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[jima]

Favorite sketch: "Next Week In Review" from the Steve Martin/Blues Brothers show in 1978. Not only does Steve Martin get an epic punch line to set up, but his character's name is "Cocuwa", which he claims is Hawaiian for "To help without compensation", actually a description for the word "kokua". So he gets a laugh for an accurate Hawaiian word definition!

[Cekrypton1]

Tara's "Who made the moon? What kind of question is that? It's the moon, no one fucking made it."--Still laughing at this.

[Primetimer]

Eve Batey helps us review every subgenre of crime show, plus NBC-shaming, pot-delivery feels, and more!

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[PatternRec]

@Sarah D. Bunting's reading only served to increase my crush #Unrequited #AlreadyMarried  

[vendredi3]

Ironically, one of your episodes from a year or so ago introduced me to La Croix. Pamplemousse FTW. This is on you!

[Primetimer]

Assigning vices to TV characters.

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[Corgi-ears]

Scott Peterson. Drew Peterson. William Petersen? TWIST!

Edited November 16, 2016 by Corgi-ears

[Fukui San]

Loser of the week?  It's everyone. Just, everyone.

[CJBinATX]

Well now I feel weird about using my Hulu Watchlist for new episode notifications.

[Violet Penner]

Sorry if this is lazy of me to ask, but is there a list somewhere of the crime shows mentioned in the podcast?  Especially the "people should watch these" list - I was listening in the car and couldn't write them down. I can relisten if it's a pain to compile, but wasn't sure if the list already existed somewhere that I was missing?

Edited November 16, 2016 by Violet Penner

[Jesse]

High Maintenance is so great! It's on my list of shows to pitch at Thanksgiving, so as to avoid political talk.  Anyway, I liked that episode (and the one with the day rave maybe?) more than the one about the dog that everyone was raving about. 

 

Also some of those haiku were a mess! Hilarious. 

[Flamingo]

I'm really late in coming back to say thank you to everyone for helping fill us in on the whole Sorkin/forum thing. I had heard it referenced on other podcasts and in comments in other places. I'm pretty sure it was actually Kevin T. Porter on his Gilmore Girls podcast. The West Wing isn't quite as bad as some of his other shows which I think the actresses, particularly Allison Janney, deserve credit for pushing their characters more out of the look-at-me-I'm-a-girl-and-great-at-my-job-but-absolutely-everything-else-in-my-life-I'm-a-disaster-at box he likes to use to box in female characters. I think The Newsroom is actually the worst. The ego it takes to get so upset to fight with people in the forums is mind boggling.

[David T. Cole]

4 hours ago, Violet Penner said:

Sorry if this is lazy of me to ask, but is there a list somewhere of the crime shows mentioned in the podcast?  Especially the "people should watch these" list - I was listening in the car and couldn't write them down. I can relisten if it's a pain to compile, but wasn't sure if the list already existed somewhere that I was missing?

Here's the show list (for the whole episode):

• 48 Hrs
• 60 Days In
• AHS Roanoke
• Almost Human
• Angie Tribeca
• Animal Kingdom
• Barney Miller
• Blackish
• Bletchley Circle
• Blind Justice
• Broadchurch
• Bron
• Brooklyn 99
• Campus PD
• Celebrity Apprentice
• Chance
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Empire
• Epitafios
• Forensic Files
• Happy Valley
• Here's the show list (for the whole episode):
• High Maintenance
• Killing Season
• Law & Order
• Law & Order SVU
• Luther
• Making A Murderer
• Paradise Lost
• Police Squad
• Rectify
• Shield
• Spenser for Hire
• State of Play
• Sweet/Vicious
• The Jinx
• The Shift
• The Wire
• Top Of The Lake
• Whitechapel
• World's Wildest Police Videos

[PatternRec]

Now pls summarize each show and in what context they were discussed on the podcast. 

[SnideAsides]

I swear to God, Tara better throw next week's Game Time. #TeamBuntsy

[MaryPatShelby]

Agree with Sarah about Manic Pixie Dream Chloe.  I haven't watched last night's episode yet, so maybe she gets more tolerable?  I'm very disappointed that the showrunners thought they needed a character like that but, as Sarah said, I want to/will trust them.

[Primetimer]

Choosing the next Westworld.

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[Dave in Chicago]

"The Candy Snatchers" is sort of a dark comedy, but emphasis on *dark*. There's just a dash of "Ransom of Red Chief" in there, but their version of "everything goes wrong" is much bleaker.

[Sarah D. Bunting]

@Snide, then it's not a real season victory for me. (Also T-Bone is too competitive to do that, even for me.) But I appreciate your support!

@Mary, she doesn't.

[April Bloodgate]

Thanks for mentioning The Shift. I hadn't heard of it before, but definitely want to check it out as I used to live in Indianapolis.

Totally agree about La Croix. My coworkers at my last job were obsessed with it, and I cannot figure out why. Also, they always called it "fizzy water". Ugh...

Edited November 17, 2016 by April Bloodgate

[jima]

Add this show to David T. Cole's list: 

[jima]

Co-signed on The Sting, a movie that still holds up. Didn't Sarah drop a reference to Kid Twist on a recent episode?

[Valny]

@Sarah D. Bunting- loved your Apprentice apology letter. I actually listened to it four times! "Commander in Cheeto" had me cracking up, I've heard/read many an orange or shade of orange thrown at he who shall not be named, but that was a new one for me.

