Yay hello and a well-walled welcome to Retrospection, a podcast in which we'd take an old TV show, a film and city should be given a citation for crimes against entertainment, or let off with just a stern warning. My name's Colin, and do not pass go, and do not collect $200. My name's Paul, and I'm hot, and I'm tired, and I'm sticky. Everything normal then?
Yeah, a pretty normal day for me now. In this episode we're mounting a Frobe machine between our legs and riding on California highway with the 1970s American cop show, Chips! Oh, that was a bit much, wasn't it? Oh, it's never too much for you.
Oh, it's never too much for me. I've all got something for nothing between my husband. It's not true. Chips follows the exploits of two California highway patrol officers, Punch and John.
Punch? Punch, isn't it? Punch or Elo? Punch.
It's only like you said, Punch. I know, well, it's probably going to, trust me, do some pronunciations that are going to get fair worse than that. We'll get to one in a minute. The TV series says Larry Wilcox is Officer John Baker, Eric Ostrada's Officer Frank Punch or Elo, and Robert Pine is Sergeant Joseph Gautreya, and the longer this podcast goes on, the harder his name is going to be to pronounce.
You know, in my notes I just wrote Sarge. Oh, did you? You took the easy route. Yeah, I'm not even going to attempt it.
I looked at it and I thought, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay, and there are others in the cast, but to be honest, they're pretty much the main people, right? In the pilot anyway. Yeah, definitely in this pilot.
I mean, there's only three actors in it, really. Yeah, yeah. So music is by Pete Carpenter and Mike Post for the first season, and another theme you just heard is from the second season. That's because the music from the first season is pretty standard American cop show stuff, but oh, oh, when we get to that second season, and Alan Sylvester, he takes all that, it's disco beats all the way.
It's Alan Sylvester, wow. Yes. Yeah, but the music in the pilot, it reminded me of, it's just kind of like that. I mean, it's nice and it's funky and I like it, but it's your bog standard 70s cop show, isn't it?
Yeah, Cole Jack's desk in Hutch. Mm-hmm. Even TJ Hooker, which is 80s, sounds a lot like this. I like it though.
Yeah, it's a nice tune. It just gets really funky later on. You sent me some links to some of the music from the second season, didn't you? Yeah.
No, it's very funky. I'm listening to it all the time now, all the way to work. I'm just, you know. Not just exclusively, I hope.
Yeah, I've restricted it to work time. It's a nine to five beat. Gets you through the day, does it? Does it not make you want to strap on your roots and your Ray bands on?
I've got those on anyway. Oh, I can never see what's going on in the day that kind of thing. The show around for six seasons with Eric Ostrada going on strike in the fifth season over syndication profits, so he doesn't appear for seven episodes. Yeah, apparently he just walks out of the thing one day.
Yeah, it's just a way to do it, right? Mm-hmm. Come on, you dream of doing that, don't you? I would never do such a thing.
I don't get any syndication profits from this job and just see you strolling out. The weird thing was, apparently, he was replaced by Bruce Jenner, wasn't he, for a few episodes? Mm-hmm. Yeah.
But yeah, Bruce Jenner was still listed as a guest, and Eric Ostrada still appeared in the main credit. Who knows? It's the legal side of it. You think I could do what he was trying to keep him sweet?
Yeah, maybe. Or maybe they just fought. Yeah. What would a place you look?
We can do without you. That's true. Funnily enough later, though, wasn't Larry Wilcox replaced? Well, he quit at the end of the fifth season.
Ah, see, I read that Larry Wilcox still believes that this day that Eric Ostrada got him removed. Oh, really? I didn't read that. I mean, I knew they weren't fans of each other.
Yeah, well, it's a legendary thing that they didn't get on at all, isn't it? Yes. Yeah, so this day he still believes that Ostrada wanted to be the only lead, and got him removed. That'd be a weird thing.
If he's ever seen a cop show where there's just one lead, there's always two. Yeah, but I just think he thought that maybe a new guy coming in would leave the way open for him to be the main star rather than share. Right. You know, Billy, you know.
