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Okay, walk me through this again.

Hun.

Honey, if I'm going to get whacked off, I at least deserve to understand why it's happening.

What are you smiling about?

No, you're very sweet. We're not going, hon, we're not going to get whacked off.

I think we are.

I don't, I don't think we are. I don't think we are. Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with the Slate's spoiler special on date night, the new comedy with Steve Carell and Tina Faye. I'm here in the studio with my dear friend Tanner Colby. Hi, Tanner.

Hello, Dana. Who hasn't been on a spoiler special in what, seven or eight months now? Seven or eight months, I've been on the road. You've been my traditional comedy companion. I always bring you in for the comedies and I've really missed you, but do you want to tell everybody what you've been doing on the road? Well, I've been out on the road. I'm researching my current book, which is about why I don't know any black people. And it is called Some of My Best Friends Are Black, A a history of racial integration in America.

And your previous work includes?

My previous work has nothing to do with race.

It is about two white men who died from drug overdoses, John Belushi and the Chris Farley Show,

biographies of those two entertainers.

I like it.

I love that you're taking your writing career on a sharp veer off into racial politics.

We're taking a hard right turn, yeah.

All right. So last night we just stepped out of Date Night, which is the new Steve Carrel Tina Fey comedy directed by Sean Levy, whose previous directing credits include, well, his main big credits are the night of the museum movies. Right. So this is sort of his first, I guess, adult comedy um do you want to take over the plot summary and we'll take it from there uh basic premise they're uh

Tina fe and Steve Corell are a bored stereotypical almost two stereotypical almost paint by numbers

suburban couple in suburban new jersey and they're bored with their lives and the love has gone out

of their marriage except that it really hasn't because they seem to be kind of doing okay. But the whole idea is

that they're unhappy and stuck in a rut. And so they decided to go on a crazy date night in Manhattan

and they go to a restaurant and they can't get a table. So they take someone else's reservation,

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