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! GUESTS 👤 Will Hines TOPICS 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 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 508 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🕰️ Will Hines on TikTok 📸 Will on Instagram 🌎 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 📷 Photo: Conaco / Max

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! GUESTS 👤 Krystal Farmer TOPICS 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 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 507 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪙 Krystal Farmer's podcast, Two Cents Plus Tax 🤫 Anne Hathaway quieting a crowd in Italy 👑 Tara's Loot S02 review at Cracked 📚 The "as seen on TV" sale at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Apple CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

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! GUESTS 👤 Dan Rogge TOPICS 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) SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 506 page on ExtraHotGreat.com ⛱️ 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 🎶 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast on Patreon 📷 Photo: Philippe Antonello / Netflix CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

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! GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS 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 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 505 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 💻 Omar Gallaga at CNET 🎞️ Omar Gallaga at Book & Film Globe 💌 Tara's interview with Alex and Greg of Taskmaster at Cracked.com 🪄 Tara's interview with Justin Willman of The Magic Prank Show ⚾️ Ottawa University's Baseball in Literature and Culture Conference 🔎 Best Evidence 📷 Photo: AMC CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Doug Liman has taken Rowdy Herrington's glorious 1989 feature Road House and remade it for Prime Video with Jake Gyllenhaal as a Dalton for the 21st century; Taylor S. Cole joins us to discuss whether it's a hard slap in the face to our memories of the original. Around The Dial takes us through Girls5eva, Lost, Homicide: New York, and Chicken Nugget. Taylor makes the case for inducting Andor's "One Way Out" into the Canon; then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close up with a game about who's at whose throat. No throats are ripped out in the course of this episode, so feel free to listen! GUESTS 👤 Taylor Cole TOPICS Lead Topic: 👊 Road House Around The Dial: 🎙️ Girls5Eva Around The Dial: 🗺️ Lost Around The Dial: 🗽 Homicide: New York Around The Dial: 🟠 Chicken Nugget The Canon: ➡️ Andor S01.E10: One Way Out Winner & Loser: 👍 Cypress Hill Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Austin Green Game Time: 😡 Nemeses SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 504 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Taylor S. Cole on Twitter 💾 "Original 'Road House' Writer Sues Amazon, Alleges Streamer Used AI to Replicate Actors' Voices" at Variety.com 🎬 "The New 'Road House' Shows the Perils of Adapting Ridiculous 80s Movies" at DecodingEverything.com ✍🏻 Tara's interview with Girls5eva creator Meredith Scardino at Cracked 🍹 Tara's Palm Royale review at Cracked 🏙️ The Docket on Homicide: New York 📷 Photo: Laura Radford / Prime Video

Time was, the Extra Credit segment regularly appeared in the main episode. But with the expansion of the Patreon-exclusive Friday bonus episode, a lot of them snuck over there. We also just fell behind. So we're catching up: in this very special episode, we're addressing not one, not two, but NINE Extra Credit submissions with answers as considered as they are ridiculous. Cha-ching! TOPICS Extra Credit: 🎣 Hook Line And Sinker Extra Credit: 😮‍💨 Creative Compromise Extra Credit: 🏺 Historical Absurdity Extra Credit: 🫥 Insert Yourselves Extra Credit: 🗺️ Keoghan's Heroes Extra Credit: 🔪 New Benedict Arnolds Extra Credit: ✍🏻 Initial Similarities Extra Credit: 👵🏻 Everything Old Is Old Again Extra Credit: 🟤 Great TV Bezoars SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 503 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🚬 NewsRadio: "Smoking" clip on YouTube

