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#548 - Studio Sucky, Part 11: The Karl Rove Sketch (Patreon)

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2024-08-06 17:32:54
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As STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP continues its slow descent, Aaron Sorkin continues to drift away from TV sketch-comedy and back to what he knows. Episode 20, "K&R Part 2," sees the gang lashing out at journalism while also making a tortured defense of... the White House Press Secretary?

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Mid-Sized SeDan

Haven't listened but my friend and fellow M&I patron informed me that the first episode of Spin City was directed by longtime Sorkin accomplice Thomas Schlamme, and is absolutely filled with rank Sorkinism. He ran down the plot to me and it sounds ripe for the M&U treatment Anyways about to drop everything and listen 🫡

Chris M.

The Macau Deal

Orn Pauldorf

Luke's Trump voice sounded like Tommy Wiseau this week and I had NO problem with that

Dan

I planned to go see Furiousa at the local cheap theatre when I get a chance here; I didn't see it in the major theatre when it was current,because of the cost of admission. A lot of movies are tanking now, probably because people are not doing as well these days.

murt pie

On one of the episodes of the West Wing Thing, Wyatt Cenac observed that nobody on that show ever said "thank you" or "I'm sorry." That's struck me as a handy little skeleton key to Sorkin's worldview: every interaction is an opportunity for displays of pointless, meaningless aggression toward your perceived inferiors.

howie

What a coincidence! Today I thought how Tim Walz sounds exactly like Mickey Rooney's Simpsons cameo.

Mid-Sized SeDan

The talk about the press secretary at the end reminds me of the Women of Qumar episode of West Wing, where Alison Janney spends the entire episode annoying everyone about US being cozy with a repressive regime because its in line with foreign policy goals, and at the end of the episode she tows the White House line at the actual press conference, and this is treated as a great triumph. I might be misremembering a bit, I was reminded of the episode by a friend who recently argued that West Wing is actually a really progressive show for the time because Bartlett would be the most liberal president ever irl

Geri Danton

I think Furiosa didn't do well because it's a prequel. Not that you can't make a good prequel, but can you name many? I think audiences are primed to assume they won't be good at this point.

Jordan Yule

I loved Furiosa. Furiosa is only lesser to Fury Road insofar as it capitulated to a Hollywood need for exposition. The strength of these movies is in their primal and fucking fixating grasp of action

Jeremy Hawkins

This episode was extremely funny

Jeremy Hawkins

The moment with the baby sounds a lot like the scene in tim and erics billion dollar movie where tim and eric take that guy's son. But also, Aaron Sorkin down to his name, seems like a tim and eric character

Ashley Naftule

I think Will’s point of the public perception of Furiosa being “leftovers” is dead-on. When I first saw the trailer for it I had that knee jerk “oh, it’s Fury Road again” reaction to it. I’m glad I did catch it in theaters—great film, Hemsworth makes a whole-ass meal of his performance and crushes it. It’s insane to me that film- probably the best Hollywood blockbuster we’ll get this year- ate so much shit at the box office while Deadpool/Wolverine-a film which doesn’t have a single MINUTe as thrilling and well-staged as “Furiosa”‘s paraglide raid- cleans up. And I know this makes me sound like a bad person but I was DELIGHTED to hear we’re getting a Michael & Us At The Movies episode for Deadpool/Wolverine because the boys are never funnier than when they’ve just seen something that inflicted massive psychic damage on them. Got a feeling we’re going to get a Flash caliber post-mortem on this baby

ChapoFan inParis

Hey, Steve Martin's Pink Panther was great!

Timothy Williams

The "pajama people" I think is a reference to these conservative "pajama bloggers" who exposed a Dan Rather scoop (a letter from an Air Force officer attacking young W's character) as a forgery in 2004: https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1286768/posts

Tyler Plunkett

Found this blog post from October 30, 2006 that they had already decided not to renew the show, which would mean Sorkin & co. knew by episode 7 https://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/55882/studio-60-cancelled

Eric The Bed Humper.

I read that mickey Rooney excerpt that was censored and holy shit. I can't get the picture of chopping carrots out of my head. Ugh

JunklessTrunk

Is Luke aware that Matt's actor Matt is dead? Sorry to burst the season 2 balloon. Would they recast?

mruskin

Pajama People and the Nocturnal Nut Brigade should be the new Patreon tiers.

Nate

I hope you guys are excited for the SNL movie coming out in October. As one youtube comment said, "This looks like the best episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip!"

Oliver Elliott

An important point about Sorkin that usually gets glossed over is that he’s not actually a liberal. He’s an authoritarian who aesthetically prefers liberal signifiers. The fact that he’s been so influential on the worldview of American liberals seems pretty significant in that light.