Episode 63 - On The Job pt. 1 & 2

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I'm HP your co host, and with me as always is my co host, Father Blone, Father Blone? How are you this evening? You can't see it at home, but this is what it looks like when I talk. We'll get to that. We're talking Taxi season three episodes eighteen and nineteen.

That's right. This is a multi part episode on the job, parts one and two. This was written by Dennis dan Zigger and Ellen Sandler, directed of course by James Burrows. Reminder, Sandler and danze are together again, s and d. They said it would never last.

Reminder we're doing these shows in broadcast order, not in order of filming follow alone. This is another in Taxis seasonal tradition of pick up episodes. Now to refresh our listeners' memories, can you explain what a pickup episode is? Well? In Taxis case, it seems like all the best bits that they had left over from the writer's room that didn't fit into any particular episode, they gathered them together and concocted a scenario where they can tell those stories kind of like an anthology kind of.

Yeah, I mean, that's that's that's a pretty good explanation. They're they're shot piecemeal on the cheap, usually after the main episode is done filming. They just kind of probably using these existing sets and things. It's it's it's an inexpensive way to amass a like an anthology type episode episode a show of vignettes, if you will. That's what we have here.

We saw it before. The most famous one is probably Memories of Caveato four, which we all remember from the first season. So right, and that that had that one of my favorite segments of the entire series was sent Danny DeVito and Tanner from The Bad Newspairs. That is a good one. Don't forget that show.

That episode was the origin of the adjective of getting put taken for taken. That's right, righty articulous of that episode. He came in, He came in, and he was he was so he was so mandy, he. Was he just I would implore everybody to go to back to the season one of night mister Walters listened. It was just as funny then as it is now.

I'm sorry if anyone is coming into this blind, but go back, pause this, listen to that, and come back. Welcome back, everybody, Here we go. We opened the episode. If you assume they actually went and listened to the episode, Yeah, that's awesome. Absolutely.

We opened this episode in the garage as Jim, Alex, and Lane are playing cards at their usual spots around the poker table. Tony walks in asks everyone, why aren't you driving? Lane mentions that Louie's been in a meeting with McKenzie, the boss, and the other garage executives for an hour, which actually begs the question who knew that this ramshackle garage actually had a team of executives. It was almost like this board that is, you know, it's like a corporation, makes it seem kind of a more elaborate than it probably should be. What do you think I thought it was just some one guy running the place and he has lackeys and underlings and it was all very hush hush and you know below board.

Yeah, it was sort of a surprise, and we'll see these executives come out and it looks like, you know, the board of eighteen he or something. It doesn't look like. I thought it was a couple of I thought it was a couple of writers. Yeah. Probably probably in real life.

That's the case. Tony presses for more. Tony. Tony is the fucking He's just the narrator here, right, He's just everything he's saying is just letting us know what the plot is for this episode. He's the audience proxy.

I think you're right on this. That's really the big purpose that he serves. In the early goings of. This episode, Sandler Danzigger do better. Bobby is also wondering what's happening, but no one knows, and but Loca.

The one person who claims to know what's happening is Loaka, and he says he does know. Though this is the only good part of the wrap around segment he does. He says that, and he has good reason to. He has it on good information because so he says, the company has broke. Loca tried ordering parts for cabs today, and everywhere he tried to order them from they said the garage credit is no good.

The news is hitting everybody very hard, which is amusing because they do nothing but complain about how crappy this job is. Normally so, but now all of a sudden they seem to be clinging to this job like grim death. It's got all very worried. They don't like the idea that they can leave the job. They don't like the idea of the job leaving them, I mean, for God's sake, they consider themselves the lowest of the low, and now the lowest of the low, or dropping down a further level.

It's a good point. It's always better to leave a job on your own terms rather than get shown the door through getting fired or laid off or what have you. So that's a good point. They're father alone. Louis finally emerges from this meeting, along with a phalanx of suits, basically this corterie of executives, so to speak, of the cab company.

The all briefcases they file down. Louis is really upset. He's ranting, it's all your fault, you did this. He says this to the gabbys. He complained means that the cabby's need for safety and security now means that they don't have jobs.

Now, the Cabby's all freak out. A little bit about what they're gonna do. But the one Cabby who isn't totally who looks at this is maybe a blessing in disguise is. Who father Malone, Elaine Narda. It is Elane.

She has a good perspective on this. She's sick of driving and is taking this maybe as a sign to start fresh somewhere else. And her attitude is actually kind of contagious, and the rest of the Cabby's start to look on the bright side. Maybe it is time to get out of the hack business. Hey, speaking of hack or hack need, can we just set a date and get back, get together and tell each other a bunch of stories.

Oh what a good idea. Gather around the campfire and tell stories of jobs. Why don't we do. That one month from today, We're going to meet at Marios around the campfire. She says.

They'll all get together at Marios in a month. Well, they'll tell you each other all about the new jobs they'll get, which excites everybody except Louis, who's scoffing at their optimism. Alex asks Louis how McKenzie took it, and Louis says, don't worry about it right now. He's brainstorming and he's sure to figure a way out, and just at that moment, a gunshot rings out from Mackenzie's office and all Cabby's reacting shot. How funny is.

This, oh man, remember when Mackenzie killed himself. It's a workplace shooting. How funny is that. Everybody suicide is painless? Oh wrong?

Show. The cabbys all have this shock on their faces as we fade out to the same Marios facade b roll that we've been watching since season one. Actually, we got a random shot of Times Square, which we've seen half a dozen times. I'd say that's true. It into the same two dudes entering Marios, like they are on a loop.

Those two they're like they're the Rosencranton Guildenstern of the Sunshine Cab Company or Marios anyway, or maybe they're ghosts. Maybe we're just seeing that, like that's the last moments of their lives, entering Marios and then they were gunned down. You might be onto something because one of the guys that walks in is a I've said this before. He's a dead ringer for the fawns. He has a leather jacket and dark hair and jeans, and he actually I think he actually opens the door for his buddy to walk into Marios.

So maybe it's the goast, because this is what the nineteen eighties the Fawns was around twenty years prior. Maybe it is the ghost. Maybe the Fawns didn't get over the shark right, Maybe he didn't jump the shark. Maybe he died. HPA.

