The Worst Idea Of All Time - AJLT S2E03

Episode Date: August 25, 2023

Miranda is struggling with her phone and her relationship with her son, just as Tim and Guy are struggling with their relationship to AJLT Season 2. Brady The Rat King is back on the scene and we need to discuss how his story mirrors Prince Harry’s. After all - nobody wants to f*** someone who USED to be the Rat King. Seema has a full narrative arc about her expensive bag being stolen and then returned to her.Intro theme: Brendan Lott (linktr.ee/brendanclordan)Outro theme: SterlingSupport us via our Substack for access to premium content Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm genuinely pretty confused by the ending, at least, of that one. I, well... Has she... Tim? Where are we? Hey, guy. Hey, Tim. We can't...

I mean, we can start at the end. This was a bad episode Yeah And you know that I love to go into band for this show Yeah you do actually You're not even saying that facetiously or sarcastically No You've championed the series

I Online Offline I'd like to think that I engage with the show as a sincere fan And yet still an honest critic Yeah He's tough but he's fair but he's loving yeah but he's also fair a lot of tim's confusion is built around the fact that carrie bradshaw

spends half of this episode pretending to have covet 19 to avoid the emotional heft of reading chapter three of her book reflecting on the death of her husband. A virus I might add that Guy has also spent a lot of time championing over the last few years. There's one thing I like more than just like that. It's COVID-19. Awareness. Of course, Mr. Big died while getting his dick jammed in the pedal of a Peloton.

So Carrie can't read the book. She lies to her publisher and the sound guy, who I was sort of flip-flopping on whether or not I liked, and says, I can't read the book she lies to her publisher and the sound guy who I was sort of flip-flopping on whether or not I liked and says I can't do this I've got COVID and then the episode marches on she wrestles with her emotions she comes clean to some friends about how she didn't have

COVID. She's out for a drink with Seema at the end of the episode who's also been on her very Seema's had a huge journey this episode and a lot of screen time and I'll just quickly go through the whole journey okay

she got her $20,000 bag stolen and then she found it that was pretty impressive Tim and so they're out for a meal and they're going

ah bloody New York and then eight guys who look like they've never heard of rugby before yeah and one of them opens their mouth and immediately immediately i was like okay what are they trying to do my guess was denmark i thought these guys were danish he's yeah good day ladies i haven't heard a more confused accent since we got introduced to, was it Dickbot? Yeah, yeah. He had that kind of pan-European.

Who needs, who needs, I don't know, when you have sand dunes and sunset. Yeah. Who needs? Point on the map and tell me where you're from, mate. Well. But these, so anyway, on this episode of and just like that season two episode three it carries so carries she said she's at cover she hasn't had cover the whole episode and then at the end we go back to voiceover and she says and just like that

oh there's sorry there's we didn't say these guys are australian yeah they're from sydney and also no they're not yeah and they're here for a rugby trip. It's what Michael Patrick King goes to when he can't think of another way to throw a bunch of hot dudes in the mix. Just like, I don't know, Aussie rugby players? Yeah. Chuck some Kiwis in there, man. We're the best in the world.

It's a harder accent. And these, I mean, there are so many Australian actors in America. It is an affront to decency To employ these The Hemspreads have taken over Hollywood We know what they sound like These American battlers Who just wrote Australian

On their accent list Yeah So anyway They come and sit with them And then Carrie says Just like that I got COVID And so I believe

She got COVID off these guys She got She Fucked a dude Yeah Begged herself an Aussie Probably sucked and fucked And so I believe... She got COVID off these guys. She got COVID. She... Fucked a dude. Yeah. Bagged herself an Aussie. Probably sucked and fucked this struggling actor.

She ripped the scab off a cold one, by which I mean had sex with a Sydneysider. Yep. And for our American listeners, if you're from Sydney, Sydneysider is the correct non-Clementia for the people. And it's always struck me as odd. It's a funny one. Sydney cider. Sydney cider.

