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EEHG 294: Discussing A Scorching Burn Notice

Susanna invited us to check out the Burn Notice episode "Bad Breaks," and we were thrilled! Find out why that was the episode Susanna picked and exactly what two BN veterans and one new arrival thought about it. Ask EHG has us pondering our hypothetical Family Feud garb, the avatars we use on our various streaming platforms, and more. Then we each name our Not Quite Winners And Losers Of The Week, and close things up with another round of Now You Know Your ABCTVs. Put down your yogurt and join us!

Lead Topic: 🏦 Burn Notice S02.E13: Bad Breaks

Ask EHG: 🙋🏼‍♀️ 1.5x Shows

Winner & Loser: 👍 American Idol

Winner & Loser: 👎 Netflix's safety coordinators

Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix

Winner & Loser: 👎 Quiet On Set

Winner & Loser: 👍 Family Guy

Winner & Loser: 👎 Family Guy

KRTMATIWOTVLM: 🦷 The Brady Bunch S04.E13: Love and the Older Man

Extra Credit: 🔤 Now You Know Your ABCTVs

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🏦 Burn Notice S02.E13: Bad Breaks on Hulu

📷 Photo: USA Network

As August continues letting us down in the TV premiere department, we take a look back -- waaaaaaaaay back, to 1974, when Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis slapped his name on a TV movie version of Dracula written by Richard "I Am Legend" Matheson and starring Jack "One-Armed Pushups" Palance. Since we've previously subjected Nick Rheinwald-Jones to other Dracula adaptations, it falls to him to return and discuss it with us. Around The Dial spins around to Emily In Paris, Mastermind, the comedy specials of James Acaster, We Are Lady Parts, and Everwood. Nick makes his pitch for the S03 finale of The Bear to be inducted into The Canon. Finally, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we end on a Game Time that comes to us in triplicate. Wash your neck and join us!

👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones

Lead Topic: 🧛🏻‍♂️ Dan Curtis's Dracula

Around The Dial: 🥖 Emily In Paris

Around The Dial: 🧠 Mastermind

Around The Dial: 🤣 James Acaster's comedy specials

Around The Dial: 👛 We Are Lady Parts

Around The Dial: 🪵 Everwood

The Canon: 🧸 The Bear S03.E10: Forever

Winner & Loser: 👍 ₖₑₗₗᵧ ᵣₑᵢₗₗᵧ

Winner & Loser: 👎 Good Omens

Game Time: ☘️ Three Of Those

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🦋 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Bluesky

⚰️ Dan Curtis's Dracula on JustWatch

🎧 The Demi, Myself & I podcast

🦢 Sarah's review of Feud: Capote vs. The Swans at Best Evidence

🥨 Shappy Pretzel

The USA Network is apparently making original shows...that should be streaming shows, like The Anonymous, which throws The Traitors, Big Brother, and a number of other alliance-based reality shows into a blender. Kari Race is back to discuss whether it's a concoction worth drinking, given all the AI dad jokes, dead air, and inappropriate cliffhangers in the first three episodes. Then we went Around The Dial with Taskmaster NZ, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, and Homicide: LOTS. Mr. Throwback won (a timeslot), Teresa Giudice lost (again), and Tube Tunes got stuck in our heads again during Non-Regulation Game Time. Take a break from screaming at a pizza slice and have a listen!

👤 Kari Race

Lead Topic: 🫥 The Anonymous

Lead Topic: 🥝 Taskmaster New Zealand

Lead Topic: 🔤 Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee

Lead Topic: 🔫 Homicide: Life On The Street

Lead Topic: 🤥 Would I Lie To You S17.E09

Lead Topic: 👍 Mr. Throwback

Lead Topic: 👎 Teresa Giudice

Lead Topic: 🎶 Tube Tunes XIV

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💄 Listen To Sassy

🔫 Alan Sepinwall's Homicide episode recs at Rolling Stone

🏆 EHG 207's Homicide Canon

📈 EEHG 163's post-Homicide power rankings

🏀 EEHG 310 on Mr. Throwback

🌴 Again With Again With This

📷 Photo: Rico Torres / USA Network

Florida transplant Al Lowe Huff is back to talk about Bad Monkey, the Apple TV adaptation of Carl Hiassen's Sunshine State-noir book, and the ways it lets Vince Vaughn's...Vince Vaughn-ing find the apex of its expression. We also discussed the show's great casting, realtor shade, meta voice-overs, and unwelcome references to True Detective before we went Around The Dial with Couples Therapy, My Life Is Murder, and the fifth season of Justified. Hallie had one more thing for us to consider in a Nonac pitch for a 1990s zombie Columbo, before The Gilded Age won and a Red Sock lost. Finally, we wedged in a sequel to a Trivial Pursuit-based Game Time, so load up your battered vintage cooler with an armload of popsicles and join us!

