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Speaker 1: So here we are in season three, episode five, the
Speaker 1: terrorist attack.
Speaker 2: You are, Jeff Garland, That I am? Who am I?
Speaker 2: That's right?
Speaker 1: And we start out and Larry and Cheryl are at
Speaker 1: the Maitre d stand of a restaurant and browdy for four,
Speaker 1: so we know that they're meeting another couple. And as
Speaker 1: they're on their way to the table, they run into
Speaker 1: the risers Mindy and Paul, and Larry starts telling him
Speaker 1: he's investing in a restaurant.
Speaker 3: And that's not really his wife.
Speaker 2: No, that is really Paul.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what his wife's name is, Paula.
Speaker 4: Yes, she is a doll and gorgeous and I love
Speaker 4: her and by the way I met her, I was
Speaker 4: on the last three seasons.
Speaker 3: I'm mad about you.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And Larry's talking to Paul. He's messing in a restaurant,
Speaker 1: blah blah, blah, and then they leave and Cheryl says,
Speaker 1: you know you're rude. You didn't say one word to Mindy.
Speaker 1: You didn't even look in her direction. I said, hello, No, no,
Speaker 1: you didn't. And Larry's like, I smelled her perfume. Most
Speaker 1: of you old's a perfume shop we establish And Larry says,
Speaker 1: you can't leave your house.
Speaker 4: By the way, I want to say when I was
Speaker 4: I'm mad about you the last season, I said to
Speaker 4: Paul that I just shot something with Larry this hour
Speaker 4: and Paul was not dismissive, but he was curious. But
Speaker 4: he didn't think anything of it. Oh yeah, he goes,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to do I do Larry as Paul. But
Speaker 4: Paul's like, what is it. I go, well, it's this
Speaker 4: improv thing with Larry doing a special Okay, yeah, that
Speaker 4: sounds real. No, but I'm saying, he's one of the
Speaker 4: few people I told about it and somebody that I respected,
Speaker 4: so you know, but Paul's not a guy to dismiss
Speaker 4: you or not take something now because he's a kind man.
Speaker 1: Well, he was just listening to you, like you accuse
Speaker 1: me of all the time, not responding in the way
Speaker 1: that you want.
Speaker 2: Paul didn't respond in the way you want it.
Speaker 3: No, we did. I was okay with it.
Speaker 2: Oh you were okay?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he had curiosity, but he wasn't effusive. But
Speaker 4: all I would ask is curiosity. If you're a human
Speaker 4: being and you don't have a curiosity about people or things,
Speaker 4: stay the fuck away from me, because that's you know,
Speaker 4: you go on dates and if the other person male
Speaker 4: or female.
Speaker 2: Well that's always right. You don't ask any questions. To
Speaker 2: forget about it.
Speaker 4: But it's easily the thing that shows there's a lack
Speaker 4: of chemistry or a problem with one of the people
Speaker 4: when one of the people does not have inherent curiosity.
Speaker 2: Well it's an attractive trait.
Speaker 3: Well, then I might be very attractive to all the
Speaker 3: young people.
Speaker 2: Are sure you are?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: So then the risers get up to leave, and Paul
Speaker 1: waves and Mindy clearly doesn't.
Speaker 2: Then Cheryl says, it's pointed that she doesn't. I mean
Speaker 2: she doesn't. It's not like she just doesn't.
Speaker 3: By the way, asked me if.
Speaker 4: I've done this because you're oblivious I've done this to something.
Speaker 2: Yes, but she was not. Ah, say hello to one
Speaker 2: and not the other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was oblivious.
Speaker 1: The Browdies have not come yet, and Cheryl says to Larry,
Speaker 1: don't pick up the check. And we find out that
Speaker 1: Stu Browdie runs to the bathroom every time the check
Speaker 1: comes yep. And then the Browdie show up, which is
Speaker 1: Susan and Stue Browdie, which is played by Amy Akeino.
Speaker 2: And he wrote his name, Yes I did.
Speaker 3: Oh he's great.
Speaker 4: Yet don Stark on that seventy show if I'm not
Speaker 4: thinking when we did this episode. By the way, she's
Speaker 4: a dear friend. I love her and I'm not about
Speaker 4: to bad mouth her. I'm about to say that she
Speaker 4: didn't quite understand what we were doing, and she got
Speaker 4: very paranoid when she heard us talking about her or
Speaker 4: the scene, like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2: Oh you mean you mean between takes in.
Speaker 4: Between Texas especially, And then the only other person who
Speaker 4: did that, who you think wouldn't do that is when
Speaker 4: he was on the show for quite a while, Shelley Berman.
Speaker 2: Well, it was a little paranoid.
Speaker 3: No, no, I know, but I remember Larry.
Speaker 2: Kelly Burman who played Larry's father, Larry.
Speaker 4: Clary's father, but he let it get to him. And
Speaker 4: there's nothing to get, you know. But Amy also did
Speaker 4: this and by the way, she snapped at me and
Speaker 4: we weren't tight like we are now, but she snapped
Speaker 4: at me and it fucking hurt and I was like,
Speaker 4: oh boy, yeah, So there you go.