I think you just have a thing about guys in motorcycle jackets. You call them all Fonsi's it's weird. He looks like I'm telling you, look at this guy. You'll make you you'll draw the same conclusion. But anyway, we cut inside Marios.

As Elaine comes in, she joins the cabbies at their table. They're all sitting around. Be a month, let's tell some stories everybody. Everyone's so excited to see everyone, and Elaine mentions that you hadn't seen anybody since that terrible day in the. Garage because none of us have phones.

Well they don't have cell phones. They do have you know, I'm sure they have land lines. Their im saying they're all going home at night and sitting around and like, I wonder what Elaine's up to You know. Well, I guess are we led to believe that their friendship has a limit. Maybe they're just friends out of convenience, and once you remove them from the garage, they're no longer friends.

That's absolutely not the case, at least in the case of Bobby and Tony, because we know they're best friends. I guess in fairness, we don't hear Bobby and Tony saying, hey, I haven't heard from anyone in a month, so they're probably burning up the telephone line chattering. It's only a Laine that appears to be on the outs from everybody. Yeah, I mean it technically could be like, hey, guys, Tony here has been working in collections and oh yeah, let me tell you, Bob he's been doing bunny work. Yeah, well, I guess we'll we'll we'll follow this, you know, this, this presumption that everybody has been out of touch, maybe specifically because they wanted to surprise each other with this, the tales they're going to spin of life in the job market.

Oh, by the way, we do learn that Mackenzie didn't actually shoot himself. He shot his accountant, So that gunshot you heard is not it's even worse murder. No, he didn't. He didn't. I don't think he murdered him.

I think he just injured him. I don't think it's actually I don't think he killed him. You can't confirm that. I guess not. So after the pleasantries, they get right down to telling what they've all been up to.

And the first one up is Tony, and as you said, Father alone, Tony is he got a job collecting money for a local bookie. But yeah, he basically he's he's he's fulfilling his dream of becoming Rocky, because that's what Rocky did in the first Rocky movie, right. He was collections for what was his name? Gazo? Was that the name of the bookie Take to the Zoo?

He had that the driver who was always taking potshots at Rocky. I thought he was a wonderful actor, and I thought. Particular he was great. Yeah, it was great. And he's in The Godfather.

He is essentially Tony has become Rocky. He's he's doing collections for a for a bookie. But he says, uh that for after a while, the moral problem started to get to him. At this point, we cut to b Roll the church I don't think we've seen this church be roll now. I don't think any reasons.

I was very excited to see, first of all, to see a church, because this is an ungodly show being run by the devil in the form of Randall Carver. We forgot about Randall Carver. We cut inside a priest's office. I guess is that what you call it? Is it the rectory?

Tony goes in and he's the priest has led him in. Tony has trouble knowing where to start. He's troubled, and he's trying to talk to the priest. The priest encourages him just, you know, just tell me what's bothering you. Tony tells the priest about how he lost his job and how he couldn't get any other job but debt collecting, and he insists that he never hurt nobody, to which the priest says, look, Tony, I hope you didn't come here for approval.

But Tony, being the gentle giant, look, we know that Tony is a coiled spring ready to lash out. He's animalistic at times. How many did he kill him back in the jungle? Too many? Too many?

He's maintaining this Pickle esque near of civility, and he says to the priest, look, if I didn't do the collecting, someone else would who wasn't so nice. That is true, he's got a point. I don't necessarily agree. We've seen him go off and almost kill people with his bare hands, so I'm not really buying it. But nevertheless, the priest says, look, if you don't think it's wrong, why have you come to me so troubled, which Tony replies, you owe three hundred bucks and it's overdue.

So the priests, right, this is a twist. This whole segment is predicated on this stupid joke. It is it's it's really a punchline that takes the next ensuing five minutes to resolve. So Tony asks the priest, how could you let this happen? And the priest this is actually kind of this is funny stuff.

I don't remember who the I don't recall the actor who played the priest, but he's very good in this this little vignette. He the priest says he gave the locker room prayer for the Giants that week, and the team looked so up for the game. They couldn't lose. It's the best. It's like insider trading, you know, like he got it.

He basically got a tip by seeing how pumped they were. But again the judgment call. The priest says, look, I don't have the three hundred dollars. But he takes out this watch and he launches into this story about how it was a personal gift from archbishop. And Tony says, look, I can't take that, and and the priest takes that.

Well, yeah, he says, yeah, this is Lulu won't take watches. The priest offers to talk to the bookie personally, and they all go off to the bookie's office. Now here's here's where it gets interesting. It gets really interesting. It's kind of odd that we cut inside the bookie's office and it's Lulu.

Now he was Tony's manager. People eagle eared listeners might remember we talked about the episode where Tony's boxing license was revoked and he became what Kid Rodriguez was his He assumed the persona with the mustache and the sideburns, and that was only earlier this season. So not only is this the same actor that played his manager in that episode. But the guy has the character has the same name. They're both named Lulu.

Yeah. We pointed that out because I was convinced that that was one of the inspirations for Cheers, and here Lulu has taken a turn. Are we led to believe Father Malone that this is the exact same character as that earlier out of commission episode. It's same guy. It is the same guy, and it is the same character name, and he's dealing specifically with Tony.

But the last time we saw him, he was one hundred percent about preserving Tony and his dignity, and now he wants Tony to beat the shit out of a priest. This totally threw me for a loop because I've seen this episode probably a dozen times. Oh, by the way, here and there, by the way, you mentioned John O'Leary, the priest there. Okay, yeah, yeah, I think you will probably remember him mainly from the Last Starfighter is Sanjay. It's based on that.

I should have looked at his IMDb a little closer. He's great here. He's very funny, very natural, very natural. He starts when he's initially talking to Tony. He's got that very benevolent priestly kind of moral high moral character thing.

And then when Tony drops the bomb that he bet on the Giants game, it's like he shifts and he's like, oh, it was such a short thing. How it's really it's a very good performance by the said. And he doesn't go straight to panic. That's the thing. He gets really like explanatory and conciliatory, but he doesn't really get panic.

I think until we lou. Lose, right, because I think he knows that Tony's really not kind of beat up on him. There's no way he recognizes that Tony is a softy at heart, or at least he thinks he's a softie. Maybe he's wrong. Tony and the priest enter the office and Lulu insists that the priest pay up in cash, but Tony is a being a pushover, insists that he pay off the debt for the priest.

