Mal and Enis are on the same wavelength today.
I don’t think Shelley feels like they’re all sympatico, do you?
Mal and Enis are on the same wavelength today.
I don’t think Shelley feels like they’re all sympatico, do you?
Enis can talk his way into and out of anything. Just ask him! He’ll tell ya. And tell ya. And tell ya.
I’ve met a few people like that. Look ya in the eye and tell you something that just… isn’t … so. But because they believe it for the moment, and because they expect you to believe it because they said it, and there’s that personal charm or charisma or psychic evil power or whatever they got, you sorta feel like you’re not just supposed to just walk away thinking “Poor stupid imbecile. I hope he doesn’t hurt himself.”
And you get drawn into the crazy.
Peter Enis knows his tropes! How many TV shows and movies have used this simple, yet irritating, setup? About a thousandth of the Soap Operas that have used the one of people overhearing the exact plot point they shouldn’t/should hear while loitering just out of sight. Enis needs to set THAT one up soon.
The title today refers, of course, to the classic comedy routing “Who’s on first?” as was made famous by Abbot and Costello.
But it wasn’t written by them. Nor even performed originally by them.
Turns out it was a sort of vaudeville standard, and Abbot and Costello were just really, really good at doing that routine about the time that vaudeville was being supplanted by radio, and eventually, by television. Vaudevillains, it turns out, would take material from other vaudevillians at the drop of a hat (which was probably another routine that was widely popularized from the stage, hat dropping being the wildly humorous thing it is, or was) and Abbot and Costello were really good at getting on radio and TV.
There’s probably an analog in current digital parlance. Feel free to consider and comment about such.
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