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[0:15] Jesse McAnally: Hello, I'm Jesse Mack and Alley.

[0:17] Alan Seales: And I'm Alan Seales.

[0:19] Liz Eston: And I'm Liz Eston.

[0:20] Jesse McAnally: And welcome to Carrey'd Away, a podcast where we explore the films and television shows of the one and only James Eugene Carrey.

[0:20] Alan Seales: Alright, guys, let's dive into In Living Color season two.

[0:32] Jesse McAnally: Let's not pretend. We did one already. We're doing season two and just continuing on with In Living Color.

[0:59] Alan Seales: Take it from me, it's great to be living color.

[1:03] Jesse McAnally: And now it's you feel like Living Color is a show that season two ran from September 23rd, 1990 to September 1st, 1991.

[1:10] Alan Seales: It started only three weeks after the last season had wrapped up.

[1:13] Jesse McAnally: Magic those times where one season ends and then literally three weeks later you have the next season. Truly, truly different times.

[1:33] Jesse McAnally: The Flygirls included Rosie Perez, Deidra Lang, Carrie French, Carrie Ann Inaba, Lisa Marie Todd, Michelle Whitney Morrison, and Carla Garrito.

[1:43] Alan Seales: And it was directed by Paul Miller. So this is the season where you kind of get everyone leaning heavily into characters.

[1:45] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, this is the season where the characters that I still quote to this day were sort of repeatedly used because they were funny.

[2:01] Alan Seales: And it was easier to write, easier to churn out.

[2:04] Jesse McAnally: Yeah. We lost a cast member from the last season. The other young woman did not come back for this season because there were some issues between her and Keenen Ivory Wayans.

[2:16] Alan Seales: They've since patched up, but it is noticeable. I did see like, hey, this feels like a little smaller group we got here standing at the end.

[2:25] Jesse McAnally: We also had a lot of celebrity musical performances here, including Queen Latifah this season, which was amazing.

[2:32] Alan Seales: But also Another Bad Creation, which is a thing I forgot about and then reminded of again.

[2:37] Jesse McAnally: What was it? Oh no, Another Bad Creation is a hip hop group of only tiny children singing about women breaking their hearts when they're tiny children.

[2:38] Alan Seales: And they only had a hit in 1991, and it was really bad.

[3:12] Jesse McAnally: I'm not gonna lie, the musical performances wash over me like they do on SNL.

[3:17] Alan Seales: SNL, I don't think I've ever paid attention during a musical performance ever.

[3:23] Jesse McAnally: Yeah. No, the musical performances on SNL are the worst part of SNL.

[3:27] Alan Seales: I will say except when Renée Rapp is there.

[3:27] Jesse McAnally: Except when Renée Rapp is there, when it's like the highlight of the show.

[3:32] Alan Seales: She's this. She's that. She's famous on the run. She's back.

[3:37] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, I'm back, bitch.

[3:39] Alan Seales: Are you done? Excuse me, um, let's say.

[3:48] Jesse McAnally: There was one time I discovered Mika, M I K A. I discovered Mika once, and that was like the only time I liked a musical number.

[3:54] Alan Seales: But other than that, and Renée Rapp, sure.

[4:00] Jesse McAnally: Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me with Mitch Rapp?

[4:11] Alan Seales: I mean, it's rare. Like in the 70s, it meant more to have like actual cool music.

[4:16] Jesse McAnally: Now we have spoofy and Apple Music and stuff like that.

[4:20] Alan Seales: And we don't really need live performances.

[4:23] Jesse McAnally: Spoofy-fi.

[4:24] Alan Seales: Spoofy-fi. Spooty-fi.

[4:26] Jesse McAnally: So it baffles me when we come to a variety TV show, and the one thing that is still latched on from the variety section of a TV show is the musical performances.

[4:36] Alan Seales: We don't have the Muppets anymore. We don't have any of those fun Albert Brooks short films. All we got are the musical numbers and goofy gags.

[4:43] Jesse McAnally: I mean, that's sketch comedy.

[4:45] Alan Seales: Hotcha.

[4:46] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, but that's not a variety show.

[4:48] Alan Seales: It's not and stop marketing it as a variety show if it's an actual proper sketch comedy show.

[4:54] Jesse McAnally: Which In Living Color is.

[4:56] Alan Seales: I think In Living Color is more of a variety show than something like Mad TV would turn out to be, which is just all sketch comedy beginning to end, never stop.

[5:04] Jesse McAnally: The Fly Girls are a welcome kind of vibe.

[5:09] Alan Seales: I love when they kind of just come on between acts.

[5:12] Jesse McAnally: The Fly Girls are cool. I wanna know, and maybe you do know this, Captain Research over here.

[5:18] Alan Seales: Did you know how they filmed? Did they do the sketches in front of a live audience back to back like SNL does?

[5:23] Jesse McAnally: I wouldn't say back to back, but like in between. And the Fly Girls are to entertain the audience in between.

[5:29] Alan Seales: Right. I'm often they are the reason why I say SNL is not back to back is sometimes they will lift sketches from other episodes if you're running over, and they will mix up the orders.

[5:39] Jesse McAnally: So it's not like everything happens consecutively in the order that they are shot.

[5:44] Alan Seales: One of the sketches, actually, and we'll get into this, I'm sure, the introducing Fire Marshal Bill sketch had real fire and then cuts to a scene where like the whole house explodes, and then there's this.

[5:57] Jesse McAnally: I assumed they had stopped and done some makeup changes, but quick changes are a thing, you can do that.

