Bonanas for Bonanza - Bonanas For Bonanza Episode #74: “The Many Faces of Gideon Flinch”

Episode Date: December 10, 2025

Subscribe to The Andy Daly Podcast Project at Patreon.com/AndyDaly It's the final Oswaltmananza! In this imperfectly recorded episode, Patton Oswalt joins Dalton, Mutt and Markie to discuss the last episode of Bonanza to be directed by Robert Altman. It's a highly comical affair with a flawless plot and a cavalcade of A+ guest stars, including a woman!  Featuring Patton Oswalt, Lily Sullivan & Matt GourleyMerch: redbubble.com/people/ADPodProject/shopMail: PO Box 9407 Glendale, CA 91226Email: [e-mail]’s website: andydaly.comRecord date: 4/21/2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Subscribe today. And now enjoy this episode of Banan. Bonanza for Bonanza. Howdy, folks, you're about to listen to Bonanus for Bonanza episode 74, but we're doing a little pre-introduction for it. Why we're doing that mud? Well, because some gremlins got into the machine. I assure you, there are many things this could have been.

The only thing it couldn't have been was my fault. Hell, of course not, God damn it. It sure as hell wasn't my fault. We done, we don't like what I always do. We started with a yee-ha. We ended with a now-getting in the middle. We're talking about an episode of Bonanza. That's what we always do.

Yeah, except this time, two of the four microphones did not get recorded. Oh, shit. But here's what happened. Okay. I went to my buddy from the journeyman Jimmy Blades. Oh, Jimmy Blades. Jimmy Blades, who's, he's an amazing, he's a magician. He's a magic man.

Now, literally, you can't go, you can't hire him for a birthday party and have him come to do magic? Can you? You can try. Really? I've never tried. He might just go for it. Well, shit.

He does everything else. I'd love to have a birthday party with magic. All right. But anyway, I'll sidetrack you. Would you talk to him about what? Well, I gave him the audio from the live streaming table microphone that we used. And with various tools and bells and whistles, he's been able to process that audio. So that the two microphones that were not recorded, myself and Patton Oswald, are indeed audible, especially Patton's.

Mine at times, because I talk in a soft little velvety-voiced fog of a mutter. The velvet fog they call you. It will either be a little harder to hear or entirely excised from the final edit of this program. And I have to live with that because once again, this was not my fault. As the engineer and the person that sets up this microphone, it was not my fault. Hell no, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some goddamn, you've seen that goddamn Twilight Zone with old, first they've done it with Jim, Captain Kirk. Yeah.

Then they done it with old Johnny Lithgow. And in both times, there was a creature on the wing. airplane trying to tear the motherfucking thing apart. That's right. Grimlins are known for tearing technology apart. That's what they do. And if we've got one coming in here and fucking with the record equipment, then we need to do what Lithgow did and Jimmy Kirk. We need to shoot a gun out the plane window and get half sucked out until they land the fucker. And when we transition into the beginning of this episode, when you hear welcome

and mutts shoots his gun, that's exactly what's happening. That's what we're doing. All right. Well, thank you, Jimmy Blades, for solving our terrible audio problem and that's a he is a miracle worker because people love to complain about the microphone that we use for the live streams and he managed to harness the sound from that microphone and turn it into something you can listen to and enjoy that's incredible that's right all right folks now i'll throw it over to dalton welcox and mutt taylor hey that's us for an episode of bonanas for bonanza bye now only to say hi now Yeah!

Bonanza! It's the finest show alive. So consult your TV guide. Get your great outdoors inside. Take some Ponderosa pride and forever made. Pride! Pride! I'm Bananas for Bonanza.

I'm going to get started with a He! Ha! Hot damn! Good morning, good evening, good afternoon. We're here doing a bonanananas. Oh, baby bonanas for Bonanza! It is the final.

Alt-Patant-Oz-Walt Mananza episode. This is the last episode that Robert Altman ever directed to Bonanza for some goddamn. damn reason. I was looking in this episode for, what did he do that pissed him off so much that they fired him? Yeah, he just sent him off into this hellish

world of film and yeah. Yeah, and he never got to go back to Bonanza. It's sad. It's such a set. You look at the rest of his IMP, you'd be it such a sad ending. Right? For someone to have the pinnacle of their career so young. It's weird to peak that young and then you're just trying to recap, never get there.

Joining us today is Pat and Oswald. Terry comes around whenever Robert Altman does an episode and also joining us today is my niece, Marky. Hi. Hi, Marky. How are you out of you up today? I'm fine. I didn't obviously want to be here today, but I'm here. That's right.

I got in trouble at school. Once again, what did you do this time? God damn it, Marky. Well, they had the Easter bunny come in to talk about STDs and I just wasn't really feeling it. And I ended up calling. What's the problem? Why would you not be feeling it? You got to learn about SDDs and if you're going to learn about them.

I'm going to have a little bit of fun. They just wasn't ringing true, and then I ended up calling her a slut, and I got kicked out. So that expression, like, fucking, like, rabbits? It's true. Okay, I get it. So he just, just wowsy. Yes, the Easter Bunny has so many SDV. Really?

It's insane. Is that, did you get that? Is that what the Easter Money said? Yeah, they went through it, gonorrhea, chlamydia, uh, HPV. Wow. Um, she showed us, like, her genital warts and stuff. No, she really? Like, was it like a scared straight thing then?

Like here, don't go where I've been. Yeah. She was smoking cigarettes. Oh, man. She had white stuff all over her nose. It's 10 miles of hard road, right? The Easter money's really been through it. She's addicted to eggs, too.

