scared

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<v Speaker 2>me a little bit for Brian's sake, because it just

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<v Speaker 2>sounds like he met these people on the playground and

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<v Speaker 2>they said to a nine year old boy with no

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<v Speaker 2>parental supervision, come home. I want to come home with us.

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<v Speaker 2>We're not weird at all.

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<v Speaker 1>Forever. You'll be part of our family. Now, don't you

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<v Speaker 1>want to call me Dad?

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<v Speaker 2>It's played completely straight. You're not supposed to question this

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<v Speaker 2>at all. It's just how things work in Brian's world.

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, remember we're talking about a world hp where there

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<v Speaker 1>was the masher as a archetype in life, not just

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<v Speaker 1>on sitcoms. Like it was expected that somebody was going

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<v Speaker 1>around with a trench coat flashing people, and that's just

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<v Speaker 1>part of modern day living. So here's another.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, take it on face value that these people are

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<v Speaker 2>genuine and they have this boy's best interest at heart.

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<v Speaker 2>Weird thing as a car starts honking as they're having

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<v Speaker 2>this conversation. I mean, Brian has been in the house,

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<v Speaker 2>in this apartment for maybe five minutes, and this car

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<v Speaker 2>starts honking, and that's apparently that's these people. Brian's prospective

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<v Speaker 2>adoptive parents are picking him up at Tony's house, which

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<v Speaker 2>makes me think, why the hell did he even go

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<v Speaker 2>to Tony's in the first place if it's just going

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<v Speaker 2>to be a five minute got to get his stuff?

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<v Speaker 2>Does he though? I don't Does he leave? Does he leave?

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<v Speaker 1>He packs?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>He pancks some things up before he goes.

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<v Speaker 2>Does he I don't remember that part?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, certainly. And the honking of the horn means that

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<v Speaker 1>their driver is an impatient motherfucker who was just like,

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<v Speaker 1>what am I? Is it not enough that I fucking

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<v Speaker 1>do their errands? Fatherland? Now I'm picking up kids fucking Manhattan.

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<v Speaker 2>You're right, it's probably the chauffeur. It's Cadbury waiting outside

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<v Speaker 2>for this insufferable child.

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<v Speaker 1>And the kid is probably so boastful that he's probably

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<v Speaker 1>said to the driver, I'm going to soak these people

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<v Speaker 1>who are all there worth? The driver's like this little motherfucker.

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<v Speaker 2>Ah, I can't believe this fucker.

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<v Speaker 1>They're going to adopt him, and if I say anything

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<v Speaker 1>against him, they're just going to fire me. So all right.

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<v Speaker 2>Tony tries to talk to Brian to see if this

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<v Speaker 2>is what he really wants, and the kid doesn't pick

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<v Speaker 2>up on any of Tony's hints. Because Tony is dropping

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<v Speaker 2>hints that, you know, hey, you may want to stay

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<v Speaker 2>here for you know, the kid is not picking up

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<v Speaker 2>any of this. Then the sound of glass breaking gets

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<v Speaker 2>Brian's attention, and apparently somebody in the bathroom knocked something over,

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<v Speaker 2>and he realizes that the bathroom is filled with his

420
00:23:49.480 --> 00:23:52.799
<v Speaker 2>with Tony's friends. He even makes a dumb joke about

421
00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:55.079
<v Speaker 2>how the cat, Oh, you told me all your friends

422
00:23:55.119 --> 00:23:57.839
<v Speaker 2>did everything together. I didn't know that meant going to

423
00:23:57.880 --> 00:24:04.519
<v Speaker 2>the bathroom. It's stupid. Brian leaves, and he vainly tries

424
00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:10.160
<v Speaker 2>to console a suddenly downcast Tony that hey, they can

425
00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:13.880
<v Speaker 2>still hang out even after he gets adopted. Whatever. Brian

426
00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:17.359
<v Speaker 2>leaves and the cabbies come out. They hurt everything, and

427
00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:20.880
<v Speaker 2>they then try to consolet Tony, but he asks to

428
00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:25.759
<v Speaker 2>be left alone, and as they file out all of

429
00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:28.119
<v Speaker 2>I couldn't help noticing. I don't know if you noticed this,

430
00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:30.400
<v Speaker 2>but he's sitting on the couch and he looks really upset,

431
00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:34.640
<v Speaker 2>and everybody leaves, but there's this scattered laughter coming from

432
00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:37.680
<v Speaker 2>the audience. Did you notice that it's very peculiar.

433
00:24:38.119 --> 00:24:40.359
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I don't know what was happening. Maybe it's the

434
00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:43.440
<v Speaker 1>audience on the side could see everybody like crowded into

435
00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:44.079
<v Speaker 1>the bathroom.

436
00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:46.599
<v Speaker 2>Well, no, I think what happened was so they leave

437
00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:51.880
<v Speaker 2>and then at what then happens is that Jim is

438
00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:54.440
<v Speaker 2>still in the bathroom and he comes out, making like

439
00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:57.680
<v Speaker 2>a hide and go seek joke, like oh ready or

440
00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:00.400
<v Speaker 2>not here I come. I think what happened if I

441
00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:03.599
<v Speaker 2>had to guess father alone is I think probably this

442
00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:07.279
<v Speaker 2>might have been like the second or third up the material.

