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Season 8, Episode 3: Hans' & Jacques' Deconstructive Analysis of the 1976 Paul Lynde Halloween Speci

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Listener, this episode takes you on a strange journey, like that time when you were 11 and your parents said, “You’re spending the summer with Uncle Billy,” and Uncle Billy dropped you off at a fish cannery, where you worked until well into the next school year.  That’s because it’s a “deconstructive analysis,” in which the internal precepts of the 1976 Paul Lynde Halloween Special are shown to be fundamentally unstable, riddled with contradictions.  Listen to this episode carefully, or our unwashed Existentialist guides, Hans and Jacques, will berate you in obscure academic journals and in your kitchen, if you give them your address.

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