The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

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🤑 If, like Dan, you don't know who Matthew Macfayden is, he's Tom Wambsgans on Succession.

🌏 Siam was the proper name for Thailand until 1939.

👗 No discussion of Scarlett O'Hara's dress in Gone with the Wind would be complete without a mention of Carol Burnett's version.

📉 The Robert California Clearly The Best Boss On The Office Scorebreak. Robert California, clearly the best boss on The Office: if they didn't want him to be magnetic, they wouldn't have cast James Spader.

🏠 The Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Scorebreak. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: a show we just aren't gonna make a joke about.

S04.E03: The Clothes Lineup Jun 21, 2021

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This week, we kick off a new division with Susan, Laura, and Stephen! A surprisingly intimidating karaoke party in "My Champion" leads to an awful lot of fanfare for round one where players guess movie production companies from just the sound of their logos.

Then, we'll keep the sequence going with "The Clothes Lineups" where contestants add one more name to those BLANK & BLANK & BLANK etc. shirts.

And of course, it all gets decided in the lightning round.

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🧛🏻‍♂️ Adam Sandler is not in Hotel Transylvania 4 for good reasons, apparently

🤷‍♂️ Joe Besser was, indeed, the least memorable of the Stooges

🚙 The one warm, red gatorade rolling around in the trunk of your car scorebreak. One warm red gatorade rolling around in the trunk of your car: don't pretend like you don't have one.

💍 The Siegfried and Roy scorebreak. Siegfried and Roy: Only one of them reforges Nothung and marries his aunt, and it sure ain't Roy.

S04.E02: Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead Jun 14, 2021

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Things are absolutely wretched in the BEST way on this week's episode. Liz, Dave, and Matt get down with their bad selves for the most reviled characters and content.

Round one will quiz them on the deaths of famous witches throughout pop culture, before round two goes deep on the taglines for winners of the Golden Raspberry Awards (aka the Razzies).

The only non-dreadful thing about this episode is the players themselves!

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🌙 Queen Beryl from Sailor Moon has a... complicated back story that's not totally clear from the anime, but the Sailor Moon: Another Story game lays it all out?

📰 Maybe Newsies doesn't deserve a Razzie, but All About Steve definitely does.

👯‍♀️ The phrase "nocturnal twins" from Jack and Jill doesn't sound like it makes a lot of sense, but if you watch the movie... it still doesn't make a lot of sense.

🧀 The Cheesy Blasters Scorebreak. Cheesy Blasters: You take a hot dog, stuff it with some jack cheese, fold it in a pizza. You've got Cheesy blasters. Thanks, Meat Cat!

🔍 This score break is brought to you by cozy mystery novels! Cozy mystery novels: they're like true crime, only the victim is usually a jerk who had it coming, and sometimes there are recipes at the end!

S04.E01: Before And BAFTA Jun 07, 2021

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Season four has begun! A brand new cabal of 27 contestants kicks off today with Neil, Jennifer, and Lauryn. A model game of My Champion gives way to trivia about some truly wild crossover events that you can ONLY find in the pages of comic books. Round two classes things up a bit with a mashup game about BAFTA winners. And, of course, it all comes down to the lightning round.

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🚪 We're aware that The Twilight Zone didn't really say "picture if you will," but the writers of The Shadow/Twilight Zone did not, as they used it in the solicitation text.

🍝 Roma did win the BAFTA for best film, but lost at the Oscars.

🏰 If some of the old horror movies we mentioned sounded bonkers, thank schlock master William Castle.

🥯 The Bagel Bites Jingle scorebreak. The Bagel Bites Jingle: if 'the evening' and 'suppertime' are distinct from one another, when the hell are these people eating supper?

🤷‍♂️ The Chet Hanks scorebreak. Chet Hanks:....oh you know what, guys, there is NO way I am reading this on mic. I don't care how much he's paying us or WHO is father is, this is absolutely not happening.

Special: I Know What You All Did Last Summer May 31, 2021

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Summer is here! Before season four gets into full swing, we're celebrating the summertime movies season with an episode all about summer blockbusters.

Returning season one champion Ilan takes on two eager new players, Lynn and Vandy, with some trivia about the big budget releases from May to August.

Round one features excerpts of novelizations of big blockbusters, while round two has the players identify a movie from its deeper supporting cast. It all caps off with a time traveling lightning round.

We'll see you next week with a brand new bracket of players for season four!

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🤖 Robert Patrick was, indeed, in Wayne's World, but was not credited as the T-1000 (though that's definitely what they were going for).

🦁 Yes, there was a new version of the novelization of The Lion King to come out with the 2019 version of the movie. I guess they just describe the fur on the animals a bit more?