It's actually kind of a nice moment because the priest says, no, no, no, no, no, do this, and he said, look, it's easier for me, father if I do it this way. Believe me. It's actually a very clever solution for Tony to resolve this moral dilemma that he's found himself in. I mean, it's worth it to him to pay the three hundred bucks then to have to work out in his head how he's going to get the priest to pay up otherwise. Well, he knows the priest will be good for her.

But Lulu, and this is I actually think this is kind of a nice touch to Lulu sees Tony reaching into his pocket to get the money, and he reasons that he can afford it more than Tony could afford it, and he reluctantly takes the watch from the priest. Anyway, but I thought that was actually very very Gazzo like, because despite the fact that the bookie and Rocky is this shady character, he actually really loves Rocky. And in fact, I think he goes to the first couple of fights he goes to those two Apollo Creed fights, the first one in the rematch. He supports Rocky in that way. So that's kind of nice that Lulu gives him a break.

He says, look, I can afford I'll take the watch, father, you get out of here. The priest thanks them both and he leaves, and Tony is really excited that Lulu took the watch. And Lulu responds very sarcastically, I will treasure it forever. And then he walks over to this giant armoiir and he opens it and it's filled with watches and necklaces and statuary and like there's a crown, I think in there somewhere. So you get the mobile mobile pawn shop.

It's like a little pawn shop in an armoire. And he's these are all other situations where he took the easy way out. Tony reminds him that it's it's Friday, and he really needs It's payday. He needs his money, and Lulu reaches into the armoire and in a nice little meta bit of humor, he pulls out an Emmy Award and gives it to Tony and congratulates him. I just thought that was kind of funny.

Yeah, So is that them saying that the Emmy is worthless or only worth a couple hundred bucks, or is it them letting Tony danza, No, this will be the last time you will ever hold one of these. First in last time, I don't know did he was he ever nominated for Who's the Boss or anything? He was not. He was nominated once for Who's the boss. Okay, so he wasn't far off.

I just thought it was funny, even like Tony has this funny less. As I said, this is the last time he would ever hold me. He was presenting, and you know what, that's I take that back. He's actually kind of famous for accepting emmys for people who were on behalf ceremony. Yeah, that used to.

Be a big thing. Yeah. So in a much crueler twist of fade, he keeps accepting emmys that are not. His, that are not his. So at this point we fade commercial and we fade back into Marios as Tony tells the second b.

Roll, the other b role of Marios, where that one guy goes in. It's the same facade, but it's a different a different b roll outs. Elayne's turn to tell her story of a new job, and she says she worked as a secretary at a big high rise downtown. The first day, she's waiting for her boss, wondering what he's like. And now at this point we cut to Elaine sitting in an office as a silver haired gentleman in a gray suit comes in.

He's demanding to see mister Gibbons. He's very angry, and he asks. He demands to know where he is to Elaine and Elayne, after a little bit of she fumbles a little bit. She offers an excuse for where her boss is, and at this point this delights this man, who informs Elaine that he's mister Gibbons. He's George Gibbons.

Again, I didn't do my homework on this guy. He's really the star of this vignette. It's not Elaine, it's this guy. Bill Wiley is his name, and I think you might know him from Porky's two the next day, So say it's a shepherd, so say it the flock. He's hilarious there.

He is a character actor, extraordinary. He's been in fucking everything. I remember him from a particularly hilarious episode of Cheers. Bill Wiley. He's so good here, he's great here.

This is his vignette. It's not really a laying. It's a laying sort of puts things into motion. But she just lets this this guy, George Gibbons, go. Yeah, there're two for two here.

Because I'll tell you what if George Gibbons was suddenly put in charge of Sunshine Cab Company and occasionally would come down from the upstairs area and act like a total lunatic before going back up. I'd be fine with that. I'd also be fine if Father Leary here with John Berry was the actor, but if he came by every once in I'll be cool with that too. They they have a knack, especially in these last few episodes of casting these sort of side characters, especially ones like you said. The fact that some of these people popped up on Cheers later is a clear indication of the affection they have for some of these character actors.

But this guy's fantastic in this. After he discloses that he's George Gibbons, he goes on to give a laye his his philosophy. He says, he's been with the company for twenty three years, which is record, and it's because, in a very Castanza like way of life, he's maintained a degree of anonymity. He says. Some people know his name, some know his face, but very few know both.

And he just keeps he's so pleased with himself for these little strategies he's built up for himself. He says, over the years he's figured out ways to continue this, this anonymity. He SLINKs in and out of meetings. He never says anything of substance in any meeting. He only laughs after the laughter is started, and he stops laughing before everyone else has stopped laughing.

So he's kind of like this ghost in this company. He's like Newt in Aliens. You know. She's like he's got his spot. Newt comes out at night, grabs some food, takes it back, you know, hides.

For twenty three years, he's been able to avoid any real exertion or anything like that. So but then Elaine, and this is a little peculiar. I have to admit now, I don't know that. I didn't know that Elaine had a business degree or anything. But she says she's read some of mister Gibbons's reports and she was impressed with his brilliance.

She insists that these, you know, his ideas, should be heard, that they're worthwhile. But Gibbons is ambivalent because that will upset the apple cart of this carefully maintained facade that he's built up over twenty three a quarter century of working at this company. After a quarter century, if he's going to say anything, it better be gold, right. All that'll do is go you've been here for how long? And this is the way you think.

Very prophetic words, Father Malone, Because we cut to a meeting with a bunch of these suits and in Elaine's there, I guess we presume taking notes for. Gibvens, and actually doesn't make sense that she's in there. Well I could. I look, I've been in my share of meetings like this, but you're right, I've never seen a secretary in there like taking notes. It is a little weird, and that would imply that the rest of these executives should have their own secretaries in there taking notes.

But the room is filled with just a bunch of guys and Elaine. I guess the idea is if they want to have the scene with him actually standing up and doing his thing, that she needs to be in the scene as well. Otherwise we're no longer watching taxi, We're just watching some other story. It's the only way that this would work, because he would never get the guts to do what he's about to do if Elaine didn't encourage him. Elaine takes one last shot as this meeting is finishing to convince mister Gibbons to give his report, and he again He worries that they'll fire him if they don't like his ideas, but Elaine is certain that all they'll do is disagree.

