For the first week of this July, we decided to honor the other national holiday: Canada Day! And what genre delivers the most CONCENTRATED dose of Canadian TV crappiness? Game shows! Therefore, Dave is forcening Sarah to watch Pitfall; Sarah's forcening Tara to watch Acting Crazy; and Tara's forcening Dave to watch Jackpot. We can't promise you that listening will help you win an 8-and-a-half-pound portable TV, but you should do it anyway!

Lead Topic: 🛗 Pitfall

Lead Topic: 😜 Acting Crazy

Lead Topic: 💰 Jackpot

Game Time: 🍁 Canadian Or Something Else?

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🛗 Sarah's forcened episode of Pitfall on YouTube

😜 Tara's forcened episode of Acting Crazy on YouTube

❤️‍🔥 Tara's interview with Maureen Ryan on Cracked.com

📚 Signed copies of Last Call at Exhibit B.

💵 The 1975 episode of American Jackpot Dave was initially forcened to watch

💰 Dave's forcened episode of (Canadian) Jackpot

Sorry to Bother You creator Boots Riley is back with a delightful Marxist fairy-tale dramedy (...right? Let's just go with it) on Amazon Prime, and Dan D'Addario is back in the guest chair for the first time since EHG Mark 1 to talk about it: how much overt Marxism it gets away with given where we're watching it, the care of the world-building, Jharrel Jerome's storytelling superpowers, and more. We went Around The Dial with Judge Steve Harvey, And Just Like That..., and McEnroe, and Mlle. Caroline was NOT a crackpot for thinking we don't need pilot episodes anymore. After Tara crammed us all into a phone booth for her Saved By The Bell (2020) Canon presentation, Ryan Seacrest won, Will & Grace lost, and we all made sure to park wheels-in for a Bay-Area-based non-regulation Game Time. Don't let silence happen -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!

👤 Daniel D’Addario

Lead Topic: ♍️ I'm A Virgo

Around The Dial: 👨🏾‍⚖️ Judge Steve Harvey

Around The Dial: 👠 And Just Like That

Around The Dial: 🎾 McEnroe

Around The Dial: 👽 Secret Invasion

I Am Not A Crackpot: 👩🏼‍✈️ Pilots in 2023

The Canon: 🛎️ Saved By The Bell (2020) S01.E06: Teen-Line

Winner & Loser: 👍 Ryan Seacrest

Winner & Loser: 👎 Will & Grace

Game Time: 🌁 It's Almost Like The San Francisco Bay Area Is Another Character

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🐦 Dan D'Addario on Twitter

🎬 Dan at Variety

♍️ Dan’s review of I'm A Virgo

🦄 Dan’s review of The Unicorn

💥 Kelsey Grammer falls off stage

🌴 The Again With This podcast

🎶 MASTAS chooses our #FirstNameBasis Top 20

📷 Photo: Pete Lee / Prime Video

Black Mirror has returned for Season 6 with five new episodes of (as usual) varying quality; Brandi Brown has also returned to discuss and rank them! Around The Dial takes us through The Righteous Gemstones; Ovation as a background cable channel; Season 2 of The Cleaner on BritBox; and an important line reading from a Camp LeJeune-related class-action legal solicitation commercial. Sarah makes the case for the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Avatar" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's really into labels. Pause the latest hit Streamberry drama and listen!

👤 Brandi Brown

Announcement: 📢 Club Sticker Reminder

Lead Topic: 🪞 Black Mirror

Around The Dial: 💎 The Righteous Gemstones

Around The Dial: 👏 Ovation

Around The Dial: 🧹 The Cleaner

Around The Dial: 🎭 Ridley

Around The Dial: 🚫 The "No" Challenge

The Canon: 👨🏻‍💻 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S09.E02: Avatar

Winner & Loser: 👍 Shannen Doherty

Winner & Loser: 👎 Dean McDermott

Game Time: 👯 The Game Of The Name

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🐦 Brandi Brown on Twitter

📜 Terms & Conditions May Apply on Amazon

💇🏻‍♂️ Ranking the new wigs of the Righteous Gemstones Season 3 premiere, at Cracked

💎 Gideon Gemstone Appreciation Post, at Cracked

👕 The Exhibit B. Books "(allegedly)" t-shirt

📷 Photo: Nick Wall / Netflix

More than a quarter century after The Full Monty unexpectedly charmed movie audiences, the boys are back for a limited-series TV sequel -- and not everyone on the panel is as charmed by Round 2. Mo Ryan returns to the guest chair to talk about unmitigated in "dramedies," whether TFM: The TV Show started as a feature-length sequel, and the correct amount of onscreen nudity. We went Around The Dial with Never Have I Ever, I, Tina, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds before Tara hoped a second-season episode of Reservation Dogs would get adopted into the Canon. Bill Hader won, The Crowded Room lost, and Game Time had us scouring the index of Mo's book. Grab a bag of chips and run: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!

