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April 25, 2013 Wonderfalls S01E06: Muffin Buffalo

SUMMARY

Jaye and Aaron are in her trailer atttempting to photograph a reclusive neighbor nicknamed Fat Pat, when they are interrupted by a different neighbor looking for her disability checks. The Muffin Buffalo on Mary Anne Marie Beattle’s apron tells her to “keep them here”, so she pretends she doesn’t have them. The next day, she notices something strange at Mrs. Beattle’s trailer, and finds the oven smoking. Going back to her trailer, she is surprised to find Fat Pat in there, looking at her album titled “Fat Pat”.

Jaye feels bad for hurting Pat’s feelings, so she invites him to her parents’ house for game night, and then to the Barrel, so he can meet new people. He tells Eric that Jaye is obsessed with him because she has books full of photos of him. That night, Pat surprises Jaye by appearing naked in her trailer, where she has to tell him that she is not interested in him romantically. The next day at Wonderfalls, Jaye is made employee of the month because she accidentally saved a baby. Jaye feels uncomfortable with all of this adulation.

Pat decides to eat as many of Mary Anne Marie’s muffins as he can to ease the pain of rejection. However, the fat substitute causes him to have severe gastrointestinal distress. Jaye and Mrs. Beattle go visit Pat in the hospital once he wakes up from his coma. Jaye has given the checks back, and this has enabled Mrs. Beattle to invest more in her business. She asks Pat to be her spokesperson. Jaye is irritated that everyone is thanking her since she doesn’t feel like she has done anything, and she goes to Wonderfalls, where Eric comes to visit her. She clears up the misunderstanding about Pat and they are both happy.

While the overall story for this episode isn’t immensely compelling, I can’t help but feel like this is the first truly great episode, at least in terms of the writing. The dialogue was witty and fantastic. There are dozens of really quotable lines. We also get a better picture of the characters here, even the ones that don’t return in future episodes. Much more showing, less obvious telling through really awkward exposition.

First, I need to mention Mary Anne Marie Beattle. At first glance, just a funny older lady. But some of the lines are just so perfect. In her opening dialogue in Jaye’s trailer, she mentions her hysterectomy and her psychic in the same breath. She is the quintessential over-sharing neighbor, but also sweet and earnest.

I also really liked how Jaye, Aaron, and Sharon are portrayed in this episode. Aaron and Jaye are actually hanging out, and Sharon’s great line (“Are you two not getting along?”). This is what I’ve been waiting for, a demonstration of how this sibling dynamic really plays out. We also get to see a snapshot of what they are like during family events like “game night”, where Sharon’s competitive nature comes out, and Karen becomes obviously embarrassed by that behavior.

Continuing with our “Client” structure, the parallel between Fat Pat and Jaye is that they don’t see the good qualities within themselves. Fat Pat isn’t really fat (at least not anymore), and Jaye isn’t really mean (at least not anymore). Does this also relate to Mary Anne Marie? No, I don’t think so. She’s just awesome. But the beauty of this episode is that I actually had to think about it to recall the parallel. It wasn’t completely over-the-top obvious like the last several episodes have been.

The other major plot line in this episode is Aaron’s struggle to understand what is happening with his sister. In the commentary track for Crime Dog, the creators discuss how they had to let one cast member “in” on the secret to allow Jaye a sounding board (and because the network requested it). However, this storyline is nowhere near contrived. I really like how they chose to make an atheist the other person aware of the muses. Aaron here is having almost the same kind of crisis that Sister Katrina had in Wound Up Penguin, just in the opposite direction. He had made peace with the idea that the world has no meaning and it’s all just random chaos. He finds it much harder to stomach “meaninglessness in a world with meaning”.

Jaye is beginning to refer to the muses for guidance in this episode. She is surprised when the Muffin Buffalo says to “keep them [the checks] here”, but at other times she checks to see if a muse will say something before she acts. Later on, when Fat Pat is in Jaye’s trailer for the first time, Jaye looks directly at the Wax Lion, who says “Nope”, before responding to Ms. Beattle’s question about the checks. And again at the mailboxes, Jaye waits for the Muffin Buffalo to say “Uh-uh” before answering.

The muses also appear to have direct influence on events, or at starting chain reactions. At Wonderfalls, the Barrel Bear says “Untied shoelace. Staple it.” which leads to the events of the baby flying in the air directly into Jaye’s arms, and then the discovery of the grandmother’s ring. Later at the Barrel, the Mounted Bass says “Sore feet. Give the lady a chair,” and the former alcoholic is prevented from ruining his sobriety. A funny scene between Dr. Ron and Aaron has the glued-on Cow Creamer head falling and knocking a bunch of stuff about, causing two magazines to land on the floor and spell “cow talk”.

