Patricia Wants to Cuddle
We found the intersection of Joseph’s conspiracy theory-addled brain and Rea & Jess’s obsession with pop culture: Patricia Wants to Cuddle. Our titular queen just wants what we all want: to love and be loved. So what if she’s a bigfoot? And so what if America’s biggest reality dating competition happens to be in Patricia’s actual backyard? If anything, that just means that she’s more likely to find what she’s looking for. The humans of The Catch land on Otters Island hoping for different kinds of success, from fame and fortune to true love with a sleazy bachelor, but what they find is a musty old bed and breakfast and a very eerie feeling of being watched in a different way than how they want to be watched. In this episode, we’re talking conspiracy theories (mostly Joseph’s), the way writers lift the curtain on behind-the-scenes moments in TV and movies, and the delight of stop-motion animation, as exemplified by Chicken Run.
Titles discussed:
Chicken Run, directed by Nick Park and Peter Lord
The Wallace & Gromit film series, created by Nick Park
Clash of the Titans, directed by Desmond Davis
Hercules, directed by Luigi Cozzi
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Missing Link, directed by Chris Butler
The films of Hayao Miyazaki
“The Red Shoes” by Hans Christian Andersen
Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
Unreal, created by Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro
Love Island, created by ITV Studios
The Ultimatum, created by Chris Coelen
The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey
Titles from the RA Corner:
The One by Julia Argy
Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religions, Technology by Diana Walsh Pasulka
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
Small Game by Blair Braverman
Find most of these titles (aside from the reality tv shows) in SCPL’s catalog by clicking here!
Our music: “Budding” by Broke for Free, available through a Creative Commons License