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The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

Join us each week on The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show for three fun rounds of trivia designed to challenge your pop culture brain and tickle your podcast fancy. Cheer on your favorite contestant as they progress towards the season championship match or throw your hat in the ring and apply to become a contestant yourself!

Copyright: © David T. Cole, Dan Cassino & Taylor Cole

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S02.E04: Extra Special Editions Nov 23, 2020

Show notes

DVD box sets and franchise chronologies are at the center of our games this week with three contestants from the /Filmcast!

We are pleased to welcome David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Jeff Cannata for a week of movie trivia.

They'll identify movies from descriptions of their extravagant DVD box sets (some of which are pretty wild) before testing their math skills alongside their memories of where movies fall within their particular long-running franchises.

They'll top it all off with a lightning round that's intense as they come!

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⚡️ The Amazing Spider-Man 2 DVD set is really terrifying

👵🏽 This Your 30s Scorebreak: Why is everything so sore now?

🦒 Escape 2 Africa did, in fact, have a digit in its title

🍊 The Pogs Scorebreak: They're back, and why not? They're at least as fun as Among Us

✝️ The God's Not Dead franchise does have three movies in it, but when the Catholic World Report is bagging on your faith-based sequel, you've got problems.

🎞 Listen to Jeff, Devindra and Dave on the /Filmcast

🎧 Dave Chen's Culturally Relevant podcast

🐦 Follow Devindra on Twitter

💻 Find Devindra's writing and tech podcastery on Engadget

🐺 Watch Jeff the Dungeon Master on Dungeon Run

😳 Jeff and Anthony Carboni talk about the personal philosophical concerns they find lurking inside everyday things on We Have Concerns

🎮 Jeff's long-running video game podcast DLC

S02.E03: The Rent Is Too Damn High Nov 16, 2020

Show notes

Dan Kois, June Thomas and Sam Adams duke it out to see who will move on and represent Slate in the Hired Goons divisional finals.

Extra! Extra! We start things off in news publication-style by having our contestants identify movies and TV shows from those in-universe newspaper headlines that spin at you (and why do they do that, BTW?).

Then we relax with fifteen consecutive rounds of special edition Monopoly where tokens, properties and rules give hints to which pop culture edition of Monopoly we're playing.

Tears are shed! Records are broken! Riddles are given! It's all happening right now.

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🐞 Do you know there's debate over how quickly you need to say "Betelgeuse" in succession in order to summon him?

🥤 Diet Coke is brown coin water.

🚀 Newspapers in Battlestar Galactica have clipped edges because of course they do. As creator Ronald Moore explained, "These people just hate right angles."

🦎 The UNGCC is about as effective at protecting the world from kaiju as the UN is at everything else.

🌎 Dan, June and Sam all work at Slate.

🐦 Follow Sam Adams on Twitter

📕 Dan's book How To Be A Family

👫 Listen to Dan's parenting podcast Mom and Dad Are Fighting

💼 Listen to June on Slate's Working podcast

S02.E02: Marge Excitable's The A.V.-ary Club Nov 09, 2020

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We're quizzing on bird puns and director filmographies this week with none other than Grierson & Leitch!

Joined by Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh, they all soar through a test of their knowledge of pop culture with bird names in their titles (think One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). After that, they'll stretch their chronological memories to remember the orders in which notable directors released their movies.

They'll cap it all off with some tailor-made lightning rounds featuring action cinema, computer whizzes, and a certain Chicago rock outfit.

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🏹 Disney's Robin Hood is a fox by multiple definitions, which has led to some confusion among viewers.

📺 WOW Presents Plus

🏎 The Wachowski's Speed Racer is good, actually.

🧨 Katie's Women Of Action series at Mel Magazine.

💿 For "which Wilco album was the first to feature Mikael Jorgensen," we would have also accepted The Wilco Book. Although the supplemental CD that came with Wilco's book about themselves was produced by and includes performances by Jorgensen, it is not really a proper studio album, and was made before Jorgensen joined the band officially for the recording of A Ghost if Born.

🎥 Listen to Grierson & Leitch

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🍅 Links to Katie's reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

Special: The Extra Hot Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Nov 04, 2020

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We are delighted to welcome our friends from the Extra Hot Great podcast for a special crossover episode outside the bracket of the regular season.

Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, and Mark Blankenship (of the Blankenship Chair) join us for TV trivia modelled after a typical Extra Hot Great episode!

We'll open with a new release for the week, go Around the Dial with a game about shows that change networks, and play The Canon where our contestants must separate great works of literature from TV favorites. It all comes down to a contentious Lightning Round to determine the Winner and Losers of the week!

Only five days instead of the usual seven for the riddle this week. So get on it, smarties-pants!

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🔙 The Back to the Future Ride at Universal Studios was the best thing at the park. RIP.

😴 The Laura Laudenberg's favorite things are dark chocolate, 80s music and naps

💀 Bizarrely, Scooby-Doo/Hamlet is a crossover that's actually happened in the cartoon.

