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Titus/Red Asphalt
| Red Asphalt | |
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| Season 1, Episode 6 | |
| Airdate | May 1, 2000 |
| Production Number | 1ADK-07 |
| Written by | Matt Rosenberg Ritch Shydner |
| Directed by | Jack Kenny |
| ← 1x05 Titus Integritous |
1x07 → Mom's Not Nuts |
| Titus — Season One | |
Red Asphalt is the sixth episode of the first season of Titus, and the sixth episode overall. While on their way to meet Ken, Titus and the others wind up getting into a high speed chase when they flee from a man with a gun.
Starring: Christopher Titus (Christopher Titus), Cynthia Watros (Erin Fitzpatrick), Zack Ward (Dave Titus), David Shatraw (Tommy Shafter)
And: Stacy Keach (Ken Titus)
Co-Starring: Carla Toutz (Debbie), Robert Ray Shafer (Bar Patron), Phoenix Forsyth (10-Year Old Titus)
Contents |
Plot Overview
Opening Monologue
I've learned to control my anger. I can be grumpy, I can seethe, I can crank to furious like that. My decision. I'm good at livid. I'm pissed off right now and you can't even tell. Cause I'm in control. Now.
...I don't jump off cars anymore. I've learned to channel my anger into something more constructive. Spite. I've spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars of my own money to restore and build a car for my dad to make him pay for all the years he said I was a loser. Who's the loser now guy with a new car, ha ha! Spite.
The Show
On the way to a restaurant in Napa, on his father's birthday, Titus is passed at high speeds by someone on the highway. He takes this as an opportunity to race the man using the car he plans to give to his father as a gift. After cutting the challenger off and having Dave give him the finger by proxy, the other car bumps Titus. He decides not to bump him back in order to not piss off Erin. For the next 10 miles, the guy follows him until they pull over and they go their own ways.
After realizing that Ken is getting drunker and drunker, they hit the road again... only to be tracked by the psycho again. They pull over to confront the psycho, but it turns out that he has a gun so they flee in terror. While escaping, Dave reveals that he has a cell phone and calls 911. While on the phone, the psycho fires his gun and 911 attempts to track them using the phone. In a panic, the guys say their regrets... which lead to Titus blurting out that he wants to have a kid and an awkward pause. The police arrive five minutes after the pause and arrest the maniac with the gun.
Eventually, they get to the restaurant, where Ken mocks the car he's driving. Titus gets rid of Tommy and Dave when Erin brings up the subject of a baby again.
Notes
Arc Advancement
Happenings
Characters
Referbacks
Trivia
The Show
Behind the Scenes
Allusions and References
- Red Asphalt: Red Asphalt is a series of driving education videos first created in the 1950s. The purpose of the videos is to show what can happen to someone, often teenagers, if they drive while impaired in graphic, bloody detail.
- Jean Claude Van Damme: Jean Claude Van Damme is an action star from Brussels. He was featured in movies like Universal Soldier and Street Fighter and is typically maligned for starring in mindless martial arts themed action films.
- Bar Patron: Jean Claude Van Damme would kick Clint Eastwood's ass.
- The Three Stooges: Titus refers to Moe Howard, the oldest brother in a vaudeville comedy act. Out of the three brothers, Moe was the most temperamental and was most likely to get angry and cause physical harm to Larry, Curly or Shemp.
- Titus: I know why Moe was always mad.