Because I read that Wilcox was annoyed that Ostrada was getting too much attention in the show. I think it's six of one and a half a dozen of the other from the sides of it, isn't it? Sounds like, yeah. Chips is credited as having one of the earliest regular portrayals of a Vietnam veteran, as references sometimes made to Baker's service, and in fact Larry Wilcox served for 30 months in Vietnam.
Wow, do you really? Yep. The thing seems to seem. Well, I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I just thought that music was some reason.
While Ostrada's does use stunt doubles, a lot of the riding was done by the Axis, and Ostrada had a number of accidents, and one of them he fractured several ribs and broke both wrists. Yeah, didn't he actually, he did still film for the show, but he did it literally from his hospital bed? Yeah, they wrote it into the storyline that he needed hospital treatment and recovery. That's some good writing.
That's desperate writing. That's oh shit. What do we do now, can I writing? It could have been also that Ostrada was more like, I'm not letting the guy take my line, like, well, I'm like, you're going to get in here, you're going to film me.
I'm not leaving. And throughout the entire run the show, Punch and Baker never draw their guns in any of the episodes. Oh, we'll talk about that in this one. Okay.
Yeah, she's very strange. Yeah, okay. We'll talk about it. In 1998, there was a TV movie called Chips 99 that followed on from the series.
And of course, in 2017, there was a film based on the show, but, you know, the less said about that, the better. Oh, have you seen it? Yes, I watched it when it came out. It's absolutely dreadful, isn't it?
It's dreadful. It's not, yeah, it's not like 21st Jump Street. What's that film called? 20, 21st Jump Street.
21th Jump Street. How is it? 21 Jump Street. Straight to sci-fi channel ripoff.
It's not like 21 Jump Street. It was, you know, it was. No, no, no, no. They, yeah, they try and do it for laughs, but they completely, it's not chips at all, is it?
No, no. No. So there's no trailer this time. Maybe we'll just listen to the music again, because quite frankly, I could do that all day.
Yeah, put it on. All right. I guess we do have to get on with the show at some point. We do.
Did you also read, there's a lot of California Highway Patrol actual officers in a lot of the shots? Oh, well that makes sense. My advice did the same thing when it became popular. And apparently a lot of the crew members used to get confused as to who the actors were and who the real ones were.
Oh, okay. Does that, that doesn't say much about the actors, does it? Oh really? Good point.
I also read that the California Highway Patrol were really keen on this show because Magnum fast had recently been out. And that doesn't paint them in a very good light. Right, so they were all up for the show for helping them with the motorbikes and the uniforms and equipment. Makes sense.
Yeah. In real life, apparently, California Highway Patrol officers don't go around in pairs, do they? That's true. So they made it that punch is on probation.
And then conveniently just forget about it a few seasons a lot, don't they? Yeah. Well, there's a bit at the end of the pilot that seems tagged on, isn't there? Like is probation's going to go on forever?
Yeah. You've been there, right? Again, I have no idea what we did here talking about. You talk about how it was one of the first portrayals in a positive light with Vietnam bet.
It was also one of the first portrayals of a Latino actor taking a lead in a show, wasn't it? Oh, I didn't know that, really? Apparently so, yeah. And we've also got a few Star Trek connections, haven't we?
Again, Paul, you used that, haven't we? As if I was supposed to know this answer. Well, I did research, didn't you? It's just been talking forever and now about it.
Go on, what's the Star Trek connection? Well, apparently Michael Dorn's in quite a few episodes. Oh, I didn't know that at all, really? It is indeed, yeah.
And obviously, I suppose everyone knows that Robert Pines is actually Chris Pines dad. Right, right. Everybody knows that. Everybody is called Pines related.
That's true. Yeah. And you know the other Star Trek connection? In one episode, I believe they have to chase down a robot that's got out of control.
Yeah, if that's true, that wouldn't surprise me having watched this pilot, I have to say. But that is true. It is true, right. Does it surprise you?
No. So we're going to talk about the pilot. Yes. All right.
We open straight away with punch and Baker riding the bikes along a freeway at speed. A call goes over the intercom telling us they're looking for a black Porsche. They weave in and out of the traffic. There's no music.
Just the sound of their bikes roaring with the speed. Yeah, it's very cinematic. I really like this opening. Oh, good.
