Seriously. Do they? Because four people just didn't show up. The Listener Game Time Tournament is back! Kinda! Up to maybe 9 contestants may or may not do battle in all sorts of TV trivia concocted by some of our smartest, most devious and possibly French game makers.

TOPICS

Game Time: 🥖 En Français

Game Time: 🌟 Special Guest Star Heather Locklear

Game Time: 🛋️ The One With The One With Titles

Game Time: 🛌 Strange Bedfellows

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 437 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

We made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special episode!

GUESTS

👤 Andrew Cunningham

👤 Robert Krut

👤 Brandi Brown

👤 Dan Cassino

👤 Dan Rogge

👤 Daniel MacEachern

👤 Dave Chen

👤 Devindra Hardawar

👤 Ilan Muskat

👤 Jeff Drake

👤 Joe Reid

👤 John Ramos

👤 Karina Longworth

👤 Kim Reed

👤 Nadia Chaudhury

👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones

👤 Roxana Hadadi

👤 Santiago Melli-Huber

👤 Sarah Baker

👤 Simone Chavoor

👤 Stephanie Green

👤 Will Hines

👤 Will Leitch

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought Experiments

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 436 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Netflix's new cooking show takes a leaf from Claire Saffitz's book and challenges its chefs to make their own homemade versions of commercially available snacks. Home Cook and Food Scientist (one of these titles accurately applies) Adam Grosswirth returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through S03 of Mythic Quest, Selena + Chef, and an update on Sarah's Cheers rewatch. Adam pitches the Will & Grace two-parter "Lows In The Mid-Eighties" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's on the bleeding edge of culture. Grab some Oreos and listen!

GUESTS

👤 Adam Grosswirth

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🥨 Snack Vs. Chef

Around The Dial: 🗡️ Mythic Quest

Around The Dial: 🧱 Lego Masters

Around The Dial: 💃 Smash

Around The Dial: 👩🏼‍🍳 Selena + Chef

Around The Dial: 🍺 Cheers

Around The Dial: 🦘

The Canon: 👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Will & Grace S03.E08 & 09: Lows In The Mid-Eighties

Winner & Loser: 👍 Michelle Williams

Winner & Loser: 👎 Mark Schwahn

Game Time: 👁️ Peaky Minders

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 435 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter

📸 Adam on Instagram

🍖 The Bon Appétit Gourmet Makes series

📺 "The One Streaming Service You Should Subscribe To For December" at GQ.com

🌴 Again With This on Patreon

🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast

🐦 Muppeturgy on Twitter

📸 Muppeturgy on Instagram

📚 #asseenonTV at Exhibit B. Books

👵🏻 "Michelle Williams Shouted Out Her Grams From Dawson's Creek" at Vulture

🌳 "Sophia Bush And Hilarie Burton Claim One Tree Hill Creator Threatened Their Jobs Over Maxim Shoot, Told Bethany Joy Lenz She Was 'Too Fat'" at Variety.com

📷 Photo: Netflix

Book critic and The Maris Review host Maris Kreizman is here to discuss Hulu's glowingly reviewed adaption of Fleishman Is In Trouble, whether it works as TV given its structure as a book, and how. Is it better for people who didn't read the book? Is the pleasure in watching what Claire Danes, Lizzy Caplan, and the former Seth Cohen do with the roles? And is Hannah the most sympathetically slappable TV tween of all time? Later, we went Around The Dial with a Married At First Sight recap, Gypsy, and Spector, and Dave was not a crackpot about titling conventions. Lynsey, Katherine, and their dog hoped they wouldn't saw the panel in half when they submitted a third-season ep of The Magicians to the Canon. NBC won, the Chrisleys lost, and we returned to those thrilling days of yester-century for a period-piece Game Time. Get yourself a phone already -- so you can listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Maris Kreizman

