Rectangles Podcast
Film-loving partners Janackeh and Nick get together each week to riff on everything from cult classics and hidden-gem documentaries to current blockbusters and trending series. Their conversations blend sharp observations, easy humor, and the kind of back-and-forth you’d hear from friends arguing over the remote.
Rectangles Podcast
Ep.3 Parallel Lines & Placebos
Episode 3 — “Parallel Lines & Placebos”
On this mind-bending installment of Rectangles, Janackeh and Nick journey deep into Adult Swim’s animated thriller, Common Side Effects. Their discussion spirals around the mysterious Blue Angel Mushroom at the center of the show, diving into how it sparks conflicts across pharmaceutical giants, underground mycologists, and federal agents.
Key conversations include:
- Magic or medicine? The ongoing debate around psilocybin mushrooms and their potential as therapeutic wonders versus recreational hazards.
- The moral maze of big pharma: when does healing become a hostage to corporate greed?
- Animated realism: How the creators blend trippy visuals with grounded storytelling to capture both the wonder and anxiety of psychedelic experiences.
The hosts also ponder big questions:
- Is Frances the actual villain, or just misunderstood?
- What would their last meals be?
- If they took the Blue Angel Mushroom, what would their own psychedelic “trips” look like?
- Can too much of a good thing actually become harmful?
Plus, they explore the creative minds behind the series—comedy writer Steve Hely (Veep, 30 Rock), animator Joseph Bennett (Scavengers Reign), and executive producers Mike Judge (King of the Hill) and Greg Daniels (Parks and Recreation).
Tune in for insightful commentary, surprising mushroom facts, and reflections on how Common Side Effects illuminates the blurry line between perception and reality.
Hey guys, welcome back to the Rectangles Podcast. I'm your host, Nick.
SPEAKER_01:And I'm Janika. And this is episode three. What happens when Gen Z anxiety, big pharma conspiracies, and adult animation collide? The cure is worse than the condition. This might be the most casually dystopian cartoon you've never heard of. Today, we are talking about common side effects. If you're new to the show, welcome to the Rectangles Podcast. We are two people that watch a ton of TV and movies and want to share our love of lesser known or even super viral shows to break down our takes and other media surrounding the hype. Please follow us at Rectangles Podcast for reels, memes, and further conversation. We're currently on YouTube, Instagram, and Patreon coming soon.
SPEAKER_00:Yep. So... I really love this show right here and I'm glad we're covering it just because this allows me to kind of put on my tinfoil hat and kind of get in my X-Files bag. What's so great about this show, it's a combination of a bunch of people that are just really good at their craft coming together, and it's actually four of them. So it's Joe Bennett, who was the creator of Scavenger Reign, which is on HBO right now, and you can go watch that. I think it's on Netflix maybe as well. I think I may have seen it on there too, but it started off as an HBO Max original. Then you also have Steve Healy, who was a writer of Veep. uh writer american dad which is one of my favorite shows uh and then uh the office as well and then you have my favorite so you have mike judge and you have greg daniels who if you've ever watched king of the hill uh beef some butthead idiocracy these they've been long time collaborators and what's funny is Even Joe and Steve on the other end. So it's like two creative partners coming together to make a big partnership. They've actually worked on things on the side themselves, smaller projects. They're on Adult Swim. So you have all this combination of things and the theme shows it. So we have intrigue. We have office politics and corporate culture commentary, of course, from the guy who made Office Space and also the guy who wrote Veep. You have comedy as well from the writer of American Dad and Mike Judge, who's well known for Silicon Valley and things like that. So it's just overall is just a really good combination of if you're a fan of any one of those things, you'll love this show because there's something for everybody in it. So just to kind of kick off, really, is... What do you think? Like, what exactly... What would you just overall take from the show, just to start off?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I mean, the overall take is that, you know, sometimes a cure-all solution feels like, oh, yes, absolutely, this is great, but thinking about the... side effects, not just of a cure-all drug, but the side effects socially, economically, impacts a climate. There's just so many things that we don't consider sometimes when we have this idealistic view or this idealistic idea of oh, if there was a drug or something that could just instantly cure anything, All of our problems would go away, but we don't consider the brand new problems that it would create.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Now, I think this is a big example of something I've always been told growing up by my mother is everything should be in moderation. So even the good and the bad should also be in moderation. Yeah. And yeah, this is the greatest example of it, of like things that if you think that like, oh, wow, this would be so great. It's puppies and rainbows and everything's well, but then would you actually appreciate it if you didn't have a little bit of the bad to go with the good to even appreciate the good or even know what good is? And so I think that's like a good examination of the show in a nutshell is, um, you know not even good things are not all they are to be cracked up to be to be honest right and so with that um
