Episode 19: Sam’s Notes

The Invention of Lying

  • Testing over the credits, very self-aware
  • Jennifer Garner is masturbating
  • At the restaurant
    • “She’s way out of your league”
    • I think no one is happy
    • “If I gave you my number, would you call me?”
    • Mom calls
  • At home
    • What is marketing like when you don’t lie?
  • Next day
    • Homeless man
    • Screaming man
    • “Pepsi, when they don’t have Coke”
    • So there’s no acting when there’s no lying
    • What’s the point of TV?
  • At the office
    • Tina Fey is the best admin
    • “You got stuck with a tough centery.” “No, I can make it work!”
  • A sad place for hopeless lonely people (senior living facility)
    • “I’m on pills that make everything orange”
  • Next morning
    • “Can you tell me how much is in your account?”
    • He totally lied
    • The joy of lying
  • At the bar
    • Lying is all about making the world the way you wanted it to be
  • At the motel
    • “Can’t you stay? We’ve been through so much together.”
  • Pulled over by the cops
    • “Actually, it arouses me.”
  • Casino
    • He won everything
  • Apartment building
    • “You’re a loser, you don’t really count.”
    • Mark just did a good thing
  • Helping the homeless man
  • Tells the woman outside the office building something to make her happy
  • Fixes arguing couple outside music shop
  • Fixes everyone at the senior living home
  • Hanging out with suicidal guy
  • Mark calls Anna
    • This date must happen
  • Revenge against Brad Kessler?
  • At the office
    • The first piece of fiction ever written
  • Date with Anna
    • She still won’t be with him because of his snub nose
  • Mom is going to die
    • It’s fajita night downstairs
  • Back at Anna’s
    • They fall asleep holding hands
  • Hundreds of people outside Mark’s building
    • The invention of religion, I guess?
    • Should Mark explain death?
    • It’s like he’s writing the tablets
  • Mark announces how religion works
    • It’s tough to work all the gray areas
    • Everyone turns against God
  • All the good stuff is happening to Mark
  • At the movie opening
    • Best film
  • At the park with Anna
    • I guess Anna is still with Mark
    • Mark makes up more wacky stories that make himself look good
    • Mark looks at people and sees stories
  • At Mark’s mansion
    • People camped outside his house
    • Anna has a date with Brad Kessler
    • Oscars all around his house (I count 4)
    • Birthday coupon for sex
    • Brad takes the coupon
  • Anna and Brad on a date
    • Brad does not like Mark
    • Anna is catching on to what makes Mark special
  • Religion hasn’t made the world better
  • Out back of Mark’s mansion
    • Mark is depressed
    • Mark still feels like a loser
  • Mark looks like Jesus
    • Anna invites Mark to her wedding with Brad
  • Anna helps short fat Brian in the park and maybe lies a little?
  • Mark goes to the wedding
    • Mark is in the stained glass holding the pizza box tablets
    • John Hodgeman is the pastor
    • Mark stands, thinks he’s better for Anna
    • The bottom line is, God can’t fix things for you, it’s up to you to make yourself happy
    • Did churches not exist before The Man in the Sky?
    • She wants little fat kids with snub noses
  • Epilogue
    • Little fat kid can lie
    • No one else has figured lying out
  • So Ricky Gervais wrote, directed, starred, and produced the movie