[6:03] Alan Seales: Yeah. And anyway, I was just thinking during that one sketch, I was thinking, wow, did they actually do this in front of a live audience? Because the laugh track is consistent, so I assume so, but you know.

[6:15] Jesse McAnally: Nice to meet you, folks! Fire Marshal Bill here, won't you come in?

[6:20] Alan Seales: Don't mind if I don't.

[6:22] Jesse McAnally: Wow, a real fireman.

[6:25] Alan Seales: That's right, Princess. Does your father always smoke a pipe?

[6:29] Jesse McAnally: Yes, sir. Pipes, cigarettes, number one cause of domestic fire.

[6:35] Alan Seales: Now, say one night you're drifting off to sleep on the couch, and the pipe falls out of your hand like that.

[6:42] Jesse McAnally: Now you start dreaming that you're having a little barbecue, you pull out a can of lighter fluid.

[6:48] Alan Seales: Boom!

[6:50] Jesse McAnally: Props to the sometimes they will just play a clip, like I think about the Pretty Woman, um, but Jim Carrey doing a little transphobia there, um, bit, where that is just a hundred percent recorded separate from everything else.

[7:04] Alan Seales: Right, Pretty Woman. You're gonna love the sequel.

[7:08] Jesse McAnally: Pretty Buff Woman, starring champion female bodybuilder, Hero Milo.

[7:14] Alan Seales: Oh my little booted Judith.

[7:18] Jesse McAnally: Right. And sometimes you still have your SNL digital shorts. That's not uncommon.

[7:22] Alan Seales: Yeah. I mean, I don't know if In Living Color digital shorts are that common though.

[7:26] Jesse McAnally: It felt very different when we had that scene.

[7:30] Alan Seales: Well, because it's like they're literally on a street in Hollywood. Like an actual street, Jim Carrey is dressed up in a gown chasing David Alan Greer.

[7:39] Jesse McAnally: I am not a hundred percent sure, but it looks like the exact street they shot Pretty Woman in.

[7:43] Alan Seales: I watched Pretty Woman for the first time within the last three or four weeks, so I'm like, that looks almost identical to the one Julia Roberts was on.

[7:51] Jesse McAnally: I actually haven't seen Pretty Woman in probably 25 years, so don't know what you're talking about.

[7:56] Alan Seales: So I had I saw Pretty Woman the National Tour, so I wanted to see the film beforehand before so I in case I was confused.

[8:03] Jesse McAnally: Um, I didn't need to. The musical is just the movie, so I would have to do it.

[8:10] Alan Seales: Um yeah, a prostitute gets three thousand dollars to pretend to hang out with Richard Gere.

[8:14] Jesse McAnally: I mean, I'd hang out with Richard Gere for three thousand dollars.

[8:16] Alan Seales: Yeah, same, same.

[8:17] Jesse McAnally: Um, in 1990 money, that's like 10,000.

[8:20] Alan Seales: It's like today money. I'd spend a week with Richard Gere.

[8:23] Jesse McAnally: Wait, how long was it? A week? A day?

[8:25] Alan Seales: Yeah, it was about six days.

[8:26] Jesse McAnally: Oh, wait, oh yeah.

[8:27] Alan Seales: Alright, if I also gotta blow him occasionally.

[8:30] Jesse McAnally: I do that.

[8:31] Alan Seales: Not me.

[8:31] Jesse McAnally: Okay, well, hmm. Well, back to In Living Color.

[8:35] Alan Seales: David Alan Greer still continues to be the MVP, but I really appreciated a lot of the other performers.

[8:43] Jesse McAnally: I really like the other white woman. She has a recurring character where the only bit is she's in black and white and a noir-style character.

[8:55] Alan Seales: Kelly Coffield. That bit makes me laugh so hard just at the visual sight of her.

[9:01] Jesse McAnally: And I don't know how they did it. Like, is she done up in makeup and like made that way? Is that a digital effect? Because I can see there is film grain on her.

[9:09] Alan Seales: I don't think the kit is funny, but the effect gets me every time I look at it.

[9:14] Jesse McAnally: May I see your license, please?

[9:16] Alan Seales: So you want to play rough, do you?

[9:20] Jesse McAnally: Sure, Copper. I've got nothing to hide.

[9:23] Alan Seales: Read it in weight. Uh, you're Velma Moleholland?

[9:29] Jesse McAnally: Sure, I'm Velma. Sure as ten dimes will get you a dollar. Any more questions, Inspector? Or may I be on my way?

[9:37] Alan Seales: Is this your car?

[9:39] Jesse McAnally: Sure it's my car. You see me driving it, ain't ya? Can a gal go out for a couple of Yoo-hoos and a carton of Luckies without bringing in the feds?

[9:47] Alan Seales: Is that the same woman who does the British accent and she's like, let's go for Wookiees?

[9:52] Jesse McAnally: Time for Wookiees.

[9:53] Alan Seales: Yes, yes, that one.

[9:55] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, I like her.

[9:56] Alan Seales: I like her too.

[9:57] Jesse McAnally: Hello, I'm Barbara Woodhouse. You know, men are like dogs. They scratch, they chase tail, and they're always doing things like licking your face when you wish they just curl up and go to sleep at the foot of the bed.

[10:10] Alan Seales: You see, what we're going to do is keep the lead straight up in the air. We jerk them and we love them. You see, we jerk them and we love them. Now let's you and I go for a nice walk, shall we, Tom?

[10:18] Jesse McAnally: Come now, walkies!

[10:19] Alan Seales: Wookies!

[10:20] Jesse McAnally: That's right. There we go, right through the door. There we are, dear. Wookies.

[10:25] Alan Seales: Um, she also has her own character with Jim Carrey, where they're both little kids that kind of hate each other.