SPEAKER_01:to give further context um you know i guess we should talk about the characters and the the i guess the two main characters that that you see kind of like working together, but also in conflict with one another?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. And yeah, that was great you bring it up because yes, that goes into one of the big things. So our lead character, our main person is going to be Marshall. So Marshall is a mycologist and mycology is the study of mushrooms. He is down in South America trying to find find this like perfect climate, perfect temperature, combination of soil and all these things because he believes it's going to give him like to the right location to find basically the perfect mushroom. And it's going to be essentially the perfect drug. There's the cure all for everything and kind of unlocks life itself. And then you also have Francis. And so Francis, who is actually connected to Marshall by being a lab partners back in high school and pretty much being, seems like they were, were friends. You get some of that context. They were friends outside of just being lab partners, but, um, she leaves a completely different life and where she's actually just like a glorified assistant for the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Now, um, My biggest thing, and I was telling you this before we started recording, was, you know, like, I personally believe the internal conflict in this show, you have Marshall, who's almost the epitome of the good guy, almost in every single way. I would almost say it's almost a little bit Pollyanna, like he is almost a little too trusting for certain people and not trusting enough for other people that he probably should have double checked. And then you have Francis, who in my opinion, is the actual bad guy of the show. Now, to preface this, before we get all the way into this, there's a whole crazy cast of characters. Everybody in this show is crazy. Like, everybody in this show is so quirky and has those little things to them. It's very King of the Hill. It's very... American Dad. American Dad. It's very Veep, even, where just everybody has their own motivations, their own, like, things that make them seem grounded because they're just... Even the... straightest edge person in the show is still a little weird. They have a little weirdness to them, and that's what kind of makes them real to me.
SPEAKER_01:BoJack Horseman?
SPEAKER_00:Very much, yeah. BoJack Horseman also as well. Also, Steve Healy had a hand in as well. And definitely in BoJack, everybody had a little bit of a weird quirk to them outside of just being an anthropomorphic animal as well. Um, but yeah, I think that was the internal conflict and it's also like an examination of platonic relationships.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, absolutely. Cause we have, we have Francis and Marshall, and then we also have these, um, FBI agents who, it's male-female pairings, but they're not romantic, they're not sexual. And so I feel like that's sometimes rare to see on TV is when there's these male-female dynamics, but it's not, it's completely platonic.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Those, those, it's good to see, you know.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you don't get that too much. It's, it's almost like it's the, everybody's afraid of the moonlight, or no, moonlighting effect. Moonlighting effect. Yeah, where it's like, you know, oh, when are they going to get together? And it's like, well, if we kind of set some clear boundaries that this will never happen, you'll kind of start examining these characters for their actual relationship and not just like, yeah, well, you know, they seem good. Sam and Diane should get together yeah I think um explain a little bit on Francis right being the true bad guy and that was like one of the things I was excited for to talk about was Essentially, her boss, who's the CEO of the big pharmaceutical company.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, Rick.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Rick, who's essentially Hank from King of the Hill and is Mr. Big Voice. Exact same voice. Yeah, Mike Judge voices a couple characters in the show. You
SPEAKER_01:hear it immediately when he comes on screen. You're like, that's Hank Hill.