I am one episode behind with Rectify... but oh crap, there's more Chloe coming to this last season? Don't like when they add new characters in final seasons. *coughPotentialsBuffycough*

[Flamingo]

14 minutes ago, Valny said:

@Sarah D. Bunting- loved your Apprentice apology letter. I actually listened to it four times! "Commander in Cheeto" had me cracking up, I've heard/read many an orange or shade of orange thrown at he who shall not be named, but that was a new one for me.
 

Agreed!  It was fabulous and "Commander in Cheeto" made me snort.

[SnideAsides]

I've decided I'm exclusively calling him Commander in Cheeto from now on. Well, that or Double Agent Orange.

[Valny]

Just started watching the first two eps of Sweet Vicious, one of Tara's recommendations.  It's pretty decent, I like the two leads they play off well with each other.

[PatternRec]

Yay! Feel the BuntLove! 

[Primetimer]

Small-batch product placements from the EHG panel.

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[Flamingo]

Thanks for the information about Peter Thomas. I'm not much into true crime shows; but, I find Forensic Files weirdly soothing which I greatly attribute to Mr. Thomas. We always get a little tickled in our house when he conveys so much drama in the theory of the crime.

LaCroix is gross. I'm always drinking club soda, seltzer water, Perrier, or San Pelligrino. One of my coworkers excitedly brought me a can of the mango. It had a wretched chemical flavor. Just get non flavored and add a piece of fruit.

[ApathyMonger]

I had never heard of Coffy until listening to this episode today, and then I saw this article where it's used as the header image:

http://www.avclub.com/article/new-streaming-service-brown-sugar-says-its-netflix-246144

[PatternRec]

1 hour ago, ApathyMonger said:

I had never heard of Coffy until listening to this episode today, and then I saw this article where it's used as the header image:

http://www.avclub.com/article/new-streaming-service-brown-sugar-says-its-netflix-246144

Also, @The Crazed Spruce punned the movie for one of our Luke Cage threads: 

[Lisin]

@Sarah D. Bunting thanks for the recommendation for Killer Legends! I'm watching now and the Candyman part is literally hitting close to home because if I were to frame by frame the archival news footage of the part where they're outside the prison I'm pretty sure I'd see my dad there protesting! 

[Primetimer]

Jumping ahead a la Deutschland 83/6.

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[Sarah D. Bunting]

Thanks for the love, everyone! @Lisin, that is a weird connection. People's ties to true crimes are fascinating to me (I'm not saying my dad referred to his schoolmate John DuPont as "that nutter" one time? But I'm not saying he didn't, heh).

[Sarah D. Bunting]

@jima, sounds like me.

[Lisin]

15 minutes ago, Sarah D. Bunting said:

Thanks for the love, everyone! @Lisin, that is a weird connection. People's ties to true crimes are fascinating to me (I'm not saying my dad referred to his schoolmate John DuPont as "that nutter" one time? But I'm not saying he didn't, heh).

It's not even my only one... but my dad being a pretty active anti-death penalty activist means he pops up in the most random places and often forgets to mention "hey, I'm going to be on NatGeo tonight" or whatever. Once a friend texted me that he was a character in a novel she was reading. (Black Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin) and even he didn't know about that one. 

[Monty]

Let's jump forward in Veep. Then we can find out what Selina's been up to for three whole years, and it jumps forward so the next election is coming up faster.

Edited November 21, 2016 by Monty

[David T. Cole]

Oh good suggestion @Monty!

[PatternRec]

Mystery Science Theater 3000 should do this just so it can be called Mystery Science Theater 3003.

[Primetimer]

We're pondering possible turkeys for a special episode: all-Turkey Day Canon submissions!

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[PatternRec]

Just about to start Game Time and while Sarah is usually my PodCrush™ this week my heart went all a-flutter when Tara giggled at the Turkey noises. 

[Fukui San]

Another precedent set for the body of Nonac law. An episode cannot be "so bad its good" for the purposes of Nonac consideration. 

[David T. Cole]

That's not true, I don't think I/we said that.

[helent]

I'm with David. I think the helicopter dropping on Romano is pretty much the best thing ER ever did. It's just such a wonderful level of WTF stupidity.

Edited November 27, 2016 by helent

[Primetimer]

Assembling a dream team of TV characters to get our Ocean's 11 on.

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[John Potts]

On ‎23‎/‎11‎/‎2016 at 7:35 AM, helent said:

I think the helicopter dropping on Romano is pretty much the best thing ER ever did.

I view it as a sort of "Voodoo Helicopter*" - a vengeful patient stabbed an effigy of Romano with a toy helicopter blade. Ever after that, helicopters were his worst enemy.

 

* The term comes from Chuck "SF Debris" Sonnenburg's novelisation of Jaws: The Revenge, where the shark attacks were "explained" as the result of a voodoo curse on the family

[MCMLXXVII]

Just read "Lost Girls" in three days. Thanks for the recommendation. 

[MaryPatShelby]

I checked out "Lost Girls" on Thursday, and will probably finish it today!!

[Primetimer]

Getting our sticky fingers on the TV prop our hearts most desire.

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[BobH]

I'd steal the TARDIS.  Although a cornballer is tempting, too...