Guy Ritchie's 2019 movie has spun off a vaguely related drama series on Netflix; Will Leitch returns to discuss where it ranks in his filmography. Around The Dial takes us through Animal Control, The Curse, and As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial. Sarah makes the case for the Law & Order episode "Trophy" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we play BALL (sometimes; sometimes not) with a sportsy Non-Regulation Game Time. Get to your club, pour some 18-year-old scotch, and join us! GUESTS 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎩 The Gentlemen Around The Dial: 🦝 Animal Control Around The Dial: 😈 The Curse Around The Dial: 🎤 As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial Around The Dial: 🏯 Shōgun The Canon: 🏆 Law & Order S06.E12: Trophy Winner & Loser: 👍 James Wolk Winner & Loser: 👎 Gary Goldsmith Game Time: 🙋🏼‍♀️ The World Series Of 19 Questions SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 502 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🦋 Will Leitch on Bluesky 🥇 Will and Tim Grierson's Guy Ritchie movie ranking, at Vulture 🤣 Tara at Cracked.com 📚 Will's books at HarperCollins 🕺 The Will Leitch Experience 🎤 Sarah's review of As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial at Best Evidence 🔫 Best Evidence, where Sarah's interview with Manhunt author James L. Swanson will run later this week 📷 Photo: Kevin Baker / Netflix

The Good [X]-verse returns to network television with Elsbeth, a procedural starring Carrie Preston's capital-Q Quirky Elsbeth Tascioni -- and Adam Grosswirth returns to EHG to talk about how the show is trying to have it both ways with the character's historical anti-establishment attitude; whether these creators should have moved this set of shows' universe off of streaming; and what exactly is in all those massive tote bags. We went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind's sixth season, So You Think You Can Dance's surprise return, and Sarah's belated finishing of The Good Fight, and then we threw Tubi's tortured new brand identity into the ring of Will Dave Hate This?. Wendy told us about Tasha Yar in her Canon pitch for a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode before Netflix won, Paramount+ lost, and we confronted time rifts of our own during Game Time. Diaphragms, double spaces, and thee: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🗽 Elsbeth Around The Dial: 👩‍🦯 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 💃 So You Think You Can Dance Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Will Dave Hate This?: 🧪 Tubi branding The Canon: 🪐 Star Trek: The Next Generation S03.E15: Yesterday's Enterprise Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix Winner & Loser: 👎 Paramount+ Game Time: ⏰ Where In Time Are These Nielsen Ratings? SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 501 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐸 More on Adam's Muppets podcast, Muppeturgy 👩‍🦯 Our discussion of Love Is Blind S05 in EHG 478 🕳️ The Tubi rebrand announcement 🐴 Tara's Dick Turpin review at Cracked 📻 Sarah's As We Speak: Rap Music On Trial review at Best Evidence 📷 Photo: Elizabeth Fisher / CBS

James Clavell's doorstop of a novel Shōgun was already adapted as a network miniseries when your three regular panelists were all kids. Now it's getting a cable and streaming take, and you know what that means: beheadings and boobs! Variety TV critic Alison Herman returns to join us in describing everything ELSE that's also going on. Around The Dial takes us through S03 of Abbott Elementary, S02 of Tokyo Vice, and the grand (or is it) finale of True Detective: Night Country. Returning submitter Francoise makes a case for the Better Things episode "Rising" to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to The One Where We Wonder What Time It Is (it's Game Time). Put on your most sumptuous silks and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alison Herman TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏯 Shōgun Around The Dial: 🎒 Abbott Elementary Around The Dial: 🚨 Tokyo Vice Around The Dial: 👮 True Detective The Canon: 🏖️ Better Things Winner & Loser: 👍 Glaring SNL band member Winner & Loser: 👎 Netflix Game Time: 🏆 The One With The Canon Episodes SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 500 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alison Herman on Twitter 🏯 Alison's Shōgun review 👀 Tara's interview with Late Night With Seth Meyers writer Sal Gentile about A Closer Look at Cracked 🏥 Tara's review of The Second Best Hospital In The Galaxy at Cracked 📰 Alison at Variety 📚 True Detective magazine for sale at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Katie Yu / FX

When we threw a Zoom game night over the holidays for our Patreon supporters (hop down to join them!), Dave decided one was too good to play once. So we invited three of our Patreon supporters who hadn't made it to play it again. Listen to hear Taylor, Lucy, and (Bezoar) Laura try to decipher TV theme songs slowed WAY down; then, Dave hops in for a surprise round of 19 Questions. Don't just slow down everything else in your life: put it on pause and join us for this very special episode! TOPICS Game Time: 🐌 Slowly At First Game Time: 😖 Revenge Of 19 Questions SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 499 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

