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Love it, love it, love it. Would watch all.

I NEED to see the Scully-Sherlock pairing. I know without even looking that there are probably reams of Rule 34 fanfic with that matchup...

When I was listening to this -- as you were describing Steve & Dylan's antics dressed as "mouth bacteria", I don't know, I thought you were kidding. How could I have doubted you. And ... how ... did anyone think this was a good idea.

I remember seeing the original Helter Skelter when I was a kid -- or at least just some of it -- because, yeah, Steve Railsback was really, really disturbing and scared the shit out of me. I didn't bother to watch the remake -- I'd heard it was pretty blah. Great Nonac submission -- I never know why networks always have to kill any golden goose by over-milking it (okay you can't milk a goose but... you know.) I was a real fan of the Office when it was at its peak -- but once it tipped over, forget it. I think this was close to the time that I bailed -- it felt like the writers thought, oh with this mockumentary format they can just do any damn thing and it will work, because people love these characters so much. Nope.

I have made that Ohndrea face so, so many times when looking over editing work...

That quote from the I Hate Brenda book made me imagine a team of specialists working a la Face Off with molds, putty, spray adhesive, filler, glass eyes and foam-rubber chins to turn SD's HIDEOUS MISSHAPEN NATURAL FORM into Brenda. They could only shoot for so long before she'd begin to melt under the lights, of course.

"Behhrff." Brilliant. Also the synchronized barf-response to "...soulmates."

WALSH JUSTICE (working title "Mr. Walsh of the Eighth Circuit" previous working title "Flyover States") Brandon Walsh inexplicably gets accepted to Harvard Law and returns to his home state of Minnesota, where he is even more inexplicably elected to the state legislature. Through his well publicized battles with a "blogger" on the "internet" he achieves notoriety as a plain-talking man of the people, and is appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Here, Mr. Walsh is in his element, braying from the bench to his heart's content. Sorkin digs deep into legal minutiae and his disdain for the Midwest. Guest star Sarah Jessica Parker appears in an arc in which Andrea Zuckerman is sent to St. Louis to cover a police brutality case for the New York Star (which a lot of parents read.) "You might have 140 characters... I only need one." (I realize actually that this is a project AS would love so... whoops.)

Ellie's sonnnnng! Amazing. I recently re-listened to an older EHG and it is amazing how grown up Liv sounds now. Great canon discussion -- I have to say, I bailed on Breaking Bad early on (I think my life was just too stressful at the time and I needed shows that were more escapist) but I loved listening to the canon segment and will probably give the episode a try. Tough (but fun) Gametime too -- sort of evil asking "what shows have made it into the canon" (as I was yelling "X FILES!" at my phone.)

This makes me so happy I could just ...

Kim, boy do I feel your pain... brain freeze is crazy.

Love Boat Insanity -- LOVE IT. I DEFINITELY want to see Joe's musical version -- it's like Sutton Foster in Anything Goes, FOREVER. Also -- Sarah! I have always had a fascination with the Marie Celeste -- so that would be awesome as well. I once had a guy tell me about how he was on a gay cruise -- I think the one that was refused docking somewhere in Central America -- and on that cruise (or another one, I might be mixing two stories of his up) the ship was struck with the norovirus. CAN YOU IMAGINE. So -- RuPaul's Insanity Weight Loss Cruise! It's like a reality show meets variety show. Off-brand disco one-hit wonders play every week (until they can scrape together enough coin to convince Kylie Minogue or Cher to be helicoptered in.)

UGH with the gum chewing. Like he's Just Some Regular Joe. ECCH. Man, I feel for Gabrielle Carteris. I think they must have been going for a Jennifer Grey type when they were casting -- and it's not her fault that they went with her -- but oh my god, every time I see a screencap it looks like could be playing one of the moms. The loudmouth masseuse is right out of THE WOMEN (where a manicurist lets slip that Norma Shearer's husband is carrying on with That Vixen Joan Crawford...) Hilarious. A side note: I was listening to this on the train and of course I'm practically giggling out loud and having to stifle myself... Sarah and Tara, you know, you both are Terrific Ladies. Just terrific.

Really loved this topic. I would bring Lindsay Wagner forward, at her mid-1970s age. She had a genuineness and a likeability that really lifted up material like the Scruples miniseries (which I may have watched, oh, more than once) and of course Bionic Woman. It would be interesting to send somebody like Lisa Kudrow back to see what she could do with a late 60s/early 70s Bewitched type of show.

