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Stark Raving Mad :: The Stalker (01x08)
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| Title: | The Stalker |
| Episode #: | 01x08 |
| Production Number: | 1ADM09 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday November 18th, 1999 |
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When obsessed fan "Rattlesnake Rod" shows up at one of Ian's book signings, Ian takes a liking to his new found stalker. Henry, however, quickly comes to find that Rod is out to get him. Meanwhile, Maddie admits that she never read Ian's novel and Jake earns cash by selling off Ian's possessions.
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This episode featured the reunion of Tony Shalhoub (Ian Stark) and Steven Weber (Rattlesnake Rod Dubelco), who had previously starred together for many years on "Wings." It's been said that Weber's appearance on this episode is what prompted NBC to give him his own series, the ill-fated and aptly-named "Cursed," which was later re-named "The Weber Show."
| Throughout this episode guest-star Steven Weber has a gag where he squeaks. This bears an uncanny resemblance to Tardy the Turtle's squeak in "Greg the Bunny," which was co-created by "Stark" creator Steven Levitan, who also wrote this episode.
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Ian: Rod, I know what it's like to walk around with a circus in your head. There's noise and lights and everywhere you look, everybody's havin' a good time -- and then suddenly you realize that you're on the wrong side of the cage and there's no cotton candy for you.
Henry: That doesn't make any sense.
Rod: Yes, it does.
Ian: Then you look in those wiggly funhouse mirrors and all you can see is your high school guidance councilor and he's got Ritz Cracker eyes and candy corn teeth and he's laughing at you while your father swings from his belt...
Rod: Okay, now you lost me.
| Ian: I'm sorry, Rod, but the position's filled as long as Henry's around.
Henry: Oh, great! Why don't you just tell him I bleed liquid gold?
| Henry: Guess what severely incapacitated man wrote 600 pages in two days?
Ian: Stop throwing Stephen King in my face!
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Henry: He wants me to edit it.
Ian: Then edit it.
Henry: Yeah, that shouldn't be too hard since there's no pesky punctuation to get in the way of a 600 page sentence!
| Ian: Oh, come on. 600 pages, I mean, there must be something of value.
Henry: There was, but then he typed all over it!
| Ian: Okay, it's like this. You buy a pair of shoes but they don't fit so you go barefoot but you feel every jagged rock and shard of glass, until finally you meet a gypsy woman who makes you a tuna sandwich. And then instantly, you sprout wings.
| Ian: Ya know, James Joyce was weird. Van Gogh was weird; Stravinsky was weird. You know, talent doesn't always come wrapped up in a nice, new, shiny, little box, Henry. Sometimes it's messy and organic and raw and you might just have to look a little deeper to find it.
Henry: And sometimes when it's messy and organic and raw, it's garbage!
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In one of the few jokes during the run of the series that dates the show to a particular time, Ian makes a comment about Stephen King being a "severely incapacitated man." King had been struck down by a car a few months before "Stark Raving Mad" hit the air.
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