Speaker 1: Wait Wait, said in.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Midnight Viewing, the horror anthology podcast, where
Speaker 2: this season we're taking a look at George Abramero's nineteen
Speaker 2: eighties series Tales from the Dark Side. Sharing the Midnight
Speaker 2: view with me are the projection Booths, Mike.
Speaker 3: White, I Sure I Am Hungry?
Speaker 2: And the culture cast Chris Stature Love Hungry. Tonight, we're
Speaker 2: taking a look at the next two episodes of season four,
Speaker 2: the final season of Tales from the Dark Sign. Those
Speaker 2: are Love Hungry and the Deal Love Hungry Season four,
Speaker 2: episode eleven, originally aired on February twenty first, nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Written by John Stissick from a short story by Roberts Ganaway,
Speaker 2: directed by John Stisick, starring Sharon Madden, Larry Gelman, and
Speaker 2: a bunch of fruit.
Speaker 3: This is the story.
Speaker 2: This is the story of a telemarketer struggling with her
Speaker 2: weight and she tries the latest fad diet. What did
Speaker 2: you think of this, Chris?
Speaker 4: Oh, dear, wow, fat people can't stop eating?
Speaker 5: Well, are you fat?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: As a fat per it? Really? Fat people really are monds.
Speaker 3: That's true. That's true. All they should be shunned and ridicule.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, exactly, Mike, you read my mind.
Speaker 4: Man, I think the thing for me that has always
Speaker 4: been so low hanging fruit, no pun in, especially with
Speaker 4: this goddamn joke of it is when you have a
Speaker 4: fat person, they're fat by Hollywood standards. First off, like
Speaker 4: Sharon Madden.
Speaker 2: She is a normal midwesterner exactly like I see women
Speaker 2: like her every day, every secondly.
Speaker 4: It once again does come back to and Mike, you
Speaker 4: always mentioned this. I hate when characters portrayed drunk. I
Speaker 4: hate when characters are written as fat because.
Speaker 5: It's just I can't eat and nothing else.
Speaker 4: All I do is consume what the fuck you want
Speaker 4: to give people that are overweight a complex.
Speaker 5: You're doing a good job doing it because.
Speaker 4: That that kind of horseshit that Monica on friends.
Speaker 5: Fat people can't control them all.
Speaker 2: Don't you a fat suit?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 2: It's the last vestige of minstrelery.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say Brendan Fraser, he didn't have to
Speaker 4: go gain three hundred pounds to do the whale, and
Speaker 4: they get it.
Speaker 5: The suit weigh just as much as fine.
Speaker 4: Whatever all of that to say, don't care for these
Speaker 4: kinds of stories because they are very Again, no low
Speaker 4: hanging fruit, and they are very one note and they
Speaker 4: are very unimagined. And the payoff for this episode is idiotic,
Speaker 4: I think, is the nice way of putting it. It
Speaker 4: is so childish that the conclusion to the episode could
Speaker 4: have been undone by a pair of scissors.
Speaker 5: Wow, she died because she was an idiot. That's what
Speaker 5: the episode is telling me.
Speaker 4: And I find it hard to get behind a character
Speaker 4: that is this dumb, a episode that is expecting me
Speaker 4: to believe a character can be this And it just
Speaker 4: seems like everybody but Larry Gelman was having a good time,
Speaker 4: or like everybody but he was the only one having
Speaker 4: a good time Larry Gelman because he seems to be
Speaker 4: knowing what the assignment was, which is being this kind
Speaker 4: of lovelorn more But I could not abide this episode.
Speaker 4: I cannot sanction as Tom fool What about you, Mike?
