It’s possible I was wrong, she is in a lot of other commercials, I know I see her on TV all over the place. Regarding the Yoplait one, if that’s not right, there’s a lot of people on the internet that are wrong about that one as well.
- Jean. Marge was the pregnant cop.
I realized that as soon as I saw that someone quoted me. :smack:
Great shoutout/link to the original movie Fargo with the money buried in snow.
I definitely think that the bronzed personal trainer, the “plumber,” the locust-buyer and the guy who picked up Malvo outside the Duluth police station are all one and the same dude.
That’s what I thought. Bumidji is a small enough town, they probably knew there was a pretty good chance they’d be put in the same big cell/drunk tank with Lester. (And if I were Lester, I probably would’ve told the lockup cop, “Hey, I know these guys - they threatened me earlier!” even if it meant I’d have to make up some more lies about why. Better that than to get beaten up/tortured by those two, with nowhere to run).
Lester really better get that hand looked at by a doctor. He could die.
Are Numbers and Wrench their actual mob codenames or something? I don’t remember them being named yet. And do they work for the same Fargo crime outfit as Malvo does, but working at (maybe) cross-purposes? In any event the deaf/mute could always use a pen and paper, or email or TDD, to communicate.
BTW, I find it hard to believe that Malvo’s fingerprints, when checked against the FBI’s national database, wouldn’t belie his claim to be a mild-mannered preacher. He’s got to have been caught for something in all his years as a bad guy.
Yup. For future reference: Plagues of Egypt - Wikipedia. Malvo could get pretty creative.
She’s also in the Red Robin ads we see a lot of around here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGbuFhq4DQo
On the Frank Peterson thing; as the police guy stops and then arrests him, BBT makes a quick phone call - in that call he is setting up a phony ID in the name of Frank Peterson (he says it in code ‘This is Deluth. Package requested. Frank Peterson’).
I guess by the time they got back to police HQ it was up online and all the other fakery sorted.
On the blood thing, we saw BBT covering the red-coloured containers in the back of a car …
I saw him covering the containers of blood (and I think there was a label or something from a butcher’s shop) but last week I was wondering how he got the shower head to spew blood. That wasn’t and isn’t clear.
The red ice scraper showed up last week as well. It’s interesting because now this show, while still based on the movie (with so many similar characters) but now it’s sort of a sequel as well. It’ll be interesting to see how far they run with that or if that’s the only connection. The movie is on Netflix, I just watched a few days ago, it might be worth a quick rewatch if this does delve into sequel territory, or at least if there’s more callbacks.
Glenn Howerton is famous enough on his own, if one wanted to, they could rewatch his scenes and, knowing who he is now, he should be easy enough to spot. They did a good enough job with his wardrobe/makeup that I had no idea that was him. I’ve been watching It’s Always Sunny since it started. If he was a nobody, it would be a lot harder to place him from scene to scene.
That makes sense, but, if he were the type of person to do that, he could have just told the first cop instead of punching him in the face, I smell a plot device. The writers must need, not the three to interact, but Lester to get arrested (for a violent crime, no less). It’s just one more thing that Molly is going to be able to show the chief and say “C’mon” and one more thing the Chief is going to have to handwave away, he’s going to have to change his mind eventually. He can’t defend Lester forever.
He’d be wise to ice it up, get drunk and just pick the birdshot out of there and see what he can do about getting some antibiotics. I’ll bet Malvo could hook him up. I’ll bet Malvo could even hook him up with a fake ID so he could just go to another town and get it fixed up. It would be easy enough to say he was hunting and it ricocheted off a tree.
The names are on IMDB, at least that’s where I got them from. I’m sure there’s a wikia page for the show as well.
I guess the stuff in the back of the car is some kind of concentrate, BBT poured it in the tank, and BBT’s new blackmail accomplice covered up the fact there had been tampering when he pretended to be a plumber. I think that much is clear.
