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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #428 - Studio Sucky, Part 3: Cheeses of Nazareth

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The troops fight abroad, and sketch comedians fight on the home front. In our latest dispatch from the universe of Aaron Sorkin's STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP, we ponder the author's tortured relationship with everything from advertising to gender to Woody Allen via "The Nevada Day" Parts 1 & 2 and "The Option Period." PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/528-studio-sucky-105072974

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0:00.0

When you're buying cigarettes, buy the brand you like.

0:04.4

Take good.

0:05.5

Carry yourself.

0:06.2

Smoke a lucky strike.

0:09.6

Well, welcome to Michael and Us.

0:12.1

I'm Will Sloan.

0:12.8

Here, as always with.

0:14.1

Luke Savage.

0:14.9

Welcome back, everyone.

0:16.3

We're recording this right after we recorded the Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy episode. And I found that movie a

0:22.5

little difficult to follow. So we were, we were ready to loosen up a little bit. Get back to

0:27.6

the studio 60. We ate our vegetables. Now at the ice cream bar. We're ready to dive into dessert.

0:32.9

There is some tension in this episode because layoffs are coming. There be the very model of a modern network TV show.

0:40.8

There is some tension in this episode because layoffs are coming.

0:43.3

There are money troubles at the network. But these layoffs can be avoided if Studio 60 begins accepting product placement.

0:50.3

Now, as Bradley Whitford, I believe it is, says, this show has existed for 20 years to satirize the establishment.

0:56.9

We can't do that if we are the establishment, which is such a hilarious thing to say when you were a network show.

1:03.2

For fuck's sake, the show has spent nine weeks at this point establishing that, like, they are so the establishment that they've been on the air for 20 years and are in the most

1:11.8

historic studio. This is the establishment. Product placement would be a bridge too far. But they're saying,

1:17.7

well, but we'll lose 15 jobs. What's, what's going to happen? What's going to happen? No, we can't,

1:22.1

we can't accept ads from Sony and Samsung. He says, reducing Studio 60 to an extended commercial for iPods is a solution that would be calamitous.

1:31.3

Now, it's interesting when you choose his iPods and you think, is he just picking a product out of thin air?

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