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Sarah (00:00):
You see it going right at Sasha's. Hey, maniacs.

Mark (00:22):
Hey, mystery maniacs. Mystery maniacs is a comedy
recap podcast dedicated tomystery TV. We're dedicated.
Yes. Each week, we dig into anepisode of the show including
the murders, the mayhem, theloonies, and everything else we
love.

Sarah (00:39):
This week, Brokenwood Mystery season seven episode
six, here's to you, missusRobinson. I'm Mark. I'm Sarah.

Mark (00:46):
It's a spoiler podcast, so we're gonna give away the end,
which is weird and strange.

Sarah (00:52):
And if you let your kids go to key parties

Mark (00:55):
I guess. They can listen to this episode. Oh. Couple of
things off the top. First ofall, I keep I said native last
week in the episode twice.
I should have said indigenous. Iapologize if I offended anyone.
It's just a habit and I neededto make a correction. Mhmm.

(01:15):
That's No one said anything.
It's just I noticed it when Iwas editing.

Sarah (01:19):
Even better if you catch it yourself.

Mark (01:21):
As some of you know, I edit at 1.45 times the speed of
speaking. So we sound like kindof chipmunks.

Sarah (01:30):
Uh-huh. Like high chipmunks.

Mark (01:32):
It didn't make it any better.

Sarah (01:36):
Ugh. Another thing that's not any better is my face.

Mark (01:39):
Oh, poor Sarah.

Sarah (01:41):
Last Sunday, I was eating something. I don't even remember
what it was. Whatever it was, itwas not on the naughty list of
things not to eat when you havecrowns, and yet I did not lose a
crown. The tooth completelybroke off

Mark (01:54):
at the gum line Yes.

Sarah (01:56):
Leaving a black hole

Mark (01:57):
A cavity.

Sarah (01:58):
Of pain in my in my jaw

Mark (02:01):
Poor Sarah.

Sarah (02:02):
That I didn't wasn't able to get fixed until Thursday.
Boy, I tell you, there are lotsof sounds in the world that you
don't wanna hear. One of themhas got to be the crack crunch
sound of the dentist breaking atooth Yes. In your jaw to get it
out.

Mark (02:22):
Most definitely. This is this is a show of a certain age.

Sarah (02:26):
Then, you know, they're like, yeah, just go take some
Tylenol. You'll be good. Yep.Like, I it's been two days, and
I still feel like somebodykicked me in my face.

Mark (02:36):
Oh, poor thing.

Sarah (02:39):
But at least I don't sound wrong, do I? No. Like, not
like when I came home from thedentist and I was like, babys.
You

Mark (02:49):
were kinda rough when you came home from the dentist. I
will admit that.

Sarah (02:53):
If you don't subscribe to the newsletter, you should.

Mark (02:56):
Couple of reasons why. One, we're awesome. Plus, you
get a picture of Olive everymonth.

Sarah (03:03):
But Mark has a knack of finding something unexpected,
but interesting to throw intothe newsletter every month.

Mark (03:12):
I try to write a little not an essay. I don't wanna come
off like I'm preachy oranything. But I write a little
thought. Yeah. A little a littlebon moi of thoughts.

Sarah (03:23):
I always find them interesting. Maybe it's because
I find you interesting. Wow.

Mark (03:27):
But Thank you.

Sarah (03:28):
I think they're good.

Mark (03:28):
Well, this month I included strangely enough a
video by a bunch of guys onYouTube named Corridor Crew who
made a video for their moms. Nowthey do FX related videos. They
review FX and they make effects.They're very film centered young
men. Usually.

Sarah (03:48):
Yes. In this video Not

Mark (03:50):
men and women. Sorry.

Sarah (03:51):
But in this video, their concern was they were worried
about people in general notbeing able to tell whether AI
generated video was real or notand they were specifically
curious if their mothers could.

Mark (04:04):
Yes. So they had their mothers on, which I thought was
brilliant.

Sarah (04:08):
And then they walked through, was it five ways to
tell that a video is AIgenerated? I work in AI every
day, and I found it reallyuseful.

Mark (04:19):
And it's not condescending. It's actually
kind of sweet.

Sarah (04:23):
Yeah. It is. It's But super smart.

Mark (04:25):
It's Smart.

Sarah (04:26):
You included it in the newsletter, and we'll link to it
in the show notes today too. Wejust think it's it's worth
watching.

Mark (04:32):
It's like a public service. Less than fifteen
minutes. Now their demographicis way different than our
demographic. Yeah. And the videois is kind of pointed at our
demographic.
So that's why I'm sharing it.

Sarah (04:44):
Yeah. I I learned something, like I said. Yep. So
it was it was worth sharing.

Mark (04:49):
We lost Kenneth Cauley this week.

Sarah (04:52):
He was in the midsummer about UFOs. Right?

Mark (04:55):
Yes. Lloyd Kirby.

Sarah (04:57):
Yeah. He's the ufologist. Ufologist in the infamous naked
butt in the crowd the cropcircle videos episode.

Mark (05:06):
Also, Admiral Petite In

Sarah (05:08):
Star Wars.

Mark (05:09):
In Star Wars. And do you know what he played in Life of
Brian? No. He was Jesus.

Sarah (05:15):
Oh. And he was 88?

Mark (05:18):
88. I do not believe any human has played those three
parts

Sarah (05:22):
I know.

Mark (05:23):
Ever. Quite that's quite span. And an imperial admiral.
Yeah. That's quite the career.
Definitely quite the career.

Sarah (05:33):
Are you ready?

Mark (05:34):
And he was he was brilliant in in Midsommar, one
of our favorite episodes. He wasa a great character actor who
obviously worked really hardover the years Yeah. And did
some amazing stuff and we're sadto see him go, but he was 88, so

Sarah (05:52):
Good life. Yes. Are you ready to talk about Here's to
You, Mrs. Robinson?

Mark (05:56):
Yes. So, let's start with the title. So, the title is from
the Simon and Garfunkel songcalled Mrs. Robinson, which was
sort of made for the film TheGraduate. Mhmm.
It's difficult to kind of teaseout the details

Sarah (06:13):
Which first year.

Mark (06:14):
But this is definitely one of those instances where two
things happened that weretotally on accident and relate
to how people write songs thatpeople who don't write songs
don't understand. So the factthat was they just had a three
syllable name for this person.So it wasn't missus Robinson

(06:37):
until the film.

Sarah (06:38):
It could have been missus missus Peterson?

Mark (06:41):
Yeah. It could have been missus Peterson. Mhmm. So
there's that. And then there'sthe line about the it's a it's a
really touching line about JoeDiMaggio.
Where have you gone? The nationturns its lonely eyes to you.
That's a really good line. JoeDiMaggio went on talk shows

(07:02):
going, I'm right here. I'm doingcommercials.