👨‍🍳 The Swedish Chef's Human Hands Scorebreak. The Swedish Chef's Human Hands: because you need that real human touch to murder sentient, talking vegetables

🦅 The Yippie-ki-Yay Mister Falcon scorebreak: For when you want to watch people being brutally gunned to death without offending your sensitive ears

🦑 Ilan's Squideye and the Bitter Guy podcast

📖 The Captive by Fiona King Foster

🐦 Follow Vandy on Twitter

📷 Check out Lynn's Insta

Special: The Threeclippy Opera May 24, 2021

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Season four is on the way! But in the meantime, we pulled in some musical enthusiast friends for a special episode of trivia and games all about the world of music theatre.

Adam, Sean, and Gabi will face an unusual My Champion challenge, wrestle with some rewritten "I Want" songs, and really rack up the points in an old fashioned audio round of "Name That Musical." Some high scoring lightning rounds make this one a real barn burner!

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🕶 Despite what he said during round one, Dan did indeed make the rules. Just not the one about the round one jinx.

🎼 The 2004 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels music Sean was thinking of had music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane.

🐶 The Puppies Dressed As Unicorns Scorebreak. Puppies dressed as unicorns: so much cuteness, your ovaries might just explode.

👨🏻‍🎤 The Symone Score Break. Symone: Winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13, Ebony Enchantress, and CEO of putting a "Wall fact’ry where a wall fact’ry ought to be!"

S03.E13: Say Hello To My Little Friend May 17, 2021

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We've arrived at out third season finale! This week, our three divisional victors Kate, Mike, and Randy will all square off to become the next super mondo champion of champions.

The game kicks off with a special round of My Champion that recalls another notable third season finale, before round one quizzes our players on movies that mash up characters from all kinds of other properties.

The mashing up gets even brainier in round two when players name the family sitcom based on information about other characters played by those same actors. Related follow ups take our players in even more different directions, so breadth of knowledge is key for this episode.

And in true Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show Fashion, it all comes down to the lightning round to truly determine the winner.

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🐸 It's not totally clear why, but Muppet Babies doesn't stream anywhere (at least the original; no one cares about the new one)

🤮 This scorebreak is brought to you by Coconut LaCroix. Coconut LaCroix: all the refreshing taste of pennies coated in sunscreen, with none of the visits to the ER after.

🚠 Somehow, this is the first time that we've referenced the X-Men character Cable. He has just about the most complex history of any of the X-Men, and that's saying something.

🤪 The Cary Fukunaga's Maniac Scorebreak. Cary Fukunaga's Maniac: it's been a hot minute since we referenced this Netflix series here on the show, so we figued we'd put it back into your brains because we're sure you've forgotten about it again by now.

S03.E12: Re-Highered Suits May 10, 2021

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The final match of the season three playoffs has arrived! Returning players Julia, Eric, and Mike compete to claim the last spot on our season three championship match next week.

The game kicks off with a musical challenge where faded audio clips form unlikely supergroups (e.g. Crowded House of Pain).

Things get numerical in round two as players pick the pop culture property with the highest playing card in its title. After our kings and queens absolutely ace this challenge, a rousing lightning round determines the winner.

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🎩 The Mad Hatter's price of 10/6 is also half a guinea, because pre-decimalization British money was nonsense.

🪦 The Weekend at Bernie's Scorebreak. Weekend At Bernie's: deep down, we all like it better than Dangerous Liaisons.

🧍‍♀️ "Long, tall Sally, she's built for speed, she got everything that Uncle John need," is perhaps the most nonsensical set of lyrics to ever appear in a popular song.

😮 The Gene Hackman Trending On Twitter Scorebreak. Gene Hackman trending on Twitter: it's just his birthday, nothing to worry about

🎼 The Grace Jones lyric referenced in round three is, indeed, a double entendre. We apologize for any confusion.

S03.E11: A Passing Retrograde: Doug's Revenge May 03, 2021

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Small changes make big differences on this week's episode. The season three playoffs continue with a tense match to decide the winner of the Appellate Division. After Randy, Trip, and Will undertake a high society dinner challenge for their champions, round one asks them to name movies and TV shows whose titles have had one letter changed.

In round two, we'll take a different tack to alter some movies by describing their plots in reverse. Can the players think backwards to come up with the answers?

Then, we'll pull a temporal pincer movement to resume forward motion in the lightning round, where the next player in the season three championship will be decided.

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🕹 Behind the scenes, we had disagreement about whether Doom counts as a supernatural concept, a sci-fi one, or both. It's both, darn it!

🖖 In case you're wondering why Ferengi are very problematic.

👽 The referenced Hynek Scale (which has six points, actually)

🎺 The Disney/Pixar's Sal Scorebreak. Winner of the Golden Globe for best original score: Sal!

🤮 The Getting Slimed on the Kids Choice Awards Scorebreak. Getting Slimed on the Kids choice awards: 100% not worth the orange blimp.

S03.E10: More Anything? More Everything! Apr 26, 2021

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The season three playoffs have arrived!

Today, returning victors Emma, Conrado, and Kate square off for a spot in the championship match.

Round one tests their knowledge of movies and tv shows that are composed of characters from other pop culture properties, while round two asks them to identify recent best picture winners by their DVD extras. And as always, it all comes down to the lightning round.

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