443
00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:09.079
<v Speaker 1>Is coming.

444
00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:12.400
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's what I think happened. But me, as a

445
00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:14.559
<v Speaker 2>viewer who's not supposed to be privy to any of this,

446
00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:18.240
<v Speaker 2>I just thought it was really odd that in the

447
00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:21.319
<v Speaker 2>midst of this really sad moment for Tony, the audience

448
00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:21.920
<v Speaker 2>is laughing.

449
00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:27.440
<v Speaker 1>Can't see as Andy Kaufman doing something fucking bonkers up

450
00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:29.000
<v Speaker 1>and he's.

451
00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:30.920
<v Speaker 2>Got his conga drums and he's ramping up.

452
00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:34.519
<v Speaker 1>Sure, he's dressed like Tony, and he's minding everything Tony

453
00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:41.240
<v Speaker 1>is doing. Andy Kaufman has a new character. It's Tony Tanza.

454
00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:47.559
<v Speaker 2>He just starts doing, Oh, that would have been so incredible.

455
00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:52.079
<v Speaker 1>Rest the hair, like get pumped up, like get actually built.

456
00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:54.880
<v Speaker 1>You know, I'd just love to know he would do it.

457
00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:57.960
<v Speaker 2>We fade the black and we fade back in. Tony

458
00:25:58.079 --> 00:26:01.880
<v Speaker 2>is coming into the She gives his bookings to Louie, and,

459
00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:05.400
<v Speaker 2>out of character maybe a little bit, Louie actually compliments

460
00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:09.039
<v Speaker 2>Tony's bookings. Usually were used to him making some joke

461
00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:11.279
<v Speaker 2>at their expense about how they're not booking much, but

462
00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:13.720
<v Speaker 2>apparently Tony is pulling in all kinds of big books.

463
00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:17.559
<v Speaker 1>You'll notice that Louie is only ever happy with these

464
00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:20.279
<v Speaker 1>characters when they're at their most miserable, because that's the

465
00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:22.960
<v Speaker 1>only time they ever focus on their fucking jobs.

466
00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:27.000
<v Speaker 2>This is true. Tony is glom and he just says hey.

467
00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:30.720
<v Speaker 2>He asks if he can drive the day shift too,

468
00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:34.359
<v Speaker 2>and Alex and Elaine come over to chat with Tony.

469
00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:36.720
<v Speaker 2>They see how Distraughtie is and they want to talk

470
00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:39.400
<v Speaker 2>to him. But I couldn't focus on that. I was

471
00:26:39.440 --> 00:26:44.400
<v Speaker 2>too busy looking at Elaine's western garb. She's still going

472
00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:47.319
<v Speaker 2>all country western. She's dressed like Dolly Parton, basically, did

473
00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:48.240
<v Speaker 2>you see what she was wearing?

474
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.279
<v Speaker 1>I did, And look, I'm not happy with the continuing

475
00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:56.319
<v Speaker 1>western trend going on here at Sunshine Cap, but if

476
00:26:56.359 --> 00:26:59.440
<v Speaker 1>it has to happen and she's going to wear those jeans,

477
00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:00.799
<v Speaker 1>then I'm all for it.

478
00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:04.039
<v Speaker 2>Having said all of that, she looks incredible no matter

479
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:06.599
<v Speaker 2>what they put her in. She should be dressed in

480
00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:11.160
<v Speaker 2>downtown New York chic. Yeah, they persistent putting her in these,

481
00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:14.200
<v Speaker 2>and it's because we've made this point. This is the

482
00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:17.880
<v Speaker 2>time of the beginnings of country goes pop and I

483
00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:19.240
<v Speaker 2>think this is a reflection of that.

484
00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:22.480
<v Speaker 1>Sadly, yeah, and that it makes me because they're doing

485
00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:24.559
<v Speaker 1>it to a Wheeler as well, it makes me think

486
00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:27.960
<v Speaker 1>that those two characters are flightier than I had initially

487
00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:31.319
<v Speaker 1>thought that they. Elaine ought to be dressing like a

488
00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:33.680
<v Speaker 1>New Waiver, you know what I mean, like a refined

489
00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:37.839
<v Speaker 1>version of that, but yes, downtown New York like bohemian

490
00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:40.759
<v Speaker 1>sort of that new wave chic.

491
00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:43.680
<v Speaker 2>We've seen her pull it off before a lot of scarves,

492
00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:46.440
<v Speaker 2>a lot of interesting hats, and things like that.

493
00:27:46.559 --> 00:27:52.960
<v Speaker 1>You should be dressing like Annie Potts in UHTI.

494
00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:54.599
<v Speaker 2>Oh pretty of course, yeah pretty in pig exactly exactly

495
00:27:54.759 --> 00:28:01.079
<v Speaker 2>like hip she does nothing hippy, but yeah, dressing like

496
00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:04.400
<v Speaker 2>Dolly Parton. There's nothing look. I love Dolly Parton, but

497
00:28:04.680 --> 00:28:07.799
<v Speaker 2>in this context, it it doesn't make any sense to me.

