Flightless Bird: Top TV Episodes

I'm David Farrier and New Zealander, accidentally marooned in America and I want to figure out what makes this country tick. Now. occasionally, on Flightless Bird, we break from the usual format and do something a little bit different. You saw that with Flights of Fancy about a month ago, where we got your expert insights into very American things, like that dolphin and seal trainer for the Navy, and also with American Gods, where we focus on an American legend. So today we're doing another new thing that we'll do from time to time when we feel like it.

Well, well, well. Well, well, well. I'm thrilled. I'm really excited about this.

You are excited. We're doing something a little bit different. We are going to do a top 10 episode and occasionally we'll do these where we break down our top 10 American things. and this week. What are we doing?

little bonus. third. Yeah, an honorable mention. I want to just give a little backstory. Some episodes ago you did a true crime episode and in it you listed your favorite documentaries, and that sparked this idea, because that was.

really fun hearing that list. It was really fun. It sparked other people to talk about what was on their list. Yeah. I think also people just love a good.

listicle. I sure do. Yeah. So it made us think oh, maybe we should do some more lists like this that are sort of American-esque. I have made a fatal flaw.

American. Okay. Was it made by Americans, maybe, or made in America? No. I had said that to David too.

yesterday because my third I went through like three that were not American and then had to go back and pick. It's interesting to look at what.

shows come to mind and which ones are American and which ones are not. That's sort of an interesting thought experiment as well. I played this game.

with my friends for years. This is a tale as old as time, a classic, and every time I play it with people, I come up with new ones like I forget, and it's so. it's a fun game and it could go on for quite a long time. And I think it's one thing to have.

your top three or your top ten or whatever shows, but to narrow it down to an episode is also a really difficult thing. And it's a weird assignment as well, because we never really talked about this. but are we picking episodes that are just our favorites? Are they episodes that we would want to show to a friend to get them into that show? How did you approach narrowing down what the?

episode or the show would be? I approached as my personal favorites. that I think, from tops to bots is incredible. But I didn't do Prestige. Obviously, I could pick Red Wedding or The Suitcase on Mad Men, which is an incredible episode of TV.

personal. This is great, and I think we can all learn about each other, and I'm also super curious because we don't know what each other's episodes are. if there's any crossover. Me too. Let's go one at a time.

we doing one one at a time? So number one, number one, number one. Are we ranking or are we... I've ranked mine, but we don't really have to. Okay.

ranked, but I can rank. No, let's not rank, then. Okay.

reason. I don't know why. I know there's no stakes. Are you worried how we'll?

react or do you feel we're gonna see you? We see the core of what Monica loves. I think it's that. Like, I feel really vulnerable. No, I get it.

are gonna feel like you have to be like yeah, that's good. No. Honesty is the name.

of the game. Okay. But also kindness. So don't worry, we're not gonna tear into.

things. Why don't I start with the non-american show? because if I was ranking, this is my number one. Okay. Okay, let's do it.

any guesses? I would say Bridgerton maybe, or what's? what's the other one that's like Bridgerton? The Crown. The Crown.

guess. I do love that show. No. Do you have a guess? I have no idea where this is.

going. I don't really know a lot about your TV watching habits. There's a part.

of me that wants to just play audio so that you guys can get it. Like or yeah, like kind of guess. Should I try it? Let's try it. Okay, ready?

The whole episode? No. This is a scene. This is my favorite scene. You nailed it.

Fleabag. Yeah, it is. Oh yeah, what a show. What a fucking show. That was one of mine that I replaced.

Oh, it's sitting there. Do you want to watch it now that you know it? Oh, the hot.

priest. They always lie. It'll magically come in a minute.

Let's get together.

I think I'll walk. Okay.

Oh, and now any listeners who are familiar with Fleabag will be crying.

their little hearts out right now. I have never cried so hard in a show than when I.

saw that for the first time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Unrequited love right?

When he says it'll pass, you're just like oh. It's so devastating. I have a little pin. It's a heart. It's two pieces, and on one side says I love you, and on the other side it says it'll pass.

or emotionally it should, but it's just not. And it's yeah, it's the worst. I think that perfectly captures that. You're a fan of the episode as well, right, Rob? Yeah, I was going to pick episode.

one of that season where you first meet Andrew Scott as the priest, and they're at that crazy.

dinner with the family. Yeah, what a show. We're going to spoil a lot of these shows. Definitely.

