Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
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Join Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole and their valued guests each week for discussion of what's new on TV plus our hall of fame roundtable segment called The Canon, listen as we appoint Winners and Losers Of The Week and of course our ultra competitive TV trivia quiz: Game Time.
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Join Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole and their valued guests each week for discussion of what's new on TV plus our hall of fame roundtable segment called The Canon, listen as we appoint Winners and Losers Of The Week and of course our ultra competitive TV trivia quiz: Game Time.
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Episodes
509: Raising The Dead Boy Detectives
5/1/2024
Dr. Dan Cassino is back to discuss Netflix's Sandman spinoff (of sorts), Dead Boy Detectives, a ghosty witchy horny procedural. We talked about its Gaiman (and Buffy) DNA, if it's better at being scary or horny, and which tools from the historical "magic on TV" kit it uses best. Later, we went Around The Dial with Hacks, This Old House, and Baby Reindeer before turning our attention to the UN-dead for a The Walking Dead Canon submission. Jason Ritter won, Peacock lost, and Game Time took us on a Roman holiday of sorts. No need to open a portal, just hit play on an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
๐ค Dan Cassino
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ Dead Boy Detectives
Around The Dial: ๐ Hacks
Around The Dial: ๐๏ธ This Old House
Around The Dial: ๐ฆ Baby Reindeer
The Canon: ๐งโโ๏ธ The Walking Dead S10.E19: One More
Winner & Loser: ๐ Jason Ritter
Winner & Loser: ๐ Peacock
Game Time: โช๏ธ Traditional Latin Mash
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
๐คต๐ปโโ๏ธ Dan Cassino on New Jersey Now
๐ฆค "Let's Disagree About Hacks" on Vulture
๐ Tara's Hacks S03 review for Cracked
โ๐ป Tara's round-up with Baby Reindeer and The Contestant
๐ฆ Sarah's Baby Reindeer review at Best Evidence
๐ท Photo: Ed Araquel / Netflix
Duration:01:17:37
508: Fastening Our Seatbelts For Conan O'Brien Must Go
4/24/2024
As a TV host, Conan O'Brien has moved on from a nightly interview and variety show on TBS to a comedy travel show on Max; as the whole season drops, Will Hines joins us to discuss how well it fits into the genre, and what it was like doing sketches during Conan's run of Late Night. Around The Dial takes us through Dinner With The Parents, X-Men '97, and The Jinx II. Kari pitches the "Heat Stroke" episode of Taskmaster NZ for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to an extraordinarily resourceful Game Time. No passport needed to listen!
GUESTS
๐ค Will Hines
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐บ๏ธ Conan O'Brien Must Go
Around The Dial: ๐ฝ๏ธ Dinner With The Parents
Around The Dial: ๐ฆธโโ๏ธ X-Men '97
Around The Dial: ๐ชฆ The Jinx
The Canon: ๐ฅ Taskmaster New Zealand S02.E02: Heat Stroke
Winner & Loser: ๐ Oz
Winner & Loser: ๐ Tom Sandoval
Game Time: ๐งฐ MacGyver With Quotes
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 508 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฐ๏ธ Will Hines on TikTok
๐ธ Will on Instagram
๐ Tara's review of Conan O'Brien Must Go at Cracked.com
๐ฝ๏ธ Tara's review of Dinner With The Parents at Cracked.com
๐ Tara's review of Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen at Cracked.com
๐ผ The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast on Patreon
๐ซ Ginger Crunch recipe at CarolinesCooking.com
๐ท Photo: Conaco / Max
Duration:01:03:21
507: Inventing Reasons To Watch Franklin
4/17/2024
It's yet another expensive-looking and ambitious limited series from Apple TV+ -- this time, Franklin, starring Michael "Gordon Gekko" Douglas as the flatulence-forward inventor of electricity. Is this limited series focused on the wrong thing? Is Franklin as a colonial weirdo better in smaller doses? And why isn't there more farting? Later, we went Around The Dial with Loot's second season, Top Chef's Wisconsin season, and Carol & The End of the World, and then we took cover for an incoming Canon pitch about the Justified S01 finale. Cold Case won, Billy Joel fans lost, and Tara ran the numbers with us in a non-regulation Game Time. Pin a scale-model tall ship to your head and get ready for an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
๐ค Krystal Farmer
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ช Franklin
Around The Dial: ๐ Loot
Around The Dial: ๐คฏ Carol & The End of the World
Around The Dial: ๐ช Top Chef
The Canon: ๐ค S01.E13: Bulletville
