052 - Dr. Chocolate's Great Metamorphosis

It's undercover boss time with EASTER UNDER WRAPS (2019) and: A special message from the dead ... "You have 8 vitamins" ... Ramps! ... Crass lead-in ... CREDITS ... Food based and not good ... Like eating a brick of cream cheese ... Good Capitalists > Bad Capitalists ... A fairy tale of business-shaming ... A framed photo of the undercover boss in HR's office ... BREAK ... The Expositional Challenge ... Plot cleanup ... Spot the Angel: Twinkly black couple fakeout ... *Bane voice* Chocolate bunny ... Eat Your Heart Out: Iffy-looking chocolate; the Cavendish Egg; butterfly surprise; Wedgewood-ass chocolate; large feeding-frenzy-sized egg; sidewalk cheese; 52 eggs; things that do not go with chocolate; a Klosterman of contradictions; reference new foods, default to comfort foods; Dave singing ... BREAK ... Hallmark Expanded Universe: Back to Seattle; Jason Giambi; Mira's swank apartment in Lucky in Love; you killed one Gubelmann by looking at it; Hallmark's Wicker Man and Mulholland Drive update ... Overdetermined: The Delicate Sound of Chocolate vs. Sensuality and Experiences over Feelings ... Ghost, with snakes ... Zen and the Hallmark Cohens ... BREAK ... Hallmark Bechdel Test: Solid yes, no friends ... The invention of business lying ... Great Moments in Moppetry: 3 (average) ... Hippity-Hop Fizz ... Rating: 2 ... Talk about your process ... Extremely representative Hallmark fare ... Brendan Penny, ESPN ... BREAK ... Letters to Santa: Bupkes! ... The Leftovers: Foster Cavendish, German immigrant ... Erin or Erika ... Cavendish Chocolate and Topps cards ... Chaz and Trent for Chocmate and Untuckit ... Witness to a Great Becoming ... Midafternoon bedtime ... Lucy and Ethel chocolate clumsiness ... Early antagonism quit ... WKL News ... Merry Christmas ... • MUSIC: "Fuck You If You Don't Like Christmas," from Crudbump, by Drew Fairweather • "If U Want It," from Cyber-Vision, by Drew Fairweather • "Ramp! (The Logical Song)" by Scooter • "Chocolate City," by Parliament • "Chocolate Sundae" by Stan Getz and Oscar Peterson • All other music by Chris Collingwood of Look Park and Fountains of Wayne, except: "Orchestral Sports Theme" by Chris Collingwood and Rick Murnane