Special Episode 22: Schitt's Creek
In the final installment of Fansplaining’s three-part “Emmys 2020” series, Elizabeth forces comedy-phobic Flourish to watch a comedy! Specifically the delightful Schitt’s Creek, which Flourish eventually embraces “with the zeal of a convert.” After deconstructing comedy dynamics—what works for Elizabeth, what doesn’t work for Flourish—they dig into the characters, the overall arc of the show, and some of their favorite details.
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Show Notes
[00:00:00] As always, our intro music is “Awel” by stefsax, used under a CC BY 3.0 license. This time, it’s the outro music, too.
[00:02:00] It is “ride into the danger zone.”
[00:07:48] As Mike Schur recently said about the evolution of Leslie Knope:
Leslie had an evolution, too. She says in the pilot that she wants to be the president. That was the North Star for us, that she was ambitious and that she was high achieving and had huge dreams and huge goals. But at the beginning, we had her lean into a politician cadence. In the pilot, she walks into a house and Andy’s sitting on the couch and his feet are in casts, and she says, like, “How are you doing, son?” And she goes over to shake his hand. That was us thinking of her as a budding politician instead of as just a true optimist and believer in the power of community and in the power of government to help people. That we didn’t really nail down until like the last episode of the first season. A lot of that credit goes to Amy, because she’s so naturally funny when she just talks and is a human being. She was ahead of us. She kept talking like a real person and we kept trying to write her as a phony politician. Eventually, we were like, “Oh wait, she’s right and we’re wrong.”
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[00:21:49] “The All-Timers: An Oral History of the Classic ‘Ski Lodge’ episode of Frasier” by Mandi Bierty. Also, yes, it is everyone’s favorite:
[00:28:38] Elizabeth’s favorite Frasier writer, Joe Keenan!!!
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