Episode 61 - Louie Bumps Into An Old Lady

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Good evening and welcome tonight, mister Walter's a taxi podcast. I'm HP your co host and with me as always as my co host, Father Malone, Father Malone, how are you this evening? Safety first is our only motto. We're going to get into it. This is a Taxi season three, episode sixteen, Louis bumps into an old Lady.

This was written by David Lloyd. We all know who directed it. It's James Burrows. Of course, reminder, we're doing these shows in broadcast order, not in order of filming. This is another one of these shows, Father Malone, that was recorded at a different time than it was broadcast.

So again it's very important that we established these are all. Was it made it earlier? Yes in the season. Kind of tell by Elaine's hair. It's still in that sort of like sixties mannequin molded plastic look.

It kind of is, but she doesn't feature much in this episode. Yeah, you know, let's let's get into this. So the Father Malone, your biggest complaint about the previous episode, which is Bobby's roommate, was that it was too sitcomy. Isn't that right? That's true?

Yes, well buckle up because this episode told that one to hold its beer father Malone. Who boy, is this one ever a sitcom cliche fest? I I let's just get into it. Okay, you could already hear in my tone. I'm already gearing.

Up this tone. This is not going to be pretty. We start in the as we often do, is Louis is getting the returns from the Cabby's shifts. They're all lined up, they're giving their envelopes. There's a pretty blonde Cabby who complains to Louise she's sort of naive.

She's coming off like a new naive girl. Man. Louis needs to show with. The ropes, apparently, because she says to him she's just not getting it, and in true Louis fashion, he's he's lavishing her with praise and encouragement, as he obviously has romantic designs on her. He tells her that she needs someone with experience to take her out in a cab to show her the ropes.

And meanwhile, Elaine and Alex are laughing about Louise harassment of this woman, because let's be honest, it is harassment. He is using his position of power to to to try to entice this woman on a date. Always a hilarious trope for a. Well, it kind of angers me because it's like a Layine has forgotten every slimy thing that Louis ever did to her. Now he has done a lot of bad things with Lane.

Remember he he forced her to go out on a date to end a Cabby strike. It's you know, he and rolled her around on the on the ground with. Her, and yet she's yucking it up with Alex like ha, look at what's happening here to Louis. Yeah, she should be on the phone to HR right now or seriously some sort of governmental organization. It's I don't know, it's it's sort of bizarre, but Louis anyway, Louis cajoles this Cabby.

I think her name is. I don't know, Isabelle. I don't know what, blonde girl who's bond again plot device. I think it's her name. So he he cajoles this naive Cabby to take her out in the cab.

So he can drive her around. He gets the keys to the cab and they go out. Tony protests a little bit. You ain't no driver, Yeah you did take me. Out, Louis.

It's like, what do you expect? What the fuck are you talking about? What did everyone forget there? The past three seasons of this show, we all know Louis a cabby exactly. Louis was the cab.

Remember we saw him he was he was the cabby. Remember there was a giant bet between him and Alex Rieger where they went out driving last year. Oh, I guess Tony doesn't. Is this just proved Tony is a fucking moron? Or is it just lazy writing.

I think he's he's a little punchy from from Remember he got his license taken away, So. Clearly let's go with that. Let's just tell all punch drunk all day long. Which let's you know, punch drunk is just a nice way of saying that he has CTE. We don't want to say that because it's a little grim, but I think that's what Tony's going through here.

Unfortunately, Bobby says they should they should do something, but Elaine, again Elaine making light of this whole situation, says she already told that Cabby what to do. She said, you wrapped Louie on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. If he gets fresh, ha ha ha. They all think this is so f funny. It's a joke machine this episode.

Everyone's just one linering to one another. It's very We make the joke that it's it's vaudeville a lot of the time, but this is truly vaudevillian because it's like joke rifling every every few minutes. So the cabbes commiserate a little bit more, culminating in a rather bizarre But it has to be said funny because let's be honest that most of what Jim does can enlive in any scene or Christopher Lloyd. I guess I should say, Jim, well, I thought this was still pretty funny. I mean, it was a good visual joke.

