THE PAPER SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: REVIEWED!

Good morning CCCAH fans! It is the hour and the hour is upon us. It is time to culturally consume and then to appraise content. It is a ritual, six seasons in, really. And as we amend the ritual to stay current and up to date with the times (#Review1Thing is thriving) we ask you to join us and watch along! Let’s slay queens, let’s eat that, let’s smash it and let’s start the show.

How are we feeling about #Review1Thing so far anyway, show fans? Anyone feeling completely vindicated yet? Speaking of complete (strong, no?) vindication: stay tuned to see what Christopher is gloating about in the show title lol. 

So has anyone ever heard of a show called The Office? Damn, that’s wild. Neither have we. Sounds boring. Well a quarter of a century since (that’s right, you read that right) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s mockumentary first aired on the BBC, the legacy and the lineage continues with yet another Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant produced vehicle. And still, as usual, my main question is: wait, do these lads even talk to each other anymore!? Crying emojis. Four of them, even. 

This week we are reviewing season 1 episode 1 of The Paper. 

You can watch the pilot episode of The Paper here: https://www.nowtv.com/watch/the-paper/iYEQZ1vXy2NqAm8tAkLyQh/seasons/1/episodes/pilot-episode-1/A5EK5anvvYyjnA4xnKagN

You can watch Greg Daneisl, creator of the new show The Paper, talk to his friend Conan O’Brien on the popular podcast Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend about all sorts of things but mainly his life and career and their friendship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0cyQzOK-A

Here is Mike Schur (co-creator of and showrunner for Parks and Recreation) who was last year commenting on the new Office spin off, which was at that point untitled: https://nypost.com/2024/11/20/entertainment/mike-schur-reacts-to-office-reboot-mose-schrute-reprisal/

You can read a Guardian review of the first season of The Paper by Hannah J Davies here (not the nicest): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/05/domhnall-gleeson-the-paper-review-us-office-spinoff-dunder-mifflin

You can read a BBC review of the first season of The Paper by Caryn James here (slightly nicer): https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250902-the-paper-review

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When we got Radiohead tickets. Off pod. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: 

https://archive.org/details/american-movie-1999

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THE FOUR SEASONS (1981): REVIEWED!

WARNING: WE SPOIL THE WHOLE MOVIE! 

But besides that, it’s a chill episode. It warms up as it goes, maybe starts off more chill than usual lol but it definitely gets warmer as we get going. Much like the movie we review. And much like friendships in general. 

Now the question this week, really, is: are you really ready for the #ReviewOneThing era to begin in earnest? Well stay tuned then lol because we’re almost there. We’re still finding our groove, sure, finding our feet as it were. But we’re getting there. Week to week diving more and more deeply into the art we criticise and love in equal measure. 

This week is another movie week here on the progrum. The Four Seasons was written and directed by Alan Alda in 1981 and Tina Fey always meant for us to go back and discover it when she adapted it for her new series, right!? Right? And who among you are actually doing the work and doing your homework? That’s right, barely any of you! So of course we will do it for you. Of course we follow up the Cat Burns reviewing episode (super trendy singer) with this shit, right? Could we BE being any more triple-C AH, right now or what!?

Sit back and relax and don’t come to the shownotes for the scores, check out the website for the scores at cccappraisalhour.show 

You can find The Four Seasons (1981) here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Seasons-Alan-Alda/dp/B01MS6EYM3

You can watch the first episode of Tina Fey’s new show The Four Seasons here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81775533

I can’t decide if the I Watched An Old Movie Reddit page makes me happy or sad. You decide for me, thanks: https://www.reddit.com/r/iwatchedanoldmovie/comments/1kz6d5u/the_four_seasons_1981/

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, famous movie reviewers, talked about The Four Seasons in an episode of their television show talking movies from back i nthe 1980s. Check out the first seven minutes of said episode here: https://siskelebert.org/?p=7409

Nathan Rabin, famous movie reviewer, wrote a review about The Four Seaons here: https://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/544-the-agonizing-dullness-of-alan-aldas-the-four-seas/

Janet Maslin, famous movie review, wrote a review of The Four Seasons here: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/22/movies/four-seasons-a-hymn-to-ordinariness.html

Special and profound show-notes-only edition of Tweet of the week: https://x.com/hrdjenniesayin/status/1965391512357007405

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When we really tried to talk about the amazingness of the one other time we had a double-homer draw episode and I still don’t think we conveyed it with the appropriate amount of awe. We were more aww shucks and we should have been more shock and awe, you know!? 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: 

https://www.nowtv.com/watch/the-paper/iYEQZ1vXy2NqAm8tAkLyQh/seasons/1/episodes/pilot-episode-1/A5EK5anvvYyjnA4xnKagN

Enjoy the competition because then again everything is. 

