Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Waylon Wong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
316 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

He gives it a bottle.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

What I really liked about the humor is that it's not modern.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

It's not sophomoric, right?

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

Like Linda, you pointed out, they don't rely on like poop jokes and stuff.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

It's also not like glib and modern in the way that a lot of kids' movies are now where you can feel the sweatiness of like, oh, we have to like stuff in a bunch of current references and stuff.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

And here they just really...

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

don't do that at all.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

And instead they rely on jokes that are kind of timeless.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

Like there's a literal counting sheep joke that I laughed so hard at.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

And then there's these visual gags.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

Like at one point in this teeny tiny town, you see that there's a small business that makes neon signs.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

And it says discounts for locals and neon outside.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

And they filmed this scene that's just in front of this neon shop.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

And you're like, OK.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

And then later on, you see that the police station has a neon sign outside.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

This is police station, which is so funny to me.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

You know, it's like they didn't have to do that, but they did.

Pop Culture Happy Hour
The Sheep Detectives

And I guess I appreciate that, you know, Craig Mazin, who adapted the book into this screenplay, you know, I know him from Chernobyl.