No idea how he got that plumbing job.
Fwiw, from an artistic pov, the red stuff actually comes from a different source - the shower head is out of frame and you can see the red arrives from a slightly different angle to the water.
Oh, I didn’t see the butchers label, that sounds like a nice catch.
In the other thread, though, I called BS on that, but supposed we’ll just have to fanwank it. If he put the blood in the hot water tank, even if he did it and burped all the air out of the system etc etc etc, it would have arrived at the shower with the rest of the hot water…that is, it wouldn’t have
shown up mid shower, it would have shown up at the beginning, while he was still standing there waiting for the hot water to show up, probably not even in the stall yet.
The King clearly, was standing in a cold shower waiting for the hot water to arrive from the basement.
But I think, like I said before, we’re just supposed to work on the assumption that he did it in some super sneaky way because he’s scary and bad. Don’t worry about how, just know that he can.
We also have to keep in mind that he got past the security system that it’s probably safe to assume he has.
I think so, too. But it seems odd that Milos has never seen his wife’s personal trainer before. Jeez, you would think everybody knows everybody in a town that size.
Did you notice that Stavros’s office has a window looking into the cutting room for the store butcher? The AV Club write-up called that “Chekhov’s slaughterhouse”, suggesting that we might see someone killed there in a bloody fashion at some point.
I did like how Lester got away from Numbers and Wrench, first by use of the taser and then by punching the cop. Too bad they followed him into the local drunk tank.
Meh, I didn’t know the people my (ex) wife worked out with and I certainly don’t know them now.
I did see that. I liked it, but thought it was odd. I mean, for Milos, it’s neat, but you’d think he wouldn’t be so happy about them being able to watch him all day, maybe they’re double windows/mirrors.
I hadn’t thought about that. In this case, I like it, but you have to be careful how many things you call Chekhov’s gun. The pen on the table, the box of cereal on the counter…I understand the point, but not every single prop has to be used at some point. Especially nowadays with more complex set dressings. Chekhov wrote that over a hundred years ago, plays had fewer props then. A gun on a mantle meant more to the viewer then then it does now. Also, see Red Herrings.
But, I could see the meat cutting area coming into play here, it is pretty prominent. Or, it could just be for symbolism. I’m not one to pick up on that kind of stuff, but it’s big bright white clean window, in his warm cozy red office.
Yep, the bar fight was obv. faked to get them in the tank.
fwiw, Stavro’s son is kind of bugging me (Dmitri) - the guy needs a story or character arc real soon …
One thing I couldn’t quite hear; when BBT phones the pet store he asks the girl for someone that sounded a little like 'dum cumf’ - I’m guessing that’s just BBT’s humour again…
Could be. This show also delights in having things going on in the background, visible through windows, to distract us from, or as a counterpoint to, whatever’s going on in the foreground. Remember the murdered bully’s two moron sons’ hijinks out on the lawn.
A friend of mine has been struggling with the concept of ‘dark humor’. I should show him that scene. That scene was just about the epitome of dark humor/black comedy.
Dark humor? Hell, yes. The Coen Bros. have a knack for it. The original Fargo drips with it.
Those people are correct. It is that Melanie Paxson in all those commercials, including the Yoplait one
You saying she was the wife in the State Farm commercial are wrong though
While I’m greatly enjoying this show, I wa very bothered by the whole Frank Peterson Alibi business, as it twisted my suspension of disbelief far past the breaking point.
So this guy gets arrested and claims to be some minister in some church. Presumably the church is a front. But what if the cops, instead of calling the church directly, just call up the police chief in that town and say “hey, do you have a church called (x) in your town? If we fax you a photo can you tell us if it’s really the minister of that church?”.
His plan working requires an extremely precisely calibrated layer of laziness and incompetence of the part of the police, also requires that Gus not have had a dashboard cam (which Malvo couldn’t have known), etc, etc, etc.
Not the end of the world, but definitely bugged me.