1.69 Million
- Episode aired Jun 3, 2021
- TV-MA
- 31m
With a little encouragement from Ava, Deborah's unpolished set sparks a career-defining moment.With a little encouragement from Ava, Deborah's unpolished set sparks a career-defining moment.With a little encouragement from Ava, Deborah's unpolished set sparks a career-defining moment.
- Marty
- (as Chris McDonald)
- Marcus's Mom
- (as Angela E. Gibbs)
- Little Sammie
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn a June 2021 LA Times interview with Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky, Meredith Blake asked them if they "talked to women like Deborah about what it was like to come up in that era and what they had to endure," given the sexual harassment theme of this episode. Aniello responded, "Somebody who was a consultant on our show was Janis Hirsch, who famously had an experience in a writers' room on It's Garry Shandling's Show. (1986). She was essentially sexually assaulted. And then she was fired the next day, even though she wasn't the assaulter. Janis is somebody who is incredibly funny and so quick to the punch. This is somebody who had to be brutally funny because she existed in this boys' club of comedy for so long. Getting the opportunity to spend time with somebody like Janis, I think, really did give us a bit of a peek into what it's been like for women who had to endure horrible s- and came out the other end." The online version of this interview included a link to Hirsch's 2017 first-person account of her assault by one of the actors on "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and her subsequent firing by producer Brad Grey, published in The Hollywood Reporter.
- GoofsWhen Nina calls Ava to discuss Dennis coming to visit, she states that Dennis cannot raise his left arm. When Dennis is on the phone with Ava discussing the plane ticket, he is using his left arm to hold the phone to his ear.
- Quotes
[Deborah is onstage in the middle of her rant against the club's sexist comic-owner/master of ceremonies, who is standing among the audience]
Deborah Vance: I don't know your set, but I am sure that you have nothing to say that hasn't already been said on this stage a million times. When will you just stop? Seriously, what will it take to make you just stop?
Drew Higgins: Sixty-nine million. Right?
[audience laughs]
Deborah Vance: Yeah. Man, he's clever. Well, no, I'm not gonna do that, but how about - one point sixty-nine million?
[audience gasps]
Deborah Vance: I'm not joking. You're all my witnesses. I will write this man a check, if he swears never to set foot in a comedy club ever again. You think he should take the deal?
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards (2021)
Why does only one half of this pair get to have a backbone? Vance just bends over every single time and Ava is right every single time. Do the mommy issues run that deep with the writing staff that their self insert millennial trope gets to win every time without any word of recourse on the other side? Some jokes are still there but I hope we get much fewer episodes like this or I'll have to give this one up after a lot of promise.
- nathanielknight-05676
- May 29, 2023
Details
- Runtime31 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1