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NewsRadio-E9/S2-Goofy Ball 1/3
Joe, who mistakenly thinks that Dave needs a date, introduces him to several beautiful models that are in the building for a photo shoot. Meanwhile, Bill worries that a stalker is after him and Jimmy introduces the staff to the 'goofy ball'.
Dennis Miller was cast as the stalker because he was a client of Brillstein-Grey, which managed Phil Hartman's career.
Dennis Miller is the third SNL alumni to be on this show. Dennis worked with Phil Hartman for 5 seasons back in his Saturday Night Live days.
New scenery added; the coffee room. In the pilot, that room was the production room.
Stalker: Now where was I? Oh right, the note in Vince Foster's briefcase.
Vince Foster served as White House counsel during the Clinton administration. He was found shot dead in a park in Washington D.C. in 1993. He had a single gunshot wound to the head and a note in his briefcase that was either a resignation letter or a suicide note depending on who you ask. His death was ruled a suicide but some conspiracy theorists insist he was murdered because he knew too much damaging information about the Clinton's.
Dave: I don't think people are scrutinizing us as much as you imagine.
Lisa: I'm sure that's what the Rosenbergs said.
Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel were executed in 1953 after having been convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. The extent of their espionage has been disputed in recent years. Some people think their death sentences were too harsh and that the government may have been influenced by Antisemitism and anti-Communist paranoia.
Jimmy: Don't mess with a man with a Wayback Machine, Dave.
The Wayback Machine is a time machine and was a feature of Peabody's Improbable History, a regular segment of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Mister Peabody was a hyper-intelligent dog who would take his boy Sherman on trips to historically significant incidents from the past in order to educate him. They always ended up having to restore history to its proper course. Interestingly, in the very first episode, Mr. Peabody built a Wayback Machine that took travelers to a factually accurate past, but both Peabody and Sherman found this dull so they rebuilt the Machine to take them to a much more entertaining past inhabited by idiot versions of historic figures.
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NewsRadio-E17/S2-Xmas Story 1/3
Dave asks Mr. James to reconsider the Christmas gifts he gave to the staff after everyone gets crappy caps, realizing his mistake Mr. James goes a bit overboard with his new gifts. Meanwhile, Bill thinks a Santa Claus working in the lobby wants to kill him.
Andy Dick is a health nut so the vitamins on Matthew's desk are real vitamins Andy was taking.
He also likes falling down for a laugh. For his safety he wears lots of padding. But during his fall because of the change all over the floor Andy did hurt himself.
Jimmy James: I gave you Fibber McGee and Molly.
Fibber McGee and Molly was one of the all time classic radio comedies. Running from 1935 to 1956, the program starred Jim and Marian Jordan as the flighty Fibber and his long suffering, loving wife Molly. One of the most memorable recurring gags on the show (and one of the best loved running gags in American comedy history) was Fibber McGee's closet which whenever it was opened erupted in an avalanche of comic sound effects.
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NewsRadio-E32/S3-Arcade 1/3
Beth wins a contest at work and gets to call the vending company to come pick up the sandwich machine in the office. She replaces it with an arcade game that Dave has a history with. Meanwhile, Bill freaks out over the loss of his favorite sandwiches and Lisa talks Dave into retaking the SAT's.
Instead of the regular end credits, we find Dave playing Stargate Defender at an arcade.
Dave: I wish I was big.
Dave standing in front of the fortune telling machine and wishing he was big reproduces a pivotal scene from the movie Big(1988).
Jimmy: What's the buzz? Tell me what's a-happening.
Jimmy enters the room quoting a line from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice.
Dave: Hey, I didn't just sign for a stolen jeep did I Radar?"
Although Beth thinks Dave is referring to Star Trek, he is actually referencing M*A*S*H. In the TV series company clerk Radar O'Reilly was always an accomplice to the highjinks orchestrated by Hawkeye and the gang, and would often help his pals by slipping in official forms and clearances for approval by the clueless Henry Blake. Interestingly, in the 1970 movie the first thing we see Hawkeye do is steal a jeep. A crime eventually covered up by Radar. Gary Burghoff, who played Radar, is the only cast member to appear in both the movie and TV series.
