I originally wanted to use an image from the hitchhiking scene, and actually found one that would have worked great. But I stumbled on the cover from the Criterion Collection and it was so charming I couldn’t resist it.
Paul & Amy piggyback onto 1934’s Frank Capra romantic comedy It Happened One Night! They ask if this script fits the “screwball” mold, praise Claudette Colbert for subverting the cliches of the genre, and learn how Clark Gable inspired Bugs Bunny. Plus: which romantic comedies would Unspooled listeners add to the AFI list?