Muppeturgy's Adam Grosswirth returns to talk about Shondaland's latest show for Netflix, The Residence, which takes us behind the scenes at the White House via a murder mystery -- but could the stellar cast make up for a too-long runtime and not-funny-enough writing? Do we have an Only Murders In The West Wing copycat problem? And should you bother watching? We went Around The Dial with The Righteous Gemstones, Smash on Broadway, and B-B-B-B-Bosch: Legacy's swan-song season, and Adam hoped he could train the panel to vote a first-season Murder, She Wrote into the Canon. Project Runway won, Netflix lost, and it came down to the wire in a very (equalizer) challenging Game Time. Grab that Audubon off the windowsill and have a listen!

👤 Adam Grosswirth

Lead Topic: 🏛️ The Residence

Around The Dial: 💎 The Righteous Gemstones

Around The Dial: 🎼 Smash

Around The Dial: 🅱️ Bosch: Legacy

Around The Dial: 👹 Daredevil: Born Again

Around The Dial: 🍄‍🟫 Scavengers Reign

The Canon: 🐶 Murder, She Wrote S01.E06: It's A Dog's Life

Winner & Loser: 👠 Project Runway

Winner & Loser: 🎙️ Netflix

Game Time: ⚖️ Cap’n Grosswirth’s Oops! All Equalizers

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🦋 Adam Grosswirth on Bluesky

🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast

🔪 Tara's review of The Residence at Cracked

🔚 Not watching to the end? Here's Decider's recap of the finale

✝️ Tara's review of The Righteous Gemstones at Cracked

🙂 Sarah's review of Happy Face at Best Evidence

📷 Photo: Jessica Brooks / Netflix

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Patreon supporters earn the right to "forcen" us to watch TV episodes of their choosing, and while we usually never know what we're going to get, this time we each made a selection from the list of submissions. Was Dave worshipful of The Chosen's "The Rock On Which It Is Built"? Did Tara want to take The Young Ones episode "Bambi" out back and shoot its mom? Did Sarah thrill to the artistry of Hustle's series premiere, "The Con Is On"? Listen, find out, and then (if you haven't already) join us on Patreon to tell us what we should watch next!

Forcening Pool: 🐟 The Chosen S01.E04: The Rock On Which It Is Built

Forcening Pool: 🧷 The Young Ones S02.E01: Bambi

Forcening Pool: 💷 Hustle S01.E01: The Con Is On

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We all love the series regulars on our favorite shows. But the magic of episodic television is that someone can pop into your life for just an hour, or 22 minutes, or maybe even just one scene, and make an impression that lasts a lifetime. Your co-hosts invited Jeff Drake to join us for a special episode in which we winnowed down our Sweet 16 of one-off TV characters to the one that, in this particular bracket, towers above them all. Listen to find out who the ONE one-off champion turned out to be!

👤 Jeff Drake

Lead Topic: ☝️ The One-Off Character Bracket

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🧀 Jerem from 30 Rock

🛶 Lord Flashheart from Blackadder II

🎹 New Joe from I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson

🔫 Agent Miller from Justified

🪖 Hans Schmidt from Band Of Brothers

😏 Dan Moody from I'm Alan Partridge

🗣️ More Dan

🍭 Sweet from Buffy The Vampire Slayer

😇 Reverend Chatfield from The Mary Tyler Moore Show

🛌 Emily Hartley from Newhart

🤟 Laura from Seinfeld

👩‍⚖️ Katrina Ludlow from Law & Order

📻 80s Guy from Futurama

📉 More 80s Guy

🍼 Mr. Peters from The Dick Van Dyke Show

🐎 Anne Berrisford from Beverly Hills, 90210

👟 Hank Scorpio from The Simpsons

👏 Roger from Friends

Obviously, we couldn't have anyone else come discuss Running Point but Krystal Farmer -- so thank God she agreed, and we went deep on everything from the charms of Kate Hudson to how much of a sport a sports-com should show, plus dumb pro-team fonts and believable sibling energy. Later, we went Around The Dial with Grosse Pointe Garden Society, Futurama on Hulu, and On Call, and Tara schooled us with her A.P. Bio Canon pitch. Éanna Hardwicke won, the Oscars' "In Memoriam" segment lost, and we celebrated the leading ladies of TV in Game Time. It's that that that time again: time to listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

