Episode 89: A Night at the Opera Reorchestrated (featuring the Marx Brothers Council)

These listener commentary episodes seem to get better as the films get worse! But really, the films haven’t had much of a chance to get worse, because we’ve just now made it to what everyone agrees is the greatest Marx Brothers film released in 1935.

But the point stands: You’ve really come through for us, answering Bob’s call for comments with all the insight, scintillating wit, and impeccable good taste the world knows it can expect from Marx Brothers fanatics.

We hope you enjoy listening to your comments as much as we enjoyed listening to your comments, and we hope you enjoy listening to us listening to and discussing your comments as much as we enjoyed listening to and — let’s get out of this sentence while we still can. Enjoy the episode! Play, Don!

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Official description: “The guys respond to insightful audience comments on the brothers’ MGM classic. Is the film actually more like their Paramount work than we give it credit for? Does the brothers’ career trajectory resemble that of Picasso—or Elvis? And did Margaret Dumont actually land a joke?

“These and other truly life-altering questions are debated, dissected, and delightfully overthought.”

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Episode 89: A Night at the Opera Reorchestrated (featuring the Marx Brothers Council)

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