Speaker 1: So they show up there late, there was the valet
Speaker 1: and he had to park, and we find out that
Speaker 1: there is an NRDC.
Speaker 4: By the way, I make clear that she was wonderful
Speaker 4: in the episode and easy to work with. That that
Speaker 4: was the only thing. All right, look, I love her.
Speaker 4: She's gonna say, why'd you say that about me? And
Speaker 4: you know what I would say, Oh, you're listening to
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 2: There you go, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1: So we find out that there's an NRDC benefit at
Speaker 1: the Browdie's house and that the Risers are not invited
Speaker 1: because there's some the bad blood between the Risers and
Speaker 1: the Browdies, and that Alanis Morissett is performing in their
Speaker 1: living room. Is going to perform the song You Ought
Speaker 1: to Know, and they start discussing who it's about, because
Speaker 1: nobody knows who is the way huge secret and Lara says,
Speaker 1: she'll tell me.
Speaker 2: Everybody tells me everything.
Speaker 3: Do you know who it was? Written for I don't
Speaker 3: You're So Vain would be a secret song?
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 4: Carly Simon does not like to travel, so she fell
Speaker 4: out a few weeks before.
Speaker 2: I had been Oh Carly Simon was supposed to do?
Speaker 2: Was written? I think?
Speaker 3: So who else?
Speaker 2: I thought you were talking about? You want to Know?
Speaker 2: Was written?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, No, You're so vain is a song
Speaker 3: about who? Is it about?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: And you know there are people who say that a
Speaker 1: portion of that song is about our dear friend and
Speaker 1: one of our directors, David Steinberg.
Speaker 2: Really yes, David Steinberg has told me that.
Speaker 3: Oh interesting, who knows?
Speaker 4: Also Nick Jackers she sings background in the song Warren Beatty,
Speaker 4: they could all and Dave Cooier is the one that
Speaker 4: I heard about. Alanis Moore set I've never heard.
Speaker 2: Of that, really okay, and it's Canada.
Speaker 3: They're both Canadians.
Speaker 4: But I was hanging out a lot with Morana's then,
Speaker 4: I mean Alanis Morris set Rick Morana, not on my own,
Speaker 4: but she was hanging out with a lot of improvisers
Speaker 4: from Chicago. She'd have parties with us at her house
Speaker 4: and it was all like comedic people. So I've been
Speaker 4: spending time with her. She was lovely and I remember
Speaker 4: when Carly fell out. I said, I've got the person.
Speaker 2: And Larry said, who's that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Is she popular? People like her? Like he didn't even know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So but Larry says, she'll tell him because
Speaker 1: everybody tells him.
Speaker 2: And then Stu leaves to go to the as he says,
Speaker 2: go to the little.
Speaker 1: Fat Boys room, and he leaves and the check is
Speaker 1: put down, and you see Larry's face like, here we
Speaker 1: go again.
Speaker 2: He went to the And by the way.
Speaker 4: The moment with Amy Cheryl and Larry is so completely
Speaker 4: awkward because she's not saying he'll be here in a minute,
Speaker 4: she's literally, you know, she's in.
Speaker 3: On your skill.
Speaker 1: So, by the way, she's got a credit card she
Speaker 1: could put down and she doesn't. And of course this
Speaker 1: comes up in a later episode with the Browdies Yes
Speaker 1: later on in the season, and Larry takes out his
Speaker 1: credit card and then they are back home and Cheryl's.
Speaker 2: Like, I said, don't pick up the check.
Speaker 1: And Larry's it's the last time, you know, And then
Speaker 1: Larry's like, what am I going to do about Mindy Reiser.
Speaker 1: It's weighing on him that he snubbed Mindy Reiser, and
Speaker 1: she thinks I'm the world's biggest schmuck. And then the
Speaker 1: doorbell rings and it's Wanda, and Wanda's got to talk
Speaker 1: to Cheryl.
Speaker 2: Wanda comes in, I've got news.
Speaker 1: My brother's best friend works for the CIA, and it's
Speaker 1: the highest source possible. There's going to be a terrorist
Speaker 1: attack in Los Angeles this weekend. Ninety percent sure they're
Speaker 1: not telling the general public because they don't want panic.
Speaker 4: But also, the thing about Wanda on our show, which
Speaker 4: is similar to your character, is she has quite the subtlety,
Speaker 4: a wonderful actress, wonderful a minute, but she only says
Speaker 4: her pointed remarks when she's pushed because on other things
Speaker 4: I've seen her, they always want that. I know on
Speaker 4: our show, yes, I would imagine that too. And on
Speaker 4: our show it's such a subtle performance with bing bang boom, right,
Speaker 4: Like when she leaves on this scene, it's like bing
Speaker 4: bang boom, you know. But even all through this episode,
Speaker 4: she is so subtle and wonderful.
