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  • 521: Whiling Away Dark Times With The Decameron

    521: Whiling Away Dark Times With The Decameron
    Jul 31 2024
    The Decameron has come to Netflix in the form of a limited series from Teenage Bounty Hunters creator Kathleen Jordan. How has the centuries-old material change in the adaptation? Kathryn VanArendonk returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us to Futurama's latest season, My Lady Jane, and Shōgun. Kathryn makes the case for inducting the Bluey episode "Camping" into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's "sticks of TNT"! Put down the onion you're using to dissipate pestilence miasma and listen!

    GUESTS

    👤 Kathryn VanArendonk

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 🐀 The Decameron

    Around The Dial: 🤖 Futurama

    Around The Dial: 🏰 My Lady Jane

    Around The Dial: 🏯 Shōgun

    The Canon: 🐶 Bluey S01.E43: Camping

    Winner & Loser: 👍 General Hospital

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Billy Ray Cyrus

    Game Time: 🧠 CatchphraseGPT

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site

    🦤 Kathryn at Vulture

    🐁 Kathryn's review of The Decameron at Vulture

    🚀 Tara's review of Futurama S12 at Cracked

    ⏳ Tara's review of AppleTV+'s Time Bandits at Cracked

    🤬 "SHOGUN - Swearing Compilation" on YouTube

    🚔 The Docket

    🏥 "Emma Samms Returns to 'General Hospital' as Holly" on Variety

    📷 Photo: Giulia Parmigiani / Netflix
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • 520: Did We Come To Praise Those About To Die, Or Bury It?

    520: Did We Come To Praise Those About To Die, Or Bury It?
    Jul 24 2024
    Monty Ashley returned not just to EHG but to the distant past, as the panel contemplated Peacock's ancient-Succession drama, Those About To Die. The CGI is pretty ancient too, but did any of the storylines make us want to keep watching? Did Sarah D. "Horse Girl" Bunting care about the stables subplot? And how much chariot-racing is too much? Then we neck-acted our way Around The Dial with Cobra Kai, The Boys, and the soothing Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories before clambering into a Dumpster for Monty's The Chris Gethard Show Canon submission. And finally, it was time to swear at-- er, IN a TV-president Game Time from Dan Cassino. Oscar-winners, grenades, and avant-garde casting choices around RFK Sr. in this all-new Extra Hot Great.

    GUESTS

    👤 Monty Ashley

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 🏛️ Those About To Die

    Around The Dial: 🥋 Cobra Kai

    Around The Dial: 🍱 Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

    Around The Dial: 🦹 The Boys

    The Canon: 🗑️ The Chris Gethard Show S02.E09: One Man's Trash

    Winner & Loser: 👍 The And Just Like That... prankster

    Winner & Loser: 👎 The CW

    Game Time: 🤷‍♂️ Executive Decision

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site

    🐉 Hear Monty Ashley on Total Party Kill at The Incomparable Podcast Network

    🥋 Tara's Cobra Kai review at Cracked

    💿 The '90s Soundtrack Flashback mini-season at MASTAS

    🗑️ Watch The Chris Gethard Show S02.E09: One Man's Trash on YouTube

    ⚾️ "A drive into deep left field"'s Wikipedia entry

    📷 Photo: Reiner Bajo / Peacock

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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • 519: Experiencing Terror At London Bridge

    519: Experiencing Terror At London Bridge
    Jul 17 2024
    Terror At London Bridge is a 1985 TV movie in which David Hasselhoff plays Don, a detective arrived in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, just in time for Jack The Ripper to come back to life and start killing people there, and since July 17 is his birthday, there's no better time to talk about it! Sadly, a last-minute scheduling change forced Sarah to excuse herself, but our guest Eve Batey is here to speak on behalf of everyone who can, like Don, truthfully say that true crime is one of their passions. Around The Dial takes us to a detailed discussion of Prime Video's Sausage Party: Foodtopia and the final season of Evil. Our friend Dan Cassino makes the case for X-Men '97's "Remember It" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner(s) and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that doesn't have much to say for itself. Grab your cape and scalpel-- Actually, don't do that; just listen!