Jim is complaining, I don't recall I think. This is this visual gag is in line with all of the the dialogue kind of as as far as how funny it is. It's a guy sticking a fucking pencil in his ear. But I agree. Kids from the fifties, remember we used to do this in class, like, that's what this is to me.

It was a funny little, you know visual. He's complaining that when you put the pencil in your ear and you go, you know, when you take a sharp turn, it falls out. So what do you do? And he pops the pencil right in his ear and he actually shakes his head pretty pretty fast and the thing doesn't come out. I got to hand it to him.

It's a good trick. Do you hear that? Listeners the sound of HP grasping its straws. That's exactly right, thank you. Oh.

By the way, I'd like to point out that at this point in the series, three years in, I'm pretty sure that Alex Riger is the primary investor in a puffy vest company, because this is the latest in a line of puffy vests on Rigor. It's the shiny black one with a blue collar and red buttons. And I'm not talking about the Von Villian. The red buttons really caught my attention too, because they are super red. They pop on this thing.

But yeah, he is. He he's got the puffy vest thing down cold. And this is years before Martin McFly would popularize it. And back to the future. Remember doesn't he go into the diner and the guy says, what are you in the navy?

What do you get the life preserver on? Would you jump ship? That's that's what he says. So, yeah, Alex, that's kind of like Alex's like rough and tumble. Look right, He's got the the the slouch sweaters that make him look like a psychiatrist.

And then he has the puffy vest which makes him look like he's ready for an outdoor adventure. Kind of what the puffy vest might contain a weapon, because that's his cab outfit. Like a gun in case he gets robbed again. Maybe so maybe that's the secret is that he buys from a company that also makes shoulder holsters and they you know, they never mind. Well, things things got grim.

This is this episode is not going well so at this point for anybody, No, not for at least of all for us the viewers. Meanwhile, the blonde cab he rushes in after all this commiseration. She's she's apoplectic about something that happened, something awful happened. She's terrible, she's very bad. And then Louis charges in behind her.

He's carrying this is amazing. This is the best part of the entire episode. Watching Danny DeVito just half this woman and come running in with her like a fucking fireman. It's amazing. It does make you think that he's a lot more powerful than than he looks, doesn't he.

You figure it's all muscle under there, you know it is, I. Mean he he's not straining in the least. He takes this woman in, he sets her down gingerly at the poker table. The thing you think about people don't think about fat people is that their legs are incredibly strong. Sure, it's because they're carrying their own weight all the time.

So there's muscle under there, you know. Yeah. And he, I mean, Louis is nothing if not husky, but clearly there's some real heft behind those sinewy arms. I think we were robbed of an actual fistfight between the penguin and Batman. Think, well, I don't know that he's wildly.

Like you know, he's Yeah, he's a little too rotund to as the penguin. If it would have been Batman versus Louis de Palma, there would be a fighting chair with all that extra padding. I don't think he ever, he would ever have a chance against the Dark Knight. Well, it's sort of it's sort of implied that the penguin is sort of blubbery under all that you know, skin, and he's got flippers for hands too. Let's not forget you can't form those into fists very easily.

He would have to just do a lot of karate. But doesn't he doesn't the penguin like bite someone's nose off or something in the movie. Yeah, who, it's one of the guys. It's a campaign manager. That's what it is.

Yeah. I still wouldn't mess with the penguin, don't get me wrong, because. He'd fuck you up. But he would batman. This batman would just knock him the fuck out.

I mean. But in terms of just straight up fist the cuffs a gentleman's bout, I think Louis would give you a run for your money. And by extension, Danny DeVito, he's a lot stronger than I think he looks. So Louis is his barking orders to Jeff to call an ambulance. There's all this commotion.

It eventually comes out that Louis apparently hit this old lady with his cab while he was ferrying this naive caby around trying to show the ropes. So here we have this is the central issue. Okay, he's hit this woman in the cab. I think we all we already know where this is going. Oh my god, we knew as soon as he was drove.

