Mayonegg June 18, 2015 Share June 18, 2015 This was glorious. I love how fully formed "The Baron" was. Sarah's show sounds like the high praised bummer I would mean to but never watch. "Band of Gold" is the high praised period piece that I would only watch the first season of despite enjoying the show. The roller derby show I want right now. I'm thinking Nexflix OITNB crossed with FNL vibe. 3 Link to comment
Actionmage June 18, 2015 Share June 18, 2015 1) Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell's "Sunday Morning" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK-Yrw4uVCA Show Title: What Other People Do Premise: A happily married couple of political reporters-turned-commentators each have Sunday morning talk shows, based in D.C. for separate news networks. They also have cute young kids, but it's not about the kids. This is more like Murphy Brown, in that it mixes work and home families. The Husband: Rick Cosnett ( Eddie Thawne, The Flash); The Wife: Erica Cerra ( Jo Lupo, Eureka) His Producer: Khandi Alexander Her Producer: Gregory Cruz (Det. Bobby Stillwater, Saving Grace) 2) The Gap Band "Burn Rubber On Me" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dc4n8EuK78 Show Title: Burn! Premise: A young woman of color is trying to make it on the NASCAR circuit; it follows her ups and downs and her personal life, from the pits to the VIP boxes, where her mysterious main backer watches things. Starring Onira Tares ( Grace Dixon, Sleepy Hollow); Her crew chief: Rockmond Dunbar ( Prison Break, Terriers, The Game and The Mentalist). 3) Odyssey "Native New Yorker" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1rH_iaZkv0 Show Title: BOP * Premise: A newish law school grad leaves NYC to help a small oil company in a legal dispute with a multinational company down in Austin. She stays on and has to decide if she wants to open her own practice, be the company's counsel or join a white shoe firm in the Texas capitol. Plus? It's the mid-70s! Starring: Zoe Saldana, Sam Elliot and James Morrison as the smaller company's owners, Danny Trejo, Francis Capra, Dot Marie Jones, and (ideally) the male cast of Magic Mike to be various oil riggers our lead meets. * The title, while a bit obscure, stands for Break Out Preventer, a piece of the rig that keeps the pressure in the drilling pipe even, if I understand correctly. Link to comment
Actionmage June 18, 2015 Share June 18, 2015 I want to just say, I was inspired by all the choices you all made. I liked Sara's anthology idea; not all break-ups are awful, so it could be interesting to see the various scenarios. Tara's idea was cool,imo, but then again I loved Swingtown. Being just a kid is probably why I enjoy some pieces set at that time. Joe's roller derby, like Jell-O , I liked and it's not like roller derby show on TV is a hard sell (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077074/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11 ); yours would be a sharper take. Dave's travelling, pool-playing detective family is definitely a new spin on the genre. *g* Maybe Barbara Hershey instead of Helen Mirren? Link to comment
Sarah D. Bunting June 18, 2015 Share June 18, 2015 ("because he's actually Grant Putnam") 1 Link to comment
Primetimer June 18, 2015 Share June 18, 2015 Cloning late lamented TV characters. Read the story Link to comment
Fukui San June 18, 2015 Share June 18, 2015 I dug up this Shits and Giggles online Game Time for the masses I made to mark the end of Mark 1 of Extra Hot Great: http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=guys-you-know-what-time-it-is-its-shits-and-giggles-endofpodcast-game It compiles all of the Shits and Giggles questions Dave asked during the run of Mark 1. Link to comment
nataliec June 19, 2015 Share June 19, 2015 Was I the only one who heard the loser of the week and thought "Guess who's getting a shiny pink Huffy with handlebar streamers"? Just me? I'll show myself out. . . 2 Link to comment
Primetimer June 19, 2015 Share June 19, 2015 A Happy-Father's-Day Mini. Read the story Link to comment