Speaker 3: Well, apparently anybody that loves her is going to be
Speaker 3: good enough for her, even though it's Larry Gelman. I mean,
Speaker 3: I love Larry Gelman. I've loved him since I was
Speaker 3: a little kid and we'd see him show up and
Speaker 3: everything from the Monkeys to Bob Newhart all the way
Speaker 3: through so many great roles, Barney Miller's Barney Millers, Yes,
Speaker 3: exactly love when this guy shows up, she is just like, Oh,
Speaker 3: this guy likes me. But she doesn't seem to care
Speaker 3: about that. She's just so centered on the wist trying
Speaker 3: to lose the weight and the mysterious collar on the phone. Oh,
Speaker 3: we've got this thing that's going to help you lose weight. Okay, great, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll do whatever. And then now she hears the screams
Speaker 3: of food as it's being consumed or chopped up, and
Speaker 3: then she'll put on these horrible glasses and now she
Speaker 3: can see talking food. And I was offended by the
Speaker 3: puppetry in this episode. Just the worst puppets I've seen,
Speaker 3: Just those little rubber faces, the little black dots for eyes.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what are we doing here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they made the California raisins look like a real
Speaker 4: oh my god, like real feet of stop motion animation.
Speaker 5: These were like this was sock puppets in fruit.
Speaker 3: For Yeah it was. This wasn't good and it would
Speaker 3: have been done so much quicker, and had they even
Speaker 3: it took me the longest time to even see the pincushion,
Speaker 3: the tomato pin cushion, and then I'm like, oh, she
Speaker 3: must sew, and then suddenly she sewing her mouth shut.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, okay, had I seen a little bit
Speaker 3: more of that bee, that would have been good had
Speaker 3: she been a seamstress rather than a telemarketer. And come on, guys,
Speaker 3: we just saw a telemarketer last episode. What's she gonna do? Now?
Speaker 3: Start speaking with the Spanish accent?
Speaker 5: Would you tell us? Did you like this episode?
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 5: It is my favorite episode of all time.
Speaker 3: My round, morons and food.
Speaker 5: Chalatan's fourth of you.
Speaker 4: You claim to like horror anthology, you become Kelsey Grammar.
Speaker 2: Apparently I invite you both to have sex with yourselves. Listen,
Speaker 2: here's my take on the episode. Glad I had never
Speaker 2: I this is one of the very few Talness in
Speaker 2: the dark Side episodes that managed to elude me until now.
Speaker 2: So this is a first watch for me as well.
Speaker 2: And boy, let me tell you, yes, let me concur
Speaker 2: with both of you, because I hate fat centric episodes
Speaker 2: of anything, because it's either coming from a place of
Speaker 2: ridicule or a place of modeling faue understanding, where either way,
Speaker 2: it's a huge problem that you cannot handle yourself that
Speaker 2: you cannot control yourself about. And that's the case here.
Speaker 2: Like there are shots here with the film maker where
Speaker 2: John Strissik has composed where she's doing dishes and in
Speaker 2: the same shot as an open box of donuts that
Speaker 2: she is in between dishes eating the donuts. This is
Speaker 2: remember in Meatballs where where what's his name, Larry can't
Speaker 2: fucking he's like on the basketball court with pulling candy
Speaker 2: bars out of his shorts. Like same sort of thing
Speaker 2: here when this episode began. And look, it's called love Hungry.
Speaker 2: And she has a refrigerator that has one of these
Speaker 2: like novelty alarms that you would you would probably find
Speaker 2: it Spencer Gifts in the early nineteen eighties. Hey, fats
Speaker 2: so close the refrigerator. That's your motivation for not eating.
Speaker 2: But the other big facet in her house is it's
Speaker 2: wall to wall plants, and so she's going around spraying
Speaker 2: the plants. This is like one of many plots events
Speaker 2: that don't pay off, such as the telemarketing, Like it
Speaker 2: has no bearing on anything other than she works from
Speaker 2: home for some reason anyway, So she has all these plants.
