Sonia Saraiya

1 sketch, 3 claims, and 5 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Blank Check — Patreon: Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia (guest)

Has a personal history with Hanging Up (8th grade math trip, a DVD her sister loved) and reads it through sibling dynamics. Loves the final stuffing scene, Nora Ephron's texture, and the Georgia/Eve relationship; objects to the underwritten mother scene and tone-deaf diversity. Charmed by quaint 2000-era technology.

Stances

  • The Georgia and Eve relationship is the most interesting thing in the film
  • The last scene made her cry despite finding the film anticlimactic
  • Meg Ryan's Eve is hard to root for
  • The film is obsolete technologically

Humor: Self-aware and wry, owning the Sonia magazine and Georgia bits.

In their words

  • “I am the Georgia character.” (0:22:51)
  • “I cried watching this movie.” (0:22:03)
  • “this is quaint.” (1:09:52)
  • “I didn't actually like it when I saw it in the theater” (0:20:53)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

Their claims

Showing 1–3 of 3 claims.

  1. industry (industry): Hanging Up → The Fast and the Furious. The house in Hanging Up is the same house used in The Fast and the Furious.
    “that's the house that's in the fast and the furious, but in my mind, that's the hanging up house.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:08:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Sonia Saraiya → Hanging Up. Saraiya did not like it in the theater and found it anticlimactic, yet cried at the last scene.
    “I didn't actually like it when I saw it in the theater”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:20:53 · Sonia Saraiya (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Walter Matthau → Dennis the Menace. Matthau's grump in Dennis the Menace was a polished act; in Hanging Up it feels real and raw.
    “And here you're like, oh, this is this feels very real and very raw.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:41:18 · Sonia Saraiya (0.40 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–5 of 5 fun items.

  1. fun, about Hanging Up: The house is the one from The Fast and the Furious; for Saraiya it stays the Hanging Up house.
    “that's the house that's in the fast and the furious, but in my mind, that's the hanging up house.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:08:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Sonia Saraiya: Saraiya identifies as Georgia, the self-obsessed magazine sister who moved away; her sister answers the phone for the parents.
    “I am the Georgia character.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:22:51 · Sonia Saraiya (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Hanging Up: The Halloween birthday party for a five-year-old looks like it cost more than a wedding.
    “probably cost more than my wedding.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:46:14 · Sonia Saraiya (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Nora Ephron: The famous vinaigrette recipe shows up in the plot as the sisters' fight over ownership.
    “There is this vinaigrette recipe that Nora Efron did that is like famous, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:02:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Hanging Up: Technology dates the film at once: multiple phone lines and a fax machine.
    “there's like a fax machine and I was just like, this is quaint.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:09:52 · Sonia Saraiya (0.80 sure it was them)