Fukui San January 29, 2016 Share January 29, 2016 Jay Leno and David Letterman: Team Grumpy Old Men with time on their hands. 3 Link to comment
SVNBob January 29, 2016 Share January 29, 2016 If Paul F. Tompkins is on TAR, he's gotta partner with Paget Brewster. Because Frank and Sadie running the Race would be the funniest thing ever. Link to comment
John Potts January 29, 2016 Share January 29, 2016 Well I've never seen TAR, but I gather it's some sort of treasure hunt - so the best team would have to be "Team CTU" (Jack Bauer & Chloe O'Brien): she'd hack the organisers computers to work out what they needed to do (and if necessary, put an APB out on her opponents to slow them down) and he'd shoot ad/or torture anyone who dared get ahead of him (might be a rather darker series though). Link to comment
Actionmage January 30, 2016 Share January 30, 2016 John Potts, the premise is 2-person teams racing around the world, performing tasks that are typical or specific of the country/city the Racers are in. The pay-off is a million dollars. The Racers aren't even allowed their own phones. Not that Jack and Chloe couldn't do fine with involuntary help. Still, seeing Keifer and MaryLyn as themselves doing the Race would be fun. Link to comment
Primetimer February 1, 2016 Share February 1, 2016 Jason's Extra Credit asked us to reverse, and describe, acronym shows like The Man From UNCLE. Ballet and prison breaks ensued. Read the story Link to comment
SnideAsides February 2, 2016 Share February 2, 2016 Survivor. Every season, on the third episode, replace the biggest jerk with an actual poo-flinging monkey and see how far they get. Jeff Probst makes it to the finale every season. Link to comment
Primetimer February 2, 2016 Share February 2, 2016 Linda Holmes joins us to talk about an American tragedy, and also about a man in tights. Read the story Link to comment
Dave in Chicago February 2, 2016 Share February 2, 2016 Just going to throw this out there for lack of a better place to do so: I recently realized that "Project Runway" has never been considered for the Canon. I don't think I'm going to be the person to tackle this, but that feels overdue. I'm not sure what would be the stand-out choice, though: Gretchen's infamous meltdown? The season one finale, with all the Wendy Pepper drama plus the rule-bending shoes? Link to comment
ApathyMonger February 2, 2016 Share February 2, 2016 Here's the UK Eurovision winner that contains the line "don't let your indecision take you from behind." It's super catchy: That Eurovision round has gotten both "Making My Mind Up" and "All Rise" stuck in my head. I'm guessing "All Rise" was in there as a decoy because Blue did have a Eurovision song, but it wasn't that one? Link to comment
FormerMod-a1 February 2, 2016 Share February 2, 2016 Sad face. The rest was so fun, I guess I was hoping for more. :-D Link to comment
Fukui San February 2, 2016 Share February 2, 2016 Just going to throw this out there for lack of a better place to do so: I recently realized that "Project Runway" has never been considered for the Canon. I don't think I'm going to be the person to tackle this, but that feels overdue. I'm not sure what would be the stand-out choice, though: Gretchen's infamous meltdown? The season one finale, with all the Wendy Pepper drama plus the rule-bending shoes? I would go with Season 1 Postal Challenge. Wendy Pepper drama, "Don't defend the shoe!", Austin modeling, interesting challenge. Link to comment
TeeVee329 February 2, 2016 Share February 2, 2016 What about the "It's a motherf-ing walkoff" episode of PR? Link to comment
The Crazed Spruce February 2, 2016 Share February 2, 2016 The only think keeping me from submitting Lois Lane's frog-eating clone from Lois & Clark to the KODTVTM is the fact that I can't find a decent clip of it on YouTube. And I'm almost ashamed to admit that I recognized that Pokemon lyric as soon as I heard it. Link to comment
David Thomas February 2, 2016 Share February 2, 2016 What if the Murphy Reset half through ACS is that they get to the end of the trial, and then time jump to when OJ gets arrested, ends up in jail, writes his book, etc. (All this set against the dramatic backdrop of Kim Kardashian managing her new fame in light of her recent film debut.) Don't you go feeling safe Dave. It could totally happen.Also if the next American CRIME Story can be about Hurricane Katrina this season could 100% still end up being about aliens. Link to comment
