Episode 29 - The Lighter Side Of Angela Matusa

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I'm HP your co host and with me as always as my co host, Father Belone, Father Blone, How are you this evening? I'm good. I'm the one where in the Plymouth fat jokes. Get ready for some fat jokes, everybody, and and it's perfectly acceptable because she's no longer fat. Anyway, we have a lot to dig into with this episode.

We are talking about Taxi Season two, episode seven, The Lighter Side of Angela Tusa. This episode was written by Earl Palmer Hantz and it was directed, of course by the resident director, James Burrows. A reminder, we're covering these episodes in broadcast order and not in order of filming. So we open with this episode where in the garage, as Alex is getting hounded by Tony as they walk into the garage, Tony is wearing a Yankees cap on his head, but it's perched precariously on the back of his head. It almost looks like it's a little too small for his head.

Did you notice this father balloone as he's walking in? It reminded me of the sundays he used to be able to get it, like friendlies or whatever little uh major League league baseball bucket that you know with a with a Sunday in it. Yeah, you can still get that in the boy park. What would the flavor be? I think it'd be a lot of salt.

It'd be a salty treat if pushed. This episode is kind of off to a shaky start as far as I'm concerned. Hey bye, plot, want one here? It is? I've been noticing HB over the past few episodes.

That's a fucking pattern that I'm kind of tired of, where the opening scene will be two characters talking, just setting up the B plot, then the A plot begins. I don't know that it's ever a harbinger of good things for the episode. It certainly isn't a good tiding for this episode as well, as we'll see as we get into this a little bit. The reason he's wearing the baseball hat is because Tony is trying to convince Alex to play on the night shift softball team. Apparently the garage has multiple softball teams.

The day shift and the night shift seems it's a little far fetched, don't you think. No, are you kidding me? There's so many cab companies in New York City and all of them have softball teams. We are talking about softball, right, not baseball. Yeah, it's but this is not like Sunshine Cab versus DC Cab.

This is Sunshine Cab day shift versus Sunshine Cab night shift. That seems to me, Oh, yeah, you know what, you're right, except you're not, because of course day shift we'll want to fight night shift for the supremacy of Sunshine Cab. I know, I would have you noticed all the b roll of Sunshine Cab that the sunshine in it is the golden hour, like the sunset. It's like honey sunlight coming over the cab company. It's obviously dusk leading into the night shift, which is when these guys are driving their cabs.

But it looks gorgeous. I mean, after so much snow and coldness of season one, we're kind of we've moved into the sort of summertime of Sunshine Cab, it seems. And they keep displaying that moment right before day shift becomes night shift, thus and thus sort of reinforcing the battle between good and evil that is day shift and night shift. There, they're going to play softball. Well, you'd make a lot of sense.

I guess I'll go with it. As Tony is haranguing Alex, Alex is complaining that the day shift team has some great players and they're going to kill the night shift. I can't imagine who these drivers are. Who they've you know, you've seen them, the day shift drivers. When have we seen the day shift drivers.

They're still hanging around at shift change. Some of our favorites are day shifts. Yeah, but none of those Jack Appleman is a day shift guy, Okay, aside from him and maybe Leggy Blonde, I don't think any of them she is a day shift. Yeah, but they don't look like world users. Captain Marvel is a day shift guy.

Uh No, that's wrong, and we'll see that in this episode. No, you're actually wrong about that. No, and I'll prove it. I will prove it to you. Okay, look here doesn't want to play in the fucking ball game.

Okay, move on, let's get to the goddamn plot here already. I love I've proved it. I can prove you wrong. But now all of a sudden, you want to move off of this. But let's go No, I do want to move on.

Why who cares? Baseball game? It's the worst, you know what. It ends up being the funniest part of the entire episode, But it's a little laborious. The endless set up Tony with a clipboard following people around.

He put you down for this and that, and I'm going to put your grandparents down for left field and right field. Okay, we get it. It's very laborious. But for you to say that it's the funniest part of this episode is a very low bar to get over, because I didn't say the rest of it is any good at all. O.

Yeah, Tony is pouting like a child as Alex is telling him, I can't do it. I'm not going to do it. But he eventually, through this pouting, he wears Alex down to the point where Alex says he might with capital letters, might drop eye on Saturday, which, of course Tony in his zeal says, okay, we'll write you down. I think he said he's going to be right field or something, so he takes that as a definite. Meanwhile, Louis mentions to Alex that he has a message that came into him.

As is the custom, Alex has to pay him a buck. There's some additional business which I'm not going to go into, where Louis Fannagel's more money from Alex. I have a question, go for it. How many folded dollar bills does Alex Rieger have in his shirt pocket? He has a lot, but those are tips.

I'm not surprised that is that? Okay, thank you, I was just taking. Yeah, no, you're right. He does because because Louis gives him a message, it's the wrong message. He has to give him another buck to get the right message, and then, you know, but you're right, he keeps flipping out these folded dollars.

But I assume that's just his tip money. Well yeah, either that or he's got a Felix the cat like magic bag of a pocket there just keeps me or more stuff out. Super old reference there, that is very old. But or maybe Alex is fond of going to strip clubs when his shift is over. Maybe that's why he has so many dollar bills, or maybe those are his tips from his time at the Strip Club.

Riger is very virile. I wouldn't put it, ask them he could do it. Alex reads the message and announces to Elaine and Tony that it's from Angela Matusa, our friend Angela Matusa. We know her from season one. She's, of course the namesake for one of the greatest theme songs in television history.

The Fuse tach wonderfully in this episode. It was so nice to hear it actually played instead of the sort of crazy interstitials that they'll throw in from time to time, you know, hearing it played straight like the episode was supposed to have initially, like the initial episode, it's pretty great. You're right, that is, they did do a good job of that. But so we know who this is, but and I guess, somewhat released the old audience doesn't. Maybe readers should hit us to who she was?

You remember? Is this that fat fat? He says this to Elaine and to Tony, who have no idea who he's talking about, and only when he mentions that she's fat does it jog their memory, Which is the first clue that this is going to be a big string of fat jokes in this episode, which is absolutely spoiler alert, that's what we get. Once Louis hears about Angela, he starts making a bunch of fat jokes. He's writing them down, getting prepared for her to her inevitable visit to the garage.

