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deangirl
deangirl

I'm actually ok with the end of Supernatural, I have been ok with it for 10 years now! But I appreciate the concern. I absolutely agree with Sarah about Jared's hair, just know that the current hairst

TheOtherLibrarian
TheOtherLibrarian

For the flatulent robot child, I would have gone with Small Winder.

Fukui San
Fukui San

Guys, it occurs to me that Game Time is now the world's foremost currently running sporting competition. Either that or the guy on YouTube who films marble races. Thank you for shouldering this a

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Racj82

Racj82

This is indeed the podcast listeners Scream in their car edition. I actually hurt my throat yelling come on at the one second Seinfeld clip. I guessed the six million dollar man clip just based off the sound effects. Never watched the show in my life. I didn't even think the Miami vice one was hard. I don't know one TV show with a guitar riff like that.

profreader

profreader

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I know it's been said before but ... it is SO so different when you're playing versus when you're screaming in your car. Like... how could I not know Cheers? Like THE most iconic of the iconic themes ... but something happens and your brain goes into vaporlock. And there's that weird thing where you know ALL of somebody else's clues (I think I knew all of Trip's and a fair chunk of Dave's) but on your own clues, the adrenaline kicks in and it's like you've never heard the Love Boat theme before (faceplant.)

 

But also... if we answered everything perfectly, what fun would that be? ;)

 

(PS ... Tara was right... I was thinking of "Hill Street Blues" but said "NYPD Blue" instead of ... CHEERS. Which of course has been running through my head ever since the recording... wheeee.....)

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profreader

profreader

MuuMuu Chainsmoker... I was so sort of keyed up that I don't think my brain could process that YES THIS TIME IT IS LOVE BOAT...

 

There was something else I realized -- not only do shows these days not really have theme songs, it's so easy to skip the beginnings (either binging on Netflix, skipping ahead on DVR.) There was a mini topic a while back about which credit sequences do you never skip -- I used to always watch the Six Feet Under credit sequence ... then Dexter ... but lately I can't think of one I'd always watch. Maybe House of Cards.

itainttippithebird

itainttippithebird

This was probably my most personally satisfying game time ever, not just because I felt smart at getting so many right, but because I knew so many of them by some weird, subterranean lizard brain instinct - as someone born in 1980, I wasn't sure HOW I knew with such confidence that it was Magnum PI/Rawhide/Northern Exposure, etc, but my 2-10 year old brain had it locked somewhere inside. If you'd given me the show and not the theme song, no way my brain could retrieve it.

Trip

Trip

I'll also say that aside from on-the-spot mental vaporlock (which is my only excuse for missing Magnum, forfuckssake), the sound quality here is WAY WAY better than what I was hearing in my headphones. I was listening to a bunch of these and thinking "how in the hell did I miss that?" and then realized "oh...because it didn't sound like that!" Not blaming Dave by any means -- it's probably just innate to the setup. (You can also tell there's always a little sound lag between Dave/Tara and our responses.)

Anyway, it was awesome to get to play a Game Time again!

profreader

profreader

I'll also say that aside from on-the-spot mental vaporlock (which is my only excuse for missing Magnum, forfuckssake), the sound quality here is WAY WAY better than what I was hearing in my headphones. I was listening to a bunch of these and thinking "how in the hell did I miss that?" and then realized "oh...because it didn't sound like that!" Not blaming Dave by any means -- it's probably just innate to the setup. (You can also tell there's always a little sound lag between Dave/Tara and our responses.)

Anyway, it was awesome to get to play a Game Time again!

 

I think I probably had my sound in my headphones turned down farther than I needed to (trying to avoid echo) so that contributed a bit... at least for Love Boat. Weirdly I knew Rawhide but somehow thought... oh that can't be it. Lesson: go with your gut.

 

Am I clutching at straws ... maybe ... yes.

 

Still, that was **so** much fun. And gives me new empathy for the next time I create a game. (Wait... no it doesn't ...)

Carrie Ann

Carrie Ann

I have some kind of mental block when it comes to identifying things by sound, so I did terribly playing along in my kitchen! Even though I knew almost all of these, I would have needed a 5-second clip for most of them, I think. I got a few that are programmed deep in my lizard brain after one second--Buffy, Alias, others that I used as ringtones for a time in my life--but in general, this kind of thing is not up my alley, so I'm very impressed with all of you. Very fun game time, and a nice change to let people guess with no penalty after the one-second clip.

April Bloodgate

April Bloodgate

This was probably my most personally satisfying game time ever, not just because I felt smart at getting so many right, but because I knew so many of them by some weird, subterranean lizard brain instinct - as someone born in 1980, I wasn't sure HOW I knew with such confidence that it was Magnum PI/Rawhide/Northern Exposure, etc, but my 2-10 year old brain had it locked somewhere inside. If you'd given me the show and not the theme song, no way my brain could retrieve it.

I felt the same way. I don't know how I got the themes to shows I've never seen before in only 1 second, but there's definitely something lizard brain-y to my pop culture knowledge. Plus, repeated viewings of all of the I Love the 70s, 80s, and 90s shows on VH1 probably helps.

MuuMuuChainsmoker

MuuMuuChainsmoker

I miss Games Magazine SO MUCH. I was just talking about my love for it yesterday.

 

SO much love. The fake ads, the hidden contests.  To this day, I still know that worcestershire sauce has anchovies and tamarinds because of the Scavenger Hunt they ran one year in the pre-internet days.  

 

Errrr, to get back on topic:   I wish we could do a TV screencaps scavenger hunt.

Kip

Kip

Star Trek: Vortex

The Last Starfleet starship is tossed 500 years into their past and tries to avert their dark future. The crew from the future will have to contend with the "modern day" federation who are medieval in comparison to their crew, as well as what they can risk changing and what can't be stopped. The crew sees their mission is to save the soul of the federation, stopping them from going down a dark path that leads to their ultimate destruction.

Kip

Kip

I don't watch this show, but I totally would if any of these castings happened: Bobby McFerrin as a Suge Knight type just released from prison, Tatyana Ali as a crazy talented back up singer who no one wants to give a chance to (because they want to keep her doing back up), and Alfonso Ribeiro as novelty rapper turned international action star/cultist.

Jessi

Jessi

Thanks for your list of odd OJ Simpson books/shows. I'm also reading Toobin's book, but I'm here to talk about something so bizarre that I need to share it. Thanks to the podcast crimewriterson [http://www.crimewriterson.com],I found a This American Life about a prank show starring OJ Simpson. I haven't found the actual show, and I don't really want to, but this TAL episode is a must-listen if you're watching The People vs. OJ Simpson. Link here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/564/too-soon [Act One]. So, so weird.

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