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The Out-of-Towners

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The Out-of-Towners	comment	The Out-of-Towners is a 1970 American comedy film written by Neil Simon, directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis.The film centers on George Kellerman (Lemmon) and his wife Gwen (Dennis). They live in Twin Oaks, Ohio, but George's company has invited him to interview for a possible job promotion in New York City. From the moment they depart their home town, the Kellermans suffer nearly every disaster that out-of-towners could possibly experience, with George angrily collecting the names of everyone who wrongs them – vowing to sue every last one of them – and Gwen accepting each new indignity with quiet resignation.Remade in 1999, with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn in the main roles.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
The Out-of-Towners / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: A woman sees George reaching into the pockets of a young boy in Central Park, and assumes he is molesting him. The viewer knows George is just looking for money.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_1c7987a	type	Newspaper Backstory
The Out-of-Towners / int_1c7987a	comment	Newspaper Backstory: In the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria, a guest is shown reading the papers with large-print article titles about the transit strike while George discusses it with a bellman.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_21bde5e8	type	The Tooth Hurts
The Out-of-Towners / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: George ends up cracking a tooth on stale Cracker Jacks.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Out-of-Towners / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: New York City appears to be dysfunctional in every way imaginable and full of people who are either actively trying to hurt each other or, at the very least, no help at all.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_231e8193	type	Mistaken Identity
The Out-of-Towners / int_231e8193	comment	Mistaken Identity: George thinks Gwen is in the restroom, so he sends in a janitor lady to try and fetch her. Turns out Gwen was never in there to begin with, and the janitor lady pulls a random bewildered woman out of the restroom thinking she was Gwen.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
The Out-of-Towners / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The movie only takes place over the course of a day and change, with the majority of it happening on the first night.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
The Out-of-Towners / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: George and Gwen Kellerman visit New York City in 1970. Among the many other catastrophes that happen to them, they're robbed at gunpoint (and knifepoint) – and met with apathy from the police when they report the crime; held hostage by armed liquor store robbers; and mugged while sleeping in Central Park.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_2ddddebf	type	Hostile Weather
The Out-of-Towners / int_2ddddebf	comment	Hostile Weather: Heavy fog sets the plot in motion by forcing the Kellerman's flight to divert from NYC and land in Boston. Later on, right when George and Gwen begin their trek on foot to their hotel, it starts thundering and pouring rain.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_30fb1442	type	'60s Hair
The Out-of-Towners / int_30fb1442	comment	'60s Hair: Plenty of it, given the time period; verging on early '70s Hair.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_37ad8d62	type	Heavy Sleeper
The Out-of-Towners / int_37ad8d62	comment	Heavy Sleeper: At the end of what must have been the longest night of their lives, George and Gwen fall asleep in Central Park. Within minutes, they're quietly mugged at knifepoint by a shadowy man hanging around in the park. George sleeps right through it, and absolutely can't believe his ears when Gwen tells him the story the next morning.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_3af4d3a3	type	Hollywood New England
The Out-of-Towners / int_3af4d3a3	comment	Hollywood New England: The Kellermans are flying to New York City, but their flight is diverted to Boston due to heavy fog. There are some cool shots of Logan Airport, the Combat Zone/Downtown and South Station.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_3e353a08	type	Accidental Kidnapping
The Out-of-Towners / int_3e353a08	comment	Accidental Kidnapping: George and Gwen's police escort responds to a felony call, and in the process the criminals manage to steal the police car with the Kellermans still sitting in the back seat. They dump them in Central Park soon after.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Out-of-Towners / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: See Downer Ending.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_45092c28	type	Greaser Delinquents
The Out-of-Towners / int_45092c28	comment	Greaser Delinquents: The 2 liquor store thieves have this general appearance, with great '60s Hair.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Out-of-Towners / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: The Kellermans put up with ridiculous amounts of abuse in New York City.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Out-of-Towners / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Again oddly Played for Laughs because of the nature of the movie, but the final scene shows the Kellermans' airplane home being hijacked by armed Cuban revolutionaries/terrorists: hardly a funny situation for anyone. The Adventure Continues...
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The Out-of-Towners / int_4fdd0d29	type	Place Worse Than Death
The Out-of-Towners / int_4fdd0d29	comment	Place Worse Than Death: The film was one of the films made before its major transformation in The '90s and the Disneyfication of Times Square, which cast New York City as a Wretched Hive the protagonists must endure and/or escape from.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
The Out-of-Towners / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Played for Laughs because it was The '60s, but the way George talks to Gwen would be considered quite abusive and toxic by 21st century standards.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Out-of-Towners / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: The police are apathetic when the Kellermans report they have been robbed; and eventually get imperiled in a high-speed chase while they are riding in a police car en route to an armory, where the burglars manage to steal the police car with the Kellermans still in it.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Out-of-Towners / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Every possible thing going wrong on a trip to the big city.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_5eecd64c	type	Oh, No... Not Again!