Tony's recollection of her was that she was quote you'll like this, father Malone. That she was quote big and mean, which makes her sound like a Bengal tiger. You know what Tony Banta has succinctly summed up the character of Angela Batusa. She was big and she was mean. What else do you need to know?

Now? Is she chanced to run? See this is where I cut in that little SoundBite I made of you as the devil speaking against Angela Batusa and joy your salad. No, I hate salad. I hate you.

Well, did you catch the Mets game? The metsa death and the dead now hits to Ron Addix? Now shit, shit that? So you're right she to some she is the devil, and she is she was, for lack of a more sensitive term, she was big and she was mean. So, Alex, are we about to be treated to the first flashback to a previous episode in Taxi history.

It's so bad. It is so bad. Alex sits in. Why it of course, Oh, of course, because they need to set up the fact that and after so the audience can have that woo moment as the new Angela walks in and they can be impressed by her weight loss. So he sits down, Alex, and this is so it just seems so corny to me.

He sits down. He says, at first she was mean and unfortunately, then, as you said, we go down flashback territory where Alex recountsack Lane. We do what could be better? So he as he's recounting their first date, they did everything, but like the like, they cut to the footage from season one where we see their first disastrous dated Marios, And as you said, this was clearly a gambit to give the audience the wow moment when the new Angela walks in. They now have that image of her as an overweight, angry person to balance the sort of light, happy Angela we're going to see in a moment.

So we cut back to the garage after this flashback. Alex finishes his tale by saying that they did become friends, he and Angela, but after about six months she stopped answering his calls, and she basically disappeared from his life. Just as Alex is admonishing the cabvies not to mention her weight, the radiant Angela walks in to party audience applause, and there she is. There's Angela. And to her credit, she looks fabulous, doesn't she.

Oh yeah, look she was. She looked fine before. The problem was not her weight. The problem was that she was a fucking but just a fucking nightmare, like just growling and mean. She was.

She was very aggressive. Man, it was aggressive. And we get it, she's fucking blah blah blah. We don't have to count that fucking episode. But but at the same time, it was like, yeah, we get it.

Is she she's mean because she doesn't want to be hurt. Yeah, all right, that's everybody in the fucking world. A wonderful lesson. Okay, But now this is new Angela and she looks great. She's beaming, she's smiling, she gets the audience applause that she deserves.

Now. What's interesting is in the Taxi Fan Guide, which I talk about virtually every episode, Jim Brooks says that this episode came about after quote we heard that the actress had lost weight. We wrote specifically to that fact. So here's the thing, Father Malone. I think what we're going to see is that this was really an idea in search of a story.

I think they started with this notion clearly, because he's quoted here as saying that they wrote this because they heard that the actress had lost a lot of weight. So they took that central notion that this actress, Suzanne Kent I believe her name, is lost all this weight. They tried writing an episode around her, and in my mind, it was a recipe for a not very good episode because they're searching for a way to justify her weight loss and create a story around it. But I don't know about you, but I think it's not the strongest tale to write around. What do you think?

I think that I liked this episode a lot more than previous one, but again, that's not a very high threshold to exceed. You hated the last the absolutely hated it. Yes, this one I didn't hate, so therefore it's automatically better. But I can't disagree with you. Like you said, they heard she was she had lost weight, so they're like, let's write another episode about her.

But really they just kind of rewrote the first episode. They're just sort of in reverse, you know, like they stripped her bare. What we got here is what we should have gotten in the very first episode where we were told that everyone loved Angela, like anytime they called and got her on the Answering service man, they ended up talking to her for hours. She was sweet and she had all this good advice and blah blah blah. She was like the auditory version of the Rea Pearlman's character.

So if this, if they had done this, then then I probably would have enjoyed the Angela episode because what we're getting here is that person, the sweet person who's vulneulnerable, and I think it would have been more effective because she hadn't lost weight then, you know what I mean, Like the story they were telling was they found the actress rather than the other way around, because I don't think they understand what this is here. Effectively, they end up equating food to like heroin ah, basically like she's you know, it's treated like an AA thing. You're absolutely right, because they if we flash back ourselves to that first season episode, they could have told the story of this woman who was overweight that became friends with Alex.

But it could have all been preamble to the actual episode, where now what we're going to see is she decides that Alex is the reason why she should lose all this weight, and we go from there. Not to get ahead of ourselves, but I think that's a very good point you just made, because that could have been in service of a more interesting story. Even though I was a bigger defender of this episode the first season episode, I have to agree with you on this. I think that's a very good point. See, the thing is they wouldn't have written this episode is that they wouldn't have given us vulnerable Angela because if that had been sweet vulnerable Angela falls in love with Riger and Riger doesn't want to be with her, then that would put the onus on Riger, right, So what they did was they made her an angry girl, and then Rieger's the victim.

He's just trying to be a nice guy here, that's true, but in the end they kind of in this episode they put the onus on Riger, even if it's him putting the onus on it himself. Right. You know, the thing is, it would be like ten times more effective if she was still a larger girl. Fair enough. Fair enough.

As far as the sort of moral conundrum of riger facing the idea that he doesn't want to be with her because she's fat, see, that is never the question in any of these episodes. Really, It's always that this is about her and her addiction to food. This isn't even really about Rigo. This is her about just trying to find somebody, anybody, because we find out you know, no spoilers, but you know that's kind of what happens anyway. You're right that food in this episode is really treated like a drug of the highest order, as we'll talk about momentarily.

So at this point, Bobby comes down from the top of the garage down those center stairs and Alex reintroduces him to Angela, and he's absolutely knocked out by her weight loss, which is great, but I couldn't help being distracted once again by Bobby's sartorial choices that you'd notice. Oh holy god, it is full fucking country western Bobby Wheeler this year, like this fucking straight up cowboy shirt, white and black piping like it. Oh my god, he's and he's always wearing jeans, so it just looks like, does he want to ride the range? Like I don't. We've talked about this, like, you know, there was sort of a late seventies sort of country revival or like sudden fascination with all things Hickville, you know, like smoking in the banded and convo.

Well when was urban Cowboy? Was that after? Right around here? It's like nineteen eighty, yeah, so that was so country was in Country was in fashion at that time. But the shirt that he's wearing, it reminded me most of the shirt that Marty McFly wears and Back to the Future three when he goes back to the Old West.