Winner & Loser: ๐ฅถ Cold Case
Winner & Loser: ๐น Billy Joel
Game Time: ๐ฏ Keeping Everything 100
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 507 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ช Krystal Farmer's podcast, Two Cents Plus Tax
๐คซ Anne Hathaway quieting a crowd in Italy
๐ Tara's Loot S02 review at Cracked
๐ The "as seen on TV" sale at Exhibit B. Books
๐ท Photo: Apple
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Duration:01:10:20
506: Telling The Truth About Ripley
4/10/2024
Tom Ripley, a Talented character we already saw on screen in his namesake movie in 1999, is back, now in a limited series on Netflix; Dan Rogge joins us to discuss how this version compares to Anthony Minghella's film, what we thought of its use of black and white, and how it works to age up the character so he can be played by Andrew Scott. Around The Dial takes us through Monsters At Work S02, Only Murders In The Building S03, and Space Show (aka For All Mankind). Britt pitches the Moonlighting episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" for induction into the Canon; then we name the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a Game Time about TV therapists: how does that make you feel? Row out into the middle of the open sea and listen!
GUESTS
๐ค Dan Rogge
TOPICS
Announcement: ๐ข Patreon Update
Lead Topic: โต๏ธ Ripley
Around The Dial: ๐ง Monsters At Work
Around The Dial: ๐๏ธ Only Murders In The Building
Around The Dial: ๐ For All Mankind
The Canon: ๐ Moonlighting S02.E04: The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice
Winner & Loser: ๐ The NCIS franchise
Winner & Loser: ๐ Homophobic 9-1-1 viewers
Game Time: ๐ง TV Head Shrinkers (Brought To You By BetterHelp)
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 506 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
โฑ๏ธ All Summer In A Day (1982) on YouTube
๐น Michael Penn's โTryโ video on YouTube
๐ง Tara's essay on Monsters At Work S02 at Cracked
๐ Dan Rogge on LinkedIn
๐ถ The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast on Patreon
๐ท Photo: Philippe Antonello / Netflix
CLUB-ONLY NOTES
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๐ฌ Get On Our Community Discord
Duration:01:37:18
505: Should You Let Parish Take The Wheel?
4/3/2024
AMC's latest prestige drama, Parish, features Giancarlo Esposito as a retired wheelman trying to do former associate Skeet Ulrich a favor, and we're thrilled Omar Gallaga is parking it on the panel to talk about the show. Does the show do anything with 2010s crime-show cliches? Who has notes on car-chase credibility? And on a scale of one to ten plastic babies, how "Nawlins" is the show? Later, we're going Around The Dial with Taskmaster's seventeenth season, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, and how to rewatch Boardwalk Empire; and finding out whether Tara's Canon pitch for This Fool is worth one MEEELLION dollars. RHONY won, Tori Spelling lost, and we obeyed a VERY strict speed limit for Game Time -- so buckle your seatbelt for an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
๐ค Omar Gallaga
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ Parish
Around The Dial: ๐ Taskmaster
Around The Dial: ๐ฌ Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show
Around The Dial: ๐พ Boardwalk Empire
The Canon: ๐บ This Fool S01.E05: Sandy Says
Winner & Loser: ๐ The Real Housewives Of New York City
Winner & Loser: ๐ Tori Spelling
Game Time: ๐ข Slowly At First II
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 505 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ป Omar Gallaga at CNET
๐๏ธ Omar Gallaga at Book & Film Globe
๐ Tara's interview with Alex and Greg of Taskmaster at Cracked.com
๐ช Tara's interview with Justin Willman of The Magic Prank Show
โพ๏ธ Ottawa University's Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference
๐ Best Evidence
๐ท Photo: AMC
CLUB-ONLY NOTES
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๐ฌ Get On Our Community Discord
Duration:01:32:58
504: Punching Up At Road House
3/27/2024
Doug Liman has taken Rowdy Herrington's glorious 1989 feature Road House and remade it for Prime Video with Jake Gyllenhaal as a Dalton for the 21st century; Taylor S. Cole joins us to discuss whether it's a hard slap in the face to our memories of the original. Around The Dial takes us through Girls5eva, Lost, Homicide: New York, and Chicken Nugget. Taylor makes the case for inducting Andor's "One Way Out" into the Canon; then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close up with a game about who's at whose throat. No throats are ripped out in the course of this episode, so feel free to listen!
