The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

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🧫 You might have noticed some tweaks to the presentation this week. Based on your feedback, we moved our contestant chat to after round one and there is less "exit through the gift shop" at the end of the show.

🛋 Maybe the best lamp from pop culture is actually the one from the Ikea commercial?

⚔️ If you're a contestant, and you call something "Swordly Town," you know that we're going to make fun of you, right?

🏆 Justice for Rhea Seahorn!

🐦 Anna on Twitter

📷 Anna on Instagram

📷 Derek on Instagram

💻 Bobby's website says his name is Robert? Weird.

📕 Bobby's book The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All On Fire

📷 Bobby on Instagram

S01.E09: From A Different Perspective Sep 14, 2020

Show notes

This week on The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show, contestants Don, Cate, and Kevin "consider the alternative" about some favorite TV shows, naming shows based on plot descriptions from the point-of-view of secondary characters.

Then, we'll switch gears to movies with a deep dive on the IMDb Top 100 movies. Players will aim low to score high, one-upping each other to guess the "worst of the best." It's as much about movies as it is about knowing who even votes on the IMDb Top 100, so we let the sociological assumptions fly.

As always, it all comes down to the Lightning Round! And stick around for an at-home riddle challenge for you, the listener at home!

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👩‍👧 We don't want to imply that anyone should sympathize with Christopher on Gilmore Girls. He's trash, and we all know it.

🎂 The ice cream cake grift from The Best Friends Gang on 30 Rock

💊 The real life Best Friends Gang were a little tougher.

🎞 The IMDb list is constantly updated - the verison referenced on the show is from mid-July, 2020.

🤡 2019's Joker is on the IMDB Top 100 list, but the movies that it's an inferior version of: Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy aren't. SMH.

S01.E08: Disney Minus Sep 07, 2020

Show notes

This week, it's Disney minus the weird, dark and creepy stuff they left out of their animated adaptations.

Before that however, our players will speculate on the birthing techniques of their favorite characters, and then try to name the common character from a list of three different actors who have played them.

Then as promised, it's on to "Disney Minus," where players identify the differences between their favorite Disney classics and the less-wholesome stories that inspired them. Absentee fathers! Shootings! Death! Death! Death!

As always, there's a Lightning Round, and a special challenge for the listeners at home!

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🤪 Before playing Richard Nixon, John Cusack got to know him not by reading books or anything, but by talking to Hunter S. Thompson.

🧹 Nature Valley Crumb Bars

🧜‍♀️ The original Little Mermaid is rough: "Well, have you lost your courage? Stick out your little tongue and I shall cut it off. I'll have my price, and you shall have the potent draught." ¶ "Go ahead," said the little mermaid.

🐭 We know: the full name of the organization Ms. Bianca works for in The Rescuers is the "Rescue Aid Society."

📰 Play Veronica's Vertex puzzle at The New York Times

🐦 Veronica on Twitter

📷 Veronica on Instagram

🎬 Watch Sarah Baker in The Kominsky Method on Netflix

🐦 Sarah on Twitter

📷 Sarah on Instagram

🕵️‍♀️ Follow Nick's Immersive Theatre company on Twitter

🕵️‍♂️ Nick's Spybrunch is also on Instagram

🐦 Nick on Twitter

📷 Nick on Instagram

🎹 Our host Taylor S. Cole is on Twitter talking music and pop culture

🎰 Dan is on Twitter doing Dan Things™ on Twitter (warning, includes some grown-up stuff like politics)

🐶 If you like pictures of dogs and weird supermarket stuff, Dave has you covered on Instagram

S01.E07: Half & Halftones Aug 31, 2020

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It's a cavalcade of comic book crossovers and pop culture rhymes in this week's competition! After a rousing round of My Champion, Bobby, Stephen and Susanna test their knowledge of crazy comic book crossover events that brought together unlikely characters and properties.

Then, it's on to a rhyming game, where from a mashed up description, players parse out the two rhyming TV show and movie titles that have been combined.

All that plus a Lightning Round and the At-home Version riddle for you to solve!

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💥 The crossover comic book Batman/Elmer Fudd is pretty great, actually

🤺 Django/Zorro was co-written by Quentin Tarantino, and is under development as filmed sequel to Django Unchained

🥜 Knowledge is power! Learn and protect yourself from circus peanuts!

😴 The plot of The Big Sleep is confusing enough that screenwriter William Faulkner (!) had questions about it, but reports have been exaggerated over time

⛽️ Gasoline Alley is the longest running comic strip in the US, and since its characters age in real time, the lead character, Walt, is now 116 years old.

💻 We call him Bobby but his fancy name is Robert Krut

📕 Even though nothing rhymes in it, it's a good idea to order Bobby's latest book, The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All On Fire direct from the publisher

📷 Bobby on Instagram

🐦 Susanna on Twitter

🇺🇸 Susanna didn't have a website to plug so she asked us to put (and we quote): "please god register to vote and then actually vote this fall."

🐦 Stephen on Twitter

🎧 Stephen on The Film Pigs podcast

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S01.E06: Old Man MacTavish's Confused Direction Aug 24, 2020

Show notes

Valiant efforts are put forth all around as our players navigate the confused ramblings of an elderly cinephile before getting a look behind the scenes at the lesson plans of some favorite pop culture teachers.

A last-minute substitution makes for an unusual, but nonetheless exciting game on this week’s episode of The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show. Sean and Monty are taken by surprise by the sudden inclusion of one of Extra Hot Great's pop culture teachers, Tara Ariano in the third spot!

Make sure to stick around to the end for a SHOCKING TWIST ENDING that you won’t wanna miss!

