Episode 177 - Murdoch Mysteries - "Convalescence" - Two Old Ladies and A High Guy With a Fever Fight!
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Mark
Get this. Is this a kissing shawl?
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Sarah
Murdoch Oh.
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Mark
Let.
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Sarah
Hey, maniac.
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Mark
Hey, maniac.
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Sarah
Welcome to Mystery Maniac.
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Mark
Mystery Maniacs is a comedy recap podcast dedicated to mystery TV. Each week, we dig into an episode of a show, including the murders, the mayhem, the loonies, and everything else we love. This week, Murdoch mysteries. Convalescence. Season two Episode nine. Yes. I'm Mark.
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Sarah
I'm Sarah.
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Mark
I tell you what this podcast isn't Sarah.
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Mark
Hmm.
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Mark
It's not an ancient Greek Legends podcast. Myths and Legends Podcast.
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Sarah
No, I have to apologize for, well, to everybody for my mention of ancient Greek mythology last week. And, yeah, I screwed that up. So sorry to all the teachers who ever taught me some stuff. I really should have looked it up and refreshed my mind before I spoke. Ariadne Not Iraq. NI and all kinds of other things I screwed up on.
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Sarah
Sorry. You wouldn't believe how many ancient Greek classes I've had.
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Mark
Wow.
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Sarah
I just lost them all. Apparently.
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Mark
This is the spoiler podcast. And if you let your kids go into other people's dreams and send them warnings, they can listen to.
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Sarah
Their creepy, but they can listen. Beware of them. But they can listen. How one is The omen? I'm sorry. Here's one creepy kid.
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Mark
Sarah, as a theory.
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Sarah
I'll.
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Mark
Mention. I completely agree.
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Sarah
It's a conspiracy theory that I will mention later.
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Mark
Okay. Original Air Date the 17th of March 2009. Eleanor Lindow directed this and Paul Akin wrote it.
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Sarah
I'm just stoked about this episode and I don't know if it's just because I'm in a super good mood or if it's just because this episode is so fun.
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Mark
I think it's because we're now kind of halfway through the end and stuff.
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Mark
Yeah, yeah.
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Sarah
Oh yeah. She's gone.
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Mark
She somebody did mention to us that she does appear in five episodes, which she does, but I do believe the last two episodes she's in, she's in very minor parts or not or just flashbacks.
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Sarah
Yeah, it's not active romantic entanglement episodes, not kissing.
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Mark
Oh, she gets it. Is this a kissing show.
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Sarah
Murdoch?
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Mark
Oh.
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Sarah
No. I'm in a good mood because outside right now where we are in Indiana, it is just over 70 degrees, which means fall is coming. I had a pumpkin spice latte this week thanks to you. You hanging it to me? I just found out the Frosties at Wendy's are going to start coming in. Pumpkin pie, spice flavor next week.
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Mark
They will.
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Sarah
I'm super excited. Just about anything. Pumpkin spice. I'm all about it. I'm not a Starbucks person, but just about any place else. I've got dinner in the crockpot. Like that is so far.
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Mark
There is.
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Sarah
There is a mississippi roast making our whole house smell nice right now.
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Mark
Maybe we should have fired a night outside.
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Sarah
Man, I don't know if we're there quite yet. Okay. I made snickerdoodles last weekend.
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Mark
I'll tell you one thing. It's 32 days to hockey, baby.
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Sarah
It's only three weeks to the 1st of October, which is That stresses me out. That does not make me happy.
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Mark
Yeah, because between now and the first and the 2nd of November, because the 1st of November is one of my one of those sort of alignments that I dislike immensely. Which is it is the first of the month. Mm hmm. It is a Wednesday. Mm hmm. So. And it's the day after Halloween. Mm hmm. So I, I, we tear down Halloween like that day.
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Mark
So there's all that? Yeah. Plus, this is the first of the month, so I have to do my monthly planning.
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Mark
Right? Yes.
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Mark
Plus, it's newsletter Wednesday.
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Sarah
Yes.
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Mark
It's just. It's one of those days in which things stack up.
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Sarah
Well, I'm sorry that you're stressed out by it. I am extremely happy.
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Mark
I know. I'm going to take the day off work. So it's really not all that strong.
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Sarah
I don't think I've ever mentioned that. Every Sunday I baked enough goodies of some sort to take at least six dozen of something to work on Mondays. Yes, I.
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Mark
Sarah feeds feed.
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Sarah
Most of the business school on Mondays with some kind of treats and it is officially okay to make things with cinnamon in them now. Yes, because it's 90 degrees out to.
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Mark
Pass Labor Day. I can't wear my white shoes, but I can. Speaking of food, this episode is all food related.
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Sarah
Food. But not. But not no good food. No good food. No, no, no. So. Right off the bat, we well, first of all, just let me put a little teaser in here that we are going to end this episode with one of the best horrible movies I have ever found. If I could, we would do it at the top.
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Sarah
But that's not that's not how we do it. But it is so good. I cannot wait to get.
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Mark
In that horrible movie.
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Sarah
If I'm rushing through the episode. It's because I cannot wait to get to the horrible.
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Mark
I really hope I haven't seen it because if you're like.
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Sarah
Even if you have, it's going to be epic.
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Mark
If you're going to be like, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, Oh yeah, I got the video that's over there.
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Sarah
I'm going back to my Didn't you never tell me it's so bad. So right off the bat, we find out that there is an escaped prisoner from Kingston, for instance.
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Mark
Of course, he's from Kingston Penitentiary.
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Sarah
Joel Harris is on the run. Is that a color photo that Bracken Reed is waving around?
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Mark
No, but it sure looks like.
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Sarah
I think it's it's sepia toned, but it's obviously been in Photoshop to sepia and it's not completely desaturated of color. It looks a little bit like a color.
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Mark
Keep your.
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Sarah
Eyes. But Murdoch doesn't care because he's got a package.
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Mark
I got it. It was on delivery.
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Sarah
I just watched straight through.
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Mark
From the precision Optics.
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Sarah
Company. I'm kind of nostalgic for when packages used to be rare. You know, like when you get you got a package in the mail and it was like special. So we get packages every day.
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Mark
Yep. So one time I got Sarah for her birthday. This sort of mystery in a box thing. It's right over there.
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Sarah
Yeah, it was delivered in a literal wooden crate.
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Mark
And so I had to prep her. I was like, I bought you something. It's coming in an actual wooden crate.
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Sarah
So you're going to need tools.
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Mark
Like throw this away or worry that it's something that it is.
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Sarah
It's. Yeah, well, I remember I bought one for my uncle and I had to call him and tell him it was coming because I didn't want him to be suspicious of the package because I knew it would look really.
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Mark
Super good job. Yeah.
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Sarah
So he gets this box and I mean wooden crates. First of all, I just kind of asked him to get in the mail, but.
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Mark
So.
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Sarah
Second of all, do you know the name of that? That shredded filling that's in the box? Do you know what that's called, The packing packaging cushion stuff?
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Mark
No idea.
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Sarah
It's called Excelsior.
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Mark
What? That's what they call statuettes. Stanley said.
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Sarah
No, no, no. That's shredded wood fiber stuff. It's called Excelsior. And he's got lenses in there.
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Mark
Yeah.
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Sarah
Are they parabolic?
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Mark
Oh, well.
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Sarah
I can read without all of the verbs. All the words. He knows for lenses at once and feels very impressed with himself and then completely deflates when Murdoch corrects.
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Mark
Him as soon as stupid. Enid starts talking about parabolic lenses. I'm like, maybe he should date back and read instead.
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Mark
Are in.
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Sarah
There quickly lickety split. There's a body in an alley. Yep. He's been placed there. It's all bloody. They don't know who he is. They go on a chase, they chase a guy with a wheelbarrow who's clearly coming to collect the body.
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Mark
Apparently the worst killer of all. Yeah.
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Sarah
Shows up. Well, you know, killers are notorious for revisiting the crime scene.
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Mark
Which remains.
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Sarah
With wheelbarrow.
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Mark
Which reminds me, it's three scenes. He's in.
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Sarah
Yeah, that's true, because that's the first time we see Brickhouse. Yeah. If it's him.
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Mark
If it's him, I.
