Episode 898.9: "CBB Presents: The Music Man Watchalong", with Paul F. Tompkins as malt shop owners Bing Lujo and Dr. Bill Blondie! They published this on the main feed in lieu of a new episode this week.

In order to settle old scores, Scott Aukerman, the host of Comedy Bang! Bang!, is joined by guests Bing Lujo and Dr. Bill Blondie to watch the 1962 film "The Music Man". But will this put their argument to rest, or just open up new wounds?

Here are Scott's remarks at the beginning of the episode, only lightly edited for clarity:

Hey everyone! Scott Aukerman here, host of Comedy Bang! Bang!. And we do not have a regular episode for you this week. Let me explain. Now, if you've been living under a rock--and I sincerely hope you have not!, because they're very uncomfortable--the fires in Los Angeles hit approximately almost two weeks ago now. We had an episode that we were recording the morning things got really bad, and everyone had to cancel. And since then, I had to evacuate for about a week, and a lot of the regular guests on the show had to evacuate for about a week, and some people still haven't come back. And I know of at least five previous guests of the show whose houses were destroyed in the fire. So things have been a little dicey here in Los Angeles--we are not back up to regular speed yet. So what we decided to do--instead of just putting nothing out--we decided, why don't we put out something special that is only for subscribers at CBB World out to everyone else? So, before the fires happened, over at Brett's house--which was dangerously close to being burned to the ground by the way, everything around him was--Paul F. Tompkins and I gathered over there (if you can say two people "gathered") and we recorded a watchalong podcast for the movie The Music Man. Now, if you've been listening to the show over the past few months, you know that Paul and I have had some disagreement over the plot of The Music Man that has spanned many episodes, where we've discussed it. We've talked about it with Kristian Bruun and Tatiana Maslany; and then this continued on the tour, and also into the Best Of's. We decided to settle the issue for good, and we sat down and watched The Music Man. This is me, and Paul is playing two characters: he's playing Bing Lugo, and Dr. Bill Blondie, both of whom I had this argument with. And so we watched The Music Man. If you've never heard a watchalong podcast, we tell you when to start the movie--we give you a countdown. The only slight thing to watch out for in this version is we're gonna take a couple of ad breaks. So when you hear the Comedy Bang! Bang! theme, pause, and then when you hear it again after the ads, just unpause, and it should be still sync'd up for you. And this is pretty long--I think it's two hours and forty minutes long 'cause it's a long-ass movie. But we had a lot of fun doing it and we really thought the climactic conclusion of this should be available for all Comedy Bang! Bang! listeners, so that's at least a silver lining to all of this. We should be back next week with a new episode. I appreciate your patience in all of this. Everyone is safe here, but again I do know several guests whose belongings and houses are not safe, but we're glad that they're personally safe. We've been very lucky here in my house, as well; thank you to everyone who has reached out wondering how we're doing. Everyone is fine here. So, don't think about any of that--you have a fun watchalong podcast to listen to. Here you go: this is the CBB Presents that we put out, the watchalong podcast for The Music Man!