Episode 181 - Murdoch Mysteries - "Anything You Can Do..."- The Ultimate Nerd-Off
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Sarah
Give you a pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.
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Mark
Wow.
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Sarah
There's your sound. It's just all.
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Mark
All the time.
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Sarah
Hey, maniacs.
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Mark
Hey, maniacs.
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Sarah
It's our last Murdoc from season two. Yeah, a lot of people are like, Woo hoo! Murdoch's almost over. I like Murdoch. I understand. Not everybody does. Thanks for sticking with us.
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Mark
Not for everybody. And we've. We've had some converts.
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Sarah
Yeah, and maybe they only like it because we make fun of it. I don't know. But next week, Father Brown.
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Mark
The thing about Murdoch is it gets better and better.
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Sarah
I think so, Yeah. You got. But you got to make it through the first couple seasons. Yep.
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Mark
Mr. Animaniacs is a comedy recap podcast dedicated to mystery TV. Each week we dig in to an episode of the show, including the murders, the mayhem, the loonies, and everything else We love. This Week Murdoch Mysteries Season two Episode 13 Anything You Can Do?
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Sarah
I Can do better.
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Mark
I can do.
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Sarah
Better. We spoil it. We're going to tell you who did it. So if you haven't watched it and you don't want to know, don't listen yet.
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Mark
If your kids old enough to join the Mounties, certainly old enough to listen to the podcast.
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Sarah
I've always wondered what that white cord is that they wear around their necks on top of their red tunics. Yeah, and I finally looked it up.
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Mark
Excellent.
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Sarah
It's a lanyard for their gun.
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Mark
Okay.
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Sarah
They put their gun in a holster. They also hook it to a lanyard that they wear around their neck. Yeah, you know why?
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Mark
So if they're swimming or riding knots with.
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Sarah
If you swam in a mountain uniform, you would sink wool pants and a wool tunic and big boots.
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Mark
Just that. The hat floating.
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Sarah
Just. Yeah. No it's. Yeah, it's because they usually ride horses. Yeah. And if you lose the grip on your gun it would fall. Yeah. Right now the lanyard keeps them from falling. Most lanyards like that would be around your waist. But if you're on a horse and you drop the gun, now the gun is hanging down around your feet.
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Sarah
Yes, Right. Benefit's around your neck. It's not. And if it's around your waist and you need to lift the gun to shoot somebody, how far can you lift it? Not very far, because it's attached to your waist. But if it's from around your neck, you're good to go.
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Mark
There you go.
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Sarah
It makes perfect sense. It does not actually know what it is.
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Mark
In this episode that is shooting mixed shooters since so.
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Sarah
Many shootings.
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Mark
These shootings, shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting.
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Sarah
I'm I'm just glad that Lenny has an unlimited amount of bullets in his pockets.
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Mark
Yes. Pew, pew.
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Sarah
Pew, pew. Before we dive in, as a reminder next week, we are moving on to Father Brown, season one, and we will start with the Father Brown. Season one Episode one remix. Wait, wait, wait.
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Mark
So what we're going to do is not only will I see this best, like take the audio and give it a little shine, make sure it's all good and everyone.
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Sarah
Is going to judge it.
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Mark
Also.
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Sarah
Because we've already covered episode one from season one.
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Mark
Yeah, we covered three episodes from season one, so we're going to repeat Rod cast a great portion of that. Now you should still watch it again because you know what? We're funny and.
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Sarah
You should still listen to it again because yeah.
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Mark
And if you listen to us will still be fine. And then I'm going to add a couple of things to it. First thing I'm going to add is because.
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Sarah
You're going to edit in the solution to a big mystery.
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Mark
Yep. Solution. The big mystery. If you didn't listen to it before, there's a big mystery. And there's a solution to the big mystery. Yes. And then after the new theme there, I'm going to put it in the end because I was experimenting with theme at that point in time. And it wasn't. It wasn't good. No, it wasn't good.
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Mark
But now I like our theme. I love our theme music. Now, after the theme, you're going to get 5 minutes of never before heard before audio bloopers.
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Sarah
Yep. From all kinds of episodes.
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Mark
Yep. Right. From Midsummer's to everything's.
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Sarah
Going to be well worth a listen.
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Mark
Yeah, I. I keep the raw audio of every one of our episodes, so everything that gets edited out, I save it off to a little file that I call outtakes and.
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Sarah
Including all the times when I go, Oh, you're recording already, aren't you? Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. So glad you recorded.
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Mark
That at the end of like more in the first couple of episodes, there's 5 minutes of me going So so so so, so, so, so so.
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Sarah
You say I.
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Mark
Say it all the time. So that'll come out the 23rd of October when I get back from Canada because I'm going to Canada this weekend. Well, yeah. Yes, the weekend coming up. By the way, happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian people today.
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Sarah
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Mark
Well, the day the episode released today and Thanksgiving, you.
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Sarah
Guys have turkey. You're usually like, do you have a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner?
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Mark
I think it's sort of again, my mother was not the best cook.
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Sarah
But is that the tradition?
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Mark
There is tradition to have turkey like.
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Sarah
Cranberries.
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Mark
And or ham. Yeah.
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Sarah
Okay.
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Mark
Yeah, it's like Christmas dinner. So.
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Sarah
Okay.
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Mark
But again, Madonna.
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Sarah
Oh, she's awesome. She's awesome. Not for cooking.
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Mark
No. Then we're going to take another week off after that because it's Halloween and the craziness that comes this Halloween and then return on the 6th of November for episode two, which will be brand new.
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Sarah
Brand new.
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Mark
Never covered Episode two of Father Brown.
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Sarah
I have one recommendation before we get into this, since it's October and it's spooky time, a podcast that you all should check out. It's called Uncanny.
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Mark
Uncanny?
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Sarah
Yeah.
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Mark
That's uncanny.
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Sarah
It's a BBC podcast hosted by Danny Robins, and it is a Ghost Story podcast, but it's like an investigative ghost story podcast. It's wonderfully creepy, yet not gory or, you know, super scary. It's stories about real people. And he. Oh, his voice. I'm sorry. I love you. I loved Danny Robins. His voice. It's so good. Anyway, go check out Uncanny.
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Sarah
It's really He just came out with a new book, too. I just listen to it in audio. It's great. And if you have access to BBC for TV, they have a new show too, that we can't see.
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Mark
But yeah.
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Sarah
I'd love to see it anyhow. So listen to Uncanny.
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Mark
Speaking of Halloween, right now, the only place to get Halloween pictures of our house. The only place is the broadcast channel on Instagram and the newsletter. I have not posted any other pictures anywhere else yet. Oh, you guys are special. Now, that's going to end probably by the time this podcast comes out, because.
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Sarah
We got to share.
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Mark
We got to share. We got lots of people in town. Wow.
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Sarah
Yeah. Who won and stuff.
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Mark
Yeah, but. But I just wanted to let you guys know that you got first dibs on those pictures.
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Sarah
The theme this year is The Bad Seeds, and it's our evil pumpkins.
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Mark
Yes. So speaking of anything you can do, I can do better.
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Sarah
That was quite the trend.
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Mark
Let me take.
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Sarah
In the bad seeds.
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Mark
If that's telling.
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Sarah
You seeds aren't bad. But if that is.
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Mark
If I was telling you about a television show in which a main character who was a mountie went to the big city to help solve a crime that involved his father and met a detective that he found a kinship with, What show would I be describing?
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Sarah
This episode of Murdoch?
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Mark
No.
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Sarah
What is it?
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Mark
Is a Canadian television show entitled Due South. Now Due South was a much earlier television show.
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Sarah
Nineties, late nineties.
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Mark
It was 94 to 98. Yeah.
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Sarah
I remember.
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Mark
In 94 the.
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Sarah
Promos for it. Yeah.
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Mark
Its four seasons it ran on a network that Murdoch has never run on watching. There's not many networks in Canada, but Murdoch's hit most.
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Sarah
Yeah.
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Mark
But has not hit this network and it's set in modern day of course but.
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Sarah
Prior to Murdoch, my only exposure to Mounties was Dudley Do-Right.
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Mark
Did I tell you the story where I saw the mounted ride the first time? No, it was when I saw the Queen when I was like eight.
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Sarah
Oh, and there were Mounties there. They were, they.