[10:31] Jesse McAnally: Um, Little Miss Trouble.

[10:33] Alan Seales: I love that, and I love their chemistry together, where he just is like coming up with like both the worst and most clever insults I've ever heard.

[10:43] Jesse McAnally: Like, come on, Pukahonis, let's go.

[10:48] Alan Seales: Look at this Carnell!

[10:49] Jesse McAnally: It's just like that movie The Bird.

[10:51] Alan Seales: Ah!

[10:52] Jesse McAnally: Oh!

[10:53] Alan Seales: Please go pull my house!

[10:56] Jesse McAnally: Try Count Barfula!

[10:58] Alan Seales: Dude's birds have been dead and stuffed for about nine gillian years.

[11:06] Jesse McAnally: Look! I have bad!

[11:10] Alan Seales: That's mature.

[11:11] Jesse McAnally: Not I've got a great idea! You'll be Tarzan! I'll be Cheetah! Beautiful princess of the jungle!

[11:19] Alan Seales: I don't wish to be caught in a tender trap. Besides, you look more like Cheetah, full Peter.

[11:24] Jesse McAnally: I smell your sticky feet.

[11:26] Alan Seales: Like, there are some highlights in here from characters I remember, but of course, we do have the introduction of Fire Marshal Bill, which does appear quite a few times this season.

[11:36] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, Fire Marshal Bill. There's a lot of Homie the Clown in there. I always appreciate a lot of that.

[11:40] Alan Seales: I don't know. I love how Jim Carrey is used throughout this season.

[11:48] Jesse McAnally: Like you were saying at the very beginning, like they're, I guess I like it when he's playing the straight man, and every time he plays the straight man, like if he's not playing a ridiculous character, he's playing the white man.

[11:59] Alan Seales: Yeah, the white straight man that is getting made fun of, that's getting beat up on or just doing stereotypical white things that are inherently racist unconsciously.

[12:09] Jesse McAnally: And I absolutely love the way that he's used in these sketches, the writing behind these sketches. And it's something different from Jim Carrey because he's not used for race humor very much in a lot of his work.

[12:21] Alan Seales: This is pretty much the only time that he's used in this way. So hearing him talk about white guilt and having to call a line about how he can deal with his white guilt and be yelled at by a black person about why he's wrong, that is a humorous gesture, as well as he is an old white man that doesn't want black people playing golf.

[12:42] Jesse McAnally: Like there are some uses of his race that are very effective because he does kind of read as the most white-bred milk toast kind of white boy, which plays against the— we talked early on that he was kind of a stick in the mud kind of come on, guys, what's going on, white man in most of his early films.

[13:02] Jesse McAnally: This is the Minister Lewis Farrakhan.

[13:05] Alan Seales: What is your crime?

[13:07] Jesse McAnally: Well, they had a vote for affirmative action on the job today, and I vetoed it.

[13:13] Alan Seales: Why?

[13:13] Jesse McAnally: Are you afraid that if given a position of authority in that office, that black man will repay you for your 300 years of oppression?

[13:22] Alan Seales: Yes, that's it.

[13:23] Jesse McAnally: Or is the real fear that you'll be standing side by side in the executive washroom and accidentally look over and be reminded of your anatomical inferiority.

[13:35] Alan Seales: You are so spot-on. Please continue.

[13:38] Jesse McAnally: I deserve this.

[13:40] Alan Seales: Well, he can he pulls in he pulls in the the duck factory character that like Yeah, skip tarking to the case.

[13:47] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, when he goes when he plays Skip Tarkington in In Living Color, it works so well against the outrageousness of all the other characters around him.

[13:55] Alan Seales: Yes, it does. Um, and we gotta talk more about Fire Marshal Bill.

[13:59] Jesse McAnally: Like the the bit is he is a fire marshal that eventually causes all the destruction that he should be warning about himself.

[14:07] Alan Seales: Um irony is funny.

[14:10] Jesse McAnally: The movie projector.

[14:12] Alan Seales: Sure!

[14:13] Jesse McAnally: Looks like fun. But it can be very, very deadly.

[14:19] Alan Seales: Now, let's just say you're the audio visual helper for the day.

[14:23] Jesse McAnally: You go to plug this baby in, and you just happen to be soaking your bunions in a bucket of water.

[14:33] Alan Seales: Oh my gosh!

[14:34] Jesse McAnally: I hope he's okay.

[14:37] Alan Seales: Never better.

[14:39] Jesse McAnally: And so, you know, worked out the sketch.

[14:42] Alan Seales: And it was the first fire motion bill is so funny that the firemen's association was pissed.

[14:51] Jesse McAnally: Like they sent us all these letters and they they were picketing us.

[14:55] Alan Seales: It was eventually he became the mascot, but at first they were like, What?

[15:02] Jesse McAnally: It has been denounced by many fire fire marshal associations throughout all of America.

[15:07] Alan Seales: It was actually very controversial at the time.

[15:10] Jesse McAnally: Do you truly have to denounce parody uh about Yeah, I really have to say that.

[15:18] Alan Seales: Fork fork in the the electric socket?

[15:21] Jesse McAnally: That looks fun! I'm gonna do that.

[15:23] Alan Seales: I'm gonna put my hand on a gas stove.

[15:26] Jesse McAnally: Do you always smoke that pipe?

[15:28] Alan Seales: What if you just happen to fall asleep and then leak lighter fluid all over your house?

[15:32] Jesse McAnally: We happen to feed your fish and happen to have gasoline and then put it in the fish.

[15:37] Alan Seales: What if you light your bick and these crab like creatures come after you and you accidentally light these things?

