Our resident (reluctant) GoT expert Jeff Drake is back to talk about HBO's ponderous, poorly wigged prequel to Game Of Thrones, House Of The Dragon -- who it's for, why it's so murkily lit, when it's going to get out of the administrative world-building weeds and get interesting, and which actors are making us long for the upcoming time jump. After that, we jumped into Around The Dial with She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, Bluey's third season, and Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist, and Erica challenged us to drop Jeff "the Dude" Bridges into existing shows. The gang slipped and slid towards the Canon in a twelfth-season It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia pitch; Paul Rudd won, and arranged TV marriages lost; and Game Time had us contemplating the shows that just keep draggin' on. The old gods have spoken: listen to the latest Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Jeff Drake

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🐲 House Of The Dragon

Around The Dial: ⚖️ She-Hulk: Attorney At Law

Around The Dial: 🐶 Bluey

Around The Dial: 🦈 Zig & Sharko

Around The Dial: 🫥 Untold

Extra Credit: 🌉 An Infinite Number Of Bridges

The Canon: 🔔 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia S12.E02: The Gang Goes To A Water Park

Winner & Loser: 👍 Only Murders In The Building

Winner & Loser: 👎 Love Is Blind

Game Time: 👴🏼 House Of The Draggin'

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 421 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🦆 Jeff Drake's show Central Park

🤬 Jeff's podcast 9 Chickweed Rage is now up!

🚓 The Hot Fuzz gif

🤢 "Inside Hollywood's Visual Effects Crisis" at Defector

🎙 Tara's interview with Stefani Robinson at Vanity Fair

👑 The top 50 King Of Queens episodes at Vulture

📚 15% off selected items at Exhibit B. Books

📷 Photo: Ollie Upton / HBO

Beloved baseball movie in which there is no crying A League Of Their Own is the latest film to get a series reboot -- with a bunch of twists -- on Amazon Prime. We talked to Yahoo! Sports's Liz Roscher about the casting, the bifurcated stories, whether the baseball holds up, what happened to the Rockford Peaches' manager (and to Candy Bar Guy #1), and all that 2022 dialogue rattling around 1943. Is it a homer, or a whiff? We also went Around The Dial with Never Have I Ever, Drag Race's international entries, the Better Call Saul series finale, and a This Fool follow-up before Liz tasked herself with getting a Series 7 ep of Taskmaster into the Canon. The state of New Jersey was a winner, the surveillance state was a loser, and we rolled ourselves a nice fat Game Time about S04.E20s. Should you put that mustard on a hot dog, or your face? Only one way to find out -- with an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Liz Roscher

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⚾️ A League Of Their Own

Around The Dial: 🙅🏽‍♀️ Never Have I Ever

Around The Dial: 🏁 International Drag Race

Around The Dial: 🤳 Better Call Saul

Around The Dial: 😜 This Fool

The Canon: 💌 Taskmaster S07.E04 Ollie

Winner & Loser: 👍 Weird NJ

Winner & Loser: 👎 Wanda Sykes

Game Time: 🗓 Watch TV Every Day

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 420 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🏒 Liz Roscher at Yahoo! Sports

🐦 Liz on Twitter

🔔 The Good Phight podcast

🙅🏽‍♀️ Tara's Poorna Jagannathan interview at Vanity Fair

🗣 Tara's Seth Meyers interview at VF

🌴 Again With This podcast

🐧 The raven t-shirt on Threadless

📷 Photo: Nicola Goode / Amazon

Netflix is the latest platform to turn a Neil Gaiman property into a series with The Sandman. How does this one go? First-time guest Ilan Muskat is here to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Season 3 of Harley Quinn; Season 2 of Girls5Eva; the TV movie Helter Skelter; and the ILM doc Light & Magic. Keira cashes in her Extra Credit to make us turn unexpected TV properties into videogames. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that hits some real lows and highs. Stay wide awake and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Ilan Muskat

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ✨ The Sandman

Around The Dial: 🦇 Harley Quinn

Around The Dial: 🎶 Girls5Eva

Around The Dial: 😳 Helter Skelter

Around The Dial: 🚀 Light & Magic

Extra Credit: 🕹 TV games

Winner & Loser: 👍 Jeremy Allen White

Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO Max subscribers

Game Time: 🔫 Nonac Hunting

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 419 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Ilan Muskat on Twitter

🪶 Tara's Reservation Dogs S02 review at VanityFair.com

🤕 The Captive by Fiona King Foster at Bookshop.org

😇 Scoundrel by Sarah Weinman at Exhibit B. Books

👂 "The Weird, Analog Delights Of Foley Sound Effects" at NewYorker.com

📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

🏰 The Team Fortress 2 character intro videos on YouTube

📷 Photo: Netflix

Sex & The City creator Darren Star has teamed up with Modern Family alumnus Jeffrey Richman to create Uncoupled, a NEW show about dating in New York, but from the perspective of a fortysomething gay man who's just been dumped HARD after 17 years. Should you make room for it on your schedule? Malcolm Venable returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Surface, Hulu's forthcoming This Fool, Young & Pregnant, and The Ipcress File. Sean makes the case for inducting the Underground episode "Minty" into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a smash-and-grab of a Game Time. Take a break from swiping through the apps and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Malcolm Venable