Uncle Benzene June 19, 2015 Share June 19, 2015 STUNNING lack of Keith Mars! (And Aaron Echolls, for that matter. Clearly nominated for different categories.) Link to comment
bigdamntvgeek June 19, 2015 Share June 19, 2015 STUNNING lack of Keith Mars! (And Aaron Echolls, for that matter. Clearly nominated for different categories.) I was also going to comment on the lack of Keith Mars! He's by far my favorite TV dad ever. Link to comment
AlexPalombo June 19, 2015 Share June 19, 2015 HELL yes. I was hoping for a mention of Jack Bristow. 1 Link to comment
Monty June 19, 2015 Share June 19, 2015 I still haven't watched all of Friday Night Lights (because I'm the worst!) but I think Kyle Chandler as Coach Taylor seems like a pretty good father. Link to comment
pickles7437 June 19, 2015 Share June 19, 2015 I have to nominate Dan Connor for the best dad, with Heathcliff Huxtable as a runner-up. The worst has to be horribly long monologue man Papa Pope. That skinny idiot from "Baby Daddy" for douchiest. And I just can't pick between Coach Taylor (good pick, Monty!) and Raylan Givens for the DILFiest. 1 Link to comment
Aethera June 19, 2015 Share June 19, 2015 I thought all your ideas for this were utterly produceable. I think I'd be most interested in Sarah's show...I figure by Season 2, one of the lawyers is the one getting a divorce, yeah? 2 Link to comment
Moda29 June 19, 2015 Share June 19, 2015 Keith Mars is my forever favorite TV dad, while Frank Gallagher is definitely one of the crappiest I can think of. Link to comment
LAFR June 19, 2015 Share June 19, 2015 I was shocked (Shocked! I tell you!) at the absence of Coach Taylor Worst dad has to be the one from 7th Heaven. 1 Link to comment
CarobCake June 20, 2015 Share June 20, 2015 Best dad has to be Keith Mars. Carter's dad in Finding Carter in the douche category. Stannis Baratheon for worst dad ever. Link to comment
Lindsey June 20, 2015 Share June 20, 2015 Between the two of them, Tami and Coach Taylor were parenting that entire town. Coach and Keith Mars are a tie for me. Coach was raising all of the kids, but Keith literally walked through fire for Veronica so: toss up. Good TV dads should be a category where we could cite Cliff Huxtable, but everything Cosby related is ruined forever. Link to comment
pickles7437 June 20, 2015 Share June 20, 2015 I had a hard time with that Cosby decision...but then I remembered the episode where they set up the boarding house for Theo because he thinks he can live on his own, and the one where Heathcliff sits at the breakfast table wearing all the awful Father's Day ties and Hawaiian shirts and the soap on a rope that he's received from the kids over the years...and I had to include him. Link to comment
Lindsey June 20, 2015 Share June 20, 2015 I had a hard time with that Cosby decision...but then I remembered the episode where they set up the boarding house for Theo because he thinks he can live on his own, and the one where Heathcliff sits at the breakfast table wearing all the awful Father's Day ties and Hawaiian shirts and the soap on a rope that he's received from the kids over the years...and I had to include him. I totally get that! He was my favorite TV dad for a long time and this whole topic is about fictional characters, not the actors who play them. And the character was great. The actor though... The whole situation is just so depressing. I can't even watch them lip-synch to "Night Time is the Right Time" to cheer myself up anymore! Link to comment
KayJayNZ June 20, 2015 Share June 20, 2015 Frank from "Shameless" as the worst - just a complete dirt-bag. For the best, Sandy Cohen from "The OC". Link to comment
Primetimer June 22, 2015 Share June 22, 2015 TV couples that need to break up. Read the story Link to comment
swimmyfish June 22, 2015 Share June 22, 2015 All of Modern Family would've been my choice, too. It's amazing how much they all hate each other. Link to comment
April Bloodgate June 22, 2015 Share June 22, 2015 The worst has to be horribly long monologue man Papa Pope. Yes! Link to comment