Surprise. Yeah. I couldn't help but think though that they would have been, I was waiting for the bikes to take off. I think I was still feeling the music.
I'm glad to create you a few weeks ago. Oh, glad to go. It never leaves you. Never leaves you.
It stays with you like a bad smell. Don't. Yeah. Stay with me.
Don't quit me now. He swears to the right and dries over the embankment and to the other side. Punch follows, but crashes and tumbles from his back, but he quickly gets back on. John wasn't too concerned about his partner going off his bike.
He's got a job to do. He's like you. Oh, professional like me. Oh, wait.
No, that's completely wrong. Sorry. I forgot who I was talking to for a second. You said a Porsche swerve.
You mean a stuntman driving the Porsche swerve because he's nothing like the actor that you think closed up? Yeah, that happens a lot in this show. But maybe I don't know what version you watched. I watched it in HD, so it's pretty obvious.
Oh, adding watch it in HD and it was still pretty obvious. Okay. So, speeding around the city streets and the Porsche is getting away, but you can't see the car as he turns into the street. Meanwhile, two guys in a white truck watch baker ride past.
It's not many cars on this road, isn't it? In this city street. Almost like these streets have been closed off. Yeah, you see that a lot in the freeway.
It's clearly a brand new freeway that hasn't opened yet. Yeah, I read that they were stretches of freeway, but they're still under construction that they were allowed to use. Yeah, because all the cars got the right speed and just evenly paced. That's right.
Yeah. Did you know this is the weird little poaches that they have on their belts? Is that with a wallaby sits? Close.
They're actually the batteries for the radio mics that they all were. Oh, cool. Yeah. Where did you learn this little tidbit?
Oh, I've got my sources. Nice. HP Daddy's. Yeah, don't do that joke.
That's hard. That's getting cut out. That's what they come for. No, no, it's really not.
That's what they leave for. Baker pulls up for the cross section and he's lost sight at home. Punch a ride. That car was possessed.
Oh, they've lost the Porsche. Punch is annoyed. There's no justice in life. Just luck.
Well, then you've got to be the luckiest guy in the world. That's Studgy pulled almost closed your book. There's a lot of slang dialogue that doesn't really make sense that you have to think about. Yeah, there's one in a minute that I wrote down that is very strange.
Okay, we'll go to it. Punch passes the accident off a skill. Not a mistake. Now, I'm watching this and I'm kind of thinking, punch reminds me of somebody.
Who would that be? I don't know. He passes the accidents of skill. He's all bluster.
You know, he's like making stuff up and blowing himself up with the women. Somebody reminds me of and I just can't think. It'll come to me. It'll come to me.
I can't think of what you mean. No, no, no. Let's just carry on. Okay, yeah.
So they ride away and then we go and shaft at the moving storage truck driving off. We don't know why I'm seeing it. This is where, um, Punch turns to John and says, if I ever scoped that turkey again, I'm going to pull him out through his wing wing seatbelt attached. Yeah.
What's all that about? I believe he's going to assault the person. He says that is how it is. I believe so.
Why didn't he just say that? Because this is the 70s. Right. Okay.
It doesn't feel like the 70s. What does it feel like to you? I don't know. It kind of feels like it's time in a way.
I'll talk about this in the sum up at the end. About the uniforms and the look of the show and the witness about it. Okay. So I guess, because we don't see, we don't see him very often in civilian clubs.
So we don't see flares and things like that and we don't really see that in civilians either. No. No. It's very strange.
It's like it's really out of time. It's like it's his own little world. Right? Yeah.
Yeah. Hold on to that thought. Okay. All right, if you can manage that for an hour.
I've written it down. Okay. Okay. All right.
bike porn. Yeah, and in one of the quick long shots, one of the motorcyclists, a piece of sprouted a mustache all of a sudden. So that testosterone they've got floating around. I know, it's all at YMCA, I think.
Oh, it's all at YMCA, it's all at YMCA, I think. The music's moved out as punch looks and an attractive woman in a sports car. But as they speed away, the opening credits end. Yeah, I wonder when they were going around.
They did go on for a while. This is a thing about the show, is the opening credits intercut with stuff that's going on. And the closing credits are also intercut with stuff that's going on. Yes, yes.