It just there's nothing authentic about the shirt he's wearing. Like you said, it's like this blue and white with a little sort of piping on either side of the chest. You know, it just looks so stereotypically cheesy country. I couldn't believe it. I have to assume that maybe it's for a role or a commercial.

Maybe there's a gilly keep seeing him in these goddamn shirts. This is not his first country shirt this season, like we noticed in episode one that they're kind of forcing them on him this year, or maybe it was fucking you know, maybe uh Conaway had a country kick going. I don't know. It makes me dislike Bobby Wheelers if I'm being honest. Oh.

At best, it makes him seem like he's chasing trends, which is which you know he's Look, he's the nicest looking guy in the whole garage. He doesn't need. He has a style all of his own. He doesn't need to chase these trends. But it makes him seem desperate in a way.

He's a hair hopper Edna. Again, He's knocked out by the fact that Angela's lost all his weight, and he gives her a kiss and everything. So Angela then sits down at the poker table and is regaling the caves with the story about how she lost all She joined a weight group about six months ago, which which tracks with when she lost touch with Alex. My god, the script is like a diamond. As someone facets, it's like clockwork.

And so this weight loss group changed her life. But unfortunately for us the audience, somehow this gives her the fact that she was overweight gives her the license to make a bunch of unfortunate fat jokes. The whole time she talks about how she keep she kept one of her old dresses, and Elaine says, well, why did you keep it? Oh? And you know, and she always every time she laughs, I'm reminded of Norman fell As Mister Roper and Three's Company, because she does this like thing where she wrinkles her nose and kind of ha ha ha.

It was very yeah, yeah, yeah, it's terrible. So Louis then comes in and he's still waiting for Angela to come into the garage. She doesn't realize that this is the same woman, so he's trying to tell these collected fat jokes or what have you. But Alex reintroduces her to Louis and Louie is properly chasing from his fat jokes. That's all well and good.

We cut to Marios and Alex and Angela are sitting down to eat lunch and a nice bit of symmetry. They're at the same table they were for that terrible first date from season one. Oh boy, we're so lucky we're back here with these two. As I'm watching this, I couldn't help thinking in the back of my mind, Oh, man, I wonder what Father Malone is thinking of all this because it devoted you have no idea. They're like, we cut to this scene and they're sitting there and all my life just drained out of me.

Really, I gotta do this again so quickly. They couldn't even wait two or three seasons before the return of Angela to this kind of tongue clucking like highly moralistic but ultimately pointless episode. I was one of that episode's staunchest defenders, and even I have to admit that this was already growing tiresome, because I can see that this is really going nowhere but away. We continue. Angela is calculating her calories and she orders literally the blandest meal you can imagine.

It's like chicken with no skin, salad with no dressing, all the while clacking out the fucking calories on this ridiculous calculator that she's brought with her. Yeah, it kind of reminded me of something that Richard Simmons might offer, like a deal ameal calculator, you know, because it's every time she says, you know, chicken no skin, coca kaka claq, broccoli no cheese cocakaka clac she orders, she makes the show of ordering this incredibly bland meal. And then Alex orders, and I have to say, Alex orders a mountain of Italian food. Any normal person should order like I'll have the spaghetti and meatballs done. But he orders like clams fucking like doesn't get veal Marsala as well, and like what else?

It's a lot. He orders a lot of food, and as he's ordering, Angela is click click clacking into her calorie calculator for every dish. So now he's feeling pressured. And after he finishes his order, I think she says something like oh my god, and it freaks him out. But she says, look, if you want me to have a good time, just order what you want.

I can handle it, which is good. That's fine. Yeah, just like someone who's sober at a bar, just at the rest. No, it's okay. You can drink in front of me.

Yeah, I can handle it. She's been through parallels continue everybody, not only drugs but drinking too. What's your addiction? So Alex just can't help gushing about how good Angela looks. He keeps he just can't stop himself, and he gives her credit for how hard it was because and this is out of nowhere, he all of a sudden, he says, well, he quits smoking.

We've never seen him or heard of him quitting or smoking at all, but now here he is supposedly an inveterate smoker. And he says, for the punchline, yeah, here we come, here, here it comes. And he says he knows how hard it can be to kick a habit, not that you know, you know, obesity is a habit that needs to be kicked. But I get where he's coming from. And Angela admits that she tried and tried.

She tried to drop the weight. She couldn't. But then she but because she couldn't find the right motivation. And suddenly, she says, she realized that the right motivator was there all the time. And what was it?

Well, no, at first she says, it was it's him. It's him. That's This is all obfuscation. So they played the pronoun game. Here, you know, who are we talking about?

Oh, it's me. Well, get to the joke. What's the joke? HP? So the joke it really fucking bothered me, but go ahead, it's it's terrible.

So she says she realized that there was one man who treated her with the respect that she needed when she didn't feel like she deserved it. And she gently places her hand on Alex's and without saying, hey, it's you. You're the one that I want to be with Alex, she just kind of gently smiles and it was fine. It's a nice little moment. But then Alex is suddenly flustered beyond all the beyond the pail, and he grabbed.

Conveniently, there's a man behind him smoking a cigarette, which is in itself dates this episode, because when's the last time you saw someone smoking in a restaurant? Right, nineteen ninety five, right, So he grabs the cigarette out of this man's mouth, literally out of his mouth, and just starts puffing on it like a chimney. Now, before we get any further, I have to make another side note as a former smoker, I used to smoke cigarettes. As a former smoker, it drives me nuts when I see someone smoke on TV or in a movie and they're clearly just puffing away. They're not inhaling the smoke.

They're just you know, smoke stacking it like puff, pup, puff puff, And that's what he's doing here. You don't see. You don't see it obviously much nowadays, but it always stuck out to me. Did you ever notice the same thing? Oh my god, it's one of my hugest pet peeves.

And it's all I think only smokers notice it. You had to have done it for some time to see if they're actually nailing or just pulling it into their mouth and then blowing it out. And you don't know until they blow it out, because it should be a steady stream, like a breath, instead of just a like explosion of smoke, which is what he's doing. But now here's what bothered me. HP.