If it comes to that, they're not going to do anything any more serious than that. She finally convinces Gibbons, and he makes this impact, shouldn't report to the assemblage, And honestly, it sounds like a half baked idea, like it's it's just a bunch of half big notions. He wants them to divest themselves of everything worthwhile except for nuclear weapons, hospitals, and T shirts. It's this bizarre rant that he goes on, and he basically says something at the end like, you know, and if I'm wrong about this, then my twenty three years here have come to nothing. In typical elaying fashion in her you know, usual mothering way, she gets this really self satisfied look on her face after he gives this impassioned presentation.

At that point, we fade back into Gibbons' office as he's taking this cardboard box with a plant out of his office. This is the universal sign in television of fired. When you've got this cardboard box. Yeah, that's right, those lawyer boxes. Yeah, like you've you've gathered up all your effects and they're they're they're fitting this.

Usually it's usually a medium sized plant sticking out the top. That's the equivalent of a bank get in a paper bag in a office environment. Is the plant sticking out of the cardboard boxes. You're being fired. Elaine feels awful about what happened, and Give, I love this line that Gibvens gives.

I've transcribed it here. He said, Given says, it's the silliest thing. All these years, have been so frightened of being fired, and now that it's happened, it's far more hideous than I ever imagined because you think, as a viewer, you think he's going to go, you. Know, I thought it was gonna be liberated. Yeah, thank you Eli for setting me free.

No, it's even more hideous. And by the way, use of the word hideous somehow just makes it all. It rams at home, like how terrible this is for this man. He's feared this for twenty three years and it finally has come to pass. Elaine admires a picture of of his family in the box, which Givens then informs her that it's not his family that picture came with the frame because you see the other executives look askance at somebody with no family.

He's fine, Yeah, he's even invented. He's like, well, that one there, that's I called the boy skipper. He says he chipped the tooth the other day. Then he talks about his daughter who's married, and he's a little concerned because the husband seems to drink a little bit too much. He's got this elaborate backstory for all the people in this picture.

Got to have your cover story. Fucking down. Man, if you're going to infiltrate the office and pretend that you're working there. There's something to be admired about somebody like Gibvens who has devoted so much time and effort to something so meaningless, Like he's basically just been a slacker for twenty three years and was good at it. He was successful.

So they Givens in the lane say their goodbyes, but Givens stops on the way out and asks Elane if he can buy her dinner. He can still charge Arge one last meal to his expense account. Elaine replies she's not sure she should do that. For the company that she works for, and Givens corrects her, used to work for You've been fired too. And this after getting over the initial shock, Elane says something like, let's break them and they go out and probably have a grand old time at mister.

Is that an eighties thing? Lobster thermidor. I think it's actually a holdover from the seventies. Like I think by the eighties it was already kind of passing, but I think it held in people's minds that it was somehow fancier than it actually was. What actually is lobster thermidor?

No idea, no idea. It's it's like Oyster's Rockefeller. It's one of these, you. Know, it's a mystery that will never be solved. It will never be solved.

It's going to be a way of cooking it right, or. The sauce or maybe maybe it was like, you know, first made at the Hotel Thermidor or something. I gotta look it up. Lobster thermidor. It is a French dish where lobster meat is removed, cooked in a rich, creamy sauce, and then stuffed back into the shell.

Sounds like a lot of work for nothing. You know, it sounds actually really ghoulish when you say it like that. The meat is ripped out of the the the animal skeleton, it's it's exterior skeleton. We cook it up, and then we put that meat back in its external skeleton for you to suck it out of and eat. What is the benefit of putting it back in the carcass, back into the into the Does it absorb extra flavor or something, or does it just make you feel like, Wow, I'm pulling this out and it's the most delicious meat ever.

I think it's it's got to be the presentation, purely, you would think, because there's I don't think there's any any culinary benefit to putting it back in the unless it keeps it moist or or I don't know, a succulent. I'm not a lot of their guy think their situation. You know what I mean? You cook it in the bird. Your guess is as good as well.

Hey, look, listeners, if you're a fan of lobster thermidor, you know the answers to these questions. HP Music Plays at gmail dot com. Send me an email. You're eating sea bugs. They're bottom dwellers.

They eat fecal matter. They used to be fed to prisoners because they were considered the lowest of the low of the food chain. We cut back to Marios, and now it's Jim's turn to give his tale of and this is gonna be the by the way, I'm predicting this is gonna be the quickest recounting because it's really a lot of this is just a visual joke. It doesn't make any sense for me to go blow by blow. What happens is.

He's gonna say, if you could burn through this, that would be great, because I actively hate this one. We're gonna burn through this joke, which you see coming from the moment they fucking open the door is painful to wint seen. I've seen variations in dozens of shows. They all do this fucking stupid joke, and it's always annoying and never funny. To me, this is completely vaudeville.

I know we level that accusation at the show many many times, but this is pure vaudeville. Jim is a door to door salesman. We cut to an apartment where this woman is serving herself a meal at a quaint little table. I think she's serving herself like salisbury steak or something something with grease in it. Maybe it's lobster thrower, I don't know.

The doorbell rings and it's Jim coming in with this big suitcase and he fumbles through this introduction. He's he gives her a pitch that he's selling a vacuum cleaner called the Magic Carpet Wizard. The woman obviously is a little thrown by Jim being Jim, but reluctantly agrees to have him in and he does his spiel. The next several minutes of this, the majority of this vignette consists of Jim throwing more and more stuff on this carpet. He starts with like an ash tray.

There's milk, there's ketchup, there's sugar, there's grease. He even grinds it into the carpet with his shoes. The whole point is like the woman is getting increasingly worried, like is the vacuum cleaner gonna take care of all this? And he says they wouldn't call it the Carpet Wizard if it didn't. Finally, Jim is prepared to show the vacuum cleaner in action.

He opens up his case to reveal an encyclopedia vaudeville Bill Jim then realizes that he didn't get the vacuum job. He's actually selling encyclopedias. And that's that's it. That's the whole vinet. Can you believe they built a set for that?

And it's a very charming little set. It reminds me of like this little quaint little apartment probably in some fancy high rise. Yeah, they built the whole set for this, just for him to do this bit of physical comedy. But here's a side note. Fadom alone, do you remember when encyclopedias were a real thing.

