Buffalo Bill

but of course everyone by

nowadays yeah Buffalo Bill but he's not

actually transgender because everyone thinks he is but he actually isn't because he's not changing his gender he's impersonating his mother which is the annoyment is that people see it as like oh they're trans and it's an anti-trans message when it actually is a pro one because it's kind of just exposing the people with like unfairly just label someone as trans and if they're mentally ill, which that character is, it's like they just extrapolate.

Not enough Buffalo Bill defenders.

Yeah.

1994 was like Jim Carrey's year, by the way.

Serial murderer and rapist Gary Heidnik.

The inspiration for Buffalo Bill in the movie Silence of the Lambs.

He called Philly home.

He abducted, raped, and tortured six women.

The more I thought, you know what, Gary Heidnik, sit tight.

We'll get you on another day.

And Gary Heidnik was the inspiration for Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs.

You can't imagine how awful Gary Heidnik was.

[crowd cheering] It's somebody who will hollow out your most deeply held Christian faith and wear it like a skin suit.

Wearing things like a skin suit, other than Hannibal Lecter and Jamie Gumb that puts the lotion on his skin.

I don't know that I'd ever really heard that phrase much, but it is something that the young people use often.

Um, and, and for him to say that probably appealed to a lot of the turning point youth.

And both the book and the film draw on the lives of real serial killers.

The way Buffalo Bill incapacitates his victims echoes the so-called injury ruse used by Ted Bundy.

And there are other elements of Bill's macabre fantasy that recall Ed Gein.

And then there's the pit.

In The Silence of the Lambs, Buffalo Bill holds a woman captive in a makeshift pit dug into the floor of his house.

It gives us one of the most recognizable scenes in the entire film.

You may remember the lotion and the basket.

By the way, somebody tweeted us.

It suggested if you are going to have a caller today, convention in your hot tub, Buffalo Bill's got to definitely be there.

We usually start hearing from Buffalo Bill more during football season.

Yes.

Buffalo Bill, he sounds just like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs.

That is correct.

But he's a very smart man, and we've met him before.

Oh, yeah.

Right.

Young FBI trainee Clarice Starling seeks the psychological help of the incarcerated cannibal Hannibal Lecter to catch an active serial killer named Buffalo Bill.

Exactly.

But beneath that faithful surface, Jonathan Demme fundamentally simplified the novel by aggressively stripping away the dense procedural details of the FBI investigation and, crucially, Completely removing the deep, multi-page internal character backstories and private thoughts that the novel gives you unlimited access to.