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374: ‘The Paul McCartney of Car Salesmen’, With John Moltz

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The Last Payphone Period in New York

There's a famous gag where the first time he needs to be quick change from Clark to Superman, because Lois of all people is trapped in a helicopter. And he approaches a payphone on the sidewalk and it's not a phone booth, right? The gimmick, the gimmick is Clark would always dash into a phone booth,. but do a Wertleberg quick change and pop out as Superman. But here, the gag is in New York in 1979, the phones weren't booths anymore. They were just sort of standalone phones on a panel. And Clark gives it a look like, hmm, what am I going to do? You can't change in here. It was actually a

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