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EARLY TWENTIES BY CAT BURNS: REVIEWED!

Listen Cat Burns ok (a “you did it, you’re here” to you and yours) I know you’re wicked and you’re doing your thing. And the lack of capital letters is your intentional choice as a gen z artist and I respect that. But we here at the cccah and in the cccahc do things a little differently, ok? We capitalise EVERY piece of art we’re reviewing in the first line of the shownotes. It’s just the deal, ok? It’s to catch the eye and be clear and just, yeah … forgive us ok? In every other reference in this show note (and the show itself, no matter how begrudgingly) we will refer to the lack of capitals you have consciously chosen in your debut album title. I am curious. Will this continue throughout what I hope is a long and fruitful career? Or will it flame out, like so many gen z innovations seem to do? Only time will tell. 

We hope you enjoy today/s episode that answers the question so many loyal listeners have been asking for ages, namely, whether we have ever before had a (*POTENTIAL SPOILERS TO FOLLOW IN COMPLETING THIS RHETORICAL QUESTION*) draw episode consisting of two homers? Damn that’s wild. 

Listen to early twenties by Cat Burns here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/early-twenties/1735981910

Watch Cat Burns on Jamie Laing’s podcast Great Company here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FSYbwZysS0

Read this Pitchfork review of early twenties by Cat Burns here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/14/cat-burns-early-twenties-review-go

Read this article about the state of music criticism by Kelefa Sanneh for the New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/how-music-criticism-lost-its-edge

Check out all the amazing statistics you can shake a stick at (and boy did we shake sticks at certain statistics in particular on today’s broadcast) on one of the top 5 websites Jonny Mortemore has ever made: cccappraisalhour.show 

Special and profound show-notes-only edition of Tweet of the week: https://x.com/PhilosophyOnX/status/1963409433020829825

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher almost admitted to giving something a 0 in our 1-5 score system but then refused to admit what for but then admitted it was a joke but then also maybe it wasn’t. Good stuff. Also Christopher refusing to go viral and specify who sucked at All Points East. Lame. We’re ready for beef man, we’re six seasons deep. Let's go. Off Menu podcast, where you attttttt???

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: 

https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/the-four-seasons/umc.cmc.3th1kj6a2ld0swlnprt80t0c0

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K POP DEMON HUNTERS: Reviewed!

Please skip to 12 minutes 26 seconds if you would like to skip some opening Taylor-Swift-related-faff and get right into us addressing the elephant in the room. Sure. You’re tight for time.

Additionally. Please skip to 23 minutes and 29 seconds in if you don’t necessarily want to sit in our own so-how-are-we-going-to-do-this-season pre-production meeting and would instead like to just hear us review K Pop Demon Hunters. We get you.

Welcome to Season 6 Episode 2 of The CCCAH! Or to be exact, EPISODE 2 OF THE NEW ERA/NEW LOOK/EXPERIMENTAL SEASON OF THE CCCAH! We’re out here doing things a little differently this season. But you can keep track of it all in the same place as always, the best place on the increasingly shitty internet. Our website: cccappraisalhour.show 

The scores so far this season are:

Jeff: 1 

Chris: 0

1-0. Well well well. Let’s shut up shop. Let's park the bus lads. Let’s call it a season! We have a winner! Hahahahaha … and other assorted banter etc. 

Ok but as we’re sure you’ll want to dive into all the K Pop Demon Hunters content you can shake a stick at after you listen to us talk about it … we’ll provide some handy links for you below.

