Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Your co-hosts weren't feeling that psyched about any of this week's TV premieres -- sorry, Judy Justice on IMDbTV -- so we invited our Patreon supporters to pitch and then vote on TV episodes for us to discuss under the rubric Fall Forcenings. Thus we are going in on L.A. Law's "Good To The Last Drop" with guest Adam Grosswirth, who originally watched it as a pre-teen and...learned a lot about hysterectomies and their possible side effects? Around The Dial takes us through Insecure, Queens, The Big Leap, The Good Wife, and The Good Fight. Adam makes the case for Max Headroom's series premiere, "Blipverts," to be inducted into The Canon. Then after an extra-spooky Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that doesn't overstay its welcome. Look out: it's a new episode of Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Adam GrosswirthTOPICSLead Topic: 👩‍💼 L.A. Law S05.E16: Good To The Last DropAround The Dial: 🧍🏽‍♀️ Insecure Around The Dial: 👸🏽 Queens Around The Dial: 🤸‍♂️ The Big Leap Around The Dial: 🤦‍♀️ The Good Wife Around The Dial: 👊 The Good Fight The Canon: 🏆 Max Headroom S01.E01: BlipvertsWinner & Loser: 👍 Steve BuscemiWinner & Loser: 👎 Ted Lasso Game Time: 🧠 One-Season WondersNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 379 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter☕️ "Good To The Last Drop" on Dailymotion🚽 "TV producer Steven Bochco says he fired lead actor from Murder One because one particular bathroom habit made him an hour late for work EVERY DAY" on DailyMail.com🌴 The latest Again With This podcast, featuring Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, aka The Fug Girls🐷 The Muppeturgy podcast🏎 Baffled! on YouTube👾 "Live And Direct: The Definitive Oral History Of 1980s Digital Icon Max Headroom" at The Verge

Netflix's new animated series Inside Job posits a world in which basically every conspiracy theory you've ever seen on Facebook is real; John Ramos returns to discuss whether it's worth exposing the NSA to it via the recording device that's always running in your phone! Around The Dial takes us through the third seasons of Succession and You, and the second season of We're Here. Tara takes a hard stance on when holiday episodes should air. Erica makes a case for Brooklyn Nine-Nine's "Casecation" to be inducted into the Nonac. Then we crown the week's Winners and Loser before getting into a Non-Regulation Game Time that's a little two-dimensional. Take a break from monitoring your Bigfoot traps and join us!GUESTS👤 John RamosTOPICSLead Topic: 👽 Inside Job Around The Dial: 🧐 Succession Around The Dial: 🫵 You Around The Dial: 🗺 We're Here I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Your Holiday Episode MUST Air Before The Holiday!!!The Nonac: 🤮 Brooklyn Nine-Nine S06.E12: CasecationWinner & Loser: 👍 Stir Wirz!Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra MessingGame Time: 🧠 Tube ToonsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 378 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 John Ramos on Twitter✍️ Tara's author page at Decider👃 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast🤬 Q: Into The Storm on HBO Max

EEHG 004: That's Just Wrong Our patron Eric Akawie challenges us to name shows that got Wrong Spinoffs, and to correct history by proposing spinoffs that would have been Right!EEHG 081: The Lowest Of Decks Sarah asked: What about creating Star Trek: Lower Decks-style shows for other series? Which low-powered employees from an existing TV show would make for a good spinoff? EEHG 125: Second-Generation Spinoff Lots of spinoffs involve giving side characters the spotlight -- your Rhodas, your Lous Grant. What Lex Ann specifically wants us to imagine are spinoffs that center the CHILDREN of the ancestor series: and we've delivered!EEHG 126: Spin Cycle So maybe MAYBE, Dave didn’t read last week’s EEHG correctly and instead of the prompt being a spinoff featuring children of a show, he thought the challenge was to develop a spinoff OF a spinoff. So that’s what we’re doing this week because the idea has been rattling in his head.TOPICSLead Topic: ❌ That's Just WrongLead Topic: 🪫 The Lowest Of DecksLead Topic: 👥 Second-Generation SpinoffLead Topic: 😵‍💫 Spin CycleNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 377 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

We knew Cyd, like Tara and Dave, had just done a rewatch of the original-flavor C.S.I., so we were really glad she could join us to break down CBS's new reboot of its network-changing old favorite (which...only went off the air like six years ago?). We talked about whether we'll keep watching for "The New Class" after l'affaire Hodges gets resolved, when exactly the show thinks it is culturally, and what's going on with the sloppy editing. Then we went Around The Dial with Call The Midwife, Legends Of The Hidden Temple, grief-therapy sitcom recs, and Buried (with another Lauer rant from Buntsy) before Cyd was NOT a crackpot about shows using consultants on "hacker" and other internetty storylines. Chris Billig tried to get all our exercise balls up the hill in support of his Taskmaster Canon submission before Mlle. Caroline won, Netflix lost, and we put a foot in two worlds with a Game Time about reboots. Make sure to leave a fingerprint on the "play" button; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 CydTOPICSLead Topic: 🎰 C.S.I.: Vegas Around The Dial: 👩‍⚕️ Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🗿 Legends Of The Hidden Temple Around The Dial: 🥨 Seinfeld Around The Dial: 👮🏽‍♀️ Brooklyn Nine-Nine Around The Dial: 🪦 Buried I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Computer ConsultantsThe Canon: 💌 Taskmaster S02.E01: Fear Of FailureWinner & Loser: 👍 Mlle. CarolineWinner & Loser: 👎 Dave Chappelle and NetflixGame Time: 🧠 Getting The RebootNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 376 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Follow Cyd on Twitter🐦 Or follow her here📸 Cyd's drawing Instagram🧬 Tara's William Petersen piece at Decider🪦 Sarah's review of Buried at Best Evidence💌 Taskmaster season playlists on YouTube

The SCU (Sopranos Cinematic Universe) expands with the release, in theaters and on HBO Max, of the prequel film The Many Saints Of Newark, and Rolling Stone Senior TV Critic/certified Sopranologist Alan Sepinwall is here to discuss it with us! Around The Dial takes us through The Problem With Jon Stewart, Our Kind Of People, Maid, and the Working Girl TV series adaptation. Rebecca uses her Extra Credit topic to have us remove and recast disgraced stars from their TV vehicles to make them palatable again. Alan presents the Columbo episode "An Exercise In Fatality" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we're pulling off the turnpike for a New Jersey-themed Non-Regulation Game Time! Find your pew and join us!GUESTS👤 Alan SepinwallTOPICSLead Topic: 🔫 The Many Saints Of Newark Around The Dial: 🫠 The Problem With Jon Stewart Around The Dial: ☺️ Our Kind Of People Around The Dial: 🧹 Maid Around The Dial: 👩‍💼 Working Girl Extra Credit: 🍎 Bad ApplesThe Canon: 🕵🏻‍♂️ Columbo S04.E01: An Exercise In FatalityWinner & Loser: 👍 IATSEWinner & Loser: 👎 Katie CouricGame Time: 🧠 Back To The Garden StateNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 375 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter🔫 "The Ultimate Sopranos Insider's Guide to The Many Saints of Newark" on RollingStone.com📚 The Sopranos Sessions on AbramsBooks.com🫠 Alan's review of The Problem With Jon Stewart at RollingStone.com🌴 The Again With This podcast on Patreon👁 Alan's podcast Too Long; Didn't Watch👩‍💼 The Working Girl TV series adaptation on YouTube🐉 The Quaid In Full podcast episode on Dragonheart😬 "I Was Proud to Do This Work With Him: David Simon on James Franco Controversy" at Rolling Stone🍭 Paul Rudd's candy store, Samuel's Sweet Shop✊ "As IATSE Workers Go Public, Pressure Mounts on Studios Amid Looming Strike" in The Hollywood Reporter