Sarah (07:05):
I'm doing all this stuff. If you're looking for me, I'm
easy to find.

Mark (07:09):
And they talked about it. It's just he just liked the way
it sounded, just liked thesyllables. It

Sarah (07:15):
just it's Nostalgia.

Mark (07:16):
It's it's it had nothing to do with the real Joe
DiMaggio.

Sarah (07:20):
Well, he went from being an inspiring athlete to a guy in
commercials. Yes. So the trueinspiring Joe DiMaggio was gone.
Anyway, that's the reference.Yep.
This episode has two stories.And we're going to treat them as
two stories. Because in theepisode, they cut back and
forth, back and forth, back andforth, back and forth. It's

(07:41):
rather tedious to talk about inthat way. So it's easier just to
talk about one story and thentalk about the other.
So we're gonna talk about Mike'sstory

Mark (07:48):
So Mike loses a friend and finds love.

Sarah (07:53):
He does? Yes. Beth. Oh, the nurse.

Mark (07:56):
Yes. There's in four more sorry. Six more episodes.

Sarah (08:00):
I forgot that they have a relationship.

Mark (08:03):
Yes. They do.

Sarah (08:03):
So in in earlier episodes, we know that Mike is
sort of responsible for a womannamed Tanya

Mark (08:12):
Yes.

Sarah (08:12):
Who is in witness protection.

Mark (08:14):
And her, like She and

Sarah (08:16):
her kids are in hiding.

Mark (08:17):
So porno Hughes and young Mike saved

Sarah (08:21):
her. Right.

Mark (08:22):
Call him porno Hughes because he has a But then he
later got rid of the mustache.But they screwed it all up in
this episode because he hasmustache throughout time in this
episode. He's re porno Hughes.He's re porno Hughes.

Sarah (08:37):
He's return of porno Hughes. So she's testified
against the gang of men whokilled her husband because he
was gonna testify against them.And so she goes on the run, and
Mike her lifeline, kind of. He'sthe one person who knows who she
is that she's allowed tocontact. And so she does from

(09:00):
time to time, and they have kindof a bittersweet relationship.
I think she acknowledges that heprobably, that going into
witness protection saved her andher children's lives, but yet it
meant that she had to give herlife up.

Mark (09:12):
Yes.

Sarah (09:13):
And she's not especially happy about that, which I can
completely understand.

Mark (09:18):
Yes.

Sarah (09:18):
But now she's dying.

Mark (09:20):
She's dying and she'd like to see her family. So this story
was completely forgotten. Andthen I think I I don't know if
they always wanted to bring itback, but they certainly did
wanna bring it back.

Sarah (09:34):
And Well, the last episode of the season.

Mark (09:37):
It's the last episode of the season. I also think it's a
vehicle for Mike's relationshipto start.

Sarah (09:44):
Mhmm.

Mark (09:44):
I also think this is Nick Ray like saying, I'm the star of
the show, I'd like to dosomething a little different.

Sarah (09:52):
Mhmm.

Mark (09:53):
You know, this Neil Ray. Yeah. Sorry. Neil Ray. It
becomes kind of a it's twoepisodes.

Sarah (09:59):
See, I think it's less about him and more about Sims. I
think it's the taking him out ofthe storyline means that that
she gets to step up.

Mark (10:10):
Well, so So there's that benefit. They obviously wanted
to take Mike out of thestoryline to make Stims
interesting.

Sarah (10:18):
And wrap up the Tanya storyline.

Mark (10:20):
And wrap up the so they're like, what are we gonna do with
Mike? Well, let's wrap up theTanya storyline.

Sarah (10:26):
So it's it's very sweet. I think it's it's a very
touching storyline.

Mark (10:30):
I think they do an excellent job at it. Yeah. Some
of those things can come off assugary or like they never spend
too much time with them. And andit kind of gives you a break
from the other horrible peoplein the episode. So he reads a
book to the the children.

(10:54):
Mike reads a book. Mhmm. Andit's called Jive's Pie Pie
Diggers. A tale of sand, selfshellfish and toes. And it's an
actual book.
Jive's a little Maori boy, twoyears old. His mother is always
telling him what beautiful peepee diggers he has. Jive doesn't

(11:14):
know what pee pee digger isuntil his mom takes him to the
beach one day and shows him howto gather pee pee with his toes.
Pee pee, I'm assuming, areselfish.

Sarah (11:24):
I hope so. Pie pie. Pie pie, thank you. Maybe.

Mark (11:29):
So this is the book that his dad read to him the night
before he left, like, waskilled. It's a beautiful book.
Yeah. If you have children whoread books or grandchildren who
read books, buy this book. Itlooks good.

Sarah (11:43):
It's a sweet the whole story with Tanya is very sweet.
I think they end it well. Theybreak her anonymity, and Hughes
sees that her family gets to herbefore she dies, and you see her
reunited with her mother. And Icannot imagine knowing that to
protect yourself, you have tobreak the hearts of everyone who

(12:05):
cares about you. Because that'swhat she's done.
She's disappeared.

Mark (12:08):
Her mother Well, she makes Mike phone her mother because
she knows her mother will bemad.

Sarah (12:12):
Well, yeah. Her mother must have thought that she had
died. Yeah. And and hergrandchildren, you know. So
okay.
So there's

Mark (12:19):
Beth Then then

Sarah (12:20):
So Let's talk about the

Mark (12:21):
other Beth as an Yes. Beth sees the best of of

Sarah (12:26):
Mike.

Mark (12:27):
Mike and falls in love with him.

Sarah (12:28):
Yes. As she should. Spoiler. So Okay. Now Now let's
talk about this lame party.

Mark (12:34):
The lamest

Sarah (12:35):
party ever. It's a 20 birthday party for Olivia and
Frazier, who I guess are twins.

Mark (12:43):
I guess there are there are so many things not said in
this episode that need to besaid. Yeah. Are they twins?

Sarah (12:49):
They they must be.

Mark (12:51):
Yes.

Sarah (12:51):
And it's a sixties, seventies themed party, which I
don't know why twenty one yearolds would wanna have.

Mark (12:58):
Well, know, they're all retro. No.

Sarah (13:01):
No. No. But even if they do, I think it's really clear
that their parents are more intoit than they are.

Mark (13:07):
I agree.

Sarah (13:08):
And the part that bothers me the most is that in the intro
There's to a the episode lot ofthe party.

Mark (13:15):
Yeah.

Sarah (13:16):
The part that bothered me the most is in the intro to the
episode, there's a camera viewof, like, people coming in the
front door. And so you see thefront door open in. And on the
outside of the front door is adecoration that is a gold key.
It's a big key. Like, it's gonnabe a key party

Mark (13:34):
Like Which is with your kids?