🎬 RIP Alfred Hitchcock, slain by space trash cans.

📎 There was Microsoft Bob, and there was Clippy the Paper Clip but there's no Bob The Paper Clip.

🚨 Mark tries the unplayed lightning round category in the after-show.

🔥 Listen to Extra Hot Great

🌴 Buy Tara and Sarah book: A Very Special 90210 Book

📰 Subscribe to Best Evidence, Sarah's true crime newsletter

🎭 Subscribe to The Flashpaper, Mark's print-only journal that raises funds for theatre artists laid off during the pandemic

👨🏻‍🎤 Listen to Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

🐦 Mark on Twitter

🐦 Sarah on Twitter

🐦 Tara on Twitter

S02.E01: Johannes Bassoon's Songs in the Key of Westworld Nov 02, 2020

Show notes

This week, we kick off our season two Battle of the Podcasts with special guests from Rolling Stone, Uproxx, and The Hollywood Reporter for our TV Critics Powerhouse match!

Alan Sepinwall, Daniel Fienberg, and Brian Grubb will compete in some TV trivia games to identify Westworld player piano versions of HBO theme songs, and name TV shows based on descriptions of their comic book continuations.

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🏄‍♂️ It's easy to bag on John from Cincinnati, but the critical re-evaluation has been that, yep, it's nonsense.

🧙🏻‍♀️ Shannen Doherty's character in the Charmed comics doesn't actually look like her, because they were too cheap to pay her for likeness rights.

🖖 The Star Trek comics referenced in round two are way better than the ones from the 60s, which were often written by people who had never actually seen the show, and had no idea what the characters looked like!

⏱ Daniel didn't get points for his last lightning round question because you must wait until the question is fully read before answering and time ran out. That's the way the cookie crumbles.

🤔 Remember, you only have 2 days to answer this episode's At Home Version riddle due to a bonus Wednesday episode drop.

✒️ Read Brian's stuff at Uproxx

🏀 Brian wanted us to say "go Sixers" which were are reasonable sure is about basketball

🐦 Follow Brian on Twitter

🎧 Listen to Dan's TV's Top 5 Podcast

🔍 Read The Fien Print blog at The Hollywood Reporter

🎸 Read Alan's TV reviews at Rolling Stone

📚 Alan has written a book or two about TV

🐦 Follow Alan on Twitter

Special: On The Podcast, With The Microphone, By The Host Oct 26, 2020

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It's an all Halloween and horror episode for Spooky Season here at The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show!

We've got Garon Cockrell from Never Not Funny, Kate Sanchez from But Why, Tho? and Joe Reid from This Had Oscar Buzz testing their knowledge about classic and contemporary spooky entertainments!

After a debate about exorcisms, we'll test recognition of pop culture murders, recount the career of Mike Flanagan, and and parse out confusion with some horror movie mash ups!

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🎹 Our Halloweenized theme is from the nimble fingers of our host Taylor Cole

🤫 Both Kate and Joe independently chose Scream's Gale Weathers as their pop culture champion so we asked them both to pick another character.

🏰 Wait, why are there armadillos in Castle Dracula?

🕵️‍♂️ Weird, dark versions of Clue are a real thing

🧠 Why so many abandoned mental hospitals?

⚾️ The little league coach being attacked by a soda machine isn't even the craziest thing in "Maximum Overdrive"

⚡️ Is it mean to keep bringing the great Max von Sydow's campy role in "Flash Gordon"?

👹 Check out Garon's site Pop Culture Beast

🎧 Listen to Garon on the Never Not Funny podcast

📚 Read Garon's books Demonic And Other Tales and The Darkest Hours

🐦 Garon is on Twitter @MyNameIsGaron

🎮 Watch Garon live on Twitch

🤙 Support Garon on Patreon

🎧 Kate's podcast, website and community But Why Tho?

🤕 But Why Tho? is also raising money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital this month (so hurry up to donate!)

🐦 Follow Kate on Twitter @OhMyMithrandir

🎞 Don't miss Joe's podcast This Had Oscar Buzz

📺 Joe is the managing editor at Primetimer.com

Special: Tales To Astonish Oct 19, 2020

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With the first season of The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show complete, we celebrate with our first of many theme matches — Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe!

Join us as Ben, Darren and Tim test their knowledge of all things Marvel including a Marvel Cinematic Universe invasion of the rest of pop culture and a trip through some of Marvel’s weirdest storylines. We’ve got werewolves and time travel shenanigans aplenty for you to enjoy!

Also on this episode, you’ll find out what’s in store for season two (it’s neat!). We are accepting applications to be a contestant on season three so if you think you’ve got what it takes, apply now!

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👊 Remember Iron Fist? No, really. Think about it. Do you actually remember it?