498
00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:12.880
<v Speaker 2>But nevertheless, Alex believes Tony's working so much because he's

499
00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:15.359
<v Speaker 2>trying to make more money so that it'll be more

500
00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:18.759
<v Speaker 2>appealing for Brian to come live with him, and Alex,

501
00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:23.200
<v Speaker 2>recognizing this, warns Tony that he can't compete financially with

502
00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:29.200
<v Speaker 2>Brian's prospective parents, but Tony just glumly replies that he

503
00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:32.119
<v Speaker 2>just wants to hit the streets since Brian walked out

504
00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:36.319
<v Speaker 2>on him. Elaine tries to make excuses for the kid,

505
00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:40.200
<v Speaker 2>but and I actually liked this part too. Alex is

506
00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:43.079
<v Speaker 2>so fed up, like with everything. He says what everybody

507
00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:48.880
<v Speaker 2>else is thinking, which is everybody's making excuses for this kid. Yes,

508
00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:52.119
<v Speaker 2>he's had a hard life, but that doesn't give the

509
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:54.960
<v Speaker 2>kid the right to play with people's emotions and like

510
00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:59.799
<v Speaker 2>Tony and treat him so poorly. Basically, Alex lays out

511
00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:03.240
<v Speaker 2>this idea that Brian's value system is all messed up.

512
00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.960
<v Speaker 2>He tells Tony to go to the Brennans, his adoptive parents,

513
00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:08.720
<v Speaker 2>and tell.

514
00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:09.200
<v Speaker 1>Them to her.

515
00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:11.880
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, that's exactly what we're seeing here. He's like,

516
00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:18.720
<v Speaker 2>he wants Tony to go to this estate where this

517
00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:21.119
<v Speaker 2>kid is living the sweet life and try to make

518
00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:24.200
<v Speaker 2>the case to him to Brian why he should adopt

519
00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:27.559
<v Speaker 2>him instead of these high falute and rich people. Tony

520
00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:32.200
<v Speaker 2>actually admits he's afraid that Brian will outwit him if

521
00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:35.400
<v Speaker 2>he tries. This is a nine year old child, which

522
00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:37.839
<v Speaker 2>leads to a dumb, dumb joke from Louis. I don't

523
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:40.440
<v Speaker 2>remember what it is, but it's just another joke about

524
00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:45.680
<v Speaker 2>what an idiot Tony is. But somehow Alex wears Tony down.

525
00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:48.640
<v Speaker 2>But Tony says, only if you go with them. Everybody's

526
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:51.599
<v Speaker 2>going to have Alex go with them. It's Louis going

527
00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:55.039
<v Speaker 2>on a date with Xena and her parents goa He's

528
00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:58.200
<v Speaker 2>gotta have Alex with him. I guess he is the

529
00:29:58.240 --> 00:30:00.519
<v Speaker 2>stable one in the garage, so it makes sense, but

530
00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:01.599
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

531
00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:06.119
<v Speaker 1>Hang the head that wears the emotionally stable crown.

532
00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:09.880
<v Speaker 2>They leave the garage and we fade out to what

533
00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:13.279
<v Speaker 2>appears to be a mansion, probably maybe somewhere in the Berkshires.

534
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:15.559
<v Speaker 2>I don't know where it's located. They don't make reference

535
00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:20.960
<v Speaker 2>to that, but we cut inside this completely garish room

536
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:24.200
<v Speaker 2>as a maid kind of announces that they're there and

537
00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:28.440
<v Speaker 2>asks them to wait while the Brennans will be there momentarily.

538
00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:34.279
<v Speaker 2>But I got to say, I know we've given the

539
00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:38.119
<v Speaker 2>set decoration department, like their flowers, for all the good

540
00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:41.920
<v Speaker 2>work they do. This was terrible. This room was supposed

541
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:44.079
<v Speaker 2>to be the library. It didn't look anything remotely like

542
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:50.200
<v Speaker 2>a library to me, father alone. It's just so gaudy.

543
00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:53.160
<v Speaker 2>It's supposed to look expensive, but it just looks cheap.

544
00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:55.519
<v Speaker 2>I didn't like it at all.

545
00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.720
<v Speaker 1>Okay, do you think it looks cheap for nineteen eighty.

546
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:04.119
<v Speaker 2>Are you asking if maybe this was just the opulence

547
00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:05.799
<v Speaker 2>that was appropriate for.

548
00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:08.519
<v Speaker 1>The time at the time. Yeah, yeah, Like this is

549
00:31:09.160 --> 00:31:14.559
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighties version of like a nouveau reche situation where

550
00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:18.279
<v Speaker 1>they're paying fealty to the older kind of idea of

551
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:21.079
<v Speaker 1>what a mansion and antiques are, but they're switching it

552
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:24.200
<v Speaker 1>up so the library can have a window as its

553
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:28.200
<v Speaker 1>main feature, and the books are not necessarily in your face.

554
00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:30.720
<v Speaker 1>You have to find them down in shelves below.

555
00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:35.759
<v Speaker 2>Well, the only thing I was really reminded of in

556
00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:39.039
<v Speaker 2>terms of the set it what came to mind. And

557
00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:42.480
<v Speaker 2>I can't account for this, but do you remember there's

558
00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:46.039
<v Speaker 2>a movie with Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason called The Toy.

