To celebrate the third anniversary of Scriptnotes, John and Craig invite Aline Brosh McKenna and her limitless analogies back to discuss box-office journalism, scene geography, emotional IQ and flipping the script.
It’s a jam-packed episode. In fact, there was so much we cut part of it out as a bonus Overtime show that will show up for premium subscribers later this week. In it, we make predictions, re-invent Spanx, and detail our love of D&D. If you want to sign up for the premium edition of Scriptnotes, head over to scriptnotes.net.
If we hit 1000 premium subscribers, we promise to do an NC-17 show that you should definitely not play in the car with your kids.
Tickets are available now for the Slate Culture Gabfest Live on October 8th. John and Craig will be guests, and it should be swell. Links below.
Links:
* [Aline Brosh McKenna](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112459/) on episodes [60](http://johnaugust.com/2012/the-black-list-and-a-stack-of-scenes), [76](http://johnaugust.com/2013/how-screenwriters-find-their-voice), [100](http://johnaugust.com/2013/scriptnotes-the-100th-episode), [101](http://johnaugust.com/2013/101-qa-from-the-live-show), [119](http://johnaugust.com/2013/positive-moviegoing), [123](http://johnaugust.com/2013/scriptnotes-holiday-spectacular), [124](http://johnaugust.com/2013/qa-from-the-holiday-spectacular) and [152](http://johnaugust.com/2014/the-rocky-shoals-pages-70-90)
* [Joan Rivers](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/arts/television/joan-rivers-dies.html)’s obituary in The New York Times
* [Get tickets now](http://www.slate.com/live/la-culturefest.html) for October 8th’s live Slate Culture Gabfest with guests John and Craig
* [Why do people throw tomatoes?](http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/fresh-ideas/dinner-food-facts/why-do-people-throw-tomatoes1.htm) from How Stuff Works
* [the-knowledge.org](http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/) teaches you how to rebuild the world from scratch
* About [Global Entry](http://www.cbp.gov/global-entry/about)
* [Movies Have Worst Summer Since 1997](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/30/movies/movies-have-worst-summer-since-1997.html?_r=1) by Brooks Barnes
* Mimeographs on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph) and [eBay](http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xmimeograph&_nkw=mimeograph&_sacat=0)
* [Maguire Watch](http://everythingisterrible.blogspot.com/p/maguire-watch.html) on Everything is Terrible!
* Get premium Scriptnotes access at [scriptnotes.net](http://scriptnotes.net/) and hear our 1,000th subscriber special
* [The Honourable Woman](http://www.sundance.tv/series/the-honorable-woman) on Sundance.tv
* [This Movie Will Require Dinosaurs](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0399167706/?tag=johnaugustcom-20) by C. W. Neill, and details on the [September 15th live read](https://www.facebook.com/events/560093127430494/)
* [N3TWORK](http://www.n3twork.com/) is the first personal TV network
* [Outro](http://johnaugust.com/2013/scriptnotes-the-outros) by Scriptnotes listener Robert Hutchison ([send us yours!](http://johnaugust.com/2014/outros-needed))
You can download the episode here: [AAC](http://traffic.libsyn.com/scriptnotes/scriptnotes_ep_161.m4a) | [mp3](http://traffic.libsyn.com/scriptnotes/scriptnotes_ep_161.mp3).
**UPDATE 9-11-14:** The transcript of this episode can be found [here](http://johnaugust.com/2014/scriptnotes-ep-161-a-cheap-cut-of-meat-soaked-in-butter-transcript).