The frightful-looking Jack Elam plays a local antagonist, with fairly memorable results, but even funnier than Elam is Crow’s impersonation of Jack Elam in one of the host segments.
Spoilers: It doesn’t go well, at all, for anyone involved. You know you’re off to a good start in this film as soon as our nebbish, naive protagonist Danny meets up with a drifter named “Bix Dugan,” who Joel and the Bots willfully mis-hear as “Big Stupid.” Soon, the unlikely pair of hobo and hobo-worshiper end up involved in some small-town drama, trying to better the position in life of a very sweet waitress named Carrie. 509, The Girl in Lover’s Lane, 1960īest riff: Bix: “Bet you have a lot of boyfriends, pretty girl like you.” Joel: “No, I’m saving myself for the right oily drifter.”