559
00:31:46.839 --> 00:31:47.640
<v Speaker 1>Do I remember?

560
00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:51.319
<v Speaker 2>Probably around that time? Hard to forget right.

561
00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:53.279
<v Speaker 1>I remember all the horrible moments of.

562
00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:55.960
<v Speaker 2>Terrible movie.

563
00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:58.079
<v Speaker 1>Have you ever seen the original French film?

564
00:31:58.599 --> 00:32:00.839
<v Speaker 2>I have not, I've not. Is it good?

565
00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:07.000
<v Speaker 1>Funny? All star American racial problems that that movie just

566
00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:10.319
<v Speaker 1>doesn't want to deal with but is all about are

567
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:12.160
<v Speaker 1>absent in the French film.

568
00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:17.279
<v Speaker 2>Basically, a boy has his father essentially rent a human

569
00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:21.039
<v Speaker 2>being to be the kid's friend for I don't know

570
00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:24.680
<v Speaker 2>a week and live with him at his mansion. Anyway,

571
00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:28.000
<v Speaker 2>the decor of that mansion, I guess you're right, reminded

572
00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:33.240
<v Speaker 2>me of this library that Tony and Alex are entering in.

573
00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:35.519
<v Speaker 2>So maybe there's something to what you're saying, which is

574
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:39.799
<v Speaker 2>of the time it was dreger to have that sort

575
00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:41.519
<v Speaker 2>of I don't know what you call it, but it's

576
00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:47.400
<v Speaker 2>this leather couch that looks that's shiny and looks so uncomfortable,

577
00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:50.480
<v Speaker 2>and it's made of I don't know, there's rivets running

578
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:52.960
<v Speaker 2>through through the whole thing, you know what I'm talking about.

579
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:53.759
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what they're called.

580
00:32:53.839 --> 00:32:59.319
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but just particularly But I think what you're saying

581
00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:02.799
<v Speaker 1>is it doesn't look good because it's not as nuanced

582
00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.680
<v Speaker 1>as the other character apartments are. And even when it's

583
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.240
<v Speaker 1>not about those characters, because sometimes like remember we went

584
00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:12.559
<v Speaker 1>to that high school gym and you and I were like,

585
00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:14.880
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to go live in that gym. So

586
00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:18.400
<v Speaker 1>it's possible for them to wow us in some ways.

587
00:33:18.519 --> 00:33:20.640
<v Speaker 1>But I think what they're going for here is this

588
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.640
<v Speaker 1>sort of realism. That's what these wealthy people would have had,

589
00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:27.039
<v Speaker 1>would have built for their home. It's just that you

590
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:30.480
<v Speaker 1>and I are like, that sucks. And let me just say,

591
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:33.640
<v Speaker 1>do not see the toy, but go to YouTube and

592
00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:37.400
<v Speaker 1>watch the wonder Wheel scene because it's fucking hilarious. It

593
00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:40.440
<v Speaker 1>almost saves the entire movie. It doesn't because it's a

594
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:43.319
<v Speaker 1>terrible movie. Although you know, what's her name, isn't it?

595
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:48.240
<v Speaker 1>The weather Girl from from Johnny Carson Tonight's show. Well,

596
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:54.160
<v Speaker 1>the wife in the Jackie Gleeson's wife in it. What's

597
00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:57.119
<v Speaker 1>her name? She was on the car, She was on

598
00:33:57.200 --> 00:33:59.119
<v Speaker 1>the Carson Show a lot. She would sheould play this

599
00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:00.799
<v Speaker 1>like wacky Weather or girl or something.

600
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:04.519
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna have to look this up. By the way,

601
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:07.880
<v Speaker 2>do you recall who directed the toy?

602
00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:09.920
<v Speaker 1>It isn't Richard Benjamin, isn't.

603
00:34:10.440 --> 00:34:13.880
<v Speaker 2>No, it's Richard Donner. It's fucking Richard Donner.

604
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:15.559
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god. That hurt.

605
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:19.480
<v Speaker 2>Ah, I know what you're talking about. It's Teresa Ganzel.

606
00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:20.840
<v Speaker 2>That's the wife.

607
00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:25.079
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, she's real funny in the movie. And it's a

608
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:27.840
<v Speaker 1>shame that it's this movie that she's so good in.

609
00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:32.760
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she was on Carson a lot. Good memory fathered along.

610
00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:36.360
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Yeah. But the Wonderheeled scene where the wonder wheel

611
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:39.440
<v Speaker 1>is deflating and he's begging the Wonderweel not to die

612
00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:42.079
<v Speaker 1>is it still makes me laugh? Ah?

