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Last Looks: Date with an Angel

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Last Looks: Date with an Angel", an episode of How Did This Get Made? published February 20, 2026 (40 min, about 7,484 words). It mentions 36 people, works and ideas, including Paul Shear, Shoot 'Em Up, Discord, Jason Mantzoukas, Wonderman.

What this episode is about

A quick overview of How Did This Get Made’s last looks on Date with an Angel, highlighting fan-tagline suggestions, debates over the film’s brain-tumor premise, discord-driven misdirections, and previews of audience corrections, deleted scenes, and upcoming discussion. It also teases current TV favorites and the next movie pick.

Key takeaways

  • Discord drama reveals how vote-driven hype often backfires, exposing groupthink and fragile fan cultures alike.
  • Mouth-to-mouth silliness in Date with an Angel becomes a microcosm for 80s filmmaking misfires and CPR myths.
  • Tumor as plot device reads like a running joke about unreliable explanations—ludicrous but oddly self-aware meta-humor.
  • Corrections segments turn fan feedback into performative accountability, yet still boost engagement more than the episode itself.
  • Go Van Goes' meta-taglines and theme song props show the show’s strength: turning chaos into playful, shareable lore.

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Discord, Paul Shear, Jacob's Ladder, Jason Mantzoukas
  2. – 10:00: Only Murders in the Building, Born Sexy Yesterday, Discord, Tumor
  3. – 15:00: Passion Play, James Meredith, Paul Shear, Discord
  4. – 20:00: Discord, Jason Mantzoukas
  5. – 25:00: Wonderman, Los Angeles
  6. – 30:00: 30 Rock, Astro City, Wonderman, Girls5eva
  7. – 35:00: Sarah Sherman, 30 Rock, Dinosaur Improv, Reggie Dinkens
  8. – 39:57: Clive Owen, Discord, The Core, Monica Bellucci

Notable quotes from "Last Looks: Date with an Angel"

  • For that opening theme song. Remember, if you have an alt movie tagline or title, submit it to us on our Discord at discord.gg/httgm.
    about Discord · at
  • Flip Flops is actually the fake song written by one of the characters and only Murders in the Building. it's the song that they used to justify why he gets so many random…
    about Only Murders in the Building · at
  • Just kind of wanted to let the audience know that there is a name for this trope. It is called born sexy yesterday.
    about Born Sexy Yesterday · at
  • We're going to have ourselves a conversation, just chat. No quarantine or vaccination, just chat. Paul and Jason. A couple of cats. Just chat. Just chat. Just chat.
    about Jason Mantzoukas · at
  • It, I've been talking this show up for such a long time just quietly to people because it is unlike anything in the Marvel world. It feels like an FX show kind of like what…
    about Wonderman · at
  • Interested in more story. I'm not interested in more mystery or more mystery box or I just want to hang out with these characters that I like more because that's the kind of…
    about 30 Rock · at
  • Never not funny every time she hits it kills me. It kills me. It kill I can't recommend it enough. It's one of the best comedy specials I've seen in years. I think I was going to say there is literally nothing like this special.
    about Sarah Sherman · at
  • Week, we'll be going from an angel smoocher to a killer shooter. That's right, the winner of this year's Discord fan vote poll is the 2007 action comedy shootup, starring Clive…
    about Paul Shear · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Paul Shear — Person · Host · 3 mentions · first at
    He hosts the 'Last Looks' episode, reads Discord corrections, discusses TV recommendations with Jason, and announces the next film (Shoot 'Em Up) after a Discord poll controversy.
  • Jason Mantzoukas — Person · Co-host / Segment guest · 2 mentions · first at
    He joins Paul Shear for the 'Just Chat' segment to discuss shows they’re watching (notably Wonderman, 30 Rock, Girls5eva) and a comedy special recommendation.
  • Sarah Sherman — Person · Referenced comedian (recommended special) · 2 mentions · first at
    Paul Shear and Jason Mantzoukas strongly recommend her comedy special 'Live and In the Flesh,' praising its originality and her pre-SNL persona 'Sarah Squirm.'
  • Clive Owen — Person · Referenced actor (Shoot 'Em Up cast) · 3 mentions · first at
    Named as the star of next week’s film; Paul Shear frames the movie around his character 'Mr. Smith' and discusses his fit for the role.
    Right, the winner of this year's Discord fan vote poll is the 2007 action comedy shootup, starring Clive Owen, Monica Baluchcci, and Paul Giamati. Now, I will say that even…
  • Monica Bellucci — Person · Referenced actor (Shoot 'Em Up cast) · 2 mentions · first at
    Named as a principal cast member of next week’s film; Paul Shear praises her performance.
    Meets John Wick. Paul Giamatti gives a amazing performance. I got to say Monica Belaluchcci gives an amazing performance and we will talk about why Clive Owen was not raised up for this kind of non-winking smart.
  • Paul Giamatti — Person · Referenced actor (Shoot 'Em Up cast) · 2 mentions · first at
    Named as a principal cast member of next week’s film; Paul Shear highlights his performance as 'amazing.'
    From an army of gunmen. It is essentially like a Bugs Bunny cartoon meets John Wick. Paul Giamatti gives a amazing performance. I got to say Monica Belaluchcci gives an amazing…
  • Steve Martin — Person · Referenced actor (Only Murders discussion) · 1 mention · first at
    Discussed in relation to Only Murders in the Building—specifically his character’s wealth and the in-show song 'Angel in Flip Flops.'
    He gets so many random royalties and can still live in the fancy building in New York. So, yeah, that is Steve Martin's character song, Angel Fit Flops from Only Murders in the Building, which you can find on YouTube.
  • James Meredith — Person · Referenced actor (anecdote punchline) · 3 mentions · first at
    Mentioned in a listener story about seeing nudity in 'Clash of the Titans' and mistakenly thinking Burgess Meredith was a woman—leading to the joke 'Burgess Meredith boobs.'
    Is a tumor our new Jacob's ladder? What do Burgess Meredith boobs look like? And the controversial Discord vote that tried to trick us but wound up messing you all up. That's right. All this and.
  • Edie Patterson — Person · Referenced performer (upcoming show lineup) · 1 mention · first at
    Named as part of the Dinosaur Improv lineup at Largo that Paul Shear promotes.
    Dinosaur Improv will be at Largo on February 28th. It's a Saturday. Come out. Nicole Byer, Edie Patterson, Danielle Schneider, Rob Pub, myself. It is going to be a great big…
  • Nicole Byer — Person · Referenced performer (upcoming show lineup) · 1 mention · first at
    Named as part of the Dinosaur Improv lineup at Largo that Paul Shear promotes.
    Dinosaur Improv will be at Largo on February 28th. It's a Saturday. Come out. Nicole Byer, Edie Patterson, Danielle Schneider, Rob Pub, myself. It is going to be a great big…
  • Taylor Swift — Person · Referenced subject of Paul Shear mini-doc · 1 mention · first at
    Paul Shear plugs a mini documentary he made about Taylor Swift, available on his homepage.
    And if you've not watched yet, my Taylor Swift mini is available right on my homepage. I made a little mini doc about Taylor Swift. Yeah, look at that. I make stuff. Anyway, enough with the plugs.
  • Timothy Olyphant — Person · Referenced actor (The League anecdote) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as having played a white sushi chef in an episode of The League, in a listener question about whether Paul Shear’s story inspired it.
    Chef who cooked for you ended up being white. Did this story inspire the episode of The League where Timothy Olampant played a white sushi chef who acts Japanese? as a matter…
  • Danielle Schneider — Person · Referenced performer (upcoming show lineup) · 1 mention · first at
    Named as part of the Dinosaur Improv lineup at Largo that Paul Shear promotes.
    Dinosaur Improv will be at Largo on February 28th. It's a Saturday. Come out. Nicole Byer, Edie Patterson, Danielle Schneider, Rob Pub, myself. It is going to be a great big…
  • Rob Pub — Person · Referenced performer (upcoming show lineup) · 1 mention · first at
    Named as part of the Dinosaur Improv lineup at Largo that Paul Shear promotes; no additional context is provided in the transcript.
    February 28th. It's a Saturday. Come out. Nicole Byer, Edie Patterson, Danielle Schneider, Rob Pub, myself. It is going to be a great big show. I want to say thank you to…

