Season 10 Episode 15: The Hood, the Bud and the Kelly (2)
January 14, 1996
The conclusion, and the pressure is now entirely on Bud. The exercise video is behind schedule because his two stars cannot stand each other: Kelly and Raphael spend more time in their dressing rooms than in front of the camera, and Vito Capone’s man Gino is on set with a deadline and a clear explanation of what happens if it is missed. Richard Moll plays Gino as a patient professional rather than a shouting heavy, which is why the character works: he is not angry with Bud, he simply has a schedule and a laptop full of people who need organs.
That laptop supplies the episode’s best sequence. Gino opens his case, Bud dives behind the camera screaming for his mother, and what comes out is a PowerBook. Gino is checking his email. He then walks Bud through the family’s recycling programme, a spleen for a man in New Jersey, a brain for a boy in New Haven, in the tone of someone describing a filing system, and Bud’s response is to call his cast back to the set immediately. It is the most efficient motivation scene the show ever staged.
On the roof, the satellite dish project continues, and the wives have moved from spectating to running a book on which husband falls next. Bob Rooney is carried off by a bird that Officer Dan describes as a B-52 with a beak, Officer Dan lands on Ike, and the NO MA’AM half of the two-parter ends roughly where it began, with nothing installed and several men injured. Bud gets his video finished by lying to his talent about profit participation, which is the most professional thing he does all season.
Episode Facts
- Original air date: Sunday, January 14, 1996 on FOX
- Season 10, Episode 15, part two of two
- Overall episode 227 of the series
- Production code 10.16
- Written by Daniel O’Keefe
- Directed by Gerry Cohen
- The title plays on Sergio Leone’s 1966 western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Bud’s middle name is revealed here as Franklin
Guest Cast
- Richard Moll as Gino
- Perry Anzilotti as Vito Capone
- John Carlos Frey as Raphael
- J.J. Johnston as Bebe
- Lisa Arturo as Farrah
- Veronica De La Cruz as Kate
- Melissa De Sousa as Jaclyn
- Kym Whitley as Danielle
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