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372: Should You Ask Yourself Y: The Last Man? Sep 15, 2021

Show notes

FX on Hulu's take on comics series Y: The Last Man has finally made it to air -- and Taylor Cole has finally made it over from The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show to talk about it with us! How is the show different from the comics? Can Diane Lane's hair still be a national treasure if her roots are a plot point? And does a certain Hero need to get written out of the story? We went Around The Dial with Frogger, Scenes From A Marriage, Miracle Workers, and 30 For 30's take on the '86 Mets before carefully selecting TV's smartest (and hottest) characters to get us Extra Credit at pub quiz. Taylor sent us a care package containing his Canon submission for Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp before Momoa won and copaganda lost. And Tara's non-regulation Game Time taught us all a lot. Make 90 minutes disappear Yorick-style by listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Taylor Cole

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🐒 Y: The Last Man

Around The Dial: 💍 Scenes From A Marriage

Around The Dial: 🐸 Frogger

Around The Dial: 🪬 Miracle Workers

Around The Dial: ⚾️ 30 For 30

Extra Credit: 🤔 Pub Quiz

The Canon: 🩳 Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp S01.E06: Electro/City

Winner & Loser: 👍 See

Winner & Loser: 👎 Fox Nation

Game Time: 🧠 That'll Teach 'Em

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 372 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Follow Taylor Cole on Twitter

🍸 The G&T With Greta And Taylor podcast

💄 Listen To Sassy on Patreon

🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

371: Testifying About Impeachment: American Crime Story Sep 08, 2021

Show notes

Since the third season of American Crime Story revolves around Bill Clinton's late-'90s impeachment scandal, we could think of no better guest to join us in discussing it than Dan Rogge, noted co-writer of the mid-'00s theatrical production Monica! The Musical. And we got him! Around The Dial takes us through A.P. Bio, Money Heist, Black Monday, and Only Murders In The Building. Katherine asks us to suggest better monikers for mis-named TV characters. Then Dan makes his case for inducting NewsRadio's Season 3 episode "Kids" into The Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser, and close out with a big-name Game Time. Got dry cleaning to drop off? Take us with you and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Dan Rogge

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 Impeachment: American Crime Story

Around The Dial: 🧫 A.P. Bio

Around The Dial: 💸 Money Heist

Around The Dial: 📉 Black Monday

Around The Dial: 🔪 Only Murders In The Building

Extra Credit: 🤑 Restoring Their Good Name

The Canon: 📻 NewsRadio S03.E16: Kids

Winner & Loser: 👍 Reservation Dogs

Winner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Game Time: 🧠 That's My Name, Too

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 371 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Dan Rogge on Twitter

👗 Monica! The Podcast

✍️ Sarah's Impeachment review at Primetimer

💸 Tara's Money Heist recaps at Vulture

🌍 Andy Dehnart's oral history of The Amazing Race's first season at Reality Blurred

370: Shut Up Alfred Poochinski Sep 01, 2021

Show notes

EEHG 102: Sarah Forces Everyone To Watch Alfred Hitchcock Presents S03.E01: The Glass Eye

Join us for the third-season premiere of Sarah's go-to mid-century anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, featuring Captain Kirk, Jessica Tandy, ventriloquism Deadheads, spinster-ist propaganda, and a hall-of-fame crappy TV kid.

EEHG 122: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch The Failed 1990 Pilot Of Poochinski

Woof! Woof! I'm Poochinski, the talking dog!

