This Week In Joe’s Basement, episode 12a: Feet (Remix)
AIR DATE: October 1, 1990
AIR DATE: September 24, 1990
A few years before the 1990s anti-smoking crusade, cigarette addiction was still good for a few laughs. AIR DATES: April 30, May 7, 1990
A version of the children’s game “telephone:” one person tells a story to a second, who retells it to a third, etc. With each retelling, the distortions inevitably arise. Unfortunately, the stories in question are not compelling or revealing, nor are the distortions all that amusing. AIR DATES: April 16, 23, 1990
The crew goes to several racially mixed Chicago neighborhoods to ask black people “What do you think of white people?” and vice versa. No one gave a dull response…AIR DATES: April 2, 9, 1990
Three monologues about encounters with authority figures, delivered in intense close-up. Each of the performers wears headphones and hears his own voice delayed and filtered by a “harmonizer” manipulated by a crew member. The performers occasionally struggle to keep a train of thought, distracted by these distorted echoes in the headphones.
Juan Luco recounts his run-ins with an authoritarian soccer coach; Joe Winston relates his arrest and strip-search as a suspected terrorist bomber (these were more innocent times!) and John Harriman remembers his high school days as a casual thief, breaking into people’s homes – and getting caught. AIR DATES: March 19, 26, 1990