So our journey this episode takes us to a recital, where Amos and Edda get a less than glowing review from a critic. They are SO BAD at taking any amount of criticism that they go onstage the next night to flip the critic off. Oh wait! Yeah. In this world, Amos and Edda have a multi-night engagement AND the critic comes to EVERY performance AND writes about every performance. Just like in real life! So Amos flips off the audience (as a way of showing the audience that he disapproves of the critic's take) and Edda joins him. Then there's a reaction to THAT reaction, which also rubs Amos and Edda the wrong way. Because why wouldn't they be anything but, as they admit, childish, vindictive and ridiculous? There's a brief Sunday strip sidebar about how a bunch of scientists ask Amos to ask Edda how she keeps her boobs in her dress. I wish we were kidding about this, but no, this is REALLY what the Sunday strip is about. Then we return to the critic storyline where the critic shows up for a THIRD STRAIGHT performance to explain himself to Edda. She takes it well, and by that I mean she threatens to make him strip naked and dance in front of the audience. But only for the first 100 attendees. Yeah. It made zero sense to us either. Good times!
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This childish, vindictive and ridiculous episode includes:
- Breakfast at a hotel
- Freaky Friday
- Going to the doctor
- Half-marathons & marathons
- The dangers of the omelette bar
- GU packets
- Couches
- The kids in Weapons
- Orangutans
- Leif Garrett
- Tiger Beat Magazine
- Shooting rude gestures
- Fred Mertz pants
- "Puttin' on the Ritz"
- Kash Patel sitting on a chair
- Seinfeld
- Juggs magazine
- Janet Jackson
- The Thing from Fantastic Four
- Rush
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