As You Know

We return to the warm embrace of Showtime with its sort-of-prestige but totally memory-holed series, Masters of Sex. The show that dares to ask, "what if Mad Men had worse writers but more dildos?"

We look back at the show that launched a monster--Aaron Sorkin's dramedy Sports Night. It's also an excuse to talk about SportsCenter because that's still on somehow.

We get into the long, shambling mess of a franchise that was once the biggest hit in cable history. It's a show that experienced a 14 million viewer drop between its peak and its low point, yet has produced spinoff after spinoff as its networks cash cow. It's finally time to talk about The Walking Dead.

Did you know A&E had an eight-season docuseries about parking enforcement? Sadly, Matt did so we have to talk about it and its endless anticlimactic showdowns between people who hand out tickets for a living and the moderately irritated drivers they encounter. We also get started on a tournament to decide the best of the first 80 shows that we've covered on the pod.

We're back to our regularly scheduled programming with the strange legacy of The Muppet Show. From a bizarre valentine's special with Mia Farrow to a laser shootout with Roger Moore, we examine the Muppet legacy and the personhood of Kermit the Frog.

Our one-season series comes to a close with the most normal show of the bunch, the cult ballet favorite Bunheads. It's our first foray into the career of Amy Sherman-Palladino and her world of quaint small towns and quippy one-liners.

Child labor laws: who needs 'em! It's time to discuss the reality TV catastrophe that was Kid Nation, in which 40 children are let loose on a New Mexico ghost town and instructed to create a functioning society for 40 days. Our most ethically dubious pick yet!

We continue our one-season miniseries with an idea that was perhaps even worse than Cop Rock: Cavemen. Somebody thought an adaptation of an insurance ad campaign in which the primitive characters are stand-ins for specific minorities was worth making. The result is our first ever episode where we only discuss unaired content.

Welcome to AYK season 3! We're kicking off with a miniseries of shows that lasted one season or less, starting with one of the most baffling ideas of all time: Cop Rock. It's a completely earnest musical police procedural from Steven Bochco with music by none other than Randy Newman. We can't believe it failed!

For our season finale we watched three hours of the phenomenon that was ER. The stars are out and getting covered in viscera.