Speaker 1: Welcome to the Parenting Roundabout podcast. I'm Terry Morrow and
Speaker 1: I'm Catherine Jileco. As parents and parenting writers, we can't
Speaker 1: help but see everything through a parenting lens. But as
Speaker 1: our kids have become adults, we find ourselves more interested
Speaker 1: in getting caught up on movies and streaming than I'm
Speaker 1: going over the same parenting topics over and over.
Speaker 2: So since we're pretty sure we can find parenting wisdom anywhere,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about what we're watching, what we
Speaker 2: thought about it, and maybe what we can learn from it,
Speaker 2: if only what not to do. Watch and listen along,
Speaker 2: and let's all make like we're doing something important for
Speaker 2: our families. Each Wednesday we bring you our thoughts on
Speaker 2: a newer entertainment property, and for this week of October
Speaker 2: twenty first, we're discussing season four, episode nine of Only
Speaker 2: Murders in the Building. It was called Escape from Planet Clongo, and.
Speaker 1: Right there you know that they're pushing it that this
Speaker 1: is going to be an unpromising episode. Really really, that's
Speaker 1: the title, and I don't IMDb does not show a
Speaker 1: movie by that.
Speaker 2: Title, So yeah, well that was the title of the
Speaker 2: movie in the movie.
Speaker 1: That they were in.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, good guys. We did get to see some guests,
Speaker 2: says Attack we did.
Speaker 1: Nice to see it. Jane Lynch, glad you got another paycheck.
Speaker 1: And Paul Rudd m hm, golly, finally a celebrity on
Speaker 1: this show. Ron Howard, Ron Howard, really, buddy, Okay, we've
Speaker 1: seen so few celebrities this season.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think if I diagnose this season with anything, it's yes,
Speaker 1: it is possible to have too many celebrities. Just because
Speaker 1: your friends all want to be on the show doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you have to let them in. Yeah, It's just
Speaker 1: at some point it just gets ridiculous and it's like,
Speaker 1: are we making up plot points so that we can
Speaker 1: get something? I don't know. Good for them, Good for
Speaker 1: Ron Howard, Nice to see you, man. I was wondering
Speaker 1: the whole episode. Are they really bringing him in? Are
Speaker 1: they just going to make jokes about him?
Speaker 2: But there he was?
Speaker 1: There, he was Ron, Ron.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we, I guess finally have a have a
Speaker 1: murderer in the building.
Speaker 2: They have shown us that this person as at least
Speaker 2: killed Glenn Stubbins. Yes, so we're meant to believe that
Speaker 2: that that will implicate this person for everything else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, though of course who knows? But yeah, I okay,
Speaker 1: they they put everybody's name in on a slip of paper,
Speaker 1: shook up a box, somebody pulled him out. Yep, could
Speaker 1: have been anybody, right, I was really liking your idea
Speaker 1: that it was going to be Howard because that could
Speaker 1: have been him under that suit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that ski mask.
Speaker 3: But no, I wouldn't say that was necessarily an idea.
Speaker 3: It was just like what else can what else can
Speaker 3: we throw at this?
Speaker 1: Basically, I guess, I guess, don't disown it.
Speaker 2: It was good.
Speaker 1: I liked it. I ran with it. He's got his
Speaker 1: name in the opening credits. That must mean something.
Speaker 2: So even though we haven't seen him for a couple
Speaker 2: of episodes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Nor have we seen this guy for
Speaker 1: a couple of episodes, And all right, fun.
Speaker 2: This guy who might might gal I don't know, Oh
Speaker 2: it might be.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: I feel like that might be something that they were
Speaker 2: setting up.
Speaker 1: But alrighty okay, yes, line whatever, you just go, you
Speaker 1: go show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this The way that they you know,
Speaker 2: built up to this was very just you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: they kept they were showing, they were saying Okay, they've
Speaker 2: narrowed it down to this stunt person who worked on
Speaker 2: this movie with Sas and they have you know, they
Speaker 2: showed them from the back. They showed them with this
Speaker 2: hood over their head because they're doing a scene. And
Speaker 2: they got Glenn stubbn's friend, you know, identifying who the
Speaker 2: director was on the movie, but not who this stunt
Speaker 2: person was. Yeah, they were like, oh, we figured like,
Speaker 2: you don't know this person's name.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, alrighty, yeah, I will say that the FuG Girls.
