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No one dreams of El Dorado any more.
Theyll just take what they can get.
He even turned up as the villain on the first season ofThe Mandalorian.
The big answer, as with all the greatDocumentary Now!episodes, is attention to detail.
(I knew he would bring to Gordy the desperate longing of a broken man, says Wolz.)
Boy, these pacifiers really work, says Gordy.
I should get one for my ex-wife!
Still, when the test audience arrives from Woodland Hills, theyre in the mood to laugh.
You do not want to put these good people through that carnage.
A tension exists between Herzog the auteur and Herzog the brand, and the episode teases it out affectionately.
Somewhere, Herzog is out there chuckling.
Each lens distorts the previous distortion.
What you are left in the end is not a wilderness anymore, but an illusion resembling a wilderness.
(Sounds silly, but Wolz is right here.)
The bigFitzcarraldoreference is an effort to drag the bachelors pool table up a hill using a primitive pulley system.
TheGrizzly Manreference comes about when two brown bears attack the set.
I will destroy the tape, says Wolz, but it will continue to haunt us forever.
Gary Jacks, frequent guest of Merv Griffin andThe Tonight Show, was whisked away to a fate unknown.
Dieter provoking the audience at his one-man avant-garde show: I am Eve in the Garden of Eden.
The first harlot in an endless line of harlots that ends with all your mothers!
Update: An earlier version of this recap mistakenly misidentified the location of Peru.
It has been corrected.
