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MONDAY MORNING DISPATCH (6/23/25)

1)  There’s an early episode of MOONLIGHTING (mid-1980’s TV show starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis) where David Addison (Willis) remarks to Maddie Hayes (Shepherd), “This is the chase.” The character says it just as the two of them start chasing after that episode’s bad guy.

There are other instances during that show when the characters “wink at the camera,” i.e. they acknowledge they’re on a TV show, without completing breaking the 4th wall.

THE SIMPSONS does it. Episodes of 30 ROCK have done it. RICK & MORTY walks a very fine line at doing it.

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MONDAY MORNING DISPATCH (3/24/25)

1)   David Chase, the creator of THE SOPRANOS, was a guest on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast a while back, and he was talking about the series finale and how/why he chose the Journey song “Don’t Stop Believing” to play during the final moments. He said he had it mind what the final episode would be and he knew he wanted one of three possible songs to be playing.

Chase asked some of his production people what they thought. He listed the three possible songs (and no, I don’t recall what the other two songs were and I’m not going to go back and relisten to the podcast interview again). Chase said the other two songs received positive responses, while “Don’t Stop Believing” received negative ones. Everyone was in agreement that the Journey song should not be the final one, and the it should be one of the other two.

That’s when Chase knew, without a doubt, he would use “Don’t Stop Believing.”

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