Speaker 2: Have been on this this suspect for a couple of days, now, okay.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, if if this suspect does turn out
Speaker 1: to be female, that would explain why Saz was so
Speaker 1: eager to protege. All right, I suppose I just thought
Speaker 1: he had dumb surfer hair at some point. Yeah, but yes,
Speaker 1: it could be. I don't clear. I don't honestly care.
Speaker 1: One more episode, right, One more episode? Yep, one more,
Speaker 1: one more, and then we will be free of this
Speaker 1: season and shake the dust from our shoes. Yes, now,
Speaker 1: it's fine, I'm fine, everything's fine.
Speaker 2: Well, do you want to hear the FuG girls other theory?
Speaker 1: Yes? I do very much.
Speaker 2: That So next week, it's going to be the wedding
Speaker 2: of Oliver and Loretta at the.
Speaker 1: Arconia, and there is what could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 2: Right. Their concern is that Loretta is going to be next.
Speaker 1: I share that concern, and I've seen that concern in
Speaker 1: other places. But you know, Loretta, may I suggest a
Speaker 1: bulletproof vest under the wedding dress and keep your head down.
Speaker 1: Bit or maybe she's the killer and she'll kill them
Speaker 1: all and the series will be over.
Speaker 2: Yes, red wedding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but having the wedding in the Arconia and the
Speaker 1: fact that the show always cliffhangers the next mystery at
Speaker 1: the end of the season makes it seem very likely
Speaker 1: that that be the case. But man, don't kill all
Speaker 1: your famous guest stars. Come on.
Speaker 2: Well, and as we talked about last week, Paul Rudd
Speaker 2: did manage to keep coming back, even though it seems.
Speaker 1: To be Bob now though it's not impossibly he has
Speaker 1: a twin brother.
Speaker 2: Yes, it comes along for the funeral. Definitely could happen,
Speaker 2: although he already had no No, that was yeah. I
Speaker 2: was gonna say he already had a funeral, but that
Speaker 2: was Paul Rudd actual, yes, yes, Ben Glenn Roy not Ben, Yes,
Speaker 2: not Glenn's not Stubbins Stubens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he found a way to hang around for another season.
Speaker 1: He could find a way to hang around for another one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all sorts of disguises. Oh, I don't know what
Speaker 1: I want to say about this thing specifically, other than
Speaker 1: it was just.
Speaker 2: It just annoyed you quite a lot.
Speaker 1: On the topic of parenting, speaking of things that are
Speaker 1: pushed further than they should go and that really have
Speaker 1: no relevance to anything. Let's see. Uh, here's a parenting tip.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna set somebody on fire, make sure that
Speaker 1: they really really know not to move too soon afterwards.
Speaker 1: You told them once, right, Zaz told him don't move
Speaker 1: because you'll spark again. But do kids listen? They don't listen.
Speaker 1: You gotta tell him a bunch of times. You gotta
Speaker 1: maybe not hire them in the first place.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe there could be Could there be a safer stunt
Speaker 1: to start with?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Was this This individual knows how to be hit by
Speaker 1: a car? Maybe fire is kind of a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Saz was very confident in her in her mentorship abilities.
Speaker 1: Aren't we all? Haven't we all had that time when
Speaker 1: we were very confident in our mentorship abilities as and
Speaker 1: is like, oh so they weren't really ready for.
Speaker 2: Them, Okay, got it. Luckily none of our kids were
Speaker 2: ever set on fire.
Speaker 1: But no, nor did they come back and kill us.
Speaker 1: But still, well, you know, we're still on the clock
Speaker 1: for that, I guess, but not yet.
Speaker 2: We got some years to go for that one.
Speaker 1: And we we sort of have the continuation of if
Speaker 1: this were a family, Mabel would be the mom. H
Speaker 1: with the nurse describing them as two old married men
Speaker 1: and their caretaker.