The Out-of-Towners / int_5eecd64c	comment	Oh, No... Not Again!: See Oh, Crap!.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_619bc34b	type	High-Class Gloves
The Out-of-Towners / int_619bc34b	comment	High-Class Gloves: Gwen wears a pair of these.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_697b1af	type	Jump Cut
The Out-of-Towners / int_697b1af	comment	Jump Cut: When Captain Endicott announces that the plane will be proceeding to Boston instead of New York City, George is outraged. "I have to be in New York at 9:00 in the morning and tonight I'm going to Boston!" Cut straight to the bustling crowd at Boston Logan's baggage claim carousel.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_69ff3fba	type	Beehive Hairdo
The Out-of-Towners / int_69ff3fba	comment	Beehive Hairdo: You can spot a couple of them on extras in the background.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_6a61050e	type	The Only One
The Out-of-Towners / int_6a61050e	comment	The Only One: Or ones, if you include both Kellermans. They are in a very bad situation, and real help is just about impossible to find.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Out-of-Towners / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The cover art shows George and Gwen smiling and having a good time.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Out-of-Towners / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs: Since it's a comedy, of course most of the incidents and situations in the movie are supposed to be funny. Alot of it though, could actually be considered fairly traumatizing and far from amusing, like the multiple armed muggings, kidnapping and hijacking.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Out-of-Towners / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: This movie takes place at a time when much of New York City was a hot mess, and was going through a protracted period of high crime rates on top of substandard services and living conditions. The Kellermans could easily stand in for any naïve suburbanite couple making their first trip to the Big Rotten Apple, and being essentially chewed up and spit out.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Out-of-Towners / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: In this case it's more of a "The Reason New York Sucks" speech, given by Gwen to George after his interview, detailing why she has no interest in moving there, and hopes he feels the same.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
The Out-of-Towners / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: George does this outside in the street, yelling at New York City in general, out of anger at his ordeal.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Out-of-Towners / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Jack Lemmon (George Kellerman), all the way.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
The Out-of-Towners / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Murray the con artist wears a pair of these, likely to appear less threatening so he can attract easy marks – such as out-of-towners like the Kellermans.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
The Out-of-Towners / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: After speaking in a comically flat, nasally Midwestern accent throughout the film, Sandy Dennis suddenly gives Gwen a very polished and almost quasi-British transatlantic voice for her big speech to George after he returns from the job interview toward the end.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Out-of-Towners / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: The movie is basically nothing but a long one directed at the Kellermans.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_914d2308	type	Why We Need Garbagemen
The Out-of-Towners / int_914d2308	comment	Why We Need Garbagemen: The city is covered in garbage piles due to a sanitation strike.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
The Out-of-Towners / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The Kellermans get a brief break from running after being dumped in Central Park late at night, where they share a few quiet moments before falling asleep (and soon being mugged).
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The Out-of-Towners / int_970ca74e	type	Big "OMG!"
The Out-of-Towners / int_970ca74e	comment	Gwen saying "Oh my God!" every time something bad happens to them. It ends up being the last line of the film when she says it after discovering that they are subjected to one last catastrophe on their return trip — their flight home is hijacked to Cuba.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Out-of-Towners / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Among the many catastrophes the Kellermans endure is an attack by protestors in front of the Cuban embassy. The very last one they are subject to is on the return trip — when their flight home is hijacked to Cuba.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Out-of-Towners / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: More than once, pretty much any time a gun is pulled and the Kellermans get embroiled in another SNAFU out of nowhere.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Out-of-Towners / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: None of the muggers or other violent criminals are shown getting any justice.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_a90eaeaa	type	Shell-Shock Silence
The Out-of-Towners / int_a90eaeaa	comment	Shell-Shock Silence: George ends up experiencing tinnitus after a manhole explodes and the cover crashes to the street right next to him.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Out-of-Towners / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Several of these throughout the movie. It's basically a giant chain of these types of moments and scenarios.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Out-of-Towners / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: The only thing that ends up going right for George is that he does land the very lucrative promotion he came to New York City for in the first place, but Gwen helps George realize an upwardly mobile move to New York City is not what they truly cherish after the urban problems and indignities they have suffered through, so both make the decision to remain in their small town.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
The Out-of-Towners / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Much of the film's humor is derived from how the main couple suffers nearly every indignity out-of-towners possibly could experience.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Out-of-Towners / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Gwen says "Oh my God!" every time something bad happens to them.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_b4fb00f6	type	Mistaken for Pedophile