[15:45] Jesse McAnally: That's a good option.

[15:46] Alan Seales: Get a fire extinguisher.

[15:48] Jesse McAnally: That's good, but I want the kids to ask.

[15:50] Alan Seales: I mean, I guess I guess along those lines, there are really like no shit kind of warning signs all over a lot of heavy machinery.

[15:57] Jesse McAnally: Like, don't stick your hand in the wood chipper.

[16:00] Alan Seales: That seems like a bad idea.

[16:01] Jesse McAnally: But why would you why would you have that sign there if someone hadn't done it?

[16:05] Alan Seales: You obviously haven't had that weird kid.

[16:07] Jesse McAnally: Oh, you you didn't go to school with iPhones.

[16:09] Alan Seales: No.

[16:09] Jesse McAnally: Oh no.

[16:10] Alan Seales: No, I didn't have broadband until college, my friend.

[16:13] Jesse McAnally: 1998.

[16:14] Alan Seales: Okay.

[16:15] Jesse McAnally: You didn't have the horrifying experience where you had the one person that's a little too online that'll just take his phone and shove it in front of you, and then you will see the most horrific thing you've ever seen.

[16:25] Alan Seales: Oh god.

[16:25] Jesse McAnally: Like someone getting pulled into like a uh a conveyor belt and getting splashed to death immediately.

[16:31] Alan Seales: Oh god, no, no, I don't want to look forward to that with my kids.

[16:34] Jesse McAnally: It it it's a weird kind of it's a weird kind of bullying, but it does happen.

[16:39] Alan Seales: Oh, well, yeah, bullying.

[16:42] Jesse McAnally: I guess you are correct.

[16:43] Alan Seales: I didn't think about it that it is bullying, yeah.

[16:45] Jesse McAnally: Like showing us, yeah.

[16:48] Alan Seales: Yeah, if you don't want it and it traumatizes you, like some of this stuff is psychologically scarring.

[16:53] Jesse McAnally: Um, so I think I just revealed a little too much about my my high school and middle school experience.

[17:00] Alan Seales: Just give me the work.

[17:01] Jesse McAnally: No, no, keep it in. It's funny.

[17:03] Alan Seales: We know why you write such dark materials.

[17:05] Jesse McAnally: Speaking of side side side speaking of psychologically unstable, back to a living color.

[17:10] Alan Seales: Um yes, good transition.

[17:11] Jesse McAnally: Thank you.

[17:12] Alan Seales: C plus?

[17:13] Jesse McAnally: I will I will say that this show kind of stays on topic a lot more.

[17:17] Alan Seales: Um there's a lot less duds, there's a lot more times jumping between things.

[17:22] Jesse McAnally: No skit lasts too long.

[17:23] Alan Seales: Like, there isn't the SNL thing where it's like, we're six minutes into this skit, I need to get out of there.

[17:29] Jesse McAnally: Um here, it's like just when you're about to get sick of it, it moves on to the next thing, and I like that.

[17:34] Alan Seales: The runtime is a benefit.

[17:35] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, the it's short, it's quick, it bounces from sketch to sketch.

[17:39] Alan Seales: I feel like in season two, like they really kind of found a rhythm, literally with the dancing, and figuratively with the sketches.

[17:45] Jesse McAnally: They got their length down.

[17:47] Alan Seales: Uh yeah, it just it worked.

[17:49] Jesse McAnally: It works for me.

[17:50] Alan Seales: And I I still remember like watching it in near real time.

[17:54] Jesse McAnally: I I don't think I don't know.

[17:55] Alan Seales: I don't remember if I was watching like week or two old reruns or if I was watching it live, but I remember seeing it, you know, as a kid.

[18:01] Jesse McAnally: Long before you tool were ever in imagination, man.

[18:05] Alan Seales: What do you think was the best skit of the entire season, and what do you think is the worst?

[18:10] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[18:10] Alan Seales: That's tough, and I have to come clean that I skipped to the Jim Carrey sketches.

[18:14] Jesse McAnally: Because I did.

[18:16] Alan Seales: Dude, I think all of us did.

[18:18] Jesse McAnally: Because there's a lot to watch for watching.

[18:20] Alan Seales: There's 26 episodes of the season compared to the brisk, like the 11 of season one.

[18:25] Jesse McAnally: I thought the There's 30 next season.

[18:28] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[18:30] Jesse McAnally: One of my least favorites was uh uh when David Wayne was David Wayne's?

[18:34] Alan Seales: No, uh David Allen Greer was the high school principal with like the club foot.

[18:38] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[18:39] Alan Seales: And and uh besides that Jim Carrey wasn't in it very much, which is a shame.

[18:43] Jesse McAnally: Um I just didn't think it was that funny.

[18:45] Alan Seales: Where he was going around being abusive verbally and physically to the students for your own good son.

[18:56] Jesse McAnally: Hey, you know, I think it's high time you heard Mr. Maccabe's speech on drugs, Buster.

[19:00] Alan Seales: Stay away from goofballs, because they make you goofy.

[19:05] Jesse McAnally: I'm having an S for the love of Pete.

[19:08] Alan Seales: Look at those people.

[19:10] Jesse McAnally: You're goofy right now, aren't you, mister?

[19:14] Alan Seales: Of course you can't.

[19:15] Jesse McAnally: Why do you think they call it dope?

[19:19] Alan Seales: Now that's a spirit.

[19:20] Jesse McAnally: You know, Cole Turkey's the only way to get that monkey off your back, buddy.

[19:24] Alan Seales: Sleep it off, that's right.

[19:25] Jesse McAnally: Carry on.