Companies & orgs

  • Discord — Organization · Community platform / Voting mechanism · 10 mentions · first at
    Used for listener submissions (taglines, corrections) and for the fan poll that selected the next movie; the episode discusses alleged vote manipulation leading to a tie.

Concepts & topics

  • Born Sexy Yesterday — Concept · Named trope / Analytical lens · 3 mentions · first at
    A caller provides the trope name to explain 'Date with an Angel' and similar films; Paul Shear expands on it as a dynamic enabling male superiority/mansplaining.
  • Tumor — Concept · Running joke / Explanatory trope · 2 mentions · first at
    Used as a comedic catch-all explanation for confusing plot points in 'Date with an Angel' and framed as a recurring device like 'Jacob's Ladder' on the show.
    Ghost Bag, for that. And yes, you did just remind me that this is a movie that asks the age-old question, does the main character have a brain tumor? Maybe that's our new…
  • Astro City — Concept · Referenced influence/comparison concept · 3 mentions · first at
    Used as a comparison point for Wonderman’s perspective—superhero stories focused on ordinary people and city life; discussed as an adaptation that 'no one has done.'
    Like and I think that's the fun part of the show is like it's a different perspective. It's kind of like what Astro City was to me back in the day. And I don't understand why Kurt Buick book I have no idea why no one has done Astro.
  • Jacob's Ladder — Concept · Running reference point / trope label · 2 mentions · first at
    Used as a shorthand for a recurring 'is it all a hallucination/brain issue?' explanation; Paul Shear jokes that a tumor may be the show’s new 'Jacob’s Ladder.'
    Just remind me that this is a movie that asks the age-old question, does the main character have a brain tumor? Maybe that's our new Jacob's Ladder in this show. a big shout…
  • CPR — Concept · Referenced medical concept (scene critique) · 1 mention · first at
    Discussed while critiquing a character’s incorrect mouth-to-mouth technique in 'Date with an Angel,' highlighting misunderstanding of resuscitation.
    Like he thought that he was like kind of helping take extra air out. look, it was the 80s. We didn't know from CPR, right way, wrong way. He was doing it his way. maybe for the…

Places & events

  • Los Angeles — Place · Referenced place (local context) · 3 mentions · first at
    Appears as Paul Shear’s local context (bookstore support, caller from LA) and as the setting for the 'struggling actor in LA' framing of Wonderman.
    The books right there and you help support a local bookstore, Shiovalieres, which is the oldest bookstore in Los Angeles. I don't get any money from it.
  • London — Place · Caller location · 1 mention · first at
    A caller ('Winwin from London') calls in to correct a reference about 'Angel in Flip Flops' from Only Murders in the Building.
    Let's go to the phones. Winwin from London. What do you got?
  • Berlin Wall — Event · Referenced historical event (plot detail) · 1 mention · first at
    Paul Shear cites it while correcting a caller: he recalls a joke premise that a song’s limited success was tied to Germany and the Berlin Wall falling.
    The show as well. But that show was never a hit. It was like I believe a song that only came out in Germany and then the Berlin Wall fell and then that like prevented him from…
  • Hawaii — Place · Referenced place (anecdote setting) · 1 mention · first at
    Paul Shear references an experience in Hawaii involving a sushi chef, in response to a question about a similar storyline on The League.
    For that whatsoever. I believe that was something that happened to Jeff or Jackie. We also had that experience in Hawaii one time. And I got to tell you, I don't want to I…