👀 Uatu The Watcher is watching us from a distance

🎷 Since Marvel's acquisition of the Ultraverse line of comics, "Nightman" is technically a Marvel show.

👛 What's in the pouches? Only Rob Liefeld knows for sure.

🐺 The 90s "Capwolf" storyline is good, actually

🛣 We managed to work in two references to The Crossing, maybe the most reviled Avengers storyline of the past 30 years...

🍼 ...and one reference to the very icky Avengers #200, which is the most revolved Avengers storyline of the 30 years before that.

🌎 The "Ego the Loving Planet" story, in which Ego is a pick-up artist trying to get with Earth, only to be put off when he sees that she's just covered in yucky people, is wonderfully silly.

🧠 Remember: standing offer from Darren to learn math. Thanks Darren?

🐦 Follow Ben on Twitter and be judged worthy of a follow

📷 Ben is also on Instagram where he posts pictures of him judging things

🐦 You can read Tim complaining about Renner's Hawkeye on Twitter

🗳 Apply to be a contestant on season three

S01.E13: An American Trail: We Will Go West Oct 12, 2020

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After 12 matchups of pop culture knowledge display, 24 contestants eliminated, and 36 Lightning Rounds played, it all comes down to this: The Season One Finale to determine our first Super-Mondo Champion of Champions!

Derek, Ilan, and Monty complete the running of the trivia gauntlet first by getting into contrarian pop music. How many songs that have "don't" in the imperative can our players identify? Then, it's a test of pop culture settings AND US geography as our players arrange movie and TV settings from east to west.

A mythic Lightning Round category finally sees its day in the sun before we crown our winner. Remember to solve the riddle, because season two is right around the corner.

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🚫 Taylor's Don't Songs Spotify playlist

🐍 Nothing beats freshly-squeezed snake

🗑 Canadians generally don't have garbage disposals but when they do they call them garburators and Americans think that's hilarious

🪓 All camp murders happen in New Jersey

🤖 Gort Bothers Congress ★★☆☆☆

✏️ Apply for season three now!

🌋 Check out the Monty and Rhias vs. Movies: Postapocalyptic Podcast

🐦 Monty on Twitter

🦑 Ilan's Squideye and the Bitter Guy podcast

🐦 Ilan on Twitter

📷 Derek on Instagram

S01.E12: Bad Romance Oct 05, 2020

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Trivia! Playoffs! Musicals! Exclamation Points! The last round of the playoffs is here! Prior champions Joe, Monty, and Kevin duke it out, pop culture trivia-style, for the last slot in the season one championship match.

After a round of trivia about pop culture romances that don’t exactly hold up to scrutiny, players will test their knowledge of stage musicals based on other pop culture properties (you know, the kind where you just add an exclamation point to the title, and suddenly it’s a musical).

On top off of all that, we’ve got an all-timer of a Lightning Round and a savage at-home riddle at the end!

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🐘 Elephant! The Musical from The Tall Guy

🐁 It's Taming of the Shrew that doesn't hold up. I mean, when your title is calling a woman a "shrew," it's not a good sign.

🍕 Why do Americans like to eat cold pizza?

🌝 We're talking a lot about The Honeymooners. Even though it ran for just one (39 episode) season, it was hugely important as an early example of a sitcom based in a lower middle class household, dealing with social issues. It would probably be more fondly remembered if it didn't have all those threats of spousal abuse.

📣 When we say "10-4, good buddy," the good buddy we are referring to is you!

🛶 The match Monty won after Tara's DQ

🐦 Kevin on Twitter

🐝 This Had Oscar Buzz podcast

📺 Joe at Primetimer

🐦 Joe on Twitter

🌋 Check out the Monty and Rhias vs. Movies: Postapocalyptic Podcast

🐦 Monty on Twitter

S01.E11: FarmFork Presents Faking The Band Sep 28, 2020

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Filmed books and fictional bands abound this week on The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show! The playoffs continue as returning victors Alex, Ilan, and Nick tackle trivia about what happens when a movie or TV version of a book is better than the original.

Then, our contestants become armchair rock critics for our favorite fictional bands, identifying them based on clips from their music, and interviews with the band members.

All this, plus a Lightning Round, determines who will venture on to the season finale championship matchup. And don't forget the at-home riddle challenge for you, the listener!

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👶 No one is too young to have seen The Thin Man. TCM is a thing that exists, and you really don't have to watch Friends for the 8th time, do you?

🎸 The Traveling Wilburys are up there with ABBA as bands your parents liked that slap, actually.

🔍 Google results for "Paul Dylan"

👴🏼 For our older listeners, The Sandlot is Stand By Me for 90s kids. Hmm - we're not too old to know about it. Weird how that works, huh?

🐦 Alex on Twitter

🍳 Nick's immersive theatre company Spybrunch

🐦 Nick on Twitter

📷 Nick on Instagram

🦑 Ilan's Squideye and the Bitter Guy podcast

🐦 Ilan on Twitter

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