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Episode 301: Cave Dwellers

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[Tom] - Oh, say, Joel. ([Joel] - Oh, yeah?) I have a question....

[Joel] -Yeah, ask away, my red friend.

[Tom] - (Laughs) Well, why is it these guys in the film give such fancy-pants names to everything, hmmm?

[Crow] - Yeah! Like they call a regular-old shield the Glimmering Charm Shield. It's like, so stupid. Gy!

[Joel] - Well, it's obvious that this movie has a really low budget, especially for props. And so, by adding really neat names to ordinary things, you can kind of dress it up.

[Joel] - Like it was kind of obvious her breast plate, that the woman was wearing, was actually an off-the-rack auto part from NAPA. But you can't very well say, um, "Hither, yon there goes the, uh, hubcap of the Plymouth Summerset", right?

[Tom] - Right! But what you could say is, "She has donned the Maiden shield of Bally Seven!"

[Joel] - Exactly! Now you're getting it.

[Crow] - I-I-I get it! I see! Um, if I had a box of ordinary paperclips, uh, I could say, um, "Here is a box of incredibly bent pieces of wire, used to hold the press wood-pulp planes in security!"

[Joel] - Right! Now you're getting it! That's exactly right. It's just adding extraordinary names to ordinary things that makes it fun!

[Tom] - Yeah! Yeah! You find the fun, and Snap, the job's a game! (laughs) Thank you, Mary Poppins!

[Joel] - Yeah, Spit-Spot, you two!

[Crow] - (As Ed Wynn) Oh, I love to laugh! Long, and loud, and clear! ([Tom] - (clears his throat repeatedly, to get Crow to snap out of it.)) ([Joel] - Oh, get on with it.) Oh, sorry. I digress...

[Crow] - Um, well, anyway, you know, they give cool names to TV shows like that, too. Like, uh, White Shadow could have been called, uh,  Haloed Hoop Honky, or, um, Jake and the Fat Man - you could have call that, um, well, um... (Tom/Crow) Jake and the Fat Man..... Yeah, Pretty much.... Yeah - Yeah...

[Tom] - You know, it occurs to me that when local TV stations talk about their Grand Marshals for their holiday parades, what they're really saying is Gavin McCloud.

[Joel] - Exactly. Oh, I've got one. A pre-recorded segment that's, um, that goes into a program is called a Bumper, and actually it's really just MOVIE SIGN!!!!! ([Crow] - OH, MOVIE SIGN!!!)

(End Segment)

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