TRIVIA & REFERENCES:

  • Jaye calls Fat Pat a variety of other nicknames, including Portly Chupacapra and Fatsquatch (play on Sasquatch). Both are mythical beasts.
  • Aaron references the Judy Blume book “Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret” when he is meeting with Dr. Ron for the first time, when he mentions the Margaret chick that talked to God about her period.
  • Mahandra says she is 3% Seneca, which is a group of North American First Nations people that live near Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and in Buffalo, NY.
  • Jaye accidently prevents a man from drinking a non-virgin Daquiri, which is a cocktail made with rum. He mentions a going to a “meeting”, probably Alcoholics Anonymous, which is a recovery program for alcoholics.
  • Jaye is worried that Ms. Beetle took her allergy pills with Gallo, which is a brand of wine, often considered to be a “cheap” wine.
  • Aaron asks Jaye if she is Dr. Doolittle, who is a fictional character that can communicate with animals in their own languages.
  • The “tranny” in the wheelchair compares Fat Pat to Jeffrey Dahmer, a quiet man that committed several gruesome murders in the 1980s.
  • “Making a sissy” is an expression that means to urinate. Mary Anne Marie says this to Jaye when she comes back into the kitchen area of her trailer.
  • Jaye thinks that Mary Anne Marie is being held hostage by Fat Pat, and asks her if she has Stockholm Syndrome and compares her to Patty Hearst, who famously joined the group that kidnapped her in the 1970s.
  • Mary Anne Marie says “Sieg Heil” (Hail Victory!) and does the Nazi salute to Jaye when she tries to convince Fat Pat not to gain all of his weight back by eating muffins.
  • Jenny Craig is a business focused on helping people lose weight. Its namesake owner sold the company to Nestle in 2006.
  • Muffin Buffalo and Mary Anne Marie Beattle show up on another one of Bryan Fuller’s shows, Pushing Daisies, to reprise her character in the episode Comfort Food.

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April 25, 2013 Wish I Was Here

Yesterday Zach Braff made a lot of people spittle-spewing angry. His crime? He had the nerve to announce a Kickstarter to fund a movie he wants to make. I mean, can you believe the nerve of that guy, wanting to see if people wanted the opportunity to help him make a movie?! I mean, really. He ought to be tarred, feathered, drawn, quartered, and ridden out of town on a rail. The unmitigated gall it would take to even think a person would try something like this. I can’t even imagine how he can sleep at night.

…really?  I don’t get this even a little bit. I guess the main source of the griping is based on the thinking “He’s got all kinds of money because of Scrubs and Garden State and whatever else, why doesn’t he just use that money and make his own furshlugginer movie?” and I guess my answer is “He probably will use some? But maybe he thought he’d try this to see what happened? I dunno.” My other answer would be along the lines of “Why didn’t people demand the Veronica Mars people use their own money a few weeks ago when everybody couldn’t wait to fund that project?” The biggest reason I don’t get the anger over it is that it’s completely optional: no one is forcing anyone to contribute to the project. Don’t like it? Don’t give him any money. Pretty simple. Honestly, if more people would adopt that attitude about more things, well, I mean, I guess the Internet might go away completely, but other than that, things would probably be better overall.

If he had said he was making a Turk & JD movie and Bill Lawrence was on board, this thing would've been funded in 3.2 seconds.

If he had said he was making a Turk & JD movie and Bill Lawrence was on board, this thing would’ve been funded in 3.2 seconds.

If you haven’t yet watched the video he made about the project, you really should. I really enjoyed it, but I also liked hearing his reasoning on trying to crowd-source the movie. Granted, I’m his target audience: I love both Scrubs and Garden State. Still, I think it’s an interesting idea and I’m curious to see how it turns out. As of this morning he’s about 75% funded, so it’s likely he’ll have the whole deal by the end of the day.

Side note: I find the celebrity group that’s tweeting to their followers about this to be a strange and varied mix. Any group that includes Micheal J. Fox, Chris Rock, and Jessica Simpson is one to raise an eyebrow towards.