👤 Mo Ryan

Lead Topic: 🍆 The Full Monty

Around The Dial: 🤞 Never Have I Ever

Around The Dial: 🎶 Tina

Around The Dial: ⛽️ The Real Housewives Of New Jersey

Around The Dial: 🪐 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

The Canon: 🧀 Reservation Dogs S02.E07: Stay Gold Cheesy Boy

Winner & Loser: 🔫 Bill Hader

Winner & Loser: 🚪 The Crowded Room

Game Time: 🔥 19 Questions: Burn It Down Edition

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🐦 Mo Ryan on Twitter

❤️‍🔥 Buy Burn It Down

🪫 The NY Daily News cites Burn It Down on Jeff Garlin's The Goldbergs power trip

🤨 Garlin denies getting fired to Vanity Fair

📜 Tara's Based On A True Story review at Cracked.com

💔 “America loved Tina Turner. But it wasn’t good to her.” at Andscape.com

🐦 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Twitter

📷 Photo: Ben Blackall / FX

Prime Video's newest international import is Deadloch, an Australian comedy that parodies the tropes of dark season-long murder mysteries from national treasures Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan. Actual Australian Anthony Farrell joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Ultimatum: Queer Love, Fear The Walking Dead, and 30 For 30. Julie presents the thirtysomething episode "Mr. Right" for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that has us hearing double. Check your peripherals for Kevin The Seal and listen!

👤 Anthony Farrell

Announcement: 📢

Lead Topic: 🐨 Deadloch

Around The Dial: 💗 The Ultimatum

Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ Fear The Walking Dead

Around The Dial: 🏀 30 For 30

The Canon: 👞 thirtysomething S03.E03: Mr. Right

Winner & Loser: 👍 Somebody Somewhere

Winner & Loser: 👎 Top Chef

Game Time: 🗣️ Syllable Bull

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🐦 Anthony on Twitter

🦘 Tara's Deadloch review at Cracked

😵 Kroll Show's "Dead Girl Town" on YouTube

🤠 Tara's ATX Festival coverage at Cracked

📚 Exhibit B. Books

❤️‍🔥 Buy Maureen Ryan's book Burn It Down at Exhibit B. Books

📷 Photo: Amazon Studios

I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson is back on Netflix for Season 3, and actor/comedian/media mogul Will Hines is also back to talk about the season's best sketches, unique sketch-show rhythms, and whether Robinson is still TV's best screamer. We went Around The Dial with Platonic, The Night Agent, and Primo, and then relaxed by the pool with Chris's Lodge 49 Canon submission. Kenan Thompson won, Andy Cohen lost, and we rolled the dice in TV real estate during Game Time. Hop off the zipline and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great!

👤 Will Hines

Lead Topic: 🚪 I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson

Around The Dial: 🤝 Platonic

Around The Dial: 🌚 The Night Agent

Around The Dial: ☝️ Primo

The Canon: 😼 Lodge 49 S02.E09: The Reve Impossible

Winner & Loser: 👍 Kenan Thompson

Winner & Loser: 👎 Andy Cohen

Game Time: 🏨 Go Directly To Jail

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🤣 Mr. Boop

🥚 Alec Robbins's egg-game tweet

🐦 Will Hines on Twitter

🌎 CBB World

📜 More from Will Hines

🤝 Alison Herman's review of Platonic at Variety

✝️ Sarah's coverage of The Secrets of Hillsong at Vanity Fair

🔥 Future guest Mo Ryan's book, Burn It Down, as excerpted in VF

📺 ATX Festival

📷 Photo: Terence Patrick / Netflix

Way way back in the early aughties, we all adored Clone High, an animated satire of Dawson's Creek and its ilk that featured wall-to-wall gags and catchphrases your regular panelists -- and esteemed guest John -- still use to this day. Naturally, we welcomed news of a decades-later second season...but does the show still have the same deranged energy, or is it too careful? We talked about how long it dwells on cancel culture (...sigh), who's the best new clone (and who's our most beloved returning character), and whether this version is getting renewed (spoiler: doubt it). Then we went Around The Dial with Primo, a last-minute Tiny Triumph, Mrs. Davis, and Happy Valley before Tara tried to pile-drive another episode of Glow into the Canon. Jason Momoa won, SVU's casting department lost, and DJ Farnsworth mixed everyone up with a theme-song mash-up Game Time. Try not to burn yourself on an all-new Extra Hot Great!