They've also. they've been out for a long time, and I'd say this is like a good excuse to revisit this stuff. Yeah. God, that well look as a non-American show. it's really good.

include it. Yeah, it's too good. I think one of my favorite scenes ever is from the pilot of that, where she's masturbating to an Obama speech and her boyfriend catches him. Also. yeah, the show is.

also. it's so funny and so when it hits with those emotional moments. it's like a big gut punch. It is.

it is. And you're a hot priest. Hot priest, baby. Okay, now your turn. Okay.

What Made Me Cry until the end. That's my last one. Okay. We'll get to that. Okay.

the house. your parents warned you to stay away from this Friday. Oh my god. You'll understand why.

So The X-Files, if you haven't watched it. Can you tell us about what happened? Oh, absolutely. So The X-Files was one of the first shows that had individual bottle episodes, but then it had this overall arc throughout the entire thing. It was one of the first shows to do that.

Whoa! And is it in today's world, now that we've seen so much, fuck everything?

I re-watched it recently and it's still really really dark. I'm not going to go into the reasons why, but it does certain things in the storytelling that just hit really hard and it's just incredibly bleak and really really sad. They basically keep their inbred mother under the bed and they use her to breed with, and the series opens with their mother giving birth to a baby that is then buried under a kid's baseball field, and the episode opens with the kid scuffing the dirt off the base that he's on for him to bat. I've never played baseball, I don't know if I'm using the right words here, but and as he scuffs, he scuffs into the baby's head that's being buried under. it's unbelievably big, and this was on Fox.

alongside your favorite Disney films. Wait for Calvin to accidentally put that one on. Oh my god.

the X-Files is also a really fun re-watch, because Vince Gilligan was one of the writers on X-Files. he went out to make Breaking Bad, all these amazing actors appear in X-Files that appear in other places later. some of these big actors. they had their like big break on X-Files. Yeah, because.

wasn't Bryan Cranston on an episode? He was on an episode. yeah, he was on there. That's how he.

met. Who else was on there? yeah, Luke Wilson pops up, Danny Trejo, Jack Black, Seth Green, Shia LaBeouf, Ryan Reynolds. Wow, all these people just pop up as little bit characters on X-Files. So yeah, if you've never watched the X-Files, there's so many good episodes, but Home is the one I would recommend.

an episode of Barry as my first one. so season two, episode five Ronnie Lilly. Okay. So, in this episode the FBI is coming after Barry and the agent catches him and he tells him he'll let him go if he kills his ex-wife's boyfriend. Oh okay.

thing in Barry, where it's grounded in reality in a lot of it. but then it just takes on these utterly surreal tones and you just go with it because they've set the style so well. you just are drawn into that world and whatever happens, you're on board. God, you would love that show.

Monica. I need to watch it. It's really beautiful. This is an interesting part of this game. The ones I pick well, not all of them are my favorite shows.

I realized that a lot of the ones I picked were kind of standalone episodes that didn't deal a.

lot with the series. Yeah, you could almost watch it without watching the show and still get something.

out of it. Which I think I just watch so much TV that I lose the context. so the ones that are sticking with me are ones that don't need it. Sure. Yeah, that's a really good point actually.

The other scary thing when I was thinking about these episodes was it's amazing how much I watch.

and forget. Yeah, I know. That was all because I was like oh, it's definitely this episode, but I don't remember anything about it, but I know it's great. Then I'm like watching the episode and.

I'm like oh, what was the show about again? How did it end? Did I finish it? And that's really.

worrying. I agree. I agree. Yeah, I should say right now I did not pick a Friends episode. Okay, shocking.

and Rachel broke up. Smelly Cat. What are the other ones? The one where no one's ready would.

be my pick from Friends, but I'm not. Okay, no Friends. I'm not doing it. Okay, what have we got then? So next I have.

Great pick. I'm gonna play. Put a toast. Down light. Hold on.

Cheers. Cheers. I haven't seen this.

Sort of an oaky afterbirth.

What was that? So music. That sounds good. Do you guys remember my old assistant Hunter? He's an excellent songwriter.