That's another thing. But I didn't really get into that. Okay. That's a weird addiction. Why do you think she's looking for them all the time? Yeah, okay. Stashing them all. Did she?

So hang on. Those he eggs she can't find when we, well, wake up on Eastern morning. She's been looking and she's so, I guess. She gets all blackout at night. She hides the eggs everywhere. She's like, I'll know where they are in the morning. And the next day she doesn't remember.

And so the kids have to find them for her. Then she wakes up later. It's like, these kids took my freaking eggs. Exactly. And she gets all pissed. And that's why, oh, my God. That's why she dives them to make them easier to find. Oh, remember, I'll make them really colorful.

Well, that he doesn't think it through. Oh, that also makes it easier for the kids to find. That and she comes. it's a lot of meth, so... Oh, no, that's all the Easter money and this Easter, and she was just taking part of Toaster. Yeah, sometimes, you know, she's just whacked out on something? Yeah, she gets all

fucked up, and then she does these videos online where she's, like, taking apart appliances in her house. It's really entertaining. It's, like, on boxing, but, like, on steroid. I didn't know any of this about the Easter Bunny at all, but I can't say I'm surprised by any of it. But what happened? You got into an argument? Yeah, well, I was just, like, asking, like, you know, I was watching her and put a condom on a banana.

And I was like, this just doesn't seem like, she was going to give it a blowjob. She was like, you should just put condoms on bananas anyway. Oh, well, that's bullshit. And that's what I said. That's exactly what I said. I was like, you don't need to be a condom. I'm like, big deal. Hell no.

By the way, with her paws and stuff, it was just hard for her to get the condom on anyway. So I'm like sitting there watching it for like 35 minutes. I was like, can I do it? It was like, I called her a slut because obviously she is. She's fucked so many people. That's fair. And then. People?

Yeah, people. Yeah, she fucks, like, only, like... I don't like that. Actually, she says only guys, like, over 50s. Oh, yeah? Watch out. Oh, okay, well, now, I wouldn't say I'm interested, but I'm curious. Right.

I'd send you first. What's that? I'd send you first. Find out how it is. Then... You could do a whole TikTok series, like, come along with me. Like, I'm about to fuck a rabbit. Oh, I don't think they're...

game. Yeah. I'm fucking wrap. I'm not going on social media. I'm saying that the subscriptions go through the room. Honestly, you would.

You guys can't get your numbers up. Like, that's about clits, man. It's about clicks. We're in the end time. It's all clits now. Yeah. All right.

This is the end game. It's about juicy morsels, okay? So did you get suspended again? Is that what happened? How many days for calling a bunny and slut? A week. A week. All right.

Well, they've good worked out for us because you got to watch an episode of bonanza that I confidently predict is finally one that you loved to be honest with you this one held my attention the most oh wow okay yeah I mean I don't know if I have Stockholm syndrome now or what but yeah I mean this one was entertaining okay good I'm trying to get some Stockholm syndrome going on your part this is what I say at the beginning hello friend come on in the gate is open wide welcome to bananas for bananas today we'll be discussing season three episode seven the many faces of Gideon flinch this episode has everything thing. It has a woman. It has three different recurring jokes. It has several helpful plot

recaps. It have a subtle reference to marijuana, which none of you call. I will tell you when we get there. And it's just got the highest of hijinks we've ever seen on this show and a giant fight. Fight between two giants. It has everything, man. It was a good one. The character, actor, Evan. It really was. And we'll get to him because there ain't too much. to tell you about this day in history, November 5th, 1961 is when this aired. People are still flocking to the theater to enjoy Mickey Rooney and Breakfast of Tiffany's.

Because you've got to see that movie twice, I think, is why. Yeah, yeah. Because you were the first time. You get all his show. That's it. Well, first time you're laughing. Second time, you're just amazed by the transformation. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Yeah. I've seen it a hundred times, and I'll laugh more every time. It's wonderful. People are still dancing to walk on by on the country charts and run around Sue. Speaking of a slut shaman, that's D. Well, she's a slut.

Keep away from the background suit. Got to keep, how many STDs to sue have? Well, that's back then. That was before they even knew what they were. Yeah. Back then they just called it the purse of Eve. If you wanted to know about SDDs in those days, you had to join the army and watch a movie.

And those are on YouTube, and they're fun. Born on November 5th, 1961, two American astronauts, Charles Holbaugh and Alan Poindexter. Imagine an astronaut named Poindexter. That's a real name? Yeah, Alan G. Poindexter. I feel like they shumps into the locker in the landing module. I don't have a kid. Fucking nerd.

How can you have a nerd astronaut? Yeah, astronauts are like Katie Perry. They're hot. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The only next to bring a flower up there with them.

That was great. You just need her to get up to space. Then we'd debunk with him. They shoved him out the airlock. Kathy Griffin was also born on this day. Whoa. So you still can't celebrate New Year's with what's his face. Can't do it because she decapitated one of our presidents.

That's tough. well the guest actors on this show holy shit there's so much to tell you about Jennifer flinch the woman this is what a voice what a vote what what was her dialect do you think where's that character from it was like both mid-atlantic and southern at the same time yeah it was a very that's a great way to put it it seemed to fluctuate word by word yes was it great and it was also there was a third action in there screechy and it was a little mixture of screech yeah and I don't usually like stereotypes about women, but I will say her voice

was just horrible. Finally. I don't know who it says it, but you got a little vocal fry yourself. Oh, I'm sure. I'm not. I'm sure. I'm talking about picked up. Well, you're getting really sexist. Wait a minute. It was this called her street to Easter Bunny's sleigh? Everybody

needs to cancel him for this. All right. Sorry, mutton, you've been canceled. Jennifer Flinch didn't have vocal fry. She had like vocal saute. Well, poor Sue Ann Langdon is still alive. at 89, sad. She is the, she was,

that's sad. That's her? Yeah, uh-huh. She's sad, she's alive. I think so. She's laying in her bed somewhere ago. Yeah. Let's get her on the show. Yeah.