SPEAKER_00:That's Hank Hill. But after a while, it's funny, it happened. starts to grow on you though i found it a weird effect of where i i think because the characters were so much um i wouldn't say well they were grounded because i could see almost every one of these people in real life nobody was like outlandishly cartoonish
SPEAKER_01:his brother
SPEAKER_00:oh well we'll get into my favorite character here in a second but yeah our um the ceo essentially is, in my opinion, the greatest example of a CEO. It's not all CEOs, but let's be real. It's a lot of CEOs that aren't really good at like they run tech companies. They don't know how to code. They run like pharmaceutical companies. They don't know anything to do with a pharmacy or like biotech or anything like that. And so there's CEOs of car companies that famously don't drive. Shout out to our famous show that got canceled, American Auto.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, it was such a funny show.
SPEAKER_00:It was such a good show. But he is the kind of CEO who's so obliviously stupid, for lack of a better word, and so arrogant that... He is not really truly evil in my book because I don't think he's smart enough to understand that what he's doing is wrong.
SPEAKER_01:Right. I don't think he can see his place in the micromanagement world. tree
SPEAKER_00:yeah yeah where he's like he gave me vibes of the way he talked it's almost like he fell into that position because he still got to talk like he was middle management it was really weird he was like we're all getting fired and we're all doing this
SPEAKER_01:and if i go down
SPEAKER_00:you go down going down and you're going down and i'm like well dude if you're the ceo of the company the company's probably gonna be in trouble just in general like what's going on here so yeah that was a very interesting take in like how he moved and how he operated and then of course we had other characters of course we had the FBI agents who are hot on the pursuit of Marshall and Francis and then you know of course they're like framed to be the good guys but clearly we know through watching the show that There's higher powers at stake that are controlling the government and the pharmaceutical companies and all that and making these moves. And even the people at the top, they show, which is one of the big Swiss financiers in the show, who's kind of the big shadowy guy that's making all the Illuminati moves. He's not necessarily, he's very cold and calculating to where it's math to him. Like his evil is math. It's not, oh, I know I'm hurting people. It's just, look, the figures next quarter has to be at 12%. Doesn't matter how it gets done. I don't even want to know how it gets done. He's said in multiple scenes, I don't care how you do it. Just make it happen. And that does come in the fact of Some people are going to be getting killed or, you know, they're dumping wastewater in like, you know, impoverished areas and things like that. And he's like, I don't even want to know about it. Just make it happen because we need these numbers done. I can't consider that it's evil, but I can't consider it consciously evil. Francis, on the other hand. who is raised with clearly raised with a good set of morals uh knows what she's doing at all times has an open dialogue in the show and she um basically in one episode and i pointed it out uh when we were watching it of she literally says i know this is wrong by taking things that she did not develop, which is essentially the mushroom, and bringing it to the pharmaceutical company to make her way up the corporate ladder.
SPEAKER_01:Without consent from Marshall.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, without consent from Marshall, without the consideration of the effects on people, without testing to know what the side effects are on people. So it is very interesting to see that one character almost break bad throughout that series and like really come through a like almost a 360 of sorts because that's the the difficult conversation when i say francis is actually the real bad guy inherently she's also the person that i feel like learned the most in the show.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And almost some characters have changed, but she went through a whole transformation and ended back where she was morally, but now knew the reasoning why. And I thought that was really important.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. And so that was my biggest, that was my, one of my biggest takes for the show now. Um, One thing I did want to say out of my notes, because if you're already a watcher of these other episodes, I love to take notes while I'm watching. One of the things was that in the very first episode, they do not waste any time. There is almost no fat left. on this show there is nothing when we're watching it and mind you this is a whole season of a show you can watch this basically in one night sitting we've done it before
SPEAKER_01:the episodes are like 20 minutes long
SPEAKER_00:20 minutes long no commercials because you're watching on streaming and yeah like it's you could knock it out started about probably what, three o'clock in the afternoon, you'd be done by dinner time, essentially.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, maybe two and a half hour investment.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. And I would say three if you really got to, you know, take a break or anything like that. But you can knock it out pretty fast. And it's so, like, well-paced. You don't get bored. By the time a scene almost goes too long, in my opinion, I feel like it automatically switches to another subject or whatever else is going on at the same time and there's so many characters and so many things going on that everything's constantly feeling like fresh information which is really cool and everything's also interconnected so that's really it's really good writing um also to um I put on there that basically that, yes, my favorite character, Zane, who is Marshall's half-brother, who runs a pet shop, is my favorite character. He's probably the most over-the-top person. He's literally the Roger from American Dad of this show. But even then, he doesn't feel... insanely cartoonish. Like, it still feels like... He
SPEAKER_01:absolutely feels insanely cartoonish. He never has pants on.