As soon as she came running in. It was like, oh, okay, this is a fucking Louie's gonna get sued for. We're gonna end up in court. This is Mike Brady defending missus Brady. Throw down to throw down the briefcase.

And and you know, confuse Uncle Fester. That was the vibe. I got it. And who was the guy was it? It wasn't Aston.

Who was the guy who played Uncle Fester? Who was in that episode? Jackie Coogan? It was it was Coogan, the kid who was in The Adventures and babysitting His is his father or grandfather? Keith Cougan?

It's his? It's his? Is it his grandfather? I think it might be his uncle or something, right, maybe it's maybe maybe it's his grandfather. You might be right about that.

It's a relation, But but I I like you. I got those those vibes. We've all seen a sitcom where there is some kind of a grift going on with someone getting sued. They pretend they have whiplash or hurt an injury, and and in this case it was Mike Brady saves the day by throwing his briefcase and making Jackie Coogan turn his neck when he claimed he had whiplash. Oh if I've got the britt neck brace.

Oh you for me, Mike Brady. This is it's like the exact same episode, basically. It really is. They they get some credit for a twist they give to it, and we'll get into it, but for the most part, it's just paint by numbers sitcom. And I'm gonna take oh, take that one right back.

I'm gonna take that credit right away from them as soon as it happens, because it's goddamn bullshit. It's bad. So we we fade back in to the garage. It's a it's a day or two later. The caves are all expositioning how Louis is taking care of this old woman now constantly.

He's sending her flowers every day, all this stuff. He's trying, clearly trying to avoid a lawsuit, and that just at that point, Louis comes in. He's pushing this old woman in a wheelchair and he's he parades her around the garage and everybody. The most cloying voice in the world, the voice I hate from Louis DePalma. I'm trying to be sweet voice.

Right, there's like a barely contained seething behind it at times, but he's trying his best to convey this impression that he's a caring, doting, good person when all the caves know that this is all bullshit. So he's parading her around. It turns out we find out that Louie has bought the wheelchair for her. He's doing everything in his power to make this woman not want to sue him. And at this point Alex mysteriously mention that he's seen this woman before.

He can't quite place her. Right and then, and that also sort of sort of should have clicked in everyone's mind. Who watched this fucking episode. Oh, here's where we're going with it. Here's the end of the episode.

Here's how we'll get out of this lawsuit. For David Lloyd has has written This isn't a first time writer for Taxi David Lloyd has written any number of episodes, some of the ones that we enjoyed, but so it's stunning that this level of It's almost like no care went into the writing of this, because none of the characters really embody any of the qualities we've come to know and love Louis gets a few funny little moments in and of themselves, but the plot is so like I said, paint by numbers and really like. It feels like a rejected script from season one, and it very. Well could have been. I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

Was this his writing sample to get the job, you know, and they're like, oh, fuck, I just do that one. It got to the job, it must be good enough to put up. I wouldn't be surprised because I before I watched the episode. Typically i'll read the entry for that episode in the Lovees Taxi Official Taxi Fan Guide, and sometimes there'll be some interesting information, sometimes there'll be some background along the episode. There was nothing with this.

Literally, the only thing that was spoken aside from the synopsis was this is a terrible sitcomie plot and that's it. That's the biggest criticism and the worst criticism they could give it, which is this is so conventional it hurts. But I digress. So eventually Edith, this old woman, mentions to Louis that she's being forced by her lawyers into suing Louis for a million dollars, and she rolls herself out as we fade a commercial. Oh my god, guessed the audience of no one ever.

We're literally about halfway into this episode, and I just feel like we're racing through this. There's just nothing happening. So we fade back into the garage. You want to jump to the end. I'm good with it.

Well, well, let's it would be a disservice not to at least cover it to somebody. Cover the terrible set or the terribly lit set that they have for a courtroom. Or oh, we'll get there, we'll get there. Oh oh right, I forgot. There's a whole second act.