EEHG 131: Hey You, Shut Up

150 things that need to shut up.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🔪 Alfred Hitchcock Presents S03.E01: The Glass Eye

Lead Topic: 🐶 Poochinski S01.E01: Pilot

Lead Topic: 🙊 Hey You, Shut Up

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 370 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🧿 "The Glass Eye" on Peacock

369: Settling Into The Chair Aug 25, 2021

Show notes

University of California (NOT California University...you'll see) faculty member Bobby Krut returns to talk about Sandra Oh's new English-department half-hour dramedy on Netflix, The Chair. We discussed the almost-perfect pacing and casting, underrating Amanda Peet at your peril, whether Holland Taylor should get a spinoff, and more. Then we went Around The Dial with Nine Perfect Strangers, Messyness, I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson, and Unforgotten before Doug tasked us with adding a Russian Roulette-style trapdoor to a TV moment. Sarah wouldn't let the bird rest in her Canon presentation for a fifth-season Cheers episode; true crime won and Mike Richards lost; and the truth was once again stranger than fiction in a Game Time animé sequel. Don't pine for a crumpled podcast; listen to this shiny new episode of Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Robert Krut

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🪑 The Chair

Around The Dial: 9️⃣ Nine Perfect Strangers

Around The Dial: 🗑 Messyness

Around The Dial: ↩️ I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson

Around The Dial: 🙇‍♀️ Unforgotten

Extra Credit: 🔫 Russian Roulette

The Canon: 🍻 Cheers S05.E09: Thanksgiving Orphans

Winner & Loser: 👍 Josh Duhamel

Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael Richards

Game Time: 🧠 More Animé Bullshit

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 369 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🪶 Bobby Krut's website

🐦 Bobby on Twitter

📷 Bobby on Instagram

📺 The Kominsky Method on Netflix

💰 The National Network of Abortion Funds

🔎 The "Bet-Crap" on Best Evidence

🔫 A Russian Roulette reference video

🙋‍♀️ The The Thing About Pam podcast

368: Getting Into The Ring With Heels Aug 18, 2021

Show notes

With your co-host panel still smarting over the death of Netflix's wrestling dramedy GLOW, Starz has dared to bring its own scripted wrestling project to the screen in the form of Michael Waldron's Heels; Joe Reid -- a fan of both wrestling AND TV -- joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Reservation Dogs, The White Lotus (briefly), Fantasy Island, Big Brother, Animal Kingdom, and What If...?. David Ellis Dickerson challenges us to create a TV series that will use the talents of both January Jones and David Duchovny to the fullest advantage. Joe presents the Girls5Eva episode "Cease And Desist" for induction into The Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser, and head straight into a Game Time that gets a little romantic. Get into your spangliest leggings and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤼‍♀️ Heels

Around The Dial: 🪶 Reservation Dogs

Around The Dial: 🧘 The White Lotus

Around The Dial: 🏝 Fantasy Island (2021)

Around The Dial: 👨‍👦 Big Brother

Around The Dial: 🦌 Animal Kingdom

Around The Dial: 🤔 What If

Extra Credit: 🚁 Rigid Air Vehicles

The Canon: 👩‍🎤 Girls5Eva S01.E06: Cease And Desist

Winner & Loser: 👍 Corn

Winner & Loser: 👎 Men behaving badly

Game Time: 🧠 Double Date

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 368 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter

👡 Joe's Heels review at Primetimer

🤼‍♂️ Tara's post on Heels and GLOW at Decider

👠 LaToya Ferguson's post about Heels at Paste

🌺 Mitchell Kuga at Vox on The White Lotus's portrayal of Native Hawaiian characters