👤 John Ramos

Announcement: 📢 Patreon Update

Lead Topic: 🧬 Clone High

Around The Dial: 👩‍👦 Primo

Around The Dial: 🍗 Mrs. Davis

Around The Dial: 👮 Happy Valley

The Canon: 🤼‍♀️ GLOW S03.E05: Freaky Tuesday

Winner & Loser: 👍 Jason Momoa

Winner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Game Time: 🎶 DJ Farnsworth's Fresh Dope Drops

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🧬 The original very good Clone High website on the Wayback Machine

👯‍♂️ Tara’s review of Clone High

🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

👩‍👦 Tara's Primo review for Cracked.com

🦻 EEHG 237 on Mrs. Davis

🎧 Quaid In Full on Twitter

📬 GLOW cast members of color's letter to producers about the show's portrayal of race

Screen: Max

The lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are nearly upon us, and there's only one thing on all our minds: what shows are we going to be watching? The New Republic's TV critic Phillip Maciak joins us for the first time as we all share our picks for the shows we're into; the shows we SHOULD be into, but aren't; and the shows we feel NO ONE should be into. Philip makes the case for the pilot of The Americans to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that may require parental guidance. Make yourself a nice Arnold Palmer (or a Negroni; you're an adult) and join us!

👤 Philip Maciak

Lead Topic: ⛱️ Summer TV Preview

The Canon: 🪆 The Americans S01.E01: Pilot

Winner & Loser: 👍 Justin Kirk

Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling

Game Time: 🍼 Nepo Babies Of 21st Century TV

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🐦 Phillip Maciak on Twitter

📺 Avidly Reads Screen Time at NYUPress.org

🏛️ Phil at The New Republic

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🔎 Hey Yahoo! preview clip

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Not content to have bummed us all out with Extrapolations earlier this spring, AppleTV+ is back with yet another grim vision of our environmentally devastated future: Silo! Vanity Fair Chief Critic Richard Lawson returns to discuss it with us. Around The Dial takes us through the new third season of The Other Two, Alex Guarnaschelli's Food Network oeuvre, Secrets Of The Dead, and Star Wars: Visions. Richard makes the case for inducting Australian Survivor S10.E07 into The Canon. Then after naming a bunch of Winners and Losers of the WGA strike (which: solidarity with the workers!), it's on to a high-flying Game Time. Find a source of natural light and join us!

👤 Richard Lawson

Announcement: 📢 Patreon Updates

Lead Topic: 👨‍🌾 Silo

Around The Dial: 👯 The Other Two

Around The Dial: 🍛 Alex Guarnaschelli's Food Network Shows

Around The Dial: 🪦 Secrets Of The Dead

Around The Dial: 😱 Star Wars: Visions

The Canon: 🏝️ Australian Survivor S10.E07: Episode 7

Winner & Loser: 👍 Drew Barrymore

Winner & Loser: 👎 Scab Productions

Game Time: 👩🏼‍✈️ Pilot Test II: Return Flight

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🐦 Richard Lawson on Twitter

🗼 Richard's Silo review at VanityFair.com

🙈 "Massive Spoilers!" for the Silo book series at HughHowey.com

👯‍♀️ Richard's review of The Other Two at VanityFair.com

😢 Tara's essay on The Conners at Cracked.com

👀 The Still Watching podcast

🐨 Australian Survivor S10.E07 on YouTube

📷 Photo: Apple

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When we invited listeners to program this Forcening episode on the theme "Spring Fling," people went wild. Did these selections have us feeling as bright and cheerful as a field of wildflowers, or leave us screaming "MAYDAY"? Listen and find out!

Lead Topic: 🦴 Bones S02.E13: The Girl In The Gator

Lead Topic: 🍷 Vanderpump Rules S02.E11: The Ultimatum

Lead Topic: 🏖️ MTV Spring Break 1989

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😨 Panik Kalm meme

🍷 "'Vanderpump Rules' Fires Stassi Schroeder And Kristen Doute For Racist Actions" at Variety.com

🤷‍♀️ "Disgraced Reality Star Stassi Schroeder Is Profiting Off Her Racism -- And Blaming 'Cancel Culture,' Of Course" at TheDailyBeast.com

🤳 May 30, 2020: Stassi posts a #justiceforgeorgefloyd video on her Instagram

⬛️ June 2, 2020: Stassi posts a black square on her Instagram

🗒️ June 7, 2020: Stassi posts a Notes app apology about being racist on her Instagram

🪔 Gun lamp gift from Stassi's dad on her Instagram

🔫 Stassi, age 5, posing with a machine gun, posted on her Instagram

🩳 MTV Spring Break 1989 on YouTube

🎶 MTV Spring Break 1989 setlists at Setlist.fm