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Sarah
Think it.
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Mark
Is, Yeah.
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Sarah
So, of course Murdock and Crabtree go chasing after him in the most awkward chase across the weirdest moves I've ever seen. Yeah.
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Mark
Those rooms. Where did they film this? Like, No building in Toronto has roofs like that Now.
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Sarah
The only big flat roof like that I've ever seen is on top of a school. Yeah, like a really big building that has, like, little additions added to it that are all contiguous.
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Mark
I read way too many Marvel Comics when I was a kid. I thought that I would be able to, when I eventually moved to New York City, be able to transverse the city easily.
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Sarah
Like Spider-Man across.
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Mark
Rooms. Yes, I may have been a little naive about the city. As a child.
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Sarah
You'd be more likely to be able to do it in like semi-detached row houses, like the condos that are across the street from us. You could go from room to room on no good.
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Mark
And I bet you like downtown Bloomington. I bet you you could do pretty well.
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Sarah
If you could jump across an alley every once in awhile, which I would be to. We need to do. But yeah, yeah. But then, you know, in the midst of his parkour, Murdock takes a fall.
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Mark
Yeah.
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Sarah
Which lands on. Wasn't great for.
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Mark
Me. Don't say. And Murdock does.
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Mark
Yes.
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Sarah
He's lucky he's not impaled on a piece of that big crane. Yeah, because that could have easily happened. It broke his fall, so instead he's just got cracked ribs, torn ligaments, a big cut, bruises, a concussion, and a murderous stand in. Landlady. Does that happen?
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Mark
You shouldn't be whimpering about this, Neil. It's just a little mercury.
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Sarah
Yeah. I'm like, no.
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Mark
So that's a that's a thing that Murdoch does. Of course, we all know they're probably injecting mercury. He's not the best thing in the world.
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Sarah
It's the worst thing you could do. But of course, this isn't the worst way to have mercury injected. You know what? Mercury was the most common treatment for?
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Mark
Was it for blindness? No.
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Sarah
Oh, syphilis.
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Mark
Whoa, whoa. Hey, now.
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Sarah
Back in the days of the pirate, many a pirate who had caught syphilis would have Mercury injected directly into his equipment.
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Mark
Wolf.
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Sarah
Like a big plunger of a needle shoved right into it. Oh, to shove mercury where it was most needed. You know, we.
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Mark
Need to move on.
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Sarah
Is that making you hurt? Is that painful to hear? You just.
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Mark
It's just not that kind of episode because it's not like a young woman is alone with Murdoch in his room with the door shut on his bed. They're married now, I think.
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Sarah
Yeah, but we don't want that to be the case because we want it to go away.
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Mark
They give him tapioca. Okay, so this episode hit home because I hope my brother and my sister are not listening to this part, though They.
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Mark
Know. Yes.
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Mark
My mother's not the best cook.
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Sarah
Mrs. Kitchen means. Well.
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Mark
My mother.
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Sarah
Isn't. She's a nice landlady, but she's not a good cook, apparently.
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Mark
But being in bed sick and a woman bringing bad food. I'm familiar with this story.
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Sarah
The. Well, I don't want to get worse. Stop bringing me this.
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Mark
Tapioca to which I hate.
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Sarah
A big glass of milk. Oh, that's a bad mix. Yeah. I looked into how tapioca beads are made, and it's pretty boring.
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Mark
Oh, it.
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Sarah
Is. I thought maybe it was interesting. Like.
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Mark
What is it?
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Sarah
So it's tapioca starch, which is a lot like corn starch. It looks like corn starch, and you mix boiling water in with it, and it makes kind of a Play-Doh that you then roll out into ropes and then cut into small pieces and kind of roll around until it kind of polishes itself into a bead. And then you let them kind of dry and then you boil them in sugar water.
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Mark
Yeah, I think you should have one of those big, huge straws. Suck in the tapioca beads. Like.
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Sarah
Like poverty.
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Mark
Yeah, like a bubble tea.
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Sarah
I always want to say Boba Fett, a cook.
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Mark
She is not.
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Sarah
I know, but she says.
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Mark
No finer words could describe my mother.
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Sarah
She says, Let me know if you need anything. Just come tap on my door. This man can barely move. And she says, Just come knock on my door. Give him a little bell to ring or something. That's okay. He's got all the ladies taking care of him that he needs.
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Mark
He goes.
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Sarah
Between Enid and Julia and Mrs. Kitchen.
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Mark
Obviously.
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Sarah
Good friend, Mrs. Burgess.
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Mark
All the single ladies.
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Sarah
I think Mrs. Kitchen is a widow and Mrs. Burgess is a fake. So, you know.
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Mark
Baker breaks in.
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Sarah
But while he's recovering, Crabtree gets to pretend to be a detective. And this is like the first time Crabtree goes detective, and it challenges time.
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Mark
George is a detective. He doesn't pretend to be okay.
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Sarah
He gets to temporarily be a detective.
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Mark
And I think he does a good job. First of all, that suit looks great on it. Does, George. Looks like it's.
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Sarah
Probably his one suit. Yeah, He wears to court and disappears.
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Mark
And you. You could tell a couple of things. One, you can tell George has been listening to Murdoch and learning.
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Sarah
Oh, yeah, Yeah.
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Mark
I, I think with this plot, as we said, I don't know if it's the A or the B plot, the whole George and Higgins thing. I think they do. Awesome.
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Sarah
Yeah. Because they could be Laurel and Hardy, right? They could be Keystone Cops, dumb asses plodding around, not solving a case, but they actually do a solid job now. Crabtrees a little for themselves initially.
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Mark
Yep.
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Sarah
I'm going to solve it by noon or this afternoon or whatever. And black and read has to say, well, see if you saw it before. It's time for us to all going to go get a pint. I'll piss that parrot. Yeah. Ah does he say eat that pair. And he says kiss that parrot. Maybe because the parrot does not like him.
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Sarah
The parrot that they find in the French restaurant, it was owned by the victim who is missing part of a finger. Yeah. Okay. The parrot is the second best character in the episode.
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Mark
Yes, I agree. And luckily, the two best characters appear in it. In a scene together. Mm. But meanwhile, Murdoch is still recovering and Mrs. Jones comes to see me. Mrs.. I know we got a thing.
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Sarah
It's a bad thing going on. Know she. Oh I don't like.
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Mark
I love.
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Sarah
How I made that.
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Mark
Clear. Sure. We just ignored her basically.
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Sarah
Yeah. But you know, later when Murdoch is really sick, Enid goes to Julia for help.
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Mark
That does a big thing to me.
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Sarah
That means Enid actually cares that he gets better and doesn't let her pride get in the way.
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Mark
Or it's part of the plot that we'll talk about, which.
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Sarah
It very well.
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Mark
Could be. Yeah.
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Sarah
But Mrs. Kitchen, though she is a nice lady and seems to actually care, apparently is not a very good housekeeper because there are mice in the house and the mouse likes the tapioca.
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Mark
Murdoch means the mole.
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Sarah
Needs to get another place.
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Mark
He needs to go to another place. And instead of the morgue of flirtation, it's the morgue of.
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Sarah
Do you think Julia goes over the top here for crab trees benefit?
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Mark
Oh, I think she's playing with.
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Sarah
A she's having fun.
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Mark
I think so.
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Sarah
Because she man, she always puts her face way too close to stomach milk. But she really does it this time.
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Mark
I, like, shout it. I have no doubt that her brackenbury head over a whiskey in his room were like. And then I left it. It was challenge.
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Sarah
I pretended I took a sip.
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Mark
Oh yeah. I gave him the old Well, this is the real job starting now.
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Mark
Just.
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Sarah
And we get the first of of Murdoch's Mercury opium dream sequences to.
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Mark
Well, before that we find out that he's eaten his own finger.
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Sarah
Okay. Not Murdoch. No, Le Roux has eaten his own thing.
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Mark
We find out that the ruse.
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Sarah
She put Julia has it in some tongs and practically sticks it up, crab his.
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Mark
Nose.
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Mark
What was that Doing it to look.
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Sarah
It's finger food and like, shoves.
00;16;35;17 - 00;16;38;28
Mark
There it stays. Julia kills.