👤 Allison Lowe Huff

Lead Topic: 🐒 Bad Monkey

Around The Dial: 🛋️ Couples Therapy

Around The Dial: 💀 My Life Is Murder

Around The Dial: 🤠 Justified

The Nonac: 🧥 Columbo S10.E05: No Time To Die

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Gilded Age

Winner & Loser: 👎 Jarren Duran

Game Time: 🥧 The Return Of Televisual Pursuit

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🙉 Tara's Bad Monkey review at Cracked

🩻 We're talking about Scrubs on AWAWT later this week!

📚 Save on "headliner" true crime at Exhibit B. Books

Autumn is nearly upon us again, but all we care about is TV. That's why we've invited back Alexandra Collins and Daniel MacEachern to look at the calendar of forthcoming premieres and make our picks in the categories of Shows We're Into; Shows We Should Be Into But Aren't; the all-new "Happy For You" category for shows we don't care about but don't begrudge others enjoying; and Shows No One Should Be Into. Tara pitches the 9-1-1-: Lone Star episode "Everyone And Their Brother" for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's gonna get itself, gonna get itself, gonna get itself connected. Wrap a scarf or five around your neck and join us!

👤 Alex Collins

👤 Daniel MacEachern

Lead Topic: 🍂 Fall TV Preview

The Canon: 🤠 9-1-1: Lone Star S02.E06: Everyone And Their Brother

Winner & Loser: 👍 Jackson Pace

Winner & Loser: 👎 Laurence Fox

Game Time: 🔢 Extra Connect

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🕶️ "Johnny Lawrence Is Right: Let's Live Like It's the '80s" at Cracked

📍 Planned Parenthood

💰 National Network Of Abortion Funds

✈️ Fund Texas Choice

🔦 "From the archives: The Best Evidence Watergate reader" at Best Evidence

🦠 "The N.L. government has been downplaying COVID-19 deaths for months" at the CBC's website

🧑‍🚒 "Fox Needs To Spend Its Summer Vacation Making Us More 9-1-1s" at Primetimer

The Decameron has come to Netflix in the form of a limited series from Teenage Bounty Hunters creator Kathleen Jordan. How has the centuries-old material change in the adaptation? Kathryn VanArendonk returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us to Futurama's latest season, My Lady Jane, and Shōgun. Kathryn makes the case for inducting the Bluey episode "Camping" into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's "sticks of TNT"! Put down the onion you're using to dissipate pestilence miasma and listen!

👤 Kathryn VanArendonk

Lead Topic: 🐀 The Decameron

Around The Dial: 🤖 Futurama

Around The Dial: 🏰 My Lady Jane

Around The Dial: 🏯 Shōgun

The Canon: 🐶 Bluey S01.E43: Camping

Winner & Loser: 👍 General Hospital

Winner & Loser: 👎 Billy Ray Cyrus

Game Time: 🧠 CatchphraseGPT

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🦤 Kathryn at Vulture

🐁 Kathryn's review of The Decameron at Vulture

🚀 Tara's review of Futurama S12 at Cracked

⏳ Tara's review of AppleTV+'s Time Bandits at Cracked

🤬 "SHOGUN - Swearing Compilation" on YouTube

🚔 The Docket

🏥 "Emma Samms Returns to 'General Hospital' as Holly" on Variety

📷 Photo: Giulia Parmigiani / Netflix

Monty Ashley returned not just to EHG but to the distant past, as the panel contemplated Peacock's ancient-Succession drama, Those About To Die. The CGI is pretty ancient too, but did any of the storylines make us want to keep watching? Did Sarah D. "Horse Girl" Bunting care about the stables subplot? And how much chariot-racing is too much? Then we neck-acted our way Around The Dial with Cobra Kai, The Boys, and the soothing Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories before clambering into a Dumpster for Monty's The Chris Gethard Show Canon submission. And finally, it was time to swear at-- er, IN a TV-president Game Time from Dan Cassino. Oscar-winners, grenades, and avant-garde casting choices around RFK Sr. in this all-new Extra Hot Great.

