David T. Cole

I also read all the various Darth Vader mini-series which were good but not super-great and Dark Times with it's surprisingly high body count which I'm liking.

Might have to call the podcast Wet Hot Gravy next episode.

Terminator as a franchise seems like it should be on TV. All the military, counter-intel and time travel stuff are the things that make season arcs sing. Problem is there's only so many slots available for high budget TV that would do it justice. TSSC had a following and I'm not poo-pooing it but I don't think it captured enough of the Terminator universe faithful to make a go of it (obviously).

How I developed the Sixth Sense. They are all dead.

Our own Nick Rheinwald-Jones wondered which made-up restaurants we'd like to visit, or fictional chefs we'd like to cook for us.

Avaryl, Kelsi, and Trevor tasked us with picking two parents and three kids from animated shows to form a family. We came up with carefully matched parenting styles, a pet, and a…spy lab?

Rob used his Extra Credit to ask where we would send our favorite (and beleaguered) characters on dramas for a little lighthearted vacation. See who we packed a bag for.

Honored guest Jeff Drake helps the regular EHG gang bid farewell to 2013 with a discussion of two melodramatic third-season shows, Homeland and Scandal. We shared a listener's Tiny Triumph; breathed fire at Jeff's case for a Game Of Thrones Canon submission; and declared a winner and loser, before kicking off a brand-new season of Game Time with a super-fun crossover quiz.

Paul Rudd is going to be Ant Man. I don't know what else to do with this information than tell the two of you.

I fix! Now kiss.

Test

"The competition moves from teams to individuals; the players face an endurance challenge; a player suffers with self-sabotaging thoughts; two players are sent home." Sounds like a barnfatburner!

Yeah! QuizUp is pretty solid. I'm playing all the non-academic quizzes like Logos, Snacks, Simpsons and Flags of the World because I'm SMRT. I'm Glark on Game Center and I don't want to do any Doctor Who ones. :)

Well, la di da.

She's the one redhead actress of her age not on Orange Is The New Black.

Well, probably a couple years late but they finally did it. Interested to see how much of a reset next season will actually be. Is Carrie really going to go to Istanbul? F. Murray needs to team up with Saul or at least have one scene of them eating breakfast each episode next year.

The season 3 finale is nigh. Discuss it here. The thread opens when the show starts at 9 ET / 6 PT.

It took me a day to get over 5.

Let's talk Celebrity. This is our Game Night go to game. I think most people know it but just in case it goes like this: Pre-Game Flight List Create two teams -- preferably of 4 or more people each Everyone writes down the names of 5 celebrities on individual pieces of paper. Fold them and put them in a bowl. One of our house rules is that at this point the teams now pick each other's team names. Round One Select a team to go first Now that team selects a reader The reader takes the bowl and someone puts 1 minute on the clock The goal in round 1 is to get your team to guess the celebrity name using natural language clues without saying the name in part of in full or rhyming. Basically, no cheap tricks. Example: "She was a big daytime talk show host from Chicago, actor and now has her own cable TV network." Someone on your team guesses Oprah and you get a point. Now pull out another name and do it again. Keep going until your minute runs out. BTW, there is no passing in Celebrity. You get stumped, it's a loooong minute until your shame ends. Then the other team goes for a minute. Keep taking turns and when the last clue in the bowl is guessed yell "STOP!" and stop the clock. Round Two Put all those same clues back in the bowl. Whoever stopped the clock now continues with the remaining time from the last turn in round one. Pull out a clue. You get to say one word and one word only. Remember, these are the same celebrities form round one. I hope you were paying attention. You can inflect the word, sing it but only that one word so choose wisely. You might say "Chicago" and you team might not get Orpah but if you yell Cccccchicagggoooo! like Oprah, they will get it. Continue the one minute rounds until all the celebrities are named again. Round Three Same deal but now it is charades! Aussie Rules Celebrity If you are playing with a good crowd who's in it to win or if you got a tie breaker situation try Aussie Rules Celebrity which we made up a couple years ago. Separate your teams so they can't hear each other. Collaborate with your team to generate three celebrity names the other team will have to play. There's three rounds like regular celebrity BUT you only do one clue per round and nothing repeats so each round is played with a fresh celeb. Ooooooooo! So in round two you only get one word and no one has heard the celebrity name in the game yet! So the key in Aussie Rules Celebrity is to find that celebrity that's famous enough to be included but generic enough to be really hard to guess. May we suggest Eva Mendes? Andrea Martin? Round two is usually the round that can really stump the crowd. So team one chooses their reader for all three rounds, you start the clock and you go until all three celebrities are guesses. Round 1: grab a name and explain who it is. Round 2: grab a name and get a one-wed clue. Round 3: grab the last name and do charades. Now team two goes and has to beat that team to win!

No worries, she'll take credit for gimmes. :)

So Impossible Road. You just have to keep a ball on a track but OMG is this game ever a time-suck. I've played for a week and I've only scored 60 points. It's hard but has that I WILL BEAT YOU GAME! thing going for it. It's out of iOS and Android and cheap.

Anyone reading the current series that takes place between Star Wars and Empire? I'm not a big comic book guy but I'm really digging it. The Leia as pilot and operative story lines really make me hope the that Episode VII invests in a female lead. I could NOT get into "The Star Wars" though. That's the one that's based of early drafts. It's like eating eggs, flour and sugar instead of a cake. Familiar but half-baked and unfulfilling.

Ass maps?

And of course, the Christmas movie with the worst, most-cringe inducing scene: Gremlins.

Witches need depth-perception too!