What would you what would you do as a former smoker if somebody in a restaurant reached out and plucked it out of your mouth? I would knock that motherfucker out. Yeah, and at a minimum, like he could have done it. And here's the thing, this would have been so easy to fix. Here it is the guy's lighting a cigarette.

Rieger says, could I get one of those? The guy says yeah, and hands him a cigarette that's already here. You take that one. It's very weird because, as you said, the man doesn't I don't think he reacts in this. He might raise an eyebrow, but he doesn't react in any sudden you know, or way.

The waiter came up and took a fork away, like that's his reaction, Are you kidding mine? He just kind of shrugs and goes on with his meal. It was very Again, maybe this is a little bit nitpicky, but this is about suspension of this belief, and I didn't buy this at all. This immediately takes me out of this and drops me into sitcom land, which is, yeah, I'm almost like a Dick Van Dyke joke, you know, yeah, pretty much pretty much. So we cut the commercial and we cut back, and it's still the same tableau.

Alex is. He's still at the cigarette and he's becoming frantic and flustered. He's doing everything except going hammaa haamanahamanahamana. All of a sudden, Alex has become so nerved up about this whole thing. Instead of acting like you would think somebody like Alex, who's normally very measured in his responses, he's just basically trembling.

He's vibrating with nervousness about this whole thing. All of a sudden. This is a character who we've seen told your father is dying, you need to go to the hospital, and he's crumpled up the note and thrown it away and walked away. But here's Alex Ray what, Oh my god, a fat girl likes me? But she's not fat anymore.

But I still don't like her. What am I gonna do? Yeah? I didn't buy it at all. This is so out of character for Reagers that entire episode everyone is out of a character.

Because Elaine has a moment late in the episode where I went, what the fuck when it happened? Hmm? This feels almost like a specscript that somebody wrote. I know it's not, because I know Earl Palmeranz has a history on the show, but this doesn't feel genuine in so many ways. This is a poor dance with pomerants.

Yes, nice, take no chance? Where keep going? So Alex and Angela are doing this sort of verbal dance back and forth where he's trying to resist her advances, but she keeps trying to get at him a little bit. Are you? Are you still on about this?

Pomarans about the Pomerance thing, But now I'm just I'm imagining the episode that you're describing like with it's just Alex like sort of the cartoon character, like backing away from her and stuff like that would be so much more fun than what we're given here. It's so it's aggravating to see this because jud hersh is better than this, Oh my god, much better than this. But you know what, I don't know what's happening here. He's just playing a different flavor, I guess, like trying to undercut the seriousness that could easily be read into the episode. Maybe I think he's striving mightily.

It's just that he's a victim of the entire episode. You know, it's been a but he is playing it a little bit big and very sort of exaggerating. So Vodville, snatched that cigarette out of that guy's mouth, vaudeville. It's all very exaggerated, and it doesn't really fit with what I love in his grounded performance normally as Alex Brieger. I think it's kind of about the window, and maybe that part of that is the direction.

It's certainly the writing in this case. But I can't impugne James Burrows because I know he's better than this too, So it's got to be the writing. So anyway, they're going back and forth and finally Alex admits that he's really not interested in her. Finally and she actually asks Alex to leave and in a nice touch, Actually, I thought this was kind of nice. He does it up, he realizes she needs her space, but he does take out a few bucks and he puts it on the table.

I thought that was a nice touch that, you know, even though he's leaving, he hasn't eaten, he's going to pay for the meal. I thought that was somehow. I thought that was that lended a little bit of verse, similar to the to the scene. It's a little thing, a little yeah, I agree. He leaves and Tommy brings over the food.

He leaves her. TJ Kister, Baby, that's right, say his name with reverence. I do you know. I spoke to someone who worked with him just the other night, oh, for midnight viewings. For mid viewing, Arman Mastriani directed a bunch of episodes Dounce from the Dark Side, and in one of the stories, he was telling me just about filming an episode, like something went wrong, and he said, then you get a call him from TJ.

And I was like, oh, let's talk about him, so evidently a fantastic manch just the salt of the earth. But that's remarkable. Now, just as a side note, I'm glad that you brought this up, because we haven't really talked too much about the character Tommy or TJ. Kashernova. But the fact is, in this show he's just a little bit player, but he's there.

He's a reliable presence. But I think it's so cool that he had this sort of second act to his career where he became this big producer of these anthology television shows and everything. I think that's remarkable, and movies and stuff, and continued acting all along. It's pretty remarkable. Actually.

You know, I'm going to be doing much more of a deep dive into mister Kastronova in the future, so i'll share it here when I can. Let that be a lesson everybody. Go listen to Midnight Viewing. You won't be disappointed if you want to hear more about TJ. Kashernova or great anthology in general.

Don't wait for my plugs at the end. I'm telling you go check it out. So thank you. I won't plug at the end now, thanks for that. No, you can plug away Tommy brings over the food.

In one side of the table is all this health food garbage. On the other side is Alex's mountain of Italian food. Like I described, I like this was this was a nice touch of the what I considered like sort of patented taxi poignancy. So he leaves all this food and just very sadly, very quietly, Angela starts spinning the table until that mountain of Italian food is in front of her instead of in front of where Alex was sitting, and she starts to eat, and that's the end of the scene. And it's a very sad thing to see.

You could probably agree that it's actually a nice bittersweet touch to the scene. Well, I love the spinning of the table, that's what I really like. The sad part is that she was eating the food and not me craving the pasta. Oh my god, I'm always craving pasta, and like you know, the thought of New York pasta and like in vast amounts was very appealing. So I didn't feel thank for Angela because I was already checked out by this time.

But remember this is Mario's. They're not known for their good food. So that may not have been so good as you remember. But anyhow, I don't those Gabby say they go eat their every goddamn day. It's the joke they're telling, they're being They're just playing the dozens.

I'm not going to get into that, So we h So as she's eating this, what I also liked is that she's eating this awful, bad for her meal. We get the nice, soulful Sacks playing on the soundtrack, this mournful kind of Bob James bit as we cut the commercial, very nice, probably the nicest moment in the whole episode, if I'm being honest. So we cut back to the garage. Tony, still in his stupid Yankees cap that's too small for his head, is now trying to inveigal Elaine to join this softball team that's going to play on Saturday. And when she informs Tony that her grandparents coming into town from Buffalo on Saturday, Tony crows, there's my outfield.

