There’s a line in the film Bad Santa where Billy Bob Thornton tells the kid disappointed by the fact that his mutilated Advent calendar garnered him just one lousy candy corn a phrase that I like to carry around with me in all facets of life.
The line:
"They all can’t be winners, can they?"
It’s so true. Despite the best intentions of the artist, the hours put into the project and the talent therein, sometimes there are clunkers. Hey, it happens. After all, sometimes even Michael Jordan had a bad game.
After the avant jazz that Dennis Deitch and yours truly put on to the Internets last week in the show billed as Episode 12.5, you can almost expect a bit of a letdown. It’s common—human nature even—for something like that to happen. It’s not on purpose, mind you, it just is.
Oh sure, we came out gunning with the full roster plus Sarah Baicker’s friend, Pat Gallen, but as our friend Dan Roche pointed out early in the Episode No. 13, it was a lot like Clyde Frazier and Pearl Monroe working with the Knicks back in the early ‘70s.
No, we’re not sure which one of us is Clyde and which is Pearl… but listen in anyway:
Still, it was nice to have the whole gang back together again. A few of the old favorites from episodes past turned up as well as a rundown of all the great laundromats across the U.S. for all of those out there looking for clean clothes.
So we’ll be back with the crew next week, too. Hopefully we’re back to be-bopping and scatting as usual as long as Dave DeBusschere doesn’t take away any shots from Clyde and Pearl.