Speaker 1: And Cheryl brings up that they have the NRDC benefit
Speaker 1: this weekend. She can't leave, and Larry's like postpone the
Speaker 1: benefit and let's get out of here, and Wanda says,
Speaker 1: Larry's right. I didn't think I was ever going to
Speaker 1: say Larry's right. Yeah, she's gone to Vegas. Now, this
Speaker 1: did happen to me. Somebody told me on a top
Speaker 1: secret the blah blah that there was going to be
Speaker 1: a terrorist attack. It's a thing that actually really happened.
Speaker 1: And I assume it happened before this, because otherwise I
Speaker 1: would have just known the episode, you know, But that
Speaker 1: was a thing that This was two thousand and three.
Speaker 1: It was two years after nine to eleven, and people
Speaker 1: were still very much on edge at that time about terrorism.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, all of a sudden, it was
Speaker 1: a whole new world security at the airport, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: And I remember somebody telling me and don't tell anybody.
Speaker 1: Of course I told everybody, how A, you're not going
Speaker 1: to tell people. I know you're gonna say stay here
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna save myself, right whatever.
Speaker 4: So by the way she walks out, that's when she
Speaker 4: has pointed remarks towards Cheryl Haling, and.
Speaker 5: What does she say, Look, I did my part, You're
Speaker 5: my friend. I had to tell you, thank you. I'm
Speaker 5: on Vegas Okay, okay, you're all.
Speaker 2: Out your mind.
Speaker 5: I'm sitting here trying to help people talking about a
Speaker 5: Dale benefit.
Speaker 6: Well, coll me when you get back into town.
Speaker 2: Hopefully you'll be.
Speaker 3: Here, because she was mad at them for staying.
Speaker 2: Right right, we'll be right back. Stay tuned, and we're back.
Speaker 1: And then we come to a scene that's been very
Speaker 1: interesting between Larry and Cheryl.
Speaker 4: And I was there, so I want to tell you
Speaker 4: about the background of which is interesting too.
Speaker 1: So we'll just do the scene and then we'll discuss that.
Speaker 1: So Cheryl doesn't want to leave. It's her benefit. She
Speaker 1: can't leave, and then Larry brings up maybe he'll leave.
Speaker 1: Why should both of them be dead? Maybe he'll go
Speaker 1: to Pebble Beach and play golf, and Cheryl's like saying
Speaker 1: it'd be fine.
Speaker 7: Going on without me. Wow, that would be very difficult person. Sure,
Speaker 7: hopefully I could at some point get back some semblance.
Speaker 3: Of a life.
Speaker 6: Okay, if you feel good about one of us dying
Speaker 6: and the other one surviving, and you can live with
Speaker 6: that for the rest of your life, then you should
Speaker 6: go golf this weekend.
Speaker 2: I'll think about it. So now tell about what happened
Speaker 2: in that way.
Speaker 4: Well, first off, that's one of the rare scenes. Why actually,
Speaker 4: every scene understands Larry's See, Larry speaks to a lot
Speaker 4: of people, Okay, in this scene, there is no doubt
Speaker 4: he is completely correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why should they both parents say you?
Speaker 4: Well, that's her thing, you know, she says, and everything
Speaker 4: he's suggesting is well within reason. Why don't I just
Speaker 4: go play golf while La blows up or whatever?
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: And the fact that she wants to stay I don't
Speaker 4: think it is out of character, but it shows her
Speaker 4: passion for the NIDC and it bites her in the ass.
Speaker 4: But there are two scenes I remember taking a long
Speaker 4: time to shoot the Jason Alexander one where I said
Speaker 4: the sun went down because Larry was laughing so hard,
Speaker 4: and that went maybe it was two hours, and it
Speaker 4: went three and a half hours, you know, to film
Speaker 4: this scene.
Speaker 3: They didn't figure it out till six seven takes.
Speaker 1: Now, let me explain to people what happens when we're
Speaker 1: improvising a scene. Sometimes we find the scene right away,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it takes a while until we find the
Speaker 1: scene when we're improvising it because it's not written down,
Speaker 1: and some scenes take way longer than others for some reason, but.
Speaker 4: Hold none in this league. I'm saying that Jason Alexander
Speaker 4: the comedy was there, right, and that was a disruption
Speaker 4: of Larry laughing first.
Speaker 2: But this scene you're saying, it took them a long
Speaker 2: time to.
Speaker 4: Find, bro, we couldn't figure it out. I was very
Speaker 4: frustrated watching it. I go, this is not funny, this
Speaker 4: is not interesting. And I think they did like four
Speaker 4: or five more times. So we're talking about eleven twelve takes,
Speaker 4: and then Larry a lot a lot for us, And
Speaker 4: on the twelfth take, Larry said what he used to
Speaker 4: say all the time. He doesn't say it anymore. One
Speaker 4: for fun, One for fun, and that loosens everybody up
Speaker 4: more because it's just for fun. We've already got it
Speaker 4: that twelfth take, One for fun. Most of what you
Speaker 4: see on the screen that is from that specific take.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: But that was such a long and painful way to
Speaker 4: get there, and I got to be frank. I gave
Speaker 4: up that the scene would work. But on One for
Speaker 4: Fun it did. We stuck it and stuck in yep.