00;16;39;00 - 00;16;49;23
Sarah
She has a good sense of humor episode. She's having fun. And Murdoch in his silky satiny matching pajamas, dreaming about the two women that have torn his heart apart.
00;16;49;24 - 00;17;04;12
Mark
Yes. So for this episode, I have a great picture for the promo materials of Murdoch in the silky pajamas with the goggles on. Just fantastic.
00;17;04;14 - 00;17;07;14
Sarah
That's not the right accessory to wear with your pajamas.
00;17;07;14 - 00;17;12;26
Mark
So. So he's having some mercury dreams with lots of running here.
00;17;12;27 - 00;17;13;28
Mark
Yeah.
00;17;14;00 - 00;17;17;05
Mark
And in it goes. William, stop.
00;17;17;12 - 00;17;19;25
Mark
Stop.
00;17;19;27 - 00;17;25;11
Mark
These. These dream sequence must be weird to film because they have to act really weird in them.
00;17;25;12 - 00;17;42;26
Sarah
Yeah, because as an actor, you want to play the part as you're supposed to, But if you're playing that part in a dream sequence, it's got to be a bit different, right? Yeah, I can't quite put my finger on how, but it can't just be straight character. And then there's Alan, who's creepy all the time, so it doesn't matter.
00;17;42;27 - 00;17;46;00
Sarah
Yes, sir. Mrs. Kitchen is gone.
00;17;46;02 - 00;18;01;09
Mark
Yes, she's her sister has typhus, and the porters are here to pick up the luggage, which is and we'll mention this when we go over all these. Another reference to She's gone to see her sister is we're window reference.
00;18;01;12 - 00;18;06;05
Sarah
This whole episode is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window.
00;18;06;08 - 00;18;09;09
Mark
The fact I'd say the beginning also references Vertigo.
00;18;09;10 - 00;18;23;16
Sarah
Yeah, the fact that Murdoch is laid up in bed, that he's kind of sequestered. He can't go about his normal duties and things are happening around him that he's not. Well, he didn't do anything emotional. His people are telling him lies.
00;18;23;19 - 00;18;26;11
Mark
The end fight involves a bright object.
00;18;26;11 - 00;18;36;28
Sarah
Yeah, it's total rear window. It's Jimmy Stewart's camera flash. If you've never seen Rear Window. By the way, stop listening to us and go watch it. What is wrong with you?
00;18;37;01 - 00;18;47;21
Mark
I have Grace Kelly. I have spoken at length, at least an hour on Doyle suits in that in that movie. Doyle is a minor character.
00;18;47;22 - 00;18;49;18
Sarah
He's a policeman, if you've never seen him.
00;18;49;22 - 00;18;53;26
Mark
In that in that movie. And I love his suits so much.
00;18;53;26 - 00;19;11;26
Sarah
Some Mrs. Kitchen is gone now. Why Murdoch remotely accepts that Mrs. Kitchen would go away for an extended period of time and long enough that it would require her to take trunks of things and not come and tell him she has a machine. Would have told her. She would have told him. She would have wanted her things.
00;19;11;26 - 00;19;15;15
Mark
I would have wondered. I did. I did. When when he finally.
00;19;15;15 - 00;19;16;16
Sarah
Would clap your.
00;19;16;21 - 00;19;23;23
Mark
Hands there. But I did think because I'm this kind of person later, how long has she been tied up?
00;19;23;23 - 00;19;25;18
Sarah
Long enough to be messy.
00;19;25;22 - 00;19;26;12
Mark
Yeah, I.
00;19;26;12 - 00;19;27;20
Sarah
Was like three or four days.
00;19;27;20 - 00;19;30;09
Mark
Yeah, she should be messy.
00;19;30;11 - 00;19;51;15
Sarah
I'm glad she's not, though. Yeah, because that would be too much detail. Yes. Assuming they must have untied her on occasion. It's not like she's going to fight. Yeah, right. But I also don't think that that scarf in her mouth is going to keep her from yelling loud enough to hear Anyway, we're jumping way ahead. Yes. Mrs. Burgess must be running a long con here, right?
00;19;51;21 - 00;19;56;00
Sarah
Yeah. She meets, so she. Her name's Emily.
00;19;56;04 - 00;20;03;09
Mark
Okay? She gets a letter. Okay. Really? The very first thing is the cellmate of the guy who is escaped.
00;20;03;10 - 00;20;11;04
Sarah
Yeah. Tells her Joel Harris, His cellmate says I stashed some gold at this address. Yes. So in Joel Harris game. So she goes after.
00;20;11;04 - 00;20;13;19
Mark
The guy, sends him a letter, sends her a letter.
00;20;13;19 - 00;20;14;15
Sarah
Or something?
00;20;14;16 - 00;20;16;14
Mark
Yeah. Get a job at this address.
00;20;16;19 - 00;20;36;10
Sarah
She doesn't work there. I go to that church for the lady who owns that house, goes to church, make friends with her, attend all the church socials until you become best friends so that you can go to her house and tie her up and pretend to live there so that you can investigate. Pensive and we can find.
00;20;36;13 - 00;20;40;09
Mark
That gold, that wigs, pretty good wig, you know, that would be expensive.
00;20;40;10 - 00;20;50;01
Sarah
I don't think so. It's covered by a Barnett most of the time, suppose. But I also think Mrs. Kitchen's a very nice lady. So she would have made friends with the new lady at church fast and whatever.
00;20;50;03 - 00;20;55;18
Mark
I'm with you, though. It should have been thought before the thought that Mrs. Kitchen was in the luggage.
00;20;55;20 - 00;20;59;05
Sarah
And would have been better if you thought maybe she was stuffed in a trunk.
00;20;59;05 - 00;20;59;19
Mark
Maybe.
00;20;59;24 - 00;21;07;24
Sarah
Made like there was just a trunk that was a little leaky in the attic. Yeah. Not a drip. Drip through the ceiling. So the French restaurant is the crime scene?
00;21;07;24 - 00;21;14;21
Mark
Well, Higgins is first to say it was a gang killing.
00;21;14;23 - 00;21;19;28
Sarah
You know those gangs that had attacked French chefs? Yes. And we get to meet the parrot.
00;21;20;01 - 00;21;20;20
Mark
The parrot?
00;21;20;25 - 00;21;21;21
Sarah
You go now.
00;21;21;23 - 00;21;43;22
Mark
To echo Show. Okay. As a person who barely speaks French, all the French in this episode is absolutely correct. And I wanted to say it's not mentioned here, but it soon will be that Murdoch speaks fluent French and he that the actor speaks French, too, like.
00;21;43;25 - 00;21;45;13
Sarah
Every good Canadian does.
00;21;45;15 - 00;21;55;29
Mark
Well, I think that I think it's very important to them, especially now. Later on, you'll see there's more French later on.
00;21;56;00 - 00;22;03;21
Sarah
They have more interactions with people who are from Quebec and and his French comes in handy, but he's not he's not part of that story in this episode.
00;22;03;21 - 00;22;05;23
Mark
No. So between you.
00;22;05;29 - 00;22;08;26
Sarah
You call this vomit geese. He's an awesome.
00;22;08;29 - 00;22;10;07
Mark
Bird is off.
00;22;10;14 - 00;22;11;12
Sarah
The.
00;22;11;14 - 00;22;13;05
Mark
Cracker.
00;22;13;07 - 00;22;14;27
Sarah
You go now you get out.
00;22;14;27 - 00;22;20;28
Mark
And poor Higgins. So Higgins grew up on the Gaspé. That's where his mother is from. Do you know where.
00;22;20;28 - 00;22;23;19
Sarah
The gas bay It's. Yes.
00;22;23;21 - 00;22;25;02
Mark
Oh, it's.
00;22;25;04 - 00;22;25;28
Sarah
Like.
00;22;26;00 - 00;22;32;08
Mark
No gasp. No, no gasp is in gasp. E to some degree.
00;22;32;09 - 00;22;36;02
Sarah
Oh, so he's from the French part of Canada.
00;22;36;04 - 00;22;43;06
Mark
It's the so it is the southern part of Quebec that is closest to the maritime provinces.
00;22;43;08 - 00;22;45;01
Sarah
So he should speak fluent French too.