Speaker 2: After the wonderful dish while eating donuts scene, she notices
Speaker 2: the ad for the weight loss company Your weight is over, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, the ad that's supposed to be in
Speaker 2: the classified is clearly made with a dot matrix printer,
Speaker 2: So somebody in the props department just printed that fucking
Speaker 2: thing out because it's the same printer that they used
Speaker 2: for her readouts of her prospective calls. It's the same
Speaker 2: dot matrix printer that they use for the address on
Speaker 2: the package that arrives for her. So when she receives
Speaker 2: a phone call mysteriously and they're like they know everything
Speaker 2: about her, including that her refrigerator makes fun of her.
Speaker 3: And she's like, who is this?
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, is this the central mystery here? And
Speaker 2: is it her plants? Because clearly they could go that
Speaker 2: way now the plants are just another fucking thing to
Speaker 2: show that she's a spinster or like an old maid
Speaker 2: here because her weight is keeping her from getting out
Speaker 2: there in the world.
Speaker 3: We just saw a woman talking to everything in her house,
Speaker 3: like four or five episodes ago, just coming in and
Speaker 3: talking with everything and those things. Fine, there was that
Speaker 3: guy across the way, remember that, and him calling her
Speaker 3: and like, hey, let's go off for a date and
Speaker 3: her just freaking the fuck out. Yeah. I kept thinking like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: those plants are going to start talking back anytime now.
Speaker 2: And let's talk about these the fruit here, the rubber
Speaker 2: like they went down to I don't know, just like
Speaker 2: like a KB toy store maybe or an Fao Schwartz
Speaker 2: and they just grabbed a couple of rubber fruit and
Speaker 2: then they pasted eyes onto them, cut mouths into them. Hey,
Speaker 2: talking fruit. And I love that each of them have
Speaker 2: their own personalities, the professor character and the tough guy banana,
Speaker 2: and like the sort of the dame pair, or the
Speaker 2: best one I think was the was the roast beef
Speaker 2: and the refrigerator.
Speaker 5: Hey, you got a problem with me, I'll give you
Speaker 5: some indigestion.
Speaker 2: If I put in an earpiece from a company that
Speaker 2: arrived unbidden from people who knew who I was and
Speaker 2: where I lived and everything about me, and when I
Speaker 2: sat down to eat, and anytime people cut into or
Speaker 2: bit into food, the food screamed, I would my next
Speaker 2: order of business is removing the ear piece. I don't
Speaker 2: care if it's stuck in there, quote unquote, I certainly
Speaker 2: am not going to put on the glasses from the
Speaker 2: same company, the same mystery weight loss company, because those
Speaker 2: be confused as well. At a certain point, what is
Speaker 2: going on in this this is the weirdest one. Like
Speaker 2: I can't even really say I didn't like it because
Speaker 2: it's just so fucking unusual. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: what it wants to be talking about, which is fad
Speaker 2: diets and weight loss and one's own personal shame and everything.
Speaker 2: There's something to be mined there, and there's something that
Speaker 2: could be that could inevitably lead to somebody sowing their
Speaker 2: own mouth shut and having that be a horrifying ending.
Speaker 2: This is like a jokey fucking episode. What was the
Speaker 2: by the way, what is the weight loss company's plan?
Speaker 5: What is she supposed to eat for everyone?
Speaker 3: I guess is it just because they hate fat people too?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but so I guess they want them to all
Speaker 2: starve because or turn them into savages, Like we're look,
Speaker 2: at a certain point she was gonna eat. I don't
Speaker 2: care if she fucking had the things food was getting
Speaker 2: in her. This is mental and by like all the
Speaker 2: transitions in this episode are super weird. Like at a
Speaker 2: certain point, the fruit sing her to sleep and she
Speaker 2: just falls asleep at the thing. It's like watching a
Speaker 2: children's production of something like it's I don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2: This is not a Tales from the Dark Side. This
Speaker 2: isn't even this isn't even an Amazing Stories.
Speaker 5: Oh it's amazing. The story got made. I'll tell you
Speaker 5: that much.