I actually backed the project and I’ll tell you why. Aside from being a big fan of his previous work, I like the idea of being a part of something like this. I’ve never had anything to do with making a movie on any scale, so even something as small as the part I’m playing is a fun thing for me. The reward incentives for the level I backed include art prints, a tee shirt, weekly playlists, a copy of the script, and Production Diary updates. Oh, and I get to see a preview of the film in Chicago when it’s done, followed by a Q&A session with Zach. This will officially be the only time I was ever excited to actually go to Chicago, a place I generally avoid like the plague.  (Hey, nothing against Chicago specifically, I tend to loathe all big cities.)

This is also the first Kickstarter project I’ve ever backed, but immediately afterwards, I backed another one. This morning Zach retweeted someone else who had done the same.  So even if all this ever does is raise awareness of Kickstarter, I think it’s been a good thing. My wife had never heard of Kickstarter before, and I bet you’d be surprised at just how many people are just like her. If you’re not an Internet Denizen like you and I are, these things don’t even get on your radar unless Big News gets a hold of it, something that actually has started happening with Zach’s announcement.

About two minutes after I finished the process of backing this project, a weird sort of change came over me: I got really, really interested in the project. That might sound funny to you, I know. I mean, why would somebody fund something they weren’t already really, really interested in? I’m not sure if I can explain the difference, but I went from a “hey, this sounds fun, I’ma do it” to “I can’t wait to follow along with this production and see how it goes and how the final project ends up.”  I guess you could say that investing got me invested.

Best of luck, Zach. I’ll see you in Chicago in September of 2014 if all goes well. If you’re nice, I’ll even let you Eagle me.

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April 24, 2013 I Caved

I said I wouldn’t do it, but I did: I bought virtual donuts with actual money. I spent $20 to get 300 Donuts for The Simpsons: Tapped Out. There were two main contributing factors:

  1. Whacking Day – The current month-long even has you whacking snakes around town, and there are prizes for whacking certain amounts of snakes. So far I’ve earned two buildings, a new outfit for Lisa, a pet snake and some scenery. One of those buildings is Duff Stadium, and a friend of mine who bought Duff Brewery a while back showed me that Duff Man gets a new task where he jetpacks around the stadium if you have it. I already wanted Duff Man (I don’t drink beer, but Duff Man amuses me greatly), and seeing him jetpack around was just too much temptation. Duff Brewery and Duff Man together are 190 Donuts (math bits coming up in a little bit).
  2. Guilt/Peer Pressure – Not an active pressure, more of a “I hadn’t considered that” factor. The aforementioned friend has spent many, many dollars on donuts, and his town is filled with most of the premium items. It’s cool to visit and see, but that’s not the pressuring factor. I asked him why he’d spent so much on the game and he said, “I really enjoy playing it and have spent a lot of time on it. I’ve spent $60 on Xbox games I’ve played less, and this is also a way I can support the game creators and thank them for making something so fun.” While I think the Simpsons empire is doing fine without my $20, his dual points of time spent/dollars paid and thanking the creators made sense.
The irony of Barney performing his "Sober Up" task in front of the Duff Building and Stadium had escaped me until just this very moment

The irony of Barney performing his “Sober Up” task in front of the Duff Building and Stadium had escaped me until just this very moment

Aside from all that, I’ve long wanted Duff Brewery and a few of the other premium buildings. My top two desired items were the Springfield Sign and the Duff Brewery. The sign bumps up XP and dollars earned from tasks significantly, and I’ve already explained why I wanted the Brewery.

But there’s a problem: I didn’t do my math correctly.

I bought the Brewery, as you can see from the screenshot included. It was 190 donuts. I currently have 141 donuts (those figures add up to more than the 300 I purchased because the game has given me some here and there, but only enough to tantalize). Here are the costs for some other things I”d like to have:

  • Springfield Sign: 170 Donuts
  • Frink’s Lab (comes with Professor Frink): 150 Donuts
  • Krustylu Studios (comes with Sideshow Mel): 140 Donuts
  • Volcano Lair (comes with Hank Scorpio): 200 Donuts

In order to buy all of them, I’d need 660 Donuts.  I could buy 900 for $49.99. I could also buy 2400 for $99.99. These are not things I’m prepared to do. I already feel a little bit bad about spending $20 on the 300 I bought, as there are plenty of other things I should/need to buy, like, actual physical things.

There is a random gift mechanic in the game, something that could get me a couple of those things. If I spend 15 Donuts on a Homer Buddha statue, it will contain a premium item. I have, in fact, purchased a couple of these over the course of the game, figuring that I’d never have enough Donuts for the major items, so I might as well gamble with the few I had gotten. From those Buddhas I have received fences, hedges, and the Squeaky Voice Teen. I have no use for fences and hedges, but have enjoyed SVT, I guess.  The odds of me getting the Volcano Lair or Frink’s Lab are very, very small, and I’m guessing I’d be wasting Donuts trying for them, even though I could buy 9 Home Buddhas with the Donuts I have left.

At this point I have a couple of options:

  • But Krustylu Studios and get another character I like okay
  • Wait a couple of months and see if I get 9 more Donuts randomly given to me, enough to buy Frink and his lab
  • Buy more Donuts (I do not want to do this)

The real shame of it is I could have bought the Sign and Frink’s Lab with the Donuts I bought and would have had two of the three things I wanted the most, instead of having now the one I wanted the most and (possiblech) some other thing that I’m okay with having even if I didn’t really want want it.

And, yes, I realize that if this is the most difficult decision I have to struggle with this week then maybe things are pretty good and I should stop whining.

 

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April 23, 2013 Tuesday 10: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

Your new phone wallpaper

Your new phone wallpaper

If you know me at all, you knew it was only a matter of time until we got to this list. I’ve never seen him wrestle outside of bits shown in interviews and in videogames, but the man can do movies, people.  It is my opinion that Mr. Johnson should be an even bigger star than he is, on par with what Stallone and Schwarzenegger were in their respective (and simultaneous) heydays: he can do all the action stuff they did, but is a better actor. He can do action, comedy, and drama, and he’s got more charisma in his eyebrow than some folks have in their whole family. On top of that, he genuinely seems like a nice guy and his Twitter account will either motivate you to work harder or make you feel like more of a lazybutt than you already do. (It’s usually the latter for me.)

I’m having a hard time describing this list, though. It isn’t really “best movies,” it’s more of a mix of “best characters,” “best movies,” and “characters most suited to the man.” His new movie Pain & Gain opens this weekend, so you’ve got time to brush up on your The Rock history before it gets here, and I’m suggesting this is the way to go about it.

10. Be Cool (2005) – I’m going to be flat-out honest with you: this movie isn’t very good. Get Shorty is a fantastic movie, but I don’t like to think about this movie trying to be a sequel to that one, and it makes me sad, because an actual more-like-Get-Shorty sequel to Get Shorty would be awesome. Anyway! This was really the first chance we got to see The Rock do comedy, and you could tell by watching it that he’d do all right.

9. Doom (2005) – I’m supposed to hate this movie because it ruins the story of the videogame and yada yada yada. I’m a much bigger fan of The Rock than I am of the videogame, and his no-nonsense, get-things-done military guy is the best part of the movie anyway. Keep an eye out for that character description, it shows up again later on in this list.

8. Walking Tall (2004) – I’ve never seen the original this movie is a remake of, and that’s probably supposed to make me feel bad, too. This is the exact sort of character you like to see The Rock play: tough, principled, and determined.

7. The Mummy Returns (2001)  / The Scorpion King – The first is where we got a glimpse of whether or not The Rock could do movies. The second was because people’s opinion was, “Oh, yeah, totally, even if the first movie wasn’t awesome he did a good job.”

6. Snitch (2013) – Kind of an action-drama, but The Rock plays an everyman, something you wouldn’t think a smaller version of the Hulk would be able to do, but I think he does a great job of it.

5. Get Smart (2008) – Comedy/Action, a genre he seems more suited for than just about anyone else.

4. Faster (2010) – his character’s name in this one is “Driver,” so I kept getting it confused with that Ryan Gosling movie. It is at its heart your basic revenge movie, and it just occurred to me that Driver and The Bride ought to meet up and form an A-Team-like group that rights wrongs.

3. The Rundown (2003) – I don’t know what your Seann William Scott tolerance levels are (mine are pretty low), but this action comedy works pretty well pairing him up with The Rock. Add in some Rosario Dawson and some Christopher Walken, and I’m not sure why anybody would have a problem with this movie.

2. G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) – This might be the most “The Rock-iest” movie he’s made so far. He’s military, tough, principled, determined, and funny. And he shares some screentime with Bruce Willis, enough to make you want a whole movie of just him and Bruce Willis doing stuff.

1. The Other Guys (2010) – Any time somebody takes a poke at their own image, I’m probably going to enjoy that. When that someone is The Rock, I’m going to enjoy that even more.  His scenes in this movie with Samuel L. Jackson are my favorite of his movie scenes so far.