What are you? An Aucklander. Well, what are we right now? An Aucklander. Yeah. How do you identify as an Aucklander? Probably a Wellingtonian for some reason. I think it's because it's where I spent

my formative teenage years. Yeah. I'm an Aucklander though. I'm from Christchurch, but I'm an Aucklander. Yeah. Yeah. That's nice. That's having your cake and eating it too.

So this was a, you know, it didn't want for some juicy tidbits or, you know, the idea of excitement, but it just struggled to put it all together in this episode, I thought. It was a lot of incompetence. Let's cut the shit and get to what we really want to talk about and that's shay so shay diaz is uh in production week it would seem with their sitcom shay pasa uh and we see shay and miranda running

lines and um i went to the trouble of writing down some of the dialogue. I didn't know that. Shay is not the only writer, remember. I've spoken of Dee Dee from the previous episode. Dee Dee of the blue hair and zoot suit. Dee Dee's the writer. Sure, Shay must be. Shay's got their fingers on the script as well.

I think it's a shared script. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. So they're running lines know there's a point of tension where it builds to a scene where uh and this is just shay running lines around it where shay's meant to cry and shay feels like to cry would be which is it's quite a um sort of old school mask concept of crying Shay is afraid to cry on camera because crying represents weakness and it paints being non-binary as a tragedy

yeah is that their exact words? Is it tragedy or trauma or something? I thought that was actually one of the more deft bits of the whole episode and it came right at the start well i thought it was because i thought it was because shea can't act can't cry yeah yeah and so the but the dialogue we get to hear a little glimpse of the dialogue in the scene around this

uh sort of tension and uh tony danza's line miranda's playing Tony Danza and Shay's playing Shay. And Tony Danza says, how are you my little cannoli? And then Shay says, don't call me that. And then Tony Danza says, I'm not allowed to call you my little cannoli now? Who am I offending?

The pastry or the cream? And then, you know... I've got COVID now. It builds to a bit of a moment and Miranda and Shay have it out and Shay says, oh, yeah, I don't want to cry. It makes it look like, you know, being non-binary is a tragedy

or, you know, it's something to be upset about or something. And then goes on to say, and Miranda's like, well, just tell them you don't want to do it. Shay says, well, no, I said no to the zoot suit. I said no to the, I said no to the zoot suit. I said no to the blue hair, you know, like, you know, they get some, I said no to the zoot suit. I said no to the, I said no to the zoot suit. I said no to the blue hair, you know, like, you know, they get some, I get some. And then also goes on to say,

they cut 10 lame they them jokes. So, I mean, I just, I just feel like, because we've seen Shay do stand up. Yeah. Go on. What are we, what is it in place of that more uber to the bathroom material is what i'm one like the guy is wondering aloud what jokes didn't make the shaker basically i just to introduce the idea that there's any sort of discerning comedy, you know,

voice emerging through Shay in this world. This is so funny to me because the more we go on with this, the clearer it becomes that you are too close to this character. And that is what is annoying you. That there is this person who is excelling in their standup comedy career, has been given a TV show, and you're too close to it, and it's fucking you off,

because that is always the thing that we find the most annoying. It's almost an uncanny valley version of ourselves, where there is enough similarity with the wants and desires, but they haven't quite nailed the representation, and it's frustrating for you. I mean... the representation and it's frustrating for you i think i mean you as another non-binary comedian struggling to get a sitcom about your life with tony dancer that's right starring as your dad yeah so the tony dancer thing by the way well it sort of paid off in this episode because we we do get to go to the production we We get to see the sitcom being filmed.

We get to see the... Huge for the boys. Yeah, we get to see the sets. Huge for the boys. Very exciting day. The issue is that the focus of the scene is barely the sitcom itself. The focus of the scene...