SPEAKER_00:He doesn't, which
SPEAKER_01:is... And while he's working in the pet store.
SPEAKER_00:Definitely a health hazard, but if you know some of the pet people in that world... That's not that crazy of a thing. I think some people who spend more time around the pets and the animals than people, I've been around some of those people and it's like, yeah, they kept their clothes on when we were there. But I was like, they're definitely probably getting naked and dancing to some weird music in front of these snakes, like for sure when we leave.
SPEAKER_01:And his pet store, it's not like the pet store at the mall. It's like the super exotic, probably illegal pets that you're not supposed to have.
SPEAKER_00:Very illegal, like very rare lionfish and other things like that. I think there was like a two-headed snake and stuff like that you're not supposed to have in the States. So yeah, he was definitely breaking some laws, some important laws. And so also with that, speaking of pets, of course, my favorite was Marshall's Turtle. Yes. Who was just also just super cute. I made a shirt of that guy. Yeah, Socrates, which is a great name. And then, of course, he's also the key to certain things in the show that you definitely need to watch. But yeah, I wanted to really ask a couple questions. questions that got brought up in the show.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:So, um, agent, um, Capiano and agent, um, yeah, Harrington, uh, we're sitting there at a diner when they're doing a stakeout on Marshall and they start talking about last meals. And I was very curious to see what your last meal would be. And of course they were talking about like death row meals and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_01:Well, because one of the points that is brought up is that, you know, generally this, you know, despite or in spite of like, popular opinion that you can just have anything you can probably only have what they have available in the cafeteria at the actual prison that you're at so if that's the case i might skip my last meal because yeah that's a little depressing
SPEAKER_00:yeah it is because you know what's funny is um what made me like what grabbed me was thinking about the old joke about having the last meal was I would ask for a shamrock shake and a McRib because it will be only like one week of the year or something like that that they actually cross over at McDonald's so they extend my sentence out to get both of those which I believe if I'm not mistaken somebody when they used to actually give you a real last meal, like steak and lobster. Somebody tried to ask for that, trying to figure out how they could extend their, you know, their execution date out. That's wild. It's very wild. My last meal, if it's coming from the cafeteria, I guess you're just going to run them shrimp ramen packets, I guess. I'm going out the same way I came in for my early part of my life, I guess. Shout out to Top Ramen, because Yeah. Guess I'm getting one more, one more sodium hit. And then also too was what would your trip experience be now? That's heavily inspired. Of course, this show is all about mushrooms. Uh, and of course it's well, I say federally illicit mushrooms, but we're from the great state of Colorado and it's actually decriminalized here. So not that you can necessarily just go and buy a mushroom directly out of like a marijuana dispensary, but you can get things that are comparable. We do have now here in the state ways where you can actually get actual therapy and have therapy sessions for it. They still kind of, from what I'm saying, costs a great deal of cash, but it can be done. So we are on the forefront in this state. of new things that might finally get to helping veterans with PTSD, non-veterans with PTSD, and just folks that have certain mental issues that may be able to be not necessarily dealt with from what I understand just looking into the science, but being more comparable of understanding oneself with that drug. And so that does play into things of the common side effect. The common side effect is the trip. So, if you thought you would take this magic blue mushroom, what would you possibly see? I know, it's a deep question. I don't know. It's a very deep