Of course, I had a great set of encyclopedias. I lived in my encyclopedias. It was the only way to gather knowledge when we were that age. I'm telling you every report I got, I gave you know up until high school, was no doubt drawn from my set of encyclopedias. Me too.

I mean the danger with encyclopedias, especially my set, is it Encyclopedia or Encyclopedias. Encyclopedia ploralized that. Okay, the set that the danger was, the set was out of date almost as soon as you took ownership of it. Because I think mine was I think it ended maybe just after or right around the Space Shuttle, I think the development of the Space shuttle. And this was we're talking like high school.

This was eighty seven eighty eight for for us, so it was already out of date by the time we had it. But like you, I mean, I consulted it many, many times for term papers and reports and that sort of thing. It was very useful. I wouldn't turn to an encyclopedia for current events, but you know, the Plusticine era, that's not going to change much. That's a good point.

It was kind of nice to have this repository of I remember also years later when the PCs started to become a thing and you could get an encyclopedia, full encyclopedia on one CD ROM. My god, and it was. It was because you could pop it in and instead of like having to go to the book and find it, you could just type in a search term. Instead of having to open up this highly alphabetized series of books and sliding your finger down to the pertinent information. Now you could boot up the CD ROM and wait and loading and loading.

No no, no, But it wouldn't just tell you where, like if you were searching for Napoleon. You would also find other references to Napoleon that didn't maybe appear under n So it was actually pretty handy. I refute your your, your argument, your sarcastic argument over there smug so. So much better than the old encyclopedias with their handy dandid knowledge that you can you can access at any time without electricity. Anyway, Look, I missed Encyclopedia.

I thought it was a fun thing to have in the house. And I guess we've I mean, I wonder at what point did encyclopedia just stop being a thing? Was it Internet? As soon as the Internet is available and you could type in what is this thing and the answers would come up, that's when it was over. Sure, I guess that's it.

Anyway, that's the one thing I took from this. I was like, remember Encyclopedia, that was kind of cool. I still have mine, though I sleep on them at night. You made out. As we burned through this Jim vignette, and that's that's it.

So so we cut back to Marios and Alex asks. Lan about his joke. Last joke. Yeah, but it's not about But here's the thing. We have another meta bit of humor here, Father Malone.

So Alex asks Locke about his job, and Locker replies that he'd love to tell all about it, but his break is over. That's when Tommy, our good friend TJ. Kastronova comes over to jeffrees is that his last name? Yeah? Oh okay, Oh so wait a minute, So so Tommy is actually Tommy in real life.

I didn't know that. It was like a Tony situation. That's cool. So he comes over and tells Laca that there's tables to be cleaned, and Naka puts on his apron and starts to bust tables. The joke there is that Laca is actually busting tables for Marios.

Now, this, as I just said, is a nice bit of metacomedy because, as you know, Father Malone Kaufman famously bus tables at Jerry's famous deli at the height of his taxi fame. All performance art, man, it's all performance art. It just so he could tell people, no, I'm not Andy coff. That's what he would do. People would ask him, are you any Coffin, and he'd say, no, that's not me.

So I think that's I'm sure that's what they were making reference to here. Anyway, that's the end of the first episode. Now we're about to start with the second part. You know what, I'm sick of the spening of taxi. What do you mean the theme?

Yep, I'm sick of the sick of the bridge, sick of the credits coming at me. I'm sick of Angela and her dourness. How could you be sick of one of the greatest theme songs in sitcom history, if not television history. I skip it now, I love it. I only skip it if I'm just trying to get right to the episode, because nothing changes.

It's the same old bridge, same old cab. But that doesn't mean I don't love I mean, look, I have the Bob James Genie CD on my on my phone. I listened to it in my car all the time. I celebrate his catalog. I love Bob James.

So don't tell me. I'm not saying anything against Bob James or even that piece of music other than I'm a little tired of it. Well, it's been three seasons we've gone through these episodes of The Fine Tooth Comb, so I guess that's natural. I don't I'm not with you on that, but I can sympathize. The second part of this two part episode begins.

Louie has come to Marios and he walks over to the table. He's crowing about all the losers talking about their success stories. Laka walks over and asks Louis if he's made a lot of money, to which Louie takes out a cigar and lights it with a dollar bill, which is like, whatever, it's a dollar bill, mister dybags. I would do that, Like who cares? Yeah, as for a joke, I would do it.

And then Louie says he's got to get back to work. He just wanted to stop by for a beer and a gloat. But then Tommy burst his bubble by coming over and saying asked telling Louie that he forgot to sign his unemployment check, which then cracks everybody up at the table. They think it's hilarious. Because they're all doing so well.

By the way, right, it seems it's a little silly for Louis to be. I know, they're making fun. They're making fun of Louis because Louis came and acted like a big shot and he's a loser. Just just like them, but like, you come on there. Yeah, So Louie then insists on telling them his story now of of his.

His job at Wait, none of the people in the first segment have jobs at the end of their stories, right, Like, nobody's there pretty much, and I'm still working there today. It's like, oh, and now here I am. The only one who does is Laca, who's bussing tables. Is that's right? Okay, you know, but you're right everybody else because Tony is no longer collecting for Lulu.

Elaine was fired. Yeah, that's that's it, right, and Laca is still. Working yeah, and Reverend Jim is not going to be working for that company after he destroyed some woman's house while trying to sell her. And it's like to be yeah, it was a long way to go. It's we can't overstate how how ponderous that that vignette.

I wish, you know what. I probably would have laughed and laughed hard if he had said, if he had just told the story, yes and showing it. Yeah, if there's any comedy, yeah, if there's any comedy drawn, it's his physical comedy. I think he would have been just as funny, just relating the story because he's very, very funny. It's just within about twenty seconds, not even you know where this is going to end up once he starts dumping stuff on the floor.

We've seen a hundred premutations of this over the years on different shows. I mean, it's it's pretty pretty standard at this point. But anyway, we'll get back to Louis's story now. We cut to a stockbroker's office where Louis basically breaks into this guy's office looking like a dime store mobster. I think that the stockbroker even makes a joke about guys and dolls being.

Guys and dolls in town. Yeah, so Louis uh tells the stockbroker the guy's name is mister Gray, but the problem with this company is they're too afraid to get dirty. Louis convinces him that he's just the guy to get dirty. He uses this word a million times, and in his words, he was born dirty. Mister Gray is convinced, and we cut to Louis.