We got to fucking slog through her. Yeah. Yeah, so so we'll we fade back in. We're in the garage and all the Cabby's are looking up towards mister McKenzie's office, the boss's office up those stairs. Louis went up there to break the news to mister McKenzie about the accident.

He's going to try and get the garage to pay the legal expenses, and Louie comes out says, the cab company is going to pay for everything. They have to Actually, I mean he's he's a representative of the company out there in the cab, so they can't she can't sue him anyway. It's there, there's insurance, and I'm sure the cab that the garage has insurance just for this purpose. But the problem is they're gonna pay for it. But then he's gonna owe the money back to the garage.

They're essentially going to garnish his wages until he pays off this million dollars, which Louis figures it's if they take one hundred dollars out of his check every every week, it's going to take him upwards of two hundred years to pay back the company. So it's not looking good for Louis. It's actually looking pretty due. Okay, this is so fucking stupid, like he would go up and say, first of all, there's no break in it to anybody. There's a lawyer for the goddamn company somewhere.

They've immediately been informed they're gonna look at this fucking case. They go a million dollars. Is she fucking maimed? Okay, no problem, we'll take this to court and we'll take care of it. You don't have anything to worry about, Louie.

No one, No million dollars is going to exchange hands here. Yeah, if her game is literally to settle out of court in order to avoid going No. Here's the thing, even not knowing that their lawyers, without thinking she's a scam artist, would just go a million dollars. She might get a thousand or two. Okay, let's go to court.

Sure, I mean, there's never a possibility that he's going to have to pay one hundred percent, like a million dollars for a broken leg and some pain and suffering is outrageous. But again that this is the episode we're dealing with it. Everything nothing makes sense. Alex is continuing to fret about this. How he knows this old woman.

It's on the tip of his tongue. It's one of these things where he's like, I know that woman from somewhere. So he keeps prattling on about it, and now the Cabby's actually it's kind of funny. They're kind of gloating about how screwed Louis is in the face of him. Bobby definitely is That's the only other good part of the episode because Bobby in the background even you just see him grinning ear to ear, and that's pretty gray.

Yeah, And he has little one liners like he'll just throw in, like, you know, just some comment about him going to jail, which I thought was kind of an again a little bit of a twist on the tired tropes on display here. So Louis is reduced to searching the Yellow Pages for an attorney, which actually I thought was kind of funny. When's the last time, like, what, when's last time you had a phone book, father alone, that you had to consult for for some service or someone's number. I decades, right, probably thirty years. Oh, I don't know, it's been thirty years.

I think I've looked through a phone book since I've moved to Las Vegas. I mean not everyone didn't have a fucking smartphone forever, you know what I mean. Like, I don't think I got to like twenty ten or eleven or something like that. So let's say it's called it fifteen years maybe but even after that, you know, I, you know, I travel on the road a lot, so or I used to travel on the road a lot. So even during the past decade, I, you know, would be in motels or you know, out in the in the middle of nowhere, like you end up looking at yellow Pages.

So but even even twenty years ago, we're talking about speaking. No, why would you even need it? You have a you have a PC at home, never mind your phone? But yeah, yeah, but yeah, like they still exist in the real world. It was sort of quaint to see him pull out the phone book and go through the Yellow Pages, which is that the part at the end where people put all their their weird ads.

So finally Alex figures out how it dawns on him how he knows this old woman and he busts out laughing. Turns out that. An old after I hated it, you know, I didn't mind it. I've got the secret. It was like nothing.

Nothing is working in this episode. Even fucking Judhurst is misfiring. It's it's not good. So a former Cabby, someone by the name of Sonny Bergmeyer, which again we've talked about. This must be someone's relative or maybe somebody who works on like the you know, the custodial staff.