Speaker 2: I will give this one thing. When they and when
Speaker 2: they're in the Mexican restaurant, she passes out the way
Speaker 2: she that was awesome, like that, that looked great. But
Speaker 2: that scene points to another thing. When I was saying
Speaker 2: about the sort of the portrayal of fat people, if
Speaker 2: if look, I used to be three hundred and fucking
Speaker 2: forty pounds too before gluten free fucking kicked me down.
Speaker 2: So I know full well the shame about going out
Speaker 2: with somebody for the first time and not wanting to
Speaker 2: appear the way you appear. And I also know that
Speaker 2: if you're going out to eat on your first date,
Speaker 2: you're not going to fucking shovelize your goddamn plate.
Speaker 3: Full and go, oh, what's gonna do?
Speaker 5: That's I don't know, No, I'm with you, yeah, as.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was written by thin people and directed by
Speaker 2: thin people.
Speaker 3: That's what I have to say.
Speaker 4: Correct, yeah, as a fat person. It is not directed
Speaker 4: by someone who's so yeah.
Speaker 2: All of these fat sort of episodes, these very special episodes,
Speaker 2: always come from someone who isn't or they came from
Speaker 2: fucking Louis c K who is a fat man, and
Speaker 2: then wrote the most model and treacly, fucking bullshit episode
Speaker 2: that people were praising for anyway, they did it on taxi.
Speaker 2: I had to fucking deal with it there too. Couldn't
Speaker 2: believe I had to deal with it here on dark side.
Speaker 2: Fuck this episode. The Deal. Season four, episode twelve, aired
Speaker 2: originally on February twenty eighth, nineteen eighty eight, Written by
Speaker 2: Granville Burgess and Alan Coulter. Now this is only one
Speaker 2: of maybe two or three things Alan Coulter wrote. He
Speaker 2: is a director still working to this day. Eleven Boardwalk Empires,
Speaker 2: twelve Sopranos. He directed the film Hollywood Land. Anyway, he
Speaker 2: just wrote this one. It was directed by TJ. Castronova
Speaker 2: and starring a fucking cavalcade of fucking character actors, Alan Garfield,
Speaker 2: Bradley Whitford or Robert Costanza and somebody named Alyssa pattern Ouster.
Speaker 2: Remember when I said earlier, when we were reviewing the
Speaker 2: series that deal with the Devil episodes are guaranteed quality.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, they're fantastic. They're really really good.
Speaker 5: Right, the best. I have never had a worse What.
Speaker 2: Tom Dash is an aspiring screenwriter. He'll do anything to
Speaker 2: sell a script. Scratch that, he'll do anything to have
Speaker 2: creative control. Scratch that, he'll do anything to run a studio. Mike,
Speaker 2: what you think of this one?
Speaker 3: He didn't even sign a contract. I mean, he just said, oh,
Speaker 3: I do anything to do this. I'm like, and then
Speaker 3: Alan Garfield's oh okay, yeah sure, And then the next
Speaker 3: day of the phone's bringing I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, that's consent, Mike.
Speaker 3: Is that that? Because no means just come on. I
Speaker 3: think that I'm Ron Glass in Sherman Helmsley. I would
Speaker 3: sell my soul to solve this problem, like some thing
Speaker 3: like that you have to say, rather than I do
Speaker 3: anything to sell this script. And yeah, what a waste
Speaker 3: of falent with this one. I was so thrilled when
Speaker 3: I was, Oh, Bradley Whitford, isn't this Oh this is great?
Speaker 3: Alan Garfield and he's playing multiple roles. Oh this is
Speaker 3: going to be so great. Man oh man, oh man,
Speaker 3: I beg for the days of dan Hedeia playing. This
Speaker 3: was just not good at all, even when it came
Speaker 3: to the big twist at the end, when it's I
Speaker 3: want to sell my soul to the devil, and're like okay,
Speaker 3: and then he makes Bradley Woodford disappear and it's again,
Speaker 3: you didn't sign a contract, didn't do anything. That was
Speaker 3: she got duped by pretending to want to sell her
Speaker 3: soul to the devil. That's not legally binding in court.