Watch the film K Pop Demon Hunters here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81498621

Listen to the soundtrack for the film K Pop Demon Hunters here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/kpop-demon-hunters-soundtrack-from-the-netflix-film/1820264137

I am so sad Roger Ebert isn’t alive to review K Pop Demon Hunters lol. But at least we can read this review by Brian Tallerico featured on a website bearing his name: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-film-review-2025

Here is an article by Julie Yoonnyung Lee for the BBC chronicling how the film became a phenomenon: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250715-the-animated-k-pop-film-that-swept-the-world

The Director of K Pop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang was interviewed by the good people at 

Asian A.V. Club and shared insightful gems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waniLC_iFHA

Here is an article about the impending nuptials of Taylor Swift and the Kelce brother that was in Happy Gilmore 2 @killatrav that is like “yayyy”: https://people.com/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-engagement-is-a-millenial-win-11799024

And here is an article about the impending nuptials of Taylor Swift and the Kelce brother that was in Happy Gilmore 2 @killatrav that is like “yay but moreso … whyyy thooo”: https://www.vogue.com/article/personally-invested-in-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelces-engagement

Special show-notes-only edition of Tweet of the week: https://x.com/Cam_Oflage/status/1960392502776877560

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When we both thought the other one was type type typing away in the background but it was actually the sound of the RAIN … wow … we are really a rock and roll podcast if ever I’ve seen one. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: 

https://open.spotify.com/album/0rnW4hH24v4j16wUbeR5Tn

And just one more time because it always bears repeating: https://www.dazn.com/en-GB/news/wrestling/what-does-kayfabe-mean-explaining-some-of-pro-wrestlings-most-confusing-phrases/1gqcwi9kk37jj19shuqqt8k9sl

Which reminds me of a close 2nd place special show-notes-only edition of Tweet of the week: https://x.com/Autoheartrecord/status/1960379524387832000

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KNEECAP and WALLACE AND GROMIT: VENGEANCE MOST FOWL: Reviewed!

Welcome to Season 6 of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour! It’s been five seasons in the making. All this lead up to #ReviewOneThing and we’re kicking it all off with … a CLASSIC #ReviewTwoThings Thing! Kneecap and Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Two of the best new (new-ish) movies the pod has covered in a while. That’s right, spoiler: IT’S A HIGH SCORING EPISODE FOLKS! 

We also spoil both movies. And that’s a SPOILER lol. So strap in for a 30-second-game-less (had to briefly review Green Man 2025, so there is all the summer fest coverage you could shake a stick at right there) cold open and a healthy dose of how-political-are-we-going-to-get-probably-not-very discourse. Also more merch ideas. Your boys in american football helmets, anyone? 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON: 0-0! 

FUCKIN NAILED IT! 

Hahahaha. Ok that was fun. What else? 

The website *almost* got a shout out. I recall starting to say it but not getting my words out. Here is the website link in full: cccappraisalhour.show

A future, mystery birthday gift also got a shout out. Bex gets a shout out. Jonny gets a shout out. Kitty recommended Wallace and Gromit months ago and got a well deserved shout out. Friendship gets a shout out. What more could you possibly need? You did it already, you’re here already, jeez. 

Watch Kneecap here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kneecap/dp/B0DGT5M8N1

Watch the boys talking to Politics Joe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V-YS0DbEHQ

Listen to the director of Kneecap Rich Peppiatt being interviewed here b the awesomely named The Last Video Store podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0EUSyixtbPY6QrkaDDBJIL?si=eb1790a5271c4d65

Read all about ‘Helen from Wales’ and the story behind her livestreaming Kneecap’s set: https://metro.co.uk/2025/06/29/live-streamed-kneecaps-glastonbury-set-bbc-wouldnt-23534673/

Watch Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0022179/wallace-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl

Watch Nick Park talk and Merlin Crossingham talk about Vengeance Most Fowl here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60o3PjKCZ7s

Watch animators react to Wallace and Gromit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epLe0CIWKW0

Read a review of Vengeance Most Fowl from the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/27/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl-review

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Christopher replying to my essay in the google doc. It was sweet. Because, as Wallace said, and I will quote him one final time today lol … “I can live without inventing … but I can’t live without … me best pal!” I think in our case podcasting is “inventing”. Love that for us. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

We’ll see you next week for a very SPECIAL episode ;) 

Next week’s first ever #Review1Thing pitch for the show: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81498621

And don’t forget your name it means nothing and your age it means less: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y2FuDY6Q4M

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THE BOYS MAKE A MIXTAPE TO CELEBRATE FIVE SEASONS! 

