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Rachel Bloom Goes Looney for Space Jam
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star and co-creator Rachel Bloom left it all on the court during her recent TNAS episode. But there was one thing we didn't get to, and it's just too important not to share.
In this bonus mini-episode, hear a different side of Bloom -- this is Rachel, the unofficial oral historian of the 1996 Warner Brothers triumph, Space Jam!
Yes, the film movie where Michael Jordan gets sucked underground to play basketball with Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes. Bloom has jammed on the plot and the theme song since she was in 5th grade. The Space Jam soundtrack was Rachel's mid-90s attempt at Normal People Music (that's not true, all of us listen to Normal People Music).
As it turned out, Space Jam proved an important catalyst in her career. Her first on-stage sketch featured Rachel doing a lot of grape-vines to the title tune, and an early show at UCB centered around a very involved exploration of the film’s role in her character's life, along with her first experiment with musical comedy.
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If you need more Rachel Bloom Does Space Jam, watch the full performance of her Chorus Line-themed sketch "Space Jam" at the UCB Theater in Los Angeles: