Episode 62: "The Front of a Crocodile"
Date
May 11, 2012
Guests
Will Leitch
Sara Schaefer
Origin of the episode title
A dire choice for any masseur: would you rather give a massage to John Travolta or the front of a crocodile? Don't be surprised if this turns up in one of the "Saw" sequels.
Discussed
Oh boy, oh boy! This episode of How Was Your Week is so good, it will curl your pretty lashes.
First and foremost, Julie went with Billy Eichner to see Rita Wilson perform at Joe's Pub last night, and there is an extensive recap at the top of the show of that blessed and sacred evening of song and magic. Nora Ephron and Wendi Deng were both in the audience? I mean. I can't.
And then, there are the guests. The guests! And what guests! In time for Mothers' Day, the charming and attractive SARA SCHAEFER (You Had To Be There) is here to tell a touching, funny and insane story about the time her mom invited a homeless man to live with her family for 6 months. Learn about chicken strips, Christmas Eve and Rwanda through the prism of a man named Harold.
Then, wonderful gentleman writer WILL LEITCH (New York Magazine, Gawker, Deadspin) joins Julie for the latest installation of How Was Your Week Movie Club. This week, we discuss the sublime Fargo. Subtopics of our fun, fascinating chat include:
>Whether Tarantino's '90s blood legacy holds up with the woodchipper gag (and it IS a gag, right?) >If Harve Presnell was indeed Fargo's high-status stand-in for the "bellowing heavy" in the Coen Bros' cabinet of archetypes >What Lt. Columbo and Marge Gunderson have in common >A theory about how Walter White, Carl Showalter and Jerry Lundegaard are the trinity of failed virility >Mike Yanagita, Mike Yanagita, Mike Yanagita
Also, more details are revealed about Jimmy Jazz, including some extremely intimate details about his intimacy parts! Julie accepts her Comedy Awards defeat graciously, then goes on to renew her vow to crush absolutely everybody on her way to where she--and we--need to be! Sean Bean is discovered and considered for who he is and not who he could be! And Julie watches, then recaps, Duck Dynasty and Tanked, because there is nothing better than never leaving the house.
A show that is so wonderful, even Rita Wilson would stop singing "Angel in the Morning" to complement it!
Trivia
- This is the episode in which Julie recounts the story of adopting Jimmy Jazz!
- It would be nice to see a Beaches-themed episode of Community.