We're so grateful Nick Rheinwald-Jones jumped through a green Jurassic vagina with us to watch La Brea, NBC's latest attempt at a sci-fi dystopia -- but this one involves a sinkhole in "Los Angeles," were-dogs, and Jon Seda. Should you watch the pilot just for the dumb crappy fun of it all? Or is it too stuck in that 2006 "we can be the next Lost" mindset to be enjoyable? We definitely enjoyed going Around The Dial with Controlling Britney Spears, The Big Leap, Being James Bond, Tea With The Dames, Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant, and Squid Game, and in related news, Dave was not a crackpot about flashbacks to events in the same episode. David Ellis Dickerson challenged us to pick a show bible a la the Star Trek: TOS episode "A Piece of the Action," and base an entire future society on it, and then Nick challenged our conceptions about second episodes of series when he pitched Episode 02 of Succession for the Canon. Bergeron won, Messing lost, and the Game Time season came down to a single letter. Take a nip off that flask and tell the government about your visions: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Nick Rheinwald-JonesTOPICSLead Topic: 🦕 La Brea Around The Dial: 🕹 Controlling Britney Spears Around The Dial: 🤸‍♀️ The Big Leap Around The Dial: 🔫 Being James Bond Around The Dial: 🫖 Tea With The Dames Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant Around The Dial: 🦑 Squid Game I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Extra Credit: 📖 Show BibleThe Canon: 🏆 Succession S01.E02: Shit Show At The Fuck FactoryWinner & Loser: 👍 Tic-Tac-Dough Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra MessingGame Time: 🧠 One Letter OffNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 374 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Follow Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter🕵🏼‍♂️ Nick's immersive-theater project, Spy Brunch⛳️ Tara's Holey Moley piece at Defector📰 The Best Evidence newsletter📷 Photo: Sarah Enticknap / NBC

Nearly two years after its first-season premiere, The Morning Show is back on AppleTV+, and its #1 fan Christina Tucker has returned to talk about all the delightful madness! Around The Dial takes us through The Premise, Doogie Kamealoha, M.D., and the new seasons of Sex Education and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Amelia asks us to poach good characters from bad shows and put them together in a new project. Tara presents The Other Two's very recent "Chase Gets Baptized" for Canon consideration. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we wrap up with a pilot-based Game Time that leaves us all in a tailspin. Pour yourself a coffee with Red Bull and listen!GUESTS👤 Christina TuckerTOPICSLead Topic: 🌅 The Morning Show Around The Dial: 🔲 The Premise Around The Dial: 👩🏽‍⚕️ Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. Around The Dial: 🍆 Sex Education Around The Dial: 🧑‍⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Extra Credit: 😉 Only The Good OnesThe Canon: 🏆 The Other Two S02.E05: Chase Gets BaptizedWinner & Loser: 👍 Baltimore RavensWinner & Loser: 👎 Edie FalcoGame Time: 🧠 Pilot ErrorNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 373 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Christina Tucker on Twitter🍙 Christina's The Morning Show recap newsletter Chaos! It's The New Cocaine🟠 Tara on James Wolk and Ordinary Joe at Decider⁉️ The Wait, Is This A Date? podcast👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Christina at Autostraddle📚 15% off for EHG listeners at Exhibit B. Books🏛 Backstairs At The White House on Wikipedia

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 ColeTOPICSLead 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 QuizThe Canon: 🩳 Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp S01.E06: Electro/CityWinner & Loser: 👍 See Winner & Loser: 👎 Fox NationGame Time: 🧠 That'll Teach 'EmNOTES🗒 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

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 RoggeTOPICSLead 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 NameThe Canon: 📻 NewsRadio S03.E16: KidsWinner & Loser: 👍 Reservation Dogs Winner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Game Time: 🧠 That's My Name, TooNOTES🗒 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

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.TOPICSLead Topic: 🔪 Alfred Hitchcock Presents S03.E01: The Glass EyeLead Topic: 🐶 Poochinski S01.E01: PilotLead Topic: 🙊 Hey You, Shut UpNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 370 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🧿 "The Glass Eye" on Peacock

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 KrutTOPICSLead 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 RouletteThe Canon: 🍻 Cheers S05.E09: Thanksgiving OrphansWinner & Loser: 👍 Josh DuhamelWinner & Loser: 👎 Michael RichardsGame Time: 🧠 More Animé BullshitNOTES🗒 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

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 ReidTOPICSLead 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 VehiclesThe Canon: 👩‍🎤 Girls5Eva S01.E06: Cease And DesistWinner & Loser: 👍 CornWinner & Loser: 👎 Men behaving badlyGame Time: 🧠 Double DateNOTES🗒 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

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 WashingtonTOPICSLead 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: CoolerWinner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Organized Crime Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael RichardsGame Time: 🧠 Alter EgosNOTES🗒 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+

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 DrakeTOPICSLead 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 10Winner & 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

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 EllisTOPICSLead 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: 🤦‍♂️ UnderestimatedThe Canon: 🏆 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Untucked S01.E01: It Takes TwoWinner & Loser: 👍 YouTuber ShamookWinner & Loser: 👎 The WGAGame Time: 🧠 Regular Beasts That Are Not Here To Be ObjectifiedNOTES🗒 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

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 PfluegerTOPICSLead 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 AccessI Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Marvel Shows On Disney+ Are Just 2020s WebisodesThe Canon: 💩 Schitt's Creek S04.E06: Open MicWinner & Loser: 👍 CrocsWinner & Loser: 👎 Erika JayneGame Time: 🧠 Another Pair Of Jazz HandsNOTES🗒 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

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, EHGGUESTS👤 Nadia ChaudhuryTOPICSLead 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 ThresholdWinner & Loser: 👍 Kiefer SutherlandWinner & Loser: 👎 Cursed Game Time: 🧠 Last Minute ChangesNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 363 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Follow Nadia Chaudhury on Twitter🍱 Nadia at at Eater Austin👨‍🍳 Nadia's "The 38 Essential Restaurants In Austin"🪷 Willa Paskin's White Lotus review at Slate💁‍♀️ Tara's Laura Leighton piece at Decider🎄 Tara discusses You Had Me At Aloha on the It's Christmastown podcast🦹 Sarah's Heist review on Primetimer🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs📷 Photo: HBO Max

It's a holiday week: time for a good old-fashioned Forcening, in which each of your EHG regulars makes another one watch a TV episode or movie. This time, we're acknowledging July 4th by obliging one another to watch shows with "America" in the title, and Tara's first up, forcing Sarah to watch 2000's short-lived, extremely derivative, stupidly enjoyable Young Americans, a Dawson's Creek spin-off featuring references to Stephen King, Dead Poets Society, The Skulls, and kindling. ...Wait, that last thing was actually Kate Bosworth. Next, Sarah forced Dave to watch a third-season episode of cocaine fever-dream The Greatest American Hero -- a great theme song in search of half-decent CGI, a team of writers who would stay for the whole episode, and better costume strat. Finally, Dave made Tara take The American Bible Challenge, and we all learned that there's more than one Herod, it's hard to flip a fork, and Jeff Foxworthy might be America's Host. Praise God -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!TOPICSLead Topic: 🧒 Young Americans S01.E01: PilotLead Topic: 🦸🏻‍♂️ The Greatest American Hero S03.E08: Space RangerLead Topic: 📖 The American Bible Challenge S03.E09: Grand FinaleNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 362 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🧒 Young Americans on Dailymotion🦸🏻‍♂️ The Greatest American Hero on Peacock📖 And The American Bible Challenge on Netflix