I'm so glad somebody put together a SPAAAACE! GameTime. I'd taken a couple cracks at it but couldn't figure out how to put it together. Really fun. I agree with the Nonac ruling... if you just open the gates up to all horrible tv, where does it end? BUT we got to visit this meh-strosity as well, so it's win-win.

I was concerned that Tara might end up barfing herself inside out. I mean, I was ready to do the same. I mean... first of all, I hate "It's A Wonderful Life" homage-ripoff episodes of things (partly because I'm a terrible person with a cold dead heart who dislikes the movie IAWL in the first place... "It's a wonderful life for everyone except YOU, George Bailey, you DOORMAT" ... but I digress.) And then... everything just so hamhanded and twee at the same time. Brandon even out-Brandoning himself. Just... had they given up on getting Jason Priestly to do any other emotion other than self-righteous mooing? GAAAAAAAAH! Also that was the world's widest one-way street.

Tiny GameTime sidebar -- I was happy to hear "Surface" "Invasion" and "Threshold" in Is This A Thing? because those three shows basically were the inspiration for the "which came first" similar-show game. I remember when they all premiered -- I think within days of each other -- and it was like, okay so EVERY network needs their version of this kind of show...? (I didn't end up using those shows in the other game because really, who would remember what order they came in... but they have always stuck in my mind.)

I keep wondering what the actress who played Nikki would have been like as Ohndrea... for starters, convincingly-ish high school age. And... sorry Shannen Doherty ... but the GIF of the "shifty eyes" Brenda makes me see the off-kilter-ness of her eyes like I've never really seen before... whoa.

Chiming in with more love for Games Magazine. TV screencaps scavenger hunt sounds like an awesome idea...

I think I probably had my sound in my headphones turned down farther than I needed to (trying to avoid echo) so that contributed a bit... at least for Love Boat. Weirdly I knew Rawhide but somehow thought... oh that can't be it. Lesson: go with your gut. Am I clutching at straws ... maybe ... yes. Still, that was **so** much fun. And gives me new empathy for the next time I create a game. (Wait... no it doesn't ...)

MuuMuu Chainsmoker... I was so sort of keyed up that I don't think my brain could process that YES THIS TIME IT IS LOVE BOAT... There was something else I realized -- not only do shows these days not really have theme songs, it's so easy to skip the beginnings (either binging on Netflix, skipping ahead on DVR.) There was a mini topic a while back about which credit sequences do you never skip -- I used to always watch the Six Feet Under credit sequence ... then Dexter ... but lately I can't think of one I'd always watch. Maybe House of Cards.

I know it's been said before but ... it is SO so different when you're playing versus when you're screaming in your car. Like... how could I not know Cheers? Like THE most iconic of the iconic themes ... but something happens and your brain goes into vaporlock. And there's that weird thing where you know ALL of somebody else's clues (I think I knew all of Trip's and a fair chunk of Dave's) but on your own clues, the adrenaline kicks in and it's like you've never heard the Love Boat theme before (faceplant.) But also... if we answered everything perfectly, what fun would that be? ;) (PS ... Tara was right... I was thinking of "Hill Street Blues" but said "NYPD Blue" instead of ... CHEERS. Which of course has been running through my head ever since the recording... wheeee.....)

Speaking of "what were you looking for in here, musical comedy?": there used to be a store called Broadway Video in NYC, on Broadway and 80th or 81st. In the upstairs section, the musicals were grouped together on one shelf. Right behind it was gay male porn. You could grab Meet Me In St. Louis with one hand ... and Meat Me in St. Louis with the other. Or so I heard. From a friend.

Great game SnideAsides! Awesome episode all the way around -- Linda's Canon defense could be admitted to the Canon of Canon Explanations -- just hilarious. And Dracula Doog Adventures needs to be a thing.

Echoing the "poor Carteris" posts... looking at these pics from the episode, if you didn't know she was supposed to be a student, you'd think that maybe that character was the Cool Hip Counselor not long out of grad school who Hangs With The Kids and Relates. I don't know if it's her bone structure or hair or both or something else, but she just looks 30 no matter what. Meanwhile, Brandon makes every Ugly Brayface in the book. I remember watching this back in the day, I thought he was the cutest -- now I just want to smack him right in the gazoo.