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Mark
Did the mounted ride the same day. So I got to see it was really the Canadian, this Canadian day all time. It was like 76. I went to Ottawa with my class. We saw the Queen. She came out and shook hands and everything, and then we all filed into the stands and watched the mounted police do their mounted police ride.
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Sarah
Is it fancy?
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Mark
It was super fancy.
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Sarah
Wow. Well, Pringle Creek, where this episode starts, is not fancy. It is a ghost town.
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Mark
It is indeed a ghost town.
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Sarah
And if you doubt where we are every time we go there in this episode, we get to see the Pringle Creek sign.
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Mark
It's in British Columbia.
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Sarah
And what does it have? It has like a chisel and a hammer or something cross on the inside of it. This is a mining town.
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Mark
Mining town? A mining town. Now, they got to admit that British Columbia was pretty frontier at this point in time. Yeah, it was not the metropolitan city of Toronto. Not sure for sure. And so the way B.C works is there's the ocean and then there's like a lowland from the ocean and then some foothills and then the Rockies.
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Mark
Right. And that then the border between British Columbia and Alberta kind of intersects the Rockies. So you have a number of different environments, but you have a ton of mining because the Rockies are much more accessible from this site.
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Sarah
So it makes sense that there be a mining town. Yes.
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Mark
They absolutely make sense. There will be a mining.
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Sarah
Including a saloon called the.
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Mark
Calico Queen. Yes. And guys with guns, don't forget the guns.
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Sarah
There's kind of.
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Mark
Gone gone, gone.
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Sarah
Guns shooting. Mick, Shooter, son.
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Mark
And.
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Sarah
Harry.
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Mark
Harry.
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Sarah
Yeah. He's not as bad as Enid, but he's the most irredeemable dad in Murdock, that's for sure.
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Mark
He is, but they try to redeem him here.
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Sarah
It doesn't work.
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Mark
Like Murdock has it. We learn that Murdock firmly believes that his dad killed his mom, and that even though it comes out that he didn't, he was still involved with her death.
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Sarah
Yeah, he's not innocent.
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Mark
And Murdock is just like, Oh, I have a brother. I can forget that stuff. No, no. I also think that this is a kind of island of lost toys in the sense that, like, obviously they were like, we're going to do an episode that's like, you're due south, we're going to do an episode that's like, due south and there's going to be a mountie and he's going to be Murdock brother.
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Mark
And isn't that funny? And they figured the rest of it out after that.
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Sarah
Yeah, it's actually the actually brothers show. That's what it is. Do you think.
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Mark
It is definitely that.
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Sarah
He talks more like a robot than Murdock does, which I didn't think was possible.
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Mark
Now the directing is pretty good here in that you think Harry's talking about something different than them the first time. And the worst kept secret in this episode is that their brothers is the worst kept secret.
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Sarah
And that Harry is a raging alcoholic. Yet he's like looking for turpentine to drink at one point. Like, that's his first priority anyway. But I do like the way they unravel the story. They start at the end and then they go back eight days and then they jump back and forth. So you get the reveal of the story.
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Sarah
It's well done. It's not confusing or anything.
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Mark
But it's well-directed.
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Sarah
Yeah.
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Mark
But the idea that their agenda with this show and some of the stuff that isn't important to that general agenda, just get some hand-waving.
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Sarah
Yeah, and we'll fill in some blanks with the hand-waving. Yes.
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Mark
So?
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Sarah
So, Humphry Breen, a geologist, is dead.
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Mark
Yes. He just fell out of his window.
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Sarah
No, he flew out of his window because he's like 20 feet away from the house.
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Mark
At no point in time could you jump from that window and get it far as he did.
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Sarah
We know that accidental owl is the killer. The actual killer. He. He must have picked him up by the back of his jacket and his belt and went one, two, three, woo! And, like, swung him out the window. He's so far away. That's your first clue that it's murder?
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Mark
Totally.
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Sarah
Because he wasn't just leaning too far.
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Mark
And plus, like, was he like, okay, I'm going to throw you at the window. Hold on to this butterfly butterfly net.
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Sarah
I think he just planted it next to him. So after he.
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Mark
Saw that, it becomes an incredibly funny scene where. But first of all, bring comes flying it through the window.
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Sarah
Then then, then.
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Mark
You hear a guy.
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Sarah
Down the steps, Down the steps down, steps out the door across the.
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Mark
Porch.
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Sarah
Footsteps fly into the butterfly net.
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Mark
Butterfly net and the butterfly. Yes. Where did he keep the butterfly?
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Sarah
I'm guessing he took it out. I want to bring two cases.
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Mark
Maybe.
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Sarah
Plants it dangerously, carefully, carefully, and then walks away.
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Mark
Then he's off again.
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Sarah
After the next murder. It's out. He's busy.
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Mark
And.
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Sarah
Accidental. I'll maybe my favorite character in this episode. I hardly ever see him.
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Mark
A giant house. A giant house?
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Sarah
Yeah. I mean, he lives in alone.
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Mark
Nobody else in the house noticed Accidental owl flying down the stairs or heard.
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Sarah
Oh, he's not. My brain's not married or anything. We never see a wife or family, so he may have a maid or something. Who, you know, maybe he was going to.
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Mark
Have at least somebody at this point in time. Oh, Detective Murdoch, my brother. Do you think he knows he's his brother at this point in time?
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Sarah
No. And they're supposed to not know. And so.
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Mark
No, I think he knows all the time because.
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Sarah
He knows all the times.
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Mark
Dropping hints.
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Sarah
I don't think he does something.
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Mark
About your.
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Sarah
Mother. I think they're both supposed to be completely Can't see the forest for the trees kind of guys. And maybe he kind of wonders, but come on, he's from Vancouver and Murdoch's from Toronto. That is eight days of travel apart. Yeah, if they have the same dad, the biggest, that would be the biggest coincidence ever. Yeah, right. It is the biggest coincidence ever.
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Mark
Yes, but he knows his name, so he's obviously Harry gave him his name.
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Sarah
No, it's the card.
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Mark
Oh, the card. That's the.
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Sarah
Business card. Yes. That was in the the Uriah docks. His jacket connected to the arm, which was the biggest piece of him left after he got run over by a train. Having been put there by Accidental Owl.
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Mark
This episode has great names.
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Sarah
I just love accident.
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Mark
Like you're right.
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Sarah
I wish we got to see more of. Yeah, you got to see him in action.
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Mark
An accident. Oh.
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Sarah
I just want to think that, like. Like after he throws Breen out the window, he would look at the camera and go, boop! And put his hand over his mouth like, Oops.
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Mark
And then I would say that accidental, Accidental owl is totally a season six character. Murdoch.
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Sarah
He's a cartoon, is what he, Harry and Murdoch and Linney basically spend the whole episode trying to get to the mining office to get the explosives. Yeah, right. I mean, they they say that's what we're going to do right off the bat, because Linney and Murdoch are of one brain. Like they just click. They go, Oh, yes, we can create a bomb.
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Sarah
Yeah, if we can get over there. And then we get the back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, that happens while they're trying to get there. Yeah. Oh, to hear first of all, she's one of two women in this episode. There's the woman who runs off the Ratcatcher. Yeah. Who is out and there's Julia and that's in there.
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Sarah
The only two women in all of Canada, all around the time Julia shows up at the crime scene for Breen and his Butterfly. Giggly Yeah. And LB said carriage. Yes. Talking about how that was such an adventure. That was so much fun. I have to do it again.
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Mark
Brown said she'd go hang out with.
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Sarah
Enid now because he flies a hot air balloon, and that's just too risky for Enid and Alvin to get involved in. What if he dies and then Alan would be, you know.
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Mark
There was again.
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Sarah
Again, you know, he can't have any kind of connection to anybody who might possibly have anything bad happen to them because. Oh, yeah.
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Mark
And we.
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Sarah
Know. I just love hating her. Yeah, that's the spice. Bush Swallowtail was also.
00;17;15;13 - 00;17;32;05
Mark
Murdered, and Pound said, You know, he's annoying to us because we know he's annoying Murdoch Creepy Murdoch, Creepy Murdoch in the morgue with his brother later. We'll get to that. But he he is like he's a fop.
00;17;32;07 - 00;17;38;07
Sarah
I just think he's really bad at being jealous. He's really awkward at being jealous.
00;17;38;09 - 00;17;39;07
Mark
I think so, too.
