“Giona is a master slurper,” Sonya joked. “It’s not only in the score but they’re also using it in the sound design.” In The Thing About Pam, Pam's main accessory is a fountain drink the size of her head. The real Pam Hupp was filmed holding a supersized soft drink by FOX 2 News in August 2016. In the truly iconic video — which was filmed right after Pam shot Louis Gumpenberger — she peers out from inside her garage with a giant soda in hand.
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FOX 2 detailed that Pam "purchased the drink from a drive-through on her way to luring Gumpenberger." Daily treat-yo'-self soda first, murder later.
Along with the cheeky slurps, the meticulous score includes the distorted sounds of an English horn and cash register “ka-ching” noises. Pam does love her money.
“The whole score revolves around Pam,” Sonya relayed. “You hear this theme in a gazillion modifications and variations, whether menacing and driving or slow and foreboding, absurd and even funky.” From now on, while watching The Thing About Pam, we'll likely be hyper-fixated on the blissful sounds of soda sipping.
New episodes of The Thing About Pam air on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. EST on NBC.