00;22;45;02 - 00;22;50;26
Mark
Yeah. He says his mother's from there. So he I would think that she would teach him a little more.
00;22;51;00 - 00;22;55;00
Sarah
Mm. Wow. Henry Yeah, she might have. And he didn't listen.
00;22;55;00 - 00;22;58;25
Mark
It's like where the Atlantic Ocean becomes the Saint Lawrence River.
00;22;59;01 - 00;23;02;03
Sarah
Okay? So he understands. Crucial.
00;23;02;06 - 00;23;06;12
Mark
Yeah. In Lebanon. We know what that is now. Oh, you.
00;23;06;12 - 00;23;07;04
Sarah
Don't know.
00;23;07;06 - 00;23;09;00
Mark
The good night.
00;23;09;03 - 00;23;12;14
Sarah
I speak no French, none. As long as I know who I am.
00;23;12;14 - 00;23;18;11
Mark
As long as it's not that horrible French restaurant from Poirot.
00;23;18;13 - 00;23;19;28
Sarah
I spit at you. You go now.
00;23;19;28 - 00;23;28;16
Mark
You get out, you go down. Okay. I think it's time we talked about this conspiracy, because this is where Enid tries to be scientific.
00;23;28;19 - 00;23;29;14
Sarah
Here's my theory.
00;23;29;14 - 00;23;34;05
Mark
Speaking of the Long Kong.
00;23;34;08 - 00;23;42;02
Sarah
This is one of those conspiracy theories. It's the right along the lines of We didn't really land on the moon because we know we did. But it's just kind of fun to think about.
00;23;42;03 - 00;23;44;15
Mark
No, this is believable. It's far.
00;23;44;20 - 00;23;55;09
Sarah
Far more possible than that. Yeah, I think it's possible that Enid and her son are pulling a long con on Murdoch and that they have been observing him enough to know what he likes and dislikes. My mom does.
00;23;55;09 - 00;23;55;17
Mark
Go.
00;23;55;17 - 00;24;05;15
Sarah
To and have shaped themselves into people who can insinuate themselves into his wife. Such as, Oh, I built a telescope for all. And once.
00;24;05;19 - 00;24;09;04
Mark
I see words like focal length and it makes you all.
00;24;09;04 - 00;24;11;02
Mark
Excited.
00;24;11;04 - 00;24;24;07
Sarah
Can you say anything sexier to Murdoch then? Focal length. And I built a telescope for fun, though. Like what other things would only Murdoch find sexy and make his long eyelashes flutter?
00;24;24;10 - 00;24;28;19
Mark
Like I was reading on. I was reading The.
00;24;28;19 - 00;24;34;07
Sarah
Origin of Species for fun the other night before I went to bed, and he was like, Why.
00;24;34;10 - 00;24;36;06
Mark
Do you say that? Taxonomy is head Hedwig?
00;24;36;08 - 00;24;44;17
Sarah
You're the woman of my dreams. Oh, I add an extra cylinders to my gas powered veloce speed.
00;24;44;19 - 00;24;50;05
Mark
I made an electric motor out of an a racer, an elastic band and a scroll.
00;24;50;06 - 00;24;51;08
Mark
And.
00;24;51;11 - 00;24;54;07
Sarah
I can send Morse code in four languages.
00;24;54;10 - 00;24;55;10
Mark
Ha.
00;24;55;13 - 00;24;57;25
Mark
He she's totally been.
00;24;57;27 - 00;25;00;27
Sarah
I was so sad to miss the battery exhibit.
00;25;01;03 - 00;25;02;10
Mark
Yeah.
00;25;02;13 - 00;25;06;16
Sarah
I got. I think I love you.
00;25;06;18 - 00;25;08;25
Mark
Okay. She also does something here.
00;25;08;25 - 00;25;11;07
Sarah
She feeds him like he's a baby in it. You want to slap.
00;25;11;07 - 00;25;14;01
Mark
Her, feed him like he's a baby.
00;25;14;01 - 00;25;17;10
Sarah
His arms are broken. He can eat all by himself. Get back.
00;25;17;10 - 00;25;27;16
Mark
WOMAN Sometimes in my notes, I make references to myself in this section that I have. Mark hates Rebound Town.
00;25;27;19 - 00;25;31;07
Sarah
It doesn't last long. It.
00;25;31;09 - 00;25;44;14
Sarah
It's sad that when he has the dream that Julie is lying next to him, that I was like, Oh, good. Okay. It's like a little window of. Of sanity before Enid and her creepy kid.
00;25;44;15 - 00;25;50;03
Mark
Yeah. Pierre Leroux is who the dead body is. Yeah, I knew him well for 15 years.
00;25;50;05 - 00;25;56;06
Sarah
The chef who lopped his own finger off while cutting carrots and pickled it in a jar.
00;25;56;08 - 00;26;01;00
Mark
Okay. He was Julien and carrots. Did he cut his finger off Julien and carrots?
00;26;01;00 - 00;26;15;29
Sarah
I don't know, because it takes a lot of effort to cut your finger off. Like, it takes like a big butcher's knife. One of those big square knives, like the one you got me last year for Christmas. Like a big swing. Not like a little of the rocking motion you make when you're Giuliani.
00;26;16;02 - 00;26;20;27
Mark
There was a fight with the sous chef over creme Blake. It's raw.
00;26;20;29 - 00;26;22;10
Sarah
You call this dish.
00;26;22;16 - 00;26;26;24
Mark
I'm with you. The birds should sound like Gordon Ramsay.
00;26;26;25 - 00;26;30;06
Mark
Gordon Ramsay.
00;26;30;09 - 00;26;42;04
Mark
Oh, we have said Bird got a heart beat. Yeah, it's the bird. That should be a thought right there. As soon as you think that somebody hates animals there.
00;26;42;07 - 00;26;46;13
Sarah
That makes him a bad person. Yeah. How could you hate. How could you hate a bird?
00;26;46;13 - 00;26;54;15
Mark
So you. You had a thought here that his name's LaRue. But that doesn't make sense because he doesn't have red hair.
00;26;54;23 - 00;27;15;13
Sarah
No. Okay. So later, Crabtree theorizes that maybe the parrot doesn't like people with red hair because maybe the murderer was had red hair, and that's why he acts. The parrot reacts so strongly to Barack and Reid. Yeah, but Leroux means the redhead. Yeah. I just thought it was just like a funny little coincidence. Basically.
00;27;15;16 - 00;27;20;28
Mark
It's a weird coincidence. There's more thumping and not the kind that Murdoch wants.
00;27;21;01 - 00;27;23;04
Sarah
With Ian in your crowd.
00;27;23;07 - 00;27;25;23
Mark
Now feed me image.
00;27;25;25 - 00;27;34;27
Sarah
Oh, when he has that dream and all in is at the foot of his bed and he says, You should wake up now there's someone in your room. Creepy child.
00;27;34;27 - 00;27;49;12
Mark
I love how after three episodes in which we remarked about it, about Murdoch correcting other people, about things, she says, you are to feed a fevered, starved cold. And Murdoch's actually like, actually, it's and she just completely ignored.
00;27;49;17 - 00;27;53;21
Sarah
She just shove shrewdness face here eat this poisoned food.
00;27;53;27 - 00;27;54;23
Mark
Yeah.
00;27;54;25 - 00;28;13;28
Sarah
She's totally in on it telling you she's got that. What is it, Munchausen by proxy. Yes. I'm going to I'm going to pitch in on this poisoning thing so that you need my help. It's kind of misery, you know, kind of like, let me tap your feet. Hit them with the big sledgehammer so I can help you. You know.
00;28;14;00 - 00;28;18;14
Mark
I like how Henry here is actually helpful in the investigation.
00;28;18;18 - 00;28;19;11
Sarah
Yeah, because he.
00;28;19;11 - 00;28;19;16
Mark
Can.
00;28;19;16 - 00;28;20;11
Sarah
Repair it.
00;28;20;14 - 00;28;33;23
Mark
George. George is making assumptions, and Higgins is like, you can't make that assumption about knives because chefs use knives. Murdock's listening in the walls next door. All the rooms are mixed up in this episode.