👤 Monty Ashley

Lead Topic: 🏛️ Those About To Die

Around The Dial: 🥋 Cobra Kai

Around The Dial: 🍱 Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

Around The Dial: 🦹 The Boys

The Canon: 🗑️ The Chris Gethard Show S02.E09: One Man's Trash

Winner & Loser: 👍 The And Just Like That... prankster

Winner & Loser: 👎 The CW

Game Time: 🤷‍♂️ Executive Decision

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🐉 Hear Monty Ashley on Total Party Kill at The Incomparable Podcast Network

🥋 Tara's Cobra Kai review at Cracked

💿 The '90s Soundtrack Flashback mini-season at MASTAS

🗑️ Watch The Chris Gethard Show S02.E09: One Man's Trash on YouTube

⚾️ "A drive into deep left field"'s Wikipedia entry

📷 Photo: Reiner Bajo / Peacock

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Terror At London Bridge is a 1985 TV movie in which David Hasselhoff plays Don, a detective arrived in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, just in time for Jack The Ripper to come back to life and start killing people there, and since July 17 is his birthday, there's no better time to talk about it! Sadly, a last-minute scheduling change forced Sarah to excuse herself, but our guest Eve Batey is here to speak on behalf of everyone who can, like Don, truthfully say that true crime is one of their passions. Around The Dial takes us to a detailed discussion of Prime Video's Sausage Party: Foodtopia and the final season of Evil. Our friend Dan Cassino makes the case for X-Men '97's "Remember It" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner(s) and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that doesn't have much to say for itself. Grab your cape and scalpel-- Actually, don't do that; just listen!

👤 Eve Batey

Lead Topic: 🌉 Terror At London Bridge aka Bridge Across Time aka Arizona Ripper

Around The Dial: 🍆 Sausage Party: Foodtopia

Around The Dial: 😈 Evil

The Canon: 🧬 X-Men '97 S01.E05: Remember It

Winner & Loser: 👍 Joe Pantoliano; Dracula

Winner & Loser: 👎 Tim Doyle

Game Time: 🔐 Personal Authorization Code

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📸 Eve on Instagram

🌉 Terror At London Bridge (aka Bridge Across Time, aka Arizona Ripper)

👀 The Lookwell pilot on YouTube

💥 Comedy Bang Bang 838: "Peter Pogdanovich"

💂🏻 The English Village at Lake Havasu

🔍 The Return Of Sherlock Holmes on YouTube

🍆 Tara's Sausage Party: Foodtopia on Cracked

🪦 Tara's obituary essay on Shannen Doherty's performance as Beverly Hills, 90210's Brenda Walsh at Decider

📰 Best Evidence at Reality Blurred

☠️ "'Last Man Standing' Showrunner Tim Doyle Censured by WGA West For Facebook Posting Of 'Racist And Offensive' Image" at Deadline

📷 Photo: Charles Fries Productions

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We are off this week but bring you a recent episode from our Club spinoff podcast Extra Extra Hot Great.

From EEHG 292: Should You Shield Yourself From Fallout?

Even big Walt Goggins fans might not enjoy a series that takes his nose and overuses midcentury needle drops -- but most of the panel thinks you should stick with Fallout, the new post-nuclear-bomb dystopia from Prime based on a videogame. It's different from Silo in good ways, and wit plus world-building plus thoughtful casting goes a long way. Your Ask EHG questions led us to contemplate a live-action Muppet Show, a Sports Night reboot, Warriors gangs, and crossover pairs of TV friends; we named our Not Quite Winners and Losers; and the calendar's cruelest month saw US cruelly pitting characters named April against each other in a micro-Thunderdome. Radiation poisoning and Garthe Knight...just another day in the vault at Extra Extra Hot Great!

Lead Topic: ☢️ Fallout

Ask EHG: 🙋🏼‍♀️ Domer

Winner & Loser: 👍 Nicola Coughlan

Winner & Loser: 👎 Mark Gatiss

Winner & Loser: 👍 Melrose Place

Winner & Loser: 👎 Tim Kring

Winner & Loser: 👍 Curb Your Enthusiasm

Winner & Loser: 👎 Tulsa King

Extra Credit: ⚡️ April-Dome

Mini: 👹 Sympathy For The Devil

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🎭 A Tulsa King actor responds to insults (allegedly) from Sly Stallone

👩‍🔧 The hilarious fan wiki on April Curtis

Another Canada Day is on the books, but before you pack away your miniature Canadian flags, there's one more celebration we all need to get through: Canadian Thunderdome! We've each chosen 9 Canadian people or characters from TV, and we're tossing them into the Thunderdome to see which of these traditionally mild-mannered, polite figures has what it takes to win multiple fights to the death! Grab a few butter tarts and join us!

Lead Topic: 🦫 Canada Thunderdome

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🥅 "Albert" Canadian Tire commercial on YouTube

😤 "Why Everybody Hates Caillou" on YouTube

🦛 "The North American House Hippo" PSA on YouTube

👺 "Caramilk Devil 'Anything...?'" on YouTube

🦾 "I Am Astar, A Robot" PSA on YouTube

🦟 "The Mosquito From The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein" on YouTube

🏒 "Peter Puck - Episode 1" on YouTube

🤏 "Kids In The Hall - Head Crusher: Rival" on YouTube

💄 Jimbo

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