Best in Show- Episode #854
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Cathy and Todd discuss Best in Show to honor Catherine O’Hara and dive into America’s Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show in Philadelphia, where nothing “big” happens and that is exactly the joke. They examine Christopher Guest’s mockumentary style, made without a traditional script, in which an ensemble performs identity inside a highly rule-bound world. They move through their typical categories and share plenty of their favorite clips as they explore how the film, released in 2000 before reality TV normalized confessionals, predicted The Office and Parks and Recreation. Cathy and Todd connect the movie to modern life, where we curate versions of ourselves at school, work, in parenting spaces, and on social media, and reflect on what this means for girls who are trained to perform likability, calm, and competence.
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| 0:00.0 | From Philadelphia, it's the 125th annual Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. |
| 0:06.5 | 3,000 dogs competing for Best in Show. |
| 0:10.9 | To think that in some countries, these dogs are eaten. |
| 0:15.1 | Cookie and I work as a team. |
| 0:17.5 | We met at this dance. |
| 0:19.0 | He didn't want a dance. |
| 0:20.0 | I got two left feet. I thought he was kidding. |
| 0:24.1 | But I wasn't. I was born with two left feet. |
| 0:29.2 | Beatrice has been showing signs of depression. Ever since she saw us having sex, what would you like to say to Beatrice right now? |
| 0:40.5 | I'm sorry, you had to see that. |
| 0:43.5 | One more. |
| 0:44.0 | I've been hairdresser about 14 years. |
| 0:46.5 | And I went to a show. |
| 0:48.1 | I asked my ex-wife, who's that? |
| 0:49.7 | She says, that's Scott. |
| 0:51.2 | We got top loin, photo house, teabone. |
| 0:53.7 | We got everything. So basically, you know, meat. All right. Hi, everybody. My name's Todd Adams. This is Kathy Adams. Welcome back to Zen Pop. Mm-hmm. There's so much in that clip because Brittany's like, I asked my ex-wife who that was. Like, there's just so much goodness in this show. |
| 1:11.4 | So everybody, we were supposed to do misery today, real uplifting film, but we |
| 1:16.1 | were finishing off Rob Reiner Month. |
| 1:17.6 | But as everybody knows, by now, Catherine O'Hara passed away last week. |
| 1:21.9 | And Todd and I are like, we have to honor that because she's one of our favorite comedians. |
| 1:26.0 | Honoring a lot of dead people this last few weeks oh it's not great um but we wanted to do i think you'll agree is this your favorite |
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