And the weird thing was, I hadn't seen chips, probably since I was a kid a long, long time ago. But as soon as I started watching it, the thing about the credits came back to me straight away. Right, right. You have to watch the end credits because the stuff that happens in between them.
It's like the marvel of its time. I'm not going there. So we cut to overview shots of the three eight. Now, I feel like I'm going to be saying this a lot next to happen because there's a lot of freeway shots.
That's the other thing, isn't it? The credits aren't just the only thing that go on for a long time. There's all these long shots of freeways, long shots of bike riding, which I understand because it's about people that ride by. And it's a pie, but for a 47 minute show, there isn't a lot here, is there really?
No, it's like 30 minutes, right? Yeah, and it really felt like 30 minutes as well. It flew by. Right.
So we closing on the headquarters. Gertraya is giving the briefing for the morning and he tells them about an autofeft ring that's been operating for a week, specialty items, pashes, gentsons, etc. As a female officer enters, the men will fizzle. Yeah.
Do they do that every time a woman enters? Probably. Give a guy a break. A guy who had the woman.
The wolf whistled again. He's that walking down a corridor tomorrow and people are going, whoo hoo! Look at you, Gertraya, looking good in those tight pants. No.
At first, I thought maybe they're not wolf whistling the lady. Maybe they're just kind of taking the piss out of a punch for his little thought that he had again because he's had a lot of accidents, hasn't he, in the past? And he comes in shortly afterwards? Yeah.
That's what I thought was happening. But then I rewatched it again. No, no, no, it is a woman. Oh, OK.
Oh, maybe they're doing it just to an Eiger, Trayer. Possibly, possibly. I've got to say that Parn's got a very laid-back technique to his acting, doesn't he? Yes.
It's almost, it's very naturalistic. I like the way, I like what he's doing. Oh, you like him? I like it, yeah.
OK. So, Punch and Baker enters it down and punches into your Twinkie and drinking milk. Mm-hmm. As Gertraya explains the M or the Car Fests in a voiceover, we actually see the Car F taking place.
It's actually quite a complex piece of video, really. It is and it works really well. Yeah. So he explains that in the morning they hit Century City.
What they do is stake out a garage, spot a spot, grab, dump your packing ticket, which is handed off to his partner, and then turns it in 20 minutes later. And we're actually seeing this happen as Gertraya is narrating it. Mm-hmm. They also use standard tricks for stealing cars.
Jensen at the Honors' State's Locks were stolen, so either they have Master Keys or can make them. And again, as Gertraya is saying all this, we're watching the criminals perform the actions. Mm-hmm. And some of the shots are almost documentary-style, shot, certainly.
Yeah. Not to hand-held cameras and wacky zooms. Wacky zooms, that's so technical to him that you've used. I could just imagine Ridley Scott.
He's like in the middle of Gladiations going, hmm. Do you know what we need here? We need a wacky zoom. You can't beat a wacky zoom.
Okay. So I'll tickle him. I'll tickle him. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right. Right in my wacky zooms. Well, worst character never mentioned in Magic Roundabout. Wacky zooms, yeah.
He's always going spinning around. Gertraya wants to know how they're getting so many cars by them. Every time this gang strikes, they hit one area and take six cars, always six, and they managed to make them disappear. Now, in this part, we see how the criminals are actually doing it.
The loading the cars into a specially rigged up removal truck, like the one we saw earlier, watching Punch and John. But Gertraya doesn't know this. So now we're seeing footage of stuff that the police don't know. It's fine though, isn't it?
It's fine, but I just found it odd that we were switching between him narrating what they're actually doing, and then we're seeing what he doesn't know. It would be odd if he wasn't narrating the bits that he doesn't know as well. I guess so. I also think it's a way of compressing the time.
They've explained everything in one scene. These are a lot more room for more shots of three ways, and bikes riding around. Absolutely. Gertraya says the gang pushed a lock this morning and ended up in a high speed chase.
The Porsche was the sixth car, but got away. Gertraya tells them that if they check any sports cars, they come across a look for anything unusual, a driver that doesn't fit the vehicle. What? Too big.
