Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Larra submitted a late-season DS9 about baseball — in which bunting figures heavily! — for this month’s Forcening, so we stepped up to the plate for Worf homers, MLB nepo casting, and practicing strike-three calls. Ask EHG invited us to write our own Drunk History eps and set Emily Gilmore up on dates, and Tara hung a funny hat a Simpsons Tiny Canon pitch; then we named Not Quite 11 tennis episodes and show-title dog names, just in time to go back to school with TV’s most important academic administrators. Raise the roof; raise it — for an all-new episode of EEHG!
TOPICS
Forcening Pool: ⚾️ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S07.E04 Take Me Out To The Holosuite
Ask EHG: 😤 TV families on Family Feud
Tiny Canon: 👒 The Simpsons S04.E07: Marge Gets A Job
Not Quite Top 11: 🐕 Show Titles You Can Use As Dog Names With Dave's Permission
Not Quite Top 11: 🎾 Tennis Episodes To Send You Into The US Open Finals This Weekend
Not Quite Top 11: 🧢 Other Baseball Episodes
Extra Credit: 🧑🏽‍🏫 Important TV Principals
Mini: 🏈 The Most Electrifying Quiz In Sports Entertainment
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
🥎 Buddy coaching a lesbian softball team on Kids In The Hall
🕊️ How Curb saved a guy from prison
🍎 EEHG 065 on bad TV teachers
📷 Photo: Paramount Television

Who better than EEHG’s Green Screen correspondent Stephanie Early Green to discuss Freeform’s new reality show about the super-rich Snugli set — Million Dollar Nannies. Sarah actually didn’t hate the show in theory, but in practice, we found the premise non-credible, the nannies suspect skills-wise, and the richie clients were the Forbes 400 equivalent of Vrbo text art. We left the mysteries of Daddy Moke behind to go Around The Dial with Sugar‘s second season, Ludwig, and a From marathon update before Stephanie climbed into the Canon-pitch cockpit with an episode of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal. Simon Says won, Project Runway lost, and Monty hoped we’d score Alfred E. Neuman points in Game Time. Shred those NDAs and hop in the designer pram for an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
👤 Stephanie Green
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🍾 Million Dollar Nannies
Around The Dial: 🍭 Sugar
Around The Dial: 🧩 Ludwig
Around The Dial: 🚧 From
The Canon: ✈️ The Rehearsal S02.E03: Pilot's Code
Winner & Loser: 💬 Simon Says
Winner & Loser: 👗 Project Runway
Game Time: 😜 What, Me Query?
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
💚 More from Stephanie Early Green at her website
🍬 EEHG 291 on Sugar's first season
⛴️ Tara's burning questions about Widow's Bay S02 for GQ
🛣️ EEHG 415 on From's series premiere
🛹 Sarah's Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator review at Best Evidence
📷 Photo: Disney
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A whole passel of alt-comedy superstars got together to make a comedy feature for Hulu about the class of 2008 having to redo the last two weeks of their senior year. Should they…maybe not have bothered? Brandi Brown returns to discuss it (and we hope will return again after we made her endure this). Around The Dial takes us through Miss You, Love You; Office Romance; a viral video of the cast of The Gilded Age pausing a shoot to celebrate the Knicks winning the NBA championship; Carl The Collector; and Mad Men. Sarah pitches the Law & Order episode “Everybody’s Favorite Bagman” for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week’s Winner and Loser, we close on a Sorkin-ass Game Time. Put your senior high school yearbook away and listen!
GUESTS
👤 Brandi Brown
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🎓 Never Change!
Around The Dial: 💖 Miss You, Love You
Around The Dial: 📌 Office Romance
Around The Dial: 🏀 The Gilded Age
Around The Dial: 🦝 Carl The Collector
Around The Dial: 🥃 Mad Men
The Canon: ⚖️ Law & Order S01.E06: Everybody's Favorite Bagman
Winner & Loser: 🔫 Stephen Falk
Winner & Loser: 🍷 Milania Giudice
Game Time: 🍄‍🟫 Sorkin-Ass Names
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NOTES
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🦋 Brandi Brown on Bluesky
💥 "Widow’s Bay Creator Tells All After Explosive Finale" by Tara at Daily Beast
🏀 The cast of The Gilded Age reacts to the news of the Knicks winning the NBA championship
📆 Brandi's imminent standup dates
📚 The #majorcase sale at Exhibit B. Books
📷 Disney / Brett Roedel