Speaker 2: And you know, you never know, I mean that we work.
Speaker 4: I wasn't like let's not do another one. You know,
Speaker 4: I get bored after three takes as an actor, as
Speaker 4: a producer, two three takes, we got it, and there's
Speaker 4: always more. Yeah, by the way, and filmmaking in general,
Speaker 4: television doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: And photography, I'm a photographer.
Speaker 4: The best shot is always the first take, first shot,
Speaker 4: and I think after three takes it's I don't know.
Speaker 3: Hold wait a second.
Speaker 2: I know you're going to say about the doll.
Speaker 4: No, but you said we were all in the scene
Speaker 4: together and we all agreed that we're not going to
Speaker 4: come up with anything new.
Speaker 3: We've got there.
Speaker 1: Sometimes yes, but sometimes the last take is the best
Speaker 1: because we've been fooling finding you.
Speaker 4: Take if everybody's loose and they don't give a shit,
Speaker 4: and the director says, all right, we got it, let's
Speaker 4: do one more gold always yeah, but I'm saying the
Speaker 4: first take, maybe two done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 2: It's all, you know, every it depends on the scene.
Speaker 4: Well, by the way, just so everybody knows, if there's
Speaker 4: two people in a scene, especially Larry and myself or
Speaker 4: Larry and Susie, we're done so quickly because you add
Speaker 4: another person a little bit longer, and those dinner scenes
Speaker 4: that everyone sees on our show.
Speaker 3: They take forever, Forever, forever and so who's uh and.
Speaker 2: We're eating fruit?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so all right.
Speaker 1: Then Larry's driving and he sees Palmetto, which is Mindy's
Speaker 1: perfume store, and he's got to stop.
Speaker 2: Mind it's the.
Speaker 3: Third street between Losienna guys and is it because Palmetto
Speaker 3: was also filmed it on third okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And he goes into the store and Mindy immediately says,
Speaker 1: Paul's not here. Mindy, who is played by Linda Linda Bates.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she's great.
Speaker 1: Linda is amazing and Linda recently died and we're very
Speaker 1: we miss her tremendously.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: She's a great person.
Speaker 2: Great, wonderful woman.
Speaker 1: And she was married to Bob Whitey, who has directed
Speaker 1: several episodes.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he directed this one. I think
Speaker 2: he did it, did direct this one.
Speaker 1: And Mindy says, Paul not here, and Larry says, I
Speaker 1: came to see you. There's something I have to tell you,
Speaker 1: And like we know immediately he's going to tell her
Speaker 1: about the terrorist attack to try to ingratiate himself with her.
Speaker 4: By the way, having watched it, again. I didn't think that.
Speaker 4: I thought that he was just going to say I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: But as things progressed a little.
Speaker 3: He switched gears and that he thought it was needed, yeah,
Speaker 3: because she was very cold. She was very cold, so
Speaker 3: he went to a tend. He told her this correct,
Speaker 3: and then at first she didn't believe him, and then
Speaker 3: she really believed.
Speaker 1: Him, right, And he's like, your life is in danger.
Speaker 1: You need to get out of here. She's like, I
Speaker 1: got to call my sister and my mother. And then
Speaker 1: she says, my mother's in Orange County and he tells
Speaker 1: her you can't call, but he's in Orange County. Nothing's
Speaker 1: going to happen. It's okay to tell her mother. And
Speaker 1: they're going to go to the desert. And she says
Speaker 1: where are you and Cheryl going? And Larry says, we
Speaker 1: can't go, and then she brings up oh, because of
Speaker 1: the browdie event that they were not invited to, right,
Speaker 1: And then Larry says, well, Cheryl wanted to leave, but
Speaker 1: I thought it was best that we stay for the ben.
Speaker 4: He throws her under the bus, which was completely unnecessary. Again,
Speaker 4: it's never enough, you know, Although that doesn't come back
Speaker 4: to haunt him, but nonetheless.
Speaker 1: And then Mindy says to him, why did you tell me?
Speaker 1: And then he goes into a hold long and dance
Speaker 1: how close he feels.
Speaker 2: To her, and then she's touched by it all yes, and.
Speaker 8: She says, I have really misjudged you. I can't thank
Speaker 8: you enough. You are an amazing person. You are a
Speaker 8: wonderful human being, and I just can't thank you.
Speaker 2: I understand. I listen.
Speaker 8: I have some samples here. I want you to take these.
Speaker 8: Give them to Cheryl. Okay, with my love. There you go, there,
Speaker 8: you like these?
Speaker 3: Nothing for men.
Speaker 1: Larry says he apologized for the other night, and then
Speaker 1: he says that he apologizes every day.
Speaker 2: Who says I'm sorry more than me.
Speaker 1: And then Paul calls and Larry says he's ninety percent sure,
Speaker 1: and Cheryl says, what was that all about? Ninety percent?