89, why has God forgotten me? It's a terrible old. She was the third actress to play Alice Cramden in Honeymooners. sketches. Really? Yeah. I could actually see that. Yeah. Yeah. Wait. I'm sorry. I don't mean, this is prior to Audrey Meadows. Yeah. Actually, it's she replaced Audrey Meadows and then Audrey Meadows replaced her. It was a little bit of a, well, the contract negotiations. Something like that. It's not a way that Audrey Meadows was replaced or was replace a whole. She was also in the movie Zapped and unlike Scott Beaux returned for the sequel Zapped again.

Zapped again Well, Scott was a man of principles He told the story perfectly This second one is just a cash trap That's not what I do You know what I mean? Like I'm about cinema I'm not cinema.

Yes, yeah She was always about me There's a reason that zapped again It's not the criterion collection Why? It's just it's not it's it's garbage You don't need to Bail was right

She was also in a play in Walshkeesh Wisconsin And I found the review of it. And it's got a fascinating headline. Oh, no. No. The headline of this review is

actor botches musical debut. But it's not about her. It's about her co-star, a fellow by the name of John Philip Law. What? You know John Philip Law? He was, yeah, he played the blind age and the Barrella.

That's right. I'm kidding. That's right. So he botched his musical debut? Yeah, according to this. What's what are they doing? It was something called can-can. Yeah.

Can-can again. His French accent was very forced. Are they saying that he can't can't? I guess so. Or he couldn't, couldn't. Couldn't, couldn't. Not this time. His stage presence was so stiff, it seemed that his suit must be made of tin.

I know. He really got ripped in. A tin man. This is, it was obviously his first night. Perhaps he was nervous. Perhaps he was too excited. And maybe he just can't sing. This is the best part, though.

Law received most of his laughs when he made a costume change too quickly and came on stage with his zipper down. Well, that would have slayed. I mean, come on. Anytime someone zippers down. Oh, my God. Yeah, but she was okay.

I said she was good? Well, no. Langdon has a charming natural stage presence, but her voice also let the audience down. I mean, we could have told you that. That's true. I mean, guys, sorry. Even in the popular, I love Paris and say Magnific.

Oh, poor, well, all right. There you go. You can't find much else from her after that. That seemed to have ended that ended her career. Arnold Stang! Oh, the great Arnold Stang! As Jake the Weasel. Yeah.

Fantastic. Which one was he? This character identifies himself as Jake the Weasel about 18 times. He just keeps insistent, I'm Jake the Weasel. He was the voice of Top Cat on Top Cat cartoons. He was Frank Sinatra's best friend Sparrow in the man with the golden arm. He was one of the gas station owners in the mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world. Jonathan Winters destroys the whole gas station.

He just goes a tornadoes on that place. And they were really scared. Whoa, really? hit. Oh, yeah. It was real danger. Wow. Nice. He was the Honey Nut Cheerios B. Oh, no. I didn't know that. Yeah. He was? Yeah.

The Hon. Up Chinat O. Stee's a survival. Wow. Was there a ceremony working hand at the mantle over to NEDs at some point? Yeah, that feels like, like, he just he looked over to Eddie, nodded. Dr. Favorite put him into the thing. And then he's kind of passed the Nerd Force

over to the D. And ever since then, he's been talking to him in his mind. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Eddie, Cernardom. He played Nurtle the Turtle in Pinocchio in outer space. He was Nurtle the Turtle. Yep. He lived it. He also was a sidekick to Arnold Schwarzenegger in that movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger played Hercules.

Hercules in New York? Herculees in New York. Almost. Arnold Schwarzenegger, now I got to see what I'm doing. I'm copying paste on YouTube. You didn't do a hyperlink. I know. I still don't know what that is.

I was proud of you for seeing you swap through the. interfaces. Oh, I did. You have multiple desktops now on your computer, if you want them. Computer. Wait a minute. I don't want it to play right away. Okay. What this is, is okay. Arnold Stang did many commercials for the chunky candy bars. And then Arnold Stang was

Arnold Schwarzenegger's sidekick in Hercules in New York, a movie in which Arnold Schwarzenegger was credited as Arnold Strong. They changed his name. And they overdubbed his voice with the voice of a normal sounding person. Oh. And so...

Over Arnold's voice? Yes. And so this is a commercial for Chunky. It's a tie-in to Hercules in New York where you see Arnold with his new and better voice. Oh, my God. What's your name? Hercules. Oh.

Where are you from? Greece. Oh, I used to know a Greek guy. That is really amazing. Hey, you're hungry? Wait a minute. Here. Chunky.

The thick milk chocolate with a fistful of flavor. Good, huh? Food for the gods. This fine food for only a few small coins. It's the chocolate candy bar that's this thick, chunky thick. What a chunk of chocolate. Get yours. What a chunk of chocolate.

What a chunk of chocolate. Everyone in that commercial seems so hesitant totally. It's just for a few. you, panic. Would they not be shooting that at? I should shoot it.

They're not every time and you're not true boss I think in the middle of the commercial

I thought I heard him said, did he say no? Yeah. Then we got Joe Turkle.

