Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Little House On The Prairie has been one in a series of historical memoirs and a TV series that premiered in 1974, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more adaptations: Kim Reed, possibly the world’s biggest franchise fan (or at least the biggest in our acquaintance) returns to talk about Netflix’s new version, which has already been renewed for a second season. Around The Dial takes us through The Other Bennet Sister, Big Brother S28, House Of The Dragon, Squatters, and Human Vapor. Tara pitches the Mad About You episode “Bedfellows” for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week’s Winner and Loser, it’s on to a Game Time with an extensive bibliography. Grab a peppermint stick and listen!
GUESTS
👤 Kim Reed
TOPICS
Announcement: 🤷‍♀️ Non-Announcement Announcement
Lead Topic: 🌾 Little House On The Prairie (2026)
Around The Dial: 👒 The Other Bennet Sister
Around The Dial: 👁️ Big Brother
Around The Dial: 🐲 House Of The Dragon
Around The Dial: 🏚️ Squatters
Around The Dial: 🧖‍♂️ Human Vapor
The Canon: 🏥 Mad About You S02.E03: Bedfellows
Winner & Loser: 🫆 Task
Winner & Loser: ✈️ Kristin Cavallari
Game Time: 📖 Hey! It's That Author!
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NOTES
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🦋 Kim Reed on Bluesky
🌴 The Again With This Club
🏚️ Sarah on Squatters
🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 Information on the EHG Mutual Aid Vault at our FAQ
📷 Photo: Eric Zachanowich / Netflix

Though it’s never been easier to avoid commercials if that’s what you prefer, some do deserve applause. That’s why we’ve assembled to choose our favorite TV commercial characters in product categories from fast food to hard drinks to drugstores and beyond. We also stay on-theme with a pitch for the Tiny Catchy Commercial Jingle With Punchable Child Canon AND a Non-Regulation Game Time all about the stars who’ve used their celebrity to promote everything from worthy non-profits to hands-free toilet cleaners. We’ll be right back after these messages!
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🤑 Commercial Pitchman Draft II
Tiny Canon: 🥊
Game Time: 🗯️ Talk Isn't Cheap
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📊 Vote for your favorite commercial pitch lineup
🔥 Commercial Pitchman Draft in EEHG 098
🐑 "Volkswagen Tiguan - Commercial: Sheep 'Break Free' (2022; 0:30)" on YouTube
😴 "Nathan Lane 1990 NyQuil Commercial" on YouTube
🌴 Again With Again With This
💄 The Listen To Sassy Club
🥣 "Quaker Ready To Serve Oatmeal Commercial 1987 With Timmy" on YouTube

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