Thinking back over his work so far, it strikes me that The Rock has good chemistry with just about everyone he shares the screen with, and I’m guessing his years of wrestling helped hone his abilities to work with others. Here’s a couple of other suggestions of people for him to make movies with:

  • Sandra Bullock – America’s current reigning Sweetheart and The Rock, it’s a no-brainer, folks. He’s her bodyguard and maybe they fall in love or something, I don’t know. Meags suggested “Mr. Congeniality,” and I’m okay with that, too.
  • Bruce Willis – Two wisecracking hitmen
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger – The Rock plays his estranged son who has to team up with his dad to take down the paramilitary group who wants Arnold wiped out
  • Ryan Reynolds – Competing car salesmen whose tactics keep escalating
  • The Expendables – Come on, Sly!  Put him on the team already!  While you’re at it, please also add Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock, Gina Carano, and Jackie Chan.
  • Marvel/DC – There’s gotta be a superhero he could play. The rumor is Lobo, but how about Darkseid or the adventure-craving version of Aquaman seen in Batman: The Brave and the Bold?
  • Rene Russo, Lucy Liu, and Lucy Lawless – A tougher, smarter Charlie’s Angels-type thing
  • Bruce Campbell – Come on, you know this would be awesome
  • Honestly, I could do this all day. The Rock is kind of like Batman: he should be in all the movies.

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April 22, 2013 LWST: Better Off Ted S01E11 – Father, Can You Hair Me?

I really, really like how the writers take an underlying theme and relate all the different stories to that theme. This time around it’s “Fathers,” whereas in Bioshuffle it was “handling stress.” I’m sure it’s happened in more episodes, but these are the two that stick out to me. What do I like even more than that? More Veronica, and this episode has a whole bunch of that. On top of both of those things, we also get more Rose, one of the very few awesome TV kids to have ever graced the screen.

Any time you learn more backstory about a character, you have the chance to see where that character came from, philosophically. Generally it’s handled by extremes, either “parents are XYZ, so character is XYZ” or “parents are ABC, character is completely opposite XYZ.” Remember Alex P. Keaton? There’s your example for the latter, and I”ll leave you to imagine any of the myriads available to model the former.

We don’t really know anything about Veronica’s mother, but this episode makes it pretty clear where Veronica gets her Veronicaness from. The competition with her father has not only driven her to be who she is, but has also driven her mother away (well, that and Mr. Palmer’s … I’m trying to find a more dignified word than “porking,” and I’m failing here. Suffice to say, the competition between father and daughter is very believably the source of her Veronica powers, and I love that we get a look at it.

It’s not the only time the show uses a dark event as a springboard for comedy, but this one is really dark. Giving Mr. Palmer only a year to live, and making it cancer just seems so, man, I don’t know. In previous viewings, I think I registered it but moved on to enjoy what was going on around it, but for some reason this time I was struck by just how strange it was they went this route. The show is only eleven episodes old! Even Seinfeld waited until season six to joke about someone with cancer, and it ended up he was lying about it anyway (spoiler alert, I guess?). Given all the fantastical things Veridian (and, as we learn, DigiVation) has done so far, it seems like they could have manufactured some other reason. “Hey, I’m being sent to a new office on the moon, not sure when I’ll be back,” or something. But without the impetus of looming death, I suppose we wouldn’t have gotten to see Veronica instantly soften and get worried the second she finds out her dad is really dying, and that really is a beautiful moment for the character. Plus, the situation leads to Mr. Palmer’s best line of the episode, said to Linda when she is on one of her trademark rambles: “Young lady, are you aware that I have only one year to live?”

I’ve said before how great characters lead to great comedy, and seeing Veronica and her dad traverse the cycle of competition, trying to make their time together more special, and back to competition is some great character-based stuff. It’s not a “hey, let’s make so-and-so all of a sudden very interested in competition so we can use this storyline,” it’s an organic thing that comes from what we already know about her, and it fits. Yes, we see more depth, but it isn’t a change of the character, it’s another dimension.

Contrast Veronica’s experience with Ted’s. What’s interesting to me is that this is one of the few times we feel sorry for Ted. He’s successful, handsome, and well-liked, but he’s got this underlying pain about not being able to please his father. And, man, his father is a jerk!  I mean, we don’t get to know much about him, but good night, Irene! I hope none of you talk to your kids like that. Or cats or dogs or even fish. We don’t get to know him well enough to know why he’s like that, but we’re firmly on Ted’s side and we know he turned out all right, and we are supposed to think Ted’s dad is a jerk. Still, it’s sad that he grew up with that, and, yes, I’m sad about a fictional character’s fictional upbringing. I feel bad for Ted!