Joe Turkle. Well, he's a lawyer bartender and the shunning. Exactly. He's Tyrell. and Blade Runner.

Unbelievable. He was the sheriff in Village of the Giants. Oh. He, I mean, he's been in, oh, he was in Stanley Kubrick's Path of Glory. He's one of the soldiers that get shot. He's had an incredible career. He was one of the thuds from Chicago. That's right.

With his, they bring two thugs in Chicago, and they're armed with Derringers. Oh, no. Nice sense. A very nice dude. Very weird. Yeah, bad guys. The other. The other thug from Chicago actor named Bobby Jordan wins this week's prize for the saddest life of a guest.

Oh, no, what happened? Well, all right. His bio begins with, by the time he was four and a half, he could act, tap dance, and play the saxophone. Whoa. Right? I didn't know what I expected the third thing to be, but not play the saxophone. He was a member of the dead end kids, the east side kids, the little tough guys, and the Bowery boys. Now, what in the hell are those?

I'm not totally sure. shut up in that. There's a movie called Dead End with Umphrey Bogart. And then they just spun off. And it's like, dirty faces was one. Yeah. And then they broke off to the like some of the dead end kids stayed and then

others became the East Side Kid. There's a whole. They were non-communic little rascals. Right. I think that may. Maybe it's right. Yeah. And it's serious dreadful.

Yeah. Don't mess with us. Yeah. Don't wait for a joke. It ain't coming. I got a cowlick, but I comb it down. I got mails to feed. Yeah, it's like that.

But he quit because Leo Gorsi and Hunts Hall were hogging up too much of the spotlight. He said, I'm out of here. And then he didn't really do much after that. He focused on his drinking. He became a bartender and a door-to-door photograph. salesman. What is that? I'm sorry, what? I don't know. A door-to-door photograph.

Photograph sales. Was he selling the hell? Take your photograph or do you want to buy these photographs? Maybe they just sell other people's family pictures. Well, he'd take a picture and go at the door and sell that picture to them. I'll take a picture of them.

The best time to get someone's photograph tickets is when you surprise at home. They most love to be photographed. That's when they look so good. Oh, my God. They're really. Oh, definitely. Get me in this light.

Get me in these lounge pants. 8.05 a.m. snap away, baby. I think it must be like what happens when you go to the zoo and you walk in and they say, stand over here and we'll take your picture. And then on the way out,

they shake you down for money for the picture. Yeah. Maybe it's that, but it's in your fucking house. Or like when I was on Hollywood Boulevard and this like minion just got into my selfie and then chase me down. Same night on the night. Is that right?

I mean, shit. Yeah. Go back. That's a tough way to make a dollar. Wow. Poor minion. So then we got, he was divorced, he declared bankruptcy. He was in an elevator accident.

They forced him to have surgery to remove his right knee cap. What? What? What? I don't know. This is one of the bad things. I didn't know that they just removed that part. They just took out the cap.

And then he died of cirrhosis of the liver in 42. Oh, yikes. She must have to drink it real hard. From one day through 20 to him. When we see him in this episode of Bananas for Bonanza, he's four years away from that. Whoa. Once you lose your knee, the alcohol has nowhere else to go. You need those kneecaps.

You're going to be a happy drink. Yeah, you got to have both of them. You're going to do you have an alcoholic sitting stairs before you're. Exactly. Do you not want to lose those kneecaps? Yep. You made her accident. The two old guys, this episode had a Waldorf and Stantler.

Yes, it did. It had two old men commenting on everything that happened. They were great. And one of them was Bert Mustin. Oh, the great Bart Muston. He was 77 when he did this and he lived to 92. And he was in his first film at the age of 67. So he's 10 years into a second career.

Here was a car salesman. And then he retired and then he went into movies and how he got started. Yeah, he was, I do. He was, first of all, he was in a barbershop quartet. Oh. And they. I'm assuming this is the guy. with a mustache. No, the other guy.

The other guy. The other guy. As he got over, he turned into a baby chick. Well, he was an amateur actor and he was in a production of Detective Story at the Sombrero Playhouse. Oh, where? In New Mexico or Arizona? And I guess for some reason, William

Weiler came to see it. And he told him, well, we're going to make detective story into a movie if you want to be in it. You couldn't be. And so he was. And that started his career going. Damn. The thing I remember him from the most of all. Do you remember the episode of the Brady Bunch where a little Bobby comes to idolize Jesse James? Oh, yeah. And his parents are concerned about it. So they do what any parent would.

They track down the author of a book about Jesse James whose father had been shot in the back by Jesse James. And they have him come over to the house and sit down with Bobby and tell him Jesse James was no hero. That was Bert Muston. And it's scary. Well, they have one of the most disturbing and dream sequences in its sitcom where basically he and another the kid just slaughter his family on a train and it is shot like, it looks like

a school shooting. It is so disturbing. Yeah. You can't even see all the members of the breakbook get gunned day. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You don't just go on where they're all on the Zoom call. That ain't a Zoom call. You never got past the open credited? That's how

all you guys? I was like, I don't know what you guys with At Work? Yeah, yeah. You know, for this generation, that's not a good threat sequence. It doesn't draw them in. They didn't think about that. All I know about the Brady bunch is it came down to

either Robert Reed or Gene Hackman as Mike Brady. I want to visit the universe where Gene Hackman was Mike Brady because that show would have been epic. That Robert Reed gets all Gene Hackman's. Yeah, he's in the French connection. Hackman as Mike Bramie wouldn't allow himself to get shot by Jesse James and that's no one. Yeah, he would have beat the crap out of those kids. You would have been serious bunch.

