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[EricJ]

I would move "The Slap" to the suburbs of Toronto, where it would become "The Apology."

[tita]

Moose Jaw is perfectly charming, Jeff. Don't listen to Dave.

[kimbrchick]

I totally want the Beastie Boys doing songs for The Inbetweeners. That sounds awesome.

[Onfire444]

Oh wow, the two episodes I had in mind were already in there! Come All Ye Saints from Big Love and Consider Helen from Enlightened. And I thought my TV tastes were so original . . . 

Loved all of Joe's comments in general on this one. 

I only started listening to the podcast recently and already have sooo many episodes I want to submit to the cannon. 

Tiny quibble. I did once see Ryan Adams skateboarding backstage before a show. It was an outdoor amphitheater, and he was skating on the driveway behind the stage. So it's not totally outlandish. 

[Kip]

I would move Fringe to Canada (it was filmed here anyways), moving things to Canada would no doubt increase the bureaucracy, and take away 99% of the funding. "Saving the world on a budget."

[Primetimer]

Giving Hodiak a break and assigning new gumshoes to the Charles Manson case.

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[Fukui San]

I'm going to suggest what I thought was the obvious choice and transplant "The Americans" to Canada. In this case, it will be undercover Americans posing as Canadians to steal their, uh..., hockey secrets?

[Fukui San]

Vinyl.

[radishcake]

I'm so glad the game was fun to play and to listen to! Nice job players! I was glad I got at least one "radishcaaaake" out of @Sarah D. Bunting! 

[John Potts]

How about "Life on Aquarius" (well, Aries would be more appropriate) - a modern day cop finds themselves in the 70s (I'm thinking one of the female CSIs - Sarah Sidle [Jorja Fox] would be good for the contrast, though she's not actually a cop) and meets up with unreconstructed sexist, bigoted "Good old fashioned copper" Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister). Hilarity ensues - and the case may even get solved, in some weird Timey-Wimey way.

[Actionmage]

We can go one of two ways:

* through the music angle-- a cool band of chicks just made the scene, but they are turned off by the vibe creepy Chuck is sending out. The leader, Josie, and her two friends, Heather and Melody, lay a trap for Charles and his creepy friends. Alexander and Alexandra, the twin managers, help out. Everyone then rocks out at Brian Wilson's place!

*A stoner is looking for his missing pet. The stoner's friends are also looking for the pet. Charles is deciding whether to keep the dog for himself or to use it for something else. Charles and the pet's owner meet and hit it off. The stoner's friends figure out where the dog was taken and find him in a garage.  The group hear their friend's distinctive laugh, leave the dog, leave the house and call the cops, reporting a dognapping and a possible kidnapping. Charles' last words as the police took him away? "You meddling kids!"

[Actionmage]

Raisin Most Horrid,  an anthology about characters,played by Dawn French, who either sneak raisins into food or are plagued by people who could care a whit about her deadly raisin allergy.

[Actionmage]

Transplant Dallas to Calgary!

Both have an oil and cowboy history, but the latter will have the most polite backstabbing on TV.

Also? The Calgary Stampede could take the place of The Cattlemen's Ball, possibly.

Edited June 30, 2016 by Actionmage

[Actionmage]

Cop: Hill Street Blues

Old, not-very-diverse show: The Big Valley

Jay-Z could write either or both.

[Primetimer]

Picking back up with beloved TV couples.

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[formerlyfreedom]

I was screaming at my phone (the player of the podcast) because I sadly remember "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home". Mostly because of the opening song, but I can't tell you anything more than that.

 

[Monty]

I've always thought that certain aspects of Family Guy were based on Wait Till Your Father Comes Home.

[purist]

Dave's description of Deadwood's Al Swearengen and Chief Head-in-a-Box on the road, on the run from the Pinkertons, 'laughing, loving, sharing, learning, growing', was a thing of beauty.

[Kip]

Ned and Charlotte "Chuck" Charles from Pushing Daisies.

[Primetimer]

Putting Any Given Wednesday guest Ben Affleck's pottymouth to work on other unscripted series.

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[Actionmage]

Undercover Boss? Where he berates employees for poor service/ job performance and then berates other employees for not spotting the badly disguised employer?

Bait Car? He comes out after the thieves are caught and opens up on the arrestees?