[19:26] Alan Seales: That's that's a good one.

[19:27] Jesse McAnally: And kill Jim Carrey, because he wouldn't give him his asthma.

[19:31] Alan Seales: It wasn't even an inhaler.

[19:32] Jesse McAnally: What is it back to the case?

[19:33] Alan Seales: It was an inhaler, I'm pretty sure.

[19:35] Jesse McAnally: It was it was pills.

[19:36] Alan Seales: Because he was he was shaking it.

[19:37] Jesse McAnally: He was like, you're taking the drugs, boy.

[19:39] Alan Seales: Or something.

[19:40] Jesse McAnally: I will say the ones that I really didn't like, and I don't know if it's just me or the joke just didn't land for me.

[19:47] Alan Seales: Um, it was the cherub patrol.

[19:51] Jesse McAnally: Oh, I hate those.

[19:52] Alan Seales: Jim Carrey is uh self-proclaimed hall monitor of different places, and it's just really uncomfortable and gross.

[20:00] Jesse McAnally: No, I'm not, nor do I care to be.

[20:02] Alan Seales: Even if they reconsider my application.

[20:05] Jesse McAnally: So, uh, who are you?

[20:07] Alan Seales: My name is Dickie Peterson.

[20:09] Jesse McAnally: Cherub of Justice.

[20:11] Alan Seales: Here to protect and serve.

[20:13] Jesse McAnally: So what?

[20:15] Alan Seales: So get yourself a library card.

[20:18] Jesse McAnally: Well, brother.

[20:24] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[20:25] Jesse McAnally: It's just I don't know what he's going for.

[20:27] Alan Seales: Um, cherub of justice.

[20:28] Jesse McAnally: That's Cherub of Justice.

[20:30] Alan Seales: Dicky Peterson uh is his the character's name.

[20:32] Jesse McAnally: That is not even a joke.

[20:34] Alan Seales: Dickie Peterson.

[20:36] Jesse McAnally: Both names are a penis joke, and his mom wants him to get home, and he's just like, you know, you're my best friend, right?

[20:43] Alan Seales: And he's doing an accent which is borderline uh simple jack from Tropic Thunder.

[20:48] Jesse McAnally: It's very unpleasant.

[20:50] Alan Seales: I got a gee good brain.

[20:54] Jesse McAnally: I think you've got a fine brain, Jack.

[20:57] Alan Seales: You mumma make me happy.

[21:04] Jesse McAnally: I mean, there's there's also the introduction of the handy man.

[21:09] Alan Seales: Yeah, yeah, those ones are bad.

[21:11] Jesse McAnally: Wow, and he's in it.

[21:12] Alan Seales: He has multi uh multiple episodes.

[21:15] Jesse McAnally: Yep, yep, yep, yep.

[21:16] Alan Seales: Um, and that is the the handicapped superhero.

[21:20] Jesse McAnally: Um, their words not mine.

[21:22] Alan Seales: Let's give a warm justice leg welcome for the newest handicapped superhero, Handyman.

[21:35] Jesse McAnally: Thank you.

[21:38] Alan Seales: I'm a man of few words.

[21:41] Jesse McAnally: And I'd like to say to all those who never believed in the power of the handicap, then the new sheriff in town.

[21:49] Alan Seales: That is also deeply, deeply offensive.

[21:52] Jesse McAnally: And let's not forget the time Jim Carrey wears brown face.

[21:55] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[21:56] Jesse McAnally: Uh yeah.

[22:11] Alan Seales: On top of the brown face, the continuing transphobia of the four Vera DMilo appearances.

[22:18] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[22:20] Alan Seales: I will say they have gotten better.

[22:22] Jesse McAnally: It is a less about, you know, isn't it funny that Jim Carrey uh there's a muscular woman and all that.

[22:29] Alan Seales: It has kind of become just like Jim Carrey and pigtails does goofy stuff.

[22:32] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, it's more recommod one joke was literally like make your boobs small because you don't need those.

[22:37] Alan Seales: They were they're weighing you down, which like honest as a as a semi-large-chested person, I'm like, yeah, I'm kinda with you on that.

[22:44] Jesse McAnally: I don't need I'm Viratomilo.

[22:47] Alan Seales: And thanks for tuning in.

[22:49] Jesse McAnally: You know, before I learned how to exercise properly, I was a poor excuse for a woman.

[22:55] Alan Seales: Just look at those unsightly lumps of lard protruding from my sternum.

[22:59] Jesse McAnally: I was so weak and frail back then, I couldn't even tear a telephone book in half.

[23:06] Alan Seales: But I made that change, and you can too.

[23:10] Jesse McAnally: So let's get busy burning off those bothersome bazoons.

[23:15] Alan Seales: I love it.

[23:16] Jesse McAnally: And it shows his physicality.

[23:18] Alan Seales: Like in that same bit where it's like cut your boobs off, he is doing things that he knows no other human being can do, and watching other people try to replicate it is kind of funny.

[23:28] Jesse McAnally: And he still does the stomach thing uh from the first one.

[23:36] Alan Seales: All black people, but they have butts on their heads.

[23:39] Jesse McAnally: It's the like the biggest.

[23:42] Alan Seales: They were in season one, but uh the joke is they have butts on their heads, so right, and he's got a giant wiener nose.

[23:53] Jesse McAnally: That's that's a bit right out of movie 42.

[23:55] Alan Seales: Yeah, I was gonna say, I've seen Hugh Jack with balls on his chin.

[23:58] Jesse McAnally: Like, this isn't even that funny.

[24:00] Alan Seales: Or uh Family Guy, where Peter becomes a ball chinian or something, whatever that was.

