REPLAY: Episode 62 - When Harry Met Sally...

Happy New Year! We'll be back next week with new episodes.


It's 2019 now. The future. Makes the 2015 from "Back to the
Future Part II" seem like a million years ago. But now we're in
the year of "Blade Runner." And they really nailed that. No
better way to describe Los Angeles 2019 than a bunch of
sushi-eating robots.


Jim's still on his paternity leave of sorts as we've been taking
some time off for the holidays, but in the meantime, enjoy our
repost of one of our favorite episodes, "When Harry Met Sally..."


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ORIGINAL SHOW NOTES:


We will not have what she's having! The 1989 Rob Reiner-directed
and Nora Ephron-written vehicle "When Harry Met Sally..." ushered
in Meg Ryan as a leading lady and has been a pox on all of our
houses ever since. We know that this movie is fiction because it
pretends 41-year-old Billy Crystal is a twenty-something Lothario
who has slept with so many women that he may need to leave New
York City.


Billy Crystal plays Harry Burns, a supposed political consultant,
and Meg Ryan plays Sally Albright, a supposed hard-hitting
journalist, even though we never see either of them do a lick of
work. But they must be successful because they are both insanely
rich with their gigantic Manhattan high-rise apartments. The
story follows these two unlikable characters over 12 years, even
though they only really know each other for the last year and a
half. So, why 12 years?


The cast also features the late Carrie Fisher and the late Bruno
Kirby as Harry and Sally's friends who are equally despicable New
Yorkers.


This movie has it all—fake female orgasms, old-people-in-love
testimonials, wagon wheel coffee tables, power walking and even
former President Gerald Ford's son.


Join us as we do impressions of hack comedians from the '80s,
discuss whether or not men and women can be friends and wonder
whatever happened to The Sharper Image.


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