Okay, here we go. Oh god. You took me by the hand, made me a friend. That one night you made everything all right.

what the American office does. so, I mean it's so brilliant, it's so funny, but the visceral awkwardness that it hits on, it, just like moves your whole soul. Yeah. And this episode, the whole episode, I mean it's hard to pick a clip from it because the whole thing is just so good, but it.

encapsulates the awkwardness so well. Oh, I could just sense it, the looks everyone's giving each other, just the social anxiety involved of everyone. Yes. I need to watch the American office. It's kind of amazing that you know Ricky Gervais starts a show and then it's licensed to all these different countries.

long. A runner-up for the office would be in season two, The Dundies. We've referenced the show in other.

Flightless Birds, right? We had like the parkour episode and Loma Linda. It feels like there's an office clip for every occasion imaginable. Have you done American office, Rob? Yeah.

is the first episode of second season and it's also incredible. It's just so special, but the.

dinner party is season four, episode 13.

Yeah, because it's like a big deal. He's doing this big show with dances and effects, and.

then he just scraps it. He scraps the whole, and the whole episode is the prep for it all. Doesn't it end, because his rap name is Little Dickie and the whole joke, he's got unusual deformed penis. And part of the show is him getting live on stage, getting surgery to correct. So, as a viewer, you're invested in watching the surgery because you're like, this is going to be amazing.

You guys talk to Gator? Like, how is he? Talk to Gator. He's fine. Just worry about you, Dave.

Hey, everybody, my name is Lil Nas X, you know it, yeah.

And I have the biggest song ever. Who's ready to have some fun tonight?

Give it up for Lil Dinky.

Oh, it's so beautiful. And it's such a great trick on the audience watching at home as well as the audience in this fictional world. And it's just, I cried when I watched it the first time.

It's really beautiful. Oh, I love that. I'm gonna, I haven't watched it. Gotta watch it.

You will love Dave when you get around to it. It's so good. I'm gonna do The Office,

you're gonna do Dave. Okay, great. Oh, all right. What we got? Cable?

All right, I have another standalone episode. It's Atlanta, the Teddy Perkins episode. Is this where he plays a white man? Yeah, so this is where Darius is going to pick up a piano from someone in the South and he gets to this house and there's this creepy, looks like a masked white man, like Michael Jackson type character that lives there. And it's really chaotic and creepy.

I feel Atlanta's, I embarrassingly also haven't watched Atlanta, despite knowing that it's one.

of the best scenes ever made. I also haven't finished it. I know. There's too many shows.

And some of these big shows, you want to wait till you're in the right mood. You've got to have time to really sink into it, I think. My question about Atlanta for someone that hasn't watched it, what's the balance of drama and comedy? or is it all over the place? It's kind of all over the place.

I mean, it's kind of like Dave, where they go and do the whole GATA bipolar thing. They do that in Atlanta as well, really well. Yeah. Finding that balance where it's not just silly and funny.

Man, I remember seeing Donald Glover. I've only been to Coachella once, it was for the Tupac Hologram. And Donald Glover was there performing a very early version of Childish Gambino. And it was more, they were great songs, but they were more joke songs. So you're meant to listen to the lyrics and go, ha ha, that's funny.

He was a UCB improviser. That's right. I would see him on stage doing improv with his team.

Was there like a sense that he had an X factor, or was he all these amazing creative people?

Everyone's so special there and doing amazing things. If I'm being quite honest, no, I didn't feel like there's something extra. And to have just seen him on that little fucking Franklin stage and now what he has become, it's unreal. It's unreal.

Even in the community, you don't really get the sense of how grand he's going to become.

Yeah.

So here's the scene. Would you like a glass of water? Yeah, kind of parts.

Yeah, righteous brother.

Oh, you're the butler or whatever. They didn't bring the water yet. Oh, I don't have a butler.

Wow.

Wash your hands immediately. Darius would like a glass of water when you have a moment.

Right, then.

Oh, it's so unsettling.

It is. It's making me feel itchy.

It's so creepy. I remember having a hangover from this episode. Now that I watched it in silence and then just sitting there like a few minutes after. And in the credits at the end, that character is Teddy Perkins, and it just says Teddy Perkins is himself. But you can tell it's him.