Media & podcasts

  • Shoot 'Em Up — Media · Next-week film announcement / Core topic · 12 mentions
    Announced as the next episode’s movie and the winner of the Discord fan poll; Paul Shear describes its premise, cast, and the poll controversy that led to its selection.
  • Wonderman — Media · Referenced TV show recommendation · 4 mentions · first at
    Paul Shear and Jason Mantzoukas discuss it at length as a standout Marvel show with a character-study tone and low-stakes storytelling.
  • 30 Rock — Media · Referenced TV rewatch recommendation · 4 mentions · first at
    Paul Shear and Jason Mantzoukas discuss rewatching it, praising its joke density and episodic structure, and using it to fill a 'Brooklyn 99' viewing gap.
  • Only Murders in the Building — Media · Referenced TV show (fact-check discussion) · 3 mentions · first at
    A caller corrects a reference to 'Angel in Flip Flops' as a fake song from the show; Paul Shear debates details about why Steve Martin’s character is rich and the song’s chart performance.
  • The Core — Media · Referenced competing poll option · 2 mentions · first at
    It tied with Shoot 'Em Up in the Discord poll; Paul Shear claims the tie resulted from last-second vote switching and rejects covering it due to length.
    But here's the thing, the core was way too long. we're not going to do that. And I did not think that shoot him up was a great choice. So you [ __ ] around and you found out, okay, we are going to do shoot them up,.
  • Passion Play — Media · Referenced comparison film · 2 mentions · first at
    Brought up as a parallel to 'Date with an Angel' and categorized as another 'Born Sexy Yesterday' style angel story with similar plot beats.
    Sparkle O writes, Was anyone else struck by the parallels to Passion Play, the Megan Fox Mickey Ror movie covered on the pod last year? You don't got to remind us about Passion Play. We love Passion Play. I would say Passion.
  • Clash of the Titans — Media · Referenced film (school viewing anecdote) · 1 mention · first at
    Referenced in a listener story about a substitute teacher playing it in class and the shock of a nude scene, leading to the Burgess Meredith joke.
    Paul's experience of being shown Clash of the Titans as a kid in school resonated with me so hard. I think in sixth grade, a substitute teacher played it for my class, too. And I remember the.
  • Girls5eva — Media · Referenced TV recommendation · 1 mention · first at
    Jason Mantzoukas recommends it as a favorite comedy with much of the 30 Rock creative team.
    I was like good. So we are Here's what I'll say. If you get there I will reiterate my absolute fandom for Girls 5A which is almost all of the creative team is so funny. And…
  • Reggie Dinkens — Media · Referenced TV recommendation · 1 mention · first at
    Jason Mantzoukas recommends 'The Rise and Fall of Reggie Dinkens' (as titled in the conversation) and notes the first episode is available on Peacock.
    Girls 5A which is almost all of the creative team is so funny. And then now the new show the rise and fall of Reggie Dinkens I think is what it is.

Sponsors

  • Dinosaur Improv — Organization · Promoted live comedy show · 2 mentions · first at
    Paul Shear promotes an upcoming Dinosaur Improv show at Largo and later references a friend 'Phil Jackson' writing on a comedy series, described as 'from Dinosaur.'
    Our good friend Phil Jackson from Dinosaur just writer. Yeah, right on it.
  • Joyful Recollections of Trauma — Book · Promoted book · 1 mention · first at
    Paul Shear promotes autographed copies and explains purchases support a local Los Angeles bookstore; he states he does not profit from these sales.
    To say thank you to everybody who is still getting autographed books, hard covers and paperbacks of Joyful Recollections of Trauma. You can always just go right to my website…
  • Largo — Place · Venue for promoted live show · 1 mention · first at
    Paul Shear announces Dinosaur Improv will perform at Largo on February 28th.
    It on the main episode, but I'm also going to break it down here as well. Dinosaur Improv will be at Largo on February 28th. It's a Saturday. Come out. Nicole Byer, Edie…

Full transcript with timestamps

Is a tumor our new Jacob's ladder? What do Burgess Meredith boobs look like? And the controversial Discord vote that tried to trick us but wound up messing you all up. That's right. All this and more on today's How Did This Get Made last looks hit the theme.

You called Paul to talk about a movie you saw. Maybe you were truly appalled. Or maybe you enjoyed the film and you're a nubious all. The last looks. Looks looks. The last looks. Tell the truth. When have you read your last book? It's a podcast. How did this get made? And this is Go Van Go. Let's get paid. The last looks. The last looks.

Smoochy. Smoochy. No, I am not an angel obsessed with kissing. It's me, your host, Paul Shear, and welcome to How Did This Get Made? Last looks, where you, the listener, get to voice your issue on Date with an Angel, a movie that Discord user Ghost Bag thinks should have had the tagline, Date with an Angel. It is a tuma. Love it. I love a little uh Kindergarten cop date with an Angel mashup. That's the kind of quality work here that we all need to be doing. So, thank you, Ghost Bag, for that. And yes, you did just remind me that this is a movie uh that asks the age-old question, does the main character have a brain tumor? Maybe that's our new Jacob's Ladder in this show. Um, a big shout out to Go Van Goes for that opening theme song. Remember, if you have an alt movie tagline or title, submit it to us on our Discord at discord.gg/httgm.

And if you have a Last Looks theme song, go to hdtg.com and click on the submit a song button on our homepage. Remember, keep them short. 15 to 20 seconds is best. Coming up on today's episode, we'll be hearing all your corrections and omissions on Date with an Angel. And I'll even share an exclusive deleted scene from our Date with an Angel episode. Then Jason will join me to chat about all the TV shows that we are currently loving, especially Wonderman. And as always, I will announce the movie for next week's episode, which also happens to be the winner of our recent Discord fan poll.

That's right. You voted, we watched, we were upset. And uh and I'll tell you, there was a lot of drama around this voting process. We're going to get into it on the main episode, but I'm also going to break it down here as well. Um, Dinosaur Improv will be at Largo on February 28th. It's a Saturday. Come out. Nicole Byer, Edie Patterson, Danielle Schneider, Rob Pub, myself. It is going to be a great big show. I want to say thank you to everybody who is still getting autographed books, uh, hard covers and paperbacks of Joyful Recollections of Trauma. You can always just go right to my website and order the books right there and you help support a local bookstore, Shiovalieres, which is the oldest bookstore in Los Angeles. I don't get any money from it.