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🥼 Fleishman Is In Trouble

Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: 🚕 Gypsy

Around The Dial: 💈 Spector

The Canon: 🪄 The Magicians S03.E05: A Life In The Day

Winner & Loser: 👍 NBC

Winner & Loser: 👎 Todd and Julie Chrisley

Game Time: 👀 A TV Watcher’s Guide to the 20th Century

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 434 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🎙️ Maris interview with Taffy Brodesser-Akner on The Maris Review

📚 More Maris Review

📸 Maris on Instagram

📄 Maris on Substack

🦤 Maris at Vulture

💄 Listen To Sassy Club

🔎 Best Evidence

Did Paramount+'s Tulsa King SLY-ly (sorry) work its way into our hearts? The Filmcast's Devindra Hardawar is back to talk about the Sylvester Stallone vehicle, good pacing, bad wigs, and making room for weirdly charming B-minus viewing in your viewing diet. Later, we had Tyson drive us Around The Dial, with stops for The Big Brunch, the ends of The Crown and Atlanta AND The Good Fight, and true-crime royal-watching. Mike hoped we would NOT eliminate The Middleman with his Canon presentation of the show's eighth episode. Judy Blume won, Candace Cameron Buré lost, and we all went on a Mapquest with a road-trip Game Time. Might want to pull over at a dispensary before you listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Devindra Hardawar

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤴🏻 Tulsa King

Around The Dial: 🥐 The Big Brunch

Around The Dial: 👑 The Crown

Around The Dial: 🥵 Atlanta

Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight

Around The Dial: 🫵 Prince Andrew: Banished

Around The Dial: 🧬 Secret To Long Life

The Canon: 🕵️‍♂️ The Middleman S01.E08: The Ectoplasmic Panhellenic Investigation

Winner & Loser: 👍 Judy Blume

Winner & Loser: 👎 Candace Cameron Bure

Game Time: 🗺️ The Great American TV Road Trip

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 433 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Devindra Hardawar on Twitter

🎞️ The Filmcast on Apple Podcasts

🗜️ Devindra at Engadget

✒️ DID Taylor Sheridan obviously write the Tulsa King pilot script in 24 hours?

🎙️ Tara's Christine Baranski interview at VanityFair.com

🧛🏻‍♂️ Tara's Sam Reid interview, also at VF.com

• The Crown
• ATD: Weird
• ATD: Jersey Shore
• ATD: Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty
• ATD: An Ad Dave Hates
• The Nonac: The Sopranos S04.E03: Christopher
• Winner and Loser of the Week
• Game Time: 19 Questions

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The Crown is back for a new season, with a whole carriage load of new actors; Go Fug Yourself's Jessica Morgan returns to talk about whether its late 20th century setting has made it less compelling. Around The Dial takes us through Weird, Jersey Shore, Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty, and a current TV ad that's really boiling Dave's potatoes. Sarah presents The Sopranos episode "Christopher" for induction into The Nonac. Then, after we name the week's Winner and Loser, we wrap up with a Game Time that has us questioning everything. Have your valet serve you high tea, then join us!

GUESTS

👤 Jessica Morgan

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👑 The Crown

Around The Dial: 🪗 Weird

Around The Dial: 🩳 Jersey Shore

Around The Dial: 🔪 Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty

Around The Dial: 🧈 An Ad Dave Hates

The Nonac: 🔫 The Sopranos S04.E03: Christopher

Winner & Loser: 👍 Ryan Murphy

Winner & Loser: 👎 Rockmond Dunbar

Game Time: 🙋‍♀️ 19 Questions

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 432 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Jessica Morgan (with Heather Cocks) on Twitter