[24:05] Jesse McAnally: But um, no, I like I like that sketch too because everything was like a a double entendre, and then the the whole thing at the end was can you believe it dating that guy?

[24:13] Alan Seales: He you know, our daughter's dating a white guy.

[24:15] Jesse McAnally: That was that was the zinger at the end.

[24:19] Alan Seales: Mom, dad, Jimmy, this is Richard Dickerson.

[24:29] Jesse McAnally: Hi, everybody.

[24:31] Alan Seales: Well, welcome, Richard.

[24:34] Jesse McAnally: Everybody calls me Dick.

[24:37] Alan Seales: I guess it's just easier to remember.

[24:40] Jesse McAnally: Boy, and he sure does have a big dick place.

[24:43] Alan Seales: I know what you mean, he's just so different.

[24:46] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[24:48] Alan Seales: Who would have ever expected it?

[24:50] Jesse McAnally: Our daughter dating a white guy.

[24:59] Liz Eston: Um Liz, any big thoughts, worst or best.

[25:04] Jesse McAnally: I mean, I think your best one's gotta be White White Baby based on what you told me beforehand.

[25:08] Liz Eston: Uh, it's it's not.

[25:10] Jesse McAnally: Really it's my it's in the top, 100%.

[25:13] Liz Eston: Okay.

[25:13] Jesse McAnally: Um like I really enjoy it.

[25:15] Liz Eston: Uh, we should probably talk about that at some point after I get to it to my favorite.

[25:19] Jesse McAnally: His mannerisms as vanilla ice are incredible.

[25:22] Liz Eston: Oh, yeah.

[25:23] Jesse McAnally: Oh, yeah.

[25:23] Jesse McAnally: 100, like I said, 110% vanilla ice.

[25:24] Liz Eston: He is.

[25:26] Liz Eston: When he goes for a character, he goes for it.

[25:29] Jesse McAnally: Honestly, like I now I'm thinking about it.

[25:31] Liz Eston: My favorite is honestly the very it's a very small sketch.

[25:35] Jesse McAnally: It's the one where he plays Clint Eastwood by not saying a fucking word, but just making it Clint Eastwood face the whole time.

[25:42] Liz Eston: It's like less than two minutes.

[25:44] Jesse McAnally: But I'm just like, why is this funny?

[25:46] Liz Eston: Like, is this generally like I enjoyed it because it was like really short and funny in like a very subtle way.

[25:51] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, he's just standing in the back looking like Clint Eastwood, and he doesn't even say anything.

[25:55] Jesse McAnally: He's excited, she's excited. Everybody's excited for join host Dirty Harry from Fox's new game show. Our contestants bin win. Come on, bullet. Win big cash. Win big prizes. Come on, pull it! It's weird because he knows Quit East with the Captain, which makes it funny. We know they've had interactions at least on two different things. Who would have thunk that those two would be the ones? I didn't think this would happen.

[26:48] Alan Seales: But speaking of the Senate, um, how about we move on to our critical corners and compare our opinions to those of critics all over the world. What have we got here today?

[26:56] Jesse McAnally: You've got letterbox reviews for us.

[27:00] Alan Seales: Yeah. Well, this isn't letterbox, it's Amazon, but I will explain anyway.

[27:04] Jesse McAnally: Whatever.

[27:04] Alan Seales: Alright, so normally on this show, uh, we when we talk about movies, I quiz these two on letterboxed reviews that are real letterbox reviews, and they have to guess if it's a one or a five. But since In Living Color is not on Letterboxd, we are in the chaotic world of Amazon product reviews.

[27:24] Jesse McAnally: For In Living Color season two DVD, which kind of looks like a bootleg, if I'm being perfectly honest with you. Uh, whenever I look at it, it does not look real. I remember everyone having the Living Color season one DVD. I do not remember a single soul owning past season one.

[27:41] Alan Seales: Yeah, like there's DVDs for every other season besides season two. It's very strange. Um, I don't know. But it looks suspicious, so I don't know if I'd order it if I were you, guess.

[27:50] Jesse McAnally: Looks a little sus.

[27:51] Alan Seales: Yeah, it looks very sus, but I, uh, not the nonetheless comb through the sus reviews.

[27:57] Jesse McAnally: Sus views, what we got?

[27:58] Alan Seales: So this is the sus sus view. This is the sus edition of the letterbox game. No cap. Alright, uh, Jess, you'll go first.

[28:06] Jesse McAnally: I go first.

[28:07] Alan Seales: Jess, I am. Guys, this section asked for a review. Not if some moron has the first season already.

[28:13] Jesse McAnally: That's a one.

[28:13] Alan Seales: That is a five, sir.

[28:15] Jesse McAnally: Damn it! Just starting out great today.

[28:18] Alan Seales: Alright.

[28:18] Jesse McAnally: Alan.

[28:19] Alan Seales: Jess, I am. I have gotten the wrong package.

[28:22] Jesse McAnally: LOL.

[28:24] Alan Seales: Oh man, that could be pleasant wrong, or like, what am I doing with my life wrong? This was in the um on non-English reviews as well, so it was very brokenly translated.

[28:34] Jesse McAnally: Okay, one star.

[28:35] Alan Seales: That is right, Alan.

[28:37] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[28:38] Alan Seales: That's a disappointed wrong package. Not a pleasantly surprised wrong package.

[28:42] Jesse McAnally: Mm-hmm.

[28:44] Alan Seales: This show is great, but Amazon workers really need to unionize.

[28:48] Jesse McAnally: There's not a thing there that I disagree with, so five.

[28:50] Alan Seales: Correct.