🧘‍♂️ Tara discussing The White Lotus with Dave Chen on his Patreon podcast

✍️ Joe's author page on Primetimer

🏆 The This Had Oscar Buzz podcast on Twitter

🦊 Sarah's Primetimer post about Season 4 of Animal Kingdom

📚 Exhibit B. Books

📷 January Jones on Instagram

⚖️ Seth Simons on the Horatio Sanz lawsuit at Humorism

367: Mr. Corman's Existential Crisis Aug 11, 2021

Show notes

Kamille Washington of the Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast is back to discuss Mr. Corman, a (possibly too) slow-building show about a musician turned grade-school teacher/anxiety sufferer and his angst. Did star/producer/crafty coordinator Joseph Gordon-Levitt take on too many jobs -- and not enough fresh story? Why couldn't the show be about Arturo Castro's character? And can we look forward to a Debra Wingeraissance? We went Around The Dial with First Wives Club's second season, FBoy Island, Real Housewives Of Potomac, CNBC crime shows, and UFO; then Courtney and Craig asked us which TV characters are the most likely to vape obnoxiously (and none of us had any trouble answering). We conferred on whether a New Girl episode was adorkable enough for the Canon, then declared a Winner and a Loser of the week before finding out whether a superpowered Game Time was our kryptonite. Get your sneakers off the couch and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Kamille Washington

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🥱 Mr. Corman

Around The Dial: ♣️ First Wives Club

Around The Dial: 🍆 FBoy Island

Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of Potomac

Around The Dial: 🥷 Super Heists

Around The Dial: 💶 Money Court

Around The Dial: 🛸 UFO

Extra Credit: 💨 Who Here Vapes?

The Canon: 👧🏼 New Girl S02.E15: Cooler

Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Organized Crime

Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael Richards

Game Time: 🧠 Alter Egos

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 367 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Follow Kamille Washington on Twitter

✋🏽 Listen to the Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast

🎥 Daniel Fienberg's Mr. Corman review for The Hollywood Reporter

🦤 Jen Chaney's at Vulture

🏝 Joe Reid reviews FBoy Island for Primetimer

🗣 Tara's Paul Scheer interview at Decider

📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

📷 Photo: Apple TV+

366: Shouldn't Have Worked But It Did Aug 04, 2021

Show notes

The talented EHG Assist team tasked the panel -- plus returning guest Jeff Drake! -- with talking about shows and episodes that shouldn't have worked, but somehow did. We began our theme episode with the late-'70s satire Soap. Do the problematic parts justify the hilarity around them? Is some of the bad acting and slow pacing an homage of sorts to daytime dramas? Should you (re-)watch, or just find a supercut of all the previouslies and next-ons? Later, we went Around The Dial with The Circle, Nailed It!, Pop-Up Video, and Battle Of The Network Stars, before a complete 180 in tone brought us to a Canon submission from 2020's Normal People. AppleTV+ both won AND lost, and then we all updated our quiz résumés for Game Time. Good morning, Bensons -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Jeff Drake

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🫧 Soap

Around The Dial: ⭕️ The Circle

Around The Dial: 🎂 Nailed It

Around The Dial: 📼 Pop-Up Video

Around The Dial: 🏃‍♀️ Battle Of The Network Stars

The Canon: 🧍‍♂️ Normal People S01.E10: Episode 10

Winner & Loser: 👍 Ted Lasso

Winner & Loser: 👎 Amazing Stories

Game Time: 🧠 Working Hard Or Hardly Working?

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 366 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Jeff Drake On Twitter

👰‍♀️ Tara's interview with Married At First Sight showrunner Montré Burton at Decider

🌳 Watch Jeff Drake's show, Central Park, on AppleTV+

💿 Jeff just released an album! Listen to it on Basecamp

📼 Watch a big old playlist of vintage Pop-Up Video

🌠 Watch the 1976 Battle Of The Network Stars

🏃🏻‍♂️ Or skip directly to the notorious Robert Conrad relay

🎶 Get more music-documentary content on the Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs Patreon

365: Speed-Dating Sexy Beasts Jul 28, 2021

Show notes

When schedulers at the Food Network foiled our original plans for this episode, our returning guest Will Ellis rolled with the punches and joined us to talk about Netflix's bizarre new dating show, Sexy Beasts! Around The Dial takes us through the new season of Married At First Sight, The Real Housewives Of Potomac, Married To Medicine, and Search Party. Last week's guest Sean Pflueger returns...via an Extra Credit question about actors whose range we underestimated. Will presents the RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: Untucked episode "It Takes Two" for submission to The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we roar and scratch our way through a Non-Regulation Game Time. Get a beer (good luck drinking it around your bottle-nosed dolphin special effects makeup) and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Will Ellis