Kierstyn June 22, 2015 Share June 22, 2015 Dave, I know. That was less of a complaint and more of a whiny "man, I thought of that too." Since none of my games have been successful, I was just being infantile. His version was way more fun, anyhow! Link to comment
Moda29 June 23, 2015 Share June 23, 2015 Fitz and anyone. He's the worst, and even though everyone on that show is terrible (except Mellie of course) they still don't deserve to be stuck with him. In fact, if they could find a way to write him off the show so we could all breakup with him, what's left of that show would be much improved. 1 Link to comment
Primetimer June 23, 2015 Share June 23, 2015 Jeff Drake puts on his bolo tie for a discussion of True Detective's Season 2 premiere. Read the story 1 Link to comment
girlonthepark June 23, 2015 Share June 23, 2015 With regard to Game Time answer Neil Hope a.k.a. Wheels on Degrassi . . . he is not so much working at Tim Hortons . . . http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2012/02/17/degrassi_star_neil_hope_aka_wheels_died_a_lonely_death_unnoticed.html 1 Link to comment
YoSaffBridge June 23, 2015 Share June 23, 2015 Umm, Urban Dictionary won't tell me what a Peggy O is. Do I want to know? Link to comment
radishcake June 23, 2015 Share June 23, 2015 YoSaffBridge - just look up pegging. I'm pretty sure that's what Sarah meant. NSFW obvs. Also Dave, never say "Too Many Cooks" during the podcast because then I get distracted and have to stop the show and go bleach my mind. <3 Link to comment
StatMom June 23, 2015 Share June 23, 2015 Ed Asner gives a master class in timing and delivery with the spunk exchange (oh hush, you know what I mean!). One of my favorite TV moments EVER. 3 Link to comment
David T. Cole June 23, 2015 Author Share June 23, 2015 @Glark Elliot Salad was played by Michael Brandon, not Richard Brandon. Not that it would have affected the Game Time outcome. Link to comment
YoSaffBridge June 23, 2015 Share June 23, 2015 Pegging I'm familiar with, but I do love the joke of calling that Peggy O-ing now! :-D 1 Link to comment
David T. Cole June 24, 2015 Author Share June 24, 2015 No! I feel like they were almost there with this. Link to comment
Sarah D. Bunting June 24, 2015 Share June 24, 2015 Sorry, Simon and/or Garfunkel. hee. 1 Link to comment
Primetimer June 24, 2015 Share June 24, 2015 Tomorrow's musical acts born of today's (and yesterday's) TV shows. Read the story 1 Link to comment
Qoass June 24, 2015 Share June 24, 2015 I can't get past Dr. Huxtable asking Denise's husband whether she was a virgin on their wedding night. Ew. But worst dad for me is Lord Grantham from Downton Abbey whose insistence on an incompetent doctor pretty much killed his daughter and whose incompetence with investments pretty much killed his wife's bankroll. Douchiest: Jim Walsh of Beverly Hills 90210 for his sexist attitudes towards his daughter's love life and for raising the douche that was Brandon Walsh. DILF: Gary Shepherd of thirtysomething. I love me a post-modern hippie boy anyway but his scene at the piano singing "Inchworm" to his daughter just seals it for me. Best: Derek Shepherd of Grey's Anatomy who could almost out-cute his adorable daughter Zola at their tea party and who seemed to have 24/7 access to fabulous daycare. Link to comment
JTMacc99 June 24, 2015 Share June 24, 2015 Fun! I always wanted to hear Metallica do a version of the Mission Impossible theme song. (Just start with dum dum duh na, dum dum duh na, and add a shitload of really fast duh duh duhs between each beat and you've got it.) My vote would be the cast of Top Chef in a 70s-80s style classic rock guitar based band such as Van Halen. Tom and Padma run the show and play drums and lead guitar. Gail's on base and at the moment Hugh is the lead singer. Link to comment
heatherkay June 25, 2015 Share June 25, 2015 FWIW, Starbuck was also Dana Scully's childhood nickname. 1 Link to comment