Oh, he'd have been the quiet. Yeah, the quiet part. Oh shit, that's on the cow. He was, uh, Burt Muston was in a barbershop quartet called the Cavity Four. They were called that because all four members had false teeth, which has comic devices they often removed. Wouldn't that sound like fun? Another film's even

And then she's never made. And then we got the little boy in this episode is also sadly still alive. But he's only 75. And he quit acting and went to law school and retired from law in 2007. The little boy in the hallway. Wow, he was good.

Yeah. That's the most successful person. Who was the other? Who was the Wal-Borff, he had a little guy with a mustache because I have a weird question on his character that we can get to later. Okay, that's it. Well, this thing is, do get a little confusing.

Oh, boy. That's an actor named Clem Bevins, who was playing the role of Jeb. But the role of Clem in this episode was played by a man named Robert. Okay. Clem was played by Jeb. No, Jeb is played by Clam and Clem is played by Robert. The name Clem Evans is a better name for a Bonanza character. I don't know.

Just use that. I don't know. He had fun. You had Clem Bevins? Did you get any 10 cc for Bert Mustin to get rid of this fun Benin? Common sign of things of Bert Mustin. Include turkey paste. Clem Bevins, what happened to him?

He was 82 when they shot this. He was 55 when he started his film career. And he was the oldest actor ever to appear in the Twilight Zone. Okay. That's all. When you had a theory about that character, well, no, I'd have a question. If he keeps saying,

this is more fun than I had at that Alamo. And didn't everyone die? Did he sneak away? That's a good thing. Yeah, it was very weird. You watched everyone die, and that was the best time. Exactly. Like, there's no, it's very, very great.

Or maybe he was like a trigger and he worked for Santa Anna and just came in time. Oh, yeah, yeah. That would have to be it. Either he was a coward to be hit under it, dead body? Yeah. Or he was part of the killer.

He says it a couple times. Uh-huh. Who else? Who else you want to hear about? Oh, boy. The hotel clerk is the guy that... The sleepy clerk? The sleepy clerk.

He's the guy that Robert Altman discovered in Missouri and brought out to L.A. Great face. And worked with them a bunch of times, including Ogwerlybirds. Oh. I have a question about this. All we use a different composer every time because every town we're doing at Altman, it's this jaunty wacky It becomes a comedy all the

It does Yeah Well he becomes a comedy Or like a weird Slightly supernatural Vistical fantasy thing There's weird They must

We got a weird one Get open again He'll make it work They'll make it work But this one was like a screwball comedy Yeah It really was Well at the beginning with the water

The big water pond They go trough The trough. Oh, that was a guy like that. The water cloud thing. Yeah. That was hilarious. That's so funny when you got in.

Well, they'll end up here anyway. It was dying. That was real fun. Yeah. Well, I guess we might as well get into it. Yeah, all right. We'll get to doing some recamping here. This episode begins.

Hauss and little John are riding in to Virginia City. There's jaunty music. There's two nosy old men. And one of them gets. fooled by Haas. That's humiliating to get outsmarted by Haas. He said, what brought you into town? You see those two horses? They brought us into town. Man, oh man. Now, you know we're going to laugh once you hear that. The stagecoach comes to town. A beautiful

lady gets off as well as some other characters. It's fun to have the stage coach come in and we say all the characters we're going to be dealing with this week. Yeah, right. That smiles everybody. Yeah. Yeah. So a little Joe hits on a woman. and doesn't get anywhere, and then her uncle checks in under a false name to the hotel. That takes us to the credits when they burned the map of the Ponderosa for the 74th time. But the credits are like longer than HBO credits. I mean, Jesus, right.

And they didn't have a skip credit option back. No, they do. I'm pressing the 10-second work like 50 times. How dare you? What? It's always good to watch it. I watch it all the way through. You never know what's going to happen.

No way. Then you got two drunks who. hit on this woman, Jennifer, who's come to town. She insults them and they attack her and Haas rescues. And then this is the hilarious thing where Haas punches one of them so hard, he falls into the trough. And then he's about- The water pond thing. The water pond thing. Right. He's about to punch the other guy and he says, no, no, no, wait, I'll do it. And he picks up his hat and he steps into the trough himself. He says, I don't need to be punched into it. If I'm going there anyway, I'll get in it. And he keeps looking at Haas until he goes fully under, head-under.

I know. Haas isn't satisfied, Tilly. And that water couldn't look worse. It looks dirty. Yeah. Something kind of erotic about that, like Hawks, I just watching him like, go all the way under. Yeah. I want to watch it. The full humiliary.

She has something very creepy. Something sick. 30, 50 shades gone on. And he keeps saying. Well, he had to sign that contract. Yeah, that is true. Yes, he did. Three.

Well, now this Jennifer likes Hoss a lot. And L.J., little Joe, can't believe it. That he's losing out to Hoss. And he's very. competitive now. Because Lil Joe's Hot. Right. Exactly. And Haas is just big. He's just big. She has a whole

bunch of colorful expressions like, this is more something than a something, but I didn't catch a one of them. You bunch of, shells on the, you bunch of like range ronios or some kind of oh yeah. It's all these weird insults. So now little Joe gives money to this guy Rocky, who's

a lumbago has flared up and can't even ride his horse, but it turns out he's just a no good drunk. But anyway, little Joe gives him money on their way to a fancy lunch he's going to take old Jennifer of fancy lunch and and that's when Arnold stang pickpockets I guess he pick pockets Joe and Rocky yeah he gets him both he gets him both he's a pick pocket and a weasel and that we have a scene here little Joe says to her did you like the cuisine and she says no I have the hog knuckles she's so stupid she says she's so

Classless. Yeah, class with that. And then he tries to pay the check, but he doesn't have his wallet. And he assumes it was her that stole it. Who else could it have been? So light is the touch of Jake the weasel that he didn't have any idea. He carries her to the sheriff's office and spanks her on the butt on the way. When she's totally fine and good.