Speaker 3: I watched a lot of paper chase, and this has
Speaker 3: no leg to stand on. Maybe this fractured court that
Speaker 3: we currently have would do that would uphold any decisions
Speaker 3: that the devil has, But in a nineteen eighty four
Speaker 3: court or whatever, nineteen eighty eight, I'm sorry, no, I
Speaker 3: don't think so. I don't think that the devil has
Speaker 3: like to stand on here. I think we get Damie
Speaker 3: Webster in there. The soul thing's dismissed.
Speaker 4: Would you think, Chris, I'll make this joke now, because
Speaker 4: I don't think I've talked about him and anything else.
Speaker 5: Can you guys hear him?
Speaker 3: No? Nope?
Speaker 5: Okay, cool? Never mind.
Speaker 4: Then, what a disappointment that this isn't the lead singer
Speaker 4: of Aerosmith, though I'm sure if or not the lead singer,
Speaker 4: but one of the members of Aerosmith, because even if
Speaker 4: he had been in it, this is the fly in
Speaker 4: the ointment, as it were, or the exception that proves
Speaker 4: a rule. This is the first bad one of these.
Speaker 4: It's really disappointing how not good this episode is because
Speaker 4: this feels like a relatively safe bet a devil character
Speaker 4: in Hollywood in the eighties, like Jesus Christ. That feels
Speaker 4: like a layup, as what they would call it in basketball,
Speaker 4: and instead it's just meandering and idiotic because they don't
Speaker 4: even understand the rules of the premise that they've presented,
Speaker 4: the rules of the premise that have existed fucking essentially
Speaker 4: since biblical times. If you come to the devil explicitly
Speaker 4: asking for something, it is not just hey, Mike, I
Speaker 4: do anything for a chicken sandwich. Hey, by the way,
Speaker 4: I'm the devil, and now you I've got your soul
Speaker 4: for a chicken sandwich.
Speaker 5: What the fuck? Wait?
Speaker 4: Is sell it to the devil? Is on my soul
Speaker 4: to the devil by accident. It's playing very unfair, and
Speaker 4: that's the problem that I have with the rules of
Speaker 4: the episode because nothing I'm saying you need to follow
Speaker 4: the rules strictly. But if you're gonna do something interesting
Speaker 4: with them, do something interesting with them, don't just ignore
Speaker 4: that they exist, because that's more. What it feels like
Speaker 4: here is we're going to play fast and loose with
Speaker 4: something that, like everybody knows selling your soul to the devil,
Speaker 4: that's a well known trope. It is a very well
Speaker 4: established and here they're just like, what if we just
Speaker 4: did like three quarters of them but pretended like we
Speaker 4: did it a hunt And I just I don't know,
Speaker 4: I feel like that's lazy, and it wiels out in
Speaker 4: the episode because Bradley Whitford's time is.
Speaker 5: Just it, which is a shame because I really like him.
Speaker 5: He's a good actor. Father Blane, what about you?
Speaker 2: Are you saying the Devil isn't playing fans in this episode?
Speaker 5: What are you going to do?
Speaker 3: I'm the devil?
Speaker 5: Hey, Hey, Lucifer, Loucifer.
Speaker 2: Here's what I'll say in favor of the episode. Obviously,
Speaker 2: the performance is good.
Speaker 5: I'm smiting here.
Speaker 2: A jolly devil is at Alan Garfield's portrayal of the Devil.
Speaker 2: Early on just giggly and fun and then this all great.
Speaker 2: I was won over by that. He does sign a contract. Actually, Mike,
Speaker 2: I know because I've wrote it in my notes, because
Speaker 2: the effect was actually good. Where as soon as it
Speaker 2: was signed, the ink started smoking on the page. It
Speaker 2: was clearly a physical effect. So he did after the fact.
Speaker 2: That was the second thing.
Speaker 4: That was the second thing that he asked for, not
Speaker 4: the first thing, right, the first thing.
