Sarah D. Bunting March 22, 2018 Share March 22, 2018 Can also confirm Nailed It is really fun. That one guy's version of the cake-pop "finger" in the first episode... Link to comment
Primetimer March 28, 2018 Share March 28, 2018 Bobby Finger joins the panel for a discussion of the HBO comedy's fifth season premiere, plus a The Leftovers Canon, Latin-geek Game Time, and more! View the full article Link to comment
John Potts March 28, 2018 Share March 28, 2018 (edited) Surely Game Time should have been entitled "Hoc Davus loquabitur?" (there should possibly be a -ne on the end of one of those to indicate it's a question, since the Romans didn't have the question mark). Yes, I did Latin too! ETA: Edited because, if I'm going to Nitpick, I should at least get my cases right! Edited March 28, 2018 by John Potts Link to comment
swimmyfish March 28, 2018 Share March 28, 2018 Jian Yang has smoked a few times on previous episodes of Silicon Valley. I don't remember specifically which episode, but he and Erlich went to Laurie for funding, but then lost it when Laurie caught Jian Yang having a celebratory cigarette in the hallway. Link to comment
David T. Cole March 29, 2018 Author Share March 29, 2018 7 hours ago, John Potts said: Surely Game Time should have been entitled "Hoc Davus loquabitur?" Dave is NOT going to say that! Link to comment
Primetimer March 29, 2018 Share March 29, 2018 Transplanting England's foremost Cunning Plan Haver to the USA. View the full article Link to comment
Primetimer March 29, 2018 Share March 29, 2018 Putting TV tropes and banalities in the penalty box. View the full article Link to comment
Discostew87 March 29, 2018 Share March 29, 2018 Line of dialogue: "It's like I don't even know who you are anymore"Song: "To Be Real" (usually played at the start of an event, party, or a getting ready to go out scene)Trope: High school students on teen shows having so much time to hang out and run errands before their first class. What!? Link to comment
April Bloodgate March 29, 2018 Share March 29, 2018 Man, that Game Time was hard. I wish I could have seen the Latin names written down. That would probably have helped a lot. Link to comment
Portia March 30, 2018 Share March 30, 2018 11 hours ago, April Bloodgate said: Man, that Game Time was hard. I wish I could have seen the Latin names written down. That would probably have helped a lot. That's exactly what I was thinking the whole time! Also, the sound quality of the clue clips was really poor. Often I couldn't identify the consonants being said. Excellent idea for a game, though. Link to comment
Primetimer March 30, 2018 Share March 30, 2018 Giving prequels to other TV characters who need them. View the full article Link to comment
Primetimer March 30, 2018 Share March 30, 2018 Putting Adam Rippon on TV shows. View the full article Link to comment
andipandi March 30, 2018 Share March 30, 2018 would love to read a Jessica Jones recap, or even a love letter from her Leather Coat of Toughness. Link to comment
Tara Ariano March 30, 2018 Share March 30, 2018 14 hours ago, Portia said: Also, the sound quality of the clue clips was really poor. There was a tech issue with recording the clip track, but we could hear them well. Link to comment
Portia March 30, 2018 Share March 30, 2018 11 minutes ago, Tara Ariano said: There was a tech issue with recording the clip track, but we could hear them well. That explains why you guys were so amazingly good! Although I suppose your general awesomeness also played a role.) Link to comment
Tara Ariano March 30, 2018 Share March 30, 2018 Just now, Portia said: That explains why you guys were so amazingly good! Although I suppose your general awesomeness also played a role.) (I honestly based my answers on a combination of French fluency and premiere date recall.) Link to comment
April Bloodgate March 30, 2018 Share March 30, 2018 15 hours ago, Portia said: That's exactly what I was thinking the whole time! Also, the sound quality of the clue clips was really poor. Often I couldn't identify the consonants being said. Excellent idea for a game, though. Yep. I'm not fluent, but I know a lot of Spanish, plus I've taken an etymology course which is pretty much just Latin and Greek, so I thought I'd be good at this game. But I couldn't understand the clips very well either. Glad I wasn't alone in that, and, more importantly, glad that it wasn't a problem for the actual contestants. Link to comment