Could I? Could I? It's him?

It's him. Yeah, you can kind of see it in the eyes.

No. Wait, now I need to see. Hold on.

Ew. Oh, God.

Oh, yeah. I just use this to remember things.

Finish that hat for Dionne Warwick.

There's a whole section. I cut out of him eating a soft-boiled quail egg, too, that he's just sitting there, breaking it open and sticking his hand into.

Oh, my God.

Like a fully realized character to step into. Could someone watch this, having watched none of the show, and love it? Yeah, absolutely. Okay, great.

And spoiler alert, so the end of this episode ends in a murder-suicide. Oh, my God.

God, it gets dark. So you're just absolutely shocking.

Yeah, it's so dark and weird, and you're like, what is happening? And it's totally out of place for the rest of the season. It's just fully standalone. Here's Darius, just out on his own getting a piano.

It's kind of amazing what's happened in the last 15 years, in that TV has become more classier than film. You know, there used to be films that stick with you, and now it's these episodes.

It's so avant-garde.

A big-name actor. now, they get more respect if they're cast in a big TV show than they are in a film. That's such an interesting flip. It's changed the game. We're so lucky, and we can just watch all this shit at home.

Yes, it is. It's sunny out. It's hot. It's vacation time.

Something does happen, right? You're like, it's sunny. It's like, I want to go somewhere.

Yes.

I want to go to Hersheyland. I didn't really know. it was like a town that made chocolate and all smelt like chocolate.

Yeah, I've never been either, but that's my dream. Oh my god, I want to go there.

Booking.

Yes.

And when I was in Austin there, particularly for some reason, allergies kicked the hell in.

I agree. I also think part of it might be age or something. I used to not have allergies at all, and now I definitely do. I'm super sensitive.

Why does aging suck so much?

You're not going to like what I think it also might be. On what? American leaf blowers.

Oh, I think you're absolutely right. It kicks everything up.

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I know. This is stressing me out. Now there's just all these things to watch. I specifically wanted to include comedy.

So I had the same worry. Because the stuff that sticks with you is darker, right? It is, yeah. You can't just have an episode of just horrific, sad, unrequited love episodes.

And because I really do firmly believe that perfect comedy is much harder to do than perfect drama.

Totally. When it doesn't land, it really doesn't land, right?

It's math. Comedy is math in a way that drama isn't. Drama's emotions and you can play music that makes you feel a thing. And you can't get away with anything.

I hadn't thought about it like that. That's so true. Yeah, it's either on or it's off.

Exactly.

And there's no worse feeling than when you're watching something like an SNL sketch that isn't landing. And you're like, oh yeah, oh no.

Yeah. So when it works, or when it's incredible, I bump that above for, like Dinner Party or Dundies.

I feel like that's why things like The Office is so good. Because there's so much of it. And consistently, it's just on point, with timing and awkwardness, and everything.

Exactly. Okay, so my last one is from Grey's Anatomy.

Oh wow, Grey's. A show I haven't watched, but I feel like everyone I know watches.

Season two of Grey's Anatomy is peak. So many episodes in that season. I had a hard time picking.

Okay.

And this is an example of a show that would not be on my list of favorite shows. But these episodes are-.

They're golden.

Golden.

And just for someone, I haven't watched Grey's, this is kind of like ER. It's a hospital drama, but a bit more relationship-based, maybe?

That's right. I mean, ER ended up-.

It got pretty soapy as well.

It did. Yeah. But yes, it's all about the relationships and McDreamy and McSteamy and Meredith. Oh, it's so juicy.

Okay, and I know there's a lot of it. Have you watched most of it, or do you tap in and out?

I fell off over time.

Still running.

That's incredible.

Is it or did it finally end?

I think it's still running. I think Ellen maybe left, but they shoot it at the studio next to my house.

Oh, wow.

What's the magic of it? It's the characters, or does each episode have a medical drama, like an ER or a house?

Each episode has its own, yes, medical drama. I mean, they get away with the craziest shit. As the episode I picked is not. The premise is so ridiculous. You're so invested.

Great, hot dogs.

Dogs that are above them. It's problematic, but whatever. Patrick Dempsey's so hot in this show. It's unbelievable. Okay, so this episode I picked is called...