00;28;33;23 - 00;28;49;15
Sarah
Yeah. I don't know what's what in this house, except there's upstairs and downstairs. But when Crabtree and Brack and Reid come to visit and Murdoch in his big fever is like, there's thumping, there's people in the attic, they at least humor him and go up there and look. Yeah.
00;28;49;17 - 00;28;54;10
Mark
Enid doesn't even do that. She just keeps pumping the poison food in. Yeah.
00;28;54;12 - 00;28;55;29
Sarah
Oh, shut up and eat this.
00;28;55;29 - 00;28;57;13
Mark
It's worse than Mrs. Kitchen.
00;28;57;16 - 00;29;18;12
Sarah
But then Crabtree and Brack and Reid are like the meddling friends who visit. Like, if you have a teenager who's sick and their friends come and visit, you know, like you shouldn't be here. You should go away. They always make it worse somehow. Yeah. They like, kick over the vomit bucket or something. They just go, okay, Bracken. He puts his foot through the ceiling.
00;29;18;14 - 00;29;20;23
Sarah
Let's just get out.
00;29;20;25 - 00;29;26;22
Mark
So Julia goes over. Why is delirium? I'm only feeding him Mercury.
00;29;26;22 - 00;29;27;06
Sarah
And I hope.
00;29;27;06 - 00;29;31;24
Mark
Marjorie and Opiate like. No wonder he's having that treatment.
00;29;31;24 - 00;29;33;13
Sarah
Doesn't agree with everybody. Mark, I.
00;29;33;13 - 00;29;34;01
Mark
Think.
00;29;34;04 - 00;29;35;16
Mark
That's really not.
00;29;35;19 - 00;29;43;20
Mark
And then George talks about his dream in which he can pull plums out of the navel.
00;29;43;22 - 00;29;51;14
Sarah
And then he wakes up and there's still a plum in his navel. What would Freud say about plums in your belly?
00;29;51;14 - 00;29;57;22
Mark
But I'm looking at my bloody pebbles.
00;29;57;25 - 00;30;00;03
Sarah
Poor Bracken Reed.
00;30;00;05 - 00;30;01;26
Mark
He.
00;30;01;28 - 00;30;20;11
Sarah
And that makes me think of that awesome scene in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when Chevy Chase puts his foot through the ceiling and can't leave and so he puts on the robe and the old turban, and he's just watching movies in the attic crying. I see Bracken Reed in a turban and a pink robe.
00;30;20;14 - 00;30;23;13
Mark
Watching a movie.
00;30;23;15 - 00;30;37;29
Sarah
But then the best, the best character of the whole episode shows up. And his name is Travis Struthers, Travis Merritt X, First Brothers. We must go. We must do what he says. They hold a grudge in these things. You know, it's an.
00;30;37;29 - 00;30;39;01
Mark
Effort and the.
00;30;39;06 - 00;30;40;28
Sarah
Parent knows when he's cussing you out.
00;30;41;04 - 00;30;42;19
Mark
Yeah.
00;30;42;22 - 00;30;43;27
Mark
He made for life.
00;30;43;27 - 00;31;00;02
Sarah
The story he tells about the African elephant and the woman. About how they can both turn on you. When one stormed up me across the velt Want a woman? Hi. Hi. You're funny. Can I tell you about famous talking parrots involved in crimes?
00;31;00;02 - 00;31;00;29
Mark
Yes, please.
00;31;01;04 - 00;31;09;03
Sarah
You know, I think we've talked about this before, and I it. I'm getting some deja vu about parrots. I Biden searched my notes.
00;31;09;03 - 00;31;11;20
Mark
Anyway, there's no parrot in in midsummer.
00;31;11;20 - 00;31;21;23
Sarah
Not that I can remember. Oh, there is one parrot who gave a TED talk. It's not a crime to give a TED talk. But just as a side note, a parrot named no.
00;31;21;29 - 00;31;23;17
Mark
Crime to tell everybody.
00;31;23;19 - 00;31;29;22
Sarah
That's true did not stop talking about your TED talk. Einstein, the parrot who knows 200 words and gave a TED talk.
00;31;29;24 - 00;31;30;12
Mark
Yes.
00;31;30;14 - 00;31;39;28
Sarah
Is also famous for watching his owners take showers and saying things like look at you, you're all wet and saying bombs away every time he poops.
00;31;40;00 - 00;31;40;17
Mark
No, I.
00;31;40;17 - 00;31;41;29
Sarah
Don't want that bird in my house.
00;31;42;01 - 00;31;42;19
Mark
No.
00;31;42;26 - 00;31;44;13
Sarah
Let's talk about to bed now.
00;31;44;13 - 00;31;46;15
Mark
If we have the cat that won't stop screaming.
00;31;46;18 - 00;32;10;06
Sarah
She just yells all the time. And sometimes she says, How weird. She's 15. I think she's a little crazy. Anyway, two parrots involved in crimes. Yes. I think there's a third parrot who probably witnessed a murder but didn't get to testify that we might have mentioned in some other stories. Some animals involved were.
00;32;10;07 - 00;32;10;22
Mark
100 and.
00;32;10;22 - 00;32;11;29
Sarah
Seven and crime.
00;32;12;01 - 00;32;15;04
Mark
Episodes. And I think people forget Mr. Being.
00;32;15;04 - 00;32;16;08
Sarah
But these two are great.
00;32;16;11 - 00;32;19;15
Mark
Did you know the word clues? I'm sorry?
00;32;19;17 - 00;32;34;02
Sarah
In 2015, in Agra, India, a woman and her dog were murdered in a botched robbery, and her parrot, whose name was her Kule. Oh, identified the nephew.
00;32;34;04 - 00;32;35;00
Mark
I see.
00;32;35;00 - 00;32;35;23
Sarah
Yes.
00;32;35;27 - 00;32;38;25
Mark
That's got a story right there.
00;32;38;25 - 00;32;58;25
Sarah
When when the police came to the scene, they brought the nephew for questioning or something. The parrot and the nephew saw each other, and the parrot started saying, No, get out. Don't get out in the White voice. Yeah, the murdered woman's voice. Then they were like, We need to talk to you some more nephew.
00;32;58;25 - 00;33;00;05
Mark
Yeah, that's chilling.
00;33;00;09 - 00;33;04;16
Sarah
So the parrot didn't testify, but he may as well. And his name was Hercules.
00;33;04;16 - 00;33;05;28
Mark
And his name was Hercules.
00;33;05;28 - 00;33;06;08
Sarah
Which is.
00;33;06;08 - 00;33;07;28
Mark
Awesome. That's fantastic.
00;33;08;00 - 00;33;33;09
Sarah
The other one is even better. In 2010, the Colombian police held they performed like the biggest raid on these drug gangs that they had ever done, like successfully, like a really big, successful raid. And the reason why they hadn't been successful before was that these Colombian drug gangs trained parrots to identify police and yell things like, Run, run, you're going to get caught.
00;33;33;14 - 00;33;42;22
Sarah
Oh, when they see a police car. Wow. And so the police had to evade the parrots to performance. Successful rate.
00;33;42;23 - 00;33;43;26
Mark
Yeah. Okay.
00;33;43;27 - 00;33;51;12
Sarah
The parrots were basically accomplices. Yeah, but it's like a lookout. But it's a common thing for drug lords to do this. It's not like just one did it.
00;33;51;12 - 00;33;52;06
Mark
Oh, it's common.
00;33;52;14 - 00;34;02;11
Sarah
There's a lot of them that do it. They train parrots to identify police. I think that's amazing. Yeah, that's very clever. Yeah, But also because of their bad.
00;34;02;13 - 00;34;03;03
Mark
Drug use.
00;34;03;04 - 00;34;10;13
Sarah
That special chicken soup that Mrs. Burgess brings in looks like a bulla egg yolk, where with puke and.
00;34;10;17 - 00;34;12;11
Mark
Spinach, child.
00;34;12;13 - 00;34;20;25
Sarah
Always doing own things. These are fine and robots and stuff. Murdoch Maybe he's hanging out with Joe Harris the Fugitive, because, you know, they're all in cahoots.
00;34;20;29 - 00;34;27;03
Mark
Murdoch sees the mouse is dead. I have one. Forget in my notes. Murdoch needs to find a new place.