[28:51] Jesse McAnally: Oh, ding ding. When they all say things I agree with, that has to be right.

[28:56] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[28:57] Jesse McAnally: Alan.

[28:58] Alan Seales: Yes.

[28:58] Jesse McAnally: I must have been drinking too much when this show was on the air.

[29:01] Alan Seales: One.

[29:03] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[29:04] Alan Seales: Alcoholism is good sometimes, I guess.

[29:07] Jesse McAnally: Yeah. You need to rewatch it with legal cannabis.

[29:10] Alan Seales: Yeah. I think weed in general might have some unforeseen side effects that we're not quite aware of yet. You know, just kind of like birth control.

[29:17] Jesse McAnally: So just be cautious, is all. You might stop having babies.

[29:20] Alan Seales: Yeah. Okay. Well, it is weird that we have just kind of made women a control for uh untested pill for the last 60 years. You know what I mean?

[29:28] Jesse McAnally: Wait, how is it untested after the season?

[29:30] Alan Seales: It's very tested, man.

[29:32] Jesse McAnally: I don't know. I think it's a little weird. Because they there wasn't like the normal procedures when that first came out in the 70s. They just kind of released it out there and said good luck. And we haven't had like the 50 years of like what's gone on.

[29:44] Liz Eston: Well, okay, okay. Female presenting in, yeah, female presenter in the room. What are your opinions?

[29:51] Jesse McAnally: Uh well, I'm on birth control for an actual medical condition, so I have a very uh different view of things.

[29:58] Liz Eston: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. But in general, I think birth control, even if it's mild not as tested as other things. I think it's a net positive to the world because a lot of women in before birth control kept getting pregnant on accident, and then they got then they died before the kid was even born because of pregnancy complications.

[30:19] Jesse McAnally: And not to mention the I just want to mention this. The creator of birth control believed in eugenics, and I don't support eugenics, but I support birth control.

[30:27] Liz Eston: Big big big big conversations here in the Unlimited 2 episode. Anyway, I agree with birth control, because it's important. And people who are female, few people who are female uh biologically shouldn't worry about having kids if they don't want them. Or say you're me and have a medical condition that requires hormones. Um it's nice to have it easily.

[30:50] Jesse McAnally: I agree, but I also think they should develop a male birth control or male presenting birth control. Birth control for people with penises. So that all the responsibility is not on women. And I feel like a lot of folks just are dragging their feet on that without the same rush to get it out there potential that they did in the 70s.

[31:07] Alan Seales: Alright, Jess.

[31:08] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[31:09] Alan Seales: Box was stained under cellophane wrapping.

[31:12] Jesse McAnally: What?

[31:13] Alan Seales: That's a five.

[31:14] Jesse McAnally: That's correct.

[31:14] Alan Seales: He still got the shit.

[31:15] Jesse McAnally: Box was hooed on a Hawaiha box.

[31:20] Alan Seales: This was stained.

[31:21] Jesse McAnally: Oh, the box okay.

[31:24] Alan Seales: Because it's a bootleg DVD.

[31:25] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[31:26] Alan Seales: Yes.

[31:27] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[31:27] Alan Seales: I'm with you.

[31:28] Jesse McAnally: At a Sharpie that said I L C S2.

[31:30] Alan Seales: Is it like the DVDs you get in Chinatown here in New York?

[31:34] Jesse McAnally: Honestly, the picture does kind of look like those DVDs.

[31:36] Alan Seales: Yeah, right?

[31:37] Jesse McAnally: Okay.

[31:37] Alan Seales: Yes.

[31:39] Jesse McAnally: As described.

[31:41] Alan Seales: Five.

[31:41] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[31:42] Alan Seales: Yeah, baby. Didn't didn't do it.

[31:45] Jesse McAnally: One wrong.

[31:46] Alan Seales: Yeah, it's hard. When I agree with everything they say, gotta be a five.

[31:51] Jesse McAnally: As described.

[31:52] Alan Seales: As described. Uh Jez.

[31:54] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[31:55] Alan Seales: You gotta know what you're getting into in order to appreciate this series.

[31:59] Jesse McAnally: What I uh I gotta do five years of a cultural studies course on In Living Color. The Wayne's brothers. I need to do research. There are multiple books about In Living Color that you could read. One written by Tommy Davidson.

[32:12] Alan Seales: You think I know how to read, Liz?

[32:14] Liz Eston: I think you know how to read, because that's why he's in podcasting, because he can't read.

[32:18] Jesse McAnally: Yeah. If I was in any other field, uh it would be because I knew how to read. This is the only field that allows me to just to just wing it.

[32:26] Alan Seales: It is a five.

[32:27] Jesse McAnally: Yes. He dictates into a phone when or into uh a stenography machine when he's script writing.

[32:34] Alan Seales: Alright, Alan.

[32:35] Jesse McAnally: Yes, I am. You are currently tied. So if you don't get this, I'm gonna remain tied.

[32:41] Alan Seales: And he's missed he missed the first one. How are we tied?

[32:43] Jesse McAnally: Um there's only eight and he missed the first one. He went first.

[32:46] Alan Seales: Okay.

[32:46] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, yeah. I'm good. I'm good. So you can win this.

[32:48] Alan Seales: So you can win this or tie it. I haven't won in a long time. I'm feeling this one.

[32:52] Jesse McAnally: Alright. Seems like seems like the real deal to me.

[32:55] Alan Seales: Five.

[32:56] Jesse McAnally: That's a one.

[32:56] Alan Seales: You're tied.

[32:58] Jesse McAnally: No, how does it feel to lose Alan Seales?