Speaker 2: Right, and the way that they Charles and Oliver throughout
Speaker 2: just acted like squabbling siblings while they really tried to
Speaker 2: rise above it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I really, but you know, then they went off
Speaker 1: on their own. I really wanted her to be there
Speaker 1: to like put them in time out at something right,
Speaker 1: just you know, no parties for you. The party is canceled.
Speaker 1: You can't get along. If you can't agree, both sit
Speaker 1: in the corner. No friends, you're grounded. These guys definitely
Speaker 1: need to be grounded. That would be a very good
Speaker 1: connected Maybe not till next season possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe not in the Arconia it seems risky. They
Speaker 2: need to go back to Long.
Speaker 1: Island does Oh my gosh, that would be a punishment,
Speaker 1: wouldn't they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and you know what's his name?
Speaker 1: You two get along or you're going to be with
Speaker 1: Charles's sister with.
Speaker 2: Your auntie yep and her cop husband.
Speaker 1: So oh my yes, yeah, so you better be nice.
Speaker 1: Get along, Get along with each other now, no putting
Speaker 1: on your space alien costumes and then yelling at each
Speaker 1: other or motion capture, whatever ridiculous thing that was. This
Speaker 1: makes me feel like I'm on the show, just like you're.
Speaker 1: It's like one of those stories your kids tell that
Speaker 1: just goes on and on and on. It makes no sense,
Speaker 1: and you have to listen because you're a good parents.
Speaker 1: But you're like, go just stop stop.
Speaker 2: Well, good news one more week.
Speaker 1: Oh I'll have a nice they'll have a nice time
Speaker 1: out in between meyby. Maybe they'll get back to to
Speaker 1: making things that I enjoy. It's fine, it's fine. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm the grumpy the grumpy dad who sits on a
Speaker 1: chair and says TV. It's not like it used to
Speaker 1: be used to be good stories. No good stories anymore.
Speaker 1: Who are all these people? I don't recognize. These people
Speaker 1: just just never gets your stuff. It's the coolest look
Speaker 1: at all the A listers. It's so cool. Look who
Speaker 1: they got And where's the story? It's a good story.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Why did the nurse have an Irish accent? By the way, Yes,
Speaker 1: I was suspicious because that seemed just too really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I guess it was just so she
Speaker 2: could call them out on their Irish superstitions. But that
Speaker 2: seemed like a long way to go.
Speaker 1: It really did, It really did. Everything in this episode
Speaker 1: seemed a long.
Speaker 2: Way to go though, So.
Speaker 1: The whole bachelor party stick and.
Speaker 2: The dressing up in the motion capture outfits for the
Speaker 2: Ron Howard movies.
Speaker 1: Somebody thought that was such a funny idea.
Speaker 2: Mabel looked cute, she did her a little like nineteen
Speaker 2: forties space.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it did not look like a movie Ron
Speaker 1: Howard would have anything to do with. But okay, no,
Speaker 1: apparently he was had that other movie that didn't work
Speaker 1: out so well. Seemed also to be unlikely, but whatever,
Speaker 1: it's Ron Howard. Look.
Speaker 2: Isn't that cute?
Speaker 1: Isn't that fun?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And also wouldn't if if the alleged screenwriter was
Speaker 2: like so mad, why wouldn't they have gone after Ron
Speaker 2: Howard instead of Saz. I guess it was because Sas
Speaker 2: wrote a script.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. So the script was with the beer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how that.
Speaker 1: I thought it was just loosen the refrigerator there, but she,
Speaker 1: uh Oliver did say that Saz gave him the beer.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so I missed that. Yeah it was. It
Speaker 2: was in between like the two layers of camp.
Speaker 1: All right, that makes sense, yes, all right, So that
Speaker 1: was her little insurance.
Speaker 2: I guess she brought that to the rat party from yeah,
Speaker 2: or she brought that to the party the night she
Speaker 2: was killed, right right, Yeah, I lost track of how
Speaker 2: that got there.
Speaker 1: It's such a tightly plotted thing. How could you ever
Speaker 1: lose drag in any detail. It's like clockwork, precision entertainment.
