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   Robert Hutchinson to Joseph Nebus   
   Re: Riff of the Giant Leeches   
   10 Feb 08 05:47:52   
   
   From: servoid@hotmail.com   
      
   Joseph Nebus wrote:   
   > Derek Janssen  writes:   
   >   
   >> (Granted, using one of the characters to riff it was ten times funnier   
   >> earlier in the episode when we DIDN'T realize they were just   
   >> vanity-plugging one of their own host-segs ahead of time.)   
   >   
   > 	Yeah, it was funnier as a quick bit during the movie segment   
   > and less funny (and, honestly, more annoying) as a host piece.  But   
   > a quick foreshadowing of host segments is remarkably common a practice   
   > in the various experiments; I was startled the first time I noticed   
   > that Rex Dart, Eskimo Spy was mentioned before that classic segment.   
      
   There's an argument to be made, as well, that they occasionally lost   
   track of when the host segments would be interrupting the movie. Was it   
   the Joey the Lemur segment that happened before we even saw the "lemur"   
   in that movie?   
      
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