Gertraya? Six clowns? What? We're really looking for.
In this city, in this show, I wouldn't be surprised if Gertraya car carrying six clowns did ride past. That's true. Six is pretty conservative. They're supposed to check the thin numbers, then he broke inside windows, broke in technicians, and then he calls and enters the briefing and everybody leaves.
But Gertraya tells Pont to hold on, asks, how things are going, and if he should know something, that he doesn't know about. Pont just says, it's a nice night. Gertraya says, yeah, also a nice night for a certain CHP officer who was dirt riding, his CHP biking the hills, those bikes are not for play. Now, we don't have any idea who that could be, do we?
Pont just says it wasn't him. Gertraya reminds him that he only has two days to the end of his probation. Don't blow it. So he's allowed to take his bike home in a night.
I don't think so. I think that's the point that he's getting told off for taking it. Ah, so I'm sure they have to leave more parks out there, please. Yeah, but I have seen them in episodes where they've called by the home on the bikes.
Right, OK. All right. That happens, right? Yeah, I suppose.
I got a lift to school once in an ambulance. Oh, all right. Yeah, kids were tough back then. Yeah, well, that would be good.
So saving Pont, dispatch announces a call, a spill-self bound on gauge, which means something to somebody. Yep. It's not me. Not me either.
It tells Pont and Jon and some other officers to go deal with it and they ride out, we get overhead shots and music and the freeway again. I'd be interested to find out if the amount of people joining the California Highway Patrol increased during the run of the show, because it does make it look quite exciting, doesn't it? Well, let's be honest, I wanted to join the California Highway Patrol when I was a kid watching this. You know what?
I think I had a little police set with a little badge and a gun and it was a chips thing as well. Yep. So Jon asked Pont about his shoulder because he hurt it in that fall early and he's like, are you going to play tonight? Now, there's some sort of game going on in the evening, but they don't say what it is.
I mean, I assume it's bowling or darts or table tennis or cayba tossing, you know, something of that nature. Well, I guess we'll find out later. Cayba tossing. Don't you do that?
Well, trust me cayba. Yeah. Not as much as I'd like to. No, well, it's your age.
Yeah. The driver of traffic jamming told the reach of Jack and I've trucked that has spilled glue all over the freeway. Glue. Okay.
All right. I would love to be the writer on the show where you're like, okay, so episode 82. A truck has spilled some. What have we done so far?
Why are we going to come over? I mean, this is the first episode. So Glue, Glue, we're starting running pretty high here, you know? I'm wondering, obviously, you've watched a lot more episodes than I have.
Do we have an episode later where the bad guys paint a big black tunnel on the wall and the punch and Jon ride into it? I think it's a road. No, not yet. Are you surprised if they don't?
No, okay. Well, that'll be the episode just before punch ties himself to an Acme rocket. All right, okay. Glue says punch as if this is an occurrence that happens all the time.
In this world, possibly. Yeah. So he says, again, it's the weird dialogue. So who's going to lead the children to the promised land and who's going to chat with Gabby Hayes asks punch?
It is quite funny. It's just meaning who is going to direct the traffic and who has to deal with the cowboy truck driver who caused the accident. Jon smiles and walks off to lead the traffic. This is the cowboy truck driver.
He's a cowboy truck driver. No mistake. I think he's a very Italian. I think he's an actually plays the cowboy in pretty much everything, right?
He's familiar to me as well. They even punched the walk over the glue in his nice boots. We got ourselves a real doozy of cowboy stuff. I ended up doing a square dance across the freeway because a woman in a Camino cutting up.
They were having a blast right in this. I see his kites just like right away. Punch goes back to his back as the glue runs underneath it. He calls the back up.
I'm at first days on the job like this. With sticky substance all over the floor that you put stuck into. No, exactly what I was trying to say. Okay.
You know, things where nothing goes right. Things happen that you think couldn't possibly happen. Now, does this happen in the morning and you're like, I should just go home. Yeah.
Should just not bother going to work. Just phoning sick and think. Yeah. Shouldn't have even got to be our bed.
I'll just say that so that people know now that you know you can't. When you're calling six, they know that that's not really what's going on. I never calling six. Okay.