Speaker 1: All the pieces fall into place. So great. Oh no,
Speaker 1: somebody's murdered Catherine.
Speaker 2: Somebody that somebody's murdering me with it rogue sip of tea?
Speaker 1: Oh no, what's in the day?
Speaker 2: What's in the tea? Is there a script? In tiny
Speaker 2: little pieces by the tea bag?
Speaker 1: I want to take over the podcast, and so I
Speaker 1: have sent you some boys at date.
Speaker 2: Now it's now it's catching it's not that kind of
Speaker 2: moh no, you're all right, Yeah, it'll be good.
Speaker 1: Sure, there's nobody skulking away waiting for their going to
Speaker 1: get a pillow to put over your face, the old
Speaker 1: pillow trick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, since when our hospitals so porous, I mean with
Speaker 2: people just coming and going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they got the threesome, got gate keeped the
Speaker 1: first time. But the murderer is able to just slip
Speaker 1: on in well just yeah. It's almost like this is
Speaker 1: a TV show that can do whatever it wants.
Speaker 5: Funny how yeah, all right, all right, maybe we had
Speaker 5: another glimpse of bev melon yes, ending up something revolting.
Speaker 1: It was red bull and was that chocolate or what
Speaker 1: was that other thing she put?
Speaker 2: I think that was like like beef jerky, like oh gosh,
Speaker 2: and there was a big bowl of kale on the table,
Speaker 2: but I don't know she put.
Speaker 1: Any Yuck yuck, yuck Hollywood people, ye yuck.
Speaker 2: God, they're so funny.
Speaker 1: Somebody's getting all their aggression out through these scripts. Who's
Speaker 1: writing these only murders in the building scripts. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: the killer. They seem to have some issues.
Speaker 2: If it's who they've said, it's it is at this point.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. Then that means that Saz's whole like murder
Speaker 2: Wall situation on her desk was just her plotting the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that makes sense. It makes sense that she
Speaker 1: would have written it.
Speaker 2: Mabel does the classic thing of like, you're alone with
Speaker 2: this person in your apartment and you accuse them basically.
Speaker 1: Of murder, like, girl, get them out first. There's somebody
Speaker 1: said of her, here, your hobby is chasing murderers. You
Speaker 1: would think she would know by now. Yeah, possibly the
Speaker 1: other Westies will.
Speaker 2: Come to a rescue. Oh yeah, that would be a nice.
Speaker 1: A nice uh resolution of that whole whole plot distraction
Speaker 1: that actually over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's what it's going to have to happen.
Speaker 2: That must that must be why they had her do
Speaker 2: that stupid.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 6: This season seriously, Yes, some some moments of fun, but yes, yeah,
Speaker 6: when you look back at season one, like.
Speaker 2: The twists and the way I mean yeah, the way
Speaker 2: they had the episode with death character like it was.
Speaker 1: Just seemed to be a little more ambitious and now
Speaker 1: it's just like, hey, we're a success.
Speaker 2: Look a week on.
Speaker 1: And Okay, I mean I like all these people good
Speaker 1: for them, high five, But it's not as satisfying.
Speaker 2: No, And do we think it was like a big
Speaker 2: part of it was you didn't know, We didn't know
Speaker 2: the characters, we didn't know the people in the building. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so we were learning all that at the same time
Speaker 2: as we figure out I guess done it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. Maybe just a I think
Speaker 1: it's a victim of its success, whether in terms of
Speaker 1: having all these celebrities have it that they have to
Speaker 1: write around, or just that we're used to it now.
Speaker 1: But either way, I mean, I don't hate it, but
Speaker 1: I'm wincing as much as I'm laughing, which is probably
Speaker 1: not what they're going for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably probably not. Well, one more week, Terry. Next
Speaker 2: week we will and now.
Speaker 1: We can watch Shrinking, which I'm really excited about.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what you really Yeah, so yeah, next week
Speaker 2: will be this season four finale of Holy Murders in
Speaker 2: the Building. It is called My best Friend's Wedding.
Speaker 1: Of course it is, of course it is. What else
Speaker 1: would it be called?
Speaker 2: And we'll see you back here tomorrow for our weekly
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