Interview With The Vampire returns with a tonally shifted, maximalist third season — and Caroline Framke also returns to talk about the show’s new POV character, in-universe songcraft, when scenery-chewing works, and how vampires’ greatest trick was convincing the world they don’t exist. We went Around The Dial with Not Suitable For Work, Love Island UK, Gardener’s World, and Michael Jackson: The Verdict, and we wondered Will Dave Hate This? about an upcoming The Littlest Hobo remake; Tara may have had an anxiety dream about her Canon pitch for a fifth-season Hacks episode; and La Brea won (for once), while short-sighted executives lost (as usual). And heaven COULDN’T wait for another iteration of Dan Cassino’s faith-based-TV Game Time. Stage-dive into an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
👤 Caroline Framke
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🎸 Interview With The Vampire
Around The Dial: 🤬 Not Suitable For Work
Around The Dial: 🏝️ Love Island UK
Around The Dial: 🪴 Gardener's World
Around The Dial: ✨ Michael Jackson: The Verdict
Will Dave Hate This?: 🐶 The Littlest Hobo
The Canon: 🍷 Hacks S05.E07: Montecito
Winner & Loser: 🕳️ La Brea
Winner & Loser: 👯 Brothers & Sisters
Game Time: 🙏 Thou Shalt Guess The Title, Book II
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NOTES
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🎥 Caroline Framke goes behind the scenes with reality-TV producers for Bustle
☘️ Tara's interview with Kate O'Flynn at The Daily Beast
😬 Sarah's Michael Jackson: The Verdict review at Best Evidence
🐕 Maybe Tomorrow by Terry Bush
📷 Photo: Frank W. Ockenfels III / AMC

While the counter-history of For All Mankind was going on, what counter-historical events were occurring in parallel in the U.S.S.R.? The spinoff Star City is here to dramatize it, and new guest Sophie Brookover is here to say whether it’s a “da” or a “net.” Around The Dial takes us to Make That Movie, The Tower, Deli Boys S02, and Instadocs. Wendy pitches the Designing Women episode “How Great Thou Art” for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week’s Winner and Loser, it’s on to a bookish Game Time about big- and small-screen adaptations. Find any of the many listening devices hidden in your home and join us!
GUESTS
👤 Sophie Brookover
TOPICS
Announcement: 🏳️‍🌈 Pride Month Gift Exchange
Lead Topic: 🚀 Star City
Around The Dial: 🎥 Make That Movie
Around The Dial: 🏢 The Tower
Around The Dial: 🥪 Deli Boys
Around The Dial: 📹 Instadocs
The Canon: ⛪️ Designing Women S02.E20: How Great Thou Art
Winner & Loser: 👍 Anna Kendrick
Winner & Loser: 🦆 Jorge R. Gutierrez
Game Time: 📚 Screen Sizes
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NOTES
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🦋 Sophie Brookover on Bluesky
👯‍♀️ The Two Bossy Dames newsletter
🏳️‍🌈 Pride Month gift exchange information and signup
👀 "Why You Should Be Watching Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed" at GQ
🛎️ Downton Abbey on the Telly Visions podcast
📺 "9 Shows For '80s And '90s PBS And Masterpiece Kids" at Two Bossy Dames
📹 Sarah's Instadocs review at Best Evidence
🕰️ Sarah's Woman Of The Hour review at Best Evidence
🚪 Anthony Bourdain in Narnia at An Archive Of Our Own
📷 Photo: Apple
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