SPEAKER_01:question. Yeah, I have no clue. Like... If I'm taking it from the context of the show and what they saw, probably just a trip back through my childhood and maybe teenage years into adulthood and just thinking about what people normally... or how people normally describe their trips, it would probably be like... all of the decisions that i like almost made and like where that would have gone almost like um you know like if i hadn't done this and done this where would that lead to and if i hadn't done this and done this where would that lead to and probably just like a recollection of pivotal moments throughout my life that I completely forgot about, but that were super pivotal to where I am today. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00:No, no. What's funny is I was thinking the exact same thing. And now, mind you guys, we didn't talk about
SPEAKER_01:this before
SPEAKER_00:we turned on the camera. No, that's why I'm like, ew. Yeah, but I would have also thought it would have been my childhood, probably in a fast-forward moment of just like... probably including things in essentially a clip show format of things probably I don't, I never think about. Um, it will probably bring up like the most embarrassing things, but then also like, you know, maybe some accomplishments or something like I did in like third grade, like a school project or something that I've totally forgot about. Like most of us have forgotten about what are probably like brought that to the forefront or, uh, you know, uh, wow like while i'm thinking about it funny enough like my dad helping me make i think it was the alamo or something like that in like fourth grade or something out of sugar cubes and like that that's like i thought i literally haven't actually thought about a long time uh and so yeah yeah something like that
SPEAKER_01:interesting yeah
SPEAKER_00:yeah it's really yeah i think and i think that's and honestly like you said from what people have described yeah in the usage of um psilocybin is yeah totally that it's just Sometimes it makes you face certain things that you may have forgotten about or want to forget about. And I think that also plays into the show. There's clearly certain things that you see with some of these characters that they're either holding onto or they have to get over to get to the actual cure of whatever they're taking that mushroom for. And so that's a really interesting take of like, It's like medicine inside the candy effect, but the candy is like a flavor you don't know what it is. Do you take it? Mystery flavor. Right. And it's like, yeah, instead of like, yeah, having mystery white flavor, it could be mystery pink flavor or mystery blue flavor. And that blue flavor is actually like pineapple. So they're like mislabeled. on the face of itself but i think that's like almost the show in itself too like obviously it has candy of it has like these funny moments it has kind of a slightly off-kilter um art style where people's heads are like slightly exaggerated a little bit bigger but their faces are still proportionate which kind of gives a weird effect but then i think it also um You know, and that's when I put on my tinfoil hat for the folks who are listening audio. I got to put the, you know, my tinfoil koofy on and say, well, if I wanted to get a message to the masses and have it not detected by the man, then I would go and put that in a cartoon. My brother, I would do that to have it actually put upon the folks without having them detect me. And that's why I would put it on Adult Swim right next to some funny stuff but it's actually like the most like serious like no we should probably be examining these things
SPEAKER_01:yeah
SPEAKER_00:so yeah
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SPEAKER_00:Oh, and then also like, yeah, Yeah, write that review. So one of our listeners, hey mom, she says she just learned how to actually review podcasts and she learned it for us. So yes, please go down to the little bottom. It'll say write a review and yeah, just go and put in some words of encouragement or even some feedback, things like that. It definitely helps us out. It helps you guys out because if you're a listener of this podcast, we wanna make this better for you. Yeah, absolutely. feedback in, okay? Yeah, so my biggest thing is kind of wanting to know from you what is like the biggest takeaway from the medicine inside the candy of this show, right?