Disney Plus's latest series for teens and tweens is the very puzzle-y The Mysterious Benedict Society, based on a beloved novel, and Leigh-Ann Jackson is here to talk about how well it works! Around The Dial takes us through In Treatment, The Good Fight, Jiva!, Flack, the (sort of) final season of B-B-B-B-Bosch, CSI, and Derry Girls! Craig and Courtney argue for the Canon induction of the King Of The Hill episode "The Wedding Of Bobby Hill." Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new Game Time season with a contest that may be something, or may be nothing. No need to pass any test: our latest podcast is right here for you to enjoy!GUESTS👤 Leigh-Ann JacksonTOPICSLead Topic: 🧙‍♀️ The Mysterious Benedict Society Around The Dial: 😶‍🌫️ In Treatment Around The Dial: ✊ The Good Fight Around The Dial: 💃🏽 Jiva Around The Dial: 🧨 Flack Around The Dial: 🅱️ Bosch Around The Dial: 🍎 The Crime AppleAround The Dial: 🇮🇪 Derry Girls The Canon: 🏆 King Of The Hill S03.E14: The Wedding Of Bobby HillWinner & Loser: 👍 True-crime castingWinner & Loser: 👎 Jared PadaleckiGame Time: 🧠 Once Again, Is This Anything?NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 361 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Leigh-Ann Jackson on Twitter🛋 "New Pop Culture Tred Alert: the Black Lady Therapist" at Slate👩‍🚒 Tara on the 9-1-1 franchise at Primetimer.com🛍 Leanna Lin's Wonderland

The latest new series from AppleTV+ is Physical, starring Rose Byrne as an aerobics addict in 1981 San Diego; Jeb Lund joins us to discuss whether the first three episodes left us wanting more, or...wanting more of GLOW (R.I.P.). Around The Dial takes us through Cruel Summer, Holey Moley, Exterminate All The Brutes, American Barbecue Showdown, the I'll Be Gone In The Dark special, and Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell. Tara and Sarah share a Tiny Triumph (thanks, Slate!), and Shan takes to Extra Credit to have us gender-swap TV detectives. Jeb makes his case for the Rick & Morty episode "The Ricklantis Mixup" to be inducted into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time with a lot of pomp and circumstance. Pull on your leg warmers and join us!GUESTS👤 Jeb LundTOPICSLead Topic: 🤸‍♀️ Physical Around The Dial: 😎 Cruel Summer Around The Dial: ⛳️ Holey Moley Around The Dial: 🪦 Exterminate All The Brutes Around The Dial: 🍖 American Barbecue Showdown Around The Dial: 🎑 I'll Be Gone In The Dark Around The Dial: 😬 Epstein's Shadow: Ghislaine Maxwell Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Again With Them in SlateExtra Credit: 🕵️‍♀️ Flipping The DetectivesThe Canon: 🏆 Rick And Morty S03.E07: The Ricklantis MixupWinner & Loser: 👍 Legendary Winner & Loser: 👎 Michael CostelloGame Time: 🧠 Dads, Grads, And BradsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 360 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Jeb Lund on Twitter🏌️‍♂️ Vulture's roundup of Season 3's new Holey Moley holes🧊 Tara's review of The Cube at Primetimer🎄 Jeb's Hallmark podcast It's Christmastown on Facebook🎑 Sarah's review of the I'll Be Gone In The Dark special at Primetimer🎧 Slate's article on B-list stars' podcasts recapping their own shows

Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair is back to talk about the latest product off the Marvel industrial complex assembly line: Disney+'s Loki. We discussed everything from Religion 101 to DB Cooper to mid-century production design to canonical gender identity -- but should you make TIME (...sorry) for the show? Then we went Around The Dial with Younger, Starstruck, Bargain Block, Crime Scene Kitchen, The Housewife and the Hustler, and a weird movie on HBO Max, and then it got REALLY weird when we all sent in the clowns for David Ellis Dickerson's Extra Credit. Richard signed our yearbooks "I hope this overlooked-classic Simpsons episode stays sweet" in his Canon presentation; Farrow won and Toobin (and pooin') lost; and a role-playing Game Time had us all wondering if we'd (IMD)be crowning a season winner. Grab your timey-wimey remote: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Richard LawsonTOPICSLead Topic: 🐊 Loki Around The Dial: 🐣 Younger Around The Dial: 💫 Starstruck Around The Dial: 🏷 Bargain Block Around The Dial: ⏲ Crime Scene Kitchen Around The Dial: 💸 The Housewife And The Hustler Extra Credit: 🤡 Send In The ClownsThe Canon: 🏆 The Simpsons S07.E25: Summer Of 4 Ft. 2Winner & Loser: 👍 Catch And Kill Winner & Loser: 👎 Ultimate Slip 'N Slide Game Time: 🧠 Role-Playing GameNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 359 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Follow Richard Lawson on Twitter🏚 Richard at Vanity Fair on HGTV: “Home Truths: How HGTV, Magnolia, and Netflix Are Building a Massive Space in the Stream”👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Richard on Luca👀 Richard's podcast Still Watching🫅 Richard's other podcast Little Gold Men⏳ And Richard's book, All We Can Do Is Wait🐩 Rose Matafeo: Horndog on HBO Max🖕 Tara's Kevin Can Go F*ck Himself review at Primetimer🧐 VF's Chris Murphy on whether we can/should keep enjoying Housewives what with all the felonies📷 Photo: Disney+

Netflix joins Amazon in boldly dropping a soft sci-fi story about an extremely contagious disease outbreak mid-covid pandemic...but at least Sweet Tooth, unlike Utopia, also has as its lead character a very cute little deer boy? New guest Santiago Melli-Huber joins us to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us to the premiere of We Are Lady Parts on Peacock, the finale of Pose on FX; then to AMC's Kevin Can F**k Himself; to Sarah's summer TV preview pick Mike Tyson: The Knockout (and related 30 For 30 episodes about Mike Tyson that might work better); and to The Boy In The Plastic Bubble, which we recently screened, watch-along style, with our high-pledge Patreon supporters (stay tuned for more details on future hangouts!). GuyIsDelightful challenges us to create TV news-based scripted series that actually feature and are about real news shows. Santiago makes his case for the Nonac induction of RuPaul's Drag Race's Season 12 episode "World's Worst." Finally, we name the week's Winner and Loser, and wrap up with a toes-up Game Time. Grab a sweet confection of your own and join us!GUESTS👤 Santiago Melli-HuberTOPICSLead Topic: 🦌 Sweet Tooth Around The Dial: 🦵 We Are Lady Parts Around The Dial: 🙆🏽‍♀️ Pose Around The Dial: 🖕 Kevin Can F**k Himself Around The Dial: 🥊 Mike Tyson: The Knockout Around The Dial: 🎾 30 For 30 Around The Dial: 🫧 The Boy In The Plastic Bubble Extra Credit: 🎭 Like Studio 60...But EntertainingThe Nonac: 🤮 RuPaul's Drag Race S12.E03: World's WorstWinner & Loser: 👍 Dennis QuaidWinner & Loser: 👎 Helen MirrenGame Time: 🧠 Death Becomes ThemNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 358 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Santiago Melli-Huber on Twitter💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast📚 Exhibit B. Books🫧 The Boy In The Plastic Bubble On YouTube🧋 The Boy In The Plastic Bubble On Amazon Prime Video

Writer and co-host of The Nod Brittany Luse joins us for a double shot of summer TV fare, starting with NBC's well-hosted but incorrectly constructed Small Fortune. We like the dioramas; we're not sure about the durability of the games (or future guests). Then we ducked under the yellow tape to look at FOX's Crime Scene Kitchen, which isn't as bad as Sarah expected, but also isn't as good as it could be. Will any of us keep watching either of these? Is Curtis Stone the Joel Kinnaman of celebrity chefs? And did we actually invoke Quibi...favorably? Next we went Around The Dial with the Friends reunion, Legendary, Married At First Sight, Love After Lockup (instead of Who Killed Little Grégory?, but watch 'em both!), and Bad Batch. Kimberly hoped her Derry Girls Canon submission would have the luck of the Irish before Firefly Lane won and Alec Baldwin lost (...twice), and then we transitioned between scenes with a few bars of Game Time. Pour yourself a cup of lemon chiffon pie -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Brittany LuseTOPICSLead Topic: 🪙 Small Fortune Lead Topic: 🔪 Crime Scene Kitchen Around The Dial: 🛋 The Friends reunionAround The Dial: 💃🏽 Legendary Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 💔 Love After Lockup Around The Dial: ☠️ Who Killed Little Gregory Around The Dial: 🤢 The Bad Batch The Canon: 🏆 Derry Girls S01.E02Winner & Loser: 👍 LaToya FergusonWinner & Loser: 👎 Alec BaldwinGame Time: 🧠 Seven Days Since Our Last IncidentalNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 357 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Follow Brittany Luse on Twitter👁 Why Brittany's watching MAFS instead of planning her wedding, at Harper's Bazaar☕️ The Friends creators' interview at THR☘️ The Joey Irish-uncle meme🔫 Alec Baldwin offered to off Tony Soprano🌴 The Again With This podcast🔎 Best Evidence📷 Photos: FOX, NBC