He says, like, I'll put grandma in right field and Grandpa left field. Is this what you were gonna say about low lane or is that later? No, this is not this is in character. She doesn't want to play softball. She wants to see her parents, what the fuck?

Or her grandparents. Not her kids' grandparents, right, not her grandparents. I thought she said her grandparents. That's weird. It is very weird.

The whole grandparents. Well, it's so we're in the realm of total exaggeration. Like, no one in their right mind would be harassing people to the degree that Tony is, nor would they voluntell somebody that their grandparents are going to be playing softball against their wishes on Saturday. It just doesn't anyone. I kind of like it now, But anyone in the right mind would say, you know what, Tony, go fuck it, stop bothering me, right, I think that's just you.

I mean maybe maybe it's my history with Tony Banta. I don't know, but I can't help thinking, like, just just stop it. We get it, and we know that this team is going to be terrible and they're going to get killed, and it's just it's going nowhere. It's just it's terrible. But anyway, at that point, a portly fellow comes partially right, Well, look he's overweight.

He's another overweight gentleman coming in. Yes, he says he's looking for Alex Brieger. Louie gets all excited because now he gets to use all of his fat jokes, so he's rummaging through his cage looking for the fat jokes and finally speaking of fat jokes in Louis. There's an episode later in the series where Louis describes how he had to go to the children's section to buy clothes and it always made him feel miserable because the one that would fit him was called husky. Husky.

Yeah, so that's what came into my head when you said a portly Yeah. Well it's and it is interesting. I mean, I guess you can't. You know, we had no way of knowing that was going to come subsequent to this episode. But you would think somebody like Louis, who maybe had some of that bullying in his youth, would be a little more sensitive towards somebody who's overweight.

But he's not. He tells fat jokes. Oh no, he's terrible across the board. That's Louis de Palmer, like I expect nothing less for her. That's true, that is true, he's not.

There's no real empathy there, So I guess I wasn't him calling that guy portly that was you. No, I'm being sensitive. But anyway, Alex comes in and the guy introduces himself as Wayne Hubbard. Now this gentleman is played by another kind of familiar face actor. Who is this dude?

So this dude, as you put it, as a guy named Phil Rubinstein. He's never really been he. I think he passed away in nineteen ninety two or nety five. He's no longer with us. He had very very small parts in everything from The Rose.

He was in Barney Miller, he was in Airwolf. He was even in Star Trek four and Tango and Cash. He's just been in all He's kind of just always popped up and I've recognized him. But here's the thing. For some odd reason, I remember him best from a movie that I caught as a child on late night cable called Hooch.

Do you have any memory of this movie Hooch? No, I will tell you about it. So this movie I'm laugh figure. Okay, So this movie starred gil Gerard Buck Rodgers. God he played I once saw him in a Ruby's Diner in Marina del Rey with a much younger lady.

It was very unusual, really was he looking good though, was he did he still have it? Yeah? He looked great. Actually he was a handsome guy. But he was in a jogging suit and that really just urbed me because he was at eight, you know what I mean.

And it was Yeah, it's a Ruby's diner, so it's kind of low class. But at the same time, it's like it's a night out. Like you're wearing a jogging suit. Man, you were in the twenty fifth century, Like you went through Chicago when it was all in ruins, remember that with all those scary mutes. Oh man, So he survived that to wear a jogging suit on a date, no, he So this movie was called Hooch and this was an older movie.

Actually, Danny Iyello, this might have been his first role. Danny Iyello was in this movie too. Oh, Thus the world was graced with the presence of Danny Iello. So this movie starred Gil Gerard as a smooth talking moonshine runner who drove the sweet El Camino. And I think because I think at that point sort of these hick flicks and movies about moonshine runners were becoming popular in Hollywood.

I think, not that smoky in the band, It is about that. But I think there was a lot of movies that took place in the Deep South that had this as part of the sort of backdrop or whatever. But as a child, so yeah, white Lightning, all of these movies, and I can't as a child, was the Richard Pryor that was not? That was white? That wasn't that white lightning?

Or is that greas lightning? Greast lightning? Is Richard Pryor? Yes, it was. You're absolutely right.

So I as a child, I mean I must have been eight or nine. I watched this probably at midnight on cable because at that time you didn't have eight million showings of Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone. They would show at late at night. They would show weird drive in type movies that you wouldn't catch anywhere else, and this was one of those movies. And I remember thinking to myself, why is Buck Rogers driving an El Camino and selling moonshine in the Deep South?

It was it that disconnected My mind stuck with me. Anyway. Phil Rubinstein was also in this movie, and that's where I remembered him from because I saw this and I said, well, that's that guy. From that Hick movie starring gil Gerrard. That's weird, So he's been in a million things.

But anyway, Wayne comes in. He's talking to Alex and he confides to Alex that he and Angela are both members of that weight loss group that meant so much to Angela, and he's concerned because she's not attending the next meeting, which is apparently a very big deal because she hasn't missed one in six months. But I was distracted by the fact that all the while that this conversation has been going on, the show is making this joke that every Cabby has a piece of food. I think Tony's eating a candy bar, and as he's eating it, this guy Wayne is getting distracted by the fact that he's eating a candy bar and he can't hold a conversation with Alex because he's too Just if this were a cartoon, he would be following like the smell lines off of the pie on the windowsill, floating like a bird.

Okay, listen, I'm gonna vent my spleen a little bit, HB. I'm now a thin human being, but for the majority of my life I was a very overweight human being. And so any fat humor always stumped quite a bit, no more than and this was prevalent like for the for a time immemorium honestly up until the eighties maybe early nineties, where you could portray a fat person as so obsessed with food that they can't fucking think if there's food in the vicinity. They're just like so laser focus. Like people don't fucking portray heroin addicts and fucking you like psychopaths in this way.

And so here it is again from the fucking writers of Taxi. Fucking kidding me. This isn't fucking meatballs. You know, it was really offensive. Do you remember that movie Fat So with Don Delawie, Yes, I do.