I just do it because I love uh, shioales. They are the absolute best. And if you've not watched yet, my Taylor Swift mini is available right on my homepage. I made a little mini doc about Taylor Swift. Yeah, look at that. I make stuff. Anyway, uh enough with the plugs. Uh let's get into it. Last week we talked at length about Date with an Angel. We had questions and we might have even missed a few things. Here is your chance to set us straight. Fact check us if you will. It is now time for corrections and omissions.

Correction. Corrections and omissions. Corrections and omissions. We're told John.

Yeah. Thank you, John Falding, for that theme song. I love that. All right. So, there's a lot to get into for a movie that we did so long ago that I barely remember. So, I'm glad that this first Discord comment is about a very specific scene. So specific that I needed to pull a video reference to even have a take on it. All right, so the chat writes, "Can we talk about Tad's attempt at mouthto-mouth resuscitation? This dude awkwardly leans in for the usual movie trope of a kiss-like mouth to mouth, but then pulls up, turns his head completely away from her, and gives a huge exhale towards nothing. He then repeats this.

Now, isn't the whole point of mouthto- mouth to exhale into the other person's lungs, forcing their chest to rise and their lungs to expand? I mean, what is going on here? I mean, I think that's the only thing I could put together. like he thought that he was like kind of helping take extra air out. Uh look, it was it was the 80s. We didn't know from CPR, right way, wrong way. He was doing it his way. Um maybe for the simplest explanation for Tad's mouth-to-mouth fail, we can go back to the Discord where Archimedes returns to Oz wrote, "Blame the tumor." You know what? Yeah.

Whenever we don't understand anything in this movie, we are going to blame the tumor. Mitch Kappa chunk style writes a bit of justice for Tad. You guys thought it was crazy how he, you know, the morning after his bachelor party, he smelled his finger to check, did something inappropriate happen with that blowup doll the night before, but Mitch Kappa wants to point out it wasn't about the doll. No, the pool water had rushed in all over the floor and he was just smelling his wet hand to check. What is this liquid? I don't know if that gives us full justice for Tad there. I I I feel like it's still I mean I guess I guess what if it was pee? He was still sniffing his hand to figure out what was on it. It could have been from anything. I don't think it was If he knew it was the pool water, he wouldn't have sniffed his finger. He would have said, "Oh, it's pool water." Right. Come on, Mitch.

Let's go to the phones. Winwin from London. What do you got? Hi, Paul. This is I just listened to the Date with an Angel episode, and you make a joke about a song called Angel and Flip Flops. Just wanted to let you know, in case you didn't already, that Angel Flip Flops is actually the fake song written by um one of the characters and only Murders in the Building. Um, it's the song that they used to justify why he gets so many random royalties and can still live in the fancy building in New York. So, yeah, that is Steve Martin's character song, Angel Fit Flops from Only Murders in the Building, which you can find on YouTube.

Well, first of all, you don't have to lecture me about Only Murders in the Building. I love Only Murders in the Building. So much so that I am going to correct you on this fact. The reason why Steve Martin is rich in that show is because of Brazos and then the subsequent like reboot of Brazos. But I was going to say the song that you were talking about, Angel, yes, that was on the show as well. But that show was never a hit. It was like I believe a song that only came out in Germany and then the Berlin Wall fell and then that like prevented him from becoming like a big music star. I believe that was the premise of that joke. Uh, wow. Why do I know all of this? Uh, but they did actually release that song. I now I Googled this to accompany the show and there's a music video. So, you can watch the entire animated Angel and Flip Flops. But I I believe now as I'm looking at it even more here, it only

reached 83 on the charts. So, did not make a lot of money from that. So, I am going to see your fact and throw it back in your face. Luke, what do you got? What's up, Jason? This is Luke. Uh, I just listened to the games from Angel live show and I'm not sure if this is the kind of thing that came up during the show and was just tough for time, but you guys were talking about how similar this is to Splash and the fact that it's about, you know, this kind of otherworldly creature who doesn't understand our world and is very attractive and suddenly appears here and uh basically falls in love with the first person they see. uh just because they're the first person they see. Uh they don't really realize they could do they could get somebody better. Um I just kind of wanted to let the audience know that there is a name for this trope. It is called born sexy yesterday.

And in addition to Splash, some other prominent examples are Fifth Elements, um, How Classic, a very nanny Christmas, hot frosty, basically any Christmas movie worthy uh Christmas decoration come to life and then start dating somebody. So anyways, just wanted to uh put that out there for you and your listeners uh so you can articulate why these movies are bad or if they're into them, I got to look it up and find more of them. Anyways, talk to you later. Kisses. I uh love this term. I have been obsessed with this uh born sexy yesterday idea. Yeah, it's basically Yeah, robots, mermaids, uh like was it Tron and you you mentioned all the ones, right? It basically makes mansplaining.

Okay, I think that's the whole reason behind uh be behind this, right? is like men can then talk to pretty women and feel incredibly superior to them and not be uh in awe of their beauty. Like they like, "Oh, well, you may be beautiful, but you're a [ __ ] idiot. You need me." Uh yeah, it's it's a it's a great it's a great trope. Um thank you, Luke, for for making sure that we now have the name for it. Uh Gayen from LA, what do you got?

Hey, Paul, this is Gayen from Los Angeles. a little uh detail on um our beloved Love Bug. Uh the actor Tony Ratano whose only other major credit film credit was um Angels in the Outfield 7 years later where he played the singing umpire. So that's an acting career um defined by playing singing characters in PG-rated angel movies. Uh angel comedies. Uh that is a that's a quite a legacy if you ask me. All right. Thanks so much. Bye.