613
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:45.559
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that is a good scene. Alex and Tonia in

614
00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:51.360
<v Speaker 2>this opulent, supposedly opulent library and Brian comes in. He's

615
00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:56.320
<v Speaker 2>followed by the Brennans, these rich this rich couple that's

616
00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:58.760
<v Speaker 2>thinking about adopting him. The best thing I can think

617
00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:01.199
<v Speaker 2>of about this scene is the writing of it, is

618
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:05.760
<v Speaker 2>that they never make an effort to make the Brennans

619
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:10.880
<v Speaker 2>seem like very snobby, rich people who look down on

620
00:35:11.079 --> 00:35:14.360
<v Speaker 2>Alex and Tony. They're actually very very nice, very down

621
00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:18.440
<v Speaker 2>to earth. They try like hell to make conversation with

622
00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:22.920
<v Speaker 2>Alex and Tony, mainly Tony. But Tony is such a

623
00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:25.679
<v Speaker 2>dummy that none of these attempts go well. And even

624
00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:28.840
<v Speaker 2>I think Brian is like he kind of slaps his

625
00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:32.480
<v Speaker 2>face with the exasperation at what an idiot Tony is.

626
00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:37.039
<v Speaker 2>If I recall, missus Brennan skidaddles to look to check

627
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.840
<v Speaker 2>on dinner while mister Brennan continues in vain to make

628
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:44.519
<v Speaker 2>small talk. But like I said, honestly, the guy seems

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<v Speaker 2>like a cool dude who's just trying to relate to

630
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<v Speaker 2>these yahoos from New York City. But so I appreciated

631
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<v Speaker 2>that the episode didn't demonize them and make them seem

632
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<v Speaker 2>like villains.

633
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<v Speaker 1>I guess no, I mean, what they should have been

634
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<v Speaker 1>even nicer, that it should have just been an all

635
00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:01.599
<v Speaker 1>internal conflict with Tony here. He doesn't need to talk

636
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:03.679
<v Speaker 1>to the kid about it at all, and do you

637
00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:06.199
<v Speaker 1>know what. This scene reminded me of a very recent

638
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:10.800
<v Speaker 1>episode where Tony not Tony, where Louis meets the folks. Yep,

639
00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:14.400
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, wasn't that good? Do you want to

640
00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:17.039
<v Speaker 1>talk about that mom some more? And like how great

641
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:19.960
<v Speaker 1>she was since she was threatening to murder Danny Divader?

642
00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:22.440
<v Speaker 2>So there's no twist in this. I don't know what.

643
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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what twist he would make. Maybe one

644
00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:29.159
<v Speaker 2>of them admits that they need the child to complete

645
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:30.679
<v Speaker 2>some sort of satanic rite.

646
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:33.320
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, that would have been great, you.

647
00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:35.880
<v Speaker 2>Know, But none of that is in the offing. They

648
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:39.880
<v Speaker 2>they just seem like very decent people who just, you

649
00:36:39.880 --> 00:36:42.960
<v Speaker 2>know when I want to care for this kid. Tony

650
00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:48.199
<v Speaker 2>decides to leave, but Alex, again being Alex, who's always

651
00:36:48.280 --> 00:36:51.039
<v Speaker 2>got something he wants to uh, some principle that he

652
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:54.239
<v Speaker 2>wants to stand up for, Alex refuses to leave until

653
00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:57.119
<v Speaker 2>Tony tells Brian when he came all this way to

654
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<v Speaker 2>tell him. Alex further tries to make the case to

655
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<v Speaker 2>Brian that they're more important things than money, but he

656
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:09.800
<v Speaker 2>gets nowhere. None of this gets Alex anywhere. Tony admits

657
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<v Speaker 2>to Brian that he was kind of hoping that he

658
00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:14.960
<v Speaker 2>wasn't going to be so happy because he was hoping

659
00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:19.920
<v Speaker 2>that maybe he'd adopt him, and Tony then proceeds to

660
00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:24.679
<v Speaker 2>plead his case for adoption to Brian. But to be honest,

661
00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:28.239
<v Speaker 2>Brian acts like a total dick to Tony. Tony's really

662
00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:30.400
<v Speaker 2>laying it out and really pouring his heart out to

663
00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:34.840
<v Speaker 2>this kid about how much he looks forward to being

664
00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:36.800
<v Speaker 2>a dad and he wants to make this kid happy.

665
00:37:36.840 --> 00:37:42.079
<v Speaker 2>But Brian basically is his position is, look, I got

666
00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:45.840
<v Speaker 2>to look out for myself and frankly, you're not where

667
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:46.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm headed.

668
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:50.719
<v Speaker 1>So no, well, the kid is not wrong, Honestly, I

669
00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:55.079
<v Speaker 1>know he is a dick and ultimately is not deserving

670
00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:59.679
<v Speaker 1>of Tony's affection. However, he's right in.

671
00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:03.599
<v Speaker 2>The hard truth of it all. You're right.

672
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:09.199
<v Speaker 1>He's with his wealthy family who are acting lovingly towards him.

673
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:11.960
<v Speaker 1>Or he can go live with the Peluca who's going

674
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:15.679
<v Speaker 1>to be punched to death, leaving him in some tenement

675
00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:19.119
<v Speaker 1>and then back to square one, and now he's not cute,

676
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:22.119
<v Speaker 1>and now he no longer has the dimples. Thanks Tony,

677
00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:23.760
<v Speaker 1>your pal.