With summer nearly upon us, we're dusting off a format we haven't done in a while, looking at the premieres that are coming in the weeks and months ahead and each choosing one title we're into; one we SHOULD be into but aren't; and one NO ONE should be into. Joining us for this very important work is longtime listener, first-time guest Stacy Lambe! After we all offer our summer picks (and un-picks), we consider Dave In Chicago's Extra Credit question and answer which TV side character deserves their own Kevin Can F--- Himself-type star vehicle. We also play a notable scene from the Netflix original movie Stowaway and discuss whether it's Worse Than Jazz. Next, we debate whether Daria's "Dye! Dye! My Darling" should be inducted into the Canon. Finally, we name the week's Winner and Loser, and close out with a Game Time you might want to enjoy with a sachet of jordan almonds. Grab yourself a popsicle and join us!GUESTS👤 Stacy LambeTOPICSLead Topic: 👙 Summer TV PreviewExtra Credit: 🖕 Eff You Too!Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 A scene from Netflix's StowawayThe Canon: 🏆 Daria S04.E13: Dye! Dye! My DarlingWinner & Loser: 👍 Scripted true-crime projectsWinner & Loser: 👎 Glenn Gordon CaronGame Time: 🧠 Just MarriedNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 356 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Stacy Lambe on Twitter🎆 Entertainment Tonight Online😎 "Summertime Lovin'" from Regular Show🗣 Tara's interview with Allison Janney at VanityFair.com

EEHG 090: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch Thunder In Paradise S01.E13: Queen Of Hearts Once upon a time there were two ex-Navy SEALs living in Florida. Then a whip bull-cracking Terry Funk visited riding on the hood of a monster truck. Also, here's The Queen Of England! Don't forget about Hulk Hogan's Bumblezebra beach onesie! And here's comes Truckasaurus! We haven't even seen Thunder The Boat yet! (Nov 13, 2020)EEHG 106: Let's Watch David Copperfield Poof Lady Liberty! In a 1983 TV special that stayed with Buntsy for decades, pop magician David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear. He also harassed Morgan Fairchild and saddled "an old lady" with two kids, and we're going to talk about all of it -- including the ads we didn't get to see. (Feb 19, 2021)TOPICSLead Topic: 🌩 Thunder In Paradise S01.E13: Queen Of HeartsLead Topic: 🪄 The Magic of David Copperfield NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 355 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Slate TV critic Willa Paskin is back to talk about Peacock's girl-group-comeback addition to the Tina Fey-verse, Girls5Eva. Did the panel's opinions on the show's quality harmonize? Is the bubblegum/TRL world of 20 years ago a familiar song? Does the thin writing of Busy Philipps's character hit a bum note? Has Sarah already started blaming that Wonder Woman piano for various clumsy incidents around her own home? You know the answer to that last one; you'll have to listen to learn the rest. We went Around The Dial with The Handmaid's Tale, The Big Shot With Bethenny Frankel, The Great Pottery Throw Down, and The Great British Sewing Bee before deciding whether Dave is NOT a crackpot for wanting to outlaw this-season-on montages. Later, we heard a dreamy Canon presentation for Bluey. Actors won, the Globes lost, and David T. Cole played us some variations on a ('90s TV) theme during a disconcerting Game Time. Park it on a memorial bench and enjoy an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Willa Paskin TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍🎤 Girls5Eva Around The Dial: 👁 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🎯 The Big Shot With Bethenny Frankel Around The Dial: 🍯 The Great Pottery Throw Down Around The Dial: 🪡 The Great British Sewing Bee I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Season-on Montages The Canon: 🐶 Bluey S01.E08: Fruitbat Winner & Loser: 👍 Gabrielle Carteris Winner & Loser: 👎 The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Game Time: 🧠 '90s Slow-Coms NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 354 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Willa Paskin on Twitter 🎧 Listen to Willa's podcast, Decoder Ring 💿 Look forward to the Girls5Eva soundtrack album 🍩 The Guardian on the Bake Off formula and its discontents 👩‍👧 Tara's list of "12 Essential Mom Episodes" for Vulture 🐕 Sarah's review of The Sons Of Sam for Primetimer 📷 Photo: Peacock

A while back, we put out a call for six-word pitches to program a whole episode of this podcast, and our listener Heather was the victor with "Nice British People Doing Nice Things." As a result, she has slotted in (virtually) every show you will hear us talk about in this episode, for which we are joined by returning guest Alex Collins! First, we all tuck in on the pop history series Back In Time For Dinner. Then Around The Dial takes us to France for Escape To The Chateau, Newfoundland and Kenya for Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond The Lobby, Wales for Escape To The Country, and a British mail route for Postman Pat. As required by Heather, Tara presents the Corner Gas episode "Happy Campers" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the Winner and Loser of the year 1992, we go knocking on Game Time's door. Make yourself a lovely cup of tea and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alex Collins TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥘 Back In Time For Dinner Around The Dial: 🏰 Escape To The Chateau Around The Dial: 🏨 Amazing Hotels Around The Dial: 🚵 Escape To The Country Around The Dial: 📮 Postman Pat The Canon: ⛽️ Corner Gas S04.E18: Happy Campers Winner & Loser: 👍 New York City Winner & Loser: 👎 Vatican City Game Time: 🧠 You've Got Mail NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 353 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alex Collins on Twitter 🫔 Back In Time For Dinner on DailyMotion 🦟 Tara's review of AppleTV+'s The Mosquito Coast at Primetimer 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast 🚵 Escape To The Country on DailyMotion 🎶 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Jessica Liese is here to talk about a brand-new, brand-content competition reality show from Hulu -- Exposure, in which professional photographers compete in irrelevant-to-their-strengths "influencer" challenges while rookie hosts Cole Walliser and Cat Jimenez make terrible photo puns. The problem isn't so much the Samsung-fluffing; it's that the show isn't process-y enough, isn't transparent about how the challenges work, and isn't made by the same people who make Bake Off and could figure out how to turn an hour-long commercial for phone cameras into something informative with clear stakes. We were relieved to FOCUS (...sorry) on other topics in Around The Dial, including MAFS: Unmatchables, a ranking of MAFS: Mothership couples, Offspring, Top Chef, and 9-1-1: Lone Star. Listener Michaela pitched an un-Harmon-ious episode of Community for the Nonac before boats won, SNL lost, and we got bookish for Game Time. Take a break from dyeing your brows and hit play on an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jessica Liese TOPICS Lead Topic: 📸 Exposure Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 👶 Offspring Around The Dial: 🧑‍🍳 Top Chef Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star The Nonac: ✳️ Community S04.E03: Conventions of Space and Time Winner & Loser: 👍 "...Navally" Winner & Loser: 👎 Saturday Night Live Game Time: 🧠 Books We've Watched NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 352 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Jessica Liese on Twitter 🧟 Listen to Jessica's Fear The Walking Dead podcast 💅🏽 And to her Tough As Nails pod on the Rob Has A Podcast network 🍵 Tara's Unmatchables review at Primetimer 🥋 Tara talks Mortal Kombat on the Slashfilmcast 🔎 Sarah's true-crime rec newsletter, Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Christian / Unsplash

