The gang opens with a very serious debate over one of comedy’s great unanswered questions: Stephen Chow vs. Jim Carrey — who had the bigger comedic influence? Gibbs then brings us into the modern job market with a typing-test job application, before everyone looks back on where they were and what they remember from 9/11, 25 years later.
Izzy reviews False Memory, the crew checks in on China’s increasingly ridiculous robot Olympics, and Mox gives his impressions of Macau. Then it’s time for this week’s main event: Juzo Itami’s Tampopo, the wonderfully strange 1985 “ramen western” about food, sex, obsession, etiquette, and the seemingly impossible pursuit of the perfect bowl of noodles.