GUESTS
๐ค Taylor Cole
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ Road House
Around The Dial: ๐๏ธ Girls5Eva
Around The Dial: ๐บ๏ธ Lost
Around The Dial: ๐ฝ Homicide: New York
Around The Dial: ๐ Chicken Nugget
The Canon: โก๏ธ Andor S01.E10: One Way Out
Winner & Loser: ๐ Cypress Hill
Winner & Loser: ๐ Brian Austin Green
Game Time: ๐ก Nemeses
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 504 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Taylor S. Cole on Twitter
๐พ "Original 'Road House' Writer Sues Amazon, Alleges Streamer Used AI to Replicate Actors' Voices" at Variety.com
๐ฌ "The New 'Road House' Shows the Perils of Adapting Ridiculous 80s Movies" at DecodingEverything.com
โ๐ป Tara's interview with Girls5eva creator Meredith Scardino at Cracked
๐น Tara's Palm Royale review at Cracked
๐๏ธ The Docket on Homicide: New York
๐ท Photo: Laura Radford / Prime Video
Duration:01:32:34
503: Extra Credit Bonanza
3/20/2024
Time was, the Extra Credit segment regularly appeared in the main episode. But with the expansion of the Patreon-exclusive Friday bonus episode, a lot of them snuck over there. We also just fell behind. So we're catching up: in this very special episode, we're addressing not one, not two, but NINE Extra Credit submissions with answers as considered as they are ridiculous. Cha-ching!
TOPICS
Extra Credit: ๐ฃ Hook Line And Sinker
Extra Credit: ๐ฎโ๐จ Creative Compromise
Extra Credit: ๐บ Historical Absurdity
Extra Credit: ๐ซฅ Insert Yourselves
Extra Credit: ๐บ๏ธ Keoghan's Heroes
Extra Credit: ๐ช New Benedict Arnolds
Extra Credit: โ๐ป Initial Similarities
Extra Credit: ๐ต๐ป Everything Old Is Old Again
Extra Credit: ๐ค Great TV Bezoars
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 503 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฌ NewsRadio: "Smoking" clip on YouTube
Duration:00:44:37
502: Getting Rough With The Gentlemen
3/13/2024
Guy Ritchie's 2019 movie has spun off a vaguely related drama series on Netflix; Will Leitch returns to discuss where it ranks in his filmography. Around The Dial takes us through Animal Control, The Curse, and As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial. Sarah makes the case for the Law & Order episode "Trophy" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we play BALL (sometimes; sometimes not) with a sportsy Non-Regulation Game Time. Get to your club, pour some 18-year-old scotch, and join us!
GUESTS
๐ค Will Leitch
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ฉ The Gentlemen
Around The Dial: ๐ฆ Animal Control
Around The Dial: ๐ The Curse
Around The Dial: ๐ค As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial
Around The Dial: ๐ฏ Shลgun
The Canon: ๐ Law & Order S06.E12: Trophy
Winner & Loser: ๐ James Wolk
Winner & Loser: ๐ Gary Goldsmith
Game Time: ๐๐ผโโ๏ธ The World Series Of 19 Questions
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 502 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Will Leitch on Bluesky
๐ฅ Will and Tim Grierson's Guy Ritchie movie ranking, at Vulture
๐คฃ Tara at Cracked.com
๐ Will's books at HarperCollins
๐บ The Will Leitch Experience
๐ค Sarah's review of As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial at Best Evidence
๐ซ Best Evidence, where Sarah's interview with Manhunt author James L. Swanson will run later this week
๐ท Photo: Kevin Baker / Netflix
Duration:01:13:43
501: Should You Make Elsbeth Your Co-Counsel?