Speaker 1: He doesn't want Cheryl to know that he told Mindy
Speaker 1: because Wanda asked them not to tell anybody, so there
Speaker 1: was ninety percent that the chances of idever do that
Speaker 1: to Mindy again, which is such a bullshit cover. And
Speaker 1: then Larry's like, let's get out of here, and Cheryl's
Speaker 1: we're staying right here.
Speaker 4: Well, what did Larry say about I invented it? Because
Speaker 4: he loves saying stuff like that. What was that about
Speaker 4: how I invented blankety blank? Yeah, because he's always taking
Speaker 4: No one says it more than me I invented.
Speaker 3: He actually brings a little of Richard Lewis to himself.
Speaker 2: Yes, I forgot what that was. Maybe it was the apology.
Speaker 3: I don't know anyhing about it.
Speaker 1: And then we cut to the Browdies house and they
Speaker 1: drive up and there's no cars in the driveway and
Speaker 1: they're like, what's going on? And Stu answers the door
Speaker 1: and there's no one there. Where is everybody? And Stu
Speaker 1: tells them that no one's there because of the attack
Speaker 1: and that Alanas Marrist canceled and that the word spread
Speaker 1: and apparently it started with Mindy Riiser, right, and.
Speaker 3: Then he's kind of off the hook.
Speaker 2: And guess who told Mindy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was Amy A Kino's character. She said, we thought, oh,
Speaker 4: he's off the hook.
Speaker 3: No he is not, No, he is not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so they think that Mindy Riiser was doing
Speaker 1: it to betray them, and Stew and Amy say Mindy's
Speaker 1: betrayed us over and over again, and thanks for telling us.
Speaker 2: Now they're all upset that he told Mindy and not them.
Speaker 4: By the way, Larry's has a great line. By the
Speaker 4: way in this, I'm sorry there wasn't an.
Speaker 1: Attack, yes, And he says, at least they pick up
Speaker 1: a check every now and then.
Speaker 2: What the hell do I know what you do every
Speaker 2: time the check?
Speaker 3: How you went off to the bathroom.
Speaker 2: The only thing I see that, honey, you know about
Speaker 2: that bathroom trick.
Speaker 3: Side, that bathroom trick, bedroom trick. I got a problem.
Speaker 7: Problem, you got a problem paying money.
Speaker 1: And then Cheryl is mad that he told Mindy Riiser,
Speaker 1: and Larry says he was trying to get on her
Speaker 1: good side. And Cheryl says, look, we're just gonna have
Speaker 1: to have the reschedule the benefit fit and have it
Speaker 1: at our house at home, and they have to invite
Speaker 1: the Brownies and no, no, invite the risers.
Speaker 2: Freaking he can't be stew says, freaking for everything.
Speaker 1: He won't say fuck, which is always interesting thing to me,
Speaker 1: how people like they'll say freakin' or freaking as though
Speaker 1: the intent is not the same. What's the difference if
Speaker 1: you actually say the word fuck as opposed to freak.
Speaker 3: Well, freaking's more palatable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but why the intent is the same if you
Speaker 1: say I freaking hate you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess all right, I'm gonna be you.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, good. And then Larry's brushing his teeth and
Speaker 1: gargling as usual. There's so many scenes of Larry brushing
Speaker 1: his teeth.
Speaker 3: You don't goggle much to you. It's fun. Just think
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 2: Well, you should think about how much money you just lost.
Speaker 2: The NRGC n A S t l E.
Speaker 7: S Niceley's makes Love Very bass s.
Speaker 4: Which came out of Left and I can say video village,
Speaker 4: and of course I explode and I said to him,
Speaker 4: you got to use that. You got to use that
Speaker 4: because sorry, the.
Speaker 1: Way you did it was just And that's something that
Speaker 1: a lot of our younger listeners don't know.
Speaker 2: That's something we can commercial.
Speaker 6: N E. S T l E.
Speaker 1: S Nesley's makes the very Best Chalk Left.
Speaker 2: And those things.
Speaker 1: From our childhood are so embedded in our heads, those jingles.
Speaker 4: By the way, here, I'm going to sound like an
Speaker 4: old person. We lived through an era where commercials were good,
Speaker 4: not flashy, not all about computers, and beer was popular
Speaker 4: back then. For sure, but cell phones. You watch a
Speaker 4: football game, every other commercials a cell phone, call, insurance, insurance,
Speaker 4: none of them are memorable. So you and I could
Speaker 4: do it. I can't believe. I ate the whole thing,
Speaker 4: like where's the beef? Like there were so many of
Speaker 4: these that you were so mesmerized by and thought we were musing.
Speaker 1: And also another thing is all we had was network
Speaker 1: tele vision with commercials.
Speaker 2: Now there's all these options without.
Speaker 3: Commercials started same commercials.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but I'm just saying now today.
Speaker 4: Yes, for sure, but it's been a number of years
Speaker 4: where commercials the halftime commercials. This year there was one
Speaker 4: I really liked. I cannot remember one. Last year it
Speaker 4: was Larry David's commercial, which was hilarious. And I heard
Speaker 4: there's a longer version.