Dr. Orna Guralnik has returned to Showtime to work with a whole new crop of troubled partners in a new season of Couples Therapy, and Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk -- one of the show's biggest boosters -- has returned to our podcast to yell about it! (Positively!) Around The Dial takes us through Younger, a new Mythic Quest special, PBS's Philly D.A., Why Did You Kill Me?, Sasquatch, and the midseason premiere of 9-1-1: Lone Star. Mlle. Caroline uses her Extra Credit topic to ask us about the 20-year-old (or older) shows we still like, and those we don't. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that challenges our knowledge of both anime and bullshit. Put on your artiest geometric necklace, put the dog in its bed, and join us!GUESTS👤 Kathryn VanArendonkTOPICSLead Topic: 👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Couples Therapy Around The Dial: 🐣 Younger Around The Dial: ⚔️ Mythic Quest Around The Dial: 🔔 Philly D.A. Around The Dial: 😵 Why Did You Kill Me Around The Dial: 👣 Sasquatch Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: ⏳ Passing The Test Of TimeWinner & Loser: 👍 Warrior Winner & Loser: 👎 MorrisseyGame Time: 🧠 Anime BullshitNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 351 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kathryn VanArendonk on Twitter🦤 Kathryn's Couples Therapy review at Vulture🛋 Rich Juzwiak's interview with Orna Guralnik at Jezebel📺 Tara's review of Couples Therapy Season 2 at Primetimer📡 Tara talking about Season 1 of Couples Therapy on the Appointment Television podcast💰 Dave Chen's Patreon🔔 Kathryn's review of Philly D.A. at Vulture✍️ Kathryn's author page on Vulture🎧 The Appointment Television podcast🤩 The Specials podcast📚 Exhibit B Books Online

Doing The Most With Phoebe Robinson joined the ranks of "rich people hanging out with each other" shows last week, and Here For It author R. Eric Thomas joined US to talk about the 2 Dope Queens co-host's foray into TV, including clunky animations, guest chemistry, and whether the animals in the pilot were too well-behaved. Dave was Not A Crackpot about leaving internet-based "fun" to the experts before we went Around The Dial with Kung Fu, Home Economics, Cybill, The Great Pottery Throw Down, United States Of Al, and Pennyworth. Then we studied some layouts for a first-season Ugly Betty submission before declaring a Winner and Loser and mashing up character names in Game Time. Don't be an ass; listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 R. Eric ThomasTOPICSLead Topic: 💨 Doing The Most With Phoebe Robinson Around The Dial: 🥋 Kung Fu Around The Dial: 🏡 Home Economics Around The Dial: 👱 Cybill Around The Dial: 🏺 The Great Pottery Throw Down Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 United States Of Al Around The Dial: 🤵🏻‍♂️ Pennyworth The Canon: 🏆 Ugly Betty S01.E18: Don't Ask Don't TellWinner & Loser: 👍 Ancient Aliens Winner & Loser: 👎 Don't Game Time: 🧠 Connective TissueNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 350 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Follow Eric on Twitter📰 Eric's weekly humor newsletter🕸 Eric's website📍 And check out Eric's book, Here For It🏠 Tara's Home Economics review at Primetimer🇺🇸 Past guest Roxana Hadadi's United States Of Al review at RogerEbert.com🎧 Quaid In Full's Something To Talk About episode featuring Tara📷 Photo: Tyler Twins

Elliot Stabler has returned from his ignominious exile in...uh, a very nice-sounding job in Italy, and into an SVU spinoff that will find him Taking! His wife's murder! Personally! all over the Mob. Christina Tucker joins us to discuss this new vehicle and what a(n unpleasantly) surprising departure it actually is from the Law & Order model. Around The Dial takes us through Made For Love, Wipeout, Godzilla vs. Kong (on HBO Max! Watch it while you can! A lot!), and The Falcon And The Winter Soldier. Olivia makes the case for Doctor Who's "Silence In The Library" to be inducted into our Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a non-regulation Game Time that has us choosing some odd numbers. Get on the Wonder Wheel and crank us up!GUESTS👤 Christina TuckerTOPICSLead Topic: 👮‍♂️ Law & Order: Organized Crime Around The Dial: 😍 Made For Love Around The Dial: 🔴 Wipeout Around The Dial: 🦍 Godzilla vs. KongAround The Dial: ⛄️ The Falcon And The Winter Soldier The Canon: 🏆 Doctor Who S04.E08: Silence In The LibraryWinner & Loser: 👍 C.S.I.: Vegas Winner & Loser: 👎 Paul PierceGame Time: 🧠 I'm Not Like The OthersNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 349 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Christina Tucker on Twitter🧱 Kathryn VanArendonk's review of the Organized Crime premiere🔀 Variety's list of the best L&O intra-franchise crossovers😖 Tara's review of FX's Hysterical👩🏻‍🌾 Christina's review of Martha Stewart's Very Good Things at the Boston Globe✋🏽 The Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast🌈 Christina at Autostraddle

Reality-television expert Andy is back to talk about Pooch Perfect, and why you shouldn't sit, stay in front of the show, including awkward hosting by Rebel Wilson, consent issues with dyeing dogs, and a total lack of narrative tension. Matters improved with Around The Dial, as we discussed Genius: Aretha, Superstore, Race To The Center Of The Earth, Tough As Nails, The Bridge, and Housewives in the age of COVID before generating a suite of new Survivor themes for Josh's Extra Credit. After Andy tried to find Starz's The Chair a seat in The Canon, true crime won, CBS lost, and Dan Cassino forced us to answer casting calls during Game Time. Give yourself a treat: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Andy DehnartTOPICSLead Topic: 🐶 Pooch Perfect Around The Dial: 🤯 Genius Around The Dial: 🛒 Superstore Around The Dial: 🌎 Race To The Center Of The Earth Around The Dial: 💪 Tough As Nails Around The Dial: 🌉 The Bridge Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of New Jersey Extra Credit: 🗿 New Survivor ThemesThe Canon: 🪑 The Chair S01.E09: The TestWinner & Loser: 👍 True CrimeWinner & Loser: 👎 CBSGame Time: 🧠 Casting CallsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 348 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Follow Andy Dehnart on Twitter📰 Subscribe to Andy's newsletter👓 Read Andy's reviews of The Bridge, Tough As Nails, and Race To The Center Of The Earth on Reality Blurred🗣 Tara's Ben Feldman interview for Vanity Fair📷 Photo: ABC / Robert Trachtenberg

Over New Year's, we treated our Patreon supporters to a very important thought experiment: if 27 Smurfs entered Thunderdome to compete in battles to the death, who would be the last Smurf standing? Now, we are turning our minds to the same question...but with Muppets from The Muppet Show. Naturally, we had to bring in an expert to consider the question, which is why Adam Grosswirth of the Muppeturgy podcast is here. Will Fozzie Bear emerge alive from combat with Lew Zealand and Sam the Eagle? Does Camilla the Chicken peck her way out of battle with Sweetums and Scooter? Listen as we plumb the depths of these philosophical questions and so many more!GUESTS👤 Adam GrosswirthTOPICSLead Topic: ☠️ Muppet ThunderdomeNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 347 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast🐦 Muppeturgy on Twitter▶️ Adam's collection of relevant GIFs

We're thrilled the third time was the charm for our guest Alison Herman, as we all dug into the pro-cooking kids' show from the Obama-tainment industrial complex, Waffles + Mochi. We talked about "variety" shows for children, whether Mrs. Obama is as stiff as Mochi is adorable, and supplemental tomato facts before going Around The Dial with Step Up: High Water, kid 90, Allen vs. Farrow, Greek, Last Chance U: Basketball, and famous original 9-1-1. Dave hoped a first-season episode of Warrior had a fighting chance to get into the Canon. British divorces won, American engagements lost, and we all struggled to see the answers in Tara's non-regulation Game Time. Put a potato in some formalwear and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Alison HermanTOPICSLead Topic: 🧇 Waffles + Mochi Around The Dial: 💃🏽 Step Up: High Water Around The Dial: 👧🏼 Kid 90 Around The Dial: 💥 Allen Vs. Farrow Around The Dial: 🏺 Greek Around The Dial: 🏀 Last Chance U: Basketball Around The Dial: 👨‍🚒 9-1-1 The Canon: 🏆 Warrior S01.E05: The Blood and the ShitWinner & Loser: 👍 Paul Bettany and Claire FoyWinner & Loser: 👎 Chris HarrisonGame Time: 🧠 Camera-ShyNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 346 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🧇 Waffles + Mochi review by Alison's colleague Justin Charity at The Ringer🍡 Sonia Saraiya's review for Vanity Fair🏛 Alison's anniversary piece on Greek🐦 Alison on Twitter💄 Listen To Sassy🌹 "I Am Your Bachelor, and I Am Also Running to Be Your Governor" by Stephanie Early Green📷 Photo: Adam Rose / Netflix

