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114: Blindly Watching Game Of Thrones Apr 26, 2016

Show notes

As Game Of Thrones returns from hiatus, and moves beyond the books, the gang plus Jeff and Nick talked about Jon Snow, Crone Castle, and what's next for the Starks. We went around the dial with Better Call Saul, Valleys Silicon and Happy, Houdini & Doyle, Project Runway All-Stars, and the National Enquirer before putting Angie's 30 Rock Canon submission under a "Black Light." Humans? Heard of 'em (they're winners), whoever has to retitle Live With Someone and Maybe Kelly is a loser, and Rib Hurtmann changed a few things in this week's Game Time. Don't lose us in the tall grass; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🪶 Game Of Thrones

Around The Dial: 💼 Better Call Saul

Around The Dial: 🚨 Happy Valley

Around The Dial: 🪄 Houdini & Doyle

Around The Dial: 🖥 Silicon Valley

Around The Dial: 🧵 Project Runway All Stars

The Canon: 📺 30 Rock

Winner & Loser: 👍 Humans

Winner & Loser: 👎 Live With Michael And Kelly

Game Time: 🧠 TV Typos

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 114 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter

🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

🌴 The Again With This podcast

113: Crawling Into The Bunker With Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Apr 19, 2016

Show notes

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

None: 💄 Face Off

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Game TIME TO DIE

Around The Dial: ⚖️ Confirmation

Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ iZombie

Around The Dial: 👨‍❤️‍👨 The Outs

Around The Dial: 🚔 60 Days In

The Canon: 🍷 Brothers & Sisters

Winner & Loser: 👍 Girlfriends' Guide To Divorce

Winner & Loser: 👎 Horace And Pete

Game Time: 🧠 Catch The Here's Butt

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 113 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

112: THIS...Was American Idol (And Some Other Stuff) Apr 12, 2016

Show notes

Sarah D. Bunting is back from baseballing, and Stephanie Cangro is back to discuss the final season of American Idol, the Idol farewell, and what it all meant to us as a culture. Liv and a sugar high told us about Face Off and My Little Pony, and we went around the dial with Togetherness, true crime, dance shows, try-hards, and a creepy deodorant ad. Was Stephanie's I Love Lucy Canon TOO classic? Should Martin Sheen consider shutting up? And why did Sarah get Rickie Vasquez and a Nats catcher mixed up? Don't wait until after an ad break to find out with an all-new, unpitchy Extra Hot Great.

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Lead Topic: 🎶 American Idol

None: 💄 Face Off

Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Togetherness

Around The Dial: 🔪 The Case Of JonBenet Ramsey

Around The Dial: 💃 So You Think You Can Dance

Around The Dial: 🏈 American Crime Story The People Vs. O.J. Simpson

The Canon: 💝 I Love Lucy

Winner & Loser: 👍 Greek

Winner & Loser: 👎 Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence

Game Time: 🧠 Two For The Price Of One

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 112 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Stephanie Cangro on Twitter

111: Delivering A Suspenseful Beating To The Walking Dead Apr 05, 2016

Show notes

New guest Daniel MacEachern and returning champion Omar Gallaga join us to talk about an apocalyptic cliffhanger!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧟‍♀️ The Walking Dead

None: 💄 Face Off

Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife

Around The Dial: 🥃 Horace And Pete

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Scandal

Around The Dial: 🎸 Vinyl

The Canon: 📹 The Newsroom (Canada)

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Blacklist Famke Janssen

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Emmys Sterling K. Brown, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Game Time: 🧠 Unsung Themes

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 111 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter

🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter

110: Daredevil: The Blind Leading The Bored Mar 29, 2016

Show notes

After David T. Cole died, then came back to life as befitting the Easter weekend, Jeff Alexander sat down with the gang to discuss the second season of Daredevil, Joe's issues with Jon Bernthal, why a character based IN NEW YORK CITY can't just be Irish already, and whether any of us will be back for S3. After Liv's candy high took us through Face Off and Buntsy thumbs-upped the original Helter Skelter TV movie, we checked in with Married At First Sight: The First Year, Untucked, the Flash/Supergirl crossover, and The Real O'Neals. The Tick was a winner, the world's first supermodel was a loser, and Tom & Dick & Harry & Jane & Kate & Mary inspired a hotly-contested Game Time -- or, as Sarah's cold would have it, "Gabe Tibe." (Sorry about that, guys.) Did Jeff's mid-Office submission "win" admission to the Nonac? Does Foggy need a haircut? The answers to all these questions, plus something about a bear attack, in an all-new extra-crunchy Extra Hot Great.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🕶 Daredevil

None: 💄 Face Off

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Helter Skelter

Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: ⚡️ SupergirlThe Flash

Around The Dial: 🏳️‍🌈 The Real O'Neals

Around The Dial: 💋 Untucked

The Canon: 📑 The Office (US)

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Tick (2016) Peter Serafinowicz

Winner & Loser: 👎 Janice Dickinson

Game Time: 🧠 Tom, Dick, Or Harry; Jane, Kate, Or Mary?