This year, Super Bowl home CBS gambled its coveted post-game time slot on a brand-new action drama called Tracker; David J. Roth joins us for a conversation on, among other things, how it stacks up to the similarly-named Reacher. Around The Dial takes us through The Amazing Race, This Fool, Kings From Queens, and Griselda. Tara pitches the Primo episode "The Game Champ" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time located next to either a wormhole or a dolphin tank. Hop in your RV and join us! GUESTS 👤 David J. Roth TOPICS Lead Topic: 👣 Tracker Around The Dial: 🗺️ The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 🧁 This Fool Around The Dial: 👑 Kings From Queens Around The Dial: 🍚 Griselda The Canon: 🎲 Primo S01.E04: The Game Champ Winner & Loser: 👍 Eric Deggans Winner & Loser: 👎 Holly Marie Combs and Wil Wheaton Game Time: 🐬 Before & After: Deep Six Twelve Edition SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 498 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌤️ David J. Roth on Bluesky 👣 "It's Tracker" at Defector.com 🏈 Tara's ranking of every Super Bowl lead-out at Cracked 🚫 Tara's Dos & Don'ts of action comedies at Cracked ♨️ "It Is Now Time To Discuss Jack Reacher Throwing A Grill At A Guy" at Defector 👑 Sarah's King From Queens review at Best Evidence 🎲 Tara's Primo review at Cracked 🗣️ Tara's Shea Serrano interview at Cracked 📚 Eric Deggans's book Race Baiter at Bookshop.org 📷 Photo: Lindsay Siu / CBS

Mr. And Mrs. Smith is back, in TV form, on Amazon Prime, and Sarah Baker is back, in fine form, to talk about it: whether it improves on the movie, how we feel about leads Donald Glover and Maya Erskine's chemistry, how many Brooklyn landmarks Sarah D. Bunting zoomed in on for confirmation, and what the Phoebe Waller-Bridge iteration of the show might have looked like. Then we went Around The Dial with Clone High, The Floor, Fargo, and Law & Order: SVU; and Buntsy stayed in the Order-verse to declare that she's NOT a crackpot for thinking Tony Goldwyn should play his Criminal Intent character on Mothership even though that character is dead. Alan Partridge won, Alyssa Milano lost, and we all tried to guess the horndog hearts of IMDb searchers in Game Time. This time it's cake AND death in an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Sarah Baker TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Mr. And Mrs. Smith  Around The Dial: 🧬 Clone High  Around The Dial: 🧠 The Floor  Around The Dial: ❄️ Fargo  Around The Dial: ⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit  I Am Not A Crackpot: 🥜 Tony Goldwyn on L&O The Canon: 🩺 M*A*S*H S03.E11: Adam's Ribs Winner & Loser: 👍 Alan Partridge Winner & Loser: 👎 Alyssa Milano Game Time: 📈 TV Popularity Contest SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 497 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 😢 Watch Sarah Baker in Go On on Peacock ⚖️ Deadline on Tony Goldwyn joining Law & Order 💀 Fandom Wikia on Frank Goren's canonical deadness 🧬 Tara's Clone High review at Cracked.com 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs: The Weird Al vs. Everybody season 🥊 The latest round of Milano vs. Everybody... 💇🏻‍♀️ ...and Milano's stylist vs. Milano 🌴 Upcoming Again With Again With Thises will dig into the Charmed contretemps 📷 Photo: David Lee / Prime Video