As part of the relaunch of CBS All Access as Paramount Plus, the original Season 1 cast of The Real World has reunited in their old Soho loft for a limited series, so we got back together with our former Real World recapper Kim Reed to discuss the series premiere! Also on the Paramount Plus tip, Tara also has to stress that she is not a crackpot for being irate that Oprah's interview with Harry and Meghan is somehow not on it. Around The Dial takes us through Good Girls, an update on Married At First Sight, the WandaVision finale, a Cop Rock tie-in on Last Week Tonight, and the midseason finale of 9-1-1: Lone Star. Lauren uses her Extra Credit to make us assemble a group of TV friends we would want to hang out with -- and who we think would enjoy hanging out with each other; then Sean makes the case for the Nonac induction of ER's Season 4 travelogue "Fathers And Sons." Finally, we crown the week's Winner and Loser, and close up with a Game Time as sticky as it is speedy. After you're done taking Gouda for a quick walk around the block, join us for our latest episode!GUESTS👤 Kim ReedTOPICSLead Topic: 🌎 The Real World Homecoming: New York I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Not having Oprah's Harry and Meghan interview on Paramount Plus is a gigantic failureAround The Dial: 😊 Good Girls Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🧙🏻‍♀️ Wandavision Around The Dial: 🚓 Cop Rock Around The Dial: 👩‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 👯‍♀️ Make New FriendsThe Nonac: 🩻 ER S04.E07: Fathers And SonsWinner & Loser: 👍 Bosch Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO MaxGame Time: 🧠 The Wide Stick That Gives You The EdgeNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 345 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kim on Twitter🌎 Andy Dehnart's The Real World Homecoming: New York premiere review🦤 Jen Chaney's review at Vulture🗞 James Poniewozik's review at The New York Times🎥 Tara's review at Variety🤴🏻 "Why Isn't Oprah's Bombshell Interview With Meghan and Harry on Paramount Plus?" at Variety👰‍♀️ The Married At First Sight scene where two women shut Chris down HARD🎞 Tara on Slashfilmcast👀 Alan Sepinwall's podcast, Too Long Didn't Watch🗓 Last Week Tonight's "Raids" segment on YouTube🎶 March MASTAS 2021: Ultimate Teen Idols

Brandon is back to talk about last weekend's Brutal Bridesmaids and its strange lack of bloodshed, plus ugly bridal fashion, an emergency male-stripper substitution, and realistic wedding-party cliques. We went Around The Dial with Close Enough, Punky Brewster's reboot, Search Party, Murder Among The Mormons, and Dave's 911 Lone Star report before re-imagining legendary episodes of TV as Lifetime movies in an Extra Credit from David Ellis Dickerson. We dug into a classic episode of The Mole for Canon Consideration, then declared the GLOW team winners and Joss Whedon a huge loser before heading to the DC-verse for Game Time. Chug that Booty Blaster; it's time for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Brandon TOPICS Lead Topic: 👰‍♀️ Brutal Bridesmaids Around The Dial: 🏠 Close Enough Around The Dial: 🧑‍🎤 Punky Brewster Around The Dial: 🔦 Search Party Around The Dial: ☠️ Murder Among The Mormons Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 👼 Mother, May I Sleep With Angel? The Canon: 🏆 The Mole S02.E11: The Eleventh Betrayal Winner & Loser: 👍 GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch Winner & Loser: 👎 Joss Whedon Game Time: 🧠 It Happened in DC NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 344 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧑‍🎤 Tara's review of the new Punky Brewster for Primetimer 🐦 Find Brandon on Twitter 🎧 Listen to Brandon's podcast, The Discourse 📷 Photo: LMN

After illness prevented her from making her earlier booking, LaToya Ferguson has returned to talk about another show she feels passionate about: The CW's Superman & Lois! Is she all in on this latest iteration of the Man of Steel and his family? Listen and find out! Around The Dial takes us through It's A Sin, Cherries Wild, In & Of Itself, the full-throated endorsement of Firefly Lane that circumstances ROBBED LaToya of the chance to deliver earlier this month, and a report on a particularly bonkers episode of 9-1-1: Lone Star. Francoise uses her Extra Credit to ask us to share any TV-related resolutions we've made for 2021 (look, we're close to the Lunar New Year); then it's on to Tara's Canon presentation on Saved By The Bell (2020) S01.E07: "House Party." Finally, we crown the week's Winner and Loser, and close up with a game that requires us to determine, once again: is this anything? Put on your tights and cape -- or take them off; whichever feels right -- and join us! GUESTS 👤 LaToya Ferguson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦸🏻‍♂️ Superman & Lois Around The Dial: 😈 It's A Sin Around The Dial: 🍒 Cherries Wild Around The Dial: 🗂 In & Of Itself Around The Dial: 🪰 Firefly Lane Around The Dial: 👨‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 📺 TV Resolutions The Canon: 🔔 Saved By The Bell (2020) S01.E07: House Party Winner & Loser: 👍 Bosch Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO Max Game Time: 🧠 Again, Is This Anything? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 343 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 LaToya Ferguson on Twitter 🎰 Explaining the Cherries Wild slot machine disclaimer 🍒 Tara's Cherries Wild review at Primetimer 🌙 Tara's For All Mankind Season 2 review at VanityFair.com 🧛🏻‍♂️ LaToya's Vampire Diaries podcast The AMPire Diaries on Twitter 😇 LaToya's Angel podcast Angel On Top on Twitter 🗳 Linda Holmes's review of In & Of Itself at NPR.org 🐒 "Monkey Christ" 🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast

Austin HQ had a water pipe burst on record day so we celebrate with two EEHG about other bad things in your house. EEHG 094: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch The 1974 Made For TV Movie Bad Ronald Bad Ronald lives in a hidden room in the house you just bought. What a weirdo! EEHG 096: Tara Forces Everyone To Watch Crawlspace When the search results for Bad Ronald included another TV movie called Crawlspace, Tara decided we had to stay in the "'70s paranoia about a dude living in your home's secret places" genre. But is Richard another (Bad) Ronald? Plus! Tara gives her report on Bad Ronald: the novel. Spoiler: there is toilet strat!!! TOPICS Lead Topic: 😈 Bad Ronald TV Movie Lead Topic: 🫣 Crawlspace TV Movie NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 342 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Fametracker's own Adam Sternbergh (oh, also the New York Times's but whatever)(hee) is back to discuss The Equalizer, the perfectly acceptable re-imagining of the '80s classic. Whom on the panel did the new verzh win over with casting coups, origami tradecraft, and similarities to Leverage and Blindspot? Who called it the three-camera sitcom of cop shows? And is anyone setting their DVR to watch more of it? We went Around The Dial with Framing Britney Spears, Married At First Sight, GBBO, Big Family Cooking Showdown, and Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel before finding ways to Defund The Police Shows in an Extra Credit from Francoise. Succession tried to ascend to the Canon throne; comedy both won AND lost; and we may have flunked out of electoral college during Game Time. Settle down in front of your only-on-TV massive monitor bank for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚖️ The Equalizer Around The Dial: 🖼 The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🥮 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: ⏲ The Big Family Cooking Showdown Around The Dial: 🫥 Crime Scene: The Vanishing At The Cecil Hotel Extra Credit: 🚔 Defund The Police Shows The Canon: 🦺 Succession S02.E04: Safe Room Winner & Loser: 🤣 Impractical Jokers Winner & Loser: 🦚 NBC Game Time: 🧠 Hail To The Chiefs NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 341 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ⚖️ Tara's review of The Equalizer for Primetimer 🔮 "The Oracle of Britney Spears" in Vanity Fair 👴🏼 "How The Elderly Lose Their Rights" in the New Yorker 🌅 Tara (and John Ramos!) on the Postcards From The Edge ep of Quaid In Full 💰 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast 📷 Photo: CBS / Barbara Nitke