Ooh, I like that. Gayen. There we go. That's great. A little fun fact for you. Angel in the Outfield. Love that movie. Was that the one? No. Angels in the Outfield is the Christopher Lloyd one. Right where he play. Yes. Okay. I do love that movie. Uh, all right. Now, we had one last call from Jack in Wisconsin, but the call kept on cutting out. So, uh, we're just going to kind of paraphrase it. I'm sorry, Jack. Uh, call when you have a better connection. Uh, Jack says roughly, "In this episode, you and June told the story about being disappointed when the personal sushi chef who cooked for you ended up being white. Did this story inspire the episode of The League where Timothy Olampant played a white sushi chef who acts Japanese?" Um, as a matter of fact, no. I believe that that was something that was inspired by one of the creators of the show. We definitely spoke about that, but that I'm not taking any credit

for that whatsoever. I believe that was something that happened to uh Jeff or Jackie. We also had that experience in Hawaii one time. And um I got to tell you, you know, I don't want to I don't want to be racist. I don't want to be a G. I I like a Japanese sushi chef, but we we met a guy in Hawaii. He was uh serving sushi, and I got to say, the sushi was delicious. I judged a book by its cover. I actually think in a weird way, the white chefs work harder because they know that they have an uphill battle of being a white chef next to a uh a bunch of Japanese uh men and women.

Anyway, uh back to the Discord. I hope I don't get in trouble for that opinion. I'm just having fun with y'all. You know, times are weird. You never know what's going to get taken out of context. Anyway, uh back to the Discord. Sparkle O writes, "Was anyone else struck by the parallels to Passion Play, the Megan Fox Mickey Ror movie covered on the pod last year? You don't got to remind us about uh Passion Play. We We love Passion Play. I would say Passion Play, yes, you're right, is another uh Born Sexy Yesterday movie. Uh, in both movies, a man discovers uh an angel who cannot fly, and neither movie is at all interested in the theological or scientific implications of angels existing. The man must protect her from forces that want to exploit her looks for commercial gain. The angel regains the ability to fly just in time to thwart armed pursuers. And at the end, it's revealed that the man was either

dead or dying during the events of the film. Wow. Uh, are you telling me there's a lawsuit brewing? Should we have a lawsuit brewing between the writer of Passion Play and and Date with an Angel? You know what I say? Bring it. I say, let's get an old ass lawsuit out. Sue it now. Don't be like the guy who sued Top Gun like a year after the movie came out. I say sue this movie uh way after. I mean, I guess it would be the date with an angel people suing Passion Play. And uh it feels like it the money wouldn't be great on either side of it.

But let's get an old lawsuit out so we can break down why these Angel movies are so similar. Meanwhile, Angels in the Outfield, they really did uh jump into the theological ramifications of uh what angels and baseball uh what that meant. Um anyway, we'll close out things with not a correction or a mission, but with a personal story from DK and Phil. Paul's experience of being shown Clash of the Titans as a kid in school resonated with me so hard. I think in sixth grade, a substitute teacher played it for my class, too. And I remember the nude scene vividly because it was so shocking to see breasts in my middle school classroom. I wasn't paying attention to the movie except for that scene. But I naturally wanted to know whose real life boobs I saw. So, I paid careful attention to the credits.

However, I couldn't remember the characters names. So, I just looked for the names of female actresses. I have no idea why, but for some reason I thought that Burgess Meredith was a woman. And I remember walking out of class thinking to myself, "Wow, I saw Burgess Meredith boobs." Uh, holy cow. You know, normally we just give a correction and omission to someone who brings up a great fact, but I got to say, anyone who can go toe-to-toe with me with a Paul Shear story is going to be the winner today. Yeah. Seeing Burgess Meredith boobs is the winner. And you know what? You don't get anything, but you do get this amazing song from Bears in Love. Hit it.

I love that song, by the way. Bears in Love. Woo. That's good. If you want to chime in with your own thoughts about the latest episode, hit up our Discord or call us at 619 P A L A SK. All right. Coming up after the break, Jason will stop by to chat about all the TV shows that we are watching and loving. We got some great wrecks for you. But first, take a listen to this bonus deleted scene from our Date with an Angel show where June makes fun of me for scanning a QR code wrong at a restaurant the night before the show. I I [snorts] remember this embarrassment. Take a listen. I gave you a review of the ordering process. I will say Paul, we did go to a restaurant last night and there was there was a little placard, you know, there's no menus anymore.

She's gonna burn me now. No menus anymore, which is really pissing me off. And so we had to pull up the QR code and Paul, you did say to the waitress, "I'm just on the review page."

Well, because All right. Meaning that's what it the QR code sent it was, right? It was a It was like like you know like one of those things that you put on a table in a bar where it's like the bar specials are on it, right? So it's a small little thing on the table and there was it said menu and barcode barcode one on top, one on bottom. So I scan the barcode. She's like, "No, no, no. You scan the review barcode. That's the menu barcode." I'm like, "Motherfucker, why have two barcodes on top of each other?"

Honestly, honestly, shame on that restaurant. How dare you give me a way to review before I've even gotten to the meal. It's like,

[ __ ] you. Also, that's what this reviewer felt. How often are you asked to review the restaurant in ever in general?

And I'm like, and and I I'm like I'm I'm just trying to order. I'm like, which one? My phone is catching one of them. I'm not like, oh, hold on. You know, it's like just keep it separate.

Meanwhile, they are now fully in your data. That restaurant has complete access to everything you're up to. They spent all my They took over my Visa card. Weird.

God damn it. All right, we are back. And remember, every week we are pulling old episodes out of the back catalog. Yes, out from behind. Not even a payw wall. We just don't even have a payw wall. We should, right? That's what most people do. Uh they try to monetize uh things. We we we don't really do that. Anyway, uh these matinea episodes have been a blast to listen to. Last week we focused on Double Dragon. Uh keep on checking out all of the replays of our classic episodes every Tuesday. And without any further ado, it is now time to welcome Jason to Last Looks for Little Just Chat. Tomic Waters, what do you got?