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 💔 Uncoupled

Around The Dial: 🏊‍♀️ Surface

Around The Dial: 😜 This Fool

Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant

Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ The Ipcress File

The Canon: 🔦 Underground S02.E06: Minty

Winner & Loser: 👍 Breaking Bad

Winner & Loser: 👎 Peacock

Game Time: 🧠 Breaking In

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 418 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Malcolm Venable on Twitter

⭐️ Tara's interview with Darren Star at GQ.com

😬 "Netflix Show Uncoupled Cuts A Latina Housekeeper Character That Was Criticized As Offensive" at CNN.com

🗣 Tara's interview with Surface star Oliver Jackson-Cohen at GQ.com

🎶 Mark & Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon

📷 Photo: Netflix

Wretched real estate, Retta, and rocks indoors -- The Ugliest House In America is back, and so is Alison Herman, as we debate which of the houses "in paradise" is the most hideous, talk Sarah through money-pit PTSD, and wonder if we haven't finally found a show that actually belonged on Quibi. Then we went Around The Dial with a Hider In My House follow-up, Rap Sh!t, and Black Bird before Tara tried to stock the Canon aisles with a fourth-season Superstore. Teachers won, cops lost, and Number 5 was alive for a Nielsens Game Time. Take a break from gluing flannel to your bedroom wall and listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Alison Herman

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏚 The Ugliest House In America

Around The Dial: 👀 Hider In My House

Around The Dial: 💩 Rap Shit

Around The Dial: 🐧 Black Bird

The Canon: 🏆 Superstore S04.E06: Maternity Leave

Winner & Loser: 👍 Abbott Elementary

Winner & Loser: 👎 On Patrol: Live

Game Time: 🧠 Keeping Up With The Nielsens

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 417 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Alison Herman on Twitter

🥊 Alison at The Ringer

💩 Alison's Rap Sh!t review

☠️ Alison on Criticism Is Dead

🧎‍♀️ Justice for Retta's new knees

🏚 Richard Lawson on the HGTVCU and real-estate inequality

🎞 Join the movie-trivia-for-abortions event

🛋 Tara on overdue Friends apologies at VF

📚 Get 15 percent off hardcovers at Exhibit B. Books through 7/31

Did you know that the crime of secretly living in someone else's house happens so much it has A NAME? It's called "phrogging," and it's the subject of Lifetime's new true crime show, Phrogging: Hider In My House, which we're discussing with returning guest (and house-hider survivor) Robert Krut! Around The Dial takes us through 101 Places To Party Before You Die; a new season of Married At First Sight; the Emmy-snubbed Somebody Somewhere and Reservation Dogs; D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!; This Is Going To Hurt; Downton Abbey: A New Era; Obi-Wan Kenobi; Ms. Marvel; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. For her Extra Credit topic, Erica challenges us to fix bad TV series endings by switching them out with OTHER bad TV series endings. Bobby presents What We Do In The Shadows's "The Casino" for Canon induction. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that really sings. Don't listen to that mysterious footstep-ish sound in the attic, which is probably nothing (or is it) -- listen to us!

GUESTS

👤 Robert Krut

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👀 Phrogging: Hider In My House

Around The Dial: 🥳 101 Places To Party Before You Die

Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: 📍 Somebody Somewhere

Around The Dial: 🪶 Reservation Dogs

Around The Dial: 🎒 D.B. Cooper Where Are You

Around The Dial: 💉 This Is Going To Hurt

Around The Dial: 🏰 Downton Abbey

Around The Dial: 🏜 Obi-Wan Kenobi

Around The Dial: 🦸🏽‍♀️ Ms. Marvel

Around The Dial: 🪐 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Extra Credit: 🤑 Two Wrongs Do Make A Right

The Canon: 🏆 What We Do In The Shadows S03.E04: The Casino

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Powerpuff Girls

Winner & Loser: 👎 Desus & Mero

Game Time: 🧠 Gratuitous Karaoke Moments

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 416 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Robert Krut on Twitter

🏠 EHG 342: "The Stinky Teenagers Who Live In Secret Places In Your House"

🏝 Tara's review of FBoy Island S02 at VanityFair.com

💄 The Listen To Sassy Club on Patreon

👻 Bobby's new book of poetry, Watch Me Trick Ghosts

🕵️ Bobby's guest appearance in History's Greatest Mysteries

💻 Bobby's website

✈️ Sarah's review of D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! at Best Evidence

👩‍🎤 The Lilith Fair 40 on Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

🧛🏻‍♂️ Tara's review of What We Do In The Shadows S04 at VanityFair.com

We asked our Patreon supporters to suggest TV episodes we should be forced to watch, and boy, did they come through. From their many picks, we've gone with Breakout Kings's Season 2 premiere "An Unjust Death"; "Basic Lupine Urology," Community's take on Law & Order; and a Buck Rogers episode that features both frenetic youth dancing and Jerry Orbach. Join us, won't you?