👤 Krystal Farmer

Lead Topic: 🏀 Running Point

Around The Dial: 🌷 Grosse Pointe Garden Society

Around The Dial: 🤖 Futurama

Around The Dial: 👮🏻‍♂️ On Call

Announcement: 📢 The EHG Mutual Aid Vault

The Canon: 🧫 A.P. Bio S03.E06: That That That

Winner & Loser: 🙋‍♂️ Éanna Hardwicke

Winner & Loser: 🪦 The Oscars In Memoriam segment

Game Time: 🏋️‍♀️ Strong Female Lead

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🦋 Krystal Farmer on Bluesky

🪙 The Two Cents Plus Tax podcast

🏀 Tara's Running Point review for Cracked

🧺 Tara on TV basketball comedies, also for Cracked

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After Suits became a surprise streaming hit a couple of years back, of course NBCUniversal couldn't resist going back to the well, and that's how we got the spinoff Suits LA. Is it facing contempt charges? Kari Race returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through The Baldwins, Ladies & Gentlemen...50 Years Of SNL Music, Dear Child, America Undercover and A Thousand Blows. Kari makes the case for inducting an episode of Kroll Show into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that could spell doom for some. Take your suit off -- or put another one on -- and listen!

👤 Kari Race

Lead Topic: 👔 Suits LA

Around The Dial: 🇪🇸 The Baldwins

Around The Dial: 🎸 Ladies & Gentlemen...50 Years Of SNL Music

Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Dear Child

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 America Undercover

Around The Dial: 🥊 A Thousand Blows (AKB)

The Canon: 🚽 Kroll Show S03.E05: The In Addition Tos

Winner & Loser: 🏆 Martin Short

Winner & Loser: 🌃 Saturday Night Live

Game Time: 👤 Guess Who?

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🦋 Kari Race on Bluesky

👋 "Alec Baldwin: Good-bye, Public Life" at New York magazine

😬 Richard Lawson's review of The Baldwins at Vanity Fair

😥 Kathryn VanArendonk's review of The Baldwins at Vulture

🎙️ Tara's interview with Anthony Michael Hall at Cracked

🏠 Charlie's 80s Attic

🤔 Hey, Remember The 80s?

🥶 "The Ice Man: Kuklinski, Soprano, and an unjustly forgotten doc series" at Best Evidence

📷 Photo: David Astorga / NBC

The White Lotus is finally back, and so is novelist and Variety columnist Dan D'Addario to talk about a new locale for familiar hateful-richies storylines. We also talked about who we think gets killed, the most and least successful guest storylines, David Lynch, and what happens when a pandemic lark breaks big for premium cable, before going Around The Dial with Cobra Kai, Yellowjackets, and Lorne Michaels. Dan couldn't help but wonder if his And Just Like That... Canon pitch would succeed; Queens won and Ray Romano lost (guess everybody DIDN'T love him back in the day); and a familiar Game Time had us flipping through the PICI-to-English dictionary. Before you pass out at the dinner table, have a listen!

👤 Daniel D’Addario

Lead Topic: 🪷 The White Lotus

Around The Dial: 🥋 Cobra Kai

Around The Dial: 🌃 Lorne (A BOOK!)

Around The Dial: 🐝 Yellowjackets

The Canon: 💅 And Just Like That S02.E03: Chapter Three

Winner & Loser: 🕵🏻‍♂️ Jamaica Bay, NY

Winner & Loser: 👨🏻 Ray Romano

Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 📺 Netflix + Apple

Game Time: 🗣️ Lost In Translation 2025

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🏆 Read Dan D'Addario's forthcoming novel, The Talent, available at Bookshop!

📺 Variety's 100 Best TV Performances of the 21st century

✍🏻 The New Yorker's recent Mike White profile

🥋 Tara's Cobra Kai review at Cracked

🦅 Tara's Jacob Bertrand interview

📚 True-crime reading recs at Best Evidence

📷 Photo: HBO

Family Feud is a game show that has delighted audiences for decades by challenging teams of related players to guess answers supplied by randomly selected survey subjects. Completely unrelatedly, our latest special episode, Kinfolk Kerfuffle, has contestants trying to match poll answers submitted by our Discord members. Dave presides as chosen family Tara, Sarah, Adam Grosswirth, and Kim Reed take on handpicked tribe Taylor Cole, Dan Cassino, Larra Morris, and Nick Rheinwald-Jones. It's time to play the Feud Kerfuffle!