SPEAKER_01:I mean, honestly, it's just like I don't know. Like even like in the context of like real life, what's going on right now, um, in, in 2025 and like looking at the show, it's like not everything is supposed to be monetized, capitalized, privatized, um, does a ton more harm than good. Even if, you know, in the minds of the people who, um, orchestrate it it sounds great on paper it sounds like oh this is gonna be great i mean and and this is even separate from like who it's going to affect like as far as like the little people when you even take that out of context and you're just like oh no we're just gonna make a lot of money it's gonna be great it's like no even you're gonna be affected in ways that you're you don't expect that are going to be adverse so it's like while you're trying to screw over the little guy you're screwing over yourself at the same time so it's like that was very prevalent and very like to the forefront of this show um like going back to what i said earlier it's like this this magic cure-all pill or this magic cure-all mushroom sounds great on paper and and when you think about like the short term of oh it's just gonna solve everything and cure me and i'll be able to live forever and nothing can ever harm me but it's like we don't think about all of the consequences that that brings and um the show kind of shines a light on that in a way that you're like oh And yeah, I don't want to give away like how we come to that and how everything transgresses, but it's real and it kind of makes you think about, you know, that one thing in context of, you can put that in any context really of anything that we think. in our minds, oh, if I had this, even the whole idea of I had a billion dollars, all of my problems would be solved. And it's like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. A billion new problems would be created.
SPEAKER_00:You'll have a bunch of cousins you've never heard of appear out of nowhere, like spawn from the ground. Hey, hey, hey. So did I ever tell you about the business proposition? Who are you? Like, wait a minute. Yeah, I'm your cousin. I'm your cousin. I'm on your mama's side. Your third cousin from your mom. Yeah, from your mama, daddy. No? Okay. From your mama, daddy. Right, right. No, you didn't see me at the last get-together. Okay, all right. Well, I heard that you got money. So let me hold$20. I'm like, what? All right. So, yeah, I think like everything in moderation, like literally what we start off with, like everything is in moderation. I think you have to take bad with good to understand what bad and good is. I think, unfortunately, if you have something that could defeat death and like some of these billionaires are actually trying to do in real life uh that's not good because then it turns into a gta lobby all of a sudden basically the whole world like if we don't have any consequences not having you know murder and a whole bunch of other things sounds great on paper but at the same time we're already dealing with people who you know i wouldn't say we're living too long but Essentially we are living a lot longer than we were expected to you know 30 years ago And we're already running into problems then imagine if you could live to I guess if we can't get the mushroom in your mouth, everybody can live to like 120.
SPEAKER_01:What's
SPEAKER_00:retirement?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I mean, just taking that thought, it's like, okay, say that we all can just live forever. It's like the resources will run out. We can't just live forever on limited resources. So what
SPEAKER_00:do you do then? We don't have housing now.
SPEAKER_01:And not even housing. It's just like water. We're just going to keep running the climate into the ground. this planet will literally not exist forever but people will live forever it doesn't That won't fly.
SPEAKER_00:We'll have to start shipping people out to the fifth moon of Saturn or something at this point. Because we're going to be too full. It's like the people in LA and New York always say, no, don't come here. We're too full. They're kind of true. But that's kind of the point for Earth in total. If we don't have the natural cycle of life. Also, what does that mean? Does it mean we don't work anymore? Like, because, you know, ultimately, I think mankind is, like, evolved to a state of where we value work to a certain extent because we have to pay for our lifestyles, at least in America. And if we are just like, well, I'll just be sustained by this mushroom or this pills or whatever, like... whoa, what does that do? Do we eat trash? Like, do we never eat healthy ever again? We can eat wherever we want and we just, we're fine with that. And what does that do? Things
SPEAKER_01:that we don't think about.
SPEAKER_00:Do I need to go buy stock in like ice cream right now? Or, you know what I'm saying? Like versus tomatoes and vegetables? Like, so yeah, there's a whole host of things. I know McDonald's stock would be through the roof, but like, there'll be a whole host of so many other problems. I think even if we get, for right now we get extended 20 years out as far as life expectancy that would be a whole host of problems right there right and even then i did like there was one little snippet in the show of where uh one person was mad because the mushrooms didn't work and marshall tells them well i'm sorry like janet like your husband was just really old We couldn't do anything about that. So maybe there's some limitations, but that's kind of like... What I took from it was the whole title, Common Side Effects. They didn't know the common side effects of the drug. And that's kind of like big tech... just how our government's running right now at the time of this recording, things like that, of where we're all getting into a culture of just move fast and break things, and we don't know exactly what we're breaking. Yeah,
SPEAKER_01:it's like, well, we're breaking things that we can't even see yet.