We're going to have ourselves a conversation, just chat. No quarantine or vaccination, just chat. Paul and Jason. A couple of cats. Just chat. Just chat. Just chat. [singing]

Jason, great to talk to you. And finally, we get to celebrate Date with an Angel. A movie that we recorded so many years ago. I mean, this is

a real This is a time capsule. This episode is a time capsule. Like, this is time travel from an like Oh, boy. Remember when we were innocent? Remember remember 2 years ago when we were in Minnesota?

Well, you know what's so interesting is like we record these episodes and I feel like we've done them and then certain uh fans keep track of what has not been released for a while. The Swordfish episode was an episode that was not released and what happened, what's the drama behind it? And we we try very hard not to release episodes that you can't have access to watching. Well, yeah. Oh, we don't want you to have to like pay money if you don't have to like to rent a movie or that isn't available even to do that, you know.

That was the thing like this movie was just not available. So, a lot of the times we are just constantly scanning these services to make sure that from when we did it to when we released it like somehow this fell in a little bit of a gap. I think it was going to come off whatever services it was on. I know that I've talked to the director a handful of times and he is doing a DVD release of it. Lovely guy. Uh so, a huge reveal.

Yes. Uh he has written me a handful of times. We've talked about some stuff and he wanted to have some uh kind of collaboration which by the way I can say that unofficially or maybe officially I can say that we are doing a fun collaboration with Rad the BMX movie. Uh we have a a really fun thing coming up with them. We'll talk about that more when that is going to be released and by whom.

But s suffice it to say we will be racing BMX bikes. That's all you need to know. Jason and I have been training getting those up up.

Oh yeah. Paul does the pedaling and I'm standing behind him on the pegs. It looks good. It looks good.

It looks great. It looks great. You know, last time we talked, we got to only speak about a few things that we like and I feel like everybody's been asking and I've been wanting to talk to you about this, but Wonderman. Wonderman, the new Marvel show.

Now, full disclosure, I'm only halfway through the season. Great. I don't think we should reveal that much. I will tell you this that uh during the pandemic, my friend Andrew Guest, who is the showrunner of that, he was brought on to Hawkeye and he kind of got in the Marvel world and uh and I really loved the Hawkeye series and how what they did with Hawkeye. He got tasked with bringing this show to life and he showed me early cuts. I got to see I had to sign so many NDAs. It was amazing. and I got to read the scripts and when I saw it, I've been talking this show up for such a long time just quietly to people because it is unlike anything in the Marvel world. It feels like an FX show kind of like what Legion was in the sense that it's completely in its own thing. Now, yes, there are characters that come in like Ben Kingsley is great, but it's like a Lethal It's like has a Lethal Weapon kind of vibe to it in the

sense it's a buddy thing. And I'm saying this to the audience like if you are not keeping up with Marvel, yes,

it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter at all. You don't need to know about multiveres. You don't need to know about Loki's stuff. You don't need to. This is a slice of life for this one character. Uh Simon uh who is

not Simon West, but yes, Simon. That's what I almost said, too. But that's the guy who made Conair.

Yes. But his name is Simon. And he's a good guy. Uh it's so good. And it's Simon Williams.

Simon Williams. Thank you. And it's What's his name? Yah Abdul Matin from Our Beloved Ambulance. I believe he was in the Michael movie ambulance and he is what I love about this is he's a struggling actor in LA. And the the show is really about the kind of constant ego death of a struggling actor in LA who secretly has superpowers that you really do not really get access to. It's not a swaggery kind of, you know, uh, it is it's a character study.

Well, here's what I will say. I I have not started again. I because I've watched and I read a bunch and I I have to go back in and see. I know things were reordered, but have you gotten to see the day that he goes on set when he has got a bit part in a TV show?

American Horror Story. Yes. Yes. Incredible. That is truly one of the it is so uncomfortable.

Yes. and and so hilarious and oh yeah, it it gets me it's so beautifully done. It's so [ __ ] beautifully done.

It's so He's such a phenomenal actor at portraying again this is someone who has like omega level powers who is so cripplingly insecure as an actor and that that is just he cannot get out of his own way. He does an incredible job portraying this character and Ben Kingsley is along for the side along for the ride like you're saying as his buddy and then they just are go in some scenes they're just going back and forth trading verses from famous plays like Ben Kingsley's just allowed to do a twominute monologue from Shakespeare.

It's the show is [ __ ] great. Oh, I I've loved it. We got we have some fun friends on the show too. Carl Tart pops up.

Carl Tart is in an episode that's like a bottle episode. Not a bottle episode. That's like a oneoff episode that explains the history of another character from the past. And that episode

so good. So good. So good. It's It's great. And that's also the episode with Josh Gad doing I mean like Josh Gad really like I give him a lot of credit for basically just jumping in as himself and really going Pants too. Josh Gad and Joey Pants are both in this show playing themselves, the actors, Joe Paniliano and Josh Gad. And Josh Gad's version of himself in this show is just such an unrepentant douche. It's great. It is. It is so fun to watch. It's this great acting. It's great writing. It's funny. Uh, and it's uh, to me it's just like one of those things where I I think a lot of the complaints about it have been why didn't they advertise this show like you know cuz it's sort of like it kind of yeah it just kind of came out and I think it honestly it's a big swing and I and the way I kind of describe it to people is like this is the andor for the Marvel universe. It's sort of like we're in a

world not tonally, but like it's a creator going, we're just going to live in our world doing our own thing that doesn't really affect anything else.

What's Yes, you're right. And what's interesting is you're right. It's a big swing, but conversely, it's a big swing because it's a small story,

right? You know, and that's what's a big swing about it is that this is small stakes story here. It is about did he get the audition? Like most episodes are about whether he gets a call back [clears throat] or not or about being embarrassed to tell his family that he got fired from a job. Like all of these family dynamics, all it feels very small. It feels a little bit like a character study that you are interested in and every once in a while you're reminded, oh right, he has like powers. Oh, okay. But it's not the powers are not what the show is about. And now going forward that might change, but

it's it's also it's not cool to have powers. Like that's the part of it is like like and I think that that's the fun part of the show is like it it's a different perspective. It's kind of like what Astro City was to me back in the day. And I don't understand why Kurt Buick book

I have no idea why no one has done Astro City. Like that to me feels like a nobrainer.