👤 Dan Cassino

👤 Taylor Cole

👤 Adam Grosswirth

👤 Larra Morris

👤 Kim Reed

👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones

Lead Topic: 🤬 Kinfolk Kerfuffle

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After NBC screwed up Charles Star's booking by dropping The Hunting Party series premiere weeks early, it's fitting (?) that he should, instead, join us for a Prime Video original movie about a scheduling snafu: the Nicholas Stoller-written and -directed You're Cordially Invited, starring Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon at war over a wedding venue. Did it leave us wanting to toss rice, or toss our cookies? Listen to find out. Around The Dial takes us to Clean Slate, The Hunting Party (Charles watched it so he might as well warn the community about it), Band Of Brothers, and just a whisper about the imminent third season of Reacher. Sarah pitches "Forks" from The Bear for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that tests our TV and movie knowledge SAT-style. Grab a slice of cake -- hope it's not too dry -- and listen!

👤 Charles Star

Announcement: 📢 Patreon Update

Lead Topic: 👰‍♀️ You're Cordially Invited

Around The Dial: 🫧 Clean Slate

Around The Dial: 🏹 The Hunting Party

Around The Dial: 🪖 Band Of Brothers

Around The Dial: 🧱 Reacher

The Canon: 🍴 The Bear S02.E07: Forks

Winner & Loser: 🐲 James Norton

Winner & Loser: 🗯️ Dumb fans of Insecure

Game Time: 🎬 Adaptation Aptitude Test

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🦋 Charles Star on Bluesky

💍 Tara's You're Cordially Invited review at Cracked

🫧 Tara's Clean Slate review at Cracked

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🏈 The City Saint/Country Saint and Hostile Witness podcast

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🎶 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs Grammy episode

💰 Sweet Relief Musicians' Fund

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Sterling K. Brown takes the lead in Paradise, and in the investigation that drives Hulu's new paranoid thriller -- and Rolling Stone's lead TV critic, Alan Sepinwall, is back to discuss both. Do the layered flashbacks work better for this material than for Brown's previous Dan Fogelman project, This Is Us? Does the dumb world-building outweigh the watchable acting? After we talked about how this underground/domed world stacked up against others on TV, we went Around The Dial with Common Side Effects, Mythic Quest, and the latest documentary from the Ken Burns Industrial Complex before Alan carefully constructed a Canon pitch for a Better Call Saul episode. Jennifer Garner won, Don Lemon lost, and what hark through yonder earbud breaks but a Shakespearean Game Time. Pack a bag for Colorado and join us!

👤 Alan Sepinwall

Announcement: 📋 Form URL Changes

Lead Topic: 🏝️ Paradise

Around The Dial: 🍄‍🟫 Common Side Effects

Around The Dial: ⚔️ Mythic Quest

Around The Dial: 📜 Leonardo da Vinci

The Canon: 🕳️ Better Call Saul S06.E07: Plan And Execution

Winner & Loser: 💁‍♀️ Jennifer Garner

Winner & Loser: 🍋 Don Lemon

Game Time: 🪶 Shakespeare TV Dinner Theatre

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With Saturday Night Live about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its series premiere, Peacock has assembled four documentary specials about how the show is made. Do any of them really advance our knowledge about this comedy institution? Omar Gallaga returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through Severance, A.P. Bio, Playing For Peanuts, and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. Omar pitches the Shōgun episode "Crimson Sky" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time about who stayed standing from series premiere to finale. Finish that bowl of Colon Blow and join us!

👤 Omar Gallaga

Lead Topic: 🌃 SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night

Around The Dial: 🗂️ Severance

Around The Dial: 🔬 A.P. Bio

Around The Dial: 🥜 Playing For Peanuts

Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ Skeleton Crew

Around The Dial: 🤠 American Primeval

The Canon: 🏯 Shōgun S01.E09: Crimson Sky

Winner & Loser: 👨🏻‍🦰 Conan O'Brien

Winner & Loser: 🦊 The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin

Game Time: 🎭 Survivors

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🦋 Omar Gallaga on Bluesky

🤩 "Lorne Michaels Is The Real Star Of 'Saturday Night Live'" at The New Yorker

🗃️ "Adam Scott Goes Back To Work" at GQ

🗄️ Tara's Severance S02 review at Cracked

🏚️ "Don't Take Home-Buying Tips From 'No Good Deed'" at Book And Film Globe

📷 Photo: Peacock