SPEAKER_00:We can't see it, we don't know how to put it back together, probably, because the people who probably put things together are long gone now, and we were just following the manuscript that was handed down to us, and we don't know why it's really here. Like, we don't know what was happening before this, you know, the National Park Service got put together or whatever it is, you know, FEMA, whatever it is, you know, as far as politically, we don't know why things like technology wise, why we, you know, for all we know, AI could have actually been in a lab in 1972, right? Going back to my tinfoil hat, all these things could already been in the government and they were just like, like. Yeah, let's not. The public's not ready for this. And then the private sector came up with, and they were like, hey, we can cash out. And here we are now. As it happens, yes. Right? So, yeah, this is, if you're a conspiracy theorist, or at least a budding conspiracy theorist, this is going to be up your alley. This is very much in the vein of, like, they cloned Tyrone, a whole bunch of things. I think you will have a great time with this show.
UNKNOWN:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_00:so yeah um that's all i got for this this has been like I said I've been waiting to do a show this is kind of our first show that we've talked about on our podcast and then also too I think it's just it's just such a great show that I'm not hearing nobody talking about I
SPEAKER_01:haven't really heard anybody talk about it but everybody should go watch it it's really good I mean even just like for the artistic style the animation is done really well there's a lot of like emotion and depth to it that you're, you don't quite expect. And the fact that the show like jumps right in episode one, like you're not waiting for something to pop off, you know exactly what's happening right away. Cause they only have 20 minutes for each episode to like, you know, make a point. So everything moves pretty quickly and swiftly and not real, not a lot of time to get like bored or to kind of like go down too many rabbit holes. Yeah. So yeah. To close this out, do you want to give your rectangle shot?
SPEAKER_00:Yep, yep. I was just thinking about that. So my rectangle shot, actually, just like what you said, everything is beautiful in this. It's so well animated. I think, and that's kind of like, it seems like that's a signature of Joe Bennett because it felt like he was in charge of the animation style.
UNKNOWN:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:The first sight of the mushroom. Like how it's shot, framed. It's all in the first episode. Because like I said, they waste no time getting into the action, getting into what's going on. The first time they show Marshall actually discovering it and showing that mushroom. What was the name of the mushroom again? It's the blue...
SPEAKER_01:Blue angel
SPEAKER_00:mushroom. Blue angel mushroom. It's... like blue is one of my favorite colors, along with green. And it's like a perfect teal like. think of a richer tiffany blue uh and it's just so well done yes so bright sparkly but then it's also got a deep color rich hue to
SPEAKER_01:it yeah
SPEAKER_00:it looks so good like i want that color somehow distilled into something to have it on a shirt or something like that because it's like such a cool color um but yeah that's the actual rectangle shot is that right there of when he lays eyes on that mushroom for the first time that he's been hunting down and it's like it's instant gratification on a rewatch and it's funny because i think it's so early in the first episode uh that you don't realize how important it is because they got to it so soon yeah and then after the fact you're just kind of like oh okay like if you rewatch it again you're like okay this is interesting like now that i know how important this is the fact that yeah marshall shows this to you but for you as a viewer you don't have that much context of it is like so well written Yeah, I think everything that if you can get multiple things out of a rewatch out of any property of anything, I think that's great writing just to begin with. But yeah, that's my rectangle shot.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so again, thank you so much for joining us for episode three on Rectangles Podcast. Be sure to leave us a comment on this video. Please like, please subscribe to this channel if you haven't already. And, you know, in the comments, tell us what your most relatable side effect is, whatever that means to you. But we definitely want you to watch the show and let us know what you think because it's very well done. Don't forget that we are on and Instagram as well. So you can follow us there for more conversation and more content that we've been cranking out here lately. And we will see you next time.
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