00;17;39;07 - 00;17;53;23
Sarah
And he is very jealous. Yeah, Pound said. And I've Lynnie, when he's talking to Julia and he doesn't know how to do that. He doesn't know how to be jealous. And nothing about Murdoch is smooth or premeditated.
00;17;53;26 - 00;17;59;01
Mark
Anything my murder board can do. Your murder board can do.
00;17;59;03 - 00;18;09;06
Sarah
I can write in chalk, too. Yes. And I what I really like about the similarity between Lennie and Murdoch is how much everybody else recognizes it.
00;18;09;09 - 00;18;10;14
Mark
Oh, completely.
00;18;10;19 - 00;18;30;01
Sarah
Like everybody is always saying. Is there something like, do you is there a familiarity? Like, do they remind you of each other? And when Murdoch is like when he says he always gets this man, that's so annoying. I can't imagine working with somebody like that. And Tom's like, funny, I can. I can imagine working with somebody like that.
00;18;30;05 - 00;18;37;07
Mark
Hold on, Sarah. There's something I need to talk to you about of a personal nature. I know this is completely inappropriate.
00;18;37;07 - 00;18;44;26
Sarah
Yeah, well, we are in the morgue, and that's where we flirt, So maybe it's not the bad place, but it is the bad time.
00;18;44;26 - 00;18;46;07
Mark
Bonds. It's here again.
00;18;46;11 - 00;18;50;16
Sarah
Townsend just appears with his mustache whenever it's not the right time.
00;18;50;16 - 00;19;01;00
Mark
He does. Okay. It's time to take the streetcar. Did you notice the streetcar, too? Van DeLay and Breen. Cartographers and surveyors.
00;19;01;03 - 00;19;07;13
Sarah
Where Vander Lane says the OR from Pringle Creek wasn't anything special.
00;19;07;15 - 00;19;08;01
Mark
Yes.
00;19;08;05 - 00;19;11;22
Sarah
Meaning ain't No. They're golden, then they're hills.
00;19;11;25 - 00;19;22;02
Mark
Well, luckily, they have a cat to get rid of the rats. So it is it is Chekhov's Ratcatcher. Yes.
00;19;22;05 - 00;19;39;24
Sarah
And the lady at the Barrister's Office is like shouting when she's such a loud talker so that they have to over here. Yeah. No, sir, we don't need a ratcatcher. Get out of here. I won't have your kind and.
00;19;39;26 - 00;19;44;15
Mark
We don't need any of your accidents around here. Yes.
00;19;44;17 - 00;19;49;17
Sarah
Your bats get what's in the basket. What's he actually trying to do?
00;19;49;19 - 00;19;50;20
Mark
I think it's a cat.
00;19;50;21 - 00;20;02;22
Sarah
The basket. He's trying to weasel his way into an office near Breen and Mandalay. Right. So he can kill them. Yeah. So his best plan is to release a cat in the office next door.
00;20;02;25 - 00;20;05;15
Mark
I guess he is.
00;20;05;21 - 00;20;07;23
Sarah
Come on, now. You're better than that.
00;20;07;25 - 00;20;11;14
Mark
He does do some amazing things.
00;20;11;17 - 00;20;19;03
Sarah
And then he just walks away with his head down. Oh, they didn't or won't move. I hope they don't look at me.
00;20;19;05 - 00;20;20;00
Mark
So then.
00;20;20;02 - 00;20;28;21
Sarah
I can tell you. Oh, sorry. I can tell you something special about Pringle Creek. Yes, in Pringle Creek. Star Wars shooting rules apply.
00;20;28;24 - 00;20;30;13
Mark
Yes.
00;20;30;16 - 00;20;38;18
Sarah
It's just like being on the Death Star when there's a dozen bad guys and one of you there, bullets magically don't hit you.
00;20;38;18 - 00;20;40;11
Mark
Just never hit you.
00;20;40;12 - 00;20;46;06
Sarah
Never. Especially if you run a little bit and duck if you die.
00;20;46;09 - 00;20;47;16
Mark
If you duck.
00;20;47;18 - 00;20;55;01
Sarah
Thereby making yourself a more concentrated target, they really can't hit you. So I learned about, I wondered.
00;20;55;03 - 00;21;17;13
Mark
But this is the answer to okay, so much of writing for television or anything that's visual, you have to get over talking heads where one character goes, Let me explain the situation to you and the other character goes, Why, yes, please explain the situation to me. And the first character says, Well, this thing happened in this thing happened.
00;21;17;16 - 00;21;21;05
Mark
And the second character goes, Really? Did it happen?
00;21;21;07 - 00;21;22;13
Sarah
Like, Yeah, that's boring.
00;21;22;13 - 00;21;31;17
Mark
That's incredibly boring. So this this gunfight makes it interesting as they just do a bunch of exposition.
00;21;31;19 - 00;21;44;26
Sarah
Right? But so when the the bad guys are shooting at them while they're running around, we get the old trope of the seeing the bullets hit the ground and just missing them. Yes. Do you know how they do that?
00;21;44;28 - 00;21;48;22
Mark
They're like little fireworks, aren't they?
00;21;48;24 - 00;22;07;26
Sarah
Well, sometimes they're called squibs. Yeah, they're tiny explosives. They put them on the ground and they set them off with an electric charge. There be wires running just under the dirt. Yes. So they got pew, pew, pew, pew as they ran. And it would look like gun like bullets ricocheting off the ground near their feet. But there's another way to do it that I never heard of this.
00;22;07;26 - 00;22;12;20
Sarah
Okay. That I think they might have used here because some of them are in water.
00;22;12;22 - 00;22;13;04
Mark
Right?
00;22;13;06 - 00;22;25;22
Sarah
Yeah. And Squib won't work in water like that. They're called Sweeney guns. Okay. And a Sweeney gun is like a paintball gun. Okay. But instead of balls of paint, you can pretty much put anything in the balls.
00;22;25;29 - 00;22;26;13
Mark
Okay?
00;22;26;16 - 00;22;27;18
Sarah
Like dirt.
00;22;27;18 - 00;22;28;02
Mark
Dirt.
00;22;28;03 - 00;22;39;20
Sarah
So if you shoot at the dirt, too, it explodes when it hits. Or if you fill them with water and you shoot at water cue and when it hits, it explodes in the water. Yes. So it.
00;22;39;20 - 00;22;40;02
Mark
Works.
00;22;40;02 - 00;22;42;13
Sarah
So that's I think that's so smart. Yeah.
00;22;42;17 - 00;22;53;14
Mark
Gunfights are one of these great things that when you learn how things actually get filmed, you begin to see how much of an illusion your brain is forcing you.
00;22;53;14 - 00;23;17;25
Sarah
To think and in and how incredibly tedious it must be to film those scenes right? Because they use one technology to make the ricochets when you see them running at you. And a completely different one if they're coming from above. So they must have filmed all of those running shooting scenes over and over and over and over and reset and the the props guys and the stunt guys have to come out and the pyrotechnics guys have to come out and then they shoot.
00;23;17;25 - 00;23;28;05
Mark
And that's with the principals. And then you have the bad guys who have to sneak a look out the window and shoot in a different way, like 30 times. Yeah.
00;23;28;07 - 00;23;31;03
Sarah
There's a lot of net curtains that are apparently bullet proof.
00;23;31;09 - 00;23;31;20
Mark
Yeah.
00;23;31;23 - 00;23;43;15
Sarah
Like when he hides behind the swing doors of the saloon, his legs are right there. Yeah. They're not even full length doors. And never mind, they're just louvered. A bullet would go right through them.
00;23;43;15 - 00;23;44;07
Mark
Yeah, Like.
00;23;44;14 - 00;23;49;02
Sarah
There's this pretend every every solid material is bullet proof.
00;23;49;02 - 00;23;51;21
Mark
Well, they have a lot of plot armor on to.
00;23;51;22 - 00;23;54;15
Sarah
Oh, that's true. Know, including poetry books.
00;23;54;15 - 00;24;19;18
Mark
Yes. So the the most powerful plot are a poetry book, but I like definitely in this episode because I noticed all this shooting, I was like, wow, they spend a lot of time in that abandoned town, which is obviously like a museum or something. Yeah, like running back and forth between door.
00;24;19;18 - 00;24;24;05
Sarah
Or a movie set. It doesn't a lot of filming happen in Vancouver now.
