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It's a mystery... never has happened before going through that app. Listening directly on the page there was no skip. (PS speaking of loser of the week, Tara's Debra Messing series is one of the most hilarious things on the site -- I have forced friends to read some of the "Debra e-mails her agent" posts right off my phone.)

This was fantastic -- I was so relieved to hear that Neelix is The Worst, because he is indeed The Absolute Worst. I have a soft spot for Voyager because I really like Kate Mulgrew, and I think that series had a stronger start than some of the others (although it quickly went into a multi-season rut.) But I could always count on Neelix to be the perpetrator of Comical Shenanigans when the writers just needed somebody to screw something up. I had a weird glitch in the episode -- it jumped right from the end of the voting on the Canon, to the middle of Loser of the Week. Did anyone else have that? (I was downloading it on the iPhone Podcast app.)

Hurrrah - !! You're back!

I had always heard of HELLO, LARRY in the "McLean Stevenson left MASH for **this**???" kind of way. It turns out it is in the "Diff'rent Strokes - Facts of Life" world ... who knew? http://www.poobala.com/diffandhello.html He plays a radio host in the show (thus the pairing with WKRP) ... but I think it just lives on as a tiny footnote in the "major flops" category. Also: I would like a world in which Angie Dickinson starred in every generically titled "Lady Cop" show. Police Woman! She's The Sheriff! Lady LEO! Female Inspector, Scotland Yard! The Babe's The Bailiff! The Prettiest Police Officer! The Warden's a Woman! (The major thing I remember about Police Woman, although it was before my time really, is that her name was Pepper. PEPPER.)

I loved loved loved this Gametime -- so funny.

Fun Game Time (some tough clues in there.) And weirdly, tonight a friend wanted to show me an episode of Bob's Burgers -- and whaddya know, it was "Topsy." I knew to look in the background for all the science fair project titles.

I also really loved Karina Longworth's Manson series -- I'd read Helter Skelter before and some other Manson-related things -- but nothing wove all the threads together like her approach. I was intrigued by the idea of Aquarius -- now maybe I'll get around to watching it.

David's Twyla Tharp-ing makes him look like one of those inflatable flailing balloon-guys outside a car dealership.

"Finally got to meet Gramma Rose." "Asked Gramma Rose for seconds..." "Gramma Rose is feeling lonely... " "Hey sweetie... Gramma Rose got a shave and a haircut..." "Gramma Rose needs her calcium ... " "Y'wanna come over and feed Gramma Rose some applesauce?" I'll show myself out.

I... actually saw this when it was on. AIEEEE. I'm forgetting how (or if) they explained the conceit of the show ... that this is the actual Brady family... somehow... doing a show? Oh, Real Jan, how smart you were to avoid this.

Wow... it really has been a long time. WaPo article on Gary's death - 25 years ago! Quote from the end of the article:

The unexpected death I was talking about at work was Gary on thirtysomething -- that's how long ago this was! And I think the other co-worker was definitely sincere... she patted my hand and everything. It was one of my first jobs in an office. Later, once the internet arrived, I found rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc, aka RATSA. I was a fan of All My Children and General Hospital and just stumbled onto the newsgroup. It was *very* structured -- you literally had to be introduced to the group by a sponsor. Everyone was very smart and funny. I am actually still friends with a core group of people from that newsgroup to this day, and have met about half IRL, in places all over the world. (And I know at least one is a fellow listener of EHG.)

I remember that ER episode so clearly -- the choice of Romano and Corday to be Lucy's team -- perfect. And I recall bursting into tears of relief, just like Sarah mentioned. Really fun Gametime, too -- tough one!

I'm with Tara on the whole "life after an apocalypse" thing. I'll be the first to go.

I was delighted to see a supersized length EHG episode ... you all are very skilled at keeping the conversation engaging. Audio was great, so way to go with the post processing. I was interested to hear the breakdown of the Lost pilot. I must confess, when I first watched the pilot, I was going through a pretty stressful time in my life, so I was avoiding any show that just added to the stress. Once guy met engine, I turned it off. Then of course I had to hear about all my friends having Lost viewing parties, discussing the mysteries, etc. I tried to pick it up again, I think in the episode where they find A Mysterious Hatch (but apparently they found more than one, so...) It just didn't take. Great GameTime -- loved the choice of questions -- especially numbers of appearances of guest stars, and "in which episode did X happen?"