Sarah (13:36):
That is so just the idea of that joke. What it reminded
If you don't know what a keyparty is, it's back in the '60s
and '70s. There were theseswinger parties where couples
would show up, they would puttheir keys in a fishbowl. And
the men would choose at random aset of keys out, and that's the
woman that he would go to bedwith that night. It was swinger

(13:57):
stuff anyway.

Mark (13:58):
It

Sarah (13:58):
It's not appropriate for your kid's birthday party even
if they are 21.

Mark (14:02):
No. But what it reminded me of is current events. So did
you hear about the foam party inVenice? No. So this horrible
woman that Jeff Bezos married, ahorrible person, They spent
$50,000

Sarah (14:21):
Millions.

Mark (14:22):
Each guest. Millions.

Sarah (14:23):
Oh, on each guest.

Mark (14:24):
Yeah. On each guest. Horrible The waste of whole it's
celebrity in any anyway, likethe day before the wedding, they
had a foam party for her 21 yearold's birth 18 year old's
birthday.

Sarah (14:41):
Mhmm.

Mark (14:42):
And they went to this foam party. Yuck. Like, not only is
Jeff Bezos know what I want fromevery

Sarah (14:50):
day for you not to come to my party.

Mark (14:52):
Yeah. Oh. Jeez. Anyway. The mom is in the bath, is in
the spa with a bong in her.
That's what I thought it

Sarah (15:04):
was at first. That's a yard glass.

Mark (15:06):
It's a yard glass.

Sarah (15:07):
Right off the bat, all I'm thinking of, that's not how
that works. And I assumed thatthe yard glass had been broken.
Like, if you break a beer bottleand stab somebody with it.

Mark (15:19):
So it has an open end, which you drink from. It's like
a big vase. Like a big vase. Andthen it has a bulb at the
bottom.

Sarah (15:27):
Right. Okay. And if you were gonna stab somebody with
it, you'd snap the neck off soit was jaggedy and sharp, then
you

Mark (15:34):
stab it. Go stabbing.

Sarah (15:35):
Now, course not how it happened.

Mark (15:37):
You couldn't do that. You break one part of that, the
whole thing's gonna shatter.

Sarah (15:42):
Maybe. But if you if it was gonna work, that's what
you'd have to do. Certainly, youwouldn't do it like she does it.

Mark (15:49):
The person who kills her mom the sorry. Olivia. Olivia
who kills her mom jabs it downon her. A

Sarah (15:58):
hole. Intact yard glass.

Mark (16:00):
And all I could think was it went Yeah.

Sarah (16:07):
That if it was on bare skin, it would make a

Mark (16:11):
It's Steve Martin and Roseanne.

Sarah (16:14):
Yeah. But she's got a dress on, so it wouldn't even do
that. It would just make a bigbruise and probably break.

Mark (16:21):
And chatter in her arms. Yeah. Never mind how

Sarah (16:25):
What I wanted

Mark (16:26):
She's the ninja with the fondue fork.

Sarah (16:28):
What I wanted was them to holler out of the hot tub and
the other half of the yard glassto be sticking out of her back.

Mark (16:35):
That would have been brilliant.

Sarah (16:37):
With a chunk of spine stuck in it.

Mark (16:40):
It's clogged with a chunk of spine. Anyway, she's killed
oh, we're we're going right tothe end here. Well, because
killed so soon after that she'sactually killed with the
poisonous ninja

Sarah (16:54):
Fondue fork?

Mark (16:55):
Fondue fork that it would have shot whatever. It would

Sarah (16:59):
have looked like a lab experiment Yes. Inside that Yes.
Inside that yard glass, Whichwould have been weird too, if
when they found her, was full ofblood. That would I'm sorry
we're being so gross, but itwould have been weird too. Gina
would have had a field day withthat.

Mark (17:18):
Oh.

Sarah (17:19):
And then when you take it out

Mark (17:22):
So they find out about this at the cop shop. There's an
emergency. Mike gets anemergency call and gets called
away. Yep. 62 Tullamore Rise isthe address.
Mhmm. There's no Tullamore likethat in New Zealand. The closest
one I could find was Perth,Australia, which is on the other

(17:44):
side of Australia.

Sarah (17:45):
Mhmm.

Mark (17:46):
And Tullamore is a a town in The Republic Of Ireland. It's
an actual town. So but then SoMike

Sarah (17:54):
takes off.

Mark (17:55):
Sims shows her phone to the camera.

Sarah (17:57):
Because he texts her and says, take the lead on this one.
Yes. Does not explain where he'sgoing or what he's doing.

Mark (18:02):
We'll be in touch. Em, there are previous text messages
from that morning on her screen.Okay. The first one is

Sarah (18:10):
From Mike. Because it's a con Yes. Her conversation with
Mike Shepherd.

Mark (18:13):
With Mike Shepherd.

Sarah (18:15):
Okay.

Mark (18:15):
No problem. Could you please grab a couple of bottles
of milk on the way too? So I'massuming this is coming into the
office.

Sarah (18:25):
Is that from him or from her?

Mark (18:26):
That's from

Sarah (18:27):
him. Oh, asking her to get milk?

Mark (18:29):
Yes.

Sarah (18:30):
Okay.

Mark (18:30):
Oh, no. No. No. Sorry. That is her asking Mike to do

Sarah (18:36):
milk for the office.

Mark (18:37):
Do they not have an office manager?

Sarah (18:41):
It's that guy upstairs. What's his name? Keith? Nigel.
Nigel.
Yeah. It's Nigel upstairs.

Mark (18:46):
Now, the the important part of the second story here, I
totally agree with what you'resaying and the the big thing for
me revolving around that story,which is Sims is more than
capable of running aninvestigation. Mhmm. More than
capable of figuring things outwhich is exactly what she does.

Sarah (19:08):
Mhmm. And because this is well written Chalmers doesn't
have a pissing match with

Mark (19:12):
her The thing I really liked is Chalmers in front of
uniforms says boss Mhmm. When hecalls her. He just moves
naturally into that. Yep. It'sit's not even a thing

Sarah (19:25):
Nope.

Mark (19:25):
To him. It shouldn't be. And that that It's sad

Sarah (19:29):
that we have to make note of that because it would so
often be a thing.

Mark (19:32):
And really what he should be saying is, boss, I found a
victim of a fondue fork ninja.Because he finds the second
victim. We usually don't get twobodies in in Brokenwood. No. But
we have two in the first fiveminutes of this episode.

Sarah (19:49):
And I'm pointing a finger right at the uniforms on the
scene because I'm sorry. She'slike maybe 15 feet away from the
edge of the deck in a yellowdress, and nobody noticed her.
Well They should have canvassedthe area. There might have been
a crazy killer out there in thewoods with a handful of yard
glasses waiting to kill otherpeople.

Mark (20:09):
They have their other daughter, Maddie. Oh, wait.
She's not a daughter. She's justa friend who stays there all the
time.

Sarah (20:17):
She's there to support her friend.

