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''There was a time when I looked in the mirror, and I could see nothing.''
'''Red Sea (A Compilation)''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[The Other Side (Series)|The Other Side]]. It was originally broadcast on January 28, [[:Category:2001|2001]].
== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==


Joe is an invisible bank teller, takes a vow of silence. Discussing the end of a relationship with god. Joe is in a mental hospital on a ship with a mad psychiatrist who declares the ship a sovereign nation and declares war on New Zealand. Pyrobenzamine, siders, and the doctor who kills his male lover assistant at a medical conference, goes to prison, and tries to escape by mailing himself. Flying into the Lima airport in a plane which lost an engine. Joe falls for a woman at an anthropological dig, remembers his childhood. Interpreting a story: the cheating rabbi's wife and the eunuch and the hermaphrodite. Boats on the red sea.
This episode is all reused material, first from [[White Moon]] (13
minutes), then [[Just Get Me Out Of Here]] (26 minutes), then
[[Red Sea]] (20 minutes).
 
Joe recounts when he was invisible.  He wrapped his head in gauze.  He
lost his job as bank teller.<ref name=WhiteMoon>originally aired in [[White Moon]]</ref>
 
6:20: Joe (still invisible) took a vow of silence. He gradually
stopped understanding words.  He hired hookers.  He joined a Buddhist
monastery in Idaho, but they wouldn't let him stay because of the
gauze.<ref name=WhiteMoon />
 
9:50: Joe tells God how much they've been through together, how well
they understand each other, looks forward to getting together again on
Sunday, wonders why their relationship's faltering.<ref name=WhiteMoon />
 
13:30: Joe recounts when he had a breakdown, was committed to mental
hospital on a ship.<ref name=JustGet>originally aired in
[[Just Get Me Out Of Here]]</ref>
 
22:50: Joe talks about the relationship between erectile tissue and
pollen, a conference in Prague, the use of
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripelennamine pyribenzamine] as an
aphrodisiac.  A physician and his assistant, lovers, come dressed as a
nose and a swab, get into a fight; the physician kills the
assistant.<ref name=JustGet />
 
28:50: Joe recounts troubled flight to Lima for an expedition to dig
in Mayan ruins.<ref>Mayans didn't live in Peru.</ref> Celia Brown, a
beautiful young woman in the crew, comes to his room at night, is
obsessed with him; she speaks to him in German.  He takes
pyribenzamine, which reminds him of seeing his mother with a lover as
a child; he gets sick, faints.<ref name=JustGet />
 
36:10: Sweet nothings in German.<ref name=JustGet />
 
39:40: Joe tells of a rabbi's wife who sleeps with everybody else in
town.  When the rabbi confronts her, she takes offense, packs all her
stuff and leaves.<ref name=RedSea>originally aired in [[Red Sea]]</ref>
 
45:50: Joe tells of a hermaphrodite and eunuch who share a hotel room.
The hermaphrodite happily makes love to itself; the eunuch reads and
goes for walks.  They disapprove of each other.  The eunuch buys a
ticket to Minsk; the rabbi's wife gets on the train.<ref name=RedSea />
 
49:20: Joe asks what we learn from this story, offers some parody
morals.<ref name=RedSea />
 
50:30: Cantor sings prayers over 'Go faster'<ref name=RedSea />
 
54:40: '10 &times; 10' by 808 State<ref name=RedSea />
 
55:50: Joe describes what's on the Red Sea, including a crew
from Harvard and a yeshiva.<ref name=RedSea />
 
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<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
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== Interesting Facts ==  
Joe is an invisible bank teller, takes a vow of silence. Discussing the end of a relationship with god. Joe is in a mental hospital on a ship with a mad psychiatrist who declares the ship a sovereign nation and declares war on New Zealand. Pyrobenzamine, side effects, and the doctor who kills his male lover assistant at a medical conference, goes to prison, and tries to escape by mailing himself. Flying into the Lima airport in a plane which lost an engine. Joe falls for a woman at an anthropological dig, remembers his childhood. Interpreting a story: the cheating rabbi's wife and the eunuch and the hermaphrodite. Boats on the red sea.
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== Music ==  
{{Infrarouge (The Mighty Bop)}} [Intro]
{{The Lower We Fly (Outside)}} [13:25]
{{Go Faster (Propellerheads)}} [39:54]
{{W'Lo Nsato (Abraham Brun)}} [50:33]
{{10 X 10 (808 State)}} [54:53]


Very different from [[Red Sea]] (1996 version). Includes the invisible bank teller material from White Moon.
== Shared material ==
* [[ White Moon]]


== Miscellanea ==
* Very different from [[Red Sea]] (1996 version). Includes the invisible bank teller material from [[White Moon]].


== Footnotes ==


[[Category:David Rapkin]]
[[Category:Absurd Monologue]]
[[Category:Absurd Monologue]]
[[Category:2001]]
[[Category:2001]]
[[Category:Show]]
[[Category:The Other Side]] [[Category:Show_by_date|20010128]] {{Airdate|airdate=2001-01-28}}
{{Series|series=The Other Side (Series)}}{{Cast|cast=Joe Frank}}
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