This is the one where Richard invokes the Fisher King and mise en abyme, while Garrett celebrates eccentric art, all in memory of “The King of Cult Cinema”, Roger Corman (1926-2024), who helped launch the careers of this episode’s two filmmakers, Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich.

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Referenced media:

• "The Big Doll House" (Jack Hill, 1971)
• “Rolling Thunder” (John Flynn, 1977)
• “Blue Collar” (Paul Schrader, 1978)
• “Grand Theft Auto” (Ron Howard, 1977)
• “Nosferatu” (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
• “The Terror” (Roger Corman, 1963)
• “Frankenstein” (James Whale, 1931)
• “Bride of Frankenstein” (James Whale, 1935)
• “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (Chuck Jones, 1966)
• “The Last Picture Show” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
• “Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994)
• “Rosemary’s Baby” (Roman Polanski, 1968)
• “Night of the Living Dead” (George A Romero, 1968)
• “Finian’s Rainbow” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1968)
• “Dementia 13” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1963)
• “The Outsiders” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)
• “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
• “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
• “Chinatown” (Roman Polanski, 1974)
• “Terms of Endearment” (James L. Brooks, 1983)
• “West Side Story” (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
• “Footloose” (Herbert Ross, 1984)

Audio quotation:

• “Targets” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
• “Rumble Fish” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)
• “Theme from ‘Terms of Endearment’” from “Terms of Endearment” (James L. Brooks, 1983) by Michael Gore, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxW7TzkvCts&list=PLD6VJwu9YM-Xi3oEu5vabPRBgFtrmeP56&index=3