678
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:29.360
<v Speaker 2>Tony realizes that it's a lost cause, and he he

679
00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:33.679
<v Speaker 2>leaves with Alex and that's that, and then we cut

680
00:38:33.719 --> 00:38:38.760
<v Speaker 2>back to Tony in his apartment playing solitaire. He gets

681
00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:42.679
<v Speaker 2>a call from Alex, who asks Tony if he wants

682
00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:47.039
<v Speaker 2>to see Horse Feathers the Marx Brothers movie. Is that

683
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:49.000
<v Speaker 2>horse Feathers? That's what that is? Right?

684
00:38:49.159 --> 00:38:52.039
<v Speaker 1>Of course, think about the writers on this show. You know,

685
00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:54.719
<v Speaker 1>every one of them was a fucking fanatic for the

686
00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:55.639
<v Speaker 1>Marx Brothers, so.

687
00:38:56.440 --> 00:38:59.800
<v Speaker 2>Horse Feathers seemed an odd choice. But whatever. Tony turns

688
00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:00.679
<v Speaker 2>him down anyway and.

689
00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:03.719
<v Speaker 1>Says he just about a boxer trying to adopt a

690
00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:06.559
<v Speaker 1>kid who wants to be adopted by a wealthy family.

691
00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:14.440
<v Speaker 2>Like a bad penny, he always turns up. Brian barges

692
00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:19.239
<v Speaker 2>in to the apartment with a suitcase, and Tony at

693
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:23.559
<v Speaker 2>first he thinks Brian chose love over money, but he's

694
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<v Speaker 2>going to call the Brennans just to make sure everything's cool,

695
00:39:26.039 --> 00:39:28.239
<v Speaker 2>but Brian tells him not to. And the truth is

696
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:32.400
<v Speaker 2>they didn't want to adopt Brian at all, and Brian's

697
00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:37.840
<v Speaker 2>words they quote had no taste, So it's not a

698
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:42.360
<v Speaker 2>case of Brian choosing love over money. It's a matter

699
00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:46.519
<v Speaker 2>of they didn't want the kid. After all, so he

700
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:50.159
<v Speaker 2>is forced to go back to the guy who really

701
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:52.519
<v Speaker 2>cared for him in the first place and to try

702
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:55.639
<v Speaker 2>and make up with him, which Tony is pretty upset

703
00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:59.039
<v Speaker 2>with every reason that Brian is settling for him now,

704
00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:03.280
<v Speaker 2>and Brian is. At this point, Brian is strutting around

705
00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:06.960
<v Speaker 2>the apartment, He's upt ending drawers, he's making wise cracks,

706
00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:09.960
<v Speaker 2>as Tony is getting more and more upset at how

707
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.360
<v Speaker 2>fickle Brian is. There's all this mugging, more mugging from Brian,

708
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:17.119
<v Speaker 2>which is driving me up the wall. Finally, Tony is

709
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<v Speaker 2>so upset he tells Brian, a nine year old boy,

710
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<v Speaker 2>to hit the road.

711
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:25.760
<v Speaker 1>He was staying with a foster family, wasn't he.

712
00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:27.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, But that's all gone now.

713
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:30.360
<v Speaker 1>I mean, well, he's got to go back and apply

714
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:32.880
<v Speaker 1>to the fucking program and get back into it, because

715
00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:34.000
<v Speaker 1>you fucked up, kid.

716
00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:37.079
<v Speaker 2>Brian is like, what was that movie with Macaulay Culkin,

717
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:38.280
<v Speaker 2>The good.

718
00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:40.559
<v Speaker 1>Son with Elijah Wood.

719
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<v Speaker 2>He turns up the charm when but when no one's around,

720
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.400
<v Speaker 2>he becomes this demon child. This is what we're seeing.

721
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<v Speaker 2>Brian is trying to say to Tony he loves him,

722
00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:54.639
<v Speaker 2>but Tony is firm that's it's not gonna happen. But

723
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<v Speaker 2>this is the weirdest part of the whole episode for me,

724
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<v Speaker 2>Father Malone. Somehow, Tony has this brilliant idea that they're

725
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:09.480
<v Speaker 2>gonna cut cards to decide whether this nine year old

726
00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:14.320
<v Speaker 2>child gets to stay with Tony or leave to an

727
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:15.239
<v Speaker 2>uncertain future.

728
00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:18.320
<v Speaker 1>Love it. This is the best part of the episode.

729
00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:22.559
<v Speaker 1>I'll say that Tony Banta has decided this child's fate

730
00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:26.679
<v Speaker 1>will be decided by a deck of fucking playing cards.

731
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<v Speaker 2>So high card stays. So they're gonna cut cards. They're

732
00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:33.480
<v Speaker 2>gonna compare cards, and whoever gets the high card, like

733
00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:35.719
<v Speaker 2>if Brian gets the high card, he gets to stay.

734
00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:39.599
<v Speaker 2>If vice versa, then he's gonna leave. So they cut

735
00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:43.639
<v Speaker 2>the cards, and conspicuously, of course, Brian doesn't show the

736
00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:46.440
<v Speaker 2>card that he got to the audience because they're not

737
00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:50.400
<v Speaker 2>going to set up this elaborate trick with the cards.

738
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<v Speaker 2>So Brian flips an eight and Tony flips a King.