I'm glad you've got to be friends. Yeah, well, like I said, I think I have Stockholm syndrome at this point. And I was just like, another episode of Bonanza. Yep, the guy picks her up, smacks her ass, takes her to jail. Yeah. And it's only because he likes her, you know, that's why he spanked her. It's insul. That's how insults that do it.

Yeah. Now, we've already had one of our recurring joke. Well, they've been seated. It's Waldorf and Statler making comments on everything they see. They're just spectating. Yeah, morning, meeting night. Of course. Yeah, they are.

Yeah. Yeah. And Rocky, with the Lombago acting up. and ask him for money. And now we go to the sheriff's office and there's game of checkers going on. Oh, yeah. Where there's a man in handcuffs who every time he wins, he gets a week taking off his sentence, I think, and he can't lose. He's just real good at chicken.

But now, Joe's in here saying she stole my wallet. She says, I didn't steal a wallet. And in comes Jake, though. He hasn't been arrested. And he's got all, he disgorges from his outfit, all the stuff he's stolen from everybody. and there's Little Joe's Wallet. So he doesn't falsely accused Jennifer. And that set him back in his courtship.

And Little Jonas, the first many long takes. I was just, you say, the longest take I've ever seen. Whoa. He just goes on forever. And like, people have left the room. And he's just, this set that's coming in a little short. Do you do some really react to this? He's going, oh, oh, wow.

Well, you know, he's bringing everything. Landon's bringing all of it to this episode. Everything he knows how to do. And he did it all, man. Man, he did. So now Gideon comes in, old man, and he's got here, this is his issue now. He has received a threatening letter from Bullethead Burke. He's done some business with Bullethead Burke, and Bullethead Burke lost $5,000.

And he blames Gideon, but it's not Gideon's fault. But nonetheless, he's been told by a letter that he's going to get, beat up by Bullethead Burke. And so he's come to the sheriff's obviously say, please protect me, Sheriff from Bullethead Burke. No, I don't know what he looks like. And Sheriff says, I can't help you. There's a lot of information in this scene.

But that's why Gideon tried to give a false name to the hotel clerk because he's hiding out from Bullethead Burke. He's on the run with his knees. I think Gideon was bad the whole time because he was with Jake the Weasel. I know, but they just came in on the coach together. So they weren't even together. No. I thought he was like a part of his.

No, no, just to... And then Jake saw the opportunity and just kind of ran with it. So, yeah, Jake the Weasel then also stole Gideon's pocket watch and wallet in the scene. That becomes important later, I guess. Now, Gideon tells Jennifer all about Burke and she comes up with a plan.

Well, first of all, she's mad that he told the hotel clerk that her first name was Hebsaba. Is it right? Such a beautiful name. Yeah. Hebsaba. Hemsuba. The Easter running had that's it.

Oh, really? Yeah. She had absolute? She had really bad episode. I don't sit down. Slow and life for years. Oh, wow. Got to avoid hip, you know.

Oh, it hides out in the nerves. Yeah, you don't, you don't want to blow up. Yeah, you don't even know you have. You have to like, it has to act up. Oh, you give it to people. You never even know when you had it. Damn it. Well, so she says, she, she gives up the game because he's like, your name is

Hebsaba, according to your uncle, and she goes, no, his name's Gideon Fletch, and I'm Jennifer. And so now the subterfuge doesn't work anymore. And that forces Gideon to show her the letter and tell her why we're really here in Virginia City. And she comes up with a plan. She says, here's what's going to happen. I'm going to trick Hoss into pretending to be you. So when Bullethead Burke comes here, he'll have to stand up to Hoss instead of you, old man, and then whatever, it'll defeat him. Or he'll change his mind about doing anything. Okay. Here's where I always start to get confused this far in she drops her uncle gideon at a cabin in the wilderness so she does

and there's a little scene there that is 100% unnecessary where we see her drop him off the first time ever in banana's sister yeah like truly nothing that happened in that same needed to be on telephone right yeah and then jennifer and hosser is sitting in the forest together that's strange location for this scene why are they in the forest And this is when she lays it on and she tricks him into pretending to be Gideon. And he doesn't want to. He says, I'm clumsier than a one-legged spider. I've never heard that expression before.

But she decides to go along with it. Okay. And she's all dolled up, though. She's got that low, cut dress on and her hair's down. Oh, yeah. Oh, ha, ha, poor Haas didn't have a chance. now little joe and hoss are in virginia city and they have a little plot recap for us for the church and we're first of many many plot recaps in case you don't use the bathroom exactly exactly you probably did because it's like 900 years long

it's no it's the same like as all the episodes dammit but hoss says well little joe you go back to the ponderosa i'm going to stay here tonight to participate in this fiction that i am her uncle gideon and goodbye And the little Joe is so mad because now he's missing out on Jennifer time that he comes up with a sneaky play. And you see it on his face. The moment of the plan comes to him. It's what that incredible acting. You know it's one of those things where they had a whole monologue and he said, I'll do it with a look. Terry's Panges out.