00;34;27;03 - 00;34;28;09
Mark
Mm hmm.
00;34;28;12 - 00;34;31;01
Mark
Maybe it's reddish hair, mutton chops.
00;34;31;04 - 00;34;34;22
Sarah
Just. I want Struthers to be a returning character so bad.
00;34;34;25 - 00;34;35;24
Mark
I do, too.
00;34;35;25 - 00;34;38;18
Sarah
But spoiler. He never comes back. He's so.
00;34;38;18 - 00;34;40;04
Mark
Awesome. I've been drowned.
00;34;40;09 - 00;34;47;21
Sarah
With opium and mercury. So Murdoch finds Mrs. Kitchen tied up in another room. She's barely tied up.
00;34;47;21 - 00;34;50;02
Mark
I have a special treat for you. It's like.
00;34;50;07 - 00;34;50;27
Mark
Yeah.
00;34;51;00 - 00;34;59;26
Sarah
Knock, knock. And then there's the old lady fight to end all old lady fights. Even though I know Mrs. Burgess is not really an old lady, she's a middle aged woman.
00;34;59;28 - 00;35;02;08
Mark
It's a real baby.
00;35;02;11 - 00;35;13;03
Sarah
But he and ties Mrs. Kitchen. But he has her pretend she's still tied up, and then she whacks the crap out of Mrs. Briggs. Does she goes to town?
00;35;13;08 - 00;35;14;08
Mark
Yeah.
00;35;14;10 - 00;35;25;15
Sarah
Because Murdoch is in no shape to fight. He's like, Yeah, I'll passes out because they've been given him plural nitrate with a crowbar.
00;35;25;15 - 00;35;27;00
Mark
She goes after. Yeah.
00;35;27;05 - 00;35;39;23
Sarah
She really waxer. Yeah. Which, you know, Mrs. Burgess deserves, but not, not until after Murdoch has already sort of taken Mrs. Burgess out by shoving his night vision goggles.
00;35;39;23 - 00;35;41;02
Mark
So.
00;35;41;04 - 00;35;42;28
Mark
Yeah, so blind.
00;35;43;01 - 00;35;44;22
Mark
This fight is.
00;35;44;25 - 00;36;01;15
Sarah
So it's very much Jimmy Stewart and Rear Window in the dark, flashing his camera flash at the murderer. This is very much rear window. Jimmy Stewart in the dark, flashing his camera flash at Perry Mason or Raymond Burr is the actor's name.
00;36;01;15 - 00;36;02;18
Mark
Yes. No, it's.
00;36;02;18 - 00;36;11;16
Sarah
Not really Perry Mason. Betty played him on TV. Yeah, He's the murderer and he's coming after him in the dark. That's Murdock putting the night vision goggles on Mrs. Burgess to blind her.
00;36;11;16 - 00;36;15;11
Mark
It's not the best choreographed fight. You just say. Well.
00;36;15;13 - 00;36;16;05
Sarah
This tall.
00;36;16;05 - 00;36;16;27
Mark
Ladies.
00;36;17;00 - 00;36;34;24
Sarah
Ladies and a high guy with a fever. Yeah. You know, like, they're doing the best they can. And Mrs. Kitchen finishes hard. Yes, She doodles are on that takes her out, and that's what knocks her wig off. That was a well fixed wig. It took a crowbar to knock it off.
00;36;34;26 - 00;36;36;00
Mark
Let me get this wig off.
00;36;36;00 - 00;36;38;28
Mark
That's impressive.
00;36;39;00 - 00;36;53;01
Sarah
And then we get to find out that. Okay, so Mrs. Burgess is not really Mrs. Burgess in that she's the compatriot girlfriend. Whatever of Joel Harris, the fugitive. And they're looking for the gold and that the former tenant was very.
00;36;53;01 - 00;36;53;13
Mark
Good with.
00;36;53;13 - 00;36;54;22
Sarah
Plasterwork.
00;36;54;24 - 00;36;59;19
Mark
Yes. Now, Murdoch's been in this bed for a week and he's just noticing this now.
00;36;59;19 - 00;37;03;04
Sarah
He's lived there for how long? And looked up at the ceiling from that bed.
00;37;03;04 - 00;37;07;03
Mark
Enid poisoning him again.
00;37;07;06 - 00;37;19;12
Sarah
Eat this now drink this. Alan's like, Do it, ma'am. Do it, do it. He'll be ours. I'm surprised you didn't try to move him to her house. Take care of him. That's a very Enid thing to do, I think.
00;37;19;15 - 00;37;23;13
Mark
Yes, I have in my notes. It wasn't bold. It was gross.
00;37;23;15 - 00;37;25;28
Sarah
Oh, when she kisses him? Yeah. Is that too bold?
00;37;26;00 - 00;37;27;28
Mark
No, it was gross.
00;37;28;01 - 00;37;35;24
Sarah
He's sick. Leave him alone. Wait till he's better to try to put the moves on him. He's incapacitated and cannot give consent.
00;37;36;01 - 00;37;38;26
Mark
No, this is. Yeah, well.
00;37;38;28 - 00;37;45;18
Sarah
So Brickhouse, the person that we've talked to twice is the murderer. Yes, He's the one who killed Leroux.
00;37;45;19 - 00;37;47;12
Mark
I couldn't bear the fights anymore.
00;37;47;12 - 00;37;49;04
Sarah
And an argument that got out of control.
00;37;49;04 - 00;37;51;05
Mark
Put the finger in my salad.
00;37;51;08 - 00;38;01;13
Sarah
He acts like, oops, I killed him. And then I didn't know what to do. But you also shoved a finger in his throat. Like you took a finger out of a jar and put it in his throat.
00;38;01;15 - 00;38;02;24
Mark
Yeah, I think there was.
00;38;02;24 - 00;38;04;03
Sarah
A little malice involved.
00;38;04;04 - 00;38;06;04
Mark
A reenactment scene that we just didn't.
00;38;06;04 - 00;38;10;08
Sarah
See because it would have been too nasty. Yeah, because he stabbed him in the neck.
00;38;10;12 - 00;38;18;05
Mark
But what I like is, like I said, the whole plot with Higgins and Crabtree has a beginning, a middle and end.
00;38;18;05 - 00;38;19;11
Sarah
Oh, it's a poor case.
00;38;19;11 - 00;38;28;25
Mark
They're the heroes. Yep. They solve it. So we have we would talked about the moment where George goes. Let me just stare off into space. Yeah, Murdoch does.
00;38;28;29 - 00;38;31;22
Sarah
Come up here for an answer. Comes to me.
00;38;31;24 - 00;38;32;18
Mark
No, it's not work.
00;38;32;19 - 00;38;38;04
Sarah
I'm imagining a montage, But it doesn't end with a solution. No, but then.
00;38;38;04 - 00;38;38;19
Mark
But then he.
00;38;38;19 - 00;38;50;04
Sarah
Does. But then he does. Yeah. It's very meta. Then he does that like Murdoch always is staring off into space, sees a mental montage in his head, has a little brainstorm.
00;38;50;06 - 00;38;54;23
Mark
Yeah, that comes off fantastically better. Yeah. They're finally making fun of murder.
00;38;54;23 - 00;38;58;03
Sarah
They're making fun of him. Yeah, because he's not there.
00;38;58;06 - 00;39;11;08
Mark
No, he's in the clutches of Enid. So you're. You're conspiracy is that Enid is using these criminal elements to use to get things like this Gold?
00;39;11;08 - 00;39;39;25
Sarah
I think it's very possible. Probable, but not. Maybe not possible that Enid has her mind set on Murdoch and has shaped herself into the kind of person that he would like and dropping little things like I built to telescope once and and coaching her son to say things like, I just need a daddy. And my mom knows Morse code or whatever and has all the codes to better appeal to a man who is a very good catch.
00;39;39;25 - 00;39;47;09
Mark
It. It totally feels like I'm saying these things to my crush and they're are awkward.
00;39;47;11 - 00;39;55;18
Sarah
It's a little on the nose, it's a little try hard. But when she says, Well, it's a shame they didn't even find the gold they were looking for.
00;39;55;21 - 00;39;57;05
Mark
She's out for money, too.