739
00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:58.280
<v Speaker 2>But Tony then says, all right, I'll go to King.

740
00:41:58.599 --> 00:42:01.880
<v Speaker 2>I got to keep you, and that leads to a

741
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:06.079
<v Speaker 2>giant hug from Brian as we fade out. By the way,

742
00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:09.840
<v Speaker 2>we never see Brian again for the duration of the series.

743
00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:13.239
<v Speaker 2>This is it. I don't know, what do you suppose happens.

744
00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:15.800
<v Speaker 1>To Brian Listen. He's not ever gonna stop being a

745
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:19.760
<v Speaker 1>conniving little dickhead. So the fact is, let's just say

746
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:22.800
<v Speaker 1>he kind of lives with Tony. Now, I imagine that

747
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:24.920
<v Speaker 1>kid is mainly out on the streets up to no

748
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:27.440
<v Speaker 1>good and then he sleeps there. So it's more of

749
00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:30.639
<v Speaker 1>those situation's like three o'clock in the morning and Tony's

750
00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:33.480
<v Speaker 1>getting up and like eating raw eggs because he's training

751
00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:36.679
<v Speaker 1>for a fight, and he hears something he's like, oh hey,

752
00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:39.440
<v Speaker 1>I hate Tony. And then the kid goes up to

753
00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:42.199
<v Speaker 1>the loft bed and goes to, okay, you need anything,

754
00:42:42.239 --> 00:42:44.159
<v Speaker 1>you need any money? No, I'm okay, I'm okay, I

755
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:44.599
<v Speaker 1>just need.

756
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:48.000
<v Speaker 2>The better ending for this would have been they cut

757
00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:51.519
<v Speaker 2>the cards and Tony flips the King, and the kid

758
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:54.760
<v Speaker 2>flips the eight, and instead of it being a matter

759
00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:57.599
<v Speaker 2>of like, okay, you get to stay anyway, if Tony

760
00:42:57.760 --> 00:43:00.400
<v Speaker 2>just like points to the door and just just like

761
00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:03.239
<v Speaker 2>all right, the car cards have.

762
00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:07.599
<v Speaker 1>Spoken, that equally good, in my mind would be the

763
00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:10.159
<v Speaker 1>kid post the King, Tony posts the eighth and the

764
00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:13.519
<v Speaker 1>and the kid says see you and packs his suitcase,

765
00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:15.719
<v Speaker 1>and the ladiers like, I win. I don't have to

766
00:43:15.719 --> 00:43:17.599
<v Speaker 1>stay with you, or he gets.

767
00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:19.840
<v Speaker 2>To stay in Tony's apartment and Tony's the one who

768
00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:23.239
<v Speaker 2>has to leave. He's gonna find.

769
00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:25.440
<v Speaker 1>A place to I won the apartment. What do you

770
00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:28.719
<v Speaker 1>mean are the stakes you didn't realize?

771
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:33.599
<v Speaker 2>Tony already admitted that Brian excelled at outwitting him, so

772
00:43:33.719 --> 00:43:35.599
<v Speaker 2>it would only stand to reason that he would pull

773
00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:37.800
<v Speaker 2>a trick like that. He's can like we can't. I

774
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:39.760
<v Speaker 2>can't stress it enough. This kid is up to no

775
00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:43.760
<v Speaker 2>good through the whole fucking episode. That's the end of

776
00:43:44.119 --> 00:43:46.960
<v Speaker 2>Tony and Brian. I'm not even sure we should have

777
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:50.639
<v Speaker 2>to bother doing this, but as is our custom, we're

778
00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:54.119
<v Speaker 2>gonna talk about yellow lights. What does he yell light mean?

779
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:59.280
<v Speaker 2>Reminder that one yellow light is the worst taxi episode

780
00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:03.519
<v Speaker 2>and five yellow lights is a classic episode. Father alone

781
00:44:03.760 --> 00:44:06.239
<v Speaker 2>is our custom. I'm gonna throw it to you first.

782
00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:08.679
<v Speaker 2>What could you possibly give Tony and Brian?

783
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:13.159
<v Speaker 1>Uh? You know, I think I liked this episode a

784
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:17.079
<v Speaker 1>little bit more than you, But I don't know if

785
00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:22.199
<v Speaker 1>it's worth an extra light just to be contrary. I'm

786
00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:24.400
<v Speaker 1>assuming you gave it one, I'm probably just gonna give

787
00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:26.119
<v Speaker 1>it a one. It's not I mean, there are a

788
00:44:26.199 --> 00:44:29.400
<v Speaker 1>couple of bright moments here. We did both laugh out

789
00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:31.880
<v Speaker 1>loud at one point in this episode.

790
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:35.360
<v Speaker 2>Sure, the bit with with Jim missing Jim.

791
00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:39.239
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like that enough for an extra light to get

792
00:44:39.239 --> 00:44:39.760
<v Speaker 1>it to two?

793
00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:42.719
<v Speaker 2>Not at all? Absolutely not.

794
00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:49.519
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, now you know what I think. Every bullshit scenario

795
00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:51.480
<v Speaker 1>we just sort of off the top of our headed

796
00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:54.599
<v Speaker 1>here is better than this episode. So it's gonna remain

797
00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:56.079
<v Speaker 1>you know, one yellow light.