Speaker 2: On the longer version, I guess gotta be funny.
Speaker 3: But the point is that years ago the halftime.
Speaker 2: Those commercials commercial.
Speaker 4: Right now, they're going on fumes from their past, and really,
Speaker 4: I'm an old man, I don't buy it.
Speaker 3: So halftime, I go to Sweden.
Speaker 2: That's a quick trip.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Ahead, Okay, So next we cut to Larry in his office.
Speaker 1: He's going into his office is in the hallway and
Speaker 1: Chuck the Janitor.
Speaker 4: By the way, Chuck the Janitor is a character that
Speaker 4: we did not do enough with.
Speaker 9: You never told me there was supposed to be a
Speaker 9: terrorist attack, and you knew about it.
Speaker 3: How come you never told me.
Speaker 7: I wasn't allowed to tell anyon.
Speaker 9: You told somebody. I mean, I found out, so you
Speaker 9: could have told me something I could There was.
Speaker 3: Too many people.
Speaker 2: I just I wasn't supposed to.
Speaker 9: My kids could have been wiped out. You know, they
Speaker 9: go to school.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm sorry, but it's okay. Nothing happened.
Speaker 9: I know, but I mean something could have happened. I know,
Speaker 9: we could have been killed. You know, you could have
Speaker 9: just just give me a little hint, you know, like
Speaker 9: saying you don't take your kids out of the school
Speaker 9: or something like that.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you next.
Speaker 9: Thing that I could have said something.
Speaker 4: But the way he talked and what he said he said.
Speaker 4: By the way, this guy, the way he plays, I
Speaker 4: don't know if that's who he is in real life.
Speaker 4: I don't recall that. But everything he says, even if
Speaker 4: he's not pleading, he sounds like he's pleading. Everything that
Speaker 4: he says.
Speaker 2: Is why didn't you tell me, Larry, could.
Speaker 3: Happen you know my children? I could have gotten my
Speaker 3: children out of school.
Speaker 1: Yes, they could have got me to And he's very upset.
Speaker 1: And then Antoinette, his assistant, very upset. He didn't tell her.
Speaker 1: You know, now I have to have everyone mad at me,
Speaker 1: and Wanda confronts him.
Speaker 4: Well, says, excuse me for yawning. Wnda came here to
Speaker 4: see you. She's in the bathroom, and Larry starts running
Speaker 4: right away.
Speaker 3: He's leaving.
Speaker 2: We never see Wanda, do we?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think we do. I recall, Yes, she's in
Speaker 3: the frame.
Speaker 2: Wanda is here, she's in the restroom. She'll be in
Speaker 2: a minute, and she'd like to speak with you.
Speaker 4: Larry.
Speaker 2: Hey, big mouth, What did I tell you? Larry?
Speaker 3: Larry has to stop, and we know it's not.
Speaker 4: Going to be good, so we cut away because I
Speaker 4: think we filmed something, and just for the sake of time,
Speaker 4: because everything dies if it's not necessary.
Speaker 2: Right, okay, and not everything is necessary?
Speaker 4: Yes, wouldn't that be implied on basically what I just said. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so let's move on.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, and we're back, okay, And then we cut
Speaker 1: to Larry is at Mindy's store buying perfume.
Speaker 3: For ryl an expensive bottle and a.
Speaker 1: Very expensive bottle, and it's the perfume that Wanda wears
Speaker 1: that she had wanted, and Mindy starts complaining about how
Speaker 1: inconvenience they were. They had to stay at the Super
Speaker 1: eight motel. The four seasons wasn't available.
Speaker 4: Let's stop right there for a second. This is what
Speaker 4: I'm talking about in terms of a liberal rich mindset.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, they should have been grateful there was a
Speaker 4: room at the Super ri.
Speaker 2: That's what Larry says.
Speaker 3: Yeah, later on though, but initially.
Speaker 2: He says, I tried to save your life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't you. But by the way, this attitude, it's bratty.
Speaker 3: It's West side attitude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, west side of LA I'd say west of Los Sienaga.
Speaker 4: But the point being is I hear people say shit
Speaker 4: like this all the time.
Speaker 2: How inconvenient.
Speaker 4: Also those people, well I avoid. And by the way,
Speaker 4: if Larry had a party on the west side, who's
Speaker 4: not attending me? I don't like hanging over there because
Speaker 4: this attitude pervades over there. Now in terms of their
Speaker 4: social things. I agree with him, but I don't like
Speaker 4: the way they do it. I just hate all of
Speaker 4: that shit. I'm a man of the people. I'm a
Speaker 4: blue collar man of the people. I fucking hate that
Speaker 4: and that entitlement.
Speaker 2: The elitist elitism lead shut the fuck up.