    GUESTS

    👤 Eve Batey

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 🌉 Terror At London Bridge aka Bridge Across Time aka Arizona Ripper

    Around The Dial: 🍆 Sausage Party: Foodtopia

    Around The Dial: 😈 Evil

    The Canon: 🧬 X-Men '97 S01.E05: Remember It

    Winner & Loser: 👍 Joe Pantoliano; Dracula

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Tim Doyle

    Game Time: 🔐 Personal Authorization Code

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site

    📸 Eve on Instagram

    🌉 Terror At London Bridge (aka Bridge Across Time, aka Arizona Ripper)

    👀 The Lookwell pilot on YouTube

    💥 Comedy Bang Bang 838: "Peter Pogdanovich"

    💂🏻 The English Village at Lake Havasu

    🔍 The Return Of Sherlock Holmes on YouTube

    🍆 Tara's Sausage Party: Foodtopia on Cracked

    🪦 Tara's obituary essay on Shannen Doherty's performance as Beverly Hills, 90210's Brenda Walsh at Decider

    📰 Best Evidence at Reality Blurred

    ☠️ "'Last Man Standing' Showrunner Tim Doyle Censured by WGA West For Facebook Posting Of 'Racist And Offensive' Image" at Deadline

    📷 Photo: Charles Fries Productions

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • 518: Should You Shield Yourself From Fallout?

    518: Should You Shield Yourself From Fallout?
    Jul 10 2024
    We are off this week but bring you a recent episode from our Club spinoff podcast Extra Extra Hot Great.

    From EEHG 292: Should You Shield Yourself From Fallout?

    Even big Walt Goggins fans might not enjoy a series that takes his nose and overuses midcentury needle drops -- but most of the panel thinks you should stick with Fallout, the new post-nuclear-bomb dystopia from Prime based on a videogame. It's different from Silo in good ways, and wit plus world-building plus thoughtful casting goes a long way. Your Ask EHG questions led us to contemplate a live-action Muppet Show, a Sports Night reboot, Warriors gangs, and crossover pairs of TV friends; we named our Not Quite Winners and Losers; and the calendar's cruelest month saw US cruelly pitting characters named April against each other in a micro-Thunderdome. Radiation poisoning and Garthe Knight...just another day in the vault at Extra Extra Hot Great!

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: ☢️ Fallout

    Ask EHG: 🙋🏼‍♀️ Domer

    Winner & Loser: 👍 Nicola Coughlan

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Mark Gatiss

    Winner & Loser: 👍 Melrose Place

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Tim Kring

    Winner & Loser: 👍 Curb Your Enthusiasm

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Tulsa King

    Extra Credit: ⚡️ April-Dome

    Mini: 👹 Sympathy For The Devil

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site

    🎭 A Tulsa King actor responds to insults (allegedly) from Sly Stallone

    👩‍🔧 The hilarious fan wiki on April Curtis
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    51 mins
  • 517: Canada Thunderdome

    517: Canada Thunderdome
    Jul 3 2024
    Another Canada Day is on the books, but before you pack away your miniature Canadian flags, there's one more celebration we all need to get through: Canadian Thunderdome! We've each chosen 9 Canadian people or characters from TV, and we're tossing them into the Thunderdome to see which of these traditionally mild-mannered, polite figures has what it takes to win multiple fights to the death! Grab a few butter tarts and join us!

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 🦫 Canada Thunderdome

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    NOTES

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    🥅 "Albert" Canadian Tire commercial on YouTube

    😤 "Why Everybody Hates Caillou" on YouTube

    🦛 "The North American House Hippo" PSA on YouTube

    👺 "Caramilk Devil 'Anything...?'" on YouTube

    🦾 "I Am Astar, A Robot" PSA on YouTube

    🦟 "The Mosquito From The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein" on YouTube

    🏒 "Peter Puck - Episode 1" on YouTube

    🤏 "Kids In The Hall - Head Crusher: Rival" on YouTube

    💄 Jimbo

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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • 516: Can Orphan Black: Echoes Clone Success?

    516: Can Orphan Black: Echoes Clone Success?
    Jun 26 2024
    The Orphan Black franchise returns to TV with Orphan Black: Echoes, and our own Joe Reid returns to talk about the sequel starring Krysten Ritter, Reed Diamond, and a whole assload of strawberry Jell-O. Is the new iteration a pale (pink) imitation of the original? Might it benefit from streaming the whole thing at once? And do its connections to the parent show only point up its weaknesses? Later, we went Around The Dial with (often justly) forgotten sitcoms of the '90s plus The Morning Show and a minor-league 30 For 30, before Hannah schemed to win the lion's share of a place in the Canon for a first-season The Traitors (US). Trebek won, arranged marriage lost, and we pulled some strings to play a nepo-forward Game Time. Get comfy on a living-room soundstage and listen!

