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Nick Rutherford wandered onstage on stilts.
Harmon freestyle rapped about fucking mommas over beats provided byOpen Mike Eagle.
To not treat it like any other episode would have been to produce something patently notHarmontown.
It spoke to a global audience, many of whom cite it assaving their lives.
It was also the closest thing podcasting has had to aTonight Show, albeit with inverted host analogs.
That the show happens to be ending on episode 360 is just some serendipitous icing on the cake.
It began in the back of a comic store-cum-comedy venue mid-2012.
Theres a moment fromepisode five(1:12:18) that best encapsulatesHarmontowns unique relationship with its fans.
Neil Berkleysfeature-length documentarychronicling the three-week trek showed how Harmons bond with Crittenden grew almost paternalistic.
Though kind to Crittenden, Berkleys documentary was less flattering to its lead.
It was nothing Harmon didnt reveal himself on the podcast.
Harmon eventually came around on therapy, but the relationship proved untenable.
The couple wed in 2014, but the marriage lasted under a year.
This introspection also resulted in perhaps the sole encouraging moment to come from the #MeToo movement.
That doesnt solve problems.
The things that were not aware that were even doing.
Its this perpetual self-auditing that manyHarmontownfans cite that first drew them to the podcast.
Some people will find it interesting.
Many people will go, Why was this recorded?
And nobody will listen to it more than once.