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 110 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Jeff Alexander on Twitter

🖥 Joe on Decider

🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

109: Pledging Allegiance To The Americans Mar 15, 2016

Show notes

Tradecraft enthusiast Nick Rheinwald-Jones creeps back onto the podcast under cover of night to talk about the Season 4 premiere of The Americans. We break with tradition to let Dave interview Liv about the latest episode of Face Off, and ponder whether the jazz at the jazz club in House Of Cards is worse than jazz. Around The Dial stops at Royal Pains, Not Safe With Nikki Glaser, the pre-Crazy Ex-Girlfriend YouTube clips of Rachel Bloom, Bosch, and another racist TV ad from the '80s. Nick makes the case for the induction of the "4 Days Out" episode of Breaking Bad to the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a starchy Game Time. Go dark (to the rest of the world) and enjoy!

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Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato

Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 The Americans

None: 💄 Face Off

Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 House Of Cards The Jazz In The Jazz Club

Around The Dial: 👑 Royal Pains

Around The Dial: 🦺 Not Safe With Nikki Glaser

Around The Dial: 🚨 Bosch

The Canon: 🧪 Breaking Bad

Winner & Loser: 👍 Game Of Thrones Amy Ryan, Nicole Holofcener, Ian McShane

Winner & Loser: 👎 Friends Unauthorized Musical

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 109 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

🎶 Rachel Bloom on YouTube

🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

108: Is House Of Cards A Good Play? Mar 07, 2016

Show notes

House Of Cards dropped its fourth filibuster last Friday, and our esteemed colleague Kim Reed joined the gang to discuss how Frank Underwood and Scandal's Fitz stack up, plus constitutional procedure, hateful heroes, and a listener's possibly crackpot theory that all sitcoms should end after three seasons. We went around the dial with the end of Downton, new Broad City, Intervention, and Late Night With Seth Meyers, and Joe Reid pitched us an all-star Survivor for the Canon. Nancy Drew won, wigs lost, and a cliffhanger-based Game Time had a shocking outcome! ...Probably! Before you shove your TV in front of a train, have a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

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Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 House Of Cards

I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Sitcoms Should Be Limited To 3 Seasons

None: 💄 Face Off

Around The Dial: 🎩 Downton Abbey

Around The Dial: 🌃 Late Night With Seth Meyers

Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Broad City

Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention

The Canon: 🌴 Survivor

Winner & Loser: 👍 Nancy Drew Sarah Shahi

Winner & Loser: 👎 House Of CardsThe Good Wife Wigs

Game Time: 🧠 Cliffhangers

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 108 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

🖥 Joe on Decider

107: Speaking Truth To Catfish Feb 29, 2016

Show notes

Max defender and periodically ashamed Michigander Stephanie Green returns to talk about the ménage à trois that was the Season 5 premiere of Catfish and whether there's even a point to it anymore (...if ever). Liv takes us through the stages of the latest Gauntlet challenge in her Face Off report; Sarah takes us through American Tragedy, ABC's 2000 miniseries on the O.J. Simpson trial, for The Blotter Presents. Tara and Sarah consider the forthcoming Biblical miniseries Of Kings And Prophets and ask: Will Dave Hate This? Around The Dial stops at Togetherness, Fit To Fat To Fit, Married By Mom And Dad, Love, The Biggest Loser, and The X-Files before Dave In Chicago makes his pitch for That '70s Show's "That '70s Musical" to be inducted into the Nonac. Tara and Joe identify the week's Winner and Loser, and then it's on to a Game Time set in Sarah's very favourite place. Turn off the ringer on your burner phone and join us!

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Lead Topic: 🎣 Catfish

None: 💄 Face Off

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 American Tragedy

Will Dave Hate This?: 👑 Of Kings And Prophets

Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Togetherness

Around The Dial: 🏋️‍♀️ Fit To Fat To Fit

Around The Dial: 💍 Married By Mom And Dad

Around The Dial: 💞 Love

Around The Dial: ⚖️ The Biggest Loser

Around The Dial: 🛸 The X-Files

The Nonac: 💨 That '70s Show

Winner & Loser: 👍 America's Next Top Model

Winner & Loser: 👎 American Idol

Game Time: 🧠 Spaaaaaaaaace!

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 107 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter

🖥 Joe on Decider

106: It's Time For Rhyme Feb 22, 2016

Show notes

The first round of the Extra Hot Great Listener Game Time concludes with the Son Of The Game That Rhymes from Rob Hartmann. Who's the last one to advance to the Hallowed Hall Of Champions round? Find out!

TOPICS

Game Time: 🧠 Son Of The Game That Rhymes

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 106 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

105: Ringing In A New Season Of Better Call Saul Feb 15, 2016

Show notes

Better Call Saul returns for its second season, and Jeff Drake is back to talk about that, plus how much he hates Vinyl and which S2 Fargo should go into the Canon. Liv learned about parasites on Face Off, Sarah talked about American Crime Story's foundation book, and we went around the dial with SNL, The Good Wife, Alyssa Milano's wardrobe issues, and Teresa Giudice's parole tour before Bill Cosby "won" and Michael Skupin lost. Was Game Time Anything? How many times did someone yell "SPAAAAAACE!!"? Only one way to find out: listen to this mint-condition no-creases Extra Hot Great.

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Lead Topic: 💼 Better Call Saul

None: 💄 Face Off

The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Jeffrey Toobin's The Run Of His Life

Around The Dial: 👩‍⚖️ The Good Wife

Around The Dial: 🎸 Vinyl

Around The Dial: 🗽 Saturday Night Live

Around The Dial: 🪡 Project Runway All Stars

The Canon: 🚓 Fargo

Winner & Loser: 👍 Bill Cosby

Winner & Loser: 👎 Survivor Michael Skupin

Game Time: 🧠 Is This Anything?: EHG Assist Edition