I mean, you'd think by the way that we're recapping it and the sort of key benchmarks we're mentioning that this would have been an episode for the books because the reason that the sick the focus of the sitcom scene isn't on the sitcom is that uh well first of all let's let's let's get through the android and what you call anti-android propaganda yes miranda lost her phone in the previous episode in this episode she got talked into getting a samsung by salesman at the shop yeah she doesn't know how to operate it how do you feel watching that it's just it's

classic mattress pikelet king isn't it is it is it slanderous to you it's just like guess what the phone's not broken billions of dollars of r&d and some of the smartest people and like thousands of people have gone and developed this thing to be idiot proof and if you can't operate it you're fucking dumber than all of those resources have tried to safeguard against this miranda but of course the representation on a show like and just like that is androids they don't work too good guess what miranda you don't work too good guess what mattress pike, they don't work too good. Guess what, Miranda? You don't work too good. Guess what, Mattress Pikelet King? You don't work too good.

It's a fucking cell phone. It's designed to be operated by a child. Okay? And what sort of problems is Miranda having with the Android, Tim? I think she's got it on silent. And she's trying to figure out how to get it off silent. She's having trouble with the font sizes, the pinch pull, you know, too big, too little. She can't get it right.

And anyway, so she receives a phone call from a very devastated Brady who's in Amsterdam, and he's learned the hard way that you leave New York, you leave your rats, you also leave your power. Yeah, shit falls apart when you also leave your power. It falls apart when you get off the throne. He has been dumped. And we don't get, you know, we haven't had the exposition on as to why yet,

but you've got to assume. If you dated someone and they were royalty and then they were stripped of their powers and you're young and impressionable. This is a Prince Harry story. Go on. That would be a very unattractive. That would be unattractive, wouldn't it?

Yeah. Like if you were dating a or the Rat King. Yes. And then the throne was removed from them. Yeah. You don't want to fuck them anymore. You don't want to fuck someone who used to be a rat king. Yeah, that's true.

That's the damn truth. You know, it's embarrassing. Yeah. All the rats laughing at you. You're still fucking that guy? Oh, man. You're going like this. Even the rats don't respect him.

Well, they're taunting. Fucking hell. Yeah. In Dutch, no less. This is his subjects. His prior subjects. Fucking hell. Yeah. In Dutch, no less. This is his subjects. His prior subjects. Former subjects. Former subjects.

What happens? Because, you know, obviously the most recent monarch who lost power did so by dying. What happens when a monarch is... What's it called when you get stripped of the crown? Oh, the fucking thingy did it. Isn't that what the king's speech is all about? Colin Firth? I think it was about him having a stutter.

I want to say King Edward. His brother was like supposed to be the king. Yeah. And then he fell in love with a divorcee and that was not allowed. And so he, I forgot what it's called. Was the divorcee and that was not allowed. And so he, I forgot what it's called. Was the divorcee not his cousin? That is against the rules.

Cousins, like is the rules. You have to marry your cousin. Yeah. But if it's not your cousin and they're a divorcee, that's disgusting. What if it's your hottest cousin who just got divorced? We'll allow it.

First cousin? Yes. Second cousin? No. No, you've got to be tied in. It's got to be first? Yeah. God damn.

That's how we keep that bloodline clean. If you're with someone for their power and their power is taken away, I understand why Brady got his ass dumped. So he calls Miranda. That's so rough, man. I understand why Brady got his ass dumped. So he calls Miranda. That's so rough, man.

Dude, Brady, the reason he's the rat king is because of who he is. He is not who he is because of the throne, in my opinion. The reason he's the rat king is because Miranda was too busy at her corporate law job. Steve was too busy running for mayor. He was raised by Magda yeah and the mice yes and how many people have been in that situation in new york city where they've got two hard-working parents or parents that are otherwise busy they don't grow up to command an army of rodents they either grow up to be like normal or worse i'm not taking anything away from what he achieved it sounds like you kind of are

though because the way you're describing it is like brody brady stumbled onto some magical like i think no no no no no i just think this is like you know it's fine he's the best kind of king because he wasn't born into it yeah he made the throne i'm not taking anything away from him. It's fine to be the king. It's fine to earn the throne. It's fine to fall in love. It's fine to go on holiday. But you can't spend a couple of weeks smoking ganja in Amsterdam with your girlfriend, letting the rats do God knows what back home, have the throne stripped from you,

and expect everything to just be tickety-boo. That's the decision he made. He went on holiday. That's fine. I don't have a problem with that. Don't come back to me and say that, you know, he didn't have something to do with the throne being taken. And don't be surprised at the person that, you know,

we don't know why people fall in love with us. We don't know what's happening for other people. You don't know what's happening in anyone's relationship. Even your own? You know what's happening for other people You don't know what's happening in anyone's relationship Even your own? You know what's happening in your own I know my part I know my part And I like to think I know Chelsea's part But I don't know the whole thing