I've seen our babysitter will sometimes watch Grey's Anatomy and just coming in out of contact to all of the insane things that are happening.

I feel like it's the kind of show where suddenly one week there'll be a bomb threat to the hospital or something and the whole thing gets shut down. No power. They've got to save. Yeah. I mean, there is a magic thing.

If you're going to watch a season, watch season two.

Season two is the one? Yes. All right.

So this episode, it was a two-parter. Oh, okay. So the first part, which is the clip I'll play, is called It's the End of the World.

Oh, it's a very dramatic title.

Yeah. What's leading up to this clip is a man has a bomb in his body.

I think I've seen this one being watched.

Yeah, he has a bomb in his body and-.

Just expand on that. You can't just say in his body.

Okay, well, it is in his body cavity.

He's sullen it in. He shoved it up her orifice.

I don't, I have to be honest, I don't remember.

It's in him. It's in him.

And there's a paramedic whose hand is on it, basically. Like she, and it's so-.

Wait, it's on it. So the paramedic is inside the man as well.

Yes. I love this. Not inside, it's on his, I don't know how to explain it.

An incision or-.

Yeah, there's like a body, it's in his body and her hand is keeping it from detonating, basically.

It's like speed, but with a body instead of a mask.

Yeah, basically.

This is incredible. I'm sold, I want to watch all of this.

She's young, paramedic, and it's Christina Ricci.

Having the worst day of her life. Amazing.

It's Christina Ricci. Yeah, so then this happens.

I've never been more on a cliffhead-.

It's so good.

Than what you've just described.

Okay, we ready?

Hannah, where's the anesthesiologist? He, um, he left.

I'm sorry, this is the best you'll ever make me do.

Hannah, I think I'm going to take my hand out now.

Oh yeah, Kyle Chandler's in this episode.

I love Kyle Chandler. I love him. What? Is the man alive when the bomb is in?

I don't know if he's alive.

Okay.

Yeah, I think he's alive. No, he is, he is.

So she's about to kill both of them.

Yes, the whole, it's going to detonate the whole- Hospital? The whole hospital. No, not the whole hospital, not the whole hospital, but like, yeah.

She hasn't evacuated?

Him and people close by. Oh, my god. Okay.

Or maybe our hand is simply in there with the ammo. We can't know. You know, my guys talked to the friend, that device is homemade, which means it's unstable and very-.

It's better than this. No!

No way, I'm knowing.

Add to that the fact that you've got a surgeon in the OR next door refusing to leave in a nervous paramedic's hand inside the body cavity. It's definitely as bad as it seems. This whole song feels like a joke. Hey, somebody help!

Help here!

So, gotcha. I think I'm just going to take it out. You need to get over to the finish line.

You can do this.

No, no, no, I just want to take it out of me, don't-? Hannah, it won't be much longer. Remember, you're keeping him from bleeding out. No, I am 22 years old.

I should not even be in here.

This is some kind of a-. She's panicking. We need to clear the room. I'm not leaving. Great, let's move.

It's Yang.

Go with Donna. No. Hannah, look at me. No, it's got to come out. I know, I know.

You can do this.

Oh, my God.

No.

Hannah, you can do this. No, it has to come out. No, you keep it there just a little while longer. Hannah. I have to.

Just stay right where you are.

Okay, that's it. So she puts her hand in.

Oh, my God.

So the second part is now her with the hand in.

What an amazing cliffhanger. Yes. You've still got the same problem.

And you had to wait a week. And now it's the same problem, but with the person you care about.

When you were describing what the episode was about, I was imagining it, but I was like, it can't be the case. And then everything was 10 times even more dramatic than as you stated it.

It is so dramatic.

That's an incredible episode of TV.

It really was.

Kyle Chandler being there, lending his gravitas. I know. He's one of my favorites. She's amazing.

You also forget that's Sandra, Oh.

Oh, yeah.

You know? Like she's, yeah. Yeah. What an episode of TV.

Oh, no. I mean, and when you were picking, I feel like that one was up top in your mind, right? That looks amazing, that show.

Well, this, and then it was between that. and what if people who definitely have watched the show, which most people have the prom episode where Denny dies. Also, Meredith is asking Derek to choose her and pick her and love her. And then they have sex. And it's the.

