Ep11 - A Twisted Family Reunion with Bob Crane and a Sexist Retro TV Commercial!

We are seeing the end of  Bob Crane's acting career here, in that he was real-life murdered a few months after this dark and confusing episode. 

Yes,  that Bob Crane - from Hogan's Heroes - whose life was later dramatized in the movie Auto Focus with Greg Kinnear and Willem Defoe. Look it up. Yikes. Creepy.

His Jerry Springer-style plotline ultimately is another study of inappropriate affection between two passengers: a long-lost father and his adult daughter.  It's strange writing, and we couldn't help but feel baffled. Also, Airplane's awesome Robert Hayes is underused in an unfortunately small role here. 

Next, things take a wild turn as a younger lower-income couple finds themselves in a luxury Presidential suite, thanks to Julie and Gopher's scheming. Then, they must navigate a dangerous game of pretending to be marketing experts and avoid their arch-nemesis on the boat. Also confusing.

"Hey, poor people, here's an upgrade. Enjoy this upgrade.! But one condition. You have to pretend to be these marketing company people.'"
— Producer Caleb

"It's not really that hard to pretend like you're in marketing. You literally just throw out a few key terms like "KPI," "point of view" and "demographics" and they're like, yes, we believe you. Literally, anybody can do it."
— Charlotte

In another Love Boat scene, a woman is referred to as "a little lady," which causes us to briefly examine how many women were treated/portrayed "back in the day."  Next, we show the ultimate example: we roll a 1968 Maxwell House TV commercial that shows women as completely and aggressively subservient. Boo.


BONUS SHOW QUOTE !! (unrelated to anything)
"I could have walked away with every dude in Montana at that point. I could add a ranch, cows, horses, cowboy hats, whatever the f--- I wanted. I was literally a star in Montana."
— Charlotte


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