With Masters Of The Air, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg have, once again, teamed up to tell a story of troops in the Second World War; Jeff Drake returns to discuss whether it soars, or never quite leaves the runway. Around The Dial takes us through a midseason Married At First Sight check-in; Season 1 of The Traitors; Bluey; and an Edgar Allan Poe episode of Homicide: Life On The Street. Jeff presents the Colin From Accounts episode "Toyota Cressida" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's fun much more than a third of the time. Fasten your seatbelt and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: ✈️ Masters Of The Air Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🔪 The Traitors Around The Dial: 🔫 Homicide: Life On The Street The Canon: 🦮 Colin From Accounts S01.E03: Toyota Cressida Winner & Loser: 👍 Kate Hudson Winner & Loser: 👎 Bravo Game Time: 3️⃣ Third Word Problems SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 496 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌤️ Jeff Drake on Bluesky 😬 "All Of The Allegations Against Director Cary Fukunaga" at TheCut.com 😆 Tara at Cracked.com 🛬 Jet Lag: The Game on YouTube.com 😡 The 9 Chickweed Rage podcast 🔫 Homicide: Life On The Street S04.E07: "Heartbeat" on Dailymotion 🦢 Feud: Capote vs. The Swans prep list at Best Evidence at Reality Blurred 📷 Photo: Apple

We are off this week due to a family emergency but we bring you a couple choice cuts from the EHG Club archive. EEHG 223: Tara Forces Dave To Watch Alice S06.E10: The Wild One Remember the 70s and 80s when our greatest collective fear was that bikers would just grab a waitress from a diner and make her join their gang? EEHG 216: Dave Forces Tara To Watch Ancient Aliens S13.E05: The Desert Codes We close out our “Dry January” Forcening miniseries with Dave’s imposition on Tara: an episode of Ancient Aliens all about how desert geoglyphs were probably definitely designed by aliens as a way for humans to communicate with them. “Why?” Shut up, that’s why! SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 495 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🍽️ Watch Alice S06.E01: The Wild One on YouTube 👽 Watch Ancient Aliens S13.E05: The Desert Codes on Hulu CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

Mon dieu: Dashiell Hammett's legendary P.I. Sam Spade is back on AMC -- and because he's now noiring it up in the south of France, legendary Gallic guest Mademoiselle Caroline is back to talk about it. Is the limited series too long, or not long enough? How well does star Clive Owen contend with the character's, and Humphrey Bogart's, legend? And should we strike until we get the full-frontal outtakes from the swimming scenes? Later, we went Around The Dial with Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office, So Help Me Todd, and For All Mankind, and Tara tried to paint a pretty picture of a King Of Queens episode for the Canon. Clone High won, Julia lost, and WE may have gotten lost in translation in a French-themed Non-Regulation Game Time. It's an all-new Extra Hot Great, and c'est magnifique. GUESTS 👤 Caroline Lefloch TOPICS Lead Topic: ♠️ Monsieur Spade Around The Dial: 📬 Mr. Bates Vs. The Post Office Around The Dial: 🤦🏻‍♂️ So Help Me Todd Around The Dial: 🛰️ For All Mankind The Canon: 🤴🏻 The King Of Queens S08.E17: Present Tense Winner & Loser: 👍 Clone High Winner & Loser: 👎 Julia Game Time: 🥖 Ah Ah Ah, En Français SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 494 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📜 "How A Script Doctor Found His Own Voice" in The New Yorker 🧑‍🚀 The For All Mankind Canon presentation in EHG 486 👑 The first King Of Queens Canon attempt in EHG 240 🦤 King Of Queens's top 50 episodes ranked at Vulture 🧸 Tara on Ted at Cracked.com ⚔️ Tara demands justice for Son Of Zorn 🎾 Joe on Break Point 🔪 How true-crimey is Leonardo DiCaprio's c.v.? 📷 Photo: Jean-Claude Lother / AMC CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