That's cut from the same cloth, because that movie he has to put a lock on his refrigerator because he's so out of control and he can't control himself over eating. It's really it was so this time period was so unkind to people who had, you know, issues with their weight. And you know, the thing is it kind of remains to this day. It's now seen more as punching down, but it does seem like you can get away with the well, you just can't control yourself, like that's your problem. Like I always marveled at thin people who had a fucking metabolism of a fucking hummingbird who didn't need to eat ever, like saying like, what is your problem, fat person?

Like just fucking put the food down, as if we don't have emotional problems or some other fucking thing going on in our lives. But it's this sort of presentation on a national television show, from a very well respected show that we clearly love, is just reinforcing that nonsense, Like it's encouraging that sort of thought and approach to people who are overweight, you know what, And some people are overweight, and just like I know I'm fat, fuck you all, and I certainly was that way, So I agree it was really deflating to see this happen. Now. I've seen this episode more than a few times over the years, but as we've talked about with previous episodes, I'm seeing them now and being more critical in watching them.

I'm noticing these things that maybe weren't, as you know, weren't as evident the first few times I saw them, so that I think maybe above all else, I mean, the biggest sin of this episode is. It's not very funny, but it is really disheartening to see a show that I think of as one of the more classy sitcoms in sitcom history punched down in this way. And it's It was this scene with Wayne and the fact that he's so mindlessly enthrall to anyone, like they're eating chips, and he trails off from his conversation to oh, those barbecue come on now. I mean, Wayne, you got to focus up here. It's really it's awesome.

I was surprised that Rieger didn't take out like a piece of gum or something and wave it around like to lead him out of the garage so they can go find Angela. Yeah, it was really, like I said, it was disheartening to see this Wayne. During this conversation, Wayne admits to Alex that he really is crazy about Angela. He hasn't told her how he feels there's something holding him back. And you can tell Alex is picking up on this signal and maybe even deep down thinking of a way that he can get out of this situation with Angela, because this guy so clearly actually wants to be with her.

There's an emergency here. She might be eating HP might be eating all the fucking police already roll out the National Guard. What's going on here? We gotta go. Wayne has said that when he talked to her on the phone to your point, he says he could hear cutlery in the background, and that sets them off to think, Oh my god, as you said, she she's in the city somewhere.

She's in a restaurant somewhere in New York eating. They're gonna go find her at a restaurant in New York City. Really, you take you take Manhattan, the city with maybe one of the densest populations of restaurants in all of the United States, and and they're gonna find her. She could be anywhere, literally anywhere in the city. The city made on a second, but somehow they're gonna try to make a go of this.

Now we cut actually this part. I already said I like the moment with Angela and the food table spinning, but this actually might have been my real favorite thing. We cut to this peppy nighttime b roll of cabs driving down the New York streets. It's paced because you know that they're they're running against the cloth. They got to find Angela, so it's very peppy.

It's like a possible episode all of a sudden, like donn they could have put the Mission Impossible theme on and it would have played great, and I'm gonna do it. Yeah maybe. So there we see some great sort of restaurants in New York this b roll. We see one called Papaya, which advertises that it's quote Nature's own revitalizer, and that is right next door to a place called Taco Rico, which looks good as well. That's Grey's Papaya, right.

I didn't see Gray. I saw it just said Papa. Maybe it was grayce Papaya, and Grey's was very small lettering, but it looked very prominent. There's even a place called Tickers that has very ornate lettering. But I couldn't make out any info on what this inviting establishment had to offer.

There was nothing online. And we even have a rare b roll piece where that shows jud Hirsh actually driving a cab and it's slightly illuminated from the inside so that you can because they want to make damn sure that you see jud Hersh in the driver's seat. I love what I got a light bar on his lap while he's driving that car and good for us because it's great. It's great. They should have taken two days of just driving around with Judd Hirsh and have fucking total footage of him doing that.

Well, we do get more, a little bit more, because we have a few more shots of him driving frantically and then we have this awesome shot of him running up the street. It's fantastic, you know, And and he's going to the die that he's tracked Angela down at okay wet before we get to the diner. Hb. Yeah, we skipped the moment that made me go that who wrote Elaine Nardo in this episode? What is Earl Pomerance on this week?

Because Rieger is going out to find Angela at the behest of this fellow overeaters anonymous person that thinks she's in actual danger and yeah, yeah, yeah, Nardo says, Hey, Alex, some some people just can't be helped. Wow, what Elaine Nardo, the mother of Sunshine Canada, the level headed one, the fair and see it from their point of view person, you know what, some people just can't be held fuck her, let her overeat, which you could see actually that making sense coming out of Alex because he has often advocated for staying out of people's business. Right, you could have you could have transposed him saying those lines, and it would have made a million times more since than everything happened up to the sport.

It's an Alex line. Yeah, it ain't. Nardo's man threw me for a fucking loop. I went what Elaine is so hell bent on helping each and every person that she comes into contact with, that she was driven to a therapist because she was going crazy. She didn't have enough time in the day to do everything that she Well, now that you mentioned that therapy, maybe maybe the therapy is working.

And now Elaine's attitude is some people can't be helped. Fuck them. Got a new attitude, Alex. I'm now a new Elaine. Thanks to you.

Thanks for getting me to that therapist because I clearly needed it. And now I love Atlas Shrugged. Have you read it? I think you should read it. I agree with you.

I forgot about that moment, but it is quite a departure from the Elaine that we know and love. So that that's very very well. Let's get to eat teas diner. So we uh we cut inside this diner and from the inside. I got to say, it really does look like a dump.

It's another great set decoration. There's even a neon sign that you can see that's backwards because it's facing out into the street that it's supposed to say eats, but the a is not working, so it has eats if that's right. It's eaty. It's eat diner. But everything looks dingy and kind of grimy and not very awful except for the actual one bright spot in this episode.

Mister Dick Miller, Yes, this is everything is coming up Joe Dante once again. Oh my god, could anything get better than when something Joe Dante explodes in your direction? Here's Dick Miller. Everybody. Everybody loves Dick Miller.

Everybody. Have you seen Bucket of Blood? I have not seen Bucket of Blood. You need to watch Bucket of Blood as soon as we finish this podcast. Yeah, it's just it's the wall.

It's a Paisley thing. I thought, am I thinking of that two hundred Maniacs? Is that the one I'm thinking of? Maybe it's not the same movie Herschel It's not a Herschel Lewis movie, is it. No, man, this is a Corbin from the early sixties.

