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[Sarah D. Bunting]

Related: cucumber water snorted through the nose is not soothing.

[PatternRec]

34 minutes ago, Sarah D. Bunting said:

Related: cucumber water snorted through the nose is not soothing.

My work here is done. 

[MaryPatShelby]

I love that Designing Women is now in the canon; I could think of several more eps that would be worthy as well.  Just the other day I had to kill a spider, and my mind said "The MAN should have to kill the bugs."!

But then, I'm a DW freak and it torques me no end that every time I turn on the TV there is Golden Girls, sometimes on two or more channels, while DW gets no love at all.

[Corgi-ears]

 

Get well soon, Gordon. Remember: four legs good, three legs better, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

[FormerMod-a1]

I love the Golden Girls, but I also think Designing Women should be airing too.

[PatternRec]

On 9/5/2017 at 4:27 PM, OwenMeany said:

Best. Mini. Ever.

yuss!!!

[Portia]

The Designing Women talk was such a great trip down memory lane! I grew up in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, so my sister (who went to high school with Linda Bloodworth-Thomasson) and I watched the show religiously. Fun fact: Charlene's wacky stories were often peppered with the names of actual Poplar Bluffians. 

Edited September 10, 2017 by Portia

[teecer]

Re: Will Dave Hate This?

Dave is on record as anti-reality show, so I feel like even putting in that type of show, even with an ancient Rome-premise, is a given. 

As Tara was describing the show, however, I was secretly hoping it was a faux reality show, a la "Kroll Show," because this basically sounds like "Roman Gigolo House."

[Cekrypton1]

Jackson Galaxy--GALAXY!--and we don't even get one Gordon version of "Spaaaaace!"? *sigh*

[Primetimer]

Omar Gallaga is back to discuss Seth MacFarlane's folly, an Insecure Canon submission, and more!

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[TeeVee329]

Great episode, guys!

Will you be doing a full fall TV preview episode? Always enjoyed those in the past.

[David T. Cole]

Yeah we probably should!

[PatternRec]

Regarding Game Time - is there any record of how much money the networks paid the game company that made Trivial Pursuit to mention Dallas, Knots Landing etc? 

[SnideAsides]

For the record, Gunsmoke's not going to have that record much longer. The Simpsons is currently at 618 episodes, a solid ~400 of which nobody will ever voluntarily admit to watching.

[Fukui San]

The couch gag for the tying episode will have to reference Gunsmoke. 

Someone should do a documentary on anyone who's watched every episode of The Simpsons. 

[Primetimer]

Foreign shows that haven't been adapted yet, and how the U.S. studios would mess them up.

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[CUBuckeye]

Tara, did you seriously ask DAVE how to pronounce someone's name? ;)

[Paul B]

:GASP: that Galileo talking ornament is STILL on my family's Christmas tree every year. Thank. You.

[EAG46]

Too many classic British sitcoms to mention. Are You Being Served?, Keeping Up Appearances, Yes Minister, To The Manor Born, and so forth. In fact, a season of As Time Goes By dealt with how one character's biography got bought by American television, and how Lionel (the author) had to watch the stupid US people mangle it.

[The Solid Muldoon]

:GASP: that Galileo talking ornament is STILL on my family's Christmas tree every year. Thank. You.

Mine too!

[Carrie Ann]

Fun game time--I liked how the info/clues came at the answer from different angles.

Also, count me as happy to trade timecodes for ads and dollars! Yay!

[SnideAsides]

I'm happy to trade timecodes, but can we get the "EHG#x" back on the front page blurbs? I feel like I keep missing episodes now that it's gone.

[WInterfalls]

There's a Korean drama I have been obsessed with lately called School 2015: Who Are You about teenage identical twins that grew up separately and one is rich the other lives in an orphanage and one goes missing and the other gets amnesia and takes over the life of the other. It's completely insane but I would love to see it here. It's like a cross between Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, and Twin Peaks.

[Primetimer]

Which news anchors would make already-good shows better -- as themselves?

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[Tara Ariano]

21 hours ago, EAG46 said:

Too many classic British sitcoms to mention. Are You Being Served?, Keeping Up Appearances, Yes Minister, To The Manor Born, and so forth. In fact, a season of As Time Goes By dealt with how one character's biography got bought by American television, and how Lionel (the author) had to watch the stupid US people mangle it.

Are You Being Served? was attempted but didn't go.

[EAG46]

7 hours ago, Tara Ariano said:

Are You Being Served? was attempted but didn't go.

Oh thank God for that.  It wouldn't have worked.   

[Primetimer]

Other shows' casts (and maybe us?) on The Amazing Race.

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[Primetimer]

Killing off lead characters, and what those shows do next.

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John Ramos returns to talk about Kristen Bell's current star vehicle!

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[John Potts]

As a Trekkie, I wish I could see Star Trek Discovery, but I don't get Netflix. Sure I'll catch it eventually, though I'm slightly annoyed at already (before this Podcast) being spoiled on the SHOCKING EVENT that happens in the Pilot. I was also wondering why the Klingons looked different (again).

That was a super hard game time, but I was so pleased with the couple I got that the players didn't.

[FormerMod-a1]

I love The Good Place, too!  I'm glad you all watched past episode 4, or at all depending who you are.  I initially binged it during the election, so got way past ep 4 initially.  Having binged it I never had the issues others had that made them stop watching before then.  I never noticed, or it didn't have the same impact in binge format, the issues others had.  (Not that I need to agree with my friends all the time, especially about TV).  I kept thinking "but it's so good".   Maybe more people will watch it all now, too.  I still have no friends AWK that watch.  #fwp

[Sheena]

Thank you guys for getting me to watch The Good Place, it's amazing and I couldn't be happier that it's finally on Netflix!

Side note, not to be a jerk but Bones' first name is Temperance or Joy, not Constance.

[TeeVee329]

Great episode! Are you making a move back to Tuesdays or was this a one-off?

[Fukui San]

I'm a bit confused. Were you talking of The Good Place past episode 2 of season 2?  Just wanted to see if you were talking about stuff happening past where I've seen with your magical screener powers.

[Tara Ariano]

3 hours ago, Fukui San said:

I'm a bit confused. Were you talking of The Good Place past episode 2 of season 2?  Just wanted to see if you were talking about stuff happening past where I've seen with your magical screener powers.

We didn't end up getting into that many specifics about episodes 3 and 4, but better safe.

 

4 hours ago, TeeVee329 said:

Great episode! Are you making a move back to Tuesdays or was this a one-off?

One-off.

[MuuMuuChainsmoker]

Me under my breath when Dave was bagging on the Veep episode:  “Your mom tries to have it both ways!”

Also, that second round of Game Time would make an excellent Marry, Fuck, Kill EHG episode.

[jima]

Dave, here's a free card for the next Grosswirth Equalizer Challenge

[Sarah D. Bunting]

^ interesting bit of trivia

[Primetimer]

Submitting to a trio of fascist new TV dramas!

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[Stowaway]

Yay, Tara's Pinko Corner is back!

[EAG46]

Yay, Tara's Pinko Corner is back!

Hooray for the corner!

[TeeVee329]

Tara's little asides describing the shows ("...Celestia" "...and her teeth") are giving me life!

[LaGuera1980]

Just a quick note, but the alphabetical list for "Bones" Brennan, "McDreamy" Shepard, and McNulty was wrong. "Bones" first name is Temperance, not Constance. Her dad on the show calls her "Tempy" all the time, so John was correct in his original listing. It is Derek Shepard, Jimmy McNulty, and then Temperance (not Constance) Brennan.

[Portia]

Sorry, I don't need a forking Canadian reminding me how poor I am at U. S. geography.  

[Primetimer]

Choosing the small-screen cops we want investigating crimes on our behalves.

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[Josiah Bounderby]

This is the Tara I most admire: sharp, righteous, and animated by a bit of outrage. She isn't caulking on internet snark. She's dismantling structures.

Btw, I vote for a mini podcast covering three new shows over three separate New Show Fact Sheet pieces/ Quicker and more fun for me to consume.

[Cekrypton1]

Look at the slack-jawed yokels in that publicity still. How did the producers/network think that was the best one to use?

[John Potts]

Assuming you want the case solved, Mars Investigations are a good choice (I would have gone with the title picture character, Gil Grissom - well, presumably Brass would be investigating, Gil would be providing the vital sciency answers).

If I was the murderer, I'd want an incompetent cop - my choice would be Chief Wiggum. Like Inspector Gadget, by himself he wouldn't have a clue about solving anything, you'd just have to hope he doesn't drag along his more competent sidekick with him (Penny or Lisa) who might actually crack the case.

[Racj82]

The orville's 3rd episode was really good. It seems to be finding it's footing week by week. It also helps to understand that's it's a earnest homage to star trek and not a galaxy quest type comedy.

Also Dave is by far the hardest but to crack with the canon. Damn. I think he's only given a positive review to the designing women episode in the past two months. His vote doesn't even seem to matter anymore.

[April Bloodgate]

On 9/27/2017 at 9:56 AM, Stowaway said:

Yay, Tara's Pinko Corner is back!

I came here to make the same comment. Pinko Tara is the best!