Agent Emes: The Case of the Missing Pushka (GAM274)

Noah Lugeons

Eli Bosnick

***Secret Agent Emes: The Secret of the Missing Pushke*** is episode three of the *Agent Emes* series, and is about a giant celebratory box of money that people don't usually talk about to the public, let alone put it in a direct-to-home-video movie.

### **Opening Phrase**

Where each week we sample another selection from Christian cinema, except when we have to make fun of a different religion.

### **How Bad Was It?**

Well, if you've loved the uncomfortable anti-Semetism that *Agent Emes* has stirred in your heart in the other episodes, but you didn't feel like the show was in on the joke, you will *love* this episode. Again, this movie inceptions the anti-Semetism in an episode about a secret box of money that Jews have—it *ups* it. It ups it. I'm not going to spoil it for you, but it *does* up the anti-Semetism.

### **Best Worst**

* Moishe: ...depiction of the Jews, or the worst best depiction of the Jews. [Maybe there *were* fine people on both sides that day?]
* Noah: ...pointless giant stack of cash. [Wallet full of cash for no reason.]
* Eli: ...motivation for a villain. [The reason for stealing the giant box of Jew gold would make Steven Miller blush.]

### **Notes**

* Check out Moishe nowhere, because like Emes, he's a secret agent. Also, he's never listened to this fucking show.
* Preceded by "The Fish Head" and "Rabbi-napped".
* As Eli and Moishe point out, the "pushka" is usually called a tzedakah, while "pushka" or "pushke" is from "puszka", the Polish word for "tin can."

### **Jokes**

* [Moishe: And we covered the pun of his name, right? Of the genius cleverness of the show? Did we cover this in the last…?] [Noah: I don't so.] [Moishe: So, *lo tov* is just Hebrew for "no good"; literally, he's just "Dr. No-Good", that's the fucking joke. But what's even better is that Emes' organization—I didn't catch this in the first one we watched, I caught it this time—their thing is called *tov meod*, which just means "very good." So, it's just "Doctor No-Good" versus the "Very Good." That is the battle taking place here.] [Noah: And I gotta tell you, you know that attention to detail, that kind of creativity, really just permeates the entire project.] [Moishe: Absolutely. Ab-so-lutely.] [Noah: It's so good.(9:52)
* [Noah: So yeah, we go through—he eliminates each of the potential suspects. He's like "It couldn't be the rabbi, because he's too religious to do a crime, right?" And he nods to the rabbi and the rabbi nods back, like "That's right. That's right. Too religious."] [Eli: When he does the homeless guy thing, he's like "Maybe it was the homeless guy. He's homeless. But no…"] [Noah: Well, and that's his thing, he's like "But there's no *other* reason to believe he did it, other than his vagrancy."] [Eli: But no—this is going to be the payoff for this movie—the rich BMW bully-guy's dad stole the pushka because... he didn't mean to put twenty dollars in, he meant to put ten. He *stole* the giant charity box so he could *make change*: this movie is Nazi propaganda.] [Moishe: Yeah. They abandon the Lo-Tov premise so fucking fast! It literally—the mystery ends up being "It was a greedy fucking Jew the whole time."] (1:07:50)

### **Interstitials**

* Writer's Meeting for Episode 3 (6:28)
* Noah Thanks Moishe (32:16)
* Agent Emes Goes Rogue (57:15)
* The Five-Count with Jason (1:19:45) [Patreon Bonus]

### **Tropes**

* The Eli Bosnick Story
* Bad Sportsing
* Deadbed Proselytizing
* Indoctrination of Children
* Looks Like...
* Not Jewish Enough
* Nothing Happens

### **Links**

* Episode on Audioboom
* Episode on YouTube
* Trailer on YouTube
* Film on YouTube
* IMDb

### **Ad Reads**

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