Or, in harnessing that energy for catharsis, Animal Cops? Where Affleck is allowed to melt the ears off abusive assholes who have endangered or worse to their pets.

Or he can take over for Alec Baldwin and host Match Game. *g*

[pagooey]

Incredibly late to the party, @David T. Cole, but the Microsoft turf-the-statistically-lowest-performer practice you mentioned in here was the dreaded "stack ranking." Benefited from it myself, and thank Jebus, frankly. (I also had to do it, during a brief terrible foray into management, and in those meetings it was also referred to as The Lifeboat Exercise. Literally, who can you most afford to shove into the sea? I am almost completely recovered now.)

ETA: and if I'd unpaused to listen for another 60 seconds, I'd have noted that OF COURSE DAVE KNOWS HOW TO GOOGLE. Looking like a dope is my price to pay for falling this far behind. 

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[Primetimer]

Allison Lowe Huff returns for a discussion of HBO's prestige remake, plus Deadwood, DB Cooper, and...eggs?

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[BobH]

I'll be that guy and point out that HELLO, LARRY wasn't a THREE'S COMPANY spin-off. It was one of the string of McLean Stevenson's post-MASH flops (I'm surprised they didn't have his ghost appear in AFTER-MASH...).

[Sarah D. Bunting]

That Deliberate Cooper remix-y bidness is art, Dave. xo

[Tara Ariano]

1 hour ago, BobH said:

I'll be that guy and point out that HELLO, LARRY wasn't a THREE'S COMPANY spin-off. It was one of the string of McLean Stevenson's post-MASH flops (I'm surprised they didn't have his ghost appear in AFTER-MASH...).

Oh.

[paulchillman]

Loved the shout-out for Odd Squad! My kids have been obsessed with it since it came on. Fun fact: the actor who plays the boss, Ms O, is Allison and Donny's daughter from Orphan Black.

[Laura Kathleen]

I'm fairly certain that Hello Larry was the beginning of Kim Richards' tragic downward spiral.  #IANACP

[profreader]

19 hours ago, BobH said:

I'll be that guy and point out that HELLO, LARRY wasn't a THREE'S COMPANY spin-off. It was one of the string of McLean Stevenson's post-MASH flops (I'm surprised they didn't have his ghost appear in AFTER-MASH...).

I had always heard of HELLO, LARRY in the "McLean Stevenson left MASH for **this**???" kind of way. It turns out it is in the "Diff'rent Strokes - Facts of Life" world ... who knew? http://www.poobala.com/diffandhello.html

He plays a radio host in the show (thus the pairing with WKRP) ... but I think it just lives on as a tiny footnote in the "major flops" category.

Also: I would like a world in which Angie Dickinson starred in every generically titled "Lady Cop" show. 

Police Woman! She's The Sheriff! Lady LEO! Female Inspector, Scotland Yard! The Babe's The Bailiff! The Prettiest Police Officer! The Warden's a Woman!

(The major thing I remember about Police Woman, although it was before my time really, is that her name was Pepper. PEPPER.)

[Primetimer]

Time to F/M/K a departing show!

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[Portia]

I watched a lot of Hello, Larry because--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--it was 1979 and THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE ON. I still find myself humming the theme song, mainly when my husband says, "I talked to Larry today . . . ."  Check out these delightfully expository lyrics!

Well hello, Larry (hello, Larry)
You talk to people all day for a living (hello, Larry)
But all those easy answers you are giving
Are you really living your life that way?
Portland is a long way from L.A. (A long way)  

Hello, Larry (Hello, Larry)
Two kids to raise alone just ain't that easy (hello, Larry)
The questions they are asking aren't that breezy
The answers you are giving don't always pay
But that's the way it is with kids today

The calls are coming in
You better start to grin
'Cause you never know just what they're gonna say
(Hello, Larry) Hello, Larry
(Hello, Larry) Hello, Larry
(Hello, Larry) Well hello, Larry!

[Al Lowe]

Loved the shout-out for Odd Squad! My kids have been obsessed with it since it came on. Fun fact: the actor who plays the boss, Ms O, is Allison and Donny's daughter from Orphan Black.

I'm so glad there's an Odd Squad fan in the listening audience! I got flustered and forgot to mention the show's AMAZING soundtrack of original songs. It's so clever and features the agents' favorite boy band, Soundcheck. (It's available for sale and on Spotify.)

