thachase January 7, 2015 Share January 7, 2015 I thought for sure that "went from doing nothing in NYC to getting nothing done in DC" would be Tea Leoni from The Naked Truth and Madame Secretary! And I never saw either one, but I assume that she was struggling mightily? 1 Link to comment
EllieH January 7, 2015 Share January 7, 2015 Fun to have regular EHG back! Will Bunting vs. Bunting be a recurring feature? Link to comment
Primetimer January 7, 2015 Share January 7, 2015 Which shows had more than one season -- but should maybe have stuck with just the one? Read the story Link to comment
CUBuckeye January 7, 2015 Share January 7, 2015 Glee. (That's really all I need to say.) 2 Link to comment
Fafolguy January 7, 2015 Share January 7, 2015 Once the topic was explained I immediately thought of Veronica Mars too. Link to comment
vmayo January 7, 2015 Share January 7, 2015 Just wanted to throw out there that most of the episodes of "Playing House" are available on USA network's site. I revisited them yesterday after listening to EHG and remembering how much I love the show. The episode "Totes Kewl" lives on my DVR for the scene where Emma finds out that Maggie and Emma's mom have become friends, and that it was Maggie's idea to give her the syrup as a goodwill gesture. Emma threatens to eat her waffles without syrup, "Dry as a goddamn bone." Still gets me every time. 1 Link to comment
Clearlyhere January 7, 2015 Share January 7, 2015 I could have sworn Moonlight was about werewolves, but I was wrong. I saw one episode 10? years ago. I should have checked it along with Tracee. I keep thinking that they have one too many kids on that show. When I was watching the show in October, I thought the little boy was the little girl's friend. Link to comment
AndreaK1041 January 7, 2015 Share January 7, 2015 Heroes was also my immediate response. It was so good at first, and then so bad. I think it ended up focusing on a circus somehow? It was awful. 2 Link to comment
EllieH January 8, 2015 Share January 8, 2015 Revenge popped into my head when you all described the topic... though to be fair, I gave up on it during season 2, which was awful, and I have the impression its been wildly inconsistent since then? Link to comment
Corgi-ears January 8, 2015 Share January 8, 2015 I wish a Downton character had my name. If I had a EHG Mini credit, I would ask the panelists how, and into which show they would insert a character bearing their names, and what that character would be like, how he or she would function in the plot, etc. I feel like David T. Cole should be on an animated show, not just because he -- allegedly -- dresses like a cartoon character. 3 Link to comment
OceanicFlight818 January 8, 2015 Share January 8, 2015 I know you guys weren't necessarily fans of the show...but the Michael Emerson clue stating that the "duplicitous Islander" he played on LOST was "Henry" drove me crazy. His name was BEN, not Henry...Henry was who he pretended to be for like 4 episodes. I AM NOT A CRACKPOT. (I'm probably a crackpot). 3 Link to comment
Primetimer January 8, 2015 Share January 8, 2015 We plucked a TV family from their own place in time and space and plunked them down somewhere else. Read the story Link to comment
Qoass January 8, 2015 Share January 8, 2015 Twin Peaks. As I understand it, the creators only expected to go one season so were wholly unprepared to produce a second one. It showed. 1 Link to comment
lynny January 8, 2015 Share January 8, 2015 I was yelling, "It's the Flash! It's The Flash! John, you just talked about The Flash!" at my speakers during the Grant Gustin question. Poor John, this was not his jam. 2 Link to comment
Monty January 8, 2015 Share January 8, 2015 I'm going to declare the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia gang to be effectively a family and move them TO the world of Downton Abbey. They can move in next door. Link to comment
Sarah D. Bunting January 8, 2015 Share January 8, 2015 "It's Never Sunny In Philadelphishire" Link to comment
radishcake January 9, 2015 Share January 9, 2015 Abidarcy18 - @Sarah D. Bunting says that so many times a day it could never be TPTDP. :) 3 Link to comment
Primetimer January 9, 2015 Share January 9, 2015 Ron asked us to mix it up, show-wise, which is how Jeff Probst wound up with an arrow through his stupid chambray work shirt. Read the story Link to comment
Aethera January 9, 2015 Share January 9, 2015 Glee was my first thought. Then heroes, then Lost. 1 Link to comment
Actionmage January 9, 2015 Share January 9, 2015 Move the Charming family, including Regina, from Once Upon a Time to Arrow. Snow can help Oliver out with reconciling his rich kid side and his bandit side and be a bow buddy. David and Emma can meet Diggle and Felicity and Roy and bond.The former Sheriffs can aid Team Arrow secretly. David and Emma, taking up Emma's pre-Saviour occupation of bounty hunter, can interact with Quinton periodically. Maybe David becomes a cop? Regina, meanwhile, catches Malcolm Merlyn's eye, then his (figurative) heart as she easily deduces who the Arrow is and tries to kill him because she's bored. Henry goes to school and occasionally sneaks in to DJ at Verdant for Thea. (Why not?) Snow and Neal meet Lyla and Sara and have the coolest play dates ever, while Amanda Waller wonders why and how this guy Gold keeps calling her on her personal line. Link to comment