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👩🏼‍🏫 Dangerous Minds is based on a real person, Luanne Johnson. In reality, she used rap lyrics to illustrate concepts to her class, but that was too edgy for the movie, so they changed it to Bob Dylan, a singer that young people are famous for liking.

🎬 Please do not mix up Waking Life and Waking Ned Devine. These are very different movies.

🤠 Technically, the first film in the Indiana Jones franchise has been re-titled Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, but since we were asking for franchise names, "Indiana Jones" works just fine.

🤠 If it had been a scoring question, we would have accepted River Phoenix, Corey Carrier, George Hall or Sean Patrick Flanery as actors who had played Indiana Jones.

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

🐦 Monty on Twitter

🐦 Sean on Twitter

🔥 Listen to Tara on the Extra Hot Great podcast

🌴 She's also talking Melrose Place and BH 90210 on Again With This

🐦 Tara on Twitter

👔 Want to be on the show? Apply today for the next season!

S01.E05: Johannes Bassoon’s Minor Quibbles, Major Qualms Aug 17, 2020

Show notes

It's time to identify the altered TV show themes our resident composer has created when he confused his major and his minor keys up. After that, it's time to browse some very silly pieces of very real pop culture merch—and pay all the respect to the vociferous fans of a certain animated series.

Our talented combatants Elenore, Mark, and Ilan have a bit of a fishy start, but all's well that ends well... and the ending? Well, we'll leave that to y'all to discover. Speaking about endings, don't forget to stick around at the tail end for the At-Home Version riddle for your chance to name a score break!

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☎️ Believe it not or, George isn't at home...

🏕 Parks & Rec with Jabba The Hutt

🎲 If they were guessing randomly, our players would have gotten 5 of the 15 follow-up questions in round 2 correct. They got 3.

💸 All the pop culture merch from 'The Price Is Correct'

🚘 BADCATS, the Aaron Spelling produced TV series with Michelle Pfeiffer, is an acronym for "Burglary Auto Detail, Commercial Auto Thefts." It also featured Jimmie Walker and Vic Morrow, and was cancelled with 4 of its 10 episodes left unaired. Of those, we'd really like to see Episode 9, "Death Car."

🦑 Ilan's Squideye and The Bitter Guy podcast

🐦 Ilan on Twitter

👩🏻‍🎤 The Mark & Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

🐦 Mark on Twitter

S01.E04: The Titles Of Dr. Moreau Aug 10, 2020

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This week we invite you to listen to our contestants defend their favorite characters from deadly sharks, and test their knowledge of forgotten movie sequels, before piecing together some mashed up TV and movie titles à la The King and I, Tonya.

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✈️ There's no such thing as being too young to know about a show: we've all seen Casablanca and read Shakespeare, right?

🩸 How quickly we've all forgotten about Bloodshot, the top grossing superhero film of 2020

🧛🏻‍♂️ We're doing our part to make sure that Joel Schumacher's Lost Boys gets the respect it deserves. The original, not the sequels. They're getting all the respect they deserve.

🐦 Anna on Twitter

📷 Anna on Instagram

🐦 Chip on Twitter

✏️ We're accepting contestant applications for season two!

S01.E02: Marge Excitable's Periodical Table Of Elements Aug 03, 2020

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A new division on the Season 1 bracket means three new players will run the gauntlet this week on The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show.

After defending the sandwich skills of their favorite characters in "My Champion," Amanda, Lea, and Joe will test their memories of movies that share their titles with popular songs. Later, the stakes will rise as they combine their pop culture knowledge with their understanding of a deck of playing cards. Will they go all in or fold before the turn? Listen and find out!

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👨‍🦳 But In The Latin Alphabet Jehovah Begins With An I

🥪 Make an Exotic Sandwich from Taskmaster

🎹 While the song played on the big keyboard is "Heart And Soul" there's a hint of "Chopsticks" at the end so we're giving Joe an extra 10 points.

🎧 This Had Oscar Buzz podcast

📺 Joe at Primetimer

🐦 Joe on Twitter

📷 Lea on Instagram

🐦 Lea on Twitter

✊🏾 One Struggle KC

👮🏻‍♂️ Kansas City Bail Fund

🐦 Amanda on Twitter

S01.E02: Marge Excitable's Periodical Table Of Elements Jul 27, 2020

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Season one of The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show continues onward with three players who are more than up to a challenge. Adam, Alex, and Kelly-marie brave some terrible wordplay combining their pop culture knowledge with their memory of high school chemistry in "Marge Excitable's Periodical Table Of Elements" before honing their musical ears while identifying backwards version of famous film scores.

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🏦 Learn more about the U.S. Mint

🤮 Monty Python's Mr. Creosote scene

🔬 The Periodic Table Of Elements

😈 The Neon Demon is real, damnit

🥈 Ron Silver played a campaign manager on The West Wing, not a lawyer. Our host temporarily confused him in his mind with Oliver Platt.

💯 Sticky Tack

🔫 His Name Is James Bond

🎷 The Jizz-wailers of Star Wars

💘 Andy Williams's Speak Softly Love

🪐 The 2001 Theme Adam wanted to hear

S01.E01: I'd Buy That For A Dollar Jul 20, 2020

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The inaugural season of The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show kicks off with our first three official eye-of-the-tiger competitive players.

Marvel as Lynsey, Derek and Rachel navigate the storied history of special guest stars and cameos. Then get ready to buy ! buy! buy! when we visit in-universe advertisements.

No need to open your wallet to listen to our show so make sure to subscribe and don't miss an episode. If you want to throw your hat into the ring to be a contestant in season two, you can apply right now.

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