00;24;24;08 - 00;24;27;16
Mark
Well, this is not actually it still in Toronto.
00;24;27;16 - 00;24;30;21
Sarah
Oh, okay. I just thought maybe they would have something like this.
00;24;30;21 - 00;24;37;12
Mark
No, because if it was if it was actually Vancouver, they would have at least done one shot where there were mountains. Hmm.
00;24;37;19 - 00;24;38;15
Sarah
Yeah, you're right.
00;24;38;17 - 00;24;44;27
Mark
Instead of. Look, there's the mine entrance on the side of a hill.
00;24;44;29 - 00;24;46;28
Sarah
Clearly, it's been closed down for a while.
00;24;46;29 - 00;24;52;25
Mark
My father said he'd gone around Cape Horn, and I only met him a few months ago.
00;24;52;26 - 00;24;55;25
Sarah
Don't touch my boat. That's my little boat.
00;24;55;25 - 00;25;00;28
Mark
And then the strangest reference in the entire episode.
00;25;01;04 - 00;25;02;10
Sarah
Oh, Girma Housing.
00;25;02;10 - 00;25;02;28
Mark
Girma.
00;25;02;29 - 00;25;06;20
Sarah
Housing.
00;25;06;22 - 00;25;19;05
Mark
Like, wow, I was not expecting a Girma housing reference in this episode. I completely forgotten Gear stackers, freezer stackers, story.
00;25;19;08 - 00;25;19;22
Sarah
About it.
00;25;19;22 - 00;25;21;06
Mark
Just referenced in this.
00;25;21;06 - 00;25;39;08
Sarah
Episode. It's about a town that appears for one day every century, and a man who's walking happens to come upon it on the day that it's there. Yeah. Falls in love with the girl and gets out of the village just in time for it to disappear again for another 100 years, knowing he will never see her again.
00;25;39;08 - 00;25;43;02
Mark
The great German version he's left alone and loveless.
00;25;43;05 - 00;25;46;29
Sarah
Yes. Now, that may have been the inspiration for Brigadoon.
00;25;46;29 - 00;25;49;19
Mark
Well, so the guy who wrote Brigadoon.
00;25;49;22 - 00;25;51;17
Sarah
I know he argues that he didn't know.
00;25;51;17 - 00;25;58;13
Mark
About art and she didn't know about. And there are tons of these stories. Yeah. Of villages that appear.
00;25;58;16 - 00;26;07;25
Sarah
But where do the people go for the hundred years? Are they just frozen in time? Like in another dimension, or do they get sucked into the ground? What happened?
00;26;07;27 - 00;26;09;23
Mark
I forget in Brigadoon. I don't think.
00;26;09;25 - 00;26;10;06
Sarah
They must.
00;26;10;06 - 00;26;10;24
Mark
Notice it.
00;26;10;24 - 00;26;21;22
Sarah
They must be out of time, because otherwise, like they they would age and have children and stuff buried under the ground or and that wouldn't happen.
00;26;21;27 - 00;26;32;11
Mark
So what's weird is it's just so Brigadoon came out, I don't know, like in the sixties, right? The film version of it. It was a play before then because it makes a great play.
00;26;32;14 - 00;26;33;20
Sarah
And now they're schmigadoon.
00;26;33;20 - 00;26;46;08
Mark
So like imagined 1850, 1969, and then 2060, like the change that happened in those 300 year breaks would be freaky.
00;26;46;09 - 00;27;02;02
Sarah
Yeah. Yeah. If you appeared for one day every hundred years, you'd be like, What is going on? And what if something's been built there in that time? What happens when the villain shows up there? Does it just like topple it all over or appear on top of it? Or how does that work?
00;27;02;04 - 00;27;04;17
Mark
Why is this reference in this episode?
00;27;04;20 - 00;27;07;18
Sarah
Because I'm a nerd and I wonder the wrong thing.
00;27;07;18 - 00;27;21;23
Mark
No, no, I wonder all those things too. But wow, this reference is just dropped in this episode and they should have spent the time instead of explaining that reference to maybe giving the four dudes with the weapons a name, an.
00;27;21;23 - 00;27;34;19
Sarah
Explanation on why they're there, who sent them, whatever. I think it's I think the German housing reference is there to show just how nerdy Murdock and Lenny are.
00;27;34;20 - 00;27;35;09
Mark
Together.
00;27;35;09 - 00;27;36;10
Sarah
That they both of.
00;27;36;10 - 00;27;37;23
Mark
Those same kind of.
00;27;37;23 - 00;28;08;04
Sarah
Nerds. The same kind of nerd. Yeah. Yes. Which is why men vandalized then is killed by the bookcase. The accidental owl has a signature, and it's not just making murders look like accidents. It's sparing one arm of his victims. Right? Yeah, because that is true. Yes. He had his arm out, and now Vandalia has his arm out, and he's purposefully embarrassed him by putting a bad poetry book in his hand.
00;28;08;07 - 00;28;18;19
Sarah
It's like, you know, injury after, like, it's so mean. But to me, it looked like he was about to read horrible poetry.
00;28;18;19 - 00;28;27;24
Mark
And then, like this murder, the the book, the bookcase murder is totally out of midsummer.
00;28;27;26 - 00;28;35;02
Sarah
It does happen in midsummer. But they're not kidding when they say that William Topaz McGonigal is a really bad poet.
00;28;35;09 - 00;28;36;09
Mark
My gosh.
00;28;36;14 - 00;28;38;01
Sarah
He's super.
00;28;38;07 - 00;28;41;21
Mark
Well bad as an incredibly bad poet.
00;28;41;24 - 00;28;48;24
Sarah
By everybody but him. Yeah. So I have an example here of just how bad his poetry is. Is it okay if I read it?
00;28;48;27 - 00;29;02;17
Mark
Before you read that, I want to ask you a question first. Is this the first time you've heard of McGonigal? MM It's not the first time I've heard of mechanical, because the first time I heard about McGonigal is he appears in The Gong Show.
00;29;02;20 - 00;29;04;14
Sarah
Oh, and they make fun of him.
00;29;04;14 - 00;29;26;29
Mark
Oh, boy, do they. They call him a poet. Try to read Jerry in and Twit. If you don't know about The Goon Show, by the way, you should know everything about The Goon Show. It was a radio show that was on in 1960s and seventies that had not only Spike Milligan in it, but Peter Sellers.
00;29;27;00 - 00;29;29;20
Sarah
It had everybody in it at one point.
00;29;29;22 - 00;29;44;08
Mark
Felt like he had no idea about The Goon Show. And then at a book sale, we got the gun show scripts, which were like 300 pages of Goon Show scripts, and we would read them to each other.
00;29;44;16 - 00;29;45;08
Sarah
It must have been South.
00;29;45;09 - 00;29;53;29
Mark
Shore Slap that the 1990 is incredibly fast, loud band Ned's Atomic Dustbin comes from a gun show script.
00;29;53;29 - 00;29;55;01
Sarah
I didn't know that.
00;29;55;01 - 00;29;58;10
Mark
Yes, Ned's atomic dustbin is fantastic.
00;29;58;12 - 00;30;02;13
Sarah
Yes, but. But, McGonagall, poetry is not. Are you ready for this?
00;30;02;13 - 00;30;03;02
Mark
Oh.
00;30;03;05 - 00;30;05;00
Sarah
I'm just going to read one little bit of it.
00;30;05;00 - 00;30;11;23
Mark
Also, is this about the tape bridge? Because he has four poems about the tape bridge.
00;30;11;26 - 00;30;15;09
Sarah
The Tay Bridge south. That's all you need to know. Okay.
00;30;15;14 - 00;30;17;07
Mark
While the train was going across it.
00;30;17;07 - 00;30;23;17
Sarah
Yes. And 90 people died. This is the last of an eight stanza poem.
00;30;23;19 - 00;30;25;23
Mark
Thank God it was only eight.
00;30;25;25 - 00;30;32;20
Sarah
I'm only reading one. But he's so known for his bad poetry. And this will tell you, this will give you a great example. Okay. Are you ready.
00;30;32;23 - 00;30;33;04
Mark
Now?