Boy, it's so big. It's such you could do so many elements of it. You could do elements of Astro City, you know, cuz Astro City Astro I mean, if people haven't read the Kurt Buick book, Astro City, there's many, many, many volumes of it, but there's compendiums that collect a lot of them, and they really seek to show not just stories of superheroes and the city and everything like that, but it's really about the people inside of the city that is full of these heroes and how does Yeah,

it's beautiful, beautiful storytelling. Alex Ross does some of the the covers of it that are just

the art is gorgeous. It's it's it's incredible. It very longunning book, beautifully told. It's a it's one that is I can't recommend enough. Astro City.

Yeah, really uh a highlight of that one. I I love it so much. But man, oh man, uh Wonderman great.

If you are hesitating in any way, just let that go to the side cuz the honestly the opening scene will suck you in. You're like, "Oh, I'm in. And if this matters, it's a half hour. Yes, it's not it's not an hourong show. It's eight half hours. It's great. It's a very compelling human story. I mean, look at this point. What do you what do you have? What do you have to lose? What do you have to lose?

You know what we have been watching here at the the home front? Uh 30 Rock and I have not I have not sat through 30 Rock for years.

Yeah. And man oh man, what a fun rewatch. I know this is like the dumbest thing to say like Freddy Rock is

No, no, it is cuz I also have rewatched it within the last year or two. So joke dense. It is so strong that show. So many jokes. So so funny. What I love about that show and I think is such a way to talk about great shows is once they finally settle into what it is, then it's just a mix and match. So then it's like what if this story line is put these three together who normally aren't together and these two are over here doing this and those different pairings and different matchups are endlessly recyclably funny. Well, and and you know what I think is so interesting. This is a story that I always heard when they were talking about the office. Like Greg Daniels had this board and on the on the board he had uh like all the characters lined up on on both sides, the left and right hand side. And this drew lines.

All right. Well, it's Dwight and this guy. It's, you know, it's And it's like, what are those stories? And when you had 24 episodes in a season, you could just go off, mix it up, mix it up, mix it up, you know,

and it's so fun and endlessly, like you said, like they never get old. It's like, oh, great, another Tracy Jack McBr episode. Great. I can't wait.

And there's no there's I mean, so little serialized storytelling. You can drop in and out of it wherever you want. You don't have to follow it. all you know it's if we still existed in a time where syndication was a thing this show would be massive you know what I mean in that same way just like get so bummed because the one thing that I feel like we love is more episodes like we want it just it's a bummer because we're getting eight then you're waiting a year and it's like you know uh yeah it just it's like there's too much time

especially for those kind of shows like 30 Rock where really all I want to do is hang out with these people more. I'm not interested in more story. I'm not interested in more mystery or more mystery box or I just want to hang out with these characters that I like more because that's the kind of show 30 Rock is. You're just you're walking around the literally 30 Rock bumping into all these absurd story lines. Perfect. I want I want that forever, you know. And I finally was able to put some sav on the the Brooklyn 999 itch of my youngest son. I should say the wound. He's not been able to commit to another show and I've been trying and trying and then when we hit 30 Rock he's like I like it.

I was like good. So we are Here's what I'll say. If you get there I will reiterate my absolute fandom for Girls 5A which is almost all of the creative team um is so so funny. And then now the new show the rise and fall of Reggie Dinkens I think is what it is.

Um is the only one episode is up now. It's on Peacock and it's hilarious. The first episode is so funny and it's a lot of the same people that are behind it's a Robert Carlock. It's a it's a a lot of the same people that are behind 30 Rock

and you got Daniel Radcliffe is like a documentarian uh who is making a show on on Tracy Morgan and and Bobby Moyahan's in it and it's it starts uh

Bobby is so funny in it. It's so good. It's It starts uh in February, but you can watch the first episode now, and it's uh it's a really it's it's great. It's really

It's great. It's very worth the watch. Our good friend Phil Jackson from Dinosaur just writer. Yeah, right on it. So, it's a good Yeah, it's a good one. And again, it's it's just great to have solid comedies.

Yeah. Oh, I have a solid comedy. Can I recommend a a comedy special that I absolutely was crying at, which is Sarah Sherman's special, Live and In the Flesh.

I was just about to write this. I watched this on Sunday. It blew me away. I was like, I I I want like no one was in the room with me when I was watching. I was looking to other people like, are you seeing this?

I was crying laughing. Truly crying. Tears of joy laughing. This is such a funny special. She is. And you know, look, I read that article in uh New York Magazine, you know, she like Oh, I didn't Okay, there's a great article in New York Magazine and and there's this like a very nice or a little moment where she talks about the pretty girl wig that she's always forced to be in these pretty girl wigs on SNL and and it's so funny because I I know Sarah, I see her. I watch SNL every week and like she is put in this role. She kills it.

She's so funny on the show, but it is no you don't know who she is until you've seen this show. Like this is her out.

Before she was on SNL, her comedy persona was called Sarah Squirm. Yes. You know, and it was all of this gross out body horror comedy, you know,

kind of like John Waters by way of Peewee. Yeah. Peewee Herman. Yes. Like a [ __ ] up Pee-Wee Herman type of a body horror. Like there's she's just got like that was so Sarah Squirm. This special lives in that world. It's like big colorful chaotic set but with lots of just like gross tactile stuff. She really heightens every bit to not just absurdity but to gonzo level absurdity. Um the fact that she has a foot pedal that just plays the Seinfeld baseline is never not funny every time she hits it

kills me. It kills me. It kill I can't recommend it enough. It's one of the best comedy specials I've seen in years. I think I was going to say there is literally nothing like this special. Uh, you know, it feels very much like uh Julio Taus's special. Like it's like it's redefining what a special is, but I think what what's different about hers is like hers presents as a stand-up special that is completely twisted. If you just watch anything, watch the first five minutes once you get past the opening which is just with John Waters.

