David T. Cole February 6, 2016 Author Share February 6, 2016 Joe is involved with the darkest of Black Magicks. Link to comment
Fukui San February 6, 2016 Share February 6, 2016 If I could channel my username for a moment, I will point out that cod sperm was a theme ingredient in Iron Chef Japan once. It was said to have a creamy texture, and could be enjoyed in a cup of warm sake. Link to comment
Primetimer February 8, 2016 Share February 8, 2016 Welcoming callers from other shows. Read the story Link to comment
SnideAsides February 8, 2016 Share February 8, 2016 Insert Smooth Joey Apollo music here. Link to comment
SnideAsides February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 Turns out Belgium's actual tourism slogan is "A food lover's dream. A beer lover's heaven." I'm not saying a country that borders France and Germany should reconsider its approach, but "Simply Belgium" is totally better. Link to comment
Primetimer February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 It's our third Listener Game Time and it's on theme! Read the story Link to comment
deangirl February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 Either I'm REALLY old and these guys are really young or they suck!!!!! The one second clips are so easy!!I'm yelling in my living room! Link to comment
Primetimer February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 The contestants try to hide their models in plain sight. Did it work? Liv tells all. Read the story Link to comment
Racj82 February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 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. Link to comment
DavidJSnyder February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 I think turning your models into Ancients would be a great challenge. 1 Link to comment
LAFR February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 Does anyone else have a problem with The Number 17? Nowadays every time someone says "17" I have this strong urge to say "the spread eagle." Link to comment
profreader February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 (edited) 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.....) Edited February 9, 2016 by profreader Link to comment
FormerMod-a1 February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 These were a lot of old shows. But I do agree that they are iconic or classics so a lot of people would recognize them. Doesn't mean I didn't know almost all of them. :-) Yes, from the comfort of my own sofa, not saying I'd get them if I were an actual contestant. Link to comment
AndreaK1041 February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 Wow, I thought the Alias one was South Park after the 1 second clip. Link to comment
April Bloodgate February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 So I guess everyone thought this was a really easy Game Time. However, as someone born in the late 80s, I'm pretty proud of myself for scoring pretty similarly to the contestants. This was fun! Link to comment
MuuMuuChainsmoker February 9, 2016 Share February 9, 2016 Thank God poor Rob got that Love Boat one. I was getting a sympathetic ulcer on his behalf. Link to comment
profreader February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 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. Link to comment
itainttippithebird February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 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. Link to comment
SnideAsides February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 Oh, Cheers. Apparently not everybody knows your name. Does anyone else have a problem with The Number 17? Nowadays every time someone says "17" I have this strong urge to say "the spread eagle." I do too. And I've been known to refer to 34 as "the double spread-eagle". Link to comment
Racj82 February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 Does anyone else have a problem with The Number 17? Nowadays every time someone says "17" I have this strong urge to say "the spread eagle." I don't but I have to fight the urge to do the robot when I hear 19. Link to comment
SnideAsides February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 I think my favourite part of the theme music Game Times is Dave going to play the whole theme once it gets guessed, and then getting bored halfway through. Is it sad that my first thought upon hearing Cleopatra 2525 as a guess was "no, that theme was a bad parody of In the Year 2525" rather than "he said iconic"? Link to comment
Trip February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 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! Link to comment
helent February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 (edited) Any time I hear even a snippet of the Hawaii 5-0 theme I need to listen to Radio Birdman. 'Book 'em Danno, murder one!' https://youtu.be/lkKiZ9VSD6U Edited February 12, 2016 by helent Link to comment
profreader February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 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 ...) Link to comment
Jac February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 I think all of Belgrave and possibly the Dandenong Ranges, where I was driving at the time could hear me repeatedly shouting, it's Cheers!!! But then again Cheers is maybe my favourite comedy ever. Link to comment
Carrie Ann February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 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. Link to comment
April Bloodgate February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 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. Link to comment
jima February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 Hearing the Diff'rent Strokes theme song made me run back to the archives to find the show with the Sara D. Bunting version of that song, which you will hear at the very end of episode 56: http://previously.tv/extra-hot-great/ehg-056/ Link to comment
Jesse February 10, 2016 Share February 10, 2016 I love how Liv basically sounds like an adult now and is so matter-of-fact about so many things, but then she doesn't know about secret agents or tourists! Kids, man. 4 Link to comment
radishcake February 11, 2016 Share February 11, 2016 GREAT game time!! Props to all the players. It is SO much harder when you are in the clutch. Well done all!! <3 ETA: My colleague just stopped by and said "why are you singing The Love Boat??" hee! Link to comment
jima February 11, 2016 Share February 11, 2016 Ha! I figured that Trip's intro ("Tiny paper strewn about") would be an actual cryptic crossword clue, but it took me a while before I figured out what the answer was. Link to comment
SnideAsides February 11, 2016 Share February 11, 2016 Break it down for the rest of us? I couldn't even figure out how many letters I was supposed to be aiming for with the answer. Link to comment
MuuMuuChainsmoker February 12, 2016 Share February 12, 2016 Crossword spoiler "Tiny paper" anagrammed (aka "strewn about") = "Trip Payne". Trip, not to be all creepy and stalky, but I remember you way back when you were making crosswords for Games Magazine as a young pup. I always thought your name was a pseudonym that I just didn't understand! Link to comment
radishcake February 12, 2016 Share February 12, 2016 I miss Games Magazine SO MUCH. I was just talking about my love for it yesterday. Link to comment
MuuMuuChainsmoker February 12, 2016 Share February 12, 2016 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. Link to comment
SnideAsides February 12, 2016 Share February 12, 2016 Isn't it still a thing? I "flew to America" the other day to find another magazine that isn't sold here, and it came up as a suggestion? Link to comment
MuuMuuChainsmoker February 12, 2016 Share February 12, 2016 Isn't it still a thing? I "flew to America" the other day to find another magazine that isn't sold here, and it came up as a suggestion? Like everything else, it's crazy expensive to ship to Australia. Will hit you up separately to hear about this flying to America thing. :) Link to comment
profreader February 12, 2016 Share February 12, 2016 Chiming in with more love for Games Magazine. TV screencaps scavenger hunt sounds like an awesome idea... Link to comment
SeanBottai February 13, 2016 Share February 13, 2016 I am here to (lovingly) troll those 3 "accomplished gamesman." You guys stunk so bad!!!! :) When they missed the Sopranos, 30 Rock, Alias....?????!!!!! That was torture. Kisses and respect for effort. Link to comment
radishcake February 14, 2016 Share February 14, 2016 i played this tonight for my husband & we ended up singing along at the end to our 11 yr old's super cliche embarrassment. It was awesome. Link to comment
Kip February 15, 2016 Share February 15, 2016 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. Link to comment
Kip February 15, 2016 Share February 15, 2016 Samson Delilah Sitcom in the stupid husband/hot wife vein. Samson is super humanly strong (check out Judges 13-16 for the whole story), and she wants to find out the source of his strength. I would want this to be done by the crew behind (500) days of summer. Link to comment
Kip February 15, 2016 Share February 15, 2016 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. Link to comment
Primetimer February 16, 2016 Share February 16, 2016 The Breaking Bad prequel is back, and so is Jeff Drake, plus Fargo and criminals! Read the story Link to comment
Jessi February 16, 2016 Share February 16, 2016 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. Link to comment
itainttippithebird February 16, 2016 Share February 16, 2016 Did this post out of order with the Listener Game Time episode from last week, or will there be another one next week? Link to comment
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