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Haha, ok, I tried to give Gigi time to step in but she must be busy so I will go ahead with my pick, which was inspired by the recent Emmy wins for the wonderful Canadian sitcom Schitt's Creek. It's the fourth of the right honourable Lord Haden-Guest's mockumentary films, starring many of the same repertory cast as his previous and later ones, but this one is about the subculture of American folk music. It features the great Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara as Mitch and Mickey as well as Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard, Parker Posey and many more. We're watching: It should be available for rent in a variety of outlets as near as I can tell and it may be on Prime as well. Enjoy!

As a fan of HTDGM and Bitchsesh, everytime they mentionned the woman in the pink Fedora, ALL I could picture was Lisa Vanderpump and her many pink hats/outfits from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills/Vanderpump Rules. Can't believe June didn't make the association!

Here is a podcast episode about the “Killer Clowns” and them being in vans. Jason was right. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/killer-clowns/id1380008439?i=1000492080039

Of all of the ham-fisted explanations that the movie uses to paper over the transparently stupid plot, I liked this one the most. Despite acting extremely suspicious 100% of the time, Tanya has no trouble snowing Jake because he is explicitly very, very dumb. Annie is the smart one, so the writers felt the need to shoehorn an explanation that would make this extremely suspicious death seem more plausible. However, saying that the building Mags lands near has had a rash of suicides makes this more suspicious, since it would make it that much more obvious she fell from a greater height. A skydiver reaches terminal velocity of ~120mph in ~1,500 feet. We don't know the exact altitude Tanya was flying, but that seems like a reasonable estimate. Someone thrown from a plane at that height would land with the velocity of someone who jumped off skyscraper hundreds of feet taller than the tallest building in LA. The area they're flying over is fairly residential, so even with a very generous assumption that the building in question was 20 stories, Mags would only be traveling at around half that speed had she actually jumped off it. The only plausible explanation is that Tanya is a serial killer with incredible aim.

There's also abrupt transition to Jake's POV out of the windshield, where he appears to be flying slightly slower than Tanya is running.

On second thought, maybe no one has ever really jumped off that building and it's just Tanya's go-to dumping ground for loose ends. Tanya: "What do you mean I can't return this telescopic lens without a receipt?" Clerk: "Sorry m'am, store policy. Tanya: "Fine. By the way, I need to make a delivery. How would you like a free flight to Santa Barbara?" Who knows how many people she has killed. Also, "A free trip to Santa Barbara" is a good euphemism for knocking someone off.

I was hoping that Paul, June and Jason would have mentioned the car.... So the mother and the Tanya go up in the plane, and it appears that they are flying for some time because she is giving a mini-lesson about how planes fly. So even if this lesson is the briefest of brief, it's at least a 10 minute conversation. Depending on the type of plane, it could be travelling at speeds of 140km/h - 200km/h. So if we choose 150km/h as a rough estimate. They would have travelled 25km (15.5miles) in that conversation (at that means talking from the moment they lifted off the ground). She decides then to eject the mother-in law and pushes her out of the seat to her death. When the daughter gets the call from the Coroner (wouldn't the police call her?), he says that she committed suicide, and that her car was found nearby. Wait, what? How did her car get there? Her car was parked at a small airport somewhere, a bare minimum of 25km away, more than likely 50km away. Also that building just happened to be "the" suicide building of downtown? Also falling from the plane, wouldn't you reach terminal velocity and smack that ground with so much force that you would explode. You could get the same effect from a building, but it would have to be a very high building... so ok, maybe... But still, i want to know.. did Tanya quickly fly back, get Margaret's car, drive like crazy to the place where she went splat (if she could even figure out that exact location from the air and translate that to driving). Get the car there, wipe down all her prints on the car, leave it, and hitch hike home or something. All before the body was found and police came to investigate.

Did anyone notice when Jake was in the guest room at his friends house he was reading “The Rickenbacker Biography.” Ed Rickenbacker was, according to Wikipedia, an American World War 1 Flying Ace. Reading up on him, his dad told him not to waste his time trying to be a pilot - THEY HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON. This scene comes right after he meets Gonzo at the party, and I can’t decide what I like to imagine more - that he’s been reading this book for weeks because he’s so dedicated and obsessed with becoming a pilot, or that he just bought the book after being inspired by Gonzo. He’s not very far into the book so I assume the latter. I mean, nothing says non-fiction book choice like meeting a guy named after the phallic-nosed muppet.

I legit thought Tanya was going to try to fight the plane when she was fleeing . I thought that for way to long. It looked like she was squaring up.