There's more. There's more to it than I'm gonna fight dirty. He describes a plan of volume rather sure, you know, the regular thing. So okay, because if somebody just walked in and was like, I'm going to be a fucking nightmare. They would say, no, thank you.

Where we have a little bit of class here, he does. You're right, Louis does make the case that he's he's His strategy is dealing in volume, which actually for it's like boiler Room, like that that that Ben Affleck movie right where it's just it's all about cold calls and and making his any as you can, and it's a numbers game at that point. So this guy, mister Gray, gives him the job, and then we see Louie at his desk. He's boisterously taking calls and you only ever hear his side of it, but it's it's Danny DeVito, and it's really funny. Louie on this call is trying to convince someone to get out of AT and T and into gegenic research.

I think he talks about cloning, which at the time was a kind of a buzzword. And all of the other brokers in this room are giving Louie dirty looks, but he keeps like it's Danny DeVito. He's cackling with satisfaction. He's really he's doing the Louie thing to the hilt and it's actually pretty funny. He's even cold calling a widow whose husband he found his his obituary in the newspaper yesterday, and and and then he tries to convince another caller that he's a long lost cousin that has a he has a great deal for him.

He's doing every dirty, underhanded cold calling trick in the book. And finally, as as this guy mister Gray is looking on Louis, Louis even tries talking a child into getting his mother's check book out to invest in some stock. Louis gets off the phone and mister Gray informs Louie that he's fired. He says, Louis just doesn't fit into the organization. Gray says, look, you're doing high volume business, but you're just too loud.

People are complaining about you, Louis, and the problem is no one can stand you, and everybody thinks you're disgusting that he talks about how he's chewing too loudly. He makes noises when they eat food, they make they make eating food noises right by the way. That's that's Michael Maguire there. He's a He is a journeyman character actor. I know him mainly from he did a stint on Dark Shadows, the original Dark Shadows back in the day.

Oh really, yeah, the soap opera. Absolutely, he was on that for a while. And oh what's the other Oh, of course, but he he's on Cheers. He's Summoner Sloan on Cheers. Yeah, that's exactly right.

You're right, Professor, the professor that Diane Chambers was faced to who broke up with her and dumped her and then she ended up bat Cheers. So he's actually the catalyst for the entire series Cheers. In this one two part episode, we we've pointed out three or four people who have gone on to have, you know, pretty substantial roles on Cheers. It's kind of cool. Tune in for the next episode.

Everybody just, oh. Yeah, we're going to see one of the best. Louis takes all of this and he points out to mister Gray that he's better at this business than anyone there, but he just doesn't look the part. So he says, he says, I'm going to leave here feeling good about myself because I succeeded. This is what Louis says to the guy, and Gray has to stay here.

Knowing that some guy off the outdid him, mister Gray. He realizes that Louie's just doing this to kind of make himself feel better about getting fired, and he's like, I'm sorry, you know, when he leaves. That's the way it's gonna be. Man, you're unpleasant, right, Yeah, I'm sorry to have to break this to you. They have a nice life.

So Louis leaves, but not before grabbing this giant computer terminal off the desk and taking it with him. And that's the end of louis little vignette. And it made me. It made me think of you ever go to Ikea, of course, and oh yeah, the phony laptops and stuff that they I love those things. Yeah, that is exactly what he lifted off of that, Like that's just a prop computer, like a like one of like a blow mold version of a computer that they just populate background sets with.

Oh for sure, because an actual computer, I remember, if it's anything like a television from that period. He would have toppled over like a fucking bag of potatoes. Yeah, those are those are like cath ray tube monitors. Those things are fucking heavy. Anyone out here who has just been dealing with you know, LCD and plasma TVs or what have you.

You have no idea what it was like to actually get like even like a thirty two inch television, a tube TV. That thing probably weighed somewhere in the neighborhood of what one hundred and fifty pounds, one hundred and ten pounds. These were heavy, remember when circuit boards were heavy. Oh yeah, seriously, So yeah, I think you're right. I mean, he just hoists this computer under his arm and leaves like it's nothing.

So we go back to Marios and I Tommy announces a phone call for Louis. This will become relevant in a minute now following out it's Bobby's turn to give the story. Now, I think you agree with me on this. This, hands down is not only is this my favorite of all of these vignettes, but this actually make me one of my favorite Bobby stories period over the whole course of the series. This is when I think of Taxi.

I think this is one of like, maybe top three memories of Taxi and definitely my favorite memory of Bobby. If this had been Bobby Wheeler from day one, it would have been a whole different show. And this should have been Bobby Wheeler from day one. It really is. This is what we're going to get, Just to give you a little bit of a preview on this.

We're getting a basically a typical Bobby story in miniature, because this vignette takes no more than five minutes tops, very quick, but you get a condensed version of the best of these Bobby aspirational episodes. Basically, Bobby says to everybody that he got a job in entertainment, well sort of. He took a job at a department store as someone who plays a part at parties. Now we cut to a swanky house somewhere. The doorbell rings.

This woman answers and it's Bobby, who announces that he's here for the party. She opens the door and reveals Bobby dressed up as the Easter Bunny. He's got this full Easter Bunny costume. He's got makeup to make him look like a comical Easter Bunny. He looks drastic.

It's great. And just as the woman goes to get the kids to bring them in for the party, Bobby recognizes her as somebody named Cynthia Beck, the film director. That's what he says, Bobby says he loves her work, and he insists that he's a great actor, but she's really hard to get into. The woman's like, look, I I'm sorry. The kids get hard, right, She's hard to get into for a meeting.

And she's like, I'm sure she's just like, look like the kids are getting She's very nice to him. The kids are getting restless. Let's you know whatever. She's okay, what a nightmare. By the way, from her perspective, if like this had been her show, it'd be like, oh, come on, who is this?

Leave me alone. He's entertained the children. Yeah, this is the kid's party. What are you doing? So the kids all run in.

There's probably like half a dozen kids in this room, and Bobby starts in with the Easter Bunny bit. He's singing the song Peter Cottontail and jumping around and kind of shaking his butt like a like a like a bunny rabbit. It's really it's very very cute. And then when the when the woman walks back in with cookies for the kids, Bobby sees her and all of a sudden, he switches gears and he announces to the kids, this is almost like something out of it's become an episode of I Think you should leave, because he announces to the kids, Bobby announces that he has a special surprise. He's going to perform a scene from the Broadway play Whose Life Is It Anyway?