I'm professional as I mentioned. Yes. Yeah. Meanwhile, the curfives in the removal truck coincidentally stocking the traffic jam.
These are some unlucky criminals, aren't they? Yes, they are. Yeah. Now, they're slowly driving towards John, who's obviously directing the traffic.
John tells them to pull through. And inside the truck, we focus on the Porsche and it's dripping gas petrol. From the exhaust pipe, it's dripping onto the floor of the truck. And the petrol's leaking from the truck onto the freeway.
Although I think it's oil rather than petrol. I think it's oil. I think it's oil. John sees it dripping onto the freeway as it passes by.
He tells them to pull over. And then he goes back to his bike to get his ticket book. He goes back to the truck and asks them how they're doing. And everyone is like real friendly.
And one of the curfees is like, oh, I don't envy you guys. And what's the problem? John tells them the leaky-noil. Punch goes back to his bike and finds it's glued to the freeway.
Oh. I'm going to throw it. Yeah. Meanwhile, John asks the truck driver to the license.
Punch ress up his bike to try and unstick it. Now everybody's watching and starting to chuckle. Yeah, these shots of people watching go on for quite a while, don't they? That's amusing situation.
Yes. Yes. It gives it full revs. The bike becomes unglued, but punch loses control.
It slides sideways and he falls off, slaps into the glue, and the crowd applauds. I've seen other films like this where people get covered in group. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
He name them. Ghostbusters. I wasn't the film I thought he was going on. Well, what was with the Rick Mail or impression?
So one of the curfees asked John if Evil Knievel has been riding a bike for long. The leader of the gang is annoyed by one of his gang members, mouthing off to a cop. It's just an accident. It could happen to anybody.
He says, no. John, only him. Now John notices the tyres are low on the truck and asks if the carina fall out. Oh, no.
The main leader replies, we're completely empty. John advises them to get that checked along with the aisle leak. John is still chatting with the driver and notices the accent is from San Francisco and he has a cousin he lives in San Francisco. Now, punch comes over and he's getting annoyed and he asks, what are you doing to John?
John says he's riding a mechanical citation. Mm. Punch says, oh, well, I'm running around dealing with techs over there and acting like a court jester. You're here going through the family album and he snatches the ticket book from John.
Yeah. So the truck down gives him the ticket and tells him to move out and the truck drives away. Are you, uh, okay. John asks punch.
Punch says he's tired of hearing that question. Well, says John, my brother has an expression, keep the tack in the black. Punch relaxes. What?
Punch relaxes. But what he should have said is what the hell does that mean? Well, I was asking that question. Yeah.
Keep the tack in the black. Um, all right. Let's let's Google tack. See what we come with.
Let's do this right now. I mean, I'm hoping it's not what it sounds like. What do you think it sounds like? It sounds like the racist to me.
Okay. So I knew that tack was a voting term, right? But I didn't know what the black bit of it is. Maybe see.
Maybe it's actual phrase. Right. I think keep the tack in the black. This is exciting.
Listen. Yeah. No, no, no, no. I mean, maybe it's a horse term because horses you have tacking.
It could just have come out. One of the writers drug adult minors. You have tacking horses. You're of tack in voting.
I have no idea. I have no idea. I'm going with horse something, horse related. If anyone does know what it means, then let us know.
Let us know. Yeah. So punch apologizes for shooting his mouth off. He hands the ticket to book back to John.
Okay. John nods. Yeah, we're okay. Punch looks at his battery bike.
Good tray is really going to bring the hammer down. Do do do do. Sorry, I'm not winded. All right.
How much time? He's getting to him. Oh, is that what it is? All right.
We fade to black and when we fade back up a pickup truck is returning punchy's bike back to HQ and waiting standing tall hands on hips stirring curd at them punch says, no, no, why people are scared of cups. I wouldn't be scared of him though. Not really. It's not really.
It's not really no. No, not at all. John says, lean back any further. He'll be like you flat on the floor.
Right. John says he's just going to chew you out. Hey, be a fall. You know what?
I didn't even occur to me. It's just going to chew you out and I'll kill you. Cleaning up my act. No.
