Onesies

Thanks to Coronavirus disease 2019 (and a cat with pillow foot), Andrew was unable to report for his POLICE SQUAD (IN COLOR) duty, and instead made Emily talk about her current media consumption. When it got to be his turn, they realized there was an obvious, TARDIS-shaped topic they could talk about until they literally ran out of time

Emily and Andrew have entered the second half of POLICE SQUAD (in color) and discovered maybe these types of projects work better as ninety-minute movies. Though they are very impressed with the guy who's not back in the NAKED GUN.

Emily and Andrew finally hit the first problematic POLICE SQUAD, albeit--thankfully--briefly, unless you want to talk about delightful (albeit exploited) primate actors, who also figure into this quite funny episode. The pod also required extra editing from Emily because of fire alarms; she saved you from the beeps, but not from Andrew's ad-libbing.

Emily and Andrew head to Cleveland for the big fight! Or is it Cincinnati? Regardless, listen as they discuss the second episode of POLICE SQUAD, directed by Joe Dante and co-wrriten by Robert Wuhl, which has a lot less Leslie Nielsen showcases, but still works out.  

Emily and Andrew head into the Season 4, Act 2, Yankees 4: Police Squad, the original "brilliant but cancelled." Listen as they discuss terrible white men doing great work in the eighties, comedy timing, good writing, and all the things they haven't been able to talk about for ages on this pod!

Emily and Andrew have reached the end of Morton & Hayes, expecting to find the Red Skull waiting to throw one of them off a mountain (blowhardy Emily hasn't seen it, no spoiler). Instead, they once again find Rob Reiner grating, Bob Amarel underutilized, and Kevin Pollak disappointing. What about the guest stars? Buckle up....

Emily and Andrew reach the penultimate "M&H" with some hard truths about Christopher Guest's direction, Rob Reiner's sense of humor, shows poorly executing trope standards, and surprise good (and bad) acting.

Emily and Andrew head out of Hong Kong Bay to the island of Ooloo the Giant, happy to sing and dance along the heroes, be not underwhelmed wtih guest starring friend Courteney Cox, but still suffer the double hits of Christopher Guest.

Join Emily and Andrew as they discuss how nice it was to have enjoyed the second episode of the show as they talk about the third episode. Listen as they cringe their way through the episode, which features an early appearance from Allison Janney.

Emily and Andrew are pleasently surprised with the second episode, a riff on old Universal Monster movies, with great guest stars and, of course, some excellent Kevin Pollak.