We're thrilled comedian Josh Gondelman could come back to talk about Fantasmas, the latest show from Los Espookys's Julio Torres, which is as hard to describe as it was for us to resist. We talked about everything from fully realized re-imaginings of Alf, to comedy that doesn't have to prove it's smarter than you, to begging the universe to let Torres make American Vandal Seasons 3 through 85. Maybe the show's not for everyone, but it's okay with that, which is part of its charm. Later, we went Around The Dial with 9-1-1, Rachel Feinstein's stand-up special Big Guy, and Sarah and Dan's Justified marathon, and Josh hoped his Killing It Canon presentation would pay off (before 9 PM, of course. Timothy Olyphant won a second time, The Morning Show found a way to lose twice, and Dave was a poet who DID know it in a rhyming edition of Game Time. Put that clear-crayon project aside and have a listen.

👤 Josh Gondelman

Lead Topic: 👻 Fantasmas

Around The Dial: 🧑‍🚒 9-1-1

Around The Dial: 🎙️ Rachel Feinstein: Big Guy

Around The Dial: 🤠 Justified

The Canon: 🐊 Killing It S02.E03: It Follows

Winner & Loser: 👍 Timothy Olyphant

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Morning Show

Game Time: 🕰️ Game Rhyme 2020s Edition

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👻 Tara's review of Fantasmas for Cracked

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📍 Josh's tour dates and more

🐶 Bizzy the pug on Instagram

💄 Tara, Dave, and Pam Ribon think you should Listen To Sassy

🔪 Sarah's The Life & Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson review at Best Evidence

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FX/Hulu has taken the scandal surrounding L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling after his assistant, V. Stiviano, recorded him being racist out loud (a recording that then leaked to TMZ) and turned it into a scripted true-life drama; former L.A. resident and current basketball (not Clippers) fan David Wiebe returns to talk about it. Around The Dial takes us through some early critique of Taskmaster Australia S02, and some soul-searching about what makes Below Deck Mediterranean so addictive. Tara makes the case for the Seinfeld episode "The Strongbox" to be inducted into the Nonac. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time we all hoped we'd never have to endure. Sarah has had to sit this one out, but there's still plenty of hot action to get you to join us courtside!

👤 David Wiebe

Lead Topic: 🏀 Clipped

Around The Dial: 🪃 Taskmaster Australia

Around The Dial: 🛥️ Below Deck Mediterranean

The Nonac: 🔐 Seinfeld S09.E14: The Strongbox

Winner & Loser: 👍 Jack Reynor

Winner & Loser: 👎 Mean People

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🇺🇸 Cleopatra Coleman Sees 'Clipped' on Hulu as a 'Celebration' of L.A. Clippers Owner's 'Assistant' V. Stiviano: 'She Represents the American Dream'" at Decider

🌴 The Again With This podcast on Patreon

🦄 Unicorn Academy on Netflix

📷 Photo: Kelsey McNeal / FX

Grab a fruity cocktail; we're back to let you know which new and returning summer shows you should stay inside for (plus a few you can skip), plus a very special "We're Happy For You" list from Dave. Later, we take a dip at Rutherford Falls with a listener Canon submission; declare a Winner (casting) and Loser (cancellation) for the week, and time-machine it back to 2001 for a 19 Questions Game Time. Take the plunge and listen now!

Lead Topic: 🏖️ Summer 2024 TV Preview

The Canon: 💧 Rutherford Falls S02.E03: Aunt Sue

Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix's Garfield-Die Without A T Series

Winner & Loser: 👎 Primo

Game Time: 🙋‍♂️ 19 Questions: 2001 Edition

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We reached out once again to our Patreon supporters, asking whomst among them had the nerve and pop culture knowledge to participate in a Listener Game Time special. Brian, Lea, and Philip were chosen from our respondents, and face each other in Meredith's game My God, It's Full Of Guest Stars, and Mike's submission, TV CVs. Who vanquishes their foes? Listen and find out!

Game Time: 🤩 My God, It's Full Of Guest Stars

Game Time: 💼 TV CVs

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For this special episode, we're contemplating three TV episodes our listeners believe are among TV's very best. Mlle. Caroline has us watching the Poirot episode "Five Little Pigs," featuring way more future Game Of Thrones stars (and offspring of future Game Of Thrones stars) than any of us might expect. Then, Larra sends us to Dropout.tv for the second-ever episode of Game Changer -- which is also the first-ever "Make Some Noise." Finally, Elenore gets dialectical in her pitch on "START," the series finale of The Americans. Pull over for some McNuggets and join us!

The Canon: 🔪 Agatha Christie's Poirot S09.E01: Five Little Pigs

The Canon: 🧩 Game Changer S01.E02: Make Some Noise

The Canon: 🇺🇸 The Americans S06.E10: START

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🗽 Tara's "START" recap, formerly at Previously.TV

Dr. Dan Cassino is back to discuss Netflix's Sandman spinoff (of sorts), Dead Boy Detectives, a ghosty witchy horny procedural. We talked about its Gaiman (and Buffy) DNA, if it's better at being scary or horny, and which tools from the historical "magic on TV" kit it uses best. Later, we went Around The Dial with Hacks, This Old House, and Baby Reindeer before turning our attention to the UN-dead for a The Walking Dead Canon submission. Jason Ritter won, Peacock lost, and Game Time took us on a Roman holiday of sorts. No need to open a portal, just hit play on an all-new Extra Hot Great.