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👑 Breakout Kings S02.E01: An Unjust Death

Lead Topic: ✳️ Community S03.E17: Basic Lupine Urology

Lead Topic: 🚀 Buck Rogers In The 25th Century S01.E21: Space Rockers

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 415 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

👑 Breakout Kings S02.E01: An Unjust Death on Hulu

✳️ Community S03.E17: Basic Lupine Urology on Hulu

🚀 Buck Rogers In The 25th Century S01.E21: Space Rockers on NBC.com

Eric A writes: lots of shows have done Christmas episodes. Friends did some great Thanksgiving episodes, and Roseanne was known for its Halloween episodes. Pitch an episode for a lesser-known or covered holiday. What show should do the episode, and how does it teach (or subvert) the message of the day?

Jim challenged us to turn a TV show into a theme park. The result is a real...roller coaster.

As The White Lotus transports us all to a luxury resort, we're thinking about vacations! We each share the TV location we'd most like to visit on holiday, and picking one or several TV characters to bring along for the trip.

Irritation at a Hallmark Channel event called Loveuary led directly to this challenge, in which each of us creates one full year's worth of programming events for the venerated Hallmark Channel. What are they called? What do they entail? How many are about chocolatiers dating lumberjacks? Find out!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🎎 Lesser Known Holiday Programming

Lead Topic: 🎢 TV Theme Parks

Lead Topic: 🏖 TV Vacation Locations

Lead Topic: 🗓 Hallmark Full Year Holiday Programming

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 414 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🎄 The Hallmark podcast It's Christmastown

Nadia Chaudhury is back to beef up our panel's discussion of The Bear, Hulu's tense, swear-packed story of a young chef's return to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop -- and how his fine-dining past collides with a blue-collar present. Is Jeremy Allen White giving us William Fichtner vibes as Carmy? Can Sarah get enough of Richie's profanity? Is the show really about Carmy's journey, or Sydney's? And did watching make us hungry, or worn out? Then we went Around The Dial with Loot, Ms. Marvel, and The Janes before Helen tried to trap us in the web of her New Girl Canon presentation. Werner Herzog won, Nathan Fillion lost, and we whipped off our sunglasses and dad-joked into the opening credits with a CSI-based Game Time. An all-new Extra Hot Great is up, so get it to go!

GUESTS

👤 Nadia Chaudhury

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🐻 The Bear

Around The Dial: ⚱️ Loot

Around The Dial: 🦸🏽‍♀️ Ms. Marvel

Around The Dial: 🔪 The Janes

The Canon: 🏆 New Girl S04.E17: Spiderhunt

Winner & Loser: 👍 Documentary Now!

Winner & Loser: 👎 Nathan Fillion

Game Time: 🧠 Is This A Thing: C.S.I. Edition

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 413 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Nadia Chaudhury on Twitter

📸 Nadia on Instagram

🍴 Nadia at Eater

⚱️ Alison Herman's Loot review at The Ringer

💵 National Network Of Abortion Funds

🧵 Best Evidence's repro-justice resource thread

Fill a dish with hard candies for Dave Chen, who's back after a long absence to talk about the somewhat mysterious appeal of FX's aging-spy-vs.-spy drama, The Old Man. Does Sarah think it needs more process-y bits? Does the excellent acting by Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, and their younger versions make up for long nobody-talks-like-that passages of abstraction? And are Dave and Carol the real heroes? Later, we went Around The Dial with Rutherford Falls, RHONJ, and Players before Tara tried to convert us to her team with a sixth-season Seinfeld. DB Cooper won, Canada lost, and then we all wedged ourselves into a snowglobe for a Game Time from Dan Cassino. When you're done paying for your groceries with a check, hold your ear trumpet up to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Dave Chen

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👴🏻 The Old Man

Around The Dial: 🎰 Rutherford Falls

Around The Dial: 🎮 Players

Around The Dial: 🤷‍♀️ The Real Housewives Of New Jersey

The Canon: 🏆 Seinfeld S06.E15: The Beard

Winner & Loser: 👍 D.B. Cooper

Winner & Loser: 👎 Canada

Game Time: 🧠 Tommy Westphall's Home For Imaginary Friends

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 412 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Dave Chen on Twitter

🕰 Dave Chen on Tiktok

🎧 The Culturally Relevant podcast

🎬 The Film Cast

🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs goes to 11

📺 Tara on "The Best 15 TV Shows of 2022, So Far" at Vanity Fair