But Ted’s dad’s baldness as the impetus for Ted wanting to hurry along the hair-growth formula is great, and it’s revealed perfectly. Maybe I’m slow at picking up on things (I am), but the first time I saw this episode I didn’t see that coming at all. It was all “Ted, do real stuff” and “Who cares about grades?” and then, bam, bald. It worked very well on me.

Ted comes full circle, though, and it’s a good place for the character to end up. You get the real sense that he’s at peace with the relationship he does/doesn’t have with his dad, just like Veronica got to with her dad (even though hers seemed like a regression, I still think it was growth because she came back to their former relationship with deeper understanding of it). When Ted says at the end that he’s really not going to worry about it, I believe him, and I believe he’s going to go on and be okay with it. And all it took was a hair-covered desk.

Bits and Pieces:

  • Is it weird to anyone else that Veronica was a member of a sorority? I only really know the stereotype of sororities from movies and TV, but those don’t fit with what I know about Veronica
  • Veridian fixed Iceland’s presidential election
  • DigiVation Industries is a great name for a company, especially a competitor for Veridian Dynamics.
  • “My father and I hardly speak. We’re like oil and… what’s that thing that’s always disappointing oil? Oh, yeah, it’s me.” – Ted
  • Everybody has a better dad than Ted.
  • Lem’s dad’s last words were that he loved Lem more than all the stars in the universe and Ted’s dad once got kicked out of a zoo for giving a monkey a cigarette.
  • “It’s a disaster,” says Phil. “It’s a debacle,” says Lem. “A disastacle,” Phil says, with a great word to go alongside “magniflorious” and “horrivific.”
  • “See? I know things about stuff.” – Ted, after correctly using Einstein as an example
  • The only thing the class president does is go to student council meetings and feed the gerbil.  “I don’t even know if I want to win. The gerbil’s kind of a jerk,” says Rose.
  • “I want to bring him to his knees. No, I want to steal his knees. Can we do that?” – Veronica, about her dad (Sadly, she is told that joint-stealing technology is still years away)
  • “Whales are shallow twits. All they do is gossip and spread rumors. It’s like talking to teenage girls.” – Mr. Palmer
  • Rat, bat, hat, then a cat: proper order of testing at Veridian
  • The way Phil gets all nervous and faint when Lem says no to Ted is very Mymanesque
  • “We are not mad scientists, Ted, regardless of what our bowling shirts might say.” – Lem
  • “I’m gonna get you bowling shirts that say ‘Boss-disappointing, protocol-loving unlegendary scientists’.” -Ted
  • Phil walking the last potato back to the case is also very Mymanesque
  • “Why are you throwing your dad out of the building?” – Linda “He says he’s dying.” – Veronica
  • “I hate Dutch blend. And the Dutch, too. Those people are lunatics, with their wooden shoes and their fatty sausages.” I think this is the first time Veronica expresses her dislike of the Dutch, but it won’t be the last.
  • “At least now you have something to talk to your sister about besides all her stupid babies.” – Mr. Palmer
  • “It’s okay, Linda. you’ll get through this.” – Veronica to Linda when Linda says she’s sorry Mr. Palmer has cancer
  • Veronica and her dad mirroring the other couple in the park, only to find out the other couple is together
  • “Is it terrified in here, or is it just me?” – Lem
  • “Well, it’s not gonna shave itself.” – Ted, when Veronica asks if he’s shaving his office furniture
  • Those are some really fantastic bald wigs on Phil and Lem

Commercial:

Veridian Dynamics. We’re working hard to make your life better. But our competitor, DigiVation, wants to ruin your life. Since DigiVation was founded 50 years ago, millions have died. Millions more have become sad. What’s your problem, DigiVation? Veridian Dynamics. Good. DigiVation. Bad.

Ideas/Inventions mentioned in this episode (some alongside DigiVation making them, too):

  • 7-year battery
  • Hovershoes
  • Weight-loss toothpaste
  • Wrinkle cream that turns out to be hair growth formula that turns out to be technically a parasite
  • Genetically engineered flying koala bear

Coworkers named/seen:

  • A couple more lawyers (? maybe?), but no names. This episode was all about family

Next week: S01E12 – Jabberwocky

 

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