There's so one named Sonny Bergmeyer that they named this character after this. Anyway, this former Cabby ran over the same lady years ago and she sued him. But Sonny discovered that she's been running this scam over and over over the years, and he basically beat her to her own game. He brought people in he who had also been scammed, and she backed out of her backed out of her lawsuit, and Louis decides at this point to let her take him to court, and he's going to use this Sonny berg Meyer to expose her during the trial. This is his big this is his big plan to expose her in court.

Louis begs Alex to find Sonny Bergmeyer, and Alex initially refuses. There's this, like I said, there's this strange thing where the Cabbys are actually elated that Louis faces financial ruin at the hands of this shady con artist. So initially Alex doesn't says he's not going to help him find Sonny, but then he eventually agrees, but only on three conditions. If Louis stops denigrating Cabby's if he stops making passes at a lane. Actually, it's four if he stops putting down Bobby or making fun of Alex's nose.

Now here's the thing about this, right, So let's recap when once again four things. He has to stop making fun of Cabby's making passes at a lane, making fun of Bobby, or making fun of Alex's nose. So that's the thing that's huh. That's two. Actually, stop making fun of Cabby's, stop making passes at Elaine.

That covers the other two as well. That's true. But but the thing that I think is funny is that he he he's called out specifically a lane and Bobby and himself for you know, being ridiculed, but he never mentions Tony. It's like, fuck Tony. Like by omission, He's just like tell fair game, but you really need to lay off the rest of us.

Tony's not even going to remember when you think about it. I know, I just that I'm looking for any little morsel that I can kind of glom onto, and. There aren't many and enjoy. And that was kind of funny. One.

It's like a fucking gold coin and Mario Brothers or something. Oh, I didn't realize this was a breakable panel. That's right. So we cut to the courthouse. This terrible, terribly lit set.

I mean the set itself is fine, it's whatever, but it it looks great. It's straight from the prop shop. It just it is just constructed, like you know, you would see the same one over on one day at a time if they had an episode that took place in a fucking court. Right, There's there's nothing that sets it apart in the way that like the gym sets looked really good when Bobby, when Tony is working out at the boxing Jim, that was a cool set. The spelling Bee, which might be one of the best sets they ever had, where it actually looks like a public school gymnasium.

This is very generic. It's just like, let's get the prop house to make this generic courthouse, and that's what we've got here. Bobby tells Tony and Jim that Rieger found Sonny Bergmeyer, and then Tony and Bobby leave to go scam on chicks at the courthouse while Jim goes up to use the judges ga He's alone in the courthouse and he uses the judges gavel to crack a Walnut. Jim goes up and this is sort of like wordless scene. And then and just as he's there, Edith, the old woman gets is wheeled in, so Jim hides behind the judges, podium, lectern, whatever you want.

To call it. Knock on our do this very threes company? You where the kisses up hers and hers and he's come on, hbree his company too. Wouldn't you rather do anything than talk about this episode? You'll do well.

But see in talking about it, we're gonna get to the end of the episode. So I'm I'm trying to. Jack Jack Tripper, what a cool guy. Just this aside note, I watched a lot of Three's companies. I'm sure we all did, and but but as a child, I would say probably seventy five percent of the humor was just right over my head.

None, none of the the sort of mister Fairley believing that Jack was remember that he had to he had to pretend that he was he was. Yeah, yeah, mister this well, mister f The ropers. The ropers were really the the ones that you know, he used to do the little tinker bell motion at Jack Tripper, like, oh, he's one of these used to do that move. Yeah kind of yeah, I can remember that now. And honestly, the Ropers had more personality then.

Miss No disrespected don Knotts because you know he he could rock that kerchief like nobody's business. Don Knots had plenty of wesson now. But nobody did the the reaction to camera two the way that that uh Norman Fell did when he was laughing at putting down Missus Roper's mummoo or whatever the case might be true. He was a fourth wall breaker that mister. He knew he was in a sick.

Gun Norman Fell r I p you know this Missus Roper mumoo thing became like a like a thing like people have races five k's where you're expected to dress up like Missus Roper. Then all started in Palm Springs. That's they've been doing it there for decades, didn't really okay, Yeah, and it finally hit social media. So now that's the people are doing it everywhere. I couldn't be happier.