Mark (20:19):
She never leaves. Then she goes over to the friends, and
she's humping on gross bits.

Sarah (20:26):
Yeah. We'll get to that. Caleb gross bits. Is that what
you call

Mark (20:32):
him? He's horrible.

Sarah (20:33):
What do you think of the house? Anne and Jim's house?

Mark (20:39):
Well, I don't like the Jim's in it because I don't like
Jim's. But their house is, like,bungalow standard kind of thing.
It's beautiful.

Sarah (20:51):
It They've got a view of the ocean. They do. I mean, it's
far away, but it's a beautifulview.

Mark (20:55):
And they have that nice hot tub. I do wish we had a hot
tub in the backyard.

Sarah (20:59):
But their deck bothers me. You see the railing? No.
Okay. So this house is basicallyon a cliff, sort of, on the side
of a very steep wooded hill.

Mark (21:11):
Yes.

Sarah (21:11):
And the railing is a freaking rope tied between some
trees. Oh, Jesus. That's therailing. There's two. There's
two ropes, but it's ropes.
That is not to code. I'm sorry.Some drunk bastard is gonna die.

Mark (21:28):
Clint's gonna fall over. Clint, I mean. Sorry.

Sarah (21:30):
Glenn.

Mark (21:31):
Glenn. Don't love. Chalmers is a good man in this
episode. Mike is a good man inthis episode. I'm not sure about
the rest of the men in thisepisode.

Sarah (21:43):
Well, that's not saying much for a show like So

Mark (21:46):
Suddenly, Fraser can't move his legs. Yeah. How close
is Chalmers to saying, get theup? Very close. Because he he
does such a good job of implyingthat without him saying

Sarah (22:02):
Well, even when he says we need to get an ambulance for
him, he doesn't, like, stay withthem and say, it's gonna be
okay. No. Like like he normallywould. He wanders off and talks
to Sims.

Mark (22:12):
To find another body.

Sarah (22:14):
Yeah. And finds another body. It it's is this supposed
to is so are we to believe thisis completely psychological that
Fraser can't move his legs?

Mark (22:22):
He's in shock.

Sarah (22:23):
Yeah.

Mark (22:23):
Which hey. Alright. Mom's dead. Oh, wait. My girlfriend's
dead.
Yeah. Shock. But Who lives withme. Oh.

Sarah (22:31):
It's also a side effect of a nutmeg overdose. Anyone

Mark (22:38):
who's lost someone or has had the bad effects of nutmeg
overdoses, I'm sorry that hashappened to you. I absolutely am
not Everybody making

Sarah (22:48):
grieves fun differently, of Mark. Some people grieve like

Mark (22:51):
a nutmeg I'm not making fun of you. I'm making fun of
this silly stupid episode.

Sarah (22:55):
You're gonna smell like an apple pie forever.

Mark (22:59):
How much nutmeg did you take? Well I sort of like, we
have lots of kids. I kinda waslike, can we do that with

Sarah (23:08):
more kids? Well, because we got backups?

Mark (23:11):
Is that what you're saying? Backups.

Sarah (23:13):
Well, and you you also have to know that nutmeg is
literally a nut. Right? So,like, our nutmeg, I have a
nutmeg grinder. Yes. And I'm assoon as he said three packets of
nutmeg, I just thought, man, hewas turning that thing for a
long time.
Like just grating and gratingand grating and grating grating

Mark (23:32):
and grating. In a milkshake?

Sarah (23:34):
Wouldn't you?

Mark (23:35):
Well, no. Because it would make me sick. I'd put it

Sarah (23:38):
in a glass of milk or something. Yeah. I mean, you
can't just eat it with a spoon,but it's just dumb. I mean, come
on.

Mark (23:45):
Gina says that Mike never entertains guesswork. Has she
met Mike? Because he guesses allthe time.

Sarah (23:52):
She only sees in Mike what she wants to.

Mark (23:55):
Yes.

Sarah (23:56):
I was pleased that she doesn't do her normal
obstruction to the extent thatshe usually does. Yes. She does
eventually concede that Mike isnot there and is not going to be
there. Yes. And so she actuallyhas to inform Sims and Chalmers

(24:16):
about what her findings areinstead of I fully expected her
to go, well, I'm not telling youanything until he comes back.

Mark (24:22):
Now these two women do a fantastic dead body, both

Sarah (24:26):
of them. Yes.

Mark (24:27):
Both in the tub, out of the tub, and in the morgue, and
in the trees. Well, Sasha has iteasy. She's just leaning against

Sarah (24:36):
the tree.

Mark (24:37):
Leaning against the tree.

Sarah (24:38):
She doesn't have to float with a plastic yard glass taped

Mark (24:41):
to her belly. We're too implied. We're we're too to
understand that after the thethe female ninja fondue fork
lady Olivia. Olivia. Through hermagic throwing star Fondue fork.
That she sat there, She liedthere for three to seven minutes

(25:04):
bleeding out because shecouldn't move because of the
nutmeg. Yes. That's a sentence Ijust said.

Sarah (25:12):
After she pulled the fondue fork out of her throat,
she couldn't move because of thenutmeg.

Mark (25:17):
Yes.

Sarah (25:18):
Yes. That that poor woman.

Mark (25:22):
By the way, we watched Thinners last night. You should
watch Thinners. Oh, I know it's

Sarah (25:26):
not for everybody.

Mark (25:27):
It's not for everybody.

Sarah (25:28):
It's a vampire

Mark (25:28):
movie. It's a horror vampire movie, but if if that's
your guess

Sarah (25:32):
It's set in the South in the thirties. It's not for
everybody.

Mark (25:34):
If that's your bag, it's a good movie.

Sarah (25:37):
But

Mark (25:37):
But the

Sarah (25:41):
me. Oh, that would be such an awful way to die,
Sitting there bleeding outslowly.

Mark (25:46):
Never mind. Like, okay. She could talk in the
reenactment. Briefly. In the inthe reenactment, she says
something.
So she had she imagined you'rewalking back towards the party
from being somewhere. Nutmegged.Wandering nutmegged.

Sarah (26:04):
And suddenly A fondue

Mark (26:06):
fork flies out of nowhere. Flies out of the darkness
cutting your jugular vein.

Sarah (26:14):
Now And you can't you can't make a tourniquet with
your headscarf because it's yourneck.

Mark (26:20):
Yes. And then you see the the thing with the yard glass
because that happens after she'sthrown the fork away. Yeah. She
must have been like, what isgoing what is this?

Sarah (26:36):
What? Oh, I'm dead.

Mark (26:37):
Oh, I'm dead.

Sarah (26:40):
We laugh because we have to. I just think you'd be so
annoyed to be killed by a fonduefart.

Mark (26:47):
Oh my gosh.

Sarah (26:48):
So I went through a phase as an early first married person
with my first home.