It’s another heatwave special! It’s another in-between-seasons special! It’s a music special! Is this the most special special we’ve ever special’d? The definitive answer is: YES or at least MAYBE or like at least TOP 5! 

Today we will be making a playlist for you in live time. Oh what a treat for your ears. Does it get any better? You will listen to us look back through EVERY MUSICAL PITCH WE HAVE MADE DURING THE EXISTENCE OF OUR SHOW THUS FAR and we will thoroughly examine all the options on all the albums/singles we have reviewed over the years. You will learn so much. It is basically a masterclass in the art of making a mixtape. Up there with one of the great scenes in all of cinematic history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzQwbRdh5Ts

It will end up as a cassette and/or compilation CD by the time season 6 is done and the Patreon is up and running and the merch has a top 10 selling items page, just you WAIT! But back to today’s show. It is a special-podcast-episode concept birthed by Christopher Anousis and executive produced by Jonathan Mortemore and then I sort of showed up at the end there to chat some shit about some songs.

The playlist (for the mixtape) on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qdkPjVsjoeil45ChYxuqC?si=3433c6d088fa4664

The playlist (for the mixtape) on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/the-cccah-seasons-1-5-mixtape/pl.u-1172oHEKEkx

The playlist (for the expanded version of the mixtape) on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7iUpsx5OrJ0vGaLziSucKU?si=4ea8ea59390f41c0

The playlist (for the expanded version of the mixtape) on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/the-cccah-seasons-1-5-mixtape-expanded-edition-bonus/pl.u-aZbjDsMRMK9

APOLOGIA NUMBRERO UNO: Sorry Ali/Glass Animals. When we boiled down our picks to the 26 picks, we left you off. Despite having just agreed on the inclusion after much debate. This was an oversight. Hence the last-minute addition of an expanded edition. Lol. 

APOLOGIA NUMERO DUO: To the genre of jazz, we apologise for not being in that headspace right now. You’re better than that. We’re better than that. We’ll see you at some point during seasons 6-10 and hey, maybe we’ll become a jazz band instead of a podcast we’ll end up loving you so much. Doodly doo bop doo skiddly boo boppadee dooo bahhhh … Christopher, do you want to go see Brubeck plays Brubeck or nah sonnnn: https://unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/brubeck-plays-brubeck

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Before we started recording Christopher told some amazing stories about Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral, his review of the movie Uncut Gems, his love of the new South Park episodes and his theory behind why I do probably have a microphone stand even though I don’t think I do. This man wants all the gold to be off-pod sometimes, I don’t know what to tell you. https://unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/brubeck-plays-brubeck

Do check out the socials for all the reference points you need, including JVD_Games branded spreadsheets (that I took screenshots of hehehe) outlining the songs we are choosing from: https://www.instagram.com/cccahour

Once we were active on Twitter too, can you fuckin believe that shit lol: twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

But no for real, e-mail us! E-mail is still just a cool thing we do, right? Musk didn’t buy it or anything, right: [email protected]

Also hi YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour

1 more beautiful season of cccappraisalhour/show down.

The people can’t wait for a new one.

He can’t wait. 

I can’t wait. 

Now it’s time to level up. 

Gang gang.

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GREEN MAN FESTIVAL PLAYLIST BY JEFFREY BAHLO and HAPPY GILMORE 2: Reviewed!

Ok season 5 fans. We’re finally wrapping this shit up. Season 5 has been a controversial time, we’re not going to lie to you. We’re not going to front. Even more than in previous seasons … it’s been a shit show. But here we are. It’s the end of the season. Fucking finally. Let’s go. We’re reviewing a playlist festival. The fact that this playlist got made and pitched is such a feat of investment and generosity, almost as kudos-worthy as the surprise reveal that will cap off this, the final episode of season 5. And yeah, a movie also; the number one movie on Netflix so that is as basic-ass a pitch as we’ve ever seen. Ok, so … WTF ARE THE SCORES:

Jeffrey ahead by 1.

We think.

So if Christopher wins today. A draw.

If Jeffrey wins. A Jeffrey win.

And if the boys draw. A Jeffrey win.

STAKES! A dead rubber, low key … with A BIT OF LIFE LEFT IN THE OL’ GIRL! 