00;30;33;10 - 00;31;13;16
Sarah
It must have been an awful sight to witness in the dusky moonlight while the storm fiend did laugh and angry did bray along the rail railway bridge of this silvery day. It's hard to say. Yeah. O ill fated bridge and the silvery tay I must now conclude my lay by telling the world fearlessly, without the least dismay, that your central girders would not have given way at least many sensible men do say, had they been supported on each side with buttresses, at least many sensible man confesses, For the stronger we are, houses do build, the less chance we have of being killed.
00;31;13;18 - 00;31;29;18
Sarah
Sensible guys say that if there were buttresses, all those people wouldn't have died. Just saying like that's the last of the poem. But about 90 people who died on a train in the middle of the night and storm on a bridge and he's like, Well, if there have been buttresses.
00;31;29;21 - 00;31;31;28
Mark
Okay, I, I totally agree.
00;31;32;03 - 00;31;36;20
Sarah
And the rhyme is like a third grader writing rhyme. Yeah. It's so bad.
00;31;36;22 - 00;31;41;05
Mark
Totally third grader say meh, like he's going through.
00;31;41;05 - 00;31;44;17
Sarah
But they're rhyming the rhyming dictionary. Yes.
00;31;44;19 - 00;31;58;21
Mark
The Tay River disaster. The Tay Bridge disaster is horrific if you get a chance. There's a couple of really good YouTube documentaries on it. Ken, you're going through over a bridge in the night.
00;31;58;21 - 00;31;59;06
Sarah
During a.
00;31;59;06 - 00;32;03;09
Mark
Storm and suddenly you're in the water. Yeah, like.
00;32;03;12 - 00;32;05;10
Sarah
And the man wasn't there.
00;32;05;13 - 00;32;06;03
Mark
It wasn't.
00;32;06;04 - 00;32;07;24
Sarah
Horrifying. It was buttresses.
00;32;07;28 - 00;32;09;24
Mark
Yeah, it was buttresses.
00;32;09;27 - 00;32;12;16
Sarah
At least that's what simple, sensible men say.
00;32;12;17 - 00;32;17;05
Mark
I confess.
00;32;17;08 - 00;32;22;15
Sarah
Because that rhymes with buttresses. This is so vandalized, killed by the bookcase.
00;32;22;18 - 00;32;27;26
Mark
And only the Mountie and Julia know how funny this is.
00;32;28;02 - 00;32;39;22
Sarah
Well, then they further bond while standing over his body with his rib cage completely exposed. And it is the flirting morgue again. But Julia is flirting with Lynnie.
00;32;39;29 - 00;32;42;05
Mark
Yes and no.
00;32;42;05 - 00;32;44;11
Sarah
No, Sally. Oh.
00;32;44;13 - 00;32;51;01
Mark
Joey is flirting with Lennie, and Murdock is creepy.
00;32;51;03 - 00;32;56;08
Sarah
It's like fuming, like, how dare you flirt with her over a body? That's my two.
00;32;56;10 - 00;33;02;20
Mark
Grumpy. Murdock is grumpy, so I'm going to steal your book.
00;33;02;23 - 00;33;07;03
Sarah
He looks at her diary and everything. He's super creepy.
00;33;07;05 - 00;33;21;24
Mark
So not only does this have weird German folktale references and strange poetry references, but out of nowhere there's a discussion of type one.
00;33;21;27 - 00;33;25;28
Sarah
Yes, those mysterious Eastern methods of fighting.
00;33;26;01 - 00;33;29;15
Mark
I'm so mad. Deal your book.
00;33;29;18 - 00;33;33;06
Sarah
And it is the most Murdoch poetry book ever.
00;33;33;07 - 00;33;33;23
Mark
Oh, yeah.
00;33;33;23 - 00;33;39;14
Sarah
A critical and explanatory account of the poetry of Lord George Gordon, Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
00;33;39;20 - 00;33;41;19
Mark
Clearly, there's a graph in there.
00;33;41;22 - 00;34;07;24
Sarah
Murdoch says his favorite poetry is post restoration. Poetry? Yes. So much. This is such a nerd joke for us. English majors. Yes. Because post restoration is after Shakespeare. Yeah, right. And it's Dryden and Samuel Butler. It's a whole movement of poetry known for moderation, realism and logic. Yeah, it's the least poetic poetry.
00;34;07;28 - 00;34;12;19
Mark
It's not Shelley, and it's everything that Shelley and Byron are rebelling.
00;34;12;22 - 00;34;25;18
Sarah
There's no romantic at all in post restoration. So of course, Murdoch likes it. Mysterious defensive techniques from. The Far East. I box your ears, Pop. Yeah.
00;34;25;21 - 00;34;35;14
Mark
So Murdoch asked George for a favor and George is up for him. Well, maybe I'll beat him up. Would you like me to beat him up like him?
00;34;35;14 - 00;34;41;04
Sarah
No. Well, let him know there's more than one way to visit the morgue. He doesn't have to be that pretty.
00;34;41;07 - 00;34;44;01
Mark
But George is threatening to kill this guy.
00;34;44;02 - 00;34;58;14
Sarah
He goes all gangster y. Oh, well, see if he's hungry for a knuckle sandwich, sir Maybe he could fall down a flight of punches, you know, make it look like an accident.
00;34;58;16 - 00;35;02;29
Mark
And then it's so weirdly out of character for George.
00;35;02;29 - 00;35;06;23
Sarah
Well, offer to exchange his guitar for a harp.
00;35;06;26 - 00;35;07;25
Mark
Oh, that's.
00;35;08;02 - 00;35;08;22
Sarah
I like that.
00;35;08;22 - 00;35;09;04
Mark
One.
00;35;09;04 - 00;35;18;08
Sarah
That's my favorite one, though, because I looked up. Funny euphemism for beating people up because that's.
00;35;18;11 - 00;35;21;12
Mark
The name of the episode. Funny you for are beating.
00;35;21;12 - 00;35;34;17
Sarah
People up because that's the kind of thing I Google my favorite one will make him feel as welcome around here as a porcupine at a nudist colony, sir.
00;35;34;18 - 00;35;37;02
Mark
Pounds He doesn't do anything if.
00;35;37;02 - 00;35;38;03
Sarah
You want us to, sir.
00;35;38;07 - 00;35;40;11
Mark
Sudden cross-Canada montage.
00;35;40;11 - 00;35;47;14
Sarah
Dad, Dad, Dad. He's my bad dad. He's your bad dad, too.
00;35;47;15 - 00;35;55;09
Mark
Okay, first of all, a couple of things, Murdoch and Lane. Lenny could not get across the country this fast.
00;35;55;11 - 00;35;57;11
Sarah
Eight days. Eight days?
00;35;57;11 - 00;35;59;10
Mark
No, no, they don't have a date because.
00;35;59;15 - 00;36;02;25
Sarah
Oh, they have, like, six days. But it's eight days to the beginning of the case.
00;36;02;25 - 00;36;05;13
Mark
It takes four days now by train.
00;36;05;13 - 00;36;08;18
Sarah
Yeah. Yeah. It would have taken more than eight days.
00;36;08;18 - 00;36;13;08
Mark
You're probably wonder if they sat in a dorm car and talked about poetry.
00;36;13;11 - 00;36;16;26
Sarah
No, they filmed and had nerd off the whole time.
00;36;16;26 - 00;36;17;08
Mark
You have to.
00;36;17;09 - 00;36;23;03
Sarah
They probably invaded the engine and told the conductor how to drive the train better with all their. I'm actually.
00;36;23;03 - 00;36;33;22
Mark
You have to understand that the first day and a half of train travel from Toronto to B.C. has you getting out of Ontario. Yeah, it's just flat. No.
00;36;33;24 - 00;36;34;21
Sarah
This is three.
00;36;34;27 - 00;36;35;13
Mark
Three.
00;36;35;14 - 00;36;36;26
Sarah
Three, three, three.
00;36;36;26 - 00;36;39;00
Mark
Three, three, three, three, three, three.
00;36;39;00 - 00;36;43;14
Sarah
Prairie, prairie, prairie, peri, peri, peri, peri, peri, peri mountain down.
00;36;43;16 - 00;36;44;26
Mark
Bam.
00;36;44;29 - 00;36;46;22
Sarah
That's it.
00;36;46;24 - 00;36;53;10
Mark
Like it is. My country is beautiful and I love it. But boy, is it boring in the middle.
00;36;53;10 - 00;37;04;23
Sarah
I want to see what they packed. What did Murdock pack to make sure that he could one up leaning on the trip like he would have filled his entire suitcase with gadgets that would make Lenny look stupid.