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👹 Sexy Beasts

Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of Potomac

Around The Dial: 💊 Married To Medicine

Around The Dial: 👀 Search Party

Extra Credit: 🤦‍♂️ Underestimated

The Canon: 🏆 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Untucked S01.E01: It Takes Two

Winner & Loser: 👍 YouTuber Shamook

Winner & Loser: 👎 The WGA

Game Time: 🧠 Regular Beasts That Are Not Here To Be Objectified

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 365 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Will Ellis on Twitter

🌴 The Again With This podcast

🏳️‍🌈 Harvard Kennedy School's LGBTQ Policy Journal, in the spring 2021 issue of which Will has an article

📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

364: Visiting Schmigadoon! Jul 21, 2021

Show notes

AppleTV+'s newest musical series, Schmigadoon!, strands a couple of contemporary big-city doctors in a strange town lost in time, requiring them to find their true loves before they can cross the bridge home. Did we true-love it, or did we feel trapped? New guest Sean Pflueger joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through American Horror Stories, Never Have I Ever, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Love, Victor, and Dr. Death. Don (on behalf of the @EHGAssist crew) uses his Extra Credit segment to let us give a TV character a late-night cable access show. Tara explains why she's not a crackpot for thinking the Marvel shows on Disney+ are just very expensive advertainment. Sean pitches Schitt's Creek's "Open Mic" for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time with perfect pitch. Ladle up a big bowl of corn puddin' and listen in!

GUESTS

👤 Sean Pflueger

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🎼 Schmigadoon

Around The Dial: 🪦 American Horror Stories

Around The Dial: 🤞 Never Have I Ever

Around The Dial: 🏫 High School Musical: The Musical The Series

Around The Dial: 💕 Love Victor

Around The Dial: ☠️ Dr. Death

Extra Credit: 🚠 Cable Access

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Marvel Shows On Disney+ Are Just 2020s Webisodes

The Canon: 💩 Schitt's Creek S04.E06: Open Mic

Winner & Loser: 👍 Crocs

Winner & Loser: 👎 Erika Jayne

Game Time: 🧠 Another Pair Of Jazz Hands

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 364 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Sean Pflueger on Twitter

🎼 Tara's Schmigadoon! review at VanityFair.com

☠️ Roundup of Dr. Death reviews at Best Evidence

🧵 Best Evidence's Dr. Death open thread

🗣 Tara's Joshua Jackson interview at VanityFair.com

🐦 EHG Assist on Twitter

🐊 "The Loki Season Finale Exit Survey" at The Ringer

363: Should You Slide Into The New Gossip Girl's DMs? Jul 14, 2021

Show notes

Nadia Chaudhury of Eater Austin joins us for the first time to talk about the second time around for Gossip Girl. Does the 2021 reboot know who it's for? Did the original benefit from the suspense surrounding Gossip Girl's identity? And will we keep watching even if Tavi Gevinson's acting doesn't improve? After Gordon Lightfoot Cole dropped in to make a request, we went Around The Dial with White Lotus, Monsters At Work, We Are Lady Parts, Heist, and This Is Pop before listener Lauren pitched an ICO (initial Canon offering) for a third-season Halt And Catch Fire episode. Kiefer won (the presidency), a Netflix show lost, and we cast about for answers in Game Time. Listen now! xoxo, EHG

GUESTS

👤 Nadia Chaudhury

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 😮 Gossip Girl

Around The Dial: 🧘‍♀️ The White Lotus

Around The Dial: 🧌 Monsters At Work

Around The Dial: 💅🏽 We Are Lady Parts

Around The Dial: 🦹 Heist

Around The Dial: 🍾 This Is Pop

The Canon: 🧯 Halt And Catch Fire S03.E07: The Threshold

Winner & Loser: 👍 Kiefer Sutherland

Winner & Loser: 👎 Cursed