3/6/2024
The Good [X]-verse returns to network television with Elsbeth, a procedural starring Carrie Preston's capital-Q Quirky Elsbeth Tascioni -- and Adam Grosswirth returns to EHG to talk about how the show is trying to have it both ways with the character's historical anti-establishment attitude; whether these creators should have moved this set of shows' universe off of streaming; and what exactly is in all those massive tote bags. We went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind's sixth season, So You Think You Can Dance's surprise return, and Sarah's belated finishing of The Good Fight, and then we threw Tubi's tortured new brand identity into the ring of Will Dave Hate This?. Wendy told us about Tasha Yar in her Canon pitch for a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode before Netflix won, Paramount+ lost, and we confronted time rifts of our own during Game Time. Diaphragms, double spaces, and thee: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
๐ค Adam Grosswirth
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ฝ Elsbeth
Around The Dial: ๐ฉโ๐ฆฏ Love Is Blind
Around The Dial: ๐ So You Think You Can Dance
Around The Dial: ๐ฅ The Good Fight
Will Dave Hate This?: ๐งช Tubi branding
The Canon: ๐ช Star Trek: The Next Generation S03.E15: Yesterday's Enterprise
Winner & Loser: ๐ Netflix
Winner & Loser: ๐ Paramount+
Game Time: โฐ Where In Time Are These Nielsen Ratings?
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 501 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ธ More on Adam's Muppets podcast, Muppeturgy
๐ฉโ๐ฆฏ Our discussion of Love Is Blind S05 in EHG 478
๐ณ๏ธ The Tubi rebrand announcement
๐ด Tara's Dick Turpin review at Cracked
๐ป Sarah's As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial review at Best Evidence
๐ท Photo: Elizabeth Fisher / CBS
Duration:01:39:29
500: Buying Our Tickets To The Shลgun Show
2/28/2024
James Clavell's doorstop of a novel Shลgun was already adapted as a network miniseries when your three regular panelists were all kids. Now it's getting a cable and streaming take, and you know what that means: beheadings and boobs! Variety TV critic Alison Herman returns to join us in describing everything ELSE that's also going on. Around The Dial takes us through S03 of Abbott Elementary, S02 of Tokyo Vice, and the grand (or is it) finale of True Detective: Night Country. Returning submitter Francoise makes a case for the Better Things episode "Rising" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to The One Where We Wonder What Time It Is (it's Game Time). Put on your most sumptuous silks and join us!
GUESTS
๐ค Alison Herman
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ฏ Shลgun
Around The Dial: ๐ Abbott Elementary
Around The Dial: ๐จ Tokyo Vice
Around The Dial: ๐ฎ True Detective
The Canon: ๐๏ธ Better Things
Winner & Loser: ๐ Glaring SNL band member
Winner & Loser: ๐ Netflix
Game Time: ๐ The One With The Canon Episodes
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 500 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Alison Herman on Twitter
๐ฏ Alison's Shลgun review
๐ Tara's interview with Late Night With Seth Meyers writer Sal Gentile about A Closer Look at Cracked
๐ฅ Tara's review of The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy at Cracked
๐ฐ Alison at Variety
๐ True Detective magazine for sale at Exhibit B. Books
๐ท Photo: Katie Yu / FX
Duration:00:59:48
499: Slowing Down Game Time For The Listeners
2/21/2024
When we threw a Zoom game night over the holidays for our Patreon supporters (hop down to join them!), Dave decided one was too good to play once. So we invited three of our Patreon supporters who hadn't made it to play it again. Listen to hear Taylor, Lucy, and (Bezoar) Laura try to decipher TV theme songs slowed WAY down; then, Dave hops in for a surprise round of 19 Questions. Don't just slow down everything else in your life: put it on pause and join us for this very special episode!
TOPICS
Game Time: ๐ Slowly At First
Game Time: ๐ Revenge Of 19 Questions
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Duration:01:12:53
498: On The Scent Of Tracker
2/14/2024
This year, Super Bowl home CBS gambled its coveted post-game time slot on a brand-new action drama called Tracker; David J. Roth joins us for a conversation on, among other things, how it stacks up to the similarly-named Reacher. Around The Dial takes us through The Amazing Race, This Fool, Kings From Queens, and Griselda. Tara pitches the Primo episode "The Game Champ" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time located next to either a wormhole or a dolphin tank. Hop in your RV and join us!