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NewsRadio-E21/S2-The Song Remains The Same 1/3
Lisa becomes upset when Dave gives Matthew one of her assignments. Bill tries to make sure that Mr. James' early April Fool's pranks won't get in the way of his interview with a Wall Street Journal reporter. Beth falls in love with a man that she's never met after going through his desk.
Lisa: I don't know. Why don't you just ask Herb Stemple here?
Forced into a quiz show style competition about the New Hampshire primary with Matthew, Lisa compares him to the luckless Herb Stemple who was a champion player on the old TV game show Twenty-One. Book smart Stemple was a consistently overpowering player, but he was coerced into throwing the game to the more telegenic contestant Charles Van Doren. Stemple was one of the people who blew the whistle on the fixing of TV game shows in the 50s. In the 1994 movie Quiz Show, Herb Stemple, was portrayed by John Turturro.
Jimmy: That sweet girl from Saved By the Bell, she did a dirty movie!
Saved by the Bell was a situation comedy set at a high school. Debuting as part of NBC's Saturday morning line-up, it proved popular enough to be moved into prime time. The 'sweet girl' Jimmy is referring to is Elizabeth Berkley who played Jessie Spano from 1989-1992. In 1995 she played the lead in the infamous 1995 movie Showgirls, a role in which she spent much of the time either half or wholly naked.
Matthew: It was just like that kid show on Nickelodeon.
The show Matthew is remembering is You Can't Do That On Television. Jimmy James steals two of the running gags from the series for his April Fool's gags, namely: dropping water on any one who says the word "water" and dropping green slime on anyone who says "I don't know."
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NewsRadio-E26/S2-Presence 1/3
Mr. James gambles away Bill in a poker game, losing him to a station in Atlanta, Ga. Lisa has to win him back without knowing how to play poker. Meanwhile, Bill says his goodbyes and Joe, Beth and Catherine camp out in the hotel room above the poker game and try to give Lisa an edge.
The network wanted to stop the use of the word "spaz" because it's the name of a special interest group.
Stephen Root was actually asleep in the chair during the hotel room poker scene. The scene was filmed late at night.
Maura Tierney has won the Celebrity Poker Showdown and she does smoke in real life.
Dave says that he's only played a few games of poker in his day, which is ironic because he hosts the TV show Celebrity Poker Showdown.
In this episode Beth refers to Bill as "Phil"(the actor's real name). This occurs nine and a half minutes into the episode right before Bill tells Beth that he could have loved her in a simpler life.
Boba Fett is used to help Lisa in the card game. Boba Fett is of course the intergalactical bounty hunter in The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi.
Dave: Did he mention this to anybody else, or has Colonel Kurtz gone up river again?
The insane Colonel Kurtz was Marlon Brando's character in the Francis Ford Coppola film Apocalypse Now. The movie was based on the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness. The novella was set in Africa but in the movie the setting was changed to Vietnam during wartime.
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Newsradio-E80/S5-Flowers For Matthew 1/3
Joe creates a 'smart drink' which turns Matthew into 'Smatthew'(Smart Matthew.) Meanwhile, Max uses Lisa in a attempt to win over Beth.
Lisa: Who is Wile E. Coyote?
Matthew: A latter day Sisyphus.
Wile E. Coyote is the obsessive nemesis of the Roadrunner in the Loony Tune cartoons directed by Chuck Jones. Although determined in his pursuit of the bird, Wile E. is doomed to failure within inches of achieving his goal, despite his own genius. Sisyphus is a character from classical Greek mythology. The crafty king incurred the anger of the gods and was tormented in the afterlife. Given of the task of rolling a huge boulder to a mountain's summit, Sisyphus would labor mightily only to eternally see the boulder roll back down the slope before reaching the top. He has ever after stood as figure representing someone trapped in a punishing task with no end.
