How Did This Get Made? · Earwolf and Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas

Last Looks: Date with an Angel

February 20, 2026·40 min·2 clips

Paul Scheer asks if a brain tumor is the new Jacob's ladder and what Burgess Meredith's boobs look like.

Smoochies are somehow the entry point. Paul uses the Last Looks cold open to fold fan taglines, Discord chaos, and the movie's suspected brain-tumor logic into one quick pileup. Ghostbag lands the first clean hit. Their fake tagline turns Date with an Angel into a Kindergarten Cop-style diagnosis joke, and Paul treats it like official house business. Then the room drifts. A restaurant-review tangent turns into annoyance about being asked for feedback before the meal and suspicion about what is being collected. The show snaps back. Paul plugs the matinee back-catalog replays, jokes about not even hiding them behind a paywall, and sends listeners toward old Double Dragon material. Jason arrives through a song. Once he is in the chat, the episode becomes two friends poking at an old Date with an Angel recording like a time capsule. Minnesota is the memory hook. They talk about the unreleased episode as a relic from a more innocent stretch, while admitting fans notice which recordings never show up. Swordfish comes up as the comparison point. The reason is practical and a little self-mocking: they try not to release episodes when the movie is hard to watch without paying. That rule bends a bit. Paul still says the next pick is worth renting, then sets up the full conversation with Jason and June. The bits stay casual. Fan submissions, theme songs, old episodes, review requests, and release logistics all get tossed around with interrupted-dinner-table energy. No one tidies it up. That is the fun: the housekeeping keeps wandering into jokes, then still lands on next week's Shoot Em Up tease.

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Paul Scheer and Jason turn Date with an Angel leftovers into fan chaos, backlog gossip, and very committed brain-tumor nonsense.

Paul Scheer treats this Last Looks for Date with an Angel like a clubhouse meeting after everyone has already seen the mess and come armed with notes.

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Date With An Angel, a Discord vote that backfired, and a tumor the plot never explains.

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