Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

You hear us play Game Time, but only the bravest few dare attempt it themselves. Laura, Mike, and Rob face off in a trio of Game Times, one written by each co-host. Listen to find out how many winners there are among them!
GUESTS
👤 Rob Hartmann
👤 Laura Hampton
👤 Mike Seifert
TOPICS
Game Time: 📚 Stacks-onomy Of Episodes
Game Time: 🔠 One Letter Off
Game Time: 🫥 Oh! I Didn't See You There
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Two past and future EHG guests and one listener are showcased in this special episode. First, the good: Mlle. Caroline's pitch for the fourth episode of BBC's 1995 Pride & Prejudice, and Dan Cassino deep (sea) dive on Iron Chef's "Squid Battle." Bringing up the rear is Wendy's Nonac pitch for The Great British Bake Off's infamous "Mexican Week." Warning: might make you hungry for a giant ham, squid pizza, and "TACK-os."
TOPICS
The Canon: 🏰 Pride & Prejudice (1995) S01.E04
The Canon: 🦑 Iron Chef S03.E23: Squid Battle
The Nonac: 🌮 The Great British Bake Off S13.E04: Mexican Week
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Krystal Farmer helps us keep turning EHG into a hoops pod by coming back to talk about Running Point's second season: why it works, what it (perhaps wisely?) hand-waves, whose idea it was to cast such short kings as NBA players, and whether a certain former WB heartthrob is getting a back-door NHL pilot. We went Around The Dial with Call The Midwife, a Jerry West documentary, and Killing Grounds: The Gilgo Beach Murders before Julie did a song-and-dance routine on behalf of a final-season Mad Men episode for the Canon. Good reporting won, a bad Housewife lost, and Game Time once again asked us to guess the horny hearts of the average IMDb user. Was there a buzzer-beater? You'll have to listen to find out.
GUESTS
👤 Krystal Farmer
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🏀 Running Point
Around The Dial: 🍼 Call The Midwife
Around The Dial: ⛹🏻‍♂️ Jerry West: The Logo
Around The Dial: 🏖️ Killing Grounds: The Gilgo Beach Murders
The Canon: 👨‍🚀 Mad Men S07.E07: Waterloo
Winner & Loser: 😵‍💫 Tessa Stuart
Winner & Loser: 🥒 Jill Zarin
Game Time: 🤩 TV Popularity Contest III
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🪙 Krystal Farmer's Two Cents Plus Tax podcast
🦋 Krystal on Bluesky
⛹🏽‍♀️ The WNBA
🏀 Our discussion of Running Point in EHG 552
🌮 Tara's Rockford Files manifesto at Defector
🐶 How to help Forte Animal Rescue
🏖️ Sarah's Killing Grounds review at Best Evidence
📷 Photo: Katrina Marcinowski / Netflix

Beef has returned with more than twice the beefs (or beeves, if you will); Phillip Maciak has also returned to talk about whether it still sizzles. Around The Dial takes us through S05 of The Boys, Saturday Night Live, and Untold: Jail Blazers. Phillip pitches the New Girl episode "Normal" for induction into The Canon. And we close things up with the Winner and Loser of the week, skipping Game Time out of respect for Dave's frail constitution. Slather up with some of that fancy Korean sunscreen and listen!
GUESTS
👤 Phillip Maciak
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🥩 Beef
Around The Dial: 🦹 The Boys
Around The Dial: 🌃 Saturday Night Live
Around The Dial: 🏀 Untold: Jail Blazers
The Canon: 🗽 New Girl S01.E20: Normal
Winner & Loser: 🚔 Matt LeBlanc
Winner & Loser: ⚖️ Law & Order: Organized Crime
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NOTES
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🦋 Phillip Maciak on Bluesky
🪐 "Cousin Planet - SNL" on YouTube
🚙 "Car Song - SNL" on YouTube
📲 "DTF St. Louis Is An Utterly Original Drama Of Male Loneliness" at The New Republic
🏀 "You've Watched Untold: Jail Blazers. What's Next?" at Best Evidence
📷 Photo: Netflix

Alas, our planned guest Devindra Hardawar couldn't join us after all -- but we forged ahead with our discussion of The Audacity, whose all-star cast didn't save the show from feeling superfluous. Should you give AMC's takedown of crappy rich Californians a try, or just watch Succession again? We went Around The Dial with Margo's Got Money Problems, Love, Ted Bundy, and the new season of Taskmaster before Dave was Not A Crackpot about live-task editing. Tara hoped a Season 16 episode of Bob's Burgers would make a perfect Canon fit. Joel Kinnaman won, Euphoria lost, and Sarah caught strays for her Chewbacca imitation in a copyright-compliant Non-Regulation Game Time. Someone light a match; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 💾 The Audacity
Around The Dial: 💸 Margo's Got Money Problems
Around The Dial: 💘 Love, Ted Bundy
Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster
Around The Dial: 🍔 Bob's Burgers S16.E07: Tube For Tina
Winner & Loser: 🥵 Joel Kinnaman
Winner & Loser: 🐶 Euphoria
Game Time: 🤫 Secret Invitation Code
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NOTES
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🧑‍🦱 Billy Magnussen got a perm to play Duncan
🦹 Devindra Hardawar discussed The Franchise with us in EHG 531
🏥 Tara on bad fans of The Pitt for GQ
🖤 Sarah's full review of Love, Ted Bundy at Best Evidence
👀 Game Time Answer Sheet
📷 Photo: AMC