And he's saying this to the kids, like, hey, kids, here's a special surprise. And anyone I remember. This to play about a paraplegic deciding whether or not he should kill himself. No, no, correction, he's a quadriplegic. Oh right, right, he he had This movie used to play on the early days of Cable with Your Dreyfus starred in the film version, and it's this I think.

It's a character who had an accident and lost the ability. He's paralyzed from the neck down, and he fights through the course of the story of this play slash movie to be able to kill himself because he no longer feels like life is worth living. So this is this is Bobby dressed as a cartoon rabbit. He's going to perform a scene from this awful Dours. Sad and he.

What we just told you, I need you to pretend kid, imagine I'm laughing. I mean, this is genuine I'm laughing just thinking about this. First, he mentions to the kids that the Easter Bunny is also a serious artist, and he lays down on this couch and explains that they have to pretend that the Easter Bunny is paralyzed from the neck down. And they cut to the kids all looking at each other like whisically, like what is going on here? These are actual little kids watching this, and he Bobby launches into this.

All of a sudden, the sing song voice is gone, and Bobby launches into this this molgue, and he's the Easter Bunny, but he's giving this heavy dialogue about how life isn't worth living and he doesn't feel human anymore. And this this woman, the woman him, the. Easter Bundy of it behind that makeup. Life is no longer worth living now that I can know, Oh my god. We've seen this episode probably, I know I've seen it dozens of times over the years, and I am still laughing at the memory of it.

Is so good. This, this vignette alone is what makes this two part are worth watching. It's unfair, you know what. It's unfair how good it is because it pumps the fucking rating up at the end of this show. Oh absolutely you're You're absolutely right for them alone.

So the woman, the mother, walks over and kind of gives him a quizzical look as we cut back to Marios, and Bobby informs the other cabbies that she was so impressed with his performance that she offered him apart Dot dot the clown at her daughter's birthday party. Whoa h vaudeville And you know. What, though, they should have cut to that in him doing good doo. That's right, waiting for good I exist. Finally, it's Alex's turn to talk about his job, and he took a job as a night watchman in an office building.

He says the first couple of weeks were pretty boring, but then he went a little nuts after that. This is another vignette we're gonna pretty much breeze through because it's all physical comedy in this case, just like the gym thing. We cut to Alex. He's in some kind of security room with a bunch of monitors, and the monitors are actually really live, they're actually broadcasting real images. He's so bored he's actually counting the numbers of hairs on his head.

He's up to like twelve thousand something. He notices a security camera on the wall and he goes over to it and he kind of. Before we go any further, before we go any further, yeah, bring a book. Okay, go ahead, That's exactly it. I mean, he's this is not a taxing job.

I would agree with you that if he if he's got time to pull to count hairs on his head, he's he can get a book and just read, you know. Yeah, it's not like you have to look at the monitors the whole time or like lost like push the button every twenty minutes or something. And this is obviously he just has to sit there and if anything goes wrong, he's supposed to spring into action, but they're not monitoring him, so he's at his own, left to his own devices. At one point he says, okay, time for my patrol, and he goes all right, camera one, camera two, camera three, Oh fantastic now, and that's it. That's all he has to do every hones.

This is my dream job. So any complaining that goes on in this episode is unwarranted. Sure, So he he notices a camera that's actually in this security room and he goes over to it. He does this weird thing where he kind of uses his eyes to point it to the chair that he's sitting in, which is actually pretty clever when you think about it. And now he has this camera pointed at him so that he can, you put on a little performance for the security monitors.

Now here's the side note that I wrote down, father Bland. You remember, I'm sure you do, when video cameras were a new thing. Seeing one's self on TV was a revelation, wasn't it? Exactly what I was going to say, That's exactly what I wrote my notes, Like, there was a time when if you were going to like show up on a national not a national but like a local station or something, it was the It was like you were a fucking Academy Award winner. Showing up in a newspaper was a big deal.

Never mind actually seeing yourself in the furniture that we're all staring at for most of our lives, Like, ohs, what what is this crazy validation? It was amazing. But I would even I would go further and say, like when I was a kid, I would go to leech mirror, which for those of us, for those of you, listening who didn't grow up in the Northeast. That's an electronics. It's sort of a best Buy before there was best Buy.

Eventually, as they had a section of just video cameras. They had all these video cameras on a little cylindrical kind of table with monitors so that you could point it at yourself. And it was like, wow, it's stupid to think about it now because we've all got cameras on our phones that we can just do this all the time, but. To actually are podcasting, right, Yeah, and we had video component if we wanted to show it. So, yeah, it's not novel at all anymore.

But it was massively novel like and everyone did what Alex is doing it. Everyone, every idiot would stand in front of the fucking video cameras in the middle of a department, start and put on a show. There used to be these programs in I know there was one in Boston that they used to play that were basically like community tryouts or something. I don't know what the name of them would be. I think there was one in New York.

It was pretty famous where on a Sunday morning they would people would go to the studio and perform like stupid human tricks, almost like. Who will it be Star of the Day? Right, And you know, they might sing a song, they might juggle, they might do a dramatic monologue. But this was it was a big deal to get yourself on television. So, which is not to say that's what Alex is up to here, but I'm just saying that the idea of watching oneself on a television was very novel, like you said at the time, So I'm not going to undersell that part of it so effectively tularly.

When you think of somebody Alex's age at this point, it was probably only ever seen himself in photographs. So and now he's he's not only seeing video of himself, he's seeing himself live, which is a whole other weird thing. What he effectively does is put on a mini TV show for himself called the Alex Rieger Show. And that's where your line from the beginning of the episode comes in, where he's looking at himself on this monitor and he says, this is what I look like. This is what I look like when I talk.

He does these little tricks. He fake juggles an apple, and he you know, he has like fake laughter and fake applause, and finally he ultimately signs off his fake TV show with the Star Spangled banner, which listeners of a certain age like us will remember. That's how TV stations used to sign off of their programming day. They am baby, say goodbye to programming for some stupid motherfucking reason, No, you don't get to watch anymore. Why the thing that changed all of that was infomercials, because then they realized that hey, this dead air where we're not broadcasting anything, we can actually make money off of that by people shilling these terrible products.