Yeah that's true How could you? You can't, it's impossible And that's what makes it so magic So what happens This is quite sad the way you're describing it Because it's sort of turned me on to the fact that despite the fact that Brady's on screen for, oh, I don't know, 16 seconds of this episode, we're seeing a very Shakespearean downfall of a man who had it all and lost it all. He had love and he had his rats and now he has neither.

That is fucking sad, bro. They call him Brady Icarus, the king who flew too close to the trap. They call him King Rat Midas, the man who got all his wishes granted and then he turned his rats to gold and his girlfriend to someone who doesn't like him anymore. He turned his rats to gold

and the rats lost their agency and he lost his power. Yeah, it all works. All we're saying is he's in turmoil. He calls Miranda while she's waiting in line. No, I think there's more. They call him Brady the... Brady Crockett. Brady Crockett because he's got a crazy hat.

Yeah, he's got a hat with a huge, like it's got a hundred rat's tails. Yeah. Plaited. Fuck, that's powerful. That's his crown. It's so thick. It's so thick. Have you seen those steel ropes, those ropes that are made from metal, like thatched metal?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is stronger than that. Holy shit. And he doesn't wear it out. He tucks it in. To what? Like the back of his shirt? Yeah, he tucks it into the back of his shirt.

Oh, my God. And he runs it down, and he doesn't pull it up between his legs. He wraps it around one of his legs. Oh, my God. Does it look like carpet? No, it looks. If you know what a lot of rat's tails together look like. Yeah. You know it's rat's tails together look like Yeah

You know it's rat's tails Rat's tails Like it's Because in my head I'm going rat's fur I've got to erase that picture A rat's tail is like It's pinkish There is something strong about it

There's something biologically strong about a rat's tail Does it grow back? And then a thousand of them I imagine it does I think if you cut a rat's tail off, a rat's tail grows back in its place. It's stronger than before. Yeah.

Two. Two of them. Two grow back. Anyway, so he's got it. It's down the back of his shirt. He's pulled it between his leg. It's wrapped tight around his thigh, down to his ankle.

Something's fucked up about the asymmetry of it. Yeah, it's super not chill. And then he calls up Miranda and he says, look, I've been dumped. He's an absolute, he's just gutted. And you can see it's actually the emotional, there's emotional gravitas to see Miranda's in line to watch Shay's sitcom, takes the phone call.

He's tried to call her a million times, but Androids don't work. Hasn't got through. That's right. More propaganda. And they're putting the phones in the pouches so it's not to disrupt the sitcom and you know as soon as that she hides the phone and says she doesn't have a phone that it's going to go off during the scene check off his phone that's right so they're watching the scene the phone goes

off right at the pivotal moment but they set up earlier yeah Credit to the writers And it's all It's all action It's all problems from there We've got You know The whole thing grinds to a halt Everyone gets upset Miranda still can't really She doesn't recognise her own ringtone

So she doesn't really know it's her Until everyone's looking at her Pulls the phone out And it's very funny Because the way they've staged and shot it Which I guess is just what sitcoms look like It is identical To how the I think you should leave Scene looks staged and shot it which I guess is just what sitcoms look like it is identical to how

the I think you should leave scene looks when they're doing the sitcom and it's mic'd up have you seen this one keep going

where he whispers so they all like laugh and they've got applause sides and stuff and in between he keeps talking about like the suit guy

they ripped him up in the limo drive and it's got the false wall and the Superbowl ring that keeps stealing ice and the wall keeps dying around yeah yeah yeah it is exactly the same it's exactly the same and i just as soon as they did the shot i was like oh that's so good it's the same we were also funny because this was probably written way before that scene yeah but because of you know how all of this works that came out we're also treated as some other lines of dialogue. Just before we get to the fallout of Miranda's phone going off,

they're learning. Tony Danza is saying, I can handle anything that you're going to tell me, Shay. What about when we went and played mini golf and then your cousin told me he was gay? Yeah. And for a gay kid, he was pretty good at putt-putt golf, which is crazy, crazy, crazy line.

