Leverage: The Top Hat Job
April 10, 2020 10:04 PM - Season 2, Episode 6 - Subscribe
The team employs very unusual methods to infiltrate a corporation that has been selling tainted food to the public.
I do not understand why Nate insisted on being the magician, a job he is clearly terrible at.
posted by jeather at 10:14 AM on April 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by jeather at 10:14 AM on April 11, 2020 [2 favorites]
Every smart person is stupid about *something*.
posted by Mogur at 12:38 PM on April 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Mogur at 12:38 PM on April 11, 2020 [1 favorite]
Nate has a weakness for silly hats and you just know he secretly loves playing ridiculous characters.
posted by Naanwhal at 6:23 AM on April 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Naanwhal at 6:23 AM on April 12, 2020 [2 favorites]
Kung Fu Monkey - LEVERAGE #206 "The Top Hat Job" Post-game: "#206 was a light, comedic change-up. Our guest writer, M. Scott Veach, had come in as a freelancer and pitched a very different "magician" story than how the episode finally laid out. Coincidentally, Tim had mentioned that he'd love to play a magician sometime. I am loathe to do an episode even close to a freelance pitch without involving the writer -- and you gotta buy two a year anyway -- so we called Scott in and the story was room-broken. (Tell the truth, I was off banging away at Ep 207 for a chunk of it, so my contributions to the story are limited generally to the CEO-in-a-box run, and the hijacked phone gag). The room can take credit for how much you enjoyed the episode, and Scott did a remarkably fine job during his visit. Not easy, coming into a tiny room that hovers at a constant 85 degrees filled with people who've spent ten hours a day for the last year and a half sitting in those goddam chairs.
I'd done a series of these horrible "state-of-the-company" shows back when I was a stand-up -- including one where they announced layoffs just before I got on stage -- and Albert Kim had attended a bunch while he was working his Time-Warner day job. Once we had the con format, it was just a matter of assigning roles. FWIW, Hardison chose his role in the con based on his love of Jonathan Creek."
posted by oh yeah! at 12:29 PM on April 15, 2020
I'd done a series of these horrible "state-of-the-company" shows back when I was a stand-up -- including one where they announced layoffs just before I got on stage -- and Albert Kim had attended a bunch while he was working his Time-Warner day job. Once we had the con format, it was just a matter of assigning roles. FWIW, Hardison chose his role in the con based on his love of Jonathan Creek."
posted by oh yeah! at 12:29 PM on April 15, 2020
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Indeed. And what is available irl is usually hideously inaccurate.
Nate sliding deeply into being a raging asshole again.
Not sure, but Hardison's phone might have been a Nokia N97 with cg on top?
posted by porpoise at 11:36 PM on April 10, 2020