The Out-of-Towners / int_b4fb00f6	comment	Mistaken for Pedophile: George pulls a little boy behind the bushes to search him for money after sleeping in Central Park. A nearby woman spots him and calls for police, yelling, "Pervert in the park!" George and Gwen manage to outrun the mounted officer who responds.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_b61f1b2b	type	TouchÃ©
The Out-of-Towners / int_b61f1b2b	comment	Touché: The two NYPD cops, when they are chasing the burglars on foot and end up getting their police cruiser stolen by the crooks themselves. The policemen know they've been juked, and can't do anything but grimace and throw their hands up as their car, now driven by the criminals they were just chasing, takes off into the night... with George and Gwen still in the back seat.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_b773ec0e	type	DidNotThinkThisThrough
The Out-of-Towners / int_b773ec0e	comment	Did Not Think This Through: George refuses to get out of the police car when his NYPD escort receives a call to a burglary in progress, even when the cops and his wife plead with him for his own safety to get out and walk the rest of the way to their lodging. They ride with the cops to the scene of the burglary, which predictably does not go well. When George decides to frisk a random child for money in a public park, and of course is mistaken for a pedophile.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The Kellermans try hopping a bus, but are kicked off just one block down the street for not having fare money.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
The Out-of-Towners / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: There are multiple times when George and Gwen are literally crying out for help, and other people just give them the stink eye and ignore them.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_d0883f7e	type	Broken Heel
The Out-of-Towners / int_d0883f7e	comment	Broken Heel: Gwen's heels break during the Kellermans' New York ordeal.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_d394829d	type	Frivolous Lawsuit
The Out-of-Towners / int_d394829d	comment	Frivolous Lawsuit: George threatens several people in the movie with one of these. Pretty much every time something inconvenient happens to George, he demands the person's name and claims he's contacting his attorney.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Lennie, the TV production guy who won't let George and Gwen pray inside the church until a certain time when filming is done. George takes the attitude of Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_ddab9ac8	type	Bad Samaritan
The Out-of-Towners / int_ddab9ac8	comment	Bad Samaritan: A man named Murray appears at first to help the main couple before robbing them at gunpoint. The baseball players in Central Park who jump George, mistakenly believing he was attacking Gwen during an argument.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_df77bb33	comment	Ambadassador: The Kellermans desperately flag down a car trying to get to their hotel, and it just so happens to be a UN delegate from Cuba, who is pleasant and helpful. However, his presence causes a small street riot over political issues, and George and Gwen are once again sucked into another dangerous situation just by being with him.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: George is absolutely dead-set on getting to New York City for his big job interview at 9AM, enduring and overcoming several huge setbacks that would have most normal people calling in and canceling/rescheduling.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_e5e1e0c0	type	Plane Awful Flight
The Out-of-Towners / int_e5e1e0c0	comment	Plane Awful Flight: Both times the Kellermans get on an airplane, things go terribly wrong.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_e9fcaa	comment	The Taxi: The Kellermans end up taking the same cab twice in Boston: first from Logan Airport to South Station, where they miss their NYC-bound train by mere seconds, and then to the next stop at Longview, where they catch up to it. George is so petty he gives his address to the driver so he can mail George his change for a $20 bill.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_eeb86ce6	type	Good Samaritan
The Out-of-Towners / int_eeb86ce6	comment	Good Samaritan: The redcap porter at South Station informs George he can still catch the train he just missed, if he goes straight to Longview. This allows the Kellermans to physically make it to NYC. Of course, The Adventure Continues from there.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_f0f03464	type	TheSeventies
The Out-of-Towners / int_f0f03464	comment	The '70s: Only barely (1970), so it actually still resembles The '60s as far as hair, clothes and vehicles.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_f2c895f	type	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
The Out-of-Towners / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: The hijackers in the final scene demanding the flight be diverted to Cuba.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_f373d5e	type	Powder Keg Crowd
The Out-of-Towners / int_f373d5e	comment	Powder Keg Crowd: When George and Gwen catch a ride with a man nice enough to help them, they quickly find out he's a high-ranking government man who happens to be controversial. A group of people soon gather round the car yelling, throwing eggs and physically rocking the vehicle.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_f9adfcdf	comment	Enemies List: George carries an ever-growing list of people and businesses that contribute to making his trip to New York miserable.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Out-of-Towners / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: With each successive catastrophe, George angrily writes down each perpetrator's name and promises to sue them or their company when he returns home. Gwen saying "Oh my God!" every time something bad happens to them. It ends up being the last line of the film when she says it after discovering that they are subjected to one last catastrophe on their return trip — their flight home is hijacked to Cuba.
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The Out-of-Towners / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Out-of-Towners / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: George and Gwen meet a seemingly friendly, helpful stranger in a hotel lobby when he overhears their predicament. He is ostensibly escorting them on foot to another hotel when he pulls a gun and robs them blind.
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The Out-of-Towners	hasFeature	Director Displacement / int_e4c1466
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The Out-of-Towners	hasFeature	Mistaken for Pedophile / int_e4c1466
The Out-of-Towners	hasFeature	Shell-Shock Silence / int_e4c1466
The Out-of-Towners	hasFeature	The Big Rotten Apple / int_e4c1466
The Out-of-Towners	hasFeature	What the Hell Is That Accent? / int_e4c1466
The Out-of-Towners	hasFeature	Why We Need Garbagemen / int_e4c1466

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