John Potts February 2, 2016 Share February 2, 2016 (edited) I thought Game Time was ridiculously fun! ALL the Eurovision entries could have been true - you've got about 20 songs per year and 50 years of songs so just about any lyric could have come up. I actually recognised "Making your mind up" (even had the 7 inch disc of it!) and it didn't strike me as dirty - then again, I was 7 at the time, and looking back on a lot of the songs I heard then make me go "Wow, so THAT's what that was about" now. Though it's mainly famous for the skirt removal (at about 1:30) which was a hit on the night. Don't see why cod sperm would be particularly disgusting - it's pretty much just caviar. And not only does Decimate exist (or at least, it did) [nerd] it actually used the word correctly[/nerd] - for each question you got wrong, you lost 10% of the prize pot. TeeVee329 What about the "It's a motherf-ing walkoff" episode of PR? You mean that was a real thing - Zoolander (with David Bowie, RIP) didn't just make that up? Edited February 2, 2016 by John Potts Link to comment
Will Holston February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 Embarrassed to admit how quickly I recognized the lyrics to the Pokemon theme, though I did briefly consider that it COULD have been a Eurovision entry. Weirder things have surely happened. (David Tennant technically hosted an episode of Nevermind The Buzzcocks, but he wasn't THE HOST of a show per se *takes of technicality police hat*) Link to comment
radishcake February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 You mean that was a real thing - Zoolander (with David Bowie, RIP) didn't just make that up? One of my favorites! Link to comment
SnideAsides February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 ALL the Eurovision entries could have been true - you've got about 20 songs per year and 50 years of songs so just about any lyric could have come up. I actually recognised "Making your mind up" (even had the 7 inch disc of it!) and it didn't strike me as dirty - then again, I was 7 at the time, and looking back on a lot of the songs I heard then make me go "Wow, so THAT's what that was about" now. Though it's mainly famous for the skirt removal (at about 1:30) which was a hit on the night. A literal reading definitely changes a lot of Eurovision songs. One of the most successful entries ever (both in terms of result on the night and in actual sales) literally involves 1970s British entertainers singing about kissing children. (Last time and this time, I mostly stuck to English-language songs for Dave's sake. Which is a shame, because my God I don't know what they were on in Yugoslavia but I want it all.) (I did consider giving Dave an audio clip for that French one after what happened with Volare last time, but I figured most of the fun in that lyric would be making Dave say it.) That Eurovision round has gotten both "Making My Mind Up" and "All Rise" stuck in my head. I'm guessing "All Rise" was in there as a decoy because Blue did have a Eurovision song, but it wasn't that one? Not exactly. I knew I wanted (1) the first pass to have four lyrics vaguely related to truth and lies and (2) to include a false lyric from one of those many, many interchangeable terrible late-90s British/Irish pop groups at some point in the round. But trying to find the right balance between mainstream and obscure pretty much left me with only a couple of alleged bands, and then it was a matter of trawling lyrics sites. Sad face. The rest was so fun, I guess I was hoping for more. :-D Here are the questions for both that round (PR unconventional materials; it did check out fine when I researched but I'm guessing the issue was, like, something I counted as wrong turning up in a generic "things you buy at a supermarket" challenge or whatever): SARAH: Carpet JOE: Post-It Notes VALUED GUEST: Parachutes TARA: Duct Tape SARAH: Computer Parts JOE: Sporting Goods VALUED GUEST: Stationery TARA: Camping Gear And another round that got cut in the shuffle (it was originally Round 4 but got replaced by the Eurovision round, which was last), games from Dave's pet Korean reality show The Genius: SARAH: Laser Chess JOE: Tactical Parcheesi VALUED GUEST: Double-Sided Poker TARA: Betting Rock Paper Scissors SARAH: Zombie Game JOE: Seven Commandments VALUED GUEST: Conveyor Belt TARA: Constellation Game The host round: Whoopi Goldberg was the centre square on Hollywood Squares but I couldn't find anything she actually hosted. Penn