Mark (26:57):
Yes.

Sarah (26:58):
When I thought having fondue parties was fun because
it was kind of retro. And assoon as you say, oh, I like
fondue pots, every relativegives you one for Christmas and
your birthday and Mother's Dayand whatever. So I had a dozen
fondue pots. And I can tell you,of all the ones I had that came
with their own forks, none ofthem were sharp enough to do

(27:21):
this. Razor sharp.
I would have had to shoot itwith a bow and arrow at short
range for it to scratchsomebody. Yeah. None of those
forks was that sharp.

Mark (27:31):
Unless you're Ninja Olivia.

Sarah (27:34):
Yeah. You'd be more likely to kill somebody by
pouring molten cheese down theirthroat, down their windpipe than
stabbing them.

Mark (27:42):
It's the seven years version of Mortal Kombat.

Sarah (27:45):
Yeah. Finish him. Fondue. Fight.

Mark (27:49):
Sims picks up a pair of glasses, which are you're
supposed to wear them to make itbe weird. Like, it's like kind
of like a rave accessory.

Sarah (28:00):
They're like fly eyeglasses.

Mark (28:02):
Which I quickly responded to as Chekhov's fly eyeglasses.
Yeah. Because clearly they'regonna show up again.

Sarah (28:10):
But we also get, because Fraser, he of the nutmeg
overdose goes to the doctor, ahospital. New doctor. Yes. It's
not Ginger Doctor.

Mark (28:21):
But it's not Ginger Doctor, but I am stuck because
so what happens is they'retrying to figure out what's
wrong with him and he won't sayanything. Did you catch this? So
what does Sim say?

Sarah (28:34):
She's like, GBH, coke, meth, what did you that?

Mark (28:38):
She says GHB.

Sarah (28:40):
Okay. Is that not right?

Mark (28:42):
No. That's grievous bot no. She says GBH. Oh. She says
grievous bodily harm instead ofGHP, which is the

Sarah (28:50):
The drug?

Mark (28:51):
The drug.

Sarah (28:51):
What does that stand for?

Mark (28:52):
I don't know. We're not

Sarah (28:54):
drug people.

Mark (28:54):
Grievous grievous bodily harm is the best name of any law
ever.

Sarah (29:00):
Wow. Then there's aggravated bodily

Mark (29:02):
harm. Yes. And we find

Sarah (29:04):
He out finally has to admit, Frazier has to admit it
was nutmeg that he took. AndChalmers face is like, are you
shitting me? Like really?

Mark (29:14):
Yes.

Sarah (29:15):
You moron. And Fraser knows he's a moron.

Mark (29:21):
But unfortunately, Fraser is not the most moronic young
man in this episode.

Sarah (29:25):
No. Because Caleb's in it.

Mark (29:27):
Caleb is in the episode. Who's Caleb again? One of the
robbers.

Sarah (29:32):
The dog faced robbers. Yeah. You know, the moral of
this whole episode is don't wearan ugly jacket. Yes. If you
don't wear an ugly jacket, noneof this happens.

Mark (29:41):
So first of all, it is denim. So it's already the
Canadian tuxedo. Right? Lots ofpeople like a denim jacket. Yep.
I have a denim jacket

Sarah (29:52):
It's that I'm not allowed to wear. It's summertime.

Mark (29:55):
It's summertime. It has Well,

Sarah (29:57):
it's New Zealand. It's warm.

Mark (30:00):
It has the lamb's wool.

Sarah (30:01):
On the inside. On the inside. Which cannot be seasonal
wear.

Mark (30:05):
And cannot smell good. A young man who wears that all the
time.

Sarah (30:09):
Can you imagine what it smells like on the inside? And
it has a big embroideredapplique of an eagle on the
back.

Mark (30:16):
It's just the worst.

Sarah (30:19):
It's just bad taste. And if he didn't have that bad
taste, none of this would havehappened.

Mark (30:25):
Absolutely. So there's a creepy guy at the party that we
only see briefly in the firstpart of the party.

Sarah (30:32):
The cowboy hat.

Mark (30:33):
The cowboy hat.

Sarah (30:34):
Is it a leather cowboy hat?

Mark (30:35):
I think it is.

Sarah (30:37):
Oh, Glenn.

Mark (30:38):
He's Clint because he thought it was a costume party.
Why would you eat?

Sarah (30:45):
Well, clearly I

Mark (30:47):
don't know if he's creepier or stupider. Clearly.
That's the two things I don't

Sarah (30:51):
understand So with Susie, Caleb's mother, brought him as
her plus one and clearly didn'tcare enough to explain to him
that it was a 21 birthday party,that it was a sixties, seventies
retro party. She just said itwas fancy dress or led him to
believe it was fancy dress, andso he decided to be Clint
Eastwood.

Mark (31:09):
Yes. What? Okay. And wear

Sarah (31:11):
a leather hat and a blanket on Okay.

Mark (31:13):
And then he drinks with 21 year olds. Okay. How old do you
think he is?

Sarah (31:19):
So this is another problem I have with this party.
Even if the kids were into thetheme, which they don't seem to
be No. I think that Anne isbasically throwing this party
for herself. Yes. Because shelikes it, and she thinks it's
fun.
Yes. So there's other I mean, 21is an adult, but there are other

(31:41):
older people at the party. It'snot just Anne, Jim, Glenn,
Susie, and a bunch of 21.

Mark (31:49):
You are a clique of friends already who would be
like looking at this partygoing, let's blow this pops in
Yeah. And get out

Sarah (31:56):
of here. Let's let the kids have their party and go.

Mark (31:59):
Yeah. But No. No. So he's forcing a drink down a 21 year
old's throat, which

Sarah (32:06):
No. He's helping a kid drink a yard.

Mark (32:08):
I don't like it.

Sarah (32:10):
He's not a kid. He's 21. Still. He's a grown up. Let's
talk about Glenn.
Okay. He's back in town. We sawhim last time. Yes. His
girlfriend, the murderingantique show host

Mark (32:23):
Yes.

Sarah (32:23):
Is gone, obviously.

Mark (32:25):
And we find out that he's Clint from the party, and
Chalmers sits on that so well.

Sarah (32:31):
Just surrounded.

Mark (32:31):
He's like, I'll give you this piece of information, I'll
give you this piece ofinformation. And then Sims is
like, but we still don't knowwho Clint is? And then he goes,
well, actually

Sarah (32:45):
You think Glenn is creepy?

Mark (32:47):
Yes. Because he because he has an idea that they have a
relationship. He is the horribleof horrible men. They don't have
a relationship. They barely havea friendship.
They're barely acquaintances.Yeah. And it's creepy that he is
assuming that they're more. Andthen when he talks to her in the
door, he stands too close toher.

Sarah (33:08):
Okay. I think you could spin it. You could see it as
very sweet. He's not stalkingher. He's not following her
around.
He's just asking her out hereand there.