00;37;04;23 - 00;37;08;04
Mark
Well, I think I know he was reading the poetry book at the same time.
00;37;08;08 - 00;37;09;14
Sarah
Yes.
00;37;09;17 - 00;37;16;28
Mark
Actually, this McGonigal guy isn't so bad here. He rhymes, confess, and but trust us.
00;37;17;01 - 00;37;39;02
Sarah
He was into architecture and engineering. I think he's probably a pretty good poet. I just. I dislike Harry so much. He's such an awful father boy. And he's a drunk. He's done so much damage to Murdoc that you don't even know at this point in the show. Many seasons it just to unravel how much damage his dad has done to him.
00;37;39;02 - 00;37;58;01
Sarah
And he sits there drinking, acting like he's the center of attention. He's the main character of everything. Yeah. And says, Well, in my younger days I was a bit of a seaman. And I just thought, Well, you're something related to a prick. Yeah. Understatement. Like, Oh, he's so awful.
00;37;58;03 - 00;38;06;29
Mark
And okay, Lucinda Lynnie sounds like a wonderful woman, but like, why would she have anything to do with him?
00;38;07;02 - 00;38;10;10
Sarah
I think she probably had his number pretty quickly. And we had a child.
00;38;10;13 - 00;38;11;06
Mark
I guess.
00;38;11;10 - 00;38;24;27
Sarah
And thought, Well, he'll go away. I almost said f he'll ever and probably won't come back and I can raise this kid how I want to. We should. And she clearly did a good job. He's, he's a good mountie. He's a good person.
00;38;24;27 - 00;38;28;18
Mark
We should have underneath all our discussions of this shooting, give.
00;38;28;18 - 00;38;29;26
Sarah
You a pew pew, pew Pew.
00;38;29;26 - 00;38;30;26
Mark
Abuse. Wow.
00;38;30;27 - 00;38;35;18
Sarah
There's your sound. It's just all all the time.
00;38;35;20 - 00;38;40;11
Mark
They she had no regard for the legal bar, right?
00;38;40;18 - 00;38;42;15
Sarah
Meaning she didn't want to be married to you.
00;38;42;21 - 00;38;44;07
Mark
Married to you?
00;38;44;09 - 00;38;59;12
Sarah
Yeah. Yeah. They and Lenny and Murdock spend this whole time concocting this big flash bang, right? And we skipped over it. But I love when they're saying we don't have any weapons, and Murdock is holding up Bent Fork.
00;38;59;17 - 00;39;00;06
Mark
Yeah.
00;39;00;09 - 00;39;02;23
Sarah
This has possibilities. Yeah.
00;39;02;26 - 00;39;04;20
Mark
This should do it. This we have Julie.
00;39;04;23 - 00;39;15;22
Sarah
Yes, but then they've got Harry scraping at a cup with it. Yeah. Like, so they can make a flat. Spain.
00;39;15;27 - 00;39;19;02
Mark
That's aluminum. That fancy new metal.
00;39;19;02 - 00;39;30;03
Sarah
Yeah. It's fancy. And also they can go to and I'm deaf. Oh my. I've been shooting at you for days. My new character. Yeah, my.
00;39;30;03 - 00;39;30;29
Mark
Mom. I've got a.
00;39;30;29 - 00;39;34;08
Sarah
Part where I get to howl and hold my ears.
00;39;34;14 - 00;39;35;03
Mark
There.
00;39;35;05 - 00;39;48;09
Sarah
We're okay. They're neat. Who are the shooters? Why are they there? I don't. My only guess is that Fremont sent them to kill Harry because Harry was going to do some investigating into the swindle.
00;39;48;13 - 00;39;50;29
Mark
So now he's hired five killers?
00;39;51;05 - 00;39;56;29
Sarah
Yeah, to take out one. One old drunk guy. Yeah. In a ghost town, it seems like a little bit much.
00;39;56;29 - 00;39;57;10
Mark
Yeah.
00;39;57;15 - 00;40;05;08
Sarah
Whereas in Toronto, he just says accidental out. I take care of everyone. Yeah, I like it. Lenny tells Murdoch that he should make it right with Julia.
00;40;05;10 - 00;40;06;04
Mark
I do, too.
00;40;06;06 - 00;40;08;09
Sarah
He's a good older brother. He's a big brother.
00;40;08;12 - 00;40;10;19
Mark
Yeah, but I had a problem before that.
00;40;10;22 - 00;40;11;09
Sarah
What?
00;40;11;11 - 00;40;15;21
Mark
These guys, they get put in the cell. How did they get the cell door open?
00;40;15;21 - 00;40;22;01
Sarah
Well, jailers always keep the key on a hook, just out of reach of the prisoners. Did you know that? That's how they do it.
00;40;22;08 - 00;40;25;28
Mark
Okay. And then who's going to come get them?
00;40;26;00 - 00;40;28;28
Sarah
I thought that. And then they show all the mountains.
00;40;29;00 - 00;40;29;16
Mark
In show.
00;40;29;21 - 00;40;30;14
Sarah
Them to take care of.
00;40;30;14 - 00;40;32;06
Mark
Business. They do.
00;40;32;08 - 00;40;35;02
Sarah
And Harry says, I'm going to stick around for a little while.
00;40;35;07 - 00;40;35;17
Mark
Yeah?
00;40;35;18 - 00;40;36;07
Sarah
Why?
00;40;36;11 - 00;40;38;28
Mark
I don't know. We never see them again.
00;40;39;00 - 00;40;46;02
Sarah
I just wander off right away like I don't have anything to do with this. My boys. Clearly you've got it in hand. I'll see you later.
00;40;46;03 - 00;40;51;24
Mark
Yep. Jasper knows what the rule, What the what the what, what is. And make it right with Julia.
00;40;51;27 - 00;40;52;15
Sarah
Yes.
00;40;52;17 - 00;40;54;14
Mark
So suddenly I'm back home?
00;40;54;17 - 00;40;56;29
Sarah
Yeah. Eight days later.
00;40;57;02 - 00;40;59;09
Mark
We wanted to ask her to marry him.
00;40;59;09 - 00;41;05;22
Sarah
By now we get no montage of traveling home alone with his book of poetry with a bullet in it.
00;41;05;22 - 00;41;10;25
Mark
Don't worry. In season one three, Episode one, he teleports to England.
00;41;10;25 - 00;41;20;19
Sarah
Yes, that's right. It just starts out with them in England. Crabtree has spent the eight days productively, though. Yeah, he has done enough research on Pound's set to write a note.
00;41;20;24 - 00;41;22;19
Mark
Yes. That will have.
00;41;22;19 - 00;41;24;22
Sarah
Great impact once Murdoch sees it.
00;41;24;25 - 00;41;28;00
Mark
Yes, because Accidental housed on the USA.
00;41;28;00 - 00;41;28;14
Sarah
Yeah.
00;41;28;20 - 00;41;31;02
Mark
And Freeman is. There's two.
00;41;31;02 - 00;41;35;01
Sarah
And they're going to put him away. Yeah, that's done. Criminals bad guys taken all.
00;41;35;01 - 00;41;37;00
Mark
Taken care of. So now we've got pound set.
00;41;37;06 - 00;41;38;00
Sarah
Now what does.
00;41;38;00 - 00;41;42;11
Mark
Instead of pounding pound said George has written a note.
00;41;42;13 - 00;41;48;00
Sarah
He's taken some notes on his research and he's convinced that once Murdoch sees them, it will change everything.
00;41;48;03 - 00;41;50;02
Mark
I believe I know what the note says.
00;41;50;04 - 00;41;51;04
Sarah
What do you think it says?
00;41;51;11 - 00;41;55;13
Mark
It says Pound said prefers Edison over Tesla.
00;41;55;16 - 00;42;00;25
Sarah
Yeah. No way. We have that man near to.
00;42;00;27 - 00;42;06;09
Mark
Or worse, pound. That is also your brother.
00;42;06;11 - 00;42;09;25
Sarah
Pound said said the battery display was boring.
00;42;09;25 - 00;42;13;09
Mark
Pound said feels the dinosaurs did not exist.
00;42;13;15 - 00;42;19;27
Sarah
No, he thinks the moon is actually made of cheese.
00;42;19;27 - 00;42;21;27
Mark
And that men. It's.