Check the cccappraisalhour.show for the accurate info and tune back into the podcast show notes next season for more accurate scorekeeping. We are going to get the good people at the cccah and the good people at the cccappraisalhour.show at the table to sit together, break bread and resolve their issues. Next year will be the year. Hashtag one thing. Hashtag one Patreon. Hashtag one pod. Five letters, one pod, uh uh: CCCAH! 

Here is the official website for the 2025 Green Man Festival: https://www.greenman.net/

Here is the playlist for Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hD2l3VqTw17kyGYz5lexo?si=ee08888befc344bf

Here is the playlist for Apple: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/the-cccah-playlist-for-green-man-festival-2025/pl.u-e9dbKIvZvMP

Watch Happy Gilmore 2 here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81696722

BFFs Josh Richards and Bri Chickenfry interviewed the stars of Happy Gilmore 2, Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen and Christopher McDonald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVG0YRSRa5s

Mat and Ceri are two best friends who review the entire filmography of Adam Sandler! Their podcast is called the So Sandlerous Pod! I_knew it_Chandler_Friends.gif: https://open.spotify.com/show/2neDn6KZfEwAPss5FLcFGW?si=324b8e6c3d85411e

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: The screen sharing lol. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

We’ll see you next week for a very SPECIAL episode ;) 

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NANETTE BY HANNAH GADSBY and RICKY STANICKY: Reviewed!

Hey there podcast fanatics! It’s time to listen to another episode of the cccappraisalhour.show

Incorrect lineal scoreline for this season says the scores are:

Jeffrey: 12

Christopher: 12

But we know that's wrong. Christopher and Jonny insist I am ahead. I am the only one saying I'm not ahead. 2025 is the weirdest year on record in so many different ways I can't deal.

Anyway.

We all know a 24th episode of a season when we see one, right? It’s giving … finale. End of an era. There is a season turn turn turn etc. But hey … maybe season 5 isn’t quite over yet … ? 

STAY TUNED AND LISTEN TO THE EPISODE BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE MORE TO COME YET DURING THIS OVERLY LONG FIFTH SEASON OF OURS!

Hey! Is that my first ever CCCAH episode spoiler in the shownotes, kind of spoiling the insane SWERVE you will experience at the end of the episode? Well maybe. Thankfully no one reads the show notes! Hehe. And even if they did, I don’t mind. Spoilers are fun. They are inevitable. There is actually an art to riding out spoilers, engaging with them without letting them dampen your experience. And if Christopher does mind … I don’t mind that either lol; he’s used to my flagrant abuse of our spoiler/ticking rules over the years now so. He’ll live. 

Anyway, speaking of spoilers, might as well mention: we defo spoil Ricky Stanicky. You’ll live also lol!! 

Now let’s talk about watching things and laughing at things and laughing *with* each other about things and what we learned along the way (Nanette) and the mindless fun we had that also has value somehow (the Ricky one). 

Watch Nanette here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80233611

Read Hannah Gadsby talking about Nanette here: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/may/31/hannah-gadsby-you-dont-do-a-show-like-nanette-without-a-tough-shell

Read a review of Nanette by Matilda Douglas-Henry here: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/01/who-is-nanette/

Watch Ricky Stanicky here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ricky-Stanicky-Zac-Efron/dp/B0CQD4TGD7

Read a review of Ricky Stanicky here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/movies/ricky-stanicky-review.html

Watch interviews with the director and stars of Ricky Stanicky from the YouTube channel “The Nerds of Color” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF-GOCfCz5A

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: I continue to hold my new microphone perfectly. I only need to be told once or twice to not just lean my entire face on it when I’m having a bit of a posture-break. For the most part we’ve got placement strictly on the centre of the ol’ mouth line. And an inch from the mouth. So very Gary Neville-chic of me. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81696722

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hD2l3VqTw17kyGYz5lexo?si=b97136712cbb4814

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IT'S GARRY SHANDLING'S SHOW SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 and IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA SEASON 17 EPISODE 1: Reviewed!

Hello hello podcast people! This is another edition of your favourite podcast, The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour. This week we’ll be reviewing all sorts of shit. But mainly sitcoms. American sitcoms. One super old one in its first flush of life and one super new one in it’s seventeenth bloody season. So it’s all kinds of contrasts on the show this week. 