798
00:44:56.199 --> 00:44:58.800
<v Speaker 2>No surprise, I gave it one yellow light. This is

799
00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:03.559
<v Speaker 2>such a terrible, terrible episode. It's completely unrealistic and a

800
00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:09.360
<v Speaker 2>waste of everyone involved. Avoid at all costs. Just don't bother.

801
00:45:09.599 --> 00:45:12.079
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I guess you could watch it and marvel

802
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:15.320
<v Speaker 2>at how wrongheaded the whole episode is and maybe get

803
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:18.920
<v Speaker 2>a chuckle from Jim missing a beer tossed to him.

804
00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:21.880
<v Speaker 2>But that's not worth twenty eight minutes of your life.

805
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:25.039
<v Speaker 2>But you'll never get back, so you're not missing much.

806
00:45:25.679 --> 00:45:27.880
<v Speaker 2>That will do it for this episode of night, mister

807
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:31.360
<v Speaker 2>Walters father alone, Where can folks find you when you're

808
00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:33.119
<v Speaker 2>not clocked into the garage?

809
00:45:33.199 --> 00:45:36.559
<v Speaker 1>You can check me out at midnight viewing. That's the

810
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:40.079
<v Speaker 1>podcast I host with a whole bunch of people, and

811
00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:44.159
<v Speaker 1>oh check out. I don't know what else do I do,

812
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:44.880
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't matter.

813
00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:46.719
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, oh you have a Patreon.

814
00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:50.239
<v Speaker 1>Yeah you know what, you know? You can check me out.

815
00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:51.880
<v Speaker 1>If you want to like my stuff at all, go

816
00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:55.400
<v Speaker 1>to patreon dot com slash Father alone. You get everything

817
00:45:55.440 --> 00:45:58.159
<v Speaker 1>I do early in commercial free and we've got specific

818
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:00.960
<v Speaker 1>bonus content that you can only get on the Patreon page.

819
00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:03.119
<v Speaker 1>So head on over there if you would.

820
00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:07.360
<v Speaker 2>He I've said it before, I'll say it again. Father

821
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:11.840
<v Speaker 2>Malone produces more quality content than anyone else I've ever known,

822
00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:16.840
<v Speaker 2>and I am particularly fond of the weekly roundup he

823
00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:21.679
<v Speaker 2>does with Ripley Jean, his erstwhile co host. It's just

824
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:24.719
<v Speaker 2>a great way to get caught up on some current

825
00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:28.639
<v Speaker 2>movies and TV shows that are on streaming, and also

826
00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:31.559
<v Speaker 2>some odds and ends that he finds interesting that week.

827
00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:34.239
<v Speaker 2>It's kind of you never quite know what you're going

828
00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:36.440
<v Speaker 2>to get, but it's wonderful. It's a great way to

829
00:46:36.480 --> 00:46:39.920
<v Speaker 2>start the week. Those debut on Sundays, right, Father Malone.

830
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:42.400
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's supposed to be a Monday show, but I

831
00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:44.239
<v Speaker 1>get too excited when I finish it, so I just

832
00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:46.840
<v Speaker 1>put it out there as soon as it's done. Yeah,

833
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:49.599
<v Speaker 1>so Sunday's usually Sunday morning. And let me point out

834
00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:52.480
<v Speaker 1>another show that I am involved with or was involved with.

835
00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:55.920
<v Speaker 1>The show called Noise Junkies. HP has pretty much taken

836
00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:58.599
<v Speaker 1>over there. Go listen to Noise Junkies. He's done it.

837
00:46:58.679 --> 00:47:03.480
<v Speaker 1>He's doing great work about specific albums and people involved

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<v Speaker 1>in the music industry. He did one about Grace Jones's

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<v Speaker 1>album Slave to the Rhythm, which is fucking awesome. I

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<v Speaker 1>thought I knew everything about that album, and I learned

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<v Speaker 1>a lot, so very kind.

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<v Speaker 2>I do have fun with it. As he mentioned, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>also on the Proud to be on the weirding Way Network.

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<v Speaker 2>Besides finding me here, you can find me occasionally as

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<v Speaker 2>a guest on the Culture Cast with Christashu and I

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<v Speaker 2>would encourage you to check out Noise Junkies. There's already

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<v Speaker 2>some great episodes, but lately I've kind of taken on

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<v Speaker 2>some interesting solo minisodes. I call them that they're a

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<v Speaker 2>little more bite size and they've been fun to do,

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<v Speaker 2>so check those out if you will. I also have

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<v Speaker 2>a band camp, hpmusicplace dot bandcamp dot com, which I've

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<v Speaker 2>I have fun with as well. Check that out. But

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<v Speaker 2>that's it for this episode of Night Mister Walters. Thank

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<v Speaker 2>you so much for listening. Please feel free to subscribe

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<v Speaker 2>to this podcast, write a review, rate us. We'd love

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<v Speaker 2>to hear from you in any way you see fit

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<v Speaker 2>so for myself and for father alone. Thanks again for listening,

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<v Speaker 2>and we'll see you all next time, Think mister Walders