Speaker 1: So then Mindy asks how was the NRDC thing, and
Speaker 1: Larry says, no one showed up. Someone told everyone, and
Speaker 1: Mindy denies it was her, And then Larry sees Marty
Speaker 1: short out the window and just stops in the middle
Speaker 1: of his interaction with Mindy buying the perfume and goes
Speaker 1: to run out to see Marty and Mindy's calling after him.
Speaker 1: Mindy's calling after him, and they start to talk about
Speaker 1: Primetime Click, which is one of my favorites, by the way,
Speaker 1: based on Skippy Low.
Speaker 2: If you ever watch nobody on public accents on public
Speaker 2: access to watch all the time. By the way, let's
Speaker 2: tell the people about was.
Speaker 4: This little guy who both an elfin looking guy, which
Speaker 4: actually Jimminy Glick. He really took basically what that is
Speaker 4: His performance is just what's his name Low, Skippy Low
Speaker 4: with Skip E. But it's almost like someone put an
Speaker 4: air plug into Skippy Low and he blew up because
Speaker 4: he's Skippy Low at four hundred pound.
Speaker 2: And what Skippy Low used to do. He would have
Speaker 2: all these old B stars had.
Speaker 4: Legit stars too, but a lot of them were huge
Speaker 4: stars in their days.
Speaker 1: In their day, you know, but old Hollywood stars, and
Speaker 1: he would just be fascinated by all of them. Tell
Speaker 1: me when you made Sahara, tell me about that.
Speaker 2: You know, he was just fascinating and I loved that.
Speaker 4: It was what we call good eating. Here's the thing
Speaker 4: I want to say Larry and Martin. I don't know
Speaker 4: why Marty was on the show.
Speaker 1: Well, I think he needed to have a distraction to
Speaker 1: run to piss off mine.
Speaker 4: That might have been you know, the part was originally
Speaker 4: written for Marty. Okay, yeah, and it didn't work out.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: But Paul Reiser was immediately thought of an ass. It
Speaker 4: wasn't like, all right, we'll settle for Paul Reiser. So
Speaker 4: I thought that's why was it? But now I'm saying
Speaker 4: that the distraction works for Mindy to get mad at him. Correct,
Speaker 4: But what the context was of their scene? There was nothing.
Speaker 3: Written, nothing written, and so they did a bunch.
Speaker 4: Of different stuff that was too funny because Larry was
Speaker 4: making a serious attempt, not a bullshit attempt at doing
Speaker 4: Jimminy glick.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and what he was doing was you could.
Speaker 1: Mary says, now you've had a stroke, and then Marty says,
Speaker 1: you're doing that flat New York thing.
Speaker 3: By the way, he's doing Larry.
Speaker 2: Perfectly, perfectly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So they have this whole going back and forth at
Speaker 1: the very hard, very low.
Speaker 2: To watch.
Speaker 4: As I've talked about before on the show, I get
Speaker 4: to sometimes act with, but spend a lot of time
Speaker 4: with people who are heroes to me. Marty Short, I
Speaker 4: grew up loving Second City Television SCTV, and I thought
Speaker 4: he was brilliant the one year of Sarahnette Live.
Speaker 3: Brilliant. Yeah, that dude is just.
Speaker 4: A big bowl of brilliant. And there having conversations with
Speaker 4: him and he's saying, well, Jeff, I think, I go
Speaker 4: you're calling me Jeff Martin Short is acknowledged, like, it
Speaker 4: doesn't mean I didn't have confidence in myself. But I'm
Speaker 4: in awe to this day if I'm around anybody that
Speaker 4: was a hero to me or who I respect, and
Speaker 4: I'm in awe and I never forget that. You know,
Speaker 4: I haven't gone through the things where all right, whatever, No,
Speaker 4: there are certain people with all right, well, yes, you
Speaker 4: know who those are.
Speaker 1: So Larry goes back and there's a closed sign, goes
Speaker 1: back into mind. He's store Palmetto and there's a closed
Speaker 1: sign on the door. Then he's back at their house
Speaker 1: and there's a rehearsal. Alana's is there and a guitar player,
Speaker 1: and we see Stu on the phone, driving like a maniac.
Speaker 1: They invited the Risers and not us. He's clearly talking
Speaker 1: to his wife.
Speaker 3: Before this around in a caddy. Okay, he has new caddy.
Speaker 4: Well, then he mentioned at dinner, is it before or
Speaker 4: after this where Larry's telling her that the house has
Speaker 4: great acous.
Speaker 2: It's then it's then he's telling here and.
Speaker 4: Larry has, like I said, the guy for not being
Speaker 4: religious loves throwing out the Jewish references Wherery he says, the.
Speaker 7: Acoustics are great in this house and you would know
Speaker 7: because well, we often have Friday night services here, which
Speaker 7: is just awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we see Stu and his caddy intercut
Speaker 1: with Larry saying you're going to do your ought to
Speaker 1: know and they're talking about there's a lot of discussion
Speaker 1: about that song and Larry says to her, if you
Speaker 1: ever want to unburden yourself, you should tell me, and
Speaker 1: Alana says.
Speaker 2: You know what be good to unburden myself?