Okay. Wow. Oh, yes, it's punch. Yeah, if he does, I'll book him on a 187.
So it's John. And you're going to tell me what a 187 is that? Murder. It's a code for murder.
I need that. I know. Too many episodes of Hunter chips. They all use it.
Oh, and please quest the video game by sitting around. Oh, yes. That was a classic. No, I wanted a 7 in that.
John says, good trade. The glue situation is all cleaned up. Yeah, I bet you. I bet you are.
And Trey was distracted and asked what that is pointing up punch his leg. A ticket has become glued to punch his pants. Punch pills it off. Oh, it's a mechanical I wrote earlier.
It's a new filing system. That's good trade, which I thought was funny. Yeah, it was a good line. But now it's glued to go Trey's hands.
He leads them inside. And when he gets to his office, he complains that somebody has stolen his chair. This stuff reminds me of a Hill Street Blues thing where it's all like a chaotic office and the stuff going on. Because why is it important that someone's nicked his chair?
Yeah, but I can see what you mean about the Hill Street Blues thing. But it's like Hill Street Blues, I mean it was situated on Fantasy Island, isn't it? Yeah, OK. It's now got the grittiness that Hill Street has.
No, no. And there's a reason for that, I think. So he end up as a filing cabinet. And it's mostly neatly filed except for one huge bulging folder.
Do you have any idea what that is? Yes, punch. Punch doesn't know. This is your jacket.
Now, I want you to take a good, hard look and tell me. Do you think there's any room in there to bury another one of your accidents? Now, punch isn't taking this. For things, I'm hot, I'm tired, I'm sticky.
And while chasing that stolen curdess money, God's almost spoken to me at the fall level. So if it's all the same to you, let's take a rain check on the lecture surge. Because right now, I really don't need it. Is that you at work?
Well, no nonsense. Yeah. Standing up to the man. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. I could have said it, yeah. I could have said it any less in effect. It sounded like Frankie Howard.
Ooh, this is... Oh, well, man. Yes. Are you the man?
No, forget it. Forget it. Let's move on. I hope so.
I wasn't the last time I checked. Yeah. So check again. All three actors, they do work well together though.
They're all very likeable as well. That's the thing. You learn, I think this is why it was a big deal that they didn't like each other because you cannot tell from the actual show. It's great chemistry.
And it's kind of fun. You want to be in the presence. You do. You do.
Yeah. See, you want to sign up and you're like, oh, this is what chips is like. This guy's like this. You're in the first time, the job?
You're dead. Yeah. Because Treya doesn't get it. Punches probation is over on Monday.
So you think you'd be extra careful. Oh, you think so. What do you replies, Podge? Which is kind of how I like his replies.
Like, yeah, yeah, you'd think it would be. You know, but... This is me. This is me.
And his probation is over on Sunday. Maybe. Maybe it's his career. I'm a very closely defiling cabinet.
I say, he likes to think, I'm a nice guy. No, I know you don't agree, Punch. That's because you fall on the wrong side of my desk, which I also like that phrase. Yeah, that was a good one.
Yeah, I like to use that. Let me know how that goes for you. No, I'm going to use it at you. When you screw something else up, I'll go like that.
You know, you fall on the wrong side of my desk. When do I screw something up? This is supposed to be a shorter podcast than that. Let's not talk about it over here.
It's not going to get on to the fourth part of the step. Yeah, we'll skip that. Now, maybe that would change if we could just get to the root of your problem. This is good trade talking now, not me to you, just in case you were concerned.
I guess I was huge for a second. Yeah, I was quite mikey. Yeah. That's what happens to you out there.
You and John ride three feet apart. You get the same calls, you get into the same situations. Yeah, anytime anything happens, it's always your bike that comes back here looking like we ought to give it a funeral. Why does that happen, Frank?
I like all this scene. It's a good scene. Yeah. Yeah.
It kind of establishes as well, I think that even though he's kind of chewing him out, he kind of likes him as well. Yeah, because yes, absolutely. Yeah. Punch says, well, thanks for taking a rain check on the lecture.
If that's all I'm going to go change and write the report and he just walks out. You'd love to do that, wouldn't you? Well, just walk out. Yeah.