FRINGE goes on a musical noir fairy tale drug trip (with Merrilee O'Neil)
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Fringe: "Brown Betty"
Merrilee O'Neil joins us for one of the strangest genre mash-ups of all time from this cult sci-fi show, where a grief-stricken mad scientist tells a fairy tale about glass hearts, singing corpses, and quantum laser knives to a child while being stoned out of his gourd. We explore this episode's surprising ties to the success of Glee, the noir gender-swapping with Anna Torv as a hardboiled detective and Joshua Jackson as a femme fatale, animated Leonard Nimoy, and John Noble singing a crooner version of Tears for Fears! Plus, an extended tangent about Kingdom Hearts for some reason.
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Theme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
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LA Times BTS interview | TV Line on Jasika Nicole and Racism | Ars Technica on the Cipher
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