    GUESTS

    👤 Joe Reid

    TOPICS

    Announcement: 📢 Support EHG on Patreon

    Lead Topic: 🧬 Orphan Black: Echoes

    Around The Dial: 🫥 Forgotten '90s Sitcoms

    Around The Dial: 🌅 The Morning Show

    Around The Dial: 🥅 30 For 30

    The Canon: 🔪 The Traitors S01.E06: Suspicion And Sabotage

    Winner & Loser: 👍 Alex Trebek

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Perfect Match

    Game Time: 🤝 It's Who You Know

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    NOTES

    🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site

    🐝 Joe Reid at This Had Oscar Buzz

    🎞️ The Cinematrix / Vulture Games mailing list

    🏆 Vulture's Gold Rush awards newsletter

    🫥 Tara's "10 Forgotten '90s Sitcoms That Still Work Today" piece at Cracked

    🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

    📩 See the Trebek stamp for yourself

    📷 Photo: Sophie Giraud / AMC
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • 515: Anticipating The 2024 Election With The Boys

    515: Anticipating The 2024 Election With The Boys
    Jun 19 2024
    The Boys has returned for its fourth (and, as we just learned last week, penultimate) season; Andrew Cunningham joins us to discuss whether it's hammering too hard with its takes on current events and political personages. Around The Dial takes us through RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, the series finale of Star Trek: Discovery, The Simpsons, Brats, and Hotel Cocaine. Sarah pitches the ER episode "Love's Labor Lost" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that takes us around the world in a day. Find us on Voughtify and listen!

    GUESTS

    👤 Andrew Cunningham

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 🦹 The Boys

    Around The Dial: 🏁 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

    Around The Dial: 🚀 Star Trek: Discovery

    Around The Dial: 🌝 The Simpsons

    Around The Dial: 🎬 Brats

    Around The Dial: 🍚 Hotel Cocaine

    The Canon: 🏥 ER S01.E19: Love's Labor Lost

    Winner & Loser: 👍 Homicide: Life On The Street

    Winner & Loser: 👎 Joey Graziadei

    Game Time: 🌍 Country Of Origin

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    NOTES

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    🦋 Andrew Cunningham on Bluesky

    🦹 Tara's review of The Boys S04 at Cracked.com

    🚥 Tara's review of Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go at Cracked.com

    🌝 "The Simpsons Is Good Again" at Vulture

    ✂️ The Sharp Objects episode of the Overdue podcast

    🎶 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast on Patreon

    🏥 Our past ER coverage

    📷 Photo: Jasper Savage / Prime Video

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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • 514: Is Fantasmas So Good It's Scary?

    514: Is Fantasmas So Good It's Scary?
    Jun 12 2024
    We're thrilled comedian Josh Gondelman could come back to talk about Fantasmas, the latest show from Los Espookys's Julio Torres, which is as hard to describe as it was for us to resist. We talked about everything from fully realized re-imaginings of Alf, to comedy that doesn't have to prove it's smarter than you, to begging the universe to let Torres make American Vandal Seasons 3 through 85. Maybe the show's not for everyone, but it's okay with that, which is part of its charm. Later, we went Around The Dial with 9-1-1, Rachel Feinstein's stand-up special Big Guy, and Sarah and Dan's Justified marathon, and Josh hoped his Killing It Canon presentation would pay off (before 9 PM, of course. Timothy Olyphant won a second time, The Morning Show found a way to lose twice, and Dave was a poet who DID know it in a rhyming edition of Game Time. Put that clear-crayon project aside and have a listen.

    GUESTS

    👤 Josh Gondelman

    TOPICS

    Lead Topic: 👻 Fantasmas

    Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1

    Around The Dial: 🎙️ Rachel Feinstein: Big Guy

    Around The Dial: 🤠 Justified

    The Canon: 🐊 Killing It S02.E03: It Follows

    Winner & Loser: 👍 Timothy Olyphant

    Winner & Loser: 👎 The Morning Show

    Game Time: 🕰️ Game Rhyme 2020s Edition

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    NOTES

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    👻 Tara's review of Fantasmas for Cracked

    😁 Josh Gondelman's "That's Marvelous" newsletter

    📍 Josh's tour dates and more

    🐶 Bizzy the pug on Instagram

    💄 Tara, Dave, and Pam Ribon think you should Listen To Sassy

    🔪 Sarah's The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson review at Best Evidence

    📷 Photo: Monica Lek / HBO

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    1 hr and 26 mins