Ah, what's Bucket of Blood about? Bucket of Blood is he's a wanna beat poet and sculptor. Rather, there's two of them and now I'm blinking, but there's one where he's Walter Paisley and he's like a he's a sculptor, but he basically just starts killing people in paper macheing over them, like he starts with a cat and stuff, and he gets really famous and there's all this like beat poetry and shit. It's really fucking fun and he's the star of it. He's great.

Oh it sounds like an easy comic come to life. Oh man, it is, it is. It's wonderful. I mean everyone listening to this podcast hopefully is familiar with the work of Dick Miller. Obviously he's best known for such films as he was in Gremlin.

He was in the House, every in every Jo that's right, and he's also he's in the Terminator. He's the guy who, yeah, I can't do that. Yeah, it's just what you see pal, Yeah, that's I love. He's so great in that he's only ended for a minute, but he's good. So he plays I guess he would be like the short order cook of this dive that he's the owner.

He I guess he the fact that he takes such umbrage. Yeah, probably everyone fucking is bagging on his ship and he's standing right there. Of course. Yeah he will again like we saw with with actually with the Elaine Loses from Marbles episode where we had Mary warren Off and Robert Piccardo. He they don't really give him anything to do.

He's just there to make He has a few good reactions, but that's it. Yeah. But I was smiling through the whole scene, which was hard to do, h not because anything trans firing was making me sad. It was enraging me. And then I would see Dick Miller and go, oh hey, Dick Miller.

So let's get through this. So Angela Alex comes in. Angela and Alex start hashing things out. Alex says that he feels responsible for her, for lack of a better term, falling off the wagon, but she insists that she's going to wallow in her misery, and then she regales him this is sort of Louis style. This hearkens back to Louie's sad tale of going to prom and the remember that.

Oh my god, it's the fucking same thing, except we don't get to see Bobby dance. There's no like happy retribution from this. She was going to go to prom, but she didn't go, and she had to look through the window and it rained and she fell into some garbage. It's this awful tale of woe, and alex is overcome with emotion at how sad this tale is. But what I like Actually, Hirst is bad here, but go ahead, no, he is.

His reaction is bad. But the one thing I liked about this exchange is he's moved, but he insists to Angela, he says, everybody has a story like that, and she calls him on his bluff and she says, well, you tell me your story, and he goes damn because he has no story like that. She has just called him on his bluff and proven what a phony he is. To say that, I love that moment. That's a great moment.

You're right in the midst of this scene. That's a really good moment because everything else is a fucking jerk off, including the audience punchline. And then I went home and ate a turkey. That's the button to her awful joke. That's the joke at the end, that's the actual sorrowful thing that she feels.

She had to dive into a fucking turkeys. I think that if I'm putting myself in the writer's shoes, I think they just said, look, this has been an awful story. We have to do something to bring the audience back from this sorrowful tale. How will we do that? How can we redeem ourselves?

Please tell me, let's make a fat joke. That's essentially what they did, and a show full of fat jokes not good. At that moment, Dick Miller comes over to bring Angela some pork chops, but Alex again, this is one of these things that she's so out of control. Alex has to physically try to keep her from eating these pork chops, and he says to her. He insists to Angela that a lot of people care about her.

This guy Wayne cares a lot about her Jesus, and Angela admits that she couldn't have gotten through the last six months. Is a sweet guy. He's a sweet guy. He's a sweet guy, but he's a fatty. Well, I'm gonna want that fatty Alex wheedles Angela to admit that she likes Wayne, but she's been resisting kind of becoming close with him.

We can only assume at this point that it's because he's overweight, but she insists it's not his wake that's the issue. And at that point Wayne comes in again. A city full of restaurants, they don't have cell phones. It's not like Alex could have called him and said, hey, I found Angela. She's in this dump that's run by Dick Miller.

He finds his way to the restaurant they found each other. Yeah, they it's happen. And all of the diners and all of the places you had to find the one I'm in. So he says he's been at every restaurant in the city looking for her, and this is the first one he didn't feel like eating in. And this gets just raises Dick Miller's hackles again and he gives us to come in here.

Great ron Uh. Alex is continuing to try to play matchmaker for the two of them Jesus, probably partly out of his own zeal to get out of this awkward situation with Angela. That's partly because there's no part too but I think part of him wants to take credit for bringing these two love birds together. Okay, if you make it sort of out for self interest, then yeah, yeah, I mean both. If the second part was altruism, I was going to fight you on that.

No, not altruism. But he wants to be the one who made this love connection. If you will they actually though they both agree that the attraction is mutual. Angela is still apprehensive, but a suddenly manic Alex insists that they can work through any of their problems. Come on, they're these crazy kids.

Just admit you love each other. And Wayne asks her out for coffee. It's kind of sweet, and she says that they can go back to her place and have coffee. Alex is at this point he's growing about this storybook ending and continues to hammer this message that they can work through any issues they have. It's you know, but love find the way.

And as they start to walk out hand in hand, Angela casually mentions that, by the way, Alex, I wasn't reluctant to date him because he's overweight. I think he's cute. The reason what's the reason why she didn't want to date this guy? He's married with children. He's married with four fucking kids.

Huh And this is my favorite part of the episode. But go ahead, well yeah so, yeah. Is it because of Dick Miller's reaction to this, No, it's because of the fucking situation that they ended the episode, yeah are we? Yeah? So?

And Dick Miller hears this, and he gets this. Finally he smiles and he says that's cute. And Alex is properly chagrined about this whole thing, and I agree with you, by the way. If anything, there's nothing saving this episode, But I actually really enjoyed the fact that this they didn't have their little storybook ending. It's actually what Alex is essentially done is he has enabled a home wrecker to come into this man's life.

And probably she's not the home wrecker. He's looking to fuck her. He came to Alex to help him find her. That don't put it all on her. He's what the home wrecker she's slipping in But are you kidding me?