So I'm no business woman which was why I was curious as to how big a business has to be to have a board directors. Margaret kept talking about how she had to sell her box of burnt hair son in law on. According to a Forbes article I found: "The general thesis is that as the businesses grow in size and complexity their board should grow with them. A group of professors across multiple universities concluded in a 2005 study that corporations increasing the complexity of their operations by introducing new product lines or expanding into new territories had a tendency to increase the number of directors on their board. The conclusion seems logical. If you are a company that has 10 gas stations and you are looking to add an 11th – you probably shouldn’t implement a board of directors. But if you are a small precision motor manufacturing company and you are expanding from automobiles to healthcare equipment a board can be extremely valuable." So now I wonder is her company diverse? What do they sell? How many votes would she need to get Jake as her successor? I want to know more!!! ( Also I should probably stop thinking and researching when on my migraine meds because this is the hot take no one asked for).

There are so many things to discuss about this movie!!! In the beginning I thought we were entering a 2:22 scenario. When Tonya was flipping back and forth between photos of “The Two Jakes”, I was thinking, uh-oh..we have a young man, involved in aviation, getting mixed up in some kind of soul-switching scenario. But of course that’s something only a crazy person would think…a la Tanya. Also the guy that Jake buys the plane from at the end of the movie says, “we moved around a lot when we were kids, so its kinda like a family home”. Are we to believe that his family was flying around from town to to town in a WWII era aircraft, picking up odd jobs, getting into adventures, and sleeping in the cockpit. THIS NEEDS TO BE THE MOVIE. Lastly the guy from the coroner’s office tells hard-pink that, “Apparently, a lot of people jump off that building.” What?!?! How many?!?! What does it take before some security measures are put in place?

My favorite moment in the movie of a character getting tragic news in the least empathetic way possible has got to be when the coroner segues from telling Pink Fedora that her mother just committed suicide to asking if she'll be swinging by to pick up her mother's car. I mean, yeah, you literally just told me that my mother hurled herself bodily from a building in downtown Los Angeles, but please, let me rush right on down there and pick up my mother's Chevy Suburban. I don't need time to process any of this information at all.

With the exception of some high performance military jets, planes are designed to be inherently stable. Turning off the autopilot wouldn't send the plane into a sudden roll or make it pitch back and forth like a fishing boat in a rough sea. It would just mean it wouldn't adjust course for wind gusts. Granted on one of the passes of Tanya's head, the plane's jet engine noise transforms into the sound of a World War 1 biplane's piston engine, so it's almost like they actively tried to be inaccurate.

The investors in Santa Barbara would never accept her paying Jake more money.

Speaking of sales pitches, Gonzo points out the only lucrative pilot jobs are commercial aircraft. Then ends his pitch saying something like "do you think you'll get to fly F18s with Tanya's school?" You literally just said there's no money in military flying. No one even has that perception that the Air Force is a money maker. I get it's a sales pitch and he's switching from a logical to emotional appeal but this guy really is all over the place. I can't imagine the air force is putting people in F18s because they weren't to Gonzo flight school.

After the model tells Pink Fedora (or Trilby) there weren't any camera crews on site for the shoot because it was being filmed from a plane, she goes on to explain that the audition for the gig was at a flight school so she just figured that it was being filmed as a promotional film. I am SUPER curious about what flight school she thinks would include aerial shots of people making out and being rubbed down with coconut oil as a part of their marketing materials.

Sorry for the double post earlier. I wanted to let youn know that Google Lens identifies the “hard pink” hat as this one and sends you to Walmart. $14.95 Walmart misidentified the color as “hot” pink, sadly. Now, I had melanoma and the doctor suggested I wear more hats/layers. You need to protect yourself from UV radiation every day, and maybe I don’t want to bathe in chemical sunscreen each morning. Anyway, hats can be difficult to pull off. I do have a blush Panama hat and my sister called it a fedora once and I haven’t worn it since. There is a real stigma to a fedora. As, @grudlian. points out, this one isn’t a fedora either (trilby hats are usually made of inferior material to fedoras, and that one looks very cheap. Not going to give you good UPF at all.) So Not is it a hard pink, it’s also a hard (as in difficult) hat. It was a real choice. And wearing it inside? Why? Imagine sitting behind her in class.

I think him calling her a "writer" is an accurate reflection, not of her job or studies, but of what her dumb-ass husband thinks she does all day. Totally fits the character. He doesn't know what a dissertation is or what she does on her laptop all day beyond 'writing'. Makes perfect sense. Great writing here by the screenwriter.

You are correct. I just re-watched both scenes. She says she's going for her doctorate and that in order to "qualify for a dissertation" she needs to interview "more survivors." He then calls her a "writer" when she insults him in bed. If she's working on a dissertation, I definitely think she's going for a PhD rather than MD. Still, who is she interviewing? Maybe she's going for a degree in Journalism? It would explain her detective skills, having to do interviews, and being a writer who never ever misspeaks.

Doesn't Jake say "you're a writer" not English major? I might be wrong about that but it really stuck out to me. I mean, writers aren't just putting down stream of consciousness into their work. Writers have drafts and editors. So, the idea that a writer knows what to say at all times is dumb.

I didn’t realize this. I got it to listen to when I had the time—you know, like a podcast. Oh well. It’s still a good cause. I’ll just have to deal with my FOMO.