Mark (33:20):
He moved to Brokenwood.

Sarah (33:21):
He's not forcing himself on her in any way and
insinuating himself in her life.Yes, he happened to be at the
party, but he didn't know therewas gonna be a murder at the
party or two. The only thingabout him that that pushes me
over the edge into thedefinitively creepy is the way
he's apparently talking abouther to other people. Yes.

(33:42):
Insinuating that they have arelationship.

Mark (33:44):
It's not as big as character flaw, though.

Sarah (33:46):
That pushes him over the line.

Mark (33:48):
He is a bigger character flaw than that.

Sarah (33:49):
What's that?

Mark (33:50):
There's a spelling mistake on his poster.

Sarah (33:53):
On his flyer? Yes. Oh, he's right out. He may as well
be a murderer.

Mark (33:58):
Glenn's handyman services, I'm gonna tell you is not
centered on the page. Job, toobig, or too small. He spells the
first too big, t o. Oh.Gardening, building,
maintenance, repairs, poolservice.

Sarah (34:18):
He doesn't do any jobs to

Mark (34:20):
big. Painting.

Sarah (34:22):
He won't do jobs in Big.

Mark (34:24):
No. He won't do them to Big. You're right.

Sarah (34:27):
If there's a place called Big, he won't do jobs

Mark (34:29):
too big. All the way to Big to do the jobs.

Sarah (34:31):
But too small, he

Mark (34:33):
will. Yes.

Sarah (34:34):
Or something like that. Handyman is a good job to to
start with if you are remotelygood with your hands and used to
hard work and you have no job.Yes. Because you're new in town.

Mark (34:46):
He's certainly not going to get a job as a graphic
designer for this flyer. I thinkthey purposely made it well,
okay. The too big is there onpurpose. You're meant to think
that Glenn is not the sharpest

Sarah (35:00):
tool. In the shed? Yes. There's a lot of issues with
plot or whatever in thisepisode. But the relationship
between Anne and Susie is apicture perfect relationship
between two incredibly annoyingwomen.

Mark (35:19):
They're friends because no one else will be friends with
them.

Sarah (35:24):
When

Mark (35:25):
It's like the old thing of if you wonder who the jerk

Sarah (35:29):
is There's a jerk in every group. And if you don't
know who it is, it's you. Yeah.They're at lunch well, when
Susie is recounting their lunch,in which she threw wine on Anne,
She says Anne didn't have herlistening ears on.

Mark (35:46):
No. But

Sarah (35:49):
Anne says of Susie's son, he's got a whiff of loser about
him. A minty whiff. Which Hisjacket's got a whiff.

Mark (36:01):
Which I'm telling you, she kisses a man who's not her
husband.

Sarah (36:06):
Yes.

Mark (36:06):
She holds this party. There are problems with her.

Sarah (36:10):
Yes.

Mark (36:11):
But she's right about Caleb.

Sarah (36:13):
Yes. She is right about Caleb. Though her daughter is 21
and can make her own decisions.Yes. She could share her
thoughts with her, but trying towrestle Oh, out

Mark (36:21):
tone. Of the Her tone is.

Sarah (36:23):
No. She's going about it wrong. If you know anything
about young adult teenagers,you've got to know the more you
tell them not to do something,the more it makes them want

Mark (36:33):
to It causes Olivia to go into a homicidal fondue fork
ninja rage. Yeah. I said thatsentence

Sarah (36:41):
Yes out

Mark (36:41):
you did.

Sarah (36:42):
You did.

Mark (36:43):
Hey, it's friend of the show Trudy.

Sarah (36:46):
She touched the glass.

Mark (36:48):
She's not a narc.

Sarah (36:49):
She's a mixologist. But But she always follows I'm not a
narc with, but here's theinformation.

Mark (36:57):
Trudy is just Trudy and is awesome, and I still get giddy
knowing that she even knows weexist, let alone

Sarah (37:06):
She goes to the party in costume.

Mark (37:08):
Yes. She does. Ready to go. Yep. Well, we know we know
in season eleven, she's doingthe drinks for the the trivia
night.
Well, it's

Sarah (37:18):
a good side hustle for a bartender.

Mark (37:20):
Yes. Right? Though, okay. That restaurant requires a dozen
people to work. Yeah.

Sarah (37:28):
Which is why they don't need Trudy. Trudy. That's why
they don't need Trudy everynight. Well, and her brother is
off running pork porky pigeonpizza. Yes.
So, you know, they've gotta

Mark (37:39):
have sponsoring poetry night. We haven't even got to
the poetry night.

Sarah (37:43):
They've gotta have other responsible employees. It's not
like Trudy runs everythingherself.

Mark (37:47):
Yes. Caleb was at the party. Caleb, quite rightly, is
like, dude, I was not at theparty.

Sarah (37:55):
You see my ankle? I could not be at the party.

Mark (37:58):
And they're like, we have photographic proof. And he's
like, he must have been soconfused when they

Sarah (38:03):
said I would be so mad. Like, are you telling me that my
ankle bracelet doesn't track me?Because I could have been going
out every night if it doesn'tactually work. But because of
Maddie and her stupid Polaroid

Mark (38:14):
Yes.

Sarah (38:15):
Because, So you know, Caleb is such a catch with his
ankle bracelet and his robberyattempts.

Mark (38:22):
Mama, don't let your babies grow up to wear ankle
bracelets.

Sarah (38:26):
And his stinky jacket that she wants him for herself.
Like, wow. What a catch. Anarrogant jerk in a stinky jacket
and ankle bracelet.

Mark (38:38):
I'm stuck on the reenactment of the crime being
like a ninja movie now. So therehas to be like fondue fork cam
where it flies through the air.

Sarah (38:50):
You see it going right at Sasha's head. It could only be
worse if like Sasha was having alike a secret pee out in the
woods and when she put it hither in the throat like, you
know.

Mark (39:04):
And it cuts her head clean off.

Sarah (39:06):
Yeah, that's true. It could be spinning end over end.
Then chopper spines her.

Mark (39:15):
Or Did you guys not notice the headless bobber?

Sarah (39:17):
Or if it was cheese fondue. Yes. Olivia's still got
the cheese on her hand. Right?So when she throws it, it
strings way out with the cheeseAnd

Mark (39:27):
then comes back. Sasha in

Sarah (39:29):
the throat and then comes back.

Mark (39:31):
And lands right in her hand.

Sarah (39:32):
Right in her hand with melty cheese all over it.

Mark (39:36):
Wow. We have lost the plot on this.

Sarah (39:40):
Okay. It's so unlikely to ever happen in the way that it
happens in the episode. We gotto have fun with it. Yes. So
this stupid photo of stupid Annkissing stupid Glenn in that
stupid jacket causes causeeverything.