AppleTV+'s latest very polished drama, Criminal Record, is about race and corruption in London's Metropolitan police force; Brandi Brown takes a break from cozy mysteries to discuss whether this copperganda is worth watching. Around The Dial takes us through Grimsburg, Julia, The Gilded Age (including a Tiny Triumph from Brandi), Break Point, and The Bob Newhart Show. Past guest Ilan pitches Shoresy's "Players Wanted" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time about screens big and small. Make yourself a nice cup of tea and join us! GUESTS 👤 Brandi Brown TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Club Campaign Update Lead Topic: 💂🏻 Criminal Record Around The Dial: 🤷‍♂️ Grimsburg Around The Dial: 🥖 Julia Around The Dial: 🎭 The Gilded Age Around The Dial: 🎾 Break Point Around The Dial: 🛋️ The Bob Newhart Show The Canon: 🏒 Shoresy S02.E04: Players Only Winner & Loser: 👍 Jeremy Allen White Winner & Loser: 👎 Pat McAfee Game Time: 🎬 Small Silver Screen SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 493 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌤️ Brandi Brown on Bluesky 📸 Brandi on Instagram 🤷‍♂️ Tara's review of Grimsburg at Cracked.com 🥇 Tara's interview with Shea Serrano at Cracked.com 🎟️ Buy tickets to see Brandi Brown with headliner River Butcher at Acme Comedy Company in Minneapolis February 7-10 🎙️ Comedy Night at The Mudd Room in Mendota, MN, where you can see Brandi on February 14 🕵🏻‍♂️ The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: AppleTV+

Some of you might have made a New Year's resolution to watch less bad TV. Couldn't be us: we've decided to face bad TV head-on with this special all-Nonac episode. Sean pitches an infamous Survivor about sexual harassment among players. Erica dares us to watch a Monty Python's Flying Circus that breaks from both standard episode structure and good taste. And Françoise tries to exorcise the nadir of her House rewatch. You may need to suspend Dry January to get through this one, but we hope that won't stop you from joining us! TOPICS The Nonac: 🏝️ Survivor S39.E08: We Made It To The Merge! The Nonac: 🎪 Monty Python's Flying Circus S03.E08: The Cycling Tour The Nonac: 👨🏻‍⚕️ House S02.E13: Skin Deep SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 492 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪔 "Julius Caesar On An Aldis Lamp" on YouTube CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

It's about to be a new year, so what better topic could there be for a Thunderdome than...the new? With that in mind, we've assembled a list of 27 TV people with "new," "neu," or "noo" in their names, and are subjecting them to mortal combat in rounds of three contestants at a time -- standard Thunderdome stuff -- to see which of them will survive into the new year. Grab your newest headphones and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚡️ New Thunderdome SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 491 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

We are off this week but we bring you three great presents in the form of three Extra Extra Hot Great episodes from the club vault. EEHG 212: Christmastalgia Sequels to The Santa Clause and A Christmas Story have come to TV this week, so we're sharing the holiday programming of yesteryear we want to see reimagined for TV, and how. EEHG 216: Tara Forces Everyone To Watch A Compilation Of TV Commercials From December 1992 What ads were ABC viewers subjected to during an airing of the Olsen twins-starring TV movie To Grandmother's House We Go? Thanks to YouTube, we know, and we're going to talk about them. EEHG 219: Sarah Forces Everyone To Watch The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year! We'd just been talking about Snack vs. Chef with Adam on the main podcast, so we were glad he could join us for a look waaaay back at the grandmama of cooking shows, The French Chef. In this episode, filmed in black and white and aired at the end of 1963, Julia Child rants about crappy kitchenware, coughs on stuff, grosses us out with canned ham...but is her usual welcoming, soothing self, full of practical tips for last-minute appetizers (and trying valiantly not to swear on camera). Join us for a fond reminiscence about monoculture public television and midcentury decor, and Happy New Year! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎄 Reimagining Classic Christmas TV Lead Topic: 🤑 December 6, 1992 Commercials Lead Topic: 👩🏻‍🍳 The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year! SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 490 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 👼 "It's A Wonderful Plot" at TVTropes.org 🍇 A Claymation Christmas Celebration on DailyMotion.com 🪨 "Christmas In Clay" at Tedium.co 💰 "ABC TV Commercial Breaks - Dec 6th 1992 - Part One" on YouTube 👩🏻‍🍳 Watch The French Chef S02.E04 on Pluto TV (it's free!) 🍴 Watch the show Julia on HBO Max 🎥 Watch the documentary Julia, also on HBO Max

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! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought Experiments SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 489 page on ExtraHotGreat.com