[33:04] Alan Seales: Feels normal.

[33:05] Jesse McAnally: Well, I technically uh no one lost, you both won, but you know.

[33:08] Alan Seales: Yeah, how does it feel to share the winner's circle?

[33:11] Jesse McAnally: If I didn't win, I lost, Liz.

[33:14] Liz Eston: Um, I think it's time to wrap this on up with Ice Ice Baby parody, White White Baby, where Jim Carrey plays Vanilla Ice in a wonderful little bit that is cut out of most cable re-releases as well as DVD releases so much that it has angered most people that buy the DVDs.

[33:42] Jesse McAnally: Maybe never. I'll become richer with every endeavor. I'm living large I'm a bank is stupid, because I just listened to real rap and dope.

[34:06] Alan Seales: It is a very popular sketch, probably one of the most iconic sketches from the early In Living Color days without a reusing a recurring character. I thought it was- like I said, I think he's incredible as Vanilla Ice. Like it has five million views on YouTube. Still, it is very popular. I think the only thing that has it topped as far as In Living Color and Jim Carrey goes is the imposter music video, uh, where he does an impression of snow. Um, uh an artist no one remembers.

[34:34] Jesse McAnally: I don't even notice. Remember Informer? That one song from the 90s, that guy.

[34:40] Alan Seales: No, we'll talk about that soon.

[34:41] Jesse McAnally: Yeah. Um in another episode. But it was not a good song, and Jim Carrey did the voice of a lot of the writers of In Living Color making fun of him very well. Um, but this is also making fun of white white men trying to claim black culture in a very effective way. What is our overall thoughts on In Living Color season two? And is it an al-righty then or a no spank you?

[35:04] Jesse McAnally: Um, I go?

[35:07] Alan Seales: Okay.

[35:07] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, because you're d you're the descending opinion you most of the time, so I want you'll go first.

[35:11] Alan Seales: It's fine. It's fine. It's like the lightest alrighty then you can imagine. I enjoy Jim Carrey in it. The brown face is kind of weird. Didn't like it. Hope he doesn't do it again. Doubt it will pop up much in the rest of his career. Um and yeah, Fire Marshall Bill, highlight probably started his entire career on the trajectory it currently has. Um yeah. Um alrighty then.

[35:32] Alan Seales: I am it is it is definitely an alrighty then, and I will give it stronger than the lightest alrighty then ever.

[35:39] Jesse McAnally: That's pretty naysayer, you naysayer.

[35:42] Alan Seales: It isn't. It's just like okay, you know, it's not like I'm like in love with it. I think there's some pretty funny chuckles in there. And it makes me appreciate uh uh the the fast forward through half of the show.

[35:54] Jesse McAnally: We faster through half of the show. Let's be honest with ourselves and that audience. Not because I didn't enjoy it, but because it's a lot to binge when you're gonna do it.

[36:01] Alan Seales: Yeah, it's a lot to watch, y'all regular life. How many hours do you have to sit down if you weren't spasspoarding through the sh the sketches he wasn't?

[36:11] Jesse McAnally: So 406 minutes.

[36:14] Alan Seales: 46 minutes divided by 60.

[36:17] Jesse McAnally: 6.766.

[36:19] Alan Seales: Yeah. So nearly seven hours. Who has that time? You know what? If Bernie Sanders implemented the 32 hour work week like he is presenting now, we might have had more time to watch all of In Living Color.

[36:33] Jesse McAnally: Right. So call your senators and say vote for the 32 hours so we have more time to watch In Living Color. That's quote our podcast specifically.

[36:41] Alan Seales: Um about you.

[36:43] Jesse McAnally: Uh I'm gonna give it I'm gonna do a light alrighty then. It's good. Fire Marshall Bill is funny. Um, it's just like a lot, and it's not like life-changing or anything, but it's funny. Like, what else is there to say here? What the brown face is there. It's funny. The transphobia is there.

[37:05] Alan Seales: Oh, that was really bad.

[37:07] Jesse McAnally: I mean, that yeah, that doesn't really hold up. It doesn't hold it all up the minute it started. It was like, oh no.

[37:13] Alan Seales: Oh yeah.

[37:13] Jesse McAnally: But they're pushing boundaries. They were being edgy.

[37:15] Alan Seales: Yeah, until it ages badly in the 2000s. Uh, but yeah, uh alrighty then. Pretty good.

[37:21] Jesse McAnally: Well, thank you guys for watching. Please follow us on iTunes and Spotify carried away with Justin Allen. We're send us an email, carried away podcast at gmail.com. Our title card was created by the amazing Grace Aki. Go follow them on Instagram at it's Grace Aki. This show is produced and edited by the wonderful Elizabeth Eston. Our theme song is I choose you by the band Thanks. Thank you to the Broadway Podcast Network for having us on the platform and for not kicking us off this week for bringing up Jim Carrey's brown face. I know you have vested interest in Jim Carrey's stock and that brought it down, and I appreciate you not getting your corporate interest tied up with our show.

[37:58] Alan Seales: Alright, anything else we have left to say before we wrap this on up?

[38:01] Jesse McAnally: You didn't have any awkward transitions this episode. I'm slightly disappointed.

[38:06] Alan Seales: Speaking of slacking, let's end this episode.

[38:08] Jesse McAnally: I feel like I feel like Liz and I used all of our awkward transitions on our the Nicholas Sparks thing.

[38:19] Alan Seales: It eventually just became speaking of cuck and I kept saying it.

[38:22] Jesse McAnally: Alright, we'll see you next time on Carrey'd Away. Bye everyone. Fire safety. It's important. Let me tell you something.