I think it's it's what a what a sight when you see it happen, it's pretty incredible. I I've never seen it, but I've seen ads for Hey, the five K is this weekend dress up in your favorite moo moo. And I don't know what this fucking five K business. I've just seen meetups where they're all drunk. It's that, you know, like let's go to a party, let's go to a fucking concert.

Like there's just like a like a flash mob of them. It's fantastic flash mob of Missus Roper And suddenly you're in a sea of Missus Roper's. It's the greatest. What was the actress's name? She was Helen on the show, But what was her name?

You said it, and then it just jumped out of my brain. There was Norman Fell and. Looking at her right now in my brain, Polly holloed. Now that was only holiday. Come on, man, kiss my grits.

Listen to these old men. Not google anything. This old man brain strikes again. Hey, by the way, let's talk about taxi. Yeah, let's get back to it.

Edith's lawyer comes in and they shake hands and they commiserate, and by their conversation it's clear that he's in on this racket that she's got going too. And Edith confides in the lawyer that her at this time her injury is actually real. She actually broke her leg getting hit by the cab, So who cares. She's still jumped in front of the fucking cab. This is fucking ridiculous.

They don't here's the thing, HP, So we're waiting for the guy to show up. Oh, he's the star witness. He's gonna put her, put her in her place. They don't need that. Louis has a lawyer.

He just says, could you look up on the docket how many times she's filed this type of case? And he says, have you not filed this case this many times? But I actually broke my leg this time. Yeah, but you still jumped in front of the cab, just like you've done twenty three times. Good night, everybody.

Yeah, he doesn't need Sonny Bergmeyer to prove his case because there must be a record of how many suits this woman is filed in court, so. He could have anyone walk in there and go, my name is sunny Bergmeyer. Once upon a time she tried to make me, she tried to black mail me, and I said no, and then she backed up. Is that true, ma'am. No, I've never seen him before.

Even if it is sunny Bergmeyer. Is this true, ma'am. No, I've never seen him before. Well, what do he want us to do? Like we're supposed to take your word for it that this happened.

Look, we've seen a few good men. We know that Tom Cruise brought in those airmen at the end with no intention of putting in them on the stand. They were only there to give Jack Nicholson the impression that they were going to testify against him. It worked for Tom Cruise. I don't see what the problem is here.

Jim is hearing all of this in his vantage point as he's hiding from view. At that point, Louis, his attorney, and a few other observers file into the courtroom. The defense attorneys agitated with Louis that this star witness, this sonny character, hasn't shown up yet. At this point, Jim comes out from his hiding spot. Hey, by the way, that's fucking laid on another fucking heap and help and sitcom bulsh here.

I need to tell you something. Get out here, No, I really need to tell you get out of here. But they need to tell you get out of here. Whokay by like how about instead of but I really need to tell you, go boss, her her leg is actually broken. Anyone would actually do that.

I fucking hate this shit in any sitcom, never mind this one. Yes, so Jim says, I'm gotta tell you something, Boss, It's real important, and Louis is too busy making fun of him, yelling at him to get out of his way. By the time he's ready to tell him what he heard and saw, he's forgotten about it, so that that ships sailed. He can't tell the boss that this woman's leg is really broken, so he goes away. I can't even call this vaudeville any of this episode, because Vondeville is actually funny.

It's a struggle. So we we fade out and we fade back in, and now it's during the trial in progress. Edith is being cross examined by the defense attorney, and while this is happening, Reeger rushes in to tell Loui that Sonny Bergmeier has refused to help once he found out that it was Louis that he was helping, so he basically jumped out of the cab and left before he could really get into it with Alex So desperate tip so in desperation Louis hatches a plan. He asks permission from the judge to question Edith himself over his attorney's objection. What I do like about this is the judge says, well, it's okay with me if it's okay with the prosecutor, and the prosecutor says, not only is it okay with us, we welcome it because they know, like like any good attorney, they know that it's never a good idea for a client to cross examine or try to insert themselves into the judicial process because it's going to end badly for them.

