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Podcast: Unstable Topics
Episode: 40: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat!
Description: Sarah and Maggie learn sometimes the best lines, and characters, are improvised.
But first, a nightmare about having friends surprise you with an inground pool!
Then come the facts!
Fact: JAWS most iconic lines “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” was improvised. As screenwriter Carl Gottlieb told The Hollywood Reporter, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” had become a running joke on the film’s set, meant to signal small mishaps. “It became a catchphrase for any time anything went wrong –the line was ad-libbed at various times in...