Jillette hosted Identity. Greg Kinnear hosted College Mad House. Shatner hosted Deal or No Deal knockoff Show Me the Money. Richard O'Brien (Riff-Raff in The Rocky Horror Picture Show) hosted the gloriously camp The Crystal Maze. Jaclyn Smith did host Shear Genius. (Edit: I did have links for all of these but they're not showing up. Try Youtube.) In conclusion: Sorry, Joe. I tried to handicap Tara and Sarah a little bit based on last time (and in general), and made sure that, like, Sarah got both "Space" (which was almost true!) and "Belgium", but once I did that and sorted the questions into groups (like the TAR Pit Stop round had "places starting with M", "cities Dave won't be able to say", and "countries"), I did randomise what was left. Fucking PICCI3. Link to comment
Racj82 February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 My OJ Simpson fun fact. The not guilty verdict came in on my birthday. October 3rd 1995. I was in the 8th grade. Our principal actual read the verdict out loud over the PA system. Amazing! Also my whole class cheered. I'm a hundred percent sure it was just because he was black and not that he wasn't guilty. I am black and I saw a lot of that at the time. But, needless to say, ive never forgotten that particular birthday. Link to comment
Corgi-ears February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 Who has two thumbs and immediately knew how to sing the Luxembourg entry? This guy. Well, and this (France) Gall: Link to comment
John Potts February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 SnideAsides I figured most of the fun in that lyric would be making Dave say it. You mean you deliberately chose things Dave might have trouble saying - I'd never do that! (Clearly any posts purportedly by me saying I did exactly that were faked). Though for the "Random syllables that were actually song titles", you could have had: "Boom Bang a Bang" (True - 1969 UK (by Lulu)) "Waka Waka" (False - it was the 2010 World Cup Song (Shakira)) "Bana Bana" (True - 1989 Turkey) "Boom Boom Boom Boom" (False - Real song but never a Eurovision entry (Vengaboys)) Link to comment
jima February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 GIVE DRACULA AND GORDON THEIR OWN SPINOFF PODCAST Link to comment
Primetimer February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 Planning the next addition to the Star Trek TV canon. Read the story Link to comment
happytheatregeek February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 I just wanted to say that this episode was one of the most ridiculously fun episodes of EHG. I quite literally LOL'd several times, and I just love Linda Holmes to no end. This was an absolute delight of an episode! Link to comment
The Crazed Spruce February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 Star Trek: Black. In an alternate timeline in which the Eugenics War never happened, the genetically-enhanced crew of the starship Orphan stumble upon a vast conspiracy within the federation itself. In order to unravel the conspiracy, the brash and motivated (though with a nasty habit of acting without thinking) captain (played by Tatiana Maslaney) must rely on her wits, her determination, and her ragtag crew, including her hypercompetent (though extremely high-strung) first officer (also played by Tatiana Maslaney), her bohemian science officer (Tatiana Maslaney), her psychotic security officer (Tatiana Maslaney) (who goes everywhere with her pet talking scorpion, voiced by Tatiana Maslaney)), her uptight and reserved cybernetically enhanced chief engineer (who is not-so-secretly part of the conspiracy) (Tatiana Maslaney), and her badass mentor known only as Mrs. S. Link to comment
cassandle February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 My only question for Dave is will your Timothy Olyphant character be wearing pants? Link to comment
John Potts February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 I would love to see the All-Ewok Trek show! Alas, copyright means it can never happen. And now I'm trying to think of a more useless team built from other shows... Link to comment
C. Toastncrunch February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 Dave's one-man Dracula/Doog show needs to go on the road. That shit was comedy gold. Link to comment
profreader February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 Great game SnideAsides! Awesome episode all the way around -- Linda's Canon defense could be admitted to the Canon of Canon Explanations -- just hilarious. And Dracula Doog Adventures needs to be a thing. Link to comment
