SHOW NOTES

Hammer pants, comfort shows, manic TikTok lives, a school bus that almost got hit by a train, and a hospital board that Zoomed a woman while she was in active labor. EP 72 is one of those episodes that goes everywhere and somehow all of it works.

It starts with Remi sending Melissa a photo of a Twilight vampire and saying her hair looks like it and then somehow arrives at David confessing he owned a pair of hammer pants despite growing up in a house where secular music was not allowed. From there: why manic TV families get more eyeballs than calm ones, Remi’s comfort show being Modern Family because she says it feels like living in her own house, Melissa’s comfort shows being Andy Griffith, Golden Girls, Three’s Company, and Law and Order SVU which she has fully committed to.

The second half gets into things we are now watching live on camera that probably shouldn’t be including a Kendra Scott TikTok live that had people genuinely worried, a Florida school bus driver who told her students she wasn’t waiting for a train and almost got the back of the bus clipped, and a hospital board of directors that made a patient join a Zoom meeting while she was in active labor. The episode closes with Melissa and David learning to play Tilt and Shout from TikTok Shop in real time, which does not go smoothly.

QUOTES WORTH HIGHLIGHTING

“My comfort shows are Andy Griffith, Golden Girls, Three’s Company, and Law and Order SVU. In the criminal justice system, the people are represented — I’m like, in the nap and wake up comforted. Those are their stories.”

Melissa, defending her comfort show lineup

“Remi says Modern Family feels like going to sleep while everyone is just talking and visiting in the living room. And she is not wrong. There is no other couple on television more like us than Mitch and Cam. I will let y’all decide who’s who.”

Melissa, and David is not thrilled about the comparison

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