And that's what we see here. So Louis starts to question Edith, and he's focusing on her alleged broken leg, and this is all climaxing. This is all leading up to the point where he declares proof that she's not injured. He takes her wheelchair and shoves her out the courtroom doors, and then it's punctuated by a series of cartoonish banging sounds. This is like you know when you don't when someone falls down the stairs but you don't see it, and then you hear like go go goo goo goo kunk, oh goo goo goo goo goo gunk that's what we hear here, And at some point Louis says to Riga, like, well, what floor are we on?

And Riga, in true vaudeville fashion, says the sixteenth floor, and then Louis looks back at the judge and says, if I rest my case, you're on a terrible no. So we fade back into the garage at this point where Alex is there with the rest of the cabby's and he tells them that Edith's actually okay. The chair and her cast actually somehow absorbed most of the damage and she's actually gonna be okay here. So the judge apparently has thrown Louis in jail because of his stunt, but fortunately Alex did get a list of the other scammed cabbys from Sunny before he split, so he's now going to try to call them to spring Louis from from jail. But then he goes and yet it's this whole idea of they're more than happy to let Louis stew in prison for a little while longer before they spring him.

So he pauses, kind of looks thoughtful. That's it. Credits roll episode finally fucking over. Yellow lights al right, so here we go. I need to no longer be in this episode.

So we're going to talk about those yellow lights. What does a yellow light mean? Reminder, we score on a scale of one to five yellow lights. One is the worst. Actually, technically zero is the worst.

We've given a zero before? Yes, and then I should really what's about to happen? Everybody? Well, just for argument's sake, five is the best taxi episode father alone. Where do you give Louis bumps into an old woman or old lady?

I mean, it's the worst one we've seen, and that makes me want to give it a zero because we've sent that precedent before. But I guess I laughed twice. So one yellow light and for reasoning, see everything I've previously said in this episode. I can't even be that charitable I have this. This episode was almost insulting with how unfunny and unoriginal it was.

Can we give it a negative light? Can we give it? I can't give it a negative. I don't want to go that I give it. I want to give it one, like black fluorescent bulb that kind of happened Halloween.

I'm just giving it straight up zero yellow lights. I don't want to go through the exercise of fractional or what have you. This is just such a stinker for all the reasons we've already given terrible, unreal sitcom plot scant laughs. Zero yellow lights for me again us one yellow light from five? Yeah, you know what, you know what if we're going zero, If you're going zero, I'll join you.

Because this was beyond the pale. This is we don't often say this, but this one is really avoid at all costs, Like there's just no reason. You've probably gotten more laughs just from hearing Father Malone and I talk about this episode than if you actually watched it. So that's going to do it for this episode of night Mister Walters, Father Malone, Where can folks find you when you're not clocked into the garage? Find me on my show Midnight Viewing twice a week show Mondays is Father Malone's weekly round up where we look at all the brand new streaming and theatrical releases, and every Friday, it is a rotating show where we're either looking at a horror anthology TV series, a La Tales from the Dark Side, or we've got some sort of theme going on a fest if you will like HP and I are wrapping up our Yaoucha Fest that I look at the movies of the Predator movies, and over on our Patreon show, we're doing Moranus Fest.

We're looking at the MOVI he was a Rick moranis and oh my god, we've got a new fest planning. I'm not gonna mention it yet because I don't think we've actually finalized it, but a new one's coming soon. And do not sleep on Father Malone's weekly roundup with Ripley Gene. It's a great way to start off your week, find out what's new on streaming and in the theaters. I love it.

As for myself, I host the Noise Junkies music podcast. As Father Malone said, we're in the middle of Yahoucha Fest and we've got a lot of other fests over on his midnight viewing podcast. I also have a bandcampsite Hpmusicplace dot bandcamp dot com. So that's gonna do it. Thanks so much for listening.

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