Actionmage January 9, 2015 Share January 9, 2015 The Flash on Supermarket Sweep! *g* Same network: Constantine and Hannibal. Both are flashy men who totally believe in their work. Both are sneaky buggers who are willing to sacrifice whoever they need to get their job done. Both could be considered masters of dark arts. A dinner between John and Hannibal could be riveting TV. Different networks: black-ish and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Bow and Dre are in NYC for business reasons ( doctor's conference and meeting a client who's wavering, respectively.) Pops loses the kids in Central Park. Jack and Diane end up found by Broyles, who succumbs to Jack's cuteness while Diane scams him for whatever. Junior gets lost following a girl onto the subway and is found by Santiago, whom he hits on first, then is taken back to the 99 until family can be reached. Meanwhile Zoey and Diaz are taking down a fake handbag ring after Zoey is tipped to buying a fake (Don't-a-tella Verachay.) Pops meets Peralta and end up just hanging out. A Silver Alert is issued after everyone but Pops is at the 99. Peralta and Pops stroll in, get stared at by Captain Holt, then Junior and Santiago present Bow and Dre with a scrapbook memento. Scenes of Bow and Dre are of them flipping out at the news, trying to decide where to meet up, and at the station as their family slowly drags in. Dre's client is saved, barely, by Dre looking after his family in the face of losing a long-time client (misunderstanding Dre's absence) and Bow's symposium was called off because none of the other speakers showed up ( other ER docs with insane emergencies that prevented them from coming.) 1 Link to comment
David T. Cole January 10, 2015 Author Share January 10, 2015 The Flash on Supermarket Sweep! Ok, that's a good one! Link to comment
April Bloodgate January 10, 2015 Share January 10, 2015 I thought the same thing as Sarah and Tara, that the Scott Bakula question was referring to David Tennant on Doctor Who and Broadchurch. Interesting how there were a few questions that could have applied to multiple people. Link to comment
Carrie Ann January 11, 2015 Share January 11, 2015 Downton Abbey is my pick. As you all have mentioned on the main podcast, the show kind of started out as a smaller-scale, Upstairs/Downstairs drama. Aside from two really soapy things--the actual Soap-Bar Miscarriage, and the Death By Sex--I felt like most of the drama of the first season was rooted in manners, class friction, familial expectations, etc. Things like Matthew unintentionally disrespecting Molesly when he insisted on dressing himself, and then correcting that later, even though he was still uncomfortable about it--I found that more interesting and appealing than the over-the-top, repetitive soap the show quickly became. If that was as long as Fellowes could restrain his worst impulses, then I wish it had just been one and done. Link to comment
Primetimer January 12, 2015 Share January 12, 2015 The David T. Cole/zipline grudge match inspired this Mini from Ian on most important TV boo-boos. Read the story Link to comment
Misanthrope January 12, 2015 Share January 12, 2015 (edited) Woo!I halped!And thanks for pronouncing my name correctly, unlike that fuck Ziering. Edited January 12, 2015 by Misanthrope Link to comment
EricJ January 12, 2015 Share January 12, 2015 Rocket Romano vs. Helicopter, Round 1. 'nuff said. Link to comment
Portia January 13, 2015 Share January 13, 2015 Rocket Romano vs. Helicopter, Round 1. 'nuff said. Get out of my head, EricJ! His arm was cut the eff off. By a helicopter. Link to comment
Fukui San January 13, 2015 Share January 13, 2015 The fact that no one mentioned Xander's eye must mean that everyone has successfully Eternal Sunshined the last Buffy season from their head. Link to comment
crizwell January 13, 2015 Share January 13, 2015 Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency? Link to comment
Fukui San January 13, 2015 Share January 13, 2015 You know, I haven't watched Deadwood, but a Game Time I submitted referenced an episode which led to everyone reminiscing over some apparent memorable injury (torture?) in a very amusing way. "...and the guy had the thing with the thing-" "Yes!" "And you could hear it going-" "Yes!" [tone of voice said: "please stop talking about this"] "Gentlemen, squirm in your chairs." Link to comment
David T. Cole January 13, 2015 Author Share January 13, 2015 Oh gawd. That scene. That's a great choice. Link to comment
WordboyDave January 13, 2015 Share January 13, 2015 As a slightly older person, I have to give the Nonac version of the question to "The time Fonzie went blind for a single episode of Happy Days." (Season 6, Episode 4, "Fonzie's Blindness.") It is, of course, colossally idiotic (I knew this at age 10 already), but it IS kind of fun to try to picture the scene in the writer's room, starting with the guy at the head of the table saying, "Okay, everyone, THINK! What's something really funny?" Link to comment
WordboyDave January 13, 2015 Share January 13, 2015 Oh, I'm glad someone else mentioned Twin Peaks. And I may be alone on this, but thanks to Netflix, I enjoyed the first season--and only the first season--of "Hotel Babylon." Whatever happened to that thing? Link to comment
Aethera January 13, 2015 Share January 13, 2015 Romano for certain. My Nonac version would be Quinn being in a wheelchair for 17 minutes on Glee. So terrible. So irrelevant. Link to comment
Primetimer January 13, 2015 Share January 13, 2015 Who better to join us for a Golden Globes chat than our dear old friend Joe 'Smooth Joey Apollo' Reid? No one, that's who. Read the story 1 Link to comment
Michele January 14, 2015 Share January 14, 2015 Is the PTDP "okie dokie?" Man, I hope someone gets it this week, I am just really bad at discerning this sort of thing. Link to comment
CamB January 14, 2015 Share January 14, 2015 Super enjoyed the podcast. I also listen to Joe on The Film Experience podcast but for some reason, I like the chemistry of this podcast more. Also, Katie Holmes really should have her own TV show, you are correct, Joe Reid. 1 Link to comment
Primetimer January 14, 2015 Share January 14, 2015 Making an award show longer?! Yes, we dare. Read the story Link to comment
Steve Dallas January 14, 2015 Share January 14, 2015 Is the TPTDP "in heavy rotation?" Link to comment
ApathyMonger January 14, 2015 Share January 14, 2015 To be honest, a crazed killer wouldn't be all that surprising on Rev. That show got very dark at times. Link to comment
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