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   Joseph Nebus to All   
   Andy Barker, PI: Fairway, My Lovely   
   26 Mar 07 15:55:31   
   
   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   	Plot: When a morbidly obese accounting client of Andy's dies on   
   a golf course, the man's wife suspects murder.   
      
   	- Cigars are the only thing that help Guy quite cigarettes.   
   	   
   	- ``Three kinds of ham'' in the sandwich: when the ``double   
   meat'' was mentioned later I thought that was going to be a reference to   
   the sandwich.   
   	   
   	- ``It's pretty hot and you *are* coughing stuff up ... ''  Fine   
   line, and it leads into another dialogue-free segment with orchestral   
   music, just as last week.   
   	   
   	- ``You can't spell hummus without US'' -- the show clearly   
   rewards paying attention to the things in the detail.   
   	   
   	- ``For a client he did eat off my plate fairly often.''   
   	   
   	- I'm a touch surprised that Andy didn't return the files he   
   stole last week; if he didn't want to risk going past Nicole and her   
   security scan again he could have mailed them anonymously.   
   	   
   	- I'm surprised that the opening credits are -- pleasant,   
   certainly, but not more evocative of the great goofy private eye shows   
   of the 70s.  It'd be hard to top (say) the opening of The Rockford   
   Files, but this isn't even competing.  On the other hand, it's hard to   
   be deliberately catchy.   
   	   
   	- Why *did* Guy's doctor attribute his death to natural causes   
   when the toxicology report showed he wasn't taking his heart   
   medications?   
   	   
   	- The show has four executive producers: Conan, Jonathan Groff,   
   David Kissinger, and Jeff Ross.  And Peter Schindler as and Chuck Tathan   
   as co-Executive Proders.  They're executive producing the dickens out of   
   them.   
   	   
   	- Andy describes Guy as dirty and kind of smelly.  Not even   
   vaguely subtle use of power screwdrivers by Andy's wife here.   
   	   
   	- Simon gets all goofy around Nicole.  For a moment Nicole looks   
   like she's going for it, when they're introduced.  The coffee/espresso   
   scene is another one used for clips rather often.  ``Why would you think   
   I'd want to watch those movies?  Because I'm black?''  ``And because I'm   
   white.''   
   	   
   	- ``By the way, congratulations on winning the race.''  ``Yeah,   
   well I .. ... I don't really feel too proud about that right now.''   
   	   
   	- ``I like boobs'' sounds like random miscellaneous   
   nutty-character material for Brian's part.  Considering this actually   
   turns out to be a plot point, I have to credit them for playing against   
   my expectations.   
   	   
   	- The ``hey, did you murder Guy Halverson?'' scene is another   
   one of those good for advertising or clips.  They seem to be more common   
   this week than last.   
   	   
   	- Andy's wife notices the condo sale on her own; I rather liked   
   this bedroom scene.  I liked Jenny more this week than last.  Note that   
   Andy uses a Windows laptop, but had a Mac in the office last week.   
   	   
   	- So, was ``Double Meat Enterprises'' a typo on ``Triple Meat''   
   from the earlier sandwiches?   
   	   
   	- ``I can't deal with this right now, I'm on a stakeout'' is   
   another good clip worthy scene, although Simon with the giant cookie is   
   funnier.  It needs more context to set up, though.   
   	   
   	- Andy has an amusingly weird ``try not to notice me'' hustle   
   into the Morris Avenue place.   
   	   
   	- Fair Oaks is, indeed, in california, in case there were any   
   doubts.   
   	   
   	- ``The guy kept a thermos of emergency bisque'' -- true or   
   sarcasm?   
   	   
   	- ``Tell her I'd like to be Hootie to her blowfish.'' ``No.''   
   	   
   	- ``What is this, a hoof?''  ``Yeah, it is.''   
   	   
   	- Andy calls in the police nice and quickly, and they're pretty   
   well on top of things.  But how did Brian get the cuminin (sp?) and   
   sugar pills into June's locker?  Do caddies usually have that access to   
   the golf pro lockers?  Still, it is rather sensible to let the police do   
   the evidence-gathering that's available.   
   	   
   	- ``Listen, hippie, you take your orders from me, not Charlie   
   Manson''?  Boy, that's character-weird.   
   	   
   	- Nicole reads lips because ... her brother is deaf.  See Roger   
   Ebert's Law of Skills Acquired by Osmosis.   
   	   
   	- But then Brian's guilt is pretty well established by Ebert's   
   Law of Economy of Characters.   
   	   
   	- ``I thought you liked big boobs!'' ``Well, he had them!''   
   	   
   	- The golf cart chase is a beauty, but what really attracts my   
   eye is how well composed the driving through the bucket of golf balls,   
   spraying them onto the ground, was.   
   	   
   	- ``Now that's how you hit a pitching wedge!''  ``That's a   
   three-iron.''  ``I know.''  That's *such* an Andy line; few others could   
   appreciate that.   
   	   
   	- ``Cause now she knows her husband wasn't murdered by his hot   
   Asian mistress, but by his hunky psychotic boy toy.  Night, sweetie.''   
   Yeah, I like her.   
   	   
   	- Guy Helverson: 1961 - 2007, closing image.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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