[Cekrypton1]

Odd Squad is great. My daughter is the same age as your kid and started watching at the same time. We BOTH did a happy dance when I saw new eps on Prime last week.

[formerlyfreedom]

Loved listening to the Canon submission, since some of us are doing a Deadwood watch/rewatch right now, and some of what all y'all were saying was spooky given the conversations we've been having over in that forum. What Dave said about Cy Tolliver, we pretty much endorse 10000%!

[paulchillman]

12 hours ago, Al Lowe said:

I'm so glad there's an Odd Squad fan in the listening audience! I got flustered and forgot to mention the show's AMAZING soundtrack of original songs. It's so clever and features the agents' favorite boy band, Soundcheck. (It's available for sale and on Spotify.)

I'll have to check that out! My older boy sings "Like Nobody's Watching" incessantly. 

[Primetimer]

Recasting the Broadway sensation with our small-screen favorites.

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[MuuMuuChainsmoker]

Awww, I used to love Silk Stalkings.   Granted, I was unemployed and perpetually drunk most of the time back then, but still...

[FormerMod-a1]

I liked it, too, @MuuMuuChainsmoker.  I think I was in college?  

[Racj82]

3 hours ago, aquarian1 said:

I liked it, too, @MuuMuuChainsmoker.  I think I was in college?  

Even as a pre teen dude, I think the stars of that show was my first ship. They leaned into the will they won't they hard from the jump judging by the few early episodes I watched off Hulu not too long ago. I do like that on silk stalkings, shipping or not, they cared about each other deeply and their was very little manufacturer ed bickering and stuff. Like they were friends first and partners second.

[MuuMuuChainsmoker]

5 hours ago, Racj82 said:

Even as a pre teen dude, I think the stars of that show was my first ship. They leaned into the will they won't they hard from the jump judging by the few early episodes I watched off Hulu not too long ago. I do like that on silk stalkings, shipping or not, they cared about each other deeply and their was very little manufacturer ed bickering and stuff. Like they were friends first and partners second.

Yes!  Mitzi Kapture and Rob Estes had nice chemistry.  

I'm sure the writing was sub-Cinemax (I seem to remember a very strained voiceover golf and sex analogy in the early eps?) but i would have pulled up a chair and watched with Papa Bunting.  

[Primetimer]

TV running mates for our real presidential candidates

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[Lurky McLurkerson]

I initially heard "Puck" instead of "Huck" and totally thought y'all were going to suggest Puck from The Real World. Which would also be a fantastic running mate for The Donald.

[Monty]

I'm going to give each candidate the VP that represents who they think they are, so whenever they start to waver, they can just loo to the person next to them to serve as an example. Donald gets Jack Bauer, a go-getter with great hair who has a solid record of foiling terrorist plots. Hillary gets Leslie Knope.

[Babalu]

Tatiana Maslany as Hamilton, Burr, Angelica, Eliza, George Washington, George III, and Lafayette/Jefferson. And Peggy.

[Primetimer]

Montclair's Ron Kaplan trolled Bunts-- er, "asked us which pro athletes played themselves best."

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[Kip]

Drumpf gets the Mayor Richard Wilkins III from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, because he has political experience, and is able to come off less obviously evil. While Hillary gets Malory Archer from Archer, who help with Hillary's likability problem.

[PatternRec]

On 7/17/2016 at 10:10 AM, Babalu said:

Tatiana Maslany as Hamilton, Burr, Angelica, Eliza, George Washington, George III, and Lafayette/Jefferson. And Peggy.

*picturing Lafayette as a white chick with dreads and glasses*

[TheOtherLibrarian]

Sarah, I AM YOUR PEOPLE!!

I agree with every word you said about Deadwood. I want to like it, and I've tried, really, but.... And much as I love me some Olyphant, I just never felt him here.

Also, my mom loved Silk Stalkings. And, ahem, so did I.

[Primetimer]

John Ramos returns to talk about the Season 2 premiere of USA's hacker drama!

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[Dave in Chicago]

I like what "Stranger Things" is doing, but I would feel so much better about it as a 6 hour movie rather than 8 hours with series potential. It's a little pacey, in that "no one discovers anything until the last 10 minutes of every episode" kind of way.