Misanthrope February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 My only question for Dave is will your Timothy Olyphant character be wearing pants? Olyphant losing his pants is the new "Kirk's shirt gets ripped" or, if you will, "Kenny dying". It's not a question of 'if' but a question of 'how'. Link to comment
David T. Cole February 3, 2016 Author Share February 3, 2016 My only question for Dave is will your Timothy Olyphant character be wearing pants? Yes but around his ankles. Link to comment
SnideAsides February 3, 2016 Share February 3, 2016 Thanks! Count Doogula was a tough act to follow, but I think I almost managed to do it? Link to comment
swimmyfish February 4, 2016 Share February 4, 2016 Off-topic, but I really like the new "P.TV podcast network" branding! Link to comment
SnideAsides February 4, 2016 Share February 4, 2016 I like that there's a thing at the end of the podcast to prevent you from accidentally letting it loop around without realising, but the one at the start's going to take a bit of getting used to. Link to comment
ApathyMonger February 4, 2016 Share February 4, 2016 (edited) Weird, two days after a Game Time question on whether any of the Friends have hosted a reality show, Matt LeBlanc signs up to co-host the new Top Gear: http://deadline.com/2016/02/matt-leblanc-top-gear-host-bbc-1201696329/ Edited February 4, 2016 by ApathyMonger Link to comment
Primetimer February 4, 2016 Share February 4, 2016 Plundering the Bible for TV protagonists. Read the story Link to comment
Jesse February 4, 2016 Share February 4, 2016 I just wanted to say that this episode was one of the most ridiculously fun episodes of EHG. I quite literally LOL'd several times, and I just love Linda Holmes to no end. This was an absolute delight of an episode! Same! Luckily I was walking down a dark street by the time I got to Sarah's "either yes....or no" bit, because I just gave up and laughed out loud. Link to comment
Jael February 4, 2016 Share February 4, 2016 Obviously, I think there needs to be a show based on the Biblical Jael, but I might be biased. (She killed a guy with a tent peg to the head while he was sleeping. But he was a bad guy! So then the good guys came and sang a song about how great she was! Ryan Murphy would love it.) Link to comment
Machiabelly February 4, 2016 Share February 4, 2016 Prince Edward Island Representing Link to comment
SnideAsides February 4, 2016 Share February 4, 2016 Weird, two days after a Game Time question on whether any of the Friends have hosted a reality show, Matt LeBlanc signs up to co-host the new Top Gear: http://deadline.com/2016/02/matt-leblanc-top-gear-host-bbc-1201696329/ The same thing happened with the last Is This Anything? quiz too - one of the questions was about if Tila Tequila had ever done Celebrity Big Brother (she hadn't), and then a few days later she did enter the house. In short, I guess the next one should have some sort of "Is this TV star still alive?" question about Tara's sworn enemy Betty White. Link to comment
jojolemon February 5, 2016 Share February 5, 2016 Y'all did a great job on my ad. Thanks so much! --Joanna. Link to comment
OceanicFlight818 February 5, 2016 Share February 5, 2016 This episode was a pure delight to listen to, and it made me wish (yet again) that I had been hanging around in that bullpen ten years ago. Link to comment
LAFR February 5, 2016 Share February 5, 2016 This is not one to listen to if you don't want people asking you why you spit out your coffee because you are laughing so hard. Poor Mark. Link to comment
April Bloodgate February 5, 2016 Share February 5, 2016 Gordon and Dracula is officially my favorite thing that's ever happened on EHG, and that's really saying something. Link to comment
April Bloodgate February 5, 2016 Share February 5, 2016 (edited) Wow. I thought my Bible knowledge was pretty solid from my years of competitive Bible quizzing as a teenager (Yes, that's a thing. Yes, I'm super embarrassed. Also an atheist now.), but I've never heard of Jael. Sounds pretty bad ass though. Edited February 5, 2016 by April Bloodgate Link to comment
Portia February 5, 2016 Share February 5, 2016 When my husband was a church music major a thousand years ago, he and some friends set the "Blessed be Jael" song to music. As you do. Link to comment
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