Speaker 4: Hold on, though he pretends to be someone she can trust. Yes, nice,
Speaker 4: the real Larry David. If you tell him something, it's
Speaker 4: an a vault. He would never repeat anything personal that
Speaker 4: you tell him. He's one of my most You are
Speaker 4: too trusted confidants. You know what I mean. I can
Speaker 4: say things to Larry and he it is gone. I
Speaker 4: know it'll never But on the show, the character, the
Speaker 4: character is when.
Speaker 2: Will he repeat exactly?
Speaker 1: Okay, So she decides to unburden herself and she whispers
Speaker 1: it to him.
Speaker 2: We don't hear, and then she leaves and we hear
Speaker 2: Car screeching.
Speaker 4: Hold on, hold on, hold on. When she tells him,
Speaker 4: he gives a oh, that's who it is. Look like
Speaker 4: it's really interesting, Like I hadn't thought of that.
Speaker 1: I just thought that was important, And then we hear
Speaker 1: car screeching.
Speaker 7: Jesus Caesus, she didn't even freaking look, you come flying
Speaker 7: down there one thousand miles an hour on the.
Speaker 2: Left side hour. Okay, yes, I'm okay, my neck hurts.
Speaker 2: This is a Cadillac sabotage the event.
Speaker 3: By the way, thanks for inviting.
Speaker 2: Us, right you, right you? And then we cut to
Speaker 2: the event and no, but.
Speaker 4: Hold on, hold on, hold on, we're only seeing the audience.
Speaker 4: We've not seen Alana. Now I forgot what the reveal
Speaker 4: is correct, and so I'm saying, why are there.
Speaker 2: So but they're quiet, and she's also her voice is off.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, she did great with that.
Speaker 2: And then we cut to we see that she's in
Speaker 2: a neck brace.
Speaker 4: Yes, which is hysterical when you see the neck brace,
Speaker 4: because I was really confused as I'm watching it. I go,
Speaker 4: that's not Elanas's voice that I know. She sounds terrible.
Speaker 4: She's got the thing, but everyone's face.
Speaker 3: So and I go, why is everyone staring at her life?
Speaker 3: This is horrible?
Speaker 4: And then the reveal, which I even forget because I
Speaker 4: haven't seen this show.
Speaker 2: Some of them I've seen and some not. This one
Speaker 2: I had not seen.
Speaker 1: And then we see Larry nod to Mindy and Mindy
Speaker 1: makes a face like she's mad at him.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: He says, I fix it, and then I fuck it up,
Speaker 1: you know, which is what he does over and over
Speaker 1: and over again.
Speaker 2: And he never learns a lesson, because that's what comedy is.
Speaker 4: And then she starts singing, you ought to know my request, Larry's.
Speaker 1: Request yet, And then you see Larry look at Mindy
Speaker 1: and you know what he's thinking, right.
Speaker 4: See, I don't know till the moment he thinks it.
Speaker 4: You can see the moment on Larry's Yes, this is
Speaker 4: great acting, but.
Speaker 3: It doesn't start that way now.
Speaker 2: But but like I said, when he.
Speaker 4: First came in the shop, he was going to say
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but he knows this because he's written it.
Speaker 4: But he plays it perfectly the transition. Did the transition
Speaker 4: so perfectly? And then we know and he ambles across
Speaker 4: the room and.
Speaker 1: Then he whispers to Mindy and we hear him say
Speaker 1: I know this song is about.
Speaker 4: Right, and you see her going oh, and he tells,
Speaker 4: and then the music because you know it's not.
Speaker 2: Going to end well, it's not going to end well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the episode ended well.
Speaker 2: Not for Allanis, but for everybody else.
Speaker 4: No, but I'm saying so much of television and movies
Speaker 4: I can watch for ten minutes and know that the
Speaker 4: people who made this or the studio who made this
Speaker 4: is not respecting my intelligence because they always play it
Speaker 4: out our show, which I'm very proud of. We respect
Speaker 4: the audience. I think we didn't need to see Alanis
Speaker 4: getting We never shot it, no getting mad, nothing. This
Speaker 4: was enough that the audience. I knew what was happening
Speaker 4: and going to happen. But it's about respecting your audience,
Speaker 4: which I'm proud that we do.
Speaker 1: I agree, And I want to say that Linda Bates
Speaker 1: played Mindy and Shelley to say, is the actor who
Speaker 1: plays Chuck the janitor?
Speaker 3: Oh, Shelley just say yeah he.
Speaker 4: I mean, I really think the most underused person in
Speaker 4: the history of our show in terms of having a scene,
Speaker 4: because everything.
Speaker 2: He's used past this season is he.
Speaker 4: I don't think so, maybe maybe not. I don't recall,
Speaker 4: but I know he filmed about four of.
Speaker 2: Those yeah, and they were always going great.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So thank you, Shelly to say, and thank you Jeff,
Speaker 1: and thank you audience, and we'll be back next time.
Speaker 3: Thanks Susie for really putting up with me. All right, bye, everybody,
Speaker 3: Thank you.
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