00;42;22;01 - 00;42;30;12
Sarah
Oh, I got to go. I got to go do this now. Can't have her spending any more time with that man. I think it's romantic when he climbs up into the balloon.
00;42;30;15 - 00;42;34;02
Mark
I think it's super romantic. I think it's weird. Oh, shit.
00;42;34;02 - 00;42;38;01
Sarah
I think it's weird. That Pound said isn't planning to go with her.
00;42;38;01 - 00;42;39;29
Mark
Why is he not?
00;42;40;01 - 00;42;41;25
Sarah
Well, what's in the note?
00;42;41;27 - 00;42;43;00
Mark
It's going to try to kill.
00;42;43;00 - 00;42;49;04
Sarah
You, Julia. With the big balloon. But it's a beautiful balloon.
00;42;49;04 - 00;42;52;02
Mark
It is a beautiful. And it's there. It's real balloon.
00;42;52;04 - 00;43;03;05
Sarah
It's a real balloon. But like so every time she sees him, has she been taking balloon lessons? So now she's qualified to fly on her own. Is that it? Because they just let her go?
00;43;03;12 - 00;43;21;23
Mark
And I love how. Okay, I'm always thinking of Greenland. So there's all these scenes, all these shots of her looking down at Murdoch, which is Murdoch's there. It's the camera, right. And him looking up at Julia. And that must be the hardest kind of acting.
00;43;21;26 - 00;43;24;19
Sarah
When you're acting to the camera, when you're attending, it's a person.
00;43;24;19 - 00;43;26;01
Mark
Pretending it's a person.
00;43;26;02 - 00;43;35;23
Sarah
Especially a person going up in a balloon that you now have to jump up and grab. What if he jumped up and grabbed it and it just come down? Yeah. Like, well, we didn't plan for your weight, fatty.
00;43;35;23 - 00;43;37;29
Mark
MURDOCH Fatty. McMurray It was.
00;43;37;29 - 00;43;39;12
Sarah
Just supposed to be Julia Just.
00;43;39;12 - 00;43;44;03
Mark
Me and Julia, the duck in the sheep and the rooster.
00;43;44;05 - 00;43;46;22
Sarah
That really happened. He's right about that.
00;43;46;25 - 00;43;49;23
Mark
Of course he's right about that.
00;43;49;25 - 00;44;00;18
Sarah
I wanted, I wanted pounds set to climb in to and then they could have fought in the basket something. And you never see. Not again.
00;44;00;18 - 00;44;07;24
Mark
Not again. We never see Pan's that again. But we do see Julia leaving in the vehicles at the end of episode.
00;44;07;27 - 00;44;16;05
Sarah
So many times. So many times, yes. Where is she going? Is she coming back? Who knows? Sad Murdoch. At least he's not sad this time.
00;44;16;05 - 00;44;21;07
Mark
His contract negotiations with Julia are not with her. Lena are not working.
00;44;21;07 - 00;44;37;08
Sarah
Well, know. Okay. Who's the best corpse? Brene van der Layer Doakes. Those are the three dead guys. Dogs we never see. So you can't never see. We never see brain. But you do know how. How he ended up with one arm. Yes.
00;44;37;11 - 00;44;41;28
Mark
I'm going to have to say the bookcase, because the bookcase is not moving or anything.
00;44;41;28 - 00;44;46;06
Sarah
No, I'm sorry, Brian. We do see he's the butterfly guy. Yeah. Yeah. Vandalizing.
00;44;46;06 - 00;44;48;06
Mark
You don't see dogs vandalism.
00;44;48;06 - 00;44;49;22
Sarah
Much better under the bookcase.
00;44;49;22 - 00;44;50;05
Mark
Yes.
00;44;50;05 - 00;44;52;20
Sarah
With the one arming the hand.
00;44;52;23 - 00;44;54;27
Mark
Insert clue into that.
00;44;54;27 - 00;44;56;21
Sarah
Poor actor had to lay there.
00;44;56;21 - 00;44;57;10
Mark
Yeah.
00;44;57;12 - 00;45;03;04
Sarah
Pretending to be under a bookshelf. I'm sure they propped it up, so it was nowhere near him but, like, the one arm.
00;45;03;04 - 00;45;04;12
Mark
Yeah, he does a great.
00;45;04;15 - 00;45;05;28
Sarah
After the credit.
00;45;06;00 - 00;45;08;28
Mark
My mom, I got a part. There's four of them.
00;45;09;00 - 00;45;20;07
Sarah
Yeah. After the credits, all the bad guys go to jail. Yes, Right. Accidental Alice is being sent to the U.S. to face trial. They're going to lock up three men. The shooters are all in jail.
00;45;20;07 - 00;45;23;19
Mark
Jasper goes back to B.C., and we see him again.
00;45;23;24 - 00;45;24;15
Sarah
Yes, but.
00;45;24;15 - 00;45;28;09
Mark
We don't see him again for ten season.
00;45;28;11 - 00;45;38;11
Sarah
It's a while. Yeah. Yeah. And Dylan. Neil, who plays Lenny Jasper. Lenny? Yeah. He's been in a ton of things, including Babylon five.
00;45;38;11 - 00;45;39;20
Mark
Very busy, dude.
00;45;39;27 - 00;45;45;06
Sarah
But his latest most considerable body of work. Yes.
00;45;45;08 - 00;45;45;28
Mark
I know.
00;45;45;28 - 00;45;51;00
Sarah
What you're doing is a collection of Hallmark movies. Yes. Called The Gourmet Detective.
00;45;51;00 - 00;45;52;21
Mark
The Gourmet Detective.
00;45;52;23 - 00;45;54;21
Sarah
Which I will never see.
00;45;54;21 - 00;45;55;07
Mark
Never.
00;45;55;14 - 00;45;57;26
Sarah
If it's got homework on it. No, I'm not watching.
00;45;57;26 - 00;45;58;26
Mark
We're not Hallmark.
00;45;58;26 - 00;46;04;13
Sarah
People. I'm not saying that other people shouldn't watch them. Enjoy them whenever. Yeah, No, thank you.
00;46;04;20 - 00;46;05;17
Mark
We are not home.
00;46;05;17 - 00;46;12;29
Sarah
As far reaching as we may go. When we don't have in summer to cover, we will never cover one of these hallmark romance and mystery movies.
00;46;13;04 - 00;46;14;00
Mark
No, no.
00;46;14;02 - 00;46;14;28
Sarah
It's right out.
00;46;14;28 - 00;46;15;09
Mark
Now.
00;46;15;13 - 00;46;18;18
Sarah
Unless they want to sponsor us for a month or something.
00;46;18;20 - 00;46;19;27
Mark
Even then.
00;46;20;00 - 00;46;21;00
Sarah
It have to be a lot.
00;46;21;02 - 00;46;31;03
Mark
It would have to be a lot before that. He was also in another series of movies. I don't know if you saw this in your travels, but he was in the Shades of Gray movie.
00;46;31;03 - 00;46;31;25
Sarah
Yes, he was.
00;46;32;00 - 00;46;34;13
Mark
Now, he didn't play anything. Shades of.
00;46;34;13 - 00;46;45;29
Sarah
Gray. No, he wasn't Mr. Gray or anything. No, not that I've seen those movies either. No, those can go right in the Hallmark box, far as I'm concerned. Yes, they're different than that. But they're as interesting to me as.
00;46;46;02 - 00;46;49;19
Mark
A stepfather of the main character.
00;46;49;21 - 00;47;05;05
Sarah
Fashion must be for two young men. Yeah. I was very pleased that Stephen Mchattie, who plays Harry Murdoch, had already been in an episode of Murdoch, So I'd already covered his bad movies. Yeah, because man, has he been in a lot of stinkers.
00;47;05;06 - 00;47;06;04
Mark
He's been in a lot.
00;47;06;05 - 00;47;12;14
Sarah
He's been in like 96 movies and like 60 of them are five stars or less. Yeah, like.
00;47;12;14 - 00;47;13;06
Mark
Now he's a.
00;47;13;06 - 00;47;13;19
Sarah
Bad one.
00;47;13;19 - 00;47;14;23
Mark
He's been in some good movies.
00;47;14;23 - 00;47;16;11
Sarah
He's been in some good ones, too.
00;47;16;12 - 00;47;20;17
Mark
That one we saw Pontypool. Pontypool. That was a good movie.
