The whole episode affectionately lampoons New
York brashness: the degree to which New Yorkers express all their emotions, friendly as well as hostile, by yelling at the top of their lungs at each other is part of the comic point (Mueller - Stahl, a relative newcomer to the city, usually just gapes in admiration at the other two).
«CBGB,» about the birth of the legendary New
York City music venue and the punk scene it launched in the 1970s, doesn't even begin to capture the energy or the
brashness of the pop - culture phenomenon it depicts.