Jimmy: What you did was good, Matthew. Real good.
Freaked out by Matthew's apparent superhuman powers, Jimmy adopts a defensive strategy from the episode "It's a Good Life" from The Twilight Zone (11/3/61). Faced with the prospect of a small boy with godlike powers, the citizens of a terrorized small town try to keep on his good side by pronouncing his every horrific whim "a good thing".
Joe: You read our lips like a computer?
Matthew: No. Like a deaf person.
Joe is remembering one of the most memorable moments from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) where the mad computer HAL reads the lips of the humans plotting his destruction through the window of the space pod they secreted themselves in.
Lisa: Just when I think I'm out, they drag me back in.
Frustrated over the way people keep involving her in their personal lives, Lisa channels Michael Corleone from The Godfather Part II (1974). This line is used in many shows and films including one of my favorites, The Sopranos. Where Silvio Dante, played by Steve Van Zandt, uses the line to humor his 'made' friends.
Title: Flowers for Matthew
The title is taken from Daniel Keyes novella Flowers for Algernon (1959) where a mentally challenged adult is temporarily raised to a genius level intellect before tragically reverting to his former state. It won a Hugo Award for science fiction short story in 1960 and was expanded to a longer form which won a Nebula Award in 1966. In 1968 it was adapted into an Oscar winning film called Charly.
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NewsRadio-E15/S2-Negotiation 1/3
Lisa's search for new career opportunities lands her a gig on MTV News interviewing the thrash band Anthrax. Meanwhile, Jimmy begins a search for a new wife.
"Super karate monkey death car" is said for the first time.
The thrash metal band Anthrax appears in this episode.
Beth tells Lisa to ask if MTV VJ Kennedy's glasses are real or fake like singer Lisa Loeb's. According to Lisa Loeb, her glasses are not fake. In an April 1995 interview with Seventeen magazine she said "If you can't see and you can't wear contacts, then you wear glasses. My glasses are a normal and real part of me. They're not an act."
Mr. James' wife candidates: Faye Dunaway, Mrs. Fields, Mrs. Paul, Catherine Duke, and Melanie Saunders (who comes to look at the ad revenue in this episode).
When Lisa is telling Dave about how successful her brothers are, she accidentally tells him that two of her three brothers are named Greg; one who is 23 and invented the game 'Super Karate Monkey Death Car' and one who is 27, the chief press-liaison for the governor of Pennsylvania.
Jimmy: Bobby Woodward owes me a favor from way back.
Matthew: What, were you like Deep Throat or something?
Suspiciously, Jimmy doesn't answer this question. This is the longest running gag in the series implying that Jimmy was indeed the famed Watergate informant. Deep Throat was the nickname given to Woodward and Bernstein's inside source during their investigation of the Watergate scandal. Woodward was frequently asked the identity of Deep Throat, but he said that he had promised not to reveal his source while the person was still alive. In 2005, Mark Felt, the Deputy Director of the FBI during Watergate, came forward to say that he was Deep Throat. Woodward confirmed this.
Lisa: My agent says that's what I want to do.
Dave: How long have you been represented by Sun-Myung Moon?
Reverend Sun-Myung Moon and his wife Hak Ja Han Moon are the leaders of the Unification Church, which many people consider a cult because of its strict control over the lives of its members, who are known as 'Moonies'.
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Ron Paul on KLBJ News radio 590am 9-19-08
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says alone it won't be enough, but mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will step up their purchases of mortgage-backed securities hurt by the housing and credit crisis.
Paulson says the move will help support the crippled housing market.
He also says the Treasury Department will expand its program to buy mortgage-backed securities. That program was announced earlier this month when the government took control of the two troubled mortgage giants. At that time, the Bush administration said it planned to purchase 5 billion dollars in mortgage-backed securities issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Paulson didn't say how much the Treasury program or Fannie and Freddie would expand, but the moves are aimed at increasing the flow of money in mortgage markets.
Ron Paul on KLBJ News radio 590am
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