Okay, cool.

So that was, I almost wanted that.

Monica.

Have you noticed? a lot of our picks have been from the second season of shows? All three of mine are from the second season.

That's a really good observation. I guess that's when you've found your stride. And you haven't fucked it up yet.

And you can kind of make some bigger swings.

Yeah. And yours, but you're still play. It's still playful. You haven't run out of ideas.

Something really fun to do with a show that you loved, especially from a few years back, is to watch the very first pilot episode because they are rough. That can often be a show finding itself. And it's almost a different show. Totally. It's all off.

Pilots are so hard to make.

Yeah. I can only imagine. My God. That's a fun thing to do.

Can I guess your last one?

Okay. So yes.

Oh, my God. David's gonna cry.

Is this the one you cried during?

Yeah, this is. I have never watched this scene and not cried. No, seriously, I've done it three times. now. I'm going to read a quote first.

I don't know, it's kind of spoiled it from the OC.

No, no, no.

What do you think? What do you think it is? I thought it was going to be the leftovers finale.

No, that is my bonus episode to get me to 3.

That was my bonus episode as well.

Really?

Yeah.

So Rob and I both like.

You have a crossover.

We do. We do have a crossover. There's a show called The Leftovers, which I would say is my favorite show ever made.

I think it's one of mine too. And it's the best finale I've ever seen.

We and Rob agree on a lot of things. We disagree on a shit ton of stuff. Musical tastes, very different. TV, more crossover.

Yeah, I like women singing. Yeah, thank you.

It's mad that we both picked the show. It's an HBO show. I know, I... It's incredibly obscure.

It's a slow burn. You have to get through like eight episodes.

Okay, so you.

Did you watch the whole thing, though? No. You have to get through like the first season.

In order for me to love something, the getting through a whole season of a show, it's just, it's never going to be.

This is an interesting thing. So many people agree with you, and people that I love are all like, what do you see in the show? It's inconsistent. It's a mishmash. Some episodes are not good.

Yeah, that weird assassin episode.

Which I kind of love.

It's fun.

But the thing that I do find interesting about The Leftovers is that you're right, generally a show shouldn't make you have to work to like it. But I think I liken it to music. There's some albums or songs where you don't like it the first time. And if you push yourself to listen to the whole thing, they can end up slipping under your skin and just being your most favorite thing of all time. That's true.

I get that. I get that.

And I think that's The Leftovers. And I think the premise of The Leftovers is that a very small amount of the world's population just suddenly disappears in a second. So it's like a rapture.

Right.

And it's basically like, what does society do when this random event that no one can explain happens? And it just looks at what humans do. I know.

It just felt, to me, felt a bit indulgent. It felt like it was trying hard to be poignant. All these things. And I was like, oof.

All I'll say is, the whole show is about these really big topics. The last episode is just two characters. They're coming together. The whole thing is just a conversation. And it just emotionally, I got goosebumps.

I love the ending of it too.

Perfect. But that's not your pick, though.

No. So my favorite episode of TV of all time is the finale of a show called Six Feet Under.

I have not. I mean, I've watched a few episodes. I loved it. It wasn't that I just didn't, but there was so much of it that I think I dropped off.

Have you watched, Rob?

Yeah. I've seen it. I love that show.

Alan Ball. Okay.

Alan Ball. So it ran from 2001 to 2005.. It was one of HBO's first prestige TV shows.

Yeah.

It was about a family that worked at a funeral home. The beginning of each episode, which was a really fun technique, it would start with a person randomly dying. So every opening would be a cold open. They die and then you're in the funeral home. And it's just about a family getting through stuff.

No, I'm kind of like, because I want to watch it.

Fuck. But it's been a long time. It's been a long time. It's not going to ruin it. I think it'll just make you want to watch it.

I don't even know. I don't even know this show.

But something I genuinely want to know is if this does affect you in any way, having no, no grand investment. Connection. And, Rob, you have... I'm curious if this will trigger you.

It's been a long time since I've watched it.

Another comment under this clip on YouTube, watch the entire show in about four weeks. Never cried this hard in my entire life.

I'm prioritizing Six Feet Under.

I have done it again.

And breathe me.

Ouch, I have lost myself again.

Hold me, wrap me up.

Unfold me, I am small.