GUESTS
๐ค David J. Roth
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ฃ Tracker
Around The Dial: ๐บ๏ธ The Amazing Race
Around The Dial: ๐ง This Fool
Around The Dial: ๐ Kings From Queens
Around The Dial: ๐ Griselda
The Canon: ๐ฒ Primo S01.E04: The Game Champ
Winner & Loser: ๐ Eric Deggans
Winner & Loser: ๐ Holly Marie Combs and Wil Wheaton
Game Time: ๐ฌ Before & After: Deep Six Twelve Edition
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 498 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ค๏ธ David J. Roth on Bluesky
๐ฃ "It's Tracker" at Defector.com
๐ Tara's ranking of every Super Bowl lead-out at Cracked
๐ซ Tara's Dos & Don'ts of action comedies at Cracked
โจ๏ธ "It Is Now Time To Discuss Jack Reacher Throwing A Grill At A Guy" at Defector
๐ Sarah's King From Queens review at Best Evidence
๐ฒ Tara's Primo review at Cracked
๐ฃ๏ธ Tara's Shea Serrano interview at Cracked
๐ Eric Deggans's book Race Baiter at Bookshop.org
๐ท Photo: Lindsay Siu / CBS
Duration:01:27:30
497: Playing House With Mr. And Mrs. Smith
2/7/2024
Mr. And Mrs. Smith is back, in TV form, on Amazon Prime, and Sarah Baker is back, in fine form, to talk about it: whether it improves on the movie, how we feel about leads Donald Glover and Maya Erskine's chemistry, how many Brooklyn landmarks Sarah D. Bunting zoomed in on for confirmation, and what the Phoebe Waller-Bridge iteration of the show might have looked like. Then we went Around The Dial with Clone High, The Floor, Fargo, and Law & Order: SVU; and Buntsy stayed in the Order-verse to declare that she's NOT a crackpot for thinking Tony Goldwyn should play his Criminal Intent character on Mothership even though that character is dead. Alan Partridge won, Alyssa Milano lost, and we all tried to guess the horndog hearts of IMDb searchers in Game Time. This time it's cake AND death in an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
๐ค Sarah Baker
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ต๐ปโโ๏ธ Mr. And Mrs. Smith
Around The Dial: ๐งฌ Clone High
Around The Dial: ๐ง The Floor
Around The Dial: โ๏ธ Fargo
Around The Dial: โ๏ธ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
I Am Not A Crackpot: ๐ฅ Tony Goldwyn on L&O
The Canon: ๐ฉบ M*A*S*H S03.E11: Adam's Ribs
Winner & Loser: ๐ Alan Partridge
Winner & Loser: ๐ Alyssa Milano
Game Time: ๐ TV Popularity Contest
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 497 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ข Watch Sarah Baker in Go On on Peacock
โ๏ธ Deadline on Tony Goldwyn joining Law & Order
๐ Fandom Wikia on Frank Goren's canonical deadness
๐งฌ Tara's Clone High review at Cracked.com
๐ถ Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs: The Weird Al vs. Everybody season
๐ฅ The latest round of Milano vs. Everybody...
๐๐ปโโ๏ธ ...and Milano's stylist vs. Milano
๐ด Upcoming Again With Again With Thises will dig into the Charmed contretemps
๐ท Photo: David Lee / Prime Video
Duration:01:28:07
496: Does Masters Of The Air Take Flight?
1/31/2024
With Masters Of The Air, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have, once again, teamed up to tell a story of troops in the Second World War; Jeff Drake returns to discuss whether it soars, or never quite leaves the runway. Around The Dial takes us through a midseason Married At First Sight check-in; Season 1 of The Traitors; Bluey; and an Edgar Allan Poe episode of Homicide: Life On The Street. Jeff presents the Colin From Accounts episode "Toyota Cressida" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's fun much more than a third of the time. Fasten your seatbelt and listen!