From the article: This is why I finally had to stop watching (a while ago now). It might have even been the Red Robin tie-in that made me go, "Okay, nope." They've heard this criticism of one-day challenges over and over and obviously don't care. I mean, I get that it's a cost cutting measure... but figure it out, show. They were able to pull it off once upon a time. Four days to make a collection? No.

Yes, Masters of Sax. Are Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan worse than Jazz ... ?

Ron Howard was in VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS (you can find the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version on YouTube) which is a trippy, trippy delight. Ron Howard plays a kid called "Genius" who invents some kind of goo that makes everything huge. Local "crazy wild teens" get hold of it, and before you know it, you have a giant shirtless Beau Bridges and some Sharon Tate lookalikes ruling the town. It's campy and funny but also sort of disturbing... I would be up for seeing Nick's "Hanging with the Batz" take on vampires... just no more angsty-romance vamps.

I had one just a couple months ago like that -- it might have been one of yours ;) I hadn't gotten that far into it -- and the one that was used was a better spin on it than I had thought of.

I really waffled about whether to include it (Tara, on re-listening I heard you say, "My dad listens to this show!" ... aieee. Sorry Mr. Tara's Dad.) Luckily Dave has the same no holds barred sense of humor that I do...

I think living here must be rubbing off on me. (Oh. Wait...)

I finally figured out one (among many) things that irks me about the way Brandon talks. He puts on this almost New-York-y tough guy tawk -- like where his Ts become Ds -- especially in braying scenes, like with Jill. And just where does that come from? He's from MINNESOTA. Isn't JP from Canada? I guess a midwestern accent wouldn't have the right "bowling ball clanging" swagger. Listening to Darla, and some of the other guest stars -- you can really hear how speaking voices have changed in the time since then -- there was just the very beginning hints of vocal fry (rarely) & all the particular ways people on TV speak nowadays.

Brandon's hair according to Bunting & Ariano: 1. The top of the head is a tousled crop circle that really looks very pointy 2. like a boot brush, but the rest of his head is shaved to the skin 3. like someone put a plate of pine needles on his head and then shaved the rest 4. so much product in it, but now it's spiky. It's short on top but really over-gelled 4a. yet, the sides flare out at 45 angles from the shaved part 5. Like he styled it by walking under a helicopter that was taking off 6. The top of it looks like actual velcro (the fuzzy side) 6a. And he is the dwarf stuck to it 7. Fido Dido-y 8. He looks like a screw. 9. (from Dave) like Guile from Street Fighter 2 10. NASCAR/mental hospital situashe 11. He looks like frisee in a salad, with a lot of vinaigrette dressing on it. Conclusion: Brandon's hair is terrible.

That stomp-stomp-stomp gif needs glurpy cement and / or fart noises added. The looonnnng fade outs leaving the cast helplessly mugging remind me of the days when I was active on some soap boards -- they had a particular phrase for this: "Oven Stare." ("Did I... leave the oven on ...? Did I ... ? I ... may have?") Also of course known as Smell The Fart Acting, etc. I wasn't a very constant viewer but whatever watching I did was pretty much wrapped up by this time. I'll be interested to see where it goes. I am pleasantly surprised by how much I like Celeste -- she seems just at ease and charming in a way most of them aren't. I used to think (why?!) that Jason Priestly was the cutest of them all -- and I did sort of like this more jock-y look for him. But every time he makes a move or opens his mouth, it's ruined. Or as Brinda would say, runed.

Okay, SHOW. I usually don't get all logic-y about things but ... but ... but... the Hollywood sign is 45 feet tall and THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FEET LONG. Where did they get all that canvas? How could they possibly have painted it? Where did they lay it out? HOW MUCH DOES THAT MANY SQUARE FEET OF CANVAS WEIGH??? DID THEY USE A HELICOPTER TO HANG IT????? Oh god. Nana needs to lie down.