Mark (39:56):
How close was Olivia to homicidal rage if that's Oh,

Sarah (40:00):
you just tipped her over the edge. All you had to do is
just tip tip her over the edge.Like Why would she think her mom
would kiss her boyfriend who shehates? That is so stupid.

Mark (40:10):
At least give her some nutmeg so she has her weight

Sarah (40:13):
on nutmeg. Yes. She's got no excuse. But man, she stabs
her. Yeah.

Mark (40:22):
Fast. Totally.

Sarah (40:24):
Right in the heart.

Mark (40:25):
Right in the heart.

Sarah (40:26):
Now for that fondue fork, very effective. Goes right
between the ribs. No problem.

Mark (40:31):
But, again, she should be like Carrie.

Sarah (40:34):
Yes.

Mark (40:36):
She stabs her heart And it should be like pulls it out.

Sarah (40:40):
It should be like shooting like a straw.

Mark (40:42):
So it's like a tiny hole Yeah. Directly to her heart. It
should be like

Sarah (40:49):
There should be a, like, a ribbony spray all over the
place. We're just talking fluiddynamics and pressure here.
That's how it works. When whenthey've got when they've got
Olivia in the police stationYes. And she confesses

Mark (41:06):
Yes.

Sarah (41:07):
It is intercut with scenes of Tanya's mother
arriving.

Mark (41:11):
Yes. Okay?

Sarah (41:12):
Which is a weird editing job, but it's balancing out, you
know

Mark (41:19):
The loss of one mother and the return of another.

Sarah (41:22):
Well, but the loss of her too. Right? She's gonna die. But
they, when Olivia is like losingit in the police station because
she realizes what she's done andshe's confessed, and what really
gets her is when they reveal toher that when she threw with her
incredible Hulk like force, thatfondue fork, it stabbed her best

(41:43):
friend in the neck. She kind ofbreaks down.
And the music that plays, thelyric is, hey, mom.

Mark (41:51):
I have in my notes, hey mom might have not been the
right song here.

Sarah (41:55):
Like, what a weird choice.

Mark (41:58):
It is so weird. Okay. So now, let's go through this
Olivia. Okay. So Olivia knowsthat she killed her mom.
Yeah. And tries to fake it.

Sarah (42:10):
Make it look like an accident? Yes. A yard glass
accident? I guess. Shove herover the damn rope.

Mark (42:18):
Right. She goes with that Shower over the deck. Okay. So
she knows that's true. Why isshe not like, what happened to
Sasha?

Sarah (42:30):
Yeah. And like What what a coincidence that I shot my mom
with a fondue fork and my bestfriend got stabbed with one too.

Mark (42:37):
Like, she should have moments where she's asking,
like, Chalmers, did she die ofthe nutmeg too? Like, no.

Sarah (42:46):
What happened to

Mark (42:46):
my best friend? No. It was Ninja fondue fork. And then she
should have a moment ofrealization that she did that
too.

Sarah (42:56):
Where the camera, like, zooms silently really close to
her face, and then we go insideher brain and see her replay of
the night and fast forward andrewinding. And and she thinks
about how she threw that fork.

Mark (43:10):
Yep. And when

Sarah (43:13):
I threw that fork.

Mark (43:14):
The only thing stranger is the idea that they have when
they first arrive on the scenethat this is a murder suicide.
So let's go through that as amurder suicide.

Sarah (43:27):
Like Sasha killed

Mark (43:28):
So Anne and stabbed upset with Anne that she stabs because
they don't know Anne's deadbecause of the fondue fork.
Right. She they didn't know thatshe got forked.

Sarah (43:39):
They think she got cored by the yard glass.

Mark (43:41):
Yes. They're imagining that Sasha Sasha stabbed her
future mom in law.

Sarah (43:51):
Yeah. Because she's Frasier's But

Mark (43:53):
the landlord? The kids living in that house bothers me.
And then stumbled off and said,oh, I can't believe what I've
done. I'll kill myself with afondue fork.

Sarah (44:08):
Do you think there was a circle of fabric on Anne's
stomach that was perfectly cutout by the yard glass from her
dress?

Mark (44:16):
There would have to be. And it would have to be in oh.

Sarah (44:19):
It's like a pepperoni of polyester just sitting in there.
You know? Gina And if she hadn'tbeen quite dead yet when it
happened, it would have floatedup on top like of the a
thermometer in the yard glass.

Mark (44:35):
Gina has a tough time with this one because Gina is also
like, I got lab results thatwere weird. Yeah. And Chalmers
is like, I know why they wereweird. Nutmeg.

Sarah (44:47):
And she's like, hey. You're not supposed to know
anything. Only I know things.It's just

Mark (44:53):
I am glad What? That that when Glenn realizes what he's
doing with missus Robinson Mhmm.He goes, no. No.

Sarah (45:02):
No. No. Off of

Mark (45:04):
me. I gotta go.

Sarah (45:05):
Yeah. I'm gonna go pass out in somebody's room. The
whole Olivia just, like, speedstabbing her mom with that fork.
Like, she's not right.

Mark (45:17):
No. And there's no sign of

Sarah (45:20):
that Has she never heard of punching people or slapping
somebody

Mark (45:24):
or kicking them? When your first act of violence is to use
your ninja fondue fork?

Sarah (45:29):
A little Glasgow kiss headbutt. Boom. Bang. I mean, if
you're gonna cost your mom, yougot all kinds of body parts to
deal with. There just happens tobe a handy fondue fork on the
deck.

Mark (45:40):
Never mind the fact okay. So Hulk Olivia is mad because
she saw the picture from herfriend and so thinks that her
mom was with Caleb.

Sarah (45:52):
My mom doesn't like Caleb because she just wants him for
herself.

Mark (45:55):
So she

Sarah (45:56):
goes ankle on bracelet stinky jacket.

Mark (45:59):
So so Anne, again, Anne, she killed two people who have
no idea what she was doing. No.Because Anne was out about by
the tub having a smoke.

Sarah (46:10):
And she's even trying to explain, like, that that is not
Caleb.

Mark (46:15):
That's not Caleb.

Sarah (46:16):
And if you ask Clint Glenn, he'll tell you.

Mark (46:19):
And next thing you know,

Sarah (46:20):
she's Yes. Just stabby stabby.

Mark (46:22):
Stabby stabby.

Sarah (46:24):
I mean, what Olivia should have done is gone
straight to her dad. Him. Withthe photo.

Mark (46:30):
I'm tactile.

Sarah (46:35):
But he should have gone straight, know, dad, look. Yeah.
Look what mom did. Yeah. Thenthey could've

Mark (46:44):
Come with me with a fondue fork.

Sarah (46:45):
Bring the forks, father. Father, to the fondue forks. We
ride.

Mark (46:57):
Sasha, what are we doing? I can't feel my legs.

Sarah (47:01):
I taste like apple pie. I don't feel so good. I can't
move.