TOPICS
Lead Topic: โ๏ธ Masters Of The Air
Around The Dial: ๐ฐโโ๏ธ Married At First Sight
Around The Dial: ๐ช The Traitors
Around The Dial: ๐ซ Homicide: Life On The Street
The Canon: ๐ฆฎ Colin From Accounts S01.E03: Toyota Cressida
Winner & Loser: ๐ Kate Hudson
Winner & Loser: ๐ Bravo
Game Time: 3๏ธโฃ Third Word Problems
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NOTES
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๐ค๏ธ Jeff Drake on Bluesky
๐ฌ "All Of The Allegations Against Director Cary Fukunaga" at TheCut.com
๐ Tara at Cracked.com
๐ฌ Jet Lag: The Game on YouTube.com
๐ก The 9 Chickweed Rage podcast
๐ซ Homicide: Life On The Street S04.E07: "Heartbeat" on Dailymotion
๐ฆข Feud: Capote vs. The Swans prep list at Best Evidence at Reality Blurred
๐ท Photo: Apple
Duration:01:21:50
495: Dry January Forcenings
1/24/2024
We are off this week due to a family emergency but we bring you a couple choice cuts from the EHG Club archive.
EEHG 223: Tara Forces Dave To Watch Alice S06.E10: The Wild One
Remember the 70s and 80s when our greatest collective fear was that bikers would just grab a waitress from a diner and make her join their gang?
EEHG 216: Dave Forces Tara To Watch Ancient Aliens S13.E05: The Desert Codes
We close out our โDry Januaryโ Forcening miniseries with Daveโs imposition on Tara: an episode of Ancient Aliens all about how desert geoglyphs were probably definitely designed by aliens as a way for humans to communicate with them. โWhy?โ Shut up, thatโs why!
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NOTES
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๐ฝ๏ธ Watch Alice S06.E01: The Wild One on YouTube
๐ฝ Watch Ancient Aliens S13.E05: The Desert Codes on Hulu
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Duration:00:50:58
494: Monsieur Spade Is A Mixed Baguette
1/17/2024
Mon dieu: Dashiell Hammett's legendary P.I. Sam Spade is back on AMC -- and because he's now noiring it up in the south of France, legendary Gallic guest Mademoiselle Caroline is back to talk about it. Is the limited series too long, or not long enough? How well does star Clive Owen contend with the character's, and Humphrey Bogart's, legend? And should we strike until we get the full-frontal outtakes from the swimming scenes? Later, we went Around The Dial with Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office, So Help Me Todd, and For All Mankind, and Tara tried to paint a pretty picture of a King Of Queens episode for the Canon. Clone High won, Julia lost, and WE may have gotten lost in translation in a French-themed Non-Regulation Game Time. It's an all-new Extra Hot Great, and c'est magnifique.
GUESTS
๐ค Caroline Lefloch
TOPICS
Lead Topic: โ ๏ธ Monsieur Spade
Around The Dial: ๐ฌ Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office
Around The Dial: ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ So Help Me Todd
Around The Dial: ๐ฐ๏ธ For All Mankind
The Canon: ๐คด๐ป The King Of Queens S08.E17: Present Tense
Winner & Loser: ๐ Clone High
Winner & Loser: ๐ Julia
Game Time: ๐ฅ Ah Ah Ah, En Franรงais
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 494 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ "How A Script Doctor Found His Own Voice" in The New Yorker
๐งโ๐ The For All Mankind Canon presentation in EHG 486
๐ The first King Of Queens Canon attempt in EHG 240
๐ฆค King Of Queens's top 50 episodes ranked at Vulture
๐งธ Tara on Ted at Cracked.com
โ๏ธ Tara demands justice for Son Of Zorn
๐พ Joe on Break Point
๐ช How true-crimey is Leonardo DiCaprio's c.v.?
๐ท Photo: Jean-Claude Lother / AMC
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Duration:01:14:08
493: Recording Our Thoughts On Criminal Record
1/10/2024
AppleTV+'s latest very polished drama, Criminal Record, is about race and corruption in London's Metropolitan police force; Brandi Brown takes a break from cozy mysteries to discuss whether this copperganda is worth watching. Around The Dial takes us through Grimsburg, Julia, The Gilded Age (including a Tiny Triumph from Brandi), Break Point, and The Bob Newhart Show. Past guest Ilan pitches Shoresy's "Players Wanted" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time about screens big and small. Make yourself a nice cup of tea and join us!