And that opened the door for this kind of programming. So you never had the station go off line effectively, you would. Just have the commercial some local affiliates, never really going offline. I don't remember TV thirty eight going offline, like you know, I remember movies through the night and then programming the next day. It just wasn't it wasn't new uh programming going on.

It was the major networks that would go off the air. Is my point. Alex does this little the. Star Spangled banner. Can I just point out that he does everything that they did in the Star Spank But my favorite of course is the flag waving waving where he takes his arms and he wiggles them like like the waving of the flag, you know, and then then he does the marching because then they would obviously then they cut to the troops like you know, saluting and marching.

By the way, that is the most militaristic security guard outfit I've ever seen. His cap should be like a four star general cap. I didn't understand it. It's like there's like a giant brass insignia on the front. I'm like, really, you're just sitting in a chair looking at monitors.

Well, not only that, but I believe he actually had a side arm with him, which I don't know too many he. Did, because when his replacement comes in, it was like I was really looking at it and it was clearly like a cult peacemaker from like some Western prop store. Yeah, and in a holster. It's like, what is this rent a cop the security guard gonna need with a gun? Well, we never found out that they were what they were guarding, you know.

What they're guarding. Yeah, but it's I would say that the boredom and the lack of any action, to me, it's implied that it's just some some business, some building downtown that probably like it's not like Norad where there it's government property. It's probably just like I don't know, like the Prudential here in Boston. It's probably no big thing, but you know. Or maybe yeah, it's it's a creature in case the ice and they're just praying it never wakes up.

Something love crafty in that he's guarding who. Knows that's right, that's why I'm supposed to sit and wat those cameras. Got to watch it. Can't take his eyes off. So he's in the middle of finishing this.

He's imitating fighter jets flying, which is also something you'd see in the sign off when another security guard walks in and is a gas that at this you know, tableau that he's just witnessed. The weirdest thing about this is who is the person who plays the security guard that walks in Fallom alone. It's Grandpa al Lewis from The Monsters and Car fifty four. Where are you in the like the briefest of bit parts. It's so weird.

He just kind of walks in and he's like, what's going and when Alex notices him, but the guy is actually sympathetic. He says, look, you know, the first couple of weeks here are tough, but when you've been doing it over twenty years, like I have, you learn to handle it. This guy's name is Henry, by the way, and Alex sheepishly gets his stuff and he leaves, and then Henry sits down at the security station and proceeds to go into this little cabinet below his feet and take out a ventriloquist dummy that's dressed up in the same exact security guard uniform as that they're all wearing. And then he does his own fake TV show with the puppet. And that's the end of this vignette.

Effectively, it's kind of an odd ending. Yeah, not as good as the Bobby one. No, this, I will say, we've we've more or less breezed through it. This one did have some charm because it's it's ostensibly a one man show of Alex fighting boredom, and it is there's there's something funny in that, but it's not. It's no Bobby, you know as the Easter Bunny doing who whose life is in any way, But it's it's probably maybe my second or third favorite of these vignettes.

So we cut back to Marios and Louis wraps up his call the Sunshine Cab Company when you know it, Father Malone is just bought by a new owner and anyone who wants Yeah, we were worried about. That, is it, mister Givens. That would have been a twist really to bring it all home, but we don't know who it is. Louis says anyone who wants their old job back should follow him, and after some deliberation and admitting that they all stink at everything else they've tried, they all file out of Marios, including Loca, who flings his apron off and for some reason he tells Tommy to take this job and shove. It because that was a hilarious song on the radio at that.

Time it was, and it was a movie starring Robert Robert Hayes. If you can take your job and shove it. I remember that from the trailer. Isn't Tim Thomerson is in that? And he drives a monster truck?

Is he? Is it Bigfoot? Is it is it? Got? That was the only monster truck that movie came out.

Yeah, but my point is, where does lock you get off, TJ. Kastronova. Tommy's given him a job like Tommy's. Tomy is a good guy. Where does Lock you get off?

Locke is just being fun? I guess so as also Lock is a deviant at heart. That's he's perverse. We've we've we've established this. So we cut to the garage and everyone is amazed that this place feels like home.

It's kind of an odd ending for this episode. Louis calls out the cab assignments. We cut to b roll of taxis rolling out as we. End this, and then Randy Newman's home begins to play. Feels like home to me.

So that's that's the episode. That's the conclusion of this two part episode. Now we're going to talk yellow lights. What doesn't yellow light mean? Just a reminder we grade these episodes on a scale of one to five yellow lights.

One is the worst taxi episode five is the best. And as further as our custom is, father blahone, we throw it to you, what do you give on the job? Parts one and two? If the Bobby segment wasn't here, we'd be getting two yellow lights. I think this episode, as far as these throwing a bunch of segments together anthology type episodes.

I think this is a vast improvement over Memories of Cab eight oh one, eighto four, eight oh four whatever. Anyway, Uh, but man, do I give it three or four? You know what? I'm gonna give it four because that that the Bobby segment has been so burned in my mind for nearly fifty fucking years. It seems that it's it's so prevalent in my mind that every time an episode that was Bobby centric would come on while we were watching, I would hope that it was that one.

So I'm giving it four just for that, just for that segment. That's that's high praise. Indeed, I I will still stick to my guns. I gave it three yellow lights for pretty much all the reasons that you led with on this. For here's the thing.

For a pickup episode, it's actually pretty good. I know we kind of downgraded the gym vignette, but we already talked about the pleasures of mister Gibbons. He's really funny. The Louis one has its charms also, and again, the Bobby episode is one of it's the standout in this particular episode. But it's one of the best out of all of the seasons that he was on Taxi, So, you know what, I'm right.

Actually, I think the guest cast alone gets us to three yellow lights, and Bobby gets us to four. So I'm gonna stick with mine four. I want to join you at four, but I got to stick to my guns. At the end of the day. There's still some things that are it's hard to overlook the economy of this episode.

And I mean that, you know, by the age. You know what, I gotta say that that's true. These episodes flew by like there have been ponderous Taxi episodes, and this one did not feel that way like it ended the first one ended. I was like, wow, okay. Yeah, you're right.

I just I can't do it. I want to do it, but I just can't. So I'm going to stick with three yellow lights. So three from me, four from Father Malone. That's going to do it for this episode.

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