Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")
Very Bad Wizards
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The Mary Tyler Moore Production Company and St. Elsewhere
He's talking about TV getting increasingly self-referential. There was some episode of St. Elsewhere, where there was a person who was like a mental patient who believed he was Mary Tyler Moore. And you called her the character that Betty White was playing on the Mary Tyler Moore show. Which is a very, you know, it's actually before its time in terms of that level of self-reference.
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