Episode 68 - To Dave and Steve

11/15/24 • -1 min

200 Dollars a Day Plus Expenses - A Rockford Files Podcast

You know next week's will be 'To Steve and Dave', just saying.

To quote my partner 'oh great another two parter with an annoying af character'.

She's really good at being annoying though. The 'she' in that sentence refers to Joyce Van Patten. One of the best ever Sopranos episodes, Pine Barrens, was directed by Tim Van Patten, Joyce's brother.

Speaking of the Sopranos, this one is a David Chase joint, and boy can you see his fingerprints. In a good way. Chase is a master at making you uncomfortably laugh, and sometimes just lol, but still be uneasy.

If Emergency (!) has taught Steve anything, it is that there are also firefighter groupies. It's probably true. I wonder if there are prof groupies? Well not for Steve and me anyway.

Again, I'm not sure this needed to be a two parter.

Lianne is ChatGPT.

We get a lot of Lt. Chapman in this one. I like Chapman better than Diel.

We'll be back next week for the exciting conclusion.

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You know next week's will be 'To Steve and Dave', just saying.

To quote my partner 'oh great another two parter with an annoying af character'.

If Emergency (!) has taught Steve anything, it is that there are also firefighter groupies. It's probably true. I wonder if there are prof groupies? Well not for Steve and me anyway.

Again, I'm not sure this needed to be a two parter.

Lianne is ChatGPT.

We get a lot of Lt. Chapman in this one. I like Chapman better than Diel.

We'll be back next week for the exciting conclusion.

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Previous Episode

Episode 67 - New Steve, Old Dave

Well I mean I AM older than Steve.

Hey, this one has one of our favourite Black Sheep actors, Charles Napier.

More importantly, it has friend of the show, Clyde Kusatsu, who of course was the spotlight artist this week. We both really love his work. (He's also a pretty great twitter follow if you are interested).

This one talks about the aftermath of Vietnam.

There are some 'Asian' tropes here as well.

Thins were pretty crazy as Saigon fell, I wonder how much stuff people got out with that wasn't really theirs.

Irene Ya-Ling Sun puts in a credible performance as well.

Hey, did Jim get paid this week?!

LJ!!!!! It's like seeing Dale in Mad Men.

We aren't taking about that thing that happened this week.

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Next Episode

Episode 69 - To Steve and Dave

Like I said last week, if that was the title for this one...

Another case of part 2 being better than part 1!

Lianne is not a good person.

Whereas we see that Lt. Chapman is, more or less.

Just like with TT freaking Flowers, part 2 is better than part 1. I swear, some of the 'previously on the Rockford Files' bit I missed because I was so annoyed by the Lianne character.

Jimbo is of course a good person, but we knew that already.

As Steve has pointed out a few times, someone died because of Lianne.

Biggest news this week is actual pop culture news.

Lianne is annoying. I hate her.

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