👤 Dan Cassino

Lead Topic: 💀 Dead Boy Detectives

Around The Dial: 😆 Hacks

Around The Dial: 🏚️ This Old House

Around The Dial: 🦌 Baby Reindeer

The Canon: 🧟‍♂️ The Walking Dead S10.E19: One More

Winner & Loser: 👍 Jason Ritter

Winner & Loser: 👎 Peacock

Game Time: ⛪️ Traditional Latin Mash

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🤵🏻‍♂️ Dan Cassino on New Jersey Now

🦤 "Let's Disagree About Hacks" on Vulture

😆 Tara's Hacks S03 review for Cracked

✍🏻 Tara's round-up with Baby Reindeer and The Contestant

🦌 Sarah's Baby Reindeer review at Best Evidence

📷 Photo: Ed Araquel / Netflix

As a TV host, Conan O'Brien has moved on from a nightly interview and variety show on TBS to a comedy travel show on Max; as the whole season drops, Will Hines joins us to discuss how well it fits into the genre, and what it was like doing sketches during Conan's run of Late Night. Around The Dial takes us through Dinner With The Parents, X-Men '97, and The Jinx II. Kari pitches the "Heat Stroke" episode of Taskmaster NZ for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to an extraordinarily resourceful Game Time. No passport needed to listen!

👤 Will Hines

Lead Topic: 🗺️ Conan O'Brien Must Go

Around The Dial: 🍽️ Dinner With The Parents

Around The Dial: 🦸‍♀️ X-Men '97

Around The Dial: 🪦 The Jinx

The Canon: 🥝 Taskmaster New Zealand S02.E02: Heat Stroke

Winner & Loser: 👍 Oz

Winner & Loser: 👎 Tom Sandoval

Game Time: 🧰 MacGyver With Quotes

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🕰️ Will Hines on TikTok

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🌎 Tara's review of Conan O'Brien Must Go at Cracked.com

🍽️ Tara's review of Dinner With The Parents at Cracked.com

👙 Tara's review of Fern Brady: Autistic Bikini Queen at Cracked.com

🎼 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast on Patreon

🫚 Ginger Crunch recipe at CarolinesCooking.com

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It's yet another expensive-looking and ambitious limited series from Apple TV+ -- this time, Franklin, starring Michael "Gordon Gekko" Douglas as the flatulence-forward inventor of electricity. Is this limited series focused on the wrong thing? Is Franklin as a colonial weirdo better in smaller doses? And why isn't there more farting? Later, we went Around The Dial with Loot's second season, Top Chef's Wisconsin season, and Carol & The End of the World, and then we took cover for an incoming Canon pitch about the Justified S01 finale. Cold Case won, Billy Joel fans lost, and Tara ran the numbers with us in a non-regulation Game Time. Pin a scale-model tall ship to your head and get ready for an all-new Extra Hot Great!

👤 Krystal Farmer

Lead Topic: 🪁 Franklin

Around The Dial: 👑 Loot

Around The Dial: 🤯 Carol & The End of the World

Around The Dial: 🔪 Top Chef

The Canon: 🤠 S01.E13: Bulletville

Winner & Loser: 🥶 Cold Case

Winner & Loser: 🎹 Billy Joel

Game Time: 💯 Keeping Everything 100

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🪙 Krystal Farmer's podcast, Two Cents Plus Tax

🤫 Anne Hathaway quieting a crowd in Italy

👑 Tara's Loot S02 review at Cracked

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Tom Ripley, a Talented character we already saw on screen in his namesake movie in 1999, is back, now in a limited series on Netflix; Dan Rogge joins us to discuss how this version compares to Anthony Minghella's film, what we thought of its use of black and white, and how it works to age up the character so he can be played by Andrew Scott. Around The Dial takes us through Monsters At Work S02, Only Murders In The Building S03, and Space Show (aka For All Mankind). Britt pitches the Moonlighting episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" for induction into the Canon; then we name the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a Game Time about TV therapists: how does that make you feel? Row out into the middle of the open sea and listen!

👤 Dan Rogge

Announcement: 📢 Patreon Update

Lead Topic: ⛵️ Ripley

Around The Dial: 🧌 Monsters At Work

Around The Dial: 🏙️ Only Murders In The Building

Around The Dial: 🚀 For All Mankind

The Canon: 🌛 Moonlighting S02.E04: The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

Winner & Loser: 👍 The NCIS franchise

Winner & Loser: 👎 Homophobic 9-1-1 viewers

Game Time: 🧠 TV Head Shrinkers (Brought To You By BetterHelp)

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⛱️ All Summer In A Day (1982) on YouTube

📹 Michael Penn's “Try” video on YouTube

🧌 Tara's essay on Monsters At Work S02 at Cracked

🔗 Dan Rogge on LinkedIn

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AMC's latest prestige drama, Parish, features Giancarlo Esposito as a retired wheelman trying to do former associate Skeet Ulrich a favor, and we're thrilled Omar Gallaga is parking it on the panel to talk about the show. Does the show do anything with 2010s crime-show cliches? Who has notes on car-chase credibility? And on a scale of one to ten plastic babies, how "Nawlins" is the show? Later, we're going Around The Dial with Taskmaster's seventeenth season, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show, and how to rewatch Boardwalk Empire; and finding out whether Tara's Canon pitch for This Fool is worth one MEEELLION dollars. RHONY won, Tori Spelling lost, and we obeyed a VERY strict speed limit for Game Time -- so buckle your seatbelt for an all-new Extra Hot Great!

👤 Omar Gallaga

Lead Topic: 🚗 Parish

Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster

Around The Dial: 😬 Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show

Around The Dial: 🍾 Boardwalk Empire

The Canon: 🕺 This Fool S01.E05: Sandy Says

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Real Housewives Of New York City

Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling

Game Time: 🐢 Slowly At First II

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💻 Omar Gallaga at CNET

🎞️ Omar Gallaga at Book & Film Globe

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🪄 Tara's interview with Justin Willman of The Magic Prank Show

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