GUESTS
๐ค Brandi Brown
TOPICS
Announcement: ๐ข Club Campaign Update
Lead Topic: ๐๐ป Criminal Record
Around The Dial: ๐คทโโ๏ธ Grimsburg
Around The Dial: ๐ฅ Julia
Around The Dial: ๐ญ The Gilded Age
Around The Dial: ๐พ Break Point
Around The Dial: ๐๏ธ The Bob Newhart Show
The Canon: ๐ Shoresy S02.E04: Players Only
Winner & Loser: ๐ Jeremy Allen White
Winner & Loser: ๐ Pat McAfee
Game Time: ๐ฌ Small Silver Screen
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 493 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ค๏ธ Brandi Brown on Bluesky
๐ธ Brandi on Instagram
๐คทโโ๏ธ Tara's review of Grimsburg at Cracked.com
๐ฅ Tara's interview with Shea Serrano at Cracked.com
๐๏ธ Buy tickets to see Brandi Brown with headliner River Butcher at Acme Comedy Company in Minneapolis February 7-10
๐๏ธ Comedy Night at The Mudd Room in Mendota, MN, where you can see Brandi on February 14
๐ต๐ปโโ๏ธ The Best Evidence newsletter
๐ท Photo: AppleTV+
Duration:01:23:41
492: Merging, Cycling, And Offending Absolutely Everyone
1/3/2024
Some of you might have made a New Year's resolution to watch less bad TV. Couldn't be us: we've decided to face bad TV head-on with this special all-Nonac episode. Sean pitches an infamous Survivor about sexual harassment among players. Erica dares us to watch a Monty Python's Flying Circus that breaks from both standard episode structure and good taste. And Franรงoise tries to exorcise the nadir of her House rewatch. You may need to suspend Dry January to get through this one, but we hope that won't stop you from joining us!
TOPICS
The Nonac: ๐๏ธ Survivor S39.E08: We Made It To The Merge!
The Nonac: ๐ช Monty Python's Flying Circus S03.E08: The Cycling Tour
The Nonac: ๐จ๐ปโโ๏ธ House S02.E13: Skin Deep
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NOTES
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๐ช "Julius Caesar On An Aldis Lamp" on YouTube
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Duration:01:02:52
491: New Year, New Thunderdome
12/27/2023
It's about to be a new year, so what better topic could there be for a Thunderdome than...the new? With that in mind, we've assembled a list of 27 TV people with "new," "neu," or "noo" in their names, and are subjecting them to mortal combat in rounds of three contestants at a time -- standard Thunderdome stuff -- to see which of them will survive into the new year. Grab your newest headphones and join us!
TOPICS
Lead Topic: โก๏ธ New Thunderdome
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NOTES
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Duration:01:08:34
490: Extra Hot Great Christmas Cheer
12/20/2023
We are off this week but we bring you three great presents in the form of three Extra Extra Hot Great episodes from the club vault.
EEHG 212: Christmastalgia
Sequels to The Santa Clause and A Christmas Story have come to TV this week, so we're sharing the holiday programming of yesteryear we want to see reimagined for TV, and how.
EEHG 216: Tara Forces Everyone To Watch A Compilation Of TV Commercials From December 1992
What ads were ABC viewers subjected to during an airing of the Olsen twins-starring TV movie To Grandmother's House We Go? Thanks to YouTube, we know, and we're going to talk about them.
EEHG 219: Sarah Forces Everyone To Watch The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year!
We'd just been talking about Snack vs. Chef with Adam on the main podcast, so we were glad he could join us for a look waaaay back at the grandmama of cooking shows, The French Chef. In this episode, filmed in black and white and aired at the end of 1963, Julia Child rants about crappy kitchenware, coughs on stuff, grosses us out with canned ham...but is her usual welcoming, soothing self, full of practical tips for last-minute appetizers (and trying valiantly not to swear on camera). Join us for a fond reminiscence about monoculture public television and midcentury decor, and Happy New Year!
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ Reimagining Classic Christmas TV
Lead Topic: ๐ค December 6, 1992 Commercials
Lead Topic: ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ณ The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year!
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 490 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ผ "It's A Wonderful Plot" at TVTropes.org
๐ A Claymation Christmas Celebration on DailyMotion.com
๐ชจ "Christmas In Clay" at Tedium.co
๐ฐ "ABC TV Commercial Breaks - Dec 6th 1992 - Part One" on YouTube
๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ณ Watch The French Chef S02.E04 on Pluto TV (it's free!)
๐ด Watch the show Julia on HBO Max
๐ฅ Watch the documentary Julia, also on HBO Max
Duration:00:53:32