He acts. Exactly. And he did, man, he did. And that was a perfect commercial, but I'll throw the commercial. What's Joe going to do? Well, what Joe did was he hired a little boy. to tell Jennifer she has to go to the stage coach office

that part of the plan I did not quite get I don't think we needed that she could just be in her room yes yeah all right but then the important part of the plan he musses up his face with dirt that happened to be on the floor of the hallway I'm like that's a dirty hotel

yeah yeah that's flee back and he pounds on horses toward he says your home is on fire your father and older brother are being incinerated in a blaze. You could have thought of something like a little less insane

to scare the shit out of it. Yeah, yeah. But it does the trick because Haas takes off, run, he gets on his horse and he rides for the Ponderosa, which as we have established in the past it would have been a three and a half day ride

from Virginia City, but that doesn't work at all. It's like 45 minutes in this episode. Yeah, seems about that at most. So now Little Joe, sneaks into hoss's room is that all that happens i sneaks into hoss's room and and then jennifer comes to find him and he says i i will pretend to be get in hoss is gone and he tries to kiss her and she doesn't she doesn't want it he's been she's never wanted it she's clearly

said multiple times like i don't like you i like hoss i guess so technically that that's the craziest when he tries to kiss her in her room. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Look, I'm in here. We're only one or not. She's really like house, or she just wants to use him because he's more effective. No, she likes him. He's a big boy. She likes big guy. Yeah, yeah. That's right. Even before she had a use for him, she's a jelly juice. That's right.

Now around this time, Bullethead Burke arrives with his two thugs from Chicago. And also around this time, what's his name there, uh, Jake the Weasel, has used a knife and his sock to whittle the water ladle into a lock. But it looks like a metal ladle. So how does he takes it out of the water and it's clearly metal. Right. Yeah.

So he whittles the metal with, I don't, that I use it. If you've got the knife, use that to open up the door. Yeah, that would be a much better lock pit. So before you put a guy in, you search him to make sure he does on that. Apparently enough. But you can feel that off of, what's this name? The 9th?

Yes, she took it off a Jeb, I think. The jab was Whiteman. Who the hell is Jeff? It's Jedding, and Bert, or Waldorf and Stapler. Wait, but they weren't in the jail? No, but earlier. When he passed by him, he took things from without they know it, one of which was a Whitman.

I thought he stole some. You know, you're trying to find lot holes in this. They're not there. They're not going to be in a dog. Oh, God. It all ends up. Yeah. Wilson now, Jake the weasel has escaped from jail, and Bullethead Burke says, I'm going to go up there to the room, and I'm going to find Gideon Flinch.

And if he sees me coming and tries to escape, he might go out into the alley, so you two thugs go out in the alley in case he comes that way. Well, who should come that way, but Jake the Weasel, and they apprehend him, and he's got Gideon Flinch's watching wallet on him. So it really seems that he's Gideon Fletch, so he's been apprehended under false pretenses. meanwhile bullethead burke goes up to the room and believes that little joe is gideon flinch and this is now the title starts to make sense the many faces of gideon flinch he's got three already and so he and now the scariest part of this episode was when bullethead burke and this is a big man he leans out the window to his two confederates and he says boys i'm going to climb down this ladder I was terrified

No way ain't going to work And he's going to But that's when he learns That they've got a Gideon flinch And he's got a Gideon flinch And who's the real Gideon flinch? It's a terrible confusion

So he ties up Jennifer And then what Takes the two Gideon flinches Oh he doesn't want to beat anybody up in Virginia City He wants to go out to the country to beat somebody a proper like. Now, that makes perfect sense, right? That's so polite and so nice.

Yeah. You remember having we had Gileon Flynn on this pocket? Yeah. And we do her this episode. Oh, my God. Well, yeah. I mean, fun, I'll get you in front. That would be perfect.

Oh, well, Dominic faces of Gillian Flynn, you fetch. Also, you know that, like, folks always like to find a perfect place to beat someone. They don't want it. They don't just willing to. No, yeah. We've got to have the right set in, right? Yeah.

Do this. Yeah. That's it together. For his romance, too. Yeah, it's a really fair and a thought. Let's let's see. We're not going to guard and gay. Go ahead and sign the soundtrack.

They bring out the water pond thing with us. He was going to beat up little Joe as Gileon Flynch in the forest, but now he's also going to bring out Jake the weasel as Gideon Flynch. And so first order of business is figure out which one of them is it. I think at this way, Jake the Weasel, has said his name, like, probably 10 times. Yeah, he said, I'm Jake the Weasel. Was that not the title of the Zips? Yeah, yeah.

Your question. The many name proclamations of Jake. Yeah, but when they get out to the woods, they just happen to arrive at the cabin where the real Gideon Flynch is hiding out. And they say, let's go knock on that door and ask this man, which one of you is Gideon Flynch? oh my goodness and now jake the weasel says well that is gideon flinch who just answered the door and so of course what can bullethead burke do but say let's all go inside into the cabin and sort it out amongst us snug little cabin snug little cabin and figure out which one of us is the real gideon flinch and that's when jennifer arrives right yeah she come and when she's

arriving it's either little jem or someone go well we know who that is yeah she came out to check on her uncle and finds this whole scene happening in the cabin and then bulletheadberg he says well all right i'm me and my two thugs are going to leave you guys alone for three minutes in here you step outside i'm going to check back with you in three minutes at which point you need to tell me which one is giddy and you guys he really think about what you're doing here three minutes exactly he put it on the clock and sort it out so i know which one of you to beat up and uh that's when little joe finds out that Haas is in possession of the letter that Bullethead Burke wrote to Getty and Flanch. And Haas says, no, Little Joe says, we'll say, just like your plan was originally, that

Haas is Gideon, and everything will work out fine. So they all go back to Virginia City, and they all look for Haas, and they find him, and Bullethead Burke goes to fight him, to beat him up. And now, right? Well, yeah, when he did that, they're like, oh, there he is right there. Bullitt Burke has two dudes with guns on it. How does he know that they won't just shoot it? Like, it feels like...