More contrasts include one tall host and one short host. Not that you can hear this on this (currently!) audio-only programme. One of us wants to have sidebars and tangents and do bits. The other one means business and wants to do the show we have promised the people we will do. One of us wants to believe the scores that are true. The other one wants to also believe those, after he learns that these scores put him slightly ahead lol. But really, only one of us wants to win the show. The other is happy just to have a show. Who is who? Actually I don’t even know anymore. But I’m sure that at this point we’re both actually kinda n’aww [insert a Zach Braff monologue regarding something life affirming over some indie rock here]. 

Now for one final time (PLEASE???) let's see the continuity of the UNOFFICIAL AND VERY WRONG SCORES:

Jeffrey: 11

Christopher: 12

Right? Every one see those. Well ... refer to Jonny's IMPARTIAL WEBSITE cccappraisalhour.show for some scores that have not been corrupted by dark money and podcasting polititcs!

You can watch the first ever episode It’s Gary Shandling’s Show here: https://archive.org/details/its-garry-shandlings-show-complete-ish/Its.Garry.Shandlings.Show.101.mp4

You can read Den of Geek’s review of the first ever episode of It’s Gary Shandling’s Show here, immediately referencing Brecht: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/its-garry-shandlings-show-season-one-dvd-review/

You can listen to Judd Apatow talk about Gary Shandling here. He’s actually talking about his documentary The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling but hey, same thing: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/11/778130375/after-comic-garry-shandlings-death-judd-apatow-found-zen-in-his-diaries

You can watch the first episode of season seventeen of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9mn4oa

You can read the AV Club review of this episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia here: https://www.avclub.com/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-season-17-episode-1-and-2-recap

You can check out this interview with Charlie Day regarding all the crossover episodes of it all here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-season-17-charlie-day-interview-1236309803/

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Jeffrey was innocently asking if the It’s Always Sunny crew had ever been cancelled before and … let’s just say … he tried to respond to my question lol. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ricky-Stanicky-Zac-Efron/dp/B0CQD4TGD7

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80233611

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HOME MOVIES SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 and JONATHAN CREEK SEASON 2 EPISODE 6: Reviewed!

Welcome to the podcast every body! This week we have quite an episode for you. It's full of content. When culture is reviewed, that is content. The culture itself, I find it tricky calling 'content'. But here we are, you know? It's all content. All the content goes in the content-hole for the content-delivery to the content-consumers. But here we are. We are the last line of defence between the content-construction form of capitalism that is threatening to wipe all the art out from all of our lives and our meek and tiny souls ... craving connection ... soul ... however you define a soul. I define it as something you can redeem on a weekly basis by tuning in to the latest episode of The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour. L. F. G.

So, what are the scores so far? We actually get to the bottom of the controversy in today's episode but before we reach some sort of confrontational end-point ... I will continue to pay tribute to my FULLY WRONG-ASS SCORES AAAAAGGGHHHHH:

Jeffrey: 10:

Christopher: 12

Season 1 Episode 6 of Home Movies (entitled Director's Cut) can be watched here: https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/home-movies/Season%201/Home.Movies-S01e06.Director%27s.Cut-6.mp4

You can read an interview with the creator of Home Movies (and Bob's Burgers) Loren Bouchard here: https://www.gq.com/story/loren-bouchard-on-the-legacy-of-home-movies-20-years-later

You can read a review of this episode of Home Movies here from the questionable people at Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/home_movies/s01/e06

Season 2 Episode 6 (entitled Mother Redcap) of Jonathan Creek can be watched here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02zy1bn/jonathan-creek-series-2-6-mother-redcap

You can read a super old-school interview with Alan Davies about playing Jonathan Creek on a very old-school looking BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/jonathancreek/interviews/davies/

You can read a review for the entire second season from a blogspot account called The Passing Tramp because you're over it with the Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritics of the world and simply need some niche shit now (welcome to the CCCAH btw): https://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2012/05/by-light-of-television-jonathan-creek.html

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher did his top 5 drinks rankings and the internet blew up from the viral ramifications. Sumo sold out at all the ... breweries ... ? I don't know.

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/tv-series/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/season-17

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://archive.org/details/its-garry-shandlings-show-complete-ish

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