Actionmage June 25, 2015 Share June 25, 2015 Animated Division: Pinky and the Brain in a Wham!-type band, Narf!,with Brain being the lead vocalist, of course. Pinky plays guitar, in his fashion. Some cover tracks are: "Young Guns (Go For It!)", "Bad Boys" and "Nothing Looks The same In The Light". Brain can also cover George Michael's solo hits too, like "Father Figure" and "Just One More Chance". The first album is Your Friendly Neighborhood Overlord (and Pinky). Old Show: All in the Family in a hip hop crew, Queens of Old Age, a nod to where they lived. Edith would spin and scratch (Spin Cycle- a nod to her housewife duties). Gloria, aka Glo, would play keyboard some and spit rhymes, despite Mike, aka Meathead (embracing the nickname and the profits from merch), wanting to be the only "younger" one to rap. Archie, of course, has lead rap duties, as an acceptable-ish outlet for his opinions. He is known as Da Arch. Stephanie is the manager and keeps peace between all her divas. Their first album is called What The Eff Are These Things?! Essentially a cover band, they mix classic standards and old school hip hop. Tracks include: "Cheek To Cheek", "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody", "You're The Top", "White Lines (Don't Do It)", "Rapper's Delight" and " Potholes In My Lawn". There is a club single of Edith/Spin Cycle covering Queen Latifah's "Come Into My House" as well. New Show: Arrow in a Disney-backed pop group, Thr3e Pow3r. Oliver Queen is lead vocal and guitarist, with bassist John Diggle. Felicity Smoak is on keyboards, naturally. Their first album is Happy Stories. Their first single is " That Boy Is Gone". Other tracks are: "I Will Never Leave Again", "Out Of Towners", " Witch With Wi-Fi ", "I Prefer Bahamas" and " Can I Say Something Strange? (I'm Happy.)" 1 Link to comment
Primetimer June 25, 2015 Share June 25, 2015 Getting granular with TV show categories. Read the story Link to comment
Primetimer June 26, 2015 Share June 26, 2015 The actors with whom we just can't. Read the story Link to comment
Syd June 26, 2015 Share June 26, 2015 Agree with Clare Bowen, but I still hate that long hair. My deal breaker is Seth Rogen. I fucking HATE him. Link to comment
StatMom June 26, 2015 Share June 26, 2015 Yes, of course Elizabeth Reaser goes without saying. I really can't tell if I hate the acting or if the first role I remember seeing her in was that godawful woman on Grey's. Impression solidified on Mad Men. I have the same reaction to Mariska Hargitay, whose character on ER I so completely despised that I couldn't even with MH after that. Maybe not the actor's fault, but there it is. Link to comment
smrou June 26, 2015 Share June 26, 2015 (edited) Man, Jeff's rant about Camryn Manheim was a thing of beauty. So much so I decided I needed to transcribe it. On the female side, I’ll go with Camryn Manheim who’s always got a smug fucking look on her fucking face like, “I’m fucking nailing it as an actress right now. Watch me; watch my acting. I haven’t won that many acting awards, but every time my ear is pierced that’s a time I’ve given myself an acting award.” Also hilarious: "I’ve separated mine into three categories: male, female, and Zach Braff." Edited June 26, 2015 by smrou 2 Link to comment
Cekrypton1 June 26, 2015 Share June 26, 2015 I'm laughing because I just realized what the header graphic on this page is. Well done, EHG art department. 1 Link to comment
swimmyfish June 26, 2015 Share June 26, 2015 This was a really interesting topic. Camryn Manheim and Maura Tierney I was not expecting, although now that it's come up I can see how they might rub people the wrong way. Despite that, I personally remain neutral to positive on both of them. I don't know if this counts as a dealbreaker since she's moved on to films, and I'm sure this is not a popular opinion, but I really could not stand Kristen Wiig on SNL. All of her characters grated on me in exactly the same way, even when the sketches were funny I couldn't watch them. Apart from Bridesmaids, I have actively avoided all of her films specifically because of her - and I really wanted to see the Skeleton Twins. 2 Link to comment
Uncle Benzene June 26, 2015 Share June 26, 2015 Mine is Katee Sackhoff, also due to the perma-smug. 2 Link to comment
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