Uh but but her like entrance onto stage and those first 5 to 10 minutes are just like a machine gun fire of like what the [ __ ] it is. It is

it's so it's so nuts. There's so much going on, but it seems so effortless and it's so funny. It she's so comfortable bouncing between all of these very intricate elements. You know, it's very hard what she's done and she's making it look not only so easy, but so silly and it's incredibly impressive. It's effortless. It's artful. It's fun. And it's I I think honestly it's like inspiring. As somebody who, you know, I think that we've watched standup for such a long time that we're just like, okay, we understand what standup is, like what a standup special is. And yes, we've seen some some brilliant reinventions of that, but this to me makes me go like, oh, there's a different way of doing standup that I mean, and again, is it all palatable? I have no idea. You may watch it and be like, I [ __ ] hate it. And that's okay. I'd rather have more visceral reactions to this is [ __ ] nuts cuz that's what I think it is. And it's it's

great like in that way. It feels like an outgrowth of of like stuff that used to be like the Gard show or stuff that feels like some of the stuff that like Joe Perah does or stuff like, you know, like there's there's something about it that feels really interesting and coming. It's it's just a unique voice. I guess that's all I'm saying. It's a truly unique voice. There's a there's a part of Okay, so I would say like if Tim and Eric begat Eric Andre, Eric Andre has begat Sarah Sherman. like they keep on like kind of you know like I mean pushing they're all unique all brilliant but it's like it's just they're each comfortable in their absurdity and their own voice in a way that you're like oh like Eric Andre show I've never seen anything like that till I saw it and I was like this is [ __ ] great and now I look at this I'm like oh I get why you open for Eric you are this and like I get why it crosses over but I also get

why you are unique from him as well. So it's [ __ ] great. I love it. Um all right Jason wonderful talking to you. We will check in again. All right, now that we've said goodbye to Jason, it is time to say hello to our next movie. Next week, we'll be going from an angel smoocher to a killer shooter. That's right, the winner of this year's Discord fan vote poll is the 2007 action comedy shootup, starring Clive Owen, Monica Baluchcci, and Paul Giamati. Now, I will say that even with over 2,000 votes logged, technically the fan vote ended in a deadlock tie between shoot them up and the 2003 disaster film The Core.

However, there was a little bit of foul play. Now, I don't want to sound like Donald Trump here, but I believe this fan vote was rigged because people switched up their votes at the last second to force a tie, hoping, I think, that we would do both films, that they would somehow make us feel obligated to them to do both. But here's the thing, the core was way too long. we're not going to do that. And I did not think that shoot him up was a great choice. So you you [ __ ] around and you found out, okay, we are going to do shoot them up, a movie that I don't think Jason June or I believe belongs on this show, but you picked it. You picked it and we're going to give it to you. Um, I got to tell you, I I love this movie and I'm going to be waxing poetically about it all next week. If you don't know anything about it, let me just say this. Shoot him up is a Clive Owen movie where he plays a man named Mr. Smith who delivers

a woman's baby during a shootout and is then called upon to protect the newborn from an army of gunmen. It is essentially like a Bugs Bunny cartoon meets John Wick. Uh Paul Giamatti gives a amazing performance. I got to say uh Monica Belaluchcci gives an amazing performance and we will talk about why Clive Owen was not raised up for this kind of non-winking smart portrayal of this badass in a overtly comical action film. I I I can't get into it. We're going to break it down next week. Uh Discord, you picked the wrong one, but you also picked a great one. Uh Rotten Tomatoes gives this film a 67 score on the tomato meter. Roger Eert wrote in his review, "I don't need a lot of research to be confident in stating that never before have I seen a movie open with the hero delivering a baby during a gun battle, severing the umbilical cord with a gunshot, and then killing a villain by penetrating his

brain with a raw carrot." Well, I mean, yeah. I guess I don't know if that's a review as much as it is a a statement of fact of the opening scene of this film. And if that doesn't make you excited, then uh I don't know what does. Anyway, let's take a listen to the trailer.

Hey, honey. Listen, I'm afraid that this business trip's going to take a little bit longer than I thought.

These guys were stalking this lady. She had a kid. I couldn't just stand there.

Oh my god. Do we really suck or is this guy really that good? Who are you? I'm a British nanny and I'm dangerous. Now, here is the thing. Shoot them up is not streaming free right now, but you picked it, so I'm not going to hear any complaints. It is available to rent on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, and Google Play. As always, you can try to find uh these movies uh on Hoopla, Canopy, and Libby. But guess what? It's not it's not there. So, you got to rent this one, and I think you should. And I don't think you're going to be upset about renting it. Uh so, go with God.

Enjoy your pick. I can't wait to talk about it next week. Uh it is a fun episode. Jason, June and I getting into this film. Anyway, that is it for Last Looks. If you listen to us on Apple Podcast or Spotify, please rate and review us. Please also make sure you are following us and have automatic downloads turned on. It helps the show and we appreciate it. Visit us on social media at httgm. And a big thank you to our producers Scott Sunonny Molly Reynolds, our engineer Casey Halford, our social media manager Zoe Applebomb, and our intern Quinn Jennings. And we will of course be forever thankful to the one and only Averil Halley. We will see you next week for shoot them up.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Last Looks: Date with an Angel"?

Paul Sheer (Host), Jason (last name not provided) (Guest), June (surname not provided) (Guest).

What is "Last Looks: Date with an Angel" about?

A quick overview of How Did This Get Made’s last looks on Date with an Angel, highlighting fan-tagline suggestions, debates over the film’s brain-tumor premise, discord-driven misdirections, and previews of audience corrections, deleted scenes, and upcoming discussion. It also teases current TV favorites and the next movie pick.

What is mentioned in this How Did This Get Made? episode?

36 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Paul Shear, Shoot 'Em Up, Discord, Jason Mantzoukas, Wonderman, Born Sexy Yesterday. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Last Looks: Date with an Angel"?

The episode runs 40 min; the transcript is about 7,484 words in 92 timestamped sections.

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