Speaker 5: He first thing.
Speaker 2: The first thing was graddess. That was just to show
Speaker 2: that he could get it. And then he was like
Speaker 2: and then he was like, yo, man, I'm the devil,
Speaker 2: and now we're gonna have to sign a contract for
Speaker 2: the rest and he's like, okay, cool.
Speaker 5: So I think the.
Speaker 4: Devil came up to me and was like, Yo, man,
Speaker 4: I'm the devil. I'd be like, you seem pretty cool.
Speaker 2: That would be a tactic the devil to employ because
Speaker 2: no one would believe him, and you'd sign up, and
Speaker 2: then he's got your soul.
Speaker 5: Yo man, I'm the devil.
Speaker 2: So Bobby on the phone must be Bobby de Niro, right,
Speaker 2: the actor that he's trying to get the whole time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I assume.
Speaker 4: So one of those things again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, okay, speaking of.
Speaker 4: The Alan Colter of it all and the Sopranos. In
Speaker 4: that episode of The Sopranos d Girl where they were
Speaker 4: doing the same thing where it's well Quinton and Paul
Speaker 4: and it's like, are you talking about like Quentin Tarantino
Speaker 4: and Paul Thomas Anderson.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Alan Colter directed a lot of the early episodes of
Speaker 4: The Sopranos, a lot of the big ones, he directed
Speaker 4: to College and Isabella, and a whole lot of season two,
Speaker 4: so we've been watching a lot of Alan Colter's stuff.
Speaker 4: He also directed Hollywood Land.
Speaker 2: Speaking of things not knowing its own rules. This guy
Speaker 2: is an aspiring screenwriter in Hollywood. He says he's been
Speaker 2: there for ten years, and he doesn't understand that even
Speaker 2: if he were to make it as a screenwriter in Hollywood,
Speaker 2: then he's still on the lowest rung on the fucking
Speaker 2: ladder that they're just going to do whatever they want
Speaker 2: with his screenplay. That's a surprise to him at some point.
Speaker 5: Which is where's Richard had him when you need him
Speaker 5: to tear this episode? Then?
Speaker 2: Really really the other insanity of that, and then he's like,
Speaker 2: I want creative control. So let's make you a studio head.
Speaker 2: That's not what a studio head does. They don't write
Speaker 2: the scripts and then put the deal together, and then
Speaker 2: out of the fucking blue we get a third character,
Speaker 2: or a fourth rather, which is his girlfriend who we've
Speaker 2: not met. She shows up like in the beginning of
Speaker 2: act three somehow and is like bitching him out because
Speaker 2: he's not going to give her the part because Bobby
Speaker 2: de Niro wants his girlfriend to be in that particular picture.
Speaker 2: First of all, aren't.
Speaker 3: There any other roles in that movie?
Speaker 2: And if not, you're running a studio. Give her her
Speaker 2: own vehicle. Why is this thing doesn't understand its own self?
Speaker 2: This was written by people working in Hollywood. What's happening?
Speaker 5: Allegedly?
Speaker 2: Allegedly, No, they definitely do.
Speaker 4: I mean again, like they don't understand the rules of Hollywood.
Speaker 4: They don't understand the rules of making a rule with
Speaker 4: the devil, a deal with the devil, a deal with
Speaker 4: the devil, to the point where the name but the
Speaker 4: episode is the deal, as in the deal that Bradley
Speaker 4: Wood for makes with the devil.
Speaker 2: I know a guy personally in Pittsburgh who can make
Speaker 2: blood like you can taste this baby.
Speaker 5: That's a vinie. I'm assuming that they were mentioning there, right.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's the only reference I really enjoyed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we missed a living Dead reference on
Speaker 3: that last one.
Speaker 2: Wasn't the Night of the Eating Dead?
Speaker 5: Honestly, Alan Garfield just reminds me of.
Speaker 2: You're talking about Max wolf Of, owner of the Saturn Theater.