Mark (47:13):
Caleb, I wasn't even there. My

Sarah (47:18):
stinky jacket was, but then it magically reappeared at
my house. What do

Mark (47:22):
you want me Anyone to can come in and out of that house.

Sarah (47:26):
Yep.

Mark (47:27):
Except for Caleb.

Sarah (47:28):
Except for Caleb. Or Kenny. Well,

Mark (47:37):
that leads us to the poetry night. So the poetry
night

Sarah (47:42):
is disappointed in the quality of Gina's poetry. I
thought it would be much, muchworse. It's It's boring. It's
boring. It's not bad.

Mark (47:51):
Ray is like, oh, no. It's just one person.

Sarah (47:54):
Doggerel bad. Yes. The fact that she

Mark (47:57):
brings her

Sarah (47:58):
hat to put on

Mark (47:59):
She's playing with them when she does the Limerick one.

Sarah (48:03):
Yes. So But she what what she really wants to say is, I
love you, Mike. Yes. I love you.I love you.
I love you. But instead, shetalks about the Russian steps
and lakes and

Mark (48:16):
And Mike arrives and runs into missus m.

Sarah (48:19):
Mhmm.

Mark (48:20):
This is missus m's final episode. Now missus m is not
dead. No. Not in the show andnot in real life.

Sarah (48:27):
No. But this is her last episode. Yes. And she cannot
take Gina's poetry. No.
So she heads out because life istoo short to sit through Gina's
poetry.

Mark (48:37):
I gotta agree with that.

Sarah (48:40):
But as she leaves, she says, I'm stepping out. I may be
some time.

Mark (48:46):
Now is that like, that's Shakespeare, isn't it? No. What
is it from?

Sarah (48:50):
Little alarm bells go off in my head. I know that quote. I
know that quote. You'll neverguess where it's from.

Mark (48:57):
Okay. It's not Shakespeare. No. Is it is it
poetry?

Sarah (49:00):
No. Oh. It's from Captain Lawrence Oakes. Oates. Sorry.
Was a part of Oates?

Mark (49:08):
Oats. Okay, it's

Sarah (49:10):
not Like oatmeal, oats.

Mark (49:11):
Okay, okay. Who

Sarah (49:12):
was a member of Scott's South Pole expedition, the
poorly faded Southern expeditionof nineteen eleven when all of
the men are huddling in a tentwaiting to starve or freeze to
death. He sacrifices himself sothe other men might have a
chance to live. They've alreadyeaten all their dogs,

(49:34):
everything. Mean, Have theythey're just

Mark (49:35):
really ate him?

Sarah (49:36):
They're really screwed. He decides to sacrifice himself.
He gets up and says, I'm goingout. I may be a while. And walks
Suddenly.
And walks out into the cold anddies.

Mark (49:47):
Out of nowhere, a fondue forks.

Sarah (49:52):
If you had fondue all this time, why didn't you give
it to us? We would have beeneating the fondue.

Mark (49:57):
Dude, they have fondue over there. They have fondue in
the other tank?

Sarah (50:02):
That would have been a different expedition for Scott.

Mark (50:06):
Yeah. It's really good. We ran out of bread, so we're just
kind of Dipping our fingers init.

Sarah (50:10):
Cheese. We decided we don't care about manners
anymore. I mean, we're at theSouth Pole. I mean, what does it
matter? But it's weird formissus Marlow to say that
because when he says that, andshe's obviously quoting him, he
is going out to die.
Now okay. And she is not.

Mark (50:24):
So Tim Baum and the other writers have said that missus M
is not dead. She's just offcamera. She's just in another
frame.

Sarah (50:32):
She just hang gliding?

Mark (50:35):
I wouldn't put it past us to see another Mrs. M. Like
another episode of Mrs. M.

Sarah (50:40):
Where she just happens to come back for a minute.

Mark (50:42):
Minute, or if that actress passes away, they'll certainly
do something.

Sarah (50:47):
Because saying that she's just off frame is kind of like
saying we sent the dog to afarm. Yes. She's not dead. She's
just fondued.

Mark (50:59):
Dude. And that

Sarah (51:04):
Here's to you missus Robinson.

Mark (51:06):
Here's to you missus Robinson. I hope Mike brought
the milk.

Sarah (51:10):
Next, we have season eight.

Mark (51:13):
Episode one from cradle to grave, which is the most bonkers
episode in the entire show Ihave

Sarah (51:21):
Oh, you've said that about a million episodes.

Mark (51:23):
Let it let me remind you about this episode. So what do
we know about this episodealready? We know it's an Odds
family episode.

Sarah (51:31):
Mhmm.

Mark (51:32):
Because all of the we meet we meet Frodo's dad in this
episode. Johnny makes areappearance, of course.

Sarah (51:39):
If the Odes are in it, it's gonna be a little nutty.

Mark (51:41):
It's it's all the Odes. The the synopsis on IMDb,
because I completely forgottenthis part of the episode, is
chaos ensues when a museum'sEgyptian mummy case turns out to
contain the body of a veryrecently deceased woman. Mhmm. I
totally forgot about the wholeEgyptian part of this episode.

Sarah (52:04):
That sounds like a Murdoch.

Mark (52:06):
Yes. It it is it sounds like a Murdoch or a father
Brown. Mhmm. So it is a bonkersSo

Sarah (52:13):
you have that plus Odes Yes. Craziness ensues.

Mark (52:17):
If you haven't watched k pop, Demon Hunters, please. It's
k pop. Yeah. K pop. Thought yousaid k pop.
No. K pop demon Do you

Sarah (52:26):
know what k pop is? No. It's that shredded wood fibrous
stuff that you can put in a boxto pad something.

Mark (52:33):
Oh, that's k pop. Oh, okay. I didn't

Sarah (52:36):
That would be a very different show

Mark (52:37):
It would be.

Sarah (52:38):
If if that stuff was fighting demons.

Mark (52:42):
Please watch k pop.

Sarah (52:45):
I'm not even on painkillers. I know. I really
wish I was.

Mark (52:48):
The kids suggested today that we should drink while we're
doing this ad doing

Sarah (52:52):
this As a fundraiser.

Mark (52:53):
I don't know. We've we've entered lands of craziness
without being drunk in thisepisode. Absolutely.

Sarah (53:02):
Alright. Until then. Bye, maniacs.

Mark (53:04):
Bye, maniacs. Thanks for joining us on the mystery
maniacs podcast. If you enjoyedour crazy podcast today, don't
miss out on future episodes.Follow us on social media for
updates, beyond the scenescontent, and exclusive sneak
peeks. Subscribe, like, andshare to spread the word.
Bye, maniacs. Last week, theouttake was some weird noise

(53:27):
that you made and I justcaptured it and played it like a
couple of times. Like a coupleof times. Like like like like a
couple of times.

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