And then Shay says, Dad, you're not not getting this. And there's like, I mean, I know in sitcoms, you've got jokes and you've got jokeettes and you've got like funny lines that are on their way to an emotional point, but they're choosing what they show us in this show then the then the scene comes up shay's actually doing a fantastic job of acting it the phone goes off and the dd the writer

who honestly has been giving me bad vibes the whole time remember my parents are in town and i got therapy the same day not a coincidence that's That's Dee Dee in the last episode. Dee Dee blows up. Starts saying, Shay's a stand-up, can't act, we're never going to get it. You fucked everything to Miranda. Then the audience,

warm-up guy, kicks into gear. Miss Genders Shay, like three times on the trot, keeps saying she was sitting at the table, she was doing this. Yes. And then Dee Dee,

who's just in the middle of an absolute meltdown, starts going, Dee! Dee! Dee! Yeah, and just to rewind the tape a little bit this is after dd has said like goes off at miranda she's like sorry they are like you've ruined this

take and we'll never get it back because she's not an actor she's a stand-up and like so unnecessary so wild it's like thoughtful but angry which is not there's no honestly behind that honestly it's um it speaks to the dysfunction of the production now is it problematic that the two non-binary characters in the show the sole two non-binary characters are the ones we hate the most maybe there's not for us to look at they're not for us to dig into. No, that's totally true. And in our defense, it's the way they're written. I really think it is. I totally hear

what you're saying. So, basically, then Che and Miranda blow up. Miranda's booked flights. Booked Brady a ticket back to New York. Booked herself tickets back to New York. And thank God. Because this means Brady is back on the East Coast where he belongs. He's back on terra firma. to new york yeah booked their self tickets back to new york thank god they blow up this mean brady is back on the on the east coast where he belongs back on terra firma uh they have a blow up in the

warner brothers in the water brothers lot and it's actually i mean it's not just having brady back in new york it's having miranda back in the house in brooklyn and it's a it's a house i remember from season one it's a house i remember from the movies. It's a house I remember from the movies. I don't want to call it the house that Steve built. Yeah, I'm having a longing for Steve. He helped put some vibes in there. I feel sorry for the actor who was playing Brady's girlfriend in the previous one because they're referenced but she doesn't get to be in it.

That's a good payday. There's got to be a good payday. Yeah. Put me in a scene you know what let's shoot a scene where I break up with them I didn't even think of her didn't you

nah she's the trajectory for this whole she's the propellant for this little storyline I just think this episode everyone is riddled

with incompetence it's impossible to invest in anyone's stories the other arguably most exciting thing is that Charlotte and Lisa, Lisa Wexley, who are parents at the same school, find out there's a MILF list at the school.

Yeah, which rocks. That's a fun storyline. And they want to find out who's on the MILF list, and they're two and three, and then everyone knows the top of the list. And then they're at the school with some other parents, and they're all saying, oh, it's so bad that they do this. And then they find the kid who does it. He comes out of the classroom. Yeah, and then the storyline at the school with some other parents and they're all saying, oh, it's so bad that they do this. And then they find the kid who does it.

He comes out of the classroom. Yeah, and then the storyline takes a turn because these mums, who are all in the early 50s, I'd say, see this 16-year-old boy who comes out and they are fucking drooling over him. One of them says the H stands for hot. Yeah.

It's bad. I mean, it's crazy. It's crazy they do that on campus audibly while he walks past. Yeah. And they do get pulled up on it by the principal. Yeah. Who calls a meeting and then about the MILF list, I guess. That's why all the parents are there.