Right. I know that the joke is, oh, it'll be Haas will be the crap out of everybody. But they don't know if they won't just shoot hot. That felt very weird. Also, Haas is like in an enclosed alleyway just like staring at the wall. Yeah, that's true. What is it? What is he looked for?

Yeah. He's like a video game. character that's like lost and then he's wrong for them. That's right. Yeah. But he like goes to the end of the aptly like, well, I guess like he takes way too long figuring out they can't be here

because the alley has ended and there's no one else. He's like, goes he's in their box. He thinks he's looking for four men and he said they could be behind his box and this alley out here. Also, Bill Jones fucked over Haas so many times. Like tells him that his family's

like burning a lot. And it's like telling these bad guys like that he's going to play oh i forgot that's the scene so hoss does make it all the way back to the ponderosa and he finds pa and adam playing checkers so the joke the checkers joke is go yeah and they uh the house is not on fire and but hoss says isn't the house on fire didn't you send a little boy tell me the house on fire and all stuff and and that's when adam says i've been wondering about you in that loco weed he says it oh i'm not i've been He wanted about you in that local weed. Oh.

He accuses a horse of being a puppy. Oh, my Lord. But wondering about a meeting that local weed doesn't just suggest that's what this circumstance is,

but that he really does smoke that. And that there's been a lot of incidents that made them go, hey, what's going on it? Actually, explains why he would be in that alleyway running his prowl. That's exactly where you would look for a forum hand if he were high

out of your car. It also explains why he's always so fucking hungry. And also, and all the blacklight posters in his room. Finally, that's explained to that. Well, I forgot about that. But all right, now we got bullethead Burke says to one of his thugs, you come with me, but not with your gun.

The two of us will confront Hoss, who we think is Giddy. And he says to the other thug, you stay back here with your gun on these, on Little Joe and Jake the weasel. And so, and then, but he punches that they have a fight. and it's a giant fight. It's a giant. Yes. And Burke feels defeated because he punches

Haas once in the gut and it hurts his hand more than it hurts Hoss. Yeah. It's a very safe fight. It's very safe fight. It's one punch in a chance. And they like both breathe and out of breath. Yeah. But Burke finally says, okay, forget it.

Well, Hossie, there's a big bit of business of rolling up his sleeves and get ready to punch guys like, that's okay. I don't mean to you. And that ones didn't hurt yet. Yeah. We don't need to fight. That's all of it. And then I have two hired men with done.

I probably shouldn't use then. Wouldn't be on. Well, one of them's been knocked out cold by horse. And then the other one got knocked out cold by little Joe. Oh, yeah. I'm like, yeah. Some weird piece of business. Yeah.

And now at this point, Gideon Flynch feels perfectly free to reveal. It's me. I cheated you out of $5,000. But now your hand is hurt and you're tired. And can we let bygones be bygone? He didn't really cheat him. He just lost money. But he doesn't explain that or anything.

He just says, let bygones be bygones. William Berks says, okay. He don't want to hear. Hoss again. And then is that how it ends? No. No. That little Joe's like, well, how about I take you to that?

And I ask me when she goes, I will if I can go, going, oh, that. That. She walks off and then our two Greek chorus guys walk away together. walk away together down the street of Virginia City. They've had a wide day of observing all this. They've had credit this day that I've been huckered out. I can't believe it. I haven't watched that since we watched that massacre.

Exactly. But this is way more fun than the massacre. That is basically what he says. Well, so sadly, there's only 357 episodes left of Bananza after this one to recap on this. Unless she had a good podcast going, it's like over before you know it. I know. Yeah. It's very.

It's sad. It's terrible. But I don't know. We might look back and do them all again. That's when we'll see. Get the Robert Alton episode back and talk about him again. Get it to be in Jeff Alton and to do all you. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Well, this is it. Now, give us any reflections you have on Robert Alp. man in general as a director of well you know for me this is just so many great directors Spielberg started out

teague with Columbo's like you you just show up you start learning you get so good at doing the basics that then you can start messing around a little bit so Altman had year this whirling birds and everything else so yeah of course by the time it was time to be mass she's like I'm

I've done enough for this and I'm start messing around a little bit then you get your style so yeah But, look, I really nothing of Alpin in these episodes really made me feel like these, oh, that's Robert Alton. You were very much, if you were hired to do Bonanza, you did Bonanza. You didn't bring your little flourishes to it. Right, that's right. Yeah.

Oh, come on in. You got to wrap it up here on this episode. Here comes Jake the Weas. It's Jake Deweezo. I'm out. I'm out. It's Paul Russey, hi, Paul. Oh, hello.

How about it is. Paul Rush, we just guessed on this podcast a little while ago. Hi, Paul. We all. All right. No, no, no. We're wrapping up. All right, folks.

This was a bananas for bananas. Thank you so much, Pat and all's one for joining us on this journey. Is Paul Rusty in your Russell's Rhapsody? Ruth's Rhapsody. Yeah, Russell's Rhapsody. Sure, we're going to sing great songs for you. paddle wrestling. Oh, that sounds like

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