With our intended guest and Firefly Lane expert LaToya Ferguson forced to bow out (we'll re-book her again ASAP!), your co-hosts muddled through on Netflix's new middlebrow book adaptation to the best of our ability. Around The Dial takes us through the late Quibi sitcom Mapleworth Murders, Hulu's Canadian import Jann, HBO Max's Danish import The Investigation -- and Borgen, with which it shares approximately half its cast -- the just-announced Black Panther show coming to Disney+ from Ryan Coogler, and Syfy's Resident Alien. Tara presents the A.P. Bio episode "Teacher Jail" to The Canon. And because the Loser is VERY dark, we name the Loser THEN the Winner this week, rather than send you home on a downer. Freshen up your Aqua Net and join us!TOPICSLead Topic: 🏘 Firefly Lane Around The Dial: 🍁 Mapleworth Murders Around The Dial: 👩🏻‍🌾 Jann Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♀️ The Investigation Around The Dial: 🇩🇰 Borgen Around The Dial: 🐆 Black Panther Around The Dial: 👽 Resident Alien The Canon: 🏆 A.P. Bio S01.E02: Teacher JailWinner & Loser: 👍 Whac-a-MoleWinner & Loser: 👎 Wipeout NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 340 page on ExtraHotGreat.com👩🏻‍🌾 Tara's Jann review at Primetimer💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast🐆 Collider's report on Ryan Coogler's Black Panther TV series🕵️‍♀️ Sarah's review of The Investigation at Primetimer

Our esteemed colleague, "Pot Ledom"-ologist, and Long Island native Dan Rogge returns to analyze Edward Burns's thoroughly mediocre Bridge & Tunnel, about the post-college lives and loves of six suspiciously hot high-school friends...none of whom can seem to master the accent. A huge music budget (and equally large commitment to the sex scenes) can't make up for stilted dialogue, anachronistic argot, and Burns's Lena Dunham-esque estrangement from the real-world problems of his characters. We went Around The Dial with Perfect Life, Walker, an America's Next Top Model book, Everwood, and 9-1-1 Lone Star before contemplating our ideal 2024 presidential tickets in an Extra Credit, and then Dan proposed burning down Riverdale's fourth-season musical episode "Wicked Little Town" in his Nonac presentation. Jane Lynch won, Seventeen lost, and none of us had perfect 2020 vision in a mash-up Game Time from Dan Cassino. Chuck that EZ-Pass tag out the window: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Dan RoggeTOPICSLead Topic: 🌉 Bridge & Tunnel Around The Dial: 🌈 Perfect Life Around The Dial: 🤠 Walker Around The Dial: 👠 America's Next Top Model Around The Dial: 🪵 Everwood Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: 🤑 Commander On ScreenThe Nonac: 🦦 Riverdale S04.E17: Wicked Little TownWinner & Loser: 👍 The Weakest Link Winner & Loser: 👎 Seventeen MagazineGame Time: 🧠 2020 Double VisionNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 339 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🫥 Dan recommends Emily VanDerWerff on The Leftovers📰 Tara's Sassy piece in the New York Times Magazine💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast🎧 The Quaid In Full podcast🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast📸 Photo: Epix

Marvel Studios has kicked off its slate of TV series with WandaVision, a sort-of spoof of classic sitcoms starring a couple of Avengers. What's actually going on? We don't know (though Dave has theories), but Caroline Framke is here to talk about the two-part premiere! Around The Dial takes us through The Good Lord Bird, Call Your Mother, Season 2's new Batwoman, the Premier League of football (or soccer, if you will), The Challenge, and Superstore -- specifically, the voice Mark McKinney is using to play Glenn, and whether it's worse than jazz. Suley presents the Steven Universe episode "So Many Birthdays" for The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that takes it to the bridge. Grab your nearest nosy neighbour and listen!GUESTS👤 Caroline FramkeTOPICSLead Topic: 📺 Wandavision Around The Dial: 🕊 The Good Lord Bird Around The Dial: ☎️ Call Your Mother Around The Dial: 🦇 Batwoman Around The Dial: ⚽️ The English Premier LeagueAround The Dial: 🤺 The Challenge Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Mark McKinney's Voice As Glenn On SuperstoreThe Canon: 💎 Steven Universe S01.E13: So Many BirthdaysWinner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 👎 At Home With Amy Sedaris Game Time: 🧠 Extension ChordsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 338 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Caroline Framke on Twitter🧙‍♀️ Caroline's WandaVision review at Variety💰 David Chen's Patreon🕊 Doreen St. Felix's review of The Good Lord Bird at The New Yorker💄 The Listen To Sassy podcast🐦 ListenToSassy on Twitter📸 ListenToSassy on Instagram🦇 Caroline's Batwoman review✍️ Caroline's author page at Variety.com📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

The regular panelists had to forge ahead without esteemed colleague Kathryn VanArendonk in our discussion of Dickinson's second season; that's the bad news. The good news is, we all like Apple TV's imagining of poet Emily Dickinson's life and loves with lots of swearing and twenty-first-century slang. How DOES the show balance the demands of historical fact with flights of fancy, and not take itself too seriously? And are Season 2's creepy [character spoiler redacted] the key to its success? Later, we went Around The Dial with The Masked Dancer, Everything Is Going Great, Cheers Season 5, Mr. Mayor's debut, and Lupin and other "Pringle mysteries." A new detective franchise won, an old HBO franchise lost, and we continued the episode's verse theme with the Tara-crafted Tube Tunes VII. Pass Nobody an earbud for an all-new Extra Hot Great.TOPICSLead Topic: 🪶 Dickinson Around The Dial: 🎉 Everyone Is Doing Great Around The Dial: 🕺 The Masked Dancer Around The Dial: 🍻 Cheers Around The Dial: 🏢 Mr. Mayor Around The Dial: 🥷 Lupin Winner & Loser: 👍 Keegan-Michael KeyWinner & Loser: 👎 And Just Like That Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes VIINOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 337 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🪶 Kathryn VanArendonk, with us in spirit with her Dickinson deep dive for Vulture🎉 Tara's Everyone Is Doing Great review for Primetimer🕺 Tara's Masked Dancer review, ditto🖐 Tara's Force Five podcast appearance🐯 Sarah on Tiger's identity crisis for Primetimer📷 Photo: Apple TV

We're off this week but we've glued together three episode forcening, uh, episodes from our Patreon supporter bonus podcast Extra Extra Hot Great.EEHG 076: Listener Forcening: The Big Bang Theory Patreon supporter Sharon Johnson had us watch The Big Bang Theory S07.E03: "The Scavenger Vortex," writing, "While I'm aware that it's not well thought of among the EHG family, BBT is one of my all-time favorite television shows," and this episode a fave among faves. Did this selection make us come around? Listen and find out! From Aug 21, 2020.EEHG 083: Dave Forces Everyone To Watch Matlock We watch the second season episode "Network" in which all the late-80s stars of NBC shine as talking heads on "Entertainment Today." ALF is among them. We have questions. From September 29, 2020EEHG 085: Co-Host Forcening: Shangri-La Plaza After Michael Darling eulogized the ill-fated pilot of Shangri-La Plaza in Los Angelesmagazine this August, Tara made a mental note to expose her co-hosts -- and our Patreon supporters! -- to the insanity he described. Finally, it is time for all of us to take that journey! From October 9, 2020.TOPICSLead Topic: 🌌 The Big Bang Theory Lead Topic: 👴🏻 Matlock Lead Topic: 🌭 Shangri-La Plaza NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 336 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🌭 Shangri-La Plaza, the Star-Studded, All-Musical Sitcom Time Forgot' in Los Angeles magazine

