We joke about how when the Podcat looks out the window he’s watching TV and, well, that’s more or less what’s happening in Rear Window! Hitchcock really knew how to wrestle profundity out of a kind of silly concept. After Matt and Tim investigate and learn some interesting Manhattan geography, Tim outlines Scopophilia, or the love of looking, and how it operates in Tod Browning’s Freaks and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet.