00;39;57;07 - 00;40;02;13
Sarah
I can almost imagine that, you know, because her dead husband was probably a criminal.
00;40;02;15 - 00;40;07;22
Mark
Yeah, obviously that she.
00;40;07;24 - 00;40;11;05
Mark
Okay, I'm just going to adjust it to say this is.
00;40;11;06 - 00;40;12;06
Sarah
A making set up.
00;40;12;06 - 00;40;20;26
Mark
But if you put lips my face and your husband has died in the last two years, I want to know why.
00;40;21;01 - 00;40;26;00
Sarah
Yeah. Why hasn't Juliet looked up? How her husband died, how I could understand my murder?
00;40;26;00 - 00;40;29;19
Mark
Julia was. She's had all these people. Understand.
00;40;29;21 - 00;40;32;06
Sarah
Huh? She's never been to the morgue before.
00;40;32;07 - 00;40;33;17
Mark
No, she. No, she.
00;40;33;17 - 00;40;40;28
Sarah
Unless she went there to see her dead husband. Mm hmm. You don't go to the morgue if you just die of natural causes.
00;40;40;28 - 00;40;41;24
Mark
No.
00;40;41;27 - 00;40;42;29
Mark
Mm hmm.
00;40;43;02 - 00;40;50;15
Mark
But is nice that she goes and gets Julia, and they have the weirdest clothes sitting carriage ride ever. Yeah.
00;40;50;17 - 00;41;19;22
Sarah
It's like girlfriend and ex girlfriend having to hang out with each other. Awkward. Those are Murdock's glad he's not. It doesn't have to be there for that. But I am comforted by imagining that it that Enid is a has some contacts in the criminal class and knows about Joel Harris's place. They find this gold and sort of helps him get cause troubles and sort of wants to find that gold herself.
00;41;19;22 - 00;41;21;23
Sarah
What a shame. They weren't even able to find it.
00;41;21;23 - 00;41;22;21
Mark
What a shame it.
00;41;22;21 - 00;41;32;07
Sarah
Must be in this room. Coincidence. Meanwhile, Alan's climbing up on the ceiling, scratching at everything. Where is this One's not shining.
00;41;32;07 - 00;41;33;10
Mark
Where is he?
00;41;33;10 - 00;41;34;09
Sarah
He's in the attic.
00;41;34;15 - 00;41;39;18
Mark
Mom's making out with Murdoch. Murdoch? And he's nowhere to be seen.
00;41;39;21 - 00;41;42;22
Sarah
Yeah, it's just so warm. I guess it's from your fever.
00;41;42;25 - 00;41;44;13
Mark
Okay. Best corpse.
00;41;44;17 - 00;41;47;14
Sarah
Clearly, Larry. Ah, his finger.
00;41;47;17 - 00;41;48;18
Mark
Yes, I'm.
00;41;48;22 - 00;41;50;03
Sarah
I'm giving it to his finger.
00;41;50;03 - 00;41;51;11
Mark
Where does the parrot go?
00;41;51;11 - 00;41;53;07
Sarah
Struthers is going to take it.
00;41;53;09 - 00;41;55;09
Mark
Struthers is going to take them and release them.
00;41;55;09 - 00;41;55;17
Sarah
Yes.
00;41;55;18 - 00;41;55;27
Mark
Right.
00;41;56;02 - 00;41;58;21
Sarah
They're going to be best friend. That's right. I think he keeps.
00;41;58;21 - 00;42;00;19
Mark
Them on the Struthers and the Parrot Show.
00;42;00;19 - 00;42;01;23
Sarah
Yes, me too.
00;42;01;26 - 00;42;03;24
Mark
This is off. This has that.
00;42;03;27 - 00;42;04;14
Sarah
Offshoot.
00;42;04;15 - 00;42;08;20
Mark
Offshoot all over.
00;42;08;23 - 00;42;15;27
Sarah
It's the Struthers, his sideburns and the parrot, because his sideburns are a character all by themselves.
00;42;15;29 - 00;42;16;19
Mark
They are.
00;42;16;23 - 00;42;22;22
Sarah
And so after the credits, Mrs. Kitchen is freed. Yep. And able to help Murdock.
00;42;22;25 - 00;42;25;02
Mark
All the baddies go to jail.
00;42;25;04 - 00;42;32;06
Sarah
The baddies all go to jail. The parrot is going off with Struthers, and then I guess back to where it came from to be roomies.
00;42;32;07 - 00;42;40;14
Mark
Wait a minute. Okay, so Brickhouse kills him in the restaurant, then he dragged them outside. Mm hmm. Why?
00;42;40;16 - 00;42;42;24
Sarah
To make it look like he wasn't killed in the restaurant.
00;42;42;29 - 00;42;46;07
Mark
Then he goes and gets a wheelbarrow. Why?
00;42;46;07 - 00;42;49;10
Sarah
I don't know. Because he changed his mind.
00;42;49;13 - 00;43;01;28
Mark
And then he takes off. Why? Because if he just walked with that wheelbarrow right past them, he wouldn't have looked as suspicious as. Oh, I got to run.
00;43;02;00 - 00;43;17;23
Sarah
Okay, But let's just say you're walking with the wheelbarrow for a perfectly innocent reason. Yes. Okay. Down an alley. And you see, as you turn the corner at the end of the alley, there are police and a body. What do you do? You don't just keep going. You stop and think I should go another way.
00;43;17;24 - 00;43;20;03
Mark
Yes, but you don't. He stops.
00;43;20;05 - 00;43;24;12
Sarah
He stops. And at that point he's fine. But then he runs.
00;43;24;15 - 00;43;27;15
Mark
Yeah, but they have to have a reason for Murdock to fall.
00;43;27;15 - 00;43;43;18
Sarah
Yeah, if it's even him. Yeah. If it's not some completely innocent dude who just didn't want the police to talk to him because he isn't completely innocent, but isn't involved in that crime. Right? That that guy with the wheelbarrow might have nothing to do with LaRue?
00;43;43;23 - 00;43;44;15
Mark
Absolutely.
00;43;44;18 - 00;43;48;26
Sarah
He could be a body snatcher. Could be going to sell him to a medical school or something.
00;43;48;26 - 00;43;49;29
Mark
Down here.
00;43;50;02 - 00;43;54;15
Sarah
I went to get my wheelbarrow and come back and get him so I could sell him. And there's people.
00;43;54;15 - 00;43;55;13
Mark
Here buy it.
00;43;55;20 - 00;43;58;29
Sarah
Yeah, I think that's a little anachronistic timewise, but.
00;43;58;29 - 00;44;01;14
Mark
Or. All right, we've all been waiting for this. Is it.
00;44;01;14 - 00;44;05;03
Sarah
Time? Is it time? It's like Christmas.
00;44;05;05 - 00;44;06;17
Mark
And sunshine and.
00;44;06;19 - 00;44;07;29
Mark
Horrible.
00;44;08;01 - 00;44;10;02
Sarah
Oh, it's a horrible movie.
00;44;10;08 - 00;44;12;12
Mark
I wasn't allowed to see Sarah's note.
00;44;12;18 - 00;44;13;10
Sarah
No, I'm allowed.
00;44;13;10 - 00;44;16;14
Mark
To look at pictures. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I do not.
00;44;16;16 - 00;44;16;23
Sarah
Know.
00;44;16;28 - 00;44;17;12
Mark
That.
00;44;17;15 - 00;44;22;14
Sarah
This is a 1988 movie. Okay. And Brian Frank, who plays.
00;44;22;15 - 00;44;23;20
Mark
Is a Canadian movie.
00;44;23;24 - 00;44;30;07
Sarah
I'm not saying anything. Okay, Brian, Frank, who plays Joe Harris The Fugitive in this episode is in this movie.
00;44;30;08 - 00;44;32;13
Mark
Oh, he's barely in this episode.
00;44;32;13 - 00;44;53;29
Sarah
So let me give you a little summary here. Okay. After a worldwide nuclear war where 68% of the male population was wiped out and zero men become a rarity, a character whose name I won't mention is scavenger and highly virile. Man is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnaped by humanoid blank.
00;44;54;02 - 00;45;05;14
Mark
Wow. The the parts of this movie have went on to be in parts of other movies. They're much better. Like this is a little Mad Max Fury Road.