Speaker 3: That's right, and it's crazy.
Speaker 4: The guy plays Zodiac in Twisty the Clown.
Speaker 2: Are you talking about John carol Lynch, John.
Speaker 3: Ca he was. You can't prove that, right, I was.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't tell you that's right, right, Sorry, sorry, Arthur Lee.
Speaker 4: I'm Arthur Lee Allen.
Speaker 3: Yes please, yeah, no, it was my father. My father
Speaker 3: wrote and I'm gonna a whole book all about it.
Speaker 4: Right, every year somebody's dad has been the zodiacullar. It's
Speaker 4: very strange than usual. He just has that energy John
Speaker 4: Carro Lynch energy, John Caro Lynch can when he was
Speaker 4: playing Twisty to Clown, he had that whimsy but kind
Speaker 4: of fear and terror about him, and you know the devil.
Speaker 5: He is the devil still.
Speaker 4: He's just presenting himself in human because his real form
Speaker 4: is too horrifying to interpret with our eyes. That's isn't
Speaker 4: that what they always say?
Speaker 2: The cherry on the cake. And this particular fucking episode
Speaker 2: is at the end, when they finally go to the credits,
Speaker 2: they do this terrible synth score version. It's not even
Speaker 2: the version, it's a faux version of Hooray for Hollywood.
Speaker 2: So it's one of these vaguely you go, is.
Speaker 3: That lay for Hollywood?
Speaker 2: And it's like just on a profit five, it's the
Speaker 2: worst sounding thing ever. It's just Hey, just to remind
Speaker 2: you that this was one of the worst episodes you've
Speaker 2: ever seen, Let's play.
Speaker 5: You out whoa one of the worst?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the worst of the make a Deal with
Speaker 4: the Devil episode.
Speaker 5: That's a given.
Speaker 4: But again, like, if you know what you can really
Speaker 4: high bar.
Speaker 2: Right, but if you make a bad deal with the
Speaker 2: Devil episode, that's the worst episode of your series.
Speaker 3: Like it's so.
Speaker 4: When you do this poorly and you when you fuck
Speaker 4: up the specific things that this episode fucks up so badly,
Speaker 4: like you don't even understand and you don't even understand
Speaker 4: the concept of making a deal with the devil, Like
Speaker 4: when it's one of those things where when you watch
Speaker 4: like those cooking shows and someone's they make something that's
Speaker 4: not what they're asked to make, but they try to
Speaker 4: pass it off anyways, and the judges like, this is
Speaker 4: disqualified just on the grounds of this isn't at all
Speaker 4: what we expected it to be. This episode is a
Speaker 4: brief Yeah, this is verging on that where it's like
Speaker 4: you don't even understand what the fuck making a Deal
Speaker 4: with the Devil is, like, you don't get it at all.
Speaker 3: I know it was an episode and not a Devil episode,
Speaker 3: but this reminded me a lot of Let the games begin,
Speaker 3: Where was Earl Hinman or Hindman in that hotel room
Speaker 3: and it was David Growe and James Jane Summer Hayes. Oh,
Speaker 3: whoever leaves with him gets his soul, you know that
Speaker 3: whole thing. Yeah, that was horrible. This is worse though,
Speaker 3: I think this to your point, this is the worst
Speaker 3: make a Deal with the Devil episode we've seen so.
Speaker 5: Far well, and all of them have been good. That's
Speaker 5: the other problem. Give you're the only bad one, then
Speaker 5: like you're.
Speaker 4: Fucked as it is, because this is the first this
Speaker 4: is the first genuinely bad one.
Speaker 2: We've seen I vote no, don't watch this one.
Speaker 5: How about bringing that back? I like it?
Speaker 2: On the next episode of Midnight Viewing, We'll be taking
Speaker 2: a look the next two episodes of season four. Those
Speaker 2: are The Apprentice and The Cutty Black Sow. Midnight Viewing
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Speaker 3: Mike White? Everything that I work on is available at
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