📼 Tara's Blockbuster review at VanityFair.com

📸 Go Fug Yourself on Instagram

👗 GoFugYourself.com

📚 Buy Jessica and Heather's books on Bookshop.org

🔎 The Best Evidence newsletter

🍊 "The Godfather And The Limitations Of Representation" at NPR.org

📷 Photo: Netflix

The White Lotus is back on HBO for a second season of subjecting rich jerks to various indignities (now in Italy); Joe Reid returns to discuss, among other things, which guests may deserve better than they're getting, and who that season premiere corpse might be. Around The Dial takes us through Love Is Blind, The Vow, and the series premiere of You. Sophie makes the case for our inducting The X-Files episode "Pusher" into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that may have you seeing double. Make yourself an Aperol spritz and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🪷 The White Lotus

Around The Dial: 🦯 Love Is Blind

Around The Dial: 🙏 The Vow

Around The Dial: 🪞 You

The Canon: 👽 The X-Files S03.E17: Pusher

Winner & Loser: 👍 Severance

Winner & Loser: 👎 Matthew Perry

Game Time: 👯 There's Something Different About You…

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 431 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter

👧🏻 Support The Girls on Prime Video

🔀 "Inside The White Lotus Premiere's Survivor Crossover" at Vulture

🎙 Tara's Nick Kroll interview at VanityFair.com

📺 Tara's essay on how to tell your TV show should be a movie, also at VanityFair.com

🙏 Joe's article on The Vow's Nancy Salzman and a weird cut-out in her living room, at Primetimer

🐝 This Had Oscar Buzz on Apple Podcasts

🤮 Emetophobia Warnings on Tumblr

📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

📷 Photo: Fabio Loving / HBO

Big thanks to Nick for stepping in last-minute for our winter-television preview: all the new or returning shows we're psyched for (like The White Lotus), all the shows we should be psyched for but aren't (like Welcome To Chippendales), and a bunch of shows nobody should be psyched for or even in the same room as (didn't we cancel Criss Angel in the aughts?). After Nick tried to get an episode from The Dropout into the Canon's lab, The Watcher won; James Corden lost; and we all called on the power of three for a Game Time sequel. Grab an afghan and your remote: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ❄️ Winter TV Preview

The Canon: 🩸 The Dropout S01.E04: Old White Men

Winner & Loser: 👍 Home security companies

Winner & Loser: 👎 James Corden

Game Time: 📺 Three At Once, Once More

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 430 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

🕵🏻 Spy Brunch on Twitter

📚 #asseenonTV books at Exhibit B. Books

🎶 MASTAS's Beats Around The Bush E01, "Hippie Hop Hooray"

🦇 Tara endorses Pennyworth at GQ.com

🎙 Tara interviews Cooper Van Grootel at GQ.com

Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan take an unsolved stalking case as the inspiration for their latest Netflix limited series; Dan Rogge returns to discuss whether anyone should be watching it OTHER than The Watcher. Around The Dial takes us through Freevee's High School, baseball on TV, and the latest episodes of The Vow. Sarah and Tara try to determine whether Dave will Hate a TV series adaptation of The Wicker Man. Tara presents "The Two Mrs. Cranes" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new season of Game Time with more questions than usual. Put down your binoculars and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Dan Rogge

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 👁 The Watcher

Around The Dial: 🏫 High School

Around The Dial: ⚾️ Baseball On TV

Around The Dial: 📿 The Vow

Around The Dial: 🛍 Shopping Comas

The Canon: 👨‍🚀 Frasier S04.E01: The Two Mrs. Cranes

Winner & Loser: 👍 Vivica A. Fox

Winner & Loser: 👎 Jenna Lyons

Game Time: 🤔 19 Questions

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 429 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

👀 The original reporting The Watcher is based on, at The Cut

🥽 A 2022 update on the case, also at The Cut

💄 The September 1989 Fashion Etc. episode of Listen To Sassy

👻 Tara's post on Los Espookys and What We Do In The Shadows, at Slate

🎞 Tara's review of Documentary Now! S04 at VanityFair.com

🐦 Dan Rogge on Twitter

🗼 The Seattle Film Commission

💍 The Decoder Ring podcast

🏠 Quaid In Full on Cold Creek Manor

🔎 The Best Evidence newsletter

📷 Photo: Netflix