00;45;05;14 - 00;45;28;17
Sarah
Oh, let me give you the secondary summary. Okay. Because it's just better. The more details, the better. And get okay. Blank is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility.
00;45;28;17 - 00;45;35;04
Sarah
Blanck is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader.
00;45;35;05 - 00;45;37;23
Mark
Oh, this is so Fury row.
00;45;37;25 - 00;45;47;11
Sarah
Our hero cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than 100 yards from his guards.
00;45;47;11 - 00;45;48;13
Mark
What?
00;45;48;15 - 00;45;55;23
Sarah
The main character spends the entire movie with a bomb strapped to his crotch. I told you, it's fantastically.
00;45;55;26 - 00;46;00;20
Mark
This fantastically op. And I have never seen this movie before.
00;46;00;20 - 00;46;14;13
Sarah
Okay, so I win. Yes. Okay. So now I can tell you that the the starring role is is played by Rowdy Roddy Piper. Oh, The Wrestler, the roster. And it is called.
00;46;14;15 - 00;46;25;01
Mark
Now Rowdy Roddy Piper is in the movie they live. Yes we both love yes and is responsible for the line I've come to kick ass and jump up and go.
00;46;25;03 - 00;46;25;14
Sarah
All out of.
00;46;25;14 - 00;46;26;15
Mark
Bubble out of bubble.
00;46;26;15 - 00;46;28;00
Mark
Bubblegum.
00;46;28;02 - 00;46;33;26
Mark
He is fantastic in this movie and in that movie, but he is by no means an actor.
00;46;34;01 - 00;46;34;14
Mark
Okay?
00;46;34;19 - 00;46;39;14
Sarah
In this movie, his name, the character's name that he plays is Sam.
00;46;39;14 - 00;46;42;02
Mark
Hell, Sam Hell. Okay.
00;46;42;02 - 00;46;45;28
Sarah
And the movie is called Hell Comes to Frogtown.
00;46;46;04 - 00;46;48;19
Mark
Okay, I've heard of that movie because.
00;46;48;19 - 00;46;50;25
Sarah
The mutants resemble frogs.
00;46;51;02 - 00;46;59;08
Mark
I've heard of Hell comes to Frogtown, but never seen. That's fantastic. We must now watch. Hell comes to Frogtown.
00;46;59;08 - 00;47;17;09
Sarah
So Roddy Piper in the whole movie has this thing that looks like a chastity belt, like a metal bikini on that says. And the front has stenciled on it like property of the US government and has like two blinking lights all the time.
00;47;17;09 - 00;47;19;07
Mark
Oh, wow.
00;47;19;09 - 00;47;25;05
Sarah
So even when he runs, he runs kind of weird because he's got this big metal bikini on all the time.
00;47;25;05 - 00;47;28;04
Mark
The movie is called The Frog.
00;47;28;04 - 00;47;32;01
Sarah
People are so funny. They all look like Kermit. It's all a.
00;47;32;01 - 00;47;34;16
Mark
Hairpiece. Yeah.
00;47;34;19 - 00;47;39;05
Sarah
You have to just look at the pictures on IMDB.
00;47;39;07 - 00;47;44;01
Mark
Now. This is bad.
00;47;44;04 - 00;47;52;23
Sarah
This is. And Brian Frank, who plays Joe Harris in this episode of Murdoch, plays one of the frog people. Oh, so he is in full prosthetic?
00;47;52;25 - 00;47;56;01
Mark
Yeah, Yeah.
00;47;56;03 - 00;47;58;27
Mark
I know. I didn't see this movie.
00;47;58;27 - 00;48;00;28
Sarah
Because it looks too awesome to handle.
00;48;01;02 - 00;48;04;29
Mark
It does look a bit too awesome and all.
00;48;05;01 - 00;48;14;14
Sarah
Yeah, it doesn't hurt that all of the the women who run the government who have taken him hostage also want to have sex with him because he's virile and they're fertile.
00;48;14;17 - 00;48;20;25
Mark
There's a sign in the background that says, making babies is our business. Our only business. Yeah.
00;48;20;28 - 00;48;23;21
Sarah
Because there's a government program to restart the wire.
00;48;23;24 - 00;48;27;13
Mark
Oh, Whoa. That is a chastity belt. Yes.
00;48;27;13 - 00;48;29;03
Sarah
There you see the pictures?
00;48;29;04 - 00;48;33;05
Mark
Wow. It says property of provisional government.
00;48;33;05 - 00;48;35;19
Sarah
Yes. Where do you see the frog? People keep going.
00;48;35;19 - 00;48;37;00
Mark
Wow. Okay.
00;48;37;02 - 00;48;40;05
Sarah
We have to put some of these photos and put the notes from the show.
00;48;40;10 - 00;48;45;07
Mark
Put this in the notes or the show. Wow. There are a lot of women who wear.
00;48;45;10 - 00;48;47;08
Sarah
One to have sex with. Roddy Piper.
00;48;47;08 - 00;48;51;18
Mark
Snap, this is Brady's agent came up with this movie.
00;48;51;18 - 00;49;05;29
Sarah
Thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you seen this person? Keep going. Keep going. Oh, they're fantastic. Wow. One of them has lipstick and earrings on. He looks like it looks like Dame Edna as a frog.
00;49;05;29 - 00;49;12;08
Mark
That's a drag frog. Yes. Hell comes to drag frogs.
00;49;12;11 - 00;49;17;07
Sarah
It's called. How comes the frog down from 1988? And that is a point for me.
00;49;17;08 - 00;49;21;09
Mark
That is definitely a bleep for you. Wow.
00;49;21;09 - 00;49;24;09
Sarah
How is it going on your must watch list now?
00;49;24;10 - 00;49;30;13
Mark
I am going to watch that. Yeah. Now comes to Frogtown.
00;49;30;14 - 00;49;32;03
Sarah
Oh, that's horrible.
00;49;32;08 - 00;49;34;15
Mark
Fantastic. That unbelievably.
00;49;34;15 - 00;49;39;22
Sarah
Good. And that is season two. Episode nine Convalesce Murder.
00;49;39;24 - 00;49;45;16
Mark
You can find us on Maniacs, Mystery Maniacs on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
00;49;45;18 - 00;50;06;03
Sarah
Anything else? If you find this on YouTube, please subscribe and ring the little bell like and all that good stuff and help other people find us. A lot of people find us for the first time on YouTube. Absolutely. It's kind of the gateway to the podcast for a lot of people who are not big podcast listeners. So please do that next week.
00;50;06;03 - 00;50;10;17
Mark
I'll try not to geek out much. By Telegraph.
00;50;10;20 - 00;50;12;09
Sarah
Telegraphs.
00;50;12;11 - 00;50;18;19
Mark
September 18th will be released. Murdoch Mysteries Season two Episode ten Murdoch dot com.
00;50;18;20 - 00;50;23;04
Sarah
Yes, It's the closest thing to the internet until many seasons later of Murdoch.
00;50;23;04 - 00;50;40;15
Mark
I will have to double check but I'm pretty sure the people who read the who wrote this episode probably read the book the or it's called the first Internet. Oh, the Victorian Internet. Yeah that's what it's called. And which is all about how the telegraph is the beginning of the Internet, which it is.
00;50;40;16 - 00;50;44;14
Sarah
Don't worry, folks. I will rein in his geekery or force him to edit it out.
00;50;44;16 - 00;50;55;19
Mark
September 25th will cover Murdoch Mysteries. Episode 11 Season two. Let us ask the Maiden and then we have two more episodes left, and then we're going to switch to Father Brown.
00;50;55;19 - 00;51;02;26
Sarah
Yeah. So until then, enjoy some pumpkin spice, something or other that makes you happy because it makes me happy.
00;51;02;27 - 00;51;04;07
Mark
Whew.
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Sarah
And we will see you next time by maniacs, by mania. But this one, I mean, it's got to what do they call that? That the stiller they used to put in packages pay before peanuts? No, it's got its own. There's a name for 9000. What is the name? You have to edit this out.
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Mark
Okay.
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Sarah
I'm LCR That's what it's called.
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Mark
No, that's what's looking at these.
