S01E14 It’s clever, but not in a way that you need to be smart

Spoilers!? What Spoilers!?! Christopher spends some time on YouTube watching Norm Macdonald while Jeffrey dives into TV show about a movie making movies. How meta of him.

Look at you! You’re such a good podcast listener, deep in the often-referenced podcast notes. Only the realest of the real hang out here! Explicit content today, by the way. We’re very passionate about cultural criticism, you see. 

For starters, the whole Norm Macdonald video is here for your viewing pleasure. A compilation video of Norm’s four appearances on Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show between the years of 2009 and 2010. Full credit to the YouTube account THEVIEW5652 of keeping the dream of great and extended Norm Macdonald content online alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ajZqoeC-So

For more context regarding this chapter of the Late Night Wars that involved Conan’s Tonight Show, check out this cool video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipweBXCSiuk

The very famous “Moth” joke that went viral after Norm’s untimely death, as referenced (and almost attempted!) on the pod can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJN9mBRX3uo

Community currently lives on Netflix. Find all six seasons there. Or go buy the old DVD box sets and enjoy the hell out of the Audio Commentaries like Jeffrey! But hey, streaming is fine also. The way of the future. You do you: https://www.netflix.com/title/70155589

We mentioned how self-aware, culturally aware and full of references Community is chock full of, right!? So it’s only right that this episode reviewed today has it’s very own Wikipedia page, like, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Myths_and_Ancient_Peoples

The GQ article on Donald Glover that Jeffrey read and felt a certain way about can be read here: https://www.gq.com/story/donald-glover-global-creativity-awards-cover-2023

Some The Week That Was action for ya, in other cultural-consumption type news and notes! Christopher loved Renfield. Jeffrey heard him out. Check out the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LmO6rmDW08

Our Odds-and-Ends style Tweet of the Week can be as long (as Twitter is still a functional platform by the time you read this lol) enjoyed here: https://twitter.com/harryhew/status/1646621986146201604

One host of this here show apparently has a favourite new segment. It’s called Fomo of the week and it makes him feel better. And it seems to be perennially sponsored by the Prince Charles Cinema, the best cinema in London. If you like cinema and live in London and are not there right now as you read this or planning to go there asap, you are not doing this right: https://princecharlescinema.com/

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