She was just trying to have some pork chops when he came slobbering in there. That's a fair points, by the way, had they wanted to treat this episode a little more realistically instead of the fucking vaudeville first that they gave us. The only satisfying ending would be that there would be no Wayne character, that it would just be Alex feeling bad and going out to save her, like he saves everybody, and she goes, Alex, I'm going to eat for a little while, you know, maybe a few days, and then I'm going to get back to my weight that I'm at right now, and I'm going to do that for me, not you. Fuck you, You're not saving anybody. Go drive a cab that I would have cheered at the end of this episode.

That would have saved the episode right there, because that would have been realistic, That would have been poignant, that would have been sensitive. But this episode is a few days, can get back to this weight or maybe I'm not. It doesn't matter to you, So don't make me your problem to solve. Teach Alex the lesson. He can't just butt into people's lives like this.

It's not up to him to be the white Knight that saves her. He has proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not the man that she thought he was, so just maybe we're better off not being together at all and just leave me. No, the answer is she needs a man. Anyone will do. I'm hoping she shows up in the third season as like a sex addict, like that's her new addiction, or you know, like maybe the stamp collecting season four, or I don't know, some other bizarre thing like Angela.

Angela is like the Robin Wright character from Fucking Forrest Gump. She's just involved in all the weird addictions in the underworld. I appreciated the fact that, yes it is. It is kind of a cheap punchline. But I did like the fact that he Alex bends over backwards to be this, like I said, this white knight, trying to save her from herself and bring them together, and he accomplished the exact opposite of that.

He made things worse because you know, who knows what's going to happen once she and Wayne are involved. Wayne is a creep all of a sudden. Really, Wayne was a creep to begin with. Wayne was just staring at food at left and right, and he's just looking He's looking for ant get out of here character episode. So so that wraps up the a plot.

But now we have a bumper and here's where B is for bumpa. So we cut back to Marios. Marios is like the primary set for this whole episode. Seemingly we cut back. We cut back to Marios and the Cabby's file in looking very dejected and they're slightly dirty from their softball game.

You can tell they're coming from a softball game because they're wearing baseball caps and other things, and for some reason, several of them, including Alex, are walking into the bar still brandishing baseball bats. Who the fuck does that? Why wouldn't you leave that in the car? But you know it makes them look like like the Warriors. Well, yeah, that's what I was thinking.

That's that this is the redeeming part of the episode for me. I like that they're holding the baseball, but I like how fucking broken down. They all look like they just got their asses hands with them and they've been eaten dirt for the past couple of hours. Like I seeing the taxi cast looking that way, it was it sad in me that there weren't a pair of grandparents and Elaine Nardo also looking bruised and broken. Yeah, they were conspicuously absent.

Here's where I prove to you that Captain Marvel was not a day shift caddy, because one of the people brandishing a bat as they file in is, hey, it's Captain Marvel. But what's even better than that, Father Malone, is he's the only one not wearing anything vaguely athletic. Did you see what he was wearing. No, he's wearing a pink button down, long sleeve shirt with jeans and he's carrying a bat. I loved it.

It's so bizarre. So clearly he's on the night shift team because he's walking in with them as they're all disheveled and broken from playing this softball game. Now here's the thing. I did a little bit more research, and this gentleman that we've been calling Captain Marvel, he bears a very strong resemblance to producer Richard Sakai. So I believe he is Richard Sakai.

That would explain why he keeps popping up, Does it not? Absolutely? I hope that's true. Do you need to confirm that that's is it him? It looks just I mean a lot of the pictures I'm seeing of Richard Sakai are from the last ten years, so he's a much older gentleman.

But it tracks with what I'm seeing. So I will get on board the Captain Marvel train. Rich I'll get all board the spaceship and off to wherever the Marvel is from. It's got to be Richard Sakai. It's got to be so.

And an additional side note, as Tony sits at the bar, we get a great look at his keep on truck and tattoo that you brought up lovingly shot in this scene, we just keep seeing it over and over again. It's huge in the camera, like you can see, it's very distinct. You can see exactly what it is. The Cabby's are They order two six packs to go from the bar for some reason. Why wouldn't they just go to a liquor store.

Why don't they have to go to Marios. It's weird. They're all complaining about how bad the game went. They ordered these six and then Tommy asks where they're going. Alex announces, Hey, the break's over, they're going back for the second inning.

Vaudeville. I did the new trailer version update of the Bodvelt thing. That's right. It take a modern classic song and slow it down, put a lot of reaverb on it. Perfect.

So that is the lighter side of Angela Matuza. That baby, That is it. We've come to the part of this podcast where we're going to talk about yellow lights. What doesn't yell light mean? Reminder, we score this from one yellow light to five yellow lights.

One is the worst taxi, episode five is the best. Very simple, as is our custom. We're going to start with you, father Malone. How many yellow lights do you give the lighter side of Angela Metusa. Well, that's kind of difficult because one means nobody should ever watch it, So I can't give it one.

I'm gonna give it two. I think there are some bright spots in this episode. I think it's worth seeing, definitely for the b roll section of Rigor running around New York, which is just awesome. There are little bits here and there that I think are really good, including the sight of Dick Miller. But I honestly, I can't give it any more lights than that.

It's so offensive in almost every motherfucking way. And I see now I'm talking myself into one light. Uh, Dick Miller helped me two lights. I'm in full agreement with you here. I gave this two yellow lights as well.

As I mentioned earlier, this really struck me as an idea in search of a plot. It's interesting to see the idea of a Taxi universe, and we have this person returning from season one, so that's kind of cool. But I like continuity sure, like, yeah, they should be doing more of that, and they will obviously, Yeah, but it's just far too sitcomy. No Reverend Jim anywhere to be seen, which is a real bummer. I wouldn't what the fuck man, He's not even in the credits yet.

No. I My assumption would be I don't have any evidence to back this up, but I have to think maybe he was doing a play or something, and maybe he was unavailable to come back to Taxi. Not sure, but he's sorely missed. But nevertheless, I did as I said. I enjoyed that little twist at the end where Alex is patting himself in the back for being such a if.

We're bringing these lovebirds together, but it's really not a good situation. That and Dick Miller plus Alex's awesome b roll is good for at least one yellow light more because I can't give it. I mean, we can't go any well, we've gone lower than one in the past, but it's not entirely unwatchable. But this would not be one that I would put in my rotation if I'm looking at the best taxi episodes. So this is two yellow lights flat out, two from myself, two from Father Malone.

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