Eine Kleine Frohike
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| Series: | The Lone Gunmen |
| Original Airdate: | 3-16-2001 |
| Production Number: | 1AEB02 |
| Date(s): | FICTIONAL YEAR OR DATE(S) OF EVENTS IN EPISODE |
| Written by: | John Shiban |
| Directed by: | David Jackson |
Frohike attempts to convince a Nazi war criminal that he is her long-lost son.
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[edit] Summary
[edit] Background Information
- In The Lone Gunmen series, this episode is the second of six whose titles include the name of an individual main character from the series. The others are "Bond, Jimmy Bond", "Planet of the Frohikes", "Maximum Byers", "Diagnosis: Jimmy" and "All About Yves".
- Writer John Shiban, a self-professed "film geek", considered this episode to be his opportunity to bring many of his film influences to the series and play with those influences, but one influence in particular certainly had a big inspiration on the story. Ever since the production crew had started working on The Lone Gunmen series, Shiban had been keen to write an episode based on The Lady Killers, one of the Ealing Comedies, of which he had always been a big fan. Shiban had many reasons for wanting to do an episode based on that particular comedy, such as the fact that the concept involved an inherently very tense undercover mission and his belief that the tension in such a situation generated many comic possibilities. Shiban strongly believed that the idea to put Frohike, who was driven and a little bit of a curmudgeon, into a situation where the character had to face the unfamiliar and maintain another identity would be fun.
- Indeed, Frohike actor Tom Braidwood found this episode was a lot of fun to do and commented that the episode was both outrageous and foolish, noting that these were exemplified in the whole concept of making the actor up to look like Mrs. Haag's long-lost son.
- Tom Braidwood was also delighted to work with Ruth Manning, who played Anna Haag in this episode, and he found her to be "an absolutely fantastic person to work with."
- Vince Gilligan was a fan of this episode's teaser, noting that it hearkened back to the old Fox Movietone News. To create this sequence, the series' special effects team, led by Mat Beck, mixed old Fox Movietone News footage with extremely high-tech computer animation of maps of Europe during World War II. Vince Gilligan loved the way that Beck's effects unit segued the computer animation with the live-action news footage.
- According to Tom Braidwood, the make-up girls and costume people also had a lot of fun while working on this episode.
- As for cultural references in this episode, Jimmy Bond compares himself to the dog in Old Yeller and is seen air-guitaring to "Bad To The Bone" by George Thorogood. "Ca Plane Pour Moi" by Plastic Bertrand can be heard on two separate occasions and sound effects similar to those of Psycho were used in the shower scene.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main Cast
- Tom Braidwood as Melvin Frohike
- Dean Haglund as Richard Langly
- Bruce Harwood as John Fitzgerald Byers
- Zuleikha Robinson as Yves Adele Harlow
- Stephen Snedden as Jimmy Bond
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[edit] References
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