Episode 93: A Day at the Races Resaddled (featuring the Marx Brothers Council)
Recording Episode 93
Here’s your Florida call, Mr. Whitmore!
Our chronological series of listener commentary episodes — in which we listen to listeners’ comments about the Marx Brothers’ films, and then comment on their comments — has at last arrived at the midpoint in the team’s cinematic career, with the movie everyone agrees was released in 1937 and made with real horses.
As always, you, our listeners, came through, delivering a series of sweet, shrewd, occasionally provocative, always smart commentaries. Needless to say, we all love A Day at the Races, but we generally agree that it’s the dividing line between the good ones and the not-as-good ones. Which side of that line it falls on — or maybe it straddles that line like a jockey on horseback? — is a question of personal preference.
The Four Marx Brothers
At any rate, why stay down in that room with those pigeons when you could open a can of tomahto soup and enjoy an episode that’s worth a hundred Upjohns?
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Official description: “Listeners share their thoughts on the most divisive Marx film. Is it the last hurrah or the last straw? We sift through comments on everything from Tootsie-Frootsie to the excised ‘Dr. Hackenbush’ song, while confronting the water carnival sequence that turns watching the movie into a hostage situation.
“We also take on the film’s most uncomfortable sequence, doing our best to put it in perspective...
“Along the way, there are Beatles comparisons, Lindy Hop history, and a listener who thankfully wasn’t one of Chico’s children. And as always, enough nitpicking to put any fan under observation at the Standish Sanitarium.”
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