John Potts March 31, 2018 Share March 31, 2018 The running theme of Blackadder was how the titular character changed over the centuries, so here's a Blackrattler for four time periods: Blackrattler the Coloniser - When John White leaves the colony of Roanoke, he leaves it in the hands of his "trustworthy" deputy, Edmund Blackrattler. Each week he hatches a new scheme to improve the lot of the colony which all fail because he was too busy seducing the local ladies. Ultimately the entire colony is lost [History!] Blackrattler the Rebel - Loyalties are divided as the colonies rise in rebellion. Edmund Blackrattler is attache to General Thomas Gage, but when he realises that the woman he's seduced is none other than George Washington's old love, Sally Fairfax, who attempts to persuade him to spy for the Revolution. Can Blackrattler keep his honour in tact? And more importantly, can he get through the Revolution without seeing active service or being shot by either side? Blackrattler the Bootlegger - Ed Blackrattler is a shipper for the North Side Gang who was trying to cover up the fact that he'd missed collection of a booze shipment in the 1929 when his boss is unexpectedly killed in the St Valentine's Day Massacre. Suddenly, he is sitting on a fortune in alcohol, but no gang. Can he survive Al Capone's ruthless gangsters while making his own fortune? Blackrattler dot com - In the fast paced dot com boom, Eddie Blackrattler can see there is a fortune to be made in computers. If only he knew anything about them. Undeterred, he sets up his own web company and sets about convincing investors that there's money to be made in whatever online scheme he can imagine that week. Can Eddie get his money out before the investors catch or and/or the bottom falls out of the market? Link to comment
Jesse April 1, 2018 Share April 1, 2018 I was shocked at how well I did at Game Time, so now I'm going to give myself even more credit! That game was an amazing partnership between Dan Casino and Dave. Link to comment
Primetimer April 2, 2018 Share April 2, 2018 Nominating male TV characters who most need the Fab Five's intervention. View the full article Link to comment
Primetimer April 2, 2018 Share April 2, 2018 Giving TV themes the successful-Nonac treatment. View the full article Link to comment
EAG46 April 2, 2018 Share April 2, 2018 This is who The Punisher on the TV show was based on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punisher And he could probably use a makeover too. Link to comment
Primetimer April 3, 2018 Share April 3, 2018 Assembling literary salons for the TV characters with whom we'd most like to talk books. View the full article Link to comment
Primetimer April 3, 2018 Share April 3, 2018 The TV characters we'd send to the Winter Olympics, and their medal hopes. View the full article Link to comment
Primetimer April 4, 2018 Share April 4, 2018 Stephen Falk wigs up for our discussion of the final season of FX's spy drama! View the full article Link to comment
John Potts April 4, 2018 Share April 4, 2018 Game Time was freaky - every time I came up with an answer, Steve then gave it! (He came up with loads of others I didn't know, too). Link to comment
Sheena April 4, 2018 Share April 4, 2018 (edited) Awesome episode, thank you! Regarding "Skytanic" and the canon, I may be wrong about this, but I believe that "Skytanic" was referenced several times in EHG Mark I, but never actually nominated; the first time it was referenced was in "Episode 12 - Danger Zone" during a discussion about TV favourites of 2010 and that discussion did include 3 clips, so it had a canon-ey quality to it. Edited April 4, 2018 by Sheena Formatting Link to comment
Stowaway April 4, 2018 Share April 4, 2018 It troubles me that Dave was allowed to use the phrase "Scandinavian red herring" without setting off any kind of tangent about pickled fish and other Nordic delicacies. Link to comment
David T. Cole April 4, 2018 Author Share April 4, 2018 5 hours ago, Sheena said: Regarding "Skytanic" and the canon, I may be wrong about this, but I believe that "Skytanic" was referenced several times in EHG Mark I, but never actually nominated; the first time it was referenced was in "Episode 12 - Danger Zone" during a discussion about TV favourites of 2010 and that discussion did include 3 clips, so it had a canon-ey quality to it. OMG thank you for this. It was driving me MAD. Link to comment