To help get you through our holiday break, Tara wrote a special festive version of her fan-favorite (...is it?) Non-Regulation Game Time: it's Wrapping Paper Tube Tunes! Some original holiday songs from TV shows; some covers; all comfort and joy. Please enjoy this gift from us to you, and don't try to return it.TOPICSGame Time: 🎁 Wrapping Paper Tube TunesNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 335 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Stephen King's 1978 novel has already been turned into a miniseries once, but it's time for this generation to get its own, apparently? So CBS All Access has made one, and Roxana Hadadi is joining us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Flight Attendant, Celebrity IOU, TKTK, The Wilds, and Season 2 of The Mandalorian. Mlle. Caroline presents the Parks & Recreation episode "Recall Vote" for induction to The Canon; then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that defies categorization. Make yourself a nice cup of Thera-Flu and join us! GUESTS 👤 Roxana Hadadi TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦠 The Stand Around The Dial: ✈️ The Flight Attendant Around The Dial: 💸 Celebrity IOU Around The Dial: 👒 Bridgerton Around The Dial: 🍺 Letterkenny Around The Dial: 🐆 The Wilds Around The Dial: 🐸 The Mandalorian The Canon: 🌳 Parks And Recreation S06.E07: Recall Vote Winner & Loser: 👍 Dopesick Winner & Loser: 👎 The Rookie Game Time: 🧠 Netflix Rathole NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 334 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Roxana Hadadi on Twitter 🦠 Roxana's review of The Stand at Variety 📚 1994 Harold Lauder 🥇 RogerEbert.com Best TV of 2020 coverage 🎗 The A.V. Club Best Films of 2020 coverage 🍺 A goofy piece about the hotness of the Letterkenny cast, sort of jumping off me mentioning the show during the recording, over at Pajiba 🌴 A Very Special 90210 Book 🎙 Madonna A to Z 🐸 Film Crit Hulk on the Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian 🥸 The Mandalorian animation vs. deepfake

First-time guest Kamille joins us for a conversation about Tiny Pretty Things, Netflix's new Center Stage-with-teens ballet thriller (?), and while she watched the whole thing, neither she nor the fulltime panel thinks it's good. But aside from the wretched VO, suspect acting, unwelcome parallels to 13 Reasons Why and decided un-Frenchness of cartoon villain Lauren Holly, is TPT a good time-waster? Not to worry: we found you some definite time-wasters when we went Around The Dial with The Wilds and 12 Dates Of Christmas, panned Deliciousness, and helped you cut down that HBO-documentary backlog with a watch-skip index of recent prestige true crime. We couldn't help but wonder if Sex & The City's fourth-season premiere was the Canon's soulmate. Boots Riley and Jharrel Jerome won (for now), Ellen and Ellen lost (again), and Suley wassailed us with a TV/Christmas song Game Time. Don't let the dorm mother catch you listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Kamille WashingtonTOPICSLead Topic: 🩰 Tiny Pretty Things Around The Dial: 🏝 The Wilds Around The Dial: 🍕 Deliciousness Around The Dial: 💕 12 Dates Of Christmas Around The Dial: 🔪 HBO true-crime documentariesThe Canon: 🏙 Sex And The City Winner & Loser: 👍 Amazon orders a series from Boots RileyWinner & Loser: 👎 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Game Time: 🧠 The Caroling Burnett ShowNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 333 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kamille Washington on Twitter🇬🇧 Tara's post on Pennyworth at Decider📚 Sarah and Tara on the People Still Read Books podcast🎄 Sarah and Tara discussion Northpole on the Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean podcast🎧 The Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast💸 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon

Hulu and Canada's kids' broadcaster YTV have brought the world a new adaptation of the nearly-100-year-old boy detectives Frank and Joe Hardy, and we've enlisted Adam Grosswirth to join us in discussing it! A super-sized Around The Dial takes us through Selena: The Series, Nurses, Jingle Jangle, Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square, the original '70s version of The Hardy Boys, and Gangs Of London. After Joe M. uses his Extra Credit topic to have us write a character-revealing power ballad into an otherwise un-musical show, Adam makes his pitch for the "Fair Is Foul And Foul Is Fair" episode of Slings & Arrows to be inducted into The Canon. We crown the week's Winner and Loser, and close out with a Game Time perfectly tailored (heh heh) to our interests. Get your flashlight and your VERY loud walkie-talkie and listen in!GUESTS👤 Adam GrosswirthTOPICSLead Topic: 🔍 The Hardy Boys Around The Dial: 🎶 Selena: The Series Around The Dial: 🏥 Nurses Around The Dial: 🔔 Jingle Jangle Around The Dial: 🎄 Christmas On The Square Around The Dial: 🔎 The Hardy Boys (1977) Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Gangs Of London Extra Credit: 🤑 Once More With FeelsThe Canon: 🏹 Slings & Arrows S02.E04: Fair Is Foul And Foul Is FairWinner & Loser: 👍 Vantage Point, getting a series adaptation at NBCWinner & Loser: 👎 CBS Sunday Morning David SedarisGame Time: 🧠 Signature LookNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 332 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter🥴 The drunk episode of Overwhelming Positivity, "Two Hundred Headless Snowman In Review"🎶 "The Latine Delegation Has Decided Netflix's Selena: The Series Is Not Good" at Jezebel👗 Tara's review of Stylish With Jenna Lyons at Primetimer🛩 Tara on Kaley Cuoco in The Flight Attendant at Decider👩‍🦰 Tara on the end of The Undoing at Dave Chen's Patreon🎄 Wesley Morris;s review of Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square in The New York Times🎧 Adam on Caroline And The Podcast🔪 The 12 Days Of Best Evidence

The panel is contemplating three user submissions for the Canon this week, starting with the extremely highly rated, extreeeeemely looooong series finale of MASH. Lindy makes a fascinating parallel between [waves hands vaguely] All This and the world MASH portrayed, but is the episode's status as a historical reference enough to earn it a medal of honor? Next, we're sampling a first-season Strangers With Candy episode submitted by Tim (and the second in which a chicken figures heavily). Does Amy Sedaris's satirical take on The Best Little Girl In The World -- and a solid comedic turn from one Ellen Pompeo -- have what we'd call a debater's body? Finally, Mlle. Caroline files a support ticket for The IT Crowd, which pits Matt Berry and a great PSA parody against suboptimal pacing and an intrusive laugh track. Try turning it off and then back on again: it's an all-Canon Extra Hot Great!TOPICSThe Canon: 🩺 M*A*S*H The Canon: ✏️ Strangers With Candy The Canon: 💻 The IT Crowd NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 331 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

After 15 seasons on two networks, Supernatural has finally hunted its last monster, and our French friend Caroline Lefloch is joining us to bury the series finale in an unmarked, shallow grave. Around The Dial takes us through I Hate Suzie, Peacock's sequel to Saved By The Bell, Agatha Christie's Poirot, and new looks at the D.B. Cooper case in both History's Greatest Mysteries and HBO's The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper. Kimberly challenges us to Fleabag-enize a show by adding a hot clergy person to it; then it's on to Guy's submission of the Perfect Strangers episode "Just Desserts" for induction into The Canon. Finally, after crowning the week's Winner and Loser, we end on a Game Time with a little Gallic flair. Load up the vintage Impala and join us!GUESTS👤 Caroline LeflochTOPICSLead Topic: 👻 Supernatural Around The Dial: 😡 I Hate Suzie Around The Dial: ✏️ Saved By The Bell (2020) Around The Dial: 🥸 Agatha Christie's Poirot Around The Dial: 📜 History's Greatest Mysteries Around The Dial: 🪂 The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper Extra Credit: 🤑 Fleabag ReduxThe Canon: 👨‍🍳 Perfect Strangers S03.E16: Just DessertsWinner & Loser: 👍 Nick OffermanWinner & Loser: 👎 The Drew Barrymore Show Game Time: 🧠 How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 330 page on ExtraHotGreat.com😷 "Supernatural: COVID May Be To Blame for a Lackluster Finale" on VanityFair.com🌴 Again With This on Patreon🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs🛶 "Nick Offerman's Woodshop Is Crafting Sustainable Solutions To Homelessness In LA" on Uproxx