No tears, which is, I'm really relieved about. I was bawling my eyes out yesterday. I think that got it out of my system. I got a lot of goosebumps.

Yeah, my eyes are wet.

Yeah, the whole show is so emotionally powerful. And then to see how every character ends, it's just too much. Because then you're like, oh my God, we're all going to, feels like a My Death thing. You see how everyone's going to die. And it's also so bold, because it just is the ultimate.

Yeah, death is so sad.

And I guess, essentially, it's a show about death. That's the whole thing.

And so, of course, they had to end it like that. That's beautiful. I really, really want to watch that show now.

Yeah, it's really beautiful. And four seasons, so it's kind of doable.

I'm sad.

Sorry to end on such a sad one for my list.

Did you have that moment leaving Georgia when you moved? Saying goodbye to your parents when you moved?

Do you remember what my moment was?

I don't remember it. So either I blocked it or I probably didn't let myself really feel those emotions.

I remember being very sad in my first couple of months out of home at the university hostel. I just remember feeling so panicked and lost. But I don't remember the actual leaving. I can't remember if my parents dropped me off in another city or if I... I didn't have a car, so I didn't drive away.

I think that's one of the last times I cried. I think it's one of the only times Natalie's seen me cry was...

Wow. When you moved here.

We had a U-Haul truck that we packed up. And I remember hugging my parents and then getting in and just driving from our... It was our childhood home.

Yeah, and so you literally had that Rear Vision Mur thing of it fading out in the background.

That's the last time you cried? Oh my god, Rob.

Well, I think I have it like a funeral.

Oh, sure. Okay.

Okay. Do you... Yeah. I mean, I cried yesterday at that show. I don't cry at things that are real, generally.

I cry at things that are real, but it normally takes me a bit. It will end up coming out out of nowhere.

Yeah, it's gonna explode like a day later.

Yes, but not when it probably should be happening.

Emotions are so annoying. You're like, just trigger now, so this person knows what I feel like.

I know. I know.

Yeah, Six Feet Under is a great show.

Oh, that was great. I'm excited for that. Okay, Rob has one left.

My last one's a little sillier.

No, Silly's good. Silly's really good.

We need to end on Silly, not Death.

I'll just be crying the whole time.

Another season two. I picked an episode of Documentary Now. Oh, that's fun.

Great pick. And I'm also excited because I've only seen one episode of this and keep meaning to do more.

It's called Juan Likes Rice and Chicken.

Oh, it's after Hero Dreams of Sushi.

And I didn't realize Bill Hader and Seth Meyers wrote this. So Bill's featured twice.

Okay.

Oh yeah, in your picks.

So, for someone that hasn't watched this particular show before, what's the premise?

It's parodies on other documentaries, done in really silly, weird ways.

Hero Dreams of Sushi is such a good documentary.

It's really beautiful.

Have you seen this?

I don't think so.

Spoof on it? So there's a restaurant in Colombia, Three Michelin Stars, and they're doing a documentary on it.

Look, you know, I've been to Noma and I've been to El Bulli and I've been to all of Roshan's places, but there's no restaurant like this anywhere in the world.

I write guidebooks about South American restaurants and every year I travel the continent looking for something new. Yet I always find myself back at Juan's Rice and Chicken. It's shocking how simple it all is. There is a consistent, simple set menu. To start, a cup of warm coffee followed by a banana split perfectly in half.

It's amazing.

They go in, I have one more clip, it's in Spanish, but they go into all the obscure things. It's really just leaning into these restaurants, which I like these restaurants, and when they do that, but I like that, it's poking fun of that.

Yes, you can see that these things can get out of hand.

Where the coffee has to be buried for an hour before they brew it. He's beating the rice against a tree. The old man has to chase the chicken and catch it. And if he doesn't, chicken's not on the menu.

There's no chicken, that's why chicken sometimes.

And then they massage it for an hour and then shoot it against the wall with a cannon.

Oh, this is funny.

And here's the banana preparation.

And there's the format of the food show, so well.

It does.

Examine it. And it's perfect, there it is.

And what happens?

Juan pulls out the bananas if it's not perfect.

Shot so beautifully.

I cried so hard that the rest of the day was free. Juan gave it to me because the customers were complaining.