Comedy

Saturday Night

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  • Title: Saturday Night
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Director Jason Reitman, who co-wrote the script with Gil Kenan, offers a witty, fast-paced, love letter to the rocky beginnings of a modern comedic touchtone by going behind the scenes in the hours just before the first live performance of Saturday Night Live. With two hours until air, we follow Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle) around the chaotic setting of Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The film plays up tensions at NBC at the time between the network and Johnny Carson which allowed for the show’s creation even if, as the film suggests, no one at NBC expected Saturday Night to ever make it to air.

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Bob’s Burgers – Advice Things Are Ad-Nice

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  • Title: Bob’s Burgers – Advice Things Are Ad-Nice
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After Tina (Dan Mintz) is chosen to be the school paper’s secret new advice columnist who no one at school is writing to, Louise (Kristen Schaal) and Linda (John Roberts) attempt to help by submitting their own letters of teen angst plagiarized from Tina’s diary. That this would eventually go spectacularly wrong is a given as the sordid truth comes out publicly after Tammy (Jenny Slate) assumes the identity of the school’s new celebrity just to earn a spot in the town parade.

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Hundreds of Beavers

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  • Title: Hundreds of Beavers
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Basically a live-action WB cartoon whose plot could easily star Porky Pig or Daffy Duck mixed with a bit of low-budget gameplay, the slapstick Hundreds of Beavers introduces us to an applejack salesman turned fur trapper after the factory is destroyed by beavers. Jean Kayak (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) is forced to reinvent himself as he learns, with much trial and error, to survive the wilderness, hunt rabbits and beavers, outsmart racoons, and avoid wolves (all of which are played by humans dressed in mascot costumes walking around on their hindlegs which help give the film its unique charm).

The film is wacky nonsense from beginning to end, but director Mike Cheslik‘s bizarre little film (shot in black-and-white on a shoestring budget) is an incredibly creative and enjoyable bit of wacky nonsense.

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Bob’s Burgers – Dog Christmas Day After Afternoon

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  • Title: Bob’s Burgers – Dog Christmas Day After Afternoon
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Any Christmas where your family drives around in a hearse and your son almost kills a puppy is likely to be a memorable one. The situation starts with Louise (Kristen Schaal), Gene (Eugene Mirman), and Tina (Dan Mintz) not getting the game console they wanted for the holiday. Hoping to brighten everyone’s spirits, Linda (John Roberts) suggests driving around to look at the Christmas lights which becomes problematic when their car won’t start. However, their neighbor allows them to borrow theirs. And so that’s how to get a hearse driving around a neighborhood on Christmas night creeping the hell out of everyone.

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Bob’s Burgers – They Slug Horses, Don’t They?

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  • Title: Bob’s Burgers – They Slug Horses, Don’t They?
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Sisters is the theme of “They Slug Horses, Don’t They?” as Louise (Kristen Schaal) and Tina (Dan Mintz) get in an escalating argument after Louise borrows Tina’s toy without asking, and then breaks it when attempting to give it back to her sister. Her attempt to avoid apologizing by creating a cartoon of them as the characters of each of their toys (Louise as a slug and Tina as the horse) that blames Louise for everything only escalates the argument further. Unexpectedly, it’s Gail (Megan Mullally) who plays peacemaker between the girls providing an example of her own struggles with their mother.

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