00;47;20;17 - 00;47;28;01
Sarah
That movie is worth watching. Yeah, Pontypool. And he's made. But it's a good movie. Yeah, but I have a bad movie for you.
00;47;28;01 - 00;47;29;26
Mark
Oh, okay. And Harry's in it.
00;47;29;26 - 00;47;46;27
Sarah
No. Okay. Because We've already done a bad Harry, and we did Sewer Man. I think it's. No, this movie has Sean Sullivan in it, who plays Oskar Vander Ley, the man under the bookcase. Okay, He's in this film. Okay? It's a 1990 movie.
00;47;46;29 - 00;47;48;05
Mark
Okay?
00;47;48;08 - 00;47;54;24
Sarah
And. And here are the taglines. Okay, then I'll give you the summary, because the taglines are too good.
00;47;54;24 - 00;47;55;18
Mark
Okay.
00;47;55;21 - 00;48;04;26
Sarah
The ultimate teaching machine out of control or a government experiment finally makes school safe for everyone except the student.
00;48;04;29 - 00;48;07;10
Mark
So this is RoboCop in school.
00;48;07;12 - 00;48;13;04
Sarah
Or hired to teach programed to kill.
00;48;13;06 - 00;48;15;26
Mark
An apple a day makes you dead.
00;48;15;26 - 00;48;31;28
Sarah
Staying after school can be deadly. Three ex-military robots are reprogramed as teachers and secretly placed in a school where most students are part of organized gangs, they begin to respond violently to unruly students and their military training starts to take over.
00;48;31;29 - 00;48;38;02
Mark
Wow, that's a horrible movie. And that's clearly a RoboCop rip off movie.
00;48;38;02 - 00;48;45;15
Sarah
Yeah, the robots look very much like bad RoboCop, and the students look like they came out of.
00;48;45;18 - 00;48;49;13
Mark
Like Toxic Avenger or Class of 1984.
00;48;49;16 - 00;49;01;16
Sarah
No. What's the an inner city movie with two with gangs. They're not it's not West Side Story, but they they wear a lot of bandanas and like, red leather.
00;49;01;16 - 00;49;05;11
Mark
Dancers. Paradise, the Thriller video Beat it.
00;49;05;15 - 00;49;08;02
Sarah
No outsiders out.
00;49;08;02 - 00;49;10;04
Mark
Oh, Warriors, Warriors.
00;49;10;04 - 00;49;21;03
Sarah
Thank you. The robots look like they. Yes, came out of RoboCop, and all the students look like they're right out of warriors. Like now playing.
00;49;21;03 - 00;49;24;04
Mark
The baseball guys are just the leather vest guys.
00;49;24;06 - 00;49;29;19
Sarah
Well, the leather vest guys with the bandanas. But then there's also this movie is set in the future.
00;49;29;23 - 00;49;31;01
Mark
Or in the future.
00;49;31;01 - 00;49;43;06
Sarah
When there are robots. Yeah. That can teach school. Yes, obviously. So there's also like, I wear black make up across my eyes in a big line. Oh, okay. When I go to school like Max Headroom rejects at school.
00;49;43;07 - 00;49;44;22
Mark
Max Mad Max, right?
00;49;44;22 - 00;49;47;19
Sarah
Yes. Yes. So what's the movie called? Have you seen it?
00;49;47;22 - 00;49;51;13
Mark
I have not seen it, but I'm going to guess it's called Robot Teach.
00;49;51;20 - 00;49;56;20
Sarah
The Terminator teacher.
00;49;56;22 - 00;50;01;22
Mark
The sub's this. Yeah, well, the substitute is a movie.
00;50;01;22 - 00;50;02;08
Sarah
I know.
00;50;02;15 - 00;50;04;00
Mark
But Robo Sub is.
00;50;04;03 - 00;50;14;11
Sarah
On that. But that would be about a submarine. Yes. No, this movie is called Now, I want to tell you, this was released 1990. Yeah, And it is set in the future.
00;50;14;11 - 00;50;15;08
Mark
In the future.
00;50;15;08 - 00;50;20;29
Sarah
Where robots are smart enough to teach school and convincingly as humans.
00;50;21;01 - 00;50;22;09
Mark
Okay. Yeah.
00;50;22;11 - 00;50;25;00
Sarah
It is called Class of 1999.
00;50;25;01 - 00;50;29;07
Mark
Oh, so it's a rip off of class of 1984 do. Yes.
00;50;29;09 - 00;50;32;02
Sarah
Wow. It has. Malcolm McDowell and Stacy Keach in.
00;50;32;03 - 00;50;36;05
Mark
Oh my gosh, how could I have not seen this movie?
00;50;36;08 - 00;50;49;02
Sarah
And I tell you, I think the robot teachers lose just of their faces, just half of their faces, like 10 minutes into the movie. And so they have the bad robot prosthetics inside.
00;50;49;03 - 00;50;50;11
Mark
Oh, wow.
00;50;50;11 - 00;51;02;07
Sarah
Like you have broken a school rule. You will now die. Wait, dude, I'm just 5 minutes late for class. You're going to die. There's a lot of students shot in this movie. Yeah, it is weird.
00;51;02;14 - 00;51;03;01
Mark
And like.
00;51;03;03 - 00;51;14;01
Sarah
But it's set, like in a building that looks like a school from the nineties. But then there are these just screens. Just stuck on stuff because it's the future.
00;51;14;01 - 00;51;17;00
Mark
The future and all future is screen.
00;51;17;00 - 00;51;21;15
Sarah
And people walk over to them and pretend to touch them, but nothing happens when they do.
00;51;21;17 - 00;51;26;06
Mark
Oh wow. No, I haven't seen that movie. And I think for me.
00;51;26;08 - 00;51;28;28
Sarah
Oh, you're going to watch it. You're totally going to watch.
00;51;28;29 - 00;51;30;27
Mark
Like Malcolm Dell.
00;51;30;29 - 00;51;33;19
Sarah
I know he may be the highlight of the movie.
00;51;33;20 - 00;51;35;02
Mark
Maybe not Stacy Keach.
00;51;35;03 - 00;51;39;03
Sarah
So Malcolm McDowell is not one of the robot teachers. I know he's a good guy, but.
00;51;39;03 - 00;51;39;13
Mark
He's.
00;51;39;17 - 00;51;47;00
Sarah
He's a real teacher. Yeah, as far as I know. As far as I could tell, having not actually watched the whole movie, which I'm going to save myself from, I'm.
00;51;47;00 - 00;51;48;20
Mark
Sorry you had to watch part of it.
00;51;48;26 - 00;51;55;22
Sarah
Oh, I'm not. It was hilarious. All right. That is the end of murder season two. Huzzah!
00;51;55;22 - 00;51;57;19
Mark
We're moving on to Father Brown.
00;51;57;22 - 00;52;03;01
Sarah
Yeah, Yeah. From actually Canadians to priests.
00;52;03;04 - 00;52;04;29
Mark
Yes. We returned to UK.
00;52;04;29 - 00;52;05;16
Sarah
Yes.
00;52;05;22 - 00;52;08;24
Mark
In the idyllic town of Camelford.
00;52;09;01 - 00;52;28;11
Sarah
Yes. Remember, even if you listen to our episode one season one Father Brown episode before, it is still worth at least skimming through the one we are going to release next week. It's a remix to week to week. Sorry you'll have some new content in it. Yep. Including 5 minutes of never heard before footage at the very end.
00;52;28;16 - 00;52;33;06
Sarah
Yes, it's not footage. And if you're what is it? Ideas never.
00;52;33;09 - 00;52;36;20
Mark
Audio was never heard before. Audio.
00;52;36;20 - 00;52;43;06
Sarah
Audio footage? No, it was selling footage of the footage. When it was tape, it was still measured by the foot. Yeah, it was audio tape.
00;52;43;07 - 00;52;44;15
Mark
Never seen tape.
00;52;44;15 - 00;52;51;29
Sarah
And it's like audio footage. It's not for 5 minutes you've never heard before. Anyway, until then, Buy.
00;52;51;29 - 00;52;52;20
Mark
Maniac.
00;52;52;20 - 00;53;09;02
Sarah
By me is.
00;53;09;04 - 00;53;13;08
Mark
Pound said prefers. What is his name?
00;53;13;16 - 00;53;14;22
Sarah
Anderson. Over? Yes.