Yeah. It's a mothership maybe. And then gets like A piece of paper Headed to him In the middle of that Saying Word just to hand

Apparently Some parents have been Objectifying What's his fucking name Adrian Milo H Milo H Come on man

Are you even watching this thing Dude I'm trying I'm trying I got too caught up By the weird Sexual politics Of who's lusting after Whom in the show

And also like A little bit of a tangent. It's interesting who this episode thought was hot, guy-wise. Those Aussies, they weren't hot. And Milo, he's a child. Yeah, and he's not even that hot of a child. Yeah, so there you go, two strikes. And in our defense, we haven't researched it but we assume that the actor who was playing him was at least 14 so there's nothing wrong with us saying

that carrie's big storyline in this episode is that she can't read she can't read she's swallowing her teas she's popping her peas and she is still grieving big now all i could think when i was watching that was, SJP, if you need lessons on how to grieve, you just get in touch with your husband, Mr. Broderick. You get on a plane to Ireland, he'll show you a thing or two. You know what she should have named her book? Losing John.

Life was never good to me. Losing John. I don't know. I'll finish I don't know What is it? I can't remember actually I like that Often I feel like it's me who has that happen to them But that happened to you Carrie has a line in this where she says

This is the only time I like Had a visceral response to what was happening on screen Where I had to say something out loud Like it triggered me I'm ready. Carrie said, I'm not one to feel sorry for myself. And I said,

yes, you are. Yeah. She was claiming that she is not a character who, who is self-absorbed or self-centered or, or overly down in the dance while other people are going stuff around here. And I took complete issue with that in the moment on a chemical fucking level. I could not let that line stand without some sort of rebuttal.

The backbone of this series. I feel as though we're drawing to a close in terms of reflecting on this episode. I don't know if that's true. I do. I can see the timer. Okay, I've got a really good shining light well I think that's what we need I think that's what we need right now did you want to do your one first?

I felt like you were grabbing the reins give it to me the crew have for this episode for the first time got a new dolly yeah now dolly is the machine that you put the camera on and it's usually got like a gas operation so if you think about like an office chair where you push the lever and it goes up and down so you can adjust your height it's a gas operated operation so you can really smoothly move the camera around they're on they're on like wheels on like rollerblade wheels so they're real smooth. And there's just a whole bunch of wild shots

in this one and camera moves where they've clearly like bought a new dolly and they just want to try it out. There's one where the gals are all having lunch and there's like a Michael Bay parallax shot where the dolly is just circling around them all. And it is completely foreign visual language for the show. Yeah, you were activated though.

You literally set up straight up. I was like, they've got some new kit in the arsenal. And then there's another shot where Carrie is in the voice booth and this was a shot that was made famous in Jaws and it's called a dolly zoom and it's where you make the lens zoom in, but the dolly go back, and it creates this very unusual effect

where the subject in the middle of the frame doesn't change their size, but it sort of feels like everything in the background is kind of closing in on them, and they just pull one of those out for when she's reading her own book, an audio book, and I'm like,

this is not from Sex and the City at all. It is now. And just like that, Sex and the City became Jaws. It's probably not fair to call it a shining light. Seema's through line in this episode is that she doesn't like the sort of crime and the theft in New York. Another subplot we didn't have time to get there were two we didn't get to naya wallace is separated from her husband now and uh a sound guy

kind of because he's hot it's not crossing a line it was crossing but he like is fishing around down her top for a microphone which is like not best practice anywhere i've never i've never seen that no no you say could you please feed that up to me every time you do not put your hand yeah but because it's got nice arms it's cool yeah it's real fucked up because directly you know like we've We've We've experienced The Me Too movement And it came from Entertainment and filmmaking

And television And like A lot of it was Centred publicly About powerful people But it's stuff that happens And Yeah

Like that shit God talked about specifically Like soundies Yeah The shit Is bad It's universally reviled Unless they've got nice arms

It's crazy That the show is've got nice arms It's crazy That the show is Throwing that up As like This is all good That's one subplot We didn't get into The other one

Seymour loses her Bergen gets robbed Birkin gets robbed We're meant to care And then later on They're at this Remember the Sort of

