On Location With Jared Cowan

Academy Award-winners, Production Designer David Wasco and Set Decorator Sandy Reynolds-Wasco (2016 "La La Land") and Location Manager Billy Fox reunite 25 years later at the "Reservoir Dogs" coffee shop where Mr. Brown (Quentin Tarantino) explains the meaning of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) philosophizes about tipping waitresses. We learn that Pat & Lorraine's Coffee Shop was where production commenced for "Reservoir Dogs," making it the first-ever location shot for a Quentin Tarantino film. We also discuss the challenges of finding locations on a minuscule feature film budget, turning a mortuary into the film's main location, working with Tarantino on his other L.A. films, and tipping our server.

Writer/Director Savage Steve Holland meets up with us at the North Hollywood location of Pig Burgers, the fast food restaurant where love-stricken high school student Lane Meyer (John Cusack) works in Holland's 1985 fan favorite, "Better Off Dead... ." The super cool filmmaker discusses the excitement of shooting his first feature film entirely on location. We also talk about Henry Winkler, "Jaws", "Porky's", a drunk clown, and Holland gives advice about sunglasses to someone passing by.

Squad members André Gower, Ashley Bank, and Ryan Lambert sit down with us at the historic Warner Bros. town square set where they triumphantly defeated the forces of evil in the 1987 film. We talk about shooting the film on the backlot and all over Los Angeles as well as topics ranging from Pee-wee Herman and Paul Newman to "Gilmore Girls" and Cleveland.