Tara Ariano April 5, 2018 Share April 5, 2018 2 hours ago, David T. Cole said: OMG thank you for this. It was driving me MAD. I TOLD YOU THAT. I remember Pam was on that episode. I just didn't know if we had ALSO done a Canon on it. Link to comment
Fukui San April 5, 2018 Share April 5, 2018 On 3/1/2018 at 8:48 AM, Fukui San said: OK, I'll start with victory song suggestions: We Are The Champions - Queen Roar - Katy Perry The Best - Tina TurnerBe Our Guest - Beauty and the Beast Hey, one of my guesses was right! Link to comment
Portia April 5, 2018 Share April 5, 2018 I was finishing up the episode while driving to work this morning, and "Be Our Guest" began playing as I pulled into my parking space. What a lovely way to start the work day: with a big dumb grin on my face. Thanks, EHG! Link to comment
Primetimer April 5, 2018 Share April 5, 2018 Switching out bad men for better ones. View the full article Link to comment
KatieR April 5, 2018 Share April 5, 2018 While not literally true, it feels like at any given moment I either have a previously.tv or a Gimlet Media podcast playing. It was a surreal, worlds colliding moment to have one of the two soundtracks to my life reference the other. Anyway, I'd recommend many of their podcasts, especially the Nod, Start-Up, and Reply All. I have to stick with Alex, Inc in solidarity, as I of course would a TWOP/previously.tv inspired tv show about the hi-jinks of online tv writers. Link to comment
dusang April 5, 2018 Share April 5, 2018 Is that Sterling K Brown? Has he been accused of something? Are you using him as the "replacement" option? Link to comment
Tara Ariano April 5, 2018 Share April 5, 2018 3 hours ago, dusang said: Is that Sterling K Brown? Has he been accused of something? Are you using him as the "replacement" option? I bet if you listened you'd find out! :) Link to comment
SnideAsides April 6, 2018 Share April 6, 2018 (edited) So nice to finally get a mini all about the Nonac "music". Or, as I once heard someone call the actual version of that song and now can't unhear because it seems like such a perfect title for the Nonac version, "Alas, Sprach Zarathustra". Edited April 6, 2018 by SnideAsides Link to comment
Primetimer April 6, 2018 Share April 6, 2018 Jon Favreau's making a Star Wars TV series, and we're predicting the results! View the full article Link to comment
Cekrypton1 April 6, 2018 Share April 6, 2018 Not only did Valued Guest win, but is this the first season Tara gets blanked? Link to comment
Fukui San April 6, 2018 Share April 6, 2018 I don’t think Tara ever had less than 3 or maybe 4 in a season. Come to think of it, has she ever lost in the “first to five wins” era? Joe was the only other season winner, and I don’t remember if he was there when they switched. Game Time Seasons used to last a whole Tv season. Link to comment
SnideAsides April 8, 2018 Share April 8, 2018 Valued Guests: Kill two for matching clogs! Link to comment
Primetimer April 9, 2018 Share April 9, 2018 Sending Sam Beckett into TV series to set their plots aright. View the full article Link to comment
LBJD April 9, 2018 Share April 9, 2018 Very disappointing that this article called The Young Ones was not about the tv show called The Young Ones. Link to comment
SnideAsides April 10, 2018 Share April 10, 2018 I assume we can't pick Quantum Leap itself (still pissed about that finale), so instead Sam will be leaping into The X-Files to stop the revival seasons from being made. Or Wipeout, just because. Link to comment
Primetimer April 10, 2018 Share April 10, 2018 Sending TV characters into the Big Brother house and predicting how far they get. View the full article Link to comment
caitmcg April 10, 2018 Share April 10, 2018 Assume I'm not the only one who, as soon as the concept was introduced, immediately jumped to...the very FNL plot point that was then cited as an example. Link to comment
John Potts April 10, 2018 Share April 10, 2018 13 hours ago, SnideAsides said: I assume we can't pick Quantum Leap itself (still pissed about that finale), ...or Star Trek: Enterprise, so we could have the Finale actually be about the NX-01 and not the Enterprise-D (and save Trip)! Link to comment
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