Hot noisy neighbour Who lived downstairs From Carrie At the end of season one I'll never forget The jewellery designer She reappears They introduced her Quite late in season one Yeah'll never forget the jewelry designer she reappears she's having yeah she's having a show in bryant park carrie says she'll go they go they're ogling the jewelry carrie and seymour yeah and this is i if this

doesn't come up again in the season this was just a suit like nearly everything else feels connected to something or grounded in a reality that's been established by the show i can explain this to you but go on and say the thing but in this there's a there's a caterer who just starts pocketing jewelry yeah and then starts trying to like rob carrie and seymour's like hey give me give me a necklace there's no it's all very calm there's no threat there's nothing that's like you know there's no knife there's nothing flash there's nothing scary about it it's just like a sinister serious you know strong looking guy being like give me your jewelry yeah so have you seen all of this stuff online really the last year or maybe longer particularly in new york city where people in america are just sort of

like taking shit from stores now because there's this line of like people are just sort of being uh allowed to do it because the the alternative is just sort of escalates the the situation too much ah this is people are going to like a whole foods now and they'll be like just a big group of people and they'll just take a bunch of shit so i think it's it's like rich people looking at poor people stealing from insanely greedy corporations and being like oh no the poors know that they actually can exert some power back over the system and it's very terrifying it seems so then fascinating that and just like that would choose to side on the one percent to feature that now. Yeah, yeah.

But so that happened. That was my interpretation anyway. My interpretation was it was totally random, and it didn't really make any sense. But that would seem as whole thing this episode was like. She's literally a person who got a $30,000 US dollar handbag stolen from her, and like, this is the worst thing that could happen. That's right. Nothing worse could happen.

She likens it to Carrie's being widowed. She says, this is like my 9-11. She doesn't say that. And then someone says, you can't say that here. 9-11 was like your 9-11. Now, listen, if that was in the episode, that'd be so good. And it wasn't. Okay.

All right. I don't know what show you were watching. My shining light was actually a lovely little comedy moment, Seema. if that was in the episode that'd be so good and it wasn't okay alright I don't know what show you were watching my shining light was actually a lovely little comedy moment to see she pulls a gun

on the guy and I actually said it to him I said you can't carry a gun in New York and then he runs away and she and carries you can see

carries also like in her head she's like you can't carry a gun in New York she pulls the trigger it's a lighter pulls out a cigarette she doesn't release the trigger she's still got a lighter pulls out a cigarette she doesn't release

the trigger she's still alive and pulls out a cigarette starts smoking and then one of these hapless security guy comes and goes lady you can't smoke in here and she's like yeah like i'm the problem and i was like fucking a like these guys have not done their job tonight you don't need like you don't need to take that shit right now you know like there's a time and a place i really like that yeah that was satisfying it was good the rest of the episode pretty shit guys it's five i give it a five out of ten three out of ten it's gonna get better you watch three out of ten for me you're about to turn it around in episode four what are you looking forward to in future episodes i'm telling you right now i can feel it in my bones steve's back there's no way there's

no way he's still he still lives in that apartment doesn't he who moved out he's back you do not you do not send brady into crisis without bringing in steve you're right about that do you think he's in the roof steve with with his dictionaries, having a read. They don't know yet because they haven't gone up there. He's up there like George. Who did Jeffrey Tambor play in Arrested Development? Was his character's name George? George Senior. George Senior, yeah.

You know when he's hiding out in the roof after he's run away from business? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Steve's up there like that, just leafing through a dictionary. He's going to come down. He's got like a... What's it called when you... No, that's bad taste. You're not going to do it?

You are going to do it. He's got like a taxidermied version of Magda sitting up there. He keeps feeding her tea you can't say that I mean you can't say anything these days should we close out

on a song okay hold me closer Tony Danza oh yeah that's nice and just like that it's the worst idea of all time and just like that It's the worst idea of all time

And just like that They're at it again And they're having such a gay old time And just like that They're back Got Montgomery and Timothy back And just like that It's the worst idea of all time