104: Ruth Buzzi & Freaky Friday

Today’s special guest is Laugh-In favorite Ruth Buzzi, but will she and the Muppets be able to withstand the terror of MechaKermit? Then we watch the 1976 film Freaky Friday, which is much stranger than either of us expected. The title probably should have warned us.

Topics of discussion include a plethora of recurring sketches that feel like filler, frustrated housewives in popular culture, John Astin’s unfortunate resemblance to William F. Buckley, and droopy basset hounds.

Further resources:

• Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - 10 Things I Hate About You